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,OUIS (OLDING 0ARSONS $EPUTY %DITOR !TTACKS ON PEOPLE AROUND THE 5NI VERSITY CAMPUS HAVE STARTED AGAIN BUT THIS TIME CYCLISTS ARE BEING SPECIl CALLY TARGETED )T SEEMS THAT LOCAL YOUTHS ARE TYING ROPES ACROSS CYCLE LANES LEAV ING THE CYCLISTS WITH LITTLE CHANCE TO TAKE ANY EVASIVE ACTION 3O FAR THREE AMBUSHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED TWO AT THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE 5NIVERSITY AND THE .ORWICH AND .ORFOLK 5NIVERSITY (OSPITAL AND ONE ON "LUEBELL ROAD )N THE l RST ATTACK ON 7EDNES DAY /CTOBER TH AT THE FEMALE VICTIM A MEMBER OF THE 3CHOOL OF #HEMICAL 3CIENCES AND 0HARMACY S RESEARCH STAFF WAS APPROACHING THE BRIDGE WHEN SHE NOTICED A GROUP OF YOUTHS 3HE BECAME SUSPICIOUS WHEN SHE
NOTICED THAT ONE OF THE BOYS HAD A PITT BULL AND THE STREET LAMP WAS NOT WORKING !S THE VICTIM CYCLED UP THE BRIDGE A ROPE WHICH HAD BEEN STRUNG ACROSS IT GOT CAUGHT UN DERNEATH HER HANDLEBARS CAUSING HER TO CRASH AND SUSTAIN CUTS AND BRUISES 4HE YOUTHS RAN OFF 7HILE SHE WAS UNTYING THE ROPE ANOTHER YOUTH APPROACHED HER FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE (E SEEMS TO HAVE MUMBLED SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF hDID YOU SEE THOSE BOYS v 4HE VICTIM BELIEVES THAT THIS YOUTH WAS PART OF THE GROUP WHO LAID THE ROPE AND THAT HE HAD BEEN TAKING PICTURES OF HER CRASH WITH HIS MOBILE 5PON INVESTIGATION OF THE LAMP POST SHE NOTICED IT HAD BEEN TAMPERED WITH AND THE WIRES CUT THE VICTIM SUGGESTED THIS HAD BEEN
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!##/--/$!4)/. /&&)#% ). (/4 7!4%2 !NDY (IGSON 3TUDENTS LIVING IN 3UFFOLK 4ERRACE ARE TO RECEIVE A FULL RENT REFUND AFTER A MONTH WITHOUT HOT WATER 2ESIDENTS OF BLOCKS # AND $ WERE WITHOUT HOT WATER IN THEIR m ATS FROM THEIR SECOND DAY AT 5%! !S A STOP GAP MEASURE AFFECTED STUDENTS WERE GIVEN A KEY FOR SHOW ERS IN .ORFOLK 4ERRACE A TEN MINUTE WALK AWAY "UT STUDENTS WERE FURTHER ANGERED TO l ND THAT THESE SHOWERS WERE NOT BEING CLEANED
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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0RICES ARE RISING BUT STANDARDS ARE FALLING 4HE COST OF LIVING AT 5%! IS HIGHER THAN EVER BUT A SERIES OF BLUNDERS HAS LEFT STUDENTS ASKING WHY
#OLMAN (OUSE GETS RUDE AWAKENING $AVID 'ROCOTT 2ESIDENTS OF #OLMAN (OUSE ARE FURIOUS THAT BUILDING WORK IS WAKING THEM UP AS EARLY AS AM AND THAT THEY ARE RECEIV ING NO REBATE ON ACCOMMODA TION FEES FOR THE INCONVENIENCE 4HE BUILDING WORK AFFECTING #OL MAN RESIDENTS IS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND HALF OF "RITTEN (OUSE WHICH IS LIKELY TO LAST ALL YEAR !PART FROM THE OBVIOUS UN PLEASANTNESS OF BEING AWOKEN BY A MECHANICAL DRILL WHAT MOST LES #OLMAN RESIDENTS IS THAT WHILE SOME INHABITANTS OF 0ASTON AND 6ICTORY (OUSES ARE RECEIVING A REBATE ON THEIR FEES BECAUSE OF THE NOISE #OLMAN RESIDENTS HAVE TO COUGH UP EVERY PENNY 4HE 5%! ACCOMMODATION OFlCE HAS SAID THAT hBECAUSE THE BUILD ING WORK HAS RUN AHEAD OF SCHED ULE THE ACCOMMODATION PRICE PLAN WHICH WAS DRAWN UP SIX MONTHS AGO NO LONGER MATCHES REALITY v 4HE PROBLEM IS NOT JUST AFFECT ING THE HUNG OVER IT IS HAVING A SE RIOUS EFFECT ON THOSE STUDENTS TRYING TO STUDY !NNETTE -USSALAM A lRST YEAR PHARMACY STUDENT SAYS hMY ROOM ACTUALLY SHAKES AS THE DIGGERS DRIVE PASTv 3TUDENTS ARE DETERMINED TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD AND ON
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-ONDAY /CTOBER TH A MEETING WAS HELD IN A #OLMAN (OUSE RESIDENCE TO DISCUSS THE PROBLEM AND SIGN A PETITION TO BE SENT TO -ARK 2ICH ARDS THE !CCOMMODATION -ANAGER 4HE PETITION WILL BE SENT WITH A LETTER DETAILING THE COMPLAINTS AND SUGGESTIONS OF #OLMAN RESIDENTS !NOTHER MEETING IS PLANNED WITH RESIDENTS OF OTHER ACCOMMO DATION BLOCKS AFFECTED BY BUILD ING WORK AND RECEIVING NO REBATE SUCH AS #ONSTABLE 4ERRACE TO DIS CUSS WHAT FURTHER ACTION TO TAKE 4HE ORGANISER OF THE PETITION SUMMED UP THE GENERAL FEELING OF RESIDENTS AT THE MEETING SAY ING hIF ) HAD WANTED TO BE WOKEN UP BY A *#" ) WOULD HAVE AP PLIED FOR A ROOM WITH A REBATEv -R 2ICHARDS HAS BEEN QUOTED IN AN EMAIL AS SAYING hWE CON STANTLY REVIEW THE PROGRESS AND IMPACT OF BUILDING WORKS ON CAM PUS AND WHERE APPROPRIATE RE VISE DECISIONS WHICH WERE MADE SEVERAL MONTHS EARLIERv #/. #2%4% SUGGESTS HE DOES JUST THAT
!NDY (IGSON #ONCERNS AT THE EASE WHICH PEOPLE CAN BREAK INTO GROUND mOOR ROOMS OF 5%! RESIDENCES HAVE BEEN EX PRESSED BY A NUMBER OF STUDENTS &OR REASONS OF SAFETY #/.#2%4% WILL OMIT HALLS OF RESIDENCE INVOLVED /NE FEMALE STUDENT HAS BEEN A VICTIM TWICE IN THREE DAYS DESPITE THE WINDOWS BEING lRMLY CLOSED !NOTHER STUDENT TOLD #ONCRETE HOW TWO LAPTOPS HAD BEEN STOLEN 4HE 5NIVERSITY RESPONDED TO COMPLAINTS BY GIVING STUDENTS A SMALL PLASTIC DEVICE TO INSERT INTO THEIR WINDOWS SO THEY COULD NOT BE BROKEN INTO FROM THE OUTSIDE (OW EVER STUDENTS SAID THEY WOULD MUCH
RATHER HAVE FULLY SECURE WINDOWS ! 5%! SPOKESPERSON SAID h4HERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF BREAK INS COMMITTED RECENTLY BY OPPORTUNIST THIEVES WHO HAVE FOUND WINDOWS LEFT OPEN AND DOORS TO RESIDENCES PROPPED OPEN 7E HAVE INCREASED PATROLS AROUND ALL RESIDENCES AND IN VOLVED THE POLICE IN THESE PATROLS v 2AJ 03) SAID h) M VERY CON CERNED AT THE EASE WITH WHICH IT SEEMS THAT PEOPLE CAN BREAK IN ) HOPE THIS mAW IS lXED AND SOON v 3TEVIE !LTMAN 5NION 7EL FARE /FlCER SAID h4HE 5NION IS LOOKING INTO THE MATTER v )F YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS ISSUE CONTACT 3TE VIE ON SU WELFARE UEA AC UK
5NIVERSITY S DIRTY LAUNDRY 5NIVERSITY 6ILLAGE RESIDENTS WERE WITHOUT THE USE OF THEIR LAUNDRETTE RECENTLY AS IT WAS ABRUPTLY CLOSED !N INTERNAL BREAKDOWN MEANT THAT THE RESIDENTS OF THE VIL LAGE WERE FACED WITH THE PROB LEM OF HAVING TO TREK ONTO THE CAMPUS TO USE A LAUNDRETTE 4HE HUNDREDS OF RESIDENTS WHO PAY a A WEEK FOR AC COMMODATION AND THE FACIL ITY OF THE LAUNDRETTE WERE OUTRAGED *ASMINE "UCK lRST YEAR "IOL
3TUDENTS AFFECTED ARE EN COURAGED TO EMAIL -ARK 2 I C H A R D S U E A A C U K W I T H THEIR CONCERNS OR IF THEY WISH TO SIGN THE PETITION SEND A TEXT WITH THEIR NAME AND AD DRESS TO
OGY STUDENT SAID h-Y TIMETABLE IS BUSY ) NEED TO HAVE A WORK ING ,AUNDRETTE NEAR MY ACCOM MODATION 4HE LENGTH OF TIME IT HAS BEEN CLOSED IS UNACCEPTABLE v 4HE SMALL SIX WASHER AND FOUR DRY ER LAUNDRETTE DID HAVE A NOTICE SAYING IT WOULD RE OPEN ON /CTOBER TH HOWEVER THIS DID NOT MATERIALISE ! WORKMAN PRESENT ON THAT DAY SAID HE hDAREN T GIVE A TIMEv OF WHEN IT WOULD RE OPEN
-ATTRESS MITES LEAVE THEIR MARK ON 5NIVERSITY 6ILLAGE STUDENT ! lRST YEAR OF THE VILLAGE RESIDENT HAS BEEN LEFT WITH BITES ON HER LEGS IT EMERGED RECENTLY BECAUSE HER MATTRESS WAS INFESTED WITH LICE 4HE AFFECTED STUDENT SAID h) WAS WALKING ON CAMPUS ONE
MORNING WHEN ) FELT A BURNING STINGING SENSATION ON MY LEGS WHEN ) LOOKED ) NOTICED MANY RED SORES ALL OVER MY LOWER LEGS v !FTER REPORTING THIS TO THE !C COMMODATION /FlCE THEY IN
SPECTED THE ROOM THE NEXT DAY AND LEFT A NOTE SAYING THEY HAD SPRAYED THE CARPETS WITH AN ANTI MITE SO LUTION AND CHANGED THE MATTRESS !LTHOUGH ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN THE VICTIM SAYS h)T S HOR
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BUSHED ON THE SAME BRIDGE BUT THIS TIME WAS PUNCHED IN THE FACE AND THE BICYCLE THROWN INTO THE WATER
WHEN THIS REPORTER CYCLED IN 4HE ROPE WAS LAYING ABANDONED ON THE GROUND ACROSS THE PATH STILL lRMLY ATTACHED TO THE TREE 7ORRYINGLY IT HAD SOMETHING ATTACHED TO THE LOOSE END OF IT POSSIBLY TO HELP PULL THE ROPE UP WHEN A CYCLISTS GOES PAST 4HE POLICE WERE CALLED US ING THE NON EMERGENCY NUMBER AND BY LATE AF TERNOON THE TRAP WAS GONE !NYONE WHO SEES ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS IS ASKED TO PLEASE CALL THE NON EMERGENCY ABOVE WHERE THE OPERATOR HAS ACCESS TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM IF THE INFOR MATION IS DEEMED URGENT 4HE SECURITY LODGE SHOULD BE CON TACTED ABOUT ANYTHING ONE MIGHT NOTICE AS SUSPICIOUS
TAMPERED WITH AND THE WIRES CUT THE VICTIM SUGGESTED THIS HAD BEEN DONE ON PURPOSE TO STOP HER FROM SEEING THE ROPE 3HE BELIEVES THAT THE BLUE ROPE MAY BE ONE USED BY THE 5NI VERSITY TO CORDON OFF GRASS AREAS 3HE REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO SECURITY WHO SENT SOMEONE DOWN IMMEDIATELY 3ECURITY MENTIONED THAT THIS HAD HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE AND THAT THE YOUTHS NORMALLY ASK FOR hRIGHT OF PASSAGE v 4HE VICTIM STATED THAT hIT AN NOYS ME THAT THIS WASN T PUBLICISED BEFORE AS IT COULD HAVE MADE PEO PLE MORE AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM v ! SECOND PERSON WAS ALSO AM
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! THIRD AMBUSH TOOK PLACE ON "LUEBELL ROAD ON 4UESDAY 3EPTEMBER TH AT /NCE AGAIN A ROPE WAS IN PLACE ACROSS THE PATH BETWEEN A TREE AND THE HEDGE 4HE VICTIM CYCLED INTO IT BUT DID NOT FALL OFF 4HERE WAS NO REPORT OF ANY YOUTHS 4HE TRAP WAS STILL IN PLACE 7EDNESDAY MORNING
RIBLE KNOWING THAT THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THE PROBLEM MAY STILL BE AROUND THE BITES ARE FADING BUT STILL ITCH AT TIMES v 4HE ADDED PROBLEM OF THE 6ILLAGE LAUNDRETTE BEING CLOSED
"LUE ROPE USED IN ATTACKS
MEANS THE VICTIM WHO HAS A TIME TABLE HAS NOT YET HAD A CHANCE TO WASH THE SUSPECTED BEDDING &OR NOW ALL SHCAN DO IS KEEP THEM IN A PLASTIC BAG AND HOPE THE MITES DO NOT SPREAD CAUSING HER FURTHER GRIEF
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.AKED #ALENDAR 5%! 3OCIETIES ARE BEING ASKED TO GET THEIR KITS OFF TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY ! RANGE OF SOCIETIES ARE COM PETING FOR THE CHANCE TO GET THEIR NUDE PICTURES INTO THE SECOND .UDE SOCIETIES #ALENDAR 7ITH ONLY SPACES INVENTIVE NESS 4HEY ARE LOOKING FOR NUDE PICTURES THAT SHOW ALL THE SOCIETIES WITH THEIR OWN MARK 3OCIETIES CAN MODEL ANYWHERE IN THE 5NIVERSITY PREFERABLY EARLY IN THE MORNING AND IN NORMAL EVERYDAY BUSINESS BUT THOSE WHO ARE MORE ADVENTUROUS MAY WANT TO EXPLORE UNUSUAL LOCATIONS 4HE CALENDAR WILL START SELLING IN WEEK AND THE MONEY RAISED WILL GO TO THE -AKE A 7ISH &OUN DATION
&RESHER S 3URVEY 4HIS WEEK SAW THE LAUNCH OF THE &RESHERS 7EEK SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE 5NION OF 5%! STUDENTS 4HE SURVEY AIMS TO IDENTIFY HOW WELL THE lRST WEEK PREPARED 5%! S NEWEST STUDENTS FOR THE CHALLENGES AHEAD OF THEM )T ALSO AIMS TO lND OUT WHAT STUDENTS THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT 5%! IS ONE OF THE ONLY UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY TO HAVE FORMAL COURSE LECTURES IN THE lRST WEEK WITH MANY SCHOOLS STARTING ON THE lRST DAY )F YOU HAVEN T TAKEN THE SURVEY ALREADY YOU CAN DO SO BY VISITING WWW UEASTUDENT COM 3O FAR OF THE PLUS STUDENTS WHO HAVE TAKEN THE SURVEY FEEL THEY WOULD HAVE BENElTED FROM AN INDUCTION WEEK SOLELY DEDICATED TO HELP ING THEM GET TO KNOW 5%! AND .ORWICH
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3AM %MANUEL ! MOMENT IN A GAME SHOW SPOT LIGHT BOUGHT A GREAT DEAL OF SUCCESS FOR A FORMER 5%! STUDENT 2AY .G WHO IS ORIGINALLY FROM (ONG +ONG STACKED UP A BOX FULL OF MONEY ON #HANNEL S ICONIC STUDENT PROGRAMME h$EAL OR .O $EAL v 2AY WHO APPEARED ON THE SHOW ON /CTOBER TH WON A WHOPPING a BUT HAD TO FACE THE TORTURE OF OPENING THE REST OF THE BOXES ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT HE HAD LOST OUT ON A a PRIZE BECAUSE HE SETTLED FOR A DEAL TOO EARLY (OWEVER OPTIMISTIC 2AY SAID h4HE WAY ) LOOK AT IT IS THAT IT COST ME P TO PHONE AND APPLY FOR THE SHOW *UST UNDER A MILLION PEOPLE CALLED SENT BACK THEIR APPLICATIONS AND PEOPLE GOT AUDITIONS ) WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY CHOSEN h) HAD ABOUT THE SAME CHANCE OF GETTING ON AS WINNING ON A SCRATCH CARD SO ) WAS OVER THE MOON WITH THE a v
!FTER PROMPTLY SPLASHING SOME OF THE CASH ON BUBBLY 2AY CHOSE TO INVEST HIS WINNINGS IN HIS OWN LAPTOP SALES COMPANY "UT THE FORMER MATHS WITH ME TEOROLOGY STUDENT WHO WAS ALSO THE 5%! 3TUDENT 5NION S )NTERNA TIONAL /FlCER REVEALED HE WAS AS EXCITED ABOUT lNDING OUT SOME OF THE SHOW S SECRETS AS HE WAS ABOUT WINNING THE MONEY 2AY COMMENTED h4HE BANKER IS A REAL PERSON ) SPOKE TO HIM MYSELF h(E SOUNDED OLD SAD MISER ABLE AND HORRIBLE v JOKED THE YEAR OLD (E WAS MORE AMICABLE ABOUT THE SHOWS HOST h7HEN .OEL %DMONDS CAME TOWARDS ME ON MY lRST DAY ) JUST WENT BRIGHT RED "UT HE SEEMED LIKE A REALLY WARM MAN AND WAS NICE TO TALK TO v 2AY APPEARED IN SHOWS WITH A NUMBER OF THEM BEING lLMED IN EACH DAY OVER SEVERAL WEEKS h7E HAD TO GET CHANGED IN BE TWEEN THE lLMING OF EACH SHOW v SAID 2AY h)T WAS QUITE FUNNY WE HAD TO PRETEND EACH SHOW WAS ON A NEW DAY v 4HE 5%! GRADUATE STAYED IN
A STAR HOTEL IN "RISTOL WITH THE OTHER CONTESTANTS AND FORMED CLOSE FRIENDSHIPS WITH THEM WHICH WENT AS FAR AS TELLING THEM DURING HIS SHOW h) WILL BE WITH YOU GUYS ALWAYS v (E IS KEEN TO POINT OUT TO CYN ICS THAT THE CAMARADERIE ISN T JUST FOR THE CAMERAS (E SAID h%VERY ONE IS REALLY FRIENDLY 4HAT S NOT AN ACT WE ARE NOT TOLD TO PUT ON v
3INCE HIS BIG WIN 2AY HAS BEEN mIRTING WITH FAME AND NOW GETS RECOGNISED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY h0EOPLE HAVE COME UP TO ME IN EVERY CLUB ) VE BEEN IN )T REALLY HAS CHANGED MY LIFE h) WOULD DElNITELY GO ON ANOTHER GAME SHOW AND IF ANYONE ELSE IS THINKING OF DOING IT ) WOULD SAY GO FOR IT v
