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committees at present analysing presented to support this recom­ Next Monday (Jan. the financial situation but it feels mendation. that the EAUT and other trade The paper then goes on to make 18th) Mark Ken­ unions should be represented on possible sugge stions for them. The SA also feels that one increasing the University inco~e nedy, on behalf of representative on the Resources in its third section. While the fall in Committee and one of the Finance the total fee income due to the the EUSA, will pre­ Sub-Committee is not adequate reduction in home student representation for students. It will numbers can be estimated the sent a paper to therefore be suggested that as a extent of the fall in fee income temporary measure Trade Unions from overseas students is more Senate as a result and the SA be allowed representa­ difficult to discern. The SA tion on all these committees. The believes that income from of the Principal's Senior President will also be overseas fees can actually be urging the University to re?o~nise increased if a scheme to attract invitation for ideas the Joint Union LIaIson more OS is adopted. The SA Committee which represents suggests eg that faculties and on dealing with the carr ous unions, the EAUT and the departments be offered incentives SA and was formed in response to to recruit OS. They also suggest financial cuts faced cuts. that Americsn students be seen as T>e secrecy involved in the a more obvious market. They by the University. present financial investiga~ions by would find non•graduating one the University is something the year or one term courses abroad The SA makes it SA along with other unions, finds attractive especially as their fees in " most worrying". This leads to un­ the USA are on a parr with clear in this paper necessary suspicion and resent­ Edinburgh University's OS fee. ment and the possibility of con­ Increased income could also that while making frontation with the University is result from the selling of assets increased. The SA points out that and the investing of the money suggestions it does it does not blame the University for made to accrue additional the present situation and wants to recurrent income according to this suppons tne suggestion that travel and research. not see the cuts as co-operate as fully as possible to paper. Investigations are already extending the Christmas Vacation At the end of the report the ensure that cuts be made where being made into this. The SA by three weeks could result in a priorities of the SA on the inevitable and a they will cause least damage. suggest that the AUT claim that substantial saving . Further University's financial situation are Freer communication is needed the University's investment yield investigation into class grants and clearly stated - these being the change of govern­ for this, Committee minutes could be increased by £150,000 vacation grants is also recom­ preservation of jobs, the should be accessible, Senatus per annum also be further mended. accessibility of the main libraries ment of government should not be restricted to investigated as should sponsor­ The SA suggests three final and the maintaining of certain discussion only on academic and ship and advertising possibilities. possibilities for savings but as supl)ort services eg the Day policy in the future not financial matters, staff/ student The final section of the paper students are not directly affected Nursery. The report then reiterates liaison committees should be deals with possible savings. The in these matters the SA takes no that cuts should not be regarded \ could change the utilised more and students and Energy Budget is seen by the SA ·definite position on them. These as permanent and looks forward to staff should be better informed of as a main area for possible three possible areas concern the the time when affected areas can I present situation. the situation within faculties and savings. It accepts that buildings director of studies honorarium, be restored. · departments and by means of closing in the early evening could the external examiners fees an Hence the SA con­ announcements and circulars. make a substantial saving but The second section of the SA makes exceptions of those tinues to support paper deals with overall strategy. buildings needed for extra-mural The SA expresses its concern over classes and the main library. the Anti-Cuts Cam- the present neglect of a long term Rather than close the main library Help! No academic strategy due to the early it is suggested that perhaps paign. unavoidable concentration by the the heating be turned off in the Volunteers are urgently needed University on finance. The SA like early evening or one or two of the to visit pensioners in the Nevvs The paper to be presented is the EAUT opposes compulsory top floors be closed then. The SA Southside and check they are divided into four sections. In the redundancies and recommends welcomes moves by the University coping OK. Some have been first section, dealing with com­ that any job reductions be made to make organisations including unable to get out to buy food, and munication and consultation, the through natural wastage . Student Unions responsible for others have no water. is Bad SA commends the various Financial arguments are their own energy costs and also A meeting· for volunteers will be held this Friday (15 Jan.) 1-2 pm in the Community Link Office, 29 Nevvs Guthrie Street. If you cannot attend, phone How would you like to become either Bob Howarth, Community famous overnight. The one sure­ Link, 225 5629 or Effie Wilkie, fire way to make yourself a Southside Community Care ·household name is to join the fun­ Project, 226 6731 . loving anarcho-syndicalist collec­ tive that is Student newspaper. Dundee Arms Student is always looking for new contributors writers, photographers, graphic artists etc. Polish In particular we'd be delighted to hear from anyone who would like to get involved in news reporting, Death Verdict Letter either o n a regular or an occasional basis . This is espe cially important since we are A letter from the Workers of trying to expand our news Stetin smuggled from Poland to coverage both within the James Hartley (21) and John Sweden by a tourist has been filed fact that Zelazny had 193 mg of University and outside, and Blyth (22) were found guilty last in the SA Offices this week. The alcohol per 100 ml of blood in his obviously, the more people who week , by majority verdicts. of the workers call for "all parliaments, body when he died - a sober Mad are involved, the better the reduced cha rge o f ·culpable governments, nations and all person would have been in a better coverage. homicide after they had been people of good will to whom positiort to tense his neck muscles If you are interested, get in charged with the murder pt· democracy, freedom and rights of and ride. a blow, the muscles of a touch with us now. The best times Edward Zelazny of 65 Brisbane drunk person were more relaxed. Monk workers are dear" to help in the ito get hold of us is either on a Street. Livingston, West Lothian, battle they are fighting. The homicide took place during · Tuesday evening when Jhe paper last october 10th in the Dundee The letter states that the Stetin an arg ument between Zelazny and is being prepared for the printers, Arms. 127/ 131 Dundee Street. by workers are striking in protest over Hartley which Blyth had tried to or on a Friday at 1 p.m. at the punching him repeatedly and stop. John Blyth, of 37 Watson Visits the present military take over, I !editorial meeting. The latter is striking him repeatedly on the recent arrests, the outlawing of Crescent, said that he punched I preferable si nce by Friday we head, face and neck with an Sir Keith Joseph, Minister for unions anq th.e withdrawal of Zelazny several times after I usually have more idea what needs ashtray. democratic rights achieved since Zelazny struck him with a beer Education, is to visit Old College I to be done for the following week's Pr ofessor John Ma~on , tomorrow (Friday, 15th January) the struggles of August 1980. I glass. But, he said , he did not issue. professor of forensic medicine at for a meeting with the Principals of The moving appeal asks us not deliver the fatal blciw and denied 1 Don't be put off by lack of Edinburgh University, said that .any knowledge o f karate. Scottish Universities. to watch passive ly as the I experience or some idea that the Zelazny died from a severe brain The judge decided that it was EUSA has organised a rally at 7 beginnings of democracy are I paper is run by some sort of clique ! haemorrhage which could have pm in the Old College quadrangle suffocated in Poland. The Senior impossible to assess who had I (the length of our staff list been caused by a low to the nee~ so here's a chance to let Sir Keith President has already expressed delivered the fatal blow and demolishes this theory anyway). or perhapbs by the victim_falling sentenced both men to the same know how you feel about the his support for Solidarity and he So if you'd like your name on said against the edge of a table. term of five years. present government's policy on hopes that the SAC and students illustrious list, get on down to de A contributory cause wa~ the education. will do likewise. basement now . • The Student 14th January 1982 3

• SRJDENT Letters to the Editor Let's hear it for violence! The Basement, 1 Buccleuch Place. Dear Sir, 031-667 5718 Very little can shake me out of my apathy with regard to student Founded 1889 politics. However, you will be pleased to hear that you have finally succeeded. I am pondering on censorship, Another Leader about the Cuts most specifically film censorship. Now, I'm one of these people who, amongst many perversions, (and being a fourth year psychology As reported elsewhere in this issue, the University student I know all the ins and outs authorities will be wining and dining the Minister for so to speak) actually likes seeing Education, Sir Keith Joseph, on Friday. Undoubtedly, people chopped up with chainsaws, knives etc on the they have a lot to talk about - how many departments cinema screen. I am also fairly well to axe, how many staff to sack, that sort of thing. acquainted with the topic of We can be fairly sure that what they do discuss will feminism, and for that matter' many other-isms (another remain a secret from the punters, the University not inevitable result of the fourth year being well-known for its eagerness to reveal its psychology syndrome). I also decision--making processes to the staff and students have some ideas on the workings - people who the decisions affect. of the human mind. Now obviously I cannot put All the major University committees meet behind forward a whole thesis in a letter to closed doors, in the absence of any representations Student (and despite my unexcep­ would otherwise be unbearable." suicidal dose of barbiturates is a from either EUSA or from the staff, and their minutes tional academic record I think it Allow me to quote the official view scandalous mark of disrespect. To might go beyond the level of of the medical profession as stated attempt to justify his comment, by are "Highly Confidential". thinking normally required for the in the British Nationa l Formulary pretending that a barbiturate user EUSA have long been trying to persuade the scrawlings in Student) - I can 1981, p. 105 section 4.1.3. "The gives his li fe in ignorance when University to allow us to be represented, but so far only state my. final opinions. benzodiazepines have supplanted taking an overdose, is naive; and The only acceptable censorship the barbiturates for most purposes his sensationalism in blpming the without any success. is that imposed by the individual. as hypnotics, sedatives and pharmaceutical companies who Such an attitude can cause nothing but misunder­ Your TV has an off button and anxiol1/tics because the barbitur­ are careful to specify proper ~tanding and resentment, and serves only to create an channel switChes, you can take one ates are more hazardous in use. dosage and side effects of any look at a cinema poster and turn The intermediate acting drug marketed, and produce us and them' attitude. It's surely about time that the and walk away. I happen to believe barbiturates given orally may still countless beneficial drugs is utter University faced up to its responsibilities to its staff i'hat since I am over 18 and have a place in the treatment of foolishness. ~nd students, and do something about this therefore trusted with that severe intractable insomnia but I hope that you will take more ~macceptable situation. supposedly magically freedom· they should ·be avoided in the care in the future when editing Mr ensuring thing "the vote", then I elderly. Some of the long-acting Square's column if only for the should be deemed capable of barbiturates are of value in sake of accuracy and literacy. seeing such things as "Dressed to epilepsy but their use as sedatives Indeed, on such a dangerous Kill" and seeing it in its proper is unjustified." topic, I would suggest that you A Question of •Guilt perspective. So it can be seen that confine his activities to purely No sensible, rational person barbiturates are only used in factual reporting, properly would condone violence except in severe insomnia if such benzo­ referenced, rather than lacing the Lord Hai Isham, the Lord Chancellor, has added his extreme circumstances to protect diazepines as mogadon are column with immature opinion learned voice to the avalanche of criticism that has your own life or that of others ineffective. It has been said that verging on "pushing". With such close to you. the only way to kilt a mouse with an article under a back page justifiably been heaped upon Judge Bertrand However, if you cannot maintain mogadon is to crush it. An headline your newspaper is fast Richards, the Ipswich judge who last week fined the distinction between fantasy overdose only causes a longer attaining the credibility of little businessman Tony Allen £2,000 for raping a hitch­ and reality then you have a serious ~leep. more than a "Whats On". problem and should seek help. To back up his anti-barbiturate Yours sincerely, hiker and suggested that th e victim was guilty of Yours faithfully, campaign, Mr Square rightly says Ian Corry "contributory negligence" in accepting the lift. John Pate that barbiturates are addictive, (3rd Year Medicine) The question of whether a fine, however large, is an quoting the apparently miniscule appropriate penalty for such a loathsome crime is a Can I just point out yet again, for amount of 0.4 g per day as the benefit of those of you with sufficient. What he neglects to say complex issue in itself - especially in view of the defective vision, that the opinions is that a normal dose ordered by a current pressure on the judiciary to reduce the prison presented in Perspective are not doctor would be only 0.1-0.2 g 30 Staff... populati on. The issue of Judge Richards' lu dicrous necessarily those of the paper, so mi1:1utes befqre bedtirpe. As for his section proferring comment is quite straightforward. To suggest that the why don·, you take your illiterate ED ITOR scrawlings and piss oft. - Ed. advice to the "student body as a Chris Kershaw victim, or indeed any woman who wishes or is forced whole", Mr Square seems to think by circumstances to be out on her own is in any way that barbiturates are "doled out as Assistant Editors a placebo." This misuse of the Jim Levi responsible for being raped , is to become involved in a The Doc Replies word placebo is grossly Patricia Togneri conspiracy which attempts to keep women in a misleading since a placebo is an subservient sexual role. Dear Sir, ineffective agent disguised as a News Editors The call for Richards to be sacked is perhaps an I am surprised that you allowed drug designed to give a person Mary Braid such a shoddy article as that psychological comfort - a sugar David Harvey over-reaction - it would be better if the old berk could written by Mr G. s·quare to be pill would be a good example, so printed in the last issue of Student long as the recipient thought that it ._be______persuaded to do the decent thing and resign. _,. If Mr Square is a student at all. I Features Editor before Christmas. was something more active. Lindsay Macdonald Barbiturates are not placebos. would judge that he is not a The call to challenge the "com­ Arts David Stead scientist, otherwise he would p I acen cy surrounding bar­ Cinema Graham Gamble reference his dubious statistics as biturates" instead of turning Popi Graeme Wilson to source and year. If he is a att Jntion to the "oppressed Caroline Binnie THE.NEXT literary scholar, his misuse of hash ish user" is an interesting What's On Mandy Cole English and spelling of the worQ attempt at diversion - to a cause Jill Fabian hypocrisy leave me in no doubt which cannot exist since there is Sport Keith Nunn that he will have to spend more certainly no complacency in the Page 94 Colin Macilwain time at study between now and his m ed i cal profession about Kay Goodall WEEK BOX finals. • barbiturates. Contributors Zerina Haniff Mr Square, using a pseudonym I H is last paragraph about the Patrick Cunninghame presume, has chosen his title well social problem of "first world war lain McIntosh Thursday, 21st January, will witness a great since square implies a mind of •veterans" who "gave their lives in Frances Wood quaint old-fashioned thinking; oh milestone in the history of publishing. Because, full knowledge for their country" is Sandy Murray the subject of barbiturates, h(s most confusing since surely the George Square dear readers, that is when 'Student' will unveil reporting Is certainlY well out of veterans were survivors and not Graphics Toby Porter .LIFESTYLES, the funkiest page in the known date. amongst those who gave their Kay universe. Food, drink, clothes, haircuts, sex, drugs Please inform Mr Square that aS lives. Photos Gavin Fulton far as barbiturates are concerned, Assuming that Mr Square is Gordon Boyd (yes, the return of George Square), style and, above doctors do know what is safe and referring to deceased soldiers, to John Foldes all, FUN - that's what Lifestyles is about. So order they do not prescribe them "to imply then that their sacrifice was Neil Dalgleish support the social system lly your copy now! less noble than that of a person Advertising Neville Moir ,making tolerable ways of living tH3t who decides to end it all by a 4 The Student 14th January 1982 .. II""'

