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fRLBOTRKE± GLASGOW GALLERY II HERALD Old College MODERN PRIMITIVES AWARD 26 Oct-23 Nov Ap exhibition of paintings and WINNER sCulpture of a highly personal STUDENT nature by self-tat4ght artists. Mon-Sat IO am-5 pm 1985 14.11.85 Edinburgh University Student Newspaper 20p police called to Labour eeting EU Labour Club took a controv­ 'al decision in inviting a member ~ Sinn Fein to speak at its open ,weeting on Friday. The event brought in a large audience, but quickly disintegrated into a mass of shouted interruptions from a small ,umber of the audience, and was finally broken up by Mike Devlin as four policemen arrived in case of further violence breaking out. An ashtray had been thrown at the speaker. The Labour Club stressed thattbe speaker Jim McAllistair bad been invited because they felt it The Merry Macs the Edinburgh was important for students to "hear University based cabaret trio lhe views of a significant section of whose successful run o n the Fringe this year led to their nomination for \he nationalist movement which the coveted Perrier Award and as been consistently censored by appearances in Covent Garden. ccessive British governments". talk to Naomi Marks about their Meanwhile, protesters handed out act. eaflets condemning both "Sinn fein Murders" and theLabour -page14 Club. Exhibition Conor Foley, from the Labour £1500 FOR Committee on Ireland, who were orga nising the speaking tour, Centre talked first , describing the objec­ tives of the Committee and of the our. He said that there had been no trouble at the meetings they had attended so far and he hoped this one too, would proceed in an orderly way. By the end of his LEUKAEMIA speech, however there had been veral outbursts and it was clear Following the leukaemia cheque personally and to partici­ cause involving both leukaemia and that that was not going to be the appeal launched in support of pate in the continuing 870 mile walk Ian Botham." case. the Leukaemia Road Runners to Lands End . . In reply to those who have criti­ The total was raised in just five cised Botham for using the walk as Celebrity Walk by David Yar­ An ardent fan gets carried away at days as the need to reach the widest publicity stunt to counter recent The disruptions grew louder row in Student on 31st the UB40 concert at the opening of once Jim McAllistair began speak­ public possible in the shortest time bad press, Yarrow adds, "The the Scottish Exhibition and Con­ ing and continued throughout bis October, a cheque for almost was realised. The appeal was ')Ot Walk is of course mutually benefi­ ference Centre in October. Alas­ speech, which he delivered calmly £1,50.0 was handed over to a aimed merely at students but rather cial but is by no means a marriage of tair Dalton examines the implica­ and without reference to the pro­ delighted Ian Botham on at the entire community culminat­ .convenience. tions that the centre has for Central. Scotland. testations , even as an ashtray flew behalf of Edinburgh Univer­ ing in a collection in Edinburgh · Special thanks go to Phil Cope­ at him from the audience and shat­ sity, while still more donations . pubs. land and AIESEC for their dona­ -page 12 tered off the .wall behind his head. On the great success of the tions. Four policemen arrived towards are expected. appeal, its organiser David Yarrow the end, fearing further violence, Student representatives travelled commented, "I can't think of an Presidents' Ball question time was curtailed, and to Biggar ·1ast week to present the easier task than to collect for a Christine Clough the meeting prematurely broken up. • Conservatives boycott SRC Council Meetings Meanwhile, at their first public

;:et:~!Organisati tti~t~e:tin~~~t~att~on made clear their::~; dis- 01· srupt1· ve act1· on lppolri intment of the coming Anglo- sh talks.

th Addressing an audience of 50, Se gu_est speaker, Rev. Martin The system of student rep­ A spokesman said their main sity Conservative Association , S111de111 brings you the lurid derails myth (MP , South Belfast), spoke resentation already under concern was the system of the denied that they had a specific pol­ of what reallv went on -at the brain­ out. against the proposed talks attack from the Conservative closed shop, presently operating in icy toward the SRC, other than stunningly dodgy Pose of lhe Year. Which will be "seeking to provide a government, now faces inter­ Universities, which means students ignoring its proceedings. If a Con­ See Alexis for gossip on page 3 and role for the Irish Republic in North­ automatically become members of servative student stood for election the Music Pages (pages 6 and 7) for nal disruption,' with the allega­ the reviews. ern Ireland." a student union. onto a committee, they did so as tion thatConservative mem­ The FCS considered this unre­ individuals. \l>rWhile .he fe lt there was nothing bers of the Student Representa. . ong Wtth the idea of "a Council presentative as it denied the funda­ But Mr Shepherd said his own Contents tive Council are boycotting mental right of choice, which they personal view of the student rep­ News 2,3,4 IVtthnhi eig· hbo urs" (that is to say, the have constantly stressed to tfie resentative system was that it failed Comment s ,/h Re~ublic), he firmly rejected meetings. Government. in its objective, because of the Letters 4,5 0q COunc1l between nations where The criticism was brought by Law .Faculty rep and Labour stu­ As a matter of policy they would limited number of students either Music 6, 7 II\> e claims territorial possession dent Joanna Cherry and seconded "encourage all Conservative stu­ involved or interested. He pointed What's On 8,9 er another. " 10 by Paul Greatrix, chairman of dents to disengage from the corrupt out that SRC rarely has a full atten­ Film II, 12 tioAsked about any short term solu­ theLabour Club, at a recent council processes of student unions." dance. Arts II meeting. Mr Greatrix claimed that When Student questioned the Mr Shepherd's lack of interest in Classical Music lol~ to Northern Ireland, the MP Exhibitions II end Student tltat the only way to certain members of the Federation FCS on the me !!l loyed by the SRC was not shared by Joanna II its members, would Cherry. Ms. Cherry maintained Theatre I~ t~e conflict is to countet the of Conservative Students elected Features 12, 13, 14 support any that Council members were obliged be de rst - and the latter cannot last May had no intention of turning Small Ads 12 ltep fbel~ted by closer links with the up to Council Meetings. vidingit WO to represent the students who had Opinion 13 u 1cans bothered to elect them. Student contacted the FCS office student fram Writings IS ~ McN~ught in Lon:don to find out their opinion Sport 16 ShuMeag on student representation. Lorraine Telford 2 STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1985

'.\cws Rifkind damns Drugs alcohol links apartheid Alcohol, Drugs and School The report also revealed disturb­ should not expect miracles. Leavers is the book resulting ing facts about pupils when they "People have to ha~e a ~~re reaHs­ Speaking to Edinburgh Univer- said that measures designed 1, were first questioned in 1979. tic set of expectations, he said, sity Conservative Association on destroy the South African econorn from a new survey by Edin­ 1 burgh Universty researchers Nearly half the boys and a third of "there is no magic solution." Monday, Foreign Office Minister either would not work, as ha)} the girls, aged 15 and 16, had had a "Health education in schools Martin Plant, David Peck and Malcolm Rifkind emphasised the pened in Rhodesia after 1966, Ot drink the previous week - the boys does not yet been made into _an Conservative Party's abhorrence or else "an economic wilderness" OI Elaine Soamuel. The book is had drunk the equivalent of nine effective method of deterrmg South African apartheid. no good to either black or white unique in Britain in that the pints and the girls half as much. people from taking drugs; it serves Mr Rifkind, an Edinburgh would be created. 1000 Lothian Children from More disturbing still, some were only to whet their appetites," he graduate and MP for Edinburgh The Minister's talk looked at Bn. both private and state schools drinking in the morning to steady commented. And indeed research Pentlands, said that differences of tain's reputation in foreign attain who were interviewed in 1979 their nerves, arriving at school with· revealed that the pupils who had opinion about South African sane- ·around the world. "Quite ofteo about multiple drug addiction hangovers or missing school been given alcohol education at tions are not about the system people assume that when Britair altogether as a result of-drinking. at the ages of 15 and 16 were school went onto become heavier When the same teenagers were drinkers than those who had not. interviewed again four years interviewed four years later the Television warnings would seem --- later to discover how drinking researchers found that there were to be equally ineffective - "they and drug-taking patterns had still heavy drinkers but they were are water off a duck's back", said changed. not necessarily the same people. Dr Plant. "Young people try drugs . "The most forbidding result of However those who were now out of curiosity and encouragement the survey" said Dr. Plant, senior using illegal drugs had been heavy by friends. It is sometimes a gesture research fellow in the Department drinkers at 15 and 16. of defiance." of Psychiatry, "was that although Dr Plant is sceptical about solv­ Finally, and somewhat encourag­ the unemployed are not drinking ing the problem. Although it has ingly, Dr Plant commented that tnore than other people, they are existed since the sixties, people are students are not a particularly drug using more illegal drugs." And the still not aware of its extent. "It's a orientated group, either with likely trend of increasing closely guarded secret" he said, tobacco, alcohol or drugs. unemployment gives urgency to the "many people do not know about Prue Jeffreys need for facilities to help them. it." He added that those who do

AGM proposals published Pretentious? Moi? Photo: Simon Groom itself. "No Conservative," he said, ceased to have an empire, a large "let alone a Conservative Govern­ ,proportion of its foreign policy dis By Friday afternoon's deadline, dating the students responsible for government, and opposition to the ment, can fail to see that apartheid appeared. This is simply untrue, a ten motions had been presented for the 'Underpants for Africa' hoax to possibleclosure of Ravenscraig and in South Africa is abhorrent. The 'Britain still has an enormo debate and discussion at the EUSA contribute £100 to the Edinburgh Gartcosh, as well as a proposal prospect for peaceful change is not amount of influence around th .Annual General Meeting on Student Charities Appeal. Prop­ regarding the use of recycled paper. high, and gets less every year, but world." He reflected that, as a nu November 25th. They range from oser John Petrie said he felt it was Matters of international insignifi­ as far as the British Government is Iear power, we were a lead in condemnation or the students who "important for students to register cance are covered by motions on concerned, it is a question of member of NATO and one of fiv perpetrated the 'Underpants for their objections to an insult to the Palestine, the nuder arms race, and whether we want to see peaceful or permanent members of the Unite Africa' joke to a proposal to rename starving of Africa." the unrest in South Africa. violent change in South Africa." Nations Security Council. the Student Centre. Subjects for other motions Discussing sanctions; Mr Rifkind Devion Scobi One of these motions, proposed included a Scoitish Assembly local Tenny Dunn by David Duncan and seconded by Sports Union President Mark Loughlin, draws attention to Glas­ gow Rangers and their "sectarian Council cracks down Keith to policy in that they do not sign Catholics". The motion was inspired by on slum landlords Rector Archie McPherson's con-. reconsider demnation of Rangers' policy at a The City of Edinburgh District Councillor Wood said that the thrown onto the streets. recent Politics Society talk. David council is stepping up its campaign people who suffered most often If the "slum landlord' racket is Duncan said that they would like to outlaw the practice of "slum were the single homeless. In gen­ outlawed, she feels more people loan the Rector's full support "as this landlords" and it has gained the eral she found that the standard of will be willing to rent out available will draw wider attention to the support of Mr Alex Fletcher, Con­ student accommodation was quite accommodation. In the meantime issue." servative MP for Edinburgh Cent­ high. . the council has promised to offer As well as Condemning Rangers, ral. Iain Catto, SRC Accommoda­ the tenancy of a council house to proposals the motion ( a copy of which has Councillor Frances Wood gave tion Convener, said he·knew of no anyone who finds themselves been forwarded to the club) aims to examples of how some people were students who were the victims of homeless as a direct result of the The Government's failure to pro forbid the sale of Ran~ers' mer­ paying for a mattress in a room with "slum landlords" but he '~ould chandise or ihe recognition ot an) bye-laws. duce its review of financial suppor six or seven others. In some cases as obviously support the council's, Rangers' supporters society within The support of Mr Fletcher is for students, has led some people« many as 15 to 20 people were forced campaign to improve the stadnard the University. seen as an important breakthrough. the view that the government won' to share the same toilet. She is look­ of rented accommodation in Edin­ A matter closer to the wallet of The council believes that he will be now consider introducing loans a ing for bye-laws which would mean burgh. the average student is a mention able to take the case to George tuition fees. that rented accommodation would t.frgeting the so-called 'Fowler Councillor Wood said that the Younger and with his help Council­ Moreover it looks as if Sir Keitl have to come up·to set minimum bye-laws would be mainly aimed Review' on social security reform. at lor Wood feels confident that she Joseph has been forced to recon standards. At present the council a few large-scale landlords who 1 It is proposed by Accommodation can get the necessary bye-laws pas­ sider his proposals. At least that can do very little because these owned a great deal Convener lain Catto, and attacks of property. She sed in tl\e House of Commons. the view of David Clark, Nauon1 "slum landlords" are within the denied that the proposed bye-laws Affairs Convener on Edinburgh\ .the intention to declare students· law. ineligible for housing benefit. would mean that people would be Guy Fisher SRC. He feels that the introductiol Other motions include one man- of loans and the abolition of gran! is no longer forseeable. In order to put yet more pressun on the government, the NUS 1 Bray attacks Gartcosh closure •encouraging student unions ti tackle those MPs in marginal con stituencies, where it is essential tdh~ they keep the student vote in or er The proposed closure of the close it in 1982 and then to the cially foolish on the part of BSC and to keep their majority. . ~ Gartcosh strip mill, a decision attempts of Ian McGregor to amal­ which, if implemented, could politically dishonest on the part of However as Edinburgh 1s n~ gamate with American Steel. The government." It is dishonest to affiliated to the NUS, no su It jeopardise the continued existence Uartcosh proposalis simply a con­ of Ravenscraig, Scotland's last steel guarantee the future of action will be taken. However, ~ol tinuation of this policy. Ravenscraig in one breath, and SRC plan to launch an Educa!I plant, was the subject of a speech The Labour MP also challenged by Dr Jeremy Bray, Labour MP for order the closure of its major Campaign next term. They k! the reasons for closing Gartcosh, lifeline in the next. issue will be the state of educau,e Motherwell South, at the Politics claiming that the British Steel Cor­ Society on Friday. He argued that Stressing that the rigorous cam­ as a whole, although a defi~i' poration's figures on production paign to save Gartcosh would con-· attempt will be made to ensure 1~ as Gartcosh is Ravenscraig's largest and demand were subject to severe single customer taking over a quar-· tinue, Dr Bray sounded a rather students are aware of ALL Gove d criticism and warranted an inde­ gloomy_warning, forecasting that ment cuts, not just those that affe \ ter of its output, its closure would pendent review. He also con­ put extreme pressure on "under the present government'. grant levels. · vii demned the shortsighted profit our chances are not bright". If Ravenscraig's viability. motive of the BSC, which he Indirect attacks on students the Dr Bray views the proposed clo­ Gartcosh is allowed to go under the unions example could be thil claimed, "was putting private profit Ravenscraig will surely follow with sure of Gartcosh as a deliberate ·above the national interest". ·Government's next move. lnaov· a projected loss of some 10,000 move fo undermine Ravenscraig Surely at this time, he argued, way, David Clark believes the her! Jobs. Once it has been closed, it which, he argued, the· government jobs and continued production of ernment could make the c~t~ w the would be impossible to reopen. have wanted closed for over five steel would be of greater national it wanted, without under ming a.Jlf years. To back this claim he pointed service. He thus condemned the traditional Tory vote of rn to the attempts of Patrick Jenkin to parents. Gartcosh decision as "commer- NeilFors~h Sally surltol ., STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1985 3