,ECTURERS ASKED TO SPY ON STUDENTS *OINT 0RESIDENT OF THE 5NIVERSITY AND #OLLEGE 5NION SPEAKS EXCLUSIVELY TO #/.#2%4% ABOUT THE GOVERN MENT S LATEST INFRINGEMENT ON CIVIL LIBERTIES
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5%! STUDENTS WERE GIVEN A STARK REMINDER OF THE ONGOING PROBLEM OF GLOBAL POVERTY WHEN -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY RECREATED A SHANTY TOWN ON CAMPUS LAST WEEK AS PART OF A DRIVE TO FORCE ACTION TO RELIEVE THE $ARFUR CRISIS -0( SET UP THE SHANTY TOWN IN THE 3QUARE ON 4UESDAY TO COINCIDE WITH THE &OURTH !NNUAL 7HITE "AND $AY AND TO ENCOURAGE STU DENTS TO ENGAGE WITH 4HIRD 7ORLD ISSUES !BOUT PEOPLE SIGNED A PETITION AIMED AT PUTTING PRESSURE ON 3ECRETARY OF 3TATE FOR )NTERNA TIONAL $EVELOPMENT (ILARY "ENN TO IMPROVE THE 5+ S RESPONSE TO THE $ARFUR CRISIS -0( 0RESIDENT 3IMON $UNK CALLED THE 5+ S CONTRIBUTION OF a MILLION SO FAR hA DROP IN THE OCEAN GIVEN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CRISIS v (E IS DEMANDING LESS RHETORIC AND MORE ACTION FROM THE GOVERNMENT )NTEREST IN -0( REMAINS HIGH OVER A YEAR AFTER ,IVE FORCED GLO BAL POVERTY TO THE TOP OF THE POLITI CAL AGENDA AND MORE EVENTS ARE PLANNED ON CAMPUS THIS SEMESTER
/N -ONDAY IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED hLECTUR ERS AND UNIVERSITY STAFF TO SPY ON !SIAN LOOKING AND -USLIM STUDENTS v )T WAS REPORTED THAT LECTURERS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO GO TO 3PE CIAL "RANCH TO REPORT ANY ATTEMPTS TO hGROOMv INNOCENT STUDENTS ES PECIALLY THOSE FROM A hSEGREGATEDv -USLIM BACKGROUND )T WAS ALSO SUGGESTED THAT hCHECKS SHOULD BE MADE ON EX TERNAL SPEAKERS AT )SLAMIC SOCIETY EVENTSv 4HIS LED TO AN IMMEDIATE BACKLASH BY STUDENT AND LECTURER LEADERS !CCORDING TO THE STORY BROKEN BY THE 'UARDIAN THE GOVERNMENT BELIEVES UNIVERSITIES PROVIDE hFERTILE RECRUITING GROUNDSv FOR )SLAMIC EXTREMISTS )T FURTHER SUGGESTED THAT INNOCENT STUDENTS MAY BE hSUCKED INh BY SMALL RADICAL GROUPS !LARMED STATEMENTS WERE IS SUED BY 'EMMA 4UMELTY 0RESIDENT OF THE .53 AND 7AKKAS +HAN 0RESIDENT OF THE &EDERATION OF 3TU DENT )SLAMIC 3OCIETIES SAYING THIS RANG OF h-C#ARTHYISMv AND WAS
hxPOTENTIALLY THE WIDEST INFRINGE MENT OF )SLAMIC RIGHTS THERE HAS EVER BEEN v (OWEVER $R $ENNIS (AYES JOINT 0RESIDENT OF THE 5NIVER SITY AND #OLLEGE 5NION SPEAKING EXCLUSIVELY TO #/.#2%4% ARGUED THAT THIS IS FAR MORE THAN A CONCERN FOR )SLAMIC STUDENTS INSTEAD IT IS A WORRY FOR THE TRADITION OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM ITSELF
$R (AYES ARGUED THAT h4HE UNI VERSITY IS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT BELIEF IN THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH THROUGH REASONx ;AND SO=x THE ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS THE IDEAS OF @EXTREMISTS AND MONITOR THEIR UTTERANCES IS YET ANOTHER AT TEMPT TO UNDERMINE FREE THINKING IN THE ACADEMY v (E WENT FURTHER SAYING THAT hxALL STUDENTS AND STAFF NEED TO
DEFEND THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY AS A PLACE OF DEBATE AND DISCUSSION v #/.#2%4% CONTACTED THE 5NION %XEC TO lND OUT THEIR POSITION ON THIS BUT WERE TOLD THAT THERE WAS NO FORMAL POLICY ON THE MATTER SINCE THIS WOULD REQUIRE A RESOLUTION FROM 5NION #OUNCIL (OWEVER THE %XEC IS INDEED VERY CONCERNED ABOUT GOVERNMENT INTER FERENCE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LECTURERS AND THEIR STUDENTS 4HE 5NIVERSITY WAS ALSO CON TACTED AND ASKED FOR A STATEMENT ON THE MATTER IT SAID THAT ALTHOUGH IT COULD MAKE hNO COMMENTS ON A LEAKED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTv BUT THAT hALL UNIVERSITIES RECOGNISE THE CHALLENGES FACING THE 5+ IN STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY COHE SION AND COMBATING EXTREMISMv )T ALSO WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT h5%! WORKS CLOSELY WITH ALL GROUPS ON CAMPUS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE DIVERSE RANGE OF INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITYv $R (AYES STATED THAT DESPITE THE TIMES WE LIVE IN WE MUST STAND UP FOR THE PRINCIPAL OF A FREE UNIVER SITY EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITIES FAILED TO DO SO THEMSELVES h)F THAT MAKES SOME STUDENTS SOME LECTURERS AND MOST POLITICIANS VERY UNCOMFORTA BLE THEN ) MAKE NO APOLOGY FOR IT v
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0ORNOGRAPHY IN THE (IVE 4HERE WILL BE A DEBATE OVER POR NOGRAPHY IN THE (IVE THIS 7EDNES DAY TH 3OCIALIST FEMINIST 3OPHIE "UCK LAND WILL GIVE A SPEECH WHICH WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A DEBATE 4HE DEBATE WILL CENTRE AROUND THE MORALITY OF PORNOGRAPHY AND THE LEGALISATION OF PROSTITUTION INVOLVING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A 5NION OF 0ROSTITUTES 4HE DEBATE WILL TAKE PLACE BETWEEN PM AND PM
,IVEWIRE NOMINATED FOR THREE AWARDS 5%! S HOME OF NEW MUSIC ,IVEWIRE IS HOPING FOR AN OTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR AT THE ANNUAL 3TUDENT 2ADIO !WARDS WHICH TAKES PLACE IN ,ONDON NEXT MONTH ,IVEWIRE HAS RECEIVED THREE NOMINATIONS IN THE AWARDS WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED BY *O 7HILEY AND 3COTT -ILLS 'REG *AMES WHO HOSTS 7EDNESDAY S PRIME TIME SHOW h7IREDv IS NOMINATED FOR h"EST -ALE 0RESENTERv THE CATEGORY THAT HE WON LAST YEAR ,IVEWIRE HAS ALSO RECEIVED NOMINATIONS FOR h"EST -ARKETING AND "RANDINGv AND h"EST 4ECHNICAL )NNOVATIONv
-ARCH FOR THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION /N 3UNDAY STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE 5+ WILL MARCH ON ,ONDON TO KEEP HIGHER EDUCATION OPEN TO ALL CLASSES $AVID -C.AUGHT 4HOUSANDS OF STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE 5+ WILL GATHER IN ,ONDON ON 3UNDAY TO PROTEST AGAINST THE POS SIBLE LIFTING OF THE CAP ON TUITION FEES 4HE PROTEST IS BEING ORGANISED BY THE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS AS PART OF THEIR !DMISSION )MPOS SIBLE CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH TUITION FEES ALTOGETHER &EES ARE CURRENTLY CAPPED AT a BUT IF THE CAP IS LIFTED UNIVERSITIES WOULD BE FREE TO CHARGE STUDENTS FAR MORE FOR HIGHER EDUCA TION 3INCE THE INTRODUCTION OF TUI TION FEES IN AVERAGE STUDENT DEBT HAS INCREASED AND LAST WEEK 5#!3 REPORTED THAT UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS WERE DOWN BY THIS YEAR WHICH THE .53 BELIEVES IS DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE RISING COSTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION 4HEY FEAR UNCAPPED FEES WOULD ALIENATE EVEN MORE POTEN TIAL STUDENTS WHILE PROVIDING THOSE FROM WEALTHIER BACKGROUNDS WITH A FAR HIGHER STANDARD OF EDUCATION
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h)F THE GOVERNMENT IS SERI OUS ABOUT ACCESS TO EDUCATION IT NEEDS TO INCREASE STUDENT SUPPORT NOT INCREASE STUDENT DEBT v SAID .53 .ATIONAL 0RESIDENT 'EMMA 4UMELTY (OWEVER IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT PROTESTORS WILL MEET RESISTANCE FROM VICE CHANCELLORS WHEN THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS INDEPENDENTLY REVIEWED IN )N THE PAST MONTH THE 'UARD IAN REPORTED THAT VICE CHANCELLORS HAD RE ITERATED THEIR BELIEF THAT THE CURRENT FEES ARE STILL NOT ENOUGH 4HE PROTEST ON 3UNDAY TAKES PLACE ALMOST THREE YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS lRST DESCENDED ON ,ONDON TO PROTEST AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT S PROPOSED TOP UP FEES 4HE "ILL PASSED BY ONLY lVE VOTES IN AND THE INCREASING UNPOPULARITY OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS LEFT CAMPAIGNERS IN AN OPTIMIS TIC MOOD h7E RE HOPING THIS TIME WE LL HAVE A MUCH BETTER CHANCE OF STOP PING IT v SAID !NDY *UDSON 0UBLIC ITY /FlCER AT 5%! 5%! IS SENDING AT LEAST TWO COACH LOADS OF STUDENTS OVER
PEOPLE TO THE PROTEST AND THE 3TUDENT 5NION HAS BEEN WORKING HARD TO MAKE THE CURRENT CAMPAIGN AS EFFECTIVE AS POSSIBLE 4HE MARCH WILL FOLLOW ,ON DON S %MBANKMENT "IG "EN AND 7HITEHALL BEFORE CULMINATING IN A RALLY AT 4RAFALGAR 3QUARE
$ETAILS OF THE PROTEST AND THE !DMISSION )MPOSSIBLE CAMPAIGN ARE AVAILABLE AT WWW NUSONLINE CO UK 4ICKETS FOR FREE TRANSPORT TO THE PROTEST CAN BE PURCHASED FOR A a RETURNABLE DEPOSIT FROM &RANCIS (AMLYM #OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER
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5%! SOCIALS HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM THE 'ARDEN (OUSE FOLLOW ING A -EN S FOOTBALL TEAM 0UB 'OLF SOCIAL 4HE 'ARDEN (OUSE IS REGU LARLY USED DURING SUCH EVENTS BUT THIS TIME THE ANTICS OF THE FOOTBALLERS SEEMINGLY WENT A LITTLE TOO FAR 4HE 'ARDEN (OUSE RECEIVED COMPLAINTS ABOUT EXCESSIVE NOISE DOORS BEING KNOCKED UPON AND EVEN COMMUNAL URINATION AND VOMITING AND
THUS FELT THE NEED TO CONTACT THE 5NIVERSITY 4HE FOOTBALL CLUB HAVE APOL OGISED TO THE 'ARDEN (OUSE IN PERSON AND IN WRITING BUT THIS HAS NOT PREVENTED THE PUB PUTTING A BAN ON ALL 5NIVERSITY SOCIALS &OOTBALL 3OCIAL SECRETARY $AN 2OBINSON SAID h 4HE FOOT BALL TEAM IS ABOUT MAKING NEW FRIENDS AND IF THAT MEANS BEING SICK IN PUB GARDENS THEN WHO AM ) TO STAND IN THE WAY v
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)NTERNATIONAL AFTERNOON TEA !N INTERNATIONAL COFFEE AND TEA SOCIAL WHICH WELCOMES BOTH HOME AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WILL BE HELD BY THE 3TUDENT 5NION THIS WEEK 4HE EVENT IS BEING PUT ON TO PROMOTE INTEGRATION BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL AND HOME STUDENTS AND THERE WILL BE FREE COFFEE TEA AND CAKE FOR ALL )T WILL BE THIS 7EDNESDAY THE TH FROM PM IN THE ,#2 ,UNCH "OX
"LACK (ISTORY DEBATE /CTOBER SEES THE ANNUAL CELEBRA TION OF BLACK (ISTORY -ONTH HELD TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE OF "LACK HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE PROVIDE INFORMATION ON POSITIVE BLACK CON TRIBUTIONS TO "RITISH SOCIETY AND RAISE AWARENESS AND CONlDENCE OF BLACK CULTURAL HERITAGE 4O FURTHER THESE AIMS AND TO CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH 5%! $EBATING 3OCIETY IS ORGANIS ING A PUBLIC DEBATE WITH SPEAKERS FROM THE LOCAL BLACK COMMUNITY ON WHETHER THE USE OF THE WORD @NIGGER SHOULD REMAIN SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE WITHIN SOME BLACK CULTURES 4HE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL IT WILL TAKE PLACE IN ,ECTURE 4HEATRE ON 4HURSDAY TH /CTO BER AT PM
5%! HONORARY GRADUATE WINS .OBEL #ATHERINE - *ONES (ONORARY GRADUATE 0ROFESSOR -U HAMMAD 9UNUS HAS WON THE .OBEL 0EACE 0RIZE FOR THE SAME REASON HE WAS AWARDED A DEGREE FROM 5%! 4HE 'RAMEEN "ANK AND 0ROFES SOR 9UNUS ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR GAINED .OBEL ACCLAIM FOR THEIR MI CRO CREDIT SYSTEM WHICH PROMOTES THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOP MENT OF THE WORLD S POOR 4HE 'RAMEEN "ANKING SYSTEM DIFFERS FROM CONVENTIONAL BANKING AS IT DOES NOT REQUIRE BORROWERS TO PROVIDE A COLLATERAL GUARANTEE FOR THE REPAYMENT OF THEIR LOAN )N REJECTING BORROWERS WITHOUT COL LATERAL THE CONVENTIONAL BANKING SYSTEM CONTRIBUTES TO POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD )N THE SCHOOL OF $E VELOPMENT 3TUDIES AT 5%! REC OGNISED 9UNUS WORK WITH THE 'RAMEEN "ANK AND AWARDED HIM AN HONORARY DEGREE AS A $OCTOR OF ,ETTERS #URRENT STAFF MEMBERS AT THE 3CHOOL HAVE EXPRESSED THEIR HAPPINESS AT 9UNUS MOST RECENT ACHIEVEMENT h#ONGRATULATIONS TO -UHAM MAD 9UNUS FOR HIS .OBEL 0EACE 0RIZE FOR HIS WORK IN FOUNDING THE 'RAMEEN "ANK A MICRO CREDIT FACILITY FOR MILLIONS OF POOR PEOPLE IN "ANGLADESH v SAID "RUCE ,ANK FORD THE (EAD OF $EVELOPMENT
STUDIES 4HE MICRO lNANCE CONCEPT BE HIND THE 'RAMEEN "ANK HAS BEEN RUNNING SINCE WHEN 9UNUS PROVIDED HIS lRST LOANS TO WOMEN IN SOUTHERN "ANGLADESH 9UNUS BANK HAS HELPED TO IMPROVE THE LIVES AND STATUS OF MANY "ANGLA DESHIS 7OMEN HAVE BEEN SEEN TO BENElT MOST AS OVER OF BORROWERS ARE FEMALE ACCORDING TO 'RAMEEN #OMMUNICATIONS !LTHOUGH THE MAJORITY OF THE 'RAMEEN "ANK S CLIENTS ARE "ANG LADESHI IT HAS BECOME A MODEL FOR lNANCIAL SCHEMES AIMED AT THE POOR ACROSS THE WORLD 9UNUS WORK IS UNDOUBTEDLY A SUCCESS )N -AY THE 'RAMEEN "ANK BOASTED MILLION BORROW ERS AND A REPAYMENT RATE ON LOANS OF ACCORDING TO 'RAMEEN #OMMUNICATIONS 9UNUS HOPES THAT IDEAS LIKE HIS WILL MEAN THAT ONE DAY POVERTY WILL BECOME A THING OF THE PAST (E BELIEVES THAT IN ORDER TO ERADICATE WORLD POVERTY THE INSTITUTIONS WHICH UPHOLD IT MUST CHANGE 4HE 'RAMEEN "ANK IS ONE SUCH EXAM PLE OF AN INSTITUTION THAT CAN AND HAS CHANGED THE WORLD
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2OBERT -AY 5%! RUGBY INITIATIONS FOR THE FRESHERS TEAM WERE HAMPERED BY SECURITY ON 7EDNESDAY /CTOBER TH 4HE TEAM WERE TOLD THERE COULD BE NO NUDITY INCASE SOME BODY CALLED THE POLICE BECAUSE THERE WAS A BOOK SIGNING ON CAMPUS WHICH ATTRACTED A LARGE NUMBER OF SENIOR CITIZENS 4HERE WAS NO RUN AROUND THE CAMPUS AS IS USUAL NEITHER WAS THERE THE GROUP NAKEDNESS ON THE STEPS AROUND THE SQUARE WHICH USUALLY FOLLOWS 4EAM MEMBERS 0INNOCHIO AND 3POOF THIRD YEAR HISTORY STUDENTS SAID h3ECURITY ARE CRAP v !NOTHER ADDED h4HERE S NOTH ING QUITE AS LIBERATING AS BEING NAKED IN THE SQUARE v
