Concrete - Issue 186 by Concrete - the official student newspaper of UEA.

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,#2 0LAYBOY NIGHT BANNED BY %XEC %LIZABETH (UDSON 7HETHER YOU PARTY THERE AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK OR WOULDN T BE CAUGHT DEAD THERE THE ,#2 HAS BECOME THE CENTRE OF STUDENT DE BATE IN LIGHT OF THE %XECU TIVE #OMMITTEE S DECISION TO SUSPEND THE 0LAYBOY ,#2 THEME !NDY (IGSON #OM MUNICATIONS /FlCER COM

MENTED h4HIS 5NION IS A PROGRESSIVE CAMPAIGNING BODY AND ) DON T THINK THAT CERTAIN THEMED NIGHTS lT IN WITH THAT v 3ALLY (AMMERTON 7OM EN S /FlCER POINTED OUT THAT TO BASE THE THEME OF AN ,#2 ON A PORNOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE WOULD BE INCONSISTENT WITH THE RECENT BAN ON THE 0IMPS

4HE ,#2gS TRADEMARK THEME NIGHTS ARE BEING TONED DOWN BY THE 5NION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE AND (OgS ,#2 &URTHERMORE IN LIGHT OF RUMOURS THAT CER TAIN NIGHTCLUBS WILL LET WOM EN IN FREE OF CHARGE PROVID ING THEY CAN PROVE THAT THEY

ARE NOT WEARING UNDERWEAR THE PRESSURE IS ON THE 3TU DENT 5NION TO MAINTAIN A HIGH STANDARD OF ENTERTAIN MENT AT THE ,#2

4HE WOMEN S CAMPAIGN IS BASED AROUND CHANGING SOCIAL ATTITUDES WHICH OF TEN DO NOT KEEP UP WITH THE CHANGES IN POLICY h4HERE ARE

MANY SUBTLE DOUBLE STAND ARDS IN SOCIETY THAT ARE NOT ALWAYS NOTICED 7E ARE NOT TRYING TO CENSOR PEOPLE OR #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

,IBRARY MAKES a 5%!gS DENTISTRY SCHOOL $ARKNESS DESCENDS ON 5%! IN A HELICOPTER FROM LATE RETURN lNES PROPOSAL IS REJECTED 'ILES $ERRINGTON ,AST YEAR OVER a WAS MADE IN lNES ON OVERDUE BOOKS AT THE 5%! ,IBRARY PROMPTING SOME STUDENTS TO SUGGEST THAT IT MAY BE PARTIALLY DEPENDANT ON THE CHARGES AS A SOURCE OF

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INCOME 4HE lGURES RELEASED BY THE ,IBRARY SHOW AN INCREASE OF ALMOST a BETWEEN AND WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE lNES BEING IMPOSED ON STAND ARD LOAN MATERIALS $AVID 0ALMER !SSISTANT ,IBRARIAN SAID THAT WHILE NO ONE FAC TOR CAN FULLY EXPLAIN THIS RISE

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3ARAH %DWARDES %DITOR 5%! S a MILLION BID FOR A NEW 3CHOOL OF $ENTISTRY WAS TURNED DOWN BY THE GOVERNMENT LAST WEEK )F SUCCESSFUL THE BID WOULD HAVE ENABLED STUDENTS TO BEGIN TRAINING IN 3EP

TEMBER %XETER AND 0LYMOUTH UNI VERSITIES WERE CHOSEN FROM A SHORTLIST OF lVE POTENTIAL LOCATIONS TO HOST A SHARED DENTISTRY COURSE /THER BIDS THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN FROM 3OUTHAMPTON ,EICESTER AND JOINTLY (ULL AND 9ORK WERE ALSO REJECTED 4HE 3CHOOL WAS ONE OF THE #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

)SABEL $YSON .EWS %DITOR ,OCAL ,OWESTOFT BAND 4HE $ARKNESS RETURNED TO 5%! IN STYLE ON TH *ANUARY ! HELICOPTER BROUGHT THEM ONTO THE 5%! HELIPAD AND THEY WERE MET BY A 5NION MINIBUS THAT DROVE THEM TO

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THE VENUE 4HE GIG WAS A SELL OUT AS THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL BAND RETURNED TO THE SMALL VENUE TWO YEARS AFTER THEIR LAST VISIT BEFORE THEY EMBARK ON A 5+ ARENA COMEBACK TOUR 4HE BAND WERE KITTED OUT IN THEIR TRADEMARK GARISH COSTUMES AND ENTERTAINED THE CROWD WITH POPULAR OLD TRACKS AND NEW MATERIAL

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#ONTROVERSY OVER ,#2 THEME NIGHTS

3TUDENTS ENJOY A NIGHT OUT AT THE ,#2 #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE STOP THEM HAVING FUN BUT AS OUR DECISIONS IMPACT ON THE IMAGE OF THE 5NION WE HAVE

TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT MESSAGE WE PUT ACROSS )T IS NOT NECESSARILY JUST HARMLESS FUN /THER ISSUES NEED TO BE

#/.4%.43 .%73 0OLICE ARE APPEALING FOR WITNESSES TO A RACIST ATTACK WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING AN ,#2 h&LIRTv NIGHT LAST $ECEMBER

4HE .53 HAS LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN TO lGHT AGAINST POSSIBLE INCREASES IN HIGHER EDUCATION TUITION FEES

&%!452%3 7HERE S THE BEST PLACE TO GO ON A lRST DATE IN OUR lNE CITY #ONCRETE S REPORTER ROAD TESTS THE TOP CHOICES

4HE RESULTS ARE IN &IND OUT WHAT THE STUDENTS OF

CONSIDERED v 4HE RULING HAS RAISED AN OUTCRY AMONG STUDENTS INCLUDING -ICHELLE #ATER

0() WHO SAID THAT THERE IS A LINE BETWEEN BEING PO LITICALLY CORRECT AND TAKING DECISIONS TO EXTREMES h4HE

THEME NIGHTS AT THE ,#2 ARE LIGHT HEARTED FUN AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN TOO SERIOUSLY #ONTROVERSY CAN BE READ INTO ANY ,#2 FROM 3KOOL $AZE TO THE FORTHCOMING 0IRATES ,#2 v -ICHELLE COLLECTED SIGNATURES AGAINST THE BAN WHICH BRINGS THE ISSUE TO THE VOTE OF THE STUDENT BODY 3HE OBSERVED THAT THE %XECU TIVE #OMMITTEE WORK VERY HARD AND THEY DO BRILLIANT THINGS FOR 5%! BUT THIS IS SUE AFFECTS SO MANY STUDENTS n REPUTEDLY CAUSING MORE OUTRAGE THAN THE PROPOSED BAN ON SMOKING n AND SHOULD NOT BE DECIDED BY A FEW STUDENTS /NE STUDENT WHO AGREED

WITH THE PETITION SAID h7E RE THE ONES THAT GO TO THE ,#2 AND BUY DRINKS AT THE ,#2 )T S OUR 5NION AND IT SHOULD BE OUR DECISION v -ANY MEMBERS OF THE %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE HAVE SEEN THE CONTROVERSY RAISED AS POSITIVE WITH !NDY (IG SON SAYING h!S SOMEONE WHO HAS ALWAYS CAMPAIGNED FOR A MORE DEMOCRATIC 5N ION ) WELCOME THIS DEBATE v 3ALLY (AMMERTON CON TINUED h/FTEN WE DON T THINK ABOUT THINGS OR QUES TION ENOUGH WHICH IS WHY ) THINK IT S GREAT IN SOME WAYS THAT THIS DECISION HASN T JUST BEEN PASSED WITHOUT DEBATE !T THE END OF THE DAY WE REP RESENT YOU THE STUDENTS v

5%! S -EDICAL 3CHOOL TO ADMIT MORE STUDENTS #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE POSSIBLE USES SUGGESTED FOR THE "LACKDALE -IDDLE 3CHOOL SITE WHOSE PROVISIONAL SALE TO THE 5NIVERSITY WAS SECURED LAST MONTH 4HE GOVERNMENT DID HOW EVER APPROVE AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF MEDICAL STU DENTS WHO WILL TRAIN AT 5%! FROM TO 5NIVERSITY #OMMUNICATIONS -ANAGER !NNIE /GDEN SAID h7E ARE DELIGHTED BY THE ANNOUNCE MENT THAT 5%! WILL BE ABLE TO RECRUIT AN ADDITIONAL

MEDICAL STUDENTS EVERY YEAR )N ALLOCATING THESE EXTRA PLACES TO US THE (IGHER %DU CATION &UNDING #OUNCIL FOR %NGLAND HAS RECOGNISED OUR QUALITY AND INNOVATION v 4HE 5NIVERSITY S -EDI CAL 3CHOOL WHICH OPENED IN WAS THE lRST NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL IN "RITAIN FOR ALMOST YEARS 4HE DECI SION TO ADMIT MORE STUDENTS HAS BEEN WELCOMED BY THE SCHOOL WHICH RECEIVES MANY MORE APPLICATIONS THAN IT HAS AVAILABLE PLACES

!NNIE /GDEN SAID h4HE DECISION ABOUT THE DENTAL SCHOOL IS OF COURSE DISAP POINTING BUT SHOULD BE PLACED IN CONTEXT 5%! AC CEPTED ITS lRST HEALTH STU DENTS IN )N JUST YEARS THIS SMALL GROUP HAS GROWN TO NEARLY STU DENTS ENGAGED IN A WIDE RANGE OF INNOVATIVE HEALTH RELATED COURSES v h/UR )NSTITUTE OF (EALTH WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND TO ADD NEW COURSES TO ITS PORT FOLIO AND TO EDUCATE TOMOR

ROW S HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR THIS REGION AND FURTHER AlELD v 5%! HAD HOPED THAT ITS BID WOULD HELP TO EASE THE NATIONAL SHORTAGE OF .(3 DENTISTS BY ENABLING STAFF TO OFFER TREATMENT TO PATIENTS OUTSIDE TEACHING TIME 4HE lVE YEAR COURSE WOULD ALSO HAVE OFFERED PRACTICAL TRAIN ING IN .(3 TREATMENT FOR ITS STUDENTS 5P TO OF THE POPU LATION IS THOUGHT TO CURRENTLY BE WITHOUT A DENTIST

5%! HAVE BEEN GETTING UP TO WITH OUR ANNUAL 3EX 3URVEY

,)&%349,% -ATCHING YOUR DRINK TO YOUR FOOD HOW TO MAKE THE BEST CHOICE FROM A RANGE OF BUDGET SUPERMARKET WINES

%NVIRONMENTAL ACTION GROUPS PROTEST OUTSIDE LOCAL SCHOOLS TO HIGHLIGHT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF X S

#/--%.4 )S THE OVER HYPED 6ALENTINES CELEBRATION JUST A LICENSE TO BE UNROMANTIC FOR THE OTHER DAYS OF THE YEAR

30/24 !S ,AWRENCE $ALLAGLIO ANNOUNCES HIS RETURN TO RUGBY #ONCRETE TAKES A LOOK AT PLAYERS FASHION FOR hUN RETIRINGv

4HE TRACK TEAM BRINGS A HEFTY HAUL OF TROPHIES BACK FROM THEIR lRST INDOOR COMPETITION OF THE SEASON

3TUDENTS PAY OUT OVER a IN LIBRARY lNES #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE BETTER AND CLEARER ENFORCE MENT IS BEING ATTEMPTED AND THIS MAY WELL INCREASE THE REVENUEv 5%! STUDENT *ACK 'UEST WHO USED THE NEW &REEDOM OF )NFORMATION !CT POWERS TO OBTAIN THE DETAILS SAID THAT HIS lNDINGS HAVE LED HIM TO QUESTION WHETHER THE ,IBRARY S lNES ARE FAIR TO STU DENTS h4HE QUESTION LOOMS IS IT RIGHT ) M NOT SURE THAT MOST CASH STRAPPED STUDENTS WHO VE BEEN HIT BY HEFTY lNES AND AN UNCOMPROMIS ING SYSTEM WOULD THINK SO v (OWEVER -R 0ALMER REJECTED THIS IDEA (E SAID

h&INES ARE AGREED AT A 5NI VERSITY LEVEL WITH THE FULL INVOLVEMENT OF THE 5NION OF 3TUDENTS AND INDEED IT IS OFTEN STUDENT REPRESENTA TIVES WHO DESIRE AN INCREASE IN lNES h&INES ARE MEANT TO EN SURE THE AVAILABILITY OF STOCK FOR ALL STUDENTS AND ANY IN CREASE IN lNES SIMPLY REmECTS THE FACT THAT MORE BOOKS ARE BEING HELD FOR LONGER v 7ITH CURRENT ,IBRARY CHARGES STANDING AT PENCE PER WORKING DAY AND PENCE PER HOUR FOR STANDARD LOAN AND SHORT LOAN RESPEC TIVELY THE ADVICE AS ALWAYS IS TO RETURN OVERDUE BOOKS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE

-ENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IN .ORWICH 0RISCILLA -C#LAY 4HE CHARITY 2ETHINK IS PLANNING A MULTI MEDIA CAMPAIGN IN .ORWICH NEXT MONTH TO PROVIDE INFOR MATION AND COMBAT DIS CRIMINATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES 4HE 5NIVERSITY CURRENTLY HAS NO OFlCIAL GUIDELINES ON STUDENTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS &IONA 2OXBURGH OF THE 5%! -ENTAL (EALTH !WARE NESS 'ROUP SAID h! MENTAL HEALTH POLICY IS VITAL BECAUSE IT WILL PROTECT STUDENTS FROM

UNFAIR TREATMENT AND WILL HELP STAFF AND RESIDENT STU DENTS KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO DEAL WITH SITUATIONS v 4HE GROUP S ACTIVITIES HAVE LED TO THE CREATION THIS ACADEMIC YEAR OF THE POSITION OF -ENTAL (EALTH #O ORDINA TOR "ECKIE $AVIES WORKS TO DEVELOP BETTER COMMUNICA TION BETWEEN ALL THE SUPPORT SYSTEMS THE 5NIVERSITY OFFERS SUCH AS THE #OUNSELLING 3ERV ICE THE !DVICE #ENTRE AND THE 7ELFARE /FlCER 2EGULAR DROP IN SESSIONS ARE HELD IN THE $EAN OF 3TU DENTS /FlCE AT 5%! 4HESE TAKE PLACE ON -ONDAYS AND 7EDNESDAYS AT PM AND 4HURSDAYS n PM

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY

0OSSIBLE STRIKE ACTION FOR !54 -EMBERS OF THE !SSOCIATION OF 5NIVERSITY 4EACHERS !54 ARE BEING BALLOTED ON POSSI BLE STRIKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF ITS PAY CLAIM FOR 4HE DISPUTE RELATES TO AD DITIONAL INCOME UNIVERSITIES WILL RECEIVE FROM TOP UP FEES )F INDUSTRIAL ACTION IS CALLED IT COULD LEAD TO DISRUPTION OF LECTURES AND EXAMS SIMI LAR TO THAT SEEN AT 5%! TWO YEARS AGO

3TUDENTS DECLARE BANKRUPTCY -ORE THAN STUDENTS DECLARED BANKRUPTCY LAST YEAR ACCORDING TO lGURES RE LEASED BY THE 3TUDENT ,OANS #OMPANY 4HE AVERAGE STUDENT DEBT IS NOW MORE THAN a AND THE .53 HAS EXPRESSED ITS CONCERNS AT THE PSYCHO LOGICAL PROBLEMS CAUSED BY THE STRESS OF DEBT "Y THE YEAR THE LEV EL OF STUDENT DEBT AT GRADUA TION IS EXPECTED TO HAVE RISEN TO a

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

4HE ATTACK TOOK PLACE NEAR #ONGREGATION (ALL THIS TIME AS THEY LEFT THE ,#2 )T IS BELIEVED THAT THERE WERE SEVEN MALES IN THE GROUP ALL WHITE AND IN THEIR TWENTIES /NE MAN IS DESCRIBED AS BEING ABOUT FT INS TALL WITH SHORT LIGHT BROWN HAIR AND WAS WEARING A WHITE 4 SHIRT WITH HORIZONTAL STRIPES

AND BLUE JEANS ! SECOND MAN WAS DESCRIBED AS BEING OF STOCKY BUILD ABOUT FT INS TALL WITH SLIGHTLY LONGER BLACK HAIR AND WAS WEARING A SHIRT )NVESTIGATING OFlCER $ET #ON #RAIG -ILLER SAID h4HIS WAS AN INCIDENT WHERE THE

VICTIM SUFFERED SOME SERIOUS INJURIES 4HE ASSAULT HAP PENED AFTER A POPULAR SOCIAL EVENT AT THE 5NIVERSITY AND IT IS LIKELY A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE AREA OF THE ,#2 AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACK ) WOULD URGE ANYONE WHO SAW ANYTHING IN RELA

TION TO THIS TO CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE v !NYONE WITH INFORMA TION SHOULD CONTACT $# -ILL ER AT .ORWICH #)$ ON OR #RIMESTOP PERS ANONYMOUSLY ON

7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY #ONCRETE

#ONCRETE 2EFERENDUM &EB 3TUDENTS AT 5%! ARE BEING ASKED TO DECIDE IF THE %DITOR OF #ONCRETE SHOULD BE ELECTED

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ANY STU DENTS FEEL THAT IT S TIME TO MAKE THE %DITOR OF #ONCRETE AN ELECT ED POSITION 3O MANY THAT FOR THE lRST TIME IN ITS HIS TORY A REFERENDUM HAS BEEN CALLED BY STUDENTS SIGN ING A PETITION 4HIS IS NOT SO THAT THE 5NION GETS MORE CONTROL OVER #ONCRETE )N FACT IT MEANS THAT THE 5NION WILL HAVE LESS CONTROL OVER OUR @PAPER GIVING IT THE INDE PENDENCE THAT IT NEEDS IN ORDER TO SCRUTINISE BOTH THE

5NION AND THE UNIVERSITY AT LARGE !T CURRENT PAID EMPLOYEES OF THE 5NIVERSITY HAVE THE BIGGEST SAY AS TO WHO THE EDITOR IS &OLLOWING AN APPLICA TION PROCESS A PANEL CON SISTING OF THE #OMMUNICA TION /FlCER OF THE 5NION ANOTHER SABBATICAL OFlCER CURRENT %DITOR 0RESIDENT OF #ONCRETE AND THE #OM MUNICATIONS $IRECTOR OF THE 5NIVERSITY INTERVIEW SHORT LISTED CANDIDATES 7OULDN T IT BE BETTER IF THE %DITOR S RESPONSIBILITY WAS TO THE STUDENTS RATHER THAN TO THE 5NION AND

5NIVERSITY MANAGEMENT 7OULDN T THIS GIVE US A BET TER MORE STUDENT CENTRED @PAPER 4HERE ARE FACTS WHICH POINT TO THIS &OR EXAMPLE #ARDIFF 5NI S h'AIR 2HYDDv WHOSE EDITOR IS ELECTED BY THE STUDENTS WON THE MAIN AWARDS AT LAST YEARS 'UARDIAN 3TUDENT -EDIA !WARDS %LECTED EDITOR 4OM 7ELLINGHAM WON THE 3TU DENT *OURNALIST OF THE 9EAR AWARD 4HIS BALLOT IS ABOUT PRIN CIPLES 4HIS 5NION IS SUP POSED TO BE A DEMOCRATIC STUDENT LED ORGANISATION )T

IS NOT FAIR THAT WE STUDENTS SHOULD PAY FOR THIS POSITION THROUGH USING 5NION SERV ICES BUT HAVE NO SAY AS TO WHO IT IS SPENT ON s3TUDENTS PAY FOR THE POSI TION

s3TUDENTS CAN STAND FOR THE POSITION

s9ET STUDENTS DON T GET A SAY IN WHO TAKES UP THE POSI TION 4HE 5NION IS OWNED BY YOU 4HE 5NION PAYS FOR #ONCRETE AND IS RESPONSIBLE LEGALLY FOR #ONCRETE /NE CRITICISM OF PLANS TO ELECT AN EDITOR IS THAT IT WILL BE TURNING A PROCESS

WHICH lNDS THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB INTO A POPULAR ITY CONTEST 4HIS ARGUMENT GOES AGAINST THE PRINCIPLES OF OUR 5NION WHICH PAYS THE %DITOR S SALARY IT GOES AGAINST THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ENTIRE STUDENT 5NION MOVE MENT WHICH BELIEVES THAT STUDENTS HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE SUCH CHOICES )F YOU AGREE WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES OF OUR 5NION THEN YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR AN %LECTED %DITOR FOR #ONCRETE 7E CONSIDER IT OUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE A SUITABLE &INANCE /FlCER RESPONSIBLE THE

a M TURNOVER OF OUR 5NION n A DECISION WHICH NEEDS TO BE MADE CORRECTLY 9EAR IN YEAR OUT STUDENTS MAKE THIS DECISION AND MAKE IT WELL )T LOGICALLY FOLLOWS TO LET STUDENTS ELECT A #ONCRETE %DITOR n AN IMPORTANT JOB BUT ONE WHICH THE FUTURE OF THE 5NION IS NOT SO DEPEND ANT ON )F YOU THINK THAT WE STU DENTS HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE TO CHOOSE THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB AS THEY DID IN #ARDIFF THEN YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR AN %LECTED %DITOR FOR #ONCRETE 6OTE FOR THE VOTE

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ID YOU VOTE FOR THE LEC TURER WHO TOOK YOUR SEMINAR THIS MORNING $ID YOU VOTE FOR THE PERSON WHO SERVED YOU COFFEE IN THE "LEND $ID YOU VOTE FOR THE JOURNALIST WHO EDITED THE NEWSPAPER YOU READ DURING YOUR BREAK 4HE %DITOR OF #ONCRETE IS NOT ELECTED FOR ONE REASON HE OR SHE IS NOT YOUR DEMO CRATIC REPRESENTATIVE ,IKE THE LECTURER THE UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEE AND THE JOURNAL IST THE #ONCRETE %DITOR IS A SKILLED WORKER WHO HAS BEEN

