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EX-UEA Students demand sweeging reforms to _graduation grocess in Concrete survev.. KATIE HIND AND LIZ HUTCHINSON
RESULTS of the Concrete survey have overwhelmingly shown that students do not want to graduate at the University. Just 6% of third-year undergraduates who took part are happy to have their graduation ceremony in the former sports centre - now known as the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change. And a massive 82% have said no to a ball in the LCR - where last year non-dinner tickets for the event cost £29. The survey was part of
Concrete's campaign for a better graduation, which was launched earlier this term due to student dissatisfaction with last year's events. And Union Communications Officer, Emma Reynolds has promised to give students what they want.
Alternative "If this is a genuine reflection of student opinion then that is what we have to act on. As far as graduation is concerned, if we can find a suitable alternative suggestion for a venue then we will happily lobby the University about it," said
Emma. "In reference to the grad ball, if we can find a different venue, which is going to be very difficult and the same people who said that they didn't want it in the LCR are also willing to pay a bit more for their ticket, the price will have to rise, but this is fine. "Remember we don't make a profit on the grad ball, all ticket money gained is spent. We try to give students wh;it they want as far as we possibly can but they must remember the limitations too," she added. But Tony Flack, the Senior Assistant Registrar, who coordi-
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nates congregation, defended the decision to hold the ceremony in the old sports hall. "This question is raised periodically, the Cathedral is not big enough since it only has 425 chairs whereas the capacity of the Sports Hall is 834." "As far as I'm concerned, that is it full stop. However, if you can find a venue within striking distance of the University, then we would be interested to know about it. We would never turn down good ideas," said Mr Flack.
Entertainment Student opinion backs a change to graduation events. Third-year EAS student Elly Ward is not looking forward to graduating at UEA. "I don't even want to imagine · being in the LCR in a ball dress, drinking out of plastic glasses and probably slipping over on that stupid slippery floor. If they are going to have the ball in the LCR, then they should at least have decent entertainment." Melania Jones, who is also a third year in EAS feels that, if left as it is, the graduation ball will be very disappointing. "After everything that we have worked for, it seems a shame that we just pay five pounds to go to the LCR." She also wondered whether University organisers had conducted research into other venues. "The graduation ceremony would be much nicer if it were held in somewhere like the cathedral, especially for photos." Full results on page 4
spoken of a former DEV student who was brutally murdered on his doorstep close to the Afghanistan border. Prof Mike Stocking has talked about Paul Beckman, 48, who was the Professor's first research student when he was studying for his Masters in the early eighties. " I read about his death when I was away in Montreal and I was obviously upset. I think that when you have a research student you have a close profes ional relationship." And the DEV Professor claims that Paul, who lived in Tajikistan, was a quiet man. "He was quite a loner, but was an interesting guy. He was working on an extremely difficult project which took him about four years. "He went to Sudan where he worked and he found it extremely difficult to come back. But Sudan became a very dangerous place and so he went to Pakistan to teach English and carry on with his studies," said Profes or Stocking. The murder is a suspected revenge attack because nothing was stolen; it is believed to be in response to the US-led military action
on Afghanistan. He voiced concern for his safeiy just days before he died when he sent an email to his Minister at Dereham Road Baptist Road in Norwich - but was determined to remain there. Rev Neil Walker, who was a close friend of the former UEA student for more than ten years paid tribute to his pal. "Paul was a brilliant, compassionate man who was very self-effacing about his abilities. "He was also one of the most apolitical men I've ever met, he was not associated with any group, but all his closest friends are from here, and those who heard the news are very stunned." Paul continued to be a member of the Church and it last visited just six months ago. Paul 's friend, Peter Bames, 62, said Paul was always concerned of being a Christian in a Muslim country. "He always realised he was in a dangerous and difficult situation but he saw Tajikistan almost as his home, he had learnt the language and was committed to the people." A spokeswomen for the , Foreign Office confirmed the news and is now awaiting post-mortem results to confirm the exact cause of death.
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• Majority want major graduation changes. • UEA student killed in Afghanistan.
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• Union appeal tor students to attend rally. • Overseas Officer sacked.
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• Green protest against war. • Student hurt after Orwell jump.
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• Class of 2002 survey results. • New mosque tor Muslims.
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• Union announce plans tor Breakers 2 site.
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• Finance manager Vera Dye celebrates 25 years in Union House.
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LIFESTYLE: • Strapped tor cash? Concrete looks at the student jobs market - and tour students already employed • The male pill is in the pipeline - but would you be interested? • My First Time - the field trip fu mble. • Your problems answered.
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TRAVEL: Moscow a decade on after opening up to the West, plus a 60 second look at the previously war-torn Croatian city of Dubrovnik.
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FOCUS: Liar, liar. With the World 's Greatest Liar tournament taking place in Britain , we close our eyes and provide a guide to fibbing
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LOOK: • Bjork's influence on the fash ion world • Bon Jovi chic in The Equation • The cowboy boots 'n' leotard combination comes under fire in Fashion Faux-Pas.
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Union officer wants students to P.rotest KATIE HIND News Editor
A UNION Sabb is urging students to join the NUS regional rally in an attempt to force the Government to review the higher education financial support system. Welfare Officer, Pol ly Evans believes that students at UEA can make a differen ce - and force MPs to abolish fees and bring back grants.
