FEBRUARY 27th, 1964
No. 39
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Narrow Win For Kurtha
AZIZ Kurtha was elected President of Union for 1964/65 by a very narrow majority.
In the first ballot, the voting was as follows:
Mike Bromwlch ...... 149
Nitin Desai ......... 335
Sudheer Desai ...... 83
Maurice English ...... 36
Aziz Kurtha ......... 319
Mike Smith ............ 31
Since no candidate had an absolute majority of the votes, the preference votes were redistributed. Only when all the candidates, except Aziz and Nitin, had been eliminated, was there a clear majority for one of them — Aziz.
In the final count the voting was:
Nitin Desai ............ 436
Aziz Kurtha ......... 467
Nitin had been in the lead until the final redistribution — of Mike Bromwich's votes.
BARMAN GOES
Sennet Rebuffed
DEAVER Editor David Mills has been offered the editorship of Sennet, the London University newspaper.
This followed the resignation of ex-Westfield student Jenne Wright as editor, and dissatisfaction among Sennet's staff during the last term.
Although he resigns after this edition of Beaver, Dave did not accept the offer.
"I'm leaving Beaver to get on with some work", he commented, "I want to get a degree".
He also felt it would be im-posible to run Sennet without a Beaver style sub-editing and layout team.
"But I spent a sleepless night before I finally turned it down", he added. "It would have been a great challenge".
POOR RETURNS
yHE current cost to public funds of a university student who is wholly dependent on a grant has reached approximately £850 a year. This is one of the findings of an Interim Report on the Use of Vacations by students. The Report is the work of the Hale Committee on University Teaching Methods. Full value for the expenditure of £850 would not be obtained, the Report says, unless 7j months in the year are used to advantage. The Report classifies the non-leisure uses of vacations into three categories;
(i)	for paid labour
(ii)	for academic study
(iii)	for practical experience of the subject under study.
Sample
Some of the findings of the Committee were based on questions posed to a sample of under-graduate students. (Excluded from the sample were: first year students, and those studying medicine, dentistry or veterinary science.) Of those questioned on the amount of paid work they undertook in a year:— 6% worked for 2 weeks or less 10% worked for 2 to 4 weeks 28% worked for 4 to 8 weeks 18% worked for over 8 weeks 38% took no paid employment.
Hours of work
Another question concerned the average number of hours per day
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which a student spent working at subjects in his course over and above the time spent on University premises or on practical or field work. Of those questioned:— 53% worked for an average of
I hour or less 31% worked for an average of
1 to 3 hours 11 % worked for an average of 3 to 5 hours 5% worked for an average of over 5 hours.
On the basis of these figures, the Committee came to the conclusion that full value for the sums being invested in students was NOT being obtained.
SPECIAL
KENYA
FEATURE
Ready, Steady, Go! Rag week on TV
Aziz Kurtha and Lawrence Isacson pictured with Dave Clark and Freddie of the Dreamers.
350 grads for VSO
"THIS summer 350 graduates will leave Britain for under-developed countries all over the world.
They will be sent by the Voluntary Service Overseas organization. Of the number — well over double last year's figure — about 80 per cent will teach.
Each graduate will cost about £650 to send. The governments in the countries to which they have been invited will provide board and lodging and £3 a week pockec money.
Contribution
The bulk of the remainder will be raised in this country by the Government and through voluntary contributions.
President elect, Aziz Kurtha, managed to persuade the producer to allow a few students in at the last minute, while Mike Cunningham effected an entry via the roof and a technicians' gantry.
I VANISHED I
Extensive but unsuccessful efforts have been made to trace the president of the Evening Students' Association following the discontent expressed in Beaver.
Accordingly, it has been decided that Trevor McCree-Union's Evening Student Officer-will act as President until a new one can be elected.
THE bar steward, Mr. Ron Bixby has been given notice.
He v/as handed the letter of notice when he arrived to open the bar one evening this week. Within an hour he had handed over the keys and left.
"I want to know what this is all about," he said, "and that is about all that will bring me back. I certainly won't work here again."
In a statement deputy president Geoff Fielding — who is responsible for the bar — said the decision was made unanimiously by both the bar management committee and Council.
"The decision was not arrived at easily but discussed at great length in several meetings. In fact the decision has been recommended by bar management committees for the last two years but has been deferred for various reasons."
Mr. Bixby alleged that the bar wasn't making enough profit "and they are just passing the buck on to me."
"But if the Council will not run the bar in a commercial way, what can they expect? They sell some beer at give-away prices — and there is so much going out at cost prices."
ORANGE JUICE
Commenting on the bar management committee he said they seemed younger than they used to be.
"In the past you had more experienced people who knew more what they were talking about. The present bar management committee needs someone older on it.
"And people with more experience. I think there are only a couple of beer drinkers on it, the rest drink orange squash," Mr. Bixby added.
There will be a move in tomorrow's Union meeting to get a full explanation of the matter.
"Council had better give good reasons — or else," said Neil Lock-wood, one of the students who works part-time behind the bar.
Another one, Paul Ward, said working behind the bar they could see Ron's point of view. "It seems he has justifiable complaints and it looks as if there has been a breakdown in communication."
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Beaver
COMMENT
February 27th, 1964
president's column
pVERY President at the end of his term in office has probably thought what Shakespeare expressed in the sonnet:
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrances of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
The sighs are stronger the more remote the sought-after aims. It is all too easy to measure the success of a year of Union in terms of television sets, Saturday dances and billiard cues. Beneficial as these are, their benefit is transitory and form no lasting memorial commensurate to the labour spent.
For this reason I v/ould rather see this last year as the beginning of a process, than as the end of one, and measure it in terms of things future than things past.
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5 YEARS FROM NOW?
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The next four years will see unparalleled expansion of the college. I have been determined both that the Union should have a large say in the future and that Union should expand as the college expands.
The Robbins report dealt in a most unsatisfactory manner with the role of student life in places of higher education. It is up to Councils to come to see the omission is rectified when it comes to practical planning for LSE.
RNANCE
So that the Union may be able to fulfil its envisaged role we have negotiated for and been promised a substantial rise in the funds at our disposal.
It is iniquitous that LSE Union should receive about £1 10 0 a student when the average for Unions of like size is £7.
