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Maginnis on N. Ireland Posh squash about votes, but about what they Ken Maginnis is the Ulster consider to be right and wrong. THE LONG-RUNNING saga of the new Pleasance squash courts has Unionist Party MP for Mr Maginnis criticised those who seek to compromise on the finally been resolve. As reported In Fermanagh and South issues, as a betrayal which 'Student', the courts were due to Tyrone, a constituency terrorists would exploit once they be erected by December, but ran into difficulties. ii seemed that on the border with Eire, so saw compromises being made. they would never be completed as his views on Northern The controversy over the name of " Derry" or " Londonderry" was an the parts were not being shipped Ireland are of importance, example of such behaviour. into the country quickly enough. even if you don't agree Terrorists are not honest, in However they are now complete, and a rather impressive sight they with them . He gave a talk contrast to Unionist politicians whose every word is closely are, too. For a full report see the to the University Ulster examined. Unionists have been Sports page. Unionist Association on compromised on direct rule by Tuesday, and with him those who have little feeling for the attitudes of those involved. came Frank Millar, chief Also a betrayal was the lack of executive of the Unionist border control, which threatened New Abbey Road Party . Toby Porter decent, hard-working Protestant THE UNIVERSITY MAY soon reports. farmers. Power-sharing would be like benevolent fathers handing have its own recording studio. The Mr Millar spoke first and the out bribes to prodigal children.-Mr Societies· Council is looking into chanting of a picket protesting Maginnis proposed instead a the possibility of buying a four­ against Maginnis' appearance shared administration in councils, track recording machine. It would outside could be heard through with Republicans taking part. probably be placed in the the window of the Middle Reading How, if he was not prepared to Pleasance for hire by any aspiring Room. Mr Millar had come to compromise on his side, Boy Georges. correct statements by that Republicans and Unionists were morning's Times about Unionist pronounced view " Better the IRA to me. the IRA as if they were the ever to come to agree on anything, policy. He said that the New devil you know" was not the basis only opposition. It might perhaps he did not explain. Ire land Forum was to be of consent. bethatforeveryextremethereisa Perhaps the inconsistencies in welcomed as a new initiative in the Such conciliatory (if anything body of opinion. Whether to act to opposing positions in Northern search for a solution - in contrast can be called that in Northern Irish reconcile that opinion. or ignore it Ireland are more easily seen by Willing Walton to an assembly, which would only politics) were to be expected of as invalid, is perhaps the most those from outside. Certainly most polarize opinion in the province. one well practised in the art of important question for the Irish. In of us would consider ourselves PROFESSOR HENRY WAL TON of Mr Prior had only succeeded in parliamentary wrangling. relatively safe Scotland we might qualified to condemn the South the University's Department of alienating the Catholic SDLP, the Mr Maginnis' emphasis was campaign for the former, but African regime. But in Britain, how Psychiatry, is to have the only real constitutional alterna- more to attack the methods of Unionists and Republicans alike impartial is it possible to be on the Honorary Degree of Doctor of live to Sinn Fein. The often- terrorists, representing, it seemed are not accustomed to thinking Irish question? Medicine conferred on him by the University of Uppsala, Sweden on 29th May, for his services to -----YT-P --=-----:.=N~us=---. - medical educational Inter­ nationally. This multi-talented Prof has been a busy man. He is Students on no cOps editor of the international journal Medical Education, a consultant for World Health Organisation (who?), President of the World Ceo.,, aod its mao, bill Federation for Medical Education, change President of the Association for !.~~.!,r.~a~!,~ nd th rd tion is now on the verge of benefits) a e ho es of The NUS Conference in Medical Education in Europe and . Saturdayshopperswhoinvade the The Northern Ireland Association Hull last week voted to expansion into the pu bi IC area at the weekend. Both shops · Chairman of the Scottish of Teachers in Further and Higher t a jg n Committee on Arts and Disability! sector, with plans to open will offer all of the things that you Education has called for Improve- m Oun a Cam P Is that all , I hear you say. NO! He is two new travel agencies might find in the Travel Centre ments in the Youth Training Pro- against the current Police nd th th also in charge of the University ·in .th e Cl· t y . Th IS" en t er- todayprovided a by. withe widere extra market scope and gramme (YTP). This college , and Criminal Evidence Dept of Psychiatry In the Western P rising move is all part of the extra cash it will generate, lecturers union has demanded s·11I , b u t re1ec· t e d ea lls for General Hospital , and is on the that the government should r staff of the Royal Edinburgh the Association's venture some additional services that it combine a job creation scheme all-out non-co-opera IOn Hospital! If it doesn't drive him to establish itself as a can't in its present format. with a comprehensive system of with the police. made, he'll get a hell of a pension! This is a new venture for a education for young people who Limited Company, trad- Scottish University. In England The decision came as part of a ing directly with the some Unions have already haveAt leftits school.annual conference d e b a t ea t th e con f erence on the People Of Edinburgh a established themselves as NIATFHE said the " YTP as law, civil liberties and the new ' companies in an attempt to draw in Police Bill. move which very radically extra finance. This step forward is presently operated could neither The conference approved a Freshers' Helpers alters the role of the a step that the Senior President, overcome the problems of youlh motion stating that police powers Association . Ken Shoji, sees as inevitable in ~~eeq::i~opyr:pea~!tio~of~r ::ultao~ under the Blllkwofu1d le abd to an Required even maintaining the services I ncreas Ing I ac o 1rus 1 e 1ween This year's Freshers' Week The Students' Association is no Offered by I he s I u dents• working life." The union, which police and community and would Director. Caroline Lamont, is newcomer to the travel business. Association in these times of represents about 2,000 lecturers in be a flashpoint for communal strife seeking helpers to assist with Having been formally devolved Government Grant cuts. The further education said seven and confrontation. However, ii Freshers' Week activities which from NUS Travel way back in 1976, company will be owned by the changes should be Introduced. rejected amendments proposing will take place between 30th ·it has come on in leaps and bounds Students' Association and will be Partnership schemes should be non-co-operation with the police September and 6th October. Entry in The Edinburgh Travel Centre, accountable to the student body, closely monitored to ensure they and a lifting of all immigration is open to all stu"dents and becoming a profitable business at least in theory. The company combine the elements of controls and deportation orders. application forms are available concern generating £805,000 of will be run by full time staff but will education, training and work The NUS Is to write in the th t from the Students' Association welcome funds for the Association be controlled by the elected experience in e beS possible " strongest possible terms" to the Offices in the Student Centre, in 1982. It is therefore no surprise representatives of th e student manner. Home Secretary, Leon Brittain, Bristo Square. Closing date is that the first business venture of body. The practice of job substitution, calling for an Immediate nd Wednesday, 2nd May. the new company (EUSACO Ltd.) It has been the subject of great u er which young trainees take withdrawal of the Police BIii. It has Attractions of the job include would branch out from an area debate amongst the members of over work done by normal also demanded an independent nd th mental and physical exhaustion where they had already shown the SRC and University Finance employees, should be e ed, e investigation agency into for a week and the distinction of considerable expertise. Committee as to the ethics of the union agreed. complaints made against the wearing one of those brightly EUSACO plan two new shops. Students' Association dealing with Training allowances should be police. (i)ne of the shops will be opened as the general public as a trading raised significantly and full travel coloured FW sweatshirts. early as June of this year and wi ll company. After considerable costs should be paid to the young Alastair Dalton be located in South Clerk Street, debate it has been decided to go people Involved. hopefully catching in many ahead with the plans and establish Young unemployed people students on the way home to the company, as the need for should not be penalised by low Pollock t-talls. The second and money will inevitably exceed the supplementary benefit and perhaps · more adventurous of funds allocated by central NIATSHE should resist by all these shops will be locted at the government. means any attempt to penalise West End of Rose Street, in the city Travel is only the beg inning. If young people financially for centre, and will be aiming at a very this venture is a success we may refusing to take up YTP places. newmarket.TheRoseStreetshop yet see the EUSACO branching Finally, educational and will be a more up-market affair and out in other directions (Catering, maintenance allowances should will be hoping to attract the West Pubs. En te rta in me nts et c) be made available to all 16 and 19 End's office workers (many of who generating finance but perhaps year-aids, Including those who End's office workers (many of creating a commercial monster remain at school, the conference whom are postgraduates and will beyond our control. decided. be familiar with the Ed inburgh Alan Munro Michael Devlin

