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22 Student rooms ransacked desP-_ite warning! in Concrete... but UEA chiefs still do nothing BURGLARS ransacked 22 student rooms at Mary Chapman Court on New Year's Day... despite several warnings In Concrete which revealed a - - - B y - - - - . worrying lack of security at Mark Austin the City flats.

In October 1993, a resident revealed her safety fears, but Registry housing officials said they had "no obligation to provide security" at the I 00 bed accommodation.

And staggeringly, UEA Security boss, Maurice Morson, is still ruling out the provision of a security patrol at the site, due to cuts in funding.

"We are trying to get the maximum from minimum resources," he

said.

"If I put one or two men on patrol there what are the 600 people in Waveney Terrace going to say?"

In the January I break-in, the thief smashed doors and windows to net goods totalling thousands of pounds, including TVs, videos and Hi-Fis. First year, Gareth Malone, who lost more than £500 worth of equipment, slammed the University for treating residents like "schoolchildren".

"I feel like we're stuck out on a limb out here," he complained.

Said Mr Morson: "I can understand the students at Mary Chapman Court feeling that they

have been ignored, but what do you

do?

"I simply cannot afford to have a patrol down there."

But patience appears to be wearing thin, with both Mr Morson and Union Welfare Officer Jaz Ihenacho stressing that they would like to see the buildings given up and the students relocated elsewhere.

Yet since Mary Chapman Court twice made the headlines, little appears to have been done by either UEA or the Union to improve the security of residents.

Last year, former Union Communications Officer, Jacqui Mackay, branded the situation "unsatisfactory".

"Security for students ... at Mary Chapman Court is a priority concern for the Student Union", she added.

•Mr Morson pointed out that crime at the riverside accommodation last year was down 17 per cent on 1993.

•Recent incidents at Mary Chapman Court include damage to student cars, a resident being flashed at, and windows being shot at by a sniper.

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CAMPUS INCREASED sightings of a flasher on campus have urged UEA security boss, Maurice Morson, to set up nigh tly patrols around residences, writes Mark Austin.

The man, who first struck. in November oflast year, was spotted again outside Wo! f.~on Close on January 18.

He is re ported to be in his thirties, nearly six foot tal l with short blonde hair and usually carries a bag with him.

Dubbed 'The Blonde Flasher', he tends to target campus kitchens, looking for groups of girls to expose himself to.

Wh ile admittin g th at he would co ntinue the patrols for as long as hi s budget allowed, Mr Morson stressed that he did not consider the man to be dangerous.

But he appealed for students to be aware of anyone suspicious in an effort to catch the prowler.

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UEA'S NEW Vice-Chancellor is Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, the cu rren t directo r of t he Victoria and Albert Museum.

She replaces Professor Derek Burke in October, who is retiring after e ight years in office.

In a shock move at the end of last year, Mrs Esteve-Coll announced her resignation as Director of The London V ictoria and Albert Museum - which she has run, sometimes controversially, since 1988 - to take the top job at

UEA. This will make her one of only a handful of women to reach this post among Britain's 123 universities.

Over the years many of her policies have been attacked , and her status in the art world suffered drastically when she made eight of the museum's most respected senior bosses redundant.

She attracted criticism for her "vulgar populist" approach to the marketing ofthemuseum , no doubt fuelled by her slogan for a Saatchi and Saatchi advertising campaign: "Ace caff, with quite a nice museum attached to it."

But despite this, the museum's visitor figures have increased every year since she has been in control.

Mrs Esteve-C oll has an excel-

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Olivia Simmons lent track record, both professionally and academically, and her experience of representing institution s both nationally and internationally w ill hopefully help to position UEAstrategically in the competitive world of Higher Etiucation.

"I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to lead one of Britain's most distinguished research universities," she commented.

Mrs Esteve-Coll's predecessor, Professor Burke, has been at the forefront of UEA's development over recent years, overseei ng the huge increase in student numbers, the expansion of courses and schools, and the most extensive building programme since the foundation ofthe university in the 1960s.

But many observers - both staff and students al ike - won der whether Mrs Esteve-Coll will overhaul UEAasdramatically as she did at the V & A "At the moment I know a lot about the University," she admits.

"But my knowledge is in broad terms, not in detail so maki ng presumptuous decisions about what I might or might not wish to do is inappropriate.路

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Going up north - Dr Tarrant

DEPUTY Vice-Chancellor, Dr John Tarrant, leaves UEA in October to take over as Vice-Chancellor at the University ofH uddersfield.

The announcement of his resignation came just a week after Elizabeth Esteve-Coll's appointment as Vice-Chancellor was revealed. He agreed that Mrs Esteve-Coll 's ap-

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pointment was a "first class" one, adm itti ng, "I' m sure it would have been great fun working with her."

Dr Tarrant, Deputy Vice-Chancell or fo r the last four years, has played a significant part in many developments during his 26 years at UEA. "Leaving UEA and Norwich will be a wrench", he said.

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AITENTION all media types out there, as you would be well advised to attend the UEA Media Forum being held on Monday January 30, writes Caroline Ad/em.

Among the speakers at the Forum will be London ITN's Martyn Hurd, BBC Radio Norfolk's Carol Bundock (herselfa UEA graduate), andBBClVEast'sKathyLeFevre.

There will also be delegates from ECN, the Guardian, Magazine publishersEMAPandSaatchi&Saatchi.

"Jobs in the Media are becoming ever harder to obtain," urges Careers Adviser Anne Williamson, "so every possible opportunity to start 'networking' and make contacts should be grasped."

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RACE AWARENESS Officer, Lola Abayomi, has expressed her re~t that Martin Luther-King's death was not commemorated by the Union last week, on January 16.

This was due to exam timetabling.

"Martin Luther-King was an incredible man. His ultimate dream of equality has become an inspiration to many black people in Britain", she said.

"With the increase in racial attacks, discrimination in communities and in the workplace, it is irnoerative that we look to the efforts )fthose before us."

it comes to starting New Year resolutions as far as UEA's BemieAidis is concemed,writes 0/ivia Simmons.

Forthe Union steward is hoping to losethreestoneforcharity, with the proceeds being donated to BIBIC (The British Association for Brain Injured Children), an appeal adopted by

1st May, Bemie hopes that the chocolate and ice cream machines directly In front of the Stewards Cabinwon'tposeathreattohisget fit plan.

"I need to lose weight, not just for medical reasons but for myself, and I do need an incentive though", he said, adding that his particularweaknesses are bacon

[JAnyone wishing to sponsor Bemie in his absolutely flabulous quest can obtain sponsor forms from either the Steward's cabin, the Porter's Lodge or The Print Shop.

[JConc~Btewill be following his progress inch by inch over the next few months, so watch this space.

ON YOUR MARKS! Plans for a showpiece sports arena at UEA could soon be under starter's orders ..• if National Lottery chiefs hand over the £4 million required for the project.

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by UEA and a partnership of nine Jane Horner local bodies, proposes the building of an arena containing a 25 metre swimming pool, fitness rooms, a confident, stating that, in operating martial arts room and a huge the track and hockey pitches, the sports hall the size of fifteen UniversitYhasalreadyproved it can badminton courts. run a facility for both student and GO? This, together with the public use. He added that the new existing Norfolk Athletics Track complex will boost sport in the city, and the East Anglian Hockey and can only enhance the UniversiCentre already on campus, would ty's reputation.

Yet if ministers fail to approve form the region's top sports complex. the project, or recommend proviThe bid was submitted on Janu- sion of only part of the money, then ary 4 by Keith Nicholls, the univer- UEA will have to face the hurdle of sity's director of physical recrea- looking to individuals, businesses tion, who first conceived the project and local authorities for funding. four years ago.

Said one local resident, "I think He claimed the University had its a brilliant idea." been "outstanding" in its support But David Wood, head of Norfor an idea which was originally "to wich Sports Village, said, "IfUEA build something itcouldn 't fund, on chooses to bulla IS badminton courts land it didn't own." when Norwich already has perfectly But now the land - between the good courts, that's their business." existing running track and UniverHe added, however, that he was sity Drive - has been acquired. not over-concerned about a new And all that remains is to wait six swimming pool stealing trade from weeks for Department of Heritage the Aquapark, and suggested that if officials to make their decision - the proposed indoor arena at UEA either initiating further discussion caused a fall in demand at the Sports with Registry chiefs, or rejecting Village, then facilities would simply be converted to accommodate other the plans completely.

Keith Nicholls remains quietly sports.

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Graduate Students Association LUNCHTIME OPENING From Monday, January 16 1995 on, the Grad Bar will open for lunch on weekdays, between 12pm and 2pm. Coffee, tea, snacks and sandwiches will be on sale. We still need volunteers to work!

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Forum examine P.lans to reshaP._e Exec SWEEPING changes have been proposed to the Union Executive in a constitutional review currently under discussion at Student Forum.

Plans involve the creation of a fifth sabbatical officer and the reorganisation of several non-sabb posts.

Under the new proposals, which intend to streamline and rationalise the Executive: lJThe Sports Officer becomes a £7,000 per year paid post, under recommendations made to Forum stating that nobody is responsible for safety in sport, and that the existing Union sports staffare overworic.ed; !Jthe Publicity Officer is replaced by a full-time staff member, working with the Communications Officer; lJthe Internal and NUS Officers have their portfolios combined into

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Adrian Steel the new Union Liaison Officer; Cl the Community and International Liaison, the Environment and the Overseas Officers are merged to create two new posts: Environment and Community Officer and International Officer; and !Jin addition, the liberation campaign officers (LGB, Race Awareness and Womens Officers) will be granted full voting rights on the Exec- a scheme the University has rejected once already.

Student Forum are due to vote on these tabled amendments on Monday(JanJO),afterasimilarmeeting on January 16 was inquorate, "due to exams" according to one Exec member. If carried, the proposals will be passed to a UGM on February 20.

Union Communications Officer, PhiiClegg,said, "lt'sagoodchance to clarify and fortify the constitution."

But Daniel Owen, Academic Officer, does not feel the creation of a full-time Sports Officer to be necessary.

"Personally, I'm not in favour of it at all," he said, adding, "I'm not sure there is quite the workload to justify another Sabbatical post."

He wonders if there is adequate involvement and commitment to sport at UEA, to justify the need for a paid Sports Officer.

"UEA is not a great sporting university, like Loughborough or Lancaster, where traditionally, sport plays a large part of student cuiture."

And he added, "A Sabbatical Sports Officer would really only represent a small section of the student body."

WHAT DO YOU THINK? What do you think about the plans to change the Union Exec? Is the creation of a Sports Officer really necessary, or is it a good idea? Al8 the Exec right in wanting to rationalise Non-Sabb posts in the way they suggest? Whatever your opinion, Concl8te would like to hear from you. Write to the Editor, Concl8te, Union House, befol8 February 1, 1995.

The GSA has agreed to introduce a new draught beer, thereby securing a £300 sponsorship for the Rugby Club. The money will go towards a new set of kit. The sponsor is Scott's Brewery and their 'Golden Light' will be on sale for £1.20 a pint, shortly.

ENTS For the coming semester we are planning a variety of Ents and promotions. There will be four live bands, including the popular 'wake', and the bar will be open to nonmembers on five nights. Anyone with suggestions and wanting to organise an event. please contact Chris Coole.

27 January: BURNS NIGHT 17 March: St Patrick's Day IRISH NIGHT (open night)

ADMINISTRATIVE Anyone who has not yet got their full membership, can still apply. New applications for a limited number of associate memberships are also welcome.

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THINKJNGofgettingawayfrom it all this summer, but can't af· ford to pay for a trip abroad? The solution is a working holiday,

writes Caroline Bowken.

BUNAC, the non profit-making organisation which offers students the opportunity to work and travel around the world is holding an 'orientation' talk, planned to take place on January 25 in LT2.

The talk sets out to explain the ins and outs of working in America and Canada, and features advice from students who have spent a year working as anything from a waitress in the Statue OfLiberty restaurant, to a horse-trainer in Spain.

The orientation is free of charge, and is compulsory to anyone serious about travelling to America orCartada this summer, since proof of attendance will be needed for any work. visa application.

"My experience was very valuable," said one student who spent a year working in Cartada through BUNAC. "Notonlywasitenjoyable but I believe it has changed me as a person· a better 'education' than any University!", she

Nexus UTV back in the ~?_icture after studio refit CAMPUS BROADCASTER

Nexus UTV will shortly be on air up to 15 hours a day.

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For their studio has been rebuilt over the Christmas break and is now adequately equipped to provide a full broadcast TV service to Union House.

New monitors have been installed throughout the building with eateries The Bowl and Breakers expected to be hooked up by Easter.

Said Nexus President, Stuart Campbell, "What I'm most happy about is that after all the struggles and difficulties we've faced in the past, we are finally breaking out of the mould and once again we can be the most important student TV station in the country."

Following negotiations with prospective sponsors, Nexus has managed to acquire enough equipment to allow them to produce and broadcast live studio material.

The Union have provided cabling to various locations in UH, including the LCR and The !live, and have handed over control of their satellite TV system to Nexus.

Programmes due to be broadcast include regular news bulletins and sports reports, UEA 's very own soap opera, 'Home from Home', and a number of tacky game shows - in all, up to I 5 hours a day.

Further expansion in the future may include a collaboration with Norwich Cablevision who may decide to put Nexus on their intended public access channel and broadcast their shows.

Nexus's re-launch has sparked renewed interest in the station from all quarters, including the Union, who have seen the potential for in-

Nexus' studio as refit for '95, and (inset) as seen in 1993 house promotion and advertising opportunities.

•The station are due to celebrate their 25th anniversary this May, so Stuart sees this as one of the most significant steps forward.

"With the forthcoming celebrations, it's nice to see Nexus moving into a position in which it once stood. I see Nexus continuing to move forward with steps as large as those made over Christmas."

added. eFormore information. the UEA BUNAC club has a stall every Friday from 12-2pm in Union House.

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Soon, you may have the chance to grab your fifteen minutes (or more )offamewhen Channel Four launch their search for the brightest, brashest and most beautiful of young things to become presenters for their new live, weekend magazine programme, 'Watch This Space'.

