if you like dancing in an exotic decor at prices geared to students come to countdown la palace gate kensington w8 _ -9DECj965 i E'EMver No. 55 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DECEMBER 9th 1965 3d. 15 FLEET ST. 77 KINGSWAY UNION REPRIMAND FOR EVANS Narrow defeat for Censure Motion BEAVER PAGE ONE COMMENT Before the three hundred members of Union who turned up last Fri-day to deliver an admittedly well-deserved reprimand to their President retire from the scene, satisfied that they have done their bit to maintain democracy and keep their officers in their place, they might consider whether they too might not be guilty of the sins for which they so readUy condemned him. Alan Evans doesn't hold a monopoly of inefficiency and high-handedness within this Union. The average attendance at a Union meeting hovers around the consi-tutional minimum of sixty; only when, as last week, personalities promise to be torn apart, reputations damaged and scandals revealed, does the Old Theatre invite anything but a minority of students. Apathy is perhaps an even greater failing than inefficiency. And for students who have never before expressed the slightest interest in Union affairs to appear once a year to indict their council purely to prove that they, too, can play with power, is high-handed in the extreme. If sovereignty means as much to Union as the holier-than-thou brigade claimed last week perhaps it is time more of its members attended the meetings which discuss its affairs in order that they might ensure that their affairs are run to their satisfaction. Waiting until afterwards and then protestii^ indignantly that all is not well shows a remarkable capacity for hypocrisy. A PACKED Union meeting last Friday passed almost ¦^unanimously a motion reprimanding the President Alan Evans for what was described as "unconstitutional and highhanded action." The motion, proposed by second year student Bob Hilliard and seconded by vice-president Dave Adelstein, accused the President of misrepresenting to Union that a resolution before it had had Council approval when in fact no member of Council had been consulted; refusing permission for a Special Union meeting asked for by Union "in accordance with the requirements of the Constitution"; attempting to censor the magazine Agitator by methods "including physical violence"; and for censoring Beaver earlier this term. Charges In his opening speech, Mr. Hilliard accused the President of failing to recognise that "his primary responsibility lies to Union and not to his own ideas." The motion on which the President admitted he had lied proposed Union affiliation to the International Students Conference, largely American-financed and running in opposition to the Prague-based International Union of Students. The President, it was alleged at the meeting, wanted the Union to join only the American body, and in an attempt to achieve this told Union that Council were agreed on this action. Later, Dave Adelstein said that he would never have supported such a motion, and that LSE should remain a non-partisan organisation affiliated to both or neither. This beUef was upheld strongly at the NUS meeting Bob Hilliard -an indictment at Margate last week, when delegates from all over Britain rejected national ISC membership despite a speech in its defence by Evans as an LSE delegate. Pursued When accused in Council of lying over the ISC issue, the President admitted that this was necessary in the circumstances. "When the Agitator attempted to print this, Mr. Hilliard told the Union amid laughter, Evans seized copies of the story and "ran off with them." Pursued by the editor, he threw the offending papers "over a high wall in Lincoln's Inn Fields." Later he returned to the editor and apologised, professing that he had no intention of censoring the magazine, and that it could print what it liked. It subsequently did. Thirty members of Union, perturbed at what was going on, demanded that a Special Union meeting be called to re-discuss the ISC case before the Margate conference; this the President refused to do on constitutional grounds. The censorship of Beaver related to other accusations which had been made against the President earlier last month, which Evans had demanded should not be printed, threatening to employ force if necessary and to halt Beaver's Union grant if his request was not obeyed. This action, Mr. Hilliard pointed out, was wholly unconstitutional, the President having no right whatsoever to interfere with Beaver. Defence In reply, Evans apologised • Continued on back page m Wiii Alan Evans—pictured defending his actions in last week's meeting. FRESH ACCUSATIONS COME TO LIGHT RESPITE the reprimand from Union, Alan Evans faced an accusation of going-it-alone again within twenty-four hours of the Union motion being passed. At Monday's Council meeting/^e was asked how he became the newly-elected chairman of the Greater London Confederation of