Th e protest will see UEA link up with studen ts from Cambridge, Anglia Polytechnic, Luton and East London Universities
Reconsider And Polly insists that now is the time to do it. "The government proposes to reconsider the abolition of tuition fees and the reintroduction of mainte nance grants for th ose
worst off, now is th e tim e for stu dents to really push to show th e Govern ment that this is what we want," said Pally. "Grants not Fees continues to be a priority campaign for the National Union of Students this year as they are so concerned about the implications of student poverty." But it's not just the NUS who want changes. The Mirror newspaper are sponsoring the demonstration, wh ich will be held in Cambridge while The Tim es Educational Supplement and The Guardian have also called for changes to the current student funding policy.
Debt Pally claims that the present system , which is leaving students around £12 ,000 in debt after graduating, is having huge negative effects. "42% of students work more than 12 hours a week during term time to attempt to supplement their grants - many missing lectures to meet demands of paid work and research has shown
NON-SABB OFFICER SlAMS UNION Overseas officer loses job after failing to attend Union meeting~ LIZ HUTCHINSON Assistant News Editor
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A NON-SABBATICAL member of the Union Executive Committee has been sacked after failing to attend several meetings. Mortitz Dinger, formerly the Overseas officer, was kicked off his post last week for not meeti ng his election promises. But Moritz, a third year Law ~ tu dent as hi t out at the Uni on, claiming that he has been singled out fo r pu nishme nt - and ca ll s for Fi nance Officer. Jon Cox to lose hi s job too.
Concern ··As I acted again st the co n ~ titu ti on my sacking i.., fai r and a' ; uch I do not dis pute it. My co ncern i'> th at the Uni on is being selecti ve a ~ to whom they pcnali >c. ; ince Jon Cox also mi ssed hi s th ird meeting: · he ;aid _ ·'All members of the executive are
subject to the same treatment with no exempti ons. Jon Cox should therefore be automaticall y excluded as well.
Oversight ''The fact th at he is a ~ abb a ti c al may account fo r the Union 's oversight but this very po int mean s that he is on a sa lary to do what I do in . my spare time. Surely hi s re;ponsibili ty is even greater than mine." added Moritz. But he be li C \ C~ he ha'> not neglected hi s duti es by missin g the mccLings.
"I have alway; dea lt with an) probl ems overseas students refer to me as a matter of importance. The meetings themsel ves don' t acco m-
piish anythin-g that I see is important to the majority of students at UEA ." Union Communicati ons Officer Emma Reynolds claims that MoritL has been treated in line with Uni on regulati ons. "It is in the Uni on Constituti on that any me mber of the executi ve or Counci l wi ll reli nq ui sh their place if they miss three or more meetings in a emes ter.
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that fear of debt is making students more likely to suffer from depression than ever before." The rally will take place on Tuesday November 20 and the Union are providing free transport. Tickets are available from stalls in th e Hive at lunchtimes and from Union reception at all other times. A refundabl e £5 deposit is required.
PLEA FOR STOLEN LIGHT UNION Ents staff are appealing for the return of an expensive light, stolen from outside the LCR on Saturday. The di spl ay li ght. wa' used for the Min istry of Sound club ni ght. and is worth £-1000. Duty En ts Manager Ga' in Hudson. suspects studenh stole the li ght as a prank and urge' them to return it before they ca ll the police. "I f it has just been ta ken a' a jo!..c fine. but we rea ll y need to ha\'e it bac!.. before the police get in,olved." He would also li!..c to reassure those invo lved that no acti on would be taken if they come forward . •· o questions wi ll be asked if it is returned. but we would like to stress that we wi ll be loo!..ing at cameras; · he added. If you or anyo ne knows anythin g about the whereabc uts of thi . li ght. then contact the staff at Uni on House.
Representing "11 is in the Constitut io n to make ;u re that peop le on Counc il arc act ive!) rep resenti ng their <,tudent> and that the exec are doing the work they were elec ted to do," added Emm a.
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Cirounds for complaint: students protest in shadow of Norfolk Terrace
POLmCAL activists have aired their views on the conflicts In Afghanistan- by writing in acid on the grass outside Norfolk Terrace. The group, believed to be UEA students, wrote the message: 'Damn your War' , on the area
between the residence and the computing centre - making it visible from the walkway above,
writes Liz Hutchinson President of SEED (Society for Everything on the Environment and Development) Ian Fairhurst, believes that feeling~ about the war
are running high at the University. "This is another example of someone expressing their thoughts about the war in Afghanistan. It's not how I would go about 'it but everyone is entitled to their own opinions," he said. But University Grounds staff are annoyed that students have
destroyed the grass and are currently overseeding in an attempt to rescue the patch of lawn following the protest. " I'm not very happy because whoever did this have killed an area of grass, but as for what is written, its up to them," said University Grounds Manager, Frank Fuller.
STUDENTS IN PAY ROW Freshers' daY. heiRers still waiting for their wag§ KATIEHIND
News Editor MORE than 150 students have been waiting for over two months to be paid for working on arrivals day. The workers, who gave up a day to help freshers move into University residences on September 19 have still not received their wages.
First Y.ear in -hosgital a.fter celebrations KATlEHJND
A GREEK student was rushed to hospital after throwing himself out of his bedroom window. The BIO first-year was celebrating his birthday when he jumped off the first floor of Orwell close. The student, who completed a foundation course in Biology last year spent over a week in hospital and was taken off campus in an ambulance in the early hours of Sunday October 28.
History student, Zoe Grumbridge is angry at not having the money for the job.
jump out of the window, "I think he thought he could fly. He jumped out of the window while he was holding a glass, so there was lots of smashed glass on the floor." "At first I thought he had jumped through the window. I saw him come out, being carried on a stretcher and then he was taken to hospital," said the first year Politics student, who lives in Orwell Close.
