Concrete - Issue 189

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5%! LECTURERS STRIKE FOR BETTER PAY -ELANIE *ONES /N 4UESDAY -ARCH TH

LECTURERS AND STUDENTS GATHERED OUTSIDE THE 0OR TER S ,ODGE TO STRIKE OVER PAY 4HE !54 TOOK INDUS TRIAL ACTION AT THIS CRUCIAL TIME AS THE lNAL STRAW IN THE DISPUTE OVER LECTURERSg PAY AND WORKING CONDI TIONS 7ITH THE INTRODUCTION OF TOP UP FEES IN 3EPTEMBER

LECTURERS WISH TO GET A SUB STANTIAL PAY INCREASE IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THE EXTRA WORKLOAD THEY HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKING IN RECENT YEARS 4HE SLOGAN ON THE mYERS BEING HANDED OUT SUMMED UP THE SITUA TION h/VERWORKED 5NDER VALUED 5NDERPAIDv 2UPERT 2EAD HEAD OF THE !54 AT 5%!

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)NTERNATIONAL #ENTRE TO BE BUILT AS #OCA #OLA COULD BE BOYCOTTED ON PART OF a MILLION JOINT PROJECT CAMPUS AS CAMPAIGN REACHES 5%! *ANE $OUGLAS .EWS %DITOR !N INTERNATIONAL CENTRE IS TO BE BUILT AT 5%! AS PART OF A a MILLION PROJECT DESIGNED TO GIVE THE UNI VERSITY A GREATER STAKE IN THE LUCRATIVE INTERNATIONAL

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STUDENT MARKET 4HE INITIATIVE IS A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN 5%! AND ).4/ 5NIVERSITY 0ARTNER SHIPS THAT WILL MEAN

SQUARE FEET OF LEARNING AND ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES BEING CONSTRUCTED ON CAM PUS 4HE PROJECT WILL RECRUIT AND COUNSEL STUDENTS IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY BEFORE

OFFERING THEM HIGH QUAL ITY FACILITIES AND hPATHWAYv PROGRAMMES LEADING TO UN DERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADU ATE COURSES WHEN THEY REACH 5%!

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6ICE #HANCELLOR $AVID %ASTWOOD COMMENT ED h4HIS INVESTMENT PRESENTS AN UNRIVALLED OPPORTUNITY TO #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

3ARAH %DWARDES %DITOR 5%! 3TUDENTS 5NION HAS TAKEN THE lRST STEPS TO WARDS A COMPLETE BOYCOTT OF #OCA #OLA PRODUCTS ON CAMPUS )F IMPLEMENTED

THE BOYCOTT WOULD SEE

DRINKS INCLUDING #OCA #OLA AND $IET #OKE &ANTA

$R 0EPPER ,ILT AND /ASIS DISAPPEAR FROM 5NION OUTLETS 5NION #OUNCIL MEMBERS VOTED IN FAVOUR OF A MOTION MANDATING THE 5NION TO SUPPORT CALLS FOR A BOYCOTT AT THE MEETING ON 4HURSDAY -ARCH TH 4HE DECISION

WAS MADE IN RESPONSE TO AN INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN BE ING RUN BY THE #OLOMBIAN &OOD AND $RINK 7ORKERS 5NION WHICH HAS ACCUSED #OCA #OLA OF SUPPRESSING ITS ACTIVITY )T HAS CLAIMED THE COMPANY OPERATES UN ETHICALLY IN #OLOMBIA 0A KISTAN 4URKEY AND )NDIA #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

4HE 'O 4EAM -ARGARET !TWOOD &ASHION PRINTS

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

3TUDENTS SHOW SUPPORT FOR LECTURERS

#ONTINUED FROM 0AGE hBRAIN DRAINv IN THE PROFES SION h) HAVE MANY FRIENDS THAT ARE CONSIDERING MOVING ABROAD WHERE THE WORKLOAD

IS A LOT LESS AND THE PAY IS FAR MORE COMPETITIVE v 3OME LECTURERS ARE EVEN CONSIDER ING CHANGING PROFESSION 4HIS WOULD BE DAMAGING TO

#/.4%.43 .%73 ! MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY S STATUE OF 7INSTON #HURCHILL IN A STRAITJACKET HAS CAUSED CONTROVERSY IN .ORWICH CITY CENTRE

!S UNIVERSITIES MOVE CLOSER TO THE INTRODUCTION OF TOP UP FEES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE APPLYING FOR PLACES HAS DROPPED FOR THE lRST TIME IN SIX YEARS

&%!452%3 7ITH A TURNOUT OF UNDER IN THE 5NION %XECUTIVE ELECTIONS 5%! STUDENTS ARE IGNORING THEIR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

LECTURERS AND TO THE STANDARD OF EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS 4HROUGH THIS STRIKE

THE LECTURERS HOPE TO MAKE THEIR EMPLOYERS REALISE THAT

THEY ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR AIMS 4HIS STRIKE AND THE AS SESSMENT BOYCOTT IS THE BEST WAY TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM AND WHILE IT DOES AFFECT STUDENTS THE LECTURERS BELIEVE IT WILL BENElT THEM IN THE END "Y HAVING WELL PAID MORE VALUED STAFF THEY WILL BE BETTER MOTIVATED AND MORE PRODUCTIVE 4HE GENERAL FEELING ON THE DAY WAS ONE OF SOLIDAR ITY AND DESPITE THE COLD AND RAIN IT WAS POSITIVE 4HERE WAS A LARGE RED BANNER DRAW ING THE ATTENTION OF PASS ING CARS AND BUSES MANY OF WHICH SOUNDED THEIR HORNS IN SUPPORT !LTHOUGH SOME STUDENTS SAW IT AS hA GOOD REASON TO GET ANOTHER DAY OFFv THERE WAS MUCH SUPPORT FOR THE ONE DAY STRIKE

3TUDENTS MARCHED TO THE PICKET LINE ON THE DAY BRAV ING THE BAD WEATHER AND EARLY START TO CONlRM THEIR SOLIDARITY WITH THE LECTURERS WHO WERE A TOWER OF STRENGTH FOR STUDENTS WHEN THEY WERE BATTLING AGAINST THE INTRO DUCTION OF TOP UP FEES (OWEVER THERE HAS BEEN NOTED ANXIETY OVER THE ASSESS MENT BOYCOTT PARTICULARLY AMONG lNAL YEAR STUDENTS AS IT MAY THREATEN THEIR GRADU ATION 4HE PRESIDENT OF THE 5%! !54 VOICED HIS CONCERN ABOUT THE EFFECTS THIS STRIKE COULD HAVE ON STUDENTS AT A 5NION #OUNCIL MEETING LAST 4HURSDAY WHERE STUDENTS VOTED IN SUPPORT OF THE !54 (E SAID THAT THE !54 ARE HOPEFUL THAT THIS ISSUE CAN BE RESOLVED AS QUICKLY AS

POSSIBLE TO AVOID ANY FURTHER DISRUPTION TO STUDENTS %MPLOYERS HAVE SET THE COMMENCEMENT DATE FOR TALKS AT THE END OF -ARCH

SO THE ASSESSMENT STRIKE WILL CONTINUE AT LEAST UNTIL THEN AND UNTIL THE !54 IS GIVEN A hSERIOUS OFFERv 4HIS HAS PROMPTED QUESTIONS AS TO WHY IF EMPLOYERS ARE WILLING TO TALK THEY WILL NOT DO SO SOONER ! FURTHER BLOW TO THE LECTURERS CAME THIS 4HURSDAY WHEN IT BECAME APPARENT THAT WHILE THE LECTURERS PAY HAS DECLINED VICE CHANCEL LORS PAY HAS INCREASED BY AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 4HIS HAS MADE MANY LECTURERS WONDER WHETHER THEY REALLY ARE VALUED ENOUGH BY THEIR EMPLOYERS

a MILLION INTERNATIONAL CENTRE TO OPEN AT 5%! #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE BRING TOGETHER HIGH QUALITY NEW INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERI ENCED INTERNATIONAL MARKET ING AND A STRATEGIC VISION TO ENABLE THE 5NIVERSITY TO EX CEL IN AN EXTREMELY COMPETI TIVE MARKET FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS v 4HE CENTRE DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE AROUND STUDENTS WILL OFFER INTERNA TIONAL STUDENTS A CHANCE TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE SKILLS AND ACADEMIC QUALIlCATIONS BEFORE THEY EMBARK UPON

THEIR FULL DEGREES AS WELL AS GIVING THEM A TASTE OF UNIVER SITY LIFE 4UITION FEES FOR THE hPATHWAYv COURSES ARE TO BE SET a LOWER THAN SIMI LAR PROGRAMMES IN THE 5+ )NTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CONTRIBUTE a BILLION AN NUALLY TO "RITAIN S ECONOMY !LTHOUGH THE NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IS SET TO TRIPLE BY "RITAIN S OVERALL SHARE IN THE MARKET IS DECLINING WITH OTHER COUN TRIES SUCH AS THE 53 OFFERING CHEAPER AND INCREASINGLY

WELL REGARDED COURSES ).4/ 5NIVERSITY 0ART NERSHIPS HAS SECURED a MILLION OF PRIVATE lNANCE TO DEVELOP A SMALL CLUB OF UNI VERSITIES COMMITTED TO MAIN TAINING "RITAIN S STAKE IN THIS AREA OF THE STUDENT MARKET !NDREW #OLIN THE ).4/ 5NIVERSITY 0ARTNERSHIPS #HAIRMAN

COMMENTED h4HERE WILL BE WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION MARKET 4HE WIN NERS WILL BE THOSE THAT INVEST IN HIGH QUALITY PROVISION

AND SECURE ACCESS TO FUNDING TO BUILD BRAND AND PRESENCE IN HIGHLY COMPETITIVE INTER NATIONAL MARKETS v 4HE JOINT PROJECT IS SAID TO OFFER THE UNIVERSITY CONTROL OVER hKEY STRATEGIC ELEMENTSv OF THE INITIATIVE WHILST BRING ING PRIVATE MONEY AND EX PERTISE INTO THE PARTNERSHIP OF 5%! S CURRENT STUDENTS ARE FROM OUTSIDE THE %5 4HIS VENTURE HOPES TO RAISE THE 5NIVERSITY S PROlLE AS AN INSTITUTION COMMITTED TO INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

'RADUATION AND THE 'RAD "ALL ARE BIG EVENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY CALENDAR BUT ARE THEY ALSO A WASTE OF MONEY

,)&%349,% 'IVING BLOOD IS SIMPLE AND EASY AND LATER ON THIS YEAR THE .ATIONAL "LOOD 3ERVICE WILL BRING ITS CLINIC TO 5%!

3TUDIES ON CHIMPS HAVE SHOWN THAT ALTRUISM COULD BE AN INHERENT RATHER THAN A LEARNED ANIMAL CHARACTERISTIC

#/--%.4 4HE 5NION S SURVEY ON ANONYMOUS MARKING HAS NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT THE POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE OF THE SYSTEM

30/24 4HE 5%! MEN S FOOTBALL TEAM LOOK SET TO TAKE HOME THE SILVERWARE FROM A NUMBER OF LOCAL lXTURES THIS MONTH

5%! S KORFBALL TEAM HAVE BECOME ONLY THE SECOND UNI TO WIN TWO BACK TO BACK TITLES AT THE "53! .ATIONALS EVENT

3MALL STEPS TOWARDS A CAMPUS #OCA #OLA BOYCOTT #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE 4HE 3TUDENTS 5NION IS CUR RENTLY PREVENTED FROM IM PLEMENTING A FULL BOYCOTT OF #OCA #OLA PRODUCTS BECAUSE IT IS A MEMBER OF .53 3ERV ICES ,IMITED .533, WHICH HAS EXCLUSIVE CONTRACTS WITH THE COMPANY 7HEN THESE CONTRACTS COME UP FOR RENE GOTIATION AT THE .53 CON FERENCE IN !PRIL THIS YEAR

MANY DELEGATES ARE EXPECTED TO BACK A CAMPAIGN CALLING FOR THE .53 TO TERMINATE ITS LINKS WITH #OCA #OLA 4HE MOTION S PROPOSER

'REEN PARTY REP *ACK 'UEST

SAID h-ULTI NATIONAL COR PORATIONS LIKE #OCA #OLA ARE RICHER AND MORE POWER FUL THAN MOST COUNTRIES 7E CANNOT ENDORSE THEIR EXPLOI TATION OF WORKERS AND THE

ENVIRONMENT IN THE DEVELOP ING WORLD NOT WHILE WE CAN CHANGE THEIR BUSINESS PRAC TICES BY STANDING TOGETHER AS A 5NION AND REFUSING TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS v h7ITH COMPANIES OBLIGED TO MAKE PROlT CORPORATE SO CIAL RESPONSIBILITY CAN ONLY WORK IF IT S IN THE INTERESTS OF THE BOTTOM LINE 5NIVERSITIES AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING /XFORD "RISTOL .OTTINGHAM AND 9ORK ARE ALREADY BOY COTTING #OKE v %NVIRONMENT /FlCER *ENNY 'ALLATLY WHO SECOND ED THE MOTION SAID h-ANY STUDENTS HAVE ASKED ME HOW THE 5NION CAN JUSTIFY SELLING #OCA #OLA PRODUCTS WHEN SOME OF THE POOREST COMMU NITIES IN THE WORLD ARE SUFFER ING AS A RESULT OF #OCA #OLA S

ACTIVITIES v )F THE .53 CONTRACT IS DISCONTINUED THE 5NION WILL BE ABLE TO HOLD A POLICY BALLOT TO DETERMINE WHETHER STUDENTS AT 5%! WANT #OCA #OLA PRODUCTS TO BE BANNED ON CAMPUS %THICAL )SSUES /FlCER *EN NI #ARTER SAID h) THINK *ACK AND *ENNY HAVE RAISED AN IMPORTANT ISSUE !LTHOUGH A LOT IS DEPENDENT ON THE OUTCOME OF THE VOTE AT .53 #ONFERENCE ) HOPE THAT THIS WILL BE PUT TO REFERENDUM IN THE SAME WAY THE .ESTLÏ BOY COTT WAS SO STUDENTS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THE ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST #OCA #OLA v "EFORE A lNAL DECISION IS REACHED THE 5NION WILL LOOK INTO THE lNANCIAL IMPLICA

TIONS OF A BOYCOTT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE EFFECTS OF BOTH A FULL AND A PARTIAL SUS PENSION )T WILL ALSO INVES TIGATE ALTERNATIVE CONTRACTS WHICH COULD BE ENTERED INTO TO COMBAT ANY POTENTIAL LOSS OF REVENUE 4HE MOVEMENT AGAINST #OCA #OLA HAS COME AT A TIME WHEN lZZY DRINKS COM PANIES ARE ALREADY FACING SIGNIlCANT OPPOSITION FROM ANTI OBESITY LOBBIES WITH THE GOVERNMENT S PROPOS ALS TO BAN JUNK FOOD FROM SCHOOLS LOOKING SET TO IM PACT ON SALES NATIONWIDE &OR MORE INFORMATION

!NDY (IGGINBOTTOM FROM THE #OLOMBIA 3OLIDARITY #AMPAIGN WILL SPEAK AT 5%!

ON -ONDAY TH -ARCH FROM PM IN !RTS

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

#AREERS EVENT FOR WRITERS 4HE #AREERS IN 7RITING AND #OMMUNICATION FAIR WILL BE HELD IN #ONSTABLE 4ERRACE #OMMON 2OOM ON -ONDAY -ARCH TH 4HE EVENT WHICH TAKES PLACE BETWEEN NOON AND PM WILL FEATURE 5%! GRADU ATES AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS FROM lELDS INCLUDING JOUR NALISM AND PUBLISHING 4HEY WILL BE OFFERING lRST HAND ADVICE FOR STUDENTS SEEKING A CAREER IN THE CREATIVE MEDIA

3TUDENT BUDDY SCHEME AT 5%! ! STUDENT hBUDDYv SCHEME FOR SIXTH FORM PUPILS IN .OR FOLK AND 3UFFOLK IS BEING PI LOTED AT 5%!

0UPILS TAKING PART IN THE PLACEMENTS SPEND HALF A DAY ON CAMPUS SHADOWING AN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT 4HEY ALSO HAVE A TOUR OF THEIR CHO SEN FACULTY AND ATTEND A LEC TURE OR SEMINAR &OR MORE IN FORMATION CONTACT AMANDA LEE UEA AC UK

-ATURE STUDENTS FACE MORE FEES 'LORIA $EWALT -ATURE STUDENTS MAY BE FORCED TO PAY a WORTH OF TOP UP FEES IN ADVANCE FOR THE UPCOMING ACADEMIC YEAR 4HOSE AFFECTED MOST BY THE NEW LOAN RULES WILL BE MATURE STUDENTS WHO PREVI OUSLY BENElTED FROM lNAN CIAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE STATE TO OBTAIN A DEGREE AND MATURE STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN HIGHER EDU CATION 4HE $EPARTMENT OF %DU CATION AND 3KILLS HAS AN NOUNCED THAT THESE STUDENTS WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR GRANTS OR LOANS THAT ALLOW THEM TO DE FER LOAN PAYMENTS UNTIL THEY ARE ABLE TO SUSTAIN EMPLOY MENT FULL TIME )T APPEARS THAT THE ONLY GROUP OF STUDENTS SPARED FROM THIS NEW hUP FRONTv TOP UP RULE ARE THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN A FOUNDATION

DEGREE OR HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA BEFORE EMBARKING ON AN UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE +RISTY ,LOYD A GRADUATE STU DENT FROM ,EICESTER -EDICAL 3CHOOL SAID SHE WOULD CER TAINLY HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO lND THE a TO lNANCE HER EDUCATION SHOULD SHE HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY THE NEW RULES !LREADY THE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS IS ANTICI PATING THAT A THIRD OF ITS STU DENTS MAY HAVE TO POSTPONE THEIR COURSES 6ICE 0RESIDENT OF THE .53 *ULIAN .ICHOLDS SAID h4HE GOVERNMENT MUST REC OGNIZE THE DETERRENT EFFECT THAT TOP UP FEES WILL HAVE ON MANY )T IS OUTRAGEOUS TO EXPECT THOSE STUDENTS WHO HAVE STUDIED PREVIOUSLY TO PAY a FEES UP FRONT v &UTURE MODIlCATIONS TO THE NEW UP FRONT TOP UP FEE WILL CERTAINLY BE MADE KNOWN BUT AT THE MOMENT IT LOOKS AS IF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE NEW RULES MAY PROVE GRAVE

7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

#HURCHILL STATUE CAUSES FURORE 3ARAH %DWARDES %DITOR ! STATUE AT THE &ORUM IN CENTRAL .ORWICH DEPICTING 3IR 7INSTON #HURCHILL IN A STRAITJACKET HAS BEEN CON DEMNED BY THE POLITICIAN S GRANDSON #ONSERVATIVE -0 .ICHO LAS 3OAMES DESCRIBED THE STATUE WHICH WAS COMMIS SIONED BY MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY 2ETHINK AS hPATHET ICv 4HE STATUE WAS PRODUCED TO HIGHLIGHT THE STIGMA SUR ROUNDING MENTAL ILLNESS )T WAS UNVEILED AS PART OF A MONTH LONG ANTI DISCRIMINA TION CAMPAIGN BY THE CHAR ITY WHICH AIMS TO COUNTERACT PREJUDICIAL AND MISLEADING DEPICTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH 4HE FORMER 0RIME -IN ISTER SUFFERED FROM EPISODES OF DEPRESSION DURING HIS LIFETIME AND WAS CHOSEN BY 2ETHINK AS AN EXAMPLE OF A PUBLIC lGURE WHO WENT ON TO GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS DESPITE BATTLING MENTAL ILLNESS 4HE CHARITY S CHIEF EX ECUTIVE #LIFF 0RIOR SAID h7E CHOSE THE FORMER 0RIME -INISTER TO SHOW THAT MENTAL ILLNESS SHOULD NOT BE A BAR

3TUDENT MAGAZINE )N 4RAN SIT IS LOOKING FOR MULTILIN GUAL WRITING BE IT POETRY OR PROSE FROM 3PANISH TO 3WA HILI FROM SIGN LANGUAGE TO SLANG IN %LVISH OR !MERICAN %NGLISH FROM TEXT MESSAGE SCRAWL TO HIP HOP SLUR 4HEY NEED POETRY OF LINES OR LESS AND PROSE lC TION OR TRAVEL WRITING OF UP TO WORDS 3END YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO INTRANSIT? MAGAZINE YAHOO CO UK BY -ONDAY -ARCH TH

RIER TO LEADERSHIP HISTORIC SIGNIlCANCE AND POPULARITY )F THE GENERAL PUBLIC S NEGA TIVE VIEWS ON MENTAL HEALTH HELD SWAY 7INSTON #HURCH ILL WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN AN -0 LET ALONE 0RIME -INIS TER v 4HE AIM OF THE STATUE WAS TO PROVOKE DEBATE ABOUT THE IMPACT OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ON A PERSON S SO CIAL AND WORK LIFE -R 0RIOR SAID h2ETHINK S INNOVA TIVE ANTI STIGMA CAMPAIGN IN .ORWICH IS CHALLENGING THE NOTION THAT PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS CANNOT HOLD PUBLIC OFlCE OR CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORLD AROUND THEM v 4HE STATUE WAS UNVEILED BY -0 )AN 'IBSON IN A CERE MONY ON &RIDAY -ARCH TH -R 'IBSON HAS DEFENDED THE DECISION TO DEPICT 7INSTON #HURCHILL FOR THE CAMPAIGN (E SAID THAT THOSE WHO CRITI CISED THE STATUE HAD hMISIN TERPRETEDv THE CHARITY S MO TIVES IN COMMISSIONING THE WORK 4HE STATUE IS FT HIGH AND MADE OF BRONZE AND GLASS l BRE )T WILL REMAIN ON DISPLAY IN THE &ORUM BUILDING UNTIL THE END OF -ARCH -ORE IN FORMATION ON THE CAMPAIGN IS GIVEN BELOW

&ORMER STUDENT CO WRITES lLM ! lLM CO WRITTEN BY A FORMER 5%! STUDENT IS SET TO BE RE LEASED ON $6$ -ARK 4ILTON WHO STUDIED FOR A #REATIVE 7RITING -! AT 5%! IN CO WROTE THE MURDER MYSTERY lLM ENTI TLED 4HE 4RUTH WITH 'EORGE -ILTON 4HE lLM HAS BEEN WELL RECEIVED IN ,ONDON AND IS SET TO PLAY AT lLM FESTIVALS ACROSS THE COUNTRY )T IS DUE TO BE RELEASED ON $6$ IN THE 3PRING

%UROPEAN NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE

-ENTAL HEALTH CHARITY LAUNCHES ANTI DISCRIMINATION PROJECT "ENJAMIN 7OODS -ENTAL HEALTH CHARITY 2E THINK HAS BEGUN A MONTH LONG CAMPAIGN IN A BID TO STAMP OUT THE STIGMA AS SOCIATED WITH MENTAL ILL NESS IN .ORWICH ,AUNCHED AT 4HE !S SEMBLY (OUSE ON 7EDNES DAY -ARCH ST THE 2ETHINK !NTI $ISCRIMINATION 3ITE 0ILOT 2!3 WILL CONCENTRATE a ON A RANGE OF PUB LIC ACTIONS DEALING WITH THE FEARS SURROUNDING MENTAL ILL HEALTH 3PEAKING AT THE LAUNCH

THE 2ETHINK DIRECTOR OF CAM PAIGNING 0AUL #ORRY STATED h2ETHINK IS EXTREMELY EXCITED TO BE LAUNCHING THIS INNO VATIVE ANTI DISCRIMINATION PROJECT IN .ORWICH WHICH WE HOPE WILL HELP TO SOLVE THE THREE BIGGEST MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS PREJUDICE

IGNORANCE AND FEAR v 2ETHINK PROVIDES THE LARGEST SINGLE MENTAL HEALTH

4HE !SSEMBLY (OUSE .ORWICH PROJECT IN .ORFOLK )TS WORK IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR .ORWICH WHICH HAS MORE ANTI DEPRESSANTS PRESCRIBED THAN THE WHOLE OF #ENTRAL AND %ASTERN %NGLAND AND

)N 4RANSIT SEEKS STUDENT WRITERS

HAS A SUICIDE RATE HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE 4HE CAMPAIGN IS SET TO TAKE TO THE STREETS WITH LO CALLY THEMED ACTIVITIES AND FUNDRAISERS LOOKING FOR LOOSE

