worst kind.
mal-corle atack on the goate trol. michaer swann supposed to be irrelevent in a society of equal opportunity, one applicant for a job was found to be kater unresponsive and looks generally miserable" which no doubt could be attributed to the carefully researched facts that his father was a schoolteacher, secondary modern, nongraduate.
The most striking thing to emerge from these files was perhaps that the ideology of the generation does not mystily the appointments board. There are lots of negative references to long hair of course, but when it is worn by someone from the big bourgeoisie it ceases to be a disadvantage The son of a director of I.C.L. was described as follows: "Just a little long haired and decorative but obviously an intelligent young man. who has benifited know quite a lot about I.C.I.
which contained frank admissions that the board has to go along with firms that actively discriminate on grounds of colour; and the reports on individuals are full of remarks like "possibly a Jew *has undesirable political affiliations", is "slightly against authority Students, of course, are told nothing of this. Their files are confidential". It might seem that this would be a just and reasonable form of secrecy protecting the individual student from undesirable publicity. Who, after all, wants other people to know that he is "cheerfully proletarian", "slightly miserable", has a father who is a direcior orle i.. is possiby a jew O is "slightly against authority" Yet if these remarks were pinned up on tne wall at tne end produce and distribute a leaflet documenting the of the students final year, it would be hardly more inviceous unan the present Dubic disDa of exams results, and they would tell a great dea more about a persons future prospects. The fact is that these files are not confidential in the Although family background is are deliberately kept secret from the very Students occupying Edinburgh University Appointments Board offices have rifled locked filing cabinets containing confidential material and have compiled a document claiming that the board actively encourage discrimination of the What began last Monday as a sit-in protest against the university offering interviewing facilities to firms connected with South Africa, has developed into a individuals who will be affected by them; allowing judgement without appeal, prejudice without sanctions, sentence without trial The publication of the document had an explosive effect. Students who had been against the occupation clamoured on the door to be let in to see their own files. Many others were horrified that the university could keep such files without their knowledge: and some of the first and second year students swore never to go selves to petty predjustices university bureaucrats, who pretend that thev are the judicious representatives of the national interest, when in fact, they are the running dogs of a declining imperialism l he distribution of the document was the last from favourable family background and seems to straw for the university authorities and on Saturday morning, six days alter the occupanon The files also contained internal circulars had begun, the Secretary of the University arrived with a heavy brigade, and pushing his ay in, proceeded to oversee the removal of th iles and the typewriters. With a force of polic hidden around the corner it would have been foolish to resist. The Secretary Charles Stewart strutted about informing people that disciplinary action would be taken. He even went so far as to grab someone announcing, "I know who you are" and then got his name wrong.
After this force had gone there was a general meeting and it was decided to leave the premises. A press conference was called and it was explained that the occupation was being ended as it was no longer possible to liberate the files by allowing students to come in and read them for themselves. Nor was the occupation SO relevant for putting pressure on the authorities to break with apartnera Edinburgh students have shown that there is sull a vital nece for minant acton to expose the nature of the university in Capitalist societies. whether it be their tacit support of Apartheid or the processing of students for managerial bureauuniversities keep on students is used for politiacl cracies. In this sense every ends. by a participant in the occupation.
The sit-in disbanded itself on Friday morning sin rebruary so mar me intormaton coura Di circulated outside Warwick. An attempt was made to prevent this through injunctions against publication but the people enjoined were so arbitrarily selected backfired;
E.P. Thompson, giving the students full and important support, provided one analysis of the Business University and greatly helped raise the issue nationally. This had particular importance in Coventry, where the University had first been conceived by local Labour leaders. The files showed that the generous grant that Labour had given to the University when it was in control of the council had been used in the interests of the Midlands business men. Worse, their OWI meetings to which they proudly invited left-wing lecturers were being systematically spied upon with reports going to the University au G elsewhere.
The sit-in transformed the student body, for Managing Director of Rootes and an active despite a reluctant SocSoc the general meeting of students became a real, vital, instrument of popular power and discussion. Transforming itself through mass involvemene warwick exposed an issue that affects every student showing how he is threatened at the most crucial points of his life: entrance and employment. It exposed the class nature of the university not at the relatively abstract level of ideology but at the concrete level of spying and capitalist vigilance.
In so doing it lit a prairie fire that has now flared across the universities and schools of the natoll. by a participant in the occupation The capture of the tiles at warwick has sharpened the revolutionary struggle in British Education ito open hypocris terested in fies about Dolltical opinion vould be funny if he didn't sometime: etailed analyses of the struggle in two of the ke chues - camourgu and warwick iscu- apocar d MANCHESTER The warwick corresponache DCLWCCE VCs Butterworth and Manchester's Mansfield Coope • known to cacn omer as bu and jack) Drove parucularly interesung to the mittants wno quick! likes advantages of using civil law rather than criminal to prilosopnise law azamst students fi lakes so muen longer ane reeps people quiet wille inings are suo judice but wnen ine crunca came ne dew ms cool an served writs against five Manchester militants to prevent men Speakine mn me cebate. or eve enterine the buildings Result: 1.000 student occupied the Admin building, and their action was latel endorsed oy 3.000 staens al a mecune 1 he Whitworth Hall. Five days later the occupatio continues and even ine coserver lei unal bu was une the side down - inouen it nastenca to L vice-nancelors necaunderstanding, we would preier mem to resten. three of the attackers wer waiting department. This eventually found its way to a resting place in the waters or a nearby nycr OXFORD wash Sundayde the demons bunding an elic was ow plannine to uzarenOxford's system of police, whose self-appointe tutors (cans of individual colleges playing on tasks are dism outca clear situation is still tense following a violent a Greek previous actions of the Universities are livid, and -wing students are demanding disciplinar against the comrades involved. provin that the most privileged Universities most fascist-minded students in Fifty students moved into Bedford two hours They have demanded that check. One of them College me the towards is transigh ever of occup
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