Leeds FRIDAY, 25th JANUARY 1985 NATIONAL STUDENT MARCH & RALLY "JOBS FOR ALL" "£30 MINIMUM WEEKLY GRANT" WEDNESDAY 30th JAN 1.00pm - Eastgate , Leeds StudentINDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER Contact your Union Executive for details. CONFUSION OVER LEEDS DEMO PLANS FEARS THAT N.U.S. NATIONAL DEMO IN LEEDS NEXT WEEK MAY BE SHAMBLES It is feared that the de- vague. He said that he had and student awareness. monstration against been under the impression NUS Area Convenor. John grant cuts, planned for that NUS were Organising it Erskine, who is organising the next week, will be a but that now it seems to have demo, admitted that there fallen hack on the individual shambles due to lack of were problems with the cen- areas. However he was confi- tral co-ordination of NUS, but effective organisation by dent that the demo would he put this down to staff shor- the National Union of successful. tages Students. NUS Vice President of lie said that LUU knew of Education, Lesley Smith. said the demo last term and "it Arrangements are being left that the demo was planned people can't pull it together at to the last minute, and very over one month's notice, then tvw people are even aware that don't know what they need." the demo Is taking place. ' Tht- •te nn, it•celt -- 1 1.1esda.s's 01..1M was critical - of NUS's handling of the pro- darts at l Ulf p.m. DC-nunisl 1 ;1- test and its criticism was tors should assemble at the • Bill Cooke, Poly President, ponders the problem of OGM echoed by the Leeds Universi- 4)narry Hill Coach Park attendance at Tuesday's meeting. ty Union Executive. last August and had been ais- Lastgate Road. near Leeds Deputy President of LUU, cussed at the National Confer- Market, from 12 noon on- Glen Binley, said that he had ence last month. "there has wards. only received posters and leaf- been a lot of discussion in The march will travel LOW TURNOUT advance", she stressed. around the City Centre. into lets from NUS on Tuesday. and that he was not at all clear Asked why NUS had left it the fleadrow and then up into what was going on. "I'm a bit up to area organisations to Roundhay Road. finishing AT POLY OGMs critical of NUS for not giving make all the preparations, she with a rally at the Soldiers In the view of the farcical Suggestions were made as to us any information", he told said that it had seemed more Fields, Roundhav Park at 3.15 attendance' at Leeds Poly OGM how to entice students back_ It Leeds Student. sensible to co-ordinate the p.m. last week, when just sixty people was felt more publicity is A meeting was being held demo locally and disagreed A list of speakers has still to turned up, the lowest turnout on needed, particularly at Beckett on Thursday by the Executive that it would be a shambles. he finalised. but should in- . City Site, an emergency open Park, with the setting_ up of a to discuss the demo and plan a She said that there had been clude Steve Morgan from meeting was held on Tuesday to publicity committee. There was large campaign. planning since before Christ- NUS. Alastair McRae from suggest any improvements that a move in favour of raising President of LPSU, Bill mas. and seemed to lay the NUPE, a member of NUT can be made to the OGMs and more controversial subjects, and Cooke. agreed that details of blame on the individual Un- and possibly a spokesman the Union generally. having guest speakers after the demo were confused and ions for the lack of publicity from Yorkshire NUM Ar present the OGAls are held meetings. A coach service to fer- on alternate fortnights at City ry students to OGMs from each Site and Beckett Park, with 100 site was proposed, but Treasurer people required to make the Kieran Stevens said the last meeting quorum.. However Pres- coach which ran carried only ident Bill Cooke said he could one person. not remember one quo rate meet- Points were also raised over ing at Beckett Park. the general running of the Un- ELL PICKET Falling attendance was ion. .Many of those present felt A picket is being planned for the forth- people you don't debate with." blamed on former President students were intimidated to en- coming visit of Enoch Powell. President of LUU Martin Glancy opposing the motion said. at the OGM that the 'No Graham King, who threw out ter the Union offices to air their The Ulster Unionist. MP has been invited by Platform' polies gave too broad a definition of all 'political' motions. leaving views. To make them more the Politics Society to speak at the Rupert the term 'racist' and needed amending. little of interest on the agenda. approachable it was suggested a Beckett Lecture Theatre on February lst. secretary be posted onside to act Val Mason-John of the Women's Group The picket has been planned despite the defe- furiously attacked Powell's anti-abortion poli- as a liasion between the execu- ated OGM motion which called for the with- cies. particularly _on the morning-after pill and tive and students. drawal of the invitation and proposed a freeze said of the OGM decision. "lt just shows how There was also a need, on the Politic's Society's funds. This was sug- - right-wing and bureaucratic this Executive is, claimed one student, for a sepa- eested in view of the national student policy of rate newsheet on Union affairs The Vice Chancellor of the University Sir 'No Platform' for racists. Edward Parkes commented, "We must expect a and On explaining the Union set Rob Vaudry, President of the Politics Society up. wide range of views at University, but this is told Leeds Student "We are an apolitical socie- surely acceptable as long as there is freedom of Bill Cooke said the meeting ty, not cramped by party politics and added. had been very helpful and he speech and freedom of questioning." "A society is inviting him, therefore the Uni- The picket will meet ai the Parkinson steps would take note of the sugges- versity does not have to he linked." and aims to distribute leaflets in d II the academic tions, He gave a reminder that However. many students have expressed dis- the AGM will be held on Febru- institutions in the Leeds area. The demonstra- gust at the invitation. Paul Hubert, proposer of tors also intend to occupy and barricade the ary 14th, with the chance to the motion said in his speech at the OGM. "We meeting. amend the constitution. must not allow an opening for racism in this Charles Reed University. Debate is fine but there are some Paula Mason WHAT'S INTERNATIONAL PROSTITUTION * PLUS * HAPPENING TO YOUTH YEAR IN LEEDS COMPLETE LEEDS YOUR GRANT Pg .5 Pgs, 8 & 9 Pgs. 8 & 9 WHAT'S-ON GUIDE

PAGE TWO NEWS HOUSEBOUND HARRINGTON Crusade Against GOES FOR A WALK Campus Posters - •Harrington. we want you dead, shouted students who Lett/.s Student that last Frida■ events were 'hardly conduci‘e surrounded the NF organiser when he appeared in the to peace.' adding that Mr. Har- North London Poly canteen on Friday last week. rington felt it not only to he Patrick Harrington. a phi- avoid any confrontation with unpleasant for himself but also losophy student at the Poly was protesting students. other students and academic exercising his right to use the Ms. Tessa Sempik, Harring- and domestic staff. main library and canteen. It ton's solicitor commented that Ms. Sempik said that Mr. was hoped that he would res- her client would not bring any Harrington expected the Poly trict himself to a specialty court proceedings over this inci- Directorate to bring disciplin- equipped house not on the Poly dent because his right of entry ary action against those in- Kentish Town site. so as to had not been denied. She told volved. Possible action will an- ger the Poly Union as an agree- ment with the Directorate had ensured no victimisation of de- monstrating students. in the BODINGTON deal to teach Harrington separ- ately- The Poly Union is claiming victory in their campaign to get BANTER , Harrington separate lecturc . Monday night saw the suc- perience as Secretary for off the main Poly site. es en Northern Ireland 1974-76. he though the Directorate under cessful start of the annual tOresaw no immediate end to Bodington lectures. acting director Dr. John he problem of Ulster until Beishan have said the change Speaking to an estimated au- 'Irishmen talked to Irishmen' was for 'Administrative dience of 275. the Right Hon- meaning Ulstermen to the reasons.' Meanwhile the Poly is ourable Merlyn Rees, M.P. for South. 'Peaceful' in anticipation of this South Leeds and Morley. sus- In conclusion, he predicted Friday (January 25th) when tained his entertaining lecture that the nature of democracy Harrington attends his lecture on 'The Nature of Government' will change significantly in our in Philosophy. for well over an hour. Ques- life time and warned that we N.U.S. press officer. Colin tions from the floor afterwards must be careful not to throw 13yrne, commented that it 0 9 raised man} interesting points. away essential liberties with it 50min up., to Harrington to avoid an} FILM 5 Pe"Ar- His talk sketched a profile of Organiser of the lecture. Mr. more confrontation by keeping Vernon Morgan. warden of Sea without love, and marriage without commitment the process of Government in to the assigned house equipped Vaughan House, was very oft the norms for noclety. g)o you }Ave to nettle this country and stressed the with necessary text-books. and pleased by the high turn-out for this" A film of hie continuing need for democracy. drinks machine. Any visit to the vr. tn and the way the lecture was He was quick to point out the canteen, or library is seen as The Campus Crusade for Christ has again become the received. Plans are already in very pedestrian nature of being deliberately provocative. The the pipeline for next year's lec- centre of controversy over its attempt to advertise a an M.P. in Parliament. and the Poly Union has agreed not to great ture. with Denis I lealey being a film to be shown in the RSH on Friday 25th. importance of close con- picket I larrington's access to stit.thtnev pk■ssible speaker - The General Secretary of allowed in the Union, and sees the h.,use at 51 Iienw•ll Road , ...... Dr:t\sing. heavils ■.111 his ex- Tina Ogle the t itai, taken k•,,pt ...... most recent issue as way Mark McLaren to a poster and leaflet advertis- one example of their use of inn the event and has refused 'shock tactics' were racist and permission for it to he used on sexist issues are exploited to the grounds that it is sexist. the group's own ends. Los UNIVERSITY Umom The CCC have reluctantly. Regarding the offending complied with this decision. cartoon, Valentine Schmidt, Laurence Pusey, spokesper- speaking on behalf of the son for the Crusade, has sug- Women's Group, suggested O.G.M. Bested that 'a certain amount that it is an instance of the of victimisation of the CCC exploitation of male and has occurred since last year'. female stereotypes which may TUESDAY, This refers to the ruling of offend heterosexuals and Union Council that all CCC homosexuals alike. However in publicity he vetted before it is a sample of student opinion displayed, following unaccept- taken in the Union, the major- 29th JANUARY 1985 able references to Hitler in ity accepted that it was sexist. previous leaflets. but not offensive in view of Marcus Shelf holds the CCC's honourable aims, and - 1.00pm - Riley Smith Hall opinion that evangelical therefore justified. \(.:hristian groups should not he Graham Grimmett

