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&2%3(%23 %6)#4%$ &/2 &)2% !,!2- 02!.+3 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS $EPUTY .EWS %DITOR 4HE 5NIVERSITY RECENTLY MOVED TO EVICT A NUMBER OF STUDENTS FROM UNIVERSITY RESIDENCES SOME OF WHOM HAD SET OF l RE ALARMS INAP PROPRIATELY &OR SOME STUDENTS IT WAS AFTER THEIR l RST OFFENCE 4HE 5NIVERSITY LICENCE FOR AC COMMODATION IS NOT LIKE A NORMAL CONTRACT WITH A LANDLORD 4HE 5NIVERSITY HAS FAR MORE CONTROL THAN A NORMAL LANDLORD INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO INSPECT THE RESIDENCES WITHOUT NOTICE 7E UNDERSTAND THAT THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SERVED NOTICE TO EXIT THEIR RESIDENCES HAVE ONE MONTH TO DO SO 4HE 5NIVERSITY S POLICY IS THAT THOSE WHO PUT OTHERS AT SEVERE RISK CAN BE ASKED TO LEAVE ON THEIR l RST OFFENCE FOR OTHER PROBLEMS LIKE CAUSING A GENERAL NUISANCE STUDENTS WILL BE GIVEN A WARNING
AND IF IT CONTINUES THE 5NIVERSITY WILL THEN TAKE ACTION /NE OF THE MAIN PROBLEMS HAS BEEN STUDENTS SETTING OFF THE l RE ALARM OR FAILING TO RESPOND TO THE l RE ALARM WHEN IT IS SET OFF 4HIS HAS LEAD TO THE &IRE "RIGADE BEING SUMMONED ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION AND AT THE VERY LEAST RE QUIRES UNIVERSITY STAFF TO COME AND TURN OFF THE ALARMS BEFORE PEOPLE CAN RE ENTER THE BUILDINGS %VEN THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO IGNORE THE l RE ALARM ARE TOLD THIS CAN PUT PEOPLE AT RISK )F THERE WERE A l RE THE l RE BRIGADE WOULD HAVE TO CALL OUT ADDITIONAL TEAMS AND l GHT THEIR WAY INTO THE BUILDING TO RESCUE ANYONE WHO HAD REFUSED TO COME OUTSIDE 4HESE ACTIONS CAN LEAVE INSUFl CIENT TEAMS AVAILABLE FOR OTHER l RES AROUND .ORWICH .O ONE WILL BE EVICTED FOR A CLEAR MISTAKE SUCH AS BURNING TOAST 4HERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS
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47/ (/30)4!,):%$ "9 g3(2//-3 &IONA "ILLINGS 4WO STUDENTS WERE TAKEN TO HOS PITAL LAST 4HURSDAY AFTER FALLING EXTREMELY ILL IN THE 5NION "AR REPORTEDLY DUE TO TAKING THE HALLU CINOGENIC DRUG MAGIC MUSHROOMS !MBULANCES WERE CALLED FOR THE TWO MALE UNDERGRADUATES AT APPROXIMATELY PM ON 4HURSDAY TH .OVEMBER BY DOOR STAFF WHO NOTICED THAT THE MEN LOOKED VERY UNWELL /NE OF THEM WAS UNABLE TO SPEAK WHILE THE OTHER WAS TALKING INCOHERENTLY AND SHOUTING IN THE BAR BOTH LOOKED DECIDEDLY GREY AND WERE SHAKING 5NION %NTERTAINMENTS -ANAGER .ICK 2AYNS SAID h4HE TWO STUDENTS WERE IN A SERIOUSLY DEBILITATED STATE 3IX PEOPLE INCLUDING AMBULANCE
AND BAR STAFF WERE NEEDED TO HELP GET THE MEN INTO THE AMBULANCES v ! FRIEND OF THE STUDENTS SUG GESTED THAT THEY HAD TAKEN MAGIC MUSHROOMS COMMONLY KNOWN AS @SHROOMS 4HERE ARE APPROXIMATELY TWELVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF MAGIC MUSHROOMS WHICH GROW WILD IN %NGLAND IN THE AUTUMN MONTHS 4HEY ARE A HALLUCINOGENIC LIKE ,3$ AND THE EFFECTS CAN LAST UP TO FOUR HOURS 3INCE THE $RUGS !CT MAGIC MUSHROOMS HAVE BEEN RE CLASSIl ED AS A #LASS ! DRUG MEAN ING THAT POSSESSION COULD MEAN SEVEN YEARS IN JAIL AND FOR SUPPLY ING THE JAIL TERM COULD EVEN BE LIFE IMPRISONMENT 4HE MAIN PROBLEM WITH MAGIC MUSHROOMS ALONG WITH MOST
ILLEGAL DRUGS IS THE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS /NCE THE TRIP HAS STARTED THERE IS NO WAY TO STOP IT AND USERS MAY EXPERIENCE EXTREME PARANOIA SEVERE STOMACH PAINS DIARRHOEA AND SICKNESS )N THIS CASE THE TWO STUDENTS EXPERIENCED UNPRECEDENTED AFTER EFFECTS LEADING TO SUGGESTIONS THAT THE MUSHROOMS MAY HAVE BEEN MIXED UP WITH MORE DANGEROUS POISONOUS WILD MUSHROOMS SOME TIMES PICKED BY MISTAKE 3TEVIE !LTMAN THE 3TUDENT 5NION S 7ELFARE /Fl CER SAID h4HE 5NION TAKES A STANCE OF ZERO TOLER ANCE ON THE USE OF ILLEGAL SUBSTANC ES ON ITS PREMISES ) WOULD STRONGLY ADVISE ALL STUDENTS TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE COMPLETELY AWARE OF THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS SUCH SUBSTANCES WILL HAVE ON THEM v
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!NNA S %DITORIAL $EAR 2EADERS 7HO ARE 2ANCID 4HAT WAS THE QUESTION ) ASKED MYSELF WHEN ) FOUND OUT THEY WOULD BE OUR SOUNDTRACK ON 3ATURDAY NIGHT ) WON T LIE ) DON T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MUSIC THAT DOESN T INVOLVE A DIRTY BASE LINE AND l LTHY LYRICS UNLESS IT S $OLLY 0ARTON OR %NYA ) HAVE BAD TASTE IN MUSIC BUT ) AM CONSISTENT WITH IT 3O IT IS 3ATURDAY NIGHT ) HAVE HAD HALF A SHANDY TO GET ME THROUGH A PRODUCTION WEEKEND THAT CONSISTED OF 0AM S (OUSE LAST NIGHT AND 2ANCID TONIGHT 4HEY ARE TOO LOUD AND CRAP AND NOW ) HAVE A HEADACHE !POLOGIES IN AD VANCE TO 2ANCID FANS (OPEFULLY ON 3UNDAY NIGHT THERE WILL BE THE BLISSFUL SOUND OF SILENCE AND ) WILL GET HOME IN TIME TO WATCH 0LANET %ARTH THE ODDS ARE SLIM TO NONE 3O FAR THIS WEEKEND WE HAVE l LLED OUR QUOTE BOOK A LITTLE FULLER THE NEWS EDITOR HAS RESISTED SHOUTING OUT OF THE WINDOW ) HAVE TRAWLED THROUGH IMAGES OF FRIED BREAKFASTS AND RESORTED TO TAKE AWAY AGAIN ) JUST TOLD EVERYONE ) M WRITING MY EDITORIAL TO THE CHORUS OF hOH NOS v ) WILL ASK THE RASCALS TO EXPLAIN THEMSELVES 4HIS FORTNIGHT HAS SEEN THE WOMEN S RUGBY INITIATIONS PEOPLE LOBBING EGGS AT THE ENVIRONMENT OFl CER GOSPEL CHOIR ALL IN GREEN AND THE REOPENING OF A DEBATE AS TO WHETHER #OCA #OLA SHOULD BE BANNED ON OUR CAMPUS #OKE WAS l RST BANNED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR IN A STUDENT REFERENDUM ) WAS SAT IN THE OFl CE THAT NIGHT AND WHEN THE VOTES HAD BEEN COUNTED ) HEARD THE DELIGHTED SQUEALS AT #HAV NIGHT AND THE 0IMPS AND (OS ,#2 BEING REINSTATED )T SEEMS STRANGE THAT STUDENTS WERE VOTING TO BAN A PRODUCT THAT EXPLOITS PEOPLE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY BUT WERE DETERMINED TO GET BACK A NIGHT THAT OPENLY
#ONTINUED FROM PAGE OF PEOPLE SETTING l RE TO BINS AND THROWING THINGS OUT OF UPSTAIRS WINDOWS %VICTION IS NOT THE ONLY SANC TION THE 5NIVERSITY HAS IT CAN PLACE l NES ON STUDENTS FOR ANY DAMAGE OR COSTS IT INCURS CLEANING UP AFTER THE ACT !LTERNATIVELY IF STUDENTS ARE A NUISANCE TO OTHERS LIVING IN THE RESIDENCES THEY MAY BE MOVED TO ANOTHER PART OF THE UNIVERSITY ACCOMMODATION 0EOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED
2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS $EPUTY .EWS %DITOR MOCKS THE WORKING CLASSES ON THE CAMPUS DOORSTEP ) USED TO WORK IN THE ,#2 AND THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT IT WAS /K TO DRESS AS PREGNANT TEENAGERS WITH BLACK EYES WAS ASTOUNDING OR THAT IT IS ALL A BIT OF FUN FOR WOMEN TO DRESS AS PROSTITUTES AND MEN AS THEIR PIMPS 7HY WOULD WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN 0ERHAPS THE DISTANCE BE TWEEN WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE CHANGES NOT DEPENDING ON MILES OR TIME ZONES BUT ON CLASS )T IS FUN TO DRESS UP ) LOVE IT WHO DOESN T "UT WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE 4HIS FORTNIGHT ALSO PROVIDED ME WITH SOME OF THE ANSWERS ) ASKED FOR IN MY LAST EDITORIAL ) HAD THE MOST DELIGHTFUL EMAIL ATTACHED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF OUR OWN CAMPUS CAT 4HOMAS APOLO GIES FOR CALLING YOU A WOMAN 4HOMAS .OT ONLY DID WE l ND 4HOMAS BUT WE FOUND *ERRY 7HILST CLEANING OUT THE ARCHIVES IN THE 5NION BUILDING A MOUSE NEST WAS FOUND MADE WITH ,#2 TICKETS FROM YEARS GONE BY 4HE MEDIA SOCIETIES ARE ORGAN ISING A VERY EXCITING ,#2 FOR 3UN DAY TH OF .OVEMBER 4HE ,#2 IS FOR ALL 5%! SOCIETIES AND CLUBS AND IT PROMISES TO BE PACKED WITH FUN AND FRIVOLITY ! BIG THANK YOU IN ADVANCE TO 3TREET JAZZ $ANCE 3PORT THE #HEERLEADERS 2OCK 'OSPEL #HOIR !FRO #ARIBEAN 3OC AND ALL THE OTHER SOCIETIES THAT WILL BE PERFORMING OR BRINGING FOOD !FTER THE PERFORMANCES WE CAN ALL SHAKE OUR FUNKY STUFF AS ,IVEWIRE WILL $* THROUGH THE NIGHT 4ICKETS ARE ONLY a AND AVAILABLE FROM THE 5NION BOX OFl CE AND THE #ONCRETE ,IVEWIRE AND .EXUS OFl CES UPSTAIRS IN 5NION HOUSE 4HE -EDIA 0ARTY WILL ALSO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH AN OPPURTUNITY TO GIVE EACH MEDIA SOCIETY FEEDBACK AND TO TALK TO ANY CLUBS AND SOCIE TIES YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IN AN INFORMAL ENVIRONMENT
IN PHYSICAL VIOLENCE OR VANDALISM OF OTHER PEOPLES BELONGINGS ARE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF EVICTION /NE PARTICULAR INCIDENCE INVOLVED A STUDENT SPRAYING TOMATO SAUCE ALL AROUND THE KITCHEN AND ON PEOPLES DOORS IN THERE RESIDENCE
*ENNI #ARTER THE %THICAL )SSUES /F l CER WILL BE RESIGNING AT THE UPCOM ING MEETING OF 5NION #OUNCIL AMID ALLEGATIONS SHE AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE %XEC ARE UNDERMINING 5NION POLICY ! PETITION THAT RECENTLY GAINED SUFl CIENT SIGNATURES CALLS FOR A FUR THER REFERENDUM ON THE COKE BAN *ENNI AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF OTHER 5NION OFl CERS SIGNED IT 4HE MO TION BEING PRESENTED TO COUNCIL CALLS FOR THE CENSURE OF BOTH *ENNI AND %DDIE 3HIELDS THE &INANCE /F l CER )T FURTHER CALLS FOR THE GENERAL CENSURE OF ALL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EXEC WHO HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION .O MEMBER OF THE EXEC HAS EVER BEEN CENSURED BEFORE #ONCRETE SPOKE TO *ENNI SHORTLY AFTER SHE INFORMED THE OTHER %XEC ABOUT HER INTENTION TO RESIGN 3HE EXPLAINED THAT ALTHOUGH THIS MO TION WAS THE CATALYST FOR HER RESIG NATION SHE FELT THAT THERE WERE LONG TERM PROBLEMS WITH 5NION POLITICS THAT WERE ALREADY MAKING HER CON SIDER HER POSITION h) VE JUST BEEN WORN DOWN THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIMES YOU CAN COME IN HERE AND WORK SO HARD TRYING TO DO YOUR BEST FOR STUDENTS AND ONLY HEAR THAT YOU ARE OUT FOR YOUR OWN AGENDA OR TO MAKE PEOPLES LIVES MISERABLE v *ENNI WAS QUICK TO DEFEND THE %XEC AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE 5NION #OUNCIL h) THINK THE %XECU TIVE ARE GENERALLY UNDERAPPRECIATED ESPECIALLY THE PART TIMERS PEOPLE DON T REALISED HOW MUCH WE ARE EXPECTED TO WORK 7E ARE SUPPOSED TO DO SIX TEN HOURS PER WEEK BUT ) THINK PRETTY MUCH ALL OF US DO WELL OVER THAT EVERY SINGLE WEEK 7E DO IT FOR NO PAY IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR DEGREES IT S OFTEN REALLY STRESSFUL h) LOVE THE 3TUDENT 5NION WHICH IS WHY ) VE WORKED ON IT FOR NINE MONTHS NOW AND WE DO SOME REALLY REALLY GOOD STUFF ) D REALLY LIKE MORE PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CANNOT CHANGE THERE IS A LOT WE CAN AND PEOPLE IF THEY GET INVOLVED CAN BE A PART OF THAT v (OWEVER THERE ARE ISSUES WHICH PARTICULARLY ANNOY HER AND SHE BE LIEVES HOLD BACK THE GOOD OPERATION OF THE 5NION h7E HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS ANY 3TUDENTS 5NION WITH PEOPLE USING THE 5NION MORE AS A STEPPING BLOCK RATHER THAN BE CAUSE THEY GENUINELY WANT TO REPRE SENT STUDENTSx )T S A 7ESTMINSTER TRAINING GROUND AS MOST 35 S AREx BUT IT SOMETIMES FEELS LIKE THAT IS AT THE DETRIMENT OF THE 5NION *ENNI STANDS ACCUSED OF ALLOW ING HER PERSONAL VIEWS ON THE #OKE BAN GET IN THE WAY OF HER JOB BUT
SHE BELIEVES THAT QUITE THE REVERSE IS TRUE hWE NEED TO MAKE SURE THIS UN ION IS REPRESENTING STUDENTS RATHER THAN LETTING ANYBODY S EGOS GET IN THE WAY v !CCORDING TO *ENNI h4HE RECENT CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE COKE BOYCOTT HAS BROUGHT THINGS TO A HEADx AND THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF ALLEGATIONS ABOUT PEOPLE -E AND THE &INANCE /Fl CER IN PARTICULAR ARE ACCUSED OF UNDERMINING 5NION POLICY BY AP PARENTLY NOT DOING OUR JOBS PROPER LY "UT THE MOTION IS SO WEAK THERE IS NO ACTUAL POINT WHICH SAYS WHAT WE HAVE DONE WRONG v #ONCRETE SPOKE WITH !NDY (IGSON #O OPTED MEMBER OF 5N ION #OUNCIL WHO IS PROPOSING THE MOTION OF CENSURE !NDY SAID h) SUPPOSE ) AM ONE OF THESE @BOGIE MEN )T S VERY EASY TO SAY THAT ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH YOU HAS THESE SHADOWY SINISTER MOTIVES IT S A BIT CHILDISH REALLY )T S ALSO EASY TO SAY THAT YOU REPRESENT ORDINARY STUDENTS AND EVERYONE ELSE IS $R %VIL )N THE SPRING WE HAD A VOTE TO BOYCOTT #OKE NOW WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER VOTE BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE DIDN T LIKE THE RESULT 4HE EXECUTIVE HAVE HAD A HAND IN THIS AND AREN T ABOVE BEING QUESTIONED BY STUDENTS THAT S THE WHOLE POINT OF 5NION #OUNCIL ! CONSIDERED RESPONSE WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER THAN ALL THIS MELODRAMA v *ENNI HOWEVER DOES NOT SEE A PROBLEM WITH HAVING SIGNED THE PE TITION ARGUING THAT ANY STUDENT HAS
THE RIGHT TO SIGN A PETITION AND THAT SHE SIGNED IT IN THIS CAPACITY &URTHER SHE POINTS OUT THAT THE PETITION SIMPLY CALLS FOR ANOTHER REFERENDUM AND THAT SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE REOPENING THE QUESTION IS CONTRAVENING 5NION POLICY *ENNI ACCEPTS THAT SHE DOES DISA GREE WITH 5NION POLICY ON THE ISSUE OF THE COKE BOYCOTT BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS HAS LEAD HER TO NOT DO ENOUGH IN HER ROLE h) MADE SURE EVERY SINGLE STUDENT HOUSE ON CAMPUS HAD A POSTER EX PLAINING BOTH THE COKE BOYCOTT AND THE .ESTLÏ BOYCOTT BECAUSE ) KNOW THAT PEOPLE SAID OF BOTH WHEN THEY WERE UP FOR REFERENDUM LAST YEAR hWHAT S THE POINT IN A BOYCOTT WHEN PEOPLE DON T KNOW WHAT THEY RE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR v 3O ) WAS REALLY DETERMINED THAT THE POSTER WAS GO ING TO GO UP SO ALL THE FRESHERS COM ING IN REALISED THAT THERE WAS NOT COKE OR NESTLÏ ON CAMPUS AND THIS IS WHY 4HERE S ALSO A BOARD DOWN IN THE HIVE IT S KIND OF GREEN AND PRET TY IT S GOT DETAILS OF BOTH THE BOY COTTS AND CAMPAIGNS WE RUN ) ALSO RUN ETHICS SECTION ON THE WEBSITEv 4HE MOTION OF CENSURE AS WELL AS *ENNI S RESIGNATION WILL BE ISSUES ADDRESSED AT THE NEXT 5NION #OUN CIL WHICH WILL BE HELD IN THE %LIZA BETH &RY BUILDING ON 4HURS DAY .OVEMBER RD #ONCRETE WILL BRING YOU CONTINUING COVERAGE OF THE DETAILS AS THEY UNFOLD
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.EW $EGREE #LASSIlCATIONS )T HAS EMERGED THAT THE 'OVERNMENT HAS PLANS TO ALTER THE DEGREE CLASSIl CATIONS AND INTRODUCE A NEW GRADING BETWEEN A AND A 4HE LARGE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS GAIN A A NEW GRADING WOULD ALLEVIATE THIS PROBLEM !S THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WITH DEGREES INCREASES THE ABUNDANCE OF S LEAVE SOME DISADVANTAGED IN THE JOBS MARKET )T ALSO CREATES A PROBLEM FOR EMPLOYERS WHO FACE HAVING MANY CANDIDATES EQUALLY QUALIlED FOR ONE JOB 4HE 'OVERNMENT ALSO PROPOSED THE IDEA OF HAVING A PASS OR FAIL DEGREE CLASSIlCATION BUT THIS WAS DEEMED TOO HARSH MANY FELT IT WAS NOT JUSTIlABLE OR TRUE TO THE VARIETY AND REQUIREMENTS OF DIFFERING DEGREES
,IVEWIRE WINS AT ,ASER 1UEST #ONGRATULATIONS TO ,IVEWIRE WHO BEAT #ONCRETE QUITE SUBSTANIALLY IN A FRIENDLY 1UASAR CONTEST ON 7EDNES DAY .OVEMBER TH ,IVEWIRE WON WITH NEARLY DOUBLE #ONCRETE S SCORE YOU BRUTES #ONCRETE WOULD BE VERY INTER ESTED IN ROUND TWO TAKING THE FORM OF PAINTBALLING !LTHOUGH #ONCRETE IS NOT AT ALL BITTER ABOUT THIS THRASHING WE WOULD LIKE A REMATCH
0URRFECTLY (APPY IN .EW (OME ,EE !NN 2ICHARDS 4WO YEARS AGO A CAT LIVED ON CAM PUS HE WOULD WANDER AROUND THE 3QUARE AND OFTEN VENTURED INTO OF lCES AND SHOPS 4HE ANIMAL LOVERS AMONGST YOU WILL REMEMBER THE WARNINGS GIVEN BY THE 5NIVERSITY NOT TO FEED THE STRAY CAT LOITERING AROUND THE 3QUARE AND PARTICULARLY OUTSIDE :EST 4HEN A YEAR AGO THE CAT WITH A THOUSAND NAMES DISAP PEARED LEADING TO MUCH CONCERN FOR HIS WELLBEING .OW #ONCRETE HAS TRACKED DOWN OUR FOUR LEGGED FRIEND WHO IS HAPPY AND WELL WITH HIS NEW OWNER $ANIEL ,IGHTENING &OR OVER A YEAR 4HOMAS MADE HIS HOME AROUND THE 5NIVERSITY $URING THE DAY THIS MEANT LAZING AROUND THE 3QUARE AND AT NIGHT SLEEPING IN A ! COPIER PAPER BOX IN A ROOM OF THE !RTS BUILDING (OWEVER LAST .OVEMBER 4HOMAS LUCK BEGAN TO CHANGE !NIMAL LOVER AND A MEMBER OF THE 3OCIAL 3CIENCES !DMISSIONS $ANIEL ,IGHTENING HAD JUST MOVED INTO HIS NEW HOUSE IN THE 'OLDEN 4RIANGLE AND HAD SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE 4HOMAS 3INCE THEN 4HOMAS HAS BEEN A VALUED MEMBER OF THE FAMILY $AN IEL DESCRIBED THE lRST DAY THEY TOOK
HIM HOME h7E THOUGHT HE WOULD BE VERY INQUISITIVE BUT HE JUST HOPPED ON TO OUR BED AND WENT TO SLEEP FOR FOUR HOURS h(E HAS NEVER STRAYED AND SEEMS TO HAVE A ROUTINE OF GETTING ME UP AT AM EVERY DAY (E WILL ONLY SLEEP ON THE BED WITH US AND HE WAKES ME UP BY PLUMP ING MY CHEST AND CRYING /NCE ) VE FED HIM HE LEAVES FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS THEN RETURNS AND THIS HAPPENS FOR MOST OF THE DAY -OST DAYS HE ALSO COMES HOME SMELLING OF CIGARETTES WE DON T SMOKE SO HE IS EITHER HAVING A CRAFTY ONE OR HAS A DAYTIME FAMILY 4HEY ARE STILL NOT ANY CLOSER TO lNDING OUT ABOUT 4HOMAS PAST OR ORIGINAL OWNERS BUT ON THE lRST VISIT TO THE VETS BEFORE TAKING HIM HOME THEY DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD A BROKEN JAW A TOOTH MISSING AND HAD LOST PART OF HIS TONGUE 4HIS PROBABLY MEANT THAT 4HOMAS HAD BEEN HIT BY A CAR AND RAN AWAY SCARED $ANIEL SAID h4HOMAS WOULD MAKE THE PERFECT SON v (E MAY WELL HAVE A PLAYMATE SOON AS $ANIEL IS HOPING TO ADD ANOTHER MEMBER TO THEIR FAMILY IN THE FORM OF A BULLDOG 4HOMAS ADDED h-EOW ) M SO HAPPY NOW ) VE GOT SOMEWHERE WARM TO SLEEP AT NIGHT ) FEEL SO LOVED 3OMETIMES ) EVEN GET
