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Beatengl the Blues \,,...13 01V 10 111111G Y01111 TO111 to LIFE HMS 12-13 Incorporating Juic, Magazine Guardian! NUS Student Newspaper of the Year February 21, 1997 Beatengl the blues \,,...13_01V 10 111111G Y01111 TO111 TO LIFE HMS 12-13 Incorporating Juic, magazine Guardian! NUS Student Newspaper of the Year February 21, 1997 I-Spy with my little eye: don your two horns and tails for Red or dead: John Redwood a smokin' Valentine's night in Leeds' own hellfire club Ifitcre cc n trp pages Ch.stlircailk pnipts 11617 PLUS: DAVID ADAM ON WHY EDUCATION FOR ALL IS GOOD NEWS FOR NO ONE THES IS WAR Vice-Chancellor Leslie Wagner (right) has ignored the pleas of staff and students by scrapping a university faculty. This week angry students stormed Wagner's office and demanded he t. think again. Back the Leeds Student campaign to fight Leslie Wagner in a battle that we have to win F111. STORY: PACES 4.5 COMMENT: PAGE 7 ATTACK: Students voice their anger outside Leslie Wagner's office DEFENCE: The Vice-Chancellor refused to meet turning protesters INSIDE: News 1-11, Comment 6-9, Feature 12-13, Outlook 15-19, Sport 20-24. Plus 24-page juice magazine 2 LEEDS STUDENT Fnday February 21. 1997 observation balcony. nervous head count it was declared A BRUCE Hartley presentation. People sat Starring Ruth WIllon. Robin Van Den and murmured_ Then the action got that the attendance had dipped below Mende John 7)msley. And featuring and would going. It turned out this the magic five hundred. Hue,. Owen a'. The Man Who Went have chomped was going to he a war This was bad news for everyone in STUDENT Up A Hill And Came Down In CM their movie with the armies cif the entire hall except Robin Van Den 111ACK the Afri.,-Caribbean sAlviet Haile, who linully had an excuse to Mountains 01 Butvatteracy. popcorn if any: A weekly sketch of student pains This week in Britain's Epics don't come much Impel' had been riding into battle against deliver the Henn V-style speech he'd than the Annual General Meeting. going. One ltte Exec powers NW Ray, Item practising all year 'Constitution award-winning student This is the widessrern version of couple es en grit it oil on the back Iola. Bruce [lanky and Gary Bench • the II: Why QUoraey Matters.' consliltuitinal Ow( 'em ups. and as It felt like sitting at the pictures paid. the bad and the lovely • But lvtore evetyone !moped out newspaper of the year the punters took their seats there was a through intennimible reels t)1 sidestepped the whizzing bullets. talking about the biggest farce since her.e. w expecwncy for Bruce's commervials with your hope of ever Cut to Wall Strut, and master ill the last AGM, there was still time for NEWS blockbuster. seeing the stars 0f the shim - raffle the universe Bruce Hartley presents a striking cameo by a new romantic Bruce. of course, is Finance ik prizes of t:506 and a holiday in the union accounts to the hero. Letvis Student Radio station Administration officer. and in the Budapest - slow ly dwindling .1%1*. sharela Oder, a-2441,000 not accounted manager Huw Owen. his campaign Crisis situation: wake or his box office flops when Al Iasi the curtain went up. It had tot - minor anomaly? Hartley is on ikir a sahhatical post cruelly Students take the running union elections it was crucial been stuck because the five hundred the ropes like Rocky mid-tight as interrupted. He go the crowds rowing he pulled off a dire‘iorial triumph people waded to make the meeting someone blasts: '1 don't know who with the immortal last line: "If we campaign to with this one. Such is the glamour of legitimate had only just filtered in. you are, what your job is or who voted have a vote of no confidence my name Wagner's doorstep these occasions that he was culled to Wilkin and Van Den Hende played for you How could you lose £240,0t al will he top of the list '' the front before the curtain went up out a beautiful duologue in the - did it go in your back pucket'r And frantically clutching atom pages 4-5 tun 11111) presented with a 'valentine's red opening scene. six upping sweet Pour Bruce will be deeply upset- their walkie talkies. Exec rose. "A love poem trial a secret constitutional soliloquies - hLe die one the idea someone doesn't know who were left ulunt-hiLed COMMENT admirer:. was then rend ali nut - a dm says five litindred people have to he is represents u horrible leandal. and despondent; heartwarming prologue in inbute to go through the rigmarole of voting for Then came the moment. The AGM whoever let Forrest Irish Question: one of the intlustry's best loved and against the motion that two guests grnund