Sign Here Th~

We, the undersigned , call upon the Principal and Court to make clear their position -~ Column on the current proposed cuts in University funding and actively oppose any implementation Britain's No. 1 Goss ip which wili lead to a reduction in the number or standard of graduates . Column- with over 5,000 readers! In particular, we call for the following measures Old Hack's I. For the University Court to make a statement to the press and to the Government describing the cuts as damaging to the standards of higher education in thi s Almanac country and foolish and short-sighted in the extreme . This is the time of year when all 2 . For Court and Senate to rule out the measure of compulsory redundancies . The the best political correspondents make their predictions about what alternatives would be to spread the cuts over a longer period through measures is to happen in the near future on such as realisation of assets or use of overdraft facilities . the pinnacles of power. How appropriate, then, for us to bring 3. For the Principal to keep the staff and students of this University fully you, not a mere prediction, but a informed of the extent of the cuts and the proposals being made to implement genuine revelation, uncovered by them, through a series of regu lar open meetings at which all staff and students our Moscow correspondent after can attend . diligent searching through Kremlin files released to the 4. For the University to recognise the Joint Un ion Liaison Committee as the proper public under the new Soviet for~m for discussion and consultation on the cuts and to work in close contact Freedom of Information Act. She has discovered that the CPSU with the representatives on the JULC to ensure a fair distribution of the savings . Central Committee this week decided that on the first day of April this year, Pravda will lead with the following story: This is the petition currently Adam House to incr~ase this " Following the consistent being circulated by EUSA. SAC number - a praiseworthy action support shown for the Polish members are going to a lot of when one considers the extreme Solidarity trade union by trouble to get signatures for this cold weather. This is because the Mark Meets Edinburgh University Students' petition so if you get the chance to University refused to allow a table Association, the President of the sign one please do so. to be set up within the building so Soviet Union today announced The number of Signatures that students collecting their On Tuesday 15th that he had instructed his 'puppet obtained has now reached 2,100 grants could sign the petition The regime' in Poland to re-establish and SAC members are currently petition can also be signed at the December I a s t MPs free t rade unions. organise taking turns to stand outside SA Offices in the Student Centre. democratic elections, and disband term Mark Kennedy itself forthwith. The President admitted that this decision had Mr Kennedy reports that "overall (Senior Presi dent) been forced upon him by EUSA the MPs were helpful but non­ sanctions, which had dangerously committal". On the first issue they Grants: travel led down to harmed the Soviet military sympathised with the student strength. " London to meet position but believed that a small grant increase was a necessary MPs Michael An­ measure to reduce public Your News Comes Bad News expenditure. On the second issue concerning education cuts in First Most students will know by this The figures in column H cram, Keith Hamp­ time ·that grants for the 1982-83 Scottish · Universities they we re represent a substantial increase in slightly more positive saying that Radio Froth, our very own local academic year are being the level of parental contributions. ton and Si r William radio station, has a news sense increased by only 4% from their they are attempting to get the The figures in column G show a Government to implement the cuts which could at best be described 81-82 levels, despite a current level substantial reduction in the award von Spraybenzee. over five years instead of three. as quaint. At 2 p.m. on Tuesday, of inflation of around 12% (and -.eceived by students. not only in 5th of January, its news bulletin rising) . However. for those of you His trip was made However, they were of much the real terms but in actual cash terms. same opinion as Mr Kennedy on began with the following shock who depend also on a parental Senior President Mark Kennedy the third issue. All seemed to see announcement: "Today, snow­ contribution (most of you) there is urges all students to write to their in order to discuss the small "saving" in rleation to balls were thrown at two Scottish more bade news: the government MPs about this situation. To show health charges for overseas Office Ministers. . ." A stunned have announced that parental -t his article to their parents and get the recently an­ students as unnecessary and world breathed a sigh of relief contributions will stay the same. In them to write to their MP. potentially damaging. when it was revealed later in the other words. they have said that showing how their contributions nounced 4% grant' Mr Kennedy also gained some bulletin that the snowballs missed. the base line from which parental are affected by the latest valuable general information in his contributions begin to be paid. announcement on g rants. "The increase for next conversation w ith the MPs. It currently £6.600. will not be grants system is in serious danger Archangel seems t h at MPs a r e l ess adjusted upwards in line with of collapse." says Mark Kennedy. year, the effect of sympathetic to a cause if it is badly inflation. This means, assuming a Th is danger stems from four main McBroom (101) presen t ed to t hem. T h is is wage ri se in line with inflation, that sources: the above ave rage the education cuts especially re levant to the recent The new year is as yet fresh and parental contributions. many of increases in accommodation request that students write to MPs inriocent, but the bitching at the which are not paid, or not paid in charges. travel and books and on Scottish Uni­ about the 4% grant increase. Badly Students' Association is well full. will also rise. and this could stationery cost. lack of vacation written letters and signed copies under way. We report the mean that in many cases the employment. low percentage versities and the of one original script don't go following story only in the hope of absolute value of the grant increases (in grants). increased down well. Students who haven't halting its further circulation. It received by the student from the 'parental contributions. which health charges for yet written to their MP should take concerns Mark Kennedy, Mark government excluding the many parents will be unable to this into consideration when doing Reeves and Mike McBroom facing parental contribution may actually ..afford. overseas students. fall' so. judgement after an untimely This can be shown by a table: demise. At the gates of Hell they are met by Satan, who is leading three women : Allison and 1981-82 1982-83 Michelle, who are the most repulsive hags: and Wee Mary, a girl of radiant beauty. " Kennedy A B C D E F G H and Reeves," announces Satan, Residual Parental Award received Residual Income Parental Award received Difference in Increase in Income Contribution by Student on Assumption Contribution by Student Award received Pa rental "you have led wicked and corrupt of 10% increase i.e. between Contribution i.e. lives and as your punishment you in Column A Cols C&F between Cols B&E will go with Allison and Michelle 6600 20 1535-20 7260 114 1595- 114 1515- 1481 114-20 and must make love to them unto =1515 =1481 = -34 = +94 Eternity." Mc Broom, with a glow of 750U 148 1387 8250 1340 -47 +108 anticipation that his blameless 8500 287 1248 9350 394 1203 - 45 +107 existence is now to bring its 10000 475 1060 11000 600 995 -65 +125 reward, moves closer to the 12000 725 810 13200 875 720 -90 +150 enticing Mary and just as a 13500 898 637 14850 1002 -44 +104 593 satisfied smile is about to come to 16000 1090 445 17600 1185 410 -35 + 95 (1212)" (383)" his lips, Satan turns to them and makes his judgement: "Wee Mary, you have led a wicked and corrupt life, and as your punishment you ·NOTE: The figures in brackets are computed on the basis of scale. However, this student would receive the will go with Mike and make love to minimum award and this is the basis of the figures in columns E. F. G. H. him unto Eternity." - The Hack .... The Student 14th January 1982 5

