RlBOTRKE GRllERY ~--,~r"*r-. ....IE.'4;.W.iNOITllt\lKA.'iaJISL''l _._ 111 .......... , ........ -"""'"-16' HICHsnt£T fDJNBUICH Tfl:lll·ll5234il 20p CO~TENTS Ten On The March THURS 29OCT1987 NEWS • Anti-Apartheid demonstration. • San Francisco goes to Leith waterfront feature. • More on the Poll tax. LETTERS • Letters from non­ hacks would be welcome! MUSIC • A fond farewell to The Smiths. • A preview of the Primitives before they hit Teviot. THE CE\TRE FOLD • An in-depth guide to what's happen .. ing, man. Photo: Miranda Chitty • Killing me softly, a A few of the 40,000 anti-apartheid demonstrators take a break during the protest in London last Saturday. play about AIDS. • Jellybaby, a play Ten Edinburgh students, were roughly treated and labelled by Lucy Hooker Moses Mayekiso, the Trades among the 40,000 protesters "Judas" as he tried to make an Unionist now under threat of about infertility. gathered in London on Satur· Officer's instruction to let go of, arrest. execution in South Africa. day to de m and immediate gov· and allow the arrest of a photo­ At the appearance of half a charge with high treason. ernment a ction o n t he issue of grapher being arrested on a dozen police dogs the The demonstration coin­ FEATURES Southern Africa. Four arrests similar charge. demonstrators hastily with· cided with the United Nations were m ade, including one Kirsty said afterwards " I drew and rallied back with the International Week of Anti­ • An opinion on stu .. Edinburgh University student, expected everyone else to grab mai n body of the crowd. Apartheid Action to mark the dent parties. Edin­ during a generally peaceful me and help pu ll him back. but SWP activists oaid they felt 21st anniversary of South rally. no one did. I'll not be doing that intimidated by what they sa w Africa's illegal occupation of burgh body has, The arrested, all members of again." Kirsty will be facing a as the police's uncalled for and Namibia. Events in Edinburgh and everybody can the Socialist Workers' Party, charge of obstruction at Bow unnecessary concentration on continue on Thursday when write an opinion were charged with unlawful Street Magistrate's Court on thei r section of the demonstra­ SWAPO's president Sam for us. "leafleting" in Hyde Park-and 11th November. tion. Nujoma, who was heading the assault on a police officer. The incident flared into a This familiar scenario was march alongside Bernie Grant Kirsty Reid from Edinburgh's brief, violent clash, where bot­ the only such incident during and Ken Livingstone will be SWSS was charged with tles and cans were thrown and an otherwise amicable speaking in George Square "obstructing a police officer in foot and fist violence was used demonstration. Thea tre this evening (Thurs­ the execution of his duty" after by both protesters and police. The core of Sa turday's march day). • Review of Tin Men consisted of politica l and anti­ she refused to comply with an One black police officer was Within Edinburgh University Apartheid activists, Trades a renewed campaign is pres­ Union members and students • Witchesof si ng for the Edinburgh Univer­ with other contingents ranging Eastwick Competi­ sity South African scholarship from Krishnas to Christians and Business Rules scheme to be reinstated and tjon. OAP's to Poets against Apar­ by Morag Blair expanded and for the neces­ power Services Commission, theid. sary funding for the project. The Secretary of State, Nor­ said that as yet there was "no full Enthusiastic slogan chanting SPORT Disgust has also been expres­ man Fowler, has indicated he ministerial approval", although and familiar rhetoric were sed at last Wednesday's meet­ would like all students to have he did anticipate "full support". accompanied by a noticeable • Shinty again! Our ing within the University of the acquired skills in business and He stated that the aim of the lack of venom compared to the sports editor seems pro-Apartheid organisation enterprise before graduating. He scheme was "to integrate into violent and angry protests of Friends of South Africa to have a soft spot feels that Arts and Science stud­ the curriculum key management other years and optimism was although it is not thought that for the game! ents are not well enough pre­ ski lls prior to employment", so understandably low after Mrs any university students or staff pared for the world of work. that the "discrimination bet­ Thatcher's intransigence at the were involved. In a letter to Geoffrey Holland, ween ans and science degrees recent Commonwealth Confer­ BACK PAGE chairman of the Manpower Ser­ will no longer exist". ence. A low key and unobtru­ Protest is also being voiced at vices Commission, Mr Fowler The fact that a large number of sive police presence was the new Local Government Bill, • Auntie Doris gives suggested that the Commission Edinburgh University Ans