!PART FROM THIS THE INITIATIONS WENT AS NORMAL WITH REGARDS TO NAME ALLOCATION AND DRINKING LARGE AMOUNTS OF ALCOHOL WITH WHAT LOOKED LIKE ANYTHING MIXED INTO IT .OBODY WOULD DIVULGE THE MIXTURE OF THE DRINK THAT EMERGES FROM A FUNNEL AND HOSE BUT &AGAN ()3 ASSURED US THAT NO EGG OR lSH IS INCLUDED IN CASE OF ALLERGIES AND THAT NOTHING WOULD BE DONE TO ENDANGER THE HEALTH OF ANYONE (E ALSO ADDED THAT IT IS ALL VOLUNTARY AND NOBODY HAS TO GET NAKED UNLESS THEY WANT TO "EFORE THE CEREMONY lNISHED TEAM MEMBERS HAD TO lND A @BITCH OR NEW RECRUIT AND GIVE THEM A NAME 3OME OF THE MORE INTERESTING EXAMPLES INCLUDED -ATT $AMON 2OONEY -R 4ICKLE 0ORNO 0ETE AND !NONYMOUS
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'HOSTLY TALES OF .ORWICH AND .ORFOLK 7HEN RESIDENT FACT MAN $AVID ,ANGDON SET OUT TO EXPLORE THE SPOOKY GOINGS ON OF .ORWICH AND .ORFOLK HE STUMBLED ACROSS SOME CHILLING TALES EMBEDDED DEEP IN THE HISTORY OF %AST !NGLIA 2EAD ON IF YOU DARE MWAHAHAHA
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HEN ) SET OUT TO SEARCH FOR THE GHOSTLY HISTORY OF .ORFOLK AND .ORWICH ) HAVE TO CONFESS THAT ) DIDN T EXPECT TO l ND VERY MUCH 0ERHAPS A FEW HALF HEARTED @ODD NOISES OR AT A PINCH A HALF RE MEMBERED HACKNEYED TALE OF A LOST LOVER WHO IS SUPPOSEDLY SEEN EVERY WET 7EDNESDAY 3O ) TOOK MY GRAVE DIGGER S LANTERN IN HAND RAISED MY SHOVEL AND TAPPED GEN TLY ON THE COFl N LID OF .ORFOLK S HISTORY 4HE NEXT THING ) KNEW THE LID HAD m UNG ITSELF OPEN AND A HIDEOUS LEGION OF SPOOKS AND APPARITIONS HAD BURST FORTH FROM THE CRYPT CAVORTING EERILY BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON ) HAD THOUGHT ) WAS GOING TO HAVE TROUBLE l NDING ENOUGH TO WRITE FOR THIS ARTICLE -Y PROBLEM NOW IS WHERE TO BEGIN .ORWICH IS ) SUPPOSE AS GOOD A PLACE AS ANY #HANCES ARE THAT MOST READERS WILL HAVE AT LEAST SOME PASSING ACQUAINTANCE WITH THIS l NE CITY 0OPULARIZED BY SUCH HISTORIC l GURES AS ,ORD .ELSON THE CITY S PAST HOLDS A NUMBER OF TRULY TERRIFYING TALES 4AKE FOR EXAMPLE THE TALE OF THE !UGUSTINE 3TEWARD HOUSE IN 4OMBLAND 7HEN THE PLAGUE OF RAVAGED THE CITY ENTIRE HOUSEHOLDS DROPPED LIKE m IES !UGUSTINE 3TEWARD WAS NO EXCEP TION SO THE TOWN BAILIFFS BELIEVED THAT THE FAMILY WERE ALL DEAD AND SEALED UP THE HOUSE 7HEN IT WAS RE OPENED LATER AND THE BODIES WERE EXHUMED A GRISLY TRUTH CAME TO LIGHT 4HE BODIES OF THE MOTHER AND FATHER OF THE HOUSE HAD HU MAN BITE MARKS ACROSS THEIR LEGS AND ARMS AND INSIDE THE THROAT OF ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS WERE FOUND SCRAPS OF HUMAN m ESH )T WOULD SEEM THAT SHE WAS NOT QUITE DEAD WHEN THE HOUSE WAS SEALEDx 3INCE THAT UNTHINKABLE ORDEAL CAME TO LIGHT THE GIRL HAS BEEN SEEN WANDERING THE STREETS OF 4OMBLAND DRESSED IN GREY RAGS HENCE HER NAME THE ,ADY IN 'REY 3HE IS REPORTED TO ENJOY MOVING OBJECTS AROUND IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT AND WAS EVEN SIGHTED TRYING TO GATECRASH A PARTY BY A LOCAL $* !T THE CENTRE OF .ORWICH CITY IS ITS CASTLE AND THAT TOO HAS A LONG AND BLOODY HISTORY FOR CENTURIES IT WAS THE SITE OF WITCH BURNINGS EXECUTIONS AND PUBLIC HANGINGS 3MALL WONDER THAT IT S SAID TO BE HAUNTED BY AN APPARITION OF A m OATING SKULL AND THE GHOST OF A 6ICTORIAN LADY WHO WAS A GREAT ART LOVER 3HE S BEEN SEEN EXAMINING
THE PAINTINGS IN THE CASTLE MUSEUM SINCE !ND THE CASTLE ISN T THE ONLY HAUNTED HISTORIC BUILDING THE #A THEDRAL IS ALSO SAID TO BE HAUNTED BY THE GHOST OF ONE 2EVEREND 4HO MAS 4UNSTALL ! #ATHOLIC PRIEST HE WAS HANGED FROM THE -AGDALEN 3TREET GATES IN FRONT OF A BAY ING CROWD !S HE HUNG THERE THE EXECUTIONER THRUST HIS DAGGER INTO THE PRIEST S STILL LIVING CHEST 3INCE THAT DAY 2EV 4UNSTALL HAS BEEN SEEN WANDERING UP TO THE #ATHEDRAL A BLOODIED ROPE AROUND HIS NECK AND THE DAGGER STILL PROTRUDING FROM HIS CHEST (E S NOT THE ONLY PARANORMAL PRIEST IN .ORWICH &ATHER )GNATIUS A HELLl RE AND DAMNATION PREACHER FORCED TO LEAVE TOWN FOR LAYING CURSES UPON THE POPULACE IS SAID TO WANDER %LM (ILL CARRYING A GREAT BLACK "IBLE IN ONE HAND 7E HAVE SEEN THEN THAT .ORWICH HAS A RICH ASSORTMENT OF SPECTRES AND PHANTOMS )NDEED FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SEE SOME OF THE PLACES ) VE MENTIONED FOR THEMSELVES ) M TOLD THAT THERE ARE GHOST WALKS THAT TAKE PLACE AROUND THE CITY VISITING THESE HAUNTED SITES "UT THERE S MORE TO .ORFOLK THAN .ORWICH THE ENTIRE COUNTY HAS YET TO BE EXAMINED !RGUABLY THE MOST FAMOUS SPOOK IS THAT OF !NNE "OLEYN WHO WAS BORN AND RESIDED FOR SEVERAL YEARS OF HER CHILDHOOD AT "LICK LING (ALL NORTH OF !LYSHAM /F COURSE MOST OF YOU DON T NEED ME TO REMIND YOU OF HER FATE BUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE REALLY CLUELESS LET S JUST SAY SHE GOT MARRIED TO A KING SHE WAS ONE OF SIX IN FACT HAD AN ARGUMENT AND HAD A LITTLE TOO MUCH TAKEN OFF THE TOP !T ANY RATE IT S SAID THAT EVERY YEAR ON -AY TH THE ANNIVERSARY OF !NNE S DEATH A COACH APPEARS AT THE GATES OF "LICKLING (ALL DRAWN BY FOUR HEADLESS HORSES !NNE S DECAPITATED FORM SITS IN SIDE DRESSED ALL IN WHITE WITH HER HEAD ON HER LAP 4HE COACH DRIVES UP TO THE (ALL AND !NNE GETS OUT CARRYING HER HEAD UNDER HER ARM 3HE THEN PROCEEDS TO INSPECT THE ROOMS WHERE SHE ONCE PLAYED AS A CHILD BEFORE VANISHING FOR ANOTHER YEAR !NNE S FATHER 3IR 4HOMAS "OLEYN SUFFERS MUCH THE SAME FATE ON THE SAME DATE HE CAN BE SEEN DRIVING A SIMILAR COACH ALSO PULLED BY HEADLESS HORSES ACROSS TWELVE BRIDGES IN RAPID SUCCESSION )T S SAID THAT HE WAS CURSED TO DO THIS EVERY YEAR FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND THAT HE MUST COMPLETE HIS RIDE BEFORE COCKCROW !PPARENTLY ANY WHO SEE THE COACH AS IT HURTLES
.ORWICH HAS A RICH ASSORTMENT OF PHANTOMS AND SPECTRES
PAST ARE DRAGGED DOWN TO HELL ON THE SPOT 4HERE ARE ALSO A GOOD FEW LESSER KNOWN GHOSTS IN THE AREA AT .UNS "RIDGES IN 4HETFORD THE GHOST OF LITTLE ,ORD $ACRE IS SAID TO ROAM (E FELL FROM HIS ROCKING HORSE AND SHATTERED HIS HEAD WHILE IN THE CARE OF HIS GUARDIAN 3IR 2ICHARD &ULMURSTON .OT ONLY DID BLOOD STAINS REMAIN ON THE WALL OF HIS PLAYROOM FOR YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH BUT $ACRE HIMSELF IS SEEN AT THE BRIDGES RIDING A HEADLESS ROCK ING HORSE !T 3T "ENET S !BBEY 2ANWORTH THE GHOST OF A TRAITOROUS MONK IS SAID TO BE SEEN DANGLING FROM THE FORMER BELL TOWER HIS COWARDLY SCREAMS ECHOING INTO THE NIGHT &OR BETRAYING HIS COUNTRYMAN TO THE .ORMANS HE WAS SKINNED ALIVE .OT ALL OF THE SPOOKY SIGHT INGS IN .ORFOLK ARE OF DECEASED HUMANS AN OLD SAYING TELLS OF TER RIFYING CREATURES ROAMING THE EARTH h!ND A DREADFUL THING FROM THE CLIFF DID SPRING AND ITS WILD BARK THRILL D AROUND (IS EYES HAD THE GLOW OF THE l RES BELOW @TWAS THE
FORM OF THE SPECTRE HOUND v 4HERE HAVE BEEN NUMER OUS SIGHTINGS OF THESE @SPECTRE HOUNDS THROUGHOUT THE AGES FROM THE S WHEN A TEENAGE BOY DESCRIBED BEING CHASED OUT TO SEA WHILE SWIMMING BY A GREAT BLACK DOG THROUGH THE S AND S WHEN l SHERMEN DESCRIBED THE SOUND OF GHOSTLY HOWLING THAT ECHOED OVER THE WAVES LATE AT NIGHT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE S WHEN A HOUND WAS SEEN POUNDING THE BEACH UP AT 'REAT 9ARMOUTH ,AST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST 5%! HAS IT S OWN GHOST STORY OF SORTS 3UFFOLK 4ERRACE WAS SAID TO BE HAUNTED BY A GHOST KNOWN ONLY AS THE 0HANTOM "UGLER WHO WOULD PLAY THE ,AST 0OST EVERY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT WITHOUT FAIL !TTEMPTS TO DISCOVER A LIVING CAUSE OF THE TIMELY TUNE WERE APPARENTLY UNSUC CESSFUL TO THIS DAY THE IDENTITY OF THE 0HANTOM "UGLER REMAINS A MYSTERY 7HOEVER OR WHATEVER THEY WERE THEY HAVE CERTAINLY MADE A SIGNIl CANT IMPACT ON THE ALUMNI OF 5%!
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&INAL &ANTASY -ONSTERS MAGIC GOBLINS ZOMBIES AND WEREWOLVES !NNA 0RITCHARD SETS OUT TO PROVE THERE IS MUCH MORE TO 'AME 3OC THAN RUNNING AROUND WITH BIG RUBBER WEAPONS
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OW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN THE MEMBERS OF 'AMES 3OC OUT BATTLING IN THE lELDS WOODS POURING RAIN AND THOUGHT TO YOURSELF THAT LOOKS PAINFUL STUPID WET DELETE AS APPROPRIATE 7ELL EACH TO THEIR OWN OPINION BUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE CURIOUS AND HAVE AN OPEN MIND WHETHER YOU HAVE SEEN THEM OR NOT HERE FOLLOWS AN ELEMENTARY IN TRODUCTION TO THIS POSSIBLY STRANGE SEEMING PRACTICE &IRSTLY IT SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED THAT CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION IT IS NOT THE 'AMES 3OCIETY AS A WHOLE WHO DON ARMOUR AND BATTLE ACROSS CAMPUS THIS SOCIETY ENCOMPASSES MANY ACTIVITIES AND THIS IS BUT ONE OF THEM WITH ITS OWN ENTHUSIASTS 4HE GAME IS ,!20 AN ACRONYM YES ANOTHER AT THIS ALREADY ACRONYM LADEN UNIVERSITY FOR ,IVE !CTION 2OLE 0LAY 4HE TERM @ROLE PLAY MAY REMIND SOME OF h$UNGEONS
THE GAME lRSTLY THE HEAD IS OFF LIMITS TO ATTACK APART FROM BEING SET ON lRE BY MAGIC THE REASON FOR THIS EXCEPTION HOPEFULLY BEING OBVIOUS 3ECONDLY ALL WEAPONS ARE MADE OF CUSHIONED LATEX SURROUND ING A METAL INNER CORE THE ARROWS HAVE RUBBER TIPS AND EVEN THE SHIELDS ARE PADDED 4HIS REMOVES THE DANGER OF REAL INJURY BUT BEING HIT BY THEM IS STILL NO PICNIC AND THE ENORMOUS MACE WIELDED ON OCCA SION BY ONE ,!20ER IS AN IMPOSING SIGHT THE SQUASHY LATEX FROM WHICH THE SPIKES ARE ENTIRELY MADE LOOKING INCREDIBLY REALISTIC FROM A DISTANCE !S REGARDS THE FUNDAMEN TALS OF ,!20 IT IS VERY MUCH PART OF THE FANTASY GENRE 0LAYERS TAKE ON A CHARACTER CHOOSING A @CLASS WHICH DElNES WHAT THEIR ABILITIES WILL BE E G THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY CAN KILL THEIR ENEMY %XAMPLES INCLUDE THE @WARRIOR WHO EXCELS AT lGHTING AND IS THE MOST DIFlCULT TO KILL IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT PLUS SEVERAL
THE VICTIM AND CONTROLLING YOUR ENEMY S MOVEMENTS THROUGH THEIR BODY S WATER CONTENT )T IS ALSO POSSIBLE TO CHOOSE A RACE FOR YOUR CHAR ACTER POSSIBILITIES INCLUDING ELVES AND DWARVES AS WELL AS HUMANS SEEM FAMILIAR ANYONE PLUS CREATURES SUCH AS GOBLINS AND DROWS (OWEVER RACES CONFER NO EXTRA SPECIAL ABILITIES THERE FORE ARE PRIMARILY USED AS AN EXTRA EXCUSE FOR ELABO RATE COSTUME 4O INSERT REALISM INTO THE lGHTING THERE IS AN EVER PRESENT DANGER OF INJURY AND DEATH FOR YOUR CHARAC TER )NJURIES ARE CALCULATED BY A SYSTEM OF NUMBERS EACH TIME YOU MISS A PARRY AND ARE HIT AN AMOUNT IS DEDUCTED FROM YOUR @"ODY 4OTAL WHICH IS DETERMINED BY THE CHARACTER YOU CHOOSE 7ARRIORS HAVE THE HIGHEST BODY TOTAL BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THE FRONT LINE AS IT WERE THIS IS WHY AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED THEY ARE THE HARDEST TO KILL WITH PHYSICAL FORCE )F YOUR CHARACTER FALLS IN BATTLE THEY
4O INSERT REALISM INTO THE lGHTING THERE IS AN EVER PRESENT DANGER OF INJURY AND DEATH FOR YOUR CHARACTER AND $RAGONSv TO WHICH THE GAME OF ,!20 BEARS MANY SIMILARITIES WITH ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE $ $ IN THE REAL WORLD AT LEAST IS PAIN FREE WHEREAS ,!20 AS IS QUICKLY DISCOVERED IS A CONTACT SPORT 2OBERT 2ICHARDSON A lRST YEAR #OMPUTER 3CIENTIST PROFESSES h) NEVER THOUGHT ) D FEEL SO MUCH JOY BEING HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH A RUBBER STICKv 4HIS BEGS TWO POINTS CONCERNING THE NECESSARY SAFETY ASPECT OF
DIFFERENT TYPES OF MAGIC USER WHO THROW SPELLS FROM THE BACK AND MUST BE PROTECTED FROM PHYSICAL ATTACK BY THE WARRIORS /NE SUCH IS THE @MAGE WHO CAN DRAW POWER FROM ONE OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS EARTH AIR lRE OR WATER EXAMPLES OF THE POSSIBILITIES OF THESE BEING CREATING EARTHQUAKES mOATING TO SAFETY AFTER BE ING THROWN OFF A CLIFF VERY USEFUL SETTING THE ENEMY S HEAD ON lRE NO EXCUSE FOR POOR ACTING ON THE PART OF
ARE GONE FOREVER AND A NEW CHARACTER MUST BE CREATED FOR THE NEXT ADVENTURE 4HE REASON FOR THIS RULE IS EXPLAINED BY ,!20 VETERANS AS BEING THAT NECROMANCY THE RAISING OF THE DEAD BY %VIL MEANS IS BANNED IN %RRIN THE FANTASY WORLD IN WHICH ,!20 AT THE 5%! IS SET 0ERHAPS A REASON SOME WOULD UNDERSTAND BETTER IS THAT IT WOULD UPSET THE SYSTEM TO NOW BE DESCRIBED THAT OF LEVELS &OR IF YOUR CHARACTER SURVIVES AND
COMPLETES AN ADVENTURE THEY WILL NOT ONLY EARN THE MONEY PROMISED BY THE CITIZEN OF %RRIN WHO HIRED THE BAND OF ADVENTURERS TO RID THE WOOD UNIDENTIlABLE RUIN OF UNDEAD ZOMBIES WEREWOLVES BUT ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY WILL RISE TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF WHATEVER CLASS OF CHARACTER WAS CHOSEN THUS GAINING EXTRA ABILITIES A HIGHER BODY TOTAL AND IN THE CASE OF MAGIC USERS SPELLS OF INCREASED VARIETY AND POWER 3TILL WITH ME .OW THAT THE BASICS HAVE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF BE REMINDED OF 5%! ALUMNUS "EN 0AVEY S DICTUM h,!20 IS ABOUT HAVING FUNv 4HE STRUCTURE AND RULES ARE THERE TO CREATE COHERENCE IN THE GAME AND PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK IN WHICH THOSE SO INCLINED CAN HAVE A WHALE OF A TIME 0EOPLE ARE DRAWN TO THE GAME FOR VARIOUS REASONS THE lGHTING AND COSTUMES CAN BE ATTRACTIVE BUT THE MAIN DRAW MUST BE THE FAN TASY ELEMENT A GENRE WHICH HAS FANS IN MANY MEDIA INCLUDING VIDEO GAMES NOVELS COMICS AND lLM AS WELL AS ROLE PLAYING GAMES AND THE CHANCE TO BECOME PART OF AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD ITS HISTORY THROUGH THE POWER OF CREATIVITY AND IM AGINATION YOU HAVE TO HAVE A KEEN IMAGINATION TO PLAY ,!20 AS WELL AS A WILLING NESS TO SUSPEND DISBELIEF ALMOST TO THE POINT OF COM PLETE AND UTTER CONVICTION SEE BELOW 4HE STIRRINGS OF INTEREST MAY NOT BE A GRADUAL PROCESS HOWEVER AN EX STUDENT OF .ORWICH !RT 3CHOOL 3TEPHANIE -ORRIS SAYS OF HER INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF ROLE PLAY IN AN INTERNET FORUM h) WANDERED INTO A RANDOM CHAT ROOM AND SOMEONE TRIED TO KNIFE MEv )N AN ATTEMPT TO BRIEmY ENLARGE ON THE SUBJECT OF %RRIN HISTORY IT IS LONG AND TURBULENT WHAT DO