PROMOTED TO A POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY BASED ON THEIR SUITABILITY FOR THE JOB NOT THEIR CAPACITY TO ACT ON BE HALF OF THE STUDENT BODY 4HE CURRENT %DITOR OF #ONCRETE HAS FOUR YEARS EX PERIENCE ON THE PAPER ,IKE HER PREDECESSORS SHE WORKS A lFTY SOMETIMES SIXTY HOUR WEEK INCLUDING ALTERNATE WEEKENDS TO ENSURE THE PA PER IS PRINTED ON TIME ,IKE HER PREDECESSORS SHE WAS CHOSEN ON MERIT BY A TEAM OF INTERVIEWERS WHO INCLUDED TWO OF YOUR DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE )F

YOU TRUST YOUR ELECTED REPRE SENTATIVES AND TRUST THE STAFF WHO RUN YOUR 5NION YOU WILL TRUST THEM TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION IN CHOOSING THE %DITOR )T IS YOUR RIGHT AS STUDENTS TO CHOOSE WHO REPRESENTS YOU IN THE 5NION S DEMO CRATIC PROCEDURES 4HE %DI TOR OF #ONCRETE IS ACCOUNT ABLE TO THESE PROCEDURES BUT IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESSES THAT DETERMINE THE DAY TO DAY RUNNING OF THE 5NION 2ATHER YOUR NEWSPAPER IS A TEACHING PAPER WHOSE lRST RESPONSIBILITY IS TOWARDS THE

MANY VOLUNTEERS WHO EN ABLE IT TO EXIST 4HE KEY TO A STUDENT CENTRED PAPER DOES NOT LIE IN ELECTING THE %DITOR IT LIES IN ENCOURAGING YOU AS STUDENTS TO GET INVOLVED IN ITS PRODUCTION #ONCRETE 3OCIETY MEM BERS VALUE THE CURRENT SYS TEM OF EDITORSHIP BECAUSE IT ENABLES THEM TO EXPERI ENCE THE PROCESS OF APPLYING FOR A JOB FROM GAINING THE NECESSARY TRAINING TO PRE PARING FOR INTERVIEW WITHIN A FAMILIAR AND ENCOURAGING ENVIRONMENT !T NO POINT IN THEIR FUTURE JOURNALISTIC CAREERS WHETHER THEY INTEND

TO WRITE FOR THE LOCAL PRESS OR A NATIONAL PAPER WILL THEY BE EXPECTED TO CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES 4HE 5NIONS WHOSE PA PERS ARE RUN BY DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVES ELECT -EDIA /FlCERS NOT NEWSPAPER EDI TORS 3UCH A ROLE WOULD IN VOLVE THE MANAGEMENT OF ALL STUDENT MEDIA ON CAMPUS INCLUDING RADIO AND TELEVI SION SOCIETIES 4HE CAMPAIGN FOR AN ELECTED %DITOR IS NOT A STEP TOWARDS THE CREATION OF A -EDIA /FlCER FOR 5%! BUT A STEP TOWARDS THE ABSORP TION OF YOUR INDEPENDENT PAPER INTO THE 5NION

4HE #ONCRETE %DITOR S ROLE MUST EVOLVE TO ENSURE THE PAPER S SURVIVAL BUT TO DO SO REQUIRES A FAIR SYSTEM OF DISCUSSION CONSULTATION AND PROGRESSION n NONE OF WHICH IS OFFERED BY THIS PRO POSAL 4HE %DITOR OF #ONCRETE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS ELECTION 4HE #ONCRETE EDITING TEAM DID NOT ASK FOR THIS ELEC TION 4HE #ONCRETE 3OCIETY DID NOT ASK FOR THIS ELECTION AND NEITHER BEYOND A SMALL MINORITY OF DID THE STU DENTS OF 5%! 6OTE NO TO THE ELECTED %DITOR

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY

-ARATHON BID FOR STUDENT ! lNAL YEAR -4( STUDENT AT 5%! WILL RUN THE &LORA ,ON DON -ARATHON THIS YEAR TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE CHARITY 6)#4! 6ISUALLY )MPAIRED #HILDREN 4AKING !CTION -ARK (URREN WILL TAKE PART IN THE MARATHON ON !PRIL RD AND IS ASKING STU DENTS TO SPONSOR HIM P A PENNY PER MILE FOR THE CHAR ITY ,AST YEAR HE RAISED OVER a FOR -USCULAR $YSTRO PHY AND lNISHED IN AROUND HOURS MINUTES )F YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SPONSORING -ARK PLEASE CONTACT MARK MHURREN FREESERVE CO UK

&EES THREAT FOR YEAR COURSES ! $EPARTMENT FOR %DUCATION AND 3KILLS $F%3 STUDY HAS WARNED THAT SUBJECTS SUCH AS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MAY BE PLACED UNDER THREAT BY TOP UP FEES -ANY SCIENTIlC AND LAN GUAGE COURSES LAST FOR FOUR RATHER THAN THREE YEARS AND GOVERNMENT ADVISORS FEAR THAT STUDENTS MAY ABANDON THEM ONCE THE a A YEAR FEES ARE BROUGHT IN 5NIVERSITIES ARE EXPECTED TO RESPOND BY OFFERING BUR SARIES TO PROMISING STUDENTS ON COURSES WHERE APPLICA TION NUMBERS ARE LOW

.UCLEAR POWER COULD BE AN OPTION *ANE $OUGLAS ! RESEARCH TEAM LED BY 5%! PROFESSOR .ICK 0IDG EON OF %.6 HAS FOUND THAT OF THE "RITISH PUBLIC WOULD ACCEPT A NEW GEN ERATION OF NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS IF IT WOULD HELP CURB CLIMATE CHANGE 4HIS COMES AS THE GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES A PUBLIC DEBATE OVER THE FUTURE OF "RITAIN S ENERGY POLICY 0ROFESSOR 0IDGEON SAID THAT ALTHOUGH THE GOVERN MENT HAS RECOGNISED THE NEED TO TAKE PUBLIC OPINION INTO CONSIDERATION OVER THIS ISSUE hALMOST NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE RESPONDING TO THE NEW DEBATE ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER AND CLIMATE CHANGE 4HIS NEW RESEARCH HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND PUBLIC VIEWS ON THIS CRITICAL QUESTIONv .UCLEAR POWER HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CONTROVERSIAL METHOD OF ENERGY SUPPLY (OWEVER IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE #HER NOBYL DISASTER THAT IT BECAME TRULY UNPOPULAR WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC 4HE BACK LASH CAUSED BY THIS SWING OF PUBLIC OPINION RESULTED IN NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS BEING SLOWLY DECOMMISSIONED

.EW FEARS OVER CLIMATE CHANGE HAVE CAUSED THE GOV ERNMENT TO RECONSIDER NUCLE AR POWER AS AN ENERGY SOURCE BECAUSE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE IS EMITTED DURING THIS PROCESS OF GENERATION THAN WITH CON VENTIONAL COAL OIL AND GAS lRED STATIONS 1UESTIONS OVER THE SECURITY OF SUPPLY LINES OF THESE RESOURCES HAVE ALSO BEEN RAISED RECENTLY SUCH AS WITH THE 2USSIA 5KRAINE DIS PUTE BOLSTERING 4ONY "LAIR S DETERMINATION TO RE INSTIGATE NUCLEAR POWER 4HE SURVEY CARRIED OUT BY THE 4YNDALL #ENTRE FOR #LIMATE #HANGE 2ESEARCH AND )PSOS -/2) FOUND THAT ALTHOUGH THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WOULD ACCEPT NUCLEAR POWER IF IT HELPED COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE WOULD PREFER THE USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND FELT THAT EFlCIENCY AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES WOULD BE A MORE PRACTICAL WAY OF REDUCING DAMAGING EMISSIONS 3IR $AVID +ING THE GOV ERNMENT S CHIEF SCIENTIlC AD VISOR HAS SAID THAT NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS ARE THE ONLY REALISTIC WAY OF MEETING "RIT AIN S ENERGY DEMANDS WHILST CUTTING CARBON DIOXIDE EMIS SIONS (OWEVER PROFESSOR 0IDGEON S COLLEAGUE +EVIN !NDERSON SAID h7E CAN EAS ILY DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

#OULD NUCLEAR POWER HELP SAVE OUR COUNTRYSIDE WITHOUT NUCLEAR POWER v -R !NDERSON SAID THE GOVERN MENT SHOULD SPEND MONEY ON REDUCING DEMAND AND SETTING HIGHER STANDARDS OF EFlCIENCY ON THINGS SUCH AS HOUSE INSULATION FRIDGES

AND CARS AS WELL AS LOOKING AT RENEWABLE SOURCES 4HIS LATEST SURVEY HAS SHOWN THAT OF "RITONS BELIEVE THAT A COMBINA TION OF METHODS IS THE BEST OPTION 0ROFESSOR 0IDGEON

COMMENTED THAT hMANY OF THOSE WHO DO ACCEPT NEW NUCLEAR POWER FOR "RITAIN DO SO ONLY RELUCTANTLY AND ONLY IF RENEWABLES AND OTH ER STRATEGIES ARE DEVELOPED ALONGSIDE v

7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY #ONCRETE

.53 ANTI TUITION FEES CAMPAIGN $AN &ITZHARRIS 4HE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS HAS LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN GROUP TO lGHT AGAINST TUITION FEE IN CREASES #OALITION CONSISTS OF THE TEACHING UNIONS !4, !54 .!4&(% .!3574 .54 AS WELL AS THE .53 4HE AIM OF THE #OALITION IS TO LOBBY TO MAINTAIN THE CUR RENT a CAP ON FULL TIME UNDERGRADUATE TUITION FEES WHEN IT COMES UP FOR REVIEW IN ,AUNCHED ON THE TH *ANUARY AT THE (OUSE OF #OMMONS THE NEW COALI TION URGED -0S TO SIGN UP TO A NEW %ARLY $AY -OTION %$- WHICH QUESTIONS WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT S PLAN TO INCREASE FEES FOR STU DENTS IS RECONCILABLE WITH ITS PLEDGE TO WIDEN PARTICIPA TION IN EDUCATION 4HE GOV

ERNMENT PLANS TO GET OF YEAR OLDS INTO (IGHER %DUCATION BY )AN 'IBSON -0 HOSTING THE EVENT SAID h4HE COALI TION LAYS THE FOUNDATIONS FOR REAL LONG TERM INTERACTION BETWEEN THOSE WHO REPRE SENT STUDENTS AND THOSE WHO REPRESENT TEACHERS LECTURERS AND STAFF WORKING TOGETHER IN OUR SCHOOLS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WHICH IS VERY EXCITING v !S *ANUARY S 5#!3 lG URES ARE EXPECTED TO REVEAL THE lRST DROP IN UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS IN EIGHT YEARS THE .53 IS ENCOURAGING STUDENTS UNIONS ACROSS THE 5+ TO COLLABORATE LOCALLY IN VOICING THEIR CONCERNS AT IN CREASED DEBT FOR STUDENTS .53 0RESIDENT +AT &LETCHER SAID h4HE EVIDENCE IS ALREADY MOUNTING UP THAT TUITION FEES WILL NOT OPEN UP ACCESS TO (IGHER %DUCATION PARTICULARLY FOR STUDENTS FROM LESS TRADITIONAL BACKGROUNDS 4HIS IS IN CLEAR CONTRADICTION

#ALLS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR A NEW NIGHT BUS IN .ORWICH TO COMPLEMENT THE SERVICE BETWEEN 5%! AND THE STA TION -EMBERS OF THE #ENTRAL .ORWICH #ITIZENS &ORUM HAVE HELD MEETINGS WITH BUS OPERATOR &IRST TO DISCUSS THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EXTRA SERVICE TO RUN ALONGSIDE THE HALF HOURLY BUS 4HE SERVICE WOULD BE PARTICULARLY POPULAR WITH STUDENTS AND CLUBBERS

%LECTION FOR NEW %XECUTIVE TEAM 4HE .53 COALITION WILL CAMPAIGN TO KEEP THE CAP ON TOP UP FEES TO THE GOVERNMENT S AIM TO GET RECORD NUMBERS OF STU DENTS INTO UNIVERSITIES OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS v &LETCHER HIGHLIGHTED THE POSSIBILITY OF lVE lGURE FEES FOR SOME STUDENTS AND ADD ED h7E BELIEVE THAT BY UNIT ING TOGETHER OUR CAMPAIGN

4HINK "EFORE 9OU $RINK CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN .ORWICH CITY CENTRE #LAIRE $ODDS 6ARIOUS DRINKING ESTAB LISHMENTS IN .ORWICH HAVE BEEN VISITED BY POLICE DUR ING *ANUARY AS PART OF AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT UNDERAGE DRINK ING &ROM TH *ANUARY POLICE SPENT A WEEK VISIT ING OVER PUBS AND CLUBS WHERE THOUSANDS OF )$S WERE CHECKED !LL VENUES SHOWED ADHERENCE TO CHALLENGING CUSTOMERS WITH PEOPLE QUERIED ABOUT THEIR AGE AND ONLY FOUR NOT QUESTIONED BY A VENUE S STAFF 4HE FOCUS UPON LEGAL DRINKING IS PART OF A NEW 4HINK "EFORE 9OU $RINK PROJECT THAT IS BEING RUN BY THE #ENTRAL !REA ,ICENSING $EPARTMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NEW LAWS RECENTLY INTRODUCED BY THE 'OVERN MENT )NITIATED IN .OVEMBER THE ,ICENSING !CT OF FOCUSES UPON REDUCING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF ILLEGAL BE HAVIOUR INCLUDING UNDERAGE DRINKING 7ITH THE SUPPORT

OF LOCAL VENUE OPERATORS AND THE POLICE THE CITY S CAM PAIGN AIMS TO ENFORCE INTEN TIONS TO CHANGE OUR DRINKING CULTURE (OWEVER AS LAST WEEK S EVENTS HAVE SHOWN COMMIT MENT TO THE CAUSE IS ALREADY ACTING AS A WARNING TO DRINK ERS )NSPECTOR .ICK #HESH IRE THE CURRENT HEAD OF THE LICENSING UNIT SAID h) THINK THE FACT THAT NO ONE HAS BEEN DETECTED AS UNDERAGE IN OUR CLUBS AND PUBS SHOWS THAT VENUES ARE CHALLENGING YOUNG PEOPLE FOR )$ h4HE MESSAGE IS GETTING HOME TO YOUNG PEOPLE THAT IF THEY WANT TO ENJOY AN EVENING OUT IN LICENSED VEN UES THEN THEY WILL HAVE TO BRING WITH THEM SOME FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC )$ AND EX PECT TO BE CHALLENGED FOR IT h!ND THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR LY GETTING HOME TO YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ANYONE WHO IS UNDERAGE SHOULD NOT WASTE THEIR TIME WITH ATTEMPTS TO GAIN ENTRANCE TO LICENSED PREMISES BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT BE ADMITTED v 7ITH OVER PEO PLE VISITING DRINKING VEN UES IN .ORWICH ON &RIDAY

.EW NIGHT BUS REQUESTED

AND 3ATURDAY NIGHTS LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF SAFE DRINK ING #HIEF )NSPECTOR 'AVIN 4EMPEST SAID h7E HAVE A MUCH IMPROVED CITY CENTRE AND WHAT WE NOW WANT TO DO FOLLOWING THE CHANGES IN THE LAWS IS TO KEEP UP OUR HIGH STANDARDS AND PROMOTE BEST PRACTICE v 4O MAINTAIN THESE STAND ARDS THREE MORE AWARENESS WEEKS WILL BE HELD OVER THE NEXT TWO MONTHS FOCUSING ON POSSESSION OF DRUGS POS SESSION OF OFFENSIVE WEAPONS AND DRUNKENNESS AND ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR "Y FOCUS ING ON MANY ASPECTS OF THE ,ICENSING !CT THE CAMPAIGN IS HOPING TO MAKE THE 'OV ERNMENT S MESSAGE CLEAR TO VENUE OPERATORS #HIEF )NSPECTOR 'AVIN 4EMPEST SAID h4HEY NOW HAVE A COMMITMENT IMPOSED ON THEM TO ENSURE CRIME AND DISORDER AND PUBLIC NUISANCE IS MINIMISED INSIDE AND OUT SIDE THEIR PROPERTY v "UT WITH THE CO OPERA TION OF LOCAL BUSINESSES AND THE PUBLIC CONSUMERS HE BELIEVES THAT .ORWICH CAN BE MADE INTO A SAFER CITY TO GO OUT IN

WILL BE STRONGER AND THOSE THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY A VAR IABLE FEE WHETHER STUDENTS TEACHERS SUPPORT STAFF PAR ENTS OR POTENTIAL LEARNERS WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE THEM SELVES HEARD v h/UR HOPE IS THAT BY DE FEATING THE PRO FEES LOBBY

IN THE REVIEW OF THIS ISSUE WE WILL BE ONE STEP FURTHER TOWARDS ACHIEVING OUR ULTI MATE GOAL OF A FREE FAIR AND FUNDED EDUCATION SYSTEM v -ORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT WWW COALITION ORG

! DATE HAS BEEN SET FOR THE ELECTIONS TO CHOOSE NEXT YEAR S 5NION %XECUTIVE #OM MITTEE 6OTING WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE TH AND TH -ARCH WITH NOMINATIONS OPENING ON THE TH &EBRUARY #OVERAGE OF THE NOMI NEES WILL BE INCLUDED IN FU TURE ISSUES OF #ONCRETE

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY

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7OULD YOU LIKE A COCKTAIL UMBRELLA IN THAT SIR 0RIYA 3HAH AND 3IMON 3HERIDAN TALK TO THE 5%! 3EXUAL (EALTH #LINIC S %MMA -C+AY ABOUT THE RISKS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE TAKING BY NOT HAVING THEMSELVES TESTED

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T SEEMS STRANGE THAT IN A COUNTRY SO OBSESSED WITH SEX WHERE ADVERTISING IM PLORES US TO BUY A CERTAIN PRODUCT TO ENHANCE OUR SEX APPEAL WHERE MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE SIT IN PUBS CHATTING AWAY ABOUT ONE NIGHT STANDS AND THE PROWESS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTNERS THAT WE CANNOT BRING OURSELVES TO TALK TO A HEALTH PRO FESSIONAL ABOUT SIMILAR ISSUES 3UCH IS THE APPARENT FEAR SURROUNDING SEXUAL

#HLAMYDIA IS FOREMOST AMONG THESE AS IT MAY HAVE NO SYMPTOMS 4HIS MEANS THAT YOU CAN BE GOING IN FERTILE AT THIS VERY SECOND WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT 4HE DISEASE AFFECTS BOTH SEXES BUT THE SYMPTOMS INDICAT ING WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE THE DIS EASE RANGE FROM ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THROUGH TO GENITAL DISCHARGE AND DIS COMFORT WHEN URINATING #HLAMYDIA THEN IS ACTUALLY A VERY NASTY 34) BUT IT IS BY FAR THE EASIEST TO DIAGNOSE AND CURE ! SIMPLE URINE TEST WHICH TAKES

9OU COULD BE GOING INFERTILE AT THIS VERY SECOND WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO GET CHECKED OUT HEALTH CLINICS IT SEEMS MOST PEOPLE WOULD RATHER LET A SMALL GENITAL SPOT BECOME A LARGE ONE AND A FAINT ITCHING SENSATION TO TURN INTO SOMETHING AKIN TO A MOSQUITO ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET %MMA -C+AY LEAD NURSE AT THE 5%! 3EXUAL (EALTH #LINIC POINTS OUT THAT SHE WANTS YOUNG PEOPLE TO BE MORE RESPONSIBLE WITH SEXUAL HEALTH ISSUES 4HE #LINIC IS A UNIQUE ORGANI SATION IN .ORFOLK SET UP BY %MMA HERSELF FOUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO )T OP ERATES WITHIN THE 5%! (EALTH #ENTRE AND IS GEARED TO THE SEXUAL PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG PEOPLE 7HILE THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE MOST BASIC SEXUAL HEALTH IS SUES THAT ARE DESIGNED TO PREVENT ()6 !IDS AND SUCH LIKE IT IS THE MORE SUBTLE 3EXUALLY 4RANSMITTED )NFECTIONS 34)S THAT ARE BECOMING A PROBLEM

ROUGHLY lVE SECONDS TO SAMPLE IS SUF lCIENT TO DETECT THE DISEASE IN MEN AND WOMEN SIMPLY TAKE A GENITAL SWAB THEMSELVES A ONE OFF DOSE OF ANTI BI OTICS WILL CLEAR IT UP IF THE TEST IS POSI TIVE 4HE EASE WITH WHICH CHLAMYDIA CAN BE CURED BELIES THE FACT THAT IT IS THE MOST ABUNDANT 34) IN THE COUNTRY AMONG UNDER S WITH AS MANY AS IN PEOPLE HAVING THE DISEASE 4HERE FORE FAILURE TO TAKE THE MINUTE TEST AT THE 5%! #LINIC IS BOTH IRRESPONSIBLE AND NEGLIGENT AS YOU MAY WELL BE CON TRIBUTING TO THE GROWTH OF THE DISEASE 4HE FACT THAT CHLAMYDIA IS ONE OF THE FEW 34)S WHICH IS PASSED THROUGH MERE CONTACT SHOULD IMPEL MOST PEOPLE TO TAKE THE TEST %MMA S MESSAGE TO STU DENTS IS THAT THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO GET CHECKED OUT AS YOU WON T EVEN HAVE TO TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF IN ORDER

