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"7&/6&4 "55"$, 5)3&"5&/4 456%&/5 4"'&5: 'RACE 3IMPSON &EATURES %DITOR 4WO 5%! STUDENTS WERE ATTACKED BY A GANG OF YOUTHS ON "LUEBELL 2OAD LAST 4UESDAY /LIVER "ELL A ND YEAR ,!7 STUDENT AND "EN *ONES A RD YEAR %.6 STUDENT WERE WALKING HOME FROM A HOUSE PARTY AT AM WHEN FOUR YOUTHS APPROACHED THEM AT THE JUNCTION TO 4HE !VENUES 4HE YOUTHS SHOUTED ABUSE AT THE STU DENTS AS THEY WALKED TOWARDS THE UNIVERSITY HOWEVER WHEN THE STU DENTS RETORTED THE SIZE OF THE GANG DOUBLED AND BECAME MORE AG GRESSIVE )T WAS THEN THAT THE PAIR THOUGHT THAT THEY SAW KNIVES IN THE YOUTHS WAISTBANDS AT WHICH POINT THEY BEGAN TO RUN AWAY FROM THE AG GRESSORS 7HEN THEY ARRIVED HOME CLOSE TO 5NIVERSITY $RIVE THEIR m ATMATE PHONED THE POLICE AND INFORMED THEM OF THE ATTACK AND THAT THE GROUP WERE STILL NEARBY 4HE STU DENTS WATCHED FROM THE WINDOW AS A POLICE VAN INTERCEPTED THE YOUTHS /LIVER "ELL SAID OF THE ATTACK h3INCE RETURNING TO .ORWICH AFTER THE SUM MER ) AM CONSTANTLY HEARING OF STREET ATTACKS AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR )T SEEMS THAT .ORWICH IS BECOMING A MUCH MORE VIOLENT CITY v 7HEN TOLD THE DETAILS OF THE INCIDENT ,ABOUR COUNCILLOR FOR 5NIVERSITY 7ARD "ERT "REMNER

SAID h) AM APPALLED BY ANY ATTACK ON ANYONE WHOEVER IT MAY BE AT WHATEVER TIME OR WHATEVER PLACE

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(OWEVER ) AM VERY PLEASED WITH POLICE RESPONSE TO ATTACKS AND THAT ALL INCIDENTS ARE TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY THE POLICE WHEREAS IN THE PAST THEY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN v #LLR "REMNER ALSO EMPHASISED THE IMPORTANCE OF REPORTING ATTACKS OR ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR WHETHER YOU CONSIDER IT MINOR OR MAJOR AS THE PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNT

%MIL !LLARD ABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND BECAUSE h7E NEED TO KNOW WHAT S GOING ON TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO IT v 3GT 'ERRY (ANLEY OF THE 5NIVER SITY %ATON .EIGHBOURHOOD 4EAM INFORMED #ONCRETE THAT THE YOUTHS WERE PICKED UP BY A LOCAL RESPONSE TEAM AND A SEARCH REVEALED NO OFFEN

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#HERIE "LAIR DECIDES NOT TO PAY A VISIT TO THE 7ALL OF $EBT

$AY TRIPPING AROUND THE .ORFOLK COAST

SIVE WEAPONS ALLEVIATING FEARS THAT THE GANG WAS ARMED WITH KNIVES 4HE YOUNG MEN LOCAL TO THE AREA

WERE CAUTIONED AND RETURNED HOME 3GT (ANLEY WISHED TO ASSURE 5%!

STUDENTS THAT VIOLENT CRIME IS TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY BY THE POLICE AND ANY REPORTED INCIDENTS ARE DEALT WITH THOROUGHLY (E ALSO COMMENDED THE CONTRIBUTION OF 5%! 5NION REP RESENTATIVES AT THE 3AFER .EIGHBOUR HOODS !CTION 0ANEL 3.!0 A PUB LIC MEETING IN WHICH THE POLICE AND OTHER l GUREHEADS OF THE COMMUNITY MEET TO DISCUSS WAYS OF MAKING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD SAFER #LLR "REMNER URGED ANYONE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR SAFETY IN THE %ARLHAM AREA TO ATTEND THE NEXT 3.!0 MEETING WHERE THEY WILL l ND OUT WHAT ACTION IS BEING TAKEN TO PREVENT FURTHER ATTACKS AND DISTURBANCES 4HIS PARTICULAR AREA NEAR THE CAMPUS WAS THE SCENE OF A SERIES OF RACIST ATTACKS LAST AUTUMN AND 4HE !VENUES HAS BECOME A HOTSPOT FOR ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR !LTHOUGH #LLR "REMNER SUGGESTED THAT A ##46 CAMERA HAD BEEN POSITIONED ON "LUEBELL 2OAD %ARLHAM #ONSTABU LARY HAVE CONl RMED THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO CAMERAS IN THIS AREA

AND 5%! DO NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO INSTALL SECURITY CAMERAS BEYOND CAMPUS BOUNDARIES 4HIS THE LATEST ATTACK TO TAKE PLACE IN THE PERIPHERY OF UNIVERSITY GROUNDS HAS REIGNITED CONCERNS OVER THE SAFETY OF STUDENTS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOODS SURROUND ING CAMPUS AND FUELLED THE DEBATE THAT ##46 SURVEILLANCE IS NOW A NE CESSITY ON "LUEBELL 2OAD

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WOUNDS TO THE HEAD AFTER BEING VIS CIOUSLY KICKED AND BEATEN BY THE ATTACKERS !FTER A THOROUGH SEARCH OF THE AREA IN AND AROUND THE VICINITY OF THE MURDER A DETAILED STUDY OF THE ##46 FOOTAGE AVAILABLE FROM THE #ITY #ENTER /PERATING 3YSTEM AND SCRUPULOUS QUESTIONING OF THE WIT NESSES POLICE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AR REST THREE MEN 4WO OF THE SUSPECTS

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@STUDENTIl CATION RESULTS IN STREETS WITH HIGH PROPORTIONS OF STUDENT TO NON STUDENT HOUSING AND OCCASIONALLY IN WHOLE STREETS INHABITED BY NO ONE BUT STUDENTS )N THE 'OLDEN 4RIANGLE THE AREA NEAR TO 5%! CAMPUS WHICH IS POPULAR WITH STUDENTS

STUDENT HOUSING MAKES UP AROUND OF THE TOTAL RESI DENTIAL HOUSING $ISTRIBUTION DATA FOR THE TOTAL IS NOT AVAILA BLE BUT THE DISTRIBUTION MAP OF HOUSES REGISTERED WITH THE 5%! 3TUDENT 5NION S (OME

2UN SERVICE UEASTUDENT COM ADVICE HOUSING WHICH HAS PROPERTIES CONTAINING AP PROXIMATELY BEDROOMS

SHOWS AN EVEN DISTRIBUTION

WITH TOP SCORING ROADS IN CLUDING &RIENDS 2OAD WITH TEN (OME 2UN STUDENT HOUS ES OUT OF AND 2OCHESTER #OURT WITH OUT OF HOUS ES OCCUPIED BY STUDENTS BUT THOSE BEING MASS PURCHASED

BY ONE AGENT #AROLINE &LINT WHO STUD IED &ILM 3TUDIES HERE AT 5%!

IN THE THE EARLY S SAID h)T IS NOT ACCEPTABLE THAT CURRENT RENTAL PRACTICES ALLOW UN PLANNED STUDENT ENCLAVES TO EVOLVE TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE LEFT LIV ING AS GHOST TOWNS FOLLOWING THE SUMMER STUDENT EXODUS ; = ) ALSO WANT TO CONSIDER FURTHER HOW THE PLANNING PROPOSALS MIGHT HELP COUN CILS CHANGE TERM TIME ONLY TOWNS INTO PROPERLY PLANNED TOWNS THAT BLEND THE STUDENT POPULATIONS INTO WELL MIXED NEIGHBOURHOODS THAT ARE ALIVE ALL YEAR ROUND v &LINT S REPORT WAS COM MISSIONED BECAUSE OF A HIGH NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS TO GOVERNMENT WITH THE .A TIONAL (-/ ,OBBY MADE UP OF RESIDENTS GROUPS FROM ,EEDS AND .OTTINGHAM EX ERTING THE MOST PRESSURE 4HE REPORT S INTERVIEWEES WERE LOCAL AUTHORITIES UNIVERSI

TIES HOUSING PROVIDERS THE .ATIONAL (-/ ,OBBY AND THE $EPARTMENT OF %NVIRON MENT OF .ORTHERN )RELAND

WHO PROVIDED DATA FROM THEIR RESPONSE TO @STUDENTIl CATION AROUND 1UEENS 5NIVERISTY

"ELFAST /NE STUDENT UNION IS LISTED AS BEING INTERVIEWED UNDER THE @5NIVERSITIES HEADING BUT THERE IS NO IN DICATION EITHER IN THE LIST OF ACKNOWLEDGED INTERVIEWEES OR ANYWHERE IN THE REPORT IT SELF THAT STUDENTS OR MIGRANT WORKERS WHO ARE THE OTHER hSOCIAL CLASSv WHICH HAS OCCAI SIONED A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF (-/S IN CERTAIN AREAS HAVE BEEN CONSULTED EITHER FOR THEIR VIEW OF THE IMPACT OF (-/S ON LOCAL COMMUNI TIES OR OF THE VALIDITY OF THE REPORT S SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS 4HIS ONE SIDEDNESS IS LITTLE AL LEVIATED BY THE BRIEF MENTIONS MADE OF THE l NANCIAL CULTUR AL AND REGENERATIVE EFFECTS OF

A HIGH PROPORTION OF STUDENTS RESIDENT IN A COMMUNITY AND IS NO DOUBT DUE TO THE INm U ENCE OF THE .ATIONAL ,OBBY OF (-/S WHICH HAS LOBBIED

THE GOVERNMENT TO PARTICULAR EFFECT IN THE VACUUM LEFT BY THE ABSENCE OF AN OPPOSITE PRESSURE GROUP 4HE REPORT PROPOSES THREE DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE SOLUTIONS TO DEAL WITH UNMANAGED (-/ DISTRIBUTION 4HE l RST IS TO DO NOTHING AND TO AL LOW FACTORS SUCH AS INCREASED NUMBERS OF PURPOSE BUILT RESIDENTIAL HALLS AND OF LOCAL LY BASED STUDENTS TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE ON THE PRIVATE RENTAL MARKET 4HE SECOND IS TO ENCOURAGE UNIVERSITIES AND STUDENT UNIONS TO ALLEVI ATE CONm ICT BY MAKING SECU RITY PERSONNEL ON CALL IN THE COMMUNITY IN THE INSTANCE OF STUDENT ANTI SOCIAL BEHAV IOUR OR RUNNING LANDLORD ACCREDITATION SCHEMES SUCH AS 55%!3 (OME 2UN 4HE THIRD POSSIBILITY IS TO WIDEN THE LEGAL DEl NITION OF @(-/ CURRENTLY DEl NED AS HAVING OVER THREE STORIES AND CON TAINING A MINIMUM OF SIX UNRELATED PEOPLE TO INCLUDE TWO STORY HOUSES WITH A LOWER NUMBER OF RESIDENTS ALSO TO INCREASE THE POWERS OF LO CAL COUNCILS TO WITHHOLD THE PLANNING PERMISSION NECES SARY TO CHANGE AN ORDINARY DWELLING TO AN (-/ )T COULD ALSO INVOLVE IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES SUCH AS AN hAREA OF RESTRAINT v WHICH MEANS BAN NING ANY FURTHER (-/S IN A CERTAIN AREA OR A hTHRESHOLD APPROACH v WHICH WOULD IM POSE A BLANKET CEILING OF A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF (-/S IN A GIVEN AREA 7HICH OPTION THE GOV ERNMENT WILL CHOOSE IF ANY IS NOT YET APPARENT BUT WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY DEPEND ON WHETHER A GROUP REPRESENTING THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS SUCH AS .53 WADES INTO THIS HIGHLY BIASED DEBATE *UST EIGHT DAYS AFTER RE LEASING THE REPORT &LINT LOST HER JOB AS (OUSING -INISTER SHE NOW HAS THE MUCH LESS ILLUSTRIOUS POSITION OF -INIS TER FOR %UROPE

#/.4).5%$ &2/- 0!'% AND DEVASTATED FAMILY hWE WILL NEVER COMPREHEND IT OR TRULY RE COVER FROM THIS v -R -C'ARAHAN S COUSIN ALSO SUFFERED INJURIES AND A BOUNCER FROM THE CLUB 3PEAR MINT 2HINO $ARRYL ,AWTON

PUT HIMSELF AT DANGER WHEN TRY ING TO HELP AS WELL 4HESE MEN

ALONG WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO

WERE AROUND AT THE TIME AND HAVE COME FORWARD ARE KEY WIT NESSES .ORWICH COUNCILLOR 2UPERT 2EAD EXPRESSED HIS ANGER AND SORROW AT THE MURDER AND AFTER CALLING OUR SOCIETY SELl SH AND MATERIALISTIC MADE AN APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS SAYING WE SHOULD hLOOK AT HOW TO CHANGE OUR SO CIETY ITSELF SO THAT EVENTS LIKE THIS NO LONGER BLIGHT THE TOWNS AND

STREETS OF %AST !NGLIAv 4HIS MURDER REMINDS US OF THE SERIES OF TRAGIC EVENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE ACROSS THE 5+ IN THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS

SHOWING THE WORRYINGLY INCREAS ING VIOLENCE AMONG TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS 2EGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT THIS HAPPENED RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TOWN QUITE NEAR THE POLICE STATION $ET 3UP #HRIS (OBLEY INSISTS THAT

.ORWICH IS A SAFE TOWN AND HE DOES NOT WANT PEOPLE TO THINK THAT THIS IS A REGULAR OCCURRENCE 4HE 0OLICE ARE URGING ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN OR HEARD ANYTHING TO COME AND GIVE A STATEMENT )F YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION THAT YOU THINK WOULD HELP CONTACT .ORFOLK POLICE S MAJOR INVESTI GATIONS TEAM ON OR #RIMESTOPPERS ANONYMOUSLY ON

@3TUDENTIl CATION MEANING THE HIGH CONCENTRATION OF STUDENT HOUSING AROUND CAM PUSES IN UNIVERSITY TOWNS

CAME UNDER l RE IN A REPORT BY (OUSING AND 0LANNING -IN ISTER #AROLINE &LINT ON TH 3EPTEMBER 4HIS CONCENTRA TION OF (OUSES IN -ULTIPLE /CCUPATION (-/S MEAN ING OCCUPIED BY UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS APPARENTLY RE SULTS IN UNTIDY STREETS AND THE hRESTRUCTURING OF RETAIL ;AND= COMMERCIAL SERVICES ; = TO SUIT THE LIFESTYLES OF THE PREDOMINANT POPULATION v )N OTHER WORDS A PROLIFERA TION OF CLUBS AND TAKE AWAY RESTAURANTS AT THE EXPENSE OF @MORE USEFUL SHOPS 4HE REPORT ALSO CLAIMS THAT SINCE MANY STUDENTS ARE RESIDENT ONLY IN TERM TIME AREAS WITH MANY STUDENT RENTED (-/S ARE LEFT DESERTED IN HOLIDAYS

AND THIS RESULTS NOT ONLY IN hGHOST TOWNSv BUT ALSO BANK RUPTS LOCAL BUSINESSES WHICH RELY ON THEIR CUSTOM 4HE REPORT ARGUES THAT

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/N A RECENT VISIT TO 5%!

FORMER 0RIME -INISTER S WIFE #HERIE "LAIR NEGLECTED VISIT ING THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TU DENTS hWALL OF DEBTv 4HE WALL IS PART OF THE 5NION S ON GOING CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE hINEQUALITYv OF STUDENT TUITION FEES AND HAS OVER TAGS FROM STUDENTS RECORDING THEIR ESTIMATED DEBT BY THE

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END OF THEIR COURSE 4HE DEBT STUDENTS RECORDED HAVE GONE UP TO AS HIGH AS a

6ISITING THE 5%! TO READ FROM AND DISCUSS HER NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS PART OF THE ,ITERARY &ESTIVAL -RS "LAIR DE CLINED THE INVITATION TO VISIT THE WALL AND TO ADD HER CHIL DREN S ESTIMATED DEBT TO THE WALL &INANCE /Fl CER -ARTIN *OPP WISHED TO USE THE BAR RISTER S POSITIVE SOCIAL REPU

TATION TO HIGHLIGHT THE DEBT ISSUE !S WELL AS RECORDING %UAN S ESTIMATED DEBT -RS "LAIR S l RST SON HE WISHED FOR HER TO RECORD THE DEBT OF HER YOUNGEST CHILD ,EO TO STARKLY ILLUSTRATE THE LARGE DIF FERENCE BETWEEN DEBT IF TUI TION FEES ARE TO RISE OR EVEN BECOME UNCAPPED AS SOME INm UENTIAL UNIVERSITY CHAN CELLORS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN SUGGESTING 2EGIONAL NEWS

PROGRAMME ""# ,OOK %AST REPORTED ON THE 5NION S WALL OF DEBT THE SAME NIGHT #HERIE "LAIR VISITED THE UNIVERSITY -RS "LAIR DEFENDED THE CURRENT STATE OF TUITION FEES AT UNIVERSITIES A POLICY INTRO DUCED BY HER HUSBAND DUR ING HIS PREMIERSHIP WHICH ABOLISHED FREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND INTRODUCED THE a AND a FEE IN AND RESPECTIVELY

3HE ALSO SAID IN AN INTER VIEW WITH ""# .ORFOLK THAT hSTUDENTS BENEl T FROM THEIR UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONv AND PRAISED THE GRADUATED SYSTEM OF REPAYING LOANS DESPITE AS THE EFFORTS OF THE 5NION TRY TO HIGHLIGHT THE LARGE VARIANCE OF STARTING SALARIES DEPEND ING ON THE ACADEMIC STUDY

WHICH MAY MAKE THE BURDEN OF DEBT GREATER FOR SOME 2OWENA "ODDINGTON THE

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-ARK #HENG 2EPORTER 5%! S SUMMER BUILDING PROJECTS SUFFERED MORE SET BACKS AS THE NEW ROUNDABOUT ON CAMPUS WAS FENCED OFF IN ORDER TO PREVENT FURTHER VANDALISM 4HE RECENTLY CON STRUCTED ROUNDABOUT SITUATED

BY THE 5%! -EDICAL #ENTRE ON 5NIVERSITY $RIVE WHICH ALLOWED ACCESS TO THE BRAND NEW ).4/ BUILDING AND THE

-EDICAL #ENTRE FROM "LUE BELL 2OAD HAS RECENTLY FALLEN VICTIM TO ITS OWN DESIGN m AW 4HE WEAK l XINGS THAT HELD THE LETTERS SPELLING THE NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY ON THE SIDE OF THE ROUNDABOUT QUICKLY CAUSED THEM TO BECOME AN EXCEPTIONALLY DESIRABLE SOU VENIR FOR DRUNKS AND MISCRE ANTS WHILST THE ANGLE OF THE SIDES THEMSELVES CAUSED THE ROUNDABOUT TO BECOME A HAVEN FOR LOCAL THRILL SEEKERS

AND EXTREME SPORTS ENTHUSI ASTS HOPING TO USE ITS SLOPED CONCRETE SIDES AS MAKESHIFT

i/P NPSF UIBO BO FZFTPSFw RAMPS 4HIS WAS IN ITSELF A HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARD AS THE "-8ERS PERFORMED JUMPS OFF THE TOP OF THE ROUNDABOUT ONTO THE ROAD !FTER JUST TWO WEEKS OF TERM TIME THE HUMBLE

MOUND OF EARTH AND CONCRETE HAD FALLEN INTO A STATE OF DIS REPAIR AND WAS SURROUNDED

BY A CHAIN LINK SECURITY FENCE IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO WARD OFF THE GANGS OF "-8 ERS WHO HAD BEEN USING IT AS THEIR PERSONAL PLAYGROUND /NE PASSERBY DESCRIBED IT AS hNO MORE THAN AN EYESORE v WHILST ONE STUDENT SAID IT WAS hA SHAME TO SEE IT LIKE THIS WHEN IT COULD POTENTIALLY BE AN ATTRACTIVE FEATURE WELCOM

