Concrete - Issue 190

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

.O DEGREE CERTIlCATES AT GRADUATION $AN &ITZHARRIS 4HIS YEAR S GRADUATES WILL NOT BE PRESENTED WITH THEIR TRADITIONAL EXAM CER TIlCATES AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONIES IN *ULY )T IS LONG ESTABLISHED THAT AFTER MAKING THE WALK ACROSS THE STAGE AT GRADUATION STU DENTS ARE HANDED A PARCH MENT DETAILING THEIR DEGREE CLASSIlCATION (OWEVER THIS YEAR S RECIPIENTS WILL HAVE TO BE CONTENT WITH A HANDSHAKE AND A ROUND OF APPLAUSE !CADEMIC /FlCER $AN 0EARSON SAID THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TIME FOR THE EX AMINATION BOARDS TO MARK THE EXAM SCRIPTS PROCESS THE MARKS AND HAVE THE CER TIlCATES PRINTED IN TIME FOR THE WEEK OF #ONGREGATION

WHICH BEGINS ON *ULY TH h4HIS YEAR WILL BE A ONE OFF BUT IT S INDICATIVE OF A

3TUDENTS AT LAST YEARgS #ONGREGATION GENERAL DEVALUATION OF THE #ONGREGATION v HE SAID h0EOPLE ARE GOING TO START TO WONDER WHETHER IT S REALLY

WORTH COMING v 4HE PROBLEM STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT THE ACADEMIC YEAR BEGAN A WEEK LATER THAN

USUAL AND THE WEEK OF #ON GREGATION WAS NOT PUSHED BACK ACCORDINGLY !S A RESULT

THERE IS LITTLE TIME TO PRINT

THE PARCHMENTS 3ERVICE AND 0ROJECT -AN AGER .IGEL 3HED SAID h4HE DEADLINE FOR THE PASS LISTS TO

BE RELEASED IS THE 7EDNESDAY BEFORE #ONGREGATION WEEK

WHEREAS USUALLY WE HAVE AT #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

3TUDENTS DEMAND THAT #OUNCIL ACTS "RITISH DIPLOMAT BEQUEATHS A SUM OF a TO 5%! STUDENTS OVER SERIES OF CAMPUS ATTACKS 0RISCILLA -C#LAY 3TUDENTS GATHERED AT %ARL HAM 0ARK LAST WEEK TO PRO TEST ABOUT THE POOR LIGHT ING ON CAMPUS WHICH THEY BELIEVE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE RECENT ATTACKS ON STU

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DENTS AND STAFF 4HE AREA OF 5NIVERSITY $RIVE AND THE PATH THROUGH %ARLHAM 0ARK HAS BEEN THE LOCATION OF MANY OF THE INCI DENTS IN WHICH PEOPLE WALK ING ALONE AT NIGHT HAVE BEEN ATTACKED AND BEATEN BY A GROUP OF YOUTHS )N TWO CAS ES THE VIOLENCE WAS SERIOUS ENOUGH TO LEAVE THE VICTIMS

UNCONSCIOUS 4HE DEMONSTRATION ON 7EDNESDAY -ARCH ND WAS ORGANISED BY #OMMUNICA TIONS /FlCER !NDY (IGSON

WHO SAID h3TUDENTS MAY BE SEEN AS A SOFT TARGET BUT THEY ARE A BIG PART OF THE COM MUNITY AND IT ISN T RIGHT THAT THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED v #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

&IONA "ILLINGS $EREK "RYAN A "RITISH $IPLOMAT IN #HINA FOR YEARS HAS BEQUEATHED a TO 5%! TO EN HANCE #HINESE "RITISH RE LATIONS

4HIS GENEROUS LEGACY WILL BE USED TO lNANCE SCHOLAR SHIPS FOR #HINESE POSTGRADU ATES COMING TO 5%!

AND PROVIDE TRAVEL AWARDS FOR "RITISH RESEARCHERS WHEN THEY VISIT #HINA 4HE 5NIVERSITY IS GOING TO MATCH THE AMOUNT FOR THE SCHOLARSHIPS WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF #HINESE STUDENTS

STUDYING AT 5%!

CURRENTLY AT UNDER AND POSTGRAD UATE LEVEL $EREK "RYAN ALTHOUGH NEVER A 5%! STUDENT WAS THE SON OF A .ORWICH DEN TIST WHO WENT TO SCHOOL IN (OLT BEFORE GOING TO STUDY AT #AMBRIDGE 5NIVERSITY &OLLOWING GRADUATION HE #ONTINUED ON 0AGE

'RAPHIC NOVELS &ILM PHILOSOPHY 3WEDISH THEATRE

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

$ISCONTENT OVER GRADUATION MISTAKE #ONTINUED FROM PAGE LEAST DAYS 7E STRUGGLE AS IT IS TO GET ALL THE PARCHMENTS PRINTED IN TIME FOR GRADUA TION AND TO LOSE lVE WORKING DAYS DURING THAT PERIOD IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME h4HE DECISION WAS TAKEN

BY THE !CADEMIC 2EGISTRAR ;3HELAGH #OTTRELL= NOT TO GIVE OUT THE PARCHMENTS AT THE CEREMONY BUT ONLY FOR THIS YEAR v HE ADDED 7HILE PARCHMENTS WILL BE POSTED TO GRADUATES BY THE END OF THE FOLLOWING WEEK SOME STUDENTS FEEL THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE h) VE STUDIED FOR FOUR YEARS FOR MY DEGREE ONLY TO lND ) WON T HAVE THE PIECE OF PAPER IN MY HAND THAT ) VE BEEN WORKING FOR v SAID #LARE *OHNSON h)T S REALLY

#/.4%.43 .%73 4HE )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY BRINGS TOGETHER A RANGE OF MUSIC DANCE ART AND CULTURE FROM ACROSS THE WORLD IN A NIGHT OF CELEBRATION AT THE ,#2

!N EX 5%! ACADEMIC REVEALS HIS SECRET MISSION TO MEET FORMER STUDENT h$R 'ERMv BEFORE THE )RAQ WAR

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(UMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND ENVIRONMENTALIST 0ETER 4ATCHELL SPEAKS TO #ONCRETE ABOUT HIS HOPES FOR THE FUTURE

DISAPPOINTING v SHE ADDED ,AURA 4HOMSON OF !-3 SAID h)T S A SHAME BECAUSE MY FAMILY IS TRAVELLING A LONG WAY TO BE THERE SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE FOR THEM TO SEE ME WITH MY ACTUAL DE GREE IN MY HAND 4HE TRADI TIONAL PHOTO JUST WON T HAVE THE SAME POSTERITY v /THERS WERE MORE PHILO SOPHICAL ABOUT THE SITUATION h)T S NOT A BIG DEAL REALLY v SAID #AZ 3HEPHERD h!S LONG AS WE GET THEM ) DON T CARE v (OWEVER MANY STUDENTS ARE ALREADY DISCONTENTED WITH THE CEREMONY AT 5%!

WHICH IS HELD IN A FORMER SPORTS HALL ;PICTURED LEFT= #ONlRMED MARKS AND DEGREE RESULTS WILL BE POSTED TO STUDENTS DURING THE WEEK BEGINNING *ULY RD

3TUDENTS LOBBY #ITY #OUNCIL FOR BETTER LIGHTING #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE (E ADDED THAT THE 3TUDENT 5NION HAD BEEN ASKING .OR WICH #ITY #OUNCIL FOR THE PAST lVE YEARS TO IMPROVE THE LIGHTING IN THIS AREA 4HEY HAVE PREVIOUSLY RE SPONDED THAT IT WAS UNNEC ESSARY OR WOULD ADD TO THE PROBLEM BY ATTRACTING MORE POTENTIAL ATTACKERS INTO %ARL HAM 0ARK (OWEVER NOBODY FROM THE #OUNCIL WAS AVAIL ABLE TO COMMENT ON THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN 0ROTESTERS DREW ATTENTION

TO THEMSELVES WITH A LARGE 5%! 3TUDENT 5NION BAN NER AND HANDED OUT mYERS TO PASSERS BY MANY OF WHOM WOULD HAVE TO USE THE ROUTE REGULARLY INCLUDING AFTER DARK 3TUDENTS LIVING IN THE 5NIVERSITY 6ILLAGE RETURN THAT WAY FROM CAMPUS AND THEIR NEAREST BUS STOP IS NOW ALSO LOCATED ON 5NIVERSITY $RIVE SINCE THE NUMBER NO LONGER STOPS OUTSIDE THEIR ACCOMMODATION 4HE DEMONSTRATION WAS

SMALL BUT THOSE STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED FELT STRONGLY ABOUT THE ISSUE h4HIS IS EX ACTLY THE SORT OF THING THE 5N ION SHOULD BE CAMPAIGNING ABOUT v SAID -ICHAEL (ARDY

-'4 h3TUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO WALK TO AND FROM THE 6ILLAGE WITHOUT FEAR v !S A RESULT OF THE SPATE OF ATTACKS STUDENTS HAVE RE CEIVED LEAmETS AND EMAILS ABOUT PERSONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY STAFF ARE DOING EX TRA PATROLS ALONG 5NIVERSITY $RIVE AT NIGHT

7HEN QUESTIONED OVER THE 5NIVERSITY S RESPONSE TO THE ATTACKS AT A 5NION #OUNCIL MEETING LAST 4HURS DAY 5%! S 6ICE #HANCELLOR

0ROFESSOR $AVID %ASTWOOD

SAID THAT THE 5NIVERSITY HAD CONDUCTED hHIGH LEVEL TALKS WITH THE POLICEv AND THAT THE RESPONSE HAD BEEN QUICKER THAN MOST STUDENTS REALISED

EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE 5NIVERSITY RECOGNISED THAT THESE ATTACKS WERE SOMETHING NEW NOT JUST ISOLATED INCIDENTS

7HAT EFFECT HAS THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE 5NIVERSITY FACULTIES HAD ON ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT STAFF

,)&%349,% ! TRIP TO +ENYA PROVIDES ONE STUDENT WITH THE CHANCE TO BUILD A BASKETBALL COURT FOR THE LOCAL CHILDREN

! 5%! LECTURER BECAME ONE OF THE lRST PEOPLE IN THE 5+ TO lLL HIS CAR WITH "IO%THANOL FUEL AT A MAINSTREAM GARAGE

#/--%.4 4HE CONTROVERSY OVER THE STATUE OF 7INSTON #HURCHILL IN A STRAITJACKET PROVES 2ETHINK S CLAIM THAT WE ARE PREJUDICED

30/24 0ROMOTION TO THE "53! PLAY OFFS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A GLORIOUS CAMPAIGN FOR THE WOMEN S RUGBY TEAM

4WO 5%! MARTIAL ARTISTS ARE NAMED AS THE BEST IN THE REGION AT THE %ASTERN 2EGION 'RAND 0RIX

'IFT WILL BE USED TO FUND SCHOLARSHIPS #ONTINUED FROM 0AGE BECAME A DIPLOMAT IN #HINA

SPEAKING mUENT #HINESE AND EVENTUALLY ESTABLISHING THE #HINESE LANGUAGE DEPART MENT AT 7ESTMINSTER 5NIVER SITY (E MET HIS WIFE THE ACA DEMIC ,IAO (ONGYING WHILE IN #HINA AND TOGETHER THEY PLAYED A SIGNIlCANT ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF !N GLO #HINESE RELATIONS 4HEY RETURNED TO .ORWICH FOR RE TIREMENT WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL ,IAO S DEATH IN

AND SUBSEQUENTLY $EREK S IN

AGED 4HE NEW $EREK "RYAN AND ,IAO (ONGYING 3CHOL ARSHIPS WILL FUND A STUDENT

EVERY ONE OR TWO YEARS AND THE lRST RECIPIENT ,EI 3UN

RECEIVED THE AWARD ON &RIDAY TH -ARCH 6ICE #HANCELLOR 0ROFES SOR $AVID %ASTWOOD SAID h) AM VERY PLEASED THAT THE LIFELONG WORK OF $EREK AND (ONGYING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THEIR FUND AT 5%! )T WILL BE AN ENDURING TRIBUTE TO TWO REMARKABLE PEOPLE h) HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE SCHOLARS WILL FEEL PARTICULARLY HONOURED TO CONTINUE THEIR WORK AND THAT OVER TIME

THEY WILL FORM A STRONG NET WORK FOR PROMOTING MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF #HINA AND "RIT AIN v

#OCA #OLA ACCUSED OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES &IONA "ILLINGS 4HE SUBJECT OF #OCA #OLA WAS ADDRESSED IN A TALK ON -ONDAY !ROUND PEOPLE PACKED IN TO WATCH THE DOC UMENTARY +ILLER #OKE AND HEAR A TALK FROM GUEST SPEAK ER AND CO ORDINATOR OF THE #OLOMBIA 3OLIDARITY #AM PAIGN !NDY (IGGENBOTTOM 4HE DOCUMENTARY MADE POWERFUL VIEWING FOCUSING ON THE PLIGHT OF THE 4RADE 5NIONS IN #OLOMBIAN BOT TLING PLANTS AND HOW THOSE INVOLVED IN THE 5NION ARE

SUBJECTED TO ALLEGATIONS AT TACKS AND EVEN MURDER (IGGENBOTTOM SPOKE IN DETAIL ABOUT THE ROLE #OCA #OLA HAS TO PLAY IN THE CUR RENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN #O LOMBIA AND HOW HE BELIEVES MULTI NATIONAL CORPORATIONS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SITU ATION IN PLACES SUCH AS #O LOMBIA )T IS THE LINKS BETWEEN #OCA #OLA AND PARAMILITARY FORCES IN #OLOMBIA THAT PRO VIDE THE MOST STRIKING IM AGES AND OBVIOUS PROBLEMS

IMPLYING THAT #OCA #OLA HAD KNOWLEDGE OF PARAMILI TARY ACTION AGAINST THE 4RADE 5NIONS #OKE MAY RESPOND TO AN .53 BOYCOTT

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

7ITNESS APPEAL FOLLOWS ASSAULT 0OLICE ARE APPEALING FOR IN FORMATION AFTER A WOMEN WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED WHILE OUT JOGGING ON CAMPUS 4HE INCIDENT OCCURRED BE TWEEN AM ON 4UES DAY &EBRUARY TH NEAR THE 5%! 0AVILION 4HE WOMAN

IN HER LATE S RAN OFF AND WAS UNHARMED 4HE OFFENDER IS DESCRIBED AS FT INS TALL AND OF SLIM BUILD (E WAS WEARING A BLACK LEATHER MOTORCYCLE JACKET AND TROUSERS AND A BLACK WOOLLEN HAT )F YOU HAVE ANY INFORMA TION CONTACT $# "ELCHER ON OR #RIMESTOP PERS ON

34!' ACTIVISTS TAKE TO THE STAGE *AMES #ONWAY

DETAILS OF CONCRETE !S THE PROCESSION CONTINUED IT WAS INTERRUPTED AGAIN BY AN AN GRY CAR DRIVER WHO NEARLY RAN THE CROWD OVER AND THEN BY SOME JOLLY CYCLISTS WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY DAY #ARS BAD BIKES GOOD n SO FAR THE MESSAGE WAS PRETTY CLEAR %UGENE WAS THEN DIS MISSED BY ONE OF THE JOLLY CYCLISTS WHO EXPLAINED THAT SHE WOULD LEAD EVERYONE TO THE REAL PLAY 4HE CYCLIST WAS IN FACT +ATE &ORESTER WHO HAD CONCEIVED THE IDEA OF A PLAY ABOUT THE CAR PARK LAST SUMMER $RAW ING ON THE ACTING SKILLS OF THE 3USTAINABLE 4RANSPORT !CTION 'ROUP 34!' +ATE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THIS BLEND OF DRA MA AND ACTIVISM .OW THE AUDIENCE WAS FOLLOWING HER AROUND TO THE CYCLE RACKS AND BACK DOWN TO THE 3QUARE 4HE TWO BRAWLING CY CLISTS FROM BEFORE WERE NOW AT FULL CHASE AND WIELDING SWORDS WHILE FELLOW RIDERS WERE CHAINING THEIR BIKES TO A POOR PASSER BY 4HIS WAS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THERE S NOTHING LIKE SOME GOOD SLAPSTICK COMEDY ON A SUNNY SPRING DAY "UT THE MESSAGE WAS A SERIOUS ONE IF ANY MONEY IS TO BE SPENT ON TRANSPORT IT SHOULD GO TO

)N !PRIL THE 5%! &ELL #LUB WILL TAKE ON THE 9ORKSHIRE 4HREE 0EAK #HALLENGE TRAVEL LING A MILE ROUTE AROUND THE PEAKS IN UNDER HOURS 3IXTEEN &ELL CLUB MEM BERS ALL DRESSED AS !FRICAN ANIMALS WILL BE RAISING MON EY FOR THE !LIWAL ,IFE 0ROJECT

A GRASS ROOTS ORGANISATION WHICH HELPS TO PROVIDE DAY CARE JOB TRAINING AND COM MUNITY ACTIVITIES IN !LIWAL .ORTH 3OUTH !FRICA

3TUDENTS WERE TREATED TO A FREE PLAY AND LUNCH LAST 4HURSDAY FROM A TEAM OF ENVIRONMENTALLY INCLINED ACTORS AND THEATRICALLY IN CLINED ENVIRONMENTALISTS 4HE PLAY INVOLVED A BRIEF TOUR OF THE CAMPUS AND WAS CREATED TO RAISE AWARE NESS OF THE 5NIVERSITY S PLANS FOR A MULTI STOREY CAR PARK 3HORTLY AFTER PM IN THE (IVE A COUNCIL WORKER BY THE NAME OF %UGENE "ADGER INTRODUCED HIMSELF AND EX PLAINED THAT HE WOULD LEAD EVERYONE TO THE PLAY 4HIS WAS IN FACT THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY ITSELF AND THE CROWD OF SEVERAL DOZEN WERE NOW THE AUDIENCE %UGENE WITH A CLIPBOARD AND mUORESCENT JACKET LED THE AUDIENCE OUT SIDE AND UP TO #ONGREGA TION (ALL /N THE WAY THEY WITNESSED TWO CYCLISTS IN THE MIDDLE OF A FULL BRAWL lGHT ING FOR THE LAST REMAINING SPACE FOR A BICYCLE 4HE COUNCILLOR URGED THE AUDIENCE NOT TO BE DIS TRACTED AND CONTINUED TO INFORM THEM ABOUT THE lNER

#ELEBRATION OF 'REEK CULTURE

5%! GRADUATE WINS #URTIS "ROWN AWARD FOR DISSERTATION

&ELL CLUB THREE PEAK CHALLENGE

6OICES FROM 'REECE WILL SHOWCASE A SELECTION OF LIVE MUSIC AND SPEAKERS AT 5%!

ON 3UNDAY !PRIL ND 4HE EVENT WILL INCLUDE LIVE 'REEK &OLK MUSIC AND 2EBETIKA 3ONGS 4HERE WILL BE SPEAKERS INCLUDING -ARGARET !LEXIOU AND A SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY -OONLESS .IGHT BY ,UC "ONGRAND 6OICES FROM 'REECE IS FREE AND TAKES PLACE BETWEEN PM AND PM IN ,4

+ESWICK (ALL LECTURE SERIES /N 4UESDAY !PRIL TH 4HE 6ERY 2EVEREND $R *EFFREY *OHN WILL HOLD THE +ESWICK (ALL ,ECTURE ON THE TOPIC h-AKING THE "IBLE -AKE 3ENSEv 4HE LECTURE WILL EXPLORE A NUMBER OF ISSUES INCLUDING THE IMPORTANCE OF CRITICAL "IBLE STUDY IN MAINTAINING AND DEEPENING FAITH 4HE EVENT BEGINS AT PM IN ,ECTURE 4HEATRE AND AD MISSION IS FREE

%UGENE "ADGER LEADS THE AUDIENCE IN THE 34!' PLAY WARDS NEW CYCLE RACKS BEFORE A NEW CAR PARK %VENTUALLY THE AUDIENCE WERE LED TO THE MAIN 3QUARE

WHERE THEIR FREE LUNCH OF SANDWICHES AND CRISPS AWAIT ED THEM 4HE "IG *AZZ "AND WERE THERE AS A GRAND lNALE

AND THE AUDIENCE TUCKED INTO THEIR COMPLEMENTARY SANDWICHES !S THE ACTORS PROCEEDED

TO HAND OUT mYERS EXPLAINING THE SERIOUS ISSUE BEHIND THE PLAY #ONCRETE WAS ABLE TO GAUGE SOME REACTIONS )T WAS hSUSTAINALICIOUSv ACCORDING TO ONE AUDIENCE MEMBER

AND hA LOT OF FUN AND VERY CLEVERv ACCORDING TO ANOTHER +ATE TOLD #ONCRETE THAT SHE WAS PLEASED WITH THE TURN OUT AND ALL AGREED THAT THE PLAY HAD BEEN A GREAT SUC

,IZZIE (UDSON *OE $UNTHORNE A YEAR OLD GRADUATE FROM 5%!

HAS WON THE #URTIS "ROWN PRIZE WORTH a FOR HIS -! #REATIVE 7RITING DIS SERTATION ,AUNCHED LAST -ARCH

THIS AWARD IS GIVEN TO THE BEST PROSE lCTION STUDENT ON 5%! S #REATIVE 7RITING COURSE )T WAS SET UP BY THE LITERARY AGENCY IN MEMORY OF THEIR COLLEAGUE 'ILES 'ORDON WHO DIED SUDDENLY IN .O VEMBER &ROM THE S 'ORDON WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN AND MOST INmUENTIAL LITER ARY AGENTS OF HIS GENERATION ! NOVELIST HIMSELF HE WAS ALSO A PUBLISHER POET AND CRITIC !BOVE ALL THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE HE WAS A PASSIONATE CHAMPION OF NEW WRITERS /NE SUCH WRITER IS *OE $UNTHORNE WHO IS SOON TO COMPLETE A DRAFT OF HIS lRST NOVEL UNDER THE PROVISIONAL

*OE $UNTHORNE RECEIVES THE #URTIS "ROWN PRIZE TITLE 3UBMARINE !FTER FOUR YEARS AT 5%!

