No. 374 FRIDAY, 17th JANUARY, 1975 60 Strong UGM Votes for... CONSTITUTIONAL DISGUST REGARDING last week's inserted statement by the President concerning the U GM decision on the Voluntary Levy, FELIX wishes to express Us disgust at the way in which Mr.Phillips promised the FELIX staff extra labour to help with the collation of the issue (inserting a small single sheet makes the collating time app- reciably longer) but at the last minute informed us that there would be no extra help. The President did not even bother to suggest giving us a hand himself. The insert was only accepted on the understanding that there would be extra help. Nevertheless, we felt obliged to insert the statement whilst objecting to the Pres- ident's inconsiderate attitude in view of the extra time and trouble involved. Sabbatical Roulette? LAST MONDAY, at Council, it was suggested that the Union's third sabbatical post (the first and second are occupied by the President and Hon. Sec. respectively) might not be allocated to the FELIX Editor for next year. The suggestion was that a sabbatical Deputy President/ Buildings Officer would be appointed. This expanded post would also incorporate the functions of a junior treasurer (Imperial College is one of very few Universities who do not have a junior treasurer — full or part time). However due to the financial situation the Union could not support four sab- batical officers. Thus it would have to be a case of 'one or the other', and not both a sabbatical FELIX Editor and sabbatical Deputy President. This move could, if carried out, risk the continued exist- ence of FELIX. When asked for his opinion the present FELIX Editor, Mike Williams said: 'If the Editorship were to become non-sabbatical the post would become completely un- tenable, especially in view of the fact that the printing unit will probably be moving to College Block sometime during the next year. Also the viability of Union publications such as the 'Blue Book' which is produced during the summer would be at risk. As for the USK Handbook its future could look extremely bleak'. However, it must be pointed out that the idea is still in the embryo stage. See Editorial (page 2). AT LAST WEEK'S UGM an inquorate gathering of approximately' sixty members was startled to find itself voting on a constitutional change. Guess who's coming to Council? IT WAS AGREED by ,the Imperial College Union Council last Monday to invite Mr. Carl Seaford, the Domestic.'Bursar to its next meeting. The reason behind this is believed to be due to the fact that the Domestic Bursar is the principal officer of the College in most contact with the students. It is under- stood that he will address Council and then invite questions. Just before the proposal that the PG Affairs Officer should become a member of die executive, the President stated from the chair that he would allow only one speech for and one against the proposal. Although the chair was chal- lenged on this point, the challenge was defeated on the vote. The motion was thus voted on after one speech for, one speech against plus a summing up by the proposer (the first speaker) and it was passed. Concern At least one member of the executive is concerned at the manner in which the debate was conducted (See letter on page 2) as well as the fact that no publicity had been given to this motion beforehand. The result was that the constitutional change effectively was 'rushed through'. INSIDE FELIX Editorial 2 Council Report 6 Letters 2 Guilds Carnival 7 Rag 3 Stanley 8 Executive 4 Reviews 10 Crossword 5 Leo Sayer 11 Prof. Bremstrahlung 5 Sport 12
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N o 374 F R I D A Y 17th J A N U A R Y 1975
60 Strong UGM Votes fo r
C O N S T I T U T I O N A L
DISGUST
R E G A R D I N G l a s t week s inse r t ed statement by the P r e s i d e n t conce rn ing the U G M d e c i s i o n on the Vo luntary L e v y F E L I X w i s h e s to express U s d i s g u s t at the way in w h i c h M r P h i l l i p s p romised the F E L I X staf f extra labour to he lp w i th the c o l l a t i o n of the i s s u e ( i n s e r t i n g a s m a l l s i ng l e sheet makes the c o l l a t i n g t ime appshyr e c i ab l y longer) but at the last minute informed us that there
would be no extra help T h e P r e s i d e n t d i d not even bother to suggest g i v i ng us a hand h imse l f T h e inse r t was on l y accep t ed on the unders tand ing that there wou ld be ex t ra he lp
N e v e r t h e l e s s we fe l t ob l i g ed to inser t the statement w h i l s t ob j ec t ing to the P r e s shyi den t s incons idera te at t i tude i n v i e w o f the ex t ra t ime a n d trouble i n vo l v ed
Sabbatical Roulette
L A S T M O N D A Y at C o u n c i l i t was suggested that the U n i o n s th i rd s a b b a t i c a l post (the f i r s t and s e cond are occup i ed by the P r e s i d en t and Hon Sec r e spec t i v e l y ) might not be a l l o c a t ed to the F E L I X E d i t o r for next year
T h e sugges t i on was that a s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t B u i l d i n g s Of f i cer w o u l d be appo in ted T h i s expanded pos t wou ld a l s o incorporate the funct ions of a jun io r treasurer ( Imperia l C o l l e g e i s one of very few U n i v e r s i t i e s who do not have a jun io r treasurer mdash fu l l or part t ime) However due to the f i n a n c i a l s i tua t i on the U n i o n c o u l d not support four sabshyb a t i c a l o f f i ce rs Thus i t wou ld have to be a c a s e of one or the other and not both a sabba t i c a l F E L I X E d i t o r and s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t
T h i s move c o u l d i f ca r r i ed out r i s k the cont inued ex i s t shyence of F E L I X When a s k e d for h i s op in i on the present F E L I X
E d i t o r M ike W i l l i a m s s a i d If the Editorship were to become non-sabbatical the post would become completely unshytenable especially in view of the fact that the printing unit will probably be moving to College Block sometime during the next year Also the viability of Union publications such as the Blue Book which is produced during the summer would be at risk As for the USK Handbook its future could look extremely bleak
However i t must be po in ted out that the i dea i s s t i l l in the embryo s tage
See Editorial (page 2)
A T L A S T W E E K S U G M an inquorate gather ing of approx imate ly s i x t y members was s ta r t l ed to f ind i t s e l f vo t ing on a c o n s t i t u t i o n a l change
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I T WAS A G R E E D by the Imper ia l C o l l e g e U n i o n C o u n c i l l a s t Monday to inv i t e Mr C a r l Seaford the D o m e s t i c B u r s a r to i t s next meet ing The reason beh ind th is i s b e l i e v e d to be due to the fac t that the D o m e s t i c B u r s a r i s the p r i n c i p a l o f f i cer of the C o l l e g e i n most con tac t w i th the s tudents It i s under-s tood that he w i l l address C o u n c i l and then i n v i t e q u e s t i o n s
J u s t before the p roposa l that the P G A f f a i r s O f f i c e r shou ld become a member o f d i e execu t i v e the P r e s i d e n t s ta ted from the c h a i r that he wou ld a l l o w on l y one speech for a n d one aga ins t the p r o p o s a l A l though the c h a i r w a s c h a l shyl enged on th i s p o i n t the cha l l enge was defeated on the vote T h e mot ion was thus v o t ed on after one speech for one speech aga ins t p lus a summing up by the proposer (the f i r s t speaker ) and i t w a s p a s s e d
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A t l e a s t one member of the execu t i v e i s concerned at the manner i n w h i c h the debate was conduc ted (See letter on page 2) as w e l l as the fact that no
p u b l i c i t y had been g i ven to th is mot ion beforehand
T h e r e s u l t w a s that the c o n s t i t u t i o n a l change e f f ec t i ve l y was rushed through
INSIDE FELIX Editorial 2 Council Report 6
Letters 2 Guilds Carnival 7
Rag 3 Stanley 8 Executive 4 Reviews 10 Crossword 5 Leo Sayer 11
Prof Bremstrahlung 5 Sport 12
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M i c h a e l W i l l i a m s
F E L I X W I L L undoubtedly be f a c ing a s t i f f bat t le for s u r v i v a l i f the I C U E x e c shyut i ve dec ide to pursue the i d e a bull - of r e a l l o c a t i n g the th i rd s a b b a t i c a l from the E d i t o r to a proposed new-s ty l e Deputy P r e s i d e n t who wou ld take on the dut i es o f a J u n i o r Treasurer
Granted that the U n i o n w i l l face f i n a n c i a l d i f f i cu l t i e s i n the coming yea rs canno t t h i s be f aced by c r ea t i ng a T r easury Commit tee c o n s i s t i n g of a l l the U n i o n s J u n i o r and Sen ior T reasure rs The committee c o u l d i f n e cessa ry be c h a i r e d by a new ly -c rea ted U n i o n J u n i o r T reasure r whose task i t wou ld be to prune budgets appropr ia te l y b a s i n g h i s deshyc i s i o n s on the recommendat ions of the Treasury committee after approva l by C o u n c i l T h i s i s j u s t a thought a rough i d e a How about it Trev
A s far a s I c a n see w i thout a s a b b a t i c a l F E L T X E d i t o r how c a n we pr int the B l u e b o o k dur ing the summer How are we going to fully utilise the printing facilities which College has made available to us
Who can take care o f a l l the ou ts ide j o b s w h i c h need t e c h n i c a l c h e c k i n g before they can be run on the o f f se t - l i tho C o n s i d e r what w i l l happen when the p r in t ing uni t i n c l u d i n g the v a r i t y p i s t moves over to C o l l e g e B l o c k (probably w i t h i n the next year )
F E L I X copy w i l l be taken from the F E L I X o f f i ce to the va r i t yp i s t then back to the o f f i ce for p a s t i n g np then back to C o l l e g e B l o c k to be pr inted and then the paper w i l l be sh i f t ed back to the o f f i ce for f o l d ing and c o l l a t i n g F o r a s a b b a t i c a l i t w i l l be tor tuous for a n o n - s a b b a t i c a l i t w i l l be i m p o s s i b l e
So e s s e n t i a l l y then wi thout a sabshyb a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i den tT r easure r I f ee l that there are workab l e non -sabba t i ca l a l t e r n a t i v e s Without a s a b b a t i c a l F E L I X E d i t o r F E L I X w i l l d i e
Fur ther to C G D e w e y s let ter i t i s
now unders tood that I C U P u b l i c a t i o n s
Boa rd i s opposed 10 any k i n d of p e r sona l ga in s u c h a s was sugges ted (10 c o m m i s s i o n on adverts booked)
I have r e c e i v ed a le t ter from John R a n d a l l the P r e s i d e n t of the N U S c o n shyc e rn ing the remarks made in l a s t w e e k s E d i t o r i a l about the N U S at t i tude to the I R A The le t ter (which a r r i ved too la te for p u b l i c a t i o n th is week) w i l l b e p r in t ed next week Shou ld anyone ho ld any v i e w s on th i s matter I shou ld be g lad to hear from them mdash bull bull lt -
S ince page 5 c on ta in ing the c r o ssword was pas t ed up and be ing pr in ted before the 12 noon Wednesday so lu t i on dead l i n e l a s t w e e k s w inner was not ment ioned so l e t s ment ion h im now RJBonner Botany 2
L K T T K f t S Letter to the President
Imperial College Union
10th January 1975
T h e P r e s i d en t Imper ia l C o l l e g e U n i o n
Dear Trevor
T h e execu t i v e has spent a great dea l o f t ime th i s year d i s c u s s i n g the s ta tus o f the post-graduate a f fa i rs o f f i cer A f t e r s e v e ra l s e s s i o n s on th is t op i c the v i e w agreed by a l l was that we had here a top ic w h i c h c o u l d reasonab ly be expec t ed to a t t rac t a good at tendance at a U G M The execu t i v e further agreed that a good and w e l l prepared debate on the sub jec t s h o u l d be sought
T o these ends we agreed to postpone the i s s u e of the P G A f f a i r s O f f i c e r becoming a member of the e x e cu t i v e u n t i l there had been time for the genera l s tudent body to be informed that th is was be ing proposed When everyone had had a chance to a i r the i r v i e w s the matter was to be adve r t i s ed w i d e l y and put to a U G M
S t ray ing from this l ine o f r eason ing for a moment may I say that I understood that the e x e cu t i v e was supposed to work together and above a l l communicate with each other (your words not mine)
Y o u may unders tand s i r that I am therefore not a l i t t l e annoyed at the presenta t ion of a mot ion to add the P G A O to the execu t i v e a t l a s t n i gh t s U G M T h e i n c l u s i o n of the mot ion was not p u b l i c i s e d E v e n the execu t i v e was not t o ld of i t s i n c l u s i o n mdash and at our l unch -
time meet ing we d i d ask you what was be ing d i s c u s s e d H o w can you expec t a good debate when o n l y one s i d e knows when the debate i s to be
Y o u r conduct as cha i rman dur ing that debate a l s o left much to be des i r ed e s p e c i a l l y your comments j u s t pr ior to the vote w h i c h had a very de f in i t e e f fect on a s m a l l a s s emb l y
In summary s i r may I r e spec t fu l l y po int out that I and I b e l i e v e I am not a lone amongst the execu t i v e in th is v i e w do not b e l i e v e that you or the Honorary Secre tary have kep t good fa i th w i th the rest o f the e x e c u t i v e over th is matter
I have s ta t ed before that I do not c ons i d e r bitching sessions i n F E L I X to be a good thing for the union a s a who le However I c ons i d e r i t necessa ry to b r i n g th is partshyi c u l a r matter to the a t tent ion o f the student body a s a who l e i f o n l y to ensure that some peop le know that th is motion i s b e ing d i s c u s s e d
Y o u r s most s i n c e r e l y
R o n K i l l
Deputy President
Apology to Mines
Imperial College Union
Dear S i r
It has been drawn to my at tent ion that some students o f the R o y a l Schoo l o f M ines were offended by the statement w h i c h I made in the E x e c u t i v e N e w s shyle t te r o f December 1st
A t no time d i d I in tend to i nd i ca t e any d i s r e s p e c t or
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negat ive f ee l ings towards the R o y a l Schoo l o f M i n e s a s s u c h Whi l s t i t i s true that the f igures c o mp l i ed show that the A - l e v e l s tandards of entrants i n some departments o f the R S M are lower than the average for I C I wou ld not infer from th i s that s tudents in these departments are n e c e s s a r i l y l e s s i n t e l l i g en t than others
It i s qu i te w i d e l y known that I do not a c c e p t the G C E A - l e v e l examinat ion performance a s an i n d i c a t i o n of i n t e l l i g e n c e or i n t e l l e c t u a l a b i l i t y what e v idence there i s supports that
v i ew There fore I do not w i s h it to be inferred that I l ook down upon my c o l l e a gues i n the R S M There are many other va lues by w h i c h one c a n judge a f e l l ow human be ing i f i ndeed one w i s h e s to judge anyone at a l l
With these comments i n m ind I w i s h to a p o l o g i s e unreserved ly to those offended by the re l evant paragraph
T revor P h i l l i p s
President ICU
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Dear S ir
On the 2nd January I wrote to the E d i t o r c once rn ing the fau l ts in th is y ea r s F E L I X F o r p u b l i c a t i o n purposes I have ed i t ed this let ter down to someshyth ing l i k e a quarter of i t s o r i g i n a l s i z e thus a lot of sugges t i ons made here remain un jus t i f i ed A L L these sug shyges t i ons have been j u s t i f i e d in the o r i g i na l let ter In the meanwhi l e Mr W i l l i ams has implemented a few of my sugges t i ons r e s u l t i n g in a better i s s u e of F E L I X (No373) I wou ld a l s o l i k e to po int out that I H A V E O N L Y C R I T I C I S E D F E L I X IN A R E A S W H E R E I C O U L D D O B E T T E R than the present E d i t o r g i ven the same amount of time that he has had on the job
In the Chr i s tmas i s s u e o f F E L I X the E d i t o r a s k e d readers to bemore open i n their c r i t i c i s m of F E L I X A s a sen ior member o f the Sennet staff I can see
more e a s i l y than others the faul ts i n th is y e a r s F E L I X
My f i r s t recommendat ions concern adve r t i s i ng In the Ch r i s tmas i s s u e F E L I X a d shyv e r t i s e d for an A d v e r t i s i n g Manager No experience necessary The l a s t phrase cha rac t e r i s e s M ike W i l l i a m s ignorance and neg lec t fu l a t t i tude towards a d v e r t i s i n g A beg inner w o u l d take t ime to learn a d v e r t i s i n g methods consequent l y be ing of l i t t l e use to F E L I X before October My p r oposa l though i s that A N Y M O V E T O W A R D S M A K I N G F E L I X S E L F - S U P P O R T I N G (wi thout l ower ing ed i t o r i a l s tandards) S H O U L D B E W E L C O M E D A n y add i t i ona l money i s we l come income to a union whoose c o l l e g e grant i s l i k e l y to be cut th is year
I b e l i e v e that the E d i t o r shou ld be A d v e r t i s i n g Manager In order to a ch i e v e se l f -f i nanc ing a l l F E L I X staf f wou ld be i n v o l v e d in a d v e r t i s i n g A l l s ta f f (barr ing the Ed i t o r ) wou ld be of fered a 10 C O M shyMISSION O N A L L T H E A D V E R T S T H E Y B O O K
My p roposa l s are based on my exper i ence as Sennet s A s s i s t a n t A d v e r t i s i n g Manager I b e l i e v e 1 am the bes t cand ida te for the j ob of F E L I X A d v e r t i s i n g
Continued on page 9
This weeks page three girl is Anne Pickard who comes from Winchester and is currently pursuing academic studies in Civ Eng 2 She is also the floor rep for Beit Hall and last Tuesday was elected Bo Belle at the Guilds Union meeting
Her comment afterwards was It came completely as a surprise She was also totally unprepared for a ceremonial splash in the swimming pool
Photo by Roger Wilkinson
RAG WAKE
IS HERE R A G W E E K S gone the last F E L I X carr i ed reports from most
)f the events and a l l that remains is the memory mdash A h h Anyway town to b u s i n e s s
F i r s t l y next y ea r s Rag (yes forward p lanning fo lks ) if
anyone has any ideas about improving Rag Week (and l e t s face it
it c ou ld do wi th improving) don t keep them to yourse l f but let your C C U V P know preferably in w r i t i n g Then he can pass your gems onto me and something can get done If anyone i s in teres ted in a c t i v e l y prepar ing for year see me or your V P w e l l need a new co-ord inator soon and we need an a s s i s t a n t Rag Mag Ed i t o r now
Second ly t h i s y e a r s Rag and the events not covered by F E L I X one way or another The Rag and Drag Compe t i t i on was probably the best event in
Rag Week c l o s e l y pressed by Morphy Day If you went I hope you had a good t ime -and if you lost e i ther a large coat (herringbone pattern) or a pa i r of b lack patent- leather womans shoes or both let me know and I can return them T h e Char i o t R a c e was a M i n e s -dominated event w i th R C S and G u i l d s producing l i t t l e in the way of qua l i t y or quant i ty (Mech E n g I excepted ) The race was somewhat e c l i p s e d by the magni f icent c o l l e c t i o n of R C S that day and conshygratu la t ions to a l l those concerned in that effort The pub c raw l was f i e r ce l y fought out between two coup l e s and to avo id argument you can dec ide for y ou r s e l v e s who won B o b Longman (Min T e ch I) drank a s tagger ing 31 vodkas and h i s partner He l en Na t rass (Geo II) 18 s co t ches and 2 vodkas The i r ch ie f r i v a l s Gary B r i t t a i n (M in II) and Lo rna Hawthorne (IF wou ld you be l ieve ) drank 2 lagers and 23 vodkas and 27 mar t in is r e spec t i v e l y D e c i d e who you think won wr i te your answer on a p l a in c l o thes po l i c eman and eat i t T ime -w i s e the w inners were undoubtedly Ke i th A h l e r s (Chem E n g II) and J a n i c e Fo rd (Chem E n g II) who d id the c i r c u i t of n ine pubs in 55 minutes and consumed 7 w h i s k e y s 7 p ints of bit ter
2 p in t s of gu inness 5 dubonnets 3 advocaats and got very i l l in the e v en ing s f r i v o l i t i e s Morphy Day and Smoking Conce r t have been commented on in a prev ious ed i t i on and require no further e l abo ra t i on The I F V i c a r s and Ta r t s Par ty went w e l l and w i th a l i t t l e
more support c ou ld become dare one say it a real h e l l -r a i s i n g event (sorry ) F i n a l l y the B a r - B - Q T h i s was a new event for R a g and I must apo l o g i s e for the l ack of meat
next If you came you were p o s s i b l y a s d i sg runt l ed a s I was when what looked l i k e two corg is on a s t i c k appeared ins tead of a c o w However th i s year has shown that the interest is there and next year we w i l l have learnt from our m i s t a k e s
In c o n c l u s i o n may I thank everyone who he lped out in Rag Week many people he lped but par t i cu lar thanks go from me to Dave P a t Mart in and S t e l l a A l s o many thanks to K i e t h Garden H a l l (Bob P a u l Howard et a I) S C A B R C C A l a n J o n e s F l o s and Ren t -a -Crowd
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P R E C J P 3 C E T r e v o r P h i l l i p s
Y E S IT i s t rue I am s t i l l a l i v e even if no l i terary gems have been f l ow ing from my i l l u s t r i o u s pen ( i t s a C h r i s t m a s present) in the l a s t few w e e k s It i s unfortunate and part ly my own fau l t that the Un i on has not used i ts news shypaper to the fu l l e s t advantage in the past term In th is term perhaps w i th the a i d of a l l concerned we c a n be more e f f ec t i ve in the c r u c i a l f i e l d of d i a l ogue w i th the Un i on membersh ip My own cont r ibut i on w i l l be to promise a P r e c i shyp i c e every week P e rhaps in th i s way I c a n communicate the present c once rns of the Un i on bureauc racy l eade r sh ip
A s w i th every other s e c t i o n of the popu la t i on the f i r s t concern of the mass of s tudents today i s the ef fect of the economic s i tua t i on on our pocke ts and our c ond i t i ons of work We have camshypaigned for someth ing l i k e ten terms on the ques t i on of student grants We have graduated from a pos i t i on of s i m p l y c a l l i n g for h igher ra tes to a more s o p h i s t i c a t e d (and rather more p u b l i c l y acceptab le ) campaign for changes in the g iants s ys t em to e l im ina t e the burden of means tes ts on our parents and spouses and for an end to d i s c r e t i onary awards and other anoma l i e s in short a fa ir grant for a l l s tudents T h i s i s a reasonable demand
However in the past six months in the wake of the pound250 million education budget cut instigated by the Tory party and maintained by the unspeakable Reg Prentice we have seen a rapidly deteriorating financial situation in the colleges resulting in the 2 cuts at IC last term This is a much more serious question than the rate of grant (though inextricably linked to it) The treatment
