{"id":1470,"date":"1986-12-04T13:40:50","date_gmt":"1986-12-04T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:22:30","slug":"december-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/1986\/12\/04\/december-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"December 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Political controversies and classic &#8217;80&#8217;s musicians take Edinburgh by storm in the first week of December, as students prepare for exams and the holidays. Read more below!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/19590\/04_12_1986_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">4 December, 1986: Loans, AIDS, and Rock n&#8217; Roll<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Student<\/em> Editors encourage more members of the University community to get involved with the anti-loans scheme protests happening around campus in this week&#8217;s editorial, which claims the previous week&#8217;s &#8216;Week of Action&#8217; was more a &#8220;week of inaction.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Letter writers to <em>Student <\/em>this week expressed mixed opinions on Student&#8217;s article about the AIDS epidemic in the previous issue, read more on page 5.<\/li>\n<li>Van Morrison and Alice Cooper both preformed at the Playhouse this week, with <em>Student<\/em> publishing mixed reviews on their performances. While Alice Cooper was lauded as a &#8220;master of stagecraft,&#8221; Van Morrison was described as looking &#8220;fat, old, and rather bald&#8221; by critic Blaise Drummond.<\/li>\n<li>The Eurhythmics played in Glasgow with a rave review published by <em>Student<\/em> critic Colin Hancock, who compared the concert to an act of worship,&#8221; and called the music fervour of the performance &#8220;searing,&#8221; &#8220;unrelenting,&#8221; and &#8220;refreshing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/19590\/04_12_1986_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">Read the full issue here<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loans, AIDS, and Rock n&#8217; Roll: political controversies and classic &#8217;80s bands take Edinburgh by storm! Read more here&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25,26,19],"tags":[45,41,43,46,44,42,40],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/files\/2017\/03\/04_12_1986_featureimage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52Px1-nI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}