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So with only 10 weeks of the summer term left we call on not the first choice Jack™. Not even the second choice. Jack IF". But the third string, Jack III™. Yes Jack IIF" was sat in the balcony stuffing his face with a Veggy roll from The Cafe, when Neil Andrews in his last starring role as leader of the LSE's opposition, the Balcony, said, "hold the front page there's no Jack™". Which really messed things up later when the UGM suffered a puncture and we couldn't change the tyre.
Yes the UGM suffered a puncture. A pretty severe one! There was no air in the thing at all, no hot air, no nothing. Constitutionally speaking, Ron Voce the new chair of Constitution and Steering, was a pain in everyone's Standing Orders. It was quite obvious to the 50 or so "hacks" that the meeting was inquorate, and should be closed, but Voce found some way of keeping it going so the hardy perennials could have, what could loosely be called, a meeting of 50 members of the Union. That is those who would rather sit in the Old Theatre on a lovely sunny day, when they could be outside getting a tan!
Talking of tans. There was a guy from the Timex factory in Scotland who wanted to say something and as we were not a UGM we let him and very eloquently he made his case. Jack Iir^" was expecting the usual hard left diatribe and obviously so were the Tories. But this guy spoke honestly and without rhetoric. So much so that even the initial Tory hecklers listened intently. Maybe UGM's should be like this all the time, casual, calm and with no paper aeroplanes! But would they still be fun? Recent history dictates a relationship between fun and UGM attendance, so me thinks normal service will be resumed ASAP in October!
Three other small announcements. Peter Harris, you know that sabbatical who
does........ummm.........well........thingy, said
that calling executive meetings wasn't his job, but as no one still knows after a year what his job is, maybe Leandro Moura will find out next year and tell us. Kate Hampton, the tall flufly bunny rabbit who has to loose a couple of kilos to be a model, made the first "new" executive speech and Jack in™ is in no doubt it will not be the last from 1992/3's Beavers Pushy Fresher of the Year. Oh and non-honorary student Andy Baly made another speech on the LSE 3, but we all new the score, or at least thought we did!
So as we trudged away from the Old Theatre at about 1.15 back through the crowds of Houghton Street, who we abused because they should be more active and have come to the meeting, after all Faz Zahir had advertised it! As we wandered into the Tuns we realised that unlike the night before, the opposition were not going to be given a penalty, get elbowed in the /ace or get shitfaced in the pub afterwards. Forget World Cup qualifiers against Holland, hacking is dead, it is no more it has ceased to be. Whether we are still in mourning for the late DSG and the late departed Bob Gross who can tell. The season is nearly over people are in the Library cause they think their degrees are nearly over and Where's a Russian linesman when you want
All right, now the translation. The UGM didn't happen. Quelle Horreur! mais pas de surprise!. Well as ever, the first one of the summer term was not quorate and just so you don't turn up next week to try and make up for it, don't bother, they've stopped. So now concentrate on your exams and if your one of the lucky ones that's coming back next year don't forget to turn up the first week back for the first UGM it should be fun. New faces and new targets plus the old stagers. Oh yes and Jack' " will be there reporting on it for you in his/her/ its inimitable style.
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IS ASHWORTH OFF HIS TROLLEY?
It was announced this week that John Ashworth had landed a position with Sainsburys PLC, the supermarket chain, as a Non-Executive Director. He currently holds a similar position at Granada Group PLC. Leaving aside the arguments as to whether the Director of the School has the time to devote to business activities outside the School, there has been much speculation as to what the benefits may be for the
LSE and its students. As one undergraduate commented could we soon be the recipients of a grand Sainsburys' Wing much like that at the National Gallery, perhaps housing improved catering facilities? Or will we in fact find the Underground being turned into an Eight Till Late, Shopping Saver Centre?
Beaver Staff.
On the 1st of January 1993, as reported in the Beaver last term, the LSE Foundation was founded with its sights set on raising £40 million for the School. Getting the money over the next five years is the provisional target of the Second Century Campaign. Although it has been initially set up to act as a Development Office for the School as a whole, in the short term the Foundation's most important function will be to run the Campaign. The Director of the Foundation, Howard Raingold, sees student involvement as crucial."It is extremely important to have student support for the LSE's campaign," he said; "it sends an important signal to former students and it enables students to participate in the School's future plans". He feels that students can have the opportunity to be first-rate ambassadors for the School, and will also gain "an insight into development work and other areas of the School's activity". Mr Raingold stressed that "students are what the
"students are what the place is all about"
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place is all about and, along with donors, they are our most important constituency". Student involvement in the Campaign has been assured by the creation of an 1895 Group, named after the year in which the School was founded by Sidney and Beatrice Webb. This group will elect students to serve office for each academic year to help with the fundraising. It will also organise entertainments and activities on its own budget. Anyone interested in finding out about what the 1895 Group does, or who is interested in joining the Group, should contact Simon Pennington at the LSE Foundation on 071 955 7850.
By Emma Bearcroft
Write on!
Simon Curran, from the LSE, was one of 4 runners up who won a prize of £1000 and the chance to spend two weeks in a London law firm, in a national student essay writing competition; the overall winner was Oxford undergraduate Charles Mindenhall. Simon had to write his essay in response to the question "Should the City be allowed to regulate itself?" The contest was jointly run by The Guardian newspaper and the City firm Lovell White Durrant. The prizes were presented to the winners by Lord Scarman on the 5th of March, during a lunch at the Savoy Hotel.
LILLEY DOES IT AGAIN
It could happen to anyone.
It was shown last week that the pressure ofbeingexamined can get to anybody. As reported in the national press, Peter Lilley, who is currently Secretary of State for Social Security, was answering questions in front of a Parliamentary committe. When asked what his job title was, he replied that he was working for the Department for Trade and Industry!
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Deaville Gets Off To A Bad Start
Justin Deaville, the Student Union Entertainments and Societies Officer-elect gave entertainments at the LSE another blow last week by not attending the most important NUS event of an Ents Officer's year, the NUS Ents Convention at Oxford Brooke University. The convention is the main, possibly only, chance for sabbaticals and other students involved in Ents to make contacts with promoters and managers within the entertainments industry and with other sabbaticals and event-holders. It also provides a major forum for viewing new bands and even making Fresher's Week bookings.
the contacts they made there will undoubtedly prove invaluable
Members of the Ents Committee who attended the conference say that the contacts they
made there will undoubtedly prove invaluable, a claim backed up by Ents sabbaticals past and prest.nt. Another important feature of the convention was the advice given on how to avoid problems at events, legal issues involved in entertainments and the swapping of horror-stories with other Ents managers. Ron Voce, who took Deavilles place at short notice said: "I found it really useful and I'm not even an entertainments sabbatical."
"I found it really useful
and I'm not even an entertainments sabbatical."
Deaville informed Jonathon Bradburn, current Entertainments and Societies Officer, that he was unable to attend the conference a couple of weeks previously, claiming that he would be away at that time and so not available. However, on the Saturday of the convention Deaville was seen around the LSE by several independent witnesses. When confronted with this, Deaville
denied it completely, saying: " I was away on that day."
"I was away on that day."
He refused to change this position when challenged with the fact that he was definitely seen to have been in college. Deaville justified his non-attendance by saying that a Rag Conference he had attended, in his capacity as Rag Chair, had not been particularly useful, and that the importance of the conference to his position had not been made clear to him.
Quasar is a most excellent game.
Also over the Easter holidays. Finance and Services Officer-elect Lola Elerian was unable to attend the NUSSL conference, due to the fact that she lives overseas. Her place was taken by Marie Darvill, a member of the Finance and Services Committee next year.




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EQUALITY FOR ALL
Ralph Wilde, an LSE undergraduate, is one of three men currently challenging the UK law on the age of consent for homosexual men. As it presently stands men have to be 21 before the law recognizes them as being free to have gay sex.
Ralph and his colleagues are appealing to the European Court of Human Rights to obtain a ruling which would force the UK Government to reduce this to 16, thus bringing it inline with heterosexual and lesbian ages of consent.
Wilde hopes to ammend a statute which "does nothing but stigmatize homosexuality."
The Three are being backed in their attempts by the Stonewall Group which fights for gay rights. Having introduced their case to the European court, the men are now waiting for the Government to reply by the November deadline.
Should the response prove unfruitful, then the case will be argued in court by the Three's barrister Peter Duffy, who is also editor of The European Human Rights Reports. Currently the British law is out of line with the rest of Europe where the age for
consenting gay sex is predominately 16.
To highlight their action the Three held a press conference early in April at the Cadogan Hotel in Knightsbridge, which coincided with the 98th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's arrest there for indecency. Amongst those present was the actor Sir Ian McKellen. The event was reported in the national press and lead to interviews on national and local radio as well as a TV appearance on the BBC Good Morning program. It is anticipated that a special one hour documentary for Channel 4 will also be made.
Wilde hopes that they will be successful in amending a statute which "does nothing but stigmatize homosexuality." He suggested that a reduction in the age limit may be a step in the right direction towards reducing Aids cases amongst young homosexual men, by recognizing their right to engage in sexual relationships, thus eliminating any shame or fear they may have about coming forward to receive medical advice.
Wilde made the point that the Gay Liberation Front had actually been formed at the School back in 1970. It is hoped that as part of Equality week in October the School will host some events to highlight the current prejudices against gays, this will include the raising of a petition.
Talking about attitudes towards homosexuality generally in the LSE, Wilde acknowledged that he had been the target of homophobic abuse from a tiny section
of the Butlers Wharf community during the recent Presidential elections there; however this had been "countered by a backlash from the majority who seemed
appalled by the campaign." Likewise he hoped that "what I am doing will make people realise that it is possible at the LSE to be honest with yourself and other
people without the fear of any hassle or discrimination that you cannot deal with."
Philip Comm.
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Cold and Frustrated.
Daniel O'Riordan returns from Szeged, Hungary.
Hungary left me cold and frustrated. Whether this was something to do with the pervasive sense of desolation and greyness common to most of Eastern Europe during winter months, or something deeper, I'm still not sure. I had read Hungarians were highly educated, but when it came to serious analysis of politics and economics, the students of Szeged University seemed disinterested. Maybe this represents their distrust of concepts which have been manipulated and warped to suit the doctrine of the day. What they lacked in analysis, they certainly made up for in hospitality, and they were great hosts.
Szeged itself is typical of many provincial university towns and just as tedious. Its main claim to fame was a great flood at the turn of the century which destroyed most of the town; in a great gesture of misguided magnanimity European powers subsidised its rebuilding and wasted an opportunity to rid the world of another self-important intellectual backwater. Nevertheless, it exists and we were based there.
The highlight of our Szeged stay was a visit to the Csongrad refugee camp. We travelled by local bus service and three hours we meandered through sad non-descript villages and bleak countryside where a fresh snowfall began to cover the black soil. This region has the highest suicide rate of all Hungary, and the Hungarians have one of the highest suicide rates in the world! From Csongrad town to the disused military camp is a 10 minute taxi ride. Today this is home to 500 Muslim Bosnian refugees, living in converted barracks. The camp is funded by the United Nations and administered by local Hungarians, whose dedication and kindness are prbfoundly obvious. Their outrage at the barbarism across the border into ex-Yugoslavia is palpable.
Most of the refugees came from one village near Tusla in Eastern Bosnia. There is a great sense of shared pain but surprisingly little sense of anger. In a smoke filled room the elected village leader (a tall heroic young man),
told us via an interpreter how his people had been forced from their village. On a spring morning last year Serb troops marched into their village and by evening had rounded up the entire population. As they were led away from their village, they could see their Mosque and other
buildings go up in flames. The last memory of their village was looking back from the opposite riverbank as flames licked the darkening sky. Most personal items were left behind apart from small parcels of clothes wrapped in blankets. We were handed a statement in English detailing in horrific terms the suffering they had already endured.
Adults and children were incarcerated in a Serbian concentration camp in squalid conditions before finally reaching Hungary under U.N. protection. When they arrived in Csongrad they hadn't bathed for over six months, were malnourished and stripped of all humanity and hope. Children were confused, listless and sick; parents felt the pain in the pit of their stomach at their inability to help. Some died, either through mistreatment or suspension of all hope. Faith and a burning desire to return to their beloved village sustained most.
Indoors, older refugees lay in bunk beds in warm cosy dormitory rooms. People smiled and shook hands as we passed. The walls were hung with magazine pictures of snow-capped mountains and burning sunsets. Radios and TV sets donated by the French blared out, the sound mingling with the prayers from the make-shift Mosque across the corridor. The day we arrived at the Csongrad camp was cold, with intermittent snowfalls; yet groups of children boisterously played volleyball, using an imag^ary net; others played football in the overgrown army football pitch; there are insufficient resources to allow these children to attend the camp school full-time, so groups alternate mornings and afternoons. I befriended a little boy of six or so and donated my Chicago Bears baseball cap which he accepted with smiling gratitude. I jokingly nick-named him A1 Capone and his fiaends joined in the fun; I hope young A1 is still smiling. For most of the adults, there is no education or training due to pressure on resources.
Of course, these children and adults alike are living in a political and geographical vacuum. Whatever the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic may say about refugees returning to their homes after the war - and certainly the aspirations of these people were to return to their village - it
seemed clear to me that this dream would prove illusory. Whole villages are being dynamited and reduced to rubble; the history and culture of vast areas are being rewritten in blood and lies.
The U.N. believes 1.8 million Bosnians - 40% of the population - are already refugees. They are unlikely ever to go back to their homes, even if they are still standing: Serbians will never again live with Croats and Muslims. We were now enervated by Szeged and decided to leave. We travelled by tain back up the great plain North to Budapest
For the great revolutionary capital, the disintegration of the Communist past is symbolized by the proposed theme park of statues from the Communist era. Budapest has also become the Bangkok of Europe, generating a rich source of foreign currency for the small group of mafia-entrepreneurs who control the trade. There is a thriving gay scene in the "fin de siecle' spa hotels. Budapest has always been a beautiful and hedonistic city and today this hedonism is in full flourish.
Budapest is also a city of crass architecture (mainly post-war] and overwhelming traffic congestion; a city where the present is never far from a disturbing past. The Parliament building -described as a cross between a turkish bath and a gothic chapel - is both dazzling and gaudy. The images of the ornate wood panelling reflect ancient conquests as well as giving clues to future conflicts.
The Hungarian MP's we met came from the new right. They spoke about European Community membership as some kind of salvation, but recognised the difficult journey towards full membership. They also spoke with the zeal of a Thatcherite Treasury official about privatization and freeing-up of markets. Of course, of all the Comintern countries Hungary has always been the most market-orientated, without necessarily having been a bearpit of capitalism. There is an advancing business culture and a sizeable inward investment into regions such as Fejer in the Northeast - Ikea has a furniture factory there. Ford Motors produce fuel pumps, Phillips video recorders and Suzuki cars. Heinz has purchased a baby food
producer in the south, near Kesckemet.
Nevertheless, 20% of the population is agriculture based and the great heavy industries of the Comintern era are either inefficient or shut down. Housing is a msgor problem and there is a growing disaffection amongst many groups. As an example, the trade union movement was traditionally considered an arm of the state, but unemployment is changing the basis of organisation towards greater militancy. Hungarians are predominantly Roman Catholic and the old relationship of mutual respect between Church and the Communist state mechanism seems to have
done little damage to Church fortunes. Indeed, as with most ideological vacuums, the religion is the main beneficiary.
Most adults continue to be employed in some basic activity by state cooperatives or other large enterprises; there is also a deeply ingrained dual economy generating secondary incomes. Until recently full employment was guaranteed; now there is a shift towards 'efficient' employment. Many factories give a negative contribution to GDP and these are being allowed to close. The movement towards privatization seems unstoppable, no doubt fuelled by the banks of professional western
advisors who have set up shop in the plush diplomatic district of Budapest. Not all firms can be privatized; as with Russia some firms are either too rotten to sell or too big to shut down: preserving unsaleable eastern firms may be economically senseless, but it is politically unavoidable. Hungarian unemployment stands at 15% -it would be 40% without public sector subsidy. Hungary also has a serious problem of overseas indebtedness; if fiscal restraints are to be used to bring down this debt, the effects on economic regeneration will be most damaging.
Krakow? Exchange?
