Concrete - Issue 188

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7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH 5%! S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER

3PORTS FEE RETURNS IN BUDGET PLANS *AMES #ONWAY $EPUTY %DITOR 5NION #OUNCIL HAS VOTED TO REINTRODUCE THE 3PORTS !SSOCIATION -EMBERSHIP 3!- FEE AT a FROM NEXT YEAR A DECISION BASED ON THE lNDINGS OF THE 3!- 7ORKING 'ROUP 4HIS WILL BE THE lRST OF MANY DIFlCULT CHOICES THAT THE 3TUDENT 5NION MUST MAKE IN ORDER TO BALANCE THE EXTRA a WORTH OF COSTS THAT IT WILL TAKE ON NEXT YEAR 4HE 7ORKING 'ROUP WAS SET UP AT THE BEGINNING OF LAST TERM TO ADDRESS STU DENTS CONCERNS OVER THE UNDEMOCRATIC WAY THAT THE 3PORTS !SSOCIATION -EMBER SHIP &EE WAS lRST INTRODUCED !FTER HOLDING WEEKLY MEETINGS THAT SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY ALL POSSIBLE ALTERNA TIVES THE GROUP CAME BACK #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

3ERIES OF ATTACKS ON STUDENTS LEAD TO INCREASED SECURITY ON CAMPUS *ANE $OUGLAS .EWS %DITOR ! NUMBER OF STUDENTS WERE ATTACKED ON CAMPUS

BY A GROUP OF YOUTHS LAST WEEK LEADING TO HEIGHT ENED SECURITY AND A CALL FOR GREATER PERSONAL SAFETY

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PRECAUTIONS "ETWEEN FOUR AND TEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASSAULTED IN THIS LATEST SPATE OF STUDENT ATTACKS 4HE INCIDENTS HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE PRIMARILY IN THE %ARLHAM 0ARK AREA

BUT ALSO ON THE #OLNEY ,INK PATH ACROSS THE SPORTS lELDS AND OTHER ISOLATED AREAS -OST ASSAULTS HAVE OC

CURRED DURING THE HOURS OF DARKNESS AND HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON PEOPLE WALKING ALONE 4HE GROUPS INVOLVED ATTACK INDISCRIMINATELY RE GARDLESS OF GENDER OR BUILD /NE YEAR OLD STUDENT MET FOUR YOUTHS ON THE PATH THROUGH %ARLHAM 0ARK WHO REFUSED TO LET HIM PASS #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

5NIONS VOTE FOR STRIKE OF ACADEMIC STAFF AFTER NEW PAY DEAL TALKS FAIL "ENJAMIN 7OODS ,ECTURERS RESEARCHERS AND ACADEMIC STAFF WILL BRING UNIVERSITIES TO A STANDSTILL ON -ARCH TH AS A STRIKE IS ENFORCED TO PROTEST FOR IN CREASES IN STAFF PAY

4HE STRIKE BECAME INEVI TABLE LAST WEEK AFTER MEM BERS OF THE !SSOCIATION OF 5NIVERSITY 4EACHERS !54 AND 4HE 5NIVERSITY AND #OL LEGE ,ECTURERS 5NION .!4 &(% VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOUR OF INDUSTRIAL AC TION 4HE !54 AND .!4&(% ARE PROTESTING FOR TOP UP FEE MONEY AND NEW GOVERNMENT

FUNDING TO BE CONCENTRATED ON RAISING STAFF WAGES AF TER FURTHER REFUSALS FROM THE 5NIVERSITIES AND #OLLEGES %MPLOYERS !SSOCIATION TO NEGOTIATE STAFF PAY 3ALLY (UNTER THE !54 GENERAL SECRETARY SAID @4HE EMPLOYERS HAVE HAD MONTHS TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

4RAINSPOTTING ON STAGE 3ARAH 7ATERS 6INTAGE FASHION

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH

3PORTS !SSOCIATION FEE TO BE REINSTATED #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE WITH A LIST OF FOUR OPTIONS FOR 5NION #OUNCIL TO VOTE ON !LONGSIDE A a 3!- FEE WERE TWO OPTIONS OF A a FEE WHICH WOULD REQUIRE EITHER AN a CUT FROM SPORTS AND SOCIETY GRANTS OR #ONCRETE CEASING TO HAVE PAID %DITOR 4HE FORTH OPTION ALLOWED FOR A a FEE WITH BOTH A REDUCTION IN GRANTS AND THE REMOVAL OF A PAID %DITOR OF #ONCRETE 4HE 7ORKING 'ROUP CAME UNDER ATTACK FROM SEV ERAL 5NION #OUNCIL MEM BERS WHO WERE DISTURBED BY THE LACK OF AN OPTION FOR THE TOTAL REMOVAL OF THE 3!- FEE -ANY HAD CONSIDERED THE SEARCH FOR SUCH AN OPTION THE PRIME OBJECTIVE OF THE GROUP S INVESTIGATIONS AND

WERE UNHAPPY TO BE OFFERED A MINIMUM OF A a FEE )T WAS ALSO NOTED THAT THE GROUP HAD COME BACK WITH WORSE OPTIONS THAN WHEN THE FEE WAS ORIGINALLY INTRO DUCED AS THE a FEE HAD INITIALLY BEEN SET UP WITHOUT THE SACRIlCES SUGGESTED BY THE REPORT "UT #OUNCIL WERE INFORMED THAT THE lNANCIAL SITUATION HAD GROWN WORSE SINCE THE FEE WAS DEVISED LAST YEAR AND THAT THERE WERE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVES !NDY (IGSON #OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER REMINDED #OUNCIL THAT hTHE SPORTS CLUBS ARE STILL HEAVILY SUBSIDISED BY THE 5NION EVEN WITH THE REINTRODUCTION OF THE MEM BERSHIP FEEv 3OME a

OF 5NION FUNDS GOES DIRECTLY TO SPORTS CLUBS SO THE NEW

#/.4%.43 .%73 5%! S 6ICE #HANCELLOR $AVID %ASTWOOD IS TO LEAVE THE 5NIVERSITY FOR A NEW POST ON THE (IGHER %DUCATION &UNDING #OUNCIL FOR %NGLAND

4HE NOMINATIONS FOR THIS YEAR S 5NION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE ELECTIONS WHICH TAKE PLACE ON -ARCH TH TH

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SPORTS FEE WILL ONLY REQUIRE MEMBERS TO PAY AROUND A lFTH OF THE ACTUAL COSTS 4HE 3!- 7ORKING 'ROUP EXPLAINED THAT THEY HAD DIS CUSSED OTHER OPTIONS IN EX TENSIVE DETAIL BUT THERE WERE NO SIGNIlCANT SAVINGS TO BE MADE ANYWHERE ELSE )T WAS FREELY ADMITTED THAT THESE WERE NOT THE OPTIONS THAT THE GROUP WANTED TO COME BACK WITH BUT THAT THERE WAS NO PLEASE ALL ANSWER 4HERE WERE CALLS FOR THE REPORT TO BE SENT BACK TO THE COMMIT TEE BUT THE MAJORITY TRUSTED THE WORKING GROUP S lNDINGS AND WISHED TO SETTLE THE MAT TER IMMEDIATELY 4HE LACK OF OBVIOUS SOLU TIONS TO THE 5NION S lNAN CIAL DElCIT RAISES THE QUES TION OF HOW THE REST OF THE

a GAP IN NEXT YEAR S BUDGET CAN BE MADE UP 4HE REINTRODUCTION OF THE 3!- FEE WILL ONLY MAKE UP AN ESTIMATED a

LEAVING OVER a STILL TO lND FOR NEXT YEAR "EN 7ILLIAMS &INANCE /FlCER TOLD #ONCRETE h4HE 5NION IS IN A VERY STICKY SITUATION IN TERMS OF THE AD

DITIONAL EXPENDITURE ALREADY IDENTIlED ! GREAT NUMBER OF OPTIONS ARE BEING LOOKED INTO AS WAYS TO COVER THESE ADDITIONAL COSTS AND 5NION #OUNCIL WILL DECIDE AT A LATER DATE WHICH OPTIONS ARE THE BEST WAYS TO COVER THE EXTRA COSTS BE THEY SAVINGS OR WAYS TO INCREASE INCOME v %VERY ASPECT OF THE 5N

ION S BUDGET WILL HAVE TO BE EXAMINED AND THESE CHANGES WILL AFFECT EVERYONE 4HE POS SIBILITY OF A RAISE IN BAR PRICES IS ALSO PART OF THE PICTURE 4HERE HAVE BEEN PLEAS FOR AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE TO EXAMINE THE BUDGET BREAK DOWN AND FOR DISCUSSIONS TO BEGIN IN ADVANCE OF 5NION #OUNCIL DECISIONS

!54 STRIKE CALLED FOR 4UESDAY -ARCH TH #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE AND EVEN AFTER OUR RESOUND ING MANDATE FROM MEMBERS FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION THEY STILL HAVEN T MADE US AN OF FER v ,ECTURES AND SEMINARS WILL BE CANCELLED AND COURSE WORK LEFT UNMARKED DURING THE BOYCOTT ON -ARCH TH (UNTER WHO SYMPATHISES WITH hTHE FEARS AND FRUSTRA TION OF STUDENTSv IS REACTING

IN AID OF ALL ACADEMIC STAFF WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR SALARIES DECLINE IN RECENT YEARS 4HE !54 STAFF STUDENT LI AISON FOR 5%!

2UPERT 2EAD

DISCUSSED SIMILAR CONCERNS

HAVING WITNESSED COLLEAGUES TRYING TO lND BETTER SALARIES OVERSEAS h) HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE LOOKING TO MOVE TO JOBS ABROAD BECAUSE THEY WILL BE FAR BETTER RECOMPENSED FOR

THEIR HARD WORK THERE THAN THEY ARE HERE v 2EAD BELIEVES IT IS IMPOR TANT FOR STUDENTS TO SUPPORT THE ACADEMIC STAFF S ACTIONS REGARDLESS OF POSSIBLE DIS RUPTION TO THEIR STUDIES AND HOPES FOR A VICTORY ALONG THE SAME LINES AS THE CAMPAIGN HELD TWO YEARS AGO h7E HOPE THAT THERE WILL BE AS MUCH STUDENT SOLIDARITY WITH STAFF

AS THERE WAS LAST TIME WHEN WE WERE FORCED TO STRIKE v 0ICKET LINES WILL BE PLACED AT THE ENTRANCES OF THE 5NIVERSITY ON -ARCH TH 4HE !54 IS EXPECTED TO CON TINUE ITS CAMPAIGNING AFTER THE DAY OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION WITH AN ASSESSMENT BOYCOTT ON -ARCH TH AND OTHER NON STRIKE RELATED ACTION TO COME IN FOLLOWING WEEKS

#OULD POSSESSING NUCLEAR WEAPONS MAKE "RITAIN MORE

RATHER THAN LESS VULNERABLE TO A TERRORIST ATTACK

!S &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT APPROACHES #ONCRETE LOOKS

9OUTHS ATTACK STUDENTS %DITOR PROPOSAL DEFEATED

AT THE MOVEMENT BEHIND THE RISE OF ETHICAL GOODS

,)&%349,% 4HE RUMOURS ARE TRUE CHOCOLATE IS ADDICTIVE "UT IF EATEN IN SENSIBLE QUANTITIES IT CAN BE GOOD FOR YOU TOO

)NTRODUCED TO !USTRALIA TO CONTROL THE BEETLES EATING SUGAR CROPS THE POISONOUS CANE TOAD HAS NOW TAKEN OVER

#/--%.4 7ILL THE GOVERNMENT S SMOKING BAN ENCOURAGE A CHANGE OF ATTITUDES IN OUR hPINT AND A FAGv CULTURE

30/24 !LTHOUGH IT IS GAINING POPULARITY ON THE CONTINENT THE MINUTE S APPLAUSE IS NOT A WORTHY REPLACEMENT FOR SILENCE

4HE 5%! TRACK TEAM HAS CONTINUED THEIR GOOD FORM WITH NINE MEDALS AT THE .ORFOLK #HAMPIONSHIPS

#ONTINUED FROM 0AGE /NE MEMBER OF THE GROUP PUNCHED HIM IN THE MOUTH AND STOLE HIS SPORTS BAG BE FORE mEEING THROUGH THE MAIN GATES LEADING ONTO %ARLHAM 2OAD 4HE ATTACKERS ARE DE SCRIBED AS BEING BETWEEN AND YEARS OLD AND WERE DRESSED IN HOODIES 4HEY WERE ALL MALE BETWEEN ABOUT FT INS AND FT INS TALL AND OF SLIM BUILD /NE WAS WEARING A NAVY BLUE HOODIE AND ANOTHER A RED HOODIE WITH h.IKE !THLETICv AND THE .IKE TICK SYMBOL WRITTEN ON IT IN GREY 4HE POLICE ARE INVESTIGAT ING THE INCIDENTS AND ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS URGED TO CONTACT .ORWICH POLICE OR ALTERNATIVELY #RIMESTOPPERS ON 5%! SECURITY HAS BEEN STEPPED UP WITH EXTRA PER SONNEL ON DUTY AT NIGHT AND REGULAR PATROLS BOTH ON FOOT

AND IN VEHICLES IN THE %ARL HAM 0ARK AND 6ILLAGE AREA 3TUDENTS ARE REMINDED THAT THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC BUT TO BE SURE NOT TO WALK TO OR FROM CAMPUS ALONE AFTER DARK AND TO KEEP TO WELL LIT FOOTPATHS 5%! 3E CURITY HAVE OFFERED TO ESCORT STUDENTS BACK TO THE 6ILLAGE IF THEY ARE WALKING ALONE OR FEEL THREATENED 4HEY HAVE ALSO ADVISED PEOPLE TO AVOID SHORTCUTS THROUGH DARK WALK WAYS PARKS OR GRASSED AREAS AND TO STICK TO THE MIDDLE OF FOOTPATHS AVOIDING BUSHES AND PARKED CARS !LSO KEEP VALUABLES SUCH AS I PODS AND MOBILE PHONES ON YOUR PER SON WELL HIDDEN )F YOU SEE ANYTHING SUS PICIOUS REPORT IT TO THE 3E CURITY ,ODGE WHICH CAN BE REACHED AT ANY TIME ON )F YOU ENCOUNTER THESE YOUTHS DON T BE AFRAID TO DIAL

*ANE $OUGLAS .EWS %DITOR 5%! STUDENTS VOTED OVER WHELMINGLY AGAINST HAVING AN ELECTED %DITOR OF #ON CRETE IN A RECENT POLICY BAL LOT 4HE PROPOSAL TO hMAN DATE 5NION #OUNCIL TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION SO THAT THE %DITOR OF #ONCRETE IS ELECTED BY THE STUDENTS OF 5%!v WAS DEFEATED BY MORE THAN WITH STUDENTS VOTING AGAINST AND VOT ING FOR 4HE %DITOR WILL CONTINUE TO BE CHOSEN THROUGH AN AP PLICATION AND A PANEL INTER VIEW WHICH INCLUDES ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE /N THE SAME DAY IN THE %XEC BY ELECTIONS *ENNI #ARTER WAS ELECTED %THICAL )S

SUES /FlCER AND -ARTIN *OPP WAS APPOINTED ,IBERATIONS /FlCER ! FURTHER BY ELECTION WILL BE HELD LATER THIS TERM WHEN 5%! STUDENTS ARE ASKED TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY WANT TO REINSTATE THE BANNED 0LAY BOY #HAV AND 0IMPS @N (OS ,#2 NIGHTS 4HE POLICY BALLOT FOLLOWS PROTESTS OVER THE CANCELLATION OF A 0LAYBOY ,#2 IN &EBRU ARY AFTER WHICH A PETITION OF PEOPLE WAS RAISED ASK ING FOR STUDENTS TO BE GIVEN A SAY IN THE ENTERTAINMENTS HELD ON CAMPUS ! TOTAL OF PEOPLE VOTED ON &EBRUARY TH AND TH WHICH IS STILL ONLY A SMALL MINORITY OF THE TOTAL 5%! STUDENT POPULATION )T IS VITAL TO THE WORKINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS THAT STU DENTS TAKE PART IN THE VOTES AND HAVE THEIR SAY ON 5NION POLICY

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH

(OUSING %VENT ON -ARCH ND 4HIS YEAR S (OUSING %VENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON 4HURSDAY -ARCH ND IN ,ECTURE 4HEA TRE FROM PM 4HE %VENT OFFERS INFORMA TION AND ADVICE FOR STUDENTS LOOKING TO MOVE INTO RENTED ACCOMMODATION AND IN CLUDES THE CIRCULATION OF THE HOUSING LIST /N -ARCH TH THERE WILL BE A 3OCIAL %VENT IN THE (IVE BETWEEN PM AND PM FOR STUDENTS LOOKING FOR HOUSEMATES

)NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY !N )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY WILL BE HELD ON 7EDNESDAY -ARCH TH IN THE ,#2 4HE EVENT WILL START WITH A PRE PARTY IN THE (IVE FROM PM FOLLOWED BY FOOD AND PERFORMANCES IN THE ,#2 FROM PM 4HERE WILL BE AN )NTERNATIONAL $ISCO TO lNISH THE EVENING &OR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT CONTACT SU INTERNATIONAL UEA AC UK

5%! 6# GETS TOP EDUCATION JOB $AN &ITZHARRIS 5%! S 6ICE #HANCELLOR

$AVID %ASTWOOD WILL LEAVE THE 5NIVERSITY IN 3EPTEM BER AFTER BEING APPOINTED TO THE COUNTRY S TOP JOB IN HIGHER EDUCATION 0ROFESSOR %ASTWOOD WILL TAKE UP THE POST OF #HIEF %XECUTIVE OF THE (IGHER %DU CATION &UNDING #OUNCIL FOR %NGLAND (%&#% WHICH PUTS HIM AT THE CENTRE OF THE HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS TOP UP FEES DEBATE 0ROFESSOR %ASTWOOD WHO JOINED 5%! IN SAID HE WAS GENUINELY SAD TO LEAVE h) WOULDN T HAVE LEFT 5%!

AT THE MOMENT FOR ANOTHER UNIVERSITY )T WAS THE EAGER NESS OF THE CHALLENGE THAT DREW ME AWAY THIS JOB BEING THE NEAREST THING THERE IS TO RUNNING THE HIGHER EDUCA TION SECTOR h) WILL LEAVE 5%! WITH MANY FOND MEMORIES AND

SECURE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT HAS THE ACADEMIC QUALITY AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUC TURE TO SUCCEED IN AN INCREAS INGLY COMPETITIVE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR v 4HE (%&#% CONTROLS a BN OF UNIVERSITY lNANCES EACH YEAR AND WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE AS POLITICIANS DECIDE WHETHER TO RAISE THE CURRENT a CAP ON FULL TIME UNDERGRADUATE TUITION FEES 0ROFESSOR %ASTWOOD SAID HE WOULD hTAKE TIME TO LISTEN AND REmECTv WHEN DE CIDING ON TUITION FEES AND UNIVERSITY FUNDING (IGHER %DUCATION -INIS TER "ILL 2AMMELL SAID h) WEL COME 0ROFESSOR %ASTWOOD TO HIS NEW POST (E HAS A DIS TINGUISHED RECORD BOTH AS AN ACADEMIC AND AS A UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR v (E BELIEVES 0ROFESSOR %ASTWOOD WILL PLAY A hPIVOTAL ROLEv IN ENSURING THAT SOCIETY SEES THE BENElTS OF THE GOVERNMENT S REVERSAL OF A LONG TERM DECLINE IN IN STITUTIONS lNANCES $AVID 9OUNG #HAIRMAN

OF (%&#% SAID h7E ARE DE LIGHTED TO HAVE APPOINTED SUCH A TALENTED AND EXPERI ENCED INDIVIDUAL h) HAVE EVERY CONlDENCE THAT $AVID %ASTWOOD WILL LEAD THE COUNCIL WITH DIS TINCTION THROUGH A CHALLENG ING PERIOD FOR HIGHER EDUCA TION v 0ROFESSOR %ASTWOOD HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE (% &#% 2ESEARCH #OMMITTEE SINCE AND HAS BEEN ITS #HAIR SINCE IN WHICH YEAR HE WAS ALSO APPOINTED TO THE (%&#% "OARD !N /XFORD GRADUATE

0ROFESSOR %ASTWOOD PREVI OUSLY HELD A #HAIR IN -OD ERN (ISTORY AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF 7ALES 3WANSEA WHERE HE WAS ALSO HEAD OF DEPART MENT $EAN AND 0RO 6ICE #HANCELLOR -EANWHILE THE 5NIVER SITY S SEARCH FOR A SUCCESSOR IS ALREADY UNDERWAY h5%!

