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retirement before the end of the Cuts in the University's academic year 198 1-82 were retired recurrent grant, an­ without replacement (which is not considered to be feasible) this would nounced by the Govern­ not produce the required savings. The ment shortly before number of staff leaving the Un iversity to take up other empl oyment is Christmas, are likely to unlikely to be significant, given the necessitate a mimimum national unemploymcn: level. · reduction of £1.65m in the University's budget Cawtal Expenditure- the out oo k encouraging_ for 1981-82.

Urgent action needed The Principal, Dr I O n Mo nday, t he Resources Burnett, talked to\ Committee recommended to the u m·vers11y Court a number of Student concerning the measu res. It was recommended th at the savings target for the current effect of these cuts on financial year (to be achieved by life at the University. October) be trebled to over£ Im; that additional savings in the year 198 1-82 should be increased from £100,000 to The Principal was asked about the £1,050,000; and that the Development possibility of departments closing. '"I Committee shoul d be advised to stop th.irik ·· that i"t is ·improbable all capital works not ye t started, with will be the first consequence of the the possi ble exception of externally­ problems we are facing . . (but) this funded projects. Oth er suggestions £30m ·volume cut' is first of three in were that a committee structure consecut ive years and if, say, another should be established to id entify £30m saving is required then in the possible savings in the non-academic year 1981-82 we will have to increase sector and that the freeze on vacant our savings by another £l/,m and in posts should be lifted - although, those circumstances it is difficult to given the level of cuts, this wi ll be sec how we could save the money ta"r~ely a formali_tv! without actually closing some departments.'' On the long-term prospects for the Fall in number of Uni ve rsity, Or Burnett said th at the most important thing was "to Overseas Students with maintain the range of activities in rising costs of study Unive rs ities ... But although the range Dr John Burnell, Principal of Edinburgh University. of facilities offered collectively bv Universities in 10 or 20 y_ears time Cuts cause insecurity On the question of capital There are a number of factors which might well be increased, "the activities Dr Burnett was not greatly expenditure, the outlook was not are lik ely to make the effect of the in any one Un ive rsity may well be concerned about the feel ing of encouraging ... Apart from residential budget reduction m o re severe. reduced." insecurity which might arise after developments which are already Government provision is based on the sudden changes in the University's underway, there is not much chance, assumption thaf the wages and Dr Burnett emphasised the need financial position. " We got used to the dental schol apart, of anything else salaries will increase by no mo re than not to be rushed into decisions living with insecurity 12 months ago," very much happening." 6%: any additional 1% increase will because, given the time-scale of he said , .. but it is a n innovation for cause a further £200,000 cut. The Uni versity life "you can make a British Universities only to know ones The figure of £1.65m (calculated in spiralling cost of study he re for decision now whose consequences mo ney one year or less at a time, and 1979 values) is based o n what arc overseas s[ udents is likely to cause a may not become apparent fo r 8, or so it is immensely important that my called "conservative assumptions" further fall in th ei r numbers, although even 10 or 12 years." colleagues in the Uni versity and the and may turn out to be considerably the Universi ty plans to make every . Asked about whether th e student bod y know what we're abo ut worse. Even more worrying are the effort to attract them. It is thought Committe'e of Vice-Chancellors and and get used to th e id ea." rumblings from the Government that likely that the link between st ude nt Principals might be able to persuade this 6% reduction in rea l terms will be numbers and the UGC grant will be the G0vernment to allow more the first of three substantial "volume introduced, with a penalty for tilTle for the implementation of these The Principal was confident that cuts" in state support to British shortfall , but no compensation for latest cuts·, the Principal replied: " I Edinburgh would not become less Universities. overshoot. While selective realisation would say that the whole pose of the attractive to student applicants. The decentralised system of budget of resources would be considered, th"e Government a t the moment is such Applications from home students control in Edinburgh University University was unde r a legal and that, havin g made a dictat, they don't were very encouraging: "Edinburgh means that the exact implications in moral obligation to retain most of its go back on it ... The chances of the University is clearly regarded as a particular areas of spending will not property and artistic treasures. time-scale being extended on this firs t good place to come to study." become clear for some time, but the Asked about the reaction of the volume cut are negligible, but it might general scale of cuts can already be Sandy Murray help with the second and third." If Unions to the latest news, Dr Burnett seen. Even if all the staff at or beyond m_ore time was in fact, all owed, it said that he had had "a most helpful would help by both increasing the disc ussion with all the representatives number of staff who could be lost of all the Unions that a re represented through retirement a nd by increasing at the University ... everybod)' is well KING'S BUILDING UNION the possibility of finding alternative aware of the situation and of the sources of finance. uncertaint y." ANNUAL BALL The Flaming End future .of the Fire Safety Engineering Two University depart­ Department will be in jeopardy. ments may be at risk as The unique courses in tropical veterinary medicine at Edinburgh Government cut-backs have world-wide. standing and attract tighten the University postgraduates lrom mostly Thi rd Wo rld countries. Besides 6eing a budget. teaching unit thi s s pecialis t department of the Veterinary In the University's annual report Medicine School carries out research , the Department of Fire Safely this fi eld of study will not be affected Engineering and the specialist courses by the cuts. It is a different matter, in Tropical VetCrinary Medicine were ho wever, for the teaching unit named as potential victims of the following the ODA 's (Overseas future cuts. Development Agency) decision to withdraw its contribution to the The Department of Fire Safety teaching fund - approximately Engineering was set up in 1973 on an £100,000. The University then decided experimental basis to examine the Due to lack of support the Kings Buildings Union to take emergency action to keep the processes of fire and safety methods. course going for this academic year Annual Ball has been called off. Out of the two hundred It was originally throught such a and made available a sum of money tickets printed only thirty-seven have been sold so far. One course would attract sufficient for this purpose. the fees for the interest from industry and commerce week before the event last year over one hundred had been course were raised to between £5,000- to cover running costs. However the sold, so this year's sales show a considerable decline in £6,000 and the department hopes it money provided by covenants and will still be able to attract students support. The Committee Houseman said "Alternatives other funds has not proved sufficient even with those fee increases. to maintain the Department and such as cutting prices were considered or alterations in the unless money is forthcon:iing the Vicky Taylor nature of the ball, but these were rejected as unsuitable." 'GIVE PEACE ACHANCE!' The Scottish Convention for Peace and Disarmament, held in the Ush_er Hall last Saturday, proved to be a tremendous success. A large Lord Fennor Brockway, Co-Chairman audience of two and a half thousand packed into the Lothian Road of World Disarmament Campaign venue to hear the views of some of the most prominent figu res in the and former MP. peace movement in this country, peace campaigners who span three or four generations. "Time to prevent their de­ During the courst: of the convention, which lasted nearly four hours, ployment." the platform played host to a variety of speakers, including academics, "A recent poll has shown that 57 trade unionists, militarists, MPs, and journalists. Student leader Jeanne per cent of the population expect a Freeman was among those who spoke, and did so with as much passion nuclear war in their lifetime . and conviction as campaign veterans Lo rd Fennor Brockway and Lord "Cruise and Trident m1ss1lc Philip Noel-Baker with whom she share the platform. svstems are not to be installed f0r A normally quiescent, almost lifeless chamber on many occasions, another three years. We have that time the Usher Hall became a lively platform for debate in the presence of to prevent th eir deployment.,. .Canada , Norway, Denmark , Saturday's enthusiastic and concerned audience. As the platfo rm wore Belgium, and the Netherlands, he on, the air started to buzz with a feeling of hope, a feeling that this time went on, have already refused to allow the campaigners for peace would overcome the seemingly insuperable deployment of nuclear weapons ... In odds posed by the folly of men and their governments. Br itai n itself, the local authorities of Sensing the growing tide of public opinion which is welling up against South Yorkshire. Tyne and Wear, and the arms race, especiall y at a 1ime when human mise ry and suffering Manchester have declared themselves remain so great yet when resources with which to combat such problems "nuclear free areas." And to Robin Cook. M P for Edinburgh are at such a premium, speaker after speaker emphasized th e need to Professor Michael Pentz, Lecturer. conclude, Lo rd Brockway urged his Cent ral Open Unive rsity. audience ... '"let's declare Scotland a build a campaign on a truly massive scale. so massive 1 in fact, that such a protest could not be ignored. "We will not be the col­ ··we are in the presence of the Last nuclear-free nation." The broad-based nature of Saturday's audience, therefore, was all the lateral damage in their Leap; an irreversible leap into the Lord Philip John Noel-Baker, Co­ more encouraging as a prelude to a mass campaign which would final abyss". Chairman of the World Disarmament nuclear war." Campaign, rormer Labour M P and embrace the widest possi ble cross-section of the population. Tory ... the main features of this Last Leap, Prof. Pentz outlined as the new MX past member of many British supporters rubbed shoulders with Communist Party members, and missile system, and the Trident and delegations to the United Nations. every other political shading in-between was in evidence. Religious Cruise missile systems . ""The belief that "War must come" orders, trade unions, ecology and environmental groups, office ... " If we allow these weapons to be is the fundamental fallacy we mus1 workers, students, people fli()m all walks of life were there along with the deployed anywhere, then we arc in challenge. The arms race is not "professional protcstors", so often the object of ridicule by the media. grave danger of seeing the nuclear inevitable. It is the work of vested It was a truly family-like gathering of concerned people with no arms race become universal. interests which must be disarmed and particular axe to grind but with a powerful and fundamentally "Th'e nuclear arms race is put in chains·•. important message to deliver. In the words of the late John Lennon, all leading us ... Lord Baker reflected on the crazy they were saying was "GIVE PEACE A CHANCE." into moral escalation of defence spending from depravity." .£51 billion in the immediate post-war period, to a global total of £180 billion Nuclear weapons are no longer there in 1970. That figure has risen not to be used but to be used . Former staggeringly in the past decade again Defence Secretary Mr Francis Pym to £500 billion last year.. "I feel sick recently said, "we must be prepared to a1 the chances for disarmament in my use our nuclear deterrent,.' which led life that have been missed. And ·1oo·k Prof. Pentz to describe the idea of i ~ith apprehension at the militarists m dcterrenct as a ··nonsense". It "died th e great countries who are still in in practice in 1965" when the super­ power ... " War is a monstrous fo lly powers could already des1 roy the whictr we can end, by creating a udeof globe, he added ... On Civil Defe nce world opinion which will sweep away he referred to a recent Guardian story o n the aftermath of a nuclear attack "Science has been made Duncan Campbell, New Statesman and the medical consequences, the prostitute of war." investivative journalist. entitled When Controlling The Sick the militarists and their power, the Means Shooring Them ... "l think that barriers between East and West. and Mr Campbell went on to attack the sums up the level of mo ral depravity the barriers between North and South. government's plans for Civil Defence to which the nuclear arms race is .. :·we can end world poverty. All yet further. Admidst bursts of leading us. We are going to end it around the world, babies arc dying in laughter which would have been less before it ends us." their mother·s arms because science muted had the implications of what he has been made the prostitute of war. The speakers from right to left: Duncan Campbell. Isobel Lindsay. Lord told the crowd been less frightening, Isobel Lindsay, . "The young men and women with Brockway, Jeanne Freeman. Murdo McDonald, Robin Cook (standing), Lord he informed us how Westminister Scottish Nationalist Party. their lives ahead of them have a right Noel-Baker. Father Ross. Brigadier Harhoule. sugges1 that we survive a nuclear war. "MPs have been ma king a 10 be consulted - and when 1hcy have ."Stay at home; hide under the conventional response to a totally been consulted, a new world will open stairs" ... No part of Britain, they unconventional situation .... A large before them . "They can be the What The Speakers Said claim is safer than a ny other - a proportion of the population believe people of a glorious future for all 1he James Milne, General Secretary of Father Anthony Ross, despicable lie. No evacuation of the war is likely and that nuclear weapons nations of mankind." Scottish Trades Union Congress. Rector of Edinburgh University and civil population will be a 11em pted, cannot keep the peace. "Some people imagine the trade Chaplain to Strathclyde University. their aim rather being to bottle up the .. . Those of us who arc active in union movement as solely concerned .. This gathering today cuts across population and to block off maJor the peace movement must give a clear with wages, hours of work, working political parties, religious creeds, and roads in order to stop the flow of and decisive lead, otherwise people conditions, and so on. Not so! We are race - and that's how it should be refugees ... The aim of Civil Defence wilr not believe that we have th e concerned with the total man" ... One when considering something as · is, Mr Campbell stated. to secure the courage of our own convictions . of the reasons, Mr Milne said, for fundamental as the future of UK against any internal threat. The peace programme must destroy Japan's great economic performance mankind." "They plan to go to war, not with the the unthinking faith that many people (and, by implication,against our own) Warsaw Pact, but with us." have in leaders." is that so few of its resources are "We will never fight in your "sidetracked" on to nuclear arms wars." Interview Jeanne Freeman, Chairperson of the National Union of Students (Scotland). "We have in this convention, Lord Philip John Noel-Baker ultimate proof that the movement for peace can only be strong when all After the convention, as the crowds went off to "But our cxpenence of near-success political parties, all trade unions, all spread the campaign further, and as the lights with big multilateral world proposals peace groups and community groups. convinces me that we can mobilise and ordinary people in this country dimmed finally on a once more peaceful Usher enough public opinion behind it. The work together and come together to Hall, Lord -Philip John Noel-Baker, veteran of spec ial UN document of 1978 (which achieve their ultimate goal. If called for world disarmament) gives there's any secti on of that movement many peace campaigns and now in his nineties but us a greater chance than anything in that has a duty and responsibilit y to the past." still carrying on the fight, spoke to Student News 1 Brigadiar Michael Harbottle, General speak out for peace. then that section On the C 0-s failure to persuade Secretary of World Disarmament is young people. Editor Bryan Mclure. the authorities in the early sixties to Labour Party conference's decision to Campaign. " ... The price of peace is a high one. end their nuclear weapons Lord Noel-Baker, author of several support a policy of unilateral nuclear The price of peace is n'1 £5 billion on programme and to disarm. Lord books on disarmament and related disarmament, whether such a move by "Peace is everybody's Cruise or Trident. It isn't £11,000 Noel-Baker had this to say: issues, wrote in 1958 in 711e a future Labour Government might "The campaign had a great admin­ business." million on a defence budget. The price Arms Race: A Dis­ "This· new campaign came into of peace is what we pay when we work Programme for World be a decisive factor in the worldwide istrati on, but its programme was too that: campaign, the second time around? being only a year ago ... Our goal together to achieve a society where armament narrow. Multilateral disarmament must come first, conventional along must be to plan a comprehensive people are not taught to exploit each "The tradition of the British Lord Noel-B11k er: "I respect those in programme for world disarmament. other. where they are not taught that Commonwealth, founded on favour of unilateral nuclear dis­ with nuclear weapons. '"What's the good of getting rid of We cannot have peace if disarmament human life is expendable. They are freedom and the rule of law. armament but, in fact , stand for nuclear arms if we still have 1he is only partial, or only in part of the taugh1 that together, all people of all makes it right and timely that multilateral disarmamcnl. I don't weapons used when we fought Hitler. world- it must be worldwide. And nations, can achieve peace, freedom, Britain should now perform think we can save ourselves unless we And that was lasted six years. we've got to do our best to get the and social and economic justice. this task (i.e. nuclear dis­ can save other nations too. If th e "If broader-based, a disarmament Conservative party 10 come along too And. amidst probably the most armament}.'' USSR and USA fight their nuclear campaign can do a great job in . Prot.est is not enough, we must rapturous applause of the day, Miss The peace movemen1 of the late fifi ties war, we sha ll perish from the fall-out. be constructively linking up between Freeman delivered this message to the and early sixties. however, failed . But "Unless there is multila tera l world working up public support in Britain East and West, and with the Third government: "You will not pit us with the growth ofa new movement in disarmament - both nuclear and and ebcwhcre." he 197 meeting of the General World. Peace is everybody's against each other with your lies and the 1980s, and Commonwealth and con\cntional we will get nothing at 1 As~embly of the United Nations. Lord business. We must make it our yoUrfears. And you will never get usto Labour Party traumas aside, I asked all. We have tried partial measures in business." fight in your wars." Lord Noel-Baker. in the light of the the pa !-i t without success. Contd. 011 Page 4. Col. I. 4 February 5th I 981

