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ABC ( 1) llangar 18 1.25. 4.20. 7.30 (2) Any Which Way Yo u Can (AA) I.OS, 4.05. 7. 15 (3) Flash Gordon (A) 1.25, 4.30. 7.35 Cale) Xanadu (A) 2.00. 5.25, 8.55 Fast Cha rl ie - Moonbeam Ride r (A) 3.35. 7.00. Cameo Sta rd ust Memories (AA) 2.10, 4 . 15. 6.25, 8.50. Domini on ( I) Airpla ne (A) 1.4 5, 4. 00, French Institute. La H"'"se 15th Jan . 6.20, 8.30 6. 15 , 8. 15. Comptcs a rebours. 20th (2) Being There (AA ) 3.05, 5.37, 8. 09 Jan. 6. 15. 8. 15. I (3) The G oodbye Girl (A) 3. 00. 5. 20. Filmhousc. Go ing South (A ). 15.17 18.00 Jan. 6 pm and 8 pm. Ritz,Sava nn ah Bala nce ( U) 2. 15. 4.55. "The Magic Flu te. 19th and 20th Jan. 6 7.35 and 8. 30. Scnso. 2 ISI Jan. 6 a nd 8. 30. Hangar 18 (A) 3. 10. 5.55. 8.35 Bad Timing (X). 22-24th Ja n. 6 a nd Odeon the Blue Lagoon (A A) 3. 00, 8.30. 5.35. 8.25 Calt on Studio~. La Cage a ux Foltes Classic Hussy (Confessio ns o r a Call J. M. iv Turner (A A). Until 17th Ja n. 6 a nd 8. 30. Girl) (X) 1.45. 5. 00. R.25 Thank G od It 's Friday. 16 a nd 17th Confessio ns of a n Au Pa ir G irl (X) Ja n. 11. The Tempest (A). 19th -24th 3.25, 6. 45 Jan. 6 and 8.30. Closet/ 0 11 Sundays Alice Doesn't Live Here Any Mo re ( X) Friday at 11.

Fruit Mark et Gall ery. Ch rist mas/ Traverse Theatre. C losed thro ugho ut llogmanay Ex hibitio n. Until 17th Jan. Ja n. Mo n-Sat , 10-6. Bedlam Wil dcat S t age Pr oductio n s Talbot Rice Art Centre. Pa111ti ng:i. by 'Confcssin' the Blues ... a musical Ken Kiff. Until 7 Fe~ .• 10-5. comedy' Mon. 26th. Wed. 28th. Sat Stills. Martin C ha mbi and Jo hn Cohen: Photographs. Un til 24th J a n, 3 1st January 7.30 pm. 12.30-6. King's Theatre. Babes m the Wood. Ne" 57 Gallery. Roger Hilton: Last Unt il 14th Feb. Mo n-Sat 7.00, Wed Pai ntings. Un ti l 31st J a n. 10.30-5.30. and Sat 2. 15. 369 Gallery. J im Pa ttison: New Royal L)ceum Theatre. Guys and Paintin QS. Unul Jan. 31st 11-5.30 pm Doll s. Mon-Fri 7.30. Sat 4 and 8. Henderson Gallery. Pafntmgs by Karen Meehan. Unti l Jan. 31st JO.~ 5.~0. Nationa l Portrait Gallery. The Scou is h Empi re: Exhibitio n a nd display. Until 3 1st Ja n. Mon-Sa t. 10- 5: Sun 2-5. City Art Centre. Edi nburgh Artists of th e 18t h a nd 19th Cent uries. U11til 17th Jan. Mo n-Sat, 10-5. National Gallery. T he Vaughan Beq uest: J . M. W. Turner. Until 3 1st J a n. Mo n-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5. · Printmakers Gallery. Ph o to-Graphic 2. Unti l 3 1st Jan. Mon-Sat, 10-5.30 .

.Jc\, ish Stud ents ,ocicty Mo nday 19th J an. 7 pm. ..Sex. Football and Judaism" at the New Societi es Centre Pleasance Trust. ' Usher Hall SNO R1msky-Ko rsakov. Sat. 24th Ja n. 7.30 pm. New Soc. Tchaiko vsky, Rachmaninov Jan. 16th Centre. Famo us " Rabbi Burns '7.30 pm. Supper" Kosher haggis! Sec no ti c'cs St. Cecilia's llall, Lucy • Crolan, for deta il s. ha rps ic h o rd . S te p hen Preston. Astoria Everest the Hard Way, Way of EU Debates Committee Wed . 2fst ­ baroque flute. 17th J a n, 8 pm. the West. New Appartment. Ja n. 15. Ja n. N. Oys pensky, First Secretary, Rf id Concert I lall Strin g Ensemble, Ni t< C lub TV 2 1. Ja n 16th. Soviet Embassy ta lk ing on Soviet 15th Jan. 7.30. Those French G irls and Ho ll ow Men. Fo reign Po licy. Sec no ti ces for time. McEwan Hall Organ Recital by J an 17t h. EU Campa i g n for Nuclear Andrew Armstrong. 16th Jan. 1.10 pm Odeon April Wine and Support J an l)i,;;armament Tuesdays at 7 pm in the French In stitute' Reci ta l, 'Chc1 no us 20th 7.30 pm. Chaplaincy Cent re. o n Ch a nte' 19 th J an. 8 p m. Sl ade. Jan 22nd 7. ~0 pm. Angli ca n C haplaincy: Lunc h es, Queens l-lall Scottish Cha mber Us her Hall. Through Papua New Tuesday and Thursday, 12.30 pm. 35p I Orchestra, Ind Coope Se ries. Bach G uinea . 15th Ja n. 7.30. 23a George Sq_uare. and Vi vald i. 17th Jan, 7.45. . Caley Picture I-louse . T ra vels 111 the Labour Club speaker o n Housing Sco ttish Ba roq ue Ensemble 20th Jan. Ethio pi a n Hi ghlands. 2 1st J a n. 2.30. fro m Shelt er - Friday I pm . Faculty I 7.45. Zoo. Na ture Conse rva ti o n Problems Room No rth DHT. January 15 Jack ~rymcr, Clarinet 21 Jan. 1. 10 pm in S.E. Scotl and. 2 1st Ja n. 7.30. PGSU All postgrad uate student s arc in vited to a 9 pm- I a m Disco in the to Faculty Rooms, DHT o n Sat I 7lh Jan. EU Women~ Group Meeti ngs: January 21 15 J an I pm DHT 16 Jan I pm KB Uni o n, Committee 24 Calton Road, Edinburgh 557 2159 Room 1981 19 J a n 7 pm 1st of May Bookshop. ~\\, Prog,. 6 and 8.30 pm Candlemakcr Row. ,, I 22 Jan I pm Sarah Boyle o n Women LA CAGE AUX FOLLES 'AA' in Prisons. Ugo T ognani, Mic hel Scrrault Bookstall 16 Jan from 11. 30 a m in D I-IT Base ment. Fri. Sat. 11 pm Donna Summer in THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY 'A'

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There arc three factors savings. replacing the curre nt Government cut­ contributing to 1his total; programme of marginal pruning will be measures .s uch as a substantial cu~ . backs in University in the library's already emaciated I. The current programme of spending could bring progressive reductions in the budget, budget, a significant reduction in the staff/student rntio and, most which is aimed at cutting £800.000 by about a situation the.financial year 1982-83. seriously of all, the complete closure of certain departments. Pressure of work more serious than 2. Loss of income from overseas anything the Univer­ student fees which currently amounts Asst. · to over £ 150.000 and which. Uncertain future for forces Hon. sity has previously according to Lhe Report to Senate, smaller departments Sec. to resign. could quadruple within four yea rs. Aggravating the problems facin,g known. Andrew Macnaughton, a member 3. Edin burgh's share of the most in dividual departments is uncenainty of the Union Executive and Honorary about the extent of the cut s they will This, according to the Un ive rsit y's recent cut in recurrent University Secretary to th e Students" have to suffer. This uncertainty is in Principal, Dr Burnell follows the grants, a reduction of £30 million Association, has decided to resign part due to the fact that the recent imposition of Government nationally in the financial year from his position due tO the pressure Uni ve rsit y's total loss of income policy on British Univers iti es. These beginning April, 1981. of work. · cannot yet be accurately evaluated. It cuts which are to cost over one million Andrew is in hi s final year reading wi ll be possible, however, to have a pounds amount to 4-5% of the law and has worked ext remely hard better idea of how the burden will be University's total budget. Staff vancies frozen since last March when he was elected. sha.red, after the Resou rce~ for forseeable future The Committee of Management 1s Cuts will fall right Committee meets o n Monday. very sorry to see him leave and the across the board. As an interim measure. no staff Union President, Eleanor Pritchard. appointments, academic or non Sand y Murra). would personally like tO express her appreciation for all he has done. Dr Burnett went on to say academic, have been made since th •· Although it would bt: premature to 17th December. A more coherent This resignation means that the say where cuts will fall, cuts wi ll have programme of cuts will, however, be post of Hohorary Assistant Secretary to be made righ t across the board". necessary to make the required is now vacant until someone is co­ op ted by the Committee of Managemenl. The position is open to any student wishing to take on this Festival Folk at Teviot important and demanding job. The Folk and smgmg, dancmg, ana general larking Naked Radio a new Edinburgh Fringe about when ccilidhs take ce ntre stage. Of course, the Folk Festival is not satire show will begin Festivals take up limited to Teviot Row. Venues all over the city will be taking part in the on BBC Radio Scot­ residence at festivies, ranging from the pub-011- the-corner to the Queen's Hall in land on Thursday Teviot Clerk St., Usher Hall, and right up to I 981 may only have just begun but Edinburgh's biggest and best, the 22nd January 1981 already preparations for the next 3.006-seater Playhouse Theatre. The show, 'Naked Radio' will be outbreak of festivities have got well It will be the first time that the recorded on Sunday 18th at 7.15 at the under way. In the coming year. the Playhouse, re-opened only last June, BBC Studios in Queen Street. newly refurbished Teviot Row House has taken part in the Folk Festival, Edinburgh. In order to get an will become a major centre of although already, folk music is no audience likely to appreciate the Not ­ attraction for Festival-goers. stranger to the venue. Concerts by the Nine O'Clo~k News style talents of In March, Tcviot Row becomes Boys of the Lough, Silly Wizard and the team behind 1he show, tickets have transformed into the home of the Folk Donovan during la st year's been offered to Edinburgh University Festival Club, and then later as the Edinburgh Festival. plus shows by students. new venue for the Festival Fringe Tom Paxton and The Cornc·s have Club (for the past two years accommodated in our other main Free Tickets central Union House. in Chambers will be appe::mng at The Playhouse as St.) throughout the three weeks of the o ne of the main attractions of the Edinburgh International Festival in Festival. The tickets, free of charge, arc the later summer months. available from the Students' So while you are off somewhere Association Offices. As there are onJy doing whatever it is you do during a l_imited number of ticket:, you·re your Easter vaca1ion, life will very -f1 ,., -11 •.. ._... ______advised to secure yours now. much go on at Teviot Row. but as the / 11.."' / It 1 "- The show stars Tom McGrath and "folkies" move in a very different Marcilla Evaristi who have both atmosphere wi ll prevail throughout written for the Traverse Theatre and the ten days of the Folk Festival (20th- EDINBURGH Steve Robertson of the Aberdeen 29th March). The pinball machines group "Scotland the What". and G laxians may even get a well- mLK FESflVAL earned rest as they make way for 20 tc 29 Afatch. 7987 Spare Rib Returns Ripoffs galore as After Spare Rib, a feminist proposed that the existing policy, magazine, was banned from Union Para l0.8 be deleted and the following Shops-l ast term, the Union President substituted: "The Commiuee of Caligula cometh was approached by students Manag(!ment does 1101 believe 1h01 it is requesting a review of the situation. for the Confmiuee of Ma11agement to The holiday season with its panidpation in tht: proJect. In Boston The matter was discussed at the dictate to s1ude111s what they may or emphasis on family entertainment is Penthouse International was charged Committee of Management meeting may 1101 buy if1 Unio11 Shops." over with a vengeance. Babes in the with disseminating obscene materi al at the end of last term when they The proposal was approved: 8 votes Wood cJoses . on February 14th and, and provided a Harvard historian received a letter signed by seven in favour and I agni nst. This means if all goes accordin g 10 plan. the next Glen Bowcrstock to authenticate the female st udents complai ning about that the Sho ps General Manager day Caligula the £8 mill ion, ·2½ hour proceedings depicted. All this has the removal of the magazi ne a nd the determines which magazi nes and porno epic wi l enter Stage left at the only fue ll ed interest and stocked box­ Union's decision to class the magazine newspapers will be sold accordin g to ABC I. omce fires. as sexist, when a ll it was, was feminist. economic viabilit y and it will be put to The GTO release , by n ow Screen International figures show The committee agreed to reconsider House Committees to determ in e renowned for its cxplcit sex scenes and world·widc record breaking business the basic policy of the Committee which magazines are provided in ability to arouse controversy, stars with inflated admission prices - exercising control ove r which Union Houses. Tl!ere will be no Malcolm Mc Dowell , Peter O'Toole, Tokyo; $ I million in five weeks, Los magazines a re to be sold and provided censorship and so theoretically John G1e lgud and Helen Mirren. ·scat Angeles - $ I million and still in the Uni on. feminist and pornographi c magazines prices go up from £1.90 to £3 and all running, London - over £1/4 million The Honorary Trea~rer felt that could be sold in Union Shops or read 860 of them will be bookable from one in eight weeks. the Committee of Management in Union reading rooms, if there is the week in advance of opening. The film is the first in a Penthouse should not exercise censorship over its demand. Wi thin the industry Caligula has triology on sex and power, promised members; if there is a demand for the However. as this meeting was not been hot news for several yea rs. Gore next is Catherine the G reat a S14 magazines, then they should be quorate, the union President will be be Vidal insisted . on his name being million big star production to be made available. The Senior President acting on the decision as ye t. Spare removed from the credits, the director this year. pointed out that even if members did Rib will be reinstated as soon as Tinto Brass was . sacked during Despite all the controversy you not agree with the Committee of possible after ratification of the editing (wj1h Pentho use supremo Bob can't help but be re minded of Peter Management a nd wanted to change decision by the nex 1 quorate meeting Guccione finishing the chores) and Cook's remark ·•sex and violence, their decision, they could bring the on 22nd J anuary. . Zerin a Haniff the stars have all decried their why go out when you can get all that matter up at a General Meeting. He a t home.·· 3 January IS 1981 Obituary Space Invaders Professor JDB Mitchell