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NEWS • WAIT RACIST GROUP IS TO LAUNCH Victims of A ANTI-BLACK CAMPAIGN IN LEEDS Direct The Leeds branch of the British National Act 1976 to Mr. Colin Sampson (Chief Constable Party plans to hold a demonstration in Leeds of West Yorkshire Police). MINUTE City Centre on Saturday, January 26th. Mr. Taggart sees the BNP as attempting to Action Three minutes prevented The aim of the demonstration is to protest encourage a breach of the peace. He is four potential National 'against the racist attitudes displayed by Leeds articularly concerned with the contents of the Portsmouth Polytechnic City Council against white people in the city. in leaflets and the newspaper that the BNP is Union of Students responsible for publishing. He feels that the Students Union delegates including the particular the ruthless eviction of white tenants from their homes by the Council's Housing contents are clearly anti-black, anti-Asian and (P.P.S.U.) has been General Secretary of Department." anti-Semitic. designed to 'stir up hatred against fined £16,500 for taking Leeds University Union. The demonstration is scheduled for 12.30 p.m. racial groups in Britain'. direct action against the from standing in the and will consist of a series of speeches by BNP Mr. Taggart recently launched an attack on the Leeds branch of the BNP on Radio Leeds. He Polytechnic authorities. forthcoming election. officials, D. Owens, the Leeds Area Organiser of the received a letter in response to the interview The three week sit-in last Marcus Sheff, Cultural November, which only en- BNP elid, "Now is the time for the voice of the from D. Owens. Affairs Secretary Julie Mr. Taggart considers that the letter is ded when a court injunction Parry, Chairperson of the British People. in particular the young, white. unemployed to be heard." provocative and another example of the BNP's had been obtained. was part Labour Club Adrian threat to the peace in Leeds. of the wider student protest Segens. and Sally Wright all He feels that too often in the past 'people in Leeds have sat back and watched all manner of D. Owens argues in his letter to Councillor against education cuts. just missed the 11 o'clock aliens pollute our city centre." Taggart that the British people never voted for a A cross campus ballot of deadline on Monday, and over 3,000 students revealed A meeting of the BNP in the city centre was multi-racial society. and that it was imposed on so their nominations for that over 2.000 Portsmouth planned late last the nation by a minority. He believes that this is NUS Easter Conference year, but was cancelled due to insufficient support. the action of a dictatorship which he said could Polytechnic students were in were ruled out of order by favour of the occupation. I n response to the BNP's proposed also he called fascism. the Elections' Committee. Dave Roberts, President demonstration on Saturday. Councillor Neil LUU Executive is planning to hold a Marcus Sheff, who was of P.P.S.U. told Leeds Stu- Taggart. Chairperson of Equal Opportunities counter-demonstration. Details will he released not allowed to take part in dent he realised from the (Ethnic Minorities) has made an official later. a closed session of the outset that the Polytechnic complaint under section 70 of the Race Relations Justin Hunt Committee because of his authorities would charge the declared interest, stormed Union something for direct out when he was told of the damage incurred as a result decision. of the occupation. However. The initial debate had the sum of £16,500 bore no hints of the ridiculous. Julie iMea to Aid the Starving relation to the cost of replac- Parry and Marcus Sheff ing the two ash-trays mislaid both denied that their during the sit in, he said. nominations were late, and host of TV stars gathered Instead the tine was calcu- questioned the accuracy of at Ike's Cocktail Bar on lated on the basis of wages of Mark Lindsay's watch. He Monday night to raise funds staff sent home, staff who assured all present that he for Ethiopia. were idle, legal expenses and checked his watch by 'the 'incidentals'. pip every day'. Mark denied Cast members of Dave Roberts has asked that the issue was petty, 'Coronation Street', the Polytechnic's finance "We either follow the rules 'Emmerdale Farm' and officer to present him with a to the letter, or the debate 'Brookside', together with more detailed breakdown of could become half a the sums involved. The F.mlyn Hughes and celebrated £8,500 for tricidentitWohis- minute, half a second, half argued was particularly du- a vote or even does it inside, while outside crowds swelled. bious. matter?" 'The N. U.S Executive Marcus Shell saw the Over £6,000 was raised as commented: "The inciden- whole issue as politically staff donated all wages, tips tals are quite clearly a case of motivated. Marcus. Adrian and evening's takings. incidentally we v,ant to take and Sally are all members away your right to take of the Labour Club. Marcus direct action." accused Mark Linsay. a Jim Doran. National member of the Union Secretary of N.U.S.. re- Conservative Association. garded the outcome of the of 'unjust political GRADUATE NUMBERS GO DOWN fine as a test case, which if motivation'. He also argued This summer the number ments Services, according to gineering and Computer Scien- successfully imposed would that his removal from the ce. Mr. Brian Putt of the be interpreted by other col- meeting made it inquorate. of graduates will be down the Guardian. Only increased output from C.S.U. says "as soon as the leges as a green light to Mark Linsay argued that and there will be fewer attack and undermine their the only way to avoid polytechnics and colleges will economy takes off there with the skills that the keep the predicted total within going to be an immence shor- student union. political bias was to stick to The issue is of particular Government believes the a thousand of last summers re- tage of graduates. especially on t he rules. "1'11 treat concern, said Dave Roberts - everyone the same . was his country needs. cord output of 91.5M first de- the Electronics side," because the Director of the claim. gree students. The Governments Butcher Polytechnic chairs the Com- Report estimated a shortfall in Justin Ash Despite the attempts by the mittee of Polytechnic Direc- Government to switch the information technology gradu- tors. emphasis from Arts to Science ates of 5,000 by 1987/8, and N U S. and P. P.S. U. and Technology, there will be many people think this is a se- organised a demonstration fewer Engineering and Tech- rious under estimate. on Wednesday to show the c usticksforbooks nology students graduating The Government is providing national support for the stu- than last year with the overall special funding for teaching and dents at Portsmouth total of graduates in these fields research in universities and col- Polytechnic. However, Dave PAPERBACKS falling below 14,000 for the first leges in an attempt to boost the Roberts expressed disillu- time since 1981. number of graduates in In- sionment with the N.U.S. FROM FRANCE According to the report this formation Technology. since "they haven't got the was the year when the students Most experts think this is not faintest idea how to organise Come end see our large Exhibit!On missing from Salford, and other enough either in terms of the a campaign'. to Celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Universities hard-hit by the likelihood of a rapidly He was also asked to con- 'Hachette in the UK' Governments 1981 cuts in uni- accelerating demand for these firm that no department graduates, or in terms of the would levy charges against Books rrom France's !siding publiehere Inciuding versity funding, would have students in the pursuit of Hachette, Bordea. Folio. Oct. de Poche. graduated. Salford is a Tech- systems willingnes to provide their course, and that Presses Pocket, OaIllmard, Latousse, Flammarlon nological university with the even more quickly. charges already made would and Liss Editions de MineII majority of degree programmes £19 million input from the be refundable. Finally the An books are lot sale vocational and professional. Government would allow Sal- P.P.S.U. demanded that the 24th January to 2nd March The national interest requires ford University to turn out 52► Polytechnic would make an In the Blenheim Room at a vast increase in the output of IT. graduates a year with the assurance that in future Halls AUSTICKS UNIVERSITY BOOKSHOP graduates in Electronic En- full support of industry. of Residence fees would rise 21 Blenheim Terrace. Woodhouse Lane. Leeds These facts were published in through the development of no higher in percentage Monday to Saturday 8.45 to 5.30 a report by the Central Services education and training. terms than the student grant Unit for Careers Appoint- Julie Smith each year, and that this years increase in Hall fees of 4.5% would be withdrawn. BOOK SALE A VIEW OF A ROOM The President of Leeds now on at Polytechnic Students Union ALL AUSTICKS BOOKSHOPS seeds Student will shortly be running an occasional series of Bill Cooke has written a let- articles on more unusual aspects of student accommodation. ter to P.P.S.U. expressing Thousands of hooks at half price and less his solidarity. If you think a room in your house is stylish, unusual, or just A working party is to meet MUST END SAT. 2nd FEB. plain crazy, then we are interested in hearing from you. in February to discuss these So, if you feel that your room is something to be proud of, two demands. contact Donat in the Leeds Student office, or ring her on Mala Perera c usticksforbooks Leeds 782723. THE EDITOR, LEEDS STUDENT, LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION, P.O. BOX 157, LEEDS LS1 1UH / All contributions must be recersed be this Tuosdery helots publication) Slandering Islam The Ethior refae.eS Ore rk9h, re emir !Ewers ler reasons Di spare Of WherW ,Se Dear Editor. ity of Afghan Mujahideen are good believe in spreading Islam by the Ref. 'Everyman', BBC I 10.15 p.m. practising Muslims and as such sword or through missionary work. Sunday, December 6th. would not behave in the way the The Prophet Muhammad, may the am deeply distressed at the 'Everyman' report would have us peace and blessings of Allah he LETTERS to the falsity of the 'Everyman' report on believe. upon him, taught us to convey the Afghanistan. It conveyed the mes- The ICRC is just one of the message of Islam through kindness sage that the Afghan Mujahideen many relief organisations working and example. show no mercy to the Russian sol- in Pakistan. As well as the Interna- EDITOR In all fairness, I wish my com- diers that they capture and that tional Red Crescent there are ments to be published in order that they are forcibly converted to scores of highly qualified Muslim Islam. This is pure slander against doctors providing free treatment to the readers may have the oppor- the divine and just faith of Islam: it the victims of the war. The Mus- tunity to judge between the worries me that the BBC should lims of Pakistan have accepted teachings of Islam as practised by RENT STRIKE IS good Muslims and those that the lower themselves to such a depth. their brothers-in-Islam from Almost 1,400 years before the Afghanistan with warmth and kind- producers of 'Everyman' seem to birth of the Red Cross Allah re- ness, not just a hundred of them, or believe in. I also urge those with ELITIST vealed to the Muslims in particular a thousand but three million. If this little or no knowledge of Islam to and to mankind in general, the is not evidence enough of the com- read the books of recognised Mus- most humane principles of war passion that Islam teaches then it lim scholars of Islam and to talk to hitherto unknown. In fact, the means people are intentionally and question knowledgeable prac- Geneva Convention faithfully fol- trying to portray Islam in a bad tising Muslims. It will then become lows the teachings of Islam regard- light. very obvious that the West does ing the rights of individuals and the Islam does not agree to forced not have a monopoly on love, kind- Dear Editor, rights of prisoners of war. Islam conversion; one of the most basic ness and humanitarianism. One part of your report on NUS Conference (Leeds Student, Jan 18) remains the most just of all faiths tenets of Islam is, 'There is no Yours faithfully. particularly caught my eye - the part on the National Rent Strike. I practised in the world. The major- compulsion in religion'. We do not Anonymous remember quite a lot of debte_going on including the defeat of the following line from the original NOLS notion! "... the National Executive shall eii-ordinate and organise a National Rent Strike." (Composited motions document p.8). In fact all references to a Rent Strike were removed from the final motion on the New Deal. Strange, when only two days before the Conference NUS President Phil Woolas told The Guar• dran that Conference would approve a National Rent Strike. As for the defeat of the Left Alliance proposal to instruct National Executive to cancel any plans to hold a National Rent Strike, this was not voted on in the standard way (show of delegates' hands) but by a card Palastine Week of Action vote, the standard method used when big elitist Universities wish to Dear Editor, Hall with Palestinian music, food any or all of the events. squeeze out the FE sector. I am writing to inform your read- and poetry and appearances from Best wishes, A Rem Strike is both elitist and inappropriate here. It is elitist because ers of the forthcoming Palestine bands from other countries. Alison Pilling it does not involve students living in private accommodation (ie either week of action from January 28th Everyone is welcome to attend (for Palestine students and societies) renting from a private landlord or living at home). Thus the whole of the to February 2nd. FE sector is excluded, as are many students in other colleges (including The question of Palestine con- many at Leeds University and Poly). Thus the whole of FE sector is tinues to be important in the news excluded, as are many students in other colleges (including many at Leeds with the recent negotiations and University and Poly). Thus it could not achieve mass participation and action on the long-postponed Sound off on any could easily be a tremendous flop. It is inappropriate here because it aims Israeli withdrawal of troops from to hurt the College Authorities, most of whom are on our side in the Lebanon, and the controversial air- grants/New deal debate. (For Example. Leeds University's Vice- lift of the Falashas from Ethiopia. Chancellor attended the November 28th Grants Rally). Local rent strikes The week of action will include a subject. This is your could be more effective - they are similar to last year's successful Health daily exhibition in the Riley Smith Charges Campaign. Hall and speakers and films on NUS Executive described a National Rent Strike as a potentially lethal various topics including the Israeli weapon. It is. Potentially lethal to Student Unity across sectors and invasion of Beirut, and education potentially lethal to the New Deal Campaign. space. All letters to and repression in the occupied ter- Yours, ritories via-vis Ingram Satur day there will he LUU Delegate, NUS Christmas C'onferenee '84 a social evening in the Riley Smith the Editor are welcome.