HailToThee Bittersweet Charity News• Dun ea n! Edinburgh University's stressed that the Dance was not run to I "problems of Administration". The 1n Duncan Campbell, arguably Ch ·t 1 h · make money and that only those who organisers of FUSCA had not done Britain's best investigative journalist an y appea t nves had substantially helped GSCA were their job well and management of the at the moment, is well known for his as those of Glasgow and allowed in anyway. Commenting on affair was bad. Mr Miles was insistent Brief relentless crusade in the New Dundee crumble. the office she said it was essential for that no cover-up was in operation but Staresman and Time Out against the GSCA to have a central headquarters the joint committee has .. produced no machinations of bureaucracy and, The Glasgow Herald recently in order to run effec1ively. It was for results yet." When asked why the more specifically, the Official Secrets printed a story headlined "Expenses this reason that a suggestion to move matter was referred to the NUS when Springsteen Sell Out Act. Last week he visited Edinburgh Slash Student Cash Drive For to a new office in Strathclyde Dundee University was not affiliated to participate in a discussion about Charity" in which they revealed that University was rejected. The Herald to the organisation, Mr Myles pointed Tickets for the Bruce Springstei the Conservative Government's Civil last year only £2.70 in each £5.00 went on to state that hopes for the out ihat several of the other colleges concert at the Playhouse o n Marc Defence programme. I talked. to him donated to the Glasgow St udents Charities Appeal rested on a new rag we r~ members. H oweve r , he 30th arc now sold out. abouthisdistinguishedcareertodate. Charities Appeal went to the magazine produced by GSCA call ed co n tin ued ''we' re solvi n g it The tickets were due to go on sale t CalTlpbell considers his big break nominated cause. The rest was taken "Ygorra". Great play.was then made ourselves." the public early on Sunday mornin! came in 1977 when the Government upwithexpensesandcostsamounting of the paper's banning by Jordanhill Dundee's problems of but after the police had complained a attempted .to imprison him as part of to £24,000 in rent, secretaries salaries, and Glasgow College of Technology the long queues blocking Leith Wan its campaign to eradicate investigative postage, printing and prizes. The - because of "racist and sexist" Administration the box office was asked to oper journalism altogether. He had written Appeal has now been extended to content. "Ygorra", incidentally, has By comparison our own Charities earlier. For those who had beer a feature for Time Out about Britain 's April. The paper cited three main yet to be produced. Mr J immy Black Appeal ESCA seems to be very planning a cold night .. camp-out" thf electronic spying and named the reasons for the losses this year; a car said that no decision would be taken healthy. A number of factors explain decision to se ll the tickets just befon departments responsible, which competition which raised a profit for by the Universi1y until the paper was this however. To begin with, ES.CA midnight was most welcome. Al naturally upset the authorities. the charities of only £3,500 as opposed on sale. GSCA criticised the colleges covers only 11 colleges (as opposed to 2,800 tickets were sold in three houn HoWever, Campbetr thinks larger to £9,380 last year; the Charities Day for their prematureaction though not 30 in Glasgow} of which, not all are and 600 unlucky fans were turneC issues were at stake - "in a sense the, Dance which made a £l44 1oss and the unduly worred by it and said there was away. whole affair stemmed from the determination by the GSCA to "something for everyone" in the active. Also ESCA has had the same Such a response from the public Watergate disclosures, where the maintain an expensive office in magazine. team at the top fo r the last two years ranks as a ''first .. for the Playhous( example and heroics of Woodward Central Glasgow. who provi de experience in and th e concert itself looks like being and Bernstein in bringing about the I administration and record-keeping. quite an occasion! exposure and downfall of Richard d . Hopes rest on a new rag- In 1979 earnings from ventures Nixon, and the subsequent Plush HQ - a ram on ,, co me to £15,055.34, with See Rock Page congressional andi·ournalist inquiries mag "Ygorra administrative expenxes costs of the CIA's wrong-

Editorial The Burning Issues

When the time comes for the students at this UnivGrsity all that a larming. But, it is precisely the seemingly little now to look back upon their days here, it ought to be to look elements of the University which hold the whole academic back upon a life over ever increasing financial restraint. institute together. The fi ne work done by the Fire Safety I doubt very much whether it will. The personal wealth of Engineering Department, said to be unique in Europe, is of most students seems to show very little sign of decreasing. immense importa nce both in the work it does and in its Most students, like most people in the country, are able to contribution to the University. afford more a nd more. Their personal standard of living Individual jobs and positions are also at stake and are just continues to rise. The University does not to the casual as important to the fabric of the University. Every observer seems to be suffering. All around us we see visible redundancy potentially effects the viability and vitality of signs of its expansion. The new medical buildings, the new the University. Slowly the University will change, and it aentists' block and the refurbished Societies Centre at the would be a brave man who would say it will be for the Pleasance are all examples of yes terdays confident better, as it suffers the constant running down of its expansion which have filtered through to the eighties. And resources. yet these appearances can be deceptive. It ·s too easy, wrapped .up in the daily happenings of the We all know_that unemployment is worse now than at any University, to let the 'cuts' pass unnoticed. There may be other penod smce the war. We a lso know that Universltles nothing we can do but be a witness to them , and the changes around the country are faci ng huge 'cuts'. H owever, neither they bring. We seem to have grown out of protesting and fact seems to have macle the sort of impression on our every demonstrating, but we should nevertheless recognise that day li ves it might have been expected to. When we read that they are happenin_g the Fire Safety Engineering Department faces the threat of Each week from now on we will be highlighting the 'cuts closure, the first reaction is to wonder that we ever had such in S1udent , bringing students up to date with the large and a n exotic department. small scale cuts which wil l inevitably effect their stay at Compared with the total number of departments a nd Edinburgh University. If you or yo ur department is effected facilities that make up the University, the loss of one let us know so a ll can know · department, even if it should come to that, may not sound