We have gone some way ourselves towards a more realistic allocation of funds by deciding not to plan a Commem. Ball for next year — a step which will release some £300 for alloting to more important Union and society functions.
I have endeavoured also to bring the school round to allowing the stjdents greater say in decisions affecting our academic and social life.
I believe advances have been made in this respect but do not think the Union should really be
content until our views can be presented directly to school committees and until we break through the veil of secrecy which surrounds their deliberations, a veil rent only by secret 'tip-offs' from sympathetic staff.
1 have tried also, despite what may be said by some, to see that the Union lives up to its name for radical concern with social issues. I differ from them in believing more is achieved by well-informed argument and organization than by running to Trafalgar Square.
I do not see the progress of a radical Union is measured by demonstrations, any more than the progress of a nation is measured by the numbers of coups d'etat.
Demonstrations must be used selectively and for major issues, such as the A.A. Rally last November to which we contributed a large part.
SCHOLARSHIP
Such action requires continued determination rather than fleeting' emotion, and is the hall-mark of the mature approach to social wrong.
The speedy establishment of the Scholarship Fund would be the best memorial I could ask for my term of office, and the arrival of the first recipient consecrate our joint endeavours far beyond my power to praise or to recall.
TREVOR FISK
editorial
DEAVER is being criticised by the staff. We are delighted.
Nothing could be worse than the total discouragement of the sympathetic silence that has been the paper's fate in recent years.
Some of the criticism has referred to our aping the national press. The first thing any student newspaper must do is to adopt journalistic values. It must look, read and be judged
as a newspaper.
For amateurs this is difficult, it is much easier merely to present information and opinion with no reference to style and lay-out. Too often this is the pattern of student newspapers and, in the past, the fault of Beaver.
The result is dull and unattractive — and largely unread.
We have struggled to get away from this and inevitably we have made mistakes. For these we apologise.
But gains have also been made — notably in circulation, advertizing and in the degree to which the staff are prepared to co-operate. We think these worth the mistakes we have made.
TWO years ago 36 graduates went to Africa through Voluntary Service Overseas.
This year 350 will go.
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LETTERS
Dear Sir,
In your consideration of Union apathy in the last issue it is a pity you did not examine the role of the LSE staff in creating this state of affairs.
They pay far too little attention to under-graduate's academic work. I know many undergraduates who get so little out of lectures and classes that they are forced to work long hours and are therefore unable to take part in Union activities.
What is the point of being surrounded by a galaxy of scintillating academics if, in spite of them, most of us have to lead a life of in-spirationless, and in considerable part, fatuous, drudgery?
Wiswienski II
Dear Sir,
In yesterday's interesting number of BEAVER, there is a very crude blunder on page four. (See the introduction to 'A Beaver Special Feature'). You refer to 'the nouveau vague'. The French phrase is 'nouvelle vague', suice vague, being a feminine noun, must have a feminine adjective!
This particular blunder is quite common among the uneducated in this country: but here in the LSE Modern Languages Dept. we feel that an error of this kind should not appear in a university undergraduate publication.
Yours faithfulLy Francis M. Guercio (Lecturer in Italian)
Unfortunately this is one error we cannot blame on our faithful printer.
Ed.
February 27th, 1964
COMMENT
Beaver
Dr. ALAN LITTLE
FRANKLY SPEAKING
THIS is the age of mass media. Dr. Alan Little is the don for such an age. in television and radio broadcasts he has shown he has come to terms v/ith it.
"I believe in education, and I believe In taking it out of ivory towers. Television Is important — it is a way of educating large numbers of people.
"There is also a personal challenge. When you stand facing the television cameras you know that there are millions of people waiting for you to fall flat on your back. It's good when it's over and you didn't."
Dr. Little lives in suburbia and makes a half-hour train journey every day. The Sunday Times has
THE NEW PRESIDENT
Aziz Kurtha is LSE's new President. Beaver takes a look at the man we have elected.
At fourteen, he had a small part in Her Majesty's Theatre's production of "Tea House of the August Moon." "I'm hopeless at acting, really I am. I just happened to be the right size and colour" he told our reportei'.
Through his Holland Park School he represented British Schools at the 1961 Paris Conference for Amnesty for Spanish Political Prisoners. There he met John Mac-Donald who last year became President of the Oxford Union.
Aziz is a second-year law student He intends reading for the Bar and is at present dining at Lincoln's Inn. His real interest is in the legal system of his native Pakistan.
"If I really want to do anything, I'd like to convince Muslims that Mohammedan Law in the state is a load of junk."
Of his LSE life, Aziz says that he feels 'more at home' with foreign students. He is accused of being rather reserved., and himself says "One thing I like more than anything else is a bit of privacy."
Nevertheless, he is never far from the limelight. You can see your President in action next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in ITV's "Take a Word."
called him the new style "commuting don".
"I don't think I call myself a 'don' ", he comments. "But if your conception of a university teacher is that of a leisured, cut-off sort of individual coming from a family with long academic traditions — then I am no such individual. And this world is not mine."
Instead Dr. Little fell into sociology by a series of accidents from an "upwardly mobile working class home".
"pHE chips are down. The economic and political war-horses, fed and groomed, are about to be unleashed. The general election is not far away.
To an unknowledgable foreign observer — and to the unknowing British masses — it would seem there are two different political programmes and two alternatives. Nothing could be further from the truth.
There is damn all to choose between the parties.
In foreign policy, differences between Labour and Conservative policy need almost microscopic examination — if they are discernable at all. And on the Bomb, Labour
policy is simply a variation on a theme, amounting to half-hearted support.	^
If it can be argued that the Labour Party has never been a socialist one, then never has it been more true than today. On every facet of domestic policy the Labour Party has become the radical and poorer section of the Conservative Party.
The essence of the Wilson-Brown
SODOM COMMENTS
campaign is the cry "we will give you efficient capitalism". But if the Labour Party thinks it can run capitalism better than the Tories, it is bound to fail. But to give them their credit they are certainly going to try.
George Brown has spent the last few months at industrialists' din-
ners assuring them that the Labour Party doesn't intend to jam up the works if it ever returns to office (and according to Bob Mckenzie this is still in doubt). If Hugh
CLAUSE FOUR
Gaitskell failed in his attempt to bury clause four publicly — then the Wilson-Brown duet has certainly done it privately.