Police ealled to debate Students police were called to the Chap­ Freed by the saner element in the had the desired effect, as his tone laincy Centre last Thursday night room, the actors left, having added became slightly more excited and hen JI debate between representa­ substantially to an already charged he soon finished, to rapturous ~ves of the Revolutionary Com­ atmosphere. applause. reminded ~unist Party and the Federation of Chairman of the debate, Simon Question time was a rather one­ Conservative Students threatened McGrath, had to appeal for calm in sided affair with Frank Durkin at 10 get violent. the room before inviting Frank the receiving end. Most points were over a hundred poeople had Durkin of the RCP to speak. He vehemently made by mostly drunk to apply crammed into one of the seminar was heckled almost immediately, members of the public who did at rooms to hear the RCP and FCS but was allowed to make his least manage to make Durkin COi)· debate the motjon: 'This liouse speech, if only just. Supporting the fuse himself about his attitudes to believes that the lRA are freedom niotion , Durkin attacked the " im­ violence. Such was the lack of fighters , not terrorists'. With opin­ perialism" of the British in North­ blaance in the patently aggressive for grant ion polarised before the debate ern Irelapd and repudiated claims questions, however, that one per­ tha 1,egan , it took very little for th.e pro­ the IRA and Sinn Fein lacked son shouted fr.om the back, "Talk EUSA's Education and Welfare ceedings tq get heated, but m the s~bstantiDundee East, summit conference between Mr gave his opinion of, "the role of the AndArchie had a good time on Reagan and Mor Gorbachev is-due SNP in a hung Parliament." Friday night as well. His tasteful to take place next Tuesday and Mr Wilson was insistent that tarten jacket was only matched by Wednesday. these is still a major role for the his super-duper jokes about AIDS. Prof. Erickson also said that he SNP in Scotland, despite the bitter Mrs Archie put herself about a bit hoped that there would be further disappointment of the 1979 devolu­ as well. The last time I saw her she negotiations soon about the possi­ tion referendum, and subsequent was strutting her stuff with a local b1hty of rescheduling this year's ·decline in party support. The SNP drunk in the Park Room. Getting to deferred Edinburgh Conversa­ leader conceded that after defeat in know hubby's electorate. I surmise. llons. the referendum , the SNP suffered The Conversations are annual from a temporary loss of confi­ Cheese discussion meetings between scien­ dence and credibility, and desper­ llfic and academic representatives ately needed to rethink its image of Britain , the USSR, and the and strategy. Who let that greasy looking USA. This year's Conversations Though stressing that the SNP photographer set up shop? And Were due to be held here at the Uni­ remains, " uncompromisingly in Seems Jike a nice nationalist why did a certain Permanent Sec­ versity in September but were favour of Scottish Independence" retary need six copies of his young deferred as a result of the series of as its ultimate objective, Mr Wilson a hung Parliament was a realistic Ravenscraig, the exclusion of female friend and himself. Perhaps ~y expulsions from London and stated that it is now willing to accept possibility, and one which could American nuclear bases, and the her boyfriend knows. Why did b oscow which occurred just a devolved Scottish Assembly with only be to the benefit of the SNP. introduction of Proportional Rep­ Devin Scobie (who?) want to be eforehand. genuine political powers as first With the possibility of six SNP MPs resentation. immortalised next to Archie Mac­ Prof. Erickson said that there step, hence replacing the previous, and up to four.Plaid Cymru MPs, it When questioned on the Pherson? And why did would-be were still "a large number of com­ "all or nothing mentality of inde­ would be mpossible the larger par­ economic viability of an indepen­ Student photographer Mark "Cave P~ications" with the rescheduling of pendence." The slight shift in pol­ ties to ignore their wfshes. dent Scotland, Mr Wilson was Chest" Percival fo rget to check his 1 e Conversations: "it is a very icy emphasis has been underpmned A hung Parliament would adamaant that it would be far better camera batteries? Most impor­ rurky scene." But he said that he by a thorough party reorganisation · strengthen the bargaining potential off than it is today. Under interna­ tantly why did I part with a quid­ fifty for a photo myself? .. :~k had verpal confirmation that and improved provisions party ofthe SNP, whose first priority, Mr tional aw, he argued. Scotland a S about talks" would be finance. The SNP is, he claimed, Wilson assured us , would J;,e to. would be entitled to 95% of qetter organised and supported "secure a Scottish Parli ament with .arraqged for the New Year. offshore o il revenue and 60% of A Real Goon r l-Iowever, it might take a long than it was in 1979. real power." Forth is purpose, the natural gax. Stressing a natural /me to roorrange the Conversa­ On the question of a hung Parlia­ SNP favour the conpocation of a affinity with the problems of North· cI~ns, and "the international ment, Mr Wilson conceded that it is Scottish Convention to outline a East EWngland, he joked, "in Me. I left all my works on the i:/ndar" tould hav e to be taken impossible to accurately predict package it could present to a future terms of overseas aid, we ·ct even be evening's activities in the pocked of pe O account when approaching what would happen, apologising government in the event of a hung quite generous towards the the lovely black jacket I returned to Opie to take part. for forgetting to bring his crystal Parliament. Other SNP priorities English." Youngs the next day. Oh well, wait · Alastair Dalton ball. He did, however, believe that include the safeguarding of Neil Forsyth tillnext.)4Coar ...... -~. 4 STUDENT Thursday l~th NQvember 1985

l'iews Letters Extr,1 Sensible Strathclyde

Library weakened Dear Sir, policies, but because their places It seems that Strathclyde Univer­ are taken by non-Scottish students "Our library is not living up to its constant, in spite of the fact that and journals. sity an! setting aside 50 extra places -yes, mostly from England. And past in many ways," said Librarian "However," claims Miss Moon, books cost more. " to give 'students from Gl_asgow'.s unlike English students who hav~ Ms. B. E. Moon. Like other univer­ "this university has done its utmost Miss Moon explains that the lib­ deprived areas a chance which thetr the option of enrolling in Scottish sity facilities and services, the lib­ to protect the library in that it has rary no longer has the time or background might otherwise have Universities, few Scots can do the rary has suffered as a result of the given the library a greater level of resources to search for hard-to-find denied them. Although converse because most English Government's cuts in higher educa­ supplementation for inflation than books to add to the shelves or to tion funding over the last five years. Edinburgh has its disadvantag~d universities will not accept Highers other parts of the university." determine which books should be areas too, Dr Burnett, Principal of as ari entry qualification. Thus Since Miss Moon's arrival here in She points out that inost univer­ purchased before they go out of Edinburgh University, does not every English student in a Scottish 1980, and the Government's "vol­ sity expenditures have been print. As well , the staff is too busy think such a scheme would be desir­ University is denying a Scot a uni­ ume" cuts since 1981, she has seen adjusted seven per cent for infla­ catering to everyday needs of stu­ able. But though I welcome versity place. And though I have her seni or staff in the university's tion, while the library's allocation dents to spend time rationalising Strathclyde's initiative, I would nothing against the ·English, when 850,000 volume Main Library for this year is eleven per cent the arrangements of books suggest to both universities an the proportion of English students reduced by 16% and purchasing higher than last year. Nevertheless, throughout the li brary system. at a Scottish University rises tc/ power for new acquisitions lowered book prices have soared up seven­ alternative strategy. "One al ways has to make Since Scotland is certainly dep­ by well over 10%. teen per cent over the same period. more ilian half, as at Edinburgh choices," said Miss Moon, "and we rived relative to the UK as a whole As well , the library has had to · "We've have tried to keep the and St. Andrews. then there must have tried to put undergraduate instead of restricting the extra be something wrong. Can you even limit its staff and opening hours in effects of the cuts down to a needs first in our list of priorities." call these universities Scottish any several small branches, curtail minimum as far as readers are con­ places to a few dozen from several deprived areas in Glasgow and longer? some maintenance operations, and cerned, which is why the level of Why don't Scottish Universities terminate its lending_of periodicals acquisitions has remained pretty Peter Blumberg Edinburgh whY. not allocate places to a few thousand extra Scottish treat English students as they do students. And 1don't mean increas­ other foreign students in restricting ing the intake of the universities. their numbers and give Scots a much greater chance in Higher They all like Balls 1ftxio As !see it, every year thousands Education. After all Scotland is a of Scots are denied places at Scot­ separate country, isn 't it? Last Fnday, my sweets, Teviot tish Universities; not, in the main , Yours Sincerely, Row was cleared of unsuspecting due to Thatcherite education Donald MacDonald. punters and their pizzas only to be replaced by screaming sabbaticals and their streamers. The reason? Another fine mess Not another publicity stunt for the General Meeting bui the frenzied Dear Student, preparations -for the Presidents' I refer to the article entitled "The ond form of journalism, and of per­ Ball. Galaxy's greatest comic" in Stu­ sonal bias, this inconsequential and If you didn't go last year lets face dent iNovember 1985. incorrect article is unrivalled in mv it that p-uts you in the majority, my Bad journalism often consists of experience. • All the previous arti­ darlings - you probably can't stories where the facts are incorrect cles in Student about Teviot Row understand all the fuss. The point is through ignorance, and this, while have been incorrect, . and some that nobody went last year and the indicative of the type of newspaper, libellous. whole thing lost more money than is forgivable. There is however a For your information there are Denver Carrington. The man with worse form of journalism. The dis­ ten female committee members. the problem this year was Deputy regard of known facts which con­ including the new house convener. President Harry Elwin and Friday tradict a story is reprehensible in Yours disgusted. morning saw him sticking up flags extreme. Tor Farquhar in Teviot with memories of recall As a prime example of this sec- House Secretary motions ringing in his crash helmet. So what did Harry achieve and what exactly did Archie say about Mike Conway at the Delegates Men, women . . . and Rat Ball. Come to think of it, what is the Delegates Ball? That, myjdarl­ Archie and Mike doing what comes naturally. Photo: Mark Percival Dear gender-less-one, ings, as Aaron Spelling would say, A funny thing seems to have hap­ that only one among the ten is a is to be continued ... :below. pened between the Teviot Row :attack on life, the BBC and having bona fide female , the rest we pre­ As your Delegated Aiarist swan- the whole thing wasn't an excuse House Committee meeting of 1st to remove ex-Hon Secretaries from sume are imposters. ned in to the Sherry Reception that for the Committee of Management November and the publishing of preceded the bash some people say to get drunk. Mind you when did SRC meetings. No doubt Archie We think we are female, no, we was reflecting on having to buy the Student on the 7th November. Put know we are female. The Rat is as elitist as the Oil Barons Ball, it they ever need an excuse? Before simply, 9 female committee mem­ was evident that Harry had at least Donald MacCallum was invested as said offending ex-Secretary a drink. does not seem to know every much Clue: I'm not talking about Neil bers seem to have lost their sex. about the matter. May I suggest a) a managed to remember to invite Honorary Life Member of the You see, the aforementioned Alex Currie, Secretary to the Uni-· Union, someone who I thought has Dalgleish. Archie also managed to biology-made-simple manual orb) comment on Mike Devlin's appa­ committee contains 10 so called a little more time spent in research versity, a small oversight last year. been responsible for the South females, all of which are equally The main problem with the sherry China Sea Leases made a speech rent knack of giving the Scotsman before writing his silly little article? responsible quotes. As Mike adamant thatthey possess the reception is that they keep on filling about medieval art. He later turned necessary credentials enabling up your glass. What problem, I ·out to be a diminutive ex-Senior squirmed in his chair and Harry Yours in confusion, them to justify themselves as Elaine Preston hear you say? It's only a problero if President. cackled with revenge from the end female. Yet "The Rat" informs us you have to make a speech and you The real fun began when Mike of the table. I reflected that the Teviot Row House Convener happen to be called Mike Devlin. "Bobby Ewing" Devlin actuall y whole thing was probably a load of Once we were all seated for the managed to stand up to make a Bovine excrement. But that's Mr meal, Table 8 soon broke the ice, as speech and contrived to give Harry Devlin/Ewings department. Charles "Blake Carrington" ''.Adllm" Elwin an embarrassing As we staggered slowly out Fishburne popped the first bottle of time m the name of humour. This towards the Delegates Bar, Dex Nightline calling • • • again plonk before even touching his was all very fine but poor Harry­ and I noted the large numbers that melon. As the buffet was served p_oos was in the midst of a very large aparently seemed to be enjoying Dear Student, the munching sounds were onl; cigar andf the ensuing choking themselves - an unheard of without the problem of loss of con­ mterrupted by lovely sights such as scene nearly ended the poor boys occurrence at President's Balls Ben_Simm's article on Nightline ·fidentiality for members of Night· Donald "Jeff'' Pollock stretching btkmg career. Never mind, he lately. Even former sabbaticals and Fnends of Nightline two weeks line. In no way does Friends have across the Top Table to hold hands could come back with plastic Heather "Sue Ellen" Lamong and ago suggested that the two societies· anything to do with the running of with his lovely companion, the mys- surgery. Callum "Steven Carington" Calder have more in common than they Nightline or with the phones and actually do. . terious Fallon Wheelhouse. were seen to be visibly shocked and callers. Friends just raises funds To dear any confusion, Friends is Soon the main point of all the The real highlight of the evening replied by making an all out attack and putsw out publicity when fuss became apparent, as myriad on the gin and tonics beforeretiring a~ entirely separate society from Nightline wants, using its own came whc~ Archie "Jock Ewine" N1ghtlme, set up to raise funds for people rose to make speeches. So Macpherson launched his all o'ur to the Teviot Bar for large sloppy methods. pints of beer. 11_, to help with publicity and to pro­ Alan Cowie, All in all , over 620 people drank, vide a public voice for Nightline Friends of Nightline. danced and enjoyed themselves on KENNETH ALLSOP Friday night, onone of whom ' I seemed to feel or act elitist. As for MEMORIAL LECTURE the Delegates, when was the last time someone made an after dinner DONALD TRELFORD speech containing a joke about STUDENT stuffing buses up your rear end at a Editor of the Jt)4i§IN§I stuffy elitist bash? The thing is that on every ear the people who write requires an EDITOR for one issue this term nasty, moralistic things about Presi­ and nine issues next term. 'PRESSURES ON THE PRESS' dents' Balls tend to be el igible to go to them in a years time. Oh, who Lecture Hall 'C', David Hume Tower cares? It didn't cost anyone who Apply in writing to didn't go any money this year, and The Convener, EUSPB Thursday, 14th November with a 300% increase on ticket sales 7.30p.m. they're expanding as fast as Colby 1 Buccleuch Place Co. With this last thought, Dex and by Monday 18th November With the assistance of the Scottish Arts Council I floated across Bristo Square with the last of the revellers. • I STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1985 5

Comment Parties write.on Ulster issue

Dear Student, activities, should be all owed to T hey fa il to accept (as a ll major O n Friday 8th , a man who openly speak on a Labour Part y platfo rm . political parti es in th e Republic of advocates and condones the mur­ It re presents an insul t to the hun­ Ireland and the SDLP in Northern der of Brtish citzens addressed a dreds of stude nts from No rthern Ireland have accepted) that any publi c meeting arranged by the Ireland here at Edin bu rgh Uni ver­ attempt to unify Ireland by force Labour Clu b. This man was a Mr sity, both Catholic and Protestant would only lead to anarchy and McAll istair from Sin n Fein , who who long fo rthe defeat of te r­ chaos on an unprecedented scale represents an organisati on, the rori sm. A n insult to those whose overthe whole island. Established in 1889 publi shed by EUSPB. IRA, whose actions th e Nazis fri ends and relatives are seen as It wo uld be see n unambiguously wo uld have taken pride in . A legitim ate targets by the IRA. It is a as a victory for the IRA - an £1500 for Leukaemia spokesman fo r an organi sati on slap in the face fo r members of the unequivocal surrender to violence We would like to thank all our readers for their response to the Stu­ which has vi olated every law of British A rmy and the RUC, who, in and hence a defeat fo r democracy dent Leukaemia Appeal. We had felt ourselves a little ambitious in God and man, in a course inspired spite of having buried hundreds of and a defeat for Britain . setting a target of £1000, but by the end of one week we had raised by a traditional hatred of Britain their coll eagues murder by fri end s Eleme nts within the Labour £1450 and presented it to Ian Botham himself (see front cover story). and the Northern majority, of Mr McAllistair, continued to Part y however, continue to endorse The figure now stands at £1500 .,- and still climbing. because of their re li gion and their stand watch on the frontiers of our th e "solution" proposed by the ter­ The selection of Leukaemia Research as the particular cause for British connection. Among its so nation defending the ri ghts and rorists. Hence the need to provide ou r venture was obviously stimulated by one man - Ian Botham . call ed acts of "armed struggle", freedoms of our citize ns. their representati ves with a plat­ Whatever you say about him- and a lot has been said - it cannot be resulting in the deaths of ove r 1500 It is worth noting, however' that fo rm. denied that he is the only sportsman who has ever given up five weeks people, it claims responsibility for Sinn Fein's views on "the way for­ We call upon the Labour Club to of his life to raise money for charity. In the fielUnited Kingdom and to apolog­ we would not only have failed to choose L~ukaemia Research as a par­ der of their political opponents - land, who organised the speaking ise for having done so. ticularly . worthy cause; we might have f~iled to choose a cause men like Airey Neave MP and the tour with Mr McAllistair. Both Stephen Kirk altogether. I Rev. Robert Bradford MP. groups pursue the policy that the (Chairman of Ulster Unionist on·a more traditional note, Edinburgh Students' Charities Appeal It.is a shame, and another blot on solution to Ulster's proble ms lie in Student Organisation) (ESCA), now in its brand-new offices in Guthrie Street (behind the face of socialism that a man who the withdrawal of the British pre­ George Shepherd Chambers Street Union), chooses to raise money for local charity. refu ses to condemn, and indeed , sence without the consent of the (Chaiman of Conservative In addition to ESCA, however, there is· nothing wrong in individual openly advocates terrorist citizens of Northern Ireland. Association) groups of students choosing to boost particular national or interna­ tional causes - and the Student Appeal and the Mexico Appeal have shown that the money is there to be collected. EUSA pathetic Gillick to