ING PEOPLE ON TO CAMPUSv "EING LOCATED SO CLOSE TO THE ENTRANCE OF THE UNIVERSITY

THE ROUNDABOUT WILL BE ONE OF THE l RST LANDMARKS THAT VISITORS SEE WHEN ARRIVING AT THE UNIVERSITY AND AS SUCH SHOULD BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PROFESSIONALISM AND EL EGANCE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT AND BOLD ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF THE CAMPUS 4HE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF STUDENTS IS THAT IN ITS CURRENT STATE THE ROUND ABOUT IS UNABLE TO LIVE UP TO THIS NOBLE TASK 7HEN #ONCRETE VISITED THE 5%! %STATES AND $EVEL OPMENT DEPARTMENT THEY WERE UNABLE TO COMMENT ABOUT THEIR PLANS AT THIS TIME BUT WERE QUICK TO MENTION THAT THEY WERE WELL AWARE OF THE SITUATION AND READY TO l GHT BACK AGAINST THE VANDAL ISM WITH THE HELP OF 5%! 3E CURITY 7HETHER THIS WILL IN VOLVE AMENDING THEIR DESIGN

IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF THE LETTER l XINGS OR ADDING A FEATURE TO THE BARREN LAND ON TOP OF THE ROUNDABOUT IS AS YET UNKNOWN BUT ONE THING IS CLEAR THIS ISN T THE END OF THE ROAD YET

5NION S #OMMUNICATION /F l CER SAID IT WAS UNFORTUNATE THAT A BARRISTER WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD ON SOCIAL ISSUES DECLINED TO VISIT THE WALL 3HE CONTINUED h/UR HOPE WAS THAT SHE WOULD BE INTER ESTED IN THE BARRIERS THAT STU DENTS FACE TO ENTER HIGHER ED UCATION AND THAT SHE WOULD AGREE THAT THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS GROSSLY UNFAIR AND UNSUS TAINABLE v

$BSCPO $VUUFST 4HREE STUDENT MOVIE STARS WILL WALK ALONG A CARPET OF REAL TURF AT 5%! THIS WEEK AS THEY ATTEND THE PREMIER OF THE #ARBON #UTTERS DOCU MENTARY 4HE l LM RECORDS THE EF FORTS OF YEAR IN INDUSTRY STU DENTS !IMEE %THERIDGE *ASON 'ALLOWAY AND !LISON -ORRIS

AS THEY AUDIT AND REDUCE THE CARBON FOOTPRINTS OF THREE .ORWICH COMPANIES USING THE KNOWLEDGE GAINED FROM THEIR %NVIRONMENTAL 3CIENCES DEGREES 4HE EVENT IS HOSTED BY #ARBON #ONNECTIONS A LOW CARBON INVESTMENT BODY BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY AND WILL BE HELD AT THE 5%! 3TU DIO ON 7EDNESDAY TH /CTO BER #ARBON #ONNECTIONS -ARKETING -ANAGER -ATT $O LAN COMMENTED h4HE #AR BON #UTTERS DOCUMENTARY IS AN EXCELLENT TOOL FOR COMPA NIES WISHING TO REDUCE THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINTv 4ICKETS ARE FREE BUT MUST BE RESERVED IN ADVANCE AND ANYONE WISHING TO ATTEND SHOULD CONTACT -ATT $OLAN AT M DOLAN UEA AC UK OR ON

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*ACK #LARK .EWS %DITOR $URING THE SUMMER 5%! CAR RIED OUT A MAJOR UPGRADE ON THE CAMPUS ##46 NETWORK 4HE UPGRADE SAW THE ADDI TION OF CAMERAS DISPERSED AROUND CAMPUS !FTER THE UP GRADE THE ONLY PLACES WHERE SURVEILLANCE IS NOT YET TO THE LEVEL THAT 5%! S SECURITY TEAM WANT IT ARE AROUND %ARL HAM (ALL AND THE 5NIVERSITY 6ILLAGE 4HE UPGRADE BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CAMERAS THROUGHOUT CAMPUS UP TO

WITH ALMOST TOTAL SUR VEILLANCE NOW POSSIBLE )T IS THE HOPE OF THE SECURITY TEAM THAT THE PRESENCE OF THE CAM ERAS WILL DETER CRIME PRANKS AND IMPROPER BEHAVIOUR 4HE CAMERAS HAVE PROVED HELP FUL IN DEALING WITH &RESHERS PRANKS ,AST YEAR 3ECURITY

THROUGH THE ##46 SYSTEM

SUCCESSFULLY TRACKED DOWN A

STUDENT WHO HAD RUN INTO A UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE SET OFF THE lRE ALARM AND RUN OUT

LEAVING THE hRIVALv mAT TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES 3OME STUDENTS UNDERSTANDABLY FEEL AS THOUGH THE CAMERAS ARE AN INTRUSION ON THEIR PRIVACY

THOUGH -C#ORMACK HEAD OF 3ECURITY HAS STRESSED THAT hWE VE GOT A POLICY OF NOT IN TRUDING ON STUDENTS PRIVATE LIVES v 4HE COST OF THE RElT WAS a ON TOP OF 3ECURITY S ONGOING ANNUAL BUDGET 4HE SYSTEM NOW IS ENTIRELY DIGIT AL AND THE 3ECURITY TEAM HAS GONE FROM HAVING A ##46 ROOM CONTAINING ANA LOGUE 46 DISPLAYS PROPRIETY MULTIPLEXERS AND VIDEO RE CORDERS TO A ROOM CONTAIN ING A SIMPLY ARRAY OF SWANKY COMPUTER MONITORS 4HE NEW ROOM IS AN IMPROVEMENT AS THE HEAT GENERATED BY THE OLD ANALOGUE SYSTEM COULD MEAN THAT THE ROOM n EVEN WITH AIR

CONDITIONS n REACHED TEM PERATURES OF DEGREES #EL SIUS DURING THE SUMMER 4HE ##46 FOOTAGE IS STREAMED FROM THREE TERABYTE (0 SERVERS MEANING THAT THE SYSTEM HAS GREAT REDUNDANCY AND IF ONE OR EVEN TWO SERV ERS FAIL THEN 3ECURITY NEED NOT WORRY AS THE OTHER WILL SIMPLY STEP IN AND TAKE THE LOAD 4HE MAJORITY OF THE CAM ERAS THAT HAVE BEEN lTTED ARE KNOWN AS DOME CAMERAS $OME CAMERAS HAVE A DEGREE ROTATION AND POSSESS A KEY ADVANTAGE IN THAT THEIR BLACK GLASS MEANS THAT INDI VIDUALS MAY NOT KNOW THAT THE LENS IS POINTED AT THEM 3ECURITY ALSO PREFER THEM

lNDING THAT THEY LOOK LESS LIKE CAMERAS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND THEREFORE BLEND IN BETTER WITH THEIR SURROUND INGS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO BE UNAWARE OF THEM 3URVEILLANCE OF THE CAM

PUS IS NOT TOTAL AS -C#ORMACK POINTS OUT THAT 5%! S DISTINC TIVE ARCHITECTURE MEANS THAT THERE ARE NUMEROUS ALLEYS

CREVICES LEDGES AND RECESSED AREAS THAT CANNOT FRUITFULLY BE COVERED BY ##46 WHILE

i*U JT UIF IPQF UIBU UIF QSFTFODF PG UIF DBNFSBT XJMM EFUFS DSJNF QSBOLT BOE JNQSPQFS CFIBWJPVSw BEYOND THE BUILDINGS THERE IS THE 3ECURITY HEADACHE OF THE 5%! "ROAD WHICH 3ECURITY HAVE A POLICY OF NOT INSTALL ING CAMERAS ON DUE TO THEM BEING UNSIGHTLY AND BECAUSE OF THE LARGE AMOUNT NEEDED

TO FRUITFULLY SURVEY OUTSIDE THE MAIN THOROUGHFARES hTHE BROADS WOULD NEED IN EXCESS OF CAMERAS v 4HE EXPENSE TO SURVEY THE ENTIRE CAMPUS IS ALSO PROHIBITIVE

WITH -C#ORMACK RECKONING THAT hYOU D BE TALKING ABOUT THOUSANDS OF CAMERAS TO SEE EVERYTHING v #ONCRETE WAS ALLOWED INTO THE CENTRAL ##46 CONTROL ROOM LOCATED IN THE %STATES AND 0LANNING BUILDING AND HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THE NEW SYSTEM IN ACTION )NDIVIDUAL CAMERAS CAN BE SELECTED FROM A SIMPLE EASY TO USE COMPU TER INTERFACE AND THEN THEIR TILT ROTATION AND ZOOM LEVEL CAN BE MANIPULATED USING EI THER MOUSE OR JOYSTICK hLIKE A COMPUTER GAME v AS ONE OF THE 3ECURITY TEAM OBSERVED 4HE LATEST CAMERAS POSSESS A 8 OPTICAL ZOOM WHICH MEANS THAT #ONCRETE WAS ABLE TO WATCH AS ONE OF THE 3ECURITY TEAM MANIPULATED A

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IN SIMPLER TERMS #ONCRETE WAS ABLE TO VIEW THE LINES UN DER ONE STUDENTS EYES USING A CAMERA THAT WAS PLACED METRES AWAY FROM THEM )N AN INFORMAL POLL AMONG STUDENTS #ONCRETE LEARNT THAT BY AND LARGE PEO PLE APPROVE OF SECURITY CAM ERAS ON CAMPUS THOUGH THEIR MAIN RESERVATION IS THAT IF THE CAMERAS AREN T EFFECTIVE WHEN IT COMES TO PROVIDING ACCEPTABLE )$ FOR POLICE USE

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HAVE TRIUMPHANTLY COMPLET ED THE "ERLIN -ARATHON FOR CHARITY 4HE SUCCESS OF THE GROUP S PREVIOUS MARATHON IN "ARCELONA PROMPTED THE DECISION TO RUN THE "ERLIN MARATHON 4HE GROUP COLLECTIVELY CHOSE TO RAISE MONEY IN AID OF THE WELL ESTABLISHED #HIL DREN WITH ,EUKAEMIA CHARITY

AFTER WHICH CONCENTRATION WAS FOCUSED ON THE RUN ITSELF

4HE GROUP TRAINED RIGOROUSLY AND OFTEN INDEPENDENTLY OVER THE SUMMER BUT MAIN TAINED A STRONG TEAM SPIRIT ON THE DAY ITSELF %ACH STUDENT PAID FOR THEIR OWN mIGHT TO ENSURE MAXIMUM PROCEEDS TO CHARITY 4HE MARATHON TOOK PLACE ON THE TH 3EPTEMBER AND SOME OF BEST RUNNERS IN THE WORLD COMPETED IN IT 7EAR ING COLOURFUL @-R -EN AND @,ITTLE -ISS DECORATED SHIRTS WITH THE CHARITY NAME THE GROUP RAN THE GRUELLING MILE COURSE THROUGH THE CAPI

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5SBHJD %FBUI 0VUTJEF )PTQJUBM ,AUREN 3OUTH 3AM #LARK ! YEAR OLD MAN DIED LAST WEEK AT PM ON 7EDNESDAY TH 3EPTEM BER DUE TO WHAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY THE POLICE AS A hFATAL ROAD TRAFlC COLLI SION v 4HE MAN WHO IS YET TO BE FORMALLY IDENTIlED

SUSTAINED FATAL INJURIES AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE 4HE DRIVER OF THE BUS WAS TREATED FOR SHOCK IN THE HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY AFTER WARDS 4HE COLLISION THE CAUSE OF WHICH WILL BE BE DETER

MINED FOLLOWING A CORONER S INQUEST TOOK PLACE AT THE 0LAZA BY /UTPATIENTS %AST

NEXT TO THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE .ORFOLK AND .ORWICH 5NIVERSITY (OSPITAL 2UMOURS HAVE CIRCULATED AS TO WHETHER THE MAN WAS BEING TREATED FOR A MENTAL DISORDER AT THE HOSPITAL BUT WHETHER THIS MAY HAVE LED TO THE INCIDENT IS AS YET UNCON lRMED 4HE MAN IS THOUGHT TO BE ORIGINALLY FROM -AN CHESTER AND NOT TO HAVE ANY RELATIVES IN THE AREA %FFORTS TO TRACE HIS NEXT OF KIN ARE ONGOING AND POLICE STATE THAT

THEY WILL ONLY RELEASE MORE DETAILS AFTER lRST INFORMING THE FAMILY 4HE POLICE ARE INTERESTED IN WITNESSES OF EVENTS PRIOR TO THE COLLISION AND OF ANY POTENTIAL SIGHTINGS OF THE VICTIM 0# -ICHAEL 0EARCE WOULD BE APPRECIATIVE OF ANY INFORMATION AND CAN BE CONTACTED AT THE 2OAD 0OLIC ING 5NIT 7YMONDHAM 4HE HOSPITAL HAS PASSED ON ITS CONDOLENCES TO ALL THOSE AF FECTED IN THE INCIDENT AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE MATTER IS NOW LEFT FOR THE POLICE TO PURSUE

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A ND YEAR -ED STUDENT SAID THE GROUP WAS THANKFUL FOR mAT ROADS AND GOOD WEATHER

BUT NEVERTHELESS hIT WAS STILL QUITE PAINFUL v 4HROUGH THE COMBINED HARD WORK OF THE GROUP IN PARTICULAR TH YEAR STUDENTS *UDY (ERBERT AND -ICHELLE #AREY THE GROUP HAS SO FAR

RAISED NEARLY a FOR THE CAUSE &URTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS THE CHARITY CAN BE MADE AT WWW BMYCHAR ITY COM V UEAMEDICSBERLIN MARATHON

$ZDMF Ç°FGU /PJTF %JTUVSCBODF 5NIVERSITY AND %ATON 3.4 HAVE RECENTLY RECEIVED A NUMBER OF NOISE COMPLAINTS SINCE THE RETURN OF STUDENTS TO THE 5%! 7HILST IT IS UN DERSTOOD THAT THIS IS THE lRST TIME MANY PEOPLE WILL HAVE LIVED AWAY FROM HOME AND MOST WILL WANT TO GO OUT AND ENJOY THEMSELVES PLEASE BEAR IN MIND LOCAL RESIDENTS WHEN RETURNING HOME LATE

FROM THE CITY OR OTHER STU DENT RESIDENCES OFF CAMPUS 3TUDENTS ARE ALSO ADVISED TO PURCHASE A GOOD QUAL ITY @D LOCK TO SECURE THEIR PEDAL CYCLES 5NFORTUNATELY THERE HAVE BEEN AN INCREAS ING NUMBER OF BICYCLE THEFTS SINCE THE START OF THIS ACA DEMIC YEAR 3OME BICYCLES HAVE ALREADY BEEN CODED WITH A 56 MARKER BUT THERE

ARE STILL MANY THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE PO LICE 0#3/ !NDY -ASON WILL BE MARKING CYCLES AT HIS SUR GERY IN 4HE (IVE BETWEEN AND PM ON THE lRST 7EDNESDAY OF THE MONTH AS WELL AS FROM THE SECURITY LODGE 0OSTERS WILL ALSO BE PUT AROUND HALLS OF RESIDENCE TO REMIND STUDENTS

6OJPO &MFDUJPOT 0OSITIONS WITHIN THE 5NION %XECUTIVE ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR 5%! STUDENTS TO RUN FOR 4HE POSITIONS OF 3PORTS /F lCER TWO &ACULTY #ONVENORS AND SEVEN .53 %XTRAORDINARY #ONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES ARE ALL OPEN FOR ANYONE WHO

WISHES TO STAND FOR ELECTION 2UNNING FOR AN EXEC POSITION IS A VALUABLE EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHING AND DEVELOPING NEW SKILLS AS WELL AS MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD %LECTIONS ARE TO TAKE PLACE IN WEEK AND NOMINATION

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LONG TERM USERS OF IN HALERS TO AID CHRONIC PULMO NARY DISEASE #/0$ FOUND THAT ONE IN COULD BE SUS CEPTIBLE TO INCREASED CHANCES OF A STROKE HEART ATTACK OR CARDIOVASCULAR DEATH #/0$

INCLUDES CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND EMPHYSEMA THAT AFFECTS HEAVY SMOKERS !MY 7INE HOUSE ACCORDING TO TABLOID PRESS IS AMONGST THE SUFFER ERS 4HE STUDY WAS PROMPTED

BY MANUFACTURER WARNINGS EARLIER THIS YEAR ALONG WITH PREDICTIONS THAT BY #/0$ WILL BE THE WORLD S lFTH LARGEST KILLER ,OKE S lNDINGS SUGGESTED THAT ANTICHOLINERGIC INHALERS

WHICH ARE PRESCRIBED TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION PEOPLE IN %NGLAND LAST YEAR COULD CON

TAIN DANGEROUS SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVISES ALTERNATE PRE SCRIPTIONS (E COMMENTED hSADLY MANY PATIENTS CHOSE TO FACE THE RELATIVELY SMALL RISK OF HEART TROUBLE IN ORDER TO FELL LESS BREATHLESS v $ESPITE THE GRAVE lND INGS OF THE REPORT -ANAGER OF !STHMA 5+ %LAINE 6ICK ERS STRESSES THAT THE SAMPLE USED FOR THE RESEARCH WERE HEAVY SMOKERS AND hUNLIKE MOST PEOPLE WITH ASTHMA

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! RECENT STUDY CARRIED OUT BY 5%! SCIENTISTS HAS REVEALED THAT THE LEVELS OF #/ EMIS SIONS FROM BURNING FOSSIL FU ELS AND CEMENT MANUFACTUR ING ARE STILL ON THE INCREASE

DESPITE INTERNATIONAL AGREE MENTS TO LIMIT THE EMISSION OF GREENHOUSE GASES 4HE PATTERN OF ANNUAL #/ EMISSIONS HAS CHANGED NOTICEABLY SINCE THE DRAFT ING OF THE 5NITED .ATIONS &RAMEWORK #ONVENTION ON #LIMATE #HANGE IN n MORE THAN HALF OF GLOBAL EMISSIONS ARE NOW FROM THE APPARENT @DEVELOPING COUN TRIES &ORESTS AND OCEANS HAVE ABSORBED ONLY OF #/ SINCE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT ABSORBED BETWEEN AND 0ROFESSOR #ORINNE ,E 1UÏRÏ FROM "RITISH !NTARC TIC 3URVEY AND 5%!