Students on Saturday, when his position as delegate to the organisation had never come before Council, Union, or even the External Affairs VP. Further, at Monday night's Presidents Meeting, Evans supported a motion condemning the policies of Sennet features Editor Frank Fuchs, who said afterwards "I find it incredible that he should be able to do this as LSE delegate when it hasn't ever been mentioned in LSE." Evans claims that Sennet had been consistently left-wing and that in condemning this he was not committing LSE to any policy." Evans also denied to the meeting that he had in fact been reprimanded by Union for lying, and when asked about this later he told Beaver "I wasn't reprimanded for lying, but for misrepresentation. I did not have the chance to make this clear, though. I had no intention of misleading Union." Police Violence -Home Office Orders Inquiry 'pHE HOME OFFICE has ordered an inquiry into the allegations of police violence made by LSE students arrested during the Rhodesia demonstrations. Under Superintendent Bailey of the Metropolitan Police, the inquiry will conduct interviews with all those who have made these allegations, and also the five constables named in statements made to the police. ^ Steve Jeffreys, who is leading LSE's part of the enquiry, told Beaver that he thought is was unlikely that any disciplinary measure would be taken against any members of the force, "because we just haven't got the concrete evidence they want. One witness isn't enough, and although we have a certain amount of photographic evidence, it isn't enough to involve any individual. But we hope that the result will be that members of the police are warned privately to make sure that allegations like this do not recur." Ade Ademola, the Nigerian who faced a charge of assault, was bound over for a year and ordered to pay a fine of fl for obstruction last week. The police maintained that he refused to move on after twice being told to do so, and upon being arrested struck the arresting officer and at the same time knocked off his helmet. It was said that only with the aid of two or three other constables was it possib'e to make the arrest. There were gasps of disbelief from the largely student audience as the constable gave his report. When asked by LSE's Mr. Downey acting for the defence, to produce the other officers involved, the constable admitted that he was unable to do so. Ademola produced three • Continued on back page. Clothes for the up-and-coming Leonard Lvle 86 Kingsway W.C.2 Branches throughout London & Suburbs BLAZERS SLACKS TOPCOATS SCARVES TIES SHIRTS KNITWEAR 2 BEAVER December 9th, 1965 BEAVER Editor: Jon Smith Secretary ........................ Gill Ferguson Arts Editor................................. Bill Martin Features Editor .................. Marion Rubin Sports Editor ..................... Ken Jackson Photos .................. Mike Rowe, Rick Brown Business Manager ........................ Alex Finer Published by the Students' Union of the London School of Economics and Political Science Phone: HOL 4872, Extn. 2 Advertising Agents: Educational Publicity Ltd., CHA 6081 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR PRESIDENT'S VIEW Whose Victory ? At the N.U.S. Council held at Margate at the end of November the delegates decided by a majority of two to one not to sign the I.S.C. Charter. (The International Student Conference is a non-communist international student organisation). As far as the average Western European student is concerned I.S.C.'s raison d'etre is to provide cheap travel facilities and concessions on services and goods. To the Asian, African and Latin American students I.S.C. is much more than a travel bureau. It is a formal commitment to the goal of a "free university in a free society". If N.U.S. had agreed to sign the Charter it would have been saying in effect "Despite our affluence we are concerned about your fight, we wiU protest and we will give technical and financial aid whenever your right to a true education is impeded by political forces." The opposition to the signing of the I.S.C. was led by Leeds University Delegate, Communist Alan Hunt. The Communist student organiser Mr. Fergus Nickolson was in continual contact with many of the delegations and a card index and note-passing system was in operation right up to the vote rejecting the Charter. Besides the Communists and Trotski-ites, many left-wing idealists and liberals voted against signing the Charter. The Communists and Trotski-ites maintained that both international student organisations are bad— the Communist International Union of Students and the non-Communist I.S.C.