LEEDS oi U O SIT U • The 'Welcome to Mai INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Leeds' special THE M SSING El fill Poly faces financial disaster Leeds City Council are with- Poly Students' Union presi- -holding £900,000 of Poly dent Ed Gamble was not so money allocated to them last sure. April due to the forthcoming Education Act which will the money isn't given to take control of the Poly away us the work won't be done, from the council. and the buildings are getting steadily worse.- Buildings have been ren- Up at the Poly's Beckett dered unsafe. and courses are Park site, essential renovation at risk at Leeds Poly due to work on Poly halls has drawn the council cash freeze. to a halt through the lack of The council are unwilling to cash. This raises the ugly spec- tre of yet another rent strike spend any more money on a by residents of the type service which will no longer mounted and won early this be their responsibility in l8 year. months time. Relations between the Poly The cash is vital to maintain directorate and the Students' course standards, improve Union however are at the mo- equipment and make crucial ment very good, as both sides repairs to the Poly's now recognise that they arc facing crumbling buildings. the same problem. Stone cladding around the Relations between the Stu- top of the ten storey C block dents' Union and other cam- on city site has started to fall pus trade unions are also away endangering lives. as a good. Last Friday saw the first result fire exits have had to he joint meeting in five years. closed causing in turn a fire The meeting described as hazard. "genuinely successful". brought forward the possibil- In a report to the Poly ity of a total-- walkout by all directorate in early Septem- unions if something is not ber. the fire officer insisted done about the situation soon. that until alternative fire exits are provided no students In the tong term it is the should occupy the potentially threat to courses that has most lethal building. As neither re- disturbed the Poly exec. At quest has so far been com- least 17 courses across six plied with, the fire service has faculties are threatened with threatened to apply to the closure or serious cutbacks. magistrates for a prohibition ranging from speech therapy order, closing the building to design. down. The Poly computing system will require £350.000 alone At a staff briefing during over the next year, to make September. Poly director vital improvements. Chris Price was strongly opti- mistic about the cash for the At present Leeds City building problems being Council is not budging from found. its position. They were also unavailable for comment. "I have no doubt -that Whilst the Poly term starts amidst money worries, the University A determined Ed Gamble genuine health and safety was unmoved. "If nothing problems will be dealt with.' kicks off with a brand new registration system. No longer the maze comes of present negotiations we will have to consider tak- of the Baynes wing and the great hall to prove you belong. Instead ing action," he said. the chaos of registration inside one cathedral like sports hall. See page 4 for Poly INSIDE Bliss . Opinion_ THE Jay Rayner Pull Out ARTS Filmy Bits MUSIC SPORT GUIDE Farewell Smiths World Games TO LEEDS A touch of Opera Album Review report [THEINFAN] Page Two JUST LOOK AT THESE PRICES! 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BULLIMORE QUITS The AIDS Campaign run by Leeds Poly Students Union is carrying on this year with a Poly Ents for the autumn term job while still on Exec. his programme of events aimed at have been thrown into disarray opponent for the post is now promoting real understanding after Graeme Bullimore res- unemployed and ineligible to of the causes, issues and pre- igned as Vice-President (Eats) stand again." vention of AIDS. in August. Gamble also says that four "The Government's cam- Bullimore was re-elected to Exec members now have to do paign is limited to leaflets.