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$AVINA +ESBY 2EPORTER 3HOCKWAVES REVERBERATED THROUGH THE SPORTS CLUBS THIS WEEK AS THE 2UGBY CLUB WERE l NED OF THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS ACCOUNT FOR INAPPRO PRIATE BEHAVIOUR OF ITS MEMBERS 4HIS IS THE MAXIMUM l NE THAT CAN BE ISSUED TO ANY CLUB AND IS ESTI MATED TO BE FROM a TO a )N ADDITION TO THIS IF THERE ARE ANY MORE PROBLEMS WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS THE CLUB WILL BE WITHDRAWN FROM "53! !CCORDING TO 3OCIETIES /Fl CER 0AUL 7ELLS THIS IS THE l RST TIME THE l NE HAS BEEN LEVIED AFTER A CHANGE MADE AT 5NION #OUNCIL LAST YEAR 4HE OFFENCES FOR WHICH THE l NE WAS GIVEN OCCURRED AT THE BEGIN NING OF /CTOBER /N THE EVENING OF 7EDNESDAY TH /CTOBER DURING THE l RST TEAM SOCIAL THREE MEMBERS TOOK THEIR TROUSERS OFF IN THE SQUARE AND DOWNED PINTS 5NFORTUNATELY THE 6ICE #HANCELLOR WAS WALKING PAST AT THE TIME AND SO PUT IN A FOR MAL COMPLAINT )N ADDITION TO THIS A JOINT SOCIAL WITH THE WOMEN S TEAM TOOK PLACE ON TH /CTOBER WITH A THREE LEG GED PUB CRAWL ! FUNNEL WAS USED IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE DRINKING WHICH IS BELIEVED TO ENCOURAGE ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR #HARGES WERE ALSO PUT FORWARD OF A MESS BEING MADE IN THE SQUARE BUT AS THE SQUARE WAS AT THE TIME BEING USED BY STUDENTS ALL DAY AND HAD BEEN EARLIER OCCUPIED BY ANOTHER CLUB ON A SOCIAL THESE CHARGES WERE DROPPED 3PEAKING IN REACTION TO THE l NE CLUB PRESIDENT 3TEVEN !LEXANDER *ONES SAID THAT HE COULD hUNDERSTAND
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ER THAN THEIR BODY WOULD NATURALLY BE ABLE TO IS A SHOCKING EXAMPLE OF HOW UNINCLUSIVE A SMALL MINORITY OF CLUB SOCIALS CAN BE #LUBS AND SOCI ETIES HAVE ALL SIGNED UP TO A SET OF RULES STATING WHAT IS AND ISN T ACCEPT ABLE 7HERE A CLUB OR SOCIETY BREAKS THE GUIDELINES WE WILL USE OUR POW ERS TO l NE THEM AND IF WHAT HAS OC CURRED IS SERIOUS ENOUGH WE RETAIN THE POWER TO REMOVE A SPORTS CLUB FROM INTER UNIVERSITY SPORTv 4HIS FOLLOWS FROM A SPATE OF CON TROVERSY ABOUT STUDENT INITIATIONS IN PARTICULAR THOSE AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF 'LOUCESTERSHIRE RESULTING IN THE .A TIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS CALLING FOR A BAN ON INITIATIONS
4HE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED A a M CUT IN STUDENT BURSARIES LAST 7EDNESDAY DUE TO A a M SHORT FALL IN THEIR BUDGET 4HE CUT WILL AF FECT STUDENTS WHOSE FAMILIES COM BINED INCOMES ARE BETWEEN a K AND a K 4HE BUDGET SHORTFALL IS DUE TO A GOVERNMENT MISCALCULATION OF THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ATTENDING UNIVERSITY IN THE YEAR $UE TO THE CUT STUDENTS REPRESENT ING APPROXIMATELY OF STUDENTS NATIONALLY WILL LOSE UP TO a A YEAR 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS %#/ THE NEWLY ELECTED 33& &ACULTY #ONVEN OR SAID h'OVERNMENT ECONOMIC IN COMPETENCE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO HURT STUDENTS EDUCATION SHOULD BE FREE FOR ALL AND PAID FOR OUT OF GENERAL TAXATION )F IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS ONLY A CUT FOR FAIRLY WELL OFF STUDENTS REMEMBER IF BOTH OF YOUR PARENTS WORKED AS TEACHERS YOU COULD WELL BE FACING THESE CUTS v 4HE FUNDING FOR THOSE ON l RST UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES WAS IN CREASED LAST YEAR WHEN THE GOVERN MENT CUT FUNDING TO THOSE ON %,1S %QUAL AND ,OWER 1UALIl CATIONS 5NDER THE NEW SYSTEM LITTLE OR NO SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE TO THOSE DOING ADDITIONAL QUALIl CATIONS AT A LOWER LEVEL THAN THEIR CURRENT HIGHEST ONE &OR EXAMPLE IF ONE HOLDS A DEGREE THEY CANNOT GET FUNDING TO DO DI PLOMAS OR CERTIl CATES EVEN IN SUB JECTS THEY CURRENTLY HAVE NO QUALI l CATION IN 4HE GOVERNMENT EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS SIMPLY NOT PROVIDING THE PROMISED INCREASE HOWEVER THIS $POUhE QH
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4BJMJOH 4PD T 'VOET 4VOL ,AURA 'REEN 2EPORTER 4HE 5%! 3AILING #LUB HAVE BEEN l NED a TO COVER THE COST OF A TRAILER WHICH WAS BORROWED FROM 7/"9# 7AVENEY AND /ULTEN "ROAD 9ACHT #LUB LAST YEAR AND HAS SINCE BEEN STOLEN 7HEN THE INCIDENT l RST HAPPENED THE 5NION SAID THAT THEY WOULD PAY FOR THE MISSING TRAILER HOWEVER THEY HAVE SINCE ANNOUNCED THAT 3AILING MUST PAY FOR IT THEM SELVES 4HE 3AILING COMMITTEE ARE NATURALLY VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS AS THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY THE a #OMMITTEE MEMBER %MMA 2ICHARDSON SAYS @4HIS l NE IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR IT WILL CRIPPLE THE CLUB AND MAKE IT CEASE TO FUNCTION )T IS A VERY ACTIVE CLUB AND ONE OF THE LARGEST AT 5%! AL LOWING PEOPLE TO SAIL TWO TO THREE TIMES A WEEK "UT THIS WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO HAP PEN IF THIS HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY IS TAKEN FROM US 4HE COMMITTEE ARE ALSO UPSET BY THE FACT THAT AS THE TRAILER WAS TAKEN DURING THE LAST ACADEM IC YEAR THE CLUB WAS BEING
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AND ) DECIDED THAT IT JUST WASN T WORTH THE BOTHER TO WAIT ANOTHER MINUTES IN THE RAIN AND SO WENT HOME TO EAT SOME SOUP !S WE WALKED HOME COMPLETELY DRENCHED ) COULDN T HELP BUT KEEP LAUGHING $ESPITE LIFE BEING FULL OF COMPLICATED AND SOMETIMES UPSETTING OC CURRENCES IF WE CANNOT LAUGH THEM OFF AND CARRY ON WE WILL NEVER BE EVEN REMOTELY AS HAPPY AND CAREFREE AS WE WERE WHEN WE WERE SIX !S A CHILD SPLASHING ABOUT IN A MUDDY l ELD WHILE IT POURED WITH RAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN THE EPITOME OF A WEEK 4HIS IS WHY ) LAUGHED
WITH JOY EVEN WHEN THREE CONSECUTIVE CARS SPED THROUGH PUDDLES AND COVERED US IN YET MORE WATER ,AST WEEK S JOURNEY BACK TO CHILDHOOD WAS CAPPED OFF BY A TRIP TO SEE "EAUTY AND THE "EAST AT THE 4HEATRE 2OY AL $ESPITE SOME MOMENTS OF DUBIOUS ACTING FROM THE "EAST IT WAS BRILLIANT AND LED TO ME SPENDING THE EVENINGS OF THIS PRODUCTION WEEKEND LOOKING UP VARIOUS $ISNEY SONGS ON 9OU4UBE SO ) COULD SING ALONG 9OU KNOW WHAT ) REALLY LOVE BEING SIX AGAIN
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$POU E GSPN QH REALLOCATION OF THE BUDGET IS NOW A DIRECT CUT IN STUDENT FUNDING &ELICITY !LLMAN ,)4 SAID h!NY MISCALCULATION SHOULD SURELY RESULT IN US GET TING MORE MONEY NOT LESS 3TUDENTS ARE ALREADY l NAN CIALLY STRETCHEDv !NOTHER STUDENT WHO DECLINED TO BE NAMED SAID h-OANING WHINGING STUDENTS WHO DON T HAVE ENOUGH MON EY SHOULD JUST GET A JOBv 4HE GOVERNMENT ARGUED AT THE TIME THAT IT WAS MORE
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DESIGN OF THE ,IBRARY SINCE IT WAS lRST CONSTRUCTED IN )T SEEMS THAT THIS REDESIGN COULD BRING ABOUT WELCOME CHANGES TO THE FACILITIES 3O FAR THE GROUP HAS ATTRACTED NEARLY MEMBERS AND SUGGESTIONS INCLUDE PROPOS ALS SUCH AS WHEELCHAIR ACCESS TO ALL THE ,IBRARY S FACILITIES A COFFEE SHOP AND THE CREATION OF A SPECIALISED READING AREA /NE POPULAR DEMAND AMONG STUDENTS IS THE CREA TION OF A DEDICATED )4 SUITE BUT ALTHOUGH THIS SEEMS TO BE A COMMON DESIRE THE ONLY COMPARABLE SPACE CURRENTLY AT THE 5%! IS THE )4#3 @3TUDY 3PACE WHICH WAS CREATED IN A RECENT REFURBISHMENT ALTHOUGH THIS LACKS THE
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FACILITIES IN THE BUILDING WHEREAS COMPUTERS IN THE LI BRARY ARE NOT AND A SEPARATE ROOM FOR COMPUTER BASED AC TIVITIES WOULD BE APPROVED OF .OMAD CLAIMS TO HAVE hGENERATED A RANGE OF NEW METHODS OF INVESTIGATING
SPACE FOR THIS PROJECTv AL THOUGH WHAT THOSE METHODS ARE BEYOND CREATING A &ACE BOOK GROUP REMAIN UNKNOWN )N ANY CASE ONE THING IS CER TAIN THERE ARE THOSE WHO ARE CONTENT WITH THE ,IBRARY JUST AS IT IS AND WHATEVER CHANGES ARE MADE THEY ARE LIKELY TO ADD TO THE CONTROVERSY OF CHANGE AT THE 5%! JUST AS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE 3QUARE HAS DONE -ORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIBRARY REDESIGN CAN BE FOUND ON THE &ACE BOOK GROUP WHERE YOU CAN lND DIAGRAMS AND IMAGES OF OTHER LIBRARIES FOR INSPIRATION 4HERE IS ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR OWN IN PUT IN TO WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET FROM YOUR LIBRARY
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5NION #OUNCIL FAILED TO REACH QUORUM AT ITS SECOND MEETING OF THE YEAR ON TH /CTOBER 1UORUM IS WHEN YOU HAVE ENOUGH COUNCILLORS TO
BE ABLE TO CLAIM MAJORITY AND THEREFORE THE NUMBER IS OF REGISTERED MEMBERS PLUS ONE #OUNCIL NEEDED TO HAVE MEMBERS TO FUNC TION WHILE ONLY TURNED UP TO 4HURSDAY S MEETING #OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER
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1IBSPT 'BJMVSF 'BJMT 4UVEFOUT &ERDINAND ,EY 2EPORTER !ROUND STUDENTS MISSED THEIR ESSAY DEADLINES AS PRINTERS BROKE DOWN ON -ONDAY TH /CTOBER 4HE BREAKDOWN WAS CAUSED BY A FAILURE OF 0HA ROS THE 5NIVERSITY S SYSTEM ADMINISTERING PRINT JOBS IN THE LIBRARY AND )4 FACILITIES ON CAMPUS AND LASTED FOR MOST OF THE AFTERNOON 3TU
DENTS FROM &46 ,)4 !-3 AND 03) WERE MOSTLY AFFECT ED BY THE BREAKDOWN h) M PAYING a A YEAR FOR SIX HOURS OF TEACHING PER WEEK AND TO USE THE FACILITIES THIS IS RIDICULOUS v SAID A STUDENT QUEUING FOR THE )4 HELPDESK (EATHER 7ELLS THE (EAD OF 5SER 3ERVICES COM MENTED h!S SOON AS WE BE CAME AWARE OF THE PROBLEM AT PM WE HANDED OUT SHEETS FOR AFFECTED STUDENTS
TO lLL IN WITH THEIR NAMES STUDENT NUMBERS NAME OF THEIR TUTORS AND DEADLINES WHICH WE WILL THEN PASS ON TO THE TUTORSv 3HE ADD ED h)T IS UP TO THE TUTORS WHETHER THE AFFECTED STU DENTS WILL BE GRANTED AN EX TENSION OF THEIR DEADLINES v !CCORDING TO -RS 7ELLS THE 0HAROS SYSTEM HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR APPROXIMATELY THREE YEARS AND IS DUE TO BE UPGRADED ON TH $ECEMBER
,OCAL 4RANSPORT "ILL IS OPTI MISTIC THAT IT WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF OUR BUS SERVICES ,ABOUR S PROPOSAL IS UNDERWAY TO GIVE LOCAL AU THORITIES THE ABILITY TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE DELIVERY OF TRANSPORT AND TO RESPOND 0ETER -ATTHEWS DIRECTLY TO THE NEEDS OF THE 4HE MEMBERS LEAVE PEOPLE )N RESPONSE TO THE ARTICLE $EPUTY #HAIR *ACK +IFlN IN LAST WEEK S EDITION OF #ON NEXT FEW DAYS #HAIR !MY 7ILSON TOLD THE COUNCILLORS REMARKED hTHIS IS BULLSHIT v CRETE IT IS THOUGHT BY MANY h,ADIES AND GENTLEMAN ) M WHILE SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE 5%! STUDENTS THAT &IRST BUSES AFRAID WE DON T HAVE ENOUGH 5NION ADMITTED THAT THIS HAS RUN AN UNRELIABLE SERVICE )F TO HAVE THIS MEETINGv -UTED OCCURRED BEFORE AND IS DUE THE "ILL ACHIEVES APPROVAL CHEERING BATTLED WITH JEERING TO A LACK OF COMMITTMENT THEN WE SHOULD BE HOPEFUL AND THE COUNCILLORS BEGAN TO FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF CLUBS OF ENHANCED PERFORMANCE AND SOCIETIES lLE OUT "ERT "REMNER AS ,ABOUR COUNCILLOR FOR THE 5NIVERSITY WARD SITS ON THE *OINT (IGH WAYS #OMMITTEE (E COM MENTED h4HE PROBLEMS OF MISSING UNRELIABLE EXPEN SIVE BUSES TO AND FROM 5%! IS A DISGRACE 4HE SEASON TICK ET IS GREAT BUT WE NEED THE BUSES TO USE IT (AVING GOT THE MONEY THEY DON T PRO VIDE THE SERVICE 4HE 4RANS PORT "ILL HAS TO PUT THE POWER BACK WITH THE PEOPLE BACK TO LOCAL COUNCILS AND AWAY FROM PRIVATE COMPANIESv %MIL !LLARD
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,IZZY "ROWNE 2EPORTER ,AST WEEKEND %ARLHAM 0ARK HOSTED THE ANNUAL 3PARKS IN
THE 0ARK EVENT WHICH WENT AHEAD ON 3ATURDAY NIGHT AS PLANNED DESPITE THE DISMAL WEATHER !LTHOUGH MANY WERE PUT
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7HEN THE lREWORKS HAD lNISHED 2ADIO "ROADLAND CONTINUED THE EVENING UNTIL PM WITH MUSIC AND LIVE BANDS
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7ILLIAM -ORAN 2EPORTER 0OLICE BELIEVE THREE VIOLENT INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED ON 4UESDAY TH /CTOBER MAY BE LINKED AND ARE AP PEALING FOR INFORMATION ! GROUP OF BETWEEN SIX AND EIGHT MEN APPROACHED THREE MEN WHILST WALKING ACROSS THE .OVI 3AD &RIEND SHIP "RIDGE TOWARDS +ING 3TREET NEAR .ORWICH 2AIL WAY 3TATION AND DEMANDED MONEY AND MOBILE PHONES /NE OF THE VICTIMS WAS PUSHED TO THE mOOR AND THE PERPETRATORS ESCAPED WITH CASH A WALLET AND TWO MO BILE PHONES 4HIS INCIDENT TOOK PLACE AT PM 4HE SECOND INCIDENT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN PM