Ma_rk Clashes WithSWSO at Court •••• and at Forum students. Only about 80 people attended At the end of last The conflict between SWSO's the Open Forum meeting at the term SWSO's pol­ emphatic no cuts/direct action end of last term to discuss policy and the SRC's policy of Universi ty cuts. The Se nior icy of " direct opposing cuts but at the same time President of the SA, the Secretary monitoring their implementation to the University Mr Currie, the action" clashed once they have been decided upon, Principal Dr Burnett and the with what the SA is no secret. What SWSO seem to Rector acting as chairperson were be blatantly disregarding is the fact there to answer questions on the would consider to that they are not a democratically cuts facing the Universi ty and how elected boay representing Edin­ and where they are to be be in the best burgh students - the EUSA hos implemented. that role. They, therefore, have no The meeting itself uncovered interests of Edin­ fundamental right to the use of SA little o r nothing about the burgh students and leafl ets and equipment to publicise implementation of cuts but was their activities. interesting in the way it exposed much criticism of Their d isregard for the fact that the attitudes of certain people they are not representatives of attending. their recent activi­ students at Edinburgh reaches a Mark Kennedy was still smarting ties resulted. ludicrous level when one learns of from his encounter with SWSO at their demand, maQe at the picket of the Court meeting that morning Last term the SA distributed Court, that they shou ld be allowed and his anger was visible in his leaflets concerning University to send a delegation to Court. attack on Julian Gunn-Cunning­ cuts, SWSO, it would appear, then There are already three elected hame, a member of this organisa­ took it upon themselves to adapt student· representatives on Court. tion. The attack was launched 500 of these leaflets - by meant of Their picket of 25, comprising after Mr Gunn-Cunnrnghame felt-tip pen - to advertise a SWSO­ mainly of non-students, also asked a question in which he backed picket of Court. They then refused to let the Senior President labelled himself " Mr Average proceeded to furtherenragethe SA enter Old College and forced all Student". It seems that wasn't the by "borrowing" the SA tannoy to members of Court to enter by some label Mr Kennedy would have used announce their picket. A picket, in other entrance. to describe Mr Gunn-Cunning­ fact, of a Court meeting where Mark Kennedy was, understand­ hame and the question of who Senior President Mark Kennedy ably, disgusted by SWSO'sactions actually represented student was due to put forward sugges­ and his anger spilled over at the opinion again came up. tions from the SA as to where cuts Open Forum meeting on cuts that It seems that hidden conflicts at Edinburgh University could be same evening {see report below). not only exist within the stupent made with least damage to body. The forum meeting also saw the Principal clearly lose his temper with Prof. Vandome who ventured to ask a question about re leasing information from the Resources Committee. Tempers, Get it seems, were fraying everywhere. Committeed BNFL The various SAC committees one way of reducing the feeling SRC Committees i11clude those dealing with that the "average" student doesn't are open to all environment, welfare, external really have any say in what' the NeinDanke affairs, national affai rs, academic SRC rs doing. Being a member of a students . SRC affairs, transition, community committee means direct involve­ fuel reprocessing and the produc­ affairs, and those formed to deal ment and has beqring on what is British Nuclear tion of weapon-grade plutonium. members are not. with matters specifically related to prescribed to the SRC and how. It The original purpose of Britain's th e large faculties. So if you are gives you a say in what goes on. Fuels Ltd. will be Mary Braid de­ first nuclear reactors was to interested in any of these specific Here are some details of the next making a recruit­ produce fissile material for our areas, why not attend the next meetings: scribes their work. nuclear arsenal and this side still meeting of th e app ropriate External Affairs Committee ment visit to the occupies a large place in BNFL's Much of the business with which committee. The co-option process Wednesday, 13th Jan, 1 pm . activities. the SRC concerns itself cannot be is quite painless - in fact it's really Enviro nment Committee University on Fri- The second point, on uranium adequately dealt with at full SRC on a question of showing interest Wednesday, 13th Jan, 3 pm. day. SANE have importation, involves Rio Tinto meetings. Many matters are and then expressing the desire to Accommodation Committee - Zinc (RTZ), the world's single therefore delegated to the various be a member of the committee. Friday, 15th Jan, 1 pm. organised a picket bigges't uranium mining concern. committees which have been And if co-option sounds like too All meetings take place at the SA Fifty per cent of BNFL's uranium is formed to deal with the quantity of much commitment students can Offices, Student Centre and to " welcome " supplied by RTZ's mine at material prescribed to the SRC. attend merely for interest's sake. further details can be obtained them. Rossing, Namibia, a country The committee structure attempts Membership of a committee is from SA Offices or Midweek. to divide the business up into which is under military occupation BNFL are making their recruit­ by South Africa. In 1974, the various categories with as little ment visit to Ed inburgh earlier In overlap as possible. When a matter. United Nations passed a declara­ the year than to other universities tion which effectively made the comes to the SRC's attention, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of importation of Namibian uranium eitlier intentionally or accident­ trouble with anti-nuclear demon­ ally, a committee interested in that illegal - BNFL's continued use of A.C. SPORTSWEAR strators which they encountered RTZ as a supplier is in direct specific area will try to deal with last year. the matter or investigate it before it violation of this directive, and has JANUARY SALE SA NE (Students Aga i nst nec ~ ssitated, SANE c l aim, is brought, for consultation if Nu c lear En ergy) pl an to necessary, before our SRC 25% OFF SEVERAL FOOTWEAR RANGES, e.g. smuggling uranium supplies by ADIDAS MAMBA TRAININ G SHOES R.R.P 13.99 NOW 10.50 disappoint them by organising a meeting. This saves time being furniture van and such like ADIDAS ROM R.R.P. 15.75 NOW 11.99 similar protest at KB on Friday. wasted . activities. MITRE MUNICH R.R.P. 13.95 NOW 8.99 SANE's objections to the visit Those interested in taking part What many students at ADIDAS SMASH SQUASH SHOES R.R.P. 13.75 NOW 9.95 stem mainly from two sources - Edinburgh don't realise is that NIKE BLAZER CANVAS R.R.P. 14.50 NOW 10.50 in Friday's demo should meet at BNFL's role as an armaments KB Union on Friday (15th) at 12 these committees are not only for supplier, and its illegal importa­ .LARGE REDUCTIONS ON SELECTED TRACKSUITS noon. SRC mempers. Any student can LE COO SPORTIF 'GRAND PR IX' R.R.P. 18.99 NOW 9.99 tion of Namibian uranium - as attend committee meetings and ADIDAS 'SUPER STAR' R.R.P. 42.99 NOW 24.99 well as the basic objections to the can even be co-opted on to a ADIDAS 'SATURDAY' R.R.P. 28.99 NOW 18.99 ··civilian" nuclear programme, committee in order to have full MANY OTHER BARGAINS ON END OF RANGE SALES waste disposal etc. · voting rights. SRC members Plus our normal 10-15% discount on all our stock. In their annual report, BNFL welcome any student who wants You will find us m,dway between " KB " and .. GEORGE SQUARE" at state their aims as: Film to or is involved in a committee. 55 Ratcliffe Terrace, Newington, Edinburgh To produce uranium; The Welfa re Committee fo r Telephone 031 -668 2532 To process it to reactor fuel ; "Revolution or Death", a film e,cample already has a very active Open Mon-Thur 10.00-1.00 and 2.00-5.00; Frl & Sat 10.00-5.30 To dispose of spent fuel. about El Salvador is being shown non-SAC membership member­ This, SANE point out, totally on Tuesday 19th January at 1 pm. sh ip. "overlooks" BNFL's· acti vities in Admission is free. 6 The Student 1_4111__:1.~nuary 1982 Meet the staff at the Bank of Scotland University Branc

Bill Hadden, top left, is the man in The Staff at your University Branch ar charge. Stan Godman on the right is the there to help you. Accountant, with David, Frances, Mary and Hours of Business: Helen completing the team. . Mon, Tues, Wed 9.30-12.30 and 1.30-3.30. They are trained to deal with a_\l Thurs 9.30-12.30, 1.30-3.30, 4.30-6.00. financial problems facing students during Friday 9.30-3.30. their time at University. Don't liesitate to call University Branch, Student Centre, for advice or guidance on any money matter. Bristo Street. Telephone: 667 2246 or 0753.

0~ BAIK or SCOTLAND The Student 14th January 1982 7

Fuelling the Smash British Nuclear Fuels may recruit Holocaust SWSO! some of you. Tony Education Cuts: it's how unions operate. You have Nee exposes the no chance of changing their Compromise or minds. But suppose, against all odds, iron fist beneath Confrontation? An that the Principal and his mandarins were "forced" by your their kid gloves. open letter to campaign to adopt the SWSO line of "no cuts".Do you think that this SWSO by Julian government would sit idly by while · British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) Goodare. the university went into debt? Do will be visiting this University on you really believe that Sir Keith Friday 15th January in an attempt At the end of last term, you would wait until we were facing to recruit graduates into their icketed the University Court and bakruptcy - and then rush in, organisation. We can only hope roduced a leaflet which posed waving a cheque book, to bail us they fail - for in spite of the his question. It's worth looking at out? No way! At the first sign of silence in their glossy brochures arefully, because although all "overspending" the Principal .over their military connections, political students are opposed to would be sacked and special BNFL is fuelling the arms race. he cuts (except the extreme right) commissioners would be put in. They are not just a fuel business e have to decide on the best .They would make all the cuts solely devoted to assisting in the pproach. ruthlessly. without regard to th production of nuclear electricity, interests of students and staff. as they would like us to believe. SWSO's line This is the reality behind the "n A Government spokesman said I have to give you credit for your cuts" rhetoric. when BNFL were set up in 1971 unity of purpose, which gives you that " many of the operations of the influence beyond your numbers. The realistic approach fuel company are likely to be very You have a "party line" which says In practical terms, of course, sensitive from the point of view of of civil nuclear technology without subject to positive character that the university authorities adopting the SWSO line would national security mainly an equivalent spread of nuclear vetting. should refuse to implement the just result in a few dozen because of their role as suppliers weapons) . This will complete We object to BNFL's civil cuts, and should go into debt to students causing trouble. They of fissile material for military Brazil's nuclear fuel cycle and operations and to thei r military maintain their expenditure at the would be completely ignored by purposes." enable it to produce the so-called activities. The two cannot be same level in real terms. The the university authorities who All of BNFL's plants are dual "peaceful" nuclear weapon, which separated. They are li ke Siamese government would then be forced would have an excuse to purpose, serving both the civi l and it has openly demanded. twins - neither viable without the to meet these debts, rather than implement the cuts behind military nuclear programmes. BNFL buys over half of Britain's other. We object to them on many see the whole university go closed doors. To avoid this When the company was formed in uranium - the raw material for grounds - the economic costs of bankrupt. You call for a massive situation this is what we should 1971 eve ry plant 't hey inherited nuclear weapons and reactors - nuclear power; the costs to civil campagin of militant direct action do: from the United Kingdom Atomic from the Namibian Rossing mine. liberties; the health hazards and to·torce the university to adopt this (1) We should unite with the Energy Authority - Windscale, Namibia is, according to United the threat they pose to world policy. unions who are pressing for a Ca l der Ha ll, Chape lcross Nations resolutions, illegally peace, and we mean to tell them voice in the decision-making Springiields and Capenhurst - occupied by South Africa, which this. We will be welcoming them in Would it work? process. They want a say in how was built for military purposes (ie maintains a massive military an appropriate manner at KB To put this progr::t.mme into the cuts are made to try and save to produce fissile material for presence and enforces apartheid. Union at 12 noon. Come along and practice. you would need mass as many jobs as possible. nuclear weapons). South Africa has now developed let them know what you think of support for direct action among (2) We should encourage lhe BNFL still operates some of Hs own nuclear arsenal which it their operations. students. The 40 militants on your university to seek other sources of Britain's key nuclear weapons could use agai nst the front line If you're interested in fi nding_ out picket would have to be multiplied finance by selling assets and plants. At Windscale (Sellafield), states. The Namibian uranium is more about Students Against 20 or 30 times at least. However, attracting industry. the reprocessi ng of nuclear n o t c o ve r e d b y t h e N o n ­ Nuclear Energy and our activities most students aren't even going to (3) We should not rule out non­ warheads takes place . At Pro life ra tio n Tr e a ty an d come al ong to one of our start worrying about the cuts until violent direct action. But it should Chapelcross, tritium - an Inte rnatio nal Atomic En ergy meeting s. Th ey' r e eve r y it's too late. We're all trying to be used on ly when negotiations essential H-bomb component - is Authority safeguards, so there are Wednesday at 2 pm in the overcome Edinburgh's proverbial have failed or to support industrial produced and separated. no restrictions on its use. It is Chaplaincy Centre. For more apathy, but it's uphill work. action by staff. Together with the other partners probably enriched for use in detailed information on BNFL we You would also need the (4) We should intensify the in URENCO, BNFL is contributing nuclear weapons. have a briefing sheet available upport of the campus trade pressure on the government - directly to the spread of nuclear The rights of workers and trade (10p) and on SANE's campaigns unions, not one of which has a indeed, on all political parties -to proliferation by providing Brazil (a unions are severely restricted in ·we have an "Activists Pack" (20p). olicy like SWSO's. Have you remind them that there are several military state and a non-signatory BNFL's plants. They have no right Both are available from the atked to the unions? Do you million votes in higher education. to the nuclear Non-Proliferation to strike; no right of appeal against Smiling Sun shop in West realise that most of their members Responsibility for the cuts lies with Treaty - NPT) with enriched unfair dismissal; little access to Nicolson St. Come along and join re less militant than the students? the government: it's the uranium. (The NPT attempts i n t.o rmat ion ab o u t working us at KB Union Friday 15th he unions are committed to government we have to fight, not unsuccessfully to allow thespread conditions; and em ployees are January 12 noon. ompromise and negotiation - the university. Anarchy, Chaos, Industrial Society! J. Conacher tells to see. Through the society, you tickets to the show were £1.50. but exception. On view for the first Leaving a trail of destruction ca n rub shoulders with the people VIPs like us didn't have to pay time, high ona pedestal, it still held and panic throughout the entire you about the fun who are already in the kind of anything for admittance. some of its unique mystery exhibition, we viewed trucks, position which many of us wi ll be Firstly we were shown the because we only saw its outer trailers, buses, vans. Opels, he and his chums hankeri ng after when we leave brainchild of the Ford Motor form; entry or even a look into the Porsches, Me r cedes. Vol ks­ Group, the PROBE 111 : not a car was impossible. We were told . waQens, and they do still make university, but not in the boring, Leyland cars. I saw them. in the Industrial oddly enough, how some guy had uncomfortable " in formal get­ purchasable model, but whose To whom do we owe the thanks Society had with together" type of thing which on our side? The man of the becomes incredibly tedious when moment was the society's Ford. you're stuck in a fuggy room chairman. David Gibson. How he desperately trying to think up even ~ It matters not if you don't 0 manages to come up with society slightly intelligent sounding 0 outings that aren't just "politely happen to be studying a commer­ questions to put to an equally cially biased subject to do yourself enjoyable" I'll perhaps never struggling "well-known person­ know. If you want to know what a favour for the future and join the ality" from some firm or other. incred ible Industrial Society, one establishments we will be of the Unive rsi ty's most benefici al One su·ch eX.c ursion, however, attacking next, here are a few of societies. Benefi cial because it was ra ther out of the ordinary the fortt,coming excursions: the gives students the opportunity when Ford Motor Group very Scotsman office. Tennent really to get inside the part of kindly indeed in vi ted us to be their Caledonian Brewery and Haig industry, marketing and managing guests at the celebrated Scotti sh Distillery (could be interesting '). that the ordinary public rarely gets Motor Show at the Kelvin Hal l in the Golden Wonder (crisps) Glasgow on Wednesday, 18th factory and the Timex factory at PERSPE TIVE is a page November. It didn't take long for Dundee. If you don't want to fade ·the 25 places to be filled after the away into the grey atmosphere of open to articles on any notice went up in the Wi lliam the library on Wednesday ubject written by Robertson Building, and we can afternoons you might like to know anybody. Such pieces are only apologise to anyone who got concept has attracted a great deal peeled off a piece of fitted that our notices are put up in the stripping and wa~almost out of the outwith editorial control there too late to sign up because it of healthy interest from rival car WRB. You don't even have to be a was a great afternoon. All we had manufacturers. Research began at door before he was apprehended: member to be spirited away in our and do not reflect to hand over was fifty pence and the twin Ford design centres in the ev.idence hidden under his charabanc to these exotic places ditorial policy. Your the amazing - amazing it's still Merkerich and Dunton, and Ford coat. but it saves you money if you do - ritings should be 400- gping - Industrial Society Special revealed to us that the majority of The outstanding feature of the, so rush to get in touch with David " Charabanc came to take us away the goings-on there are kept PROBE Ill is its advanced body Gibson. EG11 Cowan House. 00 words long and be to alien land of sleek, shining, secret from the public eye. This design: the upper and under body Pollock. or even on 667 1971 ext ubmitted to the Ed itor. brand new automobiles. The new model, however, was the is completely aerodynamic. 73 and ou won't e · 8 The Student 14th January 1982

