Concrete - Issue 206

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P 4HE %VENT

!LICE 'IBBS $EPUTY .EWS %DITOR 4HE 3TUDENT 5NION KNOWINGLY SOLD CIDER DURING &RESHERSg 7EEK WHICH WAS PAST ITS @BEST BEFORE DATE #ONTROVERSY WAS SPARKED AT THE :ANE ,OWE EVENT IN THE ,#2 ON 4HURSDAY TH 3EPTEMBER WHEN PARTY GOERS WERE SURPRISED TO l ND BOTTLES OF (ERRLJUNGA 3WEDISH 0EAR #IDER BEING SOLD FOR ONLY a EACH .EWS OF THE CHEAP PRICE SPREAD RAP IDLY AND MANY STUDENTS BOUGHT IN BULK TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE UNPRECEDENTED DISCOUNT OF A DRINK WHICH USUALLY RETAILS AT a 3OME WITNESSES REPORT UP TO AS MANY AS l FTEEN BOTTLES BEING BOUGHT IN ONE TRANSACTION (OWEVER A FEW DRINKERS SUFl CIENTLY SOBER ENOUGH TO SPOT THE SMALL PRINT ON THE BOTTLE TOPS SOON DISCOVERED THAT THE CIDER WAS

OVER A MONTH PAST ITS @BEST BEFORE DATE /N RETURNING TO THE BAR THEY WERE GIVEN A FULL REFUND BY STAFF

YET IT IS REPORTED THAT THE SAME CIDER CONTINUED TO BE SOLD THROUGH OUT THE EVENING 4HE STOCK WAS l NALLY TAKEN OFF THE SHELVES OF CAMPUS BARS ON 3ATURDAY TH 3EPTEMBER BUT THE INCIDENT HAS RAISED CONCERN OVER THE 5NION S CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY )N A STATEMENT MADE TO #ONCRETE 5NION REPRESENTATIVES DEFENDED THEIR ACTIONS h7HILST THE SALE OF STOCK AFTER ITS @BEST BEFORE DATE IS NOT PROHIB ITED BY LAW UNLIKE THE SALE OF STOCK AFTER ITS @SELL BY DATE THE 5NION S ;BAR= POLICY IS NOT TO SELL STOCK AFTER EITHER DATE )N ORDER TO AVOID WASTE THIS IS ACHIEVED BY HEAVILY DIS COUNTING THE PRICE OF STOCK NEARING EITHER DATE

h!S SOON AS THE 5NION S 'ENERAL -ANAGER WAS MADE AWARE THAT SOME STOCK HAD BEEN SOLD AFTER ITS @BEST BEFORE DATE ALL OF THE BOTTLE STOCK WAS EXAMINED AND BOTTLES WITH @BEST BEFORE DATES THAT HAD PASSED WERE WITHDRAWN FROM SALE v 4HE 5NION HAS ALSO ISSUED AN OFl CIAL APOLOGY TO THOSE WHO FEEL UPSET BY THE INCIDENT AND HAS PLEDGED TO REVIEW STOCK CHECKING PROCEDURES 9ET CORRESPONDENCE WITH (ERRLJUNGA S LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR

#HECKPRICE ,TD HAS REVEALED A CONTRARY ACCOUNT OF THE 5NION S STATED POLICY ! REPRESENTATIVE FORM THE COM PANY TOLD #ONCRETE h4HE 5NION KNEW IT WAS BUYING CIDER THAT WAS BEYOND ITS @BEST BEFORE DATE 4HEY BOUGHT IT AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE PRE CISELY BECAUSE OF THAT v

(E SAID h.OTHING HAPPENS TO THE CIDER )T IS A PURE PRODUCT WHICH REMAINS SAFE TO CONSUME UP TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE LA BELLED DATE v #ONCRETE ASKED THE 5NION TO COMMENT IN LIGHT OF WHAT THE SUP PLIERS HAD TOLD US (OWEVER THE 5NION REFUSED TO COMMENT FURTHER CITING AN hONGOING INVESTIGATIONv INTO THE SALE !LTHOUGH THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE CIDER ITSELF STU DENTS WHO WERE SOLD IT AT THE :ANE ,OWE EVENT ARE ANNOYED WITH HOW THE 5NION HANDLED THE SITUATION /NE UNDERGRADUATE COMMENT ED h) EAT AND DRINK THINGS BEYOND THEIR @BEST BEFORE DATE ALL THE TIME

BUT ) DON T EXPECT TO BE SOLD IT AT THE 5NION BARS )F THEY KNEW IT WAS OUT OF DATE THEY SHOULD HAVE PUT A NOTICE UP SAYING WHY IT WAS DIS COUNTED v

4HE %DITORS TALK TO OUR TOP MUSIC TEAM

PLUS WE ASSESS THE 3TAR 7ARS LEGACY AND THE (IGH 3CHOOL -USICAL PHENOMENON 0LAGIARISM

)T IS PLAGIARISM WEEK AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL REPORT ON 5%!gS NEW PLAGIARISM SOFTWARE .EWS

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Editor’s  Column %VERYONE LIKES FRIENDS !ND NEARLY AS MANY PEOPLE LIKE &RIENDS THE !MERICAN SITCOM THAT RAN THROUGH THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE S AND BEYOND AND ENABLED US ALL TO NAME SIX CHARACTERS AND THEIR PER SONALITY TRAITS ALMOST AS ACCU RATELY AS WE CAN FOR OUR REAL FRIENDS &RIENDS HAS NOW lNISHED

BUT YOU WOULD BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING THIS WAS NOT THE CASE AS RE RUNS OF THE SHOW ARE AIRED DAILY AND EVEN MI NOR FANS PROBABLY OWN A $6$ OR TWO ! TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO QUOTE LINES FROM THE SHOW AT WILL AND IT IS NOT UNCOMMON TO BE WATCHING AN EPISODE WITH SOMEONE WHO BEGINS LAUGHING BEFORE THE JOKE HAS BEEN MADE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IS COMING NEXT .OW AS A FAN MYSELF ALL OF THIS GOT ME WONDERING JUST HOW MUCH TIME HAVE ) SPENT INSERT @WASTED HERE IF YOU SO WISH WATCHING &RIENDS 4EN SERIES WERE MADE AND

AS A ROUGH PROBABLY CON SERVATIVE GUESS EPISODES PROBABLY APPEARED IN EACH ONE .OW ) AM FAIRLY CONl DENT THAT ) HAVE SEEN EVERY SERIES IN FULL SO THAT WOULD MAKE EPISODES EACH MINUTES LONG SO THAT IS

MINUTES OR HOURS .OW ) KNOW MANY OF THE EPISODES ALMOST INSIDE OUT AND CAN REPEAT LINES VERY AC CURATELY SO TO HAVE REACHED THIS LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE ) RECKON ) WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SEEN AN EPISODE THREE TIMES FOR IT TO HAVE BECOME IMBED DED IN MY MIND 3O TIMES THAT HUNDRED HOURS BY THREE 4HREE HUNDRED HOURS IS OVER DAYS OF VIEWING &RIENDS OF COURSE IS NOT THE ONLY POPULAR SERIES ) AND MANY OTHER STUDENTS HAVE WATCHED RIDICULOUS AMOUNTS OF (OWEVER ) STOPPED SHORT OF ADDING THE NUMBERS UP FOR &AMILY 'UY 3OUTHPARK EVEN FOR MY SINS 4HE /# IT ALL JUST GOT A TAD OVERWHELMING 4HE POINT OF ALL THIS

PROBABLY LARGELY INACCU

RATE MATHS IS THAT MANY OF US MYSELF INCLUDED ARE EX TREMELY GUILTY OF WASTING SIG NIlCANT AMOUNTS OF TIME AND THEN PROBABLY CLAIMING THAT WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH WHEN IT COMES TO MORE PRESSING MATTERS THAN WHETHER 2OSS AND 2ACHEL ARE GOING TO GET TOGETHER 3O HOW CAN WE ALL ATONE FOR THIS 7ELL MIGHT ) HUMBLY SUGGEST A GOOD PLACE TO START IS TO DELVE INTO #ONCRETE &OR THE lRST TIME EVER WE HAVE

FULL COLOUR PAGES WITH MORE CONTRIBUTORS THAN EVER BE FORE AND IF YOU DO NOT lND SOMETHING TO ENJOY THEN GET IN TOUCH GET INVOLVED AND RECTIFY IT 3OAK UP EVERYTHING THAT MY DIGILENT TEAM OF EDI TORS HAVE SPENT THEIR WEEK MAKING LOOK BEAUTIFUL JUST FOR YOU 4HEN WHEN YOU ARE SATIATED ) GIVE YOU PERMIS SION TO REACH FOR THAT &RIENDS BOX SET

-ARCUS *ONES %DITOR

Survey  spat !NDY "EAR 2EPORTER ! QUESTIONNAIRE ON STUDENT S DRINKING HABITS HAS CAUSED CONTROVERSY AFTER IT WAS DIS TRIBUTED DURING THE &RESHERS &AIR 4HE QUESTIONNAIRE

WHICH IS BEING USED FOR JOINT RESEARCH BETWEEN 5%!

AND A 0H$ STUDENT AT ,EEDS 5NIVERSITY QUERIED THE DRINKING HABITS OF STUDENTS PRIOR TO ARRIVING AT 5%! )T ASKED A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE QUAN TITY OF ALCOHOL IF ANY DRUNK BY STUDENTS BEFORE ARRIVING AT 5%!

AS WELL AS WHAT KIND )T ALSO ASKED A NUMBER OF PERSONAL QUES TIONS INCLUDING THE OCCU PATION OF THE RESPONDENT S PARENTS 4HE COVER OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE ADVERTISED THE OPPORTUNITY TO WIN AN I0OD OR (-6 VOUCHERS TO THOSE WHO lLLED IT IN 2UTH 3TONE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENT S 7ELFARE /F lCER OF THE 3TUDENTS 5N ION WAS CONCERNED hTHAT STUDENTS COULD POTENTIALLY BE EXPLOITED BY A NON 5%!

STUDENT S 0H$ RESEARCH v 3HE ALSO FELT THAT hxTHE SURVEY ASSUMES THAT ALL

STUDENTS DRINK AND THAT SO CIALIZING EQUALS DRINKING v 3EVERAL PEOPLE SUCH AS %#/ STUDENT 0ETER (ETHER INGTON WERE CONCERNED THAT THE QUESTIONNAIRE WOULD BE USED TO ATTACK STUDENTS

PORTRAYING THEM AS DRUNK ARDS AS THEIR ALCOHOLIC CON SUMPTION INCREASES GREATLY AT UNIVERSITY 4HE 5NION IS RELIANT ON INCOME FROM ITS BARS TO CONTINUE EXISTING

SO WOULD SUFFER PARTICULARLY IN ANY CRACKDOWN ON STU DENT ALCOHOLIC BEHAVIOUR 2UTH BELIEVED THIS WOULD BE UNFAIR ON THE 5NION COMMENTING THAT h4HE 5NION HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK TO ENSURE THAT STU DENTS ARE AWARE OF THE DAN GERS OF DRINKING ALCOHOL

AND RUNS NUMEROUS SOCIAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT DO NOT INVOLVE ALCOHOL v 4HE 5NIVERSITY S $EAN OF 3TUDENTS APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN DISTRIBUT ING THE QUESTIONNAIRE 5N ION 3OCIETIES /FlCER !NDY *UDSON COMMENTED h)F IT S TRUE THAT THE $EAN OF 3TU DENTS IS INVOLVED IN ORGAN ISING A QUESTIONNAIRE THAT COULD BE USED TO UNFAIRLY ATTACK STUDENTS THIS IS DEEP LY WORRYING 4HE 5NION S CLUBS AND SOCIETIES SEEM TO HAVE DEVELOPED AN UNFAIR REPUTATION FOR ENCOURAGING BINGE DRINKING WHEN THE VAST MAJORITY DO NO SUCH THING AND THE 5NION DOES IT S BEST TO ENSURE STUDENTS ARE DRINKING RESPONSIBLY v

Controversy  at  Socmart

-ARTIN %STHER 2EPORTER 4HE 5NION S RECENT 3OC-ART WAS THE SCENE OF A ROW AS A STUDENT ACTIVIST SPARKED AN AR GUMENT WITH THE 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY AFTER DISTRIBUTING A LEAmET ATTACKING LOCAL #OUN CILLOR "ERT "REMNER WHO WAS THERE TO RECRUIT FOR THEM 4HE LEAmET WAS CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED INDEPEND ENTLY BY -ARTIN *OPP A MEMBER OF 5%! ,IBERAL $EMOCRATS (E ACCUSED #LLR "REMNER OF BEING hANTI STU DENTv AND hANTI UNIVERSITY v )T ACCUSED HIM OF IGNORING STUDENT SAFETY INSTEAD NOT ING hHE BRIEFED THE %VENING .EWS TO WRITE A HIGHLY NEGA TIVE ARTICLE ABOUT STUDENTS v AND CONTAINED A CLIPPING OF THE RECENT ARTICLE IN THE %VENING .EWS WHICH PIC TURED #LLR "REMNER SUPPORT ING A LOCAL PETITION CALLING ON STUDENTS TO BE MORE RESPECT FUL TOWARDS LOCAL RESIDENTS 4HE ARTICLE FROM THE %VENING .EWS WAS REPORTING ON A RECENT SCHEME TO REDUCE ROWDY NIGHTTIME BEHAVIOUR IN CERTAIN AREAS OF .ORWICH

ENTITLED (USSHH 4HE (US SHH WEBSITE STATES THAT THE SCHEME WAS LAUNCHED hIN RE SPONSE TO ONGOING CONCERNS FROM RESIDENTS DISTURBED BY PEOPLE LEAVING PUBS CLUBS

RESTAURANTS AND TAKEAWAYS v !S NOTED BOTH ON THE WEBSITE AND IN THE %VENING .EWS AR TICLE THE CAMPAIGNS LAUNCH WAS TIMED TO COINCIDE WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE 5%! &RESH

ERS AND THE NEWS ARTICLE RE VEALED THE EMPHASIS TOWARDS STUDENTS BY DESCRIBING THE SCHEME AS A WAY hTO GET NEW AND RETURNING 5%! STUDENTS TO RESPECT THEIR NEIGHBOURS

BY KEEPING DOWN THE NOISE v 4HE ,ABOUR 3OCIETY S #HAIR IN A LETTER TO #ONCRETE

WAS QUICK TO ATTACK *OPP S LEAmET ACCUSING IT OF BEING hCOMPLETELY DECEPTIVE AND PITIABLE v 4HEY WENT ON TO

h4HE PUBLICA TION OF THIS LEAmET WAS THE WORK OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND NOT OF THE 5%! ,IB ERAL $EMO CRAT 3OCIETY v DEFEND #LLR "REMNER S STANCE ON STUDENTS SAYING hHE REALISES THAT IT IS ONLY A MINORITY OF STUDENTS WHICH CREATE SUCH ANTI SOCIAL BEHAV IOUR v 4HEY ALSO DEFENDED HIS RECORD ON PROTECTING STUDENTS

SAYING h"ERT IS CAMPAIGNING FOR BETTER LIGHTING AND SECU RITY MEASURES AROUND %ARL HAM (ALL AND %ARLHAM 0ARK v !ARON "LOWERS #HAIR OF

THE ,IB $EM 3OCIETY ALSO IS SUED A RESPONSE DENYING ANY LINKS BETWEEN THE LEAmET AND THE ORGANISATION (E SAID THAT hTHE PUBLICATION OF THIS LEAmET WAS THE WORK OF AN IN DIVIDUAL AND NOT OF THE 5%! ,IBERAL $EMOCRAT 3OCIETY v AND CLAIMED THAT h3INCE ) TOOK OVER THIS SOCIETY ) HAVE STRIVED TO GUARANTEE CLOSE LINKS WITH ALL OF THE OTHER PARTY POLITI CAL SOCIETIES AND TO ENSURE THAT ANY RIVALRY BETWEEN US IS A FRIENDLY ONE v (E END ED BY APOLOGIZING hFOR ANY HARM THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED v -ARTIN *OPP MAINTAINED

THAT AFTER A NUMBER OF ATTACKS ON STUDENTS h#LLR "REMNER SPENDS HIS TIME CRITICIZING STUDENTS IN THE LOCAL PRESS FOR BEING NOISYv AND THAT THIS WAS PARTICULARLY POOR GIVEN HIS POSITION AS %XECU TIVE -EMBER FOR #OMMUNITY 3AFETY (E WAS ALSO hHORRI lED TO SEE ;#LLR "REMNER= TURN UP AT 3OC-ART TRYING TO RECRUIT FOR A POLITICAL SOCI ETY v (E DID HOWEVER AGREE hTHAT A SMALL MINORITY IN ALL PARTS OF THE .ORWICH COM MUNITY INCLUDING STUDENTS CAUSE PROBLEMSv AND THAT HE HOPED h#LLR "REMNER IS WILLING TO PUT PARTY POLI TICS TO ONE SIDE IN ORDER TO WORK TOGETHER ON THIS ISSUE v ,ABOUR 3OCIETY #HAIR *ONATHAN #LARK ALSO WISHED TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF ALL RESIDENTS IN .ORWICH WAS PUT lRST SAYING THAT hIT IS ONLY

BY WORKING TOGETHER THAT WE CAN IMPROVE RELATIONS IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY v

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Girl  injured  on  number  25

Norwich Festival

2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS .EWS %DITOR

-ARCUS *ONES %DITOR

/N 7EDNESDAY RD /CTOBER AT APPROXIMATELY PM THE NUMBER BUS WAS AT TACKED BY AN UNKNOWN PER SON THROWING A LARGE STONE AT THE TOP DECK 4HE ATTACK WAS MADE JUST AS THE BUS TURNED OFF "LUE BELL ROAD TOWARDS 5NTHANK )T BROKE THE WINDOW AND A FEMALE STUDENT SITTING BY THE WINDOW AT THE TIME SUFFERED A HEAD INJURY 2O -ALIN A l NAL YEAR STUDENT IN !-3 WHO WAS ON THE BUS AT THE TIME GAVE THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT h3UDDENLY THE BUS BELL WENT OFF AND A PANICKED VOICE FROM ABOVE SHOUTED @STOP THE BUS 4HEN A NUMBER OF GIRLS

TUMBLED DOWN THE STAIRS

THE BUS STOPPED AND THEY TUMBLED OUT ONE OF THEM BLEEDING PROFUSELY FROM THE HEAD v 4HE POLICE AND AMBU LANCE SERVICE WERE QUICK TO RESPOND AND THE STUDENT WAS TREATED IN THE BACK OF THE AMBULANCE BEFORE GOING TO HOSPITAL "Y THE TIME THE POLICE HAD ARRIVED WHOEVER HAD THROWN THE STONE HAD mED 4HE BUS WAS HELD UP FOR OVER HALF AN HOUR AND A NUMBER STOPPED TO TAKE THOSE WHO COULD CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY BY THAT ROUTE %VENTUALLY THE BUS CON TINUED STOPPING PREMATURE LY AT #ASTLE -EADOW LEAVING 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS

THOSE LEFT ON IT TO WALK THE REST OF THE ROUTE 2O ADDED h4HIS ISN T THE lRST TIME AT THE END OF !U GUST IT HAPPENED IN EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE IN THE SAME WAYv *ULIAN 3EBASTIAN WHO WAS TRAVELLING WITH 2OW ON THE EARLIER OCCASION SAID THAT h)T WAS SCARY THERE WAS GLASS EVERYWHERE 7HAT S MORE THE BUS DRIVER SAID THAT IT WAS THE SECOND TIME THAT WEEK v

h)T WAS SCARY

THERE WAS GLASS EVERY WHERE 7HAT S MORE THE BUS DRIVER SAID THAT IT WAS THE SEC OND TIME THAT WEEK v 7ITH A MINIMUM OF THREE ATTACKS OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS STUDENTS WHO NORMALLY USE THE ROUTE ARE BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF GET TING HOME ! THIRD YEAR SAID h) M CYCLING NOW DOWN A

2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS

DIFFERENT ROAD AND IF ) DO HAVE TO TAKE THE BUS ) M SIT TING DOWNSTAIRS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE v 'IVEN THE NUMBER OF AT TACKS ON STUDENTS BOTH ON AND OFF THE BUSES THEY ARE BEING ADVISED TO CONTACT THE POLICE WHENEVER THEY WITNESS ANYTHING OR ARE CAUGHT UP IN SUCH ATTACKS 2AJ +AMBLI THE

0OLICE #OMMUNITY 3UPPORT /FlCER FOR THE 5NIVERSITY RECENTLY INFORMED #ONCRETE THAT IT IS VERY DIFlCULT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE CRIMES ON STUDENTS BECAUSE MANY OF THEM ARE NOT REPORTED TO THE POLICE )F YOU NEED TO CONTACT THEM FOR ANY REASON THEN CALL

.ORWICH IS TO JOIN THE RANKS OF CITIES WHICH PLAY HOST TO A MUSIC FESTIVAL AS MUSICIANS FROM ACROSS "RITAIN ALONG WITH SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL ACTS CONVERGE UPON .ORWICH OVER THE WEEKEND OF /CTOBER TH TO TAKE PART IN THE INAU GURAL $UMDUCKERDUM MUSIC FESTIVAL ,OCAL BANDS SUCH AS 4HE .EUTRINOS AND $EF 4EX WILL BE PLAYING AT THE 7ATERFRONT ON 3UNDAY ST WHILE -ER CURY -USIC 0RIZE NOMINEES 4HE "ASQUIAT 3TRINGS WILL BE ONE OF THE lRST PERFORMERS ON THE OPENING &RIDAY AT 3T !N DREW S (ALL 4HE FESTIVAL HOPES TO ADD TO THE ALREADY THRIVING MUSIC SCENE IN .ORWICH OFFERING AN ECLECTIC RANGE OF MUSIC IN A VARIETY OF CITY VENUES $UM DUCKERDUM A PHRASE DERIVED FROM AN ANCIENT .ORFOLK WORD MEANING THE COMING TOGETHER OF DIFFERENT THINGS

SOME OF THE %VENT IS FREE WHILE OTHER BITS ARE TICKETED 4ICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE WHOLE WEEKEND FROM THE .ORWICH !RTS #ENTRE .!#

OR ALTERNATIVELY YOU CAN PUR CHASE THEM FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS AGAIN FROM THE .!#

OR THE 5NION WEBSITE

4URN TO PAGE OF 4HE %VENT TO WIN TICKETS

Union  bus  survey  reports  back -ATT /WEN 2EPORTER 4HE RESULTS OF A NEW SURVEY REGARDING &IRST "USES WERE PRODUCED LAST WEEK REVEAL ING MIXED FEELINGS TOWARDS THE SERVICE PROVIDED ON THE PART OF THE STUDENT DEMO GRAPHIC 4HE SURVEY WAS CONDUCT ED hIN ORDER TO ESTABLISH TO WHAT EXTENT &IRST "US #OMPA NY HAS PROVIDED THE STUDENTS AND STAFF OF 5%! WITH A PUNC TUAL AND AFFORDABLE SERVICEv AND CONTAINED QUESTIONS

GIVING THE RESPONDENTS A CHANCE TO COMMENT ON A RANGE OF ISSUES 4WO THIRDS OF THOSE SURVEYED TRAVEL TO UNI VERSITY BY BUS EITHER DAILY OR TWO TO THREE TIMES A WEEK !

COMBINED EITHER DIS AGREED OR STRONGLY DISAGREED

WITH THE STATEMENT @4HE BUS SERVICES ARE ALWAYS ON TIME

WITH STATING THAT BUSES WERE UNPUNCTUAL DURING PEAK TRAVEL TIMES AND SAYING THE SAME OF OFF PEAK PERIODS )N ADDITION AN OVER WHELMING OF THOSE POLLED STRONGLY DISAGREED WITH THE STATEMENT @4HE FARES ARE REASONABLE HIGHLIGHTING THAT FOR THOSE WITHOUT A BUS PASS THERE IS DISSATISFACTION WITH PRICES 4HERE IS SOME CONCERN THAT THESE PRICES MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE QUAR TER OF THOSE SURVEYED WHO AN SWERED THAT WHEN THEY DIDN T TAKE THE BUS THEY DROVE ONTO CAMPUS )N RESPONSE TO THE STATEMENT @4HE DRIVERS ARE ALWAYS POLITE AND HELPFUL

OF THOSE POLLED RE MAINED NEUTRAL ALTHOUGH

%MIL !LLARDD

SOME REPORTED INSTANCES OF DRIVERS BEING RUDE TO PASSEN

GERS ESPECIALLY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF RESPOND

ENTS ALSO REMAINED NEUTRAL IN REGARD TO THE STATEMENT @4HE VEHICLES ARE DRIVEN WITH CARE AND CONSIDERATION AND STAYED ON THE FENCE WHEN RATING THE NIGHT BUS SERVICE SUGGESTING ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN BOTH AREAS 4HERE WERE SOME MORE ENCOURAGING STATISTICS FOR &IRST "USES OF RE SPONDENTS AGREED WITH THE STATEMENT @4HE FREQUENCY OF BUS SERVICES SUITS MY NEEDS AND ALSO AGREED THAT @4HE VEHICLES ARE CLEAN BOTH INSIDE AND OUT *UST OVER HALF OF THOSE POLLED OWN AN AN NUAL BUS PASS AND AGREED THAT THE PASS IS GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY (OWEVER

THE MAJORITY ALSO STATED THEY WOULD BE PREPARED TO PAY MORE FOR THE PASS IF THEY KNEW IT WOULD BE REPLACED

FOR FREE IF LOST OR STOLEN WITH AGREEING a WOULD BE A REASONABLE FEE /VERALL OF RE SPONDENTS RATED THE SERV ICE PROVIDED BY &IRST "US AS SATISFACTORY AND AS POOR 4HESE lGURES ILLUSTRATE A HIGHER RATE OF SATISFACTION THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS BUT STILL LEAVE SOME CAUSE FOR CONCERN 7ELFARE OFlCER 2UTH 3TONE WHO LED THE SURVEY

STATES h)T IS INTERESTING THAT CONSIDERING &IRST "USES HAVE THE MONOPOLY ON STUDENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN .ORWICH

OF STUDENTS STATED THAT THE OVERALL SERVICE WAS POOR 4HIS SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT

PARTICULARLY WITH PUNCTUAL ITY v !T THE TIME OF GOING TO PRINT NO ONE AT &IRST "USES WAS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT

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Union  objects  to  flyering Changes  in  LIT  school (AZEL 7HITE 2EPORTER #LUBS mYERING IN THE SQUARE ARE ANGERING THE 5NION WHICH IS HEAVILY RELIANT ON REVENUE FROM ITS OWN BARS -OST STUDENTS LOVE TO PARTY AND THEREFORE GETTING STUDENTS INTO THEIR VENUES IS CRUCIAL FOR NIGHTCLUBS ALL OVER .ORWICH INCLUDING OUR VERY OWN ,#2 !DVERTISING IS A MAJOR WAY FOR VENUES TO GRAB OUR ATTENTION AND GET US THROUGH THE DOORS AND &RESH ERS 7EEK IS USUALLY A HOT TAR GET FOR NIGHTCLUBS TO VENTURE ON TO CAMPUS AND TEMPT US WITH A VAST ARRAY OF mASHY mY ERS AND POSTERS 4HE 5NION OF 5%! 3TU DENTS ARE HOWEVER TAKING A lRM STANCE ON THE ISSUE AND ANYONE FOUND mYERING FOR CLUBS BARS OR OTHER COMMER CIAL VENTURES WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE 5NION (OUSE AND ANY POSTERS FOUND STUCK TO THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING OR PILLARS WILL BE REMOVED #OMMUNI

CATIONS OFlCER 2OWENA "OD DINGTON TOLD #ONCRETE THAT h7E DO THIS TO PROTECT OUR OWN COMMERCIAL SERVICES

WHICH UNLIKE THE OTHER BARS AND CLUBS THE PROlT THEY MAKE GOES BACK INTO FUNDING CLUBS AND SOCIETIES REPRESEN TATION AND CAMPAIGNS AND SO ON v

(OWEVER SOME VENUES HAVE BEEN TAKING THE INITIA TIVE THIS SEMESTER WITH CLUBS SUCH AS -ERCY LEAmETING ON THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY IN THE SQUARE $ESPITE THE PROTESTA

TIONS FROM THE 5NION TECH NICALLY THIS IS ALL LEGAL AND ABOVE BOARD 4OBY -IDDLETON /P ERATIONS $IRECTOR OF -ERCY .IGHTCLUB TOLD #ONCRETE THAT THE STUDENT MARKET WAS ESSENTIAL TO CREATING THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE IN HIS CLUB AND THAT ADVERTISING ON CAMPUS WAS A WAY OF BUILDING UP STU DENT CONlDENCE IN THE VENUE (E ALSO STRESSED THE DESIRE OF MANY OF THE CLUBS IN .OR WICH TO HAVE A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE 5N ION AND THE %NTERTAINMENTS TEAM WHICH THEY FEEL IS SADLY LACKING AT THE MOMENT !NOTHER ISSUE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION IS THAT THE 5N ION IS A TRUSTED SOURCE OF IN FORMATION FOR STUDENTS AND LETTING ORGANIZATIONS mYER IN 5NION (OUSE SUGGESTS THAT THESE GROUPS ARE ENDORSED BY THE 5NION 2OWENA "ODDING TON STATED h5NFORTUNATELY

MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO mYER ARE PEOPLE ) PERSONALLY WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND v

