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(ARRY ,OW %MMA 0ARROTT 2EPORTERS #ARNAGE 5+ HIT .ORWICH FOR THE l RST TIME EVER LAST -ONDAY AND DE SPITE FEARS OF WIDESPREAD CHAOS THE EVENT PASSED OFF WITHOUT ANY MAJOR ISSUES 4HIS STUDENT ONLY NIGHT SAW A REPORTED STUDENTS TAKE TO THE STREETS OF THE CITY DRESSED AS @DIRTY PORN STARS !DVERTISED AS @QUITE SIM PLY THE BEST STUDENT EVENT EVER STU DENTS PAID a EACH FOR THEIR TICKET

A T SHIRT WHICH ALLOWED ADMITTANCE TO 0O .A .A /RGASMIC #AFE THE 3LUG AND ,ETTUCE THE 0RINCE OF 7ALES -OJOS AND THE SO CALLED @SU PER CLUBS #HICAGO S AND ,IQUID 4HE NIGHT ITSELF WAS HEAVILY PO LICED TO ENSURE A SMOOTH RUNNING EVENT AND THE .ORFOLK AND .ORWICH (OSPITAL WERE ON HAND WITH NURSES IN #ARNAGE T SHIRTS THIS SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL WITH NO RE PORTS OF MAJOR DISTURBANCES AND A GOOD NIGHT HAD BY MANY STUDENTS 4HE EVENT HAS RECEIVED WIDE SPREAD MEDIA ATTENTION OVER THE PAST WEEK WITH NATIONAL OUTLETS IN CLUDING THE ""# AND 4HE $AILY -AIL OUT IN FORCE THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT

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#ONCERN HAS BEEN RAISED THAT EVENTS SUCH AS THIS ENCOURAGE BINGE DRINKING AMONGST STUDENTS AL THOUGH THE GENERAL CONSENSUS WAS THAT DRINK PRICES WERE HIKED ACROSS THE BOARD BY PUBS AND CLUBS EN ROUTE AT THE REQUEST OF THE ORGANIS ERS THEMSELVES )N ADDITION SOME HAVE ACCUSED #ARNAGE 5+ OF A LACK OF ORGANISA TION l RSTLY THERE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AROUND STEWARDS ON HAND TO MARTIAL THOSE IN T SHIRTS )T IS ALLEGED THAT THERE WERE LESS THAN HALF THIS NUMBER WITH MANY STUDENTS LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES 4HEN AT THE END OF THE @CRAWL MANY WERE TURNED AWAY FROM #HICAGO S AND ,IQUID BECAUSE THE CLUBS WERE FULL LEAVING MANY TO GO ELSEWHERE 4HE DIRTY PORN STAR DRESS CODE WAS FOLLOWED BY MANY WITH SOME CHOOSING TO WEAR LITTLE MORE THAN THE T SHIRT ITSELF 4ASKS WERE PRINTED ON THE REVERSE OF TOPS IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE @SOCIAL COHESION 4HESE INCLUDED KISSING PEOPLE GETTING AN ITEM OF UNDERWEAR FROM THE OP POSITE SEX AND FROLICKING WITH A FRESHER 0AUL "AHIA WHOSE LEISURE GROUP RUN THE #ARNAGE EVENTS DENIED ANY

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0ROTESTS GALORE AS STUDENTS l GHT FEES AND &IRST "USES

WRONGDOING STATING h7E ARE NOT IRRESPONSIBLE OR PROMOTING BINGE DRINKING h/UR EVENTS ARE HEAVILY FOCUSED ON GROUP IDENTITY AND SOCIAL AND ETHNIC COHESION v

$BSOBHF :PVS *NQSFTTJPOT #HRIS 1UIGLEY ) WENT EXPECTING EVERYTHING TO BE DISCOUNTED BE CAUSE WE D PAID a FOR A T SHIRT OR AT LEAST NORMAL STUDENT PRICES BUT WE WENT AND IT WAS REALLY EXPENSIVE 4HERE WAS NO TROUBLE IT WAS REALLY GOOD BECAUSE IT WAS ALL STUDENTS AND EVERYONE WAS REALLY FRIENDLY !LTHOUGH ) DID GET HURT BUT THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT BUT THE NURSES AT THE HOSPITAL WERE ALL WEARING #ARNAGE T SHIRTS WITH THE HOSPITAL NAME ON THE BACKS ) HAD TO PAY a TO GET A CAB TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER SEEING THE ON HAND PARAMEDICS @.ORWICH 3/3 "UT ) CAME BACK OUT AND IT WAS GREAT n EVEN IF ) COULDN T AFFORD

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ANY DRINKS *AMES &OWLE ) THOUGHT THE EVENT WAS AWFULLY MANAGED AND THAT THE ROLE OF THE STEWARDS WERE POINTLESS 4HE DRINKS PRICES WERE AS TRONOMICAL NOT l TTING IN WITH THEIR PROMOTION OF A STUDENT NIGHT 2OB -ORBIN h#ARNAGE WAS HI LARIOUS MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE GRAF l TI DRAWN ON MOUSTACHES THE EARLY START AND BEING PART OF A LARGE GROUP )T WAS EXPENSIVE BUT WELL WORTH IT

AS #ARNAGE IS A UNIQUE EVENT v 3AM 0ELL h)T WAS TOO EXPENSIVE n ) SPENT a n LIKE THE ORGANISERS WERE TREATING US LIKE A BUNCH OF MUGS BUT ) STILL HAD A GREAT TIME 3TUDENTS ALWAYS GO OUT ON -ON DAYS SO IT WAS ONLY DIFFERENT TO OTHER WEEKS BECAUSE IT WAS BIGGER AND BETTER v 2ICHARD "ODINGTON h4HE NIGHT WAS MOSTLY ADEQUATE FOR MY DRUNK EN FROLICKING )T PLEASED ME NO END

AND THE ATTIRE WAS COMPLETELY AT TUNED TO ME /H AND ) GOT LAID v +ARINE 7ACH $ONOVAN h) LOST a LOST AN EARRING DIDN T GET INTO ,IQUID GOT MAJORLY SHOUTED AT AND GOT MY WINE TAKEN AWAY 9ET STILL HAD A PRETTY AWESOME NIGHTv

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/N 7EDNESDAY TH /CTOBER A THIRD YEAR &ILM AND %NGLISH STUDENT WAS CAUTIONED BY TWO PROFESSORS OF THE ,)4 SCHOOL 4HE STUDENT WAS TOLD THEY HAD COME CLOSE TO LIBEL LING A STAFF MEMBER IN A #REATIVE 7RITING SUBMISSION FROM THE PREVI OUS SEMESTER AND THAT THE MEETING WAS A hCAUTIONARY DISCUSSIONv 4HE STORY DESCRIBED A 5NIVER SITY THAT BORE CERTAIN SIMILARITIES TO 5%! IT HAD A LAKE PIDGEONHOLES AND BUILDINGS WITH IDENTICAL CORRI DORS 4HE TEACHER IN THE STORY WAS MURDERED BY ANOTHER CHARACTER

AND THEIR l RST NAME WAS THE SAME AS A TEACHER AT 5%! )T WAS THIS TAK EN WITH THE SPATIAL SIMILARITIES TO 5%!

THAT MEANT THE MEETING WAS CALLED 4HE PROFESSORS THREATENED AD JUSTING THE ESSAY MARK 4HEY SAID THAT IF THE STUDENT HAD PUBLISHED THE STORY ANYWHERE ELSE HE WOULD BE IN THE COMPANY OF LAWYERS 4HE STORY HAD RECEIVED A MARK OF AND IN THE ATTACHED CRITICAL COMMENTARY THE STUDENT HAD WRIT TEN THAT THE PEOPLE WERE hANTI PSY CHOLOGICALv AND THIS WAS TO AID THE hALLEGORICALv PURPOSE OF THE STORY !UTHORIAL INTENT DOESNgT FACTOR IN TO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER SOMETHING IS OR IS NOT LIBELLIOUS

BUT THE l CTIONAL NATURE OF THE PIECE DOES &EW STUDENTS WOULD RECOGNISE THE NAME OF THE STAFF MEMBER AND FEWER WOULD MAKE THE JUMP AND ASSOCIATE THE CHARACTER WITH THEM )RONICALLY THE STUDENTS PREVIOUS SUBMISSION DEALT WITH A STUDENT WHO WAS CALLED IN FOR A MEETING WITH TUTORS BECAUSE OF THE VIOLENT CONTENT OF THEIR SUBMISSION )F 5%! S POLICY IS REALLY TO hDO DIFFERENTv THEN WHY ARE STUDENTS PENALISED FOR COVERING CONTROVER SIAL TOPICS

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'JSTU #VTFT %SJWFO 5P $PODJMJBUJPO *ACK #LARK .EWS %DITOR /N THE MORNING OF TH .O VEMBER STUDENTS PROTESTED OUTSIDE OF &IRST "USES HEAD OFl CE 7ITHIN A DAY OF THE COMPLAINTS BEING PRESENTED

&IRST CONTACTED THE 7ELFARE AND #OMMUNICATIONS /F l CERS OF THE 5NION PROV ING THAT l NALLY THE 5NION S DEMONSTRATIONS ARE HAVING AN EFFECT 4HE PURPLE AND WHITE CARDBOARD BUS THAT HAD STOOD IN THE (IVE FROM TH TO TH /CTOBER WAS CAR RIED TO THE DOOR OR hDRIVENv

AS ONE PROTESTOR REMARKED

THEN PLACED IN FRONT OF THE OFl CE 4HE BUS WAS COVERED IN COMPLAINTS THAT STUDENTS HAD TAKEN THE TIME TO SCRAWL ON IT AND THEY VARIED IN TONE FROM THE ANALYTIC TO THE AN ECDOTAL /NE STUDENT WROTE THAT h) ENDED UP WAITING SO LONG FOR A ON 5NTHANK ROAD THAT ) GAVE UP .OW ) DRIVE EVERYWHERE v !NOTHER WROTE h) WALKED BACK AT AM FROM TOWN IN SHOES

THAT MADE ME BLEED BECAUSE 2ACHAEL 0RICE THE BUS NEVER TURNED UP OVER AN HOUR AND A HALF v !NOTHER QUOTE CAPTURED THE SENTIMENT THAT #ONCRETE HAS HEARD MOST FREQUENTLY WHEN SPEAKING TO STUDENTS WHICH WAS h-AKE )T #HEAPER v -ARTIN *OPP COMMENTED THAT h) THINK IT WAS AN IMAGI NATIVE CAMPAIGN THAT CAUGHT THE IMAGINATIONS OF THE ODD STUDENTS WHO AIRED THEIR COMPLAINTS ON THE BUS v 4OM 3UTTON 7ELFARE /F l CER WAS THE ARCHITECT BEHIND THE SCHEME AND IN A PRESS RELEASE ABOUT THE PROTEST HE CAPTURED THE CURRENT OPINION 4HE PROTEST WAS A GOOD MEDIA OPPORTUNITY FOR THE 5NION OF THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS

WHEN IT COMES TO l RST BUSES THOSE THAT DEPEND UPON THIS COMPLAINTS AND RUNS TO OVER h5%! STUDENTS HAVE PUT UP PUBLIC SERVICE v

WORDS THE MAJORITY OF WITH A SECOND RATE SERVICE !LONG WITH THE BUS 3UT THEM NEGATIVE (E PRESENTED FROM &IRST %ASTERN #OUNTIES TON HAD RUN A SCHEME WHERE THESE COMPLAINTS TO THE EX FOR YEARS NOW l NALLY ENOUGH STUDENTS COULD EMAIL OR TEXT ECUTIVES OF &IRST "USES ON THE IS ENOUGH 4HEY RE NO LONGER IN ABOUT THEIR BUS EXPERIENC MORNING OF THE PROTEST AND WILLING TO PUT UP WITH THE UN ES (E RECEIVED TEXTS AND WITHIN THE DAY THEY MADE RELIABILITY THE OVERCROWDING EMAILS BRINGING THE TOTAL CONTACT WITH THE 5NION TO AND THE UNACCEPTABLE RUDE LIST OF GRIEVANCES TO A SIGNIl hTAKE THINGS FORWARDv 3UTTON NESS OF THE SERVICE 7E HOPE CANT 4HE FULL DOCUMENT REMARKED THAT h4HERE IS A &IRST WILL START LISTENING AND THAT HE HANDED OVER TO EXECU DEGREE OF POSITIVITY FROM THE ACTING UPON THE GRIEVANCES OF TIVES OF &IRST LISTS ALL OF THESE EXECUTIVES ;AT &IRST= v

4UVEFOU 'FFT 1SPUFTU 3USIE 3HOWERS 2EPORTER /VER PEOPLE GATHERED IN PROTEST IN #AMBRIDGE ON .O VEMBER TH TO SPEAK AGAINST RISING TOP UP TUITION FEES FOR ALL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS &OL LOWING A NOISY COLOURFUL MARCH THROUGH THE CITY 5%!

STUDENTS AND 5NION #OUN CIL MEMBERS MET WITH #AM BRIDGE AND !NGLIA 2USKIN AT #HRIST S 0IECES WHERE LIVE ""# CAMERAS COVERED THE EVENT ! WEALTH OF SPEAKERS IN CLUDED .ORWICH AND #AM BRIDGE -0S CIVIL WORKERS

AND UNION REPRESENTATIVES

WHO RALLIED UP THE CROWD WITH THE SAME MESSAGE IT S UP TO THE STUDENTS TO TAKE AC TION AGAINST A FUTURE OF SERI OUS DEBT h%DUCATION CAN T BE FUND ED ON PERSONAL DEBT v SAID LOCAL 'REEN -0 2UPERT 2EAD

hTHE IDEA OF A GRADUATE PRE MIUM WHERE BETTER JOBS CAN PAY OFF HIGHER DEBTS CAN T EX IST IN A RECESSION v 2EAD COM PARED THE 5+ S DECISIONS TO /BAMA S PLANS FOR EDUCATION IN THE 53 hHE HAS PROMISED A TENTATIVE BUT REAL UNIVERSAL PROVISION OF EDUCATION AN UNEQUIVOCAL PROGRESSIVE SYS TEM -EANWHILE %NGLAND IS STILL IMITATING A FAILED !MERI

CAN POLICY v 2EAD WENT ON TO SAY HE WAS TIRED OF GOVERN MENT EDUCATION POLICIES AND THAT TOGETHER WE CAN CREATE A FAIRER SYSTEM !LL WERE IN AGREEMENT THAT THE CREDIT CRUNCH HAS EVAPO RATED OUR CARELESS ATTITUDE TO DEBT 7ITH THE INCREASED COST OF LIVING THE BUY NOW PAY LATER VIEW HAS COLLAPSED %D -ALTBY #AMBRIDGE STUDENT AND .ATIONAL 3EC RETARY OF %DUCATION .OT FOR 3ALE %.3 MINGLED WITH THE CROWD HANDING OUT A DOCU MENT OUTLINING DEMANDS THAT l NANCIAL EXPLOITATION OF SCHOOLS COLLEGES AND UNI VERSITIES MUST BE STOPPED AND REVERSED WE SHOULD TAX THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS TO FUND EDUCATION h7E NEED A UNITED MOVEMENT AND WE CAN BUILD ONE v HE SAID h7E NEED TO DISTURB BUSINESS AS USUAL ON CAMPUS WITH MASS MEETINGS RENT STRIKES AND NON PAYMENT CAMPAIGNS &I NANCIAL PRESSURE ON A UNIVER SITY FORCES THE ORGANIZATION TO ASK FOR MORE FROM THE GOV ERNMENT v 4HE RED PAINTED CROWD RELEASED A m OCK OF RED BALLOONS INTO THE SKY TO THE TUNE OF A UKULELE CHANTING CHANTED h%DUCATION .OT FOR SALE 9OU SAY CUT BACK WE SAY l GHT BACK v #OMMUNICATIONS /Fl CER

2OWENA "ODDINGTON MEN TIONED THAT hONCE PARENTS HAVE TO TAKE MEASURES TO HANDLE THE QUICKLY RISING l NANCIAL STRAIN OF PUTTING THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH EDUCATION

IT PUTS THE WHOLE ECONOMY UNDER BURDEN )F THE CAP ON TOP UP FEES IS LIFTED IT WILL AFFECT HIGHER EDUCATION FOR GENERATIONS v %VEN IF YOU AREN T PLANNING TO HAVE KIDS

THE PROBLEM HAS A RIPPLE EF FECT ON THE WHOLE ECONOMY )T IS VITAL THAT PEOPLE FROM UNDERPRIVILEGED AND NON TRA DITIONAL BACKGROUNDS HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY ! LOT OF THESE PEOPLE AREN T EVEN CONSIDERING UNIVERSITY AS AN OPTION YET INTELLIGENCE

AND DIVERSITY WITHIN A WORK PLACE CAN NEVER m OURISH IF THESE PEOPLE ARE PENALISED THE MOST AND BARRED ACCESS FROM KNOWLEDGE ! SECONDARY STATE SCHOOL TEACHER REVEALED ON THE DAY THAT OF GRADUATE TEACH ERS ARE FORCED TO LEAVE GOVERN MENT FUNDED POSITIONS AFTER TWO YEARS h0EOPLE SHOULD FEEL ENCOURAGED TO ENTER THE PUBLIC SECTOR BUT AS LOANS GROW WAGES GO DOWN v 4HIS IS A LIVE ISSUE FOR THE GEN ERAL PUBLIC WHO VOTED FOR A ,ABOUR GOVERNMENT WHOSE MANIFESTO CONDEMNED ALL FEES YET PULLED THEM UP EXTRAVAGANTLY IN %N COURAGINGLY THE PROPOSITION OF THIS BILL UNITED STUDENTS IN A l GHT THAT CAME WITHIN l VE VOTES OF DEFEATING "LAIR ! BILL WILL GO THROUGH LAT ER NEXT YEAR TO REMOVE THE CAP ON FEES MEANING THAT UNIVER SITIES CAN CHARGE ANY TUITION THEY CHOOSE UNLESS A PROTEST CAN BE ORGANIZE TO PREVENT ITS APPROVAL 3TUDENT UNIONS ARE PLANNING TO MEET IN ,ONDON IN &EBRUARY OR -ARCH TO DEMONSTRATE -EANWHILE

REGIONAL ACTIVISM WILL PULL %AST !NGLIAN UNIVERSITIES TO GETHER 4O KEEP UP TO DATE ON PROCEEDINGS VISIT WWW FREE EDUCATION ORG UK AND WWW WORKERSLIBERTY ORG

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1UESTIONS WERE RAISED OVER THE INTEGRITY OF THE 5NION THIS WEEK AS IT WAS REVEALED THAT A MASSIVE a IS TO BE SPENT ON A NEW WEBSITE FOR THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS 7HILE IT IS TRUE TO SAY THAT THE WEBSITE IS IN NEED OF CHANGES

IT HAS BEEN ARGUED THAT THE MONEY WOULD BE BETTER SPENT ELSEWHERE SUCH AS IN KEEPING BAR PRICES DOWN )N ADDITION TO THIS OTHER MECHANISMS OF COMMUNICA TION HAVE PROVED TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE WEBSITE

WHICH APPEARS TO BE REDUN DANT &OR EXAMPLE THE FACE BOOK GROUPS @5%! &RESHERS AND .EWCOMERS AND

@4HE /FlCIAL ,#2 GROUP ARE USED REGULARLY UNLIKE THE WEBSITE ITSELF &URTHERMORE A RUMOURED a IS BEING SPENT ON A NEW 5%! WEBSITE AND QUES TIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED AS TO WHETHER THE 5NION IS TRYING TO CASH IN ON THIS &INANCE /FlCER -ARTIN *OPP DEFENDED THE MOVE BY SAYING THAT THESE CHANGES HAVE h"EEN IN THE CAPITAL PLAN OF THE 5NION FOR SEVERAL YEARS v (E ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE FACT THAT RE VAMPING THE 5NION WEBSITE HAS BEEN IN THE MANIFESTOS OF THE LAST THREE ELECTED #OMMUNICA TIONS /FlCERS SO PLANS TO DO THIS HAVE BEEN IN THE PIPELINE FOR AT LEAST FOUR YEARS CURRENT

4UESDAY TH .OVEMBER " , /

)N NEED OF A CHANGE

#OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER 2O WENA "ODDINGTON IS ENJOYING HER SECOND YEAR AS A 3ABBATI CAL OFlCER )T IS HOPED THAT CHANGES TO THE WEBSITE WILL IMPROVE COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN STUDENTS AND THE 5NION AND

THEREFORE WILL LEAD TO GREATER CHANGES TO THE 5NION AS A WHOLE IN THE FUTURE 3TUDENTS HAVE INDEED VOTED FOR THE COMMUNI CATIONS OFlCERS WHO HAVE MENTIONED SUCH CHANGES IN THEIR PLANS FOR IMPROVING THE

5NION HOWEVER THEY HAVE NOT BEEN SO RECEPTIVE WHEN lNDING OUT THE COST OF A NEW AND IMPROVED WEBSITE /NE lRST YEAR WHO DID NOT WISH TO BE NAMED SAID h7HAT S THE POINT .O ONE USES IT ANYWAY ) CHECK THE FACEBOOK GROUP EVERY DAY BUT ) DON T THINK ) VE EVER USED THE 5N ION WEBSITE ITSELF n ) DON T EVEN KNOW THE ADDRESSv /THERS HAVE MENTIONED THAT ALL THE WEBSITE IS HELP FUL FOR IS @(OME 2UN BUT PERHAPS THIS SUGGESTS THAT CHANGES DO INDEED NEED TO BE MADE SO THAT THE WEBSITE BECOMES MORE USEFUL (OW EVER THE FACT STILL REMAINS THAT a SEEMS TO BE A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY

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4HE 5%! AND THE .ORWICH AND .ORFOLK HOSPITAL HAVE RECENTLY LAUNCHED A GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH STUDY INTO WAYS OF PREVENTING DIABETES ,AUNCHED ON TH .O VEMBER FOR 7ORLD $IABETES $AY OVER PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN FROM ACROSS .ORFOLK WILL BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE RESEARCH

WHICH WILL INVOLVE A SIMPLE BLOOD TEST TO TEST THE LEVEL OF GLUCOSE IN THEIR BLOOD 4HE PROGRAMME KNOWN AS 5%! )&' WILL RECEIVE a

IN FUNDING OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS BY THE .ATIONAL )NSTI TUTE OF (EALTH 2ESEARCH &OR MORE INFORMATION GO TO WWW UEA IFG NHS UK

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7HILST MOST STUDENTS WILL BE AWARE OF THE 5%! S ON CAM PUS RESTAURANT :EST FAR FEWER SEEM TO BE AWARE OF ANOTHER ON CAMPUS CATERING SERVICE

SPECIlCALLY THE ).4/ CENTRE S RESTAURANT (OWEVER IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT THE ).4/ 2ESTAU RANT IS FAR MORE mEXIBLE IN SERVING CUSTOMERS PARTICU LARLY WITH REGARD TO THE CON TENT OF MEALS &OR EXAMPLE FOR CUSTOM ERS WHO ARE NOT PURCHAS ING A lXED -EAL $EAL AT THE ).4/ 2ESTAURANT ANY ITEM ON THE MENU CAN BE CHOSEN AND BOUGHT WITH ANOTHER OF THE CUSTOMER S CHOICE WITH OUT WORRYING WHAT MEAL IT IS AFlLIATED WITH !LL THE CON

TENTS OF A CUSTOMER S SELEC TION IS ITEMISED AND THEY ARE CHARGED ACCORDINGLY !T :EST ON THE OTHER HAND CUSTOMERS CAN CHOOSE ONE OF SEVERAL SET MEALS )F THEY DECIDE THEY WANT SOME ITEMS FROM ONE MENU AND SOME FROM ANOTHER EVEN SOMETHING SUCH AS A PORTION OF CHIPS THEN ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE ONLY ONE MEAL THEY ARE CHARGED FOR THE PRICE OF TWO MEALS 4HIS IS NOT IRRATIONAL

AND :EST STAFF ASSURE THAT THEY TRY TO OFFER THE BROADEST RANGE OF SET MEALS AS POSSIBLE AL THOUGH THE ).4/ SYSTEM IS MORE mEXIBLE 4HE GENERAL CONSENSUS AMONG STUDENTS IS THAT ).

