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NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL C O L L E G E UNION
30th O C T O B E R 1973 F R E E No. 344
UGM Concert Hall
Thurs I p.m.
- Rent Strike
- Refectories
- Chile
P O L I C E C A L L E D I N
A S S T U D E N T S E N A C T
I C U N I O N P O L I C Y
COMMENT BY
JOCK VEALL
The college authorities went to tremendous Bengths last week to try and prevent too many students paying the old price for refectory meals.
They preferred to take good food from
students and T H R O W T H E F O O D A W A Y
rather than allow students to pay the old
price. The police were even called in the hopes
that they would be able to force students to
pay college's inflated prices instead of last
year's price.
The authorities backed
down at the last minute
and sent the police away;
instead college tried to
use itheir own 'police ' .
Chief of pol ice (security)
M r . Dawson warned that
a student cou ld be pro
secuted under the theft
act for refusing to accept
the inflated college price.
M r . Dawson pointed out
(apologised?) that he d id
not make the laws and
that he only interpreted
them. H e made no com
ment when i t was pointed
out that the law i n this
case was being used to en
sure that students ( l ike
workers w i th the pay
Jaws) were being made to
accept the burden of i n
flation through these re
fectory increases. The
authorities seemed so con
cerned to ensure that
students were made to
pay, that they 'sent a long '
some of their higher
officials namely M r .
Mooney and M r . Seaford
to the refectories to i n
crease the line of 'heavies'
by the t i l l . .
U n i o n exec seemed to
have a strange way of
support ing union policy.
U n i o n exec threatened
a student w i th d isc ip l in
ary action for implement
ing union pol icy. It is
hardly reassuring to know
that our exec are w i l l i ng
to attack those who imple
ment union pol icy. M r .
Seaford l ikewise issued
threats presumably w i th a
view to persuading stu
dents f rom further ac
tion?
College seem to accept
that any increase i n our
grant should be immedi
ately eroded- away by i n -
, creases i n college prices.
This comes f r om a body
who c l a i m to support the
grants campaign ! They
must feel an increase in
grant justifies higher
college prices so students
are no better off; instead
college can save on ex
penditure by these i n
creases and delude stu
dents that they have real
increase in income.
Nex t year I .C. students
can look forward to an
even bigger increase in
refectory prices, also a
rent increase for halls and
student houses! Judg ing
by this year's exec lack
of interest i n the grants
campaign (no body f rom
exec cou ld even be
bothered to g6 to last
weekend's nat ional con
ference) and attempts not
to support un ion pol icy
on fighting refectory i n -
. creases; (Perhaps exec
have forgotten the situa
t ion most students are
facing and are too busy
getting fat on their free
meals and sherry with
college?) we are unl ike ly
to expect a lead f rom
them i n a fight against
these increases. The only
people we can rely on are
ourselves.
NLP- End of
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LETTERS Materialism
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Sir,
F r o m your editorials i t
appears that y ou have one
fixed solut ion Ito a l l prob
lems that may arise i n any
situation — to bu i l d the
revolut ionary party .
W h e n I was at schoo l i n
Ireland we were also given
one fixed solut ion to solve
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to the (Catholic) Church .
What 's the difference?
Yours sincerely,
Ka th leen Corco ran .
EDITOR'S REPLY
This , and your previous le t ter both come d o w n i n t h e last analysis to a quest ion o f epistemology. Ph i losophy i s s p l i t into two great c a m p s — t h e idealist's who assert t h a t thought 'is pr imary 'to m a t t e r and the mater ia l is ts who s a y 'that ideas arise out o f the mate r i a l wor ld i n -some way. If you subscribe to Ithe former , then .end of correspondence for your arguments w i l l reduce to a quest ion o f g o d -g iven moral i ty , a n d y o u r po l i t i ca l pos i t ion t o one o f fervent reaction.
The '©arly mater ia l is ts assented that changes i n ideas came about f r o m 'changes i n the mater ia l wor ld , b u t o f course could not expla in t h e source of changes i n Ithe mate r i a l wor ld , a n d ascr ibed it ( l ike the ideal ists i n ex p la in ing the source o f changes of ideas ' d i d 'to a god or ' third f o r c e iof s o m e
kind ) to some c o n s t a n t l a w of Na tu r e—i t just works t h a t way!
These 'mechanical m a t e r i a l i s t s were j u s t a n o t h e r f o r m
of phi losophica l i d e a l i s t s , i n hav ing to l o o k outs ide t h e mater ia l w o r l d f o r s o m e
source o f c h a n g e s i n i t . '
D i a l e c t i c a l m a t e r i a l i s t s ( o f
wh i ch Marx w a s t h e f i r s t ) s a y on the c o n t r a r y (that i d e a s
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( d e m o c r a t i c t o a l l o w t h e f u l l
e s t d i s c u s s i o n o f i d e a s o r
a b s t r a c t i o n s f r o m t h e ' p o l i t i c a l
s i t u a t i o n a n d c e n t r a l i s t t o
p r o v i d e t h e g r e a t e s t u n i t y i n
c a r r y i n g o u t t h e p o l i c i e s o f
t h e P a r t y a r i s i n g o u t o f t h e
d i s c u s s i o n ) i s t o p r o v i d e t h e
h i g h e s t f o r m o f p o l i t i c a l
l e a d e r s h i p f o r i the m a s s e s .
Y S S S c l a s s " T h e r o l e o f t h e
r e v o l u t i o n a r y p a r t y . " M e c h .
E n g . 214, W e d n e s d a y , 1 p . m .
ENTS Dear Ali ,
I should like to clear
up a few misunderstand
ings which may have
arisen out of the 'Felix'
coverage of the U G M of
October 16th regarding
the 'Ents Motion'.
Firstly, the council
motion of last term was
amendment was pro
posed to allow Ents a
little more freedom than
the (amended) Counci l
Motion originally sug
gested. John Lane's
amendment did not pur
port to "increase the
number of 'large
groups' to four per
term"; it restricted the
number of optional ex
tra concerts to one,
the overall effect being
to limit the number of
"large concerts" to four
per term.
Your reporter has
also grossly misinter
preted the original
Counci l motion. It was
passed, not " . . . . to
ensure Ents cater for a
wider range of tastes",
but rather, and I quote,
that "I.C. Ents run
events to consist of
Weekly Hops combining
the Friday disco and a
'danceable' band. This
to be run on Fridays or
Saturdays as a social
event in the Union (Con
cert Halt) . . . No big
concerts in the Great
Hall in the first term" (A
subsequent amendment
a l t e r e d "No " to
"Three") .
At the time this mo
tion was passed Ents
had already been run
ning films for a term.
The "Folk Groups"
(i.e. Ralph McTel l , pre
sumably) this term,
hardl yqualify under the
above stipulation and
are, for the time being
at least, being planned
independently of both
the "Three Concert
Limit" and Ents. The
motivation to cater for
a wider range of tastes
has always existed in
Ents and was not influ
enced by Counci l .
The attendance at
Tuesday's Osibisa con
cert suggests to me at
least that plenty of I.C.
students are interested
in what Ents is doing.
S o can I encourage
everyone who is inter-
SOUP RUN For the past year I C C A G have been d o i n g a
soup run to Charing Cross and surrounding
areas. This happens each Wednesday and Fri
day night and involves taking soup and bread to
people who for various reasons have nowhere
to go a n d are sleeping on the streets.
These are the p e o p l e who have slipped t h r o u g h
the net of the welfare state in what is meant
to be a c a r i n g and c o m p a s s i o n a t e society. Very
often the on l y a l t e rna t i ve to the street is a l o u s e d
up S a l v a t i o n Army H o s t e l o r a vast i m p e r s o n a l
G o v e r n m e n t R e c e p t i o n C e n t r e , I k n o w which I
w o u l d c h o o s e . M o s t of the p e o p l e at C h a r i n g
C r o s s have s o c i a l p r o b l e m s of o n e sor t o r a n
other , s o m e have m e d i c a l p r o b l e m s , w h i l e yet
o t h e r s a r e p u r e l y a n d s i m p l y h o m e l e s s . This
m a k e s t h e m u n a b l e to d r a w S o c i a l S e c u r i t y ,
t h e r eby c r e a t i n g a n u n a v o i d a b l e v i c i o u s c i r c l e .
S o wha t c a n w e a s s t u d e n t s d o a b o u t it all?
T h e mos t impo r t an t a c h i e v e m e n t is to m a k e per
s o n a l c o n t a c t w i th s o m e of the " d o s s e r s " who
s o m a n y p e o p l e just p a s s by a n d i gno r e . It is
s u r p r i s i n g how q u i c k l y i n d i v i d u a l r e l a t i o n s h i p s
d e v e l op , e s p e c i a l l y for t h o s e w h o d o s o u p run
on a r e gu l a r b a s i s .
A s we l l a s s h o w i n g that w e at least d o c a r e
a n d c o n s i d e r it a s c a n d a l a n d a n o u t r a g e that in
our s o c i e t y there a r e p e o p l e s l e e p i n g o n the pave
ment in front of s h o w r o o m s h o u s i n g c a r s , we
must a i m to h e i g h t e n p e o p l e ' s a w a r e n e s s a n d
rouse the i r c o n s c i e n c e s . If p u b l i c o p i n i o n was
suf f i c i ent ly s t r o n g th i s a p p a l l i n g s i tua t i on w o u l d
no l o n g e r be t o l e r a t ed a n d s o m e t h i n g w o u l d
have to b e d o n e . It is p e o p l e ' s a t t i tudes that
w e mus t try to c h a n g e — after a l l it c o u l d hap
p e n to a n y o n e of us . It's e a s y to e n d up on the
street , but not s o e a s y to get b a c k off it.
W e l l , t h i s i s wha t S o u p R u n is a l l a b o u t —
just s e e i n g a n d t a l k i n g to p e o p l e . It d o e s n ' t
t ake m u c h — w e a r e a l l h u m a n .
Claire.
S o u p R u n — Wednesday, 9.00, Selkirk Kitchen,
10.00 U n i o n Arch. Friday 10.00 Selkirk Kitchen,
11.00 U n i o n Arch. Meet Selkirk Kitchen or Union
Arch.
DECORATING WEEKEND
ICCAG proposes to help t h e aged . . . .