ELISA is currently seeking a Director for the Pre-University Conference 1985, to be held in the spring vacation next year. Application forms are available from the Students' Association Offices, in the Student Centre, Bristo Square. The closing date is Friday, 11th May. THE -STUDENT 26th April 1984 3 news ... 1111 Magic Edinburgh students Disarming claims Researchers from "Odd One Out", a Paul Daniels vehicle posing as a quiz .by minister show, were snooping People often go along to their position on a Christian .political talks to hear what pacifist stance - that is, offering around the University in no resistance to evil, should it November looking for they have already hea rd, threaten, and risking martyrdom contestants ( otherwise but want to hear agai n. rather armed conflict. But force That was just what they was just1f1ed against the known as suckers). They alternative - being overrun by evil managed to grab three got at the Conservative and unilaterialist gestures could members of the Univer­ Association meeting on be likened to a pirate ship stealing sity. Monday from the Rev in under a false flag. David Whiteford a He gave six important Carol Wood, a dentist, had her considerations, on which to 'think episode screened on 6 April; John member of the church­ through the form judgements'. Stevenson (dentistry) will be on in b as e d organ i sat i on 1. Reading the past and present four weeks, on 22 June; and Toby " Peace through NATO", - others ofte!I behave as ii Porter (philosophy) on 29 June, there were re yesterday. that bei ng the last of the se ries. and prominent cam ­ 2. Our hatred · , (conventional) " He's a wee snorter," said Carol paigner to change war. Wood about the small magician. Paul Daniels may be a wazzock, sional, and it was his show, so Christ i an views of 3. Fea r of the Holocaust. " It's his show, so don't crack the but it had its moments. Except that's to be expected. I just did it defence. 4. Our belief in democracy: funnies, or he'll be rude to you. His when he was rude to my girlfriend, for a good weekend away, not to othe· people might enjoy life H is arguments contributed wig annoyed me, and he kept on and took the crap out of her win any prizes. The expense behind the Berl in Wall, but " I nothing new to· the so-called about my accent. The En glish accent. I didn't help by telling him money was enough to keep us don't fancy it" he said. "defence debate", which might people were there to win prizes he was condescending." happy. The other contestants were 5. Our opposition to tyranny. seem, to a unilaterialist, designed and kept bitching about the hotel. John Stevenson had this theory really nice." It was a change 6. Our commitment to peace - to give them just enough ground to But I really enjoyed the hotel and that all the small magician's one­ anyway, from previous Edinburgh 'real' peace in our time, achieve absolutely nothing. The all the expense money. If Paul liners were thought up by script­ appearances on TV -" University, achieved by stability between purpose of his visit, then, was East and West. Daniels hadn't done it, it would've writers. " Everyone was very Challenge" and " Campus"; more probably to reassure the Tories Rev. Whiteford also criticised been really nice." hospitable, especially the re­ poppy, and probably no worse for that they do have clerics on their the pacifists of the thirties, who Toby Porter liked the hotel as searchers, but I didn't like Paul that. side, even if those making the most risked being overrun by taking a well. " The show may be tacky, and Daniels. He was very proles- Toby Porter noise are unilaterialists, including stance which bore remarkable Mgr. Bruce Kent. After all the vote resemblances to the peace from on high would be prominent movement of today. II seems to Edinburgh staff on a· list of priorities of many me, however, that the mistake of Ross Conservatives. the pre-war pacifists was to asume God would vote for a balance of that weapons would never be • deterents, then ; And some used, and that the same mistake is Win awards members of the 'Peace Move­ being made today by those who m en t ', w ould welcome Mr advocate nuclear weapons. ousted Academics a t Edinburgh football. Chernenko with open arms Rev. If the pacifists of the thirties, University have been doing wefl An honour has been meted out Whiteford alleged, and the current then, had succeeded in having As a postscript to an article that recently in terms of appointments to another academic cu rrently 'soviet naval exercises in the north' their way, then we today would be appeared in Student at the end of and honours. One of the most working at the University. He is showed how easy it is would be to in a much worse situation than last term, the result of the heartening is the appointment of Professor John H. Knox and he mount an invasion. The church Is otherwise. I wonder by how much? campaign by the Students' Repre­ Dr Michael Radcliffe Lee, MA, BM, has been elected a Fellow of the mostly left wing, he said, basing Toby Porter sentative Council at Edinburgh's BCh, DPhil, DM, FRCP (shit, he Royal Society. This acolade College of Art to block t'1e re­ deserved ii!) to the Chair of comes for his "contributions to a appointment of the none-too­ Clinical Pharmacology from 1st variety of problems in kinetics and popular Principal, Gavin Ross, October 1984. This appointment is mechanisms of reactions in the now follows: particularly gratifying given that gas phase and his developments in The Mole The man that will fill the post is the chair is a new one, made the field of high performance Mr John L. Patterson, the current possible by a g e n e rous liquid chromatography." head of the college's Design benefaction from the Squibb Professor Knox is Professor in Department, and he will assume Corporation. Physical Chemistry and Director the role of Principal from the end Dr Lee is currently Senior of the Wolfson Liquid Chromato­ of this coming September. Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology graphy Unit at the University of Although he was not the favourite at the University of Leeds. He was Edinburgh. An Edinburgh lad candidate for the job, he was born and schooled in Manchester through and through, he was runner-up in both staff and after which he took a First Class educated at George Watson's student polls. Honours degree in Physiology at Boys' College before graduating Rod Fleming, SAC President, the University of Oxford. He from EU in 1949. Since then he has greeted this appointment with styaed at Oxford where he worked been principally undertaking " reserved enthusiasm", but was at the Radcliffe Infirmary until research into gases and such little too much, and woflle a bit. confident that Mr Patterson would 1969. Since then he has alternated things. He knows a lot about The Black Hole (He is also from Galloway). be a great improvement on his pre­ between business Interests and propane, ii would seem. The question is - where is Mike decessor who apparently has academic life, becoming a Fellow The third academic to make the A peek at this week's Midweek Conway? tendencies to " poke his nose" in of the Royal College of Physicians news is Professor Emeritus James (published every Thursday) will where it is unwanted and also to in 1977. Wrelord Watson who retired from show amongst other thrilling feats The fall of the House of concern himself too much over Dr Lee's main interest lies in the the Chair of Geography in of acrobatic space-filling, a little petty matters. investigation and treatment of September 1982. He has been article on Cham b e r s S t Fish So it appears that the SAC were hypertension. At the moment he is awarded the Northern Telecom "renovations ". considerably successful not only particularly interested in the International Prize for making "an This vital refu rbishment will cost In the beginning there was EUSA. in achieving their purpose of connection between excess salt in outstanding contribution to £100,000, and the main benefit and then EUSA begot a bastard removing Mr Ross, but also by the diet and high blood pressure. international understanding of seems to be a nice staircase. child - EUSACO. And EUSACO being allowed to get involved with He is 49 and married with two Canada." Having ruffled through the plans did go forth into the wilderness, issues which are of direct interest children, both at other Universities So, well done you three. Come one dark night, your mole can and did open Travel Shops to grab to the student. (lsk, tsk!). His recreational on, the rest of you, make a name report that it is not a waste of ta lents and gold pieces. And forty Katrina Philip interests are watching cricket and for yourselves - and us! money. II means you can spit on all days, and forty nights did pass. the greasy hippies who inhabit this And at the end of that time, there dingy batcave. was a dreadful wailing and The mole thinks that a lift would howling and ghashing of teeth in be a rather nice idea, so that gay the temple of fishburne. Glasgow education update punters can get to the top of the "Shit!" quoth he, "It's gone Strathclyde education authority, the schools and colleges to attend dumbest kid leaves with some sort building to witness the 40-watt bust!" And the wrath of Fish was last week, set a precedent for the classes on their timetables of qualification. This means that lightshow with a minimum of beer upon Shoji. And the wrath of ShoJi secondary school teaching, by depending where each this is to be the traditional examinations of 0- spilling and fatigue. was upon Bray. And the wrath of passing a plan designed to make taught. As can be imagined this grades, Highers and Sixth Year Of course, there is a bar at the Bray was upon Lamont. And the existing education system for will involve wastage of both lime Studies will be replaced by a top of the building "no more going nobody could find Conway. 16 to 18 yearofds more compatible and money; the actual expenditure , modern counterpart. to the basement for a pint", but this And the students did go forth, with the limes in which we live. on travelling being something of a Strathclyde proposes lo is only there to demonstrated that saying: Under this new scheme , controversial topic regarding the introduce this new system in " renovations are good" and thus "We don't care". secondary schools and further new plan. readiness for the next school year, lessen any opposition to building Medical Report education colleges are to integrate The teachers will also have to and being the largest education staircases in dungeons. to give the pupils attending a wider make adjustments when the authority in Scotland ii could well Rumours Untrue! Union President (£5,000) hopeful range of subjects from which to scheme is introduced, with even have many problems to lace. Hilary 'Hello' O'Neill has been choose. The change Itself is more demands being made on However according to Dr Malcolm Mich a el L. Conway is the spotted alone w i thout TV considered advantageous their lime and energy. Green and Mr Edward Miller, the Honorary Secretary of Edinburgh personal1t1 es and attendant because the continuing decline in As for the headmasters/ authority chairman and director University Students' Association. cameras. Doctors have said that school rolls is resulting in the mistresses, they are the ones to respecti vely and the instigators of He is paid to be responsible for this condition is due to the fact that removal of certain subjects from suffer the hard blows of change, as this revolutionary educational Midweek, Union Publicity, Union she Is reading a book on how to the school curricula. they will no longer be able to run fa ce-lilt the plan was first Discipline and General Meetings. run UJions, so that she can appear apart from the schools and their schools as they see fit and discussed live years ago. And At the start of his term of office, bright at election hustings. colleges, the plan and its effects also arrange their own curricula despite any misgivings that the things were looking rather bad on Plump Hill ' s formidable wlfl involve lour sectors of the with the freedom they used to teachers unions and general all fronts. Rumours circulated that debating technique will no doubt existing education system: pupils, have. public might have, the plan was he was an "incompetent wee outshine people who may iust teachers , headmasters and The academic certificates to,be voted in by a considerable shite ". These rumours have been know what they are taking about, examinations. gained by pupils are to be geared majority of 38 votes to 4. proved untrue. Mike Conway is a but the mole assures voters that The pupils themselves will be towards the total s chool Katrina PhUip fine young man, whose only faults this is iust the qualities that the Job expected to travel by bus between population, so that even the are a slight inclination to drink a of Union President requires. 4 THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 news ... £ £ £ £ £ £ £ STUDENT. • • £ £ pays its sellers commission with a guaranteed hourly £ NewNUSboss £ £ £ minimum rate. £ The new NUS president, £ £ elected at the NUS £ £ Annual Conference in £ Call at 1 Buccleuch Place and ask for the £ Hull last week, is one of £ £ the youngest for many £ Student Manager £ years, and unlike his £ £ recent predecessors has reached the top direct from a relatively minor PORTO BELLO The LOGAN position. HIGH ST. Baked Potato Phil Woolas (24) , a philosphy MARKET & graduate from Manchester University, won the presidency (Town Hall) Shop SONS from his nearest rival , Jane Taylor, 56 Cockburn Street the current NUS general Phil Wool as said that he thought Wines and Spirits secretary, by 365 votes to 339. it was time that there was an NUS Interesting Clothes, Edinburgh at Woolas has been NUS treasurer president with very recent for the last nine months, but has experience of being a student and A ccessories, The Vegetarian Take-away Sensible Prices not held major posts in the uni9n who was therefore more in touch Co llectables etc. unlike Neil Stewart, whom he with the students. He is at present --- • succeeds as president. a part-time post graduate. He said Large Selection of The outcome of the other that he intends to concentrate Open until 10.00 p.m. elections for NUS officials has activities on persuading the from 10.00 am-5.00 pm Delicious Hot and Thurs., Fri ., Sat. seen the National Organisation of government and the public that Saturday 28th April, Cold Fillings Labour Students (NOLS) retaining students are getting a raw deal due 7.00 p.m. Mon., Tues., Saturday, 12th May, control of the NUS executive for to low grants and falling standards --- Wed . the third year running. NOLS of education caused by spending Saturday 2nd June. members on the executive include cuts. He emphasised that the NUS Pitta Bread • Woolas himself, and the union's should recognise that its prime job Sandwiches new general secretary, J im was to "protect our students' • Just around the Donaldson, who is also deputy education". Inquire: --- corner from chairman of the Scottish NUS. Alastair Dalton IRENE HASTON Open 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Pollock at Wot! No digs? Tel. 669 1584 Monday-Saturday 2 DALKEITH ROAD Over the next few weeks the SAC area of Student Houses that the COCKBURN and the University will be trouble beg ins. Only approxi­ discussing the SAC's new mately 30% of House places go to Echo proposals for accommodation. first years at the moment with the The new proposals are outlined in final decision on who gets the LOUNGE a report drafted by Tim Parke and places lying in the hands of the Pre-1960s they propose a shift in the current Warden responsible for the house. 73 COCKBURN STREET allocation of Hall and House The Wardens see the SAC's • Clothes places to include more First Year proposed minimum of 50% as a • Accessories threat to their control of the House students, thus protecting first year Opening students from the potentially and so oppose the report. • Jewellery Hours: harmful experience of digs. The The situation is also aggravated • Collectables Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. proposals suggest a minimum of by the discussion of hall fees Saturday 7 a.m . to 11 .45 p.m . 65% of the University's Hall places which always rears its ugly head at Sunday 12.30 p.m. to 2.30 p .m.; 6.30 p.m. to 11 p.m. to be allocated to first year th is time of year. For the last two students and a minimum of 50% of years the SAC have been GO- GO DANCERS MONDAY-SATURDAY 12-2 p .m. the places in Student Houses. successful in keeping Hall Fees Thursday, Friday, SNACKS AVAILABLE Over this week the SAC wi ll be stable but a rise looks inevitable Saturday 12.30-5 pm lobbyi ng members of the this year. Accommodation Committee who If a successful outcome to th is have until now been fairly hostile campaign is to be gained, it will towards these suggestions. The take the participation of the 10p OFF PINTS AND NIPS 7 a.m. to 12 noon SAC are prepared to stand their student body. We must all show ground, however, and fight for the clearly to the University that digs 12 ST MARY'S STREET MONDAY TO SATURDAY proposals all the way through the can be inadequate, and that we (off High Street) University hierarchy. feel that it is unfair to dump The SAC argue that the newcomers to University into the proposals will not alter the hostile encironment of bad digs. LA •....••.••..•...... •.•.• LIVE situation in Halls too 1rastically. Wear your NO DIGS badge, sign Henderson's Currently about 60% of places are the petition, registers your MUSIC allocated to first years. It is in the compalint. The Original Vegeta ri an Alan Munro SORBONNE NIGHTLY Wholefood Self-Service • Restaurant and 69 COWGATE • Wine Bar. EDINBURGH • Rise in demand ••• • Inexpensive, nurritious hor and cold OPEN meals or snacks are available TILL rhroughour rh e day and evening. for Uni places ••• LATE Choose f rom over 15 invenrive Figures just published by the credence to their opinion that salads and sample delicious Universities Central Council on demand will remain constant, or home-baking f rom our Admiiisions have revealed that the rise, over the next few years. wholemeal bakery. SCORE COMMOTIONS number of applications to British One major criticism of the ••• Universities this year looks like government is that it has under­ Listen ro live music nightly in our FANCY DRESS HIRE being slightly higher than in 1983. estimated demand from women Wine Bar- the ideal eating The latest UCCA statistics show for' University places. UCCA say and meeting place. AND CARNIVAL ACCESSORIES that it received 169 , 694 that "the long-established trend applications by March 31st 1984, towards a greater proportion of One of the most popular compared with 168,433 at the women candidates continues." Festival venues. same time last year. The council There has, however, been a slight 44 HANOVER ST. 99 WEST BOW has estimated the final numbers decrease in male applications and HANOVER STREET 1st FLOOR GRASSMARKET will be 173,000, about 700 more a massive rise of 11 .6% in EDINBURGH than the 1983 figure. applications from overseas. 225 2034 225 1557 Subjects which are becoming These figures constitute yet more popular with prospective • T HIS IS ONE PLACE THAT YOU SHOULD another condemnation of the UniversiW undergraduates are government's view that demand education, pharmacy, law and NOT MISS. for places in higher education is electrical engineering. Those in • IT IS UNIQUE FOR THE LARGE falling and will continue to fall. It decline are medicine, mechanical therefore lends weight to ttie engineering, agriculture and SELECTION OF BEAUTIFUL EXOTIC increasing arguments from physics. CLOTHES AND CRAFTS - AND THE various academic groups for more Despite the increase in demand, MULTITUDE OF SMALL AND IN­ University funding. These groups these has been a decrease in EXPENSIVE GIFTS. which include the Committee of acceptances. In 1983 only one Vice-Chancellors and Principals third of applciations were • PLUS (WITH EXTRA BONUS) 10% and the Association of University accepted - about 57,000 students STUDENT DISCOUNT. Teachers will undoubtedly use went to University last year. these latest statistics to lend Michael Devlln Tel: 031-556 8690. THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 5 comment The Public Gets . .. Correction Oh, Wendy! An up-market travel shop for young professionals how Next Week Dear Student. nice! Nice for whom? The Students' Association's Dear Student, Empire-builders that's who. Slowly but surely the In last week's review of Roman Troops out Much as I enIoy Wendy Barrett Vishniac's 'Lost World', the first Association with its 'brave new direction' is creating a reviews, and I do (honestly). I wish sentence should have read 'Unlike she would get her facts right. Dear debate. monolith which can only run further and further out of many photographs of suffering, Neighbours are a Grangemouth the control of the student body. deprivation and poverty, Roman group .- not Glaswegian. That's Vishniac's images are not banal '. Of course Ken Shoji (or rather Doctor Fishburne) Grangemouth as in G-R-A-N-G-E­ Sun and fun The word tonal had been used in M-O-U-T-H. Got it? would claim that such developments are necessary if place of ba nal and caused some Yoursfa1thfully. the existing facilities are to be maintained. In reply one confusion. in your super Outraged Grangemouth native need only state that the ideal of a real student Donald Pollock democracy would not be damaged by some Student diminution in the present facilities. For the very size of Cheap humour(?) respect which many students hold the Association means that office-bearers elected for Dear Student, for their Chancellor, indeed the travel one year can do little to actually affect the course of only complimentary words about him are quite clearly a vehicle with vital decisions which are effectively made by The cover of last week's Student reminds one, as it Is probably which to make cheap, unfunny supplement permanent staff who can claim much greater intended to, of a magazine more remarks about the Royal Fam ily. experience and who control the information on which renowned for its cynical and Whilst a degree of Journalistic Herpes-the office-bearers depend. The new plans can only satirical humour than for its licence must be permitted. such Journalistic integrity. Over the article should not be distorted by exacerbate such problems whilst the money raised page, however, "Philip's Tribal the writer's personal view of the true story will probably be used for such vital projects as Factor" sadly fell between these lecture (or in this. case the two stools. lecturer). Indeed the general tenor installing fitted carpets on Chambers Street's new of it reflects the bias and one­ (£100,000) stairway. . . One wonders, for example, whether everyone really did writhe sidedness of so many articles Get writing! In effect with the implementation of the new pohc1es at Dr Burnett's introduction as Is preceed1ng it : the critIc1sm we might as well scrap sabbaticals for all the effective reported in the article, or whether contains nothing original (with the All letters, articles possible exception of the"cartoon) power they will enjoy. At last the pitiful death of Prince Philip did in fact say that nuclear war was not a problem. and no new arguments are raised . etc. to number one Edinburgh's student democracy seems to approach Whilst there Is no need to be a Are 1ntell1gence and originality us. But then the public gets . . . See page 2 slave to protocol in such an article, absent from student 1ournal1sm? Buccleuch Place the way in which Prince Philip is Yours faithfully, by lunchtime addressed does not reflect the Charles Bowen Staff Tuesdays. Fred Price's Letter from Mexico Editor: Bill Williamson Features: James Meek Robin Henry john petrle Assistant Ed: Mike Devlin Ethological stimulation and all that ....