And the Labour Party's programme to half heartedly juggle with rent racketeering and housing shortages is laughable.
Indeed, it may well be that in the House of Commons at the moment — and in the next session — there will be Conservatives of three types. Liberal Conservatives, Labour Conservatives and Conservative
Beaver buys Beavers, Do you have two copies of the first two editions last term? Complete — unprecedented — sell outs on both occasions means we must buy back copies for our files.
Dr. Little is a restless man. "I don't know that I ever relax", he commented.
When interviewed he constantly shifted his position in his chair. He spoke rapidly and emphasized each word with movement and energy.
His blue striped button-downed shirt, his suede shoes and casual trousers were in tone with the easy informality of his room.
"It was not my original intention to go to university at all. Then I did well enough in my 'A' levels to go so thought I might as well. I had to stay an extra year in the sixth form to get the necessary qualifications."
UNDERGRADUATE
He came to LSE in l'953 at the age of 20 as an undergraduate.
"I married in my first year, did little or no work in my second but worked furiously in my third year. I only decided to teach here when I realized that I had done sufficiently well in my degree to make this possible. My life has been full of last minute decisions."
One of them was to take sociology. At first Dr. Little intended to do economics, but then saw a sociological syllabus.
INTERESTING
"It looked interesting so I decided to do it. But on arriving here I discovered that I no more knew what sociology was about than students do today — and it will be some time before sociology becomes better known."
Commenting on LSE sociology courses, he said he would like to see them restricted in scope but more intensive. He believes both sociology and economics students should specialize more in their first year.
MUCH GROPING
"There is too much vagueness and newness in the subjects. Students have at first a difficult job in groping their way around. This is a pity. The first year should be stimulting. Add to this all the social and emotional problems of coming here and I am not surprised many students are depressed after their first year."
In this respect Dr. Little thinks the "moral tutor system" for first year students of limited use,
"I regard the word "moral" with horror and find the whole tutor-tutee relationship too forced. I would prefer to have students with whom I come into contact academically.
DIFFICULTY
"The whole problem of staff-student relationships is a difficult one. I would like to invite students to my home, but how can I? It's too far away. Perhaps more weekend schools are the answer."
The biggest change he would like to see at LSE is the examination system. "It tests far too restricted a field of human capabilities — a complex of methods should be used, including term work,"
But fundamentally Dr. Little is a modest man, "I am only ten years older than most of them. I do not feel responsible for them. At 18 to ]9 they are quite capable of looking after themselves.
SIMILARITY
'It is only too easy for them to forget that the problems they face, money, finding somewhere to live, strain etc,. — are the same problems we on the staff face. And in many cases we are only just solving them for ourselves."
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Facing Mount Kenya
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|—jAVING fought for Independence and having attained it, we Kenyans have a feeling that our real task begins only now. Being under foreign yoke is by no means pleasant but, in that condition, the people's duty is simple: it is to fight the one enemy to the bitter end. The only thought in the minds of the subject people is that of gaining political freedom. The questions of economic and social uplift are thrown into the background, to be taken up 'when the time comes.' Indeed, such a policy when
pursued by a subject people is of some value to them. If they try to achieve higher economic and social standards, while still under alien rule they find innumerable obstacles in their way. We must remember that foreign rule is not a charitable institution and anyone who feels a subject people can make the same progress in the economic and social fields as they would if they were free is living in a fool's paradise.
I do not deny that even subject people make some progress because there are always some among the rulers who have a conscience and who try to help their wards. Again, some good must be shown to result; otherwise the ranks of the ruled remain undivided and this helps agitation, boycotts, passive resistance, etc., all of which are costly to the rulers in terms of men and money. There is also world opinion to care for.
UHURU
But the fact is, as more than one politician has stated, that, however good an alien rule may be. it can never be as good as self-rule. The emphasis is on the word "never". Is it not true that of all the great names that have come to us from history the greatest are those who fought for freedom — mostly in their own lands.
I am not prepared to believe that all those men and women who sacrifice their all for the sake of the Independence of their motherland are fools. Nor am I prepared to believe that foreigners ruling a country resist political advance of that country for nothing. Freedom is of inestimable value to the people of any country and the withholding of it is of some value to the rulers.
The coming of freedom is, however, a great event and we in Kenya have just celebrated it. We are now free to manage our affairs as we think best. There is a lot of work to be done.
Kenya is predominantly an agricultural country and the average density of population is around 35 persons to the square mile. In areas with good soil and climate the density reaches the figure obtaining in many developed countries of the world but the methods of cultivation are crude and productivity low. In these areas, we have to give training to the farmers and to improve agricultural methods with a view to increasing productivity per capita.
LANDLESS
The other problem is that of the landless. Either everyone in Kenya should get an adequate amount of agricultural land and also capital to make proper use of that land (which is not possible) or the proportion of population engaged in or depending on agriculture for a living should be reduced. This is not a problem peculiar to Kenya. The only solution is to encourage the establishment of secondary industries which will provide work for some part of the agricultural population and which will produce consumption goods for raising the standards of living of the people.
Separating some of the people from the soil to which they have been attached for countless centuries solves some problems and creates others. Industrial workers concentrated in unclean areas require the amenities of modern life and also schemes of social security. Their children require schools.
Some of these problems have been studied in Kenya in the past. Now, they will have to be given serious consideration. Workers under a foreign government are 'subjects' and their views and interests need not be given a great deal of weight. In a free country, they are citizens and voters and enjoy equal rights
by
-JOMO
KENYATTA
Born Kamau Ngengi at Fort Hall, Kenya, about 73 years ago. Ran away from home at 10, assumed the adopted name of Kenyatta, public works clerk at Nairobi in the early twenties. Joined Kikuyu Central Assoc., came to Europe in 1929 travelled extensively including Moscow, studied anthropology at LSE for more than 2 years. Wrote 'Facing Mt. Kenya' in 1938. Farm labourer at Storrington, Sussex, during the war, returned to Kenya September, 1946. President of Kenya African Union. 1953 sentenced to 7 years hard labour for alleged complicity with Mau Mau, released August 1961. President of Kenya African National Union. December 11th 1963 Kenya's first Prime Minister.
with the other citizens including their erstwhile masters. Franchise and the Bill of Rights give them the means of bringing home their views to the government in the election of which they take full share. The Government of an Independent country will, therefore, ignore the wishes and needs of the people at its peril.