NEEDS A 6ICE #HANCELLOR WHO IS GOING TO LEAD THE 5NIVER SITY FORWARD v 0ROFESSOR %AST WOOD SAID h)T HAS TO REMAIN

6ICE #HANCELLOR $AVID %ASTWOOD NIMBLE AND RESPONSIVE AND ) THINK IT NEEDS SOMEONE THAT RECOGNIZES THAT THE 5%! IS AN

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY WITH PROFOUND AND DEEP RESEARCH STRENGTHS v

7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH #ONCRETE

(UNDREDS ATTEND DEBATE EVENT !LAN -URRIN /N THE EVENING OF &RIDAY TH &EBRUARY IT WAS DIF lCULT TO lND A STANDING SPACE IN ,ECTURE 4HEATRE 4HREE LET ALONE A SEAT 4HE EVENT IN QUESTION WAS A DEBATE HOSTED BY THE 5%! )SLAMIC 3OCIETY AND THE 5%! $EBATING 3OCI ETY ON THE TOPIC OF FREE SPEECH AND THE CARTOONS THAT WERE PUBLISHED IN A $ANISH NEWSPAPER OF THE PROPHET -UHAMMAD 0ROPOSING THE MOTION THAT hNEWSPAPERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PRACTISE FREE SPEECH AT ANY COSTv WERE $R *OHN #OLLINS A 5%! PHI LOSOPHY LECTURER AND 4OM 2ENNEL A THIRD YEAR PHILOSO PHY STUDENT /PPOSING THE MOTION WAS -ASOUD 'ADIR

THE 5%! -USLIM #HAPLAIN

AND +ALEEM 5LLAH A lRST YEAR -EDICAL STUDENT !C COMPANYING THEM WAS "ADIR (AKAMI AN %NVIRONMENTAL 3CIENCE 0H$ STUDENT 4HE DEFENDING PANEL TOOK AN ABSOLUTIST STANCE ON THE SUBJECT OF FREE SPEECH WHICH WHILE WELL ARGUED

WAS CLEARLY A BONE OF CONTEN TION NOT ONLY FOR THE OPPO SITION BUT ALSO FOR THE AUDI ENCE /N THE OTHER HAND THE OPPOSITION WERE EQUALLY EM PHATIC IN RAISING THEIR POINT THAT MANY NON -USLIMS DO

NOT GRASP THE ESTEEM WITH WHICH -UHAMMAD IS HELD IN )SLAM BUT THAT WITH DIS CUSSION AND EDUCATION AN UNDERSTANDING COULD BE REACHED ON THE MATTER ! SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TIME WAS OFFERED FOR QUES TIONS AT THE END AND MANY OF THE STRONG AUDIENCE WERE ANXIOUS TO VOICE THEIR OPINION 4O THE REGRET OF $E BATING 3OCIETY 0RESIDENT *ACK 'UEST WHO EXPERTLY CHAIRED THE DEBATE THIS PRIVILEGE DID NOT EXTEND TO THE OR SO PEOPLE WHO WERE FORCED TO STAND IN THE FOYER DUE TO OVERCROWDING !LTHOUGH THIS HUGE ATTENDANCE HAD BEEN ANTICIPATED DIFlCULTIES WERE ENCOUNTERED IN TRYING TO BOOK A BIGGER SPACE )T IS HOPED THAT IN LIGHT OF THE SUCCESS OF THE EVENT A BIGGER VENUE CAN BE SECURED FOR FU TURE SUCH DEBATES 4HE SUCCESS OF THIS EVENT IS TESTAMENT NOT ONLY TO THE INTEREST THAT PEOPLE HAVE IN UNDERSTANDING THE )SLAMIC FAITH BUT THE LACK OF CONCISE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE SUBJECT PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE MASS MEDIA WHERE -US LIMS ARE OFTEN DEPICTED IN TERMS OF THE EXTREMIST AC TIONS AND VIEWS OF A MI NORITY 4HIS REPRESENTATION SEEMED ENTIRELY UNFOUNDED DURING THIS DEBATE WHERE BOTH SIDES ARGUED FAIRLY AND EVENLY IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE CONSIDERED AN INFORMATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE VENTURE

5%! S STUDENT RADIO STATION ,IVEWIRE WILL BE SUPPORTING THE (EARING !ID CHARITY S FUNDRAISING EVENT ON TH -ARCH 4HE CHARITY RAISES MONEY TO HELP ISOLATED COMMUNITIES IN THE 5+ AND WORLDWIDE ,IVEWIRE $*S WILL BE TAKING PART IN A SPONSORED WALK FROM #ALIFORNIA NEAR 'REAT 9ARMOUTH TO 5%! 4O TAKE PART OR BECOME A SPONSOR

CONTACT DAVE LIVEWIRE COM

#HANGE OF DATE FOR 2ICHARD % 2ICHARD % 'RANT S APPEAR ANCE AT THE 5%! ,ITERARY &ESTIVAL HAS BEEN RESCHED ULED FOLLOWING A DELAY IN THE PUBLICATION OF HIS NEW BOOK

7AH 7AH 4HE ACTOR AND NOVELIST WILL NOW APPEAR ON -ONDAY -AY TH INSTEAD OF !PRIL TH /RIGINAL TICKETS REMAIN VALID AND REFUNDS ARE AVAIL ABLE FOR THOSE WHO ARE UN ABLE TO ATTEND 4HE lNAL DATE FOR REFUND REQUESTS IS &RIDAY -AY TH

!RTHUR "ATCHELOR ,ECTURE

-ANSOUR !LMAZROUI OF THE 5%! )SLAMIC 3OCIETY AND $EBATING 0RESIDENT *ACK 'UEST

3TUDENTS RAISE FUNDS IN THE 7AKE OF THE "OXING $AY 4SUNAMI %LEANOR 3TRINGER 4HE "OXING $AY 4SUNAMI OF INSPIRED GLOBAL AID ON A VAST SCALE AND FROM ALL QUARTERS ESPECIALLY AS THE DEVASTATING SCENES OF DESTRUCTION HIT DURING THE PEAK OF YULETIDE GOODWILL "UT ONE YEAR ON THE ME DIA SPOTLIGHT ON THE TSUNAMI HAS FADED AND BEEN REPLACED

BY OTHER FUND HUNGRY CAUS ES 4HE IMMENSE EXTENT OF THE DESTRUCTION MEANS THAT AID FOR REPAIR IS STILL DESPER ATELY NEEDED PARTICULARLY AS AFFECTED AREAS SUCH AS )NDO NESIA 4HAILAND AND 3RI ,AN KA ARE SOME OF THE WORLD S POOREST COUNTRIES 4WO 5%! POSTGRADUATES HAVE FOUGHT TO REVIVE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE TSUNAMI CRI

SIS BY COMPILING 7AKE A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF ORIGINAL POETRY

PROSE AND ARTWORK )T INCOR PORATES WORK BY WRITERS FROM 5%! AND THE .ORFOLK REGION

ALONG WITH THOSE WHO WERE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THE TSUNA MI ,ITERARY LUMINARIES SUCH AS !RTHUR # #LARK 4OBY ,ITT AND 2OSE 4REMAIN HAVE ALSO DONATED WORK MAKING 7AKE AN EXCITING COLLECTION OF NEW AND ESTABLISHED WRITERS .ATHAN (AMILTON ONE OF THE ANTHOLOGY S EDITORS

SAYS THAT IT IS VITAL TO CONTIN UE SUPPORTING THE REBUILDING PROJECTS h4HIS PUBLICATION WILL ACT AS A REMINDER THAT WE NEED TO REMAIN FOCUSED AND COMMITTED IN THE LONG TERM BOTH EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY TO HELPING THE WORLD S POOR /UT OF THE INSTINCTIVE COMPASSION ATE REACTION TO THE SUFFERING OF THE VICTIMS WE HOPE TO

3PONSORED WALK FOR (EARING !ID

ENCOURAGE A MORE SOPHISTI CATED EMOTIONAL AND INTEL LECTUAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ISSUES v OF 7AKE S PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO (ABITAT FOR (UMANITY (&( AN ORGANISATION WHICH BUILDS HOUSING FOR THOSE IN POVERTY STRICKEN AREAS (&( BUILDS IN NEARLY COUNTRIES THROUGH INDEPENDENT GRASSROOTS AF lLIATES AND HAS ALREADY BUILT

HOMES WORLDWIDE )AN 7ALKDEN (&( S NA TIONAL DIRECTOR IN 'REAT "RIT AIN SAID h4HE OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT WE RECEIVED FROM AROUND THE WORLD AFTER THE TSUNAMI GAVE US THE ABILITY TO DEVELOP A LONG TERM RE SPONSE THAT WOULD NOT JUST RESTORE BUT IMPROVE PERMA NENT HOMES FOR THOUSANDS OF THOSE WHOSE LIVES WERE DEV ASTATED BY THE TSUNAMI v (AMILTON SAYS THIS LONG

4HE !RTHUR "ATCHELOR ,ECTURE WILL BE GIVEN BY 0ROFES SOR ,ISA *ARDINE ON 4UESDAY TH -ARCH 0ROFESSOR *ARDINE IS $I RECTOR OF THE !(2" 2ESEARCH #ENTRE FOR %DITING ,IVES AND ,ETTERS AND A SPECIALIST IN 2ENAISSANCE 3TUDIES 4HE LECTURE WILL CONSIDER THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MUSEUM AND ITS AUDIENCE IN RELATION TO THE WORK OF ART )T STARTS AT PM IN ,ECTURE 4HE ATRE AND ADMISSION IS FREE

&ORMER "USTED STAR PLAYS 5%!

0ROCEEDS FROM 7AKE WILL GO TO (&( TERM APPROACH IS WHY THEY CHOSE (&( TO RECEIVE THE MONEY RAISED FROM 7AKE

ENCOURAGED BY THE FACT THAT hTHEY OFFER MORE CONSTRUC TIVE HELP PER POUND n THAN ORGANIZATIONS WITH LARGER AD MINISTRATIVE COSTS v

!T a A COPY THE MONEY RAISED WILL GO A LONG WAY TO HELP WITH THE REBUILDING PROCESS AND GET YOU SOME lRST RATE READING TOO #OPIES CAN BE ORDERED FROM WWW WAKEMAGAZINE ORG

&ORMER "USTED SINGER #HAR LIE 3IMPSON BRINGS HIS NEW BAND &IGHTSTAR TO 5%! S ,#2 ON -ONDAY TH -ARCH 4HE FOUR PIECE ROCK BAND

WHOSE INmUENCES INCLUDE .IRVANA AND HEAVY METAL GROUP .INE )NCH .AILS ARE A WORLD AWAY FROM 3IMPSON S PREVIOUS INCARNATION AS A TEEN POP ICON "USTED HAD NUMEROUS NUMBER ONE HITS AND PLAYED SELL OUT SHOWS AT 7EMBLEY !RENA 4ICKETS FOR THE GIG COST a FROM THE 5%! "OX /F lCE

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH

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) VE LED MULTIPLE CAM PAIGNS ORGANISED EVENTS AND BROUGHT MANY PROGRESSIVE AGENDAS TO 5NION #OUNCIL #ONSULTING BETWEEN 5NION

STUDENTS AND STAFF HAS TAUGHT ME TO COMMUNICATE MES SAGES TO MAXIMUM EFFECT ) LL ENSURE ALL VOICES ARE HEARD

FROM THE SENTIMENTS OF INDI VIDUALS TO THE DECLARATIONS OF THE ENTIRE CAMPUS %MAIL ME Y DIALDAS UEA AC UK

) M 4OM &LYNN AND ) M IN MY TH GLORIUS YEAR AT 5%!

STUDYING FOR AN -! ) M RUN NING FOR COMMUNICATIONS OFlCER FOR ONE MAIN REASON TO SEE /52 UNION REPRE SENT 5%! STUDENTS MORE AND DEBATE PARTY POLITICAL ISSUES LESS )T S CALLED THE 5NION OF 5%! STUDENTS FOR A REASON

!S COMMUNICATIONS OFlCER ) WOULD %NSURE %FFECTIVE COMMUNI CATION TO ALL STUDENTS 0ROMOTE 4HE PUBLIC FACE OF THE 5NION %XEC 3UPPORT %VERY STUDENT CLUB AND SOCIETY IN GETTING YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS )F YOU WANT A CANDIDATE WHO WILL PRIORITISE TRUE REPRESEN TATION OF THE STUDENTS 6OTE FOR ME

) VE SAT ON 5NION #OUN CIL AND ) $* IN THE "LUE "AR BEFORE ,#2S )F ) BECOME #OMMS OFlCER ) LL INTRODUCE 7IRELESS )NTERNET IN THE (IVE

MAKE 2ABBIT ESSENTIAL READ ING FOR STUDENTS CAMPAIGN FOR A FULL &RESHER S 7EEK AND LOBBY BUS COMPANIES FOR CHEAPER FARES 6OTE &RANCIS ; = FOR #OMMS

(I ) M ,IZZIE ,)4 ) M FROM 3USSEX ) M A ,EO AND ) LOVE JAM 7ONDERING WHAT THE #OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER DOES &OR ME IT IS ABOUT MAKING SURE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE COUNTLESS POSSI BILITIES THIS UNIVERSITY OFFERS AND HOW TO BRING ABOUT THE CHANGES YOU WANT ,ET S GET COMMUNICATING

) STAND FOR A 5NION THAT IS NOT AFRAID OF DEBATE AND DIS CUSSION FOR REPRESENTING AND CAMPAIGNING FOR CHANGE ON ISSUES AFFECTING STUDENTS AND FOR A DEMOCRATIC 5NION THAT INVOLVES AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE IN THE DECISIONS WE MAKE 6OTE !NDY (IGSON FOR A CAMPAIGNING AND DEMO CRATIC 5NION

&INANCE /FlCER

%NVIRONMENT /FlCER

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6OTING FOR NEXT YEAR S 5NION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ,#2 ON -ONDAY TH AND 4UESDAY TH -ARCH FROM AM TO PM #AMPAIGNING BEGINS ON 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH 1UESTION 4IME WILL BE HELD ON 4UESDAY ND -ARCH AT PM IN THE ,#2 &OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE $EPUTY 2ETURNING /FlCER ON SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK

(EY ) M -ICHAEL AND A THIRD YEAR !CCOUNTANCY WITH ,AW STUDENT 7HY VOTE FOR ME ) FEEL ) WOULD BE THE BEST PER SON TO HELP YOU WHETHER IT BE AS A MEMBER OF A SOCIETY

SPORTS CLUB OR JUST YOU AS YOU 6OTE FOR ME OR THE -ONKEY GETS IT

4OM ,EWIS FOR &INANCE ; = n ) AM THE BEST FOR THIS JOB ! &I NANCE OFlCER SHOULD BE THERE TO SUPPORT NOT DICTATE ) BE LIEVE STUDENTS SHOULD BE EN TITLED TO KNOW WHERE MONEY IS BEING SPENT AND WHY 6OTE FOR ME AND EVERYTHING ABOUT THE UNION ,#2 3PORT WILL VASTLY IMPROVE

!T A TIME WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CUTS ) GUARANTEE THAT YOUR KEY SERVICES WILL SUR VIVE AND GROW ) PROMISE TO WORK TIRELESSLY TO ENSURE THAT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES OUR WEL FARE SERVICES OUR MEDIA AND OUR RETAIL SERVICES ARE IN TOP CONDITION TO SERVE YOU ,ESS BUREAUCRACY MORE ACTION

) AM A THIRD YEAR %.6 STUDENT RUNNING FOR %NVIRONMENT /FlCER CURRENTLY WORKING IN MY HOME COUNTRY OF &RANCE IN A 3USTAINABLE $EVELOP MENT AGENCY 0LEASE FEEL FREE TO CHECK OUT MY MANIFESTO ON THE 5NION WEBSITE &OR YOUR 5NISPHERE 'O GREENER 6OTE "EN -EAKER (AVE A NICE DAY

) M A lRST YEAR $EVELOPMENT STUDIES STUDENT AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF 0ERMACULTURE SOC AND 3%%$ ) HAVE EXPE RIENCE ESPECIALLY FROM MY COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT COM MITTEE ) M ENTHUSIASTIC AND MOTIVATED TOWARDS ENVIRON MENTAL ISSUES )T S IMPORTANT TO MAKE A CHANGE EVERY LIT TLE HELPS 5%! STUDENTS HAVE LOTS OF POTENTIAL ) WOULD GRASP THAT OPPORTUNITYx

0UBLICITY

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7OMENS /FlCER *ESS #AMPBELL

&IONA "ILLINGS

3UZANNE %L (AWARY

!LEXANDRA 3COTT

!NDY *UDSON

.O .OMINATIONS

6OTING FOR NEXT YEAR S 5NION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ,#2 ON -ONDAY TH AND 4UESDAY TH -ARCH FROM AM TO PM #AMPAIGNING BEGINS ON 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH 1UESTION 4IME WILL BE HELD ON 4UESDAY ND -ARCH AT PM IN THE ,#2 &OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE $EPUTY 2ETURNING /FlCER ON SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK

(I ) M &IONA "ILLINGS AND ) M RUNNING FOR 7OMEN S /FlCER ) AM COMMITTED TO PROVIDING A SAFE FRIENDLY AND APPROACHABLE WAY FOR FEMALE STUDENTS TO BRING THEIR STUDENTS TO BRING THEIR ISSUES AND CONCERNS TO THE 5NION AND IF ELECTED ) LL ENSURE ) ADVANCE AN ARRAY OF CAMPAIGNS BENElTING THE WOMEN OF 5%!

3AFETY 5TILISE :IP UP )NFOR MATION %QUALITY ) WILL 0ROMOTE 3AFETY THROUGHOUT CAMPUS 5TILISE THE FACILI TIES AVAILABLE %NSURE THAT FEMALES ARE GIVEN A VOICE AND DON T :IP UP ON AREAS OF CONCERN 'IVE ADEQUATE )NFORMATION /NLY FACTS NOT OPINIONS -AINTAIN %QUALITY IN ALL ASPECTS OF UNIVERSITY LIFE

(ELLO ) M !LEX AND ) M PAS SIONATE ABOUT WOMEN S IS SUES 6OTE FOR ME AND ) WILL COMMIT MYSELF TO PROMOT ING SAFETY TO AND AROUND OUR CAMPUS ) WILL HELP PROGRESS WOMEN IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO ARE DISADVAN TAGED &EEL FREE TO CONTACT ME FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

ALEXANDRA SCOTT UEA AC UK

!S A MEMBER OF 5NION #OUN CIL ) HAVE THE EXPERIENCE IN REPRESENTING STUDENTS ) PLEDGE TO HELP STUDENTS lND OUT ABOUT THEIR 5NION AND HELP THEM GET INVOLVED ) M USED TO CAMPAIGNING FOR THE 5NION AND ) WILL WORK WELL WITH THE OTHER NEW OFlCERS TO HELP PROMOTE THEIR ISSUES

.O NOMINATIONS WERE SUB MITTED FOR 3PORTS /FlCER IN THIS ELECTION )F YOU WOULD LIKE TO STAND FOR THE POSITION

NOMINATION FORMS FOR THE

BY ELECTION WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTION SOON &ORMS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE FOR THE REMAINING THREE &ACULTY #ONVENORS (EALTH 3OCIAL 3CIENCES AND 3CIENCE &OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK

5.)/. %8%#54)6% %,%#4)/.3

!CADEMIC /FlCER

7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH #ONCRETE

%THICAL )SSUES /FlCER

#HRIS 7ILLIAMS

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3AMUEL &AGENCE

,IZZIE "OWES

*ENNI #ARTER

2ACHEL "ROWN

(AVING SPENT FOUR YEARS AT 5%! ) HAVE EXPERIENCED EVE RYTHING THAT THE 5NIVERSITY HAS TO OFFER 4HE INTRODUC TION OF TUITION FEES HAS MADE YOU ALL CONSUMERS ) AIM TO GET YOU THE BEST VALUE FOR MONEY

(I ) M 4ESSA .ORTH ) M RUN NING FOR !CADEMIC /FlCER AND ) LL BE THERE FOR ANY ACA DEMIC PROBLEMS YOU HAVE ) WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVE RYONE GETS THE MOST OUT OF THEIR DEGREE AND ) LL WORK TO MAKE YOUR CONCERNS HEARD IN YOUR 3CHOOL ) LL ALSO CAM PAIGN FOR ANONYMOUS MARK ING

) M 3AM A THIRD YEAR HISTORY STUDENT )SSUES LIKE THE BAN NING OF SOME ,#2S AND RIS ING SPORTS INSURANCE CHARGES GIVE STUDENTS THE FEELING THEY HAVE NO CONTROL ) WOULD IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF REPRE SENTATION IN 5NION #OUNCIL AND SEE DECISIONS LIKE THESE ARE MADE WITH CONSULTATION OR BY REFERENDUM

) PLEDGE ONLY EXPERIENCE

COMMITEMENT AND PASSION ) HAVE WORKED WITH THE 5NION BEFORE AND RUN MANY CAM PAIGNS ABOUT POVERTY ISSUES ) AM VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT DOING AS MUCH AS ) CAN TO CHANGE THE WORLD EVEN THE LITTLE WE DO AT 5%! CAN HELP

) HAVE BEEN %THICS /FlCER FOR THE PAST WEEKS ) HAVE STARTED TO IMPLEMENT THE POLICIES OF MY MANIFESTO

AND HAVE A LOT OF EXCITING EVENTS PLANNED BUT ) NEED TO BE RE ELECTED ) AIM TO MAKE 5%! AN OFlCIAL FAIR TRADE 5NIVERSITY AND RAISE AWARENESS OF EXISTING UNION CAMPAIGNS

$ISCONTENT IS THE SEED OF ETH ICS 9OU DECIDE THE REST ) WILL DO AN ETHICS SURVEY TO CREATE A POLICY THAT REPRESENTS ALL STUDENTS 7OULD YOU LIKE A GUEST TO LECTURE ON AN ISSUE YOU CARE ABOUT ) WILL AR RANGE EVENTS TO RAISE AWARE NESS AND ADVANCE ACTION TO WARDS GOOD ETHICS

7ELFARE /FlCER

3OCIETIES /FlCER

3TEVIE !LTMAN

3ALLY (AMMERTON

$AVID %ASTAUGH

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.ICK +ENT

2ICHARD $AVIES

5NIVERSITY LIFE CAN BE DIFl CULT AND THERE WILL BE TIMES WHEN YOU REALLY NEED 5NION ADVICE ) WILL USE THE WELFARE EXPERIENCE THAT ) HAVE GAINED AT UNIVERSITY TO ENSURE THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS AWARE OF THE SUPPORT OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO YOU SO THAT YOU CAN TRULY EN JOY YOUR TIME HERE

) LL KEEP SECURITY lNANCE

EMPLOYMENT ACCOMMODA TION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AS PRIORITIES RAISE AWARENESS OF SEXUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNS RAISE THE PROlLE OF PEER SUPPORT GROUPS LIKE NIGHTLINE ENSURE STUDENTS ARE SUPPORTED IN THE CRUCIAL lRST WEEKS AT UNIVERSITY AND DURING EXAM TIMES AND EN SURE NURSERY PRICES ARE KEPT AT AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL

!S 7ELFARE /FlCER ) WILL WORK TO MAKE 5%! (APPY WITH MY (APPINESS MANIFESTO ) WILL BE THERE SUPPORTING YOU THROUGH THICK @N THIN

LISTENING AND WORKING FOR THE NEEDS OF EACH EVERY 3TUDENT SO THAT YOU CAN ALL FEEL SUPPORTED HEARD AND HELPED

) HAVE HAD A GREAT TIME AS A STUDENT AT 5%! AND WANT ALL CURRENT AND FUTURE STUDENTS TO HAVE THE SAME )F YOU WANT CAMPAIGNS RELEVANT TO YOU SUCH AS BIKE SAFETY AND HEALTHY EATING AND A WELFARE OFlCER THAT CARES ABOUT YOU AND YOUR STUDENT LIFE VOTE 6OWLES

6OTING FOR NEXT YEAR S 5NION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ,#2 ON -ONDAY TH AND 4UESDAY TH -ARCH FROM AM TO PM #AMPAIGNING BEGINS ON 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH 1UESTION 4IME WILL BE HELD ON 4UESDAY ND -ARCH AT PM IN THE ,#2 &OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE $EPUTY 2ETURNING /FlCER ON SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK

(I 6OTE 2ICHARD $AVIES &OR 3OCIETIES /FlCER ) PROMISE TO BRING YOU MORE CHOICE AND SOLID RESULTS 4HROUGH NUMEROUS VOLUNTEERING OP PORTUNITIES AT 5%! ) HAVE LEARNT HOW TO BECOME A GOOD LISTENER )T S MY AIM TO TRANSFER THOSE SKILLS TO SERV ING YOU ALL ) WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN

)NTERNATIONAL /FlCER

,IBERATIONS /FlCER

!NNA +OSTUS

#AMMIE &ULMER

(ELEN 4WIST

"ENJAMIN 0ASS

4IM (ANDLEY

-ARTIN *OPP

(ELLO ) M !NNA AND ) AM CURRENTLY IN MY SECOND YEAR OF )NTERNATIONAL 3TUDIES !S AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ) KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE WHAT PROBLEMS CAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS BE FACED WITH !ND AS AN INTERNATIONAL OFlCER ) WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS GET CONCERN HELP INFORMATION AND REPRESENTATION

6OTING FOR NEXT YEAR S 5NION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ,#2 ON -ONDAY TH AND 4UESDAY TH -ARCH FROM AM TO PM #AMPAIGNING BEGINS ON 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH 1UESTION 4IME WILL BE HELD ON 4UESDAY ND -ARCH AT PM IN THE ,#2 &OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE $EPUTY 2ETURNING /FlCER ON SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK

)NTERNATIONAL STUDENTS MAKE AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND ) WISH TO MAKE THIS AS WIDELY FELT AS POSSIBLE ) AM ENTHUSIASTIC DYNAMIC AND COMPASSIONATE AND THESE QUALITIES WILL ENABLE ME TO HAVE A STRONG VOICE IN THE STUDENT UNION &OR FURTHER INFORMATION EMAIL HELEN TWIST UEA AC UK

6OTING FOR NEXT YEAR S 5NION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ,#2 ON -ONDAY TH AND 4UESDAY TH -ARCH FROM AM TO PM #AMPAIGNING BEGINS ON 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH 1UESTION 4IME WILL BE HELD ON 4UESDAY ND -ARCH AT PM IN THE ,#2 &OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE $EPUTY 2ETURNING /FlCER ON SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK

