THE BEAVER, ISSUE 253, DECEMBER 8,1986
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THE NEWSPAPER OF THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS UNION
Chaos!
Students Union in Crisis

By Ross Broadstock and Paul Klebnikov
Last Thursday's UGM proved to be the culmination of a term of growing factionalism, ineffectiveness and frustration for the Student Union. The meeting grew so unruly that it was actually adjourned at one point, and it led to the resignation of the chairman and the NUS officer while two Sabbaticals threatened to do likewise. The Students Union last week had reached a point of crisis.
The meeting two weeks ago had already shaken the confidence of many students in the ability of the Executive to do its job. It was now learned that the LSE Students Union was having problems representing itself to outside organisations; The NUS Delegation, students were told, had vir-
Photo: Sunil Shah
tually disintegrated. Finally, the chaos of the meeting itself brought into question the ability of the UGM to serve as an effective forum for student interests and as an organ of student government.
The meeting itself was packed. With even more present than usual due to the active canvassing by the Left in order to protect the three executive members under censure threat. Feelings ran high when Nigel Kilby withdrew his censure motion half way through Durgadeen's speech, thereby preventing her from completing her defence.
When Kilby proposed his 'Anthem' motion, the meeting degenerated even further into a howling and chanting contest. Control had already been difficult with only one microphone, and
deeming it now impossible to keep order, the Chair actually closed the meeting. While still very angry, he then resigned when the meeting reopened a few minutes later.
On leaving the debacle, many of those watching expressed disgust. Most of the "political hacks" also expressed disgust as the General Secretary, Senior Treasurer and many of the Executive all threatened to resign. NUS Officer, Ron Beadle, handed in his resignation, stating he did not want to represent "people on the Right who don't give a damn, but at least have a sense of humour, and people on the Left who give a damn but for the wrong reasons."
Much of the anger had been directed at Nigel Kilby, who over the last couple of weeks, has entered a succession of nonsense motions, including "sheep-dog" and "rhubarb". Kilby's argument is that they were "never meant to be discussed but read". Other people see them as a Right-wing faction's plot to completely tri-vialise union matters. Kilby has now claimed to have left the political arena anyway, declaring a complete retirement from politics - "I have done everything I wanted to in politics, I've passed motions, lost motions, and now I've destroyed a union meeting."
It may be that the fiasco was caused by an unfortunate congruence of events and of individual actions, but more likely, it resulted from deeper causes that have been brewing within the UGM for a long time. If the Students Union is to regain a semblance of self-respect and avoid degenerating into the kind of bedlam witnessed last Thursday, it will have to address the fundamental causes behind this behaviour. For the sake of responsible student self-government, let's hope that the issue will be examined honestly and effective remedies chosen.
NUS Mission in Jeopardy
And Then Were Three.....
by SARAH BRONZITE
By the end of last week, three delegates and one observer (out of a total of seven) had resigned their places on the NUS Conference. This incident raises three important questions for future UGMs to consider: The right of delegates to resign at all; the need to send observers to Conference; and the accountability of delegates to the LSE SU
The reasons for resigning were varied. One delegate is ill (although rumour has it that the student in question wishes to stand for the now vacant position of SU "Chair), another was mandated by her Hall Committee to remain' in London for the weekend in question, a third resigned for personal reasons, and the fourth, apparently because she wasn't given the opportunity to serve as delegate leader.
This situation begs the question: How can we ensure that elected delegates actually GO to the Conference? However, more seriously, it must harm the reputation of the LSE SU, as it will appear that we have sent a 'fringe delegation" to a conference that is the policy-making body of all British Students. One of the students now going to the Blackpool Conference got a total of eighteen votes in the election. Does this give them the right to represent all LSE students ?
Another issue that must be considered is the cost of sending people to the four annual conferences organised by NUS. Delegates are charged nothing, but if the LSE sends three observers, the total cost to the Union (including fares) amounts to just over £1,000 per annum. One solu-SEE PAGE 3
Nursery Go-.Slow
By Our Correspondent
As Beaver goes to press, the future funding of LSE's nursery still hangs in the balance.
Despite the controversy surrounding the use of British Gas shares by the student union to fund the nursery, the real issues do not appear to have been resolved. The Working Group set up between the LSE and the union has not produced any real movement.
Assurances given weeks ago that negotiations would be completed before Christmas have not been borne out by events. It seems likely this is an issue which will continue to be prominent in student union meetings next term.
Increasingly, the options open to students haye been narrowing down.
If negotiations fail, the choice will be between various forms of direct action which the union is prepared to take to achieve its aims.
The precise nature of such action will depend on how much support there is for the view that the LSE should fund a decent nursery, coupled with an estimate- of the degree of action necessary to "persuade" the authorities of students' strength of feeling.
While the British Gas debate was seen as a priority, these questions were pushed to the background. This is no longer possible. The authorities seem to have gained a brief respite by proposing a working party.
Should it not deliver the goods, students may well go for a tougher option in the New Year.
Gas Share Applications Made
By Kate Meyrick
At 10 am on Wednesday December 3rd, the Senior Treasurer submitted applications for 16,000 shares in British Gas. The share price stood at 52.56p - a gain of 5.12p on the pound. The success or otherwise of the applications will be known by 8th December, though at present O'Driscoll refuses to comment on the expected date of sale of shares.
Although the campaign has no doubt resulted in much publicity with both newspaper and T.V. coverage, will it be a worthwhile investment? At todays prices O'Driscoll admits that the situation looks worrying. The falling
prices, and lack of support (which meant only 10% of the 200 applications aimed at were achieved), will combine to produce lower than expected returns. O'Driscoll admitted "deep in my heart I know I could have done better". He attributes the low participation and his own lack of activity to the threat of legal action posed by some members of-the left. 'T was disappointed that some students were prepared to shop me" said the Senior Treasurer, who alleges that time spent in consultation with solicitors prevented him from being active in promoting share applications among the student population. The Senior Treasurer has re-iterated his belief that students
raising money for the nursery will in no way undermine the fact that it is the School's responsibility to fund the nursery, and believes that both himself, and George Binnette (who can be seen as epitomising the opposing factions), are united in this determination.
We must wait to see the long •term implications of the Senior Treasurer's scheme. "At the moment the prices are grim", said O'Driscoll, "but I anticipate that they will rise to 58.62p." A week is a long time in the stock market, and only time will tell if this prediction will prove true and whether the scheme will make money for the nursery.
Photo: Joe PfeifTer
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OPINION
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Animals at the Union
Once again, the Union meeting has been hijaclted by puerile behaviour. There is one person who, more than any other, is responsible for this: Nigel Kilby. Virtually every Union meeting this term has witnessed Kilby disrupting union business to inflate his ego and to present his irresponsible view of student issues.
One could look at the disruptions as the work of a loud, but innocuous, bully, or one could see a more significant motive. His very actions result in the fragmenting of student unity and determination, making us powerless victims of whatever policies either the school or the government chose to impose upon us.
Kilby is supposedly an advocate of "free speech", yet his own behaviour is the best argument against the principle. Kilby's concept of free speech is to force his way into the public eye, to intimidate worthy and serious speakers and to force the UGM to hear his own boorish and irrelevant rantings.
Behaviour like Kilby's is an insult to student self-government and the democratic process. A democracy must defend itself. We call for the UGM to expell Kilby for a period of several months, in the hope that when he returns to the microphone, he will exhibit behaviour both more sober and more responsible.
Admittedly, Kibly is far from the only cause of the UGM's degeneration. How, for instance, can the students take seriously a motion which proposes that Britain break off relations with the United States? Nonetheless, the Students Union must take a firm stand against all actions which diminish UGM credibility and sidetrack it onto irrelevant issues.
The Students Union is neither a debating society, nor a pub piss-up, nor a zoo. If some of our members insist on bringing such behaviour to the meeting, they must be dealt with decisively. Only then will the UGM gain the legitimacy that it deserves.
Women's Sexism
Dear Editor:
Has the women's liberation movement now abandoned its notions of equal treatment for the sexes, campaigning instead for superior women's rights? It seems to be so. Arguing against men is called "criticism", while daring to argue against women is called "sexism". The issue of debate is executive attendance. Attempting to obscure it in this way is not only misleading but also totally irrelevant.
Yours sincerely,
Simon Samuels
Anti-Semitism
Dear Editor:
The disgusting attack on Jewish groups campaigning for Soviet Jewry by V. Upadhyaya that describes them as "racialist and elitist" is sick and based on sheer ignorance. Since when is self-help 'racialist', while moreover such prominent Soviet Jews as Natan Scharansky were involved in human rights in general through the Helsinki Monitoring Group? Were Upadhyaya to have done even a minimal amount of research, he would have realized the extent to which Soviet Jews are persecuted and denied fundamental human rights, yet he pathetically ignores this fact. Moreover, the Jews airlifted form Ethiopia had been subject to oppression for many years before being saved by Israel, while Israeli citizens raised more money per capital than any other country. No, it is not racialist to campaign for one's own oppressed groups, but it is itself anti-semitic to label Jewish groups as such.
Yours,
Graham Kaye
Resignation
Dear Beaver:
I have resigned from the Executive of the LSE Students' Union. Since I have been at the LSE, the Union has degenerated into a tragi-comedy of major propor-
tions. Nevertheless, there exist on both sides of the political spectrum people who have the best interests of the students here at heart.
I wish them the best of luck.
Yours,
Ron Beadle
Anti-Israel
Dear Editor:
Whilst reading the letters on Israel in last week's Beaver, I noticed they all had one peculiar quality; they refuted what they were trying to prove. Kamhi suggested that Zionism is not racism, yet made no mention of the Law of Return, which is inherently racist in its exclusion of non-Jews. What a basis for a "democratic country", founded on the expulsion of over 3/4 million Palestinians. All letters talk of "self-determination and mutual recognition", yet key Zionists, such as Yoran Peri, have declared "peaceful coexistence" impossible, particularly since 1982. Kaye argues that Herzl was taken out of context, and that a homeland is essential to the fight against anti-semiHsm - surely, though, this reclusion is actually avoiding the fight necessary to smash anti-semitic ideas.
Like many Zionists, Kaye looks to the Holocaust as proof of the need for Israel - let's look at the record of the Zionists, then. They encouraged the Allies not to accept Jewish immigrants, as establishing the state of Israel took priority over saving lives. Weizmann lined up with the worst Nazis when he declared, "Germany has already too many Jews."
Kaye also suggested that Zionism could be part of the revolutionary socialist movement. How odd, then, that Jewish revolutionary socialists have rejected Zionism, seeing the revolutionary process, as in Russia at the turn of the century, as the only way to oppose anti-semitism. This point has been reinforced by Weizmann, who, in 1903, realized that the Jewish youth were attracted to the revolutionary rather than Zion-
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ist movement.
Zionists built Israel over the bodies of Jews murdered by Nazis, and in maintaining it, are filling graves with Palestinian and, it seems, Nicaraguan bodies. That is why the state of Israel must be opposed.
Yours,
Liz Wheatley
UGM A Right Fiasco Tequila - Kilby Club.
Dear Editor,
I shall not repeat any more platitudes (for that is what they have become) about Nigel Kilby's idiocy and immaturity. Instead I would like to draw everyone's attention to the Union, empty of any sell respecting debater or intellectual stimulus, turning into a Tequila - Kilby club. (If it is not one already.)
The UGM has pretensions oi being aforum for sensible political debates, on among othei things student welfare. I deplore the insiduous tactics of the Kilby club, who in an effort to make the UGM wholly Conservative -f Tequila, have brought frivolous motions insulting everyone's intelligence and resulting in so much disgust that it is unlikely that anyone will attend anymore of these fiascos.
J. Seepersad.
Academic Inspiration
Dear Beaver:
A. Hall is right about the apathy and reaction which has set in regarding studies at LSE. And by God, it is depressing. But his/hers is a voice in the wilderness, I fear, and the "debate" which s/he heralds on the issue has got to be a joke. More input, after all, would require Effort from staff and students - that would really be too much.
From the students' side at least, there is scant evidence that anyone wants any change. Just look at all the 3rd years going in to accounting (God forbid) -straight into a big company with a juicy starting wage. Nothing wrong in that, I might add, but this is the cream of LSE - what of the wonderful education which they have been so privileged to receive? Where are the people willing to innovate and experiment, set up businesses, collectives eve? Does anyone aspire to teach and maybe prevent cock-ups in the next generation? And so on...
Was it unreasonable to come to LSE expecting a true liberal education? Where is the energy and idealism that could make it mean something! I cannot believe that "for those with qualifications, futures are limited and uninspiring", as stated in last week's letter. It's the SKILLS you develop at college - like thinking (remember that?), and not bits of paper, that make you able to contribute something to life "outside".
With such a marked absence of academic (and social) inspiration - what hop for the future?
Yours,
Bo Novak
Careers Wasteland!
Dear Editor,
Seemingly our General Secretary, Pete Wilcock, has carried out his promise, made at both an executive meeting and the UGM to organise a careers day. Unfortunately, not many people know about it, so I would like to encourage all those interested to attend the Union Careers day on December 10th. However I had better give you all prior warning - only seven companies will be present. This does seem a rather limited number considering that about one thousand students will be seeking employment this June. So why has Pete Wilcock only been able to secure the co operation of seven companies, when nearly eighty were prepared to come to the careers day organised by AIESEC, before this was banned. Is he purposefully restricting our choice or is he merely incompetent?
Yours Sincerely A. Dixon.
Britain, not England
Dear Editor:
I read with interest the article on the "Lack of Academic Inspiration" by A. Hall in this week's Beaver.
I would, however, like to correct the writer on one major point. The writer writes of Americans' being "pre-occupied with the differences between England and America"..."they only want to take a little English education home." and that this mixing of cultures will broaden "the English mind" and that student apathy "reflects the state of England as a whole!
In case the writer is not aware, the LSE is part of the British University system, and the home students come from all over the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Yours sincerely,
Edgar Whitley
The Zionist Question
Dear Editor:
The second article of your series on "Zionism and Israel" provided a well-researched, albeit blatantly one-sided, analysis of "one aspect of Israeli foreign policy in Central America." (December 1). As an ardent Zionist and a humanitarian, I am appalled at the Israeli state's indirect support for repressive totalitarian regimes in the world, whether they are in Central America or in South Africa. I do not dispute the details presented in the article, although their presentation resembles a hate-filled diatribe more than an objective piece of news analysis.
However, I do take issue with the Beaver collective's decision to establish some sort of connection between the Israeli state's arms shipments to Central American nations and the diverse collection of cultural and political ideologies loosely categorised together under the title of Zionism. Coupled with last week's article in the series ("The Origins and Practices of Zionism", November 24), Beaver writers Wheatley and Will have attempted to portray the aspirations of a historically oppressed people for a homeland as a major cause for two examples of mass human suffering at the hands of other human beings. What are the motives of the Beaver Collective in publishing this series of articles? To educate the readers about Zionism and Israel, or to inform them of the horrible consequences of state-sponsored (in Central America and South Africa) repression? I suggest to the leadership of the Beaver collective that it make a choice and stick to it.
Aaron M. Chassy
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At The Union
By Elizabeth Botsford
The one ray of hope this week was that Hazel Smith's mouth remained as inactive as her mind. She left it to others to spread confusion and ignorance.
'I came to bury Ingrid,
Not to praise her.'
