TRLBOTRKE GLASGOW GALLERY HER-ALD Old College I MODERN PRIMITIVES AWARD 26 Oct-23 Nov An exhibition of paintings and WINNER sculpture of a highly personal STUDENT nature by self-taught artists. Mon-Sat IO am-5 pm 1985 21.11.85 Edinburgh University Student Newspaper

A strong attack was made against the "enemies of light in our society" in this year's Ken­ neth Allsop Memorial Lecture, given last Thursday by Donald frelford, editor of The Observer. He attacked espe­ cially the present governmeht for their apparent obsession with secrecy. Terry and In a hard hitting speech under the title of 'Pressures on the Press', Mr Gerry Trelford made a detailed survey of both the obvious and the hidden threats to Press freedom. Mr Trelford opened his case by citing the phrase 'the half free Press' , coined by former Times and Sunday Times editor Harold Evans to contrast Press freedom in Britain !Wi th that of the United States. "But , if ten years ago, our media had half the freedom of the US", Mr Trelford said, "no one can seri­ ously doubt that our rating now is consiflerably less than 50%." "Lonnie Donegan?? Never heard He continued by describing how of 'im!!" - so claim Terrr and Gerry. those Jpveable pionCers of this freedom was being subverted the radical new musical genre tha~ by "the slow creep of bureaucratic Photo: Dave Yarrow 1he kids on the street are ca lling regulations that go unchecked", e Observer editor attacks government SKJFFtE. and mentioned in particular legisla­ tion such as the contempt of Court Act 1981 and the Police and Crimi­ -page6 nal Evidence Act 1984. Mr Trelford said that the former Hitting Hard Common­ had "worked in a more restrictive way than anyone intended, forbid­ He went on to launch a strong informed about what the governors told in official briefings, rather than wealth Games ding Press coverage of many more attack on 'the present Govern­ are doing in their name and _with checking with other sources: "no cases than ever before, with no ment's attitude to the Press, and their money." one has the time to ask where the right of appeal. " how this was influencing others in However, he said that this free­ truth lies." Meanwhile, he said that the latter authority to "gang up" on newspap­ dom is in peril from current repres­ In response to a question from could now be used by the Police to ers. sive political attitudes, and there the audience. Mr Trelford said that force newspapers to hand over would be little public sympathy for .ideally the ownership of newspap­ photographs of riots to be used in In particular, Mr Trelford sing­ the Press if the latter did not put its ers should be diversified, but due to evidence. The police are already led out Mrs Thatcher's attitude own house in order first , "by aban­ the "ludicrous" production costs of routinely approaching the Press for towards journalists. He saidthat doping trivilisation, politically Fleet Street. newspapers were not this purpose , "and some of the pap­ she sees those not reflecting her loaded news presentation, and dis­ seen as good investments. so prop­ ers, I'm sorry to say, are handing own vision of the world as "ill inten­ honest methods of enquiry. " rietors were often attracted for evidence over," Mr Trelford said. tioned and irresponsible. She is But even more alarming than other reasons. Thus newspapers Mr Trelford referred to the unable to recognise any honourable these tabloid practices was the sometimes become "playthings o( rece~t ban on the Press covering motives in her oppon~nts." shocking gullibility of much of the the powerful man with a need to be Zola Budd·s presence will be just nots m South Africa, noting that "if Mr Trelford said that freedom of 'serious' Press , Mr Trelford said. understood by the world." one of the contentious issues in the run-up to this summer's Common­ editors are obliged to hand over the Press did not mean special Due to convenience and the pres­ . Alastair Dalton wealth Games in EdinbuTl!h. The pictures here, we won't be able to privileges for newspapers , but "the sures of deadlines, many journalists (See editorial - page 5 Spor1s Pages examines th; appa· cover riots in Britain either." right of the governed to be kept merely passed on what they were and feature - page 14) rent lack of agreement between 1he various organisations involved. Edinburgh University • Conservatives expel MacMillan -page 15

bankrupt by 1989 Embarrassment Norman "The Government is going to invested in education which gives MacCaig make universities bankrupt." tangible results, such as scientific Controversial far-right Conser­ Stockton launched an attack on That was the radical response research, whilst neglecting cultur­ vative students have taken a further Energy Secretary Peter Walker·So One of Scotland·, leading_ poets ally and artistically educatitmal step to alienating themselves from gas privatisation plans whilst actu­ was 75 lasl week. Amidst the celeb­ of EUSA President Mike rations. including a mara1hon subjects. the mainstream of Conservative ally sitting beside him . ··If you Devlin to the announcement Party opinion by launching an abu­ could have seen the film of the din­ event in the Queen·s Hall on Mon­ This view was echoed by Mike day night. Jacqui Brown and Ishbel last week, of the planned Gov'. Devlin who is, at present, writing a sive attack on former Prime Minis­ ner, he was dribbling all over ihe Matheson talked to him about his ernment spending on univer­ pamphlet showing the value of Arts ter Harold Macmillan. other speakers and was just an !i(C as a poet. sities over the next three years. Degre!)s to society, which may be embarrassment.•· Devlin believes that if the handed to Education Minister, Sir The ninety-one year old Lord government carries out is Keith Joseph. Stockton has been life patron of the "Harold Macmillan:· Mr Mac­ -page14 Proposals then Edinburgh Although · the government 1s Young Conservatives since 1976, gregor said, "is now an embarrass­ but FCS chairan Mark Macgregor could be one of the first univer­ making major cuts in the grants for ment to the Conservative Party and universities, for the moment, stu­ said earlier this week that he was a to the country. There is a growing sities -to be pushed "over the dent grants appear to have at least "senile old fool. " The Times diary private view now within Downing Contents edge" into bankruptcy, possi­ partially escaped the Conservative had revealed on Monday that Street that his economic policies, as News 2,3, 4 bly by as soon as 1989. axe which was hanging over them. Young Conservative cronies had Prime Minister are directly respon­ Comment 5 Scientific research, in particular, Plans for the scrapping of man­ decided to scrap the former Tory sible for many of the underlying Letters 4,5 appears to have re·ceived the datory grants altogether, have been Premie~'s . position because of -problems which the government is Music 6, 7 most encouragement from the gov­ shelved and it appears that this recent, and well publicised, attacks tackling now ... What"s On 8, 9 ernment, receiving an extra £1-5 proposal will not reappear until at on Mrs Thatcher and her hard line Film U> million in each of the next three least after the next general election. monetarist policies. Arts 11, 12 Years. The financial turmoil which uni­ The former Prime Minister's Pri­ Classical Music 11 This news was greeted with the versities are being pushed into by vate Secretary also.spoke to Student Exhibitions 11 expected angry reaction from the government is very obvious at Speaking to Student from Con­ about the Times diary art~le. "Oh Theatre 11 ~~mbers of the Faculty ·. of Arts at Edinburgh. servative headquarters in Lon- is that in the Times? I haven't actu­ Features 12, 13, 14 tut~nburgh . Graham Townsend, a Staff who have either left or don , Mark M r said "Harold ally seen it yet, but the Earl of Opinion 13 g r tn modern history, called the · retired from the university have not Macmilla isgustihgly Stockton has no comment to make I Writings 15 , overnment "011.,-sided in what it been replaced due to a lack of senile, st era." fear." Small Ads 15 16 · seen as beneficial for society, and funds. MrM a recent Sport stated h t at the Conservatives only Phil Parr party Lord Devin.Scobie 2 STUDENT Thursday 21st Novembt:r 1985

AGM amendments for three motions Scottish science • f acuities gain . made available in coming years to Making motions Scottish Universities received a welcome boost to their Science increase student places at Scot­ EUSA Secretary Robbie Foy Faculties last week in gaining a land's technical central institutions. laughed off suggestions that large share of a £43 million Govern­ Mr Younger endorsed the gov­ ment programme aimed at increas­ ernment's policy of increases sup­ the Association's Annual Gen­ port for the Sciences with his eral Meeting on Monday might ing the output of graduates in engineering and technology ·to emphasis on the government's con­ herely have a quorate atten­ meet the projected needs of indus­ cern for "concerted action to alleviate the prospect of serious dance of 300, and then said he \J~N't<'ll 0 500 ,oc.lY-JAPIN~ HAl>'APS TO l'ILI. try as it moves into advanced man! shortages of skilled engineers and was "expecting over one TO CJ\l'llc:ltY "'NO l'UITS ON fR\Pf\Y .1" Noy. ufacturing technologies. technologists in the years to come." thousand" people to attend the ',111Tl SNIDY+IM.T. "'11NT Yo\Jll CONTll&I/TIOt.lS , Mr George Younger MP, Secret­ He also stressed Scotland's particu­ AGM. TO fl\l\\NE IU'.UH IN Fll'RIC.A. Al.l WE • . ary of State for Scotland, confirmed reports that Heriot-Watt and lar role in supplying the qualified The ten motions originally prop­ 1,IIINT YOU TO l)() IS TO TURW UP TO j Strathclyde Universities were manpower needed to meet the osed for discussion at the AGM in ·o,._ l'MlY IN NOWT 8\Jl' Yt~ KNltlCERS! . '" the McEwan Hall have been invited to participate in Pliase I of growing demands of high technol­ CMlll\TT IWn.iS ,~IIM[S >T\TltT.S '-TC.. . reduced to nine following the with­ the programme and will "thus able ogy, citing Scotland's importanc e BOP TILL TIIEY oaoP! 8,'T.C),1. Ff.ct\ drawal of the campaigtf for a Scot­ to admit additional students to new as a centre for the electronics indus- tish Assembly's motion. courses in Mechanical Engineering . try with employment now once The motion, proposed by David and Electronic and Electrical 45,000 in around 250 companies. Young and seconded by Societies' Engineering this sutumn." While no one is quite sure whether Edinburgh University is to. Council Convener Don MacCor­ Speaking at the 50th meeting of quodale, was handed in with 95 sig­ the Glenrothes University Industry benefit directly from the prog­ natures instead of the necessary Dining Club, Mr Younger also ramme, Scottish Universities in 100. When offered half an honr to stated that in Phase 2 of the prog­ general will have a more substantial find the. missing names and ·mat-' ramme almost 20% of the addi­ role in training and supplying qual­ riculation numbers, the proposers Two of the motions to be discussed at the Annual General Meeting of the tional annual university student ified graduates in the development opted to withdraw the motion. Students' Association on Monday night at.7 .00 pm in the McEwan Hall. intake will be generated at Scottish· of the engineering andtechnology Campaign for a Scottish-Assem­ universities - double what might industry. bly are already sponsoring another more strongly-worded than was who support the motion. be expected on a populations basis? motion - that which states opposi­ ,previously the case. It also calls One of the most eye-catching , An additional £14m is also being Jane Kelly tion to the possible closure of upon the meeting to "inform the motions that condemning Glasgow, Revenscraig and Gartcosh. press. of these decisions.'' Rangers Football club's "sectarian1 Three ofthe remaining motions Remember, you read it here first! policy" regarding the religion of its, have been amended. The motion The motion concerning the players, has now attracted nationali condemning the nuclear arms race Underpants for Africa hoax charity KB bus stops .media attention. A copy of the, 'now has the potentjally controver­ party (see poster) has been motion has been sent to the club. The George Square to King's Build­ sial reference to the ultra vires law amended to urge rather than man­ matter was first raised by the build­ One radio sports commentator ings Minibus link may be seriously ings officer to Old College, Mr N. (forbidding the Students' Associa­ date the perpetrators to raise £100 said, "F1FA (Federation of Inter­ tion to spend money on non-univer­ for Edinburgh Students' Charities ·threatened as a result of dramatic B. Anderson, in a memo to the national Football Associations) expenditure cuts hinted at by the sity matters). Appeal. Rather than proposing Dean of the ScienceFaculty. The have been into this, the EEC has University. The proposed amendment to their automatic banning from the memo, which was referred to the been into this: it'll take more than Speaking to Student on Tuesday, University's UB Committee, stated themotion regarding the Fowler unions if they fail to raise the Edinburgh University to change Review, suggested by the Labour money, the new motion refers them it." Club, makes the motion much to the Committee of Management, Jenny Dunn Lecturers act over cuts

The Association of University Edinburgh lecturers will be. great frustration and financial dif­ Teachers has announced that there among those lobbying MPs in Lon­ ficulties facing many members of 'l'ill be a week of action from 26-28 don on behalf of higher education theAUT." l'jovember in support of this year's as a whole. EUSA, currently heavily pay claim and in protest against the Professor Van Dome, Head of inyolved in preparing such prog­ Government's cuts in university the Economic Department here at rammes as the Fowler Campaign, funding. Edinburgh, stresses that students 1will be co-ordinating with the AUT University lecturers will be bal­ will not be directly affected during to participate in this week of action KB; No longer a bus destination? loted next month on whether to this week, as only those lecturers that the minibus service "no longer take strike action. Meanwhile, "on­ EUSA Secretary Robbie Foy Science Convener Paul Davies out­ who are free or able to reschedule serves its original function" which campus" activities such as marches, classes will participate. In defence comments: "The AUT has a valid lined the nature of the University's proposed cuts. It seems that the was to transport lecturers and teach-ins and stalls have been of the action he adds, "We feel it argument in that this is not merely a demonstrators only. suggested for the coming week. necessarr to draw attention to the pay dispute but concerns higher University are looking for ways to The Science Convener said, how­ education as a whole. Students cut approximately £165,000 from have the right, as 'consumers' of the their non-academic budget, and the ever, that some sort of coordinated Science Council Executive education system, to make the £41,000 annual cost of the minibus point but they, as the teaching pro­ service is a potential target. response was being formulated. A survey to consider "ways of using fession, have an equally valid The minibus provides a free ser­ Special Offer claim. Owing to the rather last­ vice for students, lecturers and the service more efficiently" is cur­ mii,ute nature of this action, EUSA demonst~ations four times an hour rently being drawn up by SCE sec­ may not be able to participate to the· between 9 am and 5.20 pm. Student retary Myranda Crichton. A uni­ on Kilt Outfit­ full, but it will certainly give the usage ofthe service is particularly versity survey is planned for next AUT its complete backing." heavy around lunchtime and early term, although the SCE survey is Christine Clough evening. expected to be more detailed and £159.95 Pau) Davies explained that ihe comprehensi'ie. Devin Scobie (8yd Wonted Kilt, Argyle Jacket, Bose, 11ashes)