AND PM ! MAN IN HIS THIR TIES WAS WALKING IN 3T &AITH ,ANE IN A LARGELY RESIDEN TIAL AREA IN THE NORTH OF THE CITY WHEN HE WAS ADVANCED UPON BY A GROUP OF MEN WHO ORDERED HIM TO SUR RENDER CASH AND MOBILE PHONES 4HE MAN DID SO RELINQUISHING CASH AND TWO MOBILE PHONES BEFORE THE GROUP BEAT A HASTY RETREAT 5NLIKE THE VICTIMS INVOLVED IN THE lRST INCIDENT HE WAS NOT INJURED ,ATER A THIRD INCIDENT TOOK PLACE NEAR .ORWICH #ASTLE IN WHICH A MAN IN HIS TWENTIES WAS MAKING HIS WAY TOWARDS 0RINCES 3TREET THROUGH 3T 'EORGES 3TREET AT APPROXIMATELY PM WHEN HE WAS APPROACHED BY A GROUP OF SIX MEN !GAIN
THE ASSAILANTS DEMANDED THE VICTIM HAND OVER HIS MOBILE PHONE BUT THIS TIME THE PROSPECTIVE VICTIM WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE $ETECTIVE 3ERGEANT 3ARAH +NIGHTS SAID h$UE TO THE CLOSE PROXIMITY AND TIMES OF THESE CRIMES WE BELIEVE THEY ARE LINKED 7E ARE KEEN TO HEAR FROM ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE WITNESSED THESE INCI DENTS n OR WITH ANY INFORMA TION n TO CONTACT US v !DVICE FROM THE LOCAL 0#3/ TELLS STUDENTS TO hSTICK TOGETHER ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHICH THEY ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH 5SE WELL LIT PATHS AND ROADS WHERE POSSIBLE 4HE 5%! CAMPUS IS WELL COVERED BY ##46 FOR EXTRA SECURITY v )F YOU HAVE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE POLICE
0OLICE ARE APPEALING TO THE PUBLIC FOR INFORMATION FOL LOWING AN INDECENT EXPO ! NIGHT OUT AT A 5%! CLUB SURE ON -OUSEHOLD (EATH IN NIGHT ENDED IN TRAGEDY FOR A .ORWICH .ORWICH TEENAGER LAST WEEK 7HILST WALKING HER WHEN HE WAS KILLED ON THE ! DOG NEAR 'ILMAN 2OAD AFTER FALLING FROM A LORRY ON &RIDAY TH /CTOBER !ARON #URTIS HAD BEEN BETWEEN AM AND AM CELEBRATING HIS TH BIRTHDAY A WOMAN WAS CONFRONTED BY WITH FRIENDS AT ,OST 4HURSDAY A MAN WHO EXPOSED HIMSELF A CLUB NIGHT AT THE ,#2 ON TO HER RD /CTOBER (E AND A FRIEND 4HE MAN HAS BEEN DE THEN MADE THEIR WAY TO THE SCRIBED AS BEING BETWEEN 5NTHANK 2OAD AREA WHERE IT AND YEARS OF AGE IS BELIEVED THEY CLIMBED ONTO WHITE AND OF AVERAGE BUILD THE BACK OF A LORRY AND HEIGHT !T THE TIME OF 4HEY STAYED ON IT UNTIL THE THE INCIDENT HE WAS REPORT 4HICKTHORN ROUNDABOUT AND EDLY WEARING JEANS A BLUE +ETTERINGHAM JUNCTION OF THE TOP AND A BLUE WOOLLEN HAT ! WHERE -R #URTIS FELL OFF SPORTING A LIME GREEN STRIPE BECOMING TRAPPED UNDER THE AROUND THE MIDDLE WHEELS OF THE LORRY 4HE LOCAL 0OLICE #OMMU )F ANYONE SAW ANYTHING NITY 3UPPORT /FlCE ADVISES RELATED TO THE INCIDENT PLEASE THAT hIF STUDENTS ARE FEAR CONTACT 3GT *OHN 4OBIN AT 7Y FUL FOR THEIR SAFETY THEY ARE MONDHAM 0OLICING 5NIT ON ADVISED TO AVOID CONFRONT ING THE PERPETRATOR S WALK
'REG -ANN AWAY IF POSSIBLE AND CONTACT THE POLICE ON AS SOON AS THEY CAN /THER INCIDENTS WHERE THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE DANGER SHOULD BE REPORTED ON )F ON THE 5%! SITE SECURITY SHOULD BE INFORMED AS WELL AS POLICE v !NYONE WITH INFORMA TION RELATING TO THIS INCIDENT SHOULD EITHER CONTACT 0# $ANIEL *OHNSTONE AT 4HORPE (AMLET 0OLICE 3TATION ON OR ALTERNA TIVELY CONTACT #RIMESTOP PERS ANONYMOUSLY ON
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'SFTIFST $SJNFT &YQPTFE *ACK #LARK .EWS %DITOR &RESHERS THIS YEAR ARE LESS VIO LENT AND MORE CAREFUL THAN EVER BEFORE THOUGH THEIR PENCHANTS FOR STEALING BIKES AND SETTING OFF lRE ALARMS HAVE GROWN #ONCRETE LEARNT ABOUT THESE FACTS AND OTHERS IN A RECENT INTERVIEW CONDUCTED WITH -IKE -C#ORMACK #AMPUS 3ERVICES -ANAGER 4HE INTERVIEW WAS ABOUT THE PERIOD OF ST 3EPTEMBER TO TH /CTOBER IN AND AND WAS CONDUCT ED TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FRESHERS AND THE TROUBLE THEY CAUSE AT THE START OF EVERY YEAR "ROADLY THE DATA #ON CRETE RECEIVED WAS POSITIVE )T ROUTINELY SHOWED THAT FRESH ERS ARE BETTER BEHAVED THAN BEFORE AND THAT 5%! S NEW ##46 NETWORK HAS HELPED DISCOURAGE CERTAIN CRIMES SUCH AS BURGLARY )N OVER THE PERIOD OF ST 3EPTEMBER TO TH /C TOBER 3ECURITY LOGGED INCIDENTS )NCIDENTALLY THIS WAS THE ACADEMIC YEAR IN WHICH YOUR WRITER AND MUCH OF #ONCRETE S EDITORIAL TEAM WERE FRESHERS )N OVER THE SAME PERIOD THE NUMBER OF INCIDENCES WERE AND IN THE lGURE REMAINED ABOUT THE SAME WITH INCIDENCES RECORDED -C#OR MACK PUT THE SCALE OF THIS REDUCTION DOWN TO THE FACT hWE VE HAD IMPROVEMENTS IN THE NUMBER OF ##46 CAMERAS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN LIGHT NING v THOUGH -C#ORMACK WAS KEEN TO SAY THAT h) M
BEING HONEST n ) THINK WE RE GETTING THROUGH TO STUDENTSx WE VE FOUND THAT THERE ARE LESS AND LESS WINDOWS OPEN v /NE MAJOR ISSUE THAT 3E CURITY ARE FACING IS THE DAM AGE TO lRE ALARMS WITHIN RESI DENCES WITH DAMAGED IN SEVEN IN AND AGAIN IN 4HE REASON FOR THE RISE IS SUSPECTED TO BE LINKED TO A TREND AMONG FRESHERS WHERE IT HAS BECOME A GAME TO RUN INTO hRIVALv RES IDENCES SET OFF THE lRE ALARM AND DEPART VICTORIOUS AND n #ONCRETE SURMISES n DRUNK !NOTHER MORE TROUBLING ISSUE IS THAT SINCE THE SMOK ING BAN WAS INTRODUCED TO COVER ALL RESIDENCES 3ECURITY ARE lNDING THAT INCIDENCES OF lDDLING WITH lRE ALARMS ARE FALLING BUT ONLY BECAUSE STU DENTS HAVE BECOME SMARTER )N ONE INCIDENT OF INTER FERENCE WITH lRE EQUIPMENT WAS RECORDED AND IN THIS ROSE TO FOUR THEN FELL TO TWO IN THE DROP IS NOT HOWEVER BECAUSE STUDENTS ARE lDDLING LESS BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE COME UP WITH A METHOD TO ALLOW THEM TO SMOKE IN THEIR ROOMS WITH
OUT lDDLING WITH THE SMOKE ALARMS WHICH ALERTS SECURITY )T S A TROUBLING TACTIC AS IF A lRE WERE TO START IN ANY RESI DENCE WHERE THIS HAS BEEN COMMITTED THE RESPONSE TIME BY THE lRE BRIGADE WOULD BE
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SIGHT OF THE CAMERAS DOTTING CAMPUS IS A MAJOR DETERRENT HOWEVER -C#ORMACK HAS HIS DOUBTS NOTING THAT WHEN HE WAS STUDYING AT UNIVERSITY HE WAS TAUGHT THAT n AS A RULE n h7HERE THERE S NO MONEY YOU GET MORE THEFTS AGAINST PROPERTY AND WHEN THERE S MONEY YOU GET VIOLENCE BE CAUSE PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO GET OUT AND SOCIALISE TOGETHER v #ONCRETE WILL RUN A FOLLOW UP TO THIS ARTICLE NEXT YEAR TO ASCERTAIN IF THE RECESSION HAS BORN OUT -C#ORMACK S BELIEF 4YING INTO THE ECONOMIC SLUMP IT APPEARS THAT CYCLE THEFTS ARE ON THE RISE AS A CONSEQUENCE WITH THEFTS RECORDED IN IN AND IN (OWEVER HE WAS KEEN TO POINT OUT THAT hALL UNIVERSITIES EXPERIENCE A SPATE OF BURGLARIES AT THE START OF TERM v -C#ORMACK BELIEVES THAT THOUGH 3ECURITY HAVE THE BENElT OF THE NEW DIGITISED ##46 SYSTEM WHICH HAS IN CREASED THEIR EFlCIENCY AT DETECTING INCIDENCES HE STILL BELIEVES THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT COMING FORWARD WHEN INCI DENCES OCCUR TO THEM &OR THIS REASON HE WISHES TO LET STUDENTS KNOW THAT hIF YOU ARE INVOLVED IN AN INCIDENT OR ARE A SUBJECT OF A THEFT THEN PLEASE REPORT IT TO SECURITY n THAT HELPS US BE AWARE OF WHAT S GOING ON ON CAMPUS AND ALSO MEANS WE CAN GO TO +ARL $AVIES ##46 TO TRY AND IDENTIFY THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE v 3TUDENTS CAN RING SECURITY ON OR EMAIL SECURITY UEA AC UK
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/FXT "OBMZTJT )FBMUI BOE 4PDJFUZ *ACK +IFlN .EWS !NALYST .EWS EMERGED THIS WEEK THAT THE .53 IS LOBBYING THE GOVERNMENT TO CREATE A MINI MUM DRINKS PRICE EFFECTIVELY CALLING FOR MORE EXPENSIVE AL COHOL 4HE PREMISE FOR SUCH ACTION IS THAT STUDENTS AND THE POPULATION AT LARGE CAN NOT SELF REGULATE AND MUST BE SAVED FROM THEMSELVES 3AL VATION ASIDE THERE IS A CASE TO BE MADE HERE 4HE #ITY #OL LEGE STUDENT KILLED BY A LORRY THIS WEEK IS A TRAGIC REMINDER OF THE POTENTIALLY FATAL CONSE QUENCES OF OVER INDULGENCE 4HE OBVIOUS HORROR OF THIS EVENT SHOULD MAKE US ALL THINK YET IT IS NOT THE BASIS FOR POLICY 4HE TRAGEDY HAS LED TO CALLS TO EXTEND THE REMIT OF 5NIVERSITY 3ECURITY TO COVER MAJOR ROUTES HOME 2EGARD LESS OF THE SIGNIlCANT QUES TIONS OVER WHAT AUTHOR ITY SECURITY COULD HAVE ON PUBLIC LAND THE RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR SUCH A SYSTEM SEEM PROHIBITIVE )NNUMER ABLE STUDENTS RETURNED HOME SAFELY THAT NIGHT AS THEY DID THE NIGHTS BEFORE AND SINCE 3IMILARLY THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY WILL DEVELOP NEITHER ALCOHOLISM NOR CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER 5NDENIABLY THERE IS A SEC TION OF THE POPULATION THAT DRINKS TO lGHT AND A SELEC TION OF FAMILIES THAT HAVE BEEN TORN APART BY ALCOHOL BUT THE IMMEDIATE QUESTION IS NOT WHETHER ALCOHOL IS BAD FOR US OR HOW BEST TO PROTECT THE POPULACE IT IS n AS ALWAYS WITH POLITICS n HOW DO WE WANT SOCIETY TO BE IN HIS ARTICLE LAST WEEK -ARK 0ATRICK TALKED OF THE NANNY STATE AND THIS TERM MAY BE APT HERE (OWEVER
.ANNY STATE IS A POLITICISED TERM AND WE SHOULD AVOID ATTACHING ITS NEGATIVE CON NOTATIONS TO ANY LEGISLATION 5%! S MUCH REPORTED ##46 CAMERAS ARE ONLY AN INFRINGE MENT ON LIBERTY IF WE VIEW THEM AS SUCH )N A GENUINELY DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATION LEG ISLATION TO PROMOTE THE VIEWS OF THE MAJORITY IS ACCEPTABLE 4HE PROBLEM WITH THE .53 DRINKING LOBBY IS THAT THEY ARE NEITHER REPRESENTATIVE NOR POPULAR 4HE PREDILECTION FOR @MOR AL LAW HAS GREATLY INCREASED SINCE WITH THIS LATEST ATTEMPT JOINING THE SMOKING BAN AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTHY SCHOOL MEALS 4HERE SEEMS TO BE A CONSENSUS THAT WE AS SOCIETY CANNOT DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING THAT MAKES US HEALTHIER 4O LIVE AS LONG A LIFE AS POSSIBLE IS THE SOLE AIM RE GARDLESS OF HOW LITTLE CONTENT IT HAS 4HE WIDER SIGNIlCANCE OF THIS IS THE GROWING LIST OF PURPORTED @MORAL VALUES THAT HAVE BEEN PLACED BEYOND THE REALM OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION 3TUDENTS DRINK A LOT 4HE HONEST REASON FOR THIS IS THAT FOR MOST STUDENTS HEALTH IS A CONCERN FOR LATER IN LIFE ! MINIMUM PRICE FOR ALCOHOL IS OBVIOUSLY UNPOPULAR 0EOPLE DON T WANT TO PAY MORE FOR DRINKS 4HE SOCIAL IMPLICA TIONS MAKE A POOR ARGUMENT AND TO ARGUE THIS FROM A FREE MARKET PERSPECTIVE IS TO MISS THE POINT 4HE IMMEDIATE QUESTION IS NOT HOW UNHEALTHY OUR CURRENT SOCIETY IS AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE IT HEALTHI ER THE IMMEDIATE QUESTION IS HOW WE HAVE GOT TO THE STAGE WHERE THE .53 WANT TO STEP IN OVER OUR DRINKING HABITS AND NOT OUR MATES WHO ARE THE ONES WHO KNOW US BEST
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#VTLJOH 'PS #BCJFT ,ETITIA -C+IE 2EPORTER /N TH .OVEMBER A GROUP OF 5%! STUDENTS AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF A NEW PROJECT CALLED THE 3OUTH !FRICAN ,ILY !PPEAL WILL BE TAKING TO THE STREETS OF .ORWICH FOR A CHARITY BUSK AND COLLECTION DAY 4HIS APPEAL AIMS TO HELP DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN 3OUTH !FRICA LIVING WITH ()6 !)$3 4HE IDEA IS TO GET ANYBODY WITH A GUITAR AND A LOUD VOICE TO GIVE UP HALF AN HOUR OF THEIR TIME DURING THE DAY COME ALONG AND SING A FEW SONGS HOPEFULLY RAIS ING SOME MONEY FOR A GOOD CAUSE AT THE SAME TIME 4WO THIRDS OF THE MONEY WILL GO TO #OTLAND S ()6 !)$3 HOSPICE AND 0ROCHORUS #OMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTS TWO 3OUTH !FRICAN CHARITIES BASED NEAR #APE 4OWN 4HE lNAL THIRD WILL BE ADDED TO A FUND TO HELP A LITTLE GIRL CALLED ,ILY WHO LIVES IN 3OUTH !FRICA AND IS VERY SICK WITH !)$3 4HIS FUND HAS BEEN SET UP TO HELP HER FOSTER CARERS OUT WITH MEDICAL AND GENERAL LIV
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ING COSTS 3O FAR THE RESPONSE TO THIS PROJECT FROM 5%! STU DENTS HAS BEEN GREAT 4HE 6OLUNTEERS SOCIETY HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE AND HELPED SPREAD AWARENESS OF THE CAM PAIGN 4HE FEEDBACK FROM MEMBERS OF THE VOLUNTEER SOCIETY WISHING TO HELP OUT HAS ALSO BEEN VERY STRONG /THER STUDENTS ARE VERY KEEN TO GET INVOLVED +IERAN 'OHEL A FOURTH YEAR STUDENT SAID @) VE STARTED TO LEARN THE HARMONICA AND ) AM PRACTIS ING HARD ALREADY TO BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE DAY /THER