Fizzing with apathy, the amassed hoardes again subjected themselves to Kilby's megalomania. The censorship motion against the wimmin for walking out of an exec meeting because the left did not have a majority was put down to another sexist attack.
Dungadeen did manage to apologise, however, and Kilby -in a rare gesture of noblesse oblige - dropped the motion, sighing:
'The quality of mercy is not strain'd...
...'Tis mightiest in the mighty' -he pointed to himself.
Rather than being pleased at retaining the job she says she does so well, Ingrid wanted to, score some more political points ' and discuss the motion. Once Kilby had dropped it, however, the constitution would not allow debate. As Bexon said:
'Common sense doesn't come into it.'
Ron Beadle (M.P.) emitted incomprehensible tautologies about our Tarcical' NUS delegation. At least this means they are truly representative. Sarah 'Gissa Job' Bronzite tried to bemuse us further but could barely force herself off the stage to speak, so intently was she flirting with Bexon during his last stand. Sarah is standing for chair next week. Know thyself and thy limitations, sibling, please!
Mr fixit Mclnally, doubtless enraged by his ex-fling's accosting of Bexon (not half as enraged as Bexon was), reappeared at this stage. This usually heralds a successful •electoral campaign of some sort.
Nic 'How to win comrades and influence world decisions' Cicutti wanted to discuss the possibility of persuading Mrs Thatcher to break off relations with America and Israel. Later he condemned Kilby for bringing unrealistic motions to the Union meeting.
Janus 'Let's privatise Sinn Fein' O'Driscoll's typist was ill last week. Typing was traditionally seen as women's work. Rory was unable to bring himself to do it. Therefore the budget was not printed. Inter-celt rivalry broke out when Ross Broadstock moved to suspend the budget meeting until next week, so we can all have a great time analysing the figures. Why do we pay Rory if not to remove this necessity?
Why has he not fulfilled mandates to affiliate us with any liberation movements this term?
'No time', he claimed, glancing up from his F.T., analysing share movements in the Aran sweater market.
'I pray you, daughter, sing; One day you will be old and the Marxist revolution won't help you then.'
Rory wants to warm pensioners up with carols and then sell them off as alternative Christmas dinners (a bonus incentive to buy out flagging British Gas shares). He started a collection for "crisis at Christmas'. Why did the left contribute so little? Presumably because charity undermines the welfare state.
He then suggested the exec should censor motions before UGMs. If he can't extend Dial tactics to N.I. he can certainly start with L.S.E.
George accused Nigel of shutting down old age homes.
'I'm not against individuals singing to pensioners.' Whatever happened to collectivism?
If religion is the opium of the people, we can give them a real high. If they refuse to listen, we can start a new community service for offenders; punishment indeed.
Photo: Sunil Shah
Kilby's last rant?
'If music be the food of love, play on', enjoined Kilby, urging us to sing carols at OAF homes. Amazingly, Liz 'I'm a serious person. Why doesn't anyone believe me?' Wheatley and her ilk opposed this under the guise of maintaining their anti-Kilby stance.
'How like the fawning publican he looks. I hate him for he is a Christian.' That's two religious groups she dislikes. Was she worried in case her Christian songs cheered up some old Zionists in the Masada Pensioners' Home, N.W.3? J.J.D.J. (Radio 1) countered -
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Flatters Rosencrantz and guildenstern Evans voted against Christmas for pensioners, in a bid for left-wing cred. Flatters has to make up for lost ground after saying is a recent SDP meeting that he considered Margaret Thatcher to be the best leader in Britain.
By this time the aroused rabble had infected the chair with its anglo-Saxon semantic tendencies -
'This villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.'
He closed the meeting, but reopened it in order to resign. Was this a final disillusionment with democracy?
Not at all, it was so he can join in the plebian fun of censuring Pete next week.
The callousness of the left arose not only from traumatic toilet training, but from a shallow perception of themselves. This is shown in Hazel Smith's inability to understand the dilemma of ethnic minorities, not realising why they value their culture so much, when she has so negligable a grasp of her own...
ULU Closure Threat
By MARK GUEST
Services provided by the University of London Union (ULU) are in danger of closure if proposals by the University Grants Committee (UGC) go through. Last May, the UGC indicated that funding for "central student services" would be cut by up to 50% over the next three years.
Such austerity measures would undoubtedly lead to cutbacks and possible closure for some of the services provided by ULU on Malet Street, the services available to the 34 colleges that comprise the "University of London", provide the only focal point for the respective student bodies. The threatened closure of facili-
ties that meet accommodation and recreational needs and resource demands are therefore not being taken lightly.
ULU has already launched a three "R's" campaign (Defend: Representation, Recreation and ! Resources,) and a motion will be put to the University Senate in an attempt to thwart the proposals in their infancy. ULU President, Jane Cannon, said that the UGC's proposals may have far-reaching consequences affecting other inter-collegiate universities including Durham, York, Oxford and Cambridge. Details of the campaign and petition are available from ULU and local student unions.
Three Tuns Killer!
Erkki Burns
Had a hangover recently? Or do you always drink in moderation? Be honest; because every time that you drink yourself out of control you could be putting your life at risk. Last year students died by choking on their own vomit after too much boozing. A sobering thought.
But why do we sometimes drink until we cannot think: are the prssures of a hard working student's life just so much that it is the only way to relax? No doubt we are succumbing to the pressures of society: the gentle persuasion of those amusing adverts coupled with the encouragement of friends, who want you to make a bigger fool of yourself than they will of themselves.
Surely getting pissed can cause as much hassle as the pleasure that one is supposed to derive from it. Apart from relieving the stress of everyday inhibitions alcohol causes harm to both yourself and others. Physi^cal and mental disease.
Alcohol kills
violence, murder, suicide, traffic and other accidents, destitution, the list is endless. By drinking too much you are slowly destroying vital parts of your heart, liver and.kidneys.
Don't get me wrong, I am not anti alcohol, but perhaps alcohol is anti me; and it could well be anti you too. Like all other drugs it's addictiveness can push you into a viscious circle beyond your control. When you are drunk it is often harder to resist another drink than when you are sober.
By the way. Merry Christmas. Take care not to let the alcohol take care of you.
NUS Delegation in
Jeopardy
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tion to this is to stop sending observers to conferences; but it is rightly countered that such a function enables students to gain experience of how NUS functions.
How, then, can we ensure that delegates accurately represent the Student Body? Ron Beadle. NUS Officer, suggests that each of the three observers are elected in the same way as are three members of the Union Executive; one each for women, post-graduates and overseas students, respectively. At least then there would be a reason for them not to resign their places. However, this poses problems; firstly, what happens if someone standing for the position of delegate gets more votes than those standing for observer rights? And secondly, how do you make students vote? If they do not like candidates, then they cannot be forced to vote - that is, assuming they vote in the first place.
At the moment the issue has not been debated fully. In a union where the financial sitaution is rumoured to be ever approaching bankruptcy the possibility of saving £1000 a year by not sending observers would seem at a first glance to be very attractive. This would, however, leave the issue with the side line that the right of students to a full and adequate representation at NUS would be diminished. Whatever the outcome of this issue, Ron Beadle has at least brought into the open the current shambles that surrounds our NUS delegation. Reform, of whatever kind, can offer at least some hope of revising the system to ensure that the students of the LSE continue to have a voice in the decision making processes of the NUS.
Crisis at Christmas
If you are in the London area between Dec. 23rd - 29th, then join in the care of homeless people. They take over disused buildings to care for and entertain these people. Write now to crisis at Christmas, 212 Whitechapel Rd., London El IBJ, or phone 01-377-0489 fo; more information.
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The Women's Group - Same Goals,
Different Tactics
By SARAH BRONZITE
Women live in a world dominated by men, in a country in which the legal system discriminates against women on many important issues, in a work environment which denies women top positions on the grounds of their sex, and in a society which ridicules and abuses the female sex through — for example - pornography. In short, women are second-class citizens whose private value (as mothers of the next generation) is not recognized or appreciated and whose public value (as wage earners) is not rewarded with benefits equal to those of men.
At least, these are the views of many feminists at the LSE, and according to them, anyone who dares to argue with these sentiments should be branded 'sexist'. This article looks first at a number of general issues with which feminists are concerned and then suggests a number of ways in which the LSE Women's Group could gain more support.
It is true that - both in terms of numbers and influence - men have more say in the governing of the Western world than women. In business, government, the professions...you name it, men are at the top. What is the best way to change this? One prominent suggestion is to institute positive discrimination so as to compensate for previous years of injustice. Unfortunately, it is likely that this will only breed resentment and result in the hardening of men's attitudes towards women's real intelligence and aptitude. Furthermore, it is an insult to those females who have the capability to succeed by their own efforts and therefore feel no need to apologise for the fact that they are female. In many corporations a woman will need to work harder than a man to gain a similar position; this may be unfair, but if you fight the establishment, you must be prepared to fight on their terms, thus winning the respect that will make the struggle easier for the next generation.
British law is in fact worthy of the abuse hurled at it concerning its sexist nature. As well as discriminating against married women with regard to personal taxation and social security benefits (among other things), the law also makes it difficult to secure conviction for rape and assault. This indirectly condones violence within the home by giving them the generic title of 'domestic disputes'. However, in certain areas the law actually discriminates in favour of women - for example, with regard to maternity leave and return to work. Call this patronising if you will, but this sort of legislation benefits many women who otherwise would have to make the choice between a family and a career. Either you want the opportunity to compete with men, or you don't. You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.
It is all very well to say, "Come the Revolution...", but assuming that there won't be one in Britain in the foreseeable future, every effort must be made to achieve greater equality for women without the added burden of the 'No feminism without socialism' theory. Many women may believe
that they are more likely to gain equality in Britain from socialist groups such as the Labour Party, but in fact the trade unions are recognized as one of the strongest bastions of male chauvinism. For example, an Equal Pay Act.introduced at the turn of the century was only supported by the unions because they were afraid that women taking lower rates would mean greater unemployment for men.
Although the feminist movement in many respects has a valid case to support, many feel that the LSE Women's Group concentrate on the wrong issues, and such efforts that are made in the right direction are ruined by the excellent job done by the (for want of a better term) Female Chauvinist Pigs. A perfect example of this last was a 'females only' party (how sexist can you get?! I wonder what would have happened if there had been a 'men only' equivalent...?) held last year in the Tuns; a harmless and enjoyable incident in itself, but spoiled by the fact that it was used as an excuse the cover the 'men's room' with sexist graffiti which only showed the true objectives of many of those in the Women's Group: "KILL MEN" was just one of the many slogans on the walls.
Perhaps less emphasis should be placed on vocabulary; it is all very well to insist on a 'Plough-person's lunch', but to many this trivialises and ridicules the more worthy aims of the feminist movement. The Women's Room is supposed to be a place where females can relax away from male company, but history reveals that ghettos - even self-imposed ones - usually result either in pogroms or complete isolation from society; either way, women should not run away from the supposed enemy, but fight until they are the victors. The fact must be faced that men are not suddenly going to disappear, whether you run away or simply bury your head in the proverbial sand.
However, the most serious defect of the Women's Group is that it does not represent the women for whom it was intended. Although most causes and individuals are given support when needed, the actual composition of most of the group is women coming from a white middle-class background. The situation in this respect is so had that a separate Black women's group has been set up - so much for female unity against the 'enemy'.
Futhermore, feminism must be seen to mean equality rather than positive discrimination or female domination. Unfortunately, many LSE feminists prefer one (or both) of the last two definitions. the most important step to take is that of achieving equality in the minds of males - this is far more crucial than piecemeal legislative reform, although obviously the latter helps to a certain extent. It will take time, but the only way to realize success without having to resort to violence is to play them at their own game with their rules: it may not be the fairest of opportunities, but it is worth losing the battle in order to win the war.
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Tom King Northern Ireland
Photo: Mark Moore
Tom King drev^f the short straw in the Cabinet reshuffle that led to his appointment as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. With the signing of the Anglo-Irish agreement in November 1985, he had an opportunity to distinguish himself and elevate his poUdcal profile. To many, how^ever, he is perceived as being a mere mouthpiece for Downing Street policy. He has failed to allay Unionist fears of the agreement and failed also in delivering on the "compromises" offered to the Nationalist population.
Tom King, who spoke at the LSE last Wednesday 3rd December, addressed an interested and informed audience who took him to task on a number of issues. The standard of his replies in many cases did not match the standard of questions and at times he appeared unable to cope with the barrage of criticism aimed at Tory Party policy in Northern Ireland.
He opened his speech by referring to the majority of Irish people'who, according to Tom King, "don't like the British very much" and are a different entity from their Protestant compatriots who are "determined to defend their rights to be British."
The history of Northern Ireland from the years 1921-1969 was given a quick treatment by Mr. King and he summarised the Nationalist complaint as being a problem about "housing, .jobs, and treatment by forces of law and order." He spoke of the "economic success" that the North enjoyed until the 1960s.
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19 NOVEMBER 1986
On Wednesday, 19th November, a jumble sale was held in the area above the Cafe with the intention that all proceeds go to the nursery.
We were most grateful for the contributions from Passfield Hall, which had accumulated over the years, and from our own lost property department.
The sale ran from 11.30 a.m. to about 3.30 p.m. The amount raised was £70.86.
An appreciative thank you goes out to all those who helped to move furniture, pubhcise the event and to generally make it a success.
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, The reasons for that success were never dealt with, but the reason given for Unionist abuse of power was that their "magnanimity to the Minority was impeded by fear." This fear exists, according to Mr. King, because whilst the Protestants are in a majority in the State of Northern Ireland, they are in a minority in Ireland as a whole.
The Anglo-Irish agreement he defined as an "unusual response to an unusual situation" and he gave evidence of its "warm acceptance" internationally. The agreement he said "had not been welcomed by Unionists" and "cautiously well-welcomed" by the Nationalists. He referred to articles 2 and 3 of the Irish constitution which "claims the territories of the six counties" but praised the Irish taoiseach (premeir) Dr. Garrett FitzGerald for stating publicly that he is only interested in a reunification of Ireland under consent of all the people on the island.
He concluded his speech by saying that "there is no threat out of the Anglo-Irish agreement for the Union" but he did add that "overreaction could be a threat to the Union - that is the
clearest warning I give."
In the lively question time that followed, Simon McVicker (Chairman, London Conservative Students) asked if Mr. King supported the introduction of British political parties in Northern Ireland in an effort to break the sectarian stranglehold. Mr. King replied that the official Unionist party is already "linked" with the Conservative party.
Rory O'Driscoll (senior treasurer of the Student Union) asked if Tom King would ensure that the College authorities wouldn't stop any speech by a member of Sinn Fein, citing the incidence of Gerry Adams MP who was banned from mainland Britain until he was elected an MP.
Tom King said in reply that he would not enter into discussions with any members of Sinn Fein, totally ignoring the fact that in 1972 William Whitelaw had met members of the I.R.A. in London. Unfortunately, duje to the lack of time, this and many other pertinent questions were left unanswered.
by BRIAN BOYD