-ATT /WEN 2EPORTER 5%! S #REATIVE 7RITING COURSE IS ABOUT TO BENElT FROM THE APPOINTMENT OF lVE TALENTED NEW TEACHERS AND A COLLECTION OF $ISTIN GUISHED 7RITING &ELLOWS $RAWN FROM ACROSS THE LITERARY SPECTRUM THE NEW TEACHERS BRING A RANGE OF DIF FERENT EXPERTISE TO THE COURSE 'ILES &ODEN IS A NOVELIST BEST KNOWN FOR THE AWARD WIN NING 4HE ,AST +ING OF 3COTLAND

BUT ALSO HAS EXPERIENCE AS A CRITIC JOURNALIST AND NON lC TION WRITER ,AVINIA 'REEN LAW IS AN ACCOMPLISHED POET AND AUTHOR AND .ORFOLK BASED 'EORGE 3ZIRTES IS A POET AND WINNER OF THE 4 3 %LIOT 0RIZE AS WELL AS A TRANS LATOR +ATHRYN (UGHES IS A BIOGRAPHER JOURNALIST AND CRITIC AND 2EBECCA 3TOTT IS A NOVELIST AND ACADEMIC 4HE $ISTINGUISHED 7RIT ING &ELLOWS ARE A GROUP DRAWN FROM SOME OF THE

MOST SUCCESSFUL "RITISH AU THORS OF TODAY INCLUDING ESTEEMED "RITISH AUTHOR )AN -C%WAN AND *APANESE BORN +AZUO )SHIGURO BOTH GRAD UATES OF 5%! S CREATIVE WRIT ING COURSE AS WELL AS 'RA HAM 3WIFT 2OSE 4REMAIN

2ICHARD (OLMES AND AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF #APTAIN #ORELLI S -ANDARIN ,OUIS DE "ERNIERES 4HE &ELLOWS WILL MAKE FREQUENT VISITS TO CAM PUS TO LECTURE ON AND DISCUSS THE PRACTICE OF WRITING WITH STUDENTS 4HE POSSIBILITY OF MASTERCLASSES IN ,ONDON IS ALSO BEING LOOKED AT 4HIS INmUX OF LITERARY TALENT WILL JOIN THE CUR RENT TUTORING TEAM WHICH INCLUDES WORLD RENOWNED AUTHOR !MIT #HAUDHURI TO HELP DEVELOP NEW WRITERS ON 5%! S lVE CREATIVE WRIT ING STRANDS n PROSE POETRY

SCRIPTWRITING LIFE WRITING AND TRANSLATION 0ROFFESSOR *ON #OOK $EAN OF 5%! S &ACULTY OF !RTS AND (UMANI TIES HAS SAID h4OGETHER THIS

NEW TEAM OF WRITERS FORM A REMARKABLE CREATIVE COMMU NITY 5%! HAS AN UNPARAL LELED TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESS FOR WORK IN THIS lELD AND THIS SEEMS AN APPROPRIATE MO MENT TO CELEBRATE WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED AND INAUGRATE AN EXCITING NEW PHASE IN THE HISTORY OF CREATIVE WRITING AT 5%! v )N ANOTHER NEW DEVELOPMENT IT HAS BEEN DECIDED THAT VIDEO FOOTAGE OF READINGS FROM 5%! S LIT ERARY FESTIVAL WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH A SERIES OF PODCASTS 3TRETCHING BACK lFTEEN YEARS THE RECORDINGS WILL INCLUDE 3ALMON 2USH DIE (AROLD 0INTER 3TEPHEN &RY AND A WEALTH OF OTHER LITERARY TALENT &URTHER STILL

A NEW MENTORING SCHEME IS BEING INITIATED WHICH WILL MATCH 5%! CREATIVE WRITING -! GRADUATES WITH LITER ARY AGENTS WHO WILL GUIDE THEM IN THE PROFESSIONAL AS PECTS OF MAKING A CAREER AS A WRITER

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Freshers  bashed...  again -ORE QUEUING FOR FRESHERS AS THE 3PORTSPARK CHANGES ENTRY POLICY 4OM (UNT 2EPORTER )F YOU ARE NEW ON CAMPUS

NO DOUBT YOU HAD TO REGISTER YOUR 5%! CARD AT THE 3PORT SPARK RECENTLY &OR MANY FRESHERS THOUGH THIS SIMPLE TASK WAS MADE MORE DIFl CULT LAST WEEK 4HE PROCESS SHOULD TAKE ONLY A FEW MINUTES n SCAN THE CARD ASK FOR DATE OF BIRTH AND REGISTER THE NEW STUDENT WITH THE SYSTEM BUT AT THIS YEAR S 3PORTS-ART STUDENTS FOUND THEMSELVES WAITING OUTSIDE IN A BUSTLING QUEUE STRETCHING ALONG THE BUILD ING IN A SCENARIO WHICH WAS AVOIDED LAST YEAR !T ITS HEIGHT THE LINE TOOK OVER HALF AN HOUR TO GET THROUGH

DESPITE THE FACT THAT INSIDE MULTIPLE STUDENTS WERE BEING REGISTERED AT A TIME &RESHER #HLOE !MOS SAID h7E HAD TO QUEUE FOR FORTY MINUTES OUTSIDE v 3PORTS-ARTS OF PREVIOUS YEARS LET STUDENTS ENTER IN

WITHOUT HAVING TO REGISTER WHICH THEY COULD DO IN SIDE BY OPENING THE DISA BLED DOUBLE DOORS 4HIS AL

LOWED ALL FRESHERS TO BYPASS REGISTRATION AND SIGN UP TO CLUBS INITIALLY WITHOUT IT

CREATING A QUICKER SHORT TERM SERVICE BY AVOIDING A LONG QUEUE 4HIS WAY OF MANAGING 3PORTS-ART WAS ALTERED THIS YEAR HOWEVER

AS NOT ENOUGH FRESHERS WERE REGISTERING THEIR CAMPUS CARDS FROM hPROSPECTIVE STU DENTSv TO hCURRENT STUDENTSv ON THE SYSTEM THAT DAY .OT HAVING DONE SO WOULD HAVE MEANT BEING UNABLE TO EN

TER THE PARK FREE OF CHARGE TO BEGIN WITH AND FACING DELAYS IN REGISTRATION ON RETURNING

THUS CAUSING MORE LONG TERM PROBLEMS .EVERTHELESS THE QUEUES WITNESSED AT 3PORTS -ART LAST WEEK BOTH INSIDE AND OUT HAVE IRRITATED SOME STUDENTS &RESHER ,UKE &OX SAID h)T WAS TERRIBLE AND ) EXPECTED BETTER CONSIDERING THEY KNEW 3PORTS-ART WAS ON v 4HE REASON NOT TO OPEN THE DISABLED DOORS WAS

MADE TO PREVENT THE BACK LOG SEEN LAST YEAR WHEN STUDENTS m OODED IN AND LEFT WITHOUT REGISTERING CREATING DIFl CULTIES FOR THEM AND THE 3PORTSPARK 2ACHEL 4OMES

!SSISTANT $IRECTOR OF 0HYSI CAL %DUCATION AND 3PORT

DEFENDED THE 3PORTSPARK S ACTIONS SAYING h4HERE WAS REALLY NOTHING SINISTER GO ING ON !BOUT OF NEW STUDENTS CAME IN WITHOUT BOTHERING TO REGISTER LAST YEAR 4HIS YEAR WE ALREADY

HAVE OF NEW STUDENTS ON THE SYSTEM ALL ABLE TO USE THE FACILITIES %VERY STU DENT THAT WANTED TO COME IN DID SO BEFORE 3PORTS-ART CLOSED v )T IS NOW HOPED THAT MORE STUDENTS WILL BE ACTIVE AT THE 3PORTSPARK AND DUE TO THE METHOD S SUCCESS IT IS EXPECTED TO BE APPLIED NEXT YEAR .EVERTHELESS AFTER A WEEK OF QUEUES FOR FRESHERS

AT THE ,#2 THE 5NION "OX /Fl CE AND NOW 3PORTS-ART

A FEW FRESHERS ARE QUESTION ING THE ORGANISATION OF THESE EVENTS h4HEY DIDN T MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU HAD TO PAY FOR INSURANCE AS WELL v SAID AN OTHER FRESHER *ULIA "RANCH

WHO ALONG WITH OTHERS HAD TO GO TO THE BANK TO QUEUE AGAIN BEFORE RETURNING TO JOIN 5NION CLUBS /N THE OTHER HAND

THOUGH MOST EAGER STUDENTS WERE NOT FUSSED BY THE QUEUES

WILLING TO STAND IN LINE TO SIGN UP TO THEIR FAVOURITE SPORTS 'EORGE ,UMLEY SAID

h) KNEW IT WAS NECESSARY TO QUEUE AND CONSIDERING THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS CENTRES IN THE COUNTRY IT WAS BOUND TO BE POPULAR v

Rock  Doc  to  visit  UEA 4HE OFl CIAL OPENING OF 5%! S NEW #ENTRE OF 0HYSICS WILL BE MARKED BY A PERFORMANCE BY THE 2OCK $OCTOR $R -ARK ,EWNEY AS HE IS ALSO KNOWN WILL COMBINE MUSIC AS DIVERSE AS 6IVALDI AND !# $# TO ELUCIDATE UPON SUPERSTRING THEORY THE THEORY WHICH ATTEMPTS TO EX PLAIN ALL THE PARTICLES IN NA TURE BY MODELLING THEM AS VIBRATIONS OF TINY SUPERSYM METRIC STRINGS 4HE LECTURE WITH A DIFFER ENCE WILL BE TAKING PLACE ON 4HURSDAY /CTOBER AT PM IN ,ECTURE 4HEATRE !DMIS SION IS FREE BUT BOOKING IS ES SENTIAL THROUGH COPHIS UEA AC UK

You  gotta  love  UEA! &IGURES PUBLISHED FROM 5%!

THIS SUMMER SHOWED IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESS FUL UNIVERSITIES IN RETAINING STUDENTS WITH JUST A DROPOUT RATE IN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE WAS 4HIS PUTS IT IN THE TOP TEN 5+ UNIVERSITIES FOR STUDENT RETEN TION 4HE .ORWICH 3CHOOL OF !RT AND $ESIGN ALSO PER FORMED WELL AND SPOKES MEN FROM BOTH IT AND 5%!

CLAIMED THE QUALITY OF LIVING IN .ORWICH WAS AN IMPORTANT REASON BEHIND THIS

New  intranet  portal  rolls  out  :AINEB :EB +HAN 2EPORTER 4HE INTRANET PORTAL WAS IN TRODUCED WITH THE NEW ACA DEMIC YEAR AT 5%! (OWEV ER THERE HAVE BEEN TEETHING PROBLEMS 4HE INTRANET PORTAL AL LOWS STUDENTS AND STAFF ALIKE TO USE MANY SERVICES FROM SEARCHING FOR LIBRARY BOOKS TO SEEING WHICH NIGHTCLUB TO GO TO THAT EVENING 4HE INTRANET PORTAL IS SECTIONED OFF INTO AREAS EACH HAVE THEIR OWN TAB AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE /N THE SERVICES PAGE IT IS POSSIBLE TO GO INTO THE LIBRARY SECTION AND RE NEW YOUR LIBRARY BOOKS )N ORDER TO USE "LACKBOARD YOU NOW HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE )NTRANET 0ORTAL AND CLICK ON THE TAB CALLED @!CADEMIC 9OU CAN EVEN ACCESS YOUR WEBMAIL THROUGH THE @5' EMAIL TAB

&OR FRESHERS WHO NEED AN INTRODUCTION TO "LACK BOARD IT IS WHERE LECTURERS CAN POST ANY INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR COURSE ONTO A DATABASE 4HIS IS THEN MADE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS OF THE SUBJECT SO THAT THEY MAY BE PREPARED FOR THEIR NEXT LEC TURE OR SEMINAR )N ADDITION TO THIS IT HAS OTHER ADVANTAGES INCLUD ING THE OPTION OF CHOOSING WHETHER OR NOT YOU NEED TO HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION ON PAPER AND THAT YOU CAN AC CESS "LACKBOARD ANYWHERE VIA THE INTERNET AS LONG AS YOU HAVE YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD

(OWEVER MANY STU DENTS FEEL THAT THERE ARE STILL MANY PROBLEMS WITH THE PORTAL ,EANNE 'ROOM SAID h)T WASN T WORKING )T WASN T MY 0# OTHER SITES WERE LOADING IT WAS JUST THIS SITEx ) WAS ON QUITE LATE ) WOULDN T THINK THERE WOULD BE SO MANY PEOPLE ONLINE v ,AURA A LAW STUDENT SAID hIT SAYS ) M DOING "IOLOGY IN STEAD OF ,AW BUT OTHERWISE IT S l NE v 4HERE ARE OTHER MORE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES TO NOT BEING ABLE TO CONNECT WITH THE 0ORTAL AND "LACKBOARD -ARTIN *OPP SAID h) TRIED LAST NIGHT AND IT WOULDN T OPEN

) VE GOT TO l ND OUT WHO MY DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR IS SO IT S FAIRLY IMPORTANT v -ARTIN THEN TOLD #ONCRETE THAT HE HAD hBEEN ON ;THE COMPU TER= FOR TWO HOURS v (OWEV ER WITH hPERFECT COMIC TIM INGv WHILST #ONCRETE SPOKE WITH -ARTIN THE PORTAL DE CIDED TO OPEN ITS GATES .INA A THIRD YEAR !MER ICAN STUDENT WHO IS STUDY ING AT 5%! FOR A SEMESTER IS ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH "LACK BOARD HAVING USED IT AT HER HOME UNIVERSITY 7HEN COMMENTING ON "LACKBOARD AT 5%! SHE SAID h)T S THE BE GINNING OF THE SEMESTER SO PEOPLE AREN T SURE IF PROFES SORS WILL BE USING IT BECAUSE SOME USE IT ON EVERYTHING AND OTHERS DON T 4HERE ARE DEl NITELY SOME HOLES AND INCONSISTENCIES v #OMPARED TO SOME OF THE )4 PROBLEMS OF LAST YEAR THERE DO NOT SEEM TO BE

ENORMOUS PROBLEMS THIS YEAR #URRENTLY MANY STU DENTS ARE HAVING A FEW DIF l CULTIES UNDERSTANDING ALL THE FEATURES /NE STUDENT

*ONATHAN ADMITTED THAT HE DOES NOT hKNOW HOW TO USE "LACKBOARD 0ERHAPS IT WOULD BE USEFUL IF IN THE &RESHERS 7EEK THERE WERE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE "LACKBOARD SYSTEM RATHER THAN BEING THROWN INTO THE DEEP END ) KNOW THAT ) DID NOT HAVE A CLUE WHEN ) l RST HEARD OF "LACKBOARD ) SERI OUSLY BELIEVED FOR AN ENTIRE LECTURE THAT THERE WAS A GI ANT BLACKBOARD IN %ARLHAM (ALL WHICH WOULD MAGICAL LY HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION ) NEED v )F YOU ARE A l RST YEAR AND ARE EXPERIENCING DIFl CULTIES

MAKE SURE YOU ASK SOMEONE AT THE )4 (ELPDESK IN THE ,I BRARY

Shhhhh....  its  back  4HEY HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN ON THE SHELVES OF NEWSAGENTS OR SUPERMARKETS FOR FOUR YEARS

BUT #ADBURY S 7ISPA IS NOW MAKING A RETURN &IRST SEEN IN FOR MANY YEARS 7ISPA AND ITS MANY DERIVITIVES SUCH AS 7ISPA 'OLD AND 7ISPA -INT

WAS ONE OF #ADBURY S MOST SUCCESSFUL CHOCOLATE BARS (OWEVER AMID DECLINING SALES IT WAS WITHDRAWN FROM PRODUCTION IN 7HIS PERINGS OF DISCONTENT ON THE INTERNET GREW INTO FULL SCALE PETITIONS AND THE PUBLIC PRES SURE MEANS THAT #ADBURY S

FROM /CTOBER HAVE MADE MILLION BARS AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME )F ALL GOES WELL THERE IS A SUGGESTION THAT THE RETURN COULD BECOME MORE PERMANENT

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New lecturer in Japanese culture 0AUL 7ELLS 2EPORTER 5%! IS SET TO GAIN A NEW LEC TURER IN *APANESE POPULAR CULTURE THANKS TO A WELCOME CASH INJECTION FROM TWO PRI VATE FOUNDATIONS )T IS HOPED THAT THIS MOVE WILL ALLOW THE AREA OF *APANESE 3TUDIES TO mOURISH IN .ORWICH AND HELP TO ARREST THE NATIONAL DECLINE IN THIS SUBJECT AREA 4HE .IPPON &OUNDATION AND THE 'REAT "RITAIN 3ASA KAWA &OUNDATION ARE INVEST ING a MILLION IN THE STUDY AND RESEARCH OF *APANESE CUL TURE 5%! IS ONE OF UNI VERSITIES WHICH WILL RECEIVE FUNDING OTHER UNIVERSITIES INCLUDE /XFORD #AMBRIDGE AND "RISTOL 4HE 5NIVERSITY WILL RE CEIVE FUNDING FOR A NEW LEC TURER IN #ONTEMPORARY *APA NESE !RTS AND #ULTURE FOR lVE YEARS )T IS NOT YET ENTIRELY CLEAR WHICH DEPARTMENT THE LECTURER WILL BE PART OF AS IT LARGELY DEPENDS UPON WHO IS APPOINTED BUT 03) AND &46

SEEM TO BE THE MOST LIKELY DEPARTMENTS TO BENElT )T IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS WILL ALLOW FOR OPPORTUNI TIES OF INCLUDING *APANESE MEDIA DEVELOPMENTS MOST FAMOUSLY THE MEDIUM OF @!NIME INTO EXISTING COURSES WITHIN &ILM AND 4ELEVISION 3TUDIES )T MAY ALSO ALLOW FOR NEW COURSES IN MEDIA STUD

IES TO BE BEGUN 4HIS LECTURER WILL BE SHARED WITH THE 3AINSBURY )NSTITUTE FOR THE 3TUDY OF *AP ANESE !RTS AND #ULTURES AN INDEPENDENT CHARITY AFlLIAT ED WITH 5%! %STABLISHED IN

IT PROMOTES THE STUDY OF *APANESE CULTURE AND SO HOPES TO ACT AS A CATALYST FOR RESEARCH IN THOSE lELDS

.ATIONALLY

*APANESE 3TUDIES HAS FACED A FUNDING CRISIS IN RECENT YEARS 5NI VERSITIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY HAVE CUT BACK DEPARTMENTS !S A SUBJECT IT IS EXPENSIVE TO TEACH MAKING IT VULNER ABLE BUT IT REMAINS VITAL TO "RITAIN S BUSINESS INTERESTS *APAN HAS THE SECOND LARG EST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD

AND THEREFORE "RITAIN NEEDS TO RETAIN A POOL OF SPECIAL ISTS IN THIS VITAL MARKET 4HIS FALL IN FUNDING IS NOT HOW EVER MATCHED BY A FALL IN DE MAND LAST YEAR APPLICATIONS FOR *APANESE DEGREE COURSES ROSE BY )T IS HOPED THAT THIS EXTRA FUNDING WILL HELP TO RESTORE THE FORTUNES OF THIS FASCINAT ING SUBJECT AREA .OT SURPRISINGLY THE $EAN OF !RTS AND (UMANI TIES 0ROFESSOR *ON #OOK IS DELIGHTED AT THIS NEWS h7E ARE DELIGHTED TO RECEIVE THIS FUNDING VERY GRATEFUL TO BUILD ON 5%! S STRENGTHS 4HE LECTURESHIP WILL BE BASED AT THE 3AINSBURY INSTITUTE BUT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT ADDI TION TO CULTURAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY AS WELL AS IN THE 3)3*!# THE 3AINSBURY )NSTI TUTE FOR THE STUDY OF *APANESE ARTS AND CULTURE ITSELF GIVING OUR STUDENTS GREATER INSIGHT INTO THE EXISTING AND VIBRANT WORLD OF CONTEMPORARY *APA NESE VISUAL CULTURE v

Postal Strike Hits -EMBERS OF THE #OMMUNICA TION 7ORKERS 5NION #75 WENT ON STRIKE AFTER TALKS FAILED WITH THE MANAGEMENT OF THE 2OYAL -AIL 4HE SECOND STRIKE ENDS ON 7EDNESDAY TH /CTOBER 4HE STRIKE WAS TRIGGERED AFTER TALKS FAILED BE TWEEN THE TWO SIDES OVER JOB SECURITY AS WELL AS PAY 4HE #75 ARE CONCERNED THAT MODERNISATION PLANS TO BE IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THE 2OYAL -AIL WILL LEAD TO AS MANY AS JOB CUTS 4HEY ALSO OBJECT TO THE OFFER OF A PAY INCREASE 4HE 2OYAL -AIL DEFENDED ITSELF BY CLAIMING THAT SINCE THE PRIVATISATION OF THE IN DUSTRY IT NOW HAS TO COMPETE WITH OTHER COMPANIES AS WELL AS TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS THE INTERNET AND IS STRUG GLING TO REMAIN COMPETITIVE 4HE #75 WENT ON STRIKE EARLIER IN THE SUMMER OVER THE ONGOING ISSUE &URTHER ROLLING STRIKES ARE BEING PLANNED FOR EVERY -ONDAY UNTIL THE ISSUE IS RESOLVED

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Plagiarism  software  on  trial #OLETTE ,ILFORD *ENNA 7HYSALL 7HETHER FOR FRAUDULENT REASONS OR PURELY INNOCENT FACTORS PLAGIARISM COULD PLAY A PART IN YOUR TIME AT UNIVERSITY )N RECOGNITION OF THIS 5%! HAS BEEN TRIALLING THE USE OF AN !MERICAN TEXT MATCHING SOFTWARE CALLED 4URNITIN /NE PRIORITY OF THE 4AUGHT 0ROGRAMS 0OLICY 'ROUP AT 5%! IS THE PROTECTION OF ORIGINAL INTELLECTUAL WORK PRODUCED BY STUDENTS !S PART OF THIS JURISDICTION THEY HAVE INTRODUCED THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY WHICH COULD BE A VIABLE TOOL IN NOT ONLY PICKING UP PLAGIARISM BUT ALSO IN RAISING AWARENESS OF WHAT IS CLASSIlED AS PLAGIARISM 4HIS CAN BE PROBLEMATIC AS IT CAN OR CANNOT INCLUDE ASPECTS SUCH AS CORRECT CITATION QUOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES )N ADDITION PLAGIARISM IS ABOUT STEALING IDEAS JUST AS MUCH AS STEALING WORDS AND THIS CAN BE FAR HARDER TO PROVE /VER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS THERE HAS BEEN TRIALLING AMONGST SEVERAL SCHOOLS NAMELY $%6 &46 AND !-3 4HE RESULTS PROVIDED SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION 7HEN STUDENTS WERE

GIVEN TWENTY FOUR HOURS NOTICE OF THE USE OF 4URNITIN

PLAGIARISM WAS DETECTED AT A LEVEL OF )N CONTRAST WHEN STUDENTS WERE ALLOWED TO ACCESS THE SOFTWARE PRIOR TO SUBMITTING THEIR lNAL WORK THE LEVEL OF PLAGIARISM WAS ZERO 3TUDENTS THEREFORE SEEMED TO RESPOND BETTER TO THE INSTRUCTION OF THE PROGRAMME

THAN THE IMPENDING THREAT OF CONDEMNATION FOR POTENTIAL PLAGIARISM 7HILE SPEAKING TO 'EOFF -OORE #HAIR OF THE 4AUGHT 0ROGRAMS 'ROUP AT 5%!

HE ALERTED US TO THE POSSIBLE FULL INTRODUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE IN 3EPTEMBER 4HIS DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON ALL DISCREPANCIES WITHIN THE SOFTWARE BEING IRONED OUT BY THE 3ENATE /NE HUGE DISCREPANCY SURROUNDING PLAGIARISM IN ANY FORM IS BEING ABLE TO CONSTRUCT A CLEAR CUT

COMMON DElNITION !S 'EOFF -OORE QUITE RIGHTLY STATED hWHAT CAN BE DElNED AS PLAGIARISM IN (UMANITIES COULD ATTAIN A lRST CLASS MARK IN A -ATHEMATICS PAPER v 4HIS OWES TO THE FACT THAT ANSWERS IN HUMANITIES ARE OPINION BASED WHEREAS RESPONSES IN -ATH CANS BE

EITHER YES OR NO )N AN ECONOMIC SENSE RESOURCES ARE LIKELY TO BE STRETCHED AS ACADEMIC STAFF ARE GIVEN EVEN MORE HOURS OF WORK )T IS ALSO UNCLEAR ABOUT WHERE THE MONEY WILL COME FROM TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAMME /NE FURTHER PROBLEM POSED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF 4URNITIN IS THAT IT WILL MAKE THE UNIVERSITY S PROPOSED PLAN TO START ANONYMOUS MARKING A MORE COMPLEX TASK 4HIS IS BECAUSE IF AN ESSAY IS ANONYMOUS BUT THEN FOUND TO BE GUILTY OF PLAGIARISM TIME WILL BE SPENT GOING BACK TO lND THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR &URTHERMORE

TAKING ACTION OVER ANY CASES OF PLAGIARISM REQUIRES CLOSE TIES BETWEEN STUDENTS AND ACADEMIC STAFF

USA  Turnitin  law  suit .EW PLAGIARISM TECHNOLOGY HAS ALREADY CAUSED PROBLEMS IN THE 5NITED 3TATES 4HERE IS CURRENTLY AN ONGOING LAW SUIT BETWEEN FOUR !MERICAN (IGH 3CHOOL STUDENTS AND I0ARADIGMS THE PARENT COMPANY TO 4URNITIN !LONGSIDE THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT

ARGUABLY INHERENT IN THE USE OF 4URNITIN THE PLAINTIFFS WERE ESPECIALLY CONCERNED THAT USE OF 4URNITIN BY AN ACADEMIC ORGANISATION MEANS THAT ANY ASSESSED WORK IS AUTOMATICALLY ADDED TO THE COMPANY S ARCHIVES 4HIS IT IS ARGUED BY THE STUDENTS IS A COPYWRIGHT INFRINGEMENT 4HEIR CONCERN

IS HEIGHTENED BY THE FACT THAT I0ARADIGMS ARE A FOR PROlT ORGANISATION 4HERE WAS FURTHER AGGRIVATION FROM TWO OF THE STUDENTS WHO ATTEND 6IRGINIA S -C#LEAN (IGH 3CHOOL AS THEY WERE OFFERED TWO CHOICES SHOULD THEY FAIL TO USE 4URNITIN 2ECEIVE ZERO FOR THAT ESSAY

&IND ANOTHER SCHOOL I0ARADIGMS ARGUE THAT BECAUSE THE ARCHIVED ESSAYS ARE UTILISED ONLY TO BUILD UP A DIGITAL DATABASE TO HELP DISCOVER OTHER POTENTIAL FRADULENT WORK AND ARE NOT PUBLISHED IN FULL IT DOES NOT IMPINGE UPON COPYRIGHT LAW

Charitable  work  can  pay  off  student  loan *ESSIE 7HITE 2EPORTER %NJOYING GOOD KARMA WHILST HAVING YOUR DEBTS PAID OFF SOUNDS LIKE NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE (OWEVER THE $O 'OOD $EBT 3CHEME IS A WAY TO DO JUST THAT 4HE hlRST SCHEME OF ITS KIND IN THE 5+v IS THE BRAIN CHILD OF )AN 7ALLACE A ,AW GRADUATE OF /XFORD 5NIVER SITY WHO UPON COMPLETION OF HIS COURSE FOUND HIMSELF a IN DEBT 7HILST WORKING IN A FACTORY IN HIS

POST UNIVERSITY GAP YEAR DES PERATELY TRYING TO REPAY HIS DEBT )AN OVERHEARD THE FAC TORY OWNER COMMENTING ON HIS RELUCTANCE TO DONATE ANY PROlTS TO CHARITY BECAUSE HE WAS NOT PHYSICALLY ABLE TO SEE WHAT DIFFERENCE IF ANY

IT WAS MAKING 4HIS CHANCE ENCOUNTER LED TO THE FORMU LATION OF )AN S INNOVATIVE SCHEME (IS CONCEPT INVOLVES COMPANIES SPONSORING GRAD UATES TO DO EIGHT MONTHS CHARITY WORK 4HE SPONSOR SHIP MONEY IS THEN USED TO SETTLE THEIR DEBT 4HE CHAR

ITY GAINS A @FREE WORKER AND THE COMPANY SPONSORING THE GRADUATE GETS A FULL REPORT OF THE DIFFERENCES THEIR MONEY MADE TO THOSE LESS FORTUNATE )AN ENTHUSES h$O 'OOD $EBT IS AN EXCELLENT OPPOR TUNITY FOR GRADUATES AS THEY CAN HAVE A GAP YEAR OF SORTS

HELP WORTHY CAUSES AND CLEAR THEIR CUMBERSOME DEBTS AT THE SAME TIMEv 7ITH PERSONAL DEBT IN "RITAIN RISING BY a MILLION EVERY FOUR MINUTES AND TO TALLING a BILLION THE $O 'OOD $EBT 3CHEME SEEMS

TO OFFER THE PERFECT SOLUTION 7ITH THE RECENT RISE IN TUITION FEES GRADUATES ARE AMONGST THOSE HIT PARTICULAR LY HARD BY SEVERE DEBT 3TU DENTS CURRENTLY GRADUATE WITH AN AVERAGE DEBT OF a

AND SHORT OF MOVING ABROAD FOR SEVEN YEARS THERE IS NOTH ING MUCH YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT 4HAT BEING SAID GRADUATES ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BEGIN RE PAYING THEIR DEBT UNTIL THEY EARN AN ANNUAL SALARY OF OVER a SO IF YOUR POST 5%!