—neither has the "purity of purpose" which they expect from an international student organisation. This was a simple argument which appealed to students from many parts of the political spectrum. It was an argument which the Executive and the anti-neutralist delegates failed to break. The National Union of Students is now in a somewhat similar position to that of the Labour Party when Conference voted for Unilateral Disarmament in 1960. Will N.U.S. come down off the international fence? On the morning the Conference broke up many delegates were beginning to realise they had made a mistake. A motion to rescind the decision was tabled by a large number of delegations, but the President, Mr. W. Savage, pointed out that the delegates had made their decision and the next Council, at Easter, was the appropriate time to re-open the issue. The gauntlet has been thrown down — will the moderate non-political student be prepared to pick it up? JEWELLERY & WATCHES 25% DISCOUNT To aU N.U«S* Members on oor owB manafactured goods. DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RINGS GOLD—Wedding & Signet Rings. GOLD AND SILVER—Cigarette Cases. Powder Boxes. Bracelets, Necklaces. Charms, Brooches, Ear-clips, Links etc. SILVER AND E.P^.S«--Tea-sets. etc. Op«B weckdajri Sats. ^12 10%-20% DISCOUNT To ail N.U*S* Members on branded good»~All Swiss Watches, Clocks, Cutlery, Pens, Lighters, etc., and on Secondhand Jewellery. GEORGES & CO. BO/90 Hatton Garden, E.C.I Entrunce in Greville Street ONLY HOL 0700/6431 Special attention to orders by post or 'phone. of course Alan on America Three Protests from the Tim Gopsill "begs leave to disagree" Post cm—You maintain in your last edition of Beaver that I am a strong supporter of American foreign policy in Vietnam. This is not true. I stated my position in the Union Meeting which discussed Vietnam. I have always opposed the American bombing of North Vietnam. I believe a sensible and just policy for South Vietnam is for the Americans to leave, for the Vietcong to lay down their weapons, for the United Nations to take over and police the country for the following 5 years. At the end of this period there would be REALLY free elections, and if the people of South Vietnam voted a Communist government into office that would be the legally recognised government of the country. The above policy, I am sure all your readers will agree, is a long way from being a " strong supporter of American foreign policy ". Secondly, both you and Mr. Adelstein accuse me of trying to deceive a Union Meeting. This is not true. The constitution Committee upheld the motion instructing the N.U.S. delegation to urge N.U.S. to sign the I.S.C. Charter, (non-Communist international student movement), as being constitutional. Further, the Constitution Committee agree that it was common practice to assume that Union Council supported a motion unless they expressed their dissent. Far from deceiving the Union I brought before them an issue which had never been previously dicussed and on which there was no need to ask for a mandate. If Mr. Adelstein thought I really was deceiving the Union — as he attempts to make out nowadays — why did he not inform the Union meeting of the fact? Why did he vote for the motion? And why did he he wait 14 days (i.e. the week of the N.U.S. Conference) before mentioning the matter again. I would have thought that anyone as self-righteous as Mr. Adelstein could not possibly sit through a Union Meeting without protesting if he REALLY thought the President had told a lie. Alan Evans, President. gIR—I am afraid that I will have to beg leave to disagree with your editorial policy again. Please, sir. I can only hope that when and improbably if I see this in print I will not again see it reduced to about a third of its original length and rapier invective, and underneath it some remark alluding to my lack of mental capacity utterly irrelevant to any answer to a serious point of my making; and underneath that a long reply of dubious dialectic validity. Your back-page story on my exclusion from Passfield Hall was inaccurate from start to finish. You say I was arrested. I was not. You will appreciate that this is a fairly serious libel. I am prepared to forego taking any legal action as long as this is printed and the point made clear. I have never made any claim to any superiority in breaking into Passfield. In fact no member of your staff interviewed me at all on the matter. Every " quote " in the story was a figment of somebody's sensational imagination, I suspect yours. Tim Gopsill. I readily admit that no member of my staff contacted Mr. Gopsill over his expulsion from Passfield. In fact I personally phoned him and read him verbatim the story I intended printing, to which he not only acquiesced but expressed a considerable measure of approval. Any factual errors that may have appeared are purely his own responsibility. And Mr. Gopsill has expressed to me his unique ability to enter Passfield regardless of obstacles on more occasions than I care to remember.