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STUDENTS from all over Park just after 2 pm, and con­ tinued to do so for nearly an hour, the United Kingdom assem­ with the rally properly beginning bled in Qlasgow on Tuesday around 2.15 pm. to take part in what was prob­ Three common themes were ably the biggest ever student addressed by the ten public demonstration on the British figures at the rally in the Park: mainland. these were the discriminatory nature of student loans; the com­ The march organised by the mitment by all to student grants, National Union of Students and the solidarity of support given against the Government's prop­ by them to students. osed introduction of top-up loans, The first four speakers addres­ was deemed by Strathclyde Police ·sed the rally from the semi-circu­ to have attracted around 20,00 lar, covered platform as students people. still marched in through the gates. Certainly, spirits were high All four- Mike Watson , Labour despite the cold and damp dismal MP for Glasgow Central ; Archy weather. It is likely this was a fac­ Kirkwood, Liberal Demcorat tor in preventing a larger turn­ MP; Diana Warwick, . General out. Secretary of A UT and Mike Rus-" Strathclyde police told Student sell of the SNP Executive- simi­ that they had made provision for larly displayed thei~ co.mmitment controlling such a large number, by urging students to "keep up the but that procedure meant they . fight". could not release figures of the Maeve Sherlock, President of exact poiice presence, nor the cost NUS (UK), echoed this last point, involved in the operation. adding that students must show However, specualtion "banks that they should look after abounded at the ·31fz-hour long student interests", by largely demonstration that in fact all withdrawing from the loans police leave in Strathclyde had scheme. been cancelled. Campbell Christie, General The marchers all assembled Secretary of the Scottish Trades next to Glasgow Green from . Photo by Toby Scott Union Congress (STUC), illus­ 11.30 am onwards, being allo­ trated the particular Scottish cated a position in the line-up gruntled students that it was a by tunity to host one for themselves. dimension of the Government's according to regions. Students police law on demonstrations that Glasgow was·, as reported in last l . Ewen Ferguson "attack" on higher and further from universities, colleges and had to be obeyed. But, soon after, and week's Student, also relevent education. He said it was "an issue because the new -Student Loans polytechnics - from Exeter to another steward explained that Conal Urqhart for the whole of the nation," with Inverness to Ulster - all waited Strathclyde Regional Council had Scheme would be administered student loans ultimately dis­ patiently on several red-gravel requested this in advance, for the police by lack of numbers. from there. criminating against Britain's football pitches until the march sake of the passage of emergency Discontent over the use of All along the route the protes- effort to compete "internationally began at around 12.20 pm. vehicles. Glasgow for the UK demonstra- tors received _ the attention of with the French, the Germans and Those invited speakers from As a result of the confusion, tion, and the route itself, was rife. Strathclyde Police's new toy- a others." political parties and trade unions an_d, it must be said, police hidr­ Maeve Sherlock, the president of helicopter which swooped on On the point of the loans office headed the procession behind a ance, the march was largely rag­ NUS told Student that Glasgow marchers when~ver disruption being situated in Glasgow, and local pipe band; they were to ged and strung.out: The police, was "not ideal and, admittedly, occurred. The, police refused to providing 240 jobs, Mr Christie address the rally individually although quickly allowing the that the Metropolitan Police had comment on whether film declared: '.'Stuff the loans office When all the students had march to continue as one long categorically vetoed the use of - cameras-has been in use. -we don't need it. " gathered at nearby Queens Park. snake, stopped parts of it regu­ London for such a man:h. The Royal Bank of Scotland, in Other pertiment speeches came, With the first few thosuand larly . . · The route, which avoided the Victoria Road, closed early on the -from Brian Downie and Jim Mar­ coming out of the Green, the Trouble was only narrowly centre of Glasgow, was the only day of the march, probably tin, heads of lecturers and P?l!ce surprisingly attempted to averted as a group of London stu- one the police would accept after because it was the focus of abuse, teachers' unions repsectively. dtvtde the march into blocks of -dents attempted to head for the four weeks of negotiation. By this being one of the banks agreeing to Sarah Adams, NUS Welfare Sab­ 2000. This was frustrated though city centre. Students chanting time the march was impossible to adminsiter student loans. lts rival, batical, ended the rally addresses by angry marchers who refused to "Cross the road, join the fight , cancel. Maeve Sherlock ·also · the Bank of Scotland, remained by concentrating on the point that continue until the latter groups­ education is right", and "there's added "that for years Scottish stu- open; it so far refraining from students can only win if they are has caught up. more of us than them," was only dents had travelled to London for joining the scheme. united. "Next time," she said, "we Atfirst, NUS stewards told dis- prevented from confronting the demos", and deserved the oppos- Students poured into Queens need more students. " student 2 thursday, november 30, 1989 news

• AGM flops tiredly as several motions are ignored

~UDGET been imprisoned "for conspiracy this move as an attack on a woman's basic civil right to con­ The first motion on EUSA's 1 to cause an explosion". Speaking agenda on Monday- night was the of the hypocrisy of. those who sup­ trol her own body and a woman's Budget for 1989/90: but when the ported Mandela, he put forward "fundamental right to choose". meeting began it was inquorate Terr~ Waite as a "m?re worthy" Opposition speakers, criticising and it was proposed that the c~?dida_te, on the b~s~~ he was not the 1967 Abortion Act, concen­ Budget shQuld not be discussed .. a convicted terr?~Ist . . trated on arguing that babies born Some dissenters in the audience Further oppositiOn was raised at 24 weeks did have a child's pointed out that nobody knew by a Com~ittee of Manage~ent rights - "they are viable at that what they were voting for anyway., representative who asked: Has age", said one speaker. . while others made the particular the fa~t th~t Ne_lson_ Man~la ever The debate could have con­ point that both· the Annual been m pnson mspired anyone to tinued for some time, as it has Report and the Budget had been go to prison?" done in the past, with some stu­ available for three weeks. The shouts of "Yes" that dents declaring from the audience

The Budget was eventually pas- 1 drowned out this speake~'s orat- for it to be the most critical of the . sed because there was no direct ory only served to confirm the evening. However, it was ruled by negative, or opposition, to its m~jo~ity ?f assembled students' AGM chairman Jimmy Quinn that pressure of time necessitated complexity. However, concerned I faith m this pro~osal. . students did point out that there t,Io~ever, with a two-thirds a vote: 231 voted for, 39 against, was no clarity in any part of the maJ?nty needed to carry the and 29 abstentions. The motion, Budget concerning the proposed ~otwn, and a vote of 300 to make the seventh of the night, was pas­ financial cost of free bus. travel for It quorate, only 262 voted for, 16 sed ·inquorately. women students next term. • against and 35 abstained. As a result the motion was passed inquorate, to be brought before STUDENT LOANS CONSTITUTIONAL forthcoming General Meetings by This motion, numbered 3 in the. AMENDMENT the SRC until it succeeds as pol- evening's agenda, was subject to Green one, was intended to com­ The second motion to the AGM icy· an amendment by members of the The motion, numbered 12 on was on the rather technical sub- • Socialist Workers, requesting a mit EUSA to support any cam­ the agenda paper, was passed paign aimed at the abolition of ject f constitutional amendments. more hardline policy on demonst­ inquorately. warrant sales and to organise a Indeed, the wording was so ver- VEGETARIANNEGAN rations and occupations of Uni­ bose that an SRC member was MOTION versity buildings. However, those campaign of poll tax non-payment within the University. It was car­ LESBIAN/GAY MOTION called to th~ stage to explain The fourth to be debated, it who argued it would lose friends Earlier on Jirnmy Quinn had ried inquorately; again another exactly ~hat It meant. . received no direct negative, but at the University won the day and ran through the remammg . resohition not binding on EUSA. The firSt amendm~nt was pas- was passed - amazingly - in a the amendment was passed, motions to see what level of sed unopposed makmg the SRC quorate fashion. unquorately. support was given them. In the more accessible to postgraquates. The motion as a whole, now case of every one, a direct The second one . was passed amended, resolved "to take all TIME TO GO negative was issued--this motion inquorately, saving EUSA the GEORGESQUARE actio'n deemed necessary to sup­ was no different. embarrassment of losing summer THEATRE port action against loans" and Time to Go says it is a corn- However, when the motion licences for union bars. Motion 5 in the order paper, also, was passed inquorately: 215 prehensive grouping of "labour came up-it was the last debated but passed unopposed with no . votes for, 15 against. and student movements, women's _ nobody now spoke against it. black and Irish groups who prom- · . What this meant was that it could debate, thus committing EUSA to ote discussion" in favour of the HONORARY PRESIDENT d(') "everything in its power" to have been passed when the The proposal - by the Stu­ withdrawal of British troops from meeting had been quorate earlier, . prevent the Theatre's develop­ ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS Northern Ireland. dents' Representative Council - ment. MOTION Dave Donohoe, who proposed making it binding EUSA policy to that Nelson Mandela be proposed This was the ninth motion of the motion for EUSA to affiliate support campaigns, and the as EUSA Honorary President, the night to be discussed, but for equality of lesbians and gays. was the third motion, but the first to the Time to Go campaign, As a result great furore broke ABORTION no apparent reason it was WITH­ meaty one of the night. DRAWN. spoke in strong terms of the posi- out from those in favour of the Speaking on behalf of the SRC, Historically at General Meet­ tion of troop-s in Northern Ire- motion who were still in the land. He said that the "artificially one student said that the changes ings, the issue of abortion has pro­ audience. It was passed currently being made in South duced heated debate - this was GREEN MOTION created republican minority" did inquorately. have the right to hit back violently Africa have come about as a result no different, but free speech was One of the last motions following the collapse of the '60s · of the dual pressure of the internal curtailed by EUSA President debated, numbered 10' on the EUSA President Jimmy Quinn civil rights movements. and international struggle: "Nel­ Jimmy Quinn for reasons of time. agenda, this one was carried called for a halt to the proceedings son Mandela has been a source of The first speaker was Kirsty inquorately and did not demand In . opposition, speakers after the anxiety of the debate of inspiration to students at ~din­ Reid, who proposed the motion, that EUSA officially produce an emphasised that the troops were the Lesbian and Gay motion, exp­ burgh University," he declared. and she attacked the government information document high­ there first and foremost to protect laining that George Square Against the motion, Martin D. for its intention to both amend its lighting 'alternative' careers. the people in Northern Ireland, Theatre had to be closed at 11 pm C. Bums, of EU Conservatives, Bill owembryo research and cut and civil war would ensue with - for that was when the servitor claimed that Mandela was an the time limit on abortion from 28 WARRANT SALES their departure. finished work. The second part of unworthy candidate as he had to 24 weeks. Ms Reid described This motion, debated after the the AGM reconvenes next Mon­ r------~----, , day, at 7 pm, in George Square. Theatre. · NI GEL GRIFFITHS, MP- Brief Guide to EUSA-SPEAK: Quorate- enough people to make a binding decision AGM Report compiled by Inquorate- another boring EUSA cock-up Ewen Ferguson, Craig Williams, AGM- Annual Garrulous Melee Mark Campa1,1ile, Je~nie Morrison

THE AGM was able to boast She claimed over the last f~w years, arguing two guest-speakers, namely McKinnon also outlined the that they, as workers in emergency NUS's strategy of putting pressure services, should be subject to Donna McKinnon, the Presi- · d on banks participating in the loans m ex-linked pay settlements such dent of the Scottish NUS, and scheme, calling on students, as those awarded to ftremen and ambulance worker Alan parents, local authorities, and the police. GREYFRIARs Stewart who is involved in the unions to close accounts with the Stewart claimed that the gov- HELP AND ADVICE present pay-dispute. banks involved. ernment had reneged on a promise Every Friday & Every Monday BOBBY · McKinnon attacked the govern- "We're not going to let the gov- 1 made in 1986 to ambulance men from 9am-10am at 93 Causewayside OOITE SIMPLY ment's student loans proposals ernment ignore the voice of stu- tliat their pay would be kept on a And Third Saturday or Every Month GOOD HOME COOKING and urged ·students to involve · dents; we've beaten them before par with that of frremen. 9 am Burdiehoose/Southhouse themselves in the campaign aainst and can do it again. It will be a long In conclusion, he stressed that Community Centre, Burdiehouse Street 12 rioon- 9 p.m. the implementation of loans. and hard campaign but we'll be the government must be forced to 10.15 am Liherton High School, OPEN SUNDAY She accused· the government of successful." settle the dispute or go to arbitra- Gilmerton Road . LUNq-rTIME & EVENIHG pursuing the scheme for ideologi- The secomt guest speaker tion. "Everybody deserves a fair 11.30 am James Gillespie's High School, cal reasons, as she felt top-up loans ambulance worker Alan Stewart: hearing but we are beting denied Lauderdale Street • . would not encourage free access to addressed the meeting in relation one. We ask you for your sup­ Or contact the Labour Party HQ higher education or save the coun- · to the Ambulance Dispute Motion. port." 93 Causewayside (Tel: 662 4520). try money. "It will be 2026 before He outlined the h~story of pay • The Ambulance Dispute Labour- Serving Our Community the scheme starts to make money." awards to ambu'lance workers Motion will be discussed at next week's continuation of the AGM. student news · thu~sday, november 30, 1989 3 Alcohol posts Debates; for Edinburgh . debacle posts are Set up on 20th sector, the government, who by Mark Campanile November. not accept that Socialism was should be providing money for by Sarah Quinn Professor Robert Kendell, research into alcohol abuse." dying. He said that it was really Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, The Portman Group has denied "Capitalism that was on its ·THE Portman Group, set up welcomed the Portman Group's ·that the reserarch carried out wilj ONCE again a debate at knees". in October by eight leading support and stressed ihat "this be compromised by their involve­ Edinburgh University was The second SNP activist, Mr bre1¥ing companies,includ- funding comes with no strings ment. marred when the two guest Bill Morrison, . described the ing Scottish & Newcastle and attached; and it is on · this basis Labour Party as "a pressure speakers, Mr Jim Sillars MP valve" and a "tantrum move­ Allied Lyons, to "combat that the University is very pleased "The Edinburgh posts will be and Mr Donald Dewar MP, alcohol misuse and promote to accept the research support". working completely indepen- ment". Labour, he explained, was were unable to attend~ powerless now-and promised to sensible drinkin~", has But health groups claim that dently of ·the group and they can the Portman Group's funding is publish their results freely. We continue to fail for Scotland in the donated£500,000t two only a public relations exercise will be among the first people to This follows a similar' incident future. f~nd involving Malcolm Rifkind and research posts at Edmburgh . designed to boost the image of the have access to the results but we John Smith earlier this term. forfive years. brewing trade and of drinking in .can't hold them: the facts are the He pinpointed Labour's failing The two posts will be filled by general. (facts.'; . Despite the disappointment, with the electorate as being their replacements were found and the Dr Martin Plant anp Mr John Alcohol Concern told Student They told Student that there · unattrractiveness to the Southern motion, "This house believes that Duffy, and the University has that they were worried about the was no conflict of interests ·English voters. Consequently, Labour offers no real alterna­ they were no alternatives for both stated that the money will enable · steps being taken to ensure that involved if brewing companies tive", was discussed. the Alcohol Research Group to the research position remains finance research into alcdhol mis­ the English and Scottish voters. expand their long-term prog- independent. use: "It is within the interests of The debate was opened by Mr The final pro-Labour: speaker, ramme of research into the use.· "We don't like private funding . the drinks industry to ensure that Kenny MacCaskill, a convener of and misuse of alcohol when the: ·· of research like this. It's the public · ... alcohol abuse is minimised." Mr Eric Miller, addressed the .·- . ... . - .. SNP policy, who immediately suggestion that the Labour Party attacked the leadership of the ·was no different from the Tories. Labour Party. He proposed that He dismissed this point by detail­ . the policies of the Labour Party ~g the decadent opposition of the were essetrtially a "watering down Labour Party to the Health Ser­ of Thatcherism". vice proposals and to ~he Poll Tax. ~:.on "~ the march in Glasgow ' The argument against Labour · included references to the reac­ Mr Miller added that the strong tion, or in Mr MacCaskill's view Scots base for Labour was extend­ lack of reaction, to the Poll Tax ing down south. therefore, the and also to the problems within Labour Party was perceived by Nicaragua. The Labour Party was the population at large as offering described as having "no . a real alternative. radicalism" and "no .fire" . Both the SNP and Labour Party Mr Doug Harrison, of the Scot­ were described by speakers from tish TUC, replied to the first the floor to be inadequate. It was speaker by proposing that the claimed Labour had produced a motion concerned not the Labour one-party state within Scotland Party but the Labour movement. and SNP a picture of a "tartan · He did not deny that the recent Utopia". . policy reviews of the Labour Party While the vote was close , the had caused grievances but would nays had it.

