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LEEDS it INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER LUU PA1 1N FULL? Negotiators haggle for the remaining £30,000 LUU and the University arc still in negotiation on the remaining £30,000 of proposed Union funding cuts after last week's occupa- tion of physics/admin forced the University authorities to abandon £85.000 of the original cash reduction. And Exec arc still hopeful proposed cut directly contra- that they can secure a 'no-cuts' dicted University assurances deal at forthcoming Senate and given in 1986r7 that there would Council meetings. he no reduction in LUU's funds --That 0(000 is earmarked for three years. Now the Uni- for future projects,- Finance versity want to retain a much Secretary Tony Austin told reduced three per cent of this Leeds Strident. -and although year's agreed funding. there will now he no immediate LUU s relations with the cuts in Union services. they will Uniyersit% remain strained this suffer heavily if the money does week. with Germaine Varney not come through." and the LUU representatives But the mood in Exec was walking out of a Senate meeting • Occupying students gathered on red route at noon last Friday to decide whether the protest should go on After 24 jubilant early this week with the on Wednesday after Vice Chan- hours an estimated 600 students voted to terminate the occupation Union claiming a major victory cellor Edward Parkes refused members of the Union Exec for Were simply ignored. they were disgusted at the vice against the University's funding to allow her to speak. 15 minutes." the angry general "Ws riot just students who chancellor's actions.- 'U-turn'. "fie allowed One University secretary said, -yet when we were annoyed at this - Uni- John Rigby The original 12 per rent speaker to slanderit.ua. I tried to put a statement we versity staff have told us that Andrew Harrison £3,000 damages: time to pick up the pieces Leeds Universit) Registrar's -The people who did this can doors on occupied leyels was Office say that last week's only he described as mindless just malicious.- she said- occupation cost the University juvenile delinquents. - - It was not USE a test 0.000 and five lost working Andrew Brookes. Deputy p heads. It any es idenee is days. Registrar. told Lents Criii/ent found of anybody who did this. And LUU will have to pay that he thought neither the Uni- they will he charged for it." for the repairs. yersity not the Union had anti- forty Anson says that .111V Although LUU security cipated the extent of the damage payments Will come out forced doors on the Iwo occu- damage trailing operations pied levels under authority for -Our impression is that there surplus. Exec. unknown 'occupiers' also war-- a good deal mote damage -The' c en ill he Ili) at!, in set- ripped telephones out and des- in this sit-in than in any oilier \ tees to pa\ the I. 'IliVVF`,111, ... he troyed their sockets. Some prey iously . insisted. doors on other levels were also -. !he cost for this alone is \\.c estimate, I 1 own kicked in. tiling cabinets high. but the cost in terms of costs in scout \ and ,applies to broken into and papers des- mock lost is considerably high- he around t. 10,00o. as \ arney troyed. er. especially as the stall are told Tuesday's 061.1 where .1 'They poured ink into office already pressed and will have to SWSS sponsored motion to rc . drawers. smashed personal make a consalei able effort to some an indefinite occupation effects belonging to tIniversity catch up.- was crushingly defeated. ,tall and carved slogans into She said that the Union had desks. The University. is current k achie\ ed what it had set out to. Finance Secretary Tony. Au- making a 1111A1 but couldn't afford to hay e stin says that once he realised the tIdIllitgC to pass 011 to :mother occupation with the that rooms outside the 'occu- whose t‘ec also rontlertmed same ley el of damage. pied zone' on levels ti and I the destruction. Germaine Va- Ehc Union members voted were being wrecked. he tried to ne\ . General Secretary. agreed overwhelmingly against that.- secure all (loins in the test of that the Union hadn't antici- she said the physicsiadmm block pated the level of damage. • As the night draws on the occupiers start exchanging life stories over a drop o "But hs this time it %Yds large- -The damage to the tele- Marlyn Ziegler the hard stuff Another pm. page three. ly too late.