—Editor. And An Apology ... CIR,—This letter is by way of an apology ... to those people who were perhaps kind enough to consider voting for me in the Vice-presidential elections. I am writing this after attending the Union meeting to consider the Motion of Censure on the President; the conduct of the Union members over this Censure Motion has led me to believe that it would be a waste of time for me to represent them. I personally think that the behaviour of the President has been disgraceful. That the Union should register its protests over this is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, but my objections arise over the way in which these protests were rendered. Not only did the behaviour of many of the people present at the meeting lead me to think that they had no interest in anything constructive (in fact were there just for the giggle), but also the fact that so many WERE present astounded me. I fully realise that a Motion of this kind is far more interesting that the ordinary mundane business of Ordinary Meetings, but it seems ridiculous to me that people should be ready and willing to stand up and condemn the President when in fact they do not care about the Union. To me it seems positively absurd for Evans to be dismissed or for him to resign, when his successor will find the same apathy among the Union members. I certainly do not think that a person in his position should be allowed to behave as he has done, but equally well I do not wish to be associated with a Union which is so apathetic in its support of the system which it is so keen to condemn. Jimmy Beck Angry About Something ? Don't waste all that beautiful invective on the barmaid— BEAVER welcomes tetters (and articles) on almost any topic. Drop them in at S 51. The Editor would like to make it clear that the views and opinions expressed in these columns do not necessarily coincide with his own. Posters CIR—The moral level of posters which appeared for the vice-presidential elections leaves me wondering if one is voting, not for responsible members of a Council controlling our affairs, but for those who are most capable of cutting out photos ot semi-clad females from suet leading journals as Playboy and Parade. Whether the belief that voting habits are dependent upon bare thighs and suggestive captions holds any validity or not, it is surely to be expected that members of Union who hope to be entrusted with Council ofiSces might attempt to rise above the animal level of their supporters and provide posters which give information of candidate's aims apart from their sexual ones. Voter. For the technically-minded a ten per cent sample of LSE undergraduates were asked a number of elementary questions about what they read, how often, and what their political views were. One third of those questioned, incidently, were judged female by our interviewers. As any male on the hunt will tell you, this is no indication of the actual ratio at LSE, but merely a 'sampling' error — anyone indignant is welcome to write and say so. We feel, though, that even on this basis a number of interesting results have come to light: Who reads what each day? Guardian ..................... 42% Times ......................... 20% Telegraph ........................ 19% Mirror .......................... 6% Express ....................... 5% Mail ............................. 4% Sun ............................. 2% Worker ....................... 2% Victory for the Guardian and its student image. Worth noticing was the fact that 26% of Telegraph readers considered themselves leftwing, 40% of the THE PRESS A Sort of survey on WHAT YOU READ Express readers. The Mail and the Sun, with only 6% between them, capture a surprisingly low number of students; the three 'class' papers take 81% of the total, a figure that remains constant when analysed on a first, second and third year basis. Readership of the Times, though, drops by half after the initial intellectual enthusiasm, but comes back strongly as third years start searching desperately for facts to help them through their finals. The Sundays Observer ..................... 43% Sunday Times .............. 41% Sunday Express ........... 7% Sunday Telegraph ......... 3% News of the World ...... 2% Sunday Mirror .......... 2% Sunday Citizen .................1% People ....................... 1% Only the sensationalism and easy-to-read-over the coffee for- mat of the Express gets a look-in; The Observer (with Briefing, maybe, giving it the edge) and the Times claim nearly everyone, the former taking mostly left-wingers, the Times having a fair share from each political sector. All but three of those who read the popular Sundays were male, which proves something, though I'm not quite sure what. . . . We also asked which weekly journal, if any, was read; two-thirds read some journal frequently, and a large number were mentioned, no one dominating the field. Economist ....................27% New Statesman ............ 25% Punch ........................ 13% Private Eye ................ 11% New Society .................. 9% New Scientist ............... 6% Vogue ....................... 6% Spectator .................... 