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ND SO, the dominoes continue to fall. In the Eastern straightforward contrast betwee~ the student protest in effecti~e channel for the expression of dissenting views. A Europe of 1989, the frozen structures ofinternational Czechoslovakia and here in Britain, it is nevertheless Meanwhile, back in Britain ... we are having our own relations - the Cold War - are at last beginning to possible for us to draw some inspiration from the example . "media revolution". Tuesday saw the publication of a thaw. Of the Soviet Union's post-war satellite states only set over the last two weeks. Our fights may be against code of practice which virtually all the editors of 'the Roumania remains as the last bastion of neo-Stalinism. lesser evils, such as loans or the poll tax, but with the London-based national newspapers have pledged to No one can deny the stirring effects of the scenes of mass great resources and freedom we enjoy we should be able abide by. In an attempt to head off tighter legislative "people" protest currently being witnessed in to raise a more formidable and credible opposition to the control by the Government the press has established their Czechoslovakia, and no one can fail to be impressed by Government's plans. own, internal system of self-regulation and ombudsman. the immediate responses they have generated among the Hopefully the recent demonstrations in Glasgow and These moves, it is claimed, will result in greater respect personnel who once embodied the Czechoslovak state. Edinburgh will be but the first stages in a campaign for privacy, prompt corrections, opportunities for reply, One of the central groupings within the reform which will be as successful in reaching their aims as that better conduct by journalists and less irrelevant movement is the tightly organised and cohesive student of Czechoslovak counterparts. references to race, colour and religion. body, which from the outset has been at the vanguard, While hoping such principles will be upheld one must agitating for change and galvanising the rest of the N IMPORT ANT factor .in the reform process within be foregiven for cynicism. Will the "gutter-press" populace. The violent breaking up of a student meeting A Eastern Europe has been the greater openness and approach of Kelvin Mackenzie's Sun or Ernest just under two weeks ago by the police proved to be a more critical stance taken by the press, which had Burrington's The People really change after a long and crucial catalyst in drawing ever more people onto the previously been the mouthpiece of the party and healthy life? We, the purveyors of beautifully sculpted streets, and into Wenceslas Square. administration. This "media revolution" may have come newspapers and high quality student journalism, think While it would be facile to try and draw a late in the day, but has succeeded in providing an not. report of the UN investigation has Dear Student, speakers absent from rally") has "widespread student tears of a Thus, he will be less inclined to not bet'OJl published. It is a very full There are two articles in Student got things into something of a sell-off or a development of the indulge in sexual activities with a report and I will be delighted to· (9th Nov). I should like to com­ muddle. Pollock complex into a confer­ partner, thus reducing the spread ment on. send him a copy for 25p plus post­ ence centre". The University I am not a representative of age. The report finds no evidence of AIDS. Further, he will have no ~rokesman who rejected these need to purchase contraceptives, Julie Dalzell ("Apartheid NUS. Neither should comments to substantiate any of the allega­ flll!I~U~S WaS abs9JuteJy correct. and more cash available to buy .,------..;:,.---, .made by the NUS representative tions. The Pollock Halls are here fO at the meeting she reports, be Neither is it true that SWAPO lentils and shares in the water serve the students of Edinburgh authorities. attributed to me. is "committed to a one-party state· University and there are no Extend the Essay Solution to STAFF LIST in Namibia". I challenge Mr Bar­ grounds whatever for the belief the third world and the rapid QNfB@IMI Certainly, I made a collective ron to produce one shread of evi­ that they will be privatised or con­ increase in population there will apology for the nuiJ.expected (and dence to support his statement. verted into a conference centre. It MANAGER: MichaeiCampbell slow down markedly, leaving ~nhtirely understandable.) If his evidence is writing by the is extremely unfortunate that ADVERTISING: JaneSowerby more rice and bamboo for absence of speakers from ANC likes of John Carlin or Fred Bridg­ irresponsible people should circu­ Simon Horrocks everyone else. and SWAPO. I did not lay the land, I won't be surprised. Nor late rumours of this kind. And, the natives Fiona Calder will be so "whacked" all of the GiiiHalliday blame for the former on the impressed. Yours faithfully; ANC's London office. Neither time that they will have no energy StephenBax I am cynical enough to suspect, TFCole STUDENT NEWS did I make any comment at all to chop down any more rain­ 'however, that now the Namibian Senior Warden SERVICE: MichaeiBarron about the "lack of external cam­ elections are over, SW APO's forests. Sopby \liggins paign in the colleges of Britain." , opponents will not pursue investi­ As for girls, from my attempts PROMOTIONS: GaleT~lor Dear Student, to "liase" with them I deduce that Hilary Lytton gation of the allegations they have Michael Barron ("SWAPO In light of the current attention females have no interest what­ IslaDavie · bloodied") also needs to check his made against the movement. being focussed upon student pov­ DISTRIBUTION: RobertLambden Yours sincerely, soever in sex in any form. Any­ TimChen facts. · erty, AIDS, environmental way, they can't do much harm John MacKinnon degradation and third world · The status of the "very different chained to the kitchen sink, which !IIJiilltfijl economic deprivation, the solu­ is where God intended them to picture of SWAPO" he describes Dear Student, tion appears to be simple: long EDITOR: be. Craig McLean needs clarification. The status is Your report in last week's issue essays. And masturbation. It's DEPUTY EDITOR: Graeme Wilson of allegations, as yet unproved: So come on tutors, more essays NEWS: Ewan Ferguson of Student headed "Pollock Faces obvious: give a student an essay, for students and our. third world Mark Campanile As Michael writes, the United Cuts", though generally fair, con­ and statistics show that in the bretheren. And more power to Zoe Pagnamenta Nations has conducted an investi­ tains one point which I must­ eight hours the average essay the wrist. FOCUS: James Betbell gation into these allegations. It is respond to. · takes to write, the student will Yours faithfully, INTERNATIONAL: LaraBurns not' true that, as he claims, the The report states that there are enjoy three bouts of self-abuse. lan Younger Martin C.D. Worms El in Piorkowski Dirk Singer SPORT: MikeSewell Hamish Smith COMMENT James B'stard on yet MUSIC: lames Haliburton DessieFahy another failed AGM ARTS: Alison Brown My God, wasn't the EUSA SungKhang s1ty and increasing demands from Two ·aspects of · the Meeting It is dangerous for this to con­ on night a depres­ FEATURES: AvriiMair ~GM ~onday the students) the President debate depressed me even tinue. By their steadfast allegi­ FILM : smg expenence! It is well known TobyScott allowed the Meeting to dwell on further. The first was to witness ence to the grant, and their refusal Andrew Mitchell t~~t th.ese. events are profundly issues of peripheral importance the growing habit of Presidents to WHAT'S ON: MoyaWilkie dis1lluswnmg experiences, but,. to discuss any other alternati..:e (the Honorary Pre~idency , Ti~e , invite guest speakers to address means of student funding, the stu­ Susan Gillanders for a number of reasons, -this to Go, the expulsiOn of Martm , the Meeting. _ Richard Arnold year's . effort seemed worst than dents of Britain ha"e allowed FASHION : AvriiMair Burns, etc). . . . This is a grossly undemocrat}c themselves to be· labelled as SCIENCE: usual. · Maxton Walker Even though It IS umversally practice since there can be no ~nrealistic and elitist. Stephen Foulger The first action of the Meeting under.stood that most students get debate on whether the speaker is PHOTOGRAPHY: Tiddy Maitland­ They have become totally ~as ro pass, without any discus­ very httle out of their Association to be heard or not. The invitation Titterton siOn, the EUSA budget. How is it except a cheap piz~a and pint of given to the President of the Scot­ .excluded from the debate on going to be possible for anyone to !'feavy now and agam, the sabbat- tish NUS in a meeting that was further education and will never criticise the actions of the sabati­ •c.~ls allow.ed th~ AGM to be going to debate a motion on NUS. be consulted by this government, EDITORIAL: "''''""AUWelcome cals this year if nobody doubts or h•J.acked by camp1agners and lob- affiliation shows how this practice or by any other government, so Friday, 1 pm, scrutinises their plans for spend­ by1sts from political organizations can be abused. long as they continue this Lud­ dism. · Student Offices ing money .at this early stage? whose nee?s and demands should The speeches tend to be hector­ NEWS : Thursday, I pm, ...... be to. those ?f the ing and dull (cf: Dave Donohoe's Student I doubt if many EUSA hacks su?o~di~ate The sad fact is that it will be the­ Associat•?n s at this most 1mpor- looney friend) and should not be INTERNATIONAL: Wednesdaf, I.IS pm fully understand the Association's st~dents of tomorrow who pay the tant meetmg. . allowed to happen. Student complex budget system, despite pnce for this mistake while our SPORT: Monday, 1.45 pm, the bundles of memos, balance The presentatiOn of the I was also depressed by the sabbaticals get jobs in the banks Student acco~nts 1988/9 and budget 1989/ monopoly of attitudes the trendy MUSIC: sheets, forecasts and summaries· that finance student loans. Wednesday, I. IS pm 90 g1ves. the a. chance lefty brigade instill on these meet­ • Student available, let alone any curious sa~bat!cals It is for this reason that I we!- explam and JUStify their man- ings by jeering and shouting at FEATURES: Wednesday, I pm, Joe Sixpack student. It is, there­ ~o . come the· efforts of Martin Burns Ifesto for the year to anyone who voices an alternative Student fore, crucial that sabbaticals make ah~~d , l~sten arid Will Forrest to make the FASHION: t? the debate on sensitive subJects opinion. Wednesday, I pm, a greater effort to explain their Meeting more relevent and the Student (u1.5te~d of yawning, playing witJ:l It is a shame that the struggle intentions to the student body at debat~ more reaonable. ARTS:. Wednesday, I pm, the micropho?e, t~aring up plastic for freedom by students in China Student the AGM before they rush back to Should either cups and playmg Silly buggers with . and the people of Eastern Europe of them ever con­ FILM: Wednesday, 1.30 pm 'their dark cubby-holes at Potter­ sider running for a sabbatical post and encourage par- does not get included on the Left's Student row to write up their CVs and job t?~ te!ler~), I would not hesitate voting for SCIENCE: ticipation m EUSA activities (and agenda of important political Friday, 1.30pm application forms. them because they understand Student that I extremely events that warrant our support Instead of a debate on the finan­ ?Y me~n. ~hose that the purpose of the Associa­ ~mportant act~vitJes that do not when we have to hear emotional cial ~trat~gy of the Association (a tion is to serve not to Published by EUSPB, printed by mvolve spen~mg a dreary after- anti-government cliches being stude~ts, Johnstone's of Falkirk. crucial 1ssue at this time of serve the political fantasies of a noon mar~hmg and chanting trotted out during debates on decreasing grants from the univer- few extremists, or the careers of a round tlte City.) Time To Go and Student Loans. few hacks. " student international thursday, n<;>Vember 30, 1989 5 GREEN · FOCUS · Troubled waters Every day huge volumes ofplastics and poisons · · wash up on beaches around the world. Elin Pior­ kowski-travelled around the Caribbean on a sailing ship, researching the problem. IN RECENT years the standing and holding a flashing environment has become a 'caution' sign. The warnings are popular cocktail party topic indisputably there; we can choose . and a 'good' issue for political to ignore them or to finally start showing some respect for our candidates to support. Cer­ environment. tainly it will be one factor . My study, for instance, high­ uniting the leaders of the hghted the way in which tiny world in the future, as people objects can be dangerous pollut­ ·begin to realise that pollution ants. Raw plastic 'nibs' were has no political boundaries. found in the net. which was put Actions taken by one country down to catch tiny marine matter. Because the 'nibs' are very small­ to clean up its act won't possi­ often Yz inch long or less, they are bly be successful unless its not aesthetically displeasing. neighbours co-operate for However, for many marine ani­ the ultimate common good - mals they are deadly. They are the preservation of our often mistaken for food, and if the planet. animal doesn't choke to death while swallowing these ''nibs' , I was personally interested in they could die from the poisons helping collect evidence that that are found in plastics. could be presented to govern­ Although it is difficult to obtain ments to demonstrate how the conclusive evidence, these plastic delicate balance of the environ­ 'nibs' are probably dumped from ment is being grossly upset. In container ships which are trans­ February, I was offered a chance porting raw plastic, or from spil­ to conduct research on a sailing lages from the shore. Oceanic cur­ Up the mast: observing the damage to the ocean. ship in the Caribbean Sea. rents can· be very complicated, and therefore it is almost impossi­ ble to trace the source of these · Another area of research was (in such high quantity that they these laws have had any effect on "We sorted through contain­ spillages. the study of plastic which had deserve mentioning, even if they the state of the oceans. ers, piles ofconstruction hats, In addition to these small bits of washed up on the beaches of are glass), broken toys and just · Plastic pollution is a majQr packing tape, tampons, plastic, we often collected ship­ islands along our cruise track. The about anything imaginable. The problem in the world's oceans, ping tape or fishing line, in the results were appalling. We were plastic 'nibs' were again always sometimes said to be the last wil­ hypodermic needles, light present in the sand. It was with derness. However, there is no bulbs, broken toys . .. " nets. Besides the danger of sea fortunate enough to anchor off animals again mistaking these three uninhabited islands. Ini­ both incredulity and shock that we immediate hope for any changes. substances for food, there have tially it sounded like paradise, but realized that man had managed to The best we can realistically do is ( chose to concentrate my been numerous reports of animals was actually quite the opposite. destroy even thpse areas he wasn't to keep the oceans in their present research on plastic pollution in the getting entangled or strangling The beaches of all of these islands actually living on. condition and not allow it to wor­ water. Others were also conduct­ themselves with these man-made were buried under a blanket of In recent years legislation has sen. Even someone with a limited ing research which concentrated intrusions. Another frequent . plastics of all descriptions. been passed which limits dumping knowledge of biology and the on oceanic tar and changes in the sight was that of containers and We sorted throughtmiscellane­ in the oceans. Unfortunately, principle of the food chain should pH levels of the water. All of various other objects floating by ous containers, piles of construc­ without an international oceanic realise what mammoth implica­ these studies produced results our ship - too often to accurately · tion hats, packing tape, tampons, police force, this is difficult to _tions a depleted, polluted ocean which were as clear as someone record. hypodermic needles, light bulbs enforce. It is impossible to see if could have for our earth.