The show kicks off with a nationwide recruitment campaign on January 23, giving wannabe presenters a chance to experience a taste of stardom by sending in a five minute promotional video of themselves or a friend .

Those with the most no us, hot looks and flair will make it to a

special programme on Channel FouronApril23wheretheywillbe put through their paces live on air.

Viewers will then decide which of a dozen hopeful finalists actually get the five jobs on offer by

voting via phone, fax or Internet.

Once the programme transmits on Sunday afternoons from May 14 until June 18, the winning presenters can still be voted off air and replaced with new stars if viewers tire of them.

•Concrete has teamed up with Nexus UTV, who are willing to produce the required promotional videos to enter the competition, as long as video cassettes are provided.

The closing date for entries is February 25. Hopefuls must be aged21 years or under, and available for shooting in London from April until July this year.

•Details are available from the Nexus UTV office, upstairs in Union House, Tel: (592213).

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LCR•s £80K XMAS REFIT IS UNVEILED

LAST Thursday saw the official re-opening ofthe LCR foll o wing its £80,000 refurbishment during the Christmas break, writes Carolina Ad/em.

Representatives fro m UEA, the Uni on and local press attended the ceremony which was compered by PhiI Clegg, Union Communications Offi cer.

Work on the refit started j ust before Christmas, and was undertaken by constructi on firm Miras.

Improvements inc lude: • Ligh t- absorbin g paint for the brickwork around the stage, to enhance li ghting effects, • the fi tting of bl inds to black o ut the ve nue and deaden sound, • improvements to the entrance area, • installati on of'fairy lights' around the edges o f the dance fl oor steps as a safety measure, and e a co mplete re-carpeting of the floor areas wi th li noleum around the edges of the concert area.

Said Ph il, "This is a demonstration of our co mmitment towa rds the Unio n's e nte rta inm ent programme at UEA and we hope people coming to the LCR will apprec iate the much improved environm ent."

The re fit o f the LC R comes as part of a general revamp of UH, fund ed jo intl y between the University and the Union.

T he balco ny area has bee n painted and re-carpeted and there are plans to refurbish The Pub in the summer.

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IT'S A case of Lottery Nottery for UEA as BBC bosses have abandoned plans to hold the draw in the LCR. They made a last minute decision and changed their minds over holding a live Lottery draw at UEA, opting instead for a small Gloucestershire village.

The newly-refurbished LCR would have been the venue for the broadcast, presented by Anthea Turner and Gordon Kennedy, but the powers that be decided that UEA would not play host to the show screened last Saturday (January 21 ).

Lottery draw spokesperson, Sarah Downing, responsible for finding suitable locations for the week ly outside broadcast said, "Many possib le venues were considered each week, and UEA was on the short

list." But, she added, "It was simply not chosen th is time."

Plans for the Lottery to come to East Anglia have not been ru led out

however, and the fa mous wea lthgenerating balls could still be activated at UEA in the near future, so watch thi s space ....

Write away for a great holiday BUDDING writers will be interested to hear that travel firm Campus Travel are looking for students to write articles for a new magazine, writes Carolina Ad/em.

And , in some cases, they will even fund your project, providing the travel facilities to get where you want to go.

Interested student journalists are being urged to contact Campus Travel either with articles which they feel may be of interest, preferably with accompanying photos, or with any good ideas for features .

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BONKING IN THE LCR...

HA VEYOU seen the new LCR since it opened?

New carpets, new paint job, nice neon sign near the refurbished bar, and they've even sanded down the dance floor.

Looks like a bingo hall really, all said and done, especially with those tacky bits of wood round the pillars.

Joking apart, it is nice of the Union to go to this expense and trouble for us- it's quite touching.

But come the first LCR disco last Thursday, the students X-Crete spoke to were somewhat perturbed.

Why? Because those nice people who designed the refit seem to have got rid of all the sheltered spots round the edges, so you can't nip off for a bit of action in the corner like you used to be able to.

So v.hen you've met that nice person in The 11 ive, it's cold outside but you want to disappear somewhere, you can't.

All the pai ntwork round the edges has been re-done in white, and someone's nicked the curtains- essential for that musty old boudoir effect.

And you don't really want to dirty that new carpet (was it suggested by Ritzy's?), seeing as it's so nice after all...

•Headline provided by kind suggestion of Jerry Spheres

Concrete's alternative view of campus life Lottery

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Union for a constitutional reform?

They want a Sports sabbatical and a reorganisation of some of the

dents need is a National Lottery Officer, with responsibility for increasing awareness about it.

After all, where else can the average cash-starved student turn ifhe or she needs some cash to top up that miserly grant and measly student loan?

New VCs slogan for UEA?

APPOINTMENT of Elizabeth Esteve-Coll as VC could have a huge influence on the future of UEA. The current director ofthe Victcr ria and Albert Museum has won a reputation fortuming round the fortunes ofthis famous national edifice.

But snooty old tarts thought she had turned it into a vulgar, populist establishment, and attacked her policies.

Her finest moment came when she described the museum as·An acecaffwithamuseumattached", for a Saatchi & Saatchi advertising campaign.

What a shame she can't boast

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thesameforUEA, ifitcametothe crunch and she had to think of a new'populisf marketing strategy to draw in new students ('where's the punters, guvnor?') and research funding ('got any lolly mate'?).

She couldn't exactly replace UEA's innovative 'Do Different' motto with 'A University with an ace caff attached.· 'Cos where on campus could you find an 'ace caff (Sainsbury CentreBuffetexceptedofcourse)?

Think you'd be drawing a blank there ...

Sowhatelsewhatcouldthenew VCdoifshewantedtomake UEA more populist?

How about introducing some

more down to earth degrees, like soap operas, pop-<>logy, bingo (that'd be great in the new LCR) or darts studies?

You'd be able to getridofsomeofthe more arty-tarty subjects that wouldn't appeal to the masses ... stuff like history ofat, drcma, literature, philoscr phy, film studies and all that. lfthatwouldn't bring the punters in, thenwhatwould?

The Lottery of course, and the Union should be taking steps on our behalf to make sure that all UEA students turn out winners.

X-Crete suggests that the proposed Lottery Officer should:

•Publicise each Saturday's draw; •announce the results each Monday at lpm in The Hive (if at all possible); .,_ecommend the best balls (and that's not necessarily the Law Ball or the Snowball) to choose; and campaign on their behalf; and, ~uggest that the LCR should be usedfor at least 10 live draws per year (and for bingo during the week) ...

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BULLETIN BOARD ObieC:es o• desille No 1: The Breakers Juke-Box Also known as: 'The Conversation Killer', 'Irritating', the 'Can't someone turn that bloody thing offi' Origin: Probably some rental shop on the Dereharn Road where one can rent fruit machines, video games and other 'amusement' items.

Who uses it? This is the mystery. Is it students, is it Breakers staff, or was it just programmed at birth to play ghastly music? No-one seems to know.

So what sort of music does it play then? Annoying stuff mostly, like that awful Phil Collins album track from 1981, other dross from the 1970s like 'Hotel California' and 'Layla', and on a more modern note, the latest Culture Beat and Snap albums.

Did you say modem? Sure did: it's got a stunning range of all the latest sounds, all played at a volume that rivals say, Magnum when they play in the LCR. What. subtle and tuneful? Not bloody likely mate ... you were thinking of Tony Hadley's gig at The Waterfront last year.

Could it enhance your thought processes? Hardly. Try doing revision for your quantum mechanics exam whilst listening to Bryan Adams at 120 decibels.

So what's in store for this much-maligned object or desire?

Hopefully, someone'll pull the plug out, or some bright wag will install a load of blank CDs in it...

Worst insult possible: Putting SOp in the slot.

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Sometimes o ne cou ld be forgiven for thinking that students are just an unnecessary burden to a university.

Here at UEA for example, we face ever-rising campus rents whilst administrative ch iefs strive to make the university increasingly attractive as a conference venue.

Me anwh il e, our cover story tells how 22 rooms at city accommodation Mary Chapman Court were broken into on New Year's Day. It appears that Registry bosses ignored pleas made from students in 1993 for increased security meas ures at the site. Now, after the latest spate of thefts, UEA chiefs make the usual excuses, namely that the University is cash-starved.

Yet money was raised to finance the biggest building programme in UE/\'s history - to create accommodation extremely appea ling to the paying conference delegate.

But at other times in the year, students have to foot the bill for the availability of these ate-acti vely marketable rooms - for a largely unnecessary 38 weeks, to be precise. In contrast, Fifers Lane stands empty, the lease still being paid, and its replacement, the Village, is still having the bodges from its rushed completion fixed by contractors .

The Regi stry may not agree completely with what students (its 'consumers', afte r all) have to say, whether from an academic or fin anci al point of view. But they should remember that there would be no university without its students, and would do well to bear this in mind.

The recent events at Mary Chapman Court would seem to suggest a touch of neglect, and a case of questionable priorities.

Oo-er, nice carP-et!

So the LCR has finally been refurbished, as part of a refit marking the first major investment in it since the purchase of new lighting in 1992.

Then, paying customers reimbursed the Union for their expenditure courtesy of increased admission prices for the weekly LCR disco.

Perhaps the same could be true now, with the plush new £80,000enhanced surroundings pu lling in some extra business for the Union and the University.

Starting with the SUSOC conference in the summer, right?

We've had to wait several years for the 'new' LCR. What a coincidence we get it now..,

And Finally...

Concrete marks its third birthday with this, our fortysecond issue That's over nine million pages of newsprint, produced by students for students, funded by adve rtisin g ... etc etc. Yes, it 's taken a hell of a lot of hard work from eve ryone invol ved.

So here's to them, and to you, our readers .. , we couldn't have done it without your support, Thankyoul

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IT'S A UFO • HONEST! I

n response to recent prompts for information on UFO sightings, I feel that a confession is in order.

It concerns a famous series of 'Crop Circles' that appeared around Leicestershire several summers ago, phenomena which I am reliably informed, made the heady heights of one silly paranormal magazine, as well as

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overOy the 'UFO Landing Site' the next morning, take loads of photos and then se ll them to the local and national press!

A nice little earner it was too, as well as a damn good laugh. l enclose this letter more as a cautionary tale really, there are a lot of us hoaxers about.

Having said th a t of course, l did actually see a UFO myself a t close quarters whilst camping in the Lake District some years ago and damn scary it was too.

Thing is, I'd hate to find out that it was someone in a microlight pulling my leg, know what I mean?

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Letters

â&#x20AC;˘ I n defence ofThomas Browne' was the headline in the 15th of December issue of Broadview [the official UEA newspaper] . "The new Elizabeth Fry Building contains a suite of rooms ... which after consultation with colleagues, I have decided should commemorate Sir Thomas Browne ( 1605-82)" wrote the pro-Vice Chancellor.

And from the third floor of the Registry?

Deafening silence ...

As a part of internal Women's campaign I had collected around 200 signatures of men and women

who found it incongruous that a man like Sir Thomas should be commemorated in a building named after a female and feminist prison reformer of the nineteenth century.

A man who had at~ended a witch trial and had declared that the 'victims' were under diabolical influence.

A part of history that raving feminists should get in perspective and stop raving about?

Perhaps.

But if so, then why did Sir Thomas note in his diary that the children's 'fits' were either hys-

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terical or epileptic?

And if those feminists are raving, myself among them, then what could be more enraging than the fact that Sir Thomas also thought it would be better if men could procreate without the aid of women, creating only men.

I'm satisfied to lose the fight and commemorate Sir Thomas if only due to the comic irony that his name would be contained within the greater name ofEiizabeth Fry, a woman he would have undoubtedly despised.

I was impressed that Martin Hollis, pro-Vice Chancellor, was

communicating with me and assured me that our opinions would be taken into consideration.

He assured me that the petition and the media interest would influence and sustain discussions for longer.

He assured me that as soon as the decision was made, he would inform me of it.

A silence ensued and is ensuing.

I phoned the Registry and spoke to Dr Hollis' secretary for several weeks and was informed that the discussions were still in progress.

Then, on the 15th December, as I saw the news in Broadview that

the suite was to remain that of Sir Thomas Browne.

It was not quite the phone call in advance that I had been hoping for and indeed expecting.

The issue of Sir Thomas Browne is a small one compared to animal rights, the environment, rape or racism, but that of the student relationship with the University is not.

Whether I was neglected because I appeared to head a clan of gibbering feminists tormented at the torpid and unchangeable hands of history, or simply because in the run of things, what

students and minorities think has ceased to matter to those at the top.

What is clear is that Sir Thomas Browne's name is to remain familiar and to history accountable.

Whether the petitions of nonaggressive protesters are to be dismissed in the same way, is in this case, something which the pro-Vice Chancellors can answer.

The University ought to be held more accountable and should be more communicative with students.

He/en Bright, Union Women's Officer

PROVING PEOPLE WRONG always love proving people wrong, especially my wife.

I She has always maintained that, despite being an egotist, given the opportunity, I would gladly appear on television.

Well, today I was walking past the Anglia TV building and was accosted by an enthusiastic young woman who asked me ifl wanted to take part in a TV debate about theft.

When she found out I was a student, she was all over me.

I ummed and ahhed and said I

am writing to complain about the attitude of those people I and groups who try to pass themselves off as 'student representatives'.

I, and I believe, many others are sick and tired of the constant sniping and complaining of the Student Union and various other left wing groups such as SWSS (Socialist Workers Student Society).

SWSS particularly are a joke, with their pathetic attempts at petty politics, for example their trip to Felixstowe to abuse and harass Michael Portillo (how revolutionary) and ridiculous topics for debate like "Are all men sexist?"

Honestly, I cannot believe that any sane body is funding this sort of playschool politics, but one is the Student Union, OUR Student Union.

It is a ludicrous situation when we have a group which sets itself up to represent students but does

nothing else than squabble between themselves and play at being politicians.

The point of the Union, surely, must be to run facilities for students and accept the fact that most people here just want to lead a quiet life and get on with their degrees without any of the bullshit that contaminates life in the real world.

Furthermore, it is about time that it was recognised that students actually get a pretty good deal.

