"THE GOOD NEWS

NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION PAPER" 16th JANUARY 1973 FREE! No. 324

. . . BUT IT'S A CLOSE THING

UGM rejects Rent Strike The Petition

CALL FOR AN EMERGENCY GENERAL New Halls levy to continue MEETING "Thursday's 550 strong UGM voted for an amendment which said: "The demands of the Militant students at Friday's UGM the others because Of pro- tense pressure on the Gov- rent strike apart from the points which are erupted in uproar when the meeting narrowly tracted speeches from ernment to concede our part of the NUS campaign to be: i . . . , ii . . . , Piers Corbyn and Pete iii . . . , iv . . . threw out the idea of a rent strike in TC in aid claim." Gillett. On the count, the vote of the grants campaign. So long, in fact, that the This amendment — carried after a debate and was: vote by a substantial majority — assumes About 350 students turned up to vote at meeting had to be ad- there is to be a rent strike. the meeting, fifty less than attended Thurs- journed at 2.25 until Fri- An issue once voted on cannot be voted on a day. IN FAVOUR 166 second time at an adjourned meeting. We all day's meeting which had to be adjourned to know that. Gaining in inefficiency, Friday. this meeting started a AGAINST 175 So the chairman of the smaller 354 strong ad- Starting twelve minutes immediate £100 increase quarter-of-an-hour late at journed UGM on Friday was out of order to late because of the late ar- in the postgraduate grant put to the vote sections of the motion con- 1.00, but, fortunately for ABSTENTIONS 13 rival of the ICU Executive and the restoration of the cerned with whether the rent strike would take the quorum, few left for place. and general disorganisa- London weighting, and lectures at 1.30. The with- tion in the Great Hall, demanded that the NUS — very close. The other drawal of a motion by The voting after a lot of time wasting therefore Thursday's meeting really executive should give section of the motion re- of 166 for a rent strike and 175 against, 13 got under way With Mike these points equal priority Dave Brown recognising ferring to rent strikes was abstaining, was null and void. Terry, National Secretary with the other objectives "that a rent strike in Im- defeated much more sub- Especially since there was only 9 in it! of the National Union of of the campaign. perial College would not stantially. The rest of the motion supporting the grants achieve any useful pur- Students, speaking on rent Dori Schmetterling then However, a call to form campaign was passed almost unanimously. strikes and the grants spoke against the part of pose and only aggravate a rent strike organisation campaign and answering the motion which would Can a smaller adjourned meeting overturn the public opinion" in favour committee was passed — questions from the floor have abolished the 35p decision of a larger meeting? Of course notM of his speaking against the this committee will now about them. He told the per week new halls levy. substantive, and the rapid co-ordinate the grants The only fair solution is to rediscuss the mo- meeting that using the Paul Jowitt, Deputy Presi- tion as amended so far at an EGM. defeat of a Pete Gillett campaign in IC. rent strike weapon: "the dent, told the meeting that amendment, meant that only economic power we he was sure that future Following the vote, a We therefore call on the President to organise considerable discussion have": was the best way generations of students militant faction headed by an EGM on Thursday, January 18, at 1.00 p.m. (by IC UGM standards) in the Great Hall. Meanwhile don't pay your of forcing the government Piers Corbyn issued a pet- would look back in grati- Hall Bill. on the substantive was to pay students higher tude to the meeting and ition for an EGM to be possible. Major speeches grants. think that "Tin 1973 ICU held on Thursday, the Sign this Petition. Get your friends to sign. in favour came from John. Return to the Union Office." Strong concern for post- acted to get its students a 1.8th. The text of the Lane, John Murlis, Rob graduate students was ex- higher grant, yet banished statement is reproduced Armitage and Sonia pressed in the questions them to live in Wimble- in the box on this page. put to Mr. Terry, mainly don". It was further Uochfelder; speeches ag- focused on the opinion pointed out that were it ainst came from Bill Ger- that the campaign seemed not for the existence of rard, Ron Marples and to concentrate solely on the levy it would be im- Dave Brown. MOTION: Page 5 increasing undergraduate possible to finance the The motion was voted grants. Mr. Terry said building of the new that this opinion was fall- North side Hall. on in parts (all 14 of acious, and that the cam- The paragraph of the them) and the majority of paign was for an increase motion calling for the abo- it, pledging the backing of (.« IKI»0\ bsi:i:« i: for all students. (Our poli- lition of the levy was ICU to the demands of tical correspondent, how- forthwith removed from the NUS for higher grants ever, points out that it is the motion by an amend- and a new grants struc- significant that little if any ment that was passed ture was passed over- mention of postgraduates overwhelmingly. whelmingly. was made at either the The meeting then The decisive moment NUS conference at Mar- moved on to consider am- came when section F2 was gate last November or at endments to the motion. arrived at: "ICU resolves the Campaign Co-ordinat- To save time the presi- ing Committee's first dent, John Lane, who to use the only economic meeting in December). An proposed the substantive power we have, the ability amendment to the motion, motion, accepted large to withhold house and 'One thing, though: This stuff should soon be down to £4.50 a bottle. passed by an overwhelm- parts of these; but consid- hall rents, to force the col- ing majority, called for an erable time was spent on lege authorities to put in- Page 2 FELIX January 16,1973 Phosphorous MARTIN'S BIT the Jobrot