A LEAD ING EXPERT INVOLVED IN THE INTERNATIONAL 'LOBAL #ARBON 0ROJECT SAYS THAT h4HE RESULTS WERE NOT AS WE EXPECTED 4HE #/ EMISSIONS ARE HIGHER

THAN THE EMISSIONS SCENARIOS USED BY THE )0## )NTERGOV ERNMENTAL 0ANEL FOR #LIMATE #HANGE TO PROJECT CLIMATE CHANGE THIS CENTURY 4HE GLO BAL ECONOMY CONTINUES TO DEPEND ON FOSSIL FUELS /VER

THE PAST YEARS WE VE OBSERVED THE INCREASED #/ CONTRIBUTION MADE BY DE VELOPING COUNTRIES AS THEIR ECONOMIES GROW #/ IN OUR ATMOSPHERE IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE v

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DOLLAR RUPTURING GLOBAL l NANCE AND SENDING SHOCKWAVES OF INTER NATIONAL CURRENCY DECLINE )N AN ACT -R $ARLING HAS DESCRIBED AS hAMBITIOUS SELF DEFENSEv IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THE VALUE OF THE POUND

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WHAT IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE GREATEST PRACTICAL JOKES OF OUR GEN ERATION HE QUIPPED h)T DEl NITELY TOOK A LOT OF WORK WE HAD SPACE HEATERS UP GLACIERS AND SCATTERED ACROSS THE ARCTIC MELTING THE ICE WE EVEN HAD TEAMS OF PEOPLE HID DEN IN WAREHOUSES BREATHING REALLY HEAVILY TO GENERATE MORE #/ v )N ADDITION TO THE OBVIOUS TECH NICAL DIFl CULTIES INVOLVED IT WAS ALSO NECESSARY TO INCLUDE HUNDREDS OF SCIENTISTS IN THE PLOY AND IN THE LATER STAGES OF THE PROJECT INCLUDED HIS WELL WORN FORMULA OF DUPING CELEBRITIES AND POLITICIANS INTO EN DORSING l CTITIOUS CAUSES !L 'ORE AND ,EONARDO $I#APRIO HAVE SO FAR BEEN UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT -ORRIS IS NO STRANGER TO CON TROVERSY AND THIS LATEST REVELATION IS SURE TO EVOKE STRONG REACTIONS FROM HIS CRITICS 7HEN QUESTIONED

ON HIS MOTIVATION BEHIND THIS AU DACIOUS ACT HE RESPONDED h)F YOU MAKE A JOKE THAT IS NORMALLY OUT OF BOUNDS THEN YOU MIGHT l ND SOMETHING OUT ABOUT PEOPLE ONE DAY ) WAS MESSED UP TO THE EYEBALLS WHEN IT HIT ME WHAT COULD BE BIG GER THAN INVENTING A GLOBAL CATAS TROPHE v !LAN 3MITHEE

AGAINST SCRUTINY v %CONOMISTS CALL THE MOVE NOT REGULATORY BUT IN STEAD hREGU LATERAL v AS TERMED BY !NDREW -OTION %NGLAND S CURRENT POET LAUREATE h4HE POINT IS WE RE DOING SOMETHING v ADDED -R $AR LING h7E DON T HAVE MANY OPTIONS v -R "ROWN EXPLAINED IN A RECENT STATEMENT h7HEN SOMETHING OF A l NANCIAL NATURE THREATENS THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE "RITISH PEOPLEv IN THIS CASE THE RISE IN 3AINSBURY S PRIC ES hWE HAVE FEW REALISTIC OPTIONS

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SIDERED FURTHER COLONIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF WHAT -R "ROWN DESCRIBED AS hCOLONY ZONES v MAIN LY #ANADA AND -EXICO THE CABINET DECIDED THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION WAS NOT TO ATTEMPT RE COLONIZATION SINCE AS "ROWN STATED hTHE TERRITO RIES WE CONSIDERED ALREADY PRETTY MUCH BELONG TO THE 53!v )N DESCRIBING THE EFFECTS OF THE SHIFT -R $ARLING STATED THAT h4HE SHIFT WILL GO NEARLY UNNOTICED v ONLY REQUIRING THE CHANGE FROM THE 0OUND SYMBOL a TO THE @$OLLAR SYMBOL 4HE PRICES OF THINGS THEMSELVES hWILL NOT CHANGE AT ALLv -R $ARLING ELABORATED h3INCE THE CHANGE WILL HELP TO FACILITATE A GENERAL DEVALUATION OF OUR NATIONAL MARKETPLACE THE PRICES OF GOODS AND SERVICES WILL IMMEDIATELY DE CLINE TO APPROXIMATELY THE SAME COST AS THOSE IN THE 5 3 v $ARLING CONTINUED ON TO NOTE THAT h4HOUGH THESE PRICES AREN T EXACTLY THE SAME A LITTLE ROUNDING IS ALWAYS GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY v 4HE COST OF REPLACING LABELING AND NOTING EQUIPMENT hIS ESTIMATED TO BE APPROXIMATELY a

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+BNJF T ,JMMJOH 4QSFF 0ROFESSIONAL 46 GIT *AMIE /LIVER HAS SHOCKED THE WORLD BY KEEPING HIS MOUTH SHUT $URING AN INTERVIEW WITH 4HE %NQUIRER THE CELEBRITY WAS ASKED TO DIVULGE HIS OPINION ON THE COOKING SKILLS OF THE SUBJECTS OF HIS NEW SHOW WHEREUPON HE SIMPLY SAID h) DON T REALLY FEEL LIKE TALKING v !T THESE WORDS OUR REPORTER SUFFERED A MAJOR STROKE SADLY KILLING HIM IN STANTLY (E IS NOT ALONE *OURNALISTS AND READERS ALIKE ALL OVER THE COUN TRY HAVE BEEN DROPPING LIKE m IES WITH INCREDULITY AT /LIVER S SILENCE /UR THOUGHTS ARE WITH THEM ALL +NOWN AS A LOUD MOUTHED

3AINSBURY S LOVING VAIN TUBBY AR SEHOLE /LIVER HAS TORMENTED THE OVERWEIGHT AS WELL AS EVERYONE FROM THE .ORTH ! RECENT INCIDENT AT THE -ORRISONS IN .ORWICH INVOLV ING THREE TONNES OF LARD ARRANGED TO SPELL h'O HOME FATTIESv IN THE CAR

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) URGE YOU TO THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU ARE PAYING TO BE AT THIS WONDER FUL INSTITUTION )T IS EASY TO FORGET THAT EVERY YEAR YOUR ,OCAL %DUCA TION !UTHORITY IS PAYING IN EXCESS OF a SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE A LOVELY THREE YEAR JOLLY IN %AST !NGLIA ONLY TO ASK FOR THE MONEY BACK WHEN YOU HAVE RETURNED TO THE REAL WORLD AND ARE EARNING OVER a !FTER ALL

IT DOESN T REALLY FEEL LIKE DEBT DOES IT )T S NOT LIKE YOU HAVE TO PAY a AT THE DOOR OF ,ECTURE 4HEATRE BE FORE YOU GET TO GO AND SLEEP THROUGH AN ACADEMIC S LOVE LETTER TO BLOODY *OSEPH #ONRAD 5NFORTUNATELY YOU CAN T ASK FOR A REFUND IF YOU DIDN T lND THE LECTURE PARTICULARLY STIMU LATING 4HERE IS SOME DEBT OF WHICH YOU

ARE ACUTELY AWARE 4HE COST OF BOOKS VARIES WILDLY FROM COURSE TO COURSE

BUT ALL HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON THEY ARE SO EXPENSIVE 7HEN THE 5NIVERSITY CHARGES YOU a FOR A PILE OF PHOTOCOPIED PAPER THAT YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO EVER READ YOU DO WONDER WHAT EXACTLY THEY DO WITH ALL YOUR MONEY 7HEN THEY SEND YOU A NASTY WARNING AT THE END OF TERM SAYING THAT IF YOU DO NOT PAY THAT a IMMEDIATELY YOU WILL NOT PASS THE YEAR YOU lND THE PUR POSE OF TUITION FEES EVEN MORE PER PLEXING 5NIVERSITIES CURRENTLY CHARGE THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE FEE TO STUDENTS UNDER THE ABSURD hTOP UP FEEv INI TIATIVE INTRODUCED BY THE 'OVERN MENT TWO YEARS AGO (OWEVER PAYING THE TOP PRICE DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE GETTING A TOP QUALITY EDUCATION IS A ,AW DE GREE FROM /XFORD REALLY WORTH THE SAME AS A DEGREE IN )NFOTAINMENT FROM 3OUTHAMPTON 3OLENT 5NI

VERSITY 4HE MAJORITY OF US EMBARK ON A DEGREE TO ENHANCE OUR CAREER PROSPECTS SO SURELY THE COST OF OUR

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SYSTEM ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR BUT THIS WOULD SIMPLY LEAD TO A TWO TIER SYS TEM WITH ITS OWN INJUSTICES )T IS QUITE STRAIGHTFORWARD TO IDENTIFY WHAT YOU ARE NOT GETTING FOR YOUR MONEY FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU ARE GIVEN YOUR THIRD CHOICE MODULE OR YOUR LECTURER S GRASP ON THE %NGLISH LANGUAGE IS AVERAGE AT BEST BUT ULTI MATELY IT IS DOWN TO US AS INDIVIDU ALS TO MAKE SURE WE GET VALUE FOR MONEY )F YOU DON T VOTE AT 5NION ELECTIONS CAN YOU REALLY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE WAY THE UNIVERSITY IS RUN 'ONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN STUDENTS RIOT AND PROTEST AND THOUGH ) AM NOT ADVOCATING FULL BLOWN ANARCHY

IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET YOUR VOICE HEARD 4HE 5NION S h7ALL OF $EBTv IS A STARK WAY OF FACING THE COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION BUT NOT MANY OF US CAN AFFORD TO DO A #HERIE "LAIR AND AVOID THE ISSUE %XPRESS YOUR OPINIONS ON TUITION FEES OR YOU PAY LATER AND IT WILL BE CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN a

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BY THE WEIGHTY PONDER OUS SENSE OF DELUSION 'ORDON SINCERELY BELIEVES HE IS THE ONLY ONE CAPABLE OF SOLVING "RITAIN S PROBLEMS PITY THAT HE HAS NO NEW IDEAS AND NO MONEY %VE

RYTHING THAT ISSUES FORTH FROM HIS MOUTH CAN ONLY BE EMPTY PROMIS ES HE HAS BLED THE NATION DRY DUE TO HIS VAST GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE AND THE COFFERS ARE LITERALLY EMPTY 4HE 'OVERNMENT ALREADY SPENDS OF THE NATION S INCOME AND THE ECONOMY LIES PARTICULARLY EXPOSED TO ECONOMIC CRISIS DUE TO THE SUF FOCATING BIND OF BUREAUCRACY AND INEFlCIENCY 2AISING TAXES WOULD BE SUICIDE AND WE ALREADY HAVE AN UNSUSTAINABLE LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT DEBT AND LIABILITIES )T IS BITTERLY IRONIC THAT 'ORDON S OWN STINT AS #HANCELLOR HAS RESULTED IN MAKING ALL HIS PRIME MINISTERIAL DREAMS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE ,IKEWISE HIS GRASP OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE ,ABOUR PARTY IS EQUALLY DEVOID FROM REALITY 4HE ONLY THING IN A WORSE STATE THAN THE TREASURY IS THE ,ABOUR PARTY ITSELF MEMBERSHIP IS PLUMMETING AND EVEN AFTER *+ 2OWLING S HUGE DONATION ,ABOUR REMAINS lNANCIALLY DEPENDENT ON THE 4RADE 5NIONS !BOVE THIS ROT TING CORPSE THE -0S REMAIN REST LESS BUT ARE BOUND BY THEIR OWN COWARDICE TO THEIR USELESS LEADER ,ABOUR IS NOT GOING TO JUST DISAP PEAR BUT IT NEEDS SERIOUS SURGERY IF IT IS TO WIN THE ELECTION 4HERE IS A LONG TIME UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION BUT UNTIL "ROWN FACES UP TO REALITY HE WILL CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE AN OKAY SPEECH IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH

'BDU #PY "ROWN DECLARED THAT hTHIS IS NO TIME FOR A NOVICEv IN HIS SPEECH REGARDED BY MANY AS AN ATTACK NOT ONLY ON $AVID #AMERON BUT HIS OWN &OREGIN 3ECRETARY $AVID -ILIBAND

WHO APPEARS TO BE THE FA VOURED CANDIDATE IF ,ABOUR WERE TO HAVE A LEADERSHIP ELEC TION )N A MOVE POSSIBLY INSPIRED

BY THE 53 ELECTION CAMPAIGNS

"ROWN WAS INTRODUCED BY HIS WIFE 3ARAH "ROWN DECLARED h4HE "RITISH PEOPLE WOULD NEVER FORGIVE US IF AT THIS TIME WE LOOKED INWARDS TO THE AFFAIRS OF JUST OUR PARTY WHEN OUR DUTY IS TO THE INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY v IN RESPONSE TO WIDESPREAD CRITICISM OF HIS PARTY S RECENT UNREST (OWEVER MANY WITHIN HIS OWN PARTY ARE CALLING FOR HIM TO STEP ASIDE AND MAKE WAY FOR A NEW LEADER "ROWN HAS

FOR THE MOMENT VOWED TO STAY

*ONATHAN #LARK 5%! ,ABOUR 'ORDON "ROWN S CONFERENCE SPEECH WAS MEANT TO BE THE DElNING MO MENT OF HIS CAREER THE POINT WHEN HE SET OUT A BOLD VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND lNALLY GAVE THE 4ORIES SOME THING TO CONTEND WITH !ND WHAT DID WE GET 7ELL ALL IN ALL ) RECKON HE GAVE A PRETTY GOOD SPEECH 'ORDON "ROWN SET OUT SOME GREAT POLICIES SUCH AS CANCER PATIENTS BECOMING EXEMPT FROM PRESCRIP TION CHARGES AND KIDS FROM POOR BACKGROUNDS BEING GIVEN SUBSIDISED INTERNET ACCESS "OTH ARE FANTASTIC IDEAS WHICH WILL HAVE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON PEOPLE S LIVES 'ORDON ALSO STRESSED HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE SOMEONE IN CHARGE THAT HAS THE EXPERIENCE TO LEAD US THROUGH THESE TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES .OW IS NOT THE TIME FOR NOVICES SUCH AS $AVID #AMERON WHOSE ONLY lRSTHAND ECONOMIC EXPERIENCE WAS ON @"LACK 7EDNESDAY WHEN INTEREST RATES HIT AND THOUSANDS OF HARD WORK ING FAMILIES HAD PROBLEMS KEEPING UP WITH THEIR MORTGAGE REPAYMENTS 'ORDON "ROWN HAS BEEN A MA JOR lGURE IN INTERNATIONAL lNANCE CIRCLES FOR OVER TEN YEARS AND HAS THE EXPERIENCE THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE WIDESPREAD RESPECT TO STEER US THROUGH THE CREDIT CRUNCH "UT AL THOUGH 'ORDON S SPEECH WAS GOOD

HE DIDN T MAKE A HEADLINE GRABBING

CAREER DElNING ANNOUNCEMENT HE NEEDED TO TROUNCE THE 4ORIES 4HERE WAS NO MENTION OF A WINDFALL TAX ON THE GLUTTONOUS ENERGY COMPA NIES OR ANY GREAT STRIVES TOWARDS ABOLISHING .(3 PRESCRIPTIONS CHARGES BUT WE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT 'ORDON IS KEEPING BACK SOMETHING BIG FOR THE NEXT ELECTION 'ORDON ALSO ATTEMPTED TO SHOW A MORE PERSONAL SIDE TO HIS CHARAC TER BY CRITICISING #AMERON S ABYS

h'ORDON ALSO STRESSED HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE SOME ONE IN CHARGE THAT HAS THE EXPERIENCE TO LEAD USv MAL USE OF HIS CHILDREN AS 02 PROPS 4HE SURPRISE APPEARANCE OF 3ARAH "ROWN ALSO HELPED TO WARM THE CROWD AND HIGHLIGHTED A SOFTER SIDE TO THE NORMALLY DISTANT "ROWN 3O ALL IN ALL THE SPEECH WAS VIN TAGE 'ORDON NOT mASH BUT DID THE JOB

4HE BRIEFEST OF OPENING COMMENTS RE THE BRAND NEW ROUNDABOUT SIGN DECLARING OUR TREASURED ACADEMIC HOME h(OW PROUD ) AM TO ATTEND THE @ NIVER ITY OF A T !NGL A /H 5%!

YOU ARE INDEED WONDERFUL AND OFTEN IN THE MOST IRONIC WAY IMAGINABLE v -ICHAEL 0ATTISON RD YEAR &46

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'SFTIFST #BTI "OOPZBODF )S IT FAIR THAT SECOND AND THIRD YEAR STUDENTS ARE ABLE TO ATTEND THE &RESHERS "ASH $AVINA +ESBY /PINIONS 7RITER

*OKVTUJDF BOE TUPMFO JEFOUJUZ ! 0OST GRAD TALKS ABOUT HIS START AT 5%! AND REVEALS THE LACK OF ORGANISATION THAT GOT HIM OFF TO A SHAKY START AND ANOTHER ANONYMOUS STUDENT EXPLAINS HOW THEY HAVE MANAGED TO BECOME SOMETHING OF A MEDICAL PHENOMENON 0HILIP ,EFTWICH /PINONS 7RITER &RESHERS WEEK HAS A LOT TO OFFER IF YOU BOTHERED TO STICK YOUR HEAD ABOVE YOUR DUVET DURING SUNLIGHT HOURS YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND A PLETHORA OF ACTIVITIES ! &RESHERS

i%VSJOH UIF MBTU XFFL * XBT PċDJBMMZ B OPO FOUJUZ XJUI OP JOGPS NBUJPOw &AIR THE 3OC-ART THE 3PORTS-ART AND A HOST OF ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO SPEND YOUR EVENING ALL KINDLY LAID OUT FOR YOU BY THE UNIVERSITY AND

DESIGNED TO INTEGRATE NEWCOMERS AND MAKE THEM FEEL AT HOME /R AT LEAST SO ) HAVE BEEN TOLD 5NFORTUNATELY AS A RESEARCH POST GRAD MY START DATE IS A FULL WEEK AND A HALF AFTER &RESHERS WEEK THE RESULT BEING THAT DURING THE LAST WEEK ) WAS OFlCIALLY A NON ENTITY

NO CAMPUS CARD NO E MAIL ADDRESS AND NO INFORMATION )N A SHAME LESS ATTEMPT TO INGRATIATE MYSELF WITH THE EDITORIAL STAFF ) SHOULD POINT OUT THAT THE LAST ISSUE OF #ONCRETE WAS MY ONLY GUIDE TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING AROUND CAM PUS ALL WEEK .OW PERHAPS THIS SOUNDS LIKE ) M MAKING A FUSS OVER NOTHING

BUT IT PERPLEXES ME AS TO WHY THE UNIVERSITY FEELS THAT AS A POST GRAD STUDENT ) WOULDN T WANT THE OPPOR TUNITY TO JOIN THE CLUBS AND SOCIE TIES AT THE SAME TIME AS EVERY OTHER NEW STUDENT HAVE THE CHANCE TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS WHILE EVERYONE IS STILL GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTH ER TAKE PART IN INITIATIONS OR lRST WEEK SOCIALS AND ESSENTIALLY TO JOIN IN FROM THE BEGINNING RATHER THAN SLIP IN QUIETLY WHEN EVERYTHING IS ALREADY UP AND RUNNING %SPECIALLY FROM A UNIVERSITY WHICH PUBLICLY REVELS IN ITS STUDENT SATISFACTION RATINGS

.AME WITHHELD /PINIONS 7RITER ) AM A MEDICAL PHENOMENON THERE ARE CURRENTLY TWO IDENTI CAL VERSIONS OF ME IN THE WORLD /NE IS THE REAL ME WHO LIVES IN .ORWICH IS A CAREFUL BUDGETER AND OWNS ONE PHONE 4HE OTHER IS

i*EFOUJUZ 'SBVE DPTUT UIF 6, FDPO PNZ b CJM MJPO BOOVBMMZw THE ME WHO LIVES IN ,ONDON AND HAS SO FAR OPENED UP TWO MOBILE PHONE CONTRACTS WORTH a EACH ) AM A VICTIM OF IDENTITY FRAUD AND HAVE TO BE CONSTANTLY VIGILANT TO SECURE MY lNANCIAL FUTURE

)DENTITY FRAUD WHOSE DElNI TION IN THE COURTS IS WELL SHADY TO SAY THE LEAST IS A CRIME ON THE INCREASE #)&!3 THE 5+ S &RAUD 0REVENTION 3ERVICE HAS ESTIMATED THAT )DENTITY &RAUD COSTS THE 5+ ECONOMY a BILLION ANNUALLY 3O WHAT IS BEING DONE TO PREVENT THE CRIME FROM HAPPENING !CCORDING TO THE (OME /FlCE