A miniature Ireland Dear Edito r, run the It has been sad to see in the last week the build-up of hostilities bet­ or at least to the public we seem to There is one thing in this Univer­ ween Ulster Unionist and Republican students; sad especially to see be. If only they knew how unrepre­ sity which appears to the maioritv the matter dragged into the national press gver the eventual violence sented the real students views are gauntlet (silent until now) to be a complete they'd maybe have more respect. on Friday when Mr Jim McAllistair of Sinn Fein addressed the Dear S111den1 , waste of a useful resource. . and hope. Labour Club. Although Student defends the right of students to pro­ lsn·t it a shame that Victoria Gil­ The Students' Association, ' Robbie Foy recented that "un­ test in favour of the causes they support, we see orchestrated disrup­ lick isn't prepared to confront which has the power to help in less the Students' Association sets tion - and throwing missiles - as very negative ways of exercising angry protesters any longer0 Vic­ many important sectors, concen­ itself decenttargets it might as well that right. toria's campaign to reinforce old trates on pathetically unimportant not exist.·· Why does it exist? \t cer­ Although it is very difficult for Irish students to forget the tradi­ things like student _grants and the fashioned ··family values·· has got tainly doesn't seem to set any tional prejudices that they bring with them to University, it is obvious devasting consequences for opposition to apartheid . No won­ decent targets! that nothing can be gained from Societies that smply foster those pre­ woman's rights. and we were der the GM was so badly attended. D. Charles judices. There is no point in so many Irish st_udents coming across to Who in this University is interested intending to let her know just how Edinburgh for their education and then simply returning home to in grants and an apartheid when working class women feel about her fight the same old fight. there are so many other things attacks on the basic rights we need. What Irish students must remember is that non-Irish students, like which could be concentrated on in order to participate fully in social the editor .ofthis paper, usually can't even tell the difference between like improving ·relations with the· and economic life : like free abor­ a Loyalist and a Republican. If this is the case, the gulf to be bridged community, improving internal tion rights. safe contraception. and must be smaller than we imagine. facilities , both academic and recre­ nurseries for our kids. lt is arguably ofvalue for outside groups to undertake the organisa­ ational. In fact. the RCP are so disap­ tion of meetings_ designed to stimulate discussion on the Irish ques­ The student grant is the subject pointed about Victorias reluctanct tion. However, would it not have been less inflammatory for the of so many complaints but aren't we to see us. that we·re going to make Labour Club to have invited a Loyalist speaker too in order that both lucky to get anything? Why should sure she hears us at the Signet Lib­ sides of the coin might be represented? we students expect to get paid to rary on November 26th. -r d urge study. After all, study is meant to anybody that fee ls strongly about be a privilege, not an occupation. women's rights to join our protest. Enough money to live - Yes, but and help us get that message across. enough money to "make profita­ 4 loud and clear. ble" the union bars - no! If /we Yours sincerelv. want to have enough money to Fiona Ryan drink why not earn it in the holi­ for Edinburgh RCP days. This government is the first to see this misdemeanor. Why not Thanks spend themoney, which has previ­ ously been spent on students drink­ Dear Student. Sports Staff. ing money, on subsidising new Thank vou verv much for the industry to encourage economic heart-wan~ing carloon on the hack Arts Martin McHugh growth etc. · of the paper last week. At a time Ben Simms We are too greedy a generation, when rm verv depressed it made Staff David Cli~e me laugh. Stella Collier Ta a lot. Features Jacqui Brown Two Toms Danny Cass_en Editor John Petrie Melissa Clarke Assistant Editor Chloe Dear Bark up Peter Carroll lshbel Matheson· Palestine, please News Alan You_ng Writings John Hodge the tree Dear Student. registered refugees or citizens of Suzanne Doran Dear Student, Alastair Dalton . Thank you Student not only Gaza whose lives are punctuated by My name is Tom Barker. I have for editing but also for rewording Gary Duncan the whims and shots of ex-Lebanon Sport lain Catto never written to Student before. the "Univent'' Voluntary Work for army pa~rols and whoS"e fate seems Jenny Dunn But people have beeri slagging me Laura Kibby Palestine we advertisel last week: to be doomed by ingorance of Photography David Yarrow off over the past week about a letter We said: Two E.U students will talk Anne McNaught James Laidlaw people such as yourselves. in your paper with nm name at the about their experiences and impre­ Please try to get it right next time Devin Scobie John Lindsay bottom. I did not write the letter. $Sions as volunteer teachers in the Craig McNicol especially ;f you shouici attempt to "Joke" letters might amuse plenty occupied Gaza Strip (with a capital report on ours or any other motion What's On Sally Greig Michael Mi ller of people but rarely the victims. 'S') and inside Palestine. you made presented at the AGM. ··' Katrina Pl;liJip Perhps the arsehole who wrote this it the occupied Gaz.a strip (with a Yours sincerely. " ,Illustrations Robbie Bushe one was too embarrassed to use his/ Sandra Catto small ·s') inside Israel- forgetting Jenny Glynn Rory MacBeth her real name. In which case. I Lorna Henderson John Henderson the ·and'. then changingthe name. Alasdair Friend Julian Thomas would like to know why the silly Gaza Strip is not inside Israel but Advertising Nevi lle Moir prick wrote at all. My sympathies to was occupied in 1967. Its 476.000 As you rightly point out. the error was Music Robbie Foy. Palestinian population crowded made through ignorance rather than Keith Cameron Names shown in staff fist show sub-editor · Tllalice. and we not intend to distort the ~ Peter Carroll Yours. into a strip of land five miles wide first then other editing/lay-out staff in T. Barker meaning of the announcement when we Jame Humphries alphabetical order. Pages with no overall and twenty-five miles long are not rewrite it. All Univents are re;:written John Lindsay. suh-editor show names in alphabetical ' The letter published was. in fact . from a Israeli citizens as the Palestinians purely in order to standardise the page. - Film different Tom Barker. Student apologises Anth_ony Harwood order. Contributor's names are given Editor. for any embarrassment caused. inside the 1948 borders. but either Manda Jeffery beside individual articles. 6 STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1985 . - .\\usic -Slide it in The female presence suggests still saying less than is suggested by SHOOT YOUR LOAD that the band are rather more the phrase muttered by one pas­ aware than Dave might be of the serby: "a typical Gotherrow band." Potterrow sledgehammer subtleties of their It wasn't !hat they were bad name , and no doubt the occasional exactly, just that they conformed so My initial expectations that howl 0f angst audible through the predictably to this preoccupation. Shoot Your Load would turn atrocious Potterrow PA was a This explains the paucity of out to be the new Whitesnake brave attempt to redefine their interested spectators whilethe dis(;() downstairswas packed; who needs album in disguise were shat­ feminist aesthetic. Doomed to fai­ lure, of course, being buried under an imitation when the origiRal is in tered when only two male a wall of geetar noise for most of the the next room? members turned up (no pun 20 minute set. Within these limits, Shoot Your intended), with wimmin taking So what can I tell you? If I say Load were actually quilt: good up vocal and lead chores, Their that Shoot Your Load wear their fun , and even managed to coax a spiky hair, earrings and other influences - Fall, Slits, Birthday few people into dancing with the weird junky things serveil to Party etc-like a badge rather than last song. But they're going to need a change of name before Mike confirm the awful truth at that using thetn to seek pastures new; if I say that one song started like a Read books them for Saturday moment descending on the cover of the Buzzcocks' / Don't Superstore, and a change of heart massed hordes: evidently, Mind, but wa~n't; if I sµy that the• to distinguish them from a hundred none of these people were bassist would dearly love to be other spunky up and.comers. David Coverdale. Paul Simonon but isn 't, than I'ni Gavin Macdonald

A busy weekend for the Hooch saw Eyeless in Gaza (above) on Sunday, whilst the preceding Friday brought Glasgow hopefuls Hi_psway (below) to Good-Time Charli® their adoring masses. Photo: Nick Hunt nated as the set went on·. Hipsway planned to be Mari Wilson and her HIPSWA Y /SYNDICATE have obviously got soul preten­ jazz quartet. But alas. poor Mari , sions, as shown by their cover of the Hoochie Coochie Club the beehive is now long gone and . Commodores I'll Be Sanctified with it the sparkle that Neasden ·s Friday night at the Hoochie and the reli gious connotations of self-styled Queen of Soul once Coochie. People are here to see their own songs like As 'Phe exuded. Certainly, the band were Hipsway and look trendy; first of all Lord, but there doesn't seem to be competent enough and several of they see Syndicate wear red too much real feeling behind it all. the songs were fair-to-middling but Harrington's and look trendy. The lead singer clearly has a real she was finding it all very hard work Syndicate. four men and a drum feeling that he's going to be "A Star" and her once cocky, spontaneous machine, play a short set with a though. Smoking moodily" and rapport with an audience seems long couple of good unes but seem a bit chewing gum , he can probably gone. It was pretty boring and Mari lacking when it comes to lyrics. really rel ate to Brya n Ferry but fo r was pretty bored - sad . Together, the voices of the two sin­ some reason makes me think more gers remind me a bit of Squeeze, of Paul King. Musicall y, the band The New York Pig Funkers backed by some punchy, twangy _give more than a hint of earlier Sim­ cleared away any lethargy lingering guitar-playing. Diverting but not ple Minds, and the singer's da ncing in the air with their usual impres­ incredibly original. and vocal style add to the compari­ sively tight playing. Fame and for­ Hipsway. Yes, well . Complete son. Unfortunately this also means tunes (sigh, bourgeois elitism) bec­ with ex-member of Altered that you can't actu all y make out kons.

However, the real star of the seemed a great success despite the night was Charlie MacNair down in THE PRESIDENT'k BALL -defi nite minus -factors of the Yul­ the Sportsman's Bar. For true, cans and the Colin Thbmson Big. Teviot Row unadulterated fun and enjoyment, Band. The Yulcans are an unfunny his band their straightforward trad­ cabaret group who wear white coats jazzing were the men to consult. "Bourgeois and elitist!" - enough said. Colin Thomson They certainly produced the goods, declared an acquaintance of and his crew started promisingly from the alcohol-stained vocals of mine. "Rubbish!" I replied. with In the Mood (in this post Charlie himself to a drum solo on a Like it or not, l;>eing a student is Glenn Miller era, most big bands yellow construction helmet which being bourgeois and elitist, and . tend to start promisingly with /11 the when all is paid and done, is how all Mood) but soon declined into drum solos should be played. if the President's Ball happens Academy Awards ceremony-type be a more obvious - and fo blandness. When Colin uttered !he And so·, the Spootiskerry Ceilidh thus more honest-manifesta­ fatefu l words "I'm sure you'all all Band and several strip-the-wil­ tion of this then I can see recognise this next number - it's lows later, offhome. Bourgeois and nothing especially heinous the theme from the TV series ... " elitist - who cares?? To heil with about it. one instinctively knew; that a trip poverty, we 'll get drunk on cheap Certainly. in musical entertain­ to the bar was in o)-der. wine. ment terms, this year's bash The musical highlight was clearly Keith Cameron

