Concrete - Issue 172

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MARY QUANT FOUND LOST IN TIME

Issue 172 · Wednesday, January 26th 2005

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UEA UNPLUGGED FAULTY SWITCH RESULTS IN LOSS OF POWER FOR THE WHOLE CAMPUS Helen Pike News Editor UEA was plunged into darkness last Monday following a power cut that lasted all afternoon. Lectures and work were thrown into disarray as the unprecedented loss of power caused upset and a little joy amongst lecturers, staff and students as UEA found out what it would be like to live without electricity. Whilst the library was evacuated due to health and safety reasons, many lec-

tures and seminars continued in the dark, mainly due to a misunderstanding of the situation. Much of the campus consequently could not function as normal, with all of the shops closing on the street, and the beer pumps in the pub and Hive out of operation. After 3pm lectures and seminars were cancelled as classes could not function in darkened rooms and soon after, both the catering block and the Union House were evacuated. Due to bad weather most people went home, causing

major congestion problems in the car park and Bluebell Road. The power cut lasted until 4pm, just as forthcoming lectures had been cancelled for the day. The repercussions were only slight, and could have been much worse had the power cut continued throughout the night. The catering blocks opened as normal later in the day, as did the library. A disgruntled student told Concrete how he lost several hundred words of an essay that he had failed to save Continued on page 2

Students studying in the library were told to leave due to ‘health and safety’ measures

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Despite efforts by Concrete to approach other members of faculty, until now the only people willing to go on the record against the changes have been Student Liaison rep for the AUT, Rupert Read, and Union Academic Officer Chris Ostrowski. Although one senior member of staff who was, presumably, concerned about their job security did respond to Concrete’s request for an opionion by saying that they “...had not been in the position long”.

EXTENSIVE UEA SUPPORT SHOWN TO ASIA AID

Philip Sainty Editor The reforms to Senate reported in the last issue of Concrete have caused many in the University community to voice their concerns about the proposals. Staff and students are worried that the new structure, which drastically reduces the number of elected representatives, could seriously damage the right to self-determination of some smaller schools.

But the potentially undemocratic structure of Senate has now prompted a number of staff to add to the voices of discontent. Such is the concern, that Union Communications Officer, Cat Lumb, has joined with Chris Ostrowski to ensure that the concerns of the Union are fully known to the University administration. Everyone now awaits the report of the joint committee on governance, which meets on March 2nd. See Letters, Page 24

Sarah Smith In response to the Tsunami crisis the union is putting on several events to raise money for the cause. On Wednesday 26th January there will be collections and people will be selling black wristbands with all money going to the DEC. The date has been chosen to mark the one-month anniversary of

the disaster itself. It is hoped that this reminder will encourage people not to forget about the effects as the aftermath begins to fade from the media’s view. The union is looking for volunteers to help with the collections and asks that anyone interested emails su.welfare@uea.ac.uk. On Friday 21st many Indonesian students from UEA ran an appeal for an organisation called

Indonesian Children Relief. The group is helping the child victims of the Tsunami. They spent the day selling Indonesian snacks to students and staff around campus and would like to thank everyone who contributed. There are also plans for collection boxes at future gigs and RAG will be using their pimps and hos party to raise money for the appeal. On Continued on page 4

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