matched by a co-operative now at the committee stage in her advice. offer El million to universities. graduates do go on to work in march. Parliament, which will make it polytechnics and colleges if they businesses would appear to Demands focused unlawful for Local Authorities • An amazing fashion agreed to develop the enterprise suppor1 the scheme. However, immediate economic sanc­ to boycott South African goods feature. programme. the fundamental difference bet· tions, against namibia as well and companies with invest­ Graham Peckett. who is ween an Arts and a Scienc•? as South Africa, and the freeing ments in South Africa, for PUBLISHED BY EUSPB involved in the scheme at Man- deQ ree will surely always e)l.1st. .of au detainees in particuiar example Sehll Oi l. NEVVS THURS 29 OCT 1987 -------------------------------------------- Glasnost at Edinburgh . ' NEWS by Emma Simpson and second year marks have gone and I think of a substantial IN BRIEF The majority of Edinburgh Uni· number of students will be able versity students can now ask to find out their honours to see their exam ination ma rks marks." - a right w hich has never He added that some boards before bee n ava ilable to stu­ might have problems in com­ dents. puterising their marks Undiluted This new open ness towards immediately, but that the sub­ access to marks is the cu lmina­ stantial number of boards will Potterrow t ion of a report by a worki ng start now. party, set up last year by the However, there is a fear Complaints about watered Students' Representative amongst some faculties that down beer in Potterrow Council, which put forward the whole process would were dismissed as one of proposals eventually passed by become too mechanical, allow­ " the great myths of the Pot­ the University senate last Wed­ ing the boards having no lee­ terrow House Committee, nesday. way to adjust marks under spe­ the source of which was From the middle of next cial circumstances, along with totally unknown· by Mike month, students sitting non­ a worry over more students Lyttle, Deputy President honours exams will be able to demanding appeals. The last week. He stressed that see the marks they obtain in the senate has decided accordingly the kegs were bought overall and individual exam to review their decision in two direct from the brewery papers from their Director of years time. and this complaint which Studies. A common marking scale has been around for four Also honours exams and any was also decided and is now in years was as mythical as marks stored on computer will operation, whereby the follow­ the ghosts that haunt be obtainable in some sort of ing gradings will be issued for Teviot. way. Boards of Examiners have all faculties: been given discretion to reveal • 50-54% D marks in final exams. • 55-64% c Teviot newspapers Professor Michael Anderson, • 65-74% B Dean of the Social Science • 75-A cut out Faculty and head of the work­ Students will be also be able ing party said 'Tm all for it. We to ask to see any personal infor­ Professor Anderson, head of the Data Protection Working Party. To achieve cuts of £300 in have been trying to do this for mation held on the central com­ Teviot Row's newspapers. eyars. All the secrecy over first puter system. budget. the Services Reprsentative, Adrian Lea has suggested the possible subscription cancellations of at least five dailies, two ~us de~ands Bob's youruncle weeklies and one monthly magazine. In line for the aze are newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph and ~y~~,r."ease 1n grants -not your Dad the Morning Srarwhile Far­ mers Weekly and Readers de~~: (~~~i"~reU~~~in~f i~tu~ Sc~~i~c~t.~:l~P~~:~~ethoa~ by Joanne Moody Digest may also be stop­ claim to the Department of Sci· student allowances had gone Deputy Secretary of Education don responsibility for the sys­ ped. ence and Education for a 20.7 down by 32 per cent in real Robert Jackson wants to force tem but merely assume the role per cent increase in the level of 1erms in recent years- in 1982/ universities and polytechnics of Guardian. ·Government studentgrants,aswellesaclaim 3, she said, 8,000 Scottish stu- to become less dependent on must have a strategy for reduc­ for compensatory allowance for dents were receiving a government funding and more ing its commitment to the fund­ NewEUSA thetwoshortvacationsatChrist- minimum grant, whereas last autonomous. ing of higher education while mas and Easter, and a claim fora year, 13,167 Scottish students Mr Jackson, who has special allowin,g the institutions to logo travel award for students. were having their fees only paid charge of Higher Education build up alternative sources of Ms Pauline McNeill, President by the Scottish Educa1ion spoke at a conference on higher funding so that their autonomy EUSA is to replace the of NUS Scotland, said that this Department (SEO).