The C hnslmas vacation brought with it the dea1h of one of 1he Invade Un iversi ty's rn ost no ted academics. Profe ssor J . D. B. Mitchel l, C BE. Prcviousl). 1h e machines were Salvesen Professor o f E uro pean New games machines ren t ed 10 th e Univcrsi1y by Institutio ns. He died on the 19 th o f arrive in the ICalc do nian Automatics. who took December at the age o r 63. and a over another fi rm. Brighthousc, in memo rial se rvice was held at the Kirk Unions June. 1980. of the Greyfriars o n Tuesday of this Last term. the machi nes ca used week. People with plcn1y of money to endless problem s: they were never spa re (i.e. those who have cashed 1h cir serviced properly .and mo re oft en than John David Bawden Mitc hel l grant} wi ll have noticed that the nnt broke down. received his secondary education a 1 Unions a rc in the process o f installing Colfc's G rammar School :rnd went on brand new video. pinball, and fruit Eventua ll y. the Un ions felt that to study at the Lo ndo n School o f machines. they were not providing their Economics. from which he graduated members a good enough service and in 1938, wi th First Class H o nours in Spaced-out s1ude111s play the pinball. so now the As:,ocia1ion has gone into Law . In 1939, h e beca m e a busi ness wi th a new local company. commissioned o ffi cer in the North Norma ties. Staffs. Regiment. and saw active Normatics offer us a far grca1er service in France with the Bn t1 sh percentage of the taking:,, from the Expeditionary Force.during which he machines and they a rc also more was mentioned in dispatches. In May regularly and carefull} serviced. Till!:.. 1940. seri ously wounded. he was of course. has a lot to do wtth the fact 1akcn prisoner. After be in g that we arc :,, uch a big cu:-.tomer. repatriated in 194 3. hes.erved as a staff officer and had attained the rank of So far 1hc most popular machine maJor by the end of the war. has been Bttlfle:one, a wierd and in1elknual video game in Tcviot Row He resumed 111s legal career 111 1946 Sporn,bar. One comment on the but ,0011 rnrned to academic work. machines. ho,,e,·cr. ,,a~: " The) ·re After 1cachmg at Univcr<,1ty College c\'en more complicated now. It takes Wales. the Law Society"s School in abolll half an ho11r to work out how to London and the London Sc hool of put the money in!" 1-conornu:s. he \\as appomtcd to 1he Lcrina 11:iniff Chair of Com.titu11onal Law at Edmburgh Umvers11 y m 19 54. He made a lasting contributi on to the fie ld !-> of compara ti ve and constitutional law. publishing many Professor J. D. B. Mitchell Shakahar Shut articles a nd two n ghtly-acclaimcd During the 19 60s, Profe~so r became the first ho ldero~thc_Sa lvese_n All seemed amicably sorted out. bu1 Mitchell took a pioneering 1111ercst m C hair o f European l ns11tut1ons. His The Shakahar Vege­ tension was growing bchmd 1he scenes booh, Th,, Co,urac,s of Public the European Economic Community perceptive contributio n to this field of toward the end o f last te rm with the Authorities and Co11sri1u1io11a/ Law. and was instrumental in establishing study will be sadly missed 1ll the tarian Re stau rant EUTC complaining that it was I lis opini on was respected by the Centre of European Eco no mic academic world and especially at thi s_ based in the Bedlam inadequately recompensed for the loss governments. and he se rved on a t he Centre of European Govern­ unive rsit y. o f rehearsal s pace in the ca fc a nd numbe r of comm itt ees and mental Studies a t Edinburgh in 1968. Sand y Murra)' Theatre has finally Shakahar feel ing the ' rent' was 190 commission~. He was directo r of the centre and high. The EUTC decided, at the las t closed - for good committee meet ing o f 1980, 1101 to extend the cafc's 1rial perio d of o ne Last term saw the opening, dosing, term re-oJj ening and fina l demise in the rnrbulent history of the Vegetarian Ban the Booze C<:1fe. The cafe was to have been run Although Shaka ha r departed on New anti-alcohol 1 tlul the Clubs themselves seem 10 ind ependently of the Vegetarian fril'.ndly terms. it is p robable that 11 s ~~~~:~ t~~i;pi ~dit. t~~lwe:c°r~tSc~;;~n~ welcome the ne w measures banning Society apd had been set up as a eo­ custom ers wi ll miss i1s services as will laws face mixed J oe Black , ~ec retary of lhe Scottish a lcohol. Mr Ferg uson , chairman of opera1ivc wi1 h the permission of the some of the 500 EUT C members who Po lice Fcdera1ion. said h is members I li bs Supporters Club. saw the new Edinburgh Unive rsity Theatre use the theatre and the Cafc. reception faced a nightmare in upholding the legislation as .a good thing but wa°' Company who leased thc Meanwhile the need for Vegetanan regulations. They will not have ihc concerned as to how !he police would organisati ons their cafc area and Cafc has been recognised. power of random search. but they can ~urd~~t~vheiilcr a su pporter was drunk kitchen facili1ies. F rom February 1st the only son of stop people 1f they thmk they are 1 Howt:ver. oppositi on from the liquid refre\hment football and drunk or carr) ing alcohol. buildings officer to 1h e use of 1hc Hot Veg! rugger supporters will be able to enjoy Mr Bill H1 chardson. assistant Uni,ersity-owned Bedlam Theatre at matches will be ~oft drinks. Last Sports a uthorities secretary o f the Scottish Football The Unions have now extended ·si1e (ii was formally the Old week 1he Government launched it s welcome legislation their services for vegeiari ans wil h the Association. "aid: "\Ve will be happ) Chaplaincy Centre) closed the cafc in campaign to ban alcohol a:-. part of the if 1h cse rcgulallons have the effect of introduction of hot vege table dishes. Sergeant Olack said; "'Tlw, 1s not ovcmbcr. The cafc opened a few C ri min.al Justice (Scotland) Act. The contro llin g drunk e nn ess and these wi ll be available in the Salad Ba r the funcllon of the police. it is up to davs later after a deal had been new legislation states that a 1 Scottis h hooliganism associated with footba ll upstairs in Teviot Row H ouse. The the football clubs to decide ,,ho will w~rked ou1 u nderwhich the football league grounds it will be an matches." hot dishes will be served for a 1rial enter a ground or not. If we arc 10 Vege1anan Cale ag reed to operate as offence 10 carry alcohol or bl'. drunk The new law was welcomed by the pe riod and if t here is a pc_>pular search everyone. 1hc-n :,,pectators wi ll part of thC Vegetarian Society and 0 11 board a coach travelling to or from ruggcr players a nd supporters too. Mr demand, the service will be available have to start queuei ng at 11 a.m. for a not as an independent organisation. a match and to attempt to enter a J ohn Law. secretary of the Sconish to other Unions. Cold salads. as 3 kick-off. .. ground drunk o r in possession of p.m. The EUTC agreed no t to receive ·rent· alwa ys. are available from a ll the Rugby Union . said: .. For some )'ears alcohol. Supporters who break these but only m oney fo r opera1ing costs, Unions. we have Had notices at the gates laws face maximum fines of £200 and Ending hooliga nism on which amounted to much the same asking people not to bring drinks in, up 10 60 days in p ri son. th e terraces with the co-operati on of 1hc poli ce we lhing. "li~el Billen Mr Malco lm Rigkrnd, the Scouish The Scouish Counci.l fo r Civi l ha,•e tried to remove drink from them. Home Affairs Minister. said in Li be rties 111 a c rit ique o f the C rimina l Now we have the legal authontytodo Edinburgh: '" I believe these measures J ustice Bi ll has pointed o ut that there so. could result not only in driving out j :,, less evide n ce of foo tball these hooligans but also in bringing hooli gams m in Scotland than in Mr J o hn Shearer, a Junior convener back the thousands of genuine fans. I Living with England. II argues that the only real of Edinburgh Wa ndere rs, said that am confiden1 tha 1 the new powers will disturbances occur when Scouish fans rugby didn"t have r.;uc h an infamous - have a significant impact o n drunken­ cross t he border. The G overnment record of hooliganism as football but ness at football matches. A problem has at1emp1ed 10 solve this particular 1hat it was beginning to have the same that has caused emba rrassm ent a nd problem b y s tringent regulations on ·problems. People were c0ming to shame can now be e ro d ed." unemployment five days before and after the next Murrayfi cld to get drunk. He £35,000 is being spent by the rugger international. Seats o n trains welcomed the new laws and hoped They assist class teachers who bring Government o n .i n advertising fro m Scotland to London will have to they would encourage the authentic Unemployed groups o f children 10 tht: Centre fo r campaign and Mr Rif'ki nd believes be boo ked and there will be no a lcoho l fans 10 come to watch spo rt for the classes in the nature and d evelo p­ sporting a uthorities welcomed the SL'. rvcd o n 1rains or a ll owed o n board. sake o f spo rt. graduates are ment of Edinburgh city life. finding new Mrs Ma t1h ews, who runs the Castle H ill Centre. s po ke encouragingly o f opportunities amidst 1his scheme. ··Since September 1980 until D e_ce mber. nearly 4,000 children You And Your Grant the gloomy from the Lothian Regio n have employment attended 1h e Centre. and of . the Student opinion on d epencen: .,f paretns· inco me. a loan present grants. has come under a graduates invocyed in the scheme sc heme o r fourthly a mix1urc o f both a barrage of critic is m from the TUC. since 1975 som e 60 have s ubsequently gra·nt scheme sought grant a nd loan scheme. To d o away with 1·he grants system. prospects with a Fo llowing the resul1 s of this scheme found jobs ei ther in teaching o r As part of the programme to T UC General Secretary Len Murray has the SA promises action will be taken , recent council related occupation." d erermine s tude nt o pinion o f the written to the Education Minister, Mark and fu1u rc po licy will be drawn up a t present grant system, the SA a rc Carlisle. 10 say tha1 it would be a serious education scheme. Such encou raging stati stics, may, · the next general mee1mg. h o lding a referendum a t Adam I lo use deterrent to women. studenL°' from however. no! be enough 10 save t he working class ho mes (many o f whose Five years ago Lothian Distnct this " 'eek Cas tle Hill scheme as Government parents are making sacrifices already 10 Council's Educati o n Departmenl set As students p ic k up their Spring c ut-bac k s red uce the council"s Proposed Deterrent a llow their children 1he '"luxury·· of a up a teaching and project centre at te rm grant cheque, some 8,000 will expendi1ure . The contract for Mrs Castle H ill School, with other centres receive ball ot papers asking which of Universit y educa1ion). ma ture students Matthews· team o f helpers expires at To Students at Po rto betlo and Hopetoun H ouse. four a lternatives ..do they think and members or ethnic Olino rities. many the end of March and it will then be of whom would fo rego the chance of Graduates employed in this scheme would be the best method of paying The s ugges1ion , currently being determined if cut-backs will force the further education rather than face having ha ve co m e from E dinburgh for the living costs of students"' - A moo1cd by the Government. that ::losure of the Centre altogether. Un iversity, the Art College a nd grant sch eme like the present s tudents mi ght get loans, to be repaid to repay loans in the future wi thout the Vicky Taylor guarantee o f a substantial income. · Mo ra y Ho use College of Education. d eoende n1 o n parents' income , one af1cr they s1art work , rather than the 4 January 15 1981

