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Amid showers of water, a party is cancelled and Adams criticised
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IJNION Council received two rebuffs from the students at the Union meeting last Friday.
John Carrier's motion to reprimand Council for spending excessive funds (£120) on sherry parties for selected students, members of the Court of Governors, Administrative Staff, and Senior Academics was hotly debated.
The
Protesters Without.
The
Collaborators Within.
seeks solitude
CIR Sydney Caine, Director of the School for the past ten years, resigns at the end of this session. Asked what he planned to do in his retirement, he said that, "I hope to do as little as possible, although at present I could go to committee meetings for the next twelve

months. What I want to be is free to do things when I want to do them."
Asked what qualities a Director should have. Sir Sydney said, "When people are searching for the head of a large educational institution they desire all possible virtues. I would say that the important thing is firstly administrative ability. Equally important is an interest in and a capacity to understand academic activities. Thirdly I should say, a willingness to listen to people."
On the structure of the School, Sir Sydney said that
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Mr. Carrier said that these elitist meetings did nothing to promote the improvement of staff-student relations. These were men who had proved themselves unsympathetic to students, said Carrier, and if they had any serious interest in meeting students they could do so in ways which wouldn't cost the students £30.
Chris Middleton defended Council's actions on the grounds that they were following the policy of previous Councils. He said that the number of students participating in these parties had been increased since last year, and that the expenditure for the porters' party had been raised so that an equal amount per person was being spent.
Cancelled
Union voted to delete the reprimand of Council, but to have all future plans for parties approved by Union before funds were appropriated. They refused to grant funds for the party planned for that night, and as a result, this party was cancelled.
Last week, Union had invited Adams to address the Union, and he had refused, saying he wished to speak with Union Council first.
Watherstone's motion.
"regretting Dr. Adams' insistence on conditions", instructed Council to meet Adams to arrange a Union Meeting.
This motion was not granted urgency. In place of it, a motion proposed by Chris Middelton and Alex Finer was passed which declared that it was "inconsistent with Council's role to acquiesce in meeting Dr. Adams on his conditions." The movers argued that they saw no reason why "the Director-Designate is not competent to speak to Union as originally requested," noting that he had given interviews to the Press and on T.V., and they deplored the fact that Adams appeared to prefer working with small groups of students.
Sir Sydney versus the Polemicists
Atkinson,
Roberts,
Osuji, or
Everyone is
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Soc-soc fails to stop party
(See Editorial, Page 2.)
yHE Union meeting last Friday refused permission for the using of Union funds for financing a sherry party (see lead story this page). This had been arranged for invited Union ofiB-cials, senior members of the Academic staff and Governors of the School.
The party had been scheduled to take place in the Shaw Library the same evening at 8.00 p.m. The School stepped in to pay for it, and invited along "all
students who wished to come". However, some students, mostly Soc-Soc, still objected to the meeting. Pickets They declared that only invited students knew about the party in the Shaw Library and that socialising with the Board of Governors would neither clarify any issues nor improve staff-student relationships. Therefore some 20 students manned pickets outside the Library.
The President, together with most of the Union Council and members of Beaver staff, joined the Professors and Members of the Administration for about half an hour. Then on the invitation of the picketers, it was decided to retire to the Three Tuns to meet the students on their home ground. There, for the most part with good humour, they continued informal discussions with students — including those who formerly had been picketting, and heard a chorus of songs from the sit-in. A good time was had by most people.
Berlin F.U.-new crisis
CPEAKEVG from the Free University of West Berlin on Monday, Lutz Rimnsland, President of the Students' Union of the Otto Suhr Institut (the Free University's equivalent of LSE) told Beaver: "What is at issue here is whether a University should be a democratic institution or not."
The latest crisis, which has followed months of discussion about students' rights, arose over a motion of no confidence in the Students' Union. The Director of the University astonished many students by saying that, if the motion of no confidence were passed, he would suspend disciplinary action against five student leaders, three of whom had already had their grants stopped.
I Rejected
The motion was rejected by a small margin, only 3% of the total poll, "But at least it showed that the student leaders are not a small minority trying to take over the University, as the Press and others have alleged," Lutz said.
"The Free University leads Germany in student participation," he continued, "but there is still much to be done."
German Universities will stage a mass demonstration on July 1st, entitled '2 + 2=3', to draw attention to the need for more support to be given to education.
GREEK EMBASSY CASE: The charges laid against the 42 accused have now been changed to Forcible Entry and Riot. Amongst those charged are 12 students from LSE.
What About
You?
The response to the student survey has so far been encouraging, but the response rate must be as large as possible —have you returned your questionnaire yet?
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BEAVER—May 25th, 1967
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letters to the editor
LITTLE CHILDREN
One of the perennial arguments against student representation is that they are immature and unfit to take part in the government of an educational institution. T^e Union meeting last Friday lent powerful support to this view. Quite apart from the major issues at stake, the behaviour during the debate would have been surprising from a pre-pubescent ten year old school boy, let alone a group of responsible university students.