YOU EXPECT WHEN BANDS OF ADVENTURERS ARE CONSTANTLY MARAUDING IN AN ATTEMPT TO STEM A NEVER CEASING TIDE OF MONSTERS !T THE END OF THE LAST ACADEMIC YEAR ) M TALKING ABOUT THE REAL WORLD HERE KEEP UP THE REMAINING ,!20 MEMBERS AT THE 5%! DECIDED TO DO WHAT HAD NOT BEEN DONE FOR TEN YEARS A GAME RESET 4HIS IS BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF CHARACTERS HAD REACHED LEVEL EIGHT THE HIGHEST IT IS POSSIBLE TO GO RENDER ING THEM EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL THINK 'ANDALF OR 6OLDEMORT AND WELL NIGH UNBEATABLE 4HEREFORE FOR THE SAKE OF NEW MEMBERS AS WELL AS FOR THEIR OWN ENJOYMENT IN THE CHOOS ING OF FRESH NEW PERSON ALITIES %RRIN WAS MOVED ONE THOUSAND YEARS INTO A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE LEAVING THE HIGH LEVEL CHARACTERS TO THE FAR DISTANT PAST MOST LIKELY LONG FORGOTTEN BY THE CURRENT POPULATION OF %RRIN WHO HAVE SPENT A MILLEN NIUM POPULATING AND THEN OVER POPULATING @4HE #ITY A PLACE WHICH WAS ENTIRELY ENCOMPASSED BY A MAGICAL DOME UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO THAT BLOCKED OUT THE SKY AND IMPRISONED EVERYONE IN INCREASINGLY DIFlCULT AND OVERCROWDED CONDITIONS 4HE DESCRIPTIVE ASPECT OF ,!20 IS MUCH LESS THAN THAT OF TRADITIONAL ROLE PLAYING GAMES SUCH AS DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS IN WHICH PLAY ERS SIT AROUND A TABLE DE SCRIBING THEIR OWN ACTIONS IN DETAIL )N ,!20 THERE IS NO NEED TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU ARE DOING BECAUSE IT IS OBVIOUS TO ALL ESPECIALLY WHEN AIDED BY REALISTIC TAUNTS SCREAMS DEATH THROES (OWEVER AS IN $ $ A DESCRIPTION OF THE ENVI RONMENT THAT THE ADVENTUR ERS lND THEMSELVES IN MUST BE PROVIDED BY SOMEONE IN THE KNOW AS THE 5%! CAMPUS LOOKS LITTLE LIKE @4HE
#ITY AND LACKS SOME NECES SARY FEATURES SUCH AS CREEP ING BLACK MIST A PHENOME NON WHICH MUST BE CREATED SOLELY IN THE MINDS EYE OF THE BEHOLDER ONCE THEY ARE AWARE THAT IT IS THERE AND OF COURSE THE UNTIL RECENTLY IMPENETRABLE INNER SURFACE OF THE DOME 4HIS LAST CAN EASILY BE REPRESENTED BY A CLOAK mUNG ACROSS THE PATH BARRING THE PASSAGE OF ALL BUT THE MOST COURAGEOUS DOG WALKERS OF .ORWICH THE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO MOST FREQUENTLY STUMBLE ACROSS A SKIRMISH BETWEEN THE BRAVE ALTHOUGH MERCE NARY ADVENTURERS AND THE NIGHTMARISH MONSTERS WHO HAUNT %RRIN 4HESE BARE FACTS CANNOT HOPE TO FULLY EXPLAIN ,!20 A GAME WHICH IS NOT THE POTENTIALLY LIFE CONSUMING PASTIME OF 5%! STUDENTS ONLY BUT WIDESPREAD PLAYED ACROSS OUR COUNTRY AND BEYOND IN SIMILAR GROUPS WHO MEET UP EN MASSE TO TAKE PART IN WHAT WOULD PERHAPS BE BETTER TERMED AS WARS THAN BATTLES WITH OPPOSING ARMIES OF UP TO ONE THOUSAND TROOPS EACH )F YOUR INTEREST IS PIQUED PLAYERS MEET ON THE GRASSY SLOPE BESIDE THE SQUARE EVERY 3UNDAY AT PM FOR @-ORNING ,!20 THEN IF THE WEATHER IS POOR lLL THE INTERIM BETWEEN THE END OF THAT ADVENTURE AND THE BEGIN NING OF @!FTERNOON ,!20 AT PM BY LOUNGING IN THE 5NION BAR STILL ARMED CLOAKED AND POINTY ELF EAR ED THIS GAME IS NOT FOR THE SELF CONSCIOUS 4HE EXPLA NATION FOR THESE RATHER INAC CURATE TITLES 4HE DIFlCULTY OF GETTING UP ON A 3UNDAY MORNING IT APPEARS IS A PROBLEM EVEN FOR ADVENTUR ING HEROES 0ERHAPS IF THE MONEY WERE REAL
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.ORFOLK "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH /CTOBER MARKS THE START OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH A MONTH LONG FESTIVAL DESIGNED TO CELEBRATE AND RAISE AWARENESS OF BLACK HISTORY ACROSS THE 5+ #LARE "ULL EXPLORES THE HISTORY BEHIND THE CELEBRATIONS AND SEES WHAT EVENTS .ORFOLK AND 5%! HAVE TO OFFER
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HIS IS THE FOURTH YEAR THAT .ORFOLK HAS PROVIDED AN EXCITING AND VARIED PROGRAMME OF EVENTS TO CELEBRATE "LACK (ISTORY 4HIS YEARS THEME IS @REMEMBER ING OUR PAST CREATING OUR FUTURE A PHILOSOPHY THAT ORGANISERS HOPE WILL HELP THE EVENTS FOCUS ON THE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN USE "LACK HISTORY TO FURTHER DEVELOP MULTICULTURALISM IN .ORFOLK 4HE IDEA OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH CAN BE TRACED BACK TO WHEN AN !MERI CAN #ARTER ' 7OODSON THE EDITOR OF THE *OURNAL OF .EGRO (ISTORY DECIDED THAT SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE TO CELEBRATE "LACK HISTORY "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH WAS ESTABLISHED IN THIS COUNTRY IN BY !KYAABA !DDAI 3EBBO WHO WORKED WITH +EN ,IVINGSTONE AT THE 'REATER ,ONDON #OUNCIL /NE CATALYST FOR ITS CREATION WAS A QUOTE FROM THE !FRICAN !MERICAN WRITER *OHN (ERNIK #LARKE WHO SAID h)F WE ARE TO CHANGE TOMORROW WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK BACK WITH SOME COURAGE AND WARM OUR HANDS ON THE REVOLUTIONARY lRES OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE USv 4HIS INSPIRED !DDAI TO THINK THAT
"LACK HISTORY MUST BE CEL EBRATED AROUND "RITAIN +EN ,IVINGSTONE AD DRESSED THE 2OYAL !LBERT (ALL WITH THIS INTERPRETATION ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH h)N ORDER TO ENRICH THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE 'REATER ,ONDON AREA IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT ,ONDON ERS KNOW MORE ABOUT !FRICAN INmUENCES ON MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE %UROPEAN MUSIC SO THAT ACCEPTED IDEAS ABOUT %UROPEAN MUSIC CHANGE $E SPITE THE SIGNIlCANT ROLE THAT !FRICA AND ITS $IASPORA HAVE PLAYED IN THE WORLD CIVILIZA TION SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME !FRICA S CONTRIBU TION HAS BEEN OMITTED OR DISTORTED IN MOST HISTORY BOOKSv 3INCE THIS SPEECH IN "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH HAS GROWN AND DEVELOPED TO INCLUDE OVER EVENTS ACROSS THE 5+ 4HROUGHOUT /CTOBER THERE ARE A NUMBER OF FANTAS TIC EVENTS ON OFFER INCLUDING ART WORKSHOPS CONCERTS LECTURES !FRICAN MARKETS AND DANCE SHOWS &INBARR #ARTER OF THE .ORFOLK %DUCATION AND !CTION FOR $EVELOPMENT .%!$ IS KEEN FOR STUDENTS TO GET INVOLVED IN EVENTS (E SAYS hIT S A FANTASTIC OP PORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO GET INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY BEYOND UNIVERSITY AND EX
3TUDENT PARTICIPATION IS CRUCIAL IF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH IS TO FULlL ITS ROLE AS A MEANS OF COMMUNITY BUILDING
PERIENCE THE DIVERSE RANGE OF CULTURE THAT .ORWICH BOASTSv 4HE MONTH IS ORGANISED BY .%!$ WHO WORK ALONG SIDE THE .ORWICH AND .ORFOLK 2ACIAL %QUALITY COUNCIL ..2# 4HE ..2# STATE THAT hTO CREATE AN INCLUSIVE JUST AND NON RACIAL SOCIETY WE REQUIRE AN INCLUSIVE UNDER STANDING AND APPRECIATION OF OUR HISTORY AND OUR PRESENT 4HIS IS AS TRUE IN .ORFOLK AS IT IS ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY OR THE WORLD 4HE TASK AND PURPOSE OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH IS TO ALLOW US ALL TO DISCOVER REINSTATE HIGHLIGHT DISCUSS ENJOY AND CELEBRATE SOME OF THE MISSING PIECESv !LTHOUGH THE EVENTS ARE NOT RUN BY THE 3TUDENT 5NION .%!$ IS KEEN TO PROMOTE THE IMPORTANCE OF A STRONG LINK BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND THE WIDER CITY COMMUNITY 3EAN 7HYTE OF ..2# SAYS h$ESPITE ALL OUR SUCCESSES THERE IS STILL MUCH MORE TO DO )T IS UP TO THE STUDENTS OF THE 5%! TO PUSH FOR MORE RECOGNITION OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH ON CAMPUS AND MORE SUPPORT FROM THE FACULTY 7ITH YOUR HELP HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE MANY MORE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES ON CAMPUS DUR ING "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH @ v 4HE MAJORITY OF EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN THE CITY AND STUDENT
PARTICIPATION IS CRUCIAL IF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH IS TO FULlL ITS ROLE AS A MEANS OF COMMUNITY BUILDING ,IBERATIONS OFlCER -ARTIN *OPP SAYS h4HIS YEAR ) MET WITH MEMBERS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AT 5%! TO ASSIST IN THE PLANNING OF EVENTS HERE OFFERING 5NION FACILI TIES FOR "(- .ORFOLK TO USE ) ALSO ATTENDED THE "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH IN .ORFOLK ,AUNCH MAKING CONTACTS FOR FUTURE #AMPAIGNS THE 5NION WILL UNDOUBTEDLY RUN REGARD ING "LACK 3TUDENTSv .ORFOLK S DEMOGRAPHIC IS CHANGING RAPIDLY THE CENSUS SUGGESTED THAT OF THE .ORFOLK POPULATION WAS "LACK OR ETHNIC MINORITY A lGURE THAT HAD QUADRUPLED SINCE 7HAT THESE STATIS TICS HIGHLIGHT IS THE GROWING LEVEL OF DIVERSITY IN .ORFOLK AND THE IMPORTANCE OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH IN CELEBRATING AND DRAWING OUR ATTENTION TO THIS DIVERSITY "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH COR RESPONDS WITH THE .53 "LACK STUDENTS CAMPAIGN )T WAS CRE ATED YEARS AGO TO REPRESENT STUDENTS OF #ARIBBEAN !SIAN AND !FRICAN DESCENT "LACK STUDENTS MAKE UP OF THE .53 TOTAL MEMBERSHIP BUT "LACK STUDENTS CONTINUE TO BE UNDERREPRESENTED 4HE .53 ARE KEEN TO PROMOTE STUDENT
INVOLVEMENT IN "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH AS THEY SAY IT OFFERS hAN AWARENESS EXERCISE n ONE THAT HELPS TO DESTROY THE ARGU MENTS OF THE ".0 AND ITS ILKv 4HE SYMBOL CHOSEN FOR THE "(- IS SYMBOLIC OF THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF "(- 4HIS FEATURES A BIRD MOV ING FORWARDS WHILE LOOKING BACKWARDS IT IS AN !KAN SYMBOL THAT REPRESENTS THE JOURNEY OF LEARNING )N THE PAST THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTION OF "LACK PEOPLES HAS BEEN UNRECOGNISED AND UNCELEBRATED BY ORGANISING THESE EVENTS COMMUNITIES ACKNOWLEDGE THESE ACHIEVE MENTS AND CELEBRATE THE POTENTIAL FOR ACHIEVEMENT THAT LIES WITHIN MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS "RITAIN /N CAMPUS THE !FRO #ARIBBEAN SOCIETY AND THE !FRICAN SOCIETY ORGANISE SOCIALS ALL YEAR ROUND FOR ALL STUDENTS !LTHOUGH "LACK (IS TORY -ONTH IS IN /CTOBER THE PLANNING AND ORGANISATION IS A YEAR ROUND PROCESS AND PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR WILL BEGIN IN .OVEMBER 4O GET INVOLVED OR lND OUT MORE ABOUT EVENTS VISIT HTTP WWW NORFOLKBLACKHIS TORYMONTH ORG UK OR HTTP WWW NNREC ORG UK PAGES PROJECTS HTM BLACK? HISTORY
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4HERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF PIONEERING CHARACTERS IN .ORFOLK S HIGHLY COSMO POLITAN HISTORY 0ERHAPS THE MOST MEMORABLE BEING $R !LLAN 'LAISYER -INNS AND 0ABLO &ANQUE %VER THE HOME OF GROUNDBREAKING SOCIOLOGICAL TRENDS 4HETFORD IN .ORFOLK WAS THE lRST TOWN IN "RITAIN TO ELECT A "LACK
7HAT DOES "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH MEAN TO YOU 'RACE .DONGWE 3TUDENT h#OMPARED WITH OTHER UNI VERSITIES 5%! IS FAIRLY WHITE WHAT "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH OFFERS STUDENTS IS A CHANCE TO REmECT ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE "LACK IN A WAY THAT THEY MIGHT NOT OTHERWISE CONSIDER )T IS ALSO IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF WHAT EXISTS ON CAMPUS AND RAISE AWARENESS OF THE !FRO #ARIB BEAN 3OCIETY AND THE !FRICAN SOCIETY BOTH WHO ORGANISE FANTASTIC EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEARv
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ABOUT AND ENJOY HERITAGE AND TRADITIONS THAT WE CAN ALL SHAREv -ARTIN *OPP ,IBERATIONS OFlCER h4O ME "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST A MONTH OF EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE INmU ENCE BLACK PEOPLE HAVE HAD IN "RITISH LIFE AND IN PRO MOTING !FRICAN AND !SIAN TRADITION AS BEING AS VALID A HISTORY AS THOSE OF WHITE %U ROPEANS FOR A MONTH IN THE YEAR )T IS ABOUT TRYING TO GET EDUCATION AND UNDERSTAND ING OF THESE ISSUES PUT INTO THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND TO BE GENERALLY ACCEPTED BY THE "RITISH COMMUNITY ALL YEAR ROUNDv
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3ATURDAY TH /CTOBER &INALE OF "(.ORWICH !RTS #ENTRE 3HOWCASE OF SOME OF THE 5+ S lNEST UP AND COMING "LACK TALENT JAZZ BANDS (IP (OP SPOKEN DRAMA AND $ANCE BAT TLES THIS IS SET TO BE A FANTASTIC EVENING
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!FTER THE DEATH OF THE PROMINENT 2USSIAN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST !NNA 0OLITKO VSKAYA ,OUIS (OLDING 0ARSONS EXPLORES THE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS BUT IMPORTANT ROLE OF THE INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST
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HE RECENT ASSASSI NATION OF 2USSIAN JOURNALIST !NNA 0OLITKOVSKAYA HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE AND NEED FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM !L THOUGH WE ARE IN AN AGE WHEN THE INTERNET IS AVAILABLE FOR ALL TO SEE AND WRITE WHAT THEY WANT GOVERN MENT AND OUTSIDE CONTROL OF THE MEDIA IS STILL A MAJOR ISSUE -ISS 0OLITKOVSKAYA SOUGHT TO lGHT THIS WITH HER CRITICAL ARTICLES OF 0UTIN S REGIME S ACTIONS IN #HECHNYA AND PAID FOR HER PROFESSIONALISM WITH HER LIFE !NYONE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN AT 4HE 'UARDIAN )TALIAN CORRE SPONDENT *OHN (OOPER S TALK A FEW WEEKS BACK WILL REMEMBER AN EX AMPLE WHERE HE WAS PRESSURED INTO CHANGING AN ARTICLE BECAUSE IT TOOK A CRITICAL VIEW OF AN ORGANISATION WHICH WAS ADVERTISING WITHIN 4HE 'UARDIAN S PAGES -R (OOPER MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT HE WAS GOING TO THE COFFEE SHOP DOWN THE ROAD AND IN THE MEANTIME THE EDITOR COULD lND SOMEONE ELSE TO WRITE THE ARTI CLE HE WOULD NOT BE INmUENCED FOR NEGATIVE REASONS #/.#2%4% ALSO HAD TO FACE POSSIBLE INTERFERENCE JUST LAST YEAR ! PARTICULAR GROUP OF PEOPLE HELD THE BELIEF THAT HAVING A DEMOCRATI
5NDER THIS NEW PROPOSAL WHICH WAS THANKFULLY BEATEN TWO TO ONE THE EDITOR WOULD HAVE SAT IN 5NION MEETINGS 4HIS POINT WOULD ACTU ALLY HAVE REDUCED #/.#2%4% S INDEPENDENCE )T WOULD TAKE AN INCREDIBLY BRAVE EDITOR TO PUBLISH A CRITICAL ABOUT THE 5NION %XECUTIVE AND THEN SIT WITH THEM FOR AN HOUR OR TWO OF MEETINGS #/.#2%4% IS VERY MUCH THERE TO REPRESENT STUDENTS AS AN INDEPENDENT VOICE IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT -ISS 0OLITKOVSKAYA TRIED TO REPRESENT THE AVERAGE #HECHENS WHO SUFFER FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON FROM 2USSIAN BRUTALITY $ESPITE THE NEED FOR AN INDE PENDENT MEDIA WITH THE ABILITY TO SCRUTINISE PEOPLE ORGANISATIONS AND GOVERNMENT ACTIONS IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT THE MEDIA ITSELF NEEDS TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT !N EXAMPLE OF THIS IS FOUND ON PAGES AND OF THIS ISSUE WHERE YOURS TRULY MADE AN UNTRUE ALLEGATION WHICH WAS BASED ON A CONFUSED SITUATION AND HAS MADE A PUBLIC APOLOGY 4HE OFFENDED PARTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPRESS THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT AT THE SLANDEROUS NATURE OF THE ATTACK AND EXPRESS ITS VIEWS ON THE SOURCE 5NFORTUNATELY THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH OPEN DEBATE AND DEMOCRACY IS NOT POSSIBLE IN 2USSIA AT THE MO MENT WHERE THE +REMLIN CONTROLS
/VER TIME AND WITH COURAGEOUS INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS WE MAY BE ABLE TO RECOVER SOME TRUTH CALLY ELECTED EDITOR WOULD BE FAR BETTER THAN AN INTERVIEW PROCESS DETERMINING THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB 4HEIR ARGUMENT WAS THAT THIS VOTE WOULD MAKE FOR A MORE INDEPENDENT #/.#2%4% (OWEVER DESPITE THE FACT THAT 5NION OFlCIALS ARE INVOLVED IN THE CURRENT PROCESS #/.#2%4% HAS PROVEN THAT IT IS AL READY INDEPENDENT )N FACT WE HAVE ON OCCASIONS HAD @POLITE DISAGREE MENTS WITH THE 5NION BECAUSE OF WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT IT
MOST OF THE MEDIA 3OME WITHIN THE +REMLIN WOULD ARGUE THAT ACTUALLY JOURNALISM IS MORE FREE THAN EVER AND POINT TO THE FACT THAT FEWER JOURNALISTS ARE BEING ASSASSI NATED 4HOUGH SADLY THE DECREASING NUMBER OF MURDERED IS SIMPLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT MORE OF THEM ARE FALLING IN LINE WITH WHAT THE +REM LIN WANTS WRITTEN SO FEWER NEED TO BE KNOCKED OFF 0OLITKOVSKAYA WAS NO SUCH JOURNALIST SHE SIMPLY REFUSED TO
BE INmUENCED IN HER INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AND CONTINUED TO DO HER JOB TO THE BEST OF HER ABILITY )T WAS WITH GREAT PERSONAL SHOCK THAT THIS REPORTER HEARD OF HER MURDER A WEEK AGO !LTHOUGH ) D NEVER MET HER ) HAD READ SEVERAL OF HER ARTICLES AND HER BOOK AS SHE WAS ONE OF FEW WITHIN 2USSIA TO CRITICISE THE 2USSIAN GOVERNMENT (ER REPORTS OF WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON IN #HECHNYA WERE THE SOURCE OF GREAT INTERNA TIONAL RECOGNITION AND PRAISE WHILE FOSTERING RESENTMENT AT HOME AND WITHIN THE +REMLIN )NDEED SHE CAME TO BE DETAINED BY THE 2US SIAN ARMY ENOUGH TIMES TO GROW ACCUSTOMED TO THEIR COMPANY 3HE mED 2USSIA ON ONE OCCASION DUE TO FEAR FOR HER LIFE AND SEVERAL TIMES ALLEGED THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED DEATH THREATS /N HER WAY TO COVER THE "ESLAN SCHOOL MASSACRE SHE BECAME SICK AND WAS UNABLE TO COVER WHAT SUBSEQUENTLY HAPPENED )T WAS SUG GESTED THAT THIS WAS AN ATTEMPT ON HER LIFE WHATEVER IT WAS IT ACHIEVED THE PURPOSE OF STOPPING THE THORN IN THE +REMLIN SIDE FROM GETTING TO WHAT BECAME A NIGHTMARE SCENARIO FOR 0UTIN AND BY ALLIANCE THE LEADER OF THE 2USSIAN PUPPET GOVERNMENT IN #HECHNYA +ADYROV +ADYROV WAS NEVER ONE OF -ISS 0OLITKOVSKAYA S BIGGEST FANS )N FACT SHE ALLEGED THAT HE HAD PERSON ALLY THREATENED TO HAVE HER KILLED !LONGSIDE THE ACTIONS OF PRO -OS COW #HECHEN GROUPS HER REPORTS OF THE 2USSIAN MILITARY S BRUTAL ACTS WERE A GREAT SOURCE OF FRUSTRATION FOR +ADYROV (E HAD !NNA 0OLITKO VSKAYA DETAINED AND EVEN BANNED FROM #HECHNYA A NUMBER OF TIMES BUT TO NO AVAIL AS SHE ALWAYS MAN AGED TO GET BACK IN %VEN MORE DAMAGING FOR +ADYROV WAS HOW SHE OFTEN REPORTED ON EVENTS OUTSIDE THE #HECHEN CAPITAL 'ROZNY WHERE 2USSIAN UNITS WERE LESS CAREFUL AND MORE OPEN ABOUT THEIR ACTS OF BRUTALITY 4O MAKE MATTERS WORSE FOR +ADYROV AND 0UTIN THE HOSTAGE TAKERS OF THE 2USSIAN THEATRE SIEGE ASKED FOR !NNA 0OLITKOVSKAYA TO BE THEIR NEGOTIATOR 4HIS WAS WIDELY PUBLICISED AROUND THE WORLD CAUS ING A GREAT DEAL OF EMBARRASSMENT FOR BOTH 0UTIN AND +ADYROV !LTHOUGH MANY THEORIES HAVE
BEEN BANDIED ABOUT AS TO WHO COULD BE BEHIND HER ASSASSINATION THERE SEEMS TO BE LITTLE DOUBT THAT THE MOTIVE WAS HER WORK COVERING 2USSIAN ABUSES OF #HECHENS 4HE PROFESSIONAL TEXTBOOK NATURE OF THE CRIME IE SHOOTING THE TARGET WHILE THEY ARE AT OR NEAR HOME WHEN THEIR GUARD IS DOWN AND PUTTING A BULLET THROUGH THE HEAD TO MAKE SURE SUGGESTS THAT THIS IS THE WORK OF A CONTRACT KILLER 4HE SUSPECTED MURDERER MAY HAVE BEEN CAPTURED ON ##46 SEE ABOVE PIC TURE WHICH RAISES THE POSSIBILITY THAT WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE MAY BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE 5NFORTUNATELY THOUGH THIS WILL PROBABLY NOT COME TO PASS SINCE PRESSURE WILL BE PUT ON THE POLICE TO QUIETLY MAKE A MESS OF THE INVESTIGATION "UT THERE IS PERHAPS ONE GLIMMER OF HOPE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM -ISS 0OLITKOVSKAYA MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF 2USSIA S BEST AND MOST WELL KNOWN JOURNALISTS BUT THIS IS THE CHANCE FOR ANOTHER TO TAKE ON HER MANTLE AND lND OUT WHO IS BEHIND HER MURDER 4HIS DREAM MAY SEEM FAR FETCHED BUT BIG STORIES RARELY START OFF AS MORE THAN THE ODD SNIP PET OF INFORMATION LIKE THE ##46 EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE /VER TIME AND WITH COURAGEOUS INDEPEND ENT JOURNALISTS WE MAY BE ABLE TO RECOVER SOME TRUTH AND ENSURE THAT 2USSIA DOES NOT RETURN TO ITS MURKY PAST WHEN ALL THE BAD NEWS WAS CENSORED 'EORGE "USH S BIG CRUSADE FOR DEMOCRACY AROUND THE WORLD SINCE THE ATTACKS HAS IN THAT RESPECT FORGOTTEN ONE AREA INDE PENDENT AND INVESTIGATIVE JOURNAL ISM !LTHOUGH !NNA 0OLITKOVSKAYA S DEATH WILL PROBABLY BE REMEMBERED AS THE DEATH OF INDEPENDENT AND INVESTIGATE JOURNALISM UNDER THE CURRENT 0UTIN REGIME IT HAS AT THE VERY LEAST BROUGHT THE SUBJECT TO PUBLIC ATTENTION -AYBE 'EORGE "USH AND 4ONY "LAIR WOULD NOW WANT TO PUT IT HIGHER UP IN THEIR CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRACY IF IT WASN T FOR THE PROBLEM THAT IT WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THEIR CLAIM OF 3ADDAM S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME BY REVEALING THE LACK OF ONE )NVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM WOULD HAVE STOPPED THE 53! AND 5+ S VERSION OF #HECHNYA WHERE 7ESTERN MILITARY ABUSES ARE BECOM ING UNCOMFORTABLY FREQUENT
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COULD NOT HELP CONCLUDING THAT THIS MAN FELT THE MOST SUPREME PLEASURE WHILE HE WAS DRIVEN ON SO FAST AND SO SMOOTHLY BY THE SEAv WROTE #APTAIN #OOK IN UPON HIS lRST ENCOUNTER WITH SURlNG IN 4AHITI S -ATAVAI "AY h
#LOSE YOUR EYES FOR A MINUTE AND THINK ABOUT SURlNG 7HAT DO YOU SEE "EAUTIFUL BEACHES CRYSTAL BLUE WATER GORGEOUS SUNTANNED SURFERS ,IKE MOST PEOPLE THIS IS WHAT ) IMAGINED BEFORE ) BEGAN SURlNG MYSELF !SSUMING THAT IT WOULD BE A ONE OFF HOLIDAY EXPERI ENCE ) COULDN T HAVE PREDICTED THE WAY IN WHICH SURlNG WOULD TRANSFORM MY LIFE )TS BIPOLAR ABILITY TO THRILL AND SOOTHE LEAVES YOU CRAVING MORE AS IF IT WERE A DRUG /N AN EMOTIONAL LEVEL THERE ARE FEW SPORTS THAT RELY UPON GET YOU CLOSER TO AND LEAVE YOU AT THE
CLOSER TO YOURSELF 4HAT @ONE OFF HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE WAS FOUR YEARS AGO AND ) VE SINCE DE VOTED EVERY HOLIDAY AND AN ENTIRE SUM MER OF WORK TO SURlNG !S A RELATIVE BE GINNER MY FAVOURITE PLACE TO SURF IN THE 5+ IS 3AUNTON "EACH IN .ORTH $EVON ) WORKED AT A NEARBY SURF SCHOOL FOR ONE SEASON WHICH MEANT ) COULD SPEND EVERY MINUTE OF LEISURE TIME ) HAD IN THE WATER ! LARGE SANDY SHALLOW BEACH WITH SPILLING WAVES 3AUNTON IS LONGBOARD HEAVEN PERFECT IF YOU ARE JUST STARTING TO GET TO GRIPS WITH SURF ING 3OMETIMES SURF BREAKS ARE lLLED WITH TERRITORIAL LOCALS BUT HERE THERE IS LITTLE ANIMOSITY 3AUNTON ALSO HAS ONE OF THE BEST SURF LIFE SAVING CLUBS IN "RITAIN WHICH IS A GREAT REASSURANCE IF LIKE ME YOU RE PARANOID ABOUT SHARK ATTACKS DROWNING AND OTHER UNLIKELY SEA RELATED TERRORS /NE OF THE MOST @SPIRITUAL MO
)TS BIPOLAR ABILITY TO THRILL AND SOOTHE LEAVES YOU CRAVING MORE MERCY OF NATURE IN THE SAME WAY $OES THIS MEAN ALL SURFERS HAVE DEEPER AND MORE PROFOUND REASONS FOR DOING THEIR SPORT THAN CYCLISTS RUNNERS OR ROCK CLIMBERS !FTER WINNING THE PRO TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP !USTRALIAN SURFER "ARTON ,YNCH ACKNOWLEDGED WITH A SHRUG h4HE 7ORLD IS FULL OF ENJOYABLE FRUITFUL PASTIMES v #YCLING IS NO DOUBT AN ENJOYABLE FRUITFUL PASTIME "UT BE ING DRIVEN ON SO FAST AND SO SMOOTHLY ACROSS A BREAKING WAVE THAT WAS CREATED IN AN OCEAN THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY IS SO MUCH MORE )N MY EXPERIENCE SURlNG BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO NATURE AND
MENTS ) VE EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE WAS AT 3AUNTON ) HAD WOKEN UP AT AM IN ORDER TO lT IN A @DAWNIE SESSION BEFORE WORK )T S A LONG WALK TO THE WATER WHEN THE TIDE IS OUT BUT FEELING THE COLD SAND BEING PUSHED BETWEEN MY TOES WAS A GOOD WAY TO WAKE UP BEFORE GETTING IN THE WATER 4HERE WERE ONLY A COUPLE OF OTHERS OUT THERE SO IT FELT LIKE ) HAD THE SEA TO MYSELF ! FEW THINGS IN PAR TICULAR STICK IN MY MEMORY FROM THAT MORNING THE SWEET SMELL OF FRESHLY APPLIED COCONUT BOARD WAX THE GENTLE OFFSHORE BREEZE THE SOOTHING SOUND OF WAVES SLOSHING AGAINST THE UNDERSIDE
OF MY BOARD AS ) PADDLED OUT AND THE ANTICIPATION FOR THE NEXT SET OF WAVES ) PULLED MYSELF UP SO THAT MY LEGS WERE DANGLING EITHER SIDE OF THE BOARD IN THE WATER AND WAITED )T WAS THEN THAT THE SUN BEGAN TO RISE 3IMPLE AS IT SOUNDS IT WAS WATCHING THE SUN RISE FROM THE WATER THAT WAS SO SPECIAL ) THOUGHT OF ALL THE PEOPLE QUEUING AT POLLUTED BUS STOPS IN CITIES OR CRAMMING THEM SELVES ONTO STUFFY TUBES 4HEY WEREN T SEEING THE SKY CHANGE EVERY COLOUR OF THE SPECTRUM BREATHING THE BRACING AIR AND OSCILLATING EVERY TIME A WAVE MOVED GENTLY PAST 4IMES LIKE THIS ARE WHAT DRIVE ME TO SURF /F COURSE THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THE WATER IS FREEZING SNOW IS FALLING FROM THE SKY AND ) WON DER WHY ON EARTH ) M DRESSED HEAD TO TOE IN NEOPRENE HEADING TOWARDS THE SEA #ONDITIONS LIKE THESE ARE WHAT PUT A LOT OF PEOPLE OFF SURlNG IN THE 5+ BUT THERE S NO EXCUSE NOT TO SURF ABROAD NOW THAT TRAVEL IS SO EASY !FTER JOINING 5%! S SURF CLUB AND EXPERIENCING THE INFREQUENT AND RELA TIVELY COLD %AST !NGLIAN BREAKS ) DE CIDED TO TAKE MYSELF ABROAD DURING THE COLD %ASTER VACATION OF MY lRST YEAR -OROCCO SEEMED LIKE THE PERFECT DES TINATION BECAUSE OF ITS PROXIMITY THE INEXPENSIVE COST OF LIVING MILD OCE ANIC CLIMATE AND ITS MYSTERIOUS %ASTERN INmUENCES -OROCCO HAS EARNED lRST PLACE AMONG @EXOTIC COUNTRIES AS THE PREFERRED DESTINATION FOR SURFERS THE WORLD OVER $ESPITE A GROWING SURF IN DUSTRY THE COUNTRY S SHORES ARE STILL REL ATIVELY UNCROWDED AND ARE THE PERFECT PLACE FOR ALL STANDARDS TO ENJOY SURlNG IN HOT WEATHER AND WARM WATERS !S ) WAS TRAVELLING SOLO ) DECIDED TO GO WITH A TOUR OPERATOR CALLED 0URE 6ACATIONS 4HEY HAD A TRANSFER WAITING TO PICK ME UP FROM THE AIRPORT A QUAL IlED INSTRUCTOR TO DRIVE US TO THE BEST
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DETRIMENTAL THEY CAN BE TO A PERSON S LIFE (OWEVER THERE ARE MANY WAYS THAT PANIC CAN BE OVERCOME &OR THE MORE SERIOUS AND PROLONGED PANIC PROBLEMS MEDICATION IS SOMETIMES PART OF THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY (OWEVER THE MOST COMMON ROUTE IS GOING TO SOME FORM OF THERAPY EITHER A COUNSELLOR OR #OGNITIVE "EHAV IOURAL 4HERAPY #"4 #"4 IS A METHOD THAT IS USED FOR MANY ILLNESSES INCLUDING -% AND DISORDERS LIKE BULIMIA AS IT ALLOWS THE INDIVIDUAL TO MAKE SMALL STEPS TOWARDS GOALS WHILST KEEPING THE PROCESS AT A SUITABLE LEVEL FOR EACH PERSON &OR EXAM PLE THE GOAL FOR THE WEEK MIGHT BE JUST STEPPING OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR OR WALKING TO THE SHOPS ALONE WHICH TO THE SUFFERER WOULD BE MASSIVE STEPS BOOST ING SELF CONlDENCE AS EACH TASK IS COMPLETED 4HERAPY ALSO ATTEMPTS TO GET TO THE SOURCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL S PANIC AND lND WHAT THE TRIGGERS OF THE ATTACKS ARE &OR EXAMPLE A FEAR OF CHOKING COULD LEAD TO SOMEONE PANICKING IF THEY WERE LEFT TO EAT ALONE !S ONE SUFFERER SAID h)T SOMETIMES FEELS AS IF YOU RE GOING ROUND IN CIRCLES ) USED TO BE SO OVERCOME WITH PAN IC ) FELT LIKE ) WAS GOING TO FAINT ) HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO AND THAT MADE ME PANIC EVEN MORE v 4HE MESSAGE THAT COMES ACROSS