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2ESIDENT 4UTORS !PPLICATIONS ARE NOW INVITED FROM HIGHLY MOTIVATED ENTHUSIASTIC AND SUITABLY EXPERIENCED FULL TIME STUDENTS AND MEMBERS OF STAFF FOR AP POINTMENT AS 2ESIDENT 4UTOR FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 3TUDENTS SPENDING NEXT YEAR ABROAD SHOULD ALSO APPLY NOW FOR APPOINTMENT IN 3EPTEMBER 2ESIDENT 4UTORS WELCOME STUDENTS WHEN THEY lRST MOVE INTO RESIDENCES PROVIDE INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO HELP THEM MANAGE THE TRANSITION TO UNIVERSITY LIFE AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR ARE AVAILABLE TO DEAL WITH ISSUES OF WELFARE AND GOOD ORDER "Y USING THEIR MEDIATION AND PROBLEM SOLV ING SKILLS 2ESIDENT 4UTORS HELP MAINTAIN A BALANCE BETWEEN THE INTERESTS OF INDIVIDUALS AND THE COMMUNITY IN RESIDENCES 3UCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL HAVE EXCELLENT ALL ROUND PEOPLE SKILLS BE NON JUDGMENTAL ABLE TO EMPATHISE WITH THE ACADEMIC PROBLEMS COMMONLY EXPERIENCED BY STUDENTS HAVE GOOD WRITTEN AND SPOKEN %NGLISH GOOD TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS THE ABILITY TO FOLLOW CLEARLY DElNED PROCEDURES mEXIBILITY AND A WILLINGNESS TO WORK UNSOCIAL HOURS 4HIS APPOINTMENT WILL BE SUBJECT TO A CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK FROM THE #RIMINAL 2ECORDS "UREAU &URTHER PARTICULARS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE $EAN OF 3TUDENTS /FlCE 2ECEP TION OR FROM WWW UEA AC UK MENU ADMIN DOS INTRANET RESIDENCES?HOME HTML 4HERE ARE TWO CLOSING DATES FOR APPLICATIONS &RIDAY TH $ECEMBER APPLICANTS WILL BE INVITED FOR INTERVIEW OR INFORMED THAT THEIR APPLICA TION IS UNSUCCESSFUL BY TH &EBRUARY AND &RIDAY ND &EBRUARY APPLICANTS WILL BE INVITED FOR INTERVIEW OR INFORMED THAT THEIR APPLICA TION IS UNSUCCESSFUL BY TH -ARCH
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#AMPUS 4HIEVES ,OCKED 5P "REAK INS ON CAMPUS DROP TO ZERO AFTER EXTRA POLICE ACTIVITY RESULTS IN THE ARREST OF lVE THIEVES "EN (ALL 4HEFTS ON CAMPUS HAVE STOPPED AFTER .ORFOLK #ONSTABULARY 0OLICE ARRESTED lVE PEOPLE IN RELATION TO CAMPUS THEFTS AND ASSAULT -ANY STUDENT RESIDENCIES ON CAMPUS HAVE BEEN BURGLED SINCE MID /CTOBER WITH THIEVES TAKING VARIOUS ELECTRICAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS 3INCE THE START OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN SEVERAL BICYCLE THEFTS AND PHYSICAL ASSAULTS IN SOME CASES INVOLVING THE USE OF ROPES TIED ACROSS PATHS TO CAUSE UNSUSPECTING CYCLISTS TO FALL WHERE UPON THEY WERE ROBBED ! MEMBER OF THE 5NIVERSITY STAFF WAS JUST ONE VICTIM OF THESE ASSAULTS (OWEVER MEASURES TAKEN BY THE .ORFOLK #ONSTABULARY HAVE RESULTED IN FOUR ARRESTS FOR BURGLARY AND A RAID OF A LOCAL PROPERTY IN CONNECTION TO THE BICYCLE THEFTS 3COTT )VES +EELER OF NO lXED ABODE AND 3HAUN 9AXLEY HAVE BOTH BEEN REMANDED IN CUSTODY FOR A NUMBER OF THE BURGLARIES ! YEAR OLD MAN WAS ALSO ARRESTED IN RELATION TO AN INCIDENT WHERE TWO INDIVIDUALS WERE AT TACKED 0RO ACTIVE MEASURES TAKEN BY
"AN ME BAN ME NOT "AN ME BAN ME NOT 4HIS HAUNTING REFRAIN COULD BE HEARD ACROSS CAMPUS LAST WEEK AS THE FATE OF THE SPORTS CLUB INITIATION HUNG IN THE BALANCE !S REPORTED BY #/.#2%4% THE SPORTS CLUBS HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN HOT WATER THIS YEAR WITH THE FOOT BALL TEAM ENSURING ANY UNIVERSITY SOCIAL IS NOW BANNED FROM THE 'AR DEN (OUSE PUB AND THE RUGBY CLUB BEING INVOLVED IN SOME DISPUTES WITH BOUNCERS IN TOWN
4HIS WAS THEN FOLLOWED BY THE MEN S FOOTBALL INITIATIONS ON 3ATUR DAY .OVEMBER THAT LIKE LAST YEAR HAPPENED TO COINCIDE WITH THE 3PARKS IN THE 0ARKS NIGHT MEANING THAT MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC
4HE 5%! #HRISTIAN 5NION IS RUNNING FREE %NGLISH LESSONS ON 7EDNESDAYS 4HE LESSONS WILL BE HELD FROM PM IN .ELSON #OURT #OM MON 2OOM " AND ON &RIDAYS PM IN #ONGREGATION (ALL 2OOM
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THE POLICE HAVE INCLUDED MORE THAN EXTRA HOURS OF TARGETED UNI FORM PATROL BY THE LOCAL %ARLHAM COMMUNITY POLICING TEAM WHICH HAD LED TO A NUMBER OF SUSPICIOUS PERSONS BEING STOPPED AND QUES TIONED A LARGE AMOUNT OF UNDERCOV ER INTELLIGENCE GATHERING AND MORE THAN CRIME PREVENTION PACKS BEING DISTRIBUTED TO STUDENTS 4HE POLICE HAVE ALSO BEEN WORKING IN CLOSE CO OPERATION WITH THE 5NIVERSITY SECURITY SERVICES WHO WERE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE ARREST OF ONE DETAINEE ALONG WITH
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MADE THEIR WAY TO THE BAR FOR A POST lREWORK BEVERAGE 4HE INITIATIONS INCLUDED THE USUAL REVELRY BUT UNLIKE PAST YEARS THE 5NION RECEIVED COMPLAINTS FROM PEOPLE WHO HAD WITNESSED THE EVENTS 4HE 5NION CONSCIOUS OF ITS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES FELT THE NEED TO TAKE ACTION PROMPTING AN EMAIL ON -ONDAY .OVEMBER DECLAR ING @INITIATIONS BY ANY CLUB WILL NO LONGER BE TOLERATED BY THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS 4HE INEVITABLE OUTCRY FOLLOWED AND ON 4HURSDAY EVENING AN EMAIL WAS CIRCULATED BY THE &INANCE /F lCER STATING THAT @)NITIATIONS ARE NOT BANNED AS SUCH BUT WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DRAWING UP SOME RULES THAT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES WILL HAVE TO FOLLOW AT SOCIAL EVENTS !T THE TIME OF PRINTING THESE GUIDE LINES HAD NOT BEEN PUBLISHED 4HE FUTURE THEREFORE SEEMS TO HINT AT A COMPROMISE 4HE 5NION EVENTUALLY SEEMED TO DECIDE THAT IT DOES NOT WISH TO FORBID WHAT IS FOR MANY ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE NIGHTS OF THEIR UNIVERSITY LIFE (OWEVER IN ORDER TO UPHOLD THE REPUTATION OF 5%! THEY SURELY REQUIRE A GREATER LEVEL OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO BE UN DERTAKEN BY ANY CLUBS THAT CONDUCT INITIATION CEREMONIES
THE 5NIVERSITY S OWN #OMMUNITY 3UPPORT /FlCER 0#3/ +AMBLI WHO LIAISES WITH THE 5NIVERSITY 3INCE THE ARRESTS THERE HAVE BEEN NO MORE BURGLARIES 3GT 'ERRY (ANLEY FROM THE LOCAL %ARLHAM COMMUNITY POLICING TEAM SAID h7E HAVE DONE A HUGE AMOUNT OF WORK IN THE AREA AND THAT IS IN ADDITION TO OUR NORMAL PATROL h7E ARE PLEASED WITH THE SUC CESS WE HAVE HAD SO FAR BUT WE WILL CERTAINLY NOT BE COMPLACENT AND WILL BE CONTINUING TO PATROL THE
CAMPUS GATHER INTELLIGENCE ABOUT ANY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND PRO AC TIVELY INVESTIGATE ANY OFFENCES h(OWEVER ) WOULD SAY THAT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND STU DENTS CAN ASSIST US BY TAKING SOME SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS IN AN EFFORT TO PREVENT THEMSELVES FROM BECOMING VICTIMS OF CRIME v 4EN BICYCLES HAVE BEEN RE COVERED ONE OF WHICH HAS BEEN RETURNED TO A MEMBER OF UNIVER SITY STAFF !NYONE WHO HAS HAD A BICYCLE STOLEN IS ADVISED TO CONTACT 0#3/ +AMBLI ON
6OLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO KEEP DIARIES ABOUT THEIR TRAVEL HABITS IN .ORWICH 3TEVIE !LTMAN 35 7ELFARE /F lCER AND +ERRY $AVIS THE 5NIVER SITY S 0ERSONAL 4RAVEL !DVISOR ARE RUNNING A WEEK LONG TRAVEL SURVEY WHICH WILL INVOLVE PARTICIPANTS LOGGING ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR JOUR NEYS IN A TRAVEL DIARY DURING THE WEEK BEGINNING -ONDAY .OVEM BER TH !LL VITAL INFORMATION GAINED FROM THE TRAVEL DIARIES WILL HELP THE 5NION IN THEIR NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE BUS COMPANY AND IN REVIEWING THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF CAR PARK USERS 0ARTICIPANTS CAN ALSO HAVE THEIR TRAVEL DIARIES REVIEWED BY +ERRY WHO CAN OFFER ADVICE AND INFORMA TION ON TRAVEL CHOICES 4RAVEL DIARIES CAN BE PICKED UP ANYTIME THIS WEEK FROM 5NION (OUSE RECEPTION DESK &OR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE 7ELFARE /FlCER AT SU WELFARE UEA AC UK
-EET 9OUR #AMPUS 0OLICEMAN 3AM %MANUEL ! NEW @POLICE SURGERY HAS BEEN INTRODUCED ON CAMPUS IN THE 5NI VERSITY S LATEST BID TO COMBAT CRIME 4HE SURGERY RUN BY 5%! LIAISON OFlCER 2AJ +AMBLI WILL GIVE STU DENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS CRIME RELATED ISSUES WITH HIM FACE TO FACE )T WILL BE RUNNING IN 5NION (OUSE EVERY 7EDNESDAY AND WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT SECURITY MEASURES SUCH AS PROPERTY MARK ING ,EAmETS ABOUT THE SURGERY ARE AVAILABLE AT THE RECEPTION DESK IN THE (IVE 2AJ WHO TOOK UP THE POSITION OF CAMPUS 0OLICE #OMMUNITY 3UP PORT /FlCER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER HAS WORKED IN SECURITY FOR SEVERAL YEARS (AVING PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED THE SAME POST IN 4UX WOOD 2AJ WILL USE HIS EXPERIENCE TO HELP TACKLE CRIME ON AND AROUND CAMPUS (IS EMPLOYMENT IS PART OF A DRIVE BY THE UNIVERSITY TO REDUCE CRIME FOLLOWING A RECENT SPATE OF ATTACKS ON STUDENTS WHICH INCLUDE ROBBERY AND ASSAULT )N ONCE INCIDENT A YOUNG MAN WAS THREATENED BY TWO MALES ON CAMPUS WHO SUBSEQUENTLY PUSHED HIM OVER AND MADE OFF WITH HIS
IPOD AND LAPTOP COMPUTER 4HE FOLLOWING DAY A FEMALE STUDENT WAS APPROACHED BY TWO MALES ON "LUEBELL 2OAD AND WHILE ONE ATTACKER RESTRAINED THE VICTIM S ARMS THE OTHER PUNCHED HER IN THE FACE 3HE WAS THEN PUSHED TO THE GROUND AND THE ASSAILANTS STOLE a FROM HER 4HE UNIVERSITY S ONGOING WAR AGAINST ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR HAS
LED THEM TO STEP UP SECURITY IN LIGHT OF THESE INCIDENTS IN AN AT TEMPT TO KEEP STAFF AND STUDENTS SAFE 2AJ SAID h%XTRA SECURITY STAFF HAVE BEEN HIRED AND DEPLOYED AT DIFFERENT AREAS AROUND CAMPUS 4HEY ARE HIGHLY VISIBLE AND ARE ADDITIONAL TO THE SECURITY PRESENCE ALREADY EMPLOYED BY THE UNIVER SITY v
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WATER SUPPLIER lRST AND FOREMOST CHECK IDENTIlCATION h)F YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED THEN SIMPLY SHUT THE DOOR ON THEM )T IS UNLIKELY THAT A SALESPERSON WOULD PERSIST IN TRYING TO GET A SALE AFTER THIS )F THEY DO THEN CONTACT .OR FOLK 0OLICE FOR ASSISTANCE h)F AN OFlCIAL FROM YOUR GAS OR ELECTRICITY SUPPLIER STATES THAT THEY NEED TO TAKE A METER READING CHECK THEIR IDENTIlCATION AND BEFORE ALLOWING THEM ACCESS TO YOUR PROP ERTY CONTACT THE COMPANY AND ASK IF THEY HAVE SENT OUT THAT SPECIlC PERSON -OST )$ CARDS FOR GAS AND
ELECTRICITY SUPPLIERS WILL HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH AND PHONE NUMBER FOR YOU TO CALL AND VERIFY THE PERSON S IDENTITY $O NOT BE PRESSURIZED INTO ALLOWING ANYONE ACCESS TO YOUR HOME )F AT ANY POINT YOU ARE IN DOUBT OF THE PERSON S IDENTITY OR THE CALLER IS AGGRESSIVE CONTACT .ORFOLK 0OLICE v 4HE NON EMERGENCY NUMBER IS AND IN AN EMERGEN CY DIAL )F ANY STUDENTS HAVE SPECIlC CRIME PREVENTION ISSUES PLEASE CONTACT THE 0OLICE S 5%! ,IAISON /FlCER 0#3/ +AMBLI CONTACTABLE ON THE ABOVE NUMBERS OR AT THE 5%! 3ECURITY ,ODGE
4O PROMOTE THE POSITIVE BEN ElTS OF THE #IVIL 0ARTNERSHIPS !CT THE 5NION S ,ESBIAN 'AY "ISEXUAL AND 4RANS 0EER 3UPPORT 'ROUP OR ,'"4 HELD A MOCK CIVIL PARTNERSHIP CER EMONY IN THE 3QUARE AT 5%! ON 7EDNESDAY /CTOBER TH 4HIS TIME IT WAS AN AFlRMA TIVE CELEBRATION AS OPPOSED TO FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN THE PROTEST @GAY WEDDING WAS NOT LEGAL 4HE COUPLES GATHERED NERV OUSLY IN 5NION (OUSE *AMES AND 3TEVE WEARING SUITS COM PLETE WITH TOP HATS THE GIRLS
TURNING HEADS IN THEIR BEAUTIFUL WHITE DRESSES )T WAS TO BE A DAY TO REMEMBER WITH THE ONLY DOWNER BEING THE WEATHER ,IB ERATION S /FlCER -ARTIN *OPP CONDUCTED THE CEREMONY AND PRAISED THE MOVE TOWARDS LEGAL EQUALITY 3OON AFTER THE CEREMONY THE CONGREGATION HEADED TO .ELSON #OURT #OMMON 2OOM FOR THE RECEPTION CUTTING OF THE WEDDING CAKE AND A SCRUMMY BUFFET LUNCH 3TEVE WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO HELPED MAKE IT HAPPEN -ORE PICS ON THE ,'"4 S WEBSITE AT WWW UEASTU DENT COM LGBT
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! STUDENT HOUSE WAS TARGETED BY A SUSPICIOUS SALESMAN CLAIMING TO BE FROM 3OUTHERN 7ATER LAST WEEK 4HE BOGUS CALLER INSISTED THAT THE STUDENT WAS LOSING MONEY BY HAVING SEPARATE GAS AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES THEN AFTER QUICKLY mASHING AN )$ CARD AND PRODUCING BUSINESS HEADED LETTERS THE MAN TRIED TO GAIN ENTRY TO THE HOUSE 4HE STUDENT DESCRIBED THE MAN AS h1UITE IN YOUR FACE AND WHEN ) TRIED TO CLARIFY WHAT IT WAS HE WANTED HE REPEATED HIMSELF IN AN INCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE WAY 7HEN HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WASN T COMING IN HE PERSISTED FOR A WHILE BEFORE HE WENT v )T IS THOUGHT THE MAN HAD INTENTIONS TO ENTER THE HOUSE TO EITHER STEAL OR ASSESS THE HOUSE FOR LATER THEFT USING HIS ATTRACTIVE FEMALE FRIEND AS A DISTRACTION 4HE INCIDENT OCCURRED LAST WEEK BETWEEN AND PM ON "URY 3TREET OFF 5NTHANK 2OAD 4HE MAN WAS DESCRIBED TO HAVE AN %SSEX ACCENT WEASELY FEATURES AND WAS AROUND v WITH SHORT DARK HAIR (E WAS WEARING GLASSES AND A LIGHT BLUE JACKET WHICH LOOKED LIKE A COMPANY UNIFORM 4HE MAN WAS THOUGHT TO BE IN HIS LATE TWENTIES OR EARLY THIRTIES AND HIS FEMALE FRIEND WAS YOUNGER 3HE WAS WEARING A SPORTS JACKET AND HAD BROWN HAIR 5%! 0OLICE ,IAISON /FlCER 3URAJ +AMBLI ADVISES h)F YOU ARE VISITED BY A SALESPERSON OFFERING TO CHANGE YOUR GAS ELECTRICITY OR
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3TUDENTS ASK IF THEY GET A GOOD DEAL FROM THE .53 !NDY *ONES 4HIS 4HURSDAY A MOTION WILL BE INTRODUCED TO 5NION #OUNCIL THAT COULD BEGIN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF DISAFlLIATING THE 3TUDENT 5NION FROM THE .53 !NDY *UDSON 0UBLICITY /FlCER AND 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS %#/ 2EP ARE PROPOSING THAT THE FEASIBILITY OF DISAFlLIATION IS INVESTIGATED BY A SPECIAL COMMITTEE !FlLIATION PROVIDES UNIVERSITIES WITH TRAINING FOR ITS OFlCERS DIS COUNTS FOR ITS MEMBERS REPRESEN TATION AT THE .53 CONFERENCE AND ACCESS TO .533, WHICH IS A BULK BUYING CONSORTIUM FOR 5NION BARS AND SHOPS -OVES BY 5%! 3TUDENTS ARE PART OF A NATIONAL TREND WHICH HAS SEEN INCREASING NUMBERS OF STUDENTS AND STUDENTS UNIONS CONTEMPLATING LEAVING THE .53 4HE ,3% )MPERIAL #OLLEGE 'LAS GOW 5NIVERSITY AND A NUMBER OF /XBRIDGE COLLEGES HAVE ALREADY DIS
AFlLIATED 4HERE HAVE ALSO BEEN DE BATES ABOUT LEAVING AT +EELE 3OUTH AMPTON AND OTHERS 4HE STUDENT UNIONS HAVE CITED A NUMBER OF REASONS FOR DISAFlLIATING BUT THE CONSISTENT THEMES ARE THE AFlLIATION FEE OF a AND THE FAR LEFT AND ,ABOUR PARTY FACTIONAL ISM THAT IS CLAIMED TO BE DOMINAT ING .53
4HE .53 HAS BEEN CRITICISED FOR HAVING PASSED POLICY ON POLITICAL IS SUES AND HAS BEEN UNABLE TO HELP PREVENT CRUCIAL LEGISLATION BEING PASSED THE CHIEF EXAMPLES BEING TUITION AND THEN TOP UP FEES 4HE .53 EXTRA CARD HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MAJOR REASONS FOR RECENT DISSATISFACTION 4HE CARD WHICH WAS BROUGHT IN THIS SUMMER PROVIDES
STUDENTS WITH A RANGE OF DISCOUNTS FOR a -ANY OF THE DISCOUNTS ARE THE SAME AS THOSE THAT WERE AVAIL ABLE LAST YEAR THROUGH A FREE .53 CARD #HAINS LIKE (-6 AND 4OP SHOP WILL BE OFFERING AN ADDITIONAL DISCOUNT ON TOP OF THOSE AVAILABLE FOR HOLDERS OF A REGULAR .53 CARD 4HE CARD HAS BEEN CRITICISED FOR MAINLY OFFERING DISCOUNTS THAT WERE FREE TO STUDENTS LAST YEAR AND IS SEEN BY SOME AS SIMPLY A MEANS OF PAY ING OFF THE .53 DEBTS 4HE MOTION WILL PROPOSE THAT A SPECIAL COMMITTEE INCLUDING THE SABBATICAL OFlCERS AND SIX OTHER MEMBERS OF THE 5NION #OUNCIL BE GIN ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF LEAVING THE .53 4HE #OMMITTEE WILL ASSESS WHETHER THE 5NION S COMMERCIAL VENTURES WOULD BE ABLE TO BUY STOCK AT A COMPETITIVE RATE WITHOUT .533, AND IF IT WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO TRAIN ITS OWN REPRESENTATIVES )T WILL REPORT TO 5NION #OUNCIL WHETHER DISAFlLI ATION IS FEASIBLE )F IT CONCLUDES THAT IT IS lNANCIALLY VIABLE A MOTION MAY BE PUT BEFORE COUNCIL ASKING FOR A REFERENDUM ON .53 MEMBERSHIP
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-ISS 5%! 7HAT COULD BE BETTER TO LIVEN UP YET ANOTHER 4UESDAY ,#2 THAN A -ISS 5%! COMPETITION BEFOREHAND IN THE "LUE "AR 4HE DEVIOUS TWIST IS THAT UNLIKE PRESTIGIOUS EVENTS SUCH AS -ISS 7ORLD THE COMPETITORS WILL BE lNE YOUNG STRAPPING LADSx DRESSED AS WOMEN )NSPIRED 4HEY WILL STRUT THEIR STUFF ANSWER QUESTIONS AND THEN GET AUC TIONED OFF TO AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO BE THEIR DATE FOR THE EVENING 4HIS WILL BE TAKING PLACE ON 4UES .OV SO GUYS START HUNTING FOR A SNUG PAIR OF SUSPENDERS AS YOU WILL NEED THEM IF YOU ARE GO ING TO BE THE BELLE OF THE BALL S
"EATS IS "ACK 4HE POPULAR NIGHT "EATS IN !BUN DANCE IS MAKING A COME BACK ")! WAS RUN BY TWO 5%! STUDENTS THROUGHOUT LAST YEAR AND GAINED A SUBSTANTIAL STUDENT FOL LOWING PLAYING &UNK (IP (OP "OOGIE "ROKEN "EAT 3+! 2EGGAE ,ATIN *AZZ AND $ N " (OWEVER WHEN ONE OF THE $*S LEFT FOR 3AN &RANSISCO AT THE END OF LAST YEAR ")! CAME TO AN END .OW IT IS BACK ON 7EDNESDAY ND .OVEMBER