While a decision that may seriously prejudice any remnant of dialogue between the School was being discussed, some members of our academic community chose to exercise their academic rights with a demonstration of their sharp-shooting with water-pistols, spud-guns and outbreaks of lavatorial humour.
The more serious point, however, is that a motion was passed that could well be interpreted by many members of the staff as rejecting any chance of a detente between the School and students. In fact it could well be thus interpreted by anyone who still remains friendly to our interests.
At the meeting the members of the Standing Committee, the senior academic staff, and administration were characterised as ogres and villians. This seems a little excessive.
The only thing that really separates some of the staff from students is that they hold opinions that are antagonistic to our own interest. A dialogue should be continued at all levels and on all occasions if any progress is to be made.
The fact is that a few members of the student body who are opposed to any exterior control on their activities have chosen to bring the Union into disrepute and have attempted to bring the system to anarchy. It is ironic that it is the School who held out the hand of friendship and took over the party that the Union chose to cancel so discourteously.
DOUGIE'S WON
So ULU has at last gained its " victory" over the eighteenth century benevolent or not so benevolent despotism of Sir Douglas Logan and London University.
Or so they are proclaiming. In fact, the changes in Malet Street mean very Utile, instead of being responsible only to Sir Douglas, they will now be responsible only to a committee with a majority of staff! Instead of having to chat up malleable Collegiate Council members in the UCH bar, they now have more formalised " channels of communi-cauon." Brothers, the revolution hasn't come.
ULU have now dragged themselves up to the level of the most-oppressed students' union in the university sector. It is Sir Douglas who has won. Ihe argument from Spate House for the next fifteen years will be " aren't you satisfied with what you've got ? "
The fact is they've got no reason to be. Yes, ULU may eventually become haoiiabie. But not in my university career. Ihey've got one hell of a lot of muck to rake out betort they can get started. If the new committee is reasonably human, then changes may be made. But the very fact that it is a statf-dominated committee will mean that any changes that ao come will come very slowly.
It's just not good enough.
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It is a great privilege for me a student from Viet-Nam to submit for the readers of Beaver my personal views on the tragic conflict that has beset my unfortunate country for years.
Viet-Nam has been on the front page of British newspapers only during the last few years, but my country already existed four thousand years ago. This age-old history was dominated by the struggle of the Vietnamese people for national survival and identity. This struggle was mainly waged against China which ruled over Viet-Nam for more than ten centuries, and it was on the Vietnamese shores that the Mongolian hordes of Khubilai Khan were thrown back by a Vietnamese general, Tran Hung Dao.
The struggle that we are now waging in V.et-Nam is also for our national survival and identity. The Vietnamese people, if they were given the opportunity of expressing their true will, would certainly choose to remain Vietnamese, not Chinese or American.
As a Vietnamese, I deeply deplore the loss of lives which the bombing of North Viet-Nam may have caused to our compatriots, but one must wonder whether the casualties caused among the South Vietnamese civilian population by Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communist) grenades, plastic bombs and mines, it not outnumbering the casualties caused by bombing.
Having suffered from the ravag-ings and ruins of war for the last 20
years, the Vietnamese people, more than anyone else, desire peace, but we are not ready to accept peace with subservience.
Our struggle also aims at building a new society, based on true democracy. To this end, rural elections at the hamlet level have been organised, and foreign observers have tes-tiged to the fairness of these elections. Next September according to the constitution written by an elected Constituent Assembly, gen-
eral elections will be held, and I personally hope that the LSE will be able to send observers on this occasion.
The road to democracy is a long, hard one. We have certainly made mistakes and met with failures, but we are determined to march on and with the help of friendly countries and particularly the young people throughout the world we are confident that 'WE SHALL PREVAIL' Le Chau Loc
Humanising Relations
Several weeks ago, I wrote to a couple in Salisbury, Rhodesia whom I was certain would give me a disinterested and unbiased appraisal of Dr. Adams as a man.
What they said interested me very much, in view of all that we've heard about Dr. Adams during this past year. He was described by his secretary as " a wise and great liberal" and he is reputed to be a good organizer, hard working, and considerate of his personal staff.
Existence
After U.D.I., his main aim appears to have been to preserve the existence of the multi-racial University College of Rhodesia, although by steering a middle course he antagonized extremists of both left and right. It has been said that he failed to protect his students and staff from police action on behalf of the Smith Government. Apparently stores of arms and explosives were found in the rooms of some lecturers and students (information gleaned from the mother of one of the boys who was sent down, as well as from press and police reports) and there were
violent demonstrations necessitating the calling of the police to save the staff from bodily harm.
Accusation
Apart from these points of information about Adams, which tend to put into a slightly different perspective some of the accusations brought against him this year, one other struck me as far more important and more relevant to the situation at L.S.E. Adams is described as a man who sometimes " put plans before people and does not decentralize." If he does in fact think more of programs than of people, he will surely bring no answer to the problems we have at L.S.E.