Housing is another big problem in Africa. Permanent houses have to be provided for peasants and workers in rural areas. Building materials are plentiful and we want to train local artisans and supervisors. But in a modern democracy nothing can be done without money. By and large, our progress can be hindered only by lack of funds. Maybe, some form of self-help will have to be devised to provide more and better houses.
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February 27th, 1964
FEATURES
Beaver
the future
The economic problems of Kenya were studied by a Mission of tiie World Banlc a short time ago. The Report of this Mission has been studied and we have set up a Planning Commission which is now engaged in preparing the first Plan of independent Kenya. It is hoped this will take us some way towards our goal.
Roads in farming areas and irrigation works have to be built. These things are necessary if vve are to make full use of our soil. Artificial fertilizers are almost unknown in what in the past have been called 'African' land units. These have to be produced or imported.
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REPORT
IN the Preface to his book
'Facing Mt. Kenya', Jomo Kenyatta wishing to express his 'gratitude to those many friends, both European and African' who helped him with his manuscript, acknowledges his debt to Malinowski. But he also writes, "I am indebted to Dr. Raymond Firth for his careful reading of the manuscript and his technical advice on anthropological points."
Dr. Firth is now Professor Firth and is the only remaining member of the School's Anthropology Department who taught Jomo Kenyatta as a student at LSE.
No degree
"My clearest memory of Kenyatta is of him standing at the front of one of my seminars writing Kikuyu words on the blackboard. Kenyatta was a student in this Department for two years before the last War. He was studying for the Academic Postgraduate Diploma. He had no previous University experience but was admitted to the course without a first degree primarily because of his interest in the subject and his familiarity with the culture of his people. He owed a great deal in his anthropological development to the help given him by Malinowski. in whose seminars he took a prominent part.
Keen student
My impression was that he was a very keen student and for the two or more years that he was here worked quite hard. There have been
Our systems of education and hospitalization have also got to be revitalised to accord with the spirit of the times. In the past, we have had separate schools and separate hospitals for each of the races. The aim now is integration so that the State can give the maximum possible help to all its people.
All these changes will require an efficient and contented public service. This is not possible without what we call "Africanization". In order not to penalize anyone, however, we have ruled that all our citizens will, for this purpose, be regarded as "Africans". At the same time, we shall do our best by affording increased opportunities for education and training, to correct past injustices and imbalances as far as we can do this without departing from the principles embodied in our very comprehensive Bill of Rights.
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a number of theses presented by students of this department which have been produced in book form. I think it demonstrates Kenyatta's ability that, without any previous academic experience, he was able to produce not only a book, but a very acceptable one. In fact, when the book was re-published in 1961, in his review. Lord Hailey commented that it was still about the best book on the Kikiyu.
Restrained power =
I do remember him fairly clearly, a rather quiet man but always giving the impression of restrained power and sometimes not saying completely what he thought. This is not to say that he didn't let himself go in the seminars. Some of the papers I remember him presenting dealt specifically with the wrongs done to the Kikuyu, particularly the problems of land tenure, female circumcision and the independent schools. He also gave more general papers including a particularly vivid one on magic.
His relations with the students were good. IHe was slightly older than the average student and his fellow-students showed him some respect. But socially, he mixed very easily and I can recall several pleasant occasions, dinner parties organized by the Department and suchlike, which he attended and which we all thoroughly enjoyed. The War inevitably broke communications and he has not been in touch with the Department for many years. In a few words, a very interesting personality, a diligent student, well-liked by his contemporaries but always possessing this quality of restrained power."
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6	Beaver
SPORT
February 27th, 1964
sport
Now the football boys drop out
A FTER the news of the Rugby club's cup defeat LSE's hopes of a major honour on the field went with the soccer team in their semi-final clash with QMC a fortnight ago yesterday. The game had been postponed from the previous Saturday because of a venue mix-up and the result consequently only just caught the late issue — it told of a 2 - 1 defeat.
LSE opened strongly — and using
the right wing to advantage, dominated the game in the early stag'es. Shepherd and Cooper contrived to create openings, but last ditch defence saw QMC through the initial onslaught-unscathed.
After twenty minutes QMC took ya fortunate lead. From a contested free-kick on the edge of the box, the ball hit the cross-bar and the opposing right winger lobbed the rebound home. This goal — against the run of play — infused the QMC side with a new-found confidence. It was not till half time that LSE regained their grip on the game.
The second half saw LSE on top again — constantly and constructively probing for the equaliser. With mid-field links Robinson and Cooper effectively providing the springboard, the QMC defence was frequently at full stretch. The goal which this superiority promised did not come until ten minutes from
the end. A hasty back pass under pressure allowed Evans to intervene and slide home the equaliser.
From that point onwards, LSE overran the opposition but the deciding goal — in the final seconds — belonged paradoxically to QMC. A speculative right wing cross in to a melee of players on the six yard box was luckily deflected in to the net by a QMC shoulder.
Stunned to silence, LSE felt the reality of a defeat which had not seemed possible.
ELECTIONS
Nominations for AU President close tomorrow. Nominations for the two Vice-President posts and Assistant General Secretary close on March 6th. Voting for President will be on March 2nd and 3rd. — For V.P.s and Secretary — March 9th and iOth.
GLIDING — Mj Maiden Flight — bj Bill Price
^LIDING is usually regarded as an exciting but extremely expensive sport — only indulged in by the sporting aristocracy. The newly formed LSE gliding club removes this old fashioned image — and to me represented an opportunity to discover a new experience. At the same times the pocket was not unduly burdened.
It was with this feeling of facing a new challenge that I went with other members of the LSE gliding club to Lasham last year to experience our maiden flight.
The fearful contemplation of one's maiden flight is heightened by the fact that the gliding enthusiast spends nine tenths of his time on the ground. A'feeling of tenseness translates itself in to a nervous feeling in the pit of the stomach and sweaty palms; and yet there is also a feeling of great exhilaration at the thought of shortly being launched in to the skies in what seems a hopelessly frail and unpredictable machine.