4/ S RESTAURANT SERVES HIGHER QUALITY FOOD AND THAT THE STAFF THERE ARE MORE AMIABLE

/NE STUDENT COMPLIMENTING THE ).4/ FACILITIES SAID h4HE STANDARD AND QUALITY WAS FAR HIGHER THAN WHAT MIGHT BE EXPECTED FROM AN ON CAMPUS ESTABLISHMENTv -ANY OTHERS HAVE COM PLAINED THAT :EST CHARGES HIGHER PRICES n ALTHOUGH THIS REPORTER DID NOT DETECT SIG NIlCANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO RESTAURANTS PRICES "OTH ARE PRIVATE BUSINESSES AND STAND TO MAKE A PROlT )T IS DIFlCULT TO UNDERSTAND AT lRST GLANCE WHY :EST WHICH OPERATES A LARGER FACILITY THAN THE ).4/ EQUIVALENT SHOULD CHARGE HIGHER PRICES FOR ITS PRODUCTS n ONE MIGHT EXPECT THAT :EST WOULD BENElT FROM SOME FORM OF ECONOMIES OF SCALE 4HE ).4/ RESTAURANT

!T AM LAST 4UESDAY MORN ING PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUN TRY STOOD STILL AND SILENT FOR TWO MINUTES TO REMEMBER ALL THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY YEARS AGO (OWEVER 5%! STOOD OUT AS AN EXCEPTION FAILING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE NATIONAL SILENCE AT ALL 4HE lRST TO EXPRESS HER DISAPPOINTMENT IN THIS WAS #ATHERINE -OORE A THIRD YEAR ,AW STUDENT 7HEN SHE DISCOVERED THAT THE ,IBRARY WOULD NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN THE SILENCE SHE MOVED TO THE (IVE ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT 0HOTOGRAPHS 7ILLIAM -ORAN 2ACHAEL 0RICE THEY WOULD NOT BE EITHER REPRESENTATIVE THIS REPORTER PORTERS VIEW THAT MUCH OF 3HE SAYS h)T IS ABSOLUTELY SPOKE TO CITED hA LOT OF EXPE THE CRITICISM OF :EST PARTICU DISGRACEFUL THOUSANDS DIED RIENCE n YEARS IN THE TRADE LARLY CONCERNING PRICE IS UN FOR OUR FREEDOM AND THE 5NI COMPETITIVE PRICES A WELL FOUNDED ALTHOUGH STUDENTS VERSITY CAN T BE BOTHERED TO BALANCED MENUv A FOCUS ON n WHO WERE CAREFUL TO SAY ACKNOWLEDGE IT v 4HE RECEP WASTAGE AND ALWAYS SEARCH THEY CONSIDERED :EST TO GOOD TIONISTS IN THE (IVE DID HOW ING FOR THE BEST PRICED SUP QUALITY ESTABLISHMENT THAT EVER TURN THE RADIO ON AT THEIR PLIERS TO EXPLAIN THE SUCCESS PROVIDED hTHE KIND OF SERVICE OWN DISCRETION SO THAT THE THEY HAVE ENJOYED SO FAR )N YOU WOULD EXPECTv n REMAIN BELLS COULD BE HEARD CHIM RESPONSE TO CRITICISM OVER THE ADAMANT THAT THE ).4/ RES ING O CLOCK BUT AS &INANCE PERCEIVED HIGHER PRICES (EAD TAURANT PROVIDES BETTER QUAL /FlCER -ARTIN *OPP POINTED OF #ATERING AT :EST 3TEPHEN ITY FOOD ATMOSPHERE AND OUT hUNFORTUNATELY WE DON T HAVE A 0! SYSTEM IN THE (IVE 7RIGHT SAID h7E TRY HARD SERVICE 7HATEVER THE CASE MAY AND ;COULD NOT= ENFORCE A SI TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR PRICES ARE COMPETITIVE AND KEEP THIS BE IT DOES SEEM THAT :EST LENCEv AS A RESULT #OMMUNICATIONS /FlCER CONSTANTLY UNDER REVIEW 3TU COULD NOW BE FACING SOME DENTS CAN FOR EXAMPLE LOOK SERIOUS COMPETITION THAT IS 2OWENA "ODDINGTON COM FORWARD TO SOME INTERESTING SIMULTANEOUSLY LOW PRICED MENTED h7E RE RESPECTFUL OF THAT SOME STUDENTS MIGHT LONG TERM PROMOTIONS IN AND OF PREMIUM QUALITY 4HE ).4/ RESTAURANT CAN WANT TO OBSERVE A SILENCE BUT THE .EW 9EAR v 4HEREFORE IT IS CLEAR THAT :EST IS NOT BEING BE FOUND INSIDE THE NEW THAT OTHERS WON T 3TUDENTS COMPLACENT IN ANY OF THE AR ).4/ BUILDING ON 5NIVERSITY IN AND AROUND 5NION (OUSE $RIVE NEXT TO THE 5%! -EDI HAD THE CHOICE AS TO WHETHER EAS DISCUSSED SO FAR TO OBSERVE IT OR NOT v )T HAS BECOME THIS RE CAL #ENTRE

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%JBSZ 64 &MFDUJPOT JO Ç°F #MVF #BS .EWS %DITORS .OTE /N THE NIGHT OF THE 53 %LECTIONS THE "LUE "AR WAS OPEN SHOWING THE ELECTION AS THE STATES CAME IN IN REAL TIME #ONCRETE WAS THERE AND HERE IS A DIARY OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND EVENTS ON THAT MOMENTOUS NIGHT

'RACE 3IMPSON &EATURES %DITOR

AM 7E HAVE lNALLY BEEN LET INTO THE BAR AFTER A LOVELY WAIT OUTSIDE AND THE ATMOSPHERE IS SUBDUED 7E ARE ALL RATHER CONFUSED BY THE #.. COVER AGE BUT FROM WHAT WE CAN SEE -C#AIN IS TAKING AN EARLY LEAD AM 3O WE ARE CURRENTLY STUCK WITH #..

WHO AFTER NET WORK COCK UPS IN REPORTING THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS ARE BEING FRUSTRATINGLY AMBIGU OUS !ND NOW A COMMERCIAL BREAK %VERYONE SEEMS PRE PARED FOR A LONG NIGHT WITH CAFFEINE POKER AND ESSAYS LIT TERING THE TABLES AM ) REALLY CANNOT FATHOM WHAT IS GOING ON AND IF ANYONE ELSE CAN THEY ARE NOT SHOWING IT &ROM WHAT ) CAN WORK OUT

IT IS LOOKING PREMATURELY OF COURSE RATHER GOOD FOR -C #AIN 4HE WORD hSURPRISEv IS CROPPING UP AMONG THOSE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT THE RESULTS PRESUMABLY THE ONES

2ACHAEL 0RICE .EWS %DITOR

WHO KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AM -C#AIN HAS +ENTUCKY

/BAMA HAS 6ERMONT TO -C#AIN ) THINK )T IS DAMNED BUSY IN HERE NOW SO THINKING IS NOT AN EASY ACTIVITY AM 3MALL WHOOPS OF JOY BREAK OUT AS IT APPEARS THAT /BAMA IS GOING TO WIN .ORTH #AROLI NA ) AM CURRENTLY WONDERING WHETHER hPROJECTEDv MEANS THE SAME AS hALLEGEDv n I E IT MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL AM 3HOCK AS -C#AIN IS STORMING AHEAD IN BATTLEGROUND 6IR GINIA ,IKE A FOOTBALL GAME

DRUNKS ARE CALLING OUT h#OME ON /BAMA v 0ROCRASTINATION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME HERE AS THE TRICKLE OF RESULTS TEM PORARILY DRIES OUT AM -C#AIN HAS JUST WON 3OUTH #AROLINA "OOS ALL AROUND BUT THIS WAS A SURE lRE WIN FOR THE 2EPUBLICAN AM #.. MESSES UP 7HO KNOWS WHO ACTUALLY HAS 3OUTH #ARO LINA 4HE SOONER THE NEXT RE SULTS COME IN THE BETTER 7E NEED A CLEARER IDEA OF WHERE THIS ELECTION IS GOING AM (UGE CHEERS AS -C#AIN WINS ONLY TWO OUT OF TEN OF THE LAT EST RESULTS AM

4HE BLUE BAR IS NOW A SURREAL PANTOMIME AS HISSES AND BOOS ACCOMPANY #.. S IN ANE STATISTICS AM -ORE CONlDENT THAT /BAMA WILL CLINCH IT #.. S PEDAN TIC OVER ANALYSING IS WIDELY IGNORED 4HE ""# SAYS THAT 0ENNSYLVANIA IS PROJECTED TO GO TO /BAMA AM )T LOOKS LIKE /HIO AND 7EST 6IRGINIA ARE GOING TO /BAMA ! WIN IS IN SIGHT AM /BAMA HAS .EW (AMPSHIRE (UGE APPLAUSE APART FROM 5%! #ONSERVATIVE LEADER 0AUL 7ELLS WHO LOOKS INCREASINGLY GLUM AM ) HAVE DECIDED THAT #.. IS THE NEWS BROADCASTING EQUIV ALENT OF *ERRY 3PRINGER 0EOPLE WILL CHEER AT ANYTHING /VER AND OVER AGAIN 2EPUBLICAN OUTRAGE AS /BAMA TRAILS -C #AIN BY ONLY IN 4EXAS #HANTS FOR /BAMA AS HE WINS 0ENNSYLVANIA 0EOPLE ARE ALREADY LEAVING AS /BAMA LEADS AM ) HAVE IDENTIlED THE 2EPUBLI CAN CAMP IN THE "LUE "AR !LL FOUR OF THEM SITTING SHEEPISH LY IN THE CENTRE OF THE CROWD 7HO IS THE MINORITY NOW AM %XCITEMENT FOR THE NEXT @PRO JECTIONS IS RISING OR HAVE NOISY ,#2ERS JUST STUMBLED

IN AM .EW 9EAR ESQUE COUNTDOWN FOR THE NEXT SERIES OF /BAMA WINS AM 4HE /BAMARAMA YELL h TO GO v AS -C#AINERS STILL CHEER HELPLESSLY ,ARGE NUMBERS LEAVING AS A $EMOCRAT WIN LOOKS INEVITABLE !ND NOW FOR ANOTHER HOUR OF RIDICU LOUS STATISTICS AM 4HE $EMOCRATS WIN THE 3EN ATE

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%ARLHAM (IGH 3CHOOL S BID TO BECOME AN ACADEMY HAS BEEN FURTHERED BY A RECENT PARTNERSHIP WITH #ITY #OL LEGE 4HE #OLLEGE WILL WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH .ORFOLK #OUNTY #OUNCIL AND EDU CATIONAL SUPPORT WILL COME FROM .ORWICH 3CHOOL SO THE NEW ACADEMY CAN IMPROVE ITS EDUCATIONAL REPUTATION AND STANDING )F SUCCESSFUL

%ARLHAM WILL BECOME .OR WICH S SECOND ACADEMY AFTER (EARTSEASE (IGH WAS TRANS FORMED INTO AN ACADEMY EARLIER THIS YEAR AND WOULD RECEIVE GOVERNMENT FUNDING TO COMPLETELY REBUILD THE SCHOOL WITH STATE OF THE ART FACILITIES ! RECENT SURVEY CARRIED OUT IN THE LOCAL AREA BY THE 5NIVERSITY 7ARD ,ABOUR #AMPAIGN 4EAM WHICH ASKED RESIDENTS THEIR OPIN IONS OF THE PROPOSED ACAD

EMY REVEALED THAT BE LIEVED IT TO BE AN EXCELLENT IDEA 4HE SURVEY ALSO REITER ATED THE COMMUNITY S VIEW THAT THE 5%! SHOULD BE MORE INVOLVED 4HE 5NIVERSITY HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CRITICISED FOR ITS LACK OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE SCHEME WHICH #ON CRETE REPORTED ON IN 3EPTEM BER HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS SUR VEY WITH OF 5NIVERSITY 7ARD WISHING THAT THE 5%!

WOULD SHOW MORE INTEREST IN PLAYING A POSITIVE ROLE IN THE SCHOOL S FUTURE *ONATHAN #LARK #HAIR OF 5%! ,ABOUR ALSO COM MENTED THAT ALTHOUGH hWITH THE EXPERTISE OF .ORWICH #ITY #OLLEGE AND .ORWICH 3CHOOL STUDENTS AT %ARLHAM (IGH WILL HAVE THE OPPOR TUNITY TO SUCCEED IT S STILL DISAPPOINTING THAT THE 5%!

WILL NOT AND DOES NOT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH %ARLHAM (IGH EVEN THOUGH IT S ON ITS OWN DOORSTEPv (EAD OF #OMMUNICA

TIONS !NNIE /GDEN REITER ATED THE 5%! S STAND THAT THE 5NIVERSITY CONTINUES hTO EXPLORE THE BEST AND MOST PRODUCTIVE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH %ARLHAM 3CHOOL AS A GOOD NEIGHBOUR /UR STU DENT MENTORING SCHEME AT %ARLHAM 3CHOOL GOES BACK

OVER EIGHT YEARS AND GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH

WITH OUR STUDENTS MENTORING 9EAR AND STUDENTS 7E REMAIN COMMITTED TO RAIS ING THE ASPIRATIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND TO WORKING COL LABORATIVELY WITH PARTNERS IN SECONDARY EDUCATIONv %MIL !LLARD

!PPARENTLY 7EST 6IRGINIA GOES TO -C#AIN 0EOPLE ARE DOZING ON THE mOOR AND #.. S BREAKS GET LONGER AM /BAMA OFlCIALLY GETS /HIO AT LAST 4HE 2EPUBLICANS IN THE "LUE "AR CIRCULATE ,ORD 6OL DEMORT THEMED mIERS PRO MOTING -C#AIN AS THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS 4HE VERY BIZARRE mIERS ARE HASTILY WITHDRAWN WHEN #.. ILLUSTRATE HOW IT IS PRAC TICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR -C#AIN TO WIN AND /BAMA CHEERS lLL THE ROOM AM .EW -EXICO IS LIKELY TO GO TO /BAMA BRINGING HIM UP TO ,OTS OF YAWNS AND SLEEPY HEADS AS WE ALL WAIT FOR THE AM RESULTS AM 4HE COUPLE OF REMAINING "LUE "AR 2EPUBLICANS LOOK RATHER MISERABLE AS THE RESULT OF THE LATEST GRAPEVINE OFFERING !P PARENTLY .EBRASKA n A SUP POSED -C#AIN CERTAINTY n IS CURRENTLY TIED AT AM 5NHAPPINESS AT /BAMA LOS ING 4EXAS DESPITE THE TINY MARGIN (APPINESS AS THE 2E PUBLICANS ADMIT THAT THERE IS NOW NO PATH TO VICTORY AM !NOTHER LULL IN INCOMING NEWS BUT SUPPORT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE DECLINED 4HE WEST COAST IS FAST AP

PROACHING WITH HUGE #ALIFOR NIA SET TO BE THE DECIDER AM 4HIS IS TRULY RIDICULOUS #..

ARE INTERVIEWING "LACK %YED 0EA 7ILL ) !M VIA AN 2 $ STYLEE HOLOGRAM /H 'OD "LESS !MERICA AM )F /BAMA GETS #ALIFORNIA

THAT S IT HE S GOT IT "IGGEST CHEER OF THE NIGHT WHEN HE WINS 6IRGINIA TO TAKE HIM TO

AM (E WINS ) HAVE JUST WITNESSED WHAT COULD BE THE MOST IM PORTANT POLITICAL EVENT OF MY LIFETIME AND IT HAPPENED THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY ) AM NOT EXAGGERATING THERE ARE TEARS OF JOY IN THE "LUE "AR TONIGHT ) IMAGINE THAT THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF %NGLAND WON THE 7ORLD #UP ONLY WITHOUT THE BITTER AFTERTASTE 4HERE IS FAR MORE SOLIDARITY IN THIS ROOM THAN ANY FOOTBALL TEAM COULD IN SPIRE 7ILL WE ALL BE IN HERE FOR OUR NEXT GENERAL ELECTION ) DOUBT IT VERY MUCH )F ONLY OUR OWN POLITICIANS COULD EVOKE SUCH POSITIVE EMO TIONS (OW IS IT THAT WE CAN RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF !MERICA S LEADER AND NOT OUR OWN 7HY DO WE PLACE SO LIT TLE VALUE ON OUR OWN RIGHT TO VOTE "ROWN WOULD DO WELL TO ZIP THROUGH THE SLIPSTREAM AND CALL AN ELECTION WHILE WE ALL STILL CARE ABOUT POLITICS

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0OLICE ARE APPEALING TO THE PUBLIC FOR INFORMATION FOL LOWING A HIT AND RUN ON 4HE !VENUES !T AROUND PM ON 7EDNESDAY TH .OVEMBER A STUDENT WAS CYCLING TO MEET SOME FRIENDS 4HE STUDENT S BIKE HAD LIGHTS AND THE STU DENT HAD NOT BEEN DRINKING ! SILVERY WHITE VAN HIT THE CY CLIST AND DROVE OFF 4HE STUDENT WHO IS A THIRD YEAR IN THE 3CHOOL OF 0HILOSOPHY WAS CONCUSSED 7ITNESSES DESCRIBE HIM AS PICKING HIMSELF UP FROM THE ROAD STUMBLING AROUND AND TALKING INCOHERENTLY BEFORE COLLAPSING AGAIN /NE WITNESS SAID THAT ONE OF HIS SHOULDERS APPEARED TO BE hHANGING AT THE WRONG AN GLE DOWN BY HIS RIBS v AND THIS OBSERVATION WAS BORNE

%MIL !LLARD OUT IN THE INJURIES THE STU DENT SUSTAINED 4HE STUDENT WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL (E WAS TOLD THAT HE HAD TORN HIS LIGAMENTS AND WOULD NEED A PLATE PUT IN HIS SHOULDER (E WAS ALSO TOLD MUCH TO HIS RELIEF THAT HE HAD NOT SUSTAINED BRAIN DAMAGE THOUGH HE DID HAVE

WHAT HE TERMED hTEMPO RARY AMNESIAv AND HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF THE INCIDENT h4HE NEXT THING ) KNOW ) WAS WOKEN UP ON MY BACK ON THE PAVEMENT BY POLICE AND PARAMEDICS v

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,EFT TO 2IGHT *ACK +IFlN 0AUL 7ELLS 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS 2OWENA "ODDINGTON *ACK #LARK .EWS %DITOR NOTE )N A SERIES OF CANDID INTERVIEWS WITH #ONCRETE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS DISCUSSED THE DEMOCRATIC FRAME WORK AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL POWER WITHIN THE 5N ION !LL INDIVIDUALS QUOTED IN THIS ARTICLE ARE EXPRESSING THEIR OWN OPINIONS EXCEPT 2OWENA "ODDINGTON WHO SPOKE IN HER OFlCIAL CAPACITY AS #OMMUNICA TIONS /FlCER FOR THE 5NION