PLANS DO NOT INVOLVE CHARITY WORK DO NOT FRET

4HE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS ASKED ABOUT THE SCHEME THOUGHT IT PRESENTED A hWIN WIN SITUATIONv /NE SECOND YEAR LAW STUDENT DID POINT OUT THAT hTHE PURPOSE OF CHARITY WORK IS TO BENElT A GOOD CAUSE THEREFORE IF YOU ARE ULTIMATELY BENElTING YOURSELF THE POINT IS SURELY BEING MISSEDv 7HETHER OR NOT THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS WILL MIND ABOUT THE MORAL IMPLICATIONS IS ANOTHER MAT TER )AN HAS ALREADY ENLISTED THE SUPPORT OF FOURTEEN CHAR

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ITIES AND UPON HIS RETURN TO %NGLAND FROM A PLACEMENT IN 2WANDA HE HOPES TO LAUNCH $O 'OOD $EBT OFl CIALLY IN *ANUARY 4HERE ARE ALL TYPES OF CHARITY WORK AVAILABLE FROM HELPING THE ELDERLY OR SICK IN YOUR LOCAL AREA TO TEACHING %NGLISH IN !FRICA 9OU CAN REGISTER TO BE A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE ON THE WEBSITE WWW DOGOOD DEBT COM )T COSTS JUST a AL THOUGH YOU ARE BY NO MEANS GUARANTEED A PLACE ON THE SCHEME AS THERE ARE ONLY lVE HUNDRED PLACES

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Students  rally  to  support  Burmese  monks *EFF 3ERGEANT 2EPORTER 4HREE THOUSAND PEOPLE

MANY OF THEM STUDENTS PRO TESTED IN SUPPORT OF THE "UR MESE PEOPLE IN ,ONDON LAST 3UNDAY 0EOPLE TOOK TO THE STREETS OF THE CAPITAL .EW CASTLE AND "RIGHTON TO SHOW THEIR SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEO PLE OF "URMA /VER THE PAST FORTNIGHT

MONKS HAVE LED A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE REPRESSIVE "UR MESE GOVERNMENT WHICH LAST WEEK CRACKED DOWN ON THE PROTESTS WITH AT LEAST NINE DEATHS -ANY MONKS AND PARTICIPANTS WERE ARRESTED

AND THEIR PLIGHT IS STILL UN KNOWN !NDREW 4AYLOR THE 5N ION S &INANCE /FlCER SAYS THAT THE PROTESTS WERE A CHANCE FOR THE "RITISH PEOPLE TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE "URMESE h!S WITH MOST OF THESE TYPES OF PASSIVE DIRECT ACTION

AS ) SEE IT THE REASON IS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION 4HIS MARCH HAD PARTICULAR SIGNIlCANCE IN ITS TIMING AS IT ALSO HAD THE PO TENTIAL TO SHOW THE "URMESE GOVERNMENT THAT PEOPLE WERE WATCHING AND DID CARE IN AN ATTEMPT TO TRY AND AVOID THE LEVELS OF BLOODSHED SEEN PRE VIOUSLY WHEN THE PEOPLE ROSE AGAINST "URMA S REGIME v 4HE MILITARY GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN IN POWER SINCE )N THE PAST IT HAS VIO LENTLY ATTACKED THE "URMESE PEOPLE 4HE WORST VIOLENCE SEEN WAS IN WHEN DEM ONSTRATORS WERE MASSACRED AT PRO DEMOCRACY RALLIES &REE ELECTIONS WERE HELD IN

AND THE .ATIONAL ,EAGUE OF $EMOCRACY IS LED BY !UNG 3AN 3UU +YI WHO WON OF THE SEATS 4HE MILITARY JUNTA HAS SINCE REFUSED TO STEP ASIDE AND 3UU +YI HAS BEEN EITHER IN PRISON OR UN DER HOUSE ARREST SINCE $EMOCRATIC REFORM IN

"URMA MAY NOT OCCUR SOON

BUT 4AYLOR LIKE OTHERS BE LIEVES IT IS A REAL POSSIBILITY h)NTERNATIONAL PRESSURE FROM GOVERNMENTS AND COR PORATIONS WILL LEAD TO THE MIL ITARY POWERS WHICH CONTROL "URMA #ONTINUED CORPORATE AND INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE

IN PARTICULAR FROM 4OTAL A MAJOR INVESTOR IN THE MILI TARY REGIMES STRUCTURES AND #HINA WHO HOLDS THE MOST INmUENCE OVER THE "URMESE REGIME WOULD THEN LEAD TO A PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO GOVERN MENT FOR THE ALREADY ELECTED .ATIONAL ,EAGUE FOR $EMOC RACY PARTY v 2ACHEL !RCHER A STUDENT SUPPORTER OF DEMOCRATIC RE FORM IN "URMA HOLDS A SIMI LAR VIEW h4HE ONLY THING THAT CAN GET RID OF THE DICTATORSHIP IS A FULL UPRISING FROM THE "UR MESE PEOPLE WHICH IS ON THE CARDS 5NFORTUNATELY ANY IN FORMATION ON MOVEMENTS IN "URMA IS LIMITED SINCE THE IN

TERNET HAD BEEN SHUT DOWN v &URTHER PROTESTS ARE PLANNED THROUGHOUT %UROPE IN COMING WEEKS 4AYLOR SAYS THERE IS MORE THAT THE INDI VIDUAL CAN DO h7RITE TO YOUR -0 BOY COTT 4OTAL TAKE DIRECT AC TION AGAINST 4OTAL GO ON THE MARCH WRITE STORIES IN LOCAL MEDIA ABOUT THE SITUATION

EMAIL NEWS ORGANISATIONS

MAKE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AWARE OF THE SITUATION v !RCHER ALSO SAYS SIMILAR

h3UPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT

'O ON PROTESTS GO ON THE RALLIES AND HELP BUILD AN IN TERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVE MENT v "OTH 4AYLOR AND !RCHER BELIEVE THAT WORLD GOVERN MENTS ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH h#HINA AND 2USSIA mEXED THEIR MUSCLES ON THE 5. 3E CURITY #OUNCIL GATHERING SUP PORT FROM NON PERMANENT MEMBERS TO AVOID A RESOLU TION BEING PASSED AGAINST THE "URMESE 2EGIME v SAYS 4AYLOR 4AKING ACTION THROUGH

ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IS ALSO NOT IDEAL SAYS 4AYLOR h-OST SANCTIONS WEAKEN THE POOR NOT THE RULING ELITESv 2EGARDLESS OF THE POLITICAL EFFORTS OR LACK THEREOF 4AYLOR BELIEVES THAT DEMOCRACY DOES STAND A CHANCE IN "URMA h$EMOCRACY HAS AS MUCH OF A CHANCE AS ANY WHERE ELSE v "URMA DOES AFTER ALL HAVE AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT HOW EVER THE RULING MILITARY JUNTA REFUSES TO RECOGNISE THE PEO PLE S SAY v

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Why we must not forget Burma 2OB ,AMB /PINIONS 7RITER &OLLOWING THE RECENT PRO TESTS "URMA HAS FALLEN FROM THE RADAR OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS 0EOPLE MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO FOR GET WHAT HAS GONE ON INSIDE THIS TROUBLED COUNTRY 4HE MILITARY JUNTA HAS NOW RE IMPOSED @LAW AND ORDER WITH THE KILLING OF NINE MONKS MILITARY FIG URES n THE TOTAL MAY BE MUCH HIGHER AND AN INTER NATIONAL JOURNALIST ALONG WITH TOTALITARIAN RESTRIC TIONS ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND CONTACT WITH THE OUT SIDE WORLD 4HOUSANDS OF MONKS ARE STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR n AT BEST WE CAN HOPE THAT THEY ARE STILL ALIVE IN THE DE TENTION CAMPS OUTSIDE 2AN GOON !T WORST WE LOOK TO THE PICTURE OF A DEAD MONK

FLOATING FACE DOWN ON THE (LAING 2IVER )T IS DOUBTFUL THAT THE MONKS THOUGHT THEIR PRO TESTS WOULD TOPPLE THE JUN TA THEY WISHED RATHER TO AT TRACT ATTENTION TO THE PLIGHT OF THE "URMESE 4HE COUNTRY IS CURRENT LY RANKED JOINT TOP WITH 3OMALIA IN THE WORLD FOR CORRUPTION SOURCE 4RANS PARENCY )NTERNATIONAL "URMA THEREFORE IS MORE

CORRUPT THAN )RAQ THE $2# 3UDAN EVEN :IMBA BWE 4HE MILITARY RULERS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR SHOCKING HUMAN RIGHTS OFFENCES )T IS COMMONPLACE FOR HIGH RANKING OFFICIALS TO BE AL LOCATED SEX SLAVES AND THE RAPE OF THOUSANDS OF WOM

h)T IS COM MONPLACE FOR HIGH RANKING OFlCIALS TO BE ALLOCATED SEX SLAVES AND THE RAPE OF THOU SANDS OF WOM EN BY GOVERN MENT WORKERS IS IGNORED v EN BY GOVERNMENT WORKERS IS IGNORED &ORCED LABOUR CAMPS ARE WIDESPREAD AND "URMA IS A HUB FOR TRAFFICK ING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN AROUND 3OUTHEAST !SIA 0EOPLE IN SUPPORT OF THE TRUE ELECTED GOVERN MENT UNDER !UNG 3AN 3UU +YI WHO CONVINCINGLY WON

THE LAST ELECTION HELD IN -AY ARE USUALLY IM PRISONED AND THERE ARE NA TIONWIDE FILTERS ON INTERNET USAGE 4HIS MUCH IS KNOWN n THE PROBLEM IS HOW TO DEAL WITH IT 4HE 5. IS RENDERED POWERLESS IN THIS SITUATION

BY ITS OWN CHARTER 4RADE SANCTIONS FROM THE %5 WOULD HURT THE "URMESE PUBLIC RATHER THAN THE LEAD ERSHIP 4HE ONLY REAL HOPE WE HAVE IS #HINA AS IT IS HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH THE JUNTA (OWEVER ANY MORE THAN WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY HAD n MILD DISAPPROVAL n IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY AS "EIJING HAS NO DESIRE TO TURN THE JUNTA INTO AN ENEMY #URRENT PLANS FOR A PIPE LINE CARRYING OIL AND GAS FROM THE "AY OF "ENGAL TO THE 9UNNAN PROVINCE WOULD BE JEOPARDISED AS WOULD THE #HINESE EXPLOITATION OF MANY OF "URMA S NATURAL RESOURCES INCLUDING RUBBER

TIMBER TEA AND MINERALS )NDEED #HINA MAY WISH TO PRESERVE THE MILI TARY LEADERSHIP OF "URMA 3HOULD THE JUNTA FALL THE RESULTANT UPSURGE IN "UR MESE NATIONALISM COULD DESTABILISE THE REGION )N ANY CASE IF DEMOCRA CY IS THE REMEDY FOR "URMA S PROBLEMS WOULD NOT #HINA ALSO BENEFIT FROM THE SAME

MEDICINE #HINA ISN T A DEMOCRATIC STATE ITSELF AND HAS A HIGHLY DUBIOUS RECORD OF HUMAN RIGHTS INFRINGE MENT INCLUDING FORCED LABOUR CAMPS AND HEAVY CENSORSHIP SO IS IN NO PO SITION TO PREACH TO "URMA #HINA CERTAINLY DOES NOT

h#HINA MAY WISH TO PRE SERVE THE MILI TARY LEADER SHIP OF "URMA 3HOULD THE JUNTA FALL THE RESULTANT UP SURGE IN "UR MESE NATION ALISM COULD DESTABILISE THE REGION v WANT ITS INTERNAL PROBLEMS PUBLICISED BEFORE THE /LYMPIC 'AMES WHICH IT HOPES WILL SEAL ITS CLAIM TO BEING A FULLY FLEDGED RE SPECTED WORLD POWER 4HE ONLY HOPE IS THAT

BY KEEPING THE PLIGHT OF "URMA IN THE OPEN AND BY WORLD NATIONS COLLECTIVELY APPLYING PRESSURE ON "EI JING TO ACT #HINA WILL PROVE ITSELF THE SOPHISTICATED IN TERNATIONAL PLAYER IT WISHES TO BE AND USE ITS INFLUENCE OVER THE JUNTA TO MAXIMUM EFFECT %VERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY IN THIS PROCESS BUT NOT

BY GOING ON PROTEST MARCH ES OR CHAINING OURSELVES TO EMBASSIES 7E CAN REMEM BER THE SACRIFICES MADE BY THE MONKS AND ORDINARY CITIZENS OF "URMA AND KEEP THE ISSUE ALIVE WHETHER BY WRITING BLOGS SIGNING PETI TIONS OR JUST DISCUSSING IT IN THE PUB #HINA WILL BE VERY CONCERNED WITH RECEIV ING POSITIVE PUBLICITY WHEN THE MEDIA SPOTLIGHT SHINES UPON "EIJING NEXT YEAR 7E CAN ENSURE THAT BY STRESSING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE "URMESE SITUATION

#HINA WILL HAVE TO FACE ITS CULPABILITY IN RECENT EVENTS

AND WILL SHOW RESPONSIBIL ITY IN DEALING WITH ONE OF THE WORST DICTATORSHIPS IN THE WORLD )F WE ARE LUCKY

DOING SO MAY EVEN FORCE #HINA TO CONTEMPLATE THE MANY ANALOGOUS PROBLEMS FACED BY ITS OWN CITIZENS

Talk The Talk %MMELINE 3AUNDERS /PINIONS %DITOR &OLLOWING A ROWDY DISCUSSION WITH MY HOUSEMATES ) WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF A NEW CAMPAIGN 2EMOVE THE 5GLY FROM 0OLITICS WHICH CALLS FOR MORE HOTTIES TO RUN THE COUNTRY 4OO LONG HAVE WE BEEN SUBJECTED TO JOWLY MEN IN CHEAP POLYESTER WOBBLING THEIR FACIAL FEATURES IN TIME TO THEIR IRRELEVANT POLEMIC %VEN "LAIR S "ABES THAT MUM SY POSSE WHICH SOUNDED SO PROMISING IN ARE NOT SPRING CHICKENS ANY MORE LET ALONE HOT CHICKS %D "ALLS &UNNY NAME 3HAME ABOUT THE FACE 4HIS ISN T JUST A SHALLOW IDEA n THE IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY ARE HUGE 'OOD LOOKS COMBINED WITH POWER ARE A MORE EFFECTIVE APHRODISIAC THAN A BUNCH OF PETROL STATION mOWERS AND A BAR OF 'ALAXY $IDN T 2OUSSEAU SAY THAT IN THE BASIC STATE OF NATURE THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ALWAYS MAN AGED TO GET THINGS UP AND RUN NING lNE SO ) M PARAPHRAS ING HIM SLIGHTLY BUT ) M SURE THAT S WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY 4HOSE WHO SAY THAT "ROWN HAS A CERTAIN JE NE SAIS QUOI ABOUT HIM AN AIR OF DOUR CONlDENCE WHICH WHEN COMBINED WITH HIS 0- SHIP

MAKES HIM ODDLY FANCIABLE

SHOULD PROBABLY BE STERILISED FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY

Concrete Debate: Alcohol in Society )N THE lRST OF A REGULAR SERIES OF DEBATES IN THE LIGHT OF &RESHERS 7EEK *ESSIE 7HITE AND ,EYVAEN 4AYLOR DISCUSS WHETHER WE SHOULD BAN OR RESTRICT THE SALE OF ALCOHOL ON CAMPUS *ESSIE 7HITE /PINIONS 7RITER )F ) ASKED YOU WHAT YOUR FA VOURITE PASTIME AT UNIVERSITY IS ) M GUESSING THE MAJOR ITY OF ANSWERS WOULD INCLUDE SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF @GETTING SMASHED 5NIVERSITY WOULDN T BE THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THAT IT IS WITH OUT THE INCLUSION OF ALCOHOL SOMEWHERE IN THE EQUATION 0ICTURE YOURSELF BACK ON YOUR lRST DAY YOUR DAD HAS lNALLY DRAGGED YOUR SOBBING MOTHER BACK HOME YOUR ROOM IS BEGINNING TO LOOK A BIT LIKE THE BEDROOM YOU VE JUST SAID FAREWELL TO 4HE RE ALISATION THAT YOU ARE COM PLETELY ON YOUR OWN FOR WHAT MAY BE THE lRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE DAWNS BUTTERmIES BEGIN TO mUTTER IN YOUR STOMACH (OWEVER IN A FEW HOURS YOU WILL BE ROLLING ON THE

KITCHEN mOOR ABSOLUTELY OFF YOUR FACE SLURRING h) LOVE YOUv TO YOUR NEW BEST MATE !LCOHOL ALLOWS YOU TO RELEASE YOUR INHIBITIONS ) M NOT SUGGESTING BY ANY MEANS THAT YOU NEED TO GET COMPLETELY HAMMERED EVERY TIME YOU GO OUT OR PEOPLE WON T LIKE YOU ) M MERELY SAYING THAT WITHOUT IT MAKING FRIENDS IN A NEW ENVIRONMENT WOULD BE A LOT HARDER FOR MANY 7HAT WOULD THE INSTI TUTION THAT IS THE ,#2 BE WITHOUT ALCOHOL ! SCREAM ING mASHBACK TO YOUR 9EAR SCHOOL DISCO ONLY THIS TIME ROUND WITH A LOAD OF MISER ABLE TWENTY SOMETHINGS LIN ING THE WALLS INSTEAD 4HE 5NION 0UB AND THE ,#2 ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE SOCIAL LIFE OF 5%!

AND TO FORCE THEM TO STOP SERVING ALCOHOL WOULD BE LIKE ASKING .!3! TO START PRODUCING ICED BUNS 7ELL

MAYBE NOT BUT YOU GET MY POINT &OR THOSE WHO PREFER TIME AWAY FROM THE ,#2 THERE IS ALWAYS THE "LEND IN WHICH TO BE @INTELLECTUAL TO DRINK COFFEE AND DISCUSS 'ERMANY S POLITICAL SYSTEM OR THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE HUMAN PSY CHE 4HERE ALWAYS NEEDS TO BE A BALANCE -Y lNAL POINT IS THAT ALCO HOL IS A FULLY LEGAL AND WIDELY ENJOYED COMMODITY 4O TAKE IT AWAY WOULD TREAT US AS CHIL DREN RATHER THAN RESPONSIBLE ADULTS ABLE TO CHOOSE WHETH ER OR NOT WE WISH TO CONSUME ALCOHOL 5%! PROVIDES A SAFE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH TO SET OUR OWN LIMITS AND ANY BAN WOULD ONLY CAUSE ANGRY RE TALIATION AND A STEEP DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF APPLICANTS TO 5%!

GREATLY INHIBITING THE GROWTH OF OUR UP AND COM ING UNIVERSITY

,EYVAEN 4AYLOR /PINIONS 7RITER "AN ALCOHOL h3TEADY ON v ) HEAR YOU CRY (UMBUG 2E CENTLY MANY NEO SOCIALISTS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO BAN OR RE STRICT VARIOUS THINGS SUCH AS CIGARETTES FAST FOOD ADVERTS

FREE SPEECH AND SO ON BUT CALLS TO CURB ALCOHOL HAVE FALLEN ON DEAF EARS ) THINK ) UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS MOST POLITICIANS AND DECISION MAKERS HAVE GONE TO UNIVERSITY AND EMERGED OUT THE OTHER SIDE AS CLOSET ALCOHOLICS 4HEY ARE PROB ABLY SITTING UP THERE IN 7ESTMINISTER QUAFlNG THEIR #HAMPERS THINKING OF MORE WAYS TO RUIN OUR FUN WITHOUT INFRINGING UPON THEIR PARTY LIFESTYLE 4O END THE HYPOCRISY THERE SHOULD EITHER BE NO RESTRICTIONS ON THE ABOVE

OR A TOTAL BAN ON ALCOHOL ) WOULD ADVOCATE THIS 4HERE ARE LOTS OF LEGITI MATE REASONS FOR THE LATTER !CCORDING TO THE .(3 IN

ADULTS WENT TO HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF AN AL COHOL RELATED DISEASE 7ERE ALCOHOL TO BE DISCOVERED FOR THE lRST TIME TOMORROW

IT WOULD RANK AS A #LASS !

DRUG 4HE MAIN REASON FOR A BAN ON ALCOHOL IS THAT IT HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH SOCIALISING !T 5%! VIRTUALLY ALL CLUBS AND SOCIETIES START OR END THEIR EVENTS WITH A VISIT TO THE BAR PLACING PRES SURE ON PEOPLE TO DRINK 'ETTING DRUNK HAS BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF &RESHERS 7EEK AND ANY PARTY OR NIGHT OUT 3PEND A RELATIVELY SOBER EVENING AT THE BAR AND YOU LL SEE NO END OF PEOPLE WHO

HAVE DISCARDED THEIR DIG NITY WHILST THEIR NEW FRIENDS lLM THEIR ANTICS AND NEXT MORNING UPLOAD THEM ONTO 9OU4UBE $O WE REALLY NEED CHEAP BOOZE TO DESTROY OUR INHIBITIONS AND HAVE FUN &INALLY ) WANT TO MOVE ON TO THE IMPACT OF DRUNKS ON THOSE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DRINK 4HERE ARE THE LATE NIGHT PARTIES WHICH WE ARE NOT PART OF BUT STILL HAVE TO LISTEN TO 4HE RANDOM LOST PEOPLE WHO NEED TO BE SHOWN HOME THE EMOTION ALLY VOLATILE PEOPLE WHO EITHER SHOUT OR CRY AND THE ARMY OF DRUNKS WHO CRAWL BACK VOMITING AND EXPECT ING SYMPATHY 7HY SHOULD WE HAVE TO CLEAR UP THEIR MESS AFTER THEM )F PEOPLE CANNOT DRINK RESPONSIBLY

WHICH THEY CLEARLY CANNOT

THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DRINK AT ALL

" /Ê Ê"* "

4UESDAY TH /CTOBER " , /

$ANNY 4URNER 2ICHARD $UCKWORTH

Snap, crackle and... poll -ATT 0ACKER /PINIONS 7RITER 3O WHO THE HELL DO ,ABOUR VOTERS CHOOSE NOW %VER GET THE FEELING YOU VE BEEN CHEATED 4HIS QUESTION FOR ,ABOUR SUPPORTERS WOULD BE ANSWERED WITH A YES TO 4ONY "LAIR THE BEST LEADER THE 4ORIES NEVER HAD "UT WHAT ABOUT THE NEW LEADER WHO HAS THREATENED TO CALL AN EARLY ELECTION !NY LEFT LEANING SUPPORT ER IS SUPPOSED TO BE RELIEVED THAT "ROWN HAS lNALLY TAKEN CONTROL THAT HERE IS A RELIABLE POLITICIAN WHO CAN BE TRUSTED NOT ONLY WITH THE ECONOMY

BUT TO CARRY OUT HIS PROMISES WITHOUT RESORTING TO THE USE OF SPIN 4HIS "ROWN MYTH AP PEARS TO HAVE BEEN LAPPED UP WITHOUT QUESTION "ROWN S ECONOMIC BOOM IS BASED ON BORROWED BIL LIONS (IS NEVER NEVER ECONO MY LOOKS ALL TOO VULNERABLE

WITH THE STUDENTS OF TODAY PAYING THE PRICE TOMORROW !S #HANCELLOR HIS FORECAST FOR THE SIX YEARS FOLLOWING WAS ALMOST TEN TIMES OUT OF BALANCE BY a BIL LION .O WONDER THE NUMER OUS STEALTH TAXES HAVE COME INTO PLAY !N UNSUSTAINABLE HOUSEHOLD AND GOVERNMEN TAL DEBT CAN ONLY LEAD TO AN

ECONOMIC CRISIS 7HAT THE PAST TEN YEARS HAS SHOWN US IS THAT "ROWN HAS NO IDEA HOW TO ACHIEVE RESULTS AND HAS THUS FAR BEEN CONTENT TO THROW MONEY AT PROBLEMS WHILST TAKING NO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY !S THE SECOND MOST INmUENTIAL 5+ POLITICIAN HE HAS BEEN PARTY TO THE lASCOS THAT HAVE OCCURED n BILLIONS WASTED ON THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

ON THE .(3 ON THE SALE OF GOLD AND ON THE /LYMPICS

TO NAME BUT A FEW (OW CAN HE HOPE TO UNDO WHAT HAS BEEN DONE OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS WHEN HE WAS FULLY PART OF THE SYSTEM ) WOULD HAVE

SOME RESPECT FOR HIM HAD HE DENOUNCED ANY POLICIES THAT HE DISAGREED WITH IT S NOT AS IF THERE WEREN T ANY DISSIDENT ,ABOUR SUPPORTERS /R DID HIS SILENCE IMPLY AN AGREE MENT WITH ALL OF THE POLICIES OVER THE LAST DECADE "UT DO NOT WORRY WE RE TOLD "ROWN WILL NOT BE AS RIGHT OF CENTRE AS "LAIR .O

HE REPRESENTS THE TRUE ,ABOUR PARTY THE LEFT LEANING 7OULD THAT BE WHY HE IS NOT QUES TIONING THE 0&) DEBACLE THE CITY ACADEMIES ISSUE AND A HOUSING MARKET THAT HAS DIS ENFRANCHISED A GENERATION !S THE TORMENTED IN "URMA ARE ENCOURAGED TO PROTEST

ON THE STREETS AGAINST THEIR PARLIAMENT IN 2ANGOON WE ARE TOLD DO THE SAME HERE AND YOU WILL BE ARRESTED @!N END TO SPIN WE HAD BEEN TOLD BUT SPIN SATURATED HIS ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE WITHDRAWL OF TROOPS FROM )RAQ THIS WEEK WHILST PAYING A mYING VISIT TO THE mOWER OF DEMOCRACY !S A NATION WE NEED A DYNAMIC PROGRESSIVE 0RIME -INISTER WHO IS WILLING TO BE PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE NOT A SANITISED VERSION OF "LAIR "ROWN BEARS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS %T TU

'ORDON

A MEDAL "UT IT GETS WORSE WHEN HAVING ADMITTED THIS

THEY THEN START SOUNDING OFF ABOUT HOW CANNABIS SHOULD BE RECLASSIlED AS THE POOR KIDS THESE DAYS CAN T HANDLE THE STRONG STUFF WHICH THEY OBVIOUSLY COULD )T ALSO SEEMS LIKE THE SAME IS HAPPENING TO ALCO HOL &OR CENTURIES PEOPLE HAVE DRUNK BEER WINE AND MOJITOS 3OMETIMES THEY DRANK TOO MUCH BUT PEO PLE EVENTUALLY LEARNED THEIR LIMIT !PPARENTLY WE CAN NO LONGER BE TRUSTED WITH THIS EITHER 4HE RULING GENERATION ARE QUITE HAPPY TO ADMIT THAT THEY USED TO GET DRUNK "UT IT WAS ALRIGHT FOR THEM TO DO IT

WHILST ONCE AGAIN THOSE OF US OF UNIVERSITY AGE ARE MUCH WORSE WITH ALCOHOL 7E GET

ROWDY AND UPSET PEOPLE OB VIOUSLY SOMETHING OUR PAR ENTS NEVER DID SO NOW OUR ALCOHOLIC INTAKE MUST BE CURTAILED &OR OUR OWN GOOD OF COURSE 4HE POOR DEARS NEED LOOKING AFTER BY THEIR ELDERS AND BETTERS )N ONE FELL SWOOP THE OLDER GENERATION COMPLETELY MISS THE POINT OF THE DRUGS LIBERALISATION ARGU MENT SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY REALLY THINK THEY RE BETTER THAN US )T S HARD TO SEE ANY EVI DENCE THAT THEY TRUST US SINCE EVERY DAY WE HEAR STORIES OF OLDER PEOPLE TERRIlED ABOUT YOUNG NE ER DO WELLS 4HERE WAS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE IN THE %$0 RECENTLY LOCAL RESIDENTS ARE SETTING UP A CAMPAIGN AGAINST hNOISY STUDENTSv

WITH AN ACCOMPANYING PIC

TURE OF TWO MIDDLE AGED GEEZERS LOOKING MEAN ARMS CROSSED READY TO TAKE ON THE YOUNG HORDES "UT YOU JUST KNOW THEY RE THE KIND OF PEO PLE WHO IF THEY WALKED PAST YOU IN THE STREET WOULD LOOK MEEKLY AT THEIR SHOES LEAP ING TO THE SIDE WITH A MILD SQUEAK FEARFUL OF BECOMING A VICTIM OF YOUTHFUL RAGE 4HIS MAY SEEM LIKE A RANT AGAINST MY PARENTS AND OLDER PEOPLE IN GENERAL n IT S NOT &OR ONE MY PARENTS ARE LOVELY INDIVIDUALS AND IT S STUPID TO GENERALISE "UT ) CAN T HELP FEEL THAT THE OLDER GEN ERATION HAVE FAILED US OVERALL 7E KNOW WE RE SMARTER THAN THEM SO IT S HIGH TIME THEY MOVED OVER AND LET US GET ON WITH MAKING THINGS BETTER AGAIN

