FELIX FEATURE ON MIKE p.7 WEDNESDAY'. 5 OTOBER 1966 Nr. 234 HALL PRICES DOWN IN NOVEMBER ol 1965 it was announced by the Halls of Residence committee that Hall fees would be raised by 5/- per weeki this rise to take effect from August of this year. The aim was to eliminate a deficit in the reserve funds of £1200. It would have brought the fees in Southside up to £81 p.a. The University of London has decided, however, in view of the Prices and Incomes freeze, that such increases cannot be made. (The University being a Govern- ment financed body.) The fees thus remain at the level decided in 1962/63, e.g. Southside £75, New Beit £68 p.a. The same freeze applies to all re- fectory charges which would prob- ably have risen to keep up with in- creased taxation and other charges. Dr. Ken Weale said that the Selec- tive Employment Tax would have to be paid for all the cleaning and re- fectories staff but, since the Union is a charity, the tax would later be re- funded. Note : Because of the current credit RECTOR squeeze Hull, Exeter and some other Universities have announced cut-backs CARNIVAL in their building programmes. Its effect on 1C is as yet unknown. £1001 4s 7d was the sum handed —the third candidate being the DIES Family Planning International Cam- over to the Notting Hill Hous- On Wednesday, 21st September, Sir paign, proposed by the Huxley ing Trust (last year's charity) by Patrick Linstead was suddenly taken Society). With the failure of the ap- ill and was rushed to St. Georges the IC Carnival this month, de- pointed Chairman of Carnival Com- Hospital. His death occurred late spite the statement to Union mitee for this year, the outlet for on Thursday night. It was thought Carnival is cloudy, but it is suggested Pulteney Council by last year's president that he was in excellent health and his this week that Ralph Cornforth, (of Adrian Fletcher that it had rais- death came as a complete surprise to Wooden Horse Club fame) should the College. The pro-Rector, Sir ed £1,500. take over the Chairmanship. This, Owen Saunders, will handle the es- together with the clarification of the sential affairs, such as Freshers' Day, constitutional position of the Carnival This poor showing puts Carnival for the college, A Memorial Service Committee (formed eight years ago as back to 1961, when the Charity was is to be held, and details will be an- For all Hie an offshoot of the London Students' Oxfam, since when over £1000 has nounced later. See Page 5. Carnival, which went into liquidation been raised every year, culminating in last year) may perhaps help IC's Car- £2,417 in 1965 (also for the Notting- nival to regain its lost ground. best in Hill Housing Trust). Chris Hocking, last year's Carnival Chairman, when asked to comment on Fletcher's figure BOOK SALE of £1,500 said that the fall was due THE C&G UNION will be organ- FELIX paperbacks to shortage of staff, choosing the same ising a text book sale on Tuesday the charity twice, and went on to suggest 11th October at 1.00 in Mech. Eng. " that the ambiguous comments I People in Guilds who wish to, may made at the beginning of the year pro- leave them in the entrance of Mech. needs bably did not help." (For the benefit Eng. during the lunch hour on Thurs- of Freshers, last year's charity was day, Friday and Monday. 22 ThurloeStSW7 chosen amidst a lot of ill-feeling. The There is no charge for this service. STAFF Carnival Board and Union Executive This sale will be of particular benefit effectively told the Union to choose to 1st Years so do not rush out and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, buy all your books before Tuesday. 2 FELIX Danish success Rumpus over £m. for Dram soc DR/VMSOC WENT on lour this On Sunday we moved to Nykaebing year for a fortnight to Denmark. We a town 40 miles South of Nx^tvcd, ' Money lost' - reports arrived by train in Naestved on the where we were entertained by the morning of Sunday the 291'. August, English Club. Here again we were having persuaded two girls on the met by an intelligent audience which train to accompany us to Denmark. gathered on Tuesday in the Nykobing THERE WAS NO question of a were welcomed by the Committee, We were met by two members of the grammar school. treasury loan of £1,000,000 being which censored the departments con- " Njestved Amatoscene," whose mem- cerned for disregarding their previous bers put us up for the first week. Or- lost, said London University in Incredible audience warning in in 1953. ganised to the "n"th degree our stay a statement during the vacation. The