puter emblazoned across a space INTERNATIONAL rocket . is just not the same, although it represents what our era is about just as well as a ham­ Christian bigots ·"· NEWS mer and sickle did a hundred years ago. Clearly there is a more serious. • PAPUA NEW GUfNEA and have not condemned the The SRC leaders have not con­ question than just appearance at events which followed. demned these acts of violence stake. The Communist Party, by Michael Barron either. They claimed there were • ITALY whatever its name is to be, must A minority of students decided many students willing to come for­ demonstrate a deeper, more sub­ to take the law into their own ward to testify that they had been by Paola Buonadonna stantial change, at a time when the SEVENTY-FIVE percent hands last week and attacked the seduced into homosexual acts . ' · crisis facing virtually all socialist homes and cars of some of those with members of staff. However, WHILE Europe is still ·of the academic staff are countries is challenging the com­ homosexual. That was the accused of being homosexual. when the commission of inquiry resounding from the noise of munist i~eology itself. One head of department had his was set up, it had to be adjourned the crumbling Berlin Wall, in claim made by the SRC of the car stoned and was advised to Commentators from other Ita­ ~ almost immediately because of a Italy a smaller but no less University of Technol­ leave the city for a week until the lack of witnesses. lian parties and political scientists ogy(Unitech) in Lae, Papua ~ffective earthquake is shak­ situation had cooled down. When are very optimistic about this New Guinea. Many of the · the administration dragged its feet ~ng the Communist Party at promised 'new deal'. For them, · This high moral outrage of the students are Christian fun­ over a commission of inquiry, students, which does not extend Its foundations. the change of name represents the some students threatened to evict willingness of the Communist damentalists and believe to condemning violence, is fos­ The Communist leader, Mr those they accused of being Party to look to the future and the homosexuality is a major sin. tered by a belief that homosexual­ Orchetto, announced on the 14th homosexual. They went on the ity is a "disease" brought to PNG November that the Party is going· possibility of a complete reassess­ They have therefore begun a rampage, kidnapped some of the ment of the Italian political scene. crusade to "clean-up" the by white settlers. The main vic­ to change its name and symbol. security guards, took over a sec­ tims of this witch-hunt have there­ The Italians, always concerned So much for those who agree. campus. Student leaders cal­ urity post, blocked the road and fore been expatriate academics. about appearance, seem to be But what are the reasons of those led for a commission of looted the staff amenities centre. Some of these academics live by divided into two groups, one sup­ who reject the change? Some of inquiry into the allegations themselves. In a country where porting the change, the other the people interviewed on this and a boycott of exams until It is believed by some many people live in extended loathing it. matter said that they were simply their demand was fulfilled academics that the ideals of the families, the students cannot The word 'communist' will sceptical about the practical Christian fundamentalists are · understand why people live alone. probably disappear from the title results: The Party is likely to carry and those members of staff found to be homosexual were supported by the administration, They believe that living alone is of the Party, but the options out its old poli~ies under a new . who want to see a morally cleaner synonomous with homosexuality. suggested for a new name are end­ name. Other said the idea itself expelled from the campus. campus. The vice-chancellor Anthropological studies have less: Progressive, Democratic, hurt their feelings. They were the This initial figure of 75% was · : recently expressed outrage at shown that homosexuality did ~nd Working People's Party are older communist generation, men later retracted by the SRC and seeing nappies hanging out to dry exist in the country before PNG JUst a small sample. The symbol and women who fought in the instead 11 academics were specifi- ·when he toured the women's halls was discovered by Europeans. In Resistance and saw their relatives seems to create more problems. cally accused, that number of iesid~nce. The registrar maqy tribes, the adult men live The hammer and sickle on a red and friends dying for their left­ included 6 heads of department, threatened that single mothers together in one house and initia­ . ~ackground is a striking, evoca­ wing beliefs. "We do not want to half the total number at Unitech. would not be given university tion ceremonies into these houses tive image with which many change either the name or the The administration at the univer- accommodation, effectively put­ sometimes include homosexual symbol," they said, "because we people identify themselves. It will sity did not deny the acc~sation.s ting them out on the street. acts. be difficult to substitute it with are not ashamed of the ideals they one eq~a.lly as effe~tive. A corn- represent." student 6 thursday, november 30, 1989 international GER~IANY Singing for change

real reforms is developing. Many Those who_still believe in cold­ people believe in more legal free­ wiu arguments of strengthening ..1 dom and political and economic the communist parties by giving flexibility, without a total loss of aid to the Easf underestimate the the social achievements, power of the people and their real will for change. We had already half forgotten it · at the moment. Perhaps because it Western governments are ones "Sometimes one gets the impre­ That our little earth is turning. :. was the first of th~ two 'people's ~hich betray little of the true real- , ssion that many of the so-called As for the role of the Western We had half eaten the lie that in the initiatives'(the other is called Ity and fears of the East German ; politicians in the West cannot European c~untries in-the 'Ger- · East the sun will never rise again, . Democracy Now). They insisted people themselves. ~ . really comprehend the impor- man question' (which is no longer we had half accepted it. . on working outside Parliament, "People who are allowed to tance of events going on nowa­ a German issue alone) their credi­ And we had forgotten what future ; and until now only remained as a travel to democratic and wealthy days in Eastern Europe." The bility, especially that of Great Bri­ meant : "platform with a political arm", countries want to experience both . euphoria and celebration of a 'un­ tain, is questionable. Thatcher's and we've been labouring with our · like the Polish Solidarity. The two these concepts at home." After all ited spirit' and the stress on the sole donation to 'more democracy "bosses" founded parties,Democra- i n~wly these years of disillusionment, economic inferiority of the East in Eastern Europe', .through the . like an old obstinate couple. · tic Up rise and the Social Democ- frustrated experiences and . continues. But it is the West that Polish know-how fund is no more Now we breath again, we cry and ratic Party also support the main · wounded human dignity is there should invest as 'quickly as possi­ than 25 million pounds over five . laugh idea of a· people's democracy. still the united enthusi~sm and' ble in efficient projects rather years. This is the same amount of thelazysadnessoutofourbreasts None of these groups are firmly money as the German city Ham­ Hey- we are stronger than rats and established, they are still learning support of the East German than wait for the collapse of people for another attempt at ' democracy and a market orien­ burg alone spends on its waste dis­ dragons. how to cope with the situation. posal. ang had forgotten about it but For them the trendy joke ''last social democracy? Will the major- tated economy. always known·it. --- · one out put out the lights" strikes ity resist the manifold temptations ON TUESDAy 14 . a bitter chord with . their prog- of rampant consumerism? One should not forget.that the call for a November 1989 Wolf Bier- "After all these years ofdisil­ . new beginning did not come from . mann,_ one of the several lusionmen"frustratedexperi­ the government, but was a result . ex~atnate ,Ea~t German · ences and wounded human . of the constant, non-violent pre­ , ar~1s~s of the . 70 s, asked pe:- dignity is there still support sen.ce of a broad grassroots move­ ment. ffilSston to ~1ve a conce~t m fior another attempt at social East Bedm's Samanter- uemocrac/._, ·v?" Further questions come to . church. He was not even =:.:..:.::..:..:...::.:::::...:....------mind. Can this government, allowed to re-enter the coun- . ramme of new political, social and changed hastily and more or less try. But his new song speaks ! economic st~uctures, n~ces~itated only symbolically, really direct of both the hope and .rancour ~ by_ the contmued ermgratt~n of . · the 'quiet revolution' of the with which East Germans skilled labour and academics to . people towards fundamental ; view their country. Its lyrics . the ~est. For them the fract~red · political and economic change? . . : wall Is not yet "a symbol of umver- · And will the majority of the were dtstnbuted among ~h.e . sal friendship", since they are people trust half-hearted and 800,0~ people w_h? p~rtlcl- -aware of the great danger of sac- vague promises again? pated m East Berlm s btggest rificing the new freedom from . demonstration by New par}.y dictatorship, only to gain Open borders do not mean an Forum members. · the mechanisms of a 'free' easy, short-term solution to the ~ · k internal political problems nor do New Forum- is · p. robably the . economic mar et. Cartoon: Der Spiegel. they imply the imitation of a most attractive of the opposition Some common~held views, Western rriodel of democracy. ·· }roups existing in East Germany expressed in the media and by Rather, increased pressure for • AUSTRALIA rectification ... of past injustices othermemberstothecommission • GERMANY Marian, acomputersciencestu- and ensure for all time that the · who must be either Aborigines or dent, summed up the mood of the by Michael Barron Aboriginal and Torres Strait : Islanders. - ~y Martin MeUor. demo: "It's the first time we've TWO HUNDRED years Islander peoples receive-that full · The purpose of the commission had an opportunity to argue, dis- after the first white settlers . recognition and status within the · is to advise the government. It will STUDENTS took to the streets cuss, and articulate ourselves in arrived in Austral ta,. t h e Australian nation to which his- also be able to provide loans and on the 17th November for the public. It's a strange feeling, an tory, their prior ownership and grants to help Aborigines or Islan- largest student demonstration in exciting new change which brings Australian Parliament has E · G · occupation of land and their rich · ders set up businesses or housing _ast ermany which .was recog- a lot of hope for the fu t~re . " recognised that the and diverse culture fully entitle projects. The commission will mse~ , but not orgamsed by an r----:______,'---- .., Aborigines were displaced · them to aspire". The purpose of also guarantee loans made by offictal body. . DO you SPEAK SERBO- from their own land and that the act is to set up a commission to other financial institutions. The demonstration was calling CROAT, POLISH OR HUNGA- they are among the most dis- advise on Aboriginal and Islan- The Aborigines a;e the most Ifor. reforms i~ higher education RIAN? WE HAVE STUDENT advantaged in· Australian ders affairs. imprisoned peoples in the world . whtch would give I_TI~re autonomy PAPERS IN THESE COUN- society. This recognition The commission will be elected During the bicentennial cere- ' to st~dents. Perrmsswn h~d been TRIES, WE NEED TRANS- comes in the form of the • by ~o~ncils representing the , monies last year the fate of many obtamed befor~ the Berlm Wall LA TORS! CONTACT THE d Abongmes and Islanders, both in · of those.in prison was highlighted was opened etght days before. INTERNATIONAL PAGE IF ·· "Aboriginal an Torres the cities and in ~he most remote through the reports of Aborigines , The event enc_ouraged . unpre- YOU ARE INTERESTED IN Strait Islander Commission parts of Australia. The councils , who had died in prison. This act ced~nted creativeness m the TRANSLATING,_ WRITING, Act"· · will be elected by the Aboriginal · should go some way to correcting design of placards a~~ use of slo- MANAGING OR HELPING. The preamble to the act states: and Islander peoples themselves. the injustices that the Aborigines • gans. Some were cnttcal _of East MEETINGS AT 1.15 PM WED-