Older and wiser? !NDY *UDSON $EPUTY %DITOR ) M GOING TO START THIS ARTI CLE BY DISCUSSING (ARRY 0OT TER SO IF YOU RE ONE OF THE STRANGE PEOPLE WHO HAS YET TO lNISH IT WHAT DID YOU DO ALL SUMMER 7ORK THEN BE CAREFUL !NYWAY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE THEMES IS THE WAY (ARRY S OPINION OF HIS FA THER CHANGES 4O BEGIN WITH

(ARRY WORSHIPS *AMES 0OTTER

WHO COULD DO NO WRONG BUT OVER TIME WE lND OUT THAT

ACTUALLY HE WAS ARROGANT AND EVEN A BULLY (ARRY DOESN T FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY AND BECOMES A BETTER MAN THAN HIS FATHER 4HIS IS A WONDER FUL THEME IN ITSELF BUT ALSO RELEVANT BECAUSE LET S FACE IT THE CURRENT GENERATION OF

ADULTS RULING THE WORLD ARE A BIT CRAPPY AND WE STUDENTS ARE FAR BETTER #URRENTLY THE RULING GEN ERATION SEEMS TO HAVE LOST IT 7HEN THE S GENERATION GREW TO POWER THERE WAS A LOT OF HOPE ABOUT WHAT THEY WOULD ACHIEVE 4HEY WOULD LIBERALISE DRUGS CREATE A UTO PIAN HEALTH SERVICE AND WAR WOULD BECOME A THING OF THE PAST )T S ONE THING TO MISS THESE ADMITTEDLY HIGH AIMS

BUT CURRENTLY PEOPLE SEEM TO BE GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO DESTROY WHAT S BEEN DONE 4AKE DRUGS FOR EXAMPLE THIS SUMMER A LOAD OF ,ABOUR -0S SUDDENLY CAME OUT AD MITTING THEY D SMOKED WEED )N RESPONSE THE WORLD GAVE A COLLECTIVE SHRUG OF THE SHOUL DERS n WHAT DO THEY WANT

h)T S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MADv HAS BECOME THE TAGLINE OF BOTH HARD LINE $AILY -AIL READERS AND LIMP WRISTED (AMPSTEAD LIBERALS 4HE IDEA OF LAWS THAT LEGISLATE AGAINST DISCRIMINATIVE LAN GUAGE HAS IRONICALLY BECOME ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DEBATE WITHOUT THE HORROR STORIES THAT SURROUND THIS SUBJECT /UTRAGE ABOUT COUNCILS THAT BAN #HRISTMAS FOR @7IN TERMAS A RIDICULOUS SUG GESTION AS THE @MASS PART OF #HRISTMAS HAS JUST AS MUCH #HRISTIAN REFERENCE AS THE @#HRIST AT THE START OF THE WORD POSTAGE STAMPS THAT TRY TO APPEASE ETHNIC MINORI TIES AND EVEN SUGGESTIONS THAT "RUSSELS HAVE FERVENTLY TRIED TO @%UROTISE PARTS OF OUR IDENTITY BY BANNING THE "RIT ISH PINT 3UCH STORIES ARE NOT JUST EXAGGERATED THEY ARE COM PLETELY FABRICATED 4HE BEN ElT OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS AN ETHOS IN SOCIETY OF NON NEGOTIABLE EQUALITY SOME THING TO ASPIRE TO 4ORIES CONSTANTLY TELL US THAT IT IS NOT RACIST TO TALK ABOUT HARD LINE IMMIGRATION QUOTAS AND THEY RE RIGHT "UT NO ONE EVER SAID IT WAS RACIST IT IS THE ECONOMIC UNFEASIBILI TY THAT LEADS TO DISAGREEMENT "UT IN THEIR CAMPAIGN IMPLIED THAT POLITICAL COR RECTNESS WAS THE REASON FOR THE MASS REJECTION OF THEIR AR CHAIC OUTLOOK 7HAT IS WORSE IS APPARENT LIBERALS ARGUING THAT ANY POLITICAL CORRECT NESS IS AGAINST OUR @FREEDOM OF SPEECH 4OTAL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AS AN OBJECTIVE PRINCI PLE IS UNFORTUNATELY UNREALIS TIC AND HAS NOT BEEN IN PLACE FOR CENTURIES IN OUR COUNTRY

BE IT FOR SEDITION OR RACISM &REEDOM IS A SUBJECTIVE TERM AND ) WOULD ARGUE THAT PEOPLE FROM CERTAIN BACK GROUNDS SHOULD HAVE FREE DOM FROM THE VARIOUS LIN GUISTICALLY LOADED TERMS THAT HAVE EVOLVED FROM A HISTORY OF IMPERIALISM AND DISCRIMI NATION 7HEN *IM $AVIDSON CALLED ANOTHER CONTESTANT ON (ELL S +ITCHEN A hSHIRT LIFTERv

THE PROBLEM EXTENDED PAST PERSONAL OFFENCE TO A GENERAL INSENSITIVITY AT A GROUP IN SOCIETY THAT HAS HAD TO DEAL WITH IMMEASURABLE INTOLER ANCE NOT JUST IN OUR RECENT HISTORY BUT RIGHT ACROSS THE WORLD 0OLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS ITS LIMITS BUT TO SAY IT HAS hGONE MADv IS A VAST EXAG GERATION MOTIVATED BY THE RIGHT WING DOMINANCE OF OUR MEDIA 7E NEED A NAME FOR THIS COLUMN CAN YOU HELP !NSWERS ON A POSTCARD TO THE #ONCRETE OFlCE

"

, / 4UESDAY TH /CTOBER

&REE !LISTAIR $ARLING %YEBROWS 3TART #OLLECTING 9OUR 4OKENS .OW

Opinion  poll  shock  for  Labour ! 9OU'OV OPINION POLL COMMIS SIONED BY 4HE %NQUIRER SHOWS THAT A SIGNIlCANT MAJORITY OF "RITISH VOTERS WANT ,ORD ,IVERPOOL TO RE TURN AND LEAD THE 'OVERNMENT ,ORD ,IVERPOOL WHOSE 4ORY ADMINISTRATION RAN FROM UN TIL HAS OPENED UP AN IMPRES SIVE POINT LEAD OVER 'ORDON "ROWN S ,ABOUR 0ARTY AND $AVID #AMERON S #ONSERVATIVES )N A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT WHICH MANY POLITICAL PUNDITS FAILED TO PREDICT AN OVERWHELMING PER CENT OF "RITONS ARE SUPPORTING ,ORD ,IVERPOOL -EANWHILE ONLY PER CENT FAVOUR -R #AMERON WITH ,ABOUR ON PER CENT 4HIS POLL COMES AS A BLOW TO AIDES TO THE 0RIME -INISTER WHO UNTIL RECENTLY WAS PREPAR ING TO ANNOUNCE A SNAP ELECTION NEXT MONTH /NE $OWNING 3TREET SOURCE CONCEDED TO 4HE %NQUIRER THAT THE POLL WAS A MASSIVE BLOW TO -R "ROWN h4HIS HAS COME AS A MAJOR SHOCK TO 'ORDON /NE MINUTE HE S ENJOYING AN ELEVEN POINT LEAD OVER THE 4ORIES AND NOW WE RE BEING BATTERED BY ,ORD ,IVERPOOL v 0OLITICAL COMMENTATORS AT 7ESTMINSTER BELIEVE THAT IF THESE

POLLING lGURES OCCURRED IN AN ELECTION IT WOULD BE THE MOST SPECTACULARLY IMPOSSIBLE POLITICAL COMEBACK EVER IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICS AS ,ORD ,IVERPOOL DIED IN WHICH EXPLAINS WHY HE WAS

UNABLE TO COMMENT ON THE POLL (OWEVER OTHERS POINT TO -ING #AMPBELL WHO IS STILL JUST ABOUT THOUGH ,IB$EM LEADER AT THE AGE OF YEARS

,ORD ,IVERPOOL 9ESTERDAY

"RITAIN "RITISHNESS "RITISHNESS AND "RITAIN "RITAIN AND "RITISH NESS "RITAIN "RITAIN #ONTINUED FOR MINUTES

#OME ON THEN 0RIME -IN ISTER ) DARE YOU ) BLOODY DARE YOU #ONTINUED WITHOUT NOTES ON PAGE

UN  sends  envoy  to  Conference 4HE 5. LAST NIGHT DISPATCHED A PEACE ENVOY TO THE ,ABOUR 0ARTY #ONFERENCE IN ONE LAST DESPERATE VENTURE TO BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE TROUBLED DELEGATES THERE %VER SINCE THE "ROWN *UNTA SEIZED POWER LAST *UNE FROM THE THEN AILING REGIME THE VICIOUSLY BRUTAL MILITIAS LED BY (ARRIET (AR MAN HAVE CRUSHED DEMOCRACY AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY 4ELEVISION CAMERAS IN "OURNE MOUTH RECORDED THE PITIFUL STRUGGLE

LAST WEEK WHERE BRAVE TRADE UNION ISTS MARCHED TO THE #ONFERENCE (ALL DEMANDING THAT THE FREEDOM TO DE BATE POLICY BE RETURNED TO ORDINARY PARTY MEMBERS /NE UNIONIST WHO WISHED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS TOLD 4HE %NQUIRER h %RE LADDIE

BY GUM WE LL SORT @EM OOT v 5NFORTUNATELY SHOTS WERE lRED AS THE SELF CONFESSED HAVE A GO HERO *ACK 3TRAW LAUNCHED A MANIACALLY WILD DEFENCE OF HIS BELOVED LEADER S STYLE OF LEADERSHIP

$ELEGATES AT THE #ONSERVATIVE 0ARTY #ONFERENCE RECOILED IN DISGUST AS THEIR ,EADER $AVID #AMERON UT TERED THE DREADED C WORD THAT HAS FOR SO LONG BANISHED THE PARTY TO THE ELECTORAL WILDERNESS )N A PAR TICULARLY HARROWING PASSAGE OF HIS SPEECH -R #AMERON BARELY BLINKED AS HE CASUALLY DECLARED THAT HE WAS A #ONSERVATIVE /NE DELEGATE -AVIS "ATTENTROL

LOPE FROM .ORTH 3USSEX #ONSERVA TIVE !SSOCIATION TOLD 4HE %NQUIRER h7ELL QUITE FRANKLY IT HORRIlED ME TO THINK THAT HERE WE ARE ON THE BRINK OF AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN

AND OUR LEADER SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE FOOT BY ANNOUNCING TO ALL AND SUNDRY THAT HE S A #ONSERVATIVE )T S A DISGRACE AND HE SHOULD RESIGN FORTHWITH v

Party  Conference  Summary TACKING 5NION SHOP WORKERS BEFORE CLINGING ONTO SECURITY GUARDS IN FULL BODY ARMOUR AS THEY ATTEMPTED TO EXTRACT THE ILLICIT GARMENTS 4HESE RIOTS HAVE OCCURRED AF TER THE "RAIN !SSOCIATION OF "RIT AIN "!" PUBLISHED THEIR lNDINGS OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE 5%!

(OODY 4HE STUDY SHOWED THAT THE HOOD OF THE HOODY CAUSED THE BRAIN OF THE STUDENT WEARING IT TO EXPAND AND SWELL BEFORE MELTING INSIDE THE SKULL AND TRICKLING THROUGH OUT THE WEARER S NOSTRILS AND MAKING A NAS TY STICKY PUDDLE ON THE mOOR 4HE REPORT ALSO SHOWED A DIRECT CORRELA TION BETWEEN THE INCREASE IN HOODY

SALES AND THE 5%! S DRAMATIC SLIDE DOWN THE UNIVERSITY LEAGUE TABLE ! SPOKESMAN FOR THE 5%! SAID h7E TAKE THE WELFARE OF OUR STUDENTS BRAINS VERY SERIOUSLY AND WE URGE ALL THOSE AFFECTED TO REMAIN CALM AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATERv

TO !ND MOST IMPORTANTLY WHAT BREAD SHOULD BE USED 4HE 4UDORS ""# PM 4HIS SEXY NEW DRAMA FOLLOWS THE RAUNCHY EXPLOITS OF THE LITTLE KNOWN 4UDOR MONARCH 7ALTER )

WHO HISTORIANS BELIEVE WAS ONE OF THE MOST PUSILLANIMOUS KINGS TO RULE "RITAIN (OWEVER WATCH

,ABOUR 'ORDON "ROWN ANNOUNCED TO #ONFERENCE DELEGATES THAT THE 'OV ERNMENT WOULD NOT CUT AND RUN IN 3COTLAND (E SAID h7E LL NOO LEAVE 3COTLAND UNTIL A STABLE AND DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED ,ABOUR AD MINISTRATION HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED

TOPPLING THE HARD LINE 3.0 LED IN SURGENCY v

#ONSERVATIVES 7ILLIAM (AGUE PROMISED DELEGATES THAT IF ELECTED ANY NEW #ONSERVA TIVE GOVERNMENT WOULD IMMEDIATE LY HOLD A REFERENDUM ON WHETHER THE "RITISH PEOPLE WANTED TO BE GOVERNED BY THE 4ORIES h4ONY "LAIR MADE A MANIFESTO COMMITMENT TO THIS IN AND 'ORDON "ROWN HAS RENEGED ON HIS PROMISE v HE SAID

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4HE 5NIVERSITY #AMPUS WAS HIT BY CHAOS AND DISORDER YESTERDAY AS THE ICONIC @5%! (OODY WAS WITHDRAWN FROM SALE AFTER A RECALL WAS ISSUED BY THE MANUFACTURES 'OODIES (OOD IES AFTER SIGNIlCANT HEALTH AND SAFE TY FEARS )N A STATEMENT 'OODIES (OOD IES SAID THAT h!LTHOUGH THERE IS NOTHING FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH OUR HOODIES WE DO FEEL VERY STRONG LY THAT STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS WHEN WEAR ING THEM v 4HROUGHOUT THE DAY ""# .EWS AND .EXUS 46 BROADCAST DIS TURBING LIVE FOOTAGE OF FRESHERS AT

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4HIS WEEK WE RE GIVING ONE VERY LUCKY READER THE CHANCE TO SPEND A WEEK IN "LACKPOOL WITH THE #ON SERVATIVE 0ARTY !LL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ANSWER THIS EASY PEASY QUESTION 7HERE IS THE NEXT #ONSERVATIVE 0AR TY #ONFERENCE GOING TO BE HELD A )PSWICH B "OGNOR 2EGIS "UTLINS C 4ROWSE .EWTON )F YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE ANSWER

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Welcome to Focus on Societies

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HAT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS IS A NEW IMPROVED #ONCRETE CHOC FULL OF MORE PAGES THAN EVER BEFORE )N LIGHT OF THIS AS BOTH $EPUTY %DITOR OF 5%! S STAR PUBLICATION AS WELL AS 3OCIETIES /FlCER OF THE 3TUDENTS 5NION ) WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO THE lRST EVER &OCUS ON 3OCIETIES OR &OC 3OC 4HIS SECTION WAS CREATED AFTER WE REALISED THAT THE 3PORTS SECTION GIVES MUCH DESERVED ATTENTION TO THE SPORTS TEAMS AND OUR LOVELY SO CIETIES DESERVED A SAY AS WELL %SSENTIALLY THIS IS THE CHANCE FOR THE MANY SOCIETIES AT 5%! TO TELL EVERYONE WHAT THEY DO WHAT THEY RE LIKE AND GENERALLY HOW AMAZING THEY ARE !FTER ALL WE WEREN T ALL JOCKS AT SCHOOL 3OME OF US PREFER THE lNER THINGS IN LIFE SUCH AS POLI TICS DEBATING MUSIC OR GETTING RAT FACED ON COCKTAILS 4HEREFORE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BIG UP YOUR SOCIETY

THEN THIS IS THE CHANCE 7HETHER IT S HOLDING A POLITICAL DEBATE AN IMMENSE PUB CRAWL OR A LIVE MUSIC SESSION THEN THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO TELL THE REST OF 5%! ABOUT YOUR EX PLOITS ! LOT OF PEOPLE WILL NOT HAVE JOINED A CLUB OR SOCIETY -AYBE YOU MISSED OUT ON 3OC-ART MAYBE YOU DON T HAVE THE MONEY OR MAYBE YOU RE DOING A MEDICAL DEGREE AND HAVE TO SPEND EVERY DAY SLAVING OVER A CADAVER $ESPITE WHAT A LOT OF PEO PLE THINK THE VAST MAJORITY OF STU DENTS AT 5%! DON T JOIN ANY CLUBS

OR SOCIETIES n THOUGH THEY MAY GET INVOLVED IN OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR AC TIVITIES "UT IT S A SHAME NOT TO JOIN UP AS THE SOCIETIES AT 5%! ARE ONE OF THE BEST SERVICES OFFERED BY THE 3TUDENTS 5NION PROVIDING GREAT FUN INTEREST AND ENTERTAINMENT AT A BARGAIN PRICE 4HEY OFFER SOMETHING YOU WILL NEVER GET TO DO WHEN YOU LEAVE UNIVERSITY 5LTIMATELY UNIVERSITY IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE DEGREE NOT TO UNDERMINE THE QUALITY OF DEGREES )T S ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE MEETING NEW PEO PLE WITH THE SAME INTERESTS BUILD ING ON OLD HOBBIES AND SKILLS AS WELL AS DEVELOPING NEW ONES AND ULTIMATELY DISCOVERING YOURSELF AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN LIFE 4HESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT THE SOCIETIES OF FER AS THROUGH THEM YOU CAN REALLY WORK OUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN LIFE !FTER ALL A DEGREE IN 0OLITICS OR %NGLISH ,IT DOESN T REALLY GUIDE YOU TOWARDS A PARTICULAR CAREER "UT JOINING #ONCRETE LETS YOU MEET JOURNALISTIC KIN AND SEE IF THAT S WHAT YOU WANT /R YOU COULD JOIN THE %NTREPRENEURS AND SEE IF THE WORLD OF BUSINESS IS FOR YOU 4HE UNIVERSITY SPIRIT SHOULD BE ABOUT DEVELOPING OURSELVES AS INDIVIDU ALS IN OUR SKILLS AND INTERESTS AND IT IS THROUGH THE SOCIETIES THAT THIS HAPPENS 3O IF YOU HAVEN T SIGNED UP YET THEN WHY NOT GIVE 3TOP 4HE 7AR 3OCIETY A GO OR CHECK IN WITH THE GUYS FROM 'AMES 3OC 9OU RE BOUND TO lND SOMETHING YOU LIKE !NDY *UDSON %MIL !LLARD

!NOTHER SUCCESSFUL 3OC-ART AS SOCIETIES GOT TO mAUNT THEMSELVES

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RAG back in style !FTER A SUCCESSFUL START TO THE YEAR ,OUISE $UNGATE 3ECRETARY OF 2AISING AND 'IVING 3OCIETY TELLS US JUST WHY RAISING IS AMAZING AND WHY YOU SHOULD GET INVOLVED

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HE 2!' 3OCIETY HAS AB SOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH BITS OF OLD FABRIC )N FACT 2!' ACTUALLY STANDS FOR @2AISING AND 'IVING "UT FURTHERMORE WHAT DO THEY RAISE AND WHO IS IT THAT RECEIVES 7ITH THE HELP OF ITS MEMBERS 2!'

3OC DOES DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES WITH ONE MAIN AIM TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE CHARITIES WHO NEED THEM 7HEN ) WAS IN SCHOOL 2AISING AND 'IVING WAS A MASSIVE PART OF 3IXTH &ORM LIFE AND THE ELECTRICITY OF OUR 2!' WEEK RADIATED INTO THE ENTIRE SCHOOL 4HROUGHOUT THE YEAR

3IXTH &ORMERS WOULD HOST CHARITY EVENTS SUCH AS TEA PARTIES AND TAL ENT SHOWS BUT MOSTLY CONCENTRATED ON THE ONE WEEK OF THE YEAR WHEN 2!' WOULD EVEN DOMINATE ! ,EV ELS !CTIVITIES SUCH AS SPONSORED WALKS TO SCHOOL IN OUR PYJAMAS

WORLD RECORD BREAKING @4HE -OST 0EOPLE DOING THE -ACARENA AT ONE TIME THANK YOU VERY MUCH 6AL ENTINE SLAVE AUCTIONS AND OUR OWN VERSIONS OF 8 &ACTOR MADE THE WEEK SO MEMORABLE .OT TO FORGET THE a WE WOULD MAKE FOR SELECT ED CHARITIES 3O ) ARRIVED AT 5%! SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTED AT THE VERY APPARENT LACK OF BOISTEROUS YET CHARITABLE AC TIVITIES 7HERE WAS THE RAISING AND GIVING 7HERE WAS THE WHOLESOME

SELmESS GOODNESS THAT BROUGHT JOY

LAUGHTER AND FUNDS TO THE NEEDY 4HE TRUTH WAS 2!' 3/# HAS BEEN

LOST FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS AT 5%!

DESPITE BEING MASSIVELY SUC CESSFUL AT OUR REGIONAL COUNTERPARTS

INCLUDING "RISTOL ,OUGHBOROUGH AND .OTTINGHAMxUNTIL NOW 3EVERAL RATHER HOPEFUL AND HARD WORKING THIRD YEAR STUDENTS

3EVERAL RATHER HOPEFUL AND HARD WORK ING THIRD YEAR STUDENTS HAVE ADOPTED 2!'

HAVE ADOPTED 2!' IN THEIR PURSUIT OF LEAVING A POSITIVE MARK ON 5%!

BEFORE THEY DEPART INTO THE WIDE WORLD !ND SO FAR THEY HAVE SHOWN NOTHING BUT ENCOURAGING SUCCESS !FTER SIGNING UP NEARLY MEM BERS AT 3OC-ART 2!' RAISED OVER a IN HOURS ON THEIR lRST PUB CRAWL FOR THE SACRIlCE OF SOME MALE COMMITTEE MEMBERS LOSING LEG HAIRS TO 6EET WAX STRIPS IN THE "LUE "AR 4HOSE WHO CAME ALONG ON THE PUB CRAWL WERE SO ENTHUSIASTIC AND OUT GOING THAT IT IS ONLY FAIR THAT THEY GET A MENTION IN THIS ARTICLE 2!'

3OC WERE MUCH APPRECIATIVE OF THEIR EFFORTS NOT ONLY OF THEIR COSTUMES

BUT ALSO OF THEIR COURAGEOUS DRINK

ING WHICH HAS SET A HIGH STANDARD FOR THE YEAR TO COME 3O WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THE SOCIETY IN THE FUTURE /UR OWN 2!'

WEEK /H YES -ORE PUB CRAWLS 6ERY LIKELY 3MALL FUNDRAISERS FOR ANYONE TO GET INVOLVED !BSOLUTELY !ND ONE EVENT FOR YOUR CALENDAR 2!' 3OC WILL BE RUNNING HAVOC AT 5%! AND IN .ORWICH CITY THIS (AL LOWEEN FOR THE 7HIZZKIDS CHAR ITY ON IT S VERY lRST 2!' RAID 4HIS WILL INVOLVE A BIT OF @CHUGGING OR CHARITY MUGGING WHERE INNOCENT .ORFOLK LOCAL FOLK WILL BE POUNCED UPON BY 5%! 2!' 3OC MEMBERS FOR ANY SPARE CHANGE THAT MIGHT BE LURKING ABOUT THEIR PERSONS /F COURSE 2!' ADHERES TO A NON VIO LENT APPROACH TOWARDS FUNDRAISING AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL NOT ACTUALLY BE MUGGED 2!' MEMBERS WILL ALSO BE GOING HEAD TO HEAD IN A "EST $RESSED COMPETITION WITH THE AS EXPECTED THEME OF (ALLOW EEN FANCY DRESS AS WELL AS PARTAK ING IN VARIOUS THEMED ACTIVITIES ON CAMPUS THROUGHOUT THE DAY !ND ST $ECEMBER WILL BRING A MASSIVE CHARITY TRIP TO 3OHO FOR 7ORLD !)$3 DAY SO KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR INFORMATION ON THIS ONE AS IT IS RU MOURED TO BE UNBELIEVABLE )F ANY OF THIS HAS MADE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WANT TO EXPAND UPON YOUR UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE PLEASE EMAIL RAISINGISAMAZING YAHOO COM TO BECOME A MEMBER

)NTERESTED IN BIGGING UP YOUR SOCIETY ON THESE HALLOWED PAGES )F YOUR SOCIETY IS PUTTING ON A SPECIAL EVENT OR YOU FEEL IT DESERVES A SPECIAL MENTION THEN EMAIL CONCRETE EDITOR

UEA AC UK TO lND OUT ABOUT WRITING AN ARTICLE FOR &OC 3OC

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Smoke-­free  UEA:  Effects  of  the  July  ban  4HE SMOKING BAN HAS BEEN IN PLACE ACROSS %NGLAND FOR OVER THREE MONTHS NOW (OWEVER AFTER TWO WEEKS OF TERM IT IS ONLY NOW THAT !BIGAIL +EEN CAN ASSESS WHAT IMPACT THE LAW CHANGE HAS HAD ON 5%! S CAMPUS !RE THE SMOKERS REVOLTING /R ARE MOST HAPPY THAT WHAT MANY PERCEIVE AS A REVOLTING HABIT HAS BEEN BANISHED TO COLDER CLIMES

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PREVIOUS NIGHT OUT IN A CLUB USED TO CON TAIN IMAGES OF CIGARETTE SMOKE COILING UNDER STROBE LIGHTS AND THE ASHY SMELL FOLLOWING YOU HOME

STALE TOBACCO CAPTURED IN CLOTHES AND HAIR "UT SINCE ST *ULY NIGHTS OUT ARE NOW SMOKE FREE 4HE 5NION HAS PROVIDED SMOKING AREAS OUTSIDE BOTH ENTRANCES TO THE (IVE FOR ,#2 NIGHTS AND HAS PUT TABLES OUTSIDE THE BLUE BAR SPECIALLY FOR SMOKERS !NY ONE CAUGHT LIGHTING UP INSIDE WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY !S WE VE HAD A FEW WEEKS TO GET USED TO THE NEW CHANGES NOW IS THE TIME TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER THEY HAVE HAD ANY EFFECT ON STUDENT LIFE !LL THE STUDENTS ) SPOKE TO AGREED WITH THE SMOKING BAN AS THEY REC OGNISED h)T S A GOOD THING AS NON SMOKERS DON T HAVE TO BREATHE IN THE SMOKE v 4OBY SECOND YEAR -ANY ALSO THOUGHT THAT THE BAN WILL MAKE SMOKERS MORE INCLINED TO QUIT AS WHEN THE WEATHER GETS COLDER h0EO PLE WILL HAVE TO WEIGH UP HOW IM PORTANT SMOKING IS TO THEM 4HEY LL HAVE TO FACE THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF GOING OUTSIDE IN THE RAIN JUST TO HAVE A CIGARETTE v ,UCY THIRD YEAR 033 STUDENT ! DElNITE PLUS GIVEN THE HEALTH RISKS OF SMOKING

h7E ARE ALL WOR RIED ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS ON INCOME 4HERE IS DElNITELY A SLIGHT CONCERN

BUT HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE OK v (OWEVER A FEW STUDENTS ) SPOKE TO ALSO RECOGNISED THE NEGATIVE SIDE TO THE SMOKING BAN 2UTH A SECOND YEAR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES STUDENT SAID h!LTHOUGH ;THE BAN= WILL STOP PEOPLE WHO WANT TO START SMOKING AS IT S NOW MORE DIFlCULT IT ISN T SO GOOD

FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY SMOKE v )F YOU RE A SMOKER HAVING TO GO OUTSIDE IS IRRITATING 3HE ALSO NOTICED THAT THE BAN HAS EMPHASISED THE SEGREGATION BETWEEN SMOKERS AND NON SMOKERS AND SAID IT FEELS AS THOUGH NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS SMOKERS HAVE GOT MUCH WORSE *AMES A lRST YEAR ECO NOMICS STUDENT HAS ADMITTED THAT WHEN THE WEATHER GETS COLDER HE WILL BE PUT OFF FROM GOING OUT AS MUCH AS HE KNOWS HE WILL HAVE TO STAY OUTSIDE TO SMOKE 3O THE SMOKING BAN HAS CAUSED MIXED REACTIONS FROM THE STUDENTS

ALTHOUGH THE GENERAL CONSENSUS IS THAT IT S A GOOD IDEA %VEN THE SMOK ERS DESPITE THE OBVIOUS ANNOYANCES

SEEMED TO RECOGNISE THAT THE BAN IS NECESSARY SO AS NOT TO DAMAGE THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE WITH NO DESIRE TO SMOKE THEMSELVES 4HIS SUPPORT FOR THE BAN SEEMS TO SUGGEST THAT SMOK ING HAS LOST THE GLAMOROUS IMAGE OF PREVIOUS YEARS 7HEREAS IN THE ERA OF THE BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE A CIGARETTE WAS THE EPITOME OF COOL NOWADAYS IT IS GENERALLY SEEN AS THE OPPOSITE !S THE SERIOUS HEALTH RISKS OF SMOKING HAVE COME TO THE SURFACE COMMIT TING TO THE HABIT IS SEEN AS LESS DE SIRABLE 4HIS IS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED

BY THE RESULTS OF THE 5NION POLICY BALLOT IN !PRIL WHERE STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO VOTE WHETHER THE (IVE SHOULD BE MADE NON SMOKING DUR

ING THE DAY ! SIGNIlCANT MAJORITY VOTED TO PASS THE MOTION SEE GRID /UR 5NIVERSITY IS DElNITELY A HEALTHIER PLACE SINCE THE SMOKING BAN YET DESPITE THE SUPPORT FROM STUDENTS 5NION %XECUTIVES STILL HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE POSSIBLE IMPACT "EFORE THE SMOKING BAN WAS ENFORCED !NDY 0OTT THE 'ENERAL -ANAGER OF THE 5NION PUBLISHED A DOCUMENT PREDICTING THE LIKELY EF FECTS ON BAR REVENUE )N 3COTLAND THE SMOKING BAN WAS INTRODUCED IN -ARCH AND IN ALL BUT ONE OF THE 3COTTISH STUDENT UNIONS TURNOVER HAS DECLINED BETWEEN AND 4HE MAIN REASON BEING BECAUSE SMOK ERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO STAY IN WHEN THE WEATHER IS POOR RATHER THAN GO DRINKING AND HAVE TO SMOKE OUTSIDE )F 5%! EXPERIENCES THE SAME DECLINE IT WOULD MEAN A REDUCTION OF GROSS PROlT BETWEEN a AND a 7HEN ) TALKED TO !NDY HE SAID THAT REVENUE SO FAR HAS BEEN DOWN COMPARED TO LAST YEAR

BUT AT THIS EARLY STAGE IT IS DIFlCULT TO TELL IF THAT IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE SMOKING BAN OR NOT !LSO HE NOTED THAT THIS YEAR THE GIG NORMALLY SCHED ULED THE WEEK BEFORE &RESHERS WAS CANCELLED (OWEVER HE DOES PREDICT THAT CERTAINLY BY WINTER THE SMOKING BAN WILL HAVE A NEGATIVE AN IMPACT ON PUB TRADE 3O DOES A SMOKING BAN ALWAYS

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4OBACCO SMOKE CONTAINS CHEMI CALS MORE THAN OF THESE CAUSE CANCER

PEOPLE DIE EACH YEAR DUE TO SMOKING !BOUT HALF OF SMOKERS DIE FROM SMOK ING RELATED DISEASES /NLY HALF OF ALL LONG TERM SMOKERS LIVE PAST THE AGE OF

PEOPLE DIE ANNUALLY OF LUNG CANCER -ORE THAN IN OF THESE DEATHS ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO SMOKING #ANCER OF THE MOUTH NOSE THROAT

LARYNX GULLET PANCREAS CERVIX BLADDER

BLOOD AND KIDNEY ALL MORE COMMON IN SMOKERS IN OF ALL THE DEATHS DUE TO HEART DISEASE ARE RELATED TO SMOKING 3MOKING CAN ALSO CAUSE THE OFTEN FATAL LUNG DISEASE CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMO NARY DISEASE CIRCULATION PROBLEMS SEXU AL PROBLEMS AND INFERTILITY GUM DISEASE

CHEST INFECTIONS INCLUDING WORSENING OF ASHTMA FLU AND THE COMMON COLD

Smirting*

"RYN *ONES

-IKE (AMMOND

!FTERMATH THE AREA OUTSIDE THE 5NION PUB BECOMES A TEMPORARY ASH TRAY DURING A NIGHT OUT 4HE REMNANTS REMAIN THE MORNING AFTER

Smoking  Facts

MEAN A DECLINE IN PUB INCOME )N )RELAND WHERE THE BAN WAS ENFORCED IN -ARCH THIS IS NOT THE CASE $AVE -OLLOY CHIEF INSPECTOR FOR 4HE /FlCE OF 4OBACCO #ONTROL /4# HAS SAID THAT IN )RELAND h4HE RESEARCH IN DICATES THE NUMBER OF NON SMOKERS VISITING PUBS AND BARS HAS INCREASED SLIGHTLY SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW LAW WHILE THE NUMBER OF SMOKERS HAS REMAINED THE SAME v 4HEREFORE THERE IS EVEN A CHANCE THAT INCOME HAS INCREASED AS A RESULT OF THE BAN )N FACT RATHER THAN AVOID ING GOING OUT A SURVEY BY THE /4# SHOWS THAT ONE IN lVE SMOKERS SIM PLY CHOOSE NOT TO SMOKE AT ALL 4HERE IS A CHANCE THAT THE SMOKING BAN AT 5%! COULD PROVE JUST AS BENElCIAL ) ASKED 2OWENA "ODINGTON

#OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER WHAT SHE THOUGHT ABOUT THE IMPACT THE SMOK ING BAN WILL HAVE ON 5%!