TO TAKE THE TEST 4HIS MAY PLEASE SOME PEOPLE ES PECIALLY THE GUYS AS THERE IS A MISCON CEPTION REGARDING SEXUAL HEALTH CLINICS NAMELY THAT THE NURSE WILL ATTEMPT TO SHOVE A COCKTAIL UMBRELLA DOWN YOUR URETHRA OPEN IT AND THEN TAKE A SCRAP ING IN ORDER TO FORM A DIAGNOSIS 4HE TECHNICAL TERM FOR THIS PROCEDURE n A GENITAL SWAB n IS IN FACT MUCH LESS IN VASIVE THAN THIS AS ) M SURE A NUMBER OF FELLAS READING THIS WILL AT PRESENT BE CRINGING AT THE VERY THOUGHT &OR STARTERS THIS IS NOT A NECESSARY PROCE DURE AND IS ONLY USED IF YOU HAVE THE SYMPTOMS OF GONORRHOEA OR NON SPE CIlC URETHRITIS WHICH IS NOT VERY COM MON -OST 34)S ARE DETECTABLE THROUGH A URINE SAMPLE OR BLOOD TEST SO YOU WON T BE FORCED INTO A GENITAL SWAB 4HE @NEW GENERATION OF SEXUAL HEALTH EQUIPMENT IS MUCH KINDER TO THE BODY AND NOW A SWAB IS TAKEN WITH A TINY COTTON BUD !LTHOUGH STILL NOT THE MOST PLEASANT THOUGHT SURELY THIS IS BETTER THAN COPING WITH GONORRHOEA OR BECOMING INFERTILE 4HE 5%! #LINIC IS NOT PURELY ABOUT DIAGNOSING OR NOT SEXUALLY TRANSMIT TED DISEASES %MMA AND HER COLLEAGUE +IM ARE ON HAND TO OFFER A PLETHORA OF ADVICE AND COUNSELLING FOR 5%! STUDENTS WHO ARE WORRIED OR UNSURE ABOUT SEXUAL ISSUES 4HIS RANGES FROM ADVICE ABOUT SEX IN GENERAL TO PROVID ING CONTRACEPTION AND COUNSELLING FOR INDIVIDUALS OR COUPLES WHO MAY BE PREGNANT )T IS NOT ENTIRELY UNCOMMON FOR A NIGHT AT THE ,#2 TO END UP WITH A SEVERE HEADACHE AND A STRANGE PERSON ASLEEP NEXT TO YOU 7E ALL KNOW THE DANGERS NOT ONLY UNWANTED PREGNAN CIES WHICH CAN RUIN A DEGREE AT 5%! BUT ALSO ()6 AND THE REST ! QUICK

TRIP TO THE #LINIC CAN ALLAY THESE FEARS VERY QUICKLY AND ON THE SPOT TESTING IS AVAILABLE AND EMERGENCY CONTRACEP TION IS FREE IF NECESSARY 4HE DAYS OF THE @MORNING AFTER PILL ARE NOW OVER AS THE NEW RANGE OF EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION CAN BE TAKEN UP TO HOURS AFTER THE EVENT (OWEVER %MMA IS AT PAINS TO STRESS THAT IT IS MOST EFFECTIVE IN THE lRST HOURS n ANY LATER MEANS THE PILL IS ONLY SUCCESSFUL %VEN WHEN THE #LINIC IS CLOSED THE 5%! (EALTH #ENTRE HAS DOCTORS ON CALL DURING NIGHT TIMES AND WEEKENDS TO DEAL WITH EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION SHOULD YOU REQUIRE IT $ESPITE THE RATHER SENSITIVE NATURE OF THE #LINIC IT IS IN FACT QUITE LAID BACK 4HE DIGNIlED PROFESSIONALISM MAINTAINED BY THE NURSES IS PERFECT IF YOU NEED TO TALK ABOUT FOR EXAMPLE ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION WHICH A SURPRIS ING NUMBER OF MEN SUFFER FROM %MMA POINTS OUT THAT THIS IS ALMOST ALWAYS A PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUE AND CAN OFFER SIMPLE REMEDIES FOR THIS 4HIS SHOULD CONVINCE THOSE WHO BELIEVE A TRIP TO THE #LINIC CAN MEAN ONLY ONE THING n BAD NEWS %VEN IF YOU SIMPLY NEED A CHAT ABOUT SEXUAL ISSUES REGARDLESS OF THEIR NATURE %MMA AND +IM ARE COM PLETELY PROFESSIONAL IN THEIR APPROACH AND MEN IN PARTICULAR DO NOT HAVE TO FEEL LIKE THEY WILL BE JUDGED 4HEY HAVE SEEN IT ALL BEFORE 4HE POINT IS THAT YOU HAVE NO EX CUSES 4HE AMBIVALENT ATTITUDE MANY YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE REGARDING SEXUAL HEALTH ISSUES IS A GROWING PROBLEM AND #LINICS LIKE THE ONE AT THE 5%! (EALTH #ENTRE ARE DESIGNED TO PRO VIDE PEOPLE WITH THE INFORMATION AND MEDICAL ATTENTION THEY NEED 7ITHOUT GETTING TESTED YOU ARE NOT ONLY ENDAN GERING YOURSELF BUT OTHERS AS WELL

7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY #ONCRETE

$IFlCULT TIMES FOR THE ,IB $EMS 4HE ,IBERAL $EMOCRATS HAVE HAD SOMETHING OF A ROLLERCOASTER FEW WEEKS 4HE CURRENT LEADERSHIP ELECTION HAS MORE TWISTS AND INTRIGUES THAN "IG "ROTHER AND THE CURRENT PLOT OF .EIGHBOURS COM BINED !S REPORTED LAST ISSUE A THREE HORSE RACE WAS WIDELY EXPECTED BETWEEN !CTING ,EADER -ING #AMPBELL $EPUTY ,EADER -ARK /ATEN AND (OME !FFAIRS 3POKES MAN 3IMON (UGHES WITH %CONOMIC 3POKESMAN #HRIS (UHNE COMPLETING THE LIST OF CANDIDATES 4HE lRST TO RUN INTO DIF lCULTY WAS -ING #AMPBELL WHO HAD A DISASTROUS lRST PERFORMANCE AT 0RIME -IN ISTERS 1UESTION 4IME WHEN COMMENTING ON THE FACT THAT ONE IN lVE SCHOOLS CAN

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/N 4UESDAY TH &EBRUARY 5%! 2OCK'OSPEL #HOIR WILL BE @SINGING UP IN SUPPORT OF #HRISTIAN !ID S 4RADE *USTICE CAMPAIGN 4HE EVENT WILL BEGIN AT PM IN THE 3QUARE AND IS BE ING SUPPORTED BY THE SOCIE TIES 3%%$ AND 30%!+ WHO CAMPAIGN TO RAISE AWARENESS OF DEVELOPING WORLD ISSUES

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Breakfast Porridge, Fruit & Coffee @ £1.00 available between 7.30am and 11am Lunch V Jacket Potato with Filling, Yoghurt & Drink @ £2.50 available between 11am and 12 noon

LATE BIRD WINTER WARMERS Lunch V Jacket Potato with Filling, Yoghurt & Drink @ £2.50 available between 2pm and 3pm Dinner 2 - 4 - 5 - 8 Our Well Proven 2 Course Dinner @ £4.40 between 5pm and 8pm 4HE ,IB $EMS KEPT THEIR SEAT IN "ROADLAND +ENNEDY S RESIGNATION (OWEVER THE ,IB ERAL $EMOCRAT MAJORITY SUG GESTS PROMISING RESULTS FOR THE PARTY S FUTURE #HAIR OF 5%! ,IB $EMS *ENNI #ARTER COMMENTED h)T WAS A FAN TASTIC RESULT AND ) WAS PROUD TO BE PART OF "ALI S TEAM 4HIS BODES WELL FOR THE COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN THE .ORWICH AREA LATER THIS YEAR AND THE NEXT 0ARLIAMENTARY %LECTION

WHEN WE WILL BE lGHTING THE 4ORIES FOR CONTROL OF THE NEW "ROADLAND CONSTITUENCY v "ALI +ULAR AN ENGINEER WHO WON OF THE VOTES IN A VOTER TURN OUT SAID h) AM VERY PROUD TO HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SERVE THE AREA AND ) WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO SUP PORTED ME ) PROMISE TO DO MY VERY BEST FOR LOCAL PEO PLE v

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NOT lND A PERMANENT HEAD TEACHER "LAIR S SUGGESTION THAT IT IS SOMETIMES HARD TO lLL JOBS IN hFAILING ORGANISA TIONSv LEFT #AMPBELL DECLAR ING THAT HE hKNEW IT WAS GO ING TO BE ONE OF THOSE DAYSv 7HILE #AMPBELL MAY NOT HAVE HAD A GOOD DAY -ARK /ATEN DIDN T HAVE A GOOD WEEK &IRST HE WAS FORCED TO WITHDRAW FROM THE LEADERSHIP RACE BECAUSE HE DIDN T HAVE ENOUGH SUPPORT FROM HIS FELLOW -0S 4HE REAL SHOCK HOWEVER CAME TWO DAYS LATER WHEN HE WAS FORCED TO RESIGN FROM THE ,IB $EM FRONT BENCH AFTER THE .EWS OF THE 7ORLD REPORTED THAT HE HAD BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH A YEAR OLD RENT BOY 4HIS CAME AS A MASSIVE BLOW TO THE ,IBERAL $EMO CRATS AS /ATEN HAS BEEN HIGH LY SUCCESSFUL IN lGHTING BOTH ,ABOUR AND THE #ONSERVA TIVES ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES &INALLY 3IMON (UGHES ALSO MADE THE FRONT PAGE AFTER

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#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY

! 5%! STUDENT FROM THE 3CHOOL OF ,ANGUAGE ,INGUIS TICS AND 4RANSLATION HAS AP PEARED ON A &RENCH VERSION OF THE 46 SHOW #OUNTDOWN *EFF #LAYTON WAS INTER VIEWED ON THE PROGRAMME DESCRIBING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE &RENCH AND "RITISH VERSIONS OF THE POPU LAR WORD BASED QUIZ /RIGI NALLY A &RENCH PROGRAMME #OUNTDOWN HAS BEEN A STA PLE OF THE #HANNEL SCHED ULES FOR OVER YEARS

5+ CITIES BECOME @STUDENTIlED 4HE .53 HAS DESCRIBED A 5NIVERSITIES 5+ REPORT ON @STUDENTIlCATION AS AN AC KNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE POSI TIVE INmUENCE STUDENTS HAVE ON THEIR COMMUNITIES 4HE REPORT ADVOCATES THE INTEGRATION OF STUDENTS INTO LOCAL GROUPS THROUGH VOL UNTEERING AND MENTORING SCHEMES AND SUGGESTS WAYS IN WHICH THE @TOWN AND GOWN DIVIDE CAN BE BRIDGED

(APPY BIRTHDAY TO 0AMS (OUSE #LUB NIGHT 0AMS (OUSE CELE BRATED ITS TH BIRTHDAY WITH A TEN HOUR PARTY BEGINNING AT 5%! LAST WEEKEND /RIGINALLY FORMED BY A GROUP OF FRIENDS WHO SHARED A LOVE OF HOUSE MUSIC 0AMS HAS BECOME ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN CLUBBING EVENTS IN THE %AST OF %NGLAND )TS NIGHTS HAVE BEEN HELD ACROSS THE 5+ AND ABROAD AND REACHED NATIONAL ATTENTION FOLLOWING A SUMMER RESIDENCY IN )BIZA DURING

5%! ADMISSIONS INCREASE IN !DMISSIONS TO 5%! INCREASED BY IN WITH MU SIC MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY AMONGST THE AREAS SEEING A RISE IN STUDENT NUMBERS 4HE INCREASE IS THOUGHT TO BE PARTLY DUE TO STUDENTS APPLYING FOR UNIVERSITY PLAC ES BEFORE FEES ARE RAISED FROM a TO a PER YEAR AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT S CHANGES TO HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING /THER COLLEGES INCLUDING THE .ORWICH 3CHOOL OF !RT AND $ESIGN ALSO REPORTED ADMITTING HIGHER NUMBERS OF STUDENTS

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$ANIEL -ORELY 0ERHAPS THE MOST SIGNIl CANT DEVELOPMENT IN WORLD POLITICS IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN ,ATIN !MERICA S DRA MATIC SHIFT TO THE LEFT &OR YEARS IT HAS EFFECTIVELY BEEN A STABLE SPHERE OF INmU ENCE FOR THE 53! AS WELL AS A USEFUL TESTING GROUND FOR ECONOMIC MODELS SUCH AS NEOLIBERALISM 0INOCHET IN #HILE -ENEM IN !RGENTINA AND 5RIBE IN #OLOMBIA ARE PERHAPS THE CLEAREST EXAM PLES (OWEVER RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN MASS MOBILISA TIONS AGAINST 53 POWER AND POLICIES THROUGHOUT ,ATIN !MERICA WITH THE MODER ATELY LEFTIST GOVERNMENTS OF +IRCHNER IN !RGENTINA AND ,ULA IN "RAZIL AND THE MORE RADICAL #HAVEZ IN 6ENEZUELA COMING TO POWER AS A RESULT .OW IN WE HAVE THE LEFTIST "ACHELET #HILE S lRST EVER FEMALE AND AGNOSTIC LEADER THE LIKELY ELECTION OF -EXICO #ITY S POPULIST MAY OR %NCINAS 2ODRIGUEZ TO THE POSITION OF 0RESIDENT LATER THIS YEAR AND REVOLUTIONARY INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS IN 0ERU %CUADOR AND MOST SIG NIlCANTLY IN "OLIVIA 4HESE MOVEMENTS HAVE RESULTED IN THE ELECTION OF AN ANTI IM

PERIALIST !YMARA )NDIAN "O LIVIA S lRST INDIGENOUS PRESI DENT IN A COUNTRY THAT IS INDIGENOUS %VO -ORALES !NYONE WHO IS AWARE NOT ONLY OF ,ATIN !MERICA S LONG HISTORY OF OPPRESSION AND IMPOSED GOVERNMENTS FROM EITHER 3PAIN OR THE 53! BUT ALSO OF THE POST SOVIET CON SENSUS THAT hHISTORY IS DEADv THE TOTAL VICTORY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE IRREL EVANCY OF LEFT WING POLITICS WILL REALISE HOW REVOLUTION ARY THESE EVENTS ARE FOR BOTH ,ATIN !MERICA AND THE WHOLE WORLD 6ENEZUELA AND "OLIVIA ARE AT THE VANGUARD OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS /N THE BACK OF S UPRISINGS %VO -ORALES HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT AND HAS DECLARED TO lGHT NEOLIBERALISM AND IMPERIALISM #URRENTLY "O LIVIA IS THE POOREST COUNTRY IN 3OUTH !MERICA ITS '$0 PER PERSON IS ONLY AS COMPARED TO FOR THE ,ATIN !MERICAN REGION AND IN THE 5NITED 3TATES "OLIVIA HAS ALSO BEEN SUBJECT TO )-& AGREEMENTS ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY SINCE )T HAS DONE WHAT THE EXPERTS FROM 7ASHINGTON WANTED INCLUDING PRIVATIS ING NEARLY EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE SOLD !MONG THE MOST NOTORIOUS WAS THE WA TER SYSTEM OF #OCHABAMBA

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4HE SALT PLAINS OF "OLIVIA WHICH LED TO THE FAMOUS hWATER WARv AGAINST "ECHTEL THE BUYER IN AF TER MANY RESIDENTS GOT PRICED OUT OF THE MARKET 4HE COUNTRY S 3OCIAL 3E CURITY SYSTEM WAS ALSO PRIVA TIZED "UT NEARLY YEARS OF THESE STRUCTURAL REFORMS HAVE BROUGHT LITTLE IN THE WAY OF ECONOMIC BENElTS TO THE AV ERAGE "OLIVIAN !MAZINGLY THE COUNTRY S PER CAPITA IN COME IS ACTUALLY LOWER TODAY THAN IT WAS YEARS AGO AND OF "OLIVIANS LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE 3O -ORALES DECLARATIONS CANNOT BE DISMISSED AS JUST POPULIST CAMPAIGN RHETORIC )N FACT THE ECONOMIC FAILURE OF THE LAST YEARS IS BOTH REGIONAL AND UNPRECEDENT

ED &OR ,ATIN !MERICA AS A WHOLE INCOME PER PERSON HAS GROWN BY ABOUT FOR THE lRST lVE YEARS OF THIS DEC ADE &ROM TO IT GREW BY ONLY #OMPARE THAT TO FOR THE PERIOD BEFORE MOST OF THE NEOLIBERAL REFORMS BE GAN AND IT IS EASY TO SEE THAT THIS IS THE WORST LONG TERM ECONOMIC FAILURE IN MODERN ,ATIN !MERICAN HISTORY 4HE 6ENEZUELAN ECONO MY GREW BY NEARLY IN AND ABOUT IN &URTHERMORE THE GOVERN MENT MORE THAN DOUBLED SOCIAL SPENDING AND IS PRO VIDING FREE HEALTH CARE TO A HUGE NUMBER OF THE POOR POPULATION AS WELL AS SUB SIDIZED FOOD FOR OF THE

COUNTRY )T IS COMMON TO ATTRIBUTE ALL OF THIS TO HIGH OIL PRICES BUT OIL PRICES INCREASED FASTER AND REACHED EVEN HIGHER LEV ELS IN THE S AND 6EN EZUELA S PER CAPITA INCOME ACTUALLY FELL DURING THAT DEC ADE )N FACT FROM 6ENEZUELA SUFFERED ONE OF THE WORST DECLINES IN PER CAPITA INCOME IN THE WORLD IT ACTUALLY FELL BY 4HAT AND THE NEW BOT TOM UP STYLE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC PLANNING EMERG ING IN 6ENEZUELA THROUGH WORKERS CONTROL COGESTION AND LOCAL ACTION COMMITTEES "OLIVARIAN #IRCLES SUGGEST THE WORLD DOES HAVE A POSI TIVE ALTERNATIVE TO 7ASHING TON

5NCERTAIN FUTURE FOR THE -IDDLE %AST -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY AS 3HARON STILL CRITICAL IN HOSPITAL STILL RAISING AWARENESS -ATT "URLAND !RIEL 3HARON THE CURRENT 0RIME -INISTER OF )SRAEL IS CRITICALLY ILL AFTER SUFFERING A HEMORRHAGIC STROKE WITH BLEEDING IN THE BRAIN ON THE EVENING OF TH *ANU ARY -R 3HARON WAS EVACUAT ED BY AMBULANCE TO (ADAS SAH HOSPITAL IN *ERUSALEM TO UNDERGO BRAIN SURGERY (IS PROGNOSIS WAS REPORTED AS hEXTREMELY BLEAKv AFTER THE SURGERY AND HE WAS PLACED ON A VENTILATOR IN INTENSIVE CARE -R 3HARON UNDERWENT SEVEN HOURS OF SURGERY FOL LOWED BY MORE SURGERY THE NEXT DAY AS WELL AS A THIRD

MORE MINOR SURGERY A DAY LATER 3HARON S CONDITION RE MAINS hSTABLE BUT STILL CRITI CALv /N THE MORNING OF THE TH OF *ANUARY DOCTORS BEGAN THE PROCEDURE OF BRINGING 3HARON OUT OF A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA A PROCESS THAT LASTED SEVERAL DAYS !T THE PRESENT TIME %HUD /LMERT THE $EPUTY 0RIME -INISTER IS OFlCIALLY CON lRMED AS THE !CTING 0RIME -INISTER OF )SRAEL /LMERT A MEMBER OF 3HARON S +ADIMA 0ARTY AND THE #ABINET HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THE SCHED ULED )SRAELI 0ARLIAMENTARY %LECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ON TH -ARCH AS PLANNED 1UESTIONS ARE NOW BE ING RAISED AS TO THE FUTURE OF THE -IDDLE %AST AND THE ONGOING )SRAELI 0ALESTINIAN

DISPUTE OVER LAND )T SEEMS LIKELY THAT -R 3HARON WILL NOT RECOVER SUFlCIENTLY FROM THE SURGERY TO REMAIN 0RIME -INISTER (OWEVER HIS +ADIMA 0ARTY IS EXPECTED TO DO WELL AT -ARCH S ELECTION AND IT IS LIKELY THAT -R /LMERT WILL BECOME 0RIME -INISTER 4HIS HOWEVER PRESENTS ITS OWN PROBLEMS SINCE +ADIMA IS A PARTY STILL IN ITS INFANCY THAT LACKS ORGANISATION AND STRUCTURE AND COULD STRUGGLE WITHOUT 3HARON ITS FOUNDER AT ITS HEAD 5NLIKE 3HARON /LMERT HAS NO MILITARY BACKGROUND WHICH MAY MAKE HIM MORE TRUSTWORTHY AMONGST 0ALES TINIANS .EVERTHELESS AN END TO THE VIOLENCE BETWEEN THE TWO STATES STILL APPEARS TO BE FAR OFF

-ICHAEL 2OBERTS ,AST TERM THE 5%! -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY 3OCIETY STAGED AWARENESS RAISING CAMPAIGNS TO DEMONSTRATE THE INJUSTICE OF WORLD TRADE RULES 4HE NEXT BIG EVENT WILL BE IN THE (IVE FOR A NIGHT OF PER FORMANCE TO RAISE SUPPORT FOR THE ANTI POVERTY CAMPAIGN 4HE NATIONAL COALITION GROUP -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY EXISTED AS A ONE OFF IN A YEAR IN WHICH MORE PEOPLE IN "RITAIN THAN EVER BEFORE BECAME INVOLVED IN THE ANTI POVERTY MOVEMENT 4HE COALITION HAS NOW SPLIT BACK INTO THE VARIOUS CHARITIES WHOSE KEY CAM

PAIGNS FOR TRADE JUSTICE PRO VIDING MORE EFFECTIVE AID AND DEBT ALLEVIATION CON TINUE 4HE -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY NIGHT #HANGE IS AT PM ON TH &EBRUARY "EATS IN !BUNDANCE WILL KICK OFF THE NIGHT FOLLOWED BY AN HOUR OF OPEN MIC WHICH EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO !CTS APPEAR ING INCLUDE FAIR TRADE THEA TRE #APEOEIRA AND THE 5%! "IG "AND 4HERE WILL ALSO BE A RANGE OF STALLS IN THE (IVE FROM !RT3OC 3!33!& AND THE 'O 'REEN CAMPAIGN -0( MEETINGS ARE ON 7EDNESDAYS AT PM IN 5N ION (OUSE ROOM 4ICK ETS FOR #HANGE COST a a -0( MEMBERS FROM THE BOX OFlCE !LL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO 3OUTH !FRICAN 3TUDENT 3UP PORT AND !ID &UND 3!33!&

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(OW TO PREVENT A DATE WORSE THAN DEATH 7ITH 6ALENTINE S $AY JUST AROUND THE CORNER 4OM 3NOW INVESTIGATES HOW AND WHERE TO GO ABOUT A lRST DATE IN OUR WONDERFUL CITY WITH SOME SURPRISING RESULTS