A decorating weekend
nas been organised by I O C
A G for the weekend 9 -
12th of November. This
involves decorating the
homes of people, usually
o ld people, in the W l l
area. W i l l anyone inter
ested please sign up o n the
notice board i n the U n i o n
Lrtwer Lounge or contact
Roger Upton, Chem PG.
ested in being entertain
ed to bring any helpful
suggestions to Ents. We
shan't be booking Led
Zeppelin or The Who or
Pink Floyd this term or
next term or ever, but
if anyone wants to know
why, or can suggest any
other way we could
work better, there'll al
ways be someone from
Ents in the Union Office
(or in the Room at the
Top, when we get our
external phone re-con
nected) at lunchtimes,
who will d iscuss any
suggestions.
Ents exists not for the
benefit of its members
but for the student body
as a whole . . . nuff said.
SID A M O R ,
I.C. Ents Chairman.
India's human calculating machine
SHAKUNTALA DEVI
S H A K U N T A L A D E V I was born in Bangalore, India in 1946. When she was three, she had a revelation that she was a mathematical genius. The revelation proved to be true, and even now, at the age of 32, she is baffling everybody with her mathematical! prowess.
A t six, Shakunta la demonstrated her 'talents ait the Universi ty o f Mysore to a large gathering of students and professors o f the Universi ty . T h e l i t t le g i r l worked out the most compl icated ar i thmet ica l m a n i pulations w i th 'lightning rapidi ty and scientif ic precis ion, and kept the assembly astounded for two hours.
Shakuntala who later displayed her talents to people a l l over Ind ia came to be acc la imed as a c h i l d prodigy.
I n London , o n October 5th, 1950 the B B C present
ed Shakunta la on T V . She gave qu i ck answers to prob
lems set by the B . B . C . She also gave a presentatfon
at Leeds Univers i ty the next day.
A t ithe Univers i ty of Rome , one of her answers was found to be wrong by the ca lculat ing machine. A f ter re-checking i t was found that the ca lcu la tor had gone berserk.
I n Washington, . D .C . , the party o f reporters and.
mathematics professors who witnessed Iher demon
stration i n J u l y 1952 were completely baffled. T h e
audience of D a n Seymour's " W e the Peop l e " T V show
i n N e w Y o r k witnessed Shakunta la compete w i th a n
electronic calculator and w i n by s ix seconds. She
appeared o n other shows i n the U .S .A .
Shakuntala also toured South A m e r i c a and the F a r
East. I n Japan she appeared o n the N i p p o n Te le
vision Network, and i n C a m b o d i a she gave a per
formance before H . H . the K i n g of C a m b o d i a .
I n Sydney, Aus t ra l i a , Shakunta la matched her wits
against a n £80,000 electronic b ra in " U T E C O M " o f
the Universi ty of South Wales. Seconds before the
complete question cou ld be fed into " U T E C O M " ,
Shakunta la had the answers. " I t is f r ightening ! " re
marked one of the professors present.
Shakunta la Dev i has toured most of the countries
except Russ ia and C h i n a and some in Eastern Europe .
Nowadays, she is i n Br i t a in . Recent ly she appeared,
on T V and also featured in ithe da i l y newspapers.
She has challenged any computer o r ca lculator to
a match of mathemat ica l abi l i ty , whi le she is i n
Br i t a in . H e r record to date: Ex t rac t ing Ithe 20th
root o f a 42 dig i t number and mul t ip ly ing figures
that yielded- a 39 digit answer. Simple sums don ' t
take any time at a l l . B y " s i m p l e " she means calculat
ing cube and fourth roots, etc.! She sa id modestly to
the D a i l y M i r r o r : " F o r b ig problems l i ke f ind ing the
10th root o f a 40-figure digit I have to concentrate
hard and it might take u p to 30 seconds to answer"..
Recently, the Sunday T imes put her to the test,
They took her to the accounts department, where
there was a very bright g i r l w i th a deft hand o n an.
electronic calculator . Shakunta la Dev i w o n each t ime
because her answers to a series o f extensive add i t i on ,
mul t ip l i ca t ion and div is ion were just about instan
taneous; their g i r l hadn ' t h a d time to get them o n
the machine. There was no compet i t ion when i t came
to f inding a fourth root : the machine couldn ' t do it.
Shakunta la took three seconds.
Such a display of br i l l i ance is hard ly credible.
Nevertheless, it is true. Y o u too can witness the
wizards at work. Shakuntala will be appearing at
Imperial College (Great Hall), on November 8 th ,
1973, at 7.30 p.m. on invitation from I.C. India Soc,
Admission will be lOp. A l l are welcome.
Further information may be obtained from:
M . Bhadresha, Elec. Eng. 3;
or P. Chakrabarety, Chem. Eng. P G ;
or J . P. Singh, Mech. Eng. 3.
Please bring solved problems and verify the
answers yourself. Any complicated arithmetical prob
lems welcome.
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AROUND THE STUDENT WORLD Z Z I Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z Z = = Z Z Z Z = Z NUS REPORT = = = = = = T = = r = = I Z = =
Student Housing Protest
Grows Throughout the country, student unions have been
staging protests over their accommodat ion or lack of
St. The protests have one c o m m o n theme: that the
Government has a l lowed student numbers to expand
without mak ing any provis ion at a l l for f inding the
students somewhere to live, and without prov id ing
a grant b i g enough to pay for the accommodat ion
that isn't there anyway. Students are not ca l l ing on
•he Government to slow down the rate o f expansion
o f higher education: that wou ld be a n intolerable be
trayal . N o r are they asking the Government to find
Students somewhere to l ive i n preference to finding
non-students somewhere to l i ve ; the Government 's
responsibil ity, Which it has consistently refused to
face, is to a l l people, students included, Who are pro
hibited under its income controls f rom earning enough
to pay the prices charged under its Hous ing F inance
Ac t .
•Cambr idge Technica l Col lege students are occupy
i ng Owlstone H a l l o f Residence, wh i ch wou ld pro
vide 150 good, modern study-bedrooms for C a m
bridge Tech's students, and solve its accom
modat ion prob l em—but wh i ch has been empty for
three years. It used to be a nurses home, but i n 1970
the Department of Hea l th and Soc ia l Security offered
i t t o Cambr idge Technica l College, and then a few
weeks later wi thdrew the offer, saying they wished
to pu l l it down, and bu i l d a hospital management
t ra in ing centre. It has la in empty ever since, unt i l
homeless students f r om Cambr idge Techn ica l Col lege
occupied it last week. The D.H.S.S. are now ready to
reverse their or ig inal decision and leave the bui ld ing
standing.
*Sussex Univers i ty students have just ended an
occupat ion of their administrative b lock. M a n y Sussex
students l ive a long way away, since accommodat ion
in Br ighton and Lewes has become expensive and
hard to find. They were demanding that the Univer
sity should make up the difference between what is
al lowed in the grant for board and lodging and what
the students were actual ly having to pay. The -Univer
sity has now agreed.
T e e s s i d e College of Educa t i on students have just
finished occupying hal f their Col lege—the hal f wh i ch
was due to be pul led down last M o n d a y . The C o l
lege, and the students, were to ld that they had just
one week to pu l l out and a l low a development com
pany to bu i ld on the site. Instead of pu l l ing out, they
occupied; and the caretakers refused to do overtime
to move the Col lege possessions out o f the threatened
hal f of the bui ld ing. They have now moved out, and
although the bui ld ing is sti l l t o be pul led down, they
have forced the loca l authori ty to provide temporary
accommodat ion for the displaced parts of the co l
lege.
Sympathetic vice-chancellors O n Monday , 12th October the Commit tee of V i c e
Chancel lor 's stated their concern that unless some
th ing was done about student grants only the wealthy
would be able to go to university.
The V ice-Chance l lors are concerned that the pr in
c iple set down by the Anderson Commit tee i n 1960
is being eroded. This committee reported that grants
should be avai lable to cover the reasonable basic
maintenance costs of first degree students. The V i c e -
Chance l lors said that the "Governments have begun
to threaten this pr inciple by fixing grants which fa l l
short of basic l i v ing costs".
They expressed part icular concern at the current
cost of housing for students. They say that universities
must be able to fix rents in halls of residence at a
level which students can afford. The V i c e Chance l
lors are obviously worr ied that many students i n
halls of residence have to pay more for board and
lodging than is allocated i n the grant. Students
reacted to these high charges last year by refusing
to pay their rent.
The Committee of V i c e Chancel lors w i l l make their
views known to the D E S whi le the review of grants
for the next three years is underway. They want stud
ent grants to be fixed in i t ia l ly at realistic levels and
want grants to be supplemented annual ly to take
account of changing prices.
The V i c e Chancel lors may feel sympathetic to the
students' predicament but it does not seem that they
are going to regard rent strikes w i th any sympathy.
The university heads regard rent str ike ac t ion as mis
conceived. They say that it "wastes t ime and money
on conflicts wh ich are not created by universities and
• wh i ch are not i n their power to resolve."
Several recent incidents show that they may be
preparing to take a hard l ine over the rent str ike
issue. H a r r y K a y , the V i c e Chance l lor at Exeter
Univers i ty was asked by Peter Smart , President o f
J the Students' U n i o n to address a meeting o f first year
; students. It had been agreed before the meeting that
it would be simply a welcoming speech. However ,
M r . K a y , after expressing his delight at seeing rows
of new faces, then proceeded to tell them that rent
strikes were not a good th ing and hoped that they
would not themselves th ink o f part ic ipat ing i n one.
A l e c Mer r i son , V i c e Chance l lor o f Br i s to l Univer
sity, has been using the university news letter to warn
students against rent strikes.
Students take over
Music School A number o f Manchester students are squatt ing i n
the o ld Col lege of M u s i c situated near the Univers i ty
U n i o n bui ld ing . The property previously housed the
R o y a l Nor thern College of M u s i c wh i ch has since
moved to a £1 mi l l i on complex near the Univers i ty
Precinct Centre.
The squatters hope to develop the bui ldings as an
overspi l l for activities o f the Univers i ty U n i o n . A t
the moment it is prov id ing much needed temporary
accommodat ion for students who have- been unable
to find anywhere to live.
The Pr inc ipa l of the M u s i c College, A i r C o m m o
dore Vaughan , said i n reaction to the squat that the
bui ld ing is to stand for two years at least and is st i l l
used for occasional music practice. The city planners
have said that they want to pu l l the bu i ld ing down
by Chr is tmas to make way for a car park.