ONE OF THE MAIN WAYS OF COMBAT ING THIS CRIME IS THROUGH THE IN TRODUCTION OF )DENTITY #ARDS "UT ISN T THIS JUST ANOTHER DOCUMENT FOR A FRAUDSTER TO STEAL %VERY PER SON ) HAVE SPOKEN TO REGARDING THE CRIMES COMMITTED IN MY NAME HAVE ASSURED ME THAT THIS COULD NEVER HAPPEN 4HE ONLY PROBLEM WITH THIS ASSURANCE IS THAT IT HAS HAPPENED AND NOT JUST ONCE !ND ALL THEY NEEDED TO STEAL WAS MY DRIVER S LICENCE )DENTITY FRAUD IS A CRIME AGAINST YOUR NAME IT IS A FORM OF SLANDER

COMMITTING ACTS IN YOUR NAME IN ORDER TO DODGE CULPABILITY 6ERY LIT TLE HELP IS AFFORDED TO THE VICTIM IT IS JUST A FACT OF LIFE NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE PREVENTED )T MAKES YOU QUESTION PROB ABLY FOR THE lRST TIME EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE AND HOW MUCH THAT @YOU IS WORTH

3HOULD &RESHERS "ASH TICKETS ONLY BE SOLD TO &RESHERS 4HE CLUE REALLY SHOULD BE IN THE NAME 3URELY TICKETS FOR THE &RESHERS "ASH SHOULD ONLY BE SOLD TO JUST THAT FRESHERS 3O WHY IS IT THAT MANY ATTEND EES TO ARGUABLY THE PARTY OF THE YEAR

WERE SECOND OR THIRD YEARS LEAVING A WHOLE LOAD OF FRESHERS TO MISS OUT 3OME SAY THAT THE SECOND AND THIRD YEARS HAVE JUST AS MUCH RIGHT FOR A LITTLE PIECE OF NOSTALGIA REMEMBERING THEIR REVERED YEARS AS FRESHERS AS THE FRESH ERS DO TO ATTEND THEIR LAST PARTY BEFORE THE REAL WORK STARTS !FTER ALL SECOND AND THIRD YEARS HAVE EXPERIENCED FRESH ERS WEEK BEFORE SO THEY KNOW HOW TO PARTY PAVING THE WAY FOR A BRILLIANT ATMOSPHERE PERHAPS MAKING FRESHERS FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE (OWEVER WERE THE BASH JUST FOR FRESHERS IT WOULD ALLOW FOR EASE OF MAK

i*G FWFSZPOF JT JOEFFE XFM DPNF UIFO XF DBO U DBMM JU AUIF 'SFTIFST #BTI w ING NEW FRIENDS ACROSS CAMPUS A VITAL PART OF BEING A NERVOUS FRESHER /NE COULD SAY THAT THE SECOND AND THIRD YEARS HAVE HAD THEIR CHANCE TO PARTY SO THEY SHOULD LET THE FRESHERS HAVE THEIR DAY ,ET US BEAR IN MIND THAT THE ,#2 CAN HOLD PEOPLE AND THERE ARE

FRESHERS SO NOT EVERYONE COULD ATTEND THE FRESHERS BASH ANYWAY 0ERSONALLY ) BELIEVE THAT THE EVENT IS JUST ANOTHER ,#2 NIGHT OUT SO EVE RYONE SHOULD BE WELCOME (OWEVER IF EVERYONE IS INDEED WELCOME THEN WE CAN T CALL IT THE h&RESHERS "ASHv BE CAUSE IT CLEARLY IS NOT A BASH SPECIlCALLY FOR FRESHERS .O DOUBT THIS YEAR S FRESH ERS WHO MISSED OUT MIGHT HAVE A GO AT GETTING TICKETS NEXT YEAR WHEN THEY THEMSELVES WILL BE SECOND YEARS n ) M SURE THEY WON T OBJECT TO THE TICKET hFREE FOR ALLv THEN

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) WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR YOUR LAST ISSUE WHICH WASN T ALLOWED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PAPER !PPARENTLY IN WASN T hIN THE SPIRIT OF #ON CRETEv 4HIS WAS IT

$EAR &IONA

!S A COMMITTED )PSWICH 4OWN FAN ) FELT COMPELLED TO WRITE IN OFFERING YOU MY WHOLEHEARTED SUPPORT OF YOUR ATTACK ON THE MORONIC ARTICLE ON P OF THE LAST ISSUE 2EADING YOUR EDITORIAL ) FOUND MYSELF AGREE ING WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID INCLUDING THE BIT ABOUT WHY YOU CHOSE 5%! 7HAT OTHER REASON COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE FOR COMING TO .ORWICH APART FROM THERE BEING A lRST RATE UNIVERSITY HERE ) MYSELF HAILING FROM THE -IDLANDS ONLY WENT FOR .ORWICH BECAUSE IT WAS CLOSER TO )PSWICH FOR ME !S FOR -R #OLLINS COMMENTS ABOUT THE @FOOTBALL TEAM ) lND THEM TYPICAL OF ANY OTHER DELUDED BUDGIES FAN 9ES .ORWICH MAY WELL BE THE ONLY %NGLISH TEAM TO HAVE BEATEN "AYERN -UNICH AWAY FROM HOME BUT

ON CURRENT FORM THEY D STRUGGLE TO BEAT #OL CHESTER 5NITED !4 HOME )NCIDENTALLY WHICH %AST !NGLIAN CLUB IS THE ONLY %NGLISH TEAM TO BE UNBEATEN AT HOME IN %UROPEAN COMPETITION )T ISN T .ORWICH #ITY ) AM AMUSED BY THE AUTHOR S ASSUMPTION THAT ALL FRESHERS WILL @BE INADVERT ENTLY TIED TO THIS FOOTBALL CLUB FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS AND AS FOR THE PROSPECT OF 0RE MIERSHIP FOOTBALL RETURNING TO #ARROW 2OAD IN THE NEAR FUTURE YOU D GET SHORTER ODDS ON %NGLAND WINNING A MAJOR TOURNAMENT IN MY LIFETIME ) COULD GO ON BUT ) M SURE ALL YOU FRESHERS WILL HAVE GOT THE PICTURE BY NOW IF YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THE REAL PRIDE OF !NGLIA JUMP ON THE TRAIN AND GET DOWN TO 0ORTMAN 2OAD *AMES -OWER

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#ONCRETE IS PUBLISHED BY 55%!3 #ONCRETE 3OCIETY ¥ #ONCRETE )33. ,ETTERS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE %DITOR &IONA "ILLINGS ,ETTERS MUST INCLUDE CONTACT DETAILS BUT WE WILL CONSIDER ANONYMOUS PUBLICATION 7E RESERVE THE RIGHT TO EDIT FOR LENGTH AND CLARITY AS NECESSARY /PINIONS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE 0UBLISHER OR %DITOR 5SE OF THE NAME 4HE %VENT IS BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 0LANET :OG ,TD .O PART OF THIS NEWSPAPER MAY BE REPRODUCED THROUGH ANY MEANS WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE %DITOR &IONA "ILLINGS 0RINTED BY !RCHANT

!S MANY WILL ALREADY BE AWARE 5%! S MOST POP ULAR MEETING PLACE n @THE SQUARE n IS SOON TO BE CLOSED WHILE WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS @SOMETHING IS DONE TO IT !S EVER WE AT #ONCRETE ARE THE lRST TO REPORT 2EADERS WILL REMEMBER OUR INSIGHTFUL STORIES ON SCANDALS SUCH AS THE BIGGEST MINOR mOOD EVER TO STRIKE THE ARTS BUILDINGS HAR ROWING BOOKSHOP HAPPENINGS AND PRICES RISING BY DRASTIC PENNIES IN THE UNION BAR /NCE AGAIN

WE NOW BRING YOU A STORY WITH OUR TRADEMARK DISREGARD FOR ITS SO CALLED @INTEREST 4HE BREAKING STORY THEN &ROM MID /CTOBER TO EARLY *ANUARY @THE SQUARE WILL BE CLOSED AS THE 5NIVERSITY AIMS TO @REJUVENATE THE TIRED PAVING AND STREET FURNITURE AND ADD AN @ALFRESCO DIN ING AREA 5NDERSTANDABLY THE GENERAL REACTION AROUND CAMPUS IS ONE OF SHOCK AND CONFUSION @7HAT n ASKED ONE STUDENT AFTER HEARING THE NEWS /THERS LOOKED ON IN STUNNED SILENCE /F COURSE SOME MAY ARGUE THAT IT DOESN T REALLY MATTER 0EOPLE WILL lND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO SIT THEY WILL SAY )T ISN T SOMETHING THAT RE QUIRES EVEN A THREE HUNDRED WORD ARTICLE IN THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER %VEN IF THE @REPORTER WERE TO lND OUT EXACTLY WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND WHY

IT WOULD EVOKE ONLY THE VERY MILDEST OF INTEREST 7ELL TO THESE CYNICS WE AT #ONCRETE WOULD ASK SIMPLY THIS $O THEY NOT KNOW THAT WRITING FOR YOUR STUDENT NEWSPAPER LOOK GOOD ON YOUR # 6 4HAT ALMOST NO EMPLOYER WOULD EVER BOTHER TO

READ THE ARTICLES YOU HAVE WRITTEN !ND SO IT RE ALLY DOESN T MATTER THAT EVERYTHING WE CHOOSE TO PRODUCE FOR OUR ONLY STUDENT RUN NEWSPAPER IS ACHINGLY MUNDANE /K A LITTLE HARSH PERHAPS !FTER lND ING OUT THAT IT WASN T GOING TO BE INCLUDED IN THE NEWSPAPER THE EDITOR HAS TORN IT TO PIECES ) WENT TO ASK WHY THIS HAD HAPPENED 4HE EDITOR WAS NICE ABOUT IT SHE SAID THAT SHE HAD LIKED IT AT lRST BUT ON RE READING IT SHE FOUND IT BE UNDERMINING THE PAPER AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAD TAKEN TIME OUT TO WORK ON IT )T DID THAT WAS THE POINT 4O MY MIND #ONCRETE HAS NO AMBITION FOR ITSELF AS A NEWSPAPER ) AM SURE THAT MANY AMBI TIOUS PEOPLE WORK ON IT BUT IT DOESN T SEEM TO TRY AND lND THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES AROUND OR WRITE THEM IN THEM IN ANY KIND OF FRESH EXCITING WAY #ONCRETE SEEMS TO BE SOMEWHERE THAT ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN JOURNALISM CAN GO TO WRITE A MIDDLE OF THE ROAD STORY ABOUT SOME SMALL EVENT SO THAT THEY MIGHT ADD HAVING DONE SO TO THEIR # 6 )SN T IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A STUDENT NEWSPAPER THAT REACHES BEYOND THIS ) HAVE BEEN TOLD

BY THE HIGHER UPS AT #ONCRETE IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS THAT IT NEEDS TO HAVE @STUDENT ISSUES WRITTEN BY STUDENTS "UT ARE STUDENT ISSUES ONLY MOUSE INFESTATIONS WHICH %AST !NGLIAN FOOTBALL TEAM TO SUPPORT AND RECIPES FOR BA SIC PASTA SAUCE ) HOPE THAT #ONCRETE CAN AND WILL REACH BEYOND ITS ACHING MUNDANITY BUT ) DON T SEE MUCH EVIDENCE FOR THIS COMING FROM WITHIN )T LOOKS AN UPHILL STRUGGLE 0ETER -ATTHEWS

&EJUPS T SFTQPOTF 7HEN 0ETER CAME TO THE OFlCE AT PM ON THE 3UNDAY OF THE LAST PRODUCTION WEEKEND TO ASK FOR AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY ) HAD RE FUSED TO INCLUDE THIS ARTICLE IN MY lRST ISSUE AS EDITOR ) ENCOURAGED HIM TO WRITE A LETTER SO HE COULD VOICE HIS FRUSTRATIONS TO ALL THE CONTRIBUTORS EDITORS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY

THE READERS OF #ONCRETE !S THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER WE RELY ON THE SUPPORT OF 5%! S STUDENT BODY TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THE PAPER (OWEVER IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE REmECTIVE OF THE VIEWS AND OPINIONS OF SAID BODY AND THAT IN TURN WE CAN BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE BY THEM 4HIS IS WHY ) WELCOME 0ETER S LETTER IN THIS ISSUE !T THE END OF THE DAY EVERYONE AT #ON CRETE APART FROM THE EDITOR IS A VOLUNTEER $EPENDING ON THEIR POSITION WITHIN THE PA PER AND THE SECTION THEY ARE WRITING FOR THEY GIVE UP ANYTHING FROM AN HOUR TO THEIR ENTIRE WEEKEND EVERY FORTNIGHT TO PRODUCE THE PA PER THAT YOU NOW READ ) FELT THAT TO INCLUDE AN ARTICLE THAT UNDERMINES THE EFFORT THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PUT IN EVERY FORTNIGHT WOULD DEVALUE THE JOBS THAT THESE PEOPLE DO ) DO NOT WISH FOR THIS PAPER TO BE THE CONDUIT THROUGH WHICH THE WORK THE SOCIETY DOES IS BERATED BY ITSELF 4O INCLUDE THIS ARTI CLE AS PART OF THE NEWS SECTION WOULD PRESENT IT TO THE READERSHIP AS OUR OWN OPINION OF OURSELVES AND WHAT WE DO AND THIS IS JUST NOT THE CASE 5NFORTUNATELY 0ETER S ARTICLE DID NOT lT INTO ANY SECTION OF #ONCRETE 4HIS IS NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT IS INSULTING TO THOSE WHO GIVE UP THEIR TIME FOR THE PAPER IT IS ALSO BECAUSE IT IS IN NO SENSE OF THE DElNITION A NEWS

ARTICLE !LL NEWS ARTICLES FROM OURS TO THOSE IN THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS MUST FOLLOW A CERTAIN FORMULA ONE THAT WE ARE GOING TO TRY AND TEACH ALL OUR NEWS REPORTERS BUT ONE THAT THIS ARTICLE UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT ADHERE TO 7E HAVE NEARLY MEMBERS IN THE #ON CRETE SOCIETY %ACH OF THEM JOINS BECAUSE THEY WANT THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET INVOLVED IN AN ASPECT OF PRINT JOURNALISM BE IT WRITING ED ITING OR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS #ONCRETE IS THE PRIMARY FORUM AT 5%! WHERE STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR WORK PUBLISHED FOR THE REST OF THEIR PEERS TO READ )T IS NOT JUST SOMEWHERE PEOPLE CAN WRITE SOMETHING TO PUT ON THEIR #6 ALTHOUGH THIS IS AN IMPOR TANT BY PRODUCT OF BEING INVOLVED IN #ON CRETE 3OCIETY MEMBERS WOULD NOT HAVE GOT THE WORK EXPERIENCE PLACEMENTS THEY HAVE DONE WITHOUT THE EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE AND BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF JOURNALISM THEY HAVE GAINED FROM WORKING ON THE PAPER )T IS ALSO SOMEWHERE THAT PEOPLE CAN LEARN HOW TO WORK WITHIN A TEAM DEVELOP THEIR CREATIVITY AND MAKE FRIENDS AND CON TACTS THAT COULD LAST THEM FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES ) HOPE THAT 0ETER CONTINUES TO BE PART OF OUR SOCIETY AND HELPS US TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE PAPER 7E WELCOME ANY STU DENT TO BECOME PART OF #ONCRETE AND HELP TO DEVELOP THE QUALITY OF THE PAPER )F YOU FEEL YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET INVOLVED PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME AT ADDRESS ON THE SIDE OF THE PAGE &IONA "ILLINGS

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7PMVOUBSZ $POUSJCVUJPO )NITIALLY THE THOUGHT OF VOLUNTEER ING MADE ME SHUDDER WITH THE LOOMING DEBT OF STUDENT LIFE AHEAD OF ME WHY WOULD ) POSSIBLY WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN WORK OFTEN CHALLENG ING AND EXHAUSTING AND YET RECEIVE NO MONEY IN RETURN (OWEVER MY MIND WAS SWIFTLY AVERTED FROM THIS MATERIAL DESIRE AS ) IMMERSED MY SELF IN WHAT BECAME SOME OF THE MOST REWARDING EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE TO DATE "EING A #HRISTIAN THERE ARE VARI OUS CHURCH EVENTS REQUIRING UNPAID ASSISTANCE OUR ANNUAL (OLIDAY #LUB BEING ONE EXAMPLE IT IS A WEEK WHERE WE TEACH OVER TWO HUNDRED CHILDREN ABOUT 'OD AND HIS REL EVANCE IN THEIR LIVES USING CRAFT SES SIONS SPORTS SILLY GAMES DANCING AND DRAMA WORKSHOPS $ESPITE FEEL ING PHYSICALLY DRAINED BY THE END OF THE WEEK THE WORDS OF ENCOURAGE MENT FROM PARENTS THE BEAMING FACES OF ALL THE CHILDREN AND THE GENERALLY VIBRANT ATMOSPHERE MAKE EACH AND EVERY YEAR THAT MUCH MORE OF A DELIGHT 4HE DIFFERENCE MADE TO THOSE CHILDREN MAY ONLY BE SLIGHT

BUT IT S A STARTING POINT TO THEIR SPIR ITUAL LIFE OF OUTSIDE 6OLUNTEERING

CHURCH FOR ME BEGAN MANY YEARS AGO WHEN ) PARTICIPATED IN MY BRONZE $UKE OF %DINBURGH !WARD &OR MY SERVICE MYSELF AND GOOD FRIEND CON TACTED OUR LOCAL HOSPITAL AND FOR SIX MONTHS WE VISITED WARDS FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL %VERY 3UNDAY FOR JUST A FEW HOURS WE WOULD TALK TO PA TIENTS PURCHASING WHATEVER WAS PER

SONALLY REQUIRED BY THEM FROM THE LOCAL NEWSAGENTS !LTHOUGH MEAGRE IN ITS AMOUNT THE PLEASURE OF BEING ABLE TO HELP THOSE IN A TIME OF SUCH DISCOMFORT AND HELPLESSNESS MADE OUR WORK SEEM ALL THE MORE IMPOR TANT 5%! -EDICAL STUDENT (ARRIET "LUNDELL DISCOVERED SIMILAR REWARDS FROM HER WORK WITH THE 3AMARITANS

SHE TOLD ME OF HER ABILITY TO hACTIVE LY LISTEN AND CONSOLE THOSE WHO MAY BE EMOTIONALLY DISTRESSED SOME ON THE VERGE OF SUICIDEv (ARRIET NOW FEELS hPREPARED TO BEGIN A COURSE IN MEDICINE AND ULTIMATELY BECOME A DOCTOR WHO CAN BE EMOTIONALLY DE TACHED FROM SUCH DISTRESSING SITUA TIONS WHILE GAINING THE TRUST OF PA TIENTSv )N HER CASE VOLUNTEERING HAS BENElTED HER FUTURE ENDEAVOURS 4WO YEARS AGO ) TOOK MY VOLUN TEERING TO THE NEXT STAGE AS ) SET OFF FOR 4ANZANIA IN %ASTERN !FRICA )T WAS HERE IN THE REMOTE VILLAGE OF .TUNTU THAT ) lRST WITNESSED TRUE POVERTY AND DEPRIVATION BUT WAS SIMULTANEOUSLY OVERWHELMED BY THE GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT AND GENU INE GRATITUDE OF THE PEOPLE ) CAME ACROSS ) ALONG WITH A TEAM OF NINE TEEN OTHERS WORKED WITH THE LOCAL SECONDARY SCHOOL THE ONLY SOURCE OF EDUCATION FOR ALMOST THREE HUNDRED STUDENTS 7E DUG THE FOUNDATIONS FOR NEW CLASSROOMS TRANSFORMED BARREN LAND INTO SPORTS PITCHES

TAUGHT BOTH CURRICULAR AND EXTRACUR RICULAR ACTIVITIES AND DONATED BOOKS AND EQUIPMENT )NSPIRED ) SPENT FOUR MONTHS OF MY GAP YEAR VOLUN TEERING AS AN %NGLISH TEACHER AGAIN

TO SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS THIS HAS NOW BECOME A CAREER ) HOPE TO PURSUE 6OLUNTEERING IS A PERSONAL QUEST