at higher education by successive governments threatens the very existence of sections of higher education
In our own area we can a l ready point to the imminent c l o s u r e of one c o l l e g e of educa t i on Mar ia A s s u m p t a w i th w h i c h we have had e x c e l l e n t s o c i a l r e l a t i ons (marfy of us surv i v ed on MA d i s c o s ) A
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over the country c l o s u r e s and mergers lt are o ccur ing some are commendable Others are be ing implemented s i m p l y to same money but the qua l i t y of educa t i on in those c o l l e g e s in be ing des t royed
Of course thlaquo privileged sector td which we belong is not going to go
under It is those sectors which are heavily relied upon by less privileged and less influential members of the community that are bearing the brunt of the attack Adult education technical colleges the further education sector all essentially geared to working-class students and in the vast majority of cases their only realistic channel to higher education will be the first to go under The universities still populated by the children of the middle class to the extent of some 72 (statistics courtesy of the DES) will survive
The grants s y s t em i t se l f i s i n shyex t r i cab l y l inked to the c u t s H o l d i n g down student grants w h i l s t f o rc ing c o l l e g e s to r a i s e refectory p r i c es and rents is the Government s s econd front T h i s i s the h idden cut in expend i ture Who suf fers T h e student of c ou r s e It i s a ga in w o r k i n g - c l a s s s e c t i o n s of higher educa t i on who get it in the n e c k -the s tudents on d i sc re t i onary awards It was wor thwh i l e reading K a t i e M c K i n n o n s IF Only on the i n jus t i c e of d i sc re t i onary awards w h i l s t not agree ing w i th a l l she wrote it i s abso lu t e l y correc t that s tudents on d i s c r e t i onary awards are eas i ly the worst off
However in terms of both c u t s and grants p r i v i l e ged though we may be we are not get t ing away l i gh t l y F i n a n c i a l cuts in departments have meant that l ec tur ing posts are being left vacant w h i c h means the l o s s of c o u r s e s here and there T e c h n i c i a n s pos ts un f i l l ed mean fewer p r a c t i c a l s and l e s s d i v e r s i t y in exper imenta l work There i s l e s s demonstrat ing work for postgraduates to do and l e s s e x p e n s i v e mater ia l for research students to use That much-vaunted quality of education i s beg inn ing to f a l l w i th overworked and underpaid staff and l e s s money for a i d s to t each ing
The threat of p r i ce r i s e s in re fec tor ies is imminent in the next few w e e k s because of the s e l f - f i nanc ing r u l e s Grants are not l i k e l y to f o l l ow th i s trend there i s s t i l l a means test to contend w i t h A s the economic c r i s i s h i t s parents harder fewer w i l l be ab le to meet the parenta l cont r ibut i on to the grant T h e va lue of the grant i t s e l f i s be ing eroded at the s tagger ing rate of over pound790 per month (f igure for l as t November from the
N U S E d u c a t i o n a l and Welfare Department ) T h e s p o u s e s c on t r i bu t i on has h i t many marr ied s tudents very ha rd The lud i c r ous j u s t i f i c a t i on for cont inued d i s c r i m i n a t i o n aga ins t married women (that it i s p r imar i l y the husband s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y to keep up the househo ld and w i f e no s u c h c o n -s i d e r a t i o n _ a p p l i e s in reverse) w i l l n o t s a t i s f y any woman af fected by i t
It is absolutely claar that a campaign which attacks both the grants system and the vicious cuts in education-spending must be mounted This has correctly been called for by last terms NUS Conference in Margate The Week of A c t i o n will be the final week of February culminating in a N a t i o n a l Demonstrat ion on February 28th
It is not a time for cynicism The facts are there for anyone to see Anyone interested in fighting against the detshyerioration of the education system and that includes primary and secondary education will form a common cause with us in the Grants Campaign Anyone who is not either doesnt really belong here or has failed to realise how important a decent education has been to him
It i s in te res t ing to see that the Na t i ona l Front i s now 700 racialist in the words of their s p o k e s m a n by re fus ing membership to people of mixed race and non-European ances t r y It i s c l e a r that the Hitler was right br igade i s in the ascendancy (strangely enough J e w s are not yet exc luded ) i am only s l i g h t l y d i sappo in ted that I cannot j o i n
Those people who s l a t ed me for be ing unfair to a respectable o r gan i sa t i on l i k e the N F mdash how are they to be defended now Presumab ly if one voted for them in an e l e c t i on one wou ld be vo t ing for a 700 racialist e s t a b l i s h shym e n t mdash u n i v e r s i t i e s par l i ament j ud i c i a r y and so o n No-one i s go ing to ban them I be l i e ve that th i s sort of o rgan ised r a c i s m and f a s c i s m is un law fu l and I hope that they are prosecuted
Those of you who saw a reference to my close personal friendship with a dear old lady living on the Mall in last weeks Sennet dont be misled There is no truth in the rumour I dont even like champagne
H O N S pound C J a c q u i G e r r a r d
Elections
T h i s i s E l e c t i o n Term A t the next Un ion Meet ing on 30th January at 100pm there i s the e l e c t i on for the E a s t e r N U S Con fe rence T h e e l e c t i o n of a new President Hon Sec Deputy President and Editor of FELIX takes p lace on 4 th 5th March a two day ba l l o t A c a d e m i c A f f a i r s Of f i cer Ex t e rna l A f f a i r s Of f icer Student R e s i d e n c e Of f i cer Welfare Of f icer Cha i rman
of I C C A G C a r n i v a l Co o rd ina tor S C A B Cha i rman Ove r s eas Students Commit tee and members for the P u b l i c a t i o n s Board w i l l a l l be e l e c t ed at the RESULTS Meeting on 6th Mar ch The Departmenta l r epresenta t i ves w i l l be e l e c t ed by ba l l o t on 10th Mar ch
P E O P L E N E E D E D
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for a lot of j obs If you don t know what the jobs invo l v e come
and ask me or hunt out the present ho lder of the post and ask
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Keep up to date by reading notices on the Council notice-board in the Lower Lounge Union These should tell you when nomination papers are due to go up and when the elections will be held
FELIX S
P R I Z E C R O S S W O R D
N O - 8 X a m
Across
L B i l e o ccurs changed in p o t -not do (8)
5 Many F r e n c h a record back in the assemb ly (6)
10 L i n e s of boys s tand ing round ca t ch (7)
11 L e n s art produces protuberances (7)
12 A l l o w him to race to cont inue bet t ing (324)
14 The sub jec t in i t he means (5) 15 C o u l d be part of w inn ing in
U S (6)
17 H e may remove undies and
sh i r t be ing without a t t i re (6)
19 Sp l i t s j okes (6)
21 Member of one s fami ly in
h o s p i t a l (6) 24 Des t i n ed to be rega led we
hear (5) 26 F i n d loud treemdashnot the same
not the same (9)
28 Gree t ing to navy(Amer ican)
in a b y s s (7)
29 A t t a c k e r of F r ench in a l l oy
(7) 3 1 F i gh t about sma l l r e la t i ve
(6) 3 2 Take fewer l ooks at those
who cannot be equa l l ed (8)
Down
L M o v e to protect the k ing in Span i sh town wi thout one (6)
2 Burn wi thout f i r s t ge t t ing p l ace for a s h e s (3)
3 L i f e l e ss in Sovere ign Square (5)
4 L ean ing over w h i l e putt ing in order 7)
6 Widths of empty remarks wi thout beg inning (9)
7 R e l a t i v e heard to be in F r ench resort (5)
8Overcome d i f f i c u l t i e s w i th the teacher (6)
9A dr ink in the inn (6)
13 V o i c e of ne i ther Ka te nor
Amy (5)
16 Happen ings i n v o l v i n g C I D in tens (9)
18 G rab the o c e a n s we are to ld (5)
20 He takes a day go ing round
h e l l and may end up there (6) 21 Odd fuse if one hundred are
enough (7) 2 2 A very loud tune i s my
b u s i n e s s (6) 23 R ipped into s a i n t s hoards 6) 2 5 Work up a sweat r ight for a
Sco ts garment (5) 27 Ree l f ive invo l ved a l i t t l e
f i sh (5) 30 C o l o u r of muddy exc re t i on (3)
pound] Winner will be drawn from the
Editors Hat at Noon next Wednesday So lu t i on to P r i z e C r o s s w o r d N o 7 The Editors decision will be final
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Union General Meeting
THURSDAY 30TH A T 100PM IN T H E G R E A T H A L L DISCUSSIONS OF MOTIONS TO GO TO T H E NUS C O N F E R E N C E A T EASTER
ELECTION OF T H E DELEGATION TO GO TO THE
C O N F E R E N C E
P A P E R S FOR THESE ELECTIONS GO UP TODAY
(17TH JANUARY)
IC RADIO
General Meeting for a progress report and election
of the main committee Monday 20th January at
615pm in the Union Lower Refectory Anyone
Welcome mdash come and join (No subscription at present)
SCC
Pue to apparent inactivity the continued existence of the following clubs will be questioned at the next SCC meetin Thursday lith Fehruar v
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Ann-Apartheid toemenl Kurdish Society (iaysoc Young Socialist Students Society
Will anybody who is involved in one of these societies or who knows anything about them please contact the Hon Sec of the Social Clubs Committee BI)Champion Aero ) before Monday 27th January Otherwise these clubs mar be disbanded
A F T E R T H E C O U N C I L M E E T I N G was opened wi th the P r e s i d en t in the c h a i r the Deputy P r e s i d e n t proposed a change to s tand ing orders T h i s was p a s s e d Due to th i s change and changes wh i ch took p l ace at the l a s t meet ing the H o n Sec agreed to i s s u e a new set of s tand ing orders for the next meet ing
The Welfare Of f icer reported tha i a survey of a random sample of zoo students was be ing ca r r i ed out in order lo a s c e r t a in the general op in ion of we l fare f a c i l i t i e s
Evening UGMs
Repor t ing thai no comments had been r ece i v ed concern ing the U G M s hav ing been he ld in the e ven ing the Hon Sec cons ide r ed it unlikely that future iGMs would he held at this time
Parking
The remain ing park ing permits had been adver t i sed in P H L I X but had not yet been c l a imed If not c l a imed by-January 31st they w i l l be r ea l l o ca t ed
The Deputy P r e s i d en t has d i s c o v e r e d that there i s no f ire a la rm in the J C R T h u s the F i r e O f f i ce r has been asked to take ac t i on to recti fy the s i tua t i on
Presidents Business
The P r es iden t presented the p o s s i b i l i t y of c rea t ing a s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t B u i l d i n g s Of f i ce r However this would not be financially possible unless he third sabbatical was taken from the Editor of FELIX The present Ed i t o r a s k e d lo be consu l t ed in any further d i s c u s s i o n s that the E x e c u t i v e might have The P r e s i d e n t agreed to th i s
It appears l e g a n a c t i o h may be taken aga inst the 11A over the w i thdrawal o f i t s pound270000 grant to the U n i v e r s i t y The immediate loss to IC is around pound65000
On the P r e s i d e n t s recommendat ion C o u n c i l agreed to donate pound40 from the E x t e r n a l A f f a i r s Commit tee budget to the London Student Organ i sa t i on
Invites
C o u n c i l agreed lo inv i te C a r l Seaford the Domest i c B u r s a r to the next c o u n c i l meet ing Mr Mooney the refectory manager and O r L e v y the Cha i rman of the C o l l e g e Refectory Committee were to be inv i t ed to the meet ing after
Poicy
The Un ion po l i c y document was d i s c u s s e d and many changes were made A request was therefore made that an up-dated ve rs ion of the po l i c y document shou ld be pub l i shed as soon as p o s s i b l e and the Hon Sec agreed to do th i s
Working Party
Mr Gordon J a c k s o n Cha i rman of the C o u n c i l Working Pa r t y l o o k i n g into student representat ion on C o l l e g e comshymi t t ees presented h i s report conce rn ing the Exp l o ra t o r y M e d i c a l S e r v i c e s Appo in tments E d u c a t i o n in Europe E x p l o r a t i o n F i e l d Stat ion Safety P a r k i n g and T ra f f i c and Welfare commit tees The report was a c cep t ed after d i s c u s s i o n and amendments
House Committee Minutes
The cos t of the carpe t ing for the Un i on and execu t i v e o f f i cers was quer ied due to i ts magnitude pound540) The H o n Sec r ep l i ed that the quote was much l ess than the cos t of r ep l a c ing the wooden floor were i l to wear out
Towels
A ques t i on was asked about the l ack of towels in the gents loo in the U n i o n The Deputy P r e s i d e n t r ep l i ed that the shortage of maintenance staff was the main d i f f i cu l t y
Publications Board
The minutes were presented as unconf i rmed
Any Other Business
The Hon Sec a s k e d for nominat ions for the newly vaca t ed pos i t i on of P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer The P r e s i d en t of R S M U exp ressed h i s concern that the e l ec t ed P u b l i c i t y O f f i ce r had been unable to do the job for wh ich he had been e l ec t ed The Ed i t o r of F E l X e x - P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer expressed the fact that he had always accepted the responsibility of Publicity and any blame given to it ft never had been the case that he would not do the publicity rather a case could not do it by virtue of the lime involved
Pen Pals - Sri Lanka
Widely travelled Ceylonese Law Student would like to correspond with anyone interested in stamp collecting cricket and current affairs
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WELLSOC
Dr Bernard D ixon (Ed i to r of New Sc i en t i s t )
What is Science For
T i m e 1930 P l a c e M e c h E n g 220
Monday 20th January
There was much d i s c u s s i o n on the matter wh i ch ended w i th the E d i t o r apo l o g i s i ng for not h a v i n g brought the item up at a U G M for d i s c u s s i o n
The E d i t o r of F E L I X brought forward a draft mot ion conce rn ing Sennet and i ts a l l e g e d c i r c u l a t i o n of 100000 readers The motion c r i t i c i s i n g that f igure was p a s s e d
TODAY - 1245pm
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Wednesday 22nd January 1pm
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730pm J a n 22nd
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Proud l y presents
The famous range of V ideotone
H i - F i l oudspeakers s ta r r ing
the infamous Minimax 2 Now
this superb range of speakers
i s a va i l ab l e at d i scount
p r i c e s
Con tac t Honest M i ck F o x of
Mech E n g 2 for de ta i l s o f
the whole range
A s k for a demonstrat ion of
the Minitnax 2 at pound3250 pa i r
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FELIX 7
ALL NIGHT RAVEUP
G U I L D S C A R N I V A L
Mad but superb Entertainment
R i z S h a k i r
L a s t Saturday saw the major
C amp G rag event of th is s e s s i o n
The b a s i c i d e a behind th i s
be ing to organise a m u s i c a l
ex t ravaganza that wou ld go on
through the night into the
f o l l ow ing day Thus a l l the
s tudents invo l ved in l a s t terms
fund r a i s i n g (stunts of vary ing
degrees of e c c en t r i c i t y and
sheer l unacy that might c ause
a larm over s tuden ts san i ty were
performed) c o u l d have twe lve
hours in wh ich to p rac t i ce their
by now perfected s k i l l s
Se r i ous l y though on a l e s s
s a r c a s t i c and f r i vo lous note it
was a we l l o rgan ised event for
the enjoyment and entertainment
of a l l the people lucky enough
to acqu i r e t i c k e t s A wide range
of t as t es were catered for and
the even ing k i c k e d off wi th
Suther land Brothers and
Qu i ve r who never seem to g ive
a mediocre performance on the
s tage The i r act and s t y l e has
the a b i l i t y to set any aud ience
a l i gh t and t h i s was w e l l
u t i l i s e d
Undoubted ly the star attshy
r a c t i on (they ce r ta in l y proved
the i r worth) of the whole show
was Manfred Mann s E a r t h
Hand There was no real f l a sh
of the o ld Manfred Mann gimshy
m i c k s such as t ak ing off h i s
t rousers or dragg ing some of
the female popula t ion of the
Paul Ekpenyong
City amp Guilds President Manfred Manns Earth Hand
aud ience on to the s tage T h i s
concert was a se r i ous one i u
wh i ch the m u s i c a l ta lent of
each member of the band were
coherent ly brought together to
produce what one c a n on ly
desc r i be as a truly i nc r ed ib l e
m u s i c a l exper i ence to have
been seen of t h i s band to date
The las t band of the show
were B o h K e r r s Whoopee B a n d
The i r t a sk was e s s e n t i a l l y to
make sure that no one was
get t ing too bored at 2a m i n the
morning T h i s they a ch i e v ed
wi th a l i ghthearted and at t imes
very c o m i c a l performance that
t o ta l l y l a cked any ta lent
m u s i c a l l y speak ing However
this hardly mattered s i n c e by
th is t ime everybody had a fair
amount of a l c o h o l in their
s y s t e m Anyhow everyone
apprec ia ted their performance
F o r those who managed to
ar r i ve at the c once r t very ear ly
T i m R o s e prov ided a su i t ab l e
beg inn ing to the n i gh t s show
T h e m u s i c a l part of the
night hav ing come to an end
the crowd wh ich had by now
gathered in the ICR to observe
the comed ians of B o b K e r r s
Whoopee B a n d d i sp e r s ed The
more energet ic moved to the
D i s c o where they c ou ld expend
the i r surp lus energy Where a s
those not so a t h l e t i c a l l y
i n c l i n e d e i ther made their way
to the bar (which was s t i l l open)
or to the Great H a l l where two
f i lms were be ing shown The s e
f i l m s were T h e P i l l and
There i s a G i r l in my Soup
Severa l of the peop le were
in t e rv i ewed dur ing the lat ter
part of the C a r n i v a l and the
genera l c o n c e n s u s of op in i on
was that i t had been enjoyable
and was a p l easan t exper i ence
T h e P r e s i d e n t of the G u i l d s
U n i o n Jenny J o n e s was a l s o
approached and she seemed
we l l p l e a s e d wi th the manner
in w h i c h the events had proshy
g r e ssed She to ld us that they
had at l e a s t broken even
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
COLUMN
R u p e r t H a r p e r
NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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P E I U E k p e n y o n g Sub-Editor
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RS Newmann Photographic Editor
R W i l k i n s Photo-Journalist
R J o n e s Sports Editor
M J L W i l l i a m s Editor
to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
Y o u r s t i l l I f i n i s h up in hosp i t a l a g a i n Rupert Harper (ME 2)
Members N A n t o n y N Bamber C G o u l d Me C R o b i n s J S t ra t t en -S tevens P Smart
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10 F E I I X
J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
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F E L I X W I L L undoubtedly be f a c ing a s t i f f bat t le for s u r v i v a l i f the I C U E x e c shyut i ve dec ide to pursue the i d e a bull - of r e a l l o c a t i n g the th i rd s a b b a t i c a l from the E d i t o r to a proposed new-s ty l e Deputy P r e s i d e n t who wou ld take on the dut i es o f a J u n i o r Treasurer
Granted that the U n i o n w i l l face f i n a n c i a l d i f f i cu l t i e s i n the coming yea rs canno t t h i s be f aced by c r ea t i ng a T r easury Commit tee c o n s i s t i n g of a l l the U n i o n s J u n i o r and Sen ior T reasure rs The committee c o u l d i f n e cessa ry be c h a i r e d by a new ly -c rea ted U n i o n J u n i o r T reasure r whose task i t wou ld be to prune budgets appropr ia te l y b a s i n g h i s deshyc i s i o n s on the recommendat ions of the Treasury committee after approva l by C o u n c i l T h i s i s j u s t a thought a rough i d e a How about it Trev
A s far a s I c a n see w i thout a s a b b a t i c a l F E L T X E d i t o r how c a n we pr int the B l u e b o o k dur ing the summer How are we going to fully utilise the printing facilities which College has made available to us
Who can take care o f a l l the ou ts ide j o b s w h i c h need t e c h n i c a l c h e c k i n g before they can be run on the o f f se t - l i tho C o n s i d e r what w i l l happen when the p r in t ing uni t i n c l u d i n g the v a r i t y p i s t moves over to C o l l e g e B l o c k (probably w i t h i n the next year )
F E L I X copy w i l l be taken from the F E L I X o f f i ce to the va r i t yp i s t then back to the o f f i ce for p a s t i n g np then back to C o l l e g e B l o c k to be pr inted and then the paper w i l l be sh i f t ed back to the o f f i ce for f o l d ing and c o l l a t i n g F o r a s a b b a t i c a l i t w i l l be tor tuous for a n o n - s a b b a t i c a l i t w i l l be i m p o s s i b l e
So e s s e n t i a l l y then wi thout a sabshyb a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i den tT r easure r I f ee l that there are workab l e non -sabba t i ca l a l t e r n a t i v e s Without a s a b b a t i c a l F E L I X E d i t o r F E L I X w i l l d i e
Fur ther to C G D e w e y s let ter i t i s
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Boa rd i s opposed 10 any k i n d of p e r sona l ga in s u c h a s was sugges ted (10 c o m m i s s i o n on adverts booked)
I have r e c e i v ed a le t ter from John R a n d a l l the P r e s i d e n t of the N U S c o n shyc e rn ing the remarks made in l a s t w e e k s E d i t o r i a l about the N U S at t i tude to the I R A The le t ter (which a r r i ved too la te for p u b l i c a t i o n th is week) w i l l b e p r in t ed next week Shou ld anyone ho ld any v i e w s on th i s matter I shou ld be g lad to hear from them mdash bull bull lt -
S ince page 5 c on ta in ing the c r o ssword was pas t ed up and be ing pr in ted before the 12 noon Wednesday so lu t i on dead l i n e l a s t w e e k s w inner was not ment ioned so l e t s ment ion h im now RJBonner Botany 2
L K T T K f t S Letter to the President
Imperial College Union
10th January 1975
T h e P r e s i d en t Imper ia l C o l l e g e U n i o n
Dear Trevor
T h e execu t i v e has spent a great dea l o f t ime th i s year d i s c u s s i n g the s ta tus o f the post-graduate a f fa i rs o f f i cer A f t e r s e v e ra l s e s s i o n s on th is t op i c the v i e w agreed by a l l was that we had here a top ic w h i c h c o u l d reasonab ly be expec t ed to a t t rac t a good at tendance at a U G M The execu t i v e further agreed that a good and w e l l prepared debate on the sub jec t s h o u l d be sought