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"I am annoyed as it was a full (lay's work, I ftlled in loads of forms and expected to get the money." And the second-year, who aided new frrst years moving into the Village was also disappointed iu not getting the free lunch and drinks she was promised. ''The Union said that we would get free lunch, but by the time we were allowed a break there were only a few sandwiches left. We were also supposed to have free drinks in the bar, but that didn ' t happen either." LLT student Lizzey Billey is dis~ppqiqte_d .t,hat s!Je. h. qot ~c.eiyed her wages yet either.
''They said they would pay us at the end of September, but I till don't have any money from them. It would be nice to get it. It's not a lot, but it i the principle of it now really," aid the second-year. Union Communications Officer, Emrna Reynolds apologises to students - but claims the Union are not at fault. ''The University employed students on arrivals day and not the Union, we are sorry that people have not been paid yet, hut it is out of our hands.
Chasing "Not all students had filled in their forms properly and so we spent two or three weeks chasing this up as the University would only accept all the forms together. Secondly, the University has only one pay schedule which pays out on the last Thursday of every month. "We had been guaranteed that students would be paid at the end of October. But the University had the papers, and the person in charge of them delegated the re pon ibility when they went on holiday. On their J~.t\lro. fo11n.<! )Jl.t;YJl~4. stiU
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Concrete survev. shows students want to graduate outside UEA I erg/ass o~ 2002 crgampaitjn UEA students have finally spoken out about their graduation-after filling out our campaign graduation questionnaires.
Elsewhere Despite a set back after the box was stolen from The Hive, over two hundred students responded proving th at
·feeli ngs are running high about the events. 94% of the students are not happy about the prospect of having their graduation ceremony held in the old sports hall , with the majority willing to pay £5-10 to have it held elsewhere within a radius of up to 10 miles of the University.
Venue But for the graduation ball , only a fifth of the participants of the survey don't mind the LCR as a venue. Three quarters of the respon dees consider fairground rides to be important, followed closely by
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limited alcohol , a meal and a big name band. Other issues raised were a late licence for the bar, decent men and the opportunity to get a survivor's photograph. Over a half of those who responded would not mind a ticket price of up to £40 if it was held somewhere else. But if the party was to be held in the LCR , a massive 65% would not be will ing to pay more than £10 . Three quarters would also pay for transport and sug gestions we re made to include this in the ticket price.
Include The majority of the people who have taken part in the Concrete
survey are in favour of having the ceremony and the ball at a different venue.
More Most would be prepared to pay more for a ticket and even travel a reasonable distance to that venue. Overall , students seem happy with the entertainment but there was little interest in Z-list celebrities. Two thirds would like a meal included . If you want to get involved in the campaign , email su .con crete @uea.ac.uk marked for the attention of the editor Adam Chapman , or come to the office in Union House.
MUSLIMS GET NEW HOME New mosgue arrives on camp~
MUSLIMS on campus are celebrating after the recent opening of a new place of worship on campus . The _Isla mic C e ntre, w hi ch had its first praye r meetin g la t Friday, is ope n to all Mu slim s, in c luding those in the w id e r N o rwi c h co mmunit y, ll'rites L i~
sa id Shaya. Ass istant Dean of Stude nts Janet Havers was part of the group, which inc luded a represe nt ati' e fro m Estates. who joi ned forces to fi nd a bigger space for the Mus lim communit y to continue their worship. "As student numbers have grow n. it has become ev ide nt that there was
a need fo r a centre o f thi s ki nd. I hope that the Islami c cent re will be a success. Shaya and Dr Musa Said have worked hard to provide this fac il ity fo r their fe llow students ." sa id Ms Havers. For more informati on on the centre, visit Lhc Islami c soc iety. websitc at www. uea.ac. ukl-gs692.
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Above: Shaya- Y-AI-Raqa in front of the new mosque
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TORIES GET WET UEA KIND hearted students will be going into the stocks on Friday to raise money for the BBC Children in Need Appeal. The Tory soc iety will be c ha rg ing people to throw we t sponges at the m in the square.
Promotions staff told to leave campus KATIE HIND News Editor
EVENT promoters have been ordered to leave Union premises after fears they were ripping students off. Police were called to see the staff, employed by Londonbased advertising agency XL Industries, who were tempting students in the Hive and Bar with offers of paintball games and makeovers.
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be for the rugby club. "Then Emma (Communications Officer) came along and told me not to do it, so I ripped the slip up," said the Business Economics student. Union Communications Officer, Emma Reynolds, warns students to be careful when handing over their money.
Second year SOC student , Ben Day was approached by a woman in the Union Pub who tried to sign him up for the paintball offer. "She told us all about it and it seemed quite a good deal. lt didn't occur to me that there was anything wrong. 11 was going to
"We would ask any students to exercise caution when approached to hand over any money. "The companies may be reputable but check them out first, take a telephone number of the
to hand over their credit card detai ls on the spot - without any official receipt. XL Industry staff offered a paintball package, worth over £300 for just £40 and £250 of beauty treatment for only £39.99 .
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Check "We try and check the organisations who advertise with us, but the people on campus on this occasion were in our building, which is private property. We therefore have the right to ask them to leave, which we did. "Some students made us aware that they felt they were under pressure to buy. We had serious suspicions that they were less than legit and therefore thought it would benefit all stu-
dents if they were asked to leave;• she added. But Senior Manager of XL Industries, Zoe Leveque claims that her company is legal and benefits students.