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4HE lRST ONLINE STUDENTS HAVE GRADUATED AMID CRITICISM THAT THE VALUES OF UNIVERSITY ARE BEING DEGRADED $EAN 0ALMER &IVE STUDENTS HAVE BECOME THE lRST IN THE 5+ TO COMPLETE AN ENTIRELY ONLINE FOUNDATION DEGREE 4HE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT PART TIME COURSE IS TAUGHT ONLINE OVER THREE YEARS BY "OURNEMOUTH 5NIVERSITY AND ,EEDS -ETROPOLITAN 5NIVERSITY /NLINE LEARNING HAS BEEN STEAD ILY GROWING SINCE THE S BUT THIS IS THE lRST CASE OF THE COM PLETION OF AN ONLINE FOUNDATION DEGREE /F THE STUDENTS ENROLLED MANY WERE PART OF THE ARMED FORCES AND MANY WERE FROM OVERSEAS 4HE E DEGREE ALLOWS FOR THIS AS THE STUDENTS AND TUTORS CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD ON THE ONLINE CAMPUS WHICH HAS BEEN SPECIALLY CREATED FOR THE COURSE /NLINE DEGREES CAN ALSO OFFER mEXIBILITY AND CONVENIENCE FOR THE LEARNER 4HE ABSENCE OF FACE TO FACE
HUMAN INTERACTION WITH A TEACHER CAN BE TOO MUCH OF AN OBSTACLE FOR SOME HOWEVER 4HE FEELING OF ISOLATION EXPERIENCED BY DISTANCE LEARNING STUDENTS IS OFTEN CRITICISED ALTHOUGH DISCUSSION FORUMS AND OTHER COMPUTER BASED COMMUNICA TION HELP WITH THIS AND IN PARTICU LAR CAN OFTEN ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO MEET FACE TO FACE AND FORM SELF HELP GROUPS % DEGREES HAVE LED TO CONCERN OVER THE IDEA OF @DEGREE MILLS CHURNING OUT DEGREES AFTER VERY LITTLE OR MAYBE NO ACADEMIC STUDY (OWEVER IT IS FAIRLY EASY FOR EMPLOYERS TO VALIDATE DEGREES AND THE SERIOUS STUDENTS WILL NEVER BE IN JEOPARDY OF HAVING THEIR DEGREES UNDER SCRUTINY ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE GAINED FROM RECOGNISED UNIVER SITIES OR COLLEGES 9ET 5%! STUDENTS REMAIN AP PREHENSIVE ABOUT THE IDEA -ARTIN (ALL A SECOND YEAR (ISTORY STU DENT SAID h!N ONLINE DEGREE CAN NEVER COMPETE WITH A REAL DEGREE v !MY /WEN $IXON A SECOND YEAR %.6 STUDENT THINKS THAT hIT S THE MEETING PEOPLE THE WHOLE EXPERI
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4HE 5NION HAS DECIDED TO MARK 7ORLD !IDS $AY WITH THEIR VERY OWN 3AFE 3EX WEEK FROM THE TH OF .OVEMBER TO THE ST OF $ECEMBER 4HE WEEK WILL INCLUDE A TALK BY SEASONED ()6 !)$3 CAM PAIGNER -ASI #OWPER ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE TO RECEIVE THE .ELSON -ANDELA (EALTH AND (UMAN 2IGHTS !WARDS IN 5NION (OUSE AT PM ON -ONDAY (E WILL BE DISCUSSING THE TOPIC @7HERE ARE WE NOW IN RELATION TO THE GLOBAL RESPONSE TOWARDS ()6 !)$3 4HE PURPOSE OF THE WEEK IS TO INFORM PEOPLE ABOUT CONTRACEP TION AND TO SPREAD AWARENESS OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES .IGHTLINE WILL HAVE A STALL IN THE (IVE EVERYDAY TO GIVE OUT FREE CONTRACEPTION AND ADVICE 4HERE WILL ALSO BE FREE CHLAMYDIA TEST ING IN THE (IVE ON 7EDNESDAY 4HE WEEK WILL ALSO INCLUDE A 3AFE 3EX ,#2 ON THE 4UESDAY IN WHICH THE 5NION HOPES TO GIVE AWAY OVER CONDOMS 3TUDENTS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO HAVE FUN WHILST GAINING AWARE NESS ABOUT AN IMPORTANT ISSUE THIS WILL INVOLVE AN INmAT ABLE PENIS !NOTHER HIGHLIGHT IS SPEED DATING ON 4HURSDAY 3TEVIE !LTMAN 7ELFARE /F lCER COMMENTED h)T S A CHANCE
.ORMALLY A VISIT TO 5%! S LAUNDER ETTE MARKS THE OFlCIAL ENDING OF THE WEEKEND AND THE STARK REALITY THAT IT S LESS THAN TWENTY FOUR HOURS BEFORE YOUR AM -ONDAY MORNING SEMINAR STARTS (OWEVER ON &RIDAY /CTOBER TH 5%! S LAUNDERETTE FOUND ITSELF AT THE CENTRE OF CAMPUS NIGHT LIFE AS A GROUP OF MUSICIANS CHOSE THE LAUNDRY ROOM AS THE PERFECT IF UNUSUAL VENUE TO SHOWCASE A SECRET MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA 4HE GIG WHICH WAS SUITABLY ENTITLED @7ASHING OUT THE BEER STAINS /NE .IGHT 3PECTACULAR FEA TURED PERFORMANCES FROM STUDENT BASED UP AND COMING TALENT 4HE LINE UP INCLUDED AN ECLECTIC ARRAY OF MUSICIANS RANGING FROM GUITAR
TO ADD A BIT OF FUN AND VARIETY TO THE WEEK 7E ARE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE CONNECTED v (E ADDED h)T IS IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS TO GET INVOLVED BECAUSE IT ISN T AN ISSUE THAT IS TALKED ABOUT TOO MUCH %SPECIALLY BEING AT UNIVERSITY PEOPLE FEEL A LOT OF PRESSURE TO JUMP INTO BED WITH EACH OTHER )T S GOOD THAT THEY KNOW THAT THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS v 4HE WEEK WILL END ON 7ORLD !IDS $AY ON $ECEMBER WHEN
RIBBONS WILL BE GIVEN AWAY 3TEVIE !LTMAN COMMENTED h)T S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE TRY TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT 7E HOPE THAT EVE RYBODY WILL TRY TO GET INVOLVED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE v 4HERE WILL BE A CANDLELIT VIGIL TO COMMEMORATE ALL THOSE WHO HAVE DIED OF !)$3 IN THE SQUARE AT PM ON ST $ECEMBER
WALKS OF LIFE AND FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TO UNDERTAKE A DEGREE OF THEIR CHOOSING !NDREW -OUNTFORD ALSO A SEC OND YEAR (ISTORY STUDENT AGREES h/NLINE DEGREES ARE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA WITH RISING LIVING PRICES AND INCREASED TUITION FEES IT MAKES IT
BASED SOUNDS PERFORMED BY *AMES -EAKIN AND 'ARTH !TTACKS TO UR BAN ACTS SUCH AS -# )POD $ESPITE THE EVENT S POSITIVE COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE THERE WERE FEARS THAT THE GIG WOULD BE SHUT DOWN AND THE PUNTERS MOVED ON BY CAMPUS SECURITY BECAUSE OF THE SPONTANE OUS AND UNOFlCIAL ORGANISATION OF THE NIGHT AS WELL AS THE GIG S UNORTHODOX VENUE (OWEVER THE EVENT RAN SMOOTHLY WITH NO APPEARANCES PUT IN BY ANY 5%! OFlCIALS $ON T FEAR IF YOU MISSED OUT ON THIS EVENT AS .EXUS 46 CAPTURED THE WHOLE EVENING ON THEIR CAMERAS SO WATCH OUT FOR THE NEXT SHOWINGS OF .EXUS PROGRAMMES IN THE "LUE "AR TO CATCH HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS EVENT #ONCRETE CAN CONlRM THAT THERE WILL BE MORE GUERRILLA GIGS TAKING PLACE AGAIN IN THE NOT SO DISTANT FUTURE SO WATCH THIS SPACE
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ROBABLY THE MOST WELL KNOWN LINE FROM THE TEEN COMEDY @!MERICAN 0IE !H YES SUMMER CAMP AN !MERICAN TRADITION SOMETHING WE IN THE 5+ DO NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EX PERIENCE .OT THAT WE ARE MISSING OUT ) MEAN HOW MUCH FUN COULD IT POSSIBLY BE 4HIS WAS THE QUESTION ) ASKED MYSELF ON THE TH *UNE LAST YEAR WHILST SITTING ON AN AEROPLANE BOUND FOR .EW 9ORK /NLY THREE MONTHS EARLIER ) HAD THOUGHT ) WOULD BE SPENDING MY HOLIDAYS WORKING IN A SUPERMARKET IN .OTTINGHAM WATCHING THE DAYS DRAG BY 4HEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT SEEMED ) WAS ON MY WAY TO A CAMP IN SUNNY #ALIFORNIA HIRED AS A COUNSELLOR WITH ##53! 7HAT HAD ) LET MYSELF IN FOR (AD ) REALLY APPLIED TO GET A JOB LOOKING AFTER !MERICAN CHILDREN )NSANITY SURELY x THIS SUMMER HOWEVER PROVED TO BE THE BEST OF MY LIFE BY FAR ) WAS QUITE NERVOUS AT THE THOUGHT OF HAVING TO PLAY TEACHER AND SURROGATE FATHER TO HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN ESPECIALLY !MERICAN ONES -Y APPREHENSION HOWEVER TURNED OUT TO BE UNFOUNDED 5N LIKE ANY OF THE NOTORIOUS !MERICAN STEREOTYPES THE CHILDREN TURNED OUT TO BE AS WELL BEHAVED INQUISI TIVE AND MISCHIEVOUS AS ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN THAT ) HAVE LOOKED AFTER #AMP ITSELF ALSO EXCEEDED ALL OF MY EXPECTATIONS 4HERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO DE SCRIBE CAMP THAN BY SAYING THAT IT IS JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES ) BECAME PART OF A UNIQUE WORLD COMPRISED OF COOKOUTS CAMPlRES SUN SEA AND SAND ) FOUND MYSELF ACTING AS &RED &LINTSTONE 3COOBY $OO (AR RY 0OTTER A CAT AND VARIOUS OTHER THINGS IN BETWEEN FOR THE SAKE OF CAMPlRE HOSTING BEING DRESSED UP IN DRAG MORE THAN ONCE COVER ING MYSELF IN MOSQUITO REPELLENT FOR WEEKLY CAMPOUTS IN THE WOODS AND SINGING AND MORE WORRY INGLY MEMORISING CRAZY SONGS FOR CAMPlRES ) LOOKED FORWARD TO OUR WEEKLY @FUND DAY MEALS OF CORN DOGS AND HOT POCKETS 0" * PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY TO THOSE UNINITIATED IN !MERICAN CUISINE SANDWICHES AND OF COURSE THE ULTIMATE IN CAMP TREATS @SMORES MELTED CHOCOLATE OVER MARSHMALLOWS BETWEEN TWO GRAM CRACKERS x -MMM ) SHARED IN THE CHIL DREN S TRIUMPHS AND DISAPPOINT MENTS THEIR LAUGHTER AND TEARS )
4HERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO DESCRIBE CAMP THAN BY SAYING THAT IT IS JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
BECAME THE ONE WHO TUCKED THEM IN AT NIGHT HELPED THEM GET READY IN THE MORNINGS AND THE ONE THEY LOOKED UP TO ) VE NEVER FELT SO NEEDED OR WANTED IN ALL OF MY LIFE !T THE BEGINNING OF CAMP THE CAMP DIRECTOR CHALLENGED US THAT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD BACK THE TEARS EVERY FORTNIGHT WHEN THE KIDS HEADED OFF TO THEIR FULL TIME FAMILIES n THIS PROVED A CHALLENGE ) FAILED AS IT WAS SO EMOTIONAL SAYING GOODBYE AND TEARS TURNED INTO A mOOD OF TEARS )T TRULY WAS THE BEST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE AND IT HAD JUST ENDED 7HAT PROVED EVEN MORE DIFlCULT HOWEVER WAS THE GOODBYES TO ALL THE AMAZING STAFF MEMBERS WHO HAD BECOME REALLY CLOSE FRIENDS AT THE END OF THE SUMMER /NE HALF OF THE SUMMER HAD lNISHED BUT THE SECOND HALF WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN WITH THE TRAVEL ASPECT ON THE HORIZON #AMP WAS FOLLOWED BY A WEEK SPENT IN #ALIFORNIA WHERE ) VISITED THE (OLLYWOOD 5NIVERSAL 3TUDIOS 3AN &RANCISCO AND SOME FANTAS TIC BEACHES (OWEVER THIS WAS TOPPED BY MY lRST EXPERIENCE OF AN !MERICAN 5NIVERSITY FRESHER WEEK AS THESE GUYS CERTAINLY KNOW HOW TO PARTY AND WHEN THEY HEAR
THE %NGLISH ACCENT THE POPULAR ITY STAKES CERTAINLY TAKE A NEW TWISTxx YES ) KNOW THE 1UEEN AND OF COURSE WE ALL EAT lSH AND CHIPS ) LEFT THE 53! WITH MEMORIES THAT ) WILL ALWAYS CHERISH AND FRIENDSHIPS THAT ) NEVER IMAGINED ) D FORM ) AM STILL IN CONTACT WITH THE PEOPLE ) MET AND AM PLAN NING ON RETURNING TO CAMP IN THE SUMMER (OW ELSE CAN YOU GET AN EXPERIENCE WHERE YOU PLAY ALL DAY WHILST EARNING MONEY AND GETTING A GREAT TAN n NOT IN %NGLAND ANY WAY &OR THE MOMENT HOWEVER ) WILL CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THIS ONE TIME AT SUMMER CAMP ) HAD NO CLUE WHERE TO START IN LOOKING FOR THE BEST COMPANY TO GO THROUGH AND WITH MY MOTHER BEING THE TYPICAL CARING PARENT ) WAS FORCED TO CHECK AND WEIGH UP ALL THE COSTS AND INSURANCE ETC AND A COMPANY CALLED ##53! WWW CCUSA COM THEY ARE ALSO HOLDING AN INFO MEETING ON 7EDNESDAY TH .OV PM IN THE CAREERS CENTRE WON BY A MILE n NOT ONLY IN COST BUT MORE IM PORTANTLY CUSTOMER SERVICE THEY ACTUALLY ANSWERED THE PHONE AND WERE VERY FRIENDLY ) WAS ABLE TO WORK IN THE 3TATES FOR THE DURA
TION OF CAMP WEEKS ALTHOUGH MOST CAMPS ARE ONLY AND THEN SPEND UP TO MONTHS TRAVEL LING AFTERWARDS AND ALL FOR a INCLUDING mIGHTS n YES THIS IS NOT A JOKE !ND THE POCKET MONEY YOU EARN OUT THERE WAS PRETTY GOOD IT ALLOWED ME TO DO MY OWN TOUR OF !MERICA $ON T WORRY IF YOU ARE THINK ING ) CAN T DO THIS BECAUSE ) AM NOT A QUALIlED TEACHER OR AN /L YMPIC ATHLETE THUS DON T HAVE THE NECESSARY SKILLS OR QUALIlCATIONS n THIS WAS A QUESTION ) POSED WHEN ) WAS ENQUIRING ABOUT THE PROGRAM !LL YOU NEED IS STAMINA AND AN INTEREST IN THE AREA YOU WOULD LIKE TO ASSIST YOU CAN BE A SPECIALTY COUNSELLOR TEACHING AS SISTING IN A SPORT OR ARTS ETC OR A GENERAL COUNSELLOR WHEN YOU ARE JUST LEAD A GROUP AND THE DESIRE TO HAVE A WICKED SUMMER WHICH YOU DElNITELY WILL 4HE OUTCOME IS AMAZING TOO BECAUSE NOT ONLY WILL YOU OF HAD THE "%34 SUMMER EVER BUT YOU WILL HAVE ALSO BOOST ED YOUR #6 NO END AS EMPLOYERS LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE WORKED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY AND CULTURE n SOMETHING YOU CAN T REALLY SAY WORKING AT YOUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET OVER THE SUMMER
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#HRIS "IGSBY HEAD OF THE SCHOOL OF !MERICAN 3TUDIES AT 5%! HAS PUBLISHED OVER THIRTY BOOKS WRITTEN FOR RADIO AND TEL EVISION AND SINCE SETTING UP THE CELEBRATED 5%! ,ITERARY &ESTIVAL CONTINUES TO BRING SOME OF THE GREATEST WRITERS TO 5%! 2EBECCA 7HITAKER l NDS OUT ABOUT HIS LIFE HIS LOVES AND WHAT MOTIVATES HIM
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RESH FROM A THREE YEAR DEGREE IN %NGLISH AND !MERICAN LITERATURE AT +EELE 5NIVERSITY IT S A HOUR NORTH OF "IRMING HAM AND PROBABLY THE ONLY UNI TO HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER A SERVICE STATION FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE NAME ) HAVE BEEN ACCUS TOMED TO WRITING ESSAYS AND ARTICLES ABOUT BOOKS WHOSE AUTHORS ARE LONG DEAD 4HERE IS NO POSSIBILITY TO SIT THEM DOWN WITH A CUP IF TEA TO ASK IF OR IF A PARTICULAR MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES HAD MORE INm UENCE ON THE SUBJECTS THEY WROTE ABOUT OR STEERED THEM IN A NEW CREATIVE DIRECTION 7HEN THINKING ABOUT ,IFE 7RITING AS A POSSIBLE -ASTERS ) SUD DENLY REALISED THAT THE LIVING OFFER JUST AS MUCH IF NOT PERHAPS MORE AS THOSE WHO HAVE LONG SINCE GONE TO THEIR REST AND MOST IMPORTANTLY CAN OFFER THEIR OWN VIEWPOINT INSTEAD OF HAVING THOSE OF OTHERS FOSTERED ON THEM !NYWAY n THIS ISN T A BIOG RAPHY ) M HERE TO TALK ABOUT #HRIS "IGSBY PROFESSOR IN THE !MERICAN 3TUDIES DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF THE ,ITERARY &ESTIVAL AND PART OF THE REA SON YOU ARE READING #ONCRETE TODAY "ORN IN $UNDEE AND RAISED IN #HEAM IN 3URREY #HRIS HAD A FAIRLY NORMAL CHILDHOOD "EING SO CLOSE TO ,ONDON MEANT THAT TRIPS THERE WERE A PART OF LIFE AND ONE PARTICULAR JOUR NEY #HRIS REMEMBERS WAS THE AM QUEST FOR BACON AND EGG SANDWICHES IN #OVENT 'ARDEN n IN THE DAYS WHEN IT ACTUALLY RESEMBLED A MARKET 4HE WORLD WAS A VERY DIFFER ENT PLACE IN THE l FTIES /NLY NINETEEN PERCENT OF THE POPULATION WENT TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND OUT OF THAT ONLY SEVEN PERCENT WENT TO 5NIVERSITY n AN ENVIRONMENT THAT WAS STILL VERY MUCH DOMINATED BY THE UPPER CLASSES #HRIS TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY THAT HIS GRAMMAR SCHOOL EDUCATION GAVE HIM AND WENT TO 3HEFl ELD n THE l RST MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY TO ENTER THE UNIVERSITY WORLD n AND READ %NG LISH ALTHOUGH ONE HALF OF AN EXAM WAS BASED ON !MERICAN TEXTS AND THERE THE INTEREST THAT WAS TO BECOME HIS LIFE S WORK WAS BORN !CTIVE ON THE CREATIVE SIDE HE WROTE REVIEWS AND ARTICLES FOR THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER AND WAS ALSO INVOLVED WITH TELEVI SION WHERE HE WROTE DIRECTED AND ACTED A SATIRICAL PIECE THAT INVOLVED PUPPETS 4HIS ISN T SOMETHING THAT #HRIS IS PARTICULARLY PROUD OF 7HEN WE SPOKE ABOUT IT #HRIS DECLARED THAT NOT ONLY DID 'RANADA CUT ANY THING REMOTELY RISQUÏ OR POLITICAL DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT WENT OUT AFTER
#HRIS CREATED THE !RTHUR -ILLER #ENTRE )NTERNATIONAL ,ITERARY &ES TIVAL WHICH BROUGHT TO GETHER A GROUP OF THE l NEST WRITERS THE WORLD HAD TO OFFER
THE SIX O CLOCK NEWS BUT THE WHOLE THING CAUSED HIM ACUTE EMBARRASS MENT SO MUCH SO THAT WHEN HE MARRIED A FELLOW 3HEFl ELD STUDENT HE MADE SURE HIS PARENTS IN LAW NEVER FOUND OUT ABOUT IT 4HIS SENSE OF EMBARRASSMENT WAS TO FEATURE LATER IN #HRIS S LIFE BUT FOR NOW HE SETTLED DOWN TO DO AN -! ALSO IN 3HEF l ELD ON THE !MERICAN NOVEL )N THE EARLY SIXTIES -!S LASTED FOR TWO YEARS AND #HRIS SPENT A YEAR IN +ANSAS (E FEELS THAT THIS EXPERIENCE WAS HIGHLY BENEl CIAL TO HIM AS IN HIS OPINION !MERICAN LIFE CAN ONLY BE TRULY DIS COVERED WHEN ONE IS SURROUNDED BY SMALL TOWN VALUES 4HE -! DID HAVE ITS DRAW BACKS HOWEVER &EELING STIm ED BY THE EXPANSE OF TIME THAT THE COURSE TOOK UP #HRIS COMPLETED HIS 0H$ ON !MERICAN DRAMA AT .OTTINGHAM IN JUST TWO YEARS INSTEAD OF THE USUAL THREE &INALLY AFTER SEVEN YEARS IN HIGHER EDUCATION HE WAS FREE TO PUT HIS KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICAL USE (IS l RST JOB WAS AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF !BERYSTWYTH AND WHEN SPEAKING TO #HRIS ) GOT THE IMPRES SION THAT THIS WAS ONLY A STEPPING STONE ON HIS WAY TO HIGHER THINGS )N AFTER ONLY A THREE YEAR STAY AT !BERYSTWYTH HE MADE THE FATEFUL MOVE TO 5%! 5%! AT THIS TIME WAS A HEAVEN FOR THE CULTURALLY ACTIVE -ALCOLM "RADBURY WAS IN RESIDENCE AND THE WHOLE CAMPUS OVERm OWED WITH CREATIVE FEELING 4HE CAMPUS ITSELF WAS VASTLY DIFFERENT TO THE ONE SO FAMILIAR TODAY 4HE UNIVERSITY WAS BASED WHERE THE 6ILLAGE ACCOM MODATION IS NOW AND THE SCHOOL OF %NGLISH AND !MERICAN STUDIES IN THE DAYS BEFORE AN !RTS DEPARTMENT WORKED OUT OF TEMPORARY CLASSROOMS 4HE BOOK SHOP WAS BASED THERE AS WELL MAKING IT A KIND OF MINI LITERARY HAVEN 4HERE WAS ALSO A NINETEENTH CENTURY BARN SADLY DEMOLISHED NOW HMMM n ) WONDER IF THE VILLAGE IS HAUNTED THAT WAS USED FOR SOCIAL FUNCTIONS AND ON ONE MEMORABLE OCCASION #HRIS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF STAFF LEARNED THE HARD WAY THAT STUDENTS ATTEMTPING TO COOK THINGS MORE TECHNICAL THAN BAKED BEANS SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED WHEN THEY SPENT HOURS DRINKING WHILST WAITING FOR A TURKEY TO DEFROST WHEN SOME STUDENTS TOOK IT UPON THEMSELVES TO COOK A 4HANKSGIVING DINNER 3OME THINGS WILL NEVER CHANGE IT SEEMS 5%! WAS VERY MUCH IN THE PUBLIC EYE DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF #HRIS PROFESSORSHIP 4HE 5NIVERSITY BOATS THE DUBIOUS CLAIM OF BEING THE l RST AND LAST SUBJECT OF A ""# LIVE PROGRAMME ABOUT UNIVERSITY LIFE /F
