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REJECTED -ARCUS *ONES %DITOR 5%! 3PORTSPARK HAS REJECTED AN OP PORTUNITY TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO BECOME A TRAINING VENUE FOR THE ,ONDON /LYMPICS $ESPITE HAVING AN /LYMPIC STANDARD SWIMMING POOL ATHLETICS TRACK LARGE SPORTS ARENA AND GYM FACILITIES THE 3PORTSPARK WILL NOT BE JOINING MORE THAN OTHER FA CILITIES IN THE 0RE 'AMES 4RAINING #AMP 'UIDE WHICH WILL BE PUB LISHED AT THIS YEAR S "EIJING GAMES +EITH .ICHOLLS $IRECTOR OF THE 3PORTSPARK CITED A NUMBER OF REA SONS FOR THE DECISION INCLUDING THE NEED FOR HOUR CATERING AND EXTRA SECURITY TO BE PROVIDED (OW EVER THE PRINCIPLE OBSTACLE WAS THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE FACILITY BE COMPLETELY CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC FOR UP TO A MONTH -R .ICHOLLS TOLD #ONCRETE h4O CLOSE TO OUR USERS FOR FOUR WEEKS AS WE WOULD BE ASKED TO DO WOULD ACTUALLY COST THE 3PORTSPARK AT LEAST
a 4EAMS ASK FOR EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE VENUE SO EVEN IF IT WERE A FENCING TEAM NO ONE ELSE COULD USE THE SWIMMING POOL GYM ETC FOR A MONTH v #ONCRETE CONTACTED THE PRESI DENTS OF ALL THE 5NION SPORTS CLUBS TO ASK THEIR OPINION AND THE VAST MAJORITY SUPPORTED THE 3PORTSPARK S DECISION h4HERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THE 3PORTSPARK HAS MADE THE CORRECT DECISIONv COMMENTED .ICK 0ULLEN 4ABLE 4ENNIS #LUB 0RESIDENT h) REALLY CAN T SEE ANY BENEl T OF THE 3PORTSPARK HOLDING A NATIONAL TEAM WHEREAS THE COST TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY SEEMS MAS SIVE v 4HE ,ONDON /LYMPICS BEGIN ON TH *ULY AND ANY TRAINING VENUE WILL PROBABLY BE IN USE FOR ROUGHLY ONE MONTH PRECEDING THIS START DATE MEANING THAT STUDENT SPORT WOULD EXPERIENCE LITTLE DIS RUPTION AS THE UNIVERSITY TERM OFTEN ENDS IN EARLY *UNE )N LIGHT OF THIS 5NION 3PORTS /Fl CER *AMES 4URNER FEELS THAT AN OPPORTUNITY MAY HAVE
BEEN MISSED h)F THE CLOSURE WAS IN TERM TIME THE 3PORTSPARK S DECI SION WAS CORRECT AS STUDENT SPORT WOULD HAVE SUFFERED (OWEVER IT WOULD PROBABLY BE OVER THE SUM MER SO THE 3PORTSPARK HAS MISSED A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HOUSE SOME WORLD CLASS ATHLETES v )N A STATEMENT ON -ARCH RD 3EBASTIAN #OE CHAIRMAN OF THE ,ONDON /RGANISING #OMMITTEE OF THE /LYMPIC 'AMES ,/#/' DECLARED THAT h;BEING A TRAINING VENUE= ALSO PROVIDES A GREAT OPPOR TUNITY FOR TOWNS THROUGHOUT THE 5NITED +INGDOM TO GET INVOLVED IN OUR PLANS 4HE PROCESS WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH SHOWS A GREAT SPREAD OF HIGH QUALITY FACILITIES THROUGH OUT THE 5+ THAT CAN BE USED BY ELITE LEVEL ATHLETES v 4HERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT THE 3PORTSPARK COULD BE CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THESE hHIGH QUALITY FACILITIESv AND THERE IS SUR PRISE IN SOME QUARTERS THAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO m AUNT THIS h-Y OPINION IS THAT THEY SHOULD ALLOW THE ATHLETES TO TRAIN THERE BECAUSE
IT WOULD GIVE THE 3PORTSPARK A FUR THER SELLING POINT TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTSv SAID ,UKE 4HURSTON &UT SAL #LUB 0RESIDENT 5LTIMATELY HOWEVER INCON VENIENCE TO REGULAR USERS PLUS THE l NANCIAL IMPEDIMENTS HAVE RE SULTED IN THE 3PORTSPARK S REFUSAL TO JOIN THE BANDWAGON -R .I CHOLLS CONl RMED THAT VENUES USED AS /LYMPIC TRAINING CENTRES RECEIVE ONLY a TO HELP PROVIDE THE HOUR CATERING AND ADDITIONAL SECURITY A l GURE WHICH GOES LITTLE WAY TO OFF SETTING THE PROJECTED QUARTER OF A MILLION POUND LOSS -R .ICHOLLS ADDED h7E WOULD INCONVENIENCE OUR REGULAR USERS IN CLUDING ANY STUDENTS REMAINING ON CAMPUS AND HAVE TO REFUND THEM THEIR DIRECT DEBIT PAYMENT FOR THE MONTH POSSIBLY DRIVING SOME OF THEM AWAY PERMANENTLY TO OTHER SPORTS FACILITIES )T COULD ALSO HAVE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR PRICES IN THE LONGER TERM AS WE WOULD PROB ABLY HAVE TO RAISE PRICES TO RECOUP THE SIGNIl CANT LOSS v
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Editor’s Column $O YOU REMEMBER AT PRI MARY SCHOOL WHEN IT WAS THE END OF TERM (OW GOOD WAS THAT 9OU USED TO HAVE @-UFTI DAYS WHEN YOU COULD COME IN WEARING YOUR OWN CLOTHES INSTEAD OF UNIFORM 9OU WOULD PROBABLY HAVE A CLASS PARTY WHERE EVERY ONE BROUGHT IN SOME FOOD OR DRINK AND YOU WOULD ALL PLAY PARTY GAMES 4HEN AS THE PROVERBIAL ICING ON THE CAKE YOU WOULD PROB ABLY BE ABLE TO GO HOME AT LUNCHTIME )T WAS TRULY IM MENSE ) CANNOT HELP BUT FEELING THAT IS NOT QUITE THE SAME AT UNIVERSITY 4HE END OF TERM HERE SEEMS CHARACTERISED BY HERMIT LIKE EXISTENCES TO AS SIST THE FRANTIC ESSAY WRITING WHILE PEOPLE SEEM PHYSICAL LY AND lNANCIALLY DRAINED BY THE RIGOURS OF A UNIVERSI TY TERM )N THIS CLIMATE ) AM SURE YOU ALL FOUND YOUR LIVES TREMENDOUSLY ENHANCED BY THAT lNE BASTION OF DEMOC RACY THE 5NION ELECTIONS 9OU GET A mOCK OF SEAGULLS
A HERD OF COWS AND FRANKLY A BOTHER OF CANDIDATES 7ELL DONE THOUGH TO THOSE THAT BOTHERED THE BEST AND EMERGED VICTORIOUS !FTER FOUR YEARS THOUGH ) AM LEFT FEELING A LITTLE mAT BY IT ALL AND ) DON T EVEN HAVE ESSAYS TO WORRY ABOUT &OR THOSE THAT ARE EXPE RIENCING THIS END OF TERM IN DIFFERENCE FOR THE lRST TIME ) URGE YOU NOT TO DESPAIR TOO MUCH THOUGH 4HE REA SON /N 4HURSDAY WE ALL BE COME )RISH FOR THE DAY )N AN EXTRAVAGANT OVER THE TOP COLLECTIVE END OF TERM SIGH OF RELIEF THE DAY OF THE 3T 0ATRICK S ,#2 ALWAYS RESULTS IN A CARNIVAL ESQUE ATMOS PHERE ON CAMPUS 7ITH DEADLINES MET MANY PATRONS ADOPT EARLY STRONGHOLDS IN THE BAR AND DETERMINE TO KEEP THEM FOR THE DURATION OF THE DAY /THERS STROLL AROUND CAM PUS LIKE A mANEUR WITH NO PARTICULAR DESTINATION IN MIND BUT BEARING A FACE OF CONTENTMENT NONETHE
LESS 0EOPLE SEEM TO TASTE THEIR FOOD FOR THE lRST TIME IN WEEKS MANY REMEMBER WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LAUGH *OY IS IN THE AIR )N FACT THE THOUGHT OF ALL THIS HAPPINESS MEANS ) AM GOING TO RETRACT MY PREVIOUS COMMENTS ON THE BOTHER OF CANDIDATES !LL THEY WERE DOING WAS TRYING TO HELP "Y BOTHERING YOU THAT LITTLE BIT MORE AT THE TIME WHILE YOU WERE TRYING TO WRITE THAT ESSAY AND JUST MAKE IT THROUGH SOMEHOW UNTIL THE END OF TERM THEY WERE JUST MAKING YOU THAT LITTLE MORE IRRITABLE "UT THAT JUST MAKES THE MOMENT OF RELEASE ALL THE GREATER 9OU GOTTA TAKE THE LOWS BE FORE YOU TASTE THE HIGHS 3O THANK YOU TO THE BOTHER (APPY END OF TERM EVE RYONE AND NO DOUBT ) WILL SEE YOU ON 4HURSDAY
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AND THE 5NIVERSITY CAN EXPECT FROM ONE AND OTHER !NOTHER IDEA IS TO INTRO DUCE FACULTY WIDE GRADUATE SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE BETTER SUP PORT AND ADVICE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS &ACULTY LEVEL lVE YEAR PLANS ARE ALSO BEING AN NOUNCED WITH MORE SPECIlC DETAILS OF HOW INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS IN EACH FACULTY WILL BE AFFECTED ! COMMENT PIECE ANALYS ING SOME OF THE MORE CONTRO VERSIAL ASPECTS OF THE PLAN IS ON PAGE
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THAT .53 AND SOME STUDENTS UNIONS HAVE THAT BANS PEOPLE DEEMED TO BE hRACISTv OR hFAS CISTv FROM TAKING PART IN DEBATE OR STANDING IN ELECTIONS )N AD DITION THESE POLICIES DO NOT AL LOW ELECTED OFlCERS TO TAKE ON GROUPS LIKE THE ".0 IN DEBATE n hSHARING A PLATFORMv OF 5%! S STUDENTS VOTED AGAINST @.O 0LATFORM LAST SEMESTER IN A REFERENDUM 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS THE LEADER OF THE AGAINST @.O 0LATFORM CAMPAIGN HERE AND ONE OF THE EIGHT 5%! DELEGATES TO .53
CONFERENCE SAID h) M VERY GLAD TO SEE ANOTHER INSTITUTION HAS COME ONBOARD WITH US ) WILL BE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THEM TO TRY TO PUSH THINGS FORWARD AT .53 &OR TOO LONG .53 POLICY HAS BEEN BASED ON THE COWARD LY IDEA THAT IGNORING A PROBLEM WILL MAKE IT GO AWAY v )T SHOWS THAT WHEN THESE DECISIONS ARE TAKEN TO THE STU DENT BODY RATHER THAN THE REI lED ATMOSPHERE OF .53 CON FERENCE STUDENTS SPEAK WITH A CLEAR VOICE FOR THE PROGRESSIVE POWER OF FREE DEBATE v
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4HIS WEEK SAW THE LAST 5NION #OUNCIL OF THE TERM AND #ON CRETE SUBMITS SEVERAL WORDINGS OF THE SKETCH !S IS ESTABLISHED CONSTITUTIONAL PRECEDENT IT REMAINS THE PREROGATIVE OF THE #ONCRETE READERSHIP TO DECIDE ON THE WORDING OF THE SKETCH
/N -ARCH RD AND TH THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS HELD ELECTIONS FOR ITS %XECUTIVE /F l CERS AS WELL AS VARIOUS OTHER POSITIONS ACHIEVING AN OVER ALL TURNOUT OF A LARGE INCREASE FROM PREVIOUS YEARS REPRESENTING ROUGHLY OF THE STUDENT BODY 4HE RESULTS FOR THE ELEC TIONS ARE SHOWN IN THE BOX $URING THE ELECTION DAYS CANDIDATES WERE FORBIDDEN FROM ENTERING THE (IVE EX CEPT TO VOTE THEMSELVES WHICH ALLEVIATED THE PROBLEM OF PREVIOUS YEARS WHEN STU DENTS WERE SUBJECT TO INTENSE CAMPAIGNING FROM MULTIPLE CANDIDATES 4HE 5NION INVESTED A LARGE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES INTO PROMOTING AND PUBLI CISING THE ELECTIONS SUCH AS A NEW BANNER AND 4 SHIRTS ADVERTISING THE VOTE BEING GIVEN TO 5NION STAFF TO WEAR DURING THE DAY )N ADDITION THERE WERE A LARGER NUMBER
OF CANDIDATES RUNNING THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS WITH ONLY ONE UNCONTESTED EXEC ELEC TION ALTHOUGH IN ELECTIONS FOR FACULTY AND CAMPAIGN CONVENORS THERE WAS ONLY ONE CANDIDATE AT MOST FOR EACH POSITION #OMMENTING ON THE ELEC TIONS THIS YEAR S #OMMUNI CATIONS /Fl CER 2OWENA "OD DINGTON WHO ALSO WON HER RE ELECTION SAID THAT h) AM PLEASED WITH THE TURNOUT IT S THE MOST WE VE HAD IN AT LEAST SIX YEARS AND IS A CREDIT TO THE HARD WORK A LOT OF PEOPLE PUT INTO IT "UT ALTHOUGH IT S A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WE NEED TO BUILD ON THIS OVER
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REP 3IMON 3QUIRES %#/ ST YEAR AND $ANIEL #HARWATH 5%! #ONSERVATIVES REP #OL LECTIVELY THEY MAKE UP A LARGE PROPORTION OF THE RIGHT WING GROUP ON #OUNCIL )F #OUNCIL HAD BEEN DE CLARED INQUORATE THEN THE MOTION WOULD NOT HAVE PASSED AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BE SENT TO .53 BEFORE THE DEADLINE FOR SUB MISSION OF EMERGENCY MO TIONS -ANY COUNCILLORS ARE UN DERSTOOD TO HAVE BEEN LIVID AT WHAT THEY SAW AS A DELIB ERATE ATTEMPT TO OBSTRUCT THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS #ONSE QUENTLY #ONCRETE BELIEVES A MOTION OF NO CONl DENCE TO REMOVE 0AUL 7ELLS FROM HIS NEW JOB IS CURRENTLY BEING DRAFTED AND THE TEN NAMES REQUIRED TO BRING IT TO THE NEXT MEETING OF #OUNCIL ARE BEING COLLECTED 7HILE MO TIONS OF CENSURE HAVE BEEN LODGED AGAINST EXECUTIVE OF
l CERS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS A FULL MOTION OF NO CONl DENCE HAS NOT BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST AN EXECUTIVE OFl CER FOR MANY YEARS 0AUL EXPLAINED HIS AC TIONS h)N MY CAPACITY AS THE 5NION REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE (ISTORY 3OCIETY ) OPPOSED A MOTION WHICH ) CONSIDERED REPULSIVE ) RECOGNISE THAT MY ACTIONS WERE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR AN EXEC OFl CER ELECT AND ) INTEND TO OPERATE IN A DIF FERENT MANNER IN THE FUTURE ) AM WILLING TO FACE THE CONSE QUENCES FOR MY ACTIONS v 4HE #HAIR OF 5NION #OUNCIL AND &INANCE /Fl CER ELECT -ARTIN *OPP COMMENT ED h)T IS SAD THAT A GROUP OF STUDENTS SAW THE NEED TO AT TEMPT TO RUIN A MEETING OF 5NION #OUNCIL ESPECIALLY AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE WORKING HARD TO IMPROVE PARTICIPA TION v 4HE DEBATE ITSELF WAS ONE OF THE MOST PASSIONATE AND INTERESTING THAT ) HAVE SEEN AT 5NION #OUNCIL THIS YEAR v ! LETTER BY 4OM 3KELTON EXPLAINING MORE FULLY HIS AC TIONS IS ON THE #ONCRETE LET TERS PAGE $ANIEL #HARWATH AND 4OM 3KELTON HAVE RE SIGNED THEIR SEATS ON #OUN CIL
4HIS FORTNIGHT S #OUNCIL SAW A RESOLUTION PROMISING ENGAGEMENT WITH STUDENTS !S IS THE FASHION ON 5NION #OUNCIL IT HAS NOW BEEN THREE CONSECUTIVE #OUNCILS THAT HAVE SEEN MOTIONS PROM ISING ENGAGEMENT WITH STU DENTS PROVING HOW SUCCESSFUL THEY ARE !FTER ALL WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD JUST DO PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING THREE TIMES 7E ALSO SAW A MOTION PROVIDING MORE STU DENT LED ENTERTAINMENT ONE TO INCREASE ACCESS TO 5NION MEETINGS AND AN EMERGENCY MOTION CALLING TO KEEP OUR HANDS OFF 6ENEZUELA 4HIS LAST #OUNCIL OF TERM BEGAN WITH A RESOLUTION PROMISING ENGAGEMENT WITH STUDENTS &OR THE THIRD TIME IN AS MANY #OUNCILS STUDENT EN GAGEMENT WAS ON THE AGENDA 7HEN WILL #OUNCIL LEARN PEO PLE JUST DON T LISTEN THE THIRD TIME YOU SAY SOMETHING 7E ALSO SAW A MOTION DESIGNED TO INCREASE ACCESS TO 5NION MEETINGS A MOTION PROVIDING MORE STUDENT LED ENTERTAIN MENT AND AN EMERGENCY MO TION TELLING US TO LEAVE 6EN EZUELA ALONE ,AST WEEK S #OUNCIL THE LAST OF TERM SAW A RESOLUTION PROMISING ENGAGEMENT WITH STUDENTS 4HE LAST THREE #OUN CILS HAVE ALL DEBATED SIMILAR MOTIONS )F STUDENTS WEREN T ENGAGING TO START WITH THEY LL HAVE GOT THE MESSAGE BY NOW AFTER ALL WHO NEEDS TO BE TOLD SOMETHING MORE THAN ONCE BEFORE THEY GET THE JIST 7E ALSO SAW A MOTION DESIGNED TO INCREASE ACCESS TO 5NION MEETINGS A MOTION PROVIDING MORE STUDENT LED ENTERTAIN MENT AND AN EMERGENCY MO TION TELLING US IF YOU HAVEN T GOT ANYTHING NICE TO SAY DON T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL 3UBMIT YOUR VOTE ON WHICH #OUNCIL SKETCH SHOULD BE USED BY THE AND THE QUESTION WILL BE SUBMIT TED TO CAMPUS WIDE BALLOT TO CONl RM THAT THE SKETCH IS IN KEEPING WITH THE VIEWS OF 5%! STUDENTS