Discom1ts on all Leather Brogues and Boots (£39.95). Squeeze put on oranges Also 10% off Arran/lcelandic An attempt to make the Univer­ the University to instruct its inves­ Donald Pollock, Treasurer of Knitwear (special student sity an Apartheid free zone has been tors to improve the implementation EUSA, emphasised ,that these proposed by EUSA. This follows a offer). All items of Highland ofthe University's policiy not to measures wduld have to be voted suggestion by Donald Pollock who invest in companies with South. a>n at a General Meeting. The aim pointed out that this would give the Dress. African interests which has been an of making the University an Apar­ University more Rexibility to cam­ existing procedure for the last theid free zone he hoped, would be paign against apartheid. seven years. This relates to current' to "raise a great consciousness" of The measures EUSA would like R.Shepherd investigations by David Clark, the problem. However, in his own to see taken would be an instruction external convener and president of personal view, he would like to see to the Careers Office not to adver­ ~ghland Bagpipes & the Edinburgh University Anti­ more stringent action taken against tise positions in South Africa and a .Apartheid Society, into the Univer­ Accessories. ·request to be made to University apartheid. With the general conj sities portfolio of investments. It sensus of support that a Genera catering outlets not to stock South .appears that a number of the African produce. This follows a Meeting would give EUSA could British companies in which the Uni-· organise Anti-Apartheid events t>fscoant: bfgblaoo sappcy number of students complaints, in yersity invests also appear on an particular over the selling of Out­ but this would still be ultra-v1reJ 7 Cowgatehead. f.dinburgh EHi UY. Scotland. Td: 031-225 2390 Anti-Apartheid blacklist of com­ meaning that EUSA finances coul (East end of the Grassrnarket) span oranges. panies with some connection in 1 They also propose a request to not be used and students would stil South Africa. have to pay for events themselves. Laura KibbY STUDENT Thursday 21st November 1985 3

News Devlin's good relations EUSA-to conquer·

EUSA President Mike relationship between students and Pleasance this December. Norman · EUSA for a more successful cam­ The EU Students' Association ouseholders, who currently receive oevlin, has praised the Harry Elwin , Deputy President, yesterday launched its campaign increasing amount of mutual paign. outlined developments in the a larger level of Supplementary against the proposals contained in Benefit. trust and respect which the SRC Standing Committees Unions over the past year, com­ the Government's review of social The SRC Executive has Association and Old College enjoyed considerable success last menting that new decor and security, recently published by organised the campaign, and plans have for each; this was "the year, with this year's theme being facilities has increased usage. Norman Fowler. are afoot to issue posters and leaf­ most important achievement of "going out to the students we repre­ Changes in catering, including veg­ The aim of the campaign, accord­ lets, lobby Edinburgh's Conserva­ sent rather than waiting for them to etarian dishes and the Chambers last year's Executive." The ing to SRC Accommodation Con­ tive MPs, and inform the general come to us. " Constitutional Street "Continental" bar ha·ve vener lain Catto, is to "raise awar­ general strengthening of rela­ p~blic, as well as students, about changes, including the new system proved very popular, as Jiave Scot­ ness of what the Fowler _Revi ew is the likely effects of the Review. To tions was well-displayed when of convcnerships are, says the tish Brewers products. On the EUSA and the University suc­ Report, to some extent still finding entertainments side, attendances cessfully opposed the closure of their feet, as the larger Faculty rose by up to 100% with the aboli­ Edinburgh's Dental Hospital Councils who are still struggling to tion of entrance charges, and all establish sufficient credibility Union facilities continue to be and School. amongst students. widely used. This is one of the things to EUSPB, it is reported, had a suc­ Donald Pollock , EUSA's Trea­ emerge from EUSA's rece ntly pub­ cessful year, branching out into surer, ended the report on a pes­ lished Annual Report. sport and women's and feminist lit­ simistic note, stating that the rise of The Report went on to criticise erature. This year four new novels the Government grant to the Uni­ student participation in last year's will be published as well as the new ·versity of 3. 7% was insufficient to grants campaign. Support was projects, the Polygon Russian meet infl ation, as was the increase enthusiastic at the start, but the fact Series. in student allowance for the present that the campaign was only par­ Student had a very successful session. Thus EUSA's income tially successful, said the Report, year with sales up by 35% and the drops. particularly as students now wad due not only to the stubborn­ Glasgow Student Press Award te> have less money to spend. Support ness of the Government, but more their name, while the new Edin­ for EUSA, the Report concluded is distressingly to the very students burgh Review had an encouraging es~e nti al so that they can fight for a whose future was at stake. This start. EUSPB will be moving to the better and fairer education system. year must see a closer working Prue Jeffreys The queue for flats: what will be the effect of the ending of Housing Benefit? Glasgow's NUS about, and what student and paren­ that end an amended motion ha\. Entry tal response to it should be." been put to Monday's EUSA Annual General Meeting propos' • The campaign is particularly con­ ing that EUSA organise a pub lie. referendum chaos cerned with the Review's plan to meeting, with other bodies 8 such end housing benefit for students, as the District Council - involved, Supporte_rs and opponents of the who predicted a 3-1 majority easier and with the fact that the award of to protest against the Review. National Union of Students weres­ against affi li ation. till blaming each other for the Two new schemes-to admit stu­ Supplementary Benefit (to be Iain Catto said that the campaign dramatic snatching of a ballot box dents without normal entrance renamed Income Support) will be against the Fowler Review is a The rearranged referendum took in last Tuesday's referendum on qualifications are to be launched by based on a distinction between forerunner of EUSA's· Education place on Thursday- this time with affiliation to the NUS at Glasgow Glasgow and Strathclyde Univer­ those aged over 25 and those under Campaign. ''This new campaign the ballot boxes firmly chained in University. Neither side has adm it­ sities. 25. This will have a detrimental refers to non-students. as well as place. The poll itself was again ted responsibility and the police are Both schemes will apply to home effect on students who areh students:" he said. , Alan Young commendably high, with perhaps continuing their investigations. students and all faculties. the biggest turnout of votes yet on a Strathclyde University plans to major student issue. Over 5,000 The extraordinary incident took involve about 30 students over a Each year government place last Tursday afternoon when students voted, with a large major­ four-year period. The Glasgow departments spend over a masked man burst into the John ity against affiliation. The 'Yes' .initiative provides for 50 extra £100,000 mi-Ilion of taxpayers campaign received 1,740 votes as money on such services as · McIntyre building, grabbed the places for school leavers, specifi­ health, roads, defence and ballot box thought to contain over opposed to the 3,747 votes cast for cally from the deprived Drum­ education. Determining 2000 votes, then jumped into a car the 'No' campaign. chapel and Easterhouse areas of whether ·value for monev· has Glasgow. beer. achieved from these with covered number plates and resources is a major part of sped away. The ballot box was later Mr Austin Lally, President of the The scheme's introduction would the work of the NAO-even Glasgow University Student Rep­ mean that individual faculties' cur­ quite low levels of waste or found empty on a side street of the extravagance can mean losses campus. resentative Council denied that the rent entrance requirements would of millions of pounds. The 'No' campaign had anything to do be waived. although the univer­ work is difficult. demanding with the theft. Whilst he felt "bit­ and immensely satisfying­ . Wittinearly half the votes mis­ sities' minimum entry standard terly disappointed" by the result, would sti ll have to be· met. The involving issues of national smg, the referendum was naturally/ importance and. if you are a mvahdated and was hastily rear­ he had been pleased with his cam­ selection procedure would also taxpayer. your money. To discharge our role effectively ranged for the fo llowing Thursday. paign and believed it was largely include rigorous personal inter­ responsible for arousing interest views, not usually conducted by we recruit honours graduates Both sides blamed each other for (any discipline) of high calibre. the theft. The ' Yes' campaign and such a high turnout. He also Scottish universities. In return for vourcommitmenl appeared confident of victory and believed - although the issue was· As yet, Edinburgh University to us we offer· early responsibi lity. temporarily dead , it was by no has no plans for a similar scheme. a wide variety of cha ll enging Alan Smart, President of NUS in ta sks. a first class training for a Scotland claimed that, "for the first means buried. Another referen­ There is already some provision , professional accountancy ttme ever, Glasgow was passed to "dum might will take place after the normally applying to mature stu­ qualification. competitive pay statutory three years gap has dents, for entrants who do not have based on performance and Jom the NUS". These claims were excellent career prospects. elapsed. the customary academic qualifica­ disputed by Ken Ritchie, President Jfyou would like to kno\\' more ti ons. Ian Robertson of the Glasgow University Un ion, Neil Forsyth join some of our managers fora Sarah Forsyth glass of wine and sandwiches at our presentation: The Annan Room lovely Barrett boxes at the end ot received by Student this weeK North British Hotel the Grassmarket with first lady Princes Street Jane. Obviously. the Newton Mike Conway - In Edinburgh at 6.30 pm 26 No\•ember 1985 Mearns mentality Jives on. Vino Veritas It would help us if~·m1 would Polackski was 104. let ,·our careers srrvicc know if yoti propose to attend. If you Foul rumours abound that one arc unabll' to attend. time Honorary Secretary and Uni­ information mav be obtained versity Challenge starMichael Con­ from them or: · Teviot Row - an Steve Dugmore or Sue Kingston way was "f~eling up" an unnamed Recruitment Section apology gentleman in that den of inequity Natio nal Audit Office The Bristo. Mr Conway was Audit I-louse Victoria Embankment Not worth the paper it's printed reported to be "slightly guttered" at London EC-I Y ODS on . the time. Mr Conman is 14. Tel: 01-35:18901

Stupid bastards Freshers Week '86-

Does resident Tory Simon Mor­ half truths and lies Donald Pollock-an gan realise he'll have to work with the SRC ( despite his avowed· Interviews for the highly prestigi­ Obituary attempt not to) in his capacity as ous position of Freshers Week Pre-University Conference Direc­ .Director 1986 take place this week. n w·1 th deep regret I must convey tor. Obviously he has no brain My money is on lithesome Debbie R.ews of the final death of Doo Doo under his shocking red hair. Hair Geraghty who aims to make l\J\O NATIONAL AUDIT OFF1CE la: R.un Pollock's street cred. Pol- which geatures prominently in Freshers Week like an orgasm. si is !1Joving into one of the some rather revealing photographs Enough said. 4 STUDENT Thursday 21st November 1985