Letters In The Picture

Poll: fair enoug)1 Board of St udy, Staff/StudCnt Photographic Image From the Senior Liaison and SRC mem bers. we might Dear Sir, after al_] President achieve better communication and Photo Soc has o rga nised a therefore representation in these Sir, ph o t ograp h ic competition and Faculties. exhibition fo r a ll the British In reply to Nigel Phipps' charge Some interesting events have been universities. The best site in the that the referendum on grants held at An interesting item in last week's taking place recently at a national Universit y is well lit , accessible, and the beginning of term was ·seriously edition of The Student concerned the level; Heriot-Watt students upheld a not in use the week we require it . It is lacking in democratic credentials' I suggestion that candidates whet are decision of a General meeting and the exhibition hall of George Square would like to make the following unopposed in Association Elections agreed to disaffiliate from the Library. points: may be subjected to rejection by the National Union of St udents. This However, the Librarian decided {I) As rega rds publicity, my estima­ electorate, by givi ng them the chance means that o nl y Strathclude, Sti rl ing that it would damage the libraries· tion of the ave rage student is 1101 as to vote ·no' where only one candidate and Aberdeen remain in NUS in image with the public (who?). The low as Mr Phipps'. Since, as he points stands for a particular seat. T he idea Scotland. There are also mumurings Librarian would have to be able to out, articles on the subject have behind this proposal was that from some English Universities that censor the pictures, as if anyone appeared in the National Press and in unopposed candidates would still students there would like to pull out of would enter unsuit able images for a 'Student' (and last term both I and the have to make themselves known to the NUS as well. Edinburgh University competit ion. Senio r President wrote articles fo r the electorate and prove themselves to students voted in three successive So, we have been refused. But who 'Midweek' about loa ns and grants) J be worthy candidates. We also hoped, referenda, the last in 1979, to is the Library trying to look good to? would ho pe that by this time most of course, that such a procedure withdraw from, and remain out o f, It would certainly not harm its image students have given some 1h o ught to woul d encourage mo re people to NUS. The reasons given then a rc the to students, or is that of no this very important issue, and have stand, and we hoped that this would in same as those which lead to dissa ti s­ importance? :ormed an opinion on it. fact preven1 seats being uncontested. faction amongst affiliated Unions at The Library must not waste money, While the idea seems good in (2) Voting was free, the 'offi<;ials' present. The cost of affi liation to NUS bu1 1his is wasting space that would principle, there i5 no doubt that there standing at the door merelY reminded is enormous (it would cost Edinburgh cost nothing to use beyond lighting. are many drawbacks. It was for this Editor Nigel Billen students who in their hurry had some £35,000 this year), and the Are we to have access to a suitable reason that we suggested that in the Asst. Editor Alice Hopkins forgotten to vote. Secondly, the entire political complexion of the NUS is exhibition area or is Edinburgh too first year the proposal be only Arts Lou isa Blair student body does not pass through oflen felt to be unrepresentative of d isi nterested and stuck in red tape? ·adopted as an ex periment , to let us sec Charlotte Davison Adam House during the firs! week of students generally - of the 18 Yours, how many candidates would be Sciences Michael Pakaluk term; postgraduate students do not member~ of the Natio nal Execu1ive, Hamish Low, rcjcc1cd. if at all, and therefore how Features Patrick Cuninghamc collect their grants than, and overseas 13 arc Trotskyists or members of the Phot.o Soc President. many posts would be left unfilled over Lefl Alliance. Films Allan Hunter students do not have grants to collect. the summer period. After such a trial News Vicky Taylor The actual number who do collect • At the same time many of us believe Crosswords? period, we would then decide whether that NUS have handled the important Brian McLure Dear Sir, grants at this time is approximately I the proposal was worthy of further Zerina Haniff 8,000, so that the percentage of issues affecting students in recent I Although I am a 72-year-old man consid erati on. However the SRC, in years very badly. Their acquiescence Rock Colin Macllwain who could not in any way be ca lled students voting was closer to 75%. its infinite wisdom, felt that such an Sports Roddy McDougall 111 the proposed changes in the '·trendy", may I nevertheless express (3) True, there was no contro l over experiment might cause undue fundi ng of Student Unions, which What's On Babs nicoll my gratitude for the high siandard of how many tiffies people, voted; the problems, and the idea may now be have nqw been given effect to, and Penny Simpson your publicauon. My daughter passed number of students passing through dropped. What do you think? which will lead to Lhe loss of much Photos Paul Hilton the last five ed it ions of Student o n to Adam House (over 1,000 o n the first On the subject of constitutional financial autonomy for st udent Contributors Neil Drysdale me and I have been highly impressed day of term) and 1he number of changes, this week's General Meeting Marian Austin unions, was nothing s hort of by your analyses of ireland. ·officials' available at any o ne time to sees several proposals 10 change the appalling. It is a great sadness that the Chris kersha\\ Scotland's chronic a lcoholi~m and supervise made this a sheer Association and SRC Laws. None of National Union should be seen in such Tom Shearer especially last week's thought­ impossibility. The few students that I these are particularly importan1, most a poor light by so many, but there is Sandy Murray provoking article about death - saw who mistakenly reeeived more these are particularly important, Patricia Togneri no doubt that students would be something which I am afraid draws than one ballot paper were quite mostl y being procedural and to clear better served by having a national Design Simon Esterson closer every day, certamly for me, and saisfied to only vote once. · up obvious anomalies in the Laws; body representin g them properly in Ads G\'tenn McCrcath perhaps a ll of us if the peoples of the Finally, SRC representatives a re however, there is one change which we issues affecting them, and supported world do not come to their senses .. not miracle workers, ascertaini ng the hope wi ll grea tl y improve the by al l. Ed inburgh students are quickly. Student opinion of each individual student on representation of many students at the inevitably amongst the best off in the One final comment: I've long been an issue is impossible in a Universi ty University. We propose th e country, despite having no formal I Buccleuch Place an admirer of Robert Burns· poetr) the size of Edinburgh. I lowcver, I introduction of Faculty Conveners in national representation (although and a keen crossward enthusiast - 50 ,personall y take student opinion very the Faculties of Arts, Social Sciences informal contacts arc s trong): Tel. 667 5718 m,\y I congratula1 e you upon your se riously and was therefore pl eased and Science. The SRC Working Party however there is no doubt that good Burns crossword puale which was with the number of students voting in concluded that these Faculties needed national representation adds an extra b&th e njoyable and men tally this referendum. In case Mr Phipps is some better c6-o rdination of d imension to our effcc1i vcness. s1imula1ing - if Neil Drysdale is a unaware of this fact, mo re students representati on. but also concluded Unfortunately, as many Unions student at Edinburgh University (I voted during grant collectio n than that their size prCcluded a Faculty around the country arc now have seen his Work elsewhere). tell him have ever in my memory voted in SRC Council format as in the smaller discovering, that dimension is not · to keep up the good work! or Uni on electi ons. Faculties. We therefore decided that if found in the National Union of Yours sincerely, lmogen Foulkes one person was made responsible for Students. Andre¥. Reynolds National Affairs Convener co-ordinating representation amongst John Sturrock 6 February 5th 1981 Volleyball fun and dirty puns I Smegma come to the fore Phil All en I set 16- 14 , and in the second a Las1 Sunday, a1 Dunfermline determined effort from Smegma, with I College, nine voll eyball teams got to solid serving from their cap1ai n Chris grips with each other in an Intra­ Sayer, put the score at one set all. The Mural Tournament that revealed a deciding set was the cliff-hanger to surprisingly high standard of play end all cliff-hangers. The teams were amongst casual volleyballers. equal throughout the set, and the Lockerbic I and the Medics FYC '84 tension showed as players began lO lens Dolva rises above the defence to hear! home number one. roared straight away in lOp gear, take balls that were out, and to easily beating their first opponents in collap~e in despair as service was League I. When they were matched, a repeatedly gained and lost. Both _close game ended with Lockerbic I the teams had match point and lost it to winners, and. moving on to win their last gasp altacks. With the score at 16- Team of the week last matches, they beat FYC '84 inlO 15 and Smegma on match point, the T hi s morc-tnan-l1kely, occasional Sports Union meetin!S on Mondays. second place overall, with the others ball moved quick ly between award - sorry no cases of .. Moet et Remember, if we don't get to hear well behind. Smegma Six were equall y successive a11acks a nd defence until it Chandon·• for the winners - will go about your results then there's liltle invincible in League 11. with Fraser was suddenly hit to the ground despite to the Universi1y team who, in the chance of you being considered. second. good covering from Fraser, and the opinion o f a speciall y selected panel, To set the ball rolling, so lO speak, The semi-finals were won by Fraser whole Smegma Six sprang up in have produced the goods on the day, the first recipient of the award arc the and Smegma, beating Lockerbic I a nd jubilation. taken each matc h as it comes, Jim, or Football Clu b 1st XI who fo ll owed up FYC '84 respectively, each by two sets The Bank of Scotland Trophy was frequentl y given it laldy into the onion a 3-0 cup win over Dunbar Blue Circle to one. The final between Smegma Six presented to Chris Sayer byMr".Geoff bag. As a result, they will, not with two fine wms o·ver a Very strong and Fraser, was the closest 111a1ch of Snowden, the staff secreta ry fo r intra-. surprisi ngly, receive the accolade of Glasgow side and Berwick Rangers· the whole tournament. They mural sporl, who seems to be plagued Student "Team oft he Weck" and very Reserves. In the process, they've increased their standard of play, by teams with somewhat unorthodox little else. If you feel that your team, scored twelve goals and conceded giving themselves and the spcctalOrs names winning trophies. Both he and not necessarily a fi rst team, are only one. some exasperating moments, as shots I were pleased with the standard and worthy of consideration for this fine that the opposition were already spirit of the competition, and thank award, then send your results lO I To celebrate this. here are two of all those who participated. especially rejoicing about were sent back with an Buccleuch Place or, better still, give the goals that helped defeat Berwick air of contem t. Fraser won the first the referees. them to Roddy McDougall a 1 the last Saturday: Cycling Problems

Richard Peploe has been shown to be untrue for much On Tuesday, 27th J anuary, a talk of the time, so it seems 1ha1 some was given o n urban cycling by Ian regions will a ll ow bikes, occasio nally Maxwell who was formerly joint edito r for a nominal charge, but o nl y if there of Freewheeling magazine. He covered is a south-west wind, the Financial Sports Shorts a lot of the reasons why cycling can be Times Share Index is over 500, and you unpleasant, a nd was so convincing have gi nger hair. Of course that's not much help if you are travelling cross­ Congratulations to Alan Sumner of that he probably put many people off. country through several regions. the Athletic Club who was chosen to Since he had recently returned from Later in the evening we had a simple run for Great Britain in the 60 metres' Holland, Ia n was keen to avoid hills, Burns Night, and the haggis was piped hurdles at an indoor event in especially artificial ones that appear on in and toasted and all the rest of it. Dortmund at the weekend. the cyclepath network of, for instance. Congratulations to Gavin Ross, Bill Milton Keynes, where they have to Special thanks to Karen and Susan for Moncur and Brian Sloan of the pass over or under the road network. all their work towards the evening. Football Club who have been chosen The inadequacy of cycle parking, Susan, incidentally, appears to be on to represent Scottish Universities and the threat of compulsion to use the short li st of the Miss Cycling against Wales o n Monday at Bangor. anything that is .provided, was also competition of Britain. Applications A shot from Derek Bonnar (ou1 of pic1ure) squeezes berween goalkeeper covered. It seems that cycl ists are a for knowledgeofheraddressshould be and post ,;hile Gus Smi1h looks pleased at this turn of events. · Results stingy lot, and they have not been using accompanied by a blank cheque made 1------.------1 Wednesday 28th January the 20p a day cycle parks in London: meal , there followed a sing-song out 10 me. Football : v. Glasgow University (H) and who can blame them when there is On Sunday, 15th February, local sh·ntI y before Taynuilt left for the long 1st Xl won 6-0 (Gillespi e (2 pen.), no guarantee that the parking area is bike shop owner Sandy Gilchrist is journey home. Six hours later the Ross, Bo nnar, McCaig, Sutherland) watched. running "Scotland's first light-weight Edinburgh team were still in the West 2nd X I drew 0-0 Cyclists always have something to cycle show" from 10-6 at Maybury Ali Macleod End - a lot worse for wear. Colts' XI won 3-0 (friendly match) Roadhouse, admission free. On show · say on British Rail, who, though they Edin. Unh'. 3; Taynuilt 0 (Campbell, Rankin, Lewis) can be of tremendous benefit have at will be all the latest super-light and present a crazy policy on 125 trains. aerodynamic frames and components. This cup-ti e had a n additional Saturday 31st January The original claim that there was not Aerodynamics? I thought bicycles importance as Taynuilt arc top of the Football: v. Berwick Rangers ·A' (H} were straightforward. Third Division West and will be likely Badge enough space on the new rolling stock won 3-1 (Cook, Bonnar, Dolva) candidates to play Edinburgh in the 2nd XI v. Lothian Thistle lost 0-1 Third Division play-off, assuming Colts' XI v. Chancelot Mill won 2-0 Edinburgh coll ect one point from (Campbell, Rankin) their last three games. Wins Rugby: Portobello FI' 25 Edinburgh Tay nuilt . with the greater Orienteering Univ. 7 experience. began well and so the On Su nday the Orienteering Club Men"s llockcy: Edinburgh Univ. I Keen nairies Edinburgh side were struggling under travelled to Montreathmont Forest, Eas1bank Acads. FP I heavy pressure. They should have near Forfar, for a Badge event. The Men's Volleyball: lost lO Whitburn 13- scored after JO minutes but their full ­ forest was fast and na1 but to 15, 3-15, 10-15. forward shot past with no one near Cross-country Union at 3 p.m. The first event is the him. The defence of Donnie compensate for that, course lengths club photograph followed by the five­ Macleod, Peter Campbell, J ohn were longer than usual. After beating mile club c hamps (3 for wom,n). The the organiser up we finally got our In preparation for the BUSF Hector Macleod and Alec Clyne held AG'M will then be held in the J CM B control cards, only to find that some of Championships on the 7th February out well under the onslaught: from where everyone who has a ticket us had 2½ hours to wail before the the Hare and Hounds took a break Edinbur~h slowly pulled themselves will bus down to 1hc King's Manor for start. Those of us who braved the 7.30 from racing at the weekend. This gave into the game and after 20 minutes what is always a memorable evening. us a chance to pile in the miles with a they launched their first attack. The start quite enjoyed ourselves after all. Also in prospect is our own Despite recovering from recent "9" session on Saturday and a Sunday centre-line produced a lot of work and Edinburgh University 10-mile road injury, Steve Murdoch had a blinder to •· 13", both of which were well this began to pay off. Ian Mackenzie race on Saturday; 14th February. At supported, as was the party at had two shots brilliantly saved by the record the fastest time of the day in this romantic time of year both men M21A, the lOp men's class. The first Craigmillar on Saturday night. Dave Taynuilt 'keeper, but even he could and women can enter and prizes will go Hughes did an extra four-mile session not stop Donald Macdonald crackin g three runners finished within a minute lO lst-individual. 1st team. 1st woman back to Polwarth at approximately 4 in a goal from 15 yards. Edinburgh of each other, soit was very close. Even and 1st student. Full support is a.m. on Sunday though no official finished the first half on top. more crippled was Fiona McKean, needed fo r a fixture growing in time was recorded for the distance. With the wind behind them in the who hobbled to victory in Wl98. popularity. A dynamic evening will Hopefully everyone is now fit for second half, Edinburgh contained Nancy McIntyre (is she the o nl y non­ follow with a Polwarth St Val's party. BUSF at Kiel (near Stoke). It will Taynuilt in their own half. As crippled member of the club'!) kept up We will require help with marking the involve a 7-mile course for our A Edinburgh mounted attack. after tl1e honour of the women, finishing course and officiating, so anyone team, five miles for the B team and a1tack Ian Mackenzie drove in a shot thrd in Wl9A. Angela Panther was willing to come along please turn up at three miles for women. The coach from 35 yards which had the 'keeper fifth in the same class. KB Union around I p.m. All officials leaves at 3.30 p.m. on Friday the 6th well beaten. The pace of 1he game did Colin McIntyre.Jonathan Musgrave a re rewarded with some free food. and beware - this is 3.30 GMT. New not slacken as Macdonald and Ali and Clair H eardman deserted to a Meanwhile keep training for the clu.b policy is that anyone not o n the Macleod came close to scoring. John squad training weekend a t Ardenthny. "biggie" on the 28t h Feb - the bus by such time will not be waited Hortqn in his second game for What they were training for they National Championships at Falkirk. for. Admittedly, never has hypocrisy the University. slipped home a loose haven't yet disclosed! G. Raffe been so rife. Nevertheless there will be ball t0 make it 3-0 with 15 minutes to The coincidence of the social no exceptions. We shall return go. Superi or fitness told in the end as secretary not appearing at the event triumphantly on Sunday. Bring your Edinburgh kept up the pace. Special and the lack of a social gathering on own Rcnnics. Intra-Mural mention must be made of Duncan Sunday night was duly noted. Of course on Wednesday the I Ith Wednesday, I Ith February: Hare Campbell, the Edinburgh goalkeeper. Next week the club arc going to of February it is the club and Hounds Open Club Champion­ and Malcolm Macrae. the hard­ Glcnshee for a ski weekend. There is a championship (see also "Intra-Mural ships; 5 miles for ren. 3 miles for working centre. Lothian League event at Binning Sports"). the AGM and the club women. Meet King's Buildings Union After 1he game both teams retired Wood, near Dunbar. for members dinner. Everyone should meet at KB at 3 p.m. All comers welcome. to the West End Hotel where. after the who can arrange their own transport. February 51h 1981 7 Truth Will Out Freedom of Information-"The Right to Know"· by Duncan Maclean

