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This month's meeting of ULU Council was inquorate, once again. This time it deprived Councillors of the chance to discuss the rivetting details of the nature of ULU's future relationship with Imperial College Union should Imperial College go ahead with it's stated intention of leaving the University of London.

In other news, there has been no formal report back or discussion on ULU's "Strategic Review". Rumours abound of an extraordinary council in June...
posted by Mustafa Arif at 12:38 AM

 

MARXISTS INFILTRATE KCLSU
"King's College Lundie" to be established?

1 April 2004: In a shocking turn of events, key Student Union officials were today accused of being Marxists.

The exact names of those with alleged Marxist links cannot be published for legal reasons. However, it is thought that former Liberal Democrat sympathisers and those non-trustee executives may be among the defectors.

This comes as an unpleasant surprise to many students especially after the election of Conservative candidate Michael Champion and the private political views of the current President, David Dunne. The Society for the Study of Marxism (SSM) was also recently up for deratification although saved by the mercy of Student Activities Council.

The allegation, leaked by an anonymous incoming officer, results partly from the covert deletion of key topics on the KCLSU online discussion forum, particularly one entitled "STOP THE MARXISTS", yet the retention of a promotional topic regarding the Marxism 2004 conference.

Sources close to the Union point to David Lundie, former KCLSU Deputy President and contender for the Presidency as the fomenter of the discontent and possibly conversion agent for the Marxists. Formerly a member of the Tory party, Lundie's turning to the Dark side of politics was heralded by his election campaign in Autumn, when he stood for Academic Board. His posters featured waving red flags and publicity included posting well known Marxist anthems on the KCLSU discussion forum. He was also the initiator of the recent pro-Marxism discussion topic.

Lundie is also a supporter of the Unite against Fascism campaign, which has links to the extreme left. He is also well known to the Student Broad Left faction in London. A source within the University of London Union - with which Lundie has also been involved - told this reporter that when informed about the recent occupation of the Maughan library, members of the faction seeking more information were quoted as saying "Let's ask Lundie - Lundie will know!".

The University of London Union has also been linked with the Student Broad Left, after being hijacked in February by an unholy alliance of the usually reserved Imperial College and left-wing unions from LSE, UCL and Goldschmitts College. Their former President is a member of the Student Broad Left and Alex Coles of UCL Union formerly headed their Stop the War society. ULU President and Labour Party member Chris Piper, it is alleged, is also from the more left-wing of the party.

In Brief: Incoming VP Education & Representation Rajesh “Josh” Joshi denied any association with either the Tories or Liberal Democrats. On his registration with both societies recorded on the Union database he said, “I signed up with both because my mate wanted to keep the Lib Dems ratified and being the good public schoolboy I am, I wanted to go to posh events like the recent Conservative Future gathering at the Carlton Club.” He continued, “Frankly, I’m voting for the Christian People’s Alliance: anything to stop those evil Marxists getting into power!”.

(From a spoof article not published in April 2004)

posted by coffeelover at 5:10 PM

 
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posted by Editorial at 1:09 PM

 
LONDON STUDENT SLICE
Written by Duncan Williams (also of Birkbeck College!)

A BIRKBECK COLLEGE OLD BOY GETS BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN ABOUT HIS LIFE AND 'CRIMES'.

Irish author Mary Kenny has just published her long awaited biography on the notorious wartime radio propaganda (or Nazi spin doc!) William 'Lord Haw Haw' Joyce.

William Joyce (April 24 1906 - January 3 1946), was the second of two announcers who presented the Lord Haw-Haw program, which was a Nazi propaganda broadcast aimed against Great Britain during World War II.

He was born in the United States to Irish parents during the years before Irish independence. However, Joyce, as his father did, identified himself as a Briton. The Joyce family left Ireland for London after the establishment of the Irish Free State. He attended St. Ignatius College from 1915 to 1921, including applying for university Officer Training Corps, and later studied at Birkbeck College of the London University.

It was at Birkbeck that Joyce developed an interest in fascism. He was for a period a member of the Conservative Party.

Joyce was a prominent member of the British Union of Fascists under Sir Oswald Mosley during the 1930s. He was praised for his power of oratory. However, he left the BUF in 1937 and formed a breakaway organization, the National Socialist League. In late August 1939, shortly before World War II commenced, he and his wife, Margaret, fled to Germany, before British authorities could detain him under Defence Regulation 18b.

Joyce became a naturalized German in 1940.

Mary Kenny's biography is certainly worth a read. And one wonders if the ever-so, ever-so politically correct Media Faculty at Birkbeck College will be holding any future lectures on this, one of their most infamous old boys, and a man the college once handed a London University degree, at some point in the future?

Should be interesting!
posted by Editorial at 1:53 PM

 
LONDON STUDENT SLICE - The column with bite!
By Duncan Williams

SOMETHING IN THE HEIR!

Reading the national press over the past few weeks, it appears that the age old institution of nepotism is alive and well and even reaching epidemic proportions.

Starting earlier this month with the needless coverage of the talentless Oscar Humphries trading in on his father Barry (aka. Dame Edna Everage) to gain himself some column inches. Perhaps the poor wee fella is tired of being mocked by his pals as 'Kenny of Melbourne' and needs a PR boost? But in Tatler? Give me a break!

Then James Murdoch securing a top media job thanks to papa Rupert, who needs no PR boost and who now grandly uses a Royal 'we' when answering questions about his empire during interviews.

Now to top it all, George Bush Junior is staying at Buckingham Palace, Mecca of all Nepotistic privileges of birth.

What is going on ? Is something catching? Or something in the heir?

So much for Blair's classless Britain based on achievement rather than family connections.

What do others think? Please contact The Slice...

Yours faithfully,

DUNCAN WILLIAMS
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posted by Editorial at 1:57 PM

 
Happy mid-autumn festival!!

A Chinese celebration of the brightest moon (and roundest) in the sky, and mark the beginning of Autumn.


posted by Eve at 10:37 AM

 
The Day The Students Went Mad

Catch this documentary on Radio 4 while you can: it's all about a massive demonstration by London students in 1953 when students were told the couldn't have a rag Guy Fawkes demo.

One of the rules:
"all college rivalry is to be forgotten for the night"
posted by clarewhite at 6:05 PM