(I ) M COMMITTED TO ACHIEV ING RESULTS AND REPRESENTING THE NEEDS OF OTHERS ) AIM TO MAKE SURE THAT NO MEMBER OF THE 5%! COMMUNITY FEELS EXCLUDED OR DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN ANY WAY AND PLAN TO ACHIEVE THIS BY A NUMBER OF HIGH PROlLE CAMPAIGNSx 6OTE 4IM (ANDLEY &OR ,IB ERATIONS

) M -ARTIN *OPP A lRST YEAR 03) STUDENT FROM "RISTOL ) WAS ELECTED WEEKS AGO TO BE ,IBERATIONS /FlCER UNOP POSED AND HAVE ALREADY MET WITH RELEVANT GROUPS AND GOT THE JOB ORGANISED FOR THE NEXT YEAR ) WILL CONTINUE TO BE A STRONG VOICE FOR MINOR ITY GROUPS

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH

0ETER 4ATCHELL TO VISIT 5%! #ONTROVERSIAL HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST 0ETER 4ATCHELL IS SET TO SPEAK AT 5%! ON -ARCH ST 4ATCHELL WILL BE TALKING ABOUT ISSUES INCLUDING THE NUCLEAR ENERGY DEBATE (E COMMENTED h) AM DELIGHTED TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY OF SPEAKING WITH 5%! STUDENTS ABOUT TWO SUBJECTS OF CENTRAL 'REEN CONCERN HOW WE CAN BUILD AN ECO FRIENDLY FUTURE THROUGH PRACTICAL SMALL SCALE ALTERNATIVES TO NUCLEAR POWER AND HOW A NEW HU MAN RIGHTS AND LOCALISED DEMOCRACY AGENDA CAN AND MUST REPLACE THE (OME 3EC RETARY S EMPHASIS ON CLOSING DOWN OUR HISTORIC RIGHTS AS CITIZENS v 4HE EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT PM IN 5NION (OUSE

ROOM

&UN RUN TO HELP CANCER CHARITIES 4HE 5%! !THLETICS #LUB ARE ORGANISING A CHARITY FUN RUN IN AID OF CHARITIES FOR BREAST AND PROSTATE CANCER AND #ANCER 2ESEARCH 5+ 4HE 2UN &OR 9OUR ,IFE FUN RUN WILL TAKE PLACE ON !PRIL ST ON THE #OLNEY PLAY ING lELDS AND WILL BE A KM MILE CROSS COUNTRY RACE

FUN RUN OR WALK DEPEND ING ON ABILITY &OR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT S RIPLEY UEA AC UK

&AIRTRADE FORTNIGHT HELD AT 5%! *ANE $OUGLAS .EWS %DITOR 4HIS YEAR S &AIRTRADE &ORT NIGHT WILL TAKE PLACE FROM -ONDAY TH -ARCH AIM ING TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS AND THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THEM ! SERIES OF EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE AT 5%! DURING THE FORTNIGHT INCLUDING A PICNIC AND AN OPEN MIC NIGHT OR GANISED BY THE #ONTEMPO RARY -USIC 3OCIETY &AIRTRADE EVENTS WILL ALSO BE TAKING PLACE ACROSS THE CITY AS THE &AIRTRADE IN .OR FOLK GROUP CONTINUES ITS CALLS TO MAKE .ORWICH A &AIRTRADE CITY -ONDAY TH -ARCH &AIRTRADE 0ICNIC "RING A PLATE FAIR TRADE PICNIC ORGANISED BY 3%%$ 4UESDAY TH -ARCH &REE lLM WITH A 4RADE *USTICE EDGE 4HE @9ES -EN PM ,ECTURE 4HEATRE &AIRTRADE ,#2 &AIRTRADE &ELINES WITH A hNIGHT AT THE MOVIES 4HEMEv 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH &AIRTRADE IN .ORFOLK WORK SHOP ABOUT NEW PRODUCTS SUCH AS &AIRTRADE COTTON 4HIS WILL INCLUDE FREE &AIR 4RADE REFRESHMENTS

PM 5NION (OUSE 3UNDAY TH -ARCH 0UB 1UIZ WITH &AIRTRADE QUESTIONS AS PART OF THE QUIZ 4UESDAY TH -ARCH $EBATE 3OCIETY h3HOULD .ESTLE HAVE BEEN GIVEN &AIRTRADE STATUS v STRUCTURED DEBATE h)S &AIRTRADE WORTH IT v OPEN FORUM 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY &AIRTRADE PRE PARTY IN THE (IVE FROM PM FOLLOWED

BY PERFORMANCES AND FOOD FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AT THE )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY 4HURSDAY TH -ARCH "ANANA ,INK WORKSHOP 4ALK FROM A .ORWICH BASED GROUP WHICH CAMPAIGNS FOR ACCESS TO %UROPEAN MARKETS AND OTHER ISSUES SURROUND ING INJUSTICE 4IME AND LOCATION TO BE AN NOUNCED 3ATURDAY TH -ARCH #LUB 2ETRO &AIRTRADE &ELINE 0RESENCE &AIRTRADE FELINES WILL BE DE SCENDING ON THE ,#2 3UNDAY TH -ARCH /PEN -IC .IGHT /PEN MIC NIGHT IN THE (IVE PUT ON BY THE 5%! #ONTEM PORARY -USIC 3OCIETY WITH A &AIRTRADE SPEAKER &OR FURTHER INFORMATION ON &AIR 4RADE &ORTNIGHT PLEASE CONTACT THE GROUP AT SU FUNKATHON UEA AC UK

,AST YEAR S &AIRTRADE FASHION SHOW WAS A HUGE SUCCESS

3TUDENTS DISCOVER THE PRICE OF LOVE !NDY *UDSON 4HIS 6ALENTINE S $AY 5%!

STUDENTS WERE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO BUY HAPPINESS FOR AT LEAST ONE NIGHT AS THE 5%! &AIRTRADE 3TEERING 'ROUP ORGANISED A DATE AUCTION TO RAISE MONEY FOR THEIR UPCOMING &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT WHICH BEGINS ON -ONDAY TH -ARCH &IFTEEN BRAVE VOLUNTEERS PUT THEMSELVES FORWARD FOR DATES IN A VARIETY OF LOCA TIONS FROM A NIGHT AT THE ,#2 TO A ROMANTIC TRIP TO .ORWICH #ASTLE IN AN OCCA SION THAT MANAGED TO RAISE ALMOST a FOR USE IN UP COMING EVENTS TO RAISE &AIR TRADE AWARENESS ,IVEWIRE $* $AVE "RAD SHAW HOSTED THE EVENT ACT ING AS AUCTIONEER BEFORE

PUTTING HIMSELF FORWARD IN THE LAST AND HIGHEST EARNING AUCTION ! REPRESENTATIVE OF THE &AIRTRADE 3TEERING 'ROUP SAID h)T WAS A GREAT WAY TO RE START THE &AIRTRADE CAMPAIGN ON CAMPUS AND RAISE STU DENT AWARENESS OF &AIRTRADE ) WAS SO HAPPY THAT WE RAISED SO MUCH AND THE LARGE TURN OUT HOPEFULLY BODES WELL FOR THE UPCOMING &AIRTRADE &ORT NIGHT v 4HE AUCTION WAS HELD IN THE 3TUDENT 5NION S 2ED "AR PRIOR TO THE ANTI 6AL ENTINES THEMED ,#2 4HERE WERE THEREFORE PLENTY OF PEOPLE AROUND ENSURING A GOOD TURNOUT AND HELPING TO PROMOTE THE &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS FOR HOLDING THE AUC TION 6OLUNTEERS HAD BEEN PERSUADED TO COME FORWARD IN THE PRECEDING MONTH AND ADVERTISED AROUND THE 5NI

4HE DATE AUCTION WAS HELD IN AID OF &AIRTRADE EVENTS VERSITY HELPING TO PROMOTE THE EVENT 4HIS ALSO ALLOWED THOSE BEING AUCTIONED TIME TO PREPARE AND DRESS UP WELL FOR THE OCCASION 4HE WHOLE AUCTION WENT RELATIVELY SMOOTHLY APART FROM ONE

INSTANCE WHEN ONE BUYER COULD NOT BE FOUND AFTER OF FERING A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY &ORTUNATELY THEIR DATE WAS ABLE TO BE RESOLD

ENSURING NONE OF THE CHARITY MONEY WAS LOST

7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH #ONCRETE

5NI 6ILLAGE TARGET FOR BREAK INS &IONA "ILLINGS 4HINK ABOUT SECURITY 4HAT S THE MESSAGE FROM -IKE -C#ORMACK !CCESS AND 3ECURITY /PERATIONS -ANAGER AFTER THE RECENT SPATE OF BREAK INS AT THE 6ILLAGE !S WE ALL KNOW CAMPUS IS A PRIME TARGET FOR THIEVES (OWEVER THE LATEST OCCUR RENCE OF BURGLARIES HAS LEFT MANY STUDENTS ESPECIALLY THOSE LIVING ON THE GROUND mOOR WONDERING IF THEY ARE SAFE IN THEIR HALLS AS AN AR RAY OF VALUABLE LAPTOPS AND DIGITAL CAMERAS HAVE GONE MISSING 9ET -IKE -C#ORMACK IS KEEN TO STRESS THE OPPORTUN ISTIC NATURE OF THE BREAK INS !N OPEN GROUND mOOR WIN DOW POSES AN IDEAL OPPORTU NITY FOR THE CASUAL THIEF PASS ING BY TO SEIZE HIS CHANCE

AND EVEN THOUGH YOU COULD JUST HAVE WANDERED TO THE

KITCHEN FOR lVE MINUTES BY THE TIME YOU GET BACK YOU COULD NO LONGER BE THE PROUD OWNER OF A a LAPTOP (OWEVER THERE ARE SECU RITY MEASURES THAT STUDENTS CAN TAKE TO LIMIT THE CHANCES FOR POTENTIAL BURGLARS 4HE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AD EQUATE INSURANCE SO IF THE WORST SHOULD HAPPEN YOU WILL AT LEAST BE COVERED !L THOUGH CAMPUS HAS ##46 AND SECURITY PATROLS THE LAT TER OF WHICH ARE INCREASED WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM IN A CERTAIN AREA LIMIT THE TEMP TATION FOR THIEVES BY CLOSING ALL WINDOWS AND DOORS WHEN YOU LEAVE THE ROOM EVEN IF IT IS JUST TO GO TO THE KITCHEN !LTHOUGH THE 6ILLAGE DOES TEND TO BE A FREQUENT PROBLEM AREA WITH REGARD TO RANDOM THEFTS THERE ARE STEPS BEING TAKEN TO HELP $UE TO DEMAND FROM STU DENTS 3ECURITY ARE WORKING WITH THE 5NIVERSITY TO CLEAR THE BUSHES AROUND THE 6IL LAGE AND AT THE SAME TIME

.53 TO LOBBY 0ARLIAMENT 4HE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS .53 HAS CALLED A LOBBY OF 0ARLIAMENT ON 7EDNESDAY -ARCH ST AS PART OF ITS CAMPAIGN TO KEEP THE CAP ON TUITION FEES 3TUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL TRAVEL TO THE CAPITAL TO RAISE THEIR VIEWS ON THE FUNDING OF HIGHER EDUCA TION 4HE DEMONSTRATION WILL FORM PART OF A 7EEK OF !C TION DURING WHICH THE .53 HOPES TO BRING THE DEBATE ON TUITION FEES TO NATIONAL AT TENTION

&IFTH OF TENANTS LOSE DEPOSITS 'ROUND mOOR ROOMS ARE MOST AT RISK FROM BURGLARS INCREASE PRECAUTIONS BY IN STALLING EXTRA LIGHTING AND MORE ##46 3O IF YOU ARE WORRIED THAT YOU COULD BE NEXT THE MES SAGE IS DON T BE "URGLARIES

ALTHOUGH THEY SEEM TO BE A PROBLEM ARE ACTUALLY FAIRLY ISOLATED AT THE 5%! 4HEFTS

FROM RESIDENCES ARE A NA TIONWIDE PROBLEM FOR UNI VERSITIES WITH SOME GOING TO THE EXTREMES OF lTTING BARS ON GROUND mOOR WINDOWS (OWEVER 5%! WON T BE GO ING THIS FAR *UST BE SURE TO CLOSE WINDOWS WHEN YOU LEAVE THE ROOM KEEP THE

CURTAINS DRAWN IF THERE ARE HIGH PRICED ITEMS ON SHOW

AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU WILL NEVER BE AFFECTED BY THEFT FROM YOUR ROOM )F YOU NEED ASSISTANCE IN AN EMERGENCY CALL OR AL TERNATIVELY CALL 5%! 3ECURITY 3ERVICES ON

/NE lFTH OF STUDENTS HAVE HAD THEIR DAMAGE DEPOSITS UNFAIRLY WITHHELD BY A LAND LORD ACCORDING TO A SURVEY

BY THE .53 4HE REPORT SHOWED THAT SOME UNSCRUPULOUS LAND LORDS WERE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF STUDENTS LACK OF KNOWL EDGE SURROUNDING THEIR RIGHTS AS TENANTS

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH

# &%!452%

7OULD THE &OUR (ORSEMEN CARRY 4RIDENTS 2EPLACING OUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS NOT ONLY MAKES US MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO ATTACK BUT ALSO SHOWS HOW LITTLE WE LEARNT FROM THE #OLD 7AR ARGUES 3IMON 3HERIDAN

5

NFORTUNATELY

THIS ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT ! M E R I C A S MOST POPU LAR BRAND OF CHEW ING GUM

ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME KIND OF SICK SIMILARITY BETWEEN THIS ULCER INDUCING SUBSTANCE AND THE ACTUAL SUBJECT OF THIS COLUMN 0ERHAPS THE FACT THAT TRIDENT CAN APART FROM GIVING YOU A RATHER NASTY STOMACH INFECTION ALSO GIVE YOU THYROID CANCER OR AT WORST MELT THE VERY SKIN OFF YOUR BODY IN THE SPACE OF A FEW MILLISECONDS MIGHT CAUSE SOME OF US TO SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE !ND SO IT IS THAT AFTER THE END OF THE #OLD 7AR AFTER THE "ERLIN 7ALL HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY THOSE SAME PEO PLE WHOM IT CONTAINED AFTER YEARS OF ARMS RACE WAR AND ETHNIC CLEANSING

THAT lNALLY WE MIGHT HAVE REACHED A POINT IN TIME WHERE A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE COULD TAKE OVER FROM VESTED INTERESTS /R NOT 7ITH LITTLE APLOMB AND VIRTUALLY NO PRESS COVERAGE THE 5NITED 3TATES

AND ITS GIMP LIKE SLAVE 'REAT "RITAIN

"USH FAMILY (OWEVER DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY MANAGED TO mY A PLANE INTO A BUILDING THESE PEOPLE ARE MORE SUITED TO HIKING THROUGH THE (INDU +USH THAN THEY ARE TO EXPERIMENTING WITH NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY )F AS MOST OF OUR LEADERS NOW SEEM TO AGREE THE LARGEST THREAT TO HUMANITY IS TERRORISM THEN WHY ON EARTH DO WE REQUIRE BOMBS WITH SUCH A LETHAL CAPACITY THAT THEY CAN NOT ONLY KILL THOUSANDS IN THE SPACE OF A FEW SECONDS BUT ALSO DEVASTATE ANY REGION IN WHICH THEY ARE UNLEASHED FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO FOLLOW 3ADLY THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS NOT ACTUALLY NECESSARY /UR LEADERS JUS TIFY THE OWNERSHIP OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

BY CLAIMING THAT THEY ACT AS A DETERRENT 4HIS MAY HAVE BEEN TRUE IN THE S

BUT NOT NOW 2ADICAL )SLAMIC TERRORISTS HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO DIE TO AID THEIR CAUSE AND THEREFORE A NUCLEAR BOMB WILL RATHER THAN UNLEASH THE WRATH OF 'OD BRING HIM CLOSER TO EARTH FOR THOSE WHO BE LIEVE *UDGEMENT $AY IS UPON US 4HERE IS NOTHING THAT /SAMA BIN ,ADEN WOULD LIKE MORE THAN AN ATTACK BY THE 7EST WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS )T WOULD NOT ONLY CORROBORATE HIS RHETORIC OVER

4HE 5NITED 3TATES AND ITS SLAVE "RITAIN

HAVE BEGUN DEVELOPING REPLACEMENT WEAPONS FOR THEIR NUCLEAR ARSENALS HAVE BEGUN DEVELOPING REPLACEMENT WEAPONS SYSTEMS FOR THEIR NUCLEAR AR SENALS &ORGETTING FOR A SECOND THAT THIS BREAKS THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO THE 5NITED .ATIONS UNDER THE .ON 0ROLIFERATION 4REATY .04 THEY ARE STILL STUCK IN THE #OLD 7AR MINDSET TO WHICH WE WERE SO DESPERATE TO RELIEVE OURSELVES ONLY YEARS AGO 4HE ONLY DIFFERENCE BE TWEEN NOW AND THEN IS THAT INSTEAD OF A VAST MONOLITHIC COMMUNIST SUBSTI TUTE hEVILv EMPIRE IN THE FORM OF THE 5332 THREATENING OUR VERY EXISTENCE

WE ARE NOW UNDER THREAT FROM A FEW RAMSHACKLE INDIVIDUALS WITH A RATHER GRUESOME HATRED OF THE 7ESTERN CIVILI SATION SUBSTITUTE -C$ONALDS AND THE

THE PAST TEN YEARS DENOUNCING !MERICA AS AN ENTITY INTENT ON WORLD DOMINA TION BUT WOULD ALSO SET IN MOTION A TRAIN OF EVENTS THAT NOT EVEN NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY WILL BE ABLE TO STOP AS RE TALIATION WILL FOLLOW RETALIATION FOR THE MONSTROSITY OF AN ATTACK USING THESE AWFUL WEAPONS ,ET ME EXPLAIN THIS MORE FULLY !CCEPTING FOR THE MOMENT THAT WE NEED A REPLACEMENT FOR 4RIDENT AS A DETERRENT AGAINST ATTACK 7ELL THIS LINE OF REASONING WOULD THEREFORE PRESUP POSE THAT ANY NATION IS ENTITLED TO NU CLEAR WEAPONS AS ALL NATION STATES TO A GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT ARE PRIMARILY INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF MAINTAIN

ING NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY 4HIS IS AS TRUE FOR THE 5NITED 3TATES AS IT IS FOR "ANG LADESH 4HEREFORE THE ONLY LOGICAL AND ACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE IS THAT NO STATE SHOULD POSSESS NUCLEAR WEAPONS 7HILE THE #OLD 7AR ENSURED THAT ONLY A FEW STATES COULD COMMAND THE ULTI MATE IN OFFENSIVE WEAPONRY THE END ING OF THIS PERIOD IN FACT RESULTED IN OTHER STATES GETTING HOLD OF A BOMB OR TWO 0AKISTAN FOLLOWED )NDIA S ACQUISI TION OF THE BOMB VERY QUICKLY AND THE SPEED AT WHICH IT COULD DO SO SHOULD ALERT US TO THE FACT THAT PLENTY OF NA TION STATES ALL OVER THE WORLD COULD CONSTRUCT A BOMB IN VERY LITTLE TIME !LTHOUGH WITHOUT A NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPACITY AT PRESENT *APAN COULD MAKE ONE IN ROUGHLY MONTHS OF THE WORD BEING GIVEN AS COULD 4AIWAN 4HE ONLY EXCUSE THEY NEED IS A CONCRETE THREAT FROM ANOTHER STATE !S NOTED THIS THREAT IS NO LONGER FROM ANOTHER NUCLEAR WEAPON BUT FROM SUICIDE AND IN SPECIAL CASES

AEROPLANE BOMBERS %VEN IF A TERRORIST GROUP SOMEHOW GOT HOLD OF A NUCLEAR BOMB THEY WOULD lND IT VERY DIFlCULT TO TRANSPORT OR DETONATE IT EFFECTIVELY !ND EVEN IF THIS RATHER WHIMSICAL LINE OF THINKING BECOMES REALITY I E AN AL 1AEDA NUCLEAR ATTACK ON SAY #HICAGO WHO WOULD WE RETALIATE AGAINST !FTER THE 53 AND ITS ALLIES IN VADED !FGHANISTAN TO UNSEAT THE 4ALI BAN REGIME WHO NOT ONLY ALLOWED AL 1AEDA TO OPERATE IN THEIR COUNTRY BUT ALSO BRUTALLY REPRESSED THEIR PEOPLE 4HEREFORE THIS INVASION COULD BE JUSTI lED AS IT WAS NOT AIMED AT THE PEOPLE OF !FGHANISTAN JUST THEIR DIABOLICAL RULERS (OWEVER ARE WE SERIOUSLY CON SIDERING NUKING !FGHANISTAN IF AL 1AE DA SOMEHOW MANAGES TO ACHIEVE THE ATTACK OUTLINED ABOVE !RE WE GOING TO SEND MILLIONS TO THEIR DOOM WHILST SIMULTANEOUSLY TURNING THE ENTIRE )S LAMIC AND WIDER !SIAN WORLD AGAINST US ) THINK THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS A RESOUNDING NO AND YET OUR LEADERS PERSIST IN THEIR QUEST TO UPHOLD THEIR MONOPOLY OF ULTIMATE VIOLENCE !ND SO WE COME FULL CIRCLE BACK TO THE POINT AT WHICH WE BEGAN "EFORE THE QUESTION HAS EVEN BEEN RAISED IN 0ARLIAMENT ALTHOUGH IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW THAT SINCE ,ABOUR HAS TAK

EN POWER THE ANNUAL REPORT TO PARLIA MENT ON THE STATE OF AFFAIRS VIS Ì VIS OUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAS MYSTERIOUSLY DIS APPEARED 4HIS REPORT WAS SOMETHING EVEN -AGGIE 4HATCHER S 4ORIES DID NOT SEE lT TO WITHHOLD FROM THE BODY TO WHICH WE ALL ELECT A REPRESENTATIVE WE HAVE STARTED THE RE DEVELOPMENT PROC ESS VIA THE BACKDOOR 4HE CURRENT "RIT ISH NUCLEAR FACILITY AT !LDERMASTON IN "ERKSHIRE HAS RECENTLY BEEN APPROVED a MILLION TO DEVELOP A LASER DEVICE CAPABLE OF SIMULATING A NUCLEAR EXPLO SION 4HIS MEANS WE DO NO HAVE TO TEST THE REPLACEMENT TO 4RIDENT WHICH WOULD BREACH THE #OMPREHENSIVE 4EST "AN 4REATY OF (OWEVER THE LA SER DEVICE WOULD MEAN WE COULD HONE THE NEW WEAPONS WITHOUT RESORTING TO DETONATING THEM !NOTHER BACKDOOR FUNDING INI TIATIVE INVOLVES THE &ASLANE BASE IN #LYDE 3COTLAND THE HOME OF "RITAIN S 6ANGUARD CLASS NUCLEAR SUBMARINES a MILLION HAS BEEN EARMARKED FOR IMPROVING THE BASE WITH THE ONLY EX PLANATION AS TO WHY BEING THE FACT THAT IN A FEW YEARS A NEW WEAPONS SYSTEM

