The squatting students stand up

On 2 December Sir Sidney Caine announced to the students of the London School of Economics that a committee comprising 50 per cent staff and 50 per cent students was to be set up to review college regulations. He also suggested that similar committees might be established for each department within the college. Whether or not he had heard the students singing in the corridor outside, he did not say. We do know, however, that this unprecedented announcement resulted directly from college action taken after Mr David Adelstein had written in his capacity as the students' union's president to The Times re Dr Adam's prospective appointment. The noise and Photonews notwithstanding, the students had won a minor victory in what used to be known as the alma mater of revolutions.