W h e n the squat first began the university threat
ened to evict the students, but this no longer seerns
l ikely. A group o f the squatters and student union
officers f r om the university met representatives f rom
the M u s i c College and the university authorities and
agreed that they wou ld f ry to use the bu i ld ing as
litt le as possible dur ing the day whi le mus ic students
were using the practice rooms. A committee is being
set up to examine how best to util ise the bui ld ing.
The Wel fare V i c e President at Manchester Univers i ty
U n i o n said today that the most important th ing was
that the bu i ld ing was properly used and not just
al lowed to rot.
Sir Brian Flowers
deplores low grants . . . and student action to
defend living standards
The former C h a i r m a n of the Science Research
C o u n c i l , S I R B R I A N F L O W E R S , F R S , i n his first
pub l i c address since becoming Rec tor of Imper ia l
Col lege, today deplored the low level of student ma in
tenance grants. Speaking to an audience of Imper ia l
College's staff, students and their parents i n the R o y a l
A l b e r t H a l l , S i r B r i a n sa id that students' opportuni
ties to benefit f r om university life were be ing l imi ted
by the present depressed value of the grants they
received. E v e n i f one accepted the basis o n which :
grants were calculated i n 1971 (and he h a d reason!
to believe that this was not entirely satisfactory) a!
tr iennia l scale f ixed as it had turned out, for thej
three years i n wh ich inf lat ionary pressures had been;
exceptionally severe, and l ack ing any suitable mech-;
anism for adjustments meanwhile, was not one which;
commended itself to anyone but the most a r id o f
bureaucrats. Students believed that their grants were
now too low; but worse than that, they believed that
their genuine financial difficulties were unrecognized
but social ly divisive, that the level o f grant under
valued the contr ibutions they already made to society,
Still more the contributions they were preparing them
selves to make i n the future. S i r B r i a n said that he
shared these beliefs and that, so long as they were
being responsibly expressed, he wou ld support them.
Consider ing the posit ion of a n Imper ia l Col lege
undergraduate resident in a h a l l o f residence or
student house, Sir B r i a n said that he had calculated
that the present level o f undergraduate maintenance
grant was deficient by at least £100 a year. H e made
no comment, he said, about students in other c i r cum
stances nor about the average student, whoever he
may be.
Sir B r i a n said that he recognized that any proposed
increase i n student grants had to be sought i n com- 1
petit ion w i th a l l other urgent cal ls on pub l i c funds 1
— f o r old-age pensions, new hospitals and schools. H e
also acknowledged that i t was not for the universities
to determine the social status o f students, but he
submitted that the proper f inancial welfare of our
young people in universities and colleges was a matter
most deserving o f the Government 's urgent attention.
Leeds Po ly Sit-in
Students at Leeds Polytechnic reconvened a U n i o n
meeting in the administrative b lock at (the Polytechnic
yesterday. A b o u t 600 students decided to move into
the administrative b lock at 1 p.m. and several dozen
stayed over night. They intend to remain i n occupa
tion of the b lock unt i l F r iday . They are protesting
at the inadequacy of teaching, catering and un ion
facilities.
T h e telephone to the Polytechnic has been cut off
by the P.O. at the request of the administrat ion.
The Director of the Polytechnic, Pa t r i ck Nutgens,
is i n Scotland at the moment, but the Assistant D i r -
ector, G o r d o n Wright , has expressed some sympathy
w i th the students. H e has agreed that on ly " essent ia l "
work w i l l be carried out by the administrat ion for
the next few days.
It is widely accepted amongst the adoi in is trat ion,
staff and students that facil it ies wh i ch were adequate
for 1,000 students are no longer adequate since there
has been a considerable expansion i n student numbers*
Leeds Educa t i on Committee are prepared to offer
some alternative accommodat ion i n Headrow i n
Leeds. A l d e r m a n A r t h u r Ta l l an t is expected to speak
to the students in occupat ion today,
Margaret Thatcher, M in i s t e r of Educa t i on , went to
Leeds on Fr iday to open a factory i n the morn ing and
a school in the afternoon. When she arr ived to open
the school she was greeted by a large number of,
students f rom al l over Yo rksh i r e .
The students marched f r om Leeds Polytechnic,
They protested about the plans for the future of edu-
cat ion as expressed i n last year's Wh i t e Paper, " A
framework for expans ion" and the inadequacies o f
the grant system.
Students without grants
Some Loca l Educat ion Author i t ies have not yet
sent out grant cheques to students who l ive i n
their area. Several colleges have reported that a n u m
ber of their students are Still wai t ing for their grant
cheques to come through.
Huddersfield Polytechnic, Hereford Col lege of E d u
cat ion and the Univers i ty of W a r w i c k seem to bs
part icular ly bad ly hit. Tony Bowers, President o f
Huddersfield Polytechnic Students U n i o n is hop ing
that students in this predicament w i l l be able to c l a i m
social security unt i l their grant arrives. W a r w i c k U n i
versity has had to tell some students that their grants
may not arrive for another six weeks.
One of the reasons for the delay i n the receipt o f
grants this year is that the L E A ' s have found i t
difficult to sort out the new grant regulations w h i c h
Margaret Thatcher announced to Par l iament on M a y
15th. The raising of the threshold level for parental
contr ibut ions f rom £1,100 to £1,500 has caused par
t i cu lar difficulty.
Resignation of Camhridge
Executive The Cambr idge Students' Un i on Execut ive has
been forced to resign. The executive, the majority of
whom are on the right, was elected last term. Eve r
since they have said that ithey have been hamstrung
by the composit ion of general meetings, which by the
constitution of the union make a l l major po l i cy
decisions. They c l a im that general meetings are not
representative of the majority of students in C a m
bridge.
Las t Tuesday this executive cal led a referendum
to attempt to change the constitution so that po l i cy
was made by referenda and not by general meeting.
Students were asked i f they wanted ithe U n i o n to be
control led by referenda or general meeting.
W h e n the result of ithe referendum was known the
right found that they had been defeated by their o w n
tactics. 2,156 students voted i n favour of t ak ing dec i
sion mak ing power away f r om general meeting, but
3,046 students voted that the general meeting should
retain sovereign power. Th i s is the highest po l l that
has ever taken place among Cambr idge students.
Nev i l l e W a l t o n , who was elected as the Camhr idge
Student U n i o n president now finds himsel f i n a dif f i
cul t posit ion. A s a sabbatical officer o n his resigna
t ion he w i l l no longer be either a member o f the
university, because he is not registered at C a m *
bridge as a student this year, o r a member o f the
students' union. H e is reported to have since fled to
Germany .
Page 4 F E L I X October 30th, 1973
L o n d o n , October 2 5 — A new Electro
nic Revo lut ion , imping ing upon v i r tu
a l ly every form of h u m a n activity, has
begun ampl i fy ing the power of the
mind just as the Industr ia l Revo lut ion
ampli f ied the power of muscle, R C A
C h a i r m a n Rober t W , Sarnoff sa id here
today.
" T h e result through the rest of this
century w i l l be a fundamental and
growing shift i n patterns of work ing
and l i v i n g , " he said. " A growing varie
ty of inexpensive, compact and versa
tile devices w i l l per form the menia l
tasks of the m ind—ca l cu la t ing , remem
bering, searching for references, mea
suring risks and opportunit ies — the
whole variety of non-creative activities
that precede decis ion or creat ion. "
In ah address at the Commemora
tion D a y Ceremony of the Imper ia l
Col lege of Science and Technology, at
which he was named an Honora ry F e l
low, M r . Sarnoff sa id the Electronic
Revo lut ion is based on new solid-state
devices employing microscopical ly
smal l integrated circuits that contain
thousands of electronic elements i n the
t iny space of a few square mil l imetres.
B y . 1980, he predicted, such circuits
containing a m i l l i on elements w i l l be
mass-produced so cheaply that their
use w i l l involve pract ical ly no cost pet-
function, and made so precisely that
they w i l l be almost infinitely reliable.
" T h e Industr ial Revo lu t ion took
more than a century to gather fu l l mo
mentum. The E lec t ron ic Revo lu t ion
may do so i n the next two decades."
he said. " I n contrast to its predecessor,
i t w i l l be silent, and it w i l l create nei
ther environmental po l lut ion nor urban
blight. In ful f i l l ing its modest require-
ROBERT W. SARNOFF C h a i r m a n o f R C A C o r p o r a t i o n
ments for mater ia l and energy, we
shal l not have to plunder our planet.
" T h e Industr ia l Revo lu t ion tended
to subordinate the ind iv idual to the or
ganisation even as it mul t ip l i ed h u m
an physical capabil it ies, productivity
and mater ial wealth. The Electronic
Revo lu t ion w i l l shape electronics into a
personal too l of universal appl icat ion.
It w i l l compress a mult i tude of systems
and devices — wi th the energy to run
' ' T h e e l e c t r o n i c r e v o l u t i o n i s a m p l i f y i n g b r a i n power i n the same way the i n d u s t r i a l r e v o l u t i o n a m p l i f i e d m u s c le p o w e r . ' '
them — into packages smal l enough to
carry i n the h a n d . "
M r . Sarnoff said the new revolut ion
w i l l touch on every function of sensing,
control , communica t i on and informa
tion processing — " indeed, just about
every k i n d of work now performed by
people or machines except generating
power or propel l ing vehicles."
The R C A C h a i r m a n cited examples
of the impact of the Electronic Revo lu
tion on the ind iv idua l , education, the
management of publ ic and private en
terprise and the progress of undevelop-
sd nations:
— M a n a g e m e n t . Sma l l desk-top intel-
\ gent terminals w i l l enable a manager
to obtain instant data retrieval f rom a
computer, or to communicate w i th co l
leagues v ia a two-way television unit.
These and other electronic devices w i l l
make day-to-day decision mak ing simp
ler and w i l l free top management f rom
less detailed supervision and permit
more emphasis on creative p lanning and
po l icy-making .
— T h e Home . The new technology
w i l l transform the domestic scene and
provide a mult i tude of attractive and
convenient services, inc luding a com
prehensive home in format ion system
l ink ing the household in two-way com
municat ions with people institutions and
computers in pract ica l ly any part of the
wor ld .