How many times have you thought that complaints about any aspect of IC one aspect of the Union Activities was Union: which reminds me of a true and misguided. story: Do you ever think that we aren't doing "Once upon a time in a jar off land a Ferocious Din something we should? dictator awaking one morning decided that he wanted to know what the people I want to know what you want out of thought of him. He thus made a procla- Imperial College Union. mation. Part five of a serialisation of the book by Complaints are useful to us to know "I am a dictator, hut I am a benign what it wrong, but it is even more useful dictator and I want to know what S. J. Swailes to know what the cure is. you think about the regime. Please write to me and tell me. People have been complaining about By order, "Felix". What sort of articles, informa- THE STORY SO FAR: Having escaped from the fairground, and from floating tion or stories do you want to see in The Dictator." in mid-air, by use of the partially-invisible gumboots, Phosphorous, together with "The Newspaper of Imperial College." Now the people did write to him, but so Have you enjoyed reading "Phosphorous many of them wrote that he didn't even Ferocious and Twigworm, are trying to escape the clutches of the Luigi Rabbit bother to read the letters and decided the Jobrot and Ferocious Din", for ex- organisation. They have just met the plane on the beach. Now read on . . . that he would stop being a friendly dic- ample? tator and dictate a little, because it was The Luigi Rabbit Organisation was coming "Bue we are over the sea." obvious that the plebs didn't know what steadily nearer, waving its arms and shout- "Um," pondered the plane, "Perhaps you've Do you go to Ents Concerts, or the Fri- they wanted and he knew much better. ing. got a point there. I must admit that thought day Night discotheques or do you spend And HE lived happily ever after". "A tfuilther problem," said Ferocious. hadn't occurred to me." Ferocious was used to Phosphorous' brain, so he was not des-< every evening in the Bar because you I am not a dictator, but I will read every "Don't just stand there waffling," snapped peraitely shocked. letter and take note of what you want the plane, "get in and we can go. It is don't like the entertainments the Union after all what I have been waiting for all "Perhaps it would be a good idea," he — and we might even get something suggested, "to look for somewhere to land?" provides? this time." done about it. "Smart thinking", murmured Ferocious, "Perhaps you're right," conceded the plane, And until then, I remain as they clambered into the cockpit. For all "I will keep an eye out." I want you to write to me in the Union the plane's size, the cockpit was not very Hardly had he spoken than a small, black Office with your suggestions, ideas and Martin C. Black large. It was quite a tight squeeze, and after a moment of panic when it appeared cloud appeared on the horizon. It moved that the Twigworm was going to sit on both slowly towards the travellers. Ferocious and Phosphorous, they sorted themselves out — with Ferocious and Phos- "Looks like rain", said Phosphorous. phorous sitting on the Twigworm. Getting "Oh dear", squeaked the Twigworm, "and RCC VANS "AH right?" asked the plane and without I've left my umbrella behind." waiting for a reply Started its engines. They coughed and spluttered into life and clouds "Hang on, dear lads," said Ferocious, "I Clean — of foul smelling black smoke spread over don't Ithink that's a rain cloud. It looks the sand. more like some jolly old birdies." As the FOR HIRE cloud came nearer, they could see that Fero- "Just like the modern stuff," said Fero- cious was right — it was a flock of birds.- Minded cious, topically. The whole framework of Strange birds they were too — long scrawny ANYTIME (including the aircraft began to tremble and shake. necks; bulbous bodies, like bundles of dirty Most people at IC will have at least An ominous rattle came from beneath the washing; and tiny wings flapping furiously Twigworm's seat. to keep their grotesque forms in the alr« heard the name TRANSCENDENTAL Wednesday Their long furry legs dangled unhappily MEDITATION. The name by itself is "Oh dear", he moaned, "I don't think I beneath them, and from their tiny pin-heads like this flying." protruded razor sharp stabbing bills, lined misleading, conjuring up images of afternoons) with spiky teeth. Eastern mysticism. "Nonsense," grunted Ferocious unfeel- ingly. "Yuch!" said Phosphorous. T.M. is simply a mental technique for except Weekends The Luigi Rabbit Organisation had nearly "What on earth are those nasty things?'* inducing a state of consciousness in reached the plane — they could make out asked Ferocious, "and are they friendly?" which the body enters an extremely pro- the Rabbit's Staring white-rimmed eyes, and Dino's battered face — when the huge "Those," said the plane with a note of found rest state while the mind remains machine slowly turned, and began to move terror in his tick-over, are Greater Gnashing alert (R.F. Scientific American, Feb., along the beach. Sand whirled up in the Scrawns, and they are never friendly." FOR THE BEST roaring wind from the twin propellers, and 1972). This has a wide range of effects, as the plane gathered speed, the Luigi Rab- "Oh," said Ferocious, "shouldn't we do for example the complete removal of DEALS-ON-WHEELS' bit Organisation dropped out of sight. something?" stress and tension from the nervous sys- "I can't say I'm sorry to see the back of "Well, if I just cruise on, and turn my engines off," said the plane "then they tem (think about the implications of those dear chaps," said Ferocious. might not notice us." Ferocious did not that). "Me neither," said Phosphorous. While think this particularly likely, but he kept they were talking the plane had risen quiet. If taught properly, the technique is contact smoothly, if noisily, from the beach, and The plane cut its engines, and began t« easily learnt, and a course is held at IC the palm trees were already tufted match sticks beneath them. glide, its complicated rigging singing in the most weekends. If you want to find out S. M. FIRTH slipstream. The Scrawns were nearly level more about T.M. and its uses wander "Uuuuurgh!" gulped the Twigworm as he with the adventurers, and seemed to be inadvertently glanced over the side. about to pass without noticing them, when along to Elec. Eng. 606 any Tuesday at Keogh 178 the leader let out a screech. 6 p.m. "Don't look out there," said Ferocious helpfully, "study the inside of the cockpit "Hold it, me laddos, there's a nice juicy if the outside is worrying you." The Twig- plane as 'ud make a tasty snack." worm stared industriously around the inside of the cockpit. It was luxuriously padded in "Oh no," screamed the plane, "they're leather, with a huge steering wheel on a airborne crocodiles, those things, they'll tear pole, sticking up between Phosphorous' legs. the canvas off a fellow, and leave only the under-carriage." "What's this?" asked that worthy, giving it a push. The plane plunged forward into "Well do something!" shouted Ferocious. The approaching danger drove the plane a dive, throwing the three adventurers into into action. With a .splutter and a roar he an untidy heap. "Fellini looks restarted his engines, and began to dive "Idiots! Fools! Incompetents!" bellowed the steeply towards the sea. Zoom, throb. at his favourite city plane, as, with a singing of rigging, and Down he plunged, the three passengers a throbbing of engines, it pulled out of the clutching frantically at the side of the cock- pit. But the Scrawns were not to be put and comes up dive. with a masterpiece off so easily. Like a screaming black wedge "Don't touch anything," it shouted, "I am they plummeted out of the sun in hot pur- Sydney Edward* EVENING STANDARD doing the flying in this aircraft, do you suit. In a matter of moments they were understand?" up with the plane, and snapping and tearing at its tail. "Sorry", said Phosphorous. "Great!" shouted the leader, "It's a late "All right", said the plane, "just watch it. '28 I think, probably Handley Page, Eastern I don't know what adventurers are coming hangar. Very acceptable." With Scrawns to . . . ." he grumbled on under the throaty chewing at its wing-tips the plane tried roar of the engines. to climb again, and outstrip the terrible birds. But to no avail; it had neither the Ferocious had been thinking. power nor the height.

