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 Issue No 318                                        Wednesday 24 November 1999
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                              EDITORIAL PLEA
 
 Both letters and ads show an increasing and distressing tendency to
prolixity. Life is too short to edit them. Also to read them. Brevity
increases the likelihood of being read. It is commended to all. As are
other advertising media.

                                  MENU
                                  
 Minutes, Amendments, Matters arising

 1. Yet further Readers' Letters
 2. Even More Small Ads (including events)

 MINUTES, AMENDMENTS, MATTERS ARISING
 ------------------------------------

 Still no news on our JIF bids and signs of pessimism in relevant
circles. Expect to hear something on Friday. Determination to go ahead
nonetheless, which means the sale of property, now disencumbered since
the debenture deal, is likely to be brought forward. Fears that Mr McG
will want to treat this too as an "operational" matter, which would
certainly give rise to student unrest.

 The announcement of a new Cartmel Dean proved premature since the
present one is still in place and the post will have to be advertised.

 After two years of dereliction, The Venue is now filled by contractors
working overtime. It may yet be ready for next week's graduation. The
cost is less than Council reserved for this purpose and the some of the
extra is going to establish a non-alcoholic space to placate students
(prolly Fylde JCR).

 The County students in Cartmel Bar saga rolls on and on. An official
complaint has been lodged via UNISON and grievance procedures are being
invoked. Some students have been banned from Cartmel Bar (which under
existing rules bans them from all campus bars, no? Or has that law been
changed?)

 1. YET FURTHER LETTERS
 ----------------------

 Your last issue contained an item from an anonymous correspondent who
reported having seen Chris Woodhead enter a car parked in a disabled
parking space. 

 Readers may be interested to learn that recent research suggests that
illegal parking in spaces reserved for disabled people can be regarded
as a form of offender self-selection. A study in Huddersfield found
that in a high proportion of cases illegally parked cars had been
stolen or officially did not exist, had been used in the commission of
crimes, had a history of traffic violations, or were currently illegal;
or the registered keeper was wanted by the police, or had a criminal
record. 

 The authors (Chenery et al.) comment that it 'takes a special kind of
selfishness' for able-bodied people to park in disabled bays. Another
way of intepreting the finding is as indicative of low self-control.
The research is reported in Briefing Note 1/99 from the Policing and
Reducing Crime Unit of the Home Office (downloadable from the Home
Office website).

 David Smith
 Applied Social Science
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 Well I would rather watch Boycott making his hundredth hundred, at
Headingley, than almost any other "moment" in cricket (although I
remember Clive Lloyd doing something dramatic at Old Trafford in a B&H
final, too). Of course, a Boycott century took more than a moment, but
I would watch this one (as I did when it happened) on the TV with the
sound off, and on the radio John Arlott telling us, when Boycott got to
about 20 or so, that this century century was all but in the bag. 

 Arlott, no fool he, escaped that day the normal curse of normal sports
announcers (God knows what would have happened to Boycott had Coleman
said that, then: probably a broken neck). Boycott ploughed on, the
crowd grew tense (well, they looked tense anyway, although I suppose
they might have been asleep), and Arlott prattled on about wine,
Winchester, and other centuries he had seen. And in due course,
inevitably, it happened. Nearly heaven. 

 Boycott or Botham, I would like to see some cricket, somewhere, and I
suppose I may walk this summer over to the cricket ground in Forest
Park (yes, Virginia, Forest Park has a cricket ground, and a Cricket
Drive, too) where the local Jamaican community plays a spirited match
now and again. 

 Bob Bliss
 St Louis
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 The number of tenanted catering outlets on Campus are at a level that
nobody would wish to extend. However, the general opinion within the
Campus community is that we have a shortfall in the provision of
specialist cuisine to the many cultures of the community. With this in
mind we are in the process of evaluating proposals from external
parties to address this very serious problem and to propose plans to
rectify the situation when it is seen to be prudent.

 With the development of The Venue coupled with approaches from
interested parties we have opened initial discussions to formulate
proposals to address the shortfall in the specialist catering market,
along with looking into the requirements for the non-alcoholic service
provision on Campus.