To all of you who had high aspirations and took all your books home with you during Easter break, but in actual fact returned with pristine vir-gincovers-why weren't youin Krakow? In the first week of the Easter hols four of us visited Krakow, the cultural hot-spot of Poland. A city full of live bands, excellent food, honey wine, unpredictable weather, generosity of spirit and never a bored moment.
The trip was organised by the Eastern European Society in the form of an exchange between the LSE (pondered by crowned scholar Mick
Jagger) and Krakow University (their representative being none other than Copernicus). We lived in student halls with our hosts, whom we accommodated four weeks earlier. This gave us the chance to get to know the students' life on a day-to-day basis. Thanks for showing us around without using the train once!
The schedule in Krakow was tight, events being organised both night and day; we visited Zakopane on a day excursion to the Tatu mountains; the former concentration camp in Auschwitz, an ancient saltmine in Wiclickza with a cathe-
dral and a pub next to a ten-nis-court 100m under the ground.And some of us who recovered fast enough from a heavy night went to Warsaw. Most of the time we spent exploring Krakow with its numerous museums, exhibitions, its Jewish quarter and some excellent theatres and bars in the Catacombs under the market square. So to all of you who plan to study next year through the Easter break, go to Krakow!
Satu King and Christoph Drewis
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- News	The
4th May 1993
LSE 3 VBSDICATED!
Ashworth HUMILIATEID!
Ron Voce reports on the end of a successful student campaign, or is it just beginning?
At 4.30pm
the LSE 3 were to be foimd in The
George in a totally euphoric mood.
Andy Baly, Mubin Haq and Steve Kinkee had found out only minutes earlier that on three of the four charges brought against them by the School, they had been found "not guilty". On the other charge of 'entering the Senior Dining Room improperly' they were "guilty". But they had not denied this at the original hearing last term. For this guilty charge, they were all given a written warning. The mood was very buoyant and cheerful, but at the start of the week it had all been different.
^"we've undergone lalot of stress over \zvhat has been noved to he a Iw asteoftime.l'm K)ery happy, but \very disappointed'' V.Baly
The start of the week had seen a wave of activity by the "Three" to organise a picket on Wednesday 28th April, in the afternoon, before the commencement of the hearing in the Vera Anstey Room. Rumours were circling that at best only one would be expelled, another, more extreme that they all would be!
The picket went ahead peacefully and very vocally with between 75 and 100 students present. At just after 2.00pm the "Three" thanked the students for their support and went into the disciplinary hearing knowing that at least they had helped mobilise the student body at the time of year when exams and sun worship are more important than demonstrations.
1 "Asworth was tryingtosetaprec-edent that going on a demo would lead to a disciplinary, our vindication todayhas [stopped this." 1 S.Kinkee
Unfortunately, the meeting was closed and so very little information leaked out. Even when the
meeting ended, the silence was still maintained. The "Three" were beginning to feel slightly more reassured as the "evidence" was being shown to be flimsy at best. They assured their supporters that it would all be over on Thursday and they would be vindicated.
"If this was lAshworths attempt to get back into Peter Lilley's \good books then I he failed. The eggs are on your face lAshworth! There will be more demonstrations at \ LSE now!" \M.Haq
Thursday arrived and there was no picket and only hard core supporters in Houghton Street. The nearly 1000 name strong petition was still there in Houghton Street, to show all who passed by, how many students felt. We were assured that today it would all be over. The charges were being shown to be ludicrous and earlier than expected, in an anti-climax, at about 4.15pm, it was all over.
"No big surprise, they were always \ going to get off, weren't they!" D.Crook
The LSE 3, although guilty of 'entering the Senior Dining Room improperly', were completely exonerated of conduct
Steve Kinkee, Mubin Haq and Andy Baly (I-r) at the picket on Wednesday, defending YOUR right to protest! ^__Photo:Navin Reddy
"detrimental to the Schools purpose or reputation". The School was unable to prove that any of them had been involved in the Peter Lilley "incident", or that by doing so they had brought the School into disrepute, by affecting possible financial donors or visits by prominent guests and politicians. They were also unable to prove that any of the "Three" had interfered with the Schools right to free speech.
The LSE 3 case may now be over but it has raised various
questions over the student's right to demonstrate. The Schools desire to present an "image" to the outside world, one that the student body only seem to upset and how little regard the School has towards students who are actually prepared to make a stand on issues. The School has to realise that being at University is not just about obtaining your degree but is an education in life as well. There are somethings worth defending and LSE students will always defend these rights.
Defendents (background) Haq, Baly and Kinkee mix uneasily with 'prosecution' witness (foreground) Dairen Crook and Phoebe Ashworth outside the Vera Ansley room last Wednesday. ___________________________Photo: Navin Reddy
All that glitters is not gold!
We were all concerned about the welfare of the three students involved in the Peter Lilley affair. The Union offered them the support of the welfare staff and the chance to apply for NUS legal advice. However, I do not think that the welfare of the students has been best served by some parts of the defence campaign for reasons that I will now set out.
Firstly, the campaign from a legal point of view, did not have the best interests of the three at heart. I believe this was because the campaign, dominated by the Socialist Worker Party and the extreme left, contained so much hype and had an image of martyrdom as its central feature.
Secondly, I think that the hyped-up campaign distorted the facts. The School had the difficult task of compiling evidence from thirty witnesses, and the Clerk of the Disciplinary Panel was careful to make evidence available to prosecution and defence at the same time. It was nowhere near as bad as the campaign was pretending.
The panel that judged the case had a membership of two randomly selected students and two randomly selected academics. The School pursued the case with full respect for procedure.
The individuals have not been punished for crimes of the crowd. I vaguely remember a South African injustice where members of a crowd were punished because other, unidentified, members of the crowd had committed murder. In the LSE Three case, although not everyone present could be identified, those that were identified have only been judged in connection with their own personal actions.
Thirdly, in my opinion, the LSE Three were never going to be expelled. If a member of the public comes to the LSE and has an egg thrown at them, we should not be surprised that the authorities would want to take some action. We would be surprised if anyone was expelled, but whoever suggested that? The School never said it wanted to expel, and I always knew they would not. The issue of expulsion has only been mentioned in one place and that is in the propaganda put out by the "defence campaign".
I fear that SWP and the extreme left have stooped to their lowest by launching a recruitment and publicity campaign on the backs of these three students. This can be the only explanation for the prominent feature of the campaign: the portrayal of martyrdom. I am not suggesting that the Three deliberately pursued martyrdom, but rather that the core "defence campaign" hoped to fabricate a public perception of martyrdom.
Finally, I think the name itself, "LSE Three", is an insult to the genuine cases of injustice perpetrated by the British Criminal justice system. To allude to the level of suffering endured by the Tottenham Three, for example, is a disgrace.
In conclusion, we must be concerned about the welfare of the LSE Three. We would be very concerned if they had been expelled, but that was never likely to happen. We should, however, be disturbed that cei-tain elements of the Union have launched a political campaign on the basis of hype and distortion.
I am delighted that this whole affair is over. From the moment that the Socialist Workers launched their "peaceful protest" against Peter Lilley, this sad story has shown the worst the Students' Unions can be. The student body has rightly expressed concern for the welfare of three students, but I urge you all to look again at elements of the campaign surrounding them.
Peter Harris (EOP's Sab) In a personal capacity
4th May 1993_The BeaMer	Travelog - 7
Summer-time-to-Travel
The world famous, globe trotting, Beaver Editor gets to grips with a few tantilising travel temptations for the vacation.
With summer just around the corner, and this being the last Beaver of the academic year it seemed necessary to give air time, as it were, to various schemes available to all of those wanting to travel or earn or both in the coming months. The following is a short summary of pointers and ideas of where to get ideas, and also covers some interesting schemes for those of you looking for something completely different.
Second year undergraduates throughout the UK will have the chance to gain valuable work experience with local small companies this summer. You are being offered the opportunity to participate in the 1993 Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP) which matches undergraduates who have completed their second year of university with small firms who need a
project implemented.
Students who are accepted on the programme will be paid £100 a week (tax free!) over the eight week placement which takes place during July and August. Each student must complete a specified project, details of which are presented to a panel of local judges. Winners will have the chance to progress to the National STEP Final, where awards will be made and the overall winner voted 'Britain's most enterprising student'.
For further information contact the University Careers Office.
For something completely different SAS Scandinavian Airlines is to introduce a twice-weekly service from Heathrow to Tromso, the Arctic capital in the Land of the Midnight Sun, 200 miles inside the Arctic circle. These regular flights are available between May 27th and
August 30th, and there is a special fare of £170 for students. Accommodation is available at a number of hotels, and there are packages available through ABTA travel agents. For more information contact Guy Mansell on 071 379 5387.
Thomas Cook has launched it's 1993 Greek Island Hopping Guide catering for well estab-Ushed Grecophiles and the first time visitor. Aimed at the more independent traveller, the guide covers all aspects of travel relating to the Greek Islands. It is priced at £9.99 and can be obtained at any Thomas Cook outlet.
And those nice people from Council Travel, America's largest student, youth and budget travel group are planning a big summer travel bonanza. There are budget air fares to almost any destination. Although specialist in the
USA, they also deal comprehensively in European and World travel, and complete 'Round the World' itineraries can be personally constructed.
Look out for Council Travel information posters or phone 071 287 3337.
One extremely interesting guide which I received a few weeks ago now is by a travel author called Jim Haynes. He has put together a series of travel books called 'People to People'. The title clearly states the aim of the books. They contain none of the usual tourist information that can be found in most guide books: no museums or galleries, no lists of hotels or restaurants, no suggestion what to see or what to do, and no potted histories. Instead, in each book, you are introduced to over 1000 individuals who live, work, play in the villages, towns, and cities of the countries featured. The
people are of all ages and all professions. They want to meet you and show you how they live, introduce you to their favourite restaurants, to share their friends and interests with you. It is an excellent idea for a cheap travel guide, which opens many possibilities for grass roots understanding of a country and its people.
It is printed by Canongate Press, and each title in the series costs just £4.95.
And no travelogue would be complete without a mention of the ever popular Inter-Rail, the international railway travel pass, which is celebrating its 21st birthday this year. In this time more than 5.5 million have been sold. The 1993 Inter-Rail card offers one month's unlimited rail travel in 26 countries for £249, and is available to all British residents aged up to 26. There is even a new 'adult' version which
caters for the 26+ age group. For more information telephone 071-8342345.
And finally, one word of advice: if you are travelling far away from loved ones, and intend on stajring for some time, then remember to always placate them before you leave. The promise of loads of prezzies often does the trick, and make sure you phone and say;"I miss you," at least three times a week, if you can obtain a BT Chargecard and pay for them when you get back. However it is easier on the budget if they can phone you, but that depends on the relationship, you know. Have fun, but make sure you're back in time for tea, it's fiTjit salad tonight!
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8 - Opinions	The Bea^¦:fer	4th May 1993
THE BEAVER
Hands up if you think that the Beaver has no influence. Last week saw the acquittal of the so called 'LSE 3' after 3 days of disciplinary hearings. Obviously the embarrassingly weak evidence that the school obtained was the major contributor to their vindication. But ask yourself: if it weren't for the lead article coverage of the incident entitled 'Scapegoats' in issue 378, and the public demonstration on Houghton Street on Wednesday, then it is very likely that the very politically sensitive decisions would have gone against three insignificant students. It can only be encourag ing that the student's of the LSE do possess some means of leverage, and that a certain amount of emotion can still be turned into positive action, as was witnessed on Wednesday What I find disturbing is that the cases ever went ahead in the first place. Leaving aside the accusations for one moment, there was always a powerful political motive lurking behind the action taken by the school. Even if the accused were proven guilty I would hardly have expected th punishment to equal the crime. I would be very doubtful if Peter Lilley even remembers the incident!
However, no doubt we will still be criticised. But as one of a few students who toil every week to keep LSE informed, and alive perhaps, I am becoming resigned to the fact that unless we provoke what is coming to be a very predictable response from certain camps at LSE, then we have failed. Failed that is to report anything of any interest, failed to create any imagination, failed to elicit any response, and most painfully, failed to maximise the very hard work put into this newspaper each week by a handful of committed students.
I am certain that there are people at LSE who have real potential and interest in journalism, and everyone would benefit from their involvement on the paper. We are trying to develop, as you can probably tell from the content of this issue. I am also certain that there are people at LSE who continually criticise this newspaper for it's content and forn I have no time for these people.
This is a special edition: and it is the last before the prerequisite spoof edition in a few weeks time. We have exams too, and although they are, at times, sacrificed to produce The Beaver, the lack of a sabbatical editorial post requires i break in our transmission.
There are the first of many new features in this issue, an attempt by us to inject more facts and more thought into th( newspaper. We always want more writers, to give us more scope. It's like sex really: you can either do nothing and watch others get involved, or you can take a leading part yourself I know which I'd prefer.
The Beaver would have liked to have brought you a preview of the coming exam papers, but unfortunately our intrepid reporter was captured entering the Old Building's Safe. Ho Hum, have a nice vacation!
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Accommodate This Ludwig
I am writing in response to Mr Ludwig Kanzler's leter which appeared in Issue number 378. Mr Kanzler's letter concerned the proposal to provide student residential accommodation on a site located at the junction of High Holbom and Drury Lane.
Mr Kanzler is incorrect in claiming that there has been a lack of consultation concerning the concept and design of the proposed development. A group has met to give the Developer's Architect advice on use and design. This group includes the Chairman of the Inter-Halls committee, student representatives of the halls, the General-Secretary of the Student Union, and the hall bursars. The design achieved draws on the School's recent experience with the Butler's ¦Wharf and Myddelton Street
developments. Consultation with the users and with the Bursars has permitted the inclusion of many practical features in the specification which would improve the development's capability of satisfying residents and vacation visitors.
The provision of new student residential accommodation does not presently feature in the remit of the Inter-Halls Committee. There is, however, a Steering Committee for New Student Residential Accommodation Projects and it is to this committee that the group mentioned above reports, the Inter-Halls Committee Chairmen attende meetings of the Steering Committee. Arrangements for the School committee structure as a whole are currently under consideration by a Working Group of the Academic Board.
Yours sincerely,
R J Smith
Assistant Secretary
What The Fax Is Going On Up At Passfield?
Dear Sir,
I would like to draw your attention to the hostile attitude of the Passfield Hall bursar towards resident students.
I would like to elaborate on this by letting you know of the treatment meted out to me, yesterday, by Miss Jill Martin, the hall bursar.
I had to fax a letter and it was rather urgent. Miss Martin, on receiving the material to fax, asked for the requisite £4. I obliged her, upon which she gave me the receipt. She tried a couple of times to fax the letter,
without success.
Miss Martin then refused to give me my money back and became extremely rude. Quoting her "I am charging you for the time I spent in faxing the letter."
I am appalled at the distressing attitude of a staff member of the highly reputed London School of Economics and Political Science, and I am sure you will take some action.
Daud Ahmed Dard
Ed:-1 have come up against the very same Marginal Propensity to piss off students at my own residence. Butlers Wharf Obviously this is a prerequisite personality defect for most hall staff Perhaps we should set up our own Jobsworth award each week, a la Esther Rantzen's 'That's Life'. So THE BEAVER is proud to present Miss Martin of Passfield Hall the very first apostle of unhelpfulness award. Well done!
Poste Haste Letters to the Editor must reach E197 by 6pm on Wednesdays.
In India They Abort Girls
'When the issue is sex selection, it's called feticide'; otherwise it's a woman's right to choose" Fazile Zahir
By insisting upon the right of every woman to have an abortion feminists and pro-choice activists have opened a Pandora's box. Currently in India (and no doubt in the rest of the Asian subcontinent, many Islamic countries and certainly in China) an updated version of female infanticide is being practised. Amniocentesis is a medical procedure used to detect fetal abnormalities, it almost always reveals the sex of the unborn child. In a society which prizes sons Indian doctors consider this to be a side benefit. A doctor recently quoted in the Indian Express said;
"Yes, I do sex determination tests. It's better for an unwanted girl not to be bom than to suffer later."
In India being female is an economic handicap. A girl must be married off a great expense (the custom of dowry, whilst outlawed in 1961, is still widespread) after which time she is virtually lost to her family. Anything she earns belongs to her in-laws and they are only likely to see her a few times a year in strained formal visits. The more daughters they have the worse off they become. It is no wonder that sex-selection clinics have become big business, abortion is the option if the sex of the unborn child is 'wrong'.