COURSE THE STUDENTS CREATED CHAOS AND THE SERIES WAS QUICKLY DROPPED 4HAT DIDN T DETER THE ""# HOWEVER AS 3IR +ENNETH #LARKE NOT THE -0 MADE AN ART HISTORY SERIES THAT STARTED WITH THE 2ENAISSANCE AND ENDED WITH THE :IGGURAT !S #HRIS SAYS WHETHER THAT MEANS 5%! IS THE END OF CIVILIZA TION OR MERELY THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW WAVE REMAINS TO BE SEEN )T WAS AROUND THIS TIME THAT TELEVISUAL EMBARRASSMENT REARED ITS HEAD AGAIN $OING A ROUND UP OF THEATRE IN THE REGION FOR h,OOK %ASTv #HRIS DESCRIBED THE OPENING CREDITS TO ME h! WOMAN IN l SHNETS SING ING 4HERE S .O "USINESS ,IKE 3HOW "USINESS AS THE CURTAIN ROSE TO REVEAL ME LOOKING LIKE A l SH OUT OF WATER v #HRIS FELT SO UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT THIS FORAY INTO THE WORLD OF CELEBRITY THAT HIS CHILDREN DIDN T EVEN GET TO HEAR ABOUT IT /NE OF THE MAIN REASONS THAT CAUGHT #HRIS S INTEREST AND KEPT HIM HERE IS THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAMME OFFERED BY 5%! 7RIT ING IS SOMETHING THAT PARTICULARLY INTERESTS HIM SOMETHING THAT IS EASY TO SEE WHEN LOOKING AROUND HIS OF l CE WHICH IS NOT ONLY CRAMMED FULL OF BOOKS BY OTHER WRITERS BUT ALSO BOASTS A FAIR SELECTION OF HIS OWN WORK BOTH CRITICAL AND l CTIONAL !SIDE FROM LECTURING AT 5%! #HRIS HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH MANY PROJECTS RADIO PROGRAMMES FOR 2ADIO &OUR A SATIRE PROGRAMME CALLED .OT .OW ) M ,ISTENING OR OR AS IT IS FONDLY REMEMBERED BY THOSE WHO WORKED ON IT .OT .OW ) M ./4 ,ISTENING AND +ALEIDOSCOPE WHICH HE PRESENTED FOR EIGHT YEARS 4HREE 4HREE THE ""# 7ORLD SERVICE WHERE HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAMME @-ERIDIAN FOR OVER TWO YEARS AND FOR OVER TWO YEARS AND SEMINARS FOR BOTH THE "RITISH #OUN CIL AND #AMBRIDGE 4HESE SEMINARS TOOK HIM ALL OVER THE WORLD WHERE HE INTRODUCED "RITISH WRITERS TO THE READERS IN OTHER COUNTRIES (E S ALSO COLLABORATED WITH -ALCOLM "RADBURY WRITING PLAYS FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE ""# )N HOWEVER HE WAS BORED !ND FROM HIS BOREDOM SPRANG AN IDEA THAT WOULD GROW TO BE ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED EVENTS ON THE 5%! AUTUMN CALENDAR #HRIS CREATED THE !RTHUR -ILLER #ENTRE )NTERNATION AL ,ITERARY &ESTIVAL WHICH BROUGHT TOGETHER A GROUP OF THE l NEST WRITERS THE WORLD HAD TO OFFER 4HE FOLLOWING YEAR HOWEVER THE EVENT WASN T RE PEATED AS HIS WIFE HAD TOLD HIM THAT IF HE DID IT THE NEXT YEAR IT WOULD BE EXPECTED EVERY YEAR !ND IN A WAY SHE WAS RIGHT #HRIS GOT SO MANY REQUESTS
FOR INFORMA TION ABOUT WHEN THE NEXT FESTIVAL WOULD BE THAT EVENTUALLY HE DECIDED THAT HE SHOULD CARRY ON AND IN THE SECOND LIT ERARY FESTIVAL ARRIVED AND THIS YEAR IT CELEBRATES ITS SIXTEENTH YEAR ! ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR 0ROFESSOR "IGSBY IF YOU PLEASE /VER THE YEARS THE FESTIVAL HAS TAKEN ON A KIND OF SUPERSTAR STATUS IN THE EARLY DAYS #HRIS RELIED ON THE CONTACTS HE MADE THROUGH HIS ""# AND SEMINAR WORK WHEN 5%! WAS NOT AS WELL KNOWN AS IT IS NOW AND MOST PEOPLE HAD TO BE DIRECTED TO THE CAMPUS EVEN IF THEY LIVED NEARBY .OWADAYS HOWEVER THE FESTIVAL HAS GAINED THE KIND OF REPUTATION IT DESERVES AND #HRIS IS ABLE TO AP PROACH WRITERS THAT HE DOESN T KNOW AND THROUGH THE MAILING LIST SEASON TICKETS CAN SELL OUT IN A MATTER OF FOUR DAYS 0EOPLE EVEN m Y IN FROM AS FAR AWAY AS 'ERMANY TO BE A PART OF EVERYTHING #HRIS DOES FEEL HOWEVER THAT STUDENTS DON T TAKE AS MUCH AN ADVANTAGE OF THE TALKS AS THEY COULD ) WENT TO THE -ARTIN !MIS TALK IN MID /CTOBER AND BELIEVE ME IT S AN EXPERIENCE THAT REALLY SHOULD BE TAKEN UP ) MENTIONED EARLIER THAT #HRIS WAS PARTIALLY INVOLVED WITH #/.#2%4% )N THE DAYS OF ITS INCEP TION #HRIS WAS THE $EAN OF %NGLISH AND !MERICAN STUDIES AND #/. #2%4% HAD MADE VARIOUS UNSUCCESS
FUL ATTEMPTS TO GET UP AND RUN NING "ECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE INDEPENDENT FROM THE 3TUDENTS 5NION THEY HADN T BEEN ABLE TO GET MUCH FUNDING AND SO WERE STRUGGLING TO KEEP Am OAT #HRIS WANTED THE PAPER TO SUCCEED AND SO GAVE THEM AN OFl CE AND A PHONE LINE IN THE ARTS BUILDING AND BOUGHT SPACE ON THE PAPER WHEN IT WAS IN l NANCIAL TROUBLE 3O IN A WAY AND ) M SURE HE WON T THANK ME MUCH FOR WRITING THIS IT S DOWN TO #HRIS THAT YOU ARE READING THIS ARTICLE IN THE l RST PLACE #HRIS HAS BEEN AT 5%! FOREVER BUT HE S NOT ONLY A TEACHER (E S A WRITER WITH THREE BOOKS CURRENTLY ON THE GO HE CONTINUES TO GIVE TALKS ABOUT "RITISH WRITERS AND HAS SEEN THE WORLD COURTESY OF THE "RITISH #OUNCIL (E DOES HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE OF THE CAMPUS OH YES HE DOES AND HAS HAD MANY A LITERARY ENCOUNTER STAYING FREQUENTLY WITH THE LATE GREAT !RTHUR -ILLER AND ONCE DANCING WITH 4ONI -ORRISON IN 3PAIN n ALTHOUGH HE SAYS THEY WEREN T DANCING TO THE SAME RHYTHM AS THE BAND AND HE S NOT EVEN SURE IF HE AND 4ONI WERE DANCING TO THE SAME RHYTHM BETWEEN THEMSELVES 7HO KNOWS WHAT S NEXT FOR #HRIS (E CERTAINLY DOESN T SHOW ANY SIGN OF SLOWING DOWN (E SAYS HE FEELS THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE A PLAYER ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE AND THAT HE VALUES PEOPLE WHO CAN LOOK OUT AND TALK TO THE REST OF THE WORLD ) THINK THAT WOULD BE WHAT HE STRIVES TO TEACH HIS STUDENTS (E PROVES IT HIMSELF BY THE DIVERSITY OF HIS CAREER )F THIS ARTICLE HAS PROVEN ANYTHING IT IS THAT WHAT ONE DOES IN ONES JOB DOESN T HAVE TO BE THE ONLY THING YOU DO #HRIS IS A PROFESSOR HERE YES BUT HE HAS ALSO BEEN INVOLVED IN A GREAT MANY OTHER PROJECTS AND HAS FORGED LIFE LONG CONNECTIONS WITH PEOPLE HE MAY NEVER HAVE MET HAD HE BEEN CONTENT TO SIT QUIETLY IN HIS OFl CE 4HAT S AN IMPORTANT LESSON TO LEARN AND ALSO TO APPLY TO YOUR OWN LIVES $ON T JUST SIT THERE WAITING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY GO AND GRAB IT 4HAT IS ) THINK TO #HRIS THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON THAT CAN BE LEARNED
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N AFTER MANY YEARS AWAY FROM .ORFOLK !NDY 0OTT WAS COMING HOME AFTER BEING HEAD HUNTED FROM -ANCHESTER 5NION TO BECOME GENERAL MANAGER OF OUR 5NION HERE AT 5%! (E HAS STAYED EVER SINCE AND WHEN ) ASK HIM WHY THE REASONS SPILL OUT AND IT IS CLEAR THAT THIS IS A MAN WHO RELISHES SO MANY ELEMENTS OF HIS JOB THAT HE DOESN T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN /NE THING THAT KEEPS HIM GOING IS THE NEW INm UX OF %XEC OFl CERS EACH YEAR WITH THEM THEY BRING NEW ENERGY NEW IDEAS AND WAYS OF IMPROVING AND CHANGING THE WAY THE 5NION WORKS !NDY ALSO ENJOYS WORKING FOR A 5NION WHICH OFFERS STUDENTS THE CHANCE TO DO SO MANY THINGS FROM ROCK CLIMBING TO SKY DIVES /UR 5NION IS IN THE TOP TEN IN THE COUNTRY THIS IS NOT JUST BECAUSE OF CLUBS SOCIETIES OR THE WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT WE HAVE 4HE 5NION IS ALSO A LEARNING GROUND AND SUPPORT SERVICE ALMOST
AS MUCH AS THE 5NIVERSITY IS 3INCE ARRIVING AT 5%! THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CHANGES l RSTLY IN THE CITY !NDY KNEW AS A CHILD WHERE HE WOULD VISIT .ORWICH ON SHOP PING TRIPS AND EVEN MORE SO AT THE 5NIVERSITY AND THE 5NION 4HE BAR THAT SO MANY STUDENTS KNOW AND LOVE WAS ONCE A BURGER CAFÏ AND BAR OWNED BY THE 5NIVERSITY !LSO IN THE LAST FEW YEARS THE (IVE PUB AND SHOPS HAVE ALL BEEN REVAMPED AND ARE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO WHAT THEY ONCE WERE 7ITH SO MANY CHANGES AND THE NUMBER OF SOCIETIES AND CLUBS GROWING EACH YEAR ) ASK !NDY IF HE SEES THE 5NION GOING ON TOP EXPAND (E SMILES HE IS A MAN WITH A PLAN /F COURSE THERE CAN ONLY BE SO MANY CLUBS AND SOCIE TIES BUT @THERE ARE PLANS IN THE PIPELINE FOR A HAIR AND BEAUTY SALON ON CAMPUS AND MANY THINGS THAT WILL PROBABLY NOT COME TO FRUITUI TION UNTIL ) AM GONE
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ACK IN WHEN MANY OF US WERE JUST A TWINKLE IN OUR NEWLYnMARRIED PARENTS EYES .ICK 2AYNS WAS SERVING !DNAMS AT PENCE A PINT IN THE THEN 5NIVERSITY OWNED PUB THREE YEARS LATER HE BECAME THE 5NION %NTERTAINMENTS MAN AGER AND YEARS ON HE IS STILL HARD AT IT .ICK STUDIED $%6 WHICH SEEMS TO BE A TREND WITH THOSE WHO END UP WORKING FOR THE %.43 DEPARTMENT HE SAYS @)T SEEMS THAT FOR A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IT S OBVIOUSLY ESSENTIAL TO HAVE STUDIED THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT 7HILE AT 5%! HE WAS ELECTED TO BE THE 3OCIAL 3EC RETARY FOR THE 5NION AND WITHIN A YEAR THE 5NION WENT FROM HAVING EIGHT CONCERTS A YEAR TO 7ITH A TURN AROUND LIKE THIS IT IS NOT SUR PRISING THAT HE WENT ON TO BECOME THE %NTERTAINMENTS -ANAGER WHAT
IS SURPRISING IS HE DID THIS WHILE HE WAS STILL DOING THE THIRD YEAR OF HIS DEGREE /VER THE YEARS HE HAS STACKED UP A NEAT PILE OF TALES TO TELL WITH THE LIKES OF 2%- 5 THE %URHYTH MICS AND "LONDIE BEING SOME OF THE BANDS HE GOT TO PERFORM IN HIS l RST FEW YEARS %VEN 2OBBIE 7IL LIAMS PLAYED HIS l RST SOLO GIG AT 5%! FOR THE HUMBLE PRICE OF a .ICK HAS SEEN IT ALL AND GOT THE SIGNED 4 3HIRT TO PROVE IT .IC CLAIMS THAT @4HE SIGN OF A GOOD PROMOTER IS TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME 4O PROVE HIS WORTH HE RECOUNTS A STORY WHICH BEGINS @) ONCE CAUGHT $EBBIE (ARRY AT MPH /NE NIGHT WHILST WAITING FOR "LONDIE OUTSIDE THE ,#2 THE TOUR BUS SWUNG ROUND THE CORNER THE ELECTRIC DOORS OPENED AND OUT POPPED $EBBIE (ARRY INTO HIS ARMS
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(/2/3#/0%3 !CWAREEUS 0IESEAS 9OU VE GOT A BRAND NEW COMBINE HARVESTER YOU SAY .O THANKS ) SHAN T TAKE THE KEYS ) M DRUNK 4HIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE RIGHT THING TO DO 4HERE ARE OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE RIGHT THING TO DO )T CHANGES ACCORDING TO THE SITUATION 4HE RIGHT ANSWER TO A QUES
TION USUALLY BEARS REFERENCE TO THE QUESTION ITSELF AND OCCASIONALLY RARELY ALL THE TIME THE ANSWER YOU RE LOOKING FOR IS THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION 9OUR :EN HOUSE IS
9OUR MOOD IS CHANGEABLE 9OU ARE CAPABLE OF EXPE RIENCING BOTH HAPPINESS AND SADNESS ON A SPEC TRUM WHERE ON OCCASION IT IS DIFlCULT TO DECIPHER BETWEEN THE TWO 9OU ARE TORN IN A MULTITUDE OF DIRECTIONS AND ALL THE TIME YOU JUST WANT TO DO THE
RIGHT THING 3OUND FAMILIAR 9ES 4HAT S BECAUSE WE INTERNALISE WRITTEN INFORMATION BY RECITING IT INSIDE OUR HEAD USING OUR OWN VOICE 9OUR :ENGA BLOCKS ARE CASCADING AND YOUR SHOES ARE TOO TIGHT
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3O YOU RE THE CREATIVE TYPE AND THE BOOK S GOING WELL /R IS IT /NE THING 4AURUS WORDS CARTOONS COLOUR PHO TOGRAPHS TRANSCRIPTS OF VERBAL ACCOUNTS PAGES OF REFERENCES LEGAL DOCU MENTS lLM RIGHTS PAGES OF PUNS CURLY WURLIES AND THE CORPSE OF A CAT ALL
OF THE POPULATION SUFFER FROM NARCOLEPSY AND OF THESE PEOPLE ARE DOGS BORN IN *UNE )T S CLEAR THERE S A CORRELATION HERE !NYWAY ON WITH YOUR HOROSCOPE #ANCER IT S NOT ILLEGAL BUT IT S CERTAINLY FROWNED UPON )S IT THAT IMPORTANT ) WON T PRETEND IT ISN T AN EXCITING PROSPECT
BASED ON @4HE $IFFERENT &ACES A $OG -AKES DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A BEST SELL ING NOVEL 2EASSESS 9OUR PSYCHIC DRAWING IS A COW SINEW AND YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS PERSONAL
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BUT WHY A #HURCH !ND THAT S IT !RTICULATE ISN T IT 9OU LIKE THAT DON T YOU 9OU LIKE IT WHEN ) DO THAT 9OUR :EN HOUSE WAS BUILT ON SAND "AD LUCK
6URGO MENTATOR ON 46 @) M GOING TO MARRY THAT LADY WITH THE LOVELY BREASTS THAT KNOWS ALL ABOUT FOOTBALLS AND THE GOALS $ID YOU ,EO $ID YOU 9OUR ENLIGHTENMENT WAS REFUSED FUNDING AND YOU RE STILL TOO YOUNG
%VERYONE IN THE FACULTY APPRECIATED YOUR ESSAY ENTITLED @&OLKLORE OF 3OUTH #AROLINA $ON T BE DIS HEARTENED BY THEIR REFUSAL TO ACCREDIT IT BECAUSE IT BORE NO RELEVANCE TO YOUR 0HYSICS DEGREE !M ) RIGHT 9OU RE CONCERNED YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT YOUR
SUBJECT OF STUDY ) VE BEEN THERE BUT IT DIDN T STOP ME CAPTIVATING THE ENTIRE ,A BOUR PARTY CONFERENCE WITH MY TRANSLATION OF "EAWOLF ) WON SEATS FOR 3LOUGH THAT YEAR 9OUR RISING IS FALLING AND YOUR PAROLE WAS VIOLATED
!IREES $O YOU THINK YOU RE PSYCHIC ) DO ) M PSYCHIC AND ) CAN TELL THAT YOU ARE TOO #ONVERSELY YOU CAN TELL THAT ) M PSYCHIC BECAUSE YOU RE PSYCHIC SO YOU SHOULD TRUST ME WHEN ) SAY THAT YOU RE PSYCHIC -Y MUM WAS PSYCHIC AND SHE COULD EXPLAIN IN EXACT DETAIL EXACTLY WHAT MY FACE
LOOKED LIKE )NCREDIBLE $O YOU SEE FACES TOO !RIES $ÏJA 6U ) VE SEEN FACES BEFORE -IND BLOWING 9OUR STONE IS SMOOTH AND YOUR LOVE IS MY LOVE
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3EPTEMBER #HA-ILLIONAIRE (IP HOP EXTRAORDINAIRE AND MASTER OF WORDPLAY TAKES HIS NEW RELEASE @) M A JAMMIN !YE TO NUMBER ONE 9OU RE A PART OF ALL THIS
,EEBRA 9OU RE NOT STUPID 7HO TOLD YOU THAT 9OU RE ! MENZA ING $ON T BELIEVE ME #ONSIDER THESE THINGS #AN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT 9ES 9OU ARE CAPABLE OF DIS TINGUISHING SHADOWS FROM MONSTERS AND UNDERSTAND THE BIOLOGICAL DEMANDS OF
NIGHT TIME 7/ THERE $O YOU KNOW THE WAY TO CAMPUS 9ES YOU DO 9OU HAVE INTERNALISED THE MENTAL MAP OF YOUR IM MEDIATE LOCATION #ARTOG RAPHY #ERAZY #AN YOU READ 7HY YEAH 7HO S THIS GENIUS 9OUR RISING IS INDISCREET AND YOU RE BEAUTIFUL
3COREPEAO 3ADJITEARIOUS #APREECORN 9OU VE BEEN AWAKE FOR SEV ENTY FOUR HOURS 4HE MUSIC FROM !NIMAL #ROSSING IS ON A MENTAL LOOP SO DEEP IS YOUR EMBROILMENT WITH THIS GAME THAT YOU RE NO LONGER SURE IF YOU SHOULD BE ATTENDING LECTURES OR SELLING FRUIT TO MAKE BELLS FOR THAT THIRD mOOR IN YOUR GREEN HOUSE 9OU HAVE ONLY
RECEIVED LETTERS FROM HORSE HEAD MAN AND THE DUCK IN THE POST OFlCE 9OU KEEP CATCHING #ARP -OVE ON 9OUR LUCKY COMMUNICATION IS WIRELESS AND YOUR BATTERY IS RUNNING LOW
9OU RE A THINKER 3ADJO 9OUR RECENT PAPER ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN OPEN DOORS AND INCREASED ACCES SIBILITY TO ROOMS WAS SEC OND TO NONE ) COMMEND YOU ON YOUR CURIOUS NATURE AND THE REFUSAL TO TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED BUT MUST STRESS THAT A
LATERAL APPROACH TO ENQUIRY IS NOT ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL 4HE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM -ARS ARE A MILLION TO ONE BUT STILL THEY COME %XPLAIN THAT CLEVER CLOGS 9OUR STONE IS AMETHYST AND YOU RE REALLY GROWING ME
) KNOW YOU RE FEELING UNDER PRESSURE AND YOU RE TOO DRAINED NOW TO EVEN ATTEMPT TO COPE /KAY #APRI SUNSHINE HERE S THE PROBLEM YOU RE WASTING TOO MUCH TIME ON SYL LABLES )NSTEAD OF ASKING FOR EXTENSIONS WITH LENGTHY
VERBALS REGARDING YOUR LACK OF MOTIVATION BECAUSE WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO IS BE A PIRATE TRY @WHATEVS %VEN BETTER A SHRUG 9OU RE ONCE TWICE THREE TIMES A LADY AND YOU RE ALL LIKE @AND
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7AIKIKI +ICKS .OTORIOUSLY IDYLLIC (AWAII lTS MOST PEOPLE S VIEW AS THE ULTIMATE HOLIDAY LOCATION #HRIS *OHNSTON ENJOYS THE WHITE SAND PALM TREES AND BONlRES ON THE BEACHxAND IS NOT DISAPPOINTED
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SK ANYONE WHAT THEIR DREAM HOLIDAY D E S T I N A T I O N IS AND MANY PEOPLE WOULD RESPOND WITH (AWAII 3ITU ATED IN THE NORTH 0ACIFIC /CEAN !MERICA S TH STATE CONJURES UP IMAGES OF LIMITLESS BLUE OCEAN EX PANSIVE PALM FRINGED BEACHES AND NEVER ENDING FINE WEATHER )T IS TRUE (AWAII DOES HAVE ALL OF THESE THINGS "UT THE ISLAND ALSO OFFERS A LOT MORE 7HAT MANY PEOPLE DON T REALISE IS THAT (AWAII IS ACTUALLY A COLLEC TION OF EIGHT MAIN ISLANDS THE SO CALLED @"IG )SLAND +AUAI ,ANAI -AUI -OLOKAI +AUAI .IIHAU AND
IDAY BROCHURES FULL OF LARGE HOTELS PALM TREES AND MOST EXCITINGLY THE WORLD FAMOUS 7AIKIKI "EACH -OST PEOPLE TRAVEL TO (AWAII FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF RELAXATION ON THE BEACH AND 7AIKIKI DOESN T DIS APPOINT 7ITH TWO MILES OF WHITE SAND ON WHICH TO LAY YOUR TOWEL YOU LL ALWAYS BE ABLE TO FIND A SPOT FROM WHICH TO OBSERVE THE AZURE SEA ALTHOUGH IN SUMMER MONTHS 7AIKIKI BECOMES BUSY WITH !MERI CAN HOLIDAYMAKERS &ORTUNATELY MANY CHOOSE NOT TO VENTURE FROM THE BEACHSIDE POOLS OF THEIR HO TELS !SIDE FROM SPENDING TIME ON THE BEACH THERE ARE A GREAT MANY OTHER THINGS TO DO ON /AHU /N THE OTHER SIDE OF (ONOLULU FROM 7AIKIKI IS THE 53 .AVY BASE 0EARL
3NORKELING ON 7AIMEA "AY IS FANTASTIC YOU RE NEARLY CERTAIN TO SEE TURTLES AND THE VISIBILITY IS CRYSTAL CLEAR /AHU THE MOST POPULOUS ISLAND AND THE ONE MOST PEOPLE ARE THINK ING OF WHEN THEY REFER TO (AWAII /AHU IS HOME TO (ONOLULU THE STATE CAPITAL AND (AWAII S BIGGEST CITY (OWEVER MOST PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL TO /AHU DON T STAY IN (ONO LULU ITSELF INSTEAD MAKING THE HALF HOUR TRIP TO THE TOURIST HAVEN OF 7AIKIKI 7AIKIKI IS THE TOURIST CENTRE OF THE WHOLE STATE OF (AWAII AND IS A REFRESHING CHANGE TO THE SOME WHAT BLEAK CAPITAL WITH ITS COLLEC TION OF OFFICE BLOCKS AND HIGHWAYS 7AIKIKI IS WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM THE (AWAII OF 46 PROGRAMMES AND HOL
(ARBOR THE SITE OF THE *APA NESE ASSAULT THAT LAUNCHED !MERICA INTO THE 3ECOND 7ORLD 7AR 4HE HARBOUR HAS NOW BEEN TURNED INTO A MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND VISITOR CENTRE 0EARL (ARBOR HAS HAD A PRO FOUND EFFECT ON MODERN HISTORY AND THE VICITOR CENTRE IS WELL WORTH TAKING TIME OUT FROM THE BEACH TO VISIT /NCE THERE YOU CAN SEE FILMS AND EXHIBITIONS ON THE ATTACKS HOWEVER THE MOST THOUGHT PROVOK ING PART IS THE WHITE 533 !RIZONA MEMORIAL THAT ACTS AS A BRIDGE OVER ONE OF THE SUNKEN SHIPS AT THE BASE &ROM IT YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE RUSTING REMAINS OF THE 533 !RI