Transcendental Meditation 12 am and 1 pm in Seminar Room Films The French Lieutenant's Woman 2, Medical Faculty. 8 pm in Room · 26 Pollock Halls. (AA) Programme 2.30, 5.0, 7.40 Yoga and Relaxation Chalai Meryl Streep and the-actor-with­ Centre: Seminar Room 2 at 1 this-year's-best-pa rts (if you EU Women's Group follow) Jeremy Irons act out the Meets 1 pm in 13.07 DHT. love story of John Fowles' modern SANE classic Victorian novel. Praised by many, disappointing to others. Experimental Arts Soc Meeting at 5a Gloucester Place at 8 pm. Anyone with schemes, ideas Calton Studios and projects seeking advice is oarticularly welcome. Sat 16th Jan Scottish Anti-Nuclear Stud New York New York (A) Co-ordinating Conference Mon-Sat progs 7 pm 16th and 17th Jan. Starts 10.30 Released in cut form some years Fri 15th Jan on 16th. earlier here is Martin ('Taxi Driver) UNECO (EU Ecology Party). Scorsese's tribute to the big-band Lunch in Pleasance Bar between 1 musicals of bygone years in its and 2 om. entireity. Liza Minnelli and Robert Chambers Street De Niro star. Disco with live band. 60p.

Fame (AA) Frl/ Sat 11 pm Labour Club Exuberant, l ikeable musical Meets 1 pm DHT Faculty Room. Sun 17th Jan following fortunes of young The Destructive Nature of Fear hopefuls at New York school of Rev. Canon Gonvi lle ffren music and dance. Surprisingly · Economics Society Beytagh, guest preacher at directed by a Brit (Alan Parker). Pu b lunch 1 pm in Southsider. Ki rk of the Greyfriars at 11 am

Dominion 1-2-3 The Playhouse Filmhouse

Churchhlll The Warriors (X) 7.15 1. Paternity (AA) Friday the 1_3th Part II (X) 9.05 4.46, 8.32 Also late night at 11.00 Thurs, Fri , Lothian Road Bizarre 'comedy ' with Burt Sat. N o performances o n The Old Country Where Rlmbaud Reynolds unable to get desired Wednesday. Died (A) 6.0, 8.30 Hopetoun Bar child by any other means than Violent double bill. American gang French Canadian drama. 18 Morrison Street 3 sleeping with fertile Beverly warfare (Warriors) and manic axe, Wed 8.30 pm. Louisiana Ragtime D'Angelo. dagger and cleaver murders - the resident band. continue (Friday the 13th). Foul Play (A) 2.35, 6.21 EU Film Society Goldie Hawn's dumb blonde Forthcoming Events Garrick Ba~ brand of comedy enlivens th is 7 Splttal Street detective thriller. Caley Wed 8.30 pm : Swing '82 . Thurs 8.30 pm: Charlie McNair. 2. The Four Seasons (AA) Programme 2.20 , 4.54, 7.28 Tarzan the Apeman (AA) Fri 15th Jan Alan Alda directs and stars in this 4.10, 8.15 George Sq Theatre delicately observed classic of the Evidently a less than well-evolved 6.45 pm, The Blockhouse Queen's Hall Bar seasonally fluctuating friendship anthropoid this Tarzan can hardly (Peter Sellers) Fri 10 pm: Tommy Smith Quintet; of three middle-aged couples. manage the odd grunt of 8.20 pm, Adoption Charlie McNair Band. appreciation at the most over­ A lilm from Hungary starring Kati publicised double act in the 3. Gregory's Girl (A) Beveks. jungle. 3.0, 5.20, 8.15 Bill Forsyth's irresistibly accurate, Plus impeccable portrait of adolescent Sun 17th Jan La Grenoville Logan's Ruri (A) 2.00, 6.00 Abercrombie Place infatuation is on everyone's 'best The Playhouse Flat, pretentious sci-fi wherein Every night at 8 pm (except films of '81' list. Go and see why. Greenslde Place baby-faced Michael York has to Sunday). 6.45 pm La Cage Aux Foiles flee futuristic city for being a Mon-Trad jazz. 8.25 pm To be announced. geriatric (i .e. over 30) blot on the Tues-Modern jazz. stainless steel landscape. Wed- Trad jazz. ABC Edinburgh Thur-Trad jazz. Wed 20th Jan Fri- Modern jazz. Film Centre Satu rd ay-all night: £4.00 The Groove Tube (X) George Sq Theatre Sat-New Orleans jazz. The Onion Field (X) 6.45 pm Equus 1. Arthur (AA) 2.25, 5.0, 7.50 The Choirboys (X) 9.1 0 pm Sweet WIiiiam (Jenny See my review. The Wanderers (X) Aguiler). Graham Gamble 2. Superman II (A) 3.35, 8.35 pi us Superman I (A) 12.50, 6.0 Christopher Reeve plays the clean Music living do-gooder in the two films which chart first his arrival on Earth and early heroics and Queen's Hall National Gallery second his battle with three other .3rd-31st January less neighbourly Kryptonites. Turner and George Both stylish, witty, exciting and Mon 18th Jan, al 7.45 pm Edinburgh - Turner waterco thoroughly well executed. " Songmakers Almanac" lrom the Vaughan Bequest. " If Fiordiligi and Dorabella had 3. Riders of the Lost Ark' (A) been Lieder Si ngers". Programme 1.05, 4.10, 7.25 D i rector Steven Spiel berg's homage to the cinema adventure serials of the '30s is as fast-moving Usher Hall and relentlessly exciting as it claims but a little short on much Fri 15th Jan, at 7.30 pm else besides. SNO Mozart German Dances, Piano Fruit Market Gallery Odeon Concerto No. 14 in E Flat. 16th Jan- 24th Feb Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B Vladimir Mayakovsky Flat. Stripes (AA) 8.35 (Programme 7.45) Unsubtle American comedy of McEwan Hall inept green Gls leading The Shore Gallery improbably successful mission 8th-27th Jan behind Iron Curtain. Tasteless Fri 15th Jan, at 1.10 pm Edinburgh Architects - Pain to icalit perhaps? Organ Recital by Francis Jackson. and Sculptures . The Student 14th January 1982 9

Tues 19th Jan SANE EUFSS Stall from 12 noon-2 pm in DHT. Folksong Society Workshop at the ts Crown, Drummond Street. 8 pm. HotSpot Cabarat A meeting at This week : Saunas Bedlam Theatre, Forrest Rd ., Fine Art Society 7 pm to discuss this term's Life Drawing. 6.30 pm-8.30 pm in Warm-up those winter chillblains by indulging a ramme. Anyone interested in Fine Art Dept, 19 George Square. _little ... orming or with ideas for the 50p a session. mat, is welcome. Mixed Highland Sauna and Massage Student Charities·: Genera l Fingerprints, 12 Torphichen Pl. 3 Club, 44 Torphichen St. 229 5291 . Meeting in Chambers Street 229 1225. 11 am-10 pm. £2.50. 11 am-10 pm. £1.50. (also women only). bal lroom on Monday. 18th Jan at Fingertips, 209 Fountainbridge 3. on 18th Jan 7.30. All welcome. ANE 229 9888. 11 am-10 pm. £2.50 Separate sauna (£8 massage). s 1all at King's Buildings fro m 12 West End Saunas, 26 Stafford St. oon to 2 pm. SANE meets in Chaplaincy Centr 3. 225 3331. 10 am-10 pm (-5 pm SR2 at 2 pm. lnstyle Sauna, 183 Bruntsfield Sat, -2 pm Sun). £5. Place. 229 5985. 11 am-10 pm. Royal Commonwealth Pool, dent Charities Transcendental Meditation at £1 .50. Dalk~th Road. 667 7211. 10am-8 neral Meeting in Chambers pm. 4 West Newington Place. pm . £2 for 2 hours. Closed till 25 reel ballroom at 7.30 pm. All Raeburn Sauna , 43 Comely Bank Jan. !come. Place. 332 3247.10am-10pm (12- Regency Sauna, 55 Roseburn 8 pm Sunday). £2 women, £3 men. Terrace. 556 0234. 10 am-10 pm. Ski Club Lunch in Outil Room, Also solarium. £1 .50. Men only. Pleasance, 12.30 am-2 pm. ludent Charities: 24-hour nsored Dance Marathon to be H l:i)i~UT Id in Wilkie House, Guthrie HTR8 reel on Friday, 22nd/ Saturday rd Jan. Free beer and food. Chambers Street swso \\,1,)€.\. \, ~'""­ re nsor forms from ESCA, 24 The Happy Hour 8-9 pm. Upstairs in the Chaplaincy Centre, ~01,.,'l,h, ~ ..,':"\"'-"' . easance and from Union shops. Spirits 29p; Beer 39p. 4.30 pm. ~ C.. C"'-c.-c,).;,'5,.:. b:_,, \)~\...... ~ Churchhlll Theatre Kings Theatre The Greenback Quest Company Still Jack and the Beanstalk with present Quest Revue Thurs. 14th Jimmy · Logan, Terry Scott and to Sat. 16th Jan. 7.30 pm. Onstage Una Mclean. Mon-Sat 7 pm. 66 present Twelfth Night from Matinees Wed and Sat 2.15 pm. Wed. 20th Jan. 8 pm. Until Feb _13th. 1m Sport

winning pos1t1on. Powderhall Two-starred is Shandon Spots, an :mpressive winner or Thursday 465m- B'v1lle Black, U lian's Bluey, Cobh 7th and one who looks like Liberty, Eigg, Drumbeg Garnet, This Is He improving. The bitch is given the 465m- Cander Glen, Oeburca·s Salome. Spence Lass, Haig's Power, Nokh•II Champ, opportunity of a solo run on the Knockard Sam. outside which she can take 465m- Bluebell Boy, Turkey Poult, advantage of with Clear Line, Bridev,ew Prince, Bright Taylor. Derby Donal's Boy and Soaf 'off the boil' Bandit, Solo's Ou1cast. 465m Hurdles- Harmless Boy (scr) , and offering no threat. Curragh Ranger (4) , Castle Sailor (4) , A line through this form Bowmont Villa (7L Outlandish (7). Ory and suggests that Derby Bandit has a Sunny (16) chance of opening his account in 465m- Precious Opal , Blue Highway, That's a Cracker, First Born, Orumbeg the lhird. Slow away against Avenue, Dark Miller Shandon Spots on Saturday, he 24 lm- Steel Yard, Rosslee Queen, '""The picked up his feet to be third dog Banker. Cotlee King. Clashing Dusty, Nearly round the first bend, running wide Noble 465m- V1king Prince. Clear Line, Donal's but well for his first race since mid­ Boy, Soal, .. Shandon Spots, Kiowa Flash. September. He could be the better 650m- Mlss Ollvla. Clunie Rocket, Lady for this outing. Llndoris, Kylerue Silver, Wren Rocket. • .. THE BANKER Woodh1II Fly Having taken on and defeated "'SHANDON SPOTS the cream of the kennels in the Kavey Kanem sponsored sprint during the vacation, there's no reason why latlonal Library of The Banker should not continue Sat 16th Oec ;cotland to add to his winning account in Greyhound Racing:' Powderhall rn lnll 27th February the sixth event tonight. An obvious Stadium, 7.30 pm ursfreasures for Scotland" danger is Rosslee Queen but Rugby lntil 31s1 Jan. 'Banker's' early pace should carry England v. Scotland lntemational A Curious Life for a Lady" him clear into the first bend and a at Murreyfield. ;abena L Bird (1831-1904).