ITS REWARDS BEING NUMEROUS IT CAN LEAD DOWN MYSTERIOUS PATHWAYS

ONCE DISREGARDED AS FUTILE BUT ULTI MATELY LEADING TO A GREAT MULTITUDE OF INVALUABLE EXPERIENCES )T IS THOSE WHO HAVE TRAVELLED ALONG SAID PATH WAYS WHO CAN GAIN SO MUCH WHAT IT IS THAT IS LEARNT CANNOT BE FULLY UNDERSTOOD UNTIL YOU TOO TAKE THE CHANCE 4RY IT GO DOWN A NEW PATH AND SEE WHAT A DIFFERENCE YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL CAN MAKE NOT ONLY TO OTHERS BUT TO YOUR VERY SELF 3ARAH (OWLETT

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%BZ 5SJQQFS #ARRIE #HANDLER LEAVES OUR lNE CITY TO GO DAY TRIPPING AROUND .ORFOLK S GLORIOUS COAST 'REAT 9ARMOUTH 4HE BIG '9 WITH ITS 'OLDEN -ILE )F YOU LIKE YOUR SEA SIDES VERY CHEESY AND SLIGHTLY WORN THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU !RRIVE AT THE BUS STATION AND YOU WILL SOON BE WALKING DOWN A HIGH STREET BRIMMING WITH JOKE SHOPS FUDGE AND BIZARRELY NAMED ESTABLISHMENTS MY FAVOURITE BEING 7E !RE 4HE -USIC -AN )T ALSO BOASTS "RITAIN S WORST TOURIST ATTRACTION ,OUIS 4US SAUD S (OUSE OF 7AX -ORE DISTURBING THAN THAT lLM WITH 0ARIS (ILTON IT S LIKE WALKING INTO YOUR GRAN S HOUSE AND lNDING IT HAUNTED BY THE MANGLED CORPS ES OF CELEBRITIES FROM THE PAST 4HE SANDY BEACH IS HEAVEN FOR SANDCASTLE BUILDING OR JUST SITTING EATING lSH AND CHIPS )F YOU WANT TO GET RID OF YOUR LOOSE CHANGE THERE ARE PLENTY OF AMUSEMENT ARCADES WITH SLOT MACHINES GALORE !ND YOU WOULDN T WANT TO MISS 0IRATE S #OVE #RAZY 'OLF YARGH &AIRGROUND ATTRAC TIONS CAN BE FOUND AT THE 0LEASURE "EACH IF YOU WANT MORE THRILLS !T NIGHT WHEN THE SIGNS FOR #IRCUS #IRCUS AND 'OLDEN .UGGET LIGHT UP YOU COULD ALMOST IMAG INE YOU WERE IN ,AS 6EGAS !LMOST )F YOU ARE VERY IMAGINATIVE

(APPISBURGH PRO )NEXPLICABLY NOUNCED h(AYSBRUHv

THIS DELIGHTFUL VILLAGE ON THE .ORTH .ORFOLK COAST IS UNDER CONSTANT THREAT FROM COASTAL EROSION

BUT LIKE %LTON *OHN IT S STILL STANDING ,OCALS WILL TELL YOU HOW (AP LIGHTHOUSE PISBURGH ACHIEVED FAME WHEN IT WAS REPAINTED IN AN EPISODE OF #HALLENGE !NNEKA IN )F YOU ARE FEELING ENERGETIC YOU CAN CLIMB THE STEPS TO THE TOP OF THE CHURCH TOWER 4HE (ILL (OUSE PUB IS WORTH THE TRIP ALONE IF YOU ARE A FAN OF ALE AND CIDER THEY HOST A REAL ALE FESTIVAL AROUND THE SUMMER SOLSTICE 2ANDOM FACT 3IR !RTHUR #ONAN $OYLE PENNED A 3HERLOCK (OLMES STORY THERE AND WAS ALLEGEDLY THE lRST PERSON TO DRIVE A CAR IN THE VILLAGE 4HERE IS CAMPING AND A CARAVAN PARK ON THE CLIFF TOP SO IF YOU OVER DO THE CIDER YOU CAN ALWAYS SLEEP OVER

#ROMER 7ANT TO CATCH CRABS 'O TO #ROMER )TS CRABS ARE LEGENDARY -OST OF THE RESTAURANTS THERE WILL HAVE THEM ON THE MENU IF YOU FAIL TO CATCH THEM YOURSELF #ROMER BECAME FAMOUS AS A RE SORT IN 6ICTORIAN TIMES AND RE TAINS SOME OF THAT CHARM WITH ITS PIER AND MUSE UMS -ORE VAST THAN 3HERINGHAM BUT NONE HELESS CHARMING IT S ANOTHER FUN SEASIDE DAY OUT WITH PLENTY TO DO IF THE RAIN SPOILS YOUR DAY 4HOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SUPERSTITIOUS BE WARNED #ROMER IS NEAR THE LEGENDARY STALKING GROUND OF "LACK 3HUCK THE PHANTOM HOUND OF THE .ORTH .ORFOLK #OAST AS DESCRIBED IN THE SONG BY 4HE $ARKNESS

3HERINGHAM )F YOU CAN T TAKE THE PACE OR THE CHEESINESS OF '9 3HERINGHAM IS A SPLENDID ALTERNATIVE #REAM TEAS ICE CREAM AND lSH AND CHIPS ARE READILY AVAILABLE SO STARVE YOURSELF BEFORE YOU GO !RCADES APLENTY HERE AS WELL SO ANOTHER CHANCE TO WIN BACK YOUR TUITION FEES IN PENNIES THOUGH THE MOST ) HAVE EVER WON IS A TEDDY BEAR 4HE SHOPS ALONG THE HIGH STREET SELL ALL SORTS OF BOOTY YOU MAY WISH TO PURCHASE AS SOUVENIRS AND THERE IS A SWEET SHOP NEAR THE TRAIN STATION THAT SELLS ALL MANNER OF CONFECTIONARY THAT TIME FORGOT 4HERE S ALSO A STEAM RAILWAY WHICH CONNECTS TO (OLT 7EY BOURNE AND +ELLING (EATH 0ARK IF YOU WANT TO VENTURE FURTHER AlELD /R FANTASISE ABOUT BE ING ON THE (OGWARTS %XPRESS

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#MBDL )JTUPSZ .POUI )N A YEAR THAT COULD SEE THE ELECTION OF !MERICA S lRST "LACK PRESIDENT /CTOBER S "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH BE COMES ALL THE MORE SIGNIl CANT #ARTER ' 7OODSON

EDITOR OF THE *OURNAL OF .E GRO (ISTORY BEGAN !FRICAN !MERICAN CELEBRATIONS IN THE 53! IN THE lRST INCARNATION OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH IN "RITAIN IT IS CELEBRATED IN &EBRUARY IN #ANADA AND !MERICA HAS GROWN TO OVER

EVENTS SUCH AS ART EX HIBITIONS SHOWCASING OF !F RICAN !MERICAN WRITERS GIGS AND PLAYS /NE OF THE MAIN PURPOS ES OF "LACK (ISTORY MONTH IS TO CELEBRATE THE ACHIEVE MENTS OF "LACK PEOPLE AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCI ETY "LACK HISTORY IS FULL OF INSPIRATIONAL AND MOVING STORIES OF PEOPLE OVERCOMING DISCRIMINATION AND PREJU DICE INCLUDING EMANCIPATION FROM THE BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY

THE LIFE SAVING MISSIONS OF -ARY 3EACOLE THE !MERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS TRIUMPHS OF THE S AND S AND THE LIB ERATION OF 3OUTH !FRICA IN THE S "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH ACKNOWLEDGES THE ASTONISH ING JOURNEY FROM THE ABOL ISHMENT OF SLAVERY IN TO THE NOMINATION OF !MERI CA S lRST "LACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WITH $EMOCRAT "ARACK /BAMA HOTLY TIPPED TO BECOME THE WORLD S MOST POWERFUL LEADER FOLLOWING

4HE WEEK TH TH /CTOBER IS 7ELLBEING 7EEK n AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS AND 5NIVERSITY STAFF TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THINK ABOUT YOUR HEALTH AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF YOUR LIFESTYLE 3TUDENT LIFE CAN BE REALLY STRESSFUL AND FULL OF ALL SORTS OF PRESSURES SO MAKE SURE YOU RE TAK ING THE TIME OUT TO THINK ABOUT THE BEST WAY TO LOOK AFTER YOURSELF 4HE 5NION AND THE 5NIVERSITY ARE WORKING TO GETHER THIS WEEK TO OFFER IDEAS ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR WELLBEING %ACH DAY THIS WEEK WE LL BE FOCUSING ON A DIFFERENT ASPECT OF WELLBEING n FROM HEALTHY EATING AND RESPONSI BLE DRINKING TO CYCLING AND COPING WITH STRESS 4HERE ARE LOADS OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES OVER THE WEEK SO MAKE SURE YOU TAKE TIME TO CHILL OUT AND CHECK OUT WHAT S GOING ON

THE .OVEMBER ELECTION $ESPITE ATTEMPTS BY AU THORITIES AND SOCIETIES ACROSS THE WORLD TO UNDERMINE AND SUPPRESS IT !FRICAN CULTURE AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF "LACK PEOPLE HAVE EXERTED A HUGE INmUENCE OVER HISTORY AND SOCIETY IN GENERAL 4HE OMIS SION OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN "LACK HISTORY IN MAINSTREAM DOCUMENTED HISTORY HIGH LIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH AND RAISING AWARENESS OF IT

%VENTS IN .ORFOLK TO MARK "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH INCLUDE A MONTH LONG "LACK &ILM &ESTIVAL AT LOCA TIONS ACROSS THE COUNTY FEA TURING lLMS SUCH AS 4O +ILL !

-OCKINGBIRD 3HAFT AND 2AY

ALL BEING SCREENED AT #INEMA #ITY THIS MONTH !S AN ODE TO THE POPULAR ""# PROGRAMME 7HO $O 9OU 4HINK 9OU !RE WHICH HAS SEEN CELEBRITIES SUCH AS !INSLEY (ARIOTT AND #OLIN *ACKSON TRACE THEIR OWN "LACK HISTORY 4HE !RCHIVE

#ENTRE IN .ORWICH IS HOLDING A SESSION ON 3ATURDAY TH /CTOBER TO HELP "LACK PEOPLE BUILD THEIR OWN FAMILY TREES 5%! IS CELEBRATING "LACK MU SIC WITH ,OST 4HURSDAY IN THE ,#2 ON 4HURSDAY RD /CTO BER FEATURING PRESTIGIOUS REG GAE ARTIST -ACKA " &OR MORE INFORMATION ON "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH EVENTS

BOTH AT 5%! AND THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY VISIT WWW NOR FOLKBLACKHISTORYMONTH ORG UK

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-IKE #ARTER lNDS HIMSELF REmECTING ON THE LIFE AND CUL TURE OF THE CITY HE HAS LIVED IN FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS h)T DOES NOT MATTER WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU lND YOURSELF THE SPIRIT OF -ADRID THE MUSIC THE FOOD THE LIFE AND THE CULTURE LIVE WITH YOU FOREVER v 4HE OLDER GENERATIONS HAVE AN UNCANNY KNACK OF KNOWING WHAT TO SAY ON MOMENTOUS OCCASIONS WHILE YOUNGER GENERATIONS ARE OF TEN LEFT SPEECHLESS BY THEIR UNCOM PLICATED DIRECTNESS 4HIS WAS ONE SUCH SITUATION WHEREBY THIS WRITER FOUND HIMSELF STANDING ON A THIRD mOOR LANDING OF AN APARTMENT BLOCK BEING SMOTHERED IN FAREWELL KISSES FROM AN ELDERLY LADY HE HAD MET ALL OF lVE MINUTES PREVIOUS 4HREE MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN IN NER CITY -ADRID MAKING IT THE LARG EST CITY IN 3PAIN AND THE THIRD LARGEST CAPITAL IN %UROPE 9ET INTERACTIONS SUCH AS THIS ARE NOT UNCOMMON )T IS A BIG CITY WITH A SMALL TOWN FEEL 0EOPLE ARE FRIENDLY THEY GENUINELY WILL STOP AND HELP YOU NO ONE WILL LOOK AT YOU WITH AN AIR OF SUSPI CION AND THEY WILL DElNITELY MAKE EYE CONTACT 3TANDING ON THE METRO ONE DAY AT AN UNUSUALLY BUSY TIME

AN OLD WOMAN WAS SEEN TO GO OUT OF HER WAY TO PUSH PAST A NUMBER OF MEN IN BUSINESS SUITS WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF GETTING TO A YOUNG WOMAN TO TELL HER HOW PRETTY SHE LOOKED -ADRID LIKE ITS PEOPLE IS GENU INE AND IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT HIDE BEHIND CLOSE DOORS 4HE CULTURE IS SOCIAL IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE YOU GO BE IT A TERRAZA A LATE NIGHT BAR CLUB RESTAURANT OR EVEN JUST THE STREET -ADRILE×OS GO OUT -ADRID IS DIVIDED INTO @BARRIOS OR ZONES AND

EACH HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE mAVOUR 4HIS MEANS YOU WILL lND A WHOLE HOST OF PLACES TO WHET YOUR APPETITE AND TAKE A COOL BEVERAGE SHADING FROM THE MIDDAY SUN 4RADITIONAL TAPAS BARS POPULATED BY THEIR AGING OWNERS AND CLIENTELE THEIR mOORS STREWN WITH LEFT OVERS COCKTAIL STICKS AND NAPKINS SIT SIDE BY SIDE TO TRENDY MODERN BARS AND LOUNGES lLLED WITH THE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

WORKING LONG HARD HOURS AND PLAY ING EQUALLY HARD AFTERWARDS @#OMMUNITY IS A BIG WORD FOR -ADRILE×OS AND THE CONTRASTS IN LIFESTYLE BETWEEN THE OLD AND YOUNG MAKE NO DIFFERENCE TO THE SENSE OF TOGETHERNESS 0RIDE FOR THE CITY IS RIFE AND CERTAINLY THIS IS THE PEO PLES CITY 3INCE THE &RANCO REGIME CAME TO AN END WITH HIS DEATH IN

-ADRID HAS OPENED ITS DOORS TO FOREIGN INmUENCES AND FORMED ITS OWN IDENTITY (IS LEGACY IS MUCH DEBATED BUT THE -ADRID TODAY CAN DElNITELY BE SEEN AS A REACTION TO &RANCO S THIRTY NINE YEARS IN POW ER !REAS SUCH AS THE 4RIBUNAL AND -ALASA×A REGION FAMED FOR ITS AL TERNATIVE ROCK AND ELECTRIC BARS AND NEIGHBOURING #HEUCA THE GAY AND LESBIAN BARRIO ARE MAYBE DEMON STRATIONS OF THIS OPEN AND ACCEPTING CITY %QUALLY TRADITIONAL ATTITUDES ARE STILL VERY MUCH APART OF CONTEMPO RARY -ADRID )T IS NOT UNCOMMON TO lND CLOSE KNIT FAMILY GROUPS BROUGHT UP WITH STRONG RELIGIOUS VAL UES !LSO IT IS NORMAL FOR CHILDREN TO LIVE WITH THEIR PARENTS UP UNTIL THE AGE OF THIRTY WHEN THEY MARRY AND

MOVE TO SET UP THEIR OWN FAMILY OR REMAIN AND LOOK AFTER THEIR PARENTS 4HE WORD @JOVEN YOUTH IN 3PAN ISH IS OFTEN SEEN AS RELATING TO ANY ONE UNDER THE AGE OF THIRTY lVE 4HE WESTERN WORLD HAS COME TO -ADRID BUT THE CITY HAS NOT GRABBED AT THE CULTURE IT HAS PICKED OUT SELECT BITS THAT WORK FOR IT AND MOULDED THEM TO lT /NE SUCH EXAMPLE IS THAT OF EMAILING 9ES MORE AND MORE OF THE YOUTH CULTURE IS SET UP AROUND THE INTERNET BUT MANY -ADRILE×OS JUST DO NOT DO EMAILING 7HY EMAIL WHEN YOU COULD BE TALKING FACE TO FACE WITH THAT PERSON 7HEN LIVING IN A DIFFERENT CUL TURE TO OUR OWN ONE REmECTS UPON THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES OF BOTH 3ITTING BACK IN 0LAZA $OS DE -AYO

THE SQUARE DEDICATED TO THE UPRISING OF THE -ADRILE×OS AGAINST .APOLEON TALKING TO A FRIEND ABOUT THE SIX MONTHS SPENT SOAKING UP THE LIFE OF -ADRID THIS WRITER START ED TO PONDER THE PERSONALITY OF THE -ADRILE×OS !LL THROUGH THEIR HISTORY THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY HAVE BEEN lGHT ING TO MAKE IT THEIR OWN TO FORM AN IDENTITY FOR THEMSELVES AND CRE ATE THE LIFE THEY WANT TO LEAD 4HIS WRITER COULD REEL OFF THE SIGHTS AND ATTRACTIONS OF THE CAPITAL CITY OF 3PAIN AND SAY HOW INCREDIBLE THEY ARE WHILE STILL TELLING THE TRUTH BUT TO BE HONEST THIS IS ONLY WHAT -A DRID BRINGS AT FACE VALUE 4HE FRIEND WAS RIGHT WHEN THEY SAID THAT IT IS THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE CITY BUT ALSO IT IS WORTH CONSIDERING THAT THE CITY MAKES THE PEOPLE TOO

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-PTU JO +BQBO )T S GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS FACT THAT EVERYONE IN *APAN IS A SAMURAI

DRIVES A HOVER CAR AND HAD THEIR lRST -0 PLAYER IN THE MID EIGHTIES (OWEVER ) WENT THERE TO lND "ILL -URRAY USE A HEATED TOILET SEAT AND SLEEP IN -C$ONALD S !LL OF WHICH ) WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH IN HOURS -Y CROSSING FROM #HINA HAD TAUGHT ME THAT 0OSEIDON NOT ONLY HATED ME BUT WAS UNDER THE IM PRESSION ) HAD RAN HIS CAT OVER AND POURED ACID ON ITS DEAD CORPSE !S A RESULT ) EMBRACED *APAN BY HEAV ING MY INTESTINES INTO A SOLAR POW ERED SELF FRAGRANCING REFUSE BIN AND THEN FELL OVER ) HAD LANDED IN /SAKA WITH A LIST )T DETAILED EVERYTHING -R -IYA GI HAD TOLD ME ABOUT *APAN AND BE FORE THE DAY WAS OUT ) WOULD END MY OWN PERSONAL /DYSSEY IN 4O KYO WHERE "ILL -URRAY WAS WAITING FOR ME IN THE BAR OF THE 0ARK (YATT HOTEL ) DIDN T HAVE AN AXE TO GRIND ) HAD A SMALL MEDIEVAL ARMOURY TO HONE AND A CHECKLIST OF CLICHÏS TO HONOUR 4HE LAND OF THE RISING SUN HAD SEEN lT TO ILLUMINATE MY PATH WITH AN AFFECTIONATE ORANGE GLOW ,UCK ILY IT DIDN T FANCY SHOWING ME THE

RIGHT WAY SO WHEN ) GOT ON THE lRST BUS ) SAW ) ENDED UP EIGHT MILES FROM THE CITY CENTRE AND BEGAN TO FEEL THAT TIME NOT ONLY MARCHED ON REGARDLESS BUT WAS CONSPIRING AGAINST ME ) VENTURED FORTH STILL SMELLING A LITTLE BIT OF SICK BUT RE MEMBERED THAT "ILL WAS WAITING

SOME MILES AWAY &EELING SOMEHOW INTREPID BE TWEEN BOUTS OF VOMIT INDUCED DIZ ZINESS AND THE DROWNING SENSATION OF INSOMNIA ) MARCHED ON ) WAS IN THE LAND THAT 4OM #RUISE HAD SAVED FROM !MERICA AND ON THE WAY TO 4OKYO MANAGED TO DRINK CHEAP SAKE EAT SQUID AND FOLLOW THE LINE OF MY PEN THROUGH TWO OF THE TASKS ON MY LIST )T WAS GOING WELL )T TRANSPIRED THAT WHAT ) HAD CONCEIVED JUST HOURS PREVIOUS LY WOULD TAKE ME ON ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE AND WHIRLWIND TOURS OF AN INCREDIBLE COUNTRY FULL OF UN FATHOMABLY KIND PEOPLE THROUGH A COUNTRY QUICK TO EMBRACE DISOR GANISED TRAVELLERS AND INSTEAD OF MEETING "ILL -URRAY ) WOULD lND *ASON /RANGE FROM 4AKE 4HAT IN HIS PLACE SITTING IN THE BAR FROM ,OST IN 4RANSLATION 2OB 0ERRY