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LAWSOC's 5-1 thrashing of strollers YB last Wednesday ensured that interest in the . Premier Division will be high for the rest of this year. · Strollers had been threatening to run away with the league, but · this result has brought them back in to the realms of reality. · League organiser Kevin Currie will have been hoping that his team could hold out to take the title in yesterday's final match-a dubious distinction that last year's organiser, Mike Van Breugel for all his efforts, never quite man­ aged to achieve with KBTRR. did not stop the two men's senior Meanwhile Lawsoc, · with ROWING 'B' crews from returning respecta­ McLean inspired in midfield, THE Boat Club gave 'a sure ble times in their event, which is a a~d a pair of nippy strikers, are credit to their fitness and prepara­ lqoking increasingly threatening. indication of their class when tion for their first race of the sea­ · Elsewhere in the premier, results they were crowned'best club son . have been unpredictable, but in the country at the Glasgow In the afternoon the women Talent BA look doomed for rele­ Head of the River on Satur­ rowed admirably, the first four gation. setting a fine example by comfort-. · In the First Division, Okazaki day: ably cruising home to win their Many established clubs could are set for promotion while Mad class. The second four rowed hard Dogs blew their last hopes· of stay­ not match the points that the ten and came in third to add valuable Edinburgh crews, from novice to ing up when they lost to nearest points to the Edinburgh effort. rivals Gotham City. elite, had amassed in an excellent The ·men's novice crew con­ day's racing. tinued the success with a second Premier Division The morning's rowing saw the place, which was followed by the Aardvarks 5 CIA 1 FRIISUN FOOTBALL men's senior 'C' storm past 12 senior 'A' and elite crews taking a Fudge 4 Get Fresh Crew 3 crews, including the winners of Strollers YB 1 Lawsoc 5 IT WAS a tense and some­ ' However, W AFC st~pped up a 13th and a third in the overall divi­ gear in the second half, when the class above them, to snatch sion , defeating a national squad Sutcliffes Ladies 2 Talent BA 0 what hung over afternoon victory by almost a minute, leav­ entry on the way. · First Divi!iion Arthur managed to win a corner. Comsoc A 5 Red Star 0 but WAFC managed to keep ing them champions of the whole The announcement that Edin­ Floated in , the ball was met by division. Geolsoc Hammers 00kazak1 F 3 their unbeaten run intact fol­ Donald McGuire who headed the 1 burgh had clinched a resounding Gothan City 4 Mad Dogs 2 lowing a tough match against' Unfortunately, the women's victory in the day's racing and had ball into the top corner. novice crew failed to reach the been given the award for the Turner Boot Boys 1 Strathmore 1 Real KRS. He scored his second 10 · start in time for their morning's country's best club demonstrated Second Division As the pace quickened, WAFC minutes later. It took a defensive race, but their first four showed to all the crews present that this is Annie JonesTop 3 Dental Probes began to gain possession and error by W AFC to allow KRS to great promise, finishing third a club with vast potential, includ­ The Beanos 3 Ewing House·2 · mounted good atta.cks from mid­ score, but any comeback was crushed by the third and final goal . against many experienced crews. ing at least one crew that means FSA Gothamburg· 6 Muffin Men 1 · field with good through balls from byMcGuire. A gruelling 20-minute course · business. Fish Fingers 7 Kylie's Cleavage 3 Eisner . F.IU.C.K.U.F.C. 0 Agrics 0 Space Cadets pack won good pos­ us home. Storming play in the RUGBY session throughout and the three­ loose set up Andy Summerville's sniping, scrum-halfs try, well AFfER LAST year's highly quarters utilised it effectively. SUSF to BSSF? In the first half, Jim crashed converted by Tom Comins from successful tour of Newcastle the touchline. A Comins penalty ·LAST Friday evening saw over for an excellent supporting and Durham, the · Space try, and Tim Carter streaked over gave the ~airiburgh team a ~re­ the Sports Union seminar Cadets decided to spread in the corner. In the next half, the carious 9-4 leaq at half time held in the Laurie. Liddell their wings to the dreaming cadets relaxed. The game was sea­ Uesptte some fierce Cadets' tackl­ Clubhouse at Peffermill. spires of Oxford and Cam­ led by Mike Nash's side-stepping ing, sustained Grizzly Bears pres­ . The event, which was spon­ try after a hint of a forward pass. sure brought them a try. bridge. . The game ended on a decisive •sored by Proctor and Gamble, History was made in the college began with a short, ;nformal pre­ Space Cadets v. note, when Tristtam Mayhew bar,. where onlookers wyre intercepted superbly, drew the sentation by the company fol­ treated to an impromptu display Magdalene, Cambridge lowed by questions from the floor. full-back and fed Comins, who offeeling by Space Cadets in kilts, w 16-0 was pursued by a pack of Bears We then had the highlight of the under a flag reading "Remember Space Cadets v. evening as the liberal supply of but made it to the line and then Bannockburn". Pity about the Oxford Poly W 15-8 ·converted. free food and drink was eagerly English accents. Thanks are due to Magdalene, attacked by the troops before Any Cambridge complacency The touring team faced an Cambridge and the Grizzly Bears settling .down to the more mun­ soon disappeared on Saturday uphill task on Sunday, against a for their hospitality, to Tris dane task of sorting out the afternoon. The first scrum set the . much stronger Oxford Poly side, Mayhew and Ant Barlow for their world's sporting problems. pattern for the day, with Mag­ aptly named "The Grizzly Bears." . efficient · organsiation, and to The proposed move towards a dalerie being comprehensively In the end, superior teamwork Andy Churchill for his phlegmatic single student sports body, British shoved off their own ball. The and an overriding will to win saw refereeing. THIS WEEK'S RESULTS I Ladies Rugby Football 1st XV v. Dick Vets 1st XV (a) 14-0 W 1st XV v. St Andrews (a) 7-2 W 2nd XI v. St Andrews Il (a) 1-0 W~ Judo 3rd XI v. St Andrews Ill (a) 3-2 W , Meq v ..Dundee ·(h) 4-0 W 1st XI v. Spartans I (a) 0-3 L v. Heriot-Watt (h) 4-1 W 2nd KI v. Spartans II (h) 2-3 L Women v. DuHdee (h) 3-0 W 3rd XI v. Edina Thistle (a) 1-3 L Canoeing Men's Rugby Thistlebrig White Water Race Div C. Open 1st XV v. Melrose II (h) 10-20 L . Ben Geyer (6), A. Fyfe (8), R. Fernando (11) 2nd XV v. Stewarts-Melville III(h) 17-30 L Volleyb3li · Freshers v. Melrose Hi (h) 3-21 L Men v. TSV Stirling (h) 1-3 L Vandals v. Du.ndee Uni Ill (h)36-:0·W- Ladies v. Moray House Dumphers (a) 0-3 L Squash - · ·. · .. ·· · · Men's I v. Edinburgh Sports Club II (h) 15-8 W THoc~e~ T H' t S D , ( ) 5 L racte s earn v. IS ory oc. 2 -2 Me~ s II v. Da~gety Bay a 8-1 Edinburgh Agrics v. Mylne's CoUrt f-2 L Ladtes I v. Cohn Castle (a) 17-5 L Whit S · ·t E s 0 2 L v. Aberdeen Uni (a) 2-3 L ·. . e pm s v. ~o oc: - . . . v. Heriot-Watt Uni (a) 4-1 w Baud House v. Tnf?ds 2-0 W · v. St Andrews Uni (a) 5-0 w Legless 11 v. Brodnc~ Bashers 0-4 L student 8 thursday, november 30, 1989 sport encouraging signs for the continu­ RUGBY ing struggle to avoid rel~gation that continues after Chnstmas. DESPITE losing, the 1st XV Stand-off Andy Hay's tactical kicking was a step up from any produced a better p~rfor­ experienced all season, and the mance in this fixture agamst a pack spearheaded by Austin Net­ Melrose 2nd team ton, Mark Stewart and replace­ strengthened by the return of ment Craig Samson regularly took all else. The tradition of the Bar- epitomised the AlJ Black. ethos, . . . . whilst talking at the dinner on the Scottish international Keith the attack to Melrose. COMMENT banans IS. of quality wtth ·saturoay night; ''We want to win. Robertson from a knee Behind the scrum, tackling in· sportsmanship, ~nd the . ~lub . We enjoy it more when we win." I injury sustained on the con­ the centre was ferocious as the stands fo~ promotmg the spmt of am sure that this is true. Perhaps troversial tour of South· University snuffed out the threat rugby ~sIt should b~ ~layed. the Home Unions should be more posed by illustrious opposition. Davtd Sole, captammg the Baa- professional in this sense, rather Africa, and Ian Ramsay from The University's points came Baas, was also head coach.• a~d than honourable in defeat if they a virus picked up on Scot­ from two line tries scored by had only three hours ~ractJce m are to enjoy the game mo;e. land's trip to Japan. Adam Stratton and captain JJ which to forge the vanous parts I The debate over whether ~nto a single unit to defeat the best 'Wayne Shelford Limited' for m the world. example, should receive fees for Nick Rowsell on All The most significant event of speaking, whilst Wayne Shelford Black lessons which the game was Wayne Shelford's the man continues to play as an 'professional foul' in a first half amateur footballer, will continue; highlight British rugby dominated by the passion of the this accusation of professionalism amateurism. Barbarian's forwards. As the ball within an amateur game is how­ emerged from a third phase ruck, ever irrelevant to the game. Nick Farr-Jones released the ball In a Rugby world which now to his backs where a three or four has a World Cup, it is profes­ man overlap existed. Sbelford in a sionalism on the pitch which -THE ALL BLACKS have patently off-side position quite counts and the Home Unions can · left these Isles in just the de~iberately too~ the ball, only learn from the greatest expo­ manner that they intended; · qmte hap~y to giVe away ~he nents of this. Watching the All , unbeaten. In a tour of thir- ~enalty whtch would allow hts stde Blacks on their systematic • t t h · B 't · I time to regroup. . destruction of the club sides of , een ma c ~s m . ~~ am, P us · The injustice was complete as , Wales and Ireland, it may well t~e opener m Bnttsh Colom- Gavin Hastings hit his attempt · have reminded spectators of, say, bta, they have never even just wide of the posts. An act as . Arsenal despatching a non-league looked like losing their cynical as this in a game where the side from the FA Cup. extraordinary record of 46 exhibition of the finest points of After all, all that matters here is games without defeat. rugby is paramount, betrays the that the professional side should, However it is in this attitude of 'win at all costs' attitude ofthe All continue in the competition. never considering defeat corn- Blac~s. . . . From what we have learnt from ;' bined with total professionalism It 1~ most tromc ~hat It ~as the the All Blacks over the last two · that sets this side apart from those captam wh? committed this foul. . months, they will certainly still be ' they met in Wales, Ireland, or at If~ Barbanan had done the sam.e, winning. The excuses of profes­ Andy Hay sets his sights on Saturday. Photo: Hugh Pinney Twickenham Mtckey Steele-Bodger, the Chatr- sionalism off the field from the' Saturday's · game against the of the Barbarians, would. Rugby authorities of this country, After the collapse of team m~n ce~- morale in the wake of disappoint- Barbarians emphasised not the t~mly never had as~ed that t~dt- is simply due to their jealousy of EURFC 10 gap in skill between the two vtdual t? represent ?~s club agam: the All Blacks being able to pro­ ing defeats to St Andrews Univer- Melrose n 20 sity and St Boswells it was . . hemispheres but the fact that Is this where BntJsh Rugby ts duce a professional petformance encouraging to see greater spirit . Wtlson, one of whtch was New Zealand want to win ·above going wrong? Grant Fox on the field. · -back in the 'side. verted by Hay. The only worrying aspect of . On a lighter note, th~ club were University play which continues pleased to note that dtscos h~ve to give great concern is the ten- become so P.opular that they ve dency to give away damaging become the htp place for the aver­ penalties, thus losing valuable • age football ~tar ~o hang out. CHRISTMAS IS COMING ... position and providing ample We'll be sendmg ttckets to Mo opportunity for Ramsey to display Johnston and Trevor Steven for his goal kicking abilities. the New Year's bash. Book your travel arrangements There were, on the other hand, . Neil Thaden for Xmas and New Year Harkness happy NOW for Haries at the bones for a tumble. After this the HARE AND HOUNDS rest was simply a matter of getting back to the finish; unfortunately I N IT WAS a highly successful the men must repeat the lap. E B u R G H weekend for the University Tl1e positions hardly changed all round; not only did the after the first mile or two, wi th Hare and Hounds take both clear wins by Ian Harkness and ~- the first man and first woman Cathy Kitchen in the man's and women's races respectively. -~- positions but also the two Harkness had to contend with first team placings. Jones of Glasgow, some-time Of course, since it was our race international orienteer but that CENTRE this was no surprise;· namely the proved little difficulty for a man in .Braid Hill's Race, three or six : excellent race form. miles of h~rd running over a Other strong local perforances • British Rail tickets to all destinations notorious course: came from ex-Italian racing driver • Intercity coach tickets The conditions were near per­ and skier Jim Garland in 4th, fect, despite the frosty tempera­ Robin Goodfellow in 12th amt • Discounted ferry tickets tures. The race start was steady Colin MacNeil in 26th. and a pack of nearly 90 runners In the women's race Charlotte • Flights- European and Worldwide cautiously progressed round the McFadden returned to something · • Under 26 European rail tickets braids golf course, careful not to like her previous f!)rm after injury become too tired before the long ... BOOK NOW TO A VOID DISAPPOINTMENT... with a creditable 3rd position . drag to the summit was over. The · The team's racing will finish subsequent descent allowed scope with a trip to Leeds next week and tor the Kamtkaze experts to show· Call in now to the student travel experts: the SUSF representative matches prowess, with certain broken. the following weekend. Edinburgh Travel Centre 92 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. Tel. 667 9488 TIPSTERS CORNER 3 Brisro Square, Edinburgh. Tel. 668 2221 'Head to head confrontations for Student tipsters new and old, for the 196 Rose Street, Edinburgh. Tel. 226 2019 William Hill Handicap at Sandown on Saturday at 2 pm. 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Mudhoney. What's that then? Touch Me I'm Sick,. Superfuzz Biglfluff, their most (in)famous moments sum them up. Noisy, American, guitar louts with a knack for a good tune. Before taking to the Calton Studios stage . on Saturday, the jewels in Sub Pop's crown shared some Bombay mix with Stepben Barnaby' and ]ill Franklin.

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So how do Mudhoney want to sound now: following EA TILE'S Mudhoney are big news in then? Steve smiles. "No. I don't think I'd want to." . Rock stars don't impress Mudhoney much. Dan puts their first two albumsSuperfuzz Bigmuff and . Britain and it's rather strange. Indie kids . down his Bombay Mix for a second. "Usually you meet Mudhoney? What about the third album? "It'll be like · who a few years ago had b<;~.rricaded 'em an,dothen you're kinda bummed out that you did · Darklands was for the Jesus and Mary Chain," says themselves into their bedrooms with · meet 'em," he explains. Lemmy, it appears, is the only ~ Mark. "Magical Mystery Tour," thinks Dan. "Sergeant S Pepper," offers Matt. Anyway, wouldn't they rather be only their Smiths collection for sustenance are veteran rocker the band have -~ny time for. now busy flailing away on air guitars and ·playing live than thinking about what they're going to do ' Like many American bands, Mudhoney are true in the studio? "No," drawls Mark, "we think of wobbling their flowing locks to the crunching, devotees. of a lost generation of British second or third ourselves as a band that plays on record and a band that neanderthal riffs of Sup Pop's finest. Why might (or fourth) wave punk bands, and are having a ball in plays live." Matt isn't so sure of that. "I'd rather be in a· thi.s be? "The press," muses bespectacled lead Britain picking up obscure punk singles. Obviously they live band than a studio band." "Well, that's why we're guitarist Steve Turner. "I don't like the British wouldn't agree with those who say the punk ethic, the splitting up," grins Steve. "anyone can get up and play" approach is obsolete. press very much." Singer and guitarist Mark Mark becomes indignant. "No! That's not obsolete; Arm is equally unimpressed by their reception. that's tucking what we're all about!" "We always call They do find touring rather demanding though. and "They've got nothing to write, they're gonna run. ourselves a punk band," points out Steve. "I've got a following a previous nine-week trip to Britain they out of ideas, so they end up writing about us." safety pin in my butt cheek," lies Mark. made sure this tour would be considerably shorter. Punk in Britain though, like a lot of other music, was They've even got days off to go and look for punk singles while Matt adds to the ten Motorhead records he's Mudhoney are q~te definitely split into two parts. generally a lot more political than in America. Steve and Mark do most of the talking and most of the Mudhoney don't have much interest in writing about bought in Britain so far. Still, there are some aspects of musical analysis while the gruffly amiable rhythm politics. "There's not really a whole lot you're going to British culture the band haven't come to terms with. section and formidable comedy double act Matt Lukin be able to change when you're in a band," says Mark. "How come people in England [i.e. Britain] wear j'eans (bass) and Dan Peters (drums) mostly talk to each other "It's obviously full of shit, you can figure that out from that are three orfour sizes too wide?" queries Mark. "If you ride a bike they're gonna get caught in the chain and about Motorhead, Ted Nugent, AC/DC and TV. reading the paper." Together as a band though, Mudhoney are rather you're gonna fall off. You can't go skateboarding or special; a foursome who grew up with hardcore whose What about people like Public Enemy and NW A? ,il anything." There's another problem, too. "The chcolate heritage is The Stooges, Hendrix, MC5 etc. Or i~ it? • like those bands," enthuses Dan. "I like the music. milk over here sucks," complains Steve. "It's like molten . When they go 'Kill Whitey Kill Whitey' I don't listen." wax or something." You'll be glad to learn, though, that 'He just likes when they go shit and fuck ," says Steve. British beer is better; i.e. stronger, than American beer, . "Satan's Rats and the Runaways, they're the only · although Matt is condemned as a wimp for suggesting Influences we had, next to The Raped," states Steve Like true punks, Mudhoney don~t particuiarly want that American beer tastes nicer. helpfully. "And the Cuddly Toys," he adds for good ~o move on to a bigger label, unless they'd made sure measure. Be that as it may, a certain Stooges song has a . they had as much control over their music as they d'o on tendency to surface in Mudhoney's music, in When Sub Pop. Steve realises the main problem. "First thing All in all, as one would expect from the creators of -Tomorrow Hits and their version of Sonic Youth's they'd say is get a new singer," he observes. Mark has no Flat Out Fucked, Touch Me I'm Sick and Magnolia . llallowe' en at any rate .. Do they have some agreement time for bands who let producers and executive Caboose .Babyshit, Mudhoney are thoroughly pleasant, With Iggy concerning stealing bits of I Wanna Be Your producers tamper with their music. "Bands like that regular kinda guys. "We don't bite heads off babies like Dog? "Like every third song?" laughs Steve. "It's really must really have their heads up their ass if they don't real punk rockers," reveals Steve. Oh well there goes easy to _play and it's a great song." Have they met Iggy ' know how they want to sound." our headline. . . ' student 10 thursday, november 30, 1989 features

always ~arry the memory of the pregnancy alongsid a programme to detect the condition' .It is cheaper to kill. that of the rape, surely it is better to know your child . ince 1967 'termination' has _become one of than to care! I am not denying that some disabled people well and giving hapJ?iness to someone else .than to realis the commonest operations performed in suffer terribly, abortion doesn't just kill these but many • at a later stage t?at It was a baby you termmated and no SBritain. Elsewhere, the number of abor­ others too with mild or even non-existent deformities, a pregancy. tions exceeds that of live births. Why should this· screening doesn't detect the degree of jlandicap. The concern us? Why is abortion any different to idea underlying this argument is that some people are a s Pro-Lifers, we believe that there are bett another operation? Why make such a fuss? burden on society· and should be destroyed. If this alternatives to abortion. Giving a woman Look at any embryology book and the answer is clear. sound$ familiar, it should. The Nazis also destroyed the abortion doesn't improve her housing or fina handicapped who were unfit for the 'master' race. For A Human Life begins at conception when a completely cial situation, it doesn't remove her from the danger of many people, their major disability is the attitude of separate and unique individual is created. Life does not violent husband. We should aim to remove the reaso develop, it is simply there. There is no other time when others that they are inferior' the disabled have as great a right to life as anyone, we don't kill them after birth so ~or the need ~or an abortion.' not the child. Th!s is wh) scientists can unequivocably say 'life begins here'. As a m the Pro- Life group we raiSe money for chanties sue human being, genetically unique and alive (or how could why allow it before? 'But women need abortiqn or they will return to the as The Innocents who support pregnant women in nee an embryo die?) this individual should be accorded the This caring attitude towards women is scorned by t same rights as any other human and without life we can­ back streets.' The image of the back street abortionist is a·grossly exaggerated one. It is claimed that three mill­ Government and 'Caring' Professions because it not enjoy any other rights. ion women a year die in this way, how many are there in. easier and cheaper for them to side step such issues wi Many would argue that a woman has the right to con­ the offer of an abortion. In every abortion a hum trol her own body, I agree with this completely. What the w_orld?! Statistics direct from OPCS (a neutral body) show that 30 deaths a year occurred before 1967. The being dies. Most are performed before the sixteen she doesn't have the right to control is someone else's week after conception and yet by then the child is n body. If the embryo is a part of the mother, why is the rate was falling then and has continued to fall at the same pace. 'Oh yes , but even one's too many.' By legalising blob of cells but a fully formed person, all systems worl first reaction of her tissue during implantation to reject ing, with fingers and toes. Studies have shown that th it? The embryo has to overcome-this immune response abortion we have caused the deaths of three million babies to save thirty women a year. Of course back street heart has been beating since day twenty-one, brai and as many as 50% faiL Unless diseased, a body does waves·can be detected at around fifty days and sleep oa 1 abortion is bad but does legalising make it right? Would not reject its own tissue. If women have the right to kill terns are seen. The. child in utero responds to sounl the