ZONA IT BRINGS THE WHOLE SUBJECT MUCH CLOSER TO HOME AS YOU REALISE THE ATTACKS TOOK PLACE EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE STANDING )F YOU DESIRE TO BE FURTHER DIS TRACTED YOU CAN MAKE THE MINUTE BUS TRIP TO THE $IAMOND (EAD VOLCANIC CRATER AT THE EAST ERN EDGE OF 7AIKIKI 4HE CRATER HAS BEEN EXTINCT FOR YEARS AND AT FEET IN DIAMETER AND FT IN HEIGHT IS SERIOUSLY WORTH A VISIT 4HE BUS WILL TAKE YOU TO THE BASE OF THE WALLS SURROUNDING THE CRATER FROM WHICH YOU CAN TAKE THE MILE HOUR HIKE TO THE RIM /NCE AT THE TOP YOU LL NOT ONLY BE TREATED TO BREATHTAKING VIEWS RIGHT ACROSS 7AIKIKI AND (ONOLULU BUT YOU LL ALSO BE ABLE TO EXPLORE THE TURRETS AND TUNNELS THAT WERE CON STRUCTED TO DEFEND THE NEARBY 0EARL (ARBOR )T IS EASY TO TIRE OF THE BRIGHT LIGHTS AND BUSTLE OF THE CAPITAL IF YOU SHOULD DO SO THERE ARE MANY MORE DELIGHTS TO BE DISCOVERED ON THE NORTH SHORE OF /AHU 4HE NORTH SHORE IS A STRING OF SMALL BEACHES AND THE ODD SMALL TOWN AND SECLUD ED HOTEL A GREAT CONTRAST TO THE BEACHFRONT COMPLEXES THAT DOMI NATE 7AIKIKI &OR THE BUDGET TRAV ELLER THERE ARE SHARED SURF HUTS SET
BACK FROM THE BEACH WHICH YOU LL PROBABLY END UP SHARING WITH A SURFER OR NOMADIC TRAVELLER WHO S SEARCHING FOR THAT PERFECT BEACH CHANCES ARE THEY COULD FIND IT HERE 4HERE S LIT TLE TO DO ON THE NORTH SHORE APART FROM SIT ON THE BEACH AND RELAX WHICH IS NO BAD THING 4HE ATMOSPHERE IS MUCH MORE LAID BACK THAN IN 7AIKIKI THE BEACHES ARE MORE IDYLLIC BENEFITTING FROM A LACK OF TOURISTS WHO CAN BECOME TOO MUCH TO BEAR ON THE LARGER CITY BEACHES )N FACT MOST PEOPLE ON THE NORTH SHORE HAVE GONE THERE SOLELY TO ESCAPE THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE OF THE SOUTH COAST 4HE OTHER MAIN REASON FOR MANY PEOPLE S JOURNEY UP IS THE SURF WHICH ALTHOUGH GOOD IN 7AIKIKI IS UNBEATABLE HERE 7AIMEA "AY IS THE HOME OF THE WORLD FAMOUS "AN ZAI PIPELINE 4HIS PIPELINE PRODUCES THE MOST CONSISTENT BIG WAVES IN THE WORLD SOMETIMES UP TO FT AND HOSTS MANY SURF COMPETITIONS SUCH AS THE PIPELINE MASTERS 4O SEE THE PIPELINE IN ALL ITS GLORY YOU SHOULD PLAN YOUR VISIT FOR WINTER )F YOU RE NOT A FAN OF SURFING THE SNORKELLING OFF THE NORTH SHORE BEACHES SUCH AS 7AIMEA "AY IS FANTASTIC 9OU RE NEARLY CERTAIN TO SEE TURTLES IF YOU VENTURE AT LEAST METRES OFFSHORE AND THE VISIBILITY IS CRYSTAL CLEAR %VENING ENTERTAIN MENT HERE COULDN T BE MORE DIFFER ENT TO THE LADY DANCING VENUES OF FERED BY 7AIKIKI WITH MOST NIGHTS SPENT ON THE BEACH WITH A BONFIRE A GUITAR AND A FEW DRINKS 2ETURNING TO 7AIKIKI WITH ITS AS SORTMENT OF ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFETS AND LATE NIGHT SHOPPING CAN BE A BIT OF A CULTURE SHOCK (OWEVER THE DIVERSITY OFFERED ON THIS ONE SMALL ISLAND MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT THE OTHER FIVE CAN PROVIDE
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WELL IN ADVANCE AS ) KNEW ) WOULD HAVE TO HAVE MY ESSAYS CHECKED THROUGH BY THE $EAN OF 3TUDENTS OR THE LITERARY FELLOWS IN ,)4 "OTH THESE SERV ICES HELP STUDENTS IMMENSELY AND DYSLEXIC STUDENTS IN PARTICULAR 4HE LITERARY FELLOWS WILL READ THROUGH YOUR ESSAY FOR FREE BUT THEY GET BOOKED UP WELL IN ADVANCE SO IT S BEST TO SIGN UP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 4HE $EAN OF 3TUDENTS CAN ALSO READ THROUGH YOUR ESSAY BUT USUALLY ONLY ONCE SO IT S BEST TO CALL ON THEM ONLY WHEN YOU REALLY FEEL YOU RE HITTING YOUR HEAD AGAINST A BRICK WALL 4HE $EAN OF 3TUDENTS ALSO HOLDS A TREASURE TROVE OF WORK SHEETS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL TO EVERY STUDENT A RESOURCE THAT S SADLY NOT USED ENOUGH ) DIDN T lND OUT ) WAS DYSLEXIC UNTIL ) WAS AT UNIVER SITY 4HIS MAY SEEM VERY LATE BUT IN FACT MANY PEOPLE DON T DISCOVER THEY RE DYSLEXIC UNTIL THEY REACH COLLEGE OR UNIVER SITY /NE OF THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT THIS WAS THAT BY THAT POINT ) HAD ALREADY ADOPTED MANY METHODS TO HELP ME ) WOULD USE DICTAPHONES REVISE WITH KINETICS AND VISUAL IMAG ES RATHER THAN JUST TEXT AND OF COURSE ) SET MYSELF THOSE EARLY DEADLINES THAT ) MENTIONED 7HEN ) WAS YOUNGER ) AL
MOST WENT DEAF SO ) ASSUMED MUCH OF MY SPELLING INABILITY WAS DOWN TO BEING UNABLE TO HEAR HOW SOME WORDS WERE PRONOUNCED ,ATER WHEN ) WAS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ) BECAME FAR TOO COOL TO WEAR GLASSES DESPITE MY EVER FAILING EYE SIGHT ) WOULD SIT AND COPY FROM MY FRIENDS AS THEY WROTE STUFF DOWN FROM THE BOARD 4HIS ANNOYED THEM THOUGH AND IF THEY WERE ABSENT ) WAS LEFT WITH NO NOTES !S MY EYE SIGHT GOT EVEN WORSE THE DROP IN MY MARKS BETWEEN THE SECOND YEAR AND THE THIRD WAS VERY CLEAR ) WENT FROM TOP SETS TO THE BOTTOM 3O ) GOT GLASSES WAS STILL A COOL KID AND MANAGED TO GET MY MARKS BACK UP (OWEVER IT WAS STILL POOR HEARING AND EYE SIGHT THAT ) THOUGHT WERE THE CAUSE OF MY ATROCIOUS SPELLING AND INABILITY TO WRITE DOWN WORDS THAT PEOPLE SPELT OUT %NGLISH HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVOURITE SUBJECT 0ERHAPS ) AM GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT TO CHOOSE THE SUBJECT IN WHICH ) WOULD HAVE TO READ AND WRITE THE MOST BUT ) WOULD NEVER GIVE UP SOMETHING THAT ) LOVE ) WORKED EXTRA HARD AND WITH HELP FROM TEACHERS LECTURERS AND OTHER SOURCES ) MANAGED TO GET A DOUBLE ! AT '#3% AN ! AT ! LEVEL AND A HIGH IN
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4HE &%" IS SERIOUSLY LACKING IN l BRE AND THE HIGH LEVELS OF SATURATED FATS MADE IT A SERIOUS CONTRIBUTOR TO BLOCKED UP AR TERIES AND BOWEL CANCER &ROM A STUDENT PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE WE HAVE PLENTY OF FREE TIME AND DO NOT SEEM TO CARE ABOUT OUR HEALTH FOR EXAMPLE hWHEN WE DRESS UP AS SCHOOL KIDS AND DOWN SHOTS OF SAMBUCAv THE FRY UP IS JUST TOO EXPENSIVE 7E CAN EAT A BOWL OF OUR FAVOURITE SUGARED CEREAL WITH 4ESCO VALUE TOAST FOR A PITTANCE BUT SAUSAGE EGG BACON AND BEANS CON SUMES SOME SERIOUS CASH !LL THESE ELEMENTS HAVE LED SOME BREAKFAST EXPERTS TO CLAIM THE &%" IS SLOWLY DYING !LTHOUGH IT LIVES ON IN GREASY SPOONS AND BED AND BREAKFASTS ACROSS THE LAND WE ARE FAST BECOMING A NATION OF HEALTH CONSCIOUS COFFEE DRINKERS #ONSIDERING THIS TRAGIC PLIGHT OF THE MEAL THAT HAS GIVEN SO MUCH AND ASKS SO LITTLE IT SEEMS ONLY RIGHT THAT WE TAKE THE TIME TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THE &%" AND WHAT IT OFFERS 4HE &%" IS A MYSTERIOUS COLLECTION OF SALTY PRODUCTS THAT WHEN THEIR POWERS COMBINE TASTES LIKE HAPPI NESS )T MUST BE SAID THAT THE INGREDIENTS ARE A LITTLE STRANGE FOR SOME REASON SOMEONE SOMEWHERE DECIDED THAT PORK IN VARIOUS SHAPES AND FORMS WOULD BE THE IDEAL MEAT TO KICK OFF THE DAY 7HY DON T WE EAT LAMB OR CHICKEN )N THE 0HILIPPINES THEY EAT BEEF AND RICE AND IN *APAN THEY TACKLE SEAFOOD IN THE MORNING (OW EVER IN GOOD OLD "LIGHTY WE EAT BACON SAUSAGE PORK AND BREADCRUMBS AND BLACK PUD DING CONGEALED PIGS BLOOD WITH MEAT AND FAT 4HE EGG IS A LITTLE LESS UNUSUAL n MANY COUNTRIES USE AN EGG FOR BREAKFAST AND IT IS A GOOD SOURCE OF PROTEIN TO START THE DAY &RIED SUNNY SIDE UP IS THE TRADITIONAL WAY TO PRESENT THE EGG BUT THIS LITTLE BABY IS THE -R 6ERSATILE OF THE &%" AS IT CAN COME IN THE SCRAMBLED POACHED BOILED OMELETTE OR EVEN OVER EASY FORMAT !T THIS POINT ARGUMENTS MAY BEGIN THERE IS NO
DEl NITIVE RECIPE FOR THE &%" AND ONE MAN S PREFERENCE FOR MUSHROOMS WILL BE SNEERED BY ANOTHER MAN S DESIRE FOR FRIED TOMATOES &OR MY PART ) PLACE BEANS IN THE TOP THREE MUST HAVES ON THE &%" PLATE THEY PROVIDE A MUCH NEEDED MOISTURE AND SAUCE THAT COMPLEMENTS THE OTHER PLAYERS (OWEVER ON TO THE LIST GOES CHIPS BLACK PUDDING FRIED BREAD TOAST AND AS WE BECOME MORE !MERICANIZED HASH BROWNS HAVE ENTERED INTO THE EQUATION 7HATEVER YOUR PERSONAL PREDILECTION IT IS CLEAR TO SEE THAT THE &%" IS ALL ABOUT CUSTOMIZATION 4HIS IS WHAT MAKES IT GREAT 9ET THIS IS ALSO WHAT MAKES IT A PAIN TO MAKE WITH MANY DIFFERENT THINGS TO COOK IT IS A HASSLE 3O MANY PEOPLE PREFER TO OUTSOURCE THEIR BREAKFAST DESIRES AND PLACE THE COOKING IN THE HANDS OF THE &%" PROFESSIONALS n THE CAFE PRONOUNCED CAFl (ERE IS YET ANOTHER REASON TO MARVEL IN THE &%" S GREASY GLORY )T NOT ONLY TAKES YOU INTO WEIRD AND WONDERFUL PLACES BUT IT BRINGS YOU TO GETHER 4HERE IS NOTHING QUITE LIKE GOING ROUND THE CORNER TO THE LOCAL CAFÏ WITH YOUR MATES THE MORNING AFTER A BIG ONE (ERE YOU CAN DISSECT THE NIGHT IN RELATIVE SOBRIETY READ THE MORNING PAPER AND PLAY WITH THE CONDIMENTS )T MAKES YOU APPRECIATE THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE LIKE CUPS OF TEA HOW GOOD ARE THEY )N ADDITION NO -C$ONALDS OR 3UBWAY SUPER COMPANY HAS YET TO MONOPO LISE THE &%" WITH A FORMULAIC RECIPE %VERY GREASY SPOON BRINGS SOMETHING UNIQUE TO THE &%" AND BY SUPPORTING THEIR INDIVIDUAL m AIR YOU ARE ALSO SUPPORTING THE LOCAL AREA AND THE LOCAL BUSINESSMAN WOMAN 7ITH SO MUCH GOING ON AND OFF THE &%" PLATE WE MUST ALL MAKE SURE THAT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WE FORGET THE REGULAR CEREAL AND TOAST ROUTINE AND TAKE THE TIME TO BITE INTO SOME REAL "RITISH TRADITION
! LAD DATE WITH MY HOUSEMATE !T A l SH RESTAURANT )T LOOKS A BIT SWANKY FROM THE OUTSIDE SO ) M GLAD ) M DRESSED SMART CASUAL -ATT ON THE OTHER HANDx7E TAKE A SEAT AND SOAK UP THE AMBIENCE 4HERE S A DEl NITE NAUTICAL THEME GOING ON WITH VARIOUS l SH AND BOATS DECORATING THE WALLS 4HE MENU HAS MANY l SH ) VE NEVER TASTED AND A PLETHORA OF OYSTER DISHES ) TAKE THE CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO START WITH AND ) M REWARDED WITH ,OCH &YNE KIPPERS THAT TASTE AND LOOK THE PART -Y @DATE DECIDES TO EXPERIMENT AND GOES FOR THE HERRING l LLETS IN FOUR MARINADES ! PLATE ARRIVES WITH SEVERAL PILES OF l SH AND OTHER COLOURFUL SIDE DISHES 4HE COLLEC TIVE RESULT IS ) AM INFORMED GOOD IF A LITTLE SALTY 7HILE WE WAIT FOR THE MAIN COURSE WE SURVEY THE SPACE AROUND US )T S A NICE SET UP WITH THE TABLES ARRANGED COMFORTABLY APART 4HERE S ALSO A BAR FOR NON DINERS AND THE GENERAL ATMOS PHERE IS RELAXED (OWEVER WE ARE EASILY THE YOUNGEST PEOPLE IN THERE WITH THE MAJORITY OF DINERS MADE UP OF PROFES SIONALS AND MATURE COUPLES 4HERE S NO TIME TO FEEL OUT OF PLACE THOUGH AS THE MAIN COURSE ARRIVES QUICKLY ) CONTINUED ON THE SAFE PATH WITH A l SH PIE AND VEGETABLES BUT ONCE AGAIN -ATT IS OUT TO BROADEN HIS HORIZONS AND GOES FOR PAN FRIED l LLET OF STONE BASS WITH CHAR GRILLED AUBERGINE AND PESTO 7HILE WE BEGIN TO TUCK IN MY HOUSEMATE INFORMS ME HE NEVER EATS ANYTHING THAT JUST SAYS l SH h7HAT l SH v HE ASKS SCEPTICALLY HOWEVER ONCE ) CRACK THROUGH THE PUFF PASTRY ) HAVE NO FEARS AS TO THE QUALITY OF THE INSIDE "IG SALMON AND HADDOCK CHUNKS m OAT IN A RICH SAUCE -ATT S BASS IS HUGE BUT IT IS EATEN SWIFTLY ) ASSUME THIS MEANS HE APPROVES 4HERE IS A SMALL DRAWBACK IN THAT YOU HAVE TO ORDER YOUR SIDE DISHES SEPARATELY THE CHIPS AND VEGETABLES ARE l NE BUT THE PORTIONS ARE A BIT SMALL 7E DECLINE ON THE DESSERT ALTHOUGH THERE ARE A NUMBER OF HOMEMADE OP TIONS ON THE BOARD 7E GRAB OUR COATS AND BEGIN THE WALK HOME 7E FEEL WE HAVE GIVEN OUR BODIES SOMETHING DIF FERENT AND MORE NUTRITIOUS THAN THE NORM )F YOU LIKE l SH ) IMAGINE YOU WOULD NOT GO AWAY DISAPPOINTED THERE IS A LOT TO CHOOSE FROM AND EVERYTHING IS FRESH AND WELL PRESENTED )T IS PROBABLY A LITTLE OUT OF THE PRICE RANGE OF YOUR AVERAGE STUDENT WITH THE CHEAPEST MAIN COURSE WITH SIDE DISH AROUND a (OWEVER THEY DO OFFER TWO COURSES FOR a BETWEEN PM -ONDAY TO &RIDAY AND ON 3ATURDAY SO IF YOU FANCY A CHANGE AND WANT TO KEEP IT "RITISH IT IS
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ALONG THE RIVER 'O ING PAST THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE YOU THEN CROSS OVER THE RIVER USING A FOOTBRIDGE BASED ON THE @MATHEMATICAL BRIDGE AT 1UEEN S #OLLEGE #AM BRIDGE 3OON YOU REACH %ARLHAM 0ARK WHERE YOU COULD EITHER TAKE A BRIEF LOOK AT %ARLHAM (ALL THE LITTLE KNOWN HOME OF THE ,AW STUDENT OR VENTURE OFF CAMPUS TO CONTINUE YOUR WALK "Y CROSSING OVER %ARLHAM 2OAD YOU WILL l ND YOURSELF ON THE "OWTHORPE SIDE WHERE YOU WILL SEE THE
TH #ENTURY 3T -ARY S #HURCH &OLLOWING THE PATH ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE 6ILLAGE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO EXPLORE -ILLENNIUM 'REEN AND MORE OF THE 2IVER 9ARE WHICH RUNS THROUGH %ARLHAM -ARSHES 4HIS IS THE PERFECT PLACE TO END YOUR EXPLORATION OF THE LAND SURROUNDING THE 5%! ESPECIALLY AS AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR THE m OODED MARSHES ATTRACT LARGE NUMBERS OF GEESE AND OTHER WILD BIRDS &IONA "ILLINGS
SCHEMES SUCH AS RECYCLING ELECTRIC CAR SHARING AND ENERGY RENEWABLE DEVICES FOR THE UNIVERSITY !LTHOUGH THIS YEAR S CAMPAIGN HAS FACED SOME OPPOSITION YET IT HAS NOT STOPPED THE #3) BY ANY MEANS 3UNDAY .OVEMBER WILL SEE #3) S l RST MAJOR ORGANISED EVENT HOST ED AT 4HE (IVE @!RT FOR E!24H S SAKE WILL BE AN EVENING OF NEW ART COM EDY AND LIVE MUSIC %NTRY WILL BE a AND WILL FEATURE THE PRIZE WINNING ART FROM THE SOCIETY S @7ASTE !RT #OMPETI TION )T WILL ALSO INCLUDE LIVE SETS FROM 5%! S "IG "AND AND A LOCAL ACOUSTIC NUMBER &INGERSTYLEMONKEYS TO NAME BUT A FEW (OWEVER THE MAIN ATTRACTION OF THE NIGHT IS NO DOUBT THE SERVING OF ORGANIC CIDER BEER AND WINE AT STAND ARD BAR PRICES A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY .ICOLA "IRCH FROM 43)& BELIEVES THAT @ AS WELL AS RAISING PEO
PLE S AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABILITY IT IS ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING 5%! AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TOGETHER WHICH IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE SOCIAL SIDE OF THE ISSUE !LTHOUGH THE EVENING WILL INCLUDE INFORMATION ON THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE IMPOR TANCE OF SUSTAINABILITY THE AIM IS TO BE A FUN LIVELY EVENT @ 7E WANT THE ISSUE TO BE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE v SHE ADDS )F THAT WASN T ENOUGH THE WINNERS OF THE @7ASTE !RT #OMPETITION CAN LOOK FORWARD TO PRIZES FROM 4HE )NDEPEND ENT "EN *ERRY S AND A HAMPER PROVID ED BY A LOCAL GREENGROCERS !T ONLY ONE POUND FOR ENTRY A TASTE OF HOW MUCH DIFFERENCE ONE POUND CAN MAKE THERE IS NO EXCUSE TO MISS OUT 2ACHEL !RCHER
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HERE ON EARTH ARE WE GOING 7HAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT 4HESE TWO QUES TIONS FORM THE BASIS OF A SYM POSIUM RUN BY NOT FOR PROl T ORGANISATION "E 4HE #HANGE &OURTH YEAR %.6 STUDENT !LASTAIR 7OLFE WENT TO ONE OF THEIR SYMPOSIUMS WHILST AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF /REGON ON HIS YEAR ABROAD AND WAS SO INSPIRED BY IT THAT HE S HOST ING ONE AT 5%! 4HE SYMPOSIUM BRINGS TOGETHER THOUGHTS AND RE SEARCH ON THE AREAS OF EN VIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SPIRITUAL FULl LMENT BUILDING ON THE PERSPECTIVE THAT MANY OF THE PROBLEMS FACING SOCIETY TO
DAY ARE INTERCONNECTED AND NEED TO BE VIEWED AS PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE RATHER THAN INDIVIDUALLY "E 4HE #HANGE BELIEVE THAT THE WAY OF LIFE OF MODERN SOCIETY IS UNSUS TAINABLE AND THAT IT WOULD BE hGROSSLY IRRESPONSIBLE TO KEEP DOING WHAT WE ARE DO INGv !CCORDING TO THE ORGANI SATION S WEBSITE THE SYMPO SIUM AIMS hNOT MERELY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORLD BUT TO COME TO GRIPS WITH THE VERY ASSUMPTIONS THAT UNDER LIE THE WAY WE OURSELVES SEE THE WORLD AND OUR PLACE IN IT AND WITH WHAT EACH OF US CAN DO BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND COOPERATIVELY TO MOVE THE WORLD IN ;A= NEW DIRECTIONv !LASTAIR ADMITS THAT WHEN HE l RST HEARD ABOUT THE SYMPO SIUM IT STRUCK HIM AS A BIT
hNEW AGEY AND @OUT THERE v (OWEVER HE WENT ALONG TO HEAR A FRESH PERSPECTIVE AND LEFT FEELING hEMPOWERED AND INSPIRED TO DO SOMETHINGv 4HE SYMPOSIUM ON 3AT URDAY ND $ECEMBER WILL BE RUN BY THREE FACILITATORS AND ITS CONTENT WILL INCLUDE PRES ENTATIONS VIDEO CLIPS AND SHORT l LMS PROVIDING INFOR MATION ON EVERYTHING FROM LAY PERSON SCIENCE TO ANCIENT WISDOM 4HERE WILL BE NU MEROUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS AND PARTICIPANTS WILL BE EN COURAGED TO EXPLORE POSITIVE WAYS IN WHICH THEY CAN CON TRIBUTE TO SOCIETY &OR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT !LASTAIR AT ALASTAIR?WOLFE HOTMAIL COM 2OSIE "RADLEY "UNN
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%CO WEB WWW PEOPLETREE CO UK "UYING NEW CLOTHES CAN BE AN ETHICAL NIGHTMARE .OT ONLY ARE MILLIONS OF WORK ERS IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY FORCED TO WORK IN APPALLING CONDITIONS THE CLOTHES ARE OFTEN MADE USING PESTICIDE TREATED COT TON THE WORLD S MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTRUCTIVE CROP %THICAL CLOTHING COMPANIES ARE SLOWLY STARTING TO HIT THE FASHION RADAR THOUGH 4HE BEST KNOWN 0EOPLE 4REE RECENTLY HELD A CONCESSION IN 4OPSHOP S /XFORD #IRCUS STORE
7HALING MISUNDERSTOOD .INA -OWBRAY EXPLORES THE CURRENT ISSUES CONCERNING WHALING