CHANGE )NFORMATIVE ADVERTS ABOUT THE CHARITY AND ITS ACTIONS WILL ALSO APPEAR ON BUSES BUS STOPS BILLBOARDS AND LOCAL RADIO THROUGHOUT -ARCH

4HE 2ETHINK TEAM KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT SCHEMES OF THIS NATURE CAN REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO PUBLIC AWARENESS AS ANTI STIGMA CAMPAIGNS IN .EW :EALAND AND 3COTLAND WERE MET WITH RESOUNDING SUC CESS PAVING THE WAY FOR FU TURE PROJECTS 4HE 2ETHINK SCHEME WILL BE BASED AT THE &ORUM UN TIL &RIDAY -ARCH TH AND BEGAN WITH THE UNVEILING OF THE CONTROVERSIAL #HURCHILL STATUE ON -ARCH TH 4HE PUBLIC CAN EXPECT TO lND STAFF ON STALLS DEALING WITH RELATED QUESTIONS A SPECIALLY DESIGNATED MENTAL HEALTH LITERATURE SECTION AND BOOK SIGNINGS FROM 0HIL 0ETTICAN AND :OE -CINTOCH #ORRY HOPES THAT THE IN FORMATION GAINED FROM THE ADVERTISEMENTS AND EVENTS WILL BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE AN ON GOING CAMPAIGN IN THE CITY AS WELL AS A POSSI BLE GOVERNMENT FUNDED NA TIONAL ANTI DISCRIMINATION CAMPAIGN TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE COUNTRY

!N EVENING OF %UROPEAN THEMED ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE HELD AT THE $RAMA 3TUDIO ON 4HURSDAY RD -ARCH 4HE EVENT ORGANISED BY ,,4 S +EN ,ODGE WILL INCLUDE DRAMA MUSIC AND READINGS FROM A RANGE OF %UROPEAN CULTURES CONCLUDING WITH A PERFORMANCE FROM THE .OR DANSKO DANCE GROUP !DMISSION IS FREE BUT BY TICKET ONLY 4HE EVENT STARTS AT PM AND WILL BE FOLLOWED

BY A DANCE WORKSHOP

,IGHTING DEMO FOR 7EEK 5NION #OUNCIL PASSED A MO TION AT ITS MEETING LAST WEEK TO LOBBY THE #ITY #OUNCIL AND 5NIVERSITY TO IMPROVE LIGHTING BETWEEN THE 6ILLAGE AND CAMPUS 4HE 5NION HAS BEEN CALL ING FOR INCREASED LIGHTING IN THIS AREA FOR YEARS AND IS NOW DETERMINED TO SEE IT IM PLEMENTED AS A NEW WAVE OF VIOLENT ATTACKS THREATENS STU DENT SAFETY ! DEMONSTRATION IN AID OF THIS CAMPAIGN IS TO TAKE PLACE AT PM ON 7EDNESDAY OF 7EEK

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

#ARTOONS EDITOR RETURNS TO WORK 4HE STUDENT NEWSPAPER EDI TOR WHO PRINTED THE CONTRO VERSIAL CARTOONS DEPICTING THE 0ROPHET -UHAMMED HAS BEEN REINSTATED 4OM 7ELLINGHAM OF #AR DIFF 5NIVERSITY S 'AIR 2HYDD NEWSPAPER WAS FOUND GUILTY OF hBRINGING THE 5NION INTO DISREPUTEv BUT HAS BEEN AL LOWED TO RESUME HIS ROLE AS EDITOR 4HE JOURNALIST WHO WROTE THE STORY HAS BEEN CLEARED OF WRONGDOING BY THE 5NION S $ISCIPLINE AND #OMPLAINTS COMMITTEE

#ALLS TO DISMISS hRACISTv LECTURER 3TUDENTS AT ,EEDS 5NIVERSITY ARE CALLING FOR THE DISMISSAL OF ONE OF THEIR LECTURERS AFTER HE MADE RACIST COMMENTS IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THEIR STU DENT NEWSPAPER &RANK %LLIS TOLD ,EEDS 3TUDENT THAT MULTICULTURAL ISM IS hDOOMED TO FAILUREv BECAUSE hIT IS BASED ON THE LIE THAT ALL PEOPLE RACES AND CULTURES ARE EQUALv 4HE UNIVERSITY HAVE RE FUSED TO SACK $R %LLIS ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE IS ENTITLED TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH

3TUDENTS TAUGHT SOCIAL SKILLS 5NDERGRADUATES AT -ANCHES TER 5NIVERSITY ARE TO BE GIVEN TRAINING IN SOCIAL SKILLS IN CLUDING ADVICE ON HOW TO hMEET AND GREETv AN EMPLOY ER AND WHAT TO WEAR FOR IM PORTANT BUSINESS MEETINGS 4HE DECISION TO OFFER STU DENTS FORMAL SOCIAL SKILLS ADVICE FOLLOWS COMPLAINTS FROM THE !SSOCIATION OF 'RADUATE 2ECRUITERS THAT MANY UNIVERSITY LEAVERS LACK KNOWLEDGE OF BASIC INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES

,ANCASTER SIX TO HAVE REHEARING 3IX ,ANCASTER 5NIVERSITY STU DENTS WHO WERE FOUND GUILTY OF !GGRAVATED 4RESPASS AFTER THEY INTERRUPTED A #ORPORATE 6ENTURING CONFERENCE HAVE BEEN GRANTED A REHEARING 4HE PROTESTERS CLAIMED THEY WERE ACTING PEACEFULLY WHEN THEY ENTERED THE CON FERENCE TO HAND OUT LEAmETS

BUT THE *UDGE FOUND THEY HAD DISRUPTED PROCEEDINGS 4HEIR CASE HAS BEEN SUP PORTED BY THE .53 AND HU MAN RIGHTS GROUP ,IBERTY

$ROP IN UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS 0RISCILLA -C#LAY 4HE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS .53 FEARS THAT TOP UP FEES ARE PUTTING THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEO PLE OFF UNIVERSITY AS lG URES SHOW THE lRST DROP IN APPLICATIONS FOR SIX YEARS 3TARTING FROM 3EPTEMBER

UNIVERSITIES WILL BE ABLE TO CHARGE UP TO a A YEAR IN TUITION FEES AND MANY STU DENTS WILL HAVE TO TAKE OUT A LOAN TO COVER THIS AMOUNT 4HIS IS IN ADDITION TO THE LOAN ALREADY OFFERED TO EXIST ING STUDENTS TO COVER LIVING COSTS 3TUDENT LEADERS ARE CON CERNED THAT THE PROSPECT OF THIS AMOUNT OF DEBT IS RE SPONSIBLE FOR THE FALL IN APPLICATIONS ANNOUNCED BY 5#!3 IN &EBRUARY 4HE LINK IS SUPPORTED BY THE RISE IN %NGLISH APPLICANTS TO INSTITU TIONS IN 3COTLAND AND 7ALES

WHERE TOP UP FEES HAVE NOT YET BEEN INTRODUCED +AT &LETCHER 0RESIDENT OF THE .53 HAS EXPRESSED CON

&ULL LECTURE THEATRES AN IMAGE OF THE PAST CERN AT THE STATISTICS 3HE SAID h(IGHER EDUCATION MUST NOT BECOME A COMMODITY RE SERVED FOR THOSE WHO CAN AF FORD IT v 3UPPORTERS OF THE NEW FEE SYSTEM ARGUE THAT GOVERN MENT GRANTS OF UP TO a

A YEAR FOR STUDENTS FROM POORER BACKGROUNDS AS WELL

AS BURSARIES FROM UNIVERSI TIES WILL ENSURE THAT HIGHER EDUCATION IS STILL AVAILABLE TO ALL 4HEY SAY THE DROP IN AP PLICATIONS HAS BEEN RELATIVELY SMALL AND THE PROPORTION OF STUDENTS FROM FAMILIES ON LOW INCOMES HAS NOT BEEN AFFECTED (OWEVER THERE ARE CON

CERNS THAT THE NEW FEES RE MAIN A DAUNTING PROSPECT h)T IS OFF PUTTING v SAID 2OSE -C#LAY

CURRENTLY APPLY ING TO UNIVERSITIES h) DECID ED TO GO IN THE END BUT ) CAN SEE WHY PEOPLE WOULDN Tv 3HE ALSO POINTS TO A LACK OF CLEAR INFORMATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT ABOUT WHAT

HELP SHE IS ENTITLED TO h) HAD TO PICK IT UP FROM DIFFERENT TALKS AT UNIVERSITY OPEN DAYS )T WAS VERY CONFUSING v !T 5%!

BURSARIES OF UP TO a WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT YEAR TO STUDENTS ON GOV ERNMENT GRANTS AND SCHOLAR SHIPS WILL ALSO BE OFFERED TO THE MOST ACADEMICALLY ABLE

6IOLENT ATTACKS FUEL STUDENTS CRITICISMS OF SAFETY ON CAMPUS ,EE !NN 2ICHARDS /VER THE PAST FEW WEEKS THE 5NIVERSITY HAS SEEN A MARKED INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF ASSAULTS TAK ING PLACE ON CAMPUS 4HIS HAS LEFT MANY STAFF AND STUDENTS AT THE 5NIVERSITY QUESTIONING THEIR SAFETY /NE OF THE MOST RECENT ATTACKS OCCURRED ON -ONDAY &EBRUARY TH 4HE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE AT PM WHEN A MEMBER OF THE 3AINSBURY LABORATORY STAFF WAS ATTACKED

BY SOMEONE DRIVING A GOLF BUGGY 4HE MEMBER OF STAFF WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN CROSSING THE BRIDGE TO 5%!

ON THE #OLNEY ,INK PATH WHEN A GOLF BUGGY WAS DRIV EN INTO HIS BACK (E WAS THEN PUSHED TO THE GROUND WHERE HE WAS REPEATEDLY KICKED RE SULTING IN SEVERE BRUISING TO HIS FACE AND BODY 4HE POLICE WHO ARE IN VESTIGATING THE INCIDENT

HAVE SAID THAT THE BUGGY WAS STOLEN FROM A LOCAL GOLF COURSE 4HEY BELIEVE THAT THE ATTACK WAS COMMITTED BY ONE OF TWO GROUPS OF YOUTHS

!TTACKS HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE AREAS HIGHLIGHTED IN RED WHO ARE NOTORIOUS FOR TARGET ING STUDENTS ON 7ILBERFORCE ROAD AND THE MAIN CAMPUS 4HIS ATTACK IS ONE OF MANY THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE LAST MONTH AT 5%!

THREAT ENING THE SECURITY OF THE 5NIVERSITY /N 7EDNESDAY -ARCH ST WHILST CYCLING ON THE PATH BETWEEN 3PORTSPARK AND THE MAIN 5NIVERSITY CAR PARK A STUDENT SPOTTED EIGHT YOUTHS 3HE REPORTED THIS TO THE 3ECURITY ,ODGE

&IFTEEN MINUTES LATER A STU DENT TAKING THE SAME ROUTE ON HIS BICYCLE ENCOUNTERED THE YOUTHS AND WAS CHASED

BY THEM &ORTUNATELY THEY DID NOT CATCH HIM BUT THEY DAMAGED HIS BICYCLE -OST OF THE ATTACKS HAVE TAKEN PLACE ON 5NIVERSITY $RIVE THE #OLNEY ,INK PATH

#OW $RIVE TOWARDS "LUEBELL 2OAD AND %ARLHAM 0ARK 4HE ATTACKERS HAVE TARGETED 5%!

STAFF AND STUDENTS AND HAVE

LEFT MANY OF THEIR VICTIMS SE RIOUSLY INJURED 4HE 3ECURITY ,ODGE ARE IMPLEMENTING A RANGE OF PRECAUTIONS TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ATTACKS ON CAM PUS WHICH INCLUDE GREATER POLICE AND SECURITY PRESENCE 0EOPLE HAVE BEEN ENCOUR AGED TO TAKE LIFTS FROM FRIENDS AND TO INVEST IN PERSONAL ALARMS 4HE 5NIVERSITY HAVE ALSO ORGANISED TAXI PICK UPS FOR MEMBERS OF STAFF WHO

WORK LATE (OWEVER STUDENTS AT THE 5NIVERSITY HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR CONCERNS OVER HOW THESE ATTACKS HAVE BEEN HAN DLED BY THE 5NIVERSITY )F 5%!

PREVIOUSLY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE SAFEST CAMPUSES IN THE COUNTRY DOES NOT TAKE CONTROL OF THESE ATTACKS THEN THEY COULD GET OUT OF HAND !LEJANDRA 2OUGON A 3AINSBURY LABORATORY 0($ STUDENT SAID h0EOPLE RE SPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY IN THOSE AREAS ARE NOT SEEING THE SEVERITY OF THE PROBLEM )T IS VERY SERIOUS 4HE PHYSI CAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DAM AGE AFTER SOMEONE HAS BEEN BEATEN CAN BE IRREVERSIBLE )N ADDITION THERE IS A VERY REAL CHANCE OF THE SEVERITY OF THESE ATTACKS ESCALATING IF THE PERPETRATORS CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH IT v h) THINK THAT MORE FRE QUENT SECURITY RUNS ARE NOT HELPING TO SOLVE THIS PROB LEM THE AREAS WHERE THE AT TACKS ARE OCCURRING ARE STILL VERY ISOLATED v 3HE CONCLUDED h7E DON T WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS WITH WARNINGS ABOUT THE DANGERS ON CAMPUS )NSTEAD WE ASK FOR A SAFE 5NIVERSITY v

7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

%XEC COMMITTEE REVEALED #LAIRE (OLLAND )F YOU HADN T NOTICED THAT THE 5NION ELECTIONS HAPPENED LAST WEEK THEN CLEARLY YOU DIDN T HAVE TO lGHT YOUR WAY THROUGH THE ARMY OF CANDIDATES OUTSIDE 5NION (OUSE AND NEITHER DID YOU GET A FREE LOLLY "UT NEVER MIND THE RE SULTS ARE IN AND THE LUCKY FEW WHO WILL HAVE ALL THE POWER AND THE AGGRAVATION NEXT YEAR HAVE BEEN CHOSEN 4ESSA .ORTH !CADEMIC &RANCIS (AMLYN #OMMS %DDIE 3HIELDS &INANCE 3TEVIE !LTMAN 7ELFARE "EN -EAKER %NVIRONMENT *ENNI #ARTER %THICS #AMMIE &ULMER )NTERNATIONAL -ARTIN *OPP ,IBERATIONS !NDY *UDSON 0UBLICITY .ICK +ENT 3OCIETIES !LEXANDRA 3COTT 7OMEN S 4HIS YEAR VOTING TOOK PLACE ON -ONDAY TH AND

4HE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES 4UESDAY TH -ARCH 4HERE WAS AN EVEN GREATER BUZZ SURROUNDING THE ELECTIONS THIS YEAR AND MANY OF THE POSITIONS WERE TIGHTLY CON TESTED WITH SOME REQUIRING MULTIPLE RECOUNTS

VOTES WERE MADE

REPRESENTING OF THE STUDENT POPULATION 4HIS IS A SIMILAR PROPORTION TO THE LAST FEW YEARS ALTHOUGH TAK ING INTO ACCOUNT THE RAIN AND THE !54 STRIKE ON 4UESDAY

IT HAS BEEN SEEN AS A GOOD TURNOUT SOME STUDENTS EVEN HAD TO QUEUE 4RADITIONALLY THE RESULTS ARE ANNOUNCED AT MIDNIGHT ON THE 4UESDAY 4HIS YEAR IT MEANT THAT THIS COINCIDED WITH THE .IGHT AT THE -OV IES ,#2 (OWEVER

BY HALF PAST TWELVE WHEN COUNTING WAS SUSPENDED FOR THE NIGHT

ONLY THE FOUR SABBATICAL PO SITIONS HAD BEEN DECIDED AND ANNOUNCED

#ONCRETE %DITOR 6!#!.#9 &/2 &5,, 4)-% ./27)#( !PPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR THE POSITION OF %DITOR #ONCRETE

FOR THE PERIOD 3EPTEMBER TO *UNE 4HE POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO CURRENT STUDENTS AT THE 5NIVER SITY OF %AST !NGLIA AND MAY BE TAKEN AS A YEAR OUT DURING A DEGREE INTERCALATION OR DIRECTLY AFTER GRADUATION 4HE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT NEED NOT HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION OF #ONCRETE BUT MUST BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING s %XCELLENT GRAMMAR AND EDITING SKILLS s 4EAM LEADERSHIP QUALITIES s 'OOD ORGANISATION AND TIME KEEPING s !N UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEEDS OF THE #ONCRETE 3OCIETY s +NOWLEDGE OF )N$ESIGN AND 0HOTO3HOP s &AMILIARITY WITH MEDIA ADVERTISING SALES s !WARENESS OF PRINT MEDIA AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES 0LEASE SEND A #6 AND A PROPOSAL OUTLINING YOUR PLANS FOR THE PAPER UP TO WORDS FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE %DITOR 3ARAH %DWARDES TO #ONCRETE 0/ "/8 .ORWICH .2 4" #LOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS TH -ARCH !VAILABILITY OF THE POST IS SUBJECT TO THE OUTCOME OF THE 5NION #OUNCIL MEETING ON -ARCH RD

#OUNTING CONTINUED THE NEXT MORNING AND THE FULL RESULTS WERE lNALLY REVEALED AT MIDDAY ON 7EDNESDAY 3O WHAT CHANGES CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE IN THE NEXT YEAR 4ESSA .ORTH HAS PROMISED TO CAMPAIGN FOR ANONYMOUS MARKING TO BE INTRODUCED IN ALL SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE 5NIVERSITY &RANCIS (AM LYN HAS VOWED TO INTRODUCE WIRELESS INTERNET TO THE (IVE AND ,#2 *ENNI #ARTER WILL

BE AIMING TO MAKE 5%! AN OFlCIALLY &AIRTRADE 5NIVER SITY AND 3TEVIE !LTMAN WILL BE LOBBYING THE BUS COMPA NIES TO IMPROVE THE COST AND SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE BUS ROUTES ONTO CAMPUS !S WELL AS THIS ONE THEME SEEMED TO BE PROMI NENT IN EVERYONE S CAM PAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT THE WORK

DECISIONS AND CAMPAIGN SUCCESSES OF THE 5NION %X ECUTIVE AND ENSURE THAT THE STUDENT POPULATION KNOWS WHAT IT DOES AND IS RESPON SIBLE FOR /VER THE NEXT YEAR WE CAN EXPECT TO SEE GREATER TRANSPARENCY FROM ALL ASPECTS OF THE #OUNCIL GREATER PUB LICITY OF THEIR SUCCESSES AND GREATER COMMUNICATION AND CO OPERATION BETWEEN ELECT ED OFlCERS TO ENSURE CAM PAIGNS ACHIEVE THEIR AIMS !LL IN ALL IT WOULD SEEM WE CAN EXPECT THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS TO PROVIDE A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS AROUND THE CAMPUS AS WELL AS TO MOST STUDENTS WAY OF LIFE

3TUDENTS HELD IN TERROR RAID 4HREE "RADFORD 5NIVERSITY STUDENTS HAVE BEEN QUES TIONED BY POLICE ON SUSPI CION OF TERROR OFFENCES 4HE THREE MEN WERE RE PORTED TO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN A RAID BY 7EST 9ORKSHIRE 0OLICE AT THE 5NIVERSITY S HALLS OF RESIDENCE 4HE MEN WERE HELD UN DER THE 0REVENTION OF 4ER RORISM !CT /NE HAS SINCE BEEN RELEASED WITHOUT CHARGE

-0S QUESTION VALUE OF ARTS 5NIVERSITIES ARE OVERCROWDED WITH STUDENTS TAKING TRADI TIONAL ARTS DEGREES WHICH WON T lND THEM A JOB AC CORDING TO A #ONSERVATIVE -0 -0 *ULIAN "RAZIER BE LIEVES SUCH STUDENTS WOULD BE BETTER EQUIPPED WITH A VOCATIONAL DEGREE SUCH AS MEDIA STUDIES WHICH HE SAYS COULD OFFER A BETTER CHANCE OF EMPLOYMENT

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

6#S RECEIVE INCREASE IN PAY 4HE !54 HAS CALLED FOR AN ENQUIRY INTO THE PAY OF VICE CHANCELLORS AT "RITISH UNIVER SITIES &IGURES RELEASED BY THE 4IMES (IGHER %DUCATION 3UPPLEMENT SHOWED THAT OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS THE AVERAGE VICE CHANCELLOR S PAY HAS INCREASED BY 4HE LARGEST INCREASE OF WAS RECEIVED BY THE 6# OF #ARDIFF 5NIVERSITY 4HE AVERAGE 6# S SALARY IS a

4HE !54 IS ASKING %DU CATION 3ECRETARY 2UTH +ELLY TO SUBJECT THE WAGES PAID TO VICE CHANCELLORS TO THE SAME SCRUTINY AS THOSE OF OTHER ACADEMIC STAFF

3TUDENT UNIONS CONDEMN STRIKE 4HE STUDENT UNIONS OF $E -ONTFORT #OVENTRY ,EICES TER AND "RISTOL UNIVERSITIES HAVE REFUSED TO SUPPORT THEIR LECTURERS AS THEY STRIKE FOR BETTER PAY 4HE UNIONS HAVE CON DEMNED THE !54 S ACTION AS hDISRUPTIVEv 4HEY CLAIM IT WILL JEOPARDISE THEIR STU DENTS ACADEMIC CAREERS AND EXPRESSED PARTICULAR CONCERN FOR THE EFFECT IT WILL HAVE ON THOSE WHO ARE IN THEIR lNAL YEAR OF STUDY 4HE .53 HAS ASKED STU DENTS TO BE PATIENT WHILE THE ACTION TAKES PLACE

!LCOHOL RELATED CRIME REDUCED 'ILES $ERRINGTON ! RECENT REPORT SHOWS THAT GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON ALCOHOL RELATED CRIME LED TO AN DROP IN VIOLENT OFFENCES DURING THE RUN UP TO #HRISTMAS 4HE INITIATIVE WAS DE SIGNED TO COINCIDE WITH THE CHANGES TO LICENSING LAWS AND INVOLVED A a MILLION INVESTMENT OVER A SIX WEEK PERIOD FOCUSING ON A VARIETY OF ISSUES INCLUDING UNDER AGE DRINKING DRUG USE IN CLUBS AND CRIMINAL DAMAGE .ORWICH 3OUTH -0 AND (OME 3ECRETARY #HARLES #LARKE SAID THAT THE PROJECT HAS BEEN A STEP FORWARD IN PREVENTING THE hDRUNKEN BEHAVIOUR OF THE MINORITY IMPACTING ON THE LIVES OF THE DECENT MAJORITY WHO ENJOY A SENSIBLE DRINKv (OWEVER MANY HAVE QUESTIONED WHAT EFFECT THE RELATIVELY SHORT CAMPAIGN WILL HAVE IN THE LONG RUN 3HADOW (OME 3ECRETARY $AVID $AVIS ARGUED THE lG URES SIMPLY SHOW THAT hMORE BOBBIES ON THE STREET WILL CUT CRIMEv (E ASKED h7HAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE MONEY RUNS OUT v $ESPITE -R $AVIS CRITI CISM -ARK (ASTINGS OF THE "RITISH "EER AND 0UB !SSO

CIATION NOTED THAT hCOMMU NITIES ARE SEEING A REDUCTION IN VIOLENT CRIME AND POSITIVE CHANGES IN DRINKING PATTERNS AND BEHAVIOURv (E SAID h4HE PROJECTIONS OF THE GOV ERNMENT AND THE INDUSTRY HAVE PROVED FAR CLOSER TO THE TRUTH THAN THE PROPHESIES OF DOOM AND GLOOM FOUND IN THE MEDIA IN THE RUN UP TO SO CALLED HOUR DRINK ING v !LSO CONTAINED WITHIN THE REPORT ARE THE LOCAL AREA STATISTICS FOR .ORWICH 0OLICE USED THE SIX WEEK PERIOD TO FOCUS ON PUBS AND CLUBS IN THE 0RINCE OF 7ALES AND 2IVERSIDE REGIONS OF THE CITY )T IS ESTIMATED THAT

REVELLERS VISIT THE AREA OVER THE COURSE OF A NORMAL WEEK END RESULTING IN AN AVERAGE NINE PEOPLE BEING ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES EACH WEEK 0OLICE SAY THE RESULTS OF /PERATION %NTERPRISE MAKE FOR hPOSITIVE READINGv WITH ARRESTS FOR A VARIETY OF OFFENCES AND THE SEIZURE OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF ECSTASY TABLETS OCCURRING DURING THE SECOND FORTNIGHT OF THE INI TIATIVE +RISTINA 2AINES THE 0O LICE 0RESS /FlCER FOR THE AREA

COMMENTED THAT THE lGURES hSHOW ONCE AGAIN THE LEVEL OF CO OPERATION THAT HAS BEEN BUILT UP IN THE .ORWICH AREA BETWEEN THE AUTHORITIES AND

6IOLENT DRINK RELATED CRIME HAS DECREASED UNDER THE NEW LAWS THE LICENSED TRADE (OWEVER WE AWAIT THE SUMMER PERIOD BEFORE DRAWING OUR lNAL CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE EFFECT OF THE NEW LICENSING LAWSv

$ISTRIBUTION -ANAGER

#ONCRETE 6!#!.#9 &/2

0!24 4)-% ./27)#( !PPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR THE POST OF $ISTRIBUTION -ANAGER #ONCRETE FOR THE PERIOD 3EPTEMBER TO *UNE 4HE ROLE IS OPEN TO ANY STUDENT AT 5%!