WHERE HE BOTH WROTE FOR AND DISTRIBUTED #ONCRETE ALTHOUGH HE WAS SELF CONFESSEDLY hMORE PA PERBOY THEN WRITERv *OE STILL LIVES IN .ORWICH AND CAN BE SPOTTED IN CAFÏS SUCH AS 4AKE &IVE COMPLETE WITH NOTE BOOK AND SIMILARLY EQUIPPED FRIENDS WHERE THEY WRITE

hSPEED POETRYv &OR THE UNINITIATED THIS INVOLVES CHOOSING A WORD OR A PHRASE AND DASHING OFF A POEM 4HIS EXERCISE IS MORE FUN THAN SERIOUS BUT SOMETIMES THE WRITER HITS ON SOMETHING DISTINCTIVE THAT CAN BE USED IN A MORE PEN SIVE POEM 3PEED POEMS ARE PARTICULARLY ENCOURAGED BY

THE 5%! BASED POETRY MAGA ZINE &USELIT WWW FUSELIT CO UK 7HEN ASKED WHAT ADVICE HE COULD GIVE TO YOUNG AND ASPIRING WRITERS

PARTICULARLY THOSE TRYING TO CRACK OPEN THE MARKET *OE EMPHASISED THE IMPORTANCE OF READING ALL TYPES OF WRIT ING BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS

CESS 4HE EVENT SUCCEEDED IN REMINDING EVERYONE IN THE 3QUARE THAT DAY ABOUT THE CONTINUED THREAT OF THE MULTI STOREY CAR PARK 0LANS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION WHICH IS SET TO COST OVER a MIL LION HAVE BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL AND DEBATE AND PROTEST ARE SURE TO CONTINUE AT EVERY STEP ON THE WAY

hANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU AWARE OF THE MINUTE EYE OF LANGUAGE v 4HE #REATIVE 7RITING -! IS AN INCREDIBLE TOOL FOR WRITERS !SIDE FROM THE HIGH STANDARD OF THE COURSE ITS PRESTIGE MEANS THAT MOST PUBLISHERS OR AGENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO TAKE NOTICE OF A STUDENT USING BOTH h5%!v AND hCREATIVE WRITINGv IN THE SAME SENTENCE ON THEIR COV ERING LETTER !SIDE FROM THIS .ORWICH HAS A NUMBER OF SCHEMES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR TALENT ED YOUNG WRITERS AND ANYONE WITH ASPIRATIONS TO CREATIVE WRITING SHOULD GET INVOLVED 4HE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE ACT OF WRITING IS NOT TO PUT YOURSELF UNDER TOO MUCH PRESSURE *OE REMEMBERS h4HE WORST STUFF ) WROTE WAS WHEN ) SAT DOWN AND SAID @) M GO ING TO WRITE A MASTERPIECE 0EOPLE HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR WRITING THEY ALMOST SEE IT AS A CALLING BUT SOMETIMES THE BEST THING TO DO IS TO WADE RIGHT IN v

7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

6# ANSWERS STUDENTS QUESTIONS $ANIEL -ORLEY 4HE 6ICE #HANCELLOR 0RO FESSOR $AVID %ASTWOOD

WAS INVITED BY 5NION #OUNCIL FOR A MUCH NEED ED AND LONG OVERDUE QUES TION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH STUDENTS LAST 4HURS DAY !S SOON AS QUESTIONING STARTED IT BECAME IMMEDI ATELY APPARENT THAT HE WOULD NOT BE IN FOR AN EASY RIDE (IS LEADERSHIP OF THE 5NI VERSITY WAS CRITICISED MANY TIMES DURING THE COURSE OF THE DISCUSSION PARTICULARLY BY $EBATING 3OCIETY 0RESI DENT *ACK 'UEST 5NSURPRISINGLY

QUES TIONING BEGAN WITH THE IS SUE OF THE RECENT LECTURERS STRIKE THE ACTION OF THE !54

WHAT HIS RESPONSE WOULD BE TO THE INDUSTRIAL ACTION AND TO WHAT EXTENT THIS MAY AF FECT STUDENTS 5NFORTUNATELY DEBATE OVER THIS WAS HAZY AS THE !54 IS NOT DISCLOSING THE NATURE OF POSSIBLE FUTURE AC TION $AVID %ASTWOOD DEFEND ED HIMSELF AND THE 5NIVER SITY BY ARGUING THAT FUNDS ARE TIGHT WITH COMMITMENTS TO

6ICE #HANCELLOR $AVID %ASTWOOD ADDRESSES STUDENTS AT 5NION #OUNCIL WARDS BOTH STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL RUNNING OF THE 5NI VERSITY (E CONDEMNED ANY POSSIBLE REPERCUSSIONS ON STUDENTS FROM INDUSTRIAL AC TION AND SAID THAT WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO CONlRM WE WOULD NOT BE AFFECTED (E SAID THAT LECTURERS WILL GET A PAY RISE NEXT YEAR BUT OTHER THAN THIS NO REAL lGURES WERE GIV EN 7ITH NO CERTAINTY ABOUT THE !54 S PROPOSED ACTION

STUDENTS WILL NOT FEEL THEIR FEARS HAVE BEEN SIGNIlCANTLY ALLAYED *ACK 'UEST HEIGHTENED THE PRESSURE BY RAISING THE ISSUE OF hSUSTAINABILITYv AT UNIVERSITIES IN LIGHT OF THE TUMULTUOUS AND UNCERTAIN TIME HIGHER EDUCATION IS CUR RENTLY ENTERING (E SAID THE 6ICE #HANCELLOR HAD RECENTLY DECLARED HIS OPPOSITION TO ANY SUCH IDEAS AND QUES TIONED THIS STANCE BY ARGUING

THAT A SUSTAINABILITY DRIVE IS NECESSARY TO ENSURE A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR 5%! %ASTWOOD RE SPONDED WELL BY ARGUING THAT THE INDEPENDENCE AND FREE DOM OF UNIVERSITIES IS INTE GRAL TO OUR SOCIETY IMPLYING THAT THE PROPOSED SUSTAIN ABILITY WOULD IMPINGE ON THIS (OWEVER AGAIN NO SPE CIlC FACTS OR EXAMPLES WERE PROVIDED NO DOUBT LEAVING MANY STUDENTS UNEASY &INALLY THE GENERAL RUN

NING OF 5%! WAS ACCUSED OF BEING TOO BUREAUCRATIC AND DISCOURAGING TO STUDENTS WHO WISHED TO BE MORE INVOLVED

ESPECIALLY IN REFERENCE TO EN VIRONMENTAL ISSUES WHERE STUDENTS AIMING TO CHANGE OR AFFECT POLICY CLAIMED THEY RAN INTO hBRICK WALLSv 4HE RESPONSE TO THE RE CENT SPATE OF ATTACKS WHICH HAVE PERHAPS MADE STUDENTS MORE ILL AT EASE THAN ANY THING WAS ALSO CRITICISED FOR BEING TOO SLOW 4HE 6ICE #HANCELLOR DEFENDED THE UNIVERSITY S ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD WELL BUT DID SO WITH OUT RESPONDING TO CLAIMS OF BUREAUCRACY (E ALSO SAID THE RESPONSE TO THE ATTACKS WAS NOT AS SLOW AS PERCEIVED 4HE GENERAL MOOD OF THE MEETING WAS DISILLUSION MENT WITH THE RUNNING AND ATTITUDE OF THE 5NIVERSITY S LEADERSHIP AND WORRY OVER POLICIES TOWARDS THE INDUS TRIAL ACTION OF THE LECTURERS AND THE FUTURE OF 5%!

4HE 6ICE #HANCELLOR RE SPONDED WELL TO MANY OF THE QUESTIONS BUT ALSO LEFT SOME MORE OR LESS UNANSWERED 4HERE WERE FEW CONCRETE AS SURANCES AND AS A RESULT SOME STUDENTS WILL NOT FEEL THEIR CONCERNS HAVE BEEN SUF lCIENTLY ADDRESSED

3TUDENTS TO FACE HIGHER RENT CHARGES UNDER NEW LICENSING PLAN 'LORIA $E7ALT 3TUDENTS MAY SOON lND THEMSELVES PAYING HIGHER RENT DUE TO A NEW PROVI SION IN THE (OUSING !CT 4HIS NEW PROVISION IS A LICENSING PLAN KNOWN AS THE HOUSES OF MULTIPLE OC CUPANTS (-/ WHICH WILL SEEK TO IMPOSE AN OBLIGATORY CHARGE OF UP TO a ON HOME OWNERS RENTING TO lVE OR MORE PEOPLE OCCUPYING THREE mOORS OR MORE 4HOUGH THIS TAX IS SET TO TAKE EFFECT ON THE TH OF !PRIL

LANDLORDS WILL HAVE A THREE MONTH GRACE PERIOD DURING WHICH THEY MUST COMPLETE APPLICATIONS SO THAT THE TAX MAY BE IMPOSED )F LANDLORDS FEEL THAT LI CENSE PRICES ARE TOO HIGH

THEY HAVE THE OPTION TO AP PLY TO AN OMBUDSMAN (OW EVER QUALIFYING PROPERTY OWNERS THAT DO NOT REGISTER FOR THIS TAX COULD BE CHARGED

UP TO a

AND WILL BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE COM MITTED A CRIMINAL OFFENCE #ONSEQUENTLY THIS TAXATION IS MORE THAN LIKELY TO CAUSE LANDLORDS TO INCREASE THE PRICE OF RENT TO AID IN PAY MENT 4HIS NEW PROVISION IM PLEMENTED BY THE GOVERN MENT APPLIES ONLY TO LAND LORDS RENTING HOUSES TO lVE PEOPLE OR MORE OCCUPYING THREE mOORS OR MORE (OW EVER AUTHORITIES ON A LOCAL LEVEL CAN RESERVE THE RIGHT TO IMPOSE FURTHER TAXES ON (-/ OR TAXES ON ALL RENTED PROPERTIES REGARDLESS OF HOW MANY mOORS OR PEOPLE ARE RENTING WITHIN THEIR JURIS DICTION 3IMON 'ORDON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT THE .A TIONAL ,ANDLORDS !SSOCIATION

FEARS THAT THIS SYSTEM COULD BE OPEN TO ABUSE !CCORDING TO 'ORDON hIT WILL DEPEND ON HOW LOCAL AUTHORITIES IM PLEMENT IT )N SOME AREAS IT COULD PROMPT LANDLORDS TO MOVE OUT OF SECTOR v 3TUDENTS WHO HAVE YET

3TUDENTS ADMIT TO PLAGIARISM /NE THIRD OF STUDENTS HAS CHEATED AT UNIVERSITY BY COPYING MATERIALS THAT AREN T THEIR OWN ACCORDING TO A SURVEY COMMISSIONED BY THE 4IMES (IGHER %DUCATION 3UPPLEMENT 4HE RESULTS SHOWED THAT ONE IN SIX HAD COPIED WORK FROM THEIR FRIENDS AND OVER HALF OF THIRD YEAR STUDENTS KNEW SOMEONE WHO HAD CHEATED 4HE HIGHEST LEVELS OF PLAGIARISED WORK WERE FOUND AT NEW UNIVERSITIES

2ACE ROW TUTOR IS SUSPENDED ! LECTURER AT ,EEDS 5NIVERSITY HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOLLOW ING ACCUSATIONS OF RACISM $R &RANK %LLIS CAUSED CONTROVERSY WHEN HE CLAIMED THAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE INTEL LECTUALLY SUPERIOR IN AN INTER VIEW WITH THE ,EEDS 3TUDENT NEWSPAPER /VER STAFF AND STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED IN A DEMONSTRATION FOR HIS REMOVAL LAST WEEK (E IS BEING INVESTIGATED UNDER THE 5NIVERSITY S EQUAL ITY AND DIVERSITY POLICY

#OURSE CLOSURE POSTPONED 3USSEX 5NIVERSITY HAS DE LAYED ITS lNAL DECISION OVER THE CLOSURE OF ITS #HEMISTRY DEPARTMENT FOLLOWING SUS TAINED CRITICISM FROM THE SCI ENTIlC COMMUNITY 4HE #HEMISTRY COURSE AT 3USSEX HAS PRODUCED TWO .OBEL LAUREATES AND IS WIDE LY REGARDED AS BEING AMONGST THE TOP PLACES FOR CHEMISTRY RESEARCH IN THE COUNTRY -OVES TO CLOSE THE DE PARTMENT HAD BEEN BLAMED ON A LACK OF FUNDING

/XFORD COLLEGE TO ADMIT MEN

(-/ CHARGES COULD PUSH UP STUDENTS RENT TO lND A mAT MAY WANT TO RE THINK WHETHER OR NOT IT WILL BE BENElCIAL TO HAVE MORE THAN THREE ROOMMATES !D DITIONALLY IT MAY BE WORTH WHILE FOR STUDENTS TO DISCUSS

THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THIS NEW PROVISION TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH THEIR LANDLORDS ARE TO PAY AND HOW MUCH THEY WILL CHARGE RENTERS (OWEV ER IN THE END REGARDLESS OF

HOW HIGH A TAX IS UNDER THIS NEW PROVISION STUDENTS AND OTHER RENTERS MAY ULTIMATELY BE FORCED TO PAY HIGHER RENT PRICES IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE

5NDERGRADUATES AT 3T (IL DA S #OLLEGE /XFORD THE LAST WOMEN ONLY COLLEGE AT THE 5NIVERSITY HAVE VOTED IN FA VOUR OF ADMITTING MEN )F THE GOVERNING BODY APPROVES THE DECISION MEN AND WOMEN WILL BE ALLOWED TO LIVE ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER FOR THE lRST TIME IN 3T (ILDA S YEAR HISTORY 4HE COLLEGE HAS SEEN A DECREASE IN APPLICANTS IN RE CENT YEARS WITH ONLY A QUAR TER OF ITS CURRENT STUDENTS PICKING 3T (ILDA S AS THEIR lRST CHOICE

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

-ENTAL (EALTH "ILL SCRAPPED 4HE GOVERNMENT HAS ABAN DONED ITS CONTROVERSIAL -EN TAL (EALTH "ILL AFTER CRITICISM THAT ITS PROVISIONS WERE UN ETHICAL 4HE BILL WOULD HAVE IN CREASED THE POWERS AVAILABLE FOR THE DETENTION OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDI TIONS AND REMOVED RESTRIC TIONS ON DETAINING THOSE WITH hUNTREATABLEv PERSONAL ITY DISORDERS /RGANISATIONS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE "ILL INCLUDED THE -ENTAL (EALTH !LLIANCE

WHO WERE SUPPORTED BY THE .53 IN THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED MEASURES

.EW NAME FOR .53 CAMPAIGN 4HE .53 DISABILITY CAMPAIGN HAS CHANGED ITS NAME FROM hSTUDENTS WITH DISABILITIESv TO hDISABLED STUDENTSv FOL LOWING A VOTE AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN "LACKPOOL 4HE GROUP HOPES THE DE CISION WILL HELP TO UPDATE ITS IMAGE AND CHANGE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF DISABILITY )T IS INVOLVED IN CAM PAIGNS FOR THE RE EVALUATION OF THE $ISABLED 3TUDENT !L LOWANCE $3! 4HE LEVEL OF FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR DISA BLED POSTGRADUATES IS ALMOST HALF OF THAT FOR UNDERGRADU ATES FORCING MANY STUDENTS TO DROP OUT OF STUDYING

0ARTY CELEBRATES 5%! S DIVERSITY *ULIA "6 "RADSHAW 4HE ANNUAL )NTERNA TIONAL 0ARTY BROUGHT COL OUR TO THE (IVE AND ,#2 LAST 7EDNESDAY WITH THE THEME 4HE 7ONDERS OF THE 7ORLD 4HERE WERE FOURTEEN ACTS IN TOTAL AND TEN SOCIETIES TOOK PART WITH PERFORMANCES RANGING FROM #HINESE +UNG &U TO AN !FRICAN FASHION PARADE TRADITIONAL -EXICAN SONG AND DANCE TO !MERICAN POETRY READINGS 4HE )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY HAS BEEN HELD ANNUALLY FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS TO CEL EBRATE THE CULTURE AND DIVER SITY OF 5%!

WHICH HAS OVER

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FROM MORE THAN COUN TRIES 4HE )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY CREATES A FORUM FOR STUDENTS TO MEET AND SHARE THEIR CUL TURE :ARA 3IDDIQI THE )NTER NATIONAL /FlCER SPENT THREE MONTHS ORGANISING THE EVENT WITH THE HELP OF %MMA +EL LY 7ELFARE /FlCER AND !NDY ,LOYD 3TAGE -ANAGER :ARA COMMENTED h)N THE BEGINNING ) THOUGHT THIS WOULD JUST BE A NORMAL PAR TY BUT ) CAME TO REALISE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO THE PEOPLE WHO TAKE PART )T GIVES THEM A CHANCE TO PROUDLY SHOW

THEIR CULTURE AND BACKGROUND TO OTHERS v 4HE NIGHT INVOLVED )NDI AN DRUM PLAYING TRADITIONAL DANCE FROM "ANGLADESH TRA DITIONAL 0ALESTINIAN DANCE

*APANESE DANCE WITH HAND MADE COSTUMES AND DRUM PLAYING TRADITIONAL SINGING AND RHYTHMIC HAND MOVE MENTS FROM )NDONESIA HOT SOCA DANCING FROM THE #AR IBBEAN SALSA MERINGUE AND TANGO FROM THE ,ATIN 3OCIETY

AND PERFORMANCES FROM THE 2OCK 'OSPEL #HOIR AND THE #APOEIRA 3OCIETY AMONG OTHERS 4AKUMI 9OKOI A MEM BER OF THE *APANESE 3OCIETY COMMENTED h7E WANTED TO SHOW PEOPLE A LITTLE ABOUT *APANESE CULTURE 4HE 5NI VERSITY HAS SO MANY PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND THIS WAS OUR CHANCE TO SHOW OUR OWN IDENTITY v 4HE #HINESE SOCIETY PER FORMANCE INVOLVED +UNG &U

TRADITIONAL DANCING TRADI TIONAL AND MODERN SINGING

AND MUSIC FROM A TRADITIONAL #HINESE INSTRUMENT FOLLOWED

BY MUSIC FROM THE VIOLIN A MORE WESTERN INSTRUMENT 7HILE THIS WAS HAPPENING

PICTURES OF TRADITIONAL PAINT INGS AND ARTEFACTS WERE DIS PLAYED AS WELL AS WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL #HINESE DRESS 0URPLE 'E DESCRIBED HOW hTHERE ARE #HINESE STUDENTS AT 5%! SO IT IS VERY

0ERFORMERS AT THE )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND TO TEACH THEM ABOUT #HINA )T WAS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR US TO SHOW TO @"RITISH "ORN #HI NESE@ WHO GENERALLY HAVE LITTLE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT #HI NESE CULTURE AND LANGUAGE

WHAT TRADITIONAL #HINA WAS LIKE AND TO TEACH THEM ABOUT THEIR HERITAGE v +HALED 7ALWED WHO HELPED TO ORGANISE THE 0AL

ESTINIAN PERFORMANCE SAID h7E WANT TO SHOW OTHERS OUR HISTORY AND OUR CULTURE

TO EDUCATE THEM ABOUT OUR PEOPLE AND OUR IDENTITY -OST PEOPLE ONLY SEE THE PO LITICAL SIDE OF 0ALESTINE 4HIS WAS PART OF @OUR STRUGGLE A CHANCE FOR US TO EDUCATE OTH ERS ABOUT OUR PEOPLE v !LL OF THE PERFORMANCES WERE AMAZING AND THE EAGER NESS HARD WORK AND EFFORT THAT THE PERFORMERS INVESTED

IN THE EVENING DEMONSTRATED HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THEM TO SHOW THEIR CULTURAL HERIT AGE 4HE )NTERNATIONAL 0ARTY UNVEILED THE RICH CULTURAL DIVERSITY THAT EXISTS AT 5%!

AND AS :ARA 3IDDIQI SAID AFTER THE EVENT h)T IS ALSO A CHANCE FOR PEOPLE TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER AND TO GET INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN VOLVED MORE IN THE 5NION AND IN 5NIVERSITY LIFE v

$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

7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

3ECRET MISSION TO SEE $R 'ERM .ATALIE ,ASANCE ! .ORWICH -0 AND FORMER 5%! ACADEMIC REVEALED HIS SECRET MISSION TO INTERVIEW EX STUDENT h$R 'ERMv LAST WEEK &ORMER SCIENTIST AND .ORWICH .ORTH -0 $R )AN 'IBSON CLAIMED THAT HE WAS mOWN OUT BY "RITISH )NTELLI GENCE AGENTS TO THE -IDDLE %AST TO INTERVIEW EX 5%!

STUDENT 2IHAB 4AHA IN EARLY (E CLAIMED THAT ON THE EVE OF THE )RAQ WAR SHE TOLD HIM THAT )RAQ HAD DE STROYED ALL OF ITS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION 4HE ALLEGATIONS COME AT A TIME WHEN THERE IS INTENSE SCRUTINY OF THE GOVERNMENT S DECISION TO GO TO WAR BASED ON THE CLAIM THAT )RAQ WAS PRODUCING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION $R 4AHA ALSO KNOWN AS h$R 'ERMv WAS ONE OF THE MOST SENIOR WOMEN IN

! .ORWICH -0 WAS mOWN SECRETLY TO )RAQ INTERVIEW 5%! GRADUATE 2IHAB 4AHA 3ADDAM (USSEIN S REGIME 3HE WAS INVOLVED IN )RAQ S WEAPONS PROGRAMMES DUR ING THE S AND EARLY S AND WAS LATER ACCUSED OF BE ING INVOLVED IN ITS BANNED

WEAPONS PROGRAMME !FTER BEING FEATURED ON THE 53 LED COALITION S LIST OF MOST WANTED SHE WAS AR RESTED IN .OVEMBER

BUT FREED WITHOUT CHARGE LAST

YEAR 3HE GAINED A DEGREE IN BIOLOGY AT 5%! BETWEEN AND WHICH WAS lNANCED BY THE )RAQI GOVERN MENT $R 'IBSON WAS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT AT THE TIME

$R 'IBSON CLAIMED HE WAS mOWN IN AND OUT OF WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS )RAQ WITHIN HOURS (E SAID h)T WAS LIKE ONE OF THESE SECRET BUS TRIPS TO 3HERINGHAM OR SOMEWHERE YOU DIDN T KNOW WHERE IT WAS )T DID LOOK LIKE THE -IDDLE %AST )T WASN T "RUSSELS h4HE IDEA WAS WHETHER OR NOT ) COULD GET ANY INFOR MATION FROM HER WHICH ) THINK WAS ALWAYS UNLIKELY )T SEEMED TO ME IT WAS MY JOB TO DO IT TO TRY TO lND OUT v (E CLAIMED THAT DURING THE MINUTE INTERVIEW IN A SAFE HOUSE $R 4AHA TOLD HIM )RAQ HAD ABANDONED ITS PROJECTS ON BIOLOGICAL WAR FARE (E ADDED h) BELIEVED HER v h!PART FROM THE PLEAS ANTRIES THERE WAS ONLY ONE QUESTION DISCUSSED v $R 'IB SON SAID h) DID SAY TO HER @7HEN DID YOU LEARN TO DO EXPERIMENTS WITH BIOLOGI CAL WARFARE ORGANISMS 3HE SAID @7ELL ) VE BEEN AWAY FROM THE 5%! A LONG TIME v

"URGER BAR FOR #ARDIFF UNI #ARDIFF 5NIVERSITY S STUDENTS UNION IS CONSIDERING OPEN ING AN IN HOUSE BURGER BAR

AFTER A POLICE CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL TRADERS OPERATING IN THE AREA 4HE BAR WHICH WAS ORIGI NALLY PROPOSED AT THE BEGIN NING OF THE YEAR HAS BECOME AN INCREASINGLY PROMINENT ISSUE SINCE POOR HYGIENE AND SANITARY CONDITIONS ON UNLI CENSED VENDORS TROLLEYS WERE EXPOSED

9ORK THREATENS BAR CLOSURES 3TUDENTS IN 9ORK ARE TAKING PART IN A SERIES OF PROTESTS AFTER MOVES WERE MADE TO HALVE THE OPENING HOURS OF THEIR CAMPUS BARS 4HE PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE 5NIVERSITY IN RESPONSE TO A SHORTFALL IN REVENUE 3TUDENTS STAGED EVENTS AS PART OF A hSAVE YOUR CAMPUS BARv CAMPAIGN IN THE SEVEN DAYS FOLLOWING THE ANNOUNCEMENT

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

# &%!452%

h4HE MOTIVE OF MY CAMPAIGNING IS LOVE v *AMES #ONWAY SPEAKS TO HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER AND ENVIRONMENT ACTIVIST 0ETER 4ATCHELL ABOUT HIS BELIEF IN THE PRINCIPLE OF THINKING GLOBALLY ACTING LOCALLY

0

ETER 4ATCHELL HAS BEEN A PROMI NENT CAMPAIGNER SINCE THE EARLY EIGHTIES AND WAS ONE OF THE LEAD ING VOICES IN THE GAY RIGHTS MOVE MENT OF THE NINETIES 2ENOWNED FOR HIS OFTEN CONTROVERSIAL APPROACH HE GAINED FRESH ADMIRATION FROM MANY WHEN HE ATTEMPTED A CITIZEN S AR REST ON :IMBABWEAN DICTATOR 2OBERT -UGABE IN "RUSSELS IN )F YOU RE WONDERING WHAT IT TAKES TO FIGHT SO DETERMINEDLY AND FOR SO LONG 0ETER WILL TELL YOU THAT IT IS ALL DOWN TO LOVE h4HE MOTIVE OF MY CAMPAIGNING IS LOVE ) LOVE OTHER PEOPLE ) LOVE JUSTICE ) LOVE PEACE ) LOVE LIFE v (E ALSO CLAIMS THAT HIS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY CAN BE REDUCED TO TWO EQUALLY SIMPLE PRINCIPLES h-AXIMISE PLEASURE HAPPINESS AND FULFILMENT -INIMISE PAIN SORROW AND DISCONTENTMENT v 0ETER HAS BEEN FAMILIAR TO .OR WICH FOR A WHILE NOW WORKING TO IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF .ORWICH 0RISON /N -ARCH ST HE VISITED 5%!