 Specialist operators must ensure all religious and cultural
pre-requisites are strictly adhered to as these are criteria our
in-house services cannot meet. This has therefore outlined the need to
look at opportunities presented by external operators.

 I hope this helps in explaining the situation.

 David  Peeks

 [NOTE: Maybe - but I still think proper market research is required
before we leap into these things. Or at least wider consultation.
Professor Hanham and his advisors repeatedly claimed that Burger Bars
would be clamouring to get into Pendle Food Court and the supermarkets
would be fighting to get a bit if SPAR's action. Burger King, Tesco ad
co did their market research and thought otherwise. (Ed)
---------------------------

 I would like to pass on thanks to the kind lady who gave my daughter
and I a lift last night on Quernmore Road, when my car broke down.
Many thanks

 Dawn McCracken
 Executive MBA Secretary
 The Management School
----------------------------

 The University appears to be changing the healthcare arrangements of
thousands of people, and they don't seem to have asked the people
affected by it. They certainly didn't ask me. Will we now have to go
all the way into town if we want to see a doctor? If they say we won't,
should we believe them? I can think of several instances where the
financial bottom-line came way above the word of the administrators. 

 Why go to the expense of constructing new buildings? Are these to
replace Bailrigg House or to add to capacity on campus? If the former,
are they planning to sell off the mansion, and so break up the Bailrigg
estate to fend off the banks? Again, if they say no, should we believe
them?

 Do you think that perhaps a statement is required direct from the Vice
Chancellor rather than the senior administrators saying what the 
University is, and isn't going to do regarding this matter? Healthcare
is an important matter, and I feel that decisions are being made by
unaccountable people who know nothing about health. 

 I do hope that I am completely and utterly wrong in every way to worry
about all this, but nasty things have happened in the past, and the full
truth has not been told before.

 Michael Cowie
----------------------------

 With regard to the sense of marginalisation felt by the LUSU General
Secretary and, no doubt, his colleagues, I present the following
excerpts from a document I have recently been studying:

 'We have no doubt that the machinery of student participation can and 
should be extended and improved. The means of doing this are very likely 
to vary from one university to another. In those few cases where there 
is student membership of Council or even...of Senate, these will be 
watched with interest. ... Frequently there is student membership of 
committees of Council and of Senate, and in the view of both parties 
there is scope for these practices to be extended. _Not as an 
alternative_ but to supplement this we would welcome the development of 
joint staff/student committees in new and more effective forms, with 
_substantial_ student membership and with status _equivalent_ to that of 
other committees of Senate and Council. These joint committees may 
operate not only at university level, but also, where appropriate, at 
faculty and department levels."

 The above is all, I think, relevant to recent events at Lancaster. The
document this passage is taken from is the Joint Statement from the 
Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the National Union of 
Students, 7th October 1968.

 It is notable that Lancaster's students' union president was able to
boast, in the student handbook of the time, that students at Lancaster
had the greatest degree of representation and participation in
university decision-making of any university. This was indeed, I
believe, the case. As ever, Lancaster University was ahead of its time,
just as it was and is, I would argue, ahead of and fulfilling the
Dearing Report's recommendations on university governance.

 The point I want to make is that Lancaster University has a strong 
tradition of student participation and decision-making and has 
traditionally been one of the universities with the greatest degree of 
such representation given the social and political situation of the 
time. Any pro-chancellor would do well to remember this, particularly 
one who may have served at an institution with a perhaps different 
tradition.

 It is clear, however, that in many respects Lancaster is backsliding
on this tradition of student participation in decision-making. It
amounts to backsliding for the institution to merely stand still at the
levels of representation and participation present since the 1960s. It
is certainly backsliding when basic courtesies are not observed on
university committees and student members feel themselves to be treated
as inferiors.

 The LUSU General Secretary suggested that the Union President be given
a place on UMAG. Once I may have echoed that call. I now see it to be,
forgive me, naive. It would make no difference, the real decisions
would still be taken behind closed doors. But those are decisions which
must always, in the end, be put to Council for its approval. Therefore
a more cogent aim would be to increase student numbers on Council.