T o these ends we agreed to postpone the i s s u e of the P G A f f a i r s O f f i c e r becoming a member of the e x e cu t i v e u n t i l there had been time for the genera l s tudent body to be informed that th is was be ing proposed When everyone had had a chance to a i r the i r v i e w s the matter was to be adve r t i s ed w i d e l y and put to a U G M
S t ray ing from this l ine o f r eason ing for a moment may I say that I understood that the e x e cu t i v e was supposed to work together and above a l l communicate with each other (your words not mine)
Y o u may unders tand s i r that I am therefore not a l i t t l e annoyed at the presenta t ion of a mot ion to add the P G A O to the execu t i v e a t l a s t n i gh t s U G M T h e i n c l u s i o n of the mot ion was not p u b l i c i s e d E v e n the execu t i v e was not t o ld of i t s i n c l u s i o n mdash and at our l unch -
time meet ing we d i d ask you what was be ing d i s c u s s e d H o w can you expec t a good debate when o n l y one s i d e knows when the debate i s to be
Y o u r conduct as cha i rman dur ing that debate a l s o left much to be des i r ed e s p e c i a l l y your comments j u s t pr ior to the vote w h i c h had a very de f in i t e e f fect on a s m a l l a s s emb l y
In summary s i r may I r e spec t fu l l y po int out that I and I b e l i e v e I am not a lone amongst the execu t i v e in th is v i e w do not b e l i e v e that you or the Honorary Secre tary have kep t good fa i th w i th the rest o f the e x e c u t i v e over th is matter
I have s ta t ed before that I do not c ons i d e r bitching sessions i n F E L I X to be a good thing for the union a s a who le However I c ons i d e r i t necessa ry to b r i n g th is partshyi c u l a r matter to the a t tent ion o f the student body a s a who l e i f o n l y to ensure that some peop le know that th is motion i s b e ing d i s c u s s e d
Y o u r s most s i n c e r e l y
R o n K i l l
Deputy President
Apology to Mines
Imperial College Union
Dear S i r
It has been drawn to my at tent ion that some students o f the R o y a l Schoo l o f M ines were offended by the statement w h i c h I made in the E x e c u t i v e N e w s shyle t te r o f December 1st
A t no time d i d I in tend to i nd i ca t e any d i s r e s p e c t or
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negat ive f ee l ings towards the R o y a l Schoo l o f M i n e s a s s u c h Whi l s t i t i s true that the f igures c o mp l i ed show that the A - l e v e l s tandards of entrants i n some departments o f the R S M are lower than the average for I C I wou ld not infer from th i s that s tudents in these departments are n e c e s s a r i l y l e s s i n t e l l i g en t than others
It i s qu i te w i d e l y known that I do not a c c e p t the G C E A - l e v e l examinat ion performance a s an i n d i c a t i o n of i n t e l l i g e n c e or i n t e l l e c t u a l a b i l i t y what e v idence there i s supports that
v i ew There fore I do not w i s h it to be inferred that I l ook down upon my c o l l e a gues i n the R S M There are many other va lues by w h i c h one c a n judge a f e l l ow human be ing i f i ndeed one w i s h e s to judge anyone at a l l
With these comments i n m ind I w i s h to a p o l o g i s e unreserved ly to those offended by the re l evant paragraph
T revor P h i l l i p s
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Dear S ir
On the 2nd January I wrote to the E d i t o r c once rn ing the fau l ts in th is y ea r s F E L I X F o r p u b l i c a t i o n purposes I have ed i t ed this let ter down to someshyth ing l i k e a quarter of i t s o r i g i n a l s i z e thus a lot of sugges t i ons made here remain un jus t i f i ed A L L these sug shyges t i ons have been j u s t i f i e d in the o r i g i na l let ter In the meanwhi l e Mr W i l l i ams has implemented a few of my sugges t i ons r e s u l t i n g in a better i s s u e of F E L I X (No373) I wou ld a l s o l i k e to po int out that I H A V E O N L Y C R I T I C I S E D F E L I X IN A R E A S W H E R E I C O U L D D O B E T T E R than the present E d i t o r g i ven the same amount of time that he has had on the job
In the Chr i s tmas i s s u e o f F E L I X the E d i t o r a s k e d readers to bemore open i n their c r i t i c i s m of F E L I X A s a sen ior member o f the Sennet staff I can see
more e a s i l y than others the faul ts i n th is y e a r s F E L I X
My f i r s t recommendat ions concern adve r t i s i ng In the Ch r i s tmas i s s u e F E L I X a d shyv e r t i s e d for an A d v e r t i s i n g Manager No experience necessary The l a s t phrase cha rac t e r i s e s M ike W i l l i a m s ignorance and neg lec t fu l a t t i tude towards a d v e r t i s i n g A beg inner w o u l d take t ime to learn a d v e r t i s i n g methods consequent l y be ing of l i t t l e use to F E L I X before October My p r oposa l though i s that A N Y M O V E T O W A R D S M A K I N G F E L I X S E L F - S U P P O R T I N G (wi thout l ower ing ed i t o r i a l s tandards) S H O U L D B E W E L C O M E D A n y add i t i ona l money i s we l come income to a union whoose c o l l e g e grant i s l i k e l y to be cut th is year
I b e l i e v e that the E d i t o r shou ld be A d v e r t i s i n g Manager In order to a ch i e v e se l f -f i nanc ing a l l F E L I X staf f wou ld be i n v o l v e d in a d v e r t i s i n g A l l s ta f f (barr ing the Ed i t o r ) wou ld be of fered a 10 C O M shyMISSION O N A L L T H E A D V E R T S T H E Y B O O K
My p roposa l s are based on my exper i ence as Sennet s A s s i s t a n t A d v e r t i s i n g Manager I b e l i e v e 1 am the bes t cand ida te for the j ob of F E L I X A d v e r t i s i n g
Continued on page 9
This weeks page three girl is Anne Pickard who comes from Winchester and is currently pursuing academic studies in Civ Eng 2 She is also the floor rep for Beit Hall and last Tuesday was elected Bo Belle at the Guilds Union meeting
Her comment afterwards was It came completely as a surprise She was also totally unprepared for a ceremonial splash in the swimming pool
Photo by Roger Wilkinson
RAG WAKE
IS HERE R A G W E E K S gone the last F E L I X carr i ed reports from most
)f the events and a l l that remains is the memory mdash A h h Anyway town to b u s i n e s s
F i r s t l y next y ea r s Rag (yes forward p lanning fo lks ) if
anyone has any ideas about improving Rag Week (and l e t s face it
it c ou ld do wi th improving) don t keep them to yourse l f but let your C C U V P know preferably in w r i t i n g Then he can pass your gems onto me and something can get done If anyone i s in teres ted in a c t i v e l y prepar ing for year see me or your V P w e l l need a new co-ord inator soon and we need an a s s i s t a n t Rag Mag Ed i t o r now
Second ly t h i s y e a r s Rag and the events not covered by F E L I X one way or another The Rag and Drag Compe t i t i on was probably the best event in
Rag Week c l o s e l y pressed by Morphy Day If you went I hope you had a good t ime -and if you lost e i ther a large coat (herringbone pattern) or a pa i r of b lack patent- leather womans shoes or both let me know and I can return them T h e Char i o t R a c e was a M i n e s -dominated event w i th R C S and G u i l d s producing l i t t l e in the way of qua l i t y or quant i ty (Mech E n g I excepted ) The race was somewhat e c l i p s e d by the magni f icent c o l l e c t i o n of R C S that day and conshygratu la t ions to a l l those concerned in that effort The pub c raw l was f i e r ce l y fought out between two coup l e s and to avo id argument you can dec ide for y ou r s e l v e s who won B o b Longman (Min T e ch I) drank a s tagger ing 31 vodkas and h i s partner He l en Na t rass (Geo II) 18 s co t ches and 2 vodkas The i r ch ie f r i v a l s Gary B r i t t a i n (M in II) and Lo rna Hawthorne (IF wou ld you be l ieve ) drank 2 lagers and 23 vodkas and 27 mar t in is r e spec t i v e l y D e c i d e who you think won wr i te your answer on a p l a in c l o thes po l i c eman and eat i t T ime -w i s e the w inners were undoubtedly Ke i th A h l e r s (Chem E n g II) and J a n i c e Fo rd (Chem E n g II) who d id the c i r c u i t of n ine pubs in 55 minutes and consumed 7 w h i s k e y s 7 p ints of bit ter
2 p in t s of gu inness 5 dubonnets 3 advocaats and got very i l l in the e v en ing s f r i v o l i t i e s Morphy Day and Smoking Conce r t have been commented on in a prev ious ed i t i on and require no further e l abo ra t i on The I F V i c a r s and Ta r t s Par ty went w e l l and w i th a l i t t l e
more support c ou ld become dare one say it a real h e l l -r a i s i n g event (sorry ) F i n a l l y the B a r - B - Q T h i s was a new event for R a g and I must apo l o g i s e for the l ack of meat
next If you came you were p o s s i b l y a s d i sg runt l ed a s I was when what looked l i k e two corg is on a s t i c k appeared ins tead of a c o w However th i s year has shown that the interest is there and next year we w i l l have learnt from our m i s t a k e s
In c o n c l u s i o n may I thank everyone who he lped out in Rag Week many people he lped but par t i cu lar thanks go from me to Dave P a t Mart in and S t e l l a A l s o many thanks to K i e t h Garden H a l l (Bob P a u l Howard et a I) S C A B R C C A l a n J o n e s F l o s and Ren t -a -Crowd
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John Downs Carnival Co-ordinator
T h e
N A T I O N A L W E S T M I N S T E R
B A N K
C o l l e g e B l o c k
wou ld l i k e to remind i t s
customers that i t s hours of
open ing are
0930 to 1500
We hope that th is w i l l
a vo i d the con fus i on and
d isappoinf inent that has
a r i s en from time to t ime
A l b e r t s P l u m (S K e n Stn)
Cut Pr ice SSp
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IC Students
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P R E C J P 3 C E T r e v o r P h i l l i p s
Y E S IT i s t rue I am s t i l l a l i v e even if no l i terary gems have been f l ow ing from my i l l u s t r i o u s pen ( i t s a C h r i s t m a s present) in the l a s t few w e e k s It i s unfortunate and part ly my own fau l t that the Un i on has not used i ts news shypaper to the fu l l e s t advantage in the past term In th is term perhaps w i th the a i d of a l l concerned we c a n be more e f f ec t i ve in the c r u c i a l f i e l d of d i a l ogue w i th the Un i on membersh ip My own cont r ibut i on w i l l be to promise a P r e c i shyp i c e every week P e rhaps in th i s way I c a n communicate the present c once rns of the Un i on bureauc racy l eade r sh ip
A s w i th every other s e c t i o n of the popu la t i on the f i r s t concern of the mass of s tudents today i s the ef fect of the economic s i tua t i on on our pocke ts and our c ond i t i ons of work We have camshypaigned for someth ing l i k e ten terms on the ques t i on of student grants We have graduated from a pos i t i on of s i m p l y c a l l i n g for h igher ra tes to a more s o p h i s t i c a t e d (and rather more p u b l i c l y acceptab le ) campaign for changes in the g iants s ys t em to e l im ina t e the burden of means tes ts on our parents and spouses and for an end to d i s c r e t i onary awards and other anoma l i e s in short a fa ir grant for a l l s tudents T h i s i s a reasonable demand
However in the past six months in the wake of the pound250 million education budget cut instigated by the Tory party and maintained by the unspeakable Reg Prentice we have seen a rapidly deteriorating financial situation in the colleges resulting in the 2 cuts at IC last term This is a much more serious question than the rate of grant (though inextricably linked to it) The treatment
at higher education by successive governments threatens the very existence of sections of higher education
In our own area we can a l ready point to the imminent c l o s u r e of one c o l l e g e of educa t i on Mar ia A s s u m p t a w i th w h i c h we have had e x c e l l e n t s o c i a l r e l a t i ons (marfy of us surv i v ed on MA d i s c o s ) A
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over the country c l o s u r e s and mergers lt are o ccur ing some are commendable Others are be ing implemented s i m p l y to same money but the qua l i t y of educa t i on in those c o l l e g e s in be ing des t royed
Of course thlaquo privileged sector td which we belong is not going to go
under It is those sectors which are heavily relied upon by less privileged and less influential members of the community that are bearing the brunt of the attack Adult education technical colleges the further education sector all essentially geared to working-class students and in the vast majority of cases their only realistic channel to higher education will be the first to go under The universities still populated by the children of the middle class to the extent of some 72 (statistics courtesy of the DES) will survive
The grants s y s t em i t se l f i s i n shyex t r i cab l y l inked to the c u t s H o l d i n g down student grants w h i l s t f o rc ing c o l l e g e s to r a i s e refectory p r i c es and rents is the Government s s econd front T h i s i s the h idden cut in expend i ture Who suf fers T h e student of c ou r s e It i s a ga in w o r k i n g - c l a s s s e c t i o n s of higher educa t i on who get it in the n e c k -the s tudents on d i sc re t i onary awards It was wor thwh i l e reading K a t i e M c K i n n o n s IF Only on the i n jus t i c e of d i sc re t i onary awards w h i l s t not agree ing w i th a l l she wrote it i s abso lu t e l y correc t that s tudents on d i s c r e t i onary awards are eas i ly the worst off
However in terms of both c u t s and grants p r i v i l e ged though we may be we are not get t ing away l i gh t l y F i n a n c i a l cuts in departments have meant that l ec tur ing posts are being left vacant w h i c h means the l o s s of c o u r s e s here and there T e c h n i c i a n s pos ts un f i l l ed mean fewer p r a c t i c a l s and l e s s d i v e r s i t y in exper imenta l work There i s l e s s demonstrat ing work for postgraduates to do and l e s s e x p e n s i v e mater ia l for research students to use That much-vaunted quality of education i s beg inn ing to f a l l w i th overworked and underpaid staff and l e s s money for a i d s to t each ing
The threat of p r i ce r i s e s in re fec tor ies is imminent in the next few w e e k s because of the s e l f - f i nanc ing r u l e s Grants are not l i k e l y to f o l l ow th i s trend there i s s t i l l a means test to contend w i t h A s the economic c r i s i s h i t s parents harder fewer w i l l be ab le to meet the parenta l cont r ibut i on to the grant T h e va lue of the grant i t s e l f i s be ing eroded at the s tagger ing rate of over pound790 per month (f igure for l as t November from the
N U S E d u c a t i o n a l and Welfare Department ) T h e s p o u s e s c on t r i bu t i on has h i t many marr ied s tudents very ha rd The lud i c r ous j u s t i f i c a t i on for cont inued d i s c r i m i n a t i o n aga ins t married women (that it i s p r imar i l y the husband s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y to keep up the househo ld and w i f e no s u c h c o n -s i d e r a t i o n _ a p p l i e s in reverse) w i l l n o t s a t i s f y any woman af fected by i t
It is absolutely claar that a campaign which attacks both the grants system and the vicious cuts in education-spending must be mounted This has correctly been called for by last terms NUS Conference in Margate The Week of A c t i o n will be the final week of February culminating in a N a t i o n a l Demonstrat ion on February 28th
It is not a time for cynicism The facts are there for anyone to see Anyone interested in fighting against the detshyerioration of the education system and that includes primary and secondary education will form a common cause with us in the Grants Campaign Anyone who is not either doesnt really belong here or has failed to realise how important a decent education has been to him
It i s in te res t ing to see that the Na t i ona l Front i s now 700 racialist in the words of their s p o k e s m a n by re fus ing membership to people of mixed race and non-European ances t r y It i s c l e a r that the Hitler was right br igade i s in the ascendancy (strangely enough J e w s are not yet exc luded ) i am only s l i g h t l y d i sappo in ted that I cannot j o i n
Those people who s l a t ed me for be ing unfair to a respectable o r gan i sa t i on l i k e the N F mdash how are they to be defended now Presumab ly if one voted for them in an e l e c t i on one wou ld be vo t ing for a 700 racialist e s t a b l i s h shym e n t mdash u n i v e r s i t i e s par l i ament j ud i c i a r y and so o n No-one i s go ing to ban them I be l i e ve that th i s sort of o rgan ised r a c i s m and f a s c i s m is un law fu l and I hope that they are prosecuted
Those of you who saw a reference to my close personal friendship with a dear old lady living on the Mall in last weeks Sennet dont be misled There is no truth in the rumour I dont even like champagne
H O N S pound C J a c q u i G e r r a r d
Elections
T h i s i s E l e c t i o n Term A t the next Un ion Meet ing on 30th January at 100pm there i s the e l e c t i on for the E a s t e r N U S Con fe rence T h e e l e c t i o n of a new President Hon Sec Deputy President and Editor of FELIX takes p lace on 4 th 5th March a two day ba l l o t A c a d e m i c A f f a i r s Of f i cer Ex t e rna l A f f a i r s Of f icer Student R e s i d e n c e Of f i cer Welfare Of f icer Cha i rman
of I C C A G C a r n i v a l Co o rd ina tor S C A B Cha i rman Ove r s eas Students Commit tee and members for the P u b l i c a t i o n s Board w i l l a l l be e l e c t ed at the RESULTS Meeting on 6th Mar ch The Departmenta l r epresenta t i ves w i l l be e l e c t ed by ba l l o t on 10th Mar ch
P E O P L E N E E D E D
So a s you can s e e there are a lot of people needed to s tand
for a lot of j obs If you don t know what the jobs invo l v e come
and ask me or hunt out the present ho lder of the post and ask
h i m
SCOPE
There i s plenty of s cope for a l l in t e res ts so don t just s i t there wa i t i n g for someone e l s e to run your Un i on mdash come and g i v e a h e l p ing hand yourse l f
Keep up to date by reading notices on the Council notice-board in the Lower Lounge Union These should tell you when nomination papers are due to go up and when the elections will be held
FELIX S
P R I Z E C R O S S W O R D
N O - 8 X a m
Across
L B i l e o ccurs changed in p o t -not do (8)
5 Many F r e n c h a record back in the assemb ly (6)
10 L i n e s of boys s tand ing round ca t ch (7)
11 L e n s art produces protuberances (7)
12 A l l o w him to race to cont inue bet t ing (324)
14 The sub jec t in i t he means (5) 15 C o u l d be part of w inn ing in
U S (6)
17 H e may remove undies and
sh i r t be ing without a t t i re (6)
19 Sp l i t s j okes (6)
21 Member of one s fami ly in
h o s p i t a l (6) 24 Des t i n ed to be rega led we
hear (5) 26 F i n d loud treemdashnot the same
not the same (9)
28 Gree t ing to navy(Amer ican)
in a b y s s (7)
29 A t t a c k e r of F r ench in a l l oy
(7) 3 1 F i gh t about sma l l r e la t i ve
(6) 3 2 Take fewer l ooks at those
who cannot be equa l l ed (8)
Down
L M o v e to protect the k ing in Span i sh town wi thout one (6)
2 Burn wi thout f i r s t ge t t ing p l ace for a s h e s (3)
3 L i f e l e ss in Sovere ign Square (5)
4 L ean ing over w h i l e putt ing in order 7)
6 Widths of empty remarks wi thout beg inning (9)
7 R e l a t i v e heard to be in F r ench resort (5)
8Overcome d i f f i c u l t i e s w i th the teacher (6)
9A dr ink in the inn (6)
13 V o i c e of ne i ther Ka te nor
Amy (5)
16 Happen ings i n v o l v i n g C I D in tens (9)
18 G rab the o c e a n s we are to ld (5)
20 He takes a day go ing round
h e l l and may end up there (6) 21 Odd fuse if one hundred are
enough (7) 2 2 A very loud tune i s my
b u s i n e s s (6) 23 R ipped into s a i n t s hoards 6) 2 5 Work up a sweat r ight for a
Sco ts garment (5) 27 Ree l f ive invo l ved a l i t t l e
f i sh (5) 30 C o l o u r of muddy exc re t i on (3)
pound] Winner will be drawn from the
Editors Hat at Noon next Wednesday So lu t i on to P r i z e C r o s s w o r d N o 7 The Editors decision will be final
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C O U N C I L
H I G H L I G H T S
Union General Meeting
THURSDAY 30TH A T 100PM IN T H E G R E A T H A L L DISCUSSIONS OF MOTIONS TO GO TO T H E NUS C O N F E R E N C E A T EASTER
ELECTION OF T H E DELEGATION TO GO TO THE
C O N F E R E N C E
P A P E R S FOR THESE ELECTIONS GO UP TODAY
(17TH JANUARY)
IC RADIO
General Meeting for a progress report and election
of the main committee Monday 20th January at
615pm in the Union Lower Refectory Anyone
Welcome mdash come and join (No subscription at present)
SCC
Pue to apparent inactivity the continued existence of the following clubs will be questioned at the next SCC meetin Thursday lith Fehruar v
g
Ann-Apartheid toemenl Kurdish Society (iaysoc Young Socialist Students Society
Will anybody who is involved in one of these societies or who knows anything about them please contact the Hon Sec of the Social Clubs Committee BI)Champion Aero ) before Monday 27th January Otherwise these clubs mar be disbanded
A F T E R T H E C O U N C I L M E E T I N G was opened wi th the P r e s i d en t in the c h a i r the Deputy P r e s i d e n t proposed a change to s tand ing orders T h i s was p a s s e d Due to th i s change and changes wh i ch took p l ace at the l a s t meet ing the H o n Sec agreed to i s s u e a new set of s tand ing orders for the next meet ing
The Welfare Of f icer reported tha i a survey of a random sample of zoo students was be ing ca r r i ed out in order lo a s c e r t a in the general op in ion of we l fare f a c i l i t i e s
Evening UGMs
Repor t ing thai no comments had been r ece i v ed concern ing the U G M s hav ing been he ld in the e ven ing the Hon Sec cons ide r ed it unlikely that future iGMs would he held at this time
Parking
The remain ing park ing permits had been adver t i sed in P H L I X but had not yet been c l a imed If not c l a imed by-January 31st they w i l l be r ea l l o ca t ed
The Deputy P r e s i d en t has d i s c o v e r e d that there i s no f ire a la rm in the J C R T h u s the F i r e O f f i ce r has been asked to take ac t i on to recti fy the s i tua t i on
Presidents Business
The P r es iden t presented the p o s s i b i l i t y of c rea t ing a s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t B u i l d i n g s Of f i ce r However this would not be financially possible unless he third sabbatical was taken from the Editor of FELIX The present Ed i t o r a s k e d lo be consu l t ed in any further d i s c u s s i o n s that the E x e c u t i v e might have The P r e s i d e n t agreed to th i s