Legitimate "We are legitimate and it is in the interest of students as they pay a lot less, no one can argue that it's not fair. ''The staff aren't trained to hassle people, if they do then we want to know about it. Sometimes things are misunderstood and the police are called; said Ms Leveque.
Po liti ca l Secretary Toby Matthews be lieves that they are bound to raise a lot of money with him in the stocks. " I' m pretty sure that I am going to be the prime target." he sa id And the RAG committee are build ing a co in Pudsey bear in the hive. The event will begin at I 0.30 and RAG secretary Li zzie Cook appeals for students to give to a worthy cause. "We hope that students will come and support us on Friday," she said.
ISlAM TALK A TALK entitled 'Islam: the misunderstood religion ' will take place on Wednesday November 14 at 4pm in Lecture Theatre
3. The lecture ai m to explain the ori gins and practices o f Islam, the Tal iban and I lam's treatment of wome n. All are welcome and refreshments are provided .
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Students comnlain about Union affiliated cab comnany_ SEVEN UEA students were involved in a near crash during a race between two ABC taxi drivers. The terrifyin g ordeal happe ned in the early ho urs of Tuesday O ctobe r 30, afte r the g irl s booked two ta xis from No rwi c h train statio n to take the m ho me a fte r celebrating a fri end 's birthday in the ci ty, writes Alex Woodwa rd. The drivers were taili ng eac h other, swerving in and out of lanes and trave llin g at more than 80mph. When the driver was asked to stop by the pa%engers, he decli ned and cont inued to drive them home. The girls in the other car were driven home quickly too.
Angry One of the girls, Dianna Reid was angry with the drivers - claiming that they should have been more respons ible.
" We all gave the fi rst driver a mouth ful and he accepted it knowing he was in the wrong. I can' t beli eve they were racing. We pay them and they' re in a respons ibl e pos iti on, they put all our lives at ri sk. They could have killed us, not to mention a pedewian," said the first year Music stude nt ABC Manager, Mr Ca lendar, c lai ms he had not heard about the incident despi te the students phoning the company when they arrived home and were told it would be dealt wi th .
Action " I' ll look into it, and serious action shou ld be taken. I don't condone anything like this. it\ ridicu lously dangerous and stupid. The drivers should stick to the speed limi t," said Mr Calendar. " I'm horri fi ed at what has happened and there is no question about someth ing being done as there were passengers on board:' he added .
Uni on We lfa re Offi cer, Po ll y Evans, has appealed for students invo lved in dangerous incidents to come forward .
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Reliable " We would ask the stude nts invo lved to come and tell us about this as th is is the only company wh ich we support as a rel iable taxi fi rm and if they are not looking after our students then we want to know about it." But she claims that ABC is a reli able firrn. "We support ABC because we have an agreement with them that if any student who lives on campus is wanded in the city and does not have money to get home then they can get in an ABC cab, give their . UEA card in at the Porters Lodge as they arrive back at campus and then '>ettle the bi ll to retrieve their registration card. thereby enabling them to get home safe:·
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DeveloP.ment of old Breakers site will P.roduce drinking den and we are moving the process along as quickly as we can." And she believes that students will welcome the new venue.
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REDEVELOPMENT of the old Breakers site is f inally under way after financial wrangl es between the Union and the University left t he building standing empty for over a year. The former fast-foo d o utlet
called B reake rs 2 , which was ridiculed by m a ny students, will be transfo rm ed into a cafe by day and a party venue at night. Communications Union Officer Emma Reynolds is relieved that the plans for the bui lding have final ly been made . "Breakers is one of our priorities
Events "I think all students agree that we need more social space and this will give more room for clubs and societies to hold events. We have paid a lot of money for Breakers so we wanted to do
something that everyone would use and not something which may only please a few, for example a hairdre·ssers . We know there is a big demand for a fast food place but the University won 't allow us to run any more food operations than we already do," said Emma. Work on the building wi ll coincide with a huge refurbishment of the union bar bu t plans for the decoration inside have not yet
been decided . 'The general idea is to try and make it smart but neutral so that it is more adaptable when events
Neutral are on. Some students may want an old style pub, others may want a real space-age sort of thing . If we go for someth ing too extreme then only a few people will like it," she added.
Over the last year and a half, development of the unit had been set back by disagreements between the union and the university, who are leasing the site to the students union for a whopping £150,000. Now the plans have been finalised , students can expect to see workmen on the site as early as February. But decisions are yet to be made on the future of the old Lloyds Bank site.
CROWDED AND UNRELIABLE HosP.ital extension leaves students sick I Breakers site: soon to serve alcohol
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EAS student M cna Bevan ;., ann oyed at Fir' I Em,tern ·s di;,regard ror their cu , lomcr' - especia lly as , ome ha ve paid (60 for a term·, bu '> pa:-.:--..
" I th ink th at they arc ahu, ing UEA ' llldcn l'>. We pa ~ £60 poun tb hut do not gt: l the 'en ice \\C dco,erve. lfthe) tlon· l son it out. then "e " ill not he hu ~ ing th e pa"es nc\l lcrm . it\ a ' implc a' that... But the bus co mpan) \ l'vl arketi ng M anager. I\ l ike 1\ t) ne. insist> that steps arc hcing tal-en to tack le the prohlem. "U nfort unately. traflic congestion has arrect ed th e rcliabilil \ or timetable and I'm afraid lhal the
problems with overcrowding is just a kn ock on eiTecl. We have accomm odated for th e e\t ra stop in our tim et abl e but we have abo approached the coum y council and put rorward <,omc other options. " I wuuld like to rcass un: the s ill dent s that we arc fu ll y aware of the probl ems and we wi ll either pu t ex tra resources in or withdraw the
hospital route:· ·.,aiu Mr Pay ne. Uni on Wclrare Offi ce r Poll ) Evan' has abo rcce i1 cd several co mpl ainl' from ann o)etl studenl,.