"Where, exactly, are we going, dear old "Try and find somewhere to land," bel- airborne structure?" he inquired. lowed Ferocious, over the skwalking and smacking of beaks "I have absolutely no idea," said the plane FELLINI'S ROMA proudly. The Plane was not really in any state to make rational decisions, but he blipped his A i" "But you can't keep on flying around in- engines, and dropped even lower, until his definitely, can you," protested Ferocious. wheels were practically touching the sea. i„ FEDERICO FELLINI »d BERNARDINO ZAPPONI A- ULTRA FILM H™^.,™ _ tnp by Phosphorous and Ferocious were standing A Co ProduCiion o» ITALO FR ANLESEULTR A FILM LtS PRODUCTIONS ARTISTES ASSOCIES S.A. " UllSlGU Al'IlSlS "Look", said the plane, "I've had just up in the cockpit swatting at the Scrawns, about enough cheek from you. My instruc- when the Twigworm let out a squeak. tions were to pick F. Din and P. the Jobrot plus Tiny Twigworm off the beach, and fly "There!" he shouted, "look, an island." now ^s-nro^'niSa^BB around in an adventurous manner." Sure anough a tiny palm-fringed atoll lay SHOWING BOX OFFICE NOW OPEN ALL SEATS MAY BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE in their path. Separate Performances: "What happens when we run out of petrol?" asked Ferocious, casually. Weekdays 2.30 6.15 9.00 Sundays 3.30 6.15 9.00 "Land there, dear old hard-pressed air Late night shows Friday and Saturday 11.45 p.m. "I would assume that we come down, or person." The plane needed no encourage- land, as we say in the trade." (continued on page 5) January 16, 1973 FELIX Page 3

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EDITORIAL "Solidarity with the workers!" Letters "Workers and students for the struggle!"

"Workers and students against the State!"

These phrases, vogue expressions of '72 destined to become the cliches of '73, seem to ring in my ears perpetually. I always expected it of the NUS. Rent Strikes ; Cutting 'Cancerous Now it is becoming the dominant voice of IC as well. Swept in with the wave of politics that crashed over IC at the end of 1972, they are now glibly and con- the fidently being used as the voice of IC students. losing public sympathy? growths' I cannot believe that you, the students of this fine, Sir, traditionally super-reactionary college sincerely sub- I write this letter as storm- cleaners scribe to these emotions. The broad mass of students clouds are gathering for Dear Oily, would be horrified at being dropped into the stagnant Thursday's U.G.M. over the A vat of "the organised working class", and justifiably 'rent-strike' issue, and in par- This is a letter for printing so. Even the TUC wouldn't lump us with the workers: tial anticipation of the deci- Sir, in Felix. witness their refusal of membership to the NUS. sion to be reached. JOWITT I agree wholeheartedly Students are, in general, educated people, and Firstly, I agree that stu- with Tim Bradbury's remarks I am dismayed to find that dent grants have, once gentlemen : and educated people and gentlemen, in in last week's edition of the articles I write for Felix general, are proud of the foundations of bureaucracy again, become inadequate, es- COLLEC- Felix. After all, we already —MARTIN'S BIT for ex- on which this country is so successfully built : nego- pecially to those people in tiation and compromise. flats, digs, etc. However, I have a million unemployed: ample—often seem to have think that the action of with- a few more on the scrapheap suffered from cancerous One has to stretch one's imagination quite con- holding hall and student- TION would not really be noticed, siderably to describe our "elected" representatives in house fees would not achieve growths. I refer to the nause- would it? Also, since a great the NUS as "gentlemen", in the common sense of the its purpose. ating practice of amending word, anyway. It is they who negotiate on our behalf number of the women invol- with the government for such things as higher grants. Point 1. In the "campaign" articles without the know- aims, listed on the bumph- (again) ved are widows or have sick But the NUS Executive, and sufficient SU presidents ledge or consent of the around the country to twist the arm of NUS confer- sheet distributed to Hall husbands to keep, let us author. ences, believe in the student-worker concept. And they residents, is to "win public follow the trend of this pre- support." believe that, like militant trades unions, they should sent heartless society, Tim, not be implicated in any decision made by this Sir — / wait with bated I respectfully remind you This will probably sound the most needy must be the "Wicked Tory Government". 'old-hat', but to, once again, breath for the final episode of your obligations:— "to re- first to go. What I would also put up the 'revolutionary and presumably the end of port and provide independent So they won't even negotiate for higher grants. We students' image, although it suggest is that if you are are workers, not students, so we can't ask for more. "Phosphorous the Jobrot and might appeal to those of us prepared to clean your own comment on Union affairs, to Action not words. Go on strike. Rent Strikes. And Ferocious Din". with more extreme views, will room, why not also maintain publicise future Union and force the Government to lick our feet and give us a certainly not "win public sup- Yours T.T.C.C.H., the buildings, deliver your College activities and to pro- port". We have only to re- PAUL JOWITT member the Stirling affair own mail, keep the sports vide articles of general in- Go on, laugh—what else can you do? What does a last year, which cost the stu- Rent Strike do? Make life uncomfortable for the uni- Unless I receive a pile of centre clean, cook your own terest or of inoffensive enter- dent cause thousands, to versities. The universities are not popular with the letters this week asking me meals, and serve your own realise that the same thing is tainment value". (Felix con- Government (presumably since they won't opt to be- likely to occur if rents are not to, I have decided to end drinks. Just think, this would stitution),—my underlining. come polytechnics)—but they are negotiators. The withheld. At the moment the reduce the staff by several whole idea is that the universities will negotiate for "P the J and FD's" adven- public are bored with student higher grants for us. Is it not much more likely, that tures in this issue, although hundreds. Who knows? Such I hope that you will let me demonstrations. they will negotiate better terms for themselves—like there were to have been four reductions might not only see the form of this letter direct payment of hall fees? Although the Union might more episodes.—Ed. keep the halls fees stable but after you have castrated it consider that they are not out Getting someone else to negotiate for you is an may even reduce them. to cause such strife, surely before publishing. easy way out: but it is dangerous. And, in your home, Therefore, Tim, why don't the they must realise that if they the NUS is in danger of muffing it up. The sooner we Sir—Likewise "The Land- got to work on the public Students' Union and the You are Sir, the Union's persaude our "representatives" that we are educated rather than the authorities snapper Sneeze". trade unions in I.C. get to- gentlemen, and not the "organised working class", obedient servant. they might produce better re- Yours I.W.T.W., and wish to deal as such, the better. It will be neces- gether on this. Who knows, sults. sary if we are to get the grant increase we would like PAUL JOWITT. perhaps one day you will MARTIN C. BLACK I see no logical reason next year : there is little hope under the system we are become a Tory M.P. and even at present lumbered with. why the withholding of rents I will not stop the be knighted for services to should do anything towards "Sneeze". What does You have dissociated yourselves from a rent strike getting grants increased—in the country. "I.W.T.W." mean?—Ed. in IC. I wonder what it will mean to the NUS. Maybe fact quite the reverse. I hope they'll be thinking that we are just the misinformed that I am proved incorrect for Sir—Up. Yours sincerely, working class. So watch those "representatives" of the sake of next year's grant Yours, earners. RON PARKER yours—unless you really want Days of Action, not PAUL JOWITT words (and figures, and bigger ones) on your grant Yours, etc., (Be it Hall Messenger and cheques. Entertainment R. C. WOODWARD, A reference to beef prices ? Sometimes N.U.P.E. Shop- Chem. 3. —Ed. Steward). = Vandalism?