It appears l e g a n a c t i o h may be taken aga inst the 11A over the w i thdrawal o f i t s pound270000 grant to the U n i v e r s i t y The immediate loss to IC is around pound65000
On the P r e s i d e n t s recommendat ion C o u n c i l agreed to donate pound40 from the E x t e r n a l A f f a i r s Commit tee budget to the London Student Organ i sa t i on
Invites
C o u n c i l agreed lo inv i te C a r l Seaford the Domest i c B u r s a r to the next c o u n c i l meet ing Mr Mooney the refectory manager and O r L e v y the Cha i rman of the C o l l e g e Refectory Committee were to be inv i t ed to the meet ing after
Poicy
The Un ion po l i c y document was d i s c u s s e d and many changes were made A request was therefore made that an up-dated ve rs ion of the po l i c y document shou ld be pub l i shed as soon as p o s s i b l e and the Hon Sec agreed to do th i s
Working Party
Mr Gordon J a c k s o n Cha i rman of the C o u n c i l Working Pa r t y l o o k i n g into student representat ion on C o l l e g e comshymi t t ees presented h i s report conce rn ing the Exp l o ra t o r y M e d i c a l S e r v i c e s Appo in tments E d u c a t i o n in Europe E x p l o r a t i o n F i e l d Stat ion Safety P a r k i n g and T ra f f i c and Welfare commit tees The report was a c cep t ed after d i s c u s s i o n and amendments
House Committee Minutes
The cos t of the carpe t ing for the Un i on and execu t i v e o f f i cers was quer ied due to i ts magnitude pound540) The H o n Sec r ep l i ed that the quote was much l ess than the cos t of r ep l a c ing the wooden floor were i l to wear out
Towels
A ques t i on was asked about the l ack of towels in the gents loo in the U n i o n The Deputy P r e s i d e n t r ep l i ed that the shortage of maintenance staff was the main d i f f i cu l t y
Publications Board
The minutes were presented as unconf i rmed
Any Other Business
The Hon Sec a s k e d for nominat ions for the newly vaca t ed pos i t i on of P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer The P r e s i d en t of R S M U exp ressed h i s concern that the e l ec t ed P u b l i c i t y O f f i ce r had been unable to do the job for wh ich he had been e l ec t ed The Ed i t o r of F E l X e x - P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer expressed the fact that he had always accepted the responsibility of Publicity and any blame given to it ft never had been the case that he would not do the publicity rather a case could not do it by virtue of the lime involved
Pen Pals - Sri Lanka
Widely travelled Ceylonese Law Student would like to correspond with anyone interested in stamp collecting cricket and current affairs
For further informal ion please contact the Secretary South Fast Asia Society via the tmon letter rack
WELLSOC
Dr Bernard D ixon (Ed i to r of New Sc i en t i s t )
What is Science For
T i m e 1930 P l a c e M e c h E n g 220
Monday 20th January
There was much d i s c u s s i o n on the matter wh i ch ended w i th the E d i t o r apo l o g i s i ng for not h a v i n g brought the item up at a U G M for d i s c u s s i o n
The E d i t o r of F E L I X brought forward a draft mot ion conce rn ing Sennet and i ts a l l e g e d c i r c u l a t i o n of 100000 readers The motion c r i t i c i s i n g that f igure was p a s s e d
TODAY - 1245pm
IC International Socialist Branch Speaker Meeting
I R E L A N D
Speaker N e i l Dav i e s
C i v h n g 207
New Year bargain offer of high Quality cleaning materials available at drastically reduced- prices Must sell ex-sales stock College delivery Contact R a l p h Raby 703 7269 evenings after 8000
TM Soc Presents
A n Introductory T a l k on
T ranscenden ta l Medi ta t ion
Wednesday 22nd January 1pm
Elec Eng Room 406
Come and find out what
TM really is
I C Folk Club
Her i tage
(Four Pan Harmonies)
730pm J a n 22nd
U n i o n L o w e r Re fec
HONEST MICK
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Proud l y presents
The famous range of V ideotone
H i - F i l oudspeakers s ta r r ing
the infamous Minimax 2 Now
this superb range of speakers
i s a va i l ab l e at d i scount
p r i c e s
Con tac t Honest M i ck F o x of
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the whole range
A s k for a demonstrat ion of
the Minitnax 2 at pound3250 pa i r
Hi-Fi Answers c a l l e d it
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ALL NIGHT RAVEUP
G U I L D S C A R N I V A L
Mad but superb Entertainment
R i z S h a k i r
L a s t Saturday saw the major
C amp G rag event of th is s e s s i o n
The b a s i c i d e a behind th i s
be ing to organise a m u s i c a l
ex t ravaganza that wou ld go on
through the night into the
f o l l ow ing day Thus a l l the
s tudents invo l ved in l a s t terms
fund r a i s i n g (stunts of vary ing
degrees of e c c en t r i c i t y and
sheer l unacy that might c ause
a larm over s tuden ts san i ty were
performed) c o u l d have twe lve
hours in wh ich to p rac t i ce their
by now perfected s k i l l s
Se r i ous l y though on a l e s s
s a r c a s t i c and f r i vo lous note it
was a we l l o rgan ised event for
the enjoyment and entertainment
of a l l the people lucky enough
to acqu i r e t i c k e t s A wide range
of t as t es were catered for and
the even ing k i c k e d off wi th
Suther land Brothers and
Qu i ve r who never seem to g ive
a mediocre performance on the
s tage The i r act and s t y l e has
the a b i l i t y to set any aud ience
a l i gh t and t h i s was w e l l
u t i l i s e d
Undoubted ly the star attshy
r a c t i on (they ce r ta in l y proved
the i r worth) of the whole show
was Manfred Mann s E a r t h
Hand There was no real f l a sh
of the o ld Manfred Mann gimshy
m i c k s such as t ak ing off h i s
t rousers or dragg ing some of
the female popula t ion of the
Paul Ekpenyong
City amp Guilds President Manfred Manns Earth Hand
aud ience on to the s tage T h i s
concert was a se r i ous one i u
wh i ch the m u s i c a l ta lent of
each member of the band were
coherent ly brought together to
produce what one c a n on ly
desc r i be as a truly i nc r ed ib l e
m u s i c a l exper i ence to have
been seen of t h i s band to date
The las t band of the show
were B o h K e r r s Whoopee B a n d
The i r t a sk was e s s e n t i a l l y to
make sure that no one was
get t ing too bored at 2a m i n the
morning T h i s they a ch i e v ed
wi th a l i ghthearted and at t imes
very c o m i c a l performance that
t o ta l l y l a cked any ta lent
m u s i c a l l y speak ing However
this hardly mattered s i n c e by
th is t ime everybody had a fair
amount of a l c o h o l in their
s y s t e m Anyhow everyone
apprec ia ted their performance
F o r those who managed to
ar r i ve at the c once r t very ear ly
T i m R o s e prov ided a su i t ab l e
beg inn ing to the n i gh t s show
T h e m u s i c a l part of the
night hav ing come to an end
the crowd wh ich had by now
gathered in the ICR to observe
the comed ians of B o b K e r r s
Whoopee B a n d d i sp e r s ed The
more energet ic moved to the
D i s c o where they c ou ld expend
the i r surp lus energy Where a s
those not so a t h l e t i c a l l y
i n c l i n e d e i ther made their way
to the bar (which was s t i l l open)
or to the Great H a l l where two
f i lms were be ing shown The s e
f i l m s were T h e P i l l and
There i s a G i r l in my Soup
Severa l of the peop le were
in t e rv i ewed dur ing the lat ter
part of the C a r n i v a l and the
genera l c o n c e n s u s of op in i on
was that i t had been enjoyable
and was a p l easan t exper i ence
T h e P r e s i d e n t of the G u i l d s
U n i o n Jenny J o n e s was a l s o
approached and she seemed
we l l p l e a s e d wi th the manner
in w h i c h the events had proshy
g r e ssed She to ld us that they
had at l e a s t broken even
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
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R u p e r t H a r p e r
NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
Y o u r s t i l l I f i n i s h up in hosp i t a l a g a i n Rupert Harper (ME 2)
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J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
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LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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KLIPSCOMBE
They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
STOP PRESS
F o l l o w i n g the League Race on
bullbullednecday the C r o s s - C o u n t r y C l u b
a r e now 3 r d i n D i v i s i o n 1 and 1 s t
a n d 2nd i n D i v i s i o n 2
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OPEN CRITICISM
Since being sacked from the FELIX staff at the beginning of the first term CGDewey has
our most acid critic airs his views on
remained Here he FELIX
528 L instead Hall Princes Gardens SW7 1LU 12th Jan 1975
Dear S ir
On the 2nd January I wrote to the E d i t o r c once rn ing the fau l ts in th is y ea r s F E L I X F o r p u b l i c a t i o n purposes I have ed i t ed this let ter down to someshyth ing l i k e a quarter of i t s o r i g i n a l s i z e thus a lot of sugges t i ons made here remain un jus t i f i ed A L L these sug shyges t i ons have been j u s t i f i e d in the o r i g i na l let ter In the meanwhi l e Mr W i l l i ams has implemented a few of my sugges t i ons r e s u l t i n g in a better i s s u e of F E L I X (No373) I wou ld a l s o l i k e to po int out that I H A V E O N L Y C R I T I C I S E D F E L I X IN A R E A S W H E R E I C O U L D D O B E T T E R than the present E d i t o r g i ven the same amount of time that he has had on the job
In the Chr i s tmas i s s u e o f F E L I X the E d i t o r a s k e d readers to bemore open i n their c r i t i c i s m of F E L I X A s a sen ior member o f the Sennet staff I can see
more e a s i l y than others the faul ts i n th is y e a r s F E L I X
My f i r s t recommendat ions concern adve r t i s i ng In the Ch r i s tmas i s s u e F E L I X a d shyv e r t i s e d for an A d v e r t i s i n g Manager No experience necessary The l a s t phrase cha rac t e r i s e s M ike W i l l i a m s ignorance and neg lec t fu l a t t i tude towards a d v e r t i s i n g A beg inner w o u l d take t ime to learn a d v e r t i s i n g methods consequent l y be ing of l i t t l e use to F E L I X before October My p r oposa l though i s that A N Y M O V E T O W A R D S M A K I N G F E L I X S E L F - S U P P O R T I N G (wi thout l ower ing ed i t o r i a l s tandards) S H O U L D B E W E L C O M E D A n y add i t i ona l money i s we l come income to a union whoose c o l l e g e grant i s l i k e l y to be cut th is year
I b e l i e v e that the E d i t o r shou ld be A d v e r t i s i n g Manager In order to a ch i e v e se l f -f i nanc ing a l l F E L I X staf f wou ld be i n v o l v e d in a d v e r t i s i n g A l l s ta f f (barr ing the Ed i t o r ) wou ld be of fered a 10 C O M shyMISSION O N A L L T H E A D V E R T S T H E Y B O O K
My p roposa l s are based on my exper i ence as Sennet s A s s i s t a n t A d v e r t i s i n g Manager I b e l i e v e 1 am the bes t cand ida te for the j ob of F E L I X A d v e r t i s i n g
Continued on page 9
This weeks page three girl is Anne Pickard who comes from Winchester and is currently pursuing academic studies in Civ Eng 2 She is also the floor rep for Beit Hall and last Tuesday was elected Bo Belle at the Guilds Union meeting
Her comment afterwards was It came completely as a surprise She was also totally unprepared for a ceremonial splash in the swimming pool
Photo by Roger Wilkinson
RAG WAKE
IS HERE R A G W E E K S gone the last F E L I X carr i ed reports from most
)f the events and a l l that remains is the memory mdash A h h Anyway town to b u s i n e s s
F i r s t l y next y ea r s Rag (yes forward p lanning fo lks ) if
anyone has any ideas about improving Rag Week (and l e t s face it
it c ou ld do wi th improving) don t keep them to yourse l f but let your C C U V P know preferably in w r i t i n g Then he can pass your gems onto me and something can get done If anyone i s in teres ted in a c t i v e l y prepar ing for year see me or your V P w e l l need a new co-ord inator soon and we need an a s s i s t a n t Rag Mag Ed i t o r now
Second ly t h i s y e a r s Rag and the events not covered by F E L I X one way or another The Rag and Drag Compe t i t i on was probably the best event in
Rag Week c l o s e l y pressed by Morphy Day If you went I hope you had a good t ime -and if you lost e i ther a large coat (herringbone pattern) or a pa i r of b lack patent- leather womans shoes or both let me know and I can return them T h e Char i o t R a c e was a M i n e s -dominated event w i th R C S and G u i l d s producing l i t t l e in the way of qua l i t y or quant i ty (Mech E n g I excepted ) The race was somewhat e c l i p s e d by the magni f icent c o l l e c t i o n of R C S that day and conshygratu la t ions to a l l those concerned in that effort The pub c raw l was f i e r ce l y fought out between two coup l e s and to avo id argument you can dec ide for y ou r s e l v e s who won B o b Longman (Min T e ch I) drank a s tagger ing 31 vodkas and h i s partner He l en Na t rass (Geo II) 18 s co t ches and 2 vodkas The i r ch ie f r i v a l s Gary B r i t t a i n (M in II) and Lo rna Hawthorne (IF wou ld you be l ieve ) drank 2 lagers and 23 vodkas and 27 mar t in is r e spec t i v e l y D e c i d e who you think won wr i te your answer on a p l a in c l o thes po l i c eman and eat i t T ime -w i s e the w inners were undoubtedly Ke i th A h l e r s (Chem E n g II) and J a n i c e Fo rd (Chem E n g II) who d id the c i r c u i t of n ine pubs in 55 minutes and consumed 7 w h i s k e y s 7 p ints of bit ter
2 p in t s of gu inness 5 dubonnets 3 advocaats and got very i l l in the e v en ing s f r i v o l i t i e s Morphy Day and Smoking Conce r t have been commented on in a prev ious ed i t i on and require no further e l abo ra t i on The I F V i c a r s and Ta r t s Par ty went w e l l and w i th a l i t t l e
more support c ou ld become dare one say it a real h e l l -r a i s i n g event (sorry ) F i n a l l y the B a r - B - Q T h i s was a new event for R a g and I must apo l o g i s e for the l ack of meat
next If you came you were p o s s i b l y a s d i sg runt l ed a s I was when what looked l i k e two corg is on a s t i c k appeared ins tead of a c o w However th i s year has shown that the interest is there and next year we w i l l have learnt from our m i s t a k e s
In c o n c l u s i o n may I thank everyone who he lped out in Rag Week many people he lped but par t i cu lar thanks go from me to Dave P a t Mart in and S t e l l a A l s o many thanks to K i e t h Garden H a l l (Bob P a u l Howard et a I) S C A B R C C A l a n J o n e s F l o s and Ren t -a -Crowd
See Y a
John Downs Carnival Co-ordinator
T h e
N A T I O N A L W E S T M I N S T E R
B A N K
C o l l e g e B l o c k
wou ld l i k e to remind i t s
customers that i t s hours of
open ing are
0930 to 1500
We hope that th is w i l l
a vo i d the con fus i on and
d isappoinf inent that has
a r i s en from time to t ime
A l b e r t s P l u m (S K e n Stn)
Cut Pr ice SSp
3 - course meal to
IC Students
(Discotheque t i l l 3am)
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P R E C J P 3 C E T r e v o r P h i l l i p s
Y E S IT i s t rue I am s t i l l a l i v e even if no l i terary gems have been f l ow ing from my i l l u s t r i o u s pen ( i t s a C h r i s t m a s present) in the l a s t few w e e k s It i s unfortunate and part ly my own fau l t that the Un i on has not used i ts news shypaper to the fu l l e s t advantage in the past term In th is term perhaps w i th the a i d of a l l concerned we c a n be more e f f ec t i ve in the c r u c i a l f i e l d of d i a l ogue w i th the Un i on membersh ip My own cont r ibut i on w i l l be to promise a P r e c i shyp i c e every week P e rhaps in th i s way I c a n communicate the present c once rns of the Un i on bureauc racy l eade r sh ip
A s w i th every other s e c t i o n of the popu la t i on the f i r s t concern of the mass of s tudents today i s the ef fect of the economic s i tua t i on on our pocke ts and our c ond i t i ons of work We have camshypaigned for someth ing l i k e ten terms on the ques t i on of student grants We have graduated from a pos i t i on of s i m p l y c a l l i n g for h igher ra tes to a more s o p h i s t i c a t e d (and rather more p u b l i c l y acceptab le ) campaign for changes in the g iants s ys t em to e l im ina t e the burden of means tes ts on our parents and spouses and for an end to d i s c r e t i onary awards and other anoma l i e s in short a fa ir grant for a l l s tudents T h i s i s a reasonable demand
However in the past six months in the wake of the pound250 million education budget cut instigated by the Tory party and maintained by the unspeakable Reg Prentice we have seen a rapidly deteriorating financial situation in the colleges resulting in the 2 cuts at IC last term This is a much more serious question than the rate of grant (though inextricably linked to it) The treatment
at higher education by successive governments threatens the very existence of sections of higher education
In our own area we can a l ready point to the imminent c l o s u r e of one c o l l e g e of educa t i on Mar ia A s s u m p t a w i th w h i c h we have had e x c e l l e n t s o c i a l r e l a t i ons (marfy of us surv i v ed on MA d i s c o s ) A
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over the country c l o s u r e s and mergers lt are o ccur ing some are commendable Others are be ing implemented s i m p l y to same money but the qua l i t y of educa t i on in those c o l l e g e s in be ing des t royed
Of course thlaquo privileged sector td which we belong is not going to go
under It is those sectors which are heavily relied upon by less privileged and less influential members of the community that are bearing the brunt of the attack Adult education technical colleges the further education sector all essentially geared to working-class students and in the vast majority of cases their only realistic channel to higher education will be the first to go under The universities still populated by the children of the middle class to the extent of some 72 (statistics courtesy of the DES) will survive
The grants s y s t em i t se l f i s i n shyex t r i cab l y l inked to the c u t s H o l d i n g down student grants w h i l s t f o rc ing c o l l e g e s to r a i s e refectory p r i c es and rents is the Government s s econd front T h i s i s the h idden cut in expend i ture Who suf fers T h e student of c ou r s e It i s a ga in w o r k i n g - c l a s s s e c t i o n s of higher educa t i on who get it in the n e c k -the s tudents on d i sc re t i onary awards It was wor thwh i l e reading K a t i e M c K i n n o n s IF Only on the i n jus t i c e of d i sc re t i onary awards w h i l s t not agree ing w i th a l l she wrote it i s abso lu t e l y correc t that s tudents on d i s c r e t i onary awards are eas i ly the worst off
However in terms of both c u t s and grants p r i v i l e ged though we may be we are not get t ing away l i gh t l y F i n a n c i a l cuts in departments have meant that l ec tur ing posts are being left vacant w h i c h means the l o s s of c o u r s e s here and there T e c h n i c i a n s pos ts un f i l l ed mean fewer p r a c t i c a l s and l e s s d i v e r s i t y in exper imenta l work There i s l e s s demonstrat ing work for postgraduates to do and l e s s e x p e n s i v e mater ia l for research students to use That much-vaunted quality of education i s beg inn ing to f a l l w i th overworked and underpaid staff and l e s s money for a i d s to t each ing
The threat of p r i ce r i s e s in re fec tor ies is imminent in the next few w e e k s because of the s e l f - f i nanc ing r u l e s Grants are not l i k e l y to f o l l ow th i s trend there i s s t i l l a means test to contend w i t h A s the economic c r i s i s h i t s parents harder fewer w i l l be ab le to meet the parenta l cont r ibut i on to the grant T h e va lue of the grant i t s e l f i s be ing eroded at the s tagger ing rate of over pound790 per month (f igure for l as t November from the
N U S E d u c a t i o n a l and Welfare Department ) T h e s p o u s e s c on t r i bu t i on has h i t many marr ied s tudents very ha rd The lud i c r ous j u s t i f i c a t i on for cont inued d i s c r i m i n a t i o n aga ins t married women (that it i s p r imar i l y the husband s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y to keep up the househo ld and w i f e no s u c h c o n -s i d e r a t i o n _ a p p l i e s in reverse) w i l l n o t s a t i s f y any woman af fected by i t
It is absolutely claar that a campaign which attacks both the grants system and the vicious cuts in education-spending must be mounted This has correctly been called for by last terms NUS Conference in Margate The Week of A c t i o n will be the final week of February culminating in a N a t i o n a l Demonstrat ion on February 28th
It is not a time for cynicism The facts are there for anyone to see Anyone interested in fighting against the detshyerioration of the education system and that includes primary and secondary education will form a common cause with us in the Grants Campaign Anyone who is not either doesnt really belong here or has failed to realise how important a decent education has been to him
It i s in te res t ing to see that the Na t i ona l Front i s now 700 racialist in the words of their s p o k e s m a n by re fus ing membership to people of mixed race and non-European ances t r y It i s c l e a r that the Hitler was right br igade i s in the ascendancy (strangely enough J e w s are not yet exc luded ) i am only s l i g h t l y d i sappo in ted that I cannot j o i n
Those people who s l a t ed me for be ing unfair to a respectable o r gan i sa t i on l i k e the N F mdash how are they to be defended now Presumab ly if one voted for them in an e l e c t i on one wou ld be vo t ing for a 700 racialist e s t a b l i s h shym e n t mdash u n i v e r s i t i e s par l i ament j ud i c i a r y and so o n No-one i s go ing to ban them I be l i e ve that th i s sort of o rgan ised r a c i s m and f a s c i s m is un law fu l and I hope that they are prosecuted
Those of you who saw a reference to my close personal friendship with a dear old lady living on the Mall in last weeks Sennet dont be misled There is no truth in the rumour I dont even like champagne
H O N S pound C J a c q u i G e r r a r d
Elections
T h i s i s E l e c t i o n Term A t the next Un ion Meet ing on 30th January at 100pm there i s the e l e c t i on for the E a s t e r N U S Con fe rence T h e e l e c t i o n of a new President Hon Sec Deputy President and Editor of FELIX takes p lace on 4 th 5th March a two day ba l l o t A c a d e m i c A f f a i r s Of f i cer Ex t e rna l A f f a i r s Of f icer Student R e s i d e n c e Of f i cer Welfare Of f icer Cha i rman