Editorial Counter Revolution

A few weeks away from Ed inburgh te nd to hi ghlight ' minutes after 12 pm o n Saturday and you will meet with a what we may take for granted. In the ma in in Edinburgh , grinning, rigid, ' No', o f no ne too pleasant character. Rules wh ether you're : at~hinga bus, buying a fi sh supper o r going a re rules, o ut time is money a nd of course these rules a re Lo sec a film, the people behind the counter are po li te, 'here to help you. May be the library staff are more sinned fri endly and helpful. Not so a nymorc, however, in ma ny again st tha n sinning, but surely thi s is just a nother insta nce pa rts of Britain. To be treated with anything but rudeness in of self-righteous bureaucra tic nonsense. Lo ndon by sho pkeepers or any of the other 'behind the No where is the 'counter revolution' which seems to have counter' people is the exceptio n. taken Britain by storm, spreading surl y unhelpfulness mo re A counter revolutio n has taken place throughout Brita in . apparent tha n in the supposed 'service industries'. Civil Now eveybody who serves the public works by a set of rules Service officialdo m does not suffer the public gladly. British and regulations which they have invented a nd which help Rail is fa med for its bad service. But, it is no t the la tness o no o ne. trains that offends but the attitude of the behind counter Of course Edinburgh is not immue to the 'counter staff; ti cket office of buffet car. revolution of rudeness. The University Library d oes Sadly it is increasin gly unusual for any behind a counter someumes give the impression that it would be happier if no to break a self imposed regulation in the name of service .The o ne were allowed to look at it s books - let alo ne borrow letter and not the spirit of the law is everything. Time has them. While most of the time the staff a rc fri endl y a nd come for the countercounter revolution. Happy New Year. helpful , try to get a book o ut for ho me borrowing five

1981:A Golden Computer Age?

When the shouts of drunken Students comparatively One thing that wU/happen in 1981 RECTOR: ANTHONY revelry at Hogma nay had well off is that I think 1h crc wi ll be a n entire ly died down, a n d the new approach to Eu ropean Securit y. ROSS Finall y, do you think it ' ll be a good year What sort of new approach? buildings had o nce more Well I 1hink the o ld business of for students a nd for lhc country. New computer age resumed th ei r vertical I don't think it will necessarily be a mutua l balanced force-production talks will go by the board and I think p osi tion s, The S1uden1 bad yea r, but a year fo r consolida tion. What sorl of year do, you lhink 1981 The great 1h ing to remember is tha t the Americans a t a n y rate are decided to interview a anticipa ting something else. Rea ga n will be for the University? rcla1i vcly speaking, compared to a lot I think it's goin g to be a tough year se lectio n of Edinburghites o f people in this country, students are has already a ba ndoned Carte r's to find out how optimistic p rescri ptions fqr Eu ropean defence so with ret r:<;nchment in many directi o ns still very well off. I can still afford a whether we like it o r not.. And in 1h e they were about I 98 I. The pint about three times a week a nd so Stop this bloody govt. University there will be, unfortunate­ can most student-.. So we must think interviewees ranged from by number of vacancies not filled ; lherc primarily of those who canno1. bemg psychotic the hi ghest echelons of the will be a d rop in overseas students As far as the coun1ry is concerned. I I think given a bit of luck we might coming next autumn, and there will academic world Lo the just hope Maggie has got it right. ff just get through. We must all keep have lo be a re-thinking. as 1() what Edinburgh housewife . Here she's made a mess of it: we're fini-.hed. technological innovation in weapons Universities arc for. I think the time If she's got it right. we might come marching step-by-step with arms has come when older Univer,ities a re some of their predictions through. But )0u·vc got lo be positive control missions. We must stop this such as our own are going 10 ha't'e 10 about it. for the following yea r: bloody government of ours being so ask some rather painful questions psychotic about war fever. about their relevance to the niodern II O\\ a rc they bei ng psreholic? world. JOHN STURROCK: Pre­ PROFESSOR J. ERI CK­ \\'c[J m the last }Car the government I th111k actually it is going to be a sident of the Students' SON: Director of Defence has real!) emphasised the danger of rather exciting year with plenty of Associatio n. Studies nuclear war. I tbmk the governmental room, for hope. I don't look forwa rd psychosis has got to be checked. You to the 'computer age·. as someone can't dispose of the problems of the ca ll ed it with anything but ~ excess fat Arms control and Soviet Union, China. America etc. by an1icipation. for academia technolog1cal progress cliche. This has been a year of cliches and I don't want to sec ii repated. Energy of young people Wh al do you think 1981 holds in store Wh at \, ill be lhc critical issue-~ for for sl udents and the S tuden ts' defence in 198 1? Associalion? It will however be a difficult year The first important 1 i::: (l) Richard Marshall 8 explains why he PRO-NUCLEAR: 8 supports Nuclear 0 Power and tells why u the 'No Nukes' are idiots. A REASSESSMENT

Here we are folks, at last , an don't like the idea of a powerful are unknown and arc likely to remain peopl e failing to comply with doing be nefit concerts is not good a lternative . to the trail of articles mic rowave beam tracking across 1hc th a t way till too late. Also the Wave established procedures. Wh en some business needs their head exa mined, it claiming to be agaios1 nuclear power. planet. Most peo ple know what Tank team will not know how well small leakage occurs there is an is ma rve ll ous publicit y. I do not suppose a nyone from the microwaves ovens do to poodles, we ll th ei r "ducks'" wi ll stand up to the outcry, but there is o nl y very limited How many people wearing ye ll ow ··anti " camp wi ll read this, let alone be that beam of power would have the battering t hat only the North Sea can outcry about the amount of lead that badges wi th red suns in the middle converted, but I can feel that I have same effect on people. give 1hings, lifting 100-ton stones o u1 cars (and motor-bikes) pump into th e real ise the real iss ues? How many arc done my bit to fill up the pag~s of The Wind power is another well­ of harbou r walls a nd th e li ke. atmosphere every day, and all the just wearing them to be part or a Studenl. publi cised energy source. It has a ll the However, I wish the project all th e ca rbo n diox ide that is released as well fashion, and be part of the general There are two reasons why I am an problems of intermittcncy. However, best luck and ho pe that th ey wi ll turning our blue-green pla net into a flock of sheep that arc giving in to ardent member of the' "pro" camp, there a re other, uninvestigated succeed. dese rt greenhouse given long enough. commerce. When you buy a "'Nuclear rirstly I cannot see any viable problems with th is method. Water is a popular source of energy, This leads us 10 atomic fusion, this Power? 1 • o thanks!.. printed in alternatives to atomic power that are Removing energy en massc from ai r in forms such as tidal a nd hydro­ process gives out the same power as Swahili. just 1hink of where the profit practical, safe, and available no w. masses will ha ve an incalculable effect e I ec t ri c. Tidal ca u ses va s t fissio n, but has no dangerous by­ goes, and what it is used fo r. Secondly, I do not like the way that on the climate. Again th ere an: environmenta l damage to es tua ries, products, a nd is probably the ultimate Someone's pocket is the likeliest th e campaign against is run. practical problems , beside the natural and creates problems as well as so urce of energy. Unfortunately, this place. Where else? Several "alt ernative" sources of ones. Al l large-scale wind generation blacking shipping ways. Further is still under deve lo pment. There is It is ve ry easy to a ppear to be a big power are proposed to replace our a ttempts have failed. Small win d problems a ri se from the fact tha t sea a lways a good standby by power movement when th e fickle hand of coal and oil-based energy economy. pumps on remote farms, a nd fi elds water tends tQ get into the mechanics. source fo r our modern-day Luddites. fashion strays in your favour for a These include atomic fi ssion, atomic remote from large farms have been Hydro-electric is. to my mind. a ve ry a nd that is slaves a nd animals. wh ile, and you have some writers who fusion, solar, wind, wave, and around for many yea rs and are good system, but it also destroys Now to move on to my other point, can produce good propaganda, a nd geothermal. I will outline the case for excellent, and on the remo te: forms valleys, moves communities a nd other the way in which the campaign agai nst ge t idiots to stand and press thei r ways a n against each in turn. electricity can be generated though things which people complain about. nuclear power is run. Currently it is into people's hands. (Anyone who Solar is one of the main contenders usuall y only enough to run a portable Also it can onl y be used in a very few ve ry fas hi onable to be against, and sta nds out one afternoon in the cold a nd it exists in seve ral forms. Solar television. places, where there is some fast­ 1his head led to clever money-makers giving out leanets must be an idiot.) panels, as used.On space craft, on the Wave power is a new a nd excitin g moving water runs. limiting it rather cashing in on this a nd producing You may be surprised to learn that fly­ ground are totally impractical for source of bulk energy which looks like severely in scope. numerous products, and a vici ous and posting is illega l. T ha t ma kes No high power ge nerati on. Fabrication of it may w~ll be mechanically practical Now to come to atomic fission. This highly commercial force is pushing Nukes Music pretty well on the wrong the panels takes far more energy than as well , although it is still only under of course has majo r problems, these. Another thing that a nnoys me si de of the law. If you go 10 any events one will ever produce in its useful life. development, here at our own particularly on the management side. and many other people is the choice of run by SA E, why do you go' The Roof water heating is, however, a very Edinburgh University's Mechanical The process produces some hi gh ly evocative names such as SCRAM and reasons I am sure a re purely social, fine i