ALENTINES $AY LOVES TO HAMMER THE POINT HOME THAT HEALTHY PER SONAL RELATION SHIPS MAKE PEO PLE HAPPY !ND THOSE OF YOU NOT IN HEALTHY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOVED ONES 4HE SOLUTION IS EASY n START GOING ON DATES ) AM IN A LOVING RELATIONSHIP AT THE MOMENT BUT THE EVIL MARKETING PEO PLE BEHIND 6ALENTINE S $AY HAVE MADE ME FEEL INADEQUATE 4HE SIMPLE FACT IS THAT ) M SOME KIND OF LOVELESS FREAK 4HAT S RIGHT ) HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN ON A DATE BEFORE )F ) WAS TO GO ON ONE WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE 7HERE IN .ORWICH WOULD BE THE BEST PLACE TO TAKE HER 7HAT WILL WE TALK ABOUT )T WAS WITH THESE QUESTIONS IN MIND THAT ) DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE THIS UNCHARTED TERRITORY AND ) STAGED MY VERY lRST EXPERIMENTAL &IRST $ATEx &)234 $!4% /.% 3ARAH !24 %NTERTAINMENT AT 2IVERSIDE 4HE PLAN WAS TO PLAY A QUICK GAME OF BOWLING CATCH A lLM AT THE CINEMA AND THEN HAVE A DRINK IN ONE OF THE BARS 4HIS SEEMED LIKE QUITE A VARIED SELECTION OF ACTIVITIES AND MADE GOOD USE OF WHAT THE CHARMING LITTLE AREA HAD TO OFFER 5PON MEETING THE LOVELY 3ARAH WE WERE GREETED BY A DISTURBING SIGHT /UTSIDE THE CINEMA WAS AN EIGHT YEAR OLD WITH A CIGARETTE HANGING OUT OF HIS MOUTH 4HIS PRETTY MUCH MADE IT CLEAR FROM THE OFF n THERE IS NO ROMANCE IN THE 2IVERSIDE 4HE MAIN PROBLEM OF STARTING THE DATE AT THE BOWLING ALLEY WAS THAT SOMEHOW ) THRASHED HER $ON T GET

ME WRONG ) M HOPELESS AT THE SPORT BUT FOR SOME REASON THE 'OD OF BOWL ING FAVOURED ME ON THIS OCCASION 4O MAKE MATTERS WORSE 3ARAH SEEMED TO HAVE ONE MEAN COMPETITIVE STREAK (OW AN EARTH WAS ) SUPPOSED TO EXPERIMENT WITH WOOING WHEN 3ARAH SEEMED MORE INTERESTED IN MOANING ABOUT THE FACT THAT ) WAS TOO OLD TO HAVE THE BARRIERS UP ) CALLED HER A BAD LOSER 3HE GOT ANGRY !ND SO TO INJECT SOME ROMANCE ) TOOK HER TO SEE A lLM ABOUT A GIANT APE RAMPAGING AROUND .EW 9ORK !FTER THAT NIGHT ) REALISED THAT (UGH 'RANT lLMS ARE MADE TO GO ON DATES TO +ING +ONG WAS NOT 7HEN THE lLM lNISHED THE ONLY NOISE IN THE CINEMA WAS ME CRYING MY EYES OUT 4HE POOR BEAST S DEMISE WAS HEARTBREAKING 7ELL ) THOUGHT IT WAS ANYWAY n 3ARAH THOUGHT THAT +ONG S DEATH HAPPENED AT LEAST AN HOUR TOO LATE AND WAS ANGRY THAT MY CRYING WOKE HER UP ) CALLED HER HEARTLESS AND SHE CALLED ME PA THETIC 7E DECIDED NOT TO HAVE A DRINK IN A BAR AND PARTED WAYS $ODGING THE DRUNKS ON THE WAY HOME ONLY SEEMED TO REINFORCE THE POINT 4HERE IS NO RO MANCE IN THE 2IVERSIDE

lLM TO DISTRACT YOU FROM THE GRIM RE ALITY THAT YOU AND YOUR DATE HARDLY KNOW EACH OTHER 4HIS IS PURELY DOWN TO COMPATIBILITY AND SOCIAL SKILLS ) VE KNOWN #ARA FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND SHE WAS HAPPY TO ACCOMPANY ME TO 4HE &AT #AT ON .ELSON 3TREET 7HEN ) EXPLAINED WHAT THE EXPERIMENT WAS ABOUT SHE SAID h) VE BEEN ON A FEW DATES BEFORE 4HEY CAN BE F

ING AWK WARD v 3O TO AVERT ANY AWKWARDNESS ) DECIDED TO GET MARVELLOUSLY DRUNK 4HE TROUBLE WITH 4HE &AT #AT IS THAT WHILE ) CAN IMAGINE IT BEING A LOVELY PLACE TO STAGE A DATE THE ABV STOUT IS TOO TEMPTING AN OFFER ) DO NOT HAVE MUCH TO SAY ABOUT

) REALISED THAT (UGH 'RANT lLMS ARE MADE TO GO ON DATES TO +ING +ONG WAS NOT

! PIECE OF ADVICE IF PLANNING TO TAKE SOMEONE TO A CLUB MEET BEFORE HAND ) NEVER MANAGED TO lND *ENNY THE WHOLE TWO HOURS ) WAS THERE 3HE SAID SHE HAD A GOOD TIME THOUGH

THIS DATE AS ) ONLY REMEMBER ABOUT HALF OF THE EVENING 4HE CONVERSATION SEEMED INTERESTING ENOUGH ) THINK ) M NOT SURE IF #ARA STAYED THE WHOLE NIGHT THOUGH AS MOST OF MY ATTENTION WAS TAKEN UP BY A BEARDED MAN WHO HAD HIS OWN TANKARD ) THINK HE LIKED TRAINS 3O THE THIRD &IRST $ATE HAD lN ISHED AND THE ONLY THING ) HAD TO SHOW FOR IT WAS A STUNNING HANGOVER ) GUESS MY ADVICE WOULD BE TO ONLY MEET FOR A DRINK IF YOU ARE BOTH INTENDING TO GET DRUNK /R JUST DON T GET DRUNK AT ALL

&)234 $!4% 4(2%% #ARA %.6 'OING FOR A DRINK

&)234 $!4% &/52 'EMMA !-3 -EETING FOR A COFFEE

.ORWICH HAS A WIDE VARIETY OF WA TERING HOLES YET GOING ON A DATE IN A PUB IS AWFULLY DAUNTING )T REALLY IS ONE ON ONE 4HERE IS NO BOWLING OR

7HEN IT CAME TO ARRANGING THIS DATE WITH YOUNG 'EMMA ) REALISED THAT MY MONEY SITUATION WAS DISASTROUSLY BAD 3O IN THE NAME OF BEING ROMANTIC

&)234 $!4% 47/ *ENNY ,!7 .IGHTCLUBBING

ETHICAL AND SKINT WE MET FOR A &AIR TRADE COFFEE IN 4HE (IVE 7ELL THAT WAS THE PLAN BUT DUE TO MY INTOLERANCE TO CAFFEINE ) JUST HAD A TAP WATER !S IT WAS DURING THE DAY AND THE DRINKS WERE SERVED IN CARDBOARD CUPS THE ATMOSPHERE WAS MUCH MORE RE LAXED THAN THE OTHER DATES !ND THE WHOLE THING ONLY COST ME P 'EM MA WANTED THE MORE EXPENSIVE GROUND COFFEE BUT AS IT WAS MY TREAT ) VETOED THAT SILLY IDEA 4HREE MINUTES IN TO OUR DATE WHILE WE WERE DISCUSSING THE lNER POINTS OF $ESPERATE (OUSEWIVES ONE OF MY MATES APPEARED AND PROCEEDED TO TALK AT LENGTH ABOUT THE EVILS OF DISSERTA

TIONS /NCE HE HAD lNISHED 'EM MA S HOUSEMATE APPEARED AND HEARTILY BITCHED ABOUT THEIR UTILITY BILLS !ND THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH ALL THE FUN THAT WAS TO BE HAD ON A DATE AT 4HE (IVE !NY CHANCE OF STIMULATING CON VERSATION WAS RUINED BY PEOPLE WANT ING TO TALK TO US ) DO NOT RECOMMEND IT IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY AT THIS UNIVER SITY )T S JUST TOO FRIENDLY !ND WITH THIS ILL FOUNDED SENSE OF POPULARITY MY lNAL DATE CAME TO A CLOSE ,OOKING BACK AT MY BRIEF mIRT WITH THE WORLD OF DATING THE ONLY THING ) VE WORKED OUT IS THAT ) M USE LESS WITH WOMEN -Y GIRLFRIEND IS OB VIOUSLY SOME KIND OF SAINT OR FREAK TO PUT UP WITH ME !S FOR THAT PERFECT lRST DATE IN .ORWICH ) GUESS IT S NOT WHERE YOU GO BUT WHAT YOU RE LIKE "E YOURSELF AND HAVE A GOOD TIME ) M SURE YOU WILL BE lNE

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4HE #ONCRETE 3EX 3URVEY @ 4HE ANNUAL DELVE INTO 5%! S SEXUAL PRACTICES ALWAYS CAUSES A GIGGLE IN THE #ONCRETE OFlCE 3IMON 3HERIDAN AND 0RIYA 3HAH CATCH A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR DEPRAVED LITTLE LIVES

NCE AGAIN THIS WEEK MORE THAN ANY OTHER BRINGS JOY AND HAPPI NESS TO THE #ONCRETE OF lCE 9OUR STRANGE AND LET S FACE IT SICK ESCAPADES HAVE WARMED OUR COCKLES IN THESE COLD WINTER MONTHS AND IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO DISCOVER THE DARK SECRETS CREEPING THE CORRIDORS OF #OLMAN (OUSE OR #ONSTABLE 4ERRACE "EHIND EVERY DOOR LURKS A RABID BEAST OF INSATIABLE DESIRE AND YEARNING READY TO SPRING IN THE QUEST FOR ORGASMIC ENLIGHTENMENT /R AT LEAST THAT S WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE )N ACTUAL FACT THIS YEAR WE WERE

RATHER SURPRISED BY THE COMPASSION MOST OF YOU APPEAR TO HAVE MANIFESTED /VER HALF OF BOTH SEXES CLAIM TO BE IN A CON SENSUAL RELATIONSHIP PRESUMABLY WITH SOMEONE ELSE FROM 5%! ALTHOUGH THERE ARE A FEW WEIRDOS OUT THERE WHO CLING LIKE A COMFORT BLANKET TO THEIR BEAU BACK HOME OR OVERSEAS $ESPITE THIS IT IS COMMENDABLE THAT SO MANY OF YOU ARE COMMITTING TO RELA TIONSHIPS AS FEATURES THROUGHOUT THE ISSUE MAKE CLEAR A SINGLE SEXUAL PARTNER MAKES THE LIKELIHOOD OF CONTRACTING AN 34) SIGNIlCANTLY SMALLER (OWEVER THE NUMBER OF 5%! RELATIONSHIPS CORRELATES RATHER NICELY YOU MIGHT SAY HAND IN HAND WITH ANOTHER STAT NAMELY THAT GUYS MASTURBATE AN AWFUL LOT OF YOU HAVE A TUG AT LEAST A FEW TIMES A WEEK

MOST ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS /NLY CLAIM TO DO IT LESS THAN ONCE A WEEK !S FAR AS SOLO SESSIONS GO THE GIRLS LIKE TO DIBBLE THEMSELVES ON A MORE MONTHLY BASIS AND ARE FAR MORE RESERVED IN THEIR CHOICES OF @STUFF TO AID THEM IN THIS QUEST )T APPEARS THAT THE HEAD OF ANY REASONABLY PRICED SHOWER WILL DO THE JOB USING SIGNIlCANTLY LESS EFFORT ON YOUR PART LADIES 4HE OTHER STATS THAT POKE OUT ARE THE GUYS INDECENT LACK OF MORAL lBRE ! WHOPPING OF YOU WOULD SLEEP WITH SOMEONE TO FURTHER YOUR CAREER WITHOUT EVEN A THOUGHT AS TO WHO OR WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE TO DO IN ORDER TO GET THAT PRO MOTION 4HE GUYS WOULD ALSO RATHER HAVE SEX WITH THE LIGHTS ON WHEREAS THE GIRLS ARE SPLIT ON THIS THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHY )T ALSO SURPRISED US TO LEARN THAT OF

THE WOMEN WHO lLLED IN THE SURVEY CLAIMED TO BE BISEXUAL *UST OUT OF INTER EST IS THIS BECAUSE OF THE GUYS INSATIABLE WANKING APPETITE MENTIONED EARLIER OR IS IT AS THE MEN AGREE THAT GIRLS AT 5%! ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THEY ARE UGLY AND SUR PASS THIS WITH THEIR SEXUAL PERFORMANCE 4HE BLOKES FALL BACK SLIGHTLY IN THE LOOKS DEPARTMENT WHICH HAS LED #ONCRETE TO ASSUME THAT MORE CUTE FELLAS ARE NEEDED TO MAKE UP FOR THIS SHORTFALL 'UYS THERE ARE lT WOMEN OUT THERE WHO NEED ONE OF YOU TO STEP UP SO JUST REMEMBER THAT THE NEXT TIME YOU VISIT THE ,#2 4O HELP PEOPLE IN THEIR QUEST WE HAVE PRINTED A NUMBER OF 6ALENTINE S -ESSAGES IN THE HOPE THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO TICKED @.EVER FOR THE @HOW MANY TIMES A MONTH QUESTION WILL NEVER HAVE TO AGAIN

/UTSTANDING COMMENTS "EST EXPERIENCE

7ORST EXPERIENCE

h#HRISTMAS SEX DRESSED UP IN AN !NN 3UMMERS 3ANTA OUTlT v

h4HERE WAS A NECK RASH INVOLVED v h*ESSICA !LBA CREAM AND BLACK LINGERIE v h7ITH THE SNAKE v h"ONNET OF A CAR v h7ATCHING ANIMAL PORN WHILST HAVING SEX v h(AVING SEX IN THE LIBRARY WITH A LEOPARD v h"EING CAUGHT AT IT BY MY GIRL FRIEND S MUM v h0ARTNER AND BEST MATE AT THE SAME TIME v h4HE GUY ONLY WANTED TO WATCH PORN THEN FELL ASLEEP AFTER lVE h4IED UP BY ALL OF 'IRLS !LOUD v MINUTES AND ) HAD TO KICK HIM OUT /N MY BIRTHDAY v h3UPERHEROINES v

h7ITH MY BOYFRIEND ON THE BATH ROOM mOOR JUST AFTER EXAMS HAD lNISHED -Y HOUSEMATES WEREN T TOO PLEASED v h3EX WITH %SSEX GIRLS v h)N MY OWN COMPANY WITH A CUP OF TEA v h,OTS IN THE SHOWER v h+YLIE IMPERSONATOR v

7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY #ONCRETE

6ALENTINES -ESSAGES

-EN 3EXUAL /RIENTATION (ETEROSEXUAL (OMOSEXUAL "ISEXUAL 2ELATIONSHIP 3TATUS 3INGLE -ARRIED "OY 'IRLFRIEND /PEN 2ELATIONSHIP 3UICIDAL (OW OFTEN DO YOU HAVE SEX $AILY ! FEW TIMES A WEEK 7EEKLY TO MONTHLY ! FEW TIMES A YEAR .EVER &AVOURITE SEXUAL POSITION -ISSIONARY $OGGY STYLE /N TOP 3IXTY NINE 3POONS 3TANDING UP /THER

$URATION OF SEX SECONDS 5NDER MINUTES MINUTES MINUTES HOUR 0REFER TO 'IVE ORAL SEX 2ECEIVE ORAL SEX (OW OFTEN DO YOU MASTUR BATE $AILY OR MORE ! FEW TIMES A WEEK 7EEKLY -ONTHLY ! FEW TIMES A YEAR .EVER %RECT PENIS SIZE v v v v v v

4HREATENED BY VIBRATORS OR DILDOS

(AD SEX WITH A MEMBER OF THE SAME SEX

,OST VIRGINITY 5NDER

"EEN TEMPTED BY A MEMBER OF THE SAME SEX OR IF YOU ARE GAY THE OPPOSITE SEX

.UMBER OF SEXUAL PARTNERS .ONE

(AVE HAD SEX IN ,IBRARY ,#2 %ARLHAM 0ARK 3PORTSPARK 5NION (OUSE ,ECTURE HALL .OWHERE

.UMBER OF ONE NIGHT STANDS .ONE ! FEW 4HE MOST TIMES YOU HAVE HAD SEX IN HOURS

"ELIEVE IN ,OVE ,OVE AT lRST SIGHT -ARRIAGE /PEN RELATIONSHIPS 7OULD HAVE SEX TO FURTHER CAREER GET A BETTER GRADE

(AVE PAID FOR SEX (AVE PREMATURELY EJACULATED

h!NDREW ) LOVE YOU mAP mAPv h) LOVE THE 5%!v

7OULD SLEEP WITH BEST FRIEND S PARTNER (AVE HAD ANAL SEX 4HINK THERE IS SUFlCIENT INFORMATION ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS 2ATE THE WOMEN AT 5%! BAD EXCELLENT !VERAGES ,OOKS 3EXUAL 0ERFORMANCE &IDELITY )NTELLIGENCE 0REFER SEX WITH THE LIGHTS ON

h4O 4IM THE MAN THAT MAKES ME SMILE WITH JUST A GLANCE 9OU VE GOT ME FOR LIFE LIKE IT OR NOT ,OVE 2OBv h4HANK YOU FOR ,#2 AC TION ,OVE #OLINv h(EY THERE (ONEYKINS

(APPY ONE YEAR ANNIVER SARY MY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE BABY ) M SURE THE NEXT ONE WILL BE EVEN BETTERER ,OVE *OHN -ALKOVICHv h-ATT LOVES ALL THE LADIES AND MAN OF 9ORK 3TREET LONG TIME -E SO HORNY v h6ICKY "UTCHER

$O YOU WANT TO ARRANGE ANOTHER RENDEZVOUS ) LL BRING THE VIDEO ) WANNA BE ON YOU XXXv

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h)N THE BACK OF THE CAR AT (OPTON h3OMETHING INVOLVING AN HEADED BEACH LAST WEEKEND v SHOWER AND A YELLOW PAGES v

h,OVE YOU "ABYKINS !LWAYS AND &OREVER XXXv

7OMEN 3EXUAL /RIENTATION (ETEROSEXUAL (OMOSEXUAL "ISEXUAL 2ELATIONSHIP 3TATUS 3INGLE -ARRIED "OY 'IRLFRIEND /PEN 2ELATIONSHIP 3UICIDAL (OW OFTEN DO YOU HAVE SEX $AILY ! FEW TIMES A WEEK 7EEKLY TO MONTHLY ! FEW TIMES A YEAR .EVER &AVOURITE SEXUAL POSITION -ISSIONARY $OGGY STYLE /N TOP 3IXTY NINE 3POONS 3TANDING UP /THER

h-ATT YOU HOTTIE 0APWORTH IS HOTTER THAN (ARRY 0OTTERv h7HAT WOULD !LEX DO v 7HAT IS MORE IMPORTANT ,ENGTH 'IRTH

(AD SEX WITH A MEMBER OF THE SAME SEX

,OST VIRGINITY 5NDER

"EEN TEMPTED BY A MEMBER OF THE SAME SEX OR IF YOU ARE GAY THE OPPOSITE SEX

.UMBER OF SEXUAL PARTNERS .ONE

(AVE HAD SEX IN ,IBRARY ,#2 %ARLHAM 0ARK 3PORTSPARK 5NION (OUSE ,ECTURE HALL .OWHERE

.UMBER OF ONE NIGHT STANDS .ONE ! FEW 4HE MOST TIMES YOU HAVE HAD SEX IN HOURS

"ELIEVE IN ,OVE ,OVE AT lRST SIGHT -ARRIAGE /PEN RELATIONSHIPS 7OULD HAVE SEX TO FURTHER CAREER GET A BETTER GRADE

(AVE PAID FOR SEX 7OULD SLEEP WITH BEST FRIEND S PARTNER /RGASM .EVER /CCASIONALLY &REQUENTLY !LWAYS 4HINK THERE IS SUFlCIENT INFORMATION ABOUT SEXUAL HEALTH AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS 2ATE THE MEN AT 5%! BAD AND EXCELLENT !VERAGES ,OOKS 3EXUAL 0ERFORMANCE &IDELITY )NTELLIGENCE 0REFER SEX WITH THE LIGHTS ON

3PONSORED BY 3INSIN S ,OVE 3TORE s #HARING #ROSS .ORWICH s WWW SINSINSLOVESTORE COM s@.ORMALISING SEX SEXUALITY IN A POSITIVE WAY

h(EY SEXY BUM BUNNY KISSES ,OVE YOU XXXv h!DAM 9OU ARE A REASON IN ITSELF TO DO HISTORYv h) WOULD LIKE A SPECIAL 6ALENTINES MESSAGE TO $ENNIS FOR ALL HIS HELP ) LOVE YOU $EN v h-ATT NEEDS A NICE WOMAN WITH DIRTY TEN DENCIES v h-ATT YOU ARE A GREAT AND SEXUAL BEAST LOVE "EN AND 4OM XXXv h3HAZ ) DON T KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS YOU HAVE A BREATH TAKING HINEY ) ) WANNA BE ON YOU "E MY 6ALENTINE XXXv

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#ZECH MATE FOR YOUR 1UEEN &ANCY WHISKING YOUR LOVER AWAY IN TIME FOR 6ALENTINES $AY 2OB #ASTELL AND 0RIYA 3HAH SERENADE US WITH TWO AFFORDABLE ROMANTIC DESTINATIONS WORTH PURSUING 0ARIS