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AST WEEK SIX *APANESE WHALING SHIPS SET SAIL FOR THEIR ANNUAL WHALE HUNT IN THE SOUTH !TLAN TIC PERMITTED UNDER THE )7# TO CONDUCT WHALING FOR SCIENTIlC PURPOSES !LTHOUGH THERE IS EXTEN SIVE PUBLIC AND MEDIA INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT OF WHALING *APAN AND OTHER WHALING NA TIONS ARE CONSISTENTLY DECLARED AT FAULT WITH NO MENTION OF THE HISTORY OF WHALING THE )NTERNATIONAL 7HALING #OMMISSION )7# AND NO ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND THE REASONS BEHIND THEIR ACTIONS (UMANS HAVE BEEN HARVESTING WHALES FOR AT LEAST YEARS )T WAS NOT UNTIL THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE 7HALING #OM MITTEE UNDER THE )NTERNATIONAL #OUNCIL FOR THE %XPLORATION OF THE 3EA IN THAT IT WAS RECOGNIZED ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL THAT PERHAPS THE SUPPLY OF WHALES WAS NOT LIMITLESS WHEN PUT UNDER THE PRESSURE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES RISING DEMAND AND THE INCREASING EFlCIENCY OF WHALERS 4HE )NTER NATIONAL 7HALING #OMMISSION FORMED IN IN THE 53 WITH THE INTENTION OF ACHIEV ING A SUSTAINABLE WHALING REGIME IN ORDER TO SUSTAIN THE WHALING INDUSTRY 4HIS LED TO THE NOT TERRIBLY SUCCESSFUL )NTERNATIONAL #ONVENTION FOR THE 2EGULATION OF 7HALING WHICH CAME INTO FORCE IN (OWEVER ITS VERY WEAK IMPLEMENTATION MEASURES AND EXCESSIVE WHALING QUOTAS ALLOWED THE CON TINUED DECLINE OF WHALE POPULATIONS &INALLY IN THE 53 COMMISSIONER TO THE )7# CALLED FOR SUPPORT TO INTRODUCE A MORATORIUM ON COMMERCIAL WHALING IN ORDER TO ALLOW WHALE POPULATIONS TO RECOVER FROM THE PREVIOUS )7# MISMANAGEMENT 4HE IDEA WAS ORIGINALLY FOR A YEAR MORA TORIUM TO ALLOW THE RECOVERY OF WHALE POPU LATIONS AND TO DECIDE ON A SUSTAINABLE WHAL ING REGIME FOR THE FUTURE BASED ON SCIENTIlC REGULATION (OWEVER A VOTE FAILED TO GIVE A – MAJORITY AND SO WAS NOT PASSED "Y THIS STAGE PUBLIC PRESSURE WAS IN
CREASING THROUGH CAMPAIGNS AND THREATS TO BOYCOTT ALL THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OF THE WHALING NATIONS INCLUDING *APAN .ORWAY )CELAND AND 2USSIA %VENTUALLY THE .EW -ANAGEMENT 0ROCEDURE WAS AGREED UPON IN BANNING THE WHALING OF OVER EXPLOIT ED STOCKS BUT ALLOWING THE WHALING OF ABUN DANT STOCKS AT LEVELS WHICH WOULD NOT POSE A LONG TERM THREAT 3INCE THEN NO WHALE POP ULATION HAS BEEN PLACED IN JEOPARDY BY ANY COMMERCIAL WHALING OPERATIONS 4HE PRES SURE ON THE )7# TO SHIFT ITS FOCUS TO CONSER VATION INCREASED HOWEVER AS MORE INTERNA TIONAL TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS CONCERNING THE ENVIRONMENT WERE SIGNED -EANWHILE CONSERVATIONIST ORGANISATIONS ENCOURAGED NON WHALING STATES TO JOIN THE )7# IN ORDER TO PUSH VOTING lGURES IN FAVOUR OF A COM PLETE BAN ON COMMERCIAL WHALING 4HIS WAS ACHIEVED IN AND THE MORATORIUM TOOK EFFECT IN THE )7# DID THIS WITH OUT THE SUPPORT OF ITS 3CIENTIlC #OMMITTEE DUE TO A LACK OF SCIENTIlC EVIDENCE TO SUG GEST A COMPLETE MORATORIUM WAS NEEDED 4HE 2EVISED -ANAGEMENT 3CHEME REMAINS INCOMPLETE DUE TO DISAGREEMENTS OVER ITS DETAILS THE DIFlCULTIES ENCOUNTERED WHEN ASSESSING WHALE STOCKS AND NOW THE ADDED OPPOSITION TO THE RE INTRODUCTION OF COM MERCIAL WHALING FROM THOSE WHOSE INTERESTS LIE SOLELY WITH THE WELFARE OF THE WHALES THEMSELVES 5NDER THE CURRENT )7# REGULATIONS IN DIGENOUS WHALING SCIENTIlC WHALING AND WHALING BY NATIONS WHO ISSUED AN @OBJEC TION TO THE MORATORIUM ARE PERMITTED *A PAN .ORWAY AND THE FORMER 3OVIET 5NION lLED FORMAL OBJECTIONS TO THE MORATORIUM IN (OWEVER *APAN WITHDREW THEIRS TO PREVENT THE 53 FROM DENYING THEM ACCESS TO THE RICH !LASKAN 0OLLOCK GROUNDS WITHIN THE 53 %XCLUSIVE %CONOMIC :ONE %%: A MAJOR SOURCE OF lSH TO THE NATION 4HE MORATORIUM TRIGGERED )CELAND TO LEAVE THE )7# ALTOGETHER 4HE )7# HAS BEEN WEAK IN THE IMPLE MENTATION OF ITS REGULATIONS AND UNRESPON
SIVE TO THE INTERESTS OF WHALING NATIONS PARTICULARLY CONSIDERING THAT THE ORIGINAL VOTE WHICH BROUGHT IN THE MORATORIUM ON COMMERCIAL WHALING WAS PASSED WITH THE EXPECTATION OF A YEAR DURATION 4WENTY YEARS ON IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THE WHAL ING NATIONS HAVE BECOME LESS INCLINED TO CO OPERATE !S A RESULT NATIONS SUCH AS *APAN ARE BEGINNING TO EXPLOIT THEIR RIGHT TO @SCIENTIlC WHALING UNDERMINING THE INTEGRITY OF THE )7# PUTTING STRAIN ON INTERNATIONAL RELA TIONS AND ANGERING CONSERVATIONISTS *APAN HAS BEEN WHALING SINCE THE TH CENTURY WITH WHALE MEAT BECOMING A CRUCIAL FOOD SOURCE IN *APAN DURING 77)) AND CONSE QUENTLY IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH NATIONAL PRIDE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE )T S UNDERSTANDABLE THEN THAT THE *APANESE ARE LESS THAN KEEN TO GIVE UP WHALING AT THE REQUEST OF WESTERN NATIONS 4HE )7# WAS SET UP IN ORDER TO MAKE WHALING A SUSTAINABLE PROCESS FOR THE SAKE OF THE INDUSTRY AND ITS MEMBERS JOINED WITH THIS UNDERSTANDING 4HE AGENDA HAS BEEN MASSIVELY COMPROMISED BY EXTERNAL POLITI CAL INmUENCES AND THERE IS AN INCREASING BIAS IN FAVOUR OF THE ANTI WHALING NATIONS AND PARTIES AS A RESULT OF THEIR OVERWHELMING AND STILL INCREASING PRESENCE AT ALL )7# MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES 4HIS BIAS HAS BEEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE GOOD WILL OF PRO WHALING MEMBERS WHOSE INTERESTS HAVE APPARENTLY BECOME A BOTTOM PRIORITY OF THE )7# #ON TINUING TO DENY PREVIOUS WHALING MEMBER NATIONS THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESUME COM MERCIAL WHALING WILL ONLY LEAD TO FURTHER AG GRAVATION AND POTENTIALLY THE WITHDRAWAL OF WHALING NATIONS FROM THE )7# ALTOGETHER AT THE RISK OF A RETURN TO COMMERCIAL WHALING WITHOUT ANY REGULATIONS WHATSOEVER !S A VEGETARIAN STUDYING ENVIRONMEN TAL SCIENCES THIS STUDENT IS BY NO MEANS IN FAVOUR OF WHALING )T HAS NOT TAKEN MUCH RESEARCH HOWEVER TO INSPIRE EMPATHY FOR THE WHALING NATIONS OF THE )7# WHO ARE SO OFTEN UNFAIRLY PORTRAYED BY THE MEDIA
!PPLYING BOTH &AIRTRADE AND ECOLOGICAL ETHICS 0EOPLE 4REE S WEBSITE CLAIMS THAT THEY hCONSISTENTLY PROVE THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO WEAR STYLISH EXCITING AND AFFORDABLE FASHION AT THE SAME TIME AS RESPECTING PEOPLE AND PLANETv ! QUICK LOOK AT THEIR POLICIES SECTION CONlRMS THIS 4HE SITE ALSO INCLUDES 0EOPLE 4REE S MIS SION STATEMENT INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR PRODUCERS DETAILS OF HOW AND WHERE THEIR CLOTHES ARE MADE AND AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT &AIRTRADE AND ORGANIC STANDARDS ARE 3O FAR SO GOOD "UT WHAT ABOUT THE CLOTHES ,OOKING THROUGH THE WOMEN S SECTION MY lRST IMPRESSIONS WEREN T GREAT WITH SOME OF THE CLOTHES LOOKING A LITTLE FRUMPY AND ALSO BEING QUITE HIGHLY PRICED FOR A MEAGRE STUDENT BUDGET (OWEVER PERSEVERANCE PAID OFF AS ) FOUND SOME NATTY PRINTED T SHIRTS FOR a 4HERE IS ALSO A GOOD VALUE RANGE OF ACCESSORIES WITH A FANTASTIC SET OF GLOVES HAT AND SCARF 0RICES RANGE FROM a FOR A MAKE UP BAG TO a FOR AN EVENING DRESS )T WAS REFRESHING TO lND ITEMS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE (IGH 3TREET HAS TO OFFER AND THE QUALITY IS GOOD TOO ) CHECKED WITH MY 0EOPLE 4REE WEARING MUM $ON T LET THAT PUT YOU OFF SHE S A VERY WELL DRESSED MUM 4HERE ARE FURTHER RANGES FOR MEN CHILDREN AND BABIES AS WELL AS A HOME RANGE 4HE GOOD VALUE GIFT WRAPPING SERVICE MAKES THE SITE IDEAL FOR ONLINE #HRISTMAS SHOP PING TOO 4HE SITE IS WELL ORGANISED WITH A CLEAR SIZE CHART AND EASY TO USE ORDERING SYSTEM 4HE STANDARD DELIVERY TIME OF hUP TO DAYSv IS A BIT OFF PUTTING FOR IMPATIENT SHOPPERS LIKE MYSELF THOUGH AND WHILE THERE IS AN OPTION OF EXPRESS DELIVERY THIS WILL SET YOU BACK ANOTHER a ON TOP OF THE STANDARD CHARGE OF a 0ROBABLY A GOOD TIME TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW YOUR PURCHASE WILL HELP TO FUND SOCIAL WELFARE AND ENVI RONMENTAL PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD 0EOPLE 4REE IS WELL WORTH A LOOK FOR ANY ONE WHETHER YOU RE INTERESTED IN FASHION ETHICS OR ECOLOGICAL ISSUES 2EMEMBER JUST ONE PURCHASE OF AN ORGANIC COTTON T SHIRT IS ENOUGH TO SEND A MESSAGE TO RETAILERS EVERYWHERE 2OSIE "RADLEY "UNN
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6INO SANS VERITAS 2OBERT *ACKMAN 4HE 6ICE #HANCELLOR OF 2EAD ING 5NIVERSITY IS RIGHT TO SAY THAT STUDENTS BINGE DRINKING CAN BE BLAMED ON IRRESPON SIBLE ADVERTISINGx ) VE ALWAYS HATED COCO NUTS 4HE SCENT OF COCONUT MILK MAKES ME WRETCH ) RE COIL AT THE SIGHT OF A "OUNTY BAR "LINDLY REACHING INTO A CHOCOLATE SELECTION BOX IS 2USSIAN ROULETTE "UT IT WAS NEVER REALLY A PROBLEM n UN TIL ) ATTENDED A -ALIBU SPON SORED ,#2 !S IF IT WASN T ENOUGH THAT EVERYONE WAS SWIGGING THE RANCID COCO COCKTAIL ) WAS TARGETED BY THE -ALIBU SALES PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO MAKE ME PART WITH MY MON
EY WITH THE FORTITUDE AND TE NACITY THAT YOU D EXPECT FROM A #AMDEN 4OWN BEGGAR !LL THE TIME ) D BEEN AVOIDING COCONUT THE BREWERS OF THIS "AHAMAN BEVERAGE HAD BEEN OUT TO GET ME /N ESCAPING ) CAME TO A CHILLING CONCLU SION n -ALIBU LIKES ME MORE THAN ) LIKE -ALIBU !ND ) M NOT ALONE IN THIS OBSERVATION 4HIS MONTH 0ROFESSOR 4ONY $OWNES OF 2EADING 5NIVERSITY PENNED A LETTER URGING LOCAL BARS TO TAKE MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO STOP STUDENTS BINGE DRINK ING $OWNES CONDEMNED BARS WHICH PROMOTED BINGE DRINKING AND SLATED LAND LORDS WHO SERVED ALREADY IN EBRIATED STUDENTS )F STUDENTS WERE DRINKING TO EXCESS THEN IT WAS BECAUSE OF EXCESSIVE AND RUTHLESS ADVERTISING #ONCERN ABOUT STUDENTS
DRINKING IS NOTHING NEW THE .53 WEBSITE IS LOADED WITH DAUNTING STATISTICS ABOUT BINGE DRINKING 4HE ONCE CHARMING MATRIMONY OF STUDENTS AND ALCOHOL HAS MORPHED INTO SOMETHING MORE MENACING )N DAYS GONE BY IT FUELLED OUR DEBATES AND ENRICHED OUR PLAY READINGS n NOW IT EMPTIES OUR WALLETS AND ERODES OUR INHIBITIONS !ND $OWNES IS RIGHT TO SHIFT THE RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE STUDENTS TO THE SELLERS 4HINK OF THE DRINKS VOUCH ERS STUDENTS ARE BOMBARDED WITH ON ARRIVING AT 5%! h.EW mATMATES 3TRUGGLING TO BREAK THE ICE 7HY NOT DROWN IT v THE VOUCHERS CHUMMILY SUGGEST $ON T BE FOOLED n THE DRINKS COMPA NIES DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU MAKING NEW FRIENDS THEY RE
JUST LOOKING FOR NEW CUSTOM ERS 3OME ARGUE THAT A BAN ON ADVERTISING WOULD BE THE lRST STEP TOWARDS CHANGING THE PUBLIC S ATTITUDES TOWARDS DRINKING 4HINK OF SMOK ING ADVERTISING TEN YEARS AGO SMOKING ADVERTISEMENTS WERE EVERYWHERE THE EVASIVE WIT OF "ENSON (EDGES BILL BOARDS WAS A FEATURE OF EVERY HIGH STREET "UT AFTER THE BAN THE IDEA OF ADVERTISING SMOK ING SEEMS AS LUDICROUS AS BILLBOARDS OFFERING A HITMAN SERVICE 7ITHOUT GLITZY ADVERTIS ING "RITAIN HAS BEEN ABLE TO FACE UP TO THE GRIM REALITY OF SMOKING #OMPANIES CAN NO LONGER SELLING SMOKING AS GLAMOROUS 4HE ONCE SO CIAL SMOKER IS NOW A DINNER PARTY PEST 3MOKING AROUND CHILDREN IS RECOGNISED AS THE
INCONSIDERATE SIN THAT IT RE ALLY IS %XCESS DRINKING IS JUST AS HARMFUL AS SMOKING NOT THAT YOU D GUESS THAT FROM THE AVERAGE TELEVISION ADVERT BREAK 7HILE THE TRAGIC CON SEQUENCES OF SMOKING ARE SHOWN WITH ALL THE SUBTLETY YOU D EXPECT FROM AN ARMED ROBBERY WE RE STILL TOLD THAT DRINKING OUR BODYWEIGHT IN ALCOPOPS IS @WICKED !ND THEREIN LIES THE PROB LEM n ADVERTISING 3OMETHING WHICH HAS A LOT IN COMMON WITH ALCOHOL IT S INTOXICAT ING IT ROBS YOU OFF RATIONAL ITY IT MAKES GROWN ADULTS ACT LIKE SILLY CHILDREN 3OME SAY BAN ADVERTISING OF ALCOHOL ) SAY WHY STOP THERE ) SAY BAN ADVERTISING
-EN SHOULD SUPPORT .53 S ACTION AGAINST LADS MAGSx 2OBERT *ACKMAN 3O ) VE SPENT TWO HOURS IN THE PUB AND THERE S STILL NO SIGN OF ANY OF THEM .O SIGN OF #HARLOTTE THE FEISTY RED HEAD WHO TELLS ME THAT SHE ONCE HAD SEX IN THE BAT CAVE AT #HESTER :OO 3HE NEVER DID MENTION WHAT SHE STUD IED n ) GUESS ) WON T GET THE CHANCE TO ASK HER !ND WHAT A PITY 3TACEY FROM PAGE DIDN T SHOW UP n ) WAS RE ALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE ING THAT TRICK WITH THE BEER BOTTLE ! WHOLE EVENING IN THE BAR ARMED WITH .UTS MAGA ZINE S @3TUDENT 3TUNNERS
PULLOUT AND NO LUCK 4WO PAGES OF LINGERIE CLAD EN CHANTRESSES AND ) COULDN T SPOT A SINGLE ONE IN OUR BAR !ND WHAT S MORE WHEN ) TOOK THE MAGAZINE BACK TO THE NEWSAGENT HE LAUGHED AND TOLD ME THEY RE NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY "UT WHILE LADS MAGS ARE DEFENDED AS BEING @NOTHING SERIOUS OR @HARMLESS FUN THE RAUCOUS READS LIKE TO SELL THEMSELVES AS MORE THAN THIS 4HEY STYLE THEMSELVES AS HANDY LIFESTYLE GUIDES MAPS ACROSS THE TROUBLESOME TER RAIN OF THE TEENAGE YEARS 4HEY PROMISE TO EXCHANGE THE HORMONES AND CONFUSION OF THEIR READER FOR A PAINLESS LIFE OF EASY SEX AND PLENTIFUL
LAUGHTER 4HAT S WHY LAST MONTH S :OO OFFERED A FREE DICTIONARY OF SEXUAL TERMS EVERYTHING YOU VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT WERE TOO EM BARRASSED TO ASK ,EWD AND TASTELESS IT S UNLIKELY ANYONE WOULD lND THE DICTIONARY ENTERTAINING BUT MORE WOR RYING IS THAT SOME MAY MIS TAKE IT FOR EDUCATIONAL !ND WHEN IT COMES TO NOXIOUS ADVICE RIVAL PUBLI CATION ,OADED LIVES UP TO ITS NAME 4HE LATEST ISSUE HELPS YOU WORK OUT @HOW MUCH YOU PAY FOR SEX "Y TALLYING UP THE AMOUNT OF "ACARDI "REEZERS CINEMA TICKETS AND MEALS HE BUYS FOR HIS PART NER THE MISGUIDED MALE CAN
CALCULATE HOW MUCH HE @PAYS PER LAY 4HERE S EVEN A CHART TELLING HIM WHETHER HE S GET TING VALUE FOR MONEY ,IKE A WARPED RITE OF PASSAGE THESE SORDID PIC TURE BOOKS TRY TO DElNE THE BOUNDARIES OF MASCULINITY 7ITH THEIR BLEND OF GADGETS GORE AND GIRLS THE MAGAZINES SET OUT THE @DESIRABLE ROUTE TO ADULTHOOD 4HE PRESSURES ON TEENAGE BOYS TO CONFORM ARE ENORMOUS TO STRAY IS SEEN AS PECULIAR AND FEMININE 7HILE IT MAY NOT BE MEN WHO POSE ON THE PAGES OF THESE PERVERSE PUBLICATIONS THERE S NO DOUBT THAT MALES ARE LEFT JUST AS DEGRADED AND FRUSTRATED 4HE GAUDY GA ZETTES HAVE IMMORTALISED A
DEMEANING CARICATURE OF THE MALE IMPRUDENT UNSOPHIS TICATED AND UNEMPLOYABLE 4HEY POSE AS AN ANTIDOTE TO THE CONFUSING QUAGMIRE OF ADOLESCENCE BUT IN REAL ITY THEY OFFER A FALSE AGENDA OF MASCULINITY WHICH DOES NOTHING BUT DECEIVE AND HU MILIATE THEIR READERS ,URING IMPRESSIONABLE MALES WITH PROMISES OF EASY SEX THEY LEAVE THEM TO PLUMMET INTO THE VAST CHASM BETWEEN THEIR PAGES AND REALITY 3ALACIOUS AND SMUTTY THESE DIRTY DIGESTS MAY NOT BE KNOWN FOR THEIR SUBTLETY BUT READ BETWEEN THE LINES AND YOU LL lND THAT THE HAPLESS AND HORMONAL MALE IS MOCKED MISLED AND EXPLOITED
7E RE GOOD BUT WE COULD BE BETTER !NDY *ONES 3INCE ) JOINED THE OPINION TEAM IN THE HALLOWED PAGES OF THIS NEWSPAPER ) HAVE WRACKED MY BRAINS FOR ISSUES ) CAN RAGE AGAINST 7ORRY NOT READERS ) HAVE PLENTY OF ISSUES TO RANT ABOUT SAFELY STORED AWAY IN THE DARK RECESSES OF MY MIND (OWEVER THIS WEEK ) THOUGHT ) D TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ) QUITE LIKE ) HAVE SPENT THE LAST FEW WEEKS VISITING FRIENDS UP AND
DOWN THE COUNTRY AT VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES ) VE VISITED PEO PLE WHO BELONG TO 9ORK "IR MINGHAM #AMBRIDGE +EELE AND 3T !NDREW S AND NO ONE CAN REALLY HOLD A CANDLE TO 5%! S SOCIETIES 4HERE ARE THINGS ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY WHICH SHOULD AND PROBABLY WILL GET ONE OF MY ANGRY COL UMNS (OWEVER SOCIETIES ARE NOT ONE /N THE BASIS OF AN ECDOTAL EVIDENCE WHICH PEO PLE WHO READ TABLOIDS WILL KNOW IS THE BEST WE SIMPLY DO SOCIETIES BETTER THAN MOST OVER PEOPLE
4HE ONLY UNIVERSITY THAT SEEMS TO COME CLOSE TO US FOR BREADTH OF SOCIETIES AND THE AMOUNT OF EVENTS AND SO CIALS IS #AMBRIDGE .ATURALLY IT BEING #AMBRIDGE EVERYONE HAS TO WRITE AN ESSAY OR TWO EVERY WEEK SO IT S DIFlCULT FOR PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED 5%! MOST PEOPLE WILL HAVE NO TICED IS A BIT LESS INTENSE WELL IT IS IF YOU RE AN ARTS STUDENT LIKE ME 4HIS YEAR ) VE JOINED ,IVEWIRE AND #ONCRETE AND HAVE SAT IN ON A -AKE 0OV ERTY (ISTORY MEETING AND CAN HONESTLY SAY ) WAS TRULY IM
PRESSED ) VE EVEN BEEN GIVEN A SHOW ON ,IVEWIRE 4O CUT A LONG STORY SHORT ) AM REALLY HAPPY WITH THE VARIOUS SOCIE TIES ) HAVE GOT INVOLVED WITH (OWEVER ) MUST STOP THIS LOVE IN BRIEmY AND SAY WE CAN T GET COMPLACENT !S GOOD AS OUR MANY SOCIETIES ARE THERE IS ONE THING ) MUST TAKE ISSUE WITH 4HAT UNFORTU NATELY IS AN ASPECT OF UNION POLICY WHICH PROHIBITS SOCIE TIES GETTING SUPPORT FROM THE 5NION S COMMERCIAL RIVALS &OR EXAMPLE SPONSORSHIP BY A LOCAL BAR ) MUST DISAGREE
WITH THIS POLICY FOR TWO REA SONS lRSTLY IT S GROSSLY UNFAIR TO TEAMS OR SOCIETIES THAT ARE STRUGGLING TO lND ADEQUATE FUNDING 3ECONDLY IT S A FALSE ECONOMY 4HE AIM OF THE STUDENT UNION SHOULD BE TO COVER ITS COSTS IT SHOULD SIM PLY MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO FUND OUR SOCIETIES AND SUP PORT GROUPS 4HEREFORE EVERY POUND THAT AN OUTSIDE OR GANISATION GIVES A SOCIETY IS A POUND THE UNION DOESN T HAVE TO PROVIDE FOR THAT CLUB
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$ISRESPECT )T IS WITH GREAT SHAME THAT JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE TH OF .OVEMBER 2EMEMBRANCE $AY WHEN ) WAS WALKING THROUGH %ARLHAM 2OAD CEM ETERY ON ROUTE TO UNIVERSITY ) SAW SOME MEMBERS OF @#ITY CARE HAVING A BREAK USING THE HEADSTONES TO SIT ON 4HE TWO CULPRITS ONE ON THE MOBILE THE OTHER HAVING A CIGARETTE DIDN T SEEM AT ALL TROUBLED THAT THREE MEM BERS OF THE PUBLIC MYSELF INCLUDED WERE WALKING PAST 4HE GRAVES IN QUESTION WERE THOSE OF 77) SOLDIERS 4HE TWO MEMBERS OF #ITYCARE AND THEIR OTHER COLLEAGUES SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN CLEAN ING THE GRAVES NONETHELESS ) FEEL IT IS A GREAT SHAME THAT PEOPLE WHO DIED PROTECT ING OUR FREEDOMS ARE TREATED WITH SUCH LITTLE RESPECT