As amniocentesis has become widely available in india it has become increasingly controversial. Feminists won the fight against sex-selection in the state of Maharashtra where the procedure is now out-
A seemingly endless wait for legal recognition of their rights: Women in Karachi
lawed for any but strictly defined medical reasons. Women there must be at least 35 years old or have a medical history that suggests the possibility of a genetic disease. But surely this victory will be one of relatively few, for the feminist position on this issue is illogical and inconsistent.
The feminists believe that it is wrong to abort babies just because they are girls. In making their arguments pro-choice activists use highly emotional terms like feticide' and grim statistics (according to one study 7,999 out of 8,000 cases of abortion in Bombay involved female foetuses.) Whilst these figures are distressing it must be bom in mind that feminists all over the world are speaking paradoxically. If the issues are sex determination and the selective abortion of girls, they call it female feticide. But when the issue is reproductive freedom and the abortion of both male and female foetuses they
prefer to call it a "woman's right to choose." So the conundrum remains -do feminists accept abortion or not?
The basic principle of the Abortion on Demand movement is that the decision to abort should rest entirely with the woman. No special interest group or individual (i.e the church or her lover) should have any say in the matter. Free choice means exactly that - the woman chooses. Yet some mothers, especially those in countries and cultures where males are highly prized, have very legitimate reasons for believing that giving birth to a girl is unacceptable. Who has the right to tell them that they are wrong? No traditional feminist should dare: it would be the equivalent of telling the mother of a haemophiliac that she should carry the pregnancy to term.
'Selective' is the term used to describe the specific targeting of girls for abortion. But which abortion is not selective?
The handicapped foetus of the mother who only wants a perfect baby, the unplanned baby of a mother who wants total control of her life - all of these babies can be 'selectively' aborted. The only difference in each case is the mother's view of what is acceptable and what is not.
Feminists have no moral standing from which to speak out against the selective abortion of girls. In doing so they become a special-interest group like the church or the state. They deliberately try to prevent women from exercising the right to choose. Once it is permitted to abort some foetuses for some reasons, why is it not permitted to abort for any reason? Perhaps the fact that it is morally wrong to abort a baby simply because she is a girl points to the truth that it is wrong to abort a baby at all. If this is not the case then perhaps it is time feminists realised that 'fi:ee choice' does mean just that.
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The
Feature - 9
Whose war is it anyway?
The European Community and the United Nations pose as peacemakers in Yugoslavia. But it was Western interference which exploded a local conflict there into a barbarous civil war, argues Suke Wolton.
This week it was the Generals who appeared to put the brakes on the bombs for Yugoslavia. The confusion about intervention in Bosnia, what form it should take and who should execute it, reveals more about the tensions between the Western powers than it explains the situation on the ground.
This year, the Western powers seem to have found it harder and harder to agree on a united approach to the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. When David Owen and Cyrus Vance put forward their plan for a peace deal between the warring factions. President Clinton's advisers treated it as an appeasement of Serbian aggression. Now that the Vance-Owen Peace Plan is in tatters on the ground, the Clinton administration are using its failure as justification for bomb threats.
Since the Yugoslav civil war began in 1991 there has been a continuous debate in the West about how to respond, with different powers proposing different solutions. Meanwhile there has also been a steady escalation in the war, to the point where it could become a wider Balkan conflict, dragging in Greece and Turkey.
Many observers say that the reason for the escalation is that the West has not intervened decisively enough. But a brief survey of the role of the main Western powers suggests that Western intervention itself has made the war worse. Each Western power has its own agenda in relation to Yugoslavia. The conflict arising among them has been the main factor intensifying the war.
American foreign policy is motivated by the desire to maintain its status as the leading world power. As the New York Times put it; "A win in the Balkans would establish American leadership in the post-cold war period in a way that operation Desert Storm never could." As the country with the most to lose from any reorganisation of the world order, the USA's first instinct is always to keeps
American leadership in the post-cold war period in a way that operation Desert Storm I never could."
things as they are. So when the conflict in Yugoslavia began, the Americans argued for maintaining the unity of the country. However since Germany asserted its authority in the region, by unilaterally recognising the breakaway republics of Croatia and Slovenia at the start of 1992, US policy has been dictated by the attempt to keep Germany in its place. The Americans have consistently argued that whatever Germany and Europe are doing in Yugoslavia, it is not enough.
I "A win in the Balkans would establish
America first tried to seize back the initiative from Germany by forcing through the West's recognition of Bosnian independence in the spring of 1992. This provocative act, which directly sparked off the war in Bosnia, was carried out even after US diplomats said it would be like pouring petrol on flames. Subsequently, Americans have said that the Vance-Owen plan sold out to the Serbs, and encouraged the Bosnian Muslims to cany on fighting. Each time a European power has produced some 'peace' initiative, America has stepped in to take-over by either demanding the job of enforcement (like air-strikes) or by rubbishing it in favour of its own plans. The USA certainly doesn't want to be drawn into a messy ground war. But as it has stepped up its intervention in a bid to stay at the head of the Western Alliance, it has heightened tensions and intensified conflicts within the former Yugoslavia.
Germany has played a more independent role in Yugoslavia than in any foreign policy issue since 1945. Its recognition of Croatia and Slovenia raised the civil war to its current intensity and made any
peaceful resolution more unlikely. It is an open secret that Germany has been arming the Croats, making it possible for them to launch their offensive against Serbian areas in Croatia in January and more recently in Bosnia in April.
Germany's role reflects its emergence as the main power in Europe. Because the Germans do not want to break with their past good relations with America, they have tried to get the USA and other European powers to agree with what they are doing. Nevertheless Germany's active intervention is forcing the other powers to respond, and so constantly raising the stakes.
As the weakest of the big Western powers, Britain is very ambivalent towards the Yugoslav conflict. On the one hand, it fears anj^hing which might accelerate the reorganisation of the world order and relegate it from the top table. So it shared America's initial desire to keep Yugoslavia in one piece, and has argued against more forceful Western intervention. On the other hand, Britain cannot afford to be left behind the rest of the Western powers. Since failing to stop Germany recognising Croatia, Britain has sought to show that it is still a major player by sending in troops and despatching an armada to the Adriatic.
Not to be completely sidelined, Britain has been working hard on the diplomatic front, first with Lord Carrington (who first resigned over the Falklands) and now with David Owen. The latest 'peace' plan by Owen and Vance has broken a cease fire each time they sit down to sign. The idea of carving up Bosnia into ethnically distinct regions is exactly what fuels the war. The Vance-Owen plan legitimates that process. The tragedy is that no distinct region existed over a year ago, and mixed marriages were more common (54%) than AK 47s.
In the meantime, Francois Mitterrand started the trend for flak-jacketed politicians to helicopter into the war zone and stir things up on primetime TV. France is also concerned that it might lose its seat at the top table. In
Where will the West strike next?
A week of discussion on the theme of the politics of militarism at TOWARDS 2000 23-29 Jidy 1993 ULU Malet StJ
International Demonstration and Festival against Racism, War and Western intervention.
Saturday 7 August 1993, central London. For details, phone Suke Wolton on 071 278 9908.

Victims of a war they did not want: Serbian refugees from Croatia in a former Pioneer camp in Belgrade:	Picture coutessey of Living Marxism
the past it has relied upon its role as a proxy for Germany. Now Germany is standing on its own feet, France fears that its international position will be undermined. Like Britain, it compelled to show its military strength where possible.
Apart from the main players, just about every Western nation and Russia has got involved. This is not because of concern for the people, but because in a changing world everybody wants to be where the action is, for fear of being discounted in whatever final arrangements emerge from the chaos.
In addition to their individual agendas, all Western nations have common concerns about the Yugoslav conflict. They fear that they will not be able to maintain a joint approach to the war. In the uncertain post-Cold war world, all are afraid of the consequences of a breakdown of international agreements. Yugoslavia, like the GATT Talks, has become the testing ground for Western cooperation.
Each Western power pursue its own agenda, but at the same time tries to accommodate those of its allies. This creates a dynamic thrust towards greater intervention. For example, Germany pursues a more expansionist foreign policy by recognising Croatia and
Slovenia. America responds, not by challenging Germany directly, but by accepting the recognition of Croatia, then trying to take back the initiative by recognising Bosnia - in poker terms, see you and raise you.
Other nations then make their bids for influence, a few thousand soldiers here, a relief convoy there, and finally a peace plan. At this point the USA steps in again to raise the stakes by calHng for the arming of the Bosnian Muslims. And so it goes on. At every stage there is an escalation of the conflict. While the West plays its power games, Yugoslavia bums.
Paradoxically, the West also fears the instability created by the war, hence the attempts at imposing a settlement. But each time a new initiative is pursued it raises the stakes on the ground. The more entangled the Western powers, the more it means there appears to be something worth fighting for in the woods of Bosnia. The prize, after Croatia and Slovenia, is a western sponsored satellite. Without the aid, the troops and the territorial 'peace' plans, there would be no prize and no battle over it. So the dynamic thrust towards greater Western intervention is bringing closer a more general Balkan war.
The war takes place against the background of an unstable world order, a world in transition. The resulting instability and insecurity affects every nation, informing discussions about world trade, the future composition of the UN Security Council or intervention in the third world. The tension between the Western power's desire for cooperation, and the need to pursue their own interests, explains why there is such a confused character to international relations today.
A conflict like that in Yugoslavia brings the tensions to the fore. The Western powers have to respond, but in responding they bring out their differences. Each then tries to impose its own agenda, while trying to minimise disagreements. The effect is always to increase Western interference, and so raise the stakes in the war.
The tragedy of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia is that they have become the pawns in a Great Power game which threatens to destroy them. The very last thing they need is further Western intervention. The only 'peace' that the West can create is that of an isolated refugee camp. The precondition for the end of the conflict is the end of Western involvement.
10 - Campus
Neil at the Bar
During the holidays there are a few students who stay in London and spend most of their time in the Library (Harrunph!). However I managed to track down two third years who've decided to reminise about their three years at the LSE and their futures.
First up is Neil Andrews, former Editor of The Beaver who is in the International History Department. I found him clinging onto his coke, his parka on, under the telly in the Three Tuns.
What are your fondest memories of your time spent at LSE?
Getting drunk on the last day of term after my first year exams, watching Nick Lambert's expression as Millwall beat Middlesborough 2-0 down the Den, getting pissed with Kev Green at the Wag Tequila party, being a founding member of 'Take That & Fuck Offl Gary's Pants doing so well in the Gen. Sec. elections, seeing Gerard pull his trousers down at the Rosebery Halloween dinner....
What do you most regret about your time here?
Standing for the post of Beaver Editor....
What will you miss most about LSE?
My friends.
What friends?
Well, you, of course Ron, Kev, maybe Faz, probably Min, possibly Kate Hampton, Mr. Longridge, and all the Rosebery posse and the dirtbox crew....but then, none of them talk to me anyway, they just pretend to be my frie...actually, they don't even pretend to be my friends. They all hate me.
You were very vocal last Wednesday during England's World Cup Qualifier clash with Holland and criticized the team. If you were England Manager, who would be in your World Class XI?
I would retain Woods as England Goalkeeper, purely because I don't believe there's anyone better around but as for the rest of the line-up, I would change it quite dramatically. For a start I would employ a sweeper system, and would therefore play a back four of Pearce, Walker, Colin Cooper and Rob Jones, with Glenn Hoddle as the spare man. His performances with Swindon since joining them have been superb and would warrant a place in any other international side. I also believe Cooper is far better than anything else England has on offer at the moment with the exception of Pallister. The Mid-Field would consist of Waddle, Gascgoine and Paul Ince, while the forward line would consist of Teddy Sheringham, probably the best forward in Britain at the moment and Les Ferdinand. As for the subs, that's anyone's guess.
It's a well dociunented fact that you're a great fan of the Wedding Present, Apart from Dave Gedge's combo, what other bands do you like?
Erm, Echo & the Bunnymen, Frank & Walters, the Housemartins, the Smiths, Morrissey, Jesus & Mary Chain, Blur, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr, James (before their last album), S***e, and any other indie band that sells a t-shirt.
What about Dannii Minogue?
She's getting married now so I've gone right off her....
What films have played a key role in your life?
The Italian Job, every Marx Brothers film ever made and Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door
What's your favourite catchphrase?
You just can't get the fucking staff these days!
What's Your Favourite Drink?
Erm, it varies, but Newcastle Brown is a safe bet.
What's Your Favourite Meal?
Steak (Medium Rare), fried eggs and chips. A real healthy option.
What do you plan to do next year?
(3o on holiday to Spain and Ireland with Chris Longridge and a few others and then see what turns up. I'll probably start my own record company up in honour of the Wedding Present.
Well Neil thanks. Theres nothing wrong with thinking big. But you forgot to mention the Job with Just 17 or the Wrights Mixed Grill, but you've had a pretty full 3 years. ! Good luck!
n
The BeaMer
4th May 1993
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LSE comes first and second in Time Out/K Cider/Campus Travel Quiz
Once again the London School of Economics has shown itself as the best academic institute in the whole of London, beating UCL, Kings and City.
Last Wednesday 2 teams from the LSE went to ULU, Palms bar to be precise, looked around, and conquered. Veni, vide ,vici if ever there was a case to plagiarise Caeser.
In the Lent term, the veterans from the Strongbow University Challenge team, Rob HickjNavin Reddy, NeilAndrews and me( Ron Voce ) were joined by Mr Pink aka Chris Longridge, and won through to the final of the Time Out/K Cider/Campus Travel Quiz.
They were joined by the bar staff of Marie Darvill, Caroline Barnes, Sue Pearse, James Brown and Nick Sitter. However by the time of the quiz their starting lineup had been reduced to Marie,Caroline and James, due to work and examination preasures, so Antonia Mochan stepped in to at least give them a fighting chance.
It wasn't needed, after the first round of current affairs both LSE teams were tenpoints behind. Rob Hick was quoted as saying" We've blown it!".
But all was not lost, a storming picture round and full marks on the general knowledge round put the LSE B team into 2 place, behind the bar staff,who were LSE A.
Yes the make shift team were holding their own, and in the final few roimds of Music, more general knowlage and a TV theme round, they looked as if they were going to win.
The suspense was starting to get to the two LSE teams, the LSE B had snuck ahead of LSE A and were beginning to think we'd got it but we were not sure.
The great Welsh question master left everyone in further suspense, because the quiz was over before the last two rounds were marked, so none of the teams could work out
Spot the odd ones out? There was definately 9 when we left ULU!
0-r, back row) Marie Darvill, Chiis Longridge, Jim Fagin?, Caroline Barnes and Ron Voce.
(1-r, front row) Neil Andrews, Rob Hick, Boggy?, Navin Reddy, James
Brown and Anotnia Mochan	Photo: K.Hampton
where they were in the quiz. As they announced the results in reverse order it became nailbiting time as the other teams from University of East London and others were rewarded for the efforts.
Eventually it came down to three and with a cheer we knew that LSE had come first and second, but which way round. Well the bar staff (LSE A) won the bomber jackets and the "Beaver "team (LSE B) won the train passes to France and Spain. You figure it out, we're all intelligent at the LSE you know!
Ron Voce
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Being Green that is!
Kate Hampton asks you to answer the following questions honestly:.
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1.	What does the environment mean for you?
a.	give a f*@k?
b.	something you pollute to get rich
c.	it should be protected but I can't do it
d.	a natural heritage with which we have been entrusted, to protect for future and present generations,
whether it costs us or not.
2.	Since last year, ozone depletion has Increased by 20%... Your reaction?	.
a.	what's ozone?
b.	get those aerosols out and kill it forever
c.	does that mean more simblock this year?
d.	it's symptomatic of our society's short-termism and high time to amend the Montreal Protocol.
3.	Biodegradable washing powder costs more... Do you
a.	wonder what Ijiodegradable" means
b.	relish the thought of lots of dead fish floating belly-up on the Thames
c.	decide after some thought that you are a student and can't afford it
d.	sacrifice a pint in order to pay the extra pound?
4.	Would you buy recycled toilet paper?
a.	no, it soimds disgusting
b.	no, you like the idea of an apocalyptic world without trees
c.	well European forests are sustainably managed (and it's itchy)
d.	of course, and non-chlorine bleached at that.