— E d u c a t i o n . W i t h large-scale integ
rat ion and the development of compact
personal systems, the learning process
can be freed of physical l imitat ions. The
ind iv idua l pocket computer, the desk
top interactive terminal and wideband
communicat ions can give the student i n
stant access to stored knowledge any
where, mak ing the c lassroom a place
used exclusively for group discussion
and intellectual st imulat ion.
—Underdeve loped Areas. A s the new
technology reduces the cost and com
plexity of handl ing in format ion in
great quanti ty and varied forms, its
products w i l l fa l l increasingly wi th in
the reach of developing nat ions—their
schools, publ ic agencies, business and
even indiv iduals. In effect, the E lec t ron
ic Revo lu t i on can enable more than
hal f of mank ind to catch up wi th the
Industr ia l Revo lut ion .
M r . Sarnoff said the new electronicst
may be " o u r last, best hope to develop
an open, humanist society and to avo id
either l o ck ing step in a standardized
tecnological wor ld or dri f t ing toward
greater fragmentation and ult imate
chaos. "
" I f we succeed this time in coupl ing
a fundamental advance in technology
w i th human , social , cu l tura l and econo
mic needs," he concluded, "we sha l l
achieve the greatest and most benefi
cent revolution of a l l . "
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24 Oct . M i c k Pearce.
31 Oct . I cwa Ce i l i dh .
7 Nov . Ian Stewart.
14 Nov . Jeff and Penny Harr is .
21 Nov . C o m e - A l l - Y e .
28 Nov . Stan A r n o l d .
5 Dec. Staverton Bridge.
12 Dec. Ce i l i dh . B o b
Davenport and Rakes .
IC BROAD
LEFT STATEMENT It is becoming increasingly clear that
Imper ia l Col lege U n i o n is facing a c r i
sis of leadership. The attempt by some
members of the U n i o n to prevent the
organisation of any actions on grants
this term and the ineffectiveness of the
refectory prices campaign are but two
symptoms of a wider malaise, the ap
pearance, not so m u c h of apathy but
of irrat ional i ty i n the U n i o n ; the ten
dency to oppose motions or actions
simply because the left has proposed
them; to sabotage rather than argue
against; to in effect propose no act ion
on urgent issues, wh ich face students.
A n d prominent figures in the U n i o n
hierarchy have supported this trend.
Paradox ica l ly , the majority at U n i o n
meetings have continued to vote for the
policies proposed by the left and, as
on prices, have adopted the most m i l i
tant form of act ion suggested — but
without the commitment needed to
make it a success. The activists who
have tried to implement union pol icy
have been a smal l minor i ty , our m i l i
tancy may have publicised the issues to
students, but it has not persuaded them
to jo in in and turn minor i ty mi l i tancy
into majority mi l i tancy. C l ear l y a
major rethink of our approach is neces
sary.
We believe that the fault does not l ie
in the policies of the left (and I .C. U n i
on) but in a lack of strategy wh i ch has
led to tactics wh ich have fai led to w in
the massive student support wh ich suc
cess requires. O u r fundamen
tal a im must be to w in
wide support for our policies, i t is
necessary to foster a greater under
standing of the issues faced by students
and must be our pr imary task and
to w in the support, and part ic ipa
t ion, of the majority of students, i n ac
tions to achieve the Un ions ! aims. Prac
tice has refuted the idea that the mass
of students are l ike a n explosive, to be
detonated by the actions of a mil i tant
handful . Bu t neither is it s imply a ques
t ion of "Bet ter communica t i on . " Stu
dents must themselves be involved in
actions. If less mi l i tant mass actions are
successful in getting support but fa i l to
w in our demands, the commitment, un
derstanding a n d . perhaps, most impor
tant, confidence in the U n i o n , w i l l have
been created for more mi l i tant act ion.
T o give this sort of leadership, to the
best of our abi l i ty , we propose to form
a Broad Left grouping i n I.C. U n i o n ,
w i th s imi lar policies to the B road Left
i n N .U .S . wh ich has been responsible
for the leftward shift there, i n recent
years, and in many other Student U n i
ons, eg. Sussex, Cambr idge , wh ich
manage to combine left policies wi th
the active involvement of the majority
of students.
(1) The most importance issues of
the last few years have been the de
fence of student unions and the fight
against inflation, whether for higher
grants and demonstrat ing rates or
against price rises. M i l i t a n t mass act ion
has been at least part ia l ly successful at
both loca l and nat iona l level. B u t we
do not propose to concern ourselves
solely w i th the economic issues. One is
sue of concern to a l l students wh i ch the
left has sadly neglected, is academic af
fairs — what we are taught, how we are
assessed. In part icular we must take a
cr i t i ca l look at the increasing influence
of the profit motive i n determining
what we are taught and the research we
do.
(2) Students are badly in need of re
l iable all ies. M a n y of the issues wh i ch
face us, inflation, housing, defence of
unions etc., are faced equally and often
more so by work ing people. The basis
for unity exists i f we work for it. B u t
not just through socialists students help
ing workers struggles but i n a way
wh ich involves large numbers of ord in
ary students and workers eg through a
joint campaign for grants wh i ch do not
exclude) work ing class chi ldren f rom
higher education (as N .U .S . suggest).
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(3) W e welcome the increasing w i l
lingness of student union and N U S to
express collective views on wider issues
eg rac ia l ism, the environment, South
A f r i c a . Th i s is part icular ly relevant i n a
college w i th such a large percentage of
overseas students. W e believe that I .C.
U n i o n should support not just our fel
low students in other countries but their
fe l low countrymen against co lon ia l or
neo-colonial regimes.
In a l l these policies, our a i m is to get
m a x i m u m support while keeping to our
pr inc ipa l beliefs.
Unfortunately, when tactics have
been proposed which could have star
ted to involve the majority of students
they have been directly opposed by or
ganised groups in I.C. as was the case
when the proposal to launch a massive
petit ion campaign on prices to be de
l ivered by a mass demonstrat ion to the
Govern ing Body , was defeated at the
last U G M . S imi lar ly , the policies of
N U S are rarely argued for, i n this U n i
on, because of hosti l i ty f rom both the
right and sections of the left.
In launching a B r o a d Le f t grouping
wh ich involves students f rom inside and
outside the Socialist Society in I C we
are i n no way counterposing it to Soc ia l
ist Society. Its value as a F o r u m re
mains and, on pol icy, much unity ex
ists, a l though on strategy and tactics
we differ. N o r do we c l a im to be over
coming the sectarianism of the le f t—
n o doubt some people w i l l be quite
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October 30th, 1973 F E L I X Page S
WHO IS THE FIRST LADY OF
OF 170 QUEENS GATE?
IMPERIAL COLLEGE; WHO DWELLS BEHIND THE MAJESTIC WALLS
W e l l to begin w i th L a d y Flowers is
a very fr iendly woman w h o m you feel
you cou ld chat to for ages, she also
makes very good T u r k i s h coffee, though
Sir B r i a n I was to ld is the real expert.
L a d y F lowers l ikes people and shows
it. A great dea l of her life has been
spent do ing vo luntary social work. Be
fore coming here, whi le l i v ing i n Isl ing
ton, she worked for the ' Fam i l y Service
U n i t ' and also for the 'Nat iona l Asso
c iat ion for M e n t a l Hea l th ' . Th i s was
whi le S i r B r i a n was cha i rman of the
Science Research Counc i l . She worked
to prevent the splitt ing up of famil ies
i n : one case and to br ing a greater
understanding of mental disorders i n
the other.
Na tura l l y L a d y Flowers is we l l aware
of the stresses and strains wh i ch we
poor, overworked students are subject
to and is very concerned. Be ing a very
sensitive person, who has at t ime suf
fered depression and loneliness, she
realises the problems of people around
her, and tries to help. W o r k i n g w i th
the telephone Samaritans was another
work wh i ch she found very tax ing
emotional ly. Perhaps i t was as a re
act ion to the misery and depression
wh ich she had come across, that she at
one point became a model . Be ing older
than most models she seemed to have
the knack of match ing clothes, natur
al ly , and eventually dri f ted into t ra in
ing models. H e r new customers w i th
their many and varied wardrobes were
a long way away f r om the women who
had never had more than one outfit.
The i r continued and expensive fight
w i th obesity had nothing i n common
wi th the struggle of the others. But , she
enjoyed model l ing and thinks that the
clothes consciousness wh i ch she ac
quired w i l l never leave her, nor w i l l her
good posture.
L a d y Flowers makes her own clothes,
for her the achievement of mak ing
something outweighs the gratif ication
wh ich most women get out of buy ing
an expensive dress.
W i t h this background what does she
feel about the way g i r l students dress?
She l ikes the liberalness of the clothes,
though she feels (they cou ld be a l i tt le
neater. B u t a compl iment to a l l girls at
the I C W A Dinner , she thinks y ou were
very smartly dressed, she especially
Sir B r i a n plays the cello, and L a d y
Flowers the piano (in private). She has
always been a great concert
goer, and enjoys jazz and dancing. H e r
greatest pleasure is Ito listen to radio 3,
whi le do ing her cooking, a lways giving
it her personal touch. In answer to my
question about her l i terary aspirations,
she showed me a long row of cookery
books i n many languages and f rom
many more lands. She reads them in
bed for inspirat ion.
L a d y Flowers was born i n a middle
Class fami ly i n Manchester, and st i l l re
members the servants i n her grand
mother's house, who lived i n the attic,
had an outside lavatory and always
presented things on trays. H e r father
is the wel l -known l iberal S i r Leonard
Behrens. H e ran for parl iament twice.
LADY FLOWERS l iked the L a u r a Ash l ey clothes.
L a d y F lowers ' sense of co lour carries
over to her ki tchen and her paintings.
She is good at putt ing colours together,
i n contrast to Sir B r i a n who is predict
ably more preoccupied w i th technical
problems i n paintings l i k e representing
glass on canvas, cy l indr i ca l shapes and
creases o n a wel l -worn pair of shoes!
T o do h i m justice, he d i d have a rather
good portrait of his sister o n the easel
in his studio.
unsuccessfully, but nonetheless never
lost his deposit. L a d y F lowers of course
took a view to the left o f her father
and became a Marx i s t . She thinks
M a r x and Engels make good reading
but the revolutionary zeal of her
younger days has watered down. She
has visited the U S S R , Czechos lovakia ,
Po land , and has been disi l lusioned per
haps by the closed society o f the C o m
munist countries. She was very i m
pressed by the re-bui ld ing and publ ic
services i n East Be r l in and by the
achievements of T i t o i n his non aligned
policy.