There is a movement in the Western I considera~le int7rest no do~bt in the working of the Cabinet. readmg and the report s1age were the legislation the Freedom of Informa- democracies today which to some is of Ireports of mspecttons and ccrtarnly of remaining steps in achieving an FOi 1,on Campaign (the public arm of the as great importance as the advent of accidents, which through FOl should Official Secrets: No Go law - the Labour Government was All Party Committee for Freedom of the printing press. T he wideravailabil- be available to the public. There chall~ngcd by Mrs Thatcher. It was Informa tion) drafted a bill which it is ity of books that the printers of the i would be a universal demand for The All Party FOi Committee soon well appreciated that a single vote hoped will be adopted in the next gathered support from all parties in might swing the vote of confidence middle ages helped to create, brought Government reports on the safety of session. Campaign chairman. Mi chael the House and importantly from the and there is a story that Clement knowledge 10 the populace. Today cars available on the British market. Shersby, MP for Uxbridge. has there is demand for knowledge not Strangely although such reports are media also, who were frequently Freud was offered ~wift passage of his already sent the S:anadian Bill to the frustrated by the Official Secrets Act • bill if he would vote wilh the Labour just of the arts or sciences but of what not available in Britain at the present I lomc Secretary for reference. which was seen to be used not so much I Government _ but he did not_ and lies behind the decisions that so affect time the Uni ted States citi zen under as~ protec ti on _for the key matters ?f the bill failed to become law. ~II our lives. This demand for the right US FOi law can obtain them. FOi I Experts Justify FOi nattonal secumy but as a curtam But the passage of the bill through oftheindividualcilizentohaveaccess· legislation might have been 1 to information once considered the instrumenial in saving a woman who ~~:~::ia~r~~;!ct~/ave a MiniSler Pa rliament had brought an increased To coincide with the .begmnmg of "property" of Government was suffered permanent paralysis when In his recent address to Conference. understanding of the issues and of the the session I he Freedom of answered in the United States in 1966 the rear wheel .new ofT her newly the president of ihe lns11tute of ' necessity fo r change towards more Information Campaign is to launch a

when a Freedom of Information Act purchased car at high speed. The Journalists. Christopher Underwood, I openness in ?overnmenl. . handbook entitled SecrecJ1• or 1he was introduced. Department of Transport and the called again for a Freedom of , Some Whiteh~II .. ma ndarins _hav.~ · Right to Know?• which it is hoped will

Now there · is a FOi bill under manufacturer had known that there Information Act. He not.;d that there argue~ t~at ~OI is not appropriate '1 serve as a useful reference for the issue discussion in Australia and the had been a series of similar acciden1s were many areas - health, transport fo r Bntam with its Westmmster stylt; - the first book of its kind. The book Canad ian Liberal Government but withheld the mformatio~. Under and consumer affairs among them_ ?f Gover_nment - no matter_how well J opens with an article by Leslie introduced a FOi and Privacy Bill ip FOi, "Which .. car \eports which can which remained subject 10 official 11 work_s 10 the USA. The acuo_n oft?e Chapman, author of Your Disobedient July of this year. In Britain too be found in most British libraries, secrec y for no apparent reason. He Canadian Government, w• th its Servan, (which described battles he "F~eedom of Information" almost could include details of Government also ex pressed concern about the way Parliamentary system simil~r to o~r had when trying to make savi ngs became law. In April 1979 a bill safety tests. in which the media was being own , however, undermrne this within a Government department). drafted by the Outer Circle Policy mcrcasingly manipula1cd by the argument. James Tye of the British Safety Unit was presented by Clement Freud authorities by the growing use of · Council illustrates the "Dangers of as a Private Member's Bill. Bui the Watergate teaches _west "misinformation", news management Right for Pnvacy Secrecy in Industry"; how many lives winter of discontent which brought and blackouts. He gavC an example of will be lost because known facts about down Mr Callaghan's Government an occasion where he was standing in hazards - such as with asbestos dust also brought disappointment to FOI What would be the benefits of FOi ! for the BBC Diplomatic Corresponci- - are concealed? Questi ons as to how supporters, for with the fall of the viewed more broadly? It is doubtful, 1 ent at the Fo reign Office. As he was There 1s also another significant FOi will work in this country are Labour Government the bill lapsed as had there been FOI whether even a I un fam iliar \~ith the briefing a1.; pect to the Canadian Bill in that answered by other expert writers. it was poised for its third reading. small pa11: of the £200 million I arrangements he attended in error the there is a correspondmg Privacy 811! What will It cost? What will i1 save? squandered in the Crown Agents briefing given to the foreign which will go through Parliament at Readers wit! be able to sec the affair would have been lost, and I correspondents. The in formation wa!<. the sa me time. The debate o n 1he American and proposed Crnadian Truth- a life saver ce rtainl y the expenditure of relayed as a highly featured part o r the privacy iss ue has raged for ye

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I met an even small er Mod who led to an arrest. The efficient con1 rol claimed that he was 15 which I very of the Nite Club, however, contrasts much doubt, he was not only proud of with the sheer brutality of bouncers being a Mod but also claimed he working at the Odeon in Edinburgh fought Punks and "Skinnics". Asked and the Apollo. Glasgow. which can why, he said that they hated him and only incite and give a bad name to beat him up. I certainl y felt sorry for a Punks and Skins. Mod who dared walk past Listen The Biker or Hell"s Angel is an Records on Saturday afternoon. One institution a ll over Britain and o ne I of the lounging Punks suddenly approached was both reticent and shouted. ··Look, a Mod ... pointing to aggressive but like everyone else the unfortunate parka-clad youth became friendlier when I talked about expressions on their faces ·changed things he liked. He essentially lik ed rapidly from boredom to ecstasy and the freedom on two wheels and the the chase commenced with raised cries hard drinking with friend~ that goes of enthusiasm and galloping boots with it. He and his friends were in their and gymshoes. thirties, and forties, showing that It was obvious from the first youth cuhure is not lost in later life. interview that life was not easy When asked why he wore so many dressed as a ·skin, Mohican or Punk. badges he just replied that ··1t·s part of They had problems in getting into the thing." pubs, finding jobs. and seemed to In contrast with the Bikers arc what have quite a few problems from the arc known as the Tiffany crowd- thick police. The main problems seem to be ties. bright trousers. long jackets and that they are continuously moved hair that is always cut above the car. · from one place to another, belts were the man I interviewed did not really taken off. tee-shirts were taken off if identify himself with any sort of group not liked by the police. Why do the hut he admitted he did what was police not seem to like such people I fashionable. His life revovlcd round asked. One extremely articulate Punk Claude's. Charlie Parker's and Buster in Listen Records claimed it was due Brown's. to ignorance, a couple of punkettes One of the funniest interviews ! outside said it might have something made was with a John Cooper Clark to do with the fact that "the punks look-alike accompanied by a female batter the police when they get in Bowie. Heavy make-up. expensive gangs". clothes and slit coloured glasses were This week we look at the variety of fashion and youth culture · the order of the dar They laughingly P d-off with life claimed they were dressed normally that exists in Edinburgh which enlivens a city that is not t:c~~e~~~gil~s~!v~er~o~i: ~:t~~~ ;~~~ known for youthful exuberance and the bright colour that One of the most interesting God. They only bought clothes in interviews I had was with a red-haired Glasgow and London, went to goes with it. punk who looked aggressively at his ··poseurs" night at Tiffany's and finger-nails as I approached but in thought fashion in Edinburgh was Edinburgh has become both a musical centre and a social fact was friendly and talkative. His ··rubbish". One was a motor mechanic first words were: "'I'm p d off with and the other was a civil servant! centre for various groups that now belong to one of the more life. I have problems with my parents stimulating British cities. and I can't find a job." Being a punk for him was "a way out" and the only O range Juice Skin interesting alternative 10 his boring Hutterny and The Doors was never life. It was also fairly obviously a really replaced by anything else. Their In an article in The Sunday Times we The H un is a punk cause of these problems but he refused The area around Hanover Street were told that we take no noti ce of Paris fashion remains in the early seventies. to conform with society's demands on and Frederick Street is rich in youth cullure, · with not only Crass and .fashion, and it proceeded to tell us we're Boston was st ruck by ska fever, him. Like other Punks and Skins his 1 the worst casually dressed race in New York took some part in the life ·revolveQ round the record shops, Damned infested mcihicans bu1 formulation of punk. but the centre is Europe. The proof - photo - Things are also happening abroad. his friends there and the music. also the celebrated Edinburgh Wine graphs of four badly drssed middle­ More serious youth cultures are s till "Hurrahs"! where the Many of the people I interviewed · Bar where an interesting youth cuhure aged people. The article of course springing up in Dusseldorf, Hamburg English· band play. Then there is the did not have jobs and the Mohicans, a meets. One wearing huskies and tweed overlooked the most fashionable and and several German cities, punk yes so-called "New Wave" scene in LA a rather violent and aggressive lot. did cap proclaimed proudly he was not a extravagant youth culture in the but like Italy a strong political classic example of poseurs with no not even believe in them. The farmer but an army officer and was world. connection with the extreme left. heart. Although Gello Biafra of the Mohican form of pleasure was proud of wearing orthodox dress. He Yes, despite everything, the British Remember the punks rioting against Dead Kennedys did come third place '"beating up Mods" and trying to lead was by the way making his way to are a fashionable race, but more the police in Germany last year? in the San Francisco elections for a life as close to anarchy as possible. shop at Gieves and Hawkes in George especially so since the British The Germans now for the first time mayor. With the exception of the Street of Savile Row fame. Another working-class youth found them­ have their own youth culture dressing Yet the in0uence st ill comes from mohicans, the Punks, Skins, and Mods young male wearing an Edwardian selves with an increasing amount of like Punks or Skins and li stening to Britain and there is hardly any local were friendly, extrovert, and out 10 st iff collar fondly remembered the spending money after the war. their own brand of music. The progression; the Dead Kennedys, have a good time, although a gang of days of "the bright young things who The '50s were spent buying mostly exceptionally good .. Deutsc h Radiation and Stray Cats have a Skins did threaten to break my legs. Oi1ted from party to party in the American records and emulating Amerikanische Freundschraft" which better following here. After chatting to them about music twenties" American fashion, then suddenly it has the ironic meaning of German­ and their lifestyle they were There are of course many youth happened. British youth culture was American friendship; a stance that is fortunately friendly enough. cultures in Edinburgh that I have not born. During the late fifities, the balanced on their Mute Record a lbtim Al 1he Orange Juice concert last investigated. but it is clear that the old golden age of rock 'n' roll, and the "Die Kleinen und Die Bessen" with an 13 year-uld !lkankers Saturday at the Nite Club a skinhead folk in this city are missing out on the early sixties, the Edwardian look ironic propaganda-like picture of was found with a hammer and chisel fun. When the Listen Records punks ~came in a big way; bowler hats, velvet three Russians winning at the in his pocket and justifiably thrown were chasing the lonely Mod an old Moscow Olympics. It is interesting to lady confided with me that they must collars on overcoats, the This brings us to Edinburgh where out, however he came back and note that one of the members of the be Celtic supporters. "Weren"t they quintessential city look. The working music forms an essential part of many smashed the glass out of fru stratio n band is a Spanish immigrant, the sort playing Hearts? Oh, no, I think they class replied with a hybrid young people's lives. Next to the this led to some rough stuff from ~ of social and cultural mixture that is must be anti-nuclear dcmosntrators." of the Edwardian and American rock Pheonix record ship in a space bouncer but it was still controlled. helping British music to progress. Alexandre Canneti and roll: the Teddy boy, '"Teddy"' invader hall five kids of about 13 The other Skins tried to calm down meaning of course Edward. Remember the German punks when their friend and plead his case which the German economy begins to happily left the machines to gabble decline for they are a politically aware incessantly about the merits of ska, and restless group that incorporate heavy metal music, and mod, it was· Centre of rock-and-roll some of the younger members of the very hard to get away from them their large and politically unrepresented enthusiasm was overwhelming, all of immigrant groups, comprising mainly them meticulously dressed in their of Turks, Spaniards. Sicilians and respective musical uniform. It was The British youth cultures are Southern Italians. very clear that their interest was a cu ltures rather than groups or gangs An earlier article has looked at the positive one for as one of the boys because they are more a way of life Dutch punk scene which seems to be said , "If there wasn't any music in the and nearly always linked with one sO rt creating their own music culture. This world, there would be nothing to do." of music. It is this interest in music musical phase seems to be successful As far as these 13-year-old s were that is incredible and probably in Nordic and Germanic countries concerned music was the most explains why Britain has been the because they sing in their native important factor in their indentifying centre of rock and roll and pop music tongue and they are languages that with various groups and their since the mid-sixties. suit the agression of punk, Finnish knowledge of their own fi eld was quite After the Teds on rolled the is my favourite. enviable. They tolerated their friends Rockers, Mods. Hells Angels, the Amer4'Can sympathies for dying with different tastes, but had no Skins (part I). the Hippies, Bowie rock dinosaurs, the incredible interest whatsoever in other fields of Freaks, the Bay City horrors, the amount of BBDs residing in that fair music. I wondered how far they' mid-seventies BBDs (Boring Bob land and over commercial radio identified themselves in a more tribal Dylans), Punks, Post Modernists. stations have not helped the death of sense. I had asked all the older Skins Mohicans, Heavy Metal, Mod, Skins, American music. The underground and Mods if they were proud of what Bikers (part 2) and yes the latest of all culture of psychedelia in LA in the late they were and all had said yes, but not of them, the strange, strange Robin Another Mod gets biuen by "the Beast". sixties supporting groups like Iron the 13-year-old, hejust repli ed, "' (just hoods! The New Romantics. live the music." February 5th l 98 l 9