women. Abortion encroaches on the whole arena of civil more than they want to see, ·and thus miss the bortion is still a dirty word. Qespite central issue of the arguement; there is a need for the fact that last year over 150,000 liberties. Led by American courts there is an increasing demand for 'foetal rights'; so much so that one woman tion and women ,will always have them. were carried out in Britain alone, was charged with causing the death of her baby by her the subject remains tabooo in this ' behaviour during pregnancy, whilst another was mana­ A nd that is where the crux lies. Nobody society that continues to question a woman's cled to the delivery table for a Caesarean Section. right to choose. Sounds like science fiction? Unfortunately it is not. said that abortion was an ideal On the 27th of April 1968, the Abortion Act became nobody ever said that it was an law. But now, come 1989, legal abortion is under threat. A out, nobody ever claimed it to be a Twenty one years ago women were given the power to experience. But it is necessary. For as long as c.hoose, the power to have a free, legal and safe termina­ or the controversy of abortion is nQt just about unplanned pregnancies, as long as there are tiOn of pregnancy. Today that is being taken away from the right of an unborn child to life as opposed to and frightened women and girls, there will be a them. The issue of womens rights has been replaced with the right of the mother not to proceed with her abortion. The only difference is in whether they the issue of foetal rights superseding those of the. pregnancy. The agenda of the moral minority or not. For making abortion illegal would not stop F taking place. Instead it would drive women back mothe~. The aim is to make abortion jllegal once more; goes far beyond the stated black-and-white facts. Most returnmg women to the horrors of the squalid bac­ of the Right to Lifers are also against contraception and dirty table and the bloody coat hanger. ~room, the bloody coathanger. It comes back to this: against sex education. Throw away the birth control pills . The passing of the 1968 Act was a recognition mstead. of a?aesthe!ised cleanliness, the dirty table, the they say; barefoot, pregnant, and behind the kitchen community that the occurence of 'illegal' abortion unquahfied doctor , the makeshift instruments. sink, is where they want us. They long for the reinstate­ reached such a level that it posed a serious social .It was only two decades ago, and it affected everyone. · ment of a patriarchal society and con their victims with !em. The contribution made by the backstreet Rich women sometimes went to private clinics in fara­ their insistance on 'foetal rights'. tionist to maternal mortality and morbidity w.ay places;. poor women almo~t always got onto the They have changed the rules of the game. Previously growing publicity given to the abortion racket dirty table m a squalid biickroom. But we moved on !he old anti-abortion line was "you play, you pay", view­ implications of one law for the rich. and another f~om the~; there came David Steel's Act and a genera­ mg unwanted pregnancy as a punishment for indulgence po~r ~nfluenc~~ Parliament to try to improve ~Ion oj girls - me and you - grew up without knowing in illicit sexual intercourse. Now they are far cleverer. defirung conditions under which an abortion about the bloody coat hanger. The foetus has become the 'preborn' and is implicated as ally be performed. The new Act did not And now this. 1989, 21 years on, and legal abortion is a poor defenceless human being. Legal abortion is a raise ~he. number of t~rminations carried out e ac~ ~C l under threat. A ?lere 12 months ago David Alton's pri­ mandate for murder they say, and emphasise the issue of nor did It create an mcrease in sexual irresponsibili1 vate members bill sought to outlaw terminations after viability; the age at which a foetus might survive outside instead it simply legalised an age-old practice. the 18th week. More recently Ann Widdecombe the womb . (Most experts put the lowest limit at 24 . Since 1968, during the past 21 y~ars, women haY~ attempted to reintroduce the same. Both were defeated. week.s. Of the 1.5 million legal abortions performed last . · died on dirty tables in the squalid backstreets of c But t~e Governments Embryo Research Bill, to be year m the USA, only 0.01% took place after 24 weeks, less cities, have not submitted to the untrained but .. debatea during this session of Parliament, contains an and those only. for urgent medical reasons). They have not done. themselves untold injury with knJ am~ndment to include lowering the upper time limit employ ~he tactics of the terrorist - bombing clinics, needle and coat hanger. But a return to the bad old Cl which may well succeed. A womans right to choose is threatenmg surgeons, harassing patients. 4 a return to the days when abortion was illegal, coulc­ gradually crumbling away. But there is just one problem. Once the child is born these, the horrors of history books, become grim re For this is in essence what the abortion debate is aH these spokespeople 'for the foetus' lose all interest. At once more. !bo~t: a .womans right to choose. Abortion is not just a the ti~e when it could do with a little real help- medical, Women know this. They are aware that all the tact remmist Issue. Rather it is a matter for every woman, financial - they forget. Anti-abortionists are all th7 er?ding of their rights, are only efforts to 01. regardless of race, colour or creed, who wishes to direct sin~leminded in their crusade to ban terminations. They abortiOn Illegal all over again. There is no compro and control her own body and life in accordance with her dmm to car~ about mothers and children - but they , Wom7n must ~ave and will have the right to chO own values and choices. never campmgn for better sex education in schools That. IS somethmg which they will never give up. And abortion is not just a womans issue either never fight the closure of Family Planning Clinics, neve; that IS why they fight - so their daughters will ne .although it pert~i!JS specifically to womens situation a~ lobby for better child care facilities. They see nothing know about the bloody coat hanger. student . features thursday, november 30, 1989 11

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Twenty-one years have passed since abortion was legalised in Britain, yet the subject remains controversial; provoking extremes of reaction. from both sides. And with Parliament set to discuss lowering the upper time limit in this session ofParliament, the question ofa woman's right to choose versus the right to life looks as though it will stay in the headlines. Here, Alison Smith explains that abortion is not the answer, whilst A vril Mair argues that it is a necessary_evil, and Locbran MacNeij f tells about the new pill- R U486.

urrently undergoing clinical trials by anguish that the women who are testing the drug face - the World Health Organisation is a thalidomide is not a memory that will fade fast in the mind of any pregnant woman. · ~ new drug which, it is widely believed will render the current practice of sur­ Many Edinburgh women have chosen to take part in C · the testing of the new drug. The reason why is not obvi­ gical abortion obsolete. The drug, known as ous but for most women, the benefits would seem to RU486 is often referred to as an abortion pill, include the. fact that the drug can be administered at a although this is seen by some as a misnomer, as much earlier stage in pregnancy, eliminating the weeks this implies that somehow it can be taken with spent living with the guilt and fear that must inevitably the same casual unconcern as say a contraceptive accompanies such a decision. . or morning after pill - something which is One woman (a former EU student) who was in hospi­ tal, taking · RU486 had volunteered for treatment definitely untrue. becaus~ she wanted the experience over as soon as possi­ Hopes for the success of the drug are high. The impli­ ble. Although she had taken the possibility of unknown cations that it carries with it of safer and less complicated side effects into account her decision to take the drug abortions are welcomed by many - but some people are was made fairly easily. Her five hours in ward 54 of Edin­ worried that it will seem to be an 'easy way out: for burgh Royal Infirmary, she described as "agonising and women who want abortions. This is far from the case. demeaning" and the periods of time that she was left Use of RU486 does seem to be less damaging to women alone for were interminably long and frightening - and it than surgery, but nevertheless the drug is far from being was a time that she spent agonising over the moral impli­ simply a stronger version of the so-called 'morning after' cations of what she was doing. I pill that it is imagined to be. One major problem aside Whether the advantages of the treatment outweigh from the possibility of extra surgery if complications the disadvantages, it is impossible to say. Certainly the occur are the severe cramp-like pains which last introduction of such a drug is inevitably bound to add yet throughout treatment (this can be up to six or seven another dimension to the pro/anti abortion war that still hours), and· longer. Afterwards, all women remain in rages. However, despite all the protestations that this is some discomfort for six or seven days, with side effects really the easy way out, it is hard to imagine that to have that include nausea and diarrhoea. an abortion is one of the most difficult decisions a The effect, however that many would stress to those woman will ever have to make. who reg~rd the drug' as an easy way out, is the mental student 12 thursday, november 30, 1989 music the fresh and uninitiated, atten­ LYLELOVETT tion was still held throughout due. MUD HONEY to Lyle's wry dry Texan wit. Calton Studios Assembly Rooms Astute observations and am us- . It's kinda SINGER Mark Arms' L YLE Lovett must be -a ing tales gelled into one charming caricaturist's dream. Big, and captivating narrative. His customary stage-aive perception was always com­ entrance last Saturday night hooked nose, gaunt, hollow plemented with exceptional musi­ began what must have 'been face and a huge up-front cal interpretation. Behind his typ­ one of the wildest shows ever fluff-top hairdo. It's just a ically twinkle · twang country seen at the Calton Studios. pity Lyle isn't mo~e f~~ou~. guitaring a sorrowful cello gave Mudhoney were on top form Regardless of hts dtstmcttve much of his slower material a tear­ uzz looks, though, Lyle can provide ful sincerity. fully established but maintaining the laid-back just as much entertainment with This evening, Lyle Lovett was his music. odd, interesting and witty. approach of their first British If this was country music, which Ad.ding rockabilly and blu~s tp his shows with Sonic Youth. I'm told it was, then it's come a Deep-rooted country convictiOns, The three tall, thin, long-haired long way since the days of he delivered· a performance of guitarists stooped over their Tammy, Dolly, Kenny and Slim. entertaining humour and matur­ instruments and released musical Of course, the well-trodden ity. highlights such as Dead Love and themes of cowboys, girls and mar-_ the trance-like When Tomorrow riage were addressed, but even to Magnus Willis Hits. Meanwhile, an enthusiastic' crowd provided a constant stream of stage-divers. One flight from incidentally, was a sort offascinat­ the top of the amplifier stack GREEN ON RED ing nightmare cross between prompted the composition of a Calton Studios Zodiac Mindwarp and Jocky Wil­ new trash song entitled Jump son). He tells cliched old tales of a (lyrics: "Jump, Jump . .. etc"). beatnik life. He dedicates songs to This, along with a free form "Y' ALL know who I am," mass murderers. He has some­ jazz jam, helped relax the drawls Green On Red singer thing appraching fifty chins. Not atmosphere and the band Dan Stuart. Yes, Dan, we the sort of man your mother achieved a real sense of do. You're Meatloaf, are you would be very impressed by. involvement. The encore not? Why is it that all artistic Tonight he and his band were performance of Touch Me I'm geniuses are such thoroughly not on good form; ramshackle and Sick and In 'n' Out of Grace sent loose. But the raw musical and (occasionally) lyrical power is still the whole venue wild. Mark unpleasant people? Toulouse Arms' weird bendy body freaked Lautrec was a bitter little there, lifting Green On Red out all over the stage and the dwarf who hung out in towards the plateau occupied by crowd, and guitarist Steve brothels; Cary Grant could REM and The Pogues, and when Turner, took his noise effects to find sexual pleasure solely in things do click, as on the desper­ extremes. the company of young corp- ate howl of Hair Of The Dog, Although their recordings are ses; Julian Cope and Shane Stuart's undoubted genius is impressive, it is on the stage MacGowan's minds are con- .revealed.Aftertheshow,hewan- where Mudhoney excel. Their ders around the Calton Studios noise and energy, alongside North stantly warped by a cocktail suc:king on a beer, desperately American contemporaries Fugazi of drugs and alcohol; and attempting to unleash his charm and Nomeansno, means they can then we have Dan Stuart. on a succession of unfortunate wipe the floor with the current Fat, hideously dressed, boorish young ladies. He fails, and slumps British scene and e~pfains their and arrogant; when a microphone at the bar instead._Born to lose till high popularity and status. fails to work he throws a tantrum the finish. Heavens above, it's Mudhoney Photo: Scott McFarlane Andrew Scatchard on the poor roadie (who, quite John Tuson

The repeated chant - "You! I ing around stage by Pat Kane liant). This taster of the band's NITZEREBB saw YOU!" - is immediate, HUEANDCRY began to bear a worrying forthcoming Bitter Suite album The Venue inviting and completely pointless, Glasgow SECC resemblance to Marti Pellow, but produced all the teenage screams which is more or less what their fortunately Pat restored any lost Pat could ever ask for, and more. contemporaries New Order and credibility soon after as a surprise WILDER than anythii;Ig, Front 242 are all about, too. HOMETOWN gig for the change of surroundings sparked One quick dash back to the Nitzer Ebb are curiosities: Nitzer Ebb's animation clinches it brothers Kane drew the off a· vast improvement · in the main stage later and the transfor­ austere-sounding, electro­ for them; the music demands it, obligatory sell-out atten­ evening's entertainment. As Pat mation had taken place. Hue and pop obscurities with the and it suits the mood of dark and Greg legged off-stage after' Cry turned into the act that they severest haircuts in Christen­ 'aggression. They must have a dance, no mean feat at the only half an hour, I cringed at the couldn't quite manage dom. They stride brashly on grim vision of life in Basildon; SECC, and the hall was filled thought of them reappearing in beforehand, and suddenly they to the stage,_ their vocalist something akin to Cold War Ber­ with an aura of mutual some ridiculous get-up only to be could do no wrong. That is, until lin, I'd expect. appreciation as we witnessed literally bowled over a couple of Pat decided no evening is com­ lunges forward fearsomely minutes later as Greg barged past So, the drum pads "crash" as th'e music of Glaswegians, by plete without a bit of politics. He and sets about destroying the this cynical bastard on his way to a best they can, the bass is, well, Glaswegians, for Glaswe­ looked well-chuffed as he had a sensitive indie kids. The gig tiny stage in the middle ofthe hall. "pumped up", the vocals spat gians. predictable stab at Thatcher bet­ has begun. through barbed-wire sn11rls, and ween songs, just in case you mis­ Nitzer Ebb seem to have found sed it in the lyrics, generating They play practically every­ Backed by an eight-piece band, The boys proceeded to treat us to whoops galore from the audience, thing from their accomplished the key to success: be exciting. It's including jazz saxophonist a variety of cover versions, piano amazing no one's thought of it all of which smelled rather Belief album and a few more Tommy Smith, Hue· and Cry and vocal style, including Cos-' strongly of preaching to the con­ besides. Without Belief and before. seemed desperate to deliver the tello's "Shipbuilding" (not bad) Venue, vidi, vici. verted. Pseudo satisfaction, Pat. Shame sound potent, but Hearts goods, yet started off with a and Kate Bush's "The Man With . t . . and Minds is the live highlight. Stuart Walker whimper. Much prancing and pos- The Child In His Eyes" (not bril- Donald W3lker