Regard ing Br i t i sh pol i t ics she is a
m i l d Socialist and wou ld l ike to see a
lot of alterations, though wi thout a
revolution. A l t hough she has seen the
great misery and poverty o f many
people, she feels sorry that they have to
resort to strike act ion and does not sup
port the extreme posit ion of some
trades unions. She is a floating voter
but has only voted Conservative once,
never to repeat it.
L a d y F lowers has not had t ime to
sort out the tangle of po l i t i ca l op in ion
at I C yet though l ike every Fresher she
has been bombarded w i th bumph . I
told her about the excit ing battles
waged in F E L I X , C E F E , B R O A D
S H E E T etc., and she said she wou ld
catch up over the weekend. G o o d luck
to her!
A t present Lady Flowers is occupied
with the various organisations she has
to deal wi th , l ike the I C wives c lub of
which she is cha i rman. She has to learn
a lot of names and is f inding out who
everyone is and how everything works.
Th is of course includes I C U and the
C C U ' s . She is interested i n meeting the
students and has got i n touch w i th
N o r m . Sayles and A n n e Short to ar
range cockta i l parties and of course
l ike every other fresher she has realised
the difficulty of having a we l l balanced
gathering with the chronic shortage of
girls.
Are we studying anything Meaningful ?
H o w do we know if the subjects we
study are obsolete or meaningless?
Let 's look at some of the problems of
apply ing our I .C. acquired knowledge
dur ing our work ing life.
a) Energy resources
B r i t a i n is a n import-export country
who cannot feed herself out of her own
land (at least under present conditions)
in spite of using more than one calorie
of fuel to obta in each calor ie of food.
Fo r this reason i t is important not only
to know whether or not Br i t a in w i l l
have fuel i n the next decades but also
to know whether or not the countries
import ing costly high-fuel-consuming
Br i t ish-made machinery and products,
w i l l have fuel and money enough for
the imports to make any sense to them.
There are obviously very serious
foreseeable difficulties w i th o i l supplies,
be i t i n the next few years or i n the
'80's o r '90's. The same applies to coal ,
especially i n other countries. Nuc lear
power does not seem to promise any
thing significant, given the size and
prox imi ty of the energy problem.
Less fuel abroad means less planes
coming to B r i t a i n , less tourists leaving
their foreign currencies, less high-fuel-
consuming Br i t ish-made machinery, less
high-fuel-consuming c i v i l engineering
Br i t i sh contracts abroad, etc.
b) Po l lu t i on
There are two k inds of increasing
po l lut ion problems brought about by
industr ial isat ion and "progress" . 1 —
, The higher levels of po l lu t i on due to i n
creasing numbers and concentrat ion of
machines, apparatus, etc., f r om the
river po l lut ing factory to our neigh
bour 's noisy electric shaver that also
interferes our radio reception; 2 — The
norma l desire of people to relatively
improve their environment.
T o sOlve these problems the obvious
way out is to produce less, down to the
necessary level. T h i s impl ies such
taboos as reducing the G . N . P . and the
growth of large corporat ions and
monopolies, etc., so that only a few
non-industrial ised nations are l ike ly to
adopt this pol icy i n the near future.
The second pol icy , the one adopted by
industr ia l nations, is to produce anti
po l lut ion devices and gadgets (the pro
duct ion of wh i ch causes more pol lut ion)
at the expense of general increases i n
costs. The first pa£cy means for
Br i t a in , less exports of high-energy-
consuming machinery and techniques
and less exports of products i n general.
The second one means, ever higher
prices of products that can only be
afforded by an ever-reducing number of
people (unti l inflation al lows it) as we l l
as increasing demands for energy and
resources in general. ( G O TO ' a).
c) G r o w t h of populat ion and G N P
plus inflation mean shortages and
higher costs of basic resources such as
land, food, housing, etc., wh ich are the
things that Br i t a in either lacks or has
to import . A t the same t ime these
shortages divert the interests of the
consumers of Br i t i sh industr ia l pro
ducts towards the more basic needs
both here and abroad. F o r example,
overpopulat ion plus increased need for
space for factories, mines, roads, a i r
ports, etc., means world-wide prices i n
crease, and hence less spare money for
T V s , cars, machinery and other typ ica l
Br i t i sh produdts, both home and
abroad. A l s o , the problems just men
tioned worsen the above-mentioned
ones.
( G O T O a. O R b.)
A t I .C. we learn how to invent, de
sign and bu i ld these h i gh l y sophisti
cated, costly, Mgh-energy-consuming
, products that contr ibute to a l l these
troubles.
A l l these problems w i l l come well
w i th in our work ing l i fe: Pe t ro l rat ion
ing was a reality i n the U.S. even be
fore the M i d d l e East war ; petrol ration-"
ing due to po l i t i ca l reasons is a reality
now, and so are the pdtrol price rises;
tendencies towards self sufficiency and
low energy consumpt ion are a reality
now in some countries; escalating land
prices, over populat ion and housing
shortages are a wor ld wide real i ty to
day and so are ris ing levels and costs
of po l lut ion.
Whey then are we compel led to study
h igh - energy - consuming technology
(with planned obsolesence) assessed
only by trad i t ional economics (if at all )
without taking a l l these problems into
account?
One of the reasons is that we have
been streamed into highly fragmented
fields, in order to achieve h igh levels of
specialisation, thus not getting to know
much even about neighbouring fields,
let alone ithe social, ecological and
poliitcal impl icat ions of our studies or
even why should we reach h igh levels
of specialisation or why should we pur
sue this type of science and technology.
Another reason is that we didn ' t
have much choice anyway; we had to
"choose " f r om among a G I V E N n u m
ber of pre-packaged approved fields of
study (if we wanted to get a degree
and a "good job " , that is).
H a v e you heard of low energy tech
nology? Al ternat ive technology? Tech
nology assessment? Non- industr ia l
technology? Science for people? These
are S O M E ways by wh i ch people are
trying to face the real problems of to
day and tomorrow, rather than " p l a n
ning for a future" wh i ch is nothing
but an extrapolat ion of the past and
hoping to solve the problems w i th a n
expansion of our obsolete remedies.
B u t are we al lowed to study such
things at I.C., w i th recognition and get
t ing a degree? . . .
J . A G U I R R E , G v E n g 310
E L E C T R O N I C
M U S I C G R O U P
Meeting and
Record Recital
Haldane Library
at 7.30
Thursday, Nov. ist
JAZZ Sat. 3rd November —
M I K E OSBORNE TRIO
30p non-members
20p members
Start 8.00 in the Biology
C o m m o n R o o m
Sat. 17th November —
M I C H A E L G A R R I C K S E X T E T
with N o r m a Winstone
40p non-members
30p members
Start 8.00 in the Biology
Common R o o m
The persian society of I C
and U L U Iranian society
present:
cow Winner of: F i l m Cri t ics
Award Venice F i l m Festival
and Best Actor Award
Chicago Festival
Pag© 6 October 3(Nfe, 1973
REVIEWS
Os ib i sa
Be ing the first concert I've reviewed
for quite some time, I expected it to be
quite a difficult one, but it turned out
not to be the case in Osibisa.
A l l the music papers categorise their
music under the term " A f r o - R o c k " ,
though this is a l itt le vague. I wou ld
prefer to say that their music consists
of a very dr iv ing rhythm, wh ich is
played, bursting wi th exuberance, on
bass, keyboards and various percussion
instruments, wh i ch were dotted around
the stage. Superimposed on this are
equal ly dr iv ing passages o n brass. D n
the whole I f ound them very easy to
l isten to, despite not hav ing heard a
great deal of their music beforehand.
Wha t d id quite bewilder me was the
semi-hysteria they received f r om the
moment they were announced, and per
sisting throughout the evening. Th i s was
encouraged b y the energy Os ib isa were
generating in turn enhancing audience
part ic ipation, wh i ch was wel l supported,
though tended to drag o n a l itt le towards
the end.
Ear l i e r , Heavy M e t a l K i d s had played
some fa ir ly good and basic heavy rock,
this t ime to a rather unresponsive audi
ence. G . J . K .
R o n Geeson opened the evening with
a short set i n wh i ch he was not put off
by the barrack ing and impatient part of
the audience tout countered the shouted
remarks w i th equal ly witty comments.
H e is a rather eccentric Scotsman whose
Morcambesque antics w i th the banjo
and piano (which he played very well),
and several monologues (which he
enunciates very c lear ly and precisely in
a rather sinister fashion), were very
amusing.
Genesis were br i l l iant . The sound
was we l l mixed f rom a console i n the
middle of the stalls and the vo lume
was also used careful ly and subtly. It
was not a continued mind-shattering
blast but was gradual ly increased dur
ing the one and three-quarter hour per
formance.
The stage was backed by a white
c loth screen onto wh i ch slides were pro
jected dur ing the songs. They helped to
accentuate the music and il lustrate the
lyr ics but on the whole were rather poor,
though the idea was good.
The product ion was excellent and
exact. Genesis are a band whose music
is as carefuly structured as classical
music and they reproduced their re
corded material in the finest detai l ,
right down to a recording of the two
little boys singing the sinister nursery
rhyme : n angelic and uncomprehending
voices.
it cou ld be said that there is l ittie
point in going to hear music that you
already have on record. We l l the answer
is Peter Gab r i e l . T h e atmosphere he
creates w i th his l i teral ly fantastic cos
tume, sinister dramatics and amusing
introductions had the audience tense
and expectant for surprises which, when
they came, were or ig inal and effective.
"Watcher of the Sk ies " opened, with
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a majestic and impressive introduct ion
f r om Tony Bank ' s organ and synthesis
er. H i s p lay ing is simple i n f o rm yet is
very effective and dramat ic . D u r i n g the
concert they main ly played songs f rom
their latest a l b u m "Se l l ing Eng l and by
the P o u n d . " These were 'F i f th of F i r s t " ,
'The C i n e m a Show" , " T h e Batt le of
E p p i n g Fores t " and " M o r e foo l m e "
wh i ch is a s imple acoustic gui tar num
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rhythm to the music.