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! THIRD YEAR 37+ STUDENT WHO HAD HER PURSE CONTAIN ING HER BUS PASS STOLEN ON 4HURSDAY RD /CTOBER AFTER HAVING HER DRINK SPIKED HAS HAD EXTRA CONDITIONS IMPOSED ON HER BY THE 5NION 4RAVEL 3HOP BEYOND WHAT THEY HAVE ADVERTISED BEFORE SHE CAN GET A REPLACEMENT &INDING HER PURSE MISS STUDENTS HAVE ALSO BEEN VERY ING AFTER RECOVERING FROM A ENTHUSIASTIC AND THE MU SPIKED DRINK THE STUDENT SIC WILL BE AN ECLECTIC MIX REPORTED THE THEFT TO THE PO OF JAZZ ACOUSTIC KEYBOARD LICE THE FOLLOWING DAY AND UKULELE AND MAYBE EVEN A RECEIVED A CRIME REFERENCE BONGO DRUM NUMBER WHICH ACCORDING TO 4HE 3OUTH !FRICAN ,ILY OFlCIAL STIPULATIONS PRINTED !PPEAL HAS BEEN SET UP AS AN IN THE 5%! 3TUDENT $IRECTORY UNOFlCIAL PERSONAL APPEAL TO IS THE ONLY PROOF OF GENUINE HELP CHILDREN WHO ARE DES LOSS YOU NEED TO RECEIVE A RE PERATE SITUATIONS OF ALL PLACEMENT FUNDS RAISED WILL GO DIRECTLY 7HEN SHE WENT INTO THE TO THE THREE CAUSES )F YOU 4RAVEL 3HOP ON -ONDAY WANT TO lND OUT MORE ABOUT TH HOWEVER THE STUDENT THE CAUSES AND GET INVOLVED WAS INFORMED THAT THE CRIME PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE NUMBER WAS NOT SUFlCIENT EV HTTP WWW WILDLILY ORG IDENCE AND THAT A LETTER FROM THE POLICE STATING THAT HER BUS PASS HAD BEEN STOLEN WAS NECESSARY BEFORE SHE COULD RE
CEIVE HER REPLACEMENT 4HE STUDENT INFORMED THEM THAT THIS WAS NOT STAT ED ON ANY DOCUMENTATION AND TELLS #ONCRETE THAT hTHEY KNEW ABOUT THIS v BUT STILL IN SISTED THAT SHE MUST REQUEST A LETTER FROM THE POLICE 4HE YOUNG WOMAN COM MENTS h) JUST WANT TO SORT THIS OUT QUICKLY AND THEY ARE DRAWING IT OUT IN BLOODY RED TAPE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS IT ;IS= JUST RUB BING SALT INTO ALREADY SORE WOUNDS v
#ONSERVATIVES (IT 5%! /N (ALLOWEEN A MAJOR #ON SERVATIVE EVENT WAS STAGED IN 5NION (OUSE 4HE SPEAKERS WERE WIDE RANGING WITH OPINIONS COM ING FROM 0ATRICK 3ULLIVAN 4HE #ONSERVATIVE &UTURE .ATIONAL #AMPAIGN ,EADER #& BEING IN HIS OWN WORDS hA GOOD TRAINING GROUND FOR PEOPLE WITH POLITICAL ASPIRA TIONS v !NTHONY ,ITTLE THE #ONSERVATIVE 0ARTY 0ARLIA MENTARY #ANDIDATE FOR .OR WICH 3OUTH 4IM !KER OF THE 4AXPAYERS !LLIANCE 0HIL "OOTH OF THE .O )$ #AM PAIGN AND %D (ALLAM WHO IS A CO EDITOR OF 4HE 9OUNG #ONSERVATIVE "LOG 4HE DISCUSSIONS RANGED FROM TALKS ABOUT THE %5 TO DISCUSSIONS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES WILL BE SUPERSEDED BY NICHE FRINGE GROUPS 0ATRICK 3ULLIVAN CAME OUT IN SUPPORT OF 5%! S ABOLITION OF .O 0LATFORM AND ALSO SAID THAT h#ONSERVATIVE &UTURE ON A NATIONAL LEVEL IS VERY IMPRESSED WITH WHAT 0AUL 7ELLS HAS DONE v
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(OWEVER SENIOR FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST AT THE 0ALMERSTON )NSTITUTE 0ROF 7ILLIAM ,AKEY TOLD THIS PAPER THAT HE BELIEVED THE 5NION S ANTI NUCLEAR STANCE TO BE NAÕVE AND UN REALISTIC 0ROF ,AKEY POINTED OUT THAT hWE HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS YEAR THAT .OT TINGHAM 5NIVERSITY HAS COMMITTED ITSELF TO DEVELOP A WEATHER MACHINE WITHIN l VE YEARS AND $URHAM 5NI VERSITY HAS HAD OUTLINE PLANNING
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3ECRET DOCUMENTS LEAKED TO THIS PUBLICATION INDICATE THAT THE CHAN CELLOR HAS BEEN URGED BY FOREIGN POLICY HAWKS WITHIN THE REGISTRY TO DEVELOP AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR DETERRENT IN ORDER TO GAIN AN EDGE IN THE COMPETITIVE FOREIGN ADMISSIONS MARKET )F THE 5NIVERSITY DOES CON TINUE TO PURSUE ITS NUCLEAR AMBITION
IT WILL BE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE 5NIVERSITY .ON 0ROLIFERATION 4REATY SIGNED AFTER THE INFAMOUS "RISTOL -ISSILE #RISIS ! SPOKESPERSON FOR THE 5NIVER SITY CLAIMED THAT ALTHOUGH hTHE 5NI VERSITY WAS INTENDING TO USE A REDE VELOPED 3QUARE AS PART OF ITS PUSH TOWARDS SUPPLYING A MORE DIVERSE ENERGY MIX WHICH MAY INCLUDE NU CLEAR NO l RM DECISIONS HAD BEEN
MADE v 4HEY WENT ON TO CLAIM THAT hA NEW FOUNTAIN BETTER DISABLED AC CESS AND THE CAPACITY FOR 5RANIUM ENRICHMENT ARE ALL PART OF OUR COM MITMENT TO MAKING 5%! A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE WORK AND STUDY v 4HIS DEVELOPMENT PUTS THE 5NI VERSITY INTO DIRECT CONm ICT WITH THE 5. WHO HAVE SCHEDULED AN EMER GENCY DISCUSSION OF THE PROJECT AND PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY THE
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) CLAPPED MY HANDS AND LET OUT A GUFFAW !ND SAID h4HIS CIRCUS MUST BE HEAVEN SENT v "UT THEN THE ANGER OF THE CROWD ) SAW
!ND ROUGHLY WAS ) OUSTED FROM THE TENT 4HEY CRIED h4HOSE FOUR PERFORMERS ARE IN LINE h4O RULE AND CHANGE THE WORLD FOR EVER AFTERv 4HIS l NAL JOKE THOUGH TRULY ASININE $ID NOT ) HAVE TO SAY INSPIRE LAUGHTER *AMES ,AWRENCE
5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS WHICH LAST YEAR PASSED A RESOLUTION AGAINST THE "RITISH DECISION TO BEGIN THE REPLACEMENT OF ITS OWN NUCLEAR WEAPON SYSTEM )T IS BELIEVED THAT THE 5NION WOULD HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE OUTGOING "USH 7HITEHOUSE IF IT DECIDED TO LAUNCH A PRE EMPTIVE ATTACK ON THE SITE OF THE PROPOSED REACTOR 4HE 5NION HAVE SO FAR RE FUSED TO COMMENT
PERMISSION TO HOLLOW OUT A VOL CANO !LTHOUGH MANY PEOPLE WILL BE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH CONCEPT OF A UNIVERSITY HAVING AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR DETERRENT IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE UNIVERSITY TO STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE FOREIGN STUDENTS LOOK FOR THIS KIND OF THING FROM A UNIVERSITY v #ODY 0ENDANT
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64 &MFDUJPO 4QFDJBM &DPOPNZ &MVDJEBUFE !ARON "LOWERS /PINIONS WRITER h7HEN !MERICA SNEEZES THE WORLD CATCHES A COLD v 7ELL THE WORLD ECON OMY IS SUFFERING THE EARLY STAGES OF mU SO IT IS PERHAPS VITAL TO CONSIDER THE ROLE OF THE 53 ECONOMY AND THE 0RESIDENTIAL #ANDIDATES POLICIES ON IT 4HIS ELECTION WILL HAVE ECONOMIC REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD IN TERMS OF HOW THE 53 SHAPES ITS TRADE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMIC POLICIES SO HERE ) PRESENT A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF /BAMA S AND -C#AIN S POLICIES IN THIS AREA 4HE FACTOR THAT ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE ELECTION COVERAGE SO FAR WILL HAVE SEEN IS THAT TAXATION IS KEY TO BOTH MENS CAMPAIGNS .OW AS HARD AS IT IS TO GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER OUT OF POLITICIANS ON TAX IN PARTICULAR FROM MY RESEARCH ) FOUND THAT THE KEY POINTS OF /BAMA S TAX POLICY ARE TO INTRODUCE A @-AKING 7ORK 0AY TAX
CREDIT WORTH UP TO PERSON OR FAMILY TO ELIMINATE TAX FOR SENIORS EARNING LESS THAN YEAR AND TO REVERSE "USH S INFAMOUS TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHIEST !S HE CON STANTLY SAYS OF !MERICANS WILL SEE A TAX CUT (E ALSO WANTS TO USE TAXES TO ENCOURAGE lRMS TO STAY IN THE 53 AND CREATE JOBS THERE -C#AIN ON THE OTHER HAND DOESN T SAY THAT MUCH ABOUT TAX n HE WANTS TO KEEP INDIVIDUAL TAXES AT THE LEVEL THEY ARE AND TO CUT CORPORATE TAX FROM TO #LEARLY TAX POLICIES CAN T BE DISCUSSED WITHOUT LOOKING AT SPEND ING POLICIES TOO &ROM WHAT ) FOUND /BAMA SEEMS TO BE PROPOSING A SPENDING FRENZY ABOUT BILLION EXTRA IN HIS lRST YEAR ALL AIMING TO SAFEGUARD HEALTH EDUCATION HOUS ING ASSISTANCE AND JOBS -C#AIN AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED IS FAR FROM PRO POSING THIS LEVEL OF SPENDING (E WANTS TO FREEZE SPENDING FOR A YEAR ON ALL BUT DEFENCE AND VETERAN S IS SUES WITH GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT
PROGRAMS OF ABOUT BILLION YEAR ALONG WITH CUTS WHEREVER POSSIBLE AF TER ALL FEDERAL SPENDING IS REVIEWED ) THINK TRADE IS ANOTHER ISSUE THAT SHOULD BE HIGHLIGHTED FOR ITS
h4HIS ELECTION WILL HAVE ECONOMIC REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE ENTIRE WORLDv EFFECT ON THE WORLD /BAMA IS FOR A LIBERAL SURPRISINGLY PROTECTIONIST (E WANTS TO RENEGOTIATE THE .ORTH !MERICAN &REE 4RADE !GREEMENT SO IT BENElTS !MERICAN WORKERS IN OTHER WORDS PUT UP TARIFFS AND TO USE THE 74/ TO GET FAVOURABLE TRADE AGREE MENTS WORLDWIDE -C#AIN HOWEVER
IS DEDICATED TO MULTILATERAL BILATERAL AND REGIONAL EFFORTS TO REDUCE TRADE BARRIERS MAKING TRADE WITH THE OUT SIDE WORLD EASIER TO ENCOURAGE DO MESTIC GROWTH .OW IT S PRETTY CLEAR THAT /BAMA S POLICIES DON T ADD UP MATHEMATICAL LY !DMIRABLE AS HIS SPENDING POLI CIES ARE ESTIMATES ARE THAT HE WILL ADD BILLION YEAR TO THE FEDERAL DElCIT ALREADY AT BILLION !T LEAST -C#AIN SAYS THAT HIS POLICIES WILL ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC GROWTH TO INCREASE TAX REVENUE AND ALLOW THE BUDGET TO BE BALANCED SO HE AT LEAST HAS DONE SOME OF HIS SUMS !S FAR AS THE EFFECTS ON THE WORLD ARE CONCERNED AN /BAMA PRESIDENCY WOULD MAKE TRADE WITH THE 53 MORE DIFlCULT AS OPPOSED TO A -C#AIN ONE (OWEVER WITH /BAMA S HUGE SPENDING PLANS MAYBE WE CAN LOAN HIM THE MONEY HE WILL NEED IF ELECT ED AND BENElT FROM IT THAT WAY HE CERTAINLY WON T GENERATE THE REVENUE HIMSELF
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"ARACK /BAMA HAS EMERGED FROM THIS ELECTION AS A NEW POLITICAL @CELEBRITY "UT BEHIND THE IM MENSELY POPULAR MEDIA PERSONA DOES HE REALLY HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE NEXT 0RESIDENT 0HILIP ,EFTWICH /PINIONS WRITER 3ENATOR "ARACK /BAMA IS DEl NITELY THE FAVOURITE IN THE RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE 5NITED 3TATES OF !MERICA WITH NEAR UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT FROM EXPERTS PROJECTING A COMFORTABLE WIN FOR THE $EMO
h3ENATOR /BAMA HAS CLEAR CUT PLANS FOR DEALING WITH ECONOMIC ISSUES CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH CARE AND TROOP WITHDRAWALv CRATS BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT CAN CHANGE BEFORE %LECTION $AY )T IS ALSO FAIR TO SAY THAT COM PARED TO *OHN -C#AIN /BAMA IS THE TRENDY VOTE WITH YOUNG VOTERS BEING AMONG HIS MOST ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORTERS AND POLLS INDICATING HE IS PREFERRED BY OF VOTERS UNDER THE AGE OF ! FANTASTIC ACHIEVE MENT OF COURSE BUT ONE THAT MANY IN THE 2EPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN POINT TO AS BEING AN INDICATOR OF HIS STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE APPROACH THAT
/BAMA IS A CELEBRITY RATHER THAN A REAL LEADER WHO IS ATTRACTING A DE MOGRAPHIC THAT CAN CHANGE ITS PO LITICAL ALLEGIANCES AS EASILY AS THEIR 4 SHIRTS 0ERSONALLY ) THINK THIS A WHOLLY UNJUSTIlED LINE OF ATTACK /BAMA MAY HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE THAN -C #AIN BUT HE ALSO HAS *OE "IDEN AS HIS RUNNING MATE A MAN WITH OVER YEARS IN THE 3ENATE AND ARGUABLY A LOT MORE GOING FOR HIM THAN 3ARAH 0ALIN /BAMA HAS A CLEAR CUT STANCE ON POLITICAL ISSUES NOT ALL OF WHICH ) MAY AGREE WITH BUT THE SUBSTANCE IS THERE 3ENATOR /BAMA HAS CLEAR CUT PLANS IN PLACE FOR DEALING WITH ECONOMIC ISSUES CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTHCARE AND ON TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM )RAQ !LL OF WHICH ARE ARGUABLY IN MUCH lNER DETAIL THAN HIS OPPONENTS WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH HIS PLANS IS ANOTHER ISSUE BUT THEY ARE THERE LAID OUT FOR YOU TO DECIDE 9ES /BAMA HAS THE STYLE THAT -C#AIN LACKS 2EPUBLICAN VOTERS WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A SINISTER NON VIRTUE BUT IN TRUTH DOESN T !MERICA NEED A PRESIDENT WHO IS GOOD WITH CROWDS ELOQUENT AND PERSUASIVE 6ERBIAGE CAN HARD LY BE CONSIDERED A FAILING WHEN ATTEMPTING TO GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS ON THE NATIONAL AND INTERNA TIONAL LEVEL