/ feel I must write to you "...an experiment in plotless absurdity and formal about the behaviour of some playfulness on the order of Duck Soup, The Big Sleep or A Woman is a Woman.:, fames Ivory's first american certain people last Saturday film displays a sheer precocious love for what night. I am referring to the movies can 'say' that I haven't seen since the vandalism that occurred in films of this early New Wave." the toilets at the Strawbs STUART BYRON ROLLING STONE concert. It is a great shame that the entertainment pro- When my future biographers finally 1 was compulsively drawn to "Fear is vided cannot be enjoyed by get around to analysing my intriguing the Key" (all over the place). I will say all, but there is no need at literary style, I think it hat they will be right from Hhe beginning, that the film all for the odd few out to mystified. "Could it be," I can imagine was immensely pleasing, and is one of spoil the enjoyment of everyone else by such be- their saying "that there is here an abso- the best thrillers for a long time. haviour. This action, as heard lutely unique style in Twentieth Cen- by all present, forces the tury Literature? Is ithis man the true There are the usual components—an Ents committee to think care- descendant of Shakespeare and Swift? excellent car-chase, a few bouts of fisti- fully about future concerts, The heir of the golden styles of Jonson cuffs—ibut the real strength of the film and it would be catastrophic, and Surtees?" lies in its clever adaptation of the if, after obtaining such fine bands, they should have to The answer (lest I stray from this in- original plotting. All Maclean stories are cancel any. I just wish that depth film review), of course, is that my very involved with niggers abounding in the people involved show a wood-piles, but this has been neatly reading at school was totally dominated little more consideration for by Charles Dickens and Alistair Mac- handled and the two people with me others in future. (neither of whom knew the book) were lean. So, despite the dreadfulness that Yours faithfully, the film-makers made of the "Ice Station not mystified at all. Light entertainment GRABBLE THATCHETT, Zebra" and "When Eight Bells Toll," but fun (Name and address supplied) %nt$ [}U^ |i*r$W [Vwnto jnpi [)*rj [jq! ftipiM fom (nmm ^bfin vjw H^n ^ovr (fcmb(k|W fa tftk Mifawdi M* Mtfn IMioW. |vofl( fWw jmilDnM 'juw^hfcf^l'o*

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(continued from page 2) "What do we do now?" asked Phosphorous.

"Once again, dear lad, your guess is as ment, and headed straight for their only good as mine," came the reply. hope of rescue. Over an idyllic lagoon he Entertaining flew and plunged down on the beach. Sand Ferocious stretched out in the sun to flew everywhere, and the plane crashed into think, and the Twigworm did its pile-of- the undergrowth. Bits of bush flew every- putrescent-rubber impression beside him. where, tiny creatures fled from the career- Meanwhile Phosphorous was wandering about ing plane as it skidded to a halt amongst alt the water's edge. Idly glancing out over a clump of stinging nettles. Fuel pump the surf, he caught sight of something Mr (and Ms) Student throbbing, and propellors still slowly turn- floating, about a mile off shore. ing, the plane was in no condition to talk. "Hey!" he yelled, "Look at that, Fero- "Won't the Scrawns land, and finish us cious and Twigworm, what do you think off?" asked Ferocious. Another sell-out series? it can be?" "No," gasped the plane, "they can't land, "At first glance, dear boy," drawled Fero- Having already had one sell-out this shop is to enable YOU, the student, their legs are too long, they just fly around cious, "it would appear to be a floating up there devouring innocerit planes, and' term (Strawbs on Saturday) IC Ents has Who doesn't have to travel far to obtain council refuse tip, ho, ho." But the Twig- never coming down." got a lot of good concerts lined up your ticket easily. This can only be done worm had leapt to his feet. for the rest of the term. This Saturday if you obtain your ticket at least a week "Thank goodness for that," said Phospho- "It's a Twigwormery," he cried, "oh, and was have an all-night event with I. beforehand. We are witholding outside rous, "they weren't very nice at all." it's My Twigwormery. Stop it, please. Oh Geils Band. Also appearing are Sam publicity for the Elton John date to Despite having escaped the dreaded dear, it's going to go past. What are we Apple Pie, Baby Whale, Gasworks, the allow local students to obtain tickets. Scrawns, the intrepid trio were still in to do. Oh, stop it, please." Tears welled up film "The Magic Christian" and Disco If there are any queries there is usu- trouble deep. They were marooned on an in the Twigworm's soulful eyes, and great Tim. The price for this goody is just ally at least one Ents person in the island, they knew not where, with no food sobs shook its huge form. Ferocious was on 70p in advance, 80p on the door, ad- Union office at dinner time and of and a broken aeroplane. his feet, and running down to the water. vance tickets available from the book- course we shall soon be moving to the shop. "Are you broken?" asked Ferocious of "Shout and wave and such things," he told Room at The Top where we will have their late transport. Phosphorous, "We must make a fire to at- The following week we have a stomp posters and information available. I tract their attention." Phosphorous obligingly "Not seriously," aswered the plane, "a in the Union with Brett Marvin and the leave you then with a list of dates as waved his arms in the air and shouted certain amount of canvas seems to be miss- Thunderbolts (of Terry Dactyl and the we know them. "Help" and "Hello, Twigworms" and even ing from my tail plane, and my under- Dinosaurs fame). Price only 50p. "Good Afternoon". Ferocious dashed back carriage is a trifle bent, but otherwise I'm up the beach to make a fire. Suddenly a On Monday, January 29, we have an not so bad, thank you." Ferocious looked thought struck him. They had no matches. exclusive Chuck Berry date, the only January thoughtful. British college date. Price for this is 20 J. Geils Band, Sam Apple Pie, "We can rub two sticks together," he £1.20. "But can you fly?" he asked. thought. The more he thought about this Baby Whale, Gasworks, Films and On Saturday, February 3rd we have "If I can get out of these bushes — un- idea, the less practical it seemed. However Disco, all-night. 70p adv. 80p door. Jeff Becks new band. Beck, Bogert, Ap- doubtedly." it was worth a try, so he gathered a handful pice. This is their first tour and great 27 Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, of dry twigs from the edge of the jungle "Right, dear boy," said Ferocious, "May and rushed back to the water's edge. Phos- things are expected of them. Price is 50p I suggest that you do just that, and then phorous still bellowing at the slowly de- 90p in advance, £1 on door. we can be on our way." With much revving 29 Chuck Berry £1.20 adv. parting Twigwormery, and the Twigworm On February 17 we have the re- and churning, the plane extricated itself was crying quietly in a heap on the sand. united Fairport Convention. This re- February from the bushes, and positioned itself facing places the date they were unable to fill 3 Beck. Bogert. Appice, 90p adv. £1 down the beach. "Are they all asleep, or something?" asked Ferocious angrily, and received no reply. in last October. Price is 60p advance, door. "O.KC it shouted, "Chocks away, and all He bundled his sticks into a fire-shaped pile, 70p door. 10 Sharks (price to be announced). that." The rumble of the engines rose to and started industriously rubbing two of On March 12, we have a triumphant a whine, and the plane began to move slowly 17 Fairport Convention 60p adv. 70p the larger ones together. Very little hap- return of superstar Elton John. The price forward. Its speed increased and the wind pened, except that some of the bark came door. will be £1 advance, £1.20 on door. played around the passengers' ears. The off the sticks, and Ferocious' arms began tail left the ground, and the whole craft to ache. "Baden-Powell never had this Some IC students may have realised March began to rise. But the end of the beach that some of our concerts sell out. This trouble," he complained. 10 Can, 60p adv. 70p door. was fast approaching. makes it useless to try and buy tickets It was no good. The Twigwormery had "We're off!" shouted Phosphorous, hope- the day before the concert. The reason 12 Elton John, £1 adv. £1.20 door. slowly drifted past and disappeared behind fully. They were not. With a squeal of tickets are sold in advance in the book- 17 Home (price to be announced). the island. passengers, the plane plonked hack on to the beach once more, and skidded to a halt "Drat!" said Ferocious. The Twigworm in the dunes at the end of the beach. sobbed to itself.