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Sir Michael well past their sell-by Edwardes gives up in disgust (his money had been on Ray Reardon who date, Roddy Mc­ lost in the quaner-final) and Malcolm Allison is tipped 10 take over as Dougall tries to Leyland boss. Allison is a1 present _/.,. in volved in a11empting to save well at Wimbledon. In the Ladies· console himself by Hereford from re-election.·· Although Final, Chris Evert -Lloyd JUSt pips taking a look at the we need five points from the last two three year-old sensation Tatum games, I'll give myself three hours to Shileds in a close match. Despite 1981 sporting scene. sort things out and then take it from being given the handicap of ha v111g 10 there." Bristol Rovers, meanwhile, play dressed as Long John Silver. JANUA RY - The Scottish League who disposed of Allison's services in complete with parrot and wooden leg, calls a meeting for clubs and press to early February following a 7- 1 defeat and advertising Sony I-Ii-Fi equipment discuss various ways to stamp out at home to Cardiff, reach the FA Cup at the same time, Bjorn Bo rg wins his · Vatican spoke sman later states that soccer hooliganism. It ends in uproar Final in an unbeaten run which sixth title after a titanic duel wit h John the ·'tialf-time appearance at lbrox as the seating arrangements place stretches back to early February. Mc En roe. The high li ght of the final is s1ad ium" wa s a n unfortuante Celtic boss Billy McNei l! next to Phil Narvik wins the Na ti onal. a three .a nd a half hour long tie-break misprint on His Ho liness' itinera ry McEntec of the Daily Star and the which Borg wins 185- 183 during sheet. Meanwhile, the fate of Hibernian representatives next to which Dan Maskell says "Oh , I say!" Hampden Park is scaled. Rod Stewart those from Partick Thistle. Police ma kc A' ~ t-: ~ no less than sevent y times. is set to buy it. seven arrests. Meanwhile th e , I , . . ,._.,,,_:. J ULY - In the third Tes1 at OCTOBER - New purge against committee set up to save Hampden Headingly. Geoff Boycott achieves Scottish football fans is announced. announce a deal with McKcllar-Watt -~-' \I• - . . his 100th run o ut in Test cricket. From now on. anyone with 1he to sell pork pies at fu ture Scottish ... Boycott , made eapiain after Ian s urname of Yo unger, Tennent internationals. For every 10,000 Botham is sent on a weight-wa1chers' McEwan; Guinness, Ca rl sberg, which arc sold the SFA wi ll receive MAY - An exciting climax to the ccl11·se. scores 123 not out (a naverage Norseman etc. will be banned from 500 free of charge. "This could yet be foo1ball season. In Edinburgh, the of I run every 50 minutes) during his Scottish football grounds. ..These the sa lvation of Scottish football" police rcjo1~e as Hearts and Hibs once three days at the c rease. He actually people just encourage drink", says claims Ernie Walker. In England, again display 1h eir acquired skill in stays there during the rest day but no­ Ernie Barbican (nee Walker). Britt Malcolm Allison is made manager of avoiding derby matches. Dundee one has the heart LO tell him. England Ekland, meanwhile has clai°med half ailing Bristol Rovers, currently United defeat League Champions grind on to 198 for 7 and Australian of Hampden Park and says she'll fight thirtcch points adrift at the bottom of Aberdeen 6--0 in the Scowsh Cup captain Greg Chappell expects Rod fo r the North stand and Rangers' the Englbh Second Division. 'TII give Final. Uni ted manager Jim McLean is Boycott IO declare around mid­ end. She also takes the opportunity to myself a week," he says, "and if we're furious however: "We were terrible" Octobcr. In the golf world, 1he big inform the Press of her latest memoirs not clear of trouble by then I'll have to he claims. "and I was most unhappy surprise is that no-one ex presses the which include details of Rod's admit defeat." with the way in which certain players annual opinion that this could be unusual habit of pretending IO be Joe FEBRUARY - SFA '"pie plan·· tho ught the game was over when we Tony Jacklin's year at the Open as his Jordan scoring the winning goal begins inauspiciously as it is scored the sixth goal." As a result he short game ha s improved against Czechoslovakia in the 1974 remembered that the next Scotland immediately places Ban n on. tremendously etc. The next surprise is World Cup while the) were in bed game is in Israel o n February 25th. Sports Shorts Pettigrew, Payne and Narey on the that Jacklin wrns a t Royal St. together. ·'He would become all Se.II-by date for first consignment of transfer hst fo r "displaying the wrong Gear e's by 12 shots. pa1rio1ic and rip his (continued in 100,000 pies is Feb. 26th. McKellar attitude." In England, Manchester Sunday papers). Results: Sa.t urday 10th January . Watt unavailable for comment. City pip Liverpool for the champion­ NOVEMBER Edinburgh grab, the Football: 1st XI v. Peebles Rovers {A} More trouble in Israel as Iran invades ship and face Bristol Rovers in the headlines this month as Heans amaze Drew 1-1 (Philp) the country and holds the Scottish Wembley final. Sir Malcolm Allison, the football world by manging to hold Colts' XI v. Standard Life (A) Won 3- squad hostage for their ··western who has recently joined crisis rock onto a 2-0 lead with twenty minutes to 2 (Struthers. Gillespie D. Bishop) Capitalist audacity in daring to force a group Yes on kCyboards, refu~cs to go. Bobby Moncur brea1hes again Rugby: Edinburgh University 11 1-1 draw with our most gracious present the Cup lo the winning City after his side's 2-1 vicwry and was Wa1sonians 16 country's representatives in the World shipper and, instead , pawns it to the obviouslv relieved that Dunfermline Cup of 1978". Before Ronald Reagan save Hampden fund. In Europe. missed their two late penalties. Across Forthcoming Fixtures:. Saturday 17th can be briefed on the ro le of Scotland Liverpool arc punished for their fans· the city, Tom Hart, in an effort 10 January in the NA TO alliance, however, the rioting al 1he semi-final o n hearing boost Hi bs Premier prospects. fails 10 Football : 1st XI v. Kelso United (A) crisis is ended when 1lgqian officials that Allison could be joining them for entice George Bes1 back to Scottish Rugby: Edinburgh Univ. v. show the Ayatollah a video ten minutes, and a rc forced 10 play footbal l and seules fo r the guaranteed Cambridge Univ. (A) recording of the game. As a their European Cup Final in a steel AUG UST - Another football season opens and Billy McNeil! is still waiting crowd-pulling appeal of Paul Daniels Women's Hockey: v. Kirkcaldy (A) result, the Ayatollah releases the box buried JOO feet beneath the and Basil Brush. From now o n. Hibs Lacrosse: BUSF tournament at Scots, thanking them for their efforts ground in the Sahara desert. No for his first professional fight as his reputation alone has prevented any will play all their homes ga mes at the Cardiff in that game and their services 10 press men are allowed within twenty offers of a match. Muhammad Ali is Kings Theatre. Women's Volleyball: v. Larbert H SFP Iranian football. Obviously shaken by miles of the game which is won by DECEMBER - cw measures (A) this experi ence, the Scots record a Liverpool. On the eve of the Scotl and reported to be interested until he sees against crowd violence announced. Best widhes for a speedy recovery go victory. v. England international at Wembley, earlier action of McNcill and then Anyone who is suspected of ever to lain Lennox of the Football Club MARCH - Grand Prix season the American President,, Jlonalri announces his immediate retirement having had a drink in their lives is who unfortunately broke his leg in eventually gets underway but, 10 Reagan, warns the Scots that any from the ring. Meanwhile, it's success banned from Scottish foo tb.ill Saturday's Coils' game. accommodate the French who refuse damage caused in London will ensure for Britain all the way in the world of grounds ... At last we've fou nd the to · allow races on Sundays, wine­ the end of such games at Wembley. a1hlc1ics. In the European Cup Finals solu1i o n ," says Ernie Barbican. Britt INTRA-MURAL growing days. wine-drinking days etc, He'll blow 11 up. The President went in Zagreb, British a1hle1es smash no Ekland gains her share of Hampden a curtailed schedule is announced. on 10 say that further action would be less than fourteen world records o n and has plans to turn it into a VOLLEYBALL The length of Formula One races is taken aga in st Scotland itself their way to an incredible twenty-one discotheque. However, she plans a dramatically slashed and, as a resul1. especially. if he was hav111g one of his gold medals. The Dritish Government Reminder - Tournament at final game between two s1ar­ Allan Well s leads the Drivers' bad days when that horrible man in is angered by their refusal lO boycott Dunfermline College of Physical s1udded(sic) sides, at which onl y her Championship after two events with a Iran ... wotsissnamc? ... the o ne with· the games, however, on the grounds Education, on Sunday 1st February. close personal male friends can win at the Hockenheim 100 metres the beard? ... Sadat? .. anyway, ifhc that Yugoslavia is very likely to be All entries to Phil Allen (Darwin attend. Police immcdi.Jtely :2n nounce dash and second place at the Swedish was causing o ne of my headaches invaded against its people's wishes by Buildinf, KB) by Friday 23rd crowd limit of 85,000. Finally, the '200'. In Scotland, the SFA announce when I get the little black clouds in Soviet Russia and we should boycott January, accompanied by a cheque BBC Sports Personality of the year is a new .i,cheme aimed at paying off front of my eyes a nd I feel the this anyway as a protcst,just in case it for £5 (made payable to Edinburgh chosen: Penelope Keith just beats their debts incurred during the earlier uncontrollable urge to explode some happens. Mrs T lwtcher claims she has University Intra-Mura l Sports Terry Wogan with Robin Cousin s in scheme to save Hampdcn; Billy son of nuclear device, like just now. the full suppo rt of President Reagan Association). This cheque will only be third place. Allan Wells is voted into a McNeill has agreed to fight members GRRI-I Where's the button, on this matter as he has refused to cashed in the event of a team not surprisi ngly high 18th posiuon, of the world's sporting press and then Nancy? allow American a 1hlctes to attend. turning up. Please include the name, having regained his world records d onate the prize money to 1he J UNE - While President Reagan SEPTEMBER - A shock for Allan address, and telephone number of the by Papal dispensation. Hampden fund. recovers in hospital, his fellow Wells on his return to Scotland froni team organiser. the Crystal Palace Coca-Cola ·meeting Phil Allen APRIL - As Britain grinds lO a halt countr men have been erformin F irst into the big rmg was Alan and he was bea1en on a majority however, nursing a headache from INTRA-MURAL EDINBURGH McIntyre, who unfortunately fa iled to decision. That was his first ever fight being walloped in a sparring session BOXERS TAKE make th e weight for l ight­ - he went onto distinguish himself five days previously whic h made him HOCKEY we lte rweightand so had to go in at even further by falling backwards off very susceptible to · head punches. The first Intra-Mural Hockey EARLY BATH Welter. Despite giving away many the platform at Crewe Station in the Alan rounded off a thoroughly tournament will be on Sunday 25th path of the London/Edin burgh That ·forgotten man· of Unive rsity pounds advantage to his opponents, meteoric debut by pushing and January and not on the 18th as he won his quarter-final bout against express .. ceall y takes defeat 10 heart , sport, the Edinburgh Universit y arguing with the Referee (whom he previously advenised. Please send does Frazer. His o pponent went o n to Boxing Club , took the long trip down a very able competito r from probably .couldn't even see), insisting entries, with £5 deposit per team (£4 Aberdeen, but lost narrowly on points win the fi nal with case. to Bath a1 the end of last term to he was fit to continue. However, will be returned) to the SU Office, 68 Ne il Pirie was the most successful compete m the British Novice in the semi-final. Next to go was seconds Todd and McIntyre steered Pleasance or ring Imogen Stephens. Edinburgh boxer of the day: in a hard Championships which arc held at that Fraser Morrison, who also just fai led him to the Doctor, who diagnosed. 667 0061. Closing date for entries will semi-final he came through Well ci ty's Universit y. The Boxing Club to make the weight for light­ consussi0n. His opponent was be Friday 2Jrd January. against an opponent from University has an outstanding record at this heavyweight and so was thrown in stopped four seconds into the first College. Dublin - always tough event : two British champions, one with some m o 11 sters in the round of the final because of the eye fight~ rs - but went into the final with finalist and o ne se mi -finalist last year; heavyweight division, which has no injury. a badly swoll en, half-shut eye. The oric Champion and two finalists the upper weight limit. Fraser gave one of So, all in all a pretty disappointing final was stopped in the second round year before that. This year, however, the best fights of the day - knocked day for the Club, despite the fact that because of this injury. with Neil going that fine record took a turn for the to 1he canvas in the opening seconds three boxers reached the semi-finals all out , and winning on points. worse through a combination of bad of the first round, he got up and and one g01 to the finals. With a little The Charlie Cairol i prize for luck and a far higher standard of fought his way right back on top in the rub of the green, it could all have been next two rounds, the last of which had Biggest Cl.own of the Day went to competition. The entrance numbers very different. Anyhow, at the ,very Allan Cameroo who. in hi s semi-final 1his yea r had doubled, meaning many the crowd on their feet, roaring him least, Edinburgh's reputati on as being at lightweight, managed to cut his of the boxers had three and four fights on. The knock-down in the first round nobody's pushovers is intact, and opponents eye and be KO'd all in the in the space of a few hours. proved too big an obstacle, however, even bolstered. space of 30 seconds. Cameron was, Harry Carpenter -