There is only a certain amount of money that can be allocated to Higher Education owing to other constraints on the public purse and why we think that we should be so high on the list beats me.

The Government has admira-

expansion is to cut the grant.

The country cannot afford education on this scale and that is why a reduced grant and increased loan is the only sensible and responsible option.

The Union complain about the burden of debt that students will face on the completion of their course but surely that is preferable to a sub-standard education service and in any case, the level of debt is far smaller than in other, even socialist countries like Sweden, students will finish their course roughly ÂŁ20,000 in debt.

A rough figure of ÂŁ4,000 here is not a high price to pay for what is a first-class education and

I told her I'd be back in ten minutes- "Just tell them Rebecca sent you", she said.

I never went back, as the 15.0 I proved to be the more attractive option .

The thought of yet another seminar, even if it was televised, at this stage of the semester, was too much.

Anyway, I didn't have time for a shave this morning.

I did phone my wife from the station though, just to say I told you so.

I am still waiting for a reply about the 'solar lawnmower' .

If I don't get any enthusiasm for this project, I intend to develop it myself, between essays.

If that happens, I shall take all the credit, fame and fortune as well.

(On the subject of technology, since Concrete published my letter about the library computer, I've found its behaviour impeccable). Thanks a million.

Letters for the next Issue have to reach us by Wednesday February 1st, at1pm

Of course it does sweetie daarlings... Cos now we•re back, from outa space, we iust walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face! ... Happy New Year from your Union Executive - Welcome back and good luck with those exams.

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T h e sixth of February marks the beginning of the Stu dent Union's multi-cultural extravaganza, which will provide a mixture of fun and cultural understanding. Essentially the week promises to be a celebration of the vast array of cultures that study and socialise at UEA : a reduced priced LCR for those who wear national or regional dress, an intemational quiz with prizes, and an international party which ineludes free food, drink and disco, are just some of the events planned.

Yet combined with the fun of International week, there is also a more thought provoking program me of events on offer. Amid the 50th celebrations of the end of the 2nd World War, a survivor of the holocaust summed up the importance of the events by saying -Ifwe do not learn from the past, history wi ll repeat itself.'

With the system of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and the rise of fascism throughout Europe, including the first suecessful election of a British National Party candidate, society it seems has already begun to forget the horrifie events of the past.

Fear and lack of understanding appear to be at the core of all these sickening events. Ignorance of other cultures easily inspires fear and as it breeds and intensifies, it's a small step to manifest itself into violent persecuti on.

As the main event of the week, we are extremely fortunate to have a talk given by a survivor of

a Nazi concentration camp and her husband, who was part of the camp's liberation force. In conjunction with this, a talk will be given by a couple who recently embarked on an aid mission to the former Yugoslavia. Last, but by no means least, our final intemational talk comes from Norfolk's very own Member of the European Parliament, Clive Needle.

Here are the details ...

• Friday 27th January 'World Carnival' takes place in St.Andrews Hall (also known as Blackfriars Hall) to celebrate the end of multicultural month in Norwich. Doors open at 7.30pm with a£ I entry for students. Food from six countries will be on sale and there will be cabaret from ten different cultures, plus a Kenyan ban d. Your Union will be there with a stall. Not to be missed!

• Monday 6th Feb ruary Come to a talk on the former Yugoslavia being given by Diana and Peter Beckley from the Norfolk and Norwich Novi Sad Association at I pm in the Bill Wilson Room (Union House). Novi Sad is a city in Serbia, twinned with Norwich. Diana and Peter have worked in Novi Sad's refugee camps which house war-tom vietims fro m all over the region, ineluding Bosnia and Croatia.

• Tuesday 7th February Schindler's List, the highl y acclai med Steven Spielberg film , showing at 7pm in Lecture Theatre 2. Buying a ticket to this will get you in fre e to Wednesday's main event.

• Wednesday 8th February The Holocaust, a talk by Norman and Gena Turgell from The Holocaust Educational Trust, I pm Lecture Theatre 2. Mrs. Turgell was in Belsen concentration camp at the time it was liberated in April 1945 and Mr. Turgell was part of the British army that liberated the camp. They met, fell in love and married a few months later. They have been married for 49 years and will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in October. Tickets wi ll go on sale in Union House at lunchtimes for. £I . All the proceeds will go to the Trust. Entry is free for those who buy tickets for Schindler's List.

A multicultural pub quiz will be held in the Back Bar at 8.30pm.

Prizes to be won!

• Thursday 9th Febr ua ry Clive Needle, Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk will give a talk at I pm in the Bill Wilson Room. Go and question your MEP. If you turn up to the evening's LCR disco in a National Costume of your choice, we knock £I off the entrance fee!

• Friday lOth February Come to an end of the week INTE RNATIONAL PARTY in room 1.33, Un ion House from 8 'til late, where there wi 11 be some free food and drink.

People wishing to help in the organisat ion o f a ny o f t h e above, please don't hesitate to contact Lara Woolford, Cornmunity and International Liaison Officer.

THE ANCIENTS k group of Univers ities have got together to spear ead a new campaign for the alleviation of student poverty.

The Ancients' name refers to the oldest Universities such as Oxford , London, Aberdee n, Edinburgh, Gl asgow and St. An drcws, inve nted as a media tag designed deliberate ly to foc us the med ia, a nd thro ugh the m th e public and politicians, on thei r own preconceptions of universities as remaining bastions of privilege within which poverty and debt are but a myth .

Already, the campaign has secured a motion in Parliament on

student hardship in general and the need as an absolute priority to restore students eligibility to Housing Bene fit and Income Support over the long vacation.

This provides a tangible, focused obj ective on which to lobby parli am enta rians . With the three ma in parl iamentary parties re viewing their existing H igher Education policies, enabli ng the opposi tion to dodge qu es tions of fu ture intent, this campaign provides an unprecedented opportunity to pin them down.

The passage of the Statutory Instruments (which includes the I 0% grant cut) takes place in the

House of Lords on January 30th. Lord Addington, a leading LibDem Peer, has confirmed that he has put down an objection which will initiate a debate on student poverty and call for the restoration of student entitl ement to Income Support and Housing Benefit.

This provides a mec hanis m both to highlight the iss ues in th e medi a and to lobby local MPs to put pressure on their party hierarchies to be sympathetic.

Write to your MP. Restore Housing Benefit and Income Support!

ono Turtle, EURJ . Anita Gibso n, EU R3 . Terry Ad ki n, WAM 2 (Deputy Return ing Officer). Shakeel Aslam, SYS2. William Baldwin, CHE2 . !an Brig ht , HIST2.

Shoshana Bunten, SOC2. Matt Canty, HISTI. Lorna ClarkeJones, EA S3. Gehrett Ellis, EU Rpg . Martin Harris, MATHI (Deputy chair). Daniel Helier, CHEI. Lesley Hunter, EAS pg. Donna Jackson, EAS2. Simon Law, SOC3.

Richard Lea, SYS2. Adele Louis, LAW !. Adam Maddock, CHE pg. Neil Monk, DEV I. Rebecca

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Rees, EAS2 . Damon Ro dd is, cation Act, affecting Student ENV3 (Chair). Mark Smyth, Unions, becomes law on April CHE3. Iona Wakely, SOCI. Paul 1st. To comply with the new Wolferstan, BI03. Colin Wood, legislation, we are having to DEV2. Richard Woodward, SOC I. produce a new constitution which must be ratified by the UnivmiWho are these people?

They are your elected repre- ty's Council. It presents a good sentatives on Students' Forum, the opportunity to change the way Union's second highest decision the Union is governed. Talk or making body, which also includes write to your School and year repthe Executive. Total number 38 (3 resentative! Don't let the Constinon-voting), quoracy 20. There are tution be written by one or two currently some extremely impor- individuals up in Union House. At tant issues being discussed fort- the end of the day, any changes to nightly, namely the Union's Con- our existing Constitution can only stitution and Union Policy lapses. be passed by a Union General Part 2 of the Government's Edu- Meeting.

ONE WORLD RECYCLE ·IN MAY YOUR DEV Soc, in conjunction with the I IERIES Union, are starting to plan a mas- M sive week of celebration, talent and awareness around a theme of 'One World'. All Clubs and Societies have been contacted and invited to participate on a grand scale which would involve showing off what you do best, during the week May 8th -13th. UEA's Open Day is to be Saturday May 13th when we are on show to the public, giving us a real opportunity to increase our awareness of clubs and societies and what they do. Come to the first planning meeting at 6pm Tuesday 7th February in the DEV Common Room (1st floor Arts Block)" with your ideas!

Why bother? Because, in addition to their non-biodegradable packaging and all the crap they've got in them, most batteries contain significant levels of heavy metals. If they are not properly disposed of, these leak into the e nvironment where they bioaccumulate causing damage to all forms of life. In humans, they can cause bone brittleness, kidney and brain damage, abnormal mental and physical development, paralysis and even death.

To recycle your batteries, put them in the boxes provided at the entrance to Union House.

At an Emergency General Meeting on 6th October 1993, the Union's Executive put a motion to you, the membership, asking whether or not we should re-open and operate The Waterfront under a seperate Union trading company. The motion was passed and trading began on I st December 1993. Our current lease runs out in March and it will be up to you to decide at the Union General Meeting on Feb 20th whether we should carry on operating the venue. You therefore have about a month to get down to the Waterfront, check it out and decide for yourself.

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Features

â&#x20AC;˘ As the end of the millennium approaches, Ma rk Austin suc cumbs to a bout of contagious millennia! fever and wonders where it is all leading ...

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n his 1946 foreword to 'Brave New World', Aldous Huxley emphasises that it is a book about the future and , whatever its artistic or philosophical qualities, a book about the future can interest us only if its prophecies look as though they might conceivably come true .

If his reasoning is correct, then we must be an endemically pessimistic race . lt means that we only find books and projections about the future interesti ng because we have a nagging feeling that they might one day become reality.

And most of these projections of the future about the future contain little to smile about.

Yet the quantity and popularity of material about the future is quite astounding .

From science fiction books and movies to horoscopes, from the fantasies of computer games to scientific treatises on the future of the planet, we are continually surrounded by visions of the future.

But from political commentators to comic strip artists , the future is almost universally portrayed as being in some sense

worse than the world we live in today.

If they are to be believed , the future is likely at best to contain the delights of social disintegration , while at worst, it won't exist at all because the human race will be entirely annihilated , either by itself or by some pre-ordained supernatural catastrophe .

And if we really only find such speculations fascinating because we imag ine they might come true , then we are either inordinately superstitious or the seeds of our destruction are already sown around us in today 's world .

Whichever theory you adhere to, it is nevertheless surprising to th ink that in our steadfastly rational age , such fascination about the future has such a hold over us.

As religion wanes in the face of reason , it seems that prophecies of an impending Day of Judgement and the accounting

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for of sins is ever present in our minds.

The future is when it will happen , and we find indubitable signs of it all around us.

You only have to witness the degenerating society in which we live and the impersonality of the technology by which we are surrounded to believe it, the damned cry remorselessly.

Unfortunately, the tw o phenomena - religious belief about the future and aspects of modern society - co-exist in a symbiotic relationship that feeds upon our sentimental attachment to remin iscences and times past.

'When I were a lad ', proclaimed Monty Python , 'we used to live in cardboard box in't middle o't road .'

The past may have been , and in most respects was, worse than the world in which we live today, but through the looking glass of time it contains redeeming features that at least make it feel good, unlike the present, which is near-un iversally derided as morally bankrupt and close to fragmentation .

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the flavou r of 1994, as we tried to escape from the depressing world we found around us.

'Forrest Gump', 'The Lion King' and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' reigned at the box office.

Trying to make ourselves feel better about the future , we were drawn towards spiritual health and characters in whom we could recogn ise the redeem ing asset of virtue.

For as that hero of the year Forrest Gump proclaimed : 'My momma always said , 'Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you 're going to get.'

We have amazing technology and have compressed the world into a fraction of its previous size, but still find ourselves unable to place our faith in the machines we have created .

We respect and revel in them, but at the back of our minds they rem ind us of the evil machines and computers we have seen in the cinema and read about in

is to say, the alternative to a changed society, is darkness."

Hobsbawm's fears are echoed -..._ by the French former business- - .- - - man turned MEP James Goldsmith in his book 'The Trap'.

"Rising long-term unemployment, increasing violence , 'growing poverty in urban slums, environmental deterioration and a general realisation that something fundamental has gone wrong .. .", screams the cover.

Goldsmith comes to the conclusion that the problem comes down to one of loss of religion and the lack of respect for nature fostered by the triumph of reason in the Enlightenment.

He shares with Hobsbawm a conviction that we have reached a turning point, conveniently signposted by the all too visible presence around the corner of the third millennium.

While not quite in the same league as Nostradamus' prediction of the end of the world in the seventh month of 1999, the two men's fears tap into a current of foreboding that finds manifestation in many aspects of contemporary society.

The feeling of isolation and imminent breakdown of political and social systems finds expression in a collective pessimism for the future that is countered only by a sense of personal optimism. vised people to prepare for the The sentiment is a curious mixture of 'I'd be alright if it end of the world .

Although perhaps not so ex- weren't for everyone else' and 'lt plicit in this post-Enlightenment won't happen to me'. age , the same underlying sentiSuch individualism as we apment can be detected nowadays. proach impending doom is not From politicians and econo- entirely unexpected -after all, our mists to historians and academ- primary instinct is to look after ics , there is a sharpening feeling ourselves. that mankind has reached a deYet it highlights the lack of recisive point in its history. ligious observance , as the Whether it was inevitable that maxim 'Love they neighbour as it should coincide with the turn- thyself' acquires a spurious holing of the millennium is a matter lowness. open to debate, but all the eviSuch defensive individualism dence points to it being at least has arisen from recent world popossible. litical events as much as anyIn his book 'Age of Extremes: thing .

The Short Twentieth Century', The loss of identity with the published towards the end of end of the Cold War, the lack of last yea r, the historian Eric political ideas and the loss of Hobsbawm refers to such a power of national governments possibility. have all contributed to this.