News: Mike Devlin Sport: Alun Grass1ck On and on we roared, racing down Fiona Murray Rob Kitson the glaring orange ball above, Jenny Dunn hills and swinging around bends Besides falling in love with every moulded by the sparse vegetation Katrina Philip with carefree yet finite precision. girl who granted me a smile, I was The faster speeds were reserved in to parasites rather than lucky enough to witness the town Toby Porter developers, and living in the Alastair Dalton Back page: David Petherick for loops, dips and curves, while celebrations of Benito Juarez's we - the passengers in this shadow of a culture which throws birthday. Juarez, a statesman who rampaging but study motor coach crusts while munching whole­ brought peace, fraternity, secular some what bread, hunched up What's On: Anna Antilli - swayed from side to side like freedom and so on to Mexico, women and whiffing animals Helen Bell spineless dummies. A fellow next seems to be what Lincoln is to the became one economic unit, Sarah Langman to me varied his pendulum USA and what Botham is to Graphics: Toby Porter governed by a free market of Jane McNeill swinging by periodically English cricket. He is worshipped. Nancy Miller collapsing his seat into the lap of skinny ri bs and perennial hunger. On the 21 st March every year, the boy sitting behind him. We entered a small market town bands parade and schoolchildren Mexican coach travel is not with more pigs and sheep in the march to acclaim the great man. At Photographs: Ned Dalgleish comfortable but Is reasonably high st reet than cars and people in 6 am trumpets - which, when Arts: Donna Campbell the entire community. Indian Eleanor Zeal Donald Pollock quick, very cheap, and most bought cheaply. have no valves James Laidlaw interesting. women ran alongside the bus - and - drums woke everyone up. Paul Quinn obviously, coming from the capital Elaine Proctor Fiona M1llburn It is also ethnolo g ically Then the parade began at around stimulating. The travellers are city, a visitor of both ambas­ 10 am. All 30 schools were repre­ from the lower income brackets - sador i a I and cosmopolitan sented, marching sometimes why else would I be travelling importance - hawking oranges, ahrply, sometimes a little tired, to Manager: Tanya Woolf thereby? -and al most exclusively beads , cloth and swee t s . the beat of raspi ng drums and Music: Wendy Barrett Indian. I found that, as we moved Crouched on pavements and in hooting trumpets. Wave after wave Neil Dalgleish further into the interior and away the shade of street-side cafes they came, fluttering ribbons or other Indians (always Indian) Advertising: Neville Moir from Mexico city, the Indian brandishing feathers , im­ element became more evi dent and watched us pass, ignored but ever maculately dressed and freshly the teeth became more rotten, for hopeful Grubby, beautiful under­ brushed. Then the town bigwigs we were progressing through one fed childrendp uased, bean soup strolled up and sat impassively Things I wish I hadn't said. of the poorest states of the and tortilla half way to mouth, and while a smart suited man Number one in an occasional series. Mexican Unio n in whi c h took us in only long enough to add ressed the subject of Juarez. malnutritio n pl a gu es the dismiss as ra ther unimportant. Not a blink from anyone at the overwhelmigly in d i g nious Meanwhile, the rivers ran dry and crescendo, just polite clapping at Mike population. . the drains overflowed and the sun the end. Floats passed and little As the bus driver rolled his wrinkled the skins of old folk who girls threw flowers. Then we fingers over the steering wheel. unserstood the way things were. dispersed. Conway negotiating a bend with a steep I spent three days in a small This ceremony , though drop on one side whilst chatting town 170 miles south of Mexico honouring a· man of internation­ City. Its name was Huaiuapan de alism and lofty designs, also THIS YEAR HAS BEEN AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER! casualty to his hostess attendent, .a Leon. in the state of Oaxaca, which honoured the rustic participants. straw shacks and vil lages wi th is the poorest and dustiest state in ::,~'- have you actually met or even seen one of your elected neither roads nor pavements and Their neat dress and step, their the Union. The best hotel, which "Office~Bearers" this year? perhaps one car per five hundred smiling countenance, the was palacial by the peasant What is the Honorary Secretary's job? people flashed past and receded acclamation of a man who was standards of the rest of the town, • MIDWEEK into the hot. - so hot - desert. and always will be aeons away cost four pounds per night. I * UNION PUBLICITY Aridity, red and sandy soil, from their minds, reflected the • UNION DISCIPLINE blistered feet, widespread strolled through and sat in the positive and optimistic outlook of * GENERAL MEETINGS . illiteracy and an extreme wordly centre, admiring the church, the a people who might well be as Therefore the person elected has a maJor role in changing the patience are the fea tures of this people, the approaching night and miserable as a blind man who way in which your Association is run. lifestyle, in which the daily wage the cheerful and seemingly arrived in town the day Jesus left. As the POISON DWARF in Student and having h_ad a year ol the may be four or five pounds for carefree atmosphere. Once more As little children scurried between so-called "representative" council I know what s going wrong shopkeepers and farmers alike. the resurgence and longevity of soldiers' legs during the keynote and how to put it right. we stopped at a crossroads of the Indian culture swept up the speech, the obvious and even casual observer. The Catholic How? . ( b k isn't as hard indeterminate arterial importance. appalling ooverty of the town was -Get the office-bearers out of the offices t e w O r Church had a physically imposing symbolised by a dribbling, lame as they like to pretend) and into the student body. . h Nothing. The heat poured in. Two women squatted in a ditch, one presence, but the population was beggar who thrust a cap _ullder the -Gel the students with the talent and e~th~stasm int~ ~ e better represented by the life they oltices to produce better, more widely distributed publicity, shielding herself from the sun by noses of disinterested d1anatories led and the goods they sold. Over b fitting the electors. You own the Assoc1at1~n . means of a dirty shirt slung over a as they strove to concentrate on tt,erefore _ene se the Government's education policy, frail bush, the other eating 90% Indian, they needed to live as the speaker's eulogy. On the hills -~v:i~~~~'~gu~~ ~~~v?lved instead of just an over-bearing something and staring at the metal well as pray. But in a town above the town square and In the "diotic self-important clique. · d the and glass box which had so untouched by the temptation to streets lined with empty stores, ~ake ihe writing style of Midweek, the ,magi nation _b_ehin suddenly disturbed her earth squeeze tourists for big bucks, cafes and shops, the sanitary - posters, the skill behind the publicity - more exciting, more bound existence. At a spot nearby, there seemed to exist an conditions and poor health interesting and more readable. a dog, a donkey and a pig - a atmosphere of community , lingered. But in the square, where perhaps family, economic Me? t you But those massive capital investment - the malnourished and the shoe No, not just me. And certainty ~og~~vge2 t~:; ~hould. be the real chewed and sniffed at the gravelly advance, tortuous and dlow. They shine boys rubbed shoulders with interested, put oil by the presen were in it together, and their Honorary Secretaries. road. In the primitive and basic the vagrants and the artisans. guiding light wasn't Catholicism. Vote for You Vote for Mt VOTE MIKE CONWAY revaili n conditions scorched b determined resilience prevailed. 6 THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 arts night. Akerman, with quite the crudest use of improvisational technique I have seen in years. Silkwood tries to recreate the inherent anarchy o f such events by way of A Nuclear Waste multiple scene and character changes {which does not quite work due to the use of the same room and occasional props in virtually every scene!}. Thus. as Silkwood is the true story of the images become more Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep}, an ana rchic, impulsive and obscure. ordinary worker at a nuclear plant. the audience is whipped up to a who on se tting out to pass on state of unparalleled ennui and evi dence to a reporter from the Toute Une general dissatisfaction. New York Times concerning the Perhaps the f undamental lack of sa fety standards at the problem with a film of this type is plant, dies (was murdered?} in a the questionable role played by car accident. The evidence was Nuit the director, and the resultant never recovered. Silkwood is very audience reaction to such much a true story, and bears the Sex and Insensibility direction. On the one hand "Toute weight o f its own high standards Une Nuit" could well be a touching concerning " facts", and in the end foray into the diverse world of buckles under the pressure. By nocturnal eroticism on. on the taking the story of the nuclear "A witty, mocking and un­ other hand. a vexing puzzle of dis­ debates premier martyr, and compromising assault on the connected image, disembodied refusing to embellish the facts with supposed divide between the sound {of the " I love you", " I need box office gloss. Silkwood is a film avant garde and narrative" - or so you", " I want you" variety) and that is occasionally frightening, we are told. Directed by the distinctly false sentiment. Such is frequently disturbing, but more thankfully inimitable Chantal the overriding problem with this often than not dull. Akerman, w hose previous features film, it can be taken as a blatant Karen Si lkwood was certainly include such chestnuts as " Je", insult to the most average not the stuff martyrs are made of A rare photo{1raph of Shirley WIiiiams in her old Trade U nion days. "Tu", "II", "Elle" , I can but suppose intelligence or as a challenging {or at least Hollywood martyrs); three children. but she has other the known facts. In this light it is a that this film was funded. and stimulating piece of modern chain-smoking, vaguely sluttish. affairs and deserts her children wonder that Silkwood is not researched and released on behalf cinema. After having observed, in leading an unremarkable life with ~he's terrified of cancer but chain worse. Despite its shortcomings, of the British Farmers' Associa­ intimate detail, the shallow unremarkable people. She is un­ smokes. The contradictions don't there are things to commend it; tion - or some such august ramblings of a film that casually affected b y the moral o r end there, there are enough in the Mike Nicols' direction is nice and Anglophile body - dealing as it left the aCJdience to imagine a philosophical debate concerning plot to keep your grey matter tight, and Meryl Streep's perform­ does with the more excusable beginning, middle and end to the nuclear power, and her activism is occupied for an eternity: " did she ance is of such power that one is excesses of the Franch avant most repetitive of action (" Le" based purely on the danger she contaminate her home deliber­ left ignoring the nuclear debate garde. T o Chantal Akerman. pick-up, boy meets girl, boy meets sees to herself and her friends. ~tP.lv?" "ciici she in fa ct fall asleeo an.d trying to puzzle the mysteries whose work has that exquisite boy . even and the harrowing These motivations do not make at the wheel due to a mixture of of Karen Silkwood' s m i nd . aura of unstudied crudity, the attempts to fulfil the obligating her any less heroic, but make it drugs and alcohol?", "does it Silkwood is not a particularly fine normal cinematic prerequisites of biological functions thereof) I more difficult for the audience to really matter how it happened?". ' film; it knows where it wants to go, plot, dialogue and narrative are rather doubt the latter. perceive her as being heroic. It is these contradictions that but is too intelligent to use the forgotten in her tedious quest for Although pleading a certain Her personalit_y swirls with make the use of cinema the wrong means to get there. "art through spontaneity", or ignorance on the touchy matter of contradictions: she loves her medium for this story; esoeciallv if boyfriend (Kurt Rus~e ll) and her whatever. although, in the final " contemporary cinema" I do feel you have the temerity to use only Duncan Swan event. the outcome of such that the predominance of the continued controversy is dis­ "form is extraneous to Art" idiom Film Qu12 appointing to say the least. adhered to by Akerman proves Under-10s only may Classified: Arts team seeks writers The film attempts {rather badly ultimately tiresome, contrived and Name the leading apply. wilh wit, Insight, style, sensitivity let me say} to portray the plethora boring - much like "Toute Une actors in Porkey's, Risky to fill growing demand for tht Nu it" as a matter of fact. Prize: a trip to the last above . Favourab l e terms of amorous adventures en­ Business and Footlose. countered in one long hot summer Paul 'McGlone Cannes Film Festival. negotiable.

ASSOCIATION GENERAL ELECTIONS Thursdaf, 10th Ma~ 1984

Nominations are now open for the following positions:

SRC Positions Union Positions Committee of Management Vice-President (Court) President of Debates Vice-President (Senate) Catering Convener Entertainments Convener Conveners Services Convener A cademic Affairs Life Member Accommodation House Chairmen- Chambers Street/ Community Affairs Officer Student Centre/ Teviot Row Enviro·nment House Secretaries-Chambers Street/ Ex tern a/. A flairs Student Centre/Teviot Row National Affairs Postgraduate House Committees Transition Chamber~ Street 4 seats Welfare Student Centre 4 seats Teviot Row 4 seats Faculty Conveners Arts Debates Committee 5 seats Science Social Science

Faculty Representatives Arts Undergraduate 5 seats Arts Postgraduate 1 seat Dentistry 1 seat Divinity 1 seat Association-Wide Positions Law 2 seats Medicine 3 seats Senior President (Sabbatical) Music 1 seat Union President (Sabbatical) Science Undergraduate 7 seats Honorary Secretary (Sabbatical) Science Postgraduate 1 seat Honorary Treasurer (Sabbatical) Social Science Undergraduate3 seats Societies President Social Science Postgraduate 1 seat Publications Board Chairman Veterinary Medicine 1 seat Finance Committee (3 seats) THE STUDENT 26th April 1)384 7

Several Edinburgh-based " Brassneck", May 10 at the Third companies are represented in May Eye Centre. Fest. "Glasgow Zen" is a Traverse The· Nurnberg Pocket Opera Theatre production, a strange brings opera to the masses with collaboration of poetry, prose, their modern style. For the May haiku, synthesizers and slide Fest masses they are performing shows. liberally splattered with "Lucrezia Borgia - a Horror inside humour and Glasgow puns. Show", based on the infamous THeatre Workshop, Stockbridge, Renaissance poisoner with tunes premieres "The Great Push". Mav by Donizetti rescored for opera on 15-19 at the Mitchell Theatre. With a pocket scale. a modest cast of 30. a little music, a Several unusual individual little spectacle. a smattering of performers appear during May Glaswegian hu:,-;our, TW's adnptation of Fest. American comic Whoopie Patrick MacGill's writings of the Goldberg is repor1edly (Los Great War emphasises the futility Angeles Times) a combination of of war. Revels Richard Prior, Dame Edith Evans L~ Lochhead is certainly well and Sir Laurence Olivier. Another Glasgow May Fest '84 exposed in May Fest. At the talented hybrid, the Great Mitchell Theatre, the Borderline Kesselofski, a cross between Winnowing the publicity and Theatre Company are "Shang­ accompanying superlative chaff Harpo Marx and Houdini, will haied", May 7- 11 , a show for the ·· astound audiences with such feats uncovers exceptional and unusual post-nursery school and pre-O­ entertainments during th e as the Escape from the Berlin Mail level group and their guardians Bag. Golden Oldies Howard Keel , Glasgow May Fest '84, May 6-19. about growing up during the previously of MGM musicals, now In its second year. May Fest has· confusion of the war years. written frolicking on the ranch in TV's attracted a staggering number of 'Dallas', and American singin foreign and British talents in Domestic problems in "The Hypochondriac ... group The Drifters make appeaI­ contemporary music and theatre. ances. Showing great diversity in Museums, galleries and art programming, the May Fest centres in Glasgow are Exuberant Hypochondriac powers have gathered two West collaborating on a series of End hits. "Blood Brothers" and exhibitions which will run from the The Hypochondriac to the other main actors, he seems " Another Country", Cuban drama, end of April through May Fest. Bedlam Theatre to have merely strolled onto the German opera and several· Dave Williams· photographic Wed 25th-Sun 29th 8 pm stage to deliver his speeches. Scottish groups. Scheduling is views of the 1983 May Fest is at the Outstanding within a generally such that the undiscriminating can Glasgow Art Centre. In "The Hypochondriac". Moliere good cast was Marion Couttes as see nearly all of May Fest. May Fest events are scattered created itie comedie-ballet , the Doctor's lisping son. The pre-lest publicity promises throughout a variety of Glasgow rambling music and dance with The best interval is actually the dance. mus ic, comedy and venues and even flood the streets the play. The musical interludes last scene, a burlesque parody of tragedy, "a cultural knees-up", with mime, music and that are not always re Ievent to the main the medical world. Chanting according to the Evening Times . impromptu, spontaneous type of story, but provide colourful and butchered latin amid dramatic Inspiring this acrobatic metaphor entertainments expected of often insightful diversions. lighting, the cast becomes a are performers from San festivals. A more complete, less Director Eleanor Zeal is faithful to cohesive unit erupting into a Francisco. Brazil, Germany, the by Lochhead. "Same Difference", subjective listing is obtainable at Moliere's text, and is successful in w i tch - doctor pandemonium remote mountains of Cuba, also Lochhead, trea ts sexual theatres around Edinburgh and balancing the verbal and physical Throughout the production the Drumchapel and Springburn. This stereotypes with humour and/ or from May Fest Ltd ., 7 Burgh Hall energies of the scenes. Although combination of pointed word-play is, after all, an international insight. The woman herself Street Glasgow. there were a few rough spots that and slap-stick humour creates an amusing and exciting atmosphere. festival. appears a la cabaret in D.C. will hopefully be smoothed over by opening night, " The Hypo­ If you have ever had a bad chondriac" is a lively and often experience with a doctor, or you Celebration for Lefties exuberant production. are looking for well-paced The story centres around Argan. entertainments this is the play for the hypochondriac. played by you. Multi-media: (William) Morris Dancing Aaron Cass. Although his pains Laura Dickerman are imaginary, Argan manages to el1c1t some sympathy when E{!rthly Para!'.llse by Moving Being views he once held and his present skills of Geoff Moore who devised confronted with Moliere's doctors Belford Centre for Dance materialism: a dilemma brought to and directed the production - garri.:lous, over-priced and a head by his wife's newly "What relevance does the life of basically useless. Cass was Any self-respecting lefty cannot discovered independence at a a Victorian. middle-class lefty consistenily entertaining, (he has have failed to notice that this year Greenham Common peace camp. interior designer have to today?" wonderful facial expressions) but is the 150th anniversary of the The scenes from this play were you may well ask . Th e because he Is present in almost birth of William Morris. Having punctuated by scenes from the performance, however, juxta­ every scene , his farcical been assailed from all sides by domestic life of Morris. the two posed the loves and ideals of interpretation becomes a bit press articles and new editions of connected by his lyrics and the yesteryear with those of today, distracting. This sort of broad his works, it came as a pleasant daughter of the architect who drawing parallels between, as well comedy was played to perfection surprise to discover a theatrical acted as both catalyst and as contrasting, the morally rigid by Rachel Anderson as Argan's production to commemorate this consiliator in her parents ' class-ridden society of Victoria wife. There was a definite event. The Cardiff-based Moving relationship. Throw in a mistress with that of Maggie. Plus ea triangular relationship of style Being's " Earthly Paradise", com­ for the architect. Rosetti. to change. . The Greenham among Argan. his wife and missioned by the I CA, at 1he complete the rnenage a trois with Common scenes at the end went daughter Angelique. played Belford Centre for Dance, last Morris and his wife, and a video to prove, however, that this was beautifully by Donna Campbell. week provided an interesting taped biography of Morris not just retrospective drama but Although their conventional tribute to the life and works of overlying the action and the result had relevance to the near future affiliations and plottings provided Morris, combining as it did some sounds as if it should be totally too. key scenes. it was Fiona Mcleod of his poetry set to the music of his incomprehensible . On the The only disappointing thing as the maid who really held the cello with a potted biography and contrary , the performance about the whole evening as the play together. Her timing was dramatised scenes from his life. managed to avoid the pitfalls that attendance. The total crowd that excellent and her witty lines were The performance itse lf other multi-media shows have the theatre- loving public of never overplayed. Jeffery Howitt consisted of a play about a tripped merrily into. The end result Edinburgh could muster on Friday plays a sensitive Punchinello in modern-day architect trying to was imaginative as well as visually was about forty souls and, believe one of the intervals much more come to terms with the ideologi­ and mentally stimulating and bore it or not. a very int_elligent dog. effectively than he plays Argan's cal conflict between the socialist testimony to the considerable Mark Porteous brother. As the brother, in contrast Aaron Cass, "The Hypochondriac"'. What Every Woman Wants?