Complaints "M o't of the complain ts have concerned the inabi lity to get on a bu s at all at ce rtain times of the mornin g. I have wrillen to First
Em,tcrn Coumies bu ses to request that either more bu <.cs or doubledeckers be provided at these times. "The) informed me th at doubledeck er \"Chi cles would be use d where possible to try and overco me this situation. Howeve r. I am happy to represent any student if they wi sh to make a complaint to the bu s com pany... said Poll y.
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Finance Manager celebrates her long service with the Union KATIE HIND News Editor
WHEN Vera Dye arrived at UEA twenty-five years ago, there was no UFO, no Post Office and only eight Union staff. Now the University campus caters for the majority of students' needs and the upstai rs of Union House is 40 home to at least employe es. Last week Union Finance Manager, Vera, celebrated after working at the University for a quarter of a century.
Memories "I have good memories, it was much more informal when I started . When I came for my interview, the Sabbatical Officer who was interviewing me was sat
eating a bag of chips and offered me one," she said. And although change is scary for most people -Vera, 55, enjoys it and claims it is for that reason that she has worked for the Union for so long .
Changes "I've stayed here so long because there are so many changes , constant changes make it interesting . There were no computers when I started, it was all done manually then so I've had to learn new skills. "There are always new characters com ing through and you bui ld up a good rapport with some of them. I keep in touch with some of the old Sabbs," added Vera, whose first grandchild was born just over two
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Great And some of the former students who worked within the Union have gone on to great things. Vera remembers the comedian , Arthur Smith , local TV personality, Brian McNerney and even the current Ents Manager, Nick Raynes as students. For some Norwich locals, the thought of spending five days a week surrounded by students would be too much - Vera, who even lives just off Earlham Road in the Golden Triangle actual ly enjoys it. "I like being with young people, it keeps my outlook young. My outlook is much younger than
some of my friends who are the same age as me." Surprisingly, Vera has no plans to move on - in fact she is happy to stay until it is time to draw her pension . "I suppose I will stay here until I retire, I've got another five or ten years or more," she said .
Appreciate And the feeling of the current students and Sabbs is mutual. Union Communications Officer, Emma Reynolds says that Vera is great to work with. "Vera is a great compliment to the staff who work here for the students at the Union. This year's executive have been able to appreciate, even in the short time we have known her, what a good job she does," said Emma.
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Running out of time? Tuition fees were a response to decades of underfunding at British universities. So who's going to pay once they're scrapped? By Adam Chapman ake heart in the knowledge that we have briefly been included on the political agenda. Forever relegated to the back burner of policy initiatives, the Government have reportedly woken up to the problem of apathy amongst the young. Indeed, senior Labour figures are concerned that our generation are being alienated from the party, so cue a floodgate of appealing legislation designed to win back the 'yoof' vote. Student radicals can sleep easy in their beds, knowing that skinning up is no longer an arrestable offence and that some day, years after their graduation, university students will once again have education for free. You can hear the eighteen year olds of the country clambering over each other to reach the ballot box. "We have to find a better way to combine state funding and student contributions." These words were Tony Blair's message to future university candidates. So far so uninspiring. What the Government seems not to have realised is that these initiatives are not going to help them win the next election, as far away as that may seem. Everyone with a degree of understanding of the political process in the UK knows that elections are won and lost in the heartland of middle England, not on the campuses of East Anglia. Moreover, the age group whose hearts and minds need seizing is not, sadly, our own but those of our parents and grandparents. Which is why university funding remains something of a paradox. Earlier this year, British Social Attitudes asked "Do you feel that oppor-
Student radicals can sleep easy in their beds, knowing that skinning up is no longer an arrestable offence.
!unities for young people in Britain to go on to higher education - to a university or college should be increased or reduced , or are they at about the right level now?" The results were promising. 25% agreed that it should be increased a lot, 19% believed it should be increased a little, 48% thought that it was just about right while 8% held that it should be reduced or gave no answer. This would seem to suggest that the majority are happy with the status quo or desire some kind of improvement. However, later in the survey people were asked to prioritise levels of spending in education. Special needs children came first as a funding priority, secondary school children came next, third was primary school children and fourth nursery education. At the bottom of the list came university education . As contradictions go this would seem to be quite a momentous one. Forty-four percent of p~ople believe university education needs more fupding yet don't believe it to be a priority. Wpich is why the announcement regarding the scrapping of tuition fees gives cause for concern. There is no underestimating the breadth of opinion regarding tuition fees but one thing is sure: the money for our education has to come from somewhere. One thing can be assumed from the whole situation: tax-payers are unwilling to be the ones footing the bill and the Government is far too scared of alienating Daily Mail readers to even contemplate raising direct taxes. Which leads one to wonder where the money will come from . Universities have suffered from decades of underfunding and there seems to be very little hope of the situation being improved without a generous injection of capital. Judging by the deafening silence emanating from the country's vice-chancellors, universities are not willing to join the protest against tuition fees fo[ the very simple reason that they need the money. In other words don't bite the hand that fe~ds you. Their backing is exactly what the campaigns against tuition fees need . If universi~ies provided solid backing to rallies such as the one taking place in Cambridge next week the Government would be more steadfast in its
resolve to encourage poorer students to enter higher education . But we are talking hypotheticals and the situation is far from simple. If the survey is to be believed, people want university education to be readily accessible but aren't willing to fund it. Judging by university responses they are keeping quiet as long as some money comes their way. The only group who seem willing to voice an opinion are the very people who have the least political sway. Students' Unions organise rallies but gain little attention amongst the majority of apathetic students. They are quite willing to take out a loan rather than shout about it. This leads to a vicious circle: campaign for the rights of students while most of them ignore you . n a political climate seemingly obsessed with privatisation (schools, hospitals, the London Underground) it isn't such a huge stretch of the imagination to envisage a situation whereby British universities consist of expensive good ones and cheap poor ones. In other words, five more years of underfunding will lead us one step closer to the system currently strangling poor young people in America. Expensive universities give a good education to those who can afford it and bad universities offer cheap education to those who can't. The small irony of the problem is that the people who are pushing us towards this situation all went to university themselves. And if that 's the kind of logic higher education imbues you with, don't you wish you'd left that UCAS form blank?