"The future cannot be a conBarely a day now passes with~~eft"* tinuation of the out the sense of despair being '1-- 10 past, and there evident. are signs, both externally, and, The disorder of the world is laas it were, internally, that we have mented daily. reached a point of historic Specu lation continues over crisis .. .. Our world risks both ex- how long governments can replosion and implosion. tain their authority.

"If humanity is to have a recArguments rage about how ognisable future , it cannot be by the people can be put back in touch with the political system. prolonging the past or present.

"If we try to build the third milPoliticians no longer disagree lennium on that basis, we shall about what is wrong with the fail. world , but how it can best be "And the price of failu re, that addressed . Faced with a society

! books . There is always the nagging doubt that technology will be our downfall.

The Terminator stalks through our minds as we contemplate the future and so we find the past is the only source of comfort , but even there , the religious prophecies of Judgement haunt us and we turn reluctantly back to our cold , shining present.

With a new year recently upon us, the sense of drift and fear at the present time is increasing.

We are only five years from the end of the millennium and the start of the third and in the view of many people are already in the grip of so-called millennia! fever, a condition said to have occurred before at the end of the first millen nium when the Church ad-

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Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump: 'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.' where we are continuously told that there is no longer such a thing as a 'job for life', we worry about the future and how we will be able to pick our way through it with images from futuristic films and books flooding into our imaginations.

Living in such an uncertain world, is it any wonder that we find ourselves engulfed by our superstitions and look within ourselves for help as we face the third millennium?

The celebrated lack of a 'feel good' factor emerging as the economy picks up speed is no surprise.

We no longer have the ability to feel good about the economy and society.

Our benevolence has instead been directed internally for our own personal use.

The recent introduction of the National Lottery and its continuing success is another symptom of the advent of millennia! fever.

In Saatchi and Saatchi's adverts, the fickle finger of fate falls upon the lucky winner for no other reason other than that they were that - lucky.

Our superstitions bear us up as we believe that 'it could be us' and we put our faith in our quirky beliefs.

Millions enter the draw every week in the hope of winning a jackpot that will mean an end to financial worries for the rest of their lives.

People across the country succumb to the delusion that it is they who will win this week, next week, the week after.

The intimation spreads that money does not have to be

worked for any longer.

That it is us who really deserves it and that all we have to do get it is fill in our lottery board correctly.

Money is no longer tied inextricably to work and winning a couple of million pounds is not in the realm ofthe extraordinary as it once was. lt has entered our quotidian lives as a tangible reality and become part of the philosophy that we must all look after our-

fact that mankind has made it to the third millennium.

The magic finality of the year 2000 holds us in its iron grip, just as the magic perceived finality of the year 1000 similarly held our forebears in its grasp.

As Prince, that acclaimed judge of the 'sign o' the times', wrote in his song entitled

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Acting like latter-day scrooges, we may delight in shouting 'humbug' at the turn of the millennium on December 311999 selves in these uncertain times if we want to survive.

We no longer believe that the State will do it for us.

Acting like latter-day Scrooges, we may delight in shouting humbug at the turn of the millennium on December 31 1999, as the Millennium Commission unveils the festivities that have been laid on using the money we put aside in securing our own personal fortunes.

Of course, sufferers from the contagious millennia! fever may find themselves hiding under the bed, clutching their lucky lottery ticket when the millennium switches from the second to the third .

Fingers in ears , they may wait for imminent destruction as the fireworks explode around them and grandiose new buildings are opened celebrating the

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The proof of the validity of doubts about the future is provided , as Aldous Huxley noted, by the very fact that such widespread doubts and millennia! fever exist.

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Classic quotes of '92

Classic quotes of '93

Classic quotes of '94 CJ"I can't spot a hit If Ifs rolled up and stuck up my bottom."

Right Said Fred's Richard Fairbrass on the selection process for the band's singles.

CJ"If you can't be a W""**r when you're a student, when can you be?"

CJ"Most of us are too old for that type of thing anyway."

Ex-UEA student, comedian Arthur Smith on his time at the University.

Mike Carr of EUR on the prospect of a rep>rl into lecturers having sex with students

CJEvenitV News Joumalst to Cathy Dennis at Sound City '92:

CJ"I believe In Unions but this one Is a bit s**t"

"Did seeing the kazoo orchestra take you back to your school days In Norwich ?"

Cathy: "No."

One ofthe few students to attend UGM in February which was declared a complete f1op

CJ"Every woman student who goes lrrto medicine or law Is robbing CJ"It's a t"****g accident I find it upsetting when I think about it"

us of a job."

The UEA guide to third century sexual p<~itics by John Sexist Pig, Norwich.

Terry Christian, 'Presenter' of The WOid, on hisjob.

CJ"I ought to know this, I was on the planning committee."

CJ"I remember once walking to university with my flute under my arm, being pursued up a rather long stretch of road by a gang of sklnheads wtlo were determined to kick the s""t out of me."

Writer; fan McEwan, on his days at UEA.

CJ"Anybody who Isn't capable of changing their mind, hasn't really got a mind."

CJ" I did not feel happy with the Executive. itfelt like a group of little 9lrts and boys playing at being men and women."

Neil Kinnock on his transformation from ranting CND supporter to discplined Labour leader.

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual officer Jono Turtle, who resigned.

CJ"But unfortunately he put his foot In his mouth, or In somebody else's mouth, as the case may be."

Barry Norman on David Melior; the MP he thought could get things done in Parliament.

Comedian Paul W'hitehouse's reply when we asked him how useful he found his UEA degree in the worlqJiace. Smashing really. ..

Prof Chris Bigsby's reply when asked the names of the new residences...

OVer the last three years, everyone's had their favourite stories, so we'vefound some of the best and worst moments and put together this feature, plus others in the Film and Music sections of 'The Evenf. We hope you enjoy it

CJ"I sho1id hope they wear underpants."

Dr Claytcn, Dean of ENV, on the most popular item of student clothing.

CJ"I failed."

•Issue One From an office in EAS, ourfirst issuewas produced. 'Modular Mess Up?' asked the front page headline, as we infonned students of the switch to the semester system.

Three years later, many people are still asking the same question.

The centre spread revealed how One FM had announced a brand new music festival would be held in the musical backwater of Norwich.

Meanwhile, we revealed that students are more likely to put condoms on their heads rather than where it counts, and Arthur Miller suddenly became the author John Fowles when we miscaptioned a picture.

•Issue Four Tragedy struck when a minibus carrying UEA Hockey players overturned on the way to a game.

The then Union Finance Officer, Chris Hall, was rushed to intensive care and described to be in a "serious condition• at hospital.

Our first major 'cock-up' came when the words 'Gambling Feature Headline' was splashed across the page where an actual headline should have appeared.

At least we didn't print 'Subheadline Goes Here' too.

•Issue Thirty Four The Law Ball finally got its 6am go-ahead but defeated petition organiser, Lynne Wright, vowed to fight on. On a more historic note, we looked into the history of Fifers Lane as the time for the much-loved residences to shut down grew closer.

Mark Lamarr graced our pages with his comic talent in an interview on the eve of the comedian's stand up gig at NAC. •Issue Thirty Five With Finals over, Caroline Jenkinson suggested some pursuits to fill time which didn't include prop- · ping up the bar.

An investigation into the Criminal Justice Bill suggested that the country was at the mercy of the police and that we were all on the verge of a worrying '1984' scenerio.

Blur returned to the LCR with a triumphant sell-out g ig to publicise their new 'Parklife' album, for many the ideal end-of-year celebration...

•Issue Thirty Six Our front page story told the tale of two Union sabbs, a GSA bar and a lock-in.

Elsewhere, we published the definitive Fresher's Guide to UEA and Norwich.

Concrete celebrates its third birthday this week with the publication of its forty second issue. Nick Amies looks at some of the highlights and lowlights of our past few years ...

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Major cock-up number two: two pairs of flares appeared on the page where ECN (ollr printers) should have reproduced a table from The Guardian.

•Issue Thirteen One FM's Simon Mayo got political when he chaired a debate on campus and a porter was viciously attacked whilst apprehending a cycle thief.

Concrete tested the condom's big sister, The Femidom, and suggested 10 alternative uses for those who can't get lucky.

•Issue Six Our controversial cover story told of the tragic death of a UEA student.

•Issue Fourteen We revealed how crime was o·n the increase ill the city, with students falling victim to a number of attacks.

More celebrity interviews included film star Bridget Fonda and indie darlings, Shonen Knife.

•Issue Sixteen Norwich's premier music venue, The Waterfront, closed down due to rising debts, but a rescue package put to-

gether by UEA's Student Union looked likely to secure its future.

We investigated 'Green Card Marriages' and the problems faced by people who wanted to marry loved ones who were without British citizenship.

Norwich City's then manager, Mike Walker, (or 'Judas' to some) told Con- . crete of his long term plans for the future of the club and his philosophy on how to run a small but successful football club.

•Issue Seventeen RAG week was proclaimed a complete disaster with students claiming that they didn't even know that anything had been organised.

Students tried their hands at sumo wrestling in a 'Live in the Hive' event, but were spared any gratuitous exposure of flesh due to the large rubber sumo-suits which were worn by participants.

Comedienne Jo Brand proved she was a big star in more ways than one in an exclusive interview...

•Issue Nineteen We reported on a proposed £100,000 face lift

to Union House which was supposedtoturn the existing UHentrance into an airport departure lounge style creation.

Sadly, this didn't happen and in 1995, UEA students get Ritzy meets the LCR for a refurbishment...

The Waterfront was due to re-open for three weeks for a series of one off events, and its future was beginning to look a little better.

We also published our first feature on the triumphs and traumas of living out in Norwich.

•Issue Twenty One UEA officials requested 'sensible behaviour' from finalists after the completion of three years slog,

•Issue Twenty Two Worlds Apart come to the new Virgin Megastorel Say no more...

•Issue Twenty Four A vote by UEA students overwhelmingly endorsed the Union's plan to reopen The Waterfront, and the Union Exec said the venue could be opened in the following three weeks for an initial six month trial period.

A double feature on the history and expected future of the venue was printed in our newly-launched colour entertainment and leisure guide, The

Event.

•Issue Twenty Five Former UEA Housing Chief, Roger Lloyd, said that he was under no moral obligation to provide security of any nature in student accomodation - a resident of Mary Chapman Court said she was too scared to go out alone after two attempted attacks on her, outside the City accomodation.

offices with passionate pleas to such hunks as 'Fat Bloke', 'Snot Rag' and 'Mogwai' from campus babes such as 'Fluffy Bunny', 'Peartree' and 'Lamb Chop' ...

On the subject of love and relationships, we investigated the age of consent debate and the f~ght for equality by gay men.

•Issue Twenty Nine 0 and P block residents were told they had to leave their accomodation at Fifers Lane after a U-turn decision by bungling Accommodation bosses.

Residents were told they could stay only to hear that friendships and belongings were to be turned upside down and that they were to be rehoused elsewhere on the site.

This, our main story, was our first full colour front page.

•Issue Thirty Three The fight to stage the Law Ball continued to rage between local residents UEA's Law Society.

A petition from nearby homeowners threatened to cut the late night licence from a 6am finish to midnight due to the noise generated by past events, but the ball organisers were confident that it'd be full steam ahead... On a more trendy note, the Union's Summer Fashion Show once again eclipsed the Clothes Show Live event (I) with a stunning turnout by retailers, models and supporters alike.

We carried a double photo spread of the beautiful people strutting their funky stuff.

•Issue Thirty Yet another full colour front page for Valentines Day. Lovestruck students inundated the

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From the very first issue, which previewed the gig line up for 1992 including Lush, EMF, Ride and The Sugarcubes, we have brought you the very best in contemporary music reports.

Records which were released in time for analysis in the first issue (January '92) were Primal Scream's 'Dilcie Narco E.P', Teenage Fanclub's 'What You Do To Me' and Mega City Four's 'Stop' E.P. Other top bands to play UEA LCR in that year were lnspiral Carpets, Kingmaker, Bjom Again, Spiritualized, PWEI, Ugly Kid Joe, The Australian Doors, Galliano and Neds Atomic Dustbin.

The Waterfront became the focus of the country's music industry as it played host to the first 'Sound City' festival sponsored by Radio One FM. lt was the perfect response to the music press' swipe at the music scene in Norwich. The NME wrote in 1985, "musically, Norwich is deep in village idiot land".

By the end of April 1992, every music publication in the country was proclaiming that Norwich was a thriving hot bed of musical support and talent. Millions of music fans heard blistering sets from bands such as Carter USM, The Farm, Catherine Wheel, L7, The Shamen and The Prodigy - all from the stage of our own Waterfront.

Classic quotes from the festival included Billy Bragg answering a question on who he would have liked to have

•Nick Amies looks back on three years of 'poptastic' music coverage within the pages of Concrete and The Event

Blur graced the LCR stage in '94, aa did Teenage Fanclub (inset) seen at Norwich Sound City '92 in which he replied, ' I'd like to have seen Phil Oakes up there... but unfortunately he's dead.' and long time campaigner for the local music scene, DJ John Peel on

Worlds Apart opened the Megastore. Only one of the

his modest contribution to The Waterfront's success "lt's not as though I went there and took my coat off and got down and did a bit of plastering or anything like that..."

1993 started slowly with the then entertainment supplement 'Happenings' featuring local band Magic Johnson, regulars at the Waterfront's showcase night for local bands, 'Shoot the Canary'.

Gigs to look forward to later in the year would be Stereo MCs, Jesus Jones and Sultans of Ping playing the LCR. Belly were reviewed in the March 3rd issue after their triumphant Wilde Club gig at NAC. On the eve of the '93 Brit Awards, Niall Hampton investigated the whole concept of honouring the best of British, only to discover the sham behind the selection process and the strings that were being pulled by powerful hands to award the honours to media friendly artists rather than talented musicians.

We also said goodbye to the 'Happenings' section and welcomed the entertainment and leisure guide The Event to the Concrete stable. The

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The first issue featured an in depth interview with lemonheads frontman and object of desire, Evan Dando, on the eve of their LCR gig. The laid-back guru of slackerdom described his role as singer/songwriter/ sexgod as "a really nice job I've found and it's really good fun . lt's like having a really cool necklace .. ." Err, thank you Evan, I think ..?