&ERDINAND ,EY 2EPORTER )F YOU HAPPENED TO BE IN LEC TURE THEATRE FOUR ON 4HURSDAY TH /CTOBER AT PM YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THE #HAIR OF THE 5NION #OUNCIL TEST ING THE MICROPHONE ON THE PODIUM AS STUDENTS TOOK A LAST GLANCE AT THE AGENDA !ND MAYBE IN THE MIDST OF STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES YOU MIGHT HAVE ASKED YOURSELF WHO EXACTLY IS REPRESENTED HERE AND HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE 5NION REALLY !CCORDING TO *ACK +IF lN $EPUTY #HAIR OF 5NION #OUNCIL THE 5NION MUST PROTECT AND PROVIDE FOR ITS MEMBERS )T SHOULD hPROTECT THEM FROM THE 5NIVERSITY BE ING UNREASONABLE TO THEM n IT SHOULD PROVIDE HOT FOOD AND CHEAP ALCOHOL BECAUSE STU DENTS ALMOST UNIFORMLY WANT THAT v 7HATEVER YOUR TAKE ON THIS MAY BE IT IS WORTH INVES TIGATING WHETHER THE 5NION IS REALLY RUN AS THE 5NION S WEBSITE PROCLAIMS hAS STU DENTS WANT IT TO BEv %SSENTIALLY PER CENT OF STUDENTS FUND THE 5NION n EITHER DIRECTLY BY USING ITS COMMERCIAL SERVICES WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR JUST OVER a

MILLION OF THE 5NION S INCOME OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH A GRANT FROM THE 5NIVERSITY AROUND a IN (OWEVER ONLY A TINY FRACTION OF 5%! S STUDENTS AC TUALLY ATTEMPT TO INmUENCE 5NION POLICY 4HE TURNOUT FOR THE MAIN ELECTIONS OF WHICH INCLUDED THE POSTS FOR THE SABBATICAL OFlCERS ARGUABLY THE FOUR MOST POWERFUL POSI TIONS IN THE 5NION WAS PERCENT 4HIS PUSHED THE QUOTA NEEDED TO WIN DOWN TO A MERE STUDENTS PERCENT !S FOR THE #OUNCIL

MANY POSITIONS ARE YET TO BE lLLED !LTHOUGH EVERY MEM BER OF #OUNCIL IS ELECTED IN THEORY BARELY ANY OF ITS CUR RENT MEMBERS PRACTICALLY ARE ! MEMBER OF THE %XECU TIVE SAID THAT THE hCLAIM THAT WE HAVE ANY DEMOCRACY IN THE SELECTION OF #OUNCIL IS PROB ABLY A MYTHx !LMOST EVERY POSITION ON 5NION #OUNCIL IS lLLED WITHOUT AN ELECTION v 4HE QUESTION OF WHOSE MANDATE IS MORE DEMOCRAT

i*U JT XPSUI JOWFTUJHBUJOH XIFUIFS UIF 6OJPO JT SFBMMZ SVO BT UIF 6OJPO T XFCTJUF QSP DMBJNT ABT TUVEFOUT XBOU JU UP CF w IC n THE %XECUTIVE S OR THE #OUNCIL S n LIES AT THE HEART OF A MOTION BROUGHT FORWARD RECENTLY 4HE MOTION S AIM

ACCORDING TO 2ICHARD 2EY NOLDS 3OCIAL 3CIENCES &ACULTY #ONVENER IS hTO REDUCE THE MAJORITY REQUIRED TO NO CON

lDENCE AN %XECUTIVE /FlCER FROM PERCENT OF ALL #OUN CIL MEMBERS TO PERCENT OF ALL PRESENT MEMBERSv SINCE h PERCENT NEVER SIT IN ONE MEETING v 3HOULD THE %XECUTIVE BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO #OUNCIL

WHICH AS 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS ARGUES PRESENTS A GREATER hOPPORTUNITY FOR MORE STU DENTS TO GET INVOLVEDv (E POINTS OUT h4HE %XECUTIVES DON T RUN ON A PLATFORM OF HOW THEY ARE GOING TO GOV ERN THE 5NION THEY RUN ON TWO OR THREE POINTS v 2OWENA "ODDINGTON THE #OMMUNI CATIONS /FlCER IS SCEPTICAL ABOUT THE NEED TO NO CONl DENCE %XECUTIVE /FlCERS AS THEY HAVE BEEN hELECTED BY FAR MORE PEOPLE THAN CAN EVER BE ON 5NION #OUNCIL v (OWEVER HARD IT MAY BE TO DECIDE WHOSE MANDATE IS MORE DEMOCRATIC THE ROLES THE TWO POLITICAL BRANCHES TAKE ARE CLEARLY DElNED 2O WENA "ODDINGTON h4HE %X ECUTIVE SHOULDN T BE MAKING POLICY 4HAT IS THE #OUNCIL S JOB v .ONETHELESS SOME WITHIN THE 5NION VIEW THE POTENTIAL INmUENCE OF THE %XECUTIVE /F lCERS ON THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS AS A PROBLEM !S 0AUL 7ELLS THE 3OCIETIES /FlCER

NOTES h7E ;THE %XECUTIVE= ARE

THERE TO INTERPRET POLICY 7E SHOULD NOT BE TRYING TO CREATE POLICY WHICH IS UNFORTUNATE LY AN ONGOING MISCONCEPTION WITHIN THE EXECUTIVE 7E ARE THERE ;IN #OUNCIL= TO DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST HOPEFULLY HOSTILE SCRUTINY v 7HEN ASKED IF THE LINE BE TWEEN LEGISLATIVE AND EXECU TIVE EVER GETS BLURRED 2OWENA "ODDINGTON REPLIED h)F IT HAS THEN #OUNCIL SHOULD TELL USx TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP v 4HE WORRY OF SOME STUDENTS IS THAT THE MERE PRESENCE OF %X ECUTIVE MEMBERS IN #OUNCIL MAY INmUENCE DECISIONS *ACK +IFlN h)F YOU WOULD

iɨF XPSSZ PG TPNF TUVEFOUT JT UIBU UIF NFSF QSFTFODF PG &YFDVUJWF NFNCFST JO $PVODJM NBZ JOnVFODF EFDJTJPOTw WANT A SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES YOU D HAVE TO RE MOVE THEM ;4HE %XECUTIVE= FROM THE CHAMBER v 4HE 3AB BATICAL AND -ANAGEMENT PO SITIONS ARE FULL TIME JOBS n THE PEOPLE WHO HOLD THEM ARE NOT STUDENTS 4HEIR INTRICATE KNOWLEDGE OF 5NION POLICY ACQUIRED BY DEALING WITH 5N ION ISSUES ON A CONTINUOUS

BASIS SEEMS BOTH INDISPENSA BLE AND A CAUSE FOR CAUTION 4HE WORRY IS THAT #OUNCIL MEMBERS WILL BLINDLY TRUST THE %XECUTIVES /FlCERS AND VOTE IN THEIR FAVOUR !S 0AUL 7ELLS SAYS h9OU GET YOUR

iɨF DMBJN UIBU XF IBWF BOZ EFNPDSBDZ JO UIF TFMFDUJPO PG $PVODJM JT QSPCBCMZ B NZUIw AGENDAS YOU READ #ONCRETE AND ESSENTIALLY YOUR INFORMA TION IS LACKING ON EVERY SITUA TION )T IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSI BLE FOR YOU TO KNOW AS MUCH AS A PART TIMER DOES LET ALONE HOW MUCH A 3ABBATICAL /FlC ER DOESx 4HE GREAT PROBLEM WITH OUR SYSTEM IS THAT THE 3ABBATICAL TEAMx WHO HAVE POWER WITHIN THE -ANAGE MENT #OMMITTEE CANNOT BE PROPERLY SCRUTINISED v 4HE #OUNCIL MEETING ON TH /CTOBER TOOK NO LONGER THAN MINUTES AS THE REQUIRED QUORUM WAS NOT REACHED 4O PREVENT THIS

#OUNCIL PASSED A CONSTITU TIONAL AMENDMENT LAST YEAR

WHICH SAID THAT IF A MEMBER FAILED TO ATTEND TWO MEET INGS RATHER THAN THREE HE OR SHE WOULD BE KICKED OFF

THE #OUNCIL (OWEVER THE AMENDMENT WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE THIS MEETING HAP PEN WAS NOT IN PLACE YET AS 2OWENA "ODDINGTON HAD NOT PASSED IT ON TO THE 5NIVER SITY TO BE APPROVED WHICH IS NECESSARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES .OTWITHSTANDING THE IM PACT HER DECISION HAD THE 5NIVERSITY REQUESTED TO RE CEIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND MENTS IN BUNDLES RATHER THAN INDIVIDUALLY WHICH LED TO HER DECISION TO WAIT IN ORDER TO SAVE UP A BATCH *ACK +IFlN NOTED h4HIS IS AN EXAMPLE WHERE ) DON T THINK INTEN TIONALLY THE DEMOCRATIC PROC ESS IS COMPLETELY CHANGED 4HERE IS NO WAY FOR US TO MANDATE HER TO DO IT STRAIGHT AWAY )F SHE DOESN T WANT TO DO n SHE DOESN T HAVE TO v !S PEOPLE STREAM OUT OF LECTURE THEATRE FOUR THE QUESTION PREVAILS IN ANY PO LITICAL INSTITUTION HOW MUCH ARE DECISIONS INmUENCED BY WHO IS MAKING THEM AND THE FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH THEY OPERATE #ONSIDERING THE ALLEGED IMBALANCE OF POWER WITHIN THE 5NION IT STILL REMAINS UP FOR DEBATE WHETHER THE 5NION ACHIEVES ITS AIM OF REPRESENT ING STUDENTS AND IS INDEED RUN AS STUDENTS WANT IT TO BE

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4PD 8FC %PXO ,AUREN 3OUTH 2EPORTER 3OC 7EB HAS BEEN DOWN FOR OVER A WEEK DUE TO A SERVER ERROR 3OC 7EB IS INTENDED TO BE AN EXTREMELY EFl CIENT DA TABASE WHICH ACTS AS A COM MUNICATION AID LINKING ALL SOCIETY AND COMMITTEE MEM BERS )T IS A RESOURCE FOR l ND ING 3OCIETY INFORMATION )T IS RELATIVELY NEW HAVING BEEN IMPLEMENTED THIS YEAR AND IS INNOVATIVE IN THAT THE PREVIOUS WEBSITE WAS PRIVATE AND OUT OF VIEW 3OC 7EB IS DESCRIBED BY 3OCIETIES /Fl CER 0AUL 7ELLS AS HAVING h! LOT OF POTENTIAL BENEl TS TO SOCIETIESv (OW EVER THE 0AUL ADMITS THAT AT THE MOMENT THESE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO BE TAKEN ADVAN TAGE OF 4HIS IS IN PART DUE TO THE FACT THAT 3OC 7EB HAS BEEN INACCESSABLE FOR OVER A WEEK SOMETHING THE 3OCIE TIES /Fl CER ADMITS HE WAS hUNAWARE OF UNTIL #ONCRETE ALERTED HIMv

4HIS HIGHLIGHTS A COMMU NICATION PROBLEM WITHIN THE 5NION %XECUTIVE ITSELF AND IS SOMEWHAT WORRYING -ARTIN *OPP THE &INANCE /Fl CER WOULD LIKE TO APOLO GISE TO ALL CLUBS SOCIETIES AND PEER SUPPORT GROUPS WHO HAVE BEEN hINCONVENIENCEDv

BY THIS BREAK DOWN IN COM MUNICATION (IS EXPLANATION FOR THE DOWNTIME IS h5NFORTUNATELY THE HARD DRIVE OF THE SERVER THAT HOSTS 3OC 7EB BURNT OUT DUE TO OVERHEATING v 4HE SERVERS ARE HELD IN A TEMPERA TURE CONTROLLED ROOM UP STAIRS IN 5NION (OUSE AND WHILE BURNOUTS ARE UNLIKELY

THEY CAN HAPPEN 4HE SERVER THAT BURNT OUT ALSO CONTAINED #ONCRETE S WEBSITE WHICH HAS BEEN IN ACCESSABLE AS WELL 3OC 7EB SHOULD BE UP AND RUNNING BY 7EDNESDAY TH .OVEMBER WHEN THE REPLACEMENT SERVER WILL BE INSTALLED

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#ONFERENCE *ACK #LARK .EWS %DITOR /N TH .OVEMBER SEVEN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 5N ION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS LEFT TO TRAVEL TO THE .53 %XTRAORDI NARY #ONFERENCE 7ITHIN THE DELEGATION WERE THREE OF THE 3ABBATICAL /Fl CERS AND FOUR STUDENTS 4HE THREE OFl CERS WERE $AVID 3HEPPARD -ARTIN *OPP AND 2OWENA "ODDING TON 4HE STUDENT CONTINGENT WAS MADE OF UP 0AUL 7ELLS 3OCIETIES /Fl CER 2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS 3OCIAL 3CIENCES &ACULTY #ONVENOR 3ITARA !MIN 4ILLY "-% #AMPAIGN #ONVENOR AND "EATRICE ,EAL (EAD OF 5%! 3OCIALIST 7ORK ERS 0ARTY 5NFORTUNATELY THE DELEGATION WAS DOWN BY ONE

BECAUSE 3EAN 2OSE WAS UN ABLE TO GO DUE TO ACADEMIC COMMITMENTS 7HAT FOLLOWED WAS ONE DAY OF VOTING -ARTIN *OPP SAID THAT h4HE BIGGEST ISSUES FOR 5%!

DELEGATES WERE WHETHER .53

SHOULD HAVE A @.O 0LATFORM POLICY FOR RACISTS AND FAS CISTS v !LL OF DELEGATION EXCLUD ING "EATRICE VOTED FOR REMOV ING .O 0LATFORM FROM THE .53 'OVERNANCE 2EVIEW "E ATRICE HAD IN HER MANIFESTO

SAID THAT SHE WOULD SUPPORT .O 0LATFORM REMAINING IN THE 'OVERNANCE 2EVIEW )N TERMS OF THE OVERALL REFORMS IN -ARTIN *OPP S WORDS h2OWENA "ODDINGTON

$AVID 3HEPPARD AND ) VOTED IN FAVOUR OF THEM WHILST THE OTHER FOUR DELEGATES VOTED AGAINST v *OPP BELIEVES IT IS h!

SHAME THAT A MAJORITY OF OUR DELEGATION VOTED TO STAY WITH A STATUS QUO WHICH CURRENTLY FAILS TO ENGAGE WITH STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY v 0AUL 7ELLS STATING WHY HE VOTED AGAINST THE REFORMS

SAID h$ESPITE THE MANY POSI TIVE MEASURES WITHIN IT THE 'OVERNANCE 2EVIEW WOULD ENSHRINE VIA EXTERNAL TRUS TEES NON STUDENT INm UENCE WITHIN THE 5NION v

7)4 %NLISTS 1UEST &OR 'REATER 3ECURITY !LEX 'RIFl THS 2EPORTER 5%! S NETWORK HAS OVER

USER ACCOUNTS AND STABILITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ISSUE 4O COMBAT THIS THE 5NIVERSITY HAVE INTRODUCED 1UEST !UTHENTICATION 3ERV ICES TO INCREASE SECURITY AND STABILITY "EFORE THE INTRODUCTION OF 1UEST 5%! HAD USED -I CROSOFT S 3ERVICES FOR 5NIX SOFTWARE PACKAGE HOWEVER THIS HAD PROVED TO BE INCAPA BLE OF INTERFACING WITH 5%! S VAST ARRAY OF DISPARATE COM PUTING SYSTEMS CRASHES WERE FREQUENT "EFORE THAT THE 5NIVER SITY HAD ATTEMPTED TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF STABILITY AND SECURITY BY MANUALLY CONl G URING EACH OF THE 5.)8 WORKSTATIONS AND 5.)8

SERVERS 4HIS WAS AN INNEl CIENT USE OF TIME WITH 5%!

EXTIMATING THAT ITS )4 SUP PORT STAFF WERE SPENDING BE TWEEN ONE AND l VE DAYS PER WEEK ON 5.)8 MAINTENANCE *ON 7OODLEY A SYSTEM DE VELOPER AT 5%!

SAID h1UEST !UTHENTIl CATION 3ERVICES PRO VIDES SINGLE SIGN ON AUTHENTI CATION FOR ACCESS TO ALL OF OUR SYSTEMS ENABLING US TO CEN TRALLY CONl GURE CONTROL AND VEIRFY ACCESS TO EACH OF THEM 4HIS GIVES US PEACE OF MIND FOR EXAMPLE WE HAVE CON SIDERABLY MORE CONl DENCE THAT A STUDENT IS UNABLE TO GAUN UNAUTHORISED ACCESS TO SENSITIVE SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE 5NIVERSITY S l NANCE SYSTEM v 4HE SYSTEM DOES SEEM TO BE TAKING EFFECT WITH )4#3 NO TICING A DROP IN THE NUMBER OF CALLS FROM STUDENTS STRUG GLING WITH THEIR LOGIN

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i*O 'MBOEFST mFMET UIF QPQQJFT CMPX w +IRSTY +ELLY /PINIONS WRITER 3O APPARENTLY WE ALL HAVE A DECISION TO MAKE ) CERTAINLY DIDN T REALISE THIS BUT SINCE WHITE POPPIES HAVE BEEN IN DISTRIBUTION AS WELL AS RED ONES )N THE (IVE LAST WEEK SAT A FULL BOX OF WHITE POPPIES 4HEY ARE SAID TO SYMBOLISE THE BELIEF THAT THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO RESOLVE CON mICTS THAN KILLING STRANGERS AND THAT THIS IS A MORE #HRISTIAN WAY OF RE MEMBERING OUR VETERANS 9ET DO THE RED POPPIES SYMBOLISE THAT WE AGREE WITH KILLING STRANGERS ) CERTAINLY DON T AND YET HAVE CHOSEN TO WEAR A RED POPPY EVERY YEAR SINCE ) CAN REMEMBER ! MEMBER OF THE .O -ORE 7AR -OVEMENT SUGGESTED THAT THE "RIT ISH ,EGION SHOULD BE ASKED TO IM PRINT @.O -ORE 7AR IN THE CENTRE

OF THE RED POPPIES INSTEAD OF @(AIG &UND 9ET (AIG &UND IS THE NAME OF A CHARITY FOR EX SERVICEMEN WHO ARE WHAT POPPIES ARE FOR 3URELY WE

i%P UIF SFE QPQQJFT TZNCPMJTF UIBU XF BHSFF XJUI LJMMJOH TUSBOHFST * DFSUBJOMZ EPO U BOE ZFU IBWF DIPTFO UP XFBS POF FWFSZ ZFBSw ARE REMEMBERING THEIR BRAVERY n @WE WILL REMEMBER THEM n NOT PROMOT ING WAR 0ERHAPS CERTAIN PEOPLE

THINK WE ARE &OR SOME THEY ARE TIED UP WITH PATRIOTIC BELIEFS ECHOED BY 7ILFRED /WEN S FAMOUS WORDS

@$ULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI @IT IS SWEET AND RIGHT TO DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY !ND THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD PERHAPS THINK ABOUT WEAR ING A WHITE POPPY 9ET FOR ME A RED POPPY IS MY WAY OF REMEMBERING PEOPLE WHO DIED

NOT FOR A GREAT CAUSE BUT UNSELlSHLY FOR US .UMEROUS DOCUMENTARIES RE MEMBER THE EQUALLY BRAVE MEN WHO WOULDN T lGHT 0OPPIES SYMBOLIZE HOPE NOT SUPPORT OF WAR 7HY DO ) NEED A WHITE POPPY !S ONE MAN AT THIS YEAR S 2EMEMBERANCE $AY SAID

@4HE WHITE POPPY IS NOT RELEVANT TO WHAT THE RED POPPY IS THE lRST mOW ER THAT GREW ON THE BATTLElELDS OF THE &IRST 7ORLD 7AR ) ONLY HOPE THE POWERS THAT BE DON T GO ALL 0 # ON US AND MERGE THE TWO 0INK POPPY ANYONE

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%FCBUF $VUUJOH FEHF PS PWFS UIF FEHF !S THE FURORE OVER 2USSELL "RAND AND *ONATHAN 2OSS RUMBLES ON INTO ANOTHER WEEK #ONCRETE ASKS IS THE MEDIA OUTRAGE JUSTIlED OR HAS IT BEEN BLOWN OUT OF ALL PROPORTION !LICE 6IOLETT #HIEF #OPY %DITOR ) M NOT SAYING WHAT 2USSELL "RAND AND *ONATHAN 2OSS DID WASN T WRONG ) VE ALWAYS FELT SORRY FOR THE RECIPIENTS OF PRANK PHONE CALLS AND THE MESSAGES LEFT FOR !NDREW 3ACHS WEREN T PARTICULARLY PLEASANT (OWEVER THANKS TO THE TABLOIDS

iɨF GBDU UIBU POMZ PODF UIF TUPSZ XBT SFQPSUFE XFSF 0'$0.T MJOFT KBNNFE TQFBLT WPMVNFTw THE WHOLE THING HAS BEEN BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION ! SUSPENSION