What we need from both students and Administration at this point is a readiness to abandon all pre-conceived theories and programs and to sit down together as people ready to listen as well as to speak and to accept the possibility that others may have equally good ideas for the future of the School.
As long as we stay at the petty level of bickering over who should have more power, we will get nowhere
at all. As students, motivated largely by self-interest, resentment, and even open hostility, we will only convince the men in the Administration that they are being threatened and must harden their stand in order to protect their interests.
Randy Thomsen
Informative
Sir,
May I congratulate Beaver on its article on drug addiction in the issue of May 11th.
It is far the most informative short article on the subject I have read. Yours sincerely,
Cyril Grnnfeld
Dept of Law
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LIFE UNDER APARTHEID
Reproduced by courtesy of 'SECHABA' magazine of the African National Congress of South Africa
"RIGHTS ARE
GETTING OUT OF HAND"
— Vorster
STARVATION PENSIONS
The maximum pension for a wliite in South Africa is £15 per month. For Coloureds and Asians it is £7 per month in cities and £5 15s. per month in rural areas. The maximum pension for Africans is fl 17s. per month.
The official Dietetics and Home Economics Section of the Department of Agricultural Technical Services in South Africa drew up a minimum diet table. These figures show that an African couple (with their £3 14s. per month pension) fall short on the cost of food alone by more than eleven shUUngs. Thus clothing, rent, light, fuel and washing are quite beyond them: and transport, medical services, recreation, tobacco and reading matter are undreamt-of
NET VIR
luxuries. In other words, the old-age pension for Africans fails to meet an officially recognised standard of adequacy. (From "Revised Social Pensions in South Africa—1966" by Sheila Suttner, published by South African Institute of Race Relations).
PARLIAMENT
"The United Party fights all who endanger White civilization . . . The resvlts of your (the Nationalists) dangerous Bantu-stan policy must in the end be the same as those for which Mandela and Sobukwe strive, namely the end of White civilization . . . You must realise that we will preserve White leadership over the entire South Africa".
(Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader
of the official White opposition Party in South Africa).
THE YOUTH POLICE
South Africa has about 10,000 "Youth Police", white boys aged 12 to 18 who actively help the police with their worlt. Formed into cells with dramatic names like "The Lion Gang" and "The Midnight Leopards", the youths have powers of arrest. In 1966 four Johannesburg Youth Police spent their school holiday arresting an average of 15 Africans each day, mainly for pass and tax offences. These youth cells, formed on a basis similar to the notorious Hitler Youth, were initiated by the boy's magazine PATRYS. The magazine is published by "Voortreklcerpers", the publishing firm headed, until his death, by Hendrilc Verwoerd.
A MILLIONAIRE AMERICAN
"The policy of South Africa as expressed by the new Prime Minister is as much in the Interests of South Africa as anything I can think of or suggest I am not a South African, but there Is nothing I would do better or differently".—Charles Engelhard, American multi-milUonalre.
Suspected offenders shot dead by police 1965: 70. Suspected offenders seriously injured 1965: 102.
SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT
160,000 people worked in the wholesale trade In South Africa at the end of September 1965. Yet the total earnings of the 92,000 non-white workers were less than one-third of the total earnings of the 68,000 whites. Calculating the earnings per person per month, reveals the following figures:
Whites £94 per month Asians	£38 per month
Coloureds £25 per month Africans £19 per month (From figiu-es released 22.4.66 by the South African Bureau of Statistics).
There are 8,500 political prisoners in Vorstefs jails (one in every 2,000 of the total population of South Africa). In relation to respective populations, in any one day in South Africa there are as many political prisoners as there are total prisoners in Great Britain.
ACADEMIC AFFAIRES
Brian Taylor is in his mega-lomanic term. Having been elected Deputy President of ULU, he is currently trying to get the Academic Affairs Vice-Presidency of the Union under his belt.
He has a long history of debuts in politics behind him. He stood for General Secretary, and for NUS delegate from LSii, before he took to ULU — and lost both times.
He did, however, manage to get a place on the Welfare committee, and the Debates committee, and the Refectory committee and the Academic Affairs committee, and the Constitution committeee. Indeed, he is Secretary of the Constitution committee, which met on Tuesday for the first time this term.
Generally acclaimed as possibly the worst Deputy President of ULU since Pat Monro, it will be interesting to see if he can collect more votes than committees in today's elections.
His opponent, John Howard-Jones, is an untypical student. He has regular habits, eats regularly and frugauy, drmks little and smokes less. He has never been positively identified outside the library. He has, of course, a truncated hyphen.
He presents peculiar problems to the voter—he has never won an election because he has never stood. (QED!). Bloodhounds will never find him out — he washes every day; his political views are anathema to non-politicians. It is reported that he works hard and has been unable to swallow sugar-lumps.