5.	You hear that the moratorium on whaling is repealed...
a.	what's a moratorium?
b.	good
e. you feel concerned
d. you spend your next holiday sabotaging Norwegian whaling vessels in a Greenpeace dingy.
6.	The Rio Summit was:
a.	an East-West arms deal
b.	a convention called by long-haired, dope-smoking radicals, but a good way to win votes
c.	proof that we all care, really
d.	a good idea in that it promoted awareness, but a failure in that Western governments were unwilling to commit themselves and many important issues weren't even on the agenda.
Notice the lack of Greens!
Photo: Ron Voce
7.	Environmentalists are:
a.	pass
b.	trendy social drop-outs who can't handle the real world
c.	laudable, but a bit too militant
d.	too rare.
8.	The rainforest is:
a.	a forest where it rains a lot
b.	a waste of space
c.	one of those things we should keep around because it's natural
d.	an invaluable natural reserve to be protected at all costs without depriving local peoples of their livelihoods, the last hope for biodiversity, the home of oppressed indigenous peoples, a climate-stabilizer, etc.
9.	You are sitting in the Tuns and have finished a can of Pepsi... Do you
a.	get up and leave
b.	fill it with plastic and bum it
c.	think it ought to be recycled
d.	take it to the Cafe to be recycled and start up a recycling campaign?
10.	A "Green Action" group is started up
a.	what for?
b.	oh God, how sad
c.	you give some money at Freshers' Fair but forget about it after the first meeting
d.	you started it.
Mostly A Not to worry, you just don't know anything. Maybe there is an environmentalist waiting to be born from deep within you (very).
Mostly B You are either Jonny Bradbum or a member of the 1st XV, and deserve to die of radiation sickness.
Mostly C Then you are of average greenery. Please consider giving me a hand...
Mostly D You are a liar. If, however, you answered in all honesty then I need your help...
This year and next, I will be trying to raise awareness on environmental issues, set up better recycling facilities at LSE, encourage the use of eco-friendly products and campaign for their availability at the Union Shop, promote environmentally-sound practices such as energy conservation and generally green the union, working in collaboration with other student action groups and more broad-based organisations.
If you are willing to help and can dedicate some time to this, whenever that may be, please write your name, address, phone number and course (indicating whether you will be here next year) on a loose sheet of paper, or on the questionnaire, and give it in at SU reception for them to put it in my pigeon-hole. Thanks.
Campus -11
Second up at the bar and sitting just around the comer, doing the Independent crossword, cryptic and concise, with the help of her sister, is Antonia Mochan, a former Womens Officer. Antonia is in the Government department
I'll dive straight in. Your drinking diet Pepsi and have been seen with Pimms, dry Cider and various other alcoholic beverages, what do you consider to be the most alcoholic drink you've tasted?
Johnny Bradbum's lethal punch. And remember, it's the fmit that gets you pissed.
I know you have a new CD player as I helped you buy it, and have been on severall CD buying frenzies, what do you like musically?
A little of everything really. Absolute favourites are They Might Be Giants.
Quite a few people from last year are still looking for jobs. Do you have a job?
Yes, I've got a job!!!!! I'm going to be mnning this coimtry, with a view to mnning Europe in a few year's time - I'm joining the Civil Service.
You've been here for 3 years and got involved in most aspects of LSE life. What do you think of the place?
I love it and I'm going to miss it loads. University gives people a chance to really be what they want to be, and LSE has really suited me. I know everyone bangs on about apathy, but compared to most universities, a large number of students are really involved. And I really like the way that there's a bit more to LSE than home undergrads straight out of school getting pissed alot. And though it sounds very boring, I've really enjoyed my course.
Any regrets?
Not getting elected Gen Sec, but, hey, that's politics, and I probably wouldn't have got my job if I had, so everything works out in the end.
Best memory?
Difficult one that. There have been so many. Probably the night of the DSG landslide.
Talking about the DSG, what do you, as a former member and sabbatical candidate, think of its demise?
As I was quoted as saying in the DSG obituary issue, the DSG I came back to after Holland wasn't the one I left. It certainly went adrift. I still think the LSE needs a moderate, centre-left group though. There's nothing wrong with party politics at this level, and I think this year has proved that to a certain extent. People use 'Independent' to cover a multitude of sins.
What will you miss about LSE?
The Tuns and the vax.
What won't you miss about the LSE?
The library and History of Political Thought.
Where did you disappear to at the beginning of the year?
I was in Holland doing ERASMUS. I had an amazing time. It's well worth doing, especially if you're in the Govemment department, cos they have it quite sorted.
Glad to be back?
Yeah, I guess I was. This year has been brilliant fun.
Glad to be going?
Not at all! Getting up early, paying income tax, paying pub prices?! But I know I'm one of the lucky ones, and I think it probably is time for a break.
Well if three years at the LSE was a break, the rest of your life is going to be a holiday. Good luck and thanks.
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12 - Personality Focus
4th May 1993	The Be
INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRE(
Q: "We wanted to ask first about your personal background. You don't have very much of a social science background..."
"No, on the contrary. I did chemistry as an undergraduate. Then I did another undergraduate degree and my Ph.D. in biochemistry. I became very interested in biochemistry, cell biology and cell differentiation, and then became a professor of biology at the University of Essex. I suppose my first serious encounter with social science came when I was invited to become the Chief Scientific Advisor to Callaghan's government, as Chief Scientist of the Central Policy Review Staff. I became fascinated with the problems of the application of science and technology (the public policy which I as the Chief Scientist was responsible for) but also at seeing my colleagues, and I became fascinated by what they were doing, and intrigued by social science, so in a sense I became a social scientist on the job."
Q: "Did that come as a combination of the two cultures, scientific vs arts, as CP Snow sugg ested it in an essay ?"
"I must say that I don't think that C.P. Snow's Two Cultures essay holds up very well. Although 1 didn't actually do any social science in a serious way until I got to the CPRS, I had as a graduate student at Leicester University the enormous advantage of being a member of a graduate student Common Room in which there was a galaxy of gifted young sociologists, the 'Leicester Mafia', as they are now known. My whole environment there was dominated by social scientists; not that 1 ever thought that odd, I actually married one of them. One of the reasons, by the way, that I am so keen on getting decent social provision for Graduate students - my present wife, Auriol, came and opened the LSE Graduate Student Common Room, which was set up this Spring - is that I have the fondest memories of such a thing when I was a Graduate student. When I later went to Essex, it had no biologists, being a social science university, and I was the foundation professor of biology. So I suppose I have always been deeply embedded in social science, although I've never thought of it like that, having seen it as "meeting interesting people."
Q: "Is that the university idea, a universe of
studying where the differences complement each other ?"
"That's right, yes. I am coming to appreciate the importance of this in the Social Sciences. I didn't really understand it when I was a student, because being a biochemistry PhD student is a very corporate activity. You work in a laboratory, there are technicians, there are health and safety regulations, you have to have a disciplined life, you handle biological materials, which grow and die, you can't sort of 'goof off' [laughs], and come back. You have to be there and there are also ethical problems involved. All of this meant that, for me, research was a group activity. It's taken me some time to realise that for most social scientists exactly the converse is true. Social science research is often a very solitary, lonely activity, which is another reason why I am very keen on proper social provision for postgraduate students."
Q: "How did you become interested in Education per se ?"
"Well,_I was five years in the cabinet offlce,and in the course of that came to form opinions about how British universities needed to change and adapt if the continual economic decline which has dominated policy for most of my life was to be halted let alone reversed. And certainly one of the things I was very convinced about was that we needed to establish a mass system of higher education and that it, or parts of it, needed to become much more consciously vocationally oriented."
Q: "What specifically do you mean by that ?"
"I think that universities have a duty to do some of the training which assists their students to get socially useful jobs. Which is not to say that every institution should do it or that every institution should specialise in it. The LSE is at that end of the spectrum which should do less, but there are other parts of any mass system of higher education which should do much more. And I think it's something of a cop-out, frankly, if you produce students who are uninvolved or unemployable. Anyway, I developed these notions and at the end of five years I was into my third head of the
What employers increasingly were saying in the eighties, and are still saying, is that they are less interested in the subject, but more interested in what the
Victorians would have called 'character'

CPRS, second secretary of the cabinet, second Prime Minister and I was beginning to feel like one of the stones holding up the edifice. It was time to move on and I was offered a number of posts in the civil service because by this time I was a permanent civil servant. For various reasons, though,
none of them were particularly attractive.
This was mainly because for a scientist most civil service jobs are in defence and I really didn't much want to be in charge of,
say, clever torpedoes, which was one of the jobs on offer. So I decided I would go back to the world I came fi-om, which was the academic world. A number of universities were looking for vice-chancellors at the time. I went to Salford because it seemed that this was the kind of university which needed to become much more vocationally oriented, and where these notions of mine which are, at least to my mind, derived in part from the German tradition, the Technische Hochschule tradition, wouldn't be set aside."
Q:
"How did you then get to the LSE ?"
"Well, I have a very clear prejudice which is that if you are in charge of something, whether school, firm or university, then unless you are very careful, after eight or ten years or something of about that time, you begin to become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. It sounds funny, but it's true; if you look at people's careers, it is very rare for someone to have the stamina, or the capacity, or the ability to refresh themselves so that they can keep going for more than a decade continuously. It isn't accidental that academics have sabbaticals. It is actually quite funny, well, I think it is funny: In 1989 when the news that I was going to become the next Director of the LSE was becoming public, but I hadn't actually taken up the post, I was still Vice Chancellor of Salford University, and I went to some function, organised, I think, by the British Gas Corporation. There I met Mrs Thatcher, whom of course I knew because I had worked under her for two years, and she came up to me and said "What's this I hear about you going to LSE ? What an extraordinary thing for you to do!" and I said "Well, Prime Minister, you know, after ten years you tend to become part of the problem, and it's time for a change." And she answered, "Well that might be true for you academics, you know, but it's not true of politicians !", and of
course, less than a year later she was slung out [laughter]. Just at that moment, when she was saying that, "well, that might be true for you academics," there was one of these wretched photographers who snapped it. It has became one of those precious pictures... Anyway, jokes aside, I think there is something in it and all those notions that I had had and that I had taken with me when I went up there, one way or another, had been put into practice, or shown to be silly, or were not practicable, and I was feeling the need to do something different. When I was offered the Directorship - it would never have occured to me to apply for it -1 thought it was a real challenge, it sounded very exciting. So down I came !"
Q: "You were mentioning 'employability' before.
How do you make social science graduates more employable ?"
"There are several kinds of questions to ask. The first is to what extent you should offer a general as opposed to a specific education. There are clearly vocationally oriented degrees, like accounting, or finance, or the like; on the other side there are those who want a general introduction to social sciences and a general education. All of them have a need of what I think of as a 'package of transferable skills'. Language skills is what British students could most do with. But also skills in terms of capacity to handle machine-based information, information technology skills, and other skills of that kind. What interestingly employers increasingly were saying in the eighties, and are still saying, is that they are less interested in the subject, but more interested in what the Victorians would have called 'character'. Leadership skills, work experience, and so on; all of which, by the way, LSE students are rather good at, without us overtly teaching any of it. The Houghton Street social scene [laughter], seems to inculcate those things pretty well."
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Personality Focus -13
CTOR, DR.JOHN ASHWORTH
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I sometimes think of this place as a social seismometer.
I think it's something of a
cop-out, frankly, if you produce students who are unin-volved or unemployable
Q: "How do you see the advantages
of an institution like the LSE in comparison with other Universities with a broader subject base ? Are there disadvantages ?"
"Yes, there are disadvantages, I think, of not having, say, scientists and medical students about, but there are also some advantages, one of them being that you can walk into any room, any bar, any restaurant, and sit down and you can hear, and I imagine, join the passionate debates about whatever is happening in the newspapers, or in TV, or even anywhere in the world. I sometimes think of this place as a social seismometer. Any social change, anywhere in the world, somehow, we sense is. And what is interesting is that we often pick it up a little ahead of other people. For example ethnicity and nationalism were being studied here long before the general public realised how important they were. For example one of our PhD students here 18 months ago happens to have done an anthropological study of Bosnian Muslim women. He was out there with a Granada TV crew recently, and it's exactly what you expect. I would have given quite good odds that if there was an anthropologist in Britain studying Bosnian Muslim Women before the topic became one of general interest it would have been at the LSE. I don't know how my colleagues do it, but they do have that, their sort of antennae, and that is undeniably one of the attractions of the place. For staff as well as students."
Q: "How do you perceive the attractions of the LSE for staff in comparison to Oxford and Cambridge? There are some considerable disadvantages, aren't there ?"
"Oh yes, to every plus there are minuses. The fact that the School is very badly housed, in inadequate and
Q:
"What are the biggest pressures on the LSE ?"
When I was a young biologist, the corporate, group based, molecular-biological research that I was doing, was still relatively new; there still were a significant number of old zoologists around, whose way of working was stiU rather like that of a social scientist. We were seen as the "young turks", or "gene jockeys", as they call us now. Well, that is now the dominant way of doing research in that kind of biology, but it wasn't back in the '50s. I can see the same pressures on the Social Sciences. I mean, if you look at something like the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE, it is reminiscent of the Molecular Biology Laboratory at Cambridge in the 1950's. For example the same pressures for using expensive equipment, in this case computers with a large datasets, but the principle is the same. There is a style of work which is developing, which is more corporate, more group, more interdisciplinary -certainly not everybody does that, there are still solitary scholars, just as, by the way, there still are solitary scholars in biology - but that pressure for change should not be underestimated. Those changes woul have happened even if the funding regime hadn't altered. And the third pressure for change comes fi-om the fact that I honestly don't think that the UK - whatever the outcome of the present Maastricht debate - has a future as a semi-detached island off a united Europe. Our involvement in Europe is bound to increase, so we have to get some kind of relationship to a European Higher Education system, at least on a par with the one that we historically enjoyed with the American Higher Education system. By the way, whilst I have been Director the amount of Research grants that we had from Brussels has gone up. They are up from £46 000 to nearly £700 000 per annum. I would like to think that I helped, but some of that was bound to happen. So the third pressure is the inevitable involvement of the UK with Europe, whatever kind oif Europe it is."
Q:
"Is there internal opposition to change at the LSE ?"
inappropriate buildings, that is endlessly fnistrating. I must say I was surprised when I went to the Union General Meeting [in which students complained about money being allocated to refurbish the Senior Common Room] because we have been doing a lot, particularly in the Library. Those that have been here for a couple of years will think it's fair to say that we have spent a lot of effort trying to get the Library better. My priorities for the LSE are absolutely clear. This is primarily an educational institution, so we need to get the Library right. I then think that it is better to be healthy than unhealthy, so we did something about the Student Health Center. To go back to the staff, many of the facilities leave much to be desired; on the other hand that hothouse atmosphere, everybody living on top of everybody else sparks off research; it can be quite exciting for my colleagues. And you select people who like this kind of atmosphere, this kind of atmosphere attracts those kinds of people. The international character of the students, although it has its problems, again is tremendously attractive for some kinds of research. Indeed, in some kinds of research we could not really do without it. And looking at the work the School has done on ethnicity or nationalism, yes, you would expect that the LSE has its attractions. If you want to do that sort of thing, then Oxford or Cambridge would look curiously unattractive or unappealing. It's also true that this particular part of London, although it can be noisy and dirty is very conveniently located. Look at this term the number of people we had here to give lectures. I am beginning to get wise and I leam whenever someone is coming through and I just invite them all to come to the LSE. If yours is the kind of work that has to do with politics or government, like Nick Stem's, who is advising the government of India in restructuring their public finances, then there are real attractions to being here as opposed to, say, Warwick, Cambridge or Oxford, from where it's just a nuisance to have to get to London all the time."
"Well, change is always problematic. Machiavelli has an oft-quoted passage about that difficulty: "nothing is more difficult to effect than change", he pointed out, and he was right. Particularly if the institution like the LSE has been a privileged one. So of course there is a great deal of uncertainty. If you sense that the academic staff are deeply uneasy about the future I think you are absolutely right, they are; it would be astonishing if they weren't. But equally, given that they are so good, and given that the School's reputation is as it is, one does not need to be overly pessimistic about it. To put it bluntly, if we can't survive, then God help us all!"
Q: "Coming back to you as a person, would you say that there was any kind of intellectual move ment, or specific persons influencing you specifically ?"