8 January 15 1981

N. Ireland is once again back in the headlines after the H.Block Strike But despite the mistakes and The controversies, their reopening of the created the most tense situation for some years. We begin this hopefully happier political forum on a local level has Peacepeople: New Year with three stories on what life in N. Ireland is really like, the problems, helped to dispel a lot of bad air, and 10 apart from terrorism, and the work, mostl y ignored by the national media, bein g ge1 rid of the traditional ta boo on Is Non-Violence The political discussion in N. Ireland , Answer? done by such groups as the Peacepeople and Glebe House for a lasting peace. which has allowed such hoodlums as " Wha tever ha ppened to the Pa isley to gain a stranglehold. Their Peacepeople?" was the fi rst question I work with prisoner rehabilitation put to Steve McBride, edi tor of and youth work m tlc ll ast a long with "Pe11ce by Peace", the weekly orga n of their continued pressurising of the the rriovement, a nd a leading member British Government for a compromise of the e xecuti\le committee. The solution on the H- Block issue is answer, despite any appearance to the certainly making a positi ve and contrary si nce the heady days of 1976 significant contribution to peace in N. when Mairead Corrigan, Betty Ireland. Williams and Ciaran McKeown released an enorm ous depth of popular feeli ng through . the peace ULSTER: marches, is that they are still very much a live even if it is with a somewhat lower profile. This is without doubt due ·to the adverse publicity over the use of the £200,000 ga ined from the Noble Peace Prize a nd the Norway Peace Prize in 1977, and over the recent ··split" whert Betty TROUBLED ~;;~~::~~o:: Willia ms and Peter McCloughlin, former chairman of the executive Bombs a nd shootings are eas) to define committee, left the movement last and report. Responsibilit y c:in be year after differences of opini on. But cJa ;med and fon gers (or guns) ca n be it also has to do with the fact that the i>ointcd. I won't talk a bo ut th is Peacepeople have changed aspect of the Troubles in Northern considerably from a non-violent Ireland. The "Troubles .. is an apt protest movement to working word, conveying 1he image of a n old positively a nd practically for peace in illness periodically breaking o ut into N. Ireland. new open sores. To me .. the Unlike Glebe House. the Troubles .. also means that which is Peacepeople was fou nded and run. if PROVINCE unrepo rted , which no indi vi dual o r not sponsored entirely by N. Irish group can be· clamed fo r, the people. It is also one of their principal atmosphere of prejudice, fear a nd beliefs that only the N. Irish are hatred wh ich is so much par! of life capable of understanding and solving that the Northern Iris h do not bother their own complex problems, and that to comment o n II o r try to describe it. the traditional tool of Westminster of I live in a small town in County an imposed sol ution has Deen seen to Antrim. North Antrim is usually fai l and will continue to do so. thought of as a strong Protestant area. Rehabilitation of The town has o nl y had one bombmg incident - that was quite a few yea rs E x-Terrorists ago but there is still a gap in our main Their outlook and the nature of s1ree1, blocked off by corruga1ed iron. their work is also ve ry different: the No one ever mentions the bo mb now. activities of the Peacepeople are It is not 1hat they have fo rgotten - divided into three main areas, the first they just do not choose to remember. and probably the most important There is little overt aggression being the support and rehabilitation between Roman Catholics and and in extreme cases, resettling Protestants in my town. In fact, the abroad of e x-"political" prisoners average person in the st reet will be who wish to leave a paramilitary superficia ll y quite friendly to all. but organsiation. T his is an area of work th ey only mee1 in the stree1 and each completely ignored by the Northern group a trends it s own pubs, cl ubs and Ireland social services, who, by their dances. The Protestant and Roman attitude have helped to turn even Catholic schools a rc completely the most rcpentent ex-prisoner into s sc para1c but they meet on the bus social outcast. with no chance of ever Business as 11suol home. The sit uation forces each child getting ajoO or being reintegrated into to ta ke a side and p~t rticipate in the the community at large. It is End the Emergency name-calling. so ng-~inging a nd unfortunately only a tiny percentage occasional figh ts. of prisoners who 00 turn coat", and they Proffiions Act and their families need all the moral support and advice they can get when " Control Zones" the inevitable intimidation comes.

A further role is that of extra­ In Northern Ireland if )OU talk ol parliamentary pressure group for a .. ,he cit)" you mea n Belfast. It 1s a completely non-violent resolution to remarkably busy city, the people seem the problems of N. Ireland. During to fo rget the bombs and ignore 1h c the recent H-Block crisis, they clicli: of barriers a nd squeal of metal persistentl y lobbied Parl ia ment to detectors as they go to the shops or to give "emergency .. status to those tried thei r work. Most town centres are under the Emer2encv PI.o v:isions A.cl. closed to traffic and police check­ .. a gross transgression of the Brit is h points allow o nl y deli ve ry veh icl es judicial procedure and recognised as through. "Control Zones" in most such by the European Court on Human built-up area mean that vehicle!. Rights. This would have been a cannot be left una ttended. Most shops compromist: bet wecn the extremes taken ha ve secu rit y sta ff making a by the Tory Government and the superficial search of the shoppers' hunger Strikers, and without parcels and bags as they e nter. The recognisin g • a ny political status Northern Ireland people kno w that would have allowed the restoration of the securi1 y measures can never full y certain priveledges and . better protec( them. They know the nsks but conditions for prisoners in Long do not acknowledge them as they Kesh. They have gone even further by unconsciously hurry past empty ca rs calling for the complete revoking of and avoid every una ttended parcel. the E. P.A. and the retrial by normal Masi people in Northern Ireland Moiread Corrigan: co-founder of 1he judicial procedure of anyone tried talk little about .. the Northern Ireland Peacepeople under the E.P.A. as soon as Pro blem .. altho ugh they may reasonably possible. Needless to say complain (to those with the sa me the Conservative Government has views as themselves) about the This involves Peacepeople often chosen to ignore these humanitarian, inconvenience of securit y checks or spending weeks wit h the family not political, de ma nds. Goalmowh ocrion from 1he voice their horror o\ler bOmbings. helping them through their trauma. Peacepeoµle junior foorball leagu'e There a re few discussions among the They also do a lot of youth work in ordinary people about the present their 20 local groups throughout the Divided Community social barriers or possible future solu tions. They arc resigned to the province, jlthough being barred in The Peacepeople, according to Belfast most of the work is tension in their lives and avoid talking Sreve, see the main problem in N. many people as possible involved 10 the only paramilitary movement in concentrated there. A significant about the situation because they feel Ireland as the divided community, the process of decision making. such a position whether or not th a1 contribution to breaking the sectarian . that there is nothing 1h ey can do to and much of their work is geared to However it does a ll seem slightly · organisation has supposedly mended grip of the churchs' on youth clubs resolve it. reintroducing political debate and "deja-vu". and when pressed on such its ways, is morally indefensible for a and activities ha s been the I wa s very surprised when people an action o n the level of the local serious issues as the possible so-called non-violent movement and organisation of a football league run Edinburgh on hearing I was from community in an atrempt to budge the reunification of Ireland, Steve smacks of distinct loyalist leanings. on inter-communal level, rather than Northern Ireland asked about my commonity in attempt to bridge the remained politely non-commital. In Perhaps this explains why the religion. At home no one needs to ask on the usual religious basis. They also chasm. They want to see a move away the end, it is hard to gather just where Peacepeople have failed as yet to build have a girls league, an almost whe1her you are Protestant or Roman from the present politic?! status qua the Peacepeople stand as regards the upon their early remarkable revolutionary blow for feminism in Catholic - 1hey know by your name towards a new consensus based on future of N. Ireland. Their recent achievements a nd create a truely or the number in you r family. They the staunchly male tradition of N. almost quasi-anarchistic system of defence of the U.D.A.'s continued popular and effective movement for Ireland. never have to ask "whal foot do you local community government, with as status as a legal political organsiation. peace. dig with"? 9 January 15 1981

In a Belfast shop J saw 1wo rows of heads on a shelf. One row had the face of Dr I. R. K. Paisley and the other Glebe House: was His Holiness the Pope. I lifted one from each of the quite distinct rows Rural Ride For and was in1crcs1cd to fi nd that they City Kids were of similar we ight a nd exactly the same price. This shop was ra re, stocking busts of both these famous Some of the more avid television men because in Northern Ireland addicts amongst yo u maa y have But, as Helen said, getting everyone is either one or the other. noticed o,·er Christmas a long­ Protestant and Catholic children to Religio n is used as a badge for awaited "Nationwide" report on the live together in a reasonable state of political and cultural differences and work with children at Glebe House in harmony for a few days al a time is not history is used to justify the bigotry N. Ireland. Since the project was fi rst ultimately going to solve the problems and killing. Northern Ireland has two set up in July 1975 by Harmony of N. lreland. The method and aims of nearly se parate communities-a land Community Trust, Helen Honeyman their work must try to deal with more made up like a jigsaw with tiny orange and many other volunteers have been pressing issues than stopping kids and green pieces. There is not one involved in the demanding task of from the Shankill Rd and the Bogsidc boundary between Protestant and reconciling Catholic anti Protestant bashing each other over the head. Glebe HomeinthehearrofCo. Down Roman Ca1holic Ulster but there are children of all ages and from all over For most weekends of the year and boundaries at the end of streets, N. Ireland and broadening their for 10 day periods during the main across playgrounds and around otherwise very limited experience of school holidays. the six volunteer housin g cs13tes. life. Situated in the beautiful but workers who run Glebe House on an The scparale ed u cat io n for isolated surroundings of the Northern absolute shoe-string budget, organise Protcs1an1s and Roman Catholics Irish East coast near the fishin.1?. vi lla12:e " ho lidays" with a difference for Delights of As far as Helen is concerned, the mean that lhc college or workplace is of Strangford, Co. Down. Glcbc House groups of up to 24 childre n, chosen main problem facing the present the first real opportunity for is mercifu ll y separated from the from the main urban centres of N. "Joy-riding" British Government is not how to deal integration. ln1egration, however, is paranoia and bleakness of the most Ireland, and not just Belfast and with scctarianiSm, or the defeat of the religious differences. However this minimal. Protestants wo rk for deprived cities in 1he· UK. It is the Derry. They are all from socially Provisionals, but how to create a quickly dies away, as the children Protestant companies, and Roman perfec1 place for not only children, but disadvantaged backgrounds, and are healthy society with stable begin to enjoy what is probably their Catholics also sti ck 10gc1her. Some of also 1eenagers. and the handicapped chosen and sponsored by local employment, cities where nomal f~rst real ex perience of th e this is due to positive decisions taken to eScape the tensions and drabness of community workers. Often it is the human beings can expect to li ve countryside. For a child who has by 1hose seeking work. Also Northern their urban existence and to develop Protestant children who are hardest rather than barely exist, and where the barely ever been outside his '"ghetto", Ireland employers consider having the healthier and more open attitudes to get hold due to their parents historical myths on which generations riding a pony, n:,.ilking a goat, or just .. right" religion as being as importanl towa rd s each other as individuals. distrust of the idea of "mixing.. with of both sides have been brought up to messing around in a field without any a criterioh as having 1he right rather than membc'r!) or separate Catholics (the Catholic altitude is hate each other. will have no place. army patrol or any sloganeering quali fications. The colleges of further religious gro·ups. Though their work, more anti- the British presence than graffiti in sight, must be a remarkable It is not so much the children, who education have st udents of both religious groups. Through their work. anti-Protestant) and resentffient of experience. Often they return later are remarkably resilient and often religions. bu1 after a week of first year the idea of charity. During the first they are trying to help to create a N. totally unaware of the burning issues day or so there is usually the expected for, the teenage work groups, where the average s1udcn t will know the Ireland that, in the future, will around them (a lot of Protestant kids group baiting, but this is interestingly the emphasis is more o n giving Protestant-Roman Catholi c ratio in hopefully be free of the bigotry and from E. Belfast had never heard of the more often based on what part of N. responsibility and a se nse o( the classroom. If the second year social and economic depression which H-blocks) who suffer but the Ireland they hail from rather than any achievement, through c:raftwork, students' accommodatio:• situation is so characteristic at the moment. gardening, painting and conversion teenagers, who in the past fortunately was investigated it would be evident work to youngsters who face the less so now. have been reduced by that Roman Catholics tend to share prospect ofa lifetime on the '"brew", in sheer boredom to joining paramilitary with others of their religion a nd that a region where 16% (the highest in the organsiations sometmes as young as there arc a lso many all-Protestan1 UK) of the working population arc 14. The fact that children become nat~. unemployed. A lot of work is also accustomed and accept the abnormal "Brits Out" done with mentally and physically role that t_he army play in . Ireland is handicapped children and young a worrying factor, and encourages low Most social groups consist of adults. who up until recently have li vi ng standards as compa_rcd to people of one religion or the other. been virtually ignored by the mainland Britain. Helen believes that ll1is voluntary segregation leads tO deplorably inadequate social services the deprivation and squalor of places the building up of new prejudices on of N. Ireland. like Belfast and Derry, have been the sound basis of distant history and caused, not so much by the troubles. recent terrorist attacks, It seems However. Glebe House is ju3t one of many you1h group projects that as by decades of econom ic bigotted when someone is described as have sprung up since the troubles exploitation, (Unions are a lmost non­ being very nice "although she's a existent m N. Ireland) and the Catholic'' but there arc many. much began. Other o r,1?.ani sations such as 1he Corrymccla Tru!)t. Holiday development of the Protestant State more cx_tremc. brough1 up IO "hate which has driven the Catholic the prods" or to believe tha1 "the only Project West, and Discovery Holidays, provide much the same population into squalid ghettoes. good Catholic is a dead one". Some in the province call themselves Irish and wan1 "Brits out", others leave this message on the walls: ··we will never forsake the blue skies of our Ulster For the grey !)kies of an Irish Republic.·· In Nonhern Ireland your political views are almost predetermined by the religion in which you arc brought up. The family religion de1ermines where you live. what stories you are told, how you say the alphabet. the songs you arc taught. who you will marry or (above) Ad\•ertisements in a local If anyone is interested in being a mourn for. when you march and - paper volunteer at Gkbi.: House over some would say - where you end up (below) presentation of rhe junior summer, please \\•rite to · Helen after yqu die! foorba/1 lea,:ue shield. organised by . Honeyman, G lcbe House, Strang­ Liz 11,e Peacepeople fo rd. County Down. Nonhern Ireland.