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A hesitant congratulations to the Union for solving one of the biggest riddles ever to have faced a campus building. The news that the Breakers 2 site is to finally be made use of should come as a relief to those students who have been here long enough to remember its previous jinxed incarnations. They may also remember the numerous suggestions that followed its timely demise. Video shop, chemist and hairdressers have all been bandied around but with little success. However, the Union have decided to err on the side of caution and do what they do best - sell drink. The bar has been in dire need of refurbishment and expansion for a long time. Who, quite honestly, wants to sit in a place that looks like an out of date Harvester restaurant? lt is for this reason that we ask the Union for complete consultation with the student body over plans for the site. lt is all well and good these plans going ahead, but we should all be kept informed as to what form they are going to take. The site already has a reputation for doomed business ventures so everything should be done to make sure that students get what they want. That aside the announcement is a welcome respite from the gloomy U EA campus and should give all first and second years something to look forward to in the coming years.
Mandate The results of Concrete's Class of 2002 Survey seem to illustrate a clear mandate for change. With a huge majority in favour of moving both the graduation ceremony and the grad ball to venues worthy of the event we hope that this will provide some kind of impetus for change. And with the Union's clear support for the campaign, we look forward to moving on to look in to alternative venues for both events. We understand that there are constraints for change. A few years ago the elected Union moved the grad ball to the Sport's Village but were, in the end, unsuccessful in drumming up enough interest. The ball was subsequently held in the LCR. The change in venue will, no doubt, mean that the price of tickets will increase. As the survey illustrates, students are willing to do this. We are more than happy to accept the Union's support in exploring alternative venues. We would also ask the University to do the same. lt is ridiculous that we should graduate in a former sports hall when lesser institutions such as City College use the Cathedral. Again there ar~ limits to us doing the same but closing yourself off to all possi bi I ities benefits no one.
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"I thought he was dead because his face was covered in blood. But the bullet had gone through his mouth and come out the other side ... " On January 3, 1944 a partisan resista nee group was sl eeping in a barn near the village of Val ibona in northern Italy when they were surrounded by a 50strong group of Fascists. In the ensuing gunfight, only four of the 15 partisans escaped. British soldier Stuart Hood was one of them , and 50 years later he went back to find himself part of local myth. Will Halsey heard his incredible escape from Italy
tuart Hood is not your average wa r hero. A British Intelligen ce Off 1cer, he found himself captured and placed in a Prisoner of War camp near Parma. But after the arm 1st1 ce in 1943 whi ch left 500 Allied pn s oners at large in northern Italy, he moved south by foot, joining partisan resista nce groups and continuing to fight against Fascism . it was with one such group that he faced what wa s later to become known as the Batt le of Valibon a. " I remember very clearly being woken and told we were surrounded," Stuart recal ls in a faint Scottish accent tinged with over half a century of multilingual speech. "A couple of Fascists were shining a torch in the door of the barn and th ey were saying 'come out, we've got you.' That's when we had to start to fighting back. it was a very con fused situation which deteriorated very qui cldy. "There were about 50 of them - various fi gures were given up to about 500 but it was probil bl y 50 or 60 people . There wasn 't much hope. One of the Russians [in the partisan group] damaged l11s foot and he co uldn't get away. They shot him on the spot. They said the team was being led by t h1s Russian to discredit the resistance moveme nt." In fact, the team was being led by Lanci otto Ballerini , an Italian soldier who took to the hil ls with ammunition following the disintegration of the Italian armed forces the previous year. He and the rest of the group - two Russians , two Yugoslavs , 11 Italians and Stuart, who was nicknamed Carlino -were united only by a des 1re to destroy Fascism. Indeed, Stuart's fluent Russian was useful for translation purposes within t he group, but his superior rank to Ba l lerini wa s problematic . They had clashed over whether to p la ce sentries to keep watch at night; Ballerini in si sted they were not necessary, Stuart disagreed. it was a
dec 1sion that would ultimately cost Ball erini hi s l1fe. He and two others died in the battle, but oth ers remarkably survived despite the prolonged onslaught from th e Fasc ist group. "There was one extraordinary boy," Stuart - now 84- explain s. " I remember JUmping over h1m. I tho ught he was dead because his face was covered 1n bl ood . But when I went back there he was. The bull et had gone through his mouth, come out the oth er side, and because it was so cold the blood had fro zen so he didn't bleed to death.