AND INVOLVES CO ORDINATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER ONCE A FORTNIGHT DURING TERM TIME 3UCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WILL BE HIGHLY RELIABLE AND ORGANISED ! FULL CLEAN DRIVING LICENSE IS ESSENTIAL 0LEASE SEND A #6 AND COVERING LETTER FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE %DITOR

3ARAH %DWARDES TO #ONCRETE 0/ "/8

.ORWICH .2 4" #LOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS TH -ARCH

4AKEN TOGETHER THESE RE PORTS SUGGEST A PROMISING TREND IN ANTI SOCIAL BEHAV IOUR AND VIOLENT CRIME ON BOTH A LOCAL AND NATIONAL

SCALE (OWEVER GIVEN THE RE CENT ATTACKS ON CAMPUS STU DENTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO BE COMPLACENT AND TO TAKE ALL NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS

7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

.EW RAPE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN $AN &ITZHARRIS 4HE GOVERNMENT IS TO LAUNCH A CAMPAIGN TO STRESS TO MEN THAT THEY MUST HAVE A WOMAN S CON SENT FOR SEX IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY ACCUSATIONS OF RAPE 4HE a CAMPAIGN WILL INCLUDE RADIO ADVERTISE MENTS ADVERTS IN MEN S MAG AZINES AND POSTERS IN PUBS AND CLUBS TARGETED AT YOUNG MEN )T AIMS TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS TAKING PLACE WHEN A WOMAN IS HEAVILY INTOXICATED 4HE CAMPAIGN COMES IN THE WAKE OF (OME /FlCE RESEARCH WHICH SHOWS ALARM INGLY LOW CONVICTION RATES FOR RAPE CASES IN %NGLAND AND 7ALES OUT OF ALLEGA TIONS OF RAPE IN ONLY ENDED IN A CONVICTION ! (OME /FlCE SPOKES WOMAN SAID h7E ARE LAUNCH ING AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

ON -ARCH TH TO HELP TACK LE RAPE BY EDUCATING YOUNG MEN ABOUT THE NEED TO GAIN CONSENT BEFORE HAVING SEX v h'IVING CONSENT IS ACTIVE

NOT PASSIVE AND IT S UP TO EVERYONE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR PARTNER AGREES TO SEXUAL ACTIVITY v SHE SAID 3OLICITOR GENERAL -IKE / "RIEN SAID THE (OME /F lCE IS CONSIDERING A CHANGE IN THE RAPE LAWS TO ALLOW JU RIES RATHER THAN JUDGES TO DE CIDE WHETHER A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN DRINKING WAS TOO INEBRIATED TO GIVE CONSENT h)T MAY BE THAT THE LEGIS LATION NEEDS SOME CLARIlCA TION BECAUSE THESE SORTS OF MISTAKES SHOULDN T BE BEING MADE v HE SAID h) DO THINK THERE HAVE BEEN CASES IN WHICH SOME EX TREMELY WELL QUALIlED JUDGES AND BARRISTERS HAVE TAKEN A VIEW ON THE LAW WHICH WAS NOT THE INTENTION OF 0ARLIA MENT v HE ADDED / "RIEN EXPECTS TO SEE CONVICTIONS INCREASE IF THE LAWS ARE REDRAFTED

0LANS TO lND UNIVERSITY PLACES FOR CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS HAVE BEEN CRITICISED BY SCHOOLS AND PARENTS GROUPS 4HE SCHEME WILL ALLOW UNIVERSITIES TO BUILD LINKS WITH HIGH ACHIEVING STATE SCHOOL PUPILS AS SOON AS THEY ENTER SECONDARY SCHOOL 4HE MOVE IS EXPECTED TO BE WELCOMED BY UNIVERSITIES CONCERNED THAT WIDER ACCESS WILL REDUCE LEVELS OF ACADEM IC PERFORMANCE

4HE CAMPAIGN HOPES TO CHANGE ATTITUDES TOWARDS INTOXICATION !CCORDING TO A STUDY BY THE -ETROPOLITAN 0OLICE

MORE THAN A THIRD OF WOMEN WHO REPORTED BEING RAPED HAD CONSUMED ALCOHOL IM MEDIATELY PRIOR TO THE AT TACK .EW LAWS WILL SEEK TO PREVENT SCENARIOS IN WHICH CASES HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT

BY JUDGES WHO HAVE DEEMED THE VICTIM TOO INTOXICATED

$ONATE YOUR $.! TO HELP CONSTRUCT A GENETIC MAP OF THE "RITISH )SLES 'LORIA $EWALT 4HE "RITISH )SLE 0ROJECT A NATIONWIDE STUDY LED BY 3IR 7ALTER "ODMER OF /X FORD 5NIVERSITY AND FUND ED BY 7ELLCOME 4RUST IS SEEKING TO CONSTRUCT A GE NETIC MAP OF THE 5+ )T HOPES TO GAIN A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF VARIOUS HEREDITARY DISEASES AND TO INVESTIGATE PATTERNS OF MOVE MENT RELATING TO THE PROGRES SION OF DIFFERENT DISEASES $.! EXTRACTED FROM EACH BLOOD SAMPLE WILL BE USED TO CONSTRUCT THE GENETIC MAP !CCORDING TO 3IR "ODMER

hCOLLECTING SAMPLES IN THIS WAY WILL ALLOW ;RESEARCHERS= TO BUILD A PICTURE OF THE GE NETIC HERITAGE OF OUR PRESENT DAY 5+ POPULATION )T WILL ALSO HELP US ENORMOUSLY IN OUR STUDIES OF THE INHERITED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO A WIDE VARIE TY OF COMMON DISEASES SUCH AS CANCER HEART DISEASE AND !LZHEIMER S DISEASE v 4HE AMOUNT OF INFORMA TION CONTAINED IN OUR $.! IS IMMENSE .OT ONLY DOES OUR $.! CONTAIN A LIBRARY OF OUR

$.! TESTING UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES IT CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN CONSERVED AND PASSED DOWN THROUGHOUT THE YEARS FROM OUR ANCESTORS ! SAMPLE OF OUR $.! ALONE COULD RELAY WHETHER WE HAVE DESCENDED FROM 6IKINGS #ELTS OR EVEN 2OMANS !SIDE FROM THE PROMIS

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CAN PROVIDE FOR TRACING ONE S %AST !NGLIAN ROOTS IT ALSO HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE RESEARCHERS WITH AN INSIGHT INTO THE PROGRESSION OF COM MON HEREDITARY DISEASES AF FECTING MODERN 5+ COMMU NITIES $R "ARBARA *ENNINGS

3ENIOR ,ECTURER IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE AT 5%! AND COORDI NATOR OF THE .ORFOLK AND 3UF FOLK REGIONS OF THIS PROJECT

SAID @@)T IS PARTICULARLY EXCIT ING BECAUSE IT PRESENTS VOL UNTEERS WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SEARCH FOR NEW APPROACHES TO TREAT AND PREVENT COMMON DIS EASES v &OR THE NEXT EIGHTEEN MONTHS RESEARCHERS AT 5%! S 3CHOOL OF -EDICINE LED BY "ARBARA *ENNINGS WILL BE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECT 6OLUNTEERS MUST BE AGED AND OVER AND BORN IN THE SAME PART OF %AST !NGLIA AS THEIR PARENTS AND ALL FOUR GRANDPARENTS 1UALIFYING IN DIVIDUALS MAY OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION BY CONTACTING THEIR LOCAL '0 OR $R "AR BARA *ENNINGS VIA EMAIL AT B JENNINGS UEA AC UK

AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACK TO PROVIDE RELIABLE EVIDENCE IN COURT !MNESTY )NTERNATIONAL 5+ PLEDGED ITS SUPPORT TO THE CAMPAIGN BUT INSISTED THAT MORE HAD TO BE DONE TO REVERSE LOW CONVICTION RATES AND A hSEXIST BLAME CULTURE v (OME /FlCE RESEARCH RE VEALED THAT A THIRD OF PEOPLE IN THE 5+ BELIEVE A WOMAN

IS TO BLAME FOR BEING RAPED IF SHE HAS BEHAVED mIRTA TIOUSLY +ATE !LLEN DIRECTOR OF !MNESTY )NTERNATIONAL SAID h)N THE END A TRULY COMPRE HENSIVE APPROACH CAN ONLY COME THROUGH THE GOVERN MENT BACKING AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY TO END ALL TYPES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN "RITAIN v

-ORE STUDENTS LIVE AT HOME &ACED WITH MOUNTING DEBTS

NEARLY HALF A MILLION STUDENTS ARE NOW CHOOSING TO LIVE AT HOME WHILE THEY STUDY &OUR lFTHS OF THOSE WHO LIVE WITH THEIR PARENTS DO NOT CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING TO WARDS RENT OR BILLS /F THOSE WHO DO PAY THE AVERAGE RENT IS a PER WEEK (OME STU DENTS COMMUTED FOR UP TO FOUR HOURS A DAY TO TAKE PART IN CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

)RAQI SECTARIAN CONmICT WORSENS 'ILES $ERRINGTON )RAQ STANDS ON THE BRINK OF TOTAL COLLAPSE THIS WEEK AS VICIOUS SECTARIAN VIO LENCE BRINGS THE COUNTRY EVER CLOSER TO ALL OUT CIVIL WAR AND THE NEO CONSERVA TIVE BACKERS OF THE INVA SION BEGIN TO EXPRESS THEIR DOUBTS ABOUT THE MISSION 4HE DESTRUCTION OF THE HOLY 3HIA SHRINE AT 3AMARRA ON &EBRUARY ND IS SEEN AS THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL S BACK AND PLUNGED )RAQ INTO CHAOS 4HE SHRINE HOUSES THE TOMBS OF !LI AL (ADI AND AL (ASAN AL !SKARI

THE TH AND TH 3HIA )M AMS AND THE SITE WHERE THE TH )MAM -OHAMMED AL -AHDI DISAPPEARED )TS DESTRUCTION HAS ENRAGED THE 3HIA MAJORITY AND HAS LED TO RETRIBUTION AGAINST 3UNNI -USLIMS 4HIS HAS BEEN COUPLED WITH REGULAR SUICIDE BOMB

INGS THAT TARGET COALITION TROOPS AND )RAQI CIVILIANS ALIKE !LL THIS COMES AT A TIME WHEN RIGHT WING BACKERS OF THE WAR ARE BEGINNING TO REIN IN THEIR ENTHUSIASM FOR 0RESIDENT "USH S PRE EMP TIVE ATTACK POLICY &RANCIS &UKUYAMA THE HIGH PROlLE RIGHT WING ACTIVIST AND LONG TIME ADVOCATE OF THE INVA SION IS POISED TO RELEASE HIS NEW BOOK !MERICA AT THE #ROSSROADS WHICH EXAMINES THE NEO CONSERVATIVE LEGACY AND SUGGESTS THAT )RAQ HAS BEEN A MAJOR FAILING OF THIS DOCTRINE &UKUYAMA WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT SIGNATORIES OF THE 0ROJECT OF THE .EW !MERICAN #ENTURY 4HIS DOCUMENT DRAFTED BY 7EEK LY 3TANDARD EDITOR 7ILLIAM +RISTOL FORMS THE MANTRA OF RIGHT WING POLITICAL THINKING IN THE 5NITED 3TATES )T AIMS TO CEMENT !MERICA S #OLD 7AR VICTORY BY CHALLENGING HOSTILE REGIMES AND SPREAD ING DEMOCRACY AROUND

!N ANTI WAR PROTEST LAST 3ATURDAY THE GLOBE 4HE DOCTRINE IS THOUGHT TO HAVE PLAYED A SIGNIlCANT ROLE IN 0RESIDENT "USH S INVASION OF )RAQ

WHICH MANY !MERICAN PUN DITS SAW AS A TESTING GROUND FOR THE NEW IDEOLOGY )N ADDITION TO &UKU

YAMA S ASSESSMENT OF EVENTS

MANY OTHER RIGHT WING COMMENTATORS HAVE ALSO EXPRESSED THEIR CONCERNS 7ILLIAM "UCKLEY EDITOR OF REPUBLICAN PAPER 4HE .A TIONAL 2EVIEW SAID LAST WEEK THAT hTHE !MERICAN OBJECTIVE

IN )RAQ HAS FAILEDv !LL THIS LEAVES 0RESIDENT "USH AND HIS ADMINISTRATION ALIENATED AT A TIME WHEN THEY MOST NEED REPUBLICAN SUPPORT OVER THEIR FOREIGN POLICY #LOSER TO HOME A SPOKES MAN FOR 4ONY "LAIR HAS DE NIED RUMOURS THAT A TIMETA BLE FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL HAS BEEN SET 3PECULATION HAD BEEN STIRRED BY ,T 'EN .ICK (OUGHTON WHO SUGGESTED IN THE $AILY 4ELEGRAPH THAT A TWO YEAR TRANSITION WOULD HAVE A hREASONABLE CHANCEv OF PREVENTING THE COALITION FROM hSTAYING TOO LONG OR LEAVING TOO SOONv $OWNING 3TREET REAFlRMED ITS PREVIOUS POSITION THAT TROOP WITH DRAWAL WOULD DEPEND ON NUMEROUS CONDITIONS AND THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY hALL SORTS OF POSSIBLE SCENARIOSv 7HATEVER TIMETABLES HAVE BEEN EXAMINED RECENT EVENTS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE THROWN ANY lRM PLANS UP IN THE AIR 4HE CHANCES OF WITHDRAWAL FROM )RAQ ARE STILL A LONG WAY OFF

-AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY SOCIETY DONATE 2UGBY STAR TO START FUN OVER a TO 3!33!& HEALTH PROJECT RUN FOR CANCER CHARITY 3ARAH %DWARDES %DITOR

,OUIS (OLDING 0ARSONS

!N EVENT HELD BY 5%! S -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY 3OCIETY LAST MONTH RAISED OVER a FOR CHARITY 4HE FUNDRAISER #HANGE

BROUGHT TOGETHER STUDENTS FROM OVER TEN DIFFERENT SOCIETIES IN A DAY OF ACTIVITIES WHICH INCLUDED A RAFmE AND PERFORMANCES FROM #APOERIA AND THE "ALLROOM AND ,ATIN $ANCE 3OCIETY 4HE -0( 3OCIETY 0RESIDENT -ICHAEL 2OBERTS

HANDED OVER A CHEQUE FOR a TO THE 3OUTH !FRICAN 3TUDENT 3UPPORT !ID &UND 3!33!& CO ORDINATOR *ACQUI "LICK !LSO PRESENT WERE THE -0( 3ECRETARY

3IMON $UNK AND THE 4REASURER *ASON 3AYLER 4HE MONEY RAISED FROM THE EVENT WILL BE USED TO SUPPORT 3!33!& S PROJECTS IN 3OUTHERN !FRICA 4HESE INCLUDE THE 0HELOPHEPA (EALTH 4RAIN A MOBILE CLINIC THAT OFFERS ESSENTIAL HEALTH CARE PROVISION TO ISOLATED AND POOR COMMUNITIES 4HE TRAIN IS STAFFED BY

!S MENTIONED IN THE &EB RUARY ST ISSUE OF #ON CRETE THE 5%! !THLETICS TEAM ARE ORGANISING A 2UN &OR 9OUR ,IFE CHARITY FUN RUN 4HE RUN WILL BE HELD ON 3ATURDAY !PRIL ST AT PM 4HE CROSS COUNTRY RUN ROUTE WHICH IS APPROXIMATE LY KM MILES LONG WILL START ON THE #OLNEY PLAYING lELDS )T WILL ALSO TAKE IN THE 5%! "ROAD AND %ARLHAM 0ARK 4HERE IS AN OPTIONAL FANCY DRESS COMPETITION

WHICH WILL HAVE THE THEME OF hANYTHING .ORFOLKv 0OS SIBLE COSTUMES INCLUDE #A NARIES #OLMAN S -USTARD AND !LAN 0ARTRIDGE AMONGST MANY OTHERS 0RIZES WILL BE AWARDED FOR THE FASTEST RAC ERS AS WELL AS FOR THE BEST COSTUMES 4HE PRIZES WILL BE PRE SENTED BY FORMER %NGLAND AND ,IONS RUGBY INTERNA TIONAL !NDY 2IPLEY 2IPLEY IS ALSO AN !!! ATHLETICS lNALIST IN THE M HURDLES WORLD INDOOR ROWING CHAMPION

4HE a CHEQUE IS GIVEN TO 3!33!& PROFESSIONAL NURSES DENTISTS AND OPTICIANS AND SPENDS A WEEK AT EACH LOCATION ON THE RAILWAY LINE OFFERING AFFORDABLE CARE TO THE POPULATION AND TRAINING LOCAL VOLUNTEERS IN BASIC HEALTH CARE SKILLS 4HE SOCIETY EXTEND THEIR THANKS TO -0( MEMBER 4OPE %LETU /DIBO FOR

THE ORIGINAL IDEA AND FOR ARRANGING THE OPEN MIC PART OF THE EVENT -ICHAEL 2OBERTS SAID h)T WAS FANTASTIC TO HAVE SUCH A WIDE VARIETY OF SOCIETIES THERE ON THE NIGHT WHICH HELPED MAKE IT SUCH A GREAT SUCCESS 7E ARE DELIGHTED TO DONATE THE PROCEEDS TO 3!33!& S PROJECT v

WORLD SUPERSTARS CHAMPION AS WELL AS A BEING AN EX 5%!

STUDENT %NTRY TO THE CROSS COUN TRY RACE IS A MINIMUM OF a IN ADVANCE AND A MINIMUM OF a ON THE DAY %NTRY FORMS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FROM THE 5%! ATHLETICS TEAM WEBSITE WHICH CAN BE FOUND VIA THE 5%! SITE 4HE SITE ALSO HAS DETAILED INFORMA TION ABOUT THE RUN AND OTHER INFORMATION INCLUDING DIREC TIONS AND PARKING FACILITIES 4HERE WILL BE A GROUP WARM UP SESSION AT AM ON THE DAY WHICH WILL BE LED

BY A FULLY QUALIlED PERSONAL TRAINER 2EFRESHMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR RUNNERS AT THE lNISH 0EOPLE OF ALL ABILITIES ARE WELCOME TO TAKE PART IN THE EVENT AND THE RACE WILL BE BROKEN DOWN INTO DIFFERENT SECTIONS FOR RACERS FUN RUN NERS AND WALKERS !LL MONEY RAISED WILL BE DONATED TO #ANCER 2ESEARCH 5+ WHERE IT WILL BE DIVIDED EQUALLY BETWEEN BREAST CAN CER PROSTATE CANCER AND CAN CER RESEARCH IN GENERAL &OR MORE INFORMATION ON THE FUN RUN VISIT THE ATH LETICS WEBSITE AT WWW UEA AC UK ^GS

3HORTAGE OF NEW ENGINEERS 4HERE ARE FEARS OF A RECRUIT MENT CRISIS IN ENGINEERING AS THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS STUDYING THE SUBJECT HAS DE CREASED *UST ELECTRICAL ENGI NEERS GRADUATE EACH YEAR IN THE 5+ AND EMPLOYERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO RECRUIT ENGI NEERS FROM ACROSS %UROPE TO MAKE UP THE DElCIT 0OSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE DE CREASE INCLUDE STUDENTS TURN ING AWAY FROM VOCATIONAL QUALIlCATIONS

.EW SCHEME FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS ! NEW POINTS BASED SYSTEM FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS APPLYING TO "RITISH UNIVERSI TIES IS BEING CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT 4HE PROPOSED SYSTEM WOULD REQUIRE FOREIGN STU DENTS TO lND SPONSORSHIP BEFORE THEY COULD STUDY IN "RITAIN 5NIVERSITIES 5+ HOPES THAT THE NEW SYSTEM WOULD BE hFAIRER AND MORE EFlCIENTv

3AFETY FEARS ON 5+ CAMPUSES !CCORDING TO A SURVEY BY THE 4IMES (IGHER %DUCATION 3UPPLEMENT ALMOST A QUAR TER OF STUDENTS FEEL UNSAFE WALKING AROUND THEIR OWN CAMPUSES AT NIGHT 4HOSE MOST LIKELY TO FEEL THREATENED WERE WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS (OW EVER MORE MUGGINGS WERE CARRIED OUT AGAINST MEN THAN WOMEN )N THE %AST OF %NGLAND

OF STUDENTS WORRIED ABOUT TRAVELLING FROM THE UNIVERSITY TO THEIR ACCOM MODATION AT NIGHT

-ORE FUNDS FOR STUDENT PLACES 4HE GOVERNMENT S PLAN TO GET OF YOUNG PEOPLE INTO HIGHER EDUCATION BY LOOKS SET TO FAIL UNLESS MORE FUNDING CAN BE SECURED 5NIVERSITIES IN %NGLAND HAVE THIS WEEK BEEN GRANT ED A TOTAL OF a BILLION IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH FUNDS FOR THE COMING YEAR !CCORDING TO THE (IGHER %DUCATION &UNDING #OUN CIL FOR %NGLAND THIS lGURE WILL EQUATE TO JUST

NEW STUDENT PLACES HALF THE NUMBER REQUIRED TO MEET THE GOVERNMENT S TARGETS

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4HE hLOLLIES FOR VOTESv SCANDAL $ID ANYONE NOTICE THAT THE 5NION %LECTIONS WERE TAKING PLACE LAST WEEK %LEANOR 3TRINGER AND #LARE $ODDS TAKE A LOOK AT VOTER APATHY AT 5%!