If anyone recognises his ginger sideburns he may even get some votes.
Warning; He's the library officer now . . .
WITH LOVE FROM SENNET
LSE and The University
by
Prof. M. J. Wise
Important changes are in progress in the relationship between the School (and other colleges) and the University itself. These changes are likely to have far-raching results for the School leading particularly to changes in degree courses and syllabuses. They will also necessitate changes in the organization of the School and in its machinery of government.
For the first 64 years of its existence (which began in 1836) the University was solely an examining body. A number of institutions prepared students for its degree examinations. The University prescribed the detailed syllabuses. In 1900 the University was re-constituted and it was provided that the teaching work of the University should be carried on In a number of colleges (of which L.S.E. was one) which were designated "Schools of the University." However, the central machinery for the control of syllabuses and examinations remained. The machinery for academic matters has, in practice, been the University Faculties and, at a lower level, the Boards of Studies for subjects (Economics. Sociology, History, Geography etc.).
The Boards of studies have been responsible for the prescription of syllabuses in each subject field. As long ago as 1926 questions were raised concerning the benefits of a 'central' system, certainly so far as some of the larger colleges were concerned. It was argued that some colleges were strong enough academically to be allowed the right to arrange syllabuses as they thought best and to examine their own students, given safeguards regarding external examiners. In fact, while provision was included in the University statutes for college-based syllabuses little advantage was taken except by Imperial College and by the Faculty of Engineering. The need for L.S.E.
to take formal steps was reduced by its predominant position in the Faculty of Economics.
Recently, the movement towards adopting college-based syllabuses has gathered strength. This movement has many roots. The Bobbins report pointed the ned for re-organ-isatlon. Many colleges had Increased their specialised teaching resources.
Rapid advances had been made In some fields leading to difficulties in adapting 'central' syllabuses to rapidly changing college teaching needs.
It became clear in 1965 that a review of the academic organisation of

the University, which was still based on the principle of central organisation of syllabuses, was necessary. A Committee on Acadmic Oragnisation was established under the Chairmanship of Sir Owen Saunders of Imperial College to review the relationship between the University and the Schools, the adequacy of the existing machinery and to examine the conditions under which greater responsibility for syllabuses and examinations could be given to colleges. Members of LSE on this committee were Professor Wheatcroft, Professor Day and myself.
The report (published in 1966 and now under consideration by the University) favours the granting of a greater degree of freedom to colleges to work out their own syllabuses and to conduct examinations. While the report does not recommend the abolition of the old 'central' system which is still desired by some subjects — it suggests that colleges should have the same right to initiate courses of study as has a University Board of Studies. Thus the main principle — the right of colleges to devise their own courses — has been largely accepted. A student may in future follow a syllabus of study specially devised by his own college, be examined by his own col-
lege and still qualify for a University degree.
Reference must be made to another change recently initiated by the Faculty of Science. This Faculty was concerned not only with the need for adaptability of courses at the college level but also with the importance of flexibility in the content of degree courses to suit the needs of both teachers and students in subjects where new knowledge and fresh links between disciplines were appearing. It devised the 'course unit' system whereby each course of study was given a value in 'course units'. A course unit was defined as normally "one third of the amount of study which any adequately prepared student can reasonably be expected to complete in a year." Syllabuses of study were devised to enable students to combine courses from different disciplines, the course unit value of each course being clearly stated. Over the three years the student Is required to complete at least 9 course units: rather more, 11, for example, In some fields of study. How far is this an idea which we should adopt widely in the School?
The School has been in favour of greater academic Independence for colleges: Indeed it has already begun to devise Its own courses of study.
In October 1966 teaching began for the new School-based degrees in Social Anthropology and in Geography, both of which are organised on a course unit basis. A new School based degree in Mathematics will be introduced In October 1967, devised to meet the special needs of the School. The School has set up Its own Board, under arrangements agreed by the University, to conduct the college based examinations, and the first examinations (for first year students) will be held in June. The University retains the ultimate control of standards since the degrees will be University degrees, it appoints the external examiners.
If the School is to make good use of its greater academic autonomy it must make changes in its system of government. In the past, syllabuses of study have been under the control of central Boards of Studies. As the task of syllabus making passes to the School it will need its own body to consider changes and. a major lack at present, to co-ordinate syllabus making and examination requirements with the appointment of appropriate teaching staff and the provision of adequate physical facilities for teaching new courses, it is primarily with this work of academic policy making and co-ordination in mind that the proposal has come forward for an Academic Senate. As the task of devising and changing syllabuses becomes the School's task it should be possible to bring student opinion much more actively into consultation on such matters as course content and teaching method. Also, junior staff members will be much more directly involved In the process of syllabus making. These are desirable developments and we should without delay be considering, practically, how best the necessary changes in our organisation can be achieved. Certainly there will be better opportunities at the departmental level for practical consultation between staff and students on course and syllabus matters.
