ONe „ S LIP LICKING CAMPUS ska--„Ae,0/ FLAVOUR OF THE 17) WoodhouNo Lane sit v'' lOppamm OrownMY1 ik DEEP SOUTH! MONDAY TO MNDAY 1.101, 12 00 2 DOpen Ev►nierp• fi 00 12 00pm WEEKENDS Leeds Student CAMPUS 15 °Own - 2 *Ow, use This roupon and get INDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER 20P Off FRIDAY 28th OCTOBER - FREE our normal wire •IdL, GET Neil Goodenham contemplates his future. Pic: Adam 1ebor Final year Chemistry student been suggested. Neil Goodenham of Charles Another resident of the Hall, Morris Hall has been given unlit who declined to be named, said: noon tomorrow to find alterna- "She, (Mrs. Shepherd), has only tive accommodation after a hoax been here two weeks and has fire-alarm during a party on his made no real effort to get to floor last week. know the students; when she To abide by the conditions set turned up at the party, nobody by Warden Linda Shepherd var- took any notice of her - we didn't ious members of Whetton Block, even know who she was. This is a Charlie Mo' student floor four, guarded the door and Hall of Residence: she wants to turned away several gatec- run it ble a boarding school." rashers. It is believed that the Several complaints have been gatecrashers then set off the made regarding the general told to go alarms on floors one and four in behaviour of Whetton Four, retaliation. This, in turn, auto- which has a reputation of being matically activated the rest of the the rowdiest floor In Charles alarms in the block, provoking Morris. Mrs. Shepherd claims all the drama of a real fire alarm. that at the part■, she was 'mis- As floor representative, Neil handled' and 'verbally abused', Goodenham, who had formerly and alleges that a formal warn- accepted responsibility for dam- ing was issued about their age and deposited £20.00, behaviour ten days before the immediately apologised to Mrs. party. The residents, however, Shepherd, stressing that neither deny that the reprimand was he nor the other members of the formal; 'She just came up and floor were accountable for the told us to keep the noise down in incident. the future.' Three days later he was given Mrs. Shepherd refused to notice to leave on the grounds comment on the issue, but it is that his 'life-style' did not fit in believed she has the support of with the 'ideal' of a Charles the other wardens at the Charles Morris Hall member. Morris. The 'eviction' has provoked Neil, a well-liked member of strong reaction from students at Hall. commented: "Her attitude the Hall. Said Robin is totally unreasonable. I have Choudhury, President of the broken no rules and feel I am J.C.R: "I speak for all the mem- being victimised. She was look- bers in totally condemning this ing to make an example and I'm action. Choudhury is planning her scapegoat." to send a formal letter of protest Al the time of going to press, the to Mrs. Shepherd, and a boycott situation was under review. of the Hall formal dinner has WENDY ROBBINS been suggested. STOP PRESS By Thursday afternoon Mrs. Shepherd had not yet made a decision, and Neil's position was stilt being reconsidered. It is About forty students gathered in believed that this article will have some bearing on the final Leeds on Wednesday to demons- outcome. A full report will appear in next week's Leeds Stu- trate against America's invasion dent. ■■■ A new project is being jointly piloted by Leeds Poly and tank of Grenada. •• •• manufacturers ROF Barnbow. The relatively peaceful demo The first of its kind in the country, the scheme invokes a ended without incident. pooling of resources by the Poly and the Royal Ordnance Factory at Corpus Christi High School in East Leeds. A workshop has been set up to teach micro-computing methods to pupils at the ROF, and Poly students from the B. Ed. GRANTS CHEQUED OUT Craft-Design Technology course. Over £50.000 of missing grant on those two days. cheques get lost or are sent to Computers have been moved from both the Poly and ROF cheques mysteriously turned up When the Union's Grants the wrong institution., such as Barnbow and there are plans to move in more equipment this week. a month after they Enquiries Unit opened, and the Poly, but it's very rare for and establish a full-time course in • Control Technology'. had been sent out. started to deal with extremely whole schedules of cheques to While co-ordinator of the RE& course at the Poly Frank All seven of the Local Educa- large queues, it then became go astray. It looks like a whole Romer knew nothing about the scheme, Mr. Taylor, Training tion Authorities involved - Bol- clear that ninety-six cheques postbag was lost somewhere in Officer at Barnbow, told Leeds Student that the tripartite ton, Somerset, Doncaster, Lin- had gone