LEEDS POLYTECHNIC UNAC - STUDENTS UNION - ELECTIONS WORK AMERICA ORIENTATION PRESIDENT COMPULSORY FOR ALL INTERESTED DEPUTY PRESIDENT IN GOING ON THE WORK VICE-PRESIDENT AMERICA PROGRAMME. TREASURER • Work permit not issued without VICE-PRESIDENT (Beckett Park) attendance certificate Entertaining and Informative Night NOMINATIONS OPEN: 1 985/86 Sabbatical posts - 9 am Monday, 28th January 1985.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE 5 pm Friday, 1st February. — FREE WINE AND CHEESE — HUSTINGS - 4 8 February ALL WELCOME

VOTING - 11 - 15 February at the following: INFORMATION POINT, CITY SITE 7 prn - Monday Jan. 28th BECKETT PARK, BAR BRUNSWICK TERRACE COFFEE BAR RAVEN THEATRE SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY - WOODHOUSE LANE COFFEE BAR NEWS PAGE FIVE WHAT ARE WE MARCHING FOR The grants proposals at the And were the concessions much of end of last year created the a climbdown? sort of widespread anger The turnout on the London demo was obviously a big surprise to among students that few of everyone involved (hence the hope- today's generation had less organisation), but it was not seen before in the student the demonstration that really movement. changed the Government's mind, rather the anger of backbench Education Secretary, Keith Tories, worried about the effect that Joseph's plan announced with the the proposals would have on their mini-budget was to abolish the middle class voters, minimum grant, increase the scale While the NUS may have had of parental contributions and lastly talks with Keith Joseph, it is gener- to introduce fee paying for middle ally held that their organisation of and upper income bracket parents. the grants campaign was ineffi- It was the last element that created cient, mostly so in the shambles at the problems for Keith Joseph, as it the grants demo, at which there not only incurred the wrath of some were a minimal number of ste- radical students, but a large propor- wards, and little direction of the tion of parents (Tory voters) and demonstration as a whole, Tory backbenchers (upper income The talks with Keith Joseph led to bracket parents). no change, although this is In Leeds hardly a murmur of sup- obviously due to the attitude of the port was heard, with many ember- Government than the NUS. rased faces among the student Nevertheless, whatever the Tories, the lone voice of support reasons for the concessions, it is coming from Poly Director, Patrick quite apparent, that next year stu- Nuttgens, who called it 'an extraor- dents will be worse off than this dinary act of socialism.' year, when they are already poorer The culmination of the pressure than last year. put on Keith Joseph, through the The effect of the Government's Tory backbench petition and the proposals is that the losses to stu- confused but large student demon- dent grants over the last two years stration in December, was that the are now gone forever, as the NUS • Student militancy ten years ago Since then the student maintena r.• qr ar r ha;, Ae erl Government dropped the unpopu- congratulate themselves on a great cut be over 10% III real terms. lar idea of fee-paying. The national Government defeat. The last event in the saga is the Leeds this Wednesday. press and Government opponents Travel grants and the minimum NUS demo planned for January Hopefully it won't be a failure, heralded this as one of the biggest grant have disappeared, grants 30th in North East Leeds (Keith and it will motivate the student Government defeats since 1979. have declined in real terms, and the Joseph's constituency). The fast movement for a year's opposition Added to this the NUS claimed a campaign for a grant for FE stu- thing that this campaign needs is to grant cuts - in the meantime NUS victory, as they went to their first dents now seems increasingly un- another flop, but it appears that the had better make sure that the cam- meeting with an education secret- likely. To add to this, Keith Joseph planning has been left to the last paign has some effective lead- ary for six years. has made several hints about the minute with total confusion as to ership. However, were the concessions a introduction of a loan scheme to who is organising what, and the result of NUS, or student action? replace grants. official NUS posters only arriving in Deb Lyttleton DEGREE Inquiry Request Over FCS Antics Internal investigations able to the main Party. dent organisation which would Federation has consistently within the Federation of These recommendations fol- mean it could no longer take been criticised as having no in- part in Future NUS activities. terest in students, due to Right- Conservative Students are low the sabotage tactics of some FOR LEN Tory militants at the NUS con- Other critics include Mr. Ed- wing activities. This report is to take place following dis- ference which, according to the ward Heath, the Federations trying to show that FCS is in- Vice-President, who is likely to terested." Len Murray is to receive an ruptive action by some of report. 'damaged the good honourary degree from its members at the Christ- name of the party among stu- be sacked after their April con- Mark Lindsey, LUU Leeds University this year mas NUS conference. dents.' ference. following his refusal to Treasurer and Regional Chair- FCS is the Conservative Par- resign. man of Yorkshire FCS conde- making him a Doctor of John Selwyn Gummer, ty's official student wing. and This is the second time the mned the actions of militants at Law. Chairperson of the Tory Party receives financial support from Federation has been investi- the conference as being 'against General Secretary of the has been asked to look into the central party funds. "FCS said gated: in 1982 it was repri- everything the Party stands TUC for over ten years, he matter by Mr. Mike Hall, an they wouldn't spend money on manded after allegations of for'. However he did not be- retired in 1984 and has just FCS national committee mem- the NUS conference but vote-rigging at its conference. lieve_ that FCS would he se- been made a We peer in this ber; Mr. Chris Davies, the only obviously they did", Mike Hall The severest result of the report vered from the main Party. year's Honours' List. Conservative on the NUS ex- said. would he for the FCS to be Though it would undergo a The degree ceremony will ecutive; and Mr. Simon Nundy, totally ostracised from the main 'hefty investigation'. which he take place on Tuesday, May chairman of London Conserva- The money, he continued. party, and thus from the stu- hoped would cause FCS to be- 14th and the Chancellor of tive Students. was spent on leaflets, such as dent movement as a whole. come more representative of the University, the Duchess The three have completed a the deliberately provocative Mike Hall commentated. "It's students aims. of Kent, will be there to report documenting FCS activi- 'Victory to South Africa'. the already largely ostracised. The John Tague confer the degrees. ties at the conference: Mike Gordon Liddy Guide to Dis- Among the other notable Hall told Leeds Student that ruption of NUS Conference. recipients of the 1985 hon- the report concluded that FCS and others. These leaflets car- ourary degrees are the Lord should 'take a constructive part ried comments such as 'Some LECTURERS PREFER Mayor of Leeds, the Roman in future conferences, or no will say that we are only here to Catholic Bishop of Leeds part at all.' Disrupt. This is entirely cor- `SELECTIVE COURSES' and John Piper, the famous It also calls for an investiga- rect.' artist and poet. tion into FCS financial activities Phil Woolas, NUS President Teachers in Higher Education support closure of univer- Rear Shtasel and for the National Commit- is to press for FCS to lose its sities, polys and F.E. Colleges on the government cuts tee officer to be more answer- recognition as an official stu- `danger list' according to an NOP survey carried out for the Times Higher Educational Supplement. The random sample of 743 H, E. Institutions produced surpris- ing results. If present education policies continue. over half the academics preferred selected closures rather than 'across the board' cuts, although nearly all werecritical of the effect of cuts on wharf Est vegetarian cafe teaching and higher education. LUU Education Sec. Marcus Killick described the report as 'damaging'. "It gives the wrong impression. that academics don't give a pm. Wed. 12 - 2.30 pm Open: Mon. to Sat. 12-4 damn and they do", he told Leeds Student. "It's a classic example - MOROCCAN CUISINE of the media trying to make a big thing out of a pointless survey. The difference between Arts and Science views were also February every Saturday evening in highlighted by the survey. With the decline in the number of Open 7 - 9.30 pm —Please Book eighteen year olds, the possibility of lowering entry qualifications to keep up numbers was strongly rejected by the Sciences while MEXICAN FOOD EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT! accepted by the Arts - a finding which again Marcus opposed. . Open 6.30 - 10 pm. No booking necessary "What good are brilliant academic facilities when there are no students? Scientists think they're in a privileged position but it's 17- 19 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7E0.. been shown by previous cuts that they're not." Telephone (0532) 449588 Other findings included calls for more attention to pan time A registered worker's co-operative students, rejection of two year degree schemes and maintenance of external exams. Gill Webber PAGE SIX *** Pla OF THE WEEK FORTY MINUTES TELLY 'Talking Proper' BBC 2 9.30 p.m. Thursday At last, a documentary which took a definitive look at the die-hard, deep-seated prejudices against regional accents and brought to our screens both RADIO sides of a spectrum, in which accent is either a ANY QUESTIONS natural, linguistic phenomenon or a deviant, a Tonight, 8.45 to 9.30 p.m. mark of social inferiority. Robert Maxwell joins Derek On the one hand we had the Devon Society Jameson and MPs Sir Ed- ward du Cann and Doreen whose main purpose was to stay loyal to the Miller to answer questions beloved vernacular, (one man quite rightly took from the Wolverhampton au- umbrage when a shop assistant corrected his three dience. year old son on the pronunciation of the word WEEKEND TELEVISION 'head') and on the other hand, a Language Group Friday at 11.15 p.m. on Chan- whose prejudices about 'non-standard' accents can nel 4 ERASERHEAD. Con- at best be described as prescriptive in the extreme. troversial but nevertheless highly acclaimed dreams- cape which should only be il you WHAT JOHN?" watched by those with a sturdy constitution and an I interest in psychology. As you might have guessed, this particular LWT group's idea of what they saw as 'correctness' in 8.45 to 9.45 p.m. the excel- pronunciation, (thus presupposing that it exists) is lent BEIDERBECKE AFFAIR - manifested in what is commonly referred to as BBC filmed in and around Leeds English or RP (received pronunciation) and of (many people recognised the course this is based on southern English also laundrette in Woodhouse the other week) and with the known as 'Standard English'. welcome comeback of Such labels, suggest linguists A.C. Gimson and James Bolan as Trevor. (Pic- Peter Trudgill of Reading University, do more harm tured left). than good and they point out that such notions of • "No there's nobody in 3B smart pr,.mgh to tie a knot.' SPITTING IMAGE 'correctness' should be associated more with social Sunday C4 10.00 p.m. In- stigma and have no meaning in the study of ling- novative and at times bril- uistics. liantly satirical fare of wax- Elevated by bitter pronouncements of first-hand 1300KWO work celebrities. Not so hot 1 A Woman of Substance - Barbara 9 Gremlins - George Gape last week but still not to be discrimination from Peter Bowles and Janet Street- Taylor-Bradford (Granada £2.95) (Corgi £1.95) missed. Porter, 'People always assume I'm thick because of 2 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - 10 Berlin Game - Len Deighton MIDWEEK MUST my accent', 'Talking Proper' certainly provided Sue Townsend (Methuen £1.70) (Granada £1.95) food for thought. 