N cws . , Letters Extra Free speech really counts

Principals of free speech have been shattered by the events Dear Student, The Principal's speech at the of the LabO\lr Club meeting on Fri­ , The apparentchaoswhich erupted The Government has created the opening ceremony this year may day 8th November and further at political meetings at the Univer­ problem by asking student unions have been stuffy and uninspiring to undermined by the ominous tone of sity last week has shown the prob­ to guarantee both free speech and many freshers present (like me), Fiona Ryan's rallying cry to the lems faced by Universities when non-violence, But controversial but it contained a clear warning to troops to make themselves heard they allow controversial figures to speakers will continue to·encourage the students of Edinburgh not to "loud and clear" to Victoria Gilll.c:J,. speak on campus. emotional and perhaps violent prevent reasoned public debate Her letter seemed to suggest that Fears that meetings could opposition. · from taking place by deliberating · the RCP cares nothing about the become dangerous has prompted Edinburgh is not an isolated disrupting public meetings · just excellent tradition of free speech at the committee of Vice-Chancellors case; at Manchester Universit) because a small, vocal and possibly this University. and Principals to reassess their Home Office Miniiter David Wad 0 violent minority decide that other We must be on our guard that dington was harassed and abused as attitude towards freedom of students have no right to hear what neither the RCP nor any other rab­ he talked to 400 students about the speech. In a new code of practice a particular speaker has to say. ble of lunatic extremists of the left which will be circulated later this Government's policies on imigra­ or rjJ!ht.are able to end that tradi­ month, Universities will have the tion. At the time of his comments tion. Student should take a stand by option to ban public figures, if their Mike Devlin believes that the many people reacted with comfort­ not printing letters which are safety cannot be guaranteed. intimidation of Conservative able complacency, considering. clearly an incitement to disruption. However this agreement does Ministers has prompted the Gov­ Edinburgh to be immune from the Yours sincerely, not follow the line taken by the ernment to champion freedom of disease. This complacency should Angus Mcfntosh Government. Support of free speech, but only as . a platform for speech on campus has been a par­ their own supporters. ticular concern to the Conserva­ If free speech is a right it must be A chip off the old paper tives, a point of view which could· given to all political views. jeopardise University funds if stu­ EUSA President Mike Devlin had At the moment it is not certain dent unions choose. to ignore their been preparing a motion for the how the University will respond to Dear Editor, this kind occurs it is merely another recommendations, next General meeting whch gave the Government. Mike Devlin Last week, on my way back to example of the social decay which is The recently published Green support to the idea. But following feels he cannot give the guarantees Pollock after another invigorating eating away at the very core of our paperstated that "taxpayers money last Friday's disturbance when they require, as students have the lecture, I happened to stop off in a apple. Eh, country- OK? should not be used to fund unions police had to be called to the Uni­ democratic right to object to a certain chip shop in the vicinity of Yours, that refuse a platform to speakers," versity, he has dropped the motion speaker, but he also cannot encour­ South Clerk Street, with the inten­ Iain "Yes I am seeing a Most unions would have agreed and is now looking into ways of age further violence. tion of purchasing some nourish­ doctor" McGowan that free speech is a right, and av':1:ting further trouble, Lorraine Telford · ment of the fried potato variety. Only upon leaving the premises did I discover, to my mortification, that my chips were actually wrapped in When is a the previous week's copy of Stu­ Bob's dozen Architects' dent. What sort of moral prostitu­ tion is this? As a lowly first year - break-up not a mere pinprick in the vast Speaking at a Social Democratic more skilful management of the acupuncture of Edinburgh Univer­ Club (SDC) meeting on Friday, Bob economy, but a completely new London sity-I was deeply shocked. Is this a break-up? MacClennan, the SDP MP for framework for this". a comment on Thatcher's Britain; Dear Editor, Caithness and Sutherland, con­ Proposals would include decen­ the welfare state, the potato crop? In the Student of 14 November demned the government's economic tralisation of government which In my opinion when debasement of 1985 you printed a letter from the policies, referring to "a decline "will answer not only the aspira­ demo chairmen of the Ulster Unionist which is becoming almost a rout". tions of the Scottish people, but and Conservative Associations, in Addressing a small , but attentive also those of the provinces of Eng­ About 30 students from which they called "for the Labour audience of twelve, including SDC land", Edinburgh University's Sack Tom Club to cease providing platforms chairman Paul Davies, Mr Referring to the example of the ... to those whose aims are (sic) MacClennan spoke on the subject Department of Architecture United States, Mr MacClennan took part in a demonstration in the destruction of the United King­ of "Constitutional Reform/ and believed that decentralisation had dom". · Industrial Recovery". London on Monday, organised Reid and led to the "transformation of the By this standard no federalists' Mr MacClennan sharply criticised parts of the US . which were most by the National Association of the fact the Britain had now been (such as members of the Liberal backward"" and had fostered Student Architects (NASA) to Par!JY) or nationalists would be overtaken by Italy to become only "adaptability and innovation". In oppose plans to close or merge poison the 19th most important industrial allowed to address university meet' Britain, it was "no accident that the a number of arc.hitecture ings. This appears quite a radical nation. only really semi-prosperous areas · In response to these problems, schools. suggestion but, knowing the UUSO are in an arc around London". The demonstration, some 200 The Rat and the FCS, I am inclined to the Government was planning to Central governmen's handling of fund tax reliefs by selling assets. Mr strong, took the form of a lobby of Dea~ Student, believe that they meant what they areas like Liverpool had, he the National Advisory Body for said, grammatical errors and all . MacClennan said that much of this claimed, been "extraordinarily !'111 a fourth year student here at _!dditional money would then be Public Sector Higher Education Edi?.burgh University and thought Yours faithfully, inept". (NAB), which had met to consider Andrew Brown, spent on imports and that there was Somewhat predictably, ·Mr I just couldn't let my four years pass to be no increased public expendi­ a report by the Architecture without once airing my views in EU Scot. Nat. Assoc. MacClennan also said that the SDO Intakes Working Party. ture to stimulate demand. This was advocated proportional represen­ what, at the moment, seems to be "an electoral strategy, and not a This report has recommended one of the most interesting forums tation (PR) as a way of obtaining ihe rationalisation of architecture Gaelic to me strategy for economic recovery". "consistency and continuity of of debate. The MP then went on to outline schools, which would include clo­ Talking of debates, Tom R_eid , direction" and of removing the sures and mergers, to take account Fhir deasachaidh, the SDP's strategy for countering "switchback" of policy changes our good old Debates Convener, Tha mi uambasach duilich nach what he described as the "continual of planned cuts in intakes to has been coming in for a bit of a. from government to government. architecture courses. b'urrainn do mhuinntll' Student' an and debilitating decline" of the This would aid economic recovery. .bashing lately. In my opinion, the sanas a fhuair iad bho Chomunn economy. He claimed that "the Included in the report is a recom­ guy ought to be sacked. Cheirteach Oiltigh · Dhun· mendation that the two Edinburgh SOP not only intended to provide Gary Duncan While we're on the subject of sac­ Eideann fhoillseachadh air an t· architecture schools, at the College king, who's that fool who writes of Art and at Edinburgh Univer­ seachainn seo chaidh. The Rat? The other week he had a Toa seo a' cut culthaobh n canan sity, should discuss possible future real go at Teviot Row House Com­ collaboration, including the possi­ agus dualchas an duthaich far a mittee for having a lack of female bheil ·Sinn na'r n-oileanaich agus tha bility of a merger of the two members. Last week the Convener schools. Academic staff here as mi'n dochas nach lean iad air of Teviot Row, apparently a aghaidh leis a pholasaidh seo. well as the Principal, Dr John Bur­ female, wrote in protesting. I am nett, have already strongly Is mise told that the so-called 'Rat' was Catriona Chaimbeul attacked the report. lllaking a gesture at the way Teviot In a separate development, stu­ Row House Committee had been It was not mtJnded to discriminate dent and staff representatives from using the word 'Durex' in their against An Comurln Ceilteach; the omis· Edinburgh University's Architec­ adverts. Why, oh why didn't he sion of the item was simply a mjstake and ture Department will be meeting realise that with advertising like we ap.ologise. - Editor. .. the four EUSA sabbaticals next that, the committee would be sure Wednesday to discuss the working to attract lots of females to its I party report's recommendations ranks, all desperate to see. if the They're so Items for What's On, Letters, Small Ads for Edinburgh. The meeting is also hunky men on the committee weri Inside Back Page or unsolicited articles' to be attended by the Dean of the willing to use these so-called Faculty o'f'Social Sciences, and invi­ 'Durex' or not. The Rat must be on elitist reviews etc., can now .be submitted for publica: tations have also been extended to the way out. the University Principal and Secret­ ·d tion by phicing them in the big red Student box, Lastly, before I take leave of my Dear Student, under the dome in the Student Centre Shop, . ary. aching pen, I must complain about Three hundred people at a Gep· Please leave your name, address aritl contac However, no members of the an aching pain, Sally "Pac-Man" eral Meeting (ha! ha!) is a fair and College of Art's Architecture Greig. What an absolute load of representative sample ·of student. tp~one number with all items-to avoid disap­ Department will pe at the meeting. rubbish she wrote in Student last .opinion. 10,000 students is it? pomtment. U.e box is emptied every Monday EUSA President Mike Devlin told week. If she's going to keep ori writ­ 65ffpeople at the Presidents' Ball at LOOp.m. · Student that this was to show the ing like that I think she ought to be are elitist. NAB and the RIBA that a merger sent back to the video game Student Must be the DJ! of the two schools was not bieng got her from. Yours, considered as an option. Yours, John pate, Alastair Dalton 0. Wilson EUU Life Member, STUDENT Thursday 21st Ntjvember 1985 5 I

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Dear Editor, nately, you fail to point out that the society who support the basic prin­ I am writing to you regarding the charter also has the support of large ciples of our charter of indepen­ recent article in Student on NUS's numbers .of members of the Liberal dence, choice and minimum educa­ "I'm Backing Youth" campaign. Party, including your own Rector, tional siandards for all young Whilst I have no objection to the David Steel. people in post-school education. article itself, I do feel that the head­ Therefore, far from , as you put I hope we can count on the sup­ line "NUS to back Labour's Youth it, "NUS to back Labour's Youth port of Edinburgh University Stu­ Charter" is completely misleading Charter" , it is in fact Labour and dents' Association for our cam- Establishe

manic grins, plenty of jumping fought a losing battle with modern TERRY AND GERRY '.!bout and a vocal style like Buddy technology when they tried out Holly on artificial stimulants. their new drum machine on Reser­ Hoochie Coochie Club vation (their next single) but nobody cared, and somehow their Ooh, I want to be compro­ Their 20 or so songs were bristl­ ing with snappy tunes and sharp past singles like Clothes Shop and mised lyrics which proved them to be a lot Banking on Simon seemed to make Packaged and bottled and more than mere revivalists. They much more sense live. put on the shelves, the perfect size. A crucial part of the Terry and . With a "yee bloody ha" and a Gerry experience is Gerry's rap­ twang of the bass, Terry and port with the audience, and Gerry finally dispelled all com­ although his incredibly friendly manner occasionally seemed just a parisons with that other little forced, he had no trouble get­ homely duo, Chas and Dave, ting people to click fingers, sing and their homespun blend of along and even invade the stage skiffie, cynicism and wild near the end-"Don't worry about enthusiasm reminded me just being cool, we're going away in a what an inspiring thing a live minute." band can be. The audience's enthusiasm was They are in fact four people - remarkable even after two encores, Terry on string-bass and out-of­ and on this showing their new tune backing singing, new guitarist album, It's a Long Way from Lub­ Jeremy, Doreen DeVille on that bock to Clintwood East, should be a tragically neglected popular instru­ pretty desirable object. rm still ment' the washboard , and finally grinning too. Yee bloody ha. Gerry, who gives us a series of Duncan Hewitt But I'm over there, too! Oh no!! I'm the leading story! Photo: Craig McNicol

shortly before nine when a dramat­ successes (It Must Be Love, My fro between the stage and the gods ically prolonged light-show finally Girl, Baggy Trousers, Michael suspended by a stage-harness; and ended and copious blasts of dry-ice Caine, et al) with new material during a particularly chaotic Forward Nutty! .rendering of Madness two enorm­ cleared to reveal the band silhouet­ from 111e album Mad Not Mad . ted against the dark background of which the tour is intended to prom­ ·o us (short-lived) blue balloons of new album Mad Not Mad, the the set. Theatrical? Perhaps, but ote. Recents hits Yesterday's Men were released into the auditorium. MADNESS old gua'rd of ex-skinheads (now in such antics reflect the essence of the and Uncle Sam were (live) Clamorous exclamations of delight from the assembled hordes of Playhouse their mid-twenties) left over from Madness philosophy. No affected strangely superior to the frantic the halcyon days of Stiff is now lib­ thrashing of phallic guitars, no mis­ Burning the Books and the 'Rocksteady' addicts drowned the An atmosphere of heady erally interspersed with a new anthropic grimaces directed at the anthemic Mad Not Mad which first two bars of the final encore. excitement permeated the air breed of pubescent 'rude boy' front stalls, quite a refreshing should perhaps not have been pas­ the definitive One Step Beyond - at the Playhouse on Thursday which seems to guarantee the departure from the jumped-up sed over as potential singles. which closed the concert-ended a as a tantalised audience (ani­ band's enduring (and well- . egotism which is nowadays so com­ Visual effects ( or gi mmicks if you thoroughly enjoyable if mentally unbalanced gig on a typically high mated by the slick strains of~ deserved) success. Middle-aged mon among the 'chart' bands. want to be cynical) complemented parents whose young children owe Suggs McPherson, enigmatic as the prevalent mood of benevolent note. tuneful, brass-based combo their allegiance to the group to Top ever' was last to emerge from the lunacy. Suggs' inimitable form of The only question left to ask was The Friday Club) restlessly Of The Pops rather than the sub­ mist shortly before launching him­ Two-Tone dancing, during which ·why on earth the male backing sin­ awaited the return of the Nutty tleties of Two-Tone, seemed, as self (with a zealous passion which his body appeared to be wracked by gers were allowed on stage wearing Boys to the Edinburgh stage one might expect, somewhat never diminished) into Keep some maliciously perennial nerv­ wing-collared shirts and white bell­ after a long and not entirely bemused at this intimidating spec­ Movin' (Along). The remainder of ous disease, was sustained through­ bottoms? Still, never mind; self-imposed exile. tacle. the gig shrewdly combined a gener­ out. Saxophonist Lee Thompson nobody's perfect. Despite the only limited success The fun and frolics began at ous quota of well-established chart played two riffs while flitting to and Paul Rogerson

Fast and frantic, loud and loose, DEAF HEIGHTS CAJUN the group seem to have taken note ACES of the current revitalisation of folk Go home, Frog Chambers Street music (Pogues etc.). Tonight l danced so much l was forced, were a really awful frog singe r stuck wheezing and spluttering, to the over here and having to earn your Zut Alors. It seems that if bar to partake of much-needed daily brie by torturing unsuspecting you want to get Chambers liquid refreshment. And that was young folk, you'd probably hit the Street on its feet you have to after only the first number. Perhaps bottle also. a touch too rehearsed for some sing in French. Deaf Heights My sympathy goes to the prom­ tastes but nobody was complaining oters. I'm sure it wasn't their inten­ do and they certainly did. tonight. tion to inflict this dirge on us. Anne The group play the music of Piga)le is stultifyingly boring and · Louisiana, featuring the blackest of This was, surprisingly, Deaf her backing band consisted of lyrics sung over at times surpris­ Heights' first visit to the University assorted nerds with misconstrued ingly jolly country dances. I'd seen and on tonight's showing it defi­ aspirations about supporting the the group before, but this was not nitely won't be the last. Indeed, greatest singer since Edith Piaf. the lethargic lot I'd seen supporting rumour has it that they have The bass player even attempted to Hank Wangford last year. No , already been booked for the John juggle at one stage. Cringe city, eh? tonight we were faced with a beast Peel Roadshow. And quite rightly I think that the plan was to create a of an entirely different nature. so. cabaret atmosphere - Ms Pigalle Peter Carroll looked like she might even do a striptease but hopes were dashed when she put her big black coat on again. This dark and distant lark Graphic: Rory Macbeth isn't amusing when you realise that the massive power of ZTT is being used to con folk into thinking that handful of unwary sufferers Pigalle is talented and different. ANNE PIGALLE who had to endure one of the She's not. Her new single Why Assembly Rooms Does It Have To Be This Way.is as most horrendous 'gigs' ever on boring as the· ·first orie He · Friday night. Stranger. If you're into Parisien~e Lie down, Ms Pigalle. Stop chic circa half a century ago, that_s putting yourself and your.audi­ ~TT's carefully nurtured pro­ tegee was about as exciting on stage fine but otherwise avoid this -ence through untold misery. as _watching a plank warp. I reckon woman like the plague. This plea is made on behalf of a she was sozzled, but then if you Suzanne Doran STUDENT Thursday 21st November 1985 7