-PDBM CSFBLT *QTXJDI 4HE 5%! IS IN .ORWICH BUT

%AST !NGLIANS WOULD DISPUTE ANY CLAIM THAT THIS MAKES .ORWICH CEN TRE OF THE REGION 4HOSE

OBJECTORS LIVE IN )PSWICH CAPITAL TOWN OF %AST !NGLIA S SOUTHERN HALF

#OUNTY 3UFFOLK 4HOUGH )PSWICH BEARS THE SCARS OF A FEW MISGUIDED PLANNING DECI SIONS IT HAS PLENTY OF ATTRACTIONS FOR VISITORS 4HESE INCLUDE 0UBS /N .ORTHGATE IN CENTRAL )PSWICH IS THE ATMOSPHERIC 0* -C'INTY S A RARE )RISH THEMED PUB WHERE YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY MEET SOME PROPER )RISH PEOPLE -EANWHILE THE 3TEAM BOAT 4AVERN ON &ELAW 3TREET NEXT TO THE 2IVER /RWELL OFFERS BOTH EARTHY DRINKING COMPANY AND GOOD OLD TIME LIVE MUSIC !RCHITECTURE 9ES )PSWICH HAS SOME /LDER LANDMARKS INCLUDE #HRISTCHURCH -ANSION AND THE DISUSED 4OLLY #OBBOLD "REWERY -ORE RECENTLY

THE 7ILLIS "UILDING WAS DESIGNED BY

.ORMAN &OSTER AND IN BECAME "RITAIN S YOUNGEST BUILDING WITH A 'RADE @LISTED STATUS &OOTBALL )PSWICH 4OWN PLAY AT 0ORTMAN 2OAD 3TADIUM 4HERE YOU LL SEE STAT UES OF TWO EX MANAGERS WHO LATER TOOK CHARGE OF %NGLAND 3IR "OBBY 2OBSON AND 7ORLD #UP WINNING 3IR !LF 2AMSEY )PSWICH SUPPORTERS ARE REPUTED TO BE AMONG THE MOST WELCOMING FANS IN %NGLISH FOOTBALL !LAS THEY MAY NOT BE SO WELCOMING IF YOU SUPPORT .ORWICH #ITY 3UTTON (OO 4AKE THE .UMBER BUS NINE MILES OUT OF )PSWICH AND YOU LL AR RIVE AT 3UTTON (OO A -ECCA FOR ME DIEVAL HISTORY BUFFS 3UTTON (OO WAS THE BURIAL SITE OF AN !NGLO 3AX ON KING AND THE TREASURE INTERRED WITH HIM IS NOW DISPLAYED IN A MU SEUM /N THE WAY THE BUS CROSSES /RWELL "RIDGE n IF YOU RE ON A DOU BLE DECKER YOU LL GET A SPECTACULAR VIEW OVER THE RIVER )AN 3MITH

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'FMM $MVC HFUT IJHI 4HE &ELL AND -OUNTAINEER ING #LUB IS ONE OF THE OLD EST AND MOST ADVENTUROUS CLUBS AT 5%! FOR THOSE WITH A PASSION FOR THE "RITISH HILLS AND MOUNTAINS 4HROUGH OUT THE YEAR WE RUN SEVERAL TRIPS THREE OR FOUR PER TERM TO MOST OF THE %NGLISH AND 7ELSH NATIONAL PARKS INCLUD ING THE ,AKE $ISTRICT 3NOW DONIA THE 0EAK $ISTRICT AND THE "RECON "EACONS %ACH TRIP IS OVER A WEEKEND DEPART ING ON &RIDAY EVENING AND COMING BACK LATE ON 3UNDAY OR VERY EARLY ON -ONDAY $URING THE WEEK WE ALSO LIKE TO MEET UP FOR SOCIALS AND TO

DISCUSS MANY ADVENTURES OUT IN THE WILDERNESS 7HETHER THEY ARE HARD ENED MOUNTAINEERS OR COM PLETE NEWCOMERS WE OFFER A VARIETY OF WALKS OF VARYING DEGREES OF DIFlCULTY FROM GENTLE HILL WALKING TO HARD CORE MOUNTAIN SCRAMBLES NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED $EPENDING ON THE TRIP LOCA TION WE MAY ALSO OFFER OTHER ACTIVITIES SUCH AS CAVING !T THE END OF THE ACADEM IC YEAR WE RUN A WEEK LONG TRIP UP TO 7EST 3COTLAND FOR OUR GRAND SUMMER EXPEDI TION )T S TRULY THE ONLY WAY TO RECOVER FROM POST EXAM

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EXHAUSTION AMIDST SOME OF THE MOST MAGNIlCENT SCENERY IN THE WORLD &OR THOSE WHO WOULD LOVE TO LEAD OTHERS OFF THE BEATEN TRACK OUR WALK LEADER TRAIN ING COURSE WILL HELP YOU GAIN EXPERIENCE IN NAVIGATION AND OTHER PRACTICAL SKILLS AS WELL AS PROVIDING A USEFUL ADDI TION TO YOUR #6 )F YOU LOVE THE MOUN TAINS AND WANT TO ESCAPE THE mATNESS OF .ORFOLK THEN THIS AWESOME CLUB IS EXACTLY WHAT 4HE +IDS !CTION /VERSEAS YOU NEED %MAIL SU FELL UEA 3OCIETY IS AN INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN S COMMUNITY ACTION AC UK FOR DETAILS GROUP INVOLVED WITH STUDENT 3AMUEL &OSTER LED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD +!/3 AIMS TO A RAISE AWARENESS OF GLOBAL IN JUSTICES WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND B TO FUNDRAISE FOR STUDENT LED PROJECTS IN THE DEVELOP ING WORLD AIMED AT ALLEVIAT ING SUCH /UR MEMBERS FUNDRAISE IN A VARIETY OF WAYS INCLUDING ANYTHING FROM #LUB .IGHTS OR !FRICAN 0ARTIES TO 2UNNING (ALF -ARATHONS OR 3TREET #OLLECTIONS 4HIS YEAR WILL SEE A RETURN OF THE FAMOUS &ASH ION 3HOW IN THE ,#2 WHERE STUDENTS WILL GET THE CHANCE TO STRUT THEIR STUFF ON THE CATWALK WHILE FRIENDS FAM ILY WATCH ENVIOUSLY FROM THE

CROWDS !LSO THE BI ANNUAL @4OUGH 'UY EVENT WILL HAVE A +!/3 FUNDRAISING TEAM AT TEMPTING TO COMPLETE WHAT IS ARGUABLY THE WORLD S MOST DEMANDING ONE DAY SURVIVAL ORDEAL !LL ACTIVITIES WHETHER BIG OR SMALL AIM TO MAKE REAL THE SOCIETY S OBJECTIVES ! GROUP OF lVE 5%! STU DENTS HAVE RECENTLY RETURNED FROM A lVE WEEK VOLUNTEER ING PROJECT IN +ABWE :AMBIA WHERE THEY PUT THE MONEY FUNDRAISED FROM THE PREVI OUS YEAR S +!/3 ACTIVITIES THEIR OWN SKILLS TO GREAT USE 7HETHER IT WAS TEACHING %NG LISH IN A #HILDREN S #ENTER

COACHING FOOTBALL TO A GROUP OF STREET KIDS OR PARTICIPATING IN THE RUNNING OF A HOSPICE

THE GROUP CONTRIBUTED TO IM PROVING THE LIVELIHOODS OF THE LOCAL POPULATION MANY OF WHOM ARE AFFECTED BY ()6 !)$3

9OUR INTEREST AND CONTRI BUTION BIG OR SMALL WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED BY +!/3

BUT MUCH MORE SO BY THOSE WHO WE HELP ABROAD %MAIL UEAKAOS GOOGLEMAIL COM OR CHECK US OUT ON FACEBOOK AT GROUP @+!/3 5%! +ARL 0HILIPS

$POTFSWBUJPO BOE 8JMEMJGF 4PDJFUZ JO BXF 4HE 5+ OFFERS FEW GREATER WILDLIFE SPECTACLES THAN THAT OF WALKING ALONG THE BREED ING BEACH OF A COLONY OF GREY SEALS 2ARELY DOES ONE GET THE CHANCE TO SEE SUCH ENTHRAL LING ANIMALS SO EASILY SO

CLOSE AND IN SUCH NUMBERS -OTHERS SUCKLE THEIR NEW BORN PUPS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES WHILST THE ENOR MOUS THREE METRE LONG BULLS PRESIDE OVER THE WHOLE AFFAIR )F THERE ARE ANY lNER EXPERI

ENCES TO BE HAD IN "RITAIN

PERHAPS ONE OF THEM IS THE SIGHT AND SOUND OF TEN THOU SAND PINK FOOTED GEESE mYING OVERHEAD lLLING THE SKY WITH THEIR ZIGZAG FORMATIONS AND ENTHUSIASTIC HONKS AS THEY MOVE FROM THEIR ROOST SITE OUT ON THE 7ASH TO THE STUB BLE lELDS IN WHICH THEY FEED 4HE #ONSERVATION 7ILDLIFE 3OCIETY #!73 CAN SHOW YOU BOTH OF THESE "UT WATCHING WILDLIFE IS ONLY PART OF WHAT #!73 IS ABOUT WE ARE ALSO AN ENTHU SIASTIC COLLECTIVE OF CONSERVA TION VOLUNTEERS !T SEVERAL SITES IN AND AROUND .ORWICH

SOME RIGHT HERE ON CAMPUS

OUR MEMBERS ASSIST OTHER INCLUDING ORGANISATIONS

THE "RITISH 4RUST FOR #ONSER

VATION 6OLUNTEERS AND THE 230" IN ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF IMPORTANT HABITATS FOR RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES 4HIS TYPICALLY INVOLVES THE RE MOVAL OF INVASIVE VEGETATION

FROM THISTLES TO SMALL TREES

4HE WORK CAN BE HARD BUT IS ALWAYS REWARDING n IT GETS YOU OUT IN THE OPEN HELPS YOU MEET NEW PEOPLE AND MAKES A USEFUL ADDITION TO THE # 6 IF YOU RE CONSIDERING A CAREER IN CONSERVATION 4ALKS FROM THOSE WORKING IN VARIOUS WILDLIFE lELDS AND LEISURELY OUTINGS TO THE CITY S MANY lNE PUBS ALSO TAKE IMPORTANT PLACES IN OUR CALENDAR

! GOOD SUMMARY OF #!73 IS THAT WE RE DEDI CATED TO THE PROTECTION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE .ORFOLK COUNTRYSIDE AND ITS WILD LIFE 3O IF ANYTHING YOU VE JUST READ TICKLES YOUR INTER EST OR YOU JUST WANT MORE INFORMATION CONTACT US AT UEACONSERVATION HOTMAIL CO UK $ONAL &ARRELL

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ASTA 0OTATOES "READ )T S BEEN A FEW WEEKS OF BEING BACK AT UNIVERSITY AND ARE YOU GETTING A BIT BORED OF THE SAME OLD STU DENT BASICS 7ELL FORTUNATELY THE .ORWICH AND .ORFOLK &OOD &ESTIVAL TAKES PLACE THIS WEEK TH n TH /CTOBER OFFERING YOU A CHANCE TO TRY SOME NEW OPTIONS TO TANTALISE YOUR TASTE BUDS OR MAKE THE MOST OF A NICE SOPHISTICATED MEAL BUT AT STUDENT PRICES 4HE FESTIVAL IS BACK THIS YEAR AND IT S EVEN BIGGER THAN BEFORE SHOWCASING LOCAL TALENT

PROMOTING HEALTHY EATING AND MOST IMPOR TANTLY SUPPORTING AND ENCOURAGING THE USE OF LOCAL .ORFOLK PRODUCE WHICH IS PARTICULARLY EXCITING GIVEN THE HIGH QUALITY AND VARIATION OF THE FOOD PRODUCED IN THIS COUNTY 4HERE ARE MANY EVENTS GOING ON OVER THE WEEK WITH VARYING COSTS RANGING FROM A COURSE TASTER WEEKEND BREAK FOR a PERHAPS

NOT FOR STUDENTS TO THOSE THAT ARE ENTIRELY FREE ,OOK OUT IN PARTICULAR FOR EVENTS HAPPENING AT THE &ORUM OVER THE WEEKEND WHICH ARE FREE SUCH AS THE "ATTLE OF THE "ANGERS WHERE YOU CAN SAMPLE A VARIETY OF SAUSAGES OR THE .OR FOLK &OOD &AIR WHICH WILL BE SELLING A VARIETY OF LOCAL PRODUCE !LSO TRY THE TEA SHOP TRAIL

WHICH WILL TAKE YOU ROUND VARIOUS TEA SHOPS IN .ORWICH YOU MAY OTHERWISE NEVER lND /N THE OTHER HAND IF YOU JUST WANT TO EAT A GOOD MEAL WHY NOT GET A GROUP OF FRIENDS TOGETHER AND MAKE THE MOST OF THE WEEK LONG PROMOTIONS A LOT RESTAURANTS ARE OFFERING IN AS SOCIATION WITH THE &OOD &ESTIVAL )N PARTICULAR

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NEXT TIME YOUR mATMATE ISN T AROUND TRY REPLACING HIS BOOK

DESK LAMP OR TEDDY WITH A DIRTY BOWL AND GRADUALLY REPLACE LARGER OBJECTS UNTIL HE GETS THE HINT 9OU COULD EVEN MAKE IT A mAT COMPETITION TO SEE WHO CAN REMOVE THE LARGEST OBJECT I E A MATTRESS WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT (OWEVER THIS SHOULD REALLY ONLY BE DONE TO SOMEONE WHO CAN TAKE A JOKE AS BULLYING IS NEVER AN ACCEPTABLE OPTION EVEN IF THE PERSON IS DESPERATELY lLTHY 3IDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE A PRACTICAL JOKE WAR WHICH COULD LAST ALL YEAR OR AN AWKWARD CON VERSATION WITH YOUR 2ESIDENT 4U TOR SO DO BE AWARE OF THE CONSE QUENCES YOUR ACTIONS MAY HAVE !T THE END OF THE DAY )F NEITHER OF THESE OPTIONS GRAB YOU STOP MOANING AND DO THE WASHING UP YOURSELF "ETTY !N AGE OLD QUESTION BUT ONE EASILY SOLVED 'IVEN YOUR mAT MATE S FONDNESS FOR DIRT AND MESS WHY NOT GIVE THE OFFEND ING DISHES A NEW HOME IN HIS BED .OTHING SAYS @WASH UP YOU PLUMBAG QUITE LIKE A COLD #HINESE TAKEAWAY IN BETWEEN ONE S SHEETS 4HE mIPSIDE TO THIS IS OF COURSE THAT YOUR NOW LIVID mATMATE WILL HAVE NO QUARREL IN RALLYING THE MUCK FROM HIS BED TO YOURS RESULTING IN A GHASTLY AND ULTIMATELY VIOLENT GAME OF GREASY PING PONG )N THE INTEREST OF FAIRNESS WE FEEL THE RELUCTANT @WASHER UPPER ALSO NEEDS SOME HEARTY ADVICE 4WO WORDS TIN FOIL !S FAR AS YOU RE CONCERNED

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!T THE END OF YEAR ONE WEEK ONE !BBIE 3IMS GIVES AN INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF A &RESHER AT 5%! h'OOD LUCK GOODBYE AND REMEM BER n @lVE A DAY ISN T JUST ABOUT AL COHOL v 7ITH MY BEST FRIEND S DEPARTING COMMENTS STILL ECHOING IN MY EARS ) EMBARKED NERVOUSLY ON MY JOURNEY AS A 5%! &RESHER ) HAD READ AS MUCH ABOUT THE 5NIVERSITY AS ) COULD AND JOINED COUNTLESS &ACEBOOK GROUPS ALTHOUGH ) DID MANAGE TO RESIST @#ATCH A 2ABBIT AT 5%! BUT NOTHING COULD TRULY PREPARE ME FOR THE REALITY OF LIFE AS A STUDENT 3TANDING IN THE REGISTRATION ROOM ON THE lRST -ONDAY MORNING

EARS STILL RINGING FROM THE ,#2 ICE BREAKER THE NIGHT BEFORE ) SEARCHED IN VAIN FOR A FAMILIAR FACE TO PUT MY WORRIES AT EASE 4HANKFULLY IT WASN T LONG UNTIL ) WAS JOINED BY A GROUP OF SIMILARLY UNEASY &RESHERS AND WE CLUSTERED TOGETHER TENTATIVELY SHAR ING THE SAME HACKNEYED INTRODUC TIONS THE OLD NAME COURSE HOME TOWN AND ACCOMMODATION RITUAL RING A BELL WITH ANYONE "ALANCING THE DESIRE TO STAY UP INTO THE SMALL HOURS OF EACH MORN ING AND BOND WITH YOUR HOUSEMATES WITH THE DEPRESSING REALITY OF A AM LECTURE IS A CHALLENGING PART OF EVERY STUDENT S EXPERIENCE AND ONE WHICH ) M SURE WILL TAKE A LOT LONGER THAN THE WHIRLWIND SEVEN DAYS OF &RESH ER S WEEK TO WORK OUT 2UNNING LIKE A MANIAC TOWARDS THE LECTURE THEATRES WEIGHED DOWN BY BOOKS IS ALL WELL AND GOOD FOR THE lGHTING lT BUT IT CAN BE MORE OF A CHALLENGE WITH

THE COMBINATION OF A HANGOVER AND &RESHER S mU &OR EVERY NEW STUDENT UNIVER SITY PROVIDES A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO GET OUT THERE AND TRY SOMETHING YOU HAVE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO DO BE FORE 3OC-ART AND 3PORTS-ART PRESENT ED A GREAT STARTING POINT BY THE END OF THE AFTERNOON MY POCKETS WERE FULL OF SUGARY BRIBES AND MY PURSE WAS EMPTY

!LTHOUGH EVERY CLUB AND SOCIETY MAY NOT BE TO YOUR LIKING ) FAILED MISERABLY AT MY THREE ATTEMPTS AT FREE +ORFBALL MEMBERSHIP TRYING A NEW HOBBY CAN BE A LAUGH AS WELL AS A GREAT WAY TO MEET PEOPLE OUTSIDE YOUR mAT AND COURSE /F COURSE ANOTHER CLASSIC WAY OF MAKING NEW FRIENDS DURING &RESHER S WEEK IS HEADING DOWN TO THE EVENTS

TAKING PLACE IN THE ,#2 EACH NIGHT

WHERE YOU CAN BOND WITH YOUR mAT MATES OVER A DRINK AND ENJOY A VARIE TY OF MUSIC AND LIVE ACTS )T MIGHT NOT LOOK LIKE MUCH IN DAYLIGHT BUT AFTER A SNAKEBITE OR TWO THE ,#2 PROVIDES A GREAT NIGHT OUT n WHETHER YOU HAVE A THING FOR :ANE ,OWE A LOVE OF THE FUNFAIR OR JUST A PASSION FOR WEARING YOUR 0*S IN PUBLIC &REE TIME DURING &RESHER S WEEK WAS ALSO SPENT CHECKING OUT THE ON CAMPUS FACILITIES IN A CAMPUS FULL OF ACRONYMS WHERE YOU CAN BUY CARROTS FROM A 5&/ THINGS CAN GET A LITTLE CONFUSING )F YOU RE LUCKY YOUR TRIP TO THE -EDICAL #ENTRE WILL ONLY HAVE BEEN TO REGISTER BUT ONCE THE INEVITABLE &RESHER S mU HIT WITH A VENGEANCE SALES OF ,EMSIP WENT SKY HIGH ACROSS THE BOARD AND IT WAS TIME TO GO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AlELD (AVING INVESTED IN A YEARLY BUS PASS

) SOON VENTURED INTO THE CITY TO STOCK UP ON SUPPLIES AND TRAWL THE SHOPS FOR AN OUTlT FOR THE %MERGENCY 3ERVICES EVENING !FTER GETTING USED TO THE RELATIVE LUXURY OF OWNING MY OWN CAR BEFORE COMING TO UNIVERSITY

GETTING ONTO A BUS WITH HALF A DOZEN READY MEALS AND A POLICEMAN S HAT IS GOING TO TAKE A BIT OF GETTING USED TO (AVING BEEN SPOILED BY HOME COOKING BEFORE COMING TO 5%!