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PROTESTING — French Students Mobilize
By ALEXANDER CRAWFORD
For once, students have been scoring major successes in their campaigning in the last few weeks. In Britain, Barclays Bank announced their withdrawal from South Africa and everybody, including the bank, acknowledged the important role played by students in general and the NUS in particular in the campaign. Across the Channel, a battle on a much greater scale is being fought by French students in opposition to a reform of the University system proposed by the current government.
Within a week, a small group of students in a small university outside Paris have managed to mobilize the entire French student community, soon reinforced by lecturers, teachers] sixth-formers and the left-wing political opposition. Together, they have forced the government to baok down, for the moment.
Under the current French system, any school-leaver that has passed his Baccalaureat (A-level equivalent) is entitled to a place at any university of his choice. All places are distributed strictly on a first-come, first-serve basis. All courses are free and registration fees are held to a minimum (£10 to £40). The introduction of these rules followed the 1968 "events" and are seen to uphold the principle of equality and right of all to higher education.
The project recently proposed by the right-wing government's junior minister for education, M. Devaquet, includes provisions that would give the individual, universities the power to impose their own entrance requirements. The government also plans to cut staff and budget, to reform the sixth-form and Baccalaureat systems, and various measures
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affecting both students and teachers. Suggested plans also call for the gradual introduction of private-sector involvement to replace central government funding. All these points were contained in a law that was to pass through Parliament on the 27th of November.
On the 20th, a few students at the Villetaneuse campus of the University of Paris went on strike and called for other campuses to do the same. Within a few days, ten other Paris campuses (out of a total of thirteen) and many universities all around France were on strike. A meeting of delegates took place in Paris on the 22nd; it voted a giant demonstration for Thursday, 27th November in Paris and around the country.
It soon became apparent that the main organizing force behind the whole movement was the UNEF-ID, the "Independent and Democratic French Union of Students", whose leaders are close to the socialist Party of President Mitterrand. However, the student protest has been very careful to avoid excessive politication, and has so far been relatively successful in this matter.
Of course, the students are opposing a project of a right-wing government, and sometimes extend their discontent to other recent governmental proposals. Amongst these are the new Nationality Code (whereby the children of immigrants lose the right to automatic French citizenship), the tough law-and-order reforms involving numerous identity-checks in the streets and the criminalisation of drug-addicts. All through this campaign, support for the students has come from the main opposition parties. In response to
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accusations of manipulation, the president of the UNEF-ID has said, "Yes, this is a political protest, but it is not politicised."
However, these issues seemed irrelevant on the 27th, when over half a million students and supporters joined the demonstrations all over France. In Paris alone, over 200 000 demonstrators marched through the Quartier Latin to the National Assembly. Apart from some scattered provocations by the ultra-right National Front, everything went peacefully. The CRS, the French riot police, never even needed to intervene.
Less than 24 hours later the government, apparently under the direct orders of the Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, post-f)oned the discussion and the
vote. This was in direct contradiction to what it had declared a few days earlier. The vote will now probably not take place before the holiday season, and Mr. Chirac promised that he will not rush the bill through the French Parliament while the students are on vacation.
After this first unexpected victory, the students are not demobilizing. The organizers have called for another giant demonstration on the 4th of December. They have also made their demands clear: they want the text of the law totally abandoned, not amended and passed.
The events of the past few weeks have shown, once again, what a delicate issue education is in France. Each time it is touched
upon, by any government, the streets fill. The year 1983 saw the unsuccessful campaign by right-wing students to block the university reforms of the socialist government. In that same year, however, an even greater mobilization succeeded in stopping a reform of the private school system. Finally, of course, the upris-irig and near revolution of 1968. was triggered by the dismal condition of Parisian universities. The revolt almost toppled the government of General De Gaulle.
It is in the light of this continuity that the present action, defending what was won eighteen years ago by the parents of those out in the streets today, is to be seen. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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THE BEAVER,ISSUE 253,DECEMBER 8,1986
From Government Ministers to Major Capitalists,
LSE Alumni Span the World
By JOANNE LAW
"J.F.K." John F. Kennedy
Question: What have the Queen of Denmark, Edwina Currie and Mick Jogger got in common? Answer: They were all students at the London School of Economics
The LSE has in fact got a long list of distinguished alumni on record, including not only Queens, rock-stars and politicians but also many well-known bankers, journalists and several world-leaders.
Business and Industry worldwide is full of successful LSE students. In Britain alone the leading figures in Marks and Spencers, Shell International Petroleum Company, IBM U.K.,
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Cable and Wireless Ltd and the General Electric Company were all students at the school.
The Director General of the Confederation of Industry in Britain, Sir Terence Beckett,
read Economics at the LSE in 1950. He then went on to become the Managing Director, Chief Executive and Chairman of the Ford Motor Company before gaining his present position.
The Chairman of the famed Saatchi and Saatchi advertising company, Maurice Saatchi, also studied at the LSE where he read Economics in 1967. Saatchi and Saatchi helped to revolutionise politics in Britain when they were employed by the Conservative Party in 1979 to package their election campaign. Recently Saatchi and Saatchi have been responsible for the successful British Airways advertisements, and their Castlemaine XXXX campaign won the top creative honours at this year's poster awards.
But it is not only British business where LSE students have made their mark. Potential millionaires may take inspiration from the fact that David Rockefeller, the esteemed American banker, was a postgraduate research student at the LSE in the late 1930s, before going on to consolidate his fortune.
In fact, banking is another area where LSE students are numerous. The World Bank, the Bank of Canada, the Deutsche Bank AG, the Import-Export Bank of India, the Bank of Cyprus and the Bafik of Iceland, for example, are all headed by past students from the School.
But, of course, the School has not only produced astute businessmen and bankers in its time. In the world of journalism, the Executive Editor of Finance and Industry for the Times, Kenneth Fleet, holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics from the School whilst the benches of Westminster are filled with politicians who began their poli-
tical career at the LSE. In the present British Government, approximately 26 members of the House of Commons hold degrees from the School, 17 representing the Labour Party. Robert Kilroy-Silk, Leo Abst,, John Golding and Ray Mason, for example, all discovered the path to socialism on Houghton Street, whilst Reg Prentice, the once Labour now Conservative M.P. who changed both his mind and his party-affiliation during a Commons debate was also an LSE student, who probably mastered the art of inde-cisiveness at LSE Union Meetings!
One LSE old boy who definetly was involved in the Student Union of his time is John Moore, a prominent member of the Conservative Party. Now on the School's Court of Governors, Moore was Chairman of the LSE Conservative Association and President of the Union whilst an Economics student at the LSE in the late 1950s.
But it is not only the British Government which has attracted LSE graduates. The number of overseas students who returned home to become powerful politicians is endless. Pierre Trudeau, the notable former Prime Minister of Canada and campaigner for disarmament, undertook postgraduate research at the LSE in 1947; Roland Dumas, the ex-French Minister for External Relations, was a postgraduate student here in the Law department.
The list of U.S. graduates is particularly strong, including

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John and Robert Kennedy, Senators Fulbright and Moyni-han. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Fund Paul Volker, and the Pentagon's "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle.
The influence of the School is no less marked in the Third World. The Prime Minister of Fiji, the Prime Minister of Dominica, the former President of Ghana, the former Prime Minister of Barbados, the Minister of Finance in Venezuela and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Zimbabwe, for example, were all once LSE students. Maurice Bishop, Marxist revolutionary and leader of the New Jewel Movement that shook up Grenada and the rest of the
Caribbean was also reputed to have attended.
Michael Manley, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, read Economics at the School before going on to work as a journalist for the B.B.C. and then as a politician. In Asia, the Prime Minister of Taiwan Yu Kuo-Hwa studied at the LSE, as did a prominent member of Chinese officialdom Fei Xiaotang, who obtained a Ph.D. in Social Science at London University in 1938. Fei studied at several Western universities before returning to China in 1949 where he served on various government committees and councils. During the "Hundred Flowers Campaign" of 1957 he
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It has been suggested in the past that, in fact, in every bank, business and Government around the globe there is an LSE student. In the words of Ron Moody, the British actor who studied Sociology at the School between 1948 and 1953, "Where else could I have found such fulfillment in every direction but in this Student City of Opportunity?"

