Camping In Tents
Copies for fair use, extract, review, etc, within the terms of relavent
copyright terms. Copyright (c) 1976 "J.H." - probably John Hein.

Background information:
All of this happened before I was at Stirling University.

At the start of Autumn semester 1976 Stirling University seriously
underestimated the take-up of on-campus accommodation, and to fulfill its
commitment it "housed" students in the Library Studies Area. Over time this
became misrememberd as being housined in tents. "J.H." started producing a
newsletter "Camping In Tents" to publicise things. From the content it
appears that student politics on campus was polarised between the Left and
the Right with apathy occupying the middle ground. "J.H." seems to rail
against this, and what he perceived as University misadministration and
jobsworthyness. Camping In Tents is always listed as being written/editied
by "J.H.", but various parts of it indicate strongly that "J.H." is John
Hein (confirm by John Hein). The Queen had visited Stirling University in
1974, and had had an egg thrown at her. There is a stain on the plaque at
the main entrance that has entered mythology as being the egg.

The players:
NUS Travel - a NUS-owned travel agents on campus.

Broad Left - loose coalition of politically leftward student political
activists.

SUSA - Stirling University Students Association. In other Universities, this
would have the name Student Union.

CSA - Council of Student's Association - main policy-making body of the
University's Students Association

Halls of Residence:
AKD - named after Andrew K Davidson
ASH - Andrew Stewart Hall
Murray Hall
Donnelly Hall
Geddes House
Fraser House

At this time, all halls other than Geddes were segragated having a male wing
and a female wing. By the mid-1980s, AKD was the only non-mixed hall.

Allangrange - A Student/Staff club just off campus. Later taken over by
CSA/SUSA and closed down.

The MacRobert - Arts Centre and Restaurant that the University was built
around. The Restaurant operated a system where you could "bulk-buy" food in
advance by buying a book of catering dicount vouchers. I think they cost
about £10, and were worth about £12.50. German-speakers often refered to
eating at the McBob jokingly as "fressening", (from german for "fodder")
rather than "essenning" (from the german for "food").

Gannochy - sports centre on campus, that also sold food.

CIT often refers to people as Neville Scott 740319/2. The number is their
student registration number. The first two digits indicate the year they
joined the university, in this case 1974.

Dumyat - a nearby almost-mountain. Pronounced Dum-eye-at.

Campus elections - the voting system was a transferable vote system, and
candidates could indicate who they would like their supporters to list as
second preference on their ballot.

The post of Honoury President was open to any person. In 1977 somebody
nominated Malcom Rifkind, which generated a movement to ensure he was not
elected.

20/11/07: Some corrections added from J.H.