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(EARING !ID 0ROJECT -ANAGER !LEX !LLEN IS HOPEFUL THAT THIS YEAR S EVENT WILL PROVE TO BE JUST AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE PREVI OUS TWO YEARS h)T SHOULD BE AN EXCELLENT DAY AND RAISE MONEY FOR THREE GREAT CAUSES THAT REALLY DESERVE IT 4HE EVENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A REALLY GOOD WAY TO BRING TO GETHER 5%! S DIFFERENT SOCIE TIES AND CELEBRATE AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER AND WE RE HOPING THAT WE CAN TOP THE TOTAL THIS YEAR v #O ORGANISER 3TEVE &ANNER WAS QUICK TO POINT OUT THAT THE WHOLE DAY IS A TEAM EFFORT h4HE WHOLE OF ,IVEWIRE HAS GOT BEHIND THE CAUSES HELPING TO ORGANISE THIS HUGE EVENT AND SOME HAVE ALREADY RAISED FUNDS ON A MILE SPONSORED WALK FROM #ALIFORNIA 'REAT 9ARMOUTH ON 3UNDAY ND -ARCH v 4HE CAUSES THAT STAND TO BENElT ARE VARIED SOME OF THE MONEY RAISED WILL HELP TO FUND @3HORT 7AVE
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5NION OR 5NIVERSITY OUTLET WERE CHANGED TO &AIRTRADE AND ANY PURCHASER OF A &AIR TRADE PRODUCT WAS GIVEN A RAFmE TICKET TO A PRIZE DRAW WHICH WAS TAKEN LAST &RI DAY IN THE "LUE BAR AFTER A SCREENING OF THE lLM 4HE 9ES -EN 0RIZES INCLUDED &AIR TRADE HAMPERS WINE CHOC OLATE CAKES AND TEA AS WELL AS &AIRTRADE HOODIES AND 4 SHIRTS 4HE 5&/ 0OST /F lCE AND 0APERSHOP ALL RAN DISCOUNTS OF UP TO OFF &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS 4HE 5NION &INANCE /FlC ER RESPONDED TO #ONCRETE S QUESTIONS ABOUT CONTINU ING THE PROMOTIONS AND THE 5NION S lNANCIAL COMMIT MENT TO &AIRTRADE (E SAID h4HE MAJORITY OF THE OFFERS THAT COME THROUGH ARE FROM OUR 3UPPLIERS .533, AND THE #O OP 4HEY ONLY RUN FOR THE &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT 7E DO NOT COMMIT MAS SIVE AMOUNTS OF RESOURCES TO PROMOTING &AIRTRADE WE DO GIVE PRODUCTS MORE SHELF SPACE IN THE 5&/ AND 0APER
SHOP THAN THEIR SALES lGURES SHOULD DICTATE 4HIS IS DONE SIMILARLY WITH OTHER ETHI CAL PRODUCTS SUCH AS 7HOLE %ARTH #OLA v !S TO HOW SUCCESSFUL THE FORTNIGHT WAS HE SAID h) DO NOT HAVE THE SALES lGURES YET BUT ) HOPE THERE WAS A SPIKE IN SALES IN THE 5NION S OUTLETS 4HERE WILL DElNITELY BE ONE CAMPUS WIDE AS THE 5%! CATERING HAVE CHANGED OVER TO ONLY &AIRTRADE COF FEE (OPEFULLY THEY WILL CONTINUE WITH &AIRTRADE ONLY FROM NOW ON v ! &AIRTRADE 5NIVERSI TIES AND #OLLEGES #ONFER ENCE WILL BE TAKING PLACE ON 4UESDAY !PRIL AT THE 5NI VERSITY OF $ERBY WELCOM ING STUDENTS ACADEMIC AND SUPPORT STAFF TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES AND lND OUT MORE ABOUT THE &AIRTRADE CAMPAIGN +EYNOTE SPEAK ERS INCLUDE (ARRIET ,AMB %XECUTIVE $IRECTOR OF THE &AIRTRADE &OUNDATION AND #RAIG -URRAY WRITER AND BROADCASTER
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UEA loose Derby Day to Essex 3AM 7ILSON 2EPORTER !NOTHER ACADEMIC YEAR IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE AND ONCE AGAIN THE UNIVERSITY VAR SITY AGAINST %SSEX 5NIVERSITY AKA $ERBY $AY HAS BEEN AND GONE 7EDNESDAY TH -ARCH SAW THE MAJORITY OF 5%! S SPORTS TEAMS BOARDING THE COACHES TO %SSEX FOR THE EIGHTH ANNUAL $ERBY $AY WITH THE MINDSET OF REPEAT ING LAST YEAR S THRASHING OF %SSEX WHICH TOOK PLACE HERE AT 5%! (OWEVER WHAT FOLLOWED WAS A TENSE DAY OF MATCHES WITH TEAMS BARELY EDGING EACH OTHER OUT IN AN OVERALL VERY CLOSE COMPETITION )N THE END %SSEX JUST PIPPED 5%! TO THE POST WITH THE l NAL SCORE BEING n
4HE INTENSITY AND QUALITY OF THE MATCH UPS WAS HIGH LIGHTED BY THE CLOSE SCORE LINE IN MANY MATCHES 5%! MEN S BASKETBALL BEAT %SSEX BY ONLY TWO POINTS 5%! CRICKET LOST BY ONLY ONE WICKET AND THE MEN S FOOTBALL ST 8) FOUGHT OUT A n DRAW )NEVITABLY INJURIES HAVE SINCE EMERGED FROM $ERBY $AY NOTABLY WOMEN S BASKETBALL LOSING A PLAYER TO A DISLOCATED KNEE AND !MERICAN &OOTBALL LOSING THREE PLAYERS IN ONE GAME -OST COMPETITORS EMERGED UNSCATHED FROM THE DAY S SPORTING ACTIVITIES AND IN GOOD SPORTING FASHION DID WHAT MOST GOOD LOSING SIDES DO AND TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE BAR FACILITIES AT %SSEX 4HIS RESULTED IN SOME TEAMS NOT RETURNING TO 5%! UNTIL AS LATE AS AM AS MANY OF THE COACH
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DRINKING HAS LEFT A LOT OF 5%! S TEAMS EAGERLY ANTICI PATING THE RETURN OF $ERBY $AY TO OUR HOME TURF NEXT YEAR AND RETURNING THE FAVOUR TO OUR RIVALS AT %SSEX
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.ORWICH POLICE ARE APPEAL ING TO STUDENTS TO ENSURE THAT THEY REPORT ANY INCIDENTS OF ! FULL LIST OF EVENT RESULTS HATE CRIME AND PICTURES FROM $ERBY $AY ! HATE INCIDENT IS ANY CAN BE FOUND AT INCIDENT WHERE YOU FEEL YOU HTTP WWW ESSEXSTUDENT MAY HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY COM NEWS ARTICLE %SSEX WIN TARGETED BECAUSE OF YOUR SEX $ERBY TITLE UALITY RACE RELIGION GENDER DISABILITY OR AGE 0# 6AL 'REEN IS A -INOR ITY AND %THNIC ,IAISON /F lCER EMPLOYED BY .ORFOLK #ONSTABULARY (ER ROLE IS TO LIAISE WITH MINORITY COMMU NITIES AND TO ENCOURAGE THE REPORTING OF HATE INCIDENTS 3HE IS EAGER TO ENCOURAGE IS SUES TO BE REPORTED TO THE PO LICE WITH THE ASSURANCE THAT EACH REPORT IS DEALT WITH IN A CONlDENTIAL AND ANONYMOUS MANNER IF WISHED 2EPORTING OF INCIDENTS HELP THE POLICE LOCAL AND NATIONAL GOVERN MENT UNDERSTAND MORE FULLY THE EXTENT OF HATE CRIME AND THE IMPACT IT HAS UPON INDI %MIL !LLARD VIDUALS IT COULD BE EASILY RECLAIMED IF 0# 6AL 'REEN CAN BE CON STOLEN TACTED ON OR )N ADDITION TO THESE INCI GREENV NORFOLK PNN POLICE DENTS A NUMBER OF STUDENTS UK HAVE HAD THEIR BICYCLES STOLEN RECENTLY AND ALTHOUGH THESE ARE UNCONNECTED TO THE LAP TOPS THE 5NION S 7ELFARE /F lCER 2UTH 3TONE COMMENT ED THAT hSTUDENTS SHOULD BE AWARE TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR PROPERTY AND MAKE SURE IT IS SECURE v 5%! ,IASISON /FlCER !NDY &USSEY WAS AT PAINS TO 4HROUGHOUT 7EEK EVERY STRESS TO #ONCRETE THAT WITH DAY FROM MIDDAY UNTIL PM WARM WEATHER APPROACHING IN THE 3QUARE %CO CAMPUS STUDENTS SHOULD BE EXTRA VIGI WILL BE CANVASSING YOUR VIEWS LENT AGAINST LEAVING WINDOWS ON THEIR DRAFT %NVIRONMENTAL OPEN (E ALSO RECOMMENDED 0OLICY MAKING A NOTE OF THE SERIAL 4HE 5NIVERSITY CURRENTLY NUMBERS OF ANY ELECTRONIC DOES NOT HAVE AN ENVIRON EQUIPMENT TO HELP TRACE THEM MENT POLICY AND %CO #AM IN THE EVENT OF THEFT &INALLY PUS IS SEEKING TO CHANGE THIS HE SUGGESTED THAT $ LOCKS AND WANT TO CONSULT STUDENTS WERE THE SUREST WAY TO SECURE VIEWS ON THE DOCUMENT AND BIKES 0#3/ !NDY &USSEY CAN HOW IT SHOULD BE IMPLEMENT BE CONACTED THROUGH THE 3E ED CURITY ,ODGE IF REQUIRED
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*ONATHAN #LARK 2EPORTER ,IBRARY STAFF HAVE BEEN COM PLAINING ABOUT THE WORSENING STATE OF THE HOUR )4 SUITE AND THE GENERAL CONDITION OF THE ,IBRARY $ESPITE THE ,IBRARY BAN NING ALL FOOD AND DRINK EX CEPT BOTTLED WATER CLEANERS REGULARLY lND EMPTY CANS AND FOOD WRAPPERS STREWN ACROSS THE COMPUTER WORKSTA TIONS #LEANERS ALSO HAVE TO CONTEND WITH BLOOD STAINED TISSUES VOMIT AND DIRTY NAP PIES IN TOILET AREAS WHILE )4 HELPDESK STAFF HAVE TO DEAL WITH SLEEPING STUDENTS AND
hALCOHOL RELATED ISSUESv 4HINGS CAME TO A HEAD LAST -ONDAY WHEN A HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK DEVELOPED AF TER A mOOR PLATE WAS WRENCHED OPEN AND AN EARTH CONNEC TION HAD BEEN DAMAGED (EATHER 7ELLS (EAD OF 5SER 3ERVICES FOR THE ,I BRARY NOTES THAT THE ,IBRARY DOES NOT ALLOW FOOD OR DRINK INTO THE LIBRARY AS ANY SPILL AGES CAN hDAMAGE KEYBOARDS BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALSv -S 7ELLS ALSO INDICATED THAT ,IBRARY AND )4 HELPDESK STAFF RATHER THAN DEALING WITH USER PROBLEMS ARE SPENDING IN CREASING AMOUNTS OF THEIR TIME CLEANING AND MONITOR
ING STUDENTS 3TAFF HAVE ALSO DEMON STRATED THEIR FRUSTRATION WITH hTHE SELlSHNESS OF STUDENTSv WHO DO NOT CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES AND hEXPECT ,I BRARY STAFF OR CLEANERS TO TIDY UP INSTEADv #LEANLI NESS OF THE ,IBRARY IS ONLY ONE CONCERN HELD BY ,IBRARY STAFF ,OUD CONVERSATIONS TELEPHONE CALLS AND hOTHER DISRUPTIVE ACTIVITYv HAVE ALSO CAUSED PROBLEMS RECENTLY 7ITH THE EXAM SEASON LOOMING ,IBRARY STAFF ARE CONCERNED THAT THE SITUATION WILL WORSEN WITH INCREASED NUMBERS OF STUDENTS USING THE ,IBRARY FOR STUDY
!NDY *UDSON $EPUTY %DITOR 4HREE STUDENTS LIVING ON CAM PUS HAVE BEEN UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF THEFT AFTER THEY EACH HAD LAPTOPS STOLEN FROM THEIR BEDROOMS 4WO OF THESE INCIDENTS HAPPENED IN THE 5NIVERSITY 6ILLAGE WHILE AN OTHER LAPTOP WAS STOLEN FROM "ROWNE (OUSE ABOVE )N "ROWNE (OUSE A STUDENT S WINDOW WAS LEFT SLIGHTLY OPEN ON ITS LATCH 4HE THIEVES WERE ABLE TO FORCE OPEN THE WINDOW AND BREAK IN -EANWHILE IN THE 6ILLAGE TWO mATS WERE BROKEN INTO 3ERGEANT 'ERRY (ANDLEY OF THE .ORFOLK #ONSTABULARY WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ISSUE COMMENTED THAT A YOUTH WITH A PIT BULL TERRIER HAS BEEN SEEN IN THE 6ILLAGE AND MAY BE INVOLVED (E ALSO RE MINDED STUDENTS TO MAKE SURE THEIR PROPERTY IS CLEARLY AND CAREFULLY LABELLED SO THAT
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*ONATHAN #LARK 2EPORTER 4HE GOVERNMENT IS CONSID ERING PROPOSALS TO CLAMP DOWN ON FRESHERS WEEKS AMIDST FEARS OF A GROWING BINGE DRINKING CULTURE !T A $OWNING 3TREET SEM INAR 0ROFESSOR /LIVER *AMES A LIVER DISEASE SPECIALIST AND HEAD OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY AT .EWCASTLE 5NIVERSITY PRESENTED HIS lNDINGS INTO BINGE DRINKING AT UNIVERSI TIES 0ROFESSOR *AMES TOLD THE 0RIME -INISTER THAT HE WAS hAPPALLEDv BY THE QUANTITY OF DRINKING DURING FRESHERS WEEKS AND EXPRESSED FEARS OVER STUDENTS HEALTH )N HIS OWN DEPARTMENT *AMES HAS BANNED ADVERTISEMENTS FOR PUB CRAWLS AND DISCOUNTED DRINKS PROMOTIONS 0ROFES SOR *AMES IS EXPECTING OTHER FACULTIES AT .EWCASTLE TO FOL LOW SUIT AND HOPES THAT OTH ER UNIVERSITIES WILL ADOPT HIS HARD LINE STANCE 4HE 0ORTMAN 'ROUP AN ORGANISATION SUPPORTED BY DRINKS PRODUCERS TO PRO MOTE RESPONSIBLE DRINKING HAS ALSO SUPPORTED CALLS FOR
GREATER RESTRICTIONS ON FRESH ERS WEEKS $AVID 0OLEY THE #HIEF %XECUTIVE OF THE GROUP WHO ALSO ATTENDED THE $OWNING 3TREET SUMMIT SAID THAT h&RESHERS WEEKS TEND TO START STUDENTS OFF ON THE WRONG PATH BY ENCOURAG ING HEAVY DRINKINGx THESE WEEKS HELP THEM TO DEVELOP BAD HABITS WHICH CAN STAY WITH THEM FOR THE REST OF THEIR STUDENT DAYS AND INTO THEIR CAREERSv 4HE $OWNING 3TREET SEMINAR HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING HYPOCRITICAL BY THE .53 WHO ARGUE THAT MANY HIGH PROlLE -0S INDULGED IN DRUNKEN ACTIVITIES WHILST AT UNIVERSITY *ACQUI 3MITH THE (OME 3ECRETARY WAS PHOTOGRAPHED DURING HER STUDENT DAYS AT /XFORD PLAY ING A DRINKING GAME KNOWN AS @BUNNIES ! DRUNKEN .ICK #LEGG ,EADER OF THE ,IB ERAL $EMOCRATS SET lRE TO A GREENHOUSE FULL OF AWARD WINNING #ACTI WHILST $AVID #AMERON 'EORGE /SBORNE AND "ORIS *OHNSON WERE MEMBERS OF THE INFAMOUS "ULLINGDON #LUB KNOWN FOR ITS ACTS OF DRUNKEN DEBAUCH
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ERY 'EMMA 4UMELTY 0RESI DENT OF THE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS REMARKED h4HE CABINET ARE THINKING MORE ABOUT THEIR DAYS AT UNIVERSITY THAN THE REALITY OF THE SITUA TION NOW 4HE INCOME THAT STUDENT UNIONS MAKE FROM DRINK HAS DECLINED SO MUCH THAT THEY ARE NOW CHANGING BARS INTO COFFEE AND JUICE BARSv 5%! IS ONLY ONE OF THREE UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY WHICH DOES NOT PROVIDE ITS STUDENTS WITH A FULL FRESH ERS WEEK WITHOUT LECTURES