"Um," said Ferocious, "we appear not to "What do we do now?" asked Phos- have made it, as it were." phorous, "Dear old chum", said Ferocious "We've too much weight aboard," ex- THE GRANTS through clenched teeth, "If you say that plained the plane, "for the length of beach." just once more, I'll bang you one on the "Well, we will just have to throw some- nose." thing out," said Ferocious. They peered "Sorry", said Phosphorous, stepping sharply around the inside of the cockpit for some- back. Ferocious was losing some of his MOTION thing to throw out. There was nothing much-prized cool. that immediately caught the eye. "O.K.," he said, "just watch it, that's all." (COMPLETE AND UNEXPURGATED) "There doesn't seem to be anything that Phosphorous turned his attention to the we can throw out," said Phosphorous. Twigworm. AS PASSED AT UGM, "Oh yes there it is", said the plane, nastily. "Cheer up," he said, "I'm sure we'll get FRIDAY, 12th JANUARY 1973 "What?" asked Phosphorous, before he you back in the end." noticed Ferocious looking pointedly at ,the "Oh, I do hope so," sniffed the Twigworm, Imperial College Union reaffirms its de- and that at this time a large number of de- Twigworm. mand for "£100 increase in the grant now" mands for wage increases will be coming "but to see them float away like that is and "the full grant for all who study". ICU forward from the organised labour move- "Oh," said the weighty creature, "please awfully sadifying." Ferocious had been think- reiterates the principle of the full grant for ment. don't throw me out, I wouldn't know what ing. all students this aim to be acomplished by to do." the abolition of the means test. ICU recog- ICU resolves on a two-pronged campaign "Gentlemen," he said, "the Twigwormery nises that the means test, like the discretion- aiming "You could hail a passing ship, or some- went out of sight behind the island. It ary award, is a pennypinching and discrimin- 1. to win public support, and in particular atory measure, and that its retention would that of the organised working class, for thing," said Ferocious, unfeelingly. is just possible, if anyone was steering the make nonsense of any claim for immediate our claim to demonstrate the united thing, that they intended to Stop on the increase, since the 80 per cent of students "But I'm the Whole reason for your ad- anger of 600,000 students at the deterior- other side of the island. Therefore I pro- who do not receive the full grant would only ation in our living standards and thus veture," protested the Twigworm. gain a part of the claim, unless they get the make it politically very difficult for the pose that we abandon this beach, and head "You can have too much of a good thing," corresponding increase in parental contribu- government to reject our demands. into the jungle — hoping to emerge on the said Ferocious. tion. 2. To explain that the Government must other side where the Twigwormery was last take full responsibility for the financing "Oh Ferocious," implored Phosphorous, seen heading. Any questions?" In the interests of a united campaign, ICU of higher education — neither students pledges full backing to the immediate de- "you can't leave the poor Twigrworm alone nor workers are responsible for this. The Phosphorous was sure that there were mands of the NUS for Government and its backers must pay on this beach, and we are supposed to be several holes in Ferocious' argument, but 1. An end to the discretionary award sys- for their problems here and elsewhere, taking him back to his parents." tem which allows local authorities to students will not pay with higher rents, could not put his finger on them at that pay lower grants to many students, par- nor workers with loss of jobs. Ferocious pondered for a minute. very moment. ticularly those in FE colleges. "I suppose, dear boy, that you are right. 2. An end to discrimination against mar- ICU therefore mandates "O.K.," he said, "that sounds fine to me." ried women students 1. the executive not to accept as sufficient In which case we will all have to get out 3. An interim grant increase of £65 to cover reason for ending local action an offer and le't our friend here go without us." "Won't there be any fierce animals in the cost of inflation since 1971. by local college authorities to reduce the jungle?" asked the Twigworm nervously. 4. An annual grant review based on a stu- hall or catering fees. "You're quite right, I'm sure," said the dent cost index. 2. the President, Executive and Council to plane, whose one desire was to leave the "I wouldn't be at all surprised," said organise support for the NUS grants island, and preferably the ?dventurers as Ferocious, "but you are about three times This union demands an immediate increase campaign, in particular for as big as an elephant so I don't see what of £100 p.a. in the post-graduate grant, the the USK area activities well. "You just hop out," he continued, "and restoration of the London allowance; and the London demonstration on February I'll have another go. If T do get back, I'll you've got to worry about." the NUS Executive to give these two points 21st te!1 the adventure people where you are, equal priority with the four points in clause the National Day of Action on March Phosphorous thought that a world which B. 14th and I'm sure they'll send some help." included Scrawns amongst its fauna, might 3. the President and Departmental Repre- "I'll bet," muttered Ferocious, and they well have bigger and crosser animals than ICU notes the rent strikes by nine student sentatives to organise departmental a Twigworm. He didn't like to mention unions last term and those proposed by meetings to discuss the grants campaign. all climbed out. The plane swung round 25 unions this term, and expresses its whole- 4. this meeting to elect a committee to or- and shot off down the beach again. With a it in Ferocious' present mood, and the hearted solidarity with all unions on rent ganise a rent strike. This committee also zoom and a bounce it left the ground, tak- Twigworm seemed satisfied, so he kept quiet. strike, whether against excessive rents or to investigate the possibilities of using ing a small tree with it, and just clearing for higher grants as part of the NUS cam- the experience of other colleges of or- "Good," said Ferocious, "if we are aM the bushes. The huge machine turned and paign. It is to be understood that the rent ganising lightning refectory boycotts agreed then let's go." The three brave ex- strike is part of the grants campaign and and to report back to the next U&M. roared overhead, waggling its wings once, not directed towards lowering hall fees in plorers walked up the beach, and into the before heading out to sea. IC. looming jungle. The demands of the rent strike apart from ICU is aware of the implications of the the points which are part of the NUS cam- freeze policy in respect of the declining paign to be: THIS MAY BE THE LAST EPISODE OF PHOSPHOROUS THE JOBROT value of the student grant and that any (i) £100 increase in the grant now; and a attempt by the government to "freeze" full grant for all who Study tied AND FEROCIOUS DIN TO APPEAR IN FELIX. Those who are vociferous grants must be strenuously and vigorously directly to any increase in the cost of about FELIX object to it. Therefore, unless there is considerable correspon- opposed. living. dence from you, the reader, requesting the contrary, we shall not publish ICU notes that the major activities of the (ii) No cutback in cleaners' jobs Grants Campaign will coincide with the ex- (iii) No rent increases the remaining four episodes. Please write to the Editor with your opinions piration of the first 90 days of the freeze, (iv) The DES must pay for all future Halls on this or any other aspect of the paper. FELIX January 16,1973 Page 6