of I C C A G C a r n i v a l Co o rd ina tor S C A B Cha i rman Ove r s eas Students Commit tee and members for the P u b l i c a t i o n s Board w i l l a l l be e l e c t ed at the RESULTS Meeting on 6th Mar ch The Departmenta l r epresenta t i ves w i l l be e l e c t ed by ba l l o t on 10th Mar ch
P E O P L E N E E D E D
So a s you can s e e there are a lot of people needed to s tand
for a lot of j obs If you don t know what the jobs invo l v e come
and ask me or hunt out the present ho lder of the post and ask
h i m
SCOPE
There i s plenty of s cope for a l l in t e res ts so don t just s i t there wa i t i n g for someone e l s e to run your Un i on mdash come and g i v e a h e l p ing hand yourse l f
Keep up to date by reading notices on the Council notice-board in the Lower Lounge Union These should tell you when nomination papers are due to go up and when the elections will be held
FELIX S
P R I Z E C R O S S W O R D
N O - 8 X a m
Across
L B i l e o ccurs changed in p o t -not do (8)
5 Many F r e n c h a record back in the assemb ly (6)
10 L i n e s of boys s tand ing round ca t ch (7)
11 L e n s art produces protuberances (7)
12 A l l o w him to race to cont inue bet t ing (324)
14 The sub jec t in i t he means (5) 15 C o u l d be part of w inn ing in
U S (6)
17 H e may remove undies and
sh i r t be ing without a t t i re (6)
19 Sp l i t s j okes (6)
21 Member of one s fami ly in
h o s p i t a l (6) 24 Des t i n ed to be rega led we
hear (5) 26 F i n d loud treemdashnot the same
not the same (9)
28 Gree t ing to navy(Amer ican)
in a b y s s (7)
29 A t t a c k e r of F r ench in a l l oy
(7) 3 1 F i gh t about sma l l r e la t i ve
(6) 3 2 Take fewer l ooks at those
who cannot be equa l l ed (8)
Down
L M o v e to protect the k ing in Span i sh town wi thout one (6)
2 Burn wi thout f i r s t ge t t ing p l ace for a s h e s (3)
3 L i f e l e ss in Sovere ign Square (5)
4 L ean ing over w h i l e putt ing in order 7)
6 Widths of empty remarks wi thout beg inning (9)
7 R e l a t i v e heard to be in F r ench resort (5)
8Overcome d i f f i c u l t i e s w i th the teacher (6)
9A dr ink in the inn (6)
13 V o i c e of ne i ther Ka te nor
Amy (5)
16 Happen ings i n v o l v i n g C I D in tens (9)
18 G rab the o c e a n s we are to ld (5)
20 He takes a day go ing round
h e l l and may end up there (6) 21 Odd fuse if one hundred are
enough (7) 2 2 A very loud tune i s my
b u s i n e s s (6) 23 R ipped into s a i n t s hoards 6) 2 5 Work up a sweat r ight for a
Sco ts garment (5) 27 Ree l f ive invo l ved a l i t t l e
f i sh (5) 30 C o l o u r of muddy exc re t i on (3)
pound] Winner will be drawn from the
Editors Hat at Noon next Wednesday So lu t i on to P r i z e C r o s s w o r d N o 7 The Editors decision will be final
1Larch 2Alcove 3Launch 4Teston 6New Year 7Tateen out 8Dance set 14Else 15Groom 16Anon 17Enslaved 18 Restores 21Listens 23Ensure 24Docile 25Strive 28Cones
F o r l a s t w e e k s w inner see
th i s w e e k s E d i t o r i a l
PROF BREMS STRAHLUNG
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papers and TV because
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w a s bui ld ing hOver t ra ins
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C O U N C I L
H I G H L I G H T S
Union General Meeting
THURSDAY 30TH A T 100PM IN T H E G R E A T H A L L DISCUSSIONS OF MOTIONS TO GO TO T H E NUS C O N F E R E N C E A T EASTER
ELECTION OF T H E DELEGATION TO GO TO THE
C O N F E R E N C E
P A P E R S FOR THESE ELECTIONS GO UP TODAY
(17TH JANUARY)
IC RADIO
General Meeting for a progress report and election
of the main committee Monday 20th January at
615pm in the Union Lower Refectory Anyone
Welcome mdash come and join (No subscription at present)
SCC
Pue to apparent inactivity the continued existence of the following clubs will be questioned at the next SCC meetin Thursday lith Fehruar v
g
Ann-Apartheid toemenl Kurdish Society (iaysoc Young Socialist Students Society
Will anybody who is involved in one of these societies or who knows anything about them please contact the Hon Sec of the Social Clubs Committee BI)Champion Aero ) before Monday 27th January Otherwise these clubs mar be disbanded
A F T E R T H E C O U N C I L M E E T I N G was opened wi th the P r e s i d en t in the c h a i r the Deputy P r e s i d e n t proposed a change to s tand ing orders T h i s was p a s s e d Due to th i s change and changes wh i ch took p l ace at the l a s t meet ing the H o n Sec agreed to i s s u e a new set of s tand ing orders for the next meet ing
The Welfare Of f icer reported tha i a survey of a random sample of zoo students was be ing ca r r i ed out in order lo a s c e r t a in the general op in ion of we l fare f a c i l i t i e s
Evening UGMs
Repor t ing thai no comments had been r ece i v ed concern ing the U G M s hav ing been he ld in the e ven ing the Hon Sec cons ide r ed it unlikely that future iGMs would he held at this time
Parking
The remain ing park ing permits had been adver t i sed in P H L I X but had not yet been c l a imed If not c l a imed by-January 31st they w i l l be r ea l l o ca t ed
The Deputy P r e s i d en t has d i s c o v e r e d that there i s no f ire a la rm in the J C R T h u s the F i r e O f f i ce r has been asked to take ac t i on to recti fy the s i tua t i on
Presidents Business
The P r es iden t presented the p o s s i b i l i t y of c rea t ing a s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t B u i l d i n g s Of f i ce r However this would not be financially possible unless he third sabbatical was taken from the Editor of FELIX The present Ed i t o r a s k e d lo be consu l t ed in any further d i s c u s s i o n s that the E x e c u t i v e might have The P r e s i d e n t agreed to th i s
It appears l e g a n a c t i o h may be taken aga inst the 11A over the w i thdrawal o f i t s pound270000 grant to the U n i v e r s i t y The immediate loss to IC is around pound65000
On the P r e s i d e n t s recommendat ion C o u n c i l agreed to donate pound40 from the E x t e r n a l A f f a i r s Commit tee budget to the London Student Organ i sa t i on
Invites
C o u n c i l agreed lo inv i te C a r l Seaford the Domest i c B u r s a r to the next c o u n c i l meet ing Mr Mooney the refectory manager and O r L e v y the Cha i rman of the C o l l e g e Refectory Committee were to be inv i t ed to the meet ing after
Poicy
The Un ion po l i c y document was d i s c u s s e d and many changes were made A request was therefore made that an up-dated ve rs ion of the po l i c y document shou ld be pub l i shed as soon as p o s s i b l e and the Hon Sec agreed to do th i s
Working Party
Mr Gordon J a c k s o n Cha i rman of the C o u n c i l Working Pa r t y l o o k i n g into student representat ion on C o l l e g e comshymi t t ees presented h i s report conce rn ing the Exp l o ra t o r y M e d i c a l S e r v i c e s Appo in tments E d u c a t i o n in Europe E x p l o r a t i o n F i e l d Stat ion Safety P a r k i n g and T ra f f i c and Welfare commit tees The report was a c cep t ed after d i s c u s s i o n and amendments
House Committee Minutes
The cos t of the carpe t ing for the Un i on and execu t i v e o f f i cers was quer ied due to i ts magnitude pound540) The H o n Sec r ep l i ed that the quote was much l ess than the cos t of r ep l a c ing the wooden floor were i l to wear out
Towels
A ques t i on was asked about the l ack of towels in the gents loo in the U n i o n The Deputy P r e s i d e n t r ep l i ed that the shortage of maintenance staff was the main d i f f i cu l t y
Publications Board
The minutes were presented as unconf i rmed
Any Other Business
The Hon Sec a s k e d for nominat ions for the newly vaca t ed pos i t i on of P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer The P r e s i d en t of R S M U exp ressed h i s concern that the e l ec t ed P u b l i c i t y O f f i ce r had been unable to do the job for wh ich he had been e l ec t ed The Ed i t o r of F E l X e x - P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer expressed the fact that he had always accepted the responsibility of Publicity and any blame given to it ft never had been the case that he would not do the publicity rather a case could not do it by virtue of the lime involved
Pen Pals - Sri Lanka
Widely travelled Ceylonese Law Student would like to correspond with anyone interested in stamp collecting cricket and current affairs
For further informal ion please contact the Secretary South Fast Asia Society via the tmon letter rack
WELLSOC
Dr Bernard D ixon (Ed i to r of New Sc i en t i s t )
What is Science For
T i m e 1930 P l a c e M e c h E n g 220
Monday 20th January
There was much d i s c u s s i o n on the matter wh i ch ended w i th the E d i t o r apo l o g i s i ng for not h a v i n g brought the item up at a U G M for d i s c u s s i o n
The E d i t o r of F E L I X brought forward a draft mot ion conce rn ing Sennet and i ts a l l e g e d c i r c u l a t i o n of 100000 readers The motion c r i t i c i s i n g that f igure was p a s s e d
TODAY - 1245pm
IC International Socialist Branch Speaker Meeting
I R E L A N D
Speaker N e i l Dav i e s
C i v h n g 207
New Year bargain offer of high Quality cleaning materials available at drastically reduced- prices Must sell ex-sales stock College delivery Contact R a l p h Raby 703 7269 evenings after 8000
TM Soc Presents
A n Introductory T a l k on
T ranscenden ta l Medi ta t ion
Wednesday 22nd January 1pm
Elec Eng Room 406
Come and find out what
TM really is
I C Folk Club
Her i tage
(Four Pan Harmonies)
730pm J a n 22nd
U n i o n L o w e r Re fec
HONEST MICK
ENTERPRISES
Proud l y presents
The famous range of V ideotone
H i - F i l oudspeakers s ta r r ing
the infamous Minimax 2 Now
this superb range of speakers
i s a va i l ab l e at d i scount
p r i c e s
Con tac t Honest M i ck F o x of
Mech E n g 2 for de ta i l s o f
the whole range
A s k for a demonstrat ion of
the Minitnax 2 at pound3250 pa i r
Hi-Fi Answers c a l l e d it
th is y ea r s barga in speaker
Come and prove i t for
yourse l f
FELIX 7
ALL NIGHT RAVEUP
G U I L D S C A R N I V A L
Mad but superb Entertainment
R i z S h a k i r
L a s t Saturday saw the major
C amp G rag event of th is s e s s i o n
The b a s i c i d e a behind th i s
be ing to organise a m u s i c a l
ex t ravaganza that wou ld go on
through the night into the
f o l l ow ing day Thus a l l the
s tudents invo l ved in l a s t terms
fund r a i s i n g (stunts of vary ing
degrees of e c c en t r i c i t y and
sheer l unacy that might c ause
a larm over s tuden ts san i ty were
performed) c o u l d have twe lve
hours in wh ich to p rac t i ce their
by now perfected s k i l l s
Se r i ous l y though on a l e s s
s a r c a s t i c and f r i vo lous note it
was a we l l o rgan ised event for
the enjoyment and entertainment
of a l l the people lucky enough
to acqu i r e t i c k e t s A wide range
of t as t es were catered for and
the even ing k i c k e d off wi th
Suther land Brothers and
Qu i ve r who never seem to g ive
a mediocre performance on the
s tage The i r act and s t y l e has
the a b i l i t y to set any aud ience
a l i gh t and t h i s was w e l l
u t i l i s e d
Undoubted ly the star attshy
r a c t i on (they ce r ta in l y proved
the i r worth) of the whole show
was Manfred Mann s E a r t h
Hand There was no real f l a sh
of the o ld Manfred Mann gimshy
m i c k s such as t ak ing off h i s
t rousers or dragg ing some of
the female popula t ion of the
Paul Ekpenyong
City amp Guilds President Manfred Manns Earth Hand
aud ience on to the s tage T h i s
concert was a se r i ous one i u
wh i ch the m u s i c a l ta lent of
each member of the band were
coherent ly brought together to
produce what one c a n on ly
desc r i be as a truly i nc r ed ib l e
m u s i c a l exper i ence to have
been seen of t h i s band to date
The las t band of the show
were B o h K e r r s Whoopee B a n d
The i r t a sk was e s s e n t i a l l y to
make sure that no one was
get t ing too bored at 2a m i n the
morning T h i s they a ch i e v ed
wi th a l i ghthearted and at t imes
very c o m i c a l performance that
t o ta l l y l a cked any ta lent
m u s i c a l l y speak ing However
this hardly mattered s i n c e by
th is t ime everybody had a fair
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night hav ing come to an end
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more energet ic moved to the
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part of the C a r n i v a l and the
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
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NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
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J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
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LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
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Y E S IT i s t rue I am s t i l l a l i v e even if no l i terary gems have been f l ow ing from my i l l u s t r i o u s pen ( i t s a C h r i s t m a s present) in the l a s t few w e e k s It i s unfortunate and part ly my own fau l t that the Un i on has not used i ts news shypaper to the fu l l e s t advantage in the past term In th is term perhaps w i th the a i d of a l l concerned we c a n be more e f f ec t i ve in the c r u c i a l f i e l d of d i a l ogue w i th the Un i on membersh ip My own cont r ibut i on w i l l be to promise a P r e c i shyp i c e every week P e rhaps in th i s way I c a n communicate the present c once rns of the Un i on bureauc racy l eade r sh ip
A s w i th every other s e c t i o n of the popu la t i on the f i r s t concern of the mass of s tudents today i s the ef fect of the economic s i tua t i on on our pocke ts and our c ond i t i ons of work We have camshypaigned for someth ing l i k e ten terms on the ques t i on of student grants We have graduated from a pos i t i on of s i m p l y c a l l i n g for h igher ra tes to a more s o p h i s t i c a t e d (and rather more p u b l i c l y acceptab le ) campaign for changes in the g iants s ys t em to e l im ina t e the burden of means tes ts on our parents and spouses and for an end to d i s c r e t i onary awards and other anoma l i e s in short a fa ir grant for a l l s tudents T h i s i s a reasonable demand
However in the past six months in the wake of the pound250 million education budget cut instigated by the Tory party and maintained by the unspeakable Reg Prentice we have seen a rapidly deteriorating financial situation in the colleges resulting in the 2 cuts at IC last term This is a much more serious question than the rate of grant (though inextricably linked to it) The treatment
at higher education by successive governments threatens the very existence of sections of higher education
In our own area we can a l ready point to the imminent c l o s u r e of one c o l l e g e of educa t i on Mar ia A s s u m p t a w i th w h i c h we have had e x c e l l e n t s o c i a l r e l a t i ons (marfy of us surv i v ed on MA d i s c o s ) A
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over the country c l o s u r e s and mergers lt are o ccur ing some are commendable Others are be ing implemented s i m p l y to same money but the qua l i t y of educa t i on in those c o l l e g e s in be ing des t royed
Of course thlaquo privileged sector td which we belong is not going to go
under It is those sectors which are heavily relied upon by less privileged and less influential members of the community that are bearing the brunt of the attack Adult education technical colleges the further education sector all essentially geared to working-class students and in the vast majority of cases their only realistic channel to higher education will be the first to go under The universities still populated by the children of the middle class to the extent of some 72 (statistics courtesy of the DES) will survive
The grants s y s t em i t se l f i s i n shyex t r i cab l y l inked to the c u t s H o l d i n g down student grants w h i l s t f o rc ing c o l l e g e s to r a i s e refectory p r i c es and rents is the Government s s econd front T h i s i s the h idden cut in expend i ture Who suf fers T h e student of c ou r s e It i s a ga in w o r k i n g - c l a s s s e c t i o n s of higher educa t i on who get it in the n e c k -the s tudents on d i sc re t i onary awards It was wor thwh i l e reading K a t i e M c K i n n o n s IF Only on the i n jus t i c e of d i sc re t i onary awards w h i l s t not agree ing w i th a l l she wrote it i s abso lu t e l y correc t that s tudents on d i s c r e t i onary awards are eas i ly the worst off
However in terms of both c u t s and grants p r i v i l e ged though we may be we are not get t ing away l i gh t l y F i n a n c i a l cuts in departments have meant that l ec tur ing posts are being left vacant w h i c h means the l o s s of c o u r s e s here and there T e c h n i c i a n s pos ts un f i l l ed mean fewer p r a c t i c a l s and l e s s d i v e r s i t y in exper imenta l work There i s l e s s demonstrat ing work for postgraduates to do and l e s s e x p e n s i v e mater ia l for research students to use That much-vaunted quality of education i s beg inn ing to f a l l w i th overworked and underpaid staff and l e s s money for a i d s to t each ing
The threat of p r i ce r i s e s in re fec tor ies is imminent in the next few w e e k s because of the s e l f - f i nanc ing r u l e s Grants are not l i k e l y to f o l l ow th i s trend there i s s t i l l a means test to contend w i t h A s the economic c r i s i s h i t s parents harder fewer w i l l be ab le to meet the parenta l cont r ibut i on to the grant T h e va lue of the grant i t s e l f i s be ing eroded at the s tagger ing rate of over pound790 per month (f igure for l as t November from the
N U S E d u c a t i o n a l and Welfare Department ) T h e s p o u s e s c on t r i bu t i on has h i t many marr ied s tudents very ha rd The lud i c r ous j u s t i f i c a t i on for cont inued d i s c r i m i n a t i o n aga ins t married women (that it i s p r imar i l y the husband s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y to keep up the househo ld and w i f e no s u c h c o n -s i d e r a t i o n _ a p p l i e s in reverse) w i l l n o t s a t i s f y any woman af fected by i t
It is absolutely claar that a campaign which attacks both the grants system and the vicious cuts in education-spending must be mounted This has correctly been called for by last terms NUS Conference in Margate The Week of A c t i o n will be the final week of February culminating in a N a t i o n a l Demonstrat ion on February 28th
It is not a time for cynicism The facts are there for anyone to see Anyone interested in fighting against the detshyerioration of the education system and that includes primary and secondary education will form a common cause with us in the Grants Campaign Anyone who is not either doesnt really belong here or has failed to realise how important a decent education has been to him
It i s in te res t ing to see that the Na t i ona l Front i s now 700 racialist in the words of their s p o k e s m a n by re fus ing membership to people of mixed race and non-European ances t r y It i s c l e a r that the Hitler was right br igade i s in the ascendancy (strangely enough J e w s are not yet exc luded ) i am only s l i g h t l y d i sappo in ted that I cannot j o i n
Those people who s l a t ed me for be ing unfair to a respectable o r gan i sa t i on l i k e the N F mdash how are they to be defended now Presumab ly if one voted for them in an e l e c t i on one wou ld be vo t ing for a 700 racialist e s t a b l i s h shym e n t mdash u n i v e r s i t i e s par l i ament j ud i c i a r y and so o n No-one i s go ing to ban them I be l i e ve that th i s sort of o rgan ised r a c i s m and f a s c i s m is un law fu l and I hope that they are prosecuted
Those of you who saw a reference to my close personal friendship with a dear old lady living on the Mall in last weeks Sennet dont be misled There is no truth in the rumour I dont even like champagne
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T h i s i s E l e c t i o n Term A t the next Un ion Meet ing on 30th January at 100pm there i s the e l e c t i on for the E a s t e r N U S Con fe rence T h e e l e c t i o n of a new President Hon Sec Deputy President and Editor of FELIX takes p lace on 4 th 5th March a two day ba l l o t A c a d e m i c A f f a i r s Of f i cer Ex t e rna l A f f a i r s Of f icer Student R e s i d e n c e Of f i cer Welfare Of f icer Cha i rman
of I C C A G C a r n i v a l Co o rd ina tor S C A B Cha i rman Ove r s eas Students Commit tee and members for the P u b l i c a t i o n s Board w i l l a l l be e l e c t ed at the RESULTS Meeting on 6th Mar ch The Departmenta l r epresenta t i ves w i l l be e l e c t ed by ba l l o t on 10th Mar ch
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L B i l e o ccurs changed in p o t -not do (8)
5 Many F r e n c h a record back in the assemb ly (6)
10 L i n e s of boys s tand ing round ca t ch (7)
11 L e n s art produces protuberances (7)
12 A l l o w him to race to cont inue bet t ing (324)
14 The sub jec t in i t he means (5) 15 C o u l d be part of w inn ing in
U S (6)
17 H e may remove undies and
sh i r t be ing without a t t i re (6)
19 Sp l i t s j okes (6)
21 Member of one s fami ly in
h o s p i t a l (6) 24 Des t i n ed to be rega led we
hear (5) 26 F i n d loud treemdashnot the same
not the same (9)
28 Gree t ing to navy(Amer ican)
in a b y s s (7)
29 A t t a c k e r of F r ench in a l l oy
(7) 3 1 F i gh t about sma l l r e la t i ve
(6) 3 2 Take fewer l ooks at those
who cannot be equa l l ed (8)
Down
L M o v e to protect the k ing in Span i sh town wi thout one (6)
2 Burn wi thout f i r s t ge t t ing p l ace for a s h e s (3)
3 L i f e l e ss in Sovere ign Square (5)
4 L ean ing over w h i l e putt ing in order 7)
6 Widths of empty remarks wi thout beg inning (9)
7 R e l a t i v e heard to be in F r ench resort (5)
8Overcome d i f f i c u l t i e s w i th the teacher (6)
9A dr ink in the inn (6)
13 V o i c e of ne i ther Ka te nor
Amy (5)
16 Happen ings i n v o l v i n g C I D in tens (9)
18 G rab the o c e a n s we are to ld (5)
20 He takes a day go ing round
h e l l and may end up there (6) 21 Odd fuse if one hundred are
enough (7) 2 2 A very loud tune i s my
b u s i n e s s (6) 23 R ipped into s a i n t s hoards 6) 2 5 Work up a sweat r ight for a
Sco ts garment (5) 27 Ree l f ive invo l ved a l i t t l e
f i sh (5) 30 C o l o u r of muddy exc re t i on (3)
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Union General Meeting
THURSDAY 30TH A T 100PM IN T H E G R E A T H A L L DISCUSSIONS OF MOTIONS TO GO TO T H E NUS C O N F E R E N C E A T EASTER
ELECTION OF T H E DELEGATION TO GO TO THE