TO EXPLAIN WHY HE HAS NOW JOINED THE 'REEN 0ARTY AND TO SHARE SOME OF HIS ENVIRONMENTAL IDEAS h4HINK GLOBALLY AND ACT LOCAL LYv 0ETER BEGINS WITH THE PHRASE THAT HAS BEEN FAMILIAR TO ALL THOSE IN THE 'REEN MOVEMENT FOR MANY YEARS 4HIS ARGUMENT MAY NOT BE NEW BUT AS HE CONTINUES HIS TALK

0ETER DEMONSTRATES THAT THE PHRASE IS BECOMING MORE PERTINENT ALL THE TIME h4HERE ARE A HUGE NUMBER OF PROBLEMS THAT PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS HAVE IN COMMON v 4HE PROBLEMS HE DESCRIBES WE ARE TOLD ARE AMONG THE GREATEST THREATS FACING HUMANITY AND PER HAPS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OF ALL OF

THEM ARE !)$3 AND CLIMATE CHANGE h4HESE ARE NOT PROBLEMS THAT CAN BE SOLVED IN A NATION OR LOCALITY

BUT FOR A GLOBAL RESPONSE TO BE EF FECTIVE THERE NEEDS TO BE ACTION ON THE GROUND LOCALLY v (E EMPHASISES THE NEED FOR ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE TO WORK TOGETHER TOWARDS WHAT 0ETER PERCEIVES AS hCOMMON SOLUTIONS TO COMMON PROBLEMSv !T THIS WE TURN TO ONE OF THE GREATEST BARRIERS IN FRONT OF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT ! LOT OF THE FURIES AND FRUSTRA TIONS OF 'REEN CAMPAIGNERS HAVE BEEN DIRECTED TOWARDS 'EORGE "USH AND 4ONY "LAIR AS CALLS FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD HAVE LARGELY BEEN IGNORED BY HEADS OF STATE 0ETER SUG GESTS THAT IF WE WANT GREEN SOLUTIONS

hDON T RELY ON THE STRONG CENTRAL STATE v (E IS CALLING FOR DEVOLUTION OF POWER h4HAT IS WHY DEMOCRACY AND THINGS LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE SO INTERLINKED 7ITHOUT LOCAL POWER TO CHANGE THINGS THEN THE BIG IS SUES WON T BE RESOLVED v !GAIN HE DECLARES THESE ARE NOT JUST HIS SEN TIMENTS AND DEMAND FOR DEVOLVING POWER IS BECOMING STRONGER AND MORE RELEVANT ALL THE TIME 4HEN 0ETER OFFERS US SOME OF HIS OWN PRACTICAL IDEAS STARTING WITH THE %UROPEAN 5NION (E IS CRITICAL OF THE %5 OF COURSE BUT MOREOVER HE IS hMINDFUL OF WHAT IT COULD BEv (E SEES POTENTIAL IN ITS FRAMEWORK

CLAIMING THAT hPOWER COULD BE DE VOLVED DOWN TO VIABLE SELF GOVERN ING ENTITIESv 7E ARE GIVEN -ALTA AS AN EXAMPLE A COUNTRY WITH A POPU LATION OF THAT FUNCTIONS AS A VIABLE STATE IN THE %5 h)F -ALTA CAN BE A VIABLE STATE WHY NOT %AST !NGLIA ALONG WITH 7ALES .ORTHERN )RELAND AND SO ON v 4HESE IDEAS FIND A GREAT DEAL OF SUPPORT FROM ALL THOSE TRYING TO BRING ABOUT A POSITIVE CHANGE IN

THEIR AREA h%AST !NGLIA NEEDS TO TAKE POWER FROM 7ESTMINSTER AND "RUSSELS 4O BRING POWER TO THE PEO PLE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SHOULD HAVE POWER OVER %5 GRANTS AND REBATES WHY NOT GIVE THIS POWER TO THE LOCAL PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THE PROB LEMS ON THE GROUND ) DON T SEE WHY

ONLY WANT POWER TO THE PEOPLE WE WANT POWER FROM THE PEOPLEv HE ANNOUNCES TO GREAT APPLAUD (E DE SCRIBES A FUTURE WHERE THROUGH THE USE OF SOLAR PANELS AND MINI WIND TURBINES PEOPLE COULD ACTUALLY CON TRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL GRID (IS SORT OF SYSTEM WOULD BE CUTTING EDGE

5NDER HIS PROPOSED POLITICAL FRAMEWORK

WE NOT ONLY WANT POWER TO THE PEOPLE

WE WANT POWER FROM THE PEOPLE EVERYTHING HAS TO GO THROUGH 7EST MINSTER v 4HIS IS NOT 0ETER STRESSES THE AN SWER BUT IT IS PART OF THE PROCESS OF BRINGING POWER BACK TO THE PEOPLE h)T S NOT A PERFECT MODEL IT S NOT A FLAWLESS MODEL BUT IT S A BETTER MOD EL THAN WHAT WE VE GOT AT THE MO MENT 4HE %5 DOESN T HAVE TO BE A NEO LIBERAL FREE MARKET BIG BUSINESS ENTITY ) D LIKE TO SEE AND BELIEVE IT COULD BECOME A PEOPLE S %UROPE ! %UROPE THAT S BASED ON DEMOCRACY

HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ECO NOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAIN ABILITY v 0ETER WANTS US TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A LOT OF POTENTIAL LOCKED UP INSIDE THE %5 AND IT HAS THE POPU LATION AND POWER TO PULL AGAINST THE TRADITIONAL SYSTEM OF THE 7EST

SOMETHING THAT INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES LIKE "RITAIN COULD NOT DO ALONE 7ITH HIS PROPOSALS FOR A NEW POLITICAL FRAMEWORK 0ETER THEN FO CUSED ON ONE OF THE NATION S GROW ING CONCERNS h7E NEED AN ALTERNA TIVE THAT GOES AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS AND NUCLEAR POWER AND CREATES LOCAL JOBSv 4HE ANSWER AS 0ETER SEES IT LIES WITH DOMESTIC GENERATION h7E NOT

BUT THE TECHNOLOGY AND MEANS ARE CERTAINLY THERE AND OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO IMPLEMENT THEM 4HE %NERGY 3AVINGS 4RUST SAYS THAT CURRENTLY n OF THE ENERGY NEEDS OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY COULD BE MET THROUGH THIS SOURCE 0ETER DE SCRIBES THIS AS hA VERY EXITING PROS PECTv AND THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT S DESIRE FOR NEW NUCLEAR POWER STA TIONS AS hAN ABSURD IDEAv 7E ARE ALSO REMINDED THAT WHAT IS REALLY NEEDED IS A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMME OF ENERGY CONSERVATION

AS IT WOULD NOT ONLY CREATE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SKILLED JOBS BUT IT WOULD ALSO CUT OUR ENERGY NEEDS BY 0ETER WANTS US TO BE AWARE OF ALL THIS SO THAT hWHEN -R "LAIR SAYS THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE WE KNOW THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVEv !ND THIS COMES BACK TO THE NEED FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AS THIS SORT OF SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE WORKED OUT FROM THE GROUND h4HINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLYv WE ARE TOLD ONCE MORE hTHAT S THE WAY WE CAN SECURE A BETTER WORLDv !DVICE THAT S SIMPLE SOUND AND CRUCIAL

7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

#HARLES #LARKE -0 VISITS 5%!

0(), "!.+3

4OM !TLEY )T SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT THE POLITICAL APATHY OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITHIN THIS 5NIVERSITY NEVER MIND THE WHOLE COUNTRY WHEN STUDENTS IN A POPULATION OF TURN UP WHEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS TO THEIR LO CAL -0 #HARLES #LARKE AS THEY WERE LAST &RIDAY /NE OF THE OPENING QUESTIONS WAS APPROPRIATELY REGARDING APATHY AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE !CCORDING TO THE (OME 3ECRETARY THIS IS BECAUSE hPOLITICAL INSTITU TIONS ARE TOO REMOTE AND OUT OF TOUCHv SOMETHING STUDENTS CAN ALL APPRECIATE WITH REDUNDANT DEMONSTRA TIONS AGAINST TOP UP FEES LAST YEAR (OWEVER ACCORDING TO -R #LARKE THE INCREASE IN ELECTION TURNOUT LAST YEAR MEANT THAT IT WAS NO LONGER AS BIG AN ISSUE 4HE DISCUSSION THEN MOVED TO THE IMMINENT INTRODUCTION OF )$ CARDS #LARKE CONTROVERSIALLY STATED

#HARLES #LARKE PICTURED AT 5%! IN .OVEMBER THAT "RITAIN IS ALREADY hA BIG BROTHER SOCIETYv ARGUING THAT )$ #ARDS WERE SIMPLY A WAY TO COLLATE ALL THE INFOR MATION THAT IS ALREADY STORED INTO ONE MASSIVE REGISTER )N TERESTINGLY HE FAILED TO MEN TION THE MORE IMPORTANT IN CLUSION OF lNGER PRINTS AND

RETINA SCANS ON THE DATABASE (E DISMISSED THE a FEE PER PERSON AS hCOMPLETE lC TIONv ESTIMATING THE COST TO BE a )NEVITABLY THE CONVER SATION TURNED TO THE STATUS OF )RAQ AND MORE SPECIl CALLY WHETHER HE THOUGHT THE

COUNTY WAS ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR #LARKE FAITHFULLY DEFENDED THE DECISION TO GO TO WAR CLAIMING THAT THE COUNTRY IS NOW BETTER OFF THAN IT WAS THREE YEARS AGO

DESPITE THE INCREASING INSUR GENCY (OWEVER HE REFUSED TO DISCUSS A TIMETABLE FOR

WITHDRAWAL 0ERHAPS THE MOST SIG NIlCANT QUESTION CAME FROM -ATTHEW *OLLY 03) WHO lNDS HIMSELF IN A SIMILAR PO SITION TO MANY STUDENTS WHO

WHEN RECEIVING THEIR LOAN AS WELL AS PAYING FOR FEES AND ACCOMMODATION BEGIN THE YEAR OVER a IN DEBT 4HE FORMER %DUCATION 3ECRETARY REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE INDIVIDUAL CASE PROFFER ING INSTEAD A DEFENCE OF HIS PARTY S FUNDING IN OTHER AREAS OF EDUCATION AND SUGGESTING 0RIMARY 3CHOOLS TO BE MORE WORTHY OF INVESTMENT -R #LARKE URGED -AT THEW AND ANY OTHER CONSTITU ENTS IN A SIMILAR POSITION TO hDROP ME A LINEv A PHRASE HE OFTEN USED DURING THE MEET ING TO ANSWER POTENTIALLY DIF lCULT QUESTIONS 4HE (OME 3ECRETARY S WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE TYPES OF DISCUSSION SHOULD BE COMMENDED AS HE HAS CLEARLY NOT FORGOTTEN HIS ROLE AS A CONSTITUENCY -0

DESPITE RISING TO THE DIZZY HEIGHTS OF THE INNER CABINET #ONSEQUENTLY HE REmECTED WELL UPON THE GOVERNMENT DURING THIS DIFlCULT TIME

5%! SAYS HEALTH BENElTS OF OMEGA OILS LOOK A BIT lSHY 2OSIE #HANCE 5%! RESEARCHERS CAUSED A STORM ON &RIDAY WHEN THEY PUBLISHED A REPORT SUGGESTING THAT EATING OILY lSH MIGHT NOT IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH AFTER ALL $R ,EE (OOPER AND COL LEAGUES FROM THE 3CHOOL OF -EDICINE (EALTH 0OLICY AND 0RACTICE POOLED DATA FROM STUDIES INTO THE EFFECTS OF OMEGA OILS AND FOUND THERE WAS NOT A STRONG LINK BETWEEN CONSUMING THE OILS AND A REDUCED RISK OF HEART ATTACK /MEGA OILS ARE FOUND IN OILY lSH SUCH AS MACKEREL

TUNA AND SALMON AS WELL AS SOME PLANT OILS AND ARE WIDELY THOUGHT TO PROTECT AGAINST HEART DISEASE AND A MULTITUDE OF OTHER CONDI TIONS 5+ GUIDELINES URGE US TO EAT UP TO FOUR PORTIONS OF OILY lSH A WEEK AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE ARE ADVISED TO CONSUME EVEN HIGHER AMOUNTS

(OWEVER THE REPORT FROM 5%!

PUBLISHED ONLINE

BY THE "RITISH -EDICAL *OUR NAL CASTS DOUBT ON THIS VIEW 4HIS MAY BE BECAUSE WHILE MANY STUDIES SHOW OMEGA FATS ARE GOOD FOR YOU A RECENT LARGE TRIAL CONTRADICTS THIS TIPPING THE OVERALL BAL ANCE OF EVIDENCE 2ESEARCH ERS ARE STILL PUZZLING OVER WHY THE DIFFERENT TRIALS HAVE GIVEN CONmICTING RESULTS 4HE AUTHORS OF THE 5%! REPORT SAY THAT THE 5+ GUIDELINES SHOULD STAY IN PLACE AS THEIR STUDY DOES NOT RULE OUT A BENElT FROM THE OILS BUT THEY RECOMMEND THE EVIDENCE SHOULD BE RE VIEWED REGULARLY AND MORE HIGH QUALITY STUDIES CARRIED OUT 4HEY DO SUGGEST THAT IT IS PROBABLY NOT APPROPRIATE FOR PEOPLE WITH ANGINA WHO HAVE NOT HAD A HEART ATTACK

TO TAKE INCREASED AMOUNTS -EANWHILE THERE ARE SOME REASONS AGAINST CON SUMING MORE OILY lSH STOCKS ARE DWINDLING DUE TO OVER lSHING AND THE lSH CAN BE CONTAMINATED WITH TOXIC COMPOUNDS SUCH AS MERCURY

DIOXINS AND 0#"S POLYCHLO RINATED BIPHENYLS

&EWER STUDENTS STUDY ABROAD 4HERE HAS BEEN A DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF "RITISH STU DENTS STUDYING ABROAD AS PART OF THEIR DEGREE PROGRAMMES 4HE %RASMUS SCHEME

WHICH ENABLES STUDENTS TO SPEND A TERM STUDYING OUT SIDE THE 5+ HAS SEEN A STEADY DECLINE IN PARTICIPANTS (OWEVER THE NUMBER OF %UROPEAN STUDENTS TAKING PART IN THE SCHEME HAS RISEN 4HE .53 HAS EXPRESSED CON CERN THAT STUDENTS PUT OFF BY THE COST OF TRAVEL ARE MISSING OUT ON THE OPPORTUNITY

&RENCH STUDENTS PROTEST NEW LAW 3TUDENTS IN &RANCE HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS IN PRO TEST AGAINST A NEW LAW WHICH COULD MAKE THEIR JOBS LESS SECURE 4HE SCHEME WOULD EX EMPT EMPLOYEES FROM JOB PROTECTION MEASURES FOR THE lRST TWO YEARS OF THEIR EM PLOYMENT 4HERE WERE SCENES OF VIOLENCE IN 0ARIS AS RIOTERS CLASHED WITH POLICE FOLLOW ING A DAY OF PROTEST ACROSS THE COUNTRY

-EN SKIP THE MOST CLASSES 2ESEARCHERS AT THE 5NIVER SITY OF 3USSEX HAVE FOUND A NEW EXPLANATION FOR WHY WOMEN TEND TO DO BETTER IN THEIR DEGREES MEN SKIP MORE CLASSES 4HE lGURES SHOWED THAT ATTENDANCE RATES AMONGST MALE STUDENTS WERE LOWER

WITH MEN SKIPPING ONE CLASS IN SIX AND WOMEN ONE IN EIGHT %XCUSES FOR MISSING WORK INCLUDED TIREDNESS AND ILL NESS &EW CITED PAID WORK AS A REASON FOR SKIPPING CLASS

"UDGET MERGER FOR MEDICS &UNDING OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE 5+ COULD BE REVOLU TIONISED BY MEASURES IN 'OR DON "ROWN S BUDGET 5NDER "ROWN S PLANS THE RESEARCH BUDGETS OF THE -EDI CAL 2ESEARCH #OUNCIL AND THE $EPARTMENT OF (EALTH WILL BE MERGED TO FORM A SINGLE FUND 4HE PROPOSAL HAS BEEN WELCOMED AS A STEP TOWARDS MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF MONEY FOR SCIENTIlC RESEARCH #ONSULTATION ON THE PRO POSALS WILL BEGIN IN -AY

#ONCRETE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH

5NI TOWNS HIT

BY COUNCIL TAX ! LOOPHOLE IN THE ASSESS MENT OF STUDENTS COUNCIL TAX COULD MEAN THAT UNIVERSITY TOWNS ARE PAYING OVER THE ODDS ,OCAL RESIDENTS ARE ES TIMATED TO BE CONTRIBUTING a M MORE COUNCIL TAX THAN THEY SHOULD BECAUSE OF MIS TAKES IN THE CALCULATION OF STUDENT EXEMPTIONS 4HE GOVERNMENT COM PENSATES LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR THE TAX LOST TO STUDENTS WHO DON T HAVE TO PAY

"RITISH RESEARCH SECOND IN WORLD "RITAIN IS SECOND IN THE WORLD FOR RESEARCH ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY %VIDENCE ,TD /NLY THE 53 RECEIVED A HIGHER RANKING FOR THE IM PACT OF ITS RESEARCH MEAS URED BY THE NUMBER OF TIMES AN ACADEMIC PAPER WAS CITED

BY RESEARCHERS IN ITS lELD 4HE 5+ IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PRODUCING OF THE WORLD S SCIENTIlC PAPERS

0HYSICS MAKES A RETURN TO 5%!

2OSIE #HANCE 0HYSICS IS MAKING A COMEBACK AT 5%! WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW STREAM TO THE mAGSHIP .ATURAL 3CIENCES DEGREE PROGRAMME &ROM 3EPTEMBER 5%!

STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO CHOOSE FROM MODULES RANGING FROM MUSIC TO MEDICINE AND ASTROPHYSICS TO AERODYNAMICS AS THEY CREATE THEIR OWN DEGREES IN SUBJECTS SUCH AS 4HE 0HYSICS OF 3OUND AND -USIC OR 4HE 0HYSICS OF THE .ATURAL %NVIRONMENT )T IS HOPED THE INNOVATIVE COURSES WILL OVERCOME ANY PRECONCEPTIONS OF PHYSICS AS DULL AND ATTRACT BRIGHT STUDENTS WHO MIGHT BE PUT OFF BY TRADITIONAL MORE RESTRICTIVE COURSES 0ROFESSOR +AREN (EY WOOD WHO IS TAKING OVER AS COURSE DIRECTOR SAID h)F YOU CONSIDER PHYSICS TO BE

0HYSICS HASN T BEEN TAUGHT AT 5%! FOR NEARLY A DECADE BORING IRRELEVANT AND OUT OF DATE THINK AGAIN 4HE mIGHT OF BIRDS THE GASES IN A CANDLE mAME AND THE mOW OF BLOOD THROUGH YOUR VEINS ARE ALL ASPECTS OF PHYSICS v 4HE PHYSICS STREAM WILL BE THE NEWEST SET OF OPTIONS AVAILABLE AS PART

OF THE .ATURAL 3CIENCES DEGREE WHICH BEGAN FOUR YEARS AGO AND CURRENTLY HAS THIRTEEN STUDENTS )T MAY BE SMALL NOW BUT 5%! HAS GAINED FUNDING FOR AN EXTRA STUDENTS PER YEAR TO TAKE THE DEGREE SO THE h.AT 3CIv COMMUNITY IS SET TO GROW

4HE NEW UNITS WILL BE OPEN TO EXISTING .ATURAL 3CIENCE STUDENTS AND ANYONE INTERESTED ACROSS CAMPUS ASSUMING A BASIC PHYSICS BACKGROUND &OR EXAMPLE

0ROFESSOR (EYWOOD SUGGESTS THAT -USIC STUDENTS MIGHT TAKE THE 0HYSICS OF -USIC

COURSE AND -ETEOROLOGY AND /CEANOGRAPHY STU DENTS MIGHT DABBLE IN !STROPHYSICS &IRST AND SECOND YEAR MODULES IN MEDICAL PHYSICS ARE BEING DEVELOPED

WHICH WILL BE TAUGHT IN PART BY PROFESSIONALS FROM THE .ORFOLK AND .ORWICH (OSPITAL AND EXPERTS FROM THE )NSTITUTE OF &OOD RESEARCH ARE BEING CONSULTED ON A 0HYSICS OF &OOD MODULE 4HE NEW COURSES COME AT A TIME WHEN THE PROPORTION OF STUDENTS TAKING PHYSICAL SCIENCE DEGREES IN THE 5+ IS IN DECLINE 4HE 3CHOOL OF 0HYSICS AT 5%! CLOSED ITS DOORS TO UNDERGRADUATES IN PART OF A NATIONAL TREND THAT HAS SEEN A THIRD OF UNIVERSITY PHYSICS DEPARTMENTS SHUT SINCE

$R 2ICHARD (ARVEY

!SSOCIATE $EAN FOR 3CIENCE !DMISSIONS AT 5%!