)T HAS BEEN TWO WEEKS SINCE @4HE 1UAKE BUT WE HERE AT #ONCRETE FELT WE WOULD NOT BE DOING OUR JOB AS A PAPER IF WE WERE NOT CHRONICLING THESE HISTORIC EVENTS !S MOST PEOPLE WILL KNOW BY NOW AT JUST AFTER AM ON THE TH OF LAST MONTH .OR WICH EXPERIENCED THE GROUND SHAKING TREMORS OF THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKE TO HIT "RITAIN IN NEARLY TWENTY lVE YEARS 4HE EPICENTRE WAS IN -ARKET 2ASEN IN ,INCOLNSHIRE AND MEASURED ON THE 2ICHTER SCALE 7ITHIN MINUTES OF THE EARTHQUAKE HITTING 5%! A AND SEMINARS #URRENTLY THE &ACEBOOK GROUP WAS CREATED 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS IS WITH A SUITABLY AMUSING TITLE CAMPAIGNING FOR THE INTRO @) SURVIVED THE .ORWICH TREM DUCTION OF A 7EEK AT THE OR )NITIALLY UNSURE START OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR FOLLOWED BY TWELVE WEEKS OF TEACHING 4HE 5NION BELIEVES THAT A FRESHERS WEEK IS NEC ESSARY IN ORDER TO HELP NEW STUDENTS SETTLE INTO LIFE AT 5%! 4HE 5NION WOULD LIKE (- 2EVENUE AND #USTOMS TO PROVIDE TOURS OF .ORWICH HAS LAUNCHED A NEW 3TUDENT ALONGSIDE TRADITIONAL lRST 4AX !DVICE CAMPAIGN TO HELP WEEK EVENTS SUCH AS 3OC-ART STUDENTS lND OUT WHAT THEY AND THE &RESHERS &AIR .O DE NEED TO KNOW FROM CHECK CISION HAS YET BEEN MADE BY ING THEY ARE PAYING THE RIGHT THE 5NIVERSITY AMOUNT TO HOW TO DISCOVER
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AS TO THE CAUSE OF THE THEN MYSTERIOUS SHAKING STUDENTS ADMITTED ON THE GROUP S WALL SEVERAL WEIRD AND WONDERFUL POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FROM THE WIND AND NEXT DOOR S SOUND SYSTEMS TO mATMATES HAVING SEX /NE STUDENT DESCRIBED HIS lRST THOUGHTS h) WAS ALREADY AWAKE AND ) HEARD A LOUD NOISE AND FELT EVERYTHING IN MY ROOM SHAKING )NITIALLY ) THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A PLANE mY ING OVERHEADv (OWEVER MANY HAVE ALSO REVEALED THAT THEY IN FACT DID NOT FEEL ANYTHING AT ALL 3ECOND YEAR 4IFF 7OOSLEY EXPRESSED HER DISAPPOINTMENT AT MISSING THE EXPERIENCE h) THINK ) SLEPT THROUGH IT AND DIDN T FEEL ANYTHING ) M ACTU ALLY QUITE DISAPPOINTED THAT ) MISSED SUCH AN EVENT v
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4HE 3TUDENT 5NION S ANNUAL #LUB !ND 3OCIETY !WARDS #!3!S ARE ONCE AGAIN UPON US %VERY YEAR IN THE lNAL TERM ALL OF THE STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THESE VARIOUS GROUPS CAN BE NOMINATED FOR AWARDS THAT RECOGNISE THE HARD WORK THEY HAVE DONE OVER THE YEAR 4HIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT OCCA SION 4HE AMOUNT OF WORK MANY PEOPLE PUT INTO SOCIETIES IS EQUIVA LENT TO THAT OF A PART TIME JOB EX CEPT THAT THEY ARE NOT PAID )NSTEAD THEY PUT IN HOURS OF HARD WORK FOR
SOMETHING THEY LOVE SO THAT OTHER STUDENTS GET THE CHANCE TO ENJOY SOME EXCELLENT OPPURTUNITIIES TO DEVELOP THEMSELVES ACADEMICALLY PRACTICE A NEW SKILL OR SIMPLY GAIN A NEW GROUP OF FRIENDS )N ADDITION MANY STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF CLUBS OR SOCIE TIES CAN BENElT FROM THE HARD WORK PUT INTO THEM SUCH AS BY GOING TO A SHOW PUT ON BY A PERFORMING SO CIETY OR DIGESTING THE CONTENT OF ONE OF THE MEDIA BASED SOCIETIES 3TUDENTS WHO HAVE ALSO SPENT A
LOT OF TIME AND DEDICATION IN HELP ING THE 5NION BE MORE SUCCESSFUL CAN ALSO BE REWARDED ON THE NIGHT /VERALL THE #!3!S IS THE NIGHT WHERE THESE HARD WORKING INDI VIDUALS ARE GIVEN THEIR DUE CREDIT AND ALTHOUGH NOT EVERYONE CAN WIN AWARDS THE NIGHT ITSELF IS STILL A CHANCE TO CELEBRATE EVERYONE S HARD WORK 4HERE ARE A NUMBER OF AWARDS AVAILABLE SEE THE FACTBOX OPPOSITE WHICH ARE AWARDED BOTH FOR GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS 4HESE ARE FOR
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND DEVELOPED GROUPS AND STUDENTS BUT THERE ARE ALSO A SERIES OF AWARDS GIVEN FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT 4HESE ARE AWARDED FOR CLUBS OR SOCIETIES WHO HAVE SHOWN PARTICULAR ACHIEVE MENTS IN ONE OF SEVERAL AREAS STU DENT PARTICIPATION ORGANISING AND RUNNING EVENTS INVOLVEMENT WIH OTHER CLUBS AND SOCIETIES PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT AND COMMITTEE ORGANISTION 3INCE THE #!3!S ARE A CELEBRA TION AS MUCH AS AN AWARDS CER EMONY THERE WILL BE PERFORMANCES FOR THOSE WHO ATTEND USUALLY PUT ON BY OTHER CLUBS AND SOCIETIES IN PREVIOUS YEARS THIS HAS INCLUDED PERFORMANCES BY 3TREETJAZZ AND THE 2OCK 'OSPEL #HOIR !LL CLUBS AND SOCIETIES ARE ABLE TO ATTEND AND THERE IS ALWAYS THE ,#2 AFTERWARDS TO CONTINUE THE CELEBRATIONS 3O DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY FOR YEARS TO MAKE THEIR SOCIETY AS SUCCESSFUL AS POSSIBLE OR DO YOU THINK YOUR SPORTS TEAM HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL THAT THEY DESERVE OFlCIAL RECOGNI TION 4HEN NOMINATE THEM FOR THE AWARDS .OMINATION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE 2ECEPTION $ESK IN 5NION (OUSE OR YOU CAN HAVE THEM EMAILED TO YOU BY EMAILING SU SOCIETIES UEA AC UK 9OU NEED TO RETURN THE PRINTED FORMS TO THE 2ECEPTION $ESK 4HE NIGHT OF THE #!3!S IS !PRIL ND AFTER THE %ASTER "REAK 3O IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF A CLUB OR SOCI ETY BE SURE TO KEEP THE NIGHT FREE !NDY *UDSON
What awards are available? 3ERVICE TO 3PORT &OR AN INDI VIDUAL WHO HAS MADE A PARTICU LARLY STRONG CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUCCESS OF A SPORTS CLUB 3ERVICE TO 3OCIETY &OR AN INDI VIDUAL WHO HAS MADE A PARTICU LARLY STRONG CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUCCESS OF A SOCIETY 3ERVICE TO THE 5NION &OR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS MADE A PAR TICULARLY STRONG CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUCCESS OF THE ENTIRE 3TUDENT S 5NION 3PORTS #LUB OF THE 9EAR &OR THE MOST OUTSTANDING AND SUCCESSFUL 3PORTS #LUB 3PORTS 4EAM OF THE 9EAR &OR THE MOST OUTSTANDING AND SUCCESSFUL 3PORTS 4EAM WITHIN A #LUB 3OCIETY OF THE 9EAR &OR THE MOST OUTSTANDING AND SUCCESSFUL 3OCIETY 0ROGRESS IN 3PORT !WARDED TO THE CLUB THAT HAS DEVELOPED AND PROGRESSED THE MOST OVER THE YEAR 0ROGRESS IN 3OCIETY !WARDED TO THE SOCIETY THAT HAS DEVELOPED AND PROGRESSED THE MOST OVER THE YEAR /UTSTANDING !CHIEVEMENT ! NUMBER OF AWARDS GIVEN TO CLUBS AND SOCIETIES WHO HAVE ACHIEVED SUCCESS IN A PARTICULAR AREA
Be the Change 08 &OR THE THIRD SUCCESSIVE YEAR THE -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY 3OCIETY HAS HELD #HANGE A LIVE ENTERTAINMENT EVENT HOUSING A WIDE VARIETY OF PERFORMANCES %VERY YEAR THE EVENT RAISES MONEY FOR 3!33!& 3OUTHERN !FRICAN 3TUDENT 3UPPORT !ID &UND AN INTERNAL CHARITY WITHIN 5%! FOR WHOM WE HAVE MANAGED TO ACCUMU LATE ALMOST a FOR FROM THE PRE VIOUS TWO EVENTS 4HIS YEAR WE WERE PLEASED TO ADD ANOTHER a TO THIS GREAT CAUSE 3!33!& RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITIES WHICH WORK WITHIN 3OUTH !FRICA AND SELL SANDWICHES DAILY UP STAIRS IN 5NION (OUSE "E THE #HANGE TOOK PLACE IN THE (IVE ON THE TH &EBRUARY AND HOSTED AN EXPANSIVE RANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT FROM PERFORMANCES
BY THE 2OCK 'OSPEL #HOIR TO LIVE MUSIC 4HE EVENT KICKED OFF WITH GREAT MUSIC FROM :ACH 7ELLS *OSH "UNCE -IKE 'ARRETT AND 4OM 0OV EY WHO HAD PEOPLE mOCKING INTO THE (IVE 4HE 2OCK 'OSPEL #HOIR GAVE AN ENCAPSULATING PERFORMANCE AND ILLUSTRATED THE GREAT DIVERSITY IN ACTS 4HROUGHOUT THE EVENING THERE WERE A NUMBER OF STALLS BOTH RAIS ING MONEY AND PROMOTING VARI OUS CAUSES AND SOCIETIES INCLUDING 3PEAK !MNESTY )NTERNATIONAL AND THE RETURN OF !RT 3OCIETY S $ART!RT WHICH PROVED VERY POPULAR !S THE EVENING PROGRESSED MORE AND MORE PEOPLE mOCKED TO THE (IVE AND THE MUSIC GOT ROCKIER WITH PERFORMANCES FROM "AMBI 'ET /VER )T "AD 3ALAD AND 3USIE 2O !CTS WERE INTERSPERSED BY TALKS FROM 3!33!& AND THE PRESIDENT OF -AKE 0OVERTY (ISTORY 3OCIETY WHICH EM PHASISED THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH GLOBAL INJUSTICE AND POVERTY 4HIS WAS THE CORE MESSAGE OF THE EVENT 4HE EVENING ENDED WITH A BREATH TAKING DEMO BY THE #APOE IRA SOCIETY WHICH REALLY ENGAGED THE
AUDIENCE AND BROUGHT THE EVENT TO ITS CLIMAX "E THE #HANGE WAS ULTIMATELY A HUGE SUCCESS AND IS ONE THAT WE HOPE TO REPEAT NEXT YEAR 7E HOPE
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 High  school  massacre (IGH 3CHOOL SHOOTINGS ARE TRAGIC TO SAY THE LEAST AND WORRYINGLY FREQUENT 3OME PEOPLE BLAME THE LACK OF GUN LAWS IN !MERICA OTHERS BLAME THE LACK OF SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS 'ARETH #OVENTRY TAKES A LOOK AT THE MOST NOTORIOUS RECENT SHOOTINGS
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AST MONTH #HICAGO .ORTHERN )LLINOIS 5NIVERSITY BECAME THE LATEST TO ADD ITS NAME TO AN EVER GROWING LIST WHOSE SOLE MEMBERSHIP CRITERION IS AN ACT OF UNIMAGINABLE CARNAGE )N THE WEEK BEFORE THIS SHOOTING THERE HAD BEEN FOUR OTHER SHOOTINGS ACROSS THE 53 3CHOOL MASSACRES ARE NOT NEW IN !MERICA DATING AS FAR BACK AS WHEN !NDREW 0 +EHOE BLEW UP A SCHOOL IN "ATH 4OWNSHIP -ICHIGAN BECAUSE OF THE TAXES USED TO CONSTRUCT THE SCHOOL S BUILDING !LTHOUGH LOCATION AND BODY COUNT MAY ALTER IT IS A STORY OF DEPRESSING FAMILIARITY SEEMINGLY A LONER GOES ON THE RAMPAGE KILLING AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE BEFORE KILLING THEMSELVES !S ALWAYS AFTER THESE EVENTS THE QUESTION ON PEOPLE S LIPS IS hWHY v 4HE MOST PROMINENT REASON GIVEN FOR THESE EVENTS IS THE AVAILABILITY OF WEAPONS IN !MERICA AND MOST OF THE PERPETRATORS DO HAVE AN UNHEALTHY lXATION WITH WEAPONRY #ERTAINLY ACCESS TO HIGHLY POWERFUL WEAPONS DOES NOT HELP THE SITUATION )N (ANDGUN #ONTROL CLAIMED THAT !MERICANS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY GUNS WERE SHOT BY CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 0ERHAPS IT IS FAIR TO POINT OUT THAT OF THE TOP TEN WORST GUN MASSACRES OF ALL TIME THE 53 FEATURES lVE TIMES IN COMPARISON WITH THE 5+ WHICH FEATURES TWICE (OWEVER THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY THAT THESE SHOOTINGS OCCUR BECAUSE OF THE PRESENT RESTRICTIONS ON GUNS )N OTHER WORDS THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH GUNS ABOUT FOR PEOPLE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES 3TUDENTS FOR @#ONCEALED #ARRY ON #AMPUS AN ORGANIZATION WHOSE SUPPORT HAS BEEN GAINING IN LIGHT OF RECENT ATTACKS REPRESENTS 53 COLLEGE STUDENTS FACULTY STAFF AND OTHERS WHO SUPPORT ALLOWING LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WITH CONCEALED CARRY PERMITS TO BRING THEIR LEGAL GUNS TO CAMPUS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SELF DEFENSE )T WOULD BE EASY TO BLAME THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS BUT ALTHOUGH THIS MIGHT BE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IT CANNOT BE THE SOLE CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR )N #ANADA FOR EXAMPLE WHERE THERE ARE SIMILARLY LIBERAL GUN LAWS THEY DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE SUCH A PROBLEM WITH SCHOOL SHOOTINGS 3EYMOUR - ,IPSET ONCE WROTE h)N A COUNTRY THAT STRESSES SUCCESS ABOVE ALL PEOPLE ARE LED TO FEEL
THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO WIN FAME REGARDLESS OF THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN DOING SOv -EDIA COVERAGE OF THE SHOOTINGS IS OFTEN BLAMED FOR INCITING MORE MASSACRES "Y ACHIEVING
-ITCHELL *OHNSON WAS A BULLY AS OPPOSED TO BEING A VICTIM OF BULLYING ! COMMON MISCONCEPTION IS THAT THE SHOOTERS ARE LONERS WHEN IN FACT THEY TEND TO HAVE CLOSE FRIENDS WHOM THEY
OF PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS AND WAS TAKEN TO A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY IN ! SIMILARITY AMONG THE SHOOTERS IS THAT THEY HAVE AN UNNATURAL PREOCCUPATION WITH DEATH )N THE
SUCH EXPOSURE NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY THE KILLERS ARE GUARANTEED THAT THEY WILL BE REMEMBERED FOREVER WHILE THEIR VICTIMS ARE LARGELY FORGOTTEN 4O A CERTAIN EXTENT THIS HAS WORKED PEOPLE WILL RECOGNISE #HO 3EUNG (UI AS OPPOSED TO %MILY (ILSCHER HIS lRST VICTIM 4HE LACK OF APPARENT MOTIVE CAN BE FRUSTRATING )N "RENDA 3PENCER YEARS OLD WENT ON A SHOOTING SPREE AND KILLED TWO PEOPLE 7HEN ASKED WHY SHE COMMITTED THIS DREADFUL ACT SHE REPLIED h) DON T LIKE -ONDAYS AND ) THOUGHT THIS WOULD BRIGHTEN UP THE DAYv YES IT WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE "OOMTOWN 2ATS SONG )N THE 53 3ECRET 3ERVICE UNDERTOOK AN INVESTIGATION INTO SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN ORDER TO TRY AND LEARN ANY PATTERNS OF THE SCHOOL SHOOTER 4HEY CONCLUDED THAT IN OVER HALF OF THE SHOOTINGS THE MOTIVE WAS REVENGE ! COMMON FACTOR AMONG THE PERPETRATORS IS THAT THEY TEND TO BE THE VICTIMS OF BULLYING 3AYING THIS WITNESSES HAVE CLAIMED THAT ONE OF THE SHOOTERS INVOLVED IN THE *ONESBORO -ASSACRE
MIGHT TELL OF THEIR PLANS !NOTHER FACTOR IS THAT MANY PERPETRATORS HAVE UNDERLYING PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS )NDEED THE 53 3ECRET 3ERVICE ALSO FOUND THAT OF THE SHOOTINGS THEY INVESTIGATED HAD AT LEAST ONE ADULT WHO HAD OR HAD RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THE PERPETRATOR BEFORE THE SHOOTINGS #ERTAINLY THIS IS TRUE IN THE CASE OF #HO 3EUNG (UI WHO HAD A HISTORY
