First Woman to Stand for 6 Years
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Friday Jan. 26th 1968 UNION NEWS No. 341 Price 3d. LEEDS SLAM MARTIN IN NUS SELL OUT NO LET-UP YET FOR GRANTS a stormy three hour emergency meeting of NUS on Wednesday, it was established, with reservations, that the NUS student grant campaign should go ahead as planned. But not before Geoffrey Martin, President of NUS, had asked students to accept the 50% cut in the student grant increase unconditionally, whilst seeking to iron out certain anomalies in the educational system. Jack Straw, Vice-President of NUS, called this “a most unwise statement” and the move “tactically unsound.” An NUS delegation will meet the Minister of Education on February 1st. The general feeling of the meeting was the anomalies should be eliminated and action taken on a broader front involving all sections of the community which were affected. Individual action would not change the Government’s policy but only serve to provoke public antipathy. Left to right: Phil Kelly, Seonaid Falconer, Nigel de Lee Mr. Wrigglesworth, a mem- interested actions oblivious to Victor MacColl, Chairman ber of NUS Executive, claimed | other minority groups. of Conservative Students, said that student grants were at the John Bryden, from Leeds that to retrieve public opinion, bottom of the list of those cuts University, was badly received, hardships would have to be which should be attacked. as he attempted to explain First woman to stand exposed and they would have He considered the postpone- that the action proposed ito “keepi the+ ui campaign* +u~ atu r a ment of the raising of the against the government, was school living age for two years precipitative and predictable: and campaign for justice, which to be of greater importance. I don’t think we shall get from “Many other systems of main- Fergus Nicholson, Student tenance with lower standards of for 6 years this Government.” Organiser of the Communist living prosper in other coun- FREEZE PRICES Party also made this his first tries, such as my native J^LECTION fever is with us again. Nominations for the presidency closed last priority, whilst underlining the Canada,” he explained, Tuesday at noon and the two week campaign began yesterday. Peter O’Neill, President of drastic effect of government He said that cuts could be This year’s election should be more interesting if only for the fact that a woman Bradford Union, agreed with cuts on the elastic LEA expen- accepted as long as they were is standing for the first time since 1962, when Beth Stirrup was defeated by the meeting that the triennial diture on discretionary grants, re-allocated on Educational review^of student grants should as among the prime causes of expenditure, and he proposed Pete Hall. be cut to one year, a long-held class descrimination within the that this could be taken to its Miss Seonaid Falconer is a U.C. member and ex-News Editor of Union News policy of NUS, but added that Education system. He main- logical conclusion where grants and was concerned with 1------- if there is a cut in the cost of tained that student action at were replaced by Industrial last year’s Rag. Aged 20, absolute majority on the first living increase, that the pro- this time was unselfish since patronage and wages attained posed increase of Halls of it would be students in a couple over iong vacations, she is an English finalist. count, the bottom candidate Phil Kelly is ex-Union Sec- *s eliminated and his votes Residence fees and Refectory of years time who will suffer Recent reports suggest that retary and a prominent figure redistributed among the other G-String prices should be frozen. most. the increase will be well below in the Young Liberals and two> according to the second half the proposed increase by Radical Students’ Alliance, preference shown. NO OPPOSITION NUS of £70, an increase of 8% Aged 21, he is at present doing The candidate with the most Opposition to the campaign over the last three years and finals politics. votes in this straight fight is Dischord was negligible except for the that nothing will be done to Nigel de Lee, a second year e}eclf^ even there is no delegate from Nottingham who lose anomalies, TN the weekly production of historian has made his mark absolute majority, Union News, the odd occa De Lee’s dreams claimed concern for the After rumours of a censure as a lively speaker in debates. Marking your second and national interest and added that motion Geoff 'Martin attacked sion does arise when the paper New election bye-laws are third choices on the ballot unintentionally creates its own the vunerable image of students Phil Kelly. in operation for the first time sheet doesnt affect the chances shattered would be aggravated by self- Continued back page, col. 3. in this year’s