When the time finally arrives
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for the flight to commence a momentary feeling of terror and an abiding love of terra firma grips the heart. The panic returns after a thorough cockpit check and an instruction on safety measures. The awareness of friends' silent encouragement disappears as the time draws nearer.
The signal is given, in seconds you are rising at what seems an impossibly fast rate, then the tug of the sky seems even more insistent as the pilot once he is free from the ground climbs at an even faster rate. Suddenly the glider halts its headlong climb and is pulled drastically towards earth by the clutching grasp of the winch cable. Relief returns when the release cable is applied and the glider pursues an unimpeded course.
From then onwards complete enjoyment takes command as the pilot takes you around the airfield showing you what the glider can do and letting you have a grasp of the controls.
There is a feeling of regret as the glider is plucked from above by the beckoning gravity of earth. As you come to a skidding halt on the grass airfield you know sincerely that you will be drawn back again — to the calling of the skies.
Bill Price talked to Alistair Mac-Duff about his maiden flight.
FINAL BID BY TABLE-TENNIS TEAM
JHE very strong LSE table tennis team has reached the final of the cup. The match is being played tonight. The team this year has been one of the strongest LSE has turned out in recent years and has a fine record. LSE are favourites for tonight's clash.
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Men's team
"j"HE men's first Badminton team
has not been having a very good season. Only one match has been won. On the other hand the heaviest defeat was 6-3 and this is indicative of the fact that the main failing seems to be the inability to clinch close matches.
Impressive
The most impressive player has been Peter Lamb — a Durham Seconds County player and a University representative. He has turned out for the college whenever possible. Said Ali also deserves mention. Both are first years.
Second team and Mixed
The second team under the able guidance of veterans D. Yates and P. Ferguson have done well in Division Two. Results have also been good in the mixed league. Lamb and Pam Ballantyne have yet to lose a single game. This coupled with strong support from lower down and an excellent team spirit has lead to a series of fine wins — two by 9-0 and Reading University were beaten 7 - 2.
Success for the Ladies
The Ladies' team has been one of the most successful of recent years; the LSE girls have knotched several impressive victories — the most recent being a hammering of IC by 8- I.
CROSS COUNTRY BOYS FINISH IN SECOND PLACE
yHE LSE Cross-Country team has finished second over-all in the Championship. This is the highest placing ever recorded by the college team.
several runners recorded personal best performances — including first man home — Guy Ogden.
In the final match LSE again finished second — behind UC. Guy Ogden finished sixth and beat top runner Dave Bagshaw into eighth place.
Oxford are humiliated
In the match against Queen's Oxford, LSE had the first four runners home. The course proved too much for the opposition and
Long distance Relay attempt
On Friday March 6th LSE are once again attempting a long distance relay. The destination is Exeter. Eight runners will run about 22^ miles each and a time of about 18 hours is being aimed at.
More Sport on Page Eight
February 27th, 1964
ARTS
Beaver 7
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IMITATION IRMA
Oh! what a kinky whore!
y^NYONE who saw the stage version of "Irma La Douce" and had their expectations raised by the line-up for the screen version might condemn Billy Wilder for the murder of a musical. But if you approach the film, as I did, without knowledge of the stage version, you should have an enjoyable evening.
Is this film the American answer to Tom Jones? Not quite. Whilst realism is a cornerstone of the Tony Richardson production, in Irma it is a substitute for the missing songs and dances. This inevitably means that Shirley MacLaine's Irma is not the original innocent of the show. The result is an unfortunate paradox; although the plot demands a light-hearted approach the constant recourse to realism — for example the meat market scenes — gives the film at times an almost documentary flavour.
The plot centres around Jack Lemmon as an Innocent policeman, who becomes the protector of Irma the most talented prostitute in the Rue Casanova, and his attempts to take her away from it all. Such is Irma's attraction that you cannot help feeling sad when he succeeds.
Though one might sympathise with Mr. Wilder's candour, when he says he cannot produce musicals, the galvanic bistro celebrations when Irma earns 500 francs from one client, might lead you to question this modesty.
Occasionally shaky production and obvious humour leave you with the feeling that credit for the film lies entirely in the acting of Lemmon and MacLaine. Their performances are the purest professionalism. Contrast them with the pretensions of Seller's acting in "Strangelove", and note the greater sublety of Lemmon's performance.
If you didn't buy a copy of Fanny Hill in time this is certainly a film for you to see; it includes most of the material you would expect to find therein, plus four letter words and kinky green stockings. Certainly no economics student should miss the brilliant incomes theory expounded in this film. Can YOU spot the flaw in Lemmon's reasoning?
John Beardshaw
Shirley MacLaine — giving the customers what they want
\i^E have seen the old masters: Klemperer in Bruckner and Schubert; Schuricht in Beethoven. And the young maestri: von Karajan in Brahms; Soiti in Mahler; Dorati in Beethoven — such a symphonic festival in the last three weeks in London!
And what did we see? Klemperer ^ ^	"
raised his reputation as an interpreter of Bruckner to the Walter level, following his famous recording of the warm sonorous 7th with a powerful account of the mightiest of them all, the towering epic in C minor, No. 8. To this massive work he applied not only the expected rugged sense of scale required particularly in the heaven-storming finale, but also a quasi-religious intensity.
Berlin Philharmonic
von Karajan has recorded
this
work, but his driving Germanic performance stands no more comparison with Klemperer's contemplative one than his recent rendering of the Brahms symphonies do with Klemperer's recordings. And the legendary strings of his Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra proved no better at dispensing the Brahms sound than our own LSO.
The veteran Schuricht, hardly less decrepit than Klemperer, himself treated the packed Hall to a more impressive version of Beethoven's "Choral" than Dorati's performance
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of the 7th. The only easy thing about conducting this work is that the finale is so exciting that you can make as many mistakes as you like in the preceding movements and they will all be forgotten; as I have forgotten them.