CASE OF #HO 3EUNG (UI HE WROTE A PLAY ENTITLED 2ICHARD -C"EEF IN WHICH A CHARACTER INTENDS TO KILL HIS EPONYMOUS STEPFATHER 4HIS SIMILARITY IS SHARED BY %RIC (ARRIS WHO WROTE ABOUT GUNS IN SCHOOLS AND #HARLES -ANSON A NOTORIOUS KILLER IN SCHOOL ESSAYS !LTHOUGH THE PERPETRATORS OF THESE ACTS SHARE SOME SIMILARITIES GENERALLY THEY DO NOT CONFORM TO A PARTICULAR PROlLE 4HE PROBLEM
WITH ATTEMPTING A PROlLE OF POTENTIAL SCHOOL SHOOTERS IS THAT AT SOME TIME ANY AVERAGE ADOLESCENT WILL MATCH THE PROlLE LEAVING ANY ATTEMPTS TO GENERALISE NEXT TO USELESS $ESPITE APPEARANCES THESE EVENTS ARE HARDLY EVER SPONTANEOUS THEY TEND TO BE WELL PREPARED AND PLANNED &OLLOWING THE #OLUMBINE ATTACK IN !PRIL POLICE DISCOVERED MORE THAN BOMBS ON THE SCHOOL PREMISES !LTHOUGH THESE BOMBS WERE SIMPLE THEY WERE STILL POWERFUL ONE COULD BLOW A HOLE IN THE LIBRARY WALL 4HE KILLERS CERTAINLY HAD THE INTENTION OF BLOWING UP THE SCHOOL IT IS FORTUNATE THAT THEIR ATTEMPT TO EXPLODE A LARGER BOMB FAILED OTHERWISE THE BODY COUNT WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE HUNDREDS 4HE DIARY OF %RIC (ARRIS ONE OF THE #OLUMBINE KILLERS REVEALS THAT PREPARATIONS FOR THE ATTACK CAN BE TRACED AS FAR BACK AS /CTOBER INDEED A JOURNAL WAS ALSO FOUND SETTING OUT A DETAILED ITEMISED PLAN FOR THE ATTACK 0ROBLEMATICALLY WITH THESE EVENTS IS THAT THERE APPEARS TO BE NO EASY WAY TO STOP THEM )N MOST CASES IT IS ONLY WITH THE BENElT OF HINDSIGHT THAT PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO RECOGNISE WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE RED mAGS )T WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO THINK THAT THIS IS SOLELY AN !MERICAN PHENOMENON IN RECENT YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN 'ERMANY &INLAND AND !RGENTINA TO NAME A FEW )T IS PROBABLY BEST TO REMEMBER THAT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS ARE OFTEN THE CULMINATION OF A LONG STANDING PROBLEM AND THE RESOLUTION OF THAT PROBLEM EARLIER ON COULD HAVE AVERTED THE BLOODSHED
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Everyone’s  Irish  on  St  Patrick’s  Day -ARCH TH IS 3T 0ATRICK S $AY AND ACROSS THE WORLD 'UINNESS WILL BE DRUNK PARADES WILL MARCH DOWN THE STREETS AND SHAMROCKS WILL BE PAINTED ON FACES 2EBECCA 2UTT INVESTIGATES WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT
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T 0ATRICK S $AY IS COMING UP AND THE ,#2 TICKETS SOLD OUT ALMOST AS SOON AS THEY WENT ON SALE LAST WEEK 0OSSIBLY THE MOST POPULAR 5%! NIGHT OF THE YEAR THE CELEBRATION OF )RELAND S PATRON SAINT IS RECOGNISED AND CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD !LTHOUGH THIS NIGHT IS ONE OF THE BUSI EST AT 5%! IT SEEMS MOST STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF -ARCH TH 'UINNESS SHAMROCK AND ALL THINGS GREEN APPEAR ALL OVER CAMPUS AS STUDENTS BEGIN DRINKING FROM EARLY IN THE MORNING BUT FEW CAN EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE CELEBRATING THE DAY 7HEN ASKING A FEW STUDENTS WHAT THEY WOULD BE DOING ON -ARCH TH MOST REPLIED hDRINKING 'UINNESSv OR hCELEBRATING AT THE PUBv 7HEN ALSO ASKED ABOUT 3T 'EORGE S $AY MOST PEOPLE COULD NOT EVEN NAME THE DATE AND DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING PLANNED )T IS TRUE THAT 3T 0ATRICK S $AY IS CEL EBRATED BY MORE PEOPLE THAN 3T 'EORGE S $AY !PRIL RD AND YET SOME DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT 3T 0ATRICK AND THE MANY LEGENDS THAT EX IST ABOUT HIM 3T 0ATRICK WAS THE PATRON SAINT AND NATIONAL APOSTLE OF )RELAND WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING #HRISTI ANITY TO THE COUNTRY )N HIS LIFETIME HE PRODUCED TWO WORKS THE #ONFES SIO A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE %PISTOLA A DENUNCIATION OF "RIT ISH MISTREATMENT OF )RISH #HRISTIANS -OST OF WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT HIM COMES FROM THESE TWO WORKS AND A LOT OF STORIES AND MYTHS THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE AGES /NE FAMOUS LEGEND ABOUT 3T 0ATRICK IS HIS CONNECTION TO SNAKES /N -ARCH TH GREEN SNAKES ARE FOUND IN MOST SHOPS AND HAVE BE
COME ONE OF THE TRADEMARK SYM BOLS OF THE SAINT ,EGEND TELLS THAT 3T 0ATRICK WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR DRIVING THE SNAKES OUT OF )RELAND )T IS TRUE TO DAY THAT NONE EXIST HOWEVER THIS HAS PROBABLY ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE BE CAUSE THE ISLAND WAS SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE CONTINENT IN THE )CE
LIEVED TO HOLD SPECIAL HEALING POWERS !T TIMES OF TROUBLE IT WAS BROUGHT OUT TO HELP PEOPLE INCLUDING DURING CHILDBIRTH AND EPILEPTIC lTS AS IT WAS KNOWN TO PROTECT PEOPLE AGAINST THE @EVIL EYE !NOTHER TALE BELIEVED HE DIED IN 'LASTONBURY IN %NGLAND AND THE #HAPEL OF 3T 0ATRICK STILL EXISTS TO
AROUND THE WORLD )N )RELAND -ARCH TH IS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY WITH NOTH ING OPENING APART FROM PUBS AND RESTAURANTS )N !MERICAN CITIES WITH LARGE )RISH POPULATIONS 3T 0ATRICK S $AY IS ALSO A VERY BIG DEAL "OSTON AND .EW 9ORK HOLD HUGE CELEBRATIONS EVERY YEAR AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
!GE 0ATRICK SUPPOSEDLY ENCOUNTERED THE $RUIDS AT 4ARA AND ABOLISHED THEIR PAGAN RITES 3NAKES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH PAGAN RELIGIONS AND THROUGH ABOLISHING THE PAGANS 0ATRICK ALSO RID )RELAND OF SNAKES 4HE STORY GOES THAT 0ATRICK CONVERTED THE WARRIOR CHIEFS AND PRINCESSES AND BAPTISED THEM AND THOUSANDS OF OTH ER PAGANS IN THE @(OLY 7ELLS THAT STILL EXIST TODAY 3HAMROCKS ARE ANOTHER SYMBOL AS SOCIATED WITH 3T 0ATRICK AND IT IS COM MON FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE THEM PAINTED ON THEIR FACES !CCORDING TO LEGEND 3T 0ATRICK WAS PREACHING ABOUT THE (OLY 4RINITY AND HE PLUCKED A SHAM ROCK FROM THE GRASS AT HIS FEET TO ILLUS TRATE WHAT HE WAS SAYING ABOUT ONE 'OD BEING THREE DIVINE PERSONS 4HIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A VERY POWERFUL IM AGE ESPECIALLY AS THE SHAMROCK WAS ALREADY A PAGAN IMAGE -ANY STORIES EXIST IN RELATION TO 3T 0ATRICK S DEATH 4HE MOST COM MONLY KNOWN TELLS OF HIM DYING AT 3AUL $OWNPATRICK ON -ARCH TH ! $ 0ATRICK S JAWBONE WAS KEPT AND PLACED IN A SILVER SHRINE AND BE
DAY AS PART OF 'LASTONBURY #ATHEDRAL -ANY CHURCHES AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER THE SAINT NO TABLY IN .ORTH !MERICA 3T 0ATRICK S $AY CELEBRATIONS EXIST
WATCH THE STREET PARADES THAT OCCUR !LTHOUGH 3T 0ATRICK S $AY CELEBRATES THE SAINT AND THE COUNTRY MANY NON )RISH PEOPLE ALSO TAKE PART ON THE DAY
)N THE MID S THE )RISH GOV ERNMENT BEGAN A CAMPAIGN TO USE 3T 0ATRICK S $AY TO SHOWCASE )RELAND AND )RISH CULTURE 4HE 3T 0ATRICKS $AY &ES TIVAL GROUP WAS SET UP IN ORDER TO OF FER A NATIONAL FESTIVAL THAT PROMOTES EXCITEMENT THROUGHOUT )RELAND PRO VIDE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE OF )RISH DESCENT TO ATTEND AND JOIN IN THE IMAGINATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE CELEBRA TIONS AND TO PROJECT AN INTERNATION ALLY ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF )RELAND AS A CREATIVE PROFESSIONAL AND SOPHISTI CATED COUNTRY IN THE APPROACH TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM !LTHOUGH THE COLOUR ASSOCIATED WITH THE DAY IS NOW GREEN A LITTLE KNOWN FACT IS THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY BLUE /UTSIDE OF $UBLIN THE BIG GEST CELEBRATIONS IN )RELAND OCCUR IN $OWNPATRICK .ORTHERN )RELAND THE LOCATION MOST BELIEVE THE SAINT DIED AND IS NOW BURIED )N THE 5+ THE LARGEST PARADE IS HELD IN "IRMINGHAM OVER A TWO MILE ROUTE THROUGH THE CITY CENTRE !FTER $UBLIN AND .EW 9ORK THIS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE THIRD BIGGEST PARADE AROUND THE WORLD !T 5%! THE 3T 0ATRICK S ,#2 ALWAYS SELLS OUT AND EVERYONE WEARS A LOT OF GREEN AND DRINKS A LOT OF 'UINNESS !S THE SAYING GOES h%VERYONE WANTS TO BE )RISH ON 3T 0ATRICK S $AYv 7HERE EVER YOU ARE THIS YEAR BE IT THE ,#2 OR ANOTHER PARTY OR CELEBRATION TAKE A MINUTE TO REMEMBER 3T 0ATRICK 4HE DAY CELEBRATES ALL THINGS )RISH AND AS YOU DECORATE YOURSELVES IN SHAMROCKS REMEMBER THE MAN WHO BANISHED THE SNAKES FROM )RELAND AND BROUGHT #HRISTIANITY TO THE COUNTRY 7HETHER YOU ARE )RISH OR NOT THIS DAY WILL BE FULL OF CELEBRATION AROUND THE GLOBE COMMEMORATING THE PATRON 3AINT AND ALSO THE COUNTRY
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Corporate planning 101 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS .EWS %DITOR #ORPORATE PLANS h7OW THAT S EXCITING TELL ME MORE v ) HEAR YOU CRY 7ELL MAYBE NOT BUT THE 6ICE #HANCELLOR "ILL -C -ILLAN AK THE 'OD OF 5%! IS VERY VERY KEEN ON THEM AND LIKE IT OR NOT THE #ORPORATE 0LAN IS GOING TO AFFECT ALL OF US WHO ARE INTENDING TO BE AT 5%! IN THE COMING YEARS 4HE 0LAN IS INTENDED TO DRIVE 5%! FORWARD HOWEVER WHILE IT GETS THINGS RIGHT IN PARTS IT ALSO DEMONSTRATES SOME FUNDAMENTAL MISUNDER STANDINGS OF WHAT A UNIVERSITY SHOULD BE h$O $IFFERENTv INFA MOUSLY THE MOTTO OF 5%! IS TO BE SIDELINED WELL EXCEPT FOR WHERE IT ENSURES WE hDO BETTERv NOW WE ARE APPAR ENTLY TRYING TO hMAKE A DIFFER ENCEv )T ALL SOUNDS LOVELY BUT JUST AS WITH OUR NEW LOGO IT ALL SEEMS A LITTLE TO VACUOUS AND @NOUGHTIES FOR ME
)N THE SIXTIES WHEN 5%! WAS FOUNDED IT HAD ITS OH SO WITTY MOTTO BUT ITS MOTTO DID STAND FOR SOMETHING (ARKING BACK TO GOLDEN AGES IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS BUT REGARDLESS OF THE TRUTH OF THE TIME THE SIX
BEAUTIFULLY OPTIMISTIC IDEAL THAT ALL SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO TO UNIVERSITY FOR THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE FOR ITS OWN SAKE n PREVIOUSLY ONLY AVAILABLE TO THE RICH OR LUCKY h4HE PURSUIT OF KNOWL
VERSITY WE ARE SEEING THE PROS PECT ONCE AGAIN OF SMALLER CURRENTLY LESS GOVERNMENT PATRONISED SUBJECTS BEING LINED UP FOR THE CHOP !CCORDING TO THE #ORPO RATE 0LAN ALL SCHOOLS WILL AT
h OTHERS QUITE ENJOY LECTURERS WITH A BATTY OLD ACADEMIC DITHERING AWAY ON AN OBSCURE -ARXISTnPOSTSTRUCTURALIST FEMINIST APPROACH TO THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF /UTER -ONGOLIAN CAVE ART PREFERABLY IN AN ECONOMICS LECTURE v TIES IDEAL SEEMS WORTH TRYING TO LIVE UP TO 4HE INTERDIS CIPLINARITY THAT 5%! IS KEEN ON IS GREAT AND COMES FROM THAT VIBE (OWEVER INTERDIS CIPLINARITY IS ABOUT lNDING NEW CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SUBJECTS NOT JUST THROWING BUSINESS OR lNANCE IN WITH EVERY SUBJECT TO ENSURE HY POTHETICAL h0HILOSOPHY WITH !CCOUNTINGv GRADUATES CAN GO AND COUNT BEANS FOR .OR WICH 5NION 4HE MASSIVE EXPANSION OF UNIVERSITIES IN THE SIXTIES WAS BASED ON THE
EDGEv A PHRASE THAT AT NO POINT APPEARS IN THE 6# S TWO PAGE INTRODUCTION TO THE CORPORATE PLAN 7HAT S THERE INSTEAD !PPARENTLY h7E ;THE 5NIVERSITY= HAVE ALWAYS AP PRECIATED THAT UNDERSTANDING IS ESSENTIAL BUT IS NOT ENOUGH !CTION IS ALSO REQUIRED AND SO IS EMPOWERMENT v !CTION IS APPARENTLY WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT THE %.6 AND $%6 SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN SIN GLED OUT FOR PARTICULAR PRAISE (OWEVER WHILE THESE SCHOOLS DRAG IN THE CASH TO THE 5NI
LEAST HAVE TO BREAK EVEN OR FACE CLOSURE /NLY A FEW YEARS AGO THE 5NIVERSITY TRIED TO CLOSE THE $RAMA SCHOOL AND THIS #ORPORATE 0LAN LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE ABOUT TO DRAG IT UP ALL OVER AGAIN %MPOWERMENT THOUGH IS THE REAL NEWSPEAK IT SOUNDS LOVELY BUT REALLY IT S MORE TRUTHFULLY EXPRESSED LATER IN THE DOCUMENT AS hEQUIPPINGx;US=x WITH MARKETABLE SKILLSv #ALL ME A LAZY ARTS STUDENT BUT ) DIDN T COME TO UNIVERSITY TO LEARN
hMARKETABLE SKILLSv ) CAME TO UNIVERSITY TO SPEND THREE YEARS OF MY LIVE THINKING READING AND ARGUING ABOUT EVERYTHING n HOPEFULLY AS OFTEN IN THE PUB AS IN THE SEMINAR ROOM $ON T GET ME WRONG THERE IS A LOT OF GOOD IN THIS #OR PORATE 0LAN ITS COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM CREATIVITY AND hA STUDENT EXPERIENCE THAT IS SEC OND TO NONEv ) M JUST A LITTLE WORRIED THAT IT IS FORGETTING THAT WHILE SOME OF US WANT TO STUDY CORPORATE BABBLE OTHERS QUITE ENJOY LECTURES WITH A BATTY OLD ACADEMIC DITHERING AWAY ON AN OBSCURE -ARX ISTnPOSTSTRUCTURALIST FEMINIST APPROACH TO THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF /UTER -ONGOLIAN CAVE ART PREFERABLY IN AN %CONOM ICS LECTURE )F YOU CAN GET THE ACADEMIC TO BE WEARING SOME HODGEPODGE OF RANDOM ITEMS OF CLOTHING I E SANDALS SOCKS AND SHORTS AS WELL IT NOR MALLY ADDS TO THEIR ENDEARING QUALITIES
