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the promised time hove not appeared. Unfortunately, we cannot c:honge printers. A ehonge in printers means o l>Y Farouk Hussain Form SD ehonge in the type of odverJhe o t ro inment of no t ional tisemenh, since the printing 5nd ependence has, for GuyOn March 13, we were told processes ore likely to differ. (Clno, henald ed many chang es. that ·the magazine would not We are still waiting on the W h01teve'r h01ppe11ed to !Nnong tihe social ones being Between 31st January and be ready before 15tb April. proofs. tihose brig ht morning assemh givi~ of t heir rightifu l the 8th March, we visited the The proofs that were in the Member of the Magazine blies we used to enjoy. The j,(ib~ic stands to the many and printert at steady intervals to p;rocess of printing between Staff. t,ype of assembly when on milch vari ed ,religious bodties. Monday we used to hear oil ~• .,..:h is t1h is cha ng e, t1ho t the ,"" """'-""!"-.si'"'"":{<..:-"'<--"'"'-·' w"' ''!"'-"''"" .... ->i~.s~ ~ .s,- .,w"'"''{<..s:1<...>''"'-""-'"'-""'l"-"":k sS<,,..»~s&.s.11<..-.--.s.11<. ,.,t,, ~-.:,w."'~-"---. f),1~ , .~ 'i,,, ~.~ ~1,:0. <?1t- ...,.(', .......t-- ...,..~ ~ .(', ~." ~.~'""" *"~'"-'it- -.JtF' ~.to <?if'> "1'1t'i ..,.~-Ji"'~ ..,,f: "11\' -7ft'o ~ ,:JJl-"~->~'=Mfi",m;;";:Jrf;'3';F.-,~ ~~ ~~~r.:~ nation , a t notional ceremon- ,\It. ,1, the notices clea rly, hav e prope r sea~i.ng accommodation in ies: is o ble to see the religious 1 a 'ql ean' hall arid last but not lh,bservcnc ..... of the three m cin 1\' • w ~ ~ ~ ~ leas t - o ur m usic. Those os[tel1igions Islam, Hi nd uis.m 1f ,,f sembl ies, I hope, are not just Slnd C hris tianity _ hairibouring a nd to op:,' • t~ preciate it, tih us ~~ o figmen t of my imag·i no.fion, 8.,tnity tho,t is only right for o \ ~ ~'~ for recently I have experisome drab and d sgus t J2eople wi th one dest iny. ~~ ~I! enced ing ones. iJ?~spit e the a dvcritoges ~f l :, One faua is that a lm<l6t lfel ,g,ous tole r<N1ce, Queen.~ 1 ~ EASTER TERM, 1972. ;~ every day tihe public-address J;oflege has Chosen to remCI f\'...._- 9 ,"-.S'k~.-_>l'-"..SV..-._,iu,,__yU,e_..W,..s\!<,_.-__yV,.>}Jk."'"'S"' .:,1•1, "'K,.~1<,,>Y.e ,.,,_ ,.,t,,.,iv, _,,,_ ....-_ ,.!4e..:,l"'-.-,S-"'.,W,.,!;t, ->'k,;l~ -''k.,;?if sys.tern decides to toke o rest. J)art iol in i•ts view to re Iigious I i---.m;-,1:t- '""._._':;lt-.......-.,1t---i."""~-r.t--,,t--,,;;- ,,,....,,~ ..,;""· ..,;~""~""·" ,,,f.-;,;""""a: -,;.:-.;a:-ni-......- '>it<""""'->l\<"""a- ...~-;,;F ,,l'"-,,;f...,,.,. If this is not bad enough , one -~ bservances, at offi cial school t h<J6 to sitond in er cfti1rty haH !}Other.i ngs. T he on e chosen, 1 evid ence of some show tihe p·el>eing C h ristii an - 4n0inlly An- 1 vious n igh t - to listen to !;Jlioon; this, of course , is a I whlot is not beinQ heard. Then c o fonial hangover, I we toke o break a nd siing , and Moreover. t he opa,tihy with t han ks to tlhe acccmpariiment !Whioh these obs ervances o re o f our pianist who t ries h(:rd: tlone, loudly 1implies boredom to improvise and tlhorauglh~y ~nd yeorninA for dharigecon'fuses us Olli!. Afte r this tthis is t he impression I g et exdi/tiing experience we relax 5vitih this, a nd the fact thc t it Gs bes.t one could whil e f,s only fa ir f1hot the other relist i1l1I s tandi ng - and wait with g'ions be giv.en a genuine diSIOppOin,tment to !hear our b·t ld,a nce, I om corwinced that ' of m usic - whioh seems to be i,here m.us t be some com pro, somet'hi111Q o f bygone ages. tnise. For t hose young er m embers CT"h ese ore my suggestions, of t he