FORCED RESIGNATIONS AND A GOVERN MENT INQUIRY SHOULD NOT HAVE RE SULTED FROM AN INCIDENT FOR WHICH THE VICTIM HAS FORGIVEN THE PERPE TRATORS /NLY TWO COMPLAINTS WERE lLED ABOUT THE BROADCAST BEFORE THE IN CIDENT WAS REPORTED IN 4HE $AILY -AIL AND THOSE WERE ABOUT BAD LANGUAGE RATHER THAN THE ANSWER PHONE MESSAGES 4HE FACT THAT ONLY ONCE THE STORY WAS REPORTED WERE /&#/-S LINES JAMMED SPEAKS VOL UMES ABOUT THE FRENZY THE TABLOID

MEDIA CAN WHIP UP )F THEY WERE OFFENDED BY THE SHOW WHY DIDN T TABLOID READERS COMPLAIN EARLIER #OULD IT BE THAT THEY DIDN T HEAR THE SHOW AND SIMPLY SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ""# 4HE $AILY -AIL AFTER ALL CRITICIZ ES THE ""# ON A REGULAR BASIS AND HAS IN THE PAST FREQUENTLY MOANED ABOUT 2OSS HIGH SALARY !DD IN "RAND S FAMILY UNFRIENDLY COMEDY

AND YOU HAVE THE PERFECT INGREDI ENTS FOR A TABLOID WITCH HUNT 4HE FORCED RESIGNATION OF THE POPULAR "RAND IS A HUGE LOSS TO THE ""#

CONSIDERING IT WAS 2OSS WHO BLURT ED OUT WHAT "RAND HAD BEEN UP TO WITH 3ACHS GRAND DAUGHTER %VEN THEN 2OSS THREE MONTH SUSPEN SION SEEMS A HEFTY PUNISHMENT 4HESE LOSSES ARE THE FAULT OF THE TABLOIDS FORCING THE ""# TO RESORT TO DRASTIC MEASURES AND IT IS OBVI OUS THAT "RAND ALONGSIDE STATION CONTROLLER ,ESLEY $OUGLAS WAS THE SACRIlCIAL LAMB 3INCE THE INCIDENT 4HE $AILY -AIL HAS PUBLISHED A LIST OF TEN @SMUTTY SCENES FROM THE ""#

SOME OVER A YEAR OLD 4HANKS TO THE TABLOIDS AND THE READERS WHO FOL LOW THEM THE ""# WILL BE FORCED TO BECOME OVERLY CAUTIOUS ABOUT WHAT IT AIRS DISCARDING CONTENT THAT THE TABLOIDS MIGHT DEEM @OFFENSIVE BUT THE MAJORITY lND FUNNY AND EDGY

'BDU #PY 4HE SHOW IN QUESTION WAS RE CORDED ON 4HURSDAY TH /C TOBER BUT WAS BROADCAST TWO DAYS LATER 2OSS AND "RAND HAD LEFT INAPPROPRIATE MES SAGES ON THE ACTOR !NDREW 3ACHS VOICEMAIL CONCERNING HIS GRANDDAUGHTER 'EORGIA "AILLIE (OWEVER PRECEDING THE TRANS MISSION OF THE SHOW A WARN ING WAS GIVEN @4HE NEXT PRO GRAMME CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE WHICH SOME LISTEN ERS MAY lND OFFENSIVE /NLY TWO COMPLAINTS WERE SENT IN AT THE TIME OF THE BROADCAST "UT BY 7EDNESDAY TH /CTOBER THE ""# HAD RECEIVED OVER COM PLAINTS DUE TO THE INCREASED COVERAGE BY THE MEDIA "RAND RESIGNED FROM HIS SHOW ON 2ADIO ALONG WITH THE STA TION S CONTROLLER ,ESLEY $OUG LAS 2OSS HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR THREE MONTHS WITHOUT PAY

MEANING THAT HIS THREE SHOWS WITH THE ""# HAVE BEEN RE PLACED

$AISY 0ENBAR 2EPORTER *UST IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT THAT YOU ARE AN AGING ACTOR A LOVING FAMILY MAN WHO PERHAPS HAS NO IDEA THAT HIS GRAND DAUGHTER IS A MEMBER OF A GOTH BURLESQUE GROUP CALLED THE 3ATANIC 3LUTS 9OU AGREED TO GO ON A RADIO SHOW AND WERE PREPARED TO BE MOCKED AND EVEN SWORN AT

AS THE SHOW IS FAMED FOR 7HAT YOU WEREN T EXPECTING WAS FOR THE HOSTS TO CALL YOU AND LEAVE MESSAGES TELL ING YOU THAT 2USSELL "RAND hFUCKEDv YOUR GRAND DAUGHTER AND SUGGEST ING THAT YOU MAY LIKE TO KILL YOURSELF AFTER HEARING THIS NEWS

PEOPLE LISTEN TO THIS @ENTERTAINMENT AND ONLY TWO OUT OF ALL OF THESE WHO HEARD AN OLD MAN SUBJECTED TO THESE COMMENTS

THINK THAT THIS IS OUT OF ORDER AND COMPLAIN 9OU D FEEL A LITTLE HARD DONE BY WOULDN T YOU !ND RIGHTLY SO 4HE "RITISH "ROADCASTING #ORPO RATION IS SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE GREATEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN RETURN FOR LICENSE FEES AND IN THIS CASE IT CERTAINLY SEEMS THAT THEY DID THAT SINCE PEOPLE WERE PRESUMABLY LAUGHING THEIR LITTLE DAMP SOCKS OFF BUT IT S INEXCUSA BLE THAT TO CREATE THIS ENTERTAINMENT THEY SHOULD VICTIMISE PEOPLE )T HAS BEEN SAID THAT HAD !N DREW 3ACHS APPEARED ON THE SHOW

HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO THE SAME TREATMENT AND THIS IS TRUE TO AN EXTENT "UT HAD HE APPEARED

HE WOULD HAVE !

BEEN ABLE TO DE FEND HIMSELF OR AT LEAST RESPOND TO THE UNPLEASANTRIES AND " IT IS UN LIKELY THAT THE COMMENTS WHICH WERE MADE BY TWO EXCITABLE MEN WHO WERE FRUSTRATED THAT THEIR GUEST HADN T APPEARED AND WERE MOREOVER

i QFPQMF XFSF QSFTVNBCMZ MBVHIJOH UIFJS MJUUMF EBNQ TPDLT PĊw MADE TO A MACHINE RATHER THAN TO A HUMAN PRESENCE WOULD HAVE BEEN SO OFFENSIVE 4HEY WERE TERRIBLE FOR THESE TWO REASONS NOT THAT THESE REASONS IN ANY WAY EXCUSE THEM 4WO ADULTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO RESTRAIN THEM SELVES TO A GREATER EXTENT ESPECIALLY WHEN EMPLOYED IN SUCH A PUBLIC ROLE AND ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE IS SUCH AN EXTENSIVE SAFETY NET OF EDI TORS AND PRODUCERS AROUND THEM TO PICK UP ON @MISTAKES LIKE THIS AND ENSURE THAT THEY DO NOT REACH EITHER THE PUBLIC OR THE INDIVIDUAL CON CERNED

)NSPIRED /R 7IRED h7ITH THE INCREASE IN AUTOMATED SERVICES IN OUR SOCIETY IS NO ONE ELSE WORRIED THAT MACHINES AND ULTIMATELY ROBOTS WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD 7E VE ALL SEEN THE lLMS v 'RACE $ENTON 4HIRD 9EAR ,)4 3TUDENT

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ǰF $SFEJU $SVODI A$SVODIFE 5%!#ONSERVATIVES #HAIRMAN 0AUL 7ELLS GIVES HIS OPINION OF OUR CURRENT lNANCIAL CRISIS AND THE STEPS WE CAN TAKE FOR A LONG TERM SOLUTION

6&" EJTSVQUJPOT BOE 64" &MFDUJPOT /UR BELOVED SQUARE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM US FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE AND CAMPUS LIFE JUST ISN T THE SAME WITHOUT IT /N A SLIGHTLY MORE INTERNATIONAL NOTE THE 53 %LECTION HAS BEEN AND GONE BUT WHAT CAN "RITAIN AND OUR POLITICIANS LEARN FROM IT !ARON "LOWERS /PINIONS 7RITER 3INCE THE PRIMARY SEASON STARTED IN FULL IN THE 5 3 0RESIDENTIAL ELECTION ) VE FOUND MYSELF THINKING HOW UNBE LIEVABLE IT IS TO HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY ACTIVE IN AN ELECTION ,OOK ING AT GENERAL ELECTIONS HERE THEY RE DULL THINGS FOR ANYONE BUT POLITICAL COMMENTATORS OR PARTY MEMBERS

OCCASIONS RUN BY PARTY BUREAUCRA CIES 9ET LOOK AT !MERICA WHERE AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF ENTHUSIASM WAS GENERATED BY THE ELECTION (OW WONDERFUL WOULD IT BE IF WE COULD GET THAT SORT OF ENTHUSIASM IN THIS COUN TRY 7E CAN LEARN A THING OR TWO FROM THE 5 3 ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ABOUT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN POLITICS 4HE WAY ) SEE IT THERE ARE TWO BIG DIFFERENCES FACTORS THAT GET THE !MERICANS INTERESTED &IRSTLY THERE S A GENUINE ATTEMPT TO ENGAGE THE GRASSROOTS AND SECONDLY THERE S SEEN TO BE A GENUINE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CANDIDATES /BAMA IN PARTICULAR HAS STUNNED THE WORLD WITH HIS EFFEC TIVE GRASSROOTS ORGANISATION /UT THE WINDOW GO NOTIONS OF CENTRALISED

PARTY LEADERSHIP DICTATING TO LOCAL BRANCHES HOW THE CAMPAIGNS SHOULD BE RUN /F COURSE IT S NOT JUST /BAMA DOING THIS "OTH CANDIDATES HAVE GIV EN PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO GET INVOLVED HOW THEY WANT RATHER THAN RELYING ON A PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE THAT IS THE PARTY MEMBERSHIP !S FOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CAN DIDATES PARTIES JUST LOOK AT BOTH COUNTRIES !MERICA HAD THE PROMISED CHILD -USLIM SOCIALIST TERRORIST ROOK IE RUNNING AGAINST THE NATIONAL HERO DODDERING OLD FOOL (ERE WE HAVE THE INCOMPETENT MORON VERSUS THE TWO $AVES WORTHY OF A SKETCH ) THINK %VEN IF THE SUBSTANCE OF /BAMA AND -C#AIN ISN T ALWAYS WIDELY DIFFERENT

THERE WAS AN IMPRESSION THAT WHICH WAY THE ELECTION WENT ACTUALLY MADE A DIFFERENCE ) DARE SAY UNLIKE IN "RIT ISH ELECTIONS 3O WE CAN LEARN FROM THIS ELEC TION )F WE CAN HAVE CANDIDATES WHO ARE NOTICEABLY SIGNIlCANTLY DIFFERENT

AND WE CAN ENCOURAGE DECENTRALISED INVOLVEMENT AMONG THE GRASSROOTS

MAYBE WE COULD GET ORDINARY PEOPLE ACTUALLY INTERESTED AND INVOLVED IN OUR ELECTIONS

3AM (ILL /PINIONS 7RITER 4HE CURRENT 3QUARE DEVELOPMENT IS A SHAMBLES 4HE PLAN MIGHT BE TO hRESURFACE THE HARD LANDSCAPE

UPDATE THE S DESIGN AND PRO VIDE A BASIS FOR FUTURE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT WHILST ENSURING THAT 4HE 3QUARE REMAINS A FOCAL POINT FOR THE COMMUNITY AND A CELEBRA TION OF SUCCESSv AS SAID ON 5%! S WEBSITE BUT FOR NOW STUDENTS ARE SUBJECTED TO ONE YEAR OF THEIR TREASURED UNIVERSITY LIVES BURIED UNDER MOUNDS OF RUBBLE HERDED AROUND CROWDED WALKWAYS AND PUSHED OUT OF ONE OF THE MAIN ATTRACTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HOTSPOT THAT IS THE 3QUARE 'OD KNOWS WHY THE TEAM RE SPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING THIS hFU TURE FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTv HAVE CHOSEN THIS TIME TO CREATE THE APOCALYPTIC MESS AND CHAOS THAT SITS IN THE CENTRE OF OUR UNIVERSITY 4HERE ARE MANY REASONS AS TO WHY THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN lNISHED OR AT LEAST A SIGNIlCANT PORTION OF IT

COMPLETED OVER THE SUMMER BUT ) AM SURE THAT OFlCIALS RUNNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR UNIVERSITY NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED THE WORDS hWELFAREv AND hSTUDENTv WHEN PLANNING THE TIME OF CONSTRUC TION !CCORDING TO THE OFlCIAL DEAD LINE WHILST THE MAIN CONSTRUCTION WILL BE lNISHED BY *ANUARY OTHER CONSTRUCTION WILL CONTINUE UNTIL -ARCH !NYONE ELSE FANCY REVISING PANICKING AND GENERALLY STRESSING OUT TO THE SOUND OF FOUR TRACTORS TWO DIGGERS ONE CEMENT MIXER AND TWELVE ANGRY BUILDERS AT CRUCIAL TIMES )T CAN T BE DO ING ANY FAVOURS FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS OR THE ALREADY STRUGGLING 5NION "AR EITHER !ND OF COURSE WITH THE LIKELY EFFECTS OF OUR "RITISH LACK OF EFl CIENCY AND WEATHER BUILDING WILL MOST LIKELY BE lNISHED SOMEWHERE TOWARDS NEXT SUMMER ) CAN ONLY THINK THAT CONFERENCES AND BUSI NESS INTERESTS OVER THE SUMMER MEAN MORE TO SOME 5%! OFlCIALS THAN THE STUDENTSxAS ALWAYS

+EYNESIANISM IS BACK AND WITH A VENGEANCE /UR ,ABOUR 'OVERNMENT HAS THROWN OFF ITS OLD SOILED CLOTH OF FALSE PRUDENCE TO LOUDLY PROCLAIM THEIR RE CONVERSION TO THE FAITH OF REGULATION AND PUBLIC SPENDING %VEN MORE HORRIlCALLY POLITICIANS FROM ALL HUES CONTINUE TO APPLAUD THE INSANITY OF THE GOVERNMENT S RESPONSE !LL PARTIES ARE CURRENTLY BUYING INTO THE DECEITS WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT S RESPONSE !CCORDING TO THE POLITICIANS .EO LIBERALISM -ONETARISM 4HATCHERISM IS DEAD

DEBUNKED AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CURRENT MESS THE MARKET IS ONCE MORE A DIRTY WORD 4HE EXTREME LEFT IS BACK AND SCENTING BLOOD (OWEVER WE MUST NOT FORGET THE ROLE THE GOVERNMENT PLAYED IN THIS CRISIS FOR INDEED IT IS NOT THE MARKET WHICH IS AT FAULT AT ALL 4HE FAILURE OF A BUSINESS MODEL DOES NOT DISCREDIT A SYSTEM 4HE FAILED BUSINESS MODEL DEPLOYED BY THE BANKS WAS PERPETU ATED BY GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS ITSELF RUN UP HUGE DEBTS IT IS RUNNING A DElCIT LARGER THAN THE '$0 OF THE )VORY #OAST )TS SOLUTIONS ARE CURRENTLY INHERENTLY CONTRADICTORY AS THEY MERELY INCREASE THE DEBT BURDENING THE ECONOMY %VEN WORSE INmATION AFTER THE HUGE DROP IN INTEREST RATES IS LIKELY TO FURTHER UNDERMINE THE ECONOMY FOR THE NEAR FUTURE %VEN IF THE SYMPTOMS ARE CURED THE FUN DAMENTAL DISEASE IN OUR ECONOMY SHALL REMAIN 7E DO NOT LIVE IN A NEO LIBERAL STATE 4HE 'OVERNMENT WITH ITS AR BITRARY POWER OVER INTEREST RATES STILL FUNDAMENTALLY REPRESSES THE ECO NOMIC FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL #URRENTLY SOCIETY IS ORGANISED ON A SYSTEM OF MUTUAL PLUNDER PROTEC TIONIST AND CACK HANDED ATTEMPTS

BY GOVERNMENT TO INTERVENE IN SO CIETY AND THIS HAS DISTORTED MARKET FORCES 7HEN DEALING WITH THE ECONO MY WE MUST CONSIDER THE HIDDEN COSTS EVERY POUND GIVEN IN SUBSIDY IS TAKEN FROM AN INDUSTRY WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE BE GROWING -ORE IMPORTANTLY EVERY POUND OF GOV ERNMENT DEBT IS MONEY SUCKED OUT OF PROlTABLE INDUSTRY 4HESE THINGS CONSIDERED IT IS NOT SURPRISING THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS hFAILEDv FOR IT IS ONLY A SHADOW OF A TRULY FREE ECON OMY 2ATHER THAN PAY PEOPLE TO DIG AND THEN lLL HOLES WE MUST STRIVE TO CREATE THE FREE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY WHICH IS NEEDED FOR TRUE PROSPERITY THAT IS THE ONLY LONG TERM SOLUTION TO OUR CURRENT CRISIS

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NEWSPAPERS WERE THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE WORLD (OWEVER NOW WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS OF lND ING OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND US THAT IT SEEMS ONLY NATURAL THAT THE NEWSPAPER WOULD BECOME LESS POPULAR OVER TIME "UT HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE THE FORMAT BE COMES COMPLETELY OBSOLETE 4HE EVER EXPANDING )NTERNET IS STEALING FOCUS FROM THE TRADITIONAL FAVOURITE THE NEWSPAPER !CCESS TO CURRENT AFFAIRS HAS BECOME MUCH QUICKER EASIER AND CHEAPER AND MANY PEOPLE NO LONGER FEEL THE NEED TO GO OUT AND BUY A NEWSPAPER WHEN THEY CAN lND THE SAME INFOR MATION ONLINE IN JUST A FEW CLICKS (OWEVER ALONG WITH THIS DECLINE IN SALES OF THE NEWSPAPER COMES AN IN CREASE IN THE USE OF WEBSITES SUCH AS WWW TIMESONLINE CO UK AND WWW GUARDIAN CO UK )T SEEMS THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE OPTING FOR THIS MUCH CHEAPER AND MORE ENVIRONMEN TALLY FRIENDLY WAY OF READING THEIR

FAVOURITE PUBLICATIONS RATHER THAN THE TRADITIONAL PRINTED FORM )T IS FAR EASIER AND QUICKER TO LOG ONTO A WEBSITE THAN TO GO OUT AND BUY A PAPER AND IT CAN BE DONE STRAIGHT FROM YOUR DESK !LSO IN THESE DAYS OF lNANCIAL DIFlCULTY SOME PEOPLE MAY HAVE CHOSEN TO CUT DOWN ON THEIR DAILY NEWSPAPER PURCHASES AND INSTEAD CHOSEN TO CATCH UP WITH THE DAY S EVENTS THROUGH THE )NTERNET OR NEWS PROGRAMMES ON THE TELEVISION OR RADIO 3OME TABLOID PAPERS SUCH AS 4HE 3UN AND THE $AILY 3TAR ARE

$JSDVMBUJPO PG OFXTQBQFST JO 0DUPCFS 4HE 3UN $AILY -IRROR $AILY 3TAR $AILY 2ECORD $AILY -AIL $AILY %XPRESS

KEEPING THEIR PRICES LOW TO ENCOUR AGE SALES SELLING FOR P OR P AS OPPOSED TO THE -IRROR S P AND THE $AILY -AIL S P 4HE $AILY -AIL AND $AILY %XPRESS ARE TWO PAPERS WHICH ARE LARGELY AIMED AT WOMEN AS A CHEAPER ALTER NATIVE TO A MAGAZINE WHEREAS ONE ONLY HAS TO LOOK AT PAGE THREE OF 4HE 3UN TO REALISE THAT ALONG WITH THE $AILY 3PORT AND $AILY 3TAR IT HAS AN OBVIOUSLY MALE READERSHIP )T IS PERHAPS THESE FEATURES OF TAB LOIDS THAT MAKE THEM APPEAL MORE THAN BROADSHEETS TO SOME PEOPLE

AS THEY SEE THEM AS PROVIDING MORE THAN JUST CURRENT AFFAIRS 2ECYCLING IS ANOTHER REASON FOR PEOPLE TO CHOOSE TO GET THEIR NEWS FROM ANOTHER SOURCE WITH EVERY ONE BEING ENCOURAGED TO BE ECO FRIENDLY IT IS NO WONDER THAT SOME HAVE CHOSEN TO CUT DOWN ON THEIR NEWSPAPER CONSUMPTION 3O IF NOT NEWSPAPERS WHO OR WHAT ARE PEOPLE TURNING TO TO lND OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND THEM /BVIOUSLY THE )NTERNET IS THE BIG WINNER BEING INSTANTLY ACCESSI

BLE TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY TO MOST PEOPLE 4HE TELEVISION NEWS CHAN NELS ARE ALSO POPULAR AND THE RADIO PROVIDES NEWS BULLETINS THROUGH OUT THE DAY !CCORDING TO MEDIAUK COM EVEN THOUGH NEWSPAPER SALES ARE SLOWLY DECREASING THE DEMAND FOR NEWS IS GOING UP WITH PEOPLE ACCESSING IT VIA THE )NTERNET AND THE VARIOUS NEWS CHANNELS AVAILABLE TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY !NOTHER CONCERN IS THAT THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS ARE NOT SO IN TERESTED IN WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE

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WORLD VOTING TURNOUTS ARE GETTING LOWER SUGGESTING THAT PERHAPS LESS AND LESS PEOPLE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE NEWS CHOOSING TO BUY CELEBRITY MAGAZINES OR WATCH ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS RATHER THAN NEWS CHANNELS "UT IT S NOT ALL BAD NEWS FOR THE NEWSPAPER ACCORDING TO JOURNAL ISM CO UK THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE READING NEWSPAPERS ONLINE HAS RISEN BY IN THE LAST YEAR AND BY IN THE LAST THREE YEARS AS THE )NTERNET HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO GET THEIR NEWS lX ONLINE ALSO SPEND THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME READING THE PRINT VERSIONS AND SAY THAT THEY ARE SPENDING MORE TIME READING NEWSPAPERS ONLINE OR OTH ERWISE THAN THEY USED TO !LSO THE CIRCULATION OF PAID FOR PRINTED PA PERS HAS RISEN BY NEARLY SINCE LAST YEAR 3O IT SEEMS THAT DESPITE THE CUR RENT CREDIT CRUNCH AND THE )NTERNET MAKING THE NEWS MUCH QUICKER TO ACCESS MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL STAYING LOYAL TO THEIR OLD FRIEND THE NEWS PAPER

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$JUJ[FO +PVSOBMJTN 4HERE S NO DENYING IT n THE APPEAL OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM IS UNDERSTANDABLE YOU RESEARCH

YOU WRITE OR TAKE A VIDEO OR PHO TOGRAPH YOU SELF PUBLISH AND THERE YOU GO n YOU RE A CERTIlED CITI ZEN JOURNALIST AND ALL OF A SUDDEN PEOPLE ARE RESPONDING TO YOU 4HERE IS NO PRESSURE FROM CO WORKERS NO DEADLINES NO TEDIOUSLY LONG OFlCE HOURS ALL THIS CAN BE DONE IN YOUR OWN TIME YOUR OWN WAY .OWA DAYS MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE

TAKING JOURNALISM INTO THEIR OWN HANDS ONE SUCH EXAMPLE OF THIS IS BI LINGUAL +OREAN WEBSITE /HM YNEWS COM WHICH ONLY PUBLISHES ARTICLES FROM CITIZEN JOURNALISTS OF WHICH THERE ARE AROUND

"UT IT S NOT ONLY BLOGS AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES THAT ARE SPIKING PEOPLE S INTEREST THERE S THE EN TIRE REALM OF VIDEO JOURNALISM AND PHOTOGRAPHY THAT S GROWING AS WELL n AND SO IT SHOULD BE FOR WHEN DIS ASTER STRIKES WHO DOES THE AUTHORITY ASK FOR HELP 7ITNESSES LIVE FOOTAGE

FROM CITIZEN CAMERAS PRIVATE PHO TOGRAPHS THESE ARE ALL IMPERATIVE TO ASSISTING THE POLICE IN THEIR WORK AND THEREFORE OFlCIAL NEWS CHANNELS BUT WHO S TO SAY THAT THE CITIZENS DON T USE THIS PLETHORA OF INFORMATION TO REPORT NEWS THEMSELVES 7HAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR OFlCIAL JOURNALISTS AND THEIR INDUSTRY !T A lRST GLANCE THIS COULD BE SEEN AS POTENTIALLY DISASTROUS n PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS OF COURSE

HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF EXPERIENCE

QUALIlCATION AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT

THE INDUSTRY BUT THEY KNOW AND THE CITIZENS THEMSELVES KNOW THAT NOTHING WILL BE AS INTERESTING OR AC CURATE AS A lRST HAND REPORT /N THE OTHER HAND THE JOURNALISM INDUSTRY COULD WELL BENElT FROM THIS TOO AS MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WRITE AND RE PORT MORE OF THEM WILL BE INCLINED TO READ AS WELL #ITIZENS ACROSS THE WORLD WOULD BE IN TOUCH WITH THE MOST RECENT NEWS STORIES AND THUS INCREASE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WORLD CONNECTIONS 9SABELLE #HEUNG

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* N " 6&" 4UVEFOU (FU .F 0VU 0G )FSF 7E ALL THAT TRANSPORT WITHIN .ORWICH IS ATROCIOUS BUT WHAT ABOUT GETTING OUT OF OUR lNE CITY #ONCRETE &EATURES INVESTIGATESx

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#ONCRETE IN AN INFORMAL SUR VEY ASKED STUDENTS WHOSE HOMETOWNS RANGED FROM LESS THAN TO MORE THAN MILES AWAY ABOUT THEIR EX PERIENCES OF TRAVELLING HOME -OST STUDENTS USED THE TRAIN FOR AT LEAST PART OF THEIR JOURNEY HOME THOUGH USE OF BUSES OUTSIDE OF THE CITY PLANES COACHES AND FER RIES WAS ALSO RECORDED 3URPRISINGLY JUST OF THE STUDENTS WERE @DISSATISlED OR @VERY DISSATISlED WITH THE TRANSPORT LINKS BETWEEN .OR WICH AND THEIR HOMES WHILST WERE @NEITHER SATISlED NOR DISSATISlED SUGGESTING A GRUDGING ACCEPTANCE OF .ORWICH S REMOTENESS 4HIS MIGHT HAVE RELATED TO THE FACT THAT OF RESPONDENTS DID NOT HAVE TO CHANGE AT ANY POINT ALONG THEIR JOURNEY /F THE WHO DID HAVE TO CHANGE SOME AS MANY AS FOUR TIMES ONLY FELT UN ABLE TO GO HOME BECAUSE OF SUCH CHANGES )NSTEAD TIME WAS AN ISSUE TOOK MORE THAN TWO HOURS TO GET HOME

AND SAID TRAVELLING TIME PREVENTED THEM FROM GOING

HOME MORE OFTEN 4RAVELLING TIME INmUENCED STUDENTS TO GIVE UP ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND USE CARS INSTEAD ONE STUDENT COMMENTED THAT IF IT WEREN T FOR A GENEROUS FRIEND

@GETTING TO UNI WOULD TAKE THREE HOURS #OST WAS THE BIGGEST ISSUE AFFECTING HOW OFTEN THE SAM PLE OF STUDENTS WENT HOME OF THE STUDENTS SPENT MORE THAN a TRAVELLING HOME WERE @DISSATIS lED OR @VERY DISSATISlED WITH THE COST AND NAMED @COST AS THE REASON THEY DID NOT GO HOME MORE OFTEN 7ITH COMPLEX JOURNEYS AND LONG TRAVELLING TIMES IT S NO WONDER STUDENTS RESENT PAY ING WHAT COULD BE AN ENTIRE WEEK S BUDGET JUST TO SEE THEIR FAMILIES FOR A WEEKEND 4HE FACT THAT SOME STUDENTS USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO VISIT PARTNERS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WHICH WAS NOT TOUCHED UPON BY THE SURVEY

CAN ONLY ADD TO THEIR DISSATIS FACTION WITH .ORWICH S LINKS TO THE REST OF THE 5+ AND WORLD !LICE 6IOLETT

#JH 4NPLF PS #JH +PLF #URRENTLY UNDERGOING A HUGE IMAGE AND RELIABILITY HAUL FOR THE /LYMPICS ,ON DON TRANSPORT IS RENOWNED TO HAVE ITS FAULTS "ORIS IS EN COURAGING US TO USE OUR BIKES

BUT THE MAJORITY OF ,ONDON ERS AND COMMUTERS TRAVEL

BY TUBE OR BUS 4HE RESULT IS OVERCROWDING UNRELIABILITY

AND A LOT OF MONEY INTO THE MAYOR S POCKET WHO hPROM ISESv TO REINSTATE IT BACK INTO SERVICES 2UBBISH ) SAY 4HE PRICE OF A DAY TRAVELCARD HAS BEEN SLOWLY INCREASING OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS AND IT NOW STANDS AT a FOR ZONES I E THE CITY TO THE OUTER SUBURBS 4HE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO ENCOURAGE USING /YSTER CARDS BUT EVEN /YSTER FARES ARE EXTORTIONATE TO ME

WHO GOT THE BUS TO SCHOOL FOR P ,IVING IN ZONE A RETURN VISIT INTO THE CITY CAN

COST a BY TUBE OR a PLUS A LOT OF MY TIME SITTING IN TRAF lC BY BUS 9ES THIS IS ,ONDON YES

IT IS EXPENSIVE 7HAT ARE WE GETTING FOR OUR MONEY 3NAIL PACED TUBES WAITING AROUND FOR A BUS DUE MINUTES AGO

BEING PUSHED AND SHOVED IN THE CLAUSTROPHOBIC PLATFORM OF AN 5NDERGROUND STATION 3ERVICES ARE SLOW UNRELIABLE

AND RESTRICT ANY INNER MOVE MENT DUE TO THE MULTITUDE OF PASSENGERS ,ONDON IS A HUGE CITY WITH AN EVER GROWING POPULATION IT WARRANTS SUF lCIENT TRANSPORT BE IT TUBE

BUS TRAM OR BOAT "UT LET S LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE !T LEAST WE GET A FREE -ETRO TO READ UNDER THE ARMPIT OF THAT BUSINESS MAN AGAINST WHOM WE RE SQUASHED (ELEN 4HOMAS

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5NLESS YOU LIVE IN ,ONDON OR EN ROUTE FROM .ORWICH TO ,ONDON CHANCES ARE YOU LL HAVE A HORRENDOUS JOURNEY HOME ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT .ORWICH OFFERS FEW WAYS OF ENTERING AND LEAVING GIVING THE IMPRESSION THAT ONCE YOU VE BATTLED YOUR WAY HERE

IT S NOT LETTING YOU GO WITH OUT A lGHT &OR AN EXAMPLE TAKE A JOURNEY TO ANYWHERE NORTH OF .ORWICH 4HE COACH WILL MOST LIKELY GO VIA ,ONDON

WHICH ISx SOUTH OF .ORWICH 4HE TRAIN ON THE OTHER HAND

WILL GO NORTH BUT WITH SO FEW DIRECT DESTINATIONS AND WITH YOUR HOMETOWN UNLIKELY TO BE ONE THE JOURNEY ISN T MUCH BETTER ) HAVE A FRIEND WHO LIVES IN "OSTON ,INCOLNSHIRE /N A MAP THE TWO DESTINATIONS LOOK FAIRLY CLOSE ABOUT MILES AS THE CROW mIES )NTE GRATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT INTO THE EQUATION HOWEVER AND THE STORY SHIFTS ENTIRELY "Y COACH SHE WOULD BOARD AT 3URREY 3TREET AND GO TO ,ONDON 6ICTORIA TAK ING ABOUT THREE HOURS ! TWO

HOUR WAIT FOLLOWS AND THEN THE NEXT COACH SERVICE GOES FROM ,ONDON TO "OSTON TAK ING FOUR AND A HALF HOURS )T APPEARS TO BE FAIRLY EASY BUT SHE DEPARTS AT AM AND ARRIVES AT PM TOTALLING NINE AND A HALF HOURS AND OVER MILES 4HE TRAIN WOULD TAKE HER FROM .ORWICH TO %LY %LY TO 0ETERBOROUGH TO 'RANTHAM

THEN TO "OSTON MILES AND THREE AND A HALF HOURS LATER SHE ARRIVES HOME 0E TERBOROUGH IS ABOUT AN HOUR SOUTH OF "OSTON 'RANTHAM IS TO THE WEST )T S EFFECTIVELY LIKE TRAVELLING AN UNNECESSARY TRIANGLE )T IS THE MILEAGE AND TIME THAT MAKE THESE JOURNEYS SO RIDICULOUS )N AN AGE WHERE FUEL IS BECOMING SCARCE PUB LIC TRANSPORT IS NOT AS IT SUG GESTS ENERGY EFlCIENT 3UD DENLY WE RE ASKING OURSELVES IF 5%! IS IN THE BEST LOCA TION (ELEN 4HOMAS

#HRISTMAS IS VERY SOON 7E RE SORRY BUT IT JUST CAN T BE AVOIDED 7ITH LESS THAN A MONTH TO GO WE SHOULD ALL BE THINKING ABOUT HOW WE ARE GETTING HOME FOR THE FESTIVE HOLIDAYS )F YOU ARE NOT LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A CAR OR HAVE YOUR PARENTS COME AND FETCH YOU PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS YOUR ONLY OPTION #ONCRETE &EATURES HAS CHECKED OUT THE PRICES FOR ONE WAY JOURNEYS TO THREE LOCATIONS IN THE 5+ !LL PRICES INCLUDE BOOKING FEE AND A STUDENT DISCOUNT AND ARE VALID FOR TRAVEL ON 3ATURDAY TH $ECEMBER WITH ALL TRAIN JOURNEYS AT APPROXIMATELY NOON .ORWICH TO 0LYMOUTH

.ORWICH TO #OVENTRY

.ORWICH TO .EWCASTLE

4HOSE OF YOU HAILING FROM SUNNY $EVON YOU WILL BE EXPECTING A LONG JOURNEY HOME BUT PERHAPS NOT THE HOURS AND MINUTES THAT IT WOULD TAKE YOU ON A .ATIONAL %XPRESS COACH

MINUTES OF WHICH YOU WOULD SPEND SITTING ON YOUR BACK SIDE IN PIGEON lLLED ,ONDON 6ICTORIA !LL THAT JOY FOR a (OWEVER FOR JUST A COUPLE OF QUID MORE AT a YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF SOME PRECIOUS #HRISTMAS SHOPPING TIME BY GET TING THE TRAIN VIA ,ONDON IN HOURS AND MINUTES "E HASTY THOUGH IF YOU LEAVE IT UNTIL THE WEEK BEFORE TO BUY EXPECT TO ADD ANOTHER HOURS TO YOUR JOURNEY AND DOUBLE THE PRICE

)N THE HEART OF THE -IDLANDS #OVENTRY IS LESS THAN AN HOUR AWAY FROM PLACES SUCH AS /XFORD .OTTINGHAM "IRMINGHAM

,EICESTER AND 7ORCESTER MAKING IT A CONVENIENT MEETING PLACE FOR MANY STUDENTS 'ETTING THERE BY RAIL IS NOT CHEAP AT a WITH SOME NASTY CHANGES IN ,ONDON YOU MAY BE MORE MOODY THAN MERRY WHEN YOU GET THERE .ATIONAL %XPRESS IS MUCH CHEAPER WITH ITS DIRECT SERVICE TAKING HOURS AND MINUTES MINUTES LESS THAN THE TRAIN AND COSTING a #HEAPER FARES CAN BE FOUND IF YOU GO VIA ,ONDON BUT WILL TAKE CONSIDERABLY LONGER

9OU 'EORDIES HAVE NO CHANCE OF MAKING A QUICK DASH UP THE EAST COAST ON #HRISTMAS %VE SO HERE ARE THE TRANSPORT OPTIONS FOR 4YNESIDE a HOURS AND MINUTES AND A LONG WAIT IN ,ONDON WILL GET YOU HOME ON THE .ATIONAL %XPRESS .OT AN ATTRACTIVE OPTION UNLESS YOU HAVE A STRANGE PASSION FOR COACHES )F YOU WOULD PREFER YOUR JOURNEY TO TAKE A MORE LOGICAL NORTHERLY DIRECTION AND A THIRD OF THE TIME TAKE THE TRAIN "Y RAIL YOU CAN GET TO .EWCASTLE VIA 0ETERBOROUGH IN A LITTLE OVER HOURS FASTER THAN YOU COULD BY CAR !T a IT IS CHEAPER THAN A TANK OF PETROL TOO

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,FGBMPOJBO $BMN 'RACE 3IMPSON EXPLORES THE 'REEK ISLAND lNDING MODERN +EFALONIA RIFE WITH NATURAL BEAUTY AND A DISTINCT ROMANTIC FEEL FROM IT S LITERARY PORTRAYAL &OR ALL LITERATURE LOVERS ONE CANNOT THINK OF THE 'REEK ISLAND OF +EFALO NIA WITHOUT THINKING OF #APTAIN #ORELLI S -ANDOLIN !LTHOUGH ,OUIS DE "ERNIERES NOVEL BEAUTIFULLY IL LUSTRATES THE ALLURE OF THIS )ONIAN JEWEL IT IS A WONDER TO BEHOLD !S A REPRESENTATION OF THE NOVEL

THE #APTAIN #ORELLI lLM WAS UNDENI ABLY ATROCIOUS (OWEVER AS A TOUR ISM PROMO FOR +EFALONIA IT WAS JUST EXCELLENT )F ANY OF YOU BRAVED THE lLM IN THE VAIN HOPE THAT IT MIGHT BE AS STUNNING AS DE "ERNIERES PROSE YOU WILL REMEMBER DROOL ING OVER THE CRYSTALLINE WATERS

WHITE BEACHES AND LUSH GREEN OLIVE GROVES ,UCKILY FOR US THESE WEREN T A (OLLYWOOD CREATION BUT JUST THREE HOURS AWAY BY PLANE 3URPRISINGLY +EFALONIA IS RELA TIVELY UNSPOILT CONSIDERING THE POPULARITY OF BOTH THE NOVEL AND lLM 4HE AIRPORT IS AN ANACHRO NISTIC SEVENTIES THROWBACK AND THE BIGGEST RESORT ,ASSI IS MINISCULE IN COMPARISON TO POPULAR RESORTS ON OTHER 'REEK ISLANDS !DMITTEDLY

YOU WILL lND THE ODD BAR NAMED IN HONOUR OF THE lCTIONAL )TALIAN CAPTAIN BUT IN GENERAL +EFALONIA NEEDS NO FAMOUS EMBELLISHMENTS TO ATTRACT TOURISTS 4HOSE FAMILIAR WITH THE NOVEL WILL KNOW THAT +EFALONIA HAS A VIBRANT AND CHAOTIC HISTORY 4HE PAST CEN TURY HAS SEEN THE ISLAND DESTROYED

BY WARS EARTHQUAKES AND BUSH lRES AND YET WITH TRUE 'REEK SPIRIT THE BIGGEST OF THE )ONIAN )SLANDS STILL STANDS AND ITS LOOKS ARE CERTAINLY NOT RAVAGED !FTER THE CATASTROPH IC EARTHQUAKE OF AROUND

OF +EFALONIA S

POPULATION mED THE ISLAND !PPAR ENTLY IF YOU VENTURE INTO THE RUGGED HILLS THAT CUT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE ISLAND YOU WILL lND ABANDONED VILLAGES EXACTLY AS THEY WERE ON

THE MORNING THAT THE HUGE TREMOR STRUCK 4HE ONLY VILLAGE TO SURVIVE THE QUAKE WHICH MEASURED ON THE 2ICHTER SCALE WAS &ISKARDO ON THE NORTHERN TIP OF THE ISLAND 4HOUGH THE VILLAGE IS NOW AN EX PENSIVE MAGNET FOR RICH YACHTERS IT IS WORTH A VISIT JUST TO SEE THE TRA DITIONAL 6ENETIAN ARCHITECTURE AND IMAGINE WHAT #ORELLI S +EFALONIA WAS LIKE #ORELLI FANATICS WILL ENJOY EX PLORING THE HISTORICAL SITES DETAILED BY $R )ANNIS /NE OF THE MOST HIS TORIC ATTRACTIONS OF THE ISLAND IS THE MONASTERY OF !GIOS 'ERASIMOS ,OUIS DE "ERNIERES AMUSINGLY RE LAYS THE +EFALONIAN S LOVE OF THEIR PATRON SAINT ALSO THE PATRON SAINT OF THE MENTALLY ILL 'RUESOME AS IT MAY SEEM VISITING 'ERASMISOS lVE HUNDRED YEAR OLD REMAINS IN THEIR GLORIOUS SILVER CASKET IS A FAS CINATING EXPERIENCE )SLANDERS STILL BRING THEIR RELATIVES WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES TO PRAY TO THE SAINT AND SWEAR BY THE HEALING POWERS PRESENT AT THE MONASTERY )F YOU DON T SUF FER FROM CLAUSTROPHOBIA YOU CAN CLIMB DOWN INTO THE LITTLE CAVE IN WHICH 'ERASIMOS LIVED AS A HERMIT FOR SOME TIME ,EGEND HAS IT IF YOU EMERGE FROM THE CAVE WITHOUT ANY DUST ON YOU YOUR SINS HAVE BEEN PURIlED $ON T FEEL TOO DEJECTED IF THIS DOESN T HAPPEN TO YOU THE WINE FACTORY IS NEXT DOOR AND OFFERS PLENTY OF TASTERS 3UITABLY PURIlED AND OR INTOXI CATED YOU WILL BE READY TO GET BACK ON THE TRAIL OF #ORELLI 4HOSE WHO HAVE ENDURED THE lLM WILL REMEM BER THE BEACH WHERE #APTAIN #OREL LI AND HIS )TALIAN COMRADES BLEW UP AN UNEXPLODED BOMB 4HIS BEACH

IN -YRTOS "AY IS SAID TO BE THE MOST PICTURESQUE BEACH IN 'REECE AND IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY (OWEVER

IT IS MORE OF PHOTO OPPORTUNITY THAN A FUNCTIONAL BEACH THE BAY IS AT THE FOOT OF A TREACHEROUS CLIFF MAKING IT DIFlCULT TO ACCESS AND TOURISTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO SWIM AT -YRTOS WHERE CURRENTS CAN BE VIO LENTLY STRONG "EACH LOVERS NEED NOT BE DETERRED +EFALONIA S COASTLINE BOASTS MANY WHITE SANDY BEACHES