'BDU #PY 4HIS ELECTION WILL BE THE TH CONSECUTIVE QUADRENNIAL 53 ELECTION AND WILL SELECT A NEW 0RESIDENT AND 6ICE 0RESIDENT 4HIS IS THE lRST TIME AN !FRI CAN !MERICAN HAS BEEN A PRES IDENTIAL NOMINEE FOR A MAJOR PARTY AS WELL AS THE lRST TIME BOTH MAJOR CANDIDATES WERE BORN OUTSIDE THE CONTINENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES (AWAII FOR /BAMA AND THE 0ANAMA #A NAL :ONE FOR -C#AIN 4HE 6ICE 0RESIDENTIAL CANDI DATES ARE *OE "IDEN FOR THE $EMOCRATS AND 3ARAH 0ALIN FOR THE 2EPUBLICANS 4HE INAUGURATION OF THE NEW 0RESIDENT AND 6ICE 0RESIDENT IS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON TH *ANUARY 4HE ELECTION MARKS THE lRST TIME SINCE THE ELEC TION IN WHICH NEITHER AN IN CUMBENT 0RESIDENT NOR AN INCUMBENT 6ICE 0RESIDENT RAN FOR THEIR PARTY S NOMINATION IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
$AVINA +ESBY /PINIONS 7RITER "ARACK /BAMA IS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE THE SAVIOUR OF !MERI CAN POLITICS WITH MANY CELEBRITIES BACKING HIS CAMPAIGN TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT "UT THE REAL QUESTION IS WHETHER HIS POLITICS REALLY HAVE
h(E IS CONCEN TRATING ON A POPULARITY CAM PAIGN RATHER THAN ANY MEAN INGFUL QUESTIONS TO QUALITATIVELY CHANGE THE 53 v ANY SUBSTANCE OR ARE THEY MERELY FUELLED BY STYLE !N INTERVIEW WITH /BAMA AP PEARED IN THIS MONTH S #OSMOPOLITAN 4HE HEADLINE SUGGESTS THAT /BAMA WILL BE DISCUSSING RELATIONSHIPS AND MARRIED LIFE RATHER THAN ANY SERI OUS POLICY ISSUES 4HIS DOES INDEED SEEM TO SUGGEST THAT HE IS CONCEN TRATING ON A POPULARITY CAMPAIGN RATHER THAN ANY MEANINGFUL QUEST TO QUALITATIVELY CHANGE !MERICA FOR THE BETTER
)NDEED /BAMA S SPEECHES TEND TO CONCENTRATE ON MOTIVATING AND REACHING OUT TO THE PEOPLE 7HILE THIS CAN BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF ANY POLITICAL CAMPAIGN THE FACT THAT BARELY ANY SPEECHES ACCENTUATE A SPECIlC POLI CY AREA RAISES SOME CONCERNS ABOUT /BAMA S POTENTIAL TIME IN OFlCE 4HE COMMERCIAL ASPECT OF THE CAMPAIGN MAKES USE OF THE INTER NET AS AN ADVERTISING MECHANISM ! VIDEO ON THE WEBSITE YOUTUBE COM THAT SUPPORTS /BAMA FEATURING CE LEBRITIES SUCH AS WILL I AM 3CARLETT *OHANSSON *OHN ,EGEND AND .ICOLE 3CHERZINGER HAS BEEN VIEWED NEARLY MILLION TIMES 4HE VIDEO USES A SPEECH MADE BY /BAMA IN WHICH HE REPEATS THE MANTRA h9ES 7E #ANv 7HILE IT COULD BE TRUE TO SAY THAT MANY !MERICANS ARE NOT MOTI VATED BY POLICY AND CONCENTRATE ON PERSONALITY ANYWAY THIS ELECTION IN PARTICULAR APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN FO CUSED ON THE INDIVIDUAL ! FURTHER EXAMPLE OF /BAMA BE ING MORE ABOUT STYLE THAN SUBSTANCE IS THE FACT THAT THE HOMEPAGE OF HIS POLICY SITE INCLUDES h"ARACK 46v AND A PROPOSITION THAT IF PEOPLE DONATE MONEY THEN THEY CAN GET AN hOFlCIAL CAR MAGNETv )T CAN THERE FORE BE SEEN THAT ALL OF THESE THINGS COMBINED ARE DElNITIVE PROOF THAT "ARACK /BAMA IS MORE ABOUT STYLE THAN SUBSTANCE
h) OFTEN WONDER WHY THE REST OF THE WORLD DOESN T GET A SAY IN THE 53 %LECTION 3URELY THE MOST POWERFUL JOB IN THE WORLD SHOULD BE ELECTED BY @THE WORLD AND NOT JUST THE 53 AS THE OUTCOME WILL HAVE CONSIDERABLE REPERCUSSIONS FOR ALL OF US 4HE SHEER AMOUNT OF "RITISH PRESS COVERAGE INDICATES JUST HOW IMPORTANT THIS ELECTION IS TO THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET AND YET WE HAVE NO VOTE v %LSIE +ING /PINIONS %DITOR
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#ANDIATE #REDENTIALS )F YOU HAVE BEEN HIDING UNDER A ROCK FOR THE PAST YEAR AND THE CANDIDATES HAVE PASSED YOU BY HERE IS A BRIEF RUNDOWN OF *OHN -C#AIN BY 'ARETH #OVENTRY AND "ARACK /BAMA BY 3AM (ILL
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"NFSJDBO BOE #SJUJTI QFSTQFDUJWFT 7HAT IS IT LIKE TO BE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY WHILST YOUR HOME COUNTRY IS GOING THROUGH MASSIVE POLITI CAL UPHEAVAL AND YOU ARE INVOLVED IN CHOOSING THE NEXT 0RESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES OF !MERICA $OES PRESSURE COME WITH SUCH A VOTE !N !MERICAN STUDENT LIVING IN .ORWICH GIVES HER PERSPEC TIVE WHILE A 5%! STUDENT SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON THE 53 ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND GIVES HIS PREDICTION 4OM ,AFFORD /PINIONS 7RITER )T SHOULD BE A RIDICULOUS THOUGHT THAT ON .OVEMBER TH -C#AIN COULD BEAT /BAMA "UT /BAMA S POLL LEAD OF SIX TO EIGHT POINTS IS FRAGILE !T A POINT WHEN AN AVERAGE OF JOBS ARE BEING LOST PER MONTH FROM THE !MERICAN ECONOMY AND THE FACT OF RECESSION IS BITING THE MESSAGE OF FEAR COULD PROVE MORE POTENT THAN PREDICTED AS !MERICANS ENTER THE VOTING BOOTHS ON TH .O VEMBER 4HE CLOUD OF MISINFORMA TION AND STRAIGHT LIES ABOUT /BAMA SITS ABOVE THE CAMPAIGN THREATENING A STORM LARGE ENOUGH TO WASH AWAY HIS POLL LEAD 2IGHT NOW HIS VICTORY IS ONLY ASSURED AS LONG AS -C#AIN S CAMPAIGN CONTINUES TO HAEMOR RHAGE -ONEY PLAUSIBILITY AND COHER ENCE ARE ALL BLEEDING FROM A 2EPUB LICAN ELECTORAL MACHINE THAT HAD SEEMED INFALLIBLE DURING THE PREVI OUS TWO ELECTIONS 4HE MAINSTREAM NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING EMBODIED BY 3ARAH 0ALIN THE hPITBULL IN LIP STICKv HAS CREATED MORE FEAR OF HER THAN OF /BAMA 4HE DECIDING QUES TION SEEMS TO BE WHETHER THE SWING VOTERS WILL BELIEVE THERE IS MORE TO
FEAR IN THE PERSONAL RUMOURS ABOUT /BAMA OR THE POLICIES AND PERSON ALITIES OF -C#AIN AND 0ALIN 4O EN SURE VICTORY /BAMA MUST POINT OUT WHAT IS TO FEAR IN THE ANTI !MERICAN ISM OF THE -C#AIN CAMPAIGN WITH OUT @GOING NEGATIVE /BAMA CAN DO THIS AND RETAIN HIS MESSAGE OF HOPE BY EXPLAINING WHAT AFFECT -C#AIN VICTORY WOULD HAVE ON THE CONSTITU TION -C#AIN S PROMISE TO REPLACE LIBERAL OR PARTISAN 3UPREME #OURT JUDGES WITH NEO CONSERVATIVE JUDGES SHOWS THAT A -C#AIN VICTORY MEANS A RADICAL REINTERPRETATION OF THE CON STITUTION ON ISSUES FROM ABORTION RIGHTS TO HANDGUNS AND THE DEATH PENALTY FOR UNDER S "Y PAINTING -C#AIN AS A RADICAL ON POLICY IS SUES /BAMA CAN SECURE HIS OWN IMAGE AS THE SAFE CANDIDATE WITHOUT @GOING NEGATIVE )N AN INCREASINGLY UNCERTAIN TIME FOR THE !MERICAN ELECTORATE THERE IS ALWAYS THE POSSIBILITY THAT FEAR MAY OVERRIDE THE JUDGEMENT OF THE AS YET UNDECIDED VOTER )T CAN ONLY HELP /BAMA TO SHIFT THE POLI TICS OF FEAR ONTO POLICY AND TO SHOW WHAT IS TRULY ANTI !MERICAN AND TRULY FRIGHTENING ABOUT THE 2EPUB LICAN CANDIDATES
!SHLEYANNE +RIGBAUM /PINIONS 7RITER ) COULDN T HAVE BECOME AN EXPATRI ATE AT A MORE INCONVENIENT TIME 7HILE ) WAS CONSTRUCTING MY DE TAILED PLAN TO MOVE MILES FROM MY HOME IN 3AN &RANCISCO TO .ORWICH ) NEVER CONSIDERED HOW LIVING ACROSS THE !TLANTIC /CEAN WOULD DETACH ME COMPLETELY FROM ONE OF THE POTENTIALLY LARGEST SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVENTS !MERICA WILL EXPERIENCE THIS DECADE PERHAPS THIS CENTURY ) RECEIVE A FRACTION OF THE AMOUNT OF ELECTION UPDATES IN %NGLAND THAT ) WOULD IN THE 3TATES 4HOUGH THE ELECTION IS DElNITELY A BUZZ TOPIC IN THE 5+ RIGHT NOW EXPERIENCING A TENSE PRESIDENTIAL BATTLE ON HOME TURF IS INCREDIBLY MORE INTENSE AND FULlLLING ) VOTED BY POST JUST LAST WEEK AND THERE WASN T THAT USUAL SATISFACTION AND ASSURANCE THAT COMES WITH PHYSI CALLY VOTING AT A POLLING SITE 7HAT IF MY VOTE MY VOICE WAS LOST IN A POORLY ORGANIZED MAIL CARRIER S VAN 7HAT IF ) DIDN T lLL IN MY BUBBLES TO THE UTMOST 7ITH SO MANY PERSONAL ISSUES THAT ) ADVO CATE FOR RIDING ON THE BACK OF THE
NEXT 53 PRESIDENT AND ALSO WITH SO MANY VOTING KERFUFmES ACROSS THE 53 THE PAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ) FEEL SICK KNOWING THAT ) M NOT A PRESENT PART OF THIS ELEC TION AND THAT THERE IS NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT MY VOTE WAS COUNT ED !ND THOUGH THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE HAS THE MOST ATTENTION THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT PROPOSITIONS ON THE TABLE TO BE VOTED ON AT THE STATE LEVEL *UST IN #ALIFORNIA THERE ARE TWO PROPOSITIONS THAT IF PASSED WOULD BECOME LAW AND LIMIT YOUNG WOMEN S REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES AND CONTINUE THE GOVERN MENT S DISMISSAL OF ,'"4 RIGHTS 4HESE PROPOSITIONS WHICH ARE SEPARATE FOR EACH OF THE STATES WOULD CAUSE DIRECT CHANGES TO STATE LEGISLATURE WHERE AS A PRESIDENT S POLITICS WOULDN T YIELD NEARLY SUCH AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ON THE POPU LATION ) KNOW THAT MY HOME FOR NOW IS IN THIS lNE lNE CITY ON THE "ROADS BUT THIS ELECTION HAS REALLY MADE ME REALIZE HOW CLOSE MY lRST HOME IS TO QUICKLY BECOMING AN EVEN MORE PREJUDICED AND UNWEL COMING PLACE AND IT ALL COULD HAP PEN WITHOUT ME EVEN REALIZING IT
*OHN -C#AIN WAS BORN IN !T THE AGE OF HE EMBARKED ON A CAREER AS A NAVY PILOT (E WAS SHOT DOWN IN 6IETNAM IN AND WAS CAPTURED AND IMPRISONED FOR lVE YEARS DURING WHICH HE WAS TORTURED BY THE 6IETCONG 4HIS EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN FUNDAMENTAL TO HIS OP POSITION TO THE USE OF EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION OR TORTURE AND HE HAS SUC CESSFULLY LOBBIED AGAINST ANY SUCH PROPOSALS -C#AIN BECAME THE !RIZONA SENATOR FOR THE 2EPUBLICAN PARTY IN AND DURING HIS POLITICAL CAREER HAS OFTEN BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE @MAVERICK REPUBLICAN -ANY IN HIS OWN PARTY SEE HIM AS NOT RE ALLY ONE OF THEM HE HAS PUBLICLY SAID HE WILL BATTLE THE DARK FORCES WITHIN THE PARTY -C#AIN HAS BEEN PREPARED IN THE PAST TO WORK WITH THE $EMOCRATS IN ORDER TO GET LEGIS LATION PASSED IN #ONGRESS $ESPITE BEING PORTRAYED BY SOME QUARTERS AS BEING JOINED AT THE HIP WITH "USH HE HAS PUBLICLY CRITICISED THE "USH !DMINISTRATION ON MANY ISSUES
"ARACK /BAMA 3ENATOR "ARACK /BAMA IS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL AND DEBATED PRESI DENTIAL CANDIDATE OF ALL TIME (E WAS BORN IN (AWAII IN TO AN !FRICAN FATHER WHO GREW UP HERD ING GOATS IN +ENYA AND A (AWAI IAN MOTHER 4HE COUPLE DIVORCED WHEN /BAMA WAS SIX YEARS OLD AND HIS FATHER MOVED BACK TO +ENYA TO BECOME A GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST "OTH -R /BAMA S FATHER AND LATER STEP FATHER WERE BOTH PRACTISING -USLIMS BUT HE WAS RAISED AND REMAINS #HRISTIAN BUT MUCH OF THE MEDIA IN !MERICA HAS FOCUSED NEGATIVELY ON HIS -USLIM FAMILY HERITAGE /BAMA STUDIED ,AW AT (ARVARD AND BECOME THE lRST !FRICAN !MER ICAN PRESIDENT OF THE ,AW 3OCIETY THERE (E HAS SPENT CONSIDERABLE TIME REPRESENTING VICTIMS OF HOUS ING AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMI NATION SOMETHING THAT /BAMA SUPPORTERS SAY IS A KEY SKILL FOR A NEW PRESIDENT FOLLOWING THE "USH REGIME (E WAS ELECTED TO 3ENATE IN AND BEAT (ILARY #LINTON TO THE $EMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY EARLIER THIS YEAR "ARACK /BAMA IS WIDELY REGARDED AS A GREAT PUBLIC SPEAKER BUT HAS SEEN A RACIST RESURGENCE MOVE AGAINST HIM WITH TWO ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AL READY FOILED
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"GSJDBO 'BJS 'VSPSF /N 4UESDAY TH /CTOBER ) CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE 5%! S BUIDLING WORKS TO POP INTO THE !FRI CAN &AIR IN THE ,#2 !S ) FEARED ONE OF THE BOOKSTALLS WAS SELL ING THE SORT OF NONSENSE THAT IS NOW INFESTING SOME BLACK BOOKSHOPS IN ,ONDON PARTICULARLY IN MY HOME BOROUGH OF (ACKNEY 6ISITORS TO THE "LACK 3TONE STALL WERE ABLE TO PERUSE #ONTROVERSY WITH THE )NTERNATIONAL "ANK ERS BY 53 .ATION OF )SLAM LEADER -INISTER ,OUIS &ARRAKHAN PLUS ANOTHER )SLAMIST TOME ON THE BANKING SYSTEM THAT SEEMED MORE CONCERNED WITH THE 2OTHSCHILDS THAN ANY WIDER CRITICISM OF CAPITALISM OR ECONOMIC CRISES 4HE OLD FASCIST TRICK OF USING CERTAIN PSEU DONYMS AND BUZZ WORDS WHEN REALLY THEY WANT TO SCREAM h4HE *EWSv HAS BEEN SKILLFULLY TRANSPLANTED TO THE BLACK .ATIONALIST MILIEU 4HE IRONY IS THAT ONE OF THE FEW COMPARABLE