There should also be greatly Improved opportunities for students to play an effective part in the general administration of the School.
sir, you are
Dear Magnus,
With respest,
wrong.
You state (Beaver, May 11th) that Sennet Newspaper "Starts by instigating the contravention of 'D' notices", and later brag that "the above is not libel, it is abuse, and let Sennet try to sue for this".
Sir, you sorely tempt me. But the pen is mightier than the lawsuit, even though the pen in this case scribbles across your miserable little gossip column, a mere shadow of what dear old Magnus Carter used to be. So you will print this letter. No cuts, please. I take pleasure in the thought that at least I will be taking up a few of your column inches (perhaps serving you another suit?).
By all means abuse me. It carries viith it a certain amount of prestige value, like being banned from South Africa. But if you are pretentious enough to call yourself a journalist, then at least check your facts the next time.
Yours fraternally,
FRANK MANSFIELD,
Sennet.
P.S. Please print on Magnus Carter page, not letters. Thanks mate I
P.P.S. I'll buy you a drink next time.....
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Covent Garden, a stones throw from here. A world of contrasts, market and Opera House. It's the glamour of the curtain rising on Swan Lake or Carmen, music, the bright lights in the foyer, glittering jewels, evening dress: or cabbage leaves rotting in the gutter. Never silence. As the gay evening crowds melt away midnight brings the fleets of lorries piled high with vegetables or fruit. At dawn come the buyers, inspecting, Ibargaining, deciding; watching as their purchases are carted away. Two worlds, tolerant of each other, amused at each other's strange antics, yet neither existing as we know it without the other.




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BEAVER—May 25th, 1967
i piPPA JONES, Welfare I VP, has been busy for the [ past several months on plans \ for a day nursery at the : LSE. The proposal was orig-\ inally made by students on \ the Staff-Student Health j Committee, and has been i received favourably by the 1 staff. Research by the stud-1 ents has shown that the i nursery is badly needed, : and an investigation into the I problems of space, equipment ; and costs has proved that it i is entirely feasible. It is i possible, that, if no further problems arise, we may have a functioning nursery at LSE, perhaps by next year.
Questionnaires showed that at least 30 parents were interested. These are mostly students who are finding it difficult to care for their children and continue with their studies at the same time.
Overcrowded
Most find it expensive and inconvenient to leave their children with locally-organised day-care centres. These nurseries are often overcrowded and students are put on the bottom of the waiting list when they apply. A nursery at LSE would
solve many of these problems, and it would allow parents to see their children more often than they could otherwise.
The nursery would be self-supporting, by charging 5 shillings for a 2-3 hour session, or £2 for a week of 10 sessions. It would be available for the children of academic and administrative staff as well as those of students. One large room could care for about 25 children with three adults supervising.
Init-iafive
At present, the main problem is space. LSE is overcrowded anyway, but especially now while reconstruction goes on. But Pippa is still hopeful that the programme can start next year.
This is a good example of student initiative at LSE. In an area where the school structure allowed the students to participate, they made good suggestions and worked hard to put them into effect. If students were permitted more opportunities to participate in planning for the benefit of everyone in the school, LSE would be a better place for us all.
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LSE?-Says who ?
'T'HIS time the charge comes from Dr. Anne Bohm and Miss Myatt-Price, both top level women administrators at LSE. They both said that discrimination against women exists at LSE, but they disagreed strongly on the extent and importance of this.
Promotion
Miss Myatt-Price, Senior Assistant Registrar, said that there is a considerable amount of prejudice against women in the administrative and teaching staff. The main problem is with hiring and promotions, not salary. Salaries for equal grades are equal she said, but often a man with similar quaUfica-tions will be preferred when he first applies, and when he is considered for promotion. She noted that while there is a large number of women who are Readers, very few reach professional status. This is not a question of merit, she said.
Equal Number
Dr. Anne Bohm, head of the Graduate Department, said that discrimination against women exists primarily against women as academics, not administrators. She also pointed to the small percentage of women professors. But she said that there is an equal number of women and men in high administrative positions, and claimed that she had never encountered any prejudice against herself in her 25 years at LSE.
LSE Secretaries ^Xike it liere"
FJURING the recent crisis at LSE, students and administration threw accusations back and forth at a furious rate. The students were accused of being nearly everything except responsible students, and the administration was accused, among other things, of being unsympathetic and incompetent administrators. Beaver's roving women's news reporter decided to find out what the secretaries thought of each side's views. How did this segment of the school look
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CEEMS the Commie P.R.
men are telling us a few little white lies. We keep seeing photos of the latest styles from "swinging" Moscow, but, according to our reporter, straight back from Russia, mini-skirts are nowhere to be seen.
Perhaps they want to convince us that they are just as
SKIRTS
decadent and bourgeois as they tell us we are. Yet Russian women still manage to look very attractive in their boilersuits or national dress, but more because of their good health than of being clad in stylish clothes.
upon their employers at LSE, and what did they think of the students' demands?