WITH THOSE AROUND ,ASSI BEING THE MOST ATTRACTIVE +ATELIOS HAS THE ADDED APPEAL OF A LOGGERHEAD TUR TLE RESERVATION WHERE THE TURTLES CAN

SAFELY BREED 4WO ROGUE TURTLES THAT HAVE ESCAPED THE RESERVE ARE OF TEN SPOTTED FROLICKING IN !RGOSTOLI (ARBOUR SO CAMERAS AT THE READY IN CASE THEY POP UP BETWEEN THE CRUISE SHIPS -ELISSANI ,AKE IS ANOTHER BLUE BEAUTY NOT TO BE MISSED BY PHO TOGRAPHERS 4HE UNDERGROUND LAKE WAS ONLY DISCOVERED WHEN PART OF THE CAVE S CEILING FELL INTO THE POOL OF TURQUOISE WATERS ! GONDOLA TRIP ACROSS THESE SPARKLING WATERS IS THE ONLY WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC OF -ELISSANI ,AKE #LOSE BY TO THE LAKE IS $ROGARATI #AVE LITERALLY MEANING @DRAGON S CAVE 4HIS IS A GEOLOGIST S PARADISE FULL OF BREATHTAKING STA

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#FTU PG #SJUJTI 7E CROSSED THE 0ENNINES TAKING A COURSE TO .EWCASTLE FOLLOWING (ADRIAN S 7ALL )T SEEMS THAT 2OMAN ROADS MAY BE STRAIGHT BUT THIS DOESN T MEAN THEY ARE mAT 4HREE DAYS LATER WE WERE RELIEVED TO START HEADING BACK DOWN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH 9ORKSHIRE A MUCH GENTLER LANDSCAPE (OWEVER THE RAIN CONTINUED TO POUR DOWN -ILES FROM A CAMPSITE WE TOOK SHELTER IN A VILLAGE SHOP &ORTUNATELY A KINDLY GENTLEMAN CAME IN AND OFFERED US A SITE DOWN THE ROAD 7E FOLLOWED EAGERLY AND QUICKLY REALISED THAT HE WAS THE OWNER OF A POSH HOTEL AND THE SURROUNDING ESTATE (E GAVE US USE OF AN OLD HORSEBOX IN THE GROUNDS FOR THE NIGHT FOR WHICH WE WERE VERY GRATEFUL SO WE PUT UP THE TENT INSIDE AND SETTLED DOWN OUT OF THE WIND AND RAIN 4HE NEXT MORNING THE RAIN CLEARED AND IT STAYED AWAY AS WE TRAVELLED ACROSS mAT TERRAIN PAST GRIM LOOKING POWER STATIONS

CONSTANTLY BATTLING THE WIND AS WE ENTERED %AST !NGLIA .EXT CAME THE &ENS A COMPLETELY EMPTY REGION OF NOTHING BUT LOW LYING lELDS WITH ONLY THE CITY OF %LY TO PUNCTUATE THE MONOTONY 4HE WHOLE AREA WAS UNLIKE ANYTHING ) HAD CONSIDERED %NGLAND TO BE BEFORE AND A GREAT SURPRISE 4HAT NIGHT WE SLEPT IN A BREAD DELIVERY MAN S GARDEN WHILE THE FARMER NEXT DOOR INSISTED ON DRIVING HIS TRACTOR UP AND DOWN THE lELD INTO THE EARLY HOURS .OT AS BAD AS THE FOLLOWING NIGHT IN THE WOODS THOUGH NEXT TO THE ROAR OF A BUSY MOTORWAY IN %SSEX

7E KNEW THE INSTANT WE ARRIVED IN THE (OME #OUNTIES AS THE TRAFlC INCREASED AND THE QUALITY OF THE ROADS RAPIDLY DETERIORATED 7E CYCLED THROUGH ,ONDON TO +ENT A REAL BREATH OF FRESH AIR (ERE WE WERE GUESTS AT A CARAVAN PARK FOR 2OMANIAN FRUIT PICKERS

WHICH SEEMED MORE LIKE A PRISON CAMP %ACH WAS ASSIGNED A NUMBER AND HAD TO WORK GRUELLING DAYS IN RASPBERRY CANES !T AM WE WERE RUDELY WOKEN BY THE FARMER BURSTING IN DEMANDING h7HAT IS YOUR NUMBER v AND FURIOUS THAT WE WEREN T AT WORK 7E WERE ABLE TO PLACATE HIM AND EXPLAIN OURSELVES BUT DECIDED NOT TO HANG AROUND FOR LONG &ROM THERE IT WAS A MATTER OF CROSSING THE 3OUTH $OWNS THEN DESCENDING INTO 0ORTSMOUTH (ARBOUR WHERE THE FERRY AWAITED TO TAKE US ACROSS THE 3OLENT 2OLLING ONTO THE )SLE OF 7IGHT WE REALISED THAT THERE WERE COUNTIES IN %NGLAND AND WERE THRILLED TO HAVE CYCLED TO EVERY SINGLE ONE 4OM (UNT

4ZEOFZ 4UVEFOU LACTITES AND STALAGMITES AND FAMOUS FOR ITS BRILLIANT ACOUSTICS +EFALONIA IS OVERmOWING WITH WONDERFUL SIGHTSEEING OPPORTUNI TIES !N ENTHUSIASTIC HOLIDAYMAKER COULD EASILY SPEND A WEEK EXPLOR ING ONLY HALF THE ISLAND AND STILL HAVE NO TIME SPARE FOR SUNBATH ING 4HOUGH THERE IS PLENTY TO DO IN +EFALONIA IT IS NO -ALIA OR &ALI RAKI %XPECT QUIET FAMILY RUN TAVER NAS AND CATS WANDERING THE STREETS RATHER THAN BOOMING NIGHTCLUBS AND STUMBLING YOUNG DRUNKS +E FALONIA IS A ROMANTIC ISLAND BOTH IN REPUTATION AND NATURE AND IF ITS CHARMS ARE NOT APPRECIATED THEN ITS SUNDRENCHED BEACHES CERTAINLY WILL BE )N +EFALONIA #APTAIN #ORELLI S -ANDOLIN COMES ALIVE AND ANYONE WHO HAS READ THE NOVEL WILL KNOW WHAT AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE THAT MUST BE

!FTER TRAVELLING WITHIN !USTRALIA IN MY GAP YEAR IT FELT LIKE AN EASY DE CISION TO MAKE WHEN THE OPPORTU NITY TO STUDY IN !USTRALIA IN MY SEC OND YEAR CAME UP !LTHOUGH THERE WERE MANY UNIVERSITIES AVAILABLE ON THE SCHEME 3YDNEY 5NIVERSITY LEAPT OUT AT ME 3YDNEY REPRESENTS THE GREAT EPICENTRE OF !USTRALIAN SPIRIT AND WARMTH FROM THE PEO PLE TO THE WEATHER 3YDNEY IS A WORLD CITY WITH A DIVERSE NIGHTLIFE ) FREQUENTED EVERYWHERE FROM COLLEGE BARS TO COCKTAIL BARS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN AND ICONIC LANDMARKS 4HE UNIVERSITY ITSELF WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL IN A (ARRY 0OTTER ESQUE FASHION OFFERS A DIVERSE RANGE OF MODULES MEANING ) COULD DIP INTO BEGINNERS 3PANISH AS WELL AS LEARN MORE ABOUT !USTRALIAN AND )N DIGENOUS ,ITERATURE ) WOULD DEl NITELY RECOMMEND THIS TO STUDENTS OF %NGLISH ,ITERATURE AT 5%!

AS IT ENRICHED MY CONCEPTS AND COM PREHENSION OF WORLD LITERATURE IM MENSELY -Y TIME SPENT IN !USTRALIA AS A

STUDENT AND A TRAVELLER WAS DEl NITELY DIFFERENT TO "RITAIN 7HEN YOU LIVE IN !USTRALIA THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES DO SEEM MORE APPAR ENT EXPECT SOME OF YOUR "RITISH SARCASM TO FALL ON DEAF EARS FOR EX AMPLE /NE THING ) CAN T RECOM MEND ENOUGH AS A VISITING STUDENT IN !USTRALIA IS TO lND ACCOMMODA TION AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN 3YDNEY IS NOT A CHEAP PLACE TO RENT AND UN LESS YOU HAVE A SPARE a PER WEEK AFTER THE a YOU SPENT ON mIGHTS VISAS AND INSURANCE LIVING IN THE PALATIAL COLLEGES IN 3YDNEY IS UNFEASIBLE 9OU WILL BE VYING WITH PLENTY OF OTHER STUDENTS FOR SPOTS IN OFF CAMPUS STUDENT HOUSES SO BE PREPARED TO GET OFF THE GROUND IN YOUR SEARCH /VERALL STUDYING ABROAD AT 3YDNEY 5NIVERSITY PROVED TO BE AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE AND ONE ) WOULD RECOMMEND BUT AS WITH ALL WORTHWHILE EXPERIENCES THERE ARE PITFALLS (OWEVER THESE PITFALLS EVENTUALLY ONLY MADE THE POSITIVES

OF WHICH THERE ARE PLENTY SWEETER &LORENCE "USWELL

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AND MANY OF OUR MEMBERS HAVE ALSO BECOME MEMBERS OF THIS PROFESSIONALLY RUN SOCIETY 3O FAR WE HAVE ORGAN ISED TWO lELD EXCURSIONS FOR OUR MEMBERS 4HE lRST WAS A WEEK LONG TOUR ROUND THE VOLCANOES OF )TALY OVER %ASTER 7E ALSO RECENTLY RETURNED FROM A WEEKEND AWAY IN THE 0EAK $ISTRICT

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PUT IT ON 4AKE THE BIGGEST POT YOU OWN THE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE IT USED TO BE A CAULDRON IN A PAST LIFE &ILL THE POT WITH A LITTLE OLIVE OIL AND WHACK THE HEAT UP TO FULL #HUCK IN THE DICED ONIONS AND ENJOY THE FRYING SMELL ONCE THEY HAVE LET OUT SOME OF THEIR JUICE THEN CHUCK IN THE MINCE AND KEEP STIRRING SLOWLY UNTIL THE MINCE IS A NICE BEIGE COLOUR .EXT THROW IN THE CARROTS AND LET THEM FRY FOR A MINUTE BUT NO LONGER .EXT PUT IN ALL THOSE DICED POTATOES AND TURN THE HEAT DOWN TO WHATEVER GAS MARK THAT IS 4AKE THE HOT WATER FROM THE KETTLE AND POUR IT INTO THE POT UNTIL THE WATER IS JUST BELOW THE LEVEL OF THE POTATOES .OW YOU PLAY THE WAITING GAME ,ET THE STEW STEW FOR ABOUT HOURS STIRRING WELL EVERY TEN MINUTESOR SO )F THE WATER APPEARS TO BE BOILING A BIT TOO MUCH THEN TURN THE HEAT DOWN THE REVERSE ALSO APPLIES BUT THE KEY TO A GOOD STEW IS TO LET IT COOK FOREVER 9OU WILL KNOW WHEN IT S READY BECAUSE THE POTATOES WILL BE SOFT ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND THE CONSISTENCY OF THE STEW ITSELF SHOULD BE ABOUT AS THICK AS GLOOP 4HERE SHOULD BE PLENTY TO GO ROUND OR TO SAVE AND IT S lNE TO FREEZE THE STEW AND RE HEAT IT LATER ! PERSONAL FAVOURITE TRICK IS TO PUT THE STEW IN THE FRIDGE FOR A NIGHT IT TASTES FAR BETTER A DAY LATER #HRIS "OWERMAN

URELY IT S ABOUT THE TIME IN THE SEMES TER WHEN YOU RE REALLY QUITE BORED OF COOKING AND HAVE JUST HANDED IN A WHOLE BUNCH OF ESSAYS SO WHY NOT TREAT YOURSELF TO A NICE MEAL 7ELL OF COURSE THERE IS THE LOAN BEGINNING TO RUN OUT ISSUE SO WHY NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ONE OF THE BRIL LIANT OFFERS MANY .ORWICH RESTAURANTS HAVE ON AT THE MOMENT .ORMALLY YOU D HEAR ,OCH &YNE AND THINK OF WAITING FOR THE PARENTS TO TAKE YOU FOR LUNCH (OWEVER AT THE MOMENT THEY ARE DOING A FANTASTIC TWO COURSES FOR a POUNDS DAILY FROM WHICH MEANS IT COULD BE AN EARLY DINNER AS WELL AS LUNCH .OW a MIGHT SEEM A BIT STEEP BUT FOR THIS NOT ONLY DO YOU GET TWO MASSIVE COURSES YOU GET A SIDE ORDER AND A GLASS OF WINE 9ES ALCOHOL INCLUDED 4HIS SET MENU CHANGES DAILY BUT TENDS TO HAVE ABOUT THREE OR FOUR OPTIONS FOR EACH COURSE ,OCH &YNE IS TRADITIONALLY A lSH RES TAURANT SO TWO OF THE OPTIONS ARE lSH ONE VEGETARIAN AND ONE MEAT SO NO PROBLEMS IF YOU RE NOT A BIG lSH FAN (AVING lNALLY DE CIDED WHAT ) WANTED TO EAT n ) WANTED IT ALL nTHE FOOD CAME RELATIVELY FAST ) WAS AMAZED

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STYLE CHEAP DRINKS LATE NIGHTS AND ALL THAT JAZZ THERE S ONE SECTION OF STUDENT HOOD THAT ) VERY MUCH DESPISE )T S THE INNATE ABILITY OF A MAJORITY OF STUDENTS TO NOT BE ABLE TO COOK %ATING SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE FOR YEARS MAY BE GREAT FOR YOUR WALLET BUT NOT SO ON YOUR BOW ELS 7HENEVER ) GET IN THE KITCHEN ) TRY AND EXPERIMENT 4RY SOMETHING NEW 4RY CHUCKING A FEW CHILLIES IN THERE OR ADDING A SPICE OR SAUCE YOU WOULDN T USUALLY "EAR IN MIND WHEN COOKING A NEW RECIPE TRY AND CREATE THE CLOSEST THING POSSIBLE 9OU CAN ALWAYS ALTER IT THE NEXT TIME THIS ALSO GIVES YOU A GOOD IDEA OF HOW IT SHOULD TASTE !LWAYS TRY AND KEEP AN OPEN MIND IN THE KITCHEN "ON APPÏTITE 3AM ,EACH

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4HE ONLY PROBLEM WITH MY mAT MATE IS HIS GIRLFRIEND WELL LESS HER AND MORE THE NOISES SHE S BEEN MAKING %VERYONE DESERVES A GOOD SEX LIFE BUT DON T ) DESERVE A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP ) DON T KNOW WHAT TO DO SHOULD ) TELL HIM OR JUST IGNORE IT ,OVE 3LEEPLESS IN 3UFFOLK $EAR 3LEEPLESS

) SYMPATHISE WITH YOUR DILEMMA AS ) EXPERIENCED A SIMILAR SITUA TION WHILE ) WAS LIVING IN HALLS !LTHOUGH NOT A COURSE OF ACTION THAT ) PERSONALLY TRIED THE NEXT TIME THAT THEY GET UP TO THEIR NIGHT TIME ANTICS WHY NOT TRY RE CORDING YOUR mATMATE ON YOUR MOBILE 9OU COULD THEN USE THIS RECORDING AS A HANDY RING TONE

MAKING SURE THAT YOUR PHONE RINGS WHEN THEY ARE BOTH IN THE VICINITY ! FEW MEANINGFUL LOOKS AND POINTED COMMENTS IN THEIR DIRECTION SHOULD CERTAINLY GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS !LTERNATIVELY IF YOU RE FEELING COMPETITIVE YOU COULD ALWAYS INVITE YOUR PARTNER OVER AND GIVE THEM A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE BEING CAREFUL NOT TO ANNOY OTHER INNOCENT HOUSE MATES OF COURSE 5LTIMATELY

EVERYONE MAKES SOME NOISE WHEN THEY HAVE SEX 9ES INCONSIDERATE NEIGHBOURS CAN BE VERY ANNOYING ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU RE NOT GET TING ANY BUT IF IT CONTINUES TO BOTHER YOU YOU CAN ALWAYS BUY SOME EARPLUGS 4ED $EAR 3LEEPLESS

4HE WALLS IN STUDENT RESIDENCES ARE RENOWNED FOR BEING SPECTACULARLY THIN SO EVERYTHING CAN BE HEARD

BY EVERYONE 4HEREFORE MANY A STUDENT BEFORE YOU HAS SUFFERED THIS EXACT SAME PROBLEM 2AISING THE ISSUE COULD BE A TAD EMBAR RASSING FOR BOTH OF YOU SO MAY BE YOU SHOULD JUST TRY AND MAKE YOUR mATMATE REALISE ON HIS OWN HOW THIN THOSE WALLS REALLY ARE 0LAY SOME LOUD IRRITATING MUSIC 3OMETHING LIKE %NYA WITH YOUR SPEAKERS PLACED lRMLY AGAINST HIS WALL AND HE MIGHT REALISE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN HEARING EVERYTHING AND TRY QUIETENING DOWN THAT NEW GIRLFRIEND OF HIS (OWEVER

YOU SHOULD TO REMEMBER THAT ONE OF THESE DAYS IT MAY WELL BE YOU MAKING THE NOISE AND KEEPING YOUR mATMATES UP SO IT COULD BE BEST TO JUST KEEP QUIET AND INVEST IN A SET OF EAR PLUGS 9OU CAN GET GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP AND YOUR mAT MATES CAN ENJOY THEIR NOCTURNAL ACTIVITIES "ETTY )F YOU HAVE A PROBLEM TO SHARE WITH "ETTY AND 4ED PLEASE EMAIL IT TO CONCRETE LIFESTYLE UEA AC UK

-FUUJOH JO UIF -JHIU &EELING BLUE AND NOT JUST WITH COLD *USTINE 7ALLIS INVESTIGATES THE EFFECTS OF 3EASONAL !FFECTIVE $ISORDER AND THE TREATMENTS TO HELP YOU ON CAMPUS !FTER WEEKS OF ALMOST CONSTANT RAIN IN A COUNTRY THAT IS ONLY GET TING COLDER ON A CAMPUS WHICH IS BECOMING DISMALLY FULL OF DEBRIS

IT S EASY TO START FEELING A BIT DOWN (OWEVER IF YOU lND THAT THIS TIME OF YEAR ALWAYS MAKES YOU MISER ABLE YOU MAY BE SUFFERING FROM MORE THAN THE REGULAR COURSEWORK CRISIS AND BANK BALANCE BLUES THAT HIT STUDENTS IN THE PRE HOLIDAY PE RIOD )N FACT FOR AROUND TWO MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE 5+ THE MOVE INTO WINTER WILL TRIGGER A PERIOD OF DE SPONDENCY SO SEVERE THAT IT BEGINS TO SERIOUSLY AFFECT THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES 4HIS OFTEN IGNORED AND UNDER DIAGNOSED CONDITION IS KNOWN TO EXPERTS AS 3!$ OR 3EASONAL !FFEC TIVE $ISORDER 3EASONAL !FFECTIVE $ISORDER IS PARTICULARLY COMMON IN YOUNG PEO PLE ESPECIALLY WOMEN %STIMATES DO VARY BUT AS MANY AS ONE IN PEOPLE MAY BE SUFFERING FROM THE DISORDER THIS WINTER 3YMPTOMS IN CLUDE LETHARGY AND AN INABILITY TO CARRY OUT A NORMAL ROUTINE SLEEP PROBLEMS SUCH AS lNDING IT HARD TO STAY WAKE DURING THE DAY BUT BEING UNABLE TO DRIFT OFF AT NIGHT PROB LEMS WITH CONCENTRATION AND AN INABILITY TO FOCUS ON WORK LOSS OF INTEREST IN PHYSICAL INTIMACY ANXI ETY IRRITABILITY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS

SUCH AS NOT WANTING TO SEE FRIENDS CRAVING FOR CARBOHYDRATES AND SWEET

FOODS LEADING TO WEIGHT GAIN AND DEPRESSION 5NFORTUNATELY MANY OF THESE PROBLEMS ARE ISSUES THAT MOST STU DENTS DEAL WITH AT SOME POINT DUR ING THEIR DEGREE SO IT CAN BE EASY TO LET THE DISORDER GO UNDIAGNOSED FOR SEVERAL YEARS )F YOU ARE EXPERIENC ING ONLY ONE OR TWO OF THESE PROB LEMS AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WEATHER IT COULD JUST BE TIME TO RE EVALUATE YOUR LIFESTYLE &OR MANY

OF US GETTING A FEW EARLY NIGHTS AND TAKING SOME TIME OUT OF A HECTIC SCHEDULE FOR RELAXING ACTIVITIES SUCH AS SWIMMING OR MEDITATION CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE /N THE OTHER HAND IF YOU ARE READING THE ABOVE CHECKLIST AND THINKING THAT IT COULD BE YOUR AUTO BIOGRAPHY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR THEN IT IS WORTH GETTING SOME HELP 2EPEAT ED EPISODES OF DESPONDENCY AND LOW MOOD AS THE YEAR DRAWS IN ARE NOT SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO PUT UP WITH IN SILENCE )N PARTICULAR IF YOU