EVERYTHING CONSIDERED 3HE REPLIED h7E HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW 7E ARE ALL WOR RIED ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS ON IN COME AND THE IMPACT THIS WILL HAVE ON CLUBS AND SOCIETIES THE ADVICE CENTRE CAMPAIGNS SHOPS AND BARSx 4HERE IS DElNITELY A SLIGHT CONCERN

BUT HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE OK v 4HEREFORE THE ONLY NEGATIVES TO THE SMOKING BAN AT 5%! ARE THE POS SIBLE REDUCTION OF THE BAR TRADE AND THE IRRITATION TO SMOKERS WHO HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE TO HAVE A CIGARETTE 7HEN THE HARMFUL SIDE EFFECTS OF SMOKING ARE CONSIDERED HOWEVER THESE SEEM LIKE A SMALL PRICE TO PAY )T CAN SAFELY BE SAID THAT THERE IS NO BENElT WHAT

SOEVER TO CIGARETTES %VERYONE KNOWS ABOUT THE LINK BETWEEN SMOKING AND CANCER BUT SMOKERS CAN ALSO DEVEL OP CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WHICH IS A LUNG DISEASE AND KILLS AROUND PEOPLE A YEAR 4HERE IS ALSO THE SEVERE RISK OF HEART DISEASE IRREPARABLE DAMAGE TO THE BLOOD VESSELS CIRCULATION PROBLEMS

SEXUAL PROBLEMS AND INFERTILITY CHEST INFECTIONS GUM DISEASEx !LL OF THIS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IT SEEMS UNFAIR THAT PEOPLE WHO HAVEN T MADE THE CHOICE TO SMOKE SHOULD BE SUBJECTED TO THESE DANGERS )N MY OPINION IF AS WELL AS PREVENTING PASSIVE SMOK ING THE SMOKING BAN MAKES SMOK ERS MORE INCLINED TO QUIT THEN A LOSS IN BAR REVENUE IS DElNITELY WORTH LOSING

2ESULTS OF THE 5NION POLICY BALLOT RESOLVING THAT THE MIDDLE mOOR OF 5NION (OUSE BECOMES A NO SMOKING AREA EXCEPT WHEN ALCOHOL IS BEING SERVED

4HE SKY WAS MURKY AND OVERCAST CLOUDS CHURNING IN MOODY BLUE CIRCLES ! lNE RAIN FELL ON THE PEOPLE HUDDLING TOGETHER ON THE PAVEMENT 4HE MEN HAD THEIR JACKET COLLARS TURNED UP THE WOMEN WRAPPED THEIR ARMS AROUND THEMSELVES AND BLEW OUT SMOKY BREATHS ! BLOND GIRL WAS STANDING ALONE AT A DISTANCE FROM THE GROUP 3HE WAS FACING THE STREET WATCH ING THE DOUBLE DECKER BUSES AND THE PEOPLE WALK ING HOME UNDER UMBRELLAS 3HE WAS WEARING A PALE BLUE COAT AND KNEE HIGH BOOTS HER LONG HAIR CATCH ING RAINDROPS (E COULDN T TAKE HIS EYES OFF HER (E WATCHED AS SHE MOVED HER CIGARETTE UP TO HER PEARLY LIPS AND TOOK A DRAG mICKED THE ASH WITH A DELICATE MOTION OF HER SLENDER lNGERS h#AN ) BORROW YOUR LIGHTER v (E ASKED SHYLY SIDLING UP TO HER )T WAS TO BE THE START OF A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP

&LIRTING WHILE SMOKING

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Tired  of  beans  on  toast?...Get  a  job !RE YOU STRAPPED FOR CASH $OES YOUR STUDENT LOAN NOT QUITE STRETCH TO THAT @MUST HAVE ITEM *ESSICA 7ESTGARTH LOOKS AT HOW A PART TIME JOB CAN BENElT NOT ONLY YOUR POCKET

BUT ALSO YOUR SOCIAL LIFE

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OOKING FOR A JOB CAN SEEM A MENIAL TASK FOR STUDENTS

BUT ALTHOUGH YOUR LOAN CAN CARRY YOU THROUGH THE ARRAY OF EXPENSES FACED BY UNDERGRADUATES A PART TIME JOB CAN NOT ONLY EARN YOU SOME MONEY BUT CAN BE ADVANTAGEOUS IN A VARIETY OF OTHER WAYS %VEN IF YOU DO NOT NEED THE MONEY A NEW JOB CAN HELP YOU TO MEET NEW PEOPLE AND MIX WITH A RANGE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY STUDENTS (AVING A PART TIME JOB CAN ALSO GIVE YOU INDEPENDENCE AND YOU WILL GET A FEEL FOR EARNING YOUR OWN WAGE YOU MAY RELISH THE EXPERIENCE AS MANY STUDENTS DO DURING THEIR TIME AT UNIVERSITY !T THE SAME TIME DO NOT GO INTO A JOB

AND AGREE TO HOURS YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MANAGE YOUR DEGREE SHOULD BE PRIORITY AND IT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO SUFFER $O NOT LET THE IDEA OF A JOB STRESS YOU OUT 9OU ARE NOT ALONE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS GO ON THE LONG AND BUMPY ROAD IN SEARCH OF EMPLOYMENT 5%! HAS MANY RESOURCES FOR FRESHERS AND GRADUATES ALIKE 4HE #AREERS #ENTRE IS A MUST IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR HELP WITH ANYTHING JOB RELATED ,OCATED ON CAMPUS NEAR THE LIBRARY THEY NOT ONLY ADVERTISE LOCAL JOBS PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT CAREERS AND EMPLOYERS BUT THEY RUN DOZENS OF WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER SPECIALIST CAREERS EVENTS 4HEY CAN ALSO HELP YOU OUT WITH YOUR #6 AND GIVE YOU TIPS ON THE APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEW PROCESS %VEN IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO GET A JOB AT UNIVERSITY AND WOULD RATHER WORK IN THE HOLIDAYS IT IS DElNITELY STILL WORTH A VISIT

"RYN *ONES

/N /CTOBER TH 5%! IS HOSTING A 3TUDENT *OBS &AIR WHERE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MEET LOCAL EMPLOYERS INTERESTED IN RECRUITING STUDENTS 7HETHER IT IS PART TIME JOBS CAMPUS JOBS VOLUNTARY WORK

WORK PLACEMENTS OR INFORMATION AND ADVICE IT WILL BE AN EASY AND ACCESSIBLE WAY TO lND OUT MORE ABOUT CURRENT VACANCIES )T WOULD SEEM THAT BAR WORK IS ONE OF THE POPULAR IF NOT TOP CHOICES FOR STUDENTS AS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE NOT ADVERSE TO THE LATE NIGHTS IT ENTAILS TEND TO ENJOY THE ATMOSPHERE AND SEE IT MORE AS A SOCIAL EXPERIENCE THAT PAYS RATHER THAN A BORING WEEKEND JOB "AR MANAGER -ATT &ROST EXPLAINS THAT A BAR JOB IS SUITED TO STUDENTS BECAUSE OF THEIR hAVAILABILITY AND mEXIBILITY WITH WORKING HOURS AND IT S A WAY TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS

WHILE MAKING SOME MONEYv 7HEN

INTERVIEWING STUDENTS FOR BAR WORK

HE SAYS HE LOOKS PRIMARILY FOR hAVAILABILITY mEXIBILITY A WILLINGNESS TO LEARN AND ENTHUSIASM FOR THE JOBv EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN THIS lELD IT CAN BE A REWARDING AND FUN PART TIME JOB WHERE YOU CAN LEARN NEW SKILLS ALL THE MORE ENHANCING YOUR #6 'AINING EXPERIENCE IN THE WORKING WORLD WILL ALSO STAND YOU IN GOOD STEAD FOR WHEN YOU LEAVE UNIVERSITY 4HIRD YEARS SHOULD PROBABLY START THINKING NOW ABOUT A CAREER OR AT LEAST HAVE SOME SORT OF PLAN ABOUT WHAT TO DO ONCE YOU GRADUATE WHETHER IT BE lNDING A JOB IN THE REAL WORLD FURTHERING YOUR EDUCATION WITH POST GRADUATE STUDY OR TAKING A GAP YEAR BEFORE lNDING A PROPER JOB 5%! IS ALSO AT HAND FOR THOSE THIRD YEARS THAT NEED A HELPING HAND IN DECIDING WHAT PATH TO TAKE 4HE #AREERS #ENTRE

HAS A 2ECRUITMENT &AIR WHERE YOU CAN RESEARCH THE INDUSTRIES AND lRMS KEEN TO RECRUIT GRADUATES WELL BEFORE YOU REACH THE END OF YOUR DEGREE )T IS HOSTED AT THE 3PORTSPARK ON /CTOBER TH AND ALSO INCLUDES A #6 CLINIC TO GET YOUR #6 LOOKED OVER 4HE #AREERS #ENTRE IS THERE TO EASE THE TRANSITION INTO EMPLOYMENT AND FURTHER STUDY AND IS AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE EVEN A YEAR AFTER GRADUATION )F YOU ARE FEELING PARTICULARLY KEEN TO MEET POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS

THEN THE ,ONDON 'RADUATE &AIR MAY BE WORTH A VISIT 0ACKED WITH CAREER OPPORTUNITIES OVER EMPLOYERS WILL BE EXHIBITING AVAILABLE AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO ANSWER YOUR JOB QUERIES

AND HELP YOU TO DECIDE WHICH PATH TO TAKE !S WITH 5%! S 'RADUATE &AIR THERE WILL BE PRESENTATIONS

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS AS WELL AS A #6 CLINIC ! JOB AT UNIVERSITY IS A TRICKY ONE YOU NEED TO GET THE BALANCE RIGHT $O YOU GET A JOB EARN SOME EXTRA

-IKE (AMMOND

7EBSITES

5SEFUL DATES

WWW UEA AC UK CAREERS ,IFE AND WORK AT 5%!

5%! 3TUDENT *OBS &AIR 4UESDAY /CTOBER PM PM

5%! ,#2 ,ONDON 'RADUATE &AIR -ONDAY /CTOBER PMn PM "USINESS $ESIGN #ENTRE

)SLINGTON ,ONDON 5%! 2ECRUITMENT &AIR 4HURSDAY /CTOBER PM PM 5%! 3PORTSPARK

CASH BUT MAYBE LET YOUR DEGREE SUFFER OR DO YOU STAY UNEMPLOYED

A STEREOTYPICAL POOR STUDENT BUT KNUCKLE DOWN AND GET THE HONOURS YOU HOPED FOR )T IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT lNAL YEAR STUDENTS FEEL THEY HAVE TOO MUCH STUDYING TO BE ABLE TO COMMIT TO BOTH UNIVERSITY STUDIES

AND A PART TIME JOB (OWEVER THIS SHOULD NOT DETER FROM THE FACT THAT THE REAL WORLD IS AROUND THE CORNER AND NOW IS THE TIME TO START MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO NEXT WHEN YOU GRADUATE &IRST AND SECOND YEARS WHO FEEL THEY CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO WORK BEAR IN MIND IT IS BENElCIAL IN YOUR lRST FEW YEARS AT UNIVERSITY TO AT LEAST CONSIDER WORKING A FEW HOURS NOT ONLY TO EARN SOME MONEY BUT TO MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS AND TAKE A BREAK FROM THE STUDYING .OT TO MENTION

THAT AS WITH EVERYTHING h)T WILL LOOK GOOD ON YOUR #6 v

EMPLOYABILITY UEA AC UK n 5%! S STUDENT JOB SHOP

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Money,  and  other  inconveniences #HRISTIAN / #ONNELL EXPLORES THE lNANCIAL PERILS OF BEING A STUDENT AT 5NIVERSITY AND SUGGESTS HOW BEST TO AVOID THEM

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O IT S lNALLY HERE AFTER 'OD ONLY KNOWS HOW LONG UNIVERSITY LIFE !FTER SO MANY YEARS OF THAT OPPRESSIVE REGIME YOU CALL HOME LIFE THE WORLD OF INDEPENDENCE AND AUTONOMY HAS BEEN THRUST UPON YOU .OW YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT "EFORE COMING TO 5%! ) NEVER AS ) M SURE MANY OTHER FRESHERS DID NOT GAVE MUCH THOUGHT TO THE IDEA OF MANAGING MY MONEY WITH A LIFETIME OF ALL THE LITTLE BITS BEING DONE FOR ME THE PROSPECT OF DOING EVERYTHING FOR MYSELF SEEMED SOMEWHAT OF AN ALIEN CONCEPT !S AN %CONOMICS STUDENT ) NATURALLY THOUGHT MANAGING MY MONEY WOULD BE A WALK IN THE PARK THAT WAS UNTIL ) WAS SUDDENLY FACED WITH MENACING TASKS SUCH AS FOOD SHOPPING PAYING BILLS AND SOMETHING CALLED LAUNDRY 4HEN CAME ALL SORTS OF HIDDEN COSTS WHICH ) NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF SOCIETY FEES ,#2 TICKETS NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THE WHOLE mAT CAUGHT THE DREADED &RESHER S &LU THAT S A FEW QUID EXTRA DOWN THE DRAIN ON PARACETAMOL AND OTHER MEDICINAL QUACKERY 0AYING FOR A 46 LICENCE WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST SOUL DESTROYING PAYMENTS YET 7ORSE HOWEVER WOULD BE THE a lNE IF YOU GET CAUGHT WITHOUT ONE SO IT IS BEST JUST TO PAY UP AND HAVE DONE WITH IT "UT HEY BEST NOT TO GET STUCK ON THE NASTY BITS IT IS &RESHERS 7EEK WHICH MEANS PARTIES

SOCIALIZING AND BUYING LAVA LAMPS

NOT GETTING BOGGED DOWN IN MONEY MANAGEMENT AND SENSIBLE THINKING ) BROUGHT SOME SAVINGS WITH ME SO ) THOUGHT ) WAS PRETTY MUCH COVERED 4HEN CAME THE lRST LECTURES AND WITH IT AS ) M SURE MANY OF YOU FOUND A BUMPER LIST OF BOOKS TO BUY &ORTUNATELY ) ONLY NEED ONE COURSE BOOK TO START WITH BUT WITH A a PRICE TAG IT WAS STILL GOING TO BURN A SIZEABLE HOLE IN MY WALLET 4HAT BEING SAID ) WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES n THOSE AT THE OTHER END OF THE SCALE HAD BOOK BILLS THAT RAN INTO THE HUNDREDS 4RY EXPLAINING TO YOUR BANK MANAGER THAT ALL YOUR MONEY HAS GONE ON BOOKS WHEN ASKING FOR THAT OVERDRAFT (OWEVER DESPITE THE EVER MOUNTING BILLS ) STILL WAS NOT THAT BOTHERED AFTER ALL THE STUDENT LOAN IS HERE 7ELL ACTUALLY TO BE MORE PRECISE AS ) FOUND OUT LATER TO MY HORROR THE STUDENT LOAN WAS ON ITS WAY AND SHOULD BE ALONG SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE ! FORM THAT ) NEVER RECEIVED ACCIDENTALLY OVERLOOKED NEEDED TO BE lLLED OUT IN ORDER TO PROVE ) WAS NOT A BENElT THIEF 'OOD JOB ) HAD MY SAVINGS TO

DIP INTOxWAIT WHERE S IT ALL GONE -Y LACK OF lNANCIAL SKILLS HAD COME BACK TO HAUNT ME ) NEEDED CASH FAST

USE )T IS EASY TO BUY FOOD THAT YOU PLAN ON USING BUT THERE IS NOT A LOT WORSE THAN OPENING THE FRIDGE ONLY TO lND IT FULL OF FOOD LONG PAST ITS

SECOND WEEK OF UNIVERSITY LIFE DRAWS TO A CLOSE ALTHOUGH REDUCED TO SHOPPING IN ALL THE DISCOUNT STORES

) M ROUGHLY ON TRACK TO STAYING ON

4IPS AND TRICKS TO SAVING YOUR CASH

"UY HOUSEHOLD ESSENTIALS LIKE WASHING UP LIQUID AS A mAT HOUSE

%MIL !LLARD

!VOID USING YOUR DEBIT CARD WITHDRAW THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU CAN AFFORD FOR THE WEEK AND SPEND NO MORE

7ORK OUT A WEEKLY BUDGET

AND MAKE SURE YOU STICK TO IT

!VOID BUYING READY MEALS MAKING FOOD FROM SCRATCH CAN NOT ONLY BE COST EFFECTIVE BUT ALSO HEALTHIER )F YOU HAVE ANY TO SPARE YOU CAN ALWAYS FREEZE

AND SAVE FOR ANOTHER DAY

7HEN YOU NEED TO DRY YOUR CLOTHES DON T USE THE TUMBLE DRYER INSTEAD IF POSSIBLE AIR DRY YOUR CLOTHES

)T SOON BECAME APPARENT ) WAS NOT ALONE AS SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE IN MY mAT WERE ALSO WITHOUT THEIR STUDENT LOANS AND LOW ON FUNDS &IRST YEAR "IOLOGY STUDENT !LICE SAID hTHE LOAN COMPANY GOT MY DETAILS WRONG TWICE AND ) STILL HAVEN T GOT MY LOAN THROUGH YET n ) M WORRIED THAT IT WON T COME THROUGH IN TIME TO PAY THE ACCOMMODATION FEESv 3O MUCH TO BUY AND A LACK OF FUNDS DUE TO THE INVISIBLE LOAN )T WAS SUDDENLY ALL TOO EASY TO FEEL BANKRUPT 3OME SORT OF PLAN WAS IN ORDER ) WOULD RECOMMEND WORKING OUT A WEEKLY BUDGET AND STICKING TO IT ) FOUND THIS HELPED ME A LOT )T ALSO QUICKLY BECAME CLEAR MY BIGGEST ENEMY IN THE BATTLE FOR SOLVENCY WAS THE DEBIT CARD )T WAS JUST ALL TOO EASY TO HAND OVER THAT INNOCENT PIECE OF PLASTIC FOR PURCHASES AND HARDER TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT ) WAS BUYING 4AKING OUT A SET AMOUNT OF CASH WAS A MUCH BETTER OPTION AS THEN ) WOULD NOT BE TEMPTED TO OVERSPEND !S FAR AS THE WEEKLY BUDGET WAS CONCERNED THE lRST THING TO GO ON IT WAS FOOD )T IS AMAZING WHAT CAN BE FOUND IN THE YELLOW PERILS SECTION AT THE SUPERMARKET YOU CAN EASILY FEED YOURSELF FOR UNDER A TENNER A WEEK SO LONG AS YOU ARE NOT TOO PICKY ABOUT WHAT IT IS AND STILL HAVE MONEY LEFT OVER FOR THE PUB (OWEVER MAKE SURE YOU AVOID THE TRAP OF BUYING STUFF YOU WILL NEVER

SELL BY DATE .OT HALF AN HOUR AGO ) HAD TO THROW AWAY THE REMAINS OF A PIE ) HAD BROUGHT IT HAD ENOUGH FUR GROWING ON IT TO MAKE A WINTER COAT 3PEAKING OF WHICH WHEN CLOTHES SHOPPING TRY TO LOOK FOR NON BRANDED ITEMS IT S A HELL OF A LOT CHEAPER AND CAN STILL LOOK JUST AS GOOD .EXT OF COURSE ARE THOSE DAMN COURSE BOOKS -Y ADVICE TO ANYONE WHO LIKE ME HAS BEEN JUST TOO LAZY TO HAVE GOT THEM YET IS TO NOT JUST HEAD DOWN TO 7ATERSTONES AND SPEND YOUR HARD EARNED CASH ON THE lRST COPY YOU SEE BUT SHOP AROUND ESPECIALLY ONLINE E"AY IS A GOLDMINE FOR SECOND HAND AND DISCOUNTED BOOKS ) GOT MY QUID MONSTER BRAND NEW FOR A MERE a ON E"AY NOT BAD FOR AN EVENING SPENT HALF DRUNK IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER 7HEN THE lRST PART OF THE STUDENT LOAN lNALLY DID COME THROUGH IT WAS NOT THE CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION THAT ) THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AS THE LIONS SHARE WENT STRAIGHT BACK OUT AGAIN TO THE UNIVERSITY ON ACCOMMODATION FEES 4O THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT PAID UP YET THE DEADLINE IS ONLY A COUPLE OF WEEKS AWAY AND THERE ARE HEFTY lNES IF YOU FAIL TO GET IT IN ON TIME SO STEP TO IT 4HE SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF MY STUDENT LOAN PUT ME NEARLY BACK TO SQUARE ONE AND SO AS MY

TOP OF MY lNANCES NOW -Y BEST PIECE OF ADVICE FOR ALL YOU mIPPANT STUDENTS OUT THERE IS DElNITELY TO MAKE A BUDGET AND STICK TO IT "UT THIS IS STILL THE HONEYMOON PERIOD AND FUNDS WON T LAST FOREVER CLEARLY THE SITUATION WILL NOT IMPROVE OF ITS OWN ACCORD SO ) MAY HAVE TO TAKE DRASTIC ACTION AND GET A JOB OR SOMETHING 4HAT REALLY IS CRAZY %LLEN #AVE

!SK YOUR BANK ABOUT % SAVINGS ACCOUNTS 4HESE OFTEN HAVE A MUCH HIGHER INTEREST RATE THAN CURRENT ACCOUNTS

"UY SECOND HAND BOOKS WHERE POSSIBLE !MAZON AND %BAY OFTEN HAVE NEW BOOKS AT HALF THE PRICE $ON T BE LAZY AND JUST SHOP AT THE NEAREST BOOKSTORE

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Bloc Party 4HERE IS MORE TO %ASTERN %UROPE THAN JUST COLD WEATHER AND COMMUNISM AND AS -ATT /WEN DISCOVERED THE HISTORIC CITIES OF THE %ASTERN "LOC OFFER A GREAT BACKPACKING EXPERIENCE

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OST PEOPLE ARE FAMIL IAR WITH THE IDEA OF @BACK PACKING 4HE WORD TENDS TO DENOTE THE IMAGE OF SOME ONE DISAPPEARING ACROSS !SIA FOR TEN MONTHS TO PLACES THAT LOOK LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF 4HE "EACH THE SORT OF THING RESERVED FOR WELL PLANNED AND WELL FUNDED GAP YEARS 4HE JOYS OF BACKPACKING ARE WELL KNOWN FREEDOM INDEPEND ENCE NEW PEOPLE NEW PLACES

AND A FEW THOUSAND PHOTO OP PORTUNITIES !LAS FOR A STUDENT WITH A FEW WEEKS OFF AND THE BOTTOM HALF OF AN OVERDRAFT

SUCH AN ADVENTURE IS ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE (OWEVER THERE IS STILL AN OPTION )T MERELY MEANS STAYING IN THE SAME CONTINENT BRAVING PLACES WHICH STILL BEAR MARKS OF THE HAMMER AND SICKLE AND mYING WITH %ASY*ET 4HE TRIP MY GIRLFRIEND AND ) EMBARKED ON SPANNED A MERE DAYS AND TOOK US THROUGH 0OLAND (UNGARY !USTRIA AND #ZECH 2EPUBLIC %XCLUD ING !USTRIA THESE PLACES WERE VERY VERY CHEAP AND ALL WERE BRILLIANT PLACES TO VISIT 4HE lSTFUL OF TENNERS YOU D SPEND ON JUST A DAY TRIP TO ,ONDON WILL STRETCH FOR A WEEK IN THESE PLACES n ONLY THEY WON T BE TENNERS BUT A WILD ARRAY OF STRANGE CURRENCIES WITH

STRANGE NAMES /UR lRST STOP WAS BLUSTERY 7ARSAW WHICH IN HINDSIGHT WAS A BIT OF A LET DOWN )T S HUGE AND ON THE WHOLE UGLY !ROUND OF ITS BUILDINGS WERE REDUCED TO RUBBLE IN THE WAR AND MUCH OF THE CITY SEEMED TO BE EITHER A BUILDING SITE OR AN OFlCE TOWER 4HE OLD TOWN SQUARE METICULOUSLY RECONSTRUCTED

AND A TESTAMENT TO 0OLISH NA TIONAL PRIDE FORMS THE NICEST PART OF TOWN %LSEWHERE HOW EVER THE CITY IS DOMINATED BY A WEALTH OF GHASTLY 3TALINIST CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE )F YOU DO GO .ATHAN S 6ILLA (OSTEL IS THE BEST HOSTEL IN TOWN AND LOADS OF PLACES SERVE @PIEROGI n 0OLISH DUMPLINGS WHICH ALONE ALMOST MAKE COMING TO 7ARSAW WORTH IT ! THREE HOUR TRAIN THREE DAYS LATER SAW US ARRIVE IN +RA KOW !NY VAGUE DOUBTS ) HAD ABOUT 0OLAND S VISUAL BEAUTY WERE IMMEDIATELY DISPELLED +RAKOW IS A STUNNING CITY 4HE OLD TOWN SQUARE IS INCREDIBLE

ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT WHEN ITS GOTHIC SPIRES ARE LIT UP BY THE SURROUNDING HUBBUB OF RES TAURANTS AND BARS 4HERE ARE TONNES OF PLACES TO EAT AND IF YOU HEAD AWAY FROM THE àBER TOURISTY AREAS YOU LL lND PLAC ES THAT ARE REALLY CHEAP 3OUTH OF THE OLD TOWN 7AWEL (ILL IS AN IMPOSING SIGHT n IF YOU DO ONE THING THERE CHECK OUT THE CATHEDRAL WHICH IS lRSTLY FREE

AND ALSO VISUALLY STAGGERING !

