Concrete - Issue 194

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,OUIS (OLDING 0ARSONS $EPUTY %DITOR !TTACKS ON PEOPLE AROUND THE 5NI VERSITY CAMPUS HAVE STARTED AGAIN BUT THIS TIME CYCLISTS ARE BEING SPECIl CALLY TARGETED )T SEEMS THAT LOCAL YOUTHS ARE TYING ROPES ACROSS CYCLE LANES LEAV ING THE CYCLISTS WITH LITTLE CHANCE TO TAKE ANY EVASIVE ACTION 3O FAR THREE AMBUSHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED TWO AT THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE 5NIVERSITY AND THE .ORWICH AND .ORFOLK 5NIVERSITY (OSPITAL AND ONE ON "LUEBELL ROAD )N THE l RST ATTACK ON 7EDNES DAY /CTOBER TH AT THE FEMALE VICTIM A MEMBER OF THE 3CHOOL OF #HEMICAL 3CIENCES AND 0HARMACY S RESEARCH STAFF WAS APPROACHING THE BRIDGE WHEN SHE NOTICED A GROUP OF YOUTHS 3HE BECAME SUSPICIOUS WHEN SHE

NOTICED THAT ONE OF THE BOYS HAD A PITT BULL AND THE STREET LAMP WAS NOT WORKING !S THE VICTIM CYCLED UP THE BRIDGE A ROPE WHICH HAD BEEN STRUNG ACROSS IT GOT CAUGHT UN DERNEATH HER HANDLEBARS CAUSING HER TO CRASH AND SUSTAIN CUTS AND BRUISES 4HE YOUTHS RAN OFF 7HILE SHE WAS UNTYING THE ROPE ANOTHER YOUTH APPROACHED HER FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE (E SEEMS TO HAVE MUMBLED SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF hDID YOU SEE THOSE BOYS v 4HE VICTIM BELIEVES THAT THIS YOUTH WAS PART OF THE GROUP WHO LAID THE ROPE AND THAT HE HAD BEEN TAKING PICTURES OF HER CRASH WITH HIS MOBILE 5PON INVESTIGATION OF THE LAMP POST SHE NOTICED IT HAD BEEN TAMPERED WITH AND THE WIRES CUT THE VICTIM SUGGESTED THIS HAD BEEN

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7ORK BEGAN ON l XING THE PROB LEM IN 3UFFOLK BUT AFTER NOTICING WORKMEN IN WHITE PROTECTIVE SUITS AND MASKS IN THEIR HALLS OF RESI DENCE STUDENTS BECAME CONCERNED AS THEY WERE IN THE SAME AREAS WITHOUT SUCH PROTECTION !FTER INITIAL ENQUIRIES THE EXISTENCE OF ASBESTOS WAS DENIED HOWEVER STUDENTS WERE LATER TOLD THAT IN FACT ASBESTOS WAS PRESENT ! 5NIVERSITY SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED h3PECIALIST CONTRACTORS WERE EMPLOYED AND THEY CARRIED OUT THE ;ASBESTOS= REMOVAL UNDER STRICTLY CONTROLLED CONDITIONS TO EN

SURE THAT THE WORK WAS COMPLETED SAFELY v !FTER REPEATED DELAYS IN l X ING THE PROBLEM AND A NUMBER OF ASSURANCES THAT THE HOT WATER WOULD RETURN STUDENTS BECAME SO FRUSTRATED WITH THE 5NIVERSITY THAT THEY HELD A TWENTY STRONG PROTEST OUTSIDE THE !CCOMMODATION /Fl CE BEFORE PILING INSIDE 4HE MANAGER EVENTUALLY MET WITH THREE STUDENTS TO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS AND WAS PARTICULARLY RESPONSIVE TO A PETITION PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED (OWEVER STUDENTS REMAIN

DISCONTENTED %MILY "OWYER 03) SAID h) DON T KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE THE WHOLE SITUATION IT S UNBELIEV ABLE AND IT STILL HASN T BEEN FULLY RESOLVEDv ADDING h3URELY RESIDENTS SHOULD BE TOLD MORE v !T THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS THE STUDENTS WERE STILL WITHOUT HOT WATER /NE RESIDENT SAID THAT THE WATER hIS MILD AND A BIT CLOUDY v 7HILE THE !CCOMMODATION /Fl CE DECLINED TO COMMENT A 5NIVERSITY SPOKESMAN SAID h4HE HOT WATER SUPPLY HAS NOW BEEN RESTORED AND THE UNIVERSITY HAS WRITTEN TO THE AFFECTED RESIDENTS TO

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APOLOGISE FOR THIS UNFORTUNATE AND ISOLATED INCIDENT AND TO OFFER A FULL RENT REFUND v $ANIELLE 3MITH !(0 SAID h) WAS QUITE ANNOYED AT THE COLD SHOWERS BUT HAPPIER THAT WE ARE NOW GETTING A FULL REFUND v 3TEVIE !LTMAN 5NION 7ELFARE /Fl CER STRESSED h)T IS IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS TO COME AND SPEAK TO ME ) AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE SITUATION AND THE 5NION WILL LOOK INTO IT v 9OU CAN CONTACT 3TEVIE AT SU WELFARE UEA AC UK OR VISIT HIS OFl CE IN 5NION (OUSE


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