AND THEREFORE NEW SUBMARINES WILL BE COMING %SSENTIALLY THE "RITISH GOVERNMENT

LIKE ITS 53 COUNTERPART WHO DEVIOUSLY PUSHES LEGISLATION REGARDING REPLACE MENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS THROUGH #ON GRESS BY GIVING IT EUPHEMISTIC NAMES SUCH AS hSTOCKPILE STEWARDSHIPv THE RENEWING OF lSSILE MATERIAL OR hPHYS ICS PACKAGEv A NUCLEAR BOMB IS GUILTY OF FAILING TO SCALE DOWN ITS NUCLEAR CA PABILITIES )N A WORLD WHERE THE THREAT OF FORCE IS JUSTIlCATION TO POSSESS AND USE THE ULTIMATE ACT OF VIOLENCE WE ARE DOOMED TO THE VICIOUS CIRCLE THAT CHAR ACTERISES ALL ARMS RACES AS HISTORY WILL TESTIFY 4HE END OF THE #OLD 7AR WAS A TIME WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD COULD EMBRACE FREEDOM AND TOLERANCE

BUT OUR LEADERS HAVE CONVENIENTLY FORGOTTEN THIS AND REMAIN TIED TO THE TRIED AND TESTED VISION OF THE WORLD THE REALIST ONE 4HIS THEORY AS ITS CRIT ICS WILL TELL YOU IS SELF AFlRMING )F YOU BELIEVE YOU WILL BE ATTACKED AND MAKE PROVISIONS TO PREVENT SUCH AN ATTACK

YOU IN FACT INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD THAT YOU WILL BE ATTACKED 3ADLY WE ARE NOT HEEDING THIS MESSAGE

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5%! BEATS /XFORD AT -OOTING $AISY "OWIE 3ELL 4HE 5%! ,AW 3CHOOL -OOT ING TEAM BEAT #HRISTCH URCH #OLLEGE /XFORD IN A FANTASTIC WIN LAST WEEK

MOVING THEM A STEP CLOSER TO THE lNALS OF THE ANNUAL /XFORD 5NIVERSITY 0RESS -OOTING COMPETITION ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS -OOTING COMPETITIONS IN THE 5+ -OOTING IS AN AGE OLD PRACTISE OF FORMAL BARRISTER STYLE DEBATING WHERE EACH TEAM MUST PRESENT AN ARGU MENT EITHER FOR OR AGAINST

IN REFERENCE TO THE LAWS SUR ROUNDING A SPECIlC QUES TION /N &RIDAY TH &EBRU ARY THE 5%! -OOTING TEAM

CONSISTING OF #HRIS $YKE THE 5%! ,AW 3OC 0RESIDENT IN

AND #HRIS ,AST THE 5%! ,AW 3CHOOL S -ASTER OF -OOTS TRAVELLED UP TO /X FORD TO BATTLE #HRISTCHURCH

#OLLEGE FOR A PLACE IN THE QUARTER lNALS OF THE -OOTS #HRISTCHURCH WHO ARE RE PUTED TO BE ONE OF THE BEST ,AW COLLEGES IN %NGLAND HAD PREVIOUSLY BEATEN 3T *OHNS COLLEGE /XFORD IN THEIR lRST ROUND OF -OOTING 4HE 5%! TEAM WON WITH mYING COLOURS WITH ALMOST POINTS MORE THAN THE LOSING TEAM -R $YKE WHO WAS THE 3ENIOR #OUNCIL WAS PRAISED FOR HIS ABILITY TO RE SPOND TO QUESTIONS BY THE JUDGE AND TO MOVE mUIDLY THROUGH HIS ARGUMENT WITH OUT BEING PHASED 4HE *UN IOR #OUNCIL -R ,AST HAD TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM OF SIMI LAR EVIDENCE AND SAID OF THE WIN h4HERE WAS OF COURSE A DEGREE OF APPREHENSION BUT BOTH OF US KEPT OUR COOL AND MAINTAINED OUR COMPOSURE AND CAME OUT ON TOP AS A RESULT v -OOTING IS AN ACTIVITY WHICH RELIES ON THE SKILLS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING CONSTRUCT ING A COHERENT AND RELEVANT ARGUMENT AND OF FEELING CON

3HADOW (IGHER %DUCATION -INISTER "ORIS *OHNSON

SPARKED A NATIONAL DEBATE WHEN HE REMARKED THAT SOME UNIVERSITY GRADUATES hCANNOT EVEN HAVE A SUSTAINED CON VERSATIONv (IS COMMENTS FOLLOWED A RECENT REPORT BY THE !SSO CIATION OF 'RADUATE 2ECRUIT ERS WHICH FOUND THAT MANY ORGANISATIONS BELIEVE GRADU ATES LACK THE BASIC SKILLS RE QUIRED FOR WORKING LIFE

0OLICE CALLED TO STUDENT DEMO

4HE 5%! TEAM ARE A STEP CLOSER TO THE -OOTING lNALS lDENT AND ARTICULATE ENOUGH TO BE COMFORTABLE WITH %NG LAND S LAWS SOME OF WHICH HAVE EXISTED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS -R $YKE SAID h"E FORE THE -OOT ) WAS CONl DENT ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF

'RAD 3TUDENTS !SSOCIATION %XECUTIVE NOMINATIONS OPEN TO POSTGRADUATES "ECKY 0INNER %LECTIONS FOR A NEW 'RADU ATE 3TUDENTS !SSOCIATION %XECUTIVE WILL TAKE PLACE ON 4HURSDAY RD -ARCH !LL CURRENT POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE TO STAND FOR ELECTION TO THE POSTS OF 0RESIDENT 4REASURER 3EC RETARY

#OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER %VENTS /FlCER AND #OMMITTEES 2EPRESENTATIVE 2OLE PROlLES AND NOMINA TION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE FROM HTTP WWW UEA AC UK MENU GRAD?STUDENTS 4HE DEADLINE FOR NOMI NATIONS IS PM ON 4HURSDAY -ARCH AND VOTING WILL TAKE PLACE ON 4HURSDAY -ARCH CHECK THE WEBSITE NEARER THE TIME FOR FURTHER DETAILS 3UC CESSFUL CANDIDATES WILL TAKE UP THEIR POSTS ON !PRIL 4HE %XECUTIVE #OM MITTEE MEETS EACH MONTH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MATTERS AS DIVERSE AS REPRESENTING POST GRAD INTERESTS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL 5NIVERSITY COMMITTEES

TO DECIDING THE PRICE OF PEA NUTS IN THE 'RAD "AR 'ET TING INVOLVED WITH THE ' 3 !

'RAD "AR PROlTS HELP FUND '3! ACTIVITIES MEANS YOU REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO 5NIVERSITY POLICY AND HOW THIS AFFECTS THE ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL EX PERIENCE OF THE WHOLE POST GRADUATE COMMUNITY )F YOU RE UNSURE WHETHER STANDING ON THE ' 3 ! %XEC IS FOR YOU BUT WOULD STILL LIKE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

THEN THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED 0OSTGRADUATE STUDENTS SIT ON VARIOUS COM

'RADUATES LACK BASIC SKILLS

MITTEES WITHIN 3CHOOLS OF STUDY AND ANY POST GRAD IS ELIGIBLE TO BE CONSIDERED AS A POSTGRADUATE MEMBER OF A 5NIVERSITY #OMMITTEE /R MAYBE YOU JUST HAVE SOME IDEAS ABOUT HOW YOUR POST GRAD EXPERIENCE COULD BE IMPROVED n ANY SUGGES TIONS FOR EVENTS ANY QUERIES OR COMPLAINTS CAN BE AD DRESSED TO US AT GSA UEA AC UK

OUR ARGUMENT AND WE WERE WELL PREPARED FOR INTERVEN TIONS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE JUDGE !FTER WE HAD PRE SENTED OUR CASE ) FELT THAT WE HAD PERFORMED TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY v

4HIS IS AN ENCOURAGING WIN FOR THE 5%! -OOTING TEAM WHO DON T YET KNOW WHO THEIR NEXT ADVERSARIES WILL BE 4HE TEAM HOPE THEY CAN BRING OUT THEIR IMPRES SIVE SKILLS AGAIN NEXT MONTH

0OLICE WERE CALLED TO A DEMONSTRATION AT 3WANSEA 5NIVERSITY AFTER STUDENTS MARCHED INTO THE OFlCES OF THE 6ICE #HANCELLOR AND CALLED FOR HIS RESIGNATION 4HE STUDENTS WERE PRO TESTING AGAINST CHANGES TO THE UNIVERSITY S NATURAL SCIENCES LIBRARY WHICH THEY CLAIMED WOULD AFFECT ACCESS TO WORK STATIONS AND TEXT BOOKS .O ARRESTS WERE MADE

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-AKE &AIRTRADE YOUR HABIT !S &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT APPROACHES 2EBECCA 2UTT ARGUES THAT WE ARE NO CLOSER TO MAKING POVERTY HISTORY 0ERHAPS THE ANSWER IS NOT TO BE FOUND AT A WORLDWIDE ROCK CONCERT BUT IN A WORLDWIDE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION SUGGESTS %LIZABETH (UDSON

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O YOU KNOW WHAT WILL BE HAPPEN ING BETWEEN THE TH AND TH OF -ARCH THIS YEAR 4HE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY UNA WARE THAT THIS IS &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT

WHERE THE &AIRTRADE /RGANISATION PRO MOTES ITS PRODUCTS TO THE POPULATION

PERSUADING PEOPLE TO PAY A LITTLE MORE TO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE 4HE &AIRTRADE /RGANISATION HAS EXISTED FOR AROUND YEARS NOW AND &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS ARE WIDELY AVAILABLE -OST SUPERMAR KETS STOCK A WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS AND EVEN OUR LOCAL 5&/ HAS A BIG SE LECTION FOR YOU TO CHOOSE FROM !LTHOUGH MOST PEOPLE MAY HAVE SEEN OR OCCASIONALLY BOUGHT &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS NOT MANY OF US KNOW WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS ARE BOUGHT DIRECTLY FROM THE PRODUCER

MAKING SURE THAT THEY RECEIVE A FAIR DEAL IN THE PROCESS 4HE PRODUCER ALSO RECEIVES A PREMIUM WHICH IS THEN IN VESTED IN COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN THAT PARTICULAR COUNTRY &AIRTRADE CURRENTLY HELPS OVER MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE FORCED TO LIVE IN POVERTY -ANY SMALL FARMERS AROUND THE WORLD ARE STILL LIVING A LIFE IN DEBT BE CAUSE THEIR ONLY OPTION IS TO SELL THEIR PRODUCTS TO BIG BUSINESSES LIKE .ES TLE AND RECEIVE LITTLE IF ANY MONEY IN RETURN &AIRTRADE GIVES THE FARMER THE CHANCE TO SELL HIS PRODUCTS AT A FAIR

MARKET ORIENTED PRICE AND THEREFORE RECEIVE PROlT FOR THEM 4OO MANY FARM ERS IN THE THIRD WORLD HAVE TO DEAL WITH

mUCTUATING PRODUCT COSTS OFTEN LOSING THEIR BUSINESSES AND THEIR HOMES IN THE PROCESS 4HERE ARE CURRENTLY CERTIlED PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS REPRESENTING ALMOST lRST LEVEL PRODUCER STRUC TURES AND OVER FAMILIES OF FARMERS AND WORKERS ESTIMATED AS BE ING MILLION PEOPLE COMING FROM OVER COUNTRIES IN !FRICA !SIA AND ,ATIN !MERICA 4HROUGH THE &AIRTRADE CHARITY THESE PEOPLE ARE GIVEN A CHANCE TO CREATE AND MAKE A SUCCESS OUT OF THEIR OWN BUSINESS &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS ARE AVAILABLE PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE AND THERE IS A HUGE VARIETY OF PRODUCTS INCLUDING

CHOCOLATE FRUIT COFFEE SUGAR AND EVEN WINE AND BEER 4HESE PRODUCTS ARE

HOWEVER MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE USU AL AND IT IS NOT EASY ESPECIALLY FOR STU DENTS TO BUY THEM WHEN THE PRICES ARE SO HIGH ! POT OF &AIRTRADE INSTANT COF FEE FOR EXAMPLE IS ON AVERAGE AROUND a FOR EVERY G COMPARED WITH .ESCAFÏ S a 4HROUGH MORE PEOPLE KNOWING ABOUT &AIRTRADE IT IS HOPED THAT IT WILL BECOME MORE POPULAR AND PEOPLE WILL START BUYING THESE PRODUCTS REGULARLY BRINGING THE PRICES DOWN -OST BUSINESSES LIKE .ESTLÏ GIVE THE THIRD WORLD FARMER VERY LITTLE MONEY IN RETURN FORCING THEM TO LIVE IN POVERTY WITHOUT A HINT OF GUILT #AN WE REALLY JUSTIFY PAYING P LESS KNOWING THAT

BY SPENDING A LITTLE MORE A LIFE COULD BE SAVED )N THIS MODERN AGE &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS ARE A VERY POSITIVE STEP TO WARDS BREAKING THE POVERTY LINE OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES )T IS A VERY BENElCIAL ORGANISATION THAT PROVIDES AN EASY WAY FOR US ALL TO HELP OUR NEIGHBOURS AROUND THE WORLD "Y PAYING A LITTLE EX TRA AND BY MAKING A COMMITMENT TO

BUYING MORE &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS YOU ARE DIRECTLY HELPING SMALL BUSINESSES AROUND THE WORLD WHO NEED YOUR HELP -ULTI MILLION POUND PROlT MAKING INDUSTRIES DO NOT NEED OUR EXTRA PEN

EYES OF THE PEOPLE THERE IS THE FAILURE AND IN THE EYES OF THE HUNGRY THERE IS A GROWING WRATH v 4HE 'RAPES OF 7RATH BY *OHN 3TEINBECK *OHN 3TEINBECK WROTE THOSE WORDS

-ANY SMALL FARMERS AROUND THE WORLD ARE STILL LIVING A LIFE IN DEBT BECAUSE THEIR ONLY OPTION IS TO SELL THEIR PRODUCTS TO BIG BUSINESSES LIKE .ESTLÏ FOR LITTLE MONEY IN RETURN NIES BUT &AIRTRADE DOES SO NEXT TIME YOU ARE ON YOUR WEEKLY SHOP OR PICK ING UP THAT DAILY CHOCOLATE BAR DIG A LITTLE DEEPER IN YOUR POCKET AND REACH FOR &AIRTRADE )T IS A GUARANTEED SAFE INVESTMENT THAT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL ON TOP OF THE WORLD KNOWING THAT YOU ARE DIRECTLY HELPING TO END POVERTY

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URN COFFEE FOR FUEL IN THE SHIPS "URN CORN TO KEEP WARM IT MAKES A HOT lRE $UMP POTATOES IN THE RIVERx SLAUGHTER THE PIGS AND BURY THEM AND LET THE PUTRES CENCE DRIP DOWN INTO THE EARTH 4HERE IS A CRIME HERE THAT GOES BEYOND DE NUNCIATION 4HERE IS A SORROW HERE THAT WEEPING CANNOT SYMBOLIZE 4HERE IS A FAILURE HERE THAT TOPPLES ALL OUR SUC CESSES 4HE FERTILE EARTH THE STRAIGHT TREE ROWS THE STURDY TRUNKS AND THE RIPE FRUIT !ND CHILDREN DYING OF PEL LAGRA MUST DIE BECAUSE A PROlT CANNOT BE TAKEN FROM AN ORANGEx AND IN THE

OVER YEARS AGO AND YET IT FEELS POIGNANT THAT THEY REMAIN RELEVANT TODAY )T IS SHOCKING THAT OVER YEARS AGO CHILDREN IN A SO CALLED CIVILISED WESTERN SUPERPOWER COULD DIE OF MAL NUTRITION AMIDST THE BOUNTY OF THE #ALIFORNIAN HARVEST 4ODAY MIL LION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE ARE OFlCIALLY CLASSIlED AS MALNOURISHED AND LACK MONEY TO BUY FOOD DESPITE GLOBAL SUR PLUS )N THE TEN RICHEST PEOPLE ON EARTH OWNED A COMBINED WEALTH OF BILLION BILLION PEOPLE NEARLY HALF THE WORLD S POPULATION LIVE ON LESS THAN A DAY )NEQUALITY IS AN IS SUE WE OFTEN RELEGATE TO THE PAST IN A SOCIETY FOUNDED ON POLICIES OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY YET IT IS EASY TO FORGET THAT POLICY AND PRACTICE ARE WIDELY DIVIDED )NTERNATIONAL ,AW IS A PHRASE THAT GETS TOSSED AROUND CASUALLY BUT WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN #AN IT ACTUALLY EXIST IN A WORLD IN WHICH THE POWER OF ONE COUNTRY GREATLY EXCEEDS THAT

OF ANOTHER #AN IT EXIST IF THERE IS NO COMEUPPANCE FOR THOSE WHO BREAK IT 7HEN WAR BROKE OUT IN )RAQ IT WAS AGAINST THE WILL OF THE 5.

YET THEY WERE POWERLESS TO STOP IT 4HE FUNCTIONING OF THE 5. IS IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY IF GLOBAL POLITICS ARE USED AND ABUSED BY NATION STATES )NTERNA TIONALISM OR TREATING THE WORLD AS A COLLECTION OF DIFFERENT NATIONS MEANS THAT DEMOCRACY CANNOT HAPPEN FOR AS LONG AS ONE NATION IS MORE SELF INTER ESTED AND POWERFUL THAN ANOTHER !NARCHY IS ALWAYS AN ATTRACTIVE ALTERNATIVE TO THESE GLOBAL DISCREPAN CIES 4HERE IS NO IMPLEMENTATION OF UNJUST HIERARCHY OF NATIONS NO STATES

AND PEOPLE DO NOT TELL EACH OTHER WHAT TO DO 3ORTED (OWEVER LIKE MOST UTOPIAN DISCOURSE THE VERY NA TURE OF HUMANITY HAS BEEN CHANGED TO lT THE MODEL (OMO SAPIENS ARE NATU RALLY VIOLENT AND THE STRONG ARE NATU RALLY INCLINED TO DOMINATE THE WEAK !BSOLUTE FREEDOM IS THE FREEDOM TO

TOWARDS DEMOCRACY )T TAKES INTO AC COUNT lRSTLY THAT OPPOSITION TO THE EXISTING WORLD ORDER IS INSUFlCIENT AND AS A CONSEQUENCE PROPOSED AL TERNATIVES WILL ONLY BE EFFECTIVE IF THEY ARE GLOBAL IN SCALE 3ECONDLY IT UN DERSTANDS THAT IT IS ONLY THROUGH AC CEPTING OTHER PEOPLE AS FELLOW HOMO SAPIENS AS OPPOSED TO SUCCUMBING TO NATIONAL BORDERS THAT DIVIDE US AND INCULCATE US WITH A lERCE ATTACHMENT TO OUR NATIONAL ENTITY THAT THE ALTER NATIVES CAN HAVE AN EFFECT !S 'UARDI AN COLUMNIST 'EORGE -ONBIOT WRITES h7E NEED TO REALISE THE IRRATIONALITY OF THE LOYALTIES WHICH SET US APART v 3IM PLY WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER 4HE 'LOBAL *USTICE -OVEMENT IS ANXIOUS TO REMIND THE WORLD THAT THE EARTH HAS THE TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUC TIVE RESOURCES TO ELIMINATE MISERY

POVERTY AND INJUSTICE AND SAVE THE PLANET AND SO THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THESE TRAVESTIES TO TAKE PLACE (OW EVER UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF

4HE POORER COUNTRIES PAY THE RICHER COUNTRIES MILLION EVERY DAY IN REPAYMENTS AND CAN T AFFORD HEALTH CARE FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE OPPRESS $EMOCRACY CAN BE DIFlCULT AND CONTAIN POTENTIAL PIT FALLS BUT IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO ENSURE THAT SOME ONE GUARDS THOSE GUARDS !S A SOLU TION TO WORLDWIDE INEQUALITIES IT HAS TO BE GLOBAL IN SCALE 4HE 'LOBAL *USTICE -OVEMENT IS BASED AROUND THE WORLD S PROGRESS

GOVERNMENT THIS SEEMS UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN &OR EXAMPLE ,IVE CAPTURED A PHENOMENAL AUDIENCE WORLDWIDE

BUT THE RELATIVELY INDIFFERENT RESPONSE FOLLOWING THE GIGS LEAVES ONE QUES TIONING THE POTENTIAL OF EVEN ,IVE TO GENERATE CHANGE IN THE CURRENT WORLD ORDER

-ARX SAID THAT RELIGION WAS THE OPIUM OF THE MASSES BUT THE OPIATE OF TODAY S PEOPLE WOULD SEEM TO BE RELATIVELY INSIGNIlCANT ACTS OF CHARITY )N THE WESTERN WORLD IT IS VERY EASY TO SINK INTO APATHY ,IFE IS GOOD HERE

AND WE ARE BLINDED BY OVER USE OF lGURES AND THE SAME PICTURES IN THE NEWSPAPER 7HO CAN IMAGINE BIL LION PEOPLE 7HO CAN CONTEMPLATE WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS SOMEWHERE TO HAVE SIMPLY SURVIVED ONE DAY 4HE SUCCESS OF A GLOBAL DEMO CRATIC REVOLUTION DEPENDS ON MASS MOBILIZATION AND POLITICAL WILL -ON BIOT WRITES THAT hIT IS THE ONLY STRATEGY WHICH COULD DELIVER US FROM THE GLO BAL DICTATORSHIP OF VESTED INTERESTS v 3O WHAT DOES GLOBAL DEMOCRACY ACTUALLY CONSIST OF !ND HOW CAN ONE BE A PART OF IT &OR '*- THERE ARE lVE AREAS OR h*USTICESv WHICH IF ACTED UPON WILL BRING ABOUT GLOBAL DEMOC RACY 4HESE hJUSTICESv ARE AS FOLLOWS MONETARY SOCIAL ECONOMIC ENVIRON MENTAL AND PEACE 4HEY AIM TO AD DRESS POVERTY AND RICH POOR DIVISIONS AND TO FOCUS ON THE REAL PRODUCTIVE

ECONOMY 4HEY INTEND TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT GENERATING ENOUGH SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES FOR ALL &URTHER MORE THESE JUSTICES WILL ENABLE INDI VIDUALS AND SOCIETIES TO CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY INTELLECTUALLY SPIRITUALLY AND lNANCIALLY &INALLY THEY UNDER TAKE TO END THE EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN DEBT NOW THREATENING TO ENGULF THE WORLD #URRENTLY THE POORER COUNTRIES ARE PAYING THE RICHER COUNTRIES MIL LION EVERY DAY IN DEBT REPAYMENT AND CONSEQUENTLY CANNOT AFFORD HEALTH CARE FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE 4HE 'LOBAL *USTICE -OVEMENT WILL NOT ONLY END

THIS DEBT BUT ALSO CREATE AN )NTERNA TIONAL #LEARING 5NION RESPONSIBLE FOR PREVENTING DEBT EVER SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL IN THIS WAY AGAIN 4HE '*- WILL ALSO ESTABLISH A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED WORLD PARLIAMENT DEMOC RATISE THE 5. GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CREATE A GLOBAL &AIRTRADE ORGANIZATION 4HE QUESTION STILL REMAINS HOW CAN YOU BE INVOLVED IN THIS GLITTERING VI SION OF A NEW WORLD ORDER 4HE '*- SUPPORTS MANY CAM PAIGNS AMONG WHICH IS -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY )T FURTHER INCLUDES CAMPAIGNS TO DROP THE DEBT FOLLOWING THE FAIL URE OF ' LAST SUMMER TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE WWW CAFOD ORG UK DEBT )T FOLLOWS ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNS INCLUD ING SCHEMES TO PREVENT ILLNESS CAUSED