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HE ALARMINGLY LOW NUMBER OF VOTES AT THE 3TUDENT 5NION ELECTIONS LAST WEEK SUGGESTS THAT VOTER APATHY IS ALIVE AND WELL WITH ONLY AP PROXIMATELY

OF THE STRONG STUDENT BODY BOTHERING TO USE THEIR VOTE 7HILST THIS DIDN T COME AS A MUCH OF A SURPRISE

IT STILL RAISES THE QUESTION OF WHY THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS TAKE SUCH LITTLE IN TEREST IN 5NION POLITICS 4HE TYPICAL STUDENT ACTIVIST HASN T DIED OUT COMPLETELY AS THE NUMEROUS SOCIETIES DEDICATED TO WORTHY CAUSES SUCH AS 2!' AND 5.)#%& PROVE AS WELL AS THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES HAV ING ACTIVE STUDENT SOCIETIES "UT INTER EST IN 5NION POLITICS IS MINIMAL ONLY ATTRACTING A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE TO VOTE AND FAR FEWER TO GET PERSONALLY INVOLVED 7ITH THE 5NION THEORETICALLY IN EXISTENCE TO BE RUN FOR AND BY THE STUDENTS AND TO ACT AS OUR MAIN REPRESENTATIVE TO THE 5NIVERSITY #OUNCIL A WORRYINGLY SMALL PERCENT AGE OF THE STUDENT BODY APPEAR TO GIVE IT MUCH THOUGHT 3O WHY DON T PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THE 3TUDENT 5NION )T MAINLY SEEMS TO BE DOWN TO THE LACK OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES #URRENTLY A SELECT NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH 5NION ACTIVITIES WHILST THE MA JORITY OF STUDENTS ARE OBLIVIOUS NOT ONLY TO THE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

BUT TO THE DECISIONS MADE WHICH AF FECT OUR UNIVERSITY -ANY PEOPLE AREN T EVEN AWARE OF THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE 5NION FOR EXAMPLE THAT THE POSTS OF 7ELFARE &INANCE #OMMUNICATION AND !CADEMIC OFlCERS ARE a A YEAR FULL TIME JOBS ! SIMILARLY UNDER PUBLICISED FACT IS THAT A MERE SIGNATURE PETITION HAS THE POWER TO BRING ANY 5NION RULING TO A POLICY BALLOT SOMETHING WHICH WAS

USED RECENTLY TO SET UP A VOTE TO BRING BACK THE BANNED 0LAYBOY ,#2 0ER HAPS IF MORE PEOPLE KNEW HOW TO IM PLEMENT THEIR POTENTIAL POWER THROUGH THE 5NION POSSIBILITIES SUCH AS THESE MIGHT BE EXERCISED MORE OFTEN !S IT IS FOR MOST STUDENTS THE VIS IBLE FACE OF THE 3TUDENT 5NION IS THE MASS CANVASSING THAT EMERGES AROUND ELECTION TIME 7HILST THE POSTERS AND BANNERS MIGHT LIVEN UP CAMPUS FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS MANY PEOPLE ARE SIM PLY TURNED OFF BY CANDIDATES BOMBARD ING PEOPLE WITH SWEETS AND POLICIES AS YOU WALK INTO THE (IVE 4HE RESULT OF KEEPING 5NION POLI TICS QUIET FOR MOST OF THE YEAR IS THAT AT ELECTION TIME CANDIDATES HAVE TO RELY ON ATTENTION GRABBING GIMMICKS TO ATTRACT VOTERS 4HIS SIMPLY CREATES THE DANGER OF THE ELECTION TURNING INTO A POPULARITY CONTEST AS THE CANDIDATE WITH THE NICEST SMILE OR TASTIEST CAKES GETS THAT ALL IMPORTANT ; = NEXT TO THEIR NAME )F MORE PEOPLE WERE INTERESTED IN 5NION POLITICS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR THEN MAYBE AT ELECTION TIME THEY WOULD CARE ENOUGH TO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS AND USE THEIR VOTE 7ITH INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATES RUN NING FOR CATEGORIES IT WAS EASY TO BE OVERWHELMED BY THE RECENT ELECTIONS !ND IT SEEMS THAT THE CONSISTENT BOM BARDMENT OF EDIBLE BRIBES AND EXPLAN ATORY mYERS WERE NOT ENOUGH TO DRAW IN A VOTE FROM THE STUDENT MAJORITY 3O WHAT EXACTLY IS IT ABOUT THE ELECTIONS THAT APPEARS TO DETER PEOPLE AND HOW CAN THIS BE CHANGED %VERYBODY IS SURELY AWARE THAT SOMEWHERE BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS OF 5NION (OUSE IS A TEAM OF EXECUTIVES WHO REPRESENT THE STUDENT POPULATION "UT KNOWLEDGE OF THE ACTUAL SERVICE THAT THEY PROVIDE FOR US IS PERHAPS A LIT TLE LESS PREVALENT )N SHORT hTHE %XECv

AS THEY RE MORE COMMONLY KNOWN ARE THERE TO IMPLEMENT POLICIES DECIDED UPON BY 5NION #OUNCIL 3O THE TEAM

FROM THE !CADEMIC /FlCER THROUGH TO THE 7OMEN S /FlCER ARE RESPONSI BLE FOR STUDENT WELFARE 4HEY KEEP US UP TO DATE WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON IN THE 5NION THEY CAMPAIGN FOR OUR CONCERNS SUCH AS THE OPPOSITION TO )$ CARDS AND THE NEED FOR A FULL &RESHER S WEEK AND THEY RUN EVENTS TO PROMOTE INTEREST IN A VARIETY OF CURRENT ISSUES

(E BELIEVES THAT DEMOCRACY IS IMPOR TANT AND THE ONLY WAY TO SPARK STUDENT INTEREST IN THEIR OWN WELFARE 3O WHAT IS THE SOLUTION TO APATHY 7ITH THERE BEING A CONmICT BETWEEN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDENTS RIGHT TO VOTE AND THEIR LACK OF DESIRE TO ACTUALLY DO SO IT SEEMS THAT THE ANSWER MAY LIE IN THE STUDENT POPULATION S CONNEC

3O WHAT IS THE SOLUTION TO THE CONmICT BETWEEN STUDENTS RIGHT TO VOTE AND THEIR LACK OF DESIRE TO ACTUALLY DO SO 4HERE ARE A WIDE RANGE OF 5NIVERSITY AFFAIRS THAT THEY DEAL WITH OF WHICH MANY ARE UNAWARE %VIDENTLY THAT STUDENTS NEED TO VOTE FOR THE CORRECT CANDIDATES TO FUL lL THESE ROLES IS A TOP PRIORITY (OW

THEN CAN THE TYPICAL ELECTION SYSTEM THAT PROMOTES POPULARITY AND BRIBERY ACHIEVE A GREATER LEVEL OF STUDENT INTER EST IN THEIR OWN CONCERNS )T MAY BE NICE TO RECEIVE A LOLLIPOP IN EXCHANGE FOR NUMBERING A FEW BOXES BUT RATHER THAN ENTICING CURIOSITY TOWARDS THE PUR POSE OF VOTING IT OFTEN SEEMS TO ONLY OVERSHADOW THE ISSUES OR REPEL PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE CAUSE ALTOGETHER 3HOULD A CHANGE IN THE SYSTEM OF ELECTIONS BE INTRODUCED THEN !S THE RECENT RESULT OF THE #ONCRETE %DI TOR ELECTIONS SHOWED THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS BELIEVE THAT THE RIGHT TO VOTE DOES NOT ALWAYS ELECT THE BEST CANDI DATE 7ITH THE RELATIVELY LOW INTEREST IN THE RECENT 5NION ELECTIONS PERHAPS A MOVEMENT TOWARDS A LESS DEMOCRATIC DECISION MAKING PROCESS SUCH AS THIS IS ESSENTIAL (OWEVER CURRENT #OMMUNICA TIONS /FlCER !NDY (IGSON DISAGREES

TION TO THE %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE h4HE BEST WAY TO APPRECIATE WHAT THE 5NION DOES FOR THE STUDENTS IS TO GET INVOLVEDv SAYS !NDY (IGSON )T IS THEREFORE THE REPS THEMSELVES WHO CAN INITIATE A CHANGE BY CREATING A BIGGER AND MORE VIBRANT PROMOTION OF THEIR ROLES IN 5NIVERSITY LIFE HOPEFULLY ENTIC ING MORE PEOPLE TO BECOME PART OF IT 4HE RECENT INTRODUCTION OF AN %THICAL )SSUES /FlCER IS PERHAPS A STEP MADE TOWARDS THIS PURPOSE (OWEVER LACK OF AWARENESS OF THIS MOVE BRINGS THE PROBLEM BACK TO ITS SOURCE 7ITH MORE DIRECT AND EVIDENT AD VERTISEMENT OF THE 5NION ORGANISATION PERHAPS IN TIME STUDENTS WILL BE MORE PREPARED TO CONSIDER THE MATTERS THAT CONCERN THEM 4HIS AWARENESS MAY BECOME MOTIVATIONAL LEVERAGE FOR A BIGGER AND MORE COMPETITIVE ELECTION CAMPAIGN NEXT YEAR )F WE DO ONE DAY WITNESS AN IN CREASE IN STUDENT INTEREST THEN A STEP HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THE APATHY PROBLEM AND THE ELECTION ITSELF MAY BECOME LESS ABOUT POPULARITY AND IN TIMIDATION AND MORE ABOUT THE ACTUAL ISSUES OF FOCUS

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'RADUATION THE SILENT RIP OFF )F UNIVERSITY DID NOT COST ENOUGH NOWADAYS YOUR GRADUATION MAY BE THE SINGLE MOST EX PENSIVE DAY OF YOUR UNIVERSITY LIFE 3IMON 3HERIDAN AND 0RIYA 3HAH REVISIT THEIR GRADUA TION A YEAR AGO AND RECALL THE RIDICULOUS LEVELS OF PROlTEERING THAT TYPIlED THE EVENT

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HE RESULTS ARE IN

THE WORRY IS OVER AND lNALLY AFTER THREE OR MORE YEARS OF SLOGGING AWAY WRITING ESSAYS RE CITING PRESENTA TIONS AND BLOWING UP HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS IN A LABORA TORY GRADUATION DAY ARRIVES 4HE MA JORITY OF THIRD YEARS NOT TO MENTION A VAST ARRAY OF -ASTERS 0H$ AND $I PLOMA STUDENTS DRESS UP AND COME TO CELEBRATE WHAT REPRESENTS THE PINNACLE OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVE MENT n GRADUATION AND THE AWARDING OF THEIR DEGREE 7HILE THE DAY ITSELF IS OF COURSE AS MUCH OR EVEN MORE FOR THE PARENTS AND RELATIVES OF THOSE GRADUATING IT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN WHO IS IMPORTANT IN ALL OF THIS )T IS NOT FOR EXAMPLE 6ICE #HANCELLOR $AVID %AST WOOD WHO TOOK SELF CONGRATULATION TO AN ALL TIME HIGH IN HIS SPEECH OPENING THE CEREMONIES 4HE SPEECH WAS NOT SO MUCH AN ORATION OF THE ACHIEVE MENTS OF THE STUDENTS IN FRONT OF HIM

BUT MORE A LIST OF HOW MUCH MONEY HE HAD SPENT MAKING OUR UNIVERSITY A BETTER PLACE TO STUDY 7HILE THIS IS IM PORTANT THE INSTITUTION CLEARLY OWES MOST TO THE STUDENTS WHO APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN IGNORED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE MONEYMEN AT 5%! /NE GRADUATE FROM A FEW YEARS AGO WONDERED IF WE HAD RECEIVED THE SAME SPEECH AS HIM h REASONS WHY 4ONY "LAIR IS GREATv 4HE DAY ITSELF INVOLVES ALL THE LEC TURERS DRESSING UP IN SOME RATHER FETCH ING OUTlTS THAT MAKE OUR ROBES LOOK LIKE A PAIR OF BATTERED ,EVIS BY COM PARISON 4HE 6ICE #HANCELLOR HIMSELF

FOR EXAMPLE WAS WEARING A GOLD AND RED NUMBER WITH MATCHING HAT WHICH WOULD NOT HAVE LOOKED OUT OF PLACE IN THE WARDROBE OF THE 2OYAL FAMILY 4HE ROBES HOWEVER ARE THE lRST AREA OF DISQUIET MAINLY BECAUSE AT a JUST TO RENT THEY REPRESENT AN EXORBITANT EXTRAVAGANCE THAT IS QUITE FRANKLY A COMPLETE AND UTTER RIP OFF 9OU MAY WONDER WHY THE 5%!

ROBES ARE BLUE AND NOT BLACK AS THE VAST MAJORITY OF UNIVERSITIES UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY CHOOSE 7HILE THE REASON FOR THIS MAY INDEED BE CEREMONIAL THE FACT IS THAT ONLY ONE COMPANY %DE 2AVENSCROFT SUPPLY THE BLUE VERSION 4HEY HAVE A VERITABLE MONOPOLY ON ROBES AT 5%! AND WE AS STUDENTS HAVE NO CHOICE WHATSOEVER 7E ARE TOLD THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GRADUATE IN PERSON IS TO WEAR ONE OF THESE EXPENSIVE TENTS &OR MANY THE PROSPECT OF SPENDING a DID NOT SEEM LIKE TOO MUCH FOR A CLEAN NEW ROBE 3ADLY THIS IS NOT WHAT S ON OFFER !T A ROUGH ESTIMATE

THE ROBES HAVE BEEN USED FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF YEARS IN PREVIOUS GRADUATION CEREMONIES 4HEY WERE CREASED SLIGHT LY MUSTY AND DESPITE THE PLETHORA OF MEASUREMENTS WE WERE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THEY STILL DID NOT lT /N TOP OF THIS THE GRADUATION LIT ERATURE CRIED OUT FOR US TO RETURN OUR ROBES AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE AFTER THE CEREMONY HAD lNISHED 4HE REASON FOR THIS 4HEY WERE NEEDED FOR THE NEXT CEREMONY 4HIS WAS A FRANKLY RATHER REPUGNANT EXERCISE AS DUE TO THE SWELTERING CONDITIONS DURING GRADUA TION WEEK MOST OF US HAD BEEN SWEAT ING FROM THE INSTANT WE PUT THE ROBE ON 4HE POINT HERE IS THAT WHILE SOME OR EVEN ALL OF THIS MAY SEEM JUSTIlED IN

THE INTERESTS OF PRACTICALITY IT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY JUSTIFY THE a PRICE TAG

PARTICULARLY AS ONE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO PAY IT (AVING SAID THAT a IS NOT ALL THAT MUCH WHEN MEASURED AGAINST WHAT SOME OF US WOULD SPEND ON A NIGHT AT THE ,#2 -UCH OF THE ADVERTISING SURROUND ING THE EVENT INFORMS US THAT GRADU ATION IS ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE DAYS OF OUR LIVES AND WE WOULD DO WELL TO ENJOY IT 4HIS ADVERTISING DOES HAVE A SECOND OR TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY CAPITALIST INmUENCE THOUGH !F TER HAVING BEEN PERSUADED TO HIRE THE ROBE WE ARE TOLD THAT THERE IS VERY LITTLE POINT HAVING ONE UNLESS YOU ARE PHO TOGRAPHED AND VIDEOED WEARING IT ALL OF WHICH AS YOU MAY HAVE GUESSED

COSTS YET MORE MONEY 4HE CHEAPEST PHOTOGRAPH OPTION

WHICH GIVES YOU THREE RATHER SMALL

MISERLY PICTURES COSTS a 4HE MOST EXPENSIVE PACKAGE AT a PROVIDES

THE MATTER IS THAT THIRD YEARS MOST OF WHOM WILL BE AT THE VERY END OF ANY LOAN OR OVERDRAFT MONEY THEY MIGHT STILL HAVE LEFT HAVE VERY LITTLE CHOICE IF THEY WANT TO REMEMBER THE DAY PROP ERLY 4HE ADVERTISING IS CORRECT n IT IS A HIGHLY MEMORABLE OCCASION WHICH SHOULD BE PHOTOGRAPHED BUT NOT AT SUCH HIGH PRICES 4HE VIDEO WAS AN EVEN MORE BLA TANT ASSAULT ON OUR WALLETS !NY TRIP TO (-6 WILL REVEAL A 6(3 CASSETTE COSTS MAYBE a a THIS FOR A (OLLYWOOD FEATURE lLM 4HE 5%! 'RADUATION VIDEO COSTS a 4HIS IS PAID KNOWING FULL WELL THAT EACH STUDENT APPEARS FOR MAYBE SECONDS AS THEY SCUTTLE ACROSS THE STAGE TO RECEIVE THEIR DEGREE )F PEO PLE WANT TO PAY THIS THEN FAIR ENOUGH

BUT WHAT OF THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD IT !RE THEY NOT ENTITLED TO REMEMBER THE DAY EITHER 'RADUATION DAY AS NOTED BEFORE

IS FOR THE PARENTS WHO ENJOY SUCH OC

4HE ROBES HAD BEEN USED FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF YEARS 4HEY WERE CREASED SLIGHTLY MUSTY AND DESPITE THE PLETHORA OF MEASUREMENTS WE WERE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE STILL DID NOT lT YOU WITH APPROXIMATELY PHOTOS

ONE OF WHICH IS IN A WOODEN FRAME )N THE INTERESTS OF A MARKET ECONOMY

PEOPLE ARE OF COURSE WELCOME TO BUY ANY OF THESE PACKAGES BUT THE FACT OF

CASIONS AND ARE PREPARED TO SHELL OUT THE REQUISITE AMOUNT IN ORDER TO RE MEMBER THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER S SPE CIAL DAY AND mASH IT ABOUT AT WORK THE NEXT DAY -OST OF THE STUDENTS IT

APPEARED WANTED NOTHING MORE THAN TO GET THE DAY OVER WITH AND GET BACK TO WHAT WAS IMPORTANT SPENDING WHAT LITTLE TIME THEY HAD LEFT WITH FRIENDS

mATMATES AND ANY OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN MET ALONG THIS MOST WON DERFUL OF JOURNEYS

LESS 3TUDENTS WERE GIVEN THE IMPRES SION THAT THEY WOULD BE PART OF A MAS SIVE EVENT STARTING AT PM THROUGH TO AM WITH FAIRGROUND RIDES A BREAKFAST

AND THE hSURVIVORSv PHOTO FOR ALL THOSE WHO MADE IT THE DISTANCE 7E WERE ALSO PROMISED SOME KIND OF CELEBRITY 0! TO

)T WAS SIMPLY 4UESDAY S ,#2 MOVED TO A &RI DAY AND DRESSED UP AS A "ALL SO THE 5NION COULD TAKE A lNAL SWIPE AT OUR PURSES BEFORE THROWING US OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS 7HEN lNALLY FREED FROM THE SHACK LES OF PARENTS AND RELATIVES IT WAS TO BARS CLUBS AND HOUSE PARTIES THAT MOST OF US ESCAPED EAGER TO MAKE THE PENUL TIMATE CELEBRATION OF UNIVERSITY A GOOD ONE !FTER GRADUATING THERE IS BUT ONE MORE EVENT TO ATTEND BEFORE UNIVERSITY CAN lNALLY BE CALLED OVER n THE 'RADU ATION "ALL )T SHOULD BE NOTED THAT PERHAPS ONLY HALF THE THIRD YEAR WENT TO THE "ALL 4HE REASON FOR THIS ONCE AGAIN IS COST 4HIS IS NOT AN EVENT THAT PARENTS CAN BE RELIED UPON TO PAY FOR UNLIKE THE 'RADUATION DAY ITSELF 4HE TICKETS COST a OR IF YOU WERE FEELING EXTRAVA GANT a FOR THE PLATINUM VARIETY 4HIS ENTITLED YOU TO SOLE ACCESS TO THE "LUE "AR COMPLETE WITH NIBBLES AND APPAR ENTLY MAGICIANS 4HE GOLD TICKET THE a VARIETY ENTITLED YOU TO AN ,#2 n NO MORE NO

HELP US ALONG THE ROAD INTO DRUNKEN ECSTASY )T WAS UTTERLY DISMAYING THAT MANY OF THESE PROMISES TURNED OUT TO BE EMPTY &IRSTLY THE CELEBRITY n IT WAS #OLIN -URRAY FROM THE 2ADIO SHOW #OLIN AND %DITH (IS SOLE PURPOSE FOR BE ING ON STAGE WAS TO SHOUT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE h)S EVERYONE HAVING A GOOD TIME v IN THAT CHARACTERISTIC YET SOME HOW ANNOYING )RISH DRAWL /UR ANSWER WAS OF COURSE A BELLOWED h9%%!!( (((((v n WHAT ELSE WAS THERE TO SAY 4HE MUSIC THAT BACKED HIM UP WAS

QUITE FRANKLY INSULTING 7HO DECIDES THAT STUDENTS @WANT TO HEAR SUCH DIA BOLICAL SONGS AS 9-#! )T WAS TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES THE EXACT SAME PLAY LIST AS THE 4UESDAY NIGHT ,#2 WHICH WE ALL KNOW !T AN EVENT THAT COST TEN TIMES AS MUCH TO GO TO IT IS

REASONABLE TO EXPECT SOME SORT OF EF FORT TO BE MADE AS REGARDS THE MUSIC !LAS NONE WAS TO BE FOUND 3ECONDLY THE FREE BREAKFAST 5PON ENTRY EVERYONE WAS GIVEN A TOKEN FOR SAID BREAKFAST WHICH WAS LATER DISCOV ERED TO BE A BURGER FROM A VAN 4HIS IS NOT BREAKFAST IT S A SUICIDE MISSION 3OME MAY HAVE WANTED IT BUT THE VAN WAS MYSTERIOUSLY ABSENT FROM ITS SPOT

MAKING THE TOKENS COMPLETELY REDUN DANT /NCE AGAIN THIS WAS AN INSULTING ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE a TICKETS JUSTI lED AND FAILED MISERABLY 4HE WORST PART THOUGH IS YET TO COME 4HE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE "ALL AND AN ,#2 AS NOTED WAS NEGLIGIBLE 7E COULD CONTENT OURSELVES HOWEVER

WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAD UN TIL AM TO DRINK DANCE AND TRY IT ON WITH hTHE ONE THAT GOT AWAYv OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS "UT BY AM THE SHUT TERS WERE DOWN AT THE BAR "Y THE MUSIC HAD STOPPED THE LIGHTS CAME ON AND WE WERE UNCEREMONIOUSLY TOLD TO GET OUT MOST OF US CHECKING OUR WATCH ES AND TRYING TO WORK OUT EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING ON 4HE SURVIVOR S PHOTO TOOK PLACE WITH THE ,#2 STILL HALF FULL OF PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT MEANING THAT IT WAS A FAIRLY POINTLESS EXERCISE SINCE NOT ALL THE SURVIVORS WERE PRESENT 4HIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT MYSELF OR ANYONE ELSE DID NOT HAVE A GOOD TIME 4HIS WAS AFTER ALL THE 'RADUATION "ALL AND ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE A COMPLETE SOCIOPATH TO NOT ENJOY ONE LAST EVENING WITH THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MADE THE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE A GOOD ONE OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS (OWEVER IN RETROSPECT IT WAS A SIMPLE CASE OF THE 5NION TAKING ONE LAST SWIPE AT OUR PURSES BEFORE THROW

ING US OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS "EYOND THE FAIRGROUND RIDES WHAT DID THE a COVER )T WAS NOT AS IF ANY EXTRA BAR STAFF WERE BEING EMPLOYED n IT WAS SIMPLY

4UESDAY S ,#2 MOVED TO A &RIDAY AND DRESSED UP AS A "ALL a WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO MUCH a WAS A COMPLETE JOKE 'RADUATION WEEK SHOULD BE RE NAMED hEXTORTION WEEKv #ONSE QUENTLY IT MUST BE HIGHLIGHTED THAT THE GENERAL PURPOSE OF THIS WEEK IS TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE FESTIVITIES BUT IN ACTUAL FACT WE ARE BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE THE WHOLE WEEK /VERALL THERE IS NO DENYING THAT THE WEEK IS MONU MENTAL AND DElNING FOR MANY OF US BEFORE EMBARKING UPON THE NEXT STAGE OF OUR LIVES $ESPITE THE STRESS OF -UM AND $AD BANGING ON IN YOUR EAR AND 'RANNY TELLING YOU TO STAND UP STRAIGHT TO LOOK THE PART FOR YOUR PHOTO IT IS WORTH IT FOR THE SMILES ON THEIR FACES 4HE 5NION AND THE 5NIVERSITY

HOWEVER ARE INEXCUSABLE FOR THE PART THEY PLAY IN THIS FAÂ ADE 7HIST THE 3TU DENT 5NION IS FUNDAMENTALLY A BUSI NESS THAT USES ITS FUNDS FOR THE PURPOS ES OF ITS STUDENTS YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT THESE STUDENTS ARE NOT RETURNING TO 5%! IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE 4HEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM n AL THOUGH A COMPANY LIKE %DE 2AVEN SCROFT RELIES ON THIS PERIOD OF THE YEAR TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF STUDENTS THE 5NI VERSITY AND THE 3TUDENT 5NION SHOULD KNOW BETTER 7HILE WE ARE ALL ENTITLED TO ENJOY OUR lNAL WEEK OF UNIVERSITY

THE STUDENTS OF 5%! HAVE A DUTY TO MAINTAIN THE UNIVERSITY AS A BASTION OF FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY 7HEN YOU GRADUATE TRY NOT TO BE TAKEN IN BY THIS CORPORATE ORGY FOR ALL OUR SAKES

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7HAT WOULD -ICHAEL &ISH HAVE TO SAY 4HIS WINTER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THE COLDEST ON RECORD SO WHAT HAPPENED 6ICTORIA ,EGGETT SHEDS SOME SUNLIGHT ON THE LACK OF SNOW IN THE 5+