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(17TH JANUARY)
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General Meeting for a progress report and election
of the main committee Monday 20th January at
615pm in the Union Lower Refectory Anyone
Welcome mdash come and join (No subscription at present)
SCC
Pue to apparent inactivity the continued existence of the following clubs will be questioned at the next SCC meetin Thursday lith Fehruar v
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Ann-Apartheid toemenl Kurdish Society (iaysoc Young Socialist Students Society
Will anybody who is involved in one of these societies or who knows anything about them please contact the Hon Sec of the Social Clubs Committee BI)Champion Aero ) before Monday 27th January Otherwise these clubs mar be disbanded
A F T E R T H E C O U N C I L M E E T I N G was opened wi th the P r e s i d en t in the c h a i r the Deputy P r e s i d e n t proposed a change to s tand ing orders T h i s was p a s s e d Due to th i s change and changes wh i ch took p l ace at the l a s t meet ing the H o n Sec agreed to i s s u e a new set of s tand ing orders for the next meet ing
The Welfare Of f icer reported tha i a survey of a random sample of zoo students was be ing ca r r i ed out in order lo a s c e r t a in the general op in ion of we l fare f a c i l i t i e s
Evening UGMs
Repor t ing thai no comments had been r ece i v ed concern ing the U G M s hav ing been he ld in the e ven ing the Hon Sec cons ide r ed it unlikely that future iGMs would he held at this time
Parking
The remain ing park ing permits had been adver t i sed in P H L I X but had not yet been c l a imed If not c l a imed by-January 31st they w i l l be r ea l l o ca t ed
The Deputy P r e s i d en t has d i s c o v e r e d that there i s no f ire a la rm in the J C R T h u s the F i r e O f f i ce r has been asked to take ac t i on to recti fy the s i tua t i on
Presidents Business
The P r es iden t presented the p o s s i b i l i t y of c rea t ing a s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t B u i l d i n g s Of f i ce r However this would not be financially possible unless he third sabbatical was taken from the Editor of FELIX The present Ed i t o r a s k e d lo be consu l t ed in any further d i s c u s s i o n s that the E x e c u t i v e might have The P r e s i d e n t agreed to th i s
It appears l e g a n a c t i o h may be taken aga inst the 11A over the w i thdrawal o f i t s pound270000 grant to the U n i v e r s i t y The immediate loss to IC is around pound65000
On the P r e s i d e n t s recommendat ion C o u n c i l agreed to donate pound40 from the E x t e r n a l A f f a i r s Commit tee budget to the London Student Organ i sa t i on
Invites
C o u n c i l agreed lo inv i te C a r l Seaford the Domest i c B u r s a r to the next c o u n c i l meet ing Mr Mooney the refectory manager and O r L e v y the Cha i rman of the C o l l e g e Refectory Committee were to be inv i t ed to the meet ing after
Poicy
The Un ion po l i c y document was d i s c u s s e d and many changes were made A request was therefore made that an up-dated ve rs ion of the po l i c y document shou ld be pub l i shed as soon as p o s s i b l e and the Hon Sec agreed to do th i s
Working Party
Mr Gordon J a c k s o n Cha i rman of the C o u n c i l Working Pa r t y l o o k i n g into student representat ion on C o l l e g e comshymi t t ees presented h i s report conce rn ing the Exp l o ra t o r y M e d i c a l S e r v i c e s Appo in tments E d u c a t i o n in Europe E x p l o r a t i o n F i e l d Stat ion Safety P a r k i n g and T ra f f i c and Welfare commit tees The report was a c cep t ed after d i s c u s s i o n and amendments
House Committee Minutes
The cos t of the carpe t ing for the Un i on and execu t i v e o f f i cers was quer ied due to i ts magnitude pound540) The H o n Sec r ep l i ed that the quote was much l ess than the cos t of r ep l a c ing the wooden floor were i l to wear out
Towels
A ques t i on was asked about the l ack of towels in the gents loo in the U n i o n The Deputy P r e s i d e n t r ep l i ed that the shortage of maintenance staff was the main d i f f i cu l t y
Publications Board
The minutes were presented as unconf i rmed
Any Other Business
The Hon Sec a s k e d for nominat ions for the newly vaca t ed pos i t i on of P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer The P r e s i d en t of R S M U exp ressed h i s concern that the e l ec t ed P u b l i c i t y O f f i ce r had been unable to do the job for wh ich he had been e l ec t ed The Ed i t o r of F E l X e x - P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer expressed the fact that he had always accepted the responsibility of Publicity and any blame given to it ft never had been the case that he would not do the publicity rather a case could not do it by virtue of the lime involved
Pen Pals - Sri Lanka
Widely travelled Ceylonese Law Student would like to correspond with anyone interested in stamp collecting cricket and current affairs
For further informal ion please contact the Secretary South Fast Asia Society via the tmon letter rack
WELLSOC
Dr Bernard D ixon (Ed i to r of New Sc i en t i s t )
What is Science For
T i m e 1930 P l a c e M e c h E n g 220
Monday 20th January
There was much d i s c u s s i o n on the matter wh i ch ended w i th the E d i t o r apo l o g i s i ng for not h a v i n g brought the item up at a U G M for d i s c u s s i o n
The E d i t o r of F E L I X brought forward a draft mot ion conce rn ing Sennet and i ts a l l e g e d c i r c u l a t i o n of 100000 readers The motion c r i t i c i s i n g that f igure was p a s s e d
TODAY - 1245pm
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Wednesday 22nd January 1pm
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FELIX 7
ALL NIGHT RAVEUP
G U I L D S C A R N I V A L
Mad but superb Entertainment
R i z S h a k i r
L a s t Saturday saw the major
C amp G rag event of th is s e s s i o n
The b a s i c i d e a behind th i s
be ing to organise a m u s i c a l
ex t ravaganza that wou ld go on
through the night into the
f o l l ow ing day Thus a l l the
s tudents invo l ved in l a s t terms
fund r a i s i n g (stunts of vary ing
degrees of e c c en t r i c i t y and
sheer l unacy that might c ause
a larm over s tuden ts san i ty were
performed) c o u l d have twe lve
hours in wh ich to p rac t i ce their
by now perfected s k i l l s
Se r i ous l y though on a l e s s
s a r c a s t i c and f r i vo lous note it
was a we l l o rgan ised event for
the enjoyment and entertainment
of a l l the people lucky enough
to acqu i r e t i c k e t s A wide range
of t as t es were catered for and
the even ing k i c k e d off wi th
Suther land Brothers and
Qu i ve r who never seem to g ive
a mediocre performance on the
s tage The i r act and s t y l e has
the a b i l i t y to set any aud ience
a l i gh t and t h i s was w e l l
u t i l i s e d
Undoubted ly the star attshy
r a c t i on (they ce r ta in l y proved
the i r worth) of the whole show
was Manfred Mann s E a r t h
Hand There was no real f l a sh
of the o ld Manfred Mann gimshy
m i c k s such as t ak ing off h i s
t rousers or dragg ing some of
the female popula t ion of the
Paul Ekpenyong
City amp Guilds President Manfred Manns Earth Hand
aud ience on to the s tage T h i s
concert was a se r i ous one i u
wh i ch the m u s i c a l ta lent of
each member of the band were
coherent ly brought together to
produce what one c a n on ly
desc r i be as a truly i nc r ed ib l e
m u s i c a l exper i ence to have
been seen of t h i s band to date
The las t band of the show
were B o h K e r r s Whoopee B a n d
The i r t a sk was e s s e n t i a l l y to
make sure that no one was
get t ing too bored at 2a m i n the
morning T h i s they a ch i e v ed
wi th a l i ghthearted and at t imes
very c o m i c a l performance that
t o ta l l y l a cked any ta lent
m u s i c a l l y speak ing However
this hardly mattered s i n c e by
th is t ime everybody had a fair
amount of a l c o h o l in their
s y s t e m Anyhow everyone
apprec ia ted their performance
F o r those who managed to
ar r i ve at the c once r t very ear ly
T i m R o s e prov ided a su i t ab l e
beg inn ing to the n i gh t s show
T h e m u s i c a l part of the
night hav ing come to an end
the crowd wh ich had by now
gathered in the ICR to observe
the comed ians of B o b K e r r s
Whoopee B a n d d i sp e r s ed The
more energet ic moved to the
D i s c o where they c ou ld expend
the i r surp lus energy Where a s
those not so a t h l e t i c a l l y
i n c l i n e d e i ther made their way
to the bar (which was s t i l l open)
or to the Great H a l l where two
f i lms were be ing shown The s e
f i l m s were T h e P i l l and
There i s a G i r l in my Soup
Severa l of the peop le were
in t e rv i ewed dur ing the lat ter
part of the C a r n i v a l and the
genera l c o n c e n s u s of op in i on
was that i t had been enjoyable
and was a p l easan t exper i ence
T h e P r e s i d e n t of the G u i l d s
U n i o n Jenny J o n e s was a l s o
approached and she seemed
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in w h i c h the events had proshy
g r e ssed She to ld us that they
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L E T T E R S Cont from page 3
Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
COLUMN
R u p e r t H a r p e r
NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
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10 F E I I X
J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
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FELIX S
P R I Z E C R O S S W O R D
N O - 8 X a m
Across
L B i l e o ccurs changed in p o t -not do (8)
5 Many F r e n c h a record back in the assemb ly (6)
10 L i n e s of boys s tand ing round ca t ch (7)
11 L e n s art produces protuberances (7)
12 A l l o w him to race to cont inue bet t ing (324)
14 The sub jec t in i t he means (5) 15 C o u l d be part of w inn ing in
U S (6)
17 H e may remove undies and
sh i r t be ing without a t t i re (6)
19 Sp l i t s j okes (6)
21 Member of one s fami ly in
h o s p i t a l (6) 24 Des t i n ed to be rega led we
hear (5) 26 F i n d loud treemdashnot the same
not the same (9)
28 Gree t ing to navy(Amer ican)
in a b y s s (7)
29 A t t a c k e r of F r ench in a l l oy
(7) 3 1 F i gh t about sma l l r e la t i ve
(6) 3 2 Take fewer l ooks at those
who cannot be equa l l ed (8)
Down
L M o v e to protect the k ing in Span i sh town wi thout one (6)
2 Burn wi thout f i r s t ge t t ing p l ace for a s h e s (3)
3 L i f e l e ss in Sovere ign Square (5)
4 L ean ing over w h i l e putt ing in order 7)
6 Widths of empty remarks wi thout beg inning (9)
7 R e l a t i v e heard to be in F r ench resort (5)
8Overcome d i f f i c u l t i e s w i th the teacher (6)
9A dr ink in the inn (6)
13 V o i c e of ne i ther Ka te nor
Amy (5)
16 Happen ings i n v o l v i n g C I D in tens (9)
18 G rab the o c e a n s we are to ld (5)
20 He takes a day go ing round
h e l l and may end up there (6) 21 Odd fuse if one hundred are
enough (7) 2 2 A very loud tune i s my
b u s i n e s s (6) 23 R ipped into s a i n t s hoards 6) 2 5 Work up a sweat r ight for a
Sco ts garment (5) 27 Ree l f ive invo l ved a l i t t l e
f i sh (5) 30 C o l o u r of muddy exc re t i on (3)
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SCC
Pue to apparent inactivity the continued existence of the following clubs will be questioned at the next SCC meetin Thursday lith Fehruar v
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Ann-Apartheid toemenl Kurdish Society (iaysoc Young Socialist Students Society
Will anybody who is involved in one of these societies or who knows anything about them please contact the Hon Sec of the Social Clubs Committee BI)Champion Aero ) before Monday 27th January Otherwise these clubs mar be disbanded
A F T E R T H E C O U N C I L M E E T I N G was opened wi th the P r e s i d en t in the c h a i r the Deputy P r e s i d e n t proposed a change to s tand ing orders T h i s was p a s s e d Due to th i s change and changes wh i ch took p l ace at the l a s t meet ing the H o n Sec agreed to i s s u e a new set of s tand ing orders for the next meet ing
The Welfare Of f icer reported tha i a survey of a random sample of zoo students was be ing ca r r i ed out in order lo a s c e r t a in the general op in ion of we l fare f a c i l i t i e s
Evening UGMs
Repor t ing thai no comments had been r ece i v ed concern ing the U G M s hav ing been he ld in the e ven ing the Hon Sec cons ide r ed it unlikely that future iGMs would he held at this time
Parking
The remain ing park ing permits had been adver t i sed in P H L I X but had not yet been c l a imed If not c l a imed by-January 31st they w i l l be r ea l l o ca t ed
The Deputy P r e s i d en t has d i s c o v e r e d that there i s no f ire a la rm in the J C R T h u s the F i r e O f f i ce r has been asked to take ac t i on to recti fy the s i tua t i on
Presidents Business
The P r es iden t presented the p o s s i b i l i t y of c rea t ing a s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t B u i l d i n g s Of f i ce r However this would not be financially possible unless he third sabbatical was taken from the Editor of FELIX The present Ed i t o r a s k e d lo be consu l t ed in any further d i s c u s s i o n s that the E x e c u t i v e might have The P r e s i d e n t agreed to th i s
It appears l e g a n a c t i o h may be taken aga inst the 11A over the w i thdrawal o f i t s pound270000 grant to the U n i v e r s i t y The immediate loss to IC is around pound65000
On the P r e s i d e n t s recommendat ion C o u n c i l agreed to donate pound40 from the E x t e r n a l A f f a i r s Commit tee budget to the London Student Organ i sa t i on
Invites
C o u n c i l agreed lo inv i te C a r l Seaford the Domest i c B u r s a r to the next c o u n c i l meet ing Mr Mooney the refectory manager and O r L e v y the Cha i rman of the C o l l e g e Refectory Committee were to be inv i t ed to the meet ing after
Poicy
The Un ion po l i c y document was d i s c u s s e d and many changes were made A request was therefore made that an up-dated ve rs ion of the po l i c y document shou ld be pub l i shed as soon as p o s s i b l e and the Hon Sec agreed to do th i s
Working Party
Mr Gordon J a c k s o n Cha i rman of the C o u n c i l Working Pa r t y l o o k i n g into student representat ion on C o l l e g e comshymi t t ees presented h i s report conce rn ing the Exp l o ra t o r y M e d i c a l S e r v i c e s Appo in tments E d u c a t i o n in Europe E x p l o r a t i o n F i e l d Stat ion Safety P a r k i n g and T ra f f i c and Welfare commit tees The report was a c cep t ed after d i s c u s s i o n and amendments
House Committee Minutes
The cos t of the carpe t ing for the Un i on and execu t i v e o f f i cers was quer ied due to i ts magnitude pound540) The H o n Sec r ep l i ed that the quote was much l ess than the cos t of r ep l a c ing the wooden floor were i l to wear out
Towels
A ques t i on was asked about the l ack of towels in the gents loo in the U n i o n The Deputy P r e s i d e n t r ep l i ed that the shortage of maintenance staff was the main d i f f i cu l t y
Publications Board
The minutes were presented as unconf i rmed
Any Other Business
The Hon Sec a s k e d for nominat ions for the newly vaca t ed pos i t i on of P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer The P r e s i d en t of R S M U exp ressed h i s concern that the e l ec t ed P u b l i c i t y O f f i ce r had been unable to do the job for wh ich he had been e l ec t ed The Ed i t o r of F E l X e x - P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer expressed the fact that he had always accepted the responsibility of Publicity and any blame given to it ft never had been the case that he would not do the publicity rather a case could not do it by virtue of the lime involved
Pen Pals - Sri Lanka
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Dr Bernard D ixon (Ed i to r of New Sc i en t i s t )
What is Science For
T i m e 1930 P l a c e M e c h E n g 220
Monday 20th January
There was much d i s c u s s i o n on the matter wh i ch ended w i th the E d i t o r apo l o g i s i ng for not h a v i n g brought the item up at a U G M for d i s c u s s i o n
The E d i t o r of F E L I X brought forward a draft mot ion conce rn ing Sennet and i ts a l l e g e d c i r c u l a t i o n of 100000 readers The motion c r i t i c i s i n g that f igure was p a s s e d
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FELIX 7
ALL NIGHT RAVEUP
G U I L D S C A R N I V A L
Mad but superb Entertainment
R i z S h a k i r
L a s t Saturday saw the major
C amp G rag event of th is s e s s i o n
The b a s i c i d e a behind th i s
be ing to organise a m u s i c a l
ex t ravaganza that wou ld go on
through the night into the
f o l l ow ing day Thus a l l the
s tudents invo l ved in l a s t terms
fund r a i s i n g (stunts of vary ing
degrees of e c c en t r i c i t y and
sheer l unacy that might c ause
a larm over s tuden ts san i ty were
performed) c o u l d have twe lve
hours in wh ich to p rac t i ce their
by now perfected s k i l l s
Se r i ous l y though on a l e s s
s a r c a s t i c and f r i vo lous note it
was a we l l o rgan ised event for
the enjoyment and entertainment
of a l l the people lucky enough
to acqu i r e t i c k e t s A wide range
of t as t es were catered for and
the even ing k i c k e d off wi th
Suther land Brothers and
Qu i ve r who never seem to g ive
a mediocre performance on the
s tage The i r act and s t y l e has
the a b i l i t y to set any aud ience
a l i gh t and t h i s was w e l l
u t i l i s e d
Undoubted ly the star attshy
r a c t i on (they ce r ta in l y proved
the i r worth) of the whole show
was Manfred Mann s E a r t h
Hand There was no real f l a sh
of the o ld Manfred Mann gimshy
m i c k s such as t ak ing off h i s
t rousers or dragg ing some of
the female popula t ion of the
Paul Ekpenyong
City amp Guilds President Manfred Manns Earth Hand
aud ience on to the s tage T h i s
concert was a se r i ous one i u
wh i ch the m u s i c a l ta lent of
each member of the band were
coherent ly brought together to
produce what one c a n on ly
desc r i be as a truly i nc r ed ib l e
m u s i c a l exper i ence to have
been seen of t h i s band to date
The las t band of the show
were B o h K e r r s Whoopee B a n d
The i r t a sk was e s s e n t i a l l y to
make sure that no one was
get t ing too bored at 2a m i n the
morning T h i s they a ch i e v ed
wi th a l i ghthearted and at t imes
very c o m i c a l performance that
t o ta l l y l a cked any ta lent
m u s i c a l l y speak ing However
this hardly mattered s i n c e by
th is t ime everybody had a fair
amount of a l c o h o l in their
s y s t e m Anyhow everyone
apprec ia ted their performance
F o r those who managed to
ar r i ve at the c once r t very ear ly
T i m R o s e prov ided a su i t ab l e
beg inn ing to the n i gh t s show
T h e m u s i c a l part of the
night hav ing come to an end
the crowd wh ich had by now
gathered in the ICR to observe
the comed ians of B o b K e r r s
Whoopee B a n d d i sp e r s ed The
more energet ic moved to the
D i s c o where they c ou ld expend
the i r surp lus energy Where a s
those not so a t h l e t i c a l l y
i n c l i n e d e i ther made their way
to the bar (which was s t i l l open)
or to the Great H a l l where two
f i lms were be ing shown The s e
f i l m s were T h e P i l l and
There i s a G i r l in my Soup
Severa l of the peop le were
in t e rv i ewed dur ing the lat ter
part of the C a r n i v a l and the
genera l c o n c e n s u s of op in i on
was that i t had been enjoyable
and was a p l easan t exper i ence
T h e P r e s i d e n t of the G u i l d s
U n i o n Jenny J o n e s was a l s o
approached and she seemed
we l l p l e a s e d wi th the manner
in w h i c h the events had proshy
g r e ssed She to ld us that they
had at l e a s t broken even
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
COLUMN
R u p e r t H a r p e r
NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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R J o n e s Sports Editor
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to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
Y o u r s t i l l I f i n i s h up in hosp i t a l a g a i n Rupert Harper (ME 2)
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10 F E I I X
J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
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Pue to apparent inactivity the continued existence of the following clubs will be questioned at the next SCC meetin Thursday lith Fehruar v
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Ann-Apartheid toemenl Kurdish Society (iaysoc Young Socialist Students Society
Will anybody who is involved in one of these societies or who knows anything about them please contact the Hon Sec of the Social Clubs Committee BI)Champion Aero ) before Monday 27th January Otherwise these clubs mar be disbanded
A F T E R T H E C O U N C I L M E E T I N G was opened wi th the P r e s i d en t in the c h a i r the Deputy P r e s i d e n t proposed a change to s tand ing orders T h i s was p a s s e d Due to th i s change and changes wh i ch took p l ace at the l a s t meet ing the H o n Sec agreed to i s s u e a new set of s tand ing orders for the next meet ing
The Welfare Of f icer reported tha i a survey of a random sample of zoo students was be ing ca r r i ed out in order lo a s c e r t a in the general op in ion of we l fare f a c i l i t i e s
Evening UGMs
Repor t ing thai no comments had been r ece i v ed concern ing the U G M s hav ing been he ld in the e ven ing the Hon Sec cons ide r ed it unlikely that future iGMs would he held at this time
Parking
The remain ing park ing permits had been adver t i sed in P H L I X but had not yet been c l a imed If not c l a imed by-January 31st they w i l l be r ea l l o ca t ed
The Deputy P r e s i d en t has d i s c o v e r e d that there i s no f ire a la rm in the J C R T h u s the F i r e O f f i ce r has been asked to take ac t i on to recti fy the s i tua t i on
Presidents Business
The P r es iden t presented the p o s s i b i l i t y of c rea t ing a s a b b a t i c a l Deputy P r e s i d e n t B u i l d i n g s Of f i ce r However this would not be financially possible unless he third sabbatical was taken from the Editor of FELIX The present Ed i t o r a s k e d lo be consu l t ed in any further d i s c u s s i o n s that the E x e c u t i v e might have The P r e s i d e n t agreed to th i s
It appears l e g a n a c t i o h may be taken aga inst the 11A over the w i thdrawal o f i t s pound270000 grant to the U n i v e r s i t y The immediate loss to IC is around pound65000
On the P r e s i d e n t s recommendat ion C o u n c i l agreed to donate pound40 from the E x t e r n a l A f f a i r s Commit tee budget to the London Student Organ i sa t i on
Invites