Concrete Debate: Venezuela /PPRESSIVE TYRANT OR CHAMPION OF THE POOR AND OPRESSED (UGO #HAVEZ MARGINALISES OPINION AMONG THE ,EFT AND 2IGHT 4HIS WEEK IN THE #ONCRETE $EBATE WE EXAMINE THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN 6ENEZUELA WITH (ANNAH / 'RADY ARGUING THAT #HAVEZ HAS HAD A POSITIVE IMPACT AND !NDY *UDSON CLAIMING THAT HIS ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE BEEN OVERSTATED (ANNAH / 'RADY /PINIONS 7RITER 4HERE ARE SYSTEMATIC EFFORTS TO UNDERMINE THE DEMOCRATIC CREDIBILITY AND REDISTRIBUTIVE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE #HAVEZ GOVERNMENT 7HAT IS SO THREATENING ABOUT THIS DEMO CRATIC SOCIALIST 0RESIDENT OF A DEVELOPING 3OUTH !MERICAN COUNTRY 7ELL FOR A START HE IS POP ULAR AND WAS FREELY ELECTED THREE TIMES 4HEN HE IS lNAN CIALLY SUCCESSFUL HIS REFORMS OF THE TAX SYSTEM AND USE OF OIL REVENUES MAKE 6ENEZUELA A POWERFUL WORLD PLAYER )NmA TION HAS DROPPED TO ITS LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE S UNDER HIS CONTROL AND THE 7ORLD "ANK STATES THAT POVERTY IS DOWN BY .OT ONLY THAT BUT HE USES 6ENEZUELA S MONEY TO SET UP SOCIAL PROGRAMMES WHICH AIM TO TRANSFORM THE LIVES OF THE POOREST AND LEAST POWERFUL
PEOPLE IN SOCIETY 4HIS INCLUDES FREE EDUCATION TO UNIVERSITY LEVEL GOVERNMENT FUNDED HEALTHCARE AND REDISTRIBUTING LAND BACK TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN ORDER TO HELP PRE SERVE THE RIGHTS OF A HIGHLY DIS CRIMINATED AGAINST GROUP 'IVEN ITS ECONOMIC STRENGTH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC ALLIANCES ACROSS ,ATIN !MERICA THAT PROVIDE A POWER BASE AGAINST THE 53 PERHAPS IT IS UNSURPRISING THERE IS SO MUCH CRITICISM OF HIS PRESIDENCY )RONICALLY #HAVEZ IS USING HIS POWER TO HELP THE POOREST CITIZENS OF THE 53 AND 5+ 6ENEZUELA CURRENTLY SUP PLIES CHEAPER HEATING FUEL FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN .EW 9ORK AND ,ONDON 4HE LEVEL OF CRITICISM FROM THE 7EST IS UN DESERVED #OULD IT HAVE ANY THING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT !MERICA IS A LITTLE UNCOMFORT ABLE WITH HAVING A SUCCESSFUL SOCIALIST COUNTRY IN ITS OWN BACKYARD
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(UGO #HAVEZ HAS BEEN 0RESIDENT OF 6ENEZUELA SINCE THE END OF WINNING RE ELECTION IN AND
4HERE WAS A LARGE GENERAL STRIKE IN WHICH WAS USED BY THE MILITARY TO AT TEMPT A COUP 4HIS ATTEMPT WAS QUICKLY OVERTHROWN AFTER LARGE GROUPS PROTESTED
! CONTROVERSIAL REFERENDUM ON 6ENEZUELA S CONSTITUTION WAS HELD IN WHICH WOULD HAVE ELIMINATED 0RESI DENTIAL TERM LIMITS )T WAS NARROWLY DEFEATED
)F YOU RE INTERESTED IN ,ATIN !MERICAN ISSUES COME ALONG AND HEAR *ORGE -ARTIN OF @(ANDS OFF 6ENEZUELA SPEAK AT 3T 'REGORY S #ENTRE 0OT TERGATE 4HURSDAY TH -ARCH AT PM
!NDY *UDSON $EPUTY %DITOR 6ENEZUELA HAS BECOME SOME THING OF A BEACON OF HOPE FOR THE LEFT WING IN THIS COUNTRY #HAVEZ S AGGRESSIVE ANTI !MERICANISM AND SOCIALLY PROGRESSIVE POLICIES MAKE HIM POPULAR AMONG THE LEFT (OWEVER THERE IS ALSO MUCH WRONG IN 6ENEZUELA AND IT S IMPORTANT TO REALISE THAT YOU CAN BE PROGRESSIVE WHILST STILL CRITICISING THE 6ENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT #HAVEZ S GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN PRAISED FOR TAKING CON TROL OF THE COUNTRY S ECONOMY AND ENCOURAGING ITS GROWTH THROUGH CAREFUL MANIPULA TION OF ITS OIL RESOURCES "UT ANYONE WITH A '#3% UNDER STANDING OF ECONOMICS COULD HAVE TURNED 6ENEZUELA S LUCRATIVE OIL RESOURCES INTO GREAT WEALTH %CONOMICALLY 6ENEZUELA IS WEAKER THAN IT SHOULD BE
/IL OUTPUT KEEPS FALLING AND ATTEMPTS AT CREATING INDUS TRIES ARE FAILING LEADING TO POVERTY -EANWHILE #HAVEZ FAMILY AND SUPPORTERS HAVE AN UNCANNY KNACK FOR WIN NING HIGH PROlLE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POSITIONS -EANWHILE #HAVEZ SHAMEFULLY MANIPULATES ANTI !MERICANISM FOR PERSONAL GAIN SUCH AS OVER THE RECENT CONSTITUTIONAL VOTE ON WHETH ER HE COULD REMAIN 0RESIDENT INDElNITELY &ORTUNATELY 6ENEZUELANS SAW THROUGH IT AND VOTED AGAINST HIM )F THE 6ENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE 6EN EZUELAN PEOPLE THAT IS THE UL TIMATE CONDEMNATION 5LTIMATELY THE 6ENEZUE LAN GOVERNMENT MUST BE HELD TO THE SAME LEVEL OF ACCOUNT AS ANY OTHER AND WHEN WE LOOK CLOSELY (UGO #HAVEZ APPEARS MUCH WEAKER THAN HIS BOISTEROUS NATURE WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE
Talk The Talk %MMELINE 3AUNDERS /PINIONS %DITOR !N UNMANNED %UROPEAN CAR GO SPACECRAFT WAS LAUNCHED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF LAST 3UNDAY MORNING PAVING THE WAY FOR FURTHER EXPEDITIONS TO SPACE AND HARKING BACK TO THE DAYS OF YORE WHEN SMALL CHILDREN WOULD GAZE WONDROUSLY INTO THE SKY WHILE THEIR PARENTS GAWPED MISTY EYED AT THE SIG NIlCANCE OF THE EVENT WORRY ING ABOUT THE END OF CIVILISA TION AS THEY KNEW IT .OW SPACE EXPLORATION IS ALL WELL AND GOOD MODERN TECHNOLOGY IS INCREDIBLE AND SCIENTISTS ARE FAIRLY SURE THERE ARE CHECKS AND BALANCES IN PLACE TO ENSURE MACHINERY WON T SUDDENLY REVOLT AGAINST THE HUMAN SPECIES "UT HASN T SOMEONE MISSED THE POINT HERE 7E %UROPEANS DON T DO SPACE TRAVEL 7E JUST DON T 7E MAKE SOFT CHEESE AND SHRUG NONCHALANTLY 7E HOLD STRANGE SINGING COMPETITIONS WHERE THE ONLY CONDITIONS OF ENTRY ARE THAT YOU ARE A PRE OP TRANSVESTITE AND LIKE DRESSING IN TINFOIL 4HIS IS THE CONTINENT THAT THINKS GIANT SAUSAGES SERVE BOTH AS A NATIONAL DISH AND A NEVER ENDING SOURCE OF SEXUAL INNUENDO 7E D LIKE TO THINK WE COULD BE IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS THE 53 AND 2USSIA BUT REALLY WE ARE JUST FAR TOO NON COMMITTAL 7E HAVE THE "ELGIANS FOR THE LOVE OF MERCY WHO ARE A CHARMING NATION IF THEY COULD JUST STAY AWAKE LONG ENOUGH 3O THIS SPACECRAFT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS hA HUGE mYING TRUCKv 4HIS SHOULD WORRY US n ANYONE WHO HAS EVER DRIVEN ON THE - FROM &OLKESTONE MUST HAVE WIT NESSED THE 0OLISH CARGO LORRIES THAT SWERVE ALL OVER THE ROAD ON TWO WHEELS BARELY EARTH BOUND THEMSELVES !ND NOW THEY RE PUTTING ONE IN SPACE 4HE MIND TRULY BOGGLES ,UCKILY FOR US THE !MERI CANS HAVE DEMANDED A "IG 2ED "UTTON AS IS THEIR PREDI LECTION *UST IN CASE ANYTHING GOES WRONG ASTRONAUTS ON THE )NTERNATIONAL 3PACE 3TA TION CAN HIT IT 4HEIR GROUND ED LASER MISSILES WILL THEN SWING ROUND TO US AND BLAST US ALL OFF THE FACE OF THE %ARTH 0ROBLEM SOLVED
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Academic injustice 2ACHEL -ORRIS /PINIONS 7RITER 0ICTURE THE SCENE YOU VE l NALLY lNISHED THE ESSAY THAT S BEEN LOOMING OVER YOU FOR WEEKS )T S A MASTERPIECE BURSTING WITH INFORMATION AND BRIMMING WITH ANALYSIS %XCEPT THERE S ONE PROBLEM IT S FAR TOO LONG 9OU RE FACED WITH TWO CHOICES SPEND THE NEXT FEW HOURS RELUCTANTLY DE LETING USEFUL AND RELEVANT AR GUMENTS OR TAKE YOUR CHANC ES AND HAND IT IN )T WAS A GREAT SURPRISE FOR ME TO DISCOVER THAT THE UNI VERSITY PROMOTES NO OVERARCH ING ACADEMIC POLICY REGARDING COURSEWORK WORD LIMITS !S A RESULT THERE ARE HUGE DISPARI TIES IN RULES BETWEEN DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF STUDY AND WORSE STILL INCONSISTENCIES WITHIN DEPARTMENTS 3UBSEQUENTLY
FOR SOME PEOPLE THERE SIMPLY ARE NO CONSEQUENCES TO WRIT ING EXCESSIVELY OVER SET WORD LIMITS 4HOUGH @OFlCIAL DE PARTMENTAL REGULATIONS EXIST
h7RITING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS IS NOT AN ISSUE TO SOME TUTORS WHO SIMPLY COMMEND THE DETAIL AND EFFORT BUT OTHERS lND IT GROUNDS FOR HEAVY MARK DEDUCTION v THEY ARE RARELY IMPLEMENTED EQUALLY 7RITING EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS IS NOT AN ISSUE TO SOME TUTORS WHO SIMPLY COMMEND THE DETAIL AND EF FORT BUT OTHERS lND IT GROUNDS
FOR HEAVY MARK DEDUCTION 3URELY ALL TUTORS SHOULD COM MIT TO A SET LIMIT AND IMPOSE IT EQUALLY 2EGARDLESS OF DEGREE COURSE THE PRINCIPLE REMAINS THE SAME WE COULD ALL BENElT FROM A BIT MORE mEXIBILITY AT TIMES WITH OUR COURSEWORK 7HILE THOSE WHO KNOW THEIR DEPARTMENT UPHOLD STRICT WORD COUNT REGULATIONS BUST A GUT TO GET WORD ES SAYS CLOSE TO THIS LENGTH OTH ERS FACING THE SAME @OFlCIAL WORD COUNT CAN HAND IN WORDS PLUS AND LAUGH ALL THE WAY TO GRADUATION 7HY IS IT THAT SOME STUDENTS WORK IS TREATED WITH FAR GREATER LENI ENCY THAN OTHERS )T S SO FRUS TRATING TO BE TOLD THAT WORK WOULD HAVE BENElTED FROM hFURTHER DETAILv IF YOU KNOW YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN PENAL ISED FOR WRITING TOO MUCH
/F COURSE MORE WORDS DON T NECESSARILY EQUATE TO BETTER MARKS BUT THE CHANCE TO FUR THER DEVELOP RELEVANT ANALYSIS CAN ONLY PUSH A MARK HIGHER )T SEEMS TO ME THAT IF SOME DEPARTMENTS OR TUTORS
h4HE 5NIVERSITY SHOULD NOT CONDONE GIVING lRST CLASS MARKS TO STUDENTS WHO FAIL TO WORK TO A SET BRIEF v PROMOTE WORD COUNTS MERELY AS GUIDELINES WE SHOULD ALL BE ABLE TO SEE THEM AS SUCH 5N LESS DEPARTMENTS CAN ENSURE THAT ALL TUTORS GIVE STUDENTS THE ATTENTION AND LENIENCY THAT SOME MAY DEMONSTRATE IT POTENTIALLY ALLOWS SOME
INDIVIDUALS TO UNFAIRLY ACHIEVE HIGHER MARKS THAN THEIR COUNTERPARTS 4HE 5NI VERSITY SHOULD BE COMMITTED TO THE EQUAL TREATMENT OF ITS STUDENTS YET THE AMBIGUITY OF COURSEWORK REGULATIONS MAKE THIS NOT ALTOGETHER POSSIBLE 4HE 5NIVERSITY SHOULD NOT CONDONE GIVING lRST CLASS MARKS TO STUDENTS WHO FAIL TO WORK TO A SET BRIEF WHILE OTHERS FACE HARSH PENALTIES FOR NOT DOING SO "ESIDES IS IT NOT THE POINT OF UNIVERSITY LEVEL WORK TO DEVELOP ANALYSIS WITHIN BOUNDARIES )F NO PE NAL CODES ARE EQUALLY IMPLE MENTED SOME STUDENTS WILL NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THIS SKILL (AVING BEEN ASSIGNED ONLY WORDS OF RANTING SPACE ) FEAR THERE IS MUCH MORE TO BE SAID !LAS # EST LA VIE
The real fraudsters !LEX 0ARTRIDGE /PINIONS 7RITER 4HERE IS A CRIME SO TERRIBLE SO ABHORRENT THAT THE 'OV ERNMENT PAY FOR ADVERTS AND POSTERS TELLING YOU NOT TO DO IT ) M TALKING OF COURSE ABOUT THE hNO IFS NO BUTSv CAMPAIGN STILL GRACING BUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AD VERTISING BREAKS ON DAYTIME 46 7HAT CRIME IS SO AWFUL THAT THE 'OVERNMENT NEEDS TO TELL US NOT TO DO IT "ENElT FRAUD !CCORDING TO THE WEBSITE OF THE $EPARTMENT FOR 7ORK AND 0ENSIONS hIN BENElT THIEVES STOLE AN ES TIMATED a MILLION FROM PUBLIC FUNDSv 4HAT S AROUND
a PER PERSON PER YEAR .OT THAT BIG A CHUNK OF THE TOTAL TAX TAKE BUT SIGNIlCANT NONETHELESS !ND THERE S NO DENYING THAT BENElT FRAUD IS A CRIME AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ABUSE THE SYSTEM /R GANISED CRIME FOR EXAMPLE OR ARROGANT WANNABE TERROR ISTS WHO SEE TAKING MONEY FROM THE STATE AS A BADGE OF HONOUR "UT WHO STARS IN THEIR ADVERTS )N ONE WE SEE A HAR ASSED SINGLE MOTHER IN AN IN TERROGATION ROOM MENACED BY SHADOWY lGURES 3HE S COMMITTED THE HEINOUS CRIME OF FAILING TO TELL THEM THAT HER BOYFRIEND HAD MOVED IN h"UTxBUTxBUTv IS ALL SHE CAN SAY FEEBLY )N SOME WE RE
h4HE KEENNESS TO RUN DOWN POOR SINGLE MOTHERS IS IN DIRECT CONTRAST THE ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS THAT BE WHEN THE RICH ARE THE ONES DEFRAUDING THE TAXPAYER v OFFERED THE CHANCE TO SHOP A FRAUDSTER VIA A CONlDENTIAL TELEPHONE HOTLINE )N RUN NING THESE ADVERTS THE 'OV
ERNMENT HAS ACHIEVED THE IMPOSSIBLE THEY VE MADE ME FEEL SORRY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ESSENTIALLY STEALING MON EY FROM ME 4HE KEENNESS TO RUN DOWN POOR SINGLE MOTH ERS IS IN DIRECT CONTRAST TO THE ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS THAT BE WHEN THE RICH ARE THE ONES DEFRAUDING THE TAXPAYER 4AKE $EREK #ONWAY THE 4ORY -0 ANNUAL SALARY a PAYING HIS OWN SON FOR WORK HE DIDN T DO TO THE TUNE OF a A YEAR 4HERE WILL BE NO INVESTIGATION AND HE WILL NOT RESIGN UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION /R -ICHAEL -ARTIN 3PEAKER OF THE (OUSE OF #OMMONS WHO CLAIMED a LAST YEAR TOWARDS HIS CONSTITUENCY HOME ON
WHICH HE NO LONGER PAYS A MORTGAGE 2EMARKABLY HE S STILL CHAIRING AN INQUIRY INTO -0 S EXPENSES 4HEN THERE S 0HILIP 'REEN THE MULTI BIL LIONAIRE OWNER OF "(3 AND 4OPSHOP WHO BY LIVING HALF THE WEEK IN -ONACO KEEPS AROUND a MILLION OF IN COME TAX A YEAR OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE "RITISH #HANCEL LOR (IS REWARD FOR THIS FROM THE "RITISH %STABLISHMENT ! KNIGHTHOOD 4HE MESSAGE IS CLEAR IF YOU RE POOR IN "RITAIN ER RONEOUSLY CLAIMING AN EXTRA COUPLE OF QUID IN BENElTS IS OUTRAGEOUS )F YOU RE RICH DODGING TAX AND lDDLING YOUR EXPENSES IS ALL PART OF THE GAME