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$ZDMJTUT BCVTFE GFE VQ 4O THE %DITOR !FTER READING YOUR CYCLING WARNING ARTI CLE ) THOUGHT ) SHOULD WRITE TO SAY ABOUT THE ABUSE YOU GET AS A CYCLIST WHEN CYCLING ON THE ROAD ) DO A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF CYCLING ) VE GOT THE ,YCRA SHORTS TO PROVE IT ) ALWAYS CHOOSE TO CYCLE ALONG THE ROAD AND OBEY TRAFlC LAWS SUCH AS TRAFlC LIGHTS ) ALSO HAVE LIGHTS AND AFTER SEEN A MAN LYING IN THE GUT TER OF THE ROAD WITH HIS BIKE IN THE RADIATOR OF A CAR ) AM EXTREMELY WORRIED THAT PEOPLE WOULD CYCLE AT NIGHT OR DUSK DAWN WITHOUT ANY LIGHTS ) WOULD SAY ) M OBSERVANT ) SEE MANY STUDENTS WHO DON T PAY AS MUCH ATTENTION AS THEY SHOULD WHEN CYCLING ON THE ROAD AND IT IS WORRYING 4HE lRST TIME ) WENT OUT FOR A SPIN ON MY BIKE WHEN ) STARTED AT 5%! ) NEARLY GOT KNOCKED OFF MY BIKE AT A SET OF TRAFlC LIGHTS THROUGH THE TOWN BY THE !NGLIAN "US COM PANY ) ACTUALLY HAD TO HIT THE BUS WITH MY lST TO WARN THE DRIVER TO STOP OTHERWISE HE D OF PUSHED ME OVER ) THEN GOT VERBALLY ABUSED BY HIM AT THE NEXT SET OF LIGHTS ON THE @QUALITY OF MY CYCLING ) lLED A POLICE REPORT ABOUT THIS AS THE @PROFESSIONAL DRIVER HAD mAUNTED MANY OF THE RULES OF THE HIGHWAY CODE 4HE INITIAL POLICE OFlCER ) REPORTED IT TO AGREED THAT ) WAS IN THE RIGHT AND EVEN QUOTED A LITTLE SNIP IT OF WHAT AN OLD JUDGE HAD SAID IN A SIMILAR SITUA TION h! CYCLIST IS ALLOWED HIS WOBBLEv 4HE INITIAL POLICEMAN DID SEEM VERY FRIENDLY 3O
FAR ALL THE POLICE HAVE DONE WAS TOLD MANAGE MENT OF THE BUS COMPANY AND LEFT THE BUS COMPANY TO DEAL WITH IT INTERNALLY 7HEN ) WENT TO SEE THE POLICE AT THE %ARLHAM STATION ) WAS TOLD THEY HAD TO THINK OF THE DRIVER S JOB (E NO DOUBT HAS BILLS TO PAY 3URELY LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIVELIHOOD .OW ) BY NO MEANS WANT THIS DRIVER TO LOOSE HIS JOB BUT SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS SHOULD OF TAKEN PLACE RATHER THAN THE POLICE DOING THE BARE MINIMUM REQUIRED FROM THEM ) HAVE NO IDEA IF THE DRIVER WAS EVEN WARNED BY THE COMPANY ) WROTE TO THE BUS COMPANY IN PER SON TO lND OUT THE SITUATION BUT THREE WEEKS ON AND STILL NO REPLY APOLOGY OR ACKNOWL EDGEMENT ) HAD ANOTHER TWO INCIDENTS TODAY WHEN GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET TODAY 3OMEONE PULLING INTO TRAFlC WITHOUT LOOKING RIGHT ) HAVE A LOUD BIKE HORN AND WITHOUT THIS ) WOULD HAVE BEEN FORCED TO STOP WHEN IT WAS MY RIGHT OF WAY 4HE DRIVER THEN GOES TO AC CUSE ME OF BEING IN THE WRONG )F THERE HAD BEEN A CAR COMING HE D OF WAITED n BUT NOT FOR A CYCLIST /N THE WAY BACK FROM SHOPPING A CAR SWERVED DANGEROUSLY CLOSE IN FRONT OF ME ) USED MY HORN TO WARN OF MY PRESENCE AND RIGHT TO BE ON THE ROAD !FTER RISKING MY LIFE HE GETS SECONDS AHEAD AND HAS TO WAIT AT THE TRAFlC LIGHTS WHERE HE GOES TO YELLS ABUSE AT ME 4HIS CON TINUED UP THE ROAD TILL HE HIT MORE TRAFlC AND ) WENT ANOTHER WAY 4HESE WERE THE ONLY TWO @BIG INCIDENTS
ON THE WAY THERE BUT TAILGATING PEDESTRIANS DECIDING TO CROSS THE ROAD IN RANDOM PLAC ES AND OTHER PEOPLE S LACK OF CARE AND CON SIDERATION IS VERY OBVIOUS ) WOULD ALSO SAY THAT THE EXPERIENCES ) VE HIGHLIGHTED SEEM TO BE COMMON ONES WHEN CYCLING TO THROUGH AND FROM .ORWICH )T S TROUBLE NEARLY EVERY TIME -Y POINT IS IF PEOPLE DON T FEEL SAFE ON THE ROAD CAN THEY BLAME PEOPLE WHEN THEY DO CHOOSE TO CYCLE ON THE PAVEMENT &ROM MY EXPERIENCE THE POLICE ARE BELITTLING ABOUT CYCLIST S RIGHTS TO USE THE ROAD ) DO HOPE THAT ) DON T COME ACROSS AS WHAT ) WAS CALLED EARLIER BUT ) DO THINK IT S IMPOR TANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT MOTORISTS SHOULD FACE PUNISHMENTS FOR BREAKING THE HIGHWAY CODE TOO ) AM ALL FOR CYCLISTS NOT BEING ALLOWED TO USE THE PAVEMENT BUT WHY SHOULD SOMEONE BE lNED a FOR BREAKING A LAW THAT COULD POTENTIALLY ENDANGER A PEDESTRIAN WHERE AS THE POLICE WON T EVEN WARN THE DRIVER IN PER SON FOR HIS mAUNTING OF THE HIGHWAY CODE NEVER MIND GIVE HIM A lNE OR POINTS ) AM BY NO MEANS A ,YCRA LOUT BUT WILL SUPPORT MY RIGHT TO USE THE ROAD )F ) KEEP HAVING NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES ON THE ROAD ) WILL CONSIDER BUYING A @HELMET CAMERA SO IF ANY SERIOUS DOES HAPPEN ) WILL HAVE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THE EVENT ) ALWAYS ENJOY DOING THE CROSS WORD OF YOUR PAPER ) USUALLY STRUGGLE WITH THEM SO IT S NICE TO HAVE A SLIGHT CHANGE WITH IT +INDEST 2EGARDS
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1JHHZ #BDLT GPS $IBSJUZ 1JHHZ #BOL $ANIELLE *ORDAN URGES YOU TO SUPPORT HER 0IGGY "ACK 2ACE IN AID OF #HILDREN )N .EED %VERY YEAR SINCE THE ""# HAS KEPT ONE EVENING FREE IN THE PRO GRAMMING SCHEDULE TO SHOW EVENTS AIMED AT RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITIES WORKING WITH CHILDREN IN 'REAT "RIT AIN 4HE MONEY CONTRIBUTED TO #HIL DREN )N .EED IS DISTRIBUTED AMONGST ORGANISATIONS WHICH SUPPORT CHIL DREN AGED AND UNDER WHO HAVE MENTAL PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILI TIES BEHAVIOURAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS ARE LIVING IN SITUATIONS OF DEPRIVATION OR ARE SUFFERING THROUGH DISTRESS ABUSE OR NEGLECT 4HE APPEAL GAINS THE MAJORITY OF ITS MONEY FROM THE PUBLIC WHERE INDIVIDUALS TAKE PART IN THEIR OWN SPONSORED EVENTS TO RAISE MONEY /N THE NIGHT OF THE APPEAL DO NATIONS ARE SOLICITED BY CELEBRITIES FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY OFTEN IN CLUDING POP STARS SPORTS STARS AND POLITICIANS WHO PERFORM VARIOUS ACTIVITIES SUCH AS MUSICAL NUMBERS OR SKETCHES WHICH MAKE THE SEVEN HOUR PROGRAMME MORE ENTERTAIN ING TO WATCH (OWEVER ALTHOUGH IT IS A NIGHT OF ENTERTAINMENT WE ARE
NOT ALLOWED TO FORGET THE MEANING BEHIND THE PROGRAMME AND ARE CONSTANTLY BEING SHOWN SHORT lLM
h,AST YEAR S TELEVISION BROADCAST RAISED OVER a MILLION WITH THE TOTAL APPEAL AMOUNT IN EXCEEDING a MILLIONv FOOTAGE OF CHILDREN WHO ARE IN NEED OF OUR HELP 4HESE lLMS WHICH DO PULL AT THE HEART STRINGS SUCCESSFUL LY FULlL THEIR PURPOSE IN GRABBING THE NATION S ATTENTION AS THEY SHOW THE VIEWERS HOW MUCH THEIR MONEY COULD HELP 4HIS YEAR S @#HILDREN IN .EED WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ON &RIDAY TH .OVEMBER ON ""# /NE AT PM WITH ITS THEME @DO SOMETHING DIFFER
ENT ,AST YEAR S TELEVISION BROADCAST RAISED OVER a MILLION ON THE NIGHT AND THE TOTAL APPEAL EVENTUALLY EX CEEDED a MILLION 4HE APPEAL URGES AS MANY PEOPLE TO TAKE PART AS POS SIBLE FREQUENTLY REMINDING US THAT ANY PENNY WE CAN SPARE CAN HELP 3O NOW YOU KNOW A LITTLE ABOUT WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING AND HOW MUCH IT CAN HELP DISADVANTAGED CHIL DREN HERE IS HOW THE CHARITABLE STU DENTS OF 5%! CAN HELP !LTHOUGH IT IS A TIME OF YEAR WHERE MANY OF YOU ALL WILL BE DRIFTING INTO YOUR OVERDRAFTS AND WORRYING ABOUT THE EXPENSE OF #HRISTMAS PRESENTS IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH TO DO YOUR BIT /N 4HURSDAY TH .OVEMBER ) HAVE ORGANISED A
FUNDRAISER FOR @#HILDREN IN .EED IN ASSOCIATION WITH 5%! 2!' 3OCIETY AND WE WELCOME ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT 7E ARE HOLDING 5%! S BIGGEST PIGGY
)NTERESTING &ACT 4HE ""# S lRST APPEAL FOR CHILDREN WAS IN 4HE lVE MINUTE RADIO BROADCAST ON #HRISTMAS $AY RAISED JUST OVER a APPROXIMATELY a BY TODAY S STANDARDS
BACK RACE IN THE AFTERNOON ON OUR VERY OWN TURF AND WANT TO RAISE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE 7E ARE ASKING FOR
a PER ENTRY IN RETURN FOR A GUARAN TEED ENJOYABLE AFTERNOON AND A VEN TURE INTO THE CITY THAT EVENING WHICH THE 2!' 3OCIETY WILL BE HELPING OR GANISE 4HE TIME AND PLACE IS YET TO BE CONlRMED BUT JOIN THE &ACEBOOK GROUP 5%! 0IGGY "ACK 2ACE AND YOU WILL RECEIVE ALL OF THE DETAILS VERY SOON !LSO WE SHALL BE IN THE (IVE ON 7EDNESDAY TH .OVEMBER BETWEEN AM AND PM COLLECTING MONEY WHERE YOU CAN ALSO SIGN UP IF YOU HAVEN T ALREADY 4HIS CHARITY REALLY MAKES A DIFFER ENCE TO CHILDREN S LIVES AND WE REALLY WANT TO DO THE BEST WE CAN TO RAISE AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE HERE AT 5%!
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"SF :PV 1PMJUJDBMMZ 1FSQMFYFE /PINIONS %DITOR %LSIE +ING DISCUSSES THE POTENTIAL POLITICAL APATHY FACING "RITAIN S YOUTH )T S DIFlCULT BEING A WISHY WASHY UNDECIDED PERSON LIKE MYSELF )N THE MORNING IT S A CONSTANT STRUGGLE BETWEEN CE REAL AND TOAST -Y FRIENDS WILL BEAR WITNESS TO THE FACT THAT ) HAVE BEEN DITHERING OVER WHETHER OR NOT ) SHOULD DYE MY HAIR BROWN FOR MONTHS ) MAKE RESOLUTIONS TO WORK HARDER EAT LESS SUGAR DRINK LESS PARTICULARLY AFTER STICKY mOORED ,#2S ) HAVE NO MEM ORY OF AND RARELY KEEP TO ANY OF THEM (OWEVER RECENTLY MY INDECISIVENESS IN REGARD TO POLITICS HAS BEEN BOTHER ING ME SOMEWHAT 0ARTICU LARLY DURING THESE TIMES OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMEN TAL TURBULENCE AND THE 53 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COM ING UP IN .OVEMBER 7ATCH ING THE NEWS ) M NOT SURE WHETHER TO SPIT ON OR CHEER 'ORDON "ROWN !ND THEN ARE YOU A 2EPUBLICAN OR $EMO CRAT )S /BAMA THE ANSWER TO THE WORLD S PROBLEMS )S HE IF YOU BELIEVE SOME OF THE PRESS THE SECOND COMING 7HO WILL DO THE BEST BY SIN GLE WORKING MOTHERS 7HO WILL PROTECT TIGERS IN !FRICA !ND WHO IS MOST DESERVING OF MY VOTE AND SUPPORT ) WAS RAISED IN A lRMLY ,IBERAL $EMOCRAT HOUSEHOLD AND THUS PICKED UP THE TRAITS THAT COME HAND IN HAND WITH BEING THE SPAWN OF SUCH LIB ERALS READING 4HE /BSERVER ON 3UNDAY THE 'UARDIAN DUR ING THE WEEK A GENERAL DIS GUST DIRECTED TOWARDS $AVID #AMERON AND ALL THOSE OF HIS KIND A ROLL OF THE EYES WHEN EVER THE 3UN OR THE $AILY -AIL IS MENTIONED "UT RECENTLY
WHILST STILL GOING THROUGH THESE MOTIONS ) VE STARTED TO QUESTION MYSELF 7OULD ) AC TUALLY USE MY VOTE TO SUPPORT THE ,IBERAL $EMOCRATS IN AN ELECTION $URING MY MEMORY THEY HAVE HAD AN ALCOHOLIC A
TUALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO TRULY CONNECT WITH THE "RITISH PUBLIC !ND YET HIS POPULARI TY IS RISING WITH MANY KEY ,A BOUR SEATS UNDER THREAT FROM #ONSERVATIVE -0S !ND "ORIS *OHNSON TO ALMOST UNIVERSAL
NORMAL RIGHT 3O WHY IS THE LAST THING IN THE WORLD ) WANT TO DO IS VOTE FOR HIM !ND -R "ROWN !H "ROWN ! MAN THAT SPENT SO LONG IN SHADOW OF "LAIR EMERGED VICTORIOUS SOARED
LOUDER ABOUT THE DAMAGE WE ARE DOING TO THE ENVIRON MENT AND THERE ARE CALLS FOR "ROWN TO STEP ASIDE AND LET SOMEONE ELSE TAKE OVER THE LEADERSHIP "UT DESPITE THIS AND ) KNOW THIS IS GOING TO
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1PMJUJDBM $JSDVT MAN THAT THEY CHUCKED FOR BEING TOO OLD AND NOW A YOUNG UPSTART MOULDED VERY MUCH IN THE IMAGE OF #AM ERON AT THE HELM 4HEN THERE S #AMERON 4HE SANDAL WEARING BIKE RID ING RUMPLE HAIRED SCAMP ! MAN SO SATURATED IN PRIVILEGE AND WEALTH THAT IT SEEMS VIR
ASTONISHMENT HAS BEEN ELECT ED AS THE MAYOR OF ,ONDON 3O #AMERON MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT (E VISITED BABY POLAR BEARS IN THE !RC TIC FOR HEAVEN S SAKE (E HOL IDAYS IN 0ADSTOW (E SHOPS AT 3AINSBURY S (IS CHILDREN ARE UNSPEAKABLY CUTE IN THEIR -INI "ODEN OUTlTS (E S SO
IN THE OPINION POLLS AND THEN THERE WAS THE INEVITA BLE HANGOVER 5NFORTUNATELY IT S RATHER BIGGER THAN FEELING A BIT QUEASY AFTER SEVERAL TE QUILAS /UR ENTIRE ECONOMY APPEARS TO BE HANGING BY A THREAD FUEL PRICES ARE INCREAS ING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED LEV EL PEOPLE ARE SHOUTING EVEN
SOUND A BIT PATHETIC ) CANNOT HELP BUT LIKE 'ORDON "ROWN ) INEXPLICABLY TRUST HIM AND HAVE NO IDEA WHY ) SUPPOSE ) LIKE THE WAY THAT HE HAS KEPT HIS FAMILY LIFE SEPARATE FROM POLITICS ) LIKE THE FACT THAT HE SEEMS GENUINELY NORMAL AS OPPOSED TO THE PSEUDO NOR MALITY PORTRAYED BY $AVID
#AMERON ) LIKE THE FACT THAT HE WAS PERHAPS OUR STRONGEST #HANCELLOR OF THE %XCHEQUER IN YEARS AND MAY JUST HAVE THE NECESSARY EXPERIENCE AND GRAVITAS TO GUIDE THE COUNTRY THROUGH THE CURRENT TURMOIL "UT ) JUST DON T KNOW IF HAV ING AN INEXPLICABLE FONDNESS TOWARDS "ROWN IS A STRONG ENOUGH REASON TO GIVE HIM MY PRECIOUS AND FOUGHT FOR VOTE 0ERHAPS THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT ) SIMPLY lND IT DIFl CULT TO RELATE TO ANY OF THESE MEN /R PERHAPS IT S BECAUSE ) HAVE NEVER FELT THEM REACH OUT ENOUGH TO OUR GENERA TION 7E ARE SURELY THE EXACT PEOPLE THEY SHOULD BE TARGET ING WE RE YOUNG AND READY TO USE OUR VOTE TO CREATE CHANGE AND WE HOPEFULLY HAVEN T YET BECOME SO BITTER OR DISIL LUSIONED AS TO STEP AWAY FROM POLITICS ALTOGETHER 3TUDENTS SUCH AS MYSELF WHO ARE DITH ERING INDECISIVELY BETWEEN PARTIES ARE READY AND WAIT ING TO BE PERSUADED 7E ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING LEFT WITH HUGE STUDENT DEBTS AN ECONOMY AND HOUSING MAR KET ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE THAT IS BECOMING IRREVERSIBLE 4HEREFORE WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT "ROWN #AMERON AND #LEGG SHOULD BE SPENDING TIME WITH AND ENCOURAGING AND EXPLAINING THEIR POLI CIES )NSTEAD OF SIMPLY lGHT ING AMONGST THEMSELVES THEY SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON US AS WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WILL BE HELPING TO SUPPORT THEIR GEN ERATION IN YEARS TO COME
