gRlTlSH USRARY BEAVEil TW AL AMD SOENCB. PdU-GlfMSVuS f\J £> S YOJfU^ COMMENT Do you care about Union, or do you only care about the fact that there are Bar Socials every Friday, that Beaver comes out and that you can play chess, drink and eat at Florrie's ? Don't you care about the work of the Union in other fields, and about its future? The Union Structure Reform Committee needs the help and ideas of ordinary students. It has repeatedly asked for this and got no response—not even criticism. The responsibility for the future development of the Union lies with this Committee, and although they have repeatedly called for suggestions, they have had none. Members of staff and Union officials have come forward—but NOT ONE SINGLE ordinary student. Yet this is only one aspect of the appalling disinterest that infects the student body. Attendances at Union must continue to improve or the Union's rights will be endangered. MINIMAL For the School seems to feel that the Union is not a democratic institution unless meetings are well attended. And if attendances are minimal, the Union is in danger of being ignored. Union is asking for autonomy from the School. Once we have the new structure, more money will have to be allocated. There has been a suggestion that the Union should merge with the Athletic Union. Is it really enough for decisions as important as these to be taken by a few people? There are not even enough people willing to help to fill all the available spaces on various committees. And then we have the nerve to clamour for student representation o.n Appointments Committees and similar bodies. Do you care? Do you WANT a Union? If not, then say so. So at least the Structure Committee will know where it stands. k woman in the court of King Arthur? Not quite. But our reporter was the only woman among five hundred men at the election of the new Lord Mayor. An interesting and disturbing experience for both sides. See centre pages. Newspaper of the London School of Economics Students Union No. 74 Thursday October 26th 1967 3d. .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Victory for Vietcong A NEW spirit of impatience and even violence characterised the demonstration against American policy in Vietnam this Sunday. And LSE students were among the most militant. Beginning with a rally in Trafalgar Square of about 4,000, addressed by speakers on every issue in the radical spectrum, including "Black power" and "Che Guevara lives", the march moved off around three o'clock, going via No. 10, and the Australian and New Zealand embassies to Grosvenor Square. Banners ranged from "Support U Thant" to "Victory for the Vietcong". Around the embassy a cordon of foot police reinforced by others on horseback, intended to keep clear a wide space, but, much surprised, found themselves borne back by the wave of demonstrators. Some of the insurgents reached the steps though none penetrated the building. HORSES In the scuffle that followed between police and the front line, there were casualties on both sides. While demonstrators threw clods of earth and insults at the police, injuring thirty according to one estimate, mounted police charged groups of demonstrators at a canter. Complaints were made of being kicked by horses and certainly LSE sported some fine black eyes on Monday morning. This attack was not unpremeditated, according to a Socialist Society student who styled himself "one of the moderates". During the Trafalgar Square rally, he said, the word had been passed round to rush the cordon at least and if possible to have a sit-down inside the embassy. Thwarted in this, around 200 demonstrators proceeded to stage a sit-down in Oxford Street which lasted nearly a quarter of an hour before it was broken up. And a little irrelevantly, 0 Back page col. 6 It's time to say good bye ^^rw^HIS Union disaffiliates from NUS and 1 instructs the External Affairs V.P. not to pay the £750 subscription due for 1967-68. The Union will keep the disaffiliation under termly review and send the President and an elected observer to all NUS Councils." This is what Union has to decide tomorrow when this motion will be presented by Council to Union. The motion was passed by Council by five votes to two last Wednesday, when those in favour kept their arguments strictly financial. The total income of NUS is £77,000. NUS state that the richer Colleges must finance NUS' efforts for the poorer ones. But only £2,700 is spent on visiting colleges, and this is the only item which could be said to be directly aiding the poorer colleges. The main item on the NUS budget is salaries, which accounts for £39,000—over half the annual income. LAUNDRY AND CLEANING Anyone who has had dealings with NUS may well question where the money goes. Other minor items in the