 It is a national disgrace that the common experience is for there to
be only 2-4 students on university councils of perhaps 25-40. It is
shaming that Lancaster, for so long a leader in university democracy,
retains this ridiculous and insulting proportion on its governing body.
The truth of the matter is that the time when students were little more
than children is long past. Students are adults in every sense and I
would argue that they should command at least a quarter, if not a
third, of the numbers on Council, similarly on Senate (though the
current situation is not bad) and that any university committee should
have at least two student members on it. This is only equitable on
democratic grounds. When meditating on the fact that students are now
paying out of their own pocket for the education and services they
receive, that they are now, in a sense, paying a tax for their
membership of this community, the justice of the suggestion becomes
inescapable.

 I will be dismissed as mad. Well, perhaps. But many factors lead me to
believe that student activism across the country is on the rise. The 
Joint Statement of 1968 was in response to such a rising tide but was 
probably too little, too late. If an effective means of meeting the 
justifiable concerns of the student estate is not found then I predict 
the resultant pressure will lead to events that will render the
People's  Fist, joke that it was, fondly held in even Vice-chancellor
Ritchie's  memory...

 Nick Bardsley
    'Arms, my only ornament; my only rest, the fight.' - Don Quixote
---------------------------------

 Some years ago your recent correspondent George Hayhurst did me a 
favour. He suggested a local mechanic who worked from home as someone 
who could reliably service my car. Since then, as they say in the Pears
Soap ads, "I have used no other". If you would like you car serviced 
inexpensively by someone who takes responsibility for what he does and 
takes a pride in his work then you should contact Jim Simpson on 01524 
32340. Jim works from a garage near his home on Freehold but is able to
collect cars from the University and deliver them back again.

 Stuart Riley
----------------------------

 May I support the point made elsewhere in you columns about the 
provision of unlicensed premises on campus. I know of a number of 
overseas students, whose culture does not embrace the British pub or 
anything like it, who would like to have somewhere to go for a coffee 
and a chat. It seems only proper and sensible that we should cater for 
the needs of all members of the University by making available what
they  want.

 PS wasn't there a piece recently in Inkytext complaining about drunken
behaviour on campus. Rather makes the point, doesn't it.
-----------------------------------

 In my first year at Keele the Professor of Education amused us by 
reading a critical letter from a parent to a student berating him for 
idleness and much time spent listening to guitar music. As this was in 
the late 50s and guitars had just been (re)invented we all thought this
was a contemporary criticism but were told that it had been written
some 400 years earlier. The story suggests that little changes.

 Recently Stuart Aitken wrote that the University did not appear to
think that students matter. So my story, not from 400 years ago but
about 8 or so, suggests that this is not a new phenomenon. At that time
I was an Undergraduate Course Director and having lunch one day was
joined by a member of the professoriate. I was startled when his
opening remark was "I hear undergraduates are flavour of the month, ".
Good news, but very unexpected. "because they can be treated like
sheep" he added. 

 It was sad then, it still is, and it falls well below the standards 
that I expect from a University.
--------------------------

 Since the intention of serialising Mr McGregor's garden has born no 
fruit, perhaps suggestions for alternative uses for the Dallas Road 
humps might evoke some wit. As a weak start, might I suggest either, 
that a syndicate could use them to make butter, or that they could be 
used in obtaining cost-effectiveness from Viagra tablets. If their 
utility becomes too great, a bump simulator for stationary vehicles 
might be built.

 Michael Jackson (mike-de-hest@talk21.com)
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 ISS
--------------------------- 

 Sagas are rather heroic aren't they? It is said that the mathematics
of the square law of overtaking vehicles was first observed by
Pythagoras at the formula alpha chariot races in Athens. The Sage noted
that if the overtaking chariot speed was represented by the hypotenuse
of a right angled triangle with the speed of the chariot being
overtaken represented by the length of the adjacent side of the
triangle, the solution to the problem would be found by measuring the
length of the opposite side.