Ph oto: Nick Hunt Images, they've been tipped for the many of the words, but at least he's her weakness to date. SADE top (as Richard Skinner woultl putting some _energy into it. One of the more notable !racks probably say) and could wel l get Playhouse Overall, Hipsway are very com­ on Promise is Fear "about a woman tHere briefly, but haven't got petent; they've goi a couple of good New LP: Promise (Epic) who loves a man who fights bulls" enough strong songs to make a last­ songs like Broken Years but they a song with both Spanish mood and ing impression . The release of, Sade's second don't excite and they doo'l get an Spanish lyri cs , but its live rendition They siarted quite well with encore - bands like this just come album, which coincided _with was not given the sensitivity has i! some nifty playing by their ;econd and go. her live shows in Edinbu gh on vinyl. percussionist, but the music stag- Duncan Hewitt last week, cartie as something of Sleeve notes: Sade's live band a disappointmerlt. seems i'o have expanded, wilh a While on Promise she se~llis io most welc_olne h/gher profile brass have ventured nowHere slylisiically section. TheX only really got going, from her imrhaculale de8Ul LP, thougH, bn the up tempo imprdvi­ Diamond Life, lHe baHd·s sa!iori iagged on to the e9d bf Playhouse perforrllaHces !'el\ ~mooth Operator. THere shoillti ,lmcannily similar to las! year's sel !lave beeh hidre bf hat as it p~b­ piece there. t!UceEI fu\ire mdvemeni ~l tHe Since !hen the_til:kH prices Hav,e api3e11l-aht:e scllll&wHefe 11kt tHe set !Han ail saHe·s sHy· at enlp!s f8 rocketed to £8 buHhis 1ic;~f's aU~t- Yd&h gesiicUla!e lH her !igkt fitting black ences were siHf hailed lb IHel sdts, . sH~fly .. IHeH. U week· dress. and as pettect/r _bettave~, Jlbltle sH8ws. - ete 1- s el~ H8Us~ la I• m· s:icle !He siHgel-, H8wever, j's t~~tsfU~t~\Y 'f~&edUltl as me !~~ veHicle§ tgf llli gglHg Re H1J ~"pfbac:HiHg a tU!-HIHg p 'IHt. f it1!H8Us&i~:i!he lgHI HI HIHe h!l:lcs wefe 11fveHll~eHess c8HH Uef !8 ~e \al:k- \l!Rt'.tf1\,ktke if;j~f~tl 1 glH He!- Hlv dleH~ , MHH sHe Is fikHt lb see Sl18e-l Is Bhtce e 'd !l~s is ili tH~e 'II satl•, fl s ~8H eHH8 t8 'H e!He t,1-ese I sdre hfslbA 8~jazz.,.scl II dH~ fUH 8~ R·I s8Hg a !l II s aUIH:1 • 1N iii· ui,licllH8H sH · m1i:m "el H8 lend ilseifto lleiHg bes! :ifl~_%cidleH Hew 'st ~le Ir I e recdfd cf B,., f tlH • '" , , 11.~ ... '" , fu. f!H '"er man smg1 g oilH woga11 1 ~yj a seal~~, , l:llsia~ ~U~leHce. H hM~ bee"fi fi-lb e adveHIJrotls lk~~ jeilhs. oH Yshe Hati rilade aH uHarihoU ced · lo release !he li\!lp Sweetesi Tab6o, A astalr ba oil STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1985 7 .\lusic Dexy' s: The Business iixv•s MIDNIGHT Dexy's Midnigh~ Runners RUNNERS Don't Stand Me Down (Mercury) but he really won the audience over GIL SCOTT-HERON Playhouse by his humour, his music and the Don't be put off bythe Queen's Hall fact that he is just so cool. He started the evening wonder- · austere faces, pinstripe suits Well, the Queen's Hall cer­ Well,. wha! w~re we Iike"f ing whether he should be classified Billy: and stockbroker haircuts on tainly was the place to be on I(evin: In time, m time. the cover; it bears little relation as jazz or miscellaneous, but as he Friday. There were so many said, " I haven't spent 15 fucking Billy: Come on, what were we to what's inside - it's just people there that some sod years to be miscellaneous!" . The like? Kevin Rowland playing image­ stole my press ticket. But it music was jazz, but it had a whole games with us again. The dun­ takes more than a little setback lot more. It drew heavily on hard Yes indeed. Just the sort of chun­ garees and Celtic Soul Brother like that to stop your intrepid funk , ably supplied by the "Secret­ tering that goes on throughout ary of Entertainment" on bass. Lyn look may have gone, but the reporter. So, sneaking in on a Don't Stand Me Down - surpris­ position remains, the commit­ .Oakey, a Mancunian, played whin­ ingly only ~exy>s third LP since complimentary, I watched ment just as strong. ing rock solos on demand while their inception m 1978. However, from upstairs, quite simply, But if Dexy's are committed, Steve Walker thumped away on not only does it work on the album, the most . enjoyable concert I drums. But the songs really centred but it also works on stage. they've also got a keen sense of humour. The amusing dialogue at have ever seen. · on Gil Scott-Heron's voice, which , Kevin Rowland enters stage i1g'n't the start of This Is What She's Like As if to belie the excitement of although gruff and powerful, never to talk to a lone guitarist (Billy and the bizarre Reminisce Part Two · the night the Anton Kirkpatrick became uncontrolled or lost its mel­ Adams) about his memories of are symptomatic .)f a wry sense of trio, who supported, played pretty, lownes_s. Add to these great songs "this place". Surely he can't mean' the humorous beneath the imposing · Steve Hackett-like-jazz presented his brilliant humour and an envi­ 1he Playhouse? 1 wonder. The facade. Reminisce is in fact a whole with all the panache of someone able ability to cope with hecklers and all adds up to one of the best extraordinary opening is then com- . ,track consisting entirely of Row­ who knows he's not wanted. h nights the Queen's Hall has ever pleted by an aching version of Fal­ land talking about an old girlfriend Although Anton's accoustic guitar ling In Love With You: the first of at , ~and the summer of '69,. To put this was always dominant, Patrick Bet­ seen. By the end of the night the sell­ )east four pointed cover versions sort of thing on record tison (last seen with Bobby Wishart) provided ·some excellent out crowd was dancing in the aisles, that night. Kev carefully scrutinises demonstrates an astounding cheek and I had to keep reminding myself the audience reaction - seeming and arrogance. But what's more, it support. anxious that we should enjoy these works! as much as his own material. From the moving, authentic Accordingly, when he demands Knowledge of Beauty and the wry This ls What She's Like to the poig­ Respect we certainly give it to him Graphic: Rory MacBeth and he seems sincerely and nant, bitter-sweet The Waltz , pas­ genuinely gratified. Less tinglingly effective were the sion is the order of the day. Helen O'Hara's tender violin, the sweep­ Come On Eileen or Millstone .ballads. It seems our Kev fancies­ ing saxophone of Nicky Gatfield No. 2 around Dexy'~ necks if they. himse_lf as a bit ~fa crooner: _stand­ and the shrewd, disarming lyrics of are to be believed, was interestingly mg still or swaymg about with the Kevin Rowland all combine to pro­ reworked as slow, heavy funk, pro- mike clutched ~n both hands, gazmg duce what is in many ways a quite ving that it is well-nigh impossible meanmgfull~ mto the empty bal­ superb album . to ruin a good song however hard cony. Sometimes this works beaut1- Of course all is not perfect: Row­ you try. ' fully with the yedal-steel. guitar mournfully commg to prommence, land's vocals do have a tendancy to And talking of good songs, it is but I'm still not sure whether songs lapse into unshamed moaning at my earnest belief that This ls What like Kathleen really cut it. The some points, and theexcellent One She's Like which is reluctantly the pacier stuff was generally better Of Those Things sounds a bit too close to Werewolves of London "One-fifth gill? Make mine a double!" Photo: Paul Hutton group's current single, will-prove to received by the faithful ( and rich Y be Millstone No. 3. Splendid as it is few who were remarkably on their for comfort. Plagrism? Sure not . .. If Billy Bragg were American, that this was a jazz concert at the on record, live it possesses a magni­ feet as early as the second number. But these are minor quibbles could sing, played the piano, was usually staid Queen·s Hall. If you ficent grandeur that is positively though. In sharp contrast to various black and wore a funny hat , then evergetanotherchance.goandsee cathartic. I tell you, bits of me I Billy: So we were good, then? other recent epic fl ops, this reall y is he'd be Gil Scott-Heron (could give him. Ifs cheaper than the Presi­ never knew I even ·had were tingl­ Kev: I think so. quite near to being the best of the a new meaning to New England). dents· Ball. and you don·t have to ing. Peter Carroll year. Songs about nuclear weapons, nuc- get dressed up to do it. Michael Lundin .!ear power, apartheid, Mexican Just a short mention for the Jazz immigrants, coal miners and Soc. They·ve got Swing ·g5 playing Reagan, it was all there. Y~ you at the Pleasance bar tonight (Thurs­ never felt like you were listening to day 9-12. It should be a good night. DRFEELGOOD a Labour Party broadcast. Maybe entrance is free and there ·s a happy Queen Margaret College he was preaching to the converted. ·hour. As darkness fell the first shadows of fear began to creep over his normally ice-cool exterior. To say he was apprehensive of the coming evening would have been a gross understatement. On the first count he was going to These feet must have been records are even worse. have to check out a band who have made for dancing: last week Not doing very well so far, are been widely credited of having the Presidents' Ball and now we? Not much improvement on paved the way for many of the ear­ ff Sunday . The Hooch presents the li est and best 70's punk, bands. tonight the Playhouse O ers Faith Brothers, worthy but dull, Indeed this was also the band who the chiropodist's nightmare - pseudo Style Council social com­ were instrumental in the rediscov­ MADNESS. mentators without the tunes or the ery of the straight trouser leg, and Cheap gibes at Hawkwind are not sharp lyrics. The Playhouse has got he was shit-scared that they might my style. However, expensive ones The Everly Brothers-lucky them. become an embarrassing parody of I can make you feel good. certainly are, and let's face it, any The devil woman himself, Cliff their former selves. Would t!Jey band who can boast(!) a quad- Richard, begins a five day occupa­ now be like so many of those dread­ nct1culously cheap booze) but on Wilko Johnston chop-chopping rophonic sound system can't be all tion of the Playhouse on Tuesday ful 60's and 70's groups who still Frida;t night it was just perfect. his way through the chords, Full that bad; nope, they've got to be and that night s the only one yet to play venues like the Playhouse, and Founder-member Lee Brilleaux credit though to Gordon Russell ·worse. Bet they won't even play be sold out. It's all too early to slag ~erely go through the motions, sel- drew on their vast repertoire as well who is one of the few people who Silver Machine either. They appear this bloke so I'll just say that We 10~ their dignity for a few lousy as R 'n' B standards such as Walk­ knows what the Fender Stratocas­ on Monday at the Playhouse and I Don't Talk Anymore was a mighty quid. ing The Dog and High Heeled ter was invented for. hear that a minibus will be laid on fine single and leave it at that. And on the second count he was Sneakers. In some ways this was the Milk and Alcohol, Down at the from KB. Of course, maybe I heard Fomorrow night's Tube features terrified that his mummy wasn't R 'n' B of that hackneyed and now Doctors, Baby Jane - the Feel­ wrongly. ZTT Records' last great white flop there to make sure that he was get­ derogatory term 'pub rock'. LB. goods must surely be contenders to· Friday night at the Hoochie Frankie Goes to Hollywood, plus :~ng on the right bus to get him all showed that the only accessories Dire Strait's claim to be the most Coochie Club sees skiffle revivalists Edwin Starr, August Darnell, the Ce way out to Queen Margaret you ne\!d are a glass of water for · aptly named band ever. 1hey and Terry and Gerry on stage. On Communands and Virginia A9tley. 0Uege. As it turned out the union your· harmonica and a couple of their songs have not dated and they record, I've always found this pair a After its one week absence, Beats wfas_ehsy enough to find, but what cans of lager for yourself. He even sound as relevant now as they ever trifle lightweight but their live repu- of the Heart returns on Saturday 0 his other fear? sucumbed to ·a lewd exhibition did. Why? talion is another matter so it might . with a real corker. It's called Roots Eleven years after Down At The involving one of . the aforemen­ not be so bad.after all. The Assem- Rock Reggae, was made in 1979 and 1 It is the humble opinion of this euy helped to seal the fate of the tioned ·cans during the downtempo writer that it is because \hey P\i'Y bly Rooms, also on Friday, is where features amongst others Bob Mar­ ;tagnated supergroups, Lee Bril­ Shotgun Blues. 100 mph , 145 rpm. Rhythm and lo catch Anne Pigalle, ZTT ley, Jimmy Cliff and the Mighty teaux and the ·,boys were back in They more than made up for this Blues - a narrow medium maybe Record's latest great white flop Diamonds. What more need one say thwn to dispel any misgivings about though with songs like She Does It - but excitement and urgency as it sorry, hope. Ms. Pigalle seems to -WATCH. · eir music or motives. QMC may· Right played at classic Feelgood was in the beginning, is now and have been formed as a cross between All a bit Jack-lustre this week, I'm notb · (I e the most accessible of venues· speed, and for a moment you could ever shall be. IV!arlene Dietrich and Sade and if afraid. Still, it's high time you did ast No. 26 bus leaves midnight - close your eyes and imagine it was Amen. Craig McNicol you think that sounds bad, the some work anyway. Keith Cameron F L IVITHEATRE FILMHOUSE _A ___B___ C BED LAM K N G S Lothian Rd. Forrest Rd 2 Leven St Lothian Rd. THE INTERROGATION OF 2291201 229 3030 228,2688 AMBROSE FOGARTY EDUCATING RITA MAD MAX-BEYONDTHUNDER­ 14 Nov-16 Nov; 7.30 DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE 14-16 Nov; 6.15, 8.30 DOME Tickets; £2 (cone. £1.75) 11-16 Nov; 7.30, Sat; 5.00, 8.00 Matinees, 14, 16 Nov; 2.30 2.20, 5.20, 8.20 Members; £1.25 Tickets; £2-£5.50 Wacky Mersey housewife Rita Mel Gibson launches a one man By Martin Lynch. A violent but Monday all seats half price. (played by Julie Walters) qecides crusade against the empire buld­ humourous setting of an RUC sta- Hilarious comedy by Richard Gor­ to improve herself on an Open ing tendencies of Tina Turner as tion in West Belfast. Not for the don, all-star cast including Robin University Literature course, and Aunty Entity, aided by a bunch of faint-hearted. Askwith, Fraser Hines and ends up teaching her tutor, renegade midgets. Blood, guts Nicholas Smith. and lots of pigs. I kid you not. Michael a lesson on life. THE SILVER SPY 20 Nov; 1 pm; 23 Nov; 7.30 1985 EDINBURGH SCOUT AND PALE RIDER Tickets; Non-members £1 .25, GUIDE GANGSHOW MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDERETIE 2.20, 5.20, 8.20 18-25 Nov; Sat matinee; 2.15 If you've seen any of Clint's early members75p 14-16 Nov; 6.45, 8.45 By Tanish Lee. Presented by EUTC. Genuine dib-dib-dib, dob-sob-sob. dusty cowboy films you'll know Matinees; 15 Nov; 2.30, 16 Nov; Passion and science combine in a Do your good .turn for the day and what to expect, but this is still wot 4.00 touchingly humourous account of go along to rub a few sticks or tie a the punters want and pretty good Brilliant film of young Omar's life in the future- or is it the past. few knots. attempts tomake money out of a too. Better than any of his recent run down launderette given to him films by his rich Pakistani uncle aided by TRAVERSE NETHERBOW For the October-December It his ex-National Frontpal and has­ MASK 43 High St. pass system. Ask for the le 1. 40, 3.55, 6. 10, 8.45 112WestBow sled by his cocaine smugglin\j 226 2633 5569579 pay the standard £2.30 and cousin. A superb film with Cher playing card is taken from you and the wayward mother determed to HOGG-THE SHEPHERD STRIKERS is now non-smoking. protect her hideously deformed JUSTIFIED Till 30 Nov; 8.00 MISHIMA son, forced to wear a mask. A film 14-20 Nov; 8.00 Tickets; £3 (cone £2) C>DEC>N 17 Nov; 8.15; 18-20 Nov; 5.45, 8.15 about human courage which man­ Tickets; £4.50 (cone. £3.50) By DonaldCampbell. A play por­ A standard £1 .50 student co 20 Nov; 2.30 : ages to portray this without Student Standby traying the real flavour of life in Sunday to Thursday. Howev• Paul Schrader's study of Japanes11 becoming too wet. In commemoration of the 150th Scotland today, with economic £2 .60. Cinemas 2 and 3 are writer, actor and director Mishima, anniversary of Hogg, Frederic decline changing peoples lives. who one day in 1970 a Tokyou gar­ Mohr has written this new work. rison, claimed command and com­ 0 D E 0 N Donald Douglas plays the lead. Students pay £1 .20 for all p mitted Hari Kiri. A study of a man T H E A T R E only exception is the late e of letters trying to be a man of South Clerk St non-smoking part of the bui action. 667 7331 L V C E U M WORKSHOP Sundays. COCOON Grindlay St. 34 Hamilton Pl. FILIVIH 229 9697 2265425 MATIER OF HEART 1 .45, 5.40, 8. 15 Matinees (Tuesday-Friday\ 17,18 Nov; 6. 15, 8.30 A large number of funny looking HAMLET YOUNG PEOPLES THEATRE (Sunday-Friday) cost £1 .20. An interesting journey into the life cocoons (surprise!) are left about Till 30 Nov; 7.15 WEEK minutes before performan of C. G. Jung, with rare film and by some absent minded .aliens, Discussion; 11 Nov. 7.15 Till 16 Nov evening films but you can interviews with close associates. which would be OK, butthey turn a Ticket Range; £2-£5 Still time to see loads ofgroups both cinemas. group of old-age pensioners By Sir William 'Genius' Shakes­ from all over scotland putting on a hyperactive and they promptly set peare. Presl!nted by the Royal variety of shows. Details are avail­ FILIVIS Members get )n free to all about break dancing etc. The latest Lyceum. There are less people left able in a special _programme from SUNRISE be purchased in advance at 19 Nov; 2.30, 6.45, 8.45 from the Spielberg/Gremlins/ at the end of this than went to the the theatre . . Lucas/Star Wars Stable. lat General Meeting. from the Postgrad Studen One of the series pn theHistory weekend. and theory. An A.merican film which manages to catch a German PETER PAN 2.00, 5. 15, 8.00 BEDLAI\ mood, whilst covering a tram trip All tickets for lunchtime pro Still on, several weeks after the tb a city of garish delights. your consumption. school holidays have finished, this EX HI BS great Disney classic is probably TRAVE ACFV PRIZEWINNERS attracting its fair share of students SCOTTISH$ T I L L s Exclusive offer this year for 20 Nov; 8.20 to its great story of Peter Pan kid­ allows many benefits. The A ,programme of eight new films napping the lusty Wendy to Never GALLERVG A L L E R V performance; £2 for a stud and videos which won Art Council Never Land to face the perils of performance; free entry to 94 George Street 105 High Street prizes, covering a wide variety of Captain Hook. clubs in Britain. (225 5955) (5571140) subjects. THE EMERALD FOREST DAVID TONER, PHILIP BRAHAM LVCEU 2.00, 5.30, 7.55 · GEORGE WASHINGTON WILSON, They offer a plastic card co AND TOM MACKENZIE DAVID WILLIAMS, ETC. A construction engineer searches tickets at concessionary r F I L M SOC Mon to Fri; 9 am-5.30pm,Sat9 am "Funding raising auction of origi­ for his long lost son amon!l the .to 1 pm · Check at box office for detaill tribes of the Amazonian Rain nal prints etc." For those bored of narrow-minded Until Nov. 30th GOLEM Forest. As tiissearch continues he shows come to this breath of fresh ESCA EUREKA becomes involved in the fight bet­ Tues to Sat; 12.30 am to 6 pm ESCA have changed premi air; it includes work on the subject Auction; Sat. 30th Nov. 12 noon 15 Nov; 6.45 ween two tribes as well as the of "The Wilderness" and "Moun­ contrary to this year's Stud George Square Theatre onslaught of so-called civilisation. tain Landscapes". time during office hours to The first film will have a live musi­ alternatively phone her. cal accompaniment with music TALBOT RICE composed and performed by DOMIN ION GLADSTONE'S SNC> Adrain Johnston and forthis G A L L Students are welcomed in I reason no latecomers will be L A N D E R V Usher Hall. Tickets cost £2 a Newbattle Terr. admitted. The second is Roeg's South Bridge 447 2260 treatment of a gold strike. (226 5922/5856) (6671011) VARIATIONS ON A CHRISTMAS DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN THEME 2.15, 5.15, 8.15 . MODERN'PRIMITIVES Until 30th Nov. Mon to Sat; 10 am to 5 pm ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA Madonna dribbles over to the 17 Nov; 2.30 Paintings by 1984 gallery artists on Perspective and atmosphere are Dominion in this surprisingly the theme of Christmas. Including Odeon ifunny film. Everyone who's gone not the worries of naive artists. The tale of two friends on the · work by Joe. McIntyre, Sandra Here one can see Polish Sculptors ito see this has enjoyed it and it's Ewing and Cynthia Wall. Lower East Side of New York who \far too complicated and silly a plot reliving a world most of Os lfet begin equal but follow different behind at the age of ten. paths into gangsterhood. A tale of ·~o explain. people haunted by their past. ALE RIDER R IQ V A L · .15, 5.15, 8.15 MAL ,COL M Clint Eastwood continues his SCOTTISH SEBASTIANE ~venging crusade against evil, M U S .E U M I N N E S THUNDERCRACK very much in the mnould of his· GALLERY 20 Nov; 6.45 earlier films, such as the fistful of (225 7534) Pleasance spaghetti genre. FRENCH CONNECTIONS; 67 George Street Please note: Members only. SCOTLAND AND THE ARTS (226 4151) Derek Jarman's study ofthe WITNESS OF FRANCE MINE EYES TO THE HILLS homosexual life of Roman garri­ 2.00, 5.00, 8.00 Until Feb. '86 Until 19th Nov. Mon to Fri; 9.30 sons in AD393: yes, real ly; fol­ Harrison Ford and a small boy "The Auld Alliance" (as the am-6 pm, sat 10 am-1 pm lowed by an attempt to parody from the 19th century Amish com­ relationship between Scotland "The Don nea1' Alford" by Moira both a soft porn film and a horror munity are the only witnesses to a and France is known) is brought Ferrier is proof enough of this movie atthe same time. Sounds drugs murder by some bad cops alive here. Shows the best of lady's talent. Also showing water­ mes~ fascinating bit if you're . not a and both are forced to retreat to trench works of art from the 14th colours and pastels of Scotland is Well, hi there folks, our na member you can't get in, Ha! the Amish homelands. century to the present day. David M nett. entertain! U NIVENTS IVI US IC THUR 14 NOV SAT 16 NOV THUR 14 NOV ______SAT 16....:.._....:...:.....=.._:.:... NOV DISCO TIL MIDNIGHT FRIENDS OF THE PLAYGROUP MADNESS EDINBURGH LIGHT ORCHESTRA Chambers Street House Pentland Room, Pleasance Playhouse Queen's Hall 8pm 11 am I've always thought Suggs was so This programme includes some Happy Hour 8 pm-9 pm Workshop. All welcome to help in cute, expect the usual fun package beautiful music - including a any way they can for any time they from the nutty boys themselves! selection from Gigi by Loewe and KB LUNCHTIME TALK can spare. 7.3C1pm: £5 symphonic Reflections, a selection Sixth Level Common Room, SCOITISH CHAMBER of andrew Lloyd-Weber to men­ JCMB, 1.10 pm ORCHESTRA tion but two. 'Crime and Punishment: A View SUN 1 7 NOV Queen's Hall 7.30 pm: £2 .·50 from the Bench' - Professor METHSOC (Clerk Street) Robert Black, Dept of Scots Law. 7.30 pm Tonight's works are Mozart and SUN 1 7 NOV A visit to the Catholic Chaplaincy Berio conducted by Luciano Berio EVERLY BROTHERS EU WOMEN'S GROUP and a night with the CSU . All very with pianist Mitsuko Uchida and welcome. Playhouse Sommerville Room soloists ofr the SCO. 7.30 pm: £10.50; £8.50 7pm 7.45 pm: £8-£3 (cone £2). Rape Crisis speaker. Plus registra­ MON 18 NOV ROGER WOODWARD RECITAL tion for assertiveness training FR I 1 5 NOV Queen's Hall workshops on Sat 16 Npv (£2). All EU THIRD WORLD FIRST TERRY AND GERRY Three of Chopin's piano sonatas. women welcome. Ochil Room, Pleasance Hoochie Coochie Club 8 pm: £3 I 7.30pm A talk given by Mr Scott about (West Tollcross) THURSDAY NIGHT VIDEO , If you like "sweet and sour skiff le" Ch ina. r ABC operates a student cinema KB Union you're sure to like this four-piece MON 18 NOV the cash desk. For six visits you 6.30 pm band from Birmingham. HAWKWIND ROCK DISCO , he card stamped. After this the Showing 'Last Starfighter' and Playhouse 'The Empire Strikes Back'. Chambers Street House ANNE PIGALLE £5.in return. The entire cinema Assembly Rooms Cosmic hippies return!! 9 P.m-12.30 am 7.30 pm: £5, £4 . EU ANTI-APARTHEID SOCIETY A Cactus Production THE HEATERS Seminar Room 2, Chaplaincy EU POLITICS SOCIETY Fresh from ZIT. 8pm: £3 Preservation Hall J ion rate holds in all cinemas from ,Centre, 5 pm · Faculty Room south, DHT RALPH TOWNER and Interesting?? 1 the weekends entry will cost you Discussion : The facts about Sanc­ 1 pm JOHN ABERCROMBIE Free making. t ions. Non-members welcome. Gordon Brown, MP, will be speak­ ing on the Social Security Review. Queen's Hall N EU FRIENDS OF THE EARTH The two master guitarists from the TUES 19 NOV ECM record stable. "Beautiful, nces in Cinemas 1, 2 and 3. The Cheviot Rooms, Pleasance CLIFF RICHARD atmospheric chamber jazz." shows in Cinema 3 - the only 7.30pm TUES19NOV Playhouse 10 pm: f:5.50-£3.50 . ncidentally, this place is shut on Meeting - all welcome. HAPPY HOUR A pure genius-brilliant to say the SNO least! Chambers Street House Usher Hall EU ART SOCIETY 8pm-9 pm 7.30 pm: £8.50 Mozart; lmpressario Overture Braid Room, Pleasance Beethoven : Piano Concerto No. 4 PLAGUE OF FOOLS 7.30pm EUCND Schubert: symphony No. 9 "The VOLUNTEER SLAVERY Film: The World of Gilbert and Chaplaincy Centre Great". BABY'S GOT A GUN George' - if you're into perfor­ 7pm Conducted by Otto Werner Muel­ Rumours mance art or urban decay .. . Crispin Phillips, co-author of The ler with soloist Ivan Moravec. Plague of Fools are an Edinburgh ,Nuclear Casebook, speaks on the 7.30 pm: £8.~0-£2.80 band wh describe themselves as a psychological aspects of nuclear "volatile cocktail" of melodic ances. Guest tickets (£1 .~5) can FRI 1 5 NOV weapons. All welcome. SAT i16 NOV energetic powerful pop! Hear nton Shop during the week and RCS them for yourselves and form your MEDICINE SHOW ACCORDION '85 1 ion, 24 Buccleuch Place, at the Seminar Room 1, own opinion! Chambers Street House Playhouse Chaplaincy Centre 10 pm: £1.50 THE DANCE Annual Scottish/ceilidh night pre­ 1 pm TeviotRow sented by Radio Forth. Unfortu­ THE GOVERNMENT Debate: 'Free Abortion is a ions include soup and bread for 8pm-2am Jailhouse woman's Right'. Cathy Barrett nately Jesse Rae is not included in 2 discos, 2 bars, mega light show If the band sounds anything like (RCP) versus Father Grenarty 'this year's festivities. plus Happy Hour 9 pm-10 pm. the session on The Deadbeat tapes (Catholic Chaplaincy). 7.30 pm: £4.50-£3.75 E KANGAROO CLUB should be worth a listen. Poppy r bershfp: £4 for four years, which THE PROCLAIMERS The Place and enthusiastic! a free ticket to any Sunday Potterrow EU LABOUR CLUB Free lude (Victoria Street) ndby ticket 10 minutes before 8p-1 am Seminar.Room 2 Disco plus live band. Chaplaincy Centre Klub Roo is back with a swing. e Bar and many other theatre Great dance music! · W ·ED 20 NOV EU SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB 5.15 pm for 5.30 pm This week the speaker Conor 9 pm-2 am: £1 .50 Seminar Room 2, Is EDINBURGH QUARTET Foley from the Labour Committee GOOMBAY BEAT Chaplaincy Centre The Barbados Suite Queen's Hall on Ireland. 1pm (West Tollcross) 7.45 om: £4; £2.75 Bob McLennan, MP, talks on 'Con­ Fridays and Saturdays Reggae and CHARLIE McNAIR'S JAZZ BAND ·stitutional Reform and Industrial WED 20 NOV . Soul Preservation Hall Recovery'. Sunday Fiesta Tropicana Free $Kl CLUB LUNCH 9.30 pm-3 am .17/19 Guthrie Street (225 4061) EU GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY .rv. Pop into the offices at any Pleasance Bar Geoldgy Dept, KB 1pm J Linda, the fu ll-time secretary, or 1 pm· 'Climbing in the Himalayas': an BAHA'I SOCIETY illustrated talk by Mr F. Alexander. Room 10, Adam Ferguson bldg 1 pm attire. to all SNO concerts at the EU SHINTY CLUB CEILIDH Wholefood Lunch (50J?) available from 7 pm each Friday Chambers Street Ballroom 8pm GREEN BANANA CLUB Featuring Spookiskerry Ceilidh Potterrow Box Office Open 10 an-, ·; pm, Mon.-Sat. Jf MATR ICULATION CARD Band. Late bar. Tickets available 8 pm-1 am Access & Visa telephone O>X>kings welcome from club members. Disco plus happy hour 8.30-9.30 November 17th pm FRASER'S 21st/HOLLAND'S 25th Everly Brothers MIDWEEK SERVICE BIRTHDAY PARTY £10.50, £8.50 (Cl Chaplaincy Centre Party for Pollock Halls 1.10 pm November 18th December 16th 8 pm-1 am 'The Voice of Triumph': Re.v 2 Bands, 2 Bars, Free Food. Hawkwind ThePogues Charles Robertson, Canongate Tickets from Union Shops, £1.50. £4,'£3 £4.50, £4 (Al Church. December 1st December 22nd 1 6 N .O V LESBIAN AND GAY SOCIETY Robert Cray Band Th.eAlarm 1 Pleasance Bar £4. £3.50 · £4.50,£4 EU HIGHLAND SOCIETY CEILIDH 7.30pm December 4th Teviot Row Video showing of 'Harold and January 15th 1986 8pm Maude' and special general me.et­ Magnum .Sting Throw caution to the wind and ing. £4.50 Extra date due to public demand dance the night away with EUDC-ESSO INTER-VARISTY £8.50, £7.50 Spookiskerry Ceilidh Band. FINAL Admission C.1 . December 6th February 1st 1986 Teviot Row Debating Hall LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE 7.30 pm (Late Licence 1 am) The Style Council Hits of the 60s Chambers street Teams from all over the UK debate £6.50, £5.50 (Al £5,£4 8pm-1 am on the motion 'This house believes Why not become a Club card Holder g1v1ng you priority booking - 2 Bars, Happy Hour9-10 pm in Lib­ there's no place for public opinion rary Bar, plus live band - Deaf on new concert dates For more 1ntormat1on send an SAE to in medicine'. j Heights Cajun Aces. Edinburgh Plavhouse 18122 Greens1de Place or ohone031 ·5572590 10 STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1985