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SOCIABLE CREATURES aren't they? SCIENCE A revealing look at animal sociality, by Calum Henderson Next time you are bemoaning 1he continual rifts betwee n social classes, spare a thought for the termite. The OBSERVED king and queen arc trapped in the royal apartment, the king eating and fertilisin g the queen, who has grown from one inch in size to ten inches, as her gross ly swoll en abdomen accommodates her ex panded ova ries. has forged a new theoretical approach The rest of the termites are eit her The Science Studies ·unit Where abstract meets particular to science studies, drawing hea vily on sold ie rs or warriors. The distinction provides insight into the sociologist Mannheim. Tradition­ between the two castes is so great that Fifteen years later, located at 34 scientific society and the Bu ccleuch Place, behind a d ingy ally, sociologists have distinguished they seem to be different species. between "hard science", like physics, Division of labour has led to the society of scientists, by doorway a nd _grev stonework ve neer Michael Pakaluk. like one hundred others in the George and ··soft science", such as economics, soldiers being completely dependent arguing that social factors and on the workers for food. When a Contemporary, technological ·square area, the Science Studies Unit is al ive and thriving. Currently three interests shape the theories of soft but soldier is hungry it wi ll caress the society suffers from fragmentation. not hard science. However, the abdomen or head of a worker with its Things fall apart. The centre ca nnot doctoral students coll aborate with the interdisciplinary team. The activity of Edinburgh School puts forward a ntennae, food bein g ejected via th e hold . S pec ia li sation threatens to convincing arguments to support a nus or mouth of the worker, make everyone irrelevant. And the the Unit remains twofold: resea rch and teaching. In deed , these their claim that even theories of hard although the soldier does not seem to enduring, true cliche is that scientific complement each other, for the science have a social func1 ion. and care which. A soldie r left on its own, growth has outpaced man's wisdom to innovative resea rch of the Un it su rely thus a re shaped a nd. in some ways, even though surrounded with footJ, use scientific knowledge for good vi talises it s unique teaching a pproach. maintained by social interests. This will d ie from starvatio n. It is too ends. The research goal of the Uni t is 10 viewpoint is prese nted in th e apathet ic 16 feed it self. T he typical University's depart­ explain scientificall y the beliefs (that provocative publications of the Unit An extreme l y interes ting mentalisation mirrors this frag­ is, theories) to which scientists hold, by such as Barnes' Sciemiflc Kno,dedge phenomena associated wit h the mentatio n-at-large, a nd Edinburgh's showing how scientific be liefs have and Social Theory ( 1974). and Bloor's termite caste system, known as more than most. King's Buildings are Kn01dedge and Social lmager.1 neotony, is the abilit y of the termites to a good hike from George Square, a nd both cultural a nd scient ific functions. To do this. they employ the careful. ( 1976). keep their castes at more or less the average arts student is as likely to painstaking mc1hods of the hi storia n, constant proportions. If, for example, wander there as to Braid Hills. This as well as the theoreti cal frameworks a large number of soldiers are killed in bifurcation of arts and sciences is of the sociologist and philosopher. a fight, the young about to become more th a n physical. perhaps What's in it for me? The conclusions reached by the Unit workers will change their character­ perpetuating such myths as the Four half-courses for under- , often challenge the idealised models ist ics, turning into soldiers - a distinction between fact and valu e, graduates are offered by the Science substanti al and remarkable change. analys is and art, profundity and of science proffered by philosophers Studies Unit, each covering a wide technical competence. and idolised by laymen. va riety of topics. The courses are open j Jungle kings and termite Formidable pro blems loom beyond to both arts and science stud ents. The I things- the ho rizo n of graduation, which this followi ng in triguing list of topics is ·fragmentation will surely exacerbate. culled from the Unit's descriptions of ! It is not just in sect workers a nd What do you know about recom­ the four courses: "the role of dogma j soldiers who ar'e divided into binant DNA? S hould "disinterested", a nd assumptio n in science", ''the "classes". At first sight, the si milarity I "pure" resea rch into gene-splicing be rationa lity and o bj ecti vity of science", between termites a nd lions would pursued, just as Oedipus relentlessly "science as a social phenomenon", seem pretty remote. But the lioness discovered "truth", no matter what ''the Military-Industrial Complex", might be compared with a termite the cost? What facts underlie the "the marketing of enzyme wo rker, fo t she finds a nd catches po litical polemics of the nuclear ""'I detergents .. , • Social Newtonianism". food. The males, o n the other hand, power controversy? ls a citizen in a "We are something of a leader in are responsible for the defence of the democracy even qualified to voice his teaching," comments Dr Edge on the territory, rarely doing any hunting. In opinion to a government which is so undergraduate courses, "a lot of the same way that a termite colony immersed in complex, technical people are modelling themselves on would soon be overco me if there were pro blems, the precise nature of which us, in terms of content, aim. and no soldiers, a pride of lio ns is in grave a re hidden from the layman? And how selection of materia Is . A couple of our danger if it loses one of its male sho uld scientific programmes be bibliographies have been published as "warriors". Li o n s from a assessed when one consid ers that the model teaching bibliographies.'' neighbouring pride have no qualm s "career" pursued by one billion of o ur What can the undergraduate who about eating that pride's cubs, o r brothers and sisters is ma rgi na l takes one of these courses expcct?The killing any other males and taking starvati on'! Fractured man i' n Unit avers 1hat, in many cases, he wi ll over the territory.· fract ured society, when he manages to come away from the course with a Up to 90 per cent of the li on cubs grope past his own personal problems dramaticall y cha nged notion of may die of starvation during the dry and dreams, cannot answer such science and its social function. II season, whil e the adult s are ;i; lm ost q uesti ons. • The d octoral dissertations that · promises that ma ny received option~ fully fed. For the good of the prid e,­ have been submitted to the Unit arc challenged, or at least enriched. 1.n hence the species, the adults must be Interdisciplinary man exemplify th~ay in which the Uni t a ny case. the student can count on his wel l fed to protect the territory and In the early 1960s, the biologist C. interweaves theory with practicality. notions being subject to a careful hunt , whereas th e cubs are H. Waddingto n and Michael Swann, Graduate students admitted to the examination. which. it is hoped \\i ll expendable. Dean of Sciences at Edinburgh, seeing Unit, as a ru le. have studied a natural help prepare him for 1hc real world the growi ng number of science-related science at university. They arc thus A dog's world? problems confronting societ y. acC}uainted with routine science. and A completely different method of co nclud ed that the traditional perhaps still hold a n idealised or naive su rvival is used by African hunting university science education could do conception of Scientific Truth. Guide to the dogs. Both sexes hunt together, with some adjustment. The young Through discussions and seminars perplexed leaving one or two females, and scientist, thoroughly trained in hi s with the facuhy, the student will work In spite of the truly exciting cour_se sometimes o ne of two males, to guard speciality, was simply uneq uipped to out various philoso phi cal. offerings of the Unit, and 11 ' the puppies. When the pack returns, deal creative ly with such problems. sociological a nd hi stori cal theories in . somewhat controversial research the pups poke their mouths into those Although Waddington favoured a the context of hi s scientific d iscipline. programme, the Science Studies Unit of the adults, who respond by re­ compulsory first-year course for "All our teaching," remarks Director remains little known on campus gu rgitating the half-chewed meat, science students, which would cover Edge, " revolves around ideas - even Director Edge admits being perplexed which the pups immediately gobble all impo rt an1 issues in world affairs, it our debates about whales have a by this. " Here is a group . of do wn , every member of the pack wa s decided to create a n theoretical core. Jn this way interna ti o nal repute, teaching recei\'ing something. interdisciplinary department, called theoretical analys is is used to make inte resting materia l about .t~e It is worth noting, however, that the Science Studies Unit. Dr David sense of contemporary issues." relati o ns hip between sci~n11fic hunting dogs are not particularly Edge, a radio astronomer then knowledge and society. drawing on territorial animals. Thus, the males do working with the BB C, was asked to co nt emporary problems and no t need to be better fed and stronger be the Unit's Director. He wa s Worldly success debates." he exclaims. "Any students than the females. As long as the adults commissio ned to choose a team of T he Unit has pi o neered a dishnctive with any kind of initial curiosity can · are fit enough to hunt, food is happily three: a philosopher, an historian, and approach to the study of science, come to these courses, to learn aboui sha red thro ughout the pac}::. a sociologist. T he goal of the newly earning it a n international reputation. the nature of scientific kn owledge and So, we see a great range of social created Unit, which began operation Dr D avi d Blo or, the U n it how it is sust ained." lnd~ed . i structures in the animal kingdom, on I Ma rch 1966, was: •·to focus philosopher, Mr Barry Barnes, the considering the insidious proporuons I each tailored to meet the needs of the attention, by teaching a nd research, sociologist, and Dr Steve Shapin, the assum e d by science- related species, with the individual wi lling to on those areas where scientific historian, arc known amo ng scholars controverises of late, one w~u~~ work for the good of his fellows. acti vi ties overlap with more general worldwide . as the "Edinburgh suppose that more students mig Wo rth thinking about, perhaps? concerns of human societies" School". Working together, this tri? have this initial curiosit y. 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sketches of amazingly ranging quality Mankind a nd mood. Some, for example, the 'This is your life· sketch with a perfect Bedlam take off of Eamon Andrews (Frank Deas) are funny and well-acted. The l Jamie Donald ''!????' sketch - see it for yourself, I'm devulging no more! - is technically perfect and had the audience rolling in Not being well ve rsed in morality the aisles as did the confrontation! plays, I would 1, ·1 like to recommend between Red Ridi ng Hood (Zoe one 10 those who :u·c. Out for th ose Miller) and a '!!???? These are typical who know no more nbout them than venue·.sketches, good - but not too 1ha1 they arc o lder 1111111 S hakespeare, cleanwfun. I then I cnn say thnt Jon Pope\ . _Others in contrast are very di~ferent I mnnkind 1s truly :-.pcc ial. Special in tone - Black humour, verging on l>ccuusc till', type o l play hn ,; rn1·cly what some might regard as bad taste, been pcrf01 mcd 111 the ldc1 1111 c or make the laughter more uneasy. Yc1 1:UT(', special hccu u,c 111, lu1n

Bevan Davies The photographs are solely architec­ Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist in tural; nooks and crannies which both concertos, obviously accounted Stills Gallery caught the camera's eye. Each one was for part of that attraction, but I can pleasing to look at, in particular a SNO only assume that performances of this Sophia Hutchings picture of columns at the State calibre won new friends for the music Building in Washington which Bartok amongst those who went more as ca ptured th e coolness and texture of observers. Ashkenazy's playing was During February, the Stills Gallery, the marble. However a series of black Guy Thomas all one wou ld expect, but the slow 58 the High S1reet is ex hibiting the and white photographs of public movement of No. 2 was an ideal work of a New York photographer, buildings and institutions in illustration of his technique; the Bevan Davies. Arriving early at the Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York and 1981 marks 1he centenary of the reflective firs! entry was perfectly preview we had an opportunity to talk Baltimore devoid of a ny life or birth of Bela Bartok, an established matched to the orchestral sonority, to mr Davies about his photographs; movement can be somewhat wearii,g master of 20th century music, though followed by a scherzo which brought he uses a large and oldwfashioned type to the eye. But as one fellow photow one still approached with caution by faultless rapid reiteration of notes. of camera which produces plates graphic critic, who had managed to the general concertgoer. With the Occasionally, the piano waf about the half the'size of the Srudenr. extract a years grant from the Scottish relatively conserva ti ve taste of swamped by orchestral sound, moie at This technique results in photographs Arts Council to take pictures of Edinburgh audiences to set against question of acoustics than any of the of grea1 sharpness and clarity. The conifers outside T yne on Weare, so the composer's own uncompromising artists involved. Discounting some, only disadvantage of the camera is its aptly put it , we had to put ourselves style. the present SNO "'Banek unsteady trumpet playing and a few' weight and bulk. We made our way "in an out of gallery situation". It was Series" is making no attempt to step muddy textures, conductor Uri Segal around a beautifully displayed perhaps these colourful characters outside the wellwtrusted repertoire, secured an excellenl, unflagging exhibi 1i on a feature which is wrestling for the gammon crisps and but it was sti ll pleasing to see a large response from the orchestra. He made distinctive of th e Gallery. It is clear perrier water who made the exhibition audience at the Usher Hall on Friday a good case, too. for the Two Portraits that Bevan Davies is working within rather than the photographs night to hear the Piano Concerto Nos. Op. 5 with leader Edwin Paling as a themselves 8 an t!xh ibition for those suitably reflective soloist. the American tradition in which "the 2 and 3. who wish to see American camera is allowed to speak for it self' photographic tradition at its most in contrast to the British tradition of American. Romanticism and Documentation. Poor Arts