Rosalind Coward's book, entitled to exist. which Coward claims Is as It Is , Female Desire will antagonistic to the culturally probably be passed over by many enforced idea that women cannot women and most men. The take from the world. seem hard to material it contains however, swallow. However. on second whilst primarily relevent to women readind and further thought. has much to offer the "stronger" statements such as. "the month for sex for it may enable men to women Is a site of of drama. a understand that what are taken to drama between the desire to be universal female desires and pursue active needs and against feminine qualities are but cultural the proh1b1t1ons levelled against phenomena women's behaviour", begins to Presented as a collection of make sense, essays, the concerns, ideals and Female Desire covers a wide objects that women in western spectrum of western female society find pleasure in are sexuality and for this reason may discussed. The questions of why be criticised for being bitty and pleasure is found in them and why insubstantial. However. it does this pleasure is very often followed provide in one book an Insight into by guilt are asked and some the female pleasure/ fruit cycle and i nteresting hypotheses are even 1f much of what is written Is aavanced. contentious. it is certainly Areas such as the female. novel. thought-provoking and raises image and relationships are questions that most women today explored. At first read. certain should be asking themselves items. for example the equating of about the way they th ink and feel. eathing the emotions of survival Naomi Marks and this to the assertion of a right 8 THE STUDENT 26th Apr!I 1984 what's on

ABC (228 1638) Yentl Greystoke .14.15, 16.55,-20.00 13.45, 16.35, 19.35 (doors open 19.45) Edgar Rice Burroughs' original Barbra Streisand directs an,d acts version of the legendary Tarzan in in this musical-drama about a which he returns home to be woman dressed as a man in order reunited with his grandfather. to get an education; unfortunately the plan backfires as complica­ Terms of Endearment tions multiply . ... 17.02, 16.55, 19.50 Debra Winger, Shirley Maclaine Educating Rita and Jack Nicholson explore the 13.45, 16.45, 19.50 (pert times) relationship between mother and Highly acclaimed film starring daughter in this Oscar-winning Julie Walters and Michael Caine. film.

To Be Or Not To Be Footloose 14.15, 17.20, 20.05 (pert times) 14.50, 17.20, 20.00 Mel Brooks' latest comedy 'way The tale of a teenager (Kevin over the top' ... As usual. Bacon) who confronts the puritanical morals of.the minister Silkwood and community of a small mid­ 13.50, 16.50, 19.40 western town. From Friday 27th April Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher star in this much praised film Attention All Filmgoers! about an employee of a nuclear The Odeon Film Centre at 7 Clerk Zlggy Plays u tar facility who tries to expose abuses Street are now admitting four Toute Une Null of safety regulations in the students for the price of three to all Extra Mural Studies Filmhouse industry and dies in mysterious Thur 26th, Fri 27th, Sat 28th performances, Sunday to Friday, Drive Into History circumstances on her way to meet (228 2688) 18.20, 20.20 on production of their' Union Thur 3rd May with a reporter from the New York cards. Take advantage of this Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? Chantal Akerman directs this 'Drive Into History' is the title of a Times. Highly recommended. wonderful offer! Thur 26th, Fri 27th, Sat 28th waltz through innumerable series of study-visits to historic 18.30, 20.30 passionate encounters through­ sites and buildings throughout Directed and written by Henry out a long, hot night in a European Scotland. Today it's an outing to Jaglan, starring Michael Caine city; each meeting or parting is Garnethill and Gilmorehill in and Kara Black. The pill-popping, glimpsed only at its climax for Glasgow. Tickets and details from nervous Michael Emil, hero of which the viewer will write ~is own 11 Buccleuch_Place. · Jaglan's extremely funny movie beginning and ending. Belgium/ Sitting Ducks, cannot dissuade his France 1982 (subtitles). 90 mins. Burrell Collection Outing wife from leaving him and the Fri 4th May movie deals with his highly Two experts will accompany a Zlggy Stardust individual attempts to pick up Sun 29th, Mon 30th, Tue 1st party to visit the Glasgow members of the opposite sex. USA collection. Early booking is 18.30, 20.30 1983. 90 mins. The film of Bowie's 1973 Hammer­ important. 11 Buccleuch Place. smith Odeon concert, which Black Narcissus · marked the end of his Ziggy SPECIAL CONCESSION FOR STUDENTS Talbot Rice Centre Sun 29th, Mon 30th Stardust c.haracter. Bowie's act is 4 ADMITTED FOR THE PRICE OF 3. Walter Geitie 1795-1837 18.20, 20.20 'coolly professional, sensual ·and I Scenes of Scottish life and A group of nuns cloistered in the androgynous' . . 'Not since CUT OUT AND PRESENT THIS TOKEN character. 24th April-2nd June. Himalayas face every conceivable Disney's Fantasia(!!) has music AT THE CINEMA BOX OFFICE. Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00. challenge to their faith and and film been connected so I serenity: from their own repressed elegantly'. The Scottish longings, from a teasing English I Photography Group aiheist, from the web of oriental Gallery customs and superstitions in The Last Honour of Katherina Haand Cassidy which they're caught. '. . The Blum Photographs 1933-1945, Sat 28th sexual lure is inextricably bound Tues 1st May, 18.10, 20.20 April-Sat 26th May. 12.30-6.00 up with the geographical ethos Based on a novel by Heinrich Boll, Tue-Sat. 105 High Street. and its historical associations; the this film is about a woman whose lnstitut Francais erotic is largely the product of the life is ruined by malevolent Kwaidan and Crystal Gazing exotic'. rumours spread about her in the Friday 27th April d'Ecosse The Scottish Gallery German press. George Square Theatre, 18.45 Victorine Fort and Bill Wright, Kwaidan i.s _a trio of Japanese 13 Randolph Crescent RSW • . ghost stories, produced by (225 5366) New paintings and watercolours, Masaki Kobayashi and Katsuo and acrylics on canvas and paper. Nakamura, for which they won a Le Sang d'un Poete and Until 22nd May, Mon-Fri, 0.900- Special Jury prize at Cannes. La Dame de Monte Carlo 17.30, Sat 0.900-13.00. 94 George Remarkable in its visual beauty Thursday 26th April, 20.30 Street. and atmosphere. Crystal Gazing: Le Sang d 'un Poete by Jean Death, fame, fairy tales and saxo­ Cocteau (1930) is one of the key phones in this unique portrayal of works of surrealist film-making the apres-youth culture in which explores aspects of a poet's London. Starts 21.00. (Laura vision. 'An indescribable film full Cinema 1 Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Gavin of striking imagery.' La Dame de Sun 29-Sat 6 6.30/8.30 (Also 3.00 pm Wed 2) Richards) Monte Carlo is a very short film by ~~ APRIL Dominique Delouche based on a ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS (PG> 4 5 Pennebaker's outstanding record of Bowie's 1973 Hammersmith Dilemma, Heavy Metal and poem by Cocteau; a lady is 26th THE C.URE £ . Quest For Fire Odeon concert. wandering in Barbes, remember­ MAY Sun 29th April ing the splendour of Monte Carlo. CANNON George Square Theatre 1st &BAL Cinema 2 18.45, 19.00 and 20.40 respectively 2nd CANNON & BAL! . Wed 25-Sat 28 6.20/8.20 (Also 3.30 pm Sat 28) Dilemma is the first, digitised 3rd HOWARD KEEL ·TOUTE UNE NUIT ,,s> animation; Heavy Metal combines 5th STARS OF THE f •Chantal Akerman's hypnotic waltz through innumerable visionary -animation and heavy Dominion 8th KAJAGOOGOO £ passionate encounters throughout a long hot night. metal songs while Quest For Fire BUCKS tells of a prehistoric tribe's (447 2660) 12th FIZZ £S.I attempts to conquer fire. Anthony · SCOTTISH OPER Cinema 2 Rear Window 16-19 Burgess and Desmond Morris BARBARA DICK Sun 29 and Mon 30 6.10/8.20 14.30, 17.10, 20.05 31st helped script this amazing story. 'BLACK NARCISSUS(PG) Hitchcock classic starring_, J. JUNE A celebrated Powell/ Pressburger examination of sexual repression Terra Em Transe Stewart and Grace Kelly. LITTLE AND LAF in a Himalayan convent. Starring Deborah Kerr. ( Earth Entranced) and ~~~ FLYING PICKETS Violent Streets Champions DANNY LA RUE Wed 2nd May, 18.45 and 20.35 14.2_0, 17.20, 19.55 7 COMING SOON: ~arlos Saura's dazzling CARMEN, and Coppola's John Hurt stars in this film based ~;~ LEO SAYER £ .0 RUMBLE FISH, with music by Stewart Copeland. respectively. Pleasance. Terra Em Transe is a South on B9b Champion's fight against cancer. American portrayal of bourgeois le1:c:.61t;th) MOSCOW BAL politics. 'Incredible eloquent rage'. Never Say Never Again SEPTEMBER £ 5( Violent Streets (1981, Michael 22nd D10 £5.00, 4. Mann, James Caan). Caan, a 14.00, 17.00, 20.00 highly skilled safe-cracker, is Sean Connery is James Bond in, 18 -22 GREENSIDE PLACE ED pursued by the · police and the his latest action-packed film. Mafia. -~ THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 9 what's on theatre

The Church Hill Theatre Traverse Theatre (447 7597) Sight Unscene 1984: POINT S OF D EPARTURE 15.00. Free admission. THE CLEAN SWEEPS byStuan Paterson The Day After the Fa ir Rea d i ng s by the Traverse PURITY by Chns Hannan 25th-28th April, 19.30. Company of scripts sent in for IN DESCENT by Simon Donald "A woman's play" (quote: the " Bursts with energy, exuberance and possible performance in the servitor). raucous laughter"-The Guardian theatre. Now till May~ Tues-Sat 8 pm, Suns 3 pm Saturday Apnl 28 TRAVERSE T At:!< with Royal Lyceum Theatre MICHAEL WILCOX playwroght, 1984: Points of Departu re authorof RentsandAccounts 1 pm Free (229 9697) Until Sun 6th May. Sunday April 29 Theatre Pkf present Tues-Thurs 19.30, Fri, Sat 20 .00 Tues-Sat 20.00; Sun 15.00. TWEN TIETH CENTUR Y FOX The Master Builder Three young playwrights consider by George Gunn. 8 pm Until 28th April. the problems of being young and Restaurant Downstairs open 10 non­ members 7 days a week 10 30 am-3 pm Sat Mat: 16 .00. on the threshold of life in 1984. Upstairs M embers on ly Tues - 6 30-tt 30 pm After May 6 there will be no more 3 pm Present Laughter Netherbow Theatre Sunday performances until the autumn. 2nd-26th May Sunday performances will be at the usual A Noel Coward comedy in which (556 9579) tfme of Bpmand wfllcontlnue to be Pay As the Lyceum company's artistic Khoros Dance Theatre You Please. director Leslie Lawton makes his April 30-May 5, 19.30. Tickets and Details from the Box Office, 112 West Bow. Grassmarkel. Tel 2262633 final appearance in Edinburgh as Costume and contemporary the egotistical actor-manager dance. Garry Essendine.