to a halt when some pedant Gumps into union figures. be allowed to watch titan the challenged qui nary. and after a politics ' just what are the IRA ACTIVISTS PLAY THE NUMBERS GAME TO SCUPPER AGM fighting for? page Credit FEATURE What to do in caper Leeds whenn Meeting chaos FRealiDSTER who 1211 up youre dead ‘yer £4110 on a student's credit yard has left her liable for the pages 12-13 w tulle afT1•01/nt. Sitf r. iwithary Psychology fresher Sherine ,%tin Selvurajith only Tory logic: discovered the problem last does not add up Saturday when a bill for the Politics' Mr crane :um arrived at her hall of BY ANNA CAUTE residence. Sentinel Towers. Spock talks Sherine called in the police `ION officials exclusively who diso ■sered her card had halv e been l+ont nnsuked ...mil:one at pages 16-17 ridiculed after the her prey tow. address .it Si N.fart,'s Ilal. to 1,1/411•re Ole hills biggest union wend ;y1.1 he'll su ;I; I he or the year was thud had been ..petting them True story: Fred's abandoned amid up and using the credit card nember at the top .d the view of England's farcical scenes. Ni6111:inClilt to onto various tour down under Angry Ntudent.2., Items 1111111 an Internet mail looked tot in dismay order service The troll Uitier compaity as the vital Annual Interview: Action. located in pages 22-23 General Meeting, was ondott is being investigated suddenly declared by ale which they hope inquorate - even will lead them to die identity of though it had already the Iraudster been running for one Unfortunate and a half hours. The cancellation Ras 13121110f1. it spokesperson for National meant that important Westntinister Bank. who sent business was not Miss Selvarajah the hills. Pic: Nathan Thomas discussed, including ASSEMBLY: The meeting before It was dissolved conunented: "We carry out an motions on The Sun and union members crammed hours being bored into apathy lot the AGM important tight against card into the hall but by 3.00pm submission. failure Ile said: "The vast crime. This is an unfortunate The meeting, scheduled the meeting, was halted "We wanted to give the majority of students are incident which highlights the for 1.30pm, had been amid fractious scenes and students a full time year willing to complain, but importance of keeping your delayed over 40 minutes as cries of farce as numbers long service as at other are not willing to get bank and credit card members of Exec tried to dipped below the 500 universities. We may not involved" companies informed of any entice passers-by into the mark. have a chance lo table this Attempts to reconvene changes in your current Riley Smith Hall with the The meeting dragged on until next ■:ear now," the meeting last Tuesday circumstance. for example lure Of .a £500 cash prize as union officials were halted by the Theatre address and change of job." ON THE HORIZON and a free holiday in concentrated on Criticism Group who pointed out that Sherine says she informed Budapest constitutional and financial the gathering of over 500 the hank and the credit curd Further criticism was ) with Stevie Sunshine Finally, at 2,10pm they matters squeezing out ha's people in the Riley Smith company of her change of levelled at the union's aehiev ed quoruey with 511t1 bid for a station manager Hall broke fire safety before last. summer. Saturday: A dry and rolistle sunny day advertising of the event address and the censorship debate regulations, She is also worried about the becoming cloudy. Max. temperature: with aver 10.000 conLerning The San being 9c 1417F 1. promotion dneuments left system of sending out bilk: "1 restocked on union shop think it is ridiculous to have Sunday: Overcast with rain spreading lying unused. Tiggy shelves the credit card numbers of a from the East. Ma xintuni temperature returning officer tor the person's card on the account NC 146E elections, acknowledged t. Aggrieved statement. It just poses a risk to Outlook for the rest of the week: the lack of publicity Huy. Owen. station the cardholder as anyone can Unsettled weather with showers, "It was difficult rot. advertise the AGM misuse their card, for example temperatures a little above average. manager of At'. fell Exec to particularly aggrieved and the elections at the using is for maitorder." the weythcreall Regional 41!Or I 441 41 - having proposed a motion same time and neither Unfortunately liar ennui!! Ruled for a full lime sabbaneal could be moved since the student the bill must he paid by officer. constitution specifies the her until the real culprit is A LOAD OF BALLS. lie was bitterly, date on w hick they should niund.
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