"Let me try and rephrase the question. There is this very interesting question which is: which one book changed your view towards the world ? Well, there is one book that dramatically changed mine: it is by Hans Zinser, and if my memory serves me right it is called "Mice, Men and Microbes", which is about the interrelationship between microbiology,epidemic disease -like the "Black Death" - andsociety. That has always fascinated me. I can remember reading this book when I was about eight and I always have been fascinated by it. What's funny about books is that if you ask people what really affected them it's often not the great classics, it's something like "Gone with the Wind." [laughs]
Q:
"A last question: How have students changed ?"
"There are really three sources of pressure. First there is the pressure which comes from funding changes, the creation of a mass system of Higher Education. What is the role of an institution like the LSE in that system ? I have no doubt that any system of formula funding, as my colleagues just discovered, cannot favour unique or peculiar institutions like us. But there are also other, endogenous pressures within the social sciences itself.
"You were asking me earlier what it is about the LSE that attracts academics, and one of the things I said was the students. I tell you, people teaching at University don't get rich, that is for sure. If you stay in it as a career, you really do have to like young people, and -1 don't know whether you find this flattering or not -what is extraordinary is how much they don't change. The mores may change, but how are students different ? They aren't! You know there is a lovely piece of papyrus, a fragment, which was discovered in a mbbish dump in Egypt, just a few lines, and says something like: "Kindly do not write to me for money any more, concentrate on your studies." [laughter] You can see exactly what kind of letter that comes out of, I think it dates to something like 200 AD. So students have always been the same."
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INTERVIEW WITH KENNETH MINOGUE, ORIGINAL TEXT AS TRANSCRIBED FROM THE TAPE, RECORDED IN MARCH 1993
NICK WACHSMANN + HANS GUTBROD
Q:	"What attracted you to the Government
Department?"
"Well the history of political thought is the absolute epicentre of the social sciences. If you want to see what the BSc Econ is all about, read Plato's "Republic". It's got a bit on Education, it has Sociology, Psychology, it has got Politics and Economics - plus philosophy of course. Plato's Republic, if you go through it in detail, has virtually the whole syllabus. All theories that have been developed since have in one way or the other developed from something that has been in there. This is why Plato is the canon. You cannot understand most political science discourse without knowing about Hobbes, Locke, etc. Hence the History of Political Thought is absolutely at the centre certainly of political science, and I think also of International Relations and of Sociology."
Q:	"How do you feel about political science
being more and more edged out of the cur riculum and being replaced by Administra tive Studies and similar courses ?"
" 'Sick as a parrot', as they say in Private Eye. To be serious, however, political studies are expanding in many interesting directions. There is only one reason for studying anything at undergraduate level and that is that in studying it you leam a certain discipline, or logic or way of construing information, whether it is a scientific way of understanding, or a historical form of explanation,etc. The problem in the social sciences at imdergraduate level is that quite a lot of it is low-level theory plus description. They are sometimes less educational than the traditional subjects, because the large elements of description wiU be out-of-date before very long, whereas what educates them is that thereafter they have leamt ways of putting things together and making sense of experience in different ways."
Q:	"So more of an intellectual than a voca
tional education ?"
"Yes, that is what a University should be. At the same time there is room in what is now called Higher Education for a great variety of kinds of institutions and there are many ways of being excellent. But a University is a very specific training in thoughtful-ness and different kinds of thinking. But it is of course only suitable for people who are rather thoughtful; the m^ority of people, understandably are more preoccupied with practice."
Q:	"How important is teaching for you then ?"
"The reason that God ordained teaching was that teachers should be asked silly questions in order to have to reformulate the subject. But the word 'teaching* seems to me an inappropriate word in this context. While you can teach children their tables, you don't really teach people Plato's "Republic" in the same sense. They have to go away and read the book and then you discuss it. Teaching in Universities is a kind of revivification. It is bringing something to life which otherwise students would read but they wouldn't see the significance of it and it is brought to life by talking to them so that the image of teaching with a person with chalk on black board and students taking notes and so on - while it is a useful practical convenience is also misleading way of understanding what happens at a university."
Q:	"Can you say a word on Political
Correctness ?"
" Political Correctness is the ultimate in vulgarity, [laughter] It is a set of rather dim people trying to tell you how to be sensitive, [laughter] There is, of course, a doctrine, an ideology behind it like George OrweU's Newspeak in '1984'. It is the attempt to make people use a fixed schedule of words in order to determine what they can think. It is semantic determinism and it ignbres pragmatics, if you want to put it into a more technical vocabulary. People will always find ways of despising other people and the notion that if you forbid the words, they won't be able to do it, is absurd. It is also part of the old socialist project of trying to stop people from failing and from feeling pain. But we leam from failures, in that sense we live in the best of all possible worlds. There is a marvelous novel by Saul Bellow "Henderson the Rain King" in which at one stage the hero is chopping wood and a piece of wood flies up and hits him on the nose and his nose begins bleeding. He has a mystical illumination: "Truth comes by blows!' It's not a bad illumination."
Q:	"But then again if you are part of some
minority group you cannot 'leam by blows', can you ?"
"Why not ?"
Q:	" You cannot change your colour !"
"Admittedly, there are some things that are very difficult to deal with. But racism is basically just bad manners. Unless it is a doctrine, a biological notion of superiority, of course. But nobody is a racist in that sense anymore. The other kind of racism is simply not
seeing other people as persons. Now this is a defect of the racist rather than of the people who are black, or Jewish, or whatever it is. Yes, life is unjustly difficult for many people because a lot of people are indeed vulgar and insensitive and it's better that they should not be. But the notion that you can stop this by PC is, I think, wrong."
Q:	"What do you think can stop this ?"
"You cannot stop it. By precept and example individuals can have some impact on these fashions, not much more."
Q:	"Don't you think that society has some form
of moral obligation to stop it ?" "No. Society can't have any moral obligation to anyone. There is no such thing as a society, as the philosopher Thatcher once said..." Q: "...never heard of her." [laughter] A: "Individuals have moral obligations, and the moral obligation is to treat other individuals decently, to treat them as persons. That's perfectly true. But what's this thing called society which has a moral obligation?"
Q:	"Well, that obligation may come from natu-
ral law. Where else would morality be coming from ? What else is morality ?"
"It is one of the aspects of hiunan understfinding as it reflects upon and practices intercourse with other individuals."
Q:	"Do you mean a contract 7"
"The contract is a metaphor that might help you explain how the state comes into existence. But if you took ordinary people in the street or the chap drinking in a pub, there is no contract involved there, is there ? People just leam to get on with each other."
Q:	"Why do we then need law ?"
"Oh, because these rules of self-control and moral identity are not sufficient to prevent people in the grip of a passionate desire for the sexual favours of this beautiful creature, or for a bit more property, a nice piece of land, etc., from taking them by force, so that you get perpetual insecurity. Most of what I've said at this level would take off from Hobbes, and there is a propensity for human life to collapse into violence and nastiness unless there is a sovereign power enforcing the rules. This sometimes happens in inner cities, it happens in ex-Yugoslavia, it happened in Lebanon, it is the reason why the Students' Union spends money allowing girls to go back in taxis to where they live... This is just the state of nature and this is why we need the state."
Q:	"Hobbes was not a big fan of democracy. Do
you think democracy is necessarily a good thing ?"
"Democracy is simply a theory of how you authorize governments, that is you authorize them through elections. God does not play a role anymore, nor does the bloodline and heredity. We happen to have different beliefs and our democratic beliefs work perfectly well. Hobbes wouldn't object to that just as long as it gives a good clear sovereign power and the sovereign has enough power to enforce the laws that's fine."
Q:	"Is it going to change ?"
"Well, nothing stays the same forever, things go on changing and I would have thought it is always wise to recognize as Hobbes did and people have not through the last 200 years that a peaceful state is a perilous and rather precious achievement which can fall apart and has fallen apart very nastily in all sorts of places, so the problem of politics is the problem that people take for granted anything that has been going on for the last 30 or 40 years and assume it's going to go on forever and, of course, it is not, so in that sense there is always a possibility of collapse."
Q:	"Does it work for all the people ?"
"Well, it works reasonably well for 80 % to 90 % of the people in the sense that they can spend most of their time doing what is most interesting, which is not politics, but sport, a bit of quiet gardening, seducing, cooking, all of those things. That's the only test of whether it works. Now there are a number of people for whom 'it' couldn't work directly. If you are feebleminded, if you are crippled, or if you are old without relatives to look after you, and so on, these are people for whom it obviously couldn't work and one of the duties of the people for whom it does work is to do something for those people. Now how much should be done about those people and what should be done is a matter of continual public debate. It works directly for the reasonably capable and competent, and it works indirectly for the rest."
Q:	"Is this connected to the idea that we accept
some sacrifices for a minority if it improves the lot of the majority ?"
"This is the ghost of the 'Good Society' haunting our understanding of the present society, isn't it ?"
Q:	"What would that 'Good Society' be ?
"I don't know what a 'Good Society' would be. All I can think of is that if a 'Good Society' were ever achieved it would only be achieved for one moment and then human restlessness - Pascal thought that all the problems of the human race result from the fact that people can't just sit still in the same room - the restlessness would destroy it. That is to say, the paradox of all socialists and liberals and reformers is that the passion to reform and to change things, it is that which gives meaning to those lives. Once they get there, they, or their children seek something else."
Q:	"Does this reflect Christian culture with its
messianic expectations ?"
"Well, it has to do with a Christian background not in the sense of messianic expectations but in the sense that the Christian position is that you are on earth as a testing process, and therefore life is a challenge and what counts is not whether the horse comes in that you put your money on, or that you get a house or marry the person you want to, but it is how you stand up to the challenges and experiences of life. Your moral identity consists of how you respond to those challenges, and hence there is a propensity to go out and create them, like a knight-errant. Those knights need a dragon to slay and will go on slaying, no matter whether there is a dragon, no matter what sort of society they live in."
Q:	"When considering the present society, is
the disintegration of families a central problem ?"
"Yes. The first few years of a life are formative. A false sense of individualism allows people to think that they can frame their lives in terms of nothing else but what they desire; and that leads to things called 'single-parent families' and all the rest of it. Of course, that may happen through misfortune, bad husbands go off, a partner dies, or something like that. That is a different situation from when it is actually chosen. The whole point about having children is that it is extremely demanding. They cry when young, they wake you up in the middle of the night, and their conversation is intolerable for more than an hour at the time when they are small. And because of that it takes two to tango, it takes two to be parents. If one person brings them up, the results are often less than perfect."
Q:	"Feminism - is that one of these 'corrupted
ideas of the 20th Century' ?" "Yes. Feminism, in its radical form, is simply another version of one of the great myths of the 20th Century. The myth consists of saying: "We are not really free, we are oppressed." The 'we' being some category -homosexuals, blacks, workers, women, the bald, it could be anything. "We are oppressed, because society is oppressing us. Therefore the business of life is struggle and the struggle is for something called liberation. The notion of liberation is identical with what you call the 'Good Society'. Liberation will be achieved when nobody is oppressed. But there is no human condition which cannot be constmed as some form of oppression. The conclusion of this kind of aspiration is a human community construed as a herd of animals; that is: creatures totally unselfconscious. But the problem of politics begins with Eve and the Apple in the Garden of Eden: it is selfconsciousness which starts it, and these ideologies are all proposals to abolish self consciousness.
Q:	"As one of the academics who have been
here for very long, how would you say the students have changed, you know, the six ties and so on..."
"I don't know whether there has been a vast change, because of the level at which LSE recruits the illiteracy of the schools has not been a major problem. During the Sixties I personally never had any problems. I thought the Sixties were a time of massive cowardice on the part of the University authorities, they took student opinions too seriously while not taking students seriously enough. Since I was always decently reactionary [laughter] and everyone knew that, I never had any trouble with the radical students. The people who had trouble were the radical teachers, who were always being outflanked on the left."
Q:	"So you were not part of the radical tradi
tion of the LSE ?"
"I am part of the counter-radical tradition which is much more radical than radicalism [laughter]. I am a genuine radical! "[laughter]
Q:	"Tfou are lucky that nobody noticed that!"
"Yeah, that's a well kept secret. Probably the best kept secret in the Government department." [laughter]
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16-Arts	TheBeaKfer	4th May 1993
SOMETHING FOR ALL THE FAMILY
As this is the last arts page of the academic year I thought it would be nice to leave you with a preview of what's coming in the next couple of weeks along with the usual stuff, mainly film reviews because nobody could be arsed to go and see anything else but films over the holidays, preview tickets and reviewers being few and far between in those five weeks.
So here we have in no particular order some info on films, comedj^ theatre, classical music and related events, and anything else that fits the bill. Or doesnt as the case may be.

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This week we have reviews of films already showing on screens around London; 'One False Move', 'Sommersby', "Body of Evidence', and Un coeur en hiver' - see opposite page.
Released this week we have for starters (no pun intended, honestyAHve'. In 1972 a plane carrying a Urguayan rugby team crashed in theAndes. Havingheld outforoveraweekwithwhatlittle they could salvage from the crash j inthehopeofarescue,theyfinally ; find out on the radio that there is nottobeone. ItisthisthatleadsiK to the crux of the film when the ; survivingpassengershavetoques-tion societies morals and their own i and decide whether or not to eat j the bodies oftheir dead fiiends in order to survive. Gruesome stuff? Depends on your opinion of the matterinquestionreally-theplane i crashitselfiswhatismorelikelyto t have you wishing that they sold : spare underpants alongside the
¦	popcorn and hot dogs. All in all good performances from a fairly unknown cast, handled well without too much Hollywood schmaltz fit)m director Frank Marshall. For the main course (no pun intended, honest), wemovetoltaly.thesource of our next release this week: 'Mediterraneo'.asupposedleyanti-
¦	war film, directed by Gabriele Salvatores and set on a Greek island during the Second World War. Here we see the escapades of ei^tbumblingltaliansoldierswho land on the island in the hope of capturing it for H Duce'. Surely one of the worst fighting forces ever to be assembled, our heroic octet eventually end up stranded on the island and lose any semblance of military order. Though it doesn't really get anjwhere near delivering a real anti-war statement SalvatorM does manage to produce a charmingly fiinny film
: that makes for easy viewing. Fi-^ nally,fordessert(nopunintended, : honest) we have "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1'. Firing blanks(nopunetc. etc.)mostofthe way this attempt to rip off the ¦Lethal Weapon' series in the mold of "Naked Gun' fails dismally, and only ^)es to prove that the National Lampoon team were never i really as fionny as the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker triumvirate that produced 'Airplane!" et al . Lacking any real inspiration, and missing actors like Leslie Nielsen ! who can pull this sort of ' moviemaking off with consummate ease, this is one to avoid at least until it comes out on video so : that you won't have wasted too : much money seeing it j And on we fumble. (Steady-ed.)
Released next week we have for fans of Chinese film The Story of Qiu Ju' the new film by the acclaimed director Zhang Yimou CRaise the Red Lantern', 'Ju Dou'). MayalsoseesthereleaseofWesley Snipes' new film Tassenger 57 whose releasehasbeen postponed for a couple of months now for undisclosedreasonsbutfinallygets the chance for fortime and glory (what?- ed.) on May 21st, that is if the distributors have made their minds up once and for all.
June sees Michael Douglas, he of 'Basict Instinct' and the flabby behind, starring in 'FalHng Down' the new thriller from Joel Schumacher of "Flatliners' fame. July has John Landis director of 'An American Werewolf in London' hurling (is that sort of word really necessary? 'Giving" would havedonejustaswelI,anditdoesn't remindmeofwhatmygutsdidlast night, come to think of it the night
before that as weU........-ed.) a new
horror film at us. Innocent Blood' stars Anne Parillaud of "Nikita' in a humourous tale that continues the current Hollywood fetish for vampires.
Much, muchlateronintheyear, well into thesummerholida3fSwe11 be treated' to the American re-makeofthe brilliant'Nikita'. Having first opted to call it "Codename: Nina', but probably deciding that NinasoundedtoosirmlartoNikita, and that this might just give the game away, they changed it for its American release to Toint of No Return'. Nice enough title you might think, but no; either having madeassimiptionsaboutBritsand their ability to cope with four-word titles or simply in an effort to con-fiise anyone who'd already heard of the film they went for 'The Assassin'. SortofspeUsitoutnice and clearly doesn't it? Cheers, we wouldn't have had a clue what was going on othenvise. Anyway the reason Fm griping is because Fve had the 'honour' of seeing a dip or twoandquitefi-anklyitlooks tragic.