#OMMUNITY POLICING !S SOME OF YOU WILL HAVE READ BEFORE 5%! HAS A NEW 0OLICE #OMMUNITY 3UPPORT /FlCER 0#3/ BY THE NAME OF 2AJ (IS ROLE IS VERY MUCH TO GET IN CONTACT WITH THE COM MUNITY IN THIS CASE STUDENTS AND STAFF TO ENCOURAGE MORE CO OPERATION IN THE HOPE OF REDUCING CRIME 3PECIlCALLY 2AJ IS A POINT OF CONTACT FOR ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK TO THE POLICE ABOUT ANY NON EMERGENCY MATTERS 4HE MORE ANYONE AND EVERYONE TELLS 2AJ ABOUT WHAT IS GOING AROUND CAMPUS IN TERMS OF SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR OR LOW LEVEL CRIME SUCH AS VANDAL ISM OR ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF A THREATENING KIND THE BETTER THE POLICE WILL BE ABLE TO REACT )NDEED SINCE HIS AP POINTMENT CRIME HAS GONE DOWN DRASTICALLY IN SOME AREAS 0LEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT 2AJ ABOUT ANYTHING SECURITY RELATED WHICH COULD BE ON YOUR MIND THROUGH RINGING THE SECURITY LODGE OR IN PERSON WHEN HE HOLDS HIS SURGERY IN THE (IVE AT MIDDAY ON 7EDNESDAYS
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)T IS WITH GREAT REGRET THAT ) HAVE TAKEN THE DECISION TO RESIGN AS %THICAL )SSUES /FlCER OF THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS WITH 5NION #OUNCIL ON RD .O VEMBER BEING MY LAST MEETING IN THIS CAPACITY ) WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THAT THERE ARE SOME AMAZING PEOPLE IN THIS 3TUDENT 5NION BOTH ON AND OFF OF THE %XEC WHO BECAME INVOLVED BECAUSE THEY TRULY BELIEVE IN REPRESENTING STUDENTS AND lGHTING FOR THE THINGS WHICH MATTER TO OUR STUDENTS HERE AT 5%! /FTEN SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK THEY DO PARTICULARLY ACADEMIC APPEALS AND SUPPORT WELFARE AND THE ADVICE CENTRE DON T RECEIVE THE CREDIT WHICH THEY DESERVE (OWEVER THERE ARE ELEMENTS OF THIS 5NION WHICH SADDEN ME AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO MY DE CISION TO STEP DOWN 4HERE ARE SOME WHO USE THE 5NION SIMPLY AS A PLATFORM FOR THEIR OWN OPINIONS AND A TRAINING GROUND FOR A CAREER IN 7ESTMINSTER ) BELIEVE THERE EXISTS A MINORITY WHO EXPLOIT ISSUES WHICH MANY
) TOOK GREAT DISPLEAS URE IN READING YOUR APPARENT NEGATIV ITY TOWARDS %NGLAND S CHANCE OF RETAINING THE ASHES OVER THE COMING MONTHS ) WAS PARTICU LARLY DISMAYED BY ONE PARTICULAR QUOTE h THE MERE FACT THAT !NDREW &LINTOFF S CHARGES ARE IN WITH A CHANCE OF RETAIN ING THE URN IS ENOUGH TO TICKLE ANYONE S TASTE BUDSv ) PERSONALLY FEEL THERE IS A LOT TO BE POSI TIVE ABOUT REGARDING OUR CHANCES OF RETAINING THE !SHES THIS 7INTER &IRSTLY WE ONLY HAVE TO RETAIN THE ASHES 4HIS GIVES US THE lRST UPPER HAND IN THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO PLAY ALL lVE TESTS TO WIN !S NEGATIVE AS IT SOUNDS WE DO NOT NEED TO WIN ANY TEST AND THIS SHEER FACT GIVES US THE lRST UPPER HAND OVER THE !USSIES 3ECONDLY ALTHOUGH THE !USTRALIAN TEAM ARE
MADE UP OF SOME OF THE BEST CRICKET PLAYERS WE HAVE EVER SEEN THEY ARE AGEING PLAYERS 4HIS IS COMPARED TO THE YOUNG PASSIONATE AND TALENTED SQUAD OF %NGLAND %NGLAND S SHEER THIRST FOR VICTORY MUST FAR OUTWEIGH MANY OF THE !USTRALIAN TEAM S &INALLY AS WELL AS HAVING AN EXTREMELY TAL ENTED AND WELL BONDED TEAM %NGLAND PROBABLY HAVE THREE OR FOUR OF THE MOST FEARED PLAY ERS IN TEST CRICKET 4HE OBVIOUS TWO ARE &LINTOFF AND 0IETERSON WHO BOTH HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMPLETELY DESTROY THE OPPOSITION IN A SINGLE SESSION 4HESE TWO PLAYERS ARE COMBINED WITH (OGGARD WHO IS CONSISTENT AND INTEL LIGENT AS A BOWLER AND (ARMISON WHO WHEN HE GETS IT RIGHT IS ONE OF THE SCARIEST AND MOST THREATENING BOWLERS IN THE WORLD 4HESE PLAYERS ARE ALSO SUPPORTED BY
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BE )F YOU WANT TO REPRESENT STUDENTS AND MAKE THEIR TIME AT 5%! EVEN BETTER THEN PLEASE CONSIDER GETTING INVOLVED WITH THE 5NION )T IS DIFlCULT TO GET RID OF THOSE MOTIVATED BY NOTH ING MORE THAN A KEEN SENSE OF SELF INTEREST BUT THE MORE WHO ARE WILLING TO STAND UP AND SAY WHAT THEY THINK THE 5NION SHOULD BE DOING WHETHER IT S CAMPAIGNING FOR CHEAPER FOOD IN :EST ANONYMOUS MARKING OR GREATER SECURITY ON CAMPUS THEN THE BETTER THIS 5NION WILL BE AS A TRULY DEMOCRATIC STUDENT LED ORGANISATION &INALLY 4(!.+ 9/5 TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SO SUPPORTIVE OVER THE PAST NINE MONTHS *ENNI #ARTER 03 4HERE ARE STILL SPACES ON 5NION #OUNCIL )F YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE THEN E MAIL 4ESSA !CADEMIC /FlCER AT SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK &OR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR 5NION AND THE THINGS IT DOES CONTACT THE 0UBLICITY /FlCER AT SU PUBLICITY UEA AC UK
YOUNG TALENTS SUCH AS ! #OOK ) "ELL AND - 0ANESAR WHO HAVE ALL PROVED THAT THEY HAVE WHAT IT TAKES AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL !LL IT TAKES IS FOR THESE GUYS TO GET IT RIGHT ON THE DAY THE TALENT IS THERE 4HIS IS WHY ) FEEL TO DISMISS OUR CHANCES IS A CLASSIC %NGLISH VIEW OF OUR SPORTING ABIL ITY 7OULD IT HURT THAT MUCH TO JUST BELIEVE IN OUR PLAYERS (OW GREAT WOULD IT BE IF IT CAME TOGETHER AND WE WITNESSED A SIMILAR SPECTACLE TO 3UMMER ) PERSONALLY FANCY THE @0OMS CHANCES OF GIVING THE LIPPY !N TIPODEANS A GOOD RUN FOR THEIR MONEY AND DO NOT THINK IT IS UNFAIR TO BELIEVE THE "RIT S COULD COME OUT ON TOP 9OURS IN #RICKET
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STUDENTS GENUINELY CARE ABOUT IN ORDER TO RAISE THEIR OWN PROlLE OR IN OTHER WAYS SERVE THEIR OWN AGENDA /F COURSE THIS IS HARDLY UNEXPECTED AND SOME THING WHICH ALL 3TUDENT 5NION HAVE TO CONTEND WITH BUT IN MY OPINION THE NASTINESS AND RUTH LESSNESS WHICH IT BRINGS TAINTS THE REPUTATION OF OUR 5NION IMMEASURABLY !S ) STEP DOWN ) WOULD JUST LIKE TO URGE MORE @ORDINARY STU DENTS WHO HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN THE 5NION OR WHO SIT IN THE BAR AND COMPLAIN ABOUT WHAT THE 5NION DOES BUT NEVER DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE IT TO CONSIDER TAKING A GREATER PART IN YOUR 5NION )T IS A CLICHE BUT THIS IS YOUR 5NION )F YOU DON T LIKE IT THEN YOU CAN CHANGE IT 4HERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE WHO USE THE 5NION SIMPLY AS A STEPPING STONE TO HIGHER THINGS BUT IT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT 4HE MORE WHO GET INVOLVED WHETHER STANDING FOR #OUNCIL PUTTING FORWARD IDEAS FOR CAMPAIGNS AND ISSUES YOU WANT THE 5NION TO LOOK INTO OR EVEN STANDING FOR THE %XECUTIVE THE MORE REPRESENTATIVE IT WILL
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$EAR SIRS )N REFERENCE TO YOUR ARTICLE ON &ASLANE ) AM A SERVING 2OYAL .AVY /FlCER WHO IS STUDYING AT THE 5%! ) TRAVELLED TO &ASLANE TO *OIN (-3 4ORBAY A NUCLEAR POW ERED SUBMARINE .OTE IT DOES NOT CARRY NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR A DAY SUBMARINE SEA TRAINING SESSION ON ARRIVING AT (-." (ER -AJESTIES .AVAL "ASE &ASLANE ) lRST HAD TO OVERCOME THE HUMAN BLOCKADE ONLY TO HAVE EGGS THROWN AT MY CAR AS ) DROVE ON TO THE BASE 4HERE ARE MANY OF US WHO ARE JUST DOING OUR JOB AT &ASLANE WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE ABUSE THAT WE CON STANTLY GET AT &ASLANE )F PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO
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) WRITE IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE TITLED @5%! NOT SO GREEN THAT WAS PRINTED IN THE 4URF PAGES OF #ONCRETE DURING THE WEEK BEGINNING THE TH OF .OVEMBER 4HE ARTICLE WAS ABOUT A 5%! 35 SOCIETY CALLED THE #AMPUS 3USTAIN ABILITY )NITIATIVE #3) AND THEIR CAMPAIGN TO ESTABLISH A STUDENT FUND FOR SUSTAINABILITY ON THE 5%! CAMPUS CALLED 4HE 3USTAIN ABILITY )NITIATIVE &UND 43)& )T WAS PRINTED IN THAT ARTICLE THAT THE 5%! 35 WAS OPPOSED TO 43)& AND THAT THE SOCIETY HOPED TO OVER COME THE OPPOSITION !S A CO FOUND ING MEMBER OF SAID SOCIETY ) WOULD LIKE IT TO BE KNOWN THAT THE 35 DOES NOT YET HOLD AN OFlCIAL POSITION ON 43)& NOR HAS IT
4UESDAY ST .OVEMBER #/.#2%4% BEEN ASKED TO 4HE MISUNDERSTANDING CAME ABOUT AFTER IT WAS STATED BY A MEMBER OF OUR SOCIETY THAT SOME MEMBERS OF THE 35 %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE HAD EXPRESSED SOME CONCERNS OVER THE LOGISTICS OF 43)& DURING INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS 4HE #AMPUS 3USTAINABILITY )NITIA TIVE SOCIETY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT THOSE INVOLVED IN THE CAM PAIGN FOR 43)& WILL DO THEIR UTMOST TO GAIN THE OFlCIAL SUPPORT OF THE 35 AT SOME STAGE IN THE FUTURE AND ALSO HOPE TO HOLD A STUDENT REFERENDUM ON 43)& 9OURS &AITHFULLY
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DO IT THIS WAY 4HEY ARE NOT GETTING THE SUPPORT OF THOSE WHO WORK THERE MILITARY OR CIVILIAN BECAUSE OF THERE ATTITUDE TOWARDS US 7HEN YOU CAN WRITE A DECENT ARTICLE ON THIS TOPIC WITH CORRECT FACTS THEN PEOPLE MAY LISTEN MORE )T IS A h.AVAL "ASEv NOT A h.AVEL "ASEv &ASLANE IS HOME TO THE 6ANGUARD #LASS BOATS HOWEVER THERE IS ONLY EVER IN &ASLANE AT A TIME AND SOMETIMES THERE WILL ONLY BE AT CHANGE OVER PERIODS /NLY THE DEPLOYED SUBMARINE AND THE SUBMARINE ABOUT TO RELIEVE THIS SUBMARINE ACTUALLY CARRY THE WEAPONS 4HE JOB OF THESE SUBMARINES IS TO PRO VIDE "RITAIN S .UCLEAR $ETERRENT /NE IS DEPLOYED SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD EVERY
MINUTE OF EVERY DAY OR EVERY YEAR ! 3TORY HAS RECENTLY BEEN RELEASED THAT SHOWS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS SECRET DETERRENT "EFORE THE &ALKLANDS CONmICT THE ARGENTINES WHERE GETTING READY TO INVADE -ARGARET 4HATCHER THEN PRIME MINISTER SAID THAT SHE HAD MOBILISED HER NUCLEAR SUBMARINE TO THE AREA 4HE ARGEN TINES PUT THEIR PLANS ON HOLD 4HE TRUTH OF THE MATTER WAS THAT THE SUBMARINE DEPLOYED AT THE TIME HAD NOT MOVED AT ALL AND HAD SAT IN A DEEP TRENCH ON ALMOST THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE WORLD 4HIS JUST SHOWS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE $%4%22!.4 ) WISH TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS FOR OBVI OUS SECURITY REASONS
7RITERS 2OSIE "RADLEY "UNN .INA -OWBRAY &IONA "ILLINGS 2ACHEL !RCHER /PINIONS %DITOR CONCRETE EDITORIAL UEA AC UK ,OUIS (OLDING 0ARSONS 7RITERS !NDY *ONES 2OBERT *ACKMAN 3PORT %DITOR CONCRETE SPORT UEA AC UK -ARCUS *ONES 7RITERS $AVE 9EOMANS *AMES "RINDLE ,AURA 7IGNALL !DAM -OULDER +UMY 6ELUPPILLAI 3TEVEN 3HEAD "HAVIK 4HAKRAR *ULIE 0RICE 3AM 7ILSON #ARTOONIST *EN -ARCHANT 0ROOFREADING 4ERESA &OXCROFT !NNA 0RITCHARD #HLOE 3OMERS %LIZABETH "URNS 0ICTURE %DITOR 0HIL "ANKS !DVERTISING CONCRETE ADVERTISING UEA AC UK *OANNA ,AMBERT $ISTRIBUTION #ONRAD (AYES ,EGEND -ARCUS *ONES
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4HE /PINION WORRYING SIGNS IN THE "ALKANS $AVE 9EOMANS /N -AY THE 2E PUBLIC OF -ONTENEGRO NAR ROWLY VOTED IN FAVOUR OF INDEPENDENCE FROM 3ERBIA AND ON *UNE BECAME THE ND MEMBER OF THE 5NITED .ATIONS 4HIS WAS A DECISION THAT WOULD STRIKE FEAR INTO FOOTBALL AUTHORI TIES ACROSS %UROPE )N "RITAIN EVERY FAN ENJOYS INDULGING IN STOK ING THE mAMES OF COMPETI TION BETWEEN OUR FAVOURITE TEAM AND THEIR RIVALS 3PURS VS !RSENAL FOR EXAMPLE OR ,IVERPOOL VS %VERTON 7E EMBRACE THESE MATCHES AND THROW OUR FULL SUPPORT BE HIND OUR TEAM (OWEVER ALL
BUT A TINY MINORITY SEE THE MATCHES FOR WHAT THEY ARE n ENTERTAINMENT &OOTBALL IN THE "ALKANS AND PARTICULARLY IN 3ERBIA HAS A MUCH MORE EXTREME RECENT BACKGROUND 4HE "ALKAN REGION WAS OF COURSE HOME TO A SERIES OF ETHNIC WARS IN THE S IN VOLVING 3ERBS "OSNIAN -US LIMS AND #ROATS AMONGST OTHERS 4HIS WAR HAS LEFT DEEP SCARS IN THE REGION AND TEN SIONS REMAIN HIGH TO MANY IN 3ERBIA FOOTBALL MATCHES REPRESENT AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVISIT THE PREJUDICES OF THE PAST AND RE OPEN THE RIVAL RIES THEREIN /N -ARCH A FEW YEARS INTO THE "ALKAN WAR A DERBY MATCH BETWEEN 2ED 3TAR AND 0ARTIZAN "EL GRADE WAS INTERRUPTED AS THE
4HE BANNER READS @+NIFE 7IRE 3REBRENICA FAMOUS PARAMILITARY LEADER !RKAN ENTERED THE STADIUM WITH HIS PARAMILITARY FORCE THE 4IGERS 4HEY HELD UP ROAD SIGNS SUCH AS -ILES TO 6UKOVAR @ -ILES TO 6U KOVAR @7ELCOME TO 6UKOVAR AND OTHER SIGNS BEARING THE NAME OF #ROATIAN CITIES THAT HAD FALLEN TO THE 3ERB ARMY AT THE START OF THE WAR (E RECEIVED RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE
AS HE UNITED THE BITTER RIVALS AGAINST A COMMON ENEMY n THE #ROATS 2ED 3TAR WAS THE CLUB FROM WHICH 3ERBIAN PARA MILITARY VOLUNTEERS WERE RE CRUITED IN THE EARLY S THESE WERE MEN WHO WERE RE SPONSIBLE FOR MASS MURDER RAPE AND LOOTING 4ODAY THE HOOLIGAN ELEMENT HAS NOT DISPERSED ALTHOUGH THE PAR
AMILITARY ORGANISATIONS WERE DISBANDED AFTER THE WAR AND PEOPLE REMAIN WHO ARE STILL DEEPLY EMBITTERED ABOUT THE WAR AND HAVE STRONG PRO 3ER BIAN NATIONALIST VIEWS 4HE INDEPENDENCE OF -ONTENEGRO IS WORRYING BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT THE lERCELY NATIONALISTIC 3ER BIAN HOOLIGAN ELEMENT BEST EXEMPLIlED BY THE 2ED 3TAR FANS NOW HAS A hTRULYv 3ERBIAN NATIONAL TEAM 4HE GROUP LARGELY SHUNNED THE 3ERBIA -ONTENEGRIN TEAM WITH THE NOTABLE EXCEPTION OF THE 'ERMANY QUALI FYING MATCHES AGAINST "OS NIA (ERZEGOVINA )T WAS IN "OSNIA THAT 3ERBIAN FORCES COMMITTED THE WORST ATROCI TIES AND THESE MATCHES WERE ALWAYS GOING TO STIR UP PAS
SIONS HOWEVER THE EXTENT WAS QUITE HORRIFYING "AN NERS WERE REVEALED AT THESE MATCHES STATING @+NIFE 7IRE 3REBRENICA AND @3REBRENICA IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN CHILL ING BOASTS ABOUT THE MAS SACRE IN 3REBRENICA WHERE OVER "OSNIAN MEN AND BOYS WERE EXECUTED AND EVI DENCE THAT NATIONALIST FEEL INGS HAVE NOT DISSIPATED IN THE YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED SINCE THE WAR 3UCH ARE THE DEEP ETHNIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SCARS IN THE REGION IT IS FEARED THAT THE FORMATION OF A 3ERBIAN NATIONAL TEAM COULD UNITE POWERFUL HOOLIGAN GROUPS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN THE SAME WAY THAT !RKAN UNITED TWO lERCE RIVALS ON THAT -ARCH NIGHT IN
3PORTING LEGACY WHO WILL BE REMEMBERED AND WHY *AMES "RINDLE 7AYNE 2OONEY IS A SPORTS MAN AT THE VERY TOP OF HIS PROFESSION (E HAS LIMIT LESS AMOUNTS OF MONEY AT HIS DISPOSABLE HE PERFORMS WEEKLY IN FRONT OF FANS WHO WORSHIP THE GROUND THAT HE WALKS ON AND IS LOOKED UP TO AS A HERO BY BUDDING YOUNG FOOTBALLERS EVERYWHERE (OW LONG CAN THIS LAST 7HEN HIS CAREER IS OVER WILL THIS BE HIS LASTING LEG ACY /R WILL HE BE AS MANY
PUNDITS HAVE SUGGESTED IN A POSITIVE WAY SO FAR THE NEW 0AUL 'ASCOIGNE )N 'AZZA WAS THE NEW FOOTBALLING SENSATION NOT JUST IN %NGLAND BUT IN 7ORLD &OOTBALL $UE TO HIS INSPIRATIONAL PERFORMANCES AND TEARY EYED DEPARTURE FROM )TALIA THE COUN TRY HELD 'ASCOIGNE UP AS A NATIONAL TREASURE 4HAT WAS AS GOOD AS IT GOT FOR 'AZZA HOWEVER DRINK PROBLEMS WIFE BEATING ALLEGATIONS AND ILL FATED FORAYS INTO COACHING HAVE LEFT 'AZZA A RATHER SAD AND PATHETIC lGURE (IS RE CENT TABLOID ANTICS ONLY SERVE
TO HIGHLIGHT THIS 4HIS IS NOT A LEGACY HE WOULD HAVE WANTED AND NOT ONE WHICH 2OONEY WILL WANT TO INHERIT AS HIS NATURAL HEIR 'AZZA OF COURSE WAS NOT THE lRST FOOTBALLER TO FALL SO SPECTACULARLY FROM GRACE 4HE MOST FAMOUS MUST BE 'EORGE "EST 4HE POSTER BOY OF A GENERATION AND TO SOME THE GREATEST PLAYER TO HAVE GRACED THE GAME IN THIS COUNTRY "EST S PLAYBOY LIFESTYLE AND LONG BATTLE WITH ALCO HOLISM WAS AS MUCH A PART OF THE GREAT MAN AS HIS MA JESTIC FOOTBALLING SKILLS (IS LEGACY COULD WELL HAVE BEEN
RUINED BY THE TRAGEDY OF HIS DRINK PROBLEMS CULMINAT ING IN HIS DEATH THIS YEAR )T WAS HOWEVER INTERESTING AND INDEED WONDERFUL TO SEE THAT THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC ALIKE WERE UNITED IN REMEMBER ING 'EORGE AS THE FOOTBALLER WHO DAZZLED A GENERATION OF FOOTBALL FANS ! SPORTSMAN S DEATH THEREFORE MAY ULTI MATELY PAINT THEM IN A BETTER LIGHT !RE !YRTON 3ENNA S ACHIEVEMENTS SOMEWHAT EXAGGERATED DUE TO THE RELA TIVELY YOUNG AGE AT WHICH HE DIED AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING HIS DEATH $ID
"RIAN #LOUGH REALLY MERIT SUCH AN UNTOUCHABLE LEGA CY (IS PENCHANT FOR BEING OVERLY OUTSPOKEN HIS BULLY BOY COACHING STYLE AND THE ULTIMATE FAILURE OF HIS lNAL SEASON APPEAR TO BE LONG FOR GOTTEN 3OME SPORTSMEN MAY NOT BE SO LUCKY WHEN IT COMES TO HOW THEY ARE REMEMBERED 7ILL -IKE 4YSON BE REMEM BERED AS ARGUABLY THE MOST ELECTRIFYING AND DEVASTATING lGHTER SINCE -UHAMMAD !LI ) SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT AS HIS MANY BRUSHES WITH THE LAW AND THE INFAMOUS CAN NIBALISM INCIDENT IN HIS lGHT
AGAINST %VANDER (OLYlELD HAVE LONG SINCE OVERSHAD OWED HIS BOXING ACHIEVE MENTS -ICHAEL 3CHUMACHER MAY ALSO HAVE A PROBLEM IN TERMS OF THE LEGACY WITH WHICH HE LEAVES THE SPORT ING WORLD $ESPITE A RECORD NUMBER OF WORLD CHAMPI ONSHIP TITLES THE 'ERMAN CONTINUES TO BE LABELLED AS A CHEAT AFTER A NUMBER OF IN CIDENTS IN HIS CAREER WHICH PAINTED HIM IN A VERY POOR LIGHT 3PORTING LEGENDS THESE PEOPLE MAY BE BUT LEGENDS FOR THE RIGHT REASONS 0OSSI BLY NOT
