WAR2 Interviews with the" stars in the special magazine Incorporating juice magazine Guardian! NUS Student Newspaper of the Year March 14,1997 Vol 27: Issue 18 Inside: Historic interview with the Prime Minister PLUS: CLARE SHORT, RICHARD DAWKINS, HOWARD MARKS On red alert for Outrage at nose job COMIC capers hit the citv Hulas - and it's all in aid of charity, irn/o Diilni liluck. Many local businesses insensitive' are taking part in the fun anil sliidents will join in too. Lvcnts ate taking place at LMUSU's ' Kirkstall Breweries Bar as well as special nights across the city. This year the noses which are furrv and come with a lollipop inside - have proved a big hit with Leeds uni gun club students. "I haven't got one vet. By MATTHEW GENEVER hut I'm going to - and all decision not to lake action "insensitive". mv mates have them." said ANTI-GUN campaigners have second vear English student adding: "We felt that we just couldn't have Richard ('oope. condemned a university gun guns here anymore." As well as the noses, club for refusing to lay down A spokesperson for the Gun Control Network. monev is being raised by the set up in the wake of the Dunblane shootings. sales ol Animamacs T-shirts their weapons a year on from commented: "This is so insensitive, (inns are lethal and special red nose lottery the Dunblane massacre. weapons of destruction and shooting clubs just scratch cards. Local parents and students added glorify gun culture. The union should listen to the For the more red- students in Leeds and shut the gun club down." blooded. The Body Shop art- their voice to calls from national Lesley Jones, Sports officer at LUU. defended selling kissing kits which campaigns for the LUU rifle and pistol the union against the growing tide ol criticism and include lipstick and a snog club to be shut down. said it would not bow to pressure to ban shooting bv log. to keep a record of vour students. "We don't feel that a decision about the adventures. Most other universities around the country future of the shooting elub can be made until we And for the first time, the closed their shooting clubs in the wake of the understand the ramifications of the new legislation - Internet is being used for tragedy. including Stirling University but there is no question of closing il at the moment." people to pledge cash. The Students' Association, which is just a short The club, which has more than 90 members, special Comic Relief distance from Dunblane. Jeremy Lowe, shoots regularly in the-projectile gallery in the website can be found at university sports hall. Members are angry they are RED-DY FOR ANYTHING: Two girls with a nose for a laugh treasurer of the association, called LULTs show off their charity hooters Pic: Sarah Davis www.comicrelief.org.uk. CONTINUED ON PAOE 2 INSIDE: News 1-11, Comment 6-9, Outlook 13-25, Sport 27-32. Plus 32-page juice special magazine LEEDS STUDENT Friday March 14, 1997 THIS column has finally realised it's In a galaxy a lovable rogue - Gary There were so many of them ^LEEDSM (into to a had thing. It could have spent far, far away Bouch? perched on stage you wondered if the last leu years savouring glorious up the road at ()i maybe Bouch has the human cloning had started already. cup finals or waning lyrical about icons LUU to be right dome for R2D2. With a full 10 candidates assembled STUDENT of popular music. precise - an HACK Certainly there was no you were reminded of that lilacktulilcr doubting the C-3PO figure episode featuring the 'Standing At The Instead it's been a diet of sad old assault on A weekly sketch of student politics This week in Britain's trainspotters babbling about Vagner's this week: Robin Van Den Back 1.(Hiking Stupid And Acting constitutions in drcar\ grey rooms dreaded Death Heinle, who has the Stupidly Party'. award-winning student where ihconly signs of life are Star was meanwhile being planned. capacity hi translate several million The speeches ran the full gamut cobwebs and passing tumhleweed. The Socialist Workers as renegade as constitutions, maintained a flat fix tin mediocre to mindnumbing - newspaper of the year So this week it would be tar more any bounty hunters and just as good expression throughout as he intervened Yoda's riddles would have been ,i fun to write about Star \Vnrs instead. looking - had put down a motion at this w nil pedantic [mints about the rules bellylaugh by comparison. These were Three classic movies about to hit the week's Ordinary (iencral Meeting for and regulations. Never has Threepio's .ledis w ith a long way to go in their