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ǰF "NFSJDBO %SFBN 5PEBZ 7ITH !MERICA ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE A NEW POLITCAL DAWN &REDDIE !LLEN EXPLORES THE MEANING OF THE !MERICAN $REAM IN THE 5NITED 3TATES SOCIETY TODAY $ElNED BY THE /%$ AS @THE IDEAL THAT EVERY CITIZEN OF THE 5NITED 3TATES SHOULD HAVE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AND PROSPER ITY THROUGH HARD WORK DETER MINATION AND INITIATIVE THE !MERICAN $REAM IS A CONCEPT THAT UNDERPINS !MERICAN CULTURE BRINGING WITH IT THE CONNOTATIONS THAT !MERICA IS A LAND RICH IN OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE OPEN TO THE ENTIRE DEMOGRAPHIC 4HE PHRASE WAS lRST COINED BY *AMES 4RUSLOW !DAMS IN @4HE %PIC OF !MER ICA WHERE HE WROTE OF @THAT DREAM OF A LAND IN WHICH LIFE SHOULD BE BET TER AND RICHER AND FULLER FOR EVERYONE WITH OPPORTUNITY FOR EACH ACCORDING TO ABILITY OR ACHIEVEMENT ; = )T IS NOT A DREAM OF MOTOR CARS AND HIGH WAGES ; = BUT A DREAM OF SOCIAL ORDER ;WHERE ONE CAN= BE RECOGNISED BY OTHERS FOR WHAT THEY ARE REGARDLESS OF THE FORTUITOUS CIRCUM STANCES OF BIRTH OR POSITION 4RUSLOW !DAMS IDEA THAT THE !MERICAN $REAM CATERS FOR
THE RISE OF THE MERITOCRACY CAN BE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DI LUTED IN RECENT YEARS FOR WHAT THE &OUNDING &ATHERS REFERRED
WANT IT BADLY ENOUGH 9OU CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO BE DO ANYTHING YOU SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH IF YOU HOLD TO
TO AS THE @PURSUIT OF HAPPI NESS HAS BEEN SURPASSED BY MODERN DAY !MERICA S PUR SUIT OF MATERIAL PROSPERITY 4HE GROWTH OF CONSUMERISM HAS CAUSED THIS EPIC SWING AS INCREASINGLY CARS HOUSES AND MOD CONS ARE BECOMING THE MEASURE OF GOVERNING STATUS WITHIN SOCIETY &OUNDING &A THER !BRAHAM ,INCOLN ONCE PROCLAIMED h9OU CAN HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT IF YOU
THAT DESIRE WITH SINGLENESS OF PURPOSEv "UT WHILST THE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH A STATE MENT WERE ATTRACTIVE AND BE LIEVABLE IN THE MID TH CEN TURY GIVEN THAT !MERICA WAS A COMPARATIVELY hNEWv COUNTRY WITH A NEW IMMIGRANT POPU LATION AND ENDLESS POSSIBILI TIES THE STATEMENT WOULD BE mAWED IN THE CONTEXT OF MOD ERN DAY FOR THE GROWTH OF IN DUSTRY IMPOSES SOCIAL LIMITS
UPON CITIZENS WHO MAY PUR SUE THEIR OWN IDEA OF PERFEC TION "UT WHEN CONTENTMENT IS RELIANT UPON MATERIAL GAIN IT EXPOSES ITSELF AS LITTLE MORE THAN AN UNATTAINABLE !MERICAN hPIPEv $REAM 4HE !MERICAN $REAM THAT THE &OUNDING &ATHERS SOUGHT WAS A DIFFERENT ONE THAT OF LIFE AND LIBERTY )T IS THESE IDEALS THAT 4HOMAS *EFFERSON WAS
MATERIAL PROSPERITY WAS NOT CONSIDERED A PRIORITY WHEN FORMING A NATION @,IFE LIB ERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAP PINESS WERE THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE !MERICAN $REAM BUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE DREAM SAYS LESS ABOUT !MERICA THAN IT DOES ABOUT 7ESTERN IDEALS WHICH FOCUS MORE UPON OWNERSHIP THAN SPIRITUALITY WHILST LIFE AND
REFERRING TO WHEN HE WROTE h.OTHING CAN STOP THE MAN WITH THE RIGHT MENTAL ATTITUDE FROM ACHIEVING HIS GOALv FOR
LIBERTY ARE TWO CONCEPTS THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED AS MOST WILL AGREE WE DO NOT LIVE IN AN OPPRESSIVE REGIME
3O CAN !MERICA RETAIN THE TITLE OF @LAND OF OPPORTUNI TIES 4HREE YEARS AGO HAD SOMEONE INFORMED ME THERE WOULD BE A BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES ) D HAVE CURTLY INFORMED THEM THAT THE LATEST SEASON OF IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF REAL WORLD !MERICA "UT NOW SUBJECT TO THE OUTCOME OF THIS WEEK S ELECTION "ARACK /BAMA MAY WELL CHANGE THE COURSE OF POLITICAL HISTORY 3O IN THIS RESPECT IT WOULD BE AD EQUATE TO ARGUE THAT !MERICA IS OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES TO A WIDER DEMOGRAPHIC 9ET FOR A NATION PROFESSING TO BE @THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY ) FEEL THAT IT LACKS THE SCOPE TO PROVIDE FOR ALL AS APPROXI MATELY MILLION PEOPLE OF THE POPULATION RE MAIN BELOW THE POVERTY LINE #ONSEQUENTLY THE !MERICAN $REAM AND THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH IT ARE ONLY APPLICABLE TO THOSE WHO lT THE ECONOMIC CRITERIA AND GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION ALLOW ING THOSE LESS FORTUNATE TO FALL BY THE WAYSIDE
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4O IGNORE THE CLICHÏD NEGATIVES OF !MERICA IS NOT EASY 4HE IN CREASING RATE OF MEDICAL OBESITY GHASTLY FOOD OVERSTATED SMILES AND mATTERY FROM COMPLETE STRANGERS NOT TO MENTION THE IDIOCY OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT ON ARGUABLY POINTLESS WARFARE (OWEVER ALL THESE THINGS ASIDE THERE ARE SOME HIDDEN AS PECTS OF !MERICAN CULTURE THAT ARE ENVIABLE 3URELY OVER HALF OF OUR FAVOURITE 46 PROGRAMMES ARE !MERICAN 4HE HILARITY OF &AM ILY 'UY IS SO FAR FROM THE UNBEATABLE HUMOUR OF "RITISH SITCOM THAT IT S NOVEL TO OUR SCREENS NOT TO MENTION THE COMICAL CRASS NESS OF CHAT SHOWS AND 46 DRAMAS LIKE 3CRUBS OR &RIENDS (OL LYWOOD IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST lLM INDUSTRIES IN THE WORLD THE 53! S INFECTIOUS ACTING BUG HAS SPREAD AND IS BEING CONSTANTLY ENJOYED ACROSS THE CHANNEL CREATING STARDOM BY THE DAY "RITISH CELEBRITIES MAY BE OBSESSED OVER IN OUR CULTURE BUT !MERICA PRO VIDES US WITH MORE COMPELLING MORE SHOCKING GOSSIP WITH EVERY NEWS STORY !LTHOUGH TABLOIDS ORIGINATED IN THE 5+ MOST OF OUR MAGAZINES COMBINE "RITISH AND !MERICAN CELEBRITY NEWS TO FORM A SUPER CELEB SECTION !MERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY AND EVEN THOUGH WE MAY lND FAULT "RITAIN WOULD NOT BE WHAT IT IS WITHOUT THE INmUENCE OF OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE POND
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$O WE REALLY WANT A CULTURE THAT WORSHIPS THE GOLDEN ARCHES OF A GROSSLY INmATED MONEY EATING CONSUMERIST EMPIRE 4HESE WRITERS SAY NO "RITAIN SHOULD BE CONCENTRATING ON BECOMING A MORE UNIlED %UROPE !S %RASMUS STUDENTS WE HAVE REALISED HOW GREAT %UROPE REALLY IS AND THAT "RITAIN SHOULD EMBRACE ITS %UROPEAN IDENTITY !FTER ALL WHAT CAN !MERICA OFFER US THAT %UROPE CANNOT )T HAS AN ENRICHING CULTURE FOUNDED ON DI VERSITY AND UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER SOCIETIES ECONOMICALLY POLITICALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY 7E FOUGHT OUR WAY THROUGH TWO 7ORLD 7ARS AND YET REMAINED CIVIL OVER TIME TIGHTENING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WHICH HAVE MADE US INTO A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH 4AKE THAT !MERICA 0OLITICALLY SPEAKING THERE ARE OBVIOUS BENElTS TO THE RAP PROCHEMENT OF "RITAIN AND %UROPE INCLUDING BEING PART OF THE %5 WHICH PROVIDES A SENSE OF SECURITY WITH THE %UROPEAN BOUNDARIES AND PROVIDING US WITH FREE TRADE AND UNRESTRICTED MOVEMENT OF LABOUR 4HE VARIETY OF LANGUAGES ENDOWS %UROPE WITH A CERTAIN lNESSE AS WELL AS PROMOTING CHARACTER DEVELOP MENT AND A DESIRE TO MAXIMIZE THE BENElTS OF CULTURAL PLURAL ISM 4AKE IT FROM TWO STUDENTS WHO HAVE LIVED IN &RANCE FOR A YEAR NOW MORE THAN EVER IT IS COOL TO BE %UROPEAN AND THE LABEL OF BEING "RITISH IS BECOMING SOMETHING OF THE PAST AS MORE AND MORE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE COMMITTED TO THE INTEGRA TION OF A UNITED POWER -ARK -C+ENZIE 2AY *ESSICA -ARTIN
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! GAP YEAR SPENT TEACHING %NGLISH IN #HINA BECOMES A CULTURALLY ENLIGHTEN ING JOURNEY FOR 3ARAH (OWLETT #HINA THE FOURTH LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD COVERING KM AND YET THE MOST POPULATED CENTRING ITSELF AMONGST FOURTEEN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND FOUR DIFFER ENT SEAS )T IS HOME TO CHOPSTICKS NOODLES AND RICE TEMPLES THE /LYMPICS *ACKIE #HAN TEA AND IN -ARCH OF THIS YEAR ME "ACKPACK BURSTING TEARFUL PARENTS WAVING ME OFF UNDERSTANDING ONLY @(ELLO BUS IN -ANDARIN AND A SENSE OF BEWILDERED EXCITEMENT FORMED THE BEGINNING OF MY GAP YEAR ADVEN TURE -Y AMBITION IN LIFE IS TO TEACH %NGLISH ABROAD ON STUMBLING UPON THE @4EACH IN #HINA PROGRAM ) DIDN T HESITATE IN APPLYING &OR FOUR MONTHS (AINAN )SLAND JUST SOUTH OF THE MAINLAND BECAME MY HOME $RIVING FROM THE AIRPORT IN THE CAPITAL (AIKOU TO THE HOSTEL IN WHICH ) WAS TO BE TRAINED ) COULD ALREADY SENSE THE INTIMATELY DIFFER ING CULTURE WITHIN THIS COMPLICATED COUNTRY 4HE ROADS WERE LINED WITH BIZARRE YET VIBRANT LIGHTS THE SIGNS DOMINATED BY SOME ALIEN LANGUAGE AND THE TRAFl C FOLLOWED AN ODD UN NERVING SYSTEM OF BEEPING SWERV ING AND OFTEN BUMPING INTO ANY OBSTACLE BE IT A STRUCTURE ANOTHER VEHICLE OR A HUMAN BEING (AIKOU WAS MY l RST HOME ON (AINAN ) NEVER FULLY UNDERSTOOD ITS INTRICATE COMPLEXITIES &OR A MONTH ) AND MY FELLOW VOLUNTEERS WERE IMMERSED IN STRICT TEACHER TRAIN ING WE MADE @DIM SUM OR #HINESE DUMPLINGS VISITED VARIOUS TEMPLES
ATE SOME EXTRAORDINARY CUISINE n CHICKEN S FEET AND PEA m AVOURED ICE LOLLIES DELIGHTING THE TASTE BUDS OF FEW n AND ATTEMPTED -ANDARIN !LWAYS ENTHUSIASTIC ) TRIED HARD TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE THE HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER THAT EMANATED FROM MY TUTOR FOLLOWING EVERY ONE OF MY AT TEMPTS WAS CERTAINLY ENCOURAGING &INALLY READY TO TEACH ) WAS SENT WITH ONE OTHER VOLUNTEER TO THE NEARBY CITY OF 7ENCHANG )NI TIALLY DISTRESSED AT LEAVING (AIKOU AND MY NEW FRIENDS THE SIGHT OF RED MOTORISED TUK TUKS #HINESE LANTERNS AN ALLEY DEVOTED TO STREET FOOD AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE HEAV ENLY BREAD BUN SHOP MY SADNESS SWIFTLY DIMINISHED /UR CHARM ING COORDINATOR AND NOW TREASURED FRIEND TOURED US AROUND OUR NEWLY FURBISHED m AT COMPLETE WITH RICE OVEN WOODEN BOARD BEDS AND SQUATTER TOILETS BEFORE INVITING US TO AN %NGLISH DEPARTMENT MEAL /NCE AT THE RESTAURANT THE SCHOOL IN REPRESENTATION OF THEIR GRATITUDE SELECTED A SMALL SHARK FOR US TO CON SUME AMONGST AN ABUNDANCE OF OTHER SEAFOOD DELICACIES 7ENCHANG WAS PARADISE ITS STREETS ALWAYS ABUNDANT WITH LIFE THE PEOPLE NEVER CEASING TO CRY OUT h(ELLO 7E LOVE YOU v ON PASSING ) CAME TO RELISH IN ITS WHIMSICAL WAYS THE COCKTAIL OF ODOURS AND THE GENERAL VIVACIOUSNESS -Y STUDENTS ULTIMATELY MADE MY 7ENCHANG EX PERIENCE THE TEACHING EVOLVED FROM BEING DAUNTING TO BEING AN ABSO LUTE DELIGHT ) WAS ASSIGNED TWELVE
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CLASSES EACH WITH OVER SEVENTY EIGHT EEN TO TWENTY YEAR OLD STUDENTS 3POKEN %NGLISH WAS ABSENT IN THEIR USUAL %NGLISH LESSONS MY PRESENCE THEREFORE FORMED SOMEWHAT OF A CHALLENGE 4HINKING @BASIC INTRO DUCTIONS WOULD BE A GOOD START TO MY l RST CLASS ) ASKED A BOY HIS NAME )N UTTER TERROR HE VAULTED HIS DESK AND LEAPT OUT OF THE WINDOW 4HANKFULLY WE WERE ON THE GROUND m OOR #ONl DENCE GREW THOUGH AND SOON ) FOUND MYSELF VISITING STU DENTS FAMILIES WITH THEM PREPAR ING EXTENSIVE FEASTS DAY TRIPS AND INFORMING ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE OF OUR PRESENCE OFTEN LEADING TO ENTIRE TOWNS CRAMMING INTO ONE SMALL COURTYARD ,ONG,OU BECAME ANOTHER HOME WHERE ) NOW HAD ANOTHER FAMILY 4HIS BEAUTIFULLY TRANQUIL TOWN BECAME AN ESCAPE FROM THE CLASSROOM A PLACE WHERE ) WASN T A TEACHER BUT A FRIEND !F TER MY l RST VISIT ) WAS DROWNED IN COCONUTS HOME GROWN CUCUMBERS ENDLESS BOTTLES OF WATER A BAG OF CHILLI PEPPERS CAKE AND TEA WHILST MODELLING FOR AN INCESSANT STREAM OF PHOTOGRAPHS 3UCH IS THE GENER OSITY OF THOSE WITH LITTLE NEVER HESI TATING TO MAKE ALL FEEL HAPPY AND WELCOME ALWAYS CONCERNED FOR THE WELFARE OF OTHERS REGARDLESS OF THEIR OWN NEEDS &ROM MY EXPERIENCE THE BEAUTY OF A COUNTRY IS FOUND NOT ONLY IN THE PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE BUT IN THE PEOPLE (AINAN JUXTAPOSED THE AB SURD WITH THE UTTERLY BREATHTAKING IT WAS l LLED WITH INTRICATELY DECO RATED TEMPLES PAGODAS PALM TREES GOLDEN SANDS AND TRANQUIL CLEAR SEAS BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL ) IMMERSED MYSELF INTO THE CULTURES TRADITIONS n THE LIVES OF ITS PEOPLE THAT ) BE GAN TO FULLY COMPREHEND WHERE ITS TRUE HEART LIES 4HERE WAS NEVER A MOMENT WHERE ) YEARNED FOR HOME OR DOUBTED MY PURPOSE (AINAN S SHEER MAGNITUDE OF GENEROSITY KINDNESS AND LOVE EMBRACED ME ENTIRELY -Y STUDENTS TEACHERS AND FELLOW VOLUNTEERS WERE MY #HINA ADVENTURE 4HEY SHAPED MY EVERY SECOND THERE AND HAVE IMPACTED ON MY EVERY MOMENT SINCE #HINA THE FOURTH LARGEST COUN TRY BUT FOREMOST IN MY MIND