SoIti, who alone can match Dorati's podium pyrotechnics, was really at home in Mahler's youthful and bombastic "Titan" symphony. We saw the old men hold their own; this was reversed only in the minor items, where Klemperer, who is fine in "big" music, plodded through Bartok's delightful String Divertimento in philosophical 7-league boots: SoIti was more satisfying in its more serious elder brother the "Music for strings, percussion and celesta".
We had a symphonic beanfeast.
Mary, Mary
Warner Brothers' lavish colour production of Jean Kerr's successful stage comedy "Mary, Mary" fails to rise above the morass of glossy, conveyor-belt comedies.
^he main fault lies in the static nature of the production — most of the action takes place in a New York apartment — and in the weakness of the casting. Neither Debbie Reynolds as Mary — the sweet girl with the hard exterior — nor Michael Rennie as an ageing film star appear to believe in their parts. Only Barry Nelson, as Mary's ex-husband Bob, manages to inject any real comedy into the proceed-
ings.
No Slapstick
The endless succession of gags are put over so blandly that they have little impact, and the knockabout fun which characterised the stage production is nowhere to be found in this film.
Bryan Atkin
^WHENEVER you walk into the Aldwych Theatre, it is like worshipping at a shrine, inhabited by Brook, Hall, and Saint-Denis. The Royal Shakespeare Company's new addition to the repertory is 'The Rebel', and can be seen at nine performances in the next month.
S-JKTrS
artificial to support such a flimsy dramatic structure, dependent entirely on atmosphere.
We were all a little too pleased with ourselves. 'The Rebel' had lost its coarseness, the courage was handled with kid-gloves. Any true Rebel would have been appalled.
A REBEL SAYS NO

Perhaps this is just as well, for this type of anthologised entertainment is a little too self assured, too certain of its own inflated purpose. The material is thoughtful and the acting beyond reproach. Apart, that is, from some unfortunate under-rehearsal.
The only unhappy elements are the setting and the atmosphere. This is rather too much like a Sunday evening on television, it bears the same coy over-'arty' characteristic. The drama when it was called upon in the second half, especially in the extract from Dostoevsky was absent from Peter Bowles' delivery of the piece.
The cast was at its best in the frivolous; only here was the sympathy between it and the audience assured. Because the very character of the Aldwych, or of any theatre, is not conducive to this sort of armchair entertainment. This is too
No matter, we all basked in the intellectual sophistry. You could always have admired Bamber Gas-coigne's profile as he paraded in front of the stalls.
For the intellectual a 'nice' evening's entertainment, providing he can stomach the huge, draughty, atmosphereless theatre and the coy performance.
A pity for I admire the Royal Shakespeare Company's dedication to what proved to be such a futile piece.
Geoff Wansell
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8 Beaver
FEATURES
February 27th, 1964
1"HERE are within the walls of LSE many Americans. About 50 of them, together with a handful of Germans and another handful of other nationalities, compose what is officially termed the general course students. They are in their third year of University (Americans must study for four years to graduate). They were all sent a questionnaire by Beaver enquiring into their likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices.
GENERAL COURSE
STUDENTS
Strong criticism and the expression of disappointment with LSE and with the English was hurled by over 75% of the general course students.
It didn't take most of them very long to realise that, for them at least, the LSE system was not Utopia itself. The lack of incentives to study hurt many.
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Directionless
Accustomed to tri-weekly lecture discussion courses with much discourse and close Intimate contact with professors, many developed real trouble in finding a direction to steer themselves in. Worse, a sizeable minority complained that their tutors took no interest whatsoever in them, that their class tutors didn't treat them as serious students and that, in short, the general course student was not given as
much guidance as his British colleague. This was not however a universal attitude.
The other major area of criticism emanating from some students was a trail of disillusion and disappointment aimed at, on the one hand the difficulty of meeting the British and on the other the general nature of the LSE undergraduate. 65% felt that they had met fewer British than they would have liked.
Must be introduced
"In England you practically have to be introduced before you can talk to someone and that's hard when you don't know anybody to introduce you to people."
This leads directly to a rather startling and unfavourable attitude held by a good 25% (much higher among girls) of the general course students.
Unapproachable British
The British are cold and impersonal, hard to get to know, girls— for many — totally unapproachable. It is an aphorism that they are more reserved than their American counterparts. Moreover a quarter feel they are rude especially to outside speakers. The nadir was suggested by a third of the American girls who consider the British "physically repulsive, so messy unshaven, dirty and uncombed — male and female".
Fortunately the only real majority-held unfavourable attitude is that the British are unfriendly, reserved and hard to meet.
While it is unquestionably true that it is very difficult for Americans to meet British at LSE, it is also as one British girl pointed out "difficult for the British to meet other British".
Culture
As for London itself, they love it. Their cultural gains have been exceeded only by those derived by living among a foreign people. A strong minority have made academic gains but the majority feel that their erudition has lagged well behind their cultural advances. But then 47% came to LSE for the purpose of getting away from the USA, home university or both.
R.G.
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ULU
"pHE University of London buildings repose in expensive splendour in Malet Street. They stand, in practice, the focus of collective London student activities; too often only the focus of their criticism.
Abused not disused, so stands ULU.
Most attractive facilities are the swimming pool, the gymnasium, stage and refectory. Central heating throughout provides a haven of warmth for benumbed academics. The building is one of the few places where it is possible to work on Sunday. Strange as it may seem to the casual observer, virtually every room is occupied in the evenings by the various societies.
ULU societies themselves are numerous, even if not all thriving.
A Meeting Point
In an interview, the President of ULU, David Anderson-Evans showed strong views on the matter. He said that 'the societies should think always in terms of bettering themselves and of providing a meeting point for all the talent in the university". He felt that their existence was not justified if they were prepared "to muddle along as substitues for individual college activities".
Small Budgets
The societies and facilities are run on a budget of £10,000 a year. Large inroads are made into this by such items as the swimming-pool and the refectory. This means that in many cases individual societies have to be run on pitifully small budgets.
Much that is written about ULU appears to take the tone either of apology, scepticism or bombast.
heavy on our
conscience?
Most universities complain of apathy over their union affairs; at London it is corroding malaise, both attacked and accepted, often by the same people.