SAC tightens qp A1ice Hopkins -·------income and that of the SAC. In The Scottish Arts Council grant for 1980/81 opera and dance companies the following financial yea r . will be in Scotland received over £21/i million: over £9.3 million: an increase of next year they will receive nearly £3 11.9% over las1 year, but actu all y a million. The SNO will receive an - fall in real terms. above-average increase because they The Chairman, Gerald Elliot have ex hausted their capital reserves, welcomes the partnership between despi1e careful financial control. SAC and local governmen1, but More money has also been regrets that the value of local recommended for recording in authority support for the arts has been Scotland. rapidly decli ning. Without an increase One of the most encouraging in some form to it s income SAC can developments in the arts world is the no longer adequately support the wide increasing number of small fes 1i vals range of arts organsiations currently receiving pub1 ic fu nds, and will have throughout Scotland, making local and regional art more widely available. 10 be more selective. We will shortly be covering some of the Out 'of all the categories of arts most interesting spectacles in the St. sup'ported, opera and dance receive Andrews Festival, to name just one of the highest proportion of both their them. ,,----~----:::------February 5th 1981 13 (3) THE GOODBYE GIRL (A) Movies Warm, wi lly Neil Simon comedy in A Family Romance which the odd couple arc a struggling Around off.Broadway actor and a bruised dejected d ivorcee with child . Ri chard ABC, Lothian Rd Dreyfuss in Oscar-winning mood. (I) ADULT FAIRY TALES (X) Mum and Dad never to ld them like this. A whole new meaning to some EDINBURGH FILM Charmed Lives day her prince will comt . Supported THEATRE, Lothian Rd Penguin Books by Young Lady Chattcrley's Lover (X) BREAKING AWAY (A) which has a title more interest in~ than M y own film of the year for 1980. A Allan Hunter it s con1cnts (also showing RITZ, del ightful , perceptive, funn y. Rodney Street). charming piece of Americana given (Z) ANY WHICH WAY YOU CA s ubsta nce by a class-conscious (AA) English handling. If you don't go 1h1s Alextmder Kort/a am/ Mcrft, Oberon. Utterly abysmal nonsense in which time a round I'll be hurt. C lint, Clyde and the "Loose" gang are Alexander Korda holds a n almost Michael was born in 1933. the year "borh m"'anipulat or of mo ney" he back to upset critics and delight deified position in the hierarchy of or Korda ·s Henry, perhaps his never quite broke the bank , never audiences. Come back Bronco Dill y. those respo nsible for the greatness of greatest personal triumph. His quite achieved an endu rin g (3) FLASH GORDON (A) ODEON, Clerk St the British film industry during its biography is an entree into 1he Holywood·on-the· Thames. Snappy livc·action comic strip fun DOGS OF WAR (AA) heyday. A string of memorable a nd dazzling Aladdin's cave wo rld of 1he For anyone interested in the men with Sam ( 10) Jones as Flash. Frederick Forsyt h's latest novel into much revived productions including Kordas who li ved as lavishly and behind the movies o r a tt racted by Neglected director Mike Hodges film concerning mercenaries. A film The Private Life of Henry the Eighth. adventurously in real li fe as many of history on a human sca le the book will unleashes the plot with style and which credits its audience with Re~rrbrandt. The Scarlet Pimpernel. their fictional c ha racters did on not fai l to absorb and en tertain. It's bo nhomie. patience and in1elligcnce. Well The Third Man etc ensure that his screen. His writing is sympathetic but full of wonderful reminisces and crafted, with some good action name remains alive to succeeding 1hankfully allows o bjective criticism. anecdotes warmly and unmaliciously CALEY, Lothian Rd sequenc~s. the forceful presence of generations. Charmed Lives (Penguin Alexander Korda comes over as a imparted to 1he reader. Screen gods ZOMBIES (X) Christopher Walken and the spot·on Books) is an illuminating insider's benevolent dictator arranging the arc rendered people in the glow of Girsly, blood and guts foreign horro r casting of Colin Blakeley. A satisfyi ng biography of the Korda clan by his lives and careers of hi s brothers, Michael Korda's pen, never mo re so picture displaying no particular merit. night o ut. nephew Michael. It is a fascinating Vincent and Zoltan, as well as their than when Laurence Liviercomplains insight into 1he private lives of some families. There is a sense of of Ma ril yn Mo nroe's body odour CALTON STUDIOS, very public people and as with the best unhappiness that despite all he during the making of·The Prince and Calton Rd Korda productions it has a star line· achieved it was insufficient. as 1he the Showgirl'. BABYLON (X) up including Winston C hurchill. author says: "He could not walk away Charmed Live., is an affectionate Wo rth y subject rna1erial, blacks in Garbo, Olivier, Merle Oberon. Vivien from 1hc table wi th a comfortable remembrance of things past with an Britain, is handled in such a Leigh a nd virtually anyone who was handful of chips. The myt h required incisive narrative and a wealth of compromised manner that the film someone in the Bri1ish society that him to keep playing until he had anecdote a ll reocunted in an intensely plods a long with a krnd of grim Korda inhabited. broken the bank ... Despite being a readable manner. It 's delightful. inevi tability. The reggae music helps "lake it bearable but its not a fi lm I'd recommend. Not To Be 'Knocked' Knocked George Square Theatre David Black PLAYHOUSE, Leith Walk On Friday night the Edi_nburgh ONE FLEW OVER THE University Christian Union showed CUCKOO'S NEST (X) that the Gospel message can be spread You just can·t keep a good fi lm down. by more diverse means than just the J ack Nicholson on top form in his usual sermon. In the second of thei r 1975 Oscar wi nning role. To be seen . series of "Encounters with Christ'' for the tJ:1a lity of the actin g, the they full y utilised the talents of their vision of the huma n spirit. and the own Beanstalk Theatre group and of message of individualis m. Steve Butler, a Christian singer/ CAMEO, Tollcross songwriter and recent graduate of THE BIG RED ONE (AA) LATE SHOWS Edinburgh University. .;, Pretty rou1inc WW2 actioner with DIRTY HARRY (X) Steve was on first in each half and notable work from Lee Marvin and CALTON STUDIOS, his mixture of music and chat soon THE JERICHO MILE (AA). Friday and Saturday at J 1 pm had the audience relaxed. especially music had posed. that is a need for 1t again, as many would like to, then G ripping drama of a prisoner stayin g Image·making early 'seven ti es after getting them to join him in a few a Christ filled life which was the they might have a pprecia ted it more). sane by a ttaining great running fea ts. collaboration of Clint Eastwood and bars of "Soap". Singing mostly his highlight of the evening. Written and Whilst not wanting to single o ut Peter (Rich Ma n Poor Man) Strauss director Do n Siegel. The firs t and best own compositions he built up the produced by the leaders of the anyone more than the rest for special ! sta rs in th is acclaimed production. of the Ha rry Callaghan films. theme of the emptiness of a lik which Beanstalk Company, "Knocked" is a praise, Mary was well played by Ali (Sec re view.) is without knowledge of Christ. His portrayal of the life of Mary Purkiss, and I thought Jim two best numbers showed this clearly; Magdalene from her despondency Williamson was excellent in that he " Dancing Girl" being about a girl who and loneliness to he r finding of new did not overdramatise hi s part as had everything(so it see med to others) life in Christ. jesus, which could have been easily but who had attempted suicide Using no props (bar two stools) and done. because she felt so alone in the world; the minimum of lighting to good Above .all else the message of the and "In These Days" which spoke of effect, the presentation was stark and need for Christ and the change He can the apparent lack of any good people almost harshly rea listic. Yet it never work in a life o nce we have a nswered in the world today. Both numbers also swamped the Gospel passages on his knock came ac ross very showed Steve at hi s best which is which 1he play was based , if anything powerfully in each scene. The finale playing keyboards rather than guitar. it gave a strong platform from which with Mary singi ng her accepta nce of His style reminded some of Billy Joel they could be effectively put across. Christ into her life with the whole of and it's not a bad comparison but I The use of mime, especially the the cast joining her, contrasted prefer to hear him as a member of the clockwork motion of the "circle of beautifully with her isolated and C hristian rock group Harvest rather li fe" whilst a soli tary spotlit figure told dejected pleading for a reason for life than as a solo artist. of 1hc futility of " normal" life, was in the o pening sce ne. in this respect. His guests, Kathy Mc Dowell and tre mendously effective. It was a thoroughly enjoyable Rosie duncan, showed that the CU All the cast played their parts _yery evening for both .Christian and non· have talented singers of their own as well, putting a great deal of effort into Christian alike and if the almost·full did the all-female trio "Dayspring", what was only a single night house audie nce was a bit subdued in who took part in the drama. performance (which is a pity, because their applause then perhaps it was For me it was the dramatic some of the subtle nuances of the · more due 10 the fact that they were presentation of an answer to the performance were missed by the bei ng forced to think about whal was JUBILEE (X) questions of life that Steve Butler's audience and had they been able to see being said and sung. EDINBURGH FILM THEATRE, Friday and Saturday at 11 pm DOMINION, Churchill Almost a social documentary of its (I) AIRPLANE (A) lime as maverick director Derek It must be the dire economic situa1ion J arman captures the flavour of late This ls War 70s punk. Music courtesy of Siouxsie The Big Red One of this country which is making the and the Banshees, Brian Eno, Adam regiment of the United States, 1he Bi g Ma rvin"s performance is the sole po pulace desperate fo r any type of Cameo Red One of the title. Yet the film reco mm e ndati o n to view. H e humour. This American production is ~nt etc. Alex Canneti ultimately disappoints despite the expresses himself in repose under the a hit o r mi ss affair which is generall y possibilities of a shoot-out in a n searching eye of the camera. The most inconsequential. asylum, the li beration of a Czech succe!:lsful and emo1ional scenes are After a n absence of 20 years, cult concentration camp and some power­ thoSe depicting his relations with CANTERBURY TALES (X) (Z) BEING THERE (AA) director Sam Fuller decided that an ·fully shot ba11te sequences. children, a Sicilian gi rl and a PLAYIIOUSE, Thurs and Friday Penultimate Sell ers pie which the old.fashioned war movie was just The main problem li es with the concentra1ion camp victim. The Bawdy, Pasolini version of C haucer. actor claimed he would accept as a Art or explo itation? Judge for what o ur screens lacked. di rection which never a llows U.!. 10 imegrity of Marvin's on.screen work mo nument to his talcnb anytime; it is The first few scenes of 'The Bi g Red identify with the leading characters. salvages what is otherwise a routine yourselL his clowning. The film as a whole is One' suggest that this could be the who remain just that and ne\.Cr war film graced by some brilliantly uneven but 1he final shot is a "wow" definitive 'human' war movic. These dev'elop into people. The film is worth sho t sequences. With Peter Strauss's ,.and Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn moments are superbly effecti ve seei ng however for Lee Ma rvm's ~tirring performance in 'The J ericho Douglas provide notable suppo rt. capturing the relieved embracing of gritty portrayal of a ve teran First Miles' as the support film this is a Allan Hunter the Vichy French and the first infantry Wo rld War soldi er. T o the no n·buff value for money double feature. 14 February 5th 1981

