Laos Umnisirr UNION LAST 0.G,Rni STUDENT ,c, OF TERM TUES 3rd MAY INDEPENDENT LEEDS AREA STUDENT NEWSPAPER Riley Smith Hall BENEFIT STOP 1 NOW BRICK RACIST ATTACKS - CHINESE STUDENT COULD BE BLINDED WALL A Chinese student was recently people now seem to think it k subjected to a violent racist REPORT BY CHRIS HILL funny to shoot at us." they %an! attack on Woodhouse Moor. They also knew of anothci The student was on his way attack on a Japanese. woman home past the moor, at l0.00 aged to reach a friend's house poking at my eye.- he told living at Bodington Hall. pm. on the 21st April, when and was taken to hospital. Leeds Student. He is also wor- Neither the Chinese depart- Students still waiting for their four men. with local accents, The student needed eight ried that the police did not ment nor the University Union Christmas Housing benefit will begun shouting racist abuse at stitches in lacerations around seem to believe his story. executive knew of the attack on have to wait until the end of him. he ignored this and made his eye, caused by fragments of A police spokesperson con- Woodhouse Moor or of ant May according to Leeds Hous- to cross the road. As he turned the broken lense of his glasses. firmed the student's report to other occurances of racist vio- ing benefit department. to check the traffic he felt He will suffer partial blindness the police but could add no new lence. something. which he now be- for six months and his sight may information. LUU Deputy President lieves to have been an air rifle be permanently damaged. In a letter to Leeds Student Anne Baxter told Leeds Stu- Responding to a telephone pellet hit, and shatter the tense The incident was reported to friends of the student who was dent, "People don't tend to re- call by Leeds Student w hich in- of his glasses. the police though the victim attacked spoke of their disgust port that kind of thing to us, quired as to when students will He passed out and woke up feels that they were less than at the incident. Most of us are perhaps because they feel r ceis.c their mune% . at 3.00 am in the middle of the helpful. "They kept me at the used to being verbally abused in emharassed about it.- spokesperson said he was 'Not moor. Though dazed he man- station for a long time and kept the streets, however, young Chris Hill unaware of the problem" and added that it wasn't -just stu- dunk. who are suffering, many other benefits are outstanding." LU1.! and LPSL: Welfare ser- vices have been laced with a hriek wall V, he %Null ACTION GETS (he depirinkait o%,...! this issue The spokesperson ollered a little hope howeNc; . those with Chrisonds benefit still to come Mill gel pitinth and will have A £6,000 LIFT their Laster claims sent out simultan•ousk. Proltahl\ by Question: What do you do die end 01 on a windy Wednesdzo,; lun- chtime in between snacks in the -T etley Bar and solitude in the library'? Answer: The Action Sedan ('hair race. LEEDS A traditionally well sup- ported cent, the race was as strong as ever this year as 14 STUDENT teams took to the field with the usual colourl ul display of muscle and costume. 'Hie winners. as usual. WILL NOW were the more professionally minded Boat Club team with the eavers coming a close BE PUBLISHED second. 'lhough, as always. it's not the winning team that counts but the spirit of the event, with the Catholic FORTNIGHTLY Society nuns dowsing the crowd in -1 lolv water', and a pitched battle breaking out between the rival exec and NEXT ISSUE union council teams, My favourites were the. 'Wot a load of rubbish', 23rd team who transported a girl • from the medical school and and water it only remained children front deprived areas in a dustbin around the the tremendous hair cut of to ask, what does Paul Bran- who attend Action's 'Satur- course until their collapse in the boy from the runners up. non wear under his kilt? day flab', to the light water the 5th lap; the splendidly the 'Friends of Shimmin'. Sponsorship for the event %alley for a day out in June. MAY attired 'Body Snatchers'. Amidst all the flour. eggs is hoped to raise £600 to take Nigel Holtby Plus — ROBERT THE HOUSE A Complete GREEN HUNTING PLANT Whats On INTERVIEW FAIR MADE SIMPLE Guide INSIDE page 5 page 9 page 8 pages 12 & 13 Page Two NE WS NEWS PEACEFUL IN BRIEF MARCH ORGANISERS FEEL Loach load of students from Innity and All Saints college IT REFLECTS took part in a Voluntar% CHANGING OPINION leges church ser1/4 ace (,n Weditesda,.. 