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Soho Past and Present
By KATE PRENDERGAST
Soho is a compact, lively maze in the heart of London. Flanked by main shopping highways bursting with people, it is surprising how quickly the mood can change by simply turning into one of its narrow streets. Soho can be quiet and graceful; it is also seedy and a little disreputable. Above all, it is cosmopolitan, with a sense of city life that can be found in many of the great capitals of the world.
During the Middle Ages Soho was farmland, surrendered in 1536 to Henry VIII as a park for Whitehall Palace. It was used for hunting; since "So-Ho" is an ancient hunting cry, this is presumably the origin of the name.
Building seriously began on it in the C17th, rapidly so in the 1660's and 70's when Soho Square, Dean Street, Frith Street and Greek Street were built. The English aristocracy lived here fdr a while, although by the mid C18th, they were moving out to Mayfair and Pic-
cadilly. They were replaced with artists, artisans and foreigners.
In Dean Street, one could have found the artist, John Francis Rigaud and the architect, Thomas Hardwick. No 21 was the site for the Venetian Ambassador's Chapel. It then became Caldwell's Assembly rooms, in which Mozart, aged 7, played the harpsichord accompanied by his 4 year-old sister in 1763. It was later a dancing Academy, auction rooms, St. Anne's National School and a sjmagogue. It is now the gallery of the Ben Uri Art Society. Karl Marx lived at No. 28 - 3 of his children died there. His house was described as "tattered and torn. His manuscripts, books and , newspapers lie beside the children's toys, bits and pieces from the wife's work basket, tea cups with broken rims, dirty spoons, knives, lamps, an inkwell, tumblers, Dutch clay pipes, tobacco ash... all this on the table, but it gave Marx and his wife not the slightest embar-

rassment; one is received in the friendliest way."
From the late C17th Soho began to house foreign immigrants, especially French Huge-nots. They took over a chapel which was originally built for Greek Christians seeking refuge in England on the site now occupied by St. Martin's. Soho became most cosmopolitan; by 1720 Strype, a London surveyor, observed "an abundance of French people", and Maitland, 19 years later, thought Soho was "so abound with French, that it is an easy matter for a stranger to imagine himself in France."
In the CI9th the population increased rapidly. Houses had been divided into tenements; overcrowding was common, cholera endemic (soho became briefly distinguished for the number of hospitals there - 6 appeared between 1851 - 1874).
Toward the turn of the century, Soho established its reputation as a place of entertainment. Theatres and music halls opened, some with a disreputable character, and prostitutes became firmly and notoriously established. Eating in Soho was not yet a recommended pastime, however, except for the most impervious. John Galsworthy saw Soho from the somewhat narrowed eyes of the i
well-to-do: "Untidy, full of Greeks, Ishmaelites, cats, tomatoes, Italians, restaurants, organs, coloured stuffs, queer names, people looking out of upper windows, it dwells remote from the British Body Politic."
After WWI, with the decline in domestic servants, eating out became far more fashionable. Leicester Square restaurants were frequented by Theatregoers; with the building of new theatres in Shaftesbury Ave. and Charing Cross Rd., Soho became a place to eat, too. By the twenties its gastronomic reputation had soared. It was still (perhaps not surprisingly) full of foreigners: the Italians had arrived, many of them cooks and waiters; Russian and
Polish Jews, Greeks and Swiss.
Since then, the resident population has declined. In 1981 it was 3,000, whilst 70,000 move in every day and night, to work or have fun. An increasing number of its residents are Chinese or Bengali, living around Chinatown.
Since the fifties Soho's sleaze has acquired cult status, immortalized by Colin Mcinnes (made tacky by Julien Temple) and centre of swinging sixties London. It is an intense mixture of lifestyles, with its restaurants and delicatessens, elegant C18th buildings and shady clip joints. At night it is, if anything, more lively, where clubbers share the pavements with destitute ttamps and whore — a real den of neon.
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Interview with Hugo Y oung of The Guardian
By JACQUES PERETTI
"Journalists are outsiders. Critics, not actors. We're here to point out the feet of clay which all politicians have. I try to give an interpretation of events and say what I think is really going on. But if I'm going to be read, it's important not to be predictable, so I sometimes try and convey a strong point of view. I'm in a very privileged position: twice or more a week, I have totally unrestrained access to the pages of 'The Guardian', to discuss, to respond, to contribute and to debate. Maybe to just provoke people. Make them think about things."
Like with Neil Ascherson, Bernard Levin and Jeff Bernard, proof of Hugo Young's popularity as a journalist lies in the number of regular readers who turn to his column first thing. Readers of other papers, who ordinarily regard "The Guardian" as a disagreeable blend of jazziness and pomposity will nevertheless fork out twice a week to see what Mr. Young is saying.
The Farringdon office in which he works bares little relation to the nicotine and ink-stained hack-hovels imagined of the street of shame. It has the crea-ture-comforts of Wapping -plush carpets and VDUs - without the barbed wire surrounding it.
"A Newspaper's power is exaggerated by politicans and sometimes by newspapers who get too self-important. No doubt they reinforce the prejudices of their readers but don't change their mind about how to vote." Newspapers set the agenda for television, although too often they follow TV in the making of news.
"Thatcherism hasn't lost its steam. The opposition parties have yet to set up a satisfactory alternative set of ideas - they haven't begun to command a new fashion or ideology." In spite of a Right hegemony, a big Tory defeat could see a sharpish return to one-nationism within Tory ranks. But how likely is a Tory defeat?
"Kinnock cannot go into any sort of understanding or coalition with any grouping." PR as a negotiating tool?
"Every active politician takes a view on it that is entirely related to his own fortunes. It will only happen with a large Alliance presence. Not as a negotiating tool. Even if Kinnock were to agree, he would do so knowing that he couldn't deliver his party. All such things can be talked about but they make little sense without figures."
No matter how you add up the figures, you can only come up with one of two answers. Either (1) A Tory victory or, (2) some sort of mess. What is just a little bit disquieting is the certainty of tone with which it is said.
So what about Mr. Tebbit?
"Tebbit is an extreme version of a political disease in this country whereby politicians are
unable to understand what the function of the media is. Politicians have powerful allegiences and cannot understand any quasi-political function, such as journalism, which does not start from an allegience."
Is that true of Mrs. Thatcher? What, if anything, is most surprising about her?
"She's a very easy person to interview. She's extremely open. She treats a newspaper interview as something in which she wants to get something across. She treats a TV interview as a contest. She doesn't fence with you, and she's not elusive. We shall miss her for that, if nothing else."
Was there not some similarity between Tebbit and Mrs. Thatcher in this respect? Did Young have similar humble beginnings?
"What a comparison! No, I went to public school and Oxford, where I decided that I didn't want to be a- lawyer. When one left any university in 1961, it was not a question of 'would you be able to get a job?' but 'which of half a dozen jobs you might take'."
Young began his journalistic career at The Yorkshire Post, and in July 1962, he met his first real, live politican. R.A. Butler came to stay at his father's house on the very night of Macmillan's "Night of the Long Knives": when he sacked half the cabinet.
"Seeing Butler arriving off the train, having had to leave London before the things was complete, 'What's happened! What's happened!' he said. 'David Eccles was holding out on us for a better job at the end'. For an hour and a half, I had this wonderful recitation - a stream of consciousness from Butler about his colleagues in the cabinet."
Any hates?
"I had an absolute loathing of Macmillan. That ridiculous face
on television; that twitching of the Edwardian moustache. The sense of a man that was not part of our time."
For a journalist, "an outsider", it is outsiders in the world of politics who stand out. Tam Dalyall, 'an awkward character", George Cunningham, who used the back-bench role fruitfully. "Very few people go into politics in order to become backbench MPs. They may soon discover that it's the height of their credible attainment, but somewhere at the beginning, they've had higher aspirations. They go in with a perception of doing public good, but quite a few get corrupted; partly by the futility of much of the work and partly by opportunities for activities that aren't necessarily for public good."
Hugo Young uses words carefully. When it comes to scenarios for the election or the state of play in the country. Young can sit back a little. One has the feeling that his lucid observations, given a characteristic sting in the tail, become just a little bit automatic. It's a subtle change."I'm always stuck, when I speak to Labour politicians, by the appeal that they want to make to people's altruism. That people don't just want strong government, but that society will be better if people make some sacrifices. Good and idealistic. The Tories don't make any claim to appeal to that." Nor do they have to.
Is there not any politician, I asked finally, who he felt not the tiniest bit sympathetic to? There was a genuine delve going on inside that head, I could tell. Without more than a moment's pause, Mr. Young replied: cannot think of any politician who I would have any difficulty in writing an extremely hostile piece about." He said it in a way as there was to be no mistaking what the last words were to be.
Book Review
Flowers and Insects What is the Truth?
Ted Hughes
A new volume for adults and a reissue in paperback of "A Farmyard Fable for the Young" are Faber's poet laureate offerings for Christmas. What is the difference between Hughes' work for adults and that for children? Should there be a difference? "If it cannot be said to a child, it should not be said." This view, instead of increasing the scope of what a child can hear should surely encourage us, as adults, to discriminate and to refuse to tolerate indiscretion. A grownup has the discrimination still to be developed in the growing up. It is this discrimination that leads Man to truth. For the truth, the sexuality present in "Flowers and Insects" is not needed. A poem about spiders' mating and about an iris as woman are distortions of what is happening in Nature.
Sex has its place and its lesser importance and least joy is the physical. Why is our modern culture obsessed with sexuality? Both strippers, in a gross sense and metaphors in a subtle sense reduce a woman to a lump of flesh. When a man sees his wife in this way, the marriage is lost: when men see women this way, humanity is lost. In the heart it is
In "Daffodils" the mind is seen to get ideas lodged that will not move out: "Yet they stayed. That night on my pillow, / My brain was a chandelier of daffodils." The sometimes uncontrollable mind is observed, when in sitting down to write a letter, Hughes is caught by distractions:
"Suddenly hooligan baby starlings
Rain all around me squeaking. Shouting now its tremendous and everybody
Has to join in and they're off this minute!"
There's more besides, but for . all its worldly knowledge "Flowers" lacks a quality abundant in "What is the Truth?" A quality that is being shocked out of our children at an ever-earlier age ¦ and is difficult to find again. The value of innocence has been forgotten, other things are considered more important. There is more to innocence than naivety.
What Hughes writes of is a simple truth that all children recognise a cognition that happens before language, for before it is spoken it is lived. The child of two just hears, sees, smells, touches, tastes and lives. Even
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known that the joy comes not from sensations. This does not mean the physical is not relevant: In "Brambles" Hughes sees Nature at work;
"The baby jackdaw Generation is being initiated Into jackdawdom - that complicated
Court-world of etiquette
And precedence, jingoism and
law."
So, too, is Man initiated and limited as he picks up attitudes and ideas. In the same poem, Hughes eveii questions whether Man feels. So much of the day is spent in the mind that experience stops - the world happens oblivious. The ears do not stop hearing, but we stop listening.
without language, without naming, the child can simply be. With naming comes separation. Instead of just looking and seeing all, we begin to look at and to separate the seer, the seeing and the seen. Hughes, with all his experience of watching, knows that there is no separation. The book is a journey through thought, feeling and observation to truth. (I wonder if the God of this book would call the poems of "Flowers" the truth.) This Christmas-,when the excitement is fading and the night draws on, I shall read it to my niece and nephews: what is given then may be a present useful for life.
Gregory Thompson
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by STAVROS MAKRIS
The events of the Investment Forum's AGM have raised certain questions. Does the organiser of a new society have the right to assume leadership of the said society without previously having been elected into that position?
In all fairness Nizam Baichariand stood for the post and lost. However the criticisms fired at him were that he was far too late at calling for elections, he had not given enough notice of the elections, he had appointed his own friends to the caretaker committee and when standing for the post of the President, he stood with Angelo Kiros against Mahmood Nooram. Apparently bycepha-lous presidency is not ruled out by the rules of the S.U., which if anything complicates the matter since there were those who chose to object to the validity of the candidacy of the two.
The situation was complicated further more after Kiros's decision to stand down. Nazim chose to highlight his atributes and draw out in detail his past record as well as his future plans. These are rather formidable; unfortunately he went on to attack the relative inexperience and unproven record of his opponent. His manner was quite majestic if not dictatorial and struck a negative chord with his audience. In contrast, Mahmood's attitude of sincerity and eloquence was welcomed with applauses.
Nazim lost and, walking out, he took with him his friends and all the distinguised names he had planed for to appear over the next term.
It is worth pointing out at this point that the number of members present only just exceeded sixty, whereas the membership of the society numbers well over two hundred.
To his credit, it must be said, Nizam worked hard to put together a formidable list of
speakers, but should that justify his assuming leadership? Could he not carry on offering his services if he were just another member of the society? By walking out, he has denied the future speakers to the Forum Society and he is now rumoured to plan the creation of a new society. This new society (to be called Investment Club) will call upon the same speakers to address the same issues in front of a very similar audience. This new society will come to claim new funds and compete with another LSE society already catering for the same interest group.
Will the birth of this new club be plagued by the same problems as the Investment Forum? Only time can tell. Watch this space.
And now back to the mundane news that you have come to expect of this column. '
I am reliably informed by Mario Ramos, Vice President of Overseas Student Society, that the fabled "free trip" to Cambridge will be held either at the end of Lent term or at the beginning of Summer term. The Pub Crawl - most likely circling the Circle Line - "getting on will be no problem but leaving may be difficult after a few beers" will depart next term. To mark the beginning of the Lent term a joint Amnesty International and Overseas Student Society Party/Disco will be held on Friday, 16th January 1987. "A must for anyone with internationalist humanitarian aspirations."
No more rumours about EGEE. These are the facts: EGEE is organizing a trip to Madrid in January between the 18th and the 24th to participate in the first anniversary of Portugal's and Spain's entry into the European Community. Among the topic to be covered in the lectures are: terrorism;
Spain as a bridge between Europe and Latin America; and Spain's transition to a democracy. Speakers are to include the King, Souraez and hopefully Gonzales, the Spanish Prime Minister. Over 500 participants from all over Europe are expected to attend. London is limited to 20 places, so if you want to go, hurry! All it will cost you is your travel expenses - food and accommodation is to be provided.
If you want to find out more about the trip or EGEE, pop in S75 at 6pm on any Tuesday. AH are welcome, even those who do not care about the CV.
Despite the fact that the SWP mounted a picket to stop people from going to the Debating Society, and despite the fact that the person who they were protesting against - John Ber-cow, FCS President - did not turn up, more than 80 people came to hear the motion that this house would work for a Tory election victory. It was a fairly humourless subject as you can imagine. Next week, they have the former most brilliant person at the LSE, Danny Finklestein (Debating Society ex-president, 1st etc.) and youngest SDP Parliamentary candidate along with Anthony Goodman (former Oxford Union President), another SDP candidate. they will be arguing that the SDP is the true home of the political radical". Opposing will be the well-known poet, Ronald Beadle, and London NUS Labour convenor, Sarah Knowl-den. The venue is, as always, A86 on Tuesday at 1.00pm.
The Grimshaw Club will visit the International Maritime Organization on Wednesday, 10th December. The guided tour will include talks by experts on maritime law. If interested, please sign up in A139 and meet at the steps of the Old Building at 1pm.
The Sociology Society is
staging "The Disco event of the term" in the Graduate Common Room on Tuesday, 9th December, from 7pm till late. There will be a door charge but free drinksK?) and on top of that, a X-Mas Raffle.
On the very same night the Trade Union Studies Society in association with the Industrial Relations Society has organized a Christmas Party with bar and disco in "Da Marco's", the Strand, from 8pm to lam. Tickets are £1.00 for members and £2.00 for non-members.
And yet another party - the Jazz/Funk/Soul Society, or is it the Funk Groove Society, is holding a Christmas rave on Wednesday, 10th December, in the Haldane Room, with D.J. Rob. Tickets are £1.00 for members and £1.50 for non-members, available from outside the Old Theatre.
It's this time of the year...parties, parties, parties. Which one to go to? When thinking about it, consider the LSE Drama Society's production which will be staged on three consecutive nights, starting Monday, the 8th. Tom Stoppard's hilarious "After Magnitte" is to be followed by the Christmas Revue.
The LSE Students' Union is organizing a Christmas Party for students who are going to be alone in London for the vacation. The party will take place in the Graham Wallis Room on 24th December from 12 noon. If you (and your partner) would like to go, please give your names and a contactable phone number to the Overseas Student's Officer or leave the details in her pigeon hold in E297. Depending on numbers there may be a small charge of £1.00. Come join in the fun. You don't need to be alone if you are away from home.
On the same theme - a family in Islington would very much like to have two or three students over Christmas day to
join in their family celebrations. If you are going to be alone on Christmas Day, why not spend it with them? If interested, please give your name to Ingrid Durgadeen.
Two publications see the light at the end of this term. The Malaysian Singapore Society and the Chinese Society both have their Christmas booklets published. They mark the changeover of executives and the beginning of "a new era". They are well worth reading, if you can find a copy - I am informed they go like hot potatoes, so you had better hurry.
And a last moment info. The Wine Tasting Society has been revived at the LSE. A series of regular tastings with the aim of promoting interest in wine will take place for as wide an audience as possible. With annual membership dues of only just over 0.1% of you grant (£2.50), this society is for everyone. ""Tory or Marxist, ignoramus or connoisseur," you are warmly welcomed to the initial meeting on Tuesday, 9th December, 5pm to 6.30 pm in A45 in the Old Building.
So fellow students and classmates, this is it for this year. Feast, drink and rejoice for you have to come back next year...
Photo: Sivan