STROLL INTO THE *EWISH QUARTER IS A MUST AS WELL IF ONLY FOR ONE OF THE COOLEST BARS IN THE CITY n !LCHEMIA A RUN DOWN MAZE OF DIMLY LIT ROOMS WITH WICKED DÏCOR WHICH OFTEN HOSTS LIVE JAZZ AND SELLS AN ARRAY OF LO CAL BEERS SOME AT P A PINT (EADING BACK UP INTO THE OLD TOWN THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SHISHA BARS IF THAT S YOUR THING 4HERE ARE EVEN KEBAB PLACES THAT MAKE A MOCKERY OF ANYWHERE YOU LL STUMBLE INTO ON 0RINCE OF 7ALES ROAD AT AM .ATHAN S 6ILLA (OSTEL n THE SISTER HOSTEL OF THE 7AR SAW ABODE n IS AGAIN THE BEST )T EVEN HAS A POOL TABLE AND A CINEMA ROOM DOWNSTAIRS AND n LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN +RA KOW n IT S DELIGHTFULLY CHEAP !N ENCOUNTER WITH A GROUP OF 0OLES AND A FEW BOTTLES OF VODKA MEANT WE MISSED OUR EARLY TRAIN TO "UDAPEST AND IT WAS MIDNIGHT WHEN WE AR RIVED THE FOLLOWING NIGHT "U DAPEST ITSELF IS SLICED THROUGH THE MIDDLE BY A CURVE OF THE RIVER $ANUBE WITH "UDA AND 0EST ON SEPARATE SIDES AND MOST OF THE TOURISTY STUFF ON THE LATTER 4HERE ARE A TON OF SIGHTS TO SEE IN THE DAY AND THE TRAM SYSTEM IS WONDERFULLY EASY TO USE )F YOU DO NOTHING ELSE VISIT THE THERMAL BATHS AT 3ZECHENYI &URDO "UILT WITHIN A SERIES OF GORGEOUS CONNECT ING BUILDINGS AND WITH AN

OUTDOOR COURTYARD THE BATHS CONTAIN POOLS RANGING FROM # TO # FREEZING TO RE ALLY REALLY HOT AS WELL AS SAU NAS WHIRLPOOLS STEAM ROOMS

AND EVEN A BAR 3ERIOUSLY YOU COULD WASTE DAYS IN THERE %VEN MASSAGES ARE AVAILABLE BUT BE READY FOR A WOMAN WITH PAIN FULLY POWERFUL THUMBS 3TROLL ALONG THE RIVERBANK AT NIGHT n SOME OF THE BUILDINGS ON EI THER SIDE ESPECIALLY THE CASTLE AND THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING

LOOK INCREDIBLE WHEN LIT UP AND REmECTED IN THE WATER )F YOU FANCY SOME RECENT (UN GARIAN HISTORY CHECK OUT THE HARROWING (OUSE OF 4ERROR SET UP IN THE EXACT BUILDING WHERE THE 3OVIET SECRET POLICE USED TO RESIDE /UR lNAL STOP WAS 0RAGUE !GAIN AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING LIKE A #ZECH TOURIST INFORMA TION SITE THE CITY IS BEAUTI FUL ) VE YET TO MEET ANYONE WHO S BEEN THERE AND DIDN T LOVE IT 4HE OLD TOWN SQUARE YEP ANOTHER ONE AND THE TH CENTURY 2OYAL #ASTLE ARE AMAZING 4HERE S SO MUCH TO DO HERE THAT ) D SAY JUST BUY A GUIDE AND DECIDE FOR YOUR SELF !S WITH +RAKOW 0RAGUE IS SMALL ENOUGH TO SEE MOST OF IT ON FOOT OR BY SHORT TRAM RIDE

AND IT S RIDDLED WITH SIGHTSEE ING HORDES 3TILL A SHORT WALK AWAY FROM THE TOURISTY AREAS YOU CAN lND PLACES THAT SELL HALF LITRES OF 0ILSNER 5RQUELL

6IEW IN THE #ZECH CITY OF 0RAGUE AND OTHER BEERS FOR BETWEEN AND PENCE AND RESTAU RANTS TO MATCH 5NGELT *AZZ AND "LUES #LUB JUST OFF THE OLD TOWN SQUARE HAS SOME WICKED LIVE ACTS PLAYING THROUGH THE WEEK AND THE 0LUS 0RAGUE (OSTEL ALTHOUGH JUST OUT OF TOWN HAS A POOL PING PONG TABLE AND MASSIVE COMMUNAL BAR AREA 4HE DESCRIPTIONS OF THESE CITIES HAVE BEEN PAINFULLY BRIEF

BUT YOU GET THE IDEA 4HEY RE FULL OF THINGS TO DO WHETHER YOU WANT TO ADMIRE ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE AND SCENERY OR GO OUT AND GET SMASHED FOR A lVER IN SOME BRILLIANT BARS 4HERE ARE LOADS MORE PLACES TO GO IN THE REGION THAT ) HAVEN T MEN TIONED n "RATISLAVA AND PARTS OF #ROATIA ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AMAZING TO NAME A COUPLE )T CAN BE DONE VERY CHEAPLY IF YOU RE DISCIPLINED WITH YOUR MONEY -Y EXCURSION COST A GRAND TOTAL OF a AND ) WAS BEING FAIRLY LIBERAL WITH MY CASH 9OU LL NEED mIGHTS

BUT YOU CAN NORMALLY lND A GOOD DEAL IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH &OR THE TRAINS THERE S )NTER RAIL COM WHO OFFER MUL TI COUNTRY PASSES OR YOU CAN JUST PAY AS YOU GO 4HE LONGER YOU RE ON THE ROAD THE MORE YOU LL SPEND SO THINK ABOUT THAT AND WHERE AND HOW YOU CHOOSE TO EAT IS ALSO A BIG FAC TOR (APPY TRAVELS EVERYONE

4RAVEL 4REEFROG S TANTALISING TRAVEL TRIVIA 4HE 0OLISH TRADI TION OF NAME DAY LOCALLY CALLED @IMIENINY IS MORE IMPORTANT TO 0OLES THAN THEIR BIRTHDAYS .AME DAY IS THE FEAST DAY OF THE 3AINT FOR WHOM YOU ARE NAMED AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS GATHER

GIVE EACH OTHER GIFTS AND OFTEN SHARE A DRINK OF VODKA OR TWO

* "/"Ê" Ê/ Ê ",/ / 4HIS WEEK S PHOTO WAS SENT IN BY %LLEN #AVE AND SHOWS A VIEW FROM THE #ROATIAN ISLAND OF +ORCULA 4HE MAIN TOWN ALSO CALLED +ORCULA ON THE TINY ISLAND WHICH SITS JUST OFF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF #ROATIA IS A TRADITIONAL MEDIEVAL WALLED CITY AND AS YOU CAN SEE BOASTS FANTASTIC VIEWS ACROSS THE !DRIATIC 3EA )F YOU RE INTERESTED IN HAVING YOUR TRAVEL PHOTOS PRINTED IN #ONCRETE THEN SEND THEM TO CONCRETE TRAVEL GMAIL COM

4HIS WEEK THE 5NION 4RAVEL 3HOP WANT TO ALERT NEW STUDENTS TO THE DISCOUNTED BUS RAIL AND COACH CARDS THAT THEY HAVE ON SALE ! YEAR LONG BUS PASS COSTS JUST a A RAIL CARD JUST a AND A COACH CARD a ALL OF WHICH CAN BE USEFUL FOR TRIPS TO THE CITY CENTRE AND FOR VISITING FAMILY AND FRIENDS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY !LL OFFERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND AVALIABILITY

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(AVING SPENT MOST OF HER WAGES ON HAIRSPRAY -ISS (OGGISH EXPLAINED TO HER NEW PUPILS THAT IF THEY DIDN T HELP HER BUY SOME NEW SHOES FROM /FlCE WITH THEIR .53 DISCOUNT THEY WOULD ALL FAIL THEIR DISSERTATIONS

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Free  ice  cream  and  I’m  anyone’s...

4HE lRST 'REEN $AY OF THE SEMESTER SETS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TONE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR AND AS 3EÉN 2OSE REPORTS THERE S NOTHING WRONG WITH A BIT OF FREE STUFF

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LOTHES lLMS AND ICE CREAM 3URELY RANKED PRETTY HIGHLY IN ANY SELF RESPECTING STUDENT S WISH LIST FOR AN OTHERWISE UNREMARKABLE 4HURSDAY AFTERNOON 0RElX THEM WITH THE WORD @FREE AND YOU MUST BE ONTO A WINNER !ND THIS WAS EX ACTLY WHAT WAS TO BE FOUND LAST WEEK AT THE 5NION S lRST @'REEN $AY OF THE YEAR )T S A DISARMINGLY SIMPLE CON CEPT BUT JUDGING BY THE STEADY mOW OF HAPPY STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY WE RE ONTO A WINNER !SSEM BLE A CRACK TEAM OF 5NION SOCIETIES -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY #AMPUS 3USTAINABILITY )NITIATIVE 0ERMACUL TURE ADD IN SOME ATTRACTIVE FREE BIES ICE CREAM RECYCLED PENCILS AS SORTED SECOND HAND CLOTHES lX UP A SCREEN TO SHOW lLMS ON AND WAIT FOR THE GREEN WAVES TO START mOWING .ICE 'REEN $AY WAS THE BRAINCHILD OF LAST YEAR S %NVIRONMENT /FlCER "EN -EAKER AND EMERGED AS A MORE CONCENTRATED VERSION OF 5NION %N VIRONMENT 7EEK 7E HAD TWO LAST YEAR AND THE PLAN IS TO HAVE THEM EVERY SIX WEEKS OR SO THIS YEAR

5NSURPRISINGLY THE STALL SERVING FREE "EN *ERRY S ICE CREAM PROVED MOST POPULAR WITH PEAK QUEUES ES TIMATED BY THIS REPORTER AT HUNGRY STUDENTS 'IVING OUT FROZEN DESSERTS MAY NOT INITIALLY SEEM APPROPRI ATE TO A DAY SUPPOSEDLY RAISING THE PROlLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS SUCH AS CLIMATE CHANGE BUT "EN *ERRY S IS IN FACT A WELL ESTABLISHED SUPPORTER OF CLIMATE RESEARCH 4HEIR @#LIMATE #HANGE #OLLEGE PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR A FEW LUCKY STU DENTS EACH YEAR TO UNDERTAKE RE SEARCH IN THE !NTARCTIC 5%! S VERY OWN .EIL *ENNINGS WHO YOU MIGHT KNOW AS THE GREEN LYCRA CLAD @ECO POWER RANGER GRADUATED FROM THE COLLEGE LAST YEAR )F YOU RE IN (ALLS MAKE SURE YOU JOIN THE @3TUDENT 3WITCH /FF SCHEME REWARDING YOU FOR REDUCING YOUR ENERGY CONSUMP TION %VERYONE S A WINNER REALLY 4HE EVENING SAW THE LAUNCH OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST 5%! BUILDING A a MILLION MULTI STOREY CAR PARK

WITH SOCIETIES PROVIDING AN ECLECTIC MUSICAL MIX TO lNISH OFF THE DAY IN STYLE -Y PERSONAL HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY WAS THE PILE OF SECOND HAND CLOTHES

UP FOR GRABS WHICH ENABLED ME TO mESH OUT MY OCCASIONALLY LACKLUSTRE WARDROBE WITH A CANE TIPPED UM BRELLA GREY JACKET POSSIBLY A GIRL S BUT ) RECKON ) CAN PULL IT OFF AND STRAW HAT 4HE CLOTHES WERE COURTESY OF THE 5NION RECYCLING BOX AND THE END OF TERM BINS AND IT WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF RECYCLING IN ACTION ) M GOING TO BE CHEEKY AND GIVE A SPECIAL MENTION TO THE RECYCLING POINT THAT WAS ON DISPLAY WHICH ) MAINTAIN 'LASSES PHONES BAT TERIES AND #$S CAN ALL BE BROUGHT ALONG AND TAKEN TO A GOOD HOME 9OU LL lND THE BOXES UPSTAIRS IN 5N ION (OUSE JUST THROUGH THE DOORS MARKED @3TUDENT 5NION /FlCES 4HIS IS WHAT 'REEN $AY IS ALL ABOUT REALLY SHOWING YOU THE PRACTICAL WAYS THAT YOU CAN PERSONALLY GET IN VOLVED WITH @DOING YOUR BIT FOR THE PLANET WHETHER THAT S THROUGH CAM PAIGNING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH 5.)#%& USING YOUR CONSUMER POWER TO BUY &AIRTRADE ICE CREAM

OR REDUCING YOUR ECOLOGICAL FOOT PRINT THROUGH RECYCLING AS MUCH AS YOU CAN 3O KEEP IT GREEN AND LOOK OUT FOR 'REEN $AY )) IN WEEK

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George  Bush  to  save  the  environment?

2ACHEL !RCHER 2EPORTER

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T IS POSSIBLE TO CUT EMISSIONS ;BUT= WE MUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT DOESN T HARM ECONOMIC GROWTH OR PREVENT NATIONS FROM DELIVERING GREATER PROSPERITY FOR THE PEOPLE v .OT THE WORDS OF A HUMANITAR IAN .'/ BUT !MERICAN 0RESIDENT

'EORGE 7 "USH 4HE SENTIMENTS WOULD BE VERY WELCOME IF THEY WERE NOT TOTALLY HYPOCRITICAL (IS STATEMENT THAT COUNTRIES SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SET TING THEIR OWN TARGETS FOR REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WAS AN NOUNCED AT A 7ASHINGTON FORUM WHERE DELEGATES FROM THE TOP POLLUTING COUNTRIES DISCUSSED HOW TO CUT THEIR EMISSIONS "USH S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FORUM CLAIMING THAT COUNTRIES SHOULD HAVE THE SELF DETERMINATION

AND RIGHT TO DECIDE HOW THEY TAR GET THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL WARMING FOR THEMSELVES HAS BEEN MET WITH MIXED REACTIONS !LTHOUGH MOST OF THE OTHER OFlCIALS INVOLVED IN THE FORUM BELIEVE THAT THERE SHOULD BE INTERNATIONALLY SET LEGAL TARGETS FOR THE GREATEST POLLUTERS #HINA AND )N DIA HAVE BACKED "USH )NDEED "USH COULD BE RIGHT %ACH COUNTRY SHOULD DEPENDING ON THEIR PRODUCTION LEVELS HAVE THE RIGHT TO SET THEIR OWN TARGETS (OW EVER IT IS VERY DOUBTFUL THAT "USH INTENDS TO MAKE MAJOR SACRIlCES )T IS CLEAR THAT "USH SIMPLY DOES NOT WANT TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO BY IN TERNATIONAL LAW UNLESS OF COURSE IT WAS 53 )NTERNATIONAL ,AW $ELEGATES FROM 3OUTH !FRICA AND "RITAIN COMPLAINED THAT "USH WAS JUST NOT GOING FAR ENOUGH 4HE PROBLEM IS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING NOW )T IS IN TERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED THAT COM POSTING AND TAKING THE BUS IS NOW NOT ENOUGH OUR LEADERS AND BIG BUSINESSES NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBLE ACTION "USH IS OF COURSE RIGHT WE DO STILL NEED PRODUCTION PEOPLE STILL NEED PLACES TO LIVE AND TRAVEL IS NECESSARY 4HOUGH WHAT "USH IS OFFERING IS AN EASY WAY OUT FOR HIM SELF 3INCE MOST OF !MERICAN AND "RITISH FACTORIES ARE OUT SOURCED TO COUNTRIES LIKE #HINA )NDONESIA AND 3OUTH +OREA IT MAKES SENSE THAT HE

WOULD NOT WANT TO PUT ANY MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS ON PRODUC TION EMISSIONS !T THE VERY LEAST "USH S CONTRI BUTION IS CONSISTENT WITH PAST AC TIONS )N HE REFUSED TO SIGN THE +YOTO AGREEMENT WHICH WOULD HAVE COMMITTED THE 5 3 TO CUTTING CARBON EMISSIONS BY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS .OW WITH HIS REFUSAL TO GO INTO ANY LEGALLY SET AGREEMENTS HE IS CONTINUING !MERICA S NON IN VOLVEMENT IN TRYING TO TACKLE CLI MATE CHANGE )T IS HARD TO SAY WHETHER OR NOT THERE SHOULD BE ANY INTERNATIONAL LAWS THAT ALL COUNTRIES ABIDE BY FOR CUTTING BACK THEIR POLLUTION )T SEEMS UNFAIR THAT "RITAIN FOR EX AMPLE SHOULD TELL )NDIA THAT AFTER YEARS OF OCCUPATION THEN YEARS OF ABANDONMENT THAT SHE SHOULD NOT BEGIN PRODUCING FOR HERSELF (OWEVER IT IS VERY TRUE THAT THE WORLD IS IN MASSIVE TROUBLE AND SHOULD )NDIA #HINA AND !MERICA CONTINUE POLLUTING WITHOUT ANY LAWS OR RESTRAINT THEN IT IS ONLY GO ING TO GET WORSE "USH S WORDS CARRY SOME TRUTH COUNTRIES HAVE THE RIGHT TO THEIR OWN TECHNOLOGIES TO THEIR OWN TAR GETS AND TO THEIR OWN LAWS )T JUST BEGS THE QUESTION WHY CAN HE NOT PUT THESE WORDS INTO ACTION AND LEAVE THE REST OF THE WORLD TO GOVERN ITSELF

-ICHAEL &INCHAM

Switched  off !UNDI (OWERTON 2EPORTER

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ITHIN THE lRST FEW WEEKS OF CLASSES COMPLIMEN TARY MOUSE PADS WERE PLACED UNDER THE DOORS OF STUDENT ACCOMMODATION 4HE MOUSE PADS

WITH hGREEN GRAPHICS v AND STENCIL STAMP STYLED hGREENERIESv INCLUDED THE IMPORTANT PENULTIMATE MESSAGE h3WITCH OFF UNWANTED LIGHTS AND AP PLIANCES WHEN NOT IN USE v ,IGHT USAGE MAY SEEM LIKE A MINOR ELEMENT IN THE BATTLE FOR CLI MATE CONTROL IN COMPARISON TO THE MASSIVE CARBON FOOTPRINTS GENERATED

BY TRANSPORTATION AND OTHER INDUS TRY (OWEVER LAST WEEK THE 5+ EN VIRONMENT SECRETARY (ILARY "ENN

INTRODUCED THE GRADUAL REMOVAL OF HIGH ENERGY LIGHT BULBS AS PART OF A VOLUNTARY ENERGY SAVING SCHEME "ENN BACKED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LIGHTING INDUSTRY SAYS THE PHASE OUT WILL SAVE AN ESTIMATED lVE TONS OF #/ EACH YEAR h!ND SO OUR AIM IS FOR TRADITION AL WATT LIGHT BULBS TO BE PHASED OUT BY *ANUARY NEXT YEAR WATT BULBS THE YEAR AFTER WATT BULBS THE YEAR AFTER THAT AND ALL HIGH EN ERGY LIGHT BULBS BY v "ENN TOLD THE ""# /F THE ENERGY GENERATED BY TRA DITIONAL INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS

REPORTEDLY RESULTS IN LIGHT WHILE THE OTHER IS LOST TO HEAT $UR ING THE WARM SUMMER MONTHS THIS CAN OFTEN GENERATE AN ADDITIONAL ENERGY LOSS AS THE HEAT EMITTED BY BULBS COUNTERACTS AIR CONDITIONING !LTHOUGH THE ENERGY SAVING BULBS

OR #&,S ARE MORE EXPENSIVE AT THE INITIAL INSTALLATION THEY CAN LAST ANY WHERE FROM TO TIMES THAT OF AN INCANDESCENT BULB 4HE %5 HAS PROPOSED A BAN ON THE CREATION OF NEW INCANDESCENT LIGHTS WHICH WON T AFFECT EXISTING INDUSTRY STOCK ,IKEWISE #ANADA IS PROPOSING A SIMILAR BAN BY 4HE 53 IS WORKING TOWARD SUCH MEAS URES AT STATE LEVEL LEGISLATION AND HAS VARYING YET LIMITED PLANS FOR DISCON TINUATION ""# CORRESPONDENT -ATT 0RESCOTT HAS LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN AND EXTENSIVE WEBSITE IN CONJUNC TIVE EFFORTS TO THE WORLDWIDE SWITCH TO MORE EFlCIENT BULBS 4O GET MORE INVOLVED OR JUST TRACK THE CHANGES

CHECK OUT WWW BANTHEBULB ORG 5%! HAS WIDELY IMPLEMENTED THE USE OF ENERGY SAVING BULBS 2ESI DENT HOUSEKEEPERS REPORT ACCESS TO A MIX OF BOTH THE OLD INCANDESCENT AND THE ENERGY SAVING BULBS AND CONTINUE TO USE BOTH )N #2ED

A LOCAL CARBON REDUCTION PROJECT

COORDINATED WITH THE 5NIVERSITY TO DISTRIBUTE FREE ENERGY SAVING BULBS TO STAFF AND STUDENTS INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING TO CHANGE

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N A NEW APPROACH TO DRIVE THE WORLD S MEAT EATERS TO VEGETARIAN ISM THE 6EGETARIAN 3OCIETY HAVE LAUNCHED A NEW CAMPAIGN CALLED 3I LENT BUT $EADLY FRONTED BY 0AUL -C #ARTNEY AND HIS DAUGHTER 3TELLA 4HE CAMPAIGN CLAIMS THAT FARMED ANIMALS PRODUCE OF GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS 4HIS

MAKES MEAT EVEN LESS ENVIRONMEN TALLY FRIENDLY THAN THE GLOBAL TRANS PORT INDUSTRY WHICH PRODUCES OF GLOBAL EMISSIONS -ETHANE EMIS SIONS FROM CATTLE ARE ALSO MORE ENVI RONMENTALLY DAMAGING THAN CARBON DIOXIDE WHICH CAN BE REABSORBED THROUGH THE NATURAL PROCESS OF PHO TOSYNTHESIS 4HE CATTLE INDUSTRY HAS MORE TO ANSWER FOR THAN JUST THE GASEOUS EMISSIONS FROM LIVESTOCK #OWS ARE

THE WORST CULPRITS FOR OVER GRAZING

AND CAN CAUSE SOIL EROSION AND DE SERTIlCATION /N TOP OF THIS IS THE ISSUE OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION FOR CATTLE RANCHES PARTICULARLY PREVALENT IN THE !MAZONIAN REGION OF 3OUTH !MERICA AS DEFORESTATION REDUCES THE WORLD S ABILITY TO COUNTER ATMOSPHER IC CHANGE )N SHORT ENVIRONMENTALLY CATTLE ARE THE SECOND MOST DANGEROUS SPE CIES TO THIS PLANET ONLY LESS DAMAG ING THAN HUMANS 7HILST THE ETHICAL DEBATES SURROUNDING VEGETARIANISM ARE UNLIKELY TO BE RESOLVED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THE ENVIRONMENTAL ARGU MENT IS CLEAR A VEGETARIAN DIET USES ON AVERAGE TIMES LESS NATURAL RE SOURCES THAN DIET INVOLVING MEAT 5NFORTUNATELY THE CAMPAIGN COULD BE SEEN AS RELEGATING THE IM PORTANCE OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE RAPIDLY EXPANDING AIR TRANSPORT INDUSTRY !LTHOUGH THE 6EGETARIAN 3O CIETY CLAIMS THAT TRANSPORT EMISSIONS MAKE UP ONLY OF THE GLOBAL TO TAL IT IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED THAT BEFORE VERY LONG THE INCREASE OF SHORT HAUL AND DOMESTIC mIGHTS WILL INCREASE THE TOTAL EMISSIONS FROM THIS SECTOR 3OME HAVE ALSO QUESTIONED THE EF

FECTIVENESS OF THE POSTER CAMPAIGN

CLAIMING THAT THE IMAGES USED MAKE THE WHOLE ISSUE APPEAR AMUSING ,IZ / .EILL (EAD OF #OMMUNICATIONS FOR THE 6EGETARIAN 3OCIETY ARGUED THAT THE POSTERS COULD IN FACT HAVE THE EF FECT OF CATCHING THE ATTENTION OF PEO PLE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE NOT KNOW ABOUT THE DAMAGING IMPACT OF THE MEAT INDUSTRY

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MAKING THEM THINK AND HOPEFULLY WANTING TO lND OUT MORE ABOUT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DIET AND CLIMATE CHANGE v 0AUL -C#ARTNEY THE CAMPAIGN S PATRON IS NO NEWCOMER TO CAMPAIGN ING ACTIVITIES HAVING BEEN INVOLVED IN PROJECTS FROM "AND !ID TO CONCERTS TO

Vanishing  Norfolk  broads 4HE .ORFOLK "ROADS ONE OF "RITAIN S GREATEST NATU RAL TREASURES IS UNDER INCREASING THREAT FROM POL LUTION RISING SEA LEVELS AND GROWING DEMAND FOR WATER THE 2OYAL 3OCIETY FOR THE 0ROTECTION OF "IRDS WARNS TODAY 4HE GROUP SAYS MUCH OF THE WETLAND LANDSCAPE ACROSS .ORFOLK AND 3UFFOLK HAS BEEN BADLY DAM AGED BY YEARS OF NEGLECT AND COULD DISAPPEAR BY THE MIDDLE OF THE CENTURY AS CLIMATE CHANGE RAISES SEA LEVELS )T IS CALLING FOR GREATER EFFORTS TO INCREASE BIRD NUMBERS IMPROVE WATER QUALITY AND SUSTAIN ABLY MANAGE THE REGION S BEST WILDLIFE SITES 2ICHARD 0OWELL 230" DIRECTOR FOR EASTERN %NGLAND SAID h4HE IMPACT OF THE TH CENTURY HAS MOSTLY NOT BEEN KIND TO BROADLAND 4HOUGH MUCH OF GREAT VALUE REMAINS WE HAVE DAMAGED A GREAT NATURAL TREASURE "USINESS AS USUAL IN THE BROADS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE 7E NEED A DEBATE ON HOW WE MANAGE THE BROADS SO ITS NATURE RECOVERS

IT IS AN ASSET FOR PEOPLE AND BUSINESS AND IT OFFERS A TRULY SUSTAINABLE FUTURE v )N A REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY THE 230" SAYS A CARBON BUDGET SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED FOR THE RE GION TO MEASURE AND REDUCE EMISSIONS AND THAT TARGETS SHOULD BE SET TO ENCOURAGE OF VISITORS TO LEAVE THEIR CARS AT HOME BY AND TO POWER HALF THE BOATS USING THE WATERWAYS WITH ELECTRIC ITY #HRIS $URDIN OF THE 230" EASTERN OFlCE WHO WROTE THE REPORT SAID h.OTHING IN THE BROADS IS SIMPLE 4HIS WILL BE TOUGH AND EXPENSIVE v 4HE 230" SAYS h4HIS IS THE SINGLE MOST DAM MING PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT ALL IS NOT RIGHT FOR WILDLIFE IN THE BROADS THIS IS DIFlCULT TO TACKLE

BUT BY NO MEANS IMPOSSIBLE GIVEN SUFlCIENT WILL AND RESOURCES FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS AGEN CIES v

RAISE MONEY FOR ANTI LANDMINE CHARI TIES (E STATES THAT THERE ARE TWO SEPA RATE CAUSES FOR HIS VEGETARIANISM 4HE lRST IS THE lLM "AMBI THE SECOND AN INSPIRATIONAL MOMENT HE SHARED WITH HIS lRST WIFE ,INDA -C#ARTNEY 4HEY WERE BOTH EATING A PLATE OF LAMB

WHEN THEY LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND SAW LAMBS IN A lELD 4HIS EXPERI ENCE WAS ACCORDING TO A BIOGRAPHY OF ,INDA hLIFE CHANGINGv /VER THE PAST YEARS THE ROLE OF CELEBRITIES IN CAMPAIGNS HAS INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY WITH EVERY CAMPAIGN SEEMINGLY NEEDING CELEBRITY BACKING TO GET OFF THE GROUND 7HILST CELEBRI TIES CAN USE THEIR POSITION OF INmU ENCE TO HELP CAMPAIGNS PERHAPS IN THIS INSTANCE IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR -C#ARTNEY TO RESTRICT HIMSELF TO GIV ING SOME OF HIS SUPPOSED a - FOR TUNE TO THE CAMPAIGN 7HILST 3ILENT BUT $EADLY MAKES VALID POINTS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMEN TAL IMPACT OF ANIMAL FARMING AND THE NEED FOR CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF PEOPLE S DIET IN AN AGE OF ENVIRON MENTAL AWARENESS INVOLVEMENT OF CELEBRITY lGURES AND COWS ARSES TURNS THE WHOLE IMPORTANT ISSUE INTO A LOAD OF HOT AIR

Local  business  man  inspires  greener  driving *ON 3YDER IS AN ENTREPRENEUR FROM .ORWICH AND IS AN EXTREMELY PASSION ATE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE SPOKESPER SON (E S LOBBYING THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE lNANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR PEO PLE BUYING ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CARS AND IS KEEN TO PROMOTE THE BEN ElTS OF DRIVING AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CAR *ON 3YDER MANAGING DIRECTOR OF WWW YOURGREENCAR COM SAID h4HE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CAR MARKET IS GROWING RAPIDLY AS MORE AND MORE DRIVERS LOOK FOR WAYS TO SWAP THEIR GAS GUZZLERS FOR GREENER MACHINES .EGLIGIBLE RISES IN TAXATION FOR HIGHER EMISSION VEHICLES DO NOT NECESSARILY PROVIDE THE BEST WAY TO INCENTIVIZE GREENER DRIVING 4HE GOVERNMENT HAS HELPED RAISE THE PROlLE OF GREEN ISSUES BUT IT NOW NEEDS TO OFFER MORE INCEN TIVES TO GET WILLING DRIVERS OUT OF THEIR GAS GUZZLERS AND INTO GREENER MOTORS