"And what has Felix Diary

King's that I.C. Key: KCAF indicates "King's College Arts Festi- 1900 I.C. Art Club in RCA annexe (behind Huxley).

val" Event. GS indicates a General Studies event. 7930 "Monte Carlo or Bust": Wellsoc film show has not tool"* in ME 220.

TUESDAY, 16th JANUARY KCAF: "Barrow Poets". NLT. 1 5p. Well, they've got an Arts Festival for a start. 1300 Young Socialist Society meeting: "Supple- King's College Union have asked FELIX to tell you about their Arts Festival, which begins tomorrow and mentary Grants". ME 214. continues until Saturday week. Eighteen events, timed STOIC presents "Music Alive" with sounds FRIDAY, 19th JANUARY both at lunchtimes and evenings, are packed into the of Pink Floyd and Fat Jack on TV in JCR ten-day festival, ranging from Tom and Jerry cartoons 1230 I.C. Community Action Group meeting on through poetry recitals to films and a brass band. None and Southside. Old People visiting. Cttee Room A. of the events will cost you more than 30p entrance, and many are free. Even were you to go to every event 1330 Publications Board meeting. Cttee Rm A. 7300 STOIC presents "Topic" magazine pro- it would only cost you £2—and those of you who do "Equality and Freedom". 1: Social Class, can buy a season ticket for £1. A double ticket to both gramme) on TVs in JCR and Southside. Wednesday night concerts—the Sutherland Brothers by Dr. D. D. Raphael. GS. ME220. on the 17th and Renaissance on the 24th—will cost 7375 KCAF. Concert with the King's Singers. NLT. "Lost London—the River" by Hermione you 50p. Free. Hobhouse. GS. Phys LT1. We have printed the events in the coming week in the FELIX DIARY, marked "KCAF". The others "Listening to Contemporary Music". 1: A 7800 STOIC: Repeat of 1300 transmission, some appear below. Diversity of Styles, by Sarah Thomas. GS. places. For those of you who don't know, King's is in the ME 342. Strand . . . catch the District or Circle line to the 7930 "Z" and "End of an Agent": IC Film Society Temple, turn left out of the station then first right. 1800 "The Cruel Sea" (Charles Frend; Britain; presentation in ME 220. Non-members 20p Or catch a No. 9 bus to the Aldwych. And, should at door. you get lost, or want more information, or want to buy 1952; 126 mins). Film in "Attitudes to War" a season ticket, try ringing 836 5454 ext 2602. series. GS. Free. Great Hall. 2000 KCAF. "Sal's Meat Market" (Mime) NLT. Events from January 23: I.C. Transcendental Meditation introductory 15p. talk. EE 606. Tuesday 23rd: Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring" (Piano Khorovod Russian Song and Dance Company. Recital) 1315, Gt. Hall, lOp. 1930 Ballroom Dancing for beginners. Concert Trad and Brass: Melster Swinaers? and Fulwell International Student House, 229 Gt. Portland Brass Band. 1930, NLT, 15p. Hall. Street. 25p members, 50p non-members. Wed. 24th: Film "Goddard Polanski and the Do-it- yourself cartoon kit" 1315, NLT, lOp. Concert with Renaissance, City Waites, 16th & 17th- WEDNESDAY, 17th JANUARY century music. Gt. Hall, 20.00, 30p. SATURDAY, 20th JANUARY Thursday 25th: Play: "New Year's Resolution". NLT, 1315 KCAF. Tom & Jerry Cartoons and Tele 1315, lOp. Goons. NLT (means New Lecture Theatre??). 1000 on. NUS Areas Briefing Conference at ULU. Talk on Art by Andre Kalman. Council Rm„ 1700. Free! Free. 7930 KCAF. Classical Night. Piano recital by Friday 26th: Chamber Recital, NLT, 1315. Free. 1830 Meeting on Government White Paper on Marguerite Wolff. Great Hall (theirs). 15p. Arts Films: "Electra" and "The Nun and the Devil", Education at ULU. 2000 ULU ents presents Edgar Broughton Band NLT, 1700 and 2100, 15p. 7900 I.C. Art Club in RCA annexe (behind Huxley). plus Ro-Ro plus Lloyd Watson. 65p adv, 75p There's also an exhibition of arty things like sculp- ture and paintings from the 22nd to the 26th in the They especially want prospective sculptors. on door. Council Room and Great Hall. And not the least arty part of the Festival may turn out to be the Graffiti wall 1930 I.C. Folk Club presents Jeremy Taylor. Union 2100-0700 ICU Ents presents the J. Geils Band in the entrance to the college. Felix will be sending a Lower Refec, be early. plus Sam Apple Pie. All-night in the Great photographer to record it for you—watch next week's Hall. 70p in advance from IC Bookshop, 80p issue. 2000 KCAF. Sutherland Bros, in Concert with on door. * With apologies to Shakespeare. Lloyd Watson. Great Hall (theirs not ours). 30p.