sil\ ei screens again without so much as LUU to support the anti-Vaguer soubriquet of Protocol Droid' seemed training: "I can't really add much to an anorak in sight. Imagine it things campaign. What more force could it sii appropriate. w hat's been said already by the other It's your choice: could always be like that. The evil possibly need than Jedi Knights like Without crucial Lwok \otes the candidates." was the central plank of The politicians empire of LMU would be ruled by Bruce Skywalker. Princess I iggy and motion got altered until it was merely most manifestos. Darth Vaguer, dark Vice-Chancellor of Obi-Wan Cosiello to outwit Vagner's hot air - Darth Vagner is hound to be It was fighting talk like that which want you but do the Silh. w hose Death Star has already security slormtroopers'.' quaking at the thought that R2D2 is finally won Darth Vaderover from the you want them? demonstrated its firc|xnvcr In But Princess Tiggy lacked the bleeping at him angrily. Dark Side. Perhaps one day student pages 4-5 destroy ing an entire faculty. k'istincss of her screen counterpart, The final chapter in this saga was politicians like these will realise the I .ord Vagner's crackdown on the arguing it couldn't be done because of hustings for the sabbatical office of humanity buried inside them and student protesters would have to be ultra v/Vrv - they're not allowed to use union Services officer. Return of the he similarly redeemed, but COMMENT described as The Eimpire Strikes Hack, LUU cash to support somebody else's Job-1 - as in 'I'm desperate for a job until then this column although not c\ en he has stalled thing. She needs a good talking to from next year' - we were presented with a cannot escape its destiny: Spruced up Spice: chopping off hands with a light sabre in Han Solo, whoever that might be - a motley crew ol candidate^ with all the The Farce will be with you. Always. David Adam on why order to crush the Rebel Alliance. cix)l maverick, a handsome gunslinger. charisma of a fleet of X-wing pilots. that Brits dress is the FACULTY CLOSURE BACKED BY LMU GOVERNORS Girls' biggest hit GUN CLUB page 9 Outfoo* OUTRAGE CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE being placed in the same The John category as Dunblane murderer Thomas Hamilton, who gunned down 16 children and their Major Wagner clamps teacher on March 13 last year. One regular shooter, who wishes to remain anony moiis. said: "We interview slnxit as a sport inside a gallery. Just because one madman The British Prime misused guns it doesn'l mean Minister talks to the rest of us will. I feel sorry foi the parents of the Dunblane student media for the kids, but you can't paint first time ever-only everyone with the same brush." down on demos Parents of children at Leeds in Leeds Student EMBATTLED Grammar School, across the pages 16-2O road from the university Vice-Chancellor campus, were not convinced by Leslie Wagner has shooters' arguments. Anne launched a Williamson, who has a son at the Green Initiative: crackdown on the school, admitted she was "very BY PHIL KERFOOT, concerned" about a shooting 5Ldve legend student protesters EDUCATION club in the vicinity. "You never Alan'on how demonstrating CORRESPONDENT know how responsible the against his people in charge are, and there is he became the actually told Leslie always a risk of weapons getting cutbacks. Wagner he can do what he into the wrong hands." voice of football And in a statement wants but he hasn't even set out what he wants to Threat .the LMU boss do and he could now implied there would The Fourman Day Nursery quash any protests he on the university campus has be more cuts to doesn't agree with." implemented a series of new His criticisms were come, saying "there safety measures over the past will be matters in the echoed by Marie year, including new perimeter future that are far Stimpson. the LMU fencing. Nursing Supervisor representative for the Carole Cialdas said: "I just more challenging to teaching union NATFHE: worry about the threat of guns." the university than "We are clearly opposed Student opinion was heavily the issue of Health to any victimisation that in favour of closing down the may occur as a result of gun club. Finalist Emma Halton and Social Care." action" Wagner has branded said: "I don't understand why as "unacceptable" the Collapsed people want to shoot. It's not a demonstrations over sport. Ifs disgraceful that this is Plans by the protesters still going on in (he university." the closure of the lor a mass student march l-resher .loeri Roose agreed.