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birt~day ISSUe makeup and dance around a bit and people will go 'Ahhh, I recognise him', and then when I put my moustache on and darl< glasses, I can shop at Tesco's".

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"lt's a really nice iob I've found and it's really good fun. lt's like having a really cool necldace... " - Evan Dando's words of wisdom

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Before the end of the year, and the end of it's independent life, The Eventfeatured an interview with Therapy? and reviews of gigs by Blur, Senser, Jamiroquai, Manic Street Preachers and Elastica.

1995 promises to be yet another fine year for music in Norwich with the LCR playing host to such bands as Suede, Belly. a Club Dog spectacular and The Charlatans and such bands as Radiohead , Sleeper and Blue Aeroplanes playing live at the Waterfront. Other red-hot tunes will come from techno band Globo along with regular dance nights such as Milky Lunch for the adrenaline junkies amongst you. Whatever your musical preference, Concrete will endeavour to bring you the latest news on all gigs, club nights and events happening in your area. And the best interviewstoo!

Towards the end of '93, The their first single and the immiEvent continued to be exnent release of their debut tremely popular and continalbum ued to surpass all student "I don't like Take That and I newspapers in the country. don't like Suede ." Wayne Right Said Fred graced the Hussey went on to tell The pages of the November ediEvent who he actually DID tion with an interview which like in an in-depth interview in lifted the lid off the Freddies The Event to promote The Phenomenon . Richard Mission's February show at Fairbrass told The Event that LCR . A certain Andrew Elhe loved Norfolk after being dritch was not one of the brought up in the county and people on Wayne's Christmas revealed his object of desire card list... in the music business ... "Mali( Sadly, although a great comOwen is very cute, what can I mercial success. the worl<load say?" for us students was too great, Teenage Fanclub played UEA LCR in November and were the cover stars of the November 23rd edition . They commanded a double spread feature for their interview and filled the pages with their Scottish wit and denials of being a Big Star tribute band!

The new year began with a host of gigs, mostly excellent performances from the likes of James Taylor Quartet, Julianna Hatfield and The Kinks with a rather lacklustre show from Grant Lee Buffalo being one of the few exceptions.

The re-opening of The Waterfront by the Student Union was celebrated with John Peel once again extolling the county's premier music venue and previewing East Anglia's first taste of MegaDog madness. Bringing ambience to 'village idiot land' were Aphex Twin , Banco de Gaia and Eat Static. Up yours NME! (Enn, sorry? - Ed) Peter Cunnah of D:Ream offered words of wisdom in the pages of The Event in ~ February of '94 and revealed his secret for dealing with ai stardom and being mobbed in :::E the streets, .. 1can put my stupid suits on , a bit of 'Where's Me Jumper?' asked the Sultans of Ping

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OSiouxsie and the Banshees are back to grace the LCR stage on Weds Feb 8.

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Pl ty of ha:Lr. Not JUS . and big boots. en l. k . t would strangle you :Ln a Really long hair that looks ~ ~ :Lgons and other such subjects strong wind . Tattoos, usually o ra f forty and say , "Damn . I d at the age o that one would turn roun t that tattoo parlour" . really wish I hadn ' t gd ne o ? Th e "mos h " . This i s a hybrid of And hOW do they ance. h " the Sex Pistols , minus the d when watc 1.ng ·1 what people use d t o o . . t o absolutely mental wh:L st "pogo" move. Yes, you bas:LcallY_Jusdg d odd people in the near f the two hun re keeping an eye out or . in the vein hope of tryi ng to stay vicinity doing the same th:Lng ~ a ood second to this . alive . Simply head ban};:Ln~ re l i s t e n i n g to Heavy How do yo~ know w e I l" stening to is the equivalent Metal musl.C? I f what you re 1. kitten . .. bingo , that ' s a JCB being dropped on a in weight to There isn't a HEAVY Meta l . ?

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WOULD YOU like to be the proud owner of a SIGNED Manic Street Preachers LP, asks Caroline Jenkinson.

A lovely, luscious copy of the debut album 'Generation Terrorists', resplendent with 18 smashing tracks?

And not only that, but would you like to help some horses at the same time?

"What?!" I hear you cry.

"What have the Manics got to do with a posse of equines?"

Well , the Manics have kindly donated the aforementioned

CD to the International League for the Protection of Horses. And it is now in the possession of UEA's Riding Club, who are looking for bids for this fine item .

There is a minimum bid limit, but all bids are welcome, and you 've got a month to register them . eso pop your bid on a postcard , and send it to Amanda Gregory, c/o UEA Riding Club, Sports Centre.

Dlf you're a drummer kind of person, then you'll want to visit the Pearl Master Drum Clinic at The Waterfront, also on Weds Feb 8. lt features Mark Mondesir (Courtney Pine) and M-People's Andy Gangadeen. Tickets are £3 from Cookes on St Benedicts. Call 632717 for more info.

DBuy your tickets now for the gig of the term (maybe)Sleeper at The Waterfront. it's on Monday Feb 27, and tickets are £4.50 in advance.

Other Wilde Club gigs coming soon include Animals That Swim on Jan 30 and A C Acoustics on Feb 6.

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Set up in September last year, Musician's Link provides a service for bands who wish to get gigs in other parts of the country. By putting like-

minded bands from different areas in touch, they can each organize a local gig and invite the other band to come and support them , thus ensuring each plays to a packed house in another area . lt also helps to cut down the costs of booking and publicising gigs which take place in 'unfamiliar' territory.

£10 is the small price to pay for membership of this musician's 'dating agency', and you must send them a good, clear demo/practice tape.

• For more information, and/ or an application form , write to Musician's Link, PO Box 21 , Lancaster, LA 1 1DH . Or alternatively, ring (01524) 847443 . Caroline Jenkinson

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MV 'The Rapture' is an eclectic mix of styles. Sometimes rocky, sometimes moving to a mellow feel with the tracks like 'Forever', which is reminiscent of the Cocteau Twins.

'Sick Child' and 'The Lonely One' are two tracks that are especially catchy, and which surpass '0 Baby', the rather disappointing single released in late December.

The title track of the album gives us Siouxsie Sioux's deep, rich voice soaring over a melodic bassline. lt then moves into an almost 'flamenco' feel adding another string to the album's bow.

'The Rapture' gives us the first taste of Siouxsie and the Banshees material since the release of the successful 1991 album 'Superstition'. The album as a whole is definitely worth a listen, so pick it up. lt's out now.

David Hall

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Weezer's four members all seem to take themsleves a bit seriously when you talk to them, but you can't help feeling that perhaps they're just having a bit of a joke. lt's the same with their wacky punky pop, but almost in reverse.

'Undone' sounds like a ridiculous title for.a song, but it turns out to be all about how someone's love has come undone like their sweater. Serious stuff really. I think.

Peter Hart

The start of February sees the Perfecto label releasing new offerings from both Paul Oakenfold and Jon Of The Pleased Wlmmin.

Jon's 'Passion' is a disco screamer full of countdown vocals and chinky pianos, while Paul's song of praise to early SO's homblowing takes that trumpet riff from Plgbag's hit from a while back,. Uke 'Passion', 'Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag)' is simply ace. Just room to mention one more release - 'This Is Fort Apache', an introductory album documenting the history of the Boston recording studio of the same name. lt features bands from Dinosaur Jr. to The Walkabouts and Billy Bragg to Radiohead.

Top smart stuff indeed.

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This track will no doubt grace the higher numbers of the charts, and possibly even the Ritzy's dancefloor.

Unfortunately, that's it. Nothing new here I'm, afraid.

If you're a fan of the Apache Indian you might dig the generic to-ing and fro-ing between straight hip-hop and the Apache's gutteral ragga style. However, if you're not a fan, forget it.

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Then tfley kick into the chorus and all sorts of horrendous things spring to mind, like Def Leppard.

The vocals and predictable hooks in the song make it instantly forgettable.

The one saving grace of the song is that groove which pumps under a top end that is lacking. lt is a shame because the third track on the CD format of the single, 'Never Haunted' is really good, but for one track ... save David Hall your money. 'Something to Miss' is right.

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Well, what can you say? lt's Carter through and through.

The vocals carry their usual mix of aggression with an English accent, along with a funky beat.

The chorus is extremely catchy, and having seen them perform it live, I can vouch for the fact that people were singing along on their first hearing of it.

Another great thing is that all formats are backed with Carter's cover of Shampoo's 'Trouble'.

Absolutely hysterical and makes it worth the money for the single. Buy it David Hall

This track is weird. lt reminds me of the Cranberries, but I know there is a bloke singing, which is kind of freaky.

The music itself is very controlled with nicely undulating dynamics that wavers pleasantly between commercial pop and something a bit different.

There is a mix of smooth, soulful vocals over guitars that are sometimes clean but most effective when the ol' distortion kicks in.

Basically, its a low stress song that is extremely accessible for radio.

This track will have heads bopping in the car while listening to Radio One FM. As The Times said, "Buy, buy, buy".

David Hall Absolutely.

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Th;, 01 ~cs.;_m _._ _. :._ .I] _ ._-=---l-~] ........ ecaroline Jenkinson and William Neil compile their list of the top ten films that Concrete has reviewed over its three years

J Schindler's List CAROLINE: This is my favourite film of all time. That might seem a strange thing to say, seeing as it's hardly easy or pleasant viewing ; certainly, the first time I saw it, I became incredibly distressed . That though, is what makes me regard this film so highly. No one should ever be allowed to forget just how cruel man can be to his fellow man, and this film provides a timely reminder, however painful that might be. lt deserved all its Oscars and should have got more - Liam Neeson was robbed of the Best Actor award , and why wasn't Ben Kings ley even nominated for Best Supporting Actor?

WILL: Yes, but it doesn't compare well with 'Mrs Doubtfire'.

Speed CAROLINE: Well , it ain't no 'Citizen Kane', that's for sure . Little plot, two-dimensional characters and nothing even remotely artistic in sight. But that's what makes 'Speed' so top-notch I mean, most 'action' films seem to be desperate nowadays to carry some 'moral' message (Steven Seagal , please take note) or give their hero a caring/tortured/complete jessie-ish

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Whee/y dumb or bustin' for a thrill (geddit?). Keanu and Sandra side . Pur-lease! Whatever happened to escapism? At least 'Speed ' doesn 't bother with all this pussy-footing about, and gets straight down to some top exploding bus

action with Keanu Reeves at the wheel!

WILL: I have to agree on this one - disposable 'rollercoaster cinema ' at its best.

Much Ado About Nothing CAROLINE: KEANU REEVES IN LEATHER TROUSERS!!! !!

What more can you say?

Well , I suppose it's also a warmly amusing film adaptation of the Shakespeare play, with 'darling ' Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson romping around some very pretty gardens in Italy. And I suppose it's worth seeing for the impressive cast list - who on earth would have ever thought of putting Denzel Washington and Richard Brie rs in the

same movie? Good on yer, 'Ken'.

"A Whole New World". Blub.

WILL: As long as Branagh sticks to adaptations and doesn't repeat the dreadful 'Dead Again' he gets my support.

WILL: I'd like to say 'patronising corporate Disney b*ll*cks' , but much to my annoyance Robin Williams redeemed it.

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Jurassic Park

CAROLINE: You can't go wrong with a Disney, can you? No matter how old and cynical you are, you'll still get a lump in your throat when it all ends so happily. They're masters in the classic story adaptation department, and 'Aiaddin ' is a perfect example of that. Casting Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie was inspired; he brings just the right amount of lunacy into the movie to stop it from being too sentimental. And being a sloppy girlie, I just adored the song

CAROLINE: Well , it had to get a mention , seeing as it's the highest grossing movie of all time. Not to mention one of the most hyped. Yes, you too could not only see the film, but possess the T-shirt, mug , baseball cap, plastic models and anything else the marketing department could stick the 'JP ' logo on . suppose it was all justified though. Live actors cavorting with spookily lifelike models in perfect time; three cheers for technology !

WILL: You 're kidding! If it was '65 million years in the making' they could 've spent more than five minutes on the script, which dilutes and distorts the atmosphere of Crichton's novel.

Reservoir Dogs/ Pulp Fiction WILL: This pair probably needs little explanation . The sheer power and economy of 'Dogs' clearly signalled the arrival of a new Hollywood auteur. Meanwhile, 'Pulp Fiction ' more than adequately met its expectations in its depiction of a culture where even life has become cheap and throwaway. Both films also revealed the directors obvious

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talent for trashy, yet engrossing dialogue. Regardless of any arguments over their merits, the fact remains that these films, more than any others so far, have constituted essential parts of the nineties 'cinema experience'. My award for 'Biggest Single Contribution to Popular Culture of Recent Times' therefore goes to Quentin Tarantino.

CAROLINE: Tarantino might think that he's well hard, but stick him in front of 'Las!lie Come Home' and I bet he'd cry like a baby.

Twin Peaks • Fire Walk With Me WILL: In my opinion, a much underrated film . lt clearly has its flaws - at a few points you get the impression David Lynch is directing on 'autopilot' after 26 episodes of the series, and perhaps inevitably, the ending is not entirely satisfying . Despite this , it has more than enough flashes of surreal brilliance to compensate.. However, the most consistently impressive aspect of the film is its exemplary soundtrack, which surpasses even that of Lynch's 'Blue Velvet' .

CAROLINE: A damn fine

cherry pie indeed .

Orlando WILL: Th;s film is quite simply an uniquely enjoyable experience, and European art cinema at its most accessible and enchanting .

That it lacks the controversial impact of Virginia Woolf's novel is neither surprising, nor does it detract from the film 's many merits. Visually, it is a consistently lavish spectacle, rivalling Peter Greenaway at his most indulgent. However, Orlando offers something which Greenaway cannot, or will not. The film clearly has a heart, and delivers great pleasure as well as more intellectual fascinations .

CAROLINE: If it doesn't involve explosions, sex or Uam Neeson then I'm not really very interested.

Three Colours: Blue/White/Red WILL: Belonging to a quite different strand of art cinema, Krzysztof Kieslowski's loosely-connected trilogy provided a characteristic combination of humanist themes and some of the most mesmerising images

of recent years. Each delivers its own delights, but in my opinion 'Red' is the most perfectly accomplished - though this may have something to do with the presence of the stunning lrene Jacob.