BY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION 3EE WWW ELC ORG UK AND WWW CORPO RATEWATCH ORG UK FOR MORE INFORMA TION /R FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISINVESTMENT CAMPAIGN TO STOP FUNDING TO ENVIRONMENTALLY HARM FUL PROJECTS STOP CONDITIONAL LENDING STRATEGIES AND END DEBT GO TO WWW WORLDBANKBOYCOTT ORG &OR ANY MORE DETAILS ON THE 'LOBAL *USTICE -OVE MENT VISIT WWW GLOBALJUSTICEMOVE MENT NET /UR EXTRAVAGANT LIFESTYLES COME AT THE EXPENSE OF BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO SUFFER EVERYDAY JUST TO BE ABLE TO FEED THEIR CHILDREN ONE MEAL (OW MANY OF US COULD IMAGINE EATING ONLY A HANDFUL OF RICE IN A DAY 7E OWE IT TO THESE PEOPLE AND TO OURSELVES TO STOP THE ABUSE OF THIS PLANET BY POWERFUL PEOPLE WHO NEITHER KNOW NOR CARE HOW THEIR EXCESSIVE SELlSHNESS RAV AGES THE WORLD )T IS ABOUT TIME THEY FOUND OUT

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)RANIAN URANIUM IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD 0RIYA 3HAH EXPLAINS HOW THE 7EST S HUBRISTIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS )RAN PRESAGES THE FUTURE AS ONLY A DIPLOMATIC APPROACH CAN SOLVE THE CURRENT STALEMATE

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RAN OR 4HE )SLAMIC 2E PUBLIC /F )RAN AS IT IS FULLY KNOWN STANDS TALL IN THE WAKE OF THE RECENT hGLOBALv CRISIS AND THE MEDIA INFATU ATION WITH THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAMME 3USPICION SUR ROUNDS THE COUNTRY AND AS A RESULT IT HAS NOW BEEN REPORTED TO THE 5NITED .ATIONS 3ECURITY #OUNCIL BY 7ESTERN POWERS )RAN HAS BEEN OF MUCH GEOPOLITICAL IMPORTANCE IN OUR GLOBAL WORLD AND IS FACING THE ULTI MATE OF TESTS IN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN ITSELF AND THE 7ESTERN WORLD )S THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS REALLY UPON US PARTICULARLY IN LIEU OF THE RECENT CARTOON CONTROVERSY )S THIS PROBLEM JUST OPENING 0ANDORA S "OX 4IME WILL ONLY TELL BUT IF WE HAVE LEARNED

PERSISTENCE IN DEVELOPING NUCLEAR EN ERGY )T IS KNOWN FOR HOLDING THE THIRD BIGGEST OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD APART FROM THOSE OF 3AUDI !RABIA AND )RAQ

AND THE LARGEST GAS RESERVES AFTER THE FORMER 3OVIET 5NION 7ESTERN POWERS HAVE MANAGED TO PERSUADE BOTH 2USSIA AND #HINA TO COMMIT THEMSELVES TO STALLING )RAN S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME BUT THEIR CRUSADE TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON )RAN IS QUES TIONABLE "OTH THESE COUNTRIES APPEAR UNEASY ABOUT THEIR INVOLVEMENT AND BOTH HAVE VESTED INTERESTS IN THE COM MERCIAL FRAMEWORK OF )RANIAN DEVEL OPMENT 2USSIA IS SET ON COMPLETING THE NUCLEAR REACTOR "USHEHR WHICH THE 'ERMANS STARTED UNDER THE 3HAH OF )RAN BACK IN THE S 4HIS AGREE MENT BETWEEN THE 2USSIANS AND )RANI

"USH SEEMS TO BELIEVE THE 5NITED 3TATES CAN HAVE AS MANY WEAPONS AS IT LIKES BUT OTHER COUNTRIES CANNOT BE TRUSTED ANYTHING HISTORICALLY FROM THE #OLD 7AR n NAMELY THE #UBAN -ISSILE #RI SIS n THEN THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL WITH THIS PREDICAMENT IS DIPLOMATICALLY .EVERTHELESS WE SHOULD REALLY LOOK AT WHY )RAN FEELS IT NEEDS CIVILIAN NUCLEAR POWER AND WHY THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY IS SO IDEOLOGICALLY OPPOSED TO IT &IRSTLY THE )SLAMIC 2EPUBLIC HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DEVELOP ITS NUCLEAR PRO GRAMME ALONG WITH OTHER PARTICIPANTS OF THE .ON 0ROLIFERATION 4REATY WHICH WAS SIGNED IN !LL THESE MEMBER STATES CAN PEACEFULLY ADVANCE THEIR RE SEARCH BUT )RAN ALONG WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS WHO SIGNED THE TREATY

HAS REJECTED THE PURSUIT OF ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMME (OWEVER THE )NTERNATIONAL !TOMIC %NERGY !GENCY )!%! IS INVESTIGATING )RAN FOR ITS

ANS IS BASED ON THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENTS OF AND ALTHOUGH THE 5NITED 3TATES HAS PROVIDED 2US SIA WITH CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF AN )RANIAN NUCLEAR WEAP ONS PROGRAMME 2USSIA SEEM ADAMANT ABOUT THEIR COMPLETION OF "USHEHR 0ERHAPS THE 5NITED 3TATES FEELS SUS PICIOUS OF THAT FACT THAT )RAN S INVOLVE MENT WITH "USHEHR CAN ONLY ADVANCE THEIR NUCLEAR KNOWLEDGE AND THUS SUPPLEMENT ANY EXISTING KNOWLEDGE THEY MAY HAVE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS )T IS NOT TRUE TO CLAIM THAT THEY KNOW NOTHING AS RECENT EVIDENCE FROM #)!

SOURCES HAS REVEALED THEY ACTUALLY GAVE THE )RANIANS BLUEPRINTS FOR A NUCLEAR BOMB THAT HAD BEEN TAMPERED WITH 4HE HOPE WAS THAT )RAN WOULD DEVELOP THE WEAPONS WRONGLY THROWING THEM

ABOUT TWENTY YEARS OFF THE SCENT SO TO SPEAK #HINA ALSO SIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH )RAN IN WHICH ESSENTIALLY ENABLED THEM TO BUY LIQUID NITROGEN GAS OVER YEARS IN A DEAL WORTH AP PROXIMATELY BILLION DOLLARS )RAN MAINTAINS THAT IT IS DEVELOPING NUCLEAR POWER FOR CIVILIAN USE AND HAS THREAT ENED TO ABANDON THE .ON 0ROLIFERA TION 4REATY AS A REACTION TO 7ESTERN ANTAGONISM OVER THIS DISPUTE JUST AS .ORTH +OREA DID THREE YEARS AGO AFTER THE 5NITED 3TATES ACCUSED IT OF HAV ING A NUCLEAR PROGRAMME BASED ON ENRICHED URANIUM 4HE LIKELIHOOD OF )RAN S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE 4REATY HAS INCREASED AND IT WOULD NOT BE THE lRST OR INDEED THE LAST TIME SUCH ACTION HAS HAPPENED )F THE COUNTRY IN QUESTION WAS NOT )RAN WOULD WE STILL BE SEEING THIS DIS PUTE SPIRAL INTO AN ABYSS OF LOATHING AND CONTEMPT )N GENERAL TERMS THE 5NITED 3TATES HAS SUSPECTED )RAN FOR MANY YEARS AND EVER SINCE "USH NAMED IT AS PART OF hAN AXIS OF EVILv IN

THE SITUATION HAS ESCALATED #ONCERNS FOR !MERICA S SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY ARE BEING DRIVEN BY 'EORGE 7 "USH AS A CONCERN FOR THE GLOBAL COM MUNITY 4HE IDEOLOGICAL OPPOSITION OF THE 7ESTERN AND -USLIM WORLDS WAS SUFlCIENTLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGH THE RE CENT CARTOON CONTROVERSY ,ET ME ASK YOU THIS IF #ANADA SUD DENLY WANTED A NUCLEAR BOMB FOR PRO TECTION FROM A NUCLEAR THREAT DO YOU THINK THE 5NITED 3TATES WOULD BE SO WORRIED ABOUT IT )N A WORD NO 4HE 7EST JUST CANNOT SEEM TO GIVE )RAN THE BENElT OF THE DOUBT &URTHERMORE

"USH SEEMS TO BELIEVE HE CAN BE SANC TIMONIOUS IN ADVOCATING THAT THE 5NIT ED 3TATES CAN HAVE AS MANY WEAPONS AS THEY LIKE BUT OTHER @SELECTED COUN TRIES DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE TRUSTED WITH SUCH ADVANCED WEAPONRY 4HIS ONLY GOES TO SHOW THAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FROM THE )RAQ WAR

ESPECIALLY GIVEN $ONALD 2UMSlELD S

STATEMENT THAT THE 53 HASN T RULED OUT AIR STRIKES AS A POSSIBLE FUTURE SCENARIO !NY ACTION TAKEN WILL ONLY DELAY THE )RANIANS IN MAKING WEAPONS BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT BY THEY COULD FEASIBLY HAVE THEM ALONG WITH MANY OTHER NATION STATES /N A GLOBAL SCALE 0RESIDENT -AH MOUD !HMADINEJAD IS ABSOLUTELY COR RECT WHEN HE SAYS hYOU NEED US MORE THAN WE NEED YOUv )NDEED IF OIL PRICES DO GO THROUGH THE ROOF THAT IS ENOUGH TO CAUSE NUCLEAR SCALE DAMAGE IN ITSELF 4HE QUESTION HAS TO BE ASKED IS THE 7EST PREPARED TO GO DOWN THIS ROUTE )RAN IS IN A STRONG POSITION AND IS HOLD ING THE ACE .O ONE CAN DETER IT FROM BEING A NUCLEAR POWER IN THE FUTURE ALONGSIDE )NDIA 0AKISTAN AND )SRAEL ABOUT WHOM THE )RANIAN LEADER HAS MADE HIS FEELINGS CLEAR 3O THE BASIC FACTS OF THE MATTER AP PEAR WELL DOCUMENTED BUT WHAT OF THE FUTURE ,ET US ASSUME FOR A MOMENT

THAT )RAN HAS PURELY PEACEFUL INTEN TIONS FOR NUCLEAR POWER !FTER ALL IT IS A DEVELOPING COUNTRY WITH A PROUD HISTORY OF CULTURAL ENLIGHTENMENT AND ITS PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO ELECTRICITY AND AN INFRASTRUCTURE COMMENSURATE WITH )RAN S HUGE OIL RESERVES (OWEVER WITH THE 7EST AND #HINA BUYING EVERY NATU RAL RESOURCE UNDER THE SUN IT IS APPAR ENT THAT )RAN NEEDS SOME OTHER SOURCE OF POWER NAMELY NUCLEAR 4HEREFORE

IT SEEMS THAT BY TREATING )RAN AS A BEL LIGERENT THE 7EST WILL ACTUALLY FORCE IT INTO DEVELOPING WEAPONRY FROM THEIR NEW FOUND ATOMIC TECHNOLOGY "Y PRESSURISING )RAN AS IT DID TO .ORTH +OREA SEVERAL YEARS AGO THE 7EST IN FACT FORCES THE COUNTRY IN QUESTION TO BECOME EVEN MORE WORRIED OVER ITS SE CURITY THAN IT WAS PREVIOUSLY )F THE IN VASION OF )RAQ TAUGHT US ONE THING IT IS THAT A STATE WITH NO 7-$ CAPABILITIES IS MORE LIKELY TO BE INVADED THAN ONE WITH SUCH AN ABILITY )RAN IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PROPOSITION TO )RAQ AND WE WOULD DO WELL TO KEEP THIS KNOWLEDGE IN MIND IN THE FUTURE

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2ESTAURANT 2EVIEW #AFÏ

3T 'ILES 3TREET .ORWICH .ORFOLK

! BRIGHTER MORNING AFTER *OANNA ,AMBERT TAKES A LOOK AT SIMPLE HANGOVER CURES

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F YOU MENTION THE WORD hHANGOVERv TO A STUDENT YOU CAN GUARANTEE THAT THEY WILL HAVE THE PERFECT WORKS WITHOUT FAIL METH OD OF AVOIDING THEM !ND EVEN THOUGH THIS IS TECH NICALLY THE FOOD SECTION

IT DOES INCLUDE DRINK TOO SO ) HAVE BOUGHT IT UPON MYSELF TO SPREAD SOME WISE WORDS ) COULD START RAMBLING ON ABOUT MILK THISTLE S AMAZING EFFECTS ON THE LIVER OR GIVE YOU THE PRAIRIE OYSTER RECIPE BUT INSTEAD ) WILL ATTEMPT ONLY TO MENTION CURES OR PREVENTIONS THAT WILL NOT REQUIRE YOU POPPING TO THE HOUR GARAGE IN YOUR DRUNKEN STATE &IRST OF ALL LET US REWIND TO THE NIGHT ITSELF )F YOU WANT TO GIVE YOUR SELF A HEAD START THEN THERE ARE A FEW PREVENTATIVE METHODS TO TRY OUT /F COURSE THERE S ALSO NOT DRINKING AT ALL

WHICH COULD BE LESS HASSLE &IRSTLY MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOME THING TO EAT BEFORE YOU GO OUT FOOD SIGNIlCANTLY REDUCES THE ABSORPTION RATE OF ALCOHOL IN YOUR BODY 7HEN IT COMES TO THE ALCOHOL YOU CONSUME KNOW THAT IT DOES ACTUALLY MATTER WHAT YOU DRINK NOT JUST HOW

MUCH OF IT YOU KNOCK BACK 4HE LEV ELS OF CONGENERS IN DRINKS AFFECT HOW MUCH OF A HANGOVER THEY ARE LIKELY TO GIVE YOU 4HEY GIVE mAVOUR SMELL AND APPEARANCE TO ALCOHOL WHICH MEANS THAT CLEAR SPIRITS LIKE VODKA AND GIN ARE GENERALLY LOWER IN CONGENERS AND HANGOVER LIKELINESS THAN WHISKY AND RED WINE !NOTHER CONTRIBUTOR TO THE HANGO VER IS THE hFRESHNESSv OF THE ALCOHOL $RINKING BEER THAT S BEEN SITTING IN THE KITCHEN FOR A WEEK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH A READY MADE SUPPLY OF ACETALDEHYDE THE STUFF HANGOVERS ARE MADE OF SO YOU DON T HAVE TO WAIT FOR YOUR LIVER TO MAKE IT IN ORDER TO HAVE A REALLY GOOD HANGOVER )F YOU STILL MANAGE TO DRINK ONE OF EVERYTHING ) JUST TOLD YOU NOT TO DO NOT FEAR BECAUSE BEFORE YOU GO TO BED THERE IS STILL TIME TO TRY A VARIETY OF LAST MINUTE HANGOVER AVOIDANCE SCHEMES 4HE WELL PRACTICED AND FAVOURITE OF MANY IS TO DRINK WATER n AND A LOT OF IT TOO !LCOHOL CAUSES DEHYDRATION WHICH WILL IN TURN GIVE YOU A HEADACHE AND THAT DISGUSTING CARPET TONGUE FEEL ING -Y PERSONAL SAVIOUR IS ORANGE JUICE ) DIDN T REALISE THAT THERE WAS A

2ECIPE "ANANA SQUARES &OLLOW THIS RECIPE TO CREATE DELICIOUS CRUMBLY BANANA TREATS 4HE RECIPE ALSO USES &AIRTRADE INGREDIENTS TO MAKE THEM EXTRA SPECIAL -AKES SQUARES G &AIRTRADE SUGAR G MARGARINE G SELF RAISING mOUR G PORRIDGE OATS MEDIUM &AIRTRADE BANANAS

MASHED G SULTANAS #ASTER SUGAR

0REHEAT THE OVEN TO ª# -IX THE SUGAR AND MARGARINE TOGETHER AND CUT IN THE mOUR AND OATS TO MAKE A CRUM BLY MIXTURE 0UT HALF THIS MIXTURE INTO A BAKING TRAY AND PRESS DOWN LIGHTLY 4HEN SPREAD OVER THE BANANAS AND SPRINKLE THE SULTANAS ON TOP 3PRINKLE THE REST OF THE MIXTURE OVER THE BANANA AND SULTANA lLLING AND AGAIN PRESS DOWN LIGHTLY "AKE IT FOR TO MINUTES UNTIL GOLDEN 3PRINKLE CASTER SUGAR ON TOP AND

WHEN COOL CUT INTO SQUARES

SCIENTIlC EXPLANATION FOR WHY ) HADN T HAD A PROPER HANGOVER FOR MONTHS AND TRUST ME ) TESTED THE LIMITS UNTIL ) FORGOT ONCE AND GOT A TERRIBLE HANGO VER )T MAY NOT WORK FOR EVERYONE BUT ) HAVE CONVERTED A FEW FRIENDS WHO NOW SWEAR BY IT TOO 3CIENTISTS SAY THAT FRUCTOSE FOUND IN ORANGE JUICE CAN SPEED UP THE BODY S METABOLISM OF ALCOHOL BY ABOUT SO THE ALCOHOL WILL PASS THROUGH YOUR BODY MORE QUICKLY !ND HANGOVERS WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THE ALCO HOL IS OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM (ONEY IS MORE THAN FRUCTOSE SO A SPOONFUL IN A CUP OF HOT WATER SHOULD ALSO DO THE TRICK "ANANAS ALSO CONTAIN FRUCTOSE AND POTASSIUM TOO n WHICH IS ANOTHER THING THAT IS LOST THROUGH ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION 4HESE ARE ALSO HELPFUL IN THE MORNING BE CAUSE THE NATURAL ANTACID THEY CONTAIN HELPS WITH NAUSEA AND THEIR HIGH LEV ELS OF MAGNESIUM CAN HELP RELAX THE POUNDING BLOOD VESSELS THAT CAUSE THOSE BANGING HANGOVER HEADACHES )F ALL ELSE FAILS AND YOU VE GOT NO BANANAS HONEY OR ORANGE JUICE JUST SLEEP 4HIS SOLUTION IS NOT SO GOOD

HOWEVER IF YOU HAVE A AM SEMINAR IN THE MORNING

4HE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST IS WASTED ON THE CONTINENT ,IVING IN THE 5+ IT S EASY TO FEEL LEFT OUT OF THAT SWINGING CAFE CUL TURE THE REST OF %UROPE SEEMS TO REVEL IN 7E AS A NATION RARELY hBREAKFASTv 4HE ONLY PRECEDENT FOR DINING OUT IN THE !- IS Ì LA THE GREASY SPOON AND HARDLY THE CHIC TIME TO BE HAD SIPPING A RICH CAP PUCCINO ON A WARM 3UNDAY MORNING !NYTHING THAT WE MANAGE TO SCOFF BEFORE MIDDAY IS CHIEmY SEEN AS BONUS EATING

AND IS MADE AS UNEXCITING AS POSSIBLE

AS THOUGH EATING A HEARTY BREAKFAST WAS SOMEHOW A BIT GREEDY .OBODY SEEMS TO REALISE HOW GREY MORNINGS NEED THAT LIT TLE TOUCH OF LUXURY THAT COMES WITH THE CAFÏ BREAKFAST SO MUCH MORE THAN SUN KISSED CONTINENTAL MORNINGS 4HERE MAY BE PLENTY OF PLACES THAT YOU CAN GRAB AN EARLY COFFEE AND CROISSANT BUT THE EM PHASIS IS ALL WRONG 7HERE S THE LUXURY 4HE OWNERS OF #AFÏ SEEM ENTIRELY AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM IN THE 5+ 4HEIR BREAKFAST MENU IS ENTIRELY AWARE OF HOW UNIQUE IT IS .OT OVER PRICED NOT FULL OF BACON BAPS AND ALL WORTH TAKING YOUR TIME OVER 4HERE S THE USUAL CROISSANT AND COFFEE OPTION BUT ALL WITH A MORE RELAXED FEEL 9OU RE ENCOURAGED TO SPEND TIME ON YOUR WARM PASTRY GOODIE RATHER THAN HOOVER IT UP ASAP )N FACT ITS EASY TO lND THAT WHAT WAS PLANNED AS A QUICK BREAK FAST OFTEN DOESN T END UNTIL LUNCHTIME

AS ANY GOOD BREAKFAST SHOULD !LTHOUGH #AFÏ DOES SERVE FOOD ALL DAY AND OF FERS SOME OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE CAKES .ORWICH HAS TO OFFER IT IS THEIR BREAKFAST MENU THAT IS NOT TO BE MISSED /N TOP OF ITS CULINARY TREATS #AFÏ IS SIMPLY A TRANQUIL PLEASANT SPACE )T IS THE KIND OF PLACE THAT SELLS ELDERmOWER CORDIAL )T IS IN THE PRIME LOCATION FOR A STOP OFF BEFORE A DAY SPENT IN THE CITY CENTRE AND NEAR ENOUGH TO THE 'OLDEN 4RIANGLE TO MAKE IT WORTH SKIPPING THE WHEATIE PUFFS ONE MORNING TO CHECK IT OUT +ATE "RYANT

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH

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! SUNNY DAY OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE 4HERE IS A DAY TRIP TO SUIT EVERYONE IN .ORFOLK 3ARAH %DWARDES SAMPLES THE TRANQUILLITY OF THE "ROADS AND THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF 'REAT 9ARMOUTH SEASIDE

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OU MIGHT NOT KNOW IT FROM THE FREEZING COLD AND OCCASIONAL SNOW SHOWERS

BUT SPRING IS ON ITS WAY 3OON THE BIRDS WILL BE CHIRPING AND THERE WILL BE A LAMB GAMBOLLING IN EVERY lELD FROM HERE TO 3WAFFHAM 7HAT BETTER TIME TO EX PLORE THE MYRIAD MYSTERIES OF OUR lNE COUNTY THAN IN THE lRST mUSHES OF THE ANNUAL REBIRTH OF -OTHER .ATURE ,IVING ON CAMPUS OR WITHIN THE CONlNES OF THE 'OLDEN 4RIANGLE IT S EASY TO FORGET HOW MUCH THERE IS TO DO IN THE WIDER WORLD OF .ORFOLK n AND HOW ACCESSIBLE THE REGION IS EVEN IF THE ONLY MEANS OF TRANSPORT YOU OWN IS A TRUSTY PAIR OF #ONVERSE 3O ARM YOUR SELF WITH A ROAD MAP A BUNDLE OF TRAIN TIMETABLES AND A FOIL WRAPPED SELEC TION OF SANDWICHES AND SET OFF INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN .ORFOLK MIGHT FEEL PRETTY LAND LOCKED WHEN THE ONLY VISIBLE EXPANSES OF WATER ARE THE PUDDLES ON THE PAVE MENT BUT THE SEA IS ONLY A SHORT TRAIN RIDE AWAY FROM .ORWICH "EACH CAPI TAL OF THE AREA IS 'REAT 9ARMOUTH A TRADITIONAL SEASIDE TOWN WITH ENOUGH AMUSEMENT ARCADES TO BRIBE EVEN THE SKINTEST STUDENT OUT OF THEIR LAST PEN

NIES !ND IF THE GRAB HAND DOESN T GET YOU WHAT YOU WANT VISIT ONE OF THE DOZENS OF GIFT AND SOUVENIR SHOPS THAT LINE THE MAIN STREETS )F A BRISK WALK TAKES YOUR FANCY

THE SANDY 9ARMOUTH BEACH STRETCHES FOR OVER MILES DOWN THE COAST n ON YOUR WAY DON T FORGET TO VISIT #ALIFOR NIA A PRETTY TOWN THAT BEARS ABSOLUTELY NO RESEMBLANCE TO ITS !MERICAN NAME SAKE