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/UT ON THE mOOR WITH THE IN CROWD ! SOBER NIGHT AT THE ,#2 REVEALS A MIND BOGGLING ARRAY OF DAFT DANCE MOVES AND LUDICROUS ROUTINES 6ICTORIA ,EGGETT DOWNS AN ORANGE JUICE AND JOINS THE THRONG

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ACING THE PROSPECT OF A SOBER NIGHT IN THE ,#2 THE LAST THING YOU MIGHT EXPECT AS YOU APPROACH THE DANCEmOOR IS A THOR OUGHLY ENTERTAINING EVENING )NSTEAD YOU CAN SEE THE ENTIRE NIGHT SKETCHED OUT BEFORE YOU BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS DANCING WITH YOUR ELBOWS AT RIGHT ANGLES TO YOUR BODY TO FEND OFF UNWANTED ATTENTION AND REMIND ANY ONE WHO INVADES YOUR PERSONAL SPACE THAT THEY SHOULDN T BE IN IT 4HEN AF TER YOUR SIXTH ORANGE JUICE COMES THE REALISATION THAT YOU DON T ACTUALLY LIKE S OR RETRO MUSIC OR WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS THEY PLAY AT AN h V !USTIN 0OW ERSv NIGHT !FTER THAT IT S THE INEVITABLE lGHT WITH THE GIRL OR BOY WHO DIDN T

BE YOUR SIGNATURE MOVE &IRSTLY THERE ARE THOSE SINGLE DANCE MOVES THAT ONLY SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA WHEN IT S TOO DARK TO SEE IF THE TASTY BLOKE FROM YOUR LECTURE IS WITHIN SIGHT AND THE DECISION TO WORK YOUR WAY ALONG THE OPTICS AT EACH VISIT TO THE BAR HAS GIVEN YOU THE SNEAKING SUSPICION THAT YOU RE ACTUALLY A 'OD OF THE DANCEmOOR 4HERE S THE hDANCING SEDUCTIVELY WITH YOUR SAME SEX FRIEND BECAUSE THAT S WHAT MEN WANTv MOVE $ON T BE FOOLED )T S NOT AS STRAIGHT FORWARD AS IT LOOKS )N ORDER TO USE IT TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL IN OTHER WORDS TO PULL YOU HAVE TO PERFECT IT SO THAT YOU RE BEING SEDUCTIVE ENOUGH TO CATCH THE MAN S EYE BUT NOT OVER DOING IT SO THAT HE S LEFT THINKING hALL THE GOOD ONES ARE TAKEN BUT DON T THEY MAKE A LOVELY COUPLEv

3OBER YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW RIDICULOUS YOU LOOK ON THE DANCEmOOR DOING WHAT YOU CONSIDER TO BE YOUR SIGNATURE MOVE TAKE THE VERY SUBTLE HINT OF YOUR ELBOW IN THEIR RIBS AND HAS ONCE AGAIN SENT YOU mYING ACROSS THE DANCEmOOR WITH A PARTICULARLY ENTHUSIASTIC 3ATURDAY .IGHT &EVER STYLE MOVE "UT IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH ONE OF THOSE ENTHUSIASTIC DANCERS

YOU LL REALISE THEY CAN PROVIDE FAR MORE ENTERTAINMENT THAN HALF A DOZEN VOD KA AND COKES !ND FOR THOSE OF US ABLE TO RECOGNISE OUR OWN DElCIENCIES IN OTHERS YOU CAN SEE JUST HOW RIDICULOUS YOU LOOK WHEN YOU RE DRUNK ON THE DANCEmOOR DOING WHAT YOU CONSIDER TO

4HEN THERE S THE BULL SIGN FORE lNGER AND PINKIE EXTENDED THE REST FOLDED DOWN AND YOUR ARM REACHING OUT IN FRONT OF YOU WHILE YOU WOB BLE IN A VAGUELY RHYTHMIC WAY n MOST FREQUENTLY SEEN AT "RIGHTON 2OCKS )T S SOMETHING THAT ONLY ONE IN A THOUSAND PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY PULL OFF BUT BY THE END OF THE NIGHT WE RE ALL CONlDENT WE RE PART OF THAT EXCLUSIVE CLUB 4HERE S THE GIRLS FAVOURITE ACT ING OUT THE WORDS OF THE SONG TO YOUR FRIENDS AS YOU SCREAM IT AT AN UNFORGIV ABLE PITCH 7E VE ALL DONE IT IT BEGINS

WITH SIMPLY POINTING AT THE FRIEND OP POSITE EVERY TIME THE WORD hYOUv AP PEARS IN THE SONG AND SLOWLY PROGRESS ES TO A SHORT SKETCH THAT COULD EASILY WARRANT A "!&4! NOMINATION !ND lNALLY FOR THOSE OF US WHO RE ALLY HAVE HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK THERE S THE ROBOT )T USUALLY COMES INTO USE WHEN THE $* HAS PLAYED ONE OF THOSE SONGS THAT NOBODY CAN QUITE lGURE OUT HOW TO DANCE TO AND FOR A LAUGH YOU BREAK INTO THE ROBOT BECAUSE IT S BETTER THAN GENTLY SWAYING AND HOPING THE SONG WILL END SOON 4HE MOST ENTER TAINING ASPECT OF THIS MOVE FOR SPECTA TORS IS WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE ACTUALLY LOOKING DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE HIS OR HER FRIEND CAN DO A BETTER ANDROID IM PRESSION THAN THEM "UT IF MERELY AN EMBARRASSING MOVE OR TWO ISN T ENOUGH FOR YOU

THERE S ALWAYS THE DELIGHT THAT COMES FROM WATCHING A DRUNKARD PERFORM AN ENTIRE DANCE ROUTINE 4HERE S A SCALE THAT DETERMINES JUST HOW DRUNK A PER SON IS DEPENDING ON WHICH ROUTINE THEY RE DOING 4HE -ACARENA IS A FAIRLY STANDARD ONE 0RETTY MUCH THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE ,#2 USUALLY TAKES PART ALTHOUGH THE CLOSER YOU GET TO THE mOOR ON THAT lNAL WIGGLE OF THE ROUTINE DETERMINES WHETHER YOU SHOULD HAVE STOPPED AT THE TH VODKA AND REFUSED THE NEXT TWO #OTTON %YE *OE IS ALSO FAIRLY TAME

BECAUSE n LET S FACE IT n YOU HAVE TO BE FAIRLY SOBER TO BE ABLE TO THROW YOURSELF AROUND IN A CIRCLE WITHOUT TAKING OUT SEVERAL OTHER DANCERS THAT GET IN YOUR WAY "UT IF WE RE HONEST WE D ALL PREFER IT IF THE $* NEVER PLAYED IT TO START WITH

THUS AVOIDING THE TEMPTATION 3TEPS

AND ANY 3PICE 'IRLS ROUTINE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BRING A TEAR TO YOUR EYE WHEN YOU REMINISCE THE NEXT MORNING

BECAUSE DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT S PROB

ABLY ONLY THE CHORUS YOU HAVE lGURED OUT TO BE ABLE TO REMEMBER EVEN THAT MUCH MEANS YOU ARE PRETTY WASTED "UT OF COURSE THE CRÃ’ME DE LA CRÃ’ME OF DANCE ROUTINES HAS TO BE 3ATURDAY .IGHT 4HIS IS A GUARANTEED METHOD FOR THE SOBER SPECTATOR TO SPOT AN INEBRI ATED STUDENT BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY FEW ,#2 GOERS WHO KNEW THAT DANCE IN THE lRST PLACE LET ALONE ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO REMEMBER IT TEN YEARS ON &INALLY THERE S THE "OHEMIAN 2HAPSODY ROUTINE THOUGH #ONCRETE STILL HASN T lGURED OUT WHETHER THIS IS A NATIONWIDE DANCE OR A PECULIAR IN VENTION OF 5%! 4HOSE INVOLVED STAND AROUND EITHER IN A CIRCLE OR IN A SHORT LINE ARM IN ARM AND SWAYING FOR THE lRST FOUR MINUTES OF THE SONG BEFORE ERUPTING INTO A MOSHING MEETS POGO ING TYPE MOVE /NLY THE BIGGEST AND STRONGEST GROUPS ARE LEFT STANDING AS THE SONG FADES OUT EVERYBODY ELSE IS CRUMPLED IN A HEAP ON THE mOOR NURS ING BRUISED HEADS AND CRUSHED FEET 3O THE NEXT TIME YOU RE GIVING YOUR LIVER A BREAK AND YOUR FRIEND ASKS YOU TO GO TO 0IMPS AND (OS OR WHATEVER 0# EQUIVALENT WE HAVE NOW DON T AUTOMATICALLY REFUSE )T MAY BE THE ACCEPTED BELIEF THAT YOU CAN ONLY EN JOY AN ,#2 WHEN YOU ARE AT THE VERY LEAST TIPSY BUT A NIGHT THAT ENDS WITH YOU STILL ABLE TO WALK IN A STRAIGHT LINE CAN PRODUCE JUST AS MANY HILARIOUS INCIDENTS PLUS YOU LL STILL BE ABLE TO REMEMBER THEM NEXT MORNING SAFE IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU WEREN T LEAD ING THAT PARTICULAR CONGA LINE 7HILST THE MEMORY OF SEEING "ATMAN lXING AN )NDIAN S HEAD DRESS MAY LEAD YOU TO QUESTION YOUR OWN SOBRIETY THE DELIGHT THAT COMES WITH WATCHING YOUR USUALLY INTROVERTED LAW STUDYING FRIEND BREAK INTO A THREE MINUTE ROUTINE TO 7AN NABE IS IRREPLACEABLE

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4HE lGHT AGAINST BUREAUCRACY 2ESTRUCTURING 5%! S FACULTY SYSTEM HAS SAVED THE 5NIVERSITY A LOT OF MONEY BUT AT WHAT COST *ULIA "6 "RADSHAW AND *ACK 2OYSTON SPEAK TO THE STAFF WHOSE JOBS HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE NEW STRUCTURE AND ASK THE 6ICE #HANCELLOR WHY THE CHANGES WERE MADE

)

N 3EPTEMBER THE 5NIVERSITY OF %AST !N GLIA IMPLEMENTED A PRO GRAMME TO RESTRUCTURE ITS SCHOOLS INTO FOUR OVER ARCHING FACULTIES -ANY LARGE SCHOOLS SUCH AS 3/# AND !-3 WERE BROKEN DOWN INTO SMALLER SCHOOLS WITHIN A LARGER FACULTY 4HE FOUR NEW FACULTIES ARE (UMANITIES 3OCIAL 3CIENCES 3CI ENCE AND (EALTH h7E CREATED FACULTIES WHERE WE COULD ENSURE THAT THE RESOURCES WERE AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT THE ACADEMIC PRIORITIES OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND RESEARCH v SAID 6ICE #HANCELLOR $AVID %ASTWOOD IN AN INTERVIEW WITH #ON CRETE 4HESE CHANGES HAVE COME AS PART OF MORE GENERAL RESTRUCTURING THAT HAS AFFECTED DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE 5NI VERSITY FROM lNANCE TO RESEARCH 4HE RESTRUCTURING IS A RESPONSE TO THE RAPID EXPANSION OF THE 5NIVERSITY FROM A POLYTECHNIC WHICH WAS ORIGI NALLY INTENDED FOR NO MORE THAN

STUDENTS TO A UNIVERSITY OF

4HE CHANGES AIM TO MAKE THE 5NI VERSITY BETTER ABLE TO RESPOND TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND DEVELOPMENTS AND TO RELIEVE BUDGETARY STRAINS IN AN IN CREASINGLY COMPETITIVE HIGHER EDUCA TION ENVIRONMENT h4HE 5NIVERSITY WAS CREAKING A BIT v SAID 6# %ASTWOOD h7E DIDN T

IN MY VIEW HAVE A SUFlCIENTLY STRONG ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE 5NIVERSITY S ACADEMIC PRIORITIES AND ITS lNANCIAL RESOURCES 7E HAVE TRIED TO COME UP WITH A STRUCTURE THAT IS BETTER EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH A BIGGER UNIVERSITY AND WHICH GIVES US THE NIMBLENESS THAT WE NEED v h4HE COST OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE 5NIVERSITY WAS GROWING AT EXACTLY THE SAME RATE AS THE BUDGET 7E WERE GET TING BIGGER BUT NOT GETTING THE HEAD ROOM WE NEEDED TO CREATE A SORT OF SUR PLUS SO THAT WE COULD REINVEST IN NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND AREAS OF STRAIN v 2EACTIONS FROM STUDENTS AND STAFF HAVE BEEN VARIED -ANY OF THE AD MINISTRATIVE SUPPORT STAFF AND FACULTY MEMBERS UNIVERSITY WIDE HAVE EX PRESSED SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT THE EFFECTS THAT THE CHANGES HAVE HAD ON BOTH THEIR JOBS AND THEIR SCHOOLS 3UPPORT STAFF AND FACULTY MEM BERS SUGGESTED THAT THE CHANGES HAVE BEEN DETRIMENTAL TO STUDENTS AND STAFF ALIKE AND THAT THERE WAS A LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MANAG ERS WHO MADE THE CHANGES AND THOSE WHO HAD TO DEAL WITH THEM .O FAC ULTY MEMBERS OR SUPPORT STAFF WERE

WILLING TO BE QUOTED BY NAME IN THIS ARTICLE DUE TO FEAR OF REPERCUSSIONS IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THOSE WHO HAVE VOCALLY OPPOSED THE RESTRUCTUR ING HAVE BEEN SIDELINED /NE SENIOR FACULTY MEMBER SAID h4HERE HAS BEEN STRONG FEELING IN THE 5NIVERSITY AMONG COLLEAGUES AND SUP PORT STAFF THAT THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH CONSULTATION AND THAT TOO MUCH HAS BEEN DECIDED AT THE 2EGISTRY

BY PEO PLE AT THE TOP v *OB DESCRIPTIONS HAVE BEEN CHANGED SO THAT SOME MEMBERS OF STAFF HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THEIR CO WORKERS

AND AS A RESULT SOME FEEL LEFT OUT WHILE OTHERS ARE OVER BURDENED WITH WORK 7ITH THE AMALGAMATION OF THE SCHOOLS INTO FACULTIES OFlCES HAVE BEEN MOVED AWAY FROM INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS )N 3OCIAL 3CIENCES THE TEACH ING OFlCE IS IN THE 3CHOOL OF %CONOM ICS WHILE THE lNANCE OFlCE IS IN THE 3CHOOL OF %DUCATION "OTH THESE OF lCES ARE USED BY THE 3CHOOLS OF ,AW

%CONOMICS %DUCATION -ANAGEMENT AND $EVELOPMENT -EMBERS OF STAFF WHO BUILT UP A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER NOW WORK IN DIFFERENT AREAS AND lND IT DIFlCULT TO COMMUNICATE AND IT IS OFTEN CONFUSING FOR STUDENTS ,AST YEAR FOR EXAMPLE IMPORTANT PAPER WORK BELONGING TO A 0H$ STUDENT WAS TEMPORARILY LOST DUE TO MISCOMMU NICATION BETWEEN THE NEWLY CREATED OFlCES /NE FACULTY MEMBER EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THERE hSEEMS TO BE AN AWFULLY LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS FOR THE NEW UNDERGRADUATE OFlCE TO DEAL WITH 3CHOOL SIZES UNDER THE OLD SYS TEM WERE PERHAPS BETTER FOR HANDLING THAT v 2ESTRUCTURING HAS ALSO HAD AN IM PACT ON MORALE 3OME STAFF MEMBERS FEEL DISTANCED FROM STUDENTS AND ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO BUILD UP PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM !S A RESULT

ADMINISTRATORS ARE LESS WILLING TO DEAL WITH DIFlCULT SITUATIONS BY FOR EXAM PLE WORKING OVERTIME OR WORKING IN CONVENIENT HOURS !N ADMINISTRATOR FROM THE &ACULTY OF 3OCIAL 3CIENCES SAID h4HERE HAS BEEN A TOTAL LOSS OF ENTHUSIASM AND MOTIVATION 4HERE USED TO BE A SOLID AND VERY HAPPY ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP

WITH A STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITY

WHO KNEW EVERY STUDENT BY NAME 3TUDENTS FELT A SENSE OF BELONGING

AND GETTING TO KNOW THEM WAS ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING ASPECTS OF THE JOB 4HIS HAS COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED v "EFORE THE RESTRUCTURING SUPPORT

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STAFF WOULD HAPPILY WORK LONGER HOURS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS 4HIS TYPE OF PERSONAL CONTACT IS NOW GONE !CCORDING TO ONE STAFF MEMBER

h7E NO LONGER FEEL THAT OUR CONTRIBU TION MAKES A DIFFERENCE 7HEN WE EX PRESSED THIS CONCERN TO THE EXECUTIVE WE WERE TOLD THAT IT IS OUR ADMINIS TRATIVE SKILLS THAT ARE IMPORTANT NOT THE SUBJECT SPECIlC KNOWLEDGE BUILT UP IN A SCHOOL OF STUDY THROUGH CON TACT WITH LECTURERS AND STUDENTS 4HIS MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE A MINDLESS TOOL v ! SIMILAR FEELING WAS EXPRESSED

BY A MEMBER OF STAFF FROM (UMANI TIES h) FEEL NO JOB SATISFACTION AND AM VERY MUCH DE MOTIVATED 4HERE WAS NO THOUGHT PUT INTO THIS 4HE NEEDS OF STUDENTS SUPPORT STAFF AND FACULTY HAVE BEEN LARGELY IGNORED v $ESPITE THESE CONCERNS SOME SEN IOR FACULTY MEMBERS ARE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC BELIEVING THAT ALTHOUGH THERE ARE DIFlCULTIES OF REORGANISATION THAT TEND TO COME EARLY ON THINGS WILL SORT THEMSELVES OUT IN TIME )N DEED THERE HAVE BEEN POSITIVE ASPECTS TO THE REORGANISATION 4HE SCHOOL OF 03) FOR EXAMPLE WHICH USED TO BE A SECTOR OF 3/# NOW HAS A GREAT DEAL MORE AUTONOMY AND CAN MOVE FASTER ON BUDGETARY DECISIONS )T CAN OFFER OPPORTUNITIES TO CONSOLIDATE RESEARCH AND HAS BETTER SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL RECRUITMENT ! SENIOR MEMBER OF FACULTY SAID h4HERE IS A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR FACULTY TO TAKE INITIATIVE ON THINGS LIKE OVER SEAS RECRUITMENT AND RESEARCH GRANTS 4HERE IS ALSO POTENTIAL TO BUILD UP A NEW ESPRIT DE CORPS FOR (UMANITIES h4HERE WAS A TEACHING DISCUSSION DAY IN EARLY 3EPTEMBER WHICH WAS VERY USEFUL TO TRY TO LOOK AT COMMON PROBLEMS OF ONE KIND OR OTHER ABOUT THE NATURE OF CERTAIN PROGRAMMES OR WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH ISSUES LIKE -! TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT v !NOTHER SENIOR FACULTY MEMBER FROM (UMANITIES SHARED THIS OP TIMISM h4HE NEW STRUCTURE OF THE ADMISSIONS OFlCE ALLOWS SCHOOLS TO WORK TOGETHER TO lND PLACES FOR PRO SPECTIVE STUDENTS )T FACILITATES CROSS REFERRING v 4HE 6ICE #HANCELLOR SUGGESTS THAT PROBLEMS RELATING TO A DIP IN OVERSEAS APPLICANTS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SORTED OUT AS QUICKLY HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE RESTRUCTURING h4HIS IS SOMETHING THAT

AS PURCHASING DRINKS FOR A 6ISIT $AY

HAVE NOW BECOME BUREAUCRATIC NIGHT MARES WASTING VALUABLE TIME AND RE SOURCES /NE ADMINISTRATOR TOLD US h4HERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASED WORK LOAD AN INCREASE IN BUREAUCRACY AND DIMINISHED SATISFACTION FROM STAFF 4HERE IS NOW A COMPLETE LACK OF EFl CIENCY WITHIN THE FACULTY v 6# %ASTWOOD ADMITS THAT THERE ARE SOME PRESSURE POINTS IN THE NEW SYS TEM WHICH ARE BEING DEALT WITH BUT SUGGESTS THAT THIS IS INEVITABLE IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING A NEW MORE EFl CIENT AND MORE ECONOMICAL SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT h4HERE ARE ONE OR TWO FACULTY AREAS WHERE WE DIDN T GET THE STAFlNG QUITE RIGHT SO WE JUST PUT NEW STAFF IN v HE SAID 3ENIOR MEMBERS OF THE (UMANI TIES FACULTY SAY THEY ARE hCONTINUOUSLY MONITORING PROGRESS TO MAKE NEC ESSARY CHANGESv AND HAVE SENT OUT QUESTIONNAIRES TO GAUGE THE OPINIONS OF STAFF MEMBERS 7HILE 6# %ASTWOOD RECOGNIZES THAT THERE ARE PROBLEMS REGARDING MO RALE AND JOB SATISFACTION HE SEES lNAN CIAL FACTORS AS THE PRIORITY h4HERE ARE SOME STAFF AT SOME SCHOOLS WHO WERE OPPOSED TO THIS IN THE lRST PLACE v HE SAID h) M PERFECTLY HAPPY TO RESPOND TO PEOPLE WHO WOULD COME FORWARD AND VOICE THEIR CONCERNS )N TERMS OF MORALE ) THINK IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE THE 5NIVERSITY WOULD HAVE BEEN IF WE HADN T RESTRUCTURED WE WOULD HAVE HAD QUITE A SERIOUS lNANCIAL PROB LEM v "RIAN 3UMMERS 2EGISTRAR AND 3EC RETARY SAID THAT THE RESTRUCTURING HAS YIELDED SIGNIlCANT lNANCIAL GAINS BUT DID NOT REVEAL THESE lGURES 4HE SPE CIlC COSTS OF CONSULTATION WITH 0RICE 7ATERHOUSE#OOPERS COULD NOT BE RE VEALED DUE TO COMMERCIAL SENSITIVITY 7HILE THE 5NIVERSITY MAY HAVE SAVED MONEY IT MIGHT ALSO HAVE LOST A VALUABLE RESOURCE IN ITS DEDICATED SUP PORT STAFF !LTHOUGH 6# %ASTWOOD SUG GESTED THE REORGANISATION HAD ONLY RE SULTED IN A hHANDFUL OF RESIGNATIONSv

THE 3OCIAL 3CIENCE FACULTY ALONE HAS SEEN AT LEAST SIX /THER FACULTIES HAVE ALSO HAD RESIGNATIONS DUE TO LOW MO RALE AND LACK OF JOB SATISFACTION 2ESTRUCTURING IS ALWAYS DIFlCULT AT lRST AND IN TIME PROBLEMS OFTEN SORT THEMSELVES OUT %VENTUAL SUCCESS

HOWEVER DOES NOT NECESSARILY EXCUSE

-ANY BELIEVE THE CHANGES HAVE NEITHER INCREASED EFlCIENCY NOR RELIEVED ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO DO BEFORE 7E HAVE BECOME MORE NIMBLE IN THE WAY WE DEAL WITH THE ADMISSIONS PROCESS AND CLEARING IN TERMS OF MOV ING NUMBERS AROUND SCHOOLS IN THE 5NIVERSITY 4HE NEW STRUCTURE MAKES THE 5NIVERSITY MUCH MORE DYNAMIC AND EASIER TO MANAGE v /THER MEMBERS OF STAFF DO NOT BE LIEVE THAT THE REORGANISATION HAS MADE THE 5NIVERSITY MORE hNIMBLEv OR EFl CIENT &OR EXAMPLE SOME TASKS WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY STRAIGHTFORWARD SUCH

INADEQUATE CONSULTATION AND POOR IMPLEMENTATION 7HILE THE lNANCIAL GOALS MAY HAVE BEEN ATTAINED MANY FACULTY MEMBERS AND SUPPORT STAFF SHARE THE VIEW THAT THE OVERALL CHANGES NEITHER INCREASED EFlCIENCY NOR RELIEVED ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN AND HAVE LARGELY CONTRIBUTED TO LOW MORALE )T IS AFTER ALL DIFlCULT FOR lNANCIAL CONSULTANTS ARMED WITH CLIPBOARDS

TO QUANTIFY THE BENElTS OF A HIGHLY DEDICATED AND MOTIVATED STAFF

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2ESTAURANT 2EVIEW "RICK +ILNS .ORWICH 2OAD

,ITTLE 0LUMSTEAD

4HE CULINARY CRUSADERS *OANNA ,AMBERT INVESTIGATES SO CALLED hSUPERFOODSv

4

HE TERM hSUPERFOODv ISN T MEANT TO CONJURE UP IMAGES OF BROCCOLI IN LYCRA OR A CRANBERRY WITH A CAPE n ALTHOUGH LET S BE HON EST THAT S WHAT YOU RE IMAGINING NOW "UT WHILE IT MAY BE AN AMUSING DIS TRACTION LET S GET TO THE REALITY OF THE LABEL THAT SEEMS TO BE ON THE LIPS OF EVERY HEALTH CONSCIOUS PERSON )T S SURPRISING JUST HOW MANY SU PERFOOD LISTS CAN BE FOUND 4HEY RE ALL VERY DIFFERENT WHICH PERHAPS QUES TIONS THE RELIABILITY OF ANY OF THEM !