University explained that the involved visits to a castle, the local On Wednesday the 8th ot Septem The statement followed suggest- fund was still earmarked for its origi- newspaper and glassworks and a civic ber we travelled by train to Copen- nal purpose. Although the cash reception. On Thursday and Friday ions in the national daily press hagen. We played here before an in- balance had been temporarily diverted nights we performed " An Inspector that the money was lost—the credible audience of over 600 people to finance other capital expenditure, Calls" by J. B. Priestley, in the in the most modern theatre in Den- newspapers got their story from it was " covered" by a bank loan Naestved secondary school. The play mark. Although apprehensive the the Second Report of the Com- arrangement, and was always avail- was well received by both press and cast performed well and was favour- mittee for Public Accounts, able on demand. audience. After the performance on ably received. Our three days were PARLIAMENTARY Thursday the President of the Naest- published last month. fully employed sightseeing in Copen- CONTROL ? ved Amatorscene presented the soc- hagen including Tivoli Gardens and The loan to the University was iety with a really beautiful vase. Our he Carlsburg Brewery. The University's statement does not stay culminated on Saturday with a towards the cost of buying prop- deal with the P.A.C.'s chief complaint, We left from Copenhagen on Sat splendid party, at which we were each erty in Bloomsbury. The Com- that responsible Government depart- arday, 11th September, happy but given engraved glasses. ments " entirely lost sight of the shattered. mittee said that the purchase of existence and purpose of the fund." the Bloomsbury Estate No. 2 was This resulted in grants being made financed by an Exchequer loan from the Exchequer, which should of £lm. issued in 1950, a grant have been financed from the fund. of £250,000 from the LCC and Nor does the statement deal with the They are in The Observer PAC's comment that the amount of £336,000 from the University's grants might have been affected if the every Sunday, yet capital resources. The loan was Grants Committee had known of the to be converted into grants as fund's existence. the property was brought into One possible consequence is a fur- ther step towards tightening Parlia- use for University purposes. mentary control of the Universities— Though this was basically a book likely to be taken when the Vice transaction, the intention was to Chancellor's committee presents evi- dence before the P.A.C. The Vice- Are these give the Treasury, the Depart- Chancellors were asked to appear in ment of Education and Science, June after the U.G.C.'s discussion of and the UGC (University Grants the matter in ,May. Furthermore, this Committee) added control over may affect UGCs future grant assign- the eyes of a ments to the University. the development of the property. BELATED STEPS madman? In July 1965, the balance of Elliot in the fund, after repayment of the University's original contribution, ESRO space was announced as £608,000. It was subsequently shown that project £499,000 of this was temporarily lent to OTHER University funds. WITH A GRANT of £188.000 Pro- fessor Harry Elliott, head of the Space " We were informed that neither and Cosmic ray section is producing the Treasury nor the Department of thfee experiments—a magnetometer Education and Science had made and two cosmic ray telescopes, to be use of the fund over the years; the mounted in an ESRO satellite. This matter had completely been lost sight satellite named HEOS (highly ec- of. The committee report states : centric orbit satellite), is shared with These are the eyes of Michael Frayn. For seven "The University Grants Commit- other ESRO countries and is to be tee had recommended grants for years now, week in, week out (apart from 4 launched from Cape Kennedy in 1968. building developments on the estate The launcher is a thrust augmented weeks' paid holiday a year), first in The in complete ignorance of the existence Thor-Delta rocket, which will put the of the amount of money in it." Guardian, then in The Observer, Frayn has 10 Kilogram satellite into an orbit " Belated steps " to see that money which has an eccentricity of 100 and had to write an article. 700 words 3 times a was used for the purpose intended an apogee of 1000 Km. week for The Guardian; 900 words once a week in The Observer. INTERESTED IN: He has also written two novels, The Tin OWLS LAMLEY'S Men and The Russian Interpreter.