election. Spend- °f y°ur first choice. The second news stories. T^EBATES were treated to a ing on publicity is limited to choice operates only after the The centre features pages of U liberal dose of historical £5 and agents can be appointed ^rst , choice has been elimi- today’s issue, concerning nonsense on Wednesday when to organize the election cam- natcd- disrobing ceremonies, in a Presidential candidate Nigel de paign. The last President not to certain Strip Club, provided Lee pleaded eloquently for the ICE MELTS IN The bye-law, originating have held Executive office was the story. return of good old-fashioned with Jack Straw, was passed by £eJfr although he Problems started when the despotic monarchy. U.C. last term. Straw’s aim is had been editor of Union proof copy was rushed on exercise interest in the elec- News. The last woman presi- Denying that he had any PARK LANE Wednesday afternoon to the tions by allowing limited cam- dent was Daphne Wild who Solicitors for urgent strutiny. intention of becoming “King paigning as is the case in held office from 1941 to 1942. of the Union”, de Lee recalled fklSCUSSIONS with the Management Committee have been The picture, in the bottom Sheffield The Election hustings will right-hand section of the page, with much emotion the days broched by the Principal of Park Lane College in Leeds, it Voting will be by the single Pkoe on 31st of January was revealed in The Action Committee meeting on Wednesday showed a stripper in complete when monarchs fought set-piece transferable vote system, if1 the Riley Smith Hall. Elec- undress, so it seemed, except battles, when the only casualties night. where candidates are numbered ^ion polling days will be the for the fact that she was wear were conscripts from the The College’s Union have been banned since November of in order of preference. If none 5th and 6th of February and ing a G-string. This did not “lowest and most useless levels last year. Easing of the tension between the two factions was of the candidates gets an the result should be known by also shown by the Principal who has allowed meetings to be show up in the reproduced of society”. the 7th of February. picture, so it was classified Seventeenth Century troops held in the College. Trouble started last Novem-r— . ‘obscene’. were very well mannered, he ber when the Union’s Manage- The meeting decided to open APOLOGY The information was tele claimed; they didn’t rape, loot ment Committee passed 141 negotiations if the other side phoned to the printers, where or ravage provided they were TN last week’s issue, in the Theatre bid backed alterations in its constitution was willing but stated that there article entitled “Gas fumes several attempts were made to under proper control. Bemoan touch up the relevant part. ing the fact that was now thereby making it more demo- would b® •? j r ^ in reserve kill U.C. member” we wrongly EEDS’ campaign for a new cratic. Mr. Hume principal i* ^ 1S failed. stated that the gas fire involved theatre is almost certainly The results were more obscene much less discriminating he sat L than the original, so severe down. of the College immediately CT ip p a d t was “defective”. This in fact to receive official Union back declared the Constitution illegal WIDE SUPFOK1 was inot 4the case — the fire ing. The matter will be discus half measures had to be taken. Tony Boyden saw things in and froze the Union funds. A petition is at present functioned properly. We also sed at next Monday’s Exec, (See feature.) an equally romantic light. “The Attempting to reform the circulating around the College implied that die room was meeting. Eighteenth Century was an age Executive Committee under the while every College in Leeds under 1,000 cu. ft. in capacity. of gentlemen, who carried out At the moment, Leeds is the new Constitution, the unofficial has agreed to send a telegram This was also incorrect — the largest city in the country still debates in proper debating room has a capacity of 1,700 Management Committee have in support of the Management lacking a civic theatre. QUO VADIS DOES IT AGAIN chambers.” Whether or not the now held three General Meet- Committee to the Principal on cu. ft. approx. Although li million would . AT EASTER last remark referred to Leeds, ings. Leeds University has a given day. The Management Both Union News reporters From . 17 little pounds per week Boyden didn’t say. given its support. Committee are holding a meet- and the Union Representative be needed to finance the pro to BIG Russia, the C R A Z Y Balkans, The House was used to more Miss Stella McLenan chair- ing in Park Lane College on at the inquest understood that jected theatre, an initial grant K IN K Y Greece and Turkey, the of £ 100,000 would, say the 'M A M M A M IA * country and the ‘S IX mundane things, however.