4HE LIST OF ROMANTIC DESTINATIONS WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT THE OBVIOUS n THE ENIGMATIC CITY OF 0ARIS 'UIDEBOOKS ARE POSITIVELY BURSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES TO UNDERTAKE AND FAMOUS LANDMARKS TO SEE +NOWN FONDLY AS hTHE #ITY OF ,IGHTv IT IS WHERE SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS LITERARY AUTHORS HAD THEIR REVOLUTIONARY BRAINWAVES AND IS THE HOME OF DELECTABLE CULINARY VISIONS AMONGST OTHER THINGS 5SING YOUR TIME JUMPING ON THE -ETRO IS THE BEST WAY TO GET AROUND THIS QUAINT AND WALK ABLE CITY 3TROLLING ALONG THE ,EFT "ANK ARM IN ARM WITH YOUR LOVER IS NOTH ING SHORT OF EXQUISITE 4HE SAME LITTLE CAFÏS HAVE WITNESSED AUTHORS SUCH AS (ENRY *AMES AND %RNEST (EMINGWAY WANDERING INTO THEM FULL OF ARTISTIC IN SPIRATION AND WORLDLY WONDERS 4HESE CAFÏS ARE STILL IN EXISTENCE TO THIS DAY 4HE CULTURAL VIBE IS INFECTIOUS AND IT IS EVIDENT TO SEE THE OLD 0ARISIAN CULTURE HAS SUCCESSFULLY ADAPTED INTO THE NEW 0ARIS BLENDING INTO A CITY RICH OF HIS TORY AND TRADITIONS 4HE MOST WONDERFUL THING ABOUT THIS MAGICAL CITY IS ITS CHARM 0ARIS HAS NEVER HAD TO BE @WESTERNISED IT IS A UNIQUE &RENCH WONDER FULL OF ENCHANT MENT AND HAS NEVER HAD TO REINVENT ITSELF LIKE OTHER %UROPEAN CITIES FOR A TOURISM INDUSTRY 4ODAY THE NIGHT LIFE IS ALTERING INTO FUNKY DANCE CLUBS WITH A MIX OF !LGERIAN AND #ONGOLESE RHYTHMS AND BEATS WHICH ARE ESSENTIAL TO 0ARISIANS ! TIP FOR ROMANTICS IS VIS ITING THE *ARDIN OF ,UXEMBOURG ONE AF TERNOON 4AKE A PICNIC BASKET OF &RENCH CHEESES FRESH FRUITS AND BAGUETTES AND DREAMILY WATCH THE WORLD GO BY WHILST YOU BASK IN BLISS IN THE ELEVATED &RENCH CUISINE AND YOUR LOVER BY YOUR SIDE &OR A 6ALENTINES BREAK IT IS A MUST

TO GO UP THE %IFFEL 4OWER !LTHOUGH THE %IFFEL 4OWER OFFERS A TRULY SERENE OVER VIEW OF THE CITY THERE ARE ALSO OTHER UN DERESTIMATED JEWELS IN 0ARIS 4HE lRST OF THESE IS THE .OTRE $AME 4HIS IS A TH CENTURY GOTHIC CATHEDRAL CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST INmU ENTIAL ARCHITECTURAL PIECES BASED IN THE WORLD )T IS AN EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER TO JUST BE NEAR THE GOTHIC GARGOYLES AND UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF THE ORIGINS BEHIND THE ORIGINALLY CRAFTED STAINED GLASS WINDOWS FULL OF PURITY AND HOPE FOR SOME )T ALSO PROVIDES SUCH A SPEC TACULAR VIEW OF 0ARIS FROM THE TOP OF THE .OTRE $AME EVEN MORE SO THAN THE %IFFEL 4OWER 4HE SMALLER )LE 3AINT ,OUIS PROVIDES A FABULOUS SHOPPING PRECINCT AND SPENDING QUALITY TIME HERE TOGETHER IS A MUST )T IS FULL OF FRIENDLY LOCALS AND IS A CHANCE TO BE A 0ARISIAN IN 0ARIS #LIMB ALL STEPS TO THE TOP OF THE !RC DE 4RIOMPHE FOR A MUCH MORE MEMORABLE VIEW OF THE OLDER PARTS OF 0ARIS !NOTHER COSY PLACE FOR LOVERS TO CUDDLE UP AT IS THE RESTAU RANT 'EORGES SITUATED IN THE 0OMPI DOU #ENTRE 3ITUATED NEAR ,ES (ALLES IT IS THE #ENTRE OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION ISM AND REVOLUTIONARY MODERNISM ! MUST SEE FOR ART LOVERS !LTHOUGH IT IS VERY UNDERSTANDABLE THE %IFFEL 4OWER IS DEEMED hTHE BEST THING TO DO WHEN IN 0ARISv JUST DON T LISTEN TO EVERYTHING YOU HEAR 0ARIS IS ROMANTIC ILLUMINATING AND THRIVING 3OPHISTICATION AND CLASS IS VERY MUCH PART OF &RANCE AND YOU CAN EVEN lND YOURSELF A BARGAIN OR TWO AT THE LOCAL MARKETS HELD IN THE CENTRE OF 0ARIS &INALLY TAKE YOURSELVES OUT TO AN UNDERGROUND *AZZ CLUB SUCH AS ,E "ILBOQUET IF YOU GET THE CHANCE 4HE INFECTIOUS SOUNDS ARE VERY ROMANTIC SO SNUGGLE UP TOGETHER WITH SOME WINE AND LET THE MUSIC WASH OVER YOU

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'OOD +ING 7ENCESLAS STRIKES A CHORD WITH CAROL LOVERS AT YULETIDE 4HOSE OF US CONTENT WITH SOME AB SINTH A ROLL UP AND A PASSION FOR THE HEART WRENCHING TREMOLOS OF A GYPSY GUITAR MIGHT ALSO FEEL AN AFlNITY WITH "OHEMIA S HEARTLAND !ND NOWADAYS IF A MATE S GETTING HITCHED 0RAGUE SPRINGS TO MIND AS THE PERFECT DESTI NATION FOR A STAG WEEKEND WHERE ONE CAN hCZECH OUT THE CHEAP BEER v 3O THEN WHAT CAN THIS CITY ONLY RECENTLY RELEASED FROM THE CHOKING FOLDS OF THE IRON CURTAIN OFFER TO A COUPLE OF YOUNG LOVERS IN SEARCH OF ROMANCE 0LENTY 4HIS IS A FAIRYTALE TOWN A lNE BLEND OF ENCHANTING BACK STREETS CHARMING CAFES AND COSY JAZZ BARS 4HIS IS THE JEWEL OF %UROPE EMBEDDED NEATLY IN THE VERY HEART OF THE CONTINENT STEEPED IN HISTORY BUT SOMEHOW IMPERVIOUS TO THE CRUSH OF THE MODERN AGE 4HE /LD TOWN AND ,ESSER TOWN

OF THE MANY THEATRES AND BOOK A TICKET FOR A PERFORMANCE OF $ON 'IOVANNI -OZART S OPERA WAS WRITTEN FOR THE CITY OF 0RAGUE AND IS PERFORMED REGULARLY WITH PRIDE )F YOU REALLY WANT THE FULL EXPERIENCE SEE IT IN ONE OF THE OLD MARIONETTE THEATRES WHERE CHARMING lGURINES WILL DELIGHT YOU WITH THEIR UNCANNY PRECISION AND BRING THE MU SIC LOVINGLY ALIVE ! LATE LUNCH WON T BE A PROBLEM GIVEN THAT EACH ALLEY BOASTS SEVERAL INTIMATE RESTAURANTS AND A REA SONABLY PRICED -ORAVIAN WINE WILL WASH DOWN A GOULASH NICELY %VENINGS IN 0RAGUE ARE EVEN MORE ROMANTIC 3TROLL ACROSS THE #HARLES "RIDGE A TH CENTURY GOTHIC MASTER PIECE AND SHARE A KISS WHILE THE GENTLE WASH OF THE 6LTAVA RIVER mOWS BENEATH YOU ,OOK UP AT THE ANCIENT 0RAGUE #ASTLE VAST AND MAJESTIC THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD WHICH DESPITE ITS AWESOME PRESENCE WATCHES GENTLY OVER THE CITY LIKE A SLEEPY GRANDDAD )F ITS WARMTH

4HIS IS A FAIRYTALE TOWN A lNE BLEND OF ENCHANTING BACK STREETS AND CHARM ARE WHERE CUPID IS MOST LIKELY TO BE LURKING &EW CARS DISTURB THE COBBLED STREETS SO YOU CAN WANDER HAPPILY GET LOST BEFORE YOU KNOW IT AND JUST AS QUICKLY lND YOURSELF AGAIN 4HE /LD 4OWN 3QUARE WILL NO DOUBT BE BUSY BUT IS WORTH A STOP IF ONLY TO OBSERVE THE RATHER CUTE AND COMICAL SPECTACLE OF THE ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK 4HIS EN CHANTING TOWER COMES TO LIFE ON THE HOUR WITH A PUPPET SHOW OF THE APOS TLES WHOSE hPUNCH AND JUDYv lGURES SHUFmE PAST THE WINDOW WHILE A MINI STATUE OF DEATH RINGS THE BELL !FTER THIS YOU COULD STROLL TO ONE

APPEALS WALK UP BENEATH THE CASTLE WALLS AND STOP INTO A WINE BAR OR COSY PUB WHERE YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ENJOY SOME LIVE MUSIC WHILE YOU SIP A BEKER OVKA AND CHAT TO THE LOCALS +NOWN AS @4HE 'OLDEN #ITY 0RAGUE S TRUE BEAUTY IS BEST ENJOYED IN THE WINTRY MONTHS WHEN THE FROSTY MISTS mOAT OVER THE CITY AND WHEN WALKS HAVE TO BE TAKEN ARM IN ARM CUDDLING ALONG IN ORDER TO BEAT THE CHILL )T S QUIETER TOO SO YOU CAN BETTER HEAR THE MAGICAL WHISPERS OF THE AIR CASTING A SPELL OVER ANY YOUNG LOVERS IN SEARCH OF A BEWITCHING PARADISE

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4HE MOST NOBLE OF FRUITS *OANNA ,AMBERT ON lNDING THE RIGHT WINE FOR YOUR MEAL

ITH 6ALEN TINE S $AY A R O U N D THE CORNER IT COULD COME IN H A N D Y TO KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT WINE n WHETHER IT S BECAUSE YOU D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT TO ORDER DURING YOUR 6AL ENTINE S MEAL SO YOU LOOK LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU RE DOING OR NEED A HELPING HAND TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WINE FOR THE ROMANTIC MEAL YOU RE GOING TO COOK %ITHER WAY YOU RE SURE TO LOOK SUAVE AND IMPRESSIVE IF YOU SOUND LIKE A BIT OF A WINE CONNOISSEUR )F LIKE ME YOU VE HAD A BAD EXPE RIENCE WITH A PARTICULAR TYPE OF WINE THEN IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO STEER CLEAR OF IT IF YOU RE TRYING TO IMPRESS )T MIGHT ALSO BE QUITE A GOOD IDEA TO ASK THE OTHER PERSON IF THEY RE LIKELY TO THROW UP AT THE SMELL OF RED WINE TOO (AVING TO NARROW DOWN CHOICES IS QUITE A SHAME THOUGH BECAUSE THE RIGHT KIND OF WINE CAN CERTAINLY EN HANCE A GOOD MEAL (AVING SAID THIS PUTTING THE WRONG WINE WITH A MEAL CAN SPOIL IT TOO 4HE FOOD CAN AMPLIFY THE mAVOURS OF THE

WINE FOR INSTANCE EATING WALNUTS WITH A RED "ORDEAUX MAKES THE WINE TASTE EXTREMELY DRY AND QUITE UNDRINKABLE !ND THE SAME WINE WHEN EATEN WITH PLAIN WHITE TURKEY MEAT CREATES AN AL MOST METALLIC TASTE (ERE ARE A FEW POINTERS TO FOLLOW s @4ANNIC WINES FOR EXAMPLE #ABER NET 3AUVIGNON RED "OURDEAUX NORTH ERN 2HONE REDS "AROLO AND "ARBARES CO CAN TASTE SOFTER IF DRUNK WITH FATTY FOODS LIKE CHEESE OR STEAK 4HEY WILL TASTE LESS BITTER WHEN DRUNK WITH SALTY FOODS BUT FEEL DRY WHEN PAIRED WITH SPICY FOODS s 3WEET WINES INCLUDING MOST #ALI FORNIAN WHITE WINES CAN TASTE MORE FRUITY BUT LESS SWEET WHEN DRUNK WITH SALTY FOODS MAKING SALTY FOODS MORE APPEALING 3WEET WINES ALSO GO REALLY NICELY WITH SWEET FOODS s !CIDIC WINES INCLUDE THE MAJORITY OF )TALIAN WHITE WINES A LOT OF RED WINES FROM 0IOJA AND DRY WINES BASED ON 3AUVIGNON "LANC 4HESE WINES TASTE LESS ACIDIC WHEN DRUNK WITH SALTY FOODS AND SLIGHTLY SWEET FOODS AND CAN COUNTERBALANCE OILY OR FATTY FOODS $ON T FORGET THAT WINES USUALLY STATE WHAT THEY ARE PAIRED BEST WITH ON THE BOTTLE 4HESE LABELS ARE MORE

2ECIPE (ONEY MUSTARD MASH 4HE COMBINATION OF SWEET HONEY AND PIQUANT MUSTARD IS A POPULAR BAR BECUE MARINADE FOR MEATS SUCH AS CHICKEN BUT ALSO MAKES AN EASY SUB STITUTE FOR MILK TO PRODUCE A CREAMY AND DELICIOUS MASH 4HIS WARMING WINTER RECIPE TASTES PARTICULARLY GOOD SERVED WITH GOOD QUALITY SAUSAGES OR A LIGHTLY GRILLED STEAK 4HIS RECIPE WILL SERVE FOUR PEOPLE )NGREDIENTS .EW POTATOES TBSP HONEY

TSP MUSTARD SEEDS NOT DRIED AVAIL ABLE IN A JAR FROM ANY GOOD SUPERMAR KET 3ALT AND PEPPER TO TASTE 7ASH THE NEW POTATOES AND CUT THEM IN HALF "OIL THEM FOR MIN UTES UNTIL TENDER #RUSH THE NEW POTATOES WITH A FORK UNTIL ROUGHLY MASHED !DD THE HONEY ONE TABLESPOON AT A TIME $ON T ADD TOO MUCH AND TASTE IT EVERY NOW AND AGAIN TO MAKE SURE IT S NOT TOO SWEET !DD THE MUSTARD SEEDS AND MIX

OFTEN THAN NOT EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND ACCURATE /NCE YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE RIGHT WINE YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO SERVE IT TOO 2ED WINE IS BEST SERVED AT ROOM TEMPERATURE AND WHITE 2OSE AND SPARKLING WINE IS BEST SERVED CHILLED )F YOU VE GOT SOME SPARKLING WINE TILT THE GLASS AND POUR THE WINE ONTO THE INSIDE OF THE GLASS n THIS WILL PRESERVE THE BUBBLES AND HELP PREVENT OVER mOWING lZZ 4O CONTROL DRIPS TWIST THE BOTTLE GENTLY AFTER POURING AS YOU TILT IT UPRIGHT )F YOU ARE BEING ALL RO MANTIC AND COOKING A MEAL AT HOME IT MIGHT BE WORTH INVESTING IN SOME WINE GLASSES n THE NICEST WINE ISN T GOING TO HAVE QUITE THE SAME EFFECT IF SERVED IN A PINT GLASS 7E ARE STUDENTS SO THE MAJOR ITY OF US WON T BE WILLING TO SPEND A HUGE AMOUNT ON A BOTTLE OF WINE BUT THIS ISN T A PROBLEM !LL SUPERMAR KETS HAVE A GOOD RANGE OF REASONABLY PRICED WINES AND SOME ARE VERY CHEAP TOO !ND REMEMBER JUST BECAUSE IT COSTS MORE DOESN T MEAN IT WILL TASTE BETTER )T IS MORE VALUABLE TO TRY AND MATCH THE WINE WITH WHAT YOU RE EAT ING YOUR DATE DOESN T NEED TO KNOW IT WAS THE CHEAPEST ONE THERE

)F YOU ARE WALKING ALONG 3T 'ILES 3TREET YOU CANNOT HELP BUT NOTICE THE 7AFmE (OUSE TEMPTINGLY GLOWING WARM IN VITING AND SMELLING DELICIOUS )T S ONE OF THOSE PLACES THAT .ORWICH IS PROUD OF CUSTOMERS LOVE IT AND CRITICS PRAISE IT ) HAD TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON 4HE 7AFmE (OUSE SERVES BOTH SA VOURY AND SWEET WAFmES AT INEXPENSIVE PRICES 4HEY MAY ONLY SERVE WAFmES BUT YOU DO GET A LOT OF CHOICE WHOLEMEAL OR PLAIN REGULAR OR LARGE AND THEN A WIDE RANGE OF TOPPINGS WITH A SPECIALS BOARD THAT IS CHANGING ALL THE TIME ) HAVE TO ADMIT THAT ) WAS RATHER LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SWEET WAFmES SO OPTED FOR A REGULAR SIZED SAVOURY DISH *UST TO MAKE SURE ) HAD ROOM LATER /N lRST IMPRESSION ) THOUGHT THAT THE POR TION SEEMED RATHER SMALL n IT LOOKED NICE THOUGH ! CRISP WARM WHOLEMEAL WAF mE TOPPED WITH FREE RANGE OAK SMOKED HAM CHEDDAR CHEESE SAUCE AND MOUTH WATERING MUSHROOMS -Y FRIEND DECIDED UPON THE FETA AND MOZZARELLA COMBINA TION BUT WE BOTH AGREED THAT MY CHOICE WAS THE BETTER OF THE TWO ) WOULD PROBABLY VISIT THE 7AFmE (OUSE JUST TO EAT ONE OF THEIR SWEET WAF mES WHICH COULD BE QUITE TEMPTING DUR ING A SHOPPING TRIP /UR FAVOURITE WAS THE PECAN NUT WAFmE AND BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE n WITH FRESH WHIPPED CREAM OF COURSE ,UCKILY ) D SAVED SPACE AND CHOSE TO HAVE A LARGE WAFmE 4HE SAUCE WAS MOUTH WATERING AND MY FRIEND WAS RATHER JEALOUS THAT SHE HADN T CHOSEN THE SAME (AVING SAID THIS HER BANANA AND CHOCOLATE WAFmE WAS DELICIOUS TOO 4HE SERVICE WAS PROMPT BUT A FEW MORE SMILES WOULD HAVE MADE IT EVEN BETTER 4HE ATMOSPHERE WAS RELAXED AND INFORMAL 4HIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO POP INTO IF YOU VE GOT A SPARE HOUR IN TOWN n BETWEEN AM AND PM YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE TWO COURSE MEAL FOR a DEAL 4HEY ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL 6AL ENTINES MENU

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,OOKING FOR LOVE -AKE SURE YOU RE NOT CONTAGIOUS %LISSA 3COTLAND REPORTS ON CHLAMYDIA THE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION WITH NO CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS THAT COULD LEAVE YOU INFERTILE

7 E ALL K N O W T H A T U N I VERSITY IS NOT J U S T A B O U T ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS )T S ALSO THE TIME WHERE MANY PEOPLE MEET THEIR lRST BOYFRIEND OR GIRLFRIEND OR DECIDE TO MOVE ON FROM A PAST LOVE TO GREENER n AND CLOSER n PASTURES 4HOSE OF YOU WHO ARE LOOKING FOR L U R V E WILL BE PLEASED TO HEAR THAT SPEED DATING IS RETURNING TO 5%! 3PEED DAT ING GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME n YOU SPEND JUST THREE MINUTES CHATTING TO A MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITE SEX BEFORE MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ONE 4HE EVENT WHICH IS BEING HELD IN THE (IVE PM n PM ON 4UESDAY TH &EBRUARY HAS BEEN ARRANGED BY -EDSIN S 3EXPRESSION GROUP n A STU DENT LED ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO PROMOTING SAFE SEX AND SELF ESTEEM IN TEENAGERS 4HIS YEAR ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE a ENTRY FEE GO TO THE LOCAL ()6 !)$3 CHARITY %ASTERN !)$3 3UPPORT 4RIANGLE )F YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT STARTING

IN FEMALES OR IN MALES BY BRIEmY PLAC ING A THIN COTTON BUD LIKE SWAB INTO THE PENIS 4HANKFULLY THE NEW METHOD IS NOT AT ALL INVASIVE AND IS UNDERTAKEN VERY PRIVATELY 9OU SIMPLY GO INTO THE NEARBY TOILETS WEE INTO A URINE SAMPLE POT AND COMPLETE A CONlDENTIAL FORM THAT WILL ACCOMPANY YOUR URINE TO THE HEALTH AUTHORITY S TESTING CENTRE )F IT S POSITIVE THE HEALTH TEAM WILL CONTACT YOU TO ARRANGE TREATMENT USUALLY A SHORT COURSE OF ANTIBIOTICS h"UT ) DON T HAVE ANYTHING WRONG WITH ME 7HY SHOULD ) BE TESTED FOR CHLAMYDIA v #HLAMYDIA IS A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION )T IS VERY CONTAGIOUS AND IS USUALLY PASSED ALONG BY INTIMATE SEXU ALLY ACTIVITY INVOLVING THE BODY S MOIST PLACES INCLUDING THE PENIS VULVA VA GINA CERVIX ANUS MOUTH AND THROAT )T IS A BACTERIUM THAT USUALLY INFECTS THE WATER PASSAGE URETHRA IN MALES AND FEMALE AND ALSO THE CERVIX IN FE

&REE AND CONlDENTIAL CHLAMYDIA TESTING WILL BE HELD IN THE (IVE ON A NEW RELATIONSHIP OR INDEED IF YOU VE EVER HAD UNPROTECTED SEX INCLUDING INTIMATE mESH TO mESH CONTACT WITH OUT ACTUALLY BONKING YOU SHOULD ALSO CONSIDER THE FREE AND CONlDENTIAL hPEE IN A POTv CHLAMYDIA TESTING IN THE (IVE AM n PM ON 7EDNESDAY &EBRUARY 4HIS COMPLETELY FREE AND CONlDENTIAL TESTING IS BEING CO OR DINATED BY A HEALTH TEAM THAT SET UP CHLAMYDIA SCREENING IN .ORFOLK 4HIS TYPE OF TESTING IS QUITE NEW n PREVIOUS LY IT WAS NECESSARY TO TAKE AN INTERNAL SAMPLE SIMILAR TO A CERVICAL SMEAR TEST