#ONTINUING OUR CYCLING TRIP THROUGH EVERY COUNTY WE HEADED WEST TO WARDS THE -ALVERNS WHICH LOOMED FORBIDDINGLY ON THE HORIZON ALL DAY 4HE WEATHER WORSENED AS NIGHT FELL FORCING US TO MAKE CAMP HALFWAY UP THE SUMMIT RESULTING IN A VERY UNCOMFORTABLE NIGHT SPENT IN A COLD HARD DISUSED QUARRY !LTERNATING SUNSHINE SUDDEN HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND A GRA DIENT HILL THE FOLLOWING DAY S GO ING WAS TOUGH 3HOOTING THROUGH 7OLVERHAMPTON ENOUGH LIGHT REMAINED FOR A ""1 IN THE WOODS ON THE OTHER SIDE $URING THE NIGHT AN EERIE MIST DESCENDED AND SHRILL SHRIEKS PIERCED THE DARKNESS AS WOODLAND CREATURES SCURRIED ABOUT ONE TRYING TO GET INTO THE TENT 7HATEVER IT WAS IT SOON GAVE UP MUCH TO OUR RELIEF &ROM THERE OUR ROUTE WOUND NORTH EAST TO THE EDGE OF THE 0EAK $ISTRICT &ROM HIGH UP ON THE PEAKS WE COULD SEE THE m AT EXPANSE OF ,INCOLNSHIRE TO THE EAST AND THE IMPRESSIVE SUMMITS OF 3NOWDONIA TO THE WEST 2OLLING INTO ,EEK OUR MONEY FOR A CAMPSITE WAS HANDED BACK TO US WHEN THE KINDLY OWNER HEARD OF OUR JOURNEY %XHAUSTED BY HILLS WE SHORT ENED THE NEXT DAY TO MILES BEFORE
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7HAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU CAN T CHOOSE ) VE BEEN SEEING THIS GUY BUT HE DOESN T WANT TO COMMIT TO A RELATIONSHIP ) VE MET SOMEONE ELSE BUT HE SAYS HIS FAVOURITE MOVIE IS "EAUTY AND THE "EAST IS THIS REALLY THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS 0LEASE HELP AS ) LIKE THEM BOTH BUT ) M NOT SURE ) CAN SPEND THE REST OF MY ADULT LIFE WATCHING $ISNEY ,OVE 5NDECIDED $EAR 5NDECIDED
-Y lRST QUESTION HAS TO BE WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH EITHER OF THESE GUYS 4HERE ARE ONLY THREE KINDS OF GUY IN A GIRLS LIFE GUYS WHO WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND GUYS WHO ARE WANT TO BE YOUR BOYFRIEND AND THE GUYS WHO @DON T WANT TO COMMIT RIGHT NOW 4HIS MAN IS CLEARLY ONLY AF TER ONE THING AND IT ISN T $ISNEY 3PEAKING OF WHICH SURELY THERE ARE BETTER ALTERNATIVES TO WATCH ING 4HE ,ITTLE -ERMAID FOR THE REST OF THE SEMESTER )F YOU ARE LIKE SO MANY OF US JUST HIDING YOUR LOVE OF KIDS MOVIES UNDER A VENEER OF @COOL THEN MAYBE THIS WILL WORK BUT OTHERWISE IT S TIME TO MOVE ON AND HOLD OUT FOR THE GUY WHO REALLY MAKES YOU WEAK AT THE KNEES !LTERNA TIVELY YOU COULD JUST KEEP SEE ING THEM BOTH n MAYBE BETWEEN THEIR FAULTS THERE IS ENOUGH TO MAKE UP ONE GOOD BOYFRIEND AFTER ALL 4ED
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MEANS COMPULSORY WHEN SOMEONE HAS FOUND YOU A MASSIVE SAVING ON SOMETHING YOU WOULD HAVE BOUGHT AT A MUCH HIGHER PRICE WHY NOT THANK THEM "ETTER STILL WHEN YOU GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND SHARE THE DEALS YOU lND YOU LL GET MONEY BACK TOO !ND IT DOESN T JUST APPLY TO ACADEMIC ITEMS EITHER IT S PERFECT FOR lNDING CHEAP $6$ S OR EVEN CLOTHING /THER INTERNET SITES ARE ALSO DE SIGNED SPECIlCALLY FOR EASING THE l NANCIAL BURDEN OF UNIVERSITY LIFE
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THAT IT IS A RELIGION AS THE TWO ARE VERY DIFFERENT THINGS &REEMASONRY PROVIDES PEOPLE WITH A FRAMEWORK UPON WHICH THEY CAN THINK ABOUT DEEPER MORAL ISSUES AND PHILO SOPHICAL QUESTIONS WITHOUT HAV ING TO SUBSCRIBE TO A PARTICULAR SET OF BELIEFS OR DOGMA &REEMASONRY ACHIEVES THIS THROUGH TWO VERY OLD AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT MEANS 4HE lRST IS RITUAL AND THE SECOND IS SYMBOLISM 2ITUALS HAVE BEEN USED BY ALL SORTS OF ORGANISATIONS THROUGH THE CENTURIES TO IMPART WISDOM CRE ATE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND MARK THE INDIVIDUAL AS A MEMBER OF THE GROUP 2ITUAL IS A PART OF STUDENT LIFE n LOOK AT THE 5%! HOODIES WE BUY OR THE INITIATIONS WHICH WE SEE IN THE SQUARE EVERY YEAR FOR CERTAIN SPORTS CLUBS 2ITUAL WORKS BECAUSE IT TAPS INTO THE PLEASURE THAT HU MANS GET FROM LISTENING TO STORIES 7E ARE MUCH BETTER AT REMEMBER ING INFORMATION IF IT IS WOVEN INTO THE NARRATIVE OF A STORY SUCH AS THE
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WITH LOTS OF PEOPLE FROM VARYING BACKGROUNDS THAT YOU MAY NOT OTHERWISE HAVE MET AND IS A GREAT WAY OF MAKING NEW FRIENDS )T IS AN IMMENSELY SOCIABLE ORGANISA TION WHICH ALSO DOES A GREAT DEAL FOR CHARITY 3O HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO 5%! 4HE 5NITED 'RAND ,ODGE OF %NG LAND HAS RECENTLY SET UP A SCHEME BY WHICH LODGES NEAR TO UNIVERSI TIES WILL BECOME UNOFlCIALLY AFlLI ATED AND ACCEPT BOTH UNDERGRADU ATES AND STAFF FROM THAT UNIVERSITY 5%! NOW HAS JUST SUCH A LODGE AND ) HAD THE PLEASURE OF WITNESS ING THE lRST STUDENT BEING INITIATED LAST MONTH SHOWING THAT CONTRARY TO POPULAR PRE CONCEPTION &REE MASONRY IS AS MUCH FOR STUDENTS AS ANY OTHER SO CIETY )F THIS ARTICLE HAS PIQUED YOUR INTEREST AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET INVOLVED OR IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING -ASONIC PLEASE CONTACT M DAVISON UEA AC UK
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3TUDENTS LIVING IN HALLS WILL BE EN COURAGED TO HAVE FUN IN THE DARK THIS ACADEMIC YEAR BY TAKING PART IN 4HE 3TUDENT 3WITCH /FF WHERE HALLS OF RESIDENCE WILL COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER TO COME TOP OF THE CLASS IN ENERGY EFlCIENCY 0RIZES WILL BE GIVEN OUT AT THE IN DIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL LEVEL OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR AND INCLUDE /DEON lLM TICKETS "EN *ERRY S ICE CREAM ,#2 TICKETS AND DISCOUNT VOUCHERS FROM WWW STUDENTBEANS COM 4HESE PRIZES WILL BE WON PRIMA RILY BY STUDENTS LIVING IN HALLS WHO SIGN UP AS %CO 0OWER 2ANGERS INDI VIDUALS WHO PLEDGE TO USE THEIR EN ERGY CAREFULLY AND ENCOURAGE THEIR mATMATES TO DO SO AS WELL /NE PARTICULARLY PRO ACTIVE %CO 0OWER 2ANGER WILL GET TO HOST A "EN *ERRY S ICE CREAM PARTY FOR OF THEIR FRIENDS SO GET INVOLVED NOW TO MAXIMISE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING n E MAIL ECOPOWERRANGERS STUDEN
TSWITCHOFF ORG WITH YOUR NAME AND HALL IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE E MAIL OR JOIN THE h5%! %CO 0OWER 2ANG ERSv &ACEBOOK GROUP 4HE INITIATIVE BUILDS ON THE SUC CESS OF THE LAST TWO YEARS WHERE ELEC TRICITY USAGE IN HALLS AT 5%! REDUCED BY OVER FROM THE BASELINE YEAR AND HELPED TO KEEP OVER TONNES OF CARBON DIOXIDE FROM GOING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE 7ITHIN THE MAIN 3TUDENT 3WITCH /FF COMPETITION THERE IS ALSO A SUB COMPETITION WHICH ALL 5%! STUDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE TO ENTER THE 0ICTURE OF THE -ONTH #OMPETITION %VERY MONTH UNTIL *UNE THE MOST AMUSING AND ORIGINAL PICTURE ON THE THEME OF ENERGY SAVING OR CLIMATE CHANGE WILL WIN A YEAR S SUP PLY OF "EN *ERRY S WHICH EQUATES TO VOUCHERS FOR THE ML TUBS n YUM #HECK OUT WWW STUDENTSWITCH OFF ORG FOR MORE DETAILS INCLUDING HOW TO ENTER THE 0ICTURE OF THE -ONTH #OMPETITION
&DPOPNJD 3FDFTTJPO $SFBUFT &DPMPHJDBM $SJTJT ,UCY "ENCE 7ILKINS 2EPORTER &OR WEEKS NOW THE FRONT PAGES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER WITH NEWS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS WORSENING BANKS GOING BUST UNEMPLOYMENT RISING AND HOUSE PRICES FALLING "UT WITH THE FOCUS OF THE MEDIA BEING PRI MARILY ON THE CREDIT CRUNCH WHERE DOES THIS PUT ENVIRONMENTAL PROB LEMS !RE WE OVERLOOKING A MORE IMPORTANT GLOBAL CRISIS $AN "ARLOW HEAD OF POLICY FOR THE CONSERVATION GROUP THAT DREW UP THE ,IVING 0LANNING 2EPORT SAID THAT hWHILE THE MEDIA HEADLINES CONTINUE TO BE DOMINATED BY THE ECONOMIC TURMOIL THE WORLD IS HEADING FURTHER INTO AN ECOLOGICAL CREDIT CRUNCHv 4HE REPORT ARGUES THAT MANY COUNTRIES ARE USING UP THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES AND OTHER NATIONS AT SUCH A RATE THAT THEY CANNOT BE RENEWED LEADING TO HUGE ENVIRONMENTAL @DEBTS 4HE WORST OFFENDERS ARE THE 53 AND #HINA 4HE CONSEQUENCES OF THE @ECOLOGI CAL CREDIT CRUNCH MAY NOT SEEM OBVIOUS NOW BUT WILL LEAD TO HUGE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN THE FUTURE AS WELL AS RESOURCE SHORTAGES !LREADY WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE IN FOOD PRICES DUE TO THE COST OF OIL AND USE OF CROPS FOR BIOFUELS 4HERE IS A BELIEF THAT WHILE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS TAKES PRIORITY IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT TO TAKE A BACK SEAT BECAUSE SCHEMES THAT LOOK TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE SIMPLY TOO EXPENSIVE TO BE CONSIDERED AT A TIME LIKE THIS 3O IT
CAME AS A SHOCK TO SOME WHEN THE SECRETARY FOR ENERGY AND CLI MATE CHANGE $AVID -ILIBAND AN NOUNCED A NEW TARGET OF CUTTING GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY ON LEVELS BY UP FROM THE CUT PREVIOUSLY AGREED (E EX PLAINED hTHE COSTS OF NOT ACTING ARE GREATER THAN THE COSTS OF ACTINGv AND THAT IT IS hNOT INCONSISTENTv TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE AT A TIME OF lNANCIAL DECLINE 4HE GOVERNMENT HAS ALSO AN NOUNCED PLANS FOR A a MILLION SCHEME FOR TESTING ELECTRIC CARS AROUND THE 5+ WITH FEEDBACK GOING TOWARD EXPANDING THEIR USE 4HEY HAVE ALSO PLEDGED TO lNANCE THE IN SULATION OF MANY HOMES ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO LOWER FUEL USAGE 'ORDON "ROWN HAS REQUESTED THAT FUEL COM PANIES LOWER PETROL PRICES TO EASE THE COSTS FOR CONSUMERS BUT INSIST ED HE WAS NOT FAVOURING SHORT TERM ADVANTAGES OVER LONG TERM GOALS h$EVASTATING THOUGH THE l NANCIAL CREDIT CRUNCH HAS BEEN IT S NOTHING AS COMPARED TO THE ECOLOG ICAL RECESSION THAT WE ARE FACING v 4HESE ARE THE WORDS OF 77& S IN TERNATIONAL PRESIDENT #HIEF %MEKA !NYAOKU WHO INSISTS THE ENVIRON MENTAL CRISIS NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH ALONGSIDE THE ECONOMIC ONE %LLIOT -ORLEY PRESIDENT OF ',/"% INTER NATIONAL BELIEVES THAT THE CURRENT lNANCIAL CLIMATE OFFERS A hUNIQUE OPPORTUNITYv TO INVEST IN AND DE VELOP A hLOW CARBON INFRASTRUCTUREv THAT IS NEEDED FOR FUTURE PROSPERITY AND SUSTAINABILITY (E ARGUES THIS WOULD KICK START THE ECONOMY BY
INCREASING CARBON TRADE AND CREAT ING JOBS IN RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND ENERGY EFlCIENCY INDUSTRIES )N ORDER TO CUT COSTS TO DEAL WITH THESE ECONOMICALLY DIFlCULT TIMES IT IS IN FACT IN OUR OWN INTERESTS TO BE COME MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE
1PMBS CFBST OPU UIF IFBSU PG UIF NBUUFS 4HE 5%! S RESIDENT !LASKAN +YRA 3HERWOOD PRESENTS AN ALTERNATIVE OPINION OF 3ARAH 0ALIN
3ARAH 0ALIN !LASKAN GOVERNOR AND -C#AIN S RUNNING MATE DOESN T HATE POLAR BEARS 4HAT S NOT HER REA SON FOR TRYING TO GET THE BEARS OFF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST !ND WHILE THE ISSUE IS POLITICAL IT ALSO DESERVES A MUCH MORE NUANCED AP PROACH THAN IT S BEEN GIVEN SO FAR 4HAT S TRUE OF MOST HOT BUTTON IS SUES ˆ THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY DEBATE EVEN THE ONES THAT SEEM CUT AND DRIED ) CAN T SPEAK PERSONALLY FOR 0A LIN BUT ) DO HAVE A CLOSER PERSPEC TIVE THAN MOST 5%! STUDENTS ) M FROM 0ALIN S STATE ) M VISITING FOR THE SEMESTER FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF !LASKA AND ) USED TO LIVE IN "AR ROW THE NORTHERNMOST COMMUNITY IN THE 5 3 AND THE LARGEST TOWN IN THE AREA AFFECTED BY THIS SORT OF DECI SION ) VE SEEN POLAR BEARS AND ICE PACKS TUNDRA AND RECEDING PERMA FROST LEVELS ) VE BEEN TO 0RUDHOE "AY WHERE MOST OF THE OIL DRILLING IN !LASKA TAKES PLACE AND ) VE SEEN WHAT THE REVENUE FROM THAT DRILLING HAS ALLOWED !LASKA S NORTHERN COM MUNITIES TO DO