9OU DON T HAVE TO BE A TWITCHER TO APPRECIATE THE .ORFOLK "ROADS 9ARMOUTH CAN GET RATHER CROWDED IN THE TOURIST SEASON SO FOR SOME WHERE SLIGHTLY LESS BUSTLING TRY A TRIP TO #ROMER 3ITUATED TO THE NORTH OF %AST !NGLIA #ROMER WAS ONCE A STOP OFF FOR 6ICTORIAN TRAVELLERS AND REMAINS A BUSY lSHING PORT TODAY 4HERE S A GOOD REASON WHY THE TOWN S EMBLEM IS THE CRAB n ITS SEAFOOD IS AMONGST THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY "E SURE TO SAMPLE THE LOCAL CATCH BEFORE YOU LEAVE &URTHER INLAND THERE S MORE WA

TER TO BE FOUND IN THE SHAPE OF THE .ORFOLK "ROADS !S "RITAIN S LARGEST PROTECTED WETLAND THE .ORFOLK AND 3UFFOLK "ROADS ARE TEEMING WITH PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE SOME OF WHICH IS RARE LY SEEN ELSEWHERE 4HERE ARE DOZENS OF .ATURE 2ESERVES ACROSS THE COUNTY ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR OF WHICH IS (ICK LING 4HE LARGEST OF THE .ORFOLK BROADS

(ICKLING IS HOME TO RARE "ROADLAND SPECIES INCLUDING THE SWALLOWTAIL BUT TERmY BUT EVEN THOSE WITHOUT A RUDI MENTARY KNOWLEDGE OF ECOLOGY WILL TAKE PLEASURE IN THE EXPANSIVE GREENERY OF THIS GENTLE COUNTRYSIDE 7HILE THE .ATIONAL 4RUST AND THE "ROADS !UTHORITY OFFER VALUABLE INFOR MATION CENTRES FOR A MORE STRUCTURED VISIT TO THE BROADS AN AIMLESS WANDER IS MORE THAN SUFlCIENT TO TAKE IN THEIR BEAUTY 9OU DON T HAVE TO BE A TWITCHER TO APPRECIATE THE ABUNDANCE OF FEATH ERED CREATURES AROUND THE WATER AND A GOOD PAIR OF BINOCULARS IS ESSENTIAL n EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO CHANCE OF IDEN TIFYING ANYTHING YOU CAN SEE THROUGH THEM 4HE .ATIONAL 4RUST ALSO HAS A HAND IN "LICKLING (ALL ONCE THE STATELY HOME OF 3IR 4HOMAS "OLEYN FATHER OF !NNE 4HIS OPULENT *ACOBEAN PROPERTY IS FAMOUS FOR ITS ORNATE CEILINGS AND COLLECTIONS OF PERIOD FURNITURE 4HERE ARE FREQUENT GUIDED TOURS OF THE HOUSE

ALTHOUGH THE GROUNDS ARE SO EXTENSIVE THAT A DAY COULD EASILY BE SPENT WITH OUT SETTING FOOT INDOORS "E WARNED THOUGH THE ADMISSION FEES n AS AT SO MANY OF THESE PLACES n ARE PRETTY STEEP %QUALLY SALUBRIOUS SURROUNDINGS CAN BE FOUND AT 3ANDRINGHAM THE 1UEEN S COUNTRY RETREAT IN THE HEART OF THE .ORFOLK COUNTRYSIDE 7HILE YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF (ER -AJESTY A NUMBER OF THE GROUND mOOR ROOMS ARE REGULARLY USED BY THE 2OYAL &AMILY 4HE ESTATE IS OPEN TO VISITORS THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS AND THERE IS ALSO A MUSEUM WITH COLLEC TIONS DATING BACK TO THE TIME OF +ING 'EORGE 6 )F THESE DAYS OUT SOUND A LITTLE TOO ERUDITE TRY THE $INOSAUR !DVEN TURE 0ARK AT 7ESTON 7HILE THEY CAN T PROMISE ANY REAL 4 2EX S THE !DVENTURE 0ARK OFFERS THE NEXT BEST THING LIFESIZE PLASTIC REPLICAS 4HERE S A $INOSAUR TRAIL A #LIMB A SAURUS AND A *URASSIC 0UTT COURSE WHERE YOU CAN HONE YOUR MINI GOLlNG SKILLS AMONGST THE TITANS OF THE PREHISTORIC ERA &AILING ALL OF THOSE WHY NOT HEAD TO %AST #OAST 1UADS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF .ORWICH FOR PAINTBALLING CLAY PI GEON SHOOTING AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRIVE QUAD BIKES ROUND DIRT TRACKS UN TIL IT S TIME TO GO HOME

"!#+0!#+%2 3 4)0 $ON T FORGET TO TAKE A PACKED LUNCH

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7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH #ONCRETE

3ATISFYING THE SWEET TOOTH )T STIMULATES SOME OF THE SAME BRAIN CHEMICALS AS %CSTASY AND ADDICTS CAN CRAVE IT ON A DAILY BASIS #LARE !ITCHISON EXPLORES THE FEEL GOOD EFFECTS OF CHOCOLATE

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C H O C O L A T E 7 O U L D N T YOU JUST EAT IT ALL DAY IF YOU COULD !DMITTEDLY IT S NOT EXACTLY KNOWN FOR BEING GOOD FOR YOU BUT IF IT S &AIRTRADE COULDN T WE JUST DO OUR BIT TO SAVE THE WORLD

BY EATING AS MUCH OF IT AS WE POSSI BLY CAN )T S CERTAINLY A NICE THOUGHT AS MOST OF US PARTICULARLY GIRLS CRAVE CHOCOLATE MOST OF THE TIME 3UGARY FOOD IS ADDICTIVE PARTICU LARLY TO THOSE OF US WHO HAVE A hSWEET TOOTHv AND THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE THAT WE CAN INHERIT A SWEET TOOTH FROM OUR PARENTS n SO WHEN YOU STUFF YOURSELF FULL OF "LACK &OREST 'ATEAU IT MAY GIVE YOU COMFORT THAT YOU HAVE SOMEONE TO BLAME 7HEN WE EAT SWEET FOOD IT RELEASES CHEMICALS CALLED ENDORPHINS INTO OUR BRAIN 4HESE CHEMICALS ARE CALLED THE hREWARDv OR hHAPPYv CHEMI CALS AND THEY MAKE US FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE JUST DONE 9OU GET THE SAME RELEASE OF ENDORPHINS WHEN YOU HAVE DONE EXERCISE AND ADDICTS GET THEM WHEN THEY HAVE INDULGED IN THEIR ADDICTION )N THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF THE !FRICAN

CHOCOLATE IN A WAY THAT THEY DO NOT CRAVE OTHER SWEET FOODS LIKE MARSHMAL LOWS AND lZZY COLA BOTTLES #HOCOLATE CONTAINS OTHER CHEMICALS THAT COMBINE TO MAKE US FEEL HAPPY WHEN WE EAT IT

AND TO WANT TO EAT MORE OF IT 4RYPTOPHAN IS AN AMINO ACID WHICH STIMULATES OUR BRAINS TO PRO DUCE A CHEMICAL CALLED SERATONIN 3ERA TONIN IS THE SAME CHEMICAL THAT MAKES US FEEL HAPPY AND ELATED WHEN WE FALL IN LOVE %CSTASY WORKS IN THE SAME WAY AS CHOCOLATE n BY INDUCING THE RELEASE OF SERATONIN IN THE BRAIN ALBEIT IN FAR LARGER AMOUNTS THAN A BAR OF 'REEN AND "LACKS EVER COULD !ND IF ACTING AS A NATURAL %CSTASY WASN T ENOUGH CHOC OLATE ALSO CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNTS OF PHENYLETHYLAMINE WHICH ALONG WITH THE CAFFEINE IN CHOCOLATE PRODUCES FEELINGS OF EXCITEMENT GIDDINESS AND ATTRACTION n THE SAME CHEMICAL WHICH IS RELEASED WHEN YOU HAVE AN ORGASM 4HERE IS ONE MORE ADDICTIVE CHEMI CAL IN CHOCOLATE CALLED ANADAMIDE

)N THE TH AND TH CENTURIES CHOCOLATE WAS USED AS MEDICINE 3AVANNAH THIS LOVE OF SWEET THINGS PROBABLY GAVE OUR ANCESTORS QUITE AN ADVANTAGE AS THEY COULD SEEK OUT HIGH ENERGY NON POISONOUS FOODS (OWEVER WHILST THE GENE FOR LIKING SEVEN SPOONS OF SUGAR IN OUR TEA WITH CHOCOLATE DIGESTIVES PROVIDED US WITH A SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO NOW IT IS JUST PROVIDING A SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE FOR DENTISTS "UT IT ISN T JUST THE SUGAR THAT MAKES CHOCOLATE ADDICTIVE 9OU DON T NEED ME TO TELL YOU THAT MOST PEOPLE CRAVE

4HIS CHEMICAL TARGETS THE SAME RECEP TORS IN OUR BRAIN AS 4(# THE ACTIVE

ADDICTIVE INGREDIENT IN CANNABIS !L THOUGH YOU WOULD NEED TO EAT SEVERAL KILOS OF CHOCOLATE TO GET THE SAME EF FECT AS YOU WOULD FROM SMOKING A JOINT AND ) AM NOT SUGGESTING YOU TRY IT

CHOCOLATE ALSO SLOWS DOWN THE BREAK DOWN OF NATURAL ANADAMIDE IN YOUR BRAIN INCREASING THE GENERAL LEVELS OF IT #URRENT SCIENTIlC STUDIES INTO ADDIC TION SHOW THAT ADDICTION HAPPENS AS YOU FORM AND REINFORCE UNUSUAL NEU ROTRANSMITTER PATHWAYS IN THE BRAIN %VERY TIME ADDICTS FEED THEIR ADDIC TION THEY REWIRE THEIR BRAIN TO BECOME MORE AND MORE ADDICTED AND THIS CAN HAPPEN WITH CHOCOLATE JUST AS WITH ANY OTHER DRUG OR HABIT 4HERE IS ANOTHER REASON WHY GIRLS CRAVE CHOCOLATE PARTICULARLY AROUND THE TIME OF THEIR PERIODS 7HEN WOM EN ARE MENSTRUATING THEY CAN LOSE TOO MUCH MAGNESIUM AND IT IS THOUGHT THAT THIS MAGNESIUM DElCIENCY IS WHAT

CAUSES PREMENSTRUAL TENSION #HOCO LATE PROVIDES QUITE A GOOD SOURCE OF MAGNESIUM SO EATING IT CAN RESTORE THAT BALANCE 3O BOYS NOT ONLY IS 0-4 SCIENTIlCALLY PROVEN BUT SO IS CHOCO LATE AS A CURE -OST CHOCOLATE IS PRETTY HIGH IN FAT AND LIKE ANY HIGH FAT FOOD IF YOU REALLY DID EAT IT ALL DAY EVERY DAY YOU WOULD BECOME OBESE AND PROBABLY DIE OF HEART DISEASE "UT AS YOUR MOTHER SAID hEVERYTHING IN MODERATIONv AND IN REASONABLE AMOUNTS IT MAY EVEN BE GOOD FOR YOU )N THE TH AND TH CEN TURIES IT WAS ACTUALLY USED AS MEDICINE

AND EVEN TODAY IT IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ARMY RATIONS 4HERE IS A TINY AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE THAT COCOA CAN ACTUALLY HELP TO PREVENT HEART DISEASE $ARK CHOCOLATE IS BETTER FOR YOU THAN MILK CHOCOLATE AND ALSO CONTAINS MORE OF THE HAPPY CHEMICALS )F YOU ONLY EAT A REASONABLE AMOUNT AND YOU ARE NOT SHOWING THE SIGNS OF ADDICTION ) SAY ENJOY IT n BUT KEEP IT &AIRTRADE

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH

35--%$ 50 MILLION .UMBER OF PEOPLE BENElTING FROM &AIR TRADE INCLUDING THE FAMILIES OF DEPEND ENTS .UMBER OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN mOOD RISK AREAS IN %NGLAND AND 7ALES ACCORDING TO THE %NVIRONMENT !GENCY

.UMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED FROM SMOKING EVERY YEAR

.UMBER OF CALORIES CONTAINED IN ONE SERVING OF !NTHONY 7ORRAL 4HOMPSON S RECIPE FOR 3NICKERS 0IE WHICH CONTAINS lVE 3NICKERS BARS AND HAS BEEN DECLARED THE MOST UNHEALTHY RECIPE EVER

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&REE mOWING WATER !NGLIAN 7ATER PROMISE NO LOCAL WATER SHORTAGES

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HOUGH PARTS OF THE COUNTRY HAVE RE MAINED IN DROUGHT SINCE THE SUMMER

%AST !NGLIANS WERE ASSURED LAST WEEK THAT THEY WOULD NOT FACE WATER SHORTAGES OR RESTRICTIONS DESPITE BEING ONE OF THE NATURALLY DRIER REGIONS OF THE 5+ 2ECENTLY THERE HAVE BEEN PERIODS OF RAINFALL SLEET AND SNOW AROUND THE COUNTRY BUT THIS HAS NOT BEEN ENOUGH TO REPLENISH ITS RESERVOIRS AND GROUND WATER SUPPLIES 4HE %NVIRONMENT !GENCY HAS URGED WATER COMPANIES IN SOUTH EAST %NGLAND TO INTRODUCE HOSE PIPE BANS NEXT MONTH AS THE REGION IS

GRIPPED WITH WHAT IS PREDICTED TO BE THE WORST DROUGHT IN NEARLY YEARS 4HE !GENCY HAS EVEN SAID THAT THIS SUMMER COULD SEE EXTREME MEASURES IN THE SOUTH EAST SUCH AS CUTTING SUP PLIES TO HOUSEHOLDS FOR SPECIlC PERI ODS $ESPITE THIS REPRESENTATIVES FROM !NGLIAN 7ATER AND 3UFFOLK AND %SSEX 7ATER REASSURED CUSTOMERS THAT THERE WAS NO CAUSE FOR CONCERN IN %AST !N GLIA BUT STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT WASTING WATER .ATIONAL REPORTS HAVE RECENTLY SUGGESTED THAT AS ONE OF THE DRIEST RE GIONS %AST !NGLIA WILL FACE BANS ALONG WITH ,ONDON THE 4HAMES 6ALLEY AND THE 3OUTH #OAST FOR NON ESSENTIAL WA TER USES

! SPOKESWOMAN FOR %SSEX AND 3UF FOLK 7ATER SAID h%37 IS CONSTANTLY MONITORING ITS RESOURCE POSITION AND CURRENTLY DOES NOT ENVISAGE IMPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON WATER USE THIS SUMMER v ! DROUGHT MANAGEMENT PLAN HAS BEEN AGREED WITH THE %NVIRONMENT !GENCY CURRENTLY THE RESERVOIR LEVELS ARE ABOVE THE POINT WHERE WATER RESTRIC TIONS ARE IMPOSED 4HE PICTURE ACROSS THE REGION HAS BEEN VERY VARIABLE WITH SOME FARM ERS MANAGING TO IRRIGATE FROM THEIR OWN RESERVIORS &ARMERS ACROSS MUCH OF .ORFOLK HAVE RECEIVED BETTER THAN EXPECTED WINTER RAINFALL WITH A SIGNIl CANT RECHARGE OF THE CHALK AQUIFER (ANNAH .EWTON

.UMBER OF CALORIES FOUND IN TWENTY TWO TEASPOONS OF FAT .UMBER OF CALORIES CONSUMED PER DAY

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4WO lFTHS 4HE PROPORTION OF THE WORLD S POPULA TION ALREADY FACING SERIOUS WATER SHORT AGES WATER BORNE DISEASES lLL HALF THE WORLD S HOSPITAL BEDS 4HE PROPORTION OF THE WORLD S ARMS SALES THAT COME FROM WITHIN THE %5 4HE AMOUNT OF !MAZONIAN RAINFOREST AS A PROPORTION OF THE WORLD S TOTAL REMAIN ING RAINFOREST !MAZONIA

6OTER TURN OUT FOR THE 5%! 5NION %XECU TIVE BY ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUM HELD LAST WEEK !MOUNT OF WASTE PRODUCED BY 5+ HOUSE HOLDS AS A PROPORTION OF ALL 5+ WASTE 0OPULATION OF THE 53 AS A PROPORTION OF THE WORLD S POPULATION WITH THE 53 US ING OF THE WORLD S ENERGY

a MILLION 4HE AMOUNT OF MONEY STOLEN BY AN ARMED GANG WHO RAIDED THE 3ECURITAS PREMISES IN 6ALE 2OAD 4ONBRIDGE DUR ING THE EARLY HOURS OF LAST 7EDNESDAY 4HE GLOBAL SALES OF -C$ONALDS OVER DAYS !MOUNT OF MONEY THAT S NEEDED TO FEED !)$3 ORPHANED CHILDREN IN -ALAWI FOR TEN YEARS

%CO NIGHTMARE 4OXIC CANE TOADS ARE EVOLVING INTO RAMPANT PEST

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CIENTISTS CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS IN THE .ORTHERN 4ERRITORY OF !USTRALIA HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE IN VASION OF THE COUNTRY

BY THE TOXIC CANE TOAD IS ACCELERATING 4HE CANE TOAD "UFO MARINUS IS BY NO MEANS NATIVE TO !USTRALIA IN FACT IT WAS INTRODUCED TO 1UEENSLAND FROM 3OUTH !MERICA IN IN ORDER TO CONTROL THE NUMBERS OF CANE BEETLES WHICH WERE DESTROYING SUGAR CROPS IN NORTH EAST !USTRALIA AT THE TIME 5NFORTUNATELY THE TOADS ABILITY TO SECRETE A POTENTIALLY LETHAL POISON FROM TWO SACS BEHIND ITS HEAD HAS MEANT THAT THE SPECIES IS ABLE TO KILL SNAKES LIZARDS WATER BIRDS DINGOES AND EVEN CROCODILES HENCE THE GREAT CONCERN AT ITS SPREAD 4O UNDERSTAND THE CANE TOAD S BE HAVIOURAL PATTERNS TOADS FOUND KM

EAST OF $ARWIN WERE CAUGHT MEASURED AND lTTED WITH RADIO TRANSMITTERS IN ORDER TO TRACK THEIR MOVEMENTS $R "EN 0HILLIPS AN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF 3YDNEY

NOW BELIEVES THAT THE TOADS ARE EVOLV ING INTO A FASTER SPREADING PEST h7E SHOWED THAT THE TOADS THAT ARE THE lRST TO ARRIVE AT THE FRONT ARE THE ONES WITH THE LONGEST LEGS AND THE ONES LAST TO ARRIVE HAVE SHORTER LEGS v 4HIS INDI CATES THAT EVOLUTION IS FAVOURING TOADS OF LONGER LEGS WHICH ARE ABLE TO TRAVEL FURTHER QUICKER AND INVADE NEW TERRI TORIES MORE RAPIDLY )T IS ESTIMATED THAT THE TOADS TRAVEL KM PER YEAR ON AVER AGE MOVING PERHAPS lVE TIMES FASTER THAN THEIR ANCESTORS YEARS AGO $R 0HILLIPS COMMENTED THAT hA LOT OF TIME AND MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT RESEARCHING HOW TO CONTROL TOADS BUT IT IS AN ONGOING PROBLEMv )N &EBRUARY

THE .ORTHERN 4ERRITORY GOVERN MENT EVEN LAUNCHED A COMPETITION

TO lND THE BEST WAY OF TRAPPING CANE TOADS !MONG THE ENTRIES WAS A hTOAD BLASTERv FROM INVENTOR !NDREW !RTHUR

WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO LURE THE TOADS TO A PARTICULAR SITE FOR CAPTURE BY IMI TATING THEIR SOUND OVER A LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM ! MORE DIRECT APPROACH WAS LATER SUGGESTED BY ,IBERAL 0ARTY -0 $AVID 4OLLNER WHO URGED THE USE OF CRICKET BATS AND GOLF CLUBS /BVIOUSLY THIS CAUSED AN OUTCRY FROM ANIMAL WELFARE CAMPAIGNERS WHO SUGGESTED PLACING THE TOADS IN FREEZERS TO DIE MORE HU MANELY )RONICALLY THE CANE TOADS NEVER DID HAVE ANY IMPACT ON THE CANE BEETLE POPULATIONS AS IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THEY COULD NOT JUMP HIGH ENOUGH TO REACH THE BEETLES ON THE UPPER STALKS OF THE CANE PLANTS AND DID NOT FEED AT THE TIME OF YEAR THAT THE BEETLE LARVAE EMERGED FROM THE GROUND .INA -OWBRAY

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NEW REPORT RE LEASED BY THE % N V I R O N M E N T !GENCY HIGH LIGHTS THE NEED FOR URGENT DE CISION MAKING ABOUT EMIS SIONS 4HE REPORT BY THE 5%! S 4YNDALL #ENTRE FOR #LIMATE #HANGE 2ESEARCH LOOKED AT CLIMATE CHANGE DURING THE NEXT MILLENNIUM h#LIMATE #HANGE ON THE -ILLENNIAL 4IMESCALEv HAS DRAMATIC AND DISTURBING PREDICTIONS PREDICTIONS THAT PROMPTED %NVIRONMENT !GENCY #HIEF %XECUTIVE "ARBARA 9OUNG TO SAY h7E ARE RUNNING OUT OF ROAD ON DECI SION MAKING UNLESS WE DRAMATICALLY CHANGE THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS THEN WE WILL BE COMMITTING FUTURE GENERATIONS TO THE MOST SEVERE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE v 4HE REPORT IS BASED ON A CLIMATE MODEL THAT PREDICTS VARIOUS OUTCOMES DEPENDING ON THE EXTENT OF FUTURE EMIS SIONS /NE OF THE DRAMATIC PREDICTIONS IN THE REPORT IS THAT SEA LEVELS COULD RISE M BY THE YEAR 4HIS WOULD PUT LARGE AMOUNTS OF LOW LYING "RITAIN

INCLUDING ,ONDON UNDER THREAT #OM PARE THIS WITH THE )NTERNATIONAL 0ANEL ON #LIMATE #HANGE S DElNITION OF DAN GEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE RESULTING IN SEA LEVEL RISE OF M 3EA LEVEL RISE OF M WOULD THREATEN MANY AREAS GLOBALLY PARTICULARLY "ANGLADESH AND &LORIDA AND WOULD DISPLACE HUN DREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE /THER PREDICTIONS FROM THE REPORT INCLUDE WARMING COULD QUADRUPLE AFTER

GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TEMPERATURES COULD RISE BETWEEN ª# AND ª# 4HIS SEEMS A LOT ESPECIALLY WHEN THE %5 WANTS TO MINIMIZE WARMING TO ª#

ABOVE PRE INDUSTRIAL LEVELS !BRUPT CLI MATE CHANGES MAY OCCUR )F NO EFFORT IS MADE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS THEN OCEAN CURRENTS SUCH AS THE 'ULF 3TREAM COULD FAIL CAUSING THE .ORTH !TLANTIC TEMPER ATURE TO DROP BY ª# !NOTHER POSSIBIL ITY IS THAT THE ICE CAPS MELT COMPLETELY