Back to times present however and until the 13th of May the Barbican is presenting a series of films aiming to hi^Jight the sixties film scene in London with amongst others such classics as The Ipcress File', 'Dr. No', and ¦Blow Up'. Also stiU running in the West End and worth seeing amongst others are T^es amants du Pont-Neuf, the directors cut of 'BladeRimrier',TheC!rying(Jame', 'Candyman', The Last of the Mohicans', 'Reservoir Dogs', and 'Scent of a Woman'.
Rightthafsfilmsoutoftheway. Bai^ain. now it's time for.....
Not really much as far as comedy goes; we usually cover this sort of thing off our own backs i.e. when someone's got enough money kicking around and decides that they're bored of going to the cinema every week. This is a pity really as there are a lot of good comedians and venues offering a nights entertainment for less than the price of a ticket to go and see Madonna act badly and thrust her breasts at you at every opportunity. (He's doing it again; there was no need to use a word like thrust when show or bare will do perfectly well, I remember.....-ed.)
As far as one-off shows by famous comedians go it's best to keep your eyes peeled for flyposters and ads in Time Out' etc. as publicity is otherwise quite thin on the ground. However what I have beer able to ascertain from extensive research is that between the 12th and 22n(i May "The Doug Anthony Allstars' are performing at the Duke of York's Theatre. Not to everyones' taste, whacky is probably the best word to use and as long as you don't offend too easily they make for a good night out. Julian Clary will be playing at the London Palladium on the 13th and 20th of June, if you've still got any post exam energy left by then, might be worth watching can be amusing at times. So after that extensive preview of comedy it only remains for me togive you the names of a couple of regular comedy nightspot! that might be worth a glance: the Comedy Store is of course the most well known of the better venues in Central London, but it is also the priciest. While it is guaranteed to have very good line-ups, a couple of other venues are definitely worth a look in: the Comedy Cafe is free Monday to Thursday, and very reasonable at the weekend. Also worth trying is the Chuckle Club; again reasonable prices at varying venues, usually pubs, with very good line-ups.
Okey-dokey, films, comedy, now........
Lots and lots of stuff here, and this time I'm not exaggerating. Although of course it all depends on what your view of'a lot' is, right? I mean, like a lot of things in life it's subjective, yeah? But then again if this weren't the case I wouldn't be able to get away with half as much bullshit as I do. (Stop trying to fill the space -ed.) Anyway, as I was saying there's lots here. Well start with the National Theatre; decent prices on student standby . and bottom-range seats (£5.50,£8) means that it's affordable. The NT also provides a wide selection of plays throughout the year most of which are usually deemed to have some literary credit. This month theatregoers have the choice of 'Macbeth', Arthur Wing Pinero's Trelawny of the Wells', J.B. Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls', Alan Bleasdale's new comedy 'On the Ledge', Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia', Sondheim's 'Sweeny Todd' and Ayckboum's 'Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays'.
For those of you who really like Shakespeare, the R.S.C. until the 12th of June will be performing three of the Bards little ditties; 'As You Like It', The Beggars Opera',and Anthony and Cleopatra', all in the main Barbican theatre.
As well as these better known theatres dont forget to try out some of the smaller theatre clubs; don't be put off by the word 'fringe' (Why would anyone be put off by a word that describes a t3fpe of haircut, ho, ho,-ed.) as one gets to see many short plays that deserve recognition - the Etc. Theatre Club in Camden is always good, currently showing there are 'The Angel and the Bouncer' and 'Sal and Dean'. Alternatively, try the Bush Theatre , Shepherd's Bush Green, where David Ashton's new play The Chinese Wolf starts on the 4th of May. Ashton's last play to be performed at the Bush was the excellent 'A Bright Light Shining' so this should be well worth seeing.
Oh, and don't bother going to the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill after June until the beginning of September. It's being renovated. Unless of course your idea of a good time is watching workmen and their scaffolding in full flow. (Frightening isn't it?-ed.)
Finally, or at least I think so........
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Here I am going to hand over to our reporter on the spot because quite frankly I'm going to have a difficult time covering up the fact that I don't have a clue about this subject as you can tell by the philistine approach to the title of this section. We're concentrating on the new season at the Barbican because of it's value for money ticket prices and the fact that they always have a varied selection of programmes. Quite frankly, I don't think that we've got that much space left either. So, over to Debs.
Once again, the invitation goes out from the Barbican to attend a programme of inspiring concerts, ranging from symphonic masterpieces to operatic overtures. May at the Barbican hosts a variety of internationally renowned orchestras and soloists with predictably polished performances, and a variety of prominent aspiring artists offering fresh interpretations, with vitality, and enthusiasm.
The highlights of the month include, on the 1st of May, the Moscow Virtuosi, directed by their founder, and soloist, Vladimir Spivakov, playing Mozart's well known 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik', and Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' (Their outstanding technique is, as expected, accompanied by the brilliance and passion that characterises their concerts.) On May 5th and 6th, the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir George Solti, play Stravinsky's 'Symphony in Three Movements' and Bruckner's Fourth. Other highlights are Tatyana Nikolaeva's piano recital on May 16th, playing Bach and Shostakovich, for which she is renowned, and finally the Grand Classical
Gala on the 31st, conducted by David Coleman, with extracts from outstanding operas such as Aida, and ballets such as Swan Lake. For the complete programme consult the barbican publications outside the Shaw Library.
Right, that's about it, apart from a couple of other things. Art exhibitons: usual places etc., etc., but if you like impressionists and you're still around in July, the Royal Academy of Arts will be displaying the work of Camille Pissaro from July 2nd.
Books: here's a couple of the new releases for June that may whet the appetite; if you liked 'Prime Suspeci', there's Lynda La Plante's new novel 'Entwined'. For Sci-Fi fans The Positronic Man' by Robert Silverberg and Isaac Asimov. Asimov died in 1992, or do they know something we don't? For serious literary types there's always 'Miss Whiplash' the sensational life story of Lindi St. Clair or of course Ian Mcewan's 'Black Dogs', out in paperback, take your pick, both un-doubtedUly Booker Prize material.
And...last but certainly not least, don't forget that on Sunday the 9th of May Covent Garden hosts the 18th Annual May fayre and Puppet Festival. One for all the family, don't miss it.
NAV.
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thanks to DEBORAH for the section on 'Classical Stuflf
P.S. 1 had an absolute 'mare writing this so if I missed out anything please don't expect me to feel guilty. I would also like to point out that I have no Idea who on earth this 'ed.' person is. It's certainly not Kev. for anybody out there who thought it might be. Honest.
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Body of Evidence
When a film does fabulously well at the box office, particularly in America, there follows (usually), a spate of very similar films from Hollywood all trying to cash-in on the success. And therein lies the crux of "Body of Evidence", in that it tries far too hard to be another "Basic Instinct". This might not be that bad, except for the fact that Madonna has nowhere near the style, panache or basic acting skill to match Sharon Stone, and that Willem Dafoe doesn't ever seem comfortable in the role as sex-bomb hero. The plot centres around Rebecca Carlson ( Madonna), who stands accused of murdering her rich, older lover by a lethal cocktail of cocaine and too much strenuous sex. She is defended by lawyer Dafoe, who battles bravely on her behalf against public prosecuter Joe Mantegna. Things are not helped
by Mantegna's wooden performance, far removed from that of the excellent Kevin Bacon in a similar role in "A Few Good Men". As is to be expected. Madonna seduces Dafoe, and the pair end up sleeping together in a variety of different situations, although they never actually manage to shock anyone once even. Since the film seems to rely on their relationship for its interest, this isn't good news. As already said, the 'dramatic' courtroom scenes are effectively nulled by Mantegna, and all in all you're probably getting the impression that I didn't
think too much of this fim. Having said that, Uli Edel's direction is quite stylish (though you have to say the ground was already well broken for him), the sets look good and the stars certainly throw themselves into it. The plot even picks up at the end, even Madonna becoming relatively convincing. However, there are still some plot holes big enough to drive a tank through ( Dafoe being re-united with his wife,
played by Anne Archer, for example) and not a lot of originality. The thought of Madonna playing psychological games in order to bed anyone is laughable given her past history, and the reason given by her for seducing Dafoe is tenuous to say the least. Dafoe claims that the
press really laid into Madonna in a big way, and based their view of the film purely on that, but if they did, then it isn't that difficult to see why. He also said that he was partly attracted to the role as it was "a fun movie", and because of the similarities between Madonna's character and her own personality (woman battling against small-minded sexual conventions, etc.) Perhaps he should have the last word about the film on describing the sex scenes: "It was difficult, but not uninteresting...It was kind of fun!" The film itself wasn't too bad, but if you've seen "Basic Instinct", then you won't be able to stop that feeling of deja-vu.
review By Geoff Robertson
SOMMERSBY
Xhis Jon Amiel rehash of the French film "The Return of IVIartin Guerre" stars Jodie Foster and Richard Gere. Skilfully-transformed from its original setting in the sixteenth century France to the aftermath of the American Civil War, there is meticulous attention to period detail. Fortunately this doesn't mean any less care has gone into
the actual plot or the characters. Both Foster and Gere play their characters well: she is a rural women struggling to look after the plantation alone, he the landow^ner Jack Sommersby returning after seven years' absence. Or at least, if not Sommersby, an imposter stealing his identity. There are niggling physical differences but more importantly, Sommersby is no
longer the crude, often violent, ineffectual tyrant he was once. Instead he is gentle, charming and begins to woo back his wife. Laurel ( Foster), with a patient persistence. Very romantic, although anyone looking for the hyped-up sex scenes will be disappointed. Dramatic tension is provided by the Klu Klux ZClan and challenges to Sommersby's
identity, and culminates in a court-room scene presided over by the rather unlikely black judge (James Farl Jones). [ The review seems to have finished rather abruptly here, so if anyone has the rest of it or can suggest a suitable conclusion, please tell us!-GR]
review by Beaver Staff
ONE FALSE MOVE UNCOEURENHIVER
Time Out describes One False Move, as having "a script that combines the harsh naturalism of, say, Jim Thompson, with the taught inexorability of Greek tragedy." To my mind this is hyperbole, while the film is relatively well scripted but there are no particularly outstanding lines or analogues. The film's strength lies in its characters and the actors playing them. The bad guys are a mixed trio of white trash, his halfcaste girlfriend and their intelligent black partner. The good guys are two streetwise LA cops, one black, one white, and a Hickville USA sheriff. Much is made of the ethnic tension between these groups, but this is not a case of political correctness being forced down your throat. It is a portrayal of the reality of race.
money and envy. Racial issues are not the overriding theme (after all it's not a Spike Lee movie - it does have a plot.) The bad guys "pull a drugs heist" which involves killing approximately six people in a very grisly manner, and are on their way out of town to sell their goods. En route they plan to pass through Star City, Arkansas, where unbeknown to them the police are waiting. For the most part this is a slow film which builds up to an intense and violent end. It is particularly worth watching for the
performance of Bill Paxton as the Star City Sheriff. He is an unsophisticated, bigoted,
farm hand peace keeper, but also the most sympathetic character. A particularly poignant moment in the film takes place when he overhears the two LA cops, that he has come to consider his friends, laughing about his aspirations to become a city policeman. The film is a cut above most thrillers, but is nowhere near the much compared Reservoir Dogs, for pace, style, or cool.
Faz Zahir
This is an extraordinary and rightly acclaimed film-where the talent lies in the scriptwriting first and the acting a close second. I've never seen a story quite like this, and it is one that Hollywood is utterly incapable of producing. There are three main players, Stephan (Paul Auteil), Maxim (Andre Dussollier ), and Camille (Emmanuelle Beart), who are linked together both by profession and affection. The story centres around Stephan most, who is a sort of anti-hero. A mature man, he has developed into an emotionless, passionless person, vidth few opinions, playing out life as a game. This unusual approach to life, coupled with
a haunting charisma makes him the object of fascination for Camille- a concert violin player who is the antithesis of Stephan, leading a life of intensity with outbursts of profound and genuine emotion, brought about by her demanding lifestyle. Her love for Stephan develops, even though she is enjoying a physical relationship with Stephan's business partner, Maxim. This is a very awkward situation therefore-and one which is not resolved without some amazing twists and turns in the plot. If it seems this is only giving you a sketchy outline, then bear with me, because it isn't possible to divulge much of the plot without spoiling your
enjoyment if you choose to see it. What I will say is that the rest of the film deals with the clash between a normal, emotional human being, and an almost inhuman person, incapable of emotion. The results are stunning- the ending which you need to watch closely leaves you with as many questions as reading a whodunnit with the last pages ripped out. If you grasp the meaning of this film, then it will stay with you as it has a very special, and distinct, identity- and that's why it is such a good film.
review By Matt Pennell
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Nine Go Mad In Blackpool!
Neil Andrews encounters a different breed of student politics at the 1993 NUS Conference
I saw some sharks in Blackpool, I also spent the best part of four days sitting down watching NUS go 'round in circles.
NUS Conference is basically your better than average UGM on a grand scale. Take away the aeroplanes, the dissent from the balcony and Steve Peake, and in their place add bureaucracy, screaming children and Kevin Sexton, transfer proceedings from the Old Theatre to the Winter Gardens Ballroom and there you have it, NUS Conference.
The LSE delegation consisted of nine people; five delegates, three observers and one press officer, all of whom were duly elected to their respective positions except the press officer, who was appointed by the General Secretary. Together they were here to represent the LSE's very own Students' Union and to make sure that the mandates passed at the UGM were endorsed. Unfortunately, they weren't mandated to do anything and were so given a free reign on the ballot papers by their very able delegate leader, Ray Yates. This led to votes on certain issues being split down the middle, with two of them voting one way, two of
them voting another way and one abstaining. In a world where block votes decide key issues, LSE was looked upon as a strange quirk, thrown up by some sick joke. Such a diverse delegation led to introductions to other colleges and institutions and the conversation usually went something like this:
"Where are you from?"
"LSE"
"That's full of Tories/ What's a right wing institution doing here?"
Yes, everyone thought the delegation comprised of Adam Cleary's entire family. As it turned out, 1/8 of the delegation was a Tory, Hugh O'Leary but the other 7/8s was just as diverse: one anarchist (Ray Yates), two Independents (Lola Elerion and Marie Darvill), one Labour Club member (Mickey Khurana), two from the now-defunct DSG (Rahul Sriskanathan and Martin Lewis) and one Independent Spaceship From The Planet Zarg (Ron Voce - Who else?). Such diversity made people laugh, and as soon as any crackpot student did something stupid, like a certain Independent Singer "singing it the way it is", they naturally assumed he/she must belong to our delegation.
"Bag O'Shite" Delegate Leader, Ray Yates
Photo: Neil Andrews
Admittedly, it wasn't all entirely unjustified. No other delegation gave Suke Wolton and the rest of the RCP ("Telling it the way it is") a standing ovation everytime they withdrew their nominations. Puzzled faces looked at us, wondering whether we were screaming Trotskies or smooth talking capitalist bastards. No other delegation took THREE (count 'em) radios onto the conference floor to listen to the England vs Turkey match in Izmir while proceedings were going ahead and shouted goal on both occasions much to the annoyance of Lorna Fitzsimmons. But on the whole, every member of the delegation fulfilled their tasks with the maturity expected of them. Except Martin Lewis.
With no mandate hanging over the delegation, free voting was the order of the day, except for Martin, who finally proved he was unable to think for himself Being a member of two caucuses, the Student Lib Dems and the Union of Jewish Students, Mr Lewis had to follow two party lines. Everytime a vote was called, he would glance up at the balcony to receive his instructions. If either the Lib Dems or the UJS gave a delegate a standing ovation for his/her speech, he would again tow the line, and stand or sit in accordance with his instructions. He broke rank once, albeit briefly. On deciding that a delegate had given what he believed to be a particularly good speech, Martin stood up and clapped, assuming that at least one of his groups would do the same. Unfortunately, both caucuses remained seated. Feeling insecure about his standing, he sat down, proving he was a number, not a free man.
