55 SANG SANC CHINESE RESTAURANT Leeds Student • FULLY LICENSED • 7 The Headrow, Leeds I. we specialise in INDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER Cantonese food FRIDAY 7th OCTOBER 1983 - FREE Variety of Tim Sum snacks Excellent atmosphere and service AS B STO SC AR E Killer dust found in boiler rooms Dangerous blue asbestos called in by the University The 1977 University was discovered in the Uni- after the asbestos had been report details where the versity Boiler House in the discovered the workforce asbestos is and what sort of summer vacation despite were only provided with asbestos is present, assurances to the work- masks for protection. whether blue, brown or force there that the pipe According to 'Asbestos white. Asbestos is present lagging was a composite Killer Dust' published by in a number of halls includ- University Collarbones. Pic by Kevin Powley. mix containing no asbestos. B.S.S.R.S. Publications ing Charles Morris, Ellers- Sources inside N.U.P.E. simple gauze masks are vir- lie and Sadler Hall. There informed Leeds Student tually useless in terms of is no danger from this as that management had told protection offered, and the asbestos is perfectly safe MINISTER VISITS the workers for several safest protection comes while it is sealed up, and An on-the-spot invitation to Sir Keith Joseph to visit the Stu- dents' Union of Thomas Danby college was briskly turned years that there was no from using an independent the University have taken down when Sir Keith visited the college last Friday. asbestos in the boiler house air line or oxygen supply. samples to ensure that The invitation was made by the President of the college lagging. The World Health safety levels are main- Union as the Education Secretary made his way to the new However when twelve organisation stated in 1977 tained, and old insulation teaching facilities in Roundhay Road. samples were subsequently At present it is not possible will be checked. Thomas Danhy College suffers from severe over-crowding, with 600 students crammed into a refectory and Students' taken from the pipe lagging to assess whether there is a The factory inspectorate Union rooms at lunchtime. roughly twice the number the in the Central Boilerhouse safe level of (asbestos) have declared the boiler- rooms will comfortably hold. they were subsequently exposure below which an house to be clean after tak- The Principal of Thomas Danhy who was escorting Sir found to contain asbestos. increased risk of cancer ing air samples there. Keith on his visit is reported to have told him: "This is the REPORT would not occur." ADAM LEBOR place we do not like to show people." as he steered Sir Keith Although the asbestos was towards the spacious new college. not discovered until routine maintenance was carried out a report was completed six years ago FRASER WALKS OUT detailing the locations where the asbestos had Students gave a resounding many students had paid up short speeches on Union mat- and left the stage. He did not been found around Univer- 'thumbs down' to University's would not be available until a ters. return for the remaining meet- backlog of paperwork, usual at ings. sity environs. Health Service charge at the At the first meeting, Dr. start of registration on Wednes- this time of year. has been Said Aileen McGloughin. While Mr. K. Everett Fraser delivered his speech day. forcing the stall in the Great cleared. "Dr. Fraser's arguments were the University safety about Student Health refraining not very strong. but I was really Hall to close down early due to The lethargy of Wednesday's officer refused to give from any mention of the eon- thrown. Given the preconcep- lack of interest. Health Registration was in con- troversal Health Service levy. tions that many first-years have Leeds Student a copy of the trast to a Freshers' meeting a Following Dr. Fraser, Aileen about Students Union, what he report we have obtained Third-year students Nick day earlier. McGloughlin. General Secret- Clarke and Trevor Thome. who said could have been very one. Temperatures ran high when ary of roundly damaging to our campaign." The report however lay watched the proceedings at the denounced the £5 charge.