)T S NEVER BEEN A SIMPLE ISSUE AND IS NO MORE SO NOW THAT 0ALIN HAS GAINED AN INTERNATIONAL SPOT LIGHT 4HE OFlCIAL LINE THAT THE BEARS FATE IS TOO UNCERTAIN TO LIST THE SPECIES AS THREATENED IS A LITTLE DISINGENUOUS BUT A NUMBER OF IM PORTANT FACTS HAVE BEEN GLOSSED OVER IN DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE LISTING )T S UNDENIABLE THAT RECEDING SEA ICE WHATEVER ITS CAUSE IS BAD FOR POLAR BEARS 7HAT S NOT SO CLEAR IS WHETHER THE LISTING WILL ACTUALLY HELP 4HE BEARS HAVE BECOME MERE LY A SYMBOL FOR BOTH SIDES ˆ OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN OF WHAT MUST NOT 4O MANY !LASKANS IT MEANS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TRY ING TO WORK AGAINST GLOBAL WARM ING THROUGH A LAW THAT WAS NEVER DESIGNED TO DO SO )T ALSO THREAT ENS THE STATE S ECONOMY AS WELL AS THE SUBSISTENCE HUNTING ON WHICH MANY !LASKANS DEPEND 3INCE MOST GENERALLY HUNT OTHER SPECIES THAT IN ITSELF ISN T SO BAD BUT IT COULD EASILY BE USED AS A PRECEDENT TO GAIN EVEN MORE STRINGENT PROTECTIONS FOR THOU SANDS OF OTHER ANIMALS PROTECTIONS
THAT COULD PREVENT THE MAJORITY OF SUBSISTENCE HUNTING ALTOGETHER AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF !LASKA S RE SOURCES #ONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF !LASKAN NATIVES ARE NOT UNIFORMLY ANTI DEVELOPMENT OR PRO DEVEL OPMENT ,IKE IT OR NOT OIL IS THE FOUNDATION OF !LASKA S ENTIRE ECON OMY ESPECIALLY ON THE .ORTH 3LOPE 7ITHOUT OIL REVENUES TOWNS LIKE "ARROW WOULD HAVE NONE OF THE MODERN CONVENIENCES OTHERS TAKE
FOR GRANTED ˆ ROADS SCHOOLS IN DOOR PLUMBING %VEN THE 'WICH IN THE TRIBE THAT MOST STRONGLY OPPOSES THE OPENING THE SMALL PART OF !RC TIC .ATIONAL 7ILDLIFE 2EFUGE THAT S DESIRED FOR DRILLING UNDERSTAND THE UNEASY BALANCE BETWEEN DEVEL OPMENT AND CONSERVATION !.72 CONTAINS SQUARE MILES THE AREA UNDER CONSIDERATION IS SQUARE MILES OF WHICH ONLY A FRAC TION WOULD BE DRILLED !LASKANS NA TIVE AND NON NATIVE ALIKE APPRECI
ATE BOTH WHAT DEVELOPMENT ENABLES US TO DO AND THE NATURAL BEAUTY THAT MUST BE PRESERVED 4HE POLAR BEAR LISTING IGNORES THAT DILEMMA 2ICH ARD 'LENN A GEOLOGIST IN THE "ARROW !RCTIC 3CIENCE #ONSORTIUM AND AN )×UPIAQ SAID IT BEST h7HILE !MER ICA SLEEPS BETTER AT NIGHT FALSELY BE LIEVING THEY HAVE ASSISTED THIS ICONIC SPECIES THEY WILL STILL mY PLANES DRIVE CARS AND POWER THEIR HOMESv
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'JWF .JOVUFT 8JUI "MFY $PMF (ARRY ,OW GETS TO KNOW THE SOCIAL SECRETARY OF THE LACROSSE CLUB AND lNDS OUT WHAT THE PEOPLE WITH THE STICKS REALLY GET UP TO 4ELL ME A BIT ABOUT YOUR SELF ) DO NOT SEEM TO BE A MAN THAT LIVES FOR MONEY WOMEN AND FAST CARS AS ) LOVE BEING AT UNI WHERE ) M HAPPY WITH THE OVERDRAFT A LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP AND SHARING MY MUM S &ORD &IESTA ) BELIEVE A HEALTHY WEEK MUST CONSIST OF AN ,#2 ON A 4UESDAY AND 3ATURDAY A BIT OF LACROSSE A TAKEAWAY TIKKA MASALA AT SOME POINT AND UNFORTUNATE LY THE ODD BIT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE THROWN IN )S THERE AN INTERESTING FACT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU ) WAS CALLED 2OSS FOR THE lRST THREE DAYS OF MY LIFE ) WAS IN THE lLM CALLED *UST -Y ,UCK WITH ,INDSAY ,OHAN AND -C &LY 4OPSY /JO AND -ICK *AG GER WENT TO MY SCHOOL !S DID
4HE MEN S TEAM IS GROWING IN CONlDENCE AND WE ARE ALL EN JOYING THE LEAGUE GAMES THIS SEASON 4HE WOMEN S TEAM IS VERY STRONG THIS YEAR AND ARE LOOKING AT A FEW lXTURES BE FORE THE TOUR OF $UBLIN AND THE MIXED TEAM IS ALWAYS GOOD FUN FOR EVERYONE IN VOLVED
(ARRY ,OW 7HEN DID YOU lRST PLAY LA CROSSE ) STARTED AT THE BEGINNING OF lRST YEAR -E AND MY BEST MATE !DAM ,ANGLEY WENT ALONG TO TRAINING ) GOT A NAS TY DEAD LEG AND ,ANGLEY GOT A BALL AT FULL SPEED RIGHT IN THE MAN PARTS SO AFTER THE lRST TRAINING SESSION ) COULDN T WALK FOR A WEEK AND ,ANG LEY CAN NEVER HAVE CHILDREN 7E STILL CAME BACK FOR MORE THOUGH AND ) M NOW 3OCIAL 3ECRETARY AND !DAM IS 0RESI DENT $O YOU PLAY ANY OTHER SPORTS ) DABBLE IN A BIT OF FOOTBALL WHEN ) CAN ) GO SWIMMING QUITE A LOT AND HAVE EVEN HAD A GAME OF SQUASH WITH 5%! S 7OMEN S 3QUASH CAPTAIN ) LOST ) VE ALSO BEEN TOLD ) AM QUITE TALENTED AT PUB GOLF (AVE YOU IN THE PAST ) HAVE PLAYED FOOTBALL ALL MY LIFE FOR VARIOUS LOCAL SIDES )
(OW CAN PEOPLE GET IN VOLVED *OIN THE &ACEBOOK GROUP WHICH IS SIMPLY @5%! ,A CROSSE % MAIL OUR 0RESIDENT AT ADAM LANGLEY UEA AC UK OR JUST COME ALONG TO TRAIN ING WE MEET AT ON A 7EDNESDAY OUTSIDE THE SPORTS EQUIPMENT LOCK UP TO THE RIGHT OF THE ,#2 ENTRANCE
HAVE CAPTAINED A LOCAL CRICK ET SIDE UNTIL 5 LEVEL AND PLAYED RUGBY THROUGHOUT SEONDARY SCHOOL
7HAT S THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR CLUB 4HE SOCIALS .O IT S ALL GOOD 4HERE IS A GREAT TEAM SPIRIT ALL THROUGHOUT THE CLUB REALLY
)S 5%! LACROSSE A BIG CLUB )T S GROWING 4HIS YEAR ) WOULD SAY IT CAN BE CLASSED AS A BIG CLUB 7E HAVE -EN S 7OMEN S AND -IXED TEAMS /UR -EN S TEAM IS IN A LEAGUE WITH BOTH UNI AND CLUB SIDES WHICH IS VERY GOOD FOR EX PERIENCE AND A HIGH LEVEL OF
LACROSSE 4HE WOMEN S TEAM WERE IN "53! LAST YEAR BUT WE PULLED OUT BECAUSE OF NUM BERS 3O WITH THE CLUB BURST ING WITH MEMBERS THIS YEAR NEXT YEAR WE ARE CONSIDERING ENTERING BOTH THE MEN S AND WOMEN S TEAM INTO A "5#3 UNIVERSITY LEAGUE !NY ADVICE FOR STUDENTS STARTING OUT 9EAH JUST COME ALONG AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK 7E ARE ALL VERY WELCOMING AT 5%! LACROSSE )S THERE ANYBODY IN THE CLUB WHO REPRESENTS THE NATIONAL LACROSSE TEAM 9ES /UR GOALKEEPER AND CAP TAIN LAST SEASON !NDY "ROWN ING HAD SOUTH %NGLAND TRAILS LAST YEAR ALONG WITH OUR PLAYER OF THE YEAR 4OM 7ILSON WHO SHARES A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO *IM FROM !MERICAN 0IE !ND WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN THE 0REMIER ,EAGUE THIS SEASON 4OTTENHAM
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4VQQPSU GPS 4RVBTI 4VSHFT 2OB (ICKFORD 3PORTS 2EPORTER "ECKHAM 7ILKINSON 0IETER SON &EDERER !LL NAMES SYN ONYMOUS WITH SPORTS WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE "UT WHAT IF ) MENTION 3HABANA 'AULTIER 0ALMER OR "RITISH HEROES 7ILLSTROP AND .ICOL .ONE THE WISER )F YOU VE RECOGNISED THOSE NAMES YOU RE PROBABLY ONE OF THE GROWING NUMBER OF STUDENTS AT 5%! TURNING THEMSELVES TO THE GAME OF SQUASH -ALIGNED BY THE )/# OUT PUBLICISED BY ITS BIGGER RACKET WIELDING BROTHER TEN NIS THE SPORT HAS FOUGHT BACK ON BOTH AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE AND AT 5%! 0ROFESSIONALLY IT MAY NOT GET THE TELEVISED COVER AGE IN "RITAIN BUT SINCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF EASILY MA NOEUVRABLE COURTS TO SUIT THE LOCATION HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE INTERNATIONAL AUDIENC ES ARE ENTRANCED BY THE .EW
9ORK /PEN HOSTED IN 'RAND #ENTRAL 3TATION ITSELF OR THE SPELLBINDING SPECTACLE OF THE %GYPTIAN OPEN HOSTED OPEN AIR AMONGST ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD n THE PHENOMENAL GRANDEUR OF THE PYRAMIDS 3IMILARLY AT 5%! THE SPORT HAS mOURISHED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS &ROM A MEAGRE MEMBERS ON AVERAGE A FEW YEARS AGO 5%! 3QUASH #LUB HAS NOW INCREASED BY MORE THAN AND NOW COM FORTABLY BOASTS MEMBERS ON ITS BOOKS 4HE CLUB OFFERS MEM BERS UNRIVALLED ACCESS TO THE SQUASH COURTS AND ADDS TO THE EXPERIENCE BY RUNNING HIGHLY COMPETITIVE INTERNAL LADDERS THAT ALLOW PLAYERS OF ALL ABILITIES TO COMPETE AT THEIR OWN LEVEL )T COMPLE MENTS THIS BY RUNNING A FULL BEGINNERS COACHING SESSION WEEKLY FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF AT NO EXTRA COST WHICH HAS PROVED REMARKABLY POPULAR "EHIND ITS SOFT EXTERIOR THOUGH LIES A HIGHLY COMPET
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$AY LAST YEAR THIS IS A LOSS TO THE LEAGUE )NSTEAD THE MEN S lRST AND SECOND TEAMS PLAY WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY LEAGUES
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ING IN STATURE AND SOME CLIN ICAL DISPLAYS OF POWER SQUASH FROM 6ICE 0RESIDENT 3TEVE 4ANNER HAVE KEPT THE TEAM IN CONTACT 4HEIR HARD WORK WILL NO DOUBT BREED RESULTS SOON /N THE OTHER HAND OUR SECOND TEAM LEAD BY THE 'ERMAN GENIUS 0ATRICK &REN ZEL HAVE STRENGTH THROUGH OUT THEIR LINE UP AND HAVE ALREADY CONVINCINGLY DIS PENSED WITH ,ENWADE ON THEIR TRAVELS AND LOOK STRONG FAVOURITES FOR PROMOTION THIS YEAR /UR ,ADIES TEAM ARE PREPPING FOR THEIR RETURN TO "5#3 NEXT YEAR WITH A SERIES OF COMPETITIVE FRIENDLIES THE lRST OF WHICH WILL BE IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AGAINST +ENT AND ,INCOLN UNIVERSITIES ! FEW YEARS BACK THE FEMALES IN THE CLUB WERE DISTINCTLY IN THE MINORITY BUT NOW THANKS TO THE EXCELLENT WORK OF ,ADIES #APTAIN *ENNY #ASS THE SIDE LOOKS IN EXCELLENT SHAPE AND ARE LIKELY TO PUT 5%! 3QUASH BACK ON THE "5#3 MAP
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/LI #LIFFORD 3PORTS 2EPORTER ,AST WEEK SAW EVENT THREE IN THIS YEAR S :IGGURAT #HAM PIONSHIP )T WAS TIME FOR THE MEN TO REPRESENT THEIR SCHOOLS IN A lVE ON lVE WIN NER TAKES ALL FOOTBALL TOURNA MENT 7ITH ALL THE TALENT AND SPORTSMANSHIP THEY COULD MUSTER 5%! S MEN DONNED THEIR SHIN PADS AND BRAVED THE CHILLY /CTOBER WEATHER ACROSS TWO SESSIONS OF PRE LIMINARY DUELLING 'OALS AND TACKLES WERE SEEN IN ABUNDANCE AS THE CREAM OF THE SCHOOL S FOOT BALLERS ROSE TO THE TOP VYING FOR A COVETED PLACE AMONGST THE BEST TEAMS 5%! HAD TO OFFER )NTEREST IN THE :IGGU RAT TOURNAMENT APPEARS TO BE RIFE THIS YEAR JUDGING BY THE SOUNDS OF SUPPORTERS WHO WERE HEARD WHOOPING AND A HOLLERING THEIR SCHOOLS ONTO VICTORY 'OING INTO THE lVE A SIDE THE TEAM FROM THE 5%! 3PORTSPARK LED THE WAY AFTER A FANTASTIC SHOWING IN THE VOL LEYBALL FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY -%$ AND %.6 RESPECTIVELY 4EAM OF THE ROUND WERE -%$ WHO CAME AWAY WITH
MAXIMUM POINTS AFTER BEING UNDEFEATED OVER SEVEN GAMES -%$ TOOK ON ).4/ IN THE l NAL GAME AND STORMED AWAY TO VICTORY WITH SOME QUALITY AND INCISIVE FOOTBALL -%$ STRIKER 3AM $ARGUE WAS CLINICAL IN HIS lNISHING THROUGHOUT THE TOURNAMENT EVENTUALLY lN ISHING WITH AN INCALCULABLE NUMBER OF GOALS 4HE REFEREES DID AN ADMI RABLE JOB IN VOLUNTARILY ORGAN ISING AND REGULATING THE HIGH SPIRITS OF THE COMPETITORS AND BY AND LARGE THE GAMES WERE PLAYED IN THE RIGHT ETHOS FOR A FRIENDLY INTERSCHOOL COMPETITION (ONOURABLE MENTION GOES OUT TO THE ,)4 TEAM n OF WHICH THE WRITER WAS A PROUD MEMBER n WHO WERE CRUELLY UNDONE AT THE QUARTER lNAL STAGE TO A LATE GOAL BY ,!7 -%$ S VICTORY LEAVES THEM TOP OF THE TABLE GOING INTO THE NEXT EVENT THE MEN S AND WOMEN S DOUBLES TABLE TENNIS
5%! TOOK TWO TEAMS UP TO ,ANCASTER LAST WEEKEND FOR A KORFBALL FRESHERS TOURNAMENT WHERE THEY lNISHED lFTH AND NINTH OUT OF (ERE ARE THE PLAYERS THAT TOOK THE TRIP AFTER A DAY ON COURT
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3VHCZ 8PNFO ǰSBTI 3VTLJO ,UCY "OWERS 3PORTS 2EPORTER 7OMEN S 2UGBY KICK STARTED THEIR "5#3 CAMPAIGN WITH A DECISIVE WIN OVER !NGLIA 2USKIN ON 7EDNESDAY ND /CTOBER #ONTROVERSY OVER PITCH ALLOCATIONS MEANT AT lRST THE MATCH WAS DOUBTFUL AND UL TIMATELY THE WOMEN S TEAM WERE FORCED TO PLAY AWAY AT ,AKENHAM A LOCAL CLUB SIDE WHO KINDLY LET THEM USE THEIR PITCH FREE OF CHARGE 4HERE WAS A NERVOUS ATMOS PHERE BEFORE THE GAME AS MANY OF THE TEAM S BEST PLAY ERS GRADUATED LAST YEAR AND THIS WAS EXPECTED TO HAVE A DAMAGING IMPACT ON THEIR PERFORMANCE THIS SEASON (OWEVER THE CLUB S LOSSES APPEARED INCONSEQUENTIAL AS THE OPENING TRY CAME FROM CLUB PRESIDENT AND FULL BACK $AVINA 7ILLSON NOT LONG AFTER THE PM KICK OFF 5%! CONTINUED TO ATTACK AT EACH PHASE AND FOUND THERE WAS LITTLE WORK TO DO IN DEFENCE AS THE SCORE
AGAINST 2USKIN MOUNTED UP +IMBERLY %VANS WHO IS ON A SEMESTER ABROAD FROM #AN ADA SCORED AN OUTSTANDING HAT TRICK (ER EXPERIENCE AT SCRUM HALF PROVIDED A KEY LINK BETWEEN THE FORWARDS
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SKYJ ALL CONTRIBUTED TO THE SCORE LINE $AVINA 7ILLSON ADDED ANOTHER TRY TO HER TOTAL AND KICKED SIX CONVER SIONS THROUGH THE POSTS !T THE lNAL WHISTLE 5%! HAD TOTALLED POINTS WITH NO
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