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THE CULT 1,ove (Beggars Banquet) She Sells Out I suppose the 'hear one and you've heard them all' maxim is all very well and reassuring if is how incredibly dull "beautiful. you're crazy about the one you atmospheric chamber-jazz" really bear. The new Cult album, is. My next door neighbour was so whilst keeping the faithful Queen's Hall enchanted by their silken strum- happy, will not, I think, con­ John Abercrombie and mings that he was only awakened vert those hitherto undecided. by th e thud of his own head on the Ralph Towner, two superlative pew in front. This kind of music is These, then, are my own opin­ guitarists. It was "beautiful, fine for playing chess. backgam­ ions, based upon the Playhouse atmospheric chamber-jazz" by · mon , simply ignoring or ripping off concert and hearing both sides· two masters from the hyper­ one another's clothes and jumping of Love eleven times at the trendy ECM label. Through into bed to. It has its moments. the weekend in a Polwarth flat, the night, they swapped music that is. but late on a Friday night isn ·1 one of them. As my drunk and sober, in company guitars like old stories and neighbour said. lifting his head and alone. wove intricate webs of melody . from th e pew . "God. this is dull!" The music: imagine if you can a around a central harmonic Well, it had to happen. James 40-minute She Sells · Sanctuary. core. A packed Queen's Hall · Jazz has written his first nastv Drums pounding along solidly, sat silently, their palms damp review. it was a pleasant change'. multi-tracked guitar screeching and · with eager expectation. Tomorro\11 night should be ·rather flanging up past the fifth fret, By playing without support, they different. A rare appearance by basslines restrained and si mple. gave us a chance to fully appreciate Edinburgh's most innovative and Musically, The Cult turn out to be the depth of their talents. One song exciting modern jazz band. Zips U2 (who at least have purpose) and I particularly remember was more For Lips. Sax player and manic per­ the Psychedelic Furs (who at lyast than symphonic in its proportions. cussionist Steve Kettlev has were honest) and The Chameleons For such a night, with such delights recently finished working ;ith the (who are still honest), with on offer, it 's hardly surprising that Communicado Theatre Company·s moments of weedy psychedelic folk hardly a seat was left unfilled at the production of "The Hunchback of and weedier heavy metal, as incon­ start of the night. Notre Dame". winner of a Fringe gruous as they are sill y, thrown in Three songs (or 45 minutes) into First Award. his music being -here and there. the night, there was definitely one acclaimed in the Guardian! What seat unfilled, because I'd gone. The inore could you ask for? Oscar Wilde said that to be intel­ most surprising feature of the night James Jazz ligible is to be 'found out', so Ian As!bury with all his despairing, flat whining (an 'acquired taste' no doubt) need not worry on that score. Just what'is this cat whinge­ ing about? Although a glance at the Ian Astbury attempting his pathetic impression of Neil the hippy. the audience dancing into the aisles. THE CULT But it was not until the abrasive and uplifting Resurrection Joe that the I bet all you George Square ORGY. Perhaps the most enjoyable Playhouse strong rhythm and spirit of The trendies will be donning your gig I've had this year was the 30- Cult's earlier music began to reas­ minute set at Potterrow by this fine I went to the Playhouse last sert itself and Ian Astbury really long coats and Bennetton scarves and swaggering down body of men, with their sawn-off Tuesday expecting a perfor­ settled into his "Indian war dance" Jesus and Mary Chain riffs backing mance from The Cult which style of antics on stage. Horsena­ to the Hoochie Coochie Club singer (?) Paul Hullah's hilarious got the adrenalin rushing, tion and Dreamtime continued the (or the Hooch as you lot call it) lyrics. This man is a pure genius and which was not surprising when optimistic sound of their earlier this Friday to be generally his band are pure entertainment - music. But only Spiritwalker,. the Ian Astbury's comments about bourgeois, elitist and say lots of just go and get happy! classic song from the Dreamtime It's just as well that Friday's a hot his live performances are " ... album, with its strong lyrics , really cool things about .The . DaintttS. night for live music, because the I get a real kick out of doing a brought out Astbury's distinctive Tube looks distinctly tepid: Hoodoo show; there's something fan­ vocal quality and allowed Billy Actually, they should be really Gurus, .Hugh Masekela and Nils tastic happening there. And Duffy to show the real scope of his good; this is The Daintees' fourth Lofgren. Beals ofthe Heaton Satur­ lyric (I use the term loosely) sheet when people drop all their guitar playing. appearance here in the last two day seems little better-it's looking The concert seemd aimed at years and I've managed to miss had me thanking God I'd been tilt inhibitions at a show, and the at gypsy music(!) on the Romany then spared comprehension of his creating a lively and _danceable them on every occasion, much to the band just go Trail from India to France. pained mumblings. For, as is atmosphere; the band completely horror, disbelief etc. of a fellow Whistle Test continues to out-do regrettably the case with many PPHHHFFF!!! that's enough, avoiding any of their slower songs scribe. Virginia Astley will also be its trendier Channel 4 rival, with 'pop' groups nowadays (The Cure it's enough worth living for, such as Bad Medicine Waltz which there, performing her tranquil, Madness (fresh from their brilliant and Marillion being notable for me." might have broken up a perfor­ classical tinged pop. Quite an odd Playhouse gig a week ago) and offenders), The Cult's grandiose However, there seemed nothing mance bordering ori the vociferous combination with The Daintees - Ro'1t,rt Cray (appearing here on theosophy proves ultimately to be a fantast:~ about the first half of the and repetitive. but let's be positive!! December 1st) live in the studio lot of sixth-form poetry of the thin­ concert which was mainly con­ The overall impression of the Friday night also sees Zips For whilst Doctor and the Medics are ~est order. Side A, track 4 for cerned with promoting their new concert was that it had been care­ Lips jazzing things up at the live from ihe Bier Keller in Bristol. instance: album Love. On the whole these fully planned out, all emphasis Queen's Hall. This ensemble are the Finally, have any of you been col­ songs were repetitive and uninspir­ being on their new album. Gone sole reason for all those tedious, lared recently and asked to buy that Embrace the wind with both ing. The band seems to have substi­ was the unco-ordinated but original sorry, I mean tremendous reviews rag Stunted? If so, my commisera­ arms, tuted their strong rhythmic Indian and punk sound of their Southern from James Jazz; everything before tions - what a pile of crap it is, Stop the clouds dead in the sky, style for something verging on glum Death Cult days and even their has been a mere preliminary to this, nothing but pseudo-radical George Brother wolf and sister moon, rock. Their new single Revolution exuberance seemed curtailed. In its so no one will be too surprised if _he Square trendy lefties wearing their Your time has come and the wind received barely any recognition place was a highly polished but far chokes on his own gush. bleeding liberal hearts on the!~ will blow my fears away. from the audience and even less less emotive sound from a band But gig of the week badge sleeves and writing DULL news enthusiasm from Ian Astbury and renowned for its energetic and viva­ undoubtedly goes to that place the stories. Ho hum. A fair bit of acid went co., who gid not really relax until cious live performances. Hooch again: on Sunday, 24th Good Music Pages, though ... into ihe pot that Love boiled out She Sells Sanctuary which brought Laura Kibby November; it's TEENAGE DOG Keith Cameron ot, I reckon. Not one of these songs consciously offers a link· with ordi­ na~y life ; there are no handles by new maturity and extent of achieve­ Which I can take up these creations THE JESUS AND MARY ment. The Hardest Walk in the clas­ sic pop tradition is an angst and har­ and apply them to my own life and CHAIN therefore (since they do not enter­ mony-ridden tale of teenage tain me either) I find them useless Psycho Candy (Blanco Y Negro) trauma with the best tune of the and , gladly, I reject them. Psycho Candy - sweet but sinis­ year. The real triumph , however. is. ter. Some people never managed to Sowing Seeds. a beautifully tex­ So. This American guy runs into notice the melodic sense of the tured piece showing Big Country a bar out of breath and worn-out brothers Reid, but it's been there and the Waterboys the true mean­ looking. 'I've just driven across the since Upside Down, sometimes hid­ ing of ·epic'. Gorgeously con­ USA, coast to coast,' he says, 'took den under the meanness but all the structed. it is a powerful. affe~ing rnr over a week all alone and I more arresting for that. This LP and strangely optimistic song, only had one cas;ette to play in the sees the· melodies grab the spotlight demonstrating the gulf that sepa­ car during the whole of that jour­ and prove what a classic pop group rates the Reids from their legions of ney! I must've heard that damned the Jesus and Mary Chain are. imitators. tape nigh on 500 times! ' 'Gee ' Indeed. the cool charm of new After all the hype and horror of replies the bartender 'what was o~ songs like Cut Dead makes older their beginnings, the Jesus and... the tape?' 'I can'; remember,' material like Taste the Floor and Mary Chain have produced in answers the American. , Another Day (retitled Something's Psycho Candy a timeless work in th The Cult's new album is a bit like Wrong) look almost British. Two the pop tradition. at. songs in particular underline the Tom Lappin Paul William Hullah I