7YMONDHAM DEFEAT 5%! WOMEN ,AURA 7IGNALL 4HE WOMEN S FOOTBALL TEAM WERE UP AGAINST 7YMOND HAM AGAIN THIS TIME AT HOME AND IN THE .ORFOLK 7OMEN S LEAGUE CUP 4HIS WAS THE THIRD OF lVE CLASHES AGAINST THE FEISTY TEAM THIS SEASON AND 5%! FELT SOME TREPIDATION DUE TO 7YMONDHAM S RELATIVELY NARROW DEFEAT TO TOP OF THE LEAGUE 4AVERHAM &# 5%! HAVING GONE DOWN TO SAME TEAM ,AST WEEK -ARCUS *ONES
BROUGHT TO LIGHT THE PERILS OF AWAY FOOTBALL MATCHES HOWEVER THE WOMEN S TEAM SEEM TO BE AN ANOMALY IN THIS EQUATION 4HEY HAVE PER FORMED DISMALLY AT HOME THIS SEASON BUT THEY HAVE WON THREE 3UNDAY GAMES AWAY !LTHOUGH 5%! WERE AT HOME THERE WAS LITTLE SUPPORT TO BE SEEN 7YMONDHAM BROUGHT A WHOLE PARTY OF SUPPORTERS IF 5%! COULD HAVE EVEN lVE IT WOULD BE A GOOD MORALE BOOST FOR THE TEAM 5%! S SOLID GOALKEEPER -EGAN WAS AWAY FOR READING WEEK AND SHE WAS REPLACED BY 5%! S STRONGEST MIDlELDER
-ASCULINE 7YMONDHAM ;RED= MUSCLED 5%! OUT OF THE CUP AND EXCELLENT ALL ROUNDER -OLLY )AN -C+ENZIE THE 3UNDAY TEAM COACH OPTED FOR A DEFENSIVE FORMATION
TO SUSS OUT THE TEAM 5NFOR TUNATELY 5%! IMMEDIATELY LOST POSSESSION AND ALLOWED 7YMONDHAM TO EFFORTLESSLY
TAP IN A GOAL WITHIN THIRTY SECONDS OF KICK OFF 4HIS POOR START AND SCRAP PY DEFENCE UNFORTUNATELY CHARACTERISED 5%! S LACKLUS TRE PERFORMANCE THROUGHOUT THE ENCOUNTER 4HE DEFENCE LACKED MANY OF ITS USUAL PLAYERS INCLUDING !BBY THE CONlDENT "53! CAPTAIN WHO BRINGS BITE AND DETERMINA TION TO THE TEAM /NE OF THE POSITIVE ELEMENTS TO COME OUT OF THE GAME WAS GOALKEEPER -OLLY S HEROIC PERFORMANCE 7ITH VERY LITTLE SUPPORT SHE SAVED SHOTS TIME AND AGAIN EIGHT TIMES THROUGHOUT THE GAME INCLUDING A PENALTY
PREVENTING THE SCORE LINE FROM BEING EVEN MORE HU MILIATING FOR 5%! 5%! COULD NOT BE SAVED FROM DEFEAT BY &AI S FANTASTIC GOAL FROM TWENTY YARDS OUT IN THE lRST HALF 7YMONDHAM REPLIED WITH ANOTHER GOAL lF TEEN MINUTES LATER @7OODY FROM 7YMONDHAM WITH A VOICE SUSPICIOUSLY LOWER THAN "ARRY 7HITE CAUSED HAVOC IN MIDlELD SETTING UP MOST OF THEIR lVE GOALS OF THE GAME FOR @3WANEY 3HE OVER WHELMED OUR PLAYERS WITH HER SKILLS AS WELL HER STRONG ALLEGEDLY MALE EAU DE CO LOGNE TO SECURE VICTORY
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5LTIMATE &RISBEE REACH NATIONALS +UMY 6ELUPPILLAI 5%! S 5LTIMATE &RISBEE TEAM !YE !YE TRAVELLED TO .OTTINGHAM FOR A REGIONAL TOURNAMENT FEATURING THE BEST UNIVERSITY TEAMS FROM THE -IDLANDS lGHTING IT OFF FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN A PLACE AT THE NATIONAL lNALS !YE !YE STARTED CONl DENTLY AND LOOKED ASSURED IN THEIR POOL &IRST GAME JIT TERS WERE SMASHED WITH A VICTORY AGAINST (AZE ,OUGHBOROUGH FOLLOWED UP WITH EQUALLY ASSURED PER FORMANCES AGAINST 5"5
5"5 "IRMINGHAM AND 4.4 .OTTINGHAM 4RENT AND RESPEC TIVELY 4HE lRST DAY RESULTS MEANT !YE !YE WERE THROUGH TO THE SEMI lNAL 3UNDAY AND THE BUSINESS END OF THE TOURNAMENT BE GAN WITH !YE !YE IN A CONl DENT MOOD AFTER A SOLID lRST DAY PERFORMANCE (OWEVER (AZE ,OUGHBOROUGH CAME OUT FROM THE BLOCKS QUICKLY PUTTING !YE !YE UNDER PRESSURE AND THE FREE mOWING FRISBEE WITNESSED ON THE lRST DAY BEGAN TO BREAK DOWN 4HE DEFEAT MEANT !YE !YE HAD TO PLAY A RD TH PLAY OFF AGAINST 3TRANGE
"LUE #AMBRIDGE WHO WERE ONE OF THE HOT FAVOUR ITES ALONG WITH !YE !YE AFTER THE lRST DAY )N WHAT PROVED TO BE AN INSPIRED MOVE TO PICK THE TEAM UP AFTER THE DE FEAT 0AUL (EARMON BEGAN SINGING @*UNGLE "OOK IN THE WARM UP IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIED AS A RIDICULOUSLY AMUSING SIGHT !YE !YE lRED UP FOR THE GAME PRO DUCED A BLINDING PERFORM ANCE DEFEATING 3TRANGE "LUE 4HE RESULT MEANT !YE !YE WOULD HAVE A REMATCH AGAINST (AZE THE LOSING lNALISTS IN A ND RD PLAY
OFF !YE !YE MADE NO MIS TAKE THIS TIME A GREAT TEAM PERFORMANCE PRODUCED A WIN IN A HOTLY CONTEST ED GAME 4HE RESULT MEANT !YE !YE lNISHED ND AND MOST IMPORTANTLY QUALIlED FOR .ATIONALS -AIN HANDLER ,INDSEY *ONES SAID @.ATION ALS "ABY YEAH WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE WEEKEND 3PECIAL MENTIONS GO TO #HRIS -ILLER #APTAIN AND VOTED -60 ,INDSEY *ONES BEST HANDLER *IM *AGGER BEST OFFENSIVE PLAYER 0AUL (EARMON BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER AND A (5'% LAYOUT $ DEFENSIVE MANOEUVRE WHERE THE PLAYER DIVES AT FULL
STRETCH FROM #HRIS &RAZER "UT THE WHOLE SQUAD SHOULD BE APPLAUDED FOR THEIR PER FORMANCES DURING A GRUELLING WEEKEND OF &RISBEE !YE !YE DESPITE A RATH ER LESS SUCCESSFUL WEEKEND WITH ONLY ONE WIN ALL WEEK END CAME HOME WITH @3PIRIT THE PRINCIPLES OF FAIR PLAY SPORTSMANSHIP AND THE JOY OF PLAY WHICH IS HIGHLY RE GARDED IN 5LTIMATE CIRCLES 5LTIMATE &RISBEE IS THE SECOND FASTEST GROWING SPORT IN THE 5+ )T IS AN EXCITING FAST PACED NON CONTACT SELF REFEREED TEAM SPORT 3O EMAIL P HEARMON UEA AC UK FOR MORE INFORMATION
&OCUS /N 'OLF MATCHPLAY STYLE 3TEVEN 3HEAD 'OLF IS A WELL KNOWN SPORT AND CHANCES ARE IF YOU DO NOT PLAY YOURSELF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES )T CAN BE VERY CONFUSING FOR A NON GOLFER TO UNDERSTAND THE GAME S COMPLICATED RULES AND JARGON AND THIS CAN BE OFF PUTTING FOR POTENTIAL BE GINNERS 0OSSIBLY THE BEST WAY TO START IS TO GET HOLD OF SOME CLUBS HEAD TO THE DRIVING RANGE AND WHACK SOME BALLS OUT THERE )F YOU ENJOY IT THEN YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER GETTING A LESSON WITH A LOCAL PRO AND FROM THERE ONTO THE COURSE AND INTO THE REALMS OF PARS BIRDIES EAGLES HANDI CAPS AND MORE
4HE 5%! TEAM ON THE FAMOUS 3WILKEN "RIDGE AT 3T !NDREWS !T 5%! OUR SIX PERSON GOLF TEAM COMPETES IN THE "53! LEAGUE WHERE WE PLAY OTHER UNIVERSITIES
4HE FORMAT FOR THE MATCH ES IS KNOWN AS HOLES SIN GLES SCRATCH MATCHPLAY 4HE @SINGLES PART SIMPLY MEANS
ONE ON ONE @SCRATCH MEANS THAT PLAYERS HANDICAPS ARE IGNORED SO NO ADVANTAGE IS GIVEN TO EITHER PLAYER -ATCH PLAY IS ARGUABLY THE SIMPLEST WAY TO PLAY GOLF THE PLAYER WITH THE LOWEST SCORE ON A HOLE WINS IT AND A RUNNING SCORE IS KEPT )F EACH PLAYER SCORES THE SAME ON A HOLE KNOWN AS A HALF THIS IS IG NORED 7HEN ONE PLAYER IS AHEAD BY MORE HOLES THAN RE MAIN IN THE ROUND THEY HAVE WON THE MATCH &OR EXAMPLE IF YOU ARE UP AND THERE ARE HOLES LEFT TO BE PLAYED EVEN IF THEY WIN THE REMAINING HOLES YOU WILL STILL BE ONE UP AT THE END OF THE ROUND 4HIS IS KNOWN AS A AND VICTORY 4HE TEAM THAT WINS THE MOST MATCHES ON THE DAY WINS 'OLF CAN BE EXPENSIVE WITH ANNUAL CLUB MEMBER
SHIPS BEING UPWARDS OF a %QUIPMENT CAN BE COSTLY BUT CAN BE OBTAINED FAIRLY CHEAPLY FROM SPECIALIST SHOPS OR SEC OND HAND 7ITH THIS IN MIND YOU HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AT 5%! AS THE COST OF JOIN ING THE GOLF CLUB IS ONLY a 4HIS GIVES YOU FULL MEMBER SHIP AT "ARNHAM "ROOM GOLF CLUB AND ENTITLES YOU TO PLAY ON EITHER OF THEIR TWO COURSES AT ALMOST ANY TIME OF THE DAY FOR NO EXTRA COST )T IS ALSO CERTAINLY NOT JUST A MAN S SPORT 4HE CLUB MEMBERSHIP IS SIGNIlCANTLY MALE DOMINATED BUT IS OPEN TO FEMALES AS IS PLAYING FOR THE 5%! TEAM )F YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT S SHEAD UEA AC UK
(OCKEY EARN RICHLY DESERVED POINT3 "HAVIK 4HAKRAR &OLLOWING A SHOCKING DE FEAT TO .ORWICH #ITY LAST WEEK 5%! MEN S THIRD TEAM HOSTED A 3UDBURY SIDE FOUR PLACES ABOVE THEM IN THE LEAGUE 5%! MADE A SLOW START TO THE GAME AS 3UDBURY DOMI NATED POSSESSION EARLY ON 5%! S GAME SOON PICKED UP THOUGH WITH (OWARTH AND "ANKS USING THE WIDTH OF THE PITCH TO GOOD EFFECT ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND (UMPHREY
ALSO PLAYING WELL ON THE LEFT !S THE lRST HALF MATURED 3UDBURY BEGAN TO BECOME FRUSTRATED DUE TO BOTH POOR PASSING AND SOLID WORK BY THE 5%! DEFENCE 4HE ARGU ING BETWEEN THE 3UDBURY PLAYERS MOTIVATED 5%! TO PRODUCE AN EXCELLENT SECOND HALF DISPLAY 7ITH 3UDBURY CLEARLY IRRITATED 5%! KNEW THAT IF THEY SHOWED THE SAME COMMITMENT IN THE SECOND HALF AS THEY HAD IN THE lRST THEY COULD CERTAINLY TAKE A SHARE OF THE SPOILS 3UDBURY PRESSURISED 5%! IN THE SECOND PERIOD
HOWEVER THE DEFENCE STOOD lRM WITH 'ORDON "ROWN AND &USCO LOOKING PARTICU LARLY STRONG 'OALKEEPER 4IM "ARKER ALSO PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN KEEPING 3UDBURY AT BAY AT TIMES PRODUCING SOME TREMENDOUS SAVES 7ITH TEN MINUTES OF THE GAME REMAINING THERE WAS A BIG MOMENT OF DEBATE IN THE 5%! $ &OLLOWING A SCRAPPY PENALTY CORNER THE BALL WAS JUDGED TO HAVE HIT THE FOOT OF A 5%! DEFENDER STANDING JUST OFF THE GOAL LINE 5M PIRE !LEX "ARTON DEEMED THE BALL TO HAVE BEEN GOING WIDE
OF THE GOAL AND THEREFORE AWARDED A PENALTY CORNER AS OPPOSED TO A PENALTY STROKE 4HE 3UDBURY PLAYERS WERE INCENSED AND GATHERED AROUND "ARTON WHO BRAN DISHED A YELLOW CARD TO A 3UDBURY PLAYER FOR DISSENT RESULTING IN 3UDBURY lNISH ING THE GAME WITH TEN MEN 5%! COULD HAVE STOLEN ALL THREE POINTS RIGHT AT THE DEATH WITH -ATT ,ANG GOING AGONISINGLY CLOSE TO TOUCH ING THE BALL IN FROM A POWER FUL CROSS 4HE GAME lNISHED SCORELESS AS 5%! GAINED WHAT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY A
WELL MERITED POINT %LSEWHERE THE MEN S lRST ELEVEN LOST TO #AMBRIDGE AND THE SECOND ELEVEN DISAP POINTINGLY WENT DOWN TO "URY 3T %DMUNDS WHO SAT BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE )N THE LADIES lXTURES THE lRST ELEVEN DREW AGAINST )PSWICH THE SECOND ELEVEN SECURED A VICTORY OVER ,OWESTOFT RAILWAY WITH &REIA -C'REGOR AND 3TEPH (AWKINS BOTH SCORING THEIR lRST GOALS FOR THE TEAM WHILE THE THIRD ELEVEN LOST TO %VERGREEN ,ADIES
3PORT %DITOR S COLUMN 4OGETHERNESS )T SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE IS A NEW PHENOMENON SWEEPING ACROSS 5%! &ROM THE ASTRO TURF AT THE 3PORTSPARK TO THE GRASSY lELDS OF #OLNEY ,ANE THERE IS A NEW SENSE OF CAM ERADERIE AMONGST THE SPORTS CLUBS OF 5%! (OCKEY PLAY ERS WONDER HOW THE WOMEN S RUGBY TEAM HAVE GOT ON LA CROSSE PLAYERS ENQUIRE ABOUT THE lNER POINTS OF !MERICAN FOOTBALL AND MEN S RUGBY AND FOOTBALL PLAYERS TALK TO ONE ANOTHER &ORTUNATELY AN INTREPID TEAM FROM .EXUS OR THE @46 PEOPLE AS THEY ARE KNOWN TO MANY ARE HELPING TO CHRONI CLE THE WONDERS OF 5%! SPORT @"ALLS IS THE NEW SOMEWHAT HUMOROUS LOOK AT 5%! S SPORTING WEEK FEATURING FOOTAGE FROM THE "53! HOME GAMES AND INTERVIEWS WITH PARTICIPANTS 9OU CAN OBSERVE THIS TELE VISUAL WONDERMENT AS PART OF THE .EXUS BROADCAST WHICH GOES OUT EVERYDAY FROM IN THE (IVE AND IN THE "LUE "AR 3O WHY NOT GIVE YOURSELF A TREAT AND BE PART OF THE NEW WAVE OF SPORTING LOVE THAT IS INFECTING OUR GLORIOUS CAM PUS
0USKAS ) HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY LENGTHY FOOTAGE OF &ERENC 0USKAS PLAYING FOOTBALL SO ) WILL NOT DECEIVE YOU BY SPENDING TIME EULOGISING OVER WHAT BY ALL ACCOUNTS WAS A LEFT FOOT SO GOOD THAT IT WOULD MAKE 2YAN 'IGGS LOOK UT TERLY INEPT 7HAT ) DO HAVE THOUGH IS COLD HARD FACTS AND THESE SPEAK VOLUMES ABOUT THE (UNGARIAN LEGEND WHO PASSED AWAY THIS WEEK AGED 0USKAS SCORED TIMES FOR HIS COUNTRY IN APPEAR ANCES AND TIMES IN OUTINGS FOR HIS (UNGARIAN CLUB 4HAT IS OUTRAGEOUS AND OUTSTANDING IN EQUAL MEAS URE (OWEVER MY HEAD WAS TO SWIM EVEN MORE 0USKAS HAD ALREADY REACHED AN AGE WHEN MANY STRIKERS BEGIN TO CONTEMPLATE RETIREMENT WHEN HE MADE THE MOVE TO 2EAL -ADRID WHERE HE STILL FOUND THE TIME TO SCORE GOALS IN GAMES BEFORE RE TIRING AGED )T SEEMS THAT THEY DO NOT MAKE THEM LIKE THEY USED TO
#/.#2%4% 4UESDAY ST .OVEMBER
0HIL "ANKS
3WEET REVENGE FOR WOMEN S RUGBY
! SOLID PACK PERFORMANCE BY 5%! ;IN LIGHT BLUE= LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BACKS TO GO AND SECURE THE VICTORY
*ULIE 0RICE ,AST 7EDNESDAY SAW WOM EN S RUGBY DEFEAT OLD RIVALS /XFORD NDS GAINING A SWEET REVENGE ON BEHALF OF EX PRESIDENT *OANNA 7OOD WHO SUFFERED A BROKEN LEG LAST SEASON AWAY TO /XFORD AS A RESULT OF A LATE TACKLE 4HE GIRLS WHO PLAYED ALONGSIDE *O LAST YEAR WERE
PARTICULARLY ANXIOUS TO WIN THE GAME AND APTLY THE lRST POINTS CAME FROM 0OLLY ,ANG FORD THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB &ROM THE KICK OFF 5%! DOMINATED AND FOR THE DURA TION OF THE lRST HALF /XFORD WERE CAMPED IN THEIR HALF STAUNCHLY DEFENDING )N A FORWARD DOMINATED GAME THE SET PIECES WERE CONTROLLED BY THE 5%! PACK PARTICULARLY IN THE SCRUMS /XFORD HAD
:IGGURAT UPDATE !DAM -OULDER 4HE :IGGURAT #HALLENGE ROLLS ON WITH LADIES NET BALL TABLE TENNIS AND MEN S FOOTBALL MAKING UP EVENTS THREE TO lVE OVER THE LAST FOUR WEEKS 4HE WEATHER 'ODS MAY HAVE BEEN AGAINST THE SEVEN A SIDE MEN S FOOTBALL EVENT BUT THIS DID NOT STOP THE COMPETITORS FROM PROVIDING A THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING TOURNAMENT 4HE RAIN POURED DOWN FOR THE lRST ROUND OF THE PRELIMS THE HEAVENS OPENED FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF PRELIMS AND ON THE DAY OF THE lNALS IT RAINED CATS AND DOGS (OWEVER THE DOGGED FOOTBALL TEAMS THAT MADE IT TO THE LAST FEW ROUNDS PLAYED SOME EXCELLENT FOOTBALL WITH #!0 RUNNING OUT AS THE WOR THY WINNERS 0RECEDING THE MANLY FOOTBALL EVENT THE GIRLS SHOWED THEIR COMPETITIVE
SIDE IN LADIES NETBALL WHERE IN AMONGST THE SCRATCHING AND @$EFOE ESQUE BITING !(0 REIGNED SUPREME (OWEVER THE MOST IM PORTANT EVENT THIS REPORTER WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON WAS THE MIGHTY TABLE TENNIS 4HE EXPERIENCED ,)4 !-3 TEAM CAME INTO THE EVENT AS DEFENDING CHAMPIONS AND PLAYED TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL LEAVING THE COMPETITION UN DEFEATED AND JETTISONING ,)4 !-3 TO THE TOP OF THE :IGGU RAT LEAGUE TABLE 7ITH A WORTHY lFTH PLACE IN MEN S FOOTBALL ,)4 !-3 REMAIN TOP AND WITH BAD MINTON AND SWIMMING TO COME COULD WELL BE TOP OVER #HRISTMAS AND ARE THE TEAM TO CATCH IN THE SPRING SE MESTER RUN IN (OWEVER THE SCHOOLS OF #!0 AND -%$ ARE IN HOT PURSUIT AND THE CHAL LENGE PROMISES TO DELIVER AN OTHER HOTLY CONTESTED lNISH 7ATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE UPDATES
A STRONG FRONT ROW BUT THEIR INEXPERIENCED HOOKER WAS OUTCLASSED BY OUR NUMBER #LARE 3IMPSON WHO MADE A WELCOME RETURN TO THE TEAM !T HALF TIME 5%! WERE A TOUCH DESPONDENT HAVING NOT CONVERTED THEIR EFFORTS BUT THERE WAS A STRONG BELIEF THAT IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE 5%! TOOK THE LEAD %ARLY IN THE SECOND HALF A DARTING SOLO RUN BY mY HALF 0OLLY LED TO THE lRST POINTS OF
THE DAY 5NFORTUNATELY #AP TAIN *ULIE 0RICE MISSED THE CONVERSION HITTING THE BAR 5%! CONTINUED TO DOMINATE WITH A BLIND SIDE MOVE FROM 2OWAN 9EMM AT NUMBER WHO FENDED OFF THREE /XFORD PLAYERS TO SCORE OUTSIDE THE POSTS /NCE AGAIN *ULIE HIT THE POSTS BUT REDEEMED HERSELF WITH A TRY IN THE lNAL MINUTES AFTER EXPLOITING A MISTAKE FROM THE /XFORD BACKS AND MANAGING
2UGBY "53! lASCO 3AM 7ILSON 4HE FUTURE OF BOTH THE MEN S RUGBY TEAMS AT 5%! WAS THROWN INTO DOUBT THIS WEEK AFTER A lASCO OVER THE "53! lXTURES 4HE ST TEAM WERE UNABLE TO lELD A TEAM FOR THE AWAY lXTURE AT /XFORD "ROOKES DUE TO CONFUSION AND MIS COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE SQUAD AND THE NEED FOR SEV ERAL OF THE PLAYERS TO ATTEND IMPORTANT CLASSES -EAN WHILE THE ND TEAM TRAVELLED TO 3TAFFORDSHIRE AND SUFFERED A HEAVY n DEFEAT TO THEIR ND TEAM 5NDER "53! REGULATIONS A WALKOVER HAD TO BE GIVEN TO /XFORD "ROOKES FOR THE ST TEAM GAME THIS ALSO IN CURRED THE PENALTY THAT THE 5%! ST TEAM CAN NO LONGER BE PROMOTED BUT COULD BE RELEGATED OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE 4HE PROBLEM FACING THE 5%! 2&# ROSE FROM 5%!
5NION POLICY THAT MEANS THE INABILITY TO lELD A TEAM CAN LEAD TO THE TEAM BEING WITH DRAWN FROM "53! (OW EVER IT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHIN "53! LEGISLATION TO HAVE A ND TEAM BUT NOT A ST TEAM CONSEQUENTLY TURNING THE THREAT TOWARD THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE ND TEAM FROM "53! lXTURES &ORTUNATELY DUE TO A LET TER OF APPEAL FROM THE 5%! SECRETARY /LLIE (ARLAND AND ANOTHER FROM .ICK 'REENHALL OF THE 2&5 THE 5%! 5NION HAS PERMITTED BOTH OF THE 5%! MEN S TEAMS TO COM PLETE THEIR "53! lXTURES FOR THE SEASON ! GREAT DEAL OF THANKS HAS TO BE GIVEN TO THE 5%! 5NION %XEC FOR PER MITTING THE lXTURES TO CONTIN UE AND ALSO TO /LLIE (ARLAND FOR COMPOSING THE TEAMS AP PEAL 7E LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUATION OF THE SEASON AND REPRESENTING 5%! IN THE BEST FASHION BY WINNING THE REMAINING lXTURES
A QUICK PICK UP TO GO OVER THE LINE $ESPITE 5%! S DOMI NANCE /XFORD DID NOT GIVE UP AND A LATE SCORE WAS PRE VENTED BY 3ARA (ARRISON S MAGNIlCENT COVERING TACKLE IN THE lNAL MOMENTS OF THE GAME -AN OF THE MATCH WAS 3OPHIE -CKIMM OF THE FRONT ROW WHO DESPITE SEEING STARS FOR A WHILE PLAYED THE WHOLE MINUTES !LSO TO BE MEN TIONED ARE "ECCA *ENKINSON
WHO PLAYED THROUGH AN IN JURY GAINED IN TRAINING AND 0HILLIPA 3HELL WHO HAD AN AWESOME GAME AS USUAL 4HE CLUB NOW SITS IN SEC OND PLACE IN THE "53! TABLE AND THE GIRLS ARE CONlDENT GOING INTO A MATCH WITH 7ORCESTER THIS 7EDNESDAY DESPITE RUMOURS THEY HAVE INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS IN THEIR RANKS !T THE MOMENT THE 72&# CANNOT BE BROUGHT DOWN
"53! RESULTS
&OR WEEK COMMENCING TH .OVEMBER -EN S BADMINTON ST
.OTTINGHAM ST
4HE WOMEN S BADMINTON SIDE WERE AWARDED A WALKOVER AGAINST 7OLVERHAMPTON -EN S BASKETBALL ST #AMBRIDGE ST -EN S FENCING ST
,OUGHBOROUGH ST
-EN S FOOTBALL ST
.OTTINGHAM ND
-EN S FOOTBALL ND
$E -ONTFORT "EDFORD TH
7OMEN S FOOTBALL ST
7OLVERHAMPTON ST
7OMEN S HOCKEY ST
"IRMINGHAM TH
.ETBALL ST
7ARWICK ND
.ETBALL ND
.OTTINGHAM TH
-EN S RUGBY ND
3TAFFORDSHIRE ND
7OMEN S RUGBY ST
/XFORD ST
7OMEN S TENNIS ST
/XFORD ST