RESEARCH LEADER AT THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF !GRICULTURE S $IET AND (UMAN 0ER FORMANCE ,ABORATORY EXPLAINS THAT hTHE TERM @SUPERFOOD IS A QUICK WAY TO SAY FOODS THAT ARE PARTICULARLY NUTRI ENT DENSE AND THAT CONTAIN VITAMINS

MINERALS PHYTOCHEMICALS OR OTHER BI OACTIVE COMPOUNDS THAT MAY PREVENT DISEASE IMPROVE HEALTH OR PROMOTE LONGEVITY v 3O IT S QUITE A BROAD TERM TO MASK A MULTITUDE OF COMPLICATED SCIENTIlC WORDS AND SOUNDS LIKE IT WILL COVER A HUGE RANGE OF FOODS 7HICH

EVIDENTLY IT DOES "UT IS THIS IT #OULD THE TERM SU PERFOOD PERHAPS BE A MARKETING PLOY TO BOOST SALES OF THE SAD LITTLE VEGETA

BLES THAT EVERYONE HAS FORGOTTEN EX IST "ACK IN *ANUARY THE COUNTRY S BIG GEST SUPERMARKET ANNOUNCED THAT AFTER hHEALTH GURUSv SLAPPED A SUPERFOOD LABEL ON FRESH BEETROOT SALES ROSE BY A REMARKABLE 4HE SUPERMARKET SAID THAT BEETROOT CONTAINS SOLUBLE l BRE WHICH CAN HELP REDUCE HIGH BLOOD CHOLESTEROL LEVELS 7HILE THIS MAY WELL BE TRUE ANY CYNICAL MIND MIGHT MAKE THE CONNECTION PUSH THE BENElTS OF AN OBSCURE FOOD AND EVERYONE WILL SUDDENLY WONDER HOW THEY EVER LIVED WITHOUT IT 4HE SAME HAPPENED WITH POMEGRANATES "ETWEEN AND SALES OF POMEGRANATES INCREASED TEN FOLD AFTER IT BECAME A FASHIONABLE SUPERFOOD 3O LET S EXPLORE A FEW OF THE MORE POPULAR SUPERFOODS AND FORGETTING THE RANDOM TRENDS LET S HAVE A LOOK AT THE ONES YOU PROBABLY EAT ALREADY "ROCCOLI HAS ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED

AND IS SOMETHING THAT APPEARS ON THE MAJORITY OF SUPERFOOD LISTS )N JUST TWO mORETS OF RAW OR LIGHTLY COOKED BROCCOLI YOU HAVE A WHOLE PORTION OF VEGETABLES )T IS RICH IN ANTIOXIDANTS INCLUDING VITAMIN # AND IS A REALLY GOOD SOURCE OF NATURAL FOLIC ACID

2ECIPE 3PRING 0ASTA 4HIS RECIPE IS CRUNCHY AND FRESH IDEAL FOR THOSE DAYS WHEN THE WEATHER RE MEMBERS THAT IT SHOULD BE SPRING BY NOW AND PERFECT FOR PUTTING A BIT OF A SPRING IN YOUR STEP TOO 3ERVES G SPIRAL PASTA G MANGETOUT /NE LARGE mORET OF BROCCOLI G SPINACH G BABY SWEETCORN G CREAM CHEESE SLICES OF HAM 0UT THE PASTA ON TO BOIL

0REPARE THE VEGETABLES THE MAN GETOUT COULD BE LEFT WHOLE BUT THE BROCCOLI AND BABY SWEETCORN SHOULD BE CUT INTO SMALL BITE SIZE PIECES 2IP ANY TOUGH STALKS FROM THE SPINACH ,IGHTLY STIR FRY THE VEGETABLES IN A DASH OF OLIVE OIL UNTIL TENDER /NCE THE PASTA IS COOKED DRAIN AND ADD THE VEGETABLES TO THE SAUCE PAN $ICE THE SLICES OF HAM AND ADD TO THE SAUCEPAN !DD THE CREAM CHEESE AND TOSS THE VEGETABLES PASTA AND HAM WITH THE CREAM CHEESE UNTIL ALL IS LIGHTLY COAT ED 3EASON AND ENJOY

"ANANAS ALSO FEATURE ON MANY SUPERFOOD LISTS 4HEY ARE IDEAL IF YOU NEED AN ENERGY BOOST AND THEIR HIGH LEVELS OF POTASSIUM ARE SAID TO NOT ONLY MAINTAIN A HEALTHY NERVOUS SYS TEM BUT CAN ALSO COMBAT HANGOVER NAUSEA 7HILE GARLIC MAY NOT BE THE MOST INVITING THING TO EAT BEFORE A NIGHT AT THE ,#2 IT FEATURES ON MANY SUPER FOOD LISTS !ND YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET ODOURLESS GARLIC SUPPLEMENTS FROM HEALTH FOOD SHOPS WHICH IS A BIT OF A BONUS )T HAS AMAZING ANTIFUNGAL AND ANTIBIOTIC PROPERTIES WHICH IS WHY IT IS ONE OF THE LONG STANDING NATURAL MEDICINES 'ARLIC IS ALSO SAID TO BOOST THE HEALTH PROPERTIES OF OTHER SUPER FOODS INCLUDING OILY lSH TOMATOES

ONIONS AND LEAFY GREENS WHEN COOKED TOGETHER )N FACT IT S QUITE HARD TO THINK OF A FRUIT VEGETABLE OR NUT THAT DOESN T FEA TURE ON AT LEAST ONE OF THE LISTS 3OME FOODS DO GET FORGOTTEN AND WHILE IT IS NICE TO REINVENT THEM AND TO TRY NEW AND EXCITING FOODS IT S WORTH REMEM BERING THAT EVEN IF YOU EAT THREE PUN NETS OF BLUEBERRIES EVERY DAY YOU RE STILL NOT GOING TO TURN INTO SOME KIND OF SUPERHERO YOURSELF

9OU VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF THE "RICK +ILNS BEFORE OR EVEN ,ITTLE 0LUMSTEAD

BUT THEREIN LIES THEIR APPEAL ,ITTLE 0LUM STEAD IS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF .ORWICH

ABOUT lVE MILES OUT ON THE 0LUMSTEAD ROAD )F YOU RE SEARCHING FOR SOMEWHERE TO TAKE YOUR PARENTS TO SHOW THEM THAT .ORWICH HAS MORE INTERESTING PLACES TO OFFER THAN 'ARFUNKELS AND .ANDOS THE "RICK +ILNS IS CERTAINLY WORTH A TRY 7HEN YOU lRST ENTER THE RESTAURANT

IT S NECESSARY TO SUSPEND JUDGEMENT FOR A WHILE 4HE DÏCOR IS PRETTY DATEDx AND VERY PINK "UT TO LOOK AT IT ANOTHER WAY

IT S RUSTIC AND HOMELY AND AVOIDS THE TENDENCY OF MODERN CHAIN RESTAURANTS TO PRESENT A CLINICAL ROOM WHERE THEY SHIP YOU IN AND OUT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE 4HE MENU IS VARIED n AS WELL AS OFFER ING MEAT DISHES FROM 'UINNESS PIE TO CURRY THEY BOAST hTHE LARGEST SELECTION OF VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN DISHESv )NSTEAD OF OFFERING SIX UNMEMORABLE VARIATIONS OF BURGERS THE "RICK +ILNS HAS JUST A FEW OP TIONS ALLOWING THEM TO MAKE THE MEALS UNUSUAL AND DELICIOUS 4HE CHIPS WERE HOME MADE AND CHUNKY RATHER THAN SOMETHING THAT RESEMBLES A -C$ON ALDS hFRYv 4HEY SERVED A MIXTURE OF VEG ETABLES AND THE PORTIONS WERE GENEROUS FOR THE REASONABLE PRICES MAIN COURSES WERE a 4HE DESSERTS WERE ALSO FOR THE MOST PART DELICIOUS ALTHOUGH THOSE WITH RHU BARB CRUMBLE DESCRIBED IT AS hMUSHv AS THEY SEARCHED FOR ANY EVIDENCE OF THE PROMISED CRUMBLE -Y CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKE WAS INCREDIBLY MOIST AND HAVING TRIED MANY CHOCOLATE FUDGE CAKES IN MY TIME ) GIVE IT THE THUMBS UP 4HE SERVICE WAS PARTICULARLY GOOD )N A GROUP OF TWELVE EVERYONE RECEIVED THEIR MEALS AT THE SAME TIME AND VERY QUICKLY 4HIS RESTAURANT MAY NOT BE THE lRST PLACE YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU DECIDE TO GO FOR A MEAL BUT TRY IT AND IT COULD SOON BECOME ONE 6ICTORIA ,EGGETT

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"UILDING A BASKETBALL COURT IN +ENYA !S PART OF HIS $EVELOPMENT 3TUDIES COURSE 4OMAS $ONNELLY TRAVELLED TO +ENYA

WHERE HE FOUND HIMSELF BUILDING A BASKETBALL COURT AND STARTING A FOOTBALL TEAM

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S PART OF MY OVERSEAS EXPE RIENCE UNIT IN $ E VE L O P M E N T 3TUDIES ) DECID ED TO STAY AWAY FROM .ORWICH AS LONG AS POS SIBLE RESULTING IN OVER SIX MONTHS IN !FRICA STAYING IN 3WAZILAND 3OUTH !F RICA +ENYA AND 3UDAN ) D SORTED MYSELF OUT WITH VOLUN TARY WORK FOR THE WHOLE TRIP AND WAS AFlLIATED WITH AN EMPLOYER WHICH IS A MUST IF YOU WISH TO VISIT 3UDAN 'ET TING A VISA THERE IS QUITE A HASSLE IF YOU DON T HAVE A CONTACT IN THE COUNTRY

'ARANG THE VICE PRESIDENT AND HERO OF SOUTH 3UDAN IN THE BEGINNING OF !U GUST ) ARRIVED IN +ENYA AT THE END OF THE MONTH AND STAYED FOR THREE MONTHS IN .AIVASHA A TOWN TWO HOURS .ORTH 7EST FROM .AIROBI AND WITH A POPULA TION SIMILAR TO .ORWICH 7HILE WE WERE THERE WE STARTED UP TWO FOOTBALL CLUBS AND A VOLLEY BALL TEAM AS WELL "OTH ARE STILL GOING STRONG WITH OVER NEW MEMBERS NOW PLAYING VOLLEYBALL 4WO OF THE FOOTBALLERS HAVE NOW SIGNED PROFES SIONAL CONTRACTS WITH THE COMPANY TEAM OF (OMEGROWN mOWERS A .A TIONWIDE LEAGUE TEAM WHICH IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THE #HAMPIONSHIP HERE

4WO FOOTBALLERS FROM THE CLUB WE STARTED HAVE NOW SIGNED PROFESSIONAL CONTRACTS IN THEIR EQUIVALENT OF THE #HAMPIONSHIP +ENYA WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A SHORT STOP WAITING FOR THE GREEN LIGHT FROM +HARTOUM 9-#! ON WHEN THEY COULD RECEIVE ME BUT ) ENDED UP STAY ING THERE THE LONGEST 2IOTS BROKE OUT IN +HARTOUM AFTER THE DEATH OF *OHN

(ALF WAY THROUGH THE SEASON THEY ARE TOP OF THE TABLE WITH lVE POINTS CLEAR ) ALSO PLAYED A FEW MATCHES FOR (OME GROWN BUT SINCE ) WASN T EMPLOYED IN THE COMPANY ) COULDN T PLAY ANY LEAGUE GAMES

4HE REASON WHY BASKETBALL CAME INTO THE PICTURE IS THAT IF YOU GIVE THE KIDS IN .AIVASHA A BALL THEY WON T KICK IT BUT RATHER START BOUNCING IT AND DRIBBLING AND CHALLENGING EACH OTHER 4HEIR LOVE FOR BASKET AND THE FACT THAT THERE ARE NO REAL BASKET COURTS IN .A IVASHA MADE THE GUYS IN THE 9-#! TRY AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS 4HE TWO MONTHS BEFORE HEADING OFF TO 3UDAN CONSISTED OF WEEKLY TRIPS WITH MATATUS THE MINIBUSES THAT YOU lND ALL ACROSS !FRICA TO .AIROBI HUNDREDS OF LETTERS

INVITATIONS AND APPLICATIONS FOR SPON SORS TO HELP US BUILD THE BASKET COURT

EIGHT LITRES OF TEA MADE FOR A MEETING THAT NO ONE TURNED UP TO AND MANY DARK MOMENTS WHEN WE BELIEVED WE WOULDN T SUCCEED )T WAS IN &EBRUARY THAT ) lRST GOT A MAIL FROM THE MAN AGER OF 9-#! .AIVASHA ABOUT 3AFARI COM THE +ENYAN VERSION OF 6ODAFONE

AND THEIR DECISION TO PAY FOR THE WHOLE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COURT "UILDING A BASKET COURT AND SETTING UP SPORTS IN +ENYA WAS AN AWFUL HAS SLE AND UNDOUBTEDLY IT TAUGHT ME A LOT ABOUT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN +ENYA AND %NGLAND 4HINGS TAKE TIME 9OU AL WAYS HAVE TO KEEP UP WITH PEOPLE ON THE PROGRESS OF APPLICATIONS AND TASKS THEY RE MEANT TO BE DOING 4HE TREAT MENT AND ATTITUDE +ENYANS HAVE TO WARDS WHITE PEOPLE KNOWN AS MZUN

GUS AT TIMES LETS YOU SKIP THE QUEUES AND HASSLE THAT +ENYANS HAVE TO GO THROUGH SUCH AS WHEN TRYING TO AR RANGE MEETINGS WITH COMPANY MANAG ERS YOU DON T KNOW OR GAIN SOMEONE S TRUST /THER TIMES BEING A MZUNGU DRAGS YOU DOWN AS PEOPLE LOOK TO RIP YOU OFF !LMOST DAILY THE INTERNET CAFES OF .AIVASHA WERE VISITED AS ) WAITED FOR A MAIL FROM +HARTOUM 9-#! TO TELL ME THAT ) COULD TRAVEL TO 3UDAN !S HOPE BEGAN DWINDLING AT THE END OF /CTO BER ) STARTED DOING RESEARCH AND PLAN NING TO CHANGE MY DISSERTATION FROM hINTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE IN +HAR TOUMv TO hHOW SPORTS ALLEVIATE IDLINGv 4HIS WAS PRETTY MUCH WHAT WE WERE DOING AT THE 9-#! IN .AIVASHA OF FERING THE KIDS AN ALTERNATIVE FROM JUST HANGING AROUND 5NEMPLOYMENT IS HIGH IN .AIVASHA AND CRIME RATES TOO

AS PEOPLE DON T HAVE MUCH TO DO !S SOON AS IT GETS DARK AT PM MOST STREETS ARE EMPTY AND PEOPLE RUSH HOME AND AVOID DARK ALLEYWAYS !T THE END OF THE MONTH THE MESSAGE CAME THROUGH FROM +HARTOUM THAT THEY WERE APPLY ING FOR ANOTHER VISA FOR ME AND THAT IT SHOULD BE READY BY THE MIDDLE OF .O VEMBER SO IT WAS OFF TO 3UDANx &OR MORE INFORMATION STORIES TIPS AND VIEWS ABOUT MY MONTH TRIP

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4HE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE 4HE BEST THING ABOUT EXAMS IS lNISHING THEM "EFORE THE CELEBRATIONS BEGIN #LARE !ITCHISON OFFERS SOME ADVICE ON HOW TO AVOID THE RESULTANT HANGOVERS

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T S NEARLY THE %ASTER HOLI DAYS AND BEYOND THEM EXAMS LOOM 9OU MAY lND THAT OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS YOU LOSE WHAT YOU USED TO CALL YOUR LIFE AND FORGET WHAT IT IS PEOPLE DO WHEN THEY GO OUT $ON T WORRY AS SOON AS THE DREADED EXAMS ARE OVER

YOU LL REMEMBER WELL ENOUGH )F YOU RE LIKE MOST STUDENTS THE CHANCES ARE YOUR POST EXAM CELEBRA TIONS WILL INVOLVE PLENTY OF DRINKING 4HE PROBLEM WITH DRINKING HOWEVER

IS THE DREADED HANGOVER !ND THIS CAN SERIOUSLY CRAMP YOUR STYLE IF YOU WERE HOPING FOR AT LEAST A WEEK OF SAMBU CA FUELLED FUN 3O HOW ABOUT A LITTLE ADVICE ON HOW TO CURE OR EVEN BETTER PREVENT THE DREADED HANGOVER &IRST WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE GET HUNGOVER 4HE MAIN CULPRIT IS DEHYDRATION !LCOHOL MAKES YOU PEE OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO THE AMOUNT YOU DRANK SO THAT BY MORNING YOU CAN BE SERIOUSLY DEHYDRATED 4HIS GIVES YOU THAT FAMILIAR CARPET TONGUE BUT ALSO GIVES YOU HORRENDOUS HEADACHES 3INCE YOUR BRAIN CONTAINS A HIGH PER CENTAGE OF WATER DEHYDRATION CAUSES YOUR BRAIN TO SHRINK AND THIS PULLS ON THE NERVES WHICH ATTACH IT TO THE SCALP

BY THAT FACT THAT YOU WERE SLEEPING DRUNK 4HIS INTERFERES WITH THE 2%- STAGE OF SLEEP WHICH SHOULD BE THE MOST REFRESHING STAGE 4HIS IS WHY YOU FEEL SO TIRED WHEN YOU ARE HUNGOVER 3O HOW DO YOU AVOID THIS AND GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR POST EXAM CEL EBRATIONS BEFORE YOUR PARENTS COME TO COLLECT YOU 7ELL PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE /F COURSE PART OF THE PRE VENTION MEANS NOT DRINKING AS MUCH

AS THE AMOUNT YOU DRINK IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE SIZE OF YOUR HANGOVER 7OMEN SHOULD NOT DRINK MORE THAN UNITS A WEEK AND MEN NOT MORE THAN n YOU CAN T STORE THEM UP AND HAVE THEM ALL ON ONE NIGHT NOR CAN YOU TAKE A YEARLY hAVERAGEv AND MAKE UP FOR ALL THE WEEKS YOU HAVE BEEN STUDYING RATHER THAN DRINKING %AT BEFORE YOU GO OUT &ATTY FOOD

OR A GLASS OF MILK WILL LINE THE STOMACH AND PROTECT IT FROM THE IRRITATING EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL +EEP HYDRATED THROUGH OUT THE EVENING )F YOU ALTERNATE EACH

2ESEARCH SHOWS THAT THE BEST CURE FOR A HANGOVER IS A FULL %NGLISH BREAKFAST MAKING YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE BEEN HIT AROUND THE HEAD WITH A CRICKET BAT .EXT THERE IS THE SICKNESS 4HIS IS PARTLY BECAUSE ALCOHOL IRRITATES YOUR STOMACH LINING AND PARTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT ALONG WITH ALL THAT WEE YOU HAVE LOST QUITE A LOT OF SUGAR 4HE SHAK ING AND DIZZINESS ARE DUE TO THIS HY POGLYCAEMIA n THE SAME FEELING THAT DIABETICS GET WHEN THEY HAVE NOT EATEN RECENTLY !LSO THE CHANCES ARE THAT YOU HAVE STAYED UP LATE AND THAT ANY SLEEP YOU HAVE MANAGED WILL HAVE BEEN RUINED

UNIT YOU DRINK WITH HALF A PINT OF WA TER SO FOR EACH PINT OF #ARLING HAVE A PINT OF WATER THIS WILL KEEP YOU AT A REASONABLE LEVEL OF HYDRATION AS WELL AS SLOWING DOWN YOUR ALCOHOL INTAKE

WHICH SHOULD MAKE LIFE A LITTLE EASIER FOR YOUR LIVER AND YOUR WALLET $RINK LIGHT COLOURED DRINKS LIKE VODKA OR WHITE WINE RATHER THAN DARK COLOURED ONES LIKE RED WINE OR 'UIN NESS $ARK DRINKS CONTAIN THINGS CALLED hCONGENERSv WHICH ARE SAID TO IRRITATE THE STOMACH LINING MORE AND MAKE A HANGOVER WORSE "EFORE YOU GO TO BED TAKE A PAIN KILLER !SPIRIN IS NO GOOD AS IT ALSO IR RITATES YOUR STOMACH LINING AND PARA CETAMOL IS TOO TOXIC TO YOUR LIVER IF YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING SO TAKE SOMETHING LIKE IBUPROFEN OR !LKA 3ELTZER )BUPRO FEN IS PARTICULARLY GOOD AS IT ACTUALLY STOPS YOU PEEING SO MUCH FURTHER RE DUCING YOUR DEHYDRATION !LSO TRY TO EAT SOMETHING LIKE TOAST OR CHIPS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED 4HESE