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AST YEAR IN THE RUN UP TO WINTER NEWS PAPERS AND 46 NEWS PROGRAMMES SAID WE WERE HEADING FOR A hWHITE HELLv 2E PORTERS TOLD US NOT TO LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT A SHOVEL WELLIES AND A STACK OF FOOD SO THAT WHEN WE WERE INEVITABLY CAUGHT IN SIX FOOT SNOWDRIFTS WE COULD DIG OURSELVES OUT OR AT LEAST SURVIVE )T WAS GOING TO BE THE WORST WINTER FOR TEN YEARS BRINGING WITH IT DEATH AND DESTRUCTION 3O WHAT HAPPENED 7ELL NOTHING REALLY HAPPENED AT ALL 4HERE WERE A FEW DAYS OF SNOW AT #HRISTMAS LAYING ENOUGH FOR THOSE OF US WITH NOTHING BETTER TO DO TO MAKE A SNOWMAN AND THEN TWO DAYS LATER IT HAD ALL MELTED TAKING ANY TRACE OF 3TEVE THE 3NOWMAN ;PICTURED= WITH IT )N THE MOST RECENT COLD SPELL THE SNOW WAS EVEN LESS SPECTACULAR MELT ING WITHIN HOURS OF IT FALLING 4HIS WIN TER DIDN T EVEN FEEL PARTICULARLY COLD 4HERE WERE CERTAINLY A FEW DAYS WHEN YOU COULDN T LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT

# 4HERE WERE SOME EXTREMELY COLD DAYS AND NIGHTS TOWARDS THE END OF THE MONTH WITH SOME PLACES IN %AST !NGLIA RECORDING LOWS OF # BUT THE ALL IMPORTANT #HRISTMAS $AY SAW FAIRLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OF OR # *ANUARY TEMPERATURES FOR BOTH DAY AND NIGHT WERE NEAR NORMAL AND IN &EBRUARY WHILST THE DAYTIME TEM PERATURES WERE AROUND NORMAL NIGHTS WERE NEARLY # ABOVE THE EXPECTED TEMPERATURES FOR THAT TIME OF YEAR 0RECIPITATION LEVELS THAT S RAIN

SLEET AND SNOW TO YOU AND ME SHOW THAT THE PREDICTED hWHITE HELLv WAS EVEN FURTHER OFF THE MARK /VERALL %AST !NGLIA THIS WINTER WAS DRY A CASE RE PEATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WITH SOME PLACES GETTING ONLY OF THE AVERAGE RAINFALL IN *ANUARY .ORTH .OR FOLK WAS WETTER THAN THE REST OF THE REGION BECAUSE OF ITS COASTAL POSITION

WITH RAINFALL AT NEAR NORMAL LEVELS "UT IF PRECIPITATION LEVELS WERE NOTHING SPECIAL THERE WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ANY SIGN OF A hWHITE HELLv 3O WHY WERE THE PREDICTIONS SO IN ACCURATE ! QUICK VISIT TO THE -ET /F

0REDICTING SNOW IS A PARTICULARLY DIFlCULT SKILL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SNOW AND RAIN CAN BE A MATTER OF JUST HALF A DEGREE TWO JUMPERS AND THE THERMALS THAT YOUR MUM BOUGHT YOU AND YOU SWORE YOU WOULD NEVER WEAR BUT THAT HAP PENS EVERY YEAR !ND THERE WAS NO SIGN OF THE MAKE SHIFT MORGUES OUTSIDE HOSPITALS THAT HAVE BEEN NEEDED IN THE PAST TO DEAL WITH ALL THE WEATHER RELATED DEATHS 4HE lGURES FOR WINTER ARE TAKEN FROM $ECEMBER *ANUARY AND &EBRUARY /VERALL .ORFOLK S $ECEMBER DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WERE FRACTIONALLY BELOW AVERAGE 4HE NIGHTS WERE MORE SIGNIl CANTLY UNDER THE AVERAGE

BY JUST OVER

lCE WEBSITE REVEALS THAT ACTUALLY THE PREDICTIONS OF THE PROFESSIONALS WERE NOT WRONG AT ALL 4HE ORIGINAL WINTER FORECAST RELEASED IN 3EPTEMBER

SAID THAT hTHE BALANCE OF PROBABILITY IS FOR A WINTER COLDER THAT THOSE SINCE v AND hTHERE WAS ALSO AN INDI CATION FOR A DRIER THAN AVERAGE WINTER OVER MUCH OF THE 5+v *IM "ACON FROM 7EATHER1UEST

THE 5%! BASED METEOROLOGY COM PANY SAID THIS WAS THE BELIEF OF MOST METEOROLOGISTS BASED ON PREDICTIONS MEASURING THE PRESSURE OVER THE !T

LANTIC WHICH TENDS TO BE LINKED TO THE 5+ S WINTER (E SAID WEATHER EXPERTS WERE SUGGESTING A PROBABILITY OF A COLDER WINTER THAN WE HAD SEEN IN THE PAST TEN YEARS (OWEVER WINTERS SINCE HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN MILDER THAN THE AVERAGE WHICH IS BASED ON TEMPER ATURES OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS *UST BECAUSE ITS COLDER THAN NORMAL DOESN T MAKE IT THERMAL UNDERWEAR WEATHER 4HE PREDICTIONS OF THE METEOROLOGISTS WERE ACTUALLY SPOT ON 3O WHY WERE WE SENT RUNNING FOR OUR SHOVELS AND SNOWSUITS *IM "ACON EXPLAINED THAT METEOROLOGY COMPANIES LIKE 7EATHER1UEST MAKE THEIR PREDIC TIONS BASED ON A CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF THE FACTS -EASUREMENTS ARE TAKEN AT VARIOUS POINTS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND MODELS ARE CREATED BASED ON THIS DATA -ETEOROLOGISTS THEN ALTER THE MODELS TO MAKE A MORE REALISTIC PICTURE 4HEY MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO EARLIER DATA FOR EXAMPLE THE UPPER AIR PRESSURE AT A CERTAIN POINT OFF THE .ORFOLK COAST

AND THEN ALLOW THE MODELS TO RUN THEIR COURSE AGAIN !FTER REPEATING THIS PROC ESS SEVERAL TIMES AN ENSEMBLE FORECAST IS CREATED )F MOST OF THE FORECASTS IN THIS ENSEMBLE FORECAST AGREE THE METE OROLOGIST CAN MAKE AN ACCURATE PREDIC TION IF NOT THE ATMOSPHERE IS SAID TO BE UNSTABLE AND UNPREDICTABLE 5NFORTUNATELY NOT ALL FORECASTS ARE BASED ON SUCH A DETAILED PROCESS -UCH OF THE INFORMATION ON THE INTER NET IS UNPROCESSED BASED PURELY ON THE ORIGINAL MODEL S LIMITED MEASURE MENTS 4HIS INACCURATE INFORMATION IS SOMETIMES USED BY PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A NEWS STORY )F THE INFORMATION ISN T BACKED UP BY A METEOROLOGIST IT CAN RE SULT IN FRONT PAGE STORIES CLAIMING THE NEXT ICE AGE IS ON ITS WAY WHEN IN FACT IT WILL BE A LITTLE COLDER THAN AVERAGE %VEN WHEN THE INFORMATION IS BASED ON A METEOROLOGIST S CAREFUL IN TERVENTION FORECASTING THE WEATHER IS STILL A RISKY BUSINESS 0REDICTING SNOW IS A PARTICULARLY DIFlCULT SKILL 4HE DIF FERENCES BETWEEN WHETHER PRECIPITA TION FALLS AS SNOW OR RAIN CAN BE A MATTER OF HALF A DEGREE 7HAT BEGINS

FALLING AS SNOW COULD TURN TO RAIN BY THE TIME IT REACHES THE GROUND IF TEM PERATURES ARE WARM ENOUGH AND VICE VERSA /N TOP OF THIS WEATHER IS DIFFER ENT EVERYWHERE JUST BECAUSE THERE IS A SNOW SHOWER IN 'REAT 9ARMOUTH DOES NOT MEAN THE REST OF .ORFOLK IS GOING TO SEE SNOW AS WELL 4HE PROBLEM FOR WEATHER FORECASTERS IS THAT THEY HAVE AN EXTREMELY DETAILED AND VARIED AMOUNT OF INFORMATION TO CONVEY IN JUST A FEW SENTENCES 4HIS EXPLAINS WHY REPORTS ARE FULL OF STATEMENTS LIKE hTHERE WILL BE SHOWERS FOR SOME OF USv AND hSNOW WILL POSSIBLY CAUSE DISRUPTIONv THE WEATHER PRESENTER ISN T HEDGING HIS OR HER BETS THEY ARE EXPLAINING IN THE QUICKEST WAY POSSIBLE THAT WEATHER VAR IES FROM PLACE TO PLACE 4HE MOST RECENT COLD SPELL IS A PER FECT EXAMPLE /NE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER HAD A FRONT PAGE HEADLINE THAT SIMPLY SAID h "RITAIN FACES !RCTIC BLAST IN THE WORST WEATHER OF THE WINTERv #UE PANICKING PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY )T S NOT UNTIL MUCH LATER IN THE STORY THAT IT EXPLAINS THAT THIS TEMPERATURE ONLY REFERS TO EXPOSED AREAS OF .ORTH ERN 3COTLAND 4HE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FEARING FOR THE LIVES OF THEIR ELDERLY RELATIVES COULD HAVE BEEN SPARED THAT HEART STOPPING MOMENT IF ONLY THEY HAD MORE DETAIL *IM "ACON TOOK #ON CRETE THROUGH A MORE ACCURATE FORECAST FOR .ORFOLK THE DAY BEFORE THE SNOW WAS GOING TO HIT (E EXPLAINED THAT SNOW WOULD NOT AFFECT INLAND AREAS AND THAT WHAT WE GOT WOULD BE IN THE FORM OF SHOWERS MELTING EACH TIME THE WEATHER CLEARED SO IT DIDN T HAVE THE CHANCE TO BUILD UP !NYONE WHO EXPECTED A WINTER WONDERLAND OF SNOW OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS CAN BE FORGIVEN FOR BEING A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED BUT DON T LOSE FAITH IN OUR METEOROLOGISTS 4HEY NEVER TOLD US TO SEARCH FOR THE WELLIES AND WHEN WEATHER FORECASTING IS DONE PROPERLY IT CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE

SAVING BUSINESSES TENS OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS 7E HAVE TO LEARN TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES OF A NEWS STORY AND WATCH THOSE SYMBOLS ON THE MAP

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7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

2ESTAURANT 2EVIEW "ELLA )TALIA %XCHANGE 3TREET .ORWICH .2 !4

!NYONE FANCY A CUPPA *OANNA ,AMBERT TOASTS THE ALL ROUND GOODNESS OF TEA

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VERY DAY THE 5+ DRINKS MILLION CUPS OF TEA 4HAT S A LOT OF TEA )T S A "RITISH PASTIME AND AS A RESULT IT S ONE OF THE lRST THINGS TO WHICH WE ARE REQUIRED TO INTRODUCE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS !ND THERE AREN T MANY STUDENT HOUSES WITHOUT AT LEAST ONE TEAPOT DISCOUNTING THE MALE ONLY ONES MAYBE /N AVERAGE EVERYONE IN THE 5+ OVER THE AGE OF WILL DRINK THREE CUPS OF TEA EVERY SINGLE DAY 3UCH HIGH CONSUMPTION LEVELS HAVE BEEN THE TOPIC OF MANY DEBATES SURROUNDING HEALTH ISSUES ,IKE COFFEE TEA CONTAINS CAFFEINE

WHICH IS NOT ONLY ADDICTIVE BUT CAN ALSO LEAD TO HEALTH PROBLEMS #AF FEINE CAN BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE BODY S ABSORPTION OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS AND BECAUSE PUT BLUNTLY IT MAKES YOU PEE SO MUCH THE VITAMINS WILL PASS THROUGH YOUR BODY MORE QUICKLY 7HILE IT MIGHT BE THE ONLY WAY YOU GET THROUGH AN ALL NIGHTER FOLLOWING THE INITIAL ENERGY SURGE YOUR ENERGY LEVELS FALL DUE TO THE LOWERING OF BLOOD SUG AR )T CAN ALSO IRRITATE THE STOMACH AND CAUSE HEADACHES AND INSOMNIA (AVING SAID THIS THE AMOUNT

OF CAFFEINE IN TEA AND COFFEE VARIES GREATLY (OWEVER IT IS CLAIMED THAT TEA CONTAINS A THIRD LESS CAFFEINE THAN COFFEE AND AN INCREASING NUMBER OF OTHER HEALTH BENElTS CROWD SCIENTIlC REPORTS )F YOU VE EVER HAD A CURIOUS URGE TO LOOK UP hTEAv ON THE INTERNET YOU WILL HAVE BEEN SURPRISED 4HERE ARE HUNDREDS OF WEBSITES PROMOTING THE BENElTS AND EXCEPTIONAL QUALITIES OF TEA BLACK TEA GREEN TEA WHITE TEA

EVEN RED TEA BUT IT ALL COMES FROM THE SAME PLANT %VEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT FEEL MORE HEALTHY DRINKING GREEN TEA

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COLOURS IS THEIR LENGTH OF FERMENTATION AND lRING AND ALL OFFER MORE OR LESS THE SAME BENElTS !CCORDING TO RECENT RESEARCH THERE ARE THREE REASONS TEA IS BENElCIAL TO HEALTH 4O BEGIN WITH IT CONTAINS CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS KNOWN AS THE mAVANOIDS &LAVANOIDS ARE NATURAL ANTI OXIDANTS THAT CLEANSE THE BODY OF HARMFUL TOXINS THAT CAN CAUSE ALL SORTS OF DAMAGE INCLUDING MAKING YOU AGE QUICKER AND INCREASING THE RISK OF VARI OUS DISEASES /N TOP OF THIS CATECHINS AND TANNINS WHICH ARE mAVANOIDS TOO

ARE ANTIOXIDANTS THAT ARE REPORTEDLY

n TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VI TAMINS # AND % 2ESEARCH STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT THEY CAN ALSO HELP REDUCE THE CONTRACTION OF ALL KINDS OF CAN CERS 4HE SECOND HEALTH BENElT IS mUO RIDE 4ESTS HAVE SHOWN THAT THERE IS ENOUGH mUORIDE IN A STANDARD CUP OF TEA TO HELP PROTECT DENTAL CAVITIES AGAINST DECAY AND IT HAS BEEN SUGGEST ED THAT IT WILL HELP KEEP BONES STRONG TOO (OWEVER IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT THIS DOESN T MEAN YOU RE ALLOWED TO SUB STITUTE YOUR TOOTHBRUSH FOR ANOTHER MORNING CUPPA n ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF STUDIES PROVING THAT TEA CAN ALSO NEUTRALISE BAD BREATH 4HIRDLY AND PERHAPS RATHER OBVI OUSLY IS THE FACT THAT A CUP OF TEA IS A GOOD SOURCE OF WATER -ANY PEOPLE SEEM TO BELIEVE THAT TEA DOESN T CON TRIBUTE TO THE RECOMMENDED DAILY mUID INTAKE n BUT IT DOES 4HE DIURETIC MAKING YOU PEE A LOT EFFECT OF CAF FEINE WILL NOT HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT UPON THIS INTAKE UNLESS MORE THAN OR CUPS ARE DRUNK AT ONCE (OPEFULLY THIS HAS CONVERTED THOSE WHO DRINK COFFEE AND LURED THE REST OF YOU WHO LOVE THE STUFF TO GO AND PUT THE KETTLE ON 4EA ANYONE

2ECIPE #HICKEN SPINACH RICOTTA PARCELS &OR FOUR PARCELS YOU WILL NEED &OUR CHICKEN BREASTS G SPINACH I E HALF A BAG OF G FRESH SPINACH MEDIUM SIZED MUSHROOMS SHALLOT G RICOTTA I E HALF A G TUB 3ALT AND PEPPER $ICE THE MUSHROOMS AND SHALLOTS AND MIX IN A BOWL !DD THE SPINACH LEAVES AND A DASH OF WATER AND PUT IN THE MICROWAVE FOR MINUTE !DD THE RICOTTA AND MIX 3EASON WITH PLENTY OF SALT AND PEP

PER 3LICE THE CHICKEN BREASTS OPEN AND mATTEN ONTO FOUR INDIVIDUAL PIECES OF KITCHEN FOIL 4AKE A HEAPED TABLESPOON OF THE MIXTURE AND PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF EACH CHICKEN BREAST 2OLL THE CHICKEN AROUND THE MIX TURE AND SECURE BY WRAPPING THE FOIL AROUND THE PARCEL 0LACE THE PARCELS IN A PREHEATED OVEN AT ª# FOR MINUTES 3ERVING SUGGESTION ,IGHTLY ROASTED NEW POTATOES !LSO GOES SURPRISINGLY WELL WITH A BIT OF MAYONNAISE

)T S A -ONDAY EVENING YOU DON T HAVE HUGE AMOUNTS OF SPARE CASH AND YOU RE REALLY SICK OF THE LOCAL TAKEAWAY n WELL IT S TIME YOU HEADED TO "ELLA )TALIA !L THOUGH YOU HAVE A CHOICE OF TWO IN .ORWICH IT S THE ONE OPPOSITE *ARROLDS ON %XCHANGE 3TREET THAT YOU WANT TO GO TO 4RUST ME 7HY "ECAUSE AFTER PM ON -ONDAYS AND 7EDNESDAYS THE RESTAURANT OFFERS OFF TO ALL STUDENTS WHO BOOK BEFOREHAND /+ SO "ELLA )TALIA ISN T THE CLASSIEST OF )TALIAN RESTAURANTS AND YES IT MAY BE A CHAIN BUT THEY RE RATHER STUDENT FRIENDLY AND VERY TASTY SO ) REALLY DON T THINK WE SHOULD MOAN 7HAT S NICE ABOUT THEM IS THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU RE GETTING 4HE SERVICE IS QUICK THE RESTAURANTS ARE AL WAYS PLEASANT AND COMFORTABLE AND THE FOOD IS SATISFYING )T WOULD BE EASY TO CHOOSE THE LASA GNE OR A PEPPERONI PIZZA BUT HOW ABOUT PICKING SOMETHING DIFFERENT 4HE 0ENNE 0OLLO E #REMEA PASTA CHICKEN AND CREAM IS DELICIOUS A MOREISH CREAMY SAUCE WITH CHUNKY VEGETABLES TENDER PIECES OF CHICKEN AND PANCETTA STREWN THROUGHOUT 4HE "UFALITA PIZZA IS ALSO SURPRISING LY NICE /NLY GO FOR IT IF YOU LIKE ROCKET THOUGH THERE IS A LOT OF IT )NSTEAD OF THE USUAL TOMATO BASE IT HAS A BASIL PESTO ONE INSTEAD n SCRUMPTIOUS "ELLA )TALIA REALLY ISN T FULL ENOUGH ON THESE SPECIAL NIGHTS 4AKE ADVANTAGE

HAVE DESERT TOO #HOCOLATE 'ODFATHER

YUM !ND A GLASS OF WINE n WHY NOT *UST REMEMBER YOUR .53 CARD

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

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-OTHER .ATURE S lNEST CREATIONS )F YOU RE A FAN OF NATURAL BEAUTY NO PLACE ON EARTH HAS SUCH A DIVERSE COLLECTION OF mORA AND FAUNA THAN #ENTRAL !MERICA AS 3IMON 3HERIDAN AND 0RIYA 3HAH DISCOVER

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S $AVID !TTEN BOROUGH EX PLAINED IN THE ""# S NEW NAT URAL HISTORY PRO GRAMME 0LANET %ARTH THE TROPI CAL REGIONS OF THE WORLD ARE HOME TO AN ABUNDANCE OF WILDLIFE THAT IS NOT FOUND IN ANY OTHER REGION 4HE SUN S RAYS ARE STRONG EST ALONG THE EQUATOR GIVING RISE TO VAST FORESTS WHICH ARE LITERALLY PACKED TO THE BRIM WITH A HUGE ARRAY OF IN SECTS BIRDS REPTILES AND MAMMALS .OWHERE IS THIS TRUER THAN IN THE DIVERSE REGION THAT IS #ENTRAL !MERICA 4HE NORTHERN !MAZON OF #OLOMBIA AND 6ENEZUELA GIVES WAY TO THE ROLL ING PLAINS OF 0ANAMA AND .ICARAGUA

WHILST IN THE BACKGROUND THE !NDEAN -OUNTAIN RANGE TRANSFORMS INTO THE UNDULATING HILLS AND PEAKS THAT EVEN TUALLY BECOME THE 3IERRA .EVADA IN THE 5NITED 3TATES OF !MERICA 4HE GEOGRAPHY OF THE REGION HAS AL

CIES ILLUSTRATE THE IMMENSE DIVERSITY OF %ARTH AND HOW MUCH WE HUMANS DO NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND )N A UNI VERSE WHERE NO OTHER PLANET POSSESSES THE REQUISITE CONDITIONS FOR PROMOT ING LIFE THE JUNGLES OF EARTH COVERING ROUGHLY OF THE PLANET S SURFACE ARE HOME TO LITERALLY MILLIONS OF ANIMALS 7HILE THE CHANCES OF YOU SEEING A *AGUAR ARE EXTREMELY SLIM THERE ARE PLENTY OF RARE AND WONDERFUL SPECIES TO ENTHUSE THE DISCERNING ADVENTURER &OR EXAMPLE ONE OF "RITAIN S FAVOURITE NA TIVE MAMMALS IS THE OTTER BUT #ENTRAL !MERICA IS HOME TO THE 'IANT /TTER OR THE h7ATER 7OLFv ,ARGER THAN A 'OLD EN 2ETRIEVER THESE CREATURES HAVE BEEN HUNTED FOR THEIR LUXURIANT FUR BUT THEY CAN STILL BE FOUND IN THE LAKES AND RIV ERS OF THE !MAZON RAINFOREST 0ERHAPS THE MOST DIVERSE WILDLIFE CAN BE FOUND IN 0ANAMA THE LAND BRIDGE BETWEEN .ORTH AND 3OUTH !MERICA WHICH ROSE FROM THE SEA SOME MILLION YEARS AGO 4HE COUNTRY S TOWNS ARE LOCATED DIRECTLY NEXT TO RAIN

4HE GEOGRAPHY OF THE #ENTRAL !MERICAN REGION HAS ALLOWED ITS ANIMAL INHABITANTS TO DEVELOP UNLIKE ANY OTHER ON EARTH LOWED ITS ANIMAL INHABITANTS TO DEVEL OP UNLIKE ANY OTHER ON EARTH 4HE HUGE ECOSYSTEM THAT THE !MAZON SUPPORTS IS HOME TO PRACTICALLY ALL THE WORLD S POI SONOUS FROGS SOME OF WHICH WERE DIS COVERED MERELY WEEKS AGO IN A HUGE

NEVER BEFORE SEEN CAVERN FOUND DEEP IN THE 6ENEZUELAN JUNGLE &OR ANY BUD DING NATURE ENTHUSIAST SITES SUCH AS THIS ARE WITHOUT DOUBT THE MOST THRILL ING THE PLANET HAS TO OFFER AS NEW SPE

FORESTS MEANING YOU CAN OBSERVE THE ANIMAL INHABITANTS IN THEIR NATURAL EN VIRONMENT WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE AN ARDUOUS TREK INTO THE JUNGLE !MONG THE MOST INTERESTING ARE THE GIANT ANT EATER AND THE CAPYBARA THE WORLD S LARGEST RODENT )F YOU ARE OF A MORE OR NITHOLOGICAL MINDSET THEN THE BEAU TIFUL (ARPY %AGLE OR A VARIETY OF VIVID TOUCANS MAY BE MORE TO YOUR LIKING )T WOULD BE A SHAME TO VISIT A RE

GION SUCH AS THIS WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO TAKE A DIP IN THE CRYSTAL CLEAR WATERS OF THE #ARIBBEAN 3EA OR THE 0ACIlC /CEAN 4HE BEACHES OF THE REGION ARE AMONG THE MOST PICTURESQUE TO BE FOUND IN THE 7ESTERN HEMISPHERE BUT DO NOT STOP THERE CONSIDER LEARNING TO DIVE IN (ONDURAS WHICH CAN COST AS LITTLE AS 53 TO BECOME FULLY QUALIlED 4HIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO DIVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT YOU MIGHT AS WELL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE AMPLE DIVING CENTRES IN #ENTRAL !MERICA ONE OF THE BEST BEING THE ISLAND OF 2OATAN