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Fascists stood over him and said , llet's finish him off.' But th ey missed. " " Two Fasci sts stood over him and said 'Jet 's fin ISh h1m off' , and the other guy said he wanted to do 1t. But they must have managed to miss him some how. Whether he lost his nerve, I don 't know. But t he boy survived , and managed to find a peasant hou se. The Fascists got hold of him , but he was alright - though he does still have lead coming out of his neck. He was 19 then." Stuart himself was armed with just a rifle durIng the battle, which took place in and around the sm all barn. " it had all the confusion of a gunfight- it's never very clear what is happening in such situati ons. Our machine gunner was JUSt inside the door, and he asked me to come outside with him and cover him. He did that , but the problem was getting back in again past their machine gunner. I
then got out - the machine gunner was kill ed and went up the hill. My rifle had jammed, it was the safest place to be. " Following the battle , stories c irculated for many days. Fascists were claiming that up to 20 partisans were killed- yet only 15 were inside the barn. Some Fascists were hit too. Stuart says: "We ki lled one or two on their side. One of them was a boy of 15. We had no idea at the time." Stuart stole away from the battle and hid with a peasant family in the hills for the fo llowing few weeks. One day he woke up to find another gun battle raging a short distance down the valley. "it was very dangerous for the peasants," Stuart explains. "They were Fascists and only knew me as an English officer. I thought it was time to take off." ifty years later, Stuart returned to the area having been tracked down by a local historian through Stuart's publisher. He had previously returned to visit peasant families that had sheltered him during his trek across Italy, but never to Campi Bizenio, the nearest town to where the battle took place in Valibona. "They made me an honorary citizen ," explains Stuart, somewhat 路embarrassed by the attention and adulation. " I've found myself built into local history. Lanciotto Ballerini is very much a local figurehead - the local cycling cup and football c lub are named after him. He is part of the soc ial c ulture of the town. " I found myself part of the set up in the sense that I am representative of that episode. I also have the importance of being a foreigner which lends a credence to the memories. "it was difficult to dea l with being a legend . There was one man who greeted me warmly 50
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War memories: clockwise from left, L.anciotto Ballerini, the leader of the parlisan resistance group; Stuart Hood outside the barn 50 years after the Battle of Va/ibona; Stuart's fake identity card; a group of Italian partisans in Pistoia, near Va/ibona, ferreting out German snipers; a German soldier with the head of a Partisan on a stick. Opposite page: the barn in which the Battle of Valibona took place;
years on who wasn't there - though he claimed to be. On official visits I have to be carefu l politically who I give my time to. And in some of the outlying villages around Campi, Stuart is more than a legend - he is a myth. Stuart explains: "One of the guys went into the bar in the village and asked the barwoman if anyone had heard of Carlino. She said he never existed. 路 "A story has been constructed around this battle. it is now politically important, socially important, and culturally important. it has evolved into something which is very coherent - there is an authorised version of what happened. And it's difficult to question that; it's so accepted. I'm a kind of celebrity if I go back now." ttaining celebrity status was something Stuart was anxious to avoid back in 1944, when he faced trekking many miles to reach the Allied line in the south of Italy. He was walking through Chianti when h.e made his first mistake. "I was sleeping in a barn and was woken by a torch shining in my face. it was a farm worker who took me to a resistance group. They showed me a
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Sienna, a town around 15 miles away from the group's base. The All ies were fast approaching and Stuart was to go to Sienna and await liberation. However, there was one catch . "I had to take in explosives," Stuart recal ls. "And the Germans had sentries at all the gates of Sienna who did spot checks. I went with an Italian and we both had to walk past the German sentries with explosives in our pockets - I also had an identity card with no photo. I just told myself to keep walking, not to look at the sentry, keep talking and not start running." Had the sentries decided to stop and search Stuart, he would have been shot. But he walked straight through. "After I walked past the sentries I rushed into a shop and got a photo on my identity card. I was then safe. I spent about a week in Sienna, then the
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Allies arrived. From Sienna I was taken down to Naples by the Americans. There I was debriefed and sent home." But despite safely arriving back in the UK, the harrowing events of the previous months stayed with Stuart for many years afterwards. it was only thirty years later that he began to deal with c ircumstances that rema in unimaginable to those that weren't there. One night in particular sticks out. " I couldn't deal with the experiences," admits Stuart. " it took me a long time to face what happened. I was in charge of an arms drop, but when we got to the scene, we had a man too many, we didn't know who he was. "He was just a young guy, maybe 18 or 19, and I asked him who he was. He told us stories that were obviously not true. So I said to the guys I was with 'what do we do now?' They said 'you 're in command'. So we shot him. 路He'd seen everybody, so I had to give the order to have him shot. 路 "Many years later, a friend of mine bought a farm near this place, and I went to stay with him. A man came down from the village and said the plumber wants to have supper with me. At the end of the evening he turned to me and said: 'I thought you'd like to know he was a spy."'
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Hard at work. • • Martin Roberts (SOC 2) Job: Nurse - including observations and the delightful task of wa~hing dead bodies! Are they recru iting? Yes, but the job requ ires specialist trai ning -Mlich takes three months. Apply through the NHS. Good points: "Responsibility and pay." Bad points: " lt can get emotionally stressful, and it's always hard work." Hours: 37 hours a week to fit in with studies but part-time is pos>ible. Pay £5.50 an hour or £11 an hour at weekends. How did you find the job? "A family member is a nurse and told me.""
