IRlBOT RICE GRLLERY a. BRQ~ University of Edinburgh, Old College THE South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL Tel: 031-667 1011 ext 4308 STATIONERS 24 Feb-24 March WE'RE BETTER FRANCES WALKER Tiree Works Tues·Sat 10 am·5 pm Admission Free Subsidised by the Scottish Ans Council Glasgow Herald Studen_t' Newspaper of the l'. ear thursday, february 15, 12 substance: JUNO A.ND •20 page supplement, THE PAYCOCK: Lloyd Cole interview .Civil War tragedy . VALENTINES at the .and compe~tion insi~ P.13 Lyceum p.10 Graduate Tax proposed • Principals offer alternative to loans scheme by Mark Campanile Means tested parental con­ He said that the CVCP administrative arrangements for Mr MacGregor also stated that tributions would be abolished, accepted that, in principle, stu­ loans and is making good prog­ administrative costs would be pro­ ress." hibitive, although the CVCP UNIVERSITY VICE Chan­ and the money borrowed would dents should pay something be repayed through income tax or towards their own education, but "The department will of course claim their plan would be cheaper cellors ancf Principals have national insurance contributions. that they believed that the current . be meeting the representatives of to implement than the combined announced details of a A spokesman for the CVCP, loans proposals were unfair, the universities, polytechnics, and running costs for grants and loans. graduate tax scheme which · Dr Ted Neild, told Student that administratively complicated, and colleges in due course to discuss NUS President Maeve Sher-. they want the government to the proposals meant that flawed because they still involved their role in certifying student lock has denounced the new prop­ consider as an alternative to graduates who had an income at a parental contributions, which are eligibility for loans." osals as "loans by any other student loans. higher level . than the national sometimes not paid. average earnings would be But in a letter to Sir Edward name", and a spokesman for the In their proposals, the Commit­ The CVCP had made these required to pay back their loan as Parkes, the chairman of the . NUS told Student that "The loans tee of Vice Chancellors and Prin­ proposals, he said, because "If an extra 1 or 2 per cent on national CVCP, Education Secretary John bill is now at the report stage in cipals (CVCP), state that they you are trying to get the govern­ .insurance contributions. He MacGregor has already stated Parliament and the government is want to integrate the existing ment to change its mind you have described the scheme as being· that he rejects a graduate tax unlikely to change its mind about grants system with the top up to present a viable alternative. "like a pension scheme in based on national insurance con- details. The CVCP should be try- loans scheme and so " make avail­ This scheme meets all the reverse." tributions. ing to help defeat the scheme." able to all students an-adequate criteria." Jack Straw, Labour's Shadow grant while they study." The repayments would be ·The proposals have been He told Sir Edward that insur- Education Secretary, described Under the proposals all stu­ made over a certain number of received coolly by both the gov­ ance "should not be used as a the proposals as "yet another vote dents, if they applied, would years, with graduates in highly ernment and opponents of stu­ · means of debt collection" and that of no confidence in the Govern­ receive a full grant, worth at least paid jobs necessarily subsidi6ing dent loans. it would be wrong to suggest that a ment's Student Loans Scheme." the current £2 ,265, plus a top up those who earn less than the aver­ The Department of Education graduate tax would obviate the "The Government reaction loan of £420 as proposed by the age income. Dr Neild claimed that and Science told Student that need for the student loans com-: shows it is not interested in government, which they would this was "only unfair in the way "The government is pressing pany since it would still be rational debate of alternatives to repay when they graduated. that income tax is unfair." ahead ,with its plans for the required to give out loans. its own disastrous proposals". Students run amok by Steve Martin In general,it' appears that the Sunday. Polke told Student that ll Fo~ Ju1-1Pit-1(\' ON MiNiS, !?>TEALirJ(t ?i:)l\l> S~NS, l?Eii->(t l)l?UNI(. .AIJD and Ed Humpherson party's stay at the hostel was far this was part of an elimination from amicable , with 1 student process, after a Volkswagen )isoRDEl2L.'