LEARNING TO FEND FOR MYSELF HAD ALSO BEEN A BIG PART OF THE STUDENT EXPERI ENCE 4HE COMFORTING WORLD OF CAS SEROLES AND SHEPHERD S PIE HAS BEEN ABRUPTLY REPLACED BY THE CLASSIC STU

DENT STAPLE OF PASTA CHILLI AND END LESS DAYS OF BEANS ON TOAST ) WOULD ALSO NOT RECOMMEND TRYING TO GET TO GRIPS WITH THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE DUAL MICROWAVE OVEN UNLESS YOU ARE STONE COLD SOBER IT CAN ONLY LEAD TO SETTING OFF THAT BANE OF STUDENT LIFE

THE lRE ALARM $ESPITE THE TRIALS AND TRIBULA TIONS THAT THE lRST WEEK OF UNIVERSITY HAS THROWN AT ME ) CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT ) HAVE HAD A GREAT &RESHER S EXPE RIENCE HERE AT 5%! ) M SURE ) M NOT ALONE IN HOPING THAT ALL THE PEOPLE ) HAVE MET AND THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES THAT ) HAVE JOINED WILL HELP TO MAKE THESE THREE YEARS A FUN AND ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE (OWEVER ) AM ALSO FAIRLY SURE THAT MY FRIEND S SOUND ADVICE WAS WRONG n ) HAVE IT ON GOOD AU THORITY THAT A SNAKEBITE IS MOST DEl NITELY ONE OF YOUR @lVE A DAY

5SJFE BOE 5FTUFE &ED UP OF HAVING TROUBLED AND TIRED SKIN BUT WONDERING WHERE TO GO FOR A SOLUTION THAT WON T BREAK THE BANK %MILY -ASON INVESTIGATES *ARROLDS @3KIN 3PA 7HEN LOOKING FOR A PLANT BASED ORGANIC AND ETHI CALLY MINDED SKINCARE COMPANY WHERE WOULD YOU GO 4HE "ODY 3HOP 4HOUGHT SO 7HILE 4HE "ODY 3HOP IS AN EXCELLENT CHOICE FOR SKIN SOLUTIONS IT IS NOT YOUR ONLY OPTION 7HILST HAVING @A BIT OF A MOOCH AROUND THE CITY CENTRE LAST WEEK ) CAME ACROSS THE @3KIN 3PA LOCAT ED ON THE COSMETICS mOOR OF *ARROLDS )T IS SOMETHING THAT ) CONFESS ) HAVE AL WAYS WALKED PAST ASSUM ING THAT THE PRODUCTS ARE OUT OF MY PRICE RANGE /N THE CONTRARY 4HE 3KIN 3PA IS HOME TO MANY BRILLIANT AND GOOD VALUE YET RELA

TIVELY UNKNOWN BRANDS 4HE STAFF ARE EXTREMELY IN FORMED AND VERY HELPFUL

BUT UNLIKE MANY OF THEIR COMPETITORS THEY DON T PRESSURE YOU INTO PARTING WITH YOUR CASH )N FACT

THE .ORWICH 3KIN 3PA IS AN EXCLUSIVE HOME FROM HOME FOR MANY SUCCESSFUL %UROPEAN BRANDS INCLUD ING OF THE 'ERMAN SKIN CARE LINE @$R (AUSHKA A FAVOURITE OF CELEBRITY !L EXA #HUNG AND IS ONE OF THE BEST PLACES OUTSIDE OF ,ONDON TO lND 5+ BASED BRANDS )F YOU WANT TO FEEL THE SATISFACTION OF GLOWING SKIN WITHOUT INCREASING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT THE

3KIN 3PA IS THE PLACE TO GO *O 7OOD 2ONNIE S WIFE HAS HER RANGE OF PRODUCTS ON THE SHELVES THERE AS DO LOCALS -ARTHA (ILL AND *U LIE &OSTER WHOSE LINE @0O TIONS AND 0OSSIBILITIES IS SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIANS

NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS AND MADE ENTIRELY FROM NATU RAL INGREDIENTS /N THE OTHER HAND WE RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT SHOPPING FOR THE GIRLS EITHER 3KIN 3PA HAS MANY EXCELLENT MALE SKINCARE PRODUCTS

INCLUDING THOSE BY 'REEK COMPANY +ORRES WHO ARE COMMITED TO ENVIRONMEN TALLY FRIENDLY PRODUCTION 4HEY ARE A STEP DOWN IN PRICE FROM WELL KNOWN

COMPANIES SUCH AS ,AN COME AND #LINIQUE THAT ARE OFTEN OUT OF REACH ON A STUDENT BUDGET AND JUST AS EFFECTIVE &INALLY IF THIS IS STILL SOUNDING A BIT TOO PRICEY AFTER A WEEKEND OF HEAVY PARTYING WHY NOT TRY A SMALLER SIZE 4HE 3KIN 3PA STOCKS A RANGE OF MINIATURE @$R (AUSHKA PRODUCTS FROM AS LITTLE AS a EACH

%JE ZPV LOPX 2ESEARCH INDICATES THAT DRINKING GREEN TEA MAY HELP REDUCE THE RISK OF CANCER HEART DISEASE AND STROKES AS WELL AS LOWERING CHOLESTEROL

REDUCING BLOOD PRES SURE AND BURNING CALO RIES )T S EVEN GOOD FOR YOUR TEETH

-B[Z 1FSTPO T (VJEF 5P &YFSDJTF 0ART 4UMMY 4AMER $O THIS WHENEVER YOU lND YOUR SELF STANDING STILL FOR EXAMPLE

WAITING FOR THE BUS OR WASHING UP )NHALE DEEPLY ALLOWING YOUR TUMMY TO EXPAND %XHALE SLOWLY WHILST CONTRACTING YOUR STOMACH MUSCLES SQUEEZE THEM AS MUCH AS YOU CAN WITH OUT THE PERSON IN LINE NEXT TO YOU NOTICING 2EPEAT THIS AS OFTEN AS YOU LIKE

ALWAYS TAKING CARE TO STAND UP STRAIGHT NOT ONLY WILL YOUR STOM ACH BE mATTER BUT YOUR POSTURE WILL IMPROVE TOO

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-C#AIN S RUNNING MATE S STANCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES SEEMS WORRY ING AT BEST )AN 3MITH REPORTS ON 3ARAH 0ALIN 53 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS USU ALLY INVOLVE TWO PERSONALITIES BUT THE CURRENT CAMPAIGN HAS ACQUIRED THREE OF THEM 3INCE *OHN -C#AIN CHOSE 3ARAH 0ALIN AS HIS VICE PRESI DENTIAL RUNNING MATE THIS !LASKAN GOVERNOR FORMER 5NIVERSITY OF )DAHO -ISS #ONGENIALITY MOOSE SHOOTER HOCKEY MOM AND SELF PRO CLAIMED @PITBULL WITH LIPSTICK HAS RECEIVED AS MUCH ATTENTION AS -C #AIN AND "ARACK /BAMA -C#AIN IS YEARS OLD AND IF HE WINS IN A MONTH S TIME IT ISN T INCONCEIVABLE THAT ILLNESS OR DEATH

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WHAT COULD THOSE WITH AN INTEREST IN THE ENVIRONMENT EXPECT !MONG THOSE WITH THE BIGGEST STAKE IN THE ENVIRONMENT ARE ANI MALS n AND IF YOU RE AN ANIMAL ES PECIALLY A LARGE WARM BLOODED ONE

YOU COULD EXPECT TROUBLE %ARLIER

THIS YEAR 0ALIN SUED THE FEDERAL GOV ERNMENT FOR PLACING POLAR BEARS ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST CLAIM ING THAT THERE WAS INSUFlCIENT SCI ENTIlC EVIDENCE TO SAY THEY WERE UNDER THREAT 4HE FACT THAT BEAR PROTECTION WOULD HAMPER OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION PROJECTS OFF THE !LASKAN COAST POSSIBLY lGURED IN HER THINKING TOO -INING IN !LASKA S "RISTOL "AY

WHICH WOULD CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR LOCAL BEAR AND CARIBOU POPULA TIONS HAS HER SUPPORT AS DOES OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN #OOK )N LET WHICH WOULD THREATEN BELUGA WHALES !S WITH POLAR BEAR NUM BERS SHE CLAIMS WHALE NUMBERS ARE HEALTHY DESPITE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY 7OLVES TOO SEEM NOT TO BE 3A RAH 0ALIN S FAVOURITE MAMMALS )N THE !LASKA $EPARTMENT OF &ISH AND 'AME GOT HER BLESSING WHEN IT DECIDED TO SHOOT WOLVES FROM HELI COPTERS n A POLICY AIMED AT INCREAS ING MOOSE NUMBERS 'IVEN 0AL IN S FONDNESS FOR HUNTING MOOSE

HER INTEREST HERE WAS PROBABLY NOT A MOOSE FRIENDLY ONE %NVIRONMENTALISTS WOULD BE ADVISED TO HIDE IN THE NEAREST CEL LAR IF A 0ALIN PRESIDENCY BECAME REALITY 3HE ADVOCATES OPENING THE MILLION UNSPOILT ACRES OF THE !RCTIC .ATIONAL 7ILDLIFE 2EFUGE IN NORTHEASTERN !LASKA TO FOSSIL FUEL

EXPLORATION ALTHOUGH CALCULATIONS SUGGEST THIS WOULD CAUSE ONLY A CENT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF A GALLON OF GASOLINE 3HE HAS ALSO PROMOTED TO THE TUNE OF MILLION THE BUILDING OF A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE FROM !LASKA S .ORTH 3LOPE ANGERING LOCAL TRIBES OF IN

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%VERY HOUR THE 5+ THROWS AWAY ENOUGH RUBBISH TO lLL THE !LBERT (ALL MOST OF IT ENDS UP IN LANDlLL !S THE 5+ CONTINUES WAGING ITS WAR ON WASTE EMPHASIS ON THE IMPOR TANCE OF RECYCLING IS BECOMING MORE APPARENT "UT ANOTHER MAJOR CON TRIBUTOR TO LANDlLL WASTE IS COMING TO THE FORE FOOD WASTE "ECAUSE FOOD WASTE IS ORGANIC

THERE IS A COMMON MISCONCEPTION AMONGST CONSUMERS THAT IT WILL ROT DOWN INTO THE GROUND CAUSING NO HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT (OW EVER WHEN ORGANIC WASTE IS SENT TO LANDlLL IT DECOMPOSES IN ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS PRODUCING METHANE A GREENHOUSE GAS FAR MORE POTENT THAN #/ )N THE 5+ WE THROW AWAY A THIRD OF THE FOOD WE BUY WITH HOUSE HOLDS THROWING AWAY MILLION TONNES OF IT EACH YEAR !ROUND HALF

OF FOOD WASTED IS PERFECTLY GOOD ED IBLE FOOD HOWEVER RECENT RESEARCH

BY THE 7ASTE AND 2ESOURCE !CTION 0ROGRAMME 72!0 HAS IDENTIlED A NUMBER OF REASONS WHY WE WASTE SO MUCH #ONSUMERS ARE SIMPLY BUYING MORE THEN THEY NEED AND DOING IT MORE OFTEN 7ITH SUPERMARKETS OPEN AROUND THE CLOCK AND TEMPT ING @BUY ONE GET ONE FREE OFFERS IT IS EASY TO FALL INTO THE TRAP OF BUYING TOO MUCH /VER THE LAST YEARS WE HAVE SEEN EATING PATTERNS CHANGE DRA MATICALLY 5P UNTIL THE LAST FEW DEC ADES MANY FAMILIES WOULD BE USED TO SITTING AROUND THE TABLE AT REGU LAR TIMES EACH DAY AND LITTLE FOOD WOULD BE WASTED 4RADITIONALLY THE LEFTOVER MEAT FROM A 3UNDAY ROAST WOULD BE RECYCLED THE FOLLOWING FEW DAYS CRAFTED INTO SHEPHERD S PIE AND COLD MEAT AND MASH UNTIL IT RAN OUT BY &RIDAY ON WHICH DAY lSH WOULD BE SERVED

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4HE "RAZILIAN GOVERNMENT HAS NAMED ITSELF AS THE WORST OFFEND ING ILLEGAL LOGGER IN THE COUNTRY )N AN OFlCIAL REPORT PUBLISHED BY THE MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON TH 3EPTEMBER A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT CAME TOP OF THE LIST OF ILLEGAL LOGGERS FOR THE LARGEST AREA OF .OWADAYS OUR HECTIC MODERN THE !MAZON RAINFOREST DESTROYED BY LIFESTYLES MEAN WE HAVE NO TIME TO DEFORESTATION SINCE 4HE )NSTITUTE OF #OLONISATION PLAN MEALS OR TO BE CREATIVE WITH LEFTOVERS @4OP UP OR SPONTANEOUS AND !GRARIAN 2EFORM )NCRA WAS SHOPPING IS NOT UNCOMMON AS IS SET UP BY THE GOVERNMENT TO ALLO NOT CHECKING WHAT FOOD THERE AL CATE LAND FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF POOR READY IS AT HOME BEFORE WE GO 4HIS FAMILIES "UT INSTEAD THE DEPART LEADS TO THE PURCHASE OF DUPLICATE MENT HAS BEEN IN DEALS WITH LOGGING ITEMS THAT INEVITABLY END UP IN THE COMPANIES THAT HAVE DESTROYED THE NATURAL FOREST FOR ITS HIGH QUALITY BIN 4HE 'OVERNMENT IS CONCERNED TIMBER 'REENPEACE HAS ARGUED THAT ABOUT THIS GROWING PROBLEM AND IS )NCRA HAS LET FOREST LAND GO TO LOG KEEN TO ENCOURAGE MORE LOCAL AU GING COMPANIES hUNDER THE GUISE OF THORITIES TO IMPLEMENT A SEPARATE A LAND SETTLEMENT PROGRAMMEv AND HAVE EVEN CREATED FAKE SETTLEMENTS WEEKLY FOOD WASTE COLLECTION #URRENTLY .ORWICH #ITY #OUN TO COMPLY WITH THE OFlCIAL PLAN !LTHOUGH OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS CIL DOES NOT COLLECT FOOD WASTE SEPA RATELY BUT ENCOURAGES HOME COM "RAZIL HAS SEEN A STEADY DECLINE IN POSTING AS A GREAT WAY OF RECYCLING DEFORESTATION lGURES FROM !UGUST KITCHEN SCRAPS AND OTHER ORGANIC SAW THIS TREND REVERSED WITH SQ WASTE SUCH AS GRASS CUTTINGS .ORFOLK KM OF THE !MAZON DESTROYED MORE RESIDENTS ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY THAN DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF TREE FELL TO PURCHASE A HOME COMPOSTER AT A ING IN !UGUST WHEN SQ KM REDUCED PRICE PLEASE CONTACT .OR WERE CLEARED %NVIRONMENT MINISTER WICH #ITY #OUNCIL FOR MORE DETAILS #ARLOS -INC SAID h)T WAS A TERRIBLE RESULT 7E RE GOING TO BLOW ALL OF THEM OUT OF THE WATERv WARNING THAT ALL OF THE ILLEGAL LOGGERS ON THE LIST WOULD FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES 4HE RATE OF DEFORESTATION IN !UGUST WAS ALSO TWICE THAT OF *ULY INDICAT ING A SUDDEN DRASTIC CHANGE 4HE REASONS FOR THIS SHARP IN CREASE IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RAIN

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BY THE "RAZILIAN GOVERNMENT TO END NET DEFORESTATION WITHIN YEARS 4HE PLAN OUTLINES hDEFORESTATION REDUCTION TARGETSv PLEDGING THAT BY MORE "RAZILIAN TREES WILL BE PLANTED THAN ARE CUT DOWN

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(ARRY ,OW TALKS TO 5%! +ORFBALL #LUB S VICE PRESIDENT !LEX -ACNAB ABOUT THE LITTLE KNOWN MIXED SEX SPORT AND HIS ROUTE INTO THE GAME 4ELL ME A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF !LEX 7ELL ) M AND IN MY THIRD YEAR STUDYING !C COUNTING AND &INANCE ) M FROM "ASINGSTOKE AND LIVE JUST OFF 5NTHANK 2OAD DURING TERM TIME WITH THREE OTHER GUYS ) THINK &AMILY 'UY IS BRILLIANT AND ) M NOT THE BIGGEST FAN OF SPI DERS )S THERE AN INTERESTING FACT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU 7ELL ) WAS ACTUALLY BORN IN (OLLAND WHICH HAPPENS TO BE WHERE KORFBALL ORIGINATED ) LIVED THERE FOR JUST UNDER A YEAR BEFORE MY PAR ENTS MOVED BACK TO THE 5+ 7HEN DID YOU lRST PLAY KORFBALL ) ONLY STARTED PLAYING KORFBALL WHEN ) CAME TO 5%! ,IKE MOST PEOPLE ) HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE SPORT WAS BUT ) ENJOYED THE PROSPECT OF PLAYING WITH GIRLS ) LIKED THE IDEA OF PLAYING A SPORT THAT ) DIDN T KNOW ABOUT AND AFTER A FEW TRAINING SESSIONS AND SOME BRILLIANT FRESH ERS TOURNAMENTS ) GOT A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPORT AND JUST HOW POPULAR IT IS $O YOU PLAY ANY OTHER SPORTS !T THE MOMENT KORFBALL IS THE ONLY SPORT THAT ) PLAY COMPETITIVELY /THERTHAN THAT ) ENJOY THE ODD ROUND OF GOLF SOME SQUASH AND IF ) M FEEL ING PARTICULARLY ADVENTUROUS PLAYING FOOTBALL SOCIALLY WITH A FEW MATES EVEN IF MY LACK OF SKILL IS USUALLY LAUGHED AT (AVE YOU IN THE PAST ) USED TO PLAY A BIT OF TENNIS WHEN ) WAS YOUNG ER HOWEVER ) SOON GAVE THIS UP FOR SQUASH AS ) FOUND ) WAS MORE ADAPTED TO SMASH A BALL AROUND AN ENCLOSED AREA THEN OVER A NET 4HIS LED ME TO PLAY COMPETITIVELY FOR MY LOCAL GYM FOR A FEW YEARS BEFORE ) GAVE IT UP ) REALISED ) WAS ONLY USING MY GYM MEMBERSHIP JUST TO PLAY SQUASH

7HAT S THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR CLUB SPORT ) BELIEVE THE BEST THING ABOUT 5%! KORFBALL IS THE ATMOSPHERE %VERYONE AT THE CLUB IS SO FRIENDLY AND WELCOMING THAT YOU WILL lND YOURSELF GOING TO TRAINING EVEN IF YOU RE INJURED JUST TO SEE THE PEOPLE (OW CAN PEOPLE GET INVOLVED !NYONE CAN GET INVOLVED IF THEY WANT TO