The "Ugly Bunch"-The Beaver Team
"L.S.E. on Icc By J. J. Christmas Holiday Special
99
Well here we are into the last week of term. First years going home full of stories about how and where they got drunk, how really brilliant the lecturer on "Stalin and sex-life of fruit flies" is and how "nobody works in their first-year. Dad, so don't worry and have another Scotch!" Hacks laying down their politics and rushing to the library to catch up. Yes, the Christmas holiday is here again.
The censure motions last week however caused the LSE to be showered not in snow but in "Don't Sack Me" leaflets. The great irony of course was that this was one of the very few publications Lisa Britten, publicity officer, has come up with. Ingrid Chipsandbeans seeing knives aimed at her back valiantly shot herself in the foot, and this nearly threw her off balance mentally. She would have it believed that she and she alone got the guarantee of more first-years in hall last year. This is a lie. Where were you at the Inter-Halls Committee when the decision was made Ingrid? By all accounts Ingrid has done a good job; please don't pull cheap stunts, it only detracts from your own good work.
News from the Tequila Society...following recognition as the U.K.'s largest consumer of tequila, the T.S. are now broadening their social responsibilities. Having already made many in the society happy, Chas and Co., now help rehabilitate ex-cons back into society. The exact technique is somewhat debatable, as the cons are hardly shown that society is now more tolerant and prepare to let him feel at home.
Look out for "Raunchy Ronnie's Roadshow"'next year. Taking a taxi with The Beadle last week saw the Legend in full flow against a cabbie class traitor - BT, the NHS and real poverty ("before you were born young fella") were discussed. In truth, Ron's performance was great; last laugh though went to the cabbie who saw Ron pay for the ride and the privilege of being slagged-off. Nationalisation of the Taxi Industry looks set for the next Labour government, as do several specific compulsory redundancies in the industry!!
And from Cabbies bearing goods to sleigh-drivers bearing presents, "Dear Santa" the letter started, "I've been very good this year, and so I would like..." Yes it's Christmas time and even the hacks at the LSE believe in Santa. And what a stroke of luck to find all their letters to Santa before they went in the post box. Shall we have a look at what they want for Christmas...
Tory 0'Driscoll....a conscience Peter Wilcock.... something to do
Babs Band....the "How to heal knife wounds" book Chas Begley....tequila (what else?)
Dreary McGinlay....a sense of humour
Laura Matthews....the "Fonda Workout" book
Cathy Bruce...."Wicked Willies' Guide to Women"
Simon Bexon....a new set of knives
Avarice Careerist____a £25
voucher for Oxfam in time for the elections
Kate Turner____a new hairdresser
Steve Bankrupt....a buyer for his sweaters
Nigel Kilby....a new band wagon to jump on Jonathan Putsman....a jumbo box of kleenex
Elizabeth Botsford....popularity Pete Weatherprophet....a Hol-sten home-brew kit
Simon Wooling____a Holsten
home-brewery kit and Queen's Greatest Hits
George Binette....to kill Sid Bob Page....Grecian 2000 Derek Smith....a hot, sweaty box
Richard Weilson....a porter's uniform
Wesley Emmet.... to not look like John Cole
Phil Evans....a haircut Elwyn Watkins....a bath Ron Beadle....a safe constituency
Nic Jacuzzi....his own bucket
Peter Dawson____a one-way
ticket to Brazil
Well that's it for this term. All that remains is to sincerely wish all my readers a wonderfully happy Christmas and very prosperous New Year. May all your troubles melt away like snow and leave you clean and refreshed for the year to come. Still enough of the poetry, I'm off to hang my balls on the tree and stuff the turkey!
P.S. Peter Dawson lives in a bunker!
CARR-SAUNDERS
Sorry all you dirt lovers out there, but, with so much action this week to cover (for once) there's no room left for the gossip - well perhaps just a little bit.
The highlight of the week was watching "Honest 'enry" and sidekick suffering over lots of adding and things as they tried to make a "nice little earner" from the Pool Tournament by running a book. Little turned out to be the operative word because they finally cleared just enough for a Kebab each.
The tournament itself was won by "Jammy" Rob Jones who finally fluked the last black off about twenty three cushions to edge out the unfortunate "Roll 'em in" Ross in a tight final. This lucky black meant that poor little Taffy lost forty pounds in lost takings (aahh how we all felt for him) only to find he'd covered his bets by placing a sly couple of quid on Rob as well!!
The bar had its 'piece of the action' when the peaceful, drinking commune of Andy's den was subjected to a rampaging outburst of liquid (?!) Ramboism. With modern arms technology providing them with a pump-action water shotgun instead of the trusty old pistol, the long-haired psychopath blazed away indiscriminantly at any poor souls not quick enough to flee.
However, not inheriting Stallone's immunity, our little one-man army got its comeuppance when local resistance burst into action. First one, and then a whole barrage of hand-held, single shot 1 pint callibre Webster's Napalm rained down on him. The hasty retreat to H.Q. Men's toilets was accompanied by much joy and native hysteria (not least of which was from the bar-staff who's commission for
the night had just been doubled).
The next action of the week occured in the Tequila party. 'Beaker' Watson and 'Boxer' Barber decided that one to one odds was just not fair on a poor defenceless army paratrooper and decided to all pile in on 'Yanky doodle' Abrams. Despite the cuts and bruises we're assured that all are once again best of friends but Beaker and Boxer haven't been seen walking around in groups of less than three all week.
Continuing on th-y theme of violence, who has a grudge against the pool table and the green beret? Anyone who lays a finger on those delightful Christmas decorations will be lynched by Baz - or will that be under the mistletoe Lucy? Meanwhile the 'alchy of the hair contest is really hotting up with Julian and Nav finally getting some serious competition, and this time from females! Our chirpy duo of Cat and Scouser seem to have been having real trouble getting to bed without two strong hunky men each to help them and Julia is beginning to really regret having to make it all the way to the fifth floor after her nightly drop of pop from the bar (Has she ever missed a promotion?)
Finally,, despite all the tears and heart-rending pleas from almost the entire hall your favourite and mine, heart-throb Eddleston has resigned as hall vice-president. The committee have strictly denied that the ordering of deco and flags for the bar had anything to do with it.
From the three stupid monkeys. See all, Hear all, tell all.P.S. Winnie the Pooh will be showing in the bar on Friday.
Passfield
Sad to say the Meyrick Dynasty is in its last week. After a glorious year in the throne, Kate, our truly beloved leader judging by all the birthday cards and presents, is retiring from office. In a way one almost feels sorry for the new President because Kate will be a damned hard act to follow.
The new President is Miss Michelle Leung, who by all accounts reached quota well ahead of the field. So the champers, well Pomagne, could finally be uncorked. Sadly however, this election or rather campaign was marred by the general gutter-level tactics which have no place inside Passfield's fair walls. The people concerned better hope the victim doesn't really do arms deals, because the man is not happy.
On a brighter note, Christmas is here and to celebrate the School has completed our enclosure by putting railings up by the warden's flat. Will we return after the break to find gun towers and a minefield where the garden once was? Will we even be allowed home?
A matter of deep concern this term has been the selection of videos the social secretary has come up with. Absolute bril- • liance week after week; the orgasmic, electrifying "St. Elmo's Fire"; the breath-takingly awesome "Runaway". It just couldn't go on....and it didn't, thus the bland and very dull Indian Jones. Come on Stavros, let's have more obscure, fringe, arts-for-arts sake movies. We can see dross like "Indie" in the West End, let's have culture at home.
Anyway, I've got to go. Have a nice Christmas. Eat, drink, and write essays my tutor said! What a way to end my first term!
The Fairy on Top of the Tree
Rosebery Report
5 Go Mad in London
Bored with Hall life the Famous Five decided to seek their pleasure elsewhere - on an intrepid journey across London by moonlight. The five unlikely adventurers, with oodles of booze, gusto and mischievous-ness, stepped out with some reticence into the cool night air. We had synchronized our watches to meet in reception at 5 o'clock - in the morning. The Famous Five, including Richard 'urban guerrilla' South, equipped with machine gun, "Das Kapital" and a cold-hearted and ruthless haircut (eat your heart out, John "Black Adder" Gis-borne!), were determined that the night would not pass without a bit of wholesome scab-bashing. The secret plan for the evening was to seek and destroy a Wapping coach and create havoc on London's road system. However, the scab-bashing had started earlier in the morning (about 3 o'clock) with the Famous Five taunting the evil tyrant and part-time TV personality, Rory O'Britishgashares.
His pallid features were soon glistening with sweat as our valiant gang of chums strip searched him for fifty pence pieces. "Do your bit for the old people dying of hyperthermia," they chanted in unison. "Outload your loose change into their gas meters." Remembering his humiliating TV debut he
choked..."not the 'Open to question' video...anything but that." He swiftly paid up.
Indeed Rory O'Questionable's mysterious, nay "god-like" (what?) presence has been felt in the water of Rosebery residents lately. Are his interests biological or financial, we cry...popular opinion is that the two are inextricably linked to our chirpy little provo - he gets his kicks from flogging arran sweaters! Perhaps John Thomas could be a valuable source of advice and comfort on this topic.
Relief has spread throughout the Hall that our third world correspondent, Chris "defunkt hippy" Wach is planning to visit India again - no longer will our winter evenings be boring - we eagerly await his holiday snaps! Questions of the week: 1) Is John
"don't mention drugs" Sinclair a hall resident? 2) Is pouting receptionist. Miss Cahill, really as innocent as she seems? 3) Has Conau "Harry Hewty" Harby lost his magic touch? 4) Why hasn't Hall letch, Micah Gold, been in the Hall report recently? All answers on a postcard please to the first floor delinquents.
Tormented by the above questions, the Famous Five hit a boozer near Liverpool St. at 6 o'clock in the morning, and then had breakfast in Rosa Luxemburg's Cafe - Chips, beans and eggs - all for 90p! They then returned to the Hall - heavy-headed and full of wonderment at their great adventure. And then to bed as they recanted on the many exploits of yet another Friday night.
THE BEAVER, ISSUE 253, DECEMBER 8,1986