3. The French Collection - Arthur THE MISTRESS Eperon (Pan/BBC £4.95) Also don't forget! A private function Carla Lane's new comedy Paula Mason 4 The Name of The Rose - Umberto by Alan Bennett and Amadeus by Peter which stars Felicity Kendall Eco (Picador £2.95) Shaffer are out in paperback too - E3 95 as the sympathetically por- PLUS DEFINITELY DONT FORGET THAT THE Ken Horn's Chinese Cookery Faber and Faber and £2 50 Penguin trayed 'other woman' and ABC CINEMA 1S DOING A SPECIAL CONCES- (BBC £5.25) respectively Jane Asher (who no doubt SION FOR STUDENTS ON THE FOLLOWING 6 Gnostbusters - Larry Milne And the last word from V S. wisely turned down a part in FILMS: (Coronet f1.75) Pritchett, President of the Society of her ex's home-spun block- 7 Dune - Frank Herbert Authors whose judgement on the buster) as the unfathomable FROM FEBRUARY 1st 'AMADEUS' (New England Library £2.50) proposed tax on books is, 'I hope the wife. Jack Galloway plays FROM FEBRUARY 8th DAVID PUTTNAM'S THE 8 Three VVor ,-, LIverpool - Helen Right Honourable 15% will think again the Shit. Next episode - KILLING FIELDS' Our profession can't afford him.' Thursday 9.00 p.m. on BBC 2. Forrester (Fontana £1.95) ENTRY COSTS ONLY £1.00 ON THE PRODUC- TION OF A STUDENT CARD SELECTIVE AUDIO FILM COMP. • • Next Thursday night is has won an Oscar. Gala night at the Leeds 2. What did the pig sell to Odeon with a host of the owl for a shilling? stars coming along to 3. From what Michael HI-FI celebrate the Yorkshire Palin film is the photo- premiere of the new graph (below) taken from. EXHIBTION Handmade Films release, Answers should be A Private Function. handed into the Leeds By popular demand, I'm again this month Just answer these Student office in the Uni- three questions and you versity Union (opposite demonstrating a range of BRITISH Hi-Fi could win a free ticket to Tetley Bar) by 2.00 p.m. equipment at their best including QED, watch the film with an on Thursday. audience that includes SONDEX, The WALKERDECKS, CASTLE, Michael Palin and Alan • A list of winners will be BLQ, DIESIS and more. Bennet. displayed outside the 1. Name one of the films LEEDS STUDENT office in which Maggie Smith from Tuesday lunchtime. Special show prices and some Ex-demo units will be available, carrying full guarantee.

LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION BUILDING COMMITTEE ROOM C 30th, 31st January and 1st February 10 am - 6 pm * * * * * * If you require any assistance with your hi-fi needs, I am available 7 days a week and can be reached on OTLEY 467689 — 9 am - 9 pm All the best for the New Year and look forward to seeing you -Roger • PAGE SEVEN THEATRE • A PRIVATE FUNCTION CINEMA • OPERA Odeon Its been a long time since anyone in Britain produced a really'good comedy - the last I can remember was Greg- ory's Girl. A Private Function is low- key humour at its best, with none of the cheap jokesthat TV and the film industry in- undate us with, and contains some of the best acting per- formances in ages. The marriage of Princess Elizabeth came in the years of sever rationing im- mediately after the war, and the setting of the film is the days running up to the mar- riage in a small Northern town. The local big-wigs in the forms of Denholm Elliot, Richard Griffiths and John Normington decide that at the celebratory dinner the fare must be roast pork - which is easier said than done. Michael Palin, the local chiropodist and his wife Maggie Smith are not invited to this singular event much to her, rather than his discon- tent. From this very basic scheme of social preten- sions, Alan Bennet produced • - ,- a script of wit, subtlety with GarIzooks Gilbert! I sense trouble afoot innumerable observations It is difficult to single out are plotting to put her in a has no sense of taste and sweet sherry-drinking Mag- about middle class aspira- any one performance, other home, was hilarious. smell, and contrasts the gie Smith, and the toe-nail tions. With Alan Bennet's ex- than the pig's, but Maggie The austerity of that era is greed of all the local inhabi- clipping Michael Palin. The cellent script the director Smith's performance was summed up in the gruesome tants, with a grim asceticism. production is carried off with Malcolm Mowbray has made better than any other I have Wormold, Bill Paterson, com- humour, which is both obser- a film that combines low-key seen yet and Liz Smith as her monly referred to as 'The It's hard to find fault with vant and accurate. humour with moments of greedy mother, paranoid that Gestapo' or the man from the this film, from the perform- hilarious slapstick. her daughter and son-in-law department of rationing. He ance of Betty the pig, to the Deb Lyttelton =41•=4P=atrosin=sim==.66,==.46,=1Aus==.6 10t=t1.1=4 1 ==11 F=. VINEGAR TOM by Caryl Churchill CHALK AND CHEESE Workshop Theatre The Whalley Range All This production of 'Vinegar Tom' was performed by MA Stars students in Theatre Studies as a group acting project and OPERA NORTH Poly Creative Arts THE THREEPENNY as Mr. Peachum dealt with it was advertised with an 'X' rating. Mike Patterson, who Studio successfully. directed the play, certainly made the most of the sexual OPERA Grand Theatre At the end the villainous innuendo and opportunities for blood-letting and violence. The mysteriously named 'Whal- hero, or is it heroic villain, ley All Stars', really lived up to The play is set in the 15th or 16th century when witch- The collaborations of Bertold Macheath is rescued from their name last week at the Poly hunting was very common and uses this form of persecution Brecht with Weill and Eisler being hanged by a ludicrous to make various comments on women's role in society. The Creative Arts Studio. Their 'range' of comedy was have supplied jazz and even happy ending. This was per- 'witch-craze' focused mainly on spinsters and widows; mesmerising to say the least, rock musicians with a fund of formed with suitably ironic women who were not under the control of men in marriage. their claim to being 'All Stars' standards to draw upon. operatic panache. However 'Vinegar Tom' suggests that most of these 'witches' were perhaps a little dubious, but one However it is not often that the plot and implications of not evil in any way but were trying to reject the hard was left in no doubt whatsoever we get a chance to see the the original are supposed to domestic labour and the pains of childbirth by which many that they succeeded in appear- work which made Brecht and be easily understood. The women suffered and to some extent still do. ing complete and utter WAL- Weill famous almost over- philosophy is best summed It was unfortunate that this production over-stated these LIES! night. All credit therefore to up in the line 'Food is the first A severe criticism perhaps? ideas. A rather less 'pushy' emphasis would not have de- Opera North for mounting Far be it for me to unfairly mock thing, morals follow on'. In tracted from the very impressive talents of the cast as a any theatrical production but I this production. the Grand this work was not whole. What was particularly impressive about this produc- genuinely feel this one deserves Anyone who wants a being performed for beggars. tion was the superb work which was done by the costume, it. Indeed, to use the term sketch of the plot should con- I sat in a seat which would set and lighting designers. The set construction in particular 'theatrical production' may be sult an encyclopaedia of have cost a paying punter added greatly to the 'rustic charm' of the play. unwarranted given the turgid music. But what of this par- £11.50, or £7.50 with various 'Vinegar Tom' was supplemented by original music com- drivel that was served up. ticular production? A single concessions. No doubt this posed by Helen Glavin and arranged for this production by A 'highly visual comedy' with set was used which resem- was a well-paid or at least Jenni Myhill. Again I think the Workshop Theatre 'overplay- t wo characters. 'Laurence bled a genteel Eighteenth well-educated audience. Use Loose-Leaf' and 'Florence ed' (if that is not too much of a pun) the musical talents of the Century drawing room, an of German meant that 0- Loose-Leaf' (no relation, Flor- cast. They would have been better selecting a few of the ence being Laurence's landlady) aristocratic lady was dis- level in the language was . 'period' songs rather than trying to turn it into a musical and 'eccentric costumes and turbed in it and remained im- helpful in following what was Although the overall impression of this production was peculiar garments) does sound prisoned in it throughout going on. that they had tried to do too much, it was nevertheless a quite promising... while beggars, thugs and Brecht and Weill intended talented and enjoyable evenings entertainment. The action (7) however, un- prosititutes enacted the plot the work to be direct. It is Michael Doole folded to reveal a man wearing around her. experimental not for the sake large spectacles, pyjamas and a The 'opera' mixes songs of it but in order to break the zipped-up anorak, fiddling abut with spoken dialogue. In the stifling conventions of the with torches and measuring version used the spoken operatic world. This is not tapes, occasionally speaking into a hidden microphone. Lines parts kept slipping from such a bad production. But LEEDS like, 'Do you read me7'.,. 'No, I Cockney accents into Ger- do Opera North realise that know I've never written a book, man and back again. Opera artsy gimmicks with the text PLAYHOUSE it's what you say on radio', trip- singers used to wonderful serve only to detract from the ped off his all too often used rounded sounds had to try force which the work has, not tongue. and sing like East End market only in the dazzling simplicity Calverley Street 442111 If that sounds remotely in- people. In some cases the re- of the music but also the teresting let me assure you it sult was a lack of clarity, words? wasn't. The play (7) Sat Al 11.15pm and Sun al 1.3(4.m purported to although Eiddwen Harrhy as 1 niil 16 Februsur be a 'spy thriller', an illusion 11,1,,de/ F rare, ;1...0%1 •urilfing uanedp Paul Hubert PARIS, TEXAS dispelled after the first attemp- Jenny Diver and Mark Lufton MAKE AND BREAK 5 7 {fir:1,1mi '' lm ted joke (7). I have been more %Ion: run Spun, m.11- 411 -30tml ‘latinet Ipen 'bat 16 FA) life ftun, an apparcntl■ vt.a..111‘90.m., entertained watching mould v.ho hciiana I. piece bin hie hark Drsl S 111111 FOR 74Eitt when fit In Munilmi with bin hrbuticr grow in an unwashed coffee sFASON ANII SEF 5 Pt 'Os FROM cup. . . €M.011. Nit K I P 1.1- 41. LET 11:,-filer; 11,766 1nu on Irt ttl W.- a rite , ,1. . I'd like to tell you more about 111051 V01 11 NEARF 1 61 1 AKDIANI. . I NFOR StATI I ( i I N. I 'Purr emerna ut rm best ' I .:41 11 1AI the evening's events (no room- TR1RtN f ED) but as I feel a yawn building FILM up and have no desire to be ionight at I ,111 I I , N, I 't II '.0! sued for libel, I will refrain from ZIGGY STARDUST & THE 111141.11 • •tl 111, 7bil S 11\ doing so. \(ii I lx‘io [TR Till Do you read me? Over and SPIDERS FROM MARS I 0 . , JI Pin( I VII 1 .4 0% 1 IR' I 'SUMP III out. ti.oid 0 NI I Pt 15' . Hazel Hutchison • PAGE EIGHT I •Y•Y peace, participation..