C o u n c i l agreed lo inv i te C a r l Seaford the Domest i c B u r s a r to the next c o u n c i l meet ing Mr Mooney the refectory manager and O r L e v y the Cha i rman of the C o l l e g e Refectory Committee were to be inv i t ed to the meet ing after
Poicy
The Un ion po l i c y document was d i s c u s s e d and many changes were made A request was therefore made that an up-dated ve rs ion of the po l i c y document shou ld be pub l i shed as soon as p o s s i b l e and the Hon Sec agreed to do th i s
Working Party
Mr Gordon J a c k s o n Cha i rman of the C o u n c i l Working Pa r t y l o o k i n g into student representat ion on C o l l e g e comshymi t t ees presented h i s report conce rn ing the Exp l o ra t o r y M e d i c a l S e r v i c e s Appo in tments E d u c a t i o n in Europe E x p l o r a t i o n F i e l d Stat ion Safety P a r k i n g and T ra f f i c and Welfare commit tees The report was a c cep t ed after d i s c u s s i o n and amendments
House Committee Minutes
The cos t of the carpe t ing for the Un i on and execu t i v e o f f i cers was quer ied due to i ts magnitude pound540) The H o n Sec r ep l i ed that the quote was much l ess than the cos t of r ep l a c ing the wooden floor were i l to wear out
Towels
A ques t i on was asked about the l ack of towels in the gents loo in the U n i o n The Deputy P r e s i d e n t r ep l i ed that the shortage of maintenance staff was the main d i f f i cu l t y
Publications Board
The minutes were presented as unconf i rmed
Any Other Business
The Hon Sec a s k e d for nominat ions for the newly vaca t ed pos i t i on of P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer The P r e s i d en t of R S M U exp ressed h i s concern that the e l ec t ed P u b l i c i t y O f f i ce r had been unable to do the job for wh ich he had been e l ec t ed The Ed i t o r of F E l X e x - P u b l i c i t y Of f i cer expressed the fact that he had always accepted the responsibility of Publicity and any blame given to it ft never had been the case that he would not do the publicity rather a case could not do it by virtue of the lime involved
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T i m e 1930 P l a c e M e c h E n g 220
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There was much d i s c u s s i o n on the matter wh i ch ended w i th the E d i t o r apo l o g i s i ng for not h a v i n g brought the item up at a U G M for d i s c u s s i o n
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FELIX 7
ALL NIGHT RAVEUP
G U I L D S C A R N I V A L
Mad but superb Entertainment
R i z S h a k i r
L a s t Saturday saw the major
C amp G rag event of th is s e s s i o n
The b a s i c i d e a behind th i s
be ing to organise a m u s i c a l
ex t ravaganza that wou ld go on
through the night into the
f o l l ow ing day Thus a l l the
s tudents invo l ved in l a s t terms
fund r a i s i n g (stunts of vary ing
degrees of e c c en t r i c i t y and
sheer l unacy that might c ause
a larm over s tuden ts san i ty were
performed) c o u l d have twe lve
hours in wh ich to p rac t i ce their
by now perfected s k i l l s
Se r i ous l y though on a l e s s
s a r c a s t i c and f r i vo lous note it
was a we l l o rgan ised event for
the enjoyment and entertainment
of a l l the people lucky enough
to acqu i r e t i c k e t s A wide range
of t as t es were catered for and
the even ing k i c k e d off wi th
Suther land Brothers and
Qu i ve r who never seem to g ive
a mediocre performance on the
s tage The i r act and s t y l e has
the a b i l i t y to set any aud ience
a l i gh t and t h i s was w e l l
u t i l i s e d
Undoubted ly the star attshy
r a c t i on (they ce r ta in l y proved
the i r worth) of the whole show
was Manfred Mann s E a r t h
Hand There was no real f l a sh
of the o ld Manfred Mann gimshy
m i c k s such as t ak ing off h i s
t rousers or dragg ing some of
the female popula t ion of the
Paul Ekpenyong
City amp Guilds President Manfred Manns Earth Hand
aud ience on to the s tage T h i s
concert was a se r i ous one i u
wh i ch the m u s i c a l ta lent of
each member of the band were
coherent ly brought together to
produce what one c a n on ly
desc r i be as a truly i nc r ed ib l e
m u s i c a l exper i ence to have
been seen of t h i s band to date
The las t band of the show
were B o h K e r r s Whoopee B a n d
The i r t a sk was e s s e n t i a l l y to
make sure that no one was
get t ing too bored at 2a m i n the
morning T h i s they a ch i e v ed
wi th a l i ghthearted and at t imes
very c o m i c a l performance that
t o ta l l y l a cked any ta lent
m u s i c a l l y speak ing However
this hardly mattered s i n c e by
th is t ime everybody had a fair
amount of a l c o h o l in their
s y s t e m Anyhow everyone
apprec ia ted their performance
F o r those who managed to
ar r i ve at the c once r t very ear ly
T i m R o s e prov ided a su i t ab l e
beg inn ing to the n i gh t s show
T h e m u s i c a l part of the
night hav ing come to an end
the crowd wh ich had by now
gathered in the ICR to observe
the comed ians of B o b K e r r s
Whoopee B a n d d i sp e r s ed The
more energet ic moved to the
D i s c o where they c ou ld expend
the i r surp lus energy Where a s
those not so a t h l e t i c a l l y
i n c l i n e d e i ther made their way
to the bar (which was s t i l l open)
or to the Great H a l l where two
f i lms were be ing shown The s e
f i l m s were T h e P i l l and
There i s a G i r l in my Soup
Severa l of the peop le were
in t e rv i ewed dur ing the lat ter
part of the C a r n i v a l and the
genera l c o n c e n s u s of op in i on
was that i t had been enjoyable
and was a p l easan t exper i ence
T h e P r e s i d e n t of the G u i l d s
U n i o n Jenny J o n e s was a l s o
approached and she seemed
we l l p l e a s e d wi th the manner
in w h i c h the events had proshy
g r e ssed She to ld us that they
had at l e a s t broken even
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
COLUMN
R u p e r t H a r p e r
NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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RS Newmann Photographic Editor
R W i l k i n s Photo-Journalist
R J o n e s Sports Editor
M J L W i l l i a m s Editor
to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
Y o u r s t i l l I f i n i s h up in hosp i t a l a g a i n Rupert Harper (ME 2)
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10 F E I I X
J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
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ALL NIGHT RAVEUP
G U I L D S C A R N I V A L
Mad but superb Entertainment
R i z S h a k i r
L a s t Saturday saw the major
C amp G rag event of th is s e s s i o n
The b a s i c i d e a behind th i s
be ing to organise a m u s i c a l
ex t ravaganza that wou ld go on
through the night into the
f o l l ow ing day Thus a l l the
s tudents invo l ved in l a s t terms
fund r a i s i n g (stunts of vary ing
degrees of e c c en t r i c i t y and
sheer l unacy that might c ause
a larm over s tuden ts san i ty were
performed) c o u l d have twe lve
hours in wh ich to p rac t i ce their
by now perfected s k i l l s
Se r i ous l y though on a l e s s
s a r c a s t i c and f r i vo lous note it
was a we l l o rgan ised event for
the enjoyment and entertainment
of a l l the people lucky enough
to acqu i r e t i c k e t s A wide range
of t as t es were catered for and
the even ing k i c k e d off wi th
Suther land Brothers and
Qu i ve r who never seem to g ive
a mediocre performance on the
s tage The i r act and s t y l e has
the a b i l i t y to set any aud ience
a l i gh t and t h i s was w e l l
u t i l i s e d
Undoubted ly the star attshy
r a c t i on (they ce r ta in l y proved
the i r worth) of the whole show
was Manfred Mann s E a r t h
Hand There was no real f l a sh
of the o ld Manfred Mann gimshy
m i c k s such as t ak ing off h i s
t rousers or dragg ing some of
the female popula t ion of the
Paul Ekpenyong
City amp Guilds President Manfred Manns Earth Hand
aud ience on to the s tage T h i s
concert was a se r i ous one i u
wh i ch the m u s i c a l ta lent of
each member of the band were
coherent ly brought together to
produce what one c a n on ly
desc r i be as a truly i nc r ed ib l e
m u s i c a l exper i ence to have
been seen of t h i s band to date
The las t band of the show
were B o h K e r r s Whoopee B a n d
The i r t a sk was e s s e n t i a l l y to
make sure that no one was
get t ing too bored at 2a m i n the
morning T h i s they a ch i e v ed
wi th a l i ghthearted and at t imes
very c o m i c a l performance that
t o ta l l y l a cked any ta lent
m u s i c a l l y speak ing However
this hardly mattered s i n c e by
th is t ime everybody had a fair
amount of a l c o h o l in their
s y s t e m Anyhow everyone
apprec ia ted their performance
F o r those who managed to
ar r i ve at the c once r t very ear ly
T i m R o s e prov ided a su i t ab l e
beg inn ing to the n i gh t s show
T h e m u s i c a l part of the
night hav ing come to an end
the crowd wh ich had by now
gathered in the ICR to observe
the comed ians of B o b K e r r s
Whoopee B a n d d i sp e r s ed The
more energet ic moved to the
D i s c o where they c ou ld expend
the i r surp lus energy Where a s
those not so a t h l e t i c a l l y
i n c l i n e d e i ther made their way
to the bar (which was s t i l l open)
or to the Great H a l l where two
f i lms were be ing shown The s e
f i l m s were T h e P i l l and
There i s a G i r l in my Soup
Severa l of the peop le were
in t e rv i ewed dur ing the lat ter
part of the C a r n i v a l and the
genera l c o n c e n s u s of op in i on
was that i t had been enjoyable
and was a p l easan t exper i ence
T h e P r e s i d e n t of the G u i l d s
U n i o n Jenny J o n e s was a l s o
approached and she seemed
we l l p l e a s e d wi th the manner
in w h i c h the events had proshy
g r e ssed She to ld us that they
had at l e a s t broken even
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
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R u p e r t H a r p e r
NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
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10 F E I I X
J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
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NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
Y o u r s t i l l I f i n i s h up in hosp i t a l a g a i n Rupert Harper (ME 2)
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Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
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BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
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Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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KLIPSCOMBE
They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
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Manager P r o v i d e d I can set up the a forement ioned sys t em then
i p u b l i c a l l y I app ly for th is post I wou ld a l s o expect the removal o f the ban on my photographs and a r t i c l e s appear ing in F E L I X In face sav ing s t y l e Mr W i l l i ams t e l l s me (5175) that th i s ban no longer e x i s t s S i n c e when M i k e o r d i d you j u s t forget to t e l l me
M i k e W i l l i a m s has comshyp l a i n e d about the vas t amount of l e t t rase t t ing he does If he d i d more e d i t i n g rewrote bad ly wr i t t en copy and shortened lengthy a r t i c l e s he wou ld reduce t h i s and make a better F E L I X in the p r o c e s s Howeve r o n the p lus s i d e F E L I X now has a S U B - E d i t o r congratshyu l a t i o n s a l ong overdue appointment
My next c r i t i c s m concerns the l a c k of news i n F E L I X N e w s i t ems that do appear u s u a l l y bear l i t t l e r e l evance to I C s tudents not to ment ion most o f them are a week or two out of da te I C N e w s s to r i e s might be hard to f ind but L o n d o n Fur the r E d u c a t i o n Stor ies aren t mdash Sennet regu lar ly f inds them
My b i gges t c r i t i s m must be layout When the present E d i t o r campa igned for h i s j ob he s a i d ( F E L I X 5374) that i n proshyduc i n g a R a g Mag he had l e a rn t a h e l l u v a lo t about ed i t o r i a l l a y ou t We l l -where d i d a l l that knowledge go because th is y ea r s layout i s abomniba l Good layout i s an e s s e n t i a l ingred ient towards any good paper O f f se t - l i tho prov ides i n c r e a s e d layout con t ro l wh i ch h a s n t been fu l l y u t i l i z e d E v e n so the l a s t two i s s u e s front pages dQ show an encourag ing improvement
Many of my c r i t i c s m s cou ld be found i n p rev ious y e a r s papers F E L I X might not be per fec t but M i k e W i l l i ams has produced a paper about wh i ch he c an be proud F e w peop le r e a l i s e the immense effort that goes into any student paper O f f se t - l i tho g i ves the E d i t o r even more headaches My le t ters i nd i ca t e ways o f improv ing F E L I X to g ive I C students a better paper I hope they are implemented
Yours sincerely
C l i v e G Dewey
In Reply to CGDewey
FELIX Office 14th January 1975
Dear Mr Dewey
With regard to your l e t t e r p r in ted in th is issue o f F E L I X we h a d not fu l l y d i s c u s s e d your l a s t epi-stle (the o r i g i n a l l e t ter of over 2000 words) hence your c l a i m s o f c red i t for any improvements s i n c e then are rather premature In any c a s e the ambigui ty of your l e t t e r renders any such c l a i m s i n v a l i d A l s o you say i n a l l your communicat ions to date that you are a s en i o r member o f Sennet our s o - c a l l e d s i s t e r
paper We con tac t ed Jeremy C l i f t the s a b b a t i c a l E d i t o r of Sennet on th is po in t and i t seems that this c l a i m i s a l s o premature and (quote) merely a matter of opinion
We acknowledge your appshyl i c a t i o n for the pos t of A d v e r t i s i n g Manager T h i s matter i s on the agenda of our next F E L I X E d i t o r i a l Boa rd meet ing to be he ld on Monday 20th January We a l s o note the attempt i n your a p p l i c a t i o n to narrow the f i e l d down to one person If we took on ly those people w i th exper i ence there wou ld be no F E L I X staf f at a l l w i th the excep t i on of the E d i t o r
In your let ter you go so far as to suggest that the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d do not ed i t a r t i c l e s in any acceptable manner B e a r i n g i n mind your p ro f essed a b i l i t y in th i s f i e l d we have pr in ted your le t ter as we rece i ved i t On the po in t of news a r t i c l e s i t i s our op in i on that a l l news i tems conce rn ing students wherever they may be are re levant and are of per t inent in teres t to other s tudents Why do news stor ies about F E co l l e g es have to be n e c e s s a r i l y more re levant to I C students than those on refectory p r i c e s rents and v i c t i m i s a t i o n s
There be ing no bounds to the s i z e of your c r i t i c i s m s you move 011 to a t tack the lay -out in F E L I X We can only g ive you the op in ions o f others who are perhaps more exper i enced in th is f i e l d v i z mdash Jeremy C l i f t (Ed i t o r o f Sennet) really rather good our former l i t ho -operator K y r l e G i l l e s p i e oneshytime E d i t o r of Office Weekly
(a pos t h e l d for twenty years ) really good indeed quite excellent Dave Segar s a l e s representat ive of Addressog raph-Mu l t i graph L t d very good indeed and f i na l l y Mr Car ter s a l e s representat ive i n the Var i t ype r d i v i s i o n of the same company first class
It never has been our p o l i c y to p l a c e bans on a r t i c l e s or photography by persons other than the F E L I X staf f and e s p e c i a l l y not yours In fact we draw your a t t en t i on to the fact that your photographs were used for the S T O I C centre
spread (FELIX Issue No 368) so what i n the h e l l are you ta lk ing about L e t r a s e t t i n g i s N O T the major task that s o a k s up a l l our energy when proshyduc i n g a F E L I X If there were ever such a c a s e as you ment ion (none of us c an remember s u c h a case ) then we take th i s opportunity to inform you that you are s a d l y beh ind the t imes i n your th ink ing Inc iden t l y your own efforts (when you were on the F E L I X staff) i n th i s f i e l d were notab ly abominab le (see FELIX Issue No 361)
In c o n c l u s i o n we s h o u l d l i k e to express our c u r i o s i t y that you shou ld see f i t to d i s shytr ibute your o r i g i na l let ter to a l l members of the I C U P u b l i c shya t i ons B o a r d the P r e s i d e n t s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l l e g e U n i o n s the E d i t o r s of the Cons t i tuen t C o l e g e Newspape r s the Secretary to the E d i t o r i a l B o a r d of Sennet M i k e W i l l i a m s the E x e c u t i v e Ed i t o r of Sennet (Jeremy C l i f t ) Anne N o l a n (the c o l l e g e P r e s s amp P u b l i c a t i o n s Of f i cer ) V a l e r i e B e e r (the co l l e g e Of f se t - l i tho un i t super-
MOTORCYCLE
COLUMN
R u p e r t H a r p e r
NOW T H A T I am f ina l l y back at c o l l e g e I thought that it was about t ime that I d id something about my task as secretary of the Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n of the C amp G Motor C l u b F o r those who do not know what happened I broke my thigh bone in a car c r a s h the obv i ous moral is to r ide motor c y c l e s a s they seem to be safer My a im th i s year is to try and get us some f a c i l i t i e s for keep ing and more important repa i r ing and rebu i ld ing mach ines be long ing to the members I have a l ready taken s t eps in th is d i r e c t i o n and I
th ink D r B e s a n t i s very interested in the s e c t i o n and i t s a c t i v i t i e s and we may be ab l e to look to him for a s s i s t a n c e hav ing a member of staf f to he lp w i l l be very use fu l e s p e c i a l l y be ing in the same department a s P ro f e s so r F o r d who i s P res ident of the Motor C l u b
Now about th i s Honda we are go ing to race I th ink it i s a very good idea B U T I would need a lot of pe rsuad ing to pay pound50 for a CP 72 even more the pound200 th i s b loke i s a s k i n g for i t or the pound600 it i s supposed to be worth and I do not c ons ide r it w i l l r ea l l y benefit a l l the members A n d a s a c o u n c i l member I feel that it wou ld be a was te of U n i o n money I wou ld far rather spend the money equ ipp ing a good workshop w h i c h is what I fee l we need L a s t l y I can not r ea l l y see U F C g i v i n g us that amount of money anyway so I w i l l d i r ec t my energ ies towards a more modest sum
i t seems to me that the s e c t i on offers l i t t l e to i ts members th i s probably accounts for the fact that there are on ly ten members no f a c i l i t y invo l v ing c l u b funds can be used by non-members but don t let that s top you from coming
v i so r ) and to the H o n Secretary o f I C U o s t e n s i b l y for I C U C o u n c i l records (though th is i s c l e a r l y out of the quest ion ) and yet you d id not s end c o p i e s to the i n d i v i d u a l members o f the F E L I X E d i t o r i a l B o a r d who were the main targets of your c r i t i c i s m s
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RS Newmann Photographic Editor
R W i l k i n s Photo-Journalist
R J o n e s Sports Editor
M J L W i l l i a m s Editor
to the meet ings Judg ing by the 500cc (and over) i ronware I have seen around co l l e g e there are a lot of potent ia l members e s p e c i a l l y the puke b lue N o r v i n and the Suzy and Tr ident 7 5 0 s I have s e en I am not sure about the membership p o s i t i o n but c o l l e g e staf f are pa r t i cu la r l y we lcome to the meet ings M e c h E n g t e c h n i c i a n s about a l l T h e meet ings are he ld in the Souths ide bar at 100pm on Wednesdays I feel that the meet ings shou ld be more s o c i a l l i k e a pre-arranged p i s s -up in the Un i on bar on some night depending on sugges t i ons w h i c h are a l w a y s we l come If any one w i s h e s to j o in then you shou ld go to Tony R a i n e in the G u i l d s Un i on O f f i ce and ask to jo in the Motor C l u b Motor C y c l e s e c t i o n A l i s t of members i s kept by me and i s shown below so i f you are not on it you cou ld m i s s out on someth ing good I would a l s o l i k e to point out that membershys h i p i nvo l v e s pay ing a s u b s c r i p t i o n for those who th ink o therw ise
That b i t above was wr i t ten for l as t w e e k s F E L I X but I m i s s e d the copy date so I am go ing to add a b i t a s I w r i t e th is I am l i s t en i ng to Beggers Banquet through a pair of those V ideo tone Speakers that I got from Honest Mick Enterprises and they are real ly good in fact perfect
We are go ing to try and bu i l d up a f leet of l i gh twe ights probably Bantams that we can h i re out to members whose b ikes do not work s o you can go and get spa r es and the l i k e Y o u w i l l have to prov ide your own insurance So if you know of any Bantams go ing r ea l l y cheap see Dave Sa l i sbury ( P h y s i c s 2) It does not matter if they are not road^worthy but we can not n i c k them or we w i l l run into problems when we try and reg is ter them
Y o u r s t i l l I f i n i s h up in hosp i t a l a g a i n Rupert Harper (ME 2)
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10 F E I I X
J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
STOP PRESS
F o l l o w i n g the League Race on
bullbullednecday the C r o s s - C o u n t r y C l u b
a r e now 3 r d i n D i v i s i o n 1 and 1 s t
a n d 2nd i n D i v i s i o n 2
10 F E I I X
J a m e s W i l k i n s o n
Stardust mdash Hay Connolly
TH IS IS T H E B O O K of the f i lm seque l to the o r i g ina l f i lm Thatll Be the Day T h o s e of you who Saw Thatll Be The Day w i l l remember it c h r o n i c l e d the adventures of J i m M a c l a i n e from h i s c h u c k i n g in s choo l and dropping out to
dropping back i n ge t t ing marr ied and dropping back out a ga i n In the midd le he meets and makes f r iends w i th Mfke Mennery who works on a fa i rground
When Stardust opens it is 1963 and J i m has grown h i s ha i r grown up and become a s inge r w i th a rock and ro l l band c a l l e d the Stray C a t s Per forming to
0 K C 0 A D 3
BOOKS bored a u d i e n c e s in seedy c l u b s they l i v e on dreams of becoming a s famous as the B e a t l e s or the R o l l i n g Stones
A combina t i on of luck r u t h l e s s n e s s and a lot of hard hus t l i n g on the part of M i k e Mennery who J i m br ings in a s the g roup s road manager makes the Stray C a t s rock and ro l l supers ta rs However just when they have ach i e ved their dream it s tar ts to go sour