/N MOST DAYS ) WOULD NEVER STOP TO CONTEMPLATE THE EFFECT THAT THE "RITISH MONARCHY HAS ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OR MEDIA OTHER THAN THE SECRET REGARD FOR THE 1UEEN THAT ) SHARE WITH MOST !MERICANS ) WOULDN T EVEN BE INTERESTED IN THEIR OPINIONS (OWEVER THE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES THAT HAVE ARISEN FROM 0RINCE (AR RY S SHORT DEPLOYMENT TO !FGHANISTAN HAVE MADE THE 2OYAL &AMILY AND THEIR BAG OF TRICKS SOMEWHAT INTERESTING AGAIN 7HILE THE !MERICAN MEDIA GIVES ALMOST AS MUCH AIR TIME TO THE DEATH OF !NNA .ICOLE 3MITH AS THEY DID TO THE "RITISH MEDIA 0RINCE (ARRY S MOST UNLIKELY ALLY ACTUALLY AGREED TO STAY QUIET AND NOT REPORT ON THE 0RINCE S DEPLOY MENT UNTIL HE RETURNED HOME OR WAS EXPOSED BY FOREIGN MEDIA ! UNANIMOUS MEDIA BLACKOUT OF AN ISSUE AS HEAT ED AS THIS ONE IS SUCH A RARE OCCURRENCE IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY ALMOST AS SURPRIS ING AS THE TRANSFORMATION THAT (ARRY SEEMS TO HAVE UNDERGONE IN THIS TIME (E HAS CHANGED FROM .AZI IM PERSONATOR TO "RITISH MILITARY HERO EVEN THOUGH HIS ACTUAL TIME SPENT IN COMBAT WAS LIMITED AND HIS MAIN RESPON SIBILITY SEEMED TO BE @STAY OUT OF THE WAY 7HILE DEBATES ABOUT THE 0RINCE S @SPECIAL TREATMENT ENSUE THE MEDIA HAS CAP TURED A VARIETY OF SHOTS WITH THEIR 0RINCE THROWING HAND GRENADES DISPLAYING AN IN COMPETENT USE OF A MACHINE GUN GETTING IN SOME TARGET PRACTICE AND NOT SURPRIS INGLY VERY FEW OF HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS OR THE PEOPLE TRYING TO LIVE THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES IN WAR TORN !FGHANISTAN )N HIS INTERVIEW (ARRY DESCRIBED PROTECTING HIS MEN AND HOW HE ENJOYED THE FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE /THER THAN THE MISFORTUNE OF SOLDIERS DYING OR HAVING TO DEFECATE IN THE SAND HE WAS HAPPY WITH THE DIVERSION /NE HAS TO WONDER IF A CAMP ING TRIP OR VACATION WITH A FEW FRIENDS WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER OPTION
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OVER MY JET LAG AND EATING GIGAN TIC @DOLLAR PIZZA SLICES 6ANCOU VER HAD SOME BEAUTIFUL BEACHES WHERE THE SKYSCRAPERS WERE QUITE LITERALLY NEXT TO THE SEA 4HE CITY BORDERED 3TANLEY 0ARK A ACRE PARK JUST TWO MINUTES WALK FROM DOWNTOWN 4HERE WERE HOS TELS ALL OVER THE DOWNTOWN AREA RANGING FROM PER NIGHT 4HE 3AMESUN ON 'RANVILLE 3TREET HAD ONE OF THE LIVELIEST BARS FOR TRAVELLERS AND SOME CHEAP DRINKS OFFERS ) ALSO WITNESSED SOME RATH ER STRANGE EATING CHALLENGES AT 7INGS RESTAURANT ) WAS ASKED TO SIGN A RELEASE FORM IN ORDER TO EAT THEIR SPICIEST CHICKEN WING ) ONLY TOOK A NIBBLE BUT A BRAVE #ANA DIAN FRIEND ATE A BIT TOO MUCH AND SMOTHERED HIS LIPS IN TOMATO KETCHUP MUCH TO THE AMUSEMENT OF THE WAITRESSES /N ANOTHER NIGHT THE SAME FRIEND TOOK ON THE @TWO LB CHALLENGE ORDERING A BURGER TWICE THE SIZE OF HIS HEAD $ESPITE A GREAT DEAL OF PEER PRES SURE TO lNISH IT HE WENT HOME WITH MEAT SWEATS ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY THROUGH ) SPENT THE BEST PART OF THE SUMMER IN A VILLAGE CALLED ,AKE ,OUISE WHICH WAS A FOUR TEEN HOUR GREYHOUND RIDE INTO THE HEART OF THE 2OCKIES ) EAS
ILY FOUND WORK IN A HOTEL IN THE NOT SO GLAMOROUS HOUSEKEEPING TEAM BUT ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD WAS PAID FOR AND ) MANAGED TO BRING ENOUGH BARS OF FREE SOAP HOME TO LAST ME A LIFE TIME 4HIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN FALSE ECONOMY WHEN ONE CONSIDERS THE EXCESS BAGGAGE CHARGE -Y FRIEND LANDED
h) SPENT THE BEST PART OF THE SUMMER IN A VILLAGE CALLED ,AKE ,OUISE WHICH WAS A FOURTEEN HOUR GREYHOUND RIDE INTO THE HEART OF THE 2OCKIES v HIMSELF A HOUSEMAN POSITION IN WHICH HE HAD THE EXCITING DUTY OF CATCHING GROUND SQUIRRELS AN ELU SIVE LOCAL INHABITANT AND AT ONE POINT HE FOUND HIMSELF CHASING A
BLACK BEAR OFF THE HOTEL PREMISES /N DAYS OFF THE HOTEL OFFERED A GREAT STAFF ACTIVITIES PROGRAMME WHICH HAD ME MOUNTAIN BIKING ON 4UESDAYS HIKING AT WEEKENDS WHITE WATER RAFTING AND KAYAKING ) CLIMBED MY lRST MOUNTAIN ON #ANADA $AY HOWEVER IT WAS NO ORDINARY CLIMB WE DECIDED TO LEAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN ORDER TO MAKE IT BY SUNRISE ) FOUND MYSELF AT AM EATING PEANUT BUTTER AND JAM SANDWICH ES ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN FEEL ING LIKE A PROPER #ANADIAN 4HE FRIENDS ) MADE WERE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM ANYONE ) HAD EVER MET "ECAUSE THE VILLAGE WAS AN HOUR S DRIVE FROM THE NEAREST TOWN IT ATTRACTED A FUNNY BUNCH A MIX OF BOTH %NGLISH AND &RENCH SPEAKING #ANADIANS INTERNATION ALS AND STUDENTS 1UITE A FEW PEO PLE DIDN T HAVE BANK ACCOUNTS AND WERE COMPLETELY BAFmED BY THE IDEA OF &ACEBOOK 7E LIVED TOGETHER IN DORM STYLE ACCOM MODATION THAT WAS SIMILAR TO lRST YEAR HALLS ) FOUND MYSELF WITH !USTRALIAN *APANESE AND &RENCH #ANADIAN ROOM MATES AS WELL AS A REGULARLY VISITING GROUND SQUIR REL *UST BEFORE ) LEFT ) CLIMBED ONE OF THE BIGGEST MOUNTAINS IN THE AREA &AIRVEW !T THE TOP ) TOOK
A NAKED PHOTO IN PART INSPIRED BY THE 5%! CALENDAR 5NLUCKILY ) WAS DISCOVERED BY A GROUP OF #HINESE HIKERS AND HAD TO MAKE A HASTY DESCENT /NCE ) HAD SAVED UP A BIT ) LEFT TO TOUR SOME MORE OF THE 2OCKIES ON A MINI BUS WHERE AN ECCENTRIC AND OFTEN LECHEROUS DRIVER TOOK US TO LAKES WATERFALLS TOWNS AND HOSTELS THAT WERE OFF THE BEATEN TRACK 4HE COMPANY WERE CALLED -OOSE 4OURS AND ) FOUND IT A GREAT WAY TO MEET OTHER TRAVELLERS "ACK IN 6ANCOUVER ) SLEPT FOR A WEEK ON A FRIEND S KITCHEN mOOR WHICH WAS SURPRISINGLY COMFORT ABLE -Y POINT ) SUPPOSE IT THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SPEND YOUR SUMMER WORKING IN %NGLAND 4HREE MONTHS IS ENOUGH TIME TO EXPLORE A BIT OF THE WORLD AND DON T LET MONEY WORRIES PUT YOU OFF 7ORKING FOR SIX WEEKS MEANT THAT ) ALMOST BROKE EVEN IF WE FORGET THE !BERCROMBIE AND &ITCH SHOPPING SPREE )F #ANADA IS NOT YOUR CUP OF TEA YOU MIGHT WANT TO WORK AT A KIDS SUMMER CAMP IN !MERICA OR HAVE AN ADVENTURE IN 4HAILAND AND !USTRALIA 7HATEVER COUNTRY mOATS YOUR BOAT JUST GET OUT THERE
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Advancing alternatives 4HE USE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AND COSMETICS IS ON THE UP 4HEY ARE ETHICAL ENVIROMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND FREE OF CHEMICALS BUT WHAT ARE THEY ALL ABOUT AND ARE THEY REALLY WORTH IT 3OPHIE -CKIMM INVESTIGATES
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ONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN DOCTORS HAD THE ANSWER TO ALL OUR BODILY DYS FUNCTIONS GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN .UROFEN WAS THE KEY MEDICINE TO STARVE A COLD EASE THE PAIN AND lX THE HEADACHE !LTERNA TIVE MEDICINE IS NOW THE ANSWER 6ITAMINS CHEMICAL COSMET ICS AND PAIN KILLERS HAVE ALL BEEN SWAPPED FOR HERBAL #HINESE ALTERNA TIVES /UR IMMUNE SYSTEMS CAN NOW BE BOOSTED BY %CHINACEA A DAISY EXTRACT ALOE VERA OR CRANBERRY EX TRACTS @3UNSHINE HERBS AND POTENT MUSHROOMS ARE ANCIENT OLD #HI NESE MEDICINES THAT HAVE SPUN INTO WESTERN POPULARITY IN THIS MODERN HEALTH EXTREME AGE !LTERNATIVE MEDICINE WAS ORIGI NAL PRACTISED BY THE #HINESE FROM "# 4HE TREATMENT INCORPO RATES ANIMAL AND PLANT EXTRACTS WITH THE 9IN 4ANY AND :ANG &5 THEORY 4HE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE FOCUSES ON PEACE AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO CURE A DISEASE 4HE TREATMENT IS A MAJOR PART OF #HINESE CULTURE AND ITS THEO RISTS ARE TAUGHT ABOUT IT IN SCHOOL FROM THE AGE OF lVE 4HIS @TRADITIONAL PRACTICE NOW BRANDED IN THE ST #ENTURY AS @FASHIONABLE TREATMENT HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY CELEBRITIES WHO SWEAR THAT THEIR STREAM LINED BODIES WRIN KLE FREE FACES AND STRESS FREE LIVES IS DOWN TO THE SUCCESS OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE %VERYONE FROM !RNOLD 3CHWARZENEGGER TO 0RINCE #HARLES HAVE ALL INDORSED THE POSITIVES OF @AL TERNATIVE MEDICINE 3CHWARZENEGGER CLAIMS THAT HIS TONED BODY IS DOWN
TO @BREATHING THERAPY WHICH REDUCES HIS STRESS AND HELPS HIM KEEP WEIGHT OFF 0RINCE #HARLES SWEARS BY @MAG NETIC THERAPY TO RELIVE PAIN AND PROTECT AGAINST DISEASES AND $EMI -OORE DECLARES THAT HER SLIM lGURE IS DUE TO EATING @+LAMATH ,AKE ALGAE WHICH SHE PROMOTES AS A SUPER FOOD 7ESTERNERS HAVE BECOME INSPIRED BY THE NATURAL #HINESE WAY AND OVER THE PAST DECADE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE HAS BECOME THE NEW PAIN KILLER 7ITH ALTERNATIVE SUPPLEMENTS MEDICINES AND COSMETIC ENHANCERS ENTERING THE CONSUMER SOCIETY AND lLLING UP SHELVES THERE HAVE BEEN STRONG ARGU
h4HIS @TRADITIONAL PRACTICE IS NOW BRANDED IN THE ST CENTURY AS @FASHION ABLE TREATMENT v MENTS THAT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES ARE DANGEROUS 4HE ""# HAS CARRIED OUT RESEARCH INTO THE MARKET OF ALTERNA TIVE MEDICINES RESULTING IN MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS VOICING CONCERNS OVER THE SAFETY OF THE TREATMENTS -ANY PRODUCTS REMAIN UNTESTED WITH MOST DOCTORS CLAIMING THAT ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT IS hINEFFECTIVE AND POTEN TIALLY DANGEROUS NONSENSEv 4HE RESULTS SHOWED MIXED OPIN IONS ON THE ISSUE "RITISH MEDICAL EXPERTS ARE OBVIOUSLY AGAINST THE USE OF ANY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE BUT HOW CAN A NATURAL TREATMENT PRACTISED BY
A NATION FOR CENTURIES BE ANY MORE DANGEROUS THAN A CAPSULE CONSTRUCT ED BY A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY WHO PROlTS IN MILLIONS FROM THE SALE OF THE PAIN KILLER 3URELY THE NEGATIV ITY SURROUNDING ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IS THE FEAR OF PRACTITIONERS WHO DREAD A DROP IN THEIR PROlTS DUE TO A RISE IN THE NATURAL ALTERNATIVE )N FACT PLENTY OF DOCTORS NOW ENDORSE THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES IN THEIR PRACTICES 4HE BENElTS OF THE TREAT MENT HAVE EVEN BEEN RECOGNISED BY GOVERNING BODIES AND IN EARLY *ANU ARY THIS YEAR THE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE WAS BROUGHT TO A COURT OF LAW WHICH LATER LEGALISED SOME FORMS OF SAFE AL TERNATIVE MEDICINE 7ITH A LACK OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND lNDING MIXED OPINIONS ON THE ISSUE ) DECIDED TO RESEARCH ALTERNA TIVE MEDICINES FOR MYSELF "EING CON SCIOUS THAT MY WAIST IS SLIGHTLY BIG GER THAN 6ICTORIA "ECKHAM AND MY LEGS DO RESEMBLE TREE TRUNKS ) TYPED WEIGHT LOSS INTO MY SEARCH ENGINE AND THIS IS WHAT CAME UP h4HE &AT "URNER 4HAT !CTUALLY 7ORKS AND IT S NOT A COMMERCIAL PRODUCTv 'ETTING
EXCITED ABOUT THIS ALTERNATIVE MEDI CINE ) SCROLLED DOWN FEELING SIZE ZERO WAS ONLY OF PILLS AWAY BUT THEN ) READ THE SMALL PRINT IT WAS A hMILD FORM OF SPEED v &INDING THIS MADE ME REALISE THAT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS )T CANNOT BE DOUBTED THAT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE HAS HAD GREAT SUCCESSES MANY CANCER PATIENTS HAVE BEEN CURED OF THE DISEASE AFTER REGU LAR TREATMENT FAILED AND ACUPUNCTURE AND VITAMIN ENHANCERS DO LIFT MOOD AND RELIVE STRESS !LTERNATIVE MEDI CINES HOWEVER CLEARLY DO NEED TO BE APPROACHED WITH CAUTION (OWEVER IN THIS CELEBRITY OB SESSED AGE WHEN THE DESIRE TO LOOK YOUR BEST AND BE YOUR BEST DOMI NATES ALL DOMAINS OF MEDIA THE UN EDUCATED MONEY MAKING FRAUDSTERS WILL CAPITALISE ON THIS ECONOMY )F YOU ARE CONSIDERING USING ALTERNA TIVE MEDICINES GET MEDICAL ADVICE FROM YOUR DOCTOR ON WHICH ONE IS SAFE OR YOU COULD PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR A FAKE AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS ALTERNATIVE
The tests &AITH IN .ATURE SHAMPOO AND CONDITIONER ) BOUGHT &AITH IN .ATURE SHAMPOO AND C O N D I T I O N E R PRIMARILY FOR THE FACT THAT MY BOYFRIEND WAS ALLERGIC TO MY HIGH STREET BRAND AND ) QUITE LIKED THE IDEA OF SAVING THE PLANET A BIT MORE TOO )N MY WISDOM ) THOUGHT THAT A SHAMPOO MADE FROM PLANTS WOULD NOT BRING HIM OUT IN A RASH ) PLUMPED FOR /RGANIC !LOE 6ERA AND *OJOBA SHAMPOO AND CONDITIONER )T SMELLS TASTY IS NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS AND WON AN ETHICAL CONSUMER AWARD IN )T IS FULLY BIO DEGRADABLE AND PA RABEN FREE 0ARABENS ARE CHEMICALS IN COSMETICS USED FOR THEIR BACTERI
CIDAL AND FUNGICIDAL PROPERTIES AND CAN CAUSE ALLERGIC REACTIONS IF YOU HAVE SENSITIVE SKIN $ESPITE THE ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS HOWEVER MY BOYFRIEND STILL COMES UP IN A RASH AFTER USING &AITH IN .ATURE !FTER USING &AITH IN .ATURE SHAMPOO MY HAIR IS NOT AS SMOOTH AS AFTER USING A HIGH STREET BRAND AND UNLESS ) USE A LOT OF CONDITIONER ) FEEL LIKE ) HAVE A HEAD OF STRAW RATHER THAN HAIR ) BOUGHT MY BOTTLES ON A EX TRA FREE SPECIAL OFFER BUT WITHOUT THIS OFFER &AITH IN .ATURE IS AN EX PENSIVE BRAND 7HEN MY CURRENT STOCK RUNS OUT ) DO NOT THINK THAT ) LL BE BUYING IT AGAIN )F YOU ARE INTERESTED A RANGE OF &AITH IN .ATURE PRODUCTS IS AVAILABLE AT 2AINBOW 7HOLEFOODS IN THE #ITY #ENTRE