astray. the University between the Post agreement had been jointly reached "for the mutual benefit of colnshire, Mid-Glamorgan, Cancelling and re-issuing the Room and the Fees Office." all concerned." Cheshire and Brent - claim that cheques could have taken until • Over 300 other students still Councillor Bernard Atha said that any report implicating the they posted the cheques bet- the middle of November. This have not received their grants, Polytechnic in the manufacture of munitions was absolute non- ween the 21st and the 22nd of week, however, the cheques due to resit problems and sense. September. Yet the University suddenly turned up in the Fees Whitehall delays in sending Poly Union President Graham King. felt anything bringing Fees office, which is normally Office. Assistant Research and LEA's government grant new resources to the Poly was a god- inundated with mail at that time Welfare Officer, Paul Stratford, guidelines. project," he added. SUE McQUEEN 'oy~ ell7 , received no post at all said. "Occasionally a couple of SUZANNE LEVY Page 2 HEALTH CHARGE Paper Capers The conflict concerning the sale Graham Wall, the O.G.M. of newspapers outside the Riley speaker tried to rule that they FRICTION Smith Hall continued before move away from the entrance. Tuesday's U.G.M. Members of The sellers of Militant com- S.W.S.S. were selling copies of plied and moved away but the Uni. snubs objectors Socialist Worker and supporters Socialist Worker sellers of the Militant Tendency were remained. Friction between students and the University is increasing over selling copies of Militant. the implementation of the Health Service charge. Alison Wright, Deputy Presi- Henry Price residents complained earlier this week that the dent of the Union. who was itemised 115.00 'special facilities' charge on their accommoda- involved in a similar incident tion bills was NOT shown to be optional: others who settled last week said that she was not their hills in person claimed Fees Office staff refused to accept now going to bring the matter at some letters of 'conscientious objection' and told them the the next Executive meeting as this would not deter the unpaid £55.00 was 'a debt to the University'. University Press Officer David Morris said the 'special STRIKE! S.W.S.S. members in question. Brian Parkin, a S.W.S.S. facilities' charge was NOT optional, but the University was not Park Lane students voted N, .S to campaigu against unanimous!) for a half-day Government restrictions being member. teels that the sale of likely to advertise a 'conscience' loophole on the bill. "Let's strike a its termly General such newspapers is an essential just say the 'conscientious objection' clause is being stretched a imposed through the Youth Meeting. The strike planned -trairsing Scheme. and called part of the political life of the little bit," he added. Mr. Morris thought it 'unlikely' that staff Union and that attention should had been involved in arguments over the charge. tor November 1thh is in sup- for greater co-operation • with port kit the grow me ooNsition Trade Unions and other rather be centred on banning However, he reminded students that, according to Senate racist and sexist newspapers e.g. regulations, outstanding bills must be settled before students against cuts being Community bodies on Y.T,S, iunplemented by the National Part-time students were The Sun and The Star from the can graduate. "since the University has stated that a Union. When questioning about genuinely-held conscientious objection will be respected." he :Advisory Board. It coincides given special attention, with with the demonstration ticking the N,U.S, being urged to start the ambiguous clause in the said, "it's unlikely the Senate requirements will be brought in. Bye-Laws about the lack of But it must be GENUINELY HELD, and frivolous use of the place in Leeds City Centre-. lighting for equal rights with against N.A.B. cuts, co- fall4inre students, for the authorisation for the sale of such 'conscience clause' could leave the student in debt to the Uni- materials in the Union building versity." ordinated by Area N.U.S. ever-increasing number of o rganisa tiOrtS,. Lirterriployed, part-time stu- he replied: "We are denying Union General Secretary Aileen McLoughlin said the Uni- that interpretation of the Bye- versity would be wrong not to respect students' conscientious The General Meeting pas- dents. sed another motion maodatieg S &MD A KHANUM Laws.” objections. "The Health charge is an area of contention," she DIANE TAYLOR added, "so they'll obviously be putting the pressure on." A spokesperson for Student Health again refused to com- ment on the matter.
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