WHETHER COMPETITIVELY OR NOT )F YOU WANT TO lND OUT WHAT KORFBALL IS AND CHECK OUT THE CLUB THEN YOU CAN VISIT OUR SITE AT WWW UEAKO RFBALL CO UK /UR TRAINING IS 7EDNESDAY PM IN (ALL OF THE 3PORTSPARK AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO COME ALONG TO CHECK OUT THE SPORT )F YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THEN YOU CAN JUST EMAIL UEAKORFBALL GOOGLEMAIL COM 7E ALSO HAVE ALMOST PHOTOS ON OUR &ACEBOOK GROUP 5%! +ORFBALL #LUB IF YOU WANT TO CHECK OUT PICTURES FROM SOCIALS AND TOURNAMENTS )S 5%! +ORFBALL A BIG CLUB ) WOULD SAY IT S A FAIRLY BIG CLUB )T HAS CERTAINTY GROWN IN SIZE SINCE ) JOINED TWO YEARS AGO 4HE CLUB S INCREASING POPULARITY HAS MEANT THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ENTER A FOURTH TEAM INTO THE .ORFOLK LEAGUE THIS YEAR !NY ADVICE FOR STUDENTS STARTING OUT *UST MAKE SURE YOU HAVE FUN 7HEN ) lRST START ED ) REALLY DIDN T HAVE A CLUE WHAT ) WAS DOING 4HAT WAS lNE THOUGH BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE WHO JOINED WAS NEW TO THE SPORT AS WELL AND WAS IN THE SAME SITUATION ) WAS ) REMEMBER AT MY lRST FRESHERS TOURNAMENT THE lRST GOAL WE SCORED WAS IN OUR OWN NET %VERYONE HAD A FRIENDLY LAUGH ABOUT IT AND WE WERE ALL IM PRESSED WITH HOW GOOD A GOAL IT ACTUALLY WAS !ND lNALLY WHO S GOING TO WIN THE 0REMIER ,EAGUE THIS SEASON 7ELL ) WOULD LIKE TO SAY (ULL MIGHT BE IN WITH A CHANCE AFTER BEATING !RSENAL BUT ) M GOING TO BE REALISTIC AND GO FOR -AN 5TD

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.PSF NJTFSZ GPS .BHQJFT 'RACE 3IMPSON &EATURES %DITOR )T HAS NOT BEEN A GOOD MONTH TO BE A .EWCASTLE 5NITED FAN /NE MAY ASK WHEN IS IT A GOOD TIME TO BE A .EWCASTLE 5NITED FAN .EWCASTLE FANS ARE NOT UNFAMILIAR WITH DISAPPOINT MENT BUT THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF THE LAST MONTH ARE ENOUGH TO ROCK THE MOST HARD ENED -AGPIE 4HE FOOTBALLING WORLD WATCHED IN ASTONISH MENT AS THE 3ECOND #OMING OF +EVIN +EEGAN ENDED AND THE BELEAGUERED CLUB WAS PUT UP FOR SALE BY ITS REVILED OWNER -IKE !SHLEY .ON FANS OF THE CLUB MAY HAVE GRINNED IN AMUSEMENT AT THE RECENT MELODRAMA ENJOYING THE FARCICAL CHAIN OF CALAMITIES IN THE SPORTING EQUIVALENT OF (OLLYOAKS HOWEVER ONE ONLY HAS TO LOOK AT OUR NATIONAL SIDE TO EMPATHISE WITH THE 4OON FAITHFUL 4HE %NGLISH ARE FAMOUSLY PESSIMISTIC LACKING IN SELF

ESTEEM AS GLOOMY AS THEIR WEATHER &OOTBALL HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE EXCEPTION 4HE %NG LISH ARE FANATICAL ABOUT THEIR NATIONAL SPORT SHOWING UN JUSTIlABLE OPTIMISM FOR THE PROSPECTS OF THE NATIONAL SIDE 4HE %NGLISH EXPECT FOR %NG LAND WHAT THEY DARE NOT HOPE FOR THEMSELVES VICTORIES TRO PHIES SUCCESS DOMINATION

GLORY $ESPITE NOT WINNING A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL TOUR NAMENT SINCE CLINCHING THE 7ORLD #UP YEARS AGO A BIENNIAL FRENZY CONSUMES THE COUNTRY AS THE INSATIABLE LUST FOR A COMPETITION WIN MAKES FOOTBALL FANS DELIRIOUS WITH EXCITEMENT #OMPARE THIS TO THE CHRONIC CIRCUS THAT IS .EW CASTLE 5NITED ! TEAM WHOSE LAST MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT WAS WINNING THE &! #UP IN

WHOSE FANS DREAM OF A TOP FOUR lNISH EVERY SEASON YET HAVE TO SUFlCE WITH AVOIDING RELEGATION A TEAM WITH A BIG REPUTATION BUT LACKING THE CREDENTIALS TO MATCH 3OUND

FAMILIAR .EWCASTLE 5NITED

THE PERENNIAL OVERREACHING UNDERACHIEVERS IS MORE LIKE THE NATIONAL TEAM THAN %NG LAND ITSELF 4AKE A LOOK AT THE MANAG ERS THAT HAVE DRANK FROM BOTH POISON CHALICES n 3IR "OBBY 2OBSON AND +EVIN +EEGAN ARE %NGLISH AND 'EORDIE HE ROES BUT DESPITE THEIR GOD LIKE STATUSES NEITHER COULD EXTRACT THE WINNING POTENTIAL FROM SOME OF THE WORLD S TOP PLAYERS IN EITHER TEAM )T TAKES

YEARS IF EVER FOR A MANAGE RIAL CAREER TO RECOVER FROM AN UNSUCCESSFUL STINT IN CHARGE OF EACH TEAM WITH ONLY THE BRAVEST OR CRAZIEST DEPENDING ON YOUR VIEWPOINT OPTING TO CAPTAIN THESE PERPETUALLY SINKING SHIPS "EING THE 4OON BOSS IS NOT UNLIKE BEING THE 0RIME -INISTER )T IS PAINFULLY IRONIC THAT FORMER 0- 4ONY "LAIR IS AN AVID 5NITED FAN *OE +IN NEAR AND 'ORDON "ROWN SHARE THE HONOUR OF HAVING

"RITAIN S LEAST ENVIABLE JOB )N THEIR CURRENT SITUATIONS THEY HAVE LITTLE HOPE OF EN JOYING THE ADULATION OF THEIR PREDECESSORS GLORY DAYS THEIR DISILLUSIONED FANS FAITH IN A TARNISHED BRAND IS TREMBLING .EWCASTLE FANS AND THE "RIT ISH VOTING PUBLIC ARE PAST CAR ING WHO IS HOLDING THE FORT

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHEN THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS FA TALLY mAWED .EWCASTLE 5NITED IS A QUINTESSENTIALLY %NGLISH CLUB

7HEREAS -ANCHESTER 5NITED REPRESENT WHAT WE ALL ASPIRE TO BE THE 4YNESIDE DEVOTEES ARE SYMBOLIC OF OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY EVERYTHING WE ARE AND EVERYTHING WE STRIVE NOT TO BE 4HIS IS NOT A NEGATIVE OBSERVATION .EWCASTLE FANS ARE PASSIONATE SPIRITED LOYAL

AND ALTHOUGH THEIR OPTIMISM MAYBE MISGUIDED LUNACY EVEN IT IS ADMIRABLE HOW SUPPORTERS CONTINUE TO HOLD OUT HOPE FOR A TEAM THAT HAS DELIVERED THEM NOTHING BUT GRAVE DISAPPOINTMENT AND INCOMPARABLE ANGUISH &OOTBALL COMMENTATORS MAY MOCK THE 4OON !RMY S UNFOUNDED ROSY OUTLOOK BUT WE ONLY HAVE TO LOOK INSIDE OURSELVES TO EMPATHISE WITH THIS ROWDY BUNCH 3YMPA THISING WITH THE .EWCASTLE S PLIGHT MAY MEAN ACKNOWL EDGING NATIONAL FOIBLES THAT ONE WOULD RATHER NOT ADMIT

BUT IS THE HOPE OF SUCCESS IN THE FACE OF SUSTAINED ADVERSITY REALLY SUCH A BAD THING 7E -AGPIES THINK NOT

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AND ONE AREA WHERE THERE IS CERTAINLY NO SHORTAGE OF NEW EXPERIENCES TO BE SAMPLED IS IN THE REALM OF SPORT 7ALKING ROUND 3PORTS -ART ON THE lRST 7EDNESDAY OF THE AUTUMN TERM WAS AN ENLIGHTENING EXPERIENCE FOR MANY FRESHERS WHO HAD NEVER HEARD OF WAKEBOARDING OR WHO HADN T EXPECTED TO lND A CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING SOCIE TY AMONG THE DOZENS OF STALLS ADVERTISING THEIR SPORT 4HE UNFAMILIAR NAME WHICH CAUGHT MY ATTENTION THE MOST WAS KORFBALL A SPORT FOUNDED IN THE .ETHERLANDS NEAR THE TURN OF THE CENTURY BASED AROUND A COMBINATION OF BASKETBALL AND NETBALL BUT A MORE TACTICAL GAME ALONG THE LINES OF FOOTBALL +ORFBALL HAS THE ADVAN TAGE OVER ITS FOREBEARS OF BEING A MIXED SEX SPORT IN WHICH BOYS AND GIRLS PARTICI PATE ALONGSIDE ONE ANOTHER IN TWO @DIVISIONS OR GROUPS WITHIN ONE TEAM n FOUR BOYS AND FOUR GIRLS TWO OF EACH ON ATTACK AND TWO ON DEFENCE

) VE FOUND THAT THIS HAS THE EFFECT OF MAKING THE CLUB TRAINING SESSIONS A FRIENDLIER

RELAXED PLACE TO BE AND TRANS FORMS WOULD COULD EASILY BECOME A HIGHLY CHARGED UL TRA COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT SUCH AS BASKETBALL FOR EX AMPLE INTO A PURELY ENJOY ABLE FORM OF RECREATION /UR WEEKLY TRAINING PRO GRAMME IS ALREADY UNDERWAY

AND TWO SESSIONS HAVE PASSED WITH ACCORDING TO SOME OF THE SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE CLUB UNPRECEDENTED INTEREST FROM NEW STUDENTS TO THE UNI VERSITY n BOTH FRESHERS FROM THE 5+ AND VISITING STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 7HILE THERE WERE AT LEAST PLAYERS INCLUDING RETURN

ING MEMBERS OF LAST YEAR S TEAMS AT THE lRST SESSION

NUMBERS INCREASED AGAIN FOR THE SECOND PRACTICE AND MANY OF THE NEWCOMERS TO THE GAME HAVE SHOWN PLENTY OF ENTHUSIASM FOR CONTINU ING 3UCH IS THE LEVEL OF INTER EST THAT THE CLUB HAS ALREADY CONlRMED TWO 5%! TEAMS AT THE ,ANCASTER &RESHERS 4OUR NAMENT IN /CTOBER WHILE HOPES ABOUND THAT lVE OR MAYBE SIX TEAMS COULD BE REPRESENTING THE UNIVERSITY IN .ORFOLK S KORFBALL LEAGUES THIS YEAR -UCH EXCITEMENT LIES AHEAD THEN FOR CLUB PRESI DENT 0AUL !SHWORTH AND HIS DEDICATED COMMITTEE

4AKEN AT 9ARMOUTH WHEN 5%! 6OLLEYBALL S -ICHAEL "ROWNE AND -AX !SKWITH lNISHED TH IN THE 'REAT 9ARMOUTH .ATIONAL "EACH 4OURNAMENT THIS SUMMER

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.ICOLE #OOKE IS THE YOUNGEST PERSON EVER TO WIN BOTH THE #YCLING 7ORLD #UP AND THE /LYMPIC TITLE IN ONE YEAR )N !UGUST THE 7ELSH BORN YEAR OLD ACHIEVED GOLD IN THE /LYMPIC 2OAD 2ACE WINNING A SPRINT FOR THE LINE FROM A GROUP OF lVE ES CAPEES #OOKE ESTABLISHED AROUND A SECOND LEAD OVER THE TOP OF THE CLIMB ON THE SECOND OF THE TWO MOUN TAIN CIRCUITS 7ITH M TO GO #OOKE TEMPORARILY LOST TOUCH WITH THE OTHERS BUT STORMED BACK TO LEAD OUT THE SPRINT FROM M AND RE TAINED THE FRONT POSITION TO WIN THE RACE IN THE POURING RAIN 3HE SAID OF HER WIN h)T S THE RESULT OF A LOT OF HARD WORK OVER THE YEARS BY SO MANY PEOPLE NOT JUST ME

SO ) D LIKE TO THANK THEM ALL AND ALL MY FANS ) M SO GLAD TO HAVE REPAID SUCH GREAT SUPPORT v *UST LAST WEEK .ICOLE WON THE WOMEN S ROAD RACE

7ILL (OWARTH 3PORTS 2EPORTER BRINGS WITH IT A NEW DAWN FOR THE 5%! 3NOWSPORTS 3OCIETY 7ITH A NEW COM MITTEE AND A NEW DIRECTION 5%!33 HAS ARRIVED 7HETHER YOU RE INTO DRY SLOPE LESSONS SNOWBOARD ING FREESTYLE RACE TRAINING OR FANCY COMING ALONG TO OUR EPIC SOCIALS SNOWSPORTS OFFERS SOMETHING FOR EVERY SKILL LEVEL "OASTING A YEAR LONG EVENT ITINERARY 5%!33 IS PROVIDING ALL MEMBERS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THEIR SKIING OR SNOWBOARD ING TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH A RANGE OF TRIPS AND EVENTS AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE #OMPLETE BEGINNER .EV ER FEAR 7ITH WEEKLY STARTER LESSONS GIVEN BY QUALIlED INSTRUCTORS YOU LL BE UP AND SKIING BY #HRISTMAS 3NOW BOARDING LESSONS ARE AVAIL ABLE IN .OVEMBER OR WAIT UNTIL THE HOLIDAY IN *ANUARY TO PICK UP THE SKILLS $ONE A BIT BEFORE %X PECT REGULAR TRIPS TO THE -IL TON +EYNES 3NOW $OME FOR A TASTE OF FRESH SNOW AND A CHANCE TO PERFECT YOUR FALL ING OVER TECHNIQUE BEFORE THE HOLIDAY 7EDNESDAY DRY SLOPE SESSIONS FREESTYLE

TITLE AT THE 7ORLD #HAMPI ONSHIPS IN 6ARESE )TALY AFTER AN IMPRESSIVE AND DRAMATIC SPRINT lNISH "RITISH TEAMMATE ,IZ ZIE !RMISTEAD WAS PART OF A LONG TERM BREAK AND IN THE lNAL LAP SHE WAS ABLE TO HELP DELIVER #OOKE INTO AN ELITE ESCAPE GROUP OF SIX )T SOON BECAME lVE INCLUDING 7ORLD #HAMPION -ARIANNE 6OS AND WINNER *UDITH !RNDT 6OS LOOKED THE STRONG EST OF THE QUINTET ATTACK ING ON THE CLIMBS BUT WAS UNABLE TO STAY AWAY #OOKE ALSO SAW OFF A LATE SOLO BID BY 3WEDEN S /LYMPIC SILVER MEDALLIST %MMA *OHANNSEN 6OS STARTED THE SPRINT FOR THE LINE WITH M TO GO BUT #OOKE REACTED QUICKLY AND IN THE LAST METRES WAS ABLE TO COME ROUND THE $UTCH RIDER

lNISHING IN STYLE CELEBRATING WITH HER ARMS IN THE AIR AS SHE CROSSED THE LINE 4HE FOUR TIMES 7ORLD *UNIOR #HAMPION AND THREE TIMES SENIOR MEDAL WINNER SAID @!T THE lNALE ) TRIED MY BEST IT WAS INSTINCT )T WAS A REALLY HARD RACE

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NIGHTS AND EQUIPMENT TAST ER SESSIONS ARE THE STAND ARD WEEKLY EVENTS GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE YEAR &ANCY SOME RACING &ULLY QUALIlED RACE INSTRUCTORS ARE WAITING TO TAKE YOU THROUGH BOMBING IT DOWN A PISTE IN THE QUICKEST TIME POSSIBLE 7HETHER SLALOM OR BIGnAIR SOUNDS UP YOUR STREET COME ALONG AND TRY IT OUT IN TIME FOR OUR .OVEMBER WEEKEND IN %DINBURGH AT THE "RITISH 5NIVERSITY $RY 3KI 3LOPE #HAMPIONSHIP "5$3 "5$3 MARKS THE lRST MAIN TRIP OF THE SNOWSPORTS CALENDAR )F YOU FANCY COM PETING OR JUST COMING ALONG TO SUPPORT EXPECT AN IN CREDIBLE WEEKEND OF RACING

BANTER WITH OTHER UNIVERSI TIES AND THE LEGENDARY "5$3 PROM BALL !LL THOSE WANTING TO GET INVOLVED CONTACT OUR RACE CAPTAIN *OSIE SEE CON TACT BELOW ,ES !RCS IS THE LUCKY RE SORT HOSTING 5%!33 FOR THIS YEAR S MAIN HOLIDAY *ANUARY RD n TH &UN FROLICS

APRÃ’S SKI NOT TO MENTION A BIT OF SKIING a .EED ) SAY MORE #HECK OUT THE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS AND THE BOOKING REFERENCE "EFORE ALL THAT THOUGH

WE BEGIN THE YEAR WITH THE

h) D RIDDEN THE COURSE SEVERAL TIMES BECAUSE IT IS CLOSE TO HOME AND ) KNEW IT WAS A TOUGH lNAL SPRINT ) DIDN T WANT TO GO EARLY AS M CAN SEEM LIKE AT THE END OF A LONG RACE h) SAW THE ORANGE JERSEY COME BY AND JUST KNEW ALL ) COULD DO WAS GET INTO THE SLIPSTREAM AND KEEP GOING ALL THE WAY TO THE LINE ) DID NOT KNOW WHAT WOULD HAP PEN BUT ) JUST TRIED MY BEST IN THE SPRINT AND WAS ABLE TO USE THE SLIPSTREAM EFFECT TO GET PAST HER 4HE YEAR OLD WENT ON

h) DON T THINK ) VE REALIZED YET WHAT ) VE DONE )T WAS A DREAM COME TRUE IN "EIJING

AND ) WAS RELAXED TODAY BE CAUSE ) HAD ACHIEVED MY GOAL FOR THE SEASON WITH THE /L YMPICS h4HE TEAM PLAN WE HAD BEFORE THE RACE ALSO GAVE ME A LOT OF CONlDENCE AND YOU CAN ONLY DO YOUR BEST AND THAT IS WHAT ) DID IN THE END )T WASN T REALLY TACTICS BUT SOME OF IT WAS INSTINCT v

ESSENTIAL LAUNCH PARTY THE 3NOWBOMB 4OMORROW

/CTOBER TH BRING A FRIEND WHETHER PART OF 3NOWSPORTS OR NOT AND MEET US IN THE SQUARE AT PM BEFORE WE HEAD OFF TO 0O .A .A S IN TOWN )T S LIKE "EIJING BUT ON A BUDGET @0UB SKI WILL BE MAKING A TRIUMPHANT RETURN AT THE END OF .OVEMBER +EEP YOUR EARS PEELED FOR DETAILS NEARER THE TIME AS WELL AS THE PRE HOLIDAY PARTY FOR EVERYONE TO GET TO KNOW THEIR FEL LOW TRAVELLERS AND POTENTIAL ROOMMATES !FTER THE 8MAS HOLS THE EVENTS KEEP COMING THICK AND FAST DRY SLOPE SO CIALS AND THE "53# EVENT IN &RANCE n EXPECT 5%!33 TO BE WITH YOU ALL YEAR ROUND /VERALL 5%!33 WILL ENSURE YOU GET EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP )F YOU RE LOOKING TO LEARN SKI ING OR SNOWBOARDING OR JUST FANCY COMING ALONG TO THE LEGENDARY HOLIDAYS UNIVER SITY IS THE PLACE TO DO IT !LL THE DETAILS OF THIS YEAR S EVENTS ARE ON THE NEW WEBSITE AS WELL AS THE CHANCE TO ORDER OUR EXCLUSIVE HOOD IES WWW UEASS CO UK )F YOU HAVE ANY QUERIES CONTACT PRESIDENT *USTINE -C)NTYRE *USTINE UEASS CO UK