he Scottish National allery of Modern Art Ill 24th Jan The Reeve's Tale by Chaucer. >!hie Kollwitz - the Graphic n·,eatre 34 Wed. 20th Jan. 1 pm. 70p (includes ,orks Hamilton Place lunch). Soyikwa Theatre Company Royal Lyceum Tneatre present Egoll (City of Gold). Their own company p/resents Fri. Jan. 15th and Sat. 16th at 8 pm. Absurd Person Singular by Alan Royal Scottish Academy Ayckbourn. Mon.-Thurs. at 7.30 6th Jan-6th Feb Bedlam pm. Fri. and Sat. at 8 pm. Until 23rd ird Art Exh1b1t ion flies in from The Rooftop Theatre Company Jan. _ SA Pa inting and sculpture by present An Evening with the g~ merican. Canadian and British Drastic Party 8 pm. Until Jan. 16th. Traverse Theatre tists Tickets £1.25. Closed till 26th Jan. 10 The Stucjent 14th January 1982 STUDENT NEWS EXCLU$1VES STUDENT NEWS EXCLUSIVES STUDENT NEWS EXCLUSIVESSTUDENT NEWS EXCLUSIVES STUD Edinburgh Students , Clash with Troops

/ Our Front LineCorrespondent RUARIDH MACDONALD

"No Popery!" The pope was soon alig~t and· In a surprise Another exciting incident took the students scattered as troops place sometime before in 1680. moved in. Much to the students·· reaction to the Students who objected to the amusement they could not Catholic heir to the throne, the extinguish the Pope and' current white-out Duke of York staying at Holyrood according to a cheeky student, the Palace, decided to burn an effigy soldiers " preferred to knock his conditions, the of the Pop&, in the High Street on holiness about the head with the Christmas Day. The Lord butts of their muskets rather than University autho­ Chancellor threatened to cut let him die the respectable death of down any student who joined in, a heretic." rities have banned .and midnight arrests and raids All students were banned for a were carried out on students Halls week from within 18 .miles of the snowballing "and of Residence with leading student City of Edinburgh and the Lord · hacks being dragged . (scream­ Provost and Principal had to go to other subversive ing?) to the Canongate Tcilboofh. Hotyrood to make a personal On Christmas Day Edinburgh. apology . to His Royal Highness. activities" across wls alive .with· troops .. The1 What would students advice be Lifeguards under General Dalzij!I then to deal with the problem? the campus. The were di'awn up in the Grassmarket Firstly I think the Senate ought to In Parliament Close two act in advance and revive the Old College Quad, companies of heavily-arme_d Senate Committee set up in 1838 occupa­ guards under the Earl of Mar "to watch the preservation of order scene of patrollecfwith the city militia In tn_e during snow, with power to onroil High Street. The noise of kettle­ a special students militia. tions and riots drums and trumpets could be Secondly perhaps we should· heard throughout the city and follow the advice of the some months ago, student activists were confronted ·distinguished nineteenth century· with company after company of ,writer Christopher North whol has been closed troops with swords drawn advised his class to go to Artnur's' Columns of Cavalry paraded past. Seat and have it out amongst down. Old College yet despite this the themselves, reather than taking on Pleas for calm were made by the students sallied forth. "the roughs of Edinburgh". Roctorial Election Debate in the Old College 30/h October 1920, Principal as fears grow of a repetition of the Snowball Riots. In view of the impending cuts already biting deep into the University system the tear is that students and lecturers may give vent to their feelings by provoking snowball fights with local citizens. Older students may remember the fatefulday in 1838 when scores of happy snowballers were felled by waves of baton-wielding police after a snowball fight had escalated into a genuine riot. 'Dr coffee. The charismatic gourmet Zhivago'-like scenes of innocent Teviot bar ... (pto). undergraduates being mown down and pinned to the walls of Old College by cruel Lothian Yorkshire Solidarity J' Fred Truman, the, fayman's cossacks spring to mind. The story is told by the thinking individual, was given the Edinburgh Evening Courant of lask of assessing "the student Jan. 13th 1838: deal", as he calls it. Among other lhings, his main finding was this: "Yesterday about ten o'clock a 'Y'see, lad, y'need moor bloody considerable body of students ~rit. Less of this pansying arahnd assembled at th~ gates of Old wi ' t'bloody books and moor reel College, a great number armed woork. Take me, fr'instance. Niver with sticks - some with short re ad a book, yet I can speak for staves a foot and a hall in length mesel's as well as Cozier and them with a heavy nob at the end of lot in t'box. They're too full o' wind, evidently prepared for mischief; anyroad. I got 307 wickets and they commenced throwing snow bloody nowt from Yorkshire to balls. mark it. Where's t'pub? Anyways, The shops on the opposite side teamwork is t'essence. Take those of South Bridge -r•re closed and El guerrillas show Agrics in t'roogby team, smashin' several windows in the upper flats oop Newcastle Union, fr'i nstance. werfJ broken." · They're an example t'us all." T~is was only the beginning of the troubles. The snowballing continued all day, the Lord T WO days ago, Apathy include organised · vandalism p t d ·t·,. · ("social protest, y'know") and a Scandal therOVOS time an in Clyattendance magistrates. The all swso proposed This rampant problem came Pummel the Pigs competition. Aspiring journalist type chappies were given the key job of Courant continues: "The students CO n SC ri pt.j On Of a 11 under close scrutiny from the SAC Friendly, sensitive, jovial, active, documenting the numerous were at last driven within the gates representative on tt,e committee. pleasant Tom said: " You see? important developments of the of Old Co/logo, wh§re, however He was as_tonished, he told me,- at World wide protest!" He returned Ed j n b U r g h St U - term. A deep and thoughtful probe they collected in great force under d t t "U .t d the complacency of those who to more important activities; into the SAS having been the impression that the police had S I steadfastly refuse to turn up at· shooting in as pacifist a manner as en O a n e completed, they turned to an no jurisdiction within the gates. B r Ot h e r h 0 Od Of General Meetings. "I mean, are was possible. analysis of IRN BAU production Several charges were made on the academics and work important?" . and the continued use of stearnies phalanx of the students and Freed Om Fi g h t - he asked. "Our lives hinge on SAC Subsistence in their search for relevance and various persons were seized and ,, meetings and resolutions about "Music is the food of an army T . community-orientated informa­ convoyed to the Police Office; but 0 I 'Student' and El Salvador. Sport is marching on its stomach" - erS . nvesti- tion. Lesser known, but equally _no ellectip impression was made gate th iS Outbreak apathetic, get me?' South Africa, Trotsky, 1919. on the general body, who on the other hand, is a real Bearing this in 'mind, Egon important, probes included those into the Potterrow lavatory somotimesboa(backthepoliceto' Of Student mili- problem. Mark· Kennedy assured Ronay devoted his time t o the street. A me. " reviewing our eating establish- problem, the Meadows mugging scandal, the Tory Vilification. Soon after this the Lord Provost" (cont. on p. 94) . · ments. He found that "local tancy a Visitation Campaign, the SWSO tea party decided to call the real cossacks CO m m it tee ha S Grants delicacies abound. The wide operi from the castle. The .79th expanses of the Pollock refectory affair, the great Egg Scandal, and Regiment marched in been d j Spa tC h ed The Students' Association contrast pleasantly with the small, many others. All concerned are double quick time to the University President, Tom Splott-Goth intellectual atmosphere of the now happily back at normal work h from Westminster devoted much time to this Library Cate and its nubile, see- in Buccleuch Place.

I ~ ;tr!~~edt~ito st~ue~re~e~tu;:~~~11:. pressing problem. Grants were through tables. The confidential After an hour, the soldiers only_up by 4%, he td\d me, whilst br_oadminded Catholic Chap'. returned to the castle admist sharpening his social conscience laincy cafe offers filling, soul- So this momentous report (pub cheering of the townsfolk who Fred Price reports. on Space Invaders in Teviot. He restoring bacon rolls, whilst the Hansard £39 85), so methodically were glad to see the unpopular informedmeoflheoptions,oneof person~I , soothing Anglican drawn up, must surely bode well students discredited. ;h1ch':"'~sspo~sored 'Tramplethe Chap1a.1 ncy Centre provokes for Edinburgh's students We can . . . ones 1sco vents there would med1tat1ve thought over cheap E>nly wait and pray. . . SIVESS1UDENT NEWS EXCLUSIVES STUDEl'IT NEWS EXCLUSIVES STUDENT NEWS EXCLUSIVES STUDENT NEWS EXCLUSIVES The Student 14th January 1982 11 Turkish Delight