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Unlike many 1nd ependen1 outlets- as do similar projects in charitable organisations Gtcbe House London such as Action Space. For has escaped the pre3cnt round of mstance, in an attempt to entice Government cuts relatively ' teenagers away from the dubious unscathed, since most of its funds arc delights of ··joy-riding" (now from the Rotarians, the Inner Wheel accouming for almost as many deaths Club, and International Voluniary Service. However. they a rc obviously in Be lfast as terrori sm) a highly not without their problems, and it is a popular grass-track motorbike racing circuit has been set up in W. l)clfa!)t sad renection tha1 there have been no N. Irish long-term volu nteers so far. the adventure playgrounds which The desperate need to get a job in N. surro11nd such hideous sights as the Ireland rather than taking the gamble Divis Flats ha ve remained untouched · of two years voluntary work. coupled by any child and cannot hope to compare with the cxcitemcn1 of with an excess of overseas application5 seem to be main reasons. Also they are crawling along the allies of streets of always short of funds, especially at the derelict houses. This is the challenge moment when they arc building an facing social and voluntary workers in extension to improve facilities. But N. Ireland where until 1970 literall y despite the obstacles, Glebc I-l ouse nothing had been done in this field. and the other similar projects arc and which helps to make N. Ireland. playing an invaluable and mostly suprisingly enough. one of the most exciting and optimistic areas in which unrecognised rolt in bnnging a long ti.: nn soluuon to the .. , roubles" to work. Patrick Cunningham 10 January 15 1981 "It's 1984 isn't it?" "No,just Modern Times."

Peter Kravitz attend ed a The Unnecessary? telephone directories obsolete. They will be doing much more Payment of bills, computerized complex jobs ... logical skills rather lecture on 'The World of debiting at checkout tills, than manipulative skills will be Microprocessors', given by com p uteri1.ed cred it systems, needed.' Dr A. D. Milne - the warehousing/ s1ock control/ market­ Mental dexterity cannot entirely Dr Milne conceded that micro­ ing/ sales/ accountancy have all replace physical dex1erity. the future Director of the Wolfson electronics had already begun to be 'benefitted' from r..o mputers. The seems to hold little choice for those Microelectronics Institute at used for some very trivial purposes. progression towards a cashless society who will be affected by micro­ is accelerating. 'The technology is this University. the question is not whether we want electronics. ot as many jobs will be remote control this and remote here, it is really the social acceptability created as will be destroyed. Not control that, but what we arc of these things that is holding it up.' everybody will find jobs in the service Or Milne is helping to produce an We have heard much about the encouraged to think that we need. scct0r unless the number of hours in Advertising agencies may be correct electronic micrometer for measuring microelectronics 'revolution· in recent the working week is dras1ically as well as condescending when they very precise diameters. It will have years. Dr Milne has been involved in reduced. Will Illich tell us about say that people buy anything they're two impacts. Firstl y, on a company this for the past ten yea rs . "deskilling society". Dr Milne left me told to. Moving from the trivial to the making th e (old) mechanical with a haunting comment: ·society He made the somewhat trite claim micrometers, which will have to terrifying. He has recently been will be driven in a wealth producing that 'During the industrial revolution change its structure. Secondly, on a technology was accepted primarily developing an addition to digital direction. It will be the economists wristwatches: an indicator which tells company that used the old because it gave increased material who contribute more.' Let us pray you your blood pressure. He promises micrometers, and will need less people wealth and leisure to the people'. Few that before then they realise that a circuit that wi ll a lso show the rate of with the new tool; it will also demand in0ation is only a symptom of a bigger can argue that it was only some retraining of employees. people, though. This is the challenge your heart. It reminds me of the disease, a nd that microelectronics contraption in ·Star Trek' which to the changes that microelectronics is must mc;an that employment is not an showed the state of all your bodily already making. Will it merely ossify A new logica l mind? issue 1hat should be st udied in the the present social, economic and functions - an electronic stretcher of future, but planned now. sorts. Most people will have noticed 'People that were skilled, will still political structures and relations the new GPO telephone-boxes which be ski lled. but in different thi ngs. within society, or will it distribute its have not been proliferating rewards in a different manner? Dr Milne preferred to describe this everywhere. They register, in digital process as 'a second industrial fashion, how much money you have put in. This reduces in proportion to evolution, not revolution'. He is how much time remains. What the confident that ·we will be able to let public do not see is a mechanism t~chnology make decisions for us' ... I see this as adding to the development developed for the benefit of Post of Man's thinking abilities.' But Office telephone engineers. This is thinking for what? It is not su rprising inside the telephone box. It is a system whereby any malfunction is that statements of future possibilities beg constant enquiry, especially when immediately indicated on a panel. those predictions come from someone Other developments include an electronic phrasebook - which will who can somehow affect the intent soon be able to actually answer back part of the equation. with the translation which you require.

Transformation of the • Transitor Can liberties be preserved?

The tr?.nsitor was invented in I 94l:S. This was a progression from 'the va lve· (a part which I am trying to Computers will in future store more trace for my very ancient radio) to a a nd more records and this raises the 'solid state' component. It has taken • problem of access. 'How can we stop thirty years for this 'bi-polar people accessing into a memory bank transistor to be transformed into what if they arc not supposed to?' This is is popularly called 'the micro­ especially app lciable with the computer.' What is vital in this computers used by the Police (which development is the growth in the record more of the same). The number of elements (switches) that National Council for Civil Liberties can be accommodated on a single have not been quiet about !his, and it chip. He stated that 'the cost aspect is a rguable whether microelectronics more than anything else has allowed will compound an already secretive for the wider use of silicon chips'. society, or make society more open They are actually produced in 1hc than before. Dr Milne used the form of wafers. Each wafer is full of anecdote 1hat 'half of France is integrated circuit s. At present, an waiting for a telephone. and the 01her average-si,ed plant can manufacture half is waiting for a dialling tone' to 100.000,000 of these 10 centimetre show how backward that country's wafers every year. Finance is telephone network was before the obviously a key factor in how widely introduction of microelectronics. THE SA YING OF L.~IJO\JR microelectronics are applied. They have developed • felematiques·. THr. Rotml: 'Masur, I ru n do Ihe wurl: uj jijiy nwt.' 'Intelligence can be added to a circuit This means computers crossed with EMPLOYf.R : · } '1·.(, / I·nou1 thal, but who is 10 support 1hc fih~ men ~· at practically no extra cost'. The area telephones. and it would probably where much money is required is in ha ve never been employed had research into what intelligence is France's telephone system been more needed, and how to furmula1e it. out of date. Telematiques will make

