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ROUGH JUSTICE tread Sonra Leal's trrghtenrrrg letter Wrth tears rn my eyes. When l eontaeted Drane Ahhott's offrr‘e. l was delrghted to he rnfor'med that she wrll he drseussrng the teat tamrlvs srtuatron Wltit the l tome ()ffr<:e. However, rt rs the duty of all of us to retle<:t on the many rndrvrdrrals rn srrrrrlar srtuatrons who do not possess the (:ommrtment and itfllittlli‘. of Sonra t eat, What Sorrra has done rs prove that rt you tell enough people. someone ‘.'.rll always lrsten.
Oh telexrsron 'ast week I sax‘r a woman desr‘rrt red as 'hysterreal' when she suggested we are ‘sleepwalkrng rnto rteo» tasr‘rsm' \vrthrn thrs rtorrrrtr\.. A day or two later. i watched a BBC news hroadr‘ast
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Simon & Anna Sports events prO/ect manager 8 r‘adrograp/rer Thetango dancers from the BBC advert were awesome.
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DRAMA DEBATE: A RESPONSE
l .vould lrke to offer some harkground to letters you have puhlrsned ahorrt our Sehoot of Drama(‘1()reatrvelndustrres.
Queen Margaret tJrrr'./ersrt\, (Jotlege aegurred the old ‘(iatr-'.'.’a3,/' (tornplex rn the t‘)‘.lfls. \‘thh the ; ssrstanee of grants. new L)tlli(l|t‘.(]fl were eorrstrrrrted. others altered and some work done on the orrf theatre. It was always known that the works rn the tElfltts would not he enorrgir for our long term use.
In 7005) a survey was taken whreh revealed srgnrfreant prohlems rn the old Hiater'xay'. It was elosed rmrnedrately for safety reasons whrle .ve earned out emergeney work. The rrurrrher of detrereneres made rt apparent that ever: work on the old hurldrng to rerntoree stahrlrty would he very expensrve. wrth no guarantee of srreeessful restoration.
lhe hest estrmate rs rn exr‘ess of S‘2.-1m W/Ulttt/i makrng any rrrrpr‘o\.rerrrerrt to the fa<:rlrtres. We therefore came to the ‘.'|(;".'. that 'the Gatexxay . . . he uewed as a . .
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support tturrent uses. The Board of Goxernors made a dertrsron to drspose of rt, Our Sehool of Drama and the Creatrxe Industries wrll
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Professor Richard Kerley Dean, l-arutty of Brrsrrress and Arts. OMI JC. Ldrnhrrrgh
SPRINGER IS SPRUNG would lrke to :;elehrate the return ot Jerry Sprr/rger the Opera USlOr to lidrnhrrrgh. The r‘rty has an rmportant plarte rn the hrstory of JSTO. The / rst predreted that JSTO would he a hrt rrt wasr and plar:ed me. one of the performers. on the eover of the 2002 Festrvals rssue. Nohody
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The prr‘.'.’r-rtrri rrrrrwr :s r" integral feature rt \/.()‘r'\) ()hjer‘tors r .rr‘rnot xturnayh the sourrvf of tier»; rir' dressed as Arnerrrarr trarle' trash lll‘r'_}lltr} rrror‘k r pera ltrr‘hard ltrrrr'ra I nrusrr; e3e.ates \.'.'hat would he seen as ‘a seed‘, and hlasphemorrs surrpt' rnto a moving deprr tron ot the parntul (:rreurnstanees some people frnd therrrselves rrr.
Isalrrte The t rst for trerrrg wrth us from the start. Wrthorrt you or the support of your readers the legend of the
“Draper Man' would never have
grown rato wnat rt rs today. have more farth rrr your gurdanee than rn whatexer ‘truth’ the moralrsers spout. Wills Morgan
AKA 'Morrtel' rrr JSTO
LETTER OF THE FORTNIGHT
Jim Bovill By emarl
I LIVED IN ST PETER’S
l was among the first to move rnto the new semrnary whe'r rt
help | earr. I am partreular'ly keen on hrs Ideas relatrrrg to musrr: and the hurldrng. Perhaps rt could also he useful as a centre for guret study. scholarly research. rnedrtatron and reflectron.
THE LETTER OF THE ISSUE WILL RECEIVE TWO BOTTLES OF BLANDY'S ALVADA
opened rn 1966. rn my final year of study for the prresthoo'l. Havrng spent the prevrous :3 years rn deereprt and. let's say. modrtred aeeonrmodatron. to move rn to such a hrrrldrrrg was a toy and a thrrll. My own sprrrtual odyssey has taken a ltrrrrrh-‘3r of unexpected twrsts and turns srnee then. hut strll reeall that year wrth great affectron. For the hurldrng to have reaehed rts present state rs a rratronal drsgrar;e for whreh several rnterested partres should feel ashamed.
I have (:ontaeted Murray Grrgor and offered any
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Kathy & Martin Nurse 8 /ewe//er
We only found out about this at twenty to seven tonrght. It's great. There aren't en0ugh opportunrties to do ballroom dancing rn Glasgow.
Norma 8. Alan Miller Scott/sh and UK bar/room dance champ/ons
It's great to see so many people interested rn dancrng.
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