They finished with what is , I th ink ,
their best composi t ion yet—"Supper 's
R e a d y " f rom " F o x t r o t " . A s the c l imac
tic organ solo "began, Gabr i e l stood
motionless on the stage i l luminated with
ultra-violet l ight wearing an orange
luminous "mask" ( ? ) (See cover of l ive
a lbum), then a loud explosion just be
fore the return to the vocals revealed
h im , when the smoke cleared, i n a
bright silver shirt in contrast to the black
suit that he had worn before.
Then after nearly 10 minutes clap
ping, an encore, " T h e K n i f e " f r om
"Trespass" , wi th the whole audience on
its feet.
It was a carefully thought out and
rehearsed performance, the strong ele
ment of fantasy accentuated by the use
of l ighting, music, costume and make
up by Peter Gabr i e l plus excellent lead
guitar work by Steve Hacket t (often
indistinguishable f rom the organ). These
qualit ies of music ianship and stage pro
duct ion make Genesis one of the best
live bands in the country.
Stone groove man. A really heavy
sap. . P A L A N T I R T O N .
Small d reams o f a s c o r p i o n
by Spike M i l l i g a n P e n g u i n 25p
'There comes a t ime i n every man's
l i fe when he stops laughing and starts
to gr ind under the yoke of contempo
rary pressures. . . . The result of this
change in personality is found w i th in
the confines of this book . "
These words f r om M i l l i g an ' s o w n i n
troduct ion to this s l im vo lume of (very)
serious poetry goes a long way to ex
p la in ing their existence. Spike has a l
ways been the campaigner, f r om w i l d
life preservation to the cure of mental
illness. N o wonder then that the serious
side of his character should express itself
i n a creative f o rm as we l l as the comic
side.
M o s t of the poems are shor t—but
very direct, very hard hi t t ing and
intentional ly so. There are i l lustrat ions
by Spike and also his w i l e L a u r a that
add a lot to the atmosphere of the
book. Some of the verse is so wel l
thought out that one finds i t ha rd to
believe "some of the poems were
written by dropping 800 Eng l i sh words
into a sack, taking them out one at a
t ime and ca l l ing them by their names
l ike 'He l lo Sa i l o r ' , " as M i l l i g a n wou ld
have us believe.
T h e topics of the poems range f rom
war and preservation to the tender
ones deal ing wi th the pl ight of ch i l d
ren in trouble, l ike those of Abe r f an ,
" I don't burn coa l any more . "
Th i s is not a book to be read on a
longish t ra in journey, but one to be
taken i n smal l selective doses so that
i t w i l l st imulate and provoke thought
on those topics and causes dear to Spike
M i l l i gan ' s heart.
In many ways i t is a n amazing and
surpris ing book and at t imes confusing.
Some of the poems are presented twice,
o n opposite pages, once i n norma l type
face lettering and the other i n (pre
sumably) Spike's or ig inal handwri t ing.
The poems deal w i th their subjects i n a
human , compassionate way and i n so
do ing give an insight to the man , the
fami ly man Spike M i l l i g a n , that is
rarely evident and certainly not obvious
in l i is many other books.
There are many short verses and
lines that are powerful enough to h i t
one immediately, l ike
'T f I die i n wa r you remember me.
If I l ive i n peace you don ' t . "
" G o d made night, but m a n made
darkness. "
N o w that this vo lume is avai lable i n
paperback for the first t ime you have
no excuse for not owning a copy. If
you're a M i l l i g an -mah iac y ou ' l l buy it
anyway and be pleasantly surprised, if
you're not you st i l l can't afford to be
without it. A n y t h i n g by Spike M i l l i g a n
is more than a book, i n this case it's
a testimony to our present wor ld and
way of life. A favourable testimony?
We l l get the book and find out . . . a
toil-of things.
J E R E M Y B A R K E R
Jack Ke rouac was born in 1922 i n
Lowe l l , Mass. , the son of a printer and
a French-Canad ian g i r l . H e attended
C o l u m b i a Univers i ty f rom 1940 to 1942,
and then left to hitch and odd-job his
way around, eventually becoming part
of the "unde rg round " of Greenwich
V i l l age , New Y o r k . H i s first book, The
T o w n and The C i t y , was successfully
published in 1950, but he was l i tt le-
known outside A m e r i c a unt i l 1956 when
he produced " O n the R o a d " which ,
w i th " H o w l and other Poems" by A r
thur Ginsberg became a sacred text of
the 'beatniks' .
Jack Kerouac has since written many
books, a l l fo l lowing the loose l ine of the
'beat poets', but his prose carries m o r e
than the mere trendy message of some
of his contemporaries. L i k e Orwe l l ,
Ke rouac only writes of what he knows,
and it is this autobiographical viewpoint
which gives his novels their relaxed
cohesion. The 'hero' of a Ke rouac story
w i l l be a thinly-veiled Ke rouac ; a point
to bear in mind when considering his
work. Even the T o w n and the C i t y is
not a narrative w i th the outsider look
ing i n ; it is the insider, Peter, l ook ing
in and about, w'itto a l l the apprehensions
and stumbl ing errors of a teenager.
T h e T o w n and the C i t y is not, then,
the saga of each member of an A m e r i
can fami ly which you might expect
from a glance at the blurb. Instead it is
T h e t own a n d the c i ty
b y J a c k K e r o v a c
the saga of Peter, the third son in a
fami ly of five sons and three daugh
ters, who finds that excellence in sport
is an art i f ic ia l and l imited cr i ter ion of
success, and sets out to look for truth.
O f the Other characters, Franc is and
Mr. 'George' M a r t i n are admirably
portrayed, and i n M i c k e y and Char ley ,
Kerouac reveals his keen memory and
understanding of the emotions of ch i ld
hood. The other members of the family-
have a n a i r of being 'extras': the sisters
are seen through the eyes of a busy
brother as part of home, yet different
beings on another plane of existence,
while M r s . M a r t i n leaves the impression
of a worr ied card-sharper rather than
the contented understanding mother.,
II seems l ikely that this re-issue is the
result of some publisher equating the
present 'off-beat' scene with that of
the '50s'. It pleases me to define literary
classics as writings wh ich always have
relevance, i n wh ich case I can sincerely
declare this book to be a classic . . .
and the publisher to have been, in a
sense, right.
F o r a paperback the book is well-
bound, w i th a pretty dust-jacket so you
can cover i t . If £1.75 is a bit steep for
a novel, put it on your Chr is tmas list or
give it to your fiancee. A t any rate, if
you haven't met Kerouac before, be sure
to read iit.
C A N E S ,
Johnathan L iv ingston Seagull cou ld
be described as the narrated story of
an extremely ind i v idua l gu l l who re
jects the li fe of the seagull flock, "fight
ing and screeching w i th the flock
around piers and fishing boats, d i v ing
on scraps of fish and bread , " l i v ing to
eat, never flying through the night,
through the storm, never leaving the
rocky shore behind.
Johnathan is a gu l l who "f inds and
fol lows a meaning, a higher purpose for
l i fe , " ever to learn to fly better. W e then
learn of Johnathan's conflict w i th the
flock, his increasing flying abi l i ty , unt i l
he learns to fly "as fast as a thought "
through t ime and space because he
knows himself to be unl imited " a per
fect idea of freedom of flight."
" B u t to describe i t i n this way is not
to define it, the book has 93 pages, 43
of them pictures o f gulls i n flight, is a
glossy a n d pleasing presentation of a
real ly rather lovely and or ig ina l story.
I was rather surprised as you might be,
Johnathan Livingston
Seagull
as to how m u c h I enjoyed the tale of the
' 'ascent of the g u l l " .
B u t to say this much wou ld be to
leave the intended point of the book
unmentioned. J . Seagull goes on to
teach, to introduce other gulls to his
joy, thus the book becomes a direct
paral le l of Chr i s t teaching love. This
undisguised snowbal l ing element of the
book certainly detracted f rom my over
a l l enjoyment of the story; though I a m
st i l i amused to feel that despite its in
tentions, those of a humanist outlook
wou ld see the story as more t ru ly a
paral le l of man's intel lectual ascent, a
search for puri ty i n knowledge.
The photographs, though not a l l
essential, do add something to one's
enjoyment, especially in the first half
of the book.
A t 50p it is an expensive hour's
reading, t t o u g h one that offers more
sheer emot ional pleasure than most, and
one wh i ch I cou ld repeat.
Ctateifcar mix, 1973 F E L I X Page 7
S P O R T Star* /or Lacrosse Club
Imper ia l Col lege Lacrosse C l u b began
the season In style last Saturday w i th a
15—2 away w i n over Cambr idge . De
spite last minute addit ions the team put
up an overpowering d isplay With Pete
D r u r y and Steve M o r r i s contr ibut ing the
b u l k of *he goals, col lect ing five and
four respectively.
O f the new players M i c k L a w m a n
showed that he was a n idea l replace
ment i n midfield for P a u l " W h i z z K i d * '
Spooner, recently transferred to the first
d iv is ion, and P a u l Jepson i n defence
kept h is attacker very quiet.
The game was marred by one unfor
tunate incident when Tony Hahett , who
has been reading too many coaching
manuals, tr ied a backwards, over-the-
shoulder Shot and a Cambr idge player
unwitt ingly used his head to check the
cross. H e took no further part i n the
match and under the gentlemanly laws
of lacrosse Pete M c D o n a l d , who had
been do ing some t ru ly start l ing forehand
volleys i n a style reminiscent of Stan
Smith , kept h i m entertained on the
touchline, no doubt w i th wi t ty anec
dotes about life at Imper ia l College.
Despite the score i t was a hard match
w i th the m a i n differences between the
teams coming f r om an 80 per cent suc
cess rate f r om Ithe face gained by the
Imper ia l College midfield, players, the
newly discovered (for lacrosse) tact ic
of an over lapping defender Which com
pletely bemused the Cambr idge defence
and the goalkeeping of I an G u l l i f o r d
(which almost goes wi thout saying!).
T e a m : — I a n G u l l i f o r d , P a u l Jepson,
B o b Strangeway, Pete D r u r y , N i c k L a w
m a n , L i o n e l C l a rke , Pete M c D o n a l d ,
Steve Nor r i s , A l a n , Tony Ha l l e t t (capt.).
Cross Country Club Shoot Through Again ilffllll? 1**' *
Dave Howlbrook coasting downhill
The 20th was a t ru ly
memorable day. F i rs t l y the
Le f t A n k l e of the Cross
Count ry C l u b (Ian Isher-
wood) made h is first ap
pearance of the year i n
the same manner as
George Best (i.e. w i th no
great glare of publ i c i ty
and several inches extra
i n girth), and d id extreme
l y well ' considering his 6
months lack of training.