Film Turning Japanese boldly chosen to structure the film identical.' Misliima's own twist to MISHIMA into four parts, which correlate this philosophy was that giving to the temporal nature of physical Dir: Paul Schrader exactly with the amazing way in existence, · 'Pen and Sword' could Filmhouse which Mishima himself rigidly structured his own life. Each chap­ only achieve a beautiful union with On the morning of the 25th of ter consists of a fascinating mosaic early death - preferably a gory November 1970, Japan's greatest of black and white flashbacks-;" a suicide, since this was the 'ultimate contemporary novelist and highly stylised dramatisation of one masturbation'. playwright put a short note on his of Mishima's novels, and excerpts Schrader exposes so well the. desk: "Huma_n life is limited; but I from a steadily moving and detailed would like to live forever." Within degree to which Mishima was able portrayal of his final day. to translate this sort of ethic. hours he had committed· ritual "hara-kiri', following an aborllve With retrospect the film is able to his fiction to his own life: like the attempt to instigate a coup at reveal just how autobiographical .hero of 'Kyoka's House', Mishima Tokyo army headquarters. This his novels were, which is why their takes up bodybuilding in his mid­ involved driving a foot long dagger dramatisation are so telling. Not thirties in order to achieve merce­ from the left to right side of his surprisingly then, the homosexual nary 'beautiful' body. Likewise, as stomach, and, having collapsed cut author who we see as an adolscent his novels begin to reveal his disillu­ his entrails, being beheaded with a mastubating over Remis 'St Sebas­ sionment with the decay of tradi­ tional Japanese ideals, he forms his Samurai sward by a standing tian', produced make refelecting Ken Ogata as the adult Mishima. accomplice. He was only forty-five . his bizarre sexual persuations in an own private army dedicated to the This was the first real 'hari-kiri' erotic fascination with blood and protection of the then defunct irresistable yearnings. We are con­ the coup. It actually constituted since the Second World War. suicide. Intrinsically linked with Emperor, and the pre-war stantly reminded of the fact that his Mishima's last translation of fiction nationalism he represented Paul Schrader's new film is a 11ril­ this was an artistic aesth(ltic devised aesthetic and literary history made into fact, and embodied his perfect liant . attempt to. explain the from the ancient Samurai ideal of What is so admirable is the film's his 'hara-kiri' almost inevitable - union of 'Pen and Sword'. relationship between life, . the art, harmony between 'Pen and Sword', choice of material, is that Mishima through the protagonists of his An astounding man and an excel­ and the death of a man whose art and action. Modified by his doesn't emerge as a deranged novels he had rehearsed it down to lent film - don't bother with 'Co­ feverish pursuit of a personal intense narcissism, this meant that monster, but as an incredibly the last detail. Schrader therefore coon' or 'Mad Max' - Mishima aesthetic demanded this final act of 'Creating a beautiful work of art energetic, witty_, and sincere man, quite rightly emphasises the per­ was real. s~lf-destruction. To do this, he has and becoming beautiful oneself are driven on by deeply seated and sonal rather than political side to Matthew Catling

ness, which he initially seems to get derette being attacked and Omar's aw·ay with. Omar teams up with an cousin and Johnny being beaten up MY BEAUTIFUL old school friend, Johnny, who in in the process. However, again as in LAUNDERETTE the intervening year has teamed up all good fairy tales, all things come Dir: Stephen Fears with some less than friendly mem­ . to a relatively happy conclusion. Filmhouse bers of the National Front. Johnny, played by Daniel Day Lewis, puts This film goes a long way towards Daniel Day Lewis is what is this behind him and the two set up showing the real roots of racism in known in the business as an up-and­ the launderette into a washerwo- this country far better than any coming young British star. Or at man 's dream: neon lights, soft documentary or news report. Prob­ least that's what I've been led to music, fruit machines, copies of ably because they didn't intend it to believe. Unfortunately, he proba­ Vogue tastefully scattered around. be a so-called political statement or bly won't make the leap to super­ While all this is going on, a strong social comment. These are very stardom by his appearance in My relationship is growing in the back real people, not social stereotypes Beautiful Launderette. Don't get room between Omar and Johnny. and they show human qualities in a me wrong; Daniel Day Lewis is a film where it would be so easy to go very good actor and My Beautiful _Unfortunately, as in all good overboard with trendy comments. Launderette is one of .the best films fairy tales, everything beings to In one deft blow the film-makers that has struggled through the. I crumble. Johnny and Omar mista- and Channel 4 (who have financed quagmire of Rambos and Gremlins kenly introduce the uncle's daugh- it) have pushed the frontiers of pro- in recent years. Unfortunately for ter to the uncle's mistress, an intro- test against racism and homosexual both the film and Daniel Day duction which leads to the break-up discrimination back beyond the Lewis, nobody will go and see this learned and wise father slowly dis- deals. He hits on 'the idea of taking of the affair. Omar's cousin reach of the trendy intellectuals in great numbers. integrating to drink, is g;ven · a over a rundown launderette in an demands the return of the stolen who do nothing but sit , discuss and chance by his rich 'entrepreneur' even more rundown area. The only cocaine profits and Omar's uncle talk about abstract theories instead The story is as true to life as the uncle. Omar fast realises how much way to make the money r6Cjuired to tries to marry him off to his daugh: _ of concentrating on real lives. Hav- performances and script are. Young Omar, Pakistani son of a easy money there is to be made in do it up, however, is to cash in on ter, Tania. All this leads to the ing said that, I still bet no one goes some of his uncles less than-~-----...;._ legal his cousin's cocaine smuggling ___ busi- daughter _;;.____;,~..:;;,;..:,:.:..:::.:;__ running away, ttie laun- to___ see it. _:;:::~Sally Greig