SLOW RELEASING CARBOHYDRATES WILL BRING YOUR BLOOD SUGAR BACK UP WHILE YOU SLEEP MAKING YOU FEEL LESS SICK AND SHAKY IN THE MORNING )F YOU HAVE ANY ORANGE JUICE DRINK A GLASS n IT IS THOUGHT THAT VITAMIN # SPEEDS UP THE METABOLISM OF ALCOHOL BY THE LIVER 7HAT ABOUT THE NEXT MORNING 2ESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT THE BEST CURE FOR A HANGOVER IS ACTUALLY A FULL %NGLISH BREAKFAST 4HE EGGS CONTAIN CYSTEINE

WHICH HELPS THE LIVER PROCESS TOXINS 4HE BACON SOOTHES YOUR STOMACH AND THE TOAST AND BEANS PROVIDE YOU WITH SOME MUCH NEEDED BLOOD SUGAR )F YOU RE ON SOME KIND OF HEALTH DRIVE THEN A BANANA YOGHURT AND HONEY SMOOTHIE WILL DO THE TRICK ESPECIALLY SINCE BANANAS ARE PACKED WITH POTAS SIUM ANOTHER ESSENTIAL MINERAL YOU LOSE THROUGH EXCESSIVE DRINKING 3O GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAMS (AVE FUN AFTERWARDS 2EMEMBER TO BE CARE FUL AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL HELP YOU A LITTLE TO AVOID THE TERRORS OF HANGOVERS

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35--%$ 50 a %XTRA COST THAT THE MOST HEAVILY POLLUT ING CARS WILL HAVE TO PAY UNDER 'ORDON "ROWN S NEW BUDGET 4HE GOVERNMENT S 3USTAINABLE $EVELOPMENT #OMMISSION CLAIM THAT A DIFFERENCE OF AT LEAST a WOULD BE NEEDED TO HAVE A REAL EFFECT #OST OF HALF A TANK OF PETROL FOR AN 356 #OST OF A NOVELTY CAR HORN WITH THREE DIFFERENT TUNES TO CHOOSE FROM INCLUDING ,A #UCARACHA

TONNE 4HE SAVINGS IN CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS OVER YEARS IF a WAS SPENT ON WIND POWER 4HE SAVINGS IN CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS OVER YEARS IF a WAS SPENT ON NU CLEAR POWER

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9OU RE NOT A FARMER 34!' SAY URBAN X S ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT

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ID YOU KNOW THAT ONLY lVE PERCENT OF X S ARE EVER TAKEN OFF ROAD 4HIS IS ONE OF MANY STARTLING FACTS DISTRIBUTED BY MEM BERS OF THE .ORWICH !LLIANCE !GAINST 5RBAN X S WHO CONVENED AT 5%! ON 7EDNESDAY TO PROTEST ABOUT 'ORDON "ROWN S hTOKEN GESTURESv TOWARDS VE HICLE TAXATION 7HILE THE #HANCELLOR ANNOUNCED THAT GAS GUZZLING X S WOULD NOW FACE A VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY OF a *ACK 'UEST #HAIRPERSON OF THE 3USTAIN ABLE 4RANSPORT !CTION 'ROUP SAID THIS WOULD MAKE NO SIGNIlCANT DIFFERENCE TO THE ENVIRONMENT

h4HESE MEASURES ARE NOT ENOUGH AND ONLY APPLY TO NEW VEHICLES v HE SAID h2ECENT GOVERNMENT RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THE INCREASE NEEDS TO BE NEARER a TO SERIOUSLY DISCOUR AGE PEOPLE FROM BUYING X S 4HOSE DRIVING X S WILL NOT BE PAYING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS 4HIS IS TWO PACES FORWARD WHEN WE NEED v 4HE PROTESTERS MET IN THE 3QUARE AT PM FOR A SHORT SPEECH BY 'UEST AND PROCEEDED TO THE MAIN CAR PARK WHERE THEY PLACED LEAmETS AND HUGE a

MOCK TAX DISCS ON OFFENDING VEHICLES &AKE PENALTY NOTICES WERE ALSO PLACED ON X S TELLING DRIVERS THEY HAD MADE A hPOOR VEHICLE CHOICEv SINCE THEY WERE hMILES FROM THE NEAREST WILDERNESSv *ENN 0ARKHOUSE #OORDINATOR OF .ORWICH &RIENDS OF THE %ARTH SAID h7E WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE HUGE SAFETY

FACTOR AT HAND HERE 0EOPLE BUY THESE HUGE AND HEAVY VEHICLES BECAUSE THEY FEEL SAFE AND SECURE BUT THEIR HEIGHT AND WEIGHT WHEN IN CONTACT WITH SMALLER VEHICLES IS ABSOLUTELY LETHAL 4HAT S NOT TO MENTION THE THREAT POSED TO CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS h!LTHOUGH WE ARE MODERATELY PLEASED WITH 'ORDON "ROWN S VEHICLE TAX IT BY NO MEANS GOES FAR ENOUGH TO BRING THE CHANGE WE RE LOOKING FOR v SHE ADDED 4HE STRUGGLE TO IMPLEMENT ACTION AGAINST EXISTING OWNERS OF X S WILL BE AN ONGOING ONE 4HE !LLIANCE WAS NOT ALONE IN AR GUING THAT 'ORDON "ROWN HAD FAILED TO DELIVER A TRULY GREEN BUDGET #ON SERVATIVE LEADER $AVID #AMERON SAID h)N A CARBON CONSCIOUS WORLD WE VE GOT A FOSSIL FUEL #HANCELLOR v $AN &ITZHARRIS

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0REDICTED INCREASE IN WINTER PRECIPITA TION IN THE 5+ BY DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE 0ERCENTAGE OF THE 5+ S '$0 THAT WILL HAVE TO GO TOWARDS PENSIONS BY CURRENTLY THE lGURE IS AROUND

%STIMATED PROPORTION OF X S THAT ARE ACTUALLY TAKEN OFF ROAD 0ROPORTION OF THE %5 POPULATION THAT STILL FARM AT LEAST HALF A MILLION FARM WORKERS WERE STILL LEAVING THE LAND ANNU ALLY BEFORE THE %5 WAS ENLARGED 0ROPORTION OF PEOPLE WHO CAN NAME THE LEADER OF THEIR LOCAL AUTHORITY

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SIGNALLING THE POTENTIAL FOR BREEDING AND FUTURE GENERATIONS 4HE 3UMATRON RHINO IS THE SMALL EST OF ALL THE RHINO SPECIES AT M TALL AND UP TO KG )T IS CLOSE TO EX TINCTION WITH AN ESTIMATED REMAINING POPULATION OF ONLY IN 4HEY ARE FOUND IN DENSE TROPICAL FORESTS IN THE -ALAY 0ENINSULA AND "ORNEO BUT IN THE -ALAY 0ENINSULA MANY HAVE

FALLEN PREY TO POACHERS OR HAVE DIED IN BREEDING CENTRES AND ARE ALSO THOUGHT TO BE EXTINCT ACROSS MUCH OF "ORNEO 4HE SCIENTISTS BASED IN THE 3ABAH STATE OF "ORNEO BELIEVE THE TRACKS TO BE EVI DENCE OF A SUBSTANTIAL GROUP IN AN AREA UNAFFECTED BY POACHERS 0REVIOUSLY 3ABAH WAS THOUGHT TO SUPPORT AS FEW AS INDIVIDUALS SCAT TERED OVER WIDE DISTANCES $R #HRISTY 7ILLIAMS HEAD OF THE 7ORLD 7ILDLIFE &UND S RHINO PROGRAMME VOICED THE HOPE THAT THE hPOPULATION MAY BE VI ABLE AND COULD RECOVER IF THEIR HABITAT IS PROTECTED AND THE THREAT OF POACH ING ELIMINATEDv #ONSEQUENTLY THE 77& AND THE STATE AUTHORITIES HAVE ESTABLISHED RHINO PROTECTION PATROLS IN THE AREA SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERED TRACKS 4HE CONSERVATION CENTRES IN -A LAYSIA HAVE BEEN CRITICISED IN THE PAST

FOR THEIR POOR ATTEMPTS AT PROTECTING THE 3UMATRAN RHINOS FROM PROTECTION 3EVEN OF THE CREATURES DIED IN THE COUNTY S ONLY CAPTIVE BREEDING CENTRE

lVE WITHIN A SINGLE MONTH IN !NIMAL WELFARE EXPERTS SUSPECTED THAT THIS WAS PURELY A RESULT OF NEGLECT 4HE CENTRE WAS FOUND TO BE UNSANITARY WITH ROTTING FOOD AND FAECES A COM MON FEATURE ALONG WITH NUMEROUS COCKROACHES AND RATS WHICH ARE PO TENTIAL DISEASE CARRIERS 7HEN THE RHINOS INEVITABLY BE CAME UNWELL STAFF WERE ON HOLIDAY AND AS A RESULT

BY THE TIME ANY TEST RESULTS ARRIVED THE RHINOS HAD ALREADY DIED !T THE TIME EXPERTS ARGUED THAT THE ANIMALS WOULD BE BETTER OFF IN THE WILD .OW IT SEEMS THAT AT LEAST THIR TEEN INDIVIDUALS AT THE (EART OF "OR NEO MAY BE PROVING THEM RIGHT .INA -OWBRAY

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AS THEIR NAME SUGGESTS AN AWFUL LOT OF CHOCOLATE &AIRTRADE 'REEN AND "LACKS

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T HAS LONG BEEN TALKED ABOUT AND HAS lNALLY REACHED THE 5+ S MAINSTREAM GARAGE FORECOURTS /N THE TH OF -ARCH +EITH 4OVEY OF 5%! lLLED UP A 3AAB "IO 0OWER CAR ON "IO%THANOL AT -OR RISONS GARAGE !LBION 7AY IN

.ORWICH 4HERE ARE NOW lVE -ORRISONS FORE COURTS WHERE YOU CAN lLL UP ON BIOFUEL IN .ORFOLK AND 3UFFOLK 4HE (ARVEST "IO%THANOL % AT CAN BE BOUGHT FROM %AST $EREHAM ,OWESTOFT $ISS AND )PS WICH 3OMERSET #OUNCIL ARE ALSO RUN NING A BIOFUEL PROJECT WITH lVE SITES -ORRISONS HAS ALREADY EARMARKED SEV ERAL OTHER SITES ACROSS THE 5+ WHERE (ARVEST "IO%THANOL % COULD SOON BE SOLD ACCORDING TO CONSUMER DEMAND FOR IT 0HIL -AUD 0ETROL $IRECTOR AT -OR RISONS COMMENTED h-ORRISONS IS PROUD TO BE THE COUNTRY S lRST PETROL RETAILER TO OPEN A "IO%THANOL % REFU ELLING PUMP REINFORCING OUR POSITION AS THE 5+ S LARGEST FORECOURT RETAILER OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS 7E BELIEVE THAT BY ENCOURAGING THE USE OF "IO%THANOL % WE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO A REDUCTION IN THE HARMFUL EFFECTS TO THE ENVIRONMENT CAUSED BY THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS v (ARVEST "IO%THANOL % WILL RETAIL FOR TWO PENCE PER LITRE LESS THAN PETROL )N .ORWICH THIS MEANS THAT AT THE TIME OF LAUNCH IT WILL SELL FOR PENCE PER LITRE COMPARED TO PENCE PER LITRE FOR UNLEADED PETROL -ORRISONS CHOSE %AST !NGLIA FOR THE LAUNCH BECAUSE OF THE REGION S ROLE IN SPEARHEADING THE FAST EMERGING 5+ BIOFUELS INDUSTRY "IO%THANOL MADE FROM GRAIN PRO DUCES FEWER GREENHOUSE GASES THAN PETROL ACCORDING TO THE 5+

GOVERNMENT AGENCY #ENTRAL 3CIENCE ,ABORATORY 4HIS IS LARGELY BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF CARBON DIOXIDE EMITTED DURING THE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMP TION OF ETHANOL IS hALMOST EQUAL TO THAT REMOVED FROM THE ATMOSPHERE WHEN CROPS FOR CONVERSION ARE BEING GROWN v ACCORDING TO 3AAB 'REAT "RITAIN 4HIS NEW DEMAND FOR BIOFUEL PRESENTS MAJOR OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FUTURE FOR 5+ FARMERS TO SUPPLY THEIR EXCESS CEREALS TO "IO%THANOL MANU FACTURERS h/NE HECTARE OF WHEAT PRO DUCES ABOUT MILES OF MOTOR ING ENOUGH TO TAKE A CAR AROUND THE EQUATOR AND STILL HAVE MILES OF FUEL LEFT v ADDS 'REEN 3PIRIT &UELS WHO ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE "IO%THANOL REVOLUTION 3INCE THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED ITS 2ENEWABLE 4RANSPORT &UEL /BLIGA TION LAST !UTUMN BIOFUELS WERE BOUND TO KICK OFF WITH THE REQUIREMENT THAT OF ALL MOTORCAR FUEL MUST COME FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES BY .OW %AST !NGLIA AND 3OMERSET HAVE SHOWN THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE BIOFUEL REVO LUTION PREDICTIONS SET IT AS NOT BEING LONG NOW UNTIL "IO%THANOL IS ON SALE THROUGHOUT THE NATION S FORECOURTS )N ORDER TO MOVE BEYOND THIS TARGET CARS MUST GO THROUGH A RELATIVELY CHEAP CONVERSION THAT ESSENTIALLY IN VOLVES REPLACING RUBBER SEALS AND ALU MINIUM PARTS WITH MATERIALS THAT ARE NOT ERODED BY THE BIOETHANOL EXPLAINS !NDY 4AYLOR &ORD %UROPE S DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP "OTH &ORD AND 3AAB HAVE UNVEILED FUEL mEXIBLE CARS WHICH ARE BIOETHANOL ENABLED MODELS FOR THE 5+ MARKET WHICH CAN RUN ON PURE PETROL OR ANY MIXTURE OF PETROL AND BIOETHANOL UP TO IF % IS NOT AVAILABLE

3AAB SAYS ITS % ENABLED "I OPOWER WHICH COSTS JUST a MORE THAN A STANDARD HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REDUCE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS BY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME IMPROVING THE CAR S POWER % S HIGHER OCTANE RATING IMPROVES THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CAR BY ADDING BHP TO THE BHP TURBOCHARGED ENGINE AND A GAIN IN FUEL EFlCIENCY CAN BE HAD AT HIGH SPEEDS SAID THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF 3AAB !UTOMOBILE 0OWERTRAIN 4HE GREAT EXPENSE OF CONVERTING EN GINES TO BIO FUELS IS NOT IN ITSELF A REA SON NOT TO PUSH THE BIOFUEL SOLUTION

WHICH THE %UROPEAN #OMMISSION SAYS hHAS A JUSTIlABLY HIGH POLITICAL PRIOR ITYv /THER PARTIES DISAGREE AND POINT OUT THAT RISING DEMAND FOR GRAIN SUGAR BEET RAPE SEEDS OR ANY OTHER PLANT USED TO PRODUCE BIOFUELS IS PUSHING RAW MA TERIAL PRICES HIGHER TOO 4HE 7ESSEX 'RAIN SUBSIDIARY 'REEN 3PIRIT &UELS HAS JUST BEEN GIVEN PLAN NING PERMISSION TO CREATE ONE OF "RIT AIN S lRST BIOETHANOL PLANTS WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY CONVERT TONNES OF LOCALLY GROWN WHEAT PER YEAR INTO MILLION LITRES OF ETHANOL 4HE 5+ WILL NEED TEN PRODUCTION PLANTS LIKE THE ONE IN (ENSTRIDGE TO MEET THE GOVERN MENT S REQUIREMENTS 5NFORTUNATELY THE CURRENT 5+ SUP PLIES OF "IO%THANOL ARE IMPORTED BUT ESTIMATES SAY THAT EACH YEAR 5+ FARM ERS PRODUCE MILLION TONNES MORE GRAIN THAN THEY CAN SELL AND IF THIS SUR PLUS WERE SOLD TO BIOETHANOL PRODUC ERS PRICES SHOULD RISE ACROSS THE BOARD BY a PER TONNE 0RODUCTION OF "IO%THANOL IN THE 5+ IS LIKELY TO ALSO HELP TO DECREASE OUR RELIANCE ON IM PORTED FOSSIL FUELS

7E RE ALL USED TO THE IDEA OF A VEGETAR IAN DIET BUT HOW ABOUT VEGGIE FOOTWEAR 4HE WEBSITE 6EGETARIAN 3HOES WWW VEG ETARIAN SHOES CO UK CATERS FOR PEOPLE WHO PREFER TO AVOID ALL ANIMAL BASED PRODUCTS INCLUDING LEATHER SHOES 4HEIR FOOTWEAR HAS COME A LONG WAY FROM THE ORIGINAL CAR TYRE SOLES WITH CAN VAS UPPERS AND A RANGE OF BREATHABLE PLASTICS ARE NOW USED TO ENSURE HAPPY

SMELL FREE FEET

4HE "LACKSPOT TRAINER 3PEAKING OF FASHIONABLE FEET THE "LACKS POT SNEAKER IS A SHOE WITH A SOCIAL CON SCIENCE ,AUNCHED BY ACTIVIST NETWORK !DBUSTERS WWW ADBUSTERS ORG AS A RE SPONSE TO .IKE S TAKEOVER OF #ONVERSE

THE "LACKSPOT IS DESIGNED FOR ONE PUR POSE hTO KICK MEGACORPORATE ASSv %ACH SHOE IS MADE FROM ORGANIC HEMP AND HAS A RUBBER SOLE AND TOE CAP THAT IS BIODEGRADABLE 4HEY ARE PRODUCED AT A RURAL FACTORY IN 0ORTUGAL

WHICH PAYS ITS WORKERS AN ABOVE AVERAGE WAGE AND ALLOWS UNION ACTIVITY 4HE SHOES HAVE A HAND DRAWN hANTI LOGOv AND COME COMPLETE WITH A RED SPOT ON THE TOE TO AID YOUR AIM WHEN KICKING THE AFOREMENTIONED MULTINA TIONAL hASSv

2EMARKABLE PAPER )T S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN SO BEFORE THE EXAMS BEGIN WHY NOT STOCK UP ON SOME ECO FRIENDLY STATIONERY 4HE 2EMARKABLE COMPANY MAKES EVERYTHING YOU COULD NEED FOR THE REST OF TERM AND ALL OF IT IS RECYCLED 4HEIR SLO GAN h) USED TO BE SOMETHING ELSEv CAN BE FOUND ON ALL THEIR PRODUCTS FROM PENS MADE FROM COMPUTER PRINTERS TO PENCILS WHICH IN ANOTHER LIFE WERE PLASTIC CUPS 4HEY ALSO DO RULERS PENCIL CASES NOTE PADS AND MUCH MORE 2EMARKABLE CAN BE FOUND ON THE IN TERNET AT WWW REMARKABLE CO UK OR THEIR PRODUCTS ARE AVAILABLE IN A NUMBER OF HIGH STREET OUTLETS

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#HURCHILL STATUE SHOULD BE REINSTATED !TTITUDES TOWARDS MENTAL HEALTH NEED TO CHANGE WRITES 0RISCILLA -C#LAY

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HE FACT THAT A STATUE IN THE &O RUM OF 3IR 7IN STON #HURCHILL IN A STRAITJACKET CAUSED SUCH SHOCK AND OUT RAGE THAT IT WAS REMOVED FROM PUBLIC DISPLAY SAYS SOMETHING VERY SAD ABOUT PEOPLE S ATTITUDES 4HE STATUE DREW ATTEN TION TO THE LITTLE KNOWN FACT THAT THE MAN RECENTLY VOTED THE 'REATEST "RITON SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION HIS WHOLE LIFE )T WAS COMMISSIONED

BY THE MENTAL HEALTH CHAR ITY 2ETHINK IN AN ATTEMPT TO COMBAT THE STIGMA ASSOCIAT ED WITH MENTAL ILLNESS (OW EVER HIS FAMILY OBJECTED

PUBLIC OUTCRY ENSUED AND DOWN CAME THE STATUE AFTER ONLY A FEW DAYS 7E CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT THEY WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO AVOID SHEDDING LIGHT ON THIS PARTICULAR ASPECT OF #HURCH ILL S LIFE )NDEED MENTAL ILL NESS IS A VERY DIFlCULT AND OFTEN INTENSELY PRIVATE ISSUE "UT #HURCHILL IS DEAD AND CANNOT BE PERSONALLY AF FECTED SO IS THIS REALLY SOME THING THAT SHOULD BE SEEN AS A BLOT ON HIS MEMORY OR AN ATTACK ON HIS REPUTATION )F ANYTHING SURELY THE FACT THAT HE HAD TO OVERCOME THESE PROBLEMS SHOULD MAKE HIS ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN MORE IM PRESSIVE

3ADLY MENTAL ILLNESS IS STILL A TOPIC THAT IS VERY OFTEN NOT TREATED WITH THE OPEN NESS AND UNDERSTANDING THAT IS REQUIRED (ERE AT 5%!

THERE IS NO OFlCIAL MENTAL HEALTH POLICY LEAVING STU DENTS RELIANT ON THE SYMPA THY OF INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF STAFF IF THEY STRUGGLE TO MEET ACADEMIC DEMANDS BECAUSE OF CONDITIONS SUCH AS DEPRESSION 4HIS SHOWS A SORRY LACK OF COMPREHEN SION ON THE PART OF THE 5NI VERSITY OF THE DEVASTATING IMPACT MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES CAN HAVE AND THE NECESSITY OF MAKING IT EASIER FOR SUFFER ERS TO SEEK HELP 4REATING #HURCHILL S DE

PRESSION AS THOUGH IT WERE A SHAMEFUL SECRET ONLY SERVES TO ILLUSTRATE THE PROBLEM THAT 2ETHINK IS CAMPAIGNING ABOUT SOCIETY IS FULL OF PREJ UDICE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS *UST THINK WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE THE STATUE S REMOVAL IS SENDING OUT TO OTHER SUF FERERS )T IS SAYING THAT ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEY SHOULD BE KEEPING THEIR ILLNESS HIDDEN

BECAUSE IT REmECTS BADLY ON THEM .OTHING HAS PROVED 2E THINK S POINT MORE CLEARLY THAN THE CENSORSHIP OF THEIR CAMPAIGN 4HIS MAY BE THE ULTIMATE IRONY OR MORE

LIKELY EXACTLY WHAT THEY HAD PLANNED 4HERE S NOTHING LIKE A BIT OF MEDIA CONTROVERSY TO DRAW ATTENTION TO A SUBJECT

AND THEY WERE PROBABLY WELL AWARE OF THE POSSIBLE OUT COME WHEN THEY PLANNED THE STATUE 4HAT S NOT TO SAY THERE S ANYTHING WRONG WITH A BIT OF CYNICISM SO LONG AS IT GETS RESULTS -AYBE SHOCK TACTICS WILL HELP TO CHANGE ATTITUDES n ONLY TIME CAN TELL )N THE MEANTIME IF PEOPLE WEREN T SO BUSY GETTING WORKED UP ABOUT A NINE FOOT TALL CHUNK OF METAL THEY MIGHT HAVE NO TICED THAT THERE ARE OTHER ELE MENTS OF THIS CAMPAIGN 2ETHINK HAS PREVIOUSLY

RELEASED A BOOK AND A DOCU MENTARY BOTH FEATURING REAL LIFE STORIES FROM PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES 4HIS PAR TICULAR CAMPAIGN IS ONLY ONE AMONG MANY EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE COMING FORWARD AND RELATING THEIR EXPERIENCES IN ORDER TO TRY AND DEAL WITH THE STIGMA ATTACHED TO MEN TAL HEALTH ISSUES 7HILE THERE ARE PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH THESE INCRED IBLY DIFlCULT ISSUES EVERY DAY

BUT STILL WILLING TO SPEAK UP PUBLICLY IN THE HOPE OF IM PROVING THE SITUATION FOR OTH ERS SURELY THERE SHOULDN T BE THIS MUCH FUSS ABOUT SPARING THE IMAGE OF A LONG DEAD POLITICIAN

&ROM 2!' TO RICHES THE REAL COST OF YOUR 5NION &INANCE /FlCER "EN 7ILLIAMS EXPLAINS HOW THE 5NION SPENDS ITS MONEY

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HE 5NION OF 5%!