MALES )T CAN ALSO AFFECT OTHER REPRODUC TIVE ORGANS SUCH AS THE OVARIES AND &AL LOPIAN TUBES AS WELL AS THE EYES AND IN SOME PEOPLE THE JOINTS CAUSING A TYPE OF ARTHRITIS )N SOME PEOPLE CHLAMYDIA MAY ULTIMATELY LEAD TO INFERTILITY 5NFORTUNATELY MANY PEOPLE HAVE CHLAMYDIA WITHOUT KNOWING BECAUSE OFTEN IT CAUSES NO OR FEW OR MILD SYMPTOMS OR SYMPTOMS THAT SEEM LIKE THOSE OF ANOTHER ILLNESS #OM MONLY THE INFECTION HAS NO SYMPTOMS IN BOYS OR MEN !S THE WATER PASSAGE IS INmAMED AND SORE YOU MIGHT GET A STINGING OR BURNING SENSATION WHEN YOU URINATE 9OU MIGHT ALSO NOTICE A SLIGHT DISCHARGE /CCASIONALLY CHLAMY DIA CAN PASS TO THE TUBES THAT CARRY SPERM FROM THE TESTICLES WHICH CAN CAUSE PAIN AND SWELLING IN THE TESTICLES AND SCROTUM /F ALL THE GIRLS AND WOMEN WHO ARE INFECTED ABOUT OF THEM WILL HAVE NO SYMPTOMS -OST FEMALES WHO HAVE

A CHLAMYDIAL INFECTION ARE INFECTED AROUND THE CERVIX WHICH SHOWS AS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN VAGINAL DISCHARGE )F IT INFECTS THE URETHRA IT MIGHT CAUSE A STINGING SENSATION WHEN YOU URINATE WHICH FEELS LIKE CYSTITIS A COMMON BACTERIAL INFECTION OF THE BLADDER !LL IN ALL IT S QUITE POSSIBLE AND EVEN QUITE LIKELY THAT YOU OR YOUR PARTNER MIGHT HAVE INFECTIOUS CHLAMYDIA BUT FEEL AND LOOK COMPLETELY NORMAL #ORRECTLY USING CONDOMS PREVENTS THE SPREAD OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED IN FECTIONS SUCH AS CHLAMYDIA (OWEVER AS IT ONLY TAKES JUST ONE LITTLE SEXUAL EN COUNTER FOR CHLAMYDIA TO BE TRANSMIT TED THE BEST THING TO DO IS GET YOUR WEE CHECKED OUT IN THE (IVE !LTERNATIVELY SEE YOUR '0 OR THE LOCAL &AMILY 0LAN NING #LINIC IN 'ROVE 2OAD TELEPHONE !FTER ALL IT CAN ONLY HELP YOU IN YOUR PURSUIT OF L U R V E WWW UEA MEDSIN CO UK SEXPRESSION

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST &EBRUARY

35--%$ 50 MILLION s 0OPULATION OF THE 5+ s .UMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE %X 3OVIET RE GIONS OF %ASTERN %UROPE AND 2USSIA WHO LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE s 4OTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS THAT !)$3 IS PREDICTED TO HAVE CAUSED CONSIDERING THE CURRENT EFFORTS TO lGHT THE DISEASE BY

BILLION s 0OPULATION OF #HINA s ,ITRES OF BOTTLED WATER SOLD IN THE 5+ EVERY YEAR s .UMBER OF COCA COLA PRODUCTS CON SUMED EVERY DAY WORLD WIDE

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0ROTEST AGAINST X S 4HE .ORWICH CAMPAIGN TO STOP URBAN X S CONTINUES

HE !LLIANCE !GAINST 5RBAN X S ARRIVED AT (ILLSIDE !VENUE 0RIMARY 3CHOOL LAST -ONDAY 4HE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN AIMS TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE HEAVILY POLLUTING VEHI CLES DESIGNED FOR OFF ROAD CONDITIONS BUT INCREASINGLY POPULAR AMONG UR BAN DRIVERS -ONDAY RD SAW A GROUP OF PRO TESTERS HANDING OUT LEAmETS TO PAR ENTS AT THE LOCAL .ORWICH SCHOOL AND HANDING OUT hPOOR REPORTv CARDS TO THE MANY WHO COMPLETED THEIR SCHOOL RUN IN A CAR OF RIDICULOUS PROPORTIONS *ENN 0ARKHOUSE THE CO ORDINATOR OF .ORWICH &RIENDS OF THE %ARTH AND CO ORGANISER OF THE #AMPAIGN !GAINST 5RBAN X S EXPLAINED THAT THEY hHOPE TO PERSUADE SOME PARENTS AND KIDS TO

DAY THAT IT IS BETTER TO WALK OR TO CYCLE TO SCHOOL THAN TO USE A @#HELSEA TRAC TOR INSTEADv 4HERE WAS MINOR RESIST ANCE FROM SOME DRIVERS BUT THE MA JORITY OF PARENTS SYMPATHISED WITH THE CAMPAIGNERS #ONGESTION AROUND THE SCHOOL IN THE MORNINGS HAS BECOME A SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARD AND PARENTS ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE PEDES TRIAN CHILDREN THAT WALK AND CYCLE *ACK 'UEST CHAIRS THE 3USTAINABLE 4RANSPORT !CTION 'ROUP WHICH HAS RE CENTLY JOINED FORCES WITH THE .ORWICH !LLIANCE !GAINST 5RBAN X S (E WAS OUTSIDE THE GATES AT AM TALKING TO THE LOCAL NEWS CREWS (E SPOKE OF THE hREAL SOCIAL COSTS OF X S AND 356Sv AND ASSERTED THAT hINCREASED #/ EMISSIONS AND INCREASED RISK OF DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY FROM BEING RUN OVER MAKES FOUR WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES A CRU CIAL OBJECT OF PROTEST AND CONCERNv 0UBLIC CONCERN OVER THE USE OF THESE VEHICLES IS GROWING WITH AC

KNOWLEDGEMENT FROM PROMINENT POL ITICIANS SUCH AS +EN ,IVINGSTON WHO CONDEMNED THEIR USE WITHIN ,ONDON "UT THEY STILL REMAIN A POPULAR CHOICE MIRRORING THE TREND IN THE 5NITED 3TATES WHERE LARGE CARS ARE A COMMON SIGHT &OR SOME THEY HAVE BECOME A STATUS SYMBOL OF POWER WHILE OTHERS ARE SUCKED IN BY THE EXAGGERATED TALES OF THEIR SAFETY FEATURES 'REEN 0ARTY #OUNCILLOR 2UPERT 2EAD LIVED IN THE 5NITED 3TATES FOR SEVEN YEARS AND MADE IT CLEAR THAT hWE CAN T AFFORD TO LET THE 5+ BECOME LIKE THE 53! WHERE HUGE NUMBERS OF X S CREATE A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT AROUND SCHOOLSv (E REPORTED THAT IN THE 53 ONE PERSON A WEEK ON AVERAGE ACCIDEN TALLY BACKS OVER AND KILLS ONE OF THEIR OWN KIDS BECAUSE OF THE SIZE AND POOR DESIGN OF THESE X S )T IS HOPED THAT THE CAMPAIGN CAN RID OUR CITY OF THIS POLLUTING PEST *AMES #ONWAY

s 0ROPORTION OF COMMERCIALLY VALUABLE lSH STOCKS THAT ARE EITHER FULLY EXPLOITED OR OVER EXPLOITED s 0ROPORTION OF SALTMARSHES IN %NGLAND AND 7ALES THAT HAVE NOW BEEN LOST DUE TO NEGLECT AND DEGRADATION s 0ROPORTION OF FARMERS INTERVIEWED IN A RECENT SURVEY WHO COULD NOT NAME ANY ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION

s 0ROPORTION OF THE NATION THAT BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE AN EXTRA TAX ON X S AND OTHER HEAVILY POLLUTING CARS s 0ROPORTION OF THE NATION WHO BELIEVE THAT COMPANY DIRECTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE PROSECUTED FOR A SERIOUS CRIMINAL OFFENCE LIKE MANSLAUGHTER s 0ROPORTION OF THE NATION WHO ADMIT TO INDULGING IN SHALLOW CHIT CHAT AT THE EX PENSE OF WEIGHTY DIALOGUE EVEN THOUGH THEY SECRETLY LONG FOR MORE MEANINGFUL EXCHANGES

s 0ERCENTAGE OF VOTES CAST TO REMOVE 'EORGE 'ALLOWAY FROM THE "IG "ROTHER HOUSE WHICH LED TO HIS DEFEAT s 0ERCENTAGE OF VOTES CAST AGAINST 'EORGE 'ALLOWAY IN THE GENERAL ELECTION WHICH DID NOT LEAD TO HIS DEFEAT s 0ERCENTAGE OF VOTES CAST AGAINST THE ,A BOUR PARTY NATIONWIDE IN THE ELEC TION WHICH ALSO DID NOT LEAD TO THEIR DEFEAT

3TATUS ENDANGERED .ATIONS MEET TO DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF THE !SIAN ELEPHANT

LL NATIONS WITH WILD POPULA TIONS OF !SIAN ELEPHANTS HAVE RECENTLY GATH ERED FOR THE lRST TIME TO DIS CUSS THE FUTURE SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES 4HE THREE DAY GATHERING WAS CONVENED BY THE -ALAY SIAN GOVERNMENT WITH BACKING FROM )5#. THE WORLD CONSERVATION UNION TO TARGET THE MAJOR THREATS FACING THE CONTINENT S LARGEST MAMMAL 4HE POPULATION OF WILD !SIAN EL EPHANTS IS ESTIMATED AT TO RANGING FROM FEWER THAN

ELEPHANTS IN 6IETNAM TO MORE THAN IN )NDIA (OWEVER WITH THEIR HABITAT UNDER THREAT FROM INCREASING HUMAN ACTIVITY ONLY AN ESTIMATED lVE PERCENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL HABITAT RE MAINS FOR THEM TO ROAM LEAVING THE OUTLOOK OF THE SPECIES UNCERTAIN 3OUTH AND 3OUTH %AST !SIA HAVE THE HIGHEST HUMAN POPULATION DENSITY IN THE WORLD WITH A CONTINUAL INCREASE FROM ONE TO THREE PERCENT EACH YEAR !S THE ELEPHANTS HABITAT IS EATEN INTO BY HUMANS DEVELOPING THE LAND THE ELEPHANTS ARE ENTERING NEWLY DE VELOPED AREAS RILING THE LOCALS AND FARMERS WHO ARE INCREASINGLY USING METHODS OF POISONING AND SHOOTING

TO PREVENT THEIR CROPS BEING RUINED 4HE LOCALS ARGUMENT IS UNDER STANDABLE AS lGURES SUGGEST THAT AT LEAST PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY ELEPHANTS IN !SSAM A NORTH EASTERN REGION OF )NDIA SINCE )T IS HOPED THAT A BETTER UNDER STANDING OF THE ELEPHANTS ROAMING PATTERNS WILL HELP REDUCE THE RISING CONmICT BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE EL EPHANTS BOTH ACTING FOR SURVIVAL 4HE NATIONS MET WITH THE HOPE OF IMPROVING THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE NEEDS OF THE ELEPHANTS AND THE GROW ING HUMAN POPULATION S SPATIAL NEEDS A DIFlCULT TARGET TO MEET (ANNAH .EWTON

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9/52 -/6% %NV LECTURE SERIES

4HE LATEST IN THIS YEAR S ENVIRONMENTAL LECTURE SERIES OFFERS A SEMINAR BY "RIAN -OSS FROM ,IVERPOOL UNIVERSITY CALLED h! VIEW FROM .OAH S !RK THE PANDA THE FOX SHALLOW LAKES AND OUR FUTUREv 4HIS WILL BE ON THE ST OF &EBRUARY AT PM IN 3

#OUNCIL POLLARDS TREES

.ORFOLK IS BURNING UP -ARK (IRONS REPORTS ON THE PROPOSED INCINERATOR

H A T TO DO W I T H O U R MOUN T A I N S O F W A S T E IS AGAIN IN THE NEWS AS A GOVERNMENT PAPER TO BE PUBLISHED NEXT MONTH SAYS THE PROPORTION OF WASTE INCINERATION COULD RISE FROM TO OVER THE NEXT YEARS 4HIS HAS GIVEN STRENGTH TO THE PLANS TO BUILD FOUR INCINERATORS IN .ORFOLK BUT HAS ANGERED RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY IN #OSTESSEY WHERE IT IS HOPED THAT THE lRST PLANT WILL BE OP ERATIONAL BY )NCREASINGLY STRICT %5 LEGISLATION ON LANDlLL MEANS THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS BECOMING INTERESTED IN WASTE INCIN ERATION AS A MEANS TO MEET LANDlLL TARGETS .ORWICH HAS A CRITICAL LANDlLL SHORTAGE AND THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO lND AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION TO THE USUAL DUMPING OF WASTE "UT INCINERATION THOUGH IT PRODUCES ELECTRICITY WHILE RE DUCING THE WASTE MASS IS SEEN BY MOST AS A POOR IMPROVEMENT -UCH OF THE OPPOSITION IS CENTRED UPON POLLUTION )NCINERATION PRODUCES HEAVY METALS NITROGEN OXIDES AND DI OXINS AMONGST OTHER POLLUTANTS $IOX INS ARE A PRIMARY CONCERN BECAUSE OF THEIR CARCINOGENICITY ! REVIEW OF WASTE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND THEIR EF FECTS HAS HELPED REDUCE CONCERNS AS TECHNOLOGY HAS IMPROVED AND RISKS ARE MUCH LOWER )T POINTS OUT THAT DIOXINS FROM INCINERATION ONLY ACCOUNT FOR OF THE 5+ S DIOXIN EMISSIONS DOMES TIC SOURCES SUCH AS COOKING AND BURN ING COAL ACCOUNT FOR ! SIMILAR DISPARITY EXISTS FOR NITROUS OXIDES FROM INCINERATION AND FROM TRAF lC )T IS LIKELY THAT THE INCINERATORS WILL NOT CAUSE SUCH HAZARDS AS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST BUT SENIOR "RITISH SCIENTISTS STILL SAY THAT THERE ARE hINHER ENT UNCERTAINTIESv WITHIN THE REPORT

#OSTESSEY RESIDENTS ARE ALSO WORRIED ABOUT THE EYESORE THAT GIANT CHIMNEYS AND BAD ODOURS MAY BRING AND FEAR FOR FALLING HOUSE PRICES 9ET THE BIGGEST AND MOST ROBUST OP POSITION IS THAT IT WILL DISCOURAGE RECY CLING AND REDUCTION OF WASTES THAT ARE FAVOURED METHODS OF WASTE REDUCTION 4OM (EAP THE ""# S RURAL AFFAIRS COR RESPONDENT SUMMARISES THE GOVERN MENT S POSITION ON WASTE AS REDUCE RECYCLE TURN INTO ELECTRICITY AND AS A LAST RESORT BURY IT -ANY PEOPLE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT WASTE INCINERATION IS EFFECTIVELY THIRD ON THE LIST BUT IT SEEMS TO BE TAKING PRIORITY OVER REDUCING AND RECYCLING -ICHAEL 7ARHURST FROM &RIENDS OF THE %ARTH SAYS THAT h"RITONS SHOULD CONCENTRATE MORE ON RECYCLING AND LESS ON BURNINGv 4HE INCINERATION SCHEME AT ,ONG WATER INDUSTRIAL ESTATE #OSTESSY WILL COST a MILLION EMPLOY ABOUT PEOPLE AND SUPPLY ENERGY FOR HOMES 7ITH A PREDICTED NEW HOMES TO BE BUILT IN .ORFOLK THE NEW PLANTS WILL HELP ELEVATE BOTH THE ENERGY DEMAND AND WASTE PRODUCED (OWEV ER COUNTY COUNCILLOR !NDREW "OSWELL POINTS OUT THAT THE HIGH LEVEL OF WASTE NEEDED TO RUN THE PLANT AT MAXIMUM EFlCIENCY WILL UNDERMINE THE COUNCIL S RECYCLING SCHEME h)N THE TWENTY lRST CENTURY THE ONLY GREEN SOLUTION IS TO REDUCE PACKAGING INCREASE RECYCLING LEVELS AND BUILD SMALLER SCALE ANAERO BIC DIGESTION PLANTS v (E ALSO URGES THE GOVERNMENT TO LEGISLATE AGAINST PROLIFERATE PACKAGING n @THE PACKAGER SHOULD PAY 4HE COUNCIL TURNED DOWN A PROJECT THAT INVOLVED AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTION PLANT ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE METHOD WAS NOT AS ESTABLISHED AS INCINERATION 4HE ANAEROBIC METHOD PROVED TO BE A SLIGHTLY MORE EXPENSIVE OPTION BUT WOULD HAVE BEEN FAR HIGH ER UP THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCALE )AN -ONSON COUNCILLOR FOR 7ASTE AND THE %NVIRONMENT IS PLEASED THAT THE GOVERNMENT BACKED THE CONCLU

SION THAT WASTE INCINERATION IS THE BEST OPTION FOR THE NEXT YEARS (E DISPUTES CLAIMS THAT THE PROJECT WILL REDUCE RECYCLING SAYING THAT hWE WILL BE RECYCLING MUCH MORE THAN WE DO NOW )T IS STILL A COSTLY PROCESS AND SO THE MORE WE RECYCLE THE MORE MONEY WILL BE SAVEDv 4HE DEBATE OVER ENERGY RECOVERY CONFUSES THE MATTER FURTHER 4HE 5+ IS FACING AN ENERGY GAP WHICH HAS PROMPTED THE RE EMERGENCE OF THE NUCLEAR DEBATE 3URELY WE SHOULD BE JUMPING AT OPPORTUNITIES TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY FROM WASTE BUT WASTE INCIN ERATORS PRODUCE MORE CARBON DIOXIDE THAN THE OLD FASHIONED COAL POWER STA TIONS 7ITH A NATIONAL TARGET OF A DECREASE IN CARBON DIOXIDE BY IT IS DIFlCULT TO SEE WHY THE GOVERNMENT WOULD VIEW WASTE INCINERATION FAVOUR ABLY )T IS HARDLY SURPRISING THAT THE PA PER HAS BEEN VIEWED AS A SHORT SIGHTED SHORT TERM SOLUTION TO A BIG PROBLEM THAT IS ONLY PART OF AN INCREDIBLY COM PLEX SYSTEM THE ENVIRONMENT %NVIRONMENTALISTS HOPE THE PLANS CAN STILL BE SUCCESSFULLY OVERTURNED

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!N ARTICLE DECRYING 6ALENTINE S $AY BY 6ICTORIA ,EGGETT

ALENTINE S $AY HAS BECOME A DAY OF GIV ING CARDS AND PRESENTS TO YOUR LOVED ONES AND LETTING THEM KNOW HOW MUCH YOU LOVE AND APPRECIATE THEM "UT WHY IS IT WE HAVE TO HAVE JUST ONE DAY FOR THOSE THINGS 3URELY IN A WORLD WHERE MIL LIONS OF PEOPLE ARE DEALING WITH GRIEF EVERYDAY SAVING YOUR LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR &EBRUARY TH IS A LITTLE SELF ISH $OES HAVING AN ASSIGNED DAY FOR TREATING YOUR PARTNER NICELY NOT JUST GIVE BOY FRIENDS OR GIRLFRIENDS LICENSE

TO TREAT YOU APPALLINGLY FOR DAYS A YEAR BECAUSE THEY CAN ALWAYS MAKE IT UP ON 6ALENTINE S $AY )F WE RE ALL HONEST WE SHOULD ADMIT THAT 6ALEN TINE S $AY DOESN T MEAN ANY THING OR AT LEAST SHOULDN T IF WE TRULY LOVE SOMEONE AT THE RISK OF SOUND INCRED IBLY CHEESY EVERY DAY SHOULD BE 6ALENTINE S $AY 7HAT IT BOILS DOWN TO IS THAT 6AL ENTINE S $AY IS A CHANCE FOR mORISTS CHOCOLATE SHOPS AND CARD SHOPS TO TARGET AN ENTIRE POPULATION AND MAKE A LOAD OF MONEY IN THE SPACE OF HOURS A FEAT THEY REPEAT AT

#HRISTMAS %ASTER (ALLOW EEN AND A PLETHORA OF OTHER hRELIGIOUSv FESTIVALS !NY CLAIMS THAT THESE COMPANIES ARE SIMPLY CON TINUING AN ANCIENT TRADITION WHICH CELEBRATES 3T 6ALENTINE OR ANY OTHER LEGENDARY CUS TOM ARE AT THE VERY BEST WEAK 3T 6ALENTINE WAS A PRIEST DUR ING THE THIRD CENTURY WHO WAS MARTYRED ON &EBRUARY TH NO CHOCOLATES AND MU SICAL CARDS THERE THEN 3OME SAY THAT WHILST IN PRISON HE FORGED A STRONG FRIENDSHIP WITH THE JAILER S DAUGHTER AND ON THE DAY HE WAS TO BE KILLED HE WROTE HER A FARE

WELL NOTE THANKING HER FOR HER FRIENDSHIP AND SIGNED IT h&ROM YOUR 6ALENTINEv ! LIT TLE LESS TENUOUS THIS COULD CERTAINLY JUSTIFY A TRADITION OF APPRECIATING LOVED ONES BUT WHY THE MONOPOLY ON LOVE AND WHY MASS PRODUCED CARDS WITH SLEAZY RHYMES -Y FAVOURITE SUGGESTION FOR THE ORIGIN OF 6ALENTINE S $AY CELEBRATIONS HAS TO BE THE ANCIENT PAGAN FESTIVAL OF ,UPERCALIA INVOLVING THE RITUAL SACRIlCE OF A FEW GOATS FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD OF CHASING WOMEN AROUND THE TOWN CARRYING THE SKIN OF THE NEWLY DECEASED AND SLAPPING

THOSE LUCKY WOMEN WITH IT IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM MORE FERTILE -AYBE ) M BEING A LIT TLE SHORT SIGHTED BUT ) CANNOT WORK OUT HOW WE GOT FROM THAT TO EXTRAVAGANT GIFTS AND A DOZEN RED ROSES )N FACT THE SENDING OF CARDS TO MARK &EBRUARY TH OR AS ) NOW LIKE TO CALL IT @SLAP PING WOMEN WITH GOATS DAY ONLY TOOK OFF IN THE S n AMAZINGLY COINCIDING WITH THE RISE AND RISE OF THE MASS PRINTING INDUSTRY AND CAPI TALISM 4HE PRICE OF SENDING A DOZEN RED ROSES ON &EBRUARY TH JUMPS PREDICTABLY EVE RY YEAR /NE YEAR A DIAMOND