ougoear to deal with in this respect genuine democracy. ,S The word "Turkey" is that holy of holies next to quite another question, as is what o doubt summons " Re efer Madness" amongst the will h_appen if they do. p v1s1ons of Boxing drug c ulture, the constantly raved­ Especially after the farcical about " Midnight Express". I saw it "elections" to the Consultative Day indigestion at this myself two yea r s ago and Assembly last October, when in ime of the year, but it thoroughly enjoye d what I order to be eligible to apply to the considered to be a compelling and Security Council for a seat, the is also the name of a imaginative interpretation of the prospective candidate must not very special but much truth. However, a visit to Turkey have been a member of any and reading Billy Hayes's own political party before September maligned country. account of his five years imprison­ 1980 (when the army took control). Patrick Cunninghame ment has since shown me that This guaranteed a chamber filled " ruthless and sensationalist with ex-officers, civil servants and attempts to separate distortion of the truth" is nearer industrialists. fact from fiction .... the mark. It is certainly true that A further discouragement to torture and brutality are the norm visiting Turkey has often been our in Turkish jails, and even more so idea of the Turks themselves. Ever under General Evren's paternal­ since the Crusades, the Turk has Istanbul at half-past five in the istic gaze. But the reason why Billy been the object of ha fo ed, distrust afternoon and the cacaphonic Hayes was given life imprisonment and racial bigotry. It was he who symphony of rush hour is at full for trying to smuggle four kilos of after all destroyed the Christian pitch. Oust, ferry horns, steam, the hashish out of Turkey wasn't due glories of Byzantium and ravaged cries· of the " Hunyet" newspaper to pure Turkish malice as the film E. Europe as far as Vienna, killed boys and peanut vendors iS office suggests, but in fact as Hayes the valiant Lord Byron, mowed worker jostles bazaar stafl seller, freely admits himself in his book, A Roman macho symbol, found ar down the Anzacs at Gallipoli. beat Epusus. fighting their way across Galata came as a direct consequence of the soles of helpless hippies, and Bridge to Em inonu and the bus Nixon's highhanded and hypo­ most recently, tried to assassinate A Turkish macho symbol: parr of a station, while the gigantic critical stance, demanding the the Pope. Hardly a record to series of official postcards Suleiman Mosque seems to view imposition of draconian sentences endear the Turk to his European glorifying military rule. this scene with aloof disdain, (including the death penalty) to cousin, whose moral disgust was remembering a more opulent and halt the Turkish drug traffic if yet further aroused by the leisurely past. For most people Turkey wanted to receive any decadence and venal depravity of who go there Istanbul is Turkey, more American arms. This is just the sultans, grand vizirs, eunuchs. the city where West melts into one of many divergences from janissaries and harems of the East , Europe becomes Asia, where Hayes's book, let alone the truth , declining Ottoman empire. Only sleek Russian freighters lie at made by the film , which also forgot the great Mustafa Kemal Ataturk anchor in the Golden Horn while to mention that being arrested in gained a grudging respect after porters are bent double under any country for drug smuggling is driving the Greeks into the sea at fantastic loads, heads at the same likely to be a particularly Smyrna in 1922, so establishing level as knees, carrying their cargo unpleasant sentence. the modern state of Turkey. He through the • narrow intestinal Another popular misconception then proceeded to drag her into streets of the Grand Bazaar. But about Turkey is that you are more the 20th century, the Mullahs despite the seedy magnificence of likely to get a stray terrorist bullet kicking and screaming as the fez th is great city, the warmth and straight between the etes as soon and veil were outlawed, the Roman alphabet replaced the Arabic, women were emancipated, and the state secularised, making Turkey the model for the developi~g Islamic states of the future. As a genuine revolution­ ary and national hero, his sex appeal was reputedly not inconsiderable, and many of the bright young darlings of the twenties, such as Za Za Gabor, were known to have spent long weekends at the Dolmahlache Palace. Today, there are certainly Turks who don't help their adverse reputation, such as the police not. However, there are Just as families out, no matter how poor, informers who try to snare unwary , many Turks who are ashamed of to often embarrassing lengths to young Europeans with hushed the chauvinistic behaviour of see that a stranger is made promises of hashish, and the some of their countrymen and do welcome and fed. Hospitality to attitude amongst some that all in their power to protect foreign the Turk is not just a pleasant European young ladies, and women from such attacks. social custom but an integral part occasionally gentlemen too. are In fa ct, it is typical of most Turks of his religious and national make­ fair game whether they like it or to put themselves and their up. There is no question of racial or cultural subservience as is .... sometimes the case further east, One of Turkey's many Ro'!'an wonders: the but a sharing of one individual's columnade at Ephesus worldly means with another to help him on his way. l was fortunate enough to receive this indominatable character of its as you cross the Greek border, and treatment myself when I got people, and the "infinite" variety of that at the very least Turkey makes stranded in the isolated village of N. Ireland seem like a Sunday a country where civilisation itself LI ve Kollorin1z1 01 Bechitar after a day's haphazard afternoon in Surbiton. Although it was born 6,000 years ago, to most IS hiking through the Taurus of us Turkey means ."Midnight would be unthinkable to defend I q YOUR HEAD AND Mountains ar'ld felt. suddenly very Express", poJitical violence and th e record of a military alone, surrounded by a sea of military governments: a place tp gove{nment which has im­ curious sunburnt faces. The ice avoid at all costs. prisoned, tortured or executed was broken When I agreed to take a It is this image and reputation over 40,000 political prisoners in " picture of the whole village, which seems particularly the last year, the West's tacit including' a ·kid with spiky hair and prevalent amongst the Anglo- appro~ai' seems t_o . ma~e. · it ... 1 - Et ekle i~eri g1rm l· y1n iz , green sunglas'ses who wouldn't axon nations, that has crippled NATO's-eq uivalentof Poland. The rH SHORT . BERMUDA AND H RT have looRed out of place on the Turkey's once-burgeoning and government has ended the, Kaza Road a few years ago. From II-important tourist industry, and bloodbath between Communist then on it was like a re-run of the aused considerable resentment and Grey Wolf fascists which return of the prodigal son, and I gains! the West for readily · caused two hundred deaths a E~EKKUR EDERiZ was never left alone, with constant wallowing every half-truth and month before my visit, in ,u VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COORDINATION offers of food and raki, and orsel of misinformation that its September 1980. enquiries about "lrlanda" and edia have concocted. The first Prosperity has returned with " Bobby Sandees" in broken ... ~. , peace, if at a totally u_nacceptabl.e~ English and Turkish throughout , cost, -and Turks ,seem satisfied the night. So forget " Midnight Holiday snaps by with tt,eir government at the .. Express", the Grey Wolves, moment, and Turkey is probably ' General Evren and the vicious Patrick the safest country to visit in the Turk, and experience a people and Middle East. Whether or not the A sign outside a Turkish mosque lapses into Anglo~Turkish on the a counti-; whose charm and Cunninghame generals will allow a return to · last line. - generosity you will never forget. 12 The Student 14th January 1982

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EXHIBITIONS rsTAGE II

Workshop Marches On . .. Coming up at the Theatre Exposure! Workshop this weekend is an No Polish interesting looking work entitled tune to herself. Ronald is a banker, Egoli (City of Gold) which is based chalk coloured inks and w8shes, on the plight of black South i Turner Water- ha l f-lights and highlights, Absurd Person Marion a snob. Geoffrey is an architect, Eva a repressed loved African workers in general and on f colours: The scraping with his ··eagle-claw of a the mine migrants in particular. thumb nail". Singular one driven to attempted suicide. Her character goes nowhere in Tickets remain under the £2 mark Vaughan Bequest The 37 watercolours and one and are obtainable at £1 .80 or £1. drawing are taken from all stages Royal Lyceum particular. There are three acts, each one being set in one of the The production starts at 8.00 on of Turner's career and. arranged in By David Stead January 15th and 16th. nine sections. trace his develop­ couple's kitchens on consecutive National Gallery ment as a watercolourist from the Christmas eves. Act one is tedious because of its . .. and on meticulous topographical Ayckbourn is definitely an Meanwhile Workshop inform me drawings of the ''Monro School" acquired taste. Absurd Person relentless to-ing and fro-ing; Act By Jo Wilson two is more amusing: Act three is that later this year the visiting with their blue and grey wash over Singular requires an even more companies will include Guizer, The 38 waterco1o·urs of the pencil, through his more dramatic discernible palate. Maybe I've pure farce with a touch of black comedy tossed in for flavour. Rat ional Theatre, Mo ther Hen, Vaughan Bequest are the biggest watercolours during his Travels in been eating too many chips. British Events. Storm Warnings annual attraction in the Prints and Britain, including two which were This playwright is very clever - Leslie Lawton makes one of his regular dashes onto the Lyceum and a number of dance Drawings section of the National painted to . be ,engraved for the with words, situations and companies. 34 Hamilton Place Gallery. Henry Vaughan (1809-99) sertes "Picturesque Views of characters - but he needs to be stage as Sidney and although he has touches of magnetism - the remains a haven for travelling was an art collector who England and Wales", and during presented in a slick, polished way. artists. possessed paintings of Raphael, his Travels on the Continent Th e Lyceum production is Qrin, the eye movement - his lack Michaelangelo. Constable featuring exquisite pastel I energetic but somehow tacks the of voice range and uncontrolled (including the Haywain), as well as drawings on blue paper evoking sprightliness demanded. movement prevent him from his very fine collection of Turner the beauty and tranquility of the Essentially, the play is the study achieving full comic status. watercolours and drawings. rivers in Europe , throug h of three couples: Sidney and Jane, Lyceum stalwarts john Hart-Dyke. Vaughan specified in his bequest intricately detailed Book Ronald and Marion and Geoffrey (Ronald)' and Martin Sadler i that the watercolours should only Illustrations for Scott's Collected and Eva. They all come from a (Geoffrey) give good. sol id · be shown in January each year, to Poetical Works", through vivid different "class" Sidney is a " little performances as do Angela Crow 1 protect them from prolonged Venetian scenes boldly portraying man" whose destiny 1n the play is (Jane) and Sheila Felvin (Eva). Set ; exposure to light which causes darkening skies and dramatic to become big. His wife is happiest design is clever but the dreaded i irreparable damage. fighting, to the point where his In the kitchen humming a merry "scenery shakes" strike again. j The exhibition is well organised compositions almost dissolve into with. an introductory text and light. as in the last picture STC captioned labels. The award­ " Heidelberg" (no. 38). The Scottish Theatre Company I winning catalogue (with each This annual exhibition features takes the stage of the Lyceum in i picture illustrated in colour) is an extra attraction this year. Four February to present two plays. available at £2.50. paintings by Turner recording the Heroes and Others by Catherine Turner establis '1 ed the basis of ··momentous event" of George IV's L ucy Czerkawaska runs from the his technique in the early 1800s visit to Edinburgh in 1882 are on 4th tot he 13th Feb. and The Man al and then modified it throughout show together with an associated the World by Charles Macklin runs his career. The paper he used was group of pencil sketches. As from 18th to 27th Feb. The first normally wet and stretched on Lindsay Errington of the National deals with the "lives of ordinary boards and, relying on sketches in Gallery of Scotland commenhted: people caught up in the current pencil, sometimes made years "Visitors can decide whether they political and social struggles in I before, he would rapidly create his prefer Turner as a landscape artist Poland" and the second "is a witty i watercolour. experimenting with or as a glorifier of monarchy in the expose of the Scottish Mafia in the size. colour and kind of paper, baroque tradition of Rubens." 18th century London".

Arts Boost I Just before Christmas it was announced that the Scottish Arts SCREEN Council are to have a 9.16% Can't buy111e love increase in their Government support grant. This means they will receive £10.2 million in 1982/ 83 as opposed to last year's Minnet11 - when Daddy says no: £9.344 million. The allocation of Arthur Arthur either marries vapid society money has not yet been finalised beauty Jill Eilenberg or loses his and a detailed budget breakdown inheritance. Poor boy! is expected by the end o f this Arthur is, at times very funny. An ABC 1 month. unlikely pairing 1 Moo re and Minnelli work hard to nurture laughs from an infertile script, and By Graham Gamble as Arthur's paternal butler, John Gibson to go Dudley Moore has come a long Gielgud's peculiarly English, The Scottish National Orchestra way from being the other half of . Jeevesian, wit is a welcome last month announced that Sir Peter Cook's fringe comic-satire addition to the New York location. Alexander Gibson wilt leave his routines. His leading role in the But I don't think it's as funny as post of Musical Director and glamorous Hollywood life-style of most of America and alcoholic Principal Conductor at the end of '10' set him well on the way to Arthur himself does. The script is the 1983/ 84 season after 25 years being as one magazine claims not only flabby ,,but sentimental with the orchestra. Over the next " Britain's latest sex-thimble" and perhaps tainted by memories two years, however, Sir Alexander Ouch! of Sebastian Flyte. I don't find will lead the orchestra on a North In a role in many respects an drunks too hilariousflnd,a playboy American tour and record the extension of the one he had in '10', who won't give it all up for a complete Sibelius symphonies. Moore is Arti1 ur, the only child of a woman is not nearly romantic Burt Reynolds and Beverly O'Angeto i · billionnaire, who gets everything enough for my sympathy. Tacit he wants · until he wants endorsement of the Reaganite Square Gardens with an l.l ltra-chic Chaucer-The stage impecunious shoplifter Liza capitalist ethos? Paternity Lifestyle ol wall-to-wall wealth. He ' version faces his 44th birthday with one Next Wednesday's lunchtime regret: he lacks a son and heir. Not production at Bedlam is a stage Dominion 1 the marrying type. in fact rather version of Chaucer's " Reeve's Allan Hunter arrogan tl y chauvinisti c. he By Tale" which should be amusing. Burt Reynolds. currently the decides to hire a surrogate mother The script is based on Coghill's number one box office attraction to bear his child. Enter pretty version. A reminder that this term's in America, keeps telling us he's waitress Ma gg i e (Beve rl y main production is Look Back in the second Cary Grant. To be fair D'Angelo) in desperate need of Anger and EUTC's contribution to he has shown a warm and witty financial support to study in the Stirling Student Drama way with comedy away from the France and a bargain is struck, on Festival is Berkoff's Met a­ junk movies of CB and stunts but strictly busi ness terms. Complica­ morphoses. he couldn't even begin to fill the tions ensue but true love conquers great man's shoes. The scripts to all and the two are married on the date have hardly helped and way to the delivery room . And Finally Paternity is no exception. This is a Paternity is little more than a I-> The Student Arts Paoe is yours. protracted. contrived situation permissive variation on the Doris If you have any event which you · comedy, bereft of any really · Day-Rock Hudson comedies o f a want publicised or reviewed_please hilarious moments which quickly i generation ago: glossily enjoyable let us know and we shall be on)y runs out of steam. in passing but blandly forgettable too delighted to help. Just leave a Reynolds is Buddy Evans, the in restrospect. Reynolds and note in the Arts tray at 1 Buccleuch middle-aged manager of Madison Beverly D'Angelo deserve better. Place. f .~ The Student 14th January 1982 13