3TUDENTS HAS AN ANNUAL TURNOVER OF OVER a M

BUT OF THAT TURN OVER WE ONLY REALLY GET TO SPEND ABOUT a M ON STU DENT ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT 4HE REST OF IT GOES ON MAKING THAT a M )T IS POSSIBLE TO BREAK DOWN OUR DISPOSABLE INCOME SPENDING INTO SIX AREAS #EN TRAL 3ERVICES #OMMUNICA TIONS 0REMISES 2EPRESENTA TION 0EER 3UPPORT 'ROUPS

3OCIETIES AND 3PORTS #LUBS

AND 3TUDENT 3UPPORT 3ERV ICES #ENTRAL 3ERVICES AND 0REMISES ARE ALMOST COMPUL SORY COSTS n THEY ARE DIFlCULT

TO CHANGE EACH YEAR BECAUSE THEY COMPRISE MANY ITEMS OF EXPENDITURE THAT HAVE TO BE PAID 4HIS YEAR THOSE COSTS HAVE BEEN SET AT APPROXI MATELY a 4HIS LEAVES SOMEWHERE IN THE REGION OF a FOR THE OTHER FOUR AREAS 4HE OTHER AREAS CAN BE CHANGED AROUND A BIT MORE EASILY 2EMEMBER THE (AND BOOK THAT YOU WERE GIVEN IN YOUR lRST YEAR 7E MADE THAT 7E ALSO PRODUCE THE WEEKLY 5NION NEWSLETTER

2ABBIT AND DELIVER THEM BOTH &OR THESE SERVICES WE SPEND AROUND a A YEAR (AVE YOU EVER HAD A

PROBLEM WITH AN ESSAY OR AC COMMODATION $ID YOU lND YOURSELF IN 5NION (OUSE AT THE !DVICE #ENTRE 7ELL

GUESS WHAT THE 5NION EN SURES THAT SERVICE IS PROVIDED FOR YOU TOO 4HE 3TUDENT 3UPPORT 3ERVICES TALK TO OVER STUDENTS EVERY MONTH 3OME MIGHT SAY THIS IS THE MOST VALUABLE SERVICE WE PROVIDE TO OUR MEMBERS n AND TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN PROVIDE THE BEST MOST PRAC TICAL ADVICE WE SPEND AROUND a EACH YEAR 3O YOU PLAY FOR THE 5NI VERSITY &OOTBALL #LUB AND ARE A MEMBER OF THE #OCKTAIL 3OCIETY 7E PAY FOR THAT TOO 4HE 5NION RUNS OVER

PEER SUPPORT GROUPS SOCIE TIES AND SPORTS CLUBS %ACH OF THESE HAS TO HAVE AT LEAST MEMBERS TO BECOME OFlCIAL

SO THAT MEANS AT LEAST

OF YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH ONE OR MORE EXTRA CURRICULAR GROUPS RUN AND FUNDED BY THE 5NION 4O GET THIS MANY OF OUR MEMBERS INVOLVED DOESN T COME CHEAP THE 5N ION SPENDS SOMEWHERE IN THE REGION OF a ON THESE ACTIVITIES !S FOR REPRESENTATION ) REPRESENT YOU AND ) M ONE OF FOUR FULL TIME 3ABBATICAL /FlCERS ONE OF %XECU TIVE /FlCER REPRESENTATIVES AND ONE OF OVER 5NION #OUNCIL MEMBERS THAT MEET

REGULARLY TO ENSURE THAT THE 5NION IS ACTING IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF ITS MEM BERS 7E REPRESENT YOU ON ALL KINDS OF ISSUES FROM IN TER 5NION DIRECTION SETTING TO LOBBYING 0ARLIAMENT FOR A FAIRER STUDENT EXPERIENCE 7E ARE ALL MEMBERS OF THE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS .53 4HE 5NION PAYS FOR EVERY STUDENT MEMBER OF THE 5NIVERSITY TO BE A MEMBER OF .53 4HE .53 IS ABOUT A LOT MORE THAN A DISCOUNT IN 4OPSHOP IT CAMPAIGNS EVERY DAY FOR THE RIGHTS OF STUDENTS AND TO ENSURE THAT WE AREN T SEEN AS A BUNCH OF WASTERS 4HE 5NION ALSO RUNS CAM PAIGNS SUCH AS THE !NONY

MOUS -ARKING CAMPAIGN

ACROSS THE 5NIVERSITY 2EPRE SENTING YOU COMES AT A PRICE

AND THE 5NION SPENDS IN THE REGION OF a EACH YEAR IN THIS AREA 3O WHY AM ) TELLING YOU THIS 7ELL WE WORK FOR YOU

TO REPRESENT YOU TO MAKE SURE WHAT YOU WANT AT THIS 5NION HAPPENS $O YOU AGREE WITH HOW WE SPEND OUR MONEY )F YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD SPEND OUR MONEY ON TO BEST REPRESENT THE STUDENTS OF 5%!

GET IN TOUCHx YOU NEVER KNOW THE MEMBERS OF THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS MIGHT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY

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E LEARN WITH DIS APPOINT MENT THAT THIS YEAR S GRADUANDS WILL NOT RECEIVE THEIR CERTIlCATES IN PERSON AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONIES IN THE SUMMER &OR MOST l NAL YEAR STUDENTS GRADUATION REPRESENTS NOT ONLY THE CUL MINATION OF THEIR ACADEMIC CAREER BUT A FAREWELL TO THE PLACE THEY HAVE CALLED HOME FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS 4HE SENSE OF ANTICIPA TION INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF ORDERING GOWNS BOOKING

SEATS AND SECURING BALL TICKETS MAKES THIS TIME OF CELEBRA TION REPRESENT MUCH MORE THAN JUST THE CONFERRAL OF A DEGREE 4HE CERTIlCATE ITSELF COMES TO SIGNIFY SOMETHING BEYOND SIMPLE PROOF OF ACHIEVEMENT IT IS A TICKET TO THE hREAL WORLDv BEYOND THE CAMPUS BOUNDARIES -ISTAKES ARE EASILY MADE AT A 5NIVERSITY THE SIZE OF 5%!

BUT IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THIS YEAR S LEAVERS WILL BE DEPARTING FROM .ORWICH WITH SUCH A BLUNDER SO FRESH IN THEIR MEMORIES &OR MANY

THE SLIP UP OVER THE GRADUA

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TION CERTIlCATES WILL BE SEEN TO EXEMPLIFY A DEEPER 5NI VERSITY WIDE PROBLEM OF COMMUNICATION SOMETHING UNDERLINED BY THE CONCERNS RAISED IN THIS ISSUE ABOUT THE CONFUSION THAT FOLLOWED THE FACULTY RESTRUCTURING LAST YEAR )T WOULD BE A SHAME FOR A ONE OFF ERROR OF THIS NATURE TO OVERSHADOW ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN THE 5NI VERSITY CALENDAR "EFORE WE BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT GRADUATION THOUGH

THERE IS THE SMALL MATTER OF lNISHING OUR COURSES 4HE

END OF THE %ASTER TERM IS ALSO THE BEGINNING OF ONE THE MOST CONCERTED n AND CON CENTRATED n PERIODS OF WORK THAT MOST OF US WILL EXPERI ENCE DURING OUR DEGREES &I NAL ESSAYS DISSERTATIONS AND EXAMS ALL COMBINE TO MAKE THE LAST MONTHS OF 5NIVERSITY PASS IN A mURRY OF ACTIVITY (OWEVER IT SEEMS THIS WEEK THAT RESEARCHERS AT 5%!

HAVE PUT PAID TO ONE POSSI BLE SHORTCUT TO EXAM SUCCESS THE CONSUMPTION OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF BRAIN BOOSTING OMEGA !NYONE PLANNING TO CONSUME EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS

OF MACKEREL IN A BID TO IM PROVE THEIR SCORES WILL BE DISAPPOINTED TO LEARN THAT A 5%! LED STUDY HAS SUGGESTED THAT THE OIL S HEALTH BENElTS MAY NOT BE AS MARKED AS WE HAD PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT )N THE ABSENCE OF ANY MIRACLE CURES THEN THE AD VICE AS EVER IS TO EAT WELL

SLEEP WELL AND REST WELL !ND GET LOTS OF BOOKS OUT FROM THE LIBRARY #ONCRETE WISHES EVERY ONE AT 5%! THE BEST OF LUCK IN THEIR EXAMS (AVE A GOOD HOLIDAY AND WE WILL SEE YOU NEXT TERM

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!S LONG AS INEQUALITY CONTINUES WE WILL NEED A 7OMEN S /FlCER OF PEOPLE IN THE 5+ BE LIEVE A WOMAN IS PARTIALLY OR TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING RAPED IF SHE IS DRUNK WEAR ING PROVOCATIVE CLOTHING OR BEING mIRTATIOUS #URRENTLY ONLY OF REPORTED RAPES RESULT IN A CONVICTION THE LOWEST EVER RECORDED ,OOK AT THE NUMBER OF WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT COMPARED TO MEN OR THE NUMBER OF FE MALE CHIEF EXECUTIVES IN THE COUNTRY $O WE NEED A 7OM EN S /FlCER 9ES WE DO 5SING THE FACT THAT WOM EN ARE A MAJORITY IN NUMBER ON CAMPUS IS A RIDICULOUS ARGUMENT 3INCE WHEN HAS IT BEEN THE CASE THAT WHOEVER IS THE MAJORITY IN NUMBER

$EPUTY %DITOR CONCRETE EDITORIAL UEA AC UK *AMES #ONWAY

#HIEF #OPY %DITOR CONCRETE EDITORIAL UEA AC UK 3ARAH -ABLEY

HAS THE LARGEST VOICE )N FACT

LOOKING BACK AT HISTORY IT IS OFTEN THE CASE THAT MAJORITIES ARE REPRESSED BY A SMALL AND POWERFUL MINORITY ) HAVE TO SAY THAT -ATT 3HOESMITH HAS SPECTACULARLY MISSED THE POINT AND SIDESTEPPED THE REAL ISSUE COMPLETELY 4HE 7OMEN S /FlCER AS A TOKEN GESTURE FROM THE 5NION ) THINK NOT 4HE ARTICLE SEEMED TO USE THE FACT THAT THE ,IBERA TIONS ROLE HAD NOT BEEN SPLIT UP TO JUSTIFY SCRAPPING THE 7OMEN S /FlCER 4HIS IS A DIFFERENT ISSUE PERHAPS WE DO NEED SEPARATE ,IBERATIONS /FlCERS TO FULLY ADDRESS THE DIFFERENT ISSUES

7ORKING WITH THE CUR RENT ,IBERATIONS /FlCER AND THE PREVIOUS ONE ) SAW HOW DIFlCULT IT REALLY IS FOR ONE PERSON TO FULLY DEAL WITH THE DISCRIMINATION FACED BY THE DIFFERENT GROUPS ,IBERATIONS COVERS n ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HAVE NOT FACED THAT SORT OF DISCRIMINATION THEM SELVES 4HE WORKLOAD IS HUGE

AND RESULTED IN THE RESIGNA TION OF THE PREVIOUS OFlCER )S -ATT SUGGESTING WE MAKE THIS ROLE EVEN LARGER BY ADD ING THE WORK OF THE 7OMEN S /FlCER !S FOR THE ARGUMENT THAT HAVING SEPARATE OFlCERS ACTU ALLY LEADS TO FURTHER DISCRIMI NATION AND ALIENATION THIS

IS TO DENY THAT THERE IS ANY DISCRIMINATION IN THE lRST PLACE TO SWEEP IT UNDER THE CARPET AND STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND INSTEAD OF FAC ING THINGS HEAD ON )T SAYS A LOT THAT -ATT TRIVIALISES THESE OFlCERS ROLES IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SUGGEST THAT 4OTTENHAM FANS NEED AN OFlCER 4HE PRESENCE OF A 7OM EN S /FlCER DOES NOT SAY THAT WOMEN ARE ANY BETTER THAN OTHER GROUPS FACING DISCRIMINATION )T RECOGNISES THE HUGE IMBALANCE THAT STILL EXISTS IN SOCIETY S ATTITUDES TOWARDS WOMEN AND THEIR ECONOMIC STANDING 7OMEN TAKE ON AVER AGE YEARS LONGER TO PAY

(EALTH %DITOR CONCRETE LIFESTYLE UEA AC UK #LARE !ITCHISON &OOD %DITOR CONCRETE LIFESTYLE UEA AC UK *OANNA ,AMBERT

OFF THEIR STUDENT DEBTS AND WOMEN AND ETHNIC MINORI TIES MAKE UP THE MAJORITY OF THE WORKFORCE FOR THE LOWEST PAID JOBS IN THE COUNTRY 7E LIVE IN A SOCIETY WHERE IT IS STILL ACCEPTABLE FOR THE &)&! 0RESIDENT 3EPP "LATTER TO SUGGEST THAT FEMALE FOOT BALLERS WEAR SKIMPIER KITS TO INCREASE THE SPORT S POPU LARITY 7E MAY HAVE GOT THE VOTE BUT THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO n AND GUYS PLEASE DON T FEEL THREATENED BY THE 7OMEN S /FlCER )T S ABOUT GAINING EQUALITY IN POLICY AND ATTITUDES NOT ABOUT PLOTTING TO USURP YOU ALL 3ALLY (AMMERTON 7OMEN S /FlCER

7RITER 6ICTORIA ,EGGETT 4URF %DITOR CONCRETE TURF UEA AC UK (ANNAH .EWTON 7RITERS $AN &ITZHARRIS .INA -OWBRAY 3PORT %DITOR CONCRETE SPORT UEA AC UK ,OUIS (OLDING 0ARSONS $EPUTY 3PORT %DITOR -ARCUS *ONES 7RITERS #HRIS !RMSTRONG 3AM &AGENCE .OAH &ELLMAN +ATIE 'REEN *EN -ARCHANT *ULIE 0RICE *EMMA 4HAKE #ARTOONISTS 3USIE 2UMSBY *ACOB 4OWNEND 0ROOFREADING 3ANNAH -ALIK 0ICTURE %DITOR !NNA 3TEWARD $ESIGNER +ATE "RYANT

7HAT CAN THE 5NIVERSITY DO TO PROVIDE BETTER SECURITY ON CAMPUS ) AM WRITING TO YOU TO IN FORM YOU ABOUT MINE AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE S CONCERN ABOUT THE RECENT ATTACKS THAT HAVE HAPPENED AT THE 5NI VERSITY OF %AST !NGLIA 4HESE ATTACKS ARE NOT SOMETHING NEW AT 5%! 3INCE ) ARRIVED HERE FOUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO THERE HAVE BEEN ATTACKS ON PEOPLE 7HAT IS NEW IS THAT THE ATTACKS ON STUDENTS HAVE INCREASED DRAMATICALLY IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS 3OME OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN ASSAULTED OR ATTACKED HAVE BEEN BADLY IN JURED LEFT UNCONSCIOUS AND SENT TO HOSPITAL !S A 5%! STUDENT ) FEEL UNSAFE WALKING AROUND THE 5NIVERSITY AND AM DISAP

POINTED TO SEE THAT AFTER SEV ERAL WEEKS NO IMPROVEMENT IN THE SITUATION HAS OCCURRED -ANY AREAS OF THE 5NIVERSITY ARE VERY ISOLATED AND HAVE NO LIGHTING 'IVEN THAT THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR MANY YEARS IT IS VERY SAD TO REALISE THAT THE 5NIVERSITY DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE DONE MUCH TO STOP IT FROM HAPPENING /N -ONDAY TH &EBRU ARY A MEMBER OF THE 3AINS BURY ,ABORATORY STAFF WAS ATTACKED ON THE BRIDGE GOING TO 5%! ON THE #OLNEY ,INK (E RECEIVED SEVERE BRUISING TO THE FACE AND BODY 7E WERE TOLD BY A MEMBER OF THE (EALTH AND 3AFETY /FlCE OF THE *OHN )NNES #ENTRE THAT THERE WERE EIGHT ASSAULTS RE

PORTED IN THE PREVIOUS WEEK /N 7EDNESDAY ST -ARCH A STUDENT CYCLING ON THE PATH BETWEEN 3PORTSPARK AND THE MAIN 5%! CAR PARK REPORT ED A GROUP OF EIGHT YOUTHS TO THE 3ECURITY ,ODGE AND TOOK ANOTHER ROUTE !BOUT MINUTES LATER ANOTHER STUDENT CYCLED THROUGH THE SAME PATHWAY AND ENCOUN TERED THESE YOUTHS 4HEY CHASED HIM BUT FORTUNATELY DID NOT CATCH HIM )T IS VERY DISAPPOINTING THAT DESPITE THE WARNING GIVEN TO 5%!

3ECURITY NOTHING WAS DONE TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPEN ING 7E RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM 5%! 3ECURITY ON THE RD &EBRUARY WARNING

STUDENTS ABOUT SOME hMINOR ASSAULTSv )N MY OPINION

THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY IN THOSE AREAS ARE NOT SEEING THE SEVERITY OF THE PROBLEM 3OMEONE BE ING RUN OVER BY A GOLF BUGGY AND KICKED IN THE FACE IS NOT A MINOR THING )T IS VERY SERI OUS ) APPRECIATE THAT 5%!

SECURITY CARS HAVE BEEN RUN NING MORE OFTEN BUT THE SITUATION HAS NOT IMPROVED MUCH -ORE FREQUENT RUNS ARE NOT HELPING TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM THE AREAS WHERE THE ATTACKS ARE OCCURRING ARE STILL VERY ISOLATED 5NFORTUNATELY SOME OF THESE AREAS ARE DIF lCULT TO AVOID &OR EXAMPLE

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THE SPORTS lELDS IS THE EASI EST WAY TO REACH 5%! FROM THE 2ESEARCH 0ARK 3INCE BUS ROUTE NO LONGER SERVES THE 2ESEARCH 0ARK MANY PEOPLE NOW HAVE TO WALK TO 5%!

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! GLORIOUS SEASON FOR WOMEN S RUGBY *ULIE 0RICE 4HE GIRLS OF 5%! 7OM EN S 2UGBY THOUGHT THEIR SEASON HAD ENDED BACK IN &EBRUARY AFTER A THRASH ING FROM THE /LD 'IRLS AND lNISHING RD IN THE LEAGUE BUT PROMOTION TO THE "53! PLAY OFFS LED TO FOUR MORE EVENTFUL MATCH ES AND A GREAT RESULT FOR THE CLUB 4HIS IS THE STORY OF OUR GLORIOUS CAMPAIGN )T BEGAN AGAINST .OT TINGHAM NDS WHOSE BRAWN UP FRONT MUCH OUTWEIGHED THE BRAINS OF THEIR BACKS AND A GLOWING lNAL SCORE SET US UP FOR TRAVELLING AWAY

! MUDDY BUT HAPPY WOMEN S RUGBY TEAM TO ,EICESTER $E -ONTFORD $-5 THE FOLLOWING WEEK )N ,EICESTER A MUD BATH ON A FRANKLY UNPLAYABLE PITCH ENSUED IN WHICH WE WERE JOINED BY ANOTHER BRAWNY RATHER THAN BRAINY TEAM &I

NAL SCORE .EXT UP WERE LEAGUE WIN NERS 7ARWICK AND A CHANCE TO REDEEM OURSELVES 4HE 5%! GIRLS PUT THEIR ALL INTO THIS TOUGH MATCH AND DESERV EDLY WON 7HEN OUR PROP

WAS HOSPITALISED THE PRESSURE WAS REALLY ON (OWEVER THE INCIDENT HELPED TO FORGE IN TER UNIVERSITY RELATIONS WHEN BOTH TEAMS PUSHED THE STUCK AMBULANCE FROM THE lELD 4HE WINNING TRY CAME FROM A

FABULOUS FORWARD MAUL AND 7ARWICK S BLINDSIDE WINGER COULD DO LITTLE TO STOP IT %LATION CAME WITH THE l NAL WHISTLE AND /PTIC WAS THE PLACE TO CELEBRATE &INAL SCORE 4HE SEMI lNALS WERE HELD AT HOME AGAINST %XETER 4HE DREAM lNALLY ENDED LAST WEEK WHEN WE WERE SIMPLY OUT CLASSED BY A BETTER SIDE !FTER HOLDING %XETER OFF DUR ING THE lRST HALF WE CONCEDED THREE BREAKAWAY TRIES IN THE SECOND WITH ONE CONVERTED

LEAVING THE lNAL SCORE AT 4HE CAMPAIGN HAD COME TO AN END 4O BE MENTIONED ARE APTLY NAMED CAPTAIN "ETH -AULE WHO LED BY EXAMPLE

4OSH ,EE 3MITH WHO AT mY

HALF IS A MATCH FOR *ONNY

,OUISE #AVANA WHO PLAYED SCRUM HALF WINGER AND mANKER SUCCESSFULLY mANKER !MBER 2EED !SHTON WHO IS ALWAYS lRST TO THE BREAK DOWN AND ,IZZIE 0RANCE FOR STEPPING IN AT CENTRE lLLING THE BIG SHOES OF *O 7OOD

OUR hBROKENv 0RESIDENT 4HE 72&# HAS ACHIEVED A LOT THIS YEAR MOST NOTABLY IN BEATING OLD RIVALS 7ARWICK 4HE PLAY OFFS EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN UNFORGETTABLE FOR ALL IN VOLVED AND FOR THOSE LEAVING THIS YEAR THE TEAM HOPES YOU ALL FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE REALLY GONE OUT ON A HIGH .OW IT IS TIME TO LOOK TO NEXT YEAR AND ATTEMPTING TO LIVE UP TO THE LEGACY OF THE SEASON

-EN S BADMINTON SUBMIT SUCCESS RECORD TO DOMINANT "ATH #HRIS !RMSTRONG 4HE PROBLEM THAT COMES WITH WINNING SO OFTEN

LIKE 5%! MEN S BADMINTON HAVE BEEN IS THAT EVENTU ALLY YOU LL RUN INTO A TEAM LIKE "ATH 7HILST ASSUMING THAT THERE IS hNO CHANCE IN HELLv OF A VICTORY AGAINST SUCH A REPUTABLE TEAM IS A POPULAR AND OFTEN INVALIDATED PRE

CONCEPTION IT VERY MUCH RE mECTED THE TEAM S CHANCES OF GETTING A RESULT "ATH 5NIVER SITY 3PORTS #ENTRE OR RATHER

#ENTRE OF %XCELLENCE IS A CAULDRON AND IT IS EXTREMELY HARD NOT TO FEEL INTIMIDATED

BY WALL PLAQUES THAT SAY THINGS VAGUELY IN THE REGION OF h9OU ARE EXCELLENT .OW GET BETTERv .ONETHELESS THE TEAM WERE IN NO MOOD TO SUBMIT THEIR RECORD AND INSTEAD OF RUNNING HEAD lRST INTO THE PROVERBIAL WALL OF DEFEAT 5%! DECIDED

TO GIVE IT A GO AGAINST THEIR IL LUSTRIOUS OPPONENTS 4HE TEAM AT HAND WERE "ATH NDS ALTHOUGH THAT WAS STILL A MIGHTY TASK CON SIDERING "ATH STS ARE BUSY CONQUERING VARIOUS GALAX IES THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE )T WAS A SLOW START FOR 5%!