·'Identity" and "On Edge" King's Theatre Until 28th, 19 .30. llnivents (229 4840) Two artists explore the nature of their art and their Scottishness The Real Inspector Hound and through mime, dance, music and Seaside Postcard poetry. ""'~-&&.. Until Sat 28 . Thurs, Fri 19.30; Sat 17 .00 . onal Portrait Gallery Thursday 26th : 50 Years of Photographs by Ecstatic Hour (pints 45p, spirits Pollock Refectory Bar: Happy f Karsh 35p) 8-9 pm, plus free disco and Hour. 8.30-9.30 pm. Bedlam Theatre Bedlam Lunchtime Show work of the world-famous late licence, Chambers Street (225 9893) Wed 1.15 ail photographer arrives House. Free. Live folk music, Please check at the Bedlam for from London. Don't miss it; it Teviot Row, free. JUMBLE SALE: McEwan Hall on The Hypochondriac details. s 30th April 10.00-17.00. Saturday, 28th April, at noon. Until 29 April, 20.00. Friday 27th Auction 2 pm. Edinburgh Medics. Tickets £1 .50/ £1 .25 . cury Gallery The Musical Works at th e Union EU ANTI-APARTHEID GROUP: Gendler Brezska Palais, featuring Wild Indians and ka died tragically young, yet Pleasure Crew. 2 happy hours, 2 Lunchtime Film Show, Tues 1st May (1-2 pm). Video: Las/ Grave at _a lasting impact on the world discos, 2.00 am licence. Teviot Dimbaze. DHT Language lul pture. Until 28th April. Row £1 . Potterrow Disco, with Ecstati c Learning Centre (basement next lery of Modern Art Hour, 8.30 pm-9.30 pm and 1.00 to the cafe) . Fr N;but donations am licence, 60p. welcome!). ;h Art 1900-1939 1s by Scottish, English and Free Disco and late licence, artists, including Yeats, Fry, Chambers Street House. Nightline Training: Tues 1st May, oe and others. Until 29th 7.30 pm; Sat 12th May, 10 am-5 10 .. 0-dusk , Mon-Sat; 13 .00- Saturday 28th pm; Sun 13th May, 10 am-5 pm. All Sun . Ballroom Blitz: 2 discos, late meetings in the Pleasa nce. All licence, Chambers Street House, welcome. Come along or phone ·onal Gallery 80p. 557 4444. randt to Seurat Cocktail Happy Hour, 7.30 pm- nt acquisitions of the gallery, 8.30 pm, plus free disco and late di ng Manet, Goya, Whistler. licence, Teviot Row House. Third World FirsJ: AGM. Wednes­ 29th April. 10.00-17.00 Mon- day, 2nd May. Come along and 4.00-1 7.00 Sun. Sunday 29th help plan next year's action Ecstatic Hour, 8-9 pm, plus live against world poverty. Chaplaincy al Society of cabare·t, Teviot Row. Free. Centre. SR II , 2 pm. burgh ographic History Tuesday 1st Friends of the Earth: Thurs, 26th 2nd May, 19.00. Ecstatic Hour, 8-9 pm plus live April, 7.30 pm: AGM plus plans for re given by Colin Ford, folk/ blues and late licence, the float. All interested please tor of the new National Chambers Street House. Free. come along. Exec Comm Room, ass on ate encoun er? Toute une Nuit) um of Ph otography, Film and Pleasance. ision at Bradford. Could be The Playhouse ;esting. 22 George St. 557 2590 EU Jazz Soc. Pleasance. Members 50p (others £1). Please check times for both performances. EU Jazz Soc would like to apolgise for last week ' s The Cure cancellation, and assure you that T hurs 26th April there will be live Jazz this Cannon and Ball Thursday. T ue-Wed, 1-2 April Usher Hall Pro Arte Debut Rec ital 228 1155/6 Sat 28th April, 19.30. Kyoju Mohri-cello Sir Alexander Gibson's ~ Yasuko Matayama- piano Sliver Jubill\e Concert Sonatina in D minor- Beethoven. PO(C) Fri 27 th April, 19 .30. Sonata in G minor- Beethoven. 0 Elgar: Overture, In the South. Three Fantaisie Pieces- Schu­ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. mann. Suite for solo cello­ PO, £5.50 (A) ~ 13. Elgar: Coronation Ode. With C a ssad o. Sonata Op . 8 .­ PO, £5_50 (C) John Lill, Margaret Mitchell, Sarah Dohnanyi . . £5.50 (A) r, Walker and Thomas Allen. The two Japanese artists give p.00, £4.00 (A) performances of the work of £4.00 (A) 0 ReidConcert Hall Japanese composers for the first '.00, £4.00 (A) Lunchtime Concert time in Scotland, as well as the 0 Tue 1st March, 13.10. more traditional part of the fOO to £ 13.00 (A) STOLEN - 3 GREYFRIARS PI & 129 ROSE St Fiona Mitchell, soprano. programme. r5_00, - Hilary Sa unders, clarinet. £5.00 (Bl Leon Coates, piano, playing: Kevock Choir On This Island- Britten. Sat 28th April, 19.30. 15.00, £4.00, £3.00 (A) Twi Nursery Songs- Bliss Conducted by Alex Elrick, with BiJI O(A) Fantasy Sonata-Ireland Mccue. The choir will include £5.50, £4.50 (A) Th ree Songs of Innocence­ several folk songs from their first b0, £5.00 (A) Arnold Cooke. LP, offering the chance of a previewl

2.00 to £13.00 (A) Shinty Queen's Hall Organ Recital submitted as soon as possible to Tour to Dublin playing Trinity 668 2117 Wed 2nd March, 13.10. the Sports Union Office in the College and University College. Jazz Night Herrick Bunney plays Prelude and Pleasance (667 1011 ext 4469) . Fri 27th April, 22 .00. Fugue in C-J . S. Bach . Playing 28 . Events include 7-a-side rugby, 7- Max Collie Rhythm Aces in the Symphony No. 5 in F minor­ GH 031 -557 2590 a-side football, 7-a-side hockey, Entries for the Sports Union New Orleans tradition. Wider. - Sports Day on May 6th should be lacrosse, volleyball, tug of war etc. 10 THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 .~f~ ==~l ~,-Jlllll;UltMllllf l.:./. That may sound selfish Perhaps Clint East­ considering the multitudes of wood and General Saint other punters turned away, but should have taken their this gig had already caused me unnecessary embarrassment. The own (and Jimmy Savile's) previous Thursday I had turned up advice and travelled by to Ritzy with a couple of other British Rail to their potential white rastas all psyched up for a night of red , gold and Aberdeen gig on Thurs­ green toasting festivities only to day 29th March. Their find I had got the wrong Thursday "Stop That Train" tour hit (who said that students were out f touch with reality?). dead-slow-stop grind- . ing halt en route to said dust biters: city when their bus was 'Ashes to ashes and dust to dust .. · · " d Anotheroneb1tededust(groink!) I nvo I ved In a roa Happily, no funeral ceremonies accident". wete necessary; according to one Your Student reviewer was hefty bouncer no one was hurt in amongst those punters who this blowout on the freeway. All turned up at Aberdeen's recently that suffered was the feelings of revamped hep(?) nightspot support band Man at the Window "Ritzy" only to find out that (you know, one of those Glasgow • everyone's favourite pair of reggae Art School bands) whose bus toasters (the ones who brought arrived safely . and punctually the word "groink" into theoutside an obviously brain-dead vocabulary of a nation) had finally venue. . IN OUR ANGELHOOD eaten their words and joined the Also hurt were my own feelings. There is no band more significant, more innovative or more elusive in British rock music than the Cocteau Twins. And that night in the Assembly Rooms Music Hall, they revealed their true mystique and charm. The atmosphere was full of trepidation, and it was definitely a heavy­ duty poseurs' gig - looking at the band onstage, I wondered how three fairly ordinary people could attract such a fashionable cult following. The simple answer is, of course, to close your eyes and open your ears. Or rather, let yourself be assailed by an incredible volume of noise. I mean, I know the Cocteaus are supposed to be one of the loudest live bands, but this is LOUD. Initially, it's so loud that there's a fair bit of distortion, but as I scrape my ears off the walls, I hear it has settled down by the third or fourth song, aided by soundman Ray ·from Modern English. It will never case to amaze me how such a tiny person like Elizabeth can produce such rich, powerful vocals. She stands in front of a huge backdrop which is decorated with the famous orchid symbol. She remains motionless, apart fromnal rhythmically jerky gestures. Blind Dumb Deaf - a favourite from Garlands - proves once and for all the Swans Way, the Birmir_ig­ repeating the same guitar riff throughout can be totally unmontonous: in this particular song it has hypnotic insidiousness. Surprisingly, there are ham trinity of style and no backing vocals on the tape machine, a good move since it enabled sophistication have been Elizabeth to show that she can sing. And how ... slowly and deliberately · picking their way through a sleazy twilight world of gay bars, strip joints and restaurants. Tonighfthey are making the rather dubious progression to the shadowy cavern that is Edinburgh's' Nite Club. Without any sign of the previously promised support act, Swans Way stroll on stage at five minutes to midnight, preceded by slinky guitar augmenting classically beautiful in her fox fur their striny quartet and horn occasionally. Even the pro­ and block toffets, an imposingly section: a perfectly natural fessional musos of the string demure demi-mondsine together backdrop for three such quartet enjoyed what they could with double bass player Rick inhabitants of the cocktail hour. have seen as the demaning chore Jones and the forementioned Mr The certainly look assured and, of playing second fiddle to these Shaw. Despite their slight air of well yes, CVOOL as they ease into young pretenders. All too soon aloofness, they still manage a the first number: a cheerful little they came to the end of their slot pleasingly unaffected stage ditty entitled The Blade. The blade and although they oblige with two manner, striking the right balance in question emerges un­ encores (Illuminations for a between oise and ose and surprisingly as love. After this the second time) the crowd were still set merges neatly without any eager for more. Well that's the way ab'rupt changes of style or tempo. it should be isn't it? The unmistakable highlights are If Swans Way have an eye for the shuddering Soul Train, the style (the word does keep forthcoming single release cropping up) it is at least equalled Illuminations and Anchor basking by their song writing and musical as it does in its 9wn sparse, ·~«:,, •• talents: Robert Shaw, quivering a complient jazz atmosphere. All the la Fury, posse!ises a particularly songs are well arranged and well fine voice. Having said this, they played: the double bass wobbling do complement each other ,._. .. :-.: ' : -., ,•.: and bowing inventively, with visually·: Maggie Edmond , • ; .J 'i '.,. MEADOW BAR replying freely to the audiences • Private Room available badinage. It's difficult to see where they will go from here but I don't think As the band broke into Sugar Hiccup, a large cheer rose from the • Parties catered for they'll be unduly worried by this. audience. Bui this changed to incredulity as' they were treated to a They seem to have very set notions completely different vocal line. I'm not sure that I prefer it, but at leat it in their own minds and will not shows a distinct lack of complacency. doubt strive to see these The light at the back of the stage flooded out as the fabulous Musette LIVE MUSIC EVERY THURSDAY completed, in their own quite, and Drums pounded out. I notice two huge shadows of Liz on either wall persistant manner, of course. - a nice touch, but I'm sure it means much more than that. Chew A. Caramel If you, like me, thought the Cocteaus to be somewhat arrogant in their silence to the world and evasion of the press, forg&t it. A band who didn't U for an I prepare an encore on the reel-to-reel because they didn't expect one, are • Bar Snacks not arrogant. They are the only band around who have successfully 0 for an A captured the undercurrents and moods of the Eighties, and the • Real Ale imagination of a lot of people. And they're not going to let go, either. Cap for an LC Wendy Barret LC for a Cap

42 BUCCLEUCH ST. (Tel. 667 3669) Roy Wilkinson THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 11 music

1. The Smiths and Sandie Shaw - Hand In Glove. ·CHART· 2. The Waterboys - Big Music. 3. Cocteau Twins pearly Dew Drops' Drops. 4. Frank Chickens Fujiyama Mama. 5. Malcolm X - No Sell Out. 6. The Bluebells - Im Falling. 7. Psychedelic Furs - Heaven. 8. Fad Gadget - One Man 's Meat. 9. The Human League - The Lebanon. 10. King Kurt - Mack Compiled by Four Eyes at The Knife. Ripping Records. THE HIGH TREE Frank Chickens: Fujiyama Mama Only just breaking through here, the Frank Chickens are a The new-look Musical produced a dance-orientated danceable and they do look like sound (I was suitably orientated} yer another yer 'pop-group' - Japanese vocal duo whose weird Works at Teviot Row was chants backed by synthesisers which was tastefully mixed but let complete with eccentric guitarist provides a catchy beat, of which rather overshadowed by down by songs which were a little and hunky singer - but it's all a bit ·SINGLES· bland. this track is a useful introduction. the terrible twins above thump-crash-thump (twang} - They are at present appearing at Their most distinctive attribute crash to stand up to vinyl, I would on Friday night but The Waterboys-Big Music various places in Britain, including was their guitarist who had a nice have thought. Still. spitting out his line un understated ear l y at Rumours in Lothian Road on 7 Edfnburgh bands The sylabbles with sub-rap venom, By far the best sounds yet from the Banshees-type brittle and May. High Tree and The Very singer Andy Loudon was efficient Waterboys, who finally seem to distorted, yet decorative , (despite a case of laryngitis) - have settled on a line-up and style. Thing did their level best phrasing. Songs featured included and if you want to boogie, you can This wins the " most apt title of the The Losing Touch and Ambition to microwave a somewhat boogie to TVT. month" award. It just is Big Music. - are these boys obsessively freeze-dried evening. Highlights of the set were a Enormous even. Horns, guitars, career-minded? sneaky dig at hapless reviewer drums and production that beats Owing to a shortage of bums on The Very Thing , with a John Peter Carroll who had the Steve Lillywhite at his own game. (or off} seats at 9 pm, the High Tree Peel session under-their belts and misfortune of having a song Undoubtedly a pop failure - its had to postpone their set's start a single Babies on Vacation soon entitled Conventionality dedica; power and quality are wasted on until 10.30 pm by which time there to be released , were the 'big name' ted to him (intimidation?), and a small transistor radios and small was an almost respectable size of band of the evening. Like the High audience in the Debating Hall; the Hendrix-style manic guitar solo in minded top 40 fans. Tree, The Very Thing are all Do t~e Brownian Motion. floorboards were in no danger technically competent musicians though. Led by a plumper and less Not a wildly inspiring first (they have improved a lot since "Musical Works," but enjoyable. charasmatic version of Tony November} but I wouldn't class Hadley graced with an uncannily Bread and circuses . them as great songwriters of our John Petrie similar voice, the High Tree time. Their music is compulsively