 For example, in the case of the overtaking chariot having a speed of
50 milles pedes / hourcandle, (mph) with that being overtaken doing 40
mph, then the distance behind the first chariot at which the Charioteer
must decide to pull out to pass, or slow down, will be the equivalent
of its stopping distance when travelling at 30. Should the slower
vehicle pull out after this point and effect an emergency stop, a
collision is inevitable.

 As Pythagoras observed, there may well be a case for minimum speed
limits for individual lanes in addition to maximum limits to reduce
speed differentials.

 Like Robin, reliant on his little cocoon of lowered entropy, we all
value our own personal travel cells, but not all of us are keen to
reach his Utopian state of Californian motorworld. Even with an
apparent lack of speed differentials, all travelling at 55mph or less,
they still contrive to have accidents, normally due to inattention,
eating breakfast, reading documents, chatting on the phone etc. In
short, they reduce their personal entropy so low that they stop driving
and start behaving more like being at home or in the office.

 Of course, one cannot make fun of safety issues. The topic is far more
complex than pressure groups represent. Psychological issues must be
addressed. Variable limits, intelligently applied, can be very
beneficial. Long journeys, on virtually empty motorways in vehicles
with a design capacity of twice the current national limit are not
subject to the same pressures as a congested M25. 

 Similarly, punitive 'green' taxation aimed at the flatulent south east
is grossly unfair on the majority in rural Britain.

 George Hayhurst.
 (Serotine -A small vespertilionine bat)
---------------------------

 My commiserations to the Scan team on their first brush with
suppression and censorship (that we've heard about). I well remember
sitting in the LUSU meeting room cutting out a letter that was
libellous of a well-loved Fylde college figure in 1996. It was not to
be the first time I ended up with inky fingers and covered in shreds of
newsprint (thought the second time was at King's College London).

 Of course, errors must be corrected and where possible avoided, 
particularly if they cause distress or defame. It is, though, always a 
shame when the polish of a newspaper is rent asunder by 
reluctantly-wielded scissors.

 I am glad to hear that the paper has built on the sound foundations
laid by the most recent editors and reached the apogee of the form they
set on the paper. I see that the traditional logo of Scan has not been
altered. This is only right. We must guard our heritage carefully,
particularly when it symbolizes quality of the first water.

 Nick Bardsley
 (Formerly accused of prima facie criminal libel by the editor of 
InkyText...curiously he never got round to the equally valid accusation
of seditious libel...)

 PS. I've just noticed the faintly absurd trumpeting that Scan is 
'Lancaster University's Only Students' Newspaper'. Is it 
tongue-in-cheek? Seems no great claim to me; cause for regret if 
anything.

 [NOTE: I think that increases its appeal to advertisers. Otherwise I
am delighted to see homage paid to the virtues of Confession.(Ed)]
------------------------------------

 I have also often wondered why the University does not brag more about
Adhaf Soueif. Her first novel,the title of which I forget,( but it
could be In the Eye of the Sun), contains a gently satirical depiction
of Lancaster University, slightly renamed, and of the town and
Morecambe. But that can't be the reason ?

 Linda Anderson 
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 For all lovers of odd facts: the numerical format for Wednesday was
17-11-1999. All of the digits are odd.

 The next odd day was 19-11-1999 (Friday). The next odd day after that
will be 1-1-3111, which is well over a thousand years away, which I may
never see.......

 Days such as 13-4-89 have both even and odd digits, thus, it is
neither odd nor even. The next even day will be 2-2- 2000 -- the first
one since 28-8-888. (I missed that one too...)

