sweet revival EVERY MONDAY NAT0,66-69BOARLANE,LEEDS. Incorporating Juice magazine Britain's biggest weekly student newspaper October 4, 1996 Vol 27: Issue 1 Kula Shaker vs o MING ME on the make Movie mania as Tara Fitzgerald Tells all in a The too band viax IVHCal about special pull-out guide to the Leeds Film Festival music. mysticism and much more S: ID/AA/lib.ADD. M. FA SE1111121N L, JO STEEN (G/4.461RDEiR AINID lEINTiEiRTAIUMENT Witness speaks of MISSING: £300,000 death on campus bir !titan LALAPti A STUNNED eyewitness described his horror at seeing a man plunge to his death less than 10 feet away on the Leeds University campus. writes Shinc OF YOUR MONEY The unnamed man in his • 54.1s jumped from the lop of the Police probe 111S Earth Sciences building at CO. .1.161h. around 9.45 on Thesday •)` ap -77; morning and landed in front of second year medical student Etob Allison union losses: "I was walking along with three of my friends on tar was at eilistration when something fell about two mems in front of man arrested us." said Rob. "At firm. we thought it was a bag, but as we by DAVID SMITH got closer we realised it was a man. He had landed flat on his '5.47Vir hack. and one of his legs was VAST sums of students' cash obviously broken. have allegedly been siphoned off Ambulance in a university fraud said to "Sometme else called an r. ambulance and we went over to involve more than a quarter of a the man. He had a faint pulse. We didn't want to move him in million pounds. ease it aggravated a hack injury, A manager at Leeds University has but his mouth was filling up with blood and so someone been arrested after a police probe into the decided to try and move him disappearance of students' union funds. into the recovery position. "But it was soon clear his The suspected scam skull injuries were very cost students around serious." STUDENT £300,000 and went By this stage a crowd was gathering, and so Rob and his SA VS unchecked for almost 10 friends left. realising there WAS years, according to one no more they could do. THEY kissed goodbye union insider. The man. who was to thousands of The man, who was yesterday named as Gag pounds each year and arrested during the summer, Harrison. 42, from Leeds 7. was pronounced dead at the has been released from didn't even notice. scene by patuniedics. He was What kind of custody and is on police bail not thought to have any organisation could they pending further inquiries. He connection with the university have been running? has been dismissed by the and Police are nut treating the Simple answer: a university following a death as suspicious_ Widen's' union. disci pl i nary hearing. Your union is The arrest followed an supposed to look after internal investigation into Students returned this week to find Leeds revitalised after a [DRL1GS your interests. in freshers' suspected fraud associated with week and throughout the union's cleaning budget, a Summer unity summer of sunshine and invention. Skateboarding, dancing flee student who had your time in Leeds university spokeswoman said. and music were on the agenda at the first Hyde Park Unity supplies sent• to his :loll But if you're a Leeds The police conducted their own Day, staged on Woodhouse Moor to bring together the and how he got caught. University student then inquiry after being tipped off by takes to the air suburb's troubled community. Pic: Helen Whitaoak Turn to pages 12 and 13 RIM TO PAGE 7 cowmen ON PAGE TWO INSIDE: News 1-11, Comment 6-9, Feature 12-13, Agenda 15-17, Sport 20-24. Plus 28 page juice pullout magazine • LEEDS STUDENT Fr Kiay Octane! -I 19;16 STUDENT £2,000 FEE TO BE CHARGED NEXT YEAR MISSL\-G: This week in Britain's £300,000 biggest weekly student newspaper OF YOUR NEWS MONEY Catering con? Cough up Why canteen CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE regulars have food for thought the university PAW* 4•5 authorities." Meanwhile Leeds University Union has David Adam been left embarrassed by the alleged scam. "No on Freshers' or 'ye up one could check because week and we don't know how what happens much things should cost," confessed Gary next MP o VICE-CHANCELLORS are PHOTO FAME 'touch. Communications FEATURE planning to charge students to attend Officer at LULL "I have university from as soon as next to apologise for this on Drugs busters behalf of the union." September. ny AHOY KELK caught me in The Committee of instoutions but we will Scam Vice-Chancellors not he the first to charge my hall The union is and Principals have lees. We