The Sisters Slag: I'm Falling FRIDAY BLUES Not another version of The Bluebells' current hit but a cover of Dead or Alive's first single after they changed their name from Nightmares In Wax in 1980. The First Priority - Lady Christabelle strong electro backing provides a TAM WHITE and JIM CONDIE solidity that distances The Sisters First Priority owe this single to Slag from the bubble-gum pop of Peter Powell, who consistently Tasty Tim, even though they are are plugged them before and after close to him in other ways. their appearance on the Oxford Watch out for the Sisters at their · Road Show aeons ago. This is new nightclub venture, The "WORKIN' AT IT!" probably the only notable song Biscuit Factory, off Dalkeith Road. they've ever written, but sadly ,t new sounds just a bit dull. When 8.30-10.30 p.m. they played at the Nile Club a year THE ago, with the line-up that actually wrote this song, they were at least MUSIC PAGES Every Friday Night lively. Sadly that has gone from Urgently require them or for them. It would seem , reviewrs and like a lot of bands, that their first priority was getting a recording photographers. deal, and success in this respect Interested? Friday 1 pm The Base­ has killed the spirit of many before ment. PLEASANCE them. LITTLE THEATRE 0 GOSSIP~gossip~GOSSIP 0 Well so far so good for the Musical Malcolm X's 'No _Sell _Out',_ and BAR works _ the latest invention of the although the proiect Is still . I,n now legendary Union Palais. preparation, all reports say that It _s s k' of Paliais has anyone nothing short of b~1ll1ant. As yet ,t 60 THE PLEASANCE nt~~e~ng the name' of Regular is not known how the record is_to M I •s latest project. No? 1 be distributed, but several mai_o r us c . . names are ,n negotIatIons with thought not - but _the interesting Steve and Neil. Watch this space thing 1s that celebrities Barry and f . . f d 'bi a FREE EDINBURGH Peter have decided to call it the or mus,.; ,n ° an poss, Y Caley Palais. Wonder where they copy! . . got that idea? Reumour has it that, Other news, involves poss,_bly ents. man Stevie 'Miles Better' the University s longest standing Marr was commissioned to think muso_ex Lone Wanker columnist • of a name for the new venue and on this very paper, and subJect of . . . many a Joke and review - Paul come out with a winner yet aga,n. Hullah . Apparently the enigmatic Fumour also has 11 that Mr M_arr, Mr H~llah or Mole Face to his Free Admission who Pre pa ri_n g h I s Un I o_n friends to stand for Entertain­ President. election . campa,g_n 13 ments Convener in the forth­ currently_,n the studio recording a coming elections. The basis for his Ecstasy Hour 7.30-8.30 p.m. single with n,one other than _the campaign is reported to be that Music Page~ Nell Dalgleish. he's promised to book himself at Apparently ,t s a ve ry high-tee Teviot and Potterrow at least every dance, record ,n the same ,style as two weeks. So what else is new? 12 THE STUDENT 26th April 1984

features ~;,;;;:;.;.;.;.:~.:;.;.~:.:.::.:.:.:.iii:i:ff:~:~:~:l:r~:rttWtrrri:tt i:i:i:tti:t:~:tt(:l:rrrrri:ri::::::::::::r:::::: Social work starts at home A report on the Edinburgh citizens who have decided to help each other build the education facilities and community services their areas so badly need. To most people Edinburgh is a problems of survival, by way of the similar ends. He also· works with city of rare beauty, famed for its information centre and a scheme the Detached Youth Project in festivals and natural or man-made of neighbourhood workers. Craigmillar which is concerned to grandeur. If such impressions are Facilities are provided to ensure alert unemployed youngsters to correct they are incomplete, that the elderly, are not neglected, the possil;lilities of life beyond glue ignoring Edinburgh's grim or the handicapped or the young - sniffing and hanging around. peripheral areas; Craigmillar, unemployed. In short by way of Once again the aim is to foster Muirhouse, Wester Hailes etc. Yet the society Craigmillar can both awareness and independ­ in these areas live at least half of address some of its ba-sic ence, an intention fulfilled where Edinburgh's population and it is problems. Equally important is the youngsters who have drifted here that the ugly side of the city is emphasis placed on education the project have not only found visible. (not book-learning) reflected in ways to occupy themselves but Unemployment runs in some the provision of courses and have become volunteer leaders places to as high as 50%, whilst facilities such as the arts resource themselves, through a form of each district has serious drug. centre (which provides opportuni­ education. People take some problems, unsatisfactory housing ties for threatre, drama, dance, control of their own lives and (in Craigmillar alone some 600 video etc) open to a!I residents. futures. residences are boarded up whilst Most impressive is the society's With the model of the CFS many people cannot use at least belief in education as the basis of a before them, similar groups have· one room in their house because self-improvement which is not developed in Wester Hailes. The of damp) and a host of other measured simply in terms of area now has its own festival problems found in Britain's new ascending a social ladder. "Arts is association (of which all WH ghetto-lands. No doubt many of still the catalyst - education -the residents are members) under the our readers are aware of such tool" or in the words of festival aegis of a community workshop iacts; few however will be familiar worker Maggie King "as a whole which seeks to stimulate activist _With the great efforts which have CFS is created by the ideal of the groups within the community and been made by residents to creative mind as a way to develop, runs seven community bases improve the conditions in which to enable people to look further around Wester Hailes providing they live, by themselvE)s, efforts than their own souls." I once facilities and a programme of from which we could learn a great thought that a similar ·ideal activities for the area's population centre for the large core of Whatever happens, SHADA will deal. informed University life. Specialised groups include the unemployed was established to · struggle on; for some, it may be too In recent years a host of Windmill Association recently help the vast number of late. · • organisations has appeared which by formed by residents to help para­ unemployed people in the area Equally . striking is another have left behind to a degree the suicides following the discovery of (there are reckoned to be about exercise in community self help paternalism of victorian charity a very high incidence of para­ 40% of the workforce out of work, found in the area. and the welfare state to turn to the Bill Williamson suicides and actual suicides in with litt1e·chance of improvement In 1979 Craigroyston High resources which comil}u.nities Edinburgh's "model housing in the foreseeable future). School submitted a plan to the Van possess within their own ranks. development." Again one sees For establishment of new · Leer Foundation in Holland with Remarkable in their diversity, they & Alan Munro how the community can act to premises (perhaps a shop or a the hope fhat this trust fund would share a common ethos, that of identify and tackle its own house or maybe another supply £285,000 to begin and self-help, a belief in the power of In accord witti such beliefs the problems. portakabin slung up on a patch of establish a Curriculum Develop­ education, in the ability of people society is open to the participation waste ground, there are plenty of ment Programme ·especially of any residents (all of whom Sandwiched between the new to take control of their own lives town and plush suburban Barnton them), payment of staff, overheads designed for the needs of the and a resultant commitmentto real belong to the society) and comes (electricity, phone bills, execution Muirhouse, Drylaw and Pilton close to the achievement of a true and Cramond are the sprawling democracy on a local level which council schemes of Muirhouse, of projects etc, etc) SHADA have areas, described in the report as offers the possibility of escape democracy. Whilst it does been granted the sum of £40,000 " an urban ghetto". After obviously receive outside funding Wester Drylaw, West Granton and from our sterile, sham democracy. what was the infamous West Pilton per year for the next three years consideration, Van Leer gave the 'Student' went out and about in the (Council, MSC, etc) its work is (on the condition that they show money. directed not by council represen­ Circus. As in the other peripheral 'Festival City' to find out about just areas conditions are poor and positive results after one year) . The Craigroyston Curriculum a handful of these organsiations. tatives but by its own staff with the The Scottish Home and Health Development Project was participation of residents. Policies problems abound. Yet here too· Perhaps inevitably we begin community residents are acting to Dept spray one and a half million designed to take the school to the with the Craigmillar Festival are formulated through the work pounds over Strathclyde and community, opening doors to of eight workshops on topics such helpthemselves including!SHADA Society: a body which has which provides a classic example Lothians and they won't even look education for many people who provided a model for community as planning, housing, social at the drug problem threatening had been left behind by traditional welfare, unemployment, whilst of the importance of community self-help organisation not only in action and how that action could hundreds of young people in teaching methods. The Project Britain but in places like Israel or decisions are made by an Scotland today. recognised the area's special Executive Committee elected by be retarded for lack of money. the USA. Incredibly the society So what can ·sHADA do to cope disabilities, like the low level of an AGM open to all Craigmillar · SHADA has had a lot of began only 21 years ago in Helen . with local drug abuse and the literacy, turbulent social residents. Thus Craigmillar via the coverage over the past year. It Crummy's bedroom. Asking for effects it has on the addicts and backgrounds (often of the one CFS identifies its own problems, enjoyed national exposure in the music lessons for her son a mother their families? SHADA won't be parent variety) and recognised the works itself to improve living form of the "HEROIN" TV was told, "It takes us all our time to able to afford the full time workers genuine poverty of people in the conditions, (material and programme which ran for three teach these children the three r's it desperately needs but will have area. The project has funded intellectual), and helps direct its nights on peak time independent let alone music." In response to TV. So what is SHADA and where to continue with its volunteer the school house scheme where that snub a group of women own affairs in a democratic extraordinarily recalcitrant pupils fashion. does it stand now that the cameras force, continue to help addicts to organised a small festival in which may be sent when they cannot It is shameful then that the have gone? kick their habit, advise families local people could ~isplay their adjust to the classroom situation. society should find its recent SHAD A support help and advice who can't understand where creativity. Whilst the two-week The school house is separate from developments curbed by a on drug abuse. They struggle on they've gone wrong, improve festival remains an annual focus of virtually on their own with a relations with General Prac­ the main school. It encourages a the activities of the CFS the. shortage of finance for, as most would recognise, the statutory volur:iteer force to cope with the titioners and the .Police, different sort of education and has society now has a workforce of proved successful in eventually re­ bodies do not have the capacity to ever escalating misuse of heroin. (especially the police, drug related over 120 working in six buildings, establishing the pupil in the make up any shortfall in Shada reckon (with real grounds) crime is at epidemic proportions in three community transport normal classroom. Craigroyston provisions. Equally significantly that there are 300 drug abusers the area, it takes a lot of stealing to ·vehicles, a free -newspaper, an has also embarked on a wide they are not in a proper position to within the Muirhouse area alone. feed a heavy habit). And most information, advice and 'resource importantly to educate others. If outdoor education programme (all centre, an arts resource centre, make decisions about Craig­ 300 users almost exclusively millar's needs, which are best unemployed. 300 users whose people understood the problems· centres for the elderly, the. maybe then the resources to Cont. facing page handicapped, the young, and identified and met by the people of families suffer the side effects of Craigminar themselves . their addiction and yet Shada are ·seriously challenge the problem .many other features. would be found. Thus the society fulfils a diverse Similar sentiments are housed tenuously within the range of functions. Assistance is 'expressed by the Rev. David Boag portakabin premises of another provided where needed on such who works with the St. Andrews organisation, The Muirhouse probiems as paying bills, basic project (famous for its Oxfam Unemployment Group. This small funding) which works toward THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 13 features Cadavers ill the medics' closet The essential criterion that undergone a social transition distinguishes Medicine (and of without which he (or she) could course Law and Architecture) not be a doctor. There are few jobs from other courses within the open for doctors with Mohicans, University is that it is vocational. It fl uorescent socks and print aims at producing a particular kind trousers. of human being suited to the This social transition, which is a needs of that vocation. To use a direct result both of the rigours of rather hackneyed image, at one the course and of socialisation end of the conveyor belt we have with other medical stuaents, is one 180 or so kids of fa irly high IQs of the hardest aspects of Medicine who have a particular ability for for the first year student to come to passing exams. After five years, terms with. As a medical student, the finished product rolling off the you have signed away your life at production line of the doctor the tender age of 18 or so. Whether factory has acquired some you eventually practise in knowl e dge but has also Morningside, El Salvador, Pillon or Orkney, as a gynaecologist or To me, my friend, you are a humanoid gherkin. neurosurgeon, you will be first and foremost a doctor and, therefore, it's an in-and-out quarter of an gruesome talk. However, one of These add considerable scope to middle class. hour job. Thus, the timetable in the surprising features of the course. There is a definite mystique itself is an isolating factor. dissection is just how quickly one It is the volume rather than the surrounding the study of In cleaning up the mystique of comes to terms with so gross a nature of the work of Medicine that Medicine, perhaps because medicine, let me turn first to the taboo. After my first visit to the makes it a demanding course. I medical students as a group are morbidly fascinating topic which dissecting room, I was rather self­ mentioned, implying passivity, the isolated from the rest of the even quiet and delicate people find reproaching about my callousness idea of a production line earlier; in University. I attribute this isolation intriguing. As part of the study of in only feeling moderately ill (and I fact, the conveyor belt is running partly to our all knowing each Anatomy, two hours of each day don't have a strong stomach). Very backwards. The subjects deal with other before Freshers' Week starts are set aside for each first year few students in my year actually facts that must simply be by virtue of the 'Special Chemistry student, as a member of a team of reacted physically to the remembered - no opportunity for Course' - a five-week course held six, to dissect a preserved human dissecting room by passing out. use of wits or intuition. A medical at KB in August. Also tending corpse, hereinafter referred to by To return to more civilised lecture is a very intense towards our isolation is our ils pseudonym-"cadaver". terrain, the other main subject in experience compared with other possession of a separate library Times have moved on since which a degree exam has to be University lectures; everything (on the other side of George Burke and Hare and bodysnatch­ passed in first year is Bio­ must be taken down, whether or Square opposite the main library) ing. These bodies are donated by chemistry. Also dealt with to some not it makes sense. "Ours-not-to­ and our access to the premises of respectable and responsible extent are Physiology and reason-why" is the motto of the the Royal Medical Society above citizens of the city of Edinburgh; to Pharmacology. A typical day medical student. the Potterrow where m~ny medics say that this was generous would consists of two lectures, two hours With all these lectures during go to eat, sit around, make coffee be an understatement. Since ti'le of dissection, and a two-hour the day, any studying must be or work. In fact I often (rather subjects are volunteers, dissec­ practical. done in the evenings. I could go cynically) wonder whether the tion is perhaps less ideologically The only relief to all this on. Medical School intentionally objectionable than vivisection - scientific mumbo-jumbo in the So is it any wonder that medical engineers our isolation in order to however, this doesn't make it a first and second (or preclinical) students tend to form an isolated instil that social conformity into pleasant task. years is the Wednesday morning group? It is a simple case of cause us. For obvious reasons, only Behavioural Sciences and Clinical and effect. But we're not laughing Of course, other groups of medical students, dental students Correlation sessions. Behavioural all the way to the bank in our students stick together too. but and physiotherapists are g iven Sciences includes lectures in BMWs; most medical students are they tend to form less recog­ access to the dissecting room. It is Sociology, Psychology and genuinely dedicated to the NHS nisable groups through the wide a long, brightly lit, mercifully well­ Statistics while Clinical (one of the few vagely socialist variety of timetabling and 'outside' ventilated room with around 50 Correlation includes dressing up organisations in this country) . And courses available within the Arts cadavers lying on tables covered in a white coat and seeing patients most of us seriously want to help and Science Facultie$ - fewer by green plastic sheets. The either at your designated teaching people. students follow exactly the same stench is not of putrid flesh but of hospital or as part of a project. John Petrie timetable. formalin , the preservative Medical 'School" really is like chemical with which the cadavers school; all 180 students follow are perfused in order to make them Social work starts much the same timetable from 9 last a full year. The preservative am to 4 pm except for half-day makes the body look like a at home Wednesday. This leaves little time humanoid pickled gherkin and it is for English student-style social best to try and regard it si mply as (continued) rituals such as sitting in the "a cadaver" and forget that it was ever alive. Potterrow in small groups for pupils get the chance to go on To many people, especially hours while deadlines for essays extended visits outside the school those who have never seen a dead whizz past and tutorials are for anything from weekends to body, this (rightfully) seems pretty missed. If there's time for a coffee, weeks) and a Cultural Enrichment programme aimed at encouraging the Arts in people not normally accustomed to indulgence in this area of social life. It is fair lo say that without the money of Van Leer and the senseless cuts, and when the dedication of the staff of the economic situation works to school, this project would never produce steadily worsening EDITOR have become established and so conditions. the whole area would be so much Yet it seems that Edinburgh more worse off. What happens does not care enough to support when Van Leer's money runs out their efforts. Policies which· are required for only remains to be seen. determined thanks to the The schemes considered above influence of the commercial lobby represent only a small section of work to their benefit, to the benefit the many bodies which exist of Edinburgh's rich centre - the through which members of the very people who least need such community act to help themselves. resources. Meanwhile voluntary STUDENT They are striking in their organisations have recently had progressive vision of education, their collective grant cut by the commitment wh ich they show £95,000 - SHADA lacks the funds to the possibility of people to continue at its present levels, One issue this term and nine next term. improving their lives by learning the CFS faces cutbacks as do and acting together, and their numerous other organisa,,ons, genuinely democratic character. whilst the council presses ahead Other campaigns around single with its plans to allow private issues such as the recent city-wide operators to redevelop large areas Written applications to the damp campaign confirm the of council housing. The next result ability of people to take control of will only be to increase demand for their own lives and affect shrinking facilities at a time when Student Manager, EUSPB, 1 Buccleuch Place. important changes. How the less well off in Edinburgh are important are such bodies at a squeezed into contracting ghettc time when the statutory welfare areas. Perhaps they should al by 5 pm, Friday 4th May. services are being eroded by seek solace in the opera house. 14 THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 features