Christmas Special
A festive hamper of goodies compiled for your delectation by the
Beaver Arts team!
Christmas at LSE
Carol Service
In the Shaw Library on Tuesday 9th December at 6.30 pm. Veiy intimate and traditional, service of nine lessons and carols, which, in the past, has beautifully captured the true spirit of the season. The service is followed by mulled wine and mince pies.
After Magritte; Christinas Review
LSE Drama joc present on Monday 8th and Tueiaay 9th at 7.45pm, and Wednesday 10th at 3pm a one act farce by Tom Stoppard, "After Magritte", and a series of short sketches of almost entirely original material... Old Theatre, 1.50.
"A further twist in the MI5 spy book case can be revealed today by The Beaver. It seems that Mrs Thatcher has cancelled vital secret meetings in Australia with Sir Robert Armstrong to attend the LSE Christmas comedy evening. It has been leaked out that this evening, consisting of a short farce and brief sketches (some new!) is hilarious and superb value for money. Ronald Reagan was also trying to cover up the fact that he has secretly been selling tickets to the Iranians and diverting funds to the ... shhh. If you're not Mr Reagan or Mrs Thatcher, you can get your ticket outside the Old Theatre."
Films
Top Ten
If yon think the selection on T7 is lonsy, yon dont have a video and yon think yon need some fresh air after fonstinj in the honse like a glutton, here's our selec^n of movies.
1 •Aliens:"Si^oumqr Weaver is an ideal woman. She makes Indiana Jones look like a sis^. This is a climax of a movie."SH
S.Top QunWonderful, superb, brill - the photography we mean. Tom Cruise and co. are gods! Storyline? Not at Christmas.
FC, AH, SM
3.Bnnnin^ ScaredSuperlative performances by Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal. Quick witted verbal exchanges, innovative car chase - a terrific film for a gloomy Saturday night. AH
4.11ona LisaBob Hoskins and Cathy T^son in a hardUtting look at high-class prostitution and a tough-minded woman.
S.The HissionAnother shade of character drawn by DeNiro. Epic settings, not the least of which is Mr. Irons! This year's big and simple feed-sugar-to-'em on a spoon movie. SM
6JU>ont Last Hlghtlt's about love, it's about life, it's about friendship, it's about sex . . . it's about last night. AH
T.Ruthless Feoplel can't remember the story. Doesn't matter - Danny DeVito and Bette Midler left me in stiches. FC
S.MenSatrical comedy., A woman's directorial attempt to explore the unknown territory of the opposite sex. "Men snore to protect their women from wild animalH . . Really? SM
Q.Legal Ea^lesFor those who adore Robert Redford, a great movie. For those who hate him, a funny one. HRH Princess Margaret laughed so hard, I missed some of the lines! SM
lO.Ronnd Hidni^tCould become something of a cult Jazz movie. GM
The Nutcracker Suite
TV Watch out for

Films
Trading PlacesEddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd are the beggar and the rich man
whose lives are turned upside down at
the whim of two, mischievous old
millionaires. Modern Cinderella story.
(ITV)
Hever Say Sever AjainSean Connery and Kim Basinger in this compulsive time waster. No one ever admits to watching a James Bond film, do they? (ITV)
Airplane IINot as funny, of course, as Airplane I. (ITV)
SplashTom Hanks and Daiyl Hannah in a refreshing comedy. A palliative for a wild party. (ITV)
Best FriendsBurt Reynolds and Goldie Havm try collaborative journalism! (ITV)
Jaws niDon't worry if you don't get 3-D specs in your stocking - this is a two-dimensional version! (ITV)
TootsieDustin Hoffman in drag. (BBC, 28th December)
Sophie's OhoiceBased on the novel by William Styron, Meryl Streep gives a riveting performances as a woman haunted by the memory of a heart-wrenohing decision. (BBC, 28th December)
Educating BitaJulie Walters and Michael Caine - a film classic. (BBC, Christmas Day)
Ziggy StardustDavid Bowie cult classic. Just right for New Year's Eve if you have a video. (BBC)
Music __
TinalTina Turner tops the bill in an hour-long music spectacular filmed at ye olde Camden Palais (ITV).
Madam BntterflyFilmed at La Scala in Milan. (BBC,
28th December).
Die niedermaus(BBC2, New Year's Day).
Boh DylanAn Arena programme on BBC2. (2nd January).
Bob Geldof, Paul Young, Cyndi Uuper	ego trip for those concerned with 2,000
and fellow rook stars messing around	sailors and 10,000 Gilbraltarians
on the aircraft carrier, The Ark Royal,	cheering^k Bi^al - The Rock Show
moored off Gibraltar. Sounds like a big	(ITV).
Chess
One of the characteristics of the recent revival of musicals on the London theatre scene has been the increasing internationalisation of productions. France has given us Les Miserables, the United States have exported a series of Broadway blockbusters, and now, a primarily Swedish team has written and produced "Chess". This show will, if nothing else, provide a boom for the Swedish tour operators that run trips to London, as Swedish and not English is the main language heard in the audience at the Prince Edward Theatre.
"Chess" is the story of a chess world-championship between a Rambo-type American hero and an evil Russian, manipulated by the KGB, of course. The Russian steals the American's female companion, wins, sees the light and defects. He then has to play a rematch against a totally mechanical and ideologically sound Russian. Not suprislngly, our defected hero wins, with a bit of help from Rambo, who in the meantime has become a television commentator.
The show is written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, who together formed the masculine half of ABBA, the Swedish group so popular a few years ago, and Tim Rice. The main performers (Elaine Page, Murray Head and Swedish star. Tommy Korberg) are all very good, and the songs they sing are all potential number one hits. The set is absolutely stupendous, with no fewer than 128 television screens around the stage, and enough technical gadgetry to make your eyes fall out.
Good musicals do not need to have a story. However, if they do, the story has to be, if not good, at least reasonable. Unfortunately, Chess stretches the limits to the absurd and hitherto urrfathomed depths, even for West End musicals. It mixes in Rambo-politics and stupid stereotypes into an already terrible story. But people seem to like it and others have enormous costs to cover.
so...
Alex Crawford
THE BEAVER, ISSUE 253, DECEMBER 8.1986

Christmas Arts in London

Christmas Services
London is a city which is said to contain more churches than any other city in the world. For anyone planning to be, in London over Christmas, every Church will be celebrating Christmas in its own special way, many with carol services, children's services, and marvellous music and pagentry. While it would be
impossible to list every chirch in London, here is a schedule of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services at St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. Whichever church service you attend, I would suggest getting there early in order to ensure a good seat.
ST PAUL'S GATHEDBAL
Christmas Eve
3.00pm Evening Prayer
4.00pm Carol Service and "The Blessing
of the Crib"
11.30pm Midnight Mass. Very traditional and poignant.
Christmas Day
8.00am Holy Communion 10.30am Matins 11.00am Holy Communion 3.15pm Evensong
(All of these services include a special selection of Christmas carols.)

WESTBUNSTER CATHEDBAL
(Roman Catholic)
Christmas Eve	Christmas Day
11.15pm Midnight Mass
9.00am, 10.30am, 12.00pm - Christmas Masses vrith Carols.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Christmas Eve
2.00pm Children's Service 3.00pm Choral Evensong 11.30pm Midnight Mass
Christmas Day
8.00am Holy Communion 10.30am Procession and Matins 3.00pm Carol Festival
W/,
Cabaret with Fruit and Nuts
Alternative Cabaret is invariably about anything and everything. Saturday night at "The Banana' (Balham Tube) was no exception.
The first act, ,'Barb Yungr and Michael Parker', provided a cosy introduction by weaving their way through a couple of sleazy numbers. In stark contrast, Stanley Bigot-Smith appeared to emerge onto the stage from a hole in the ground. Mr Bigot-Smith, a neighbourhood watch organiser of pure English stock, had plenty to complain about regarding the state of the nation. For example, he was appalled at a newspaper report indicating that blacks were more likely to end up in prison than their white counterparts.
'What about our boys?' he demanded. 'Can't even get their names down these days!'
Although eryoyable, the next act, 'Felix', relied too heavely on profanity
(a poor substitute for comedy) and on the brilliance of Richard Pryor. However, after the interlude 'Harry Enfield' gave a delightful performance as a retired military gentleman. Recollections of ohUdhood included his mother shooting every one of the 2,000 friends he brought home. Worried parents were sent away happily when Mrs Enfield explained that the chil-drens' demise was due to the Labour Government's handling of society. Coupled with an amazing act of ventriloquism with 20 Rothmans, Enfield provided a superb climax to the evening.
Admission to 'The Banana' is £1.50 with an SU card every Thursday and Saturday at 8.30pm. 'City Limits' give the usual details each week. Sheila Hyde from Sierra Leone (December 18th) is one to watch out for. Get there early, the seats go rather quickly at the fruity venue with plenty of nuts!
Hark Guest
Fiona Chester, Ann Henry, Dougal Hare, Stavros Makris,
Giorgio Meszaros, Tessa Rosenblatt, Kfir Yefet, Julius

Gottlieb, Shireen Diamond, Andy Blakeman^Bo
Theatre
Keith Prowse ticket agency have informed us that tickets for Phantom, Cats and Les Liaisons are almost impossible to obtain before February. However, we still recommend them. For non-Christmassy shows, ticket availability it quite good.
Les Liaisons Dangerenses
Ambassadors Theatre
Fantanstic and enlightening portrayal of aristocratic 18th century Paris. Witty and entertaining.
Breaking The Code
Haymarket Theatre
Dazzling performance by Derek Jacobi portraying Alan Turning, the man who broke the "Enigma Code" during World War n.

Cats
Drury Lane Theatre
T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" with music and lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
J^as Caesar
The Young Vic
An outstanding adaptation by director David Thacker of Shakespeare's play, with a cast headed by Corin Redgrave, Matthew Marsh and Peter Ellis.
Ghosts
Wyndham's Theatre
Vanessa Redgrave is remarkable in Ibsen's play about the destruction of youth by society.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Aldwych Theatre
Painful recollections of an adolescent kid from Brooklyn in Neil Simon's poignant domestic comedy.

The Phantom of the Opera
Her Majesty's Theatre
The thing to see this season if you want to drop names, but over-priced, over-hyped and over-booked.
The Snow QnMn
BaUet
Christmas is the traditional season for ballet companies throughout the world to put on their annual production of Tchaikovshy's "The Nutcracker", this year there will be two productions Tunning in London during the holiday season: the Royal BaUet, performing at the Royal Opera house, Covent Garden, and a new London Festival BaUet production, stages by Peter Schaufuss
(formerly of the New York City Ballet) at the Royal Festival Hall. In addition, the Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Company will be presenting its annual production of "The Snow Queen", based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson, with music by Mussorsky. Sadler's Wells Ballet makes its home at the Sadler's Wells Theatre on Rosebery iWenue.
"The Snow Queen" — (Music by Mussorslgr -hased on H.C.Anderson's fairy tale)
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet — Sadler's Wells Theatre -Rosebery Avenue.
30.12.86 to 3.1.87 Ticket Prices:
3.00 to 12.50
STANDBY TICKETS - 40 tickets available at 3.50 from The Box Office on the day of the performance. One ticket per person.
Tube: Angel.
"THE NUTCBACKER"
ROYAL BALLET - Royal Opera House, Cbvent Garden
13.12.86 to 9.1.87 Evenings 7.30 Matinees 2.30 Ticket Prices:
4.50 - 22.50
STUDENT TICKETS - Available one hour prior to performance, one per person only, subject to availability.
London Festival Ballet — Royal Festival Hall 26.12.86 17.1.87.
Evenings 7.30 Matinees 3.00 Ticket Prices:
4.50 - 14.50
STUDENT PRICE - 2.00 off full ticket price at all performances (except Friday and Saturday).
STANDBY SEATS - 5.00, one hour prior to performance.
The British Museum
There must be more to life than running around Uke a headless chicken looking for Sid. The British Museum, founded by Sir Hans Sloane in 1753, is a mere ten minute walk from the LSE and is the ideal place to head for when you have officially been pronounced brain-dead. Previous trips to museums have often left me feeling tired and confused, yet this lime I thorouhgly eiyoyed myself.
The secret is to visit the exhibitions you particularly want to view and save the rest for your second or third visit. The museum is large, and it is unreasonable to expect that you will be able to digest everything at one stretch. This is an exercise best left to busy American tourists who have Harrods scheduled for the next afternoon's ¦Bntertainment.
There are permanent presentations on coins, medals, prints, drawing, and antiquities pertaining to the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Oriental and Western Asiatic cultures, as well as displays on medieval and prehistoric antiquities.
I was particularly impressed with the Egyptian section - judging from public response, it is fairly safe to suggest that Freud may well have based his Oedipus complex on the number of people showing considerable attachment to the mummies here!
As well as permanent displays, the British Museum also holds various specialised exhibitions. The most interesting one at the moment -"Archaeology in Britain - New Views of the Past" - is on until next February and offers the first public viewing of
Lindow Man or the famous 'bog man', discovered in Cheshire in 1984. Preserved through the natural chemistry of the peat bog, Lindow Man has been dated back to the Iron Age.
The British Library, situated within the museum, houses the Magna Carta (1215) and Shakespeare's First Folio (1623). The Ethnography Department of the British Museum is situated at the Museum of Mankind in Burlington Gardens. Unlike the British Gas share offer, the British Museum is open to all. Entrance is free and you don't have to visit before 10 am on Wednesday 3rd December. It has been around for over two centuries, and no doubt vrill be there for many more.
Hai-Linj Hak
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THE BEAVER, ISSUE 253, DECEMBER 8,1986