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Royal Lyceum: SNO !Guys and Dolls Britten: War Requiem Wendy Nimmo IJ ~~s~iv~yt:~~c:lrba::~:: ~:c reviews sto ry a nd characters o f Da mo n Runyon sets out, in the true traditio n o f the American musical , to enterta in. Those musical innocents o r sceptics There is no dotibt that this pa rticular who claim they can d iscover no pro duc ti o n succeed s admirably. in volve ment or exci tement in classical "Guys and Dolls" reveals the true music, should have been frog­ nature o f life o n Broadway; glamo ur, ma rched along to the Usher Ha ll last bri g ht li g hts, fam o u s peopl e . Friday ni ght 10 wit ness Benjamin pimps, prostitutes, drunks and Britten's Wa r Requiem. Then let them gamblers. proclaim their heresy! The story is set on that famous New Here was trul y a great occasion: York street and surrounds the various thought-provoking, a musical and gambling fraternities and their visual stimula ti o n. As any music lover incurable tendencies 10 wager a buck will know, Britten believed that his an on .anything that moves. Nathan form should be useful to society and Detroit, a small time gambler, while to exist as "a ho ly triangle or danger of losing favour if he doesn't composer, pe rformer a nd li stener". find a place for "shootin ' crap", was mo re than compensated for by his tremendous sound. Cho reographer Death, alienation a nd the corruption wagers Sky Masterson that he cannot partner Barbara Young playin g the Noel Tovey has d one the sensible of innocence had a lways preoccupied win the affections of Sister Sarah part or theclubland artiste '"M iss thing by producing ro utines within Britten as a pacifist, a Christian and 1 Brown o f the .. Save-a-soul'' missio n. Adelaide". _ Her vast experience the capabilities o f the dancers, confirmed ho mosexua l, and the Nathan's not the lucky type, because enhances a performance which carries therefore they arc mo re at case. Leslie theme o f war provided a pl atfo rm to in the end the guy gets his doll. The the audiences attention at a ll times. Lawton as directo r has established the express human suffering o n a massive co lourful characters sing and dance The weaknesses a re more than now· or adrenalin which is evident scale. LinKing the bitter anti-wa r their way through a story which can balanced by the strengths which exist throughout the performance. The poems of Wilfred Owen to the be best explai ned by goin g to see the in a co mpany dedicated to give its design concepts are spectacular and it timeless Latin text of the Mass for the sho w. Ray Lonnen, ex-Sandbagger a udience valu e for money. The other was a pleasure to watch ·co-o rdinated' Dead, The Wa r Requiem is hailed asa and Z Cars refugee, is particularly guys wh o sho ne were Campbell scene changes. true and huma ne sta tement of society suited _t~ th~ past_ofSky. ~is singing is Morrison as Nicely- Nicely Jo hnson, "Guys a nd Do ll s" docs no t have in conflict. melodic, his acting concise. Colette who put in a tr e mendou s heavy social comments 10 make. It is The SNO and cho ru ses were in fi ne G leeson as Sarah complements his performance in the song "Sit down entertainment in the purest sense o f fettle under the elf-like but in spiring style with beauty and charm. The Yo u're Rocking 1h e Boat .. , and the wo rd and, taken at fa ce value, is Gary Bertini. A farewell concert fo r smooth-ltalking Sky is easily wo n Robert Oawys as Benn y Southstree1. worth a visit before it ends next Mr Bertini a ft er 11 years as principal over by the iron will or Sarah. Alan The music is crisp with a mo re than Sa turday. I o nl y ho pe that Lesli e guest conductor, perha ps injected the Rothwell as Nathan, I felt , ga ve a competent o rchestra under 1h e La wton can maintain this standa rd, ded ica tio n so intense that the weak performance being not suited to watchful eye or Musical Di recto r but looking ahead 10 the coming a tmosphere was ripe with a multitude the American style and accent. This Ma rtin Waddington producin g a season it is mo re than probabl e! of emo tions. Solo ist Jen nifer Smith gave a capti.va tingly bright and interesting perfo rmance wh il e Robert Next Week: Readers Tear was impassioned and precise in Top Ten Films of his dic tion, givi ng a soli d and assu ring q uality into his delivery of the music. 1980 revealed. Vat- Gallery gossip Hakan Hagcgard's expressiveness of to ne was refreshing and served to ing closes Friday complement the other soloists. The o rchestra . attentive to every technical 16th January. and interpre tive detail. was en hanced Ken Riff by SNO's Cha mber Ensemble, and The Young Woman. a tiny 5" by 8" ~ the whole performance justi fied Talbot Rice wa tercolo ur. The cont rast between Britten's aim fo r social comment. the da rk , wrinkles toothless o ld hag I Po uring int o - Ed in b urg h's chilled and the fresh. ravishing young wo man .J Jerry Pratt nig ht a ir. it was easy to un derstand is pronounced , bein g made mo re s ;,m,nk and the ,Ulage goss;p and sympathize. provocati ve - a nd . I would argue, I Stuart Bradsha w writes: " . . the meaningful - by the presence in the work could never be accused of back ground of the dark fi gure of age academicism o r o ppo rtunism but, on with its ga ping, mercil ess jaws. Much Poetry the other hand, artists using highly the same can be said fo r Th e Old Man imaginative and subjective subject Watching his Son by the Sea. wh ere the matter tend by default to be identified suitabl y po rtrayed o ld man surveys If you have been secretly proliferating what with a tradition or indivdualistic, his athleti c, naked son at play o n the graphi c all y ori e nt e d Briti s h beach below. you consider to be Good Poetry, this term is eccentrics ... It is roughly possible to The "imaginative and subjecti ve '' understand this jargon's isms and subject matter is ingenio usly treated. the time to share your gift with the world istics, and it is a fair assessment or the Woman In S treet - note another contemporary scene in art: to succeed direct title - depicts a nude.woman, as a painter in the latter part of this retaining 1h e essential elements of Natural History bizarre century is to accept the label humanity withi n what is basically a "eccentric" to a large degree: Picasso, we ll -executed caricature, who is Hurt dogs will not drink from po rcelain bowls: Dali and Hockney a re three cases in watched by several peering fa ces. They may lap the water tha1 fall s from sloping roofs po int. Faces stare, ogle and look bl a nkly in Or suck a 1 the spring that cracks the quartz and bursts o ut - Ken Kiff conforms to this doctrine many o r the pictures, they are a ll But no t fro m po rcelain , however fine. or eccentricit y in hi s extraordinary images o r each other and several are The o wl prefers its water fro m the bo nes of mice pa intings. His concern is with modern se lf-po rt ra its, the ir ver y o mni And when o ld may steal chicks or bacon; life and scarcely one of the paintings is presence in Kifrs paintings suggests Yet even o wl s will not ta ke sta nding wa1er not, at least in part. a ren ec ti on of his and implies 1hcir omnipresence in the Havin g been seen stirri ng pools wit h a claw before sipping. observations and appreciation of real world o utside. The slow worm knows what wa ter is. mistrusting it. society. S treet Scene depicts a normal Most striking in almost every And rightly, for there is more to it than drinking. scene i'n the depths o r suburbia, painting is 1he use or colour. Bright, The weasel calls it breath's mi lk, the badger white b lood; port raying what we would expect to unsubtle a nd someiimcs even crude, it Even the river trout. who knows it only as sleep in air sec in such a settin g: bowler hatted pervades all the pictures emphatically. Tell s that it must not be enclosed or it will die. stockbroker, natterin g o ld bags a la It s particular effect of hitt in g the Salamanders. whose notion of birth is obscure, have a word for i1. Coro na ti o n St reet and G ra nd pa beholder is especiall y 10 be seen in The A third a lt ernative 10 light a nd dark, trimming his hedge. Yet the painting Black Dog, where two naked, purulent White cows. a coarser race o n the whole, believe it made them is a ll but banal: Kiff twists the subject, pink men a rc depicted agai nst a bright As a means o r 1rnvcl ling from o ne place to a nother; · d isto rting what is true (and even trite) ye llo w background. T he focal p0int of Just as a dog, when we ll , wi ll drink a t the hea rt h into startling caricature. There is the painti ng is a bl ack dog in the From unglazed terrac6tta. not seeming to mind, so mething o mi nous about the cC ntre, ye t the beast is quite unrelated Ha ppy to consume. gardener's shears, and the o ld wo men to the actio n of greeting o r the two seem to Bell yache about the price o r a men. Colour can tell no lies nor ask tuna fi sh ad infinitum. any dubio us questio ns in Kiffs A Chinese Painting Human figures abo und in Kifrs pi ctures: it is a pointer to wha t Kiff wo rk , even in la ndscapes. All of them wants us to noti ce. Pined a nd stacked, these hills - apart maybe from the charcoal This is a collecti on of bizarre, oft en, cheat the sight Face Drawing. wh ich reveals Kiffs complex, paintings, but they are retreat in a n odd li ght - o r captivating mist skill as a draguthsman - arc eminently beautiful. Altho ugh some grOtesque disto rtions o f real peo pl e, o r the subjects may appear 10 be cups their sill s and over a hangin g path but they a re depicte d nud e, fan ciful and unreal - such as the emphasizing .. wa rts and all", but this prehi sto ric monsters and walking hills o r crisscross bridge between leaves technique is cleverl y employed in in Drawing Back a Curtain- they are, o ther ways, and in none more as Stuart Bradshaw writes: "lyrical 1he wi se man's d onkey and his servant go . strikin~ly tha n in Th e Old Woman and and full o f humour and wo nder". Robin D avidson 13 Januar 15 198

2) BEi G THERE (AA) MOVIES Tasteful. disciplined clowning glor of the late Peter Sellers. As Chance th Gardener he is touchin g and funn) AROUND the film itself is too uneven fo A BC, Lo thian Road greatness but worth seeing. Shirle} I) HANGAR 18(A) Maclaine and Melvyn Douglas co No'Ordinary' Film star. Sa h Lake City produced drivel about the US government suppressing a U FO because of its harmful politica l 3) TII E GOOD!l YE GIR L (A) Alla n Hunter pre­ consequences. Preposterous. with the Warm . witty Neil Simon confec 1i o1 space-ship a cross betwt.:en a jelly cffro1lcssly guiding us alo ng the rock views Robert Red- mould a nd a deformed lcggo set. path to true love. Ric hard Dreyfuss i. Don't be conned by the big in cm:rgc1ic early Jack Lemmo n forn and 1h e whole show is first~clas, ford 's direct o ria l advertising campaign. this is one 10 de bu t avoid. (Also showin g Ritz, Rodney en tertai nment. Or d in ary S1rcC't). People, wi nner of the O D EON, C le rk S treet 2) ANY WIIICII WAY YOU CAN TII E BLUE LAGOON (AA) American National (AA) Ri p-off sequel. probablh though! Board of Review by a compuler, which wil l have C lyde laughing all the way to the green­ awards for best fi lm grocer~. Middle American Reag:1n1sm and director a nd one run wild. of the major British 3) FLAS II GORDON (A) Stylish space hero saga. a~ much as releases of 1981. fun for adults as it is fo r kids. Sam( I0) Jones is Flash, Max Von Sydow the H.edfor~I 1he diree1or ins1ruC't111g' Mary Tyler Moure. evi l D r Ming and Melody Anderson . i~ Dale Arden. Classic lines include ;,I by his wife's indifference and 1he The seeds sown by the success of from tlic golden autumnal glow and love you Flash, but we've only 14 practicalities of career and lifestyle . Kramer vs Kramer have already chamber music of the backdrop. to hour~ to save the Eanh." Great s1uff. produced a crop of human interest the thoughtful. measured script and From a script such as this the acting ramas of some note including The the acting of the principals. csj,ccially of Moore and Sutherland is of a Elephant Man and Tribute but the acting. Redford ha~ coaxed some qua\i1y to be expected from such CALEY, Lothia n Road Ordinar y People must be marvellous performances. seasoned professiona ls but in hi s film XANADU (A) debut Timothy Hutto n as the son is cknowlcdged as the cream. Mary ryter Moorc's moJher is a Ol~i~a:;~e"~~~t~ Sj~i1; ' ~~~I;: ~i/n ~t~ Here Robert Redford. making his woman concerned with the social sensational and provoke:) a strong irectional debut, wades into lngmar conventions of cocktail parties and reaction of empathy. Hi s faltering Gene Kelly's ageing wa1ers. Garish Bergman territory and pr~ides a golf matches; all surface calm and attempts to come to terms with his .and embarassing ha ve been the ,kindest reviews. lighter. less doom ridden, richly competence while underneath failing brother's literal death and his Junior league ··Love Swry' which textured work that barely sets a foot as a human being reveali ng only an mother's emotional o ne and eventual plot-wise is all at sea. Two youngste rs wrong. emotional deadness. When her son's rite de passage through psychiatric are shi pwrecked on a deserted island The ordinary people of the tit le are hatred turns to a kind of analysis will have you secretly and mature through puberty to find a normal middle class American understanding it is a compassion cheering from your seat. It is a meaty ' na tural love·. The Fij i locations are family. the type that statisti cians beyond her understanding or accept­ ro le played with distinction and luscious and there is plenty to occupy !dream of, owning X cars. 2. 4 children ance. She is excell ent as the icy Timothy Hutton is without doubt the the eye but ve ry. little to divert the a nd a ll the 01her. characteri stics monster more interested in pairing find of the yea r. mind. lex pected of thei r cl~ss. sk irt and blo use than matching family Ordinary People is in a class of its tfhe calm of their existence is relations. own and writing this four, months E DI N B U RG H .F ILM khattercd by the accidental death of Dona ld Sutherland provides a solid after I first saw it the film remains 1 ne son and the centrifugal forces this comforting figu re as the cohesive vividly in the mind, a true test of T H EATR E, Lothia n Road nleashes on the family unit. force of the family; someone who greatl1ess. At the moment. if you see (t St h-17t h) GO IN' SOUTII (A) The entire production is faultless - genuinely cares but has been waylaid one film this year it mus1 be Ordinary Ja u n ty-jolly jape wilh J ack People, it's that good. Nichobon ta king bo1h ac1i ng and directing chores. He plays a Western outlaw forced into marriage to save his own neck. The cast includes the POLYGON BOOKS­ appealing Mary Stcenburgcn and John Bclushi. Good Fun.