Duncan Mclean continues our series of articles on Scottish culture and politics Glasgow's eloquence finds a hero Two winters ago a television got heaved out of a sense in the British book-buyers' window directly across from here. A domestic quarrel. collective head, Kelman will soon --- be read as widely and as enthusi­ Nothing to do with political affronts though Hines has astically as "the sage of Hillhead" ,related the event In that colouring to various parties himself. both within and without the garage. He doesnt regret It is, I realise, usually considered premature to praise extravagantly having falsified the tale. Why should he. Lying is no such a "young" (i.e. under 40) concern of his. Truth is. He seeks the truth. Fling the writer as James Kelman; he has, telly out the fucking window and be done with it. Not after all, only published one major collection of short stories and one for him the lush pastures. He is in favour of the novel. But I would rather over­ bottomless depths, however, which are good when praise a book by 10% if that makes clear. Clarity for a policy. It arrives via silence. SIience even 1 % more people read the book and decide for themselves, is a remarkable how-d'ye-do. Hines would wish to than write a safe but tepid little maintain it. His mouth gets him into difficulties. His review that inspires or provokes no language contains his brains and his brains are a one; and besides, I am confident in singular kettle of fish. my belief that The Busconductor Hines is the most perfectly James Kelman The Busconductor Hines realised Scottish working-class ~ There is now more and better Gatherer in the 'sixties, is still novel since Gibbon's Sunset u prose fiction being produced in writing; there has been good work Song. j Scotland than at any time since the . from James McCondach, Agnes The reviews of Kelman's novel E =; golden age of Scott, Hogg and Owens and many more ... and that have so far appeared in the 0 Galt 150 years ago. The only there is James Kelman. "important" newspapers have 0 recent period that touches the past .c In terms of press coverage, been very superficial. This is not :::.;;;... ___ .__~-----...a Cl. few years is the early 'thirties, critical attention and general too surprising, considering the when Lewis Grassie Gibbon, Neil public interest, Kelman has so far wilful ignorance of most London Gunn and Eric Linklater were been overshadowed by his fellow critics as far as Scottish writing is after the publication o"f Ulysses writers' styles are so very different. publishing some of their best Glaswegian Gray, who fits much concerned. The Busconductor that people realised that the hero Unless the possibility of high work. The name to have achieved of the book was the boring little quality literature flourishing in most widespread recognition so man, Bloom, and not the brilliant several different styles at the same far is, of course, Alasdair Gray; his The Busc.onductor Hines is the most perfectly young artist, Stephen, and that in time is recognised and welcomed, second novel, 1982, Janine, just realised Scottish working-class novel since - fact Bloom was not so boring and we run the risk of losing extremely published, is a less ambitious but Gibbon's Sunset Song. ordinary after all, containing as he good writers through neglect. It worthy successor to the epic did some pretty rare virtues and would be our own great loss if we Lanark, and his collection of short qualities. Hines, the pugnacious did not appreciate books like stories Unlikely Stories Mostly has more easily into the role of the Hines has been praised for its "rich Glasgow bus conductor, is in fact Kelman's now, and waited for recently come out as a Penguin. eccentric artistic genius, much linguistic texture"; the critics an extraordinary man; he is a them to be "discovered" in twenty Excellent writers such as beloved by the majority of people admire the skill with which Kelman genuine hero (not an "anti-hero"): years time (this is almost exactly Christopher Rush and Ron Bullin who would rather read about captures the patterns of the "He seeks the true". Kelman lets us what happened to Archie Hind's are perhaps just starting to reach writers than read their writing; particular dialect of English that is enter the mind of Hines during the Dear Green Place, which came out their creative peak, and from his media interest is not always a good spoken in Glasgow. They are right course of a crucial few days in his in 1966, but has only just been exile in France, Kenneth White indicator of quality, however to do so: Gibbon said the powerful life: he is in serious trouble at work reprinted, and is now starting to puts out fiction of consistently (those who believe it is are and kinetic style of his prose and faces dismissal; his wife is get the widespread recognition it high quality; Robin Jenkins, who suffering from The Wasp Factory emerged while he was trying to increasingly unhappy with their always deserved). published the classic The Pine syndrome). and if there is any "mould the English language into marriage and threatens to leave If there is anything that Kelman the rhythms and cadences of him; their tenement home is slowly and the other new writers have in Scots spokert'speech, a:nd to inject falling down; and time grinds on common, it seems to be the into the English vocabulary such inexorably, wearing down Hines' conviction that the creation of a minimum number of words from small reserves of money and hope literary work is an act that must be Free Scots as that remodelling for the future. Rab confides to a motivated by, or at least closely requires". Kelman does something fr_iend: backed up by, political ideas. This very similar to this, but he achieves No kidding you WIiiie I'm going is as it should be: we do have, after a consistency of texture that is, I all, minds that pull constantly and Travel Guide think, more complete than Gibbon to write to Any bastarn Questions about it. Outraged of Turnbrldge simultaneously in two opposite ever managed: during the novel's directions, towards the extremes 237 pages the narration moves fucking Drumchapel: how In the name of chrlst Is a body to keep that could be described as Politics thousands of times from an inde­ and Art; pure Politics is rational, pendent narrative to Hines' speech track of time when the world's crumbling about his fucking ears. fogical, based on reason ; pure Art to Hines' thoughts, often changing is irrational, unconcerned with A special eight-page supplement over in the middle of a paragraph, In a sense Hines is forced by logic, based on emotion. We are or even in the middle of a circumstances into heroic lucky in Scotland at the moment in with next week's Student tells you all sentence. But not once is the behaviour; in order to come to having writers who recognise that change clumsy or intrusive: it is terms with all the "oddly norm~I" their most important task is to done so skilfully that the reader pressures that drive him towards show that a society cannot you need to know about travel this may well be unaware of the madness and self-destruction he approach happiness or stability if complicated narrative techniques has to explore the depths of his its members are very far biased summer. that Kelman is using all the time to own being. And the ruthless towards either extreme. We should lay open to the reader the honesty which this requires is in take note carefully of what they are "singular kettle of fish" that is turn focused on society. Hines saying, for our society is under a his hero's mind. takes "clarity for a pol_icy" and the potentially disastrous double The newspaper reviewers have reader follows his struggles to attack at the moment; from a so far failed to get past the stage of understand the oppressive forces leader who is virtually tt)e personi­ praising Kelman 's technical within and without him, and to fication of pure Politics: Mrs ability. This is very short-sighted express his feeling about them, Thatcher, who seems totally of them: it is like admiring the with absolutely unwavering insensitive to the persuasion of colour and head of a pint of heavy attention, for the conclusions that anything less coldly rational than and then not drinking it and so Hines eventually comes to are statistics, like individuals' feelings, being unable to appreciate its penetrating analyses of the for instance; and from a popular taste and effects. For although problems of our society; a brilliant culture, most blatantly expressed what the words look and sound searchlight sweeping across the · in newspapers, ielevision pro­ like is obviously important, it is dark face of contemporary grammes, and most of the popular certainly of secondary importance Scotland. (and not so popular) arts, that is to what the words are actually The end of the book seems to be dedicated to creating and saying: the book deals seriously, ambiguous. Hines returns to his maintaining apathy, sophistry, and in depth, with important old routine of busconducting and sentimentalism and mental questions of philosophy, bickering with his driver: is this a -reaction ism. psychology and politics. tragic outcome? Has Hines given The last words should be the This Isn't Hines who's talking. in to the pressures to conform and Busconductor Hines': be oppressed? Or is it a positive It's a voice. This Is a voice talking There are parties whose which he listens to. He doesnt ending? Has he accepted the limitations of his situation, and attention to a variety of aspects of think like it at all. What does he existence renders life uneasy. It think like. Fuck off. He thinks like decided to make the most of it? So far I am not sure; but I am sure that cannot be said to be the fault of anybody else, anybody else in the Hines that he Is such a party. A circumstances, the circumstances The Busconductor Hines is an achievement of at least as great little leeway might be allowed him. which are oddly normal. A fortnight's leave of absence stature as Lanark. It would be could well work wonders. A re­ Earlier on I used the word " hero" wrong to suggest that there is any to describe Rab Hines. This was vicious competitive rivalry assembling of the head that the continued participation in the/and quite deliberate, although it might between Gray and Kelman; what I come as a surprise to some want to point out is that the latter of the greater brits people, who believe, as a reviewer deserves a share of the critical Fuck off. writing in The Scotsman on acclaim that the former has been Don't Miss It! Saturday believed, that Hines is receiving: this point needs to be The Busconductor Hines is "doggedly ordinary". It was years underlined precisely because the published by Polygon at £7.95. THE STUDENT 26th April 1984 15 sport ON SAFARI WITH READY THE RUGBY CLUB STEADY KENYA TOUR 1984 GO! Anyone who was present hyenas almost ea ting out of our at the Annual Rugby hands at the game lodge, Stu Clark's glorious suntan, and the Athletics Dinner last week will no look on Kevin Hannaford's face Our first big match of the season when he was aksed to help in doubt be well aware of was held last Saturday In the plush applying mosquito cream to a leg what went on - for those surroundings of Meadowbank The story of th e Pleasance a welcome and handy drinks (not his) . who missed it, our special $1adlum. It was a friendly match, development over the past few machine. Hoefver, it was a rugby tour and one which the athletes could whet years makes impressive reading. Architecturally, the mixture of correspondent Ian 'Cupid' for everyone the real highlight was their teeth against before the First, the multi-functional Sports bricks, wood and glass works very the final whistle at RFUEA in the Stevens provides the tough Scottish University clrciut Hall was built and quickly justified well, providing a very attractive last game, which Edinburgh won began. There were two visiting th e large expenditure. The hall, arena for playing and relaxing in. following heavily cen­ by a single point. That made six Irish teams comprised of mostly which is easily bookable for five-a- The decision to use wood and sored account. wins out of six and justified a students, from Dublin and 8elfast, side football, hockey, netball, bricks is a particularly pleasing For EURFC, the season ended year's organisation, two terms of two Edinburgh teams, EAC and volleyball, basketball, badminton one as it continues the theme used with a spectacularly success1'ul training and a lot of money spent. ESH and two Scottish University and tennis, also houses regular elsewhere in the building, notably three week tour to Kenya. All six Also pleasi ng was the fact that in teams, Glasgow and ourselves. Popm obi l ity sessions. Many in the gym. This gives the whole of matches were won, and for the 26 this match, Edinburgh proved to Before the start of the season It students wrongly believe that Pl easance block an air of cohesion players it was the tour/ ho liday of a be fitter and faster than their seemed the University had the there is a c lub monopoly on the rather than the disunity of one lifetime. For those interested in the opponents, no mean achievement strongest mens team It has seen use of the Sports Hall; although centre with lots of little additions. playing record it was: against the best that Kenya could for many a year. In theflrstweek of the gym is widely used by certain More importantly, however, 50-0 v. ORIBIS o f fer, and an eve nt rarely term, though, athletes fell like Illes, clubs it can easily be booked for a then the architectural or social witnessed in Scotland! 24-16 v. KENYA UNIVERSITIES with everything from strange nominal chanrge in the entrance qualities, is the high standard of 64-0 v. MWAMBA All in all a memorable three viruses to pulled muscles. By foyer. the actual courts. Each one is 22-9 v. NONDESCRIPTS weeks, and a lasting memory must Saturday we were struggling to The second major improvement capable of holding international be Chris Alderson sound asleep 23-22 v. KENYAN BARBARIANS resurrect a team. to the Pleasance was the internal matches and this indicates their on the plane home, thoroughly Fortunately virtually none of last construction of the Eric Liddell exceptional quality. As there are Off the field, the team's social overwhelmed by the secret of the year's team has left and oldies fitness room. It is basically a multi- no upper galleries - only the glass record was almost as impressive. black magic box. were dragged out of exile. Our gym with groovy mirrors and at floor level - there is little multi-talented, Jack of all trades, apparatus designed to tone and extraneous noise or interference. ex-captain, Mark Lindsay-Balley strengthen your body. Regular There is nothing more irritating was seen nearly everywhere, but users all swear by it and it must than playing squash and hearing this could have been attributed to rank as one of the finest of the grunts of disapproval and the size of his head after he was university facilities. Don't be put caustic comments of spectators. given five cups last week. Old off by the macho, 17-stone In these new courts, the sound­ retainers like Dave Griffin, Andrew budding boxer image of a multi- proofing works very effectively, Mclelland and Alun Grasslck gym punter; many a sylph-like although players can be were roped In. Mike Hemmings figure of feminine beauty can be communicated with by a marker and John Scott were faithfully at spotted within. However, if you do through a mike. Another plus is the their posts for the throws and we intend using the equipment for the new style of ceiling which prevents have a wealth of sprinters ready at first time, do check with helpful PE squash balls from being trapped - their marks. The final event, the 4 x Department staff so as not to a very expensive practice for us 400relay where we should be overload your tender muscles. amateurs. capable of withstanding most club However, there has been a more For all this high quality the cost sides, was much depleted, though recent development at the of hiring a court is surprisingly those running put up a valiant Pleasance than the multi-gym. reasonable. The old courts are 40 effort and at least were not lapped. Building work has been going on pence a half-hour and these new Paul Stockman, our captain, was for some time now to construct international ones are 90 pence for spurred