The actual Conference procedure has a structure similar to that of your average UGM. Motions are put forward, standing orders can be suspended, announcements made and proceedings can be disrupted at any moment if a faction wishes to do so. The most dramatic demonstration staged in this way was by a group of Palestinian Students who had a number of grievances in the way they were being treated. The demonstration was blown up by an "alleged" racist remark made by UJS member and ULU non-Exec. Officer, Jeremy Newmark, and an
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Deaf Row: Ignoring this motley crew saved millions of trees....
apparent 'free-for-all' outside in the foyer.
They delayed the conference for over half a day by standing in front of the National Executive Committee (NEC) until their case was heard. One session of Conference was postponed while the NEC tried solve the situation. Cue the Independent Singer. With inflatable guitar in hand, he stood in the balcony and gave those delegates that could be bothered to stick around a rousing set consisting of a number of songs of which he could only remember the
Welfare.
The attacks continued throughout the hustings, with opposing Left Unity candidate Kevin Sexton preferring not to stand on his own merits but on the scandal involving Lindsey, Fellow candidates try to climb above the barrage of abuse, in particular Sean Sexton (no relation to Kevin), but to no avail. Kevin Sexton won the election 435 votes to Lindsey's 350, much to the delight of Left Unity but they failed to drop their childish behaviour. During the rounds of closing remarks, the
...Everyone thought the delegation comprised of Adam Cleary's entire family...
chorus.
The vote and debate for the creation of a Black Officer to sit on the NEC led to heated debate amongst delegates, particularly between those associated with the National Organisation of Labour Students (NOLS) and Left Unity, a far left organisation in a similar vein to the former Left Society of LSE. The debate turned into a slanging match, with Janine Booth and Kevin Sexton of Left Unity slurring both Faz Hakim and Martin Lindsey of NOLs. The slur on Lindsey was particularly intense with an 'alleged' sexual harassment charge brought up before Conference the day before he was due to stand for re-election to the position of Vice President-
members of Left Unity stood up and left the stage when Lindsey took the microphone to deliver his farewell speech, he was given a standing ovation by those who believed he was, as the saying goes, 'fitted up'.
The creation of a Black Officer was voted down by Conference by a substantial ' amount and the result was greeted with a mixture of cheers and jeers. After being on the 'table' for three years it is unlikely to just lay down and die, the major argument being that black students need such an officer. But the argument against was just as convincing. Faz Hakim pointed out that the majority of black students would never be happy with their elected officer, claiming that many
Photo: Neil Andrews
would feel that he/she would be unable to represent them sufficiently. Others argued that the creation of such a post would lead to demands from other minority groups, such as Irish and Jewish students, for the creation of similar posts. For or against, it was, for me in any case, the most interesting debate of the whole conference.
With the sessions continuously over-running, time was running out for the debate on Voluntary Membership to be discussed, thanks in part to the protest mentioned earlier (In three-and-a-half days NUS Conference managed to pass two motions. LSE UGM average 3 per hour!). When it eventually did come up, full debate was impossible. Nevertheless, it was the last thing passed by conference.
Like any other student meeting, NUS Conference possessed a number of characters that entertained 'the crowd' either intention- . ally or unintentionally.
Mubin Haq was there, delivering his usual Socialist Worker diatribe, before being resoundingly beaten in the election for National Treasurer. Also standing for National Treasurer was Andrew Tessier, who surprised everyone by coming from nowhere to put up a challenge against Tracey Neal, who was seeking reelection. Neal, a poor speaker, was easily out-shone by Tessier and looked in danger of losing her position on the NEC, something which
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worried NOLS. She was saved, however, by Tessier withdrawing his nomination, not because he was a closet communist, but because he had been re-elected as NUS London Convener and would have been unable to take up the position. Leaving the stage, he responded to the whoops and cries of his supporters by picking the carefully arranged flowers that decorated the stage and threw them to his followers. It had been a marvellous performance and it's was a great loss for NUS, Neal remains for another year.
As stated earlier, Suke Wolton was there and was the best candidate that the RCP put up before withdrawing her nomination, managing to answer a question on HIV+ students by failing to mention the subject. Another star was King's student Greg Vincent who delivered his speeches in prose, modelling himself, so it would seem on an airline pilot. He even dedicated a poem to Ian Pigg, National Secretary, Conference chair and by far the star of the show.
Unlike dear old Ray, Ian Pigg was blessed with the ability to shut speakers up by simply turning off their microphones and could therefore command proceedings with apparent ease. He also had a sarcastic wit sharper and funnier than Simon Reid. Before sessions began, he would read poetry to those delegates present and such was his popularity, he survived several attempts to remove him from the chair, unlike Lorna Fitzsimmons who fell at the first hurdle. Ray Yates stated that he didn't realise that "a chair had so much power to silence and control the order of debates".
Two thirds of those present had never attended a NUS Conference before, many of them there to debate the motions on Voluntary Membership and FE Incorporation into NUS, and at times there was concern for their welfare as delegates were reported to have been 'bullied' into voting in certain directions. But any debate that took place was carved up by "hacks" seeking to further their own careers. No one from the LSE delegation
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Hugh O'Leary reveals his true political colours....
made a speech, although Hugh O'leary did put his hand up to speak against Voluntary Membership, leaving the delegation wondering what would have happened if Adam Cleary had joined the delegation!
NUS Conference is really for those trying to further their political careers. As Ray Yates points out, "NUS is a good training ground for moderate left bureaucratic would-be MPs" and it's worth noting that only one member of the NEC is a current student. Politics is the order of the day, a fact highlighted by the lack of entertainment provided over the four days. Even after the sessions had finished, delegates continued 'hacking',
elected. Such an environment was bound to have it's benefits and, as a result, LSE came into contact with half of the NEC, the highlight being an on the spot interview with Loma Fitzsimmons, who came to the conclusion that yours truly was completely mad.
With a National Rail Strike called for Friday, the Conference ended a day early. But what had it achieved? Very little according to a majority of the LSE delegation. As Ray Yates put it "NUS Conference seems like a show case of the democracy in NUS's structure to justify NOLS' control of the NEC with 1,000 students representing just under two million students". Such
Two thirds of those present had never attended a NUS Conference before....and at times there was concern for their welfare as delegates were reported to have been 'bullied' into voting in certain directions....
with several caucus meetings being held to discuss what had occurred only minutes before hand. Being 'typical' LSE students, the majority of our delegation usually headed for the bar.
But even here, politics was ever present with cheers going up everytime a certain faction got another candidate
criticism is fair. With deals between NOLS and the UJS being continuously struck, NUS Conference merely appeared, to myself at least, to be an ideal opportunity for those on the NEC to further their own political careers and get themselves reelected. What's more, any delegate who hoped to
Photo: Neil Andrews
express their individual opinion were outnumbered |)y those towing the party line. Did anyone bother to remin i such delegates that free speech is allowed in this country? Obviously not, as free expression seemed to b outlawed. Marie Darvill, a first year who attended the conference as an observer stated "For the amoimt of relevant business that actually got discussed, the conference certainly did not justify the cost or time devoted to it". Older and mc re wiser delegates, ie those who'd been before (Ron Voc^), added "This is the fourth Conference I've been to, I knew what to expect. Everyone else, even Ray, thought things were going tja happen, but nothing did. Conference is a vehicle to elect officers of NUS first aijd debating chamber second. The loss of Winter Conferer was a good reform of NUS, but the process should not stop there. Let's go for one member one vote and make NUS really democratic."
NUS Conference was hardly a waste of time, but then again it was hardly beneficial to the welfare an( 1 progress of Great Britain's student population.
I saw some sharks in Blackpool, I also watched NUS go 'round in circles, achieving little as it did so.
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For myself and many of the LSE delegation, the high point of the entire conference was when RON got elected. Yes miracle upon miracle s Ron actually won an election. Before you get to wondering how the hell I could get elected at NUS conference and not at the LSE, let me explain.
RON stands for re-open nominations. It is a means for people to express a preference when there is no candidate they wish to support. For instance, at the LSESU Lent term election the Womens Officer, Post Graduate and Mature Students Officer and most of the Constitution and Steering committee were elected unopposed. You were denied the right to vote for them, just because only one person stands, does this mean they are the right person for the job, possibly yes but in a democracy maybe not.
Unlike the NUS constitution,
which is very clear on the matter, the LSE's is vague, although it does say , and this is down to interpretation^ in Section 14.2.1 that ...."the following positions shall be contested". In my mind this infers that even if you ai'e the only candidate standing you should put yourself up against RON to ensure that you have a mandate for your position.
Voting for Ron is not a wasted vote as you may think. In several elections at Conference RON was not always last. Ron came second to Dermott Kehoe for the post of Vice-President Education, with 160 votes to the nearest person with 158. However RON came into his own when in a three horse race for Rules Revision Committee between Mark Mitchell (Lib-Dem), Alan Gibb (SWSS) and RON. Mitchell gained 353 votes, RON gained 243votes and Gibb trailed in on 82 votes.
Although I agree that if no one stands against you for a position an election does seems unfair. I also believe that for democracy to be seen to be %vorking, a choice is better than no choice at all!

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"When I get bored, I just count the heads". NUS Conference, 1993
Photo: Ray Yates
20 - Music	The Bea\;fer	4th May 1993
1
THAT'S INFOTAINMENT
The Fall return.
It is almost eighteen months since The Fall's last album, the stunning "Code: Selfish", and their new offering, "The Infotainment Scan" serves to emphasise the point that Mark E. Smith remains one of the country's foremost exponents of original and creative popular music.
Whereas "Code: Selfish" appeared to signal a change of direction for The Fall, "The Infotainment Scan" is a partial return to what one would normally expect (if that isn't a contradiction in itself!) from Mr. Smith. It seems to be pitched somewhere between its predecessor and its predecessor's predecessor, "Shiftwork". But, hang on, this is The Fall, so comparisons really are just fucking pointless , if you get my drift!
The opener, "Ladybird (Green Grass)" is the herald
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for what is to come, the initial aural delight that informs you that you have bought a good album. With a drumbeat that is reminiscent, I suppose, of PWEI circa "Box Frenzy" accompanied by a fuck off bassline and the traditional Smithian God-only-knows-what lyrics, this is classic Fall. However, it has a much more complete sound than earlier product. Then it's into what must be the cover version of the year, "Lost in Music".
My knowledge of French, sadly, is sub-GCSE level, so whatever is waffled in said language by Mark at the commencement of the song went straight over my head, except for "sur la Ja6/e"which is fairly obvious. The real addition to the song is the guitar riff, which converts it from a fairly dull mid-80s dancefloor dawdle to a scorching reminder of just
how good pop music can be, in the right hands.
"Glam Racket" is next up, not a put-down of Suede and Denim as purported by the music press, more of a general insult to, in my mind, archetypal Essex man, parents and the 70s generation as a whole. But then again, I might be completely wrong. That's the beauty of this band - what are they on about? If I had £1 for every Mark E. Smith lyric that I couldn't decipher, I certainly wouldn't be here reviewing albums for a poxy student paper, that's for sure!
"I'm Going to Spain", a cover again, of whom I'm not sure (credited to S. Bent) is fairly pleasant, not stunning, but better than most of the dross we hear nowadays.
Here it's given an (almost) Inspiral Carpets-esque workover, the end result being a polite interlude before
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Bag o' SHITE!!"
the rather more aggressive "It's a Curse".
Musically, it has elements of early U2 and The Cure, lyrically "Operation:
Mindfuck ¦ I do not like your tone - it has ephemeral whingeing aspects" certainly suggests that Mark, not unsurprisingly, is upset about someone or something. Great song, nevertheless.
Side two and "Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room" kicks in with a guitar and bass that would not have been out of place on The Cure's "Disintegration" but the shuffly drums, and a rather tasteful little bit of techno-ey noise halfway through, and this is transformed into "Free Range"'s ugly kid brother.
Following this gusto-packed entry, "Service" sounds pitiful by comparison, the only track which approaches "dufT on this
album. It meanders along fairly enough and keeps you on the edge of your seat for "The League of Bald-Headed Men" and yet another bass-driven tirade, not against bald folk, as one would expect (Expect the Unexpected!). Listen to it -1 can't figure it out!
Now it's orgasm time. "A Past Gone Mad" is the highlight of this album, not an accolade to be sneered at. This techno-fest is the illegitimate offspring of "Code: Selfish"'s "Birmingham School of Business School" - a real BASTARD. It is reassuring that in these Dark Ages of tuppenny dogshit indie toss and here-today-gone-tomorrow chart techno wank, there is a man who can do this. The track is a twisted, venomous techno-rock stomp, which really ought to have EMF, Eskimos & Egypt, Jesus Jones et al
flagellating themselves or at least prompt a few "We're Not Worthy" exaltations. Old man Mark has taken these pissy little YTS-types aside and said "That's how you fucking well do it" with this. It just defacates on their, ahem, "competition". You have to hear it, believe me.
Closing oddity "Light/ Fireworks" is as strange as "Crew Filth" was on "Code: Selfish" i.e. really bloody inexplicable. A fittingly bizarre end to a thought-provoking, mind-boggling, mind-fucking album.
Get yourself some "Infotainment" and then get yourself down to see it all for real at Clapham Grand on 15th/16th May. You'd be stupid not to.
by (The Champions of Scottish Div. 1) Raith Rovers Fan Club.
HACKNEY HOMELESS PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL
CLISSOLD PARK, HACKNEY.
Back to the Planet Radical Dance Faction Tofu Love Frogs ...and many more!
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GIMME STRENGTH!
12 interpretations of the Stones' classic "Gimme Shelter",
for the PUTTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER charity.
A fairly 8ux*prising pairing, and a fairly unsurprising result. You might have thought that your opinions would have changed, but no - Jimmy's voice is still exceedingly annoying.
One would assume that Hannah Jones might be the lady who did vocals for perpetual smash hit 'Temptation"; this is a possibility • but I neither know nor care, as this is dreadful. It starts with a very heartfelt bit about not knowing what it's like to be homeless. Then it's crap tune, dull vocals and twiddly guitar bits all over the show. And if that wasn't enough, it seems to go on for fucking ages.
Harmonica intro. TJ licks his lips. Justin and co. strike the first chords. The scruffily dressed audience of flftysomethings with pierced parts take off their underwear and throw it at the stage, and then make four-storey human pyramids, butt naked from the waist down. Sounds implausible? Unappealing? Ill-advised? Well, this record's all three.
Carl Puttnam's an interesting sort of guy. Ugly as fuck. Can't sing a note. Pop star. Jammy Bastard! Sandie Shaw is frankly, like this ditty, unremarkable.
Aaarghh! Another steaming pile of mindless mediocrity from Hull's deceptive three-piece. Deceptive, indeed, because they are actually far less talented than they would have us believe. Next!
Ooh. Cripes. Anyone who knows my opinion on wanky Cock Rock may as well stop reading this now. This is an unmitigated disaster. They've made it soimd vaguely like Status Quo, except not half as aggressive. Also, considering they're from this country, why the fuck does their bloody singer insist on singing in an American accent?
As above, but <can you believe this) far far worse. It's got a wanky long pretentious ending too, somewhat akin to Chinese water torture, of that we can be sure.
This starts off sounding like the CD is not playing properly • i.e. classic Hawkwind. Then their bloke sings a bit, there's some harmonica, and then she sings a bit. About as exciting as it sounds, believe me. The only thing I was left wondering about was if Sam Fox has ever taken LSD?
Fairly reasonable, I suppose. Run-of-the-mill stuff from 808, who are exceptionally good at times, so in reality this is a little disappointing. Perhaps they really should have, like, fistfucked the song and given it a sort of "Cubik" treatment. Then we might have something worth listening to.
Oh yes, very clever indeed. Do they realise just how long it took me to type that? However, for me this is the best of a bad bunch. And it's fitting that Mr. Clail should be involved in this project because, you see, he's from Bristol. And Bristol has the worst homelessness problem outside of London. And Gary's a nice bloke (crap accent though) who realises that there is something wrong with human nature and wonders just how long we must put up with bigotry, intolerance and racial intolerance. And he likes beef.
On a more musical note, it does, unsurprisingly, sound a little like "Bulletproof • which is no bad thing.
Do you know where Utah Saints got their name from? Well I've sussed it, all on my own. You see, there is an NFL team called New Orleans Saints, and an NBA team called Utah Jazz. So, if you swap things about a bit, take away "New Orleans" and "Jazz" (New Orleans Jazz ¦ geddit?) hey presto, you're left with Utah Saints. Q.E.D.