Two young secretaries gave frank opinions on these issues. They said that, although their wages were £2-3 lower than what they would earn for a similar job in a commercial establishment, they enjoyed working here. They found that the administration was "highly considerate" in placing them in a pleasant works situation with other secretaries their own age, that their work was never too demanding, and that they were allowed to study at the University without paying fees. In addition, they enjoyed meeting lots of people through their job, since there is a lot of contact between the various departments.
Hysterical
They also said that they were generally quite sympathetic to students' demands, but that their older colleagues were much less inclined to agree with the students. One recounted her boss's reaction on the day of the famous Connaught House sit-in as "hysterical", but said that when she just kept quiet the incident blew over and calm business-as-usual procedures resumed on the following day.
In short, they had divided opinions and loyalties based on their position in the lower echelons of the administrative structure, their relations with their own boss, and the amount of contact they had with the students.
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The Mummy*s Shroud and Frankenstein Created Woman
New Victoria
Blood, brains, acid and polluted water, all flow in abundance. There is amazingly a nice little performance by Michael Ripper as the most pitiful of the Mummy's prey, he managed to make me most sorry for him.
SADISTIC
A remarkable feat, especially as I was rooting for the Mummy to kill them all. Unfortunately the blasted female ingenue survived without a broken fingernail. Despite this flaw it remained all good clean enjoyable sadistic fun.
Astoria, Charing Cross Road
This was one of the first j wide, wide screen Todd A O I Productions. A musical of \ considerable vintage with a i number of good songs, and j a number of trite situations, j The action is played during j the Second World War. The j story concerns two love affairs i with multi-racial overtones, i This attempt, to be desper-; ately liberal and react against: anti-miscegnation mores, is: revealing of a certain aspect: of American understanding.; But it is also acutely embar- i rassing.
Very colourful and pleas- i ant to the eye, usually pleas- i ant to listen to. About the acting there is little to say, it is usually inept with minor exceptions. It is directed by Joshua Logan with a conspicuous lack of any remarkable talent. But it will while away a rainy Sunday afternoon quite well.
... and the basketball team has only one member
FILMS
Reviewed by Robert Holton
High and Low POP'N'JAZZ
Two products of Hammer studios fearless plagiarisers of all old horror films. These are two prime examples of this staple British genre. Frankenstein seems to be trying a new approach to creation.
GRUESOME
Without ever returning to the one provided by nature. This time he tries revival of a combination of the soul of an executed youth and the corpse of a drowned girl. The result is of course a beautiful blonde. The experiment fails in a welter of blood while blondie messily kills the three that done the couple wrong before. The film is apparently set in Germany, but the guillotine set up on the hill seems to be out of place. However decapitation was essential to the story.
The Mummy is of course the scourge of unwary Egyptologists who go passing over curses in their quest for OBE's. Also plaguing the scientists is a publicity mad industrialist who sponsored the expedition. A series of quite appallingly gruesome murders take place all committed by a Mummy with considerable imagination.
International Film Theatre, Bayswater
This is not so new. A film made some years ago by Akira Kurosawa. The most western of the Japanese film directors, he is also the best known in the west. Strangely enough this knowledge of him is confined to his period Samurai horse-operas not his modem set work. This film is in fact taken from an American thriller of the 87th precinct series by Ed Mc-Bain. A wealthy man on the very eve of his most important deal is told his son has been kidnapped. He is prepared to ruin himself for the ransom when it appears that the kidnapped child is not his but his chauffeur's. Nevertheless the kidnapper persists with his demand. But the businessman is loth to ruin himself for another.
An excellently acted film by Kurosawa's stock company of actors with Toshiro Mifune in the leading role. This film is excellently constructed to make a film of considerable grip. There is a more serious underlaid meaning to the film which is revealed in the final sequence. Owing to the construction of Tohoscope, a segment of the film overlaps the British projector, you are warned. A good film by Kurosawa, but he has made much better. Notably SEVEN SUMARAI, but it is good to know that unlike many others he is not stuck in a rut of rehashing past successes.
Jimi Hendrix, Albert Ayler, The Who, Omette Coleman, The Electric Pruns. An incongrouous collection, one may think. Yet are they? The common factor | is that these names and j others represent a revolution j in both pop and jazz music, j This revolution has cast j aside old musical conventions j and the Avant Garde has j emerged successfully, despite; howls of "What a lot of old ¦
-" levelled at both forms
of music. Music like any other art form must progress i or it will stagnate.