Cinema 1 . Wed 13-Sat 6.45 and 8.45 Rocky n MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE IPGI ' ' Cher D1rect~d by St~phen (THE HIT, B~OOJ?Y KIDS) Frears, this film was the sensation of the 1985 Film Festival. Om~r, a Pak,stam boy, and Johnny, his national-front·connected lover, ~ankroll the openmg of a laudrette with money from a highjacked consignment of cocaine (hence the name of the laudrette: Powders). Funny, touching and daring. kirt suggests. Cinema2 MASK to subdue Rock's new attraction Thu 14-Sat 16 6.15 and 8.30 towards females , but rather than EDUCATING RITA 1151 Mother and son associate with a Dir: Peter Bogdanovich skulls-and-leather motorcycle· taking advantage of his mother's Rita a working class hous~wife, breaks her chains by taking an Open University course ABC thoughtfulness he spends the night ~~~et~~~=s ~~ b~~~e~~ dg:i~~~tor a lot about life. Wonderful performances from gang, who despite their garb are · 1 hardly brothers in arms with Hells explaining his Think Positive Cinea 1 . Inner bea_uty triumphs over phys­ Angels. They befriend puppies and philosophy to the girl. He finally :.,,sH~A 1(~515.45 and 8.15 (not 5.45 on Sundays) ical deformity to prove that ugly is give_ blood. Their goodness is finds someone to iove wliiie work­ ing af sumer camp for the blind, Paul Schrader's film is a boldly conceived, intelligent and constantly absorbing stud ~>nly_ skin deep in the shamelessly symptomatic of the mood of ·the a ~l~~~f/apanese writer's life, work and death. The score by Philip Glass is an instan mspJrat1onal film Mask. Eric whole film. Relentless cheerfulness but non-understanding parents Stoltz, Cher and Sam Elliott appear pervades whenever Rocky's condi­ who fail to see that beauty is what's Cinem12 m this dramatisation of the true tion is discussed, as in a hospital inside of you keep the two apart. Sun 17and Mon 18 6.15and8.30 story of Rocky Dennis, a teenager scene . where everyone smilingly This mood continues until the MATTER OF HEART (UI smiles-through-the-tears close that The extraordinary)ourney.of ~ q Ju!1g int?the Human spirit. A filmic evocation ofth whose face is appallingly disfu­ joins in to discuss the known 1nfor­ man through_a umque·cpllect1on of mterv1ews with people who knew .him well. _gured by a rare bone disease. mat1on on ,the disease. Everyone left much of the audience sniffling, proving either gullibility or the 50p Matinees this week : MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Wed 13 Fri 15)· EDUCATIN hut the pessimistic intern who, with RITA (Thu 14); SUNRISE (Tue 19). All at 2.30 ' ' Stoltz plays Rocky, who despite -a few other negative or small­ reviewer's cynicism. adversity manages to live almost minded characters, are the object like any normal American adoles­ of Rusty's scorn and "prove the Some may see Mask as a new cent. He collects baseball cards, lis­ , experts wrong" attitude. ,Elephant Man substituting hazy LA tens to Spnngsteen and dreams of for · foggy London. But compan- seeing all of Europe in a. month. This wouldn't be offensive if . son's would be inaccurate. In the Cher plays his "modern" mother Rocky's virtues weren't made so one film is John Merrick's moving• Rusty. Any film character named prominent. At graduation he wins protesi, "I am not an animal, I am a Rusty is expected to possess certain three (out of four) scholastic human being." Mask gives us attributes and, as this is not a movie awards; when Mom's drug habit Rocky Dennis, who says, "I look to deny an audience's expectations gets out of hand he hides anti-drug weird, but otherwise I'm real nor­ Cher's Rusty is as spunky and pamphlets among her thing,. In mal." The difference is clear. straightforward as her black minis- one scene Rusty _hires a prostitute Scott Hammond stlJbENt tHursday Uu1 Ndvembef J

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Hgh otlhe evehfH~ w~~.'·HatolcJ i ii5GG:THESHEPHERD EDINBURGH lJNIVERSitY H~ly" ,. a syrlipHoHy by Berllo: JUSTIFIED ORCHESTRA which I~ IH lad vety like a coHcerl for viola. THe sdloisl was Pl! I Cd ~erse; until 1sf December Qileen '~ Hllil eHI, ah oUts iiHHIHgl t1llislclaH wh, You can't sing a fciolnote, Bes~l!e lHe copf(detll cdhdudiHg ~fief ldvlHg schoo he te iH t::dir according to ~ames ti:?gg, the of Alasdair Mltchell llf IHel~Ueeh's burgk aHd s!lldxlHg al He Roy, Ettrick Shephertl; but this produc­ 1-hill dH Sahlrday higHI, t11e EdiH­ Scohis~ Acadelily qt M,usic . wei tion contradicts him by turning blifgH sytllj:,fidlly Orc!Jesha lo sludy lll !He M,crlUIHrl. MLis literary biog~~phy In, o an seefned lit fits I 18 l~ck cohesidfi. Acatlettiy In SwHMltirl.H, wlMe f extremely e,nJoyable one-man Th~ lell-h1ie sigH. bt llii llrlWeUr Hbw !eackes. tHe dtckeslt~ cdn snow. In two stlort acts, l:logg (bril­ otcheslH - aH IHllolllly tb pllly bleltle led Mt- toleHI wel ifi ttt liantly p\ayed by Dorlald Douglas) cotttbleleiy lfi tU ~ - 'Yils UlifoHu­ fiHe wotk, ii! ltls! ctl~ UH Hg In regales t\iS audience with, tal.es, 1 hately hitnet dlll:eable, a cl hle sbiH of tlie HJ sic: He se~ loti tt songs and rumours from his late­ dH:he~!ttl dlspltl7ed rl dlsHnd lack vfohl aHtl harp proved elttH~H ihg flowerlng career as poet, novelist of uHdetstahcllHg df !He fit~i work. attd the orc~bit~\ playlHg 1ft th and musician. Hogg died 150 years l:leelhoveh '§ Lebttdte Ovet!UtG "Se~eHaHe of a lllo H!aJH tlwe llet ago this year, and is perhaps best No. 3 is a piece Of gteat cplour aHtl ~todUced a deligkHUI a!li-lbspHe r: remembered fo r his psychological tlrahi:I; wtlHeH t!rlgirl.ally as ~n ~bf11e e~telleHl btass . pla,ylr novel Confessiom of a Justified Sin­ dvet!Ufe lo !he C\)rliposer's oHJy helpetl btirig !he coHceH to a !rluri ner; however , this production bpytll,, ii is a sytnphprly In. ils own phf t coflclUsidn. celebrates his heritage as a Borders tight, b~! tlie intetls1.ly arid beauty he next cbHce t by th shepherd tls much as his success as a bf !'he t,1ece were Hever coriveyed. ore esira. lo be giveH oH l:ibrUai figure in the thriving Edinburgh isl i ~86 Is td tea@e PHIiip Greer litefary scene. Hogg's mon,olo&ue is The otthes!t~ obviously galrl.ed 1 corlfldence as Hie tveHlrlg progres­ itt Md~aH's clarlhel cbtkeHo. P delivered m Scots, and 1t 1s a plea­ !he otche~ha proved It Is ti! I s be Me to listen to even for the simple sed, a11d there were lflomerlts iH 1 wagHer's "Siegttied's JoJt-Hey lo when ih !he ccilndany of arl expe English fo lk who may hot always sololsl, ii shollld 'be ll Corlee t we uHderstand it. the Rhlhe" wlien Ifie rhijSlc begrth to corrle aliv~, p~r!lcidarly in .lbe wotth hearidg. Mohr has Hogg trace his transi­ K1rsteen Davldeson Kell tion fro111 Jamie the Poeter to more dramatic sections. THe high- James Hogg, poet with wit and a deal of dr7 humour. As Hogg says, The dty hllttioµr of Moztlrt wd men die poets, but not many are SCOTTISH CHAMBER beaU!ifUhv sel off bv the rortWhti botn poets. Much of the humour is ORCHESTRA Symphony iH A H1ittbt by Men directed at his associates and Queen's Hall delssohh. Tfiis. the "ScollisH Svm enemies. ln and around "Men die poets, but not many are born poets!' pHony·· (which seerrls lu have b·ee wHat Ifie predor111tlar1lly Scottls Blackwood's Magazirie; his friends James tonlon's concluding is get of( only marginally more reasons the play is so successful is audience were wal Ing for) wa Mudd, have contrived a real lhti­ nothing if not unorthodox. He acts oiveh a skilfUI ltjletpreiatlon by th lightly. Through Hogg's irreverent that Mohr seems to know when to macy between the actor ahd the ollt the music for !he orchestra. eyes, the play offers a fascinating stop: by the end I felt that I knew SCO, evokihg !lie Splendour cit tfi audience. Dohald Douglas uses it using grtrrlllces . and expahsive Higl-llands wi!H great serlsitivlty. insight into the lives of early 19th­ Hogg quite well, but so well that I exceptionally well. arid his perfbr­ moverrtettls to gel the music over to century literati. But correspond­ did .riot wish to know more. It you lire uhaware of this set-le mance is at once bo!h funny and lherrl, Hot so mlJch colicert1ed with of coHceHs tttai the sttl peHorni ing to Hogg's gradual rise to fame is Intimate theatre Is often attemp­ affecting. The portrayal is finely timlrtg as ihterpretation. the·resUlt his slow wooing of his wife, an ted but rarely achieved. In Hogg, every Salurdav iti the dueeh·s Hall judged ahd finely executetl. on Salurday was an exceptiqnal rd advise yoJ to lttake entjUirle! aspect Of his life which Mohr treats however, the director, Morag Ful­ concert, !he orchestra respohdirlg directly and effectively. Orie of the Jlin Oberlander Stddenls get i2 cbrlcesslons tlf th lerton. and the designer, Adrian to Conlon with .eristhusiasm. . h door for wotld-cla~s music - an, the Mdzartian sectioh of I e tHe prognltnme this yellr look corlceH, the SererHlde in C mlrlot grea\. Yod cah ~et prb~rtllilltie Panny, and his son, Gordon (Scott woodeh , allhough iii fairhess both for wlttd l!Hd !he Symphony in C ftolil !He lJsHer Htlll of dueeh· STRIKERS Johnston). ate difficult parts. trtll)8r, captltred tHe tjumour IH f-;H!II t. f (he coinltlk sellsbh. Get i Netherbow George BlackhaJl's set Is effec­ Mozart's h1ltsk wHlcH ls So ofteh tHete and tlhd oUl R-Hat ·s kolflg Rn tm 3dthNovember Gordon is a highly rated young tively simple, althotigh perhaps orliltted hi perfortttahces of His i'.Meli lle player, apparently (allowing bolh wotks. The \)hraslng attd precision The play opens wi!~ !He striking tending too mucH towards !Jabltai­ his father a.nd grandfaiher (whose llke simplicity wkert compared with of tijls performahce wlls faultless. tniners' anthem - "Here we go, th !He wihd sytnphony especially talent was allowed to fulfil itself In a !lie authentic interlbt df the 1-dbtti, LIS EN .FOR~LASSltA here we go , h~re we go" - rising very successful career) but both he the ~lay~rs cohvey~d theft .erjoy­ t>t.Jt lrom the street below' a,nd it ends ahd the ecorlbrrilcal ditectldH bf UVE db ~Bt R Iti SCUl and Danny realise that he's pushed Sandy Nelisort bdrlgs otlt he rrlerit al)d easy fatr11l1dHty wi!h the LAND 2 pm-9 .4d pm t IS Stllid~y. with a cpmment on the determina­ scpre, th.e bassobrllsls 111 P.ahlcular tion and character of !hose ugH!ing his natural abili!y to its Jinlits. ,essentially · Human hear! Of Hils Danny has the perceplion and sharply wrltten play. taking l!dvahhl~e o{tkls ate oppdr------­ for their ]obs, . 9et Dona\d wisdom of oltl age. He is the only tdttHy lo show off their skill. Campbell's Strikers is not primarily ColJn Halkock concerned with the strike, nor one who can remain relatively emo­ tionally unscathed by the reappear­ indeed with the footballing theme ance of Bobby's ex-wife, Maggie which runs throughout the play. (Beth Robens). His outlook Is Instead , Strikers is essentially an inlimate human drama, usi11g the essentially pragmatic: accepting context of the strike and football to Maggie's need tb escape from the examine the relationships betwee,n role of housewife of a miner; advis­ the four characters, and their dif­ ing Gordon to sign for a major club fering attitudes to work. before his taleht tuns out; and This intimacy and small sca)e is suggesting that Bobby should emphasisetl l)y all tlie actioh taking "keep his head dowh " during the place .in the living room bf a l~ne­ strike, cheekily adding "like you ment flat. The characters go out lo, did the lllst time". coll\e in frd and discuss their But Martin Black and Joe Greig work, so it's always presenled In \he give very fine ,Performances , wJth ligbt df lls effect on ltie tlouseno d. the fortnet excetlenHy combining The play's hut! is Bbbby tMarlin Hle eihollonal anll tat\orial ele­ Black) , now a thjnel- oh strike, (\lr­ nleh!s bf !He charactef. Hdwever, Beth RobenS occaslonallr over­ mer\y a. sup~~:ne(y ~ifte!J foo\~al\er' 1 unll) 1111 Ury cut hts Ca{eef t llg1ca ly plays He ryeurbtlc side 8t Mllggie sllort. He llves wltH HI father, and Scott Johilsl8H's acting is a Bil 12 STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1%:-