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As they changed to electric guitar. records. ea lity Bits n' pieces Orange Juice and they gained confidence, power and The set was tamtllar songs and volume. The guitar played chords. singles with a couple of new ones Aztec Camera made mixed in. "To Put it in a Nutshell" was r a lots of jazzy, minor chords, with no the Nite Club the solos in the conventional sense, just slow and serene, Byrd's guitars with news sy1um adding rhythm and emphasis to the "Heartbreak Hotel" vocals, a nd it place to be seen on soaring vocals. Its atmospheric and showed that they are still moving and nercissistic. mood music with a pop experimenting. "Louise Louise" was Which well-known Irishman has Saturday. Graham beat. bouncy and excellent, a n effortless "The View from the been swanning it around the music biz Henderson reports: If you have notimeforre-usingand feeling of motion. But the best songs Queue" citadels of London recently? Mr Rab re-interpreting past musical forms, were the older ones, the pop songs Stevenson (for it is he) has not only then they arc boring, but if you like they've honed to a razor edge. Seven-thirty a.m. on a cold, interested Phonogram in taking on what they do then they do it superbly. "Upwards and Onwards" is my hungover morning and I'm sitting on Everest the hard Way (despite Another Postcard package, Sandwiched by the disco between the favourite, and should be everybody's, concrete steps by the Pl ayhouse. The demands for their o wn label), he has another look at pop music according Lovi n' Spoonful and The Doors, they when it's a hit single (if there's any reason - I'm a rock ran who's also scored them a publishing deal - to Alan Horne. The newest signing, were maybe aged more than they justice). "Blue Boy" was expected and prepared to suffer for my art. In 27 with the same company that handles Aztec Camera, take their first should have been. They could be the cheered, and magnificently per­ hours I'll gain my passport to visit the such luminaries as The Cure and The tentative Edinburgh steps supporting '80s first soul band. formed, the cranked-up, distorted new Messiah - the futu re of rock and Jam, no less. relative veterans Orange Juice. It's a By the time the other side of the guitar breaks slicing across the hall. roll. hip nigh1 out at the hip Nite Club. Postcard came on, the 1ite Club was What else - "Falling and Laughing", The day drags, punctuated by visits Who goes for the music these days? full and sweating. Orange Juice "Simply Thrilled, Honey'' - it's to the warmth and toilets of a local The Oelmontes, with commendable The evening's proceedings shuffled emerged one by one, picking up their pointless naming them all pub. alternating with periods of frigid ambition, are gonna be the first local off with the totally unknown quantity instruments and starting when they individually. There were no breaks in boredom. The queue grows. By 7.30 bancl to produce their own video tape. Aztec Camera. Three guys with a were ready. First up was a new song, a the excitement, there were no let­ p.m. it will be over SOOm. long. Punters It will feature five tracks and last bass, drums and a 12-string guitar powerful backbcat with guitars that downs. the only disappointment was arriving now walk away in disgust. about 20 minutes. There remains, of looked nervous and wary, quickly keep going up and a bass jumping them finishing. Members of UFO look at the queue. course, a shocking lack of out leis for announcing "We Could Write around underneath. The sound was Orange Juice songs arc love songs. How they must envy this sort of mch tapes; Reality Asylum wonders Letters", their NM E cassette track tight and clear, just what you want for They're about being in love, about the dedication. whether our own Union Houses - and first song. It didn't sound much pop music, with Edwyn's vocals as girls you're in love with, about the Rumours "tickets on sale at 2 a.m." always so keen to embrace new ideas like anything I'd heard in the Nite clear as they could be the way he sings girls that don't love you. They make I'm told - I don't believe it. Who cares - would like the lead the way, with Club before. them. me happy lik e few other bands will if we spend a night in the cold? Heavy regard to this one. Take a bass player and a drummer With barely a break they leapt into ever do. like the way The Modern metal head bangers troop up and down playing simply and effectively, with a "Felicity", the nexi-disc free with the Lovers make me happy. They make the steps, negotiating the minefield of distinctly modern emphasis on the first single, but played with infinitely me smile and dance, and I'm not prostrate bodies. One of your eager reporters, beat. Add a guitar that jangles quietly more power and definition. A great alone. Enough people are going to It's now 9.15 p.m. and the mufned arriving too late to be allowed into in the background, and over that add dance song. smile and dance to make Orange Juice power chords of UFO permeate the Orange Juice on Saturday, was the voice. And it's the voice that is Do you really want me to describe pop stars, and Orange Juice singles walls. Ah well. at least I'm getting to treated to alternative Jive enter­ Aztec Camera. The songs revolve the Orange Juice sound? Its jangling hits. See them now, you can't afford to hear a gig for free. tainment, courtesy of a fascist round crooning, soulful vocals, guitars, tuneful and half-familiar, miss them. We'll have to share them Elcven-thiny. A rush from the back "skinhead" whose love for the NC was sounding like a jazz singer in relaxed thumping drums to get your feet round soon. passes me up the stairs, I grab my gear so great, he was willing to take on six mood. This band have more in involved, and Edwyn pop star vocals. One more thought as I looked at and go with the now. Fifty people have bouncers to obtain entry. The latter common with Love and Tim Buckley I'd complicate it to say much more. the four of them on stage, I thought passed me. At four 1ickets each, that's forcibly removed a hammer, a knife.a than they have with the Sex Postols, From The Ronettcs to The they would look great on a "Jackie" 200 tickets. The steps are slippery and truncheon arid much blood from the but that doesn't make them sound out Buzzcocks, Orange Juice, amongst centrefold. With that in mind, how covered in broken glass. Fights start. boy before throwing him out the glass of date. Just different. others. If vou _get the idea, get the can they go wrong? People arc angry. door - which he promptly booted in Now the police arrive-"Tickets on before being caught and handed over sale shortly" - another rush. A cop to the police. The imprisonment of asks me '' Who is Bruce S pring$teen?'' this guy - who had British "He's a rock performer, and he's Movement dyed on his hair in very popular," I offer, stating 1hc turquoise - will. we hope, reduce the obvious. number of fasc ist you ths in Downstairs Queue-jumping is rife. I point it out Ed inburgh to zero. an appropriate state of excitement. which highlight their sc1. However, and a cop tells me to shut up or I won't UFO packed the The distant whiff of something illegal UFO remain good entertainers - see the concert. So much for our Playhouse on reminds me that there is one way to they give the fans what they want guardians of fair play. enjoy these occasions ... the lights while remaining sincere in what I enter the gates of heaven (the Gigs of t'week Saturday, and Colin fade, the H M hordes make a final and they're doing. Mogg·s lyrics would be Playhouse box officc)aftcr being given We can't single out any one this successful charge to the front as the quite good if anyone li stened to them. the nod by St Pcter(a bouncer). My £24 week, what with The Passions and Macilwain took his band enter stage right a nd the show and they cannot be brackctted with is snatched. stuffed into a bulging cash Scotland's top three bands all begins. most H M drivel. box. performing! Try to catch what you head along for a The set opens quite slowly but the But, sod it. I can't enjoy this concert I survey the tickets with elation and can from .. bang single ··Lonely Heart" gets things along with everyone else. What bugs anger. Happy that I've got them,angcr The F reeze at Clouds tonight moving. A balance is struck between me is the ritual of it all . The lights, Phil that they should have been much (Thursday) - they are simply the best st uff from the new album "The Wild, Mogg's macho stance, the guitar further forward. "l hope Springsteen live band in the land. UFO have retained credibility. the Willing and the Innocent" and old poses and solos, the banging of heads. appreciates this," I say to Lheguynext The Passions at the Nitc Club on They have not been seen to woo stage favourites - the latter going the encores of "Rock Bottom", to me. ''I've been here 17 hours!" Friday, who are storming the chart s America. They have not gone out of down much better. "Doctor, Doctor'' a'nd "Shoot, "Really," he replies, ··t only go1 here with "German film Star", the their way to produce a hit single. They Visually bassist Pete Way, rather Shoot" (each of which we a ll knew at 7 p.m. tonight!" hypnotic beauty of which is typical of ha ve not employed idiotic clones to incredulously, takes on the role of a would b e u sed) - that's Twelve wasted hours. Are you ready their work. replace departed members. In the guitar he ro, ripping off every pose in enterta inment, I suppose, but not my to rock? The Exploited, at the C on HM / hard rock basket, these guys arc the book - including Townsend kind. On the other ha nd , the people off!" Saturday, the closest thing we have to good eggs. windmill "chords", and playing his here are the salt oft' earth, friendly, Graeme Wilson a "street" band· their fanatical In this frame of mind I enter the bass held up behind his head (centre peaceable and totally free of following will make this a night to cavernous passageways of the Play­ stage under spot light) during pretension. remember. There won't be any house. just in time to miss support act Chapman's guitar solos; the band's I left during "Shoot, Shoot" to trouble, by the way, so go along for a Fist, whom I'm told went down like management seem to have decided queue outside for Orange Juice. As Reality Asylum asked the bloke at laugh. the Dead Kennedys at a Democratic that the kids can't tell a bass from a the crowds poured out from the the very front of the Springsteen queue And Josef K and A Certain Ratio at Party convention. Our audience isn't guitar! ·r1ayhouse one guy yelled. sneeringly, why he was willin·g to pay six quid to Valentino's on Sunday; if you don't as discerning as it could be, but it still The twin lead guitarists arc always "Ha, ha, let's go and pose at the see the Great Man when the likes of win our fabby competition (above). wouldn't tolerate Fist's brand o f under the shadow of Mogg and Way. ite Club!" I could see his Elvis Costello kept prices down to £3 buy tickets in advance in record moronic crud for very long. UFO don't need Schenker the \Venker point, but his derision was misplaced. Our intrepid hippy, who had been shops. to save queueing on the night Twenty minutes chanting and foot­ but they do need an ··axeman" with If you look at both ··worlds'' sitting on the Playhouse steps for 50 If there's nothing there to your stomping precede UFO's entry, as the some character. They also need some objectively, it's pretty clear who's hours (sic), agreed we had a point. "I taste, we suggest you see a management gently tease the kids into new material to match the old son,gs missing out. actually prefer Costello," he confided. psychiatrist! February 5th 1981_ 15 Careers Column

The positive response is 10 prepare themselves - a Mand point developed For Sale: Two-volume Webster's oneself that litlle bit more thoroughly from experience. The material m the Dictionary; c8; reasonable condition. Advisory Service and to start this preparation a little pack therefore makes it easy for you Apply Jim Campbell, I Buccleuch earlier than might otherwise be to decide just what fac ilities you wish Place or 225 5104. looks at the necessary. The negative, and to use and when, and how to go about potentially disastrous, response is 10 th e many aspects you can progress for Casio Calculator with built-in digital 'Penultimate Year' close one's eyes and hope 1hat 1he yourself. On the other hand, when watch; good as new; £1 5. Also Tissot whole nasty dream wi ll go away. specific guidance is requested, it will Swiss watch - good working order The Careers Advisory Service is be forthcoming. £15. phone (Willem) 669 0231. taking particular steps this year to Paisley kicked the bucket. Alice Jell herself growing taller and identify and meet the needs of Reminder: Mars Money Raisers - save wrappers railer wlti/s1 rhe room grew smaller and penultimate year st udents. Those of Bookings are now being taken at for Milky Way, Bounty, Mars, Banjo, smaller. Noticing a small door in the you who have occasion to visit the the Careers Offices fo r the limited Twix, Marathon, Topic. Put them in corner, she just managed to squeeze Matriculation Office will have number of places on the " Insight into the bags under 'Money Raisers' through. Beyond was a summer garden received our letter inviting you 10 Management" course being run in posters to help towards open parks for where two couniers. looking make early acquaintance with our Edinburgh, 9th-12th April, children. Organised by ESCA. su.,t1icious/y like playing cards, were facilities. Mention is also made of an particularly for the benefit of playing croque1 usfog as mallets upside introductory pack which is available penultimate year students. This isa EU New Scotland Counlry Dance down DodoJ. one called "private to all penultimate year students (and pultimate year students. This is a Society urgently require a musician sector" 1he 01her "public sec1or". second year language students) from ·repeat of last year's outstandingly (fiddler or accordionist) to play for ''/ thought Dodos were ex1incr". said our offices at 33 Buccleuch Place or successful course. Scottish Country Dance classe on Alice. "Thor 1s possible", said 1he Mad the KB Union (first noor) from 1------, Thursday nights during term 7.30- l-lat1er. "Off with their heads", "'Monday 9th· February onwards. v,,' ee frees 8.30 pm. £2 per hour. For further shneked 1he Queen of Hearts. ''Soun This pack will enable you to see a details phone 556 0224. there will be no jobs at all", murmured typical calendar of steps in the careers Accomplished Violi nist (ex- Scottish KIRSTY & LYNNE'S DEPILATORY Alice. "You impeninent girt', said the search and to ensure that you do not Symphonia etc.) seeks experienced SERVICE - Dead of Night service Queen, "you are in a privileged miss crucia l datelines (some of which tambourinist and lead electric triangle with full entourage. Phone 225 5632 position". arc very earl y) with respect to your player to form new band. lnnuences - Our motto "We've shaved our legs, The penultimate year student may particular aspirations. The calendar include Bartek, Abba, Sabbath, etc. now what about yours'!" be forgiven for currently viewing the will also demonstrate 1ha1 by tackling Con-tact Hunky Dunky, 424 Turner FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE NEED· career prospect some 20 months the matter small step by step, starting House (667 1971 ext. 93). ED to launch satirical newspaper ahead as having dream like unreality, in good time, you can avoid the risk of (Pseudent) next year. Replies through and an unpleasant dream at that. The a paralysing cri sis in your final Drummer Wanted for visual punk/ Joy this organ, please. graduate, despite continuing in a autumn and spring terms. Division type band. Own kit/previous I NEVER COULD GET THE HANG privileged position in the job market, Beyond this, the pack demonstrates experience. Ring George 229 4340 OF THURSDAYS - Fridays & j faces a much tougher time. How our philosophy that students are best , after 6.30 pm (any day except Weds.) i Wednesdays Potterrow I should the student respond? helped by being encouraged to help THE STUDENT CROSSWORD

Lady Glenda Slagg's Diary

Well, well well, well well. What a I them do it. There is no truth in the week that has been my little acid rumour that last Wednesday's debacle drops. No sooner had I repaired to the was nothing more than a practice field inanicurist in search of repair {you'll trip. • ..... excuse my being awkward) than l was Now, soffie of you may ha Ve been at hearing of untoward "goings on" in a certain d rinks party in T .. s .. e Street the Grassmarket, normally an idyllic, last Friday where the hostess (avec le peaceful spot. mostest) spent much of the evening, The story _goes something like this. closely examing the necks of some of Some Criminologists from this very the male guests with a tongue which university were out on their bi-annual after four pints of mulled wine binge when something of a fracas resembled frost-bitten red cabbage. I developed among a few of their have been asked to make it quite clear normally highly intelligent numbers that this was in no way intended as after a less than intellectual tere a' teie debauchery, but is indeed an old between two or more "radical" North-East cusrom in which the leading lights. The landlord of the hosters whispers the rec ipe of her hostelry chosen fo r this prir:neval aphrodisiac punch in the ears of her prize-fight ~as so concerned abo"'ut his male guests so that they may ensnare nouveau T udor decor that he called their beloved partner (although upon the local constabulary (who usually somebody else's beloved have nerer fought shy of bringing partner) ln the tractor ho.me. I hope brawling ·etudiantes into line) for that's cleared that little m1s­ assistance. Well, a normall y reliable understanding up. sweeties. source Informs me that it took no Just as a final th0ught my little "SPORTING CHANCE" . fewer than five serge-cltl!I sons of nettle leaves; Glenda was wondering . Scotia to bring the situation under who exactly might be for the chop in what the authorities prefer to call the very necessary redundancies A them