sdhool, every Mor.day jither ( l ) o t c hi oss,embli es, morning a p iece of music WQS !two or tshree minu tes be g iven ployed a• t assembly; it was tto a•ll, in which eaah is free to usuaHy classical. T his was to ~serve his re ~igious pract ice; . o id us to appreciate music and br (2) since we have three ' w.e d id enjoy it somewha·t, olJ erms and th ree ma in rel igions , ttioug'h I feel we sihoU'ld now tiMocote a religion to each ploy someth inQ mo,re relevcn t !term; or (3) to bring it close r, to Guyona . · .IS'i nce we haive t hree general Let's !hope t1hot tihe re wil l tasse mblies eoch week, we qive be some improvement il'J our IQ rloy to each re ligion and fu,t ure assembl ies. 1Jecwe th e house assemiblies to Alistair Douglas 5D Q.C. field, "gradually deteriorating." .!the h ouse masters' discre t ion. _My a bove suggestions bave ve nues where the games are played• at the n,oment. The 6 een all originated in view of h ockey players qre ploy inq on my hopefu l presumpt ion t hat o p iece of ground near ttie ~ e all wish to learn about a nd concrete and crioke ters ere ;Jnde rstand , eaoh o1'he r. able to bcmow a qro,urid twice J would appreciate any coma week. If we show t'ha,t we m ent or criticism of my views . are satisfi ed wi t'h tlhis it m ight ing is "Are the g roundsmen to d ition of the field . Appeals master hos stopped tihem, soy- become pe rmanent. Football ffh e n ew members of the be blGmed?" Th e g,rounds- weire m:ide to both the Gov- ing thot it is dang erous to hats not been heard of, since it t;dhool would hove by now got mer, hOIVe 11eg:lect ed their du - ernmen t arid the Ministry of practise there, as the re are was impossiblle to p loy on ,-he Over the shock of seei ng t ies, but they ore not to be Works, Hydraul ics and Sup;>ly m'any g lcss wi ndows around. field . No alternative piece Queen's CoMege's undulaNng f uli!y blamed . Firstl y, there is for money and machinery a nd The following week he said has been found fo r th is gcme. equipm •:nt in up to now we ore still wa,iting . that tihe hockey ;fi eld. W halt o sight it is! One inad equate players w~II ACTION NOW ( !Wonders how it got in this Queen's CoMege. The m oNe r Allthough tihe ministry hos not ploy on th'e ipie<:e of ground W e hove been told that t<ne storte, consid ering it wcis one the scl--.o::-! h::s . ct i:: csent c•.1t.:. done anything about tihe field, o utside his house. The piece field should be finished by t'he 1 Of the best in t'he country. In the grass bu t does not co - they do not want anyone else of ground too has a lot of beginn,ing of the July term At lect it. The g ross left on the lFo<lt, notional hockey proctice to do it. It was drro·nged' tihc,t h01les a l').d bumps and this tihe rate it is going, some m otcihes were even played on ground .preven,t s t.he g rou nd a1 m'o n would come to plough causes the ball to rise more members of the school m iqht from d ryii ng. Secondly, t he and grad e t'he field, end it than if it were on the con - not see ,the finished field while [this very ground . field is s loping toW10rd s the was suggested t+iat he be paid crete. I don't see the logic . t+hey are at sahoc;I. We haive START OF THE DECLINE cenitre and the neig h.bouiring cot of tihe money put aside for Hookey is a game whk:h_ is been given p romises b y the 1t ma¥ be soid thatt tihe d e- t renches, not being clean, do games qeclr. T he headmcster ployed . mostly on the grou~d. Ministry of Works, '":lydraul ics tlin.e started in 1968, as after not d rain owary t,he wdte r. The so,id that tthis was irregular Wiha,t 1s the