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&IRSTLY HEAT OIL IN PAN !DD ONIONS GAR LIC AND GINGER THEN COOK UNTIL ONIONS ARE TRANSLUCENT 3TIR IN PUMPKIN COOK THEN REMOVE PUMPKIN ONLY AND SET ASIDE !DD CURRY PASTE AND CHICKEN 7HEN THE CHICK EN IS MOSTLY COOKED ADD BULLION OR MISO AND CUPS OF WATER STIR IN ROOT VEGETA BLES APPLES AND LEMONGRASS THEN COVER !DD DRY CURRY POWDER TO COCONUT CREAM AND STIR HALF INTO VEGETABLE MIX COVER #UT BUTTERNUT SQUASH IN HALF AND LIE FACE DOWN IN ª# OVEN IN SHALLOW PAN OF WATER "AKE UNTIL THE OUTER IS SOFT AND SLIGHTLY SCORCHED ,ET IT COOL A LITTLE AND SCOOP SOFT INSIDE INTO A POT !DD PUMP KIN THE REST OF THE COCONUT CREAM AND THE PEPPERS THEN COVER ,ET SIMMER FOR AT LEAST MINUTES
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AVE YOU NO TICED THE STICK ERS PLASTERED OVER RAILS AND FENCES AROUND CAMPUS WARNING THAT h#YCLES ,EFT (ERE 7ILL "E 2E MOVEDv 3INCE THEY HAVE APPEARED RENEGADE DIRECT ACTION HAS TAKEN PLACE RESISTING THESE MEASURES BY REMOVING THE STICKERS !FTER WITNESSING THIS BATTLE COMMENCE BETWEEN CYCLISTS AND THIS PARTICULAR 5%! POL ICY WE GOT TO THINKING ABOUT BICYCLE SECURITY ON CAMPUS AND THE ISSUE OF 5%! S ATTITUDES TOWARDS CYCLING AND TRANSPORT )N OUR INVES TIGATIONS WE DISCOVERED ANOTHER THREAT FOR CYCLISTS IN THE FORM OF NIGHTLY ATTACKS USING ROPES AND BRANCHES BY YOUTHS 3O ARE 5%! CYCLISTS MORE EXPOSED AND VULNERABLE ROAD USERS THAN THE AVERAGE .ORWICH CITIZEN 0LENTY OF STUDENTS ARE KEEN CYCLISTS AND ARE FACED DAILY WITH THE DILEMMA OF THEFT AND DAMAGE WHEN LEAVING THEIR BIKES ON CAMPUS EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMEONE WHO HAS HAD A BIKE STOLEN OR DAMAGED ON CAMPUS OR HAS SEEN THE STATE OF SKELETON BIKES ABANDONED IN THE BIKE SHEDS $ESPITE THE FACILITIES PRO VIDED FOR STUDENTS FOR BIKE PARKING CYCLISTS INSIST UPON PARKING THEIR BIKES IN THE MOST CENTRAL AND PROMINENT PLACES -ICHAEL -C#ORMACK -ANAGER AT THE 3ECURITY ,ODGE SAYS THESE RESTRICTIONS UPON CYCLE PARKING HAVE COME ABOUT DUE TO THE hNEED FOR INCREASED ACCESS AND MOBILITY ACROSS CAMPUS AND FOR RAILS TO BE ACCESSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE ICY WINTER MONTHS AHEAD v 4HE REMOVAL OF BIKES IS STILL IN AN hEDUCA TIONALv PHASE BUT WILL BE ENFORCED IN THE FU TURE "IKES PARKED IN THE OFFENDING AREAS WILL
HAVE THEIR LOCKS CUT AND WILL BE IMPOUNDED !T THIS STAGE HE REASSURES STUDENTS THAT THERE WILL NOT BE A lNE TO RETRIEVE THEIR BIKES BUT OBVIOUSLY WITHOUT A WORKING LOCK 4HIS NEW POLICY CAN BE SEEN AS ENHANC ING THE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL BUT IS ALSO PUTTING CYCLIST S NEEDS SECOND PARTICU LARLY WHEN THERE HAS BEEN NO MENTION OF AN ALTERNATIVE CENTRAL AND WEATHERPROOF BIKE PARK BEING BUILT
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REMOVAL OF BIKES IS STILL IN AN @EDUCATIONAL PHASE BUT WILL BE ENFORCED IN THE FUTURE h !LONGSIDE THIS THERE HAS BEEN A SPATE OF ROPE ATTACKS TARGETING CYCLISTS WHERE A ROPE HAS BEEN PUT ACROSS A PATH AT WAIST HEIGHT IN THE DARK CAUSING CYCLISTS TO COME OFF THEIR BIKES 3O NOW FOR CYCLISTS THE THREAT ISN T ONLY TO THEIR BIKES BUT TO THEIR WELL BEING AS WELL 4HERE IS A STRONG FEELING THAT THE THEFTS
AND ATTACKS ARE CARRIED OUT BY LOCAL PEOPLE NOT CONNECTED TO 5%! WHO ARE ABLE TO PASS THROUGH THE CAMPUS UNCHECKED AND UNNO TICED SEE FRONT PAGE ARTICLE FOR MORE DETAIL -R -C#ORMACK SEES THAT THIS PROBLEM ARISES DUE TO THE OPEN STYLE OF CAMPUS WHICH WE ALL ENJOY AND THAT THE ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR IS NOT NECESSARILY TARGETED AT STUDENTS BUT AT THE HIGH VOLUME OF CYCLISTS THAT ARE ABLE TO BE PICKED UPON IN OBSCURE LOCATIONS 4AK ING COMMON SENSE PRECAUTIONS CAN HELP TO PREVENT THESE ATTACKS n BEING VIGILANT BIKE LIGHTS AND CAREFUL CYCLING AS WELL AS INCREASED GROUND SECURITY PRESENCE )S THIS ENOUGH #YCLISTS ARE FREQUENTLY VILIlED BY CAR USERS FOR RECKLESS BEHAVIOUR AND WEAVING AMONGST THE HEAVY TRAFlC THAT CARS CREATE AND FROM NERVOUS PEDESTRIANS FEARFUL FOR THEIR SAFETY ON THE PAVEMENTS (OWEVER WE FEEL THAT THERE IS ROOM FOR A POLICY OF POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS CYCLISTS AS THE NEED FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT BECOMES MORE URGENT FOR EVERY ONE S WELL BEING 4HIS WOULD MEAN AN OVER WHELMING PROPORTION OF RESOURCES DIRECTED AT SAFE BIKE PARKING CYCLISTS RIGHT OF WAY ON ROADS CYCLE LANES ETC ! BETTER DIALOGUE IS NEEDED BETWEEN THOSE WHO CREATE 5%! POLICY AND THOSE WHO HAVE TO ABIDE BY IT 4HE VIEW THAT CARS HAVE PRECEDENCE IS OUTDATED AND REGRESSIVE IN ITS THINKING CYCLISTS SHOULD NOT BE SADDLED WITH THE THREAT OF THEFT AND ABUSE AND IT WOULD BE ENCOURAGING TO SEE SOME FORM OF WEATHER PROOF BIKE PARKING IN PLACE ON CAMPUS &OR STUDENTS WHO WISH TO SEEK TRAVEL ADVICE CONTACT THE VERY APPROACHABLE +ERRY $AVIS THE 5NIVERSITY S 0ERSONAL 4RAVEL !DVI SOR %MAIL KERRY DAVIS UEA AC UK
4HE PROBLEM OF THE 5+ S OVERmOWING LANDlLL SITES IS INCREASINGLY GETTING ATTEN TION AND THIS PERHAPS EXPLAINS THE RECENT GROWTH OF THE 5+ &REECYCLE SCENE WITH MEMBERSHIP MORE THAN DOUBLING ALREADY THIS YEAR TO 4HE .ORFOLK COMMUNITY HAS RECENTLY BEEN SPLIT INTO MORE LOCALISED COMMUNI TIES AND THE .ORWICH COMMUNITY ALREADY HAS MEMBERS WITH A DIVERSE RANGE OF OBJECTS BEING OFFERED EVERY MONTH ) RECENTLY POSTED A MESSAGE ASKING IF ANY MEMBERS HAD AN UNWANTED COMPUTER 7ITHIN DAYS ) HAD RECEIVED A REPLY AND AM NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF A FULLY FUNC TIONING 0# 4HE WOMAN WHO DONATED IT TO ME HAD JUST BOUGHT A LAPTOP AND ALTHOUGH SHE COULD EASILY HAVE SOLD HER OLD 0# DECID ED TO GIVE IT AWAY ON &REECYCLE INSTEAD ) WAS OVERWHELMED BY HER GENEROSITY AND THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT THIS SITE IS THAT THERE ARE MANY OTHERS LIKE HER CHOOSING TO GIVE THEIR UNWANTED ITEMS AWAY WHEN THEY COULD EASILY BE MAKING MONEY FROM THEM 0ART OF THE REASON FOR THIS IS THAT &REECYCLE HELPS TO STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY TIES INDEED THE DONOR OF MY 0# LIVES IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD AND ) HAVE SINCE BUMPED INTO HER IN THE STREET 9OU MAY FEEL YOU HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER ON THE SITE BUT STOP AND THINK AS IT S SUR PRISING THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE WANT &ROM HALF FULL TINS OF PAINT TO BEADS FROM BRO KEN JEWELLERY THERE S SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT HAS A USE FOR IT !ND WITH ALMOST EVE RYONE ON THE SITE WILLING TO COLLECT IT S A FAIRLY EFFORTLESS WAY TO CLEAR OUT YOUR BULG ING GARDEN SHED 3O WHETHER YOU RE LOOKING TO MAKE SOME SPACE AT HOME OR ARE HANKERING AFTER A @MUST HAVE THAT YOU SIMPLY CAN T AFFORD HAVE A LOOK AT &REECYCLE AND SEE IF YOU CAN lND YOUR PERFECT MATCH 'OOD LUCK 2OSIE "RADLEY "UNN
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4HE 'REAT #OKE $EBATE !NDY *ONES
) FEEL IT IS FUNDAMENTALLY THE RIGHT DECISION TO BOYCOTT #OKE AND SEND A MESSAGE TO #OCA #OLA THAT ITS BUSINESS PRACTICES ARE UNETHICAL AND ARE AGAINST WHAT WE STAND FOR AS A UNION AND A UNIVER SITY (OWEVER ) MUST QUES TION HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS TO BOYCOTT A COMPANY BECAUSE IT IS UNETHICAL WHILE SELLING THE DRINKS OF MANY OTHER UNETHICAL CORPORATIONS 4HE FACT WE SELL 0EPSI ,UCOZADE AND 2IBENA UNDERMINES THE ENTIRE REASON FOR BOYCOTTING #OKE
-UCH OF THE REASON THAT WAS PROVIDED FOR BOYCOTTING #OCA #OLA WAS THAT THERE ARE NUMEROUS ALLEGATIONS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT #OKE ENGAGES IN HIGHLY UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES #OKE HAS ALLEGEDLY HAD A UNION REPRE SENTATIVE IN )NDIA MURDERED FOR SIMPLY ATTEMPTING TO REP RESENT EMPLOYEES WHO HAD BEEN MISTREATED BY #OKE )F YOU LOOK ON WWW KILLER COKE ORG YOU WILL lND A LIST OF #OLUMBIAN UNION LEADERS WHO HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY PARAMILITARIES CLOSELY LINKED TO #OCA #OLA S MANAGEMENT !S WELL AS ITS ALLEGED ACTIVI TIES IN SUPPRESSING UNIONS #OKE HAS ALSO BEEN ACCUSED OF SITING FACTORIES IN DROUGHT
STRICKEN REGIONS OF )NDIA AND TAKING AS MUCH AS NINE LITRES OF CLEAN WATER TO PRODUCE A SINGLE LITRE OF #OKE 4HIS WA TER IS TAKEN AWAY FROM LOCAL PEOPLE INCREASING THEIR SUF FERING 4HE CASE FOR AN ETHICAL BOYCOTT LOOKS PRETTY STRONG HOWEVER IF #OKE IS GUILTY OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR THEN SURELY SO IS 0EPSI 0EPSICO IS ACCUSED OF BULLYING EM PLOYEES OUT OF UNIONS AND DELIBERATELY CIRCUMNAVIGAT ING EMPLOYEE S REPRESENTA TIVES IN ORDER TO GET THEM TO SIGN AGREEMENTS THEY DON T UNDERSTAND 0EPSICO HAS ALSO BEEN CONDEMNED BY THE .A TIONAL ,EAGUE FOR $EMOCRACY IN "URMA FOR HELPING TO SUP
PORT THE "URMESE MILITARY RE GIME WHICH HAS BEEN RESPON SIBLE FOR SOME OF THE WORLD S MOST mAGRANT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES !S WELL AS THIS IT HAS OFFENDED LOCAL RELIGIOUS LEADERS PAINTING ITS LOGO ON THE (IMALAYAS WHICH ARE RE GARDED BY LOCALS AS AREAS OF RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE 2IBENA AND ,UCOZADE ARE BOTH OWNED BY 'LAXO 3MITH+LEIN 'LAXO ARE THE PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT BE HIND (UNTINGDON ,IFE 3CI ENCES !LTHOUGH ) PERSONALLY AGREE WITH ANIMAL TESTING IN DRUG TRIALS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONDONE THE ROUTINE ABUSE THAT ANIMALS WERE SUBJECTED TO AT (UNTINGDON FOR NOTH ING MORE THAN THEIR ABUSERS@
AMUSEMENT 'LAXO HAS ALSO BEEN ACUSED OF DELIBERATELY WITHHOLDING !IDS MEDICA TION IN !FRICA TO INCREASE ITS PROlTS 4HESE ISSUES ARE AT THE ROOT OF WHY ) BELIEVE THE #OKE BOYCOTT IS POINTLESS 9ET #OKE ARE PROBABLY GUILTY OF SOME INCREDIBLY UNETHI CAL BUSINESS PRACTICES SO ARE 0EPSICO 'LAXO AND FOR THAT MATTER .ESTLE .IKE 4HE 'AP 0RIMARK AND A WHOLE HOST OF OTHERS )F WE WANT ETHICALLY PRO DUCED GOODS WE ARE DELUD ING OURSELVES BY THINKING CORPORATIONS ARE EVER GOING TO DELIVER THEM
)S ANYONE ELSE A LITTLE ANGRY .ATALIE "UTLIN
7HEN ) STARTED UNI ) WAS DU BIOUS ABOUT MY TIMETABLES ) HAD SIX PRECIOUS HOURS A WEEK AND ) DOUBTED THEY WERE RE ALLY ENOUGH ENOUGH TO HELP ME UNDERSTAND MY UNITS AND ENOUGH UNITS TO STUDY IN THE lRST PLACE ) SUSPECT MANY STUDENTS ARE LIKE ME LAZY !ND SO WE ARE BERATED FOR NOT DOING OUR OWN WORK FOR EXPECTING TO BE @SPOON FED
"UT IS TWO HOURS PER UNIT EVEN APPROACHING @SPOON FED )S HAVING TWO HOURS TO DISSECT 4HE 7ASTELAND EVEN WINKING AT @SPOON FED !ND NOW SOMEONE HAS DECIDED TO TAKE AWAY TWO UNITS FROM THIRD YEAR !RTS STUDENTS 3O THAT S TWO UNITS A TERM !ND AS ) M DOING A DISSERTATION ) ONLY HAVE TWO HOURS A WEEK ON A &RIDAY IF YOU MUST KNOW -Y TUTOR HAS BEEN TOLD THAT HE MAY AC TUALLY TAKE UP THREE HOURS OF OUR TIME AND WILL BE PUTTING ON SOME EXTRA LECTURES WELL WHOOP DE DO #AN ) REALLY
BE EARNING A DEGREE LIKE THIS 7HAT ABOUT THOSE TWO HOURS !RE THEY PURE POOLS OF NECTAR $OES EACH SECOND DRIP INSPIRATIONALLY INTO MY EAR ) D HAVE TO SAY NO ) WADE INTO MY INTIMATE SEMINAR OF ABOUT A THOUSAND STUDENTS AND lND THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR AN IN DEPTH DISCUSSION EACH MEMBER PARTICIPATING TO TAKE PLACE ) CAN T IMAG INE THAT SEMINAR TEACHING WAS INTENDED FOR GROUPS THE SIZE OF A '#3% CLASS .OW ) M NOT COM PLAINING ABOUT THE TUTORS A NUMBER HAVE LOOKED UP
APOLOGETICALLY GRASPING KING LEAR OR MRS DALLOWAY IN THEIR HANDS AND SAID h) DON T KNOW HOW ) M MEANT TO TEACH THIS IN AN HOURv OR TWO IF THE UNIT HAD NO LECTURE 3O IT S NOT THEIR FAULT THEY RE AS MUCH VICTIMS AS WE ARE ) CAN JUSTIFY PAYING THE SAME FEES AS A 3CIENCE STU DENT ) UNDERSTAND WE NEED PEOPLE TO DO SCIENCE DEGREES IF THEIR FEES REmECTED THEIR COST TO THE UNIVERSITY THEN WE D HAVE NO DOCTORS OR DRUGS FOR THEM TO GIVE US "UT ALL THE SAME IF ) M GETTING TWO HOURS OF TUITION IS THE REST OF
THE MONEY MEANT TO PAY FOR ACCESS TO THE LIBRARY 4HEN AGAIN THE GOVERNMENT PAYS MY FEES ) M ACTUALLY HERE FOR FREE YET ) STILL FEEL CHEATED -AYBE IF ) HAD MORE HOURS ) D LEARN MORE FEEL MORE MOTIVATED DO MORE WORK BE MORE INTERESTED !ND AS FOR TAKING AWAY TWO UNITS ACTUALLY DECREASING THE PITTANCE OF SUBJECTS ) STUDY AT LEAST LET ME PRETEND ) M NOT WASTING MY TIME HERE
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) WAS VERY INTERESTED TO READ !NDY *ONES COMMENT ON STUDENT ACTIVISM IN THE LAST ISSUE OF #ONCRETE (OWEVER ) THINK HE IS WRONG IN BELIEV ING THAT MASS DEMONSTRATION IS NOT A GOOD TOOL ) WRITE THIS LETTER WITH THE UPCOMING NA TIONAL DEMONSTRATION BY THE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS lRMLY AT THE BACK OF MY MIND !NDY AT ONE POINT REFERRED TO hDESTRUCTIVE DIRECT ACTION v )T IS OFTEN SADLY TRUE THAT DI RECT PROTEST CAN BE DESTRUC TIVE (OWEVER MASS DEMON STRATIONS REMAIN AN EFFECTIVE