DOWN Ship's entrance? (4, 4) George, the lr.,gendary Irish 12 star. (4) 3 More equitable. (6) 4 Prevented Laker's panner from getting into bed. (7) Intimidate heart-broken little tenor. (8) 16 Februarv 198 I

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Methodist Society Scottish Mcthsocs Talbol Rice Art Centre Paintings and Conference. 6th-8th Feb. · Water Colours by Ken Kiff. Until 7th Labour C lub meets every Friday at I Feb Mon-Sat JO am-5 pm. pm in the DHT Faculty Room North. All welcome. The Netherbow Arl Centre Ronald CNO meets every Tuesday at 7 pm in Rae: drawings of down and out. Until the Chaplaincy Centre. 28th Feb. Mo n-Sat 10 am-4 pm. EU Sailing Club Dinner Dance. 7th Feb. Allan Ramsay Hotel. Carlops. City Art Centre Percy Wyndham 7th Feb. Tickets £4.50 from Spartans tt - Lewis. Until 28th Feb. Mon-Sat 10 Club. am-5 pm. EU ew Scotland Country Dance Socicly. Due to SRC meeting all S tills Bevan Davies photographs. classes in Chaplaincy Centre Unt il 28th Feb. Tues-Sat 12.30 pm-6 auditorium 7.30 pm, social dance pm. afterwards. Poetry Society: Peter Porter, Writer­ The Scollish Gallery Works by in -Residence, will give a reading of his George Macpherson 7th-28th Feb. work at 9 pm in the Sparta ns C lub, Mon-Fri 10am-5pm,Sat I0am-1 pm. Buccleuch Street, on 5th February. after the meeting of the English The Scottish Gallery Works by Literature Society. Lindisfarne 9th Feb. Usher Hall. George macpherson. 7th-28th Feb. S haking Pyramids 5th Feb, Art EU Highland Society : Highland Mon-Fri 10am-5pm.Sat IOam-1 pm. annual tickets now available from D. College. The Freeze 5th Feb, Clouds. J. MacDonald (552 5085), 9.30-3.30, ABC (I) Adult Fairy Tales (X) 1.55, New 57 Gall ery Chrisian School: Passions 6th Feb, Nite Club. 27th Feb, Portobello Town Hall. 5.20, 8.55 and Young Lady Chatterley Etchings. Woodcuts and Schado­ Tickets £2. Buses arranged. The Ex ploi led 7th Feb. Nile Club. (X) 3.20, 6.50. (2) Any Which Way A Certain Ratio 8th Feb, Valentino's graphs. 7th-28th Feb. Mon-Sat. 10.30 EU Women's Group meeting: Painful You Can (A)) 1.05,4.05. 7.15(3) Flash am-5.30 pm. Periods, 5th Feb. I pm, DHT; 6th (Free 1icke1s 10 be won on p. 14). Gordon (A) 1.25, 4.30, 7.35 ' Feb, I pm, KB Union Committee The Scars 11 th Feb, Club 8 1 Caley Zombies (X) 4.00. 7.55 and Room; 9th Feb, 7 pm, Women's (Downstairs at the Astoria). Bare Knuckles (X) 2.15, 6.05, Wed. Centre, 61a · Broughton Street. 6.05 only 7th Feb. The Brood (X) and Bookstall, 11 am-2 pm, 6th Feb, DHT Blondie (X) from 8th Feb. Basement. Callon Sludios Babylon (X) 6.00 & EU Women's Dance Group- 11 th 8.30 Mon-Sat. Dirty Harry (X) Fri, Feb, 5.15 pm, Chaplaincy Centre. Sat, 11 pm. Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre: Open Cameo The Big Red One (AA) 4.20, meeting, 5th Feb, 8 pm, Womeo's 8.20 and The Jerocho Mile (AA) 2.30, 6.20 until 7th Feb. From 8t h Feb: Centre, 6 1a Broughton St. King's Theatre Babes in the Wood. Monster (X) and When a Stranger EU Pholographic Sociely: Studio Until 14th Feb. Mon-Sat 7 pm. Wed Nite; Lecture on technique with Calls (AA). and Sat 2.15 pm. chance to use studio equipment, 10th Classic The Life of La Derobade (A) Feb, 7.30 pm. New Societies Centre, 4.15, 8.05, and Swedish Confcs~ions Royal Lyceum Habeas Corpus until 7 60 Pleasancc. (X) 2.25, 6. 15 . Feb. Mon-Fri 7 .30 pm. Sat 4 pm and 8 Magnum Force (X) 11 pm. Fr; rlay . Mediaeul Soc "The Middle Ages in pm. Macbeth from I Ith Feb, Mon-Fri Dominion (I) Airplane (Ap.:;o, 5.00. the Eyes of the Reformers" A talk by Royal Scottish Museum Lecture 7.30 pm. Sal 4 pm and 8 pm. Dr P. Ma1heson, Fae. of Divinity. Theatre Neutrons and Crystals: a 7.45. (2) Being There (AA) 3.05. · .35, Thurs 5th Feb, rm. 139 WRB, 7.45 lecture by William Cochran, Dean of 8.10. (3) The Goodbye Girl (A) 3.00, Playhouse Scottish Opera I th-14th pm. the Science Faculty. Thurs 51h Feb., 5.20, 8.00. Feb. Lucia di Lammermoor, 10th and Children's Holiday Venture invile you 7.30 pm. Filmhouse Breaking Away (A) Wed. 13th; La Bohcmc, I Ith and 14th; The to a free Cheese and Wine Lunch on 4th-Sat 7th Feb. 6.15, 8.30. My Barber of Seville, 12th. Thurs. 51h Feb. at I pm. WRB rm 17 Royal Scottish Geographical Soc. Iran American uncle (Mon Oncle New members especially welcome. - Land and People. Lecture by Dr d'Amerique) (A) Mon 9th -Sat 14th Ch ur c bh ill Thca.tr c Scottish Meeting on 11 th Feb and Dinner on Ian R. Morrison, Usher Ha ll. Fri 121h Feb. 6.00, 8.30. Late night Subliee Community Drama Association Sth- 25th Feb. Info: Jerry Pratt 667 1971 Feb. 7.30 pm. (X) Fri, Sat 11 pm. 7th Feb, 7.30 pm. Balkt Performance, ext. 157, or Kenny Curtis 447 1485. Odeon The Dogs of war (AA) Final · 9th Feb, 7.30. Children's Holiday Venture General Sri C hinmoy. Soc. The Si lent Week 2.25. 5.20, 8.25. meeting on Wednesday 1st Feb at Teaching: a talk on meditation by Playhouse One Flew Over the 7.30 pm in 31 Hillside Street (off author Alan Spence. Tues ·1ot h Feb. Cuckoo·, Nest (X) until Fri, 6th Feb. Bedlam Theatre Grimaldi - a clown London Road). Proposed committee 7.30 pm. Faculty Room South, DHT 6.15, Sat only 11 pm. late night show by the Scottish Mime Theatre. changes will be voted on and all (Admission Free). Pasolini's Canterbury Tales (X) Thur. 9th Feb 7.30 pm. Man.kind and members are strongly encouraged to Fri, 11 pm. No films next week. Thru'Penny Bits 3rd-7th .. Feb 8 pm attend. Pub lunches as usual in the Roya l Anthropo logica l Institute Red star C inema Netherbow High and 10 pm. Gold Tankard, East Crosscauseway. Romanian Ri1ual Dance: a film and Street Black Brittanica and igt Fag. Information. Jeremy Pratt, Cowan talk by Mrs Anca G1urchescu. Fri 6th Fri 6th Feb, 8.00. Sat 7th Feb 5.00, House. Pollock. 667 91 I Feb, 7.30 pm. Conference Room 8.00 Eas1-West Centre 24 Richmond DHT. Ril z Adult Fairy Tales (X) 2.25, 5.40. Terrace, 337 7879. Wholefood 8.55 and Young Lady Chatterle y (X) Cooking: course of five consecutive Lothian Community Relations Council 3.45, 7.00. Tuesdays, starting 10th March 6.30 Racism - Some Definitions: by Ram pm, cost£ 17 .50 with supper. Intensive Kaushal. Fri 6th Feb. 2 pm Room 55, course: Introductory day Sat 7th Feb Main Building, Mo ray House. 10 am-5 pm, £7 with lunch. Advanced Some Definitions of Racism: by Ram cookin g day: Sun 8th Feb I0am-5 pm, Kaushal, Fri 6th Feb, 7.30 pm, Room £7 with lunch. Open Ho use: every 401 D HT. 5th February Thursday, 6.30 pm. Four course wholefood meal, £2 (phone an\J book Edinburgh Medical Group Schizo­ Playhouse Royal Welsh Male Choir in to in advance). Thur 5th Feb, dinner phrenia - Ri ghts and Respo nsibi­ concert. 7t h Feb. 7.30 pm. followed by talk: Dairy Food - lities of Patient and Family: lunchtime 11th February Friend of Foe. talk by Prof. J. W. Wing, Fri. 6th Feb, Usher Hall SNO: Mozan, Liszt. The Ge rman Soc is presenting two I pm, Small Lecture Theatre, Royal Tuesday: Chambers St. Folk Night Beethoven. Richard Strauss. with 1981 plays 'Das Toten belt mit Happy end" Edinburgh Hospital. an·d Spirits Happy Hour. Mark Elder and Elizabeth Leonskaja. a twenties black comedy, and Technology. Human Be ings and Wednesday: New Potterrow Disco 6th Feb, 7.30 pm . Schubert, 'Pickclhcrring' a bawdy Baroque Health Care: Half-day Conference, and Record Club. Late Bar until Shosvakovich and Brahms wi1h farce on I lth-l3th Feb, 7.30 pm in Sat. 7th Feb, 9.30-1 pm. Student midnight. Entry free until 10 pm. Beglurd, Vanden Eyndcn and Jenner. Adam House Thea1re. Fri. 13 th Feb, Health Centre Basement. Friday: Student Centre House - Live 13th Feb, 7.30 pm. 'Faschrigfest' aim 'Theaterball' with Band and Disco with Happy Hour disco and ceilidh. Chanbers St. union 8.30 pm. Late licence until I am. Entry Queens Hall Meadows Chambei Ballroom, 8.30 pm. Tickets for both free before 8 pm, Teviot Row House Orchestra. Peter !::vans. conductor, available, 9th Floor DHT. - Friday Night Disco and live bands George Caird, oboe and Malcolm in the Debating Hall. Live Band and Martineau. piano. 8th Feb, 7. 45 pm. Disco in the Park Room. Friday Scottish Baroque Ensemble. Os1an lunchtime in the Park Room, selection Ellis, Harp 10th Feb. 7.45 pm. of Jazz and Blues Bands. Entry Free. Lunchtime Concert , O!.ian Eilts. Saturday: Chambers Street I louse - Harp. I Ith reb. 1.10 pm. Supertrog Disco and Live Band, 30/­ Sutts. 50p entrance. Teviot Ro w French lni litulc- ln ~tr umcntal House - Folk Night in the Tniot Gre) hound Racing: P o wde r hall ense mble. Work\ include Prokolic,, Row Bar. entry free Stadium, 5th Feb, 7.30 pm. Straus~. O\'0rak. 9t h 1:cb. 8 pm Sundays Teviot Row Hou!\e - Folk Rugby: Henot's FP v Cardiff, Night in the Tniot Room; Bnng Goldenacrc, 6th Feb. Edinburgh Augustin e ConJ.!rcgational Hall along your own ms1rument - a Acadcmicali v Stewart's Melville. GC'Orge I\ BrnJgc. 'l'\'C go1 a little selecuon of random artists Raeburn Place Roval High \ Lisi!' Alan Uwck1c. l'.dmbmgh Tetfot Row Cinama I-kiter Skelter and Hawick, Jod.. 's Lodge. Watsonians v Gramaphvnc Souct). 10th l·cb. l.l0 Up in Smoke, Thur 5th hb. 7.30 pm Glasgo" High. All 7th Feb pm. and Sun. 8th Feb. 245 pm Foo1ball: Hibernian\ Dundee, FaMt:r Frida): Potterro\\ lip~ta1rs Road, 7th Fch. 3 pm LniH·r\ih \tar11n lli:rkofsk\', Pian•) l>re,,urc. downstairs - Disco, with (ricktt: :\at1onal Indoor Sn:-a-Sidc 5th 1-cb." '.JO p. H.c1d Con~i:n Hall. beer and spirit~ lL.1pp) Hour, late Compcti11on. \-!ciidowhank, 8th F<'b, Organ Rcc11.1I. \\ ight lknl.kr~on Nh licence until 1 am I:! noon. I h·b. I. 10 pm. i\kl:\\i.lll llall.