JUST OFF THE %AST COAST OF (ONDURAS )F YOU RE LUCKY YOU MIGHT GLIMPSE THE GIANT SAILlSH OR A -ARLIN AMONG THE FASTEST lSH IN THE SEA !LTERNATIVELY THE REGION S MANY CORAL REEFS ARE A VIBRANT AND INTOXICATING REMINDER OF WHAT LIES ONLY FEET AWAY FROM THE COAST &OR THE UNDETERRED TRAVELLER THERE ARE MANY AFFORDABLE ALTERNATIVES TO THE CUSTOMARY TOURIST HOTSPOTS 4HE WHOLE REGION IS A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT SCE NIC ATTRACTIONS RANGING FROM JAGGED MOUNTAINS TO CRYSTAL WHITE SANDY BEACHES AND THE CULTURE IS COMPLETELY INTOXICATING !LTHOUGH 0ORTUGUESE AND 3PANISH ARE THE MOTHER TONGUES OF THE CONTINENT (INDI $UTCH )NDONESIAN AND )TALIAN ARE ALSO SPOKEN LANGUAG ES 4HE MAJORITY OF 3OUTH !MERICANS SPEAK 0ORTUGUESE IT CURRENTLY STANDS AT BUT THERE IS NO MISTAKING THE HIGH PITCHED 3PANISH ACCENT ALMOST EVERYWHERE YOU GO /NE OF THE MOST STRIKING ASPECTS OF THESE COUNTRIES IS THEIR POLICY ON PRES ERVATION )N #OSTA 2ICA FOR EXAMPLE

THERE IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY WHICH IS HELD DEARLY BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTRY /VER A QUARTER OF THE COUNTRY IS SET ASIDE FOR NATIONAL PARKS AND THE SAFEGUARDING OF FORESTS 4HERE ARE KNOWN TO BE OVER TYPES OF TREES SPECIES OF FERN AND SPE CIES OF MAMMALS IN #OSTA 2ICA ALONE

4HIS ONLY ILLUSTRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE WHICH IS INCOR PORATED INTO THE REGION S ECO FRIENDLY WAY OF LIFE .ATURAL BEAUTY EXISTS EVERYWHERE IN #ENTRAL !MERICA /NE FANTASTIC EX AMPLE IS THAT OF THE WORLD S TALLEST WA TERFALL n !NGEL &ALLS 3ITUATED IN 6EN EZUELA DUBBED AS 4IERRA DE 'RACIA BY #HRISTOPHER #OLUMBUS BACK IN

AND LITERALLY TRANSLATED INTO h4HE ,AND OF 'RACEv ITS MAGNIlCENT HEIGHT REACH ES AN ASTONISHING FEET ! TRIP TO THIS BREATHTAKING PIECE OF NATURAL ART WILL BE WORTH YOUR "OLIVARS ON THE AIR mIGHT REQUIRED )N ADDITION THE /RINOCO 2IVER IN 6ENEZUELA THE !MAZON 2AINFOREST SITUATED IN COUNTRIES AND 0ARQUE .ACIONAL 4AYRONA IN #OLUMBIA ARE OTHER TICKS FOR ANY TRAVELLER S ITINERARY LIST 4HE SMALLER COUNTRIES OF 0ANAMA AND 3URINAM ARE lLLED WITH RICH COLO NIAL ARCHITECTURE AND A VIBRANT ETHNIC DIVERSITY WHICH IS SOARING WITH LIFE 4HE #ENTRAL 3URINAM .ATURAL 2ESERVE TOTALS OF THE COUNTRY S LANDMASS AND IS HOME TO PRISTINE ECOSYSTEMS )F YOU HAPPEN TO PASS 6OLTZBERG ALONG THE WAY DO NOT BE ALARMED BY HIS HEIGHT 4HERE IS PLENTY OF THE CONTEMPO RARY TO SEE ALONGSIDE THE EVIDENCE OF !NCIENT CULTURES #ENTRAL AND 3OUTH !MERICAN COUNTRIES ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF LEFTWING SOCIALIST POLITICS WHICH ARE DEDICATED TO LAND REFORM AND FORCING OUT MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES THAT ABUSE THEIR PEOPLE &OREMOST AMONG THESE IS 6ENEZUELAN 0RESIDENT (UGO #HAVEZ WHO COMES JUST AFTER &IDEL #ASTRO IN 'EORGE 7 "USH S #HRISTMAS CARD LIST )F FOR NO OTHER REASON VISIT #ENTRAL !MERICA TO DISCOVER A WAY OF LIFE THAT IS INTRIGUINGLY DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN IN SOME CASES TO THE POINT THAT YOU WON T WANT TO LEAVE 9OU COULDN T THINK OF MANY BETTER PLACES TO PITCH YOUR TENT

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7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

'IVING YOUR TIME FOR A GOOD CAUSE 4HE .(3 USES UNITS OF BLOOD A DAY

AND WITHOUT A REGULAR SUPPLY OF DONORS MANY OF ITS PATIENTS WOULDN T SURVIVE

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N ESTIMATED ONE IN TEN ADULTS WILL SPEND AN HOUR AND A HALF OF THEIR LIFE BLEEDING WHILST BEING ATTACKED

BY A NEEDLE IN ORDER TO PAY FOR A SOON TO BE REGRET TED TATTOO /NLY OF THIS SAME ADULT POPULATION WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO GIVE BLOOD WILL SPEND THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME GIVING ONE UNIT OF THEIR BLOOD TO SAVE OR IMPROVE A CRITICALLY ILL PER SON S LIFE %VERY DAY THE .(3 NEEDS AT LEAST UNITS OF BLOOD A REQUIRE MENT THAT THE .ATIONAL "LOOD 3ERVICE IS IN A CONSTANT STRUGGLE TO MEET 4HIS IS BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF INTEREST FROM PROSPECTIVE DONORS THE SHORT TIME THAT BLOOD CAN BE STORED BEFORE USAGE AND THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY THAT EVERY YEAR DONORS ARE LOST DUE TO ILL HEALTH AND OLD AGE !FTER AN ALL TOO LONG ABSENCE FROM CAMPUS LIFE THE .ATIONAL "LOOD 3ERV ICE IS BACK TO RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS AND ULTIMATELY NEW DONORS 4HE 5%!."3 HAS BEEN SET UP TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO START THE HABIT OF GIVING BLOOD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 4IM (ANDLEY A STU DENT AND BLOOD DONOR WHO HELPS TO

#HARLOTTE +IMBLEY JOINS THE LIST GANISING DONORS TO GIVE BLOOD IN TOWN OR DURING THE SESSIONS ON CAMPUS !N IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THE 5%!."3 IS THAT lRST TIME DONORS CAN GO TO SES SIONS WITH EXPERIENCED STUDENT DONORS FOR MORAL SUPPORT 4HE SOCIETY ALREADY HAS OVER MEMBERS EVEN THOUGH ITS lRST ON CAMPUS SESSION IS NOT UNTIL .OVEMBER 4HE OVERWHELMING POPU LARITY CONVEYS THE UNIVERSAL IDEA THAT THE SUCCESS OF THE ."3 IS DUE TO DONA TION BY THE COMMUNITY FOR THE COM MUNITY -ISS !LEX "IRLEY THE FORMER #OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER FOR THE .A TIONAL "LOOD 3ERVICE IN %AST !NGLIA

COMMENTED h3OMEONE YOU KNOW HAS PROBABLY NEEDED BLOOD IN THE PAST AND WITHOUT IT THEY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN HERE TODAY 9OU ALSO NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU OR A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY WILL NEED BLOOD IN THE FUTURE v /N 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH THIS REPORTER MADE HER lRST BLOOD DONA TION AT THE .ORWICH !SSEMBLY (OUSE 4HE PROCESS STARTED WITH A REGISTRATION

4HE PROCESS OF GIVING A UNIT OF BLOOD WAS NEITHER FRIGHTENING NOR PAINFUL RUN THE ORGANISATION HAS WORKED HARD TO GET BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS BACK ON CAMPUS SO THAT STUDENTS CAN MAKE THEIR DONATIONS WITHOUT IT AFFECTING THEIR OFTEN HECTIC ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL SCHEDULES (E COMMENTED h/NE OF THE REA SONS WHY WE VE WORKED HARD TO GET IT BACK ON CAMPUS IS SO THAT IF YOU VE GOT AN HOUR BETWEEN SEMINARS OR LECTURES YOU CAN COME IN AND GIVE BLOOD v 4HE NEW SOCIETY HOPES TO lGHT THE APATHY AND FEAR THAT IS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ESSENTIAL MEDICAL RESOURCE

BY OR

FORM WHICH ASKED BASIC YET ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE ! FOLDER WAS PROVIDED WHICH STATED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN DURING THE PROC ESS OF GIVING BLOOD AND WHAT THE FOUR COMPONENTS OF BLOOD WOULD BE USED FOR 4HE VERSATILE NATURE OF THE COM MON / BLOOD TYPE IS REALLY SURPRISING 4HERE IS A WIDELY HELD MISCONCEPTION THAT COMMON BLOOD TYPES ARE IN LESS DEMAND (OWEVER / TYPE BLOOD CAN BE USED FOR ANY PATIENT INDEPENDENT OF WHAT BLOOD GROUP THEY ARE AND IT IS THE ONLY BLOOD USED IN ! % WARDS 4HIS IS BECAUSE GIVEN THE LIFE AND DEATH NATURE OF THE EMERGENCIES THERE IS NO TIME TO TEST WHAT BLOOD GROUP THE VICTIM BELONGS TO $ESPITE THIS REPORTER S APPALLING FEAR OF BLOOD AND NEEDLES THE PROCESS OF GIVING ONE UNIT OF BLOOD WAS NEITHER FRIGHTENING NOR PAINFUL AND TOOK LESS THAN TEN MINUTES 4HE VOLUNTEERS WHO RUN THE SESSIONS WERE FRIENDLY HELPFUL AND PASSIONATE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE

AND NECESSITY OF BLOOD DONATION !F TER ALL THAT HARD WORK THEY WERE SUCH BRILLIANT PEOPLE THEY GAVE EVERY DONOR BISCUITS AND TEA )F YOU WANT TO BECOME A DONOR THE .ATIONAL "LOOD 3ERVICE HAVE MADE THE PROCESS EVEN SIMPLER FOR YOU

BY SETTING UP AN APPOINTMENT SERVICE 4HIS MEANS THAT IF YOU BOOK YOUR SESSION VIA THEIR WEBSITE WWW BLOOD CO UK OR OVER THE TELEPHONE ON YOU CAN HALVE YOUR SESSION TIME SO THERE REALLY IS NO EXCUSE NOT TO DONATE 4HE ON CAMPUS SESSIONS WHICH WILL START RUNNING FROM THIS .OVEM BER FOR TWO DAYS WILL BE ALLOTTED THROUGH APPOINTMENT ONLY 4HIS IS SO THAT 5%!."3 CAN RECEIVE THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF DONATIONS POSSIBLE BY CUT TING OUT WAITING TIME )F YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN OR RE CEIVE INFORMATION FROM 5%!."3 YOU CAN JOIN THEIR EMAIL LIST ON UEANBS GOOGLEMAIL COM LEAVING YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

35--%$ 50 MILLION %STIMATED NUMBER OF PRIMATES USED GLO BALLY IN EXPERIMENTS EACH YEAR 0OPULATION OF THE WHOLE OF .ORTHERN )RELAND .UMBER OF PEOPLE IN PRISON IN THE 5NIT ED 3TATES ROUGHLY IN OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION

a MILLION !MOUNT OF MONEY THAT #HAI 0ATEL THE HEAD OF THE 0RIORY REHAB CLINIC LENT THE ,ABOUR 0ARTY TWO MONTHS BEFORE BEING NOMINATED FOR A PEERAGE !MOUNT OF EXTRA MONEY THAT THE #ON SERVATIVE 0ARTY SPENT ON ADVERTISING IN THE ELECTIONS COMPARED TO THE ,ABOUR 0ARTY SPENDING A TOTAL OF a

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$ E P U T Y 0 R I M E - I N I S T E R *OHN 0RES COTT WAS W A R N E D THAT WE NEED TO STOP DAMAGING .OR FOLK S COASTLINE BY DREDGING ,OCAL RESI DENTS AND INVOLVED PARTIES ARE WORRIED THAT THE PROPOSED EXTENSION TO THE DREDGE AREA KM OFF THE COAST OF 9AR MOUTH WILL AFFECT THE ALREADY BADLY ERODED .ORFOLK COASTLINE 4HE DREDGING CONTRACTORS (ANSON !GGREGATE -ARINE HAVE THEMSELVES AD MITTED THAT AS A RESULT OF THEIR ACTIVITIES

THE SEABED HAS LOWERED BY M IN THE LAST THREE YEARS WHICH SEEMS ENOUGH EVIDENCE IN ITSELF TO CEASE DREDGING FOR THE TIME BEING OR UNTIL WE FULLY UN DERSTAND ITS IMPACT ! SPOKESPERSON FOR THE 3CRATBY #OASTAL %ROSION 'ROUP SAID THAT THE OBJECTIONS OF THE VILLAGERS WERE BASED ON THE SIGNIlCANT LOSS OF SAND FROM 3CRATBY BEACH IN THE PAST FEW YEARS 4HE SPOKESPERSON ALSO STATED h4HE DRAMATIC LOSS OF BEACH HERE AND AT OTHER LOCATIONS AROUND THE .ORFOLK COAST WHILE MILLIONS OF TONS OF SAND AND GRAVEL ARE REMOVED FROM THE SEA BED IS PROMPTING SERIOUS CALLS FOR DREDGING TO BE HALTED WHILE A TOTALLY INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION IS CARRIED

OUT v -R 0RESCOTT HAS PREVIOUSLY RULED THAT NO PUBLIC NOTICES NEED TO BE PLACED BUT THIS HAS NOT PREVENTED THE 3CRATBY #OASTAL %ROSION 'ROUP OR OTHER PRESSURE GROUPS AND AUTHORITIES SUCH AS 9ARMOUTH "OROUGH #OUNCIL AND .ORFOLK #OUNTY #OUNCIL REGISTER ING THEIR OBJECTIONS !S THE CONSULTA TION PERIOD IS COMING TO AN END -R 0RESCOTT SHOULD BE IN NO DOUBT ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF OPPOSITION TO CONTIN UED DREDGING 4HE OPPOSITION CAMPAIGNERS ARE NOT HOLDING THEIR BREATH AS -R 0RES COTT S DEPARTMENT ARE STILL TO MAKE A DECISION ON THE lNAL APPLICATION (ANNAH .EWTON

!MOUNT THAT ,ORD 3AATCHI THE FORMER #ONSERVATIVE CHAIRMAN CHARGED HIS OWN PARTY FOR THE SERVICES OF HIS ADVERTISING COMPANIES IN THE GENERAL ELECTION CAM PAIGNS THAT HE HELPED TO CREATE

4URNOUT FOR THIS YEAR S 3TUDENT 5NION ELECTIONS 4HE POPULATION OF !FRICA AS A PROPORTION OF THE WORLD S POPULATION 4ESCO S TOTAL SHARE OF THE 5+ S RETAIL MAR KET FOOD AND NON FOOD COMBINED

a BILLION 4HE CURRENT LEVEL OF DEBT REACHED BY THE .(3 4HE ESTIMATED VALUE OF ALL THE FOREIGN CURRENCY BROUGHT BACK FROM HOLIDAY AND LEFT FORGOTTEN IN "RITISH HOMES 4HE COST OF FRAUD IN THE 5+ DURING

THREE TIMES THE LEVEL OF AND THE HIGHEST ON RECORD SINCE

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!MOUNT OF MONEY #HERIE "LAIR WILL EARN IN ONE AFTERNOON WHEN SHE ADDRESSES THE 3OCIETY OF THE &OUR !RTS IN &LORIDA DURING HER 53 LECTURE TOUR !MOUNT OF MONEY 'EORGE 'ALLOWAY RAISED FOR CHARITY THROUGH HIS APPEARANCE ON #ELEBRITY "IG "ROTHER 4HE POLITICIAN HIMSELF IS SAID TO HAVE EARNED A SIX lGURE FEE FOR HIS THREE WEEKS ON THE SHOW !MOUNT OF MONEY SPENT ON LEGAL COSTS BY (ELEN 3TEEL AND $AVE -ORRIS WHEN THEY TOOK ON -C$ONALDS IN THE h-C,I BELv COURT CASE -C$ONALDS HAD A a MILLION LEGAL TEAM

%VOLVING ALTRUISM #HIMPS AND TODDLERS SHOW US ALTRUISM IS INSTINCTIVE

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ERMAN SCIEN TISTS ARE PROV ING USING TODDLERS AS YOUNG AS MONTHS OLD AND YOUNG CHIMPANZEES THAT WE REALLY ARE CAPABLE OF HELPING OTHERS PURELY OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF OUR HEARTS A BEHAVIOUR DESCRIBED BY EXPERTS AS hALTRUISTICv 7ITHOUT NEEDING PROMPTING OR THE HOPE OF REWARD THE YOUNG PRIMATES ALL SHOWED A WILLINGNESS TO HELP COM PLETE STRANGERS WITH SIMPLE TASKS SUCH AS STACKING BOOKS )T IS THOUGHT THERE FORE THAT ALTRUISM MAY HAVE EVOLVED SIX MILLION YEARS AGO IN THE COMMON ANCESTOR OF BOTH CHIMPANZEES AND HU MANS )T WAS PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED THAT THIS BEHAVIOUR WAS UNIQUE TO HUMANS

BUT AS POINTED OUT BY PSYCHOLOGIST &ELIX 7ARNEKEN OF THE -AX 0LANCK )N STITUTE FOR %VOLUTIONARY !NTHROPOLOGY

IN ,EIPZIG 'ERMANY THIS IS THE hlRST EXPERIMENT SHOWING ALTRUISTIC HELPING TOWARDS GOALS IN ANY NON HUMAN PRI MATEv $R 7ARNEKEN AND HIS COLLEAGUE

0ROFESSOR -ICHAEL 4OMASELLO WENT ON TO CONDUCT MORE COMPLICATED TASKS IN WHICH THE CHILDREN BEGAN TO SHOW THE CHIMPANZEES UP 4HE RESEARCHERS CON CLUDED THAT hTHE CHILDREN AND CHIM PANZEES ARE BOTH WILLING TO HELP BUT THEY APPEAR TO DIFFER IN THEIR ABILITY TO INTERPRET THE OTHER S NEED FOR HELP IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONSv -EANWHILE CHIMPANZEES WERE PROVING THEIR WORTH IN A SIMILAR STUDY IN 5GANDA !LICIA -ELIS AT THE .GAM BA )SLAND #HIMPANZEE 3ANCTUARY DIS COVERED THAT CHIMPANZEES WERE ALSO CAPABLE OF RECOGNISING WHEN COLLABO RATION WAS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO MEET A COMMON AIM AND COULD CHOOSE THE BEST PARTNER FOR THE TASK 4HEIR TASK WAS TO GRASP A FOOD TRAY THAT COULD ONLY BE REACHED IF THEY HELD TWO ENDS OF A ROPE AT THE SAME TIME

4HEY SUCCESSFULLY MANAGED THIS TASK

BY COMBINING FORCES AND WORKING TO GETHER (OWEVER MORE CYNICAL PSYCHOLO GISTS QUESTION WHETHER ANY ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOUR INCLUDING THAT EVIDENT IN OUR OWN SPECIES IS EVER TRULY SELmESS 4WO COMMON THEORIES ARE THAT WE TEND TO PRIORITISE HELPING OUR RELATIVES IN ORDER TO CONSERVE AND PROMOTE OUR OWN GENES AND THAT OTHERWISE WE HELP OTHERS WITH THE SUBCONSCIOUS ASSUMP TION THAT THEY WILL EVENTUALLY RETURN THE FAVOUR 4HE MOST RECENTLY CONCEIVED IDEA

RESEARCHED BY 3WISS PSYCHOLOGISTS #LAUS 7EDEKIND AND -ANFRED -ILIN SKI OF THE 5NIVERSITY OF "ERN IS THAT OF ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOUR FOR INDIRECT RECI PROCITY WHEREBY WE MAY CHOOSE TO BE GENEROUS TO THOSE WHO ARE GENEROUS TO OTHERS BEFORE THEM 4HE QUESTION OF EXACTLY WHY WE OR INDEED ANY SPECIES

MAY CHOSE TO BE hNICEv TO ONE ANOTHER AND ASSIST THEM REMAINS A MYSTERY .INA -OWBRAY

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9/52 -/6% %NV "ALL 4HE %NV "ALL HAS BEEN ORGANISED BY THE COMMITTEE FOR THE TH OF -ARCH AT THE (OLIDAY )NN #ITY OF .ORWICH !IRPORT 4ICKETS ARE a FOR MEMBERS OF %NV 3OC AND a FOR NON MEMBERS 4HESE PRICES INCLUDE A DRINKS RECEPTION THREE COURSE DINNER AND AN ,#2 STYLE $* 4HERE WILL BE A PHOTOGRAPHER SO YOU CAN CAPTURE THE GLAMOROUS OUTlTS AND DRUNKEN SHENANIGANS AND TREASURE THEM FOREVER 4ICKETS ARE ON SALE FROM THE BOX OFlCE

"IN IT WITH STYLE "RABANTIA S SUPER BINS HAVE A SEPARATE COMPARTMENT FOR COMPOSTABLE WASTE NOW THAT S ECO THINKING 4HEY COST FROM a WITH FREE DELIVERY IN THE 5+ 4O ACCOMPANY THE BIN YOU CAN NOW GET DEGRADABLE DUSTBIN BAGS

PROBABLY THE WORLD S MOST ENVIRONMEN TALLY RESPONSIBLE RUBBISH BAGS D W DE GRADABLE BAGS HAVE A SHELF LIFE OF MONTHS AND WILL TOTALLY DEGRADE WITHIN TWO TO lVE YEARS TURNING HARMLESSLY INTO MOSTLY #/ AND WATER AS OPPOSED TO LY ING AROUND FOR YEARS OR MORE #HECK THEM OUT AT WWWW NIGELSE COSTORE COM

4HE GREEN RELIGION -ARK (IRONS EXPLORES GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTALISM

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AJOR IN TELLECTU AL MOVE MENTS OF THE LAST C E N T U R Y I N C L U D E E X I S TENTIALISM POST MODERNISM AND DE CONSTRUCTION AND WHETHER WE LIKE TO PONDER OUR PLACE AMONGST THE ARRAY OF PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT OR NOT THE WORD hENVIRONMENTALISMv WILL CERTAIN LY ELICIT A RESPONSE 9OUR HEART MAY SKIP A BEAT IMPASSIONED BY A DESIRE TO SEE HUMANS LIVING IN hHARMONYv WITH THE ENVIRONMENT OR YOUR HEAD MAY DROOP IN FRUSTRATION AND BOREDOM 7HATEVER YOUR REACTION ENVIRONMENTALISM IS HERE TO STAY 7ITH THE DECLINE OF -ARXISM AND hTRADITIONALv #HRISTIANITY IN THE 7EST

MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE TURNING TO ENVIRONMENTALISM TO FULlL THEIR SPIR ITUAL NEED )N THE WORDS OF CONSERVA TIONIST &RANK ,LOYD 7RIGHT h) BELIEVE IN 'OD ONLY ) SPELL IT .ATURE v %NVI RONMENTALISM CAN BE SEEN AS RELIGION IN MANY WAYS DEPENDING ON HOW ONE DElNES RELIGION %NVIRONMENTALISM WHEN VIEWED AS SUCH CERTAINLY ECHOES WIDELY PER CEIVED VIEWS OF RELIGION )T INCLUDES RITUAL ACTIVITIES SUCH AS THE EATING OF ORGANIC FOOD THE BENElTS OF WHICH ARE DEFENDED ON THE LEVEL OF A hCON NECTIONv WITH THE EARTH RATHER THAN THE SCIENTIlC WHICH WOULD BE REPRESENTED IN THE FORM OF MAN MADE CHEMICALS %NVIRONMENTALISM HAS TOKENS OF EVIL n CARS ARE hEVILv 4HERE IS HIERARCHICAL WORSHIP OF IDOLS WITH DOLPHINS BEING HIGHER THAN COD %NVIRONMENTALISM IS SPIRITUAL EMOTIONAL AND IRRATIONAL !