$R "RONNER S IN (EMP AND 0EPPERMINT #ASTILE 3OAP /NE THING THAT ) CAN GET EXCITED ABOUT IS $R "RON NER S IN (EMP AND 0EPPERMINT #ASTILE 3OAP "ROUGHT BACK FROM !MERICA BY ONE OF MY mAT MATES THIS LIQUID SOAP WON ME OVER BY THE FUNNY LA BEL ALONE )T IS ALSO VEGAN ORGANIC FULLY BIO DEGRADABLE NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS AND HAS ALL NATURAL INGRE DIENTS )T SMELLS MINTY AND LEAVES A REFRESHING TINGLE ON THE SKIN AFTER USE ! WARNING TO ANY MALE READERS THOUGH DO NOT GET TOO MUCH SOAP ON YOUR FUN STUFF AS ) HAVE HEARD
THAT THE TINGLE DOWN THERE IS NO LONGER REFRESHING AFTER TOO MUCH LATHERING 4HIS SOAP CAN BE USED FOR MAS SAGES SHAVING AND EVEN AS BREATH FRESHENER WHICH MAKES ITS MORE EXPENSIVE PRICE TAG MORE UNDER STANDABLE ) HAVE NOT SEEN THIS SOAP IN 5+ SHOPS BUT IT IS AVAILABLE TO BUY AT WWW THEHEMPSHOP CO UK AT a FOR A OZ BOTTLE AND PROB ABLY LOADS OF OTHER WEBSITES TOO )T COMES IN OTHER mAVOURS SUCH AS LAVENDER ROSE AND ALMOND SO WHILE IT IS PRICEY POSSIBLY BECAUSE IT S ALL IMPORTED FROM !MERICA ) LL DElNITELY BE PICKING UP SEVERAL GALLONS OF THE STUFF WHEN ) M OVER THERE THIS SUMMER &RANCES 4AYLOR
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“Bottled water is bollocks” .ATASHA "ARNES 4URF %DITOR )T SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME A FAVOUR ITE WITH COMPANIES RECENTLY TO ANNOUNCE THEIR PRODUCTS AS SUF lCIENTLY ECO FRIENDLY FOR TODAY S GREEN CONCIOUS PUBLIC YET WITH NO ACTUAL BASIS FOR THE CLAIM 4HE TERM @GREENWASHING COINED IN THE EAR LY S APPLIES TO BUSINESSES THAT SPEND MORE MONEY AND OR TIME ADVERTISING THEIR GREEN CREDENTIALS INSTEAD OF ACTIVELY WORKING TO DE VELOP ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND PRACTICES )T IS A TERM THAT COULD BE APPLIED TO MANY INCLUDING BOTTLED WATER MANUFACTURERS 4HIS INDUSTRY HAS NOT HAD GOOD PRESS RECENTLY AND SO THE SOLUTION 'REENWASHING 4HE MANUFACTUR ER S CLAIM IS THAT LESS PLASTIC IS NOW USED IN MAKING EACH BOTTLE WHICH INEVITABLY RESULTS IN A SMALLER BOT TLE THUS LESS WATER IN EACH MORE
BOTTLES NEEDED AND MORE PLASTIC USED .OT REALLY A PERFECT RESOLU TION 4HE SENSIBLE ANSWER 3TOP BUYING BOTTLED WATER )T COSTS TIMES MORE TO CREATE BOTTLED WATER THAN IT DOES TO GET IT OUT OF THE TAP AND THE PLASTIC IT COMES IN TAKES ABOUT YEARS TO BIO DEGRADE 4HERE IS ALSO THE TRANSPORTATION ISSUE !CCORDING TO A REPORT FROM THE %ARTH 0OLICY )NSTI TUTE TAP WATER IS DELIVERED THROUGH AN hENERGY EFlCIENT INFRASTRUCTUREv WHEREAS BOTTLED WATER IS FREQUENTLY SHIPPED AROUND THE WORLD BURN ING LARGE AMOUNTS OF FOSSIL FUELS IN THE PROCESS )T IS NO WONDER THEN THAT 0HIL 7OOLAS -0 REMARKED THAT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT ON MINER AL WATER hBORDERS ON BEING MORALLY UNACCEPTABLEv 4IM ,ANG THE 'OV ERNMENT S NATIONAL RESOURCES COM MISSIONER ADDED THAT hWE HAVE TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK THAT IT S UNFASH
IONABLE JUST AS WE HAVE WITH SMOK ING v -R 7OOLAS WHO REMARKED THAT IT WAS DAFT THAT SIX MILLION LITRES OF BOTTLED WATER WERE DRUNK EVERY DAY IN "RITAIN WHEN SAFE TAP WATER IS UNIVERSALLY AND CHEAPLY AVAILABLE IS SUPPORTING 4HAMES 7ATER ALONG WITH &RIENDS OF THE %ARTH TO LAUNCH A NEW CAMPAIGN TO PERSUADE HOTELS RESTAURANTS AND PUBS TO MAKE TAP WATER MORE READ ILY AVAILABLE HIGHLIGHTING THE EFFECT THAT BOTTLED WATER HAS ON THE ENVI RONMENT 4HE ,IBERAL $EMOCRAT ENVIRON MENT SPOKESPERSON CALLED FOR TAXES TO BE INTRODUCED ON BOTTLED WATER TO RAISE THE PRICE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DISSUADE PEOPLE FROM BUYING IT )T SEEMS HOWEVER THAT A RISE IN A FEW PENCE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH 0EOPLE ARE USED TO BOTTLED WATER BEING MARKETED AS A LIFESTYLE PRODUCT SOMETHING THAT )S EASY TO DRINK ON THE GO AND MUCH HEALTHIER THAN A
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lZZY ALTERNATIVE )T IS THIS ATTITUDE THAT HAS TO CHANGE "UYING A BOT TLE OF WATER IS REALLY NO DIFFERENT TO BUYING A REUSABLE BOTTLE AND lLLING IT WITH TAP WATER 4HE CAMPAIGN HAS EVEN BEEN ENDORSED BY CELEBRITIES WITH NONE OTHER THAN "OB 'ELDOF REMARKING THAT h"OTTLED WATER IS BOLLOCKS )T IS THE GREAT IRONY OF THE ST CEN TURY THAT THE MOST BASIC THINGS IN THE SUPERMARKET SUCH AS WATER AND BREAD ARE AMONG THE MOST EXPEN SIVE 'ETTING WATER FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND TRANSPORTING IT TO SELL HERE IS RIDICULOUS )T IS ALL TO DO WITH LIFESTYLE v 4HIS IS A LIFESTYLE THAT HAS GOT TO CHANGE 7HAT IS TO JUSTIFY PEO PLE WITH PERFECTLY CLEAN TAP WATER BUYING IT IN BOTTLES WHEN THERE ARE ENOUGH COUNTRIES WITHOUT EITHER PRIVILEGE )T SEEMS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR WHERE OUR PRIORITIES SHOULD LIE
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S &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT DRAWS TO A CLOSE NEW lG URES FROM THE &AIRTRADE &OUNDATION THE PRIMARY CERTIlCATION AND CAMPAIGNING BODY IN THE BURGEONING &AIRTRADE SECTOR SHOW SALES OF &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS REACHED ALMOST a MILLION LAST YEAR )S THERE STILL A NEED FOR A FORT NIGHT OF &AIRTRADE EVENTS AND PRO MOTIONS AND WHAT HAS BEEN HAP PENING AT 5%! &AIRTRADE &ORTNIGHT HAS BEEN A REGULAR EVENT OVER THE LAST DECADE AND ITS PURPOSE IS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE RANGE AND QUALITY OF &AIRTRADE PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AND EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT WIDER ISSUES OF TRADE JUSTICE AND ETHICAL CONSUMERISM 4HERE IS STILL A PERCEPTION BY SOME THAT &AIRTRADE GOODS ARE OVER PRICED AND POOR QUALITY BUT WITH AN EVER EXPANDING MARKET AND HEIGHTENED CONSUMER INTEREST PRICES ARE FALLING
AS QUALITY INCREASES &AIRTRADE HAPPENINGS AT 5%! HAVE THIS YEAR BEEN ORGANISED BY THE RECENTLY FORMED &AIRTRADE 3TEER ING 'ROUP A 5NIVERSITY #OMMIT TEE COMPRISED OF 3TUDENTS 5NION /FlCERS LIKE MYSELF ACADEMICS AND 5NIVERSITY CATERING STAFF 4HE GROUP HAS A REQUIREMENT OF ACHIEVING &AIR TRADE 5NIVERSITY 3TATUS FOR WHICH 5%! PASSED POLICY LAST SUMMER ,AST YEAR THE 5NION S &AIRTRADE 'ROUP TRIED TO ORGANISE LOTS OF EVENTS BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE THE 5NIVERSITY S (EAD #HEF ON OUR SIDE WE HAVE FAR GREATER SCOPE FOR MAKING CHANGES !LL HOT DRINKS MACHINES IN :EST AND "LEND HAVE BEEN SWITCHED TO &AIR TRADE FOR EXAMPLE AND THE HOPE IS THAT THIS WILL REMAIN AFTER THE FORT NIGHT HAS ENDED 4HOUSANDS OF FREE RAFmE TICKETS WERE GIVEN OUT TO ANYONE BUYING ANY &AIRTRADE PRODUCT FROM A 5NION
OR 5NIVERSITY OUTLET AND THE DRAW WAS MADE ON &RIDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE SCREENING OF THE SATIRICAL DOCU MENTARY 9ES -EN +EEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE WINNING NUMBERS
)T IS EASY TO BE CYNICAL ABOUT THE IMPACT THAT ONE PERSON BUYING &AIRTRADE CAN MAKE "UT THERE ARE REAL MOVEMENTS IN THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR TOWARDS BROADER SUPPORT FOR
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Sheffield  steal  UEA  thunder (ARRY ,OW $EPUTY 3PORTS %DITOR 3HEFlELD (ALLAM CLAIMED THEIR SECOND "53! .ATIONAL +ORFBALL TITLE IN lVE YEARS AT THE 3PORTSPARK LAST WEEKEND TO END 5%! S THREE YEAR REIGN AS CHAMPIONS OF THE COMPE TITION ! SLUGGISH START FROM THE HOSTS ULTIMATELY COST THEM DEAR AS THEY SUFFERED THEIR ONLY DEFEAT OF THE TOURNA MENT AT THE HANDS OF DEBU TANTES ,ONDON !LTHOUGH THEY WON THEIR OTHER GROUP MATCHES AND 5%! WERE ONCE AGAIN UNDONE BY GOAL DIFFERENCE AS THEY FOUND THEMSELVES WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF POINTS AS ,ONDON AND 3HEFlELD BUT WITH AN IN FERIOR GOAL AGGREGATE MEAN ING THAT THEY COULD lNISH NINTH PLACE AT BEST 4O THEIR CREDIT THE TEAM DID JUST THAT BY WINNING ALL OF THEIR REMAINING MATCHES TO CLAIM THE PLATE INCLUDING IM PRESSIVE VICTORIES OVER !STON
AND 3T !NDREWS UNIVERSITIES &IRST TEAM COACH !MI "ROUGHTON WAS IN REmECTIVE MOOD AFTER THE TOURNAMENT hTHE TEAM WERE DESPERATELY UNFORTUNATE NOT TO PROGRESS TO THE QUARTER lNALS BUT DEALT WITH THIS DISAPPOINT MENT WELL TO WIN THE PLATE COMPETITIONv ADDING THAT SHE hCOULDN T HAVE ASKED FOR MUCH MORE FROM HER SIDEv )N THE THIRD PLACE PLAY OFF ,ONDON EMERGED VICTORIOUS ALBEIT VIA A PENALTY SHOOTOUT AFTER 3OUTHERN CHAMPIONS AND HOTLY TIPPED "IRMING HAM FAILED TO CONVERT THE MA JORITY OF THEIR PENALTIES 4HE lNAL ITSELF WAS A REAL SPECTACLE AND A KEENLY CON TESTED AFFAIR PRODUCED A TOTAL OF GOALS WITH 3HEFlELD (ALLAM EDGING OUT /XFORD BY A MARGIN OF TWO (OWEVER /XFORD WERE IN FRONT FOR CON SIDERABLE PASSAGES LEADING AND BEFORE THIS YEAR S .ORTHERN CHAMPIONS STORMED BACK THANKS LARGELY TO SOME FREE mOWING KORFBALL IN THEIR ATTACKING DIVISIONS ALLOWING
 Dancesport  dazzle  judges .ICOLA ,YNES 3PORTS 2EPORTER 4HE FAKE TAN WAS mOWING THE RHINESTONES SPARKLING AND HAIR SPRAYx SPRAYING AS 5%! TRAVELLED TO ,EICESTER TO COMPETE IN THIS YEAR S .5$# .ORTHERN 5NIVERSITIES $ANCE #OMPETITION !FTER LEAV ING SLIGHTLY LATE THANKS TO A CERTAIN COMMITTEE MEMBER OVERSLEEPING IT WAS IN THE MORNING IT SEEMED THAT THINGS COULD ONLY GET BETTER 4HE DAY STARTED WELL WITH THE EVENT OF THE OLD TIME DANCE WHERE A SIMPLE ROUTINE OF AN OLD DANCE IS TAUGHT TO ALL COUPLES WHO THEN COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER )T WAS A FUN WAY TO EASE INTO THE LONG DAY OF DANCING AND THE STAND ARD FOR THE REST OF THE DAY WAS SET EARLY AFTER 4OBY (INE AND .ICOLA ,YNES WON MEDALS FOR COMING lFTH OUT OF THE lFTY COUPLES WHO ENTERED )NSPIRED BY THIS 5%! WENT ON TO HAVE A VERY SUCCESS FUL MORNING IN THE BALLROOM ROUNDS ,AURA 'RIXTI AND 6E RONICA 6OZENILKOVA REACHED THE SEMI lNALS FOR BOTH THEIR BEGINNER WALTZ AND QUICK STEP AND 4OBY AND .ICOLA WON THEIR SECOND MEDALS OF THE DAY FOR REACHING THE lNAL OF NOVICE QUICKSTEP lNISH ING IN EIGHTH PLACE AGAINST
STIFF COMPETITION /NE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MORNING WAS WATCHING TEAM CAPTAIN -AR TIN "ERRY AND PARTNER #LAIRE 'RACE DOING A GRACEFUL IF DIZ ZYING 6IENNESE 7ALTZ AROUND THE mOOR TO THE (ARRY 0OTTER SOUNDTRACK !FTER THE SOPHISTICATED MORNING OF THE BALLROOM ROUNDS THE AFTERNOON BROUGHT THE EXCITING ,ATIN !MERICAN ROCK AND ROLL AND OFFBEAT EVENTS -ORE SEMI lNALS WERE REACHED BY 5%! THE /PEN ,ATIN DANCE SAW .AOMI $AVEY AND ,AURA 6AUX IMPRO
VISING AN IMPRESSIVE RUMBA IN THE SECOND ROUND AND THREE OF OUR COUPLES WERE PLACED WITHIN THE TOP IN THE NON ACROBATIC ROCK AND ROLL 4HE OFFBEAT EVENT WHERE UNIVERSITIES HAVE A CHANCE TO DO A GROUP SHOW DANCE OF THEIR CHOICE FEATURED SOME IN TERESTING AND VARIED PERFORM ANCES INCLUDING HIP HOP AND CABARET DANCES /UR OFFBEAT TEAM PRODUCED AN OUTSTAND ING PERFORMANCE AND WERE UNFAIRLY BEATEN TO A QUALIFY ING PLACE BY A PERFORMANCE NOT NEARLY AS POLISHED BY AN
OTHER UNIVERSITY )N THE EVENING WERE THE TEAM ROUNDS 7ITH EACH COU PLE CONCENTRATING ON A SEPA RATE DANCE COUPLES HAVE THE CHANCE TO WORK SOME MORE COMPLICATED STEPS INTO THEIR ROUTINES /UR ! TEAM DID VERY WELL COMING EIGHTH OVERALL BUT WE WERE NOT AS SUCCESS FUL IN THE TEAM KNOCKOUT MATCH )N THIS EVENT THERE ARE ONLY TWO COUPLES ON THE mOOR COMPETING HEAD TO HEAD AND WE WERE KNOCKED OUT IN A VERY CLOSE MATCH AGAINST 3HEFlELD 7E ENDED THE DAY ON A HIGH WITH -ARTIN "ERRY AND 4OBY (INE REACHING THIRD PLACE WITH THEIR MALE MALE RUMBA POSSIBLY CLINCHED BY THE LONG RED SATIN GLOVES AND THE 9-#! MOVE INCORPORATED INTO THEIR ROUTINE )T WAS A HI LARIOUS WAY TO END A FANTASTIC DAY PERSONALLY THE BEST COM PETITION ) HAVE ATTENDED SO FAR 7E COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT THE ORGANISATION OF OUR TEAM CAPTAIN -ARTIN "ERRY 0RESIDENT ,AURA 6AUX OR OUR TEACHERS ,YNN -ILLER AND ESPECIALLY +ATE "OUCHIER WHO WORKED TIRELESSLY ON THE OFFBEAT ROUTINE 4HE NEXT COMPETITION IS )6$! IN "LACK POOL AND WE GO IN WITH HIGH HOPES AFTER THE SUCCESSES OF THIS COMPETITION
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THE GOALS TO RAIN IN 4OURNAMENT ORGANISER AND 5%! S TOP SCORER 3TEPH !LLEN FELT THE WEEKEND WAS A SUCCESS h4HE FOCUS OF THE TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN ABOUT RAISING THE PROlLE OF STUDENT KORFBALL AND THE CONTRIBU TION IT CAN BRING TO THE KORF BALL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE &OR MANY STUDENT KORFBALL IS THEIR lRST TASTE OF THE SPORT AND BEING ABLE TO PLAY IN A COMPETITIVE TOURNAMENT CAN ONLY HELP TO IMPROVE THE STANDARD AND NUMBERS OF PLAYERS WE HAVE FOR THIS GREAT SPORT v %NGLAND S NATIONAL KORF BALL TEAM CAPTAIN $AVE 3YN OTT WHO CAME TO .ORWICH FOR THE WEEKEND ECHOED THESE SENTIMENTS AGREEING THAT SUCH KORFBALL TOURNAMENTS ARE hA GREAT THINGv (E WENT ON h)T HAS BEEN AMAZING TO SEE THE TRANSFORMATION OF STU DENT KORFBALL SINCE ) WAS AT UNIVERSITY 4HE BAR HAS BEEN RAISED BOTH IN THE STANDARD AND NUMBER OF TEAMS WHO PLAY KORFBALL v