ALLOWING PREVIOUSLY COOLED OCEANS TO WARM LEADING TO AN ª# SEA WARMING ACCOMPANIED BY A ª# WARMING ON LAND 4HESE TEMPERATURE CHANGES WILL LEAD TO A DROP IN OCEAN P( MAKING IT MORE ACIDIC WHICH WILL GREATLY DISTURB MARINE ORGANISMS INCLUDING CORALS AND PLANKTON #HANGES TO SUCH FUNDAMEN TAL MARINE ORGANISMS WILL HAVE FURTHER IMPLICATIONS IN MOST MARINE ECOSYS TEMS )T IS POSSIBLE THAT THERE IS A hDELAY EFFECTv IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM MEANING THAT SEVERE CHANGES MAY BE TRIGGERED YEARS BEFORE THEY BECOME MANIFEST !LL OF THIS MEANS THAT IT IS GOING TO BE MORE DIFlCULT THAN EXPECTED TO AVOID DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE ,EAD AU THOR 5%! S $R 4IM ,ENTON SAID h7E PRESENT A SOBERING PICTURE OF POTEN TIAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE MILLENNIAL TIMESCALE 7HILST MOST STUDIES STOP AT YEAR WITH TEMPERATURES AND SEA LEVEL RISING WE EXPLORED WHERE THEY ARE HEADING INTO THE NEXT MILLENNIUM v 4HE RESEARCH TEAM CONSIDERED THREE SCENARIOS s 7HAT WOULD HAPPEN IF OUR EMISSIONS WERE hMINIMISEDv MEANING THAT THEY WERE DECREASED STEADILY TO ZERO BE TWEEN AND s 7HAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE TOOK NO AC TION TO REDUCE OUR EMISSIONS AND CON TINUED TO BURN OUR REMAINING RESERVES OF CONVENTIONAL FOSSIL FUELS BY THE YEAR

s 7HAT WOULD HAPPEN IF OUR EMISSIONS

INCREASED BY BURNING NOT JUST CONVEN TIONAL FOSSIL FUELS BUT BY EXPLOITING UN CONVENTIONAL RESERVES AS WELL SUCH AS METHYL HYDRATES AND OIL SHALES 4HE ONLY SCENARIO THAT AVOIDED hDANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGEv WAS THE MINIMUM EMISSIONS SCENARIO ALLOW ING FOR ONE QUARTER OF KNOWN RESERVES OF FOSSIL FUELS TO BE USED 4HIS WOULD RESULT IN A SMALL INCREASE IN EMISSIONS UP TO BEFORE EMISSIONS WERE THEN PHASED OUT BY h)F WE FOLLOW BUSINESS AS USUAL THEN WE WILL COMMIT FUTURE GENERATIONS TO DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGE AND IF WE EXPLOIT UNCONVENTIONAL FOSSIL FUELS WE COULD RETURN THE %ARTH TO A HOT STATE IT HASN T SEEN SINCE MILLION YEARS AGO v $R ,ENTON SAID 4HIS NEWS PROMPTED "ARBARA 9OUNG TO SAY h7E NOW KNOW THAT WE ARE WALKING OFF A SHORTER PLANK THAN WE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT n THE RE SEARCH SHOWS FAR MORE DANGEROUS AND DRAMATIC CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS AP PEARING MUCH EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY PREDICTED n TOUGH DECISIONS ARE NEEDED SOON v 4HERE ARE SCEPTICS FOR CLIMATE MOD ELS *ULIAN -ORRIS DIRECTOR OF THE )NTER NATIONAL 0OLICY .ETWORK DESCRIBED IT AS hGARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUTv )T HAS ALSO BEEN CRITICIZED FOR MAKING NO ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE ECONOMIC FACTORS PRIMARILY WHICH SCENARIO IS MOST LIKELY TO PREVAIL $ESCRIBING THE ECONOMIC SITUATION UP TO IS VERY DIFlCULT AND LOOKING AT THE MILLENNIAL TIMESCALE WE ARE REALLY HEADING INTO UNKNOWN TERRITORY -ODELLING THE CLIMATE AND PREDICT ING FUTURE EMISSIONS ARE SEPARATE TASKS WHAT IS CLEAR FROM THE LATEST REPORT IS THAT CONTROLLING EMISSIONS NOW IS VITAL IF WE ARE TO AVOID CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE

-OBILE PHONES ON AVERAGE TAKE lVE HOURS TO FULLY CHARGE -ANY PEOPLE LEAVE THEIR PHONE TO CHARGE OVERNIGHT AND AL THOUGH THIS COULD BE CONSIDERED MULTI TASKING IT IS ALSO A WASTE OF ELECTRICITY 4HEREFORE START SAVING ENERGY TODAY BY NOT CHARGING YOUR PHONE FOR LONGER THAN IS REQUIRED "OILING WATER IS REQUIRED FOR COOKING THE MOST BASIC OF STUDENT DIETS PASTA

RICE POLENTA ETC (ERE IS ANOTHER PLACE WHERE ENERGY CAN BE SAVED SIMPLY BY PUTTING A LID ON THE SAUCEPAN 4HIS TRAPS THE HEAT AND REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF EN ERGY NECESSARY TO BOIL THE WATER 3WITCHING OFF THE STANDBY BUTTON ON MANY APPLIANCES WILL ALSO SAVE A SURPRIS ING AMOUNT OF ENERGY 4HE RED STANDBY LIGHT ON A TELEVISION CONSUMES AT LEAST OF THE ENERGY IT USES WHEN IT S ACTU ALLY SWITCHED ON

,ET 0RADA KNOW !N ALTERNATIVE FABRIC THAT IS SOFTER THAN COTTON AND FEELS JUST LIKE SILK IS OFFERED AT THIS WEBSITE 7HAT IS IT "AMBOO OF COURSE /NE OF THE MOST ABUNDANT PLANTS IT REACHES MATURITY IN JUST FOUR YEARS AND IS THEN READY TO BE USED TO MAKE CLOTHES

AMONG OTHER THINGS "ETTER STILL IT CLAIMS TO BE ODOUR FREE SOMETHING #ONCRETE COULD PERHAPS TEST OUT ON THE ,ACROSSE TEAM &ROM THIS WEBSITE YOU CAN PURCHASE A PLEASANT MAN S JERSEY FOR a WHICH IS AVAILABLE IN A VARIETY OF COLOURS FROM PURELY NATURAL TO BLAZING lRE #HECK OUT THE WHOLE RANGE OF BAMBOO CLOTHING ON THEIR WEBSITE AT WWW SHIRTSOFBAMBOO COM

#OMPOSTING MADE EASY NOT CHEAP 4HE RATE OF RECYCLING IN OUR SOCIETY IN CREASES EVERY YEAR BUT UNFORTUNATELY SO DOES THE PRODUCTION OF WASTE DESTINED FOR LANDlLL SITES 4HIS IS DUE TO RISING PER SONAL CONSUMPTION AND OVERALL POPULA TION GROWTH &OOD AND PAPER ACCOUNT FOR NEARLY OF ALL WASTE IN LANDlLL SITES !N !MERICAN WEBSITE HAS COME UP WITH A CONVENIENT SOLUTION IN THE FORM OF THE !UTOMATIC #OMPOST -ACHINE !ROUND THE SIZE OF TWO TOASTERS STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER IT IS CERTAINLY A MUST FOR ANY MODERN KITCHEN !T a IT SHOULD BE EASILY AFFORD ABLE BY THE TIME THE TYPICAL STUDENT GRADUATES SO LONG AS THEY START SAVING IN THEIR lRST YEAR &OR NOW THE AVERAGE STUDENT COULD PICK UP A COMPOST BIN FROM (OMEBASE

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HAT EX ACTLY ARE THE ARGU MENTS FOR ALLOWING SMOKING TO CONTINUE IN OUR PUBS AND CLUBS !SIDE FROM THE FACT THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE ADDICTED AND THEREFORE AUTOMATICALLY WANT TO BE ALLOWED TO SATISFY THEIR CRAV INGS WHENEVER AND WHEREVER THEY STRIKE WHERE ARE THE SOL ID REASONS THAT HAVE KEPT OUR CULTURE OF WHEEZY EVENINGS OUT GOING SO SUCCESSFULLY FOR SO LONG 7ITH -0S VOTING TO BAN

LIGHTING UP IN ALL PUBLIC PLACES FROM NEXT SUMMER

TRACK DOWN A GROUP OF SMOK ERS LURKING IN A HAZY CORNER OF THE BAR AND ASK WHAT THEY THINK 4HEY WILL INEVITABLY START TALKING ABOUT hHUMAN RIGHTSv AND THIS BEING hA FREE COUNTRYv AS IF THEIR TWENTY A DAY HABITS ARE RIGHT UP THERE WITH CLEAN WATER FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND NOT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT BEING TORTURED

BY YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT -OST NON SMOKERS WOULD ARGUE THAT (UMAN 2IGHTS LAWS WERE NOT DRAWN UP SO THAT THE BLOKE AT THE BAR COULD EXPOSE THE REST OF

THE ROOM TO CARCINOGENIC CHEMICALS 4HEY MIGHT EVEN HAVE A THING OR TWO TO SAY ABOUT THEIR RIGHT TO GO OUT TO A PUB WITHOUT SPENDING THE EVENING GASPING FOR AIR AND WAKING UP THE NEXT DAY TO lND THAT ALL THEIR CLOTHES REEK AND THEY ARE COUGHING UP A VISCOUS YELLOW mUID )T SEEMS HARD TO DENY THAT SMOKING IS UNHEALTHY AND ANTI SOCIAL BUT EVEN WITH SUCH OBVIOUS ARGU MENTS ON THE SIDE OF A BAN IT IS STILL VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DEBATE THE ISSUE WITH SMOK ERS AND COME OUT FEELING LIKE YOU VE SCORED ANY POINTS AT

ALL 4HEY WILL ONLY LOOK AT YOU AS THOUGH YOU ARE CRU ELLY DETERMINED TO WREST EVE RY LAST DROP OF PLEASURE OUT OF REACH OF THEIR NICOTINE STAINED lNGERS 4HE FACT IS

OUR ATTITUDES TO SMOKING ARE SO DEEPLY INGRAINED THAT IT IS HARD FOR ANYONE TO ADMIT THAT THE hPINT AND FAGv CUL TURE MIGHT BE A MERE SOCIAL CONSTRUCT RATHER THAN A LAW LAID DOWN BY -OTHER .ATURE HERSELF 4HESE ATTITUDES ARE SO ENTRENCHED THAT NON SMOK ERS ARE ALMOST AS AFFECTED

BY THEM AS SMOKERS 7HEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT THE

QUESTION h$O YOU MIND IF ) SMOKE v WAS ANSWERED WITH AN HONEST h9ES ACTUALLY ) DOv )NSTEAD NON SMOKERS MEEKLY SHAKE THEIR HEADS AND FEEL AS THOUGH THEY ARE INCONVENIENCING THE SMOK ERS BY THEIR MERE PRESENCE 7E ARE JUST SO USED TO CIGA RETTE SMOKE AS PART OF A NIGHT OUT THAT EXPRESSING AN OPIN ION TO THE CONTRARY SEEMS TO MARK YOU OUT AS SOME KIND OF UPTIGHT SPOIL SPORT 3O IS THIS REALLY WHAT IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO 4HE REASON IT HAS TAKEN US SO LONG TO BRING IN THIS SMOKING BAN HAS LESS TO DO WITH PERSONAL FREEDOM

AND THE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON PUBS AND CLUBS AND MORE TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT WE RE ALL AS A NATION AFRAID TO SAY NO TO THE SMOKERS BEHIND THE BIKE SHEDS IN CASE WE END UP LOOKING LIKE LOSERS FOR WANTING TO SPOIL THEIR FUN )N THAT CASE MAYBE SOME TIME IN A FAG FREE ENVIRONMENT IS WHAT WE ALL NEED TO REMIND US THAT WE DON T HAVE TO AC CEPT THE SMOKE ,ET US HOPE THAT THE NEW LAWS AS WELL AS ALLOWING US ALL TO BREATHE EASIER ON A NIGHT OUT WILL DO SOMETHING TOWARDS CHANGING OUR ATTI TUDES TO SMOKING

$O WE REALLY WANT ANOTHER #HERNOBYL 3ARAH 3WALHEIM EXPLAINS WHY RENEWABLE ENERGY IS THE WAY FORWARD

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HERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK LATELY ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER BEING THE ANSWER TO CLIMATE CHANGE BUT ) DISA GREE 9ES WE HAVE TO FIND A SUITABLE REPLACEMENT FOR FOSSIL FUELS BUT NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT THE ANSWER "OTH THE NUCLEAR PLANTS AND THE WASTE THEY PRODUCE ARE INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS ) M SURE YOU VE ALL HEARD OF THE DISASTER IN #HERNOBYL IN WHEN A REACTOR EX PLODED -ORE THAN

PEOPLE DIED AS A DIRECT RE SULT OF THE ACCIDENT 4HE 5KRAINIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS

MILLION PEOPLE A THIRD OF THEM CHILDREN BECAME ILL 4HE RATE OF THYROID CAN CER IN AFFECTED AREAS MUL TIPLIED BY TEN 4HIS WAS JUST ONE OF SEVERAL SIMILAR INSTANCES 4HE WASTE FROM NUCLEAR PLANTS IS TOXIC FOR CENTURIES AND THERE IS NO SAFE WAY TO STORE IT PERMANENTLY OR DISPOSE OF IT 4RANSPORT ING IT IS EQUALLY DANGER OUS "UT SAFETY IS NOT THE ONLY DOWNSIDE TO NUCLEAR ENERGY )T CAN ALSO BE FI NANCIALLY COSTLY 2EPAIRING FACTORIES IS ONE THING BUT a BILLION HAD TO BE SPENT TO DEAL WITH THE NUCLEAR

WASTE LIABILITIES OF ".&,

A RE PROCESSOR OF NUCLEAR WASTE THAT BROKE DOWN 7HY ISN T MORE TIME BEING SPENT CONSIDERING OTHER OPTIONS SUCH AS RE NEWABLE ENERGY 4HANKS TO OUR GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION

THE 5+ HAS ONE OF THE BEST LOCATIONS FOR USING RENEW ABLE ENERGY )N FACT WE HAVE THE MOST SUITABLE WEATHER IN THE WHOLE OF %UROPE 3OLAR ENERGY COULD ALSO BE A SPACE SAVER FOR OUR INCREDIBLY BUILT UP COUN TRY 4HE PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS USED FOR SOLAR POWER CAN BE CONSTRUCTED ON TOP OF HOUSES SO COULD BE USED

IN URBAN AREAS 3OME CRITI CISE RENEWABLE ENERGY AS BEING SPARSE IRREGULAR AND UNRELIABLE (OWEVER THIS IS OFTEN NOT THE CASE 4HERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS AVAILABLE TOO &ACTORIES THAT PRODUCE CARBON FREE POWER FROM NATURAL GAS ARE BE ING DEVELOPED !LSO BEING PERFECTED IS THE PROCESS OF COMBINED HEAT AND POWER 4HIS ALLOWS COMPANIES AND HOUSEHOLDS TO USE BOTH THE HEAT AND THE ELECTRICITY CRE ATED BY POWER GENERATION &INALLY BIOFUEL FUEL MADE FROM SUGAR OR VEGETABLE OIL IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO OIL THAT IS BEING DEVELOPED

3WEDEN HAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THAT IT AIMS TO WEAN ITSELF OFF OIL WITHIN YEARS WITHOUT BUILDING ANY MORE NUCLEAR PLANTS )T HOPES TO REPLACE ALL FOS SIL FUELS WITH RENEWABLES BY ) THINK THE 5+ SHOULD TAKE THIS APPROACH

INSTEAD OF THROWING OUR MONEY INTO A NUCLEAR PRO GRAMME 4HE MAIN BENEFIT OF NUCLEAR POWER OVER THE OTHER OPTIONS IS THAT IT IS CHEAPER BUT THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH )T IS NOT AS IF THE OTHER OPTIONS ARE EXTORTIONATE &OR EXAMPLE

THE TECHNOLOGY NEEDED FOR SOLAR POWER IS NOW

CHEAPER THAN IT WAS IN THE S !LL THAT IS NEEDED IS A LITTLE MORE INVESTMENT

BY THE GOVERNMENT INTO THESE OTHER OPTIONS AND A GOOD SYSTEM COULD BE PUT IN PLACE .UCLEAR POWER IS NOT THE WAY WE SHOULD BE HEADED 7HAT KIND OF LEG ACY ARE WE LEAVING THE NEXT GENERATION BY TURNING TO A SOURCE WHICH PRODUCES WASTE THAT WILL BE TOXIC FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS OR SO 7E HAVE SO MANY OTHER CLEANER SAFER OPTIONS THAT IT IS STUPID AND SELFISH OF US TO OVERLOOK THEM SO WILLINGLY

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DURING WHICH 5%! ACADEMIC STAFF JOINED A SERIES OF LECTURE BOYCOTTS IN PROTEST AGAINST NATIONAL PAY STRUCTURES BEING

PROPOSED BY THEIR EMPLOY ERS 4HE STRIKE WAS OFlCIALLY SUPPORTED BY 5%! STUDENTS THROUGH 5NION #OUNCIL

AND MANY CHOSE TO JOIN THEIR LECTURERS ON THE PICKET LINES $ISRUPTION TO SEMINARS WAS MINIMAL AS THE STRIKES COIN

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CIDED WITH READING WEEK BUT WHEN THE BOYCOTT CONTINUED INTO A SECOND WEEK FEARS BE GAN TO GROW THAT COURSEWORK AND EXAMS WOULD SUFFER AS A RESULT #ONCRETE REPORTED AT THE TIME THAT THE ASSESSMENT BOY COTT WAS hCAUSING PROBLEMS

;AT UNIVERSITIES= ACROSS THE COUNTRYv BUT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT NO ONE INCLUDING THE STRIKING LECTURERS HAD WANTED TO JEOPARDISE STUDENTS ACA DEMIC CAREERS 4HE SAME WILL BE TRUE OF THE INDUSTRIAL AC TION THAT IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON 4UESDAY -ARCH TH

0LEASE SEND LETTERS TO CONCRETE EDITORIAL

AT UNIVERSITIES NATIONWIDE 7E MUST HOPE THAT A RES OLUTION IS FOUND QUICKLY FOR THE BENElT OF THOSE ACADEMIC STAFF WHOSE LIVELIHOODS DE PEND ON THE PAYMENT OF A FAIR AND REASONABLE SALARY 7ITHOUT THEM THERE WOULD BE NO TEACHING TO BOYCOTT

UEA AC UK

4HE ANONYMOUS MARKING DEBATE !S THE AUTHOR OF THE REPORT ON ANONYMOUS MARKING ) THOUGHT ) WOULD ADD A FEW POINTS TO YOUR BALANCED AR TICLE IN YOUR LAST ISSUE h3TU DENTS "ACK !NONYMOUS -ARKINGv )SSUE !NON YMOUS MARKING IS ABOUT THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EQUAL ITY AND APPLYING THEM TO OUR ASSESSMENT METHODS )F LECTURERS AND THE UNIVERSITY HAVE SIGNED UP TO THE PRIN CIPLES IN EXAMINATIONS WHY THEN DO THEY NEGATE THIS IN COURSEWORK /NE OF THE ARGUMENTS

AS $R 2UPERT 2EAD RAISED IS FEEDBACK !S THE REPORT ILLUS TRATES THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT ANONYMOUS MARK ING HAS AFFECTED THE FEEDBACK THAT STUDENTS GET AT 5%!

4HE .ATIONAL 3TUDENT 3URVEY RESULTS FROM LAST YEAR ILLUS TRATED THAT STUDENTS WITHIN 37+ AND ,!7 BOTH HAVE ANONYMOUS MARKING FELT THAT THEIR FEEDBACK PROVIDED BETTER CLARIlCATION AND UN

DERSTANDING THAN OF 5%! S OTHER SUBJECT AREAS 4HIS WAS OUT OF SUBJECT AREAS ) WAS INTERESTED TO READ THE COMMENTS FROM THE h!54 STUDENT LIAISON OFlCERv ) AM SURE $R 2EAD IS WELL AWARE THAT THE !54 HAS BACKED THE .53 YEAR AFTER YEAR WITH RE GARDS TO !NONYMOUS -ARK ING )T WAS #ATHERINE "ELSEY FROM THE !54 WHO PUBLISHED A REPORT ILLUSTRATING THE BEN ElTS OF ANONYMOUS MARKING IN ELIMINATING GENDER BIAS IN

&INALLY HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE 5NIVERSITY ACTUALLY ASK THE STUDENTS BY REFEREN DUM WHETHER THEY WANT A POLICY OR NOT ) AM THINKING OF COURSEWORK PENALTIES NEW HAND IN TIMES AND THE FACUL TY STRUCTURE %VERY STUDENT AT 5%! WAS E MAILED THIS SURVEY AND GIVEN A CHANCE TO CON TRIBUTE TOWARDS THE DEBATE 4HE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS WANT THIS POLICY AND ) FULLY INTEND TO CARRY IT THROUGH THE

UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF THE 5NION S MEMBERSHIP $AN 0EARSON !CADEMIC /FlCER !NONYMOUS MARKING MIGHT SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA IN THEORY BUT IT DOESN T WORK IN PRACTICE ) HAVE EXPERIENCED THE SYSTEM AS A STUDENT AT 3USSEX 5NIVERSITY AND AS A TEACHER AND ) CAN SAY CON CLUSIVELY THAT ITS hFAIRNESSv IS MOSTLY COSMETIC ,ECTURERS AT 3USSEX RE QUIRED STUDENTS TO DISCUSS ESSAY IDEAS WITH THEM BE FOREHAND SO THAT THEY HAD A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT EACH STU DENT WAS GOING TO WRITE 4HIS IS HARDLY A LOOPHOLE SINCE A GOOD TEACHER IS EXPECTED TO KNOW AND GUIDE THE DIREC TION OF THEIR STUDENTS READ ING %VEN IF THIS DID NOT HAP PEN A SEMESTER OF SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS GIVES ANY LECTURER A GOOD IDEA OF EACH STUDENT S OPINIONS AND ABILITIES 4HIS IS THEIR JOB

4HE OSTENSIBLE ARGUMENT AGAINST IS THAT THE MOST VO CAL STUDENTS WILL TAKE THE ADVANTAGE IN MARKING BUT THE IDEA OF THE SEMINAR IS TO PROVOKE DISCUSSION AND THE DISSEMINATION OF IDEAS 4HUS LOQUACIOUS STUDENTS MAY NOT ONLY DESERVE PREF ERENTIAL TREATMENT IF THEY ARE SEEN TO BE WELL READ AND PRE PARED BUT THEY ALSO TEND TO BE THE BEST STUDENTS ANYWAY )F A STUDENT SEEKS TO BETTER THEIR MARK BY DEMONSTRATING A GENUINELY DILIGENT ATTITUDE TO STUDY WHY SHOULD THEY BE PENALISED BY ANONYMOUS MARKING &URTHERMORE

ANONY MOUS MARKING COULD ALLOW UNSCRUPULOUS STUDENTS TO REMAIN SILENT FOR THE ENTIRE COURSE AND THEN HAND IN A COPIED OR @GHOST WRITTEN ES SAY 4HE LECTURER WOULD HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER THE WORK WAS CONSISTENT WITH THAT STU DENT S NORMAL STANDARD )N TERNATIONAL STUDENTS n WHOSE

WORK IS USUALLY UNMISTAKABLE FOR ITS GRAMMATICAL QUIRKS n WOULD BE AT AN IMMEDIATE DISADVANTAGE AND PERHAPS MORE INCLINED TO SEEK AID AS A RESULT !NONYMOUS FEEDBACK WAS HANDLED AT 3USSEX WITH A WRITTEN FORM HANDED BACK WITH THE MARK )F THE SYS TEM IS CODIlED LECTURERS ARE EXPECTED TO PROVIDE A MINI MUM AMOUNT OF FEEDBACK

WHICH COULD BE IN EXCESS OF WHAT THEY WOULD USUALLY WRITE 4HOUGH THIS MIGHT SATISFY THE STUDENT CUSTOMER IN THE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS

IT IS RESENTED BY THE STAFF

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4HE /PINION 4HE MINUTE S SILENCE CANNOT BE REPLACED

3IMON #ONNOR ! MOMENT OF SILENCE IS REC OGNISED AS BEING A PERIOD FOR SILENT CONTEMPLATION

PRAYER AND REmECTION 4HE CUSTOM OF A MINUTE S SILENCE HAS ROUTINELY ACCOM PANIED ANY PREARRANGED DAY OF RESPECT FOLLOWING A TRAGIC EVENT OR THE PASSING OF A SOCIALLY CHERISHED PERSON (OWEVER RECENT MEDIA COV ERAGE FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF 'EORGE "EST HAS POINTED TO THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ALTERNA TIVE PRACTICE A MINUTE S AP PLAUSE 4HE IDEA OF A MINUTE S APPLAUSE IS A %UROPEAN TRADI TION CARRIED OUT BY FOOTBALL CLUBS IN THE LIKES OF )TALY TO SHOW APPRECIATION TO A FOOT

BALLER WHO PROVIDED MUCH ENTERTAINMENT IN HIS PRIME BUT RECENTLY PASSED AWAY !LTHOUGH THE &! 0RE MIER ,EAGUE ANNOUNCED THAT A MINUTE S SILENCE WOULD BE OBSERVED BEFORE ALL 0RE MIERSHIP GAMES TO BE HELD OVER THE WEEKEND FOLLOWING 'EORGE "EST S DEATH THIS TRA DITION WAS IGNORED AT MANY GROUNDS ! MINUTE S APPLAUSE WAS ORGANISED AT 5PTON 0ARK BEFORE AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN 7EST (AM 5NITED AND "EST S -ANCHESTER 5NITED WHILST AT %ASTER 2OAD THE PLANNED MINUTE S SILENCE BECAME A SPONTANEOUS APPLAUSE AND SOME (IBERNIAN FANS CHANT ED hTHERE S ONLY ONE 'EORGE "EST v !LTHOUGH IN THIS PARTICU LAR CASE A MINUTE S APPLAUSE MAY HAVE BEEN A SUCCESS

) FAIL TO SEE IT AS BEING AS POWERFUL AS THE TRADITIONAL MINUTE S SILENCE ! NORMALLY RAPTUROUS AND ROARING CA PACITY STADIUM STANDING IN UNISON IN COMPLETE AND UT TER SILENCE IS BEYOND COM PARISON )N INSTANCES SUCH AS THESE THOSE WHO WATCHED AND ADMIRED THE TALENTED SPORTS MAN PROVIDE A MOMENT FOR ALL TO REMEMBER AND HONOUR THE DEPARTED 4HROUGHOUT HIS CAREER THE SPORTSMAN WILL HAVE HAD THE RINGING OF THE CROWD IN HIS EARS BUT SURELY AS A MARK OF RESPECT A SILENT TRIBUTE SHOULD BE MADE TO HIM IN A MOMENT OF REmECTION ) DO NOT DISPUTE THAT THE CHEERS AND CRIES OF A PASSIONATELY CHANTING CAPACITY STADIUM IS A BEAUTIFUL SCENE BUT IT IS ONE WHICH SHOULD NOT BE

5%! STUDENTS HOLD A MINUTE S SILENCE AT A MATCH LAST 3EPTEMBER INCORPORATED INTO A RITUAL OF HONOURING THE DEAD &URTHERMORE APPLAUSE IN A FOOTBALL STADIUM IS SIM PLY NORMAL WHILST THE SILENT STILLNESS OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ALL IN ONE PLACE IS SPECIAL

4HE MINUTE S SILENCE IS THE MOST POWERFUL FORM OF REMEMBRANCE AND THIS TRADI TION SHOULD CONTINUE WITH THE IMPRESSIVE EMOTIONAL IMPACT IT CARRIES -OMENTS OF SPORT ING GENIUS WHICH THRILL THE

CROWD DESERVE THE ROAR AND APPLAUSE OF THE ON LOOKERS HOWEVER WHEN THE MEMO RABLE SPORTSMAN PASSES ON NOTHING IS COMPARABLE IN MARKING THE IMPACT OF HIS EXISTENCE WITH THE POWER OF SILENCE

BOTH HAVE A lERY TEMPERA MENT AND ARE NOT AFRAID TO SHOW ANY DISAPPOINTMENT WITH OWN PERFORMANCE OR THAT OF THE OFlCIALS 4HIS IS IN MARKED CONTRAST WITH (EN MAN S MORE RESERVED STYLE

WITH A CLENCHED lST BEING HIS MOST MARKED SHOW OF EMO TION -C%NROE HAS CLAIMED THAT -URRAY IS A POTENTIAL TOP TEN PLAYER AND OWING TO THE NATURE OF THE RANK ING SYSTEM IT IS QUITE POSSI BLE THAT -URRAY COULD BE IN THE WORLD TOP TWENTY COME 7IMBLEDON THIS *ULY AS WELL AS "RITISH NUMBER ONE -URRAY CERTAINLY HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A VERY

GOOD PLAYER OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS )T IS TOO EARLY TO SAY WHETHER HE IS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE AMONGST POTENTIAL -A JOR WINNERS (OWEVER HE IS IN GOOD COMPANY WITH THE OTHER TEENAGE VICTORS OF THE 3AN *OSE TOURNAMENT /F THE PREVIOUS lVE TEENAGE WIN NERS FOUR OF THEM WENT ON TO WIN A -AJOR WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS -URRAY HAS STATED THAT HIS FAVOURED SURFACE IS THE HARD COURTS PREFERRED IN THE 53! )F HISTORY IS TO RE PEAT ITSELF THEN THE 53 /PEN AT &LUSHING -EADOWS IN LATE SUMMER COULD MAKE FOR SOME VERY INTERESTING VIEW ING

EXPECTATION FOR AN AWAY TRIP TO 3ELHURST 0ARK 4HIS WAS QUICKLY QUASHED BY AN EARLY GOAL FROM !NDY *OHNSON (E LOST HIS MARKER FROM A CORNER AND IMPRESSIVELY HEADED IN ON ONLY THE TH MINUTE "EN 7ATSON EXTENDED THE 0ALACE LEAD WITH A LOW SHOT FROM TWENTY YARDS OUT 4HE #ANAR IES WERE OUT OF THE GAME BY HALF TIME 7ORTHINGTON MADE A DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION AT THE BREAK BUT IT PROVED INEF FECTIVE 0ALACE EXTENDED THEIR LEAD TO IN THE TH MINUTE WHEN )RISH INTER NATIONAL #LINTON -ORRISON SCORED FROM CLOSE RANGE 4O

MAKE EVENTS WORSE -ORRI SON REJECTED .ORWICH IN THE TRANSFER WINDOW 4HE HOME SIDE WENT UP SOON AFTER

AS ONE SIZE &ITZ (ALL HEADED IN FROM A CORNER .ORWICH DID GET A CONSOLATION GOAL LATE ON 4HE #ANARIES NEED TO IM PROVE THEIR AWAY FROM IF THEY ARE TO MAKE A LATE BURST FOR THE PLAY OFFS 4HEY CANNOT AFFORD TO KEEP CAPITULATING AWAY FROM HOME OR A BORING MID TABLE SEASON WILL BE ON THE CARDS )F THEY CAN PICK UP THE ODD POINT ON THEIR TRAV ELS THEN THEIR HOME FORM COULD START TO PUSH THEM INTO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TABLE

!NDY -URRAY ON MARCH TOWARDS THE TOP !DAM "ARRETT 4HE TENNIS WORLD WITNESSED THE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH OF ITS NEXT POTENTIAL STAR ON 3UNDAY AS !NDREW -URRAY BEAT ,LEYTON (EWITT IN THE !40 TOURNAMENT lNAL IN 3AN *OSE (IS MAIDEN !40 TOUR VICTORY HAS NATURALLY GOT THE "RITISH PRESS READY TO ANOINT HIM AS THE SUCCESSOR TO 4IM (ENMAN TO CARRY THE HOPES OF THE NATION )S THE HYPE JUSTIlED OR IS HE JUST THE LAT EST IN A LONG LINE OF YOUNG

"RITISH SPORTING HOPEFULS WHO EVENTUALLY END UP EI THER WASTING THEIR POTENTIAL OR SIMPLY NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH TO COMPETE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL 4HE EARLY SIGNS ARE CER TAINLY ENCOURAGING FOR "RIT ISH TENNIS FANS -URRAY DIS PLAYED BATTLING QUALITIES IN HIS QUARTER lNAL TO COME FROM A SET AND A BREAK DOWN TO BEAT 2OBIN 3ODERLING AND SHOWED HIS CLASS IN THE SEMI TO BEAT !NDY 2ODDICK IN FRONT OF HIS HOME FANS )N THE lNAL HE AGAIN CAME FROM A SET BEHIND AGAINST (EWITT TO WIN THE MATCH (IS PERFORM ANCES OVER THE WEEK SEEM

TO BUCK THE GENERAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS "RITISH SPORTSMAN THAT THEY WILL CRACK WHEN THE PRESSURE IS ON 4HIS IS CER TAINLY AN ACCUSATION THAT HAS BEEN LEVELLED TOWARDS 4IM (ENMAN IN PARTICULAR ABOUT HIS NUMEROUS 7IMBLEDON NEAR MISSES !LTHOUGH INEVITABLE ) WOULD SUGGEST THAT COMPARI SONS WITH (ENMAN ARE PER HAPS UNFAIR &OR A START THEIR STYLES OF PLAY ARE DIFFERENT

WITH (ENMAN PREFERRING TO SERVE AND VOLLEY AND -URRAY BEING VERY MUCH A BACKHAND PLAYER (ENMAN HAS ALSO CAR RIED THE HOPES OF A TENNIS NATION ALMOST SINGLE HAND

ED FOR THE LAST DECADE 4HE MEDIA BANDWAGON THAT HAS SURROUNDED HIM EVERY 7IM BLEDON FORTNIGHT WOULD HAVE BROKEN A LESSER CHARACTER (OWEVER THE FACT REMAINS THAT (ENMAN HAS NEVER CONSISTENTLY CHALLENGED FOR MAJOR TITLES OVER HIS CAREER (E HAS NEVER APPEARED IN A 'RAND 3LAM lNAL AND HE HAS ALSO NEVER BEATEN ,LEYTON (EWITT THE PLAYER -URRAY BEAT IN 3AN *OSE ! MORE APT TENNIS COM PARISON COULD BE WITH ONE OF HIS BIGGEST FANS !MERICAN TENNIS GREAT *OHN -C%NROE 3IMILARITIES CAN BE SEEN WITH THEIR ON COURT MANNER AS

-ID TABLE lNISH LOOMS FOR .ORWICH #ITY 7ILL !LFORD .ORWICH #ITY HAVE CON TINUED TO STRUGGLE IN THE #HAMPIONSHIP IN RECENT WEEKS AND A MID TABLE lN ISH SEEMS MORE AND MORE LIKELY 4HEY HAD TWO EXCELLENT HOME WINS AGAINST "RIGHTON AND $ERBY RESPECTIVELY BUT THEIR HORRENDOUS AWAY FORM STILL PERSISTS #ITY FOLLOWED UP THESE WINS BY BEING THOR OUGHLY OUT PLAYED BY #RYS TAL 0ALACE 4HIS ERRATIC FORM MUST BE VERY FRUSTRATING FOR

.ORWICH FANS PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT SUPPORT THE SIDE ON THEIR TRAVELS )N THE LAST YEAR #ITY MUST HAVE ONE OF THE WORST AWAY RECORDS IN THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE 4HE NUMBER OF POINTS DROPPED AWAY FROM HOME IS SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR A CLUB LOOKING TO BOUNCE BACK IMMEDIATELY TO THE 0REMIERSHIP )N DISTINCT CONTRAST #AR ROW 2OAD HAS BECOME SOME THING OF A FORTRESS 4HIS WAS CERTAINLY THE CASE AT HOME TO "RIGHTON AS THE #ANARIES RAN OUT WINNERS 4HE SCORE LINE CERTAINLY DID NOT REmECT A NERVOUS WIN FOR #ITY -AN OF THE MATCH $ARREN (UCKERBY

OPENED THE SCORING ON THE TH MINUTE WHEN HE COOLLY SCORED FROM SIX YARDS OUT .ORWICH CONTINUED TO DOMINATE FOR LARGE PARTS OF THE GAME BUT FOUND IT HARD TO BREAKDOWN THE "RIGHTON DEFENCE 4HE THREE POINTS WERE NOT GUARANTEED UNTIL 2OBERT %ARNSHAW OPENED HIS #ITY ACCOUNT WITH AN IMPRES SIVE LATE DOUBLE 4HE lRST WAS A SIMPLE TAP IN AFTER GREAT WORK FROM (UCKERBY 4HIS SENT THE CROWD INTO RAPTURES AND %ARNSHAW CELEBRATED WITH HIS TRADEMARK BACKmIP CELEBRATION 4HE 7ELSH IN TERNATIONAL THEN SCORED A SU PERB CHIP THAT ONLY JUST CREPT

OVER THE LINE .ORWICH FOLLOWED UP THIS VICTORY WITH ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY AT HOME TO A COMPETITIVE $ERBY SIDE 7ORTHINGTON NAMED AN UN CHANGED SIDE THAT DID NOT DISAPPOINT THE HOME SUP PORTERS !FTER CONTROLLING THE OPENING EXCHANGES THE #ANARIES lNALLY WENT AHEAD IN THE TH MINUTE *ONATAN *OHANSSON SCORED HIS SEC OND GOAL FOR THE CLUB AS HE TAPPED IN FROM CLOSE RANGE (UCKERBY THEN WRAPPED UP THE POINTS LATE ON WITH A STUNNING STRIKE 4HOSE TWO PERFORMANCES PROVIDED HOPE AND A LOT OF

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1UALITY NOT QUANTITY FOR 5%! *EMMA 4HAKE 4HE 5%! CROSS COUNTRY TEAM HAVE BEEN IN AC TION YET AGAIN IN THE %AST !NGLIAN #ROSS #OUNTRY ,EAGUE 4HE TEAM MADE THE SHORT JOURNEY TO 2!& (ONINGTON AND DESPITE THE SMALL TEAM THERE WERE SOME lNE PER FORMANCES 'LEN 7ATTS SHOWED HIS CLASS BY lNISHING IN SECOND 2OB 'REEN WHO CONTINUES TO BATTLE WITH INJURY lNISHED IN SIXTH POSITION /N HIS DEBUT RUN FOR 5%!

"LAIR #AMPBELL CROSSED THE LINE IN lFTEENTH PLACE

*IMMY &ITTON HAD A REMARK ABLE RUN TO lNISH IN FORTY THIRD POSITION 4HIS WAS A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH CON SIDERING HIS PREVIOUS BEST IN THIS LEAGUE WAS EIGHTIETH (OWEVER PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY UNDOUBTEDLY CAME FROM !LI -C'EOCH 7ILLIAMS WHO lNISHED IN HIS HIGHEST POSITION FOR TWO SEASONS #ROSS #OUNTRY TEAM #APTAIN #ALUM .ICOL HAD THE FOLLOWING TO SAY OF !LI S PERFORMANCE h(E RAN AN OUTSTANDING RACE TO lNISH IN EIGHTH !LI IS NOT ONLY A TOP TEN lNISHER BUT ALSO THE MINI BUS DRIVER TREASURER AND CO MEDIAN )N SHORT AN ATHLETICS CLUB LEGEND v #ALUM WAS UNABLE TO RUN AFTER SUSTAINING A NASTY

.O TO (ODGSON

ANKLE INJURY ON A TRAINING RUN BUT HE WAS ON HAND TO INSPIRE HIS TEAM AT THE COM PETITION )N THE LADIES RACE %MMA #OOMBS FOLLOWED UP HER BRILLIANT RUN IN THE "53!S IN 3TIRLING BY lNISHING IN lRST POSITION #LUB 0RESIDENT *ESS 4ROWBRIDGE MADE IT INTO THE TOP THREE WHILE TRACK #AP TAIN *EMMA 4HAKE lNISHED IN SEVENTH 3TEF 2IPLEY COMPLETED THE LADIES TEAM WITH A STRONG RUN TO lNISH IN SEVENTEENTH

ON WHAT WAS HER DEBUT CROSS COUNTRY !FTER lNISHING THE RACE THE TEAM WERE TREATED TO HEARTY ARMY FOOD WHICH IN CLUDED STEAK AND KIDNEY PIES ALL ROUND

) AM A MAN ON A MISSION

AND THAT IS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT #HARLIE (ODGSON IS JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH 3COTLAND MAY BE BACK AS A RUGBY FORCE JUST AS MUCH AS %NGLAND ARE PLAYING BADLY

BUT ONCE AGAIN ON 3ATURDAY (ODGSON DID NOT DIRECT THE PLAY AND ALLOWED THE %NGLISH FORWARDS TOO MUCH BALL )N (ODGSON S DEFENCE

THERE ARE OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE %NGLAND TEAM SUCH AS LACK OF QUICK BALL AND THE LACK OF USE OF WIDTH

'ET WRITING

!THLETICS TEAM PUT IN STRONG SHOWING AT (YDE 0ARK RELAYS

*EMMA 4HAKE

4HE 5%! ATHLETICS TEAM EN JOYED A STRONG SHOWING AT THE RECENT (YDE 0ARK 5NI VERSITY 2ELAYS 4WO LADIES AND ONE MEN S TEAM TRAVELLED DOWN TO ,ONDON FOR THE ROAD RUN NING EVENT ORGANISED BY )M PERIAL #OLLEGE )T IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST EVENTS OF ITS KIND

ATTRACTING TEAMS FROM ACROSS %UROPE 4HE LADIES ! TEAM HAD THE BEST RESULT EVER BY A 5%!

TEAM lNISHING NINTH OUT OF FORTY SEVEN TEAMS *EMMA 4HAKE GOT THE TEAM OFF TO A SOLID START PASSING ON TO

*ESS 4ROWBRIDGE TAKING OVER FROM *EMMA 4HAKE *ESS 4ROWBRIDGE WHO RAN AN OUTSTANDING LEG TO GAIN NINTH POSITION 3ARAH !INSLEE PUT IN A STRONG PERFORMANCE AND HANDED OVER TO LAST LEG RUN

NER 3IAN ,OVELESS WHO RAN A GOOD RACE TO MAINTAIN THE TEAM S NINTH PLACE 4HE LA DIES lNISHED AHEAD OF LOCAL RIVALS #AMBRIDGE 5NIVERSITY

4HE LADIES " TEAM ALSO ENJOYED A GOOD PERFORMANCE

lNISHING IN TWENTY lFTH PO SITION %LSIE $OWNHAM GOT THE TEAM OFF TO A GREAT START WITH THE FASTEST TIME OF THE QUARTET 3USANNE !HLUND PUT IN A SOLID RUN ON WHAT WAS HER lRST OUTING OF THE SEA SON FOR 5%! &RANCESCA ,EE RAN WELL ON THE THIRD LEG AND MANAGED TO OVERTAKE lVE OTHER TEAMS TO HAND OVER TO ANCHOR LEG RUNNER 3TEFANIE 2IPLEY 3TEFANIE FRESH FROM BEING VOTED IN AS NEXT YEAR S CLUB 0RESIDENT UNLEASHED AN EXCITING SPRINT lNISH TO BRING THE TEAM HOME IN TWENTY lFTH 4HE MEN S TEAM UNFOR TUNATELY DID NOT lNISH BUT DESPITE THIS THERE WERE SOME

GOOD INDIVIDUAL PERFORM ANCES 'LEN 7ATTS HELPED THE TEAM TO AN OUTSTANDING START

COMING HOME IN SEVENTH POSITION !LI -C'EOCH 7IL LIAMS WHO HAS ENJOYED lNE FORM OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS

ONCE AGAIN RAN WELL TO lNISH IN SEVENTEENTH POSITION )N THE THIRD LEG 2OB 'REEN RAN BRILLIANTLY TO lN ISH IN ELEVENTH ESPECIALLY AS HE HAS BEEN BATTLING WITH A RECURRING INJURY 2UNNING THE FOURTH LEG WAS *OHNNY ,EE WHO PASSED ON TO *IM MY &ITTON IN TWELFTH PLACE *OE 4HOMPSON TOOK OVER FROM *IMMY IN TWENTY THIRD POSITION (OWEVER DUE TO ILLNESS HE WAS UNABLE TO lN ISH HIS LEG AFTER PUTTING IN A GOOD START

:IGGURAT CHALLENGERS COMPETE IN HUMAN VERSION OF #RUFTS -ARCUS *ONES 4HE SPORTING JUGGERNAUT THAT IS THE :IGGURAT CHAL LENGE HAS BEEN STEAMING ON OVER THE PAST MONTH AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF STEAMING AND LUMBERING IN THE OBSTACLE COURSE RACE TWO WEEKS AGO 0ICTURE IF YOU WILL THE HUMAN VERSION OF #RUFTS AND THE IMAGE IN YOUR MIND WILL PROBABLY NOT BE TOO DISSIMI LAR TO THE CUNNING COURSE THAT WAS LAID OUT IN THE 3PORTS

(ALL )NVOLVING AS IT DID RUN NING JUMPING SKIPPING SIT UPPING AND EVEN SPACE HOP PERING IT INEVITABLY BECAME FRANTIC AND FRENZIED AS SIX TEAM MEMBERS BID TO SET THE FASTEST TIME POSSIBLE WITH PENALTIES BEING INCURRED FOR SUCH MISDEMEANOURS AS KNOCKING OVER A HULA HOOP AS YOU ATTEMPTED TO CRAWL THROUGH A ROW OF FOUR OF THEM PRECARIOUSLY HELD UP

BY TWO BENCHES )T TRANSPIRED THAT #!0 WON COMFORTABLY WITH -%$ %$5 AND ,)4 BE ING SEPARATED BY ONLY EIGHT SECONDS IN THE OTHER PROMI NENT POSITIONS

,EAVING BEHIND EVENTS THAT BEAR A WORRYING RESEM BLANCE TO "IG "ROTHER TASKS

MIXED ROUNDERS TOOK TO THE mOOR LAST WEEK (OWEVER

THIS WAS ROUNDERS OF THE BEAT THE BALL VARIETY NAMELY THE BATSMAN HAS TO RUN ROUND ALL THE BASES BEFORE THE BALL HAS BEEN RETRIEVED AND THEN THROWN FROM BASE TO BASE IN SEQUENCE 4HIS MEANT THE lELDING SIDE REQUIRED AD EQUATE CATCHING AND THROW ING ABILITIES COUPLED WITH A CALM DISPOSITION WHILST THE BATTING SIDE SIMPLY HAD TO GO hHELL FOR LEATHERv AROUND THOSE BASES

%DITOR S #OLUMN

4HE VERY NATURE OF A GAME THAT REQUIRED RAPID RUNNING WHILST HOLDING A BAT RESULTED IN SOME lELDERS RECEIVING BLOWS AS THEY ACCI DENTALLY ON PURPOSE FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE PATH OF A STUDENT DESPERATELY STRAINING TO DIVE FOR THE SANCTUARY OF FOURTH BASE )NDEED IT WASN T ONLY THE TENNIS BALL THAT WAS PINGING AROUND THE ROOM AS CLAIM AND COUNTER CLAIM RESOUND ED AROUND THE HALLOWED BOARDS OF THE 3PORTS (ALL ")/ WOULD INSINUATE THAT THE $%6 BOWLER WAS BOWLING TOO HIGH WHILST $%6 WOULD

RETORT WITH THE ACCUSATION THAT THE LAST BATTER DID NOT RUN ROUND THE SECOND BASE PROPERLY !H THE SPIRIT OF :IGGURAT 7HEN THE RECRIMINATIONS HAD STOPPED %$5 HAD TRI UMPHED OVER ")/ AND $%6

A RESULT THAT HELPED ")/ INTO JOINT lRST POSITION OVERALL

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