on down the home and complete eight new squash 40 minutes. Split between two straight by It all, including the courts. These are finally finished players no one can complain at E n urg ans ce e ra e­ announcer, calling him to the and will be a very welcome this charg e ..So, congratulations To cut a long story very short, Tour Squad: finishing line to report addition to the existing two courts. mlfSt go to th e PE Department and Leckie said he could have, D. Leckie A. Edre1ra Immediately. They really are quite a sight: glass- its head Mr Chainey for realising Alderson did at every opportunity, J . Peters J Warnock backed, neatly numbered and very and satisfying the need for good P. Harper Even If we only won a single B Peters made no attempt T. Sale G. Butler R Hunter string, Chris Day In the 400m H effectively sound-proofed. All quality squash courts. Un­ whatsoever, Hannaford and M. Lambert I Gardner and a single superlative A string eight are in one area which doubtedly, these better courts will S. Clarke Warnock did w ithout trying, and M. Thorpe race, Alan Currie In the 1500m we promotes a sense of unity and improve many individuals' games Hunter tried very hard but didn't. C. Gngor M. Murray centrality. One doesn't have to - as Mr Chainey hopes - and so c. Alderson G. Lawson won enough 2nd and 3rd places to Apart from these, there were I. Stevens K Hannalord secure 3rd overall. spend hours finding the court increase the standard of numerous highlights to the tour. P. Young S. Colledge In the womens match, the girls losing valuable playing time in the Edi nburgh University squash. M. Wallace These included the quiet, relaxing S Farrel did the University credit. The hero process. An open plan seating The new squash courts can be journey from Mombasa to Nairobi A. Stewart R. WIiiiamson area is flanked by four squash booked up to 14 days in advance S. Burns of the hour was Fiona Hargreaves, on the overnight train, the sight of who punished her top class courts on each side. This arrange- and are avai lable as from now. Get opposition In winning both 100m ment gives the squash area a very going. Scottish POLLOCK HALLS and 200m and came close to social atmosphere, especially with Henry Winter INTER-HOUSE 7-A­ pulling back a 50m lead In the 4 x Universities SIDES TOURNAMENT 400m relay - what a leg - If not two. Eva Barnett cruised to an CRICKET On Easter Sunday, the Meadows easy win In the 800m and we were Sailing witnessed the first annual Pollock backed up by useful performances S4lvens Football Tournament. by Marlon Brown, Klrsty Ramsey Championship Easter plcnlcers were scattered as and Bambi Lee to come a good 2nd the good men of Pollock and their overall. Other Unls teams beware! Venue: Monklands SC supporters, descended on the As the sun set over the ridge of With the Southampton team lush, greer1 pasture. the stadium we gathered round the having climbed Into Edinburgh After some debate on the flag post before setting wearily Castle at 1 am on Saturday specific rules and regulations of Into the dusk, and a night ahead of morning the tone was set for the the Fraser House organised more exercise and exhaustion - weekend. competition, the teams of no not that - a disco at the Place In conditions that would have Salisbury Green and Brewster for all athletes. A final thanks to troubled the Falklands Task Force battled It out In a preliminary all those who put up members of Edlnburgh1st team won its race round. This Initial encounter set the Irish team and showing such against Strathclyde but all ladles the tone for much of the generous hospitality. team matches had to be tournament with skill being Ben Thomson postponed. sacrificed In favour of full bodily After navigating the Glasgow contact, and In some cases, Tennis road network everyone was ready outright grevous bodily harm. No for a reckless party. The Aberdeen quarter was asked or given. The Men's Team won its first team showed an ability to throw As the competition progressed It match of the season last Saturday beer over their shoulders during became clear that the two seeded against Aberdee n University. 9-0. the boat race, but It was the teams, Turner and Cowan, were Alistair Lumsden, playing No. 1 Edinburgh team pyramid who the only sides capable of stringing showed good early form in managed to reach heights no more than three passes together. winning his two matches. Both other team could match. Both sides coasted to the final Freshers, Richard Chalmers and Sunday morning arrived, so at despite the efforts of Holland Erik Lindseth, also won their On yet another glorious spring the University was able to declare last It was time for the Ladles to House team comprising some matches convincingly. afternoon, the University 1st XI at t79 for 2 at tea. After seeing the show their salllng skills. Despite players of a questionable origin. The club would like to thank finally got into winning ways opening bowlers struggle, Dave two members of the Edinburgh At the end of normal time the anyone who sponsored a club against Boroughmuir. With the Colgrave, Mike Scott and Malcolm team having spent the previous score was 1-1, and the game member for the Tennis Marathon, opening game of the University Gamet with a wicket each, opened night in bed with 20 men (I?), they progressed Into extra time. By this which took place at the start of this Championship looming large, it up a long tail, which Andy White, beat Strathclyde and Aberdeen, stage It was obvious that one goal term. Most of the money will go to was important for both batsmen returning after a poor start, were conceded to be St Andrews would seal the match, and club funds, with 25% going to the and bowlers to gain some c leaned up taking 7 wickets with 2 and are now Scottish Champions. ultimately It was the superior skill Scottish Paraplegics Associations confidence. overs to spare. Let's hope this Edinburgh Mens team embar­ of Cowan that won the day. The for their "Paralympics" fund. Put into bat, Captain Alex victory will inspire confidence for rassed themselves by losing to the winning goal was scored by This coming weekend, the Hoare, fresh from the heat of Sri Wednesday ' s game at St. Welsh Ladles team - but then fast central defender Stuart Brown, Scottish Universities· Individual Lanka, and Charlie Ross-Stewart Andrews. women and slow boats are always with a speculative effort which the Championships will take place At began confidently, but it was a good excuse for losing. Turner keeper failed to hold. Stirling University. The club is Malcolm Gamet with a well-paced Result The men were rewarded on the Thus It was that the Cowan sending 8 men and 8 women, and I century, who led the onslaught, Edinburgh 179-2 Monday when they beat Aberdeen Casuals walked up to claim the wish the best of luck to them all. aided by a very able Brent Lockie. Boroughmuir 111 In the final, thus giving Edinburgh Pollock Shield In this Its inaugural David Knowles Due to their burst of aggression, a clean sweep of the prizes. year. &.'.R.i .....0 ANORAK by Mountain Equipment I Ltd of Glossop. Abut the best you • THURSDAY V) can get (they only do one better)!! ...J 0 Extra-large size with hood and 6.45 pm Ch. 4 Hey Good Looking 4 (of 5) w Hu1hl a:) Cl: I: storage bag. Never used in fevect This is the second series of programmes vi " Shutup- shutup- SHUT UP. Don't looking at the visual arts in everyday life, w z t; ~ V "-.""4. condition. Incredible value at £80. ~ talk, don't move. Just watch Ill Oh follow ing P8ter York's series on style. This -:5 -0 ~ ] . t -i ~ ~ 0 .,: 8 NOi We're on the first floor of the w eek J an et Stree t - Port e r l ooks at "'o- Ol V C ~ 1, u;t-,;3 >-. ~ >- CL ~ Main Library. Don't drop your bag. advertising. T onight: Woman in the Kitchen. t: ~ g~ ~ ig ~ ~ ~ -· ..0 5°a]-- t ~ ~ 35mm CAMERA OUTFIT Zenith E, Sexist? V) Don't you DARE make any noise, "§ ... 0 :t "- -0 Helios 50mm lens, extension 0 "i O .; ~ -=-= ..... ] = :_-5 ~ ; ~ I ~ Stranger. This Is where real work 9 pm Ch. 4 The Avengers _-5B:£:3 .,. .-.c.:' 2 - ~-gt~ 1:: -tj -o ~ c.i :::, ... > ... tubes, Practica Electronic Flash, C E:; . ""-·"'St ~ spelt S L O G Is done." 9.30 pm BBC O Alien Wonderful repeat showings of these old ~ e .~ _82._~ ~~E f "' M :;_g ~ o -3 ~o~"'.c ..o]~~ ~ ~j.; Tripod. Ideal for beginner/ poor Not the late horror film but the latest in the 15 • > I can't stand It anymore. Let's go• series. Tonight, The Curlo/Js Case ol the 0 - ~ .., '"0 -o ""]~"'O .... ~!! e:o.8 t g- >--"8=..o~~c le':-S'feu! enthusiast £40. might split. Forty Minutes series, a rather far-fetched Countless Clues. :::J z - ·-:;;:; ; _, -5 ~ "'0 O~ ~ N e c~ ~ ... ~~E]~~x_ . ~>-.uo3v, down to the coffee room and I'll tell programme s howing how an l ien t;; :::) .~o~ - ~-~~ ~o Je ~ ~ ~ ]]~E§ ~ ri~ ~ you about them. (represented by the eye of a camera) would i:-ard;! SINCLAIR SPECTRUM ZX ~ w s ot.z~~f"§ e g_;~.ge~g : Coffee alrlght? Are you sitting view the earth and human beings. A so­ • SUNDAY E_:: i= i ~ ~ Spectrum 48K £90; ZX Printer £20; comfortably? I'll begin. Clique called 'sci-fi' documentary, the film tries to ·I- rI J ~z-5 ~ :3 :" ..; ~1~.; ~ -5 ~-5 ~-i-i X. ~ :.si v O .., 3: E . WANTED central flat for 4-6 1.35 pm Ch. 4 Scottish Vi e w 011.1 iuc((IE"' -;:;: ... -;,;:~ ... ,, ... look at the world as a completely new I- ~~ -~ ~ :, _;E 3 ti.l C 4 U -~ 8 V '- Cassette recorder for above £10; number forty-two sit on the Infamous New series alo ng the same lines as the ~ -0 ": :5'~ -~·"' E i ] _g ~: ~ "5 ] a ~ v ~;o e :: . -5 people for session 1984-85 first floor. They have, to all Intents experience. It was filmed in Guildford. successfu l Irish Angle, highlighting reg ional u.. a_ ;J 12" b/ w TV 9 months old £30. < <>--g;~=> .r{;..., oo~:;~EQl~ J~~ ~~~ (preferably from october). Tel. and purposea, no distinguishing issues using STV, Grampian and Border TV '-- CJ< t- iu~ ... < u< et- "'.._;.c> ~o...uE c ~o EJ !~~~]{;. 0 Lynne or margo at 667 1971 ext 33 characterlst~s although I suspect output. ~ i= {;. i= vi i= 0 ~ 0 > i= o- ~ t- 13 ~ i= ~ TDK 3 hour cassettes TDK D180s 10.15 pm BBC1 Question Time 1.-' .:, between 7 and 10 pm. they are the sort of people who Always lively and often controversial QT is a (ie 3 hours). No longer available. sharpen the wrong ends of their 3.40 pm BBC 1 Eurovision Song Contest z .. Unused still in original sealed useful forum for the discussion of current Preview Pt. 2 LARGE DOUBLE ROOM in pens and never, ever run out of affairs despite the cliched party political 0 ~ wrapping. £2.50. Avoid. V) Buccleuch St. Flat available from paper hall way through lectures. responses we get and the dubiously All prices subject to negotiation However as soon as you see them 'representative' invited audience. This mid June onwards. Please phone 10.00 pm BBC 1 FILM: Contact Andrew Lyall Room 607 lurklng between the book stacks you week's guests include CNO chairperson (1967) ?Z~S'-(6:J!R$Rfi!ft~mB?Bi.91$H$HlBi3m~'1f~Btat?+J;;~:~~p:;9°+~0· 667 5649 (Molly). The Graduate realise that you've walked right Into Joan Ruddock. Film of the Week, though an old favourite. Brewster House, Pollock Halls. or Excellent performance from Dustin Hoffman call 031-667 1081 ext 2875. the Clique HQ. They all arrive at 11 pm Ch 4 Isolation:• aketch tor someone and that perfect Simon and Garfunkel their own set times every day. They A depressing film about the awfulness of soundtrack. know each other's faces. Sometimes human relationships, but some interest here they're even on speaking terms: very in that it features the music of one Virginia • MONDAY formal: "Good day, Mlsa Lumsden," aslley. 6.35 pm BBC Radio Scotland "I'm sorry I can't reply; my Chileans in Exile chaperone ain't here today, Sir." • FRIDAY Keeping the spotlight firmly on Chile's Woe belle the stranger In their midst 5.45 pm Ch 4 High Road fascist dictatorship, this programme talks to as they can spot you a mlle off. In The Tube, ORS and Whistle Test have some of the 3,000 Chilean refugees who fled fact, each person's habits are so finished. What have we left? This new series to Britain after the military coup in 1973, regular that when you 111· down you many of whom have now settled in Scotland. features full length rock videos and little always find the seat Is moulded to else. Tonight the Thompson Twins, the shape of someone else's bum. II recorded at the Royal Court, Liverpool 11.05 pm BBC 1 Film 84 during their 1983 tour. Barry Norman reports on Bill Owen's new you're new suspicious glances follow film, Laughterhouse, directed by Richard you from "New Acquisitions" to Eyre, as well as on The Dead Zone. "Who's Who" at the far end. If looks 6.45 pm BBC2 Eight Days A Week could kill, Sarah Tlsdall would have The rock programme with the most un­ been sent to run the gauntlet here. imaginative, boring format and stupide st • TUESDAY 6.30 pm Ch. 4 title returns to take over the ORS slot, You can tell It's a place where people Whose Town is it Anyway? comprising mundane Guardian rock critic are conscientious: even the "New Another new series on Four that features Robin Denselow plus 'panel' discussing new Acquisitions" are dog eared. The Scotland this week. This one is about releases, albums, videos, etc, etc. This week librarians are In the plot: the desks Easterhouse, Glasgow: its problems, local Bill Wyman (who?) and Jools Holland(!) will are always turned round so you can't politics and council decision- making. be talking about such new up-coming talent read the grafflttl when you should be as B. B. King and David Bowie. Mind­ pm Ch. Brookside working. Actually, this doesn't really blowing. 8.00 4 8.10 pm BBC 1 Dallas make any difference as It's carefully It's one or the other, unless you've got a smudged out by people writing 6.45 pm Ch 4 Hey Good Looking 5 (of 5) video. Dallas is larger-than-life, Brook.side furlously on top or leaning heavily on Fantasy and humour in advertising. intriguing, if bland. copies of the "Flnanclal Times". The only things easy to decipher are a 8.10 pm BBC 2 Timewatch series of particularly revolting phalllc 11.15 pm FILM: The Trials of Oscar Wilde Monthly history documentary series that doodles which I always find on the Starring Peter Finch and James Mason. consistently features interesting and about the infamous trial of Oscar Wilde, who unusual subjects. This edition includes a only free desks. I think they're a was accused of sOdomy. piece on 19th century socialist Robert dreadful warning of a punitive rape Owen, and a look at the building of lunatic ceremony for persistent talkers - 11 .20 pm Ch 4 The Late Clive James asylums in Britain. but I don't wish to find out ... No Wogan, but Clive James is often good There's only one permitted subject of value. His guests are Billy Conelly and • WEDNESDAY conversation: a ten minute weep on playwright Michael Frayn. 6.40 pm BBC 1 The Best of Torvi/1 and Dean the communal shoulder about the They can't be serious showing yet another last Interview. 60% of all "the programme. Will this ~e the last though? • SATURDAY regulars" do B Coms which means 8.45 am BBC 1 The Saturday Picture Show 7.50 pm Ch. 4 Comment very little except that they have ten With Super Store on its summer break, The Ten minutes airtime for Gordon Wilson, SNP times as many job Interviews as Saturday Picture Show is the focus of chairman. anyone reading something morning-after-night before/ lazy Saturday Interesting. Touch luck though viewing attention. Features Maggie Philbin 8.30 pm Ch. 4 Diverse Reports should you land that job offer with in York, plus David Copperfield and band Successor to the controversial Friday Rothchild• when everyone else was Silent Running. Alternative, this week asks ls Pop Music Just rejected after the first chat with the Entertainment? With Ian Birch, editor of Aberdeen Savings Bank. Come and 7.10 pm BBC 1 The Treasures ol the Burrell Smash Hits. Join the ranks of the ostraclzed, my A musical voyage around this superb collection of art treasures, recently opened 9.00 pm BBC 2 Entertainment USA friend, come and read the "Beano" In in a £20 million purpose-built gallery in A new series with the last American music the coffee room for your last few Pollok Park, Glasgow. A worthwhile intro­ and films, and a visit to Puerto Rico. That ls, moments - you might sell-actualise duction for those planning to visit. if you can stand Jonathan King. - as a dosser like the rest of us. Alaatalr Dalton ,,