A n d then there was the
amazing way i n wh i ch
people found themselves
suddenly inc luded i n , and
then just as suddenly ex
cluded f r om the first team
for this " U C " Re l a y
at Par l iament H i l l .
Th is was because of
the eleventh hour a r r i va l
of three star competitors.
They were theoretical ly
late because R o b and P a d
had decided that the race
would start at 2.30: how
ever U C were unaware of
this and planned to start
at 3, though ithey actual ly
managed i t somewhat
later, wh i ch just goes to
show . . .
The course was 6 laps
of just under 2 miles of
ithe usual Par l iament H i l l
terrain. 33 teams finished;
here are O u r Resu l t s :—
1. 17 R i c h Garnet t
2. 16 R o b A l l i n s o n
3. 20 I a n E l l i s
4. 20 J . S. K a l i r a y
5. 18 N e i l B o a g
6. 20 P a u l C l a r k e
1
2
3
34 Dave Jones
33 Steve Webb
32 Pete Johnson
4. 33 Pat Donne l ly
5. 33 A Guest E s q .
6. 33 Ian E l l i s
11.54
9.44
9.59
9.43
10.00
1. 30 P h i l Mey l e r
2. 31 K e i t h Ah le rs
3. 31 Dave H ow l b r ook
10.32
4. 30 Dave Payne 9.56
5. 30 Ian Isherwood 11.16
6. 30 Geoff Spurr 10.23
N o b o d y fe l l d o w n the
h i l l a t the start, and no
one tad to wa lk up the
h i l l at the end . . . they
daren't w i th the rest of
combined I C teams cheer
ing (jeering) them on f rom
the top of the h i l l . No t e
the incredib ly brave (fool
hardy) second leg by Ian
E l l i s .
(Continued on page 8)
lan worrying someone from Borough Road
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P.A.W.N.0 B E E R A N D B I T S
D u r i n g the t ime of the last rector,
L a d y Penney used to h o l d get-togethers
for the female students a t I .C. Th i s year,
as a cont inuat ion of this, L a d y F lowers
w i l l be ho ld ing barbeques at 170 Queens
Gate. A s a change, however, there w i l l
be a mixed affair. A number of ma le
students are therefore inv i ted to app ly
for admittance to these events. I f you
wish to go, please leave your name w i th
Jen, the U n i o n clerk. She w i l l keep a
list o f those interested and let you know
when the do is.
H A I R D R E S S I N G
( A G A I N ? )
There is a new list of (times for when
male models are required for the ha i r -
dressing section of the L o n d o n School
of Fash ion . Pr ice for a cut is lOp and
the return fare is 16p. T h e school is
situated at O x f o rd C i r cus . I f y ou want
to know the times the l ist is pinned to
the notice board i n the U n i o n office.
B I C Y C L E R A C K S
I received a compla int this week
about the bicycle racks at electrical en
gineering. A s a fo l low-up to this I had a
look at the bicycle racks i n college and
found that the rack near the post-office
in Imper ia l Institute R o a d had quite a
number o f empty spaces. F o r (those o f
you used to using on ly one rack there
are racks a t a) the rear o f Physics, b) the base of Blee E n g . c) near the
post-office, d) at the rear o f Chemistry .
U N I O N M E E T I N G
A U n i o n Genera l Meet ing w i l l be
held this Thursday in the U n i o n Concert
Ha l l . There is another, very fu l l agenda
and hopeful ly there w i l l be a lot of
very useful discussion. No te the change
in the venue.
U N I O N D U P L I C A T I N G
S E R V I C E
Th i s should be i n fu l l swing some
time this week. W h e n it is fu l ly opera
tive this w i l l be the source of dupl icat
ing paper. The. Union 's own slocks w i l l
then only be needed for official minutes,
notices etc. and paper w i l l not be ava i l
able -from Jen the U n i o n C le rk .
P. A . Wadswor th
FIREWORK DANCE j at Silwood Friday 9th Nov. I
7.15 p.m. Fireworks j
8.30 p.m. Dance
+ Disco
+ L ights
+ Class ica l Gu i ta r
+' Folk
singing
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F E L I X October 30th, 1973
ANTI - LOMBARD S o in reponse to the
threatened right-wing attack
o n students ' efforts to de
fend their rapidly vanishing
grants, due on Thursday at
the U G M , IC C o m m u n i s t
Party has launched a c a m
paign for a broad left front
to meet this .
What po l ic ies wil l this
broad left g rouping have?
None other than those of the
N U S broad l e f t — w h i c h is a
communis t party inspired
group des igned to attract all
the f lotsam a n d jetsam o f
liberals, " p r o g r e s s i v e " chr ist
ians and other wet lefts.
The i r pol ic ies in short wi l l
tie those of the N U S execu
tive in the D igby Jacks era
— t h o s e wh i ch after a year
of rall ies, demonstrat ions,
petitions, rent strikes, sit - ins
and refectory boycotts , i n
volving up to 5 0 0 , 0 0 0
students, 'won ' us a der isory
£ 2 0 wh i ch with the present
rate of inflation amounts to
a grant cut.
T h e numbers of students
involved in these reformist
{protest pol it ics , des igned to
'p ressur ize ' the Government
iMto agreeing to the four basic
N U S demands , was in fact
quite despite the overt bank
ruptcy of their reformist pol i
c i e s
O n one hand you have the
Commun i s t Party and its re
vis ionist sycophants , the IS
« n d the I M G , saying that we
can get higher grants if we
show the justness of our
cause, and add in s ome mi l i
tancy to show we really need
the demands met, and on the
ether you have the To ry Gov
ernment preparing the ground
to impose a fascist dictator
ship.
A conflict is due in the
next p e r i o d — a conflict of re-
volutonary proport ions ,which
wi l l be resolved in one of
two ways: f asc i sm or soc i a l
i sm, the midd l e road of a
parl iamentary democracy has
vanished out of the w indow
and is d isappear ing over the
horizon in direct correlation
to the decreas ing c i rculat ion
• f the Guard ian .
T h e Tor i e s have legislated
sway nearly every right that
the working c lass has won
in over 150 years of struggle
— t h e right to strike, won
when the Taff Va l e judge
ment of 1901 was repealed,
has g o n e — i t is illegal to
strike for more than the
Phase III norm of 7 per cent.
T h e right to form independ
ent T rade Un ions , won when
the Combinat ions Ac t was
repealed in 1824, has gone
— U n i o n s have to register
under the Industrial Relations
Ac t , or e lse be liable for an
unl imited fine in the High
Cour t s , it goes without say
ing that registration is c o m
plete state control of the
Un ions , such as we find in
Spain today.
T h e right to an unarmed
po l ice force has g o n e — n o t
o n l y has the armed Spec ia l
Patrol Group been expanded
enormous ly (and if you think
they were formed to guard
embass ies , then account for
them being based in H a m
mersmith , Brixton and Ley-
t ons tone—work ing c lass
areas, mi les from the nearest
embassy) but the pol ice have
-recently been equipped with
6 0 0 of the most powerful
rifles that the A r m y use.
There is a c ommis s i on taking
place to bring the Po l ice and
the A rmy under one central
ized control and furthermore
down in Winchester , the pol
ice and certain units of the
A rmy are being trained to
gether in counter - insurgency.
So ld iers of lodav are no lon
ge r t r a i n e d in C a e s a r ' s " D e
Bel lo G a l l i c o " but instead
are referred to Brigadier
Frank Ki tson ' s " L o w Density
Opera t ions " .
W h y are the Tor ies prepar
ing like this? W h y did Heath
say in his address to the
United Nations in 1 9 7 0 : " T h e
seventies wil l not be a t ime
of war between nations, but
rather of CIVIL w a r " ? W h y
d i d Brigadier Calvert state
with such impunity, in an
Observer colour supplement
a few months ago, that it is
likely that there wi l l be an
attempted insurrection before
the end of the decade? How
do the Tor ies K N O W ?
T h e answer to that is de
monstrated every t ime you
go to the shops—in f l a t ion . In
order to boost up their flag
ging balance of payments , in
order to inject value into
their worthless paper money,
they have floated down the
pound. T h i s enables them to
export easily to countr ies
like Ge rmany whose cur
rency has floated u p — b u t
at the s a m e t ime imports
cost that m u c h more. Hal f
of our foodstuffs are import
ed and every t ime the Tor ies
float d o w n further and make
huge profits f rom exporting
more (on paper only inc iden
t a l l y — y o u can 't buy dear and
sell cheap and make a C O N
C R E T E profit!) our food
prices shoot to new record
leva's.
T h e Tor ies have to do
this, they have no choice , for
them to exist as a c lass they
have to export or d ie . But for
the working c lass it means
a rapidly d imin i sh ing stand
ard of l iving and with every
law that passes onto the stat
ute books of the Tor ies , the
s igning away of the d e m o
crat ic rights of the working
c l a s s — u n t i l today when it is
il legal to fight to D E F E N D
your standard of l iving.
Inflation? W e haven't
seen anything yet. W h e n the
Financia l T i m e s talks about
this being a per iod of Pre-
We imar inflation it means
that prices wi l l not just go
through the c e i l i n g — b u t
through the roof and into
interstellar overdr ive? Re
member the one mark Ger
man stamps overstamped one
mil l ion m a r k s ? — T h a t was in
flation dur ing the perod of
the We imar Republ ic of the
early 30s.
That the working c lass
wi l l fight to defend its rights
and living standards neither
the Tor i e s nor the Y S S S
have any doubt. Whether it
wins that struggle or not de
pends on the leadership of
the working c lass . W h e n we
are talking about this c o n
flict we are talking about the
question of power, of owner
ship of the factories and fin
ance houses, and the sole
way that the working c lass
can avoid the crushing de
feat of f a sc i sm is to take the
p o w e r — t o nationalise all the
major industries and banks
under workers ' control and
without compensat ion .
P laced against the back
ground of the e conomic cr i s
is and the present prepara
tions of the ruling c l a s s —
does not campaign ing with
petitions for higher grants
seem somewhat inadequate?
Except of course unless one
needs to learn through prac
tice that petitions lead on l y
to full waste paper baskets
in the D E S and rent strikes
to fines or being sent down ,
per iod.