AND IMPORTANT TOOL OF POLITI CAL PROTEST IF USED CORRECTLY AND FAIRLY )T WAS POINTED OUT THAT TODAY WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF MEDIA SATURATION &OR THIS REASON BIG BOLD AND CATCHY STATEMENTS ARE ABSOLUTELY VI TAL AND SURELY A MASS COLLEC TION OF THOUSANDS OF INDIVID UALS WOULD BE JUST THAT -ASS DEMONSTRATIONS CAN DO THIS AND HAVE DONE IN THE PAST &OR EXAMPLE -AHATMA 'ANDHI S FANTASTIC EXAMPLE OF STOIC PACIlSM HELPED )NDI ANS WIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE IN THE TH CENTURY 7E NEED TO KEEP THIS SPIRIT ALIVE FOR THE STUDENTS DEMONSTRATION !FTER ALL THE CAMPAIGNING THAT OCCURRED BEFORE THE VOTE ON THE ORIGINAL 0ARLIAMENT
DISCUSSION ON TOP UP FEES HAD AN IMPACT THE MOTION SQUEEZED THROUGH ON ONLY VOTES 7ITH THE GOVERNMENT NOW IN A MUCH WEAKER POSI TION THIS IS THE IDEAL TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO PUT FORWARD OUR VIEWS AND ARGUMENTS ! NATIONAL DEMO ALLOWS US TO SET THE AGENDA TO MAKE POLITICIANS REALISE THAT THEY CANNOT KEEP IGNORING STU DENTS ! PEACEFUL BUT VOCAL DEMONSTRATION WILL SERVE THAT PURPOSE BUT IT IS REALLY VITAL THAT NORMAL STUDENTS TAKE PART TO MAKE IT A REWARDING AND MEMORABLE EVENT (EADLINES AT THE MOMENT ARE DOMINAT ED BY POLITICAL BICKERING SO SURELY ITS TIME THAT SOMETHING USEFUL WAS ACTUALLY DONE WITH
OUR VAST MEDIA RESOURCES FOR THE BENElT OF ALL !FTER ALL POLITICS EXISTS FOR THE PEOPLE NOT THE POLITICIANS 4HIS IS AN INCREDIBLY RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO ACTU ALLY DEMONSTRATE YOUR VIEWS AND IT S SO EASY 9OU WILL GET A CHANCE TO MEET OTHER STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY NOT JUST POLITICISED ONES BUT NOR MAL PEOPLE WHO SHARE YOUR VIEWS AND THOUGHTS 4HIS RE ALLY IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEET NEW PEOPLE MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND EXPERIENCE SOME THING NEW AND FANTASTIC !NDY *ONES MENTIONED HOW EXTREMISM IS INFECTING POLI TICS "UT THIS IS JUST ANOTHER REASON WHY ORDINARY STUDENTS SHOULD GET INVOLVED /NLY BY
TAKING OVER FROM THE MORE RADICAL ELEMENTS CAN THEY ENSURE THE VIEWS OF NORMAL STUDENTS ARE REPRESENTED MAKING A VALID IMPACT AND DILUTING THE POLITICISATION THAT IS TAKING OVER THE NA TIONAL UNION
/PITALK BY ,OUIS (OLDING 0ARSONS $EPUTY %DITOR
!POLOGY !N APOLOGY IS DUE ON MY BEHALF TO THE ,ABOUR SOCI ETY AS THEY ARE VERY MUCH IN EXISTENCE !LSO "EN 7EALTHY 4REASURER OF THE ,ABOUR 3O CIETY HAS ASKED THAT IT BE POINTED OUT THAT ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE SIMILAR IDEALS THE 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY ARE VERY MUCH INDEPENDENT OF THE ,ABOUR 0ARTY LEADERSHIP /PINIONATED REALITY )N LAST WEEK S /PITALK ) MEN TIONED THE NEED FOR PRISON SHIPS AS A SHORT TERM SOLU TION FOR PRISON OVERCROWD ING INSTEAD OF LETTING PRIS ONERS OUT EARLY )T SEEMS THE GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN HEED AND IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING THIS AS AN OPTION !LTHOUGH SOME HAVE QUESTIONED THE WISDOM OF THIS QUOTING IT hAS PANIC MEASURESv AND THAT IT WILL NOT MEET PRISON ERS NEEDS )T IS ALSO ALLEGED THAT IT WILL LEAD TO PRISON SHIP INMATES RE OFFENDING DUE TO THE LACK OF EDUCATIONAL FACILI TIES IN THESE mOATING PRISONS 5NFORTUNATELY ) DON T BUY IT 7E HERE AT 5%! HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO REPEATED ATTACKS BY IT SEEMS A BUNCH OF LO CAL YOUTHS WHO ARE PROB ABLY KNOWN TO POLICE WITH ATTACKS ONLY EVER STOPPING WHEN STOP PRESS THEY ARE IN POLICE OR PRISON CUSTODYx
#OMMONSENSE 7HEN THERE IS AN EARLY SEA SON PREMIERSHIP MATCH BEING SHOWN ON THE LARGE SCREEN AND THEN FOLLOWED BY THE LAST RACE OF A HIGHLY EXCITING & SEASON WHICH HAS BOTH THE WORLD AND CON STRUCTOR CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE LINE ) lND IT AMAZING THAT THE 5NION BAR RELEGATE & VIEWERS TO SMALL SCREENS 3OME WILL ARGUE THAT FOOT BALL BRINGS IN MORE MONEY AND CONSEQUENTLY SHOULD BE GIVEN THE 6)0 TREATMENT BUT THE 5NION BAR IS THERE AS A SERVICE FOR STUDENTS NOT AS A MONEY MAKING VENTURE FOR SOME MULTI MILLIONAIRE
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4HIS FORTNIGHT ,EAVES CHANGED COLOUR AND SHOOK THEMSELVES LOOSE 7E HELD OUR l RST #/.#2%4% SOCIAL SANG THE LAST SONG AT +ARAOKE DANCED ACROSS THE ,#2 STAGE WAVED POM POMS IN THE AIR AND ANNOYED EVERYONE WITH OUR WHISTLES -ARCUS DID A BIRTHDAY LAP DANCE WITH A SUSPICIOUS 3NAKEY " STAIN MIRACULOUSLY IN THE SHAPE OF A CONDOM 3ARAH DEM ONSTRATED HER PARTY TRICK WHICH INVOLVED A BOTTLE OF 6+ APPLE NO HANDS AND AN AMPLE BOSOM n ) WILL SAY NO MORE 4HIS &ORTNIGHT ) SAW THE RAIN AND ) TURNED BACK &IREWORKS FELL ONTO %ARLHAM ROAD 4HE CITY SMELT DIFFER ENT 7INTER WILL COME SOON BUT THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY IT IS STILL MONSOON SEASON IN (AI 0HONG AND ) MISS THE HEAT (UONG THE TASTE OF "UN (UE AND NOUC MIA
4HIS &ORTNIGHT 53 AND "RITISH 3CIENTISTS CREATED AN INVISIBILITY CLOAK ) GOT BELATED FRESHERS m U DIDN T SLEEP WELL BUT WATCHED A LOT OF NATURE DOCUMENTARIES LATE INTO THE NIGHT &RIENDS FASTED +IRSTY GAVE A SPEECH &RANNIE GAVE ME A PAINTING 2UTHIE STAYED UP WITH ME !MY LOST A BOBBLE IN THE 7AFm E (OUSE %LSA CAME TO STAY AND (AYLEY LEFT
4HIS FORTNIGHT ) WAS TOLD ) SHOULD DRESS MORE LIKE A POET *ANE SWORE LESS *O EXCELLED HERSELF 7E STARTED GETTING ORGANISED FOR OUR UPCOMING ARTS MAGAZINE 4HREAD ,OUIS WENT TO SEE HIS @HIP HOP PEOPLE AND GOT EXCITED ABOUT THE GRAND PRIX #ONCREW WENT ON A DATE TOGETHER TO .ANDOS 4HIS FORTNIGHT ) MET $ASSI AND WAS THANKFUL FOR IT #/.#2%4% DIDN T GET NOMINATED FOR ANY 'UARD IAN MEDIA AWARDS BOO &RANCIS DEBATED EXSTEN TIALISM WITH HIMSELF ON ,IVEWIRE ) RAMBLED ABOUT TOP UP FEES AND GOT EXCITED ABOUT THE UP COMING 3PARKS IN THE 0ARK 4HIS WEEKEND 2YAN FROM .EXUS CAME TO l LM A PRODUCTION WEEKEND 7E HAD A PASTA PARTY +ATIE MADE PANCAKES AND WE FOUND THE STAFF ROOM IN 5NION (OUSE REMEMBERED THE S OUR l RST CIGARETTE MISHAPS AND CIDER *O TRIED TO LURE ME TO THE ,#2 BUT ) ONLY MADE IT AS FAR AS THE BAR FOR A QUICK MENTHOL #HRIS GAVE A SPEECH GOT SOAKED THREW A CANTALOUPE MELON AT *UDSON -ARCUS POPPED UP TO THE OFl CE ON 3ATURDAY NIGHT SHOWED US HIS DODGY BONE AND SAID ) COULD WHACK OUT A LOT IN TEN MINUTES
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) AM WRITING IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE LAST EDITION OF #/.#2%4% BY THE $EPUTY %DITOR &IRSTLY ) WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THERE IS A 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY CON TRARY TO THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE PIECE 4HE ,ABOUR 3OCI ETY HAS A BIGGER AND STRONGER MEMBERSHIP THAN LAST YEAR ) WOULD ALSO LIKE TO QUES TION THE ASSERTION THAT SOME l CTIONAL IN l GHTING DE STROYED THE SOCIETY AND THE COMPARISONS THEN MADE WITH THE ,ABOUR 0ARTY LEADER SHIP 4HE ,ABOUR 3OCIETY IS ABOUT DEBATE AND DISCUSSION ON POLICY NOT PERSONALITY AS IS THE THE ,ABOUR 0ARTY AS A WHOLE #/.#2%4% CAN HELP INFORM SHAPE AND LEAD THESE DEBATES WITHIN OUR UNIVER SITY )T IS A HUGE RESPONSIBILTY BUT IT IS A GREAT HONOUR THAT
SHOULD BE TAKEN VERY SERI OUSLY ) FEEL IT ONLY RIGHT THAT #/.#2%4% RIGHTS THIS WRONG BY PUBLISHING AN APOLOGY STATING CLEARLY THAT THE 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY DOES EXIST AND THAT MORE EFFORT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE ON ITS PART TO CONTACT US BEFORE GOING TO PRESS 4HIS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HARD ) M IN THE BAR MOST DAYS ! LOT OF WORK HAS GONE IN TO THE ,ABOUR 3OCIETY BOTH BY ME PERSONALLY AND BY ITS MEMBERS ,AST WEEK S ARTICLE UNDERMINED THIS WORK AND THE APOLOGY SHOULD REm ECT THE STAIN THE PIECE HAS LEFT ON THE ,ABOUR 3OCIETY AND THE ,ABOUR 0ARTY 4HE ARTICLE ALSO REm ECTS BADLY ON #/.#2%4% WHICH SHOULD ACT AS A PILLAR OF IN
TEGRITY BINDING OUR UNIVERSITY TOGETHER )T SHOULD BE BASED ON ACCURATE JOURNALISM SOUND RESEARCH AND THOUGHT FUL OPINIONS ) M SURE THERE WAS NO DELIB ERATE POLITICAL BIAS INTENDED WITHIN THE ARTICLE HOWEVER ) AND OTHERS COULD HAVE IN FERRED THERE WAS #/.#2%4% MUST BEEN SEEN TO BE TOTALLY INDEPENDENT OF POLITICAL PAR TIES FOR IT TO MAINTAIN IT S CREDIBILITY ) HOPE TO SEE CONCRETE WORK ING TO ENSURE THAT IT LEADS IN FORMED INCLUSIVE DEBATE IN THE FUTURE )F ANYBODY IS INTERESTED IN JOINING THE ,ABOUR 3OCIETY OR WANTS TO CONTACT ME EMAIL BENWEALTHY HOTMAIL COM "EN 7EALTHY 4REASURER 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ONE LOW LY MEMBER OF STAFF WORKING ON ALL THESE )4 PROBLEMS 9ES THAT S ONE MEMBER OF STAFF FOR THE PROBLEMS OF PEOPLE 7HAT DEDICATION ON THE 5NI VERSITY S PART 7HAT ) WANT TO KNOW IS WHY THE 5NIVERSITY HAVE NOT PUT EXTRA HELP ASIDE TO MANAGE THIS IF THEY ARE SO CONCERNED !ND WHO IS RE SPONSIBLE IN THE l RST PLACE FOR GIVING THIS SYSTEM THE GO AHEAD WITHOUT TESTING IT BE FOREHAND 4O BE HONEST ) M NOT EXPECTING ANY ANSWERS )
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4HE /PINION &ATIGUE AND INJURY IN SPORT $ANNY 4HOMAS 4HE PHYSICAL DEMANDS UPON PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES AND THE INJURIES THEY SUFFER AS A RESULT HAVE LONG BEEN ACCEPTED AS ROUTINE FEA TURES OF COMPETITIVE SPORT 7HILST SEVERE INJURIES SUCH AS THOSE SUFFERED BY GOAL KEEPERS 0ETR #ECH AND #ARLO #UDICINI WHEN #HEL SEA QUITE LITERALLY hCLASHEDv WITH 2EADING THIS MONTH ARE SHOCKING THEY EVENTU ALLY COME TO BE ACCEPTED AS A NORMAL BY PRODUCT OF THE GAME 2ECENTLY HOWEVER PLAYER FATIGUE AND INJURY HAVE BE COME EXTREMELY CONTROVER SIAL AND HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS ISSUES WITHIN SPORT HAVING BEEN SIGHTED AS BEING PAR TIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR POOR PERFORMANCES AT INTERNATION AL LEVEL 7HILE YOU MAY STRUGGLE TO lND A TOP GOLFER COM PLAINING OF HAVING ONE TOO
)T S A HARD KNOCK LIFE MANY lVE STAR COUNTRY CLUBS TO VISIT ON THE 0'! TOUR SEEMINGLY ENDLESS lXTURE LISTS TAKE THEIR TOLL ON PLAYERS IN A MULTITUDE OF SPORTS WITH RESOUNDING CONSEQUENCES 4HE "ARCLAYS 0REMIER SHIP SPANS APPROXIMATELY TEN MONTHS DURING WHICH EACH TEAM PLAYS THIRTY EIGHT MATCHES 4O DATE 0REMIER
SHIP SIDES HAVE REPORTED A TOTAL OF SEVENTY EIGHT INJU RIES TO PLAYERS DESPITE BEING LESS THAN HALF WAY THROUGH THE SEASON %NGLAND S INABILITY TO PROGRESS BEYOND THE QUARTER lNALS OF THE LAST &)&! 7ORLD #UP HAS BEEN PARTIALLY AT TRIBUTED TO THE FACT THAT A NUMBER OF KEY PLAYERS WERE
INJURED IN DOMESTIC GAMES BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT EVEN BEGAN 'ARY .EVILLE TRAVELLED TO 'ERMANY WITH A CALF STRAIN AND 7AYNE 2OONEY WAS IN CLUDED DESPITE A BROKEN METATARSAL %VEN THE lTNESS OF UNINJURED PLAYERS WAS QUESTIONABLE $UE TO A TECH NICALITY WHICH SAW ,IVERPOOL START THEIR #HAMPI ONS ,EAGUE CAMPAIGN AT THE MOST BASIC LEVEL OF QUALIlCA TION BY THE TIME THE 7ORLD #UP BEGAN 3TEVEN 'ERRARD HAD ALREADY PLAYED TWELVE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF COM PETITIVE FOOTBALL 2UGBY 5NION HAS ALSO BEEN PLAGUED BY INJURIES 4HE NEED TO INJECT MORE MONEY INTO 2UGBY HAS LED TO THE CREATION OF NEW COM PETITIONS SUCH AS THE %$& CUP AND WHILST THIS IS COM MENDABLE IT MERELY PRO LONGS THE DOMESTIC SEASON PUTTING GREATER STRAIN ON PLAYERS AGAIN AFFECTING THE INTERNATIONAL GAME /UT OF %NGLAND S INITIAL lFTY lVE MAN SQUAD FOR THE )2"
7ORLD #UP OVER HALF ARE CONSIDERED UNlT TO TRAIN LET ALONE PLAY 4ENNIS TOO HAS A HIGH INJURY RATE AMONGST PLAYERS WHO ARE OFTEN PLAGUED BY RE CURRING INJURIES WHICH HINDER THEM THROUGHOUT THEIR CA REERS !NDY 2ODDICK S PER FORMANCE IN THE RECENT -A DRID -ASTERS WAS HAMPERED BY AN ANKLE INJURY WHICH lRST STRUCK HIM IN THE !USTRALIAN /PEN (IS ABIL ITY TO PLAY IN ,YON LATER THIS MONTH AND AT THE 3HANGHAI
-ASTERS #UP IN .OVEMBER IS NOW IN QUESTION )NJURIES WITHIN SPORT UN DOUBTEDLY DETRACT FROM ITS ENJOYMENT AS DO THE ARGU MENTS THAT ARISE AS A RESULT !NY REDUCTION IN THE LENGTH OF DOMESTIC SEASONS COULD BE BENElCIAL GIVING PLAY ERS MORE TIME TO REST AND TRAIN (OWEVER IN DOING SO WE MUST TAKE CARE NOT TO KILL OFF THE COMPETITIVE EDGE THAT DRIVES SPORT AND MAKES IT EN JOYABLE
2ODDICK IS YET ANOTHER VICTIM OF TENNIS GRUELLING SCHEDULE
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7OMEN S FOOTBALL TRIUMPH ,AURA 7IGNALL )N AN EXCITING AND PACEY CONTEST &AI S lRST HALF STRIKE GAVE THE WOMEN S FOOTBALL TEAM A AWAY VICTORY OVER 7YMONDHAM A SQUAD WITH MORE AGGRES SION THAN SKILL 4HEY NOW QUALIFY FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE .ORFOLK AND 3UFFOLK #OUNTY #UP 4HE SQUAD WERE STRENGTH ENED BY GIVING SOME OF THE "53! TEAM PLAYERS A RUN OUT AHEAD OF THE BIG CLASH AWAY AGAINST ,OUGHBOROUGH ON 7EDNESDAY 4HE GIRLS HAD A VERY THOR OUGH HALF HOUR WARM UP TAKEN BY 3IMON .ORTON THE "53! COACH 4HEY PERFORMED SKILLS AND SPEED WORK AS WELL
5%! IN BLUE DESERVEDLY PROGRESSED IN THEIR #UP TIE AS TEAM BONDING EXERCISES WHICH LOOKED VERY PROFES SIONAL AGAINST THE HOME SIDE WHO WERE AIMLESSLY KICKING AROUND BALLS 4HIS WAS A VERY USEFUL EXERCISE AS THE TEAM
CHOSEN HAD NEVER PLAYED TO GETHER BEFORE 4HE FORMATION CHOSEN FOR THE MATCH WAS IN THE lRST HALF 7YMONDHAM HAD SOME STRONG INDIVIDU