By the way, this is crap and sounds exactly as you would expect.
At long bloody last! Mick and Keef et al restore some of the former glory to their masterpiece. Some, though. This live rendition is a bit neither-here-nor-there, middling, so-so. Like everything else, really.
Much as I would like not to have to pan a charity rcord as it's all in a good cause, Jon Beast (he of introducing Carter USM fame and little else) has really not selected too many worthwhile artistes for this effort, and it is something that could certainly have been done better. Perhaps, though, it is the unwillingness of pop stars to help the homeless that makes this such an underachievement.
If you wish to buy "Gimme Shelter" it is available in four formats, each with three different tracks. There is a pop cassette, a dance 12", a rock cd and an alternative cd. Don't let me put you off, but I would suggest that you would be far more sensible giving your money to SHELTER or CENTREPOINT, or buying THE BIG ISSUE regularly.
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE and JIMMY SOMERVILLE HEAVEN 17 with HANNAH JONES
NEW MODEL ARMY featuring TOM JONES
CUD with SANDIE SHAW KINGMAKER THUNDER
UTTLE ANGELS
HAWKWIND and SAM FOX
808 STATE and ROBERT OWENS
POP WILL EAT ITSELF vs GARY CLAIL vs RANKING ROGER vs THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS vs THE ON-U SOUND SYSTEM
BLUE PEARL (produced and mixed by UTAH SAINTS)
ROLLING STONES (live)
4th May 1993
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me over.
One of my plans for the ' Easter Holiday was to i immerse myself in Suede, now this either means I ; wanted to a) cover myself in : material rather more ; appealing than sackcloth or ; b) buy the album and go to the gigs of a London-based 4-piece dubbed the "Best New Band in Britain" before they released their first single.
If you plumped for a) you are a simpleton not fit to walk the corridors of the LSE. i So, I'm a Suede fan, ! and this holiday was going to i be smart (?-RH) because I I was to see them twice in early i April, in London and Brighton. This never happened as the Brighton gig got put back to May, and the London gig, as you may already be aware, got cancelled by Camden Council, as far more tickets than the licence allowed were sold.
This was a major disappointment, but I left the Kilburn National with the consolation that I had only crossed London to get there while others crossed borders.
The story doesn't end here as Suede are suing the people responsible for this organisational debacle; the
fact that things like this are allowed to happen show that the capital's venues and the organisation behind them leave a lot to be desired. The result of this is a gig at the Brixton Academy in the 3rd week of May, but this will be sold out by the time you read this, so I digress...
The remainder of this article will be devoted to telling you about their album. Why do I bother with the album when it was reviewed everywhere else weeks ago? Because idiot music journos have written sloppy, boring and misleading reviews of this album not worth the paper they are printed on. What I've seen is the same old Bowie/Morrissey comparisons and comments such as "Not firing on all cylinders". Bringing in the familiar reference points is lazy journalism, and no longer accurate, as some tracks are completely original, and therefore can only be described as quintessentially Suede.
The songs on this album are predominantly either lively rock'n'rollers or sombre ballads - and it is these in particular which
show an interesting development on the live set. The most chilling is "The Next Life" which is a piano/vocal arrangement Stripped of the rythum (sic) section, Brett's singing and Bernard's melodies come under the microscope, and they pass my quality control test with flying colours! More songs like this in the future please, boys. This song was haunting enough to stay lingering at the back of my mind, where it has been since the first play. Another moment of poignancy is "Sleeping Pills'' - an exhortation to remove oneslf from a drug-induced torpor (Why would anyone want to do that? - RH) in the lyrics mixes with a lullaby arrangement until a noisy cheschendo (sic) comes along.
There's a fair number of drug references runniiig through the album with no preaching, the lyrics merely reflecting the excitement they induce, and the fact that they're a major part of the lifestyle of the nation's youth: young,
and we're so gone. Lets chase the dragon home!"
These words from "So Young", the album's lively opening shot, are a pretty clear evocation of euphoria. Apart from drugs, subjects such as suicide, insanity, and homosexuality are touched upon - abnormalities not often looked upon by ordinary people. (Abnormalities? • Ordinary people? Get a fucking life, this is 1993, you know! - RH) this could be seen as an exploitation of curiosities, but by mentioning, say, homosexuality in addition to heterosexuality the band are striving for universality, they have rightly recognized that homosexuals have been ignored and marginalized by Pop music. (But of course, you would have us believe that homosexuals are abnormal and not ordinary people - who is marginalizing now - eh? -RH)
If you're young there should be some lyrics you can relate to moods or situations you've been in recently. It's going to take the musical equivalent of "Sergeant Pepper" to beat this for album of the year. (I'll leave that decision to you, readers! - RH)
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I.	SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN...^............................................The Smiths
Z THE FLAMING CHURCH OF BABY JESUS___________Sheep on Drugs
3.	CHURCH OF THE POISON MIND..................................Culture Club
4.	SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES..........................................Bryan Ferry
5.	NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE...............................................Spear of Destiny
6.	BEDS ARE BURNING.........................................................J\fidnight Oil
7.	WE'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF THIS PLACE.......................Animals
8.	LOSING IVIY RELIGION..................................................................JREM
9.	WALLS COIVIE TUMBLING DOWN.„.................The Style Council
10.	THE HEAT IS ON.................................................................^^,Glenn Trey
II.	ASHES TO ASHES..........................................................J)avid Bowie
12.	BODYCOUNT............................................................................Bodycount
13.	FUNERAL PYRE..............................................................................The Jam
14.	HOT HOT HOT.........................................................................The Cure
15.	WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER ?..„.....................................Queeti
16.	JESUS HE KNOWS IVIE................................................................Genesis
17.	BOOM BANG A BANG......................................................................Lulu
18.	PSYCHO KILLER.................................................................Talking Heads
19.	SACRIFICE..^.............................................................................Elton John
20.	LIGHT MY FIRE_________________________________________________________„....,....The Doors
Oh sod it! That's enough! Mind you, Vd watch out in the shops for the imminent re-release of material by the SOUTHERN DEATH CULT...
RUBY ZOOM TO SUCCESS.
Ruby Zoom Live at The Moonlight Club, West Hampstead
It's 8.30pm and a rather rowdiy "Beaver" exec, bursts through the door to our flat. It is time to see the legend that is RUBY ZOOM. Having played a part (albeit a very minor one) in looking after the drummer by carting his drums about, cleaning up after him etc., I decided to check out this band that had occupied most of his time, which might otherwise have been filled by washing up, studying and all the other ubiquitous chores of studenthood.
The air heavy with anticipation, our little posse enters the Moonlight Club, North West London's finest, not surprised at the £3 entry fee (proceeds going to Young Jewish Care) but at the sight of a bustling bar with the sound of Public Enemy blasting out above the chatter. After buying a
drink and acclimatising to these developments, the posse move to the other side of the bar, accompanied by "Madness". All is dark and a potent silence hangs in the air...
Then, to the sound of the "James Bond" theme, our intrepid foursome majestically come onto the stage. Without introduction, the band kick off with the energetic "Never Before", and before the second chorus comes through the whole audience could be seen remarking at the surprisingly high quality sound achieved by the band, matched only by the obvious competence of the musicians. Each member of the band displayed not only individual talent (most notable in the drumming and guitar sections) but also an ability to gel and perform
as a group effectively, a feat usually reserved for "established" bands. Powerful songs such as "Wild Day", "Under the Hammer", "Love Child", and "Nothing Special" were performed to a standard that far exceeded my expectations for the evening.
The band finished their set by reclaiming the classic "Ever Fallen in Love With Someone (mumble mumble)" for the Buzzcocks, before the by now quite knackered drummer was compelled, along with the rest of the band, to perform "Never Before" again (the logical implications are staggering!) In all, this was a very competent and enjoyable performance by a very talented group who will go far if they continue in this vein.
ED HUNTLEY
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	Sunday 27th June

The Music Editor would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have so kindly given of their time to write for these pages. I hope to carry on receiving articles regularly, it's your paper, say what you want.
Ta,
Robert Hick.
22 - Public Lectures
The BeaMer
4th May 1993
PUBLIC LECTURES SUMMER TERM 1993
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Ethnic & Racial Studies Journal Lecture.
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MAI^ CHITTI Professor of Law,
Studio Legale, University of Firenze. "Public Contracts in the Single Market: Competition and Interest" The Shimizu Trust Lecture. Chaiman: Professor Sue Arroivsmith
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Houghton Street Harry
With the World Cup taking place next year in the good old US of A, Harry is wondering whether or not if any of the Home Nations will be there to represent the land where the game was invented and established, after all, if 11 be a bit like staging the Super Bowl or the Home Series without an American team.
Last week's results proved disappointing to say the least. England were just three minutes away from recording their first win over the Netherlands since 1977 and taking a big step towards qualifying. Now they look like being on the brink of being knocked out at the qualifying stages. Admittedly there's a long way to go, but of the remaining fixtures, only one game is due to be played at home. Where will that leave Graham Taylor's hopes of international success? Three hard games await them overseas and Taylor's team have only the relatively easy fixture against San Marino to fall back on.
But at least they're not in Scotland's position. Unable to repeat the performance of Jock Stein's European Cup winning Celtic side, Andy Roxburgh's blue and white army fell by the way side as Portugal romped home with a 5-0 victory. Their chances of qualifying now seem remote. Scotland, who have qualified for the last five World Cups, look set to sit this one out but at least there'll be no embarrassing upsets in the form of Zaire, Costa Rica, Iran and Peru.
Wales have an outside chance of going to the States after their impressive 1-1 draw with the RCS, formerly Czechoslovakia. In a tough group for the umpteenth time, Terry Yorath can take satisfaction from the fact the group is practically wide open,
with qualification still a real possibility. Of course, this is probably Mark Hughes and Ian Rush's last chance of World Cup glory, whether they will "seize the day" remains to be seen.
Northern Ireland have been all but knocked out following two successive defeats at the hands of the Republic of Ireland and Spain, but are still capable of an upset that could determine the final positions of the group.
Despite leaving the United Kingdom all those years ago, Eire are included in this run down. Of the five Nations mentioned, they stand the best chance of qualifying. They could still trip up though, if the continental sides can solve the problems incurred by facing a team whose only tactic is to hoof the ball up field and run like headless chickens after it. In realistic terms, their only real match on the football field comes from teams that can exploit and play the system they rely on, namely Wales and England.
Of course if any of the above teams do qualify, any progress further will undoubtedly be shortened by the lack of skill they possess. England's side is lost without a qualified replacement for Gazza, as last Wednesday's game highlighted. Paul Merson could not have replaced his apparent playmaker abilities to get things moving in the right direction. In Chris Waddle they do. But the pig-headed attitude of Graham Taylor serves only to remind the football fan of the old days when skill was over looked in favour of work rate. Stanley Matthews won surprisingly few caps during his day, manager Walter Winterbottom and the England selectors preferring the rough edge of less talented players. Dropped against the "Marvellous Magyars' at Wembley, their attacking, dribbling skills caught the rugged England team by surprise, and won convincingly 6-3. Later the same year saw the return match in Budapest and the England selectors failed to change their tactics for the game. The result: Hungary 7 England 1.
These historic victories sent shock waves through the England game and majority opinion ruled that such a defeat was due to the players' lack of fitness, rather than skill, and teams all around the country called in their squads for extra training.
And the moral of the story? You can lead a donkey onto a football field, but you can't make him kick a ball straight. In other words, it's play makers that win games, not work horses and unless Taylor realises this fact, England will not be going to America next year.
Finally Harry would like to express the sympathies of the entire LSE sporting community to the families and friends of the Zambian World Cup squad who died in a plane crash on Wednesday.
"Footballs not just about life and death, it's more . important than that!"
Bill Shankly
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4th May 1993
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Milllwall and United States International goalkeeper Kasey Keller talks to the Beaver about his nation's World Cup hopes
When FIFA announced that the 1994 World Cup Finals were going to be staged in the United States the sound of laughter could be heard echoing around the hallowed halls of soccer's establishment. Surely they were taking the proverbial piss. The most important event of the footballing calendar was to be placed in the hands of nation whose pedigree left a lot to be desired; after all, who'd want to watch a game that was interrupted by commercials every ten minutes. But the American game has come a long way over the past few seasons, building upon their qualification for the final stages in Italy three years ago.
Nowhere has seen a more marked improvement in the American game than that bastion of soccer, the Football League. The rise in standard has seen an influx of players from the United States,
plying their trade over here, the most prominent being John Harkes and Roy Wegerlie, but south of the River, in the London Borough of Lewisham, they're singing the praises of what they consider to be Seattle's greatest export. Forget Nirvana, down Cold Blow Lane, SE14, the star of the moment is Kasey Keller.
The 22 year old Keller has claimed the goalkeeping position at a club that regular breeds international quality goalkeepers, Bryan King and Alex Stepney to name but a few. Before the end of last season no one had heard of him and when the team lineup for Millwall's last home game of the season was announced last spring, most fans couldn't believe it. After all, doesn't the States have a bad record for conceding goals? Keller kept a clean sheet that day and has gone on to claim the Number One shirt from Aiden Davison.
'The London Match', LWT's answer to Sky's Premier League coverage, threw Keller into the public limelight, earning a Man of the Match award against
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Kasey Keller (left) in action earlier this season in the Coca-Cola Cup clash against Arsenal.
Newcastle earlier in the season. Such attention caught the youngster unawares.
"I wasn't really surprised when I became first choice at Millwall, but I was surprised at the kind of success I achieved within the game in terms of establishing myself as one of the best at league level". Keller is widely recognised amongst press and player alike as being one of the best goalies within the division and was nominated earlier this year for the PFA's Goalkeeper of the Year for Division One.
Whilst enjoying life at Millwall, Keller is also in contention for the Number One jersey of the USA's National side, a position he is confident of achieving. But why soccer as opposed to American Football or Baseball?
"Well, I used to play those games as well as a youngster but it's one of those things where you are quite successful at an early age and people begin to express an interest in your abilities." Such interest led to Keller being taken on at Millwall but does he believe that the influx of players from the States is due to a rise in standard? "No, not really. Admittedly the standard has improved but nowadays players are being given a chance to prove themselves at a higher level. There are a number of quality players in the States at the moment that will perform well given the opportunity, not just those in the public eye."
European clubs have certainly taken notice in recent years, with several of the US's National Team
playing in the top flight but does such an improvement in the American game auger well for the 1994 World Cup?
"I'd be lying to say we're gonna win the competition but I reckon we've got a good chance to make it to the Quarter Finals. We'll definitely reach the second round, especially when you take into account that we'll have the home crowd behind us, that'll make an important difference to our game."
The USA in the Quarter Finals of the World Cup? It could happen; after all, they reached the semi-finals in 1930, finishing third overall but wait a minute, I hear you cry, no Millwall player has ever played in the Quarter Finals before! Wrong, Mick McCarthy was there in 1990.
Neil Andrews
Boxing Clever?
When Lennox Lewis steps into the ring this Saturday to defend his World Heavyweight crown, he'll be the first Briton to do so since Bob Fitzsimmons, who defended his crown in America before the turn of the century, but the link is tenuous to say the least.
Lewis, born in Bethnal Green, emigrated to Canada with his family at an early age and represented his adopted country at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where he won the gold medal.
Returning to Britain in order to fight for the European Heavyweight crown, Lewis became World Champion after Riddick Bowe refused to fight him for the WBC version of the title, going one further than Frank Bruno managed to do in his fights with Tim Witherspoon and Mike Tyson without even stepping into the ring.
Bob Fitzsimmons nationality is also a touch dubious. After emigrating to the States, Fitzsimmons became an American citizen before he
won his title but the record books state his nationality has British. Who are we to argue?
Still, Lewis is only the second British heavyweight Champion in history. How long it will last, who knows? But will he retain his belt long enough to face the people's champ, Bruno?
If he does, it'll be Bruno's third attempt to clinch the title, a feat not performed in the ring by a Brit this century. Notable failures include Joe Bugner, who went
fifteen rounds with Muhammed Ali without laying a punch on the champion, and Henry Cooper. Old 'Enry was stopped in the sixth round of his title fight after Ali re-opened an old eye injury. Had his eye not been cut who knows what would have happened that night, only years before. Cooper had been the first boxer to knock Ali down. But that's boxing history. The present and future of British boxing is very much in Lewis' hands.