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24 Craighall Road Opening Hours: Proceeds to tbe Royal Edinburgh .. Monday Closed National Institute for the EH65SA Tuesday-Satur~ay 9.30 am-5 pm Blind. See What's On page Tel: 552 8818 Thursday9.30am~8pm . for more details. 30 THE GRASSMARKET ·EDINBURGH · 225 6464 • student ·MUSIC thursday, november 30, 1989 13 prevzew• "AND the hand of John came indie.:kid idolatry. Their · most Calton Studios on Saturday - down upon the Colorblind James, recent album, Why Must I Stalid time for everyone to put on these and thus be spake: 'You shall Up, crept, rather than blasted, its clothes that were a "real bargain" appear on my Festive Fifty and ·way out earlier this year. somewhere in Stockbridge and give praise to the Pop Lord'." The make a double bass out of an old Colorblind James Experience flip bag and som~ luminous laces. have come a long way in Britain in This doesn't make them bad, In alf, the Colorblind James· the two years since this miracle, . however, just as the total oppsite Experience's undefinable folk­ but remain a commercial enigma. is true of Bros Unfortunately jazz:whi_te blues-thi~gummy Straight outta Boston - not it does mean relatively few visits mustc ~tll ha~e you noddmg yo_ur Memphis, and they're not black to Scotland. The last time they h~ad like an msa_ne we~ble whde - their first album received penetrated our borders · was to btzarre sto~y-telhng _lyncs shou~d impressive critical acclaim but writhe about in the Queen Mar- make the mght one btg culture tnp their lack of jangly guitar made garet Hall, Glasgow, and now it's.-fifties style .. Don't miss out. sure-there was no projection to a one-night stand in the capital's · · Martin Willis . . ' '·

. goo,d if unambitious concert. Her tice will go away," they said. "If I tesplendent in a red mini­ course, the great advantage of MICHELLESHOCKED songs are meant to be heard live just dance a little faster to Street­ dress and "Free James countless undisputed pop classics: Network and certainly benefit from being corner Ambassador everyone will Brown" T-shirt, Debbie at their disposal, and to those performed, but she diq nearly have homes." The revolution is must surely now be added I Want could do no wrong before the GOD! Who designed every song completely faithfully just a folksong away. ·you could That Man (so much more impres­ MY to the album version. (Which was see the warm smiles spreading mesmerised crowd. sive than on record), Bugeye, and this place? With its qeon, fine with the girls in gauze skirts, across the yuppie faces. The The Tide Is High saw Ms Harry :the gorgeous single Brite Side. fluorescent lights, disco balls, who sang along with every word.) punks in front of me couldn't be proclaiming "I'm gonna be your · But this was more than an ordi­ and mirrors, Network could bothered. They would sfamdance number. one" an~ the audience nary music gig: this was an event. 'be a forgotten region of hell But the Woman in Black is an · to anything. Either that or they excellent songwriter. I mean, knew this ~as no tdle gesture. C?f Thereturnofanicon,lookingbet­ (or California). The crowd were just too drunk to stand up. course she .s _number one. There ts ter than ever before, reawakening Memories Of East Texils made Diane Levinson would have been at home in me nostalgic and I've never even no competttlon. She IS the queen . memories and simultaneously either-sleazoid yuppie men· been to Texas. Anchorage made of pop. How we should _be creating more: the crashing intro­ trying to pick up on school­ me want to write to old frie9Lisa Stansfield's This time they're wearing their album, the single, Duran lose the title of Stop Messin' Around. Stansfield's collaboration with achievement. In the field of house guitars on their sleeves, which kids (who have since moved on to Aryan twin-like delights), and Balaam just put their heads down, Coldcut on People Hold On she, like Adeva, has defined her probably makes them much har­ would signal the way towards the music and her image in der to play- not that this seems to Duran become funky, dance totally ignore the fact that they're mechanics, pumping affluent the most untrendy band this side posse's dream of a non-stop high ·surroundings where worry James who beat us about energy dance frenzy. I was wrong inaccessibility and anonymity are the head with noise-lashings and beats. Oo-ery that's a bit weirdy. of The Icicle Works, and churn All She Wants Is , a Eurobeat out some surprisingly enjoyable but not disappointed. the norm . lyrics that spew venom. Come Affection, Lisa Stansfield's Affection is an album of never Home is spunky and punky, and it frenzy , is ten years and ten steps stompers, the like of which from Planet Earth. Once decade, Zodiac Mindwarp would give his first album ~;elease, is no replica too distant, never too deep house, scares the shit out of me . of Coldcut's What's That Noise? one album , fourteen stuffed leather codpiece to be love and joy, always evident, With more of a bias towards Craig McLean smasheroonies. Why-y-y-y don't able to writ& ·have constructed a piece of charty love house, t~e Cut's controlled emotion and rare you use it, try-y-y-y not to bruise it. Right kids? John Tuson· rocksteady dynamite back beats grooves. work on This Is The Right Time is Magnus Willis Craig McLean " 14 thursday, november 30, 1989 arts student 0 not 00 seemed thrown in as an insincere that's part of the problem: the PHILCOOL afterthought, and his tight-lipped · dedicated following Phil has won over the years has stopped him King's Theatre smile looked strikingly familiar to the painful wince of a man suffer­ developing as a comedian. His 26Nov ing frpm a nagging toothache. I -surprising talent as a musician is left the theatre with an autograph, ignored in favour of his facial con­ PHIL Cool the performer . ·a crumpled ticket and precious lit­ tortions; a number of more subtle and Phil Cool the person are ; tie insight into Phi! Cool's alarm- impressions go unnoticed by an worlds apart. A fleeting ingly enigmatic character. · audience eagerly waiting for their encounter at the stage door hero's 'familiar routines as Rolf of the King's Theatre Perhaps he was just exhausted . . Harris and Billy Connolly. He was on stage for about an · revealed the latter to be hour, delivering a string ofuncan- · Phil doesn't let his fans down, bored, non-communicative nily perceptive impressions of ll. but perhaps his reliance on old and not alittle sullen, signing multitude of easily mimicked per- material has prevented him from autographs with a grudging sonalities (Prince Charles, taking chances. He totally lacked air of resentful resignation. Ronald Reagan et al). He encour- the youthful bravado and uninhi­ aged from the predominantly bited originality fearlessly dis­ For him, it seemed, this brief middle-aged audience riotous . played by his excellent support contact with his enthusiastic howls of appreciative laughter, act, Nothing By Chance, whose fans, like the performance especially when he exploited his energetic mixture of comedy and that preceded it, was just familiar rubber-faced features, music made me laugh much more another tiresome chore to be the joys of which I was sadly than Mr Cool's less than exhilarat­ unable to experience, 'being ing exertions. stoically endured. perched up in the gods and in dire Try as I might, Mr Cool · need . of some powerful binocu­ After a long tour with dates all remained resolutely monosyl­ lars. over the nation, Phi! Cool may be labic. "It's been a long tour," he wondering where all the fun has admitted. "It was a good crowd The performance was that of a gone. Perhaps that is why (ify<'>u 'Jl tonight," he ventured a few sec­ single-minded, dedicated profes­ excuse the pun) offstage he was as onds later. Even the obligatory sional who knows exactly what.his cold as ice. ·~_thanks for coming along" audience wants. But perhaps Neil Smith

Previews PAINTINGS BY EDWARD SUMMERTON WITH its instantly notice- · and bla~k comedy that's going to able name, Dead Fly Films be absolutely bloody brilliant". Royal Scottish Academy are nothing if not enterpris- Stevens and Mallett are both Until 15 Dec ing. This new independent students, but are anxious to FUNDING within the arts film company was set up with declare that Dead Fly is not a typ­ world is notoriously hard to the belief that "load- ical university clique: "Anyone come by; but the Alastair samoney" is not essential for with any interest in film-making is strongly encouraged to take Salvesen Art Sch<;>larship has the production of quality part," they told me. Any budding been established to provide, films, and with two ambitious Speilbergs should therefore keep somewhat unusually, an projects in the pipeline, they the evening of Thursday 7th free, £8,000 travelling allowance hope to prove this contention when a launch party for "Angel for a young (25 to 35-year­ to be true. Delight" will take place . at the old) practising painter, The first, "TV Dinner", is a Grindley Street Student Union, multi-media collaboration_ bet- with' tickets available at both per­ trained or living in Scotland. ween Dead Fly Films, EUTC and formances of "TV Dinner". All in The awarding of this particular Student Video Productions and all, Dead Fly Films, despite its scholarship has enabled Edward will take place at the B~dlam . name, is alive and buzzing. Summerton to produce a selection . Theatre on Wednesday 6th at 1.30 · · of mainly watercolour or pastel paintings from journeying · and Thursday 7th at 1 pm. throughout the Far East. "TV Dinner" is a nightmarish vision of the .. dangers of con- Free Mulled Wine and ( al- The exhibition consists largely sumerism in a conformist culture, most free) turkey available at of abstract landscapes, where combining pre-recorded video the Traverse on 8th strongly defined geometric shapes material with live theatrical per- December at 2pm. enclose the incontinent flow of the f9rmance. Students are also invited to a watercolour. Summerton's inclu- EXHIBITION OF refreshingly devoid of the cloying . Production is now completed cut price matinee ofthe Christmas si on of the yellows and greens of sentimentality that so often on Dead Fly's next project, show. "The Turkey that· fought th e f.Ie Id s IS· compre h ensive, PORTRAITS BY accompanies this predictable sub- " Angel Delight", a 90-minute ba~k" :only £1 with your matricu- although the colours themselves OPEN SUBMISSION . ject for portrayal. video-film written and directed by lat10n card. If you've got a rarely decide whether they are Portfolio Gallery No new ground is broken; Jonathan Mallett, who descrjbes Tr.averse saver card, for the same vibrant or merely lurid., · hardly surprising considering the Thei · h 1 · 1 Until13Jan it as "a combination of film-noir , pnc~ you c~_ta kea friend! magery IS overw e mmg Y -====------nature of the · genre which has ------.--...;.;.--....;,.:~--~--:-=--___;.;.;__:...... _ _J of fertility, as long, thin streaks of THE intimate surround- been explored endlessly, but Cat- · rain spl:hdinhto circular pools of ings of the Portfolio Gallery riona Grant's oddly-named 'As­ water. n t e ubiquitous palm h "d pects of Love - Peebles 1988' is a trees th a t " nse· up " , ta 11 an d are t e 1 eal setting for this witty and original piece that straight , I·n many of hi s work s are year's Open 'Submi·ssi·on stands out from the rest, as does [at. once powerful but also repti- Exhibition, · a carefuiiy cho- the August Sander-like documen- . hve. · · - · sen selection of portraits · tary realism of Tricia Malley's Scenes of eastern city life, such from twenty-six contempor- subjects from Waverley Station. a~ O'!e Night in Bangkok (£350), ary photographers based in David Harrold's by now well- • . with Its crowded rooftops, pitches . Scotland. known image of chef Pierre Vie- . the modem western world of neon To the unbiased eye, the collec- toire wit~ .lobster Pfrched is also a lights and telephone cables tion is a thoughtful and wide-rang- fine add1~10n to this selection, its together with older natural forces ing one, capturing well the por- . spontaneity well-matched by of the stars and the new moon. - trait photographer's art of collab- humour. Despite the highly per- The Coach-house Newliston ~erhaps his most imposing por- oration and compassion. There is sonal nature of portraiture these traits, however, are the three of great sympathy between these sit- works_ are. warm ~nd accessible. Group bookings tqken for Dinner Parties, Receptio1;s, Buffets. cockerels. Here he comes closest ters and their photographers It Is 1IDpossible to ignore, _to re~lis,m, · capt~rin_g, , for many of who~ are closely related: though, the conspicuous tendency A Private Venue. mstance, .m _Cockerel Fighting (the a 'working relationship' which is of the selector to lean towards the . We also offer a personal service when catering for all on~y pamtmg .not for sale) such _ here seen to be highly effective. more established names leaving student events. P?•se and tensiOn. as to render the The appeal of this mainly black little room for new talent. This · bird almost satamc. . and white portraiture is instant, 'top-heavy' choice is bound to ANYWHERE · ANYfiME · ANY NUMBER . Such w?rk, necessitated by the . from the unself-conscious cause resentment, witness the scholarship~ shows_ individuality · grimaces of Gordon St;:ibles' and ' enraged comment in the visitor's ..· BALLS· HOUSE PARTIES ·FUNCTIONS · ·. ~n~ expenmentat10n, and an Robert Burfis' young boys to the · book; '~ortrayal?! More like Bet­ msist~n~e not to pander to corn- powerful simplicity of Bill Did- rayal!' S1mply sour grapes? 1 think merciahsm. cock's 'Adam'. Young . children . not. Tel: 333 1501 Helen Johnston featl!re often in the selection Rester Marriott . . ' . student arts thursday, november 30, 1989 15 from ·Mozart's Jl re pastorale bloody action. by remaining st~tio- EDINBURGH UNIVER- which was sung passionately by BEVERLEY'S BUTCHER nary throughout the playlet. ALBERT IRVIN ' SITY Patricia MacMahon. Traverse Theatre Katrina Caldwell as Beverley PAINTINGS 1959-1989 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Vaughan Williams' oboe con- exuded confidence and energy, Tal bot Rice -Gallery Run over and to her credit resisted an Reid Concert Hall certo is a contemplative work of Until16 Dec 22nd Nov the pastoral genre where the A MERE 30 minutes proved ordered, secure future in the .:::::.::..;::....:...... ;______major themes are introduced by insufficient for genuine '· forces. Whilst th ~ ~ialogu: w~th YOU MAY recall pop-art; the oboe with the orchestra giving involvement with the four- he~ father was at. time~ chched , Lichensteins' famous paint­ This was the archetypal restrained support. The soloist, t - f M C Letsa Rea as Mr G1llesp1e seemed ~ 0 ~an . cas 0 ary _as- quite at hbme behind his meat ing of a brushstroke: thick example of ·an amateur con- James Eastaway, competently s1dy ~ first play, presentmg counter. Most impressive was black outlines and a yellow cert, displaying the normal, conveyed the pastoral richness of the dilemma faced by the tur- Lisa Gornick as Mrs Bosthwaite, filling played homage to the characteristics of a varied the slower episodes,but lacked bulent schoolgirl· Beverley, exerting a subtle but powerful painterly stroke, the texual , programme, and different t~e confidence to convince in the .l.t Th ·v1tuoso scherzo. . torn between a career either influence over the rest of the cast, nuances of oil with the addi­ 1eve l s Of a b1 1 y. e , , in the army or the theatre. including Mr concerts of deserved or particulalry convinc- The abrupt ending was discon­ feel for colour culminates in the individual talen'ts of members this nature, but I feel that the ing. . certing and raised the possibility expansive and expressive pieces of the orchestra. The decision to orchestra would have benefitted 1 A sparse but ingenious set that the audience were perhaps that work best on a monstrous isolate arias from major works. from stronger handling and a I proved one of the play's greatest leaving during th.e interval. As a domineering scale. The paint was an unwise one, as they lost more inspiring programme as the assets. Skeletal chairs. hung from springboard production by Mary applied is at once fluid translu­ their power and intensity performance contained instances meat-hooks, among which dang- Cassidy, "Beverley's Butcher" cent, and thick opaque. A removed from their contexts. The! of impressive playing. led a menacing, symbolic cleaver had much to recommend it. depository surface lies on a most successful was "L'amero" · Alan Campbell that thwarted expectations of Clare Beswick translucent background. "Kes­ trel" (1981) which Is built upon a a~d originality ar~ equally impor­ tant - it is a pity that Bates' work total experience of discord, incor­ PICTURING WOMEN porated within this disparagy of PART2 has little of either. The work of Della Matheson surface texture. Tonal varietieS-Or Stills Gallery cannot be written off quite so eas­ orange and blue build up gaseous space patterns - a cosmic explo­ · Until22 Dec ily , her photographs possess all three of the qualities that Bates' sion emitting tendrels of colour work lacks. Documenting the into an atmosphere. The effect is The second part of Stills lives of Asian women in Glasgow vibrant and brilliant, like a Pol­ Gallery's "Picturing . her work deals with the oppres­ lock subtly superimposed upon. a Rot!!!!! with a no-mean grip fac­ Women" exhibition features sion and racial hostility they face every day. There is an ironic wit tor and an intense sense of action. the work of two photo­ Abstract, expressionist or col­ graphers, Loma Bates and throughout her work - in "Reema and Rimpy" the two girls stand ourist? It would be wrong to coin a Della Matheson who tackle together, smiling against a wall phrase since Irvin's work is all two entirely different sub­ covered in racist graffiti and in -three plus a modern more. Based jects with varyinp degrees of "Common Racial Stereotypes We in London, he has taught and exhibited north of the border success. many times. It even becomes a The work of Lorna Bates " ••• interesting, thought-pro­ subject in itself as in the screen focuses on the family .album with voking and strong enough to prints of Holyrood. Maybe particular emp.hasis on her . stand by itself ..." they're not identifiable as a place, mother. The press release would but tpey certainly act as an essay have us believe that she is "open­ on the bilingual qualities of col­ ing up new ways of communicat­ Encounter" the women act out a our. ing" asking the questions_ "wh<:> is · series of vignettes eloquently The works greatness lies on the taking the pictures? Who ts tellmg explained by the title. One minor reaction upon the retina by this the story?" Perhaps I missed the criticism concerns the quotes rainbow myriad of colour. Even subtle complexities but I always attached to eas;h photograph on the expansive, _epic pieces, it is · thought it was fairly self explanat- describing the subject's experi- the inclusion of even the minutest • ory and hardly an earth shattering ences as an Asian in Scotland. "splosh" of discord that bar­ Excellent in themselves they · monises an ·action painting or concep~. either distracted from the photo print into the realms of a very I might get tne old Box Brownie or in some cases explained an idea clever and thought-filled out and snap my sister painting which would have been less than technique. her nails - then I can ask riveting apparent without the quote. I'll conclude with a question. quetions like, What shade of var­ On the whole Della Matheson's Are these frenzied canvases, nish is it? or perhaps for a real ­ work is interesting, thought pro- therefore, built upon the acciden­ soda! statement, Was it tested on voking and strong enough to stand tal and chance ridden, or are they animals? Although a social'state­ by itself without the mediocre simply a series of immaculate con- ment is not a prerequisite for a . prop of Lorha Bates. ceptions? good photograph and aesthetics ( . Eleanor 'Yood · Alison Brown