In pop music the New i Wave is developing simul- i taneously on either side of; the Atlantic. Apart from a j moderate use of sounds for; effect, the basis of the music : is the use of word combina- i tions to create mood or ex-1 press feehngs, whether or not i the words actually make I sense sense. This is a tech- j nique derived from Bob Dy- j Ian and Paul Simon, who re- j main largely unsurpassed in \ it, although the nexer expon- j ents are adding to rather \ than imitating their work, j
The British counterpart to I the American 'freak out' I scene is a combination of this \ words-moods medium and L the inheritance of guitar 1 smashing from the early days i of The Who. British groups § rely on sound creation to a 1 greater extent tha nhte Amer- i icans, as exemplified by The § Cream, Pink Floyd, and Jimi f Hendrix Experience.	1
LEN SMITH 1
I 'THIS was a very good year I for teas in the athletic ; Union. Such is the substance i of the A.U. annual report by [President Roger Bender. It i is also worth noting that i Roger loves everybody, and i thanks them all for their co-i operation. Apparently noth-I ing ever goes wrong in the i A.U., which is probably what : makes it so dull. The ulti-I mate in good government I has been reached in that i there are almost no meetings I of the Executive Committee i these days. Anybody with a j problem, although such I things do not officially exist, I trots in to the Exec. oflBce. I The great advantage of this : system is that they do not i bore each other. (Union take j note). In addition nobody I knows what anybody else is j doing.
They do claim a "healthy I increase" in membership, a I total of 22. This may not I seem much at first sight, but j when you realise that the 1 basketball team has one I member you are thankful for I small mercies.
nasium". The mind boggles.
"The close of the season ... is also marked by the recruiting drive of the Econ-omicals Soccer Club, the
old boys that is (sic). This surely must be a spur to joining the college teams, as it not only allows one to continue playing soccer with friends after graduation, but also provides contacts for later business and social occasions." (sic, sic, sic).
JONATHAN NEALE
I Sprightly
i All the hard-working jour-= nalist has to complain of is 1 the style of the report. It is = incrediably bland in compar-= son with that of say, the 1 report to the annual meetings i of the British Trainwatchers E Association, the West Mem-1 phis League of Women j Voters, the LSE Board of j Governors, and other such i bodies. But in order to fill in ; space I will just quote from I the more sprightly parts. I jean only regret that we did j not have enough space to re-1 produce the entire report by i the Canoe Club in which i they referred to themselves i as "dynamic" 23 times. They lean prove it, too. Their five i or six effective members (15 I on paper) bullied the A.U. i into buying them yet another I boat.
! The Cross-Country Club i has decided to "raise the i social activities of the club" i by staging "a weekend visit i to a training camp among i the Welsh sandhills".
"Once again the Table i Tennis Club has had a very I adventurous season".
Boggles
Bender on methods of getting the school to clean up the gymnasium: "The shock tactic of adjourning an Athletic Committee meeting and reconvening in the gym-
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And where were all the women ?
'JHE Editor is in a bit of a quandary. After all the high - powered advertising, when the report of the Sailing Club's famed Easter 'Broads' (?!!) Cruise arrived in Beaver office—not a mention of a woman from beginning to end. But perhaps they are just shy.
In other respects it was indeed an orgy. Six yachts and one motor boat, at large on the Broads, straight from the suppressed fury of the sit-in; it would seem enough to daunt even the bravest Jack-tar. Pub after pub fell before their unremitting onslaught. From Saturday to Saturday the waters of the Broads were never still, and the heavens rung to the drunken cries of "We shall not be moved".
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May 25, 1967
Dr. Adams spoke last week to David Baume of Beaver. Here are a few of the things he had to say on UCR and LSE.
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A challenge...

ELECTIONS CHALLENGED
TN VIEW OF the new situation which has developed over the last week at ULU, UC President, Gerry Johnson proposed a motion in Presidents' Council on Monday evening calling upon the Executive elect to stand down and offer themselves for re-election.
The motion was passed by 24 votes to 14. Brian Taylor, the Deputy President elect, and Sue Edwards, Lady Vice-President elect immediately stood down. However the President elect Drummond Leslie refused to do so on the grounds that he had been perfectly aware that there were two possibilities open to the Union—either a proper Union or no Union at all.
As a result a motion of no confiidence was proposed by Mike Slade (CEM). This was challenged by ULU Honorary Junior Treasurer, Michael Kallipetus because, " such a motion could not be tabled against anybody who did not yet hold oflBce.'" However the Chairman, President John Hands, over-rued this and the motion was passed by 21 to 10. Kallipe-
different job to that with which they are now faced."
#At a meeting with Sir Douglas Logan and other University officials last week, ULU were granted financial antonomy, and will in future be responsible to a staff-student committee only. This was the result of a tJiirteen years battle with the University whose Principal was utterly opposed to these ideas.
Part 1 Survey
"TOWARDS the middle of last term many of you received a six-page questionnaire on Part I of the B.Sc (Econ.). This questionnaire was in fact, sent to all full-time B.Sc. (Econ.) second years and only 10% failed to reply. The survey was designed by a class of second year statisticians at the request of the Committee on Teaching for the B.Sc. (Econ.) degree.
