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Prizes to be collected by Monday 14/11/88 No. 789 Price 15p Thursday,DEFIANT 10th November, 1988 Back to the Big Twelve BROAD-BASED LEFT WING PICKET DISRUPTS CAREERS FAIR The week-long Careers Fair independent sources said that P.1 taking place in Room 27 on several students were put off ( j o u r i e J ^ Level 5 was the scene of some entering Room 27 as a result of DEFIANCE vociferous picketing last the protestors’ presence. Wednesday afternoon. President Rob Williams said EDITORIAL At around 2.30 p.m. between that the Careers Presentation thirty and forty pickets including had been arranged by last year’s The picket of the GCHQ stand P.2 some well-known faces from Un­ Executive and that the booking by various factions of the left last week was nothing short of pathe­ ion Council, Services Commit­ had been taken as a whole, and tic. ROCK-HARD tee and the Trades Unions stood before the current furore over in front of the GCHQ stand and GCHQ had blown up. Demonstrations about nation­ al issues within a single Students' chanted slogans, distracting stu­ “It was something that was for dents and employers, many of the benefit of the majority of our Union rarely * rise above P.3 whom were midway through members and it also allowed us “irrelevant” and this one seems presentations and individual in­ to build up a good relationship to have actually done us harm. EARL GREEN terviews. with a number of employers; it’s If the good name of Newcastle After a request from the Chief just a shame one afternoon was University’s Students’ Union has Careers Officer, Mr. Ian Fors­ ruined by the actions of a tiny survived it is certainly not with ter, they calmed down consider­ minority that should know bet­ the co-operation of this tiny and unrepresentative group of P.4 ably but refused to move from ter” he said. their position in front of the A member of the picket dis­ people. WELL GCHQ stand. agreed, saying that no-one had There is nothing amiss with At the invitation of the been intimated or deterred and peaceful picketing and little to WICKED Careers Advisory Board, that the whole thing had been find fault with in the cause they were espousing, but when GCHQ moved their stand to the conducted in a highly civilised COMPETITION foyer outside the Debating manner. female representatives of com­ Chamber and the pickets de­ Careers Advisor Marion panies are intimidated to the monstrated for about an hour in Anderson, was keen to stress extent that they pack up and go home, something is clearly a peaceful manner though occa­ what a “smashing job” Sabbatic­ wrong. P.6/7 sionally refusing to leave a corri­ al Secretary and Rob Williams dor for other students to pass had done in defusing the situa­ The proper vehicle for such a MUSIC AND through. tion, and said that no student protest was the march from the Midway through the proceed­ who had expressed an intention Civic Centre to the Monument in ALL THAT ings the Assistant Registrar ar­ to visit the GCHQ stand was support of the four sacked rived on the scene causing the prevented from doing so. GCHQ employees which took STUFF University employees amongst The matter is being looked place on Monday. It would have the picket to swiftly disappear. into by the Disciplinary Commit­ expressed the same degree of solidarity, without interfering Three employers with female tee. with the freedom of individual representatives left considerably P.8 Bernard Blundell students. It would also have earlier than normal, and various Steve Silk shown maturity. SIDEWAYS Steve Silk. ! P.9 STOP PRESS CLAUSE 28 FASCISTS B.B.C. cameras were in the Union’s Debating Chamber on Tuesday and witnessed a lively E.G.M. on the S and N takeover PART ONE issue. FIRST A full, but not packed chamber saw Derek Walton propose Locally based playwright Steve Chambers has the main motion giving full support to S and N in their fight against Elders, citing their “strong regional presence” and made history as the first to be hit by the much expressing doubt about “the security of employment on criticised Clause 28 bill. Tyneside” were the Australian company to succeed. P.10 In his speech he spoke of the sponsorship that the company The legislation, now officially termed “Sec­ had given to First Year Conference and the Rugby and Boat tion 2a of the Local Government Act” forbids Clubs, and urged all present to consider whether this would HARVEY necessarily continue under Elders. the promotion of homosexuality as a pretended An amendment tabled by SWSS stated that “the S and N family relationship, by local authorities. EX M.P. management will be just as willing to attack workers and their Mr. Chambers’ play Trapped in Time was due conditions as Elders.” It also asked the Union to condemn “the racism involved in S and N’s campaign”. to be performed at Broadlands Secondary After rousing speeches on both sides by, among others, School in Avon, but on learning of its content, Darren Murphy, (“don’t put ideological purity before the effect on local community”) John McNeill (“where were S and N in the the headmaster cancelled the booking. P.11 miners’ strike?”) Joseph Hartley, (“don’t think S and N are a Trapped in Time follows the lives of three wonderful benevolent company”) and Derek Walton, (“don’t give the dog to the dingo racist? - That’s a new definition of people working in a heritage park. One is black, S. AMERICA racist to me”) the amendment was overwhelmingly defeated. another female and a third gay and one by one The meeting then granted speaking rights to Managing they become fed up with the stereotypes to -THE Director of S and N, David Stephenson. He spoke of the “spontaneous gestures of support” for the local brewery, citing which they are asked to conform. COURIER. the 13,000 signatures collected against the takeover bid at the The offending scene sees the gay admit his Monument on Saturday. He also mentioned the £250,000 that the company had donated to charities, sport and arts in the past homosexuality to his friends, “But” said the TOUR- year and warned against “the Fosterization of the world”. writer “calling it a play about homosexuality is f Exec Officer Stewart McGuffie followed with a speech I JMEWC/ centred on “Geordie culture”. Clutching a bottle of ‘broon* he like calling Hamlet a play about drowning.” presented us with an apocalyptic vision of “tubes of Brown He went on to call the bill “outrageous and Ale”. pernicious” and the decision to ban the play Communist George Napier responded with an attack on P.12V*1 McGufile’s “rank chauvinism” calling him an “arrogant “typical of the fear prevalent in this country as a arsehole” a remark he was made to withdraw. result of Clause 28”. Ents Officer Mike Newman mentioned that “Viz culture SP0RTIN(T~ could not survive without the Brown bottle” and fellow Exec, The play will be performed by the Avon member Mike Shallcross spoke of the company’s “blatant Touring Theatre Company on Wednesday 16th advertising ploy” in coming to the Union. Managing Director David Stephenson speaks in the The vote was taken at 1.55 and the main motion was passed November and will be followed by a discussion President Rob Williams looks on. overwhelmingly. with the writer on the issues raised. 6 Days i l l i H NEW LEATHER BIKERS JACKETS 4 designs £68 each ACID BADGES/PATCHES, T-SHIRTS, BANDANAS, EAR-RINGS 10-5 t f i i H n CROSS ST COURIER Thursday, 10th November, 1988 \NEWS\ U.G.C. threat to IN BRIEF the sciences Minibuses Your department is in danger of the overall crisis of physics in This week has seen the beginning of a late-night minibus service, being closed down.