~____Jl~l~l~'"~~~I~ TH EATR E FILMHOUSE FI~ M SOC B ED LAM TRAVERSE ------Lothian Rd. 2;28 2688 GIGI Forrest Rd. 112 West Bow, Grassmarket MISHIMA PENNIES FROM HEAVEN 226 2633 21-27 Nov; 5.45, (l..15 22 Nov; 6.45 THE SILVER SKY 24 Nov; 8.15 , George Square Theatre 23 Nov; 7.30 pm HOGG - THE SHEPHERD JUS­ The study of the brilliant Japenese The first films is about Leslie YTickets; non-members £1.25, TIFIED writer, actor and director who as Caron's attempts to become a members 75p 21-27 Nov; 8.00 the head of a right-wing group courtesan and ending up bet­ ByTanith Lee. Presented by EUTC Tickets: £4.50 (cone. £3.60) took over a Tokyo garrison in 1970 rothed to the richest man in Paris. Passion and science combine in a In celebration of the 160th anniver­ and then committed suicide. The Maurice Chevalier sings Thank touchingly. humorous account of sary of the death of James Hogg, story of his last day and also vari­ Heavens for Little Girls. The sec­ !ife in the future - or the past. Frederic Mohr has written this ous autobiographical works. ond is the American version of the one-man play. Hogg is played by FALLIN IN LOVE . BBC TV series, which, thank god, Donald Douglas . 21-23Nov; 6.15,8.30 did not suffer in the process. KNICKERS AT ELSINORE PLAYWRIGHT'S WORKSHOP 21, 23 Nov; 2.30 THE CASE OF THE MUKKINESE AND OTHER WINDFALLS The 1985 version of Brief BATTLEHORN 27 Nov; 1 pm 24 Nov; 5.30 "A Friend in Need" by Majorie Encounter, with Meryl Streep and RICHARD PRYOR LIVE IN Tickets; non-members £1 .25, Harper and Muriel Barnett. A dis­ Robert de Niro as two New Yorkers CONCERT members 75p cussion follows a reading of the who meet in a bookshop and mix, BROADWAY DANNY ROSE A series of amusing, nay witty, up ttleir Xmas presents. This film 24 Nov; 6.45 sketches. play. ABC is beautifully charming and shows George Square Theatre For the October-December ter The first is a classic ep15ode of the danger to marriage is more NETHERBOW pass system. Ask for the leaflet classical love than modern day the Goon Show. The second is self L V C E u M pay the standard £2.30 and g casual sex. expanatory as the Amerip~n com­ card is taken from you and you edian is guaranteed to •amuse. 43 High Street STOP MAKING SENSE is now non-smoking. Broadway Danny Rose is la Woody GrindlaySt. 556 9579 22 Nov; 2.30, 23 Nov; 1.00 2299697 Possibly the best live concert film Allen film set in downtown Man­ C>DEC>N ever made. Forget all the boring hatten, as close friends reminisce STRIKERS A standard £1 .50 student cone~ about the exploits of Danny Rose HAMLET "Live at Hammersmiths"-, even if Till 30 Nov; 7.15 pm Till 30 Nov; 8 pm Sunday to Thursday. However,1 you're not a fan chances are you'll THE LADY VANISHES Ticket range; £2-£5 Tickets; £3 (cone £2) £2 .60. Cinemas 2 and 3 are non- be mad on Talking Heads by the INVESTIGATION OF A \cmzEN By William "Prince of Play.writes, By Donald Campbell CJ end of it. ABOVE SUSPICION I • but my sonnets aren't so hot." A play combining economic DO IVI IN I SEVEN SAMURAI 27 Nov; 6.45 decline with the politics ofcoal and Students pay £1 .20 for all perfoi Shakespeare. Presented by the only exception is the late eveni 24Nov; 5.00 Pleasance Royal Lyceum. Shaky fans can the pressures of premiere division 25 Nov; 5.00, 8.30 The first is the original Hitchock football. non-smoking part of the buildi watch Hammy get his chips yet Sundays. 26 Nov; 2.30 version about a mysterious again! After its world wide hit in 1954, this woman who vanishes on a train, was remade into The Magnificent her only witness having a tough FILIVIH0',9 ADAM HOUSE Matinees (Tuesday-Friday) Cit Seven. That Kurosawa's film time trying to get anyone to (Sunday-Friday) cost £1.20. should have actually been a world believe it. The second is about an K N G s minutes before performance st wide hit at that time showsthe Italian poiice chief trying to prove 15 MINUTE HAMLET and evening films but you ca n book quality and originality of he film. the repressive system is right. BAZAAR AND RUMMAGE _ 2 Leven Street 27 and 28 Nov; 7.30 pm both cinemas. Part of the History and Theory of 229 1201 Cinema season. 0 D E Tickets; £1 .50, members £1 FILIVISOC CHUCK JONES HIGHLIGHTS 0 N BvTom Stoppard and Sue "Adrian THE 1985 EDINBURGH SCOUT Mole" Townsend respectively Members get in free to al l perfo 24Nov; 8.00 South Clerk Street 6677331 1 AND GUIDE GANG SHOW Presented by the EU Alternative be purchased in advance at an A selection of Chuck Jones great COCOON till 25 Nov; 7. 15, S~t. matinee; 2. 15 from the Postgrad Students' · cartoons, with, among others, 1.45, 5.40, 8. 15 Entertainments Company. Notice Go along to wiggle your wogles what a popular guy old Hamlet is weekend. Daffy Duck, Tom and Jerry and the Some absentminded extraterrest­ and sizzle your sausages. Road Runner. Gd on, lose that rials leave their cocoons behind, at the moment! pseudo-intellectual image and which have a strange effect on All tickets for lunchtime produ enjoy yourself for once. some inmates of an old folk's your consumption. SPLASH home. 26, 27 Nov; 6. 15, 8.30 TRAVER PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO EXHIBS Exclusive offer this year form J . An American comedy which is 2.00, 5.15, 8.00 allows many benefits. These i,._. extremely funny. Daryl Hannah Mia Farrow plays a woman so performance; £2 for a student!B isthe mermaid who turns up in infatuated by her matinee idol that performance; free entry to Tra New York looking for her child­ MALCOLM REGISTER she induces him to jump from the clubs in Britain. hood love. Everythings fine till a film into real life, causing stress in I N N E S H O U S E nosey scientist and the American Mia's normal, downtown Manhat­ LYCEUM Charlotte Sq. 556 6585 government decide to get her wet tan life. GALLERY They offer a plastic card costint and see what happEl(ls. tickets at concessionary rate PETER PAN 67 George St. 2264151 HISTORY ON THE MOVE i984 Check at box office for details. 2.00, 5.30, 7 .55 Throughout Nov 27 Nov; 2.30 NINTH CONTEMPORARY If you become excited . about You read the book at school, you Disney's classic continues in ESCA Cinema 3 with Peter doing battle ARTISTS EXHIBITION tr~ins, trolleybuses and cross­ saw the video on Top of the Pops, channel ferries, you should not ESCA have changed premises with Captain Hook. From Monday, From 29 Nov-10 Dec contrary to this year's Student now see the film. Actually, there An asorbing exhibition of works by miss these records of transport. are stunning performances from however, Cinema 3 will be show­ time during office hours tom twenty Scottish Artists. John Hurt and Richard Burton. A . ing Purple Rose of Cairo, whic~ alternatively phone her. fresh adaption of an important will be hopping out of Cinema 2 tc book with a message for us all, make way for .... R O V A L SNo · chillingly handled. SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE C O L L E G E Students are welcomed in an From Monday SCOTTISH Usher Hall. Tickets cost £2 and D O M I N I O N This will be showing in Cinema 2 0 F A R T from Monday just in time for ___.;_ __ ...:._..:...__..:....::__.:._ MUSEUM Newbattle Terrace 447 2660 Christmas and all the expense that Lauriston Pl. 2299311 Chambers Street 225 7534 · DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN _it_e_n_ta_i_ls_. ______OUT OF THE NOMADS TENT FRENCH CONNECTIONS: 2.15,5.15,8.15 A B C From 16-18 Nov SCOTLAND AND THE ART OF Madonna is the elusive Susan, , --,------Kilimono, saddle bags, wall hang­ CHANGE whose disappearance fascinates a Lothian Road 229 3030 ings from Central Asia and Till Feb 86 New Hampshire housewife who MAD MAX BEYOND Anatolia and something called a The Auld Alliance (as the relation­ becomes dragged into the mys- THUNDERDOME 'Yurt' (a felt covered circular tent) ship between scotland and France tery and underworld, much to the 2.20, 5.20, 8.25 . are among the exhibits here. The is known) is brought alive. This disgust of her husband. Mad Max fights for the kids against kilins were smuggled out of Iran shows the best of French works of PALE RIDER evil Aunty Entity, played by Tina earlie•,in 1985. art from the 14th Century to the 2.15, 5.15, 8.15 Turner. Mel Gibson stars as ', Max present day. Clint Eastwood's latest offering in . as the fights and chases prove to the hard, tough, gunman with no be as brilliant as ever. C A L T 0 N name series. Except this time he's ST ELMO'S FIRE G A L L E R TALBOT RICE a preacher, believe it or not. 2.20, 5.20, 8.20 V A group of young American stars Calton Rd . 556 1010 G A L L E R V WITNESS play out this yuppy fantasy, as South Bridge 667 1011 2.00, 5.00, 8.00 they all leave college and make CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION: Harrison Ford and a small boy are their way in the world, as friends, PAINTINGS AND WATER-COL­ MODERN PRIMITIVES the only witnesses to a drug­ lovers and drop-outs. OURS Til1 '23 Nov related murder by some bad cops. CAT'S EYE From 28 Nov to 21 Dec Perspective and atmosphere are He hides in the small boy's Amish 1.40, 3.55, 6.10, 8.55 Over one hundred artists from the not the worries of naive artists community, ru,i on 19th-century four short stories, originally period 1700 to 1940 show off their This is the last chance to see greai lines where apart from protecting. adapted from a Stephen King talents. A good opportunity to see Polish Sculptors reliving a world himself, he manages to fall in love novel, he of Carrie fame, about a the diversity of art within one gal­ most of us left behind at the age of Stolen Thunder Review; with the mother. s ook cat. lery. ten . UNIVENTS IVILJSlc· THUR 21 NOV SAT 23 KB LUNCHTIME TALK NOV THUR 21 NOV SAT 23 NOV LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE BLUE FINGER GOOMBAY BEAT Sixth Level Common Room JCMB Chambers Street 'Biotechnology and Bioscot'··- Dr Preservation Hall The Barbados Suite 8 pm-.1 am . (Victoria Street) (West Tollcross) Bruce haddock, Bioscot Ltd. Happy ·Hour 9-10 pm in Library. EU ANTI-APARTHEID SOCIETY Free Friday and Saturdays Reggae and Bar. Super Trog Disco. Plus Live Soul. Sundays Fiesta Tropicana. Seminar Room 2, Chaplaincy Bai:,d 8_1F Tl:IEY EVER WIN . BREAKFAST BOYS Centre Jail house 9.30pm-3am 5pm SUN 24 NOV (Calton Hill) Late bar, open to all. All welcome to this weekly .meet­ OPEN SQUASH TOURNAMENT Free ing. SUN 24 NOV KB Union FAT SAM'S BAND MEADOWS CHAMBER BAHA'I SOCIETY 1 pm start Goodtime Emporium ORCHESTRA Seminar Room 1, Chaplaincy Prizes galore! Pick up an entry (Abbeymount) Centre Queen's Hall form from the Union shops. Free Fr.ee Peter Evans conducts a varied 7.15pm entry - closing date Friday 22 'Acausal Synchronicity and the. November. programme including Ravel's FR I 22 · NOV haunting Pavane. , Baha'i Faith' some thought on the EUSPB VS. EUSA THE DAINTEES mystery of co-incidence. Talk by Meadows 7.45 pm; £2.50 (c911c £1.50) VIRGINIA ASTLEY ' TEENAGE DOG ORGY Dr Keith Munro 2pm Hoochie Coochie Club DOG BREATH EU ARCHAE~~OGY SOCIET)' All supporters welcome - watch Faculty Room North, DHT 1 (West Tollcross) Hoochie Coochie Club the hacks make arses of them­ Stolen Thunder Review brings you Paul Hullah and have a chance c opeEBtes a stude~t cinema 1.15pm ; selves. ed. Dr Christopher Walker speaking The Daintees who used to be, and, to show what the'1f re made of and he cash:desk. For six '(isits you 1 card~mped. After this the on 'Haley's Comet' MON 25 NOV still may be, one of the best live up it's not 'sugar an ,"~pice'! BEDSITTERS PARTY date rock an' roll bands about. A 10.30 pm, £3 l i £5 in-mturn. The entire cinema RELIGIOUS STUDIES SOCIETY . Bistro Bar, Chambers Street pretty girl singing sugary-sweet TAM WHITE AN0 THE DEXTERS 7.30pm Room 68, New . College, The Christmas carol-like songs is Ms Preservation Hall I ·Mound Everyone welcome. Astley. This is one of only three Free 1.15-2pm rate'holds in all cinemas from EU FRIENDS OF THE EARTH Scottish dates, so catch 'em while weekends entry wilt' cost you Cheviot Room, Pleasance Mrs Mackay will be speaking on you can! MON 215 NOV 7.30pm the work of the RSSPCC. All wel­ 10.30pm; £3 .. kmg. \ come BENINGTON HEI\' HTS Talk on the effects of pesticides ZIPS FOR LIPS Preservation Hall I RCS CAMPAIGN AGAINST GIL­ will be given by-Grant Collie. All Queen's Hall Free · cssinl:inemas 1, 2 a'nd 3. The LICK AND WOMENS RIGHTS welcome. (Clerk Street) ARTICLE 9 · n· :shows in Cinema 3 - the only Signet Library, Parliament Square Jailhouse RCS Jazz with Jim Vincent on the ole cidentally, this place is shut on Music Room, Teviot Row 6.45pm Free Victoria Gillick speaking to the piano! 7.30 pm . 10.00 pm; £3 (£2) Legal Society - shout loud for Supporters Group - organising BLUE FINGER TUES26NOV the protest against -"1:ck. womens rights! .50p; 11arly evening shows EU THIRD WORLD FIRST Preservation Hall SCOTTISH OPERA PROJECT FOR ANIMAL WELFARE ticketsa1re only available 30 Ochil Room, Pleasance Free King's Theatre SOCIETY st . No o.cnx:essions given for late 7.30 pm (Leven Street) Ochil Room, Pleasance SNO Mozart's The Magic Flute directed k in:adllance. Non-smoking in Long term solutions to famine. A Usher Hall 8pm talk by Oxfams Kevin Dunion. by Keith Warner in a similar vein as Meeting to organise Christmas (Lothian Road) Jonathan Miller's highly praised ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Christopher Seaman conducts a campaigns and plan a vegetarian ·McEwan Hall production.Three hours of magic, programme including Elgar, ces. Guest tickets (£1.25) can Christmas maal. 7.30 om music and fantasy. Brahms and Christina Ortiz play­ n ion Shop during the week and DISCO TIL MIDNIGHT This is your only chance to make 7.15 pm; £16-£1.50 ing Mendelssohn's Piano Con­ n, 24 Buccleuch Place, at the Chambers Strteet your voices heard, so why not FAT SAM'S BAND certo No. 1. 8pm come along? Preservation Hall Happy Hour 8-9 pm 7.30 pm; £8.50-£2.80 ROCK DISCO Free Chambers Street House FR I 2 2 NOV 9 pm-12.30 am SAT 23 NOV NOV CATHOLIC.STUDENTS UNIUN KANGAROO KLUB SCOTTISH OPERA 23 George Square TU ES 26 NOV The Place King's Theatre rship ~£4 for four years, which 12.30-2 pm EU LABOUR CLUB Victoria Street La Vie Parisienne by Offenbach. de a free ticket to any Sunday Bread and cheese lunch 60p Seminar Room 2, Chaplaincy 10 p~-3 am; £1.50 This operetta epitomises the EU POLITICS SOCIETY legend of "Gay Paree". Private Eye ndby ticket 1O minutes before Centre FLY BOYS Bar and many other theatre Faculty Room North, DHT 5. 15 pm for 5.30 pm satirist John Wells has written a 1 pm ;Preservation Hall new translation which perfectly REgular weekly meeting. Free Malcolm Rifkind will speak on BEATLES APPRECIATION SOCI­ catches the manic farce of Paris sanctions /SCOTTISH CHAMBER life. NORTH . AMERICAN STUDIES ETY ORCHESTRA which all.ows you to claim two Sinclair Room, Pleasance Conducted by Sir Alexander Gib­ SEMINAR Queen's Hall .off cost ,of any performance). 7.30 pm son. Room 107, William Robertson Lionel Friend conducts a prog­ A showing of Paul McCartney's 7.15 om; £16-£1.50 Building ramme including Strauss, Schoen­ 'Give My Regards to Broadstreet' CHARLIE McNAIR'S JAZZ BAND 4pm berg and Schubert. CHEAP BECKS Preservation Hall 711.9 Guthrie Street (225 4061) James Hlffvey talks on 7.45 pm; £8-f2 Chambers Street House ry. Pop into the offices at any "Anglophobic Anglophiles" Becks promotion night nda, thf! full-time secretary, or American diplomats in london before the Civil War. £:::~1,c..:a::..m=e:.::a.:.;Ia:.:n.:.:d::...a:....::.b::;anccd;;_ ____., RELIGIOUS STUDIES SOCIETY WED27NOV and TRADITIONAL COSMOLOGY MIDWEEK SERVICE SOCIETY Chaplaincy Centre School of Scottish Studies, 1.10pm 27 George Square 'The Voice of Aggression' - Rev. 7.30pm Canon Neville, Chamberlain, St. Dr Nicolas Wyatt will speak on John's Episcopal Church. "Who Killed the Dragon? Cos­ CATHOLIC STUDENTS UNION THE Ul:TIMATE EXMAS El\!_TERTAINMENT · mogomy in the West Semitic 23 George Square Trtadition" All welcome. 1.15pm KBU EXTRAVAGANZA Sacrament Talk. KB Union LIBERAL SOCIETY 8 pm till late They didn't tell Whats On where GARV GLITTER I Two lives bands - Twisted Nerve ·they're holdingthis meeting or at I and Vicroys - Disco free to stu­ what time. However we can tell CHRISTMAS EVE 7.30 £4.50 dents. you that Graham Carter, a real, live I THE DANCE Tory will talk on "What the British THE ROBERT CRAY BAND BLUE OYSTER CULT TeviotRow people really want.''. 8pm~am . JAZZ CLUB XMAS PARTY Dec.1 £4.00, £3.50 Dec. 7 £5.50, £5.00 Twodiscos, two bars, mega light 3a Buccleuch Pl. show and Happy Hour 9-10 pm · 7 ..30 pm Members £1.50, non-members £2 MAGNUM THEPOGUES WE FREE KINGS LESBIAN AND GAY SOCIETY Potterrow Executive Room, Societies centre Dec.4 £4.50 Dec.16 £4.50, £4.00 8pm-1am . 7.30 pm (meet in Pteasance Bar) Happy Hour 8.30-9.30 pm Sandy MacMillan, Royal Infirmary consultant tives an illustrate1 talk THE STYLE COUNCIL THE ALARM EU HOT AIR BALLOON CLUB - on 'Gay Health matters' SOUIDPARTX Dec. 6 £6.50, £5.50 Dec.22 £4.50, £4.00 (See membership card for details) GREEN BANANA CLUB Why nmbecome aC:lubCa~d Holde~ g1v1ng yo_i p, 101,ty boc'@g Also bookings now being taken for Potterrow on new concet t dates For more infor rnat1on send'"' ~ ':_,, lv Humber Bridge· Balloon Meet, next 8pm-1 am Happy Hour 8.30-9 pm Edinburgh Playhouse. 18 22 Gr eens,dc Place or phone OJ 5:,7 2590 o STUDENT Thursday 21st Novembef 1985 l·ilm Yup , Yup Yuppie! boring guy who gives everything up time given to the characters, how­ ST ELMO'S FIRE for his career, the shy and sensitive ever, it is a pity that the more guy who wants to be a writer even Dir: John Schumacher interesting and original perfor­ ' though he has girl-problems, and ABC mances are not developed enough. the wild and wacky chap who just St Elmo's Fire is a form of lightn­ wants to play his sax and lay So this is the film about confront­ ing which sailors once believed to ing 'all the post-college issues in tbe everyone else. Oh, and there's the be real fire flickering around their girls too ; the hip fas1-living 1980s'. You cou ld have fooled me. mast-tops. In a less than subtle The makers of St Elmo's Fire have, Madonna one, the sweet and caring exponent towards the end of the according to the glossy little leaflet Laura Ashley one, and the clever, film we are informed of its self-per­ one who wants her career before I was given, prided themselves on petrating nature and presto, out their depiction of hard-pressed any committed relationships (and pops a neat little metaphor for all youth adjusting to adultho'od after seeing what's on offer you won't the personal crises suffered by the graduation, but before you all rush blame her either). chums. Of course it's all drama self­ along to catch a glimpse of life in Any talent is ploughed back into created under the pressure of cop­ the real world, I'd better point out reinforcing the good old American ing with their 'freshman year of · that unless you like your cliches stereotypes. All the characters are life', how could we not have seen it? well done and served up with the white, middle class and so ge11erally Such a heavy-handed approach leftovers from American college warm, supportive and close-knit ruined what was left of the film's movie tradition , you'll be sent away that a standoffish Brit like myself vitality. By concentrating on the with an empty stomach. found it all a bit sickening. Even the fortunes of seven people it dissi­ American dreams crumbling round pated its energies, the resulting If you swallowed The Breakfast• everyone's head failed to sound a study has to be shallower, the club you'll recognise a few people; convincing note of despair. characterisation less sensitive. Emilio Estevez (he of "Repo Man" However, it was pleasant to watch; fame) , Alison Sheedy and Judd Rather than the ex-flower there are one or two quite funny Nelson all star here as well as other brigade of The Big Chill, we now moments and the rest is colourful , familiar faces. Quite a pantheon of have youthful yuppies opting for fast moving and amusing enough to up and coming American talent I the bourgeois way; Andrew keep a small smile on your face was informed, so dutifully I kept McCarthy's laid-back devil-may­ most of the time. Don't expect too my eyes open for it. care atittude of Kevin sticks out much and you'll probably enjoy it ; It's all about seven young friends (much as William Hurt's did in The this is a warm, authentic look at all finding their feet after college. Big Chill) as the loneliest and most yuppie America and not much The Brat pack comes back. There's the sensible guy who gives vulnerable of the Raucous Seven. more. everything up for love, the sensible With equal significance and screen Manda Jeffery What's up, Chuck? rHE CHUCK JONES "I don't particularly like oatmeal Jones, a 73-year-old, is an old but I've decided to come and live hand at such lectures, having ~ECTURE over here." - Chuck Jones in recently toured the US. His talk For over forty years the response to warm applause at the was, however, more a series of antics of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Filmhouse on Monday, 11th stories and anecdotes than an exp­ Duck and The Road Runner November. lanation of the mechanisms behind have entertained millions. animation. But he did give the audi­ Their creator, Chuck Jones, Chuck M. Jones is responsible ence an idea of how he sees comedy recently spoke at the Fil­ for over 500 cartoons, mostly for and how his cartoons have man­ mhouse for a special Guardian Warner Bros., involving such aged to entertain for so long. (In characters as The Road Runner, the early years, 1940s and 1950s, lecture at which Mark White Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and Jones believed his cartoons would and Mark Tinsley were pre­ feature lengths such as The Phan­ have an entertainment value of two sent. tom Tollbooth. to three years at the most.) As he said: "A comedian is not someone who opens a funny door but opens a door funny." Yet he believes strongly that comedy will never work unless there is someone to sympathise with. For example, in The Road Runner cartoons the Coyote is the subject of sympathy, Cinema, as he always fails to catch the bird. Until Saturday 30 Novem ber 5.45 and 8.15 (not 5.45 Sundays) Paul Schrader's account of the life and violent death of In justifying his cartoons' popu­ M1SHIMA(15l larity Jones partly put it down to the The film skilfully interweaves the events of Yukio M ishima's last day, incidents from his life and dramatised passages from his novels. "traces of us all in his characters". 'The m ovie has all the ritual sharpness of that final sword' -Time Out Daffy, in response to finding trill­ Clnema2 ions worth of jewellery in a cave, Wed 20 to Sat 23 6. 15 and 8.30 says, "It's all mine, mine, mine, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in FALLING IN LOVE (PG ) mine" -' something he believes Modern American re-w orking of 'Brief Encounter' w ith Robert De Niro and M eryl we 'cl all like to shout in such a situa­ Streep as the lovers who find that romantic loves ia a greater threat to marriage tion but are too self-conscious to do than casual adultery. · so. unless he had a character that the the cartoonist to develop his·own Cinema2 audience could sympathise with. flair. M on 25 5.00 and 8.00 The real joy was the chance to Perhaps his perception was correct: THE SEVEN SAMURAI (PG ) see ten of his cartoons in full size 1941 has been the only flop of Spiel­ Jones's work gave us a glimpse Akira Kurosaw a's sa murai epic which was later remade as The Magnificent Seven into the golden era of cartoons. Cinema ·2 technicolour which was how Jones berg to date. Tues 26 and Wed 27 6.15 and 8.30 intended them to be seen. Televi­ SPLASH iPGI The Filmhouse, in conjunction sion. as it does with any film, gives He answered questions with the with his lecture, is running a Chuck 11\e problems involved in falling for a mermaid. Darryl Hannah stars. the viewer a distanced picture of same enthusiasm as he lectured. The late night performance (11 pm Sat 23) of STOP MAKING SENSE is sold out, but Jones season with The Grea; the director's work. · there is a Matinee on Friday 22 at 2.309 and an extra Matinee on Saturday 23 at 4 Answering the predictable ques­ American Chase on Saturday, 23r p m tion of whether violence in his films 50p Matinees t his week: MISHIMA (Wed 20); FAWNG IN LOVE (Thu 21) · ~OP The influence of his work on the November, and Chuck Jones High· MAKING SENSE (Fri 22); the seven samurai (Tue 26). All at 2.30. ' inspired the young, he· replied , film industry, apart from three "Yes ... I can see the whole of this lights on Sunday 24th November. I Oscars, was to be found in , for lecture hall is full of twitching Mark Tinsley example, Duck Dodgers in the 24'12 psychopaths. Century, with the intrepid Daffy as Mark While a space pilo!, which influenced Despite the wit, he was sincere George Lucas's Star Wars. Lucas and serious about the decline of the The originals of four Chuck Jones would not let Star Wars open in LA cartoon industry or "the Dark Ages drawings will be auctioned in the without Duck Dodgers being of the last 20 years" as he put it. In Radio Forth Charity Auction over shown before it. Jo11es also was particular he pinpointed the car­ the weekend of November 29· asked to help Spielberg's 1941 (with toon factory of l{anna B~rbera December 1. John Belushi). His reaction was with a huge output of cartoons with Also being auctioned is a free that the comedy would not work poor storyline which does not allow year's pass for Filmhouse. STUDENT Thursday 21st November 1985 JI