Synthetic creation
ULU is essentially a synthetic creation. It was built in 1952 in the face of opposition from those who felt the money could have been better spent building halls of residence. There is a tendency to be daunted, or at least subdued by the immediate nature of the building with its long corridors, spotless floors and shining brass-work.
The Shambling Giant
To some extent it is easy to see why this should be. London University with a student population of over 20.000, has aptly been described as a "Shambling giant". It is spread out over a great city which offers attractions and counter-attractions which would engulf all but the most virile organisations. The problems of distance and communication are immense.
Mass of disinterest
If London University had a collective conscience, ULU would weigh heavily upon it. At the moment it is a monument to dependence on other people's efforts, where a hard core of enthusiasm is almost smothered in a mass of disinterest. Some say that the situation is steadily improving, and this may well be true. "To fight the apathy with a colourful organisation" is an unofficial motto of the President. But how difficult it is to make the colours when so few are prepared to wield the paint-Orushl
B.S
As a result of the unprecedented level of advertising appearing in this edition, and also of the arrival of the article by The Prime Minister of Kenya, it has been decided to postpone the second part of 'Undergrad. Morals '64' until the Summer Edition of 'Beaver'.
GREAT SEASON FOR BASKETBALL TEAM
Second at the moment— big game tomorrow night
j^SE Basketball team is riding high.
The team is second in the University League and could well be bringing home honours at the end of the season. The big game will be tomorrow evening when LSE play top team Woolwich. Victory will ensure that the league trophy comes to the School.
Only one league defeat and destruction of University College
Only one league game has been lost this season to UC. However, on Friday 12th of February, LSE avenged this defeat when they des-
troyed the UC team in a friendly match by 30 points.
Chelsea College back down
On V/ednesday I2th of February, Chelsea failed to turn up for a league game and so conceded the points. On the previous day LSE had been defeated by 17 points by a combined London University side — a commendable margin in view of the status of the opposition. Indeed LSE took an early lead and matched the ULU side point for point with the exception of a ten minute period towards the end of the first half.
Elimination tournament
The team is playing extremely well and holds high hopes — not only in the league championship, but also in the Elimination Tournament which began yesterday. Stars of a fluid and fast moving side have been Frank, Van Til, Tullman, Espinshade and Markovitz.
February 27th, 1964
NEWS IN BRIEF
A 2nd-year student at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is to make a highly unorthodox protest against the "further encroachment (by women) on men's collegiate prerogatives". He is strongly against the experiment his college is making in allowing women to eat in its Hall every Saturday night this term. He is planning to dress up as a woman (possibly using makeup for added realism), and will then accompany a friend into the Hall as a guest. Halfway through the meal, he intends to walk out in "a dramatic manner" which may include slapping someone's face. This potential transvestite objects to the women because meal-time conversation in his college is "offensive" and the undergraduates should not be obliged to control their language — even on one night a week.
PROMISCUITY
Two university newspaper, the "Gongster" of Nottingham, and the "Guild Gazette" of Liverpool, are critical of a questionnaire sent out to certain student publications by the "Daily Mirror". The questionnaire is part of an intended comprehensive survey of British universities to find out whether student morality is an important issue or not. The "Daily Mirror" asked
(1)	Is promiscuity as high as the level reported at Harvard, where it is said that "50% of college women had intercourse with students"?
(2)	Please give reasons if the answer to (1) is "yes". If the answer is "no", at what level would you estimate promiscuity to exist?
(3)	Is there too much freedom & opportunity for sexual activities at your university?
(4)	Do men students place any value at all upon chastity?
etc, etc, ad nauseam.
The newspapers are supposed to publish the questionnaire, collect answers to it and send them on to the "Mirror". A member of Nottingham University's Sociology Dept. commented that the topic was a serious one, but the 'Daily Mirror" had gone about it in the wrong way. He suggested that no trust was to be placed in information gathered in such a manner. The political correspondent of the "Guild Gazette" in Liverpool was less restrained in his remarks. IHe told the "Daily Mirror" to mind its own business, and he called it a "filthy newspaper" or alternatively a "trash newspaper". The "Mirror' is unlikely, anyway, to receive any information from Merseyside. Said a spokesman for the "Gazette ': "We threw the questionnaire straight into the waste-paper basket."
CHURCH BEAT
A FRIENDLY, up-to-date service brings in the customers. At least, that is the considered opinion of the Anglican Chaplain of the Portland Hall at Nottingham University. There is to be an attempt to carry on the traditional and "ungimmickey" worship at the Church "in the context, and on a level with, other lively interests of the student-population". The music for the services at the Hall will be provided by one of the University's beat groups, Martin & The Square Pegs, led by a past President of the Anglican Society. The Sermons will be given by a series of well-known preachers both from within the University and from outside it. The experiment has the aim of raising the proceedings to the same intellectual level as obtains in the rest of the University.
NEWS
Beaver
1914-1918 Slaughter of a Generation
In 1914, the men of eight nations began to butcher each other in the bloodiest war the world has ever seen.
British ... French ... German ... Russian ... in every country they bravely responded to the call of duty and marched with flags flying to—they were assured by priest and politician—glory. It was to be the war to end wars.
Nearly 10,000,000 of them died. Over 20,000,000 were wounded.
And, living and fighting for weeks on end in the filth and stench of the trenches, men found that war was not glorious but obscene, not noble but bestial.
This week and for the next five weeks, The Sunday Times Colour Magazine looks back at The Great War. Using dozens of photographs of the period with extracts from contemporary sketches and writings,
we show you what it was really like.
23 February^ 'What Was It Like?' Photographs, some never published before, of the fighting conditions.
'The Scars of War.' Colour pictures of the poignant debris of war. I March 'The Propaganda Machine.' In colour, the posters, postcards and song-sheets that called the men to arms; the lies that fanned the flames of fear and hate. Feature by Barrie Pitt. 8 March 'The Instruments of War.' An inventory, in colour, of the 'coal-scuttles', the 'Jack Jacksons', the 75's, the ferocious ingenuities that multiplied the slaughter.
15 March 'The Home Front.' What it was like in Blighty, with women running a manless country.
22 March 'The Battlefields.' Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge ... these are among the battlefields shown as they were at the height of battle — and as they are now.