17th Vila'. Leeds' May Day 'March for The seri.iee. held tat West- Peace' which toured the city minster Central Hall. was an centre last Saturday attracted attempt to get puhlreity Jof the well over 3.000. plight of ‘oluntary collect s. "This reflects a growing con- whose number has dropped cern for nuclear power amongst !tom 5(a in 1979 to In. the population." said Kevin All members ol the House 01 Prior, one of the organisers. Commons and House of Lords 'The March, which was staged were invited to the 4.Aent which to recognise the International was attended h‘ about 500 peo- fear of Peace and to campaign ple. fur a nuclear free world. was organised by Leed's Trades Council and it included four 'feeder' marches from the outer city areas of Leeds. Yom lidattinaut Israel In- At one point the march dependence Day approaches. stretched tight down the Head- True to its name. the march public.- He also praised the loc- major shift in public opinion, the Jewish societs is preparing row and the demonstrators passed peacefully and there al police for their handling of particularly after the Libyan liar its annual Israel night. walked, danced and pushed were no arrests. lie' in Prior the march. and Cherl;tmyl incidents, and There will be a band_ Israeli prams to the musk of' the Kel- said this was "good, because it Mr Prior noted that "the the May Day march was an in- dancing. Israeli food and ex- tingly and Nostell Miners' band. makes a better impact on the Government is now faced with a dication of peoples' concern." hibitions on all aspects of Israel. Israel night this year is on Tuesdae, 13th May in the Rik:A POLY EXEC SECURITY MUSICAL Smith Hall from 8.00 pm on- wards. Everyone is welcome. WRISTS MAN THANKS ACQUITTED Net Friday will see an African The travel Clanpany. Eurotrain, SLAPPED Former head of Leeds invasion of the Tartan bar. and are holding their winter prices Leeds Polytechnic executive was censured, for the first time in Polytechnic security Noel Blythe those people sitting down will until the end of May mans scars. at a student representative Council meeting. last has been acquitted of the charge he prime targets. 'I his w allow people under Thursday. of unlawful and malicious 2h tai travel by train at last wounding. Reassuringly. Sae Berrie of veal 's prices, in some cases fin to poor Polytechnic input to the The censure was a response It was alleged that last the visiting Eritrean cultural less than the same ioutneN day of action' on Friday- 2nd May. It was passed regional -Fowler November during a disco at the hand explains. 'We want every- would cost he ea iach. his casting after Chair of the meeting Tommy Hutchinson gave Polytechnic that Mr Blythe one to feel free to dance where- For example a one-wa y trip vote in its favour. headbutted a University stu- ver there's a space. and we cer- to Amsterdam costs C101.50 and Proposer of the motion Adrian Thorne claimed "The Fowler to Paris it is t:1 L1 50, dent. tainly won't be keeping to the proposals are the most important issues facing students. If the Leeds Polytechnic executive state " Details are As ;alabls.! From the executive are not interested iii fighting the cuts we cannot expect and the student representation trawl office. much from the students.- committee voted to pay all Mr His band comprises eleven Blythe's legal costs by giving LN - Vice President Chris Tidev told Leeds Student. that the musicians and dancers who him the services of the union's h. xeeuiise had not given the Demonstration a very high priority as have been infecting European solicitors. Mr Barton who rep- its timing was felt to be had. The Bank Holiday and the close audiences with the cultural spir- Caroline Cithson. and English resented Blythe at Leeds Crown proximity of exams, meant that students did not want to march. he it of Eritrea for the last five student, has been elected its the Court. told Leeds Student that lc I years, The the rhythm of East new LUU social services secret- his client had been completely African guitars and traditional ary . About 50 Poly students attended the march. however. and vindicated. drums. they will be teaching the She intends to fight the Fow- Tidey claims that this number is higher than those for Colleges or Costs for the trail were being dances of their homeland and ler cuts and to deal with the the University met by the prosecution. offering samples of Eritrean problems of individual students Ian Atkinson food.