budget also seem excessively high. For example, the estimate of £1,400 for 'laundry and cleaning'. Even 20 guinea suits don't cost that much to clean. The total income of LSE Union is £6,688. Now that the cost of NUS cards has doubled to 5/-, LSE is faced with a bill for £750 for NUS membership, and additionally £350 in fees for the two conferences per year. Again, anyone who has been to a conference of NUS may well question the use of this. It is the contention of those supporting the motion that LSE does not get value for money in their subscription, and furthermore that we cannot afford such a large percentage of our budget in 'aiding poorer institutions'. Union President Peter Watherston was one of the two members of Council against the motion. He said disaffiliation was "an abdication of our responsibilities. NUS is about the only body able to speak for a large number of students. Whatever people say about the politics of the executive, they are listened to in government It looks as though we may have seen the last of him. Who is he? Alan (I wouldn't trust you further than I can throw Agitator) Evans. President of LSE Union two years ago and now on the executive of NUS. The man who bit (Ugh!) Steve Jeffries, and threw Agitator over a wall. " The man LSE loves to hate " seems to be losing his grip. Goodbye Alan, we'll miss you. Nobody's got a scapegoat any more. Back page col. 1 XMAS BOX? IF Harold Wilson makes a success of his new job at the DEA the Union are likely to get an increase in their grant from the school at Christmas. The school has been told by the UGC that depending on the economic state of the country there may be more money available in the new year. Once again we must pin our hopes on Harold, and this time our prayers are with him. CONTENTS How the Economic History Department works ... p.8 The Lord Mayor's elections—picture story— ... p.6-7 Confessions of a Fascist Public School hockey player... p.11 Democracy in Germany ... .p.5 Dr. Adams writes .! p.2 Rebels in Frankfurt too? ... p.3 A nice piece of Danish blue... p.10 What does Cavanagh think about modern fashions? ... p.9 Simple Simon or Bruce K.emble? ... p.4 Seen near Piccadilly Circus underground.. p.4 Who Dunnit? ... p.4 Quote of the Week Award ... p.4 Dobbyn turns anarchist ... p.4 LS.E. DANCE Sat. 28th October L.S.E. REFECTORY Crazy World of Arthur Brown Tickets 7/6 Page 2 BEAVER October 26th, 1967 EDITORIAL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS NUS pulls itself together administratively this Union cannot continue its membership. At present we get a grant of £6,688 per annum from the school, £1,100 of which has to be paid to NXJS. Of this £800 is lost, for the maximum we can hope to get back on NUS cards is £300. The NUS spend £41,000 of their annual income of £77,000 on salaries. Nobody would grumble about this figure if the staff at Endsleigh Street were efficient. But the plain truth is that they are not. Time after time Conference registration forms are received on or after the closing date for entries. Motions for the November conference had to be in by Septem- ber 15th making it impossible for Colleges to submit detailed, useful and topical motions to Council. The result is that petty political motions go forward and important educational issues are left on the sidelines. In the estimates for this year items such as £1,400 tor "Cleaning and Laundry" appear. Well, nobody could accuse them of dirty politics but the figure does seem somewhat excessive. NUS claim that in their "two five-storey Regency blocks" with 85 staff this figure is realistic because of the regulations for keeping clean premises. Not that the NUS offices are anything but scruffy in any case. At the same tune they say that the figure of £1,000 for maintenance of the premises (heating and lighting are budgeted for separately) is necessary because "Tiles do fall off the roof and walls do get damp. It also covers things like mending holes in the floorboards." Where are their famous Regency blocks now. Sounds more like condemned premises. This is where our money goes. This Union cannot at this time afiord such luxuries. Many of our own societies have had their budgets cut because of it. If NUS ran their affairs more efficiently and this Union had more money we could and should stay in NUS. But at the present time we simply cannot afford it. Any graduate who joins the police should have his brains tested. And believe he does. Many times a day. There's a quiet revolution going on in the police service. You may have noticed it. But it's not just things like new equipment or better pay. It's a whole series of fundamental changes aimed at meeting the challenge of the next decade. The intellectual demands of a police career begin from the moment you join. You