IN LINE WITH ITS COMMITMENT TO HELP LIMIT CLIMATE CHANGE v 7ITH THIS IN MIND WWW YOUR GREENCAR COM HAS LAUNCHED AN ONLINE PETITION IN ORDER TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE 'OVERNMENT TO OFFER MORE lNAN CIAL INCENTIVES TO ENCOURAGE DRIVERS TO SWITCH TO MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CARS 3YDER EXPLAINS h0EO PLE HAVE A RIGHT TO SHOW THE GOVERN MENT HOW THEY FEEL ON SUBJECTS SUCH AS THESE !S A RESULT OF THE SURVEY WE CONDUCTED WE FEEL CONlDENT THAT MANY PEOPLE WILL WISH TO EXPRESS THEIR SUPPORT AND SIGN OUR PETITION 7E THEN PLAN TO PRESENT OUR lNDINGS TO $OWNING 3TREET NEXT YEAR v

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Vegging  out  can  make  you  healthy %ATING A BALANCED DIET DOESN T HAVE TO BE HARD *USTINE 7ALLIS INVESTIGATES HOW EVEN THE LAZIEST COUCH POTATO CAN HAVE A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE

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S STUDENTS FAR AWAY FROM THE COMFORT AND CONCERN OF OUR LOVING PARENTS IT S VERY EASY TO FORGET TO EAT OUR REC OMMENDED lVE A DAY 4HE IDEA OF SPENDING HARD EARNED BEER MONEY ON LETTUCE LEAVES AND CARROT STICKS IS HARDLY APPEALING TO MOST OF US (OWEVER WAYS DO EXIST TO SAVE YOUR STOMACH AND YOUR MOTHER S SANITY WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK BALANCE "Y SIMPLY MAKING A FEW INFORMED CHOICES YOU CAN BE HEALTHIER WITH OUT MAKING A MASSIVE CHANGE IN LIFESTYLE 3O WHAT IS A HEALTHY DIET %X PERTS SEEM TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS EVERY lVE MINUTES WHILE FOR MOST STUDENTS THERE IS AN EASY WAY TO DEAL WITH THIS MAZE OF DIETARY CON TRADICTION IGNORE IT !S A RULE GO FOR AN EASY BAL ANCED DIET )NSTEAD OF A POT NOODLE

THE ULTIMATE IN LAZY STUDENT FOOD

TRY BUYING A PACKET OF DRIED PASTA AND ADDING A TOMATO OR VEGETABLE BASED SAUCE 4O MAKE YOUR OWN PASTA SAUCE IS SHOCKINGLY EASY A TIN OF TOMATOES SOME CHOPPED SEASON AL VEGETABLES A DASH OF HERBS AND A PINCH OF SALT AND PEPPER PUT IN A SAUCEPAN AND HEAT UNTIL IT LOOKS ED

IBLE )F EVEN THIS SIMPLE RECIPE lLLS YOU WITH DREAD PUT SOME GOODNESS IN YOUR PRE BOUGHT JAR OF PASTA SAUCE

BY ADDING SOME CHOPPED MUSH ROOMS OR HAM !DD SOME MINCE OR 1UORN MINCE TO THIS AND YOU HAVE BOLOGNESE )T S HARDLY ROCKET SCI ENCE EVEN FOR THE MOST CHRONICALLY LAZY FRESHER WITH A HANGOVER &OR THE PENNY PINCHERS AMONG US YOU MAY BE PLEASED TO KNOW THAT COOKING YOUR OWN HEALTHY MEALS CAN BE CHEAPER THAN BUYING QUICKER ALTERNATIVES !N EASY WAY TO CUT YOUR COSTS IS TO BATCH COOK -OST CHEAP DEALS IN SUPERMARKETS ARE AIMED AT PEOPLE COOKING FOR A FAMILY "UYING A LARGER PACKET OF CHICKEN BREASTS THAN YOU CAN EAT IN ONE SESSION CAN BE A SENSIBLE DECISION .EXT TIME YOU ARE COOKING A MEAL COOK FOR TWO OR FOUR ,EAVE THE EXTRA TO COOL WARNING IT IS ADVISABLE TO GUARD YOUR FOOD AT THIS POINT OR YOU MAY lND IT MAGICALLY hDONATEDv TO HUN

Do  Different )F YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING DIF FERENT THIS FORTNIGHT AND FANCY TRY ING A NEW WAY OF KEEPING lT WHY NOT TRY 3ALSA AEROBICS 4HE CLASSES COMBINE TRADITION AL AEROBICS WITH SALSA DANCING TO STRONG ,ATIN !MERICAN BEATS 9OU BEGIN TO BUILD UP SALSA ROUTINES THROUGHOUT THE SESSION WHICH THEN PROGRESS WEEK AFTER WEEK )T OFFERS JUST AS MUCH OF A WORKOUT AS NORMAL AEROBICS THE ONLY DIF FERENCE BEING THAT THERE IS SOME THING TO FOCUS ON AND THERE IS AN ENJOYABLE ATMOSPHERE TO WORK OUT IN )T IS A FANTASTIC RELEASE OF EN ERGY AFTER A HARD DAYS WORK 4HE CLASSES CAME ABOUT AFTER THE EMERGENCE OF REALITY 46 SHOWS SUCH AS 3TRICTLY #OME $ANCING

WHICH FEATURES CELEBRITIES TRAINING IN THE ART OF BALLROOM DANCING 7HEN THE CLASSES lRST OPENED A YEAR AND A HALF AGO PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND SHAPES WERE CRAMMED INTO THE 3PORTSPARK S DANCE STU DIO EAGER TO BE PART OF THE DANCE REVIVAL 3ALSA AEROBICS IS PERFECT IF ONE HATES ALL THE PARAPHERNALIA OF SPORTS AND lNDS EXERCISING IN THE GYM DULL AND BORING )T MANAGES TO CREATE A BALANCE OF HAVING FUN WHILST AT THE SAME TIME BEING A VERY SIMPLE WAY TO KEEP lT #LASSES COST a PER SESSION AND ARE HELD ON &RIDAYS FROM IN THE 3PORTS 0ARK #HLOE 0EW ,ATTER

GRY HOUSEMATES AND FREEZE MEAL SIZED PORTIONS 7HO SAID MICROWAVE MEALS COULDN T BE HEALTHY "UYING SEASONAL VEGETABLES IS ANOTHER EXCELLENT WAY TO GET GOOD DEALS AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL COM MUNITY !PPLES PEARS LEEKS SWEET CORN MUSHROOMS AND PUMPKINS ARE ALL PRODUCED IN THE AUTUMN ! TASTY FRUIT IN SEASON BETWEEN 3EPTEMBER AND .OVEMBER IS THE BANANA &ULL OF VITAMINS ! " AND " BANANAS ARE A PARTICULARLY HEALTHY SEASONAL SNACK -OST IMPORTANTLY THE PO TASSIUM IN BANANAS REGULATES NERVE ENDINGS AND ENABLES OXYGEN TO BE SENT TO THE BRAIN LEADING TO IN CREASED CONCENTRATION 3O IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING AROUND TO THAT lRST ASSESSMENT OF THE YEAR BA NANAS COULD BE AN IDEAL AID TO BOTH YOUR DEGREE AND YOUR DIGESTION 4HIS YEAR THE 5NION &OOD /UT LET HAS ALSO JOINED THE NATIONAL EF FORT TO PROMOTE HEALTHIER FOODS %N

TERING THE STORE STUDENTS WILL lND A NEW h(EALTHY /PTIONv SECTION JUST WAITING FOR YOU TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ITS ULTRA CONVENIENT LAYOUT *ENNY 2ANDALL 5&/ MANAGER EXPLAINED THAT AS THE 5&/ IS NOW SUPPLIED

BY THE #O OP AND THIS HAS ENABLED THE 5&/ TO INCREASE ITS RANGE OF FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES WITH BA NANAS AND FRESH SPINACH BECOMING BEST SELLERS h7E ARE TRYING TO DRAW STUDENT S ATTENTION TO THE RANGE OF HEALTHY OPTIONS THE 5NION STOCKS v 4HERE ARE NOW SIGNS TO POINT OUT VE GAN AND FAIR TRADE PRODUCE AS WELL AS A RANGE OF DRIED FRUITS NUTS AND PULSES .UTS AND PULSES PROVIDE A GREAT SOURCE OF PROTEIN AND THE RANGE OF SNACKS INCLUDING FAIR TRADE @'EOBARS ARE A GOOD ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL PACKET OF CRISPS %VEN IF YOU DON T HAVE TIME TO GRAB SOMETHING FROM YOUR FRIDGE BEFORE RUNNING TO LECTURES EAT ING ON CAMPUS IS NO REASON NOT TO

MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES )N THE INTER EST OF MAKING IT EVEN SIMPLER FOR STUDENTS TO BE HEALTHY ON CAMPUS

HERE ARE THE TOP THREE WAYS TO DEAL WITH LUNCH ALL FOR UNDER A lVER 4HE (IVE PROVIDES A RANGE OF SANDWICHES BAGUETTES AND SOUP FOR STUDENTS TO GET THEIR TEETH INTO /NE SMOOTHIE AND A BAGUETTE IS ONLY A YUMMY a :EST S SALAD BAR IS A PARTICULARLY GOOD CHOICE FOR THE HEALTH CON SCIOUS BUT HAVING SAID THAT IF A SAL AD SOUNDS TOO SAINTLY THEN A JACKET POTATO FOLLOWED BY A FRUIT COCKTAIL DESSERT IS JUST a &RESH FRUIT IS ALSO ON SALE AT :EST FOR JUST P $OLCE 6ITA OFFERS A RANGE OF FRESH SANDWICHES AND AS YOU CAN CHOOSE THE BREAD AND lLLINGS YOURSELF IT S EVEN SIMPLER TO BE HEALTHY 'RAB YOUR COFFEE WITH SEMI SKIMMED OR SOY MILK FOR A FEEL GOOD OPTION !

WHOLEMEAL TUNA SANDWICH AND IN NOCENT SMOOTHIE COMES TO AN APPE TISING a 7ITH ALL THESE OPTIONS ON OUR DOORSTEPS THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR STUDENTS NOT TO EAT A HEALTHY BAL ANCED DIET .EXT TIME YOU HEAD OUT FOR A LIFE SUSTAINING SNACK WHY NOT TRY SOMETHING LIKE THESE 9OU NEVER KNOW YOU MAY EVEN ENJOY IT

Worth  more  than  a  pint  at  the  Union? /K SO WE SPEND OUR DAYS BEING BOMBARDED WITH INFORMATION AIM ING TOWARDS THE WHOLE @HEALTHY LIFESTYLE MALARKEY *AMIE /LIVER TOOK HIS BATTLE FOR A HEALTHY SCHOOL DINNER TO $OWNING 3TREET GOING ORGANIC APPEARS TO BE THE NEW @IN THING AND THE @SIZE ARGUMENT HAS CAUSED UPROAR NOT ONLY IN THE FASH ION INDUSTRY BUT WITH NUTRITIONISTS TOO ) TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO DELVE INTO AN EVER GROWING PHENOMENON THAT COMES ALONGSIDE THIS HEALTHY LIVING SOCIETY WE LIVE IN JUICE BARS .OW YOU MAY BE THINKING THAT JUICE BARS AREN T EXACTLY A STUDENT S IDEA OF A @GOOD TIME WHEN YOU COULD SPEND HALF THE MONEY OF A SMOOTHIE AND BUY A PINT IN THE 5N ION ) UNDERSTAND THIS "UT HAVE HALF OF YOU EVEN CONSIDERED GOING TO A JUICE BAR FOR A CHANGE 7E RE ALL CONSTANTLY TOLD THAT WE NEED OUR A DAY AND LET S BE REAL WE DON T ALL SUCCEED 3O THIS SEEMS LIKE THE PERFECT SOLUTIONxSURELY ) WALKED INTO THE lRST BAR AND WAS AMAZED 4HE SMELL OF FRESHLY SQUEEZED ORANGES WAS SLIGHTLY OVER WHELMING $IFFERENT FRUITS WERE TAKING OVER THE COUNTERS WHICH FOR SOME REASON SEEMED LIKE A PLEASANT CHANGE FROM THE SPILLAGES OF BEER FOUND IN THE BARS WE TOO REGULARLY SPEND OUR TIME IN

&RUIT WAS EITHER LOCALLY PRODUCED OR IMPORTED FROM SOME FAR AWAY EX OTIC LAND 4HE CHOICE IN THESE PLAC ES IS INCREDIBLE .OT ONLY CAN YOU GET FRUIT JUICES OF ALL DIFFERENT COM BINATIONS BUT SHOTS OF HERBAL SUP PLEMENTS SMOOTHIES HOT DRINKS

EVEN DRINKS INTENDED TO CURE YOUR HANGOVER 4HEY SERVE FRESH SOUPS AND OTHER SAVOURIES AND BAGUETTES AND PANINIS WERE BEING ADVERTISED AS A @GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO FAST FOOD ) DIDN T THINK ) COULD lND A FAULT WITH IT UNTIL ) SAW THE PRICE LIST 7ITHOUT SOUNDING STINGY a AS A STARTING PRICE FOR A JUICE IS QUITE A LOT WE ARE STUDENTS AFTER ALL 9OU CAN HEAD DOWN TO THE LOCAL MARKET AND PICK UP A WEEKS WORTH OF FRUIT FOR UNDER a SO WHY SHOULD WE PAY THAT MUCH FOR ONE DRINK WHEN WE COULD MAKE

IT AT HOME 4HERE IS NO REAL ANSWER TO THIS 4HE TAKEAWAY LIST FROM THE BAR GAVE A SAMPLE OF THE COMBINA TIONS OF JUICES THAT CAN BE MADE IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME (OWEVER THERE DOES APPEAR TO BE A SLIGHT NOVELTY FACTOR IN GOING TO THE JUICE BAR AND PURCHASING YOUR DRINK SEEING IT ALL BEING MADE IN FRONT OF YOU AND MORE IMPORTANTLY

NOT HAVING TO DO THE WASHING UP 3O MY ADVICE TO YOU IS THIS 'O AND TRY IT OUT FOR YOURSELF 9ES IT MAY BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A PINT OF &OSTERS IN THE 5NION BUT WHICH IS BETTER FOR YOUR HEALTH &OR THOSE OF YOU WHO AREN T CONVINCED YET

INVEST IN A BLENDER AND TRY IT AT HOMEx YOU LL SAVE A FORTUNE %MMA (AMILTON

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) WAS DELIGHTED TO SEE *AMES $EXTER S DISABILITY REPORT GIVEN FRONT PAGE COVERAGE IN #ONCRETE ,INDA 3HEPHERD $EPUTY $EAN OF 3TUDENTS WAS RE PORTED AS BEING UNHAPPY AT THE hNEGATIVE SLANT PUT ON THE RESULTS OF THIS SURVEYv #OULD #ONCRETE READERS BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO JUDGE WHETHER HER COMPLAINT WAS JUSTIlED 4HE REPORT ITSELF IS FULL OF MOV ING NARRATIVES PRAISE FOR THE GOOD AND REASONABLE SUGGES TIONS ABOUT ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED 4HE REPORT DESERVES A PROPER AIRING )F #ONCRETE FEELS UNABLE TO GIVE THE REPORT AS A WHOLE THE KIND OF EXPOSURE CONSTANTLY GIVEN TO ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORT THEN PERHAPS AT LEAST THE ISSUES RAISED WITHIN IT MIGHT GO ON THE AGENDA FOR FUTURE COVERAGE

) AM CONCERNED ABOUT OUR COUNCILLOR REPRESENTING CAMPUS RESIDENTS AT 5%!

@"ERT "REMNER 3INCE BEING ELECTED TO REPRESENT US TWO YEARS AGO HE HAS QUICKLY RISEN THROUGH THE RANKS OF THE LOCAL COUNCIL YET HE STILL HAS NEVER HELD A SURGERY ON CAMPUS 4HERE WERE MULTIPLE AT TACKS ON STUDENTS IN .OR WICH IN THE WEEK BEFORE

Cllr  Bert  Bremner  Anti-­Student?! $EAR %DITOR

!T 3OCMART THE 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY INVITED LOCAL ,ABOUR COUNCILLOR "ERT "REMNER TO HELP OUT ON OUR STALL AND TO SPEAK TO STUDENTS WHICH HE 0ETER 3MITH ()3 0'2 DID WITH GREAT SUCCESS (OW EVER THIS SEEMINGLY INNOCU OUS EVENT WAS DISRUPTED BY A ,IBERAL $EMOCRAT LEAmET WHICH CRITICISED "ERT FOR BEING h!NTI 3TUDENT !NTI 5NIVERSITY 4HIS IS SIMPLY $EAR %DITOR

NOT TRUE #LLR "REMNER DOES NOT AS THE LEAmET IMPLIES

.ICE TO SEE AN INTERVIEW WITH SPEND HIS TIME hSLAGGING OFF 'ERRY !NDERSON IN #ONCRETE STUDENTSv 2ATHER "ERT HAS ONE OF MY HEROES AND A THOR THE INTERESTS OF ALL OF THE OUGHLY NICE GUY COMMUNITY INCLUDING STU /NE FACTUAL CORRECTION DENTS AT HEART HOWEVER 3TINGRAY WAS AL 4HIS CRUDE PERSONAL AT MOST CERTAINLY THE lRST 5+ TACK AIMED AT "ERT CENTRED CHILDREN S PROGRAMME TO BE ON AN ARTICLE IN THE .ORWICH @MADE IN COLOUR BUT IT WASN T %VENING .EWS WHICH REPORT SHOWN THAT WAY #OLOUR TEL ED THE CAMPAIGN OF A LOCAL EVISION ONLY CAME TO "RITAIN RESIDENT AGAINST PEOPLE CRE IN )NITIALLY ONLY ""# ATING NOISE IN RESIDENTIAL BROADCAST IN COLOUR WITH AREAS !S A RESPONSIBLE LOCAL ""# AND )46 JOINING IT IN COUNCILLOR "ERT HAS LENT HIS .OVEMBER SUPPORT TO THIS CAMPAIGN 3O ALTHOUGH 3TINGRAY WAS BUT IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO SHOWN IN COLOUR IN PLACES TALK TO HIM THEN YOU WOULD LIKE THE 53!

IT WAS SOME REALISE THAT "ERT LIKE US RE YEARS BEFORE "RITISH VIEWERS ALISES THAT IT IS ONLY A MINOR COULD SEE IT THAT WAY &OR THIS ITY OF STUDENTS WHICH CREATE REASON THE lRST 5+ SCREEN SUCH ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR INGS OF 4HUNDERBIRDS #APTAIN AND GIVE US ALL A BAD REPU 3CARLET AND *OE WERE ALSO IN TATION BLACK AND WHITE &URTHERMORE IF #LLR "REMNER IS ANTI STUDENT .IGEL #URSON #3%$ THEN WHY DOES HE CAMPAIGN

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TERM STARTED AND INSTEAD OF DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THAT #LLR "REMNER %XECU TIVE MEMBER FOR #OMMU NITY 3AFETY SPENT HIS TIME CRITICISING STUDENTS IN THE LOCAL PRESS FOR BEING NOISY ) WAS HORRIlED TO SEE HIM TURN UP AT 3OCMART TRYING TO RECRUIT FOR A POLITICAL SOCI ETY JUST DAYS AFTER CRITICISING STUDENTS 7HILST ) AGREE THAT A SMALL MINORITY IN ALL PARTS OF THE .ORWICH COMMUNITY

INCLUDING STUDENTS CAUSE PROBLEMS A FAR MORE PRESS ING CONCERN TO THE RESIDENTS OF THIS PART OF .ORWICH IS THE PERSONAL SAFETY OF STUDENTS ) ONLY HOPE #LLR "REMNER IS WILLING TO PUT PARTY POLITICS TO ONE SIDE IN ORDER TO WORK TOGETHER ON THIS ISSUE -ARTIN *OPP 4REASURER 5%! ,IBERAL $EMOCRATS 0ERSONAL #APACITY

$EAR %DITOR

ON ISSUES THAT CONCERN US "ERT IS CAMPAIGNING FOR BETTER LIGHTING AND SECURITY MEASURES AROUND %ARLHAM (ALL AND %ARLHAM 0ARK 4HIS IS AN ISSUE OF PARTICULAR IM PORTANCE ESPECIALLY NOW AS THE NIGHTS ARE GETTING DARKER EARLIER "ERT IS ALSO WORKING WITH THE ,ABOUR 3OCIETY ON OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES SUCH AS TRY ING TO IMPROVE THE RELATION SHIP BETWEEN LOCAL RESIDENTS AND STUDENTS THE EFFECT OF INCREASING RENT CHARGES FOR 5%! ACCOMMODATION ON CITY RENT PRICES AND THE LACK OF PROPER LIGHTING ON CAM PUS 3O ) WOULD LIKE TO URGE ANYONE WHO HAS READ THE COMPLETELY DECEPTIVE AND PITIABLE LEAmET HANDED OUT AT 3OCMART TO TAKE IT WITH A PINCH OF SALT AND TO IG NORE THESE ,IB $EM LIES &URTHERMORE IT IS ONLY BY WORKING TOGETHER THAT WE CAN IMPROVE RELATIONS IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY "OTH "ERT AND THE 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY WOULD LIKE YOUR VIEWS SO THAT WE CAN DO THIS &EEL FREE TO CONTACT US AT UEALABOURSOCIETY HOTMAIL CO UK *ONATHAN #LARK #HAIR 5%! ,ABOUR 3OCIETY

!FTER 3OCMART ) FELT THE NEED TO WRITE IN ! FEW PEOPLE WHO WERE AT 3OCMART AROUND THE POLITICAL PARTY SOCIETY STALLS WOULD HAVE SEEN A LEAmET PRINTED BY A 5%! ,IB $EM #OMMITTEE -EMBER WHICH WAS VERY OPPOSED TO ,A BOUR #OUNCILLOR "ERT "REMNER

WHO WAS CAMPAIGNING FOR THE ,ABOUR SOCIETY THERE 4HANKFULLY THIS LEAmET WAS HELD BACK SOON ENOUGH WHEN IT WAS REALISED THAT THESE LEAF LETS WERE NOT GOING DOWN VERY WELL NOT TO MENTION AS ) LATER SAW FOR MYSELF NEEDLESS PETTY AND COUNTER PRODUCTIVE ) JUST FELT THE NEED TO CLARIFY AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THIS LEAmET THAT THIS WAS THE WORK OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND NOT OF THE 5%! ,IBERAL $EMOCRAT 3OCIETY EVEN THOUGH THE LEAmET DOES IMPLI CATE THE 3OCIETY 3INCE ) TOOK OVER THIS SOCI ETY ) HAVE STRIVED TO GUARANTEE CLOSE LINKS WITH ALL OF THE OTHER PARTY POLITICAL SOCIETIES AND TO ENSURE THAT ANY RIVALRY BETWEEN US IS A FRIENDLY ONE AND ONE OF COOPERATION 4HIS LEAmET WAS REALLY NOT HELPFUL FOR THIS GOAL AND ) HAD TO CLARIFY THAT NEITHER ) NOR THE 5%! ,IBERAL $EMO CRAT 3OCIETY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT ) AM SORRY FOR ANY HARM THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED AND ) HOPE THAT IN FUTURE NOTHING WILL INTERFERE WITH THE CLOSE COOPERATION OF ALL THE PARTY PO LITICAL SOCIETIES !ARON "LOWERS #HAIR 5%! ,IB $EM 3OCIETY

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$ANNY 4URNER *ESSIE 7HITE

3PORT %DITOR CONCRETE SPORT UEA AC UK ,AURA 7IGNALL 7RITERS -ICHAEL "LUNT )AN &RASER 2OSS &REEMAN (ARRY ,OW .ICOLA -CIVOR "HAVIK 4HAKRAR $AVINA 7ILLSON 3AM 7ILSON

0ROOFREADING +IRSTY #ALLAGHAN +ELLY $AGAN ,YDIA (ARLEY (ANNAH ,IVINGSTON 3IOHAN / 2IORDAN !NNA 0RITCHARD ,EYVAEN 4AYLOR #HIEF 0HOTOGRAPHER %MIL !LLARD 0HOTOGRAPHERS %LLEN #AVE -ICHAEL &INCHAM -IKE (AMMOND "RYN *ONES *AKE -AXWELL !DVERTISING JEAN WILLS UEASTUDENT COM *EAN 7ILLS $ISTRIBUTION -ATTHEW (ALL

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Focus  On:  Womens’  Rugby Editor’s  Column $AVINA 7ILLSON 3PORTS 2EPORTER )F YOU VE SEEN A CAVEGIRL RUN NING ABOUT OR HEARD THE CHANT h) M A 2UGBY 'IRL AND THAT S OKv THEN IT S MORE THAN LIKELY YOU VE HAD CONTACT WITH THE 5%! 7OMENS 2UG

BY TEAM 7OMENS 2UGBY IS ONE OF THE MOST FUN EXCITING AND SUCCESSFUL TEAMS AT 5%!

HAVING THE RARE ABILITY TO HOST SOME OF THE MOST MEMORA BLE SOCIALS ON CAMPUS AS WELL AS SUCCEEDING IN THEIR "53!