REVIEWS • MUSIC • BOOKS • CINEMA • PREVIEWS r BALLET Agon.y behind the Grace 'The Scottish Ballet perform The Nutcracker Nutcracker' to Edinburgh, Ruth Prior and Kenn Burke take a break in Playhouse rehearsals to talk to David Stead. f('.:_~ fl lc.i."i\1~ By Le ig h Biagi "We've been doing two shows a " I only spent seven months at day for about three weeks and my the school. I went in at 15 and left The Nutcracker - a familiar body feels tired. My legs and at 17. Many of the others had been piece in the repertoire of the muscles are very heavy." through the White Lodge Jun;~ Scottish Ballet Company - ended The weary voice of a ballet Section and I was treated v their short season of 19 perform­ dancer reflecting on the side of her much as an out9tder until I waS ances ·at the Playhouse Theatre profession hidden from an accepted and by then it was too last Saturday. This ballet. one of audience. Ruth Prior is a junior late. I hated it. The School was the jollier of the classics. tells the Soloist and has been with Scottish very vicious. We had one class story of little Clara who. after an Ballet for ten years although there every week devoted to solos and exciting Christmas party during you could almost hear the which she is presented with a the looked wa s a time when future comments while you were doing 1t wooden nutcracker in the shape of bleak. .4.t exam time everyone had a Prince. falls asleep and dreams " I felt I'd been here long enough. ,numbers pinned on to them and that she helps the Prince (now I was becoming bored and things they were called out It was like an miraculously animated) defeat an were very stale. Peter Mallek was auctionU army of g iant mice Pure fantasy starting a new class so I went to takes over. and Clara is join him and did six months of one­ transported to the Land of Sn ow as night stands in Germany. We had a Never-ending battle a reward for her valour. quickly minibus and it was great fun. but followed by a visit to the Land of after a while I really had to put my the Sugar Plum Fairy bags down and stay in one place. I Scottish Ballet's designer Philip rejoined Scottish Ballet for a Ruth Prior trained at Maqory Prowse certainly pulled out all the Christmas season and felt able to Middleton's Edinburgh Dance artistic stops for this production, cope better:· School but was not particularly making good use of the spacious With her in Germany was Kenn interested in other people' s Playhouse stage which could Burke, w ho was born in Edin­ performances. easily have swallowed up a less burgh and trained at the the Royal "I never went to ballet when I impressive set. and adapting the Ballet School before joining the was young and since then I've only surroundings cleverly for the company in 1975. seen about two . lt always Elaine Macdonald and Graham Bart Th e Nutcracker depresses me, either because it's fantasy scenes. The Land of Snow not good enough or because it's was particularly elfective although No Tutus fantastic. I ·started very early, the paper snow storm wasn't a about the age of two, because my complete surprise as most of it had Scottish Ballet itself was formed mother was a dancer. But I was floated down throughout the first in 1974 from the old Scottish never pushed. In fact, when I was half of the act KLUB Theatre Ballet which, as the 14 and dying to leave school to _,A' --'I THE REGGAE become a full-time ballet student, Western Theatre Ballet of the -t7- N OW OPEN EVERY FRIDAY fifties, held a reputation for she tu rned to me and said, 'Are you ~ / -/ .• ______K -f. • creativity and expression. Under sure you don't want to be a DOWNSTAIRS AT Eliza beth West and Peter Darrell it hairdresser?'. I'm glad I didn't." was the proud boast that "there 1/kJ? _rj·-\- was n't a tutu in the wardrobe". THE ASTORIA :,ow the popular ballets are back Both dancers took roles in f ne ' ~ . /l. DOORS OPEN 9 p.111. till 1.45 a.m. in the repertoire al ongside more Nutcracker las t week, Ruth as " . I contemporary work. T_he classical Nanny and Kenn as one of the ADMISSION £1.50 Russian dancers. They prefer el ement means that Scottish Ballet Stud ents and U nemployed £1. 00 with ID . retains a hierafchy not fou nd in, classical ba llet " because one can say, the Ballet Rambert. · -Kenn always' make it better. The Unfortunately the dancing at Burke is now a senior soloist.' simplest step can be improved and some points didn't quite do justice the whole thing is a conStant to the splendour of the design. chall enge. You finish one night . . ·· 1 think 1:m too small to be a and say 'Tomorrow can be better'. There were someglanng technical principal, at least, that's what they It' nev r-ending battle. 1 stumbles as_wel l as a general lack 5 a ~ . of sparkle in the performances. think - I've gone as far as they supp?se you ve got to _be very fi_t I However. Elaine MacDonald and PHILOSOPHY want me to go. The thing about but its what your body is used to. Graham Bart did much to redeem A COURSE OF TWELVE WEEKLY LECTURES bei ng a soloist is that you're not in this with their performances as the the back like everyone else. There Sugar Plum Fairy and the is a very definite hierarchy but it is Agony Nutcracker Prince. Kit Leth by also Designed for thoughtful men and The course, which includes oppor­ not vicious. In fact, everyone is tunities for free discussion, enquines gave an exciting performance in women seeking an understanding of very supportive. If you're in for a his hornpipe solo in the second the nature of man and the world in into the meaning of human existence: solo, they're in the wings rooting Few would dispute that ballet is wisdom, knowledge, and learning; the act. Numerous children. gleaned which he lives, this introductory for you. Some people are quite a gruelling life. It takes dedication levels of consciousness: natural law; from ballet schools in and around course of' twelve lectures enables happy in the corps and I suppose it to work one's heart out for a career thought, feeling, sensation and Edinburgh formed a large part of great philosophic ideas of the past all depends how far you're that rarely last beyond the age of action; and man's function and the case led by nine-year-old and present to be put to effective prepared to push you rself." 30. And to be a great dancer, says practical use in daily life. possibilities. Douglas Pring le, Scottish Ballet Alicia Greated who played Clara Company's manager, everything with great charm and assurance. 'Vitious' must be sacrificed. Behind the The orchestra of the Scottish The lectures will be held at 7.30p.m. every Monday and Tuesday evening and at grace there is agony but, as any Ba llet conducted by Bramwell 10.00 a.m. every Saturday morning at the true artist will testify , the Tovey p layed Tchaikovsky's SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, familiar music - so familiar that performance makes it all so worth 18 Chester Street, Edinburgh. while. several of the audience around me were stimulated into providing a The fee is £10.00 (£5.00for lull-time students). You may enrol now by telephone kind of surruptitious vocal or on your first attendance beginning accompaniment, one indication I Monday, 11th January at 7.30 p.m. suppose of how much they were Tuesday, 12th January at 7.30 ~.m. enjoying the spectacle, and it was Saturday, 16th January at 10.00 a.m. < l Scottish the spectacle which claimed the For enquiries, telephone Burnt,sland (S TD 0592) 872702. show, and allowed us to forgive THE SCHOOL OF PH ILOSOPHY Ballet the dancing which as a whole certainly did not reach the branch of THE SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE standard one expects from The Head Office: 90 Queen's Gate, London SW7 SAB ------Scottish Ballet Company. 14 The Student 14th January 1982 ~-( t ttt ttt ttt ttt t ttt ttt t t ttt ttt "e t ttt ttt ttt ttt, ttt ttt t t ttt ttt

Factorial Ratiodictating directors ot public taste 'music scene", as Article 58 Caroline Binnie resemble a less disc(h)ordant can make or break. Who's your sees A Certain Orange Juice o r a souped-up band of the week?) version of Josef K. Why innovate Ratio and experi­ when you can emulate, eh, lads? As ACR merged and convergea Despite occasionally managing to in bleakness and gloom, thinking ences a certain entertain the "long mac" element and listening, I measured wo rds ·sense of anti­ in the audience, their whole sound and thoughts. Thei r music has a It's a refreshed Gal that bids you BUTTOCKS : Jo Callis , was practically murdered by aI careful, essential structure, but at to enter the all-seeing, all knowing .possessor of the worst bum in climax. particularly inept ihythm section the same time the format is loose, concept that is Reality Asylum, a futurist pop, doesn't want us to and, to me, the elements in their the eternal axis being their world of news, views, lies, libels, mention the taxman, for some Long macs and galoshes were music seem to be polarising in exceptionally strong rh ythm sneers and smears. strange reason. So we wont. the requisite attire for the A completely different directions. section. (Take note, Article 58.) Certain Ratio gig at Valentino's. No unified vision, no guts, and However, I feel that ACR ambled STYLE: (the new emphasis o n) WHO STILL BELIEVES IN Adhering manfully to the principle and meandered tonight, per­ Edinb urgh's top niterie, ANARCHY?: Some 30 punks, of Why don't you switch off your cussive but not persuasive or Valentinos, always wishing to be in wishing to commemorate the TV set and go and do something pervading. No images, no themes the vanguard of breaking new death of that good lad, Sid Vicious, less boring instead?, I braved the and no contrasts were apparent. fashions, has a peculiar interpre­ have applied for permission to snows for a second time in an The pieces they played had no tation of the above. Quite what is march through Linlithgow in attempt to see the band, Sunday's shape, and the carefully controlled stylish about wading through memorium. Councillor Boring Old bash having been postponed due funk fusion present in Do the DU, puddles of urine to use blocked Fart has labelled them " no better to a combination of Valentino's Flight etc was strangely absent. toilets escapes me. Answers o n than the National Front". What I'd buggered plumbing and ACR's The stuff they played was lzal toilet tissue to . like to know is, what sort of punk frozen diesel. On reflection, unfamiliar and largely un­ asks the local council for perhaps Late Call would have Bv':On to the headliners. The last impressive, with the exception of permission to do anything? been a more entertaining proposi­ time ACR entertained the the encore, where vocals were VIOLENCE (PART 1): Sunday tion this evening. Still. Edinburgh punters they were used to a greater extent than night's drone in by the Morbid Armed with biro and gin and poised for glory or ignominity, during the bulk of the set. Music, to Divots (read that ACR) was tonic, I faced Rational Records' very hip! and, depending on who 1me , should · communicate an postponed due to a burst pipe. If Ml,JLTINATIONALS - What is Article 58. They are truly rep­ you believe, none too impressive. emotion. ACR didn't reach me, they at Valentino's spent a few going on at Warner Brothers over resentative of the emergent A couple of interesting, if overtly didn't move my heart or my feet. quid more on lagging their pipes the release of the Associates new "Tartan" sound of the last two , aesthetic Factory 12 inche'rs; they make musiC in an emotional (1 Op per metre from your local single. Has their manager of their years, to the extent that they la ter, and it's rlow odds against a void , though I don't under­ DIY) and a few quid less on heavy UK operation been given (or even manage to sound like a pastiche of commercial breakthrough. Their c,;,u1nate their commitment to what handed 'doormen' (£2 per hour shown) bis P.45? Watch this every Scottish band that ever audience acceptance has been they are doing. Half the audience from any Jobcentre) this sort of space!! merited a oneliner in the press. undermined, the abysmal and loved them ... me, I'm wondering inconvenience might occur less With Postcard currently expiring largely accurate reviews of debut how the International Darts went often. in an undignified manner, it seems LP To Each .. . having affected their last night. I could have stayed at to epitomise the lack of direction ra ti ngs in the McCullough/ Morley home and done something less VIOLENCE (PART 2): That and inspira_tion in the present credibility conglomerate. (These CHART boring instead. consumer Mr David Henderson 1. No Future EP Blitz gave an inpromaptu test­ 2. Streets of London Anti- marketing of his new product Fist Nowhere League in the Mouth at JJ's last week. 3. Soon Rhythm of Life Does th is mean JJ's is no longer 4. Reality Chran Gen ·Lunchtin,e the place to be seen but the place 5. Sunny Day Plgbag the colour of their passports. to be given a good seeing to? Can 6. Bob Hope Takes Risks Rip, NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS this petulant behaviour be the Rig and Panic The UK's biggest seller and the SMASH HITS! - The woras tu product of d istress at the demise 7. Over the Top Hawkwlnd/Sonk most innovative of the four you r fave chart raves! - the Fire Engines? Assassins weeklies. Its writers have the sometim'es even the chords too! 8. Tainted Love Gloria Jones uncanny knack of clinging, spider Colour! Altered Images! Soft Cell' 9. The Razo rs Edge Defunkt like, to their own convoluted value Teenybop r'!g good for a giggle LATE: Sounds, an occasional 10. Nothing Amour Rene system whilst following every Canning Town fanzine brings to Hackett/ David Jay whim of fashion and contradicting the attention of its readership that themselves weekly. MONTHLY Alan Horne may fold up his Postcard once the Jazzeteers take off. Anyone~! our readers, paying SOUNDS FLEXIPOP - Smash Hits gives Chart supplied by (for the final Combining the strange bedfellows you the words, this, lot give away attention, would have found that time) Gutter Music, Henderson of New Punk (the sound of Oi!) and free flexi-discs so you know what out months ago. Row . Heavy Metal (not that strange if tune to sing them to. According to you consider the political ,beliefs Marc Almond of Soft Cell theirfull­ of these types of musician) under colour printing process shows up the star writers of Gary (still a your spots. Marc Almond has ...... Herbert on the street at 25, married spots!!! with a kid) Bushell and Geoff ('This band sound a knife slicing THE FACE - The Face, running between a sacrificial virgins pert now for around two years has been Unless someone reads the The objectivity that . separates breasts") Barton, this magazine largely responsible for bringing articles printed on this page, criticism from the woids o!,,_ a fluctuates from mediocre to awtul. "the new emphasis on style" to the there ' s very little p o int 1n worshipful "rock fan" is lacking! If I One good thing - not so much of fore. Nice colour pictures and a the tinie and effort that goes into wanted someone to write and the ink sticks to your fingers as good read too. their preparation and layout. But drone on about how crass, NME so makes a better bog-roll. no matter how many people read tedious, meaningless and socially them, even if they agree with every irrelevant HM was it'd be no word (that I should be so lucky!) problem - I'd do it myself, but they are a waste of time !f they're where is a Heavy Metal fan who sounds not objective - then they become will honestly admit that his/ her merely opinions, worthless in fave band played a duff gig? The MELODY MAKER II terms of credible criticism. I reason for this is, I .suspect the The grandaddy of them all, ZIG-ZAG - Zig Zag is li ke a personally try to keep my own state of mind . of the HM fan Melody Maker is the sort of fanzine that grew up into a personal prejud ices o ut of Anyone who wiil pay the gross publication you feel you ought to magazine but whose writers didn't. reviews, and this is why I ticket prices to travel out to a personally don't review Heavy cattle-market called lngliston with tip your hat to. If ii was a person, 1 Passes the time in bu s queues. · it'd have an QBE. In an attempt to Metal gigs. Others do, but it always bad sound, appalling facilities is catch up with the above, features NEW SOUNDS/ NEW STYLES - confuses me how no-one every determ ined to enjoy themselves, full-colour front pages. Its Times In an attempt to cash in on new attends a bad Heavy Metal gig - and wouldn't admit to having been erudite-intellectual stance is . styles, the above attempts to each one is launder, with longer conned. HM fans also tend to like muscle in on the market of The guitar solos than the last, and every band in that style - check Fa ce. Though it may understand everyone has a wonderful time. I th e number of flags on the back of ._,. , I ... style, it shows none of its own, don't know - I've only been to a ·the average denim j acket '""'";o',et having the layout finesse of a handful of HM gigs in my life, but this accounts for the inter­ doormat. somehow I just can't believe this. changibility of the band names in the HM reviews. Most of thA criticism I receive on KICKS account of the contents of the NOT ART? RECORD MIRROR page is on two issues - 1. that the Who reads Record Mirror? Who KICKS - Not really a rock bands are obscure and 2. that cares? magazine this is a teen-culture -t hey' re not worth reviewing inking, like a printed Something (whatever that means). This is an ONCE A FORTNIGHT Else . Its interviews are by two levels. Firstly, all bands, no criticism. Any band will be applicants from itsreadershrp. This ma\ter how successful now, were reviewed - write one and hand it HOT PR ESS month, twenty "do" Kim Wilde en , once obscure and this is therefore in - if it's better than what we've Hot Press is Irish - this is masse and its radical style will be a request to pander to the whims of got, it'll be printed. im mediately obvious by its almost unpopular with the record the ignorant. Secondly, the Thirdly, this is not a clique. total coverage of U2, SLF, companies who are attempting to con_cept of worth is purely Fourteen people wrote for this Undertones. Even the Chieftains kill 11 off by not buying advertising subJect1ve and is irrelevant under page alone last te,rm. ·That's a and Dubliners et included due to in it. the requirements of objective bloody big clique. The Student 14th January 1982 15 • • •••••••••• ••••••••• , ••II • The Sport Of Kings