need to be something of a lawyer. A psychologist. A quick thinker. And very often a diplomat. The first two years are vital preparation for the time when you could command hundreds of uniformed police, detectives, fingerprint-experts, technicians - and equipment worth many thousands. It's a world of new ideas in which the man of ability is expected to take executive responsibility much earlier than in industry. And you'll get job satisfaction of the kind few people experience. Don Smith is a top executive in thf Metropolitan Police. A Superintendent at 34he now commands over 200 men and women, including C.I.D. men, administrators and civilians. Today at 36 his total income is €2,855. New deal for Graduates. For the first time the police have introduced a special schemeof entry for graduates. It aims to attract young men who have the education and character to rise quickly to command-level with big responsibilities - and pay to match. You can find out before you commit yourself to join whether you have the potential to rise above the rank of Inspector early in your career. Two-day special interviews to select up to 20 such graduates will be held in the second week of January 1968. We should expect you to gain your first promotion in your third year, spend a year at the Police College, and become an Inspector in your fifth year. If you are leaving university in 1968 think about a police career now. Join at 21 and you step into the £1,000-a-year class right away. Post this coupon today. Join Britain's Modern Police I I To: Superintendent P. C. J. Price, M.A., University Liaison Officer, Home Office, Horseferry House, Dean f^yle Street, London S.W.1. ______send me your booklet "New Opportunities for Graduates in Today's Police Note: Closing date for applications for the January Interviews is 20th November 1967. NAME . ADDRESS... ...AGE............. GG9d Director says; ''use the Union" ^FTER a spate of receptions at the opening of the session, especially for new staff and students, the older inhabitants have reassumed their accustomed positions and freshers like myself are beginning to have time to get some things into proportion. Among the many receptions I have myself enjoyed was a meeting with the Students' Union on Friday the 13 th, with a free-ranging discussion on topics as disparate as the University College of Rhodesia and the status of occasional students at the school. An open forum like that provided by Union meetings is an essential feature of any university community. I hope that freshers in particular will make full use of this forum and help to ensure that it is genuinely representative of the views both of majorities and minorities. The quality and maturity of any democracy are measured by its respect for the views of minorities, and in a university there can never be a single "student view", only views, all of which must find expression in hard - hitting debate. The only unanimity can be on the observance of the rules of free discussion, such as the non-attribution of motive, the rejection of distorted or partial evidence and some acceptance of the possible fallability of one's own opinions. Among many others I shall watch with interest the record of attendances at Union meetings and hope that the numbers present at the first of the session augur well for subsequent on«i. HOUSING The publicity campaign on the problems of residential accommodation for students piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii| BEAVER H Editor Gus Ullstein § I Assistant Editors Catherine Liebetegger | = Peter Nettleship 1 1 Design Consultant A. David Baume ^ 1 Business Manager Geoff Brunskill g i Films Robert Helton | i General Manager Tony Capper § EE Contributors : = = Mai Lin U, Peter Lane, Alison Barlow, Mike Zuckermann, E = Tim Hunt, Angela Lewis § 1 Address : LSE Students' Union, Houghton Street, W.C.2. = 1 01-405 4872 ext. 2 or 01-405 7686 ext. 573 (internal). | = Advertising Agents for this issue only : = 1 Educational Publicity (Partners), 3 Fulwood Place, W.C.2. = i CHA 6081 I = As from next issue : = = JEP and Associates, 107-111 Fleet Street, E.C.4. = I FLE 3712 i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii was well-timed at the opening of a new session. It was disappointing therefore that the press gave a rather unbalanced coverage of such a well prepared case, concentrating on " sensational " items and repeating such misleading statements that 16% of our own students had no permanent address at the opening of last session. The real gravity and urgency of the problem, particularly in London, requires continued public discussion and I hope that the students of the school will take a lead in maintaining both the campaign and those self-help initiatives in finding solutions which are so