The Great Hunger
Almeida Theatre
This play is based on a poem by Patrick Kavanagh and is set in rural Ireland in 1942. The script is by Tom Maclntyre. The oast in on tour from one of Ireland's most famous theatres, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and they have so far had successful runs at the Belfast and Edinburgh Festivals.
The hunger described is spiritual and sexual, not physical. The bleakness and the slapstick humour are reminiscent of Samuel Beckett. The set is minimalist, and the corrugated iron backdrop gives an impression of a hard and desolate landscape. Much of the dialogue leaves the conventions of grammatical English aside, becoming sighs, shouting and laughter. The atmosphere is deeply rooted in poetic forms of expression and is concerned with the emotional and ambiguous aspects of life.
The Virgin Mary, resembling a pagan goddess, the Egyptian Sphinx, is a constant presence, and her likeness is washed, polished, moved around, covered and uncovered, although it is a dominant influence in the play, Catholicism is seen as an alien force, overlaid by pagan values and customs. The village priest is a magician, who temporarily banishes pagan rituals only to perform those of his own.
These rituals give expression to the sexual power women have over men in the claustrophobic world created by this play. A group of young girls cry out and then rush wildly onto the stage.
shocking the men into flustered confu--sion. Then, just as suddenly, they are gone. There seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between the sexes, and the only female character to have reached maturity is a grandmother figure, cooking and cleaning but having little contact with the men. She is, in fact, almost invisible to them, in complete contrast to her younger counterparts.
Stifled sexual energy is a recurrent theme, and in this charged atmosphere, a pair of bellows and a broken shovel assume metaphorical importance. The penalty for flouting convention is harsh. Kissing the statue of the Virgin Mary is the ultimate sacrilege and invites death as retribution for offending against both religious and sexual morality.
With really strong actors, such as Tom Hickey who plays Maguire, the central character, it is possible to convey meaning perfectly by means of gestures and action, rendering dialogue superfluous. For instance, to express astonishment Tom Hickey spreadeagles himself upside down on a five bar gate, his whole face in a grimace of incredulity.
"The Great Hunger" tackles an ambitious subject with the energy and inventiveness of the fringe and the professionalism of an established theatre company. If only more plays were like this...
Chulet Walker
Animal Farm at the National Theatre
A director with imagination is a danger ous thing, particularly when imagination is taken to mean a profusion ol bright lights and a revolving stage (a£ is the current West End vogue). Peter Hall's stage adapation of Orwell's Animal Farm has not only imagination but integrity. Any stage production ol this type of-material is an onerous task not Just for the director but also the actors; here both acquit themselves Tfith distinction. To understand how people play animals that play people is possible only by visiting the N.T. to catch this absorbing play.
Orwell's story is narrated by a child actor (Stefan Griffiths and Simon Snell-ings alternate in the role), and this coupled Trith the first appearance of the animals lends a Walt Disney-type flavour to the proceedings, something which is quickly undermined by the arrival of the first human.
The story that unfolds is brilliantly punctuated by live music which heightens the drama and reinforces the play's tragic-comic aspects. The plot as such is familiar to many, but it is a testimony to this production that the play gives us a better insight into the work than the
The Last Waltz
Soho Poly Theatre
In a basement just off Oxford Circus, the Soho Poly Theatre is a very different environment for two actresses who are accustomed to working in film and TV. Alexandra Pi^ was the Kirby girl who fell for the soppy Russian in "Letter to Breshnev", and Celia Imrie has been in several TV series, including 'the Victoria Wood show".
The first act is set in the mid seventies in the married quarters of an army barracks. Both Denise (Alexandra Pigg) and Christine (Celia Imrie) have married soldiers. Newlywed Denise has just moved in when Christine comes to call. Gradually they become friends, although Christine is at first contemptuous toward Denise, who is ten years younger. Celia Imrie obviously relishes the part of Christine, who is bitchy, funny and a little larger-than life. Later, their husbands are given different postings, and the two friends correspond by letter. Ten years later, they are reunited, and in the second act, they discover that the army, having first separated them, may put an end to their friendship.
One of the dominant themes of "The Last Waltz" is that the pecking order of army wives is dependent on their husband's rank rather than on any qualities which they might possess. Denise's husband, Peter, has every chance of being promoted, and she is already preparing herself to fit the role of an officer's wife, whereas there is no chance of promotion for Christine's husband. At a fancy dress party, Denise models herself on Princess Diana and puts going for drinks with the Colonel's wife before going out with Christine and her friends. This signals the end of her friendship with Christine.
"The Last Waltz" is Gillian Redmond's first play and is described as a comedy about family life and the army. It does not say much about either. The friendship between the two characters is not explored deeply enough to feel credible, and the ending of the play does not have the emotional force that it should have. This is not helped by the fact that Alexandra Pigg's acting is weak, especially when she plays a character ten years older than her real age as she lacks the necessary presence.
Celia Imrie makes something out of her rather oliched part as Christine but cannot single-handedly save a play witl' a ragged script and a plot with too man; loose ends.	Charles Walker
book. Many will delight in playing a guessing-game Trith the characters but should heed Orwell's advice: "Although the various episodes are taken from the actual history of the Russian revolution, they are dealt with schematically, and their chronological order is changed".
What is of far more interest is how Orwell's preferences manifest themselves. e.g. his apothesis of Trotsky as personified (animalified) by "Snowball"
-	Orwell, while fighting for the Spanish Government in the Civil War, joined not the International Brigade like the m^or-ity of foreigners but the P.O.U.M. militia
-	the Spanish Trotskyists. Also of interest is his inclusion of events, e.g. The Teheran Conference, which were taking place during the writing of the book.
A well-deserved backstage bow should be taken by Jennifer Carey (settings, costumes and masks) and Stuart Hopps (original movement). The production is faultless and should not be missed-	Brian Boyd
The next scheduled performances of Animal Farm are in early January. Phone 988 225S for details. The N.T. operate the student standby scheme.
"The Women"
The Old Vic
"The Women", or perhaps it should have been more appropriately renamed "The Wives" depicts a misogynists' paradise and a feminists' Hell. To be fair, however, it makes no pretences of characterising women in general. "The Women" is merely focusing on a small social type of predatory female.
Set in New York during the 1930s, this wealthy, but not wise group, appear to be no more than their husband's social appendages and child-bearers. They have little else to do all day but gossip and claw at each other. I found the drawing of blood the play's most entertaining aspect.
For the most part, this distinguished, all-women oast was sadly disappointing. Many of them were unable to sustain, or even come up with, a plausible American accent. Susannah York, as
Mary, gave up after the first act, loosing all traces of it in her more intense moments. Judi Bowker, as Peggy, varied her's from moment to moment, mostly sticking to a phoney Southern drawl which only served to increase her self-consciousness.
Maria Aitken, as the venomous Sylvia, who is instrumental in Mary's losing her husband to shop girl Crystal (Georgina Hale), seemed, if nothing else, to enjoy her role, obviously relishing the opportunity to be unrestrainedly acid throughout.
The script by Claire Booth Luce does contain some ^unny lines; and as a comedy of manners, it is amusing. However, the production's public attraction is unashamedly its cast, but like the women they portray, both are of dubious quality.	i^ane Kelly


Exbibition
Boyle Family - Beyond Image
Hayward Gallery
In this exhibition, their first major one in Britain for eight years, the unique Boyle family present their equally unique work, each piece of •which consists of a painstaking and fascinating recreation of a portion of the Earth's surface. Choosing the sites completely at random, literally anywhere in the world, the Boyles have perfected a technique of fib-reglass moulding to recreate the details of a site (unaltered in any way) which is painted and detailed to
exactly match the original.
The results, when seen on a gallery wall are strangely hypnotic, with a fascinating wealth of detail and interest being revealed in the most mundane environments of the garden path, ploughed fields and pavements and, at first sight featureless, sea shores. I can do no better than to quote from the accompanying leaflet: "The image before us is both abstract and astonishingly real."	Dongal Hare
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lARTS

Music
The Jazz Colnmn
Blue Note and Jazz Week
Founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion, an amateur jazz enthusiast, the Blue Note label has not only recorded some historic artists and sessions, but has also become part of jazz history itself.
Everything about the label was right. Respect for the musical and personal integrity of the performers would coax superb performances from them -frequently at 4 am, when their club date had just ended and they'd really got going. The money was good, too. A recording would take place after two days of paid rehearsal, a very rare th^ in those days, and a fact which undoubtedly contributed to the intimacy of the sound produced. These people, then, weren't Just session musicians, they were considered whole people, special people.
jTaekie Hcliean
Together with the open and imaginative ears of Lion and his friend, Francis Wolf, and later still the recording mastery of Rudy Van Gelder, all this resulted in a snowball of talent for a company that was, until 1966, almost hand-made in its methods. Names included the great Sidney Bechet, Earl Hines, Ike Quebec and Jimmy Hamilton.
With the end of the war and the collapse of the "big-bands", new forms of jazz (i.e. smaller groups and a different sound) came into being, and Blue Note stayed well ahead. The tenorist, Ike Quebec, frequently acted as the bridge man, checking out performances and introducing names like Bud Powell, Theolonious Monk, and Tadd Dameron to the eager Wolf and Lion.
• The 1950's and 60's saw the label reach its artistic peak. Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thad Jones and many others collaborated in some of the most, exciting and, in emotional terms, faithfully recorded sessions to appear on vinyl. But success (the label actually scored a pop hit with Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder") brought with it the record giants who swallowed Blue Note up and then saw their investment decline as Jazz generally did the same.
Well, it's 1986 and jazz seems to be enjoying something of a revival. EMI now owns Blue Note and is largely keeping its hands off its junior company except insofar as it gives the latter financial clout undreamt of in Lion's early days. So the covers have been du^d off; there's a programme of reissuing going on; and, what for our generation is just as important, a concerted attempt is being made by the head of Blue Note to attract new talent.
Art Blakqr
I can only draw your attention to three albums, all of which have the merit of providing an overview of past and present talent. The first two (double) albums - "The Best of Blue Note" Vols 1 and 11 - are just that, a superb selection of variety, colour and sheer quality that provides an introduction to some 31 groups. For the beginners or curious amongst you, they also have the virtue of setting each piece and artist in its context rather than mys-ti^s^ing.
Alternatively, you can try coming bang up to date with "Blue Note 86" and the likes of guitar ace, Stanley Jordan, singer Bobby McFerrin, and six other young, new artists. My own favourite is the pianist Michel Petriicciani. Bloody marvellous, but all of the artists have made solo albums. This simply provides you with a chance of finding your way into the maze without spending a fortune on six albums you don't want. Thus, until I picked up "Blue Note 86", I'd never heard of Mr. Petrucciani, but now I can keep an eye (or do I mean an ear
us Bovi
To give you an idea of the whole "Blue Note" legend, check out the BBC's "One Night With Blue Note" programme, provisionally set for broadcast on January 6th as part of the BBC's JAZZ WEEK.
The Jazz Week generally looks excellent, covering new and old artists alike.
Saturday Jan 3 Jazz at the Philharmonic
Loose Tubes Jazz Sounds 86 The Charlie Watts Orchestra Jazz Movie (TBA)
Sunday Jan 4 Le Jazz Hot Monday Jan 5 Buddy Bolden's Children Tuesday Jan 6 One Night With Blue Note Wednesday Jan 7 Clark Terry's Big Band Workshop
;Thursday Jan 8 Dick Hyman Plays...a lot of piano
Friday Jan 9 The Coltrane Legacy
Gior^ Huzaros