Remember the year of the tree? And more recently the International Year of the Disabled? 1985 has been desig- COIKERt nated by the United Nations as International Youth Year. 777— Essentially a non-political body and largely funded by the Government, the IYY organisation aims to give Britain's youth more say in decisions which affect them. Report by CHRISTOPHER PEARSON and RICHARD POLLARD. MI IS IMITIONAL YOUTH Ifilr The concept of staging an interna- and development. The third theme of development tional youth year was first idealised Concerning peace, the essential is divided into three areas - person- by the United Nations in the mid- non-political nature of IYY has al, community and international. 1970's, meant that this aspect has to steer Perhaps the greatest problem In England this has meant that clear of direct suggestion (such as facing IYY organisers is how to many major youth organisations disarmament) Instead it concen- specify direct action without up- have gathered together to form a trates on the slightly mushier setting the current Government national committee based in Eus- ideals such as 'peace within the who provide most of the funding ton, London. individual.' for IYY England. Preparation work for IYY 1985 was begun mid-way through last The theme of participation is to Further interest is provided by year, and a monthly magazine - be developed through stronger the transmission of NY-based Spark - is currently being produced community links for the young. For programmes on ITV and Channel by ex-Leeds Students editor, students in Leeds, there is a local 4. These vary from serious Adam LeBor... so far on a bi- committee active in the area and documentaries, such as 'Parents monthly basis! events and activities throughout and Teenagers' (25th April) to the For 1985, three themes are to the year will be publicised regular- six-hour rock spectacular 'Europe be pursued - peace. participation, ly, A Go Go' (shown early in January).

LEE DS 7 UNIVERSITY UNION SEXC Regardless of the current legislation and the anti-vice crusades, prostitution still flourishes. 'Clean Up' cam- paigns only serve to dis- Li G place the problem geog- raphically. Meanwhile, life on the streets continues as usual for the women of Chapeltown. This part of town opens for trade as the evening falls. Women lin pairs for greater security) begin to adopt strategic positions on the THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY AT 2.15 PM street corners of the junctions along Spencer Place. This provides I N THE REFECTORY an easily accessible route for the motorised punter. Constitutional Amendments must be submitted by: Mel is a typical example. She 5.00pm — FRIDAY 25th JANUARY has been working the Chapeltown area since moving from Sheffield Ordinary Business must be submitted by: seven months ago. At 21. she has 5.00 pm — WEDNESDAY 30th JANUARY been on the game since she was 16. The A G M is the most important event in the Union's calendar It is a once-yearly Like many of her genre, she chance for all the Union members to change the way the Union is run; a set of rules, became a prostitute after meeting regulations and rights that has evolved as a result of the decisions taken by students the father of her child - a ponce over the years. These decisions determine the way the Union operates It covers. controlling a number of women in the area. Once he had gained total (a) The aims and objects of the Union. dominance and the emotional de- (b) The roles and duties of those responsible for running the Union. pendence of the girl, turning her (c) The conduct of Union Elections. into a prostitute was easy. (d) Leeds Student Working the streets is not easy (e) Rules governing Sports Clubs and Societies. by any means. "It is a hard way to (f) Disciplinary Bodies. make money. The alternative is trying to live on £30 social secur- For the punters withou The A G.M gives members of the Union an opportunity to amend this document and ity," she declares own pad, Mel operates thereby alter the structure and direction of the Union. This type of work is fraught with room in a local terraced ho many risks, as Mel points out: only offer straight sex, no a The A G M inclues the financial accounts of the Union over the years, and gives you "I've been arrested about thirty or fellatio." But she points an opportunity to question the way in which your money is being spent. times, and up to now have paid some of her colleagues pit The A G M. also includes the General Secretary's report which outlines the Union's over £1,000 in fines." wider range of services. Legal action by the authorities The risks endemical to activities and development over the last year. I sets in motion a viscous circle - of this profession are well Any member can submit constitutional amendments and ordinary business to the the heavier the fines, the more the "You meet some weirdos the A G M and can question any part of the report. Constitutionamendments and hustling to pay them, which results take you to their place. - motions must be submitted to the General Secretary by the dates above. in more arrests and more fines. you up and throw you out Mel This is confirmed by figures you in for days," says she p kcn-tAmo.n.4 1 ;Zell from the National Association of are the risks involved," th% Probation Officers, which shows The vulnerability ysacofofis eq that twice as many women were in this way ar tailed in 1984 For non-payment of outmoded legislation, fines for soliciting than in the pre- tardiness of reform that ma lanwar! e. The mcuorsrtenptaig ALL LECTURES AND CLASSES CANCELLED vious year. For some, this meant osmg noinsgs t their children being taken into care.

PAGE NINE WHAT'S CAGING and development YOU IN? 111111111111Mbakiatawhis- Ivy YOUTH MET PROS PAUL WELLER Paul Weller, of Jam and The Style Over one hundred local IYY groups Council fame, has agreed to be have already been set up all over joint-president of the year along England, many focussing their with actress and comedian Julie attention on the two main prob- Walters. lems highlighted at the launch of Paul decided to become in- the Year. the lack of jobs for young volved with IYY because of its people, and drug abuse. potential. "WY is a means of bring- IYY organising chairperson ing young people together, and Janice Smith sees the year as a also a channel for development chance for young people to have a into things like workers - co- say in decisions which affect operatives." them. "We will do Our bit, but we He also realises that it needs the need the Government to realise how serious the problems are," support of young people "I think Strike Out every young person should get in- was her message, given at the It's United Nations volved with IYY and help shape it launch of IYY last November in Against Apathy International into what they want it to be." London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. At 1n'85 Youth Year the launch, hundreds of young JULIE WALTERS people from all over the country Julie Walters hopes IVY will give gathered together with trade- For further information on the Participation theme of WY young people a chance to stand up unionists, MP's and representa- contact the IYY office: 57 Chalton Street, London NWI 1HU for themselves. "IYY is our chance tives from many youth organisa- Telephone: 01 387 4777 to change things for the better, tions, all having the chance to dis- and give them a say in the future." cuss and plan for the future.