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1' 14 January 15 !9RI The Clash! As the Scene Freezes. • • Scene" wh ich will probably evaporate Jim Levi saw The in a few months - ··we transcend 1h at and want to do it o utselves", he Freeze with said. and who can argue as the band probably sti ll has greater populari1y Photographic than any o ther local blind and arc Memory musically s1rong enough to make it on their own. Their music seems to me 10 be Photographi c Memory arc from heavily influenced by Brian Eno - Perth , and this was their first major one of their best songs is a cover of gig in Ed inburgh. Their output was "Babies on Fire.'' The most effective interesting with good tortured numbers are the slower ones such as sounding vocals. Songs such as the sublime .. Lullaby in Black" and ··Challenge .. sounded almor,t like the ··From the Bizarre", where a Skids. but most were slower driven by thudding bass line. understated a slow, plodd111g bass with any guitar. occasional keyboard subtleties musical interest provided b) a and magnificent. often echoing vocals synthesise r. Another good Scottish combine to chillmg effect. Faster band, but they lack any real identity numbers such as ··Her Eyes" have Topper, Paul, Joe and Mick bid for street credibility. - one tO wa tch o ut for. the sa me sort of po\ver as Joy Division The band we we re all there lo see, and Theatre of I-l ate - again with a though, were The Freeze. 1 first saw strange eerie power. The Frec1.e arc them about a yea r and a half a go synthesising an excit ing modern sound when they already had a signi fica nt of thei r own. Where Are They Now? local following and immediately Other highlights of the se t we re the impressed as a "differen t" punky powerful second si ngle ·• Celeb ration" who compared this to "Yessongs" remarkabl y h o n est, always· sounding band. Since then their music and "Psychodalck Nightmares", the needs hi s cars cl eaned o ut , preferably If Santa takes the adventurous and occasio11a/ly has progressed into something far onl y song from the In Colour EP they with a tommy gun! brilliant. more impressive. In the early summer still play: as usual it had most of the The emphasis througho ut is o n NME, Sandinista! The 36 tracks draw on just about they looked poised for greater things audience joining in at the end with 1he w1ders1a1eme111, musica ll y, lyrically evcrv musical influence you ca n think. - ye t incredibly (to me) missed the band inert in a flick ering strobe. and voca ll y. Strummcr and Jones probably never of - except 1he Clash's own ·77 punk mass ive media hype surro unding An excellent set was concluded by have, dare I say it, grown up - their thras h whic h they've unco m­ other Scots bands, at the same time three well-deserved encores and The reached your Xmas lyrics locate injustice and hypocrisy. promisi ngly and finally ditched. there was a six month lull in local gigs. Freeze ye t again showed themselves to but recognise that no white riot is Lead vocalist Gordon Sharp said be the best band in Scotland today. stocking. Which 1s a going to save the world. Their voices after the gig that this was a deliberate The Freeze arc unique: the Freeze are arc as honest as on "'White Man " decision and that they had no wish to brilliant. Sec them: buy their product. shame ... never contrived as on some "'London be a part of the so-called "Scottish The Freeze arc yours. take them! Calling .. cu ts. A band which has attain ed some The Clash remain at their best when sort of "peak" in in fluence o r working off reggae influences. the popularity can expect little sympathy songs derived from jazz and disco are when the knives come out. The Clash ler,s successful, while guest singers set themselves up ve ry high, made (Ell en. Foley 111 .. llitsvillc ... Timon 111 C30 CGO C90 Go!. themselves ext remely vulnerable. So Dogg "Lose this Skin". yo ung kids An interes1ing new artefact is feature The Scars, The Freeze and when 1h cy released some stuff wh ich on a fabbie "Career Opportunit ies" currently available from an ou1fit Boots for dancing. Most of th e Scars was (10 put it mildly) unconvincing­ piss-take) add splashes of colour in called Spasmodi c Productions; ca ll ed contribution consists of mumbled like "Bankrobber" and much of songs which. er, ju!>t don't sound like "A Rc-Useable MagaLine·· it is a C-60 lyrics and poetry which do not "London Calling" - a nd appearedto Clash songs. cassette featuring local bands. It is not impress and two songs: live versions flirt with the Ame ri can way of life, the Joe St rummer of The Clash meets Nick In such a diverse collection, some of a demo-tape or a compilation casset1e of "The Came and Took Her,. and the backlash was vic ious. Ke11t of the NM£. the more bi,arre tracks will probably as such. but more an hour of various magnificent ··Your Attention Please··_ "Quite right too!" you might say, (10 be frank) get up your nose - but material meant for listening 10 a few Personally I expec1ed better of the bul where does that leave the ba nd? From (tongue-in-check) pure pop, to ultimately only a handful, out of times and then recording over. The Scars - but still worth hearing. The They could split up, or move (further) the numerous dub and reggae thirty-six, fall fl at. Which leaves one makers see it as an alternative two Freeze songs, "Quietly Burning" into AOR. That's what the BOFs used influenced tracks (aided and abetted hell of a lot of enj oyable and valuable platform for bands both musically and ··From the Bizarre" arc the best to do. Or they could just give up. The by Mickey Dread), through an music for your four quid. For this. and with regard to any ideas - on the cassette. s uccessfully Clash chose to fight. 10 produce a immense a rray of contrasting styles, The Clash deserve some credit. and political. musical or otherwise - 1hcy illustrating their new profoundit ). 1riple album to sell for the price of 011e this album will never bore you in the Sandin1sta! deserves your a1tention. ma y have. (£3.99 in Frederick St.). Sandinista! is way other double and triple albums Now! Spasmodic Production hope 10 diverse in th e extreme, it's may have done - the chap in NM£ One side is the main featu,c which make th is a bi-monthly release and 10 provides half an hour of The Prats. faci litate its disposability are making Best songs arc ··Jesus Had a P.A.'' it non-profit making. 400 a re to be and ··Sycophant" which well illustrate_ circu lated and as a new concept in rh: band's qu it e_ly sublime excel lence. Edi nburgh, it is cartainly we ll worth the majority of the feature is the band yo ur attention. Available now fr om telling you eve rything yo u never the makers at 2 Haddington Place wanted to know about the Prats plus (556 666 1), priced £ 1 (yo u can pa y some 0 1h er oddments. £ 1.49 f0r it in record shops as well). The Scars! The ·'articles .. on the other side Jim Lc,,i Scotland's first 'punk' bands, should voice was often swamped by the rest be completely ignored? of the band. This is a pity, because his Chris "The Knife" On the various occasions that I've vocal s arc as much part of the Scars· seen the Scars in the past, their sound as any of the other instruments checked Bits ,,. pieces Kershaw performances have veered from the - o ne minute soft, haunting, the next, ea I ity them out at the N.C. brilliant to the embarassingly awful. a chilling scream. Thankfully, this was o ne of the former The set was a fa ir mix bCtween older songs - 'They came and 100k her'. r a on Saturday - in fact, possibily the best gig I've ever seen them play. This could have 'Obsessions· , and the inevitable. news sy1um something to do with the return of dramatic close r, 'Your attention Whither the Scars? Largely over­ original bass-player, John Mackie - Please' - and newer material. The shadowed in the past by Fast the man responsible fo r the armour­ fatter, particulady 'All about yo u· and The Best Radio Show in the land Mond ay December 22nd was the Product's more illustrious signings, piercing bass on 1he Adult/ery/ ·Leave M c', show signs that the Scars goes out , believe i1 or not, on Radio winter's longest night - and one of the Gang of Four and the Human Horrowshow single. The recruitment are at last developing into 1h e great Scotland every Wed nesday even ing at 1h e best if you had tickets for Gary League, then signed to the rather of fo rmer APF drummer Chic pop group that they've always wan ted 7.201 In Rock On Scotland , the ageing Glitter's Xmas bash at Tiffany's, the unfashionable Charisma label, for McLaughl in seems to have done no to be. but well meaning Peter Easton t~rows (largely punky) punters gave the whom they have recorded the grand harm either. His style, considerably I can't fin ish 1his without a brief together a selection of new Scottish Great Man the wi ld response he total of two si ngles in a year and a different from that o fCalum Mackay, mention to the suppo rt 'band' T.C. si ngles, sessions and anything else deserved as he ground through 90 half, they have never really been very gives a whole new fee l to the Scars' a nd the Twinsets - a motely worth wh ile (i.e. The Sound and U2) to minutes of Songs We Have Loved. much in the public eye. Is it not ironic, sound. assemblage of f1ve girls, (four singers produce the most interesting forty not to mention unfair, that at a time Add Paul Mackie's nervous, trebly and a tambourine player), Calumn minutes listening of the week. Reality Asylum's firs t (and last) when anyone from north of Carlisle guitar, and the force, the attack of the Mackay, Paul · 'Mackie, and an Unfortunately no-one knows the annual Out To Lunch Melody Maker who can tell one end of a guitar from Scars of o ld , so often lacking of late is unidentified (male) bass-player. they wavelength of Radio Scotland. Reality Awa rd goes to anyone who ac1ually the other is being splashed across the back with a vengeance. must be about the most ama1eurish, Asylum can excl usively reveal these as believed tha1 John Peel was moving [O pages of the music press, that the Unfortunately, the mix didn't shambolic excuse fo r a po p group ever 370m MW and around 94 whatsits Capital Radio. Arc there any of you Scars, who were, after all, one of exactly favour singer Rab Allan -his 10 take to a stage. They were brilliant. VHF. o ut there?? Wake Up!! ' i'S January 15 198 1 Careers Column

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Meanwhile. Renee and her large THE STUDENT CROSSWORD A light look at the daugh1er Nma, who could jus1 Credit Card Ticket squee1c bcrv.cen the chair and 1he desk were busy wi1h '"the -.ystem". Agency ·Renee was the o nl) o ne who - understood the system , except for As I s:11 down the face opposi te me J im, our resident queer accoun1ant. transformed into a series of hideous who fancied tha l he d id a!. we ll as conlOrtio ns and a number of fancying Dem,. cu riOU!'! I)' inhum;:111 noises e merged. I During Den1s·s lunch-hour Renee wondered if I had e ntered 1:1 ,oo ;ind discussed her favouri te subJect - this was a new species. or thal these Deni s. were a udi tions fo r The l:.lephant Man " H e·s only 18 you know, hc·s come o r lrom now on I would always have fro m Coven1ry thin king London rains thi, effecl o n people. Renee, my new Equity card'.'i and that 1hc .. treeh arc boss. pacified ml.! . lined wi th prospective directors " It 's all right. dear. it\, o nl y Denis waiting to grab the star of Coventry dorng his exercises. voice·exercises Hillwood Comprchensive·s ·Ro meo you know. De111s want:; to act." a nC J uliet'. He spent two weeks She smiled indulgentl y al 1his figure working as a n U'iher until they had 10 opposnc me whose face had now sack him when 1hcy found h1rn resumed normal proportions. Bui her unconscious under row G. So they emphasis on 1hc word "wants" passed him o n to me to a n!.wer the showed he r lack of confidence in telepho ne and he can't even d o that. Den is's ability to stun the theatrical He's so badly educated and he'll never world. So that explained the battered make a n aclQr - he hasn·1 the ta len t copy prominently d isplayed of or concentration. To lop all his Lan re11ce 0/frier, A Grem Ac10r of pro blems he isn't sure if he's a boy qr a Our Time. a must for all aspiring girl.. " ac,orJ. Well , Denn is had o bvio usly As I pi cked my way through the fo llowed their advice. beer bottles and rubbish sca ttered I answered the telephone and tried over Trafalgar Square af'1cr the to explain 10 a n ira1c Iris h lady that indulgent New Year celebrati ons. I Composed by Neil Drysdalt she couldn't use her Irish cheque card pondered on whether Dems Arthur CLUES retrospect. (4} as a cretli1 card to buy theatre tickets. Lacey would ever jo111 the ranks of Meanwhile Dems was havmg fun. Alan Howard and Paul Scho fi eld . It ACROSS D0\\ N Ever smcc a customer had asked 10 didn'l seem likely that the man with 8. Tw il ig ht lor Manhattan speak 10 the man with the velvet voice the velvet voice would ever p rogn.:ss Transfer? (4) I. A lo ng cigar on a rock cncllc,.,Jy Denis had become very confiden t past the st uffy o ffi ce in T rafalgar 9. Sinatra conceals King Cole ... (3) IWI Sttng. (6) about his telephone ma nner. His feet Square selling theatre tickets by 1 10. while Garfunkel and Ben 2. lfo t d rink with a fruit y navour. on the desk. wearing :;ocks that didn't telephone and having passes made at prod uce another'! (6) (5. 3) match and a proud g rin on his spolly him by Jim. Poor, poor Denis. 11. Dr Lomond'! One o f Milton·!. J. Sr.:c 27 across. face. he was up to his favourite tric k. fi ends. (6) 4. Ri se. and 111 places n,ing (5, 2) This was 10 offer certain sea ts in 1h e 12. In a few wri11en words is French 5. A meeting that should be thea tre where 1h e view was bad if you Last Edition's a nd a h ybriU ro,c. (8) rela ti vely congenial. (6, 9 ) were below average height. ''Arc you I J. One of our earl iest poetry books. 6. Surprisingly St reisand d oesn't I short, sir?" D enis would ask in his Crossword Solution (IO. 5) make a dtn o n La ke Maggiore! smoo th voice. " Is you r wife short, 15. Dickcmi~.i, Frenchma n \\ ith ~ (6) sir?'' The bemused customer would. capital wine business. (7) 7. Fair. but only b y a whi ske r. (4) wonder short o f what? Of cash? Oi- '>'-',..,__,.._"""' 17. i..cgal bencfit that's chcap at the 14 . Kate Bush's reco rd compa ny. (I . was Denis being obscene. When all p rice! (7) I, I ) was expla ined Denis would say wi1h 20. Fo und guilty of employmg 16. Mi s!- Braun's hiding 111 the glee tha1 there were no o ther seats Communist labour'! (6. 3-6) Va ti can. (3) available and ... "co uldn't your wife 23. Madame I 5's pointed revolu · 18. Not the J ews who gi,e us the Jo,\ · s i1 on your lap, sir?". ti o nary acti vit y. (8) down on roof coverings. (8) I was now being c ha11ed up b y a 25. Made foray's, o f assi-.1.incc when 19. Gary I uman·s banquet for po rtly looki ng gentleman who wanted in debt. (6) mendicants? (7) to kno w if Gemma Craven had good 26. Great Dane who got wet feel. (6) 2 1. Produce s harp word., nr J legs, was there any night when Tom 27. How the trains mus! be. if the dismissal. (3, )) Con1i wasn't in the sho w as his wife railways arc to !.u rvive! (3, 2. 3. 5. 22. The pupil's bauing cover'! (6) had rather taken a fancy to him, 5) 24. Sti ngy compositio n b y Arne (4) : d id I have good legs? 28. S111 that may give o nl' a shock 111 Cl) Q) -== a=0 ...en -=C ea -f

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