MORE CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF RELIGION MAY DElNE IT AS SOMETHING THAT GIVES MEAN ING TO A PERSON S LIFE AND SHAPES THEIR SENSE OF THE WORLD %ITHER WAY ENVIRON MENTALISM IS RELIGIOUS 0ERHAPS THIS VIEW IS TO A CERTAIN EX TENT SENSATIONALISED AND IT IS CERTAINLY CONTESTABLE BUT REGARDLESS ENVIRON MENTALISM IS GAINING POPULARITY 4HIS IS DESPITE THE FACT THAT MANY ENVIRON MENTALISTS BELIEVE THAT THE HUMAN RACE IS INHERENTLY EVIL AND THAT ANY MEASURE

BE IT PLAGUE WAR OR EVEN FOR THE DEEP EST GREENS THE hULTIMATE SACRIlCEv THAT REDUCES HUMAN POPULATION TO A MORE OPTIMUM LEVEL IS DESIRABLE ! FEELING OF AWE AND HELPLESSNESS IN THE FACE OF NATURE MAY HAVE INSPIRED THE EARLIEST RELIGIONS AND ENVIRONMEN TALISM MAY BE A REGRESSION TO A SIMILAR BELIEF SYSTEM )N THE hDEVELOPED WORLDv THERE IS A TENDENCY FOR THIS SENSE OF BE ING OVERWHELMED TO BE LOST IN THE HUS TLE AND BUSTLE OF COSMOPOLITAN LIFE BUT IF AN EARTHQUAKE TORNADO HURRICANE OR SOME OTHER NATURAL DISASTER HAS BEEN WITNESSED THAT SENSE OF AWESOME PER SPECTIVE IS STIRRED UP ONCE MORE -ANY WOULD SAY THAT IT IS IN OUR NATURE THAT OUR RESPONSE TO THE ENVI RONMENT IS SPIRITUAL ATHEISTIC SCIENTISTS HAVE ATTESTED TO PRAYER IN SUCH SITUA TIONS )T HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT IT IS IN CONSISTENCIES SUCH AS THIS THAT HAVE LED TO THE FREQUENTLY UNEASY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND NATURE /BSERVA TION OF THIS RELATIONSHIP BEGS THE QUES TION WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE hNATURALv AND TAKEN A STEP FURTHER WHAT DOES IS MEAN TO BE HUMAN -ARTIN ,IVEMORE WRITING ON THE ""# NEWS WEBSITE RESPONDS TO SUICIDAL DEEP 'REENS BY SAYING h) HAVE TO AD MIT THAT IN THIS CASE THE WORD @NATURAL

DOESN T SEEM APPROPRIATE WHAT OTHER SPECIES WOULD WANT TO BECOME LESS RATHER THAN MORE SUCCESSFUL v /UR ABILITY TO CHANGE AND AFFECT OUR ENVIRONMENT IS NOT UNIQUE !LL ORGANISMS CHANGE THEIR ENVIRONMENT TERMITES BUILD MOUNDS BEAVERS BUILD DAMS AND HUMANS BUILD CITIES 7E ARE ONLY UNIQUE IN OUR CAPACITY TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE 7E CAN AND CONTINUE TO CHANGE OUR PLANET IN DRAMATIC WAYS COMPARED WITH OTHER ANIMALS (OW WE CAME TO BE IN THIS POSITION IS SURELY SEC ONDARY TO WHAT WE CAN DO AND SHOULD DO WITH OUR SUPERIORITY -ICHAEL #RICHTON A STRONG EXPO NENT OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AS A RELIGION SAID h%NVIRONMENTALISM NEEDS TO BE ABSOLUTELY BASED IN OBJECTIVE AND VERI lABLE SCIENCE IT NEEDS TO BE RATIONAL

AND IT NEEDS TO BE mEXIBLE !ND IT NEEDS TO BE APOLITICALx IT S TIME TO ABANDON THE RELIGION OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND RETURN TO THE SCIENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISM AND BASE OUR PUBLIC POLICY DECI SIONS lRMLY ON THAT v ! ROUSING AND IDEOLOGICALLY SOUND STATEMENT BUT IT IS IDEOLOGICAL 4HIS UNFORTUNATE BUT CHARACTERISTIC WAY OF THINKING IN THE PRESENT DAY SIDESTEPS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM ! GREAT MANY PEOPLE AGREED WITH AU THOR POET AND PHILOSOPHER 2ALPH 7AL DO %MERSON WHEN HE SAID h'REAT ARE THEY WHO SEE THAT SPIRITUAL IS STRONGER THAN ANY MATERIAL FORCE THAT THOUGHTS RULE THE WORLD v ! SOCIETY THAT HOPS AROUND RELI GIONS AND IF NECESSARY CREATES NEW ONES IS SURELY SYMPTOMATIC OF A SPIRITUALLY UNWELL SOCIETY 3CIENCE NEEDS TO UN DERSTAND AND ADDRESS THIS IF -ICHAEL #RICHTON S VIEW OF ENVIRONMENTALISM IS EVER TO PREVAIL

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VEN IN THE MIDST OF THIS WEEK S EXCITING 5NION ELECTIONS WHILST DODGING THOSE DISTRIBUTING FREE CAKES AND GIMMICKS IN THE NAME OF POLITICS ) WAS ABLE TO TRANS PORT MY MIND BACK TO .ENEH #HERRY STOOD ON THE HALLOWED 4OP OF THE 0OPS STAGE AND SANG HER EMPOW ERING LAMENT 7OMAN 4HE PARTICULAR LYRIC THAT ) REMEM BERED WAS THIS h4HIS IS A WOMAN S WORLD 4HIS IS MY WORLD v !MAZING STUFF ! WOMAN S WORLD ) THOUGHT TO MY YEAR OLD SELF WAS A FRIGHTENING PROP OSITION .OW FAIR ENOUGH

IT WASN T A GREAT SONG AND POOR OLD .ENEH LOOKED TO HAVE TAKEN A FAIRLY RELENT LESS BEATING WITH A CERTAIN PROVERBIAL STICK BUT NONE THELESS SOMETHING ABOUT IT

WAS MEMORABLE ! WOMAN S WORLD REALLY 0ERHAPS )F YOU MANAGED TO LOOK BEYOND THE CAKES WITH hVOTE 'ARYv ICED ON THE TOP YOU MAY HAVE WONDERED IF OLD .ENEH WAS TELLING THE TRUTH 3TUDENTS AT 5%! CAN ELECT A 7OMEN S /FlCER BUT NOT A -EN S /R A "LACK /FlC ER /R EVEN AN %THNIC -INOR ITY /FlCER )NDEED THE ONLY SPECIlC GROUP OF STUDENTS ON CAMPUS TO HAVE A 5NION /FlCER ALL TO THEMSELVES ARE WOMEN 7HY 7ELL WOMEN ARE THE MAJORITY AT 5%! WA HOO SO IT S NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE IN DANGER OF BEING DIFlCULT TO SPOT 7OMEN ARE NOT TRADITIONALLY SHY ABOUT RAISING ISSUES THAT OUTRAGE

UPSET OR REMOTELY INCONVEN IENCE THEM SO IT S NOT THAT EITHER )N FACT IT SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING OF A TOKEN GESTURE

BY THE 5NION A SORT OF h9ES

GIRLS YOU RE VERY IMPORTANT

NOW RUN ALONG AND BAKE ME A CAKE v &AIR ENOUGH WOMEN DE SERVE REPRESENTATION THROUGH THE 5NION JUST AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE "UT THEY HAVE REPRESENTATION FAR BEYOND THAT OF ANYONE ELSE !LL ETHNIC GROUPS ARE EXPECTED TO RAISE ANY PROBLEMS THEY ENCOUN TER THROUGH THE ,IBERATIONS /FlCER !NY STUDENTS WOR RIED ABOUT THE 5NION S POSI TION ON SOCIAL MATTERS MUST GO TO THE 7ELFARE /FlCER 7OMEN HAVE THEIR OWN SPE CIlCALLY ELECTED /FlCER SET IN PLACE TO DEAL SOLELY WITH THEIR PROBLEMS 3ALLY (AM MERTON THE CURRENT 7OM EN S /FlCER SAID THAT WOMEN NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO DISCUSS hSENSITIVE AND UPSETTING IS SUES v $OES THIS MEAN THAT RACISM AND HOMOPHOBIA ARE NOT SENSITIVE OR UPSETTING

/F COURSE NOT "UT ANYONE WHO FEELS UPSET ABOUT THOSE ISSUES IS EXPECTED EITHER TO GO TO .IGHTLINE OR TO DISCUSS IT IN A SOCIETY OF SIMILAR INDI VIDUALS AND ASK THEIR 5NION 2EPRESENTATIVE TO BRING THE MATTER TO THE ATTENTION OF THE 5NION 7OMEN HAVE THE UN FAIR ADVANTAGE OF A KNIGHTESS IN SHINING ARMOUR !ND THERE S ANOTHER THING KNIGHTESS )T IS EX TREMELY UNLIKELY THAT THERE WILL EVER BE A MALE 7OM EN S /FlCER UNLESS THERE ARE A LOT OF PROTEST VOTES 3ALLY (AMMERTON RECKONS THIS IS BECAUSE A MALE 7OMEN S /FlCER WHILST BEING ABLE TO SYMPATHISE hCANNOT EMPA THISE WITH A SITUATION FULLY v &AIR POINT "UT THERE AGAIN

WE HAVE A WHITE MIDDLE CLASS STRAIGHT ABLE BODIED

MALE ,IBERATIONS /FlCER

WHO THE 5NION MUST BELIEVE

IS PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF UNDER STANDING THE PROBLEMS OF ANY GROUP ON CAMPUS WHO FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINAT ED AGAINST %XCEPT APPARENT LY WOMEN WHO HAVE ISSUES FAR BEYOND THE COMPREHEN SION OF ANYONE OTHER THAN A WHITE MIDDLE CLASS STRAIGHT

ABLE BODIED WOMAN 3O HOW COULD THE 5N ION EVEN THIS UP 4HERE ARE A FEW WAYS 4HEY COULD CRE ATE AN /FlCER FOR EACH GROUP OF STUDENTS ON CAMPUS WHO FEEL THAT THEY ARE DISCRIMI NATED AGAINST .O CHANCE 4HERE D BE TOO MANY PEO PLE IT WOULD INEVITABLY GET MESSY AND SOMEWHERE IN THE CREATION OF ALL THESE OF lCERS THEY RE BOUND TO DIS CRIMINATE AGAINST SOMEONE

BY SAYING THEY RE NOT QUITE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN ENOUGH WAYS TO WARRANT AN /FlCER 4HIS IS PARTICULARLY

TRUE FOR THE CAMPUS S MANY 4OTTENHAM FANS WHO S VIC TIM MENTALITY MEANS THEY SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE THEIR OWN -0 3ALLY (AMMERTON BE LIEVES h)F WE HAVE A -ALE /F lCER THAT WOULD CANCEL OUT THE 7OMEN S /FlCER AND THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL SCRAP THEM BOTH v 'REAT IDEA $EL EGATE HER RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE ,IBERATIONS AND 7EL FARE OFlCERS TOGETHER WITH A 7OMEN S 3OCIETY AND .IGHT LINE "UT THE 5NION CAN T DO THAT SINCE 7OMEN S /FlCER IS A POSITION THAT ALMOST ALL OTHER 5NIVERSITY S HAVE IN THEIR 3TUDENT 5NIONS 4HE ANSWER )N THE CASE OF OUR 5NION PROBABLY TO KEEP PLODDING ALONG WITH WHAT WE VE GOT !S .ENEH #HERRY SAID hIT S A WOMAN S WORLD v 7HETHER ANYONE ELSE LIKES IT OR NOT

-OURINHO S ATTITUDE INHIBITS HIS TEAM 3IMON 3HERIDAN ON #HELSEA S SELF DESTRUCTIVE MANAGER

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AN ANYONE RE MEMBER THE LAST TIME *OSE - O U R I N H O HUMBLY AC CEPTED A DEFEAT ) CAN T AND THE REASON FOR THIS IS BECAUSE HE NEVER HAS 4O SOMEONE WHO IS FAIRLY IMMUNE TO THE hGLORY HUNTERv JIBES LEVELLED AT OTHER TEAMS IT STRIKES ME AS EXTRAORDINARY THAT #HEL SEA HAVE TRANSMOGRIlED SO QUICKLY INTO THE -ANCHESTER

5NITED TEAM THAT WAS SO SUC CESSFUL IN THE S 7HILE !LEX &ERGUSON S GOLDEN YEARS WERE TYPIlED BY PLAYERS SUCH AS 3CHMEICHEL

#ANTONA AND "ECKHAM IT WAS ALSO CHARACTERISED BY DE STRUCTIVE INmUENCES LIKE 2OY +EANE A MAN WHO ADMIT TED TO GOING ON TO THE FOOT BALL lELD SOLELY TO WREAK A VENGEANCE TACKLE ON !LF )NGE (AALAND WHICH PRACTICALLY ENDED THAT PLAYER S CAREER )T

IS THIS ATTITUDE THAT GRATES AT OPPOSING FANS AND FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS )F A TEAM IS GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN THE LEAGUE BECAUSE OF ITS LATENT QUALITY WHICH WAS TRUE OF -AN 5TD IN THE S AND #HELSEA NOW

WHY DO THEY HAVE TO RESORT TO SUCH INSOLENT TACTICS IN ORDER TO GET THE RESULT THEY NEED 4HIS IS SEEN MOST EXPLIC ITLY IN BOTH CLUBS TREATMENT OF REFEREES .OW IT IS TRUE THAT REFS GET DECISIONS WRONG

SOMETHING ANY FOOTBALL SUP PORTER WILL BE AWARE OF (OWEVER MOST TEAMS DON T FEEL THE NEED TO VERBALLY HAR ASS AND PHYSICALLY INTIMIDATE THE MAN IN BLACK IT IS NOT AS IF HE IS GOING TO CHANGE HIS MIND #HELSEA AT PRESENT ARE ALMOST EXPERT IN THIS RESPECT

BUT THEIR REMONSTRATIONS WITH THE REFEREE ARE OFTEN TO THEIR DETRIMENT 4AKE THE RE CENT MATCH WITH "ARCELONA

%VEN AFTER BEING PLAYED OFF THE PARK TWICE -OURINHO STILL SAW lT TO CONTINUE HIS TIRADE AT THE SENDING OFF OF !SIER DEL (ORNO AND BLAMED THIS SOLELY FOR THE LOSS )T WAS CLEAR THAT THE PLAYER WHO MADE THE DIFFERENCE WAS 2O NALDINHO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO PLAYS WITH A SMILE ON HIS FACE AND DOES NOT GET INVOLVED IN PETTY TOUCHLINE SQUABBLES )N ESSENCE HIS ATTITUDE DUR ING THE GAMES WAS TO BEAT

#HELSEA WITH FOOTBALL OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY AND NOT TO GAIN SOME SORT OF SPURIOUS ADVANTAGE BY GOADING THE REFEREE 0ERHAPS *OSE SHOULD TAKE A LEAF OUT OF 2ONALDIN HO S BOOK AND LET HIS TEAM PLAY THE FOOTBALL THAT IS SO OVERSHADOWED BY HIS CON STANT RANTING ABOUT OFlCIALS 5NTIL THEN MOST OF US WILL CONTINUE TO REVEL IN #HEL SEA S DOWNFALL HOWEVER RARE IT IS

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T IS lTTING THAT THE CALLS FOR A CAMPUS WIDE BOYCOTT OF #OCA #OLA HAVE COME DURING &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE BEING EN COURAGED TO THINK MORE CARE FULLY ABOUT THE DECISIONS WE MAKE AS CONSUMERS

4HE &AIRTRADE &OUNDA TION HAS DISCOVERED AS SALES OF ITS LABELLED GOODS HAVE IN CREASED DRAMATICALLY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT NOT ONLY IS THERE A MARKET FOR ETHICAL LY TRADED GOODS BUT PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO SEEK OUT ALTER NATIVES TO THE BIG BUSINESS

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MULTINATIONALS 3UCH A NOTION OF PERSONAL CHOICE LIES AT THE HEART OF ANY DEBATE OVER A CAMPAIGN SUCH AS THE #OKE BOYCOTT SHOULD THE FREEDOM TO BUY THE PROD UCTS WE ENJOY BE RESTRICTED BY THE ETHICAL CONCERNS OF OTH ERS OR OF THE WIDER COMMU

NITY AT HOME AND ABROAD 0ERHAPS AS WE ENTER INTO THIS DEBATE WE SHOULD TAKE INSPIRATION FROM &AIRTRADE A SCHEME WHOSE SUCCESS RESTS ON THE INmUENCE OF A GROWING SENSE OF INDIVIDUAL CULPABIL ITY RATHER THAN MASS POLITICI SATION

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%VEN IF THE .53 DOES NOT BOW TO CALLS FOR IT TO CUT ITS LINKS WITH #OCA #OLA THE RAISED PROMINENCE OF THE ISSUE GIVES US GOOD REASON TO RECONSIDER OUR SPENDING HABITS 7E MUST REMEMBER THAT THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE IS ALSO THE RIGHT TO REFUSE

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#AN ANONYMOUS MARKING TRULY BE FAIR AND OBJECTIVE $AN 0EARSON 35 !CADEMIC /FlCER IS QUITE RIGHT TO CRITI CISE ME ,ETTERS )SSUE FOR HAVING MADE INSUFlCIENT LY CLEAR IN MY COMMENTS TO #ONCRETE ON ANONYMOUS MARKING THAT ) WAS SPEAKING OUT ON THIS ISSUE IN MY OWN CAPACITY AS A ,ECTURER AND NOT ON BEHALF OF 5%! !54 WHOSE #OMMITTEE ) AM CUR RENTLY ON ) APOLOGISE FOR THAT UNCLARITY (OWEVER ON THE ISSUE ITSELF ) AM AFRAID THAT ) CONTINUE TO DISAGREE WITH $AN !S WAS ELOQUENTLY AR GUED IN THE -ARCH ST ISSUE BY -ATT 3TANLEY WHO HAS HAD BITTER EXPERIENCE OF THE INFERIORITY OF THE FEEDBACK ONE GETS WHEN COURSEWORK MARKING IS ANONYMISED EN FORCING ANONYMOUS MARKING FOR ESSAYS IS OFTEN POINTLESS

ALWAYS CUMBERSOME USUALLY COUNTER PRODUCTIVE AND OF TEN DANGEROUS !NONYMOUS MARKING IS POINTLESS WHEN THE TEACHER

CAN RECOGNISE THE STUDENT ANYWAY AND WHEN THEY CAN NOT THEN IT IS DANGEROUS

AS IT WOULD THEN LEAD TO AN EXPLOSION OF FRAUD AND PLA GIARISM WHICH WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE n AND DISAS TROUS FOR THE GREAT MAJORITY OF HONEST STUDENTS )T WOULD ALSO BE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE BECAUSE KNOWING WHO THE STUDENT IS MAKES IT EASIER TO TALK WITH THEM

HELP THEM WITH PROBLEMS

ETC 4HE CURRENT SYSTEM HELPS GOOD TEACHERS TO INTERACT WITH STUDENTS !SK YOURSELF THIS WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HAD GOOD FEEDBACK FROM A LECTURER ON SOMETHING YOU HAD WRITTEN FOR AN ANONY MOUSLY MARKED EXAM 4HE ANSWER OF COURSE IS NEVER ,ASTLY AND MOST CRUCIALLY OF ALL ENFORCING ANONYMISED ESSAY MARKING ACROSS 5%!

WOULD BE HORRIBLY CUMBER SOME IT WOULD IMPOSE A HUGE NEW BURDEN ON SUPPORT STAFF AND ACADEMIC STAFF TIME

7E ARE OVERWORKED ENOUGH AS IT IS TRYING TO JUGGLE A HUGE AND UNMANAGEABLE BURDEN OF ADMIN TEACHING AND RESEARCH RESPONSIBILI TIES )MPOSING ANONYMISED MARKING ON US IS THE LAST THING WE NEED IT WOULD TAKE VITAL STAFF TIME AWAY FROM E G TEACHING PREP $R 2UPERT 2EAD 0() ) AM WRITING TO VOICE MY CONCERNS ABOUT THE POTEN TIAL DANGERS OF ANONYMOUS MARKING !S ) UNDERSTAND IT

ANONYMOUS MARKING WOULD BE INTRODUCED IN ORDER TO PREVENT FAVOURITISM AND NEGATIVE DISCRIMINATION IT WOULD SUPPOSEDLY BE IN FA VOUR OF hFAIRNESSv AND hOB JECTIVITYv (OWEVER WE MAY BE BEING SHORT SIGHTED IN ASSUMING THAT hOBJECTIVITYv AND hFAIRNESSv ARE ALIGNED WITH ANONYMITY ) BELIEVE TUTORS CANNOT BE hFAIRv AND hOBJECTIVEv IN THEIR COM

MENTS UNLESS THEY ARE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE WIDER CONTEXT OF A STUDENT S PERFORMANCE AND UNDERSTANDING 3URELY IT IS ONLY hFAIRv THAT RESPONSES SHOULD BE TAILORED TO US AS INDIVIDU ALS BECAUSE OUR EDUCATION IS ABOUT OUR PERSONAL DEVELOP MENT AS MUCH AS IT IS ABOUT CRITERIA CHASING ARE WE TO FORGET THAT ASSESSMENT IS A MEANS TO AN END AND NOT AN END ITSELF ) THINK THAT ANONYMOUS MARKING WOULD FURTHER FETISHISE THE PERCENT AGE OVER LEARNING 4HEREFORE

) M AFRAID ANONYMOUS MARK ING MIGHT LEAD TO A SYSTEM OF BOX TICKING THAT DEHUMAN ISES OUR EDUCATION 7E COULD BE CREATING A GREATER EVIL AS ANONYMITY MAY NOT EVEN BE POSSIBLE UNDER A SYSTEM OF SO CALLED hANONYMOUS MARKINGv -ANY TUTORS CLAIM THAT THEY CAN IDENTIFY A STUDENT FROM THE WORK ALONE 3O IN THE UNLIKE LY EVENT THAT A LECTURER WANTS

TO ACT ON A GRUDGE AGAINST A STUDENT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO HIDE BEHIND A hSHIELDv OF ANONYMOUS MARKING WHEN THE STUDENT WASN T IN REAL ITY ANONYMOUS AT ALL 4HUS THERE IS A REAL DANGER THAT A STUDENT S CASE FOR GETTING THEIR WORK REASSESSED ON THE BASIS OF DISCRIMINATION WOULD BE DISMISSED UNDER THE CLAIM hWE HAVE A POLICY OF ANONYMOUS MARKINGv 7HAT IS MORE IT WOULD BE DIFlCULT IF NOT IMPOSSI BLE TO KEEP A CHECK ON THAT LECTURER AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY DON T ATTEMPT A SIMILAR STUNT IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE hANONYMOUS MARKINGv IN VOKED AS A TRUISM WOULD PRECLUDE THE SCRUTINY OF A LECTURER S ACTIONS ! POLICY OF ANONYMOUS MARKING WOULD LEAD TO LESS TRANSPARENCY

AND COULD POSSIBLY LEND IT SELF TO THE VERY UNFAIRNESS IT WAS INTENDED TO THWART ,EE (YDE ,)4

)N SUPPORT OF THE !54 STRIKE AND A RESPONSE FROM THE .ATIONAL "LOOD 3ERVICE 4HROUGH A COMBINATION OF INCREASED GOVERNMENT FUND ING AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SO CALLED TOP UP FEES

AN EXTRA a BILLION HAS BEEN PUMPED INTO HIGHER EDUCATION 9ET MANY LECTUR ING STAFF REMAIN CHRONICALLY UNDERPAID AND A SIGNIl CANT PROPORTION OF LECTUR ERS ARE NOW ON HOURLY PAID CONTRACTS )N THE &% SECTOR A PAY DEAL AGREED IN HAS STILL NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED

DESPITE AN &% LECTURERS STRIKE IN .OVEMBER TO DE MAND ITS IMMEDIATE IMPLE MENTATION #LEARLY WIDESPREAD IN DUSTRIAL ACTION BY KEY WORK ERS ON CAMPUS WILL HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF

STUDENTS 7HILE IT IS UNFOR TUNATE IF .53 MEMBERS STUDIES ARE DISRUPTED BY IN DUSTRIAL ACTION THE BLAME LIES ENTIRELY AT THE FEET OF UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE MAN AGERS WHO REFUSE TO PAY THEIR STAFF FAIRLY 7ORKERS ARE RIGHT TO USE THE ONLY REAL WEAP ON AVAILABLE TO THEM THE WITHDRAWAL OF THEIR LABOUR TO lGHT AN INTRANSIGENT EM PLOYER FOR DECENT PAY 4HE .!4&(% !54 DIS PUTE IS ALSO A lGHT FOR A TOP QUALITY (IGHER %DUCATION SECTOR SOMETHING THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT WELL PAID AND PROPERLY MOTIVATED STAFF 4HIS DISPUTE IS PART OF THE SAME STRUGGLE AS THE STUDENT