In) blame at the feet of the government responsible for decided to start if an universities Jo managing more than 12-13 charging fees lied 11 necessary to start £1.5 million on behalf of instead or asking for charging " students each year. The rTrnmowAti funds from the This is null the Ors, time University suspected scam is Government in the have threatened 1.1 believed to have forced Back to the budget. next sharp: Ices IfOr 141111,cs cost.entiing measures in future: swinging Student Unions are ast Neal, t Mt1 ho -.. a number of crucial '70$ fashion warning that there c ,lic 'vainer the could he widespread tot los:hest paid services. ''The welfare pates panic amongst parents MVP. I SIIL CIVIC' ill office, the 'women's 16.17 arid students if the BIJIJill pfurI.IsCd minibus and all union stern ni It•S In plans go ahead societies have suffered supplement the Douglas Trainer. for years because of Nrus government an a lit. President said -The this," said one member threat of fees has Outraged David Lloyd on of staff. who did not angered students. their Union leaders 15 wish to be named. Henmania and parents and the outraged - NUI Government, president Simon •allicv Security its future described it as -selon:: PRETTY AS A PICTURE: Leeds University's Chancellor's Coon t Ilion leaders claim pages 22-23 Sickened up students to fail is splashed across the nation's branches of Midland Bank The plans woe sow, they have moved swinty would- The brochure - How to make the most of your money - features a --sluddlis ...Ind hold. he students will he put on photo of the Uni in the summer sun at the end of Iasi term to prevent any resew sickened hr the idea r•1 Other repetition. !touch added: proposals has e included paving eth'a fern " "We have now changed idea to A spokesperson for Labour's current National Insurance introduce a 11131I110111110: ieistr,r4 the invoicing structure I_MU was bluntly payments. loan system for Higher and tightened security opposed to the scheme: Even before these new Education students up to Ne)?96 "This university has proposals. students are measures." Yet he absolutely 110 plans to the value of 4:4700. already hard-bit by a lack ot conceded: "It is locking This would replace introduce lop-up lees." Funding. A recent survey by P MOM fee or the stable door after the Alan WI Ison,Vice the current maintenance the National Union ot ay horse has bolted." Chancellor of Leeds grant for those who gel Students claimed that I in forget your degree Univeisity. says that one. and graduates students 'consider druppiu c Police inquiries are they is iii not lead the would then pay their out of university courses expected to conclude in debt hack over the w ay to charging fees: purely because of financial the nest few weeks. course of their working -You may find it reasons. FLASHBACK: Leeds Student happening in other lite. in a similar war breaks the news about fees See Leeds Student Says - page 7. Fts-r impressiims are rugby playei nl rt., incan share of those were F..vec customer at any tune, but on ON THE thought to be the 17111..4 pn_N.Pnce She possesses the nieatibers keen to entertain this occasion he had clearly 111111441am as tar as Many vigour ol every good diettisel +-es_ been watching the New Labour ______) HORIZON tiestieis are tiaiverned Exec school matron or rosy -check0.1 Ten normal students were o inference on TV. There were :nenthers arc a to of ham- leader of the girl guides. gilACK in attendance to, this I resheri. extravagant gestures, pregnant acting self-itripottant wunnahr LInionunutely. fin this A weekly sketch al student poitics mini meet. which works out at pauses and sunshine face of with forecaster Stevie Sunshine ck.Emics struggling to overcome particular day. Woiklhead n natal 0.02 per cent of the which Tony Blair himself LLILI meanwhile there Saturday: Outlook for Nor the the night haw. suffering the alto-effects 01 .1 audience ti was aimed at. lf the would have been proud. Oddly heavy night, and !'cove hei a± not even anyone to Yearn. s recent weird on book- enough. when you looked Cloudy. wet rev: of the 'Chem :Iry fine traditions at union' me university students' unions moment in the linieligto was Mick 0GM: a name sir keeping is anything to go by. cime.1.■, al the agenda, you and windy week: Wet. •kt LWILISU there is the much cruelly snatched away ctinmand? Tlus annual event they will pmbohly ailrue this is discovered that Hartley 's w it Ii windy and admired 'Fresher: -Sorry...1'1x got to go tilt involves a hand of iixty.: a mathematical triumph.