 Stella, Music
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 2. EVEN MORE SMALL ADS
 ----------------------

 CAR FOR SALE: Peugeot 306 D Turbo, P Reg. White, 42,000 miles,
excellent condition, Full service history, 11 months MOT. 7,500 pounds.
Call Matt on ext. 92071. Home tel: 01524 64606
                                ----------

 ACCOMMODATION WANTED: Recently finished PhD student seeks rented
accomodation in the central Lancaster area. Phone Dan on 07974 251089
                               -------------
 FOR SALE:
1.  Various sizes of carpet, cream/beige in colour, good quality, ?40.00.
2.  Childs ball tent including balls, like new, ideal christmas present, ?35.00
3.  Mens Timberland coat, rustic red in colour, hardly worn ?45.00
All above, if interested contact (01524) 847327 after 6.00 pm.
                          ----------------

 Large 2 bedroomed maisonette in centre of Hest Bank, magnificent views
over Morecambe Bay. Gas central heating, 50 metres away from local
shops/post office. 450.00 per month. Telephone ext. 92183 Monday's,
Tuesday's, Wednesday's any other time after 6.00pm telephone 015395
61050.
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                        DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE STUDIES 
                                PRESENTS:
                     Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
                        A play by Caryl Churchill
                           The Nuffield Theatre, 
                     23rd to 25th November at 7.30pm  
                   Tickets are 5.00, with 3.00 concessions.
                             Bookings: 5-94151

 It's 1647, and there is news of an army raised by Parliament to fight
against the King, to free England from the reign of the Antichrist.
This play follows the fortunes of a group of ordinary men and women,
whose voices have been lost to history, and whose actions and beliefs
show the lost opportunities for revolution in England in the
seventeenth century. Caryl Churchill's millennial play is being
produced with spectacular multi-media effects by the entire 1st year of
the Department of Theatre Studies students, directed by staff members
Gabriella Giannachi and Kate Newey.
                                 -------------------
 
 The Engineering Dept is entering the UK "Formula Student" competition
this year with a team of 4th and 3rd year students. Notes about the
competition are given below. The target date for the car is next June,
in time for the competitions at NEC in mid July. 

 Next Thursday Nov. 25th we are holding an information evening in
George Fox Building (GF1) starting at 7.30 and have invited about 50
local business people and friends to see the students initial ideas and
to decide whether they might help us with technical advice and/or
money. (Successful teams need a budget of at least 6K - more than our
normal project budgets ! )

 All at the University (or friends) are very welcome to come and listen
- maybe you know someone who would be keen to sponsor the team. There
will be talks for about 45 minutes and then coffee etc. and time for
people to discuss and network in the foyer. Two cars loaned by "Road
and Stage" will be on show.  For further information contact Bob Chaplin
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                                 Hornby Drama Group
                                     presents
                                   BLITHE SPIRIT
                        an improbable farce by Noel Coward

                         Hornby Institute Thurs, Fri, Sat
                                25 25 27 Nov 1999
                                      7.30 PM
                              adults 3.50 children 1.50
                  Tickets available at Hornby Post Office 
                  Castle Hotel, Royal Oak and at the door.
                              -  ----------              

                     INSTITUTE  FOR  CULTURAL  RESEARCH
                       VISUAL CULTURE SEMINAR  SERIES
             "ACCIDENT AND EXIGENCY: VISUALITY AND THE NEW YORK EL"

                    Douglas Tallack  (University of Nottingham)
                             Wednesday, 24 November

                              4.30 pm - Furness SCR
                               ---------------- 
	 	    "How to beat stress and relax" 
	          Feel Calm and relaxed. Clear your mind.
            A new, 5 week course will start on Monday 15th November.
                		7.30 - 9.00pm
 	      	           at the HALA CENTRE
		               Hala Square

              For further information and bookings contact 
	            Rodney Heginbotham on 01524 380877
                       (or just come along!)
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 IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN A ROVER 216, F REG, at a ridiculously
cheap price, keep reading. My Rover, which ran wonderfully until July
when I bought a new car, is for sale at a ridiculous price. Why? It
needs about 150 pounds worth of work to pass the MOT which is about to run
out. And as it was parked outside my house the other day, uninsured,
some jerk put a dent in the drivers door, which will cost some amount
to put right, although a crowbar will make the door open fine. It uses
utterly no oil at all. It works fine. Red. Four doors. 73,000 miles
(rather low, you will agree). But I don't want to spend the money to
put it right and then put it through the MOT when in fact it appears
that selling a Rover is not a very good idea at this time. Adverts have
brought no response. So unless someone comes up with, say 300 pounds (I
thought it was worth about ?1,000 when I began to try and flog it) in
the next week or two, I am going to send it to the scrap yard. Since it
works beautifully it seems a bit of a waste. Anyone interested?
t.cahill@lancaster.ac.uk or 593309 or 37931.
                                  ---------------