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ble , while still remaining within it~ ' YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLASSICAL MUSIC technical capabilities. And th ese THEATRE WEEK FEATURE capabilities are by no means negltg· ible ... after a visit to Oban, EUCO iheatre Workshop Edinburgh University Chamber was favourably compared to the Orchestra The Young People's Theatre BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Week culm inated on Saturday On Thursday 28th November, (!). Perhaps a trinc over-optimistic. evening with three commendable the Queen's Hall is going to be the but it does confirm that EUCO i1 shows by three

Art~' Feature~ Art goes to the Cowgate now lives ahd works in Glasgow If you go down to the Cowgate their work is trendily original. Andrew Brown would rather show which he says suits him very weii' today you're in for a big surprise. The same energy which he exude; The winos and Salvation Army the work of an unknown rather in conversation is strikingly appa­ have been joined by Edinburgh's than of an artist acclaimed rent m his pamtmgs. It is .no latest gallery development, the 369 elsewhere as "of the moment". He Gallery has moved to number 209, takes most of the decisions himself, wonder those sea scouts came in for opposite Blair Street , its pristine trying to avoid the pitfalls of com­ a second look, the colours blaze out arches nestling among the street's mittees which choose less exciting, as you pass by. Each large canvas is blackened stonework. The lights more conventional and acceptable thick with bright acrylic paint, one are purposefully left on at night to work to exhibit. of ,Hock-Aun Teh's main tools being a builder's trowel. He long advertise its presence and lend a The 369 Gallery is an important· more salubrious air to the area. ago abandoned the restrictions of venture not only because of its representational ism to emerge with Proof that it does attract passers-by promotion of Scots artists (or those was given when, at the private view expressionist work which co mbines with strong Scottish links), but also Western materials with his Zen of the current exhibition four Sea for the stress which it lays on its Scouts wandered in to have a look, philosophy and Chinese callig­ education programme. Angela raphic tradition. but failed to convince anyone that Wrapson has been appointed Edu­ they were in fact rather small for cation Officer for the 369, which It is hard to keep a straight face their age and should be allowed has set and Education Room at her when confronted with titles like some wine. If the Cowgate seems disposal. The programme promises "Even the Janitor's wife has a good an odd setting for an art gallery the to be the largest of any Edinburgh St!X life" next to an abstract splash low rent and huge premises are gallery and its worth can hardly be of orange with jerky trowel marks. enough to covince. ignored in the light of Sir Keith But then the artist confessed that he Joseph's destructive policy towards thinks of his titles after the impor­ The whole building is expected to education in the arts. Starting on tant work of painting has been be ready for use by January, at pre­ 27th January will be a series of done, and that o ne just happened sent the downstairs gallery, the courses in drawing, painting, life to be a good line from a song. I was restaurant (the Gilded Balloon) drawing, " multi-media" (which glad to hear I hadn·t missed an y and bar are open, whilst upstairs sounds intriguing), two art clubs for cryptic message. the renovation continues. What children etc. Lectures on 20th cen­ will soon be copious studio space tury Scottish art every Monday Far fro m fo ll owing the moder­ for exhibiting artists is undergoing New Scottish painting at the 369 - "Blood goes on being red" - by evening will, it is hoped, not follow nist's " If it looks nice, scrap it" prin­ the transformation from derelic­ Graham Durward. Photo: Alasdair Foster the norm, instead of showing slides ciple of art, his paintings are attrac­ tion , and the floor boards are dis­ The gallery is a registered charity thing in a dilettante, lady bountiful the paintings themselves will be tive, but never sugary. After a little tinctly dodgy. The site's and its funding is a combination of manner." He has a very determined used to illustrate the lectures. This time the prices began to nag and I architectural history could merit a grants and private money, with any manner which makes it easy to innovation means that it will be wished I could have taken "Xin Yi whole exhibition to itself, combin­ profits from the exhibitions being understand the 'gallery'Sc continued possible to have a true idea of the in painting mood" and " An entire ing the walls of medieval houses, a channelled back into the gallery to success and expansion."l'm not work's texture and size, rather than Sunday to myself at last" home with Palladian warehouse and, most finance further expansion. I asked ashamed of using commercial a stale approximation. me to stare at for even longer. The ·recently, Allan's department store. the 369's artistic director, Andrew methods, and indeed if I hadn't exhibition is a great start to the 369 The restaurant takes up a room two Brown, about the business side of used commercial methods since the The current exhibition, "The Gallery's expansion, in the words storeys high with plants clinging to the gallery. "Charities today have gallery began we couldn't have sur­ Abstract Expression of Callig­ of its artistic director, "We need to the rough stone walls, driftwood to use as many commercial means vived." raphy", shows new work by Hock­ do something to brighten up dull , and/or classical statues strategically as possible to make themselves via- The gallery's policy is to promote Aun Teh and lasts until 30th depressing Edinburgh, and if I can placed in the arches, and trestle ble. Just because we're a charity new Scottish artists, yet this does November. I admit the name may do that through the arts then I'm all tables (don't breathe a word about that doesn't mean we can sit back, not mean that · they are chosen not sound straight out of Burns, but for it." Bannerman's). be unprofessional, and do every-. indiscriminately or· solely because Hock-Aun Teh, born in Malaysia, Stella Collier Norman's Birthday Bash Last Monday, a celebration was held in the Queen's Hall to mark humour. "I was a guinea pig; they Then one mght another wee burst the 75th birthday of Norman MacCaig, widely regarded as didn't know what to do with me - came . .. but you've always got to Scotland's foremost poet. Ishbel Matheson and Jacqueline they gave me a room - and invited be aware that every poem could be Brown went along the week before to meet the Grand Old Man of my wife to join the ladies' tea club." your last. " ~ottish Poetry. Nevertheless, during his time he Un Monday night the Scottish did meet and encourage aspiring literati celebrated this remarkable The gallery of portraits on Nor­ 'a role' beyond ·trying to write ai student writers, some of whom still man's birthday in poetry, song and man MacCaig's wall represent the well as possible." And his reason publish today. prose. It became a fitting tribute, most significant figures in Scottish for writing? "Everyone wants to MacCaig hopes to produce not just to the poet, but to the con· literature since the war. MacCaig make something that was not in the another book of poetry. He hai tinuing survival of cultural hfe in sits comfortably below them, tak­ world before - I try to create written consistently over the past 40 Scotland to which MacCa1g has ing his place amongst the famous. poetry." years although he admits that he contributed so much. Sorley Maclean. Edwin Morgan. Observers have detected the ·has been producing less work lain Crichton Smith and Seamm influences of Wallace Stevens and recently. Although he has never Heaney were amongst the friendi John Donne in some of MacCaig's deliberately taken a break from Norman MacCaig's latest book is who were at the Queen·s Hall on work. He admits to having been writing there was a long period last Monday night. "Collected Poems" published by "obsessed" by both poets but year when he thought he was Chatto & Windus, costing £9.95. It MacCaig was evidently looking minimises the influences they have finished. " I didn't produce any­ forward to the event when we contains most of his previously pubd had. "I'd never been able to imitate thing for six months but I wasn't lished work and some unpubhshe spoke to- him the week before. others and that's why! can't write a that distressed as I'm a very work~ However, he dismisses his new title novel or a play. If! wrote about five philosophical , phlegmatic man. of Scotland's best living poet: "I characters they'd all speak like me hate that kind of talk- it stinks the - regardless of age and sex." joint up." His sources of inspiration con­ MacCaig was not always the toasr tinue to be the streets of his native of Scottish literary circles; when hii Edinburgh and the Highland land­ edinburgh review work was first published fom scapes that are familiar to him. His decades ago, he was furious!} ideal existence would be six winter denounced by his contemporariei months spent in the city and the rest - poets and Scottish Nationalist of the year up North in Assynt readers and writers meeting 3like - for wriiing in English and where many of his friends stayed: not Lowland Scots. He later met "Of my six best friends, three of 3nd befriended many such critics, them were there; one was the head­ bring notably the late Hugh MacDiar­ keeper and one was the head- your mid , of whom he comments: "Scot­ ' poacher - they were good friends tish poetry was transformed b) ideas as·well!" Reflecting upon the importance MacDiarmid - he dragged poetry In the later poetry he has been of poetry in his life, MacCaig says: and in Scotland into the 20th centuT} particularly influenced by the "More than anything it has been an questions and put an end to the Kailyard deaths of these close friends. Mac­ immense pleasure." It has also led school of poetry . . . quite a good Caig has had an extraordinarily poet he was." him into other areas - he was doric tavern, market street (behind waverley station), edinburgh lucky life - "lived through two appointed Reader in Poetry at Stirl­ However, MacCaig is sceptical from S pm on monday 9th december I 985. world wars for a start" - and had ing University and was the first about the pcl!l¥er of poetry - never seen a corpse before. his "poetry changes nothing" -and he Writer in Residence at Edinburgh parents died. "Death was just a University in the early seventies. ALL CONTRIBUTORS AND READERS WELCOME dislikes talk of the role of the poet concept until my closest friends m SOCJety. "The poet does not have_ He remembers his initial experis died in the past eight years." ences at Edinburgh wi_th some STUDENT Thursday 21st November 1985 13