Amongst countless other major bookmakers in front of the stands. solo. You can grab hold of the there. searching for the highest price supposedly more knowIeogeable sporting events, 1982 heralds the annual marked for their horse's name. punters in the group and gently Come And Otherwise. money can be put on press them to give you a horse that advent of the flat racing season. Even the Tote. Minim L1 m stake here is is genuine. eager to race and has a SOp, which may be invested for win decent jockey. unlike the nag they Get A Run now, hardened punters are studying only or place (the first three for tipped in the previous race which most races). The Tote is so called was dead-beat and ready for the their form bibles for the classic races, because it has its own totalisator. knacker's yard before they 1"ere For Your and this comolicated system under starter's o rders. Winning preparing to watch their selections becomes something fo r everyone to celebrate, and losing is that little Money gallop over the sun-drenched downs of bit softer to swallow. And . if you do I invite all readers to qive racinq happen to bump into someone a try I have a list of forthcominq Epsom, Ascot and Glorious Goodwood. whdS an expert on breeding and race meetings in Scotland. plus form. and he just happens to tell the addresses of several racin you that No. 15 in the 3.30 is not clubs and or9anisations. Goinq a~ ::,uItaoIy equIppeo. wriggle Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - only by Nijinsky, but is running on a group would greatly reduce yourself away from the bar and if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it. the type of gr'ound it revels in and costs. and 20-30 is an ideal qroup head for the paddock. The horses Tom Stoppard is ridden by a good claiming number. Remember that racinq for each race parade around the apprentice, then you just might go need not be expensive. and it's paddock-ring for 10-15 minutes. home a wiser. not to say richer. certainly not borinq · and it is here that you can gain I've often wondered how many punter. But as the saying gqcs· t)ne thinq's for sme - once University students are followers valuable information. Look closely you've been to the races. you'll of this 'expensive' sporting at each horse, and take especial ei ther love it or loathe it' pastime - The Sport of Kings. notice of its breeding. past form, Anyone who is already a keen The only thing ever worth putting Th e Sporting Life is not the weight it is carrying , its trainer fan or is remotely interested in and jockey. There are lots of on a horse was Lady Godiva racinq . wtlether it be Flat. National everybody's cup of tea. and An on backing horses seriously while on people who can give you advice on Hunt or Point to Point. drop me a a grant is very risky, if not a horse's form and its chances of line at 1 Buccleuch Pl ace financially ruinous. Surely horse running well. Racegoers are racing offers more than betting. usually only too willing to discuss Racing is not all about bettinQ Keith Nunn winning and losing. such matters, but always be Far from it. The atmosphere For those new to the sport. careful where advice is concerned. company. _c hit-chat. f orm imagine yourself at the races. No one can ever predict exactly studying and ale are all to be Entrance fees vary, ranging from what will happen, as there are equally enjoyed. Spend according . .,.~~~ £1 up to £5 and above for the best many different factors to be taken to your means. and avoid th e facilities. The main stand is into account. teelin·g of smugn,ess that winning probably the best place to go at If you're still unsure about which can bring. Just because you've first. for there lies the entrance horse to put your pennies on. pick won once. that doesn't make you gate to the paddock, unsaddling the best-looking horse. A calm or anybody else the world's . enclosure, etc. temperament and shiny coat are greatest tipster. Everyone likes to Howeve r, you are helpless good indicators of a healthy cane the bookies. but they always without certain essentials. A well­ individual which should give you a win in the end . A day out racing · known racing daily newspaper, run for your money. Also. watch might cost between £5 and £10. no listing the day's runners, riders the horses as they canter down to more. sometimes less. Value for and a summary of recent form, a the start. Look for the good. fluent money. without a doubt. program me which can be movers. Unfortunately. that wretched purchased on entry and ideally, a Betting can become quite thinq called television seems to be pair of binoculars. known to complex, but there are three main resPonsible for putting a good ways of placing a bet. Many people eventually gives a dividend for many people off racing altogether experienced racegoers as 'race each horse that is placed. Thirdly. glasses.' dash along the host of Admittedly. scarcely anyone is ;l most courses house a normal attracted by a poor handicap at 1 betting shop. but I wouldn't Catterick on a cold day one ' /rlVYklW, PHILIP, Mr. . Cl'l/1:~o., tS I,. "1ulCH Storm Bird (below) cruising to victory over Master Thatch (above right) recommend this method. as it Saturday afternoon. Watchinq a sometimes takes a long time to SM11u1::i;. Folt.. in the 1980 National Stakes at the Curragh (Ireland). Storm Bird was later race is alright. but it in no way rn~.,,... recoup your winnings from the /'O'N;NTIAL ~O'Att , ... i: ... " syndicated for $30 million. compares with actually beinq settlers. Before the start of each race. gain a good vantage point and focus on your colours. Then hold your breath for the next minute or two. Don't be too despondent if you Joyous lose. Keep your ears and eyes open, and listen for any snippets of· information. There is no such thing as a 'dead cert'. Many people back their favourite jockeys, some go by numbers. others by names. and a good few stick a pin in! You can soon devise and develop your own system. Perhaps there is one Queens rule which should not be favourite watering-hole - th transgressed - avoid changing Congratulations to the Womens' 'Southsider'. with a cup and a gold your mind. Choose a horse and Basketball Team who, last week­ medal in their pockets. a piece of keep to it! end, won the Scottish Universities purple birthday cake and a now­ Of the thousands of people who Tournament (just!) for the third customary, post-victory Po ­ go racing every year, many find it year in succession . magne, in their stomachst more convenient in a number of After beating St . Andrews and Congratulations also to the ways to go as a group. Countless Edinburgh's up and coming 2nd following players who have been firms and social clubs prefer to team in the preliminary group, selected for the Scottish travel in this way. and there are they went on to beat a much Universities squad: Carolyn Begg. ce rtain advantages to be gained improved and enthusiastic Stirling Melanie Jackson. Lorna Macleod. from it. not least the saving in fares side, by the grand margin of two Karen Taylor and. last but not least and entrance money. Lots of points (nail-biting stuff for those (and yet again) Helen Pearson (no. bosses can utilise the electric watching; in particular for one she hasn't retired yet!) atmosphere and sparkling Edinburgh player, who shall A special thankyou is also due to spectacle of the races to entertain remain unnamed, who was fouled Anne Clark from the PE Dept .. who prospective clien•s and employees ff in the last minute!). organised the tournament and alike. At the end of the day, a much ensured its smooth running on the In f8ct, racing in groups sounds elieved Edinburgh side departed day. like a tot more fun than race oin or a celebrity drink in their 94 The Student 14th January 1982

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There will be a new Carwash Apparently three years ago it opening in Biggar, in the South of was discovered that a year's suply Scotland, which is hoped to of urnanium fuel rods had been provide four new jobs. sent to a Heinz Beans canning Following this, the SSEB has factory by mistake. announced that they will now Scotland was faced with a require an extra 7% electricity country-wide blackout until output per year to cope with the Andrew Horberry came to the demand. rescue. They intend to deal with this by building two Fast Breeder Reactors in Bristo Square. Mr Horberry, or "Wee Drew", as his friend calls him, is the charismatic, soft-spoken editor of Subversive forces within the Ed inburgh University's Midweek Univers i ty have seriously extravaganza. challenged the above statistics. In a ra re flash of brilliant A masked spokesperson initiative, he offered the m the claimed that the real reason for 3,000 tons of unread Midweek building the new stations is to save previously stored in an the transport costs of the real underground silo beneath the content of Hunterston B Nuclear disused and derelict Bed lam Power Station's fuel - repro­ Theatre. cessed copies of Midweek.

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