                                   Live Music in
                                 PENDLE COLLEGE BAR
                       (hosted by Bowland & Pendle Seniors)
                                      presents
                      TIN PAN ALLEY (rock, blues, Hendrix)
                                             on
                           Thursday 25th November 1999
                                    in Pendle Bar
                                8.30 p.m. - 11.30 p.m.
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                                Live Music in
                              PENDLE COLLEGE BAR
                              hosted by Pendle Seniors
                     1.30 P.M.  on Thursday 2nd December 99  
                                   presenting
                           The Sun Street Stompers  
                                        with
                     MULLED WINE and MINCE PIES (vegetarian)             
                  so come along, (it's free) the more the merrier !!!!
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 HOUSE TO RENT: Detached House (Available mid January) 4 Bedrooms and 3
Reception Rooms - Gas Central Heating - Partly Furnished - Large Garden
- maintained by Landlord - River and Footpath at bottom of Garden -
Would suit Staff or Academic Visitor - Rent £750 pcm
 For further details please contact: Mr. B. Austin Brooklands, Carus
Park, Lancaster (on Halton Road near to Army Training Camp) 01524-63880
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               DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, CENTRE FOR SOCIAL HISTORY 
                    WELCOME YOU TO A ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM ON

                 Millennial Cultures: endings and beginnings
       Saturday 4th December 1999, George Fox Lecture Theatre 5/6,  9am-5pm

9-9.30 Coffee 9.30-9.45 Welcome

9.45-11.15 
 Andrew Jotischky ‘Apocalypse, History and Prophecy in Franciscan thought’
 Michael Mullett ‘The Eschatology of John Bunyan’

11.15-11.30 Tea and Coffee break

11.30-1.00
 John Callow ‘The Cameronians: the rise, fall and absorption of a
millenarian sect 1682-1720’
 Martin Blinkhorn ‘Spanish Anarchism and Millenarianism’

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-2.30 
 Peter Harman ‘Fin de iecle and modern: Physics circa 1900’
2.30-3.15
 David Shotter ‘Deaths and Entrances: Republic to Principate in Rome’

3.15-3.30 Tea and coffee break

3.30-5.00
 Jeffrey Richards ‘Films and the end of Empire’
 Sarah Gorman ‘Millennial Closure: endings in 90s British experimental theatre’

 Tea and coffee will be served. Please provide your own lunch. (The
usual weekend campus outlets will be available.) [NOTE: Is this
satirical? (Ed)]

 We should be grateful if those coming inform Clare Ogden, History
Department (C.Ogden@lancaster.ac.uk)
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 ACCOMMODATION WANTED FOR 1 WEEK : House or flat wanted in Lancaster or
Lancaster area, for American couple who will be here between 6-12
December. If you can help, please ring Lia on 01524 60113
(Wednesday-Sunday) or email (any time): e.litosseliti@lancaster.ac.uk
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 FOR SALE: Boys Bike age 4 - 7 yrs. Reasonable condition with stand,
bell & spare inner tube. 25.00 A.Jesmont@lancaster.ac.uk

 CAR FOR SALE Peugeot 306 D Turbo, P Reg. White, 42,000 miles,
excellent condition, Full service history, 11 months MOT. 7,500 pounds.
Call Matt on ext. 92071. Home tel: 01524 64606
                              -------------

                  Thursday 25th November 	7.30pm

                       Orchestra-in-Residence Series   
                            BBC PHILHARMONIC

                       Howard Shelley (piano)
                      Markus Stenz (conductor)

Tchaikovsky	Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninov	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op 43
Bartok		Concerto for Orchestra

 Two Russian favourites precede Bartok's brilliant orchestral
showpiece. Tickets 12.50 10.00, 7.50 (12.00, 9.50, 7.00 conc) Students
5.00 BOX OFFICE 5-93729
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