3% And Ade on his Arrest CIR—I wish to protest at thi j way you treated the new ' of my arrest under the headlin! " Nigerian - Deportation Threat" in your last issue, followinj UDI demonstrations as a result of which a number of studenli were arrested at Rhodesia Houst You reported that I faced 1 possible deportation order if 1 ' was found guilty. This report ol yours was highly pessimistic. It 1 is, indeed, more regrettable that a case pending in Court then I should have been handled in thai [ manner. ) First, ironically, the External I Affairs VP had, in a letter to the 1 editor of Sennet, accused thai paper of sheer publicity-seeking and exaggeration in reporting the same news. Second, it is woefully depressing that Beaver has felt it necessary to give coverage to a report under cheap journalistic sensationalism — for the mere sake of it. I should wonder if the publication had the approval of the External Affairs VP. On this account, Beaver is also guilty of some offence—including pessimism—for which it has sometimes in the past accused other papers of doing. Ade Adeniola. The Economist (cutprice) and the New Statesman (ads in Beaver?) topped the poll, and Private Eye found more supporters than we expected—and a fifth of them were right-wing. Apparently a new weekly might well find a large body of floating readers .... Frequency? Most men read the nationals " every day with slightly more females admitting to reading them "occasionally". Self-ratings politically ended up with a not-altogether-expected Socialist victory—46% socialists, 30% centre. Some individuals, incidentally, needed to be explained the difference between left and right wing before they could decide .... The survey isn't intended to be methodologically perfect, and we don't apolo^se for the various normative judgments that have crept In here and there. But despite the doubtless many statistical sins that we've perpetrated here, we think there's something to be seen in the results about what LSE reads—even if it's the one result that really gladdened our hearts: the undergraduate who never read a daily paper, nor a Sunday, nor had any interest in the weeklies, but did read Beaver fortnightly .... December 9th, 1965 BEAVER 3 Casitmtnt'i Biarp A Change of Heart Casement is a Liberal; Casement is still a Liberal. Casement supported the American Policy towards Vietnam. That support lias gone. Suddenly, through a firm Anti-Communist shell, has sprung the light of reason. People are being killed. Inevitable as this may be in a 'just war', it cannot be tolerated in a war which the people of Vietnam do not want. If America wanted to stop the war, it has turned down the opportunity. "The Red Bastards ain't sincere" is the American response. If the snide feasability tests of the C.I.A. can only predict failure, then their claim to be "Defending Peace" is only valid as a death warrant for the two hundred "Defenders of Peace" who die each week. By the stupidity of their actions, the Americans have left themselves only one course of action-to leave Vietnam and let the United Nations hold a plebecite under the protection of a neutral force. Defenders of Democracy should give what they are defending a chance. X at Eighteen 1924, 1959, 1964, 1965 are the milestones in the march of 18-year-olds towards the vote. 1924 saw the Communist Party of Great Britain adopting 18 enfranchisement; 1959 moved the Youth Sub-Committee of the Labour National Executive to recommend the 18 plus vote; in 1964 the Liberal Party adopted the same idea; and now in 1965 the National Executive of the Labour Party submitted the votes-at-18 proposal to the Speaker's Conference on Voting Reform. Commented the majority of Political Commentators: the vote at 18 will be law, "In a year or two". What arguments have swayed the traditional notion of "coming of age"? The accumulation of 'turning points' at 18 is one factor; you can 'Drink the beer the men drink'; the full rate of national insurance and taxation bites the young adult at 18. If you are bent on treason or piracy on the high seas (consider Screaming Lord Sutch who was National Teenagers Candidate in the post-Profumo Stratford-upon-Avon By-Election), eighteen is swinging time for the remnants of legal hanging. What is more, if Conscription is introduced to meet the threat of the Gt. Train Robbers, 18 will be time to pick up your 19th-century shotgun and take your place in the ranks of Britain's New Slave Army. Last, but not least, 18 is the breakthrough age for entry into the maturing smog of the famous London School of Economics, for any infants below this age of wisdom must obtain the Mark of Cain, before they can enter. The second factor is the recognition of the state of maturity in today s 18-year-old Adults, that they are precocious enough to SICILY At Castroreale, near Messina, we have selected a tourist village for our 19^ Anglo-Italian Centre for young people. The village is situated by the sea within