A warm wtkomt awaits you at tht ...... 1r •••••• more great movies from BICYCLEs · the Film Society ... REPAIRED !Le SEPTI sun 3 dec • george square theatre = I 6.45pm King of Comedy ARGYLE HIRED ~ = ·=I . I B.45pm Raging Bull - I I ~ SOLD ;I I I tues 5 dec ·pleasance theatre . BAR -I I BEST SELECTION OF I thurs 30 nov. george square theatre 6.45pm PrtJva d'Orchestra ..I BJOpm La Strada A fint stlection of rral airs MOUNTAIN BIKES 7.CN.f>m Red Sorghum :I Iill Public Discussion wed 6dec- george square theatre IN EDINBURGH I I I The process of liberalis~tion 6.45pm The Hustler OPEN ALL DAY <'I 'I in ChiM, brutally halted i':' 9JOpM Blade Runner - - ~· I ·I the summer of this year, produced SALE NOW I A seltction ofhomt-eooked lunch~s ,- i~ a cinematic movement of · ' I staggering origiMlity. As-tht · ' strvtd bttwun/2 noon and 2 pm .ON . I served all day fri & sat climax of our season of these films, ,----'. !restaurant: we welcome Tony Rayns, the world : . : You'll find us at CENTRAL CYCLE HIRE · ,: tuesday-saturday 1900-2200 1 expert on Chinese cinema! lfho will I lead a discussion on the films, 'their IS A~gyle Pl~ce~ " 13 LOCHRIN PLACE -·1 political relevance, and the future TOLLCROSS 228 6333 j~i~ -4J~i for Chinese artists after the , Edinburgh • - \. 9 t ~ ~~~····~···~·········~···~·~ TtaMnmen Square massacres student 16 thursday, november 30, l989 film

who have not seen the originaL In thing is so familiar, we are unem­ BACK TO THE Back to the Future 2, Marty cumbered by lofty contemplations FUTURE2 (Michael J. Fox) and Doe Brown of our collective destiny, and can (Christopher Lloyd) zoom for­ instead simply enjoy the images Cannon ward to the year 2015 to rescue whizzing across the screen. Dir. Robert Zemeckis Marty's wayward son from a life Imaginative special effects and of crime. Everything rolls along chase scenes, together with a Recycling in Hollywood is smoothly until the whole space­ script that is punchy and loud now in high gear. It is there­ time continuum is turned topsy­ make the film quite breathless and fore hardly surprising, even if turvy by the greedy meddling of leave the audience with no time to a bit galling, that Back to the the wicked Biff Tannen (Thomas lose interest. Things skip by at Future 2 is upon us and Back Wilson). To try and set things light-speed, from one time to the to the Future 3 already loom­ right, Marty goes back to 1955-and next and from one generation of the plot begins to wind itself Michael J. Fox's to the next. ing in the trailers. around scenes from the first film. Although they are often shrieked Still, before you cast this review It is a clever and engaging tale. for alf they are worth, the lines haughtily aside and reach f9r your. Steven Spielberg and Robert have a refreshingly believable ring Filmhouse programme, a quick Zemekis, together with writer to them, and as the witty, spunky, hearing. True, · this movie is Bob Gale, have shrewdly crafted lovable hero, Fox has a role. he neither searing social commen­ the film, opting for a vision of the knows well and can have fun with . tary nor incisive political analysis,· future that, rather than being a Of course, some will dismiss bu~ then why should it be. The film bleak Orwellian sketch, is a kind this film as Hollywood pap, and does not set out to edify, only to of il)nocuous homage to pop cul­ they would be right, for the movie entertain, which is does quite ture, with nothing changing from dwells less on the psychological amply. today's world but the gadgets. aspects of time 'travel than its pre­ As a word of warning rather Skateboards glide on air; mothe!iS" decessor. Still, for what it is, Back than criticism, the story is very swell miniature pizza's to family­ to the Future 2 is a good watch, firmly anchored in its predeces­ size with Black and Decker hyd­ even if it does close with an tators; Jaws 19 is even playing at infuriating "To Be Continued". sor. The resulting hybrid works Micheal J. Fox as Marty McFiy (1955 version) ~s Chuck Berry well but is likely to confuse those the local cinema. Because every-- CariHonore

Through this process he is able to MY LEFT FOOT FIELD OF DREAMS come to terms with his past, and, Video Review accordingly, a reconciliation bet­ . . Dir: Jim Sheridan the healthy-limbed gaping at ·him, Cannon ween ghost-of-father and son As a whole, the film steers studi- Dir: Phil Alden Robinson ensues. IN WHATEVER way Christy ously clear of sentiment, and and to resenting it. Christy's prin­ makes no pretence that either cipal triumph, greater in his eyes Although technically profi­ Brown's story was told, it If the names Babe Ruth cient, with some stunning scenes Christy or his family, while blsssed than his artistic achievements, is to would rend~r the Kleenex and Joe Jackson fill you with and fine music accompaniment, with extraordinary fortitude, are find someone who can come to an enormous sense of excite­ Field Of Dreams is a thoroughly nec~ssary: in overcoming a -flawless human beings, or phleg­ terms with his psychological nor­ ment and nostalgia, and if unsatisfying film. As if lost for disease so dehabilitating that matic about their misfortune. mality, and allow him to release you would enjoy seeing their subject matter, the director has the only way in which he can Financially and emotionally, their his fettered sexuality: this repre­ tried to make a glorious and mov­ produce the paintings which struggle was immense, and My sents a vital source of recognition. ghosts play catch in the mid­ Left Foot does not insult them by Perhaps the outstanding virtue dle of some corn, perhaps ing story out of an undeniably tri­ bring him to public notice is vial idea. This fundamental dis­ suggesting that it was endured. of this film is its conciseness. It Field Of Dreams is what with the eponymous left foot, with nothing but contentment. meticulously shuns· the · tempta-. parity between mood and theme he provides sure-fire material you've been waiting for. intensifies throughout the film's Furthermore, it is emphasised tions of ·self-indulgence, and of What other type of audience exhausting course until it reaches for a very humbling hour and throughout that society will always putting the viewer through ~t w~ll entertain, I cannot almost farcical pitch; having-wit­ a half. Howeve.r, this type of view the disabled as outsiders, and gratuitous emotional wringers. By 1magme. nessed his daughter's life being picture also runs the consid­ we are spared any glib scenes in nimbly sidestepping the pitfalls of , In an attempt to forget a rift saved by a walking, baseball­ erable risk of condescending which Christy gleefully realises irrelevance and triteness, My Left with his late father and all its playing .anachronism, Ray marks towards both audience and that he has been accepted as a Foot becomes a great deal more associations with a seemingly exc­ symbolic allegiance with the team 'normal' person: he is condemned than a tear-jerker. subject, by rather facile tug­ to being surrounded by crowds of Andrew Mitchell lusive love of baseball, Roy Kin­ of ghosts by refusing to sell the ging at heartstrings. sella (Kevin Costner) becomes a baseball pitch, despite the danger The skill required to play con­ farmer and moves to the state of of nimpeding bankruptcy. At this · vincingly a sufferer of cerebral Iowa with his wife and daughter. moment, where expressions palsy, (which, in this case, left its Walking in the fields one day he is freeze and music swells, we await victim half-paralysed, and with plagued by a voice which seems to ~he film's true message. Unfortu­ chronic speech difficulties).is self­ come from nowhere, but is insis­ nately it seems to be no more than evident; Daniel Day-Lewis not tent. Obeying the tone (which is that the 'Golden Age' of baseball only manages it, but he also t? direct him on a journ.,ey through must be preserved against an odds obscures the artifice that per­ time w~rps and the supernatural), (a rather dubious claim in itself). vades, say, Hoffman's various Ray bmlds a baseball pitch on his '):'he dullness of this production guises. He does more tha~ simply land: the forum for several wierd defies description. s~ow off his talent for mimickry, and cathartic happenings. Gabs Weston and fashions a study of remarka­ ble sensitivity.