ALS WITH PACE AND STRENGTH ESPECIALLY ON THE LEFT WING BUT WERE NOT PLAYING EF FECTIVELY AS A TEAM !T THE BEGINNING OF THE lRST HALF 5%! S FORMATION TENDED TO BREAK UP AND THE DEFENCE OFTEN MOVED UP TO MIDlELD 4HEY LOST POSSESSION DUE TO THIS AND THE PASSING WAS OF TEN TOO TENTATIVE (OWEVER AS THEY WARMED INTO THE GAME THE PASSING BECAME MORE ACCURATE AND INDIVIDU ALS GREW MORE CONlDENT IN THEIR ABILITIES 7YMONDHAM HAD A FEW CHANCES BUT THEY WERE OFF TARGET AND SAVED BY 5%! S STRONG GOALKEEPER -EGAN 4HE BALL WAS MOSTLY IN THEIR HALF AND STRIKER *O HAD A CHANCE AFTER TWENTY lVE MINUTES BUT SHOT WIDE 4HERE WERE SOME VERY PROlCIENT INDIVIDUAL PER
FORMACES .AT WAS FAST AND VERY NIMBLE AND -OLLY WAS A FORCEFUL PRESENCE IN THE CENTRE OF MIDlELD 3OME NEAT PASSING ENA BLED &AI ON THE RIGHT WING TO lRE THE DECISIVE SHOT AFTER THIRTY SEVEN MINUTES 4HE PSYCHOLOGICAL BOOST OF THE GOAL GAVE THE GIRLS A BURST OF ENERGY AND THEY INCREASED THE PACE AND ASSAULT ON THE OPPOSING GOAL LEADING TO *O ALMOST SCORING SHORTLY AFTER )N THE SECOND HALF THE FORMATION WAS KEPT THE SAME BUT 5%! WERE FORCED TO PLAY MORE DEFENSIVELY AS 7Y MONDHAM UPPED THEIR PACE -EGAN MAGNIlCENTLY SAVED 7YMONDHAM S BEST CHANCE TO EVEN THE SCORE LINE BUT 5%! WERE BY FAR THE MORE TALENTED SIDE AND DESERVEDLY WON
&OCUS /N THE BEAUTIFUL #APOEIRA 2OSIE "RADLEY "UNN h#APO WHAT v ) HEAR YOU CRY 4HIS IS A FAIRLY FREQUENT RESPONSE WHEN CAPOEIRA IS MENTIONED BUT THE NAME OF THIS DANCE COME lGHT COME GAME IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY LESS FOREIGN AS THE 5+ CAPOEIRA SCENE GRAD UALLY EXPANDS /FT DESCRIBED AS POETRY IN MOTION CAPOEIRA COMBINES lGHTING MOVES WITH THE mU IDITY OF DANCE AND THE ACRO BATICS OF GYMNASTICS ! GAME OF CAPOEIRA IS PERFORMED @ONE
ON ONE WITH THE TWO CAPOE IRISTAS PLAYING INSIDE A CIRCU LAR AREA KNOWN AS A RODA 4HE RODA IS HEADED UP BY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS THREE BERIMBAUS LONG BOW LIKE INSTRUMENTS ONE OR MORE PANDEIROS TAM BOURINES AND AN ATABAQUE CONGO DRUM !LL THOSE PRESENT JOIN IN WITH SINGING AND HAND CLAPPING 0LAYING TO THE RHYTHM OF THIS MUSIC THE CAPOEIRISTAS AIM KICKS AT ONE ANOTHER BUT THERE ARE DEFENSIVE MOVES FOR EACH AT TACKING MOVE AND CONTACT IS RARELY MADE )T IS NOT A COMPETITIVE GAME NO ONE WINS OR LOSES
THE AIM IS SIMPLY TO PERFORM BEAUTIFUL CAPOEIRA (OWEVER ALL CAPOEIRISTAS HAVE THE OP PORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR SKILL AT THEIR GROUP S GRADING EVENT CALLED A BATI ZADO WHEN THEY CAN EARN A NEW COLOURED CORD SIMILAR TO A BELT IN KARATE 4HE EXACT ORIGINS OF CA POEIRA ARE A MATTER FOR SOME DEBATE BUT WE DO KNOW THAT IT WAS DEVELOPED BY !FRICAN SLAVES IN TH CENTURY "RAZIL 4HE SLAVES WERE PROHIBITED FROM PRACTISING CAPOEIRA BY THEIR MASTERS BUT IT CONTIN UED TO EVOLVE THROUGHOUT "RAZIL )N 2IO DE *ANEIRO CA
POEIRA DEVELOPED AS A HUGELY EFFECTIVE FORM OF lGHTING ENSURING THAT IT WAS MADE IL LEGAL WHEN "RAZIL GOT ITS lRST CONSTITUTION IN &ORTY YEARS LATER HOWEVER CAPOEIRA WAS lNALLY RECOGNISED AS A SPORT AND LEGALISED AND HAS NOW GROWN TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SPORTS IN "RAZIL &OR MANY CAPOEIRISTAS BOTH IN "RAZIL AND WORLD WIDE CAPOEIRA IS MORE THAN JUST A HOBBY IT IS A WAY OF LIFE AND THEY EMBRACE THE PHILO SOPHICAL AND MUSICAL ASPECTS OF CAPOEIRA AS WELL AS THE PHYSICAL
4HE .ORWICH CAPOEIRA GROUP IS PART OF 'RUPO 3EN ZALA A LARGE "RAZILIAN GROUP THAT HAS SPREAD INTERNATION ALLY -EMBERS OF 'RUPO 3EN ZALA TEACH CLASSES TO THE 5%! #APOEIRA 3OCIETY )T COSTS a TO JOIN PLUS YOUR SPORTS INSURANCE AND CLASSES ARE FREE TO MEMBERS #LASSES ARE HELD ON 7EDNESDAYS AND &RIDAYS IN THE $ANCE 3TUDIO AT THE 3PORTSPARK &OR MORE INFORMATION ON CAPOEIRA IN .ORWICH AND THE UPCOMING .ORWICH "ATIZA DO GO TO WWW SENZALANOR WICH COM
4RADITION AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ARE COLLIDING AT 7EST (AM 4IM 2IDGWAY #ONTROVERSY DOWN AT 5PTON 0ARK HAS BECOME A REGULAR FEATURE OF THIS SEASON SO FAR AND LAST WEEK WAS NO DIFFER ENT &OLLOWING THE THREAT OF A TAKEOVER BY )RANIAN BORN BUSINESSMAN +IA *OORABCHI AN THERE WERE REPORTS OF !LAN 0ARDEW S RESIGNATION )F THE DEAL BELIEVED TO BE AROUND a MILLION DOES GO THROUGH THEN IT WILL BRING THE TOTAL OF 0REMIERSHIP CLUBS OWNED BY FOREIGN BACKERS TO OVER ,ERNER AT 6ILLA THE 'LAZERS AT -ANCHESTER
5NITED 'AYDAMAK AT 0ORT SMOUTH n ALL ARE RICH FOREIGN BUSINESSMEN WHO MADE BIG INVESTMENTS WITH THE HOPE OF BIG RETURNS AT THE END "UT WHAT AFFECT DOES THIS HAVE ON THE FOOTBALL CLUB ITSELF &OOTBALL HAS ITS ORIGINS IN A WORKING CLASS SOCIETY WHERE mAT CAPS HAND KNITTED SCARVES AND CIGARETTE CARDS DOMINATED THE TERRACES &ANS IDENTIlED THEMSELVES WITH LO CALLY BORN HEROES WHILE THE SUCCESS OF AN AREA S FORTUNES HABITUALLY MIRRORED THAT OF THE AREA S FOOTBALL TEAM )N SHORT IT WAS A LOCAL CLUB FOR LOCAL PEOPLE
7EST (AM IS NO DIFFERENT 4HE CLUB WAS FORMED INITIAL LY AS 4HAMES 3TEEL 7ORKS A SHIPBUILDING YARD IN THE %AST %ND AND TIES WITH THIS INDUS TRY HAVE BEEN MAINTAINED TO THE DAY 3TRONG LINKS WITH THE COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FURTHER MOST NO TABLY IN NURTURING THE TALENT OF YOUNGSTERS FROM THE SUR ROUNDING AREA 4HE PRIDE THAT THE CLUB HAS IN MOULDING THE CAREERS OF THESE PLAYERS SUCH AS "OBBY -OORE 4REVOR "ROOKING AND &RANK ,AMPARD IS EVIDENT IN THE SELF ADOPTED NICKNAME h4HE !CADEMY OF &OOTBALLv
)T IS WITH THIS HISTORICAL BACKDROP IN MIND THAT !LAN 0ARDEW HAS RECENTLY VOWED TO hPROTECT THE CLUBS INTEG RITY v #LEARLY THE 7EST (AM BOSS FEELS THAT WITH A FOREIGN INVESTOR THIS TRADITION WOULD BE UNDER THREAT )N MANY WAYS 0ARDEW IS RIGHT 4AKE A LOOK AT (EARTS SINCE 6LADIMIR 2OMANOV BECAME CHAIRMAN 4RUE THE CLUB IS NOW PROVIDING A GENUINE CHALLENGE TO THE !ULD &IRM DOMINATION BUT AT WHAT COST &OUR MANAGERS IN THE PAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS A SIDE STOCKED FULL OF %ASTERN %UROPEANS SIGNED ON THE IN
SISTENCE OF THE CHAIRMAN AND A SPONSORSHIP WITH A ,ITHUA NIAN BANKING COMPANY )S THIS A TRUE REPRESENTATION OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY 7HAT IT CONlRMS IS THAT FOOTBALL IS EVOLVING AND CHANGING MORE RAPIDLY THAN EVER BEFORE 7HAT WAS ONCE A SPORT REPRESENTING THE INTER ESTS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IS NOW AN INTERNATIONAL EN TERTAINMENT BUSINESS INTENT ON MAKING MONEY )T REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THE TRADI TION OF 7EST (AM 5NITED CAN OVERCOME THE MANY HEADED MONSTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE WORLD
3PORT %DITOR S COLUMN 0AUL (UNTER 4HIS WEEK SAW THE FUNERAL OF 0AUL (UNTER THE THREE TIME -ASTERS SNOOKER CHAMPION WHO DIED OF CANCER AT THE AGE OF ! FRIEND OF MINE ASKED WHY THERE WAS SUCH A FUSS WHEN PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER EVERY DAY A VALID POINT BUT ) CANNOT HELP BUT FEEL PARTICULARLY SAD DENED WHEN A PRACTISING ATHLETE DIES )N PART THIS WAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT (UNTER S YOUTH GOOD LOOKS AND CHA RISMA MADE HIM A BREATH OF FRESH AIR IN A SPORT WHICH CAN BE DISTINCTLY TEDIOUS AND LACKING IN PERSONALITY "UT THERE IS ANOTHER FACTOR 0EOPLE PLAY SPORT TO ESCAPE FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD IT IS AN ARENA IN WHICH REALITIES SUCH AS CANCER SEEM TO HAVE NO PLACE 3O WHEN THESE REALITITES INEVITABLY BREACH SPORTS BOUNDARIES IT DOES FEEL MORE TRAGIC 3PORT IS UL TIMATELY A GAME AND A GAME SHOULD NEVER END IN DEATH
"ETH 4WEDDLE ) HAD TO RE ADJUST MY COM PUTER SCREEN YESTERDAY BE CAUSE ) REFUSED TO BELIEVE THAT "RITAIN HAD WON A GOLD MEDAL AT THE 7ORLD 'YM NASTICS #HAMPIONSIPS 'YMNASTICS LIKE SKIING STEEPLECHASE AND A HOST OF OTHER SPORTS HAS JUST ALWAYS BEEN AN AREA IN WHICH THERE IS NO EXPECTATION OF "RITISH SUCCESS 3O WELL DONE TO "ETH 4WEDDLE FOR BUCKING THE TREND AND TRIUMPHING IN THE UNEVEN BARS
)NITIATIONS ) HAVE LESS CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE RUGBY INITIATIONS &OR AN EVENT THAT WAS MEN TIONED IN #ONCRETE S @MUST DO LIST WHILST AT 5%! ) FOUND IT ANTICLIMACTIC UN DERRATED AND FRANKLY A TAD DISAPPOINTING 4HERE WAS YOUR TOKEN NUDI TY AND CONSUMING OF DIRTY PINTS BUT IT WAS ALL OVER IN LITTLE UNDER AN HOUR !F TERWORDS ) HAD A PERFECTLY COMPREHENSIBLE CONVERSA TION WITH ONE OF THE PARTICI PANTS WHO SAID THAT HE PRE FERRED HIS INITITATION INTO THE FOOTBALL CLUB LAST YEAR 4HE GAUNTLET HAS BEEN WELL AND TRULY LAID DOWN
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+ORFBALL HAS BEEN A SPORT AT WHICH 5%! HAS EXCELLED OVER RECENT YEARS
$ANNY 4HOMAS 3UNDAY TH /CTOBER SAW 5%! CONTINUE THEIR IMPRES SIVE UNBEATEN START TO THE .ORFOLK ,EAGUE SEASON BY THRASHING NEWLY PROMOTED SIDE 3TINGERS )) ! BRIGHT START HAD THE lRST TEAM OPEN UP A SWIFT LEAD ONLY FOR THE SCORE LINE TO FREEZE AT FOLLOWING SOME RATHER DOGGED AND ILL DISCI PLINED ATTACKING +ORFBALL (ALF TIME CAME AND
WENT BUT THE SITUATION RE MAINED THE SAME AND FRUS TRATION BEGAN TO CREEP INTO THE SIDE AS THE ATTACKING END FAILED TO lND THE ELU SIVE GOAL THAT WOULD EASE THE TENSION ! TIMEOUT WAS CALLED MINUTES FROM THE END AND AFTER SOME MOTIVA TIONAL WORDS FROM #APTAIN !MI "ROUGHTON THE GAME RESTARTED )T CERTAINLY HAD THE DE SIRED EFFECT AS THE GOALS STARTED mYING IN 4EN OF THE GAME S GOALS CAME IN THIS LAST TEN MINUTE PERIOD ALTHOUGH
5%! WERE PERHAPS GUILTY OF LOSING CONCENTRATION IN DE FENCE IN THIS FRANTIC WINDOW OF PLAY AS THEY LET THREE GOALS SLIP THROUGH THEIR PREVIOUSLY WATERTIGHT DEFENCE #ONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ROUT WERE A SECOND CON SECUTIVE HAT TRICK FROM LAST YEAR S &EMALE -60 AND #AP TAIN !MI "ROUGHTON A HAT TRICK FROM ,UCY "IRCH WITH ALL HER GOALS COMING IN THE lNAL MINUTES A BRACE FROM 2OB 7ALLACE TWO WELL EXECUTED LONG SHOTS FROM 0AUL !SHWORTH AND TWO RUN
NING IN SHOTS FROM $ANNY 4HOMAS AND A SOLO EFFORT FROM *ESS (AYNES HER lRST OF THE SEASON CONTRIBUTED TO THE ROUT &OLLOWING 5%! S UNEX PECTED VICTORY OVER LAST SEASON S HIGH mYERS $RAGONS THE lRST TEAM HAVE EVERY REA SON TO FEEL CONlDENT THAT THEY CAN IMPROVE ON LAST YEAR S TH PLACED LEAGUE PO SITION !LTHOUGH IT S STILL VERY EARLY IN THE SEASON TO BE PAY ING ANY SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THE LEAGUE TABLE 5%! lND THEMSELVES SITTING IN RD
POSITION BEHIND ONLY THE TWO .ATIONAL ,EAGUE SIDES .ORWICH #ITY AND .ORFOLK ,EAGUE #HAMPIONS .OR WICH +NIGHTS 7ITH THE "53! 3OUTHERNS ONLY A MATTER OF WEEKS AWAY 5%! WILL LOOK TO CONTINUE ON THE CREST OF THIS WAVE TO ENSURE CONlDENCE REMAINS HIGH AS THEY LOOK TO DEFEND THE TITLE AND MAKE IT AN UN BELIEVABLE lVE CONSECUTIVE 3OUTHERN TRIUMPHS
4HE SECOND TEAM ROUNDED OFF A SUCCESSFUL DAY FOR THE CLUB IN THEIR $IVISION 4WO lXTURE BY DEFEATING .OR WICH #ITY )6 ! HAT TRICK FROM CAPTAIN ,IZZY *ENKINS AND GOALS FROM /KI 4IM 2IDGEWAY AND *IMI (ALL GAVE THE SECOND TEAM THEIR lRST VICTORY OF THE SEA SON AT ONLY THE SECOND TIME OF ASKING ! FEAT NOT TO BE SNIFFED AT WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE SIDE WAS ONLY PIECED TO GETHER LITTLE OVER A FORTNIGHT AGO
-ISTAKES COST MEN S RUGBY DEARLY "53! RESULTS
&OR WEEK COMMENCING TH /CTOBER
3AM 7ILSON !FTER HAVING ONLY JUST LOST TO $ERBY LAST WEEK IN FORMIDA BLE WEATHER CONDITIONS THE 5%! ST TEAM SUFFERED ANOTH ER BLOW TO THEIR "53! CAM PAIGN ON 7EDNESDAY WITH A n DEFEAT TO .OTTINGHAM 5NIVERSITY RD TEAM 4HE GAME STARTED OFF AT A FAST PACE ALTHOUGH THE lRST TRY DID NOT COME FOR TEN MIN UTES ! MISSED TACKLE IN THE 5%! BACKLINE PROVED COSTLY AS .OTTINGHAM CAPITALISED TO REGISTER THE lRST SCORE OF THE GAME 4HOUGH THE CONVERSION WAS MISSED THEY QUICKLY FOL LOWED THIS WITH A SECOND TO BRING THE SCORE TO n 5%! REPLIED WITH A STRONG
PERIOD OF PRESSURE IN THE .OTTINGHAM HALF RESULTING IN AN INTERCEPTION BY 'ARETH 3HIP ALLOWING HIM TO RACE TO THE LINE TO GIVE 5%! THEIR lRST POINTS OF THE GAME (OWEVER 5%! FAILED TO CONSOLIDATE THEIR FOOTHOLD BACK IN THE GAME AS ONLY THREE MINUTES LATER .OTTINGHAM SCORED A TRY FROM A PENALTY TO MAKE THE SCORE n .EARING THE END OF THE lRST HALF .OTTINGHAM HAD A GOOD PERIOD OF PRESSURE WHICH KEPT THEM IN 5%! S HALF BUT THE DEFENCE PREVENT ED A TRY AND MANAGED TO TURN THE BALL OVER ALLOWING 5%! mY HALF 2YAN (AREWOOD TO RUN IT OUT OF THE &ROM THE KICK OFF OF THE SECOND HALF .OTTINGHAM KEPT THE PRESSURE ON WHICH
RESULTED IN A TRY COMING FROM A CHIP KICK DOWN THE WING (OWEVER SHORTLY AFTER 5%! CAPITALISED ON A PENALTY GIVEN FROM A LINE OUT IN THE .OTTINGHAM WITH PROP 2OSS !DNITT CROSSING THE LINE TO MAKE IT 5%! FOLLOWED UP WITH STRONG ATTACKING IN THE .OT TINGHAM HALF BUT GAVE AWAY A PENALTY WHICH ALLOWED .OTTINGHAM TO KICK FOR A LI NEOUT IN THE 5%! HALF )N THE FOLLOWING PLAY .OTTINGHAM SCORED A FURTHER CONVERTED TRY TO BRING THE SCORE TO n BUT SADLY FOR 5%! mY HALF 2YAN (AREWOOD WAS INJURED IN THE PROCESS OF DEFENDING THE LINE 4HE DETERMINATION OF THE 5%! TEAM SHOWED WHEN A TRY CAME FROM A WELL WORKED
MOVE IN THE CENTRE BUT A LATER PENALTY FOR .OTTINGHAM IN THEIR OWN HALF WAS RUN OUT AND POOR DEFENDING LED TO A CONVERTED TRY BRINGING THE GAME TO n 4HIS MARGIN WAS INCREASED WHEN A PENALTY WAS SLOTTED IN BY .OTTINGHAM TO ADD THREE MORE POINTS ! LAST GASP TRY FOR 5%! CAME JUST MOMENTS BEFORE THE lNAL WHISTLE TO BRING THE lNAL SCORE TO A MORE RESPECT ABLE n /VERALL THIS WAS A GAME IN WHICH 5%! HAD MOMENTS OF BRILLIANCE IN AT TACK AND DEFENCE BUT UNFOR TUNATELY MISTAKES EARLY IN THE SECOND HALF ALLOWED .OTTING HAM TO BUILD A COMMANDING LEAD WHICH 5%! COULD JUST NOT OVERCOME
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