ARE EVER EXPERIENCING REGULAR ANXIETY OR DEPRESSION IT IS IMPORTANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE n THE 5%! #OUNSELLING 3ERVICE IS HERE TO HELP ANY STUDENT WHO IS STRUGGLING 7HETHER YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM SEVERE 3!$ OR JUST FEELING THE WINTER BLUES THERE ARE A VARIETY OF TREAT MENTS TO HELP YOU MANAGE THE DIS ORDER 4HE MOST POPULAR AND WIDELY EFFECTIVE OF THESE IS ,IGHT 4HERAPY 3EASONAL !FFECTIVE $ISORDER IS INTRINSICALLY LINKED TO THE AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT WE ARE EXPOSED TO IN FACT THE DISORDER DOES NOT EXIST IN COMMUNITIES LIVING WITHIN DE GREES OF THE EQUATOR 7ITHOUT GET TING TOO TECHNICAL WHEN LIGHT HITS THE BACK OF THE EYE IT SENDS A MES SAGE TO THE HYPOTHALAMUS WHICH CONTROLS ACTIVITIES SUCH AS SLEEP AP PETITE SEX DRIVE AND MOOD )F THERE ISN T ENOUGH LIGHT THE BRAIN STOPS CONTROLLING THESE ACTIVITIES PROPERLY 7HY SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE SUSCEP TIBLE TO CHANGES IN THE AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT THAN OTHERS IS STILL BEING DEBATED ,IGHT 4HERAPY IS VERY SIMPLE 4HE PERSON SITS IN FRONT OF A @,IGHT "OX WHICH EMITS AN INTENSE BRIGHT LIGHT SIMILAR TO DAYLIGHT EVERY DAY USU ALLY FOR AROUND MINUTES $URING THIS TIME YOU CAN GET ON WITH SOME WORK READ A BOOK OR GET READY TO GO OUT AS PART OF YOUR NORMAL ROUTINE 4HIS DAILY EXPOSURE SHOULD HAVE A SWIFT IMPACT AROUND PEOPLE

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THROAT ALMOST INSTANTLY (OW SPICY YOU WANT TO MAKE THE MIXTURE IS REALLY A JUDGEMENT CALL BUT IF YOU ARE SUFFERING UNDER A FULL HEAD COLD THEN THE SPICIER THE BETTER AS THE PEPPER WILL REALLY HELP TO GET THAT MUCUS MOVING 9OU CAN ALSO SIP THE MIXTURE AS A TONIC TO IMPROVE CIRCULATION

SO IT S A GREAT SOLUTION IF YOU SUF FER FROM COLD HANDS AND FEET IN THE WINTER MONTHS &OR THE SAME REA SON WARM WATER AND #AYENNE 0EP PER SIPPED SLOWLY CAN HELP YOU TO RECOVER FROM A BOUT OF DIZZINESS AS IT INCREASES BLOOD mOW 0ERHAPS AS YOU REACHED FOR THAT POT OF #AYENNE 0EPPER YOU BRUSHED AGAINST A JAR OF HONEY LY ING AROUND IN YOUR CUPBOARDS )F SO THEN THERE S REALLY NO NEED TO GO OUT AND BY COUGH SYRUP LOZENGES OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT CHEMISTS TRY TO mOG US AT THIS TIME OF YEAR ! TEASPOON OF HONEY MIXED

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FEEL A DIFFERENCE WITHIN THE lRST WEEK OF TREATMENT ,IGHT "OXES CAN BE BOUGHT OR HIRED BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE ONE FROM A REPUTABLE MANUFACTURER AS THE TREATMENT REQUIRES A CERTAIN IN TENSITY OF LIGHT TO BE EFFECTIVE 4HE 5%! #OUNSELLING 3ERVICE CURRENTLY HOLDS SEVERAL LIGHT BOXES FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS AND STAFF AS WELL AS PROVIDING THE TALKING THERAPIES SUCH #OGNITIVE "EHAVIOURAL 4HER APY THAT CAN ACCOMPANY THIS TREAT MENT #OUNSELLING CAN BE EXTREMELY HELPFUL IN TREATING THE SYMPTOMS OF 3!$ AND IN RARE CASES ANTI DEPRES SANTS WHICH INCREASE THE ACTIVITY OF SEROTONIN A @HAPPY HORMONE AF FECTED BY DAYLIGHT HAVE ALSO BEEN USED TO HELP PEOPLE COPE WITH THE DISORDER 7HATEVER TREATMENT PLAN HELPS YOU TO DEAL WITH THE SYMPTOMS THE IMPORTANT THING FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY 3EASONAL !FFECTIVE $ISORDER TO RE MEMBER IS THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE )F YOU HAVE BEEN FEELING UNHAPPY AND YOU RECOGNISE THE SYMPTOMS ABOVE

CONTACT THE #OUNSELLING 3ERVICE 9OU COULD BE HEADING FOR A HAPPY #HRISTMAS AFTER ALL

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4HE %AST !NGLIAN COAST IS WEARING AWAY AT AN ALARMING RATE )AN 3MITH REPORTS FROM $UNWICH AND /RFORD BEACHES IN 3UFFOLK 4HE BEACH AT $UNWICH ON THE %AST !NGLIAN COAST HARDLY LOOKS LIKE THE SCENE OF A SIEGE BUT THE EVIDENCE IS THERE 7ARNING SIGNS AND LINES OF FENCING STAND ALONG THE BOTTOM OF THE NEIGHBOURING CLIFFS WHILE THE ENDS OF SEVERED WOODEN FENCES JUT OVER THE CLIFF EDGES ABOVE 4HESE ARE REMINDERS THAT THE $UNWICH SHORE LINE IS CRUMBLING INTO THE SEA AT A RATE OF A METRE A YEAR #OASTAL EROSION ISN T A NEW PROBLEM HERE )N MEDIEVAL TIMES $UNWICH WAS A PORT WITH IN HABITANTS AND BY THE TH CENTURY IT CONTAINED EIGHTEEN CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES (OWEVER STORMS

mOODS CLIFF COLLAPSES AND GENERAL ENCROACHMENT BY THE .ORTH 3EA HAVE WHITTLED IT AWAY AND TODAY IT IS A HAMLET WITH PEOPLE ON ITS ELEC TORAL REGISTER !T LEAST PART OF $UNWICH SUR VIVES n UNLIKE THE VILLAGE OF 3LAUGH DEN WHICH ONCE STOOD NEXT TO THE 3UFFOLK RESORT OF !LDEBURGH "Y THE TIME 3LAUGHDEN WAS ABANDONED TO THE SEA IN THE EARLY TH #ENTURY

WAVES WERE ENTERING THE LOCAL PUB THROUGH ITS BACK DOOR AND WASHING OUT AGAIN THROUGH ITS FRONT DOOR "UT %AST !NGLIANS HAVE BATTLED AGAINST THE SEA S INCURSIONS 4HE RE GION HAS KM OF COASTAL DEFENCES

INCLUDING ARTIlCIAL REEFS EMBANK MENTS GROYNES AND DUNES OF SAND

AND SHINGLE #URVED CONCRETE SEA WALLS HAVE BEEN BUILT AND STRIPS OF THE COASTAL SEABED RESHAPED TO LESS EN THE SPEED AND IMPACT OF WAVES ,ATELY A NEW POLICY HAS BEEN MOOTED n ABANDONING VULNERABLE SECTIONS OF COASTLINE TO THE SEAWATER IN THE HOPE THAT THE mOODED GROUND WILL TURN INTO SALT MARSHES CREATING PROTECTION BELTS FOR THE DRY LAND BEHIND THEM 4HE %NVIRONMENT !GENCY AND THE $EPARTMENT OF %N VIRONMENT &OOD AND 2URAL !FFAIRS $%&2! DESCRIBE THIS POLICY AS @MANAGED REALIGNMENT ! RECENT 3HORELINE -ANAGEMENT 0LAN THAT HAS $%&2! S BACKING WOULD SEE THE LOSS OF HOMES THROUGH MANAGED REALIGNMENT "UT THE PLAN ALSO HAS CRITICS RANG ING FROM .ORTH .ORFOLK -0 .OR MAN ,AMB TO THE -ARINE .ETWORK OF &RIENDS /F 4HE %ARTH WHO WARN THAT IT WOULD DESTROY hPRECIOUS WILDLIFE AREAS COASTAL BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITIESv 4HE LOUDEST PROTESTS HAVE COME FROM (APPISBURGH ON .ORFOLK S NORTHEASTERN COAST (APPISBURGH S #OASTAL #ONCERN !CTION 'ROUP FEAR THAT THEY COULD LOSE THEIR VIL LAGE HOME TO LISTED BUILDINGS

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4HE S SAW A TIME OF PUBLIC OUTCRY AS THE NUMBER OF DOLPHINS KILLED BY THE TUNA lSHING INDUSTRY WAS EXPOSED !CCORDINGLY ALTER NATE lSHING MECHANISMS WERE DE VELOPED USING NETS WHICH ALLOWED DOLPHINS TO ESCAPE IF THEY BECAME TRAPPED AMONGST THE TUNA @$OL PHIN FRIENDLY BECAME A REASSURING MARK FOR CONSUMERS AND LEA TO THE LEGEND THAT TUNA WAS A @GREEN ENVI RONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PRODUCT -ORE THAN YEARS ON THIS ASSUMPTION REMAINS BUT IS STRONGLY MISGUIDED 7HEN CATCHING @DOLPHIN FRIEND LY TUNA DOLPHINS DO NOT GO UN HARMED 3INCE DOLPHINS AND TUNA HAVE AN ECOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AND TEND TO BE FOUND TOGETHER DOL PHINS WHICH ARE EASIER TO SPOT AND TRACK ARE USED BY lSHING VESSELS AS A WAY TO LOCATE THE TUNA STOCKS 4HIS PRACTICE CAN CAUSE INTERRUPTION TO BREEDING AND MIGRATORY PATTERNS AS WELL AS SEPARATE MOTHERS AND CALVES &URTHER WHILST THE USE OF DIFFERENT EQUIPMENT HAS REDUCED THE NUM BERS MANY DOLPHINS ARE STILL CAUGHT ACCIDENTLY "EYOND DOLPHINS TUNA lSHING RESULTS IN AN ENORMOUS BY CATCH OF OTHER MARINE LIFE 3HARKS SEA TUR TLES AND A VARIETY OF SEA BIRDS ARE AMONGST THOSE WORST AFFECTED AND

DESPITE SOME SPECIES BEING LISTED AS ENDANGERED THEY RECEIVE CON SIDERABLY LITTLE PUBLIC ATTENTION )N

FOR EXAMPLE THE 7ORLD 7ILD LIFE &UND ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN

ENDANGERED ALBATROSS WERE

KILLED BY LONG LINE TUNA lSHING 4UNA ITSELF IS IN MANY AREAS ALSO UNDER THREAT 4UNA HAS A HIGH COM MERCIAL VALUE WHICH COUPLED WITH LOW REPLENISHMENT RATES HAS LEFT IT PRONE TO UNSUSTAINABLE OVERlSHING #ERTAIN SPECIES ARE WORSE AFFECTED THAN OTHERS THE "LUElN TUNA IS A DELICACY ON THE ONE HAND BUT IS @CRITICALLY ENDANGERED ON THE OTHER !LL IN ALL THE REALITY OF TUNA lSHING IS VERY DIFFERENT TO THE OPTIMISTIC VIEW PAINTED BY THE @DOLPHIN FRIENDLY LOGO IN THE S .EW STANDARDS OF MONITORING TUNA lSHING ARE NEEDED AND IN THE MEANTIME CONSUMERS MUST VOTE WITH THEIR WALLETS AND EITHER ABSTAIN FROM TUNA ALTOGETHER OR lND MORE SUSTAINABLY HARVESTED OPTIONS

#JPNBTT HJWFT 6&" FOWJSPONFOUBMJTUT OP DBVTF GPS GVTT )AN 3MITH 2EPORTER 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF %AST !NGLIA HAS ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF A NEW "IOMASS POWER STATION THAT AIMS TO REDUCE THE CAMPUS S CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS !LTHOUGH SINCE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS AND THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSITY HAVE INCREASED BY AND RESPECTIVELY IT IS HOPED THAT BECAUSE OF THE POWER

STATION THE UNIVERSITY S #/ EMIS SIONS IN WILL ACTUALLY BE LOWER THAN THEIR LEVELS 5%! S "IOMASS STATION WILL BE POWERED BY WOOD CHIPS 4HESE ARE @COOKED IN A PROCESS THAT PRODUCES BOTH GAS AND A RESIDUE OF CHARCOAL 7HILE THE GAS IS USED TO GENERATE CLEAN ELECTRICITY FOR THE UNIVERSITY S BUILDINGS n SEVERAL OF WHICH ARE AL READY WELL KNOWN FOR THEIR ENERGY EFlCIENT DESIGNS n THE CHARCOAL IS

RETURNED TO THE FOREST THAT SUPPLIED THE WOOD CHIPS AND USED AS FERTI LISER FOR NEW CROPS OF TIMBER "IOMASS POWER PRODUCTION WORKS ON TWO SIMPLE PRINCIPLES &IRSTLY THE FUEL INVOLVED IS ORGANIC IN ORIGIN FOR EXAMPLE WOOD OR SOME OTHER @ENERGY CROP 3ECONDLY IT TAKES PLACE IN A CARBON NEUTRAL CYCLE WHERE THE FUEL CROP BEING HARVESTED IS CONTINUALLY REPLENISHED SO THAT THE NEWLY PLANTED CROP REMOVES

FROM THE ATMOSPHERE THE #/ THAT WAS PRODUCED BY THE BURNING OF THE PREVIOUS CROP )N REALITY HOWEVER THE CYCLE IS USUALLY NOT COMPLETELY CARBON NEU TRAL 4HE FUEL HAS TO BE BROUGHT TO THE POWER STATION n BY LORRY FOR IN STANCE n AND THE EMISSIONS CAUSED DURING TRANSPORTATION DISTURB THE BALANCE SLIGHTLY .EVERTHELESS AS THE FOREST FOR 5%! USE IS ONLY MILES FROM THE

CAMPUS #/ EMISSIONS DURING TRANSPORTATION SHOULD BE RELATIVELY SMALL )N CONTRAST THE WORLD S BIG GEST "IOMASS STATION PLANNED FOR 0ORT 4ALBOT IN 7ALES WILL IMPORT ITS FUEL ALL THE WAY FROM .ORTH !MER ICA &INALLY THE 5%! STATION SHOULD BE lNANCIALLY AS WELL AS ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE %XPECTATIONS ARE THAT IT WILL PAY FOR ITSELF WITHIN lVE YEARS OF OPERATION

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'JWF .JOVUFT 8JUI +FOOJF )VOU *O .EWHAM TALKS TO THE PUBLICITY SECRETARY OF 5%! S !THLETICS #LUB *ENNIE (UNT

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TRAIN EVERY 4HURSDAY /UR COACH 2OBIN 3AUNDERS WHO HAS BEEN COACHING US FOR YEARS AND SPECIALISES IN SHORT TO MID DISTANCE RUNNING

4ELL ME A BIT ABOUT YOUR SELF *ENNIE 7ELL ) STUDY PHYSIOTHERAPY AND ) M IN THIRD YEAR ) M A STUDENT AMBASSADOR WHICH MEANS ) HELP TO ORGANISE CAMPUS TOURS AND RECRUIT MENT ) ENJOY GOING TO THE ,#2 AND LOVE TO READ -Y FAVOURITE AUTHOR IS *ODI 0I COULT

7HEN DID YOU lRST BECOME INTERESTED IN ATHLETICS ) lRST BECAME INTERESTED IN ATHLETICS AT SCHOOL ) RAN FOR THE 3OUTH ,ONDON (ARRIERS SINCE THE AGE OF ) ALWAYS ENJOYED PLAYING SPORT ESPE CIALLY ATHLETICS AS IT S QUITE SIMPLE AND NOT VERY COMPET ITIVE 4HERE IS NO ONE RELYING ON YOU YET YOU CAN STILL HAVE A REALLY GOOD SOCIAL LIFE

'IVE US AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOURSELF ) CAN PINCH PEOPLE REALLY HARD WITH MY TOES 7HICH PART OF ATHLETICS DO YOU SPECIALISE IN 4HE CLUB IS MADE UP MOST LY OF RUNNERS ) SPECIALISE IN CROSS COUNTRY RUNNING

WHILE OTHERS ARE INVOLVED WITH SHORT DISTANCE RUNNING AND MIDDLE LONG DISTANCES 7E ALSO HAVE THROWERS WHO

MEET PEOPLE WHO DO DIFFER ENT COURSES AND HAVE DIFFER ENT INTERESTS THAT YOU WOULD NOT HAVE MET IF YOU WERE NOT IN THE CLUB 4HE TEAM IS ALWAYS FRIENDLY AND ENCOUR AGING AND THERE IS ALWAYS A GOOD BIT OF BANTER 7E HAVE A CHUNDER MILE EVENT COM ING UP JUST A BIT OF A SOCIAL (OW CAN PEOPLE GET INVOLVED 4HEY CAN JOIN THE &ACE BOOK GROUP 5%! !THLETICS OR CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE

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$O YOU PLAY ANY OTHER SPORTS ) USED TO PLAY CENTRE IN NET BALL AT SCHOOL ) VE BEEN SKI ING BEFORE AND ) LOVE TO SWIM AND CYCLE

)S 5%! !THLETICS A BIG CLUB 9ES IT IS QUITE A BIG CLUB WE HAVE ABOUT MEMBERS 7E TAKE PART IN MANY DIFFERENT INDOOR AND OUTDOOR COMPE TITIONS AND ALSO CROSS COUN TRY EVENTS &OR CROSS COUNTRY

7HAT S THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR CLUB SPORT 4HE BEST THING ABOUT THE CLUB IS THE PEOPLE YOU MEET "E ING PART OF A SOCIETY IS A GREAT WAY TO MAKE FRIENDS AND

WE PARTICIPATE IN THE %AST !NGLIAN MID WEEK LEAGUE AND TAKE PART IN THE "5#3 MARATHON EVERY !PRIL 7HEN IS THE NEXT BIG EVENT FOR THE CLUB )T IS THE "5#3 CROSS COUN TRY COMPETITION IN &EBRUARY 4HERE ARE OF US HEADING UP TO !BERDEEN IT SHOULD BE A GREAT WEEKEND (OW DO YOU THINK 'REAT "RITAIN WILL PERFORM IN THE ,ONDON /LYMPICS 4HERE HAS BEEN A STRUGGLE MONEY WISE TO PUT ON A GOOD SHOW (OWEVER ) M SURE IT WILL BE BRILLIANT 4HERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF GRASS ROOTS INVESTMENT PUT INTO THE ATH LETES SO ) THINK WE SHOULD DO WELL !ND lNALLY WHAT DID YOU THINK TO THE &ORMULA SEA SON lNALE 4HRILLING )T S HARD TO BELIEVE IT REALLY HAPPENED ) WAS ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT FOR THE LAST lVE MINUTES

$BM[BHIF $SVTIFT +POFT +VOJPS *AN &LISEK "OYLE 3PORTS 2EPORTER &RANK 7ARREN WHO ONCE MANAGED .IGEL "ENN FOR HIS lRST BOUTS ONCE STATED THAT h*OE #ALZAGHE IS A FAR BETTER PROSPECT IN FACT HE IS MY lGHTER FOR THE NEW MIL

LENNIUMv 9ET ON THIS EVIDENCE HE WILL REMEMBERED INDElNITE LY $ISPLAYING THE QUALITIES THAT ARE NOW EPONYMOUS WITH HIS NAME THE YEAR OLD 7ELSHMAN SURVIVED AN EARLY SCARE TO REASSERT HIMSELF BACK TO HIS USUAL POSITION AS

THE DOMINANT FORCE OF HIS SPORT STRETCHING HIS UNDE FEATED RECORD TO WINS $URING THE lRST ROUND BOTH lGHTERS GOT OFF TO AN EN ERGETIC START EAGER TO IMPRESS AND CLAIM THE BOUT FROM THE OFF #ALZAGHE LANDED SEVERAL BODY SHOTS WHILST *ONES LAY VULNERABLE ON THE ROPES *ONES REACTED WITH A SERIES OF SMARTLY MANOEUVRED JABS WORKING ON #ALZAGHE FROM THE OUTER RIMS OF THE RING 4HEIR EARLY SPARS SUG GESTED IT WOULD BE A TOUGH MATCH FOR THE FAVOURITE YET THE STRONG "RITISH TURNOUT WERE HANDED AN EAR LY SHOCK AS THE 7ELSH lGHTER DODGED A mASHING LEFT HOOK BEFORE WALKING INTO WHAT AP PEARED TO BE A GLARING FORE ARM TO THE THROAT 9ET #ALZAGHE WHO SUF FERED A SIMILAR KNOCKDOWN IN HIS lGHT AGAINST "ERNARD (OPKINS IN !PRIL ROSE FOR THE SECOND ROUND WITH THE STAMINA THAT HAS SEEN HIM RECLAIM SO MANY DIFlCULT lGHTS (E IMMEDIATELY TOOK THE OFFENCE CORNERING *ONES WITH A SERIES OF LIGHTNING QUICK COMBINATIONS 9ET *ONES STRATEGY PAID DIVIDENDS ALLOWING HIM TO SOAK UP THE PRESSURE WITH

HIS GLOVES WHILST LANDING THE OCCASIONAL BOOMING COUN TER PUNCH 2OUNDS THREE TO SIX KEPT THE CROWD ON THEIR FEET #RUNCHING HOOKS AND UPPERCUTS WERE EXCHANGED BETWEEN BOTH lGHTERS OC CASIONALLY TAUNTING ONE ANOTHER MUCH TO THE AU DIENCE S DELIGHT "OTH HAVE BEEN PROCLAIMED AS THE BEST FOR POUND lGHT IN MODERN BOXING YET WITH A CRUSHING

BLOW IN THE SEVENTH THAT RIPPED OPEN THE LEFT EYEBROW OF *ONES HIS CLAIM TO THE TI TLE BECAME JUST AS BATTERED AS HIS NOW BLOODY FACE &ROM THEN ON THE lGHT BECAME AN INCREASING INEVITABILITY AS #ALZAGHE S SUPERIOR WORK RATE GRADUALLY WORKED *ONES DOWN WELL INTO THE TWELFTH ROUND !S #ALZAGHE SOAKED UP THE ADULATION OF THE STRONG

"RITISH SUPPORT ALL THREE JUDGES CALLED IT IN HIS FAVOUR !FTER THE BOUT THE 7ELSHMAN PROCLAIMED h)T S A MASSIVE lGHT AND IT WILL BE MY LASTv CALLING AN END TO AN UNPRECEDENTED UNBEATEN CAREER -ADISON 3QUARE 'AR DENS PROVIDED AN ILLUSTRIOUS VENUE FOR A lGHTER WHO AS .IGEL "ENN PUT IT IS NOW SURELY THE UNDISPUTED lGHTER FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM

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1BJOUCBMMFST 1FMU 0QQPOFOUT .ATHAN 3IMMONS 3PORTS 2EPORTER 7HEN PEOPLE THINK OF PAINT BALL THEY INSTANTLY PICTURE PEOPLE IN BADLY lTTING CAM OUmAGE GEAR RUNNING AROUND WOODLAND AREAS RE ENACTING SCENES FROM THEIR FAVOURITE WAR lLMS (OWEVER THIS IS NOT THE WHOLE STORY 4HERE IS ANOTHER SIDE TO PAINTBALL !DRENALINE FUELLED FAST PACED AND HIGHLY COMPETI TIVE TOURNAMENT PAINTBALL IS AN EXTREME TEAM SPORT THAT LEAVES THE WEEKEND WARRIORS IN THE WOODS AND TAKES PLACE ON NETTED PLAYING lELDS WITH INmATABLE OBSTACLES AS COVER !NOTHER THING YOU MAY NOT KNOW IS 5%! CURRENTLY HAS THE TOP RANKED UNIVERSITY TEAM IN THE 5+ /N 3ATURDAY ST .OVEM BER THE NEWLY FORMED 5%!