Kieslowski has said that 'Red' may well be his last film. If this proves true, this can only be regarded as a considerable loss to European art cinema .

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CAROLINE: Oh yes. A ship full of military personnel, who can't handle a few caterers and a duff rock group?

Highly believable (and highly amusing) stuff. And the good news is that they're currently making ' Under Siege 11'.

CAROLINE: See my quote above .

Under Siege WILL: By contrast, few critics would mourn the loss of the director of this outstanding piece of garbage. Described in Sight and Sound as 'risible', such a condemnation ignores its many 'charms'. lt clearly works best as a 'lad's video', best consumed with a liberal supply of lager, but it also offers the intellectual set a soft target for deconstruction and, for the politically correct, the chance to stare in disbelief for approximately 102 minutes.

Though it faced strong competition, not the from the truly inspired 'Boxing Helena', this wins my awards for both 'Most Absurd Initial Premise' and 'Most Gratuitous Use of Breasts' (Non-Porn Section).

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This is complemented by a

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Also present is the familiar mixture of dark humour and suspense that earned him the reputation of 'the French Hitchcock'.

The result is a gripping and charismatic film which outshines recent Hollywood efforts at the 'psychothriller', not least through its eschewing of the formulaic in favour of a quintessentially Gallic unpredictability.

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Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) is what could best be described as a hopeful romantic.

At the age of 11 , she asked her Ouija Board the name of the man who was meant for her, and the Board spelt out the answer 'Damon Bradley'.

Then, at the age of 14, she asked a fortune teller the same question, and received the same answer. Spooky stuff.

For years, the name would be all that Faith knew about her supposed soul mate, but just days before her marriage to a podiatrist (whatever that is), Faith receives a phone call from her fiance's old school friend , who is on his way to Venice. And his name just happens to be ... Damon Bradley.

Not surprisingly, Faith gets on the next plane to Italy. Determined to at least see her perfect mate, she meets someone who she believes to be Mr

Right, but is in fact Mr Peter Wright (Robert Downey Jr) an American shoe salesman who becomes smitten with her.

Peter becomes the missing link in her search for Faith's other half, which will take her not only from the Adriatic to the Amalfi coast, but into the most uncharted territory of all. .. true love.

Director Norman Jewison says that the film embraces · everything romantic from Plato's philosophical theory of circles to Wait Disney's take on Cinderella. it's part fairy tale, part fable , part mystery, part myth.• Judge for yourself when you decide to share the back row with someone you love.

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Dir: Alan Parker Odeon - from Feb 3 'The Road to Wellville' stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as the eccentric Or John Harvey Kellogg, the inventorofthe comflake and peanut butter and a complete health freak to

boot.

Or Kellogg lectures at his world famous Battle Creek Sanitarium, a hospital and hotel rolled into one. His job is to wam and cure people from the dangers of eating meat, drinking alcohol and engaging in sexual activity.

Alongside Hopkins are a host of other big names. Bridget Fonda plays Eleanor Lightbody, an ardent follower of the Doctor. Eleanor has brought her husband Will (Matthew Broderick) along to 'The San' to improve their health and marriage.

Unfortunately for Will, he doesn't take to 'The San' as

easily as his wife, and the constant enemas and painful treatments leave him feeling weak and unsurprisingly fed up.

The only comfort he has is the beautiful Nurse Graves (Traci Lind). She, however, is more interested in keeping to the Doctor's prescri bed methods than having an affair.

Besides, as time goes on, Will begins to realise just how much he actually loves his w ife.

Weaving in and out of this central story are a host of other characters, including Charles Ossining (John Cusack), a young capitalist who is hoping to become the next wealthy breakfast food tycoon, and George Kellogg (Dana 'Wayne's World' Carvey), the Doctor's estranged adopted son who defies every healthy maxim his father imposes.

So if you can 't stand the sight of Mr Motivator in the mornings, this film might prove to be the perfect antidote ....

0/ivia Simmons

ontinuing the current trend for Gothic films , 'Interview with the Vampire ' contains the obligatory blood and guts.

However, this adaptation of the An ne Rice novel is not your runof-the-mill horror movie.

Instead, the film oozes originality and is backed up by some reassuringly good acting.

Tom Cruise, who plays the evil vampire Lestat, has already been tipped for an Oscar, but it is Brad Pitt (Louis) and young newcomer Kirsten Dunst (Ciaudia) who provide the most memorable and compelling performances.

A new perspective is given to the traditional theme, for we see the story through the eyes of one of

the vampires.

This tale is chilling and at times gory, but it is also a sympathetic account of Louis' struggle to come to terms with what he has become; which makes this both an entertaining and a moving fim.

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GOANDSEESTARGATE, 'COS IT'S UTTERLY, UTTERLY WONDERFUL. Forget all those prattlings from lesser rags like NME , who winge on about how it's complete codswallop. What do they know?

OK, I admit th at it does look like a poor relation to 'Star

Wars ' and ' Star Trek' , and that James Spader and Kurt Russell are ha rdly the most enigmatic of heroes .

A nd yes, it is completely ludicrous that three soldiers with limited weaponry can defeat a planet-enslaving demi-god w ith more powers than your average Ranger.

ltis , infact, completetosh.

But being so lightweight and throwaway is what makes it so perfect.

If you love sci-fi films and you don't want to be too deep and meaningful for a couple of hours, then 'Stargate' is ideal viewing.

Caroline Jenkinson

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The best offerings this fortnight have to be 'Bride of Frankenstein' and 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'.

With the current revival of the horror genre, most notably in the form of'lnterviewwith the Vampire' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Frankenstein', James VI/hale's 1935 classic, 'Bride of Frankenstein', makes interesting viewing.

A prologue between Lord Byron

and Mary Shelley sets the scene for the revival of the Monster (played by 8oris Karloff, who starred in the original1931 ll10'.Iie).

The sinister Dr Praetorius (Ernest Thesiger) persuades Frankenstein (Colin Clive)to continue his experiments on the creation of life in order to produce a female companion for the

Monster.

The female Frankie is played by Eisa Lanchester, who also takes the role ofMary Shelley.

Get spooked with 'The Bride of Frankenstein' on Friday January 27at12.15am.

In complete contrast, 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' is a

merry little tale, starring that king of the swashbucklers, Errol

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Olivia de Havilland makes a suitably Hollywood-glamourous Maid Marian, whilst Basil Rathbone, probably known best for his Sherlock Holmes films, plays the evil Guy of Gisboume.

Don your Lincoln Green for Sunday January 29, at 2pm.

And don't forget, there are many more fine films to come, so make sure you're well stacked up with the popcorn!

Watch out next week for our new Films on the Box columnit'll be hot, happening and utterly unmissable!

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Malice, Retail- £12 .99 Newlyweds Nicole Kidman and Bill Pullman take in whizzkid doctor Alec Baldwin as a lodger . Unfortunately, Baldwin removes Kidman's ovaries by mistake. Kidman gets compensation, meanwhile Pullman catches a local murderer. But, since we are only half way through the film, all is not what it seems.

'Malice' is the 'psycho-thriller' pushed close to its logical

conclusion . In the wake of 'Fatal Attraction', 'Single White Female', ' Pacific Heights' etc such films have relied upon ever more ridiculous plot twists and surprises.

'Malice' simply throws all the familiar themes - betrayal, voyeurism, sexual promiscuity, murder and rape - into the melting pot. As a result it takes the genre to the stage where serial killers function as minor

sub-plots, the audience trusts no one, and the film simply becomes a 'spot the nutter' competition.

Having said this, 'Malice' really does go for the jugular in its attempt to be compelling. lt plays upon some particularly potent human sensitivities concerning adultery, infertility and mutilation - borrowing the gynaecological squeamishness of 'Dead Ringers'.

There are also some hilariously camp moments - most deriving from Baldwin's outrageous performance or his equally unreal carpet-chest. If you can temporarily disengage your brain, or you've a taste for the ridiculous, you might just love it.

William Neil

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ONCRETE is to sponsor the first production by the newly formed Blue Stocking Theatre Company, Willy Russell 's play 'Stags and Hens '.

The company is organised and run by UEA students Jacqui Mackay, Ruth van Rijbroek and Kaja Holloway.

The company was formed after members of the production team had spent the summer touring with a local theatre group.

And it was from this experience that came the inspiration for the Blue Stocking Theatre Company.

They discovered that the best way to understand the whole world of theatre and the great dedication which is needed to enjoy every aspect of the work was to actually produce a play themselves and so set up their own company.

At first, it seemed like a challenge to relish but the production team soon came up against their first major barrier, that of funding .

Members of the team travelled around the city, visiting pubs and shops asking for help with sponsorship or financial support.

What had once seemed to be an easy task at the embryo stage was fast becoming a major headache.

But they perservered and the result is an extravagant production of a play full of black humour, sarcastic wit and social observation.

'Stags and Hens' is a typical play in the vein of many Willy Russell productions. it's a bleak look at life in a northern working class environment.

A story about community life it examines reasons for staying in or leaving a place, being tied down to it, family and friends and the quest for a better life.

The company itself is predominately female based and their aim is to produce plays written by or involving women as the main characters.

The play is also produced , directed and managed entirely .., by women.

Jacqui Mackay told Concrete of her experience of Shakespearean theatre," There are very few major roles for women in classical and contemporary production s hence one of the major aims of the company is to provide women with the chance to produce plays and to give female thespians the chance to star in leading roles ."

The production of 'Stags and Hens' examines women and their reactions within a working class environment.

Basically it is the story of a bride and groom who go out on their last night of freedom ..A seperately but end up together

Cast members pictured during rehearsals at the end of a boozy night in a tacky Liverpool nightclub.

Most of the action takes place in the club's toilets as we get an insight into the conversations which go on when the sexes are segregated .

The lads are determined to enjoy themselves as they normally would despite the fact that the hen party has turned up whereas the ladies spend most of their time dreaming out loud about the perfect wedding and future which would undoubtable ensue.

Only Bernadette (Jacqui

portayed as a gang who mirror each other in their characteristics.

In both groups there is a leader, a nutter, an extrovert and an introvert.

Both parties react to the news that Linda is considering running away with equal disgust.

The ladies cannot contemplate why she would give up the heavenly bliss that is marriage, (even Bernadette who understands the anxiety of marriage · advises Linda to reconsider running off with her ex-boyfriend), and the lads are dis-

'Stags and Hens' is a typical play in the vein of many Willv Russell productions. ll's a bleak look at life in a northern working class environment Mackay), the only one of the bride's friends who is married , holds onto reality and churns out stories of marriage induced misery and sadness.

Things begin to get complicated when an ex-boyfriend of Linda , the bride, turns up.

The lead singer of a mega-successful all boy group called 'Take Twat' , he discovers his feelings for Linda are still strong and he decides to ask her to run away with him .

To make matters worse, he is also the best friend of the groom .

Each gender group is basically

gusted that Linda would do such a thing to their mate especially with his best friend .

The groom remains oblivious to all this ( .. .but for how long ?).

If, when you see the play, you recognise the groom but cannot seem to place the face then go back to your youth when 'Grange Hill' was the reality of school on the television and try and remember that lovable rogue , Gonch , who always seemed to have a money making scheme up his sleeve.

The role of the groom in th is production is John Holmes' first

acting roll since those heady days of tuck shop excesses.

Director Ruth van Rijbroek who once lived in Liverpool told Concrete, " Although there may be cultural differences between the locals of Merseyside and East Anglia, the general themes of love, lust, clubs and getting drunk will have people , irrespective of where in the country they come from, drawing on their own experiences and being absorbed in the human factors in the play.

"The audience will be able to relate to the characters and spot people they kn ow in the characters, their personalities and actions.· And Jacqui added, "People can take the play at any level they choose, they can laugh at the gags and enjoy the play purely as witty entertainment or they can choose to involve themselves in the cultural and social issues that run through the play like the words in a stick of seaside rock. · However you choose to analyse the play, there is no doubt that it will be great fun.

The company are promoting the play as a fun night out.

And maybe as an intergral part of an evening out with maybe a trip to the pub preceeding the play, and the conclusion in a nightclub somewhere .

The studio itself will be in the style of a nightclub, with bouncers on the door, cloakroom attendants, dance music playing , disco lights flashing

and tacky dancing . lt promises to be an extravagant set on two levels with characters who can be seen in any nightclub in Britain.

The company intend to follow this format with all the ir productions with the set and whole evening designed around the theme and location

of the particular play they are presenting.

'Stags and Hens' runs from February 10-12 incl. (8pm) in the UEA studio. Tickets are priced £3.50 Cone I £6.00 and are available from the Studio until the Fe 3 when they may be purchased in the Hive.

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lans are now well underway for the opening of the Norwich Playhouse, a new theatre for the City.

Regular readers of Concrete's Stage Page may think that there are more than enough theatres in Norwich but the Norwich Playhouse is being built to meet the region's need for a permanent professional repertory theatre.

For Norwich is infact the only important regional centre which has no such theatre.

Said Professor Christopher Bigsby, "Throughout the 1960's, 70's and earty 80's we saw cities around the country culturally transformed by the creation of theatre that performed the very best of world drama -from the classics of European theatre to new plays by British dramatists.

"Until now the citizens of Norwich could only watch enviously from a distance or catch the occasional touring production.

"Now that will change and the city along with it.· The Theatre Royal is a major touring theatre and presents a wide variety of large scale productions, but its size and economic set-up make it unsuitable for plays, particularly modem plays.

The Maddermarket Theatre is largely devoted to the performance of the classics and is strictly amateur opening for only about 120 performances a year.

Norwich Playhouse will present regular productions of a wide range of popular plays which would previously not have been seen in the region with the nearest performances often in London.

Plans for the Playhouse have been welcomed by public and performers alike.