But is that not the lesson
of last year 's grants c a m
paign and the lesson of all
protest pol i t ics be they in
the T r a d e or Student Un ions ,
in this p e r i od—tha t re form
ism leads to defeat, and that
a new, revolutionary, leader
ship has to be built to fight
to take the working c lass to
power.
T h e n it fol lows that for
those in the broad left and
their adherents, to now
launch a campa ign to win
students to pol ic ies and
methods of struggle which
have been proved I N P R A C
T I C E to be incapable of w in
ning anythng except a fur
ther cut in o u r grants,
constitutes a most enormous
betrayal o f t h e interests of
s t u d e n t s a n d t h e working
c l a s s .
T h i s i s n o t t o s a y t h a t i t
i s a b e t r a y a l t o f i gh t for
h i g h t e r g r a n t s , s i m p i y t h a t
u n l e s s t h a t s t r u g g l e i s s e e n
i n t h e c o n t e x t o f a f i gh t to
b r i n g d o w n t h i s G o v e r n m e n t
and r e p l a c e it w i t h a l a b o u r
g o v e r n m e n t p l e d g e d t o s o c
i a l i s t p o l i c i e s , a n y i n c r e a s e
t h a t w e w i n w e w i l l b e u n
a b l e t o d e f e n d , a n d l i k e t h e
£ 2 0 w e r e c e i v e d f o r this
y e a r , w i l l b e d e s t r o y e d by
i n f l a t i o n . F u r t h e r m o r e that
t h a t t h i s g i v e s m o r e t i m e f o r
t h e f o r c e s o f r e a c t i o n t o p r e
pare and o r g a n i s e .
T o finish w i t h t h e words
o f Horace : C a r p e d i em, for
t h e longer w e d a l l y — t h e
more our Brit ish junta is pre
paring to crush o u r British
A l l endes .
E d i t o r
Medical A i d for Vietnam by A las ta i r H a y
The war in Indo C h i na , a l though it currently re
ceives l ittle news coverage, is far f r om over. It is
reported that there are over 100 bombing missions a
day by the Saigon forces and that the number of
po l i t i ca l prisoners has increased f r om 200,000 to
300,000 i n the past few months. These are only two
of the violat ions of the Paris Peace Agreements. The
importance of the Agreements is recognised i n the
fo l lowing statement f rom M a d a m e Nguyen T h i B i n h ,
Minister of Fore ign Af fairs of the Prov is iona l Revo lu
t ionary Government of the Repub l i c of South V ie t
nam ( P R G ) in a letter to the Med i ca l A i d Committee
for V i e tnam, wrote:
" W e ardently wish that the sol idarity and the
precious support of your people w i l l continue, and
strengthen us in our struggle to ensure the strict
implementation by the U S A and the Saigon adminis
trat ion of the Agreement signed, to acknowledge the
role o f the P R G , the genuine representative of the
people of South V i e tnam, to help hea l the wounds
of war to bu i l d up the l iberated zones and to support
the pol i t ica l struggle of the people of South V i e t n a m
for the right to sel f-determination."
Branson P. C l a r k , Execut ive Secretary of the
A m e r i c a n Fr iends Service Commit tee (a Quake r or
ganisation) hav ing just returned f rom a week in N o r t h
V i e tnam, bad this to say: " T h e Vietnamese are pre
pared for the possibi l i ty of renewed U.S. bombing on
their country. B u t at the same t ime they are l i teral ly
bu i ld ing homes, schools and publ ic bui ldings w i th
their bare hands in a n atmosphere of opt imist ic re
construct ion. "
The whole story of destruction of V i e t n a m is not
yet known, but we have some details. Nea r l y s ix
mi l l i on square metres of housing completely destroy
ed; 58 secondary and technical schools completely
destroyed; 2,867 pr imary schools completely
destroyed; agriculture was systerntaitioally destroyed.
B o m b i n g of the dams destroyed m a n y of the rice
fields; three-quarters of a l l chemica l plants were
destroyed; 80 per cent of the texti le and c loth ing
factories destroyed, three-quarters of the food i n
dustry destroyed. M i l l i o n s of square metres of ware
houses, ho ld ing food and produce were reduced to
rubble.
W i t h the destruction of over 650 hospitals, recon
struction of hospitals is special pr ior i ty .
The M e d i c a l A i d Commit tee for V i e t n a m
(M .A .C .U . ) sends med ica l supplies to the L i b e ra
t ion R e d Cross of South V i e t n a m and to the V i e t n a m
Red Cross for use in N o r t h V i e tnam, Laos and C a m
bodia. D r . Nguyen V a n T i n , V i ce -Min i s t e r of H e a l t h
of the D . R . V . N . and President of the V i e t n a m R e d
Cross i n a letter to M . A . C . U . acknowledges their
importance: " Y o u r a id and your expressions of sup
port dur ing the war, as i n the in i t i a l phase of the
restoration of peace i n V i e tnam, touch us deeply and
give us great encouragement i n ou r struggle to safe
guard our independence. In spite o f the b lockade
and the intensive bombardment by the U .S . A i r
Force, your consignments o f med ica l instruments
have arr ived at their destination . . . "
A l l the evidence avai lable indicates that the level
of destruction in C a m b o d i a is equal ly as that docu
mented for V i e tnam. It w i l l be many years betore the
People of Indo C h i n a are able t o rebui ld Ithdr coun
tries, and mainta in a lasting peace. M . A C " ' have
been assisting the Vietnamese for eight years and
hope to p lay a positive role i n the reconstruction
of N o r t h V i e t n a m and ithe l iberated areas of South
V i e tnam, Laos and Cambod i a . Together w i th other
European committees M . A . C . U . supplies urgent drugs
for the treatment and prevention of ma lar ia , tuber-
losis, cholera, po l io , measles, plague, and v i tamin
deficiency diseases. Surgical equipment, 500 dental
packs and 200 mobi l e hospi ta l units are the latest
items wh i ch have been requested. The surgical equip
ment and dental packs have already been sent, and
125 hospital units w i l l be sent shortly. E a c h hospi ta l
unit costing £1,000 each and conta in ing over 1,000
instruments w i l l enable a team of six medica l per
sonnel to treat people at vi l lage and commune level.
Together w i th ithe medica l supplies M . A . C . U . is
restocking hospi ta l and medica l l ibraries w i th the rele
vant journals a n d textbooks. 20 tons o f l iterature,
worth approx. £30,000 has been sent this year. M e d i
ca l slides for the teaching of the basic medica l sciences
are also i n preparat ion-^four types i n Ana tomy ,
morb id anatomy, Physio logy and Midw i f e ry have a l
ready been sent.
The M e d i c a l A i d Commit tee relies for its w o r k o n
financial contr ibutions, for ind iv idua ls and groups,
street collections and ' R a g ' sponsoring. W i t h 'V ie t
nam ' rapidly becoming an issue of the past i t is
c ruc ia l to in fo rm people that the danger is not over.
M . A . C . U . workers wou ld be delighted to speak at
meetings and discuss their activit ies w i th any i n d i
viduals interested i n the reconstruction of Indo C h i n a .
F o r in format ion contact:
The M e d i c a l A i d Commit tee for V i e tnam,
P .O . B o x 100,
36 Wel l ington Street,
L o n d o n , W.C .2 .
C R U S Q i - C X X J N 1'KY
c o n t d . f r o m p a g e 7
Wednesday saw another
example of the chaos
which we seem to spread
wherever we go. Th i s t ime
it was a league race on
our own course at Peters
ham. There were about
140 tak ing part and the
course was so cunningly
marked that the first ten
of .these went somewhat
wrong; i n fact a certain
Borough R o a d person,
who was at one stage
first, finished 37th because
of this. Some people
weren't very pleased.
Once again we were out
in force w i th four teams i n
a l l , finishing 6th of 12 i n
the 1st d iv is ion, and 7th,
14th and 19th of 24 in
d iv is ion 2. Besides those
who appeared on Satur
day there were R. H a r
rington, W . Co l l ins , M i k e
Wel ford , Ash l ey Cooper
and R o b Madd i son , There
was some evidence of a
recurrence of our tradi
t ional packing-at-the-back
wi th eight in the last 30.
F i rs t back was P a u l C la rke
at 29 th in 31m 03 fol low
ed by R o b A l l i s o n (34th)
in 31m 18. Dave Payne
(who demanded a men
tion) was 69th in 33m 15,
and is doubtless bui ld ing
up for an attack on his
personal best of 29m 30.
Ian E l l i s and P h i l Mey ler
starred i n their first
league race at 59th equal
(almost) in 32m 39. A l s o
mak ing a successful . first
appearance was the H o n
orary Foo tba l l w i th its at
tendant Officer.
Pad said I should find
something good to say
about h i m this t ime: we l l
. . . he finished . . .
U . J .
C o n t i n u e d f r o m page 4
bitterly hostile to us. B u t we do be
lieve that we can give many left-wing
ers hope — a realistic way forward for
bui ld ing a strong IC Un i on with left
policies, and support from the students
to make them work.
In the immediate future we hope to
fight for our views in the U n i o n , help
formulate policies for the Broad Left
both here and nationally and sell and
contribute to the B road Left Journa l
(on sale soon). In the long term we hope
to transform the union, w i th an active,
fighting, left leadership and more im
portant an active, fighting, th inking,
rank and file!
Trevor Phi l l ips, Chem. 3. John Por
ter, Me ta l lu r gy—P/G. Pau l Watk ins ,
Mech . Eng . P/G. J o h n Lane , Maths ,
P/G. Pam Mou l t , Bot II. Ruper t Har
per, Mech . Eng . I. D o u g Farmer , Mech
III. R o b i n F incham, Ind. Sociology.
Les Dickens, Physics 3. John R. Thorn-
back, Chem. II. M i c k W i l l i ams , Chem.
Eng . P/6. A l f Perry, C i v . Eng . 3. H . a l -
M o h a m m e d . Mech . Eng . A . S. A l - Ta i e ,
Chem. Eng. M . M . Salek, Aero . C a l l u m
Thomas, Zoology. Pete Canne l l . Maths
M . C . Pennington, Bot 3. M a r t i n D ig -
weed, Bot 3. N u a l a Moore . Bot 3. A t t o
W a r d . Bot. 3. Chery l C . Cashman, Bot.
3. A . Gi l l ies Bot. 3.
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1973
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