COMPANY RAN AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN SUGGESTING THAT 6ALENTINE S $AY WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO PURCHASE ONE OF THEIR SPARKLY FRIENDS FOR A LOVED ONE (ARDLY A SUBTLE PUSH FOR EXTRA PROlT 4HE MORE COMMERCIAL ISED RETAILERS MAKE THIS @SPE CIAL DAY THE LESS IT MEANS "Y ALL MEANS TELL YOUR BOY FRIEND OR GIRLFRIEND YOU LOVE THEM ON &EBRUARY TH BUT NOT THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF A TALKING TEDDY BEAR ON HE LIUM !ND DON T FORGET YOU CAN ALWAYS GIVE THEM A CUD DLE THE NEXT DAY TOOx AND THE DAY AFTER THAT

h)N YEARS THERE LL BE NO MEN AND NO WOMEN JUST WANKERS )T LL BE GREAT v /R WILL IT ASKS -ATT 3HOESMITH

HE LEGALISATION OF CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS FOR HOMOSEXU AL COUPLES HAS THROWN THE ISSUE INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AGAIN 4HIS COMES AT THE SAME TIME AS !NG ,EE S BRILLIANT GAY COW BOY lLM "ROKEBACK -OUN TAIN WHICH SCOOPED A 0'! AWARD AND SEEMS TO HAVE ONE HAND lRMLY ON AN /SCAR FOR BEST lLM )NDEED EVEN THE POLITICIANS WERE GETTING INVOLVED AS 3IMON (UGHES HAS RECENTLY ADMITTED TO HAVING HAD HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WHILST -ARK /ATEN RESIGNED AS THE ,IB $EM S HOME AFFAIRS SPOKES MAN AFTER ALLEGATIONS THAT HE USED MALE PROSTITUTES !LL IN ALL IT S BEEN A PRETTY GAY FEW MONTHS .OT OF COURSE THAT

THERE S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT SORT OF STUFF "UT IT CER TAINLY IS INTERESTING 7HY HAS EVERYTHING TURNED SO GAY 7ILL THE REMAINING APPARENT MINORITY SOON FOLLOW SUIT AND TURN FRUITY -AYBE IT S SIMPLY THE RESULT OF HAVING SO MANY mAMBOYANTLY CAMP CHILDREN S TELEVISION PRESENT ERS )N AN UNCERTAIN WORLD IT SEEMS NO ONE IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO CHIRP UP AND DIS PEL THE CONFUSION (OWEVER ) THOUGHT ) D TRY !ND SO ONE COLD *ANUARY EVENING ) DECIDED TO HAVE THE GAYEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE 4O LIVE EAT AND SLEEP GAY 7ELL EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE PART WHERE YOU HAVE TO FANCY BLOKES LET S NOT GET AHEAD OF OURSELVES (OWEVER DRESSING mAMBOYANTLY BEING hFABU LOUSv AND SMELLING OF #ALVIN

+LEIN ) HEADED FOR WHAT ) THOUGHT WAS THE GAYEST PLACE IN .ORWICH 4HE ,OFT &AIR ENOUGH 4HE ,OFT IS UNDENIABLY A GAY CLUB ) STRUTTED UP TO THE BAR OR DERED A -ALIBU AND #OKE AND WAITED FOR 2AINING -EN TO COME ON SO ) COULD GET MY GROOVE ON ,OOKING AROUND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF GROUPS OF BLOKES IN THERE AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT (OWEVER NONE OF THEM WERE DRESSED NEARLY AS GAY AS ) WAS )N FACT THEY WERE ALL DRINKING LAGER AND TALKING ABOUT FOOTBALL 3UITABLY UNIMPRESSED MY FELLOW INVESTIGATOR AND ) APPROACHED SOME OF THEM HALF EXPECTING THEM TO LAVISH COMPLIMENTS ON US IN AN AT TEMPT AT SEDUCTION 4HE lRST THING THEY DID WAS TO ASK FOR A CIGARETTE

"AD START 4HE SECOND WAS TO ANNOUNCE THAT NONE OF THEM WERE GAY AND THAT THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO PICK UP ON THE STRAIGHT WOMEN WHO GO TO GAY CLUBS TO AVOID GETTING HASSLED BY SLEAZY BLOKES !BSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ) NEARLY BROKE MY SHIN KICK ING MYSELF FOR NOT COMING UP WITH IT SOONER 7ITH THIS NEW INFORMATION ACQUIRED ) TOOK A MORE DETAILED LOOK AROUND 4HEY WERE ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT THE ONLY GROUP WHO D DECIDED ON THIS PLAN OF ACTION $EEP BELLOWED LAUGHTER ECHOED FROM THE CENTRE OF EACH GROUP OF LADS AS THEY SOUGHT TO EMPHASISE THEIR MASCULINE PROWESS IN AN UNSETTLING ENVIRONMENT 3OMEWHAT DISILLUSIONED ) lNISHED MY DRINK KEPT THE LITTLE UMBRELLA AND MADE

MY WAY HOME VOWING NEVER TO BE GAY AGAIN !S ) REmECTED ON THE EVENTS OF MY NIGHT ) WAS STRUCK BY A SOBERING SENSE OF INJUSTICE .ORWICH S GAY COMMUNITY SEEM TO HAVE BECOME VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN POPULARITY AS EVEN SPECIl CALLY GAY ORIENTED NIGHTSPOTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY HORDES OF SKIRT CHASING SPICE BOYS WHO PURSUE UNSUSPECT ING GROUPS OF FEMALES LIKE A LIONESS MIGHT STALK A HERD OF WILDEBEEST NO OFFENCE TO THE GIRLS WHO WERE IN 4HE ,OFT .OT FOR THE lRST TIME THE GAYS ARE THE VICTIMS /R ARE THEY 0ERHAPS MY BRIEF FORAY INTO THE GAY WORLD PROVES QUITE THE OPPOSITE 3TRAIGHT MEN IN A GAY CLUB WOULD HAVE BEEN A VERY RARE SIGHT IN THE S AS WORKING

BLOKES WERE PUT OFF BY THE STIGMA OF BEING LABELLED A PERVERT BY PROXY AND FOUND GAY CULTURE FRIGHTENING AND UNGODLY .OW THE SITUATION IS A DIFFERENT ONE 0EOPLE OF ALL SEXUALITIES WHO ADHERE TO DIFFERENT BELIEF SYSTEMS AND HAVE THEIR OWN SET OF VALUES ALL JOIN TOGETHER IN A CELEBRATION OF THE VERY DIVER SITY THAT ONCE BRED PREJUDICE AND INTOLERANCE )NDEED WHAT SEEMS INEVITABLE IS THE CLOUDING OF THE BORDERS OF SEXUALITY 9OU GUESSED IT -ETRONESS 3OON ENOUGH BLOKES WILL BE ABLE TO CARRY UMBRELLAS WEAR GLOVES TALK ABOUT CLOTHES AND SPEND OVER A lVER ON A HAIRCUT .OT A GREAT NIGHT OUT BUT NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING IT MIGHT EVEN GET YOU A JOB ON CHILDREN S TELEVISION

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EGARD LESS OF WHETH ER YOU A G R E E W I T H THE DE C I S I O N TO BAN A 0LAYBOY THEMED NIGHT FROM THE ,#2 THE MOVE HAS BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT THE WAY IN WHICH THE 5NION INTERACTS WITH STU DENTS n AND THE ROLE OF OUR 5NIVERSITY TO SET STANDARDS ON A LARGER STAGE /NE OF THE REASONS GIVEN

FOR THE BAN WAS THE POSI TION OF HYPOCRISY THE 5NION WOULD BE PUT IN IF THE NIGHT WENT AHEAD PARTICULARLY GIVEN ITS PREVIOUS REJECTION OF A 0IMPS AND (O S ,#2 )T IS CRUCIAL THAT THE 7OMEN S #AMPAIGN PROMOTES A CON SISTENT IMAGE OF FEMININITY SOMETHING WHICH IS PARTICU LARLY DIFlCULT TO ACHIEVE IN THE CONTRADICTORY WORLD OF MODERN SEXUAL POLITICS 9ET THE .53 HAS HELPED TO PLACE UNIVERSITIES IN THIS AWKWARD POSITION BY PRO MOTING ITS OWN &LIRT NIGHTS

ALONG VERY SIMILAR n AL THOUGH FOR THE MOST PART LESS OVERT n LINES 4HE AMOUNT OF mESH ON SHOW AT A 3AINTS AND 3INNERS EVENT IS LIKELY TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME AS AT THE CANCELLED 0LAYBOY NIGHT THE THEME WILL BE AS PROVOCATIVE AS THE PEOPLE WHO ATTEND .EVERTHELESS EACH OF THESE NIGHTS IS DElNED BY ITS EROTICISATION OF THE FEMALE RATHER THAN THE MALE BODY FROM THE SEXY SCHOOL GIRL OUTlTS OF 3KOOL $AZE TO THE NURSES OF %MERGENCY 3ERV ICES 4HE ISSUES FACING THE

7OMEN S #AMPAIGN RUN FAR DEEPER INTO THE TRICKY AREA OF FEMALE COLLUSION IN OBJECTI lCATION THAN SIMPLE OFFENCE AT PORNOGRAPHY )T IS WHEN THIS OBJECTIlCATION HAS OVER TONES OF EXPLOITATION n IN THE @HO OR THE PLAYGIRL n THAT OUR 5NION SEES lT TO OBJECT 4HE QUESTION FOR US AS A 5NIVERSITY IS WHETHER SOME THING THE .53 FEELS IS AC CEPTABLE AT A NATIONAL LEVEL SHOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO US ON OUR OWN TURF AND IF NOT HOW WE SHOULD MAKE OUR FEELINGS CLEAR TO OUR NATIONAL

REPRESENTATIVES 4HE PETITION RAISED BY -ICHELLE #ATER SUGGESTS THAT FOR MANY STUDENTS THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE OF SEXUAL ATTITUDES BUT ONE OF PERSONAL CHOICE $O OUR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES n INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DE CIDE WHETHER TO ATTEND AN EVENT THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO OTHERS n MATTER MORE OR LESS THAN OUR CAPACITY TO MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT SUCH A DIFlCULT TOPIC 4HIS IS THE DEBATE THAT MUST BE PLAYED OUT WHEN -ICHELLE S PETITION REACHES #OUNCIL

,%44%23 3END YOUR LETTERS FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE %DITOR TO CONCRETE EDITORIAL &ROM AN ALTERNATIVE POINT OF VIEW ,AST WEEK ,OWRI 4URNER WROTE IN THE 7ESTERN -AIL h(OW EVER MUCH ) LOVE MY GAY FRIENDS ) DON T WANT THEM RUNNING THE COUNTRYv &IRST OF ALL 4URNER SHOULD BE MADE AWARE THAT SAYING YOU HAVE FRIENDS OF SOME PARTICULAR SEXUAL ORIENTATION n OR RACE AGE SOCIAL BACK GROUND ETC n DOES NOT EXCUSE BLATANT PREJUDICE AGAINST THAT GROUP AS A WHOLE .O MATTER HOW STRONGLY SHE TRIES TO ARGUE THAT SHE S BASING HER IDEAS ON THE LARGE NUMBER OF HOMOSEXUALS IN HER AC QUAINTANCE THEY ARE STILL PREJUDICED IDEAS )T IS PRECISELY THIS SORT OF BIGOTRY THAT MAKES POLI TICIANS LIKE 3IMON (UGHES AND -ARK /ATEN RELUCTANT TO REVEAL DETAILS ABOUT THEIR PERSONAL LIVES TO THE PUBLIC DETAILS WHICH SHOULD BE IR RELEVANT TO THEIR POLITICAL CA REERS ANYWAY

$ESPITE WHAT ,OWRI AND SOME OTHERS HAVE SAID (UGHES DIDN T NECESSARILY LIE WHEN HE PREVIOUSLY DE NIED BEING GAY n NOT STRAIGHT DOES NOT HAVE TO MEAN GAY n AND MORE IM PORTANTLY HE CERTAINLY SPOKE SOME TRUTHS WHEN HE SAID IT SHOULDN T MATTER IF HE WAS )N HER STEREOTYPING AND HOMOPHOBIC ARTICLE 4URNER SAYS THAT GAYS DON T MAKE GOOD PARTY LEADERS PARTICU LARLY THAT FEW OF THEM ARE hCAPABLE OF REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF THE VAST MAJOR ITY OF PEOPLEv BECAUSE hTHEIR LIFESTYLES ARE TOO DIVORCED FROM THE NORMv )T APPEARS THAT BECAUSE SHE CAN T EMPA THISE WITH THE NON STRAIGHT POPULATION SHE THINKS ALL HUMANS ARE INCAPABLE OF SEEING ALTERNATIVE POINTS OF VIEW FROM THEIR OWN 4URNER SEEMS TO BELIEVE THAT BEING @NORMAL IS THE

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4HE HYPOCRISY OF THIS NATION NEVER FAILS TO ASTOUND ME )NSINUATIONS THAT THE "RIT ISH PUBLIC MAY HARBOUR ANY FORMS OF PREJUDICE ALWAYS MEET WITH DISPUTATION AND mAT DENIAL 9ET THE MOMENT AN -0 ADMITS TO BEING A HOMOSEXUAL GUNS BLAZE AND HIS PROFESSIONAL lTNESS IS BROUGHT INTO QUESTION $OMINIC #ONWAY ,)4

2EGARDING THE ARTICLE BY 0RI YA 3HAH IN #ONCRETE ABOUT SEX DISCRIMINATION h9OU RE @AVING A LARFF LUVv )SSUE *ANUARY TH 4HE AUTHOR MENTIONS HOW THE TOP SEEDED FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER EARNS LESS THAN THE TH SEEDED MALE TENNIS PLAYER 4HEY CITE THIS FACT AS A CLEAR EXAMPLE OF SEX DIS CRIMINATION ) WOULD THINK THE COR RECT QUESTION TO ASK ONESELF IS WHETHER THAT TOP SEEDED FEMALE PLAYER COULD BEAT THE TH SEEDED MALE PLAYER )F SO THEN SHE IS INDEED UNDER PAID )F NOT THEN SHE IS ACTU ALLY OVERPAID %NFORCING EQUAL SALARIES FOR MALE AND FEMALE PLAY ERS AS THE AUTHOR OFFERS TO DO IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO GO ABOUT THE PROBLEM SINCE THERE IS NO WAY TO ASSESS THEIR RELATIVE VALUES AS TENNIS PLAYERS AS THEY DO NOT PLAY

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%QUAL PAY FOR EQUAL PLAY SOLE QUALITY OF GOOD LEAD ERSHIP 0ERHAPS HER IDEAL 0RIME -INISTER WOULD BE A STATISTICALLY AVERAGE MEMBER OF THE POPULATION THEY MAY NOT HAVE POLITICAL EXPERIENCE PUBLIC SPEAKING AND NEGO TIATION SKILLS OR ANY OTHER AT TRIBUTES PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO BE USEFUL IN SUCH A ROLE n BUT AT LEAST THEY WOULDN T BE GAY RIGHT 3ARAH -ABLEY ,,4

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4HE /PINION 3HOULD -URRAY BE GIVEN MORE TIME 3TUART (ARRISON "RITISH INTEREST IN THE lRST 'RAND 3LAM OF THE NEW YEAR MAY HAVE ENDED IN THE lRST ROUND BUT THE TOURNAMENT HAS KEPT TEN NIS FANS CAPTIVATED WITH VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN UN DERDOGS MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES ALONGSIDE HOUSEHOLD NAMES CON SUMMATELY MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE lNAL 4HE STAR OF THE !USTRAL IAN /PEN IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE NEW CROWD FAVOURITE YEAR OLD #YPRIOT -ARCOS "AGHDATI (AVING BEATEN 2ODDICK ,JUBICIC AND .AL BANDIAN ON THE WAY TO A l NAL MEETING WITH 7ORLD .O 2OGER &EDERER "AGHDATI WITH HIS POSITIVE PLAY AND

HIS ENIGMATIC POST MATCH INTERVIEWS HAS CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF THE LOCAL FANS )N STARK CONTRAST TO THE ENERGETIC EMERGENCE OF "AGHDATI "RITAIN S REPRE SENTATIVES 4IM (ENMAN AND !NDREW -URRAY BOTH MADE DISAPPOINTINGLY TAME EXITS FROM THE TOURNAMENT (EN MAN WENT DOWN IN FOUR SETS TO HIS 7IMBLEDON CONQUER OR $MITRY 4URSUNOV AND -URRAY LOST IN STRAIGHT SETS TO *UAN )GNACIO #HELA WIN NING ONLY SEVEN GAMES IN THE MATCH !FTER HE BURST ONTO THE SCENE LAST YEAR THIS DEFEAT WILL HAVE HANDED -URRAY AND HIS FOLLOWERS A HEFTY DOSE OF REALITY AS DESPITE HIS HEROICS LAST YEAR IT IS STILL TOO EARLY TO BE EXPECTING HIM TO BE ABLE TO CONSISTENTLY COMPETE WITH MUCH MORE EXPERIENCED OP PONENTS

3UCH A LACKLUSTRE PER FORMANCE WOULD HAVE SUR PRISED MANY ONLOOKERS BUT WAS A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF THE DANGERS OF EXPECTING TOO MUCH TOO SOON !LTHOUGH HIS TENNIS OFTEN BELIES HIS YEARS -URRAY IS STILL ONLY AND THIS WILL HAVE SERVED AS A TIMELY REMINDER MORE TO HIS FANS THAN TO -URRAY HIMSELF THAT IT WILL TAKE YEARS OF HARD WORK BEFORE HE CAN REALISTI CALLY EXPECT TO MAKE AN IM PACT AT THE BUSINESS END OF A 'RAND 3LAM !NDREW -URRAY S !USTRALIAN /PEN WILL BE BEST REMEMBERED FOR THE OUT BURST WHICH FOLLOWED HIS EXIT FROM THE TOURNAMENT 7HILE HIS ASSERTION THAT TOO MUCH UNREALISTIC PRESSURE IS BEING PLACED UPON HIS STILL GROWING SHOULDERS IS PROB ABLY CORRECT THE REACTION TO HIS PRESS CONFERENCE WILL

HAVE BEEN A SIGNIlCANT LES SON ! PLAYER WHO OPENLY COURTS ATTENTION SIGNING A LUCRATIVE DEAL TO WRITE FOR A "RITISH TABLOID IS OPEN TO AC CUSATIONS OF HYPOCRISY WHEN CRITICISING THE MEDIA S INTEN SIVE COVERAGE OF HIS PERFORM ANCES )N HIS DEFENCE IT HAS TO

BE REMEMBERED THAT -URRAY IS STILL ONLY A TEENAGER AND THAT HE CAN T BE EXPECTED TO DEAL WITH ATTENTION AND SCRU TINY IN THE SAME PROFESSIONAL MANNER AS A SEASONED CAM PAIGNER 4HIS HAS BEEN THE lRST NEGATIVE EPISODE SINCE -UR

RAY S mEDGLING CAREER WAS THRUST INTO THE NATION S GAZE AND CAN ONLY SERVE AS A VALU ABLE EXPERIENCE AS HE SEEKS TO CONTINUE HIS TENNIS EDUCA TION AND TAKES STEPS TOWARDS BECOMING THE TOP TEN PLAYER THAT FANS AND PUNDITS ALIKE EXPECT HIM TO BE

CONCERNS AND #OACH %DDIE / 3ULLIVAN CANCELLED TRAIN ING ON -ONDAY AS SEVEN TEEN PLAYERS WERE NOT FULLY lT )T SEEMS SOMETHING OF A EUPHEMISM TO CALL )RELAND A TEAM IN TRANSITION AND THEIR OPENING lXTURE ON &EBRUARY TH AGAINST )TALY COULD BE AN INTRIGUING ENCOUNTER )F THEY STRUGGLE IN THAT MATCH THEN IT COULD BE AN UNCOMFORTABLE WAIT TO SEE IF EITHER 3COTLAND OR )TALY CAN MANAGE TO PLUMB EVEN LOWER DEPTHS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE IGNOMINY OF THE WOODEN

SPOON 7HATEVER THE OUTCOME AFTER lVE WEEKS OF CRUNCHING TACKLES AND BRUTAL SCRUM MAGING ONE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE SEEN SOME EXPANSIVE AND EXHILARATING RUGBY THAT IS NOT TARNISHED BY ANY MISDEMEANOURS ON OR OFF THE lELD 4HEN AGAIN IF SOMEONE DOES HAVE A TOURNAMENT TO FORGET THEY CAN ALWAYS RETIRE GRACEFULLY SAFE IN THE KNOWL EDGE THAT IT IS EXTREMELY TRENDY TO @UN RETIRE YOURSELF AT A LATER DATE

5N RETIRING BECOMES LATEST SPORTING FASHION -ARCUS *ONES 4HERE IS A NEW TREND SWEEPING THE WORLD OF SPORT )T IS NOT TOTALLY UN PRECEDENTED AS WE HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE ENACTED BY SUCH LUMINARIES AS "JORN "ORG 9ET EVER SINCE 3IR !LEX &ERGUSON DECIDED THAT FAM ILY LIFE SIMPLY COULD NOT REP LICATE THE PLEASURE OF BERAT ING !RSENE 7ENGER THERE HAS

BEEN A VERITABLE DELUGE OF HIGH PROlLE lGURES LOOKING TO FOLLOW SUIT IN THE PASTIME KNOWN AS @UN RETIRING ,UIS &IGO #LAUDE -AKELE LE AND :INEDINE :IDANE HAVE ALL RETURNED FROM INTERNA TIONAL FOOTBALL RETIREMENT -ARTINA (INGIS HAS DECIDED THAT SHE WOULD PREFER THE GRUNTS OF THE TENNIS COURT TO THE PEACEFUL TRANQUILLITY OF THE ALPINE HILLS AND NOW ,AWRENCE $ALLAGLIO HAS BEEN RESTORED TO THE %NGLAND RUG BY SQUAD $ALLAGLIO S DECISION IS IN