SHAUN SCOTT TAKES A LOOK LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION AT PROSTIT1FrinN IN LEEDS ELECTIONS ME? a man can lead to him being prose- cuted for living off 'immoral earn- ings.' Cohabitation with a working friend renders them both liable to prosecution for what is euphemis- tically termed 'keeping a disorderly GENERAL SECRETARY house'. Hence a major part of their social life is prohibited, culminating in social isolation, and forcing them to seek emotional security from the ponces - the men who they TREASURER & can least rely upon_ This is another facet of women's social and economic autonomy CULTURAL AFFAIRS being manacled to men. Mel, along with many of her colleagues, view the situation as a SECRETARY product of a stark choice open to many women: prostitution in mar- riage or prostitution on the streets. Some women see the only dif- ference as being that in the for- mer, the contract is long term with only one partner, whereas the lat- ter involves a short term contract with many men. NOMINATIONS OPEN They see prostitution on the streets as being the most honest 28th January 11 a m relationship, allowing no room for ; sophistry NOMINATIONS CLOSE The main civil rights issues ;r1 4th February 11 a.m. i volve the control of women's sex- t uality in a patrilineal society - in particular, the imposition of social- their Police action in this case suc- POLLING ON malies of the legal system. ly constructed images of what is ceeded only in displaying the prob- 'Jrn a While it is not illegal to sell sex deemed acceptable for women's 1 8th/19th February se, " I lem geographically, with the red as a commodity, the means of sexuality pal ght district moving from street to sex doing so are prohibited. li As long as the prostitute is re- .41 that street, Nomination forms available from the Porters , The edicts governing prostitu- garded as the paradigm for moral ride The women of Chapeltown have a tion, while consistent with turpitude, attitudes will remain un- Office, Students Union Building. yet to witness similar action by the Edwardian-Victorian attitudes, changed, propagating the status omen Leeds city police. , seem incongruous with the con- quo. r1OWT1. cepts of civil liberties espoused in In effect, these laws are class Mel and most of her colleagues discriminatory - working against ; they contemporary Britain. would welcome a change in the e beat The denial of civil liberties in this the working class women, who, present legislation Repeal of 1r lock area of women's lives remains unlike their more affluent counter- these laws would allow the • parts, do not possess the capital to These mostly unchallenged as a result of women to escape the stronghold the dissembling attitudes preva- invest in massage parlours or of the ponces, redress the injus- POLLING IN omen lent in society. escort agencies. tice endured, and would release Union Buiiding 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Mon. & Tues. For many women, the above ce of The legislation mandates local many of the resources of the Medical School, Level 7. 12 - 2 p.m. Mon •i the factors take their human toll. Many police forces to embark upon police and courts to deal with real Houldsworth School. 12 - 2 p.m. Tues. ree- prostitutes are privated of the free- 'Clean Up' crusades, as witnessed crime St. James Hospital rank in the notorious Kings Cross area dom to form stable human rela- ane. SHAUN SCOTT of London recently. tionships. For example, living with PAGE TEN GIVING n ME WORKS Sal Paradise tackles Xero Slingsby while Carl Hindmarch snaps his shutter

It was in late September last year capable of generating any interest Louis: "Contemporary urban that I first encountered the phe- at all in the interview although play- musk." nomenom that is Xero Slingsby. Of ing an essential role in the band, Xero: ''t wish I'd brought that Bel course I'd seen the posters but knotting together all the different gian review. We play Belgium a lot. had been too easily cocooned in musical strands. Louis, the quiet and you get,.." my world of pop to feel any need spoken gentleman bass-player, Louis: " _More exciting andl to venture out of what was safe who on both accoustic and electric ences." and warm. Suddenly and predict- bass provides the magic touch that Xero: "...interesting punters, and ably what was sweet turned to takes the band out of their obvious they've got really good definitions sour, safety became boring and references: his role in the inter- for it like Ithey both chorus) the friendly face of the pop view was to be the voice of cairn. 'Energetic, funky, speedy, free machine became a taunting fiend. to step and rescue Xero when jazz' That's about it really. Some- We all declared War on Pop that things went a little too far. And times it's like hard bop, and some- Summer, we all screamed no finally Xero Slingsby, the man and times it's a bit like reggae, and more as the pop machine spewed his music almost indistinguishable. sometimes forth it's latest offerings of Frankie, both are wild, tempestuous and on Louis: "Funky..." Wham and Duran. Many cried out the edge. Xero: "Well... dub..." Xero is. a saxophonist of the for shelter in the old cradle of rock; Louis: "It goes through all sorts turning to U2, Big Country, the highest calibre, not solely on pure of styles, but basically they ail re- musical ability but on his readiness Smiths, and the Bunnymen for late back to the sound of this solace, but how many actually to pursue intention to the barriers band." lose what you are trying to do Xero: "But a lot of the time espe- made It across No Man's Land to of form As the conversation un- that s different cially Pigbag it sounds like a very find the new battlefieid or Jan? folded he was wide open to any WHERE DO YOUR INFLUENCES Like reiugees of the War on Pop verbal trap and although quick to COME FROM? "It's only because there aren't basic funk bassline and drumbeat alot of us doing it and there isn't a we came to the land of the free criticise others he was unable to Xero: "There's loads of them with mike noises over it and they only to find the divisions that totally convince one of the merits really. I suppose the main one is movement in this sort of music think it's free music... if you took started the war as rife there as in of his music in comparison - contemporary jazz, the fairly recent that people shy away from it, be- away the funk beat it would be cause they ask what it's like, and if nothing." Pop. although musically there is little stuff I really like Ornette Coleman you can't say it's like someone In the world of Jazz the war has doubt. and Eric Dolphy; but Dolphy's thin BUT YOU YOURSELVES DO THAT else." gone underground, it has become SO WHAT IS JAZZ ? art is the main influence on the USING THE THROAT-MIKE AND a Guerrilla war a fight to revolutio- Xero: "People who were twenty group." WHAT ABOUT THE HARD BOP JEWS HARP LABEL? nise what is seen as a dead art... in the fifties and really used to Louis: "I like funk music, electro- Xero: "Yes but..." ".. It's alright, but it's completely enjoy having a really good time in funk, American disco, which is all Louis: "It's a different noise. The Xero: "It's a good label, except in rooted in traditional Jazz, which is their polo-neck jumpers... that's good stuff." actual content of what he's playing who it's applied to. I mean some so intensely boring and self- what they think it is. that's what when he's using the throat-mike people are alright. but most big defeating. Its just for fat old men everybody thinks jazz is. I don't! I YOU SEEM TO GET A CROSS- isn't just blips, blaps, squeaks and British sax' players are labelled iti at with beards " So spoke Xero Sling- believe there's a lot more to it. I OVER AUDIENCE DO YOU SEE IT bangs, it's actually constructive..." some point or others like Don Wel- sby, Guerrilla leader of this Parish, gave up having any remote refer- AS A POP AUDIENCE TURNING Xero: "I mean it's all part of the ler and Bobby Wellington, and who, with his esoteric brand of ence to jazz in anything I did for a ro JAZZ BECAUSE IT'S MORE fittings really." they're just boring old men who've what has become loosely labelled DEMANDING LISTENING? "The conversation then turned long time." lost it. I mean they may have been 'Hard Bop', has set out to dispell a Xero: "Well I don't really... that's round on itself with a question WHAT WERE YOU DOING THEN? good when they were 25, but few much vaunted myths and in an up to them to say, 'cos a lot of about the then newly opened Lon. they're 50 now and they've had it. attempt to bring jazz as an enter- Xero: 'Well.. jazz but I people say you ought to do this, don Jazz Centre." They never got any notice when tainment back into the modern wouldn't refer to it as that." and you ought to do that, and you Xero: "It's another of those they were doing it, but now world Louis then stepped in and ought to make it more accessible: things where they feel they're they've got some notice it's too Xero Slingsby and the Works offered a jocular explanation that and if you did this and that more doing this brilliant big thing for this have been together as a unit since failed to satisfy but I didn't labour people would come and people late because they haven't got any- thing to say anymore." music, and how important it all is: last February and are a three piece the point would dance, and it's, a load of but it's all doom laden sadness and OFTEN YOU REMIND ME OF consisting of John the very reti- SO HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE bollocks really 'cos the more you retrospective looking back and, cent drummer - who seemed in- WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW? do things like that the more you COL TRANE 'what a pity there isn't the atmos- "A lot of people say that, and I've phere that there was.' it's all to do heard his records, but I'd rather with the acadernisation of it all." people said that I sound like Eric Dolphy. if they felt that they had to Louis: "Did you see Earsay when say I sound like anyone else." they actually had that little piece on "We're similar to Coltrane be- it, and had a band playing inside it cause we use a lot of two chord before it was opened, and the patterns - but that's the only real band were supposed to be playing similarity. It's just there's such a jazz music. But what they were few people that anyone's listened playing was typical dirge, it's not to If anyone has listened to mod- even revivalist, it's sad really that ern jazz it's a joke anyway, be- there's all these people who are cause modern jazz means music playing something they call jazz but its not; and that was what from the '60's. Typical LEEDS was going on there. This woman STUDENT reviews of us in the was playing the trombone and it past have always said it's like was really good, but it wasn't lazz Miles Davis, because lots of peo- music." ple have heard of him." "Perhaps there is a point there SO WHAT DO YOU THINK JAZZ but in a paper catering for a young MUSIC SHOULD BE? readership brought up on a strict Xero: "It's got to be hard and diet of pop only the occassional exciting and make you jump " lau record slips through and that is Xero Slingsby and the Works to usually by either Davis or Mingus " my mind do just that Since this HOW DO YOU SEE THE WORK interview was conducted they OF BANDS LIKE RIP RAG AND have gone on to gain a residency at PANIC. AND PIGBAG WHO ARE the newly opened Coconut Grove CROSSING OVER BETWEEN Club The war on pop still rages :r JAZZ AND POP? 1985 and so too does the exodus to Jazz Now. more than ever, the Louis: "They're alright on they're time is right to brave the waste. first album. but then they tend to land. do what everyone does and sell out through compromise %" SAL PARADISE PAGE ELEVEN ac lineman coLunn