President of the venture Timothy West CBE, who showed great support when our own UEA Drama Studio opened a year ago commented, "lt's always seemed to me that Norwich deserved its own resident producing theatre.· Amongst the Playhouse patrons is actress Prunella Scales who echoes her husband's senti-

ments. ·All new theatres are good news, and Norwich has always appreciated theatre.• Other famous patrons include Paul Eddington CBE, Richard Briers OBE, and comic favourite Stephen Fry. Extensive research conducted back in May 1989 showed that more than 80 per cent of existing theatregoers would go to the Playhouse and Eastern Arts welcomed the project with enthusiasm.

The centrally located site for the Norwich Playhouse was generously donated by three local business people.

Gun VVharf is a historic industrial building and detailed plans for its conversion into a popular riverside theatre have been drawn up by the architect, Christopher Lambert in co-o ration with

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The Norwich Playhouse will have a fully·resident company and hopes to present between 12 and 15 plays a year, in true repertory tradition with each production lasting from between two and four weeks.

There will be plays from the country's leading writers including Alan Ayckboum and Willy Russell whose most recent plays have yet to be seen in Norwich.

Exciting European drama wings its way from the continent and there are offerings from major American writers Arthur Miller and Sam Shephard.

On the lighter side of life there is some quirky comedy from the American tradition featuring works by Woody Alien and similar writers.

VVhether it be new writing, such as the new specially commissioned Amold Wesker

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he Theatre Royal's forthcoming season offers a variety of entertainment with the spring bill unveiling big name performances ranging from Derek Jacobi to Tommy Steele.

"We really do have something for everyone·, says the theatre's chief executive Peter Wilson.

The comedy 'Noises Off (February 7-11 ) and the musical 'The Wizard of Oz'(February 20-25) even boast two ex- Blue Peter presenters.

Alas, no Peter Purvis but there is Mark Curry in the former production and Peter Duncan finds a brain in Oz when he is reunited with Brian Blessed after their Flash Gordon leotard days.

In March the RSC stage a 1920's version of 'Love's Labours Lost' and London's longest running comedy 'Run For Your Wife' can be seen starring the unlikely combination of Windsor Davies and Britt Ekland.

Drama continues with a Noel Coward revival of his poignant 'Peace in Our Time' but for me the highlight of the season has to be Sir Derek Jacobi who is welcomed back to the Theatre Royal after last years sell-out

play scheduled to be the Playhouse's first production, old favourites or new productions of the old classics the newest addition to the region's stage show promises something for everyone.

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Other activities will include recitals, jazz concerts, cabarets and book launches.

Patron Paul Eddington CBE sums up the venture with his words, "All cultural activities are essential, it is imperative

that they be kept alive and well.• Work has already started on phase three of the project so keep your eyes peeled this year for the curtain call of Norwich's first professional repertory theatre.

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By Willy Russell A 'lively, coarse, truthful and very ~~If_~~~ funny' play Financial Times Tickets avallable from

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Michael Cashman, appearing this Spring time 'Swan Lake'(May 30-June

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This time he plays a frustrated would-be priest in Peter Luke's adaptation of 'Hadrian The Seventh'(April18-22).

If you enjoyed last years performance of 'A Christmas Carol' by the Northern Ballet Theatre there is an opportunity to see another beautiful production this

And you can also see the Theatre Royal stage transformed into a winter wonderland for the Russian All Stars breathtaking new production of 'Cinderella on Ice' (April25-29).

With all this there is certain to be something for everyone.

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Sarah Morris looks ahead to the Visiting Authors 1995 Season at UEA .....

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EA's Centre for Crea tive and Performing Arts has done itself proud this semester, offering readings by six varied and well - respected authors .

The programme, supported by Waterstone's will be launched by

Marina Warne r Marina Warner's read ing on Monday January 30.

Warner is a prize winning novelist, critic and historian and last year gave the Reith lectures for the BBC. Her novels, such as 'The Skating Party'(1 982) and 'In a Dark Wood' (1977), deal with themes of sexuality, identity and power.

In 1988, her autob iographical novel, 'The Lost Father', was the regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Winner of the Macmillan Sil ver Pen Award . it came close to that most coveted of literary prizes, reaching the Booker shortlist.

Warner is fascinated by representations of the female form and character and rigorously explores this in her studies of mythology.

These include 'Alone of All Her Sex : the Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary', 'Joan of Arc: the Image of Female Heroism and Monumemts and Maidens: the Allegory of the Female Form', winner of the Fawcett Prize in 1986.

Her collection of stories The Mermaids in the Basement' was published in 1993.

This diverse writer broadcasts regularly on rad io and TV, writes for The Independent, and has even dabbled in children 's opera , writing the libretto for the 'Queen of Sheba's Legs.'

Questions on novels, story writing , history, opera , criticism , journalism .. will be welcomed after the ~eading .

Simon Armitage follows hot on Warner's heels on Wednesday February 1.

He is one of the New Generation

poets -twenty young poets chosen last year for promotion as a distinctive new group.

Fellow NG poet Don Paterson looks on Armitage with some respect.

He recently gave a quirky description of Armitage's performance in a film of the New Generation: his famous fringe lifting and sinking like a crows wing . He turns to the camera and says something sensible. Bastard .'

Having won an Eric Gregory Award in 1988 Armitage made his name the following year with his first book of poems,'Zoom! '- a Poetry Book Society Choice , shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize which sold over 5000 copies .

Armitage can be brash or funny; he turns pub talk into poetry: 'If you only pay peanuts you 're working with monkeys.'

He can also produce wonderful images and delicate moods, as he does in the final verse of 'Why Write of the Sun': Admittedly, there was one evening; mackere l sky, the laburnum apparently cascading with yellow and a breath of air almost saying something through the trellis . But why write of whispering when all we ever did that year was shout?

Critics compare him to Auden for his confidence, his invention and his technical accomplishment.

Peter Reading praises the 'muscular but elegant language of his own out of slangy, youthful, upto-the-minute jargon and the vernacular of his native northern England .'

ems such as 'Social Inquiry Report'. This is verse four of the latter: I have not toyed with a parachute chord while perched on the lip of a light-aircraft; but I held the wobbly head of the boy at the day centre, and stroked his fat hands.

Xanadu, a poem-film he wrote and presented for the BBC , is Armitage 's imaginative response to an ill-starred estate which was part of his first patch in Rochdale.

His other films in verse are 'Look-

The supreme lyricist of daily grot is still Shena Mackay.'

Critics are lavish in their praise of her.

Kenneth Allsop , for instance, enthuses : 'Macabre, zany, scoffingly droll, sadly beautiful, wildly funny, glitteringly stylish - and quite brilliant .... She stands on her own - an original and a very hot property.'

Robert Coover, who ends the programme,is an acclaimed , experimental writer who emerged from the 1960's.

He uses the surreal and the fantastic to convey the complex nature of human experience.

He is thought , along with John Barth and Donald Barthelme, to have led the revolt from the linearity and social realism of American fiction .

According to the critic Thomas E Kennedy, his short fiction combines fantasy, myth , love

Simon Armitage ing for Robinson ' and 'The Humber Bridge' which will shortly follow for BBC Two's 'Building Site' series .

In Huddersfield, where he lives, he also currently presents Radio Four's contemporary poetry programme, 'Stanza'.

Whatever you do, don't miss the man with the fringe .

He may preview his new collection , 'The Dead Sea Poems' (released in September from Faber), and will answe r all sensible questions!

Successful UEA ex-students will also take their place centre-stage in the studio.

Mark lllis, a student on the MA in

Mark //lis Reading partly attributes Armitage 's originality to his 'unblinkered experience'.

Armitage is not only Poetry Editor for Chatto & Wind us; he also works as a probation officer in Old ham, near Manchester, an experience which has probably contributed to the writing of po-

Chinese Summer (1988}, The Alchemist (1990)' and 'The Feather Report' (1992) which was hailed

by The Observer as 'wickedly funny, refreshing ... could not be more convincing or moving.'

A number of his stories have been published in magazines and anthologies.

At the moment he is working on a script for Carlton TV. Suzannah Dunn (February 20)will likewise show what UEA did for her.

She was a student on the MA in 1988-9. Dunn, who lives in Brighton, is the author of 'Darker Days Than Usual'. a work of short stories and a novella.

Her praised novel , 'Quite Contrary', was awarded a runner-up prize in the Betty Trask Awards.

Her latest work, 'Blood Sugar', was published in May 1994 and she has a new novel, 'Past Caring', which will be out in June.

She is warmly recommended by

Creative Writing Programme in 1986-7 , comes back to old ground on Thursday February 9. lllis now lives in Yorksh ire where he is Centre Director of Lumb Bank, running creative writing courses for the Arvon Foundation.

He had written three novels : 'A

Shena Mackay Malcolm Bradbury as 'a new writer with a brilliant touch. A real writer for the nineties .'

The two well-established authors which complete the programme are Shena Mackay (February 13) and Robert Coover (February 23).

Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1994 and gained early success with her fi rst novellaa , ' Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumburger' and 'Toddler on the Run ', written in her teens .

Since then she has written numerous novels and short stories.

She won the Fawcett Prize in 1986 for her novel 'Red hi ll Rococo ' and the Scottish Arts Council Book Awa rd for 'Dunedin' in 1992.

In 'An Advent Calender' (1971) she shows her concern with animal issues with a central character who inadvertently consumes human fleshh .

She is a writer who often perceives the deficiencies of ordinary life , as the New Statesman put it:

story, soap opera , slap-stick comedy, parable, day-dream and night-mare.

His fans love him for his bril-

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Suzannah Dunn li ant one-liners , particularly found in the short stories in cluded in the collection 'A Night At The Movies' .

The collection closes with the story 'Beginnings' which starts , 'In order to get started , he went to live alone on an island and shot himself. His blood , unable to resist a final joke , splattered the cabin wall in a pattern that read : 'it is important to begin when everything else is over. ' The title story 'In Bed One Night' is another humerous piece - a social satire about a world in which 'private beds are a luxury that the world can no longer afford '.

One night a man gets into his bed only to find it full of strangers sent there by the social security authorities .

In 1987, Coover won the Rea prize for the Short Story, the largest literary prize of its kind in the USA. Coover's novel The Origin of the Brun ists ' won the Wi ll iam Faulkner Award for a first novel.

Other novels include 'Pricksongs and Descants'. 'Whatever Happened the Gloomy Gus of the Chacago Bears?' and 'Spanking the Maid' (?!) .

Roll on February 23.

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FRIDAY JANUARY 27 Cannon Some or all of the films listed on Wednesday may be showing .

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Ode on Some or all of the films listed on Wednesday may be showing .

Ring for further details.

Cinema City The Adventures of Priscilla , Queen of the Desert (15), 5.45pm.

Raven 's End (15) - An aspiring young Swedish writer begins his first tentative romance in 1930's Stockholm . 8.15pm.

Days of Being Wild (15), 11pm.

Theatre Royal Aladdin . £2-£11 . 7.30pm.

Cannon Screen One: Interview With A Vampire (18). Tom Cruise bites Brad Pitt's neck in the latest Vampire thriller. 2.15pm, 5.20pm, 8.10pm.

Screen Two: TimeCop (18).

Sci-fi , time travelling action thriller with Jean Claude Van Damme. 1.30pm, 3.50pm, 6.10pm, 8.40pm.

Screen Three: The Specialist (15). Sharon Stone seeks revenge for her parent's deaths and in the meantime romps around with explosives expert SylvesterStallone. 2.00pm, 5.40pm, 8.20pm.

Screen Four: Junior (PG).

Arnold Schwarzenegger gets pregnant in this family comedy with Emma Thompson and Danny DeVito. 2.30pm, 5.45pm.

Screen Five: Forrest Gump (12).

Tom Hanks stars as the slowwilted southerner who leads an extraordinary life. 8.00pm .

Odeon Screen One: Stargate (PG).

James Spader and Kurt Russell fight evil in this sci-fi thriller.

2.00pm, 4.40pm, 8.05pm.

Screen Two: Wes Craven's New Nightmare (15). Freddy's back .. . only this time he's infringing on real life. 8.20pm.

Screen Three: Pulp Fiction (18).

Quentin Tarentino's new film about the criminal underworld.

Starring Uma Thurrnan, Bruce Willis, John Travolta and loads of other stars. 1.00pm, 3.50pm .

8.15pm.

Cinema City The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (15) - This unlikely Australian box office hit follows a transsexual and two transvestites on a journey through the outback. 5.45pm, 8.15pm.

Maddermarket When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout- The misadventure and misconceptions of a girl growing up in 1950s Scotland . £2.50£6.50, 7.30pm .

Oval Dirty Trix (Rock) & Intention.

Samanthas Alternative Night, 10pm-2am .

Boswells Soul Stealers. 9pm-Midnight.

Waterfront Club Night. House, techno & trance.

Hys Club Night. Admission £4 all night.

Ritzy.

Fast Trax. Admissison before 10.30pm, £3 after. 9pm-2am.

Manhattans Hyper! 9pm-2am. Free admissison with an NUS card.

Ode on See Friday January 27.

Bergman thriller. 5.00pm.

Bhaji on the Beach (15) - A comedy drama about a group of Asian women on a day trip to Blackpool. 7.30pm.

Maddermarket When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout. £2 .50£6.50, 7.30pm.

UEALCR Suede. SOLD OUT. See Highlights.

Cannon/Odeon See Friday January 27.

Half Time Orange+ Pitkins. £3.50adv/ £4.OOdr_

Oval Bates Motel & Support.

Cinema City To Live (12)- This "modern Chinese classic" traces the history of a Chinese family from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Maddermarket When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout. £2.50-6.50, 7.30pm.

MONDAY JANUARY 30

Samanthas The Fluff Syndicate - Dance I Techno/Trance Music, 10pm-

Theatre Royal 42nd Street- Norfolk and Norwich Amateur Operatic Society give their version of this Broadway hit. £2-£9.50, 7.30pm .

2am.

Boswells Lee Vasey Band. 9pm-Midnight.

Wilde Club Animals that Swim +Whisk + Hys Club Night. Admission £1 , 9pm-2am.

Happy Hour- midnight-1am.

Peppermint Park Mr B's Flying Circus. 9pm-2am.

Admission £1 before 10.30pm.

Manhattans Sheer Bliss! 9pm-2am.

7.30pm.

Norwich Arts Centre

Cannon

Norwich Arts

See Friday January 27.