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fbe staff of Student were recently surprised to learn that there exists a fifth sabbatical. Iain Catto John Cook assesses the objectives of this week's East-West was sent to investigate. · summit. The problems raised when two overcome the cultural silence with iions on playing for any team based No dou bt most people at Edin­ prise a Vice-President, a Vice-Pres­ cultures with totally different va l­ the " Edinburgh Conversations", . on colour, race or religion. Accord­ burgh University are aware that ident (Intra-Mural) - in charge of ues and philosophies meet across annual discussion meetings bet­ ing to Mark, "the only criteria for omewhere there exist four beings the fastest growing area of student the negotiatillg table have been ween scientific and academic rep­ 5 playing for a team should be ment Jected to take a paid sabbatical sport, an Honorary Treasurer and very much in the news this week, resentatives of Britai n, the USSR alone". It is to this end that he has ;ear to ru n the Students' Associa­ an Honorary Secreta_ry . These, plus most notably with the Reagan-Gor­ and USA, which seek a more tion- However, what most people bachev summit on Tuesday and enlightened view of East-West rela­ seem to be unaware of is the fact Wednesday_. tions. The attitude of the Univer­ that there is a fifth sabbatical, the Normall y the fundamental prob­ sity to these meetings is a type oi sparts Union President. Following lems of so-call ed "cultural clash" cold , scientific nationalism ears of campaigning by the Sports are the sole preserve of academics whereby discussion , tolerance and Union to try and prove the fac\ that and fieldworkers, politicians are reason hold sway . Emotion is swept the workload undertaken by the unwilling to admit the existence of under the carpet in an effort 10 president necessitated a year out socio-cultural differences when understand "the ot her man 's point (last year's President Ian_Stev~ns faced with a multitude of political of view". Instead, what we see takmg place .received the Wilham Darhng Pnze problems. Yet politicians ignore in Geneva at the moment is not true for services to the University, and a these differences at their peril : the cultural exchange of values, idea1 third class degree), the proposal only way to resolve political tension and attitudes, but self-interested was passed by Court and Senate last is by a complete understanding aims. On the one side to improve iti year. In May a General Meeting and , more importantly, a willing­ . ai ling President's electi on image . open to all students and atte"nded ness to respect the cultural values of and on the other to project, by con­ by about 350 ( eat your heart out other nations. EUSA!) elected Mark Loughlin as Instead, what kind of dialogue trast, its new yo unger leader as a the first sabbatical President. A did we find going on between the political force in the world arena. final year History student, Ma_rk is two superpowers in the week lead­ ln other words , it must be a leading light of the Men's Hockey ing up to the summit? In his televi­ realised by all politicians Club, having been awarded a full sion speech to the American nation academics and media pundits, that blue, and he is in the current East of last Thursday, and with a global whatever transpires as a result 01 Scotland squad. He is also an emi­ audience listening in the wings, the Geneva "talks" , the sad fact remains that it is not a true cultura: nently likeable chap. Reagan all but admitted to the com­ dialogue When questioned as to the fact plete lack of cultural understanding we are hearing at the that most people do not know he between the USA and the USSR. moment, but merely a self-sati sfi er exists, he admits that it is a problem Indeed, if the entire extent of cul­ monologue with each side trying to justify itself but not nearly to such an extent as it tural communications between the ... to itself. John Coo~ ~ for the EUSA sabbaticals. While two is represented by America's their role is perhaps rather unde­ exports of "Sesame Street" and the fined , Mark sees his as being "to Beach Boys anC: the Bolshoi Bal­ Student's new Lea'der column promote, encourage and adminis­ three ordinary memoers, make up agreed to second the motion being let's performances in New York, is written by our own staff and trate student sport at all levels". As the Executive. (You never guessed put to the EUSA annual general then Reagan's "cultural exchange does not replace the usual regards pu bli city, moves have been such a world existed, huh?) meeting which calls for the secta­ with the Soviets" is non-existent. Opinion, intended to be a made in the right direction - Mark One of the more enterprising rian policy of Glasgow Rangers FC As politicians evidently do. not forum for students to voice moves this year and one of which to be condemned, and calls forcer­ speaking at the Opening Ceremony wish to seriously grapple with the their points ofview. We would Mark is justly proud is the making tain positive steps to be taken by "cultural clash" it is particularly helped to raise his profile, and the welcome articles from any· Sports Union have been promised available of more money for clubs E_USA to pressure the club into mterestmg to observe what the regular access to Midweek. When to employ professional coaches on changing its poli cy of signing only academics studying this problem body, whether they focus on Student moves to its new premises a part-time basis. Out of 49 regis­ Protestants. Although he feels it are up to. In particular, Edinburgh university or national situa­ at the Pleasance, it will have the tered clubs, 26 of them hire profes­ would be wrong to request the Uni-· University has admirably tried to tions. Sports Union as its neighbour, thus sional coaches in order to give that versity 1st XI not to play Rangers facilitating easier access to the expert bit of coachin11; both to. should the opportunity ever arise ~ · HEAVY sports pages. However, Mark made players who merely want to (unlikely though it may be), he sees Ex·USA FRINGE r__ "',i SHEEPSKIN the point that lack of publicity for improve their game for thei r own that it is necessary that as the >e:_':\ FLYING the President himself means that he enjoyment, and to those aspiring spokesman for Edinburgh Univer­ TRAPPER •- 1 can get on with the job of adminis­ champions , of whom Edinburgh sity sport, he should make a posi­ JACKETS ~ • (;_--, 1' -) JACKETS tering sport more efficiently - it is boasts a considerable number. tive stand on the issue. ln1~. blackorbrown ~·~ TYP£ WW2. Made In leather with taff•tta linln&, .4 , · /,:; · . h.. v, brown ....,_.In A further move which has taken It is perhaps with justified wtth •hNII IMther on not important that the President O

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came under attack. Eventually . He claims to be "the last journalist who was recruited to a J'relford foresees a situation i~ 1ewspaper by walking down a street and seeing a sign in a which pressmen , especially photo, vindow saying 'Reporter Wanted - Apply Upstairs"'. graphers, are viewed as agents of He has been the subject of controversy over the reporting of the police and will find their jobs invested with a further dimension v1ark Thatcher's financial dealings and, more notoriously, of of danger. "We won't be able to mtrages in Zimbabwe - meriting a full-age feature in a rival cover riot situations just as the >aper, The Sunday Times. South African press can't, but fo r His name is Donald Trelford, his appearance quiet and different reasons. It's just as bad." massuming; and last Thursday night he became the latest in a ong line of distinguished media figures to give the Kenneth "It is more important to be reasonable than right, since to be \llsop Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh University. both is beyond any editor." With a journalistic pedigree tak­ The Sunday Times," he joked.) The Trelford impresses his listener ng him to a (currently) ten-yea, point about the role proprietors can with his concern for the truth, but ·ditorship of Britain's oldest and play in the public's view of a news­ balances his idealism with the reali­ ,ossibly most respected Sunday paper was amply made in the lec­ sation that ideals are often unat­ ,ewspaper, there can be no ques­ ture: the much-vaunted Trelford­ tainable. Just as he finds total sub­ ion of the fact that Trelford is an Rowland dispute of last year is jectivity an elusive _ideal, he ·xcellent journalist, possessed of perhaps more noteworthy for what believes that it is more important to .cute observational powers and the it tells us about Trelford himself. be reasonable than right , since to be both is beyond any editor. "It is ,bility to recreate accurately what The row blew up as a consequ­ desirable, of course, but it is neither ,e sees. ence of his visit to Zimbabwe to After RAF duty and reading interview the Prime Minister, possible nor necessary." ,nglish at Cambridge, Trelford's· Robert Mugabwe. Disagreement He does not set out to be the ora­ Jurnalistic career from his home arose when Trelford brought back cle, as some editors do : nor ye/ to Jwn, Coventry, to the world, via reports, gleaned by his own noctur­ be the mouthpiece of his paper's oints as exotic as Sheffield and nal visits to the curfew areas of owner, as some undoubtedly are. \frica - a continent for which he Matabeleland, of government The newspaper's integrity lies taintains a particular affection and atrocities - reports which were eventually at the door of its editor, tterest. It is his experiences in potentially dmaaging to the busi­ and it is partly to Trelford's reputa­ ,frica which appear to have ness interests of Tiny Rowland's tion as an honest and sincere man eightened his appreciation of the company, Lonrho. that The Observer owes its present­ alue of the 'free press': in the lec- Sitting in the comfortable lobby day standjng. It is apparent in his 1.re , he told the story of how his of the George Hotel sipping a gin­ actions and words that it is possible eporting pleased neither party in to realise the limitations of idealism n internal political wrangle, with and tonic, he could hardly have Photo: Dave Yarrow been further from the dangers and without losing hope. · ach side attempting to bring pres­ many countries and is being under­ ble," he admits, "but we should discomfort of unauthorised night At some point in their lives, most ure to bear on him to change the mined in Britain. "The press" (and try. " The future of the news media travel in the African bush, but there people jump too readily into the ituation. opens up the possibility that it may is a ringing conviction in his tone as one feels instinctively that he trap of labelling themselves left­ become a tool of the state, render­ During his journalistic career, he describes the plight of the people excludes the tabloid newspapers) wing, right-wing or middle of the "doesn't have enough power." He ing it all the more crucial to strive md especially his time in the edito­ he saw. "They were going through a road, and toeing the relevant party for impartiality. He speaks almost ial post, Donald Trelford has met terrible time. Once you knew the is concerned for the future of jour­ line. Not so the editor off The as though he sees the potential for - and absorbed - a lot of pres­ story, you have no choice. " nalists, whose role he interprets as Observer, a man who espouses .ure. He edited an unpopular, that of the man holding up the mir­ Orwell's 1984 in, for example, the intrinsic principles for their own vhite-owned newspaper in Nyasa­ "The journalist's role is to hold ror to life , no matter how unpleas­ autumn's inner-city riots. "The sake, and that of humanity. There and (now Malawi). "They looked up a mirror to life, no matter how ant the reflection may be to people police are now going to the press is no better tribute to his integrity ,round for someo11e vaguely liberal' unpleasant the reflection may be and politicians. Importantly, he and asking them to hand over than to include him in his own vho believed Africans should run to people and politicians." remains aware of the illusions mir­ photographs of rioters, particularly description of great journalists heir own countries," he explained, rors can project. unpublished film .... Some papers James Cameron and Kenneth ·and I was sent out to make peace." · He is a brave man. Amidst specu­ are actually handing it over, and I Allsop, who showed that "jour­ lation that he would be sacked, or The sparsely attended Allsop think this ais a great mistake." Memorial Lecture, the forum for nahsts need never be ... perform­ fe was in Africa through much the newspaper sold, he decided to The culmjnation of this kind of ing animals in a circus dancing to JOSI-imperial unrest, ending up at brave the wrath of big business and Trelford's hyper-articulate (and 'state' intervention can, he feels, totally convincing) defence of the some ringmaster's instructions, but 'he Observer. take on the old newspaper cliche - only harm the already tarnished press, was a concise expression of free spirits dancing to tunes in their Of his much-publicised wrangl­ to publish and be damned. reputation of the newspaperman. what he feels to be the fundamental own hearts and minds - tunes thirt ng with the newspaper's owner, Tiny Rowland backed down: A freelance photographer died of principles not just for the news­ found an echo in their readers ana tiny Rowland, he said little, Donald Trelford stayed put. The injuries received during the autumn paper industry, but also for the indeed still echo among us here ,eyond giving the briefest explana­ freedom to speak out, which he val­ riots, and (although extreme) the today". · · smooth functioning of a free soci­ ion and playing down the conflict ues so highly and for w)lich he was circumstances are by no means ety. He knows there are problems. In Donald Trelford, they are is reported elsewhere. ("You prepared to lay his job on the line, unique , three Observer photo­ nuch more than an echo. nustn't believe what you read in is a right which has slipped away in "Perfect objectivity is impossi- journalists were among others who Jenny Dunn Flour Power The rectorial election of 1954 was out. One said to me , "This ain 't no 1 considerably more violent affair Wild West show·" We all saw the :han that of 1985. John Hutchison, funny side of it. Things were begin­ Nho was a servitor in Old College at ning to go against us. The students .he time of the rectorial of 1954, were forcing the door open. The iescribes the campaign: more we tried to shut it , the heavier the odds were. On the morning when the tradi­ We were wondering how long we ional rectorial battle for the steps could hold them off, when rein­ ook place inside the Old Quad­ forcements arrived Bob. ·a ngle, it was quiet and peaceful Robertson, the Deputy Bedullus , , ,;hen we arrived to start work. By Tommy Renton the storeman, and :he time our tea break began , George the servitor bringing up the things outside were beginning to rear. liven up. When I looked out, stu­ Someone shbuted, "Hurray! Here dents were arming themselves with comes the cavalry! " - just then we buckets loaded with fish heads. all gave one almighty shove. The These smelt to high heaven. . door closed with a rush as Bob Flour bombs were ·flying right turned the key and locked it. We all and left. I disappeared inside the gave a gasµ of relief. Senate Hall quickly. A loud yell Edinburgh University students' vent up from the crowd: "To the hectic campaign to elect a Rector ,enate! Charge!" I shut the door ended in victory for Sir Sydney vith a bang and yelled for help. Smith. He polled 1,097 votes, 358 'We're being invaded, hold the fort more than Peter Ustinov, his Only a handful of students were ads! Don't shoot till you see the nearest rival among the four oppos­ dow of the Upper Library, watched discoverer of Penicillin. . life vhites of their eyes." I was joined in the Old Quadrangle when the by the Secretary to the University, So ends a part of university ing candidates. Barbara Kelly, the. University's Principal and Vice­ 1 ,y three serv,itors, who put their Mr Charles Stewart. Sir Sydney was long remembered, never to ret~rn­ famous artist, got 402 votes; Ken­ Chancellor, Sir Edward Appleton,. houlders to the door, to keep them neth More, the film actor, got 95. to serve for three years. He suc­ John HutcbiSOP read the election ~C:sult_from a win- ceeded Sir Alexander Felming, the STUDENT Thursday 21st November 1985 ti