- Student Health desk, claim that University Health Officer Dr. Dr. Fraser his previously been dormant and had not been very sympathetic to the Union, only one student all day lain Fraser walked out after When the second meeting delivering an impromptu speech circulated amongst the coughed up the five pounds that began, Dr. Fraser departed but Aileen said: "He feels torn workforce who could have the University is demanding for attacking L.U.U.'s 'Health Stu- from his prepared speech and between the two sides of the dent' fact-sheet. easily taken the necessary 'special services' registration. criticised 'Health Student' at argument." The University refused to The meeting in the Great Hall length and in detail. clearly flus- Dr. Fraser was unavailable precautions for dealing for comment di the time of going with asbestos much earlier. confirm or deny the report. A took place four times, once for tered by the whole incident. Registry Office spokesman said each group of first-years. Six After finishing, he excused him- to press. When a specialist firm was that accurate figures of how speakers were present giving •self to chairperson Sally Ryder ROSS WELFORD PAGE TWO countries who have failed to pay up. POLY SPARED AXE Education Chief, Councillor Bernard Atha is worried about At the beginning of last believes cost conscious London and Oxford Polys the effect this will have on the year the National Advisory Leeds has got off lightly. have suffered the severest students in question. He won- Board (NAB) was set up to No department has been ders if the council will ever take cutbacks of all, losing stu- a decision to "jeopardise a stu- cover local authority edu- closed nor courses lost but dents, staff and courses. dent two-thirds the way through cation, its given purpose to around £1 million has been Foreign governments are just a course because the money has NUS is sending members not paying the fees for students ensure slack capacity is deducted for 1984/85. In to lobby the next NAB not been paid." used more fully. real terms this comes to they sponsor, says Leeds City Councillor Atha says that meeting in Eastbourne on Council Education Committee overseas students who come to In the real world this around 4 to 7 per-cent and the 15th of October. Back spokesman, Councillor Les Car- Britain are an invisible export means they have to begin to is only bound to affect edu- home in Leeds there will be ter. and he has attacked the Gov- cational standards: stan- a march from the Town Almost 146,000 is owed to ernment for making it so expen- plan for cuts of an average the council in unpaid tuition sive for them to study in this 10% in the public sector for dards the Conservative Hall on November 10th Manifesto pledged to pro- fees, mostly for Polytechnic stu- country. 1984/85. All PUSHE with students coming from dents. Meanwhile Councillor Atha (Public Sector Higher Edu- tect. As the Government West Yorkshire, South Nigeria is the worst offender, has told council committees who has proved, in education as Yorkshire and Humber- owing £85,700 approx. for want to interfere, and perhaps cation) colleges and eighty-seven students. Sudan, polytechnics have come in health, promises are side Polys. Union officials send foreign students with out- made to be broken. believe we cannot afford Libya, Kenya, Iran and Iraq also standing debts home, that they under NAB's Axe and sev- In the Yorkshire region, feature on the 'spending watch- can "go to hell!" eral polys have been sing- the continuation of student dog' committee's list of eleven JULIA KAY led out for a special attack. Huddersfield Poly has been apathy much longer. Leeds particularly hard hit losing Poly not RIP just yet. (OK) Jim Miller, the Deputy 10% of their grant. The THREE THROWN OFF President at the Poly, City of London, Central ROB MINSHULL A DISASTROUS start to term It is believed that breaking of lay in store for three students the age and experience regula- when they arrived at the tions is commonplace amongst Polytechnic's business school to polytechnics and that Sue Tom- take a post-graduate course. ball had gained permission from On Thursday, 10th November, the best A2 sized poster Matthew Lake, Ian Walker the Council for National FALL OUT in conjunction with other designed for the event. It should and Stefan Pompa were told by Academic Awards to waive the A temporary bomb shelter will National Union of Student area be simple, powerful, and the the course director, Sue Turn- rules and allow the students to be built by L.U.U. in Dortmund organisations and Polytechnics design should leave about a ball, that they were ineligible for register on the course. Square next month as part of a throughout Yorkshire and quarter of the space free for the course because they had fal- However, the CNAA later five-hour 'nuclear event' Leeds beyond, Leeds and West York- further information on the len foul of a minimum age limit refused to ratify any waiving of City Council have decided. shire Area National Union of demonstration. Only mono- of twenty-three. They were also the regulations and insisted that Students will be holding a chrome designs will be consi- informed that they "lacked the all three could not take the The application to the council demonstration against the Gov- dered.