Sympton. £5/£3concs.

Odeon

Maddermarket

See Friday January 27. Also

When I Was a Girl I Used to

'Only You' opens today. This love

Scream and Shout. £2.50-£6.50,

story stars Marisa Tomei as a

7.30pm.

hopeful romantic who believes there's only one man for her. With

Waterfront

Robert Downey, Jr.

Meltdown with The Splendids

Cinema City

£3.50dr.

and Stoneflow live upstairs.

Two children attempt to save a

Samanthas

whale beached on the Scilly

Rock Club. Classics and Rock Chart Music, 1Opm-2am.

Black Survivors. £5/

Islands shortly before the First

£3.50concs, 8pm .

World War. 2.30pm .

The Adventures of Priscilla,

Boswells

5.45pm.

Oval

Queen of the Desert (15),

Beyond the Blues. 9pm-Midnight.

Days of Being Wild (15)- A

Tony Vines Band .

5.45pm.

"masterly portrait of lovelorn

Days of Being Wild (15), 8.15pm.

8os wells Feels Like Rain. 9pm-Midnight.

and drama". Hmm. 2.30pm, 8.15pm.

Hys Club Night. Admission £2,

Theatre Royal

9pm-2am. Happy Hour

Aladdin. £2-£11. 4.00pm,

midnight-1 am.

Cannon See Friday January 27 .

Odeon See Friday January 27.

Cinema City The Count of the Old Town (PG), 2.30pm.

To Live (12), 5.45pm, 8.15pm.

Theatre Royal 42nd Street. £2-£9.50, 7.30pm.

When the Whales Came (U)-

Cinema City Queen of the Desert (15),

8os wells Showcase. 8pm-11pm.

Ritzy Nth Degree. Entry free before 11pm with an NUS card , £2 after. 9pm-2am .

Peppermint Park Student Night.

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The Adventures of Priscilla,

emotional depth, atmosphere

Cannon See Friday January 27 .

Cinema City The Count of the Old Town (PG) -Rare screening of this lngmar

See Wednesday January 25.

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Waterfront Milky Lunch. Open until6am . £1 0/£9.

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Theatre Royal Aladdin- "an all-singing , alldancing extravaganza of family fun". £2-£11, 4pm, 7.30pm.

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Cannon/Odeon

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Hys Club Night. Admission £3 before

Oval

10pm, £4 before 11pm and £5

Black Sabbath Tribute.

after.

Theatre Royal Aladdin. £2-£11, 2.30pm, 7.30pm.

Ritzy Furious Fun. £3 b410.30pm , £5 after, 9pm-2am .

Maddermarket When I Was a Girl I Used to

Scream and Shout. £2.50-£6.50, 7.30pm.

lEA Live in the Hive - Karaoke with screens and 2000 songs, also sumo wrestling & barfly in the LCR. Boswells Jazz 'n' Blues Jam. Hys Club Night. £3 before 10.30pm, £4 after.

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WEDNESDAYFEBRUARY1 Samanthas The Fluff Syndicate - Dance I Techno I Trance Music, 1Opm2am.

Cannon See Friday January 27.

Odeon See Friday January 27.

Boswells Horizon. 9pm-Midnight.

Cinema City To Live (12), 5.45pm, 8.15pm.

Theatre Royal 42nd Street. £2-£9.50, 7.30pm.

Hys Club Night. See last Wednesday.

lEA Ritzy See last Wednesday.

Village People Party. 9pm, LCR. £2 non-members, £1 members.

Liquid surprises on earty arrival (b410pm).

Peppermint Park See last Wednesday.

Oval Patricia Morrison (ex-sisters of mercy) plus The Shining.

Manhattans See last Wednesday.

THURSDAYFEBRUARY2

Cinema City Gigi (PG)- Musical adaptation of Collette's novel about a girl whose grandmother grooms her for life as a courtesan. 5.00pm.

Oval Extreme I Nose I Terror.

Cinema City Bad Boy Bubby (18) -5.45pm.

L'Enfer (15)- A study of psychotic marital jealousy set in a provincial gournet hotel.

Boswells Showcase. 8pm-11pm.

Wilde Club AC Acoustics + Naked + Fiel Garvie +Shift. £3.50advl£4dr.

Peppermint Park See last Monday

Ode on See Friday January 27.

Maddermarket When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout. £2.50-£6.50, 7.30pm.

Cinema City Bad Boy Bubby (18), 5.45pm .

L'Enfer(15), 8.15pm.

Theatre Royal Noises Off- "A whirl of comedy, farce and slapstick" as a character actress decides to finance and star in a bedroom

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 Cannon/Odeon See Friday January 27.

Also, (at the Odeon) Road to Welville opens. See Highlights.

Cinema City Wild Target (15), 5.45pm .

My Sister, My Love (15)- A story of incest and scandal in eighteeth century Sweden.

8.15pm.

Thelma and Louise (15)- Ridley Scott's unsettling, consistently

entertaining female buddy movie. 11 .00pm.

Oval The Mental Helicopters.

Theatre Royal 42nd Street. £2-£9.50, 7.30pm .

Samanthas See last Friday.

Maddermarket When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout. £2.50-£6.50, 7.30pm.

Boswells Toni Vines Band. 9pm-Midnight.

Waterfront Acid Jazz. DJ's visiting from London's WAG club. £3.50dr.

Ritzy Nth Degree. See last Monday.

TUESDAYFEBRUARY7

Theatre Royal 42nd Street, £2-£9.50, 7.30pm .

Boswells Fat Slugs Blues Band. 9pmMidnight.

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Oval The Jets (Rock 'n' Roll) plus Dawghouse.

Cannon/Odeon See Wednesday January 27.

Cannon See Friday January 27.

Odeon See Friday January 27.

Our Life is Now (15) -A young journalist travels to France intending to make her first feature film . 7.30pm.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 6

assignments. 2.30pm, 8.15pm.

Cannon See Friday January 27.

Cinema City To Live (12), 5.45pm.

Wild Target (15)- An exhuberant comedy about a middle-aged assassin whose proud mother keeps a scrapbook of his most famous

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5 Cannon/Odeon See Friday January 27.

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Compiled by Caroline Ad/em

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK HIGHLIGHT OF WEEK ONE Coming to UEA on January 25 are press darlings of the nineties Suede. The band are currently touring with their latest album Dog Man Star, which has enjoyed moderate chart success. The tour give Suede fans a chance to check out new guitarist Richard Oakes in his first tour following the departure of Bemhard Butler. Expect a particularly camp performance from Brett Anderson, as he makes his way through such hits as 'We are the Pigs', 'The Wild Ones' and 'The Drowners'.

lEA Live in the Hive- Garfield Green and the Chicos soul band. Dance music influenced by the soul greats like James Brown and Otis Reading.

Samanthas Rock Club.

See last Tuesday.

Boswells Jazz 'n' Blues Jam. 9pm-Midnight.

Hys Club Night See last Tuesday.

HIGHLIGHT OF WEEK TWO Billed as 'A comedy of the heart and other organs', The Road to Welvllle stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of the comflake and peanut butter, and a complete health freak. The film also features Bridget Fonda as one of the Doctor's ardent followers, Matthew Broderick as her long-suffering husband and Wayne's World's Dana Carvey as DR. Kellogg's estranged son, who defies every healthy maxim his father values.

Hys Club Night. See last Friday.

Manhattans Hyperl See last Friday.

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Cannon See Friday January 27.

Ode on See Friday January 27.

Cinema City Jurassic Park (PG)- Another chance to see this over-hyped Spielberg adventure movie. 2.30pm.

To Live (12). 5.45pm.

Wild Target (15). 8.15pm .

Maddermarket When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout. £2.50-£6.50, 7.30pm.

Samanthas Rock Club, 10pm-2am.

Boswells Climax Jazz Band. 9pm-Midnight.

Waterfront Meltdown. £3.50.

Hys Club Night. See last Saturday.

Oval Dressed to Kill (A tribute to Kiss) and Vivid.

Ritzy.

Furious Fun . See last Saturday.

Manhattans See last Saturday

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Concrete, Wednesday, January 25, 1995

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN... ?

Jane Horner takes a look back at events at Carrow Road three years ago SINCE'Concrete' began, players and managers have come and gone at Norwich City. But what was happening at the clubattheendofJanuary1992, when the first Issue of this newspaper went to press?

Think back to a time before the Premiership existed, when Dave Stringer was manager ofthe Canar-

ies and Gary Linekerwas top scorer in Division One. Manchester United were favourites for the championship (no surprises there), but they were pipped at the post by Leeds, and Wrexham acheived their famous victory over the 'mighty' Arsenal in the F.A. Cup. As for Norwich, they languished in I 5th place in the league,

havingjust lost to Sheffield United, which made it six defeats in their last eight matches (so no changes there either.. .).

There were some familiar names in the City team; Gunn, Newman, Goss and Culverhouse, along with those such as Sutton and Fox who are now conspicuous by their absence.

In the F.A. Cup, however, the Canaries left their league form behind. At the beginning ofFebruary, they took on Mill wall in the fourth round, winning 2-1, with Bowen and Fleck (who?) the scorers.

The cup run culminated in a semifinal against Sunderland where, unfortunately, City failed to play to their potential and lost 1-0.

By the end ofthe season Norwich were 18th, only avoiding relegation by three points and, to rub salt into the wound, Ipswich were Division Two champions. But, as the song says, 'things can only get better... ' Stringer resigned, Walker took over.... and a place in Europe was the eventual reward. Now, ifonly City could reproduce that form again ...

The End of the Road? lcaroline

By G. Miller and K. Turner DECEMBER 29, in the luU between christmas and new year, is usually associated with wilting mistletoe and the umpteenth round of turkey sandwiches.

However, for 13 members of the Fell and Cave club it was the day they left the flat lands of Norfolk for the snowy mountains ofTorridon, in the Scottish Highlands.

The club's annual pilgrimage to Scotland is a great opportunity

IT WAS certainly the ladies' teams who had the better of the fixtures in the first knockout round of this year's BUSA competition.

The football team continued their unbeaten run with an 8-2 thrashing or Worcester, the ladies volleyballers defeated De Montfort 3-0 and the netball team scored a 45-36 victory over RHBNC, in which they played their best game to date, settling down quickly and putting in a committed, enthousiastic and determined per-

to climb some of Britain's wildest peaks, and knock back the whisky, in a tiny mountain hut.

One ofthe drawbacks ofliving in Norwich is the enormous distance separating us from anything vaguely resembling a hill. However, after only 11 hours of driving in the red union van, we reached our remote destination.

Our accommodation was a basic mountain hut overrun with small hungry rodents, who proceeded to eat all our food, clothing and possessions.

The Scottish weather is notoriously fickle - we arrived and departed in torrential rain. In the

meantime, however, the mountains were covered in snow. In between the ferocious blizzards, we managed to conquer all the mountains surrounding us, including Beinn Eighe, Beinn Alligin and Liahthach.

After a hard day out on the hills, we spent our time celebrating hogmanay in a traditional Scottish fashion; lots of Haggis, whisky and subsequently drunken singing and dancing.

Trips this term are heading for theLakeDistrict(Feb 10\ll)and Snowdonia (Mar 3\5), and further info can be had through the soc's pigeon hole in the Sports Centre.

formance.

However, not alt of the men's teams faired badly. The football thirds scored a 9-1 victory over QMWC, and the hockey seconds ~ beat St Bartholemew's 15-0, with all ~ apart from two players scoring at ~ least one goal. w ~ Despite losing out by 6-84 to 6 Loughborough,holdersoftheBUSA ~ Cup, the rugby seconds won the 6 applause ofthe partisan crowd after 5: their proud and determined play.

The hockey firsts on the way The next round of the competito a 12-1 defeat by Kent tion is on Wednesday 8 February.

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TEAM Lotus, one of the most prestigious names in Formula One, announced last Tuesday that it would not be on taking part In the 1995 season.

David Hunt, the brother of racing driver James Hunt, bought the Norfolk-based team from court-appointed administrators in October, after it had been announced that Lotus had debts of aroundÂŁ I 0 million.

Mr Hunt had hoped to attract new sponsors and investors before the start of the season in March, but unfortunately none were forthcoming.

As well as withdrawing from this

year's competition, Team Lotus have also been forced to make their entire workforce of seventy redundant.

The loss ofTeam Lotus has been seen as a major blow, not only to the local economy, but to the sport as a whole.

During its 42 year history, the team have won 79 grand prix, with five of their drivers, including Jim

Clarkand Graham Hill (the father of Damon), winning the coveted Fl World Championship driver's titles.

Other great drivers who have driven for Team Lotus include Stirling Moss, Nigel Mansell, and the late Ayrton Senna, who gave the team their last race win back in 1987.

However, there is a glimmer of hope for the team. Mr Hunt has revealed that three Formula I teams have approached him with the view to forming a partnership, which could see the name Lotus back on the starting grid for the 1996 season.

Mr Hunt intends to use this time to reorganise the whole enterprise, with a view to building a new car for their hopefully successful return to Formula I.

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Concrete, Wednesday, January 25, 1995

lt could be a ÂŁ4m sP-_orts comP-_Iex

UEACOULD replace Loughborough as Britain's premier sporting university if a bid to the National Lottery is successful.

Plans have been unveiled to build a ÂŁ4 million sports complex, if the Lottery provides funding for the project. This, in addition to the existing hockey centre and athletics track, would give UEA better sports facilities than any other university in Britain.

The indoor arena, to be sited next to University Drive, will comprise a 25 metre, six lane swimming pool, a martial arts room, fitness rooms, a practice hall and a huge sports hall.

This hall, the size of three basketball, or 15 badminton courts, will also feature retractable seating, and will be the largest of its kind in this country to be used solely for sport.

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Keith Nicholls, UEA's Director of Physical Recreation, said the aim was to provide students with "access to more time, and in a higher grade facility, than they have at the minute".

However, Union Sports Officer, Alex Bainbridge, stressed that students should not be turned away in preference to the paying public, as has occasionally been the case with the present facilities .

But he added that "its a great opportunity for the University, and will encourage more students with sporting ability to come to UEA''.

Rooms available now!

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