January tends to see few ing but it is an interesting, that is greatly improved by new singles released, though badly cluttered, flipping the disc for the which allows the many above average pop song. more satisfying 'Killed By good records released but Souzy Kassaye, on the Poetry', neglected in the Christmas other hand, does produce Slightly more avant- rush to make their pre- exciting, rhythmic, music. garde are Bushido and The sence known. 'Le Telephone Sonne'. Beautiful Pea Green Boat. Foremost amongst these which has spent six Bushido are the more elec- is the Associates' 'Break- months at the top of the tronic of the two, devoting fast'; a moody, string African charts in Paris and one side of their three track driven tango, pushed along all points South, displays to 12" to a long mantric, or is by a gently throbbing wonderful affect his thrill- it tantric, piece entitled rhythm box and a simplis- ing mix of the Zairian Fran- 'Beyond The Great Wall'. tic piano, providing the per- co, Rochereau and Zaiko { Dontcha just love hip- fect vehicle for Billy styles with Antilles drum pies?1 The other two tracks, McKenzie to show that his patterns to create a mutant 'Love Among The Ruins' THE HIGSONS voice and sense of melan- high-life style called and 'The First Cut' are a Leeds Warehouse cholia still have the ability Soukous. One day, these walk down memory land to jerk a tear from the mosi For at least three years the Higsons have been saying that people will get around to for Throbbing Gristle affi- they don't do 'I Don't Wanna Live With Monkeys' anymore, adamantine eye. Much the making three minute pop cianados. The Beautiful same could be said about yet they always end up slipping it in during the inevitable songs, and then where will Pea Green Boat hail from Prefab Sprout encore. This evening they performed it as a just reward for an and 'When George and Andrew be? Edinburgh and contrast Love Breaks Down'. More stylistic grafting is audience that, considering the weather, had come a-slippin' two attempts at pretty Doesn't anyone write and a-slidin' down to the Warehouse in suprisingly large attempted by Stephen 'Tin popishness with a long songs about falling in, in- Tin' Duffy and Roger Free- numbers. mystical and textural ex- stead of out of, love any- Of course, when it comes to keeping warm in winter, the man, ex of Pigbag, under ploration of the world from more? The best track from the guise of Higsons are a much better proposition than an evening at Dr. Calculus. the tin whistle to the synth- this double 7" package is 'Programme 7' mixes elec- home with the hot water bottle set on overload. Though the esiser, and from Hibernia on the final side: an tronics, found voices and a quality of their presentation has never faltered over the years, to Honshu. Odd, but not enigmatic, or impenetr- trombone in an ambitious the band have, of late, been slowing the pace until 'Monkeys' uncanny. able, 'Donna Summer' that but unsatisfying melange sticks out as something of an anachronism and 'Put The Punk Gordon Taylor owes a deal to Elvis Costel- Back Into Funk' and 'When Did All The Clubs A-Go-Go lo, but does not mention A-Went-Went' are omitted altogether. Aids. The newer material, as exemplified by 'Run Me Down', Latin Quarter's although even that is eighteen months old, puts more emph- ttlelflfilleflitlieneliftlirellitaletntiiiIM 'Toulouse' has a 'B' side asis on song writing, which is already excellent and shows entitled 'Thin White Duke' every sign of improving. In fact, it is easy to see that the RETURN which isn't about Lord PARIS ...... f16.50 Higsons may well develop i nto a potent and inventive pop i Byyron, but does slip in a AMSTERDAM . RETURN f16.50 force through a maturation similar to that undergone by couple of oblique refer- Madness when the nutty boys decided that there was more to ences. The top side isn't BRUSSELS RETURN f16.00 life than Prince Buster. quite the exciting rhythmic PRICES FROM LONDON BASED ON 2 PEOPLE Whilst we're waiting for that the band continue to present workout that I was expect- variations on the unique fractured funk that would have won SHARING THE COST OF THE MINIMUM fame and fortune for anyone hailing from somewhere a little EXCURSION FARE, AS PER THE CURRENT more 'street' than Norwich. In so doing, they remain one of PERSIL PROMOTION the best and most enjoyable bands around. Gordon Taylor HOTELS PRICES PER PERSON PER NIGHT Paris Amsterdam Brussels f6.50 f5.50 f5.50 — PERSIL PROMOTION — BUY ONE EXCURSION TICKET, AND aL3Urill RECEIVE ANOTHER FREE! • FURTHER INFORMATION FROM • STUDENT TRAVEL OFFICE UNION BUILDING - LEEDS UNIVERSITY PINSKI ZOO: 'Speak' ajalitipilitliplillliiiilill11111111111111111111ittillijli1111U1111111111111llit lti Unlike Rip, Rig and Panic's iconoclastic welding of punk and illijij jazz there is nothing outlandish about Pinski Zoo although they were both ostensibly part of the same 'new jazz thing' of a couple of years ago. The source of the Pinski's inspiration can be traced quite definitely to the jazz of the early 60's and John Coltrane in particular, In fact this slimmed down P.Z. Your reflects that legendary and totally brilliant quartet Coltrane led from 62 to 65; sax, piano, bass and drums - no frills, just a tight economical unit. Despite the obvious influence compari- sons end there; Tim Bullock is not another Elvin Jones and chance to Jan Kopinski is no re-incarnated Coltrane. What they do draw from the Quartet is an exuberance and enthusiasm for their music which is mouthwateringly infectious. Kopinski's sax tends to dominate and he is equally comfort- meet Kodak ably pumping out muscular riffs as delivering strong melodic lines. 'Awkward Companions' is dominated by a long, sinuous, sliding melodic figure of endless and gripping inven- tion. Sometimes Kopinski's 9utteral vibrato gets the better of Kodak Limited will be inter- him but generally his playing is strong and wilful. Steve viewing at your University on Iliffe's curiously tuned electric piano skilfully puntuates the tunes with stabs and runs but is sadly low in the mix. New We need electronic engineers, bassist Nick Doyne-Ditmas' wonderfully elastic tone and physicists and chemists for research funky style add a dimension previously lacking from P2. but more importantly he offers another point of focus from and computing, marketing and Kopinski who was allowed perhaps too much freedom on accountancy trainees. Your careers past recordings. service has the details. Collect a When the band gets as a whole they really cook: 'Blue Jam copy of "Kodak and Your Future" in Paris' is a rousing strut with sax, bass.and piano swapping and apply as indicated. We look lines and turning the theme inside out while 'Jump Out the forward to seeing you. Water' is a headlong knucklebusting rush of unified energy. On the minus side some of the tunes do meander and threaten to disappear up their own existences and Bullock's drumming is needlessly fussy and lacks focus, Still, another satisfying record from P.Z. which reveals more surpises with successive plays. If anybody has still not sampled this 'new jazz thing' introduction starts here. Steven Walsh phy, Bradford. £1, including tick- et for 'The Right Stuff.' Meet 2.30 p.m. at Cay. Bring Union and Railcards. Tickets for Boddington 'Holly- wood' Ball on sale in union at Hyde Park (752045) Leeds Playhouse BUNAC Kensington Terrace lunch. f19 double ticket. Friday 25th for seven days 'Com- Friday. Late show 'Ziggy Star- W.rk America Orientation; Hyde Park. 7.00 p.m. Palestine Week of fort and Joy'. Feature 8.40 Prog dust and the Spiders from Mars', Compulsory for all interested, bring contribution to Action 7.00 Trailer. 'Mr. Mum'. Late 11.15 p.m., 'Paris, Texas'. Satur- Raven Theatre, 28th January, supper. show tonight 11.00 p.m. 'La day 11.15, Sunday 7.30 p.m. 7.00 p.m. 29th January. Speaker on Israeli Lesbian and Gay invasion of Beirut and Film. 7.00 Cage aux Folles'. Late show Parachute Club A.B.C. (452665) Soc. p.m. LT21. Saturday 11.00 p.m., 'Trading Social Evening. January 30th in Places'. Next week 'Another 1. Gremlins - 2.15, 5.00, 8.00. Social. Doubles Bar, January 31st January, talk on 'education, the Oak. 8.00 p.m. onwards. A The Terminator. 29th, 8.00 p.m. repression and liberation - the Country'. 'Sherlock Holmes' 2. weekly event from now on- Smarter Brother. 3. Give My Regards to Broad St. Rag. occupied territories.' Also film. wards. 7.00 p.m. LT21. Tower Cinema - 2.30, 5.00, 7.35 p.m. Paris Hith will take place. Spon- Motorcycle Club Amnesty (458229) Lounge (751061) sor forms available from office. Mini-Bus Trip to National International 'Cat People'. Sunday 3.53, week ' Ghostbusters', 5.40, 8.10. Motorcycle Museum. 26th Janu- Cavendish Hall Monday, January 28th, present 2.10 and 6.21. 'Poltergeist', Sun- Matinee Saturday - 2.00 p.m. ary. Meet 9.00 a.m. Union Steps. January 25th, trip to see 'A Pri- 'Missing' in RBLT at 7.30 p.m. day 3.50 and 8.01, week 4.18 and Sunday - 2.30, 5.00, 7.30. £2.50 entrance fee. See vate Function', at Odean. Meet 8.29. noticeboard for details. Cay. 7.00 p.m. only 75p. Bring Informal Meeting Cottage Road L.U.U. Film Society Progressive Jewish Union Card. For anyone interested in post- 27th Trip to Howarth (Bronte- grad., research. Including (751606) Friday 'Blood of a Poet'. 7.30 Students Late show Friday, Led Zepplin, p.m. Tuesday 'Goto, Island of land). Meet Cay. 12 noon. £1 or Careers Service speaker and 'The Song Remains The Same', LOVE'. 7 30 p.m. L.P.S.U. Film Friday meeting to less. chance to meet current post- 10 45 p m 'Gremlins' week 6.00 Society January 31st. 'Fellini light candles etc. 30th January; Trip to National grads. January 30th, 7.30 p.m. r on p. January 25th, 24 Museum of Film and Photogra- Senior Common Room.

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Film Index *Exhibitions Another Country Trading Places University Gallery, Sunday 2 - 5.00 p.m Henri The film version of Julian Mitch- Eddie Murphy, the latest heir- Parkinson Building Matisse sculpture. ell's play makes up visually for apparent in the American star Contemporary Chinese Art. Yorkshire Post the verbal sharpness it has lost system, stars as a beggar who is Batley Art Gallery Newspapers from stage to film. Both Rupert made to change places with a Prints by Manet. 10 - 6.00 Mon- Wellington St., Leeds 1. R.A.F. Everett (Bennett) and Colin Firth wealthy but conceited commodi- day to Friday. 10 - 4.00 Saturday. Exhibition. (Judd) stand out well above the ty investor. Super performances rest of the cast, it is still, howev- all round, with a fine finale as the St. Pauls Gallery Riley Smith Hall er, a brilliant film about the suf- two men get their revenge on Stowe House, 5 Bishopsgate St. Monday 28th to Thursday 31st. focating effect of Pre-war private the perpetrators of the Trade. Willi Gilli from West Germany. 10 - 3.00 p.m. 'Palestine week of Exhibition of his art from when Action'. education and the problems of Poltergeist being homosexual in an all male he lived in Sheffield. There are weird things in the National Museum of society. closet, and the TV goes critical in Henry Moore Centre. Photography film Cat People this Spielberg produced horror Week, 10 - 6,00. Wednesday till and T.V. A few 'arm-wrenching' incidents film. Excellent special effects in a 9.00 p.m. Saturday 10 - 4,00, Princess View, Bradford. Tele- and a very different bed scene film that's designed to shock. phone 727488. Tuesday - Satur- plus Nastassia Kinski and Mal- The Song Remains day 12 - 8.00 p.m. Sunday 2.30 - colm McDowell make Cat People The Same 6.00 p.m. Until 3rd February, a film worth seeing on the big- 'The Royal Photographic Socie- screen. It is a pity that David Led Zeppelin film, so get those ty's' 128th annual exhibition. Bowie's music score is not put to platties on, roll down yer flares, and watch the lads go through NOTICE better use though. their paces. Would all Staff-Student Commit- Paris, Texas Gremlins Sofistifunk Promotion. 25th Utang Tumblers, tee members please see Educa- Probably the best film of 1984. January in the Refectory. 