T h i s book may not be a mas te rp i ece of E n g l i s h L i t e ra ture but it seems to me that i t s honest about the way th ings were and I suppose s t i l l are De f inate ly an in te res t ing book
Hie
Mike McGear - McGear (Polydor)
F l i c k i n g down the track l i s t i n g s shows an opener of apparent taste M r F s Sea Breezes w h i c h cou ld be qu i t e in t e r es t ing The re s a dramat ic l aunch decap i ta t ed v o c a l s e t - a l l but the s t y l e s not there The track e ven tua l l y d i e s into raggae and the c l a s s i c s (shame) The intent ion of the album seems to be for P a u l McCar tney to lend bruv M ike M c G e a r a he lp ing hand at r ep l en i sh ing the P i ggy Bank by wr i t i ng nine of the ten a v a i l a b l e d i f f i e s producing the v i n y l and go ing for the hat r i ck by throwing in the wi fe or s y n t he s i z e r Mind y o u they end up sound ing l i k e a set of hal f -hearted s tud i o demo tapes complete w i th funny n o i s e s T h e beat is at best rudimentary (courtesy Gerry Conway )
Some l ight breaks through the beer fumes in the form of the s i n g l e Leave It mdash an eminent ly ca tchy 3 minutes but then
i t s back to the monkeys -and-ch i ld ren -only b u s i n e s s and a l l the foo l ing around in the wor ld won t d i s g u i s e the mediocr i ty of the venture I t s a l l been done better a m i l l i o n t imes before M i g u e l Qu i t e comshyparable to say L i t t l e J immy O s m o s i s s ings P a u l Rodgers
Side two l i f t s and separates for a w h i l e p rov id ing s t ra ight uncompl i ca ted pop tunes mooged-about by the Lo v e l y L i n d a mdash maybe the unaccepted remnants from the Band on the Run s t o c k p i l e of tunes (bus iness i s b u s i n e s s a l r eady ) It s a we l l -p roduced d i s c but undemanding of both l i s t ener and performer and as such l a c k s any k ind of immediacy or spark
If P a u l McCar tney c o u l d do to a l c o h o l i c beverages what he is e v iden t l y capab le of and admirab ly su i t ed to w i th regards popular m u s i c ( i e d i s t i l l every e s s ence and bouquet a v a i l a b l e into one e a s i l y pa la tab le product) he wou ldn t need to
make another record and the Sco ts wou ld start swimming in their water instead of bo t t l ing i t B a s i c a l l y an e s s a y in F ra t e rn i t y
The Glums (BBC)
The B B C s t r i k e s in g l o r i ous mono wi th comedy from the 12th c en tury when humour was obv i ous l y something vas t l y dif ferent from the modern concept - no subt l e t y inuendo or even a l i t t l e parody mdash the radio aud ience must have been some rea l l y erudi te m o l l u s c s to la tch onto th i s stuff The album appears raquoto come from some B B C radio show t i t l ed imag inat i ve l y The Glums featur ing D i c k Ben t l e y J u n e Whi t f i e ld and J immy l-was-born-with-these-whiskers-you-know E d w a r d s Ye t another s i gn of i t s age is the expert ly canned laughter I mean nothing nowadays i s e xpe r t l y done
Cou ld provide some neat openings for aura l s ado -masoch i s t s
Jef f Lew is
Slade Slade in Flame (Polydor)
Y E T A N O T H E R undoubted smasheroo hit for S l ade T h i s a lbum is the o r i g ina l soundt rack from the forthcoming f i lm Flame in w h i c h the band makes i t s a c t i n g debut a s far a s the f i lm i s c o n shyce rned it c ou ldn t have asked for better p r e -pub l i c i t y C o n s i d e r i n g that S l a d e s las t a lbum Old New Borrowed and Blue grabbed a go ld d i s c before i t s o f f i c i a l r e l ease date then c l e a r l y the f i lm producer the record company and inev i tab ly so the book pub l i she r are out to make pots and pots of poundpoundpounds from th i s h igh ly commerc ia l en te rpr i se
A l l the t r a cks w i th one excep t i on are what one has come to expect from S lade raunchy k i ck - em- in - the -guts type rock Lay It Down and So Far So Good are
de f in i t e l y r em in i s cen t of the B e a t l e s around 6 4 - 6 5
The one excep t i on in the whole a lbum is the very f i rs t cut How Does It Feel w h i c h to my mind is the best that they have ever produced It p o s s e s s e s a c o n shyfident a i r of m u s i c a l maturity wh i ch i l l u s t r a t e s the fact that the band i s capab le of more than just thrash ing around under the a u s p i c e s of the ir N O I Z B O I Z tag
Family Best of Family (Reprise)
T R A G E D Y undoubtedly s t ruck the wor ld of B r i t i s h Pop when F a m i l y dec ided to break-up in October 1973 for in c o n shytrast to some of the ir p l a s t i c i z e d money-grabbing contemporar ies they were one of the few groups who were a l w a y s s ea r ch ing
for new ideas It i s an unden iab le fact that no two t racks from th i s a lbum at l east are even remotely a l i k e as regards l y r i c s melody and presen ta t i on T h i s compendium then s e rves a s a tr ibute to their sheer innovat ive prowess
The cuts span the last f i ve of the band s seven y ea r s e x i s t e n c e The i r four major s i n g l e s - No Mules Fool (1969) The Weavers Answer (1970) In MyOwn Time (1971) and Burlesque (1972) -are natura l l y inc luded together w i th their a l l - t ime c l a s s i c My Friend the Sun w h i c h w i th i ts l y r i c a l strength and d e l i c a t e harmony never c e a s e s to amaze me
T h i s a lbum w i l l appeal to anyone interested in s e r i ous rock (as opposed to the hard type) and a l s o to supporters of L e i c e s t e r C i t y F C in whose co lours some of the band appear on the s l e e v e
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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KLIPSCOMBE
They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
STOP PRESS
F o l l o w i n g the League Race on
bullbullednecday the C r o s s - C o u n t r y C l u b
a r e now 3 r d i n D i v i s i o n 1 and 1 s t
a n d 2nd i n D i v i s i o n 2
FELIX
LEO SAYER IN CONCERT
L E O S A Y E R S concert last Saturday w a s c e r t a i n l y excep t i ona l in terms of enterta inment va lue w h i l e at the same time be ing a d i s p l a y of t remendous m u s i c a l a b i l i t y
The programme was in i t i a t ed w i th h i s h i t s ong Just a Boy and immediate ly had the aud i ence under h i s s p e l l He then proceeded to show us h i s v e r s a t i l i t y by s i n g i n g songs from the Just a Boy and Silver Bird a l bums
BOUNDLESS ENERGY
7 want to see some Light had the aud i ence cheer ing and c l a p p i n g a s MrSayer sma l l but w i th bound less energy bounced to and fro a c r o s s the stage with the speed of a p ing pong ba l l but hav ing in f in i t e l y more grace and s e n s e of rhythm
GEMS
7 f s my Life The Bells of St Marys Train and Another Time were a l l gems in themse l v es A l l the w h i l e he was s i n g i n g he was s h a k i n g
R i z S h a k i r
hands w i th remarks
peop le and exchang ing enterta inment
COMEDIAN
H e is -rro mean comedian h i s s e n s e o f humour is indeed excep t i ona l t p r a m u s i c i a n and h i s impersonations 61 M i c h a e l Crawford of Some Mothers Do Have Em lame are so good that Mike Yarwood wou ld be proud of them J u d g i n g from the laughter and app lause most of the people at the concer t wou ld agree w i th me bull -
PROFESSIONAL
L e o Sayer i s a r eaJpro f e ss i ona l in every sense of the word He undoubtedly en joys be ing on the stage and l i k e s to see everyone e l s e en joy ing themse lves w i th him a c t i n g as the c a t a l y s t bull
Among the s o n g s 5 from Silver Bird were One Man Band I Can Dance (part of w h i c h he repeated on request from the aud i ence ) He conc luded the concer t w i th wont Let the Show Go On wh i ch was a be f i t t ing c o n c l u s i o n to a great hour of
MOST E N J O Y A B L E
When asked Mr Sayer to comment on the concer t One of the most enjoyable concerts Ive ever had came the rep ly H e a s k e d me to pass on h i s thanks to a l l the s tudents at IC the people r e s p o ns i b l e for o r gan i s ing the concer t and most of all the audience
I w o u l d l i k e to pass on a persona l thanks and congra tu la t i ons for the proshyf e s s i o n a l hand l ing of th ings and a l s o for prov id ing us wi th a good suppor t ing group as w e l l a s an exc ep t i ona l conce r t We l l done Ma l c o lm and the E n t s Commit tee
IC Sunday Sessions
Free Music every Sunday in Lower
Lounge 800pm
19th Jan B u r l e s q e (Rock) 26th Jan inspector L l o y d (Rock)
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KLIPSCOMBE
They s a i d i t c o u l d never happen N o one man c o u l d p o s s i b l y p lay two games so w e l l but one man has and that man i s B P a n t s the c ap t a in o f I C Rugby F i n d i n g the weather c ond i t i ons incompat ib l e w i t h grass-court games he turned to a spha l t and by a p i e c e of i n c r e d i b l e d ip l omacy managed to arrange a n e t b a l l match aga ins t ICWA
A n d so i t was that on a damp Sunday afternoon seven I C Rugby men and seven ICWA N e t b a l l women a r r i v ed at the U n i o n T h e venue for th is spo r t ing showp i ece was the L i n s t e a d H a l l ground and the I C team chose to change in the h a l l i t s e l f for conven i ence A f t e r a f ive minute warm-up i n room 213 B P a n t s l ed out the Rugby team onto the court to f ind the oppos i t i on a l ready outmdash a mean bunch to be sure L e d by F r e d a Jones they i n c luded in the s i d e no l e s s a p l aye r than F r e d a I s co r ed 40 goa ls i n one m a t c h T e l l e m The other f i ve p laye rs were F r e d a H a r r i s F r e d a Bar te r F r e d a J o F r e d a Be t t eee and F r e d a J o n e s f r i end F r e d a F a c e d w i th s u c h notor ious oppos i t i on F rank P a n t s had assemb l ed a team of h i s toughest men F r a n k Sutton F r a n k Beddoes F r a n k R o b i n s F r ank L i p s c o m b e F r a n k Shakeshef f and even Frank H u g h e s
T h e match was refereed by
the l ad i e s team s i n c e they were the on ly ones who knew the ru l es except F r a n k P a n t s (who was to p lay so we l l ) o f course
P a n t s d e c i d e d to p l ay w e l l down w i nd for the f i r s t quarter (a shrewd move indeed) and the game was under way ICWA star ted w i th an orthodox forshymat ion w i th F r e d a T e l l e m as goa lshooter F r ank Sutton was ordered to mark her and i t was soon c l e a r that th is wou ld be a b r u i s i n g encounter Hughes and L i p s c o m b e l ed the I C at tack and a s the game f l owed from end to end there were many s co r i ng chances for e i ther s i d e Need shyl e s s to say these were w e l l taken by F r e d a T e l l e m a n d squandered by the inept M and L mdash c l e a r l y the b a l l shou ld have been sma l l e r or the net b igger P a n t s was g ene ra l l i ng the m i d f i e l d w e l l but even he c ou ld not compensate for the l a c k o f s k i l l up front F r e d a was everywhere shadowed c l o s e l y by F r a n k T h e end of the f i rs t quarter c a m e w i t h ICWA
i n the l e a d P a n t s team were on the rack There w o u l d have to be changes F r a n k reverted
to goa l defence l e a v ing F rank free to move to w i n g a t tack T h i s d i s p l a c e d F r a n k who was accomodated by s w i t c h i n g F rank to goa lshooter from w i n ^ defence and put t ing F r a n k a t w ing a t tack T h i s le f t F r a n k who w a s to ld to take F r a n k s
o l d p o s i t i o n at w i n g de fence P a n t s was unchanged T h e ICWA team a l s o made changes
The second quarter s tar ted The new look I C team shaped up w e l l F r ank F r o g was s l i g h t l y more s u c c e s s f u l i n a t tack (wh ich was not s a y i n g much) C l o s e mark ing p e r s i s t e d L i p s c o m b e t read ing a l l over Be t t e ee whom he c l a i m e d he c ou ld not see H a l f t ime came w i th ICWA s t i l l i n front It was now that master t a c t i c i a n F r a n k Hughes s tepped forward and suggested that the I C team shou ld employ a man to man mark ing technique mdash what a r e ve l a t i on Insp i r ed by th is r a d i c a l t h i n k i n g there was another sugges t i on that the b a l l shou ld be put thro the net C l e a r l y th ings were go ing to be di f ferent i n the s e cond ha l f M S F went to goa lshooter and the game was underway The I C team emp loy ing the i rnew t a c t i c s s l o w l y narrowed the gap P a n t s
tave a v i r tuso per formance i s t r i b u t i n g the b a l l to left and
r ight w i t h great dex ter i t y F r a n k Beddoes made some b lus t e r i n g r ight w i n g runs desp i t e c l o s e a t tent ion from J o and from h i s c r o s s e s M S F was ab l e to s l o t in the goa l s F r e d a was worr i ed She ordered musc l e t a c t i c s and i n the face o f th i s p h y s i c a l a s s a u l t P a n t s team began to c rack a l though he h i m s e l f con t inued to p lay w e l l
B y now a large c rowd h a d gathered for the f i na l e x c i t i n g quarter K e n Weale and h i s dog F rank () were there too A s dark descended the bat t l e was fought out s c o r i ng t ak ing p l a c e at both ends With on ly s econds left the score was 20-20 I C moved the b a l l q u i c k l y mdash F r a n k to F r a n k to F r a n k and then back to F r a n k aga in H e p a s s e d to F r a n k who s l i p p e d a beaut i fu l shot to F r a n k who then l eapt h i gh and potted the b a l l mdash the winner G a s p s from the c rowd I C h a d won B u t no A w a y at the other end F r e d a T e l l e m was w a v i n g her arms the goa l was d i s a l l o w e d for f u l l t ime had j u s t been b l o w n T h e teams c l a p p e d each other off the f i e l d a c oup l e of t imes A n honourable draw was the r esu l t but what a match T h e game w a s enjoyed by a l l Eve ryone a r r i v ed at the ICWA L o u n g e la ter on for a feast o f tea and sandw i ches and F r a n k D e n n i s presented F r e d a J o n e s w i t h the Mar of the M a t c h award mdash a bot t l e o f B a b y c h a m
Teams ICWA Suzanne Harris Anita Tellem Liz Barter Betty Jo Mary Jones and Marys Friend
IC Dennis Shakesheff Bruce Bradley Keith Lipscombe Paul Robins Ryan Beddoes Ray Hughes Rich Sutton
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
STOP PRESS
F o l l o w i n g the League Race on
bullbullednecday the C r o s s - C o u n t r y C l u b
a r e now 3 r d i n D i v i s i o n 1 and 1 s t
a n d 2nd i n D i v i s i o n 2
F E L I X S P O R T
RUGBY Ref reshed from three weeks
o f cons tan t booze and turkey in take over the Chr i s tmas va ca t i on B r u c e B r a d l e y s B r a v e B a n d i t s d i sembarked at Cat terham B a r r a c k s to meet the w e l l known Welsh Guards X V A s o l d i e r on the gate i n s t an t l y r e cogn i s ing our s t y l e d e c i d ed to prompt ly march u s to the barber s shop However h a v i n g been warned o f the a rmy s t r i c k s and t o l d under no c i r shycumstances to s i gn any th ing he h a d ^ o se t t l e for show ing us to the gymnas ium
T o the boos and c r i e s o f f o r e i gners from the m a s s e s of Welsh pr i va tes dotted around the f i e l d I C at l a s t took the f i e l d A f t e r be ing t o l d to put the f i e l d back p l ay e ven tua l l y commenced T h e f i r s t twenty minutes s a w l i t t l e of in te res t u n t i l D e n z i l F r o g was s cy thed at the knees by a f a l l i n g body a n d earned a wonder fu l o s c a r w i th a t ouch ing death throes performance on the t ouch l i n e T e n minutes l a t e r a chance pena l ty a l l o w e d the Guards to
take a 3-0 lead at half-time In the second half both the
pack and backs began to play with more confidence with good clean ball coming from BAustins sound hooking It was from the base of a scrum that Ray Teethless broke and dived over for a deserved try to put IC 6-3 ahead Play continued without incident until the Guards second row started bashing his head against a brick wall ie Keith hippo and was consequently sent off for allowing SBooth to hit him back Ten minutes later a monstrous penalty kick by the Guards levelled the score which then remained at 6-6 It was a well deserved result and a promising start to the new term
Team Denzil F ZApper JBear BRingme COtter LL Norman Less BTRousers BMorris TEnence 10000 MA luring Joshua Jones DDick NTQ
B r u c e Brad ley
IC 1st X V p l ayed the i r f i r s t game aga ins t a U n i v e r s i t y team th i s s e a s o n on Saturday 11th January and were so determined to do w e l l that on ly two th i rds of the s i d e got p i s s e d the night before
The match s ta r t ed at a fur ious pace and I C soon p inned down the R e a d i n g s i d e in their ha l f A penal ty to I C was w e l l k i c k e d by B F i n n e y p l a y i n g in h i s new p o s i t i o n of f ly ha l f R e a d i n g immediate ly r edressed the ba l ance by k i c k i n g an easy pena l ty from in front o f the pos t s but I C were undaunted Fur the r I C p r essure brought another pena l t y w h i c h F i n n e y du l y conver ted but t h i s l ead was to be somewhat sho r t - l i v ed T h e R e a d i n g left w i n g broke four t a ck l e s a n d ran i n under the pos ts for a conver ted try w h i c h gave them a 9-6 l ead at th is s tage
I C were not to be outdone however and before ha l f - t ime two e x c e l l e n t t r i es were scored by them C r e s s w e l l c rashed over from h a l f a yard after an exshyc e l l e n t run by Boo th and F i n n e y broke through near the pos ts after a dummy w i th Stern who r e c e i v ed the a t tent ion of three R e a d i n g p l aye r s mdash a l l to no a v a i l F i n n e y goa led h i s own
try R e a d i n g h a d scored yet another pena l ty dur ing th is pe r i od to h a l f t ime a n d the score then was 16-12 to IC
T h e s e cond h a l f opened at no l e s s hot a pace and a l though the p l ay was end to end throughshyout the h a l f p roved a tr imph for both de fences Severa l IC sco r ing c h a n c e s were unshyfortunate ly squandered by l a c k o f support a t the l a s t moment but th i s d i d not detract from a good s e c o n d ha l f performance R e a d i n g s co r ed another two p e n a l t i e s to ICs one (by F i n n e y of course ) g i v i ng a f i n a l score o f 19-18 to IC
T h e aftermatch f r i v o l i t i e s were w e l l s tar ted by the introshyduc t i on o f an e ight p i n t j u g ( fu l l o f beer) for a c o s t of a mere 8 Op Read ing U n i o n enjoyed a repertoire o f songs p r e v i o u s l y unheard o f by them and the B o b s Stern and A u s t i n h a d an a l a r m i n g t ime and so dec ided not to r o l l out the bar r e l
Team D Shakesheff A Williams RSlern JGilbert MCotter BFinney RHughes BBradley RAustin DHart KLipscombe SBooth RCresswell TSmith PRobbins
L a s t Saturday be ing the f i r s t Saturday o f th is term saw the reappearance o f I C s E x t r a 1st X V on the rugby f i e l d The o c c shya s i o n was an away f ixture a t R e a d i n g U n i v e r s i t y a ga ins t their 2nd X V
Three games had been arranged for th is pa r t i cu la r Saturday but due to a number of late
c r o s s i n g s - o f f one o c l o c k saw another f i a s c o when there was on l y enough p l aye r s to f i e l d two complete teams and a number of A team p l a y e r s were drafted into the E x t r a s P o s i t i o n s e l e c t i o n was dec i d ed in the d r e s s i n g room w h i c h dec ided that N e i l H i c k i n g shou ld p lay hooker a d e c i s i o n w i th w h i c h he d id not comshyp l e t e l y agree
When we reached the p i t c h we saw f i f teen men in a l l k i n d s of a t t i re who we found out some minutes la ter were to be our oppos i t i on T h e game was underway and from the d i s t a n c e the R e a d i n g pack were dr iven back at the f i rs t s c rum i t seemed a mere formal i ty that I C wou ld notch up another v i c t o r y B u t a l a s at th i s s tage we were unaware of the la tent speed o f the R e a d i n g b a c k s wh i ch was to prove so d e c i s i v e i n the f i na l a n a l y s i s In fact after w inn ing the ear ly hea ted exchanges the R e a d i n g backs had the i r f i rs t opportunity to s t re tch the i r l e g s and our defence was s p l i t O n l y good cover by two of the back row (no names ) a n d the h a l f backs prevented a score B u t Rea d ing scored some minutes la ter from the hard running of the i r h a c k s No blame c o u l d be put on our b a c k s they j u s t d i d n t have Read ing matched for speed the try however was conver ted and another f o l l owed shor t l y w h i c h was not conver ted l e a v ing a h a l f t ime score i n R e a d i n g s favour o f 10-0
The s econd was now ours for the tak ing We had the s lope i n our favour a l ong w i t h the f a i r l y s trong w ind on our b a c k s F r om the k i c k off a c l e a n c a t c h by Mar ik Sergot a wedge a p l aye r o f fs ide and w i t h i n seconds R e a d i n g had s co r ed aga in The w i nd had been b lown out of our s a i l s and when the referee a l l o w e d a try a l i t t l e la ter o n w h i c h had been touched down by A l u n D a v i e s before i t seemed our task was
i mpo s s i b l e A t th is stage the team for once s tar ted to c l i c k and we were p r e s s i n g hard near h e i r l i n e for a l ong whi le dur ing w h i c h we d i d every th ing but score C h r i s White ley made some ex c e l l en t breaks through the muddle and was a b l y supported by Ro b D o y l e and Mar ik Sergot both p l a y i n g w e l l but were both stopped on ly i nches short on severa l o c c shya s i o n s A pena l ty move i n v o l v i n g Rob and Mar ik i n the same v e i n was a l s o e f fect ive but good cover t a c k l i n g by R e a d i n g aga in f o i l ed u s
We were now fu l l y committed to a t tack and c a p i t a l i s i n g on this s i tua t i on Read ing once more made a fast break and s co r ed a g a i n We d i d however con t inue our in tense pressure for the remainder of the game and a try was c e r t a in T h i s however only came after some hard and good work i n the centre by M i k e G i b s o n H e made the i n i t i a l break down the r ight hand s i d e w h i c h was ca r r i ed on by the forwards in support and the b a l l moved a c r o s s the w id th of the f i e l d and Ma le Ranson scored in the comer On l y minutes now remained and the score was not to change over that pe r i od l e a v ing the score at 26-4 i n R e a d i n g s Cavour
Team ADavies MRanson MGibson CWhiteley SLadle G Clement RTresize MSergot NHicking CWrigley ARice RSutton RDoyle RJones IMarwood
P P S I d i d not r ea l l y want to be cap ta in th is week w a s h i n g a l l the sodden s h i r t s e t c B u t my j ob was not he lped by the cons idera te person who f i l l e d my k i t bag w i th dra in-pipe s what A l l that w i th a s a c k f u l l of sh i r t s and h a v i n g to pac i f y the Read ing p o l i c e N o m y o l d man i s not a dustman Thank you and Goodnight (a n i c e f e l i c i t a t i on )
STOP PRESS
F o l l o w i n g the League Race on
bullbullednecday the C r o s s - C o u n t r y C l u b