easy reach of the main tourist resorts like Taormina or the Aeolian Islands, and in an ideal geographical position for excursions to sites of Archaeological interest. A fortnight there at the beglnnine of September will cost 49 gns* by air and on fall board basis* For an additional 4 gns. you can have 20 hours tuition in Italian. This holiday is also being widely advertised among North Italian University Students. For additional details write to Discovering Sicily 69, New Oxford Street London W.CA SIMMONDS University Booksellers Our shop Is not the biggest in London, but it is among the best. And it's a place where you will obtain individual attention. We stock most of the books on your syllabus, and we are five minutes from L.S.E. 16 Fleet Street, London, E.C.4 Opposite Chancery Lane) Keep out of the rut for just another year and help in a developing: country VSO needs 900 graduates and professionally qualified volunteers for next September Consult your Appointments Board or write to VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS 3 HANOVER STREET LONDON W1 INDICTMENT. It's a Real All-white Christmas. WHY? IN a few days almost all LSE except the few wedded to the Library will walk out for Christmas. But not everyone here has the chance of a Happy one. What happens to the thirty per cent from overseas? Have they any choice as to how they spend what Is supposed to be the festive season? " As far as LSE Is concerned, foreign students are non-existent during the vac," said John Okemo, third year law student from Nigeria. " It does nothing for them, and they're left entirely to their own devices. This Isn't so bad where second and third years are concerned, but first-year people find their first Christmas in England both strange and lonely." Halls of residence close down over the vacs. A few hostels allow foreign students to remain over the holiday period—" but they're pretty miserable," commented another African. The British Council offers certain facilities but these are poorly publicised. Suggestions have been put forward of weekend schools, parties, excursions. Nothing has yet been done. Wealthy students have no problem—for them Christmas means a chance to tour Europe, sunbathe in Spain, ski in Austria. But for the many, it means being alone in London. Isn't it time something more positive was done to ensure that Christmas means more than this? Or do we keep on dreaming of our own white Chiistmasses and ignoring the problem it brings to others? get married, consumate marriages—even have children. Universal education has meant that the majority of EYOA's (Eighteen-Year-Old Adults) can at least read a poster portraying Harold Wilson, before affixing a beard and buck teeth. Thirdly, they are not a bargain parcel for Labour, Liberal or Conservative; all the evidence, or what we political scientists call "formalised conjecture", shows the 18-21 new voters splitting along the same lines as their senile fellow citizens. X d la Carte . . . No-one has ever accused de Gaulle's government of adhering too slavishly to the democratic process. In particular there have been various accusations of a pro-de Gaulle bias in the currcnt election. I have been given some concrete evidence of this from a French student at LSE. "They're making Frenchmen abroad vote by proxy through another person in France. You must, in effect, add your vote to his; In other words you must vote fo the same candidate." This particular student has no particular inclination to vote for the General. He must therefore find someone in France who wishes to vote, like himself, for Mitterand. " It is very hard to find anyone who does not wish to vote for de Gaulle. Frenchmen abroad have largely lost contact with those at home." The reason for this revised procedure is that in 1962 it was found that a large proportion of foreign votes were cast against de Gaulle; " French people living abroad tend to look at things more objectively." In addition postal voting from abroad has been stopped—" they say this Is in case letters from a great distance arrive late; a stupid excuse." There is also a fantastic bureaucratic procedure to go through to vote at all. My informant's final comment on the election was; " It's an undemocratic fight". This is clearly deplorable; so are the new election regulations; and more so is the fact that this student was frightened to let me print his name. See You Later, Agitator Recently I was asked to write an article for the publication of the Socialist Society—"Agitator", intended to be an account of the Liberals' position towards Socialism. Agitator was the second magazine to be published by an L.S.E. Political Society, the first being Libsoc's Trend Magazine which appeared last March. Although the Conservatives h^ve been publishing their Newsletter for some time before, they have it printed free by Central Office and give it away free to members only, and is therefore more akin to a give-away-leaflet