Begins this week in the
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NEWS
February 27th, 1964
BEAVER 39
Editor .................. David Mills
Asst. Ed............. Stan Fischer
News Ed............. Rod Gould
Features Ed....... Bud Peterson
Arts Ed............. Geoff Wansell
Picture Ed.............Frank Payer
Business ............ Niru D. Naik
Sports Ed............. A. MacDuH
Distribution ......... Tony Eaton
Published by the Students' Union of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
WOLEDGE OVERRULED
ARTS EXTRA
Filmsoc
On Tuesday March 3rd — 'The Underdog' Wolfgang Standet's brilliantly bitter satire on the bourgeois world of Kaiser Germany (and by implication, on 'authoritarian inclinations' in general), chronicles the rise to power of a grovelling coward through his adroit subservience to authority.
Travelling through a forest a noblewoman is attacked and raped by a bandit, her husband killed: from their contradictory accounts Japan's Akira Kurosawa has examined the nature of truth in his classic 'Rashomon' (March 9). Toshiro Mifune of 'The Seven Samurai', again stars.
On Thursday March 12, Filmsoc ends the term with 'Eroica', a characteristically mordant comedy-drama on concentration-camp life by the late Andrej Munk. The critics raved over it — don't miss it.
Cinema News
The Odeon Cinema Marble Arch will close on March 22, after showing 'The Long Ships' and will be redeveloped as a shopping centre, and 22 story office block; but there will still be a cinema there. A new streamlined 1,500 seater raised above the shops.
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THE BOSS LEAVES
'jT'S been a lot of fun' said David Mills, who this week resigns as editor of Beaver.
David took over as editor in October, and has been the driving force behind the improvements which have been evident this year. David, who joined Beaver last year, has worked on his local 'paper in Bristol.
The resignation is due to the fact that 'I came here to get a degree', David admitted rather sadly.
The improved standing Beaver has among both students and staff are the achievements of which he is proudest. 'I think that Beaver has been one of the first Union organisations to recover from the disease of apathy', he added.
The rest of the Beaver Staff will find it difficult to forget his constant optimism. 'This is going to be a great issue' has been his invariable comment when the organisation has seemed closest to collapse.
His sparse, rapid, three-word-to-t he-sentence, one-sen tence-to-t he-paragraph style have gained him a certain notoriety. So has. his car which recently earned him a prize in the veterans run from LSE to the printers.
It is often said that the policy of newspapers is to some extent determined by their advertisers. Which bodies, then, can lay claim to this sinister power over our press? In eleven university newspapers surveyed by this writer, pride of place and pride of space must go to the Midland Bank. It advertises in ten of eleven papers received at the Beaver Office. So we student-journalists must ne'er write ill of Lord Monckton.....
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Pictured are guitar playing DP Geoff Fielding and his partners Dudley Aitken and Bob Peckwith in LSE's new 12 bar rhythm and blues group.
IT'S ALL HAPPENING
I SE first-year economist, GEOFFREY JORDAN, in a short two minute speech, dramatically swayed the voting at a recent ULU Debate. After he had deplored the standard of speaking, more than half the House abstained when a vote was held on the motion "This house does not care who wrote Shakespeare.
REBATES Committee is to 'investigate fully' the disorder and confusion at the Union Debate a week last Monday when the House was out of control for about 15 minutes.
I^SE man participating in the European Seminar will be James Jupp M.Sc (Econ). Jupp, lecturer in Political Science at Melbourne University, studied at LSE and is now here on a sabbatical year.
He will lead the seminar study-group on relations with British Dominions. Other political scientists at the seminar will be Annamaria Sternberg Montaldi, of Florence, and M. Bruno Leblanc, of Paris.
JHIRTY-FIVE French speaking students from Liege University arrived at LSE on Tuesday afternoon. They were all students of Economics and had come to see the "Mecca" of their academic world! Council entertained them to a lecture by Paish.....
^ECOND-year government specialist, Roy Reeves, is the new Deputy President. At the eleventh hour, the other contestant, Richard Maidment, withdrew from the fight.
^HIEF librarian Mr. Geoffrey Woledge — alarmed at the growing number of library suspensions — has lost a battle to have the library theft rules relaxed.
He thinks the automatic suspension of five weeks, 'subject to mitigating circumstances', too severe. It is easy, he feels, to overlook a book when leaving the library.
"And there are a lot of scatterbrained people in the School who are liable to do this sort of thing", he added.
But Mr. Woledge's efforts to ease the situation were pushed aside by the Library Committee who unanimously voted down his proposals.
As the rules now stand there are two distinct offences. The first is committed when a student 'efficiently shows the would-be stolen book to the janitor'. This means stopping at the gate and opening the book to the title page.
If however the janitor opens the book the offence is more serious. It is considered the same as a person who tries to walk out of the library deliberately not showing his books.
For the lesser offence the penalty is immediate suspension but, following an interview with the librarian, re-admittance is given straight away.
For the more serious offence, the penalty is automatic five-week suspension, subject to mitigation at the librarian's discretion.
A second year sociology student, Elizabeth Hall, recently suspended after a library book was found amongst her own, has spoken out against the system.
"It makes me sick", she commented, "it wallows in bureaucratic pettiness".
Elizabeth says she was opening her books when the janitor pulled a library book from the bottom of the pile causing it to fall with much noise. She was taken to a junior library official who, rudely she claims, took her registration card.
"He said I was suspended for five weeks — but when I saw Woledge, he said he hoped the sentence would be reduced when he heard from my tutor.
"Perhaps they wanted a witness that I wasn't an habitual thief", Elizabeth comments.
Unfortunately her tutor was away, ill at the time, and it was two weeks before she regained admittance.
Commenting Mr. Woledge said that under the present arrangements, even if her tutor had been at the School, it would still have been about two weeks before she was readmitted.
BACK STAIR THEFT
"It's cock-eyed", says Elizabeth. "Most of the book thefts occur through the library's back stairs — or by being thrown from upper floor windows. The number of books stolen through the front entrance is negligible".
A member of the staff on the Library Committee said it was very difficult to comment on the matter — but one had to remember books were still being stolen from the library.
N.B. Beaver reporters were
—	unable to obtain exact
—	figures of the suspen-
—	sions, but a spot check
—	indicates that women
—	are in a majority.
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