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5%! $ERBY $AY BOXING GETS BRUTAL
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Make  a  splash  with  the  new  Watersports  Club 7ILL &ARBROTHER ,ORNA *AMES 4HANKS TO THE NEW 7AKE BOARDING AND 7ATER SKI CLUB THERE IS A NEW WAY TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE SUMMER 4HE CLUB OFFERS A RANGE OF SKIS AND BOARDS TO MEMBERS OF ALL ABILITIES 7ATER SKIING IS WELL KNOWN BUT @WAKEBOARD ING SEEMS TO ENCOURAGE CONFUSION )T DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH FUNER ALS OR @PROFESSIONAL INTERRO GATION TECHNIQUES )NSTEAD IT INVOLVES BEING STRAPPED TO A SNOWBOARD AND PULLED BEHIND A BOAT )N THE SAME WAY THAT SNOWBOARDING HAS BROUGHT ABOUT A CULTURAL REVOLUTION ON THE SKI SLOPES WAKEBOARDING HAS CHANGED THE WAY PEOPLE THINK ABOUT WATER SKIING )T IS NOW THE WORLD S FASTEST GROWING WATER SPORT 7HILE MANY OF THE SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES ARE THE SAME AS SNOWBOARDING THE CRUCIAL DIFFERENCE IS THAT WHEN YOU MIS JUDGE A TRICK ON WATER IT IS NOT DENSELY PACKED ICE
YOU GET ACQUAINTED WITH )T IS ALSO CHEAPER 'ONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN THESE SPORTS WERE THE PRESERVE OF RICH BOATING CLUB TYPES 4HE INGENIOUS INVENTION OF 2IXEN MACHINES MEAN IT IS A VIABLE PAST TIME FOR DESTITUTE STUDENTS 2IX
ENS KNOWN AS CABLES ARE SOVIET LOOKING CONTRAPTIONS BASED ON THE TECHNOLOGY OF ALPINE SKI LIFTS 2ATHER THAN DRAGGING SKIERS UP A MOUN TAIN THEY DRAG SKIERS AROUND A LAKE 4HEY ARE SILENT AND ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE
TO BOATS 4HE SENSATION IS JUST LIKE BEING PULLED ALONG BY A BOAT EXCEPT THERE IS NO WAKE .O WAKE 4HIS MIGHT SEEM TO POSE A PROBLEM FOR THIS TYPE OF BOARDING BUT IT DOES NOT #ABLE PARK STAFF CRAFT AN AMAZING ARRAY OF
mOATING KICKERS SLIDERS RAILS ! FRAMES AND OTHER DELIGHTS TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS NEV ER A DULL MOMENT ON THEIR LAKE 4HE CLUB IS PLANNING A TRIP TO A CABLE PARK ON RD !PRIL 7HY SPEND THE SUM
MER PINING FOR SNOW WHEN YOU COULD BE HONING YOUR S WITH THE 5%! 7AKE BOARD AND 7ATER SKI CLUB &OLLOW THE LINKS FROM THE 5NION WEBSITE FOR MORE IN FORMATION
Mixed  results  for  hockey  in  Essex !LEX "ARTON 3PORTS 2EPORTER ,AST YEAR S $ERBY $AY SAW 5%! (OCKEY COME OUT ON TOP OF %SSEX WITH THE -EN S GAME A DRAW AT AFTER %SSEX SCORED A WONDER GOAL IN THE LAST MINUTE TO EQUALISE AND THE ,ADIES TEAM COMFORTABLY WINNING 4HIS YEAR SAW THE REIN STATEMENT OF THE MIXED GAME ALONGSIDE THE TRADITIONAL -EN S AND ,ADIES MATCHES 5%! WERE FEELING CONlDENT WITH ,EATE AND &ANGER JOINING THE -EN S TEAM FROM 0REM ! SIDE (ARLESTON -AGPIES 4HE ,ADIES TEAM HAVE NEVER LOST TO %SSEX BEATING THEM SEVEN YEARS IN A ROW %SSEX HAVE IMPROVED VAST LY OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS AND SOON AFTER THE GAME STARTED THEY WERE UP FROM A PEN ALTY mICK AFTER 5%! S KEEPER 0RUCHNIEWICZ TOOK OUT %S SEX S STRIKER IN A ONE ON ONE SITUATION 5%! RESPONDED WELL HOWEVER AND LEVELLED THE GAME WITHIN lVE MINUTES WHEN *AMES (UGHES WAS ON HAND AT THE FAR POST TO TAP IN THE EQUALISER %SSEX LOOKED DANGEROUS ON THE COUNTER AT TACK THOUGH AND SOON A BALL
GIVEN AWAY IN MIDlELD WAS IN THE 5%! AREA AND THE SCORER OF THE AFOREMENTIONED WON DER GOAL HIT A GOOD SHOT INTO THE TOP CORNER !GAIN 5%! EQUALISED BUT %SSEX REGAINED THE LEAD JUST BEFORE THE HALF LEAVING THE GAME WELL POISED AT COME HALF TIME "OTH TEAMS CAME OUT lRED UP FOR THE SECOND HALF BUT %SSEX GOT A GREAT START 4HEY SCORED TWO GOALS IN QUICK SUC CESSION WHICH THREATENED TO
KILL OFF THE GAME FOR A WHILE 5%! GOT ONE MORE BACK ON A REVERSE STICK SHOT FROM @#LUB #HARLIE -AY 4HIS WAS ALL 5%! HAD LEFT THOUGH AND THE GAME lNISHED AT TO %SSEX A SCORELINE NOT REmECTIVE OF THE GAME AS A WHOLE 4HE ,ADIES GAME FOL LOWED AND THEY ALSO GOT OFF TO A BAD START GOING DOWN IN THE lRST TEN MINUTES 4HEY MANAGED TO EQUALISE TEN MIN UTES LATER THROUGH ,INZI (YDE
4HE GAME FOLLOWED A SIMILAR PATTERN TO THE -EN S GAME AS %SSEX AGAIN GOT AHEAD AND 5%! WENT INTO THE BREAK DOWN ! FANTASTIC SECOND HALF PERFORMANCE SAW THE 5%! GIRLS RALLY BACK TO EQUALISE WHEN *ULIE -C2ANN SCORED 4HIS CLEARLY RATTLED THE %SSEX TEAM AS THE GULF IN CLASS START ED TO TELL AND 5%! STARTED TO KNOCK THE BALL AROUND AT WILL AND %SSEX WERE CHASING SHAD OWS 3OON ENOUGH 5%! TOOK
THE LEAD AND HELD ONTO IT SCOR ING TWO MORE GOALS ONE MORE EACH FOR -C2ANN AND (YDE 4HE SCORE lNISHED AND THE ,ADIES DOMINANCE OF %S SEX CONTINUES EIGHT YEARS AND COUNTING 4HE MIXED GAME WAS NOT TAKEN IN THE SAME SPIRIT AS THE MORE COMPETITIVE GAMES BEFORE THEM "Y THIS POINT MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ALCOHOL HAD BEEN CONSUMED BY BOTH SIDES AND IT LED TO A FAIRLY ER
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ROR lLLED GAME 4HE MAIN HIGHLIGHTS WERE A WONDER GOAL FROM *AMES &ANGER WHO WENT THROUGH JUST ABOUT EVERY %S SEX PLAYER AND BEAT THE KEEPER WELL AND A NICE lNISH FROM ,ADIES #LUB #APTAIN %ILBHE 7HELAN AFTER AN INGENIOUS RE VERSE PASS FROM !LEX "ARTON ! SPECIAL MENTION MUST GO TO YOUNG 0HIL "EER WHO WAS LEADING THE CHARGE AGAINST HOCKEY PLAYERS BEING SOBER FROM AM IN THE MORNING
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Continued  success  for  Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  Rugby $AVINA 7ILLSON 3PORTS 2EPORTER 5%! 7OMEN S 2UGBY ENDED THE SEASON ON A HIGH WITH A TREMENDOUS VICTORY OVER !NGLIA 2USKIN AWAY LAST 7EDNESDAY 7ITH THEIR LAST "53! MATCH UNDER THEIR BELT THEY lNISH FOURTH IN THEIR TA BLE JUST MISSING THE OPPOR TUNITY TO REACH THE PLAY OFFS 7ITH A SHAKY START TO THE SEASON IN EARLY .OVEMBER THE TEAM HAVE MADE AMAZ ING PROGRESS 0LAYING THE HARDEST TEAM IN THEIR LEAGUE lRST 7ORCESTER THEY SUFFERED A CRUSHING DEFEAT )T WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH DIFFER ENT STORY IF THE TEAM PLAYED THEM NOW HOWEVER !NGLIA 2USKIN SEEMED DOOMED FOR DISASTER AS THEY WERE ONLY ABLE TO lELD lFTEEN PLAYERS 5%! PUT EVERYTHING INTO THEIR LAST MATCH INCLUD ING LOW HARD TACKLES THAT RE SULTED IN A NUMBER OF PLAYERS FROM !25 BEING CARTED OFF THE PITCH 0LAYING WITH THIR TEEN WOMEN MINUTES INTO THE GAME 5%! DECIDED TO LET
4ASHA 0ERCY AND @&ACE PLAY FOR !25 5%! S CONlDENCE AND EXPERIENCE MADE THIS GAME A WALKOVER !N AMAZ ING END TO THE SEASON 4HIS SEASON ALSO SAYS GOODBYE TO SOME DEDICATED TALENTED PLAYERS WHO HAVE MADE THE CLUB WHAT IT IS TO DAY #APTAIN -EGHAN $AILEY SAYS GOODBYE AFTER PLAYING RUGBY FOR THREE YEARS .EVER
PLAYING THE SPORT UNTIL SHE CAME TO 5%! FROM THE 3TATES HER SPEED AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE GAME HAVE MADE HER AN ASSET TO THE TEAM (ER PART NERSHIP WITH SCRUM HALF *O "RAMLEY HAS NOT GONE UNNO TICED AS THE BACKS DUO HOLD THE TEAM lRMLY TOGETHER *O "RAMLEY WHO HAS PLAYED HER BEST SEASON YET MOVING INTO THE IMPORTANT POSITION
OF SCRUMMIE AFTER LAST YEAR S LEGENDARY CAPTAIN *ULIE 0RICE ALSO DEPARTS 4HE SECOND ROW DUO OF !MY -AE !LLEN AND "ECCA *ENKINSON WILL BE SORELY MISSED AS BOTH GIRLS HAVE MADE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT IN THE SCRUMS !LONGSIDE THE TWO FORWARDS 0ROP 3OPHIE -C+IMM AND (OOKER -ARIA .OLAN WILL LEAVE THE TEAM
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BOTH COMING INTO DIFlCULT FRONT ROW POSITIONS AND COM PLETELY MAKING THEM THEIR OWN &LANKER *ESSIE 7ILLIS AND 7INGER ,OUISE $UNGATE MUST BE COMMENDED FOR THEIR DE VELOPMENT AND DEDICATION LEAVING THE TEAM EXPERIENCED AND CONlDENT PLAYERS %XCHANGE STUDENTS #AITLIN #ASSIE AND -AYA #HAN HAVE MADE HUGE DIFFERENCES TO THE
TEAM #ASSIE S ENTHUSIASM AND EXPERIENCE HAS MADE THE BACKS STRONGER #HAN S COM MITMENT AND STRENGTH IN THE FORWARDS IS TO BE COMMEND ED 4HREE CONSECUTIVE WINS WAS THE BEST WAY TO END THE SEASON !T $ERBY $AY WOMEN S RUGBY ENCOUNTERED THEIR TOUGHEST MATCH TO DATE WITH %SSEX BEING IN THE LEAGUE ABOVE (OWEVER THE FOCUSED AND DETERMINED 5%! BATTLED THROUGH THE TENSE AND CLOSE MATCH WINNING 5%! WERE lRST TO SCORE THROUGH 7INGER ,UCY "OWERS %S SEX RETALIATED AND THE SCORE WAS LEVEL AT HALF TIME )T WAS ANYBODY S GAME BUT #ENTRE #AITLIN #ASSIE KEPT MOTIVA TION PUMPING AND FOLLOWING TRIES RESULTED FROM NUMER OUS FORWARD PICK AND DRIVES 4HE UNITY THE TEAM DISPLAYED IN WORKING TOGETHER WAS IM MENSE 4HE MOST REWARDING WIN THIS YEAR OUT OF QUITE A FEW 5%! 7OMEN S 2UGBY CELEBRATED IN STYLE
Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  Tennis  and  Basketball  excel  in  Essex !NDREW *ONES 3PORTS 2EPORTER (AVING HAD A SUCCESSFUL SEA SON THAT INCLUDED A SECOND PLACE lNISH IN THEIR REGIONAL DIVISION AND SUBSEQUENT QUAL IlCATION FOR THE "53! SHIELD WHERE THEY REACHED THE QUARTER lNALS THE -EN S 4ENNIS TEAM TRAVELLED TO %SSEX CONlDENT OF REPEATING LAST YEAR S $ERBY $AY SUCCESS &OR SOME OF THE TEAM THIS YEAR S $ERBY $AY WAS TO BE THEIR LAST COMPETITIVE APPEARANCE FOR 5%! BEFORE THEY GRADUATE AND 5%! WERE DETERMINED TO ENSURE THAT THEY COULD GO OUT ON THE BACK OF $ERBY $AY SUC CESS 7ITH TWO POINTS AWARDED FOR EACH SINGLES VICTORY AND ONE POINT AWARDED FOR EACH DOUBLES VICTORY 5%! KNEW THAT JUST THREE SINGLES MATCHES WOULD BE ENOUGH TO SECURE VICTORY &RESHER .ATHAN "RISCOE PLAY ING AT NUMBER GOT THE TEAM OFF TO A mYING START WINNING AND THOROUGHLY OUTCLASS ING HIS OPPONENT (IS VICTORY CAME IN JUST MINUTES BEFORE THE REST OF THE TEAM HAD EVEN lNISHED THEIR lRST SETS *ACOB -ERRILL MAKING HIS LAST COM PETITIVE APPEARANCE FOR 5%!
PUT THE TEAM INTO A STRONGER POSITION AFTER GRINDING OUT A WELL DESERVED VICTORY #APTAIN !NDREW *ONES PLAYED THROUGH THE PAIN BARRIER TO ENSURE A 5%! VICTORY AFTER A VICTORY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN FAR MORE CONVINC ING $URING HIS MATCH *ONES NOT ONLY AGGRAVATED AN OLD ANKLE INJURY BUT ALSO BROKE THE STRINGS ON ALL THE RACKETS THAT HE HAD WITH HIM AND HAD TO PLAY THE MAJORITY OF THE SECOND SET WITH ONE BOR ROWED FROM *ACOB /UTGOING 0RESIDENT AND BIRTHDAY BOY *OE 4HOMSON COULD NOT QUITE SECURE A SINGLES WHITEWASH FOR 5%! AFTER SUCCUMBING TO HIS OPPONENT LEAVING 5%! WITH AN UNASSAILABLE LEAD )T WAS AT THIS POINT THAT %SSEX DECIDED THAT THEY DID NOT WANT TO PLAY THE NOW @DEAD DOUBLES RUBBERS AFTER THE MAULING THAT THEY HAD AL READY RECEIVED BY 5%! )T WAS THEREFORE SUGGESTED BY %SSEX THAT EACH TEAM WOULD CLAIM ONE POINT FROM THE UNPLAYED DOUBLES RUBBERS 4HIS ENSURED THAT lNAL SCORE WAS A CRUSH ING VICTORY FOR 5%! -EN S 4ENNIS OVER THEIR %SSEX COUN TERPARTS WHICH %SSEX WILL NOT FORGET OVER THE COMING YEAR
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$ISAPPOINTED FROM OUR DE FEAT IN 7OMEN S &OOTBALL WE WENT TO SUPPORT OUR GUYS IN "ASKETBALL ) HAVE ONLY EVER SEEN ONE "ASKETBALL MATCH BEFORE SO ) DID NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND THE RULES 7HY DO THEY GIVE AWAY SO MANY FREE BASKETS AND WHY DOES A GAME THAT IS ONLY MINUTES LAST TWO HOURS "Y THE LAST QUARTER ) LEARNT THE MAJORITY OF THE RULES FROM A FORMER BASKETBALL PLAYER &IVE MINUTES TO GO AND WE WERE WINNING BY AT LEAST POINTS ) BECAME VERY OPTI MISTIC h7E VE WON THISv ) STATED RATHER TRIUMPHANTLY hWHAT CAN HAPPEN IN lVE MINUTES v "UT WITH A MINUTE TO GO %SSEX WERE IN THE LEAD AGAIN WITH THE MOMENTUM lRMLY BEHIND THEM h7E VE LOST THISv ) EXCLAIMED PRETTY DOWNTRODDEN ! TIME OUT WAS CALLED SECONDS LEFT AND ) MEAN LITERALLY SECONDS LEFT 7E NEEDED ONE BASKET TO DRAW -Y HEART BEATING OUT OF MY CHEST ) WAS REALLY NERV OUS 4HE SIREN SOUNDED THE GAME RESTARTS 4HE 5%! MEN RACE THE BALL DOWN THE COURT
"!3+%4 )T IS A DRAW BUT HOLD ONx WE GET A FREE SHOT DO NOT ASK ME WHY SOME FOUL SOMEWHERE 4HE PRES SURE ON THE GUY S SHOULDERS AS HE COMPOSES HIMSELF TO TAKE THE FREE BASKET IT COULD ALL END NOWx VICTORIOUS (E SHOOTSx HE MISSES 4HEN THERE WERE ANOTHER NAIL BITING lVE MINUTES OF OVERTIME 4HE %SSEX BOYS RE GAINED THE LEAD AND HELD IT 4HE MASSIVE CROWD OF %SSEX S FANS WERE CELEBRATING VICTORY 7ITH SECONDS LEFT 5%! PULLED IT BACK LEVEL AGAIN 4HEN THEY WENT AHEAD WITH FOUR SEC ONDS LEFT %VERYONE HELD THEIR BREATHx %SSEX MADE ONE LAST SHOT THE BALL HUNGU IN THE AIR THE SIREN WENT TO END THE MATCH IF IT WENT IN THEY WON )T BOUNCED AROUND THE RING OF THE NET AND THEN OUT 4HE HANDFUL OF 5%! SUPPORTERS RAISED THE ROOF 7E WON ) ASKED MY !MERICAN FRIEND IF BASKETBALL IS NORMAL LY THIS EXCITING APPARENTLY NOT 4HANKS TO THE 5%! "AS KETBALL TEAM FOR A GREAT GAME AND NOT GIVING UP .EVER AGAIN WILL ) UNDERESTIMATE WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED IN JUST A FEW SECONDS