WHO QUICKLY CONCEDED THE lRST END IN BOTH DOUBLES MATCHES /NE OF THE OUT STANDING PERFORMANCES OF THE MATCH CAME FROM )AIN "AYES AND )AN *AMESON WHO ALMOST PUSHED THEIR lRST

DOUBLES GAME INTO A DECID ING END BUT WERE UNFORTU NATELY EDGED OUT AT THE LAST 4HE OTHER PRAISE WORTHY PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY CAME FROM -ATT 2EAY WHO LOST OUT MARGINALLY IN HIS SECOND SINGLES RUBBER

UNABLE TO CAPITALISE ON HIS LEAD IN THE SECOND END TO FORCE A DECIDER !S THE MATCH WORE ON TIREDNESS CLEARLY BECAME A FACTOR THE IMAGE OF -ATT 2EAY AND /LI %DBERG BOTH STAGGERING OFF COURT LIKE THEY D HAD VODKA FOR LUNCH

REALLY ENCAPSULATED THE NA TURE OF THE PERFORMANCE )T WAS ONE OF ENDEAVOUR BUT MOST OF ALL IT WAS ONE THAT URGENTLY REQUIRED BEER 3EVEN DAYS EARLIER 5%!

DEFEATED #ARDIFF NDS ON HOME SOIL TO ADVANCE THROUGH TO THE MATCH WITH "ATH )T WAS A COMPARATIVELY EASY TASK A VICTORY CE MENTING THE TEAM S PASSAGE THROUGH TO THE NEXT ROUND 4HE ONLY LOSSES CAME FROM -ATT 2EAY AND /LI %DBERG *UST FOR A LAUGH -ATT 2EAY

ONCE AGAIN TURNED WHAT WAS LOOKING LIKE A FAIRLY STRAIGHT FORWARD WIN INTO AN EPIC SAGA WHICH HE LOST IN A DE CIDING END "OTH DOU BLES TEAMS COMFORTABLY SE CURED THE VICTORIES HOWEVER

NULLIFYING 2EAY S DEMENTED ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE MATCH MORE OF A CONTEST !S THE LIGHTS GO DOWN ON A SEASON OF NEAR PERFECTION

MEN S "ADMINTON HAVE lRM LY ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES AS ONE OF 5%! S MOST SUCCESSFUL TEAMS

5%! #ROSS #OUNTRY RETURN FROM 2!& (ONINGTON WITH TROPHIES GALORE *EMMA 4HAKE 5%! #ROSS #OUNTRY TEAM HAVE lNISHED THEIR SEASON IN STYLE RETURNING FROM THEIR lNAL lXTURE LADEN WITH TROPHIES AND MEDALS 4HE TEAM TRAVELLED TO 2!& (ONINGTON FOR CROSS COUNTRY RELAYS AND PRIZE GIV ING FOR THE %AST !NGLIA #ROSS #OUNTRY ,EAGUE %!##, 5%! DOMINATED THE RE LAY EVENT WITH BOTH TEAMS EMERGING VICTORIOUS )N THE MEN S RACE 5%! WERE REPRE SENTED BY TWO TEAMS )N THE ! TEAM #ROSS #OUNTRY #AP TAIN #ALUM .ICOL GOT THE TEAM OFF TO A GREAT START HIS PERFORMANCE BEING A RETURN TO FORM AFTER INJURY TROUBLES !LI S RUN PROVED TO BE VERY

QUICK SO MUCH SO THAT THIRD LEG RUNNER 2OB 'REEN BARELY HAD TIME TO STRIP DOWN TO HIS 5%! VEST AND SHORTS BEFORE HEADING OUT INTO THE WILDS OF THE ARMY BASE $ESPITE THE HASTY CHANGEOVER 2OB RAN WELL AND HANDED OVER TO AN CHOR LEG RUNNER 'LEN 7ATTS

IN lRST POSITION 'LEN RAN A SWIFT lNAL LEG BEFORE SHOW BOATING OVER THE lNISH LINE WITH A TEXTBOOK COMMANDO ROLL )N THE MEN S " TEAM

"LAIR #AMPBELL "ORGEL 'REENAWAY *IMMY &ITTON AND *OHNNY ,EE JOINED FORC ES TO lNISH IN THE TOP TEN "LAIR GOT HIS TEAM OFF TO A GOOD START BEFORE "ORGEL RAN A SOLID LEG PASSING ON TO *IM MY &ITTON (AVING RECOVERED FROM AN INJURY SUSTAINED IN THE PREVIOUS CROSS COUNTRY RACE *IMMY RAN A RESPECTABLE

RACE *OHNNY ,EE ON THE LAST LEG SET OFF LIKE A TRAIN AND HE BROUGHT THE TEAM HOME IN SIXTH POSITION -EANWHILE IN THE ,ADIES RELAY EVENT *EMMA 4HAKE

.ICOLA -C)VOR AND *ESS 4ROW BRIDGE SEIZED VICTORY *EMMA GOT THE TEAM OFF TO A SOUND START HANDING OVER TO .ICOLA IN SECOND PLACE .ICOLA PUT IN A SUPERB PERFORMANCE

RUNNING A SOLID LEG AND lN ISHING WITH A BLISTERING SPRINT TO PASS OVER TO *ESS *ESS SOON CAUGHT THE LEADING TEAM AND AFTER THAT THE RACE WAS NEVER IN QUESTION !FTER THE EXCITEMENT OF THE RELAYS THE 5%! TEAM WERE REWARDED WITH MORE ACCO LADES AS THE LEAGUE TROPHIES WERE HANDED OUT "OTH 5%!

MEN S AND WOMEN S TEAMS WON THE LEAGUE OVERALL )NDIVIDUALS WERE ALSO

4HE CROSS COUNTRY TEAM CELEBRATE THEIR WIN REWARDED -OST NOTABLE WAS *ESS 4ROWBRIDGE WHO SCORED THE MAXIMUM POINTS IN THE LEAGUE WITH SEVEN WINS 3HE TOOK THE lRST LADY TROPHY

*EMMA 4HAKE MADE IT A ONE TWO FOR 5%!

BY CLAIMING THE SECOND LADY TROPHY )N THE MEN S TEAM 'LEN 7ATTS WHO RAN OUTSTAND

INGLY THROUGHOUT THE LEAGUE

CAPTURED THE SECOND MAN TROPHY 4HE CLUB ARE NOW LOOKING FORWARD TO THE OUT DOOR TRACK SEASON

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7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH #ONCRETE

-ARTIAL ARTS TEAM SHOWS SPIRIT 3AM &AGENCE 4WO 5%! STUDENTS HAVE BEEN RECOGNISED AS AMONGST THE BEST MAR TIAL ARTISTS IN THE REGION 'EMMA 7ILKS AND !LEX $UNN WON THE %ASTERN 2EGION 'RAND 0RIX OPEN STYLE SPARRING COM PETITION 4HE COMPETITION PITS MARTIAL ARTISTS OF DIFFERENT STYLES AGAINST EACH OTHER OVER FOUR EVENTS #OMPETITORS

MOSTLY FROM THE MARTIAL ARTS

OF 4AEKWONDO +ARATE AND +ICKBOXING WEAR PROTECTIVE MITTS ON THEIR HANDS AND FEET AND SCORE POINTS BY LANDING PUNCHES AND KICKS ON THEIR OPPONENT 3INCE $UNN WON THREE OF THE FOUR EVENTS VICTORY WAS ASSURED FOR HIM BUT TO 7ILKS IT CAME AS A WONDERFUL REALI SATION THAT SHE HAD EMERGED AS THE BEST OVERALL lGHTER IN THE WOMEN S COLOUR BELT CATEGORY 4HE TROPHIES WERE AWARDED ON -ARCH TH AT THE "OB #ARTER #ENTRE IN $RAYTON AT THE lRST EVENT OF THE 'RAND 0RIX 7ILKS WENT ON TO WIN

ND PRIZE IN THAT LEG OF THE COMPETITION PUTTING HER BACK IN CONTENTION TO RETAIN THE TITLE 3ADLY $UNN WAS UNABLE TO COMPETE DUE TO A HAMSTRING INJURY !PART FROM 7ILKS THE 5%! WOMEN S TEAM SHOWED STRENGTH WITH ,IZZIE (UDSON WINNING SECOND IN HER EVENT AND (OLLIE "AINBRIDGE WIN NING THIRD !NOTHER HOPEFUL THIS YEAR MUST BE 0AUL #ASE

WHO EMERGED AS THE BEST OVERALL lGHTER AT 5%! IN A MIXED COMPETITION BETWEEN 5%! 4AEKWONDO AND 5%!

3HI +ON +ARATE ON THE RD OF -ARCH

4OO MUCH SPORT

&RUSTRATING END TO THE SEASON FOR 5%! S MIXED LACROSSE TEAM +ATIE 'REEN 4HE END OF THE LACROSSE SEASON MARKS THE lNISH OF A DISAPPOINTING AND UN FORTUNATE RUN OF CANCELLED

CONCEDED AND PERPETUALLY POSTPONED MATCHES FOR THE 5%! MIXED LACROSSE TEAM 4HE MEN S TEAM HAVE PLAYED NEARLY ALL OF THEIR MATCHES WITH CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS REACHING THE PLAY OFFS AT THE END OF THE SEASON #ONVERSELY THE WOMEN S TEAM HAD AN UNFORTUNATE SEASON BEGINNING WITH AN EARLY "53! DISQUALIlCATION AND SO A LACK OF COMPETITIVE GAMES (OWEVER THE FRIENDLIES

4HE MIXED LACROSSE TEAM PLAYED AGAINST .ORWICH ,A DIES #LUB SHOWED THE PO TENTIAL OF THE 5%! WOMEN S SQUAD AS THEY WON ALL THEIR GAMES 5%! WERE PLACED IN THE %AST -IDLANDS SECTION OF THE LEAGUE AND WERE SET TO FACE STRONG TEAMS SUCH

AS .ORTHAMPTON ,EICES TER AND /XFORD /F THE FEW GAMES PLAYED 5%! HAVE WON AGAINST .ORTHAMPTON AT HOME AND NARROWLY LOST TO ,EICESTER (OWEVER 5%!

HAVE PLAYED ONLY FOUR GAMES OUT OF A POSSIBLE TWELVE &OUR OF 5%! S MATCHES HAVE BEEN

POSTPONED BUT AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS ON OUR BEHALF ANY HOPE OF RESCHEDULING LOOKS UNLIKELY -ANY OF THE TEAMS IN OUR SECTION HAVE BEEN FORCED TO CONCEDE THE MATCHES TO US AND SO GIVE 5%! THE DEFAULT TEN POINTS AS A PENALTY FOR

CANCELLING 4HE CANCELLING TEAMS GAVE VARYING BUT ALL EQUALLY FRUSTRATING EXCUSES SUCH AS LACK OF AVAILABLE PLAYERS LACK OF TRANSPORT AND NO AVAILABLE TIME FOR A RESCHEDULE ALTHOUGH IRONI CALLY THE POINTS 5%!

HAVE GAINED IN THIS WAY LEFT US FOURTH IN THE TABLE )T IS NO SURPRISE THAT THE TEAM WOULD RATHER HAVE PLAYED FOR THEIR POSITION 4HIS SEASON 5%! HAVE MADE EVERY EFFORT POSSIBLE TO REARRANGE THE CANCELLED GAMES AND THE LACK OF COM PETITIVE MATCH PLAY IS A REAL DISAPPOINTMENT (OWEVER

THE TEAM WILL CONTINUE TO WORK HARD WITH THE HOPE THAT NEXT SEASON 5%! WILL BE ABLE TO PROVE ITSELF IN THE LEAGUE AS THE DEDICATED TEAM THAT THEY ARE

"ASEBALL "LUE 3OX HAVE THE EDGE ON #ARDINALS IN TIGHT GAME .OAH &ELLMAN 7ITH 3PRING 4RAINING UN DER WAY IN THE 3OUTHERN 53 AND THE EYES OF THE WORLD FOCUSED ON THE 7ORLD "ASEBALL #LASSIC BASE BALL SEASON HAS OFlCIALLY BEGUN (ERE IN %NGLAND BASEBALL IS ALSO GETTING UNDERWAY THIS MONTH 5%! "LUE 3OX STARTED OUT THEIR SOPHOMORE CAMPAIGN

BY TRAVELLING TO 2OMFORD TO TAKE ON THE 2OMFORD #AR DINALS AN ESTABLISHED BASE BALL PROGRAMME 7ITH ONLY TWO YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS A

TEAM THE "LUE 3OX HOPED TO LOOK COMPETITIVE AGAINST THE #ARDINALS BUT IN FACT GAVE 2OMFORD MUCH MORE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR 4HEY WON THE GAME IN WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A COMPLETE TEAM EFFORT 3TARTING PITCHER $AVE 2OSE GOT THE lRST WIN OF THE SEASON GIVING UP ONE RUN IN TWO INNINGS %ARLY IN THE GAME 5%! mASHED SOME DEFENSE AS CENTERlELDER *AMES /RLANDO MADE A PER FECTLY PLACED THROW TO THIRD BASEMAN #HRIS 3TONE WHO APPLIED THE TAG ON THE AD VANCING RUNNER SAVING A PO TENTIAL RUN 4HE "LUE 3OX STRUGGLED

EARLY AGAINST THE #ARDINALS PITCHING BUT AS THE INNINGS WORE ON THE 2OMFORD ARMS BEGAN TO TIRE AND THE 3OX TOOK ADVANTAGE 4HE GAME OPENED UP IN THE FOURTH IN NING IN WHICH THE "LUE 3OX PUT TOGETHER A NUMBER OF WALKS AND HITS "EFORE THE INNING WAS OVER %D #LARKE

.OAH &ELLMAN #HRIS "ELL

AND *AMES "URLEY HAD ALL CROSSED THE PLATE 7ITH THE #ARDINALS PITCHING WEARING DOWN AND THE MOMENTUM OF THE GAME SWINGING IN 5%! S FAVOUR THE "LUE 3OX BROUGHT OUT THEIR BIG GUNS *AMES /RLANDO PITCHED TWO INNINGS BLOWING PITCHES

BY VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE #ARDI

$EPUTY %DITOR S COLUMN

NALS AND BAFmING HITTERS WITH HIS CURVEBALL HE RECORDED SIX STRIKEOUTS 4HE #ARDINALS WERE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A NUMBER OF WALKS AND ANSWERED 5%! S RALLY WITH FOUR RUNS OF THEIR OWN )N THE EIGHTH #HRIS "ELL HIT A TRIPLE TO LEFT lELD WHICH HE STRETCHED INTO AN INSIDE THE PARK HOMERUN AFTER A THROW ING ERROR AT THIRD BASE "ELL ALSO CAME INTO THE GAME IN THE #ARDINALS HALF OF THE EIGHTH TO PITCH IN RE LIEF OF THE TIRING /RLANDO (E COMPLETED THE INNING AND PITCHED A PERFECT NINTH FOR THE SAVE 4HE UNSUNG HE ROES OF THE GAME WERE THE "LUE 3OX INlELD WHO PRO

VIDED VERY GOOD COVERAGE WHENEVER 2OMFORD WAS ABLE TO PUT THE BALL IN PLAY AND MADE 5%! S PITCHING LOOK EVEN BETTER THAN IT WAS "EN &ORD AND *AMES ,OCKYER PLATOONED AT lRST BASE FOR MOST OF THE GAME AND BOTH HAD A VERY GOOD DAY DEFENSIVELY )T WAS A VERY PROMISING START FOR THE "LUE 3OX WHO DEMONSTRATED STRONG PITCHING SOLID DE FENSE AND SMART HITTING AND BASERUNNING )T TOOK CONTRI BUTIONS FROM EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM TO PUT 5%! OVER 2OMFORD AND THE TEAM IS PREPARED TO CONTINUE THIS STYLE OF PLAY FOR THE REMAIN DER OF THE SEASON

7HY DOES THE ""# INSIST ON SUCH FERVENT COVERAGE OF THE #OMMONWEALTH GAMES %VE RYONE KNOWS IT IS A SECOND CLASS CITIZEN IN TERMS OF IN TERNATIONAL SPORTING COMPE TITION AND THE MINUTE "RITISH ATHLETES CATCH A WHIFF OF AN !MERICAN OR 2USSIAN COM PETITOR THEY WILL SCAMPER BACK DOWN OFF THE PODIUM TO THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE hALSO RANSv 9ET WE GET AROUND SIX HOURS COVERAGE A DAY FROM THE "EEB AND EVERY TIME A HOME NATION BAGS A MEDAL

WE ARE SUBJECTED TO ENDLESS COMMENTS ABOUT POTENTIAL SUCCESS IN EVEN THOUGH IT IS PATENTLY OBVIOUS THAT THE MAJORITY OF THESE COM PETITORS WILL NOT GET A SNIFF OF PRECIOUS METAL WHEN THE /L YMPICS COME TO TOWN 4HE SOONER THE ""# STARTS TREATING THE #OMMONWEALTH GAMES AS WHAT THEY REALLY ARE n AN ELABORATE SPORTS DAY n THEN THE BETTER IT WILL BE FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING OUR 46 SCHEDULES

"AD GRAMMAR

)N ONE OF THE WEEK S &! #UP QUARTER lNALS 7EST (AM HAD JUST TAKEN A TWO GOAL LEAD AGAINST MAN -ANCHESTER #ITY WHEN -ARK "RIGHT EN THUSIASTICALLY PROCLAIMED

hWHAT AN INCREDIBLE TURNA ROUNDv )F ANYONE IS ABLE TO TELL ME HOW THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IN ANY WAY REPRESENTS A hTURNAROUNDv THEN ) WILL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL )T IS THIS TYPE OF NONSEN SICAL COMMENT ALONG WITH APPALLING GRAMMAR hTHEY VE DONE FANTASTICv n IT S hFANTAS TICALLYv PLEASE THAT LEAVES ME INCREASINGLY TEMPTED TO REACH FOR THE MUTE BUTTON WHEN WATCHING FOOTBALL ON TELEVISION

4EST CRICKET

7HILST WE HAVE BEEN SUBJECT ED TO ALL THESE MISDEMEAN OURS ON 46 SCREENS HARDLY A PEEP HAS BEEN HEARD ABOUT %NGLAND S ASTOUNDING CRICKET WIN AGAINST )NDIA )F 3UE "ARKER WAS NOT TOO BUSY TELLING US ABOUT THE LAT EST INSIGNIlCANT GOLD FROM THE #OMMONWEALTH 'AMES

PERHAPS SHE WOULD HAVE THE TIME TO PAY TRIBUTE TO A GREAT WIN BY h&REDDIEv AND HIS TEAM

#ONCRETE

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$ANCE SPORT ROCK 6ARSITY COMPETITION

*EN -ARCHANT 5%! S "ALLROOM !ND ,ATIN !MERICAN $ANCE 3OCI ETY "!,!$3 WOWED THE CROWDS AT THE )NTER6AR SITY $ANCE #OMPETITION )6$# WITH A KICK ASS STREET ROUTINE ON 3ATURDAY TH -ARCH 4HE )6$# IS THE BIGGEST

INTER UNIVERSITY DANCESPORT COMPETITION OF THE YEAR

DRAWING CROWDS NUMBER ING IN THE HUNDREDS WHO ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO WITNESS SOME OF THE MOST DARING AND ENTHUSED AMATEUR BALLROOM AND LATIN DANCING THE 5+ HAS TO OFFER 5NIVERSITY TEAMS FROM ALL OVER THE 5+ TRAVEL FOR HOURS ACROSS THE COUNTRY OF TEN LEAVING BEFORE DAWN TO SPEND AN ENTIRE DAY AT THE

EVENT BEFORE RETURNING HOME EXHAUSTED BUT EXHILARATED !ND ALL IN THE NAME OF DANC ING WHETHER FOR THE SHEER ENJOYMENT OF IT TO WOW THE CROWDS OR TO WIN THE MEDALS UP FOR GRABS AND THE PRESTIGE THAT COMES WITH THEM 4HE OFFBEAT COMPETITION IS A ROUND IN WHICH TEAMS PER FORM DANCE ROUTINES WHICH DO NOT INCLUDE MUCH OR ANY

BALLROOM AND LATIN DANCING 4HIS YEAR THEY RANGED FROM

A MEDLEY OF DANCES FROM 7EST 3IDE 3TORY TO AN EYE BROW RAISING VERSION OF 4HE 2OCKY (ORROR 0ICTURE SHOW

TO BALLET AND JAZZ 5%! S JAW DROPPING HIP HOP ROUTINE CAME AN IMPRESSIVE TH OUT OF GROUPS IN ITS lRST YEAR OF COMPETING )TS MEMBERS n #HARLOTTE "ARNES 4IM 2E GAN *ESS (ALLYBONE 'EMMA ,YNES *EN -ARCHANT ,AURA 6AUX 2OBIN -ATTHEWS AND :OE 'UTTERIDGE HAD LESS

THAN TWO WEEKS TO LEARN THE DEMANDING AND FAST PACED ROUTINE BUT NEVERTHELESS PERFORMED WITH TRUE ATTITUDE AND STYLE 4HIS WAS IN SPITE OF A TECHNICAL ERROR WHICH CAUSED THE WRONG MUSIC TO BE PLAYED INITIALLY RESULTING IN QUITE A BIT OF CONSTERNA TION AND AMUSEMENT 4HE WHOLE TEAM HAD AN ENJOYABLE IF TIRING DAY OUT IN THE LUSCIOUS 3PORTS #ENTRE AT 'UILDFORD AND ALTHOUGH

WE DIDN T RETURN WITH ANY MEDALS IT S CERTAINLY A COM PETITION NOBODY WILL FORGET 7E WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR EXCELLENT SUPPORTIVE AND OCCASIONALLY SCARY HIP HOP TEACHER +ATE FOR HER HELP AND PATIENCE WE LITERALLY COULDN T HAVE DONE IT WITH OUT HER ! BIG WELL DONE ALL ROUND 4HE OFFBEAT TEAM WILL BE PERFORMING THEIR ROUTINE AT THE #!3!S ON -ARCH TH

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