encouraging a feature of the present efforts. October 26th, 1967 BEAVER 3 Demonstrations by the hour EVEN the "Hippie" flank of Soc-Soc were outdone in idiocy by German students at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt last weekend. On Friday afternoon about a hundred students arrived at the Fair and announced that at two o'clock they would be demonstrating against German press baron Axel Springer. Springer owns fifty per cent of the Berlin daily and Sunday newspapers, and the circulation of his papers is more than double that of all the other Berlin papers. At the time of the student demonstrations during the Shah of Persia's visit to Berlin earlier this year the Springer press vehemently opposed the students. The way in which things were handled was ludicrous and only served to bring the demonstrators and their cause into disrepute. They assembled outside the Halls and waited until one of the leaders came out and told them "You can go in now, the television cameras have been set up." They then entered the halls and made a lot of noise at one of the Springer stands for exactly an hour. RAMPAGING At three o'clock, as previously announced, they departed to demonstrate for one hour at the Greek stand. More noise for an hour, and then they departed for a final hour's rampaging before tea at the South African stand. On Saturday morning one of their number telephoned the police to say there was a bomb in the hall. Business was seriously disrupted while the police searched for the bomb, but naturally it was a hoax. They announced that they would be returning on the Sunday afternoon, but never turned up. Why? Because the weather was too nice for them to spend their time demonstrating for their "principles"! Moreover, having demonstrated at one of Springer's stands a number of them v/ere seen to be admiring books on the Propylaen Ver-lag's stand. Who owns that firm? Springer of course. PROSTITUTE Some may see this episode as funny. But for supposedly intelligent people, as students are believed to be, to prostitute themselves in this way is both sad and alarming. Many people do not agree with the demonstrations at the Barbican, but at least those involved believe wholeheartedly in what they are fighting for. In the Greek Embassy case the judge agreed that all the defendants were motivated by conscience. But the German students cannot really have believed in anything except making a noise. It is this sort of behaviour which brings all demonstrations into disrepute, however just the cause may be, and destroys the effect of true protests motivated by genuine principles. At midday it looks like Blackpool on bank holiday, but this is the reason why a loss is made in the evenings. REFECTORY SERVICE-EVENING HOURS CUT ? "IS THE PRESENT evening meal service in the refectory what is required?" adts Mr. Diserens, the Catering Manager. He su^ests that the system of full meals, like those served at lunch tune might well be replaced by a system of snacks, like bacon and ^gs or hamburgers, more on the lines of the service in the Robinson Room. Evening meals, it appears, account for a large proportion of the decrease in turnover of the refectory, at present running at a rate of about £100 per week less than the corresponding time last year. He also suggests that if we could both provide the present service is the fresher food, and also cut type required, then the evening opening hours could be cut. "People tend to come in two peaks," he says, "just after we open, and just before we close. That means that those coming at the end may get food that has been cooked for some time, and in the hour between six and seven we do little business. If the hours were cut down. Students in third degree HAVING been utterly disgraced in University Challenge, LSE refuses to accept defeat, and is now entering for the radio programme "Third Degree". "Third Degree" is an Inter-University knock out quiz, of a rather lower stand^d, we gather, than University Challenge. The request for contestants in LSE was well received, with 30 applications for the team of three, one to be from each of the years of undergraduate study. The final team will be chosen by Union Council at their next meeting. The team will meet Swansea University in the first round at LSE on Wednesday November 8th, and specta- grilling tors are welcome to give the team moral (and other?) support, in the Old Theatre at 7.30 p.m. L.S.E.'s chances will be better where there is choice of subject. Questions on Politics and History should be fairly straightforward. Obviously a high proportion of scientific questions in the general Rounds will favour Swansea who in any case have strong geology and earth science departments. Quiz games are essentially wars of nerves leaving one with a numb