Flux lackhead Sound System
n.L.u.
Drawn like sirens we were. "A percussion-fuelled rainbow of sound and voice" said the handout, and unsuspect-;ng, we partook of the medium and the aiessage. Bemusement turned to amazement.
Yes, folks. Flux (formerly Flux of Pink Indians) and Tackhead Sound System - have Rhythm. Indeed, real substance in the face of the obsession with style so current in all other music with political pretentions these days. Passion; Vision; Radiance. Something new and radical (seeing is believing) -a damned sight more so than, say, the heroic posing of machomen Redskins.
So often you go to gigs and find yourself embarassed by the empty hero-worshipping of your contemporaries, but here was a simple and communal response. Took me back to Glastonbury for a minute!
Flux make sense because they are anarchists, because they work as a collective and share as humans. People, there can be joy and meaning in music again! Forget agit-prop and show-biz egos; neither are by nature constructive. Go and experiece this band instead. Flux refresh the parts other bands cannot reach.
Christmas Prize Quiz
Here it is, Doog and Giorgio's contribution to your festive fun, so get cracking and send your entries in by the first issue after Christmas.
1.	Who were the CRUCIAL THREE? What was the song written by two of them and recorded by their latter groups?
2.	Which 1920's singer was the "Empress of the Blues", selling over 10 million records?
3.	When Toots served time, what was his number?
4.	What happened during the premiere of BERLIOZ'S "SYMPHONY FANTAS-TIQUE"?
5.	Whom did KRAFTWERK meet on the T.E.E. ?
6.	A cartoon character very briefly in THE BUZZCOCKS.
7.	STAN GETZ popularised the BRAZILIAN "New Wave" music, usually caUed what?
8.	Mind rofiing stuff from the Reid Bros.
9.	GERSHWIN on the continent, I wonder,
10.	Prior to Cream, Messers BRUCE and BAKER were organised by whom. Who played sax?
11.	Art's musical carriers.
12.	Don't know about today, but once Declan MacManos didn't want to go there.
13.	Whose "Ode to Joy" is whose "national" anthem?
14.	In a film by Jean-Luc GODARD, the Stones are rehearsing which song? What is the film (either title will dol!)
15.	Who composed "Take the 'A' Train"?
16.	What do "Echo" and "DKR. AVALANCHE" have in common?
17.	I'm going out to listen to the music to this film, Scott. I may be some time-....composer please.
18.	Legendary Scottish label, associated with Aztec Camera, Josef K, etc.
19.	After Mozart, who is "K"?
20.	Who, in jazz, were "Bird", "Lady Day" and "Bean"?
21.	Scratch this DUB man to find...
22.	Name the four groups Bernie, Hookey and Steve have been in (alright, make it three if you're desperate...)
23.	The only safe place, according to The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion".
24.	Parliament, according to Strummer and Jones (I mean, who needs remote control?).
25.	"This night has opened my eyes" by The Smiths is based on which 1960's plajr? Who starred in the film version?
The first couple of reasonably correct entries win the odd prize or two (to be decided, but it'll be a good one, however).
Classical Music
DAGMAR KBAUSE
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sonth Bank Centre
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is not the ri^t place to see Dagmar Krause - her music is more suited to what I imagine the atmosphere was like in a dark, 1930's Berlin cellar-bar, full of conspirators smoking and planning revolution.
Dagmar and her three-piece band, John Harle (of Berliner Band fame), Jason Osborn, and Danny Thompson, perform short songs by Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler, carrying political messages as strong today as they were when they were written in the '30s and '40s.
However, the QEH is a cavernous theatre, stretching back far from the stage, with ordered rows of (admittedly comfortable) seats. It isn't an ideal location, and the potential of the music was not realised.
The record "Supply and Demand", which was recorded with a different band from that which playing during this concert, suffers from no such atmospheric deficiencies. It is a beautiful work, clear, powerful, and highly charged. There are songs about the death of "Red" Rosa Luxemburg, Hitler's Germany, (Brecht, Weill and Eisler went into exile to escape the Nazi regime), and selections from Brecht and Weill's "Happy End", and "The Threepenny Opera".
There is something refreshing about this record; the works of Brecht, Weill and Eisler are timeless.
Anif BUkeman
There are several classical music concerts being given this holiday season which are worth mentioning. Unfortunately, many are taking place after the end of term, but should you find yourself in the City for an evening or an afternoon, any one of these three concerts is hi^ily recommended.
11.12.86 - Royal Festival Hall.
Carols
13.12.86 - Royal Festival Hall.
¦3.00pm and 7.00pm 2.50 - 7.00/3.00 -7.50
Hospital's Christmas Carol Concert
17.12.86 - Bach Christmas Oratorio
4.00 - 10.00
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.30pm.
Family Christmas Evening
18.12.86 Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm. 2.80 - 7.00
Christmas Concerts 20.12.86 - Royal Festival Hall.
4.00pm: 3.50 - 6.50 7.30pm: 4.00 - 8.50
Johann Strauss Gala Johann Strauss Orchestra
28.12.86 - Royal Festival Hall, 3.00pm: 3.00 - 8.50 7.30pm: 4.00 - 10.50
BARBICAN CENTRE;
"The Glory of Christmas" London Concert Orchestra 10.50 -4.50
11th December, 3 pm Tube: St Paul's
"The Messiah"
21st December, 7.15pm
3.00 - 10.50
City of London Sinfonia
Viennese Evening
31st December - 1st January
London Symphony Orchestra 11.50 - 3.50
STANDBY TICKETS: if available, 4.50 -prior to the performance; 1 per person.
Photo: Eoghan O'Maolin
St Panl't Cathedral.
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Rugby —
Going Down Under
Following on from my look at boxing, what else could follow but the civilised art of rugby. Rugby - a traditional English game exported afar which, like so many other English sports, is now practised better by foreigners than by us.
The game is set to receive world-wide media attention with the advent of the 1987 Rugby World Cup. It takes place in Australia and New Zealand in May and June and should be the year's sporting highlight. The best teams in the world, and some of the worst, will take place in a competition similar in format to that of the Soccer World Cup.
And the nation all the rest will have to beat will be New Zealand. The awesome All-Blacks are overpowering in all departments and will fear no-one. Of the home countries, only Ireland stands a chance. But even Kier-nan's deadly kicking (below) won't overcome the Kiwi'challenge.

If you can't wait until '87, then have a look at the solid London rugby scene. The third round of the John Player Special Cup takes place on the 24th of January with London Scottish, Irish and Welsh all playing at home. Their grounds can be obtained from the Rugby Handbook available from the Rugby Footbal Union, Rugby Road, Twickenham, Middlesex.
For a high standard of participation the handbook provides a list of clubs who regularly require new players (to replace expired ones!?) A not-so-serious game is played by the LSE rugby club who play on the hallowed turf of New Maiden. But Gavin, Taffy and Co. make up for their lack of success on the field by drinking all challengers under the table off the field.
By BASIL
BEAVER
SPORT
Football
LSE 1st XI 2 UCL 1st XI 1 LSE 2nd XI 4 Westfield 2nd XI 0
LSE 4th XI 5 UCL 6th XI 3
The public's conception of football is of a sport in constant crisis, but the news is not all bad. LSE's success at UCL was founded on the comraderie cre-taed by the willingness of each individual to run himself in to the ground to compensate for the shortcomings of others.
The first half was dominated by both defences, although LSE could twice have taken the lead when O'Neill and Shipstone found the ball at their feet only ten yards out. A Nolan talk did nothing to inspire the team at half-time, and UCL took the lead in the sixtieth minute when the centre-back headed home unchallenged from a corner.
For the last half hour it was all LSE, and Wakefield equalised with a marvellous headed goal ten minutes later. The second goal came quarter of an hour from time. Russell danced around the fullback and crossed to see Shipstone evade the attention of two defenders and rise majestically to glance the ball past the advancing goalkeeper; his celebrating jig said it ail.
The game was almost over when Watson made a has of an easy clearance, and Ferrari saved well from six yards. Williams deserves a mention for his 1st team debut, and Wakefield his true form after his dismal display on Tuesday.
For the second team, the same fixture earlier this term produced a well-balanced 1-1 draw. LSE went to this fixture determined to do better this time and continue their winning streak.
At half-time the score was 0 -0 despite numberous attempts on goal from our in-form forwards. Damien hit one over the bar from 2 yards, and Nick Ball eventually got one on target only to have it end up straight in the goalkeeper's arms. Crispin Leyser also missed a sitter.
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The goals had to come, but it took a further 30 minutes before we broke the deadlock. Nick Price, moving forward from right-back, crossed over; the centre-backs panicked and the ball fell to Rob Easton who tried to lob the keeper. The ball was pushed wide, but Rob finished it off from 2 yards. Westfleld pushed forward and nearly equalized. However, in their panic to score in the last five minutes, they were very vulnerable at the back. More LSE goals came from Crispin Leyser (2) and Nadime Boha-bib. Ian Hart played well at centre-back, and it was generally felt that he is twice as good as Andy Shingler and should be in the first team.
The best performance of the seasoh by the 4ths was marked by a new, dynamic, striking partnership of Dan Duncan and Brian Bolger (an ex 5th team player made good)! The LSE were 2 - 1 up at half-time, and playing some nice one touch football they soon increased this lead to 4 - 1, thanks to two very well taken goals by Richard Marks (making it a hat-trick for him). The rest of the match saw tired legs allow UCL to come back to a certain extent - aided by a last minute penalty - but the result was never in doubt. The LSE midfield, marshalled by the super-fit and rugged Jeff Tudor (surely he must go on to greater things), continued to play some very good football. A special mention to Richard for an impressive and solid debut in the centre of defence.
Photo: Sean Davies
NetbalJ
LSE 20, Goldsmith's College 11.
The LSE netball team continued its undefeated run with a convincing victory against Goldsmith's college on Wednesday. Although Goldsmith's took an early lead, the LSE shooters, Lisa and Jane found their form and were winning at the end of the first half 11-8. During the second half the defence, (despite Susan's borrowed shoes that were two sizes too large) succes-fully blocked out Goldsmith's shooters. The superior centre court play led by Elaine and well supported by Chris and Judith (Captain), both of whom were playing out of their usual positions, ensured that the ball remained mainly in the LSE half This term's fine performances must be attributed to the coaching tactics of Bridges who makes an invaluable contribution to the team.
Any budding boxers? Come and join the newly-formed LSE Boxing Club. If interested, please sign up in the Athletic Union office at any time. If you have any queries, please contact Ray Bradley or Ed Barber between 1 and 2 p.m. on Tuesdays or Thursdays in the A.U. office.
Taffy's Tales
While Dattling away to a bruising 6-4 victory over Royal Holloway the seconds faced a huge Beaujolais-bearing team fresh from the continent. Despite the occassional flaring of French tempers leading to some nasty incidents, all was forgiven after the game when abundances of that nice new red grape juice started flowing around the bar.
The French were a great bunch of lads and provided some culturally diverse entertainments including a naked ladle swinger, a character drinking pints standing on his head and a laughing giant who outdrunk about every Englishman present single-handed! (The French won the match 32-4 with the only English?! try actually coming from a Welshman - guess who?)
Saturday saw the firsts again winning with our hero - "Top Gun" Finley - getting all the points. One try was truly amazing with Barry showing all the skills that a million dollar training program gives you.
first veering left then right, then executing a reverse back ward roll with the afterburners being slammed into action to burn off pursuit and win the dav. Final score 22. 11
Darts
LSE V KINGS.
Well, a week is a long time in darts, and it only takes a second to check out. Only a week ago the Archers were riding high on the spring tide of victory, but now, in defeat, the sun never ¦shines on the LSE.
Kings must be praised for their single minded approach. They came to the Oche looking at two consecutive defeats and playing an LSE pair who were beginning to think that they were unsinkable: but what happened to the Titanic, happened again last Monday night.
The first two sets were dominated by Slick Nick; he played his usual solid darts but amazed all with some hitherto unseen chechin out. As a result of this Kings took a two set lead.
The third set was a different story. Not only was an effort made to stop the frivolity of the first two sets, but Triple Crown shifted his efforts from lager to Guinness in an effort to steady his so far erratic throwing. This did the trick, and the LSE won the set to pull it back to 1 - 2. This might have been the turning point. Mike 'Cocky onthe Oche'was feeling more relaxed. Slick Nick had lost some of his previous accuracy, and the LSE comforted themselves by recalling the comeback they had made the week before.
But it was not to be. As Slick Nick's game declined slightly so Double Six Dix took up the fight for the college. It was too late for the School. Kings took the fourth set to win 3-1 overall.
It would be unfair tio say that the LSE lost this one (even though Eric Bristow would have wept in his beer at some of the arrows thrown) but that Kings won fairly. The archers insist that there is no confidence crisis, and remain 2-1 up in the series with one more ("Festive Oche") match to play before Christmas.
Women's Hockey
History was made on Saturday 22nd of November, when 10 second team players met at Waterloo Station. Expecting a third league defeat, we decided to play a full defence and skip a forward. Liz "cool" gallantly went/volunteered to go in goal, and played in her usual excellent manner - growling at anyone who dared go near her with the ball!
Lucy Smyth, and Juliette Harrly did some superb defense work as backs, clearing the ball from the "D" as quickly as it was hit in there by the opposition. Maria "long johns" Stan-borough tackled well, pushing the ball up to the hard working forwards. She got so enthusiastic sometimes she threw her stick at the ball if she couldn't get there in time! Chris McCauley (jigger extraordinaire) also ended up being a little "over-zealous", dribbling the ball ud the pitch.
Carol Hubbard pushed forward in the second half, passing the ball up to 426 Paula who was getting very red as she steamed up and down the pitch - swearing never to smoke again! Angharad, or "legs" to the team, ran up and down crossing the ball to the other forwards. Her triumph came when a cross from Chris (a Chris-cross!) to Angharad flu-muxed the goalie and was wacked in the net by Angharad. A massive cheer went up, the first goal of the season, and the first league win. Well done Lady's II's!
The Boss/Edwina C.!