8.00 tion Sec as soon as possible. Undoubtedly one of the most 26th January. Sam Shepard's script, Wim p.m. till 2.00 a.m. £1,00 Late Bar. badly-written films of 1984, but Wender's direction and Harry MSRC Disco, January 25th 8.00 that all becomes insignificant JAZZ Dean Stanton's acting are all p.m. till 11.45 p.m., 60p before when you watch the central forty quiet magnificent. About a man, 10.00 p.m., 80p after. Eagle - Jazz Roots, f you want to advertise your minutes. It's a lot of fun, as long apparently dumb, found The Soceity January 25th. Royal society/club's events, then try wandering in the desert who as you don't take it seriously in Park - John Taylor the Leeds Student What's On any way whatsoever. January 26th; Tartan Bar, 8.00 Guide. Its absolutley FREE. then has to piece together his p.m., 40p members, 80p others. Trio, 25th January. past life and find a new one. Beverly Hills Cop Entries to the Leeds Student Office (opposite the Tetley Bar in Another bonus is Ry Cooder's Excellent comedy thriller star- GIGS Leeds Trades Club Jan Zila - featuring Dudu Pukwa- the University Union. or on the Music Score. ring Eddie Murphy. See last Termite Club - Bok second floor of the Poly Union week's review. na, Pinise Saul, Lucky Ranku, Comfort And Joy Bok. 25th January. Churchill Jolobe, Thebi Lipere by 12 noon on Wednesday. Bill Forsyth's latest film, de- Dune Leeds Poly - Club Eric Richards and Django Bates. scribed as a serious comedy. It Epic treatment of Frank Her- Terranean, January Saturday, January 26th e3.00 chronicles the adventures of a bert's epic sci-fi novel. Vastly ex- 25th. Haddon Hail - doors 7.00 p.m. Glaswegian disc-jockey, who pensive, and very complex... so gets mixed up with a group of much so that you are recom- gang-leaders using the ice- mended to read the book before cream business as a front. Usual seeing the film. Leeds University Union high-quality work from Forsyth, Ghostbusters who's previous films include I can tell you nothing new Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. The Terminator La Cage Aux Folles Ordinary General Arnold Schwa rtzennegger (or Delightful French comedy about however you spell it) stars as a a gay couple who run a night- bad guy from the future, who club at a holiday resort. Trouble travels back in time to kill his Meetings is in store when the son of one of enemies' forefathers. Violent. them decides that he wants to marry the daughter of a public Give My Regards To moralist, who wants to meet the Broad Street. boy's 'family' before he will con- Really awful film, Possibly the TUESDAYS AT 1.00pm sent to the wedding. The plot is biggest turkey of 1984. Paul nothing more than a situation McCartney in a fine advert for comedy, but the execution is letting film-makers make the films. N THE hilarious. I LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION RILEY SMITH HALL ELECTIONS This Term on: 29th January 26th February 5th February 5th March PRESIDENT 12th February 12th March and 19th February 19th March DEPUTY ********** PRESIDENT OGM's ARE THE SOVEREIGN DECISION OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS MAKING BODY OF THE UNION — USE YOUR NOW! VOTE TO HAVE YOUR SAY NOMINATIONS CLOSE ********** 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 28th '85 BRING YOUR UNION CARD POLLING ON Mon/Tues 11th/12th Feb. '85 *********** Nomination Corms available from the Porters Office Students Union Building Don't forget the Annual General Meeting on THURSDAY 4th FEBRUARY at 2.15pm POLLING IN. Union Building 10 a.m - 7 p m Monday & Tuesday Medical School, Level 7, 12 - 2 p m Monday IN THE REFECTORY Houldsworlh School, 12 - 2 p m Tuesday St James Hospital All lectures and classes cancelled for the afternoon. PAGE FOURTEEN aMmerly Matisse The Henri Matisse exhibition in Leeds is a first for England. For the first time in this country it offers an exhibition that is totally devoted to his sculpture. Fifty-nine of Matisse's subject matter. when he submitted his sixty known pieces are The inclusion of many work to the Armoury now being displayed in of his small studies Show in 1913 under a the Henry Moore Sculp- merely confirms my pseudonym and was re- ture gallery at the Leeds feelings that even the jected. City Gallery. Arranged 'doodles' of a master are His work and this ex- chronologically, the ex- treated as revelationary hibition, also support hibition spans over sixty and that the artist's the myth of artist and art years of Matisse and fe- name is far more impor- as the mysterious craft atures sculptural studies tant than a work of art of the elite. for his paintings as well itself. However, this is a Still, I'm quite sure as work tha exists in its long standing tradition that a lot of people in own right. in art dealing which Leeds are greeting the The work shows his goes back to the Re- exhibition's opening progression from Real- naissance and little can with some excitement ism (or rather Rodinism) be done to correct this because he is, after all, a to another sort of 'Reai- trend - as Marcel bloody good craftsman. ism' in which the human Duchamp discovered Carl Puttman figure has been stretch- CARL PUTTNAM ed and twisted into new shapes. These retain all the connotations of the VISITS LEEDS CITY flesh, its sexuality, sen- suousness and other ART GALLERY TO emotion, while achiev- ing some transcendence PREVIEW THE HENRY of that form through harmonious use of the MATISSE SCULPTURE line rhythm and mass. This is called lat- EXHIBITION tramella, a Tahitian na- tive term, defining an in- ner balance achieved through great struggle. A visit to Tahiti in 1934 instilled a great excite- ment in Matisse which is prominently reflected in some of the work exhi- bited here. 'Tiari' is one example, a blending in sculptural form of the human face and the pet- als of a native flower. While acknowledging Matisse's expertise in this field, I still find it hard to like his work which through its THE MATISSE EXHIBITION IS ON AT THE almost mystical nature LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY UNTIL lacks any really tangible MARCH AND IS WELL WORTH A VISIT! OPINION the evolution of the say movement: OPINION The reason Leeds needs a Les- tinues to encourage me in the pertise, and as much input in the overwhelming lunlethical sparks of hopeful light in the bian and Gay Centre may not knowledge that not only are general as we can from anyone tide, no longer expecting any- awful and awesomely vast be obvious, whether you're successful and lasting gay rela- able to offer, as well as the thing from others except, if darkness looming over the gay, straight or somewhere in tionships possible in a heter- financial backing from the City they're lucky enough, to 1980s, as in the case of the between these labels - (lucky osexist world, but also that and/or Councils plus fund- 'score' in the competition - the Greenham women, for one. you?). As a 'gay' man, I was Lesbians and gay men have raising efforts amongst gays in name of the game, of course, But whilst we worry about one of the people who began much to contribute to indi- the area. being sex. whether or not our future will meeting at the end of last sum- viduals and society, in terms of Provisions by a Lesbian and be taken away, the present mer to discuss the prospect of psychological and social de- Gay Centre would include Provisions by a Lesbian new and hard-won rights of velopment. counselling and information and Gay Centre would gay people are again being But whilst we worry Knowing something of the services, and ameans of social include counselling and eroded right now, and real about whether or not our aims of other Gay Centres such contact which is more ba- information services, and isolation has immediate future will be taken as those in Manchester and lanced than the clubs where - ameans of social contact effects on most of us in similar away, the present new London towards personal and certainly for men - you really which is more balanced ways that gay people with any and hard-won rights of political growth, and the fact should keep young and more than the clubs awareness of the past, surely gay people are again of their having support from beautiful than the others if you ought never to be able to being eroded right now Councils, it seems a time to want to have a chance of meet- count myself fortunate to forget. stop just wishing Leeds had ing someone who might just know from experience and Clive Spendlove setting up a community centre the same facilities have achieved a reasonable de- observation that gay society for gay people because my ex- gree of self-acceptance as gay and gay relationships can be I count myself fortunate pectations about being gay my expectations about and have come to some terms lasting and excitingly creative, to know from experience have been raised, and have being gay have been with the world's reactions to when gay people begin to and observation that gay stayed, higher than most other raised, and have stayed, him, If you meet someone like value each other as whole hu- society and gay gays I come into contact with. higher than most other that, a relationship might have man beings, and relate to ech relationships can be Idealism, yes, but I have wit- gays I come into contact a hope of holding together. other accordingly. 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Leeds Student Sports L.U.S.T. PISTE OFF slalom poles, jumps and a SKIING attended by some twenty- five universities. This year strategically placed tennis English and Welsh they were organised super- court! The temperatures Universities Ski bly by York University, and were twenty-eight degrees Championships 1985 held in Isola 2000. They last centigrade, far from pleasant Held at Isola 2000 for a week and include five even for skiers. As Leeds did days of racing. The standard well in this race last year, Early in January the frozen of ski-ing was even higher they were keyed up to suc- wastes of the French Alps this year than last, but the ceed again, but a fall in the were invaded by the Leeds emphasis was on the fun side second round ended their University Ski-teams (LUST) of racing. (Whatever that is!) chances. The second team with fifty recreational skiers. The first race was the dual had even less luck, and the These championships are a slalom, involving a highly ladies were unfortunate to race by the end of the week. Despite the extreme cold yearly extravaganza, dangerous cominbation of draw London (the eventual The results of the men were, and disappointing results, we winners) in the second once again, distinctly unim- all had a great time. There round. pressive and do not warrant was an element of razz- The second day was reporting. The girls, howev- matazz which made the week almost as cold for the team er, looked set for a prize, until a special one. We were even special slalom. This race in- one of their team was dis- lucky enough to have Konrad corporates many fast, tight qualified for missing a gate. Bartelski there to throw turns, and skill is needed to The final day's racing con- snowballs at. cope with the Cresta Run like sisted of three races - the In the final prizes, John ruts. The Leeds team met Individual Giant slalom, the Freeman of Leicester proved with little success, with the cross country race (reserved to be the best overall racer. NI Men's first team coming for masochists) and the boot London did well in the Ladies tenth, the seconds race (reserved for large event, and Leicester and nineteenth and the ladies footed piss artists). The Durham (O.K. Yeah!) shared tenth. Many of the Leeds rac- Leeds teams only entered the the honours in the men's ers appeared to have great Giant Slalom, where Judith event. trouble standing up for more Lunn proved to be the Leeds Leicester will be organizing than about four gates at a star, coming sixth, although the event next year, although time! Rob 'Funny Knees' Meinert- the resort is yet to be decided The individual special sla- zhagen did well. Despite upon. Anyone interested in lom was run on the next day. being a second team racer coming with us, as a re- In this event the racers do not with a start number of about creational skier or a racer, is have to worry about the team 700, he skied brilliantly (?) to very welcome. Please contact • result, and are encouraged to record the fastest Leeds time the Ski Club. 'Go For It', often with predict- of the day. Elly ably disastrous results. The Leeds ladies outshone the men in this event, with Belin- MOTOR CLUB AUTOTEST DRIVING da Fletcher finishing 11th, Judith Lunn 12th and Sarah The snowy wastelands of Tim Bishop slid into the Dixon 21st. The highest Mount Preston Street car lead in his Triumph Vitesse, LESSONS placed Leeds man was club park was the venue for this closely followed by Simon president, Rob Moore, who autotest held last Sunday. Hedley (Mini 1275) who was skied well to come 16th. Despite the compacted in turn followed by the lead- The course for the Team snow surface, resembling an footed Sean Noonan (Viva). apply for your test Giant Slalom race was long, ice-rink, the competitors had The endurance prize must fast and exhausting. With to somehow manoeuvre go to David Markham, N OW. . . temperatures still in the their vehicles around the whose Cortina had to be twenty's, several people had traffic cone courses devised assisted round most of the ring Leeds 401396 for details dropped out of the racing by Ian Miller, involving loops, course by several burly lads! with frostbite - one girl had to gates, garages and slaloms, Altogether a very enjoy- be flown home, and about in as short a time as possible. able event, and well worth fifteen people were unable to Cars spent more time travell- double-pneumonia . ing sideways than straight Tim Bishop KAREN HUDSON ahead! driving tuition. .fully qualified instructor Mull hour guaranteed GREENHEAD. .pick up service BOOIcr first five lessons £5.80 EACH then £6.50 PER HOUR THE ONE-STOP BOOKSHOP * Law * Accountancy * Maths * Engineering * special discounts for students & UB40 * Art * Poetry * Sport * Cookery * Paperbacks * • • • ALL UNDER ONE ROOF AT tv Karen 401396 GREENHEAD BOOKS The Bond Street Centre, Leeds. Tel: (0532) 434595

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