sense of p laying and Supply that the field wou ld the footbad1I season there we re gr oundsmen are not expected and decided to contact the on the piece of ground if tlhe be f ixed, and I don' t see it be·o few holes on the football to bring di rt and fill! up the mi n istry. By the t ime the bOJM is . rising - which Y"ou ld i~q done unless we keep be lfield . There was also one por- holes. Their job, Wihidh in- ministry d ecided to g;ve the more l1 kiely b reak o window hind them . I want to know ticula,rly bad patch on the cludes the moi nteriance of the ahead , they cought them- pane. Th e cric~et players v:ere who .suffers if there is no fie ld . .eastern ground. It wouild not field , is not solely to mciin tain go se lves and sa1d they would do asked to ipract,11<:e on t he fie ld , It 1s11 t the headmaster or f,oiye been so bod now if it was the field . When the school it. Up to now they ha'Ve done as the pi1tches were s.till rec- even t'he m embers of the stoff, r epoired then, but nothing was r eceived the books ond seCJts nothing W hy d idn' t t'he heed- so11able. A re the pitches alone it is we , the studen ts,. who d one and as a result, tihe field of the cha irs, tlhey hod to ne- master · toke the money end import'ant for the playi ng of suffer. is now c'most beycind recla im- g lect t'he field in order to work pay the man? What is t<he ~he gam e? Isn't f'he outfield We, the students, sincere'y o tion . M uch mor,e money will on tihe chairs. Al-so they hCl'Ye sense c,f hovii ng gear and no- importan t too? No one would hope that the matter 1s locike::I _ha.,,,e to be used in an effort to to keep the lawns at the ~ront resto-e the field to its former of the builoi no nea t ar.rl tid v. where to play the gam es? A t ploy the game if the ball , on into a\s soon oo possib le, end present, the qcmes clubs have leaving tlhe bot, s~enly hits we h<:'pe to. se~ the _result~ of s tate then tiho t w'hich wo-uld proper equipment and we ihcve a b ~m p o r ho le and_ JU~ ps_ up the 1nvesit1'9ot1ons in a f ield FURTHER DETERIORATION h01Ve been needed if the effort e excess money. If this to his face when he 1s f 1eld1ng. thot every Q.C. boy would be was m :::de ea rlier. At present, The buildinp o f t1he po'Vil ion. som money hod been used on the The re o re many moke-sh ift proud about. in order to reclb:-:-n tihe f ie!d, whiioh was one of the moin fi e ld it would hove been finevents of last year, also con11he middle ih(Js to be buil t up, using sand which would cost trilbuted to t1h e d eterioro1t ion ished by now. GAMES over nineteen thouscnd dol - of the fi eld . The heay,y vehiThe state of the f 1eld is o The staff of the "Queen's College Lictor" humbly lars. Th e M in is1try of Wo rks cles trave ~ling to and fro has oreot setback to the gcmes of to readen and advertisers for the nonapologises hcd some effect on the H yd rculics and Suoply govie us a p,:ea;once of the Christmas Term issue of the "Lictor" t he excess d irt from Ke';lv' s ground. Now ot last we hove Queen's Cc,llege. As of la.te, dl!e to most unfortunote circumstances. O ~m. Abc....,t 127 tr J<f'k lode; the p~ ,i'·~n fni~,he d, we do t+he h ockey e nd cricke t ployers we re prcicf1ising on the We, however, ho,e that the news and features were d umped o n t he field; no t hove the field . concrete on the we,te rn side available in this issue will make up for our lapse last One may have wondered wha·t notti irg e lse w,-15 done. cf the b• 1i d. ng The h~ .:d te rm. I A q uestion everyone is ask- f' S h • . r l _ .., (<_
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