,\rts/Fcaturcs tragic ones had me dou_bled up. The Sunday Times has praised the pro-. duction as refreshingly Shakes­ pearan in its in_terpretation, to the rest of the audience 1t was expres­ Hamlet or Omelette? sionless, stale delivery otherwise NETHERLANDISH known as hamming it up. Nervous DRAWINGS titters at the ghost ( complete with Hamlet is never an easy play to green light and dry ice) gave way to National Gallery ;tage. So well known some people audible splutters of laughter as 25th October-24th December ·egard any deviation as sacrilege, Polonius died John Wayne style As is always the case at the ~hereas others regard innovation as and Hamlet gave the dying Laertes National Gallery, the current 1ecessary to relieving a staid for- a tragic half nelson . exhibition is comprehensive and 1mla. Martin McHugh and Stella Modernisation and innovation carefully laid out. The collection of '.::ollier went along to the production was the Royal Lyceum's key note, some 80 Netherlandish drawings, ,t the Lyceum, running until 30th but , Boy George allusions aside. sketches and etchings from the ga l­ ~ovember, and the reaction of each Hamlet really did look very silly lery's own collection and from the ~as very different. ~pouting "To be not to be" dressed Royal Scottish Academy, give the in a fetching see-through sparkly spectator considerable insight into "IAMLET frock. When it came to "perchance the lives of these Northern Euro­ to ... ,. his eyes widened, his face peans. Put on show to coincide with ·.yceum; until 30th November assumed an imbecillic grin and he the publication of a two-vol ume Good grief! Not another Hamlet flung his arms wide saying catalogue of Netherlandish draw­ roduction and not another "dreeeeem", it had to be seen to be ings in the National Gallery of Scot­ Jleedin' review. We ll , yes, but the 'believed and it certainly was a new land, the comparatively small nessage from the production at the interpreetation. . exhibits are of genre and religious '...yceum and this review is clear: l had a great time spotting the scenes and include a number of 11iss this at your peril! "eclectic" bits of scenery. What at Dutch and Flemish landscapes first glance seemed to be a World which span the 16th to the 19th cen­ From the rise of the curtain there The reviewers fight it out. War One mausoleum contained a turies . .vas something special about this 70s bed and furry black rugs, 30s An impressive variety of media is Hamlet. The set was a cross bet­ his confused emotions at the killing on, but improved hugely for her armchairs and sofar, a grotty 80s on display from vibrant water­ ween a penthouse and a war memo­ of the king, and his reaction to mad scene. Tom Watson as desk and telephone, inconsisten­ colours, black chalk drawings by ·ial. with electric lights writing Hamlet's madness, were absolutely Polonius was dependable, but won­ cies which destroyed any unifying Philippe de Champaigne, brown desks and telephones all an integral masterly and one of the highlights derful as the gravedigger. theme. The overall impression was pen and ink wash drawings by Jart of this Elsinore. With Claudius of the play. All in all, it was a tremendous of desperate attempt to apply Rubens and etchings by ~nd Polonius and the courtiers production of a great play and if Shakespeare to 20th century dtcssed in suits, an air of menace Hamlet was also quite brilliani, Rembrandt. The diversity of you miss it. on your own head be it. events. technique of four decades is here was exuded which was heightened played by Kevin McMonagle (who Martin McHugh by the luxurious couches and bed apparently used to be a British Rail The best scene had to be when captured for the spectator. The used. The picture of Claudius parcels clerk). After a somewhat Polonious was instructing an exhibition is by its very nature unlikely to revolutionise artistic scheming while drinking whisky slow start, he moved from extremes From the moment the air raid unseen figure to spy on Laertes thinking but the marks made from and dressed in a suit was so effec­ of energy to torpor easily; and he siren sounded and the curtain rose, He spoke into the telephone from the swiftness of a penned arabesque tive in creating the sense of plotting didn't walk around with his face my heart sank. With each theatrical which we then strained to hear gar­ in a Rubens to the moody cross­ and deviousness that lay in Elsi­ tripping him all the time , like so innovation, monotone speech and bled, crackling ''Aye, my lord"s hatching in the Rembrandt etchings nore. many Hamlets do. In his banter defeaning entrance/exit it made its Each entrance or exit was with Polonius he wore a lady's dress way down to my boots, destined to emphasised as the cast hopped, provide endless fascination. So, skipped and jumped its way up and too, do the historically interesting Claudius himself, played by which Ophelia was later to wear in remain there until the final bow. down the set's many concrete rustic scenes of windmilled land­ Charles Kearney, was a particularly her mad scene. It was a nice touch. The evening was not a complete stairs. It all made for entertaining scapes peopled with peasants going good Claudius. Whereas in other di;,ad loss, it had its moments: the evening. about their work . productions he has become a non­ Irene Macdougall as Ophelia was funny scenes were funny , the seri­ Stella Collier character, Kearney's portrayal of rather deficient in some areas early ous scenes were funI]y , and the Ruth Findlay A new venue for Scotland I 10,000 seat Hall 4. They are cur- More immediately, this Sunday The spotlight will be turned on Glasgow's new Scottish Exhibition and Confereace Centre in two rently arranging a Simple Minds gig sees a nine-hour classical music weeks time when the Queen performs its official opening. Alastair Dalton looks at the Centre's con- there at the end of February, and extravaganza, Classical Aid, at the sidentble potential, which is likely to have a far reaching impact. have already booked Depeche SECC. In aid_ of War On Want's Even though the newly opened host a great diversity of events. With Edinburgh at present faci ng Mode for April 6. Famme in Afnca Appea_l, _Classical Scottish Exhibition and Confe r-· There is scope for audiences of a severe shortage of venues, and In addition, other SECC con- Aid 1stofea_ture500mus1c1ansfrom ence Centre is situated in Glasgow, between 50 and 10,000, and for any the Playhouse capacity being only certs include Lloyd Cole on all over Bntam, three m a1o r co n­ its sheer size and flexibility mean ty pe of event: seminars, product about 3,000, the SECC may well be - December 16, and Elton .John on certs by the SNO, BBC Scottish that it is likely to become a major launches, indoor sports, conferences used more and more as a 'one-stop' January 3 and 4, the former of these Symphony Orchestra and the Scot­ focus for events and concerts from !Xhibitions and concerts can be concert hall for bands commanding taking place in a smaller hall . tish Opera Orchestra, and many all over Scotland. ::atered for. larger audiences who visit Scot- The SECC thus bodes well as a fringe events. The Centre places much Outside, there is direct access to land. major ve nue, apart from the few It is hoped £50,000 will be raised emphasis on attracting shows and the sea via ihe quayside frontage, as The SECC is much more accessi- teething problems encountered at fr~m. ti cket sales alone, with more events to Scotland, both from well as a large open air piazza ble and flexible than the Ingliston the 'first night' gig (UB40). being pledged for the appeal on th_e elsewhere in the UK and from all exhibition area. There is ample Royal Highland Showground, a Crash barriers placed at the front day. The whole event (2-11 pm) .'s over the world. It aims to "an essen- of Hall 4, beneath the stage , were being broadcast live on BBC Radw tial catalyst in the fruitful inter- removed at the last minute by Scotland. . change between Scotl and and the Building Control, causing a delay in The SECC is likely to receive rest of the world". the doors being opened, and poten- national coverage when the Queen Bui lt on a former dockland site tially serious problems in the rather officially opens it on Nove~ber 27. less than a mile from the centre of narrow concourse access area, However, the Centre's potential Glasgow, the SECC has the ideal where thousands of people waiting for attracting a huge diversity of combination of accessibility and to get in began squeeezing towards events from a ll over Scotland, and space to expand. the entry doors. indeed the world, is yet to be fully As well as bordering the MS and There are at present only two realised. the Clydeside Expressway, Glas- small access doors to the hall from ------gow airport is just 12 minutes away, the concourse, intended, it seems , e SMALL ADS and the Centre even has its own for conference delegates and exhib- DESPERATELY SEEKING heliport, and moorings for water ition visitors rather than impatient SUSAN·.- Film poster (40"x30"), 2 access. concertgoers. stills and press release for sale. But theSECC is also easily acces- As far as prospects for the future Offers £6 Phone Yossi 667 2788 sible from other parts of Scotland. go , the SECC is to host the Scottish after 6.30 pm. Glasgow is just 45 minutes away Motor Show which opens on Ascot Mota _ Squash racquet from Edinburgh by train, and the November 21, the Christmas and going cheap, cheap, cheap. See· SECC is linked to Finneston Sta- New Year Carnival , including cir- Shone; Lee 205 or Phone Pollock tion by an enclosed tubular walk- cus, which runs from December 7, ext 64. way, just two stops from Central. and Leisure Life exhibition in ARE- YOU above average body The SECC is a huge glass and Photo: John Lindsay January. weight for your height, or simply steel structure, its colour scheme parking ~pace, but long delays were previou;: ·venue for the likes of Further ahead, the SECC is over weight? unmistakeably red, with five self- experienced after a recent concert, Duran Duran and Wham! Also, playing a major part in the Glasgow If so, would you be prepared to contained but interlinked concert as the car park exit paybox facilities unlike Ingliston, the SECC's Garden Festival 1988, which will help in a 4th year project related to halls arranged around a central proved somewhat inadequate to largest hall is all seats for concerts, run for five months. The Festival isJ weight and PMT? )females only concourse. Its purpose, unlike cope with the sheer volume of cars. with good sightlines from the tiered be staged at Princes Dock, on the please!) many larger centres, is to give equal While the SECC will host exhibi- portions especially. · opposite bank of the Clyde from All responses, naturally, will be emphasis to both conferences and tions and other events previously Edinburgh promoters Regular the SECC, and a bridge will be con- in the strictest confidence. Please exhibitions. held at places such as Glasgow's Music expect to do more business structed linking the too .. Together get in touch! Contact me, Lindha This is reflected in the different Kelvin Hall, its impact as a concert there following the successful open- they should do much to revitalise MacLeod at 668 2182, or throug sizes, shapes and purposes of the venue is likely to be felt much ing concert by UB40 and Simply and enrich the depressed Gla~gow the Psychology Department stu· five halls, so that the SECC can further afield. Red last month, which sold out the docklands. · - · - -• ------derifmail n·otice=6oard. STUDENT · T hursday 14th November 1985 13

Features Hearing the call Opinion

"Variety,, flexibility, challenge and constantly meeting stimulating people." These are the facts hich prompt Edinburgh University's Chaplain to say he enjoys his work. Pauline Radcliffe speaks General Confusion : the Rev. Norman Shanks ab.out hls post which he undertook in October. Sally Williamson defends her position as a General Honours stu· We all remember Freshers· md job satisfaction - to become a The second area, perhaps to dent and considers the peculiarities of this degree which i~ week. In betw.een 1.he agomsmg :hurch .m,mste~? some extent aligned to the first, is in process of matnculatmg, choosmg .H.e first considered going into the the area of helping to support both awarded only by the Arts Faculty. the outside subject which looks as m1mstry whe? studying English at students and staff. The Chaplaincy Are you a '431111 ' or a '321111' or negotiated, however, it becomei though it requires the least. work, St Andrews m th~ early '60s but here acts as an alternative safety even a '2211 111 '? No this is not a clear that this is not an inferio and hunting for seemmgly 11lus1ve dec,d~d he was still too unsure at net. It does not seek to duplicate mystery code, or a number given to degree to be disdained by the major· books, you may have collapsed: for that t1m~ to take such a. significent the job of the Student Advisory and subversive students by the govern- ity of students. The Ordinary is one a moment, m the Chaplamcy step. His years m Edmburgh at Counselling Service or the welfare ment, but three possible combina- that offers breadth as opposed t< Centre. Whilst recuperating over a work were also spent in becoming work of the Students' Association lions for the General Honours and depth, whilst for entry to Honour: (free) cup of coffee or tea, you may increasingly involved in community but at times advice from the Chap'. General Ordinary degrees in the students need four merits afte also have pau~ed to ponder as to and church act1v11I es - youth laincy may be more appropriate_ Arts Faculty. If you are not an Arts three years as opposed to two afte. what this buJJdmg was a.ct ually for. . work, community outreach ,_ elder and there is cross-referral where student do not stop reading as this . two years for 'normal' Honours. Sc Although the Chaplamcy Centre of the Church of Scotland Bible necessary. Here the chaplain pur- article is relevant to all faculties and · phase, on behalf of all General stu does ably a~t as a re~tmg place an~ class .and Sunda~ school teacher. posefully stressed that people need disciplines. The Social Science and dents, next time you hear someone fi lling station dunng Freshers So,, his was .not a Road to Damas- not have "acute problems" to go Science Faculties can both boast of is studying a General do not dismis Week, the bnghter students among cus expenence, but rather a and see him. "Sometimes students a General Ordinary Degree but them with a sniff, do give then usmayhaverealisedthatthecentre gradual growth in faith, .and this just need someone to talk things unlike the Arts Faculty, do not some respect. does, in fact, serve a deeper pur- ~ventually resulted - with some over with," he said. - have a General Honours degree. One of the reasons for the degrer pose in life. Its o.rgamsatwn and_ mev1tab1hty - mthe decision .to Both of these areas 10 some T his article is to set the record being viewed with indifference i role within the Umvers,t~ 1s all co- spend the rest of his hfe as a mm1s- extent include forging Jinks among straight and to squash the critics that it is unique to the Arts Faculty ordinated by the Umvers1ty Chap- ter. the different denominational and who label the degree inferior. Some Perhaps if it was available through Jain - since October, the Rev. religious groups. critics, from within the Arts out the faculties it would at least b, Norman Shanks. Norman Shanks sees the third Faculty, even see the degree as a received wit h more interest Norman is perhaps now how area-conductworship-aspossi- 'cop-out' for those who cannot gain Although I understand that it couli some of us would 1magme the typ,- bly the most important aspect of his entry to Honours after second year. be difficult to implement in the Sci cal minister to be' : he is a family work. A quick resume of the Orcjinary ence Faculty. it could be absorbc, man - he and his wife have one "Worship should not be an and Honours is needed. each offers quite readily into the other facul daughter aged 16, and two sons optional extra, but an integral part the student a broad education ties . aged 12and 14-in his early 40s, he of a Christian ·s life and work." whilst still specialising in one sub- The main problem. however i enjoys sport (especially cricket), is Apart from the chaplaincy's ject if he/she wishes. The regula- the way in which the degree i friendly and down-to-earth in con- involvement with Greyfriars Parish tions allow for fl exibility within a awarded - a student graduate versation and doesn't often Church, and the annual academic strict formula. although any stu- with Distinction or Merit. and not wear a dog-collar! processional services, he is espe- dent wishing to do a general must the recognised firsts and seconds The Reverend Norman Shanks ciall y eager to promote the Mid- have a first degree in gobbledygook This leads to further confusion. an, was not, in · fact , 'reverend' until week Service at Wednesday lun- to understand the regulations. A would be much clearer if the dcgre 1982 , when he graduated in Divnity ch times - an opportunity for the degree which a large number ot could be graded as all othe at New College, here in Edinburgh. Christian community in the Univer- Director of Studies do not possess, degrees. There are reports tha He then spent a year or so as assis- sity to worship together in the midst judging by the number of compla- something is afoot in Universt tant minister to Murrayfield Parish of the working week. ints of misdirecting I have heard Court to change this position an, Church before becoming Assistant The last area of his work which from General students. award the degree as others. Th Chaplain to the University in 1983. The chaplain is aware that there the chaplain sees as perhaps the As the Arts Faculty offers this only problem this could lead t, Although Norman is ordained in is apathy towards Christianity in most exciting aspect of his ministry degree to its students it should would be as regards the Ordinar the Church of Scotland, the posi- university, as there is in society as a here, is in reaching out as an indi­ ensure that all Directors of Studies degree. its formula would probabl tion is open to all denominations. whole; but it is not this which he victual and a minister, to share in understand the degree regulations, have to change. Whilst assessmen Before becoming a minister, he finds most depressing. the range of activity that goes on. especially for the Honours degree. of third year work could be mad worked for 15 years in the Scottish "What is depressing is the gen- "University is a place of discov- or, alternatively, if the Arts Faculty more difficult. Office (1969-73), was involved in eral misunderstanding of Christian- ery and exploration," he said. "The cannot adequately advise its Oree- Finall y. this degree appears to b the reform of local government in ity, the church and ministers. This, Chaplaincy has a function in help­ tor~. it should clarify the regula- riddled with anomalies. and man Scotland; ·then spent two years I fee l, isan important reason for me ing to extend the horizons in that tions so costly mistakes can be see it as redundant and suggest i (1975-77) as private secretary to being here, to remedy these process of finding what life is all avoided or rectified. This is some- should be shelved altogether. Thi successive Secretaries of State for errors," said Norman. about. We haven't got all the thing which is common to all the is a little drastic but the degree ce1 Scotland, under Labour govern- In the face of all this 'misun- answers, but it is important that we Faculties, perhaps the could revise tainly needs to be standardised S· ments; and latterly was an assistant derstanding' it seemed a good are involved where the· questioning their handbooks to make studying a that both students and employer secretary in the Scottish Home and opportunity to quiz out chaplain on is going on." degree at least understandable. can assess its worth. Health Department (the equivalent_ what he does see his role as a Chris- "I believe the reason most people Once the maze of regulations are of the Home Office for the unin- tian with a special responsibility dismiss Christianity is not on intel- itiated), dealing wiht such prob- within the university, to be. lectual grounds, but because it !ems as football hooliganism, police There are four areas in which doesn't seem relevantto issues that powers . . . and licensing hours. All Norman sees his role as chaplain. they face," he concluded. "They of these posts brought him into con- Firstly: hear a message of comm,tted love tact with a wide range of people "I am here to affirm Christian being preached, and yet see Christ- Banking oll blood throughout Scotland, and politi- values and to help build up the ians practising so?1ething which is c1ans at Westminster. They also sense of belonging to a community; far from f~B ob.ed,.ence to that mes- to finish. the process takes abou mvolved a promising future. this is all about reconciliation, sa~e. Chnstiamty 1s, m effect, often Donating blood is one of the easiest and most generous acts 20/25 minutes. with the time spen ·So why throw all this aside - which I believe is central to the reiected because of the madequacy actually giving being less than IO. promotion prospects, high salar} Christian faith." of Christians in living it out." a person can perform. It takes Once the blood is collected. it i: less than ten minutes to give, is either kept whole and transfuse, If YOV DOt,JT entirely safe and benefits into accident victims and patient· people the world over. So why recovering from major operations do people make such a big fuss or broken down into ten vital com about donating? Why are there ponents. These components car . , , 'flhv'.\1't I\ M\ ;Jj more excuses than donors? then be used to treat patients suf fering from severe burns 1,\ :Y,A;t.~S,VL/VNI() ·., :. Mostly, I think, because R,P, haemophilia. anaemia and certair ~\ r'$.iC:.l1ADU1A,IZoc.k:,t\1t-1N, ': people·don't realise how simple infections. Ii fVIJk., ,J£.W WAVE.,cl-Ass1c.AL, and vital an act, donating Every year the Edinburgh anc blood is. South East Scotland Blood Trans 11 t?WE5,,scR.ATcJ1, OANCE-1 I remember the first time I fusion Service collects 80.000 dona \. (,J.. M,A'i., !J:.,VJVAL, NE)JJS, donated blood in the States four tions of blood. This means that 25( G,O~~l~ years ago. I was nervous. scared, donations are needed every single i Wt-l~T'l ON, sc.MPN., unsure and a dozen more descrip­ day. The Service is constantly seek­ l. fV.TutZ.f.S, w.AL- gAfJD5 tN tives, because I didn't know what I ing new donors to meet this urgen· 1;;1 Sf..S~to"J, RE.VJ£wf., Po~rtt,: was "getting myself into''. Only demand, and on November 18th If PLAts,1 m-~v1~wS,e1>t11-wf after the donation was over did I 19th and 20th from IO am to 5.3( realise how unnecessary and unjus­ pm in the Chaplaincy Centre UIL-.J.,.,,,,.r,::;==1• 11)·11'•' ··1 •11' tified my anxieties had been. mobile blood transfusion will b( I . ,) ,, • /I ~,1 Here in Edinburgh, the donation present to collect a tlonation froll' process is equally simple and safe. YOU! You are given a few health ques­ Another mobile unit will be at tions to answer. a drop of blood is the King's Buildings · Union or taken from your finger to ensure November 28th from 10 am to 5.0C cial pressure applied to us, and can ~'0k~y, let's make it very simple. time this weekend. sufficient iron content, a local pm and November 29th from 10 arr 0 cater for human interest as opposed Friday the 15th of Novomber The Director of Publicity asserts anaesthetic is administered to your to4pm. We "'t: ' M Want all of you to tune into 94.9 that "Splot Radio is poised to to returnable investment." arm, and 450 mis. (3/4 pint) of blood Please do come on one ot these It sounds promising-so do what Hz VHF. without fail." }'his is the unleash upon Edinburgh a damna­ is removed from your system. And days and give the gift of life . the man says and tune in on Frjday ::ssage from Splot Radio which bly exciting array of music, news after you're done. you can enjoy thousands are counting on it. es .to the airwaves for the first and features. We have no commer- to decide for yourselves. free coffee and biscuits. From start Cindy MacGregor