feeling and sympathy with the victims of gruelling interrogation. Here L.S.E. students have an unrivalled record. Mrs. Carter ON page four of our last edition a column appeared under the heading "Mrs. Carter Writes", concerning the services of the School gynaecologist. We wish to make it clear that no reference was intended to Mrs. Alice Carter, Chairman of the Staff-Student Health Service Committee. We also wish to apologise for any inconvenience or em-barassment caused by this article. down on costs of staff and other resources." He emphasised that he wants students to tell him what is required, through the Student Refectory Committee. "If students will tell me what they want, I will do my best to provide it," he said. INCREASES Mr. Diserens would also like something done about the one o'clock rush in the refectory. "Cannot some arrangement be made for the staggering of lunch hours?" he asks. "I can do nothing about the queues in the present situation, it is up to students who have no lectures from twelve till one to come earlier." He also disclaims responsibility for the recent price increases. "The prices have only gone up by 2%, and the recent increase electricity prices, the imminent increase in those of gas and a rise in the staff National Insurance contributions is much more than this. In fact we at LSE face much smaller increases than, for example, Bedford College, where prices have gone up by as much as 30% recently." The troubles in the refectory in fact are basic ones. The running of a student refectory mainly used for thirty weeks of the year, with the staff paid for the full fifty two, the general shortage of staff in Central London, the list goes on and on. There is however a brighter side to the problem. The 'new look' Robinson Room, greeted dubiously by some students last year, in fact showed a profit, and anyone who supports the Observer, who last year quoted our refectory as the 'worst North of the Thames' should just try eating at ULU for a day or two. If you do wish to do this, though, you would be well advised to arrange for a search party to follow you in case you do not return. EX4M DEATH TWO of the three distinctions in the LLM Exam results recently announced were awarded to LSE students. They are Tony Grabi-ner, and Richard Bramwell. It is reported that the delay in the announcements was caused by the collapse and subsequent death of one of the examiners, Professor Josef Unger, at the examiners meeting. IGNORANCE IS NO DEFENCE WHATEVER you may think about drugs, if anybody is in possession of them in your house you are liable to prosecution, if you know that there are drugs on the premises. In the case of public, or semi-public premises, like the confines of LSE, the owners are liable to prosecution whether or not they know that persons are in possession of drugs. Turning a blind eye to the situation does not help. In the eyes of the law "wilful blindness" is counted as actual knowledge. The Dangerous Drugs Act 1965 sets all this out, and covers the possession, use, buying, selling and exporting of drugs. There is no distinction between hard and soft drugs. Penalties can be as great as a fine of £1,000 or ten years' imprisonment. NO FAULT In fact London Magistrates Courts tend to fine offenders a minimum of £20 for merely being in possession of drugs, even though the carrier may have come into possession through no fault of his own. This is a warning to those who go in ignorance of the law ( which is no defence to a criminal charge) and who think that by turning a blind eye to what goes on at parties they are safe from prosecution. It is also hardly surprising that University authorities take a tough line over drugs in the Colleges. Professor Griffiths told Beaver "If a student is convicted of smoking or dealing in cannabis on School premises, those concerned in the management of LSE might well be prosecuted also. This might make more likely the taking of action by LSE against such a student — such as sending down." ^HE UNSA Teach-in on "Aid and Development last Thursday sufOCered, in the event, due to the lack of 'immediacy' in the issue — its all been hacked over before — and only some 60 people came, — in the last section (Oram Purly, Secretary O.D.M.) only 24. This reflects the degree of apathy which an issue of vast potential explosive power is subject to if it does not fulfil the criteria of "Importance". PREGNANCY TEST SERVICE Results b/ return. Reluble method. Fee CI. Phone Portsmouth 23366. (After hours answering service) or write Department S25. Bell Jenkins Laboratories Limited, 4, Qtarlotte Street, Portsmouth (0P05) 23366. 