than a serious political magazine of the Trend and Agitator stable. "The A^tator" is a well-written monthly journal of Socialist opinion; it has also developed into a leading expression of student thought on the L.S.E. internal scene. An amusing feature of it is its footnote comments on the idealogical purity of its contents; a long article on the latest class struggle is assassinated in two sentences of sharp editorial comment. I dread to think what comment appears under my contribution; perhaps I can write my own obituary; "This article shows the typical demented wanderings of a class-traitor in search of an alibi. By selling his soul to the bourgeoisie, fascist hyenas, he is but a lackey of the revisionists egged on by the padded Boss classes riding in a sea of bed-wetting capitalism." CLASSIFIED ADS Reasonably-priced Hi-Fi outfit; amplifier / 3-loudspeaker unit (natural pine) £20. Turntable £8. Full information available in leaflets available at Union Shop, concourse area, or write to C. G. Mills, 102 Regents Park Road, N.W.I., PRI 6718. Bsme—What a waste of an asp ! They cancelled it before Alan could even pluck up enough courage to ask me. And now with all this trouble going on I don't suppose he'll have time to take me anywhere. I'm thinking of giving him up as a bad job and aiming for David Adelstein instead, but somehow he hasn't got that aura of omniscient power that Alan had, so I don't know. Please advise me. — Myrtle. Mr. T. Gopsill wishes to announce that he has no personal interest in Pervsoc and that the announcement last issue was attributed to him for reasons beyond ihis understanding. 147 home-made togas going cheap.—Apply Carnival Enterprises, Bankruptcy Dept. Mr. T. R. Gopsill and Mr. N. W. Howell wish to announce that they have now taken residence at 27A, Mowbray Road, NW6. CASCATOD. Support the Campaign Against the South Wales Coalition for the Advancement of their own Dictatorship. Help us smash the South Wales Domination Front. Solidarity Day next Union meeting. Mr. Ashley Mitchell sends the following Christmas presents to those who deserve them most: A broomstick to a female sociologist; a book of Glad Rag Ball tickets to a girl who kept me waiting; A gearbox for Krish; Insecticide, for a male body-beautiful; Bobby, Graham and Stuart, an au pair a week; A brassiere for *?***?; Antennae to make une jeune fille more receptive. Hope for the many. Many formy hopes, I hope I have many, If there's many I'll hope. DON'T FORGET — The oration Day Concert, given by the LSE Choir and Orchestra, conductor Gordon Kirkwood; includes Haydn's Mass ' In tempore belli'. Admission free. Tonight, December 9th, 6.15. Peter Coxson Typing Service. Dissertations, Theses, etc. Fast and accurate. From 5/6 per 1,000 words plus 4d. per carbon. Write: 56 Draycott Place, London S.W. 3. KNI 5566 any time. BUYING? SELLING? OR STILL WAITING? BEAVER HAS 'HIE ANSWER TO YOUR SMALL-AD. PROBLEM. What ever you're advertising, by-pass the notlceboards and reach all LSE through these columns. Penny a word. Call In at BEAVER office, S51. THINKING OF A WINTER HOLIDAY? N.U.S. has published the brochure for this winter, catering for winter sports enthusiasts and sightseeing fans alike. A wide selection of centres in Austria and Switzerland offer a good choice for skiers of all grades of proficiency, while holidays in Austria, France, U.S.S.R., Italy and Switzerland provide for those with less energetic tastes. Write now for your free copy of " Winter Sports and Spring Holidays " to :— N.U.S. TRAVEL DEPARTMENT 3 ENDSLEIGH STREET LONDON, W.C.I. Name Address BEAVER December 9th, 1965 Eat, drink and be merry with Beaver's gourmets guide to the indigestion and hangover season CHRISTMAS AGAIN. Put on the Tom Lehrer. Switch on another bar of the electric fire. It's time to love your fellow man (or woman). AND to eat yourself sick, drink yourself silly — especially the latter. With this in mind Beaver offers you a quick guide to eating and drinking at Christmas. Try the Russian Shop in High Holborn for Russian wines (red and white), especially Crimean 'Muscat', a golden white wine guaranteed to render you rosy red. Edouard Robinson's (21 Old Compton Street), have a large selection of unusual wines and spirits — try, for a real Christmas spirit, their Polish cherry - flavoured vodka, or their Polish mead and beers. Members of the Wine and Stuck in London this Vac ? then you*ll read this ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE TX)? of the Christmas Theatre/Film pops to you folks, and here's Beaver's Top Tens of what to see in the Big City over yuletide. If you've got any money left from your wages sweating it out on the post, here's what to pass over your eight and six for. And if you haven't got that much cash, console yourself with the thought that there's always Sooty and Sweep, plus Cilia Black, appearing in panto at Hammersmith. THEATRE TOP TEN 1. Othello (National Theatre). Matinees December 23r