SUNDAY, 21st JANUARY THURSDAY, 18th JANUARY FELIX No. 324; Tuesday, January 16, 1973. 1000 Holy Communion (C. of E.). Ante Room, CB. Edited by Oliver Dowson, with gratefully- 0930-1730 DAILY UNTIL 10th FEBRUARY. — received contributions of words, p ctures 7 700 Mass (RC). More House, 53 Cromwell Rd. Exhibition of paintings, collages and water- and time from Pvlartn Black, Rob Carter, colours by Joyce Clissold, Elizabeth Stewart- 7500 & 1630 New Zealand action songs, poi Jim Fenne;, Dave G.ibble, David Hobman, Jones and Muriel Rose. Consort Gallery dances and stick games performed by the G.aham King, John Lane, Gordon Reece and (Ante Room, College Block). London Maori Club. Free. Commonwealth Paul Wadsworth (in alphabetc order). Institute, Kensington High St. 1300 SUBJECT TO SUFFICIENT SIGNATURES Felix is printed by F. Bailey and Son Ltd., BEING OBTAINED: Extraordinary General Dursley, GL11 4BL. 7800 Folk Mass (RC). More House, 53 Cromwell Meeting of ICU re Rent Strikes. Watch Rd. Advertis'ng is by University Press Repre- boards for details. sentation, Grand Bu'ldings, Trafalgar Square, WC2. 7375 KCAF. Poetry Recital by Dr. Dannie Abse. NLT. Free. Felix lives on the third floor of the Un'on MONDAY, 22nd JANUARY Building, address: Imperial College Union, 7330 "Ancient China". 1: Chinese Sculpture and 1315 KCAF. "Passion"—a play by Edward Bond. London SW7 2BB, telephone 01-589 5111 the Buddhist. Message, by Dominic de NLT, 10p. ext 2229 (PO), 2881 (nternal). The Ed tor Grunne. GS. ME 220. lives in Weeks Hall, Room 14, tel 01-589 7700 KCAF. "Alice's Restaurant" (Arts Film). NLT "Poets in Anger". 2: Society, by Patric 9608 (PO), 4236 (internal). Contributions 15p. Dickinson. GS. Phys LT2. and help for Felix are always welcome. Concert with Rolf Wilson (violin), Carlina 7930 Wellsoc: "New Approaches to the Treatment Published by the Editor for and on behalf Carr (Pianc): Cesar Franck's Sonata in A of Cancer" by Prof. P. Alexander. ME 220. of the imperial College Union Publ cat ons Major, Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 Op. 94. GS. ULU Students' Representative Council Meet- Boa d. ing, ULU. 1730 FELIX meeting. Come and write, draw, lay All rights reserved. © 1873. Ballroom Dancing—Advanced Class. Union out, moan, challenge the Editor's ruling or Concert Hall. Felix is a founder member of the London just watch. Felix Office, Union, 3rd floor. Student Press Assoc ation. Yoga. Physics Common Room. (Enquiries: 2000 KCAF. Recital by Eve Fisher (Opera Singer). stand on head and ring Int 2193). Great Hall (theirs). 10p. January 16, 1973 FELIX Page 7

CANTERBURY TALES melodramatic — perhaps daunting — but it leaves one thinking, as every good "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" The book is very "interestingly" illu- Comparing this performance with play should. by Hunter S. Thompson (Paladin, 40p) strated with drawings by Ralph Stend- that of a year ago, Canterbury Tales, Well worth a visit, even if the music unlike Hair, has remained unchanged, if does drown some songs, (an unfortun- man hitched from 'Rolling Stone'. I say not slightly improved. The cast shows ate indictment against every musical "The American Dream is something "interestingly" as I found the drawings no signs of fatigue or perfunctory per- I've seen in London) the worst case be- that most of us are probably not look- of the characters grotesque and quite formance; it is as lively as last year. ing the beautifully haunting "Love Will ing for, unlike Nixon and Agnew": yet horrifying—but perhaps that's what it's Conquer AH". It's performed twice a Superficially, the show entails a series Mr. Thompson presents a good take-off all about. of sketches more-or-less based on show, making it four tries — I've yet to of this very subject in his latest book. Chaucer: bawdy beautiful (Pun). If all hear it, even though sitting in a £1.50 you want is an evening of good enter- Stalls or £1.50 Dress Circle seat. The story starts with our heroes some- Hunter Thompson is an unusual and tainment, enough said. However, there But one need not pay a pound; early where around Barstow, on the edge of refreshing writer who contributes regu- is a more subtle story underlying the performances and student groups of any the desert. When the drugs take hold, a larly to such unlikely publications as tales, requiring careful attention, and re- size have reductions. My ticket each voice was screaming "Holy Jesus! What the New York Times Magazine, Ram- tention of the sketches. time was 25p for the £1.50 seat. are these goddam animals?" parts, and, of course, Rolling Stone. The opening starts with a banging "1 I recommend a visit — except Chau- Thompson's most famous book is prob- have a noble cock!" (Yanks will catch cer addicts, who may not recognise it. Then it was quiet again. ably "Hell's Angels", and it is easy to this), goes through various stages of It's at the Phoenix Theatre, Charing see a resemblance in "Fear and Loathing sexual relationships to end by answer- Cross Road, one with reasonable acous- The attorney had taken his shirt off ing (correctly, I thought) the question tics. in Las Vegas". "What do women most desire?" A bit Jim Fenner and was pouring beer on his chest to facilitate the tanning process and so The whole book tends to boil down to on . . . across the desert at frightening a mad, corrosive piece of prose poetry speed. going, where who knows, but certainly going. The NYT claims that it picks up Not having tried out most of the where Norman Mailer leaves off. I don't drugs used in the book, I felt a little think that that is a very good compari- Felix left out of the story. Even so, one can son, as Mailer certainly gets more out still imagine the "perilous drug-enlivened of his writing than Hunter. confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers with a special I enjoyed my savage journey to the interest in the narcotics problem and Heart of the American Dream—but I'm Culture other representatives of the silent major- glad I bought the return ticket. ity who have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror rarely seen on the printed page." DAVID HOBMAN

