{"id":1489,"date":"1987-03-12T13:38:50","date_gmt":"1987-03-12T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:58:11","slug":"march-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/1987\/03\/12\/march-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"March 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In March 1987 there were marches against the Thatcher-era loans scheme, politicians visiting campus, and a festival solely devoted to heavy metal across Edinburgh. Read more about it below&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/19598\/05_03_1987_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">5 March 1987: Marchs Against Loans and A Visit from the Secretary of State&#8230;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>On the day this copy of <em>Student<\/em> was published in March 1987, The National Union of Students Scotland branch organised a march against the instatement of a loans-based student funding scheme being enacted by the U.K. Government, to take place in Edinburgh, in which a large number of students and representatives from the University took part.<\/p>\n<p>The University hosted the Scottish Secretary of State, Malcolm Rifkind, at David Hume Tower, where student protestors presented him with a giant \u201cpill\u201d to represent the \u201cremedy\u201d for education (a \u00a335 per week grant for all students during term time, and no loans)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/19598\/05_03_1987_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\"><strong>Read the full issue here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/19599\/12_03_1987_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">12 March 1987: A New Gallery on Campus and A Festival for Metalheads<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Richard Demarco Gallery began its transformation and refurbishment on the day this issue of <em>Student<\/em> was published.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh hosts the \u2018Death to False Metal\u2019 Festival, with lots of famous metal bands from around the world attending the festivities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/19599\/12_03_1987_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\"><strong>Read the full issue here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 1987 there were marches against the Thatcher-era loans scheme, politicians visiting campus, and a festival solely devoted to heavy metal across Edinburgh. Click here to read more about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":1490,"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":[60,58,57,59],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/files\/2017\/04\/05_03_1987_featuredphoto.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52Px1-o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"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=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}