( fflD /I NiVSIII-JC!f TO WE l'VBUL, The residents of Aviemore. saying that their treatment was caravanette was broken into and. 7o 'fo 01.J A ~ will be pleased when the "more suitable to 14 year-old cub hotwired on Friday night. toce:I<. 18-30 winter's sporting season is scouts" and the warden himself There appears to be a bizarre over, if the events of a Pol­ commenting "for what they pay wish on the part of the Holland ski for ,they have to accept the rules". party to be associated with this lock Hall's skiing trip are The fun and frolics continu~d event , despite the police conclud­ anything to go by. Some 30 over' what was by all accounts a ing that fingerprints taken from residents took part in a Hol­ rowdy weekend in the town, with the vehicle and those of the stu­ land House JCR organised party members claiming with dents were incompatible. expedition to A viemore two some pride to have been trailed by Equally strange was Eric weekends ago and according local police on the traditional Simpson's reluctance to talk to Saturday night pub crawl. How­ Student last Sunday, claiming that to the House's deputy presi­ he had little knowledge of any dent Eric Simpson "virtually ever , A vi em ore police have no recollection of this, nor do they problems. Yet on the same day a everyone enjoyed them­ have any record of the claim made notice appeared from him in the selves" . So much so that a by the party that one of their house common room listing these large number of the party number was"cautioned" events with a number of exaggera­ were fingerprinted , 1 spent for trampling over a Mini. tions in minute detail. Mean­ Saturday night in the cells , while, Holland Warden ,Bruce The force can however confirm Gittings, requested an urgent and 2 other members of the that one second year student did meeting with House president party were asked to leave the spend one night in their cell , Alison Frater to discuss the mat­ youth hostel after they had after attempting to steal a road ter. The outcome of the meeting is disturbed fellow residents by sign,and it is believed that charges not known. However,the events· returning drunk some 3 hours will be pressed. Rumours of theft hardly tie in with the expre sed after the 11 pm curfew. of a "Happy Haggis" sign from a desire of Terry Cole, senior war- · local restaurant , were discounted den at Pollock,to curb excessive The two students in question , as "exaggerated." one male , one female,benefitted alcohol consumption by the hall's from their misdemeanour by The weekend away culminated residents ,which he believes is to being reaccbmmodated in the in the "voluntary" fingerprinting some extent encouraged by the more luxurious surroundings of a of all male members of the party provision of free drinks at JCR local guest house at JCR expense. as they were preparing to leave on functions. ·11ews. .Sludent :2~t~h~ur~s~da~y~,~fe~b~r~u~ar~y~l:-5~, _:19~9~0~--------__:~:::_______ ~---------------........ G .-S. ~- Fu tore Still Un certain .makes clear that George ~uare of the departments can be . factorily work~d out". satis. tial in comparison with the other The Group maintain that the Theatre is by far the mo t u1tabl_e by Neil Rafferty first three floors of D.H.T. "'.ould sight for the new school and _e ven proposed sights. The Working Party pomt out . "convert easily" into a business goes so far as to draw up a h t f THE FUTURE OF George school and add that the venues which could accon:i~d_at Alth ugh the group m . that the theatre has a "530 seat . aintain Square Theatre remains capacity not available e!~ew~ere", changeover coul~ t~ke plac~ the theatre's current acuv1t1e . t h at .T . i too valuable t uncertain despite claims by and mentions the particular "with relatively mmor mconvem- These include the Mc wan Hall, Universitr and the City t~ t~ architectural character", of the ence". They do however accept the Odeon Cinema and the B d­ the University that it would that there would be "a severe alt~r~d, 1t " a . e ~ent of the building. They add that · the lam Theatre. building a. unique and its b. continue as an entertain­ impact on the morale an d coh er- G.S.T. would be a "good fit" for ity to r ach all the ma· or re a .11• ments venue, rather than a ence of the Faculty of Arts." It is The group, who;e memb r 1 qu1r- business school. the proposed Business Manage- ment o f the new management ment School. · suggested that the offices 'for t~e, include Alex Currie, the Univer- w school "could be located m ' · chool mean that there is still Following last weeks story, ne d sity Secretary, Profe or em1e, doubt over whether the Theat .