0AINTBALL 4EAM WON THE lRST ROUND OF THE 5#0, 5NI VERSITY #OLLEGE 0AINTBALL ,EAGUE AT 3NETTERTON MAR KET WINNING EVERY MATCH AGAINST ,EEDS "IRMINGHAM

AND 57% "RISTOL 4HE TEAM OF #RAIG "AS TON !DAM #OLLIER 4OM *ENKINS #HRIS 0OTTER AND .ATHAN 3IMMONS HAD NEVER PLAYED TOGETHER BEFORE LEAD ING TO SOME CONCERNS ABOUT HOW THEY WOULD FARE AGAINST THE MORE ESTABLISHED TEAMS THEY WOULD BE COMPETING AGAINST (OWEVER THANKS TO CAREFUL STRATEGISING GOOD

COMMUNICATION AND IMPRES SIVE INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS THE TEAM GELLED TOGETHER ALMOST INSTANTLY AND WENT ON TO BEAT 57% "IRMINGHAM AND ,EEDS 4HE LEAGUE ITSELF WAS STARTED IN BY 3TEVE (ANCOCK OF "IRMINGHAM 5NIVERSITY AND TAKEN OVER BY +AT &AULKNER OF 57% IN 4HE LAST TIME THE 5%!

PLAYED WAS IN (OWEV ER THIS YEAR WITH AN ENTIRELY NEW PAINTBALL TEAM 5%!

HAVE WON A TOURNAMENT FOR THE lRST TIME %VEN THOUGH THE 5%!

0AINTBALL #LUB ARE NEW THIS YEAR SOME OF THE TEAM ARE EXPERIENCED PLAYERS "OTH #HRIS 0OTTER AND #APTAIN 4OM *ENKINS HAVE PLAYED AROUND %UROPE IN THE -IL

6MUJNBUF 8FFLFOEFS *OE 7ILLIAMS 3PORTS 2EPORTER 4HE 5LTIMATE &RISBEE COM MUNITY WITHIN 5%! HAS BEEN RATHER BUSY OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKENDS 7ITH AN ABUN DANCE OF TOURNAMENTS GOING ON UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY

!YE !YE HAVE BEEN LOOKING TO GET INVOLVED IN AS MANY AS POSSIBLE )T ALL STARTED IN ,OUGH BOROUGH WITH A BEGINNER S WEEKEND BEGINNER TEAMS FROM UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY MADE THEIR WAY TO ,OUGHBOROUGH S INCREDIBLE SPORTING FACILITIES TO GAIN THEIR lRST TASTE OF THE SPORT !YE !YE SENT ELEVEN BUDDING FRESHERS ALONG WITH TWO EX PERIENCED PLAYERS TO BATTLE IT OUT 4OURNAMENTS TEND TO FOLLOW A GENERAL TREND CON SISTING OF FOUR OR lVE GAMES ON THE 3ATURDAY A PARTY ON THE 3ATURDAY NIGHT THEN THREE OR FOUR GAMES TO PLAY ON THE 3UNDAY 4HE RAW TAL ENT OF OUR BEGINNERS SHONE THROUGH THE WHOLE WEEKEND AS THEY BATTLED ON TO lNISH A VERY RESPECTABLE TH OUT OF TEAMS DESPITE SOME HEADACHES AND THE OCCA

SIONAL DODGY TUMMY ON THE 3UNDAY 4HE FOLLOWING WEEKEND INVOLVED OF !YE !YE S TOP PLAYERS TRAVELLING TO .OTTING HAM FOR THE "5#3 -IDLANDS )NDOOR 2EGIONAL TOURNAMENT n CONTENDING FOR THOSE TOP SIX QUALIFYING PLACES FOR THE .ATIONAL )NDOOR COMPETI TION IN A FEW WEEKS !FTER lN ISHING SEVENTH IN THE COUNTRY LAST YEAR WE HAD A LOT TO LIVE

UP TO n WHICH WAS GOING TO BE TOUGH AFTER LOSING EIGHT OF OUR BEST PLAYERS TO GRADU ATION THIS SUMMER $ESPITE THIS WE WENT WITH OPTIMISM FOR QUALIlCATION LEAD BY OUR CAPTAIN $ANIEL $AWSON *ENKINSON 4HE lRST TEAM HAD A GREAT DAY ON THE 3ATUR DAY ONLY LOSING ONE GAME ALL DAY (OWEVER DISASTER STRUCK ON THE 3UNDAY AFTER THE LOSS OF OUR !MERICAN SIGNING 7IL

LIAM 3CHAFFENBURG WHO HAD TO ATTEND A @&IELD 4RIP AND RETURN HOME 4HE lRST TEAM UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT MAKE THE CUT IN THE END lNISHING A FAIRLY DECENT EIGHTH PLACE 4HE SECOND TEAM ALSO HAD A GREAT WEEKEND MAKING MAS SIVE IMPROVEMENT AND SHOW ING STRONG POTENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE 5LTIMATE &RISBEE COM PETES IN NUMEROUS WEEKEND TOURNAMENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR 2ATHER THAN TRAVELLING COPIOUS MILES FOR A SINGLE GAME THEN COMING HOME THE SAME DAY WE HAVE A MORE ECO FRIENDLY APPROACH AND PLAY SEVERAL GAMES OVER A WEEKEND $ESPITE NOT QUAL IFYING FOR INDOOR NATIONALS THIS YEAR WE ARE STILL ENTERING MANY MORE TOURNAMENTS

AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE START OF THE OUTDOOR SEASON AFTER #HRISTMAS 4HERE ARE THREE TRAINING SESSIONS A WEEK BOTH INDOOR AND OUT

AND WE ARE ALWAYS OPEN TO NEW MEMBERS n NO MATTER THE EXPERIENCE LEVEL 4O lND OUT MORE INFORMATION CON TACT JOE WILLIAMS UEA AC UK OR CHECK OUT @!YE !YE ON &ACEBOOK

LENNIUM 3ERIES %UROPE S LARGEST AND MOST PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT SERIES !DAM #OLLIER IS AN !MER ICAN STUDENT WHO HAS PREVI OUSLY PLAYED AT A HIGH LEVEL IN THE 53 .00, AND 030 TOURNAMENT SERIES (OWEVER

THIS WAS THE lRST TOURNAMENT FOR #RAIG "ASTON AND .ATHAN 3IMMONS WHO BOTH PER

FORMED EXCEPTIONALLY WELL

SHOWING THAT INEXPERIENCED PLAYERS HAVE THE CHANCE TO PLAY FOR THE UNIVERSITY TEAM #APTAIN 4OM *ENKINS WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE TEAM h) AM EXTREMELY PROUD OF THE TEAM S PERFORMANCE )T IS ALWAYS DIFlCULT WHEN PLAY ING WITH A NEW TEAM BUT EVERYONE PULLED TOGETHER RE MARKABLY QUICKLY AND PLAYED SOME FANTASTIC PAINTBALL h) AM CONlDENT THAT WE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN THE LEAGUE THIS SEASON 7E WANT TO THANK THE 5NION OF 5%!

3TUDENTS FOR THEIR VERY GEN EROUS SUPPORT IN HELPING TO lNANCE OUR PLACE IN THE TOUR NAMENT /UR THANKS ALSO GO TO #OMBAT 0AINTBALL THE OWNERS OF THE SITE FOR THEIR SUPPORT v 4HE NEXT ROUND OF THE LEAGUE IS TH TH OF &EBRUARY AND HOPEFULLY WITH THE CON TINUED SUPPORT OF THE 5NION AND A WINTER OF TRAINING THE 5%! 0AINTBALL 4EAM WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR SUCCESS AND lNISH TOP IN THE LEAGUE

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#FEGPSE #FBUFO CZ 6&" T #FTU ,UKE 2OBERTS 3PORTS 2EPORTER 5%! PUT IN AN IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY TO SECURE THEIR lRST WIN OF THE SEASON WITH A VICTORY OVER "EDFORD ) AT #OL NEY ,ANE LAST 7EDNESDAY $ESPITE 5%! S DOMI NANCE IN THE lRST QUARTER OF THE MATCH "EDFORD TOOK THE LEAD ! MISPLACED 5%! PASS WENT STRAIGHT TO A "EDFORD PLAYER WHO PLAYED HIS STRIK ER THROUGH TO lNISH WELL !

GOAL THAT WAS COMPLETELY AGAINST THE RUN OF PLAY WAS APPRECIATED BY THE "EDFORD MANAGER WHO ADMITTED THEY DID NOT DESERVE TO BE UP "EDFORD S GOAL DID NOT FAZE THE HOME SIDE THOUGH

AND THEIR SUPERIORITY ALL OVER THE PITCH WAS REWARDED WITH A PENALTY !DAM 3EEKINGS STEPPED UP AND PLACED IT LOW TO THE KEEPER S LEFT MINUTES LATER A "ED FORD COUNTER ATTACK UNFOLD ED &OLLOWING GOOD WORK DOWN "EDFORD S LEFT WING

THE BALL WAS SQUARED TO THEIR

STRIKER WHO FOUND HIS lRST SHOT BLOCKED BUT MADE NO MISTAKE WITH HIS SECOND AT TEMPT TO TAKE THE LEAD ONCE AGAIN !T THE OTHER END OF THE PITCH 3EEKINGS WAS PROVING TOO MUCH FOR THE "EDFORD DE FENCE TO HANDLE WHO BROUGHT HIM DOWN AT ANY GIVEN OP PORTUNITY 4HERE WAS THERE FORE A SENSE OF JUSTICE WHEN HE CAPITALISED UPON MIS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN "EDFORD S KEEPER AND CEN TRE BACK )N THIS MIX UP

HE GATHERED THE BALL KEPT A CALM HEAD AND lNISHED WELL TO MAKE IT #HRIS %VANS WAS SUPPORT ING 3EEKINGS WELL IN ATTACK FOR 5%! AND AFTER A SKILFUL RUN DOWN THE LEFT WING HE CROSSED THE BALL LOW INTO THE SIX YARD BOX 4HE BALL AP PEARED TO DECEIVE EVERYBODY EXCEPT 3COTT (OLIDAY WHO SIDE FOOTED THE BALL INTO THE BACK OF THE NET #HRIS !STBURY AND *OHN 4UCKER WERE WORKING HARD AND DOMINATED THE MIDlELD !STBURY READ A "EDFORD PASS

INTERCEPTED AND PLAYED %VANS IN DOWN THE LEFT BEAUTIFULLY %VANS CROSSED FOR HIS STRIKE PARTNER 3EEKINGS TO HEAD THE BALL IN FOR HIS HAT TRICK "EDFORD STARTED THE SEC OND HALF WELL AND LOOKED DANGEROUS FROM SET PIECES 4HE ONLY LACK OF CONCENTRA TION THAT 5%! SHOWED ALL GAME WAS AT A CORNER WHERE A GOOD DELIVERY FOUND THE

UNMARKED "EDFORD CENTRE BACK WHO HEADED IN THE AWAY SIDE S THIRD ! PERIOD OF 5%! DOMI NATION FOLLOWED HOWEVER

AND IT WAS SIMPLY A MAT TER OF TIME BEFORE THE HOSTS NOTCHED THEIR lFTH %VERY PLAYER LOOKED COMFORTABLE ON THE BALL THE BACK FOUR WERE HAPPY TO PLAY IT BE TWEEN THEMSELVES AND THE

MIDlELD WERE ORCHESTRATING CLEVER INTERPLAY AROUND THE BOX WHILE THE FORWARDS WERE ALWAYS LOOKING THREATENING 4HE GOAL CAME WHEN THE "EDFORD CENTRE BACK KICKED THE BALL INTO HIS OWN PLAYER

WHICH REBOUNDED TO 3EEK INGS (E PLAYED A DELICATE PASS THROUGH TO %VANS WHO CALMLY SLOTTED THE BALL PAST THE KEEPER

7ITH MINUTES RE MAINING "EDFORD CHANGED THEIR FORMATION TO IN AN EFFORT TO GET BACK IN THE GAME !STBURY TOOK AD VANTAGE OF THE SPACE AT THE BACK ALMOST IMMEDIATELY BY CHIPPING THE BALL INTO THE CHANNEL FOR %VANS TO COL LECT (IS EARLY CROSS FOUND 3EEKINGS AT THE BACK POST TO TAP IN HIS FOURTH GOAL OF THE AFTERNOON 4HIS WAS HIS LAST CONTRIBUTION TO WHAT WAS AN EXCELLENT DISPLAY !FTER THE MATCH #HRIS %VANS PAID TRIBUTE TO THE WORK ETHIC OF THE TEAM AND ALSO SPOKE OF HIS PARTNER SHIP WITH 3EEKINGS IN AT TACK (E SAID h-E AND 3EEKS KNOW EACH OTHER S GAME IN SIDE OUT (E IS GREAT TO PLAY WITH AND THE MORE WE PLAY TOGETHER THE BETTER WE WILL GET v 5%! S lRST VICTORY OF THE SEASON WAS RICHLY DESERVED AFTER THIS ASSURED PERFORM ANCE AND ACCORDING TO %VANS

hUNDER THE WISE CAPTAIN *A SON 7ALE 5%! CAN CHALLENGE FOR SILVERWARE THIS SEASON v

4UVEFOU $VQ 4VDDFTT GPS 7PMMFZCBMM -AX !SKWITH 3PORTS 2EPORTER 4HE WEEKEND OF TH .O VEMBER SAW 5%! PLAY HOST TO THIS SEASON S lRST 3TUDENT #UP QUALIFYING ROUND WITH 5%! 6OLLEYBALL #LUB S -EN S AND 7OMEN S lRST TEAMS TAK ING GIANT STEPS TOWARDS THEIR QUEST TO BETTER LAST YEAR S RE SPECTIVE TH AND TH PLACE lNISHES 4HE QUALIFYING WEEKEND AT THE 3PORTSPARK SAW TEAMS FROM UNIVERSITIES PARTICIPATE OVER THE TWO DAY EVENT INCLUDING SIDES TRAVELING TO COMPETE FROM AS FAR AWAY AS "OURNEMOUTH AND "RISTOL /UR -EN S TEAM PLAYED ON THE 3ATURDAY IN A POOL OF THREE AGAINST A STRONG 3OUTHAMPTON TEAM AND THE SLIGHTLY LESS REPUTABLE "RIS TOL 57% AND THE 7OMEN S TEAM WAS PUT UP AGAINST 0ORTSMOUTH AND "OURNE MOUTH ON 3UNDAY 4HE -EN S TEAM STARTED 3ATURDAY WITH A STERN TEST AGAINST 3OUTHAMPTON WHO LOOKED TO HAVE GELLED BETTER THAN 5%! IN THEIR PREPARA TIONS FOR THE TOURNAMENT

WHO WITH THREE NEW PLAYERS

IN THEIR LINEUP LOOKED SHAKY AT THE START (OWEVER 5%!

RALLIED AFTER A POOR START TO TAKE THE lRST SET TO BE FORE EVENTUALLY LOSING TO THE SOUTH COASTERS "OTH TEAMS WERE PLAYING WELL IN THE SECOND SET BUT 5%!

WERE KEPT FROM ACCELERATING INTO TOP GEAR BY A SERIES OF RATHER DUBIOUS DECISIONS BY ONE OF THE REFEREES ALLOW ING 3OUTHAMPTON TO TAKE THE SET AND THEREFORE THE MATCH 5%! THEN DEFEATED 57% AND TO COM PLETE A COMFORTABLE WIN TO KEEP THEM IN THE MIX FOR A lRST PLACE lNISH IN THEIR POOL 5%! S NEXT MATCH WAS ONCE AGAIN AGAINST 3OUTH AMPTON 4HIS TIME THE RE SULT WAS MUCH CLOSER WITH 3OUTHAMPTON TAKING THE lRST SET AND 5%! TAK ING THE SECOND LEAV ING 5%! WITH A TOTAL OF POINTS TO 3OUTHAMPTON S 4HE HOME TEAM S FOURTH AND lNAL MATCH WAS AGAIN AGAINST 57% WITH 5%! WINNING PRODUCING A COMPREHENSIVE DISPLAY WHICH SAW SET SCORES OF AND 5%! -EN S DIDN T lNISH

lRST IN THEIR GROUP BEING BEATEN TO THE TOP SPOT BY 3OUTHAMPTON BUT STILL LOOK SET TO QUALIFY FOR THE lNALS 3ARAH (ILL OF 6OLLEYBALL %NG LAND THE VOLLEYBALL EQUIVA LENT OF THE &OOTBALL !SSOCIA TION SAID h5%! -EN HAVE NOT AUTOMATICALLY QUALIlED

HOWEVER THEY ARE WELL PLACED TO QUALIFY AS ONE OF THE BEST RUNNERS UP h4HEIR POOL WAS OF A PAR

TICULARLY HIGH STANDARD WITH TWO VERY STRONG TEAMS BUT THE NEXT QUALIlERS ARE BE ING PLAYED IN ,EEDS ON ND RD .OVEMBER SO WE LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE OVER BEFORE DECIDING 5%! S FATE h!S WE DO NOT YET KNOW THE ABILITY AND STRENGTH OF THE OTHER TEAMS FROM THE OTHER FOUR POOLS YET TO PLAY

IT IS A CASE OF HANGING ON TO

SEEv ADDING hTHE 5%! BOYS ARE ALL @GORGEOUS AND WE NEED THEM TO MAKE THE l NALS A WHOLE LOT LESS UGLY v A mATTERING REMARK COMING AFTER SOME CONCEITED EFFORTS TO mIRT INTO THE lNALS 4HE WOMEN HAD A MORE SUCCESSFUL DAY WINNING EACH MATCH AND BEING TRIUMPHANT IN SEVEN OUT OF THE EIGHT SETS THEY PLAYED 4HE TEAM S lRST GAME SAW THEM PITTED

AGAINST A CONlDENT "OURNE MOUTH TEAM WHO DESPITE STARTING STRONGLY SUCCUMBED TO 5%! S CLASS LOSING

4HE NEXT TWO GAMES WERE AGAINST 0ORTSMOUTH

WITH 5%! WINNING

AND AFTER MO RALE BOOSTING SUBSTITUTIONS 4HE 7OMEN S lNAL GAME WAS AGAINST "OURNEMOUTH AND IT PROVED TO BE A CLOSE ENCOUNTER !FTER A HARD FOUGHT lRST SET 5%! FOUND THEMSELVES DOWN AND KNEW THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE OF THEIR QUALIlCATION TO THE lNALS THEY MUST IM PROVE IN THE SECOND SET AND THEIR CONlDENCE GREW AND SAW THEM WIN TO TAKE THE GAME BY POINTS TO "OURNEMOUTH S (ILL ADDED h5%! ,ADIES QUALIFY FOR THE lNALS AT THE TOP OF THEIR POOL TAKING ALL EIGHT SET POINTS AVAILABLE v ,AST YEAR WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN THE VOLLEYBALL CLUB S HISTORY WITH THE CLUB ACCOMPLISHING FANTASTIC lN ISHING POSITIONS IN THE 3TU DENT #UP AND HAVING THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS RECOGNISED AT THE #!3!S BEING AWARDED /UTSTANDING !CHIEVEMENT IN 3PORT