DIVISION AND GENERALLY BEING DAMN GOOD AT RUGBY 9EAR IN

YEAR OUT MANY GIRLS JOIN THE TEAM HAVING NO EXPERIENCE WITH THE SPORT BUT SOON PICK IT UP 4HE CLUB ENABLES ALL WOMEN OF VARIOUS EXPERIENCE TO ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL GAME OF RUGBY MEET NEW PEOPLE AND TO FEEL PART OF A WELL RUN

COMMITTED TEAM !S A FRESHER LAST YEAR ) WANDERED AROUND 3PORTS-ART CONTEMPLATING WHAT TO JOIN AND IN THE END ) DECIDED TO

TRY SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIF FERENT AND PICKED 7OMEN S 2UGBY (AVING NEVER PLAYED BEFORE NOT KNOWING THE RULES OR EVEN HOLDING A BALL ) EM BARKED ON MY lRST TRAINING SESSION AND FOUND A PASSION FOR THE SPORT COMPLETELY FALL ING IN LOVE WITH THE GAME 4YPICALLY BEING lVE FEET TALL AND HAVING THE NICKNAMES OF @3TUMPIFER @-IDGET AND @%LF

) DON T LOOK LIKE YOUR AVERAGE RUGBY PLAYER BUT IT HAS NEVER HELD ME BACK 2UGBY HAS CONTRIBUTED TO MY UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE FOR THE BETTER

7OMEN S 2UGBY IS IM PROVING EVERY YEAR 4HE TEAM IS CELEBRATING THEIR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW BEING TOP OF THEIR LEAGUE AND WILL BE COM PETING IN THE "53! -IDLANDS #ONFERENCE DIVISION WITH GAMES AGAINST !NGLIA 2USKIN

/XFORD /XFORD "ROOKES

.ORTHAMPTON 7ORCESTER AND "EDFORD &URTHERMORE $ERBY $AY WAS ANOTHER ACHIEVEMENT FOR THE TEAM WITH A TIGHT VICTORY CONTRIBUTING TO 5%! S OVERALL THRASHING AGAINST RI VALS %SSEX *OINING THE TEAM ALSO

COMES WITH A FUN lLLED SO CIAL CALENDAR INCLUDING JOINT SOCIALS WITH THE MEN S TEAM ! FEW YEARLY EVENTS DOMI NATE THE CALENDAR SUCH AS THE INFAMOUS @4HREE ,EG GED 0UB #RAWL @)NITIATIONS AND THE @2UGBY "ALL )N !PRIL THIS YEAR THE CLUB EMBARKED UPON A TOUR TO 3PAIN "EING TOUR VIRGINS THE TEAM REP RESENTED THE UNIVERSITY WELL AND WALKED AWAY RUNNERS UP IN THEIR TOURNAMENT /VERALL

THE TOUR WAS SUCCESSFUL AND ANOTHER ONE IS ALREADY IN THE PIPELINE 4RAINING TAKES PLACE ON -ONDAYS AND 4HURSDAYS AT PM PM /N -ONDAYS

TRAINING IS SITUATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ATHLETICS TRACK AT THE 3PORTSPARK AND ON 4HURSDAYS TRAINING IS AT #OL NEY ,ANE 4HE CLUB WELCOMES ALL NEWCOMERS SO IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT FEEL FREE TO TURN UP AT TRAINING AND GET STUCK IN &OR MORE DETAILS EMAIL THE PRESIDENT "ECCA *ENKINSON AT R JENKINSON UEA AC UK

,AURA 7IGNALL 3PORTS %DITOR ) WAS HAPPY TO HEAR THAT &IFA S PRESIDENT 3EPP "LATTER IS PRE PARED TO BATTLE THE %5 OVER FOREIGN PLAYER RESTRICTIONS (E BELIEVES CLUBS SHOULD ONLY BE ALLOWED TO HAVE lVE NON NATIONALS AT THE MOST IN THEIR STARTING 8)S TO EN COURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOMEGROWN TALENT /N &RIDAY TH OF /CTOBER HE SPOKE AT A PRESS CONFER ENCE h7HEN YOU HAVE ELEVEN FOREIGNERS IN A TEAM THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR THE DEVELOP MENT OF FOOTBALLv 4HIS STORY SLOTS IN NICELY WITH )AN &RAS ER S OPINION ARTICLE WHERE HE BELIEVES FOOTBALL CLUBS HAVE FORGOTTEN THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY WERE BORN AND BRED EXISTING ONLY FOR PROlT "LATTER BELIEVES THAT HAVING MORE LOCAL "RITISH PLAYERS WILL hINCREASE THE POSSIBIL ITY OF PLAYERS EDUCATED IN THE CLUB TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE lRST TEAM 4HAT CAN HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT AS IT WILL BE

MUCH CHEAPER FOR A CLUB IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN EDUCATED PLAYERSv 7ENGER THE &RENCHIE IS OF COURSE DISAPPOINTED BY "LATTER S CHALLENGE AND SAYS IT IS NOT IN THE INTERESTS OF 0RE MIER ,EAGUE #LUBS h3PORT IS COMPETITIVE AND COMPETITION IS BASED ON MERIT )T DOES NOT MATTER WHERE YOU ARE BORN )T MATTERS WHO YOU AREv ,ET US HOPE 7ENGER WILL HAVE TO EAT HIS WORDS WITH HIS PETIT DEJEUNER AND "LATTER WILL RISE TO THE CHALLENGE

) FEEL ) MUST ADD THAT AS ) WRITE THIS %NGLAND JUST BEAT !USTRALIA IN THE 2UGBY 7ORLD #UP QUARTER lNAL "EST NEWS THESE SPORTS PAGES HAVE PUB LISHED IN A WHILE @7ONDER 7ILKO MAKES OUR WEEK

A  preview  of  the  football  season

Sporting  Underdogs

2OSS &REEMAN 3PORTS 2EPORTER

-ICHAEL "LUNT 3PORTS 2EPORTER

!S KICK OFF DRAWS EVER CLOSER FOR THE "53! FOOTBALL SEA SON BOTH COACH AND CAPTAIN OF 5%! MENS lRST TEAM HAVE STATED THEIR CONlDENCE AHEAD OF THIS YEAR S CAMPAIGN #OACH $AN 3ELF A FORMER .ORWICH #ITY ACADEMY PLAY ER EXPRESSED HIS BELIEF THAT A SUCCESSFUL SEASON IS AROUND THE CORNER FOR THE LADS EVEN WITH A NEW LOOK SIDE .EW CAPTAIN GOALKEEPER 4OM ,ENIHAN BACKED THIS VIEW

ADDING THAT DESPITE THE LOSS OF KEY PLAYERS THERE WERE SEVERAL PROMISING LADS READY TO STEP UP "OTH ,ENIHAN AND HIS COACH SEEMED IN AGREEMENT THAT EXPECTATIONS SHOULD BE HIGH THIS YEAR WITH 3ELF lRMLY BELIEVING THAT THE TEAM SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF A TOP TWO lNISH WHICH WOULD SEE THEM PROGRESS TO THE LAT ER STAGES OF THE "53! COM PETITION ,ENIHAN ECHOED THIS BUT ADDED THAT A GOOD START WAS KEY TO AVOID PLAY ING CATCH UP ALL YEAR 4HE TEAM WHOSE OPEN ING lXTURE IS AT HOME TO ,OUGHBOROUGH THS ON /C TOBER TH HAVE NOT HOW EVER HAD IDEAL PREPARATIONS

FOR THE GAME WITH NO REAL PRE SEASON TO GET THEMSELVES lT OR PREPARE TACTICALLY 3ELF ADMITTED THIS WAS A PROB

A BIG ASK POINTING OUT THAT THE LONG JOURNEY TIMES AND THE TOUGH TIME DEMANDS OF MANY OF HIS PLAYERS MEANT IT

COMES AVAILABLE 3ELF WENT ON TO PRAISE THE VERSATILITY AND ATTITUDE OF HIS SQUAD BUT WAS QUICK

LEM AND THAT HE HAD TO RELY ON THE LADS TO BE DISCIPLINED OVER THE SUMMER PROMISING TO DISH OUT EXTRA RUNNING AS PUNISHMENT TO ANY PLAY ERS WHOSE lTNESS MAY HAVE SLACKED 3ELF IS ALSO KEEN TO SEE THE TEAMS AWAY FORM MATCH THEIR GREAT HOME FORM

WHICH SAW THEM ONLY BEATEN ONCE AT HOME LAST YEAR (OW EVER HE ADMITTED THAT THIS IS

WAS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO PUT OUT A FULL STRENGTH TEAM FOR AWAY lXTURES 4HE COACH REFUSED TO SHUT THE DOOR ON ANY PLAYERS WHO FAILED TO MAKE THE lNAL CUT FOR THE lRST TEAM SQUAD

PROMISING THAT IF THEY CON TINUED TO APPLY THEMSELVES IN TRAINING AND ON THE PITCH THEY MAY GET THE CALL TO STEP UP IF AN OPPORTUNITY BE

TO WARN THAT THEY MUST CON TINUE TO WORK HARD TO KEEP THEIR PLACES /NE SLIGHT FEAR THE COACH ADMITTED WAS THAT HIS TEAM MAY BE BULLIED BY MORE PHYSICAL SIDES BUT HE SEEMED DETERMINED TO AVOID THIS BY ENSURING HIS TEAM WERE lT ENOUGH TO COM PETE AND BACKED HIS PLAY ERS TECHNICAL ABILITY TO SHINE THROUGH

/NE OF MY FAVOURITE ALL TIME SPORTING MEMORIES IS OF 'REECE WINNING %URO

BEATING 0ORTUGAL IN THE lNAL 7HY )T WASN T A GREAT GAME IT WAS A SCRAPPY AND FAIRLY UNEVENTFUL ENCOUNTER 7HAT MADE IT SO MEMORABLE WAS THE FACT THAT AN UNDER DOG A TEAM WIDELY ACCEPTED TO BE GOING OUT IN THE lRST ROUND HAD SOMEHOW BE COME THE +INGS OF %UROPE

NOT &RANCE OR 3PAIN OR ANY OF THE OTHER TIPPED FAVOUR ITES 4HERE IS SOMETHING UNIQUELY SATISFYING ABOUT AN UNDERDOG WINNING ANY SPORT ING EVENT BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT GIVES A MUCH NEEDED BOOST TO TOURNAMENTS THAT BEFORE SEEMED A FOREGONE CONCLU SION 9OU COULD GO AS FAR AS TO SAY THAT IT IS THE UNDERDOG THAT KEEPS SPORT ALIVE THAT CREATES THE PASSION THAT DE SPITE SOME TEAMS AND PLAY ERS BEING HUGELY SUPERIOR

EVEN THE MOST UNEXPECTED CAN GO ON TO WIN IT 7HO ON %ARTH WOULD HAVE PREDICTED )RELAND WOULD BEAT 0AKISTAN IN THE #RICKET 7ORLD #UP EARLIER THIS YEAR

4HIS !UTUMN S 2UGBY 7ORLD #UP HAS PROVEN THIS TO A GREAT EXTENT 4INY TEAMS INCLUDING 'EORGIA AND 4ONGA CAME EXCRUCIATINGLY CLOSE TO BEATING KINGPINS )RELAND AND 3OUTH !FRICA RESPECTIVELY &IJI WENT ONE BETTER SHOCKING EVERYBODY BY BEATING 7ALES

AND TAKING THEIR PLACE IN THE QUARTER lNALS !RGUABLY THE BIGGEST SHOCK HOWEVER CAME IN THE OPENING GAME OF THE TOURNAMENT WHERE !RGEN TINA USUALLY CURSED BY BEING THE MOST ISOLATED COUNTRY IN WORLD RUGBY BEAT THE HOSTS &RANCE AND THEN WENT ON TO TOP THE GROUP HAMMERING AND ELIMINATING THE )RISH IN THE PROCESS 4HEIR CAPTAIN !UGUSTINE 0ICHOT HONESTLY BELIEVES THAT HIS TEAM COULD WIN THE TOURNAMENT AND WHO WOULD BEMOAN IT &OR SO LONG RE GARDED AS THE TENTH TEAM IN THE WORLD THEY HAVE RISEN FROM NOWHERE TO BE A WORLD BEATING FORCE 9OU CAN CALL ME UNPATRIOTIC IF YOU LIKE

BUT THERE IS A LARGE PART OF ME THAT WOULD RATHER SEE 0ICHOT LIFTING THE TROPHY ON /CTOBER TH THAN 0HIL 6ICK ERY &OR THE GOOD OF SPORT OF COURSE

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4UESDAY TH /CTOBER " , /

The ┬аdeath ┬аof ┬аthe ┬аreal ┬аfootball ┬аexperience )AN &RASER 3PORT 2EPORTER )T WAS ONCE THE CASE THAT FOOTBALL CLUBS WERE CONSID ERED TO BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY FROM WHICH MUCH OF ITS FAN BASE WAS DRAWN )T WAS A GAME FOR THE WORKING CLASS MALE

WHO AFTER A HARD WEEK S WORK SOUGHT REFUGE IN WATCHING THEIR TEAM PLAY ON A 3ATURDAY AFTERNOON /VER MANY DECADES AND THROUGH THE HIGHS AND LOWS THAT GO WITH SUPPORTING A FOOTBALL TEAM A SENSE OF LOYALTY AND SHARED HISTORY IS CRE ATED AND IT IS THAT WHICH HAS MADE FOOTBALL THE NATION S NUMBER ONE SPORT 4HE SAD REALITY IS THAT INCREASINGLY MANY FOOTBALL CLUBS HAVE BECOME MERE PROlT MAKING ORGANISATIONS

NEGLECTING THEIR TRUE SUP PORTERS AND ONLY PAYING LIP SERVICE TO THEIR HISTORIC TIES WITH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

4HE NEW PROPOSED %VERTON STADIUM 4OO OFTEN DECISIONS TAKEN IN THE BOARDROOM ARE NOT GUIDED SOLELY BY THE DESIRE TO DO WELL ON THE PITCH BUT

TO BOOST THEIR COFFERS IN OR DER TO STAY COMPETITIVE WITH THEIR RIVALS 4HE TRANSFORMA TION OF FOOTBALL CLUBS INTO BUSINESSES HAS RESULTED IN THE ALIENATION OF THE TRUE SUPPORTER 4HE RECENT PROPOSALS OUTLINED BY %VERTON &OOTBALL #LUB TO RELOCATE FROM THEIR

HOME AT 'OODISON 0ARK TO A NEW SEATER STADIUM IN +IRBY WHICH LIES OUT SIDE OF %VERTON S TRADITIONAL BOUNDARIES MAY SATISFY THE SHAREHOLDERS WHO VOTED FOR IT AND WILL BENElT FROM IN CREASED REVENUES BUT IS BIT TERLY OPPOSED BY MANY SUP PORTERS 4HEY SEE THE MOVE AS A BETRAYAL OF THEIR CLUB S HISTORY AND TRADITIONS 4HE CHAIRMAN "ILL +ENWRIGHT

HAS ADMITTED THE DECISION

WAS PRIMARILY FOR lNANCIAL REASONS AND THE DESIRE TO KEEP UP WITH THE 0REMIER SHIP BIG BOYS 7HILST THIS IS AN UNDERSTANDABLE STANCE

THE LOYAL SUPPORTERS WHO ARE THE LIFEBLOOD TO ANY TEAM ARE FEELING INCREASINGLY SIDE LINED 4HE RISE OF SOULLESS OUT OF TOWN STADIUMS OR ARENAS AS MANY LIKE TO CALL THEM

WHICH LACK NOT JUST CHAR ACTER BUT ATMOSPHERE HAS

ALSO HELPED KILL OFF THE REAL FOOTBALL EXPERIENCE FOR MANY FANS 4HEIR LOCATION OFTEN IN THE MIDDLE OF A RETAIL PARK AND MANUFACTURED DE SIGN HAVE REMOVED MUCH OF THE PASSION ASSOCIATED WITH FOOTBALL AND REPLACED IT WITH ALL THE JOY OF A TRIP TO THE SUPERMARKET 4HE INTRODUC TION OF hCLAPPY STICKSv AND THE PLAYING OF MUSIC EVERY TIME A GOAL HAS BEEN SCORED

HAS JUST ADDED TO THE BLAND

CORPORATE FEEL 4HE DISTINCTIVE LACK OF AT MOSPHERE AT A LOT OF NEW STA DIUMS IS ALSO DUE TO THE FACT THAT MANY ARE HALF EMPTY DUE TO EXCESSIVE TICKET PRICES THAT ARE FORCING OUT NOT JUST THE GENUINE SUPPORTER BUT THE NEXT GENERATION AS FAMILIES CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO GO TOGETHER )T IS NOT JUST TICKET PRICES THAT PREVENT PEOPLE FROM FOLLOWING THEIR TEAM 4HE COST OF TRAVELLING TO THESE REMOTE STADIUMS PARKING

THE MATCH DAY PROGRAMME

HALF TIME REFRESHMENTS AND

PRICE OF REPLICA KITS HAVE ALL MADE THE TASK OF FOLLOWING YOUR TEAM MORE DIFlCULT )T DOES APPEAR THAT AT LAST SOME CLUBS HAVE HEEDED THE WARNING WITH THE LIKES OF "LACKBURN "OLTON AND 7IGAN REDUCING THE PRICE OF SEASON TICKETS IN AN ATTEMPT TO ENCOURAGE FANS TO RETURN

BUT THE MATCH DAY EXPERI ENCE REMAINS A RIP OFF AND OUT OF THE REACH OF THOSE WHO HOLD IT SO DEAR )T IS CLEAR THAT THE IN mUX OF MONEY FROM FOREIGN INVESTMENT

SPONSORSHIP AND TELEVISION RIGHTS HAS CHANGED THE FACE OF FOOTBALL FOREVER AND THAT FOR A CLUB TO COMPETE IT NEEDS TO EXPLORE EVERY MONEY MAKING AVENUE (OWEVER THERE IS A NEED TO STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN THIS QUEST FOR lNANCIAL CLOUT AND THE REALISATION THAT IT IS POINTLESS lELDING A TEAM OF EXPENSIVE AND HIGHLY PAID STARS IF THERE IS NOBODY LEFT TO SUPPORT THEM

A ┬аFresh ┬аperspective Northern ┬а Hemispehere ┬а countries ┬аmis-┬няАБямБring

(ARRY ,OW 3PORTS 2EPORTER &AST FURIOUS AND FANTASTIC FUN &RESHER S 7EEK HAS BEEN AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE FOR MANY NEWCOMERS )NITIA TIONS SOCIALS AND CONSUMP TION OF ALCOHOL TEND TO DOMI NATE THE OPENING DAYS IN THE LIFE OF A lRST YEAR (OWEVER

ANOTHER INGREDIENT TO THROW INTO THE MIX IS THE NEW CLUBS AND SOCIETIES WHICH MANY NEWBIES JOIN &ROM CAPOEIRA TO CHEER LEADING AND FENCING TO FOOT BALL 5%! OFFERS AN EXTREMELY DIVERSE SPORTS PROGRAMME )N MANY WAYS WE ARE SPOILT FOR CHOICE AND LIKE MANY HAV ING SIGNED UP TO EVERYTHING ) POSSIBLY COULD THE REALITY OF lTTING IT ALL IN HAS STARTED TO BITE /NE THING WHICH SHONE THROUGH AT 3PORTS-ART WAS THE ENTHUSIASM THAT THE MAJORITY OF CLUBS SHOWED IN RECRUITING POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS -ANY WOULD HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED TO TRY TAI CHI START SKY DIVING OR BEGIN BASKETBALL AND SUCH KEEN NESS IS BOUND TO RUB OFF ON STUDENTS 4HIS ENERGY IS EVIDENT AT MANY OF THE NEW CLUBS 0ER

3AM 7ILSON 3PORTS 2EPORTER

SONALLY ) ATTENDED A &RESH ER S SQUASH TOURNAMENT LAST 3ATURDAY AND NOT ONLY WAS IT WELL ORGANISED BUT ALSO VERY ENJOYABLE )N ADDITION

SOME PRIZES WERE HANDED OUT TO THE WINNERS 3PEAKING TO VARIOUS PEOPLE THE GENERAL CONSENSUS WAS THAT NOT ONLY WAS THERE SOME GOOD SQUASH PLAYED BUT THAT PEOPLE LEFT THE 3PORTSPARK SATISlED !NOTHER SPORT WHICH IS NEW TO ME IS KORFBALL (AV ING NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE COMING TO 5%! ) FOUND IT A REFRESHING CHANGE )T IS RARE IN THAT IT IS A MIXED SEX SPORT AND ) WAS STRONGLY URGED TO GO TO TRAINING WHICH WAS NOT ONLY LIVELY BUT PROVIDED A GOOD WORKOUT AND SHOWED

ME JUST HOW UNlT ) AM AFTER A SUMMER WITH VERY LITTLE EX ERCISE 3PORTS ALSO PROVIDE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND ) HAVE CERTAINLY FOUND THIS TO BE THE CASE !T TENDING A VARIETY OF SOCIALS INCLUDING THOSE ) HAVE NOT JOINED HAS MEANT THAT THERE ARE A FEW MORE FAMILIAR FACES ON AND OFF CAMPUS 'IVEN THAT 7EDNESDAY AFTERNOONS ARE DEDICATED TO SPORTS MANY WILL HAVE TOUGH DECISIONS WITH REGARDS TO WHICH SPORTS TO PURSUE AND WHICH TO hLEAVE @TIL NEXT YEARv (OWEVER ONE THING IS SURE THIS YEAR PROMISES TO BE A GREAT ONE FOR SPORT

4HE SHOCK DEPARTURE OF )RE LAND AND 7ALES FROM THE 2UGBY 7ORLD #UP PRIOR TO THE KNOCKOUT STAGES OF THE COMPETITION HAS ONLY SERVED TO HIGHLIGHT WHAT THUS FAR HAS BEEN A POOR COMPETITION FOR THE .ORTHERN (EMISPHERE TEAMS 0RIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE TOURNAMENT THE CRITICS OF THE %NGLAND TEAM CRITICISED THEIR COACHING SYSTEM FOR THE LACK OF PREPARATION TAKEN AND STRENGTH IN DEPTH WITHIN THE SQUAD AFTER ALL IT APPEARED THAT AFTER WINNING THE 7ORLD #UP THE %NGLAND CON TINGENT DID LITTLE BUT BASK IN THEIR OWN GLORY ESPECIALLY UNDER THE REIGN OF !NDY 2OB INSON 4HE SACKING OF 2OBINSON AS HEAD COACH IN THE AUTUMN OF GAVE SUCCESSOR "RIAN !SHTON THE CHANCE TO BUILD A NEW SQUAD THROUGH THE 3IX .ATIONS AND THE WARM UP MATCHES WITH &RANCE (OW EVER A SERIES OF INJURIES TO KEY

PLAYERS AND THE EVIDENT TREND TO SHUN NEW %NGLISH TALENT AND MAINTAIN A RELIANCE ON VETERAN PLAYERS SUCH AS ,AU RENCE $ALLAGLIO AND -IKE #ATT HAS DONE NOTHING TO PREPARE A SQUAD STRONG ENOUGH TO BEAT THE LIKES OF 3OUTH !FRICA AND .EW :EALAND TO STAND A CHANCE OF KEEPING THE 7EBB %LLIS TROPHY ON %NGLISH SOIL 3TRUGGLING TO DEFEAT THE 53!

AND 3AMOA HIGHLIGHTED THE WEAKNESSES WITHIN !SHTON S SQUAD ESPECIALLY AT SCRUM HALF AND IN THE CENTRES YET THESE KIND OF POOR PERFORM ANCES HAVE ALSO BEEN MIR RORED BY OTHER .ORTHERN (EMISPHERE TEAMS &RANCE S OPENING GAME OF THE TOURNAMENT WAS INTENDED TO SET THE TONE FOR A SUCCESSFUL 7ORLD #UP YET THE IN FORM !RGENTINA ENDED THESE HOPES WITH A CRUSHING DEFEAT ON THE OPENING NIGHT LEAVING THE HOSTS IN DESPAIR 4HEY RECOV ERED THIS WITH A STRONG WIN OVER )RELAND WHICH IN TURN LEFT )RELAND WHO HAD SEEMED A STRONG CONTENDER AFTER THE 3IX .ATIONS RELYING ON A HEAVY VICTORY OVER !RGEN

TINA 5LTIMATELY A CONVINCING PERFORMANCE BY !RGENTINA SENT )RELAND CRASHING OUT

FOLLOWING THE 7ELSH TO AN EARLY 7ORLD #UP EXIT 7ALES WERE lNALLY DUMPED OUT OF THE 7ORLD #UP ON 3ATURDAY

BY A STRONG &IJIAN PERFORM ANCE WHICH RIGHTFULLY EARNED THEM A PLACE IN THE KNOCK OUTS ! STRING OF POOR 7ELSH PERFORMANCES IN THE GROUP STAGES WITH A CRUSHING DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF !USTRALIA LEFT 7ALES RETHINKING THEIR COACH ING AND COACH 'ARETH *ENKINS RESIGNED ON 3UNDAY .OW ONLY %NGLAND AND 3COTLAND REMAIN IN THE TOUR NAMENT WITH BOTH FACING GREAT TESTS TO PROGRESS TO THE SEMI lNALS .EITHER !USTRALIA NOR !RGENTINA WILL GIVE ANY THING AWAY IN WHAT PROMISES TO BE TWO PUNISHING ENCOUN TERS !USTRALIA ESPECIALLY WILL BE OUT FOR REVENGE ON THE 7ORLD #HAMPIONS AFTER THEIR DEFEAT IN THE lNAL MAK ING THIS WEEKEND S lXTURE THE MOST CRITICAL MATCH IN "RIAN !SHTON S CAREER AS %NGLAND HEAD COACH

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Fancy  a  threesome?  They  do! .ICOLA -C)VOR 3PORTS 2EPORTER 3WIMMING CYCLING AND RUN NING THAT IS 4HIS SEMESTER HAS SEEN THE BIRTH OF THE 5%!

4RIATHLON #LUB ATTRACTING SOME OF 5%! S lNEST ATHLETES AND ALREADY GAINING A REPUTA TION AS AN EXCITING AND ENER GETIC CLUB !FTER A COUPLE OF YEARS OF GROWING INTEREST THE OFlCIAL 5%! 4RIATHLON #LUB IS NOW UP AND RUNNING OFFERING PROFESSIONAL COACHING AND MAKING USE OF THE EXCELLENT FACILITIES THE 3PORTSPARK HAS TO OFFER 3OUNDS INTENSE 4HE GREAT THING ABOUT 4RIATHLON IS THAT EVERYBODY WORKS AT IT TO THEIR OWN ABILITY CREATING PURPOSEFUL AND MOTIVATED TRAINING SESSIONS IN A SUP PORTIVE FUN AND SOCIABLE GROUP SETTING $ISTANCES FOR A TRIATHLON VARY FROM M SWIM KM BIKE AND KM RUN TO THE POPULAR /LYMPIC DISTANCE

OF M SWIM KM BIKE AND KM RUN TO THE ULTI MATE AND GRUELLING )RONMAN MILE SWIM MILE BIKE THEN POLISH IT OFF WITH A NICE MARATHON OF MILES 5%! 4RIATHLON #LUB

CATERS FOR THE NOVICE SEEK ING CROSS TRAINING FOR THOSE LOOKING TO IMPROVE GENERAL lTNESS TO THE ACCOMPLISHED ATHLETE RISING TO THE CHAL LENGE OF A MULTI SPORT EVENT AS WELL AS THE EXPERIENCED

TRIATHLETE AIMING TO IMPROVE SPEED SKILL STRENGTH AND EN DURANCE 0EOPLE USUALLY SURPRISE THEMSELVES WHEN IT COMES TO THE TRIATHLON AND YOU WILL INCREASE YOUR lTNESS LEVELS

QUICKLY DEVELOPING MUSCLES YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU HAVE AND HALVING THE TIME IT TAKES YOU TO CYCLE TO YOUR LECTURES IN THE MORNINGS 4HE MEMBERS RANG ING IN ABILITY AND EXPERIENCE

ARE NOW UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THEIR COACHES 3IMON %DWARDS AND !MELIA 7UEST NER AS THEY COMMENCE WIN TER TRIATHLON TRAINING TO GET IN SHAPE FOR THE RACE SEASON WHERE THEY WILL REPRESENT THE 5NIVERSITY AT THE "53!S AND INJECT NEW TALENT AND COMPE TITION INTO LOCAL MULTI SPORT EVENTS 5%! S IMPRESSIVE SPORTS FACILITIES ENABLE THE TRIATH LETES TO TRAIN ON SITE USING THE POOL ATHLETICS TRACK CIRCUIT TRAINING ROOMS AND OFF ROAD RUNNING ROUTES +EEP YOUR EYES PEELED ON THOSE .OR FOLK ! ROADS FOR OUR PACK OF lT YOUNG CYCLISTS OUT ON THE ROADS AS THEY CLOCK UP THEIR MILEAGE ON THE BIKE TOO 7ITH TOP CLASS FACILI TIES PROFESSIONAL COACHING

ENORMOUS HEALTH AND SOCIAL BENElTS FOR ONLY A a MEM BERSHIP FEE WHY NOT GIVE IT A 4RI &OR MORE INFORMA TION CONTACT THE CLUB AT UEATRIATHLON HOTMAIL CO UK

Winter  Wonderland:  snowsports  ski  trip  announced "HAVIK 4HAKRAR 3PORTS 2EPORTER &OLLOWING THE HUGE SUCCESS OF LAST YEAR S #HRISTMAS SKI TRIP WITH OVER PARTICI PANTS 5%! 3NOWSPORTS HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THIS YEAR S TRIP WILL TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THE TH AND TH OF *ANUARY

AT THE !LPE $ (UEZ RESORT IN &RANCE A LOCATION RENOWNED FOR ITS QUALITY SKI ING AND BUSTLING NIGHTLIFE 4HE PARTY STARTS FROM THE MOMENT YOU DEPART FROM 5%! FOR THE TRIP 4RADITIONALLY THERE IS A LIGHT HEARTED YET FUN FILLED PYJAMA PARTY ON THE BUS TO ENSURE THAT EVE RYONE IS COMFORTABLE FOR THE JOURNEY 9OU MAY HAVE APPREHENSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT SPENDING HOURS ON A BUS BUT MANY PEOPLE FROM LAST YEAR S TRIP TO 6AL 4HORENS HAVE CLAIMED IT TO HAVE BEEN A REALLY FUN EXPERIENCE BECAUSE OF THE BRILLIANT ATMOSPHERE THAT WAS CREATED 7ITH THE !LPE $ (UEZ OFFERING FACILITIES FOR SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS OF ALL LEV ELS THERE IS NO REASON WHY ANYONE SHOULD MISS OUT 4HE SAME CAN BE SAID OF 5%!

3NOWSPORTS 4HE SOCIETY HAS

MEMBERS OF MIXED ABIL ITY INCLUDING SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER SKIED OR SNOWBOARDED BEFORE 5%!

3NOWSPORTS OFFER WEEKLY LES SONS AT A DRY SLOPE SO DO NOT BE PUT OFF IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER $URING THE TRIPS THE ATMOSPHERE IS ELECTRIC AT THE SKI RESORT THANKS TO THE CAMA RADERIE CREATED BETWEEN 5%!

STUDENTS AS WELL AS STUDENTS

FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES THAT MAY BE STAYING AT THE RESORT 4HIS MIX OF PEOPLE HELPS TO CREATE BRILLIANT SOCIALS IN THE EVENINGS /N THE FINAL DAY OF THE TRIP THERE IS NORMALLY A @VALLEY RALLY WHERE PEOPLE CAN LET THEMSELVES GO HAVE A FEW DRINKS AND SKI WITH A VIEW TO WINNING VARIOUS COMPETITIONS &OR ALL THIS AND MORE THE COST OF THE TRIP WILL BE ONLY a A BARGAIN COM

PARED TO THE PRICE YOU WOULD PAY IF GOING SEPARATELY 4HE #HRISTMAS SKI TRIP IS JUST ONE OF THE EVENTS ORGANISED BY THE SOCI ETY !DDITIONALLY THERE IS A "5$3 COMPETITION "RITISH 5NIVERSITY $RY 3LOPE #OMPETITION TAKING PLACE IN EARLY .OVEMBER WHERE A TEAM OF STUDENTS WILL TRAVEL UP TO %DINBURGH TO TAKE PART IN A COUNTRY WIDE COMPETITION

4HERE IS ALSO AN %ASTER SKI TRIP SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR UNIVER SITY STUDENTS ,AST YEAR S TRIP BROUGHT TOGETHER OVER

STUDENTS IN ONE RESORT 4O GET YOU INTO THE SWING OF THINGS 5%! 3NOWSPORTS HAVE OPEN SESSIONS ON THE DRY SLOPE IN .ORFOLK EVERY 7EDNESDAY SLALOM RAC ING SESSIONS ON &RIDAYS AND MONTHLY VISITS TO THE -ILTON +EYNES 3NOW $OME

&OR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT *USTINE -C)NTYRE BY EMAILING *USTINE MACINTYRE UEA AC UK OR FEEL FREE TO JOIN THE 3NOWSPORTS 'ROUP ON &ACEBOOK !LL THOSE INTERESTED IN 5%! 3NOWSPORTS ARE ENCOUR AGED TO COME FOR WELCOME DRINKS FROM PM IN THE SQUARE ON 4HURSDAY FOLLOWED

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