Spur'< Games in dollbt Sadly it appears that the pre­ Sutherland's article in The It was Edinburgh District Coun­ parations for the Xlllth Com­ Scotsman on 8th November in cil's open condemnation of apar­ monwealth Games are still which he voiced his apprehen~ion · theid that led to the withdrawal of being hindered by a lack of co­ over the plan to resurface Meadow­ television coverage from the Daily operation between the three bank so close to the Games Crest Games and turned the event relevant bodies: the Edinburgh received a scathing reply fro~ in the opinion of Bob Greenock Edinburgh District· Council in District Council, the Scottish into a fiasco! It was this· incident which Alex Wood and Mark which firstly precipitated much of Amateur Athletics Association Lazarowicz (chairperson of the the ill-feeling and suspicion which and the Commonwealth Recreation Committee) spoke of now hangs over the .Games and it Games Committee. Sutherland's innuendo and inac­ secondly resulted in the temporary curacies. Bob Greenock, press sec­ withdrawal of the support of Rank retary of the SAAA, was similarlv Xerox (one of the leading condemnatory: "Sutherland attacks The Games press secretary and sponsors). Lazarowicz remains anyone he wants to! " Radio Clyde personality, Mr James unrepentant: "The Zola Budd' Sanderson , privately a

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samples of your pathetic wide-boy retia, oh yeah you told me then you killed in that aircrash over the Alps. • SMALLADS abuse, so cut it out and start paying loved me, and now you've left those I wept for months. attention to what I tell you. back streets of Naples far behind JASON - sorry I missed you at th1 you think you can just forget me. Odeon. What hapened? Anna Maybe you've changed, and OK, so May. Dear Lucretia, maybe I have too, but deep down , Dear Lucretia, I stayed with some Franciscan HAPPY BIRT.llDA Y Mike Cai Give us a break, eh, and stop act­ beneath this crude, brash surface, I way! Lots of love Jack and Al. ing so high and mighty. Let's face it am still the sensitive guy you loved, monks in an isolated monastery for doll , you want it, I want it, we all the guy you called Danny. five years while I recovered. I want it, so why not come on round Desperate Daniel, Naples. learned a lot in those days , Luc­ and be my hot loving woman. r.etia, and I think I became more Desperate Dan, Edinburgh. Danny? Danny? Could it be -is complete as a person. Lucy, will it-after all these years? Danny! you come back to me? Desperate Danny, Naples. Okay, Dan, go play on the motor­ way, creep. Dear Lucretia, Oh Danny, I love you. I'll be right Yup, babe, it's me, and you over. Dear Lucretia,' know Lucretia, I .. . I ... I still love Dear Lucretia So it's like that now, is it? You · you. pretend like maybe you don't know Desperate Danny, Naples. You've got to help me: my prob­ me, like maybe you never knew lem 1s that I just can't get any birds. me. But you knew me once, Luc- 1 know I am witty, intelligent, exceptionally good-looking, and ·very muscular; I wear lots of after­ shave, revealing T-shirts and tight trousers. I drive a customised Ford Capri (my love waggon), I have lots of cash to flash about at weekends and_ jewellery, such as the gold . cham I wear around my neck, and I 0 read lots of girlie magazines so I know just how to treat a woman. So What's gone wrong? · Desperate Dan, Edinburgh.

Therootofyourproblem Dan is Your failure to understand just what ~~ '/u?ecessary for a satisfying and Jul­ to ~g relationship, it is all very well hctcK il'I +J-e loc.l

0 w;~ ~f: Dan, I don't need to put up You lS type of harassment: it's k'ddr prob/em, not mine. Look i o Id ' . never ~cor on J _give a damn if you burh eagamaslongasyoulive, . so,n ere I am trying to help you find Yourel;aturity and satisfaction, in flo,,; ~ e and how do you repay me? 0 You repay me? You give me , STUDENT Thursday 21st November 1985

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5 Aiming high @Monsters ! Highland 29 EURFC 11 The Rifle Club last weekend Following an in-depth con­ tot a superb score in the SUSF The second half saw a perfor. versation about the Loch Ness ma nce of true guts from the stu. ague of 1557 ex 1600, for a monster between Simon Burns dents, who opened the game when :am of eight, resoundingly and John Douglas, EURFC possible and knocked Highland ~ating Stirling and Dundee. travelled to Inverness to take back in many of their attacks. lost notable in this perfor­ on the might of their local club, iance was David Gill, a An up and under from James saw Highland, one of the top sides Edinburgh's first score, as wing ·esher in his first team match, in the Third Division. Lawson outpaced the defence and ho shot the best score of 17 ex pounced over the line for a try in )0, a tremendous feat. · the corner. Highland's pressure Edinburgh started the match well however was again too much and a On this form, a nd with four and knocked Highland back for the score followed from their winger embers of the student team in the first LO minutes. However their pre­ almost immediately. ;ottish National Squad, the RC sure was not turned into points as 1ould dominate Scottish and two penalty goals were pushed wide Edinburgh ran their hearts out ritish Universities events. This of the mark. In fact it was Highland again and again, gaining 3 points udent talent, when combined who opened the scoring with an from a penalty and produci ng the ith the depth, experience and opportunist try in the corner from best score of the match when a >aching provided by graduate their scrum half. They then piled · clever loop in the centre saw-Burns ,embers is attracting top young on the pressure up front and Last year's Rifle Club which captured all the SUSF and BUSF trophies bar gallop through for a try under the tooters from schools around the attacked again and again, but the one. posts. Highland had the last laugh iuntry to Edinburgh. This ensures Edinburgh defence held firm with though with a final score near the the prone event in the Common­ ,e vital continuity that produces international opposition. strong tackling, notably from that end. This was a good win for the wealth Games Shooting Federation ,p team performances in succes­ flying prop forward Montgomery. northern side which puts them Cham·pionships in Northern Ire­ The club meets at the range in the ve years. However the scores had to come closer to promotion. land. On these results he has been Pleasance on Tuesday and Thurs­ and twice fo llowing scrums close to The summer season was enorm­ elected as first reserve for the Com­ day evenings. Try shooting small­ the line, Highland scored.One con­ Edinburgh however now know usly successful. Most notable was monwealth Games. In the same bore, full-bore and air rifle. All version and a penalty were added to that the only monster in Inverness is ;ordon Which's victory in the Earl championships, Simon Riley won equipment and coaching is pro­ leave it 17-0 at half time. their rugby team. laig Scottish Championships , to the bronze medal in the three posi­ vided. ecome 'the youngest ever Scottish tional event (prone, standing and The Bullet llampion. He also took the gold in kneeling) against some strong f Blue Riband

Sunday saw the Blue Riband The Hare and Hounds finished in d!) Freshers update event in Scottish running, the 3:55:57 in 17th place, a great .run under 20 provincial side. With a wards out scrummaged the much Edinburgh to Glasgow road considering the very high standard The Freshers XV are of the field. Due to fine perfor­ nbeaten thus far this season, pack with only one player under 6 vaunted Greenock pack and Dave relay. The top teams in Scot­ foot, it is not suprrising that the for­ Stevens at No. 8 added one more to land are invited to compete. mances by all the team Glasgow lteir first in the Glasgow wards have won a great deal ofthe his tall y of push over tries. Stevens University were well beaten as Jnder 21 league. Highly line out and scrummage b.all , and a nd the blind-side fl anker Harry This year's race was livened up were Hunter's • Bog Trotters, egarded by many older club our ta ll y of IO push over tries will Hawes played particularly well, as by the entry of an American team, 4:02:43 and 4:02:46 respectively. aembers the team has shown hopefully be further improved over did the scrum half Gavin Thain who the Kangaroos, including John Tut­ ome real class all ready this the rest of the season. It is the probed the blindside excellently with· tle, the world half marathon record On Saturday the Hare and backs, however who have rightly some shaq:i breaks and well placed hol.der. and the Kenyan , Hounds are organising the Braid rason, and the talent in all John Nzau the former Olympic Hills Races,. 3 miles for women and ositions bodes well for the scored most of the points, due both kicks. It was a fine team perfor­ to a great deal of pace in the three mance against some testing opposi­ 10,000m gold medalist. They com­ 6 miles for men. Entries close fat 2 •tore. I quarters and some excellent handl­ tion, and a lthough the scoreline pleted the eight stage 44.5 mile pm at KB for the races which star1 ing skills which have made space for may be misleadingly one sided, the relay between Edinburgh and Glas­ at 2 .30 pm. The price is only 50p for In addition to two Freshers play­ others to utilise. victory was thoroughly deserved. gow in 3 hours 37:40 followed by students and that includes food I ,g for the 1st· XV, there are a All the team now look forward to Edinburgh Southern Harriers lack.­ after the race. So come along and mmber of very promising players Apart from cricket scores against trying to maintain our unbeaten run ing the talent of Alisdair Hutton, in enjoy yourself. nongst this years intake, and our Aberdeen University (61-0) and on Wednesday when we play RAF 3:38:23. !COrd of played 9 won 8 and drawn Trinity Academicals (60-3) notable Leuchars away, and get suitably is the best in the club: we have wins have been notched up against sozzled in their duty free bar after­ :ored 276 points. and conceded Kilmarnock (26-6) and Glasgow wards! nly 32, and are top of the Glasgow High , Kelvinside (18-3): GHK :ague at the moment. The team have won the league for the past Special note should be made of as no real weaknesses with an two season, and last Saturday the the importance of the Freshers per­ lcellent set of attacking backs and Freshers beat · one of the main formance in the league: if we can big. competitive and very capable threats for this season's title, .win it or do we ll , more people are ack. Special mention should be Greenock Wanderers. In a tight, going to take EURFC seriously iade of the very strong back competitive and physical match, and more Freshers will want to join >w, who have out-played the Freshers were slightly nattered the club next year instead of local very other breakaway unit we by a scoreline of 33-6. The backs, Edinburgh clubs. Also the 2nd ave encountered. Garth MacAl­ particularly Tim Woody the full Freshers XV. the Vandals will then ine at nyhalf has put over some back and Chris Kelly the out­ also be included in next year's codigious place kicks, and has side centre, made some excellent league, which would give them the !ready been honoured this season breaks, and Garth MacAlpine did­ motivation they desperately need. lith his selection for the Ulster not miss one place kick. The for- Gareth Terrett ~ Just sailing along ~· many people will read this any­ Linlithgow Loch, early on a decided to fall apart. The racing On Sunday at 2 pm the Pollock, organrser· tn · c hr'ef . fdtc, iaturday morning. Ideal team way). Then, sailing the right way was resumed at 3 o'clock, just as it biggest sporting event time EUSA was confident that the 10 Id up , our ladies proceeded to sail racing conditions prevailed for started to get dark. decade will takeplace. This vidual skill of thei r players wo~lf Glasgow ladies off the water giving enable them to comforta '.be third series of the SUSA several greens (penalities) in the event is guaranteed to over­ The final races, Edinburgh Firsts defeat the Studeni team. league, a three-way tie between process. against Dundee and Glasgow Firsts shadow both the Olympics and Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dun-· took place in a dying wind with a the World Cup. What ;s it, I · poinl The second team were on next It should be added at this lee. After. successes the previ­ dreamy setting sun falling blissfully hear you ask? The staff of Stu­ 00! against Dundee Seconds then Dun­ that both teams will be mIXed ( ~ ,us weekend against Aber­ into the smoky hills. Very romantic dee Firsts, winning the first match dent have challenged EUSA to sexism here!), so no doubt seve:rd but useless for team racing. Edin­ ieen, all three Edinburgh convincingly and pulling off a sur­ a football match. of the participants will look fofW . teams were promising once burgh trounced both teams with prise victory against the cream of This mega-spectacle will go to a " Gregory's Girl" scenano again to dominate the Scottish Dundee with some fine team rac­ only two boats; Paul had an off day he decided to stop at the windward ahead on the Meadows no matter when a goal is scored. iailing scene. ing by Richard Yemin. the weather, so spectators willing to mark and let everyone go past. ·u i,e cheer the teams on will be very wel­ Undoubtedly the match w\ave Glasgow Firsts., then raced Dun­ Next Saturday Edin!Jurgh-Firsts come. Both teams are eagerly mak­ closely contested, so if you Too smug you may say. Cer­ dee Firsts but I missed that as I was 01111 vs. Edinburgh Seconds and team ing_their preparations for Sunday. some free time on Sunday, c .01 ainly, our first boat on the water in the cafe having a cup of tea. Rae­ training at the pond. See you there. Student's team coach Sally Greig along and watch the hacks bel :apsized in the only squall of the fog was then abandoned for about GT spent Tuesday afternoon finalising· hacked. -Iain catt• lay. (Don't worry Rebecca, not two hours as one of the boats · the team· selection, white Donald •