MANY WAYS THE MOST SURPRIS ING (E LEFT A SHIP THAT AL THOUGH NOT SINKING HAD CER TAINLY VEERED OFF COURSE AND NOW THAT SHIP HAS SEEMINGLY RIGHTED ITSELF HE WISHES TO RE TURN (OWEVER THE MAN WHO REPLACED HIM BOTH AS CAPTAIN AND AT NUMBER EIGHT -ARTIN #ORRY HAS ARGUABLY BEEN THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND %NG LAND S IMPROVEMENT #ONSEQUENTLY THERE MAY NOT BE A PLACE FOR $ALLAGLIO IN A TEAM WHICH HAS BEEN INSTALLED AS SECOND FAVOUR ITES FOR THE UPCOMING SIX NA

TIONS 4HE PRIMARY OBSTACLE TO %NGLAND WOULD SEEM TO BE THE FACT THAT THEY MUST TRAVEL TO 0ARIS TO PLAY &RANCE A FORMIDABLE TASK AGAINST A TEAM THAT HAS BOTH GRIT AND mAIR IN ABUNDANCE ,AST YEAR 7ALES STUNNED THE VAST MAJORITY BY ACHIEV ING THE 'RAND 3LAM THOUGH THEIR CHANCES THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED BY A TORRENT OF INJURIES AND THE SUSPEN SION FOR THE lRST TWO GAMES OF THEIR ORANGE TINTED STARLET 'AVIN (ENSON )RELAND ALSO HAVE INJURY

,OSS OF !SHTON CAPS OFF DISAPPOINTING NEW YEAR FOR #ANARIES 7ILL !LFORD 7EST (AM HAVE lNALLY COMPLETED THE SIGNING OF $EAN !SHTON FROM .OR WICH #ITY 4HE STRIKER WILL MOVE TO THE (AMMERS FOR AN INITIAL FEE OF a M 4HERE IS ALSO AN EXTRA CONDITION AL a AND #ITY HAVE CLEVERLY NEGOTIATED A SELL ON CLAUSE .IGEL 7ORTHINGTON TRIED HIS BEST TO KEEP THE STAR PLAYER BUT THE DEPARTURE OF

!SHTON IN THE TRANSFER WIN DOW SEEMED INEVITABLE )N HIS SHORT TIME AT .ORWICH THE STRIKER HAD QUICKLY BE COME A FANS FAVOURITE (IS GOALS LAST SEASON VERY NEARLY KEPT THE CLUB IN THE 0REMIER SHIP !SHTON HAS ALSO BEEN A CONSISTENT SCORER THIS SEASON AND HIS GOALS HAVE BEEN VITAL IN KEEPING THE #ANARIES SLIM PLAY OFF HOPES ALIVE /NCE THE OFFER ARRIVED FROM 7EST (AM !SHTON WAS DETERMINED TO RETURN TO THE 0REMIERSHIP )N THE PRESS CONFERENCE THE STRIKER SAID hTHE MAIN REASON ) LEFT

.ORWICH IS THAT ) AM AMBI TIOUS AND ) WANT TO PLAY FOR A BIG CLUBv (E EVEN SACRIlCED a IN BONUSES THE CLUB OWED HIM TO JOIN THE (AMMERS 7EST (AM HAVE MADE AN EXCELLENT START ON THEIR RETURN TO THE TOP LEAGUE AND IT IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE YEAR OLD #REWE WILL RECEIVE a M UP FRONT AS PART OF A SELL ON CLAUSE INCLUDED IN HIS TRANS FER TO .ORWICH (OWEVER #ITY HAVE STILL MADE A HAND SOME PROlT FROM THE PLAYER 4HERE ARE RUMOURS CIRCULAT ING THAT 7ORTHINGTON WILL

RE INVEST THE MONEY IMME DIATELY #ARL 2OBINSON HAS ALREADY JOINED FROM 3UNDER LAND FOR a .ORWICH ARE ALSO CHASING THE TALENTED YOUNG STRIKER #AMERON *ER OME WHO HAS HAD AN IMME DIATE IMPACT FOR #ARDIFF THIS SEASON #ITY ARE ALSO CLOSE TO SIGNING THE TALENTED YOUNG STER 'REG (ALFORD FROM #OL CHESTER -EANWHILE IN THE #HAM PIONSHIP .ORWICH S FORM HAS DIPPED AGAIN LEAVING THEM IN MID TABLE OBSCURITY .IGEL 7ORTHINGTON SEEMS TO HAVE SUFFERED FROM THE CURSE

OF THE -ANAGER OF THE -ONTH AWARD !FTER A FANTASTIC #HRISTMAS THE #ANARIES HAVE DROPPED BACK TO TH PLACE 4HEY DID MANAGE A BATTLING DRAW AWAY TO 0LYMOUTH WHICH WAS NOT A DISASTROUS RESULT (UCKERBY EQUALISED EARLY IN THE SECOND HALF BE FORE 0ETER 4HORNE WASTED A GOLDEN CHANCE TO TAKE THE THREE POINTS BACK TO .OR WICH )T WAS THE RESULT AT HOME TO 7ATFORD THAT WAS DISAP POINTING #ITY TWICE WENT AHEAD BEFORE BEING PINNED BACK TO AND THEN )T

REMAINED LIKE THIS UNTIL .OR WICH GOT STUNG BY THE (OR NETS IN STOPPAGE TIME -AT THEW 3PRING CRUELLY STRUCK TO GIVE 7ATFORD THE THREE POINTS A HUGE BLOW TO THE #ANARIES PROMOTION AMBITIONS 7ORTHINGTON WILL NEED A REPLACEMENT FOR !SHTON IF .ORWICH ARE TO HAVE ANY CHANCE OF REACHING THE PLAY OFFS !S FOR $EAN !SHTON WE MUST HOPE HE DOES WELL WITH HIS NEW CLUB )F HE TAKES THE 0REMIERSHIP BY STORM LIKE HE DID FOR .ORWICH HE COULD WELL BE A DARK HORSE FOR THE 7ORLD #UP

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4RACK TEAM START SEASON ON HIGH *EMMA 4HAKE 4HE 5%! 4RACK TEAM HAVE RETURNED LADEN WITH MED ALS AND TROPHIES FROM THEIR lRST INDOOR COMPETI TION OF THE SEASON /N THE ND OF *ANUARY ELEVEN ATHLETES TRAVELLED TO +INGS ,YNN TO COMPETE IN THE +EITH 7ARD -EMORIAL -EETING AND RETURNED WITH EIGHT TROPHIES )N THE MEN S TEAM PER FORMANCE OF THE DAY HAD TO GO TO *ON 0AINTER WHO SMASHED THE INDOOR CLUB RECORD FOR SHOT PUTT WITH M AND WON THE VETER ANS EVENT 4HE 3ENIOR -EN S M lNAL PROVED TO BE EXCITING

WITH A VERY CLOSELY FOUGHT RACE #LUB 3ECRETARY .EIL *EN NINGS TOOK THE SILVER MEDAL FROM 4OM "EAGEN WHO lN ISHED IN BRONZE POSITION "OTH ATHLETES WERE GIVEN THE SAME TIME OF SECS *ON "ROWN lNISHED IN FOURTH WITH SECS AND 2AY 7ILSON WAS IN SIXTH WITH SECS )N THE lNAL OF THE 5NDER -EN S M $AVID 3AGOE lN ISHED IN SIXTH WITH A TIME OF SECS )N THE 3ENIOR 7OMEN S M RACE ,ISA !RNOLD CAME AWAY WITH THE SILVER MEDAL WHILE IN THE 6ETERAN M EVENT #LAIRE (YNES lNISHED IN THIRD WITH SECS 5%! ALSO ENJOYED SUCCESS IN THE lELD EVENTS $ESPITE AN ABSENCE OF lVE YEARS FROM COMPETITION 7ILL 'REAVES JUMPED M IN THE -EN S

! FALSE START

5%! TRACK TEAM CELEBRATE THEIR WIN (IGH *UMP AND TOOK THE BRONZE MEDAL ,OUISE #OOK BATTLED WITH AN ACHILLES INJURY BUT

STILL MANAGED TO WIN THE 7OMEN S 4RIPLE *UMP AND TAKE SECOND PLACE IN THE LONG JUMP

4HE TEAM ARE NOW LOOK ING FORWARD TO THE INDOOR "53! CHAMPIONSHIPS NEXT MONTH IN 3HEFlELD

,ADIES FOOTBALL GIVE ,OUGHBOROUGH A RUN FOR THEIR SCHOLARSHIPS 3ALLY (AMMERTON 5%! ,ADIES ,OUGHBOROUGH

'OING INTO THE GAME 5%! WERE NERVOUS AFTER A HEAVY DEFEAT AWAY TO ,OUGHBOR OUGH EARLIER IN THE SEA SON "UT THEY HAD A STRONG TEAM WITH DEFENDERS !MY "ARLOW AND -EL ,AWREN BACK FROM INJURY ,OUGH BOROUGH WERE STILL TOP OF THE LEAGUE WITH ONLY TWO GOALS CONCEDED ALL SEASON WOULD THE HOME lXTURE GIVE 5%! AN ADVANTAGE

THIS TIME 0LAYING AN UNTESTED SYSTEM 5%! TOOK THE GAME TO ,OUGHBOROUGH FROM THE START +EEPING THE BALL IN THE ,OUGHBOROUGH HALF 5%! FORCED THE lRST CHANCE ON GOAL WITH A SHOT FROM 3ALLY (AMMERTON COMFORTABLY SAVED 4HE NEW FORMATION SEEMED TO BE PAYING OFF -ARISHA .OZDRYN 0LOTNICKI AND !BBY 2OTWEIN TACKLED HARD AND FORCED ERRORS FROM ,OUGBOROUGH ALLOWING &AI -SELLEM ON RIGHT WING AND ,ISA #ASWELL IN AN ATTACKING CENTRAL MIDlELD ROLE TO LINK UP WELL AND CREATE CHANCES FOR THE LONE STRIKER ,OUGHBOROUGH WERE PRE

VENTED ANY SHOTS ON GOAL BY A STRONG 5%! DEFENCE #AP TAIN ,INDA #HILTON AND -EL ,AWREN IN CENTRAL DEFENCE CUT OUT ANY MOVEMENT DOWN THE CENTRE WHILE FULLBACKS !MY "ARLOW AND ,ISA %ARL KEPT THEIR WINGERS QUIET 5%! HAD BEEN MAKING THE MOST OF THEIR PACE IN ATTACK AND A THROUGH BALL FROM ,ISA %ARL IN DEFENCE PUT 3ALLY (AM MERTON THROUGH ON GOAL ! RIGHT FOOTED SHOT lRED UNDER THE ,OUGHBOROUGH KEEPER AND 5%! WERE INFRONT "UT 5%! NEEDED TO KEEP THEIR HEADS AND THE LEAD UNTIL HALF TIME ,OUGHBOR OUGH WERE CLEARLY FRUSTRATED AS THEY HAD HAD SO LITTLE

PLAY AND NO REAL CHANCES ON GOAL !N EXCELLENT SAVE FROM +ATHERINE 0ARRY PREVENTED AN EQUALISER BUT JUST BEFORE HALF TIME THE ,OUGHBOROUGH FORWARDS BUNDLED THE 5%! KEEPER IN A SUSPECT CHALLENGE AND THE BALL ROLLED OVER THE LINE THE REFEREE RULED IT (ALF TIME FOLLOWED AND 5%! WERE ECSTATIC BUT #OACH 3IMON .ORTON WARNED THE GAME WAS FAR FROM OVER 5%! WENT OUT HARD IN THE SECOND HALF .AT *ANU ARY WORKED TIRELESSLY ON THE LEFT WING TO CREATE FURTHER CHANCES 4HE THIRD GOAL OF THE MATCH WENT TO ,OUGH BOROUGH AS A WELL STRUCK CORNER FOUND AN UNMARKED

,OUGHBOROUGH STRIKER WHOSE HEADER WAS WELL PLACED BE YOND 5%! S REACH 3TILL 5%! KEPT THEIR HEADS UP ,ISA %ARL HEADED A CHANCE CLEAR FROM THE LINE AND +ATHERINE 0ARRY WAS FORCED TO MAKE A SUPERB SAVE AS A ,OUGHBOROUGH STRIKE HEADED TOP CORNER 5%! HAD TO MAKE CHANG ES AS !MY "ARLOW WENT OFF INJURED 3OPHIE #LARKE CAME ON AS FULLBACK AND LATER &RAN #RIPPS WAS BROUGHT ON TO PROVIDE FRESH LEGS IN MIDlELD $ESPITE SEVERAL CHANCES 5%! WERE UNABLE TO EQUALISE "UT 5%! PROVIDED THE lRST REAL CHALLENGE OF THE SEASON FOR ONE OF THE BEST "53! TEAMS IN THE COUNTRY

#ROSS COUNTRY TEAM TURN THEIR DOMINATION INTO CONSISTENCY *EMMA 4HAKE 5%! S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM WERE IN EXCEPTIONAL FORM LAST WEEK AT THE %AST !N GLIAN #ROSS #OUNTRY ,EAGUE %!##, AT #OL CHESTER 'ARRISON 5%! WERE QUITE SIMPLY IN AN OTHER CLASS TO THEIR NEAR EST RIVALS THE 3T %DMUND 0ACERS WITH SIX 5%! ATH

LETES lNISHING WITHIN THE TOP TEN %MMA #OOMBS PUT HER INJURY AND ILLNESS DEMONS BEHIND HER BY WINNING THE WOMEN S KM RACE 3HE HAS NOW NOTCHED UP TWO WINS IN THE LEAGUE SERIES !FTER WIN NING THE lVE PREVIOUS RACES #LUB 0RESIDENT *ESS 4ROW BRIDGE HAD TO BE CONTENT WITH SECOND PLACE "ACK IN .ORWICH AFTER COMPLETING A WORK PLACE MENT FOR HER DEGREE 3A

%DITOR S #OLUMN

RAH !INSLIE JOINED *ESS AND %MMA IN THE @! TEAM WITH AN EXCELLENT TH POSITION 2EGULAR TEAM MEMBERS FROM THE lRST YEAR &RANCESCA ,EE AND ,ISA 3AMMONS BOTH PUT IN SOLID PERFORMANCES lNISHING TH AND ND RE SPECTIVELY )N THE MEN S KM RACE 5%! HAD SOME EXCEL LENT RESULTS 'LEN 7ATTS LED THE MEN S @! TEAM COMING HOME IN SECOND PLACE #ROSS #OUNTRY #APTAIN #ALUM

.ICOL HAD ANOTHER EXCITING CLOSE lNISH WITH TEAM MATE 2OB 'REEN #ALUM PROVED TO BE THE STRONGER IN THE SPRINT lNISH CROSSING THE LINE IN THIRD WITH 2OB JUST BEHIND IN FOURTH !FTER A SLOW START TO THE RACE THERE WAS NO STOPPING *OHNNY ,EE ONCE HE GOT GOING (E CONTINUES TO IMPROVE AND WAS REWARD ED WITH HIS HIGHEST PLACING IN THE LEAGUE THIS SEASON EIGHTH POSITION #LUB 4REAS URER !LI -CGEOCH 7ILLIAMS

ALSO ENJOYED A GOOD PER FORMANCE WITH AN EXCELLENT TH POSITION !FTER THE RACE #APTAIN #ALUM SAID h)T WAS A FUN COURSE ALTHOUGH DIFlCULT IN PLACES AND ) NEARLY FELL SEV ERAL TIMES v 7ITH THE "53! CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS JUST OVER A WEEK AWAY #ALUM WAS ESPECIALLY PLEASED WITH THE TEAM S PERFORMANCE h%VERY ONE IS LOOKING IN GOOD SHAPE FOR THE "53!S IN 3TIRLINGv

!NYONE WATCHING THE .OR WICH 5NION )NDOOR TRACK MEET BEING HELD IN 'LASGOW LAST WEEK END WOULD HAVE RE ALISED THE FAILURE OF THE COM PUTERISED TOOLS BEING USED TO DETERMINE WHO WAS FALSE STARTING )NCREDIBLY IN ALL THE SPRINTING RACES SOMEONE WAS DECLARED TO HAVE FALSE STARTED )N ONE RACE THE ATHLETES WERE CALLED BACK TO THE BLOCKS SIX TIMES AND TWO ATHLETES WERE DISQUALIlED /NE OF THESE ATHLETES REACTION TIME WAS SAID TO BE SECONDS WHICH ONLY SUPERMAN OR WOMAN IN THIS CASE COULD REALLY DO 4HIS PROBLEM HAS OC CURRED BEFORE AT OTHER TRACK EVENTS EVEN AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN (ELSINKI 4HE PROBLEM IS THE PADS ON WHICH THE ATHLETES FOOT RESTS WHICH ARE SO SENSITIVE THEY PICK UP MOVEMENT EVEN IF THIS MOVEMENT IS PART OF HU MANS NATURAL IMPERFECTIONS .EEDLESS TO SAY THAT AT EACH TRACK MEET RACE REF EREES END UP HAVING IMPRO VISED MEETINGS ON THE TRACK TO WORK OUT WHAT TO DO AND RARELY COME UP WITH AN AN SWER

"OXING CLEVER

)N A WORLD WHERE YOUNG PRE COCIOUS TALENTED ATHLETES ARE ALL THE RAGE IT S NICE TO SEE ONE SETTING AN EXAMPLE OFF THE COURT AS WELL AS ON IT !MIR +HAN THE YOUNG "OLTON BOXER HAS WON MANY PLAUDITS FOR HIS TALENT AT BOX ING BUT HIS ATTITUDE ALONE LEADS MANY TO BELIEVE THAT HE WILL FULlL HIS POTENTIAL (IS ABILITY AGGRESSION AND CONlDENCE IN THE RING IS CLEAR BUT IT S NICE TO SEE SOMEONE WHO DOESN T TAKE THAT AGGRESSION OUTSIDE THE RING "UT THEN HE PROB ABLY THINKS HE S SO GOOD HE DOESN T FEEL HE NEEDS TO n A MARK OF A CHAMPION /NCE AGAIN LAST 3ATURDAY WE SAW !MIR +HAN LETTING HIS TALENT DO THE TALKING THOUGH SOME DOUBTS HAVE BEEN EX PRESSED ABOUT THE PERCEIVED LEVEL OF HIS OPPONENTS 5NFORTUNATELY FOR HIS CUR RENT OPPONENTS HE CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE RUSHED INTO BIGGER lGHTS YET BUT +HAN IS SO STRONG POWERFUL AND ESPECIALLY FAST AT THIS CURRENT LEVEL THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT HE WILL KEEP TURNING lGHTS INTO ONE SIDED TRAINING SESSIONS

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-EN S LACROSSE CARVE OPPOSITION APART

-EN S LACROSSE TAKE ON 2OYAL (OLLOWAY

3IMON -URPHY

-EN S ,ACROSSE 2OYAL (OLLOWAY 7HEN THE lXTURE LIST WAS ANNOUNCED FOR THIS YEAR S MEN S COMPETITION THE CONSENSUS WAS THAT THE RUN IN TO #HRISTMAS WAS

GOING TO BE TOUGH AND SO IT PROVED )T WAS ALSO GEN ERALLY AGREED THAT MOST OF THE GAMES AFTER #HRISTMAS WERE WINNABLE AND THIS WAS STILL TO BE SEEN 7ITH A MERE TWO HOURS OF TRAINING AND A PLETHORA OF #HRISTMAS DINNERS UN DER THEIR BELTS THE 5%! TEAM WENT INTO THE GAME AGAINST 2OYAL (OLLOWAY lELDING A STRONG SQUAD AND LOOKING

FOR THE WIN 4HE WELL OILED MACHINE THAT IS THE MEN S LA CROSSE TEAM SLIPPED STRAIGHT BACK INTO GEAR WITH THEIR EXPLOSIVE COMBINATION OF DIRECT ATTACKING PLAY AND DIS TINCTIVELY mUID @ON THE BALL CONlDENCE 4HE GAME WAS A HIGH SCOR ING AFFAIR WITH MANY PLAYERS GETTING THEIR lRST GOALS FOR THE CLUB )AN / #ONNOR AND -IKE GRABBED A GOAL EACH

$OM SCORED TWO A HAT TRICK WAS SNAPPED UP BY #ARL WHO BOSSED MIDlELD 7ILL SCORED FOUR ON AN IMPRESSIVE DEBUT WHILST THE PICK OF THE ATTACKERS WAS SOUTHPAW 4OM WITH HALF A DOZEN 4HE STRONG PERFORMANCE WAS FOUNDED ON TOP GOAL KEEPING FROM TEAM CAPTAIN !NDY AND SOLID DEFENDING BY 0EE 7EE 3COTTISH !NDY AND *ONNY BACK FROM IN

JURY 4HE GAME WAS A CONSIST ENTLY CORDIAL AFFAIR AND THE PLEASANT ATMOSPHERE WAS ENHANCED BY A SMALL BUT ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD OF HOME SUPPORTERS )F YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF THE LACROSSE TEAM THEN THERE ARE PLENTY OF HOME GAMES LEFT THIS SEASON ALTERNATIVELY MANY OF THE PLAYERS APPEAR ON THE 2!' SOCIETY CALENDARx

/N PAPER THE GAMES AFTER #HRISTMAS LOOKED WINNABLE AND 5%! MEN S LACROSSE TOOK A DECISIVE lRST STEP TOWARDS PROVING THIS A REALITY 4HE RESULT BODES WELL FOR THE NEXT GAME AGAINST 3ANDHURST -IL ITARY !CADEMY A MATCH UP WHICH IS LIKELY TO BE AN EX TREMELY PHYSICAL ENCOUNTER 0LEASE E MAIL SIMON MURPHY UEA AC UK FOR IN FORMATION ON HOME lXTURES

#ONCRETE #ROSSWORD a BOOK VOUCHER TO BE WON !#2/33 ! COLLECTION OF SONGS OR PHOTOGRAPHS ! BREAD PRODUCER 3AINT CELEBRATED ON TH &EBRUARY 4HE :ODIAC TWINS $ISTANT PORTABLE CONTROL FOR 46 OR STERIO ! PAIR #USTARD JELLY AND SPONGE A SMALL AMOUNT ! BAR OR TAVERN !N %XPERT SERVE MISSED BY ONE S OPPONENT !BORIGINAL OF MAJOR OR FIRST IMPORTANCE 3OMEONE SMALL !N EDIBLE CRUSTACEAN ! MEMBER OF THE TH CENTURY LITERATURE MOVEMENT INCLUDING 6IRGINIA 7OLF !N ACTIVITY FROWNED UPON BY SOCIETY .ON RURAL

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