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Fc.iturcs Up your kilt Jock! Initially formed into a trio for a one-off performance at the This is not seen as parochiaiity ir Bedlam Theatre, Duncan McLean, John McKay and Jeremy any way. As John asserted, "paroc Benstock have successfuly taken their Merry Mac Fun Show hiality is a word used by Londo, culture". All three speak of thL much further afield. Naomi Marks spoke to the three about their starvation of culture in the localitie pioneering cocktail of localised humour and participatory and see nothing wrong with dealin1 theatre. with local culture purely by and fd itself. They look forward to a tim1 English and anybody else who ever Originaliy, John and Duncan when there is a regular, thrivin1 got Scotland wrong". worked together in the Scottish and popular theatrical and cultura They do admit though that they Student Orama Festival in 1984 series of events in and around Scot have not necessarily got Scotland where they first met Jez. (He land . allegedly made contact by insulting right and they deny any conception One of the songs that the Merq them!) Later on in the year Jez and of themselves as alternative Scots Macs perform illustrates perfectlJ John collaborated in the Bedlam bigots. Instead, as Duncan states: their unique style of ripping apar festival season. From these first. . "Scotland is just the particular ball stereotypes and yet placing some meetings the three thought it would that we're kicking around at the thing positive in its place , in a wittj be fun to write and improvise moment", and what they are and accessible fashion. The song together. They performed their primarily interested in is the busi, 'Scottish Pride·. describes how al first comedy show at the Bedlam- ness of confronting preconceptions things traditionally associated wit! a Scottish review aimed at hitting and stereotypes in a humorous way; Scotland in fact originated fron out at the English, particularly all of which has a far more common elsewhere. It declares that the onl1 South-eastern English , bias of the resonance than just the Scottish thing peculiar to Scotland is it Bedlam. Surprisingly, considering · issue. "misplaced Scottish pride ... But th t Jez described how the format is the conditions, the show was a huge crux of the piece is at the end when far from destructive but is positive success. in pseudo-black chant, the audi in its outlook. "We're into a The Merry Macs Fun Show, a ence are encouraged to ··Say i year later, has performed many bold, presentative form of theatre loud, we 're Scots and proud! '" times in Glasgow and Edinburgh, whereby we can become cartoon 1976. Although Duncan seemed to around. Audience participation is As John McKay says: "Screw th t been a sell-out success on the 1985 characters who then go on to reveal think he was in danger of sounding not only lolerated but actively media-image. screw fantasy-lam Edinburgh Fringe where they were an unexpected turned-around vie­ pompous in stating this he decided encouraged during the show . Scotland of the lochs. hills anl Perrier Pick-of-the-Fringe finalists, wpoint." Or, as he put it more suc­ to risk an elaboration anyway: com­ Up until now the show has been glens or TV documentary Scotland been to London to perform in the cinctly later, "we're celebratory edy they feel has been grossly- mis­ most effective for audiences from , what we 've got is what we are, an( Perrier cabaret, done a lot of radio rather than masturbatory". used similarly to that of music in the or living in , Sco.tland. Despite this, this is what we must work on.·· work and - reaching that pinnacle The three are sure that their early '70s. In the same way that they were enthusiastically received of stardom - appeared on the shows are 100% , although defi­ musicians had placed themselves in London although many of the Wogan show. nitely not party political. However, on pedestals, comics too have been references in the show had to be The Merry Mac Fun Show a~ The show is no longer aimed at this is not something they have to largely detached from their audi­ changed - apparently Londoners appearing at the Theatre Work the Bedlam bias but it has still the consciously sit down and ponder ence. don't recognise wit in jokes con­ shop, 34 Hamilton Place, on th same fundamental theme of pre­ on; although after some thought For these reasons, the Merry cerning George Younger, Scottish 15th and 16th of November. senting as many preconceived Jez suggested that the show Macs have taken a fairly radical cheddar or the Sunday Post! notions of Scotland as possible and perhaps "veers as opposed to stance in live cabaret work - their However, London is not the· Late on Saturday evening they wil then, with little mercy to audience slides" to the left. interests lying in the promenade trio's starry target. Instead, it is the he guests at the news Son of roc0<1 feeling , blasting them out. As John In this, the trio are seen to hold form of theare. In this, traditional expansion of a localised humour dub in Wilkie House, Cowgate. Ti< said , they "sing, dance, imitate bag­ with what they cite as a main influ­ stage and seats are abandoned and performed for an with the people kets cost £1.50 before II pm and ll pipes and chastise the Scots and ence - the punk movement of the trio follow the audienc~ who inspired it in the first place. after. Writings camera. Looks cute and perplexed. gaping hole in ceiling. Audience (More laughter. Sick toys with the ( He jumps through hole in floor b, Laughter from audience: this cheers laughter.) idea of saying it again but on lands on the ground two feet benea~ Slick up and he is just preparing to Rod (perfectly timed vitriol) - balance decides not to: save it for the hole and is therefore still in th The embark on fresh dialogue with the That's impossible, Sick, because we later.) room from the knees 11pwardJ ever well-rehearsed Rod when there don't have a lift. (More laughter.) Rod -Why were you going to kill Looks down, then 11p.) is an explosion. Smoke clears to Sick-Oh, I wondered why I fell so Nylon'! Sick - Bastards. rm going t Funny show Sick standing between Slick bleedin' fast. Sick - Two reasons: first, because explode. and Rod with a dead sheep in his (Even more laughter.) he 's a bastard' And second, Nylon - Oh no. not yet. I haven' hand.) Rod (sensing that it's going to be because he was in the toilet for too said anything memorable yet. tricky to keep up this frantic comic long. Sick - And you·re not very likel Ones Sick (loudly) - Bastards! rate, changes the subject with a view to Nylon . so I don·t see why Slick - 'Ere, how'd you get in to opening a new vein ofhumour)­ ( Enter landlord, Comic.) shouldn't explode. Cast: four very different students here? Anyway, Sick, what are you doing Comic - OK boys, let's have the Slick - Can I just say somethil\ whose incessant self-parody and ( No laughter: once again with a with that dead sheep in your hand? rent. funny? satirical outbursts are a breath of dead feeling in-his stomach, Siick Sick - What dead sheep? Sick - Rent? What's that? Sick-No! fresh air in the stale, staid world of realises that he has been done out of Rod - That dead sheep in your Comic It's this week·s plot. Slick-I say. I say. I say- traditional British comedy. - a good line. It may be several right hand. Slick - You·re dead .right it's a (Sick explodes. Cw to archive H Rod: talented one with all the good minutes before he is allowed to Sick - Oh no, I thought I'd killed weak plot (weak laughter). Why do bomb footage. Credits roll againJ lines. rejoin the dialogue.) Nylon. Bastards! I get all the second-rate puns? this. The end.) Sick: the one who says "bastard" a Sick - Well I come down in the lift ( Laughter from audience) Sick - Well you·11 never get me to lot. (he gestures upwards. Cut to shot of Bastard! follow a plot like that. Slick: the one who shouldn't be in it because he isn't really very funny. Nylon: the one who hopes to become a cult figure. Comic: their landlord, an elder ~tatesman of alternative humour. BBC 2 Announcer (cut to flat). Slick - flat what? Rod (sarcastically) - Oh very clever Slick, very funny, I'm sure everyone can tell that you've got a really good scriptwriter up your sleeve. Slick (looking up sleeve at wrist)-· MY God, you're right, I do (cut to old man at desk with quill pen in hand, superimposed on a background consisting· of the Interior of Stick's jacket sleeve). Old Man - Yes that's me I'm a really good script:.Vriter. ' (Cut back to Slick talking down jac­ ket sleeve) . Slick(Cut back to old man) Old Man - Because I don't write Your scripts, he does. (Old Man points across screen. Camera pans to inflatable rubber scriptwriter sitting on toiJet. Laugh­ ;e' from audience. Cut back to slick 00kmli. up jacket sleeve.) flkk - blimey, even he gets more aughs than ;rc;1;,fF1;rns h~'!~ t,o.ffc~ ,' .,., .,,. ,-.;,.,::.,._;:!...,:,,.,....;:...~,,_....,...,_...,...... ,,_.:..:...:..:_....:;;:,..--;__:~~,----,,I...._------:--:------;--..__-:--;-~;-;-;-;-;--;--:---:----; , STUDENT Thursday 14th November 1985

@ Pushed over Edinburgh University 0 Perthshire 13

Cast your minds back to game. committed an offence which resulted in the award of a penalty aturday afternoon and That the University managed to try. erhaps memories of warmth stay on level terms until half-time nd comfort in front of the fire was due to sound defensive play Amongst the invalids in the viii be evoked. Not so for the and the errors of the opposition when close to scoring. For Edin­ crowd, despair reigned. The voc­ allant few, who braved atro­ burgh, Burns was outstanding at iferous prop, perched on his ious conditions to ·watch · the full-back and Douglas made a truly crutches was reduce to silence; the Jniversity 1st XV take a sound remarkable try-saving tackle on his outspoken no 8, finding none to ,eating from a stronger and own line. Towards the end of the punch with his thumb, resorted aster side .. first half the students themselves instead to hurling abuse at the had chances to score, but squan­ referee, while the "secret weapon" A valid excuse for this defeat is dered them. On one occasion, they revealed his inability to conquer lat over the last month, Edin­ had a clear three-man advantage on dipsomania. urgh have lost three forwards the left wing, and yet still opted to 1rough injury, including two- kick for position. Thereafter Perthshire were 1irds of the front row·. Indeed, it never threatened. A try involving ,as interesting to note that the Perthshire exhibited their overall their swift and talented backs, Juchline was littered with ailing superiority in the second half. and then a penalty were sufficient to tudent players. Therefore it came Edinburgh were pu$hed off the ball secure victory. The University can­ s no surprise that Edinburgh's in the scrums and their lineoJt for­ not grumble at this defeat, which crum could not hold its own mation revealed cracks, allowing further emphasises their inconsis­ gainst the compartively-mammoth Perthshire to break through . To the tency from week to week this sea­ ack of the opposition. Similarly, student's credit, it took 20 minutes son. ile students were outjumped at the for them to yield a score, when, neout, allowing Perthshire to win finding themselves being pushed ,ost" possession and control the over• their own line, the forwards

Photo: Dave Yarrow liill Volley those balls What a guy! On Sunday three confident Meanwhile back in Dundee, took the first set 15-2. The second erfonnances by Edinburgh some powerful serving by Pete Gil­ set started with the University field­ A mood of alcoholic encourage- expect the world's greatest cricke­ ecured a semi-final place christ pushed first Strathclyde and ing an almost totally different team ment prevailed as the Ian Botham ter to be a continual source of- one gainst Aberdeen in the SUSF then Stirling back onto the defen­ with Glen Peters wanting to give celebrity walk merrily trundled liners, a continual magnet of through the Borders last week. The interests at a time when he has his 'olleyball Championships. sive from where they could not get everyone a game. Wester Hailes past Bill Skelly who was blocking were in a determined mood.after fact that Botham occupied his heart in more serious matters, and Edinburgh, in a group with Stirl- almost everything. Strong play losing the first set and took the hours singling out sheep that might perhaps the ethic ofthe Leukaemia 1g, Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt, from Johnny and Peter and inter­ closely fought second 15-11. The be of interest to his Daily Mirror walk is for many being found in the tarted their campaign against nationalists Gunther and Konrad, third and deciding set started well colleague did not detract from the contrasting character of Jan ,vening News hot favourites and completed the jobs and Edinburgh for the University who quickly built endeavour with which the cause Botham to what we have been led eadly rivals "Hairy Twats". finished their group unbeaten. up a 5-0 lead. As the rate of sub­ was pursued. It would be naive to to believe. llanks to some strong attacking by stitutions increase for the Univer­ lob Fisher on the three-metre line, In the other semi-final Glasgow sity they kept the pressure on oupled with Alex Swanson's face Heriot-Watt, the final rounds throughout the set to take it 15-9. eroic defence in front of an of the competition to be played at ppreciative audience, Edinburgh Stirling on 24th November. Heartened by the 2nd team's vic­ Wee Al and Big Jon ~ ·Half a length rere able to stroll the first set 15-3. tory the 3rd team took the court ~ string of errors at the start of the and despite a brave effort lost the The Northern Universities who look on course for a successful econd set left the boys 6-0 down first set 15-10. There then followed season. nd sparked off some strong words a marathon second set lasting 40 Regatta took place on the River rom coach 'Tubs' Thompson. This minutes. All seemed to be lost but Wear in Durham on Saturday Our ladies crew was less fortu­ cemed to do the trick as Edin- The season got under way with the University losing 14-10 2nd November, at which Edin­ nate, meeting their . rivals from 111rgh walked away with the set IS- for the 2nd and 3rd University coach Lindsay Gardiner called a burgh University Boat Club Glasgow University in the first - 0 to avenge an earlier league volleyball teams last Thursday time-out and that did the trick. His was represented by two crews. round of the Women's Coxed lefeat by the Twat. night at the Pleasance with team returned to court in a fighting Fours, they lost by a small margin in mood and took the next 6 points to With the senior men's squad pre­ what turned out to be quite a close Due to fixture congestion Edin- both teams playing Wester win the set 16-14. This was greeted ferring to train '- at home, a men's race. Everyone breathed a sigh of 111rgh were then forced to split their Hailes in the District League. with the biggest cheer of the even­ Senior C four made the journey relief when the crews arrived back quad, as a team were required to ing, despite the fact that due to lack south, seeking some reward for in Edinburgh, haivng suffered none ravel to aberde\'!n to face promo­ First on was the 2nd team and of court time the University did not their hard summer's training. Rac­ of the serious accidents that have ion contenders Bon Accord in a with a pool of 13 to choose a team of have the chance to do the double ing in Intermediate Coxed Fours, occurred in the club's previous two :ague game. There under the six from it was up to coach Glen ovt:r Wester Hailes. The match wa~ the crew were beaten in the second visits to the regatta. eadership of Hands and Burgess Peters to decide on who was going declared a draw and left both team~ round by half a length, by a crew he team, containing three to play. So grateful were the six looking · forward to more victoriei from Newcastle University who Special thanks are due to lebutantes, lost narrowly 15-10, players on court for the opportunity in the coming season. then narrowly missed a place in the 5-2. 15-11. to show off their skills that they Durham School who loaned boats NB final. It was nonetheless a good per- to the crews that competed. ------formance by the Eainburgh crew, M. Pacher -~.~?fy~.~!,.~h~A.,~~~~!~~!~! ~ No skill needed ived up to their formidable even if he couldn't get the ball into parapsychology, the esp was Despite this a sense of milting. ~putation as a team on the up it. But he wasn't to be thwarted for restored and "Killer" King~orn put humour is essential in the d S d . h fi long. A fme crossed corner from the lads back on top, a position the The roller ski lessons operate n a Ml O~ "No Razor" Simpson found the heroes prefer. "Right Hook" cross-country section of the Ski up atur ay ID! ~ irst supply and demand principle. eg ofthe1r 2nd round tie m the closely marked Kinghorn , who Reekie delivered a sound lesson in Club. This enthusiastic group, There are great opportunities for :up they scored a resounding fended off Gideon, his marker's, stick swinging to his opponents intent on searching out the those of a competitive nature who rictory away to St Andrews advances and slammed the ball into head, before he too chalked up a snow available, wants to wish to carry on where their roller University. the net. M_oments later St. score. Before a few tactical changes spread the word that cross­ skates left off. The Nordic Intro· Andrews, obviously m an attempt to give the Saints a chance "Hot duction Week, 30th December-5th The dull and dreary day was to emulate this fine tactical move , Shot" S"amuels drove a 35 yard pass country skiing has potential for 'irstly livened up by the deep-throat everyone, be they hillwalker February, gives those of a sociabl~ into the back of the net. The final nature an opporutnity for gettmg t :onversation of "multi-coloured somehow managed to fluke a shot philosopher, downhiller o; whistle blew (well it would have if know other members of the club, ,awn" McLeod with his friend into the goals to level the score. we had one}°with Edinburgh again game for a laugh. expert instruction in cross-country Hughie, on the bus. With this well Disillusioned perhaps by finding the deserving victors. skiing, plus "five-star" treatment a~ 1nder his belt, over his jumper and out that the St Andrews full for­ The cross-country skiing section lown his trousers, the rest of the . ward wasn't just a blow-up Miche­ Nethy House Hostel for a mer is active throughout the year: roller £83. ieam could only be inspired to an lin man the Edinburgh players were M~et the Uni's up and coming ski lessons - another sport in itself :qually: colourful performance on a little taken aback and even that heroes at the Shinty Club Ceilidh - the Nordic Instruction Week - Jhe pitch. The cross-country skiing can be fine mutual understanding between featuring Spootjskerry Ceilidh when we take on Aviemore and the contacted at Ski Club lunches in the them all seemed to break down. Band in Chambers St Ballroom, Cairngorms - and the weekend The opening moments saw "Kil­ Pleasance Ochil Room at Wednes· this Friday. trips which take off in the spring day lunchtime. Look forward 10 er" Kinghorn facing the right way Y.et rn a lightning recover:)' that 'fomAs Magu'idhir and summer terms., weather per- .seeing you.