4 BEAVER October 26th, 1967 DOBBYN TURNS ANARCHIST DALEKS IN HOUGHTON ST. ACROBATS IN PICCADILLY OPEN LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR DEAR Walter, Your old mate Magnus here again. Sorry to keep on at yon like this, but it's still not good enough you know. Anyone would think that you were addressing the Institute of Chartered Confectioners. Not that we really mind listening to an expose of the problems confronting the University Grants Commission Darts Club, or the revolutionary idea of opening LSE to Flower Arranging Classes during the vacations; and we are even quite interested in what brides and grooms do after the wedding, but somehow our own little problems keep buzzing through our tiny undernourished brains. In May you said "I rejected the idea of addressing the union when I was asked to do so, because I first wanted to leam a bit more about LSE and about student problems here." Well, sad to say, the long awaited descent from the ivory tower has not had a happy landing — in fact it was one big yawn. Even we can distinguish the difference between policy and prattle. SDear, dear, Walter, we want to love you really. But on your present showing f you're just warm and cuddly. The love affair has yet to begin. Yours ever, MAGNUS. AFTER all the fuss last year —NOBODY has had to sign a copy of the Regulations this session. So the argument that David Adelstein had agreed to abide by the rule not to communicate with the press because he had signed the Regulations no longer holds water. Which regulation shall I break first ? YOU'VE heard the rumour that Francis Dobbyn has turned Anarchist? It's true, he wrecked the President's office. All because his Debates dinner money was cut. Francis's comment, "I did it to protest against his moral degeneracy." Well, he never has liked Peter since the latter's recruitment into the new left at the time of the Sit-in. Never mind, Mr. President, there are plenty of people willing to wreck Francis for you, especially our transatlantic contingent anxious to prove their ability to fight, even if it isn't in Vietnam. SIMPLE THOUGHTS I DON'T understand why Bruce Kemble is the pet hate of this place. He's a sweetie compared to Peter Simple II, who sometimes decorates that insidious blotting paper. The Daily Telegraph. Magnus had the unfortunate experience of stumbling across the following little ditty, whilst lying serenely on a beach in Italy. (Sorry, it was the only newspaper I could get—I pray no-one else has boosted their circulation). "Farce, tragedy and melodrama (N.B. 'War and Peace' must now be read, to set mind in correct lofty vein) are so blended in the extraordinary performance outside the Chinese Lotion that I really don't know how one should respond. The performance (This passage requires great visual imagination, only those who have seen 'Zulu' may proceed further.) of those mindless blue ants swarming out of thdr buUding, waving their little red books and shouting 'Thoughts of Mao', 'Thoughts of MAO', was mirth-provoking certainly; but to laugh at them seemed as indecent as laughing at the inhabitants of Bedlam." After carrying on in a like vein for several hundred words, with which, dear reader, I shall not bore you. he finishes with the following inspirational thought, which is surely a prime example of the brilliant understanding of the current feeling of youth which has given the Daily Telegraph it's present reputation among the thinking people of this world : "And (wait for it) there is another reason why we should be better advised to shudder (note the word) than to laugh. Are the young fanatics of Portland Place so very different, or are they different only in degree not in kind, (here it comes) from our own young fanatics who barricaded the London School of Economics, who disrupt Liberal Party conferences, who shout slogans and wave placards in Trafalgar Square?" (Stand back, breathless with awe at the acute brilliance and intellectual awareness of this wonder brain of our age). QUOTE of the week award reawarded to Stephen Krep-pel. Chairman of Con. Soc. (infiltrating Soc-Soc party): "I am here to smash capitalism." It's true, folks, but I think he was only trying to get another half-pint out of Steve Jeffries! WHO DUNNiT? I WOULD have thought that Houghton Street is narrow enough without the Metropolitan Police dropping their horrible daleks all along the pavement. After all during the sit-in they spent half of their time moving people along, on the grounds that assembly of more than three constituted an obstruction — so how about somebody moving their flashing monstrosities along on the same grounds. Seen near Piccadilly Circus Underground: 'EX-Female acrobat seeks interesting positions'. Some might call him a zebra. To me he's Socrates. Matches the scarf, too. Difficult in the digs. But not at Martins. They understand. They're so friendly at Martins—especially to students. Martins have an especial l