- he -.aid, phone,. filing cabinets and the John Rigby BRING ME BED A JOURNO SPORT CHRIMBO CHRIMBO THE HEAD „ MONTEGO Football INSIDE Rick (A Stiey See Page - Fanzines CHRIMBO The FilFThe Fat and The Ugly: Here at Leeds Student we Robert °Ilford. Tim Peel, Beth ain't afraid to name names. Roman. Mark Murphy. Hayley Lee. So here they are — the 150 or Andrea Evans, Simon Sanders. Ian so torture merchants who Cusak, Simon Cleave. have been dishing out the dirt left right and centre on anything that moves for the last ten weeks. Note them SPORT down and go out and give ' k Morrison. Kate Bruce, 'em hell. Have a Merry CI lode James, Jonathan Green Christmas (sic) and well see E Rickwood, Paul Hartley. Steve you next term. Famworth, John Steed. Andy Spriggs. Mark Green, Dervla Cotcluff, Stuart Gadd. Sam Lever. NEWS James Berman. Mike Rabbitt, Sue Cotl,er fiot-tin Perrie. Hindpal Amanda Metcall, Simon Bro6ev. Shur Stet( Tarter'. Lesley Charlotte James. Stuart Grireseii, Maitland. Torn Walker, Steve Steve Chalk. Mick Helm Pet tett. Tang Umer..Alex Gardiner. Nigel Down. Kate Marsh. Vicky Osborne. Tan Whirwelt, Julie Thorne Mandy Dunn, Justine Owen. John Armstrong. Debbie FEATURES Harries Philippa Sham. Emma Damion Earle, Victoria Srnith, Ian Tomkinson, Nick Freemantle Connatighton. Sophie Jackson. Jeremy Coleman, Karen Thornton. Pippa Corner, Dave Hampson, Jasmine Gideon, Donal Crawford, Bernadette Kehoe. Sir Edward Simon Rugg Parkes, Alison Walker, Graeme Caveney. Martin Ross, Rob Guhas Suzy Tutchell, Pauline Letson. ARTS Venessa Jones, Eduardo Tim Whelehan. Ashley Allen. Gonclazes, Joe Mcrea, Adrian PHWVVOQOAAARR! I I eh? Back row: Nick 'Crossword' boy' Higginbottom, Roger James Frieze. Andy Moore, Ben Wright, Jonathan Senker. Steve eh? What a SEXY SHOWER of Grandige, Pete 'These' Oxley, 'Mollie' Lakin Hopkins, Duncan Murray. Guy Hicks STUDENT STOCKING FILLERS David 'Hat' Crellin, Rich And the next bloody row.. Hemphill. Use Howling, Pauline eh? 'FORE!' Timm's, Lisa Barn- Martin 'Yasser Arafat' Ross, Tomlin, Andrew Elishahof, f, ber's forehead. Susan 'Happy' Sharon 'Edward' Parke. Tim you'd like Father Amanda Inyerariaty, Sue Yau, We reckon Beenstock, Rob 'Better late 'Sting' Ray, Sarah 'Another hat' Mark Jackson, Laurence PHOTOS Christmas to bring any of 'em than never' Stannard Mann, Anne-Marie 'Brum' Whelehan, Paul Ogden. Simon Harrison. an Glatt. Joe down on Christmas Eve. Levan, Helen 'Thin white duke' Next row: Chris 'Don Cor- Hickey. Arne- Frornezoni, Lee McGregor. And you can use this piccy as leone' Donlon, John 'Bites yer Turner, Nigel Oakley Next to last row: Gulam BOOKS a HANDY-DANDY COP-OFF legs' Rigby, Tom 'Follow that 'Saatchi' Uddin, Andrew Gill Foreman. Nigel Yates. guide for the spring term. ambulance' Whitwell, Jo 'Billy' 'Scouse git careerist ta'•"' Har- Matthew Wooton, Jim Smith, Just tick each cheeky young Braggs, Helen 'Very tall' Saker, rison, Martyr) 'Weasel' Ziegler, Sarah Such scamp off as you 'collect' them Guy 'Boots' Millard, the legen- WHAT'S ON Adam 'You baton' at me pal?' and then bring your pie, with dary NEIL AMOS!! Alayne Addy. Kate Bruce. Caitlin Batstane, Mark 'Easy Rider' Ferris. Girly. corroborative signatures, to the MUSIC Leeds Student office Next row - Graham 'Scalpel!' Wright. Pete 'Want to see Paul Greco. Angela Swinn. Mark Alexander, Rachel 'Bovis' some puppies?' Finan. Little. Martin Baker. Alex Moffat, FIRST ONE TO GET THERE Brewster. Gay 'Distracted' Front 'row': Jay 'Human Jim Howard. Paul Spence, Gill WINS AN AUSTIN MON- Flashman, Karen 'Concentrat- Schnorbitz' Rayner, Kieran 'I Harvey, Paula Shutkever, Niger MISCELLANEOUS TEGO!!! Hackney. Jo Cutter John Quinn. Sharon Gilham, Trasy Choles, ing' Thorn(e), Emma 'Follow took this picture and had to run A Hulme. Vee, Simon Breed. Alexa Gescher, Jessica Moffatt. A selection from this year's that fire engine' Brown, Peni like the clappers to get on it' Peter Chapman, Paul Keedwell. Sue Levy, Pat Gordon-Smith. 'team' 11-r) (sic) Mawson. Adam laffing Dodd. 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Everyone is sat protest at the Labour-controlled around 11w TV watching 'The council's decision to appoint not Wizard of Oz' for the 15th time.