MOVEMENT S BATTLE AGAINST FEES )F WE DO NOT GIVE LECTUR ERS FULL SUPPORT WE UNDER MINE OUR OWN CAUSE 0ATRICK 9ARKER 3CHOOL OF %DUCATION $ANIEL -ORLEY 03) ) AM WRITING WITH REGARD TO CURRENT .ATIONAL "LOOD 3ERVICE POLICY THAT MEN WHO HAVE HAD SEX WITH OTHER MEN ARE EXCLUDED FROM BECOMING BLOOD DONORS .EWS )SSUE 4HE POLICY IS SET BY A SEPARATE BODY WHICH IN CLUDES REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL 5+ BLOOD SERVICES AS WELL AS DOCTORS SCIENTISTS AND TRANSFUSION SPECIALISTS AND IS ENDORSED BY SPECIALIST $E

PARTMENT OF (EALTH BODIES /UR PRIMARY CONCERN IS TO ENSURE THAT THE BLOOD WE PROVIDE FOR PATIENTS IS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE 4O MINIMISE THE RISK OF ANY BLOOD BORNE IN FECTION ENTERING THE BLOOD SUPPLY WE SELECT DONORS WHO ARE AT THE LEAST RISK OF INFEC TION AND ALSO TEST ALL DONA TIONS 4HE LATEST STATISTICS INDICATE THAT MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN ARE PROPOR TIONATELY AT A HIGHER RISK OF CARRYING ()6 AND OTHER SEXU ALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

MANY OF WHICH CAN BE TRANS MITTED BY BLOOD 4HE ."3 ACKNOWLEDGES THAT MANY MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH OTHER MEN WOULD LIKE TO HELP SOCIETY BY GIVING BLOOD

4HE POLICY PROHIBITING THIS IS REVIEWED ON A REGULAR BASIS 4HE 5+ BLOOD SERVICES ARE COMMITTED TO FAIRNESS AND CONSIDERATION FOR ALL THAT WANT TO DONATE BLOOD (OW EVER WE HAVE A PRIMARY DUTY OF CARE TO PROTECT PATIENTS REQUIRING BLOOD FROM INFEC TIONS THAT MAY BE TRANSMIT TED BY A BLOOD TRANSFUSION

WHERE AT ALL POSSIBLE 4HE ."3 IS KEEN TO CON TINUE A POSITIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE .53 ABOUT THIS AND ANY OTHER ISSUES WITH THE SHARED AIM OF ENCOURAG ING MORE DONORS AND ENSUR ING THAT LIVES CONTINUE TO BE SAVED AND IMPROVED -ISS !LEX "IRLEY .ATIONAL "LOOD 3ERVICE

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&ANS VENT ANGER AT #ANARIES COACH 7ILL !LFORD .ORWICH #ITY FANS CON TINUED TO PROTEST AGAINST THEIR UNDER lRE COACH .I GEL 7ORTHINGTON FOLLOWING A DISTINCTLY AVERAGE SEASON SO FAR IN THE #HAMPION SHIP $ESPITE TWO VERY RESPECT ABLE RESULTS IN RECENT WEEKS

AN INCREASING NUMBER OF FANS HAVE CALLED FOR THE SACK ING OF THE LONG SERVING #A NARIES COACH 0ROTESTS CAME TO A HEAD IN THE HOME GAME AGAINST 3TOKE WHERE FANS CALLED FOR HIS RESIGNATION IN A PRE MATCH PROTEST #ITY WON THE GAME

BUT THE DISSATISFACTION OF THE .ORWICH FANS FAR OVER SHADOWED THE IMPORTANT THREE POINTS ! GROUP OF APPROXIMATELY FANS AR RIVED AT THE GROUND AT PM AND BRAVED THE COLD WEATHER TO FEVERISHLY CHANT h7ORTHY /UT v AND h,ET S BE 3ACKING

9OU v 4HE CHANTS CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE GAME EVEN THOUGH #ITY PERFORMED REA SONABLY WELL 4HE lRST HALF WAS A QUIET AFFAIR BUT THE GAME KICKED INTO LIFE IN THE SECOND PERIOD ,EON -C+EN ZIE GAVE .ORWICH THE LEAD IN THE ND MINUTE WITH A WELL TAKEN ANGLED STRIKE 4HIS WAS IMMEDIATELY CANCELLED OUT WHEN 'ALLAGHER EQUAL ISED FOR 3TOKE JUST lVE MIN UTES LATER #ITY PILED ON THE PRESSURE TO GET A WINNER AND EVENTUALLY GOT THEIR JUST DES SERTS WHEN SUBSTITUTE *ONA TAN *OHANSSON SCORED A TAP IN IN THE lNAL MINUTES #ELEBRITY #HEF $ELIA 3MITH A $IRECTOR OF .ORWICH #ITY RELEASED A STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE ANGRY CHANTS 3HE SEEMED PERPLEXED BY THE PROTESTS AND INSISTED THAT .IGEL 7ORTHINGTON WAS THE ONLY MAN FOR THE JOB 3HE SHOWED HER FULL SUPPORT FOR THE COACH AND WAS SURE THAT HE COULD TURN THINGS ROUND 4HIS HAS STILL NOT SATISlED

THE ANGRY FANS AND THE PRO TESTS ARE GATHERING EVEN MORE MOMENTUM 4HERE IS EVEN A WEBSITE DEDICATED TO OUSTING THE .ORWICH #ITY COACH (OWEVER THE PLAYERS DO NOT SEEM DISTRACTED BY THE ACTIONS OF THE FANS &OLLOW ING THE VICTORY OVER 3TOKE

THEY VERY NEARLY PULLED OFF A FAMOUS WIN AT %LLAND 2OAD .ORWICH BATTLED BACK BRIL LIANTLY FROM AN EARLY GOAL IN THE lRST HALF TO STUN ,EEDS 5NITED 4HEY PRODUCED AN EXCELLENT lGHT BACK IN THE SECOND HALF AND DESERV EDLY EQUALISED ON THE TH MINUTE !NDY (UGHES SHOT HOME AFTER GOOD WORK FROM 3IMON #HARLTON #ITY THEN WENT INTO THE LEAD WITH JUST MINUTES REMAINING 0AUL -C6EIGH SCORED PAST 3ULLIVAN WITH A CAREFUL SHOT INTO THE BOTTOM CORNER ! FAMOUS VICTORY WAS ON THE CARDS UNTIL %DDIE ,EWIS PRODUCED A STUNNING FREE KICK TO RESCUE A POINT FOR PROMOTION CHASING ,EEDS

#OULD PROTESTING FANS LEAVE 7ORTHINGTON DESERTED $ESPITE THIS LATE SHOCK IT WAS A FABULOUS AWAY PER FORMANCE FROM THE #ANARIES 4HE TWO GOOD RESULTS HAVE HAD LITTLE IMPACT ON #ITY S PROMOTION HOPES

THOUGH AND THEY REMAIN TH IN THE #HAMPIONSHIP )T SEEMS THAT TIME IS RUNNING OUT VERY QUICKLY FOR COACH .IGEL 7ORTHINGTON DESPITE HIM HAVING THE BACKING OF

THE BOARD 4HE DEMANDING .ORWICH FANS EXPECT THE PLAY OFFS AND IF THIS DOESN T HAPPEN 7ORTHINGTON COULD WELL lND HIMSELF UNEM PLOYED

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!THLETICS TEAM TAKE ON "53! *EMMA 4HAKE 5%! ATHLETICS CLUB MADE THE JOURNEY TO 3HEFlELD FOR THE ANNUAL "RITISH 5NI VERSITY 3PORTS !SSOCIATION "53! INDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 0ERFORMANCE OF THE WEEK END UNDOUBTEDLY CAME FROM ,ISA !RNOLD IN THE POLE VAULT #OMPETING IN HER lRST "53!

COMPETITION ,ISA HELD HER NERVE TO SMASH HER PERSONAL BEST AND THE CLUB RECORD WITH A HEIGHT OF M 4HIS GAVE ,ISA TENTH POSITION IN WHAT WAS A CLOSELY FOUGHT WOM EN S lNAL 7ILL 'REAVES ALSO A "53! DEBUTANT CONlRMED HIS STATUS AS 5%! S NUMBER ONE HIGH JUMPER WITH A LEAP OF M WHICH EQUALLED HIS PERSONAL BEST 7ILL IS

&ROM LEFT 7ILL 'REAVES 2OB 'REEN .EIL *ENNINGS *ON "ROWN NOW SETTING HIS SIGHTS ON BREAKING THE OUTDOOR HIGH JUMP CLUB RECORD )N THE LONG JUMP 5%!

WAS REPRESENTED BY *ON "ROWN WHO LEAPED TO A DIS TANCE OF M *ON ALSO RAN IN THE MEN S M WHERE HE lNISHED EIGHTH IN HIS HEAT WITH A TIME OF SECS *ON WAS JOINED IN THE M HEATS

BY CLUB SECRETARY .EIL *EN NINGS (IS TIME OF SECS GAVE HIM SIXTH PLACE IN HIS HEAT .EIL 5%! S LEADING MALE MULTI EVENTER ALSO TOOK PART IN THE M AND THE SHOT PUTT .EIL S RESPECT ABLE SHOT PUTT OF M WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO PLACE HIM TENTH IN QUALIFYING 9OUNGEST MEMBER OF THE

TEAM *OHNNY ,EE HAD TO CONTEND WITH A STRONG lELD IN THE MEN S M (E COPED WELL TO PLACE ELEVENTH WITH A TIME OF ES PECIALLY AS HE WAS BATTLING ILLNESS AND THE EFFECTS OF AN UNUSUAL BREAKFAST ,ONG DIS TANCE DUO 2OB 'REEN AND !LI -C'EOCH 7ILLIAMS BOTH PUT IN QUALITY PERFORMANCES

TO CROSS THE LINE IN NINTH IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HEATS OF THE MEN S M 2OB RAN WHILE !LI COMPET ING IN HIS LAST EVER INDOOR "53! RAN %LSEWHERE ON THE TRACK

TEAM CAPTAIN *EMMA 4HAKE SET A NEW INDOOR PERSONAL BEST AND CLUB RECORD IN THE M 4HE TIME OF WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE *EMMA TO THE SEMI lNALS

WHERE SHE lNISHED SIXTH #LUB PRESIDENT *ESS 4ROW BRIDGE RAN A DETERMINED RACE IN THE WOMEN S M

IN WHAT WAS A lERCELY COM PETITIVE lNAL *ESS lNISHED IN TENTH WITH A TIME OF 4O ROUND OFF THE WEEKEND 7ILL 2OB .EIL AND *ON JOINED FORCES TO RUN IN THE X M 2ELAY )T WAS THE lRST TIME THE QUARTET HAD RUN TOGETHER AND THEIR TIME OF GAVE THEM FOURTH POSITION IN THEIR HEAT

5%! BADMINTON CONTINUE CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING SEASON #HRIS !RMSTRONG )T HAS BECOME EXTREMELY DIFlCULT TO FATHOM THE MOST SIGNIlCANT DETAIL FROM THE 5%! MEN S CHAM PIONSHIP WINNING SEASON 7HILST WINNING THE LEAGUE IN SUCH DOMINANT FASHION REQUIRES A CERTAIN DEGREE OF SKILL ONE CANNOT DISRE GARD SEVERAL OBVIOUS FAC TORS THAT HAVE BEEN INmU ENTIAL TO THE CAUSE

5NFORTUNATELY -IDLANDS DIVISION TWO WAS INEVITABLY THE PICTURE OF INCONSISTENCY -ANY OF THE TEAMS IN THE DIVISION FAILED TO ATTEND lX TURES 5%! ITSELF BEING THE RECIPIENT OF MULTIPLE WALKO VERS )N ADDITION THERE WERE A NUMBER OF SURPRISING RE SULTS WHICH ARE LIKELY DOWN TO VARIATION IN TEAM STRENGTHS FROM lXTURE TO lXTURE (OWEVER THIS IS WHERE 5%! EXCELLED $ESPITE PLAY ING SEVERAL MATCHES WITH LESS THAN THE SPECIlED NUMBER OF PLAYERS 5%! -EN S WERE A

STRONGHOLD OF DEDICATION ON AND OFF THE COURT 4HE TEAM TRAVELLED TO LOCATIONS AROUND THE COUN TRY AND GROUND OUT THE VIC TORIES NEEDED 7ITH 5%! S EXCELLENT FACILITIES AS A COM PARISON THE TEAM WON TOUGH MATCHES IN SOME LESS THAN ALLURING ENVIRONMENTS $E -ONTFORT ,EICESTER S VENUE PERHAPS BEING MORE REMI NISCENT OF A SHED SAUNA THAN A BADMINTON HALL 4HE WIN NING 5%! TEAM CONSISTED OF )AIN "AYES )AN *AMESON

*OE 7EBB #HRIS !RMSTRONG

-ATTHEW 2EAY AND /LI %D BERG A GROUP OF PLAYERS WHO REGULARLY PERFORM AT A HIGH LEVEL 4HEY SHONE IN THE TEAM S lNAL MATCH OF THE SEASON AGAINST $ERBY AN OP PONENT WHICH POSSESSED THE ABILITY TO END 5%! S RECORD (OWEVER A VIC TORY FOR 5%! ENSURED THAT THIS WOULD NOT BE THE CASE )T WAS A SOLID PERFORMANCE ALL ROUND WITH ONLY -ATT 2EAY AND /LI %DBERG REGRETTABLY DROPPING THE SAME SINGLES TIE BUT THIS BECAME INSIG NIlCANT ONCE BOTH DOUBLES

PAIRINGS HAD CONVINCINGLY WON THEIR GAMES 7ITH A HOME TIE AGAINST #ARDIFF IN THE "53! KNOCK OUT CUP ON THE HORIZON 5%!

MEN S GLORIOUS SEASON IS FAR FROM OVER BUT ADVANCING UPON THE FEATS OF LAST SEASON MAY WELL BE A MUCH GREATER TASK ! PESSIMIST MAY VIEW THIS SEASON S @DOMINANCE AS SUPERlCIAL BUT OPINIONS ASIDE IT HAS UNDENIABLY BEEN A SEASON OF DETERMINATION

TEAMWORK ENJOYMENT AND ULTIMATELY SUCCESS AND THAT MY FRIENDS THAT IS *AZZ

3ILVERWARE BECKONS FOR 5%! FOOTBALL TEAMS IN LOCAL LEAGUE -ARCUS *ONES 4HE HEADLINE GRABBING "53! GAMES MAY OFFER THE IMPRESSION THAT THERE IS LITTLE MORE TO 5%! MEN S FOOTBALL THAN 7EDNESDAY AFTERNOON JAUNTS TO EXOTIC LOCATIONS SUCH AS .ORTH AMPTON AND ,EICESTER 4HIS WOULD BE GROSSLY MISLEADING AS THREE 5%!

TEAMS REGULARLY SLUG IT OUT ON A 3ATURDAY AFTERNOON IN lXTURES AGAINST LOCAL TEAMS

WHERE THE POPULAR PASTIME OF hSTUDENT BASHINGv IS SEAM

LESSLY INTERMINGLED WITH SOC CER EXPLOITS &ORTUNATELY DESPITE THE PHYSICAL AND FUNDAMENTALLY ILLEGAL APPROACH OF MANY OPPONENTS THE SPRIGHTLY FEL LOWS OF 5%! NORMALLY lND THAT THEIR GENERALLY MORE YOUTHFUL STATE IS ENOUGH TO SQUEEZE A POSITIVE RESULT OUT OF MOST lXTURES 4HIS HAS LED TO THE TANTALISING ALLURE OF TROPHIES ON THE HORIZON FOR EACH OF THE 5%! TEAMS 4HIS ALLURE IS BEING FELT MOST STRONGLY BY THE MEM BERS OF THE TH8) WHO UNDER THE STEWARDSHIP OF 'AVIN h4HE 7ALLv "UTLER HAVE ALL BUT SEWN UP THE LEAGUE TI

TLE WITH lVE GAMES TO SPARE 4HERE IS ALSO THE ANTICIPATION OF A CUP SEMI lNAL AT THE END OF -ARCH AGAINST A TEAM TWO LEAGUES ABOVE THEM 4O TRIUMPH IN THAT WOULD BE SIMILAR TO "RENTFORD PREVAIL ING OVER 4OTTENHAM n DIFl CULT BUT NOT UNFEASIBLE 4HE TH8) S INTOXICATING BLEND OF FRESHER YOUTH AND FOURTH YEAR EXPERIENCE HAS CREATED A TEAM WHICH DESERVES ALL THE SUCCESS THAT COMES ITS WAY !FTER A PERILOUSLY POOR RUN OF FORM THE RD8) DI RECTED BY THE SERENE *AMES (AVERS NOW lND THEMSELVES IN A THREE HORSE RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP .ONETHELESS

IF THEY REDISCOVER THEIR DE FENSIVE COMPOSURE PICK UP POINTS IN CRUCIAL UPCOMING MATCHES AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY HOPE THAT 3I MON h'ROVERIOv 7HITE CON TINUES HIS ASTOUNDING GOAL SCORING FORM FROM CENTRE BACK THEN WE MAY HAVE UTTER CONlDENCE IN THEIR POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS 4HAT JUST LEAVES THE ND8) WHO SADLY HAVE FRITTERED AWAY THEIR CHANCE FOR LEAGUE SUCCESS 4HIS CAN BE ASCRIBED TO A COUPLE OF POOR PERFORM ANCES AGAINST KEY RIVALS A FEW FRANKLY DIABOLICAL REF EREEING DECISIONS AND SOME THING AKIN TO A DESERTION BY

NUMEROUS PLAYERS FOLLOWING THE CLIMAX OF THE "53! SEA SON 9ET HOPE SPRINGS ETER NAL ! PHENOMENAL COME BACK FROM TWO GOALS DOWN IN THE LEAGUE CUP SEMI lNAL MEANS THAT A TROPHY CAN STILL BE WON 3O IF #APTAIN .ICK 'ASKELL CONTINUES TO GAL LOP ROUND OPPOSITION DE FENCES AND SCORE THE CRUCIAL GOALS THEN WE MAY WELL BE HERALDING THE EXTRAORDINARY FEAT OF SILVERWARE FOR EACH 5%! TEAM 4HIS POSSIBILITY IS SURELY ENOUGH TO WET THE APPETITE OF EVERY PLAYER IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT A DISAP POINTING "53! SEASON IS ALL BUT FORGOTTEN

%DITOR S #OLUMN

4HE FULL -ONTY

-ONTY 0ANESAR THE lRST 3IKH TO REPRESENT %NGLAND AT #RICKET WHEN HE PLAYED IN THE lRST TEST AGAINST )NDIA LAST WEEK HAS GOT MORE THAN ENOUGH ABILITY TO SCARE HIS OPPONENTS 0ANESAR ALSO PROVIDES THE VARIATION THROUGH SPIN BOWLING THAT %NGLAND HAVE ALWAYS SOUGHT (E IS BOUND TO BE A HIT DESPITE THE %NG LAND COACH S PREVIOUS RESER VATIONS

(ODGSON AGAIN

&OR ONCE ) AM GOING TO PRAISE #HARLIE (ODGSON ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE FOR MISSING "EING HALF &RENCH IT WAS A PLEASURE SEEING HIM PLAY ING AND MISSING ANOTHER EASY KICK AND LETTING US THE &RENCH CONVERT PENALTIES UN ANSWERED ) MEAN WHY DID HE HAVE TO GO OFF AND CONSE QUENTLY WRECK OUR CHANCES OF PUTTING MORE THAN ODD POINTS PAST %NGLAND

3END IN THE KIDS .OT CONTENT WITH HAVING THEIR FANS BARRED FROM THEIR USUAL TICKET ALLOCATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SECURITY /L YMPIQUE DE -ARSEILLES ASKED ITS FANS NOT TO TRAVEL TO THE RECENT 0ARIS MATCH AND SENT A BUNCH OF KIDS INSTEAD OF THE lRST TEAM AS PART OF THEIR PROTEST -ARSEILLES 0ARIS IS NEVER THE EASIEST OF MATCHES IN DEED IT IS ON A PAR WITH "ARCA 2EAL AND OTHER SUCH DERBYS

WHICH IN THIS CASE WAS MADE ALL MORE THE INTERESTING BY THE FACT THAT -ARSEILLES HAVE NOT WON IN 0ARIS FOR THREE YEARS 7ITH ONLY SIX PROFESSION AL FOOTBALLERS MOST FROM THE RESERVE TEAM AND A BUNCH OF YOUTH PLAYERS -ARSEILLES MANAGED TO SNATCH A DRAW .EEDLESS TO SAY THE BALL SPENT MOST OF THE TIME mYING INTO THE BURGER BAR BEHIND ROW : AS -ARSEILLES PLAYERS RESORTED TO SOME VERY DESPERATE DE FENDING

&ORMULA /NE IS UNPREDICTABLE )NDEED IT IS *ENSON "UTTON GOT FOURTH 2AIKKONEN IS CLEARLY THE BEST DRIVER AT GET TING ONTO THE PODIUM FROM LAST ON THE GRID 3HUMACHER IS ALWAYS UP THERE AND !LON SO KEPT HIS COOL TO WIN !CTUALLY SORRY ) FORGOT TO TAKE THE hUNv OFF THE FRONT OF hUNPREDICTABLEv

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+ORFBALL DEFEND "53! .ATIONALS TITLE

$ANNY 4HOMAS 4HE WEEKEND OF THE TH AND TH OF -ARCH PLAYED HOST TO THIS YEAR S "53! +ORFBALL .ATIONALS IN -AN CHESTER 4HE PRESSURE WAS ON FOR 5%!

THE CURRENT HOLDERS TO PERFORM "E ING DRAWN IN A RELATIVELY

SCARE FREE GROUP THE lRST DAY WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE FAIRLY ROUTINE FOR ONE OF THE TOURNAMENT FAVOUR ITES 5%! ENDED THE DAY UN BEATEN COMFORTABLY QUALI FYING FOR THE QUARTER lNALS

CLAIMING THE SCALPS OF ,ANCAS TER +EELE "IRMINGHAM AND .OTTS 4RENT ON THEIR WAY 4HE SECOND DAY OPENED FOR 5%!

WITH A STERN TEST AGAINST #AM

BRIDGE 4HEY OVERCAME THEM WITH SURPRISING EASE IN A VICTORY 4HE SEMI lNAL WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A CLOSER AFFAIR WITH RED HOT 3HEFlELD 5NI EARNING THE RIGHT TO PLAY 5%! FOR A PLACE IN THE lNAL FOLLOWING A VICTORY AGAINST NEIGHBOURS AND lERCE RIVALS 3HEFlELD (ALLAM 5%! VS 3HEFlELD WAS A PREDICTABLY TIGHT AND TENSE AFFAIR !FTER GOING DOWN THE TEAM

RALLIED TOGETHER AND BATTLED TO A LEAD WITH ONLY MIN UTES LEFT ON THE CLOCK ONLY TO BE PAINFULLY DISAPPOINTED TO CONCEDE A LATE EQUALISER 4HE MATCH WENT STRAIGHT INTO A PENALTY SHOOT OUT WHICH MIRRORED THE MATCH IN ITS CLOSENESS !FTER BOTH TEAMS MISSED IT ALL CAME DOWN TO THE LAST PENALTIES *IMMY 3EYMOUR COOLY CONVERTED HIS WHILE THE lNAL 3HEFlELD

PLAYER BOTTLED THROWING HIS PENALTY SHORT &OLLOWING SUCH A DRAMAT IC AND TENSE SEMI lNAL %DIN BURGH WERE ALL THAT STOOD IN THE WAY OF 5%! ACHIEVING A SECOND "53! TITLE IN AS MANY YEARS (AVING BEATEN 3HEFlELD A TEAM OF SUPERIOR ABILITY TO %DINBURGH 5%!

HAD REASON TO BE CONlDENT 4HEY OPENED THE SCORING EARLY AND NEVER REALLY LOOKED

BACK 4HEY ALWAYS SEEMED IN CONTROL OF THE lNAL AND NEV ER APPEARED IN ANY DANGER OF LOSING (AT TRICKS FROM CAP TAIN !MI "ROUGHTON AND THE EVENTUAL TOURNAMENT h-OST 6ALUABLE 0LAYERv 4OM %LLIS CONTRIBUTED TO 5%! S SUCCESS FUL SCORELINE 5%! HAD DONE IT "53! #HAMPIONS AGAIN ONLY THE SECOND UNI TO WIN BACK TO BACK TITLES IN THE TOURNAMENT S HISTORY

#ONCRETE #ROSSWORD a BOOK VOUCHER TO BE WON !#2/33 /NE HUNDREDTH OF A %URO

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