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The word from Hollywood is actor's insistence on keeping his The inescapable conclusion Is . that Dustin Hoffman is to own self at a deliberate arms that the method actors obsession length from those of the character with entirely enveloping himself play Captain Hook in the he is portraying necessarily limits in his roles merely serves to pro­ sometime forthcoming live ,his range.· The method actor, by duce a set of caricatures of his own action version of Peter Pan. immersing himself in the role and persona, differing only superfi­ The producers apparently actually 'becoming' that person cially from one another, by allow­ originally wanted Robert De for the duration of the perfor­ ing his own personal traits to Niro, but in the end decided mance, is not so restrained. intermingle with those of the against him for fear that he Olivier could perform, goes the character he is supposed to be current 'wisdom', but De Niro, portraying. The more disciplined may have his arm amputated Brando or Pacino can really act. character actor, through the very in order to attain true authen­ It js easy to follow such a line of limiting and inflexible technique ticity for the part. thought, but serious cinema stu­ for which he is so often vilified, This probably isn't true, but it is dents are thereupon confronted retains the degree of imaginal ere- a comment on the extraordinary with one major perplexing . dibility for us to be convinced by lengths to which a 'method' actor, paradox: if it really is the methocj his performance. He can thereby of whom De Niro is probably the actors who are the ultimate develop a far more varied and ver­ most obsessive, will go in pursuit artists, then why is it that such satile portfolio roles. of absolute realism. supposedly supreme acting is The renowrled method actor Last summer's passing of Laur­ simultaneously so ostentatious may oftert be more watchable and ence Olivier and the subsequent and transparent? After all , there his performances more potent, innumerable tributes to 'the are many who never acknow­ but one must always consider greatest of the classical actors' has ledged Olivier as the Roman pat­ whether one is ther tp watch the provided renewed discursive fuel riarch in Spartacus or recognised play or the player. One should to the ever-simmering 'classical the same features concealed lea've the auditorium with a versus method acting' debate. behind such diversely charac- . relaxed glow of contentment from In some quarters it has become terised (although equally the performance rather than with fashionable to devalue the tradi­ observed and encompassed) an affronted and alarmed sense of tional, classical style, of which · figure such as Othello or Archie humbled awe at the energy and Olivier was the undoubted mas­ Rice, but there are few who fail to 'brilliance' of the performer. Take ter, as being less · complete and identify the unmistakably power­ heed: no-one is bigger than the more simplistic than the advanced ful presence of the actor over and medium. method style. In its modern form above the character in any of this originated at the Actor's Bra.ndo's or De Niro's perfor­ Robert De Niro's magnificent Studio in New York after 1945, mances. Similarly, for all his performance in Raging Bull may but it has its origins in Stanis­ accomplishemnts, have not all of be seen at the Filmsoc this Sun­ lavski's famous discourse, An Dustin Hoffman's alter-egos been day. Anyone wishing to argue the Actor Prepares. Olivier's mode of under-sized, overly intensive case for method acting is invited performance, according to mod­ angst-ridden Jewish psuedo-intel­ to get in contact with the Film ern thinking, was all very well as lectuals with some form of Editor at the times shown on the :far as it went, but the classical Olivier's Henry V: how does it inferiority complex? letters page. compare to Hoffman's Shylock? FiiiD Against Apartheid THE Film Society, in con­ people are predominantly the vic­ junction with tbe Edinburgh tims. Marpansula, banned by the Students Against Apartheid, South African government and organised a triple-bill event filmed on location in Soweto by. a principally black cast and crew, on Sunday evening which are er corrects this imbalance. consisted of Oliver Schmitz It is the story of Panic, played by and Thomas Mogotlane's Thomas Mogotlane, of the awa­ Mapantsula, Shawn Slovo kening of a black "wide-boy's" and Chris Menges' A World political and social consciousness. Apart, and a few words from The soon-to-be-released A Dry guest speakers, Mr John White Season will tell the other side ofthe tale by concentrating on Lamola, member of the Afri­ the heightening of consciousness of can National Congress, and a blinkered and naive white man, Sandra Brown of the ESAA. played by Donald Sutherland. As a Mr Lamola powerfully summed slice of life in South Africa today, up the situation in South Africa Mapantsu/a portrays the complex . today, saying: "Apartheid is a reality of black police beating reality ... but it is not a normal black citizens; privileged servant­ reality. Apartheid kills. Apartheid owning whites who live in the fur­ Marathon is a major international oil company with exploration and production destroys." It was disappointing interests in many countries worldwide. Our UK interests centre on the Brae area lined protection of padlocked of the central North Sea. We currently have 3 fields, North, South and Central Brae that Mr Lamola was only given a fairytale castles of ignorance; and on stream, with plans for the development of East Brae well underway. few minutes to speak in between the deeply embedded cancer of We will be visiting Edinburgh University on 23rd January 1990 with a view to films, due to their late running, for prejudice that infests the minds of recruiting graduates into the following departments: his words were more emotive than power-drunk white men who tell perhaps any anti-apartheid film each other the joke: "Have you Production Engineering-Mechanical Engineering Graduates could ever be. He stood as a living, heard what they call a Kaafir with Process Engineering-Chemical Engineering Graduates flesh and blood witness (and vic­ an Ak-47?" Pause. "Sir." tim) of the struggle. The event was attended by an Computer Services-Computing Scie~ce Graduates-either. BSc or MSc or Sandra Brown reminded the appreciative and attentive audi! Graduates with a numerate degree wh1ch has a large computmg content. audience of how privileged we all ence but there should have been Our Graduate Information Pack is now available in the Careers Service. If you are to be able to engage in higher room for more discussion. Mr are interested in a career with Marathon, please submit a standard application form education. At present,.the futures Lamola poin~edly rounded off the to the Careers Service by 13th December 1989 or reply direct to Robin Tait, Employee of three black students in Edin­ evening with words of thanks to Relations Department, Marathon Oil U.K., Ltd., Marathon House, Anderson Dnve, burgh are dependent on further the audience for attending, the Aberdeen A82 4Al by 18th December 1989. scholarship funding to cover the scholarship organisers, the Film cost of living expenses. Society, the ESAA, the British Whilst the anti-apartheid film is Government,and_ Mrs Thatcher, fast becoming a new film genre in whose "support" was all"very its own right, in the past too many much appreciated." of these films have concentrated on It's a pity, however, thatthe dic­ telling stories about the atrocities tionary that Mrs T consults in i of apartheid from a white liberal number 10 doesn't define that j perspective, thus weakening the word "support" adequately overriding reality of apartheid as ~ enough. making things happen black struggle in which black Carol Cumming TUESDAY FRIDAY Catholic Students' Union DEAF HEIGHTS CAJUN ACES 23 George Square Wilkie House . · . 12.30-2 pm The city's Cajun experts playing~ chanty Bread and cheese lunch. benefit, I don't know which chanty though. LUNCHTIME CONCERT BOXING CLEVER LOS SUPREMOS 1.10 pm;·Reid Concert Hall The Venue; 557 3073 St James Oyster Bar; 557 2925 Classics over lunch, with performers from the Band formed around Falkirk singer/songwriter 9pm University of Kentucky. Justin Skelton. · Blues covers. GREEN BANANA CLUB LOONIE AND THE MOONMEN HOAKIE FINOAKIE Evening: potterrow The Glove; 229 4341 Oasis; 8.30 pm indie and alternative disco. 9.30pm Hillbilly billies. · 50p admission with matric card. A rockabilly band, but playing under a WEDNESDAY . pseudonym. Who can it be? TEVIOT RO\WUNION Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 SAVANNAHLAMAR 'THE VOLUNTEERS & RUTH ELLIS Finsbury Park; 5561020 Union open till 2 am Oddfellows; 220 1816 :Seatbox: Bop till you drop in the Debating 8.30 pm; Free The Volunteers are from Wigan and ar Crampish, apparently; Ruth Ellis are local Hall. Indie Disco: Downstairs in the Park melodic hard rockers, if that makes sense. Room. MTV: Burgers, chipd and Bud in the LUCKY LOPEZ EVANS 51st State. ·· · Preservation Hall; 226 3816 More mystery and suspense, the only thing to CHARLIE McNAIR'S BAND be known about Lucky Lopez is that he's from Preservation Hall; 226 3816 SATURDAY the States. The plot thickens. Jazz, led by trumpeter. HEAVEN DOUGIE McLEAN BAND Evening: Cha_mbers Street Queen's Hall; 668 2019 8pm 1 .. ·STRANGEWAY Popular folk performer bringing together 9-12 pm; Park Room Teviot quality rock, jazz and traditional musicians. theatre DA VE BUICK TRIO Oasis Rock Cafe, 7 Victoria St. 226 5260 MONDAY ~Blues, jazz and rock. BEDLAM THEATRE .. Forrest Road 225 9893 ' POLITICS SOCIETY LUNCH The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca . •1 pm; seminar Room, 3rd floor Politics Dept FRIDAY Colin Teevan's new tragi-comedy about the 80p/£1 All you can eat. last hours of Lorca's life. A V ALANCHE CHRISTMAS PARTY performed by EUTC. Calton Studios; 556 7066 .EU CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION Tues 5-Sat 9 Dec, 7.3 pm Middle Reading Room, Teviot; 1 pm Avalanche the record shop becomes Avalanche . £3 (£2.50/£2) the .record label. Sets from Jesse Garon and the Guest speaker: Michael Hirst, Pres. of SCUA. Desperadoes, The Shop Assistants and; ROYALLYCEUMTHEATRE hopefully, We Free Kings and The Matter TUESDAY Babies. Grindlay Street 229 9697 The Slab Boys FRENCH SOCIETY LUNCH ASSEMBLY JAZZ The first play in John Bume's Teddyboy tril­ 1 pm; Dept Basement, 60 George Square Queen's Hall; 668 2019 _ ogy. All welcome. The John McLaughlin Trio, with Trilok Gurtu Fri 24 Nov-Sat 9 Dec, 7.45 pm. Mats at 3.15 pm on percussion. on 2 and 9 Dec. ANGLICAN CHAPLAINCY £4-£6.50. 1.5 pm; JCMB Room 3215 SATURDAY Eucharist, Bible study and lunch TRAVERSE THEATRE COLORBLIND JAMES EXPERIENCE 112 West Bow, Grassmarket 226 2633 THE EDINBURGH QUARTET Calton Studios; 556 7066 The Turkey that fought back 1.10 pm; Reid Concert hall Jazz/country but all delivered in a wit so sharp A green panto by Stuart Hepbum. Hadyn and Mendelssohn. Free. we may all make a move to Memphis. Fri 1-Sat 30 Dec. 2.30 pm & 2, 5-9, 12-16, 19, 20, 23, 24,28-30 Dec. 7.30 pm on 1-3, 8-10m BUNAC ORIENTATION PRIMAL SCREAM 15-17,19-23, 28-30Dec. 7.30 pm; Georg.e Square Theatre Moray House Union; 556 8455 Compulsory for1those hoping to visit the states 9pm KINGS THEATRE this summer, and a good diea if you're not sure New psychedelia, the bowl-cuts wi11 be out in 2 Leven Street 229 1201 yet. 2 hour talk, be prompt. force no doubt. Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood Claims to be the biggest panto in the UK this TERMINAL BONDAGE EU SCOTTISH NATIONALIST ASSOCIA­ year. Stars Anita Haris and Una McLean. TION The Globe; 229 4341 Luckyold Edinburgh. " 9.30pm 7.30 pm; Executive Room Tues 5-Dec 17 Feb, 7 pm (Mars at 2.15 pm). Last week there were no contenders, but this £5-£7. Roger Mullen, Environment Spokesperson. lot more than make up for it. What am I talking All welcome. about? The silliest name of the week, of course! PLAYHOUSE THEATRE ANGSOC CHRISTMAS PARTY Greenside Place 557 2590 7.30pm; Chaplaincy Centre Cats RICHARD MARX Andrew Lloyd Webber's elaborate musical. RUMPUS Usher Hall; 2281155 Until sat 3 Feb, 7.30 pm. Wed and sAt Mat. 8.30-2 am; Wilkie House 2.30pm Bland American rock, that's about all you can \. The welcome return of this event- to raise £6.50-£12.50 say really. Mind you, crap is ¬her word that money for the Royal Institute for the Blind. springs. readily to mind. Featuring Deaf Heights Cajun Aces, Johnny Sun beam, and a ceilidh. Dress Black Tie VENOM Tickets £4.50 at door or from Potterrow. The Venue; 557 3073 Thrash veterans. WEDNESDAY SAL PARADISE events CHAPLAINCY CENTRE St James Centre Oyster Bar; 557 2925 1.10pm 9pm Interdenominational service of Holy Commun- Dylanish singer/guitarist. THURSDAY • ion with short sermon.

MONDAY "Theology and Public Policy" SELF-DEFENCE CLASSES · 1.10 pm; JCMB 6th floor Common Room 7 pm Women in St LeonardsHall, Men in the MARILLION With Rev. Prof. Ouncan Forrester. Pleasance · Glasgow Barrowlands; 662 4601 £1.50 a session. The Fish-less ones go on with new vocalist in EUANIMAL RIGHTS plaice (sorry it had to be done). 8 pm; Sommerville Room, Pleasance AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Robin Smith from the British Union for the 7 pm; Chaplaincy Centre FJAERE NILSSON ~bolition ~f Yivisection will be showing a All welcome. St James Oyster Bar; 557 2925 VIdeo and glVlng a talk on the subject of animals 9pm in medical research. All welcome. PLEASANCE Swedish/American folk singer. 8 pm; Pleasance Bar EU CHAMBER CHOIR Jazz/Blues band. NATALIE COLE 7.45 pm; Reid Concert Hall Livingston Forum Beethoven, Handel and Schutz directed by _ STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT Michael Turnbull ' One of today's premier soul and R 'n' B singers. 7-9 pm; Chaplaincy Centre Tickets £2 at door. Human Rights- talk and discussion. stude~t thursday, november 30, l989 19

THE FRUITMARKET GALLERY Market Street 225 2383 Mon-Sat 10 am-5.30 pm, Sun 1-5.30 pm TV GUIDE Alchimia Where else ~ould you find Tina Turner teaming up in a _ clubs Selection of work from the Milan-based design comedy sketch with John Cleese? Or Jerry Hall discussing THURSDAY group. · ·bovril with Robbie Coltrane? OrTheophilious T. Vildebeeste SHAG 2 Dec-14 Jan. seeking safe sex therapy from Stephen Fry? Where else, but in 11 pm-3 am; The Mission, Victoria Street . NATIONAL LffiRARY OF SCOTLAND the second "Hysteria" this Friday on Four (10.30 pm). This two= Not that it NEEDS the publicity, but rear entry George IV Bridge 226 4531 hour comedy benefit, marking World AIDS Day, was filmed through Shady Ladies gives you two ways of Mon-Fri 9.30-5 pm, Sat 9.30-1 pm, Sun 2-5 pm last September with a cast including French and Saunders, Ruby squishing your way in. The Summer of '89 Wax, Rowan Atkinson and Jools Holland. £1.50 A collection of photographs of Scotland taken Meanwhile, on Saturday (BBC 2, 8.55 pm), Clive James in the summer. meets someone who, in his view, is the best British comedienne, CHATEAUXCHACHA 1 Dec-28 Feb. or comedian for that matter, in Britairi today, in "Saturday · 10J30 pm-3 am; Wilkie House, Cowgate TALBOT RICE GALLERY Night Clive with Victoria Wood". Aifning to mix the gay/straight club scene - all Old College, UniversityofEdinburgh 6671011 If the entertainment so far hasn?t been light enough, let's not under one great roof. Tue-Sat 10 am-5 pm beat about the bush now or split the proverbial hair, you'll be £2.50. Albert Irvin: Paintings (1959-89) floored when "Herbie Rides Again" this Sunday at 2.55 pm on Ten large abstract paintings. ITV . FRIDAY Until16 Dec. . Films in the week ahead include the superb "Outsiders" (BBC 2, Sun 10.20 pm) as an alternative to'Hitchcock's "The SPANISH HARLEM Birds" over on Four. Francis Coppola's homage to the 10.30 pm-3 am': Wilkie House, Cowgate technicolour world of fifties youth movies, starring Matt Dillon, Pose with the best of them. £3 Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez- all in the prime filrn of pubescence way back in '83- gave us the Hollywood "Brat DREAM/SLAM Pack" of today, as well as a touching story of mid-sixties gang 10.30 pm-3 am; The Mission, Victoria Street . ODEON rivalry in Oklahoma. · More House, this time)with some Glasgow Clerk Street; 667 7332 Finally, why not end the week where it started : on a second influences. From Friday note of hysteria. This Wednesday on ITV at 10.35 pm sees the £3 1. GHOSTBUSTERS II premiere of Stephen King's "The Shining". One tip; read the 6, 8.45; Sat & Sun 12.30 and 3.15 book first because even if you don't see the whole thing through MARLEYS 2. WILT . a cushion, it'll all need a lot of explaining. 10.30 pm-3 am; Shady Lady's, Cowgate 2.15, 4.20, 6.25, 9.00 Richard Arnold Try some reggae on a Friday night .. mostly Weekedn: EARJiTEST SA YES CHRISTMAS older crowd. at 1.45 and 4.00 . £2. 3. GREAT BALLS OF FIRE 2.30, 4.30, 6.30 SATURDAY ROADHOUSE at 8.40 pm DOMINION I'M AFRAID this week in Edin- Americans Colourblind IMMIGRANT CLUB Newbattle Terrace; 447 2660 burgh isn't going to be one to pose Experience at the Calton Studiosl 10.30 pm-3 am; Wilkie House, Cowgate 1. SHIRLEY VALENTINE a threat to your clean underwear and hard rocking cod piece Another offering of the harlem crew - mor of 2.20, 5.20, 8.20 when it comes to .music. First of all rorists Wrathchild at the Venue the same. 2. THE BEAR on Thursday at the Venue there's while (hopefully £3 1.45; 6.20 Boxing Clever who I know lots . cheek) punks Terminal uu•,.u.,,~"'• DEAD POETS' SOCIETY about; I'm just not telling. On Fri- chastise the Globe and move up KANGEROOKLUB 3.45, 8.15 day you can show your apprecia- no. 2 behind 10.30 pm-3 am; The Mission, Victoria Street 3. INDIANA JONES & THE LAST tion for Kevin Avalanche by pay- Cheesecake in the Bands Still going, in case you'd forgotten. CRUSADE ing your £1 and going along to the. Name Begins With ·.,r•"'""1 £2 2,5,8 Avalanche Christmas Party at charts. £1. 75 student concessions on all performant:es Calton Studios. The Shop Assis­ MAMBO CLUB except 8 pm, cinema 3. tants and the inevitable Jesse That just leaves ground 10.30 pm-3 am; Network, Tollcross Caron and the Desperadoes will be ingly mediocre and cliched New choice on a Saturday- African, calypso, CAMEO there too. Hurray for Kevin! hit machine Richard Marx to soca. Home Street; 228 4141 Saturday's a busy night for sincerity at the Usher Hall on £2 (members) £2.50 (non-members) NEW YORK STORIES Bobby Gillespie's jolly interesting day while veteran comib 1.130 (not Sun), 4, 6.30, 9 psy.chedelic young things Primal Satanists Venom keep the SUNDAY Late Night Double Bills . Scream at Moray House, wacky entertained. Go to it kids! Fri 11 pm: DESPERATELY SEEKING FANDANGO SUSANIWHO'S THAT GIRL? 10 pm-4 am; Red Hot Pepper Club, Fountain­ Sat 11 pm: FLY I/FLY II bridge Sun Matine, 2 pm Something to do on a Sunday. LAW OF DESIRE £2.50 No student concessions. Prices vary from £1.20 - to £2.90 depending on performance times. ·vIDE 0 F I L M HI f"' 5 MOSHPIT 10 pm-3 am; The Venue, Calton Road FILMHOUSE Live/Thrash music to end the weekend on high. Lothian Road; 228 2688 SElECTION OF FILMHOUSE Cinema 1: · FAVOURITES NOW AVAILABLE WEDNESDAY HEATHERS Thur, Fri & Sat 6.30, 8.30 ·.36 West Preston Stieet 136 ~archmont Road. BREATHLESS SALVADOR 1'9 Henderson Row 20 Roseburn Terrace 8 pm-1 am: Potterrow Thur, Fri 2.30 One of the best dance clubs in town - some BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED might the best (but is that the cheap beer talk­ Sat2pm ing?) MY LIFE AS A DOG • W\RNER HOME VIDEO £1.50/50p- bring matric card. Sun8.30 pm · *Trademark of Warner Bros. lnc.C) AV\ARNERCOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY Mon 2.30, 6, 8.30 THE DEEP TORCH SONG TRILOGY 10.30 pm-3 am; The Mission, Vic~oria Street Tue 2.30, 6, 8.15 Another Mission Club, in case you can't wait Wed8.15 pm till tomorrow. DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES Wed 2.30, 6.30 Cinema2: DESIRE Thur 3, 6.45, 8.45 LA VIE EST BELLE exhibs · Fri & Sat 3 pm, 6.45, 8.45 Double Bills: HAIRSPRAY & SUGAR BABY FLYING COLOURS GALLERY Sun & Mon at 7 34 William Street 225 6776 QUEEN KELLY & WAY DOWN EAST Tue-Fri 11 am-6 pm, Sat 10-1 pm Tue 7; Wed 3 pm Christmas in the Tropics · PLAY ME SOMETHING Watercolours of seascapes, tropical birds and Wt

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