"HHODESIA is a sick society. The white minority are determined to hang on, giving as few concessions as they can. UDI did not really affect the structure of Rhodesia at all.
The University College of Rhodesia is completely unique in Rhodesia. I sometimes wonder why the present regime decided to allow it to remain in existence.
It is, in a sense, political
John Hands
tus immediately submitted his resignation although this has not yet been accepted.
Asked why he proposed this motion, Gerry Johnson told Beaver, " I proposed it not on individual but structural grounds. They were elected to do a radically
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The results, some of which are now available, will pro-cide a factual basis for decisions on changes in the Part I arrangements.
Here is a brief simimary of the results, taken from a total of 326 respondents:
Over half wanted more help in selecting Part I alternatives, and many favoured the setting up of advisory panels for this.
65% wanted a specialist Part I tutor.
13% had a regular appointment for their tutor, although more than half would have preferred this.
Part I teaching arrangements. 2% thought these 'very satisfactory', while 5% thought them 'very unsatisfactory'. 58% regarded them as 'fairly satisfactory'.
Most helpful classes were Mediaeval Economic History and Languages, with Structure of International Society, Social Anthropology and Basic Maths 'very helpful' for 40-50% of their consumers. All other classes were 'less helpful'.
Recommend LSE? 25% would do so strongly, whereas 21% would 'not recommend' it.
ARMCHAIR VSO?
XJOW many of you have been interested in advertisements for V.S.O., and then been discouraged by the thought of spending two years away from the nearest pub? Certain students at LSE, admiring the aims but not the methods of V.S.O.. have set about forming their own society to aid under developed countries. Their aim is to give 5% of their income when they become graduates to a special project such as Kivukoli College in Tanzania.
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Members will be encouraged to pledge a covenant of, say, 5% of their income for a period of seven years. A body of trustees has been formed including Prof. Tit-muss and Humphrey Berkley, and it is hoped to spread the idea to other universities throughout the country. Anyone interested should get in touch with Colin Francome.
suicide to keep the place open, as UCR contains the seeds of the destruction of the present segregated society. It is training the people, white and black, who will govern in the years to come.
"I suppose Rhodesia felt the need for a University, and decided that it was prepared to pay the price of tolerating a multi-racial institution. UDI was not a big factor at the College, except that it certainly polarized the racial situation. Of course, it brought up the moral problems of living in an illegal regime. But I felt that UCR, as a growth point in the country, ought to continue as long as there was no intervention by the Government.
SPEED UP
"I think UDI has speeded up eventual African rule. I don't think the country -will collapse, though. Eventually the people will realise that things cannot go on as they
arc. But, at the moment, there is absolutely no sign of a white liberal movement in Rhodesia.
"Things are inevitably hard at UCR for the Africans. They have come straight from the racial primary school system and a village society to a mainly white social environment. There are many barriers between the races. Language, background, even small-sounding things like the games they played at school, all contribute to this barrier.
AGITATOR
"I did not reply to the charges levelled against me in the Agitator pamphlet at the time because I did not think it would be helpful. Anyway, there would have been no time for the detailed reply which would have been necessary. Life at UCR was often exhausting.
"It might be a good idea to reply sometime, although I am not sure what would be the most appropriate way. I hope to discuss this point with Union Council.
"I rejected the idea of addressing Union when I was asked to do so because I first wanted to learn a bit more about LSE, and about student problems here. I hope to talk to Union Council soon to discuss with them the best way of get-
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a court of governors was the normal pattern in British universities; "All new charters have similar provisions. The new structure puts effective control in the hands of academic and lay governors strengthening the size of academic representation. The idea of equality between staff and students is a com-pletly new one, unprecedented in British Universities. As the machinery of Government Committees is at present considering all proposals that are brought forward by the Union I cannot comment any further."
"My major disappointment has been that L.S.E. has had
less money than we might have hoped for. In another field I regret that the School has tended to become academically more formal. I regret too the passing of the evening undergraduate student."
ting to know the students.
"I think that 'Director' is an unfortunate name for my new job. I don't think my job will be to impose. It will be to articulate a policy for the School, in consultation with all the relevant people. My job will be to ensure that decisions are taken. I shall have to act as a junction between students, staff and administration. Changes will continue to occur at the school, and problems will continue to arise. The job is a tremendous challenge.
"We must consider the place of LSE in London. Physically the site is, of course, very bad. But here, in the centre of London, the School has lots of advantages. The world passes through London. Access to sources of information. The British Museum, and Government bodies is also a great asset.
CONSULTATION
"Of course I think the students have a significant part to play in School affairs. I would consider consulation with the student body on many issues to be important. After all, the School does exist for education. They should have a say, although not necessarily a decisive say, in matters like the structure of the degree and teaching methods generally. And on things like social matters, lodgings and so on, students should have a very big say.
"I think my job will be a very exciting one. Things are changing very quickly. I shall be proud to make whatever contribution to the School I can."
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