by The Landsnapper Sneeze Dave Cribble Page 8 FELIX January 16,1973 Dip. H. E. Blacked I0NN LANE Government cut-back in Well, at least we have a grants policy! or even help themselves for next year. No rent strike and not much in the way I think also we have failed to realise df suggestions as to what else we should that no matter how eloquent a case the Higher Education condemned actually do to get the much needed in- Rector may make for us to the Govern- crease, but at least we have a start — ment the simple fact of IC students be- The Universities' Specialist Conference at Sheffield on January what I.C. students actually want: the ing on a mass rent strike would have re- interim increase of £65, an annual re- 5th—7th voted to black the introduction of the Diploma of Higher vealed far better our determination to view based on the student cost index Education (Dip HE) award which was outlined in the recent Govern- put an end to the drop in our standard and a big fight at NUS conference on of living. ment White Paper on Education (reported in last week's FELIX). the £100 increase, abolition of the means test and the post-graduate demands for We will be trying to enlist the Rec- The motion on the White an extra grant for London, the "London tor's support for our case of course. But Paper said that it was can- weighting" (Everyone except PC's gets I can't see that bis humble plea on our sidered that the introduc- more money for living in London). behalf will carry anything like as much tion of this two-year course weight as those vice-chancellors facing requiring University en- Universities' An increase for postgraduates and rent strikes and refectory boycotts. But trance qualifications (5 an end to the means test are NUS policy every drop counts, of course. GCEs, 2 at A-level) was — it's up to us to see that NUS as a And now on to brighter things, cast off simply a move to reduce whole pushes for these demands and student numbers, since it that Will not happen unless IC is very this gloomy spell and on to the idyllic would become a substitute Specialist active in the rest of the grants cam- surroundings of happier regions of IC— for existing three-year paign. For instance IC is over one-third like— courses. postgraduates. Unless the union gets them organised and active we can The Motion, which has Mooney been prioritised for discus- Conference hardly expect the Government to listen to the NUS claim on their behalf. Al- I haven't eaten in Mooney all week sion at the NUS National owing to writing bumph sheets, speeches, Conference at Exeter in though the election of PG Affairs Offi- cer has been postponed (there are quite President's Pieces and attending UGMs April, also condemns the The University's Specialist Conference is as (Also my grant/pay isn't through yet). cutback in projected stud- a number of my fellow PCs getting in- its name implies, a mini-NUS Conference about volved and there is no reason why a PG I've almost forgotten what "it's" like! ent numbers for 1981 from university affairs and attended exclusively by dele- However, it was rather disturbing to 835,000 to 750,000 and the affairs committee could not start to gates of university unions. The most recent was function almost immediately. hear at the Refectory Committee that increase in the student: held at Ranmoor House, a hall-of-residence- nothing had been done on the problem staff ratio of 10:1. The plus, at Sheffield University on Friday—Sunday, Also if we hope to convince delegates of hygiene and cockroaches since the conference regarded the 5th—7th January. Rather more than 100 dele- from o'ther universities at NUS confer- previous meeting. Admittedly this was posing of different parts of gates attended from Britain's 44 universities, in- ence that our more militant demands the holiday period and a steam cleaning the education system cluding five from Imperial: Rob Armitage, Charles are serious, we must explain to them machine had broken down, but as I said against each other as Dingley, Trcv Phillips, Malcolm Matthews and the reasons why I.C. let them down over before the holidays, the situation needs "short sighted and educa- . Piers Corbyn turned up the national rent strike. We must not get to be watched carefully. tionally disastrous", and too to lend his voice and that of the IMG to the the reputation of being talkers and not condemned the Govern- proceedings, and with yours truly there to report doers! ment for paying little at- the jamboree, Imperial was probably the best- Ents. tention to education while represented College there. they were increasing the Due to some mess and damage at a Why No Rent Strike? few concerts last term, the College has defence budget, for exam- The Universities' Specialist is one of several One reason I must say was a tactical asked the union to consider its enter- ple, by 10 per cent. specialist conferences run every year by the NUS error on my part. The withdrawal of the tainments policy. Do we want really big for different sectors of higher and further educa- Other motions discussed new halls levy should have been dis- concerts weekly, letting in a very big tion which report back to the national conferences and carried included ones cussed, at length, separately. On Thurs- proportion of non-students to subsidise in December and April. on Catering, Binary Sport day it just confused the issue. our own students? Are too few students and a Space Advertising Impressive for the efficiency with which discus- interested to make it worthwhile? Or Agency. The catering mo- But more important is the bread and sions were held and motions passed, most dele- do you like the set up as it is? tion affirmed that "the butter one that students in hall have gates thought the conference very worthwhile—as fight to reduce catering comparatively low rents and I failed to Democratic decisions need an in- well as an excellent excuse for a few frolics in prices is part of the convince them that they should look to formed discussion and the sooner we stainless* surroundings. Union's general policy of the future or assist their fellow students hear your views the batter. fighting for a grant in- crease". Conference de- *a reference to steel. plored the Universities' Grants Committee (UGC) policy of making catering NUS Exec should investi- conference, supposedly on self-balancing, said that gate the possibility of set- the subject of "University bar profits should not be ting up their own non- Autonomy", but was eith- used to subsidise refector- profit making agency. er deliberately evasive or '1 can do anyfink' ies. A major feature of the knew little. An inconse- Conference recognised conference was the way it quential speech was fol- that the binary .system ex- was split up for part of lowed by an hour's ques- Guitarist proves wild claim in public tends to sport in the Bin- the time into discussion tions, and the delegates' ary Sport motion. They groups on various topics, tempers frayed rapidly at welcomed the decision of including Trade Unions the seemingly endless re- at Ents Concert the British Committee for and Universities, NUS plies of "no comment" or Student Sport to form a Areas and Universities, "I don't know". unified organisation for Hall Fees and Catering About the only coherent The Great Hall was packed, as always, "The William Tell Overture" by slapping student sport. charges, Representation, facts to appear from this for the concert last Saturday. Strawbs his cheeks and holding his open mouth Bristol University, at the Environment and Stu- session was the reiteration to the microphone, followed by "I Can last gaining an opportun- dent Community Action, of Dr. Hunter's opinions have now turned more towards the rock ity to put forward their the E.E.C.. Vietnam and on representation: that stu- side of music since the replacement of Do Anyfink", which he dedicated to all South Africa. Most of regular motion on space dents should play as full a lead guitarist Tony Hooper by Dave skin heads. advertising agencies (the these groups put motions part as possible in univer- Lambert, whose guitar work was crystal agancies that persuade forward to the whole con- sity affairs, but must not They also performed several of the companies to advertise in ference, and they were all play any part in decisions clear at most times. Their set contained stronger tracks from their "Grave New union publications, e.g. passed. on the appointment or sal- several of their more recently written World" album, including the title track "Felix") accused these of Dr. R. Hunter, Vice- aries of staff or the aca- material, including their two recent "gross profiteering", and Chancellor of Birmingham demic assessment of stu- which they used to open their set, pro- singles "Lay Down" and "Part of the conference voted that the University, spoke to the dents! ducing a very full sound, each musician Union", presumably both of which will blending together nicely, with some very be on their forthcoming album "Burst- good keyboard play from Blue Weav- ing at the Seams". er. The acoustic piece was played by FEUX FINANCIALLY Their old material was not forgotten, John Ford and Richard Hudson, who however, and no Strawbs concert would moved from bass guitar and drums to FELIX FINANCIALLY will be returning next week, when Derek Cummings, be complete without the classic "Hang- our regular expert contributor, will be telling you "How to Lose Money acoustic guitars. man and the Papist". When introducing Without Really Dying". The supporting group, Wheels, con- this Dave Cousins became serious for He will also be appearing in the flesh at IC on four consecutive Tuesdays, sisted of three guitarists, a bassist and a once, giving a short voicing of his opin- starting on January 30th. His General Studies lunchtime lectures, as anyone drummer. Their set tended to lack suffi- who has been to them in the past can tell you, are packed with punch—in ions on war, otherwise there tended to cient substance, though they did produce fact, you'll probably think you didn't know money existed until you hear be longish gaps in between numbers Derek tell you how to make it work for you. a few good tunes, notably their last while he told rather humorous anecdotes. number which stood out from their more FELIX next week will be carrying full details: in the meantime, Derek Dave Lambert continued with the com- welcomes questions arising from his series of articles that have appeared usual melodic sound. edian role, when it came to his solo in FELIX so far this year, which may be answered either at the meetings or in an article. Write to him c/o FELIX, or telephone Int 2881. spot. Rather unexpectedly, he played G. J. K.