When overdrafts are at their limits, ar.td affording Christmas is an impossible drea m, thoughts turn to the dreaded subject of getting a job. Ben Cannon looked into the .Norwic h student job market. ..
here comes a time at universi_ t y when we could all do with a little extra cash - according to the NUS, there is a shortfall of more than £4223 between the costs of living and what your loan cheque will cover. Part time work is the ideal solution; none of the commitment of a 'proper' career so plenty of time left over to study and socialise, and an extra 'cash injection ' into your budget so you can afford the extra nights out, the new trainers and the tuition fees. lt's not unusual to work as a student. The NUS Student Hardship Survey of 1999 found that 41% of full-time undergraduates undertook paid work during periods of sfudy. The average hours of work were 13 per week and average pay was £4.53 per hour. And if you're worried about not having enough time to study, a Russian scientist, Dr V. Burdakov has discovered that it is most healthy to study for only three hours a day. Now that's the kind of research universities should be funding ...
Finding t he right job The obvious place is at Employability in the Student Advice Centre. There are jobs ranging from cleaning and bar-work to caring, teaching and marketing. Some jobs require skills and experience, others don't. Almost all positions are part-time with hours to suit you, so you can fit the job in around your studies and social life. Another good idea is to go to the Job Centre, Pottergate, by Tesco Metro. There are a wide range of jobs available, many part-time, and most within the city. Some are for instant starts as well, so if
you 're a bit strapped and want to get working quickly this could be a good route to take. The other opti.on is to spend a day registering with the recruitment agencies. Many have call-centre, direct marketing, tele-sales, market research, manual labour and data entry jobs available from £4-£5 an hour with flexible hours. Many of the agencies require you to make an appointment to go in and register with them, so dress smartly to be taken seriously, and don't forget your National Insurance number. There are always plenty of secretarial jobs going if you can type at or above 40 words per minute - and 60 wpm would be a mas· sive benefit. · Finally, ask your friends who work if they know of any recruitment drives, and ask around in shops, restaurants, bars and pubs.
Edward Webb-1 ngall (SOC 2) Job: Visual merchandiser and sales assistant at Miss Selfridge. Are they recruiting? No. Good points: "lt's more creative than normal shop work, and I gel to work with head office." Bad points: "lt's very tiring and gets really hot in the shop. There's also a big gay stigma."· Hours: 8 -12 hours a week, including 4 hours on Saturday and Sunday. Pay: £4.10 an hour. How did you f ind ~he job? "I was head-hunted from my normal CV application."
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Job: Works as a Barman at the 10 Bells in St Benedicts. Are they recruiting? No. Good points: "There's a mixed crowd of locals and students, and everyone is really friend ly. it's a nice pub and the good atmosphere makes it a pleasant place to work." Bad points: "The pay isn't great, and it gets quite hot." Pay: £16 per 4 hour shift + £5 bonus if busy. Hours: Three nights a week: 7 .30pm - 11.30pm. How did you find the j ob? " A friend told me."
Finding a job to fit around your studies and drinking time is not easy as a student, even with reports stating that Norwich is awash with jobs. Fortunately, there are people out there to help you. Try some of these fOI" size: Nocwich Job Ce~ 01603 248700 Brook Street 01603 628931 Carousel Recruitment 01603 623313 Personal Recruitment 01603 767333 Recruit Direct (Anglia) ltd 01603 626622 The Personnel People 01603 761717 Manpower 01603 628691 Adecco 01603 629951 Blue Arrow Pel'$00nel 01603 615121
Emily Langran (HIS 2) Job Silver Service Waitress with Black & White. Recruiting? There may be the odd function at Christmas, but your number is kept on record all year and you get called up."· Good points "lt's good pay, the work is easy, and I get to work with my friends. You can also turn down the work if you're too busy, which is quite helpful." Bad points "The hours are sometimes uncertain, and it's not regular work. But that can be a good thi ng when I have essays to write." Pay £5 an hour. Found "My housemate runs the business."
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"I could trust my boyfriend more than myself as he always reminds me to take the pill." Louise (EAS 2) "I wouldn't trust my boyfriend to take it because I need the peace of mind knowing I'm in control." Lindsey (LAW 2) "Since when have men been responsible for anything. They can't even change their underwear!" Ki ruba (LAW 2) "lt's a good idea but for the fact that they'll never take it cause they're completely unreliable." Ellie (EAS 1)
rom its introduction nearly 40 years ago, opment in choice for men. As Mina Ageypong from issue, saying: "lt won 't replace the condol)l on one the Pill has been a female domain. Whilst Brook Clinics highlights: "Additional contraceptive night stands." Emma Mckay of The Health Centre is the old cliches of 'it takes two to tango' option for males will be a positive step forward for encouraged by a form of male contraception. "I hold true, it doesn't take two to deal w1th men's sexual health.'' think it's a good idea; but it doesn't provide a barricontraception. But while the male 'pill' An issue that concerns both sexes was the risk of er to prevent contracting a sexually transmitted sounds like a good idea, wou ld our UEA men use it? STis. Michelle (SOC 3) em phasises:.;.; th.:.;;e-~~~~~ infection," she explains. Dr H.J. Out, Medical Director at Organon Whether the male pill wil l have a lasting effect Laboratories, Cambridge, stated that at ---~~:1~~ on contraception is debatable, but the feeling of the moment it is being tested, and . most females on campus was t hat it would n't, has proved very effective. However, it and the men will need a lot of convincing. won't be available for 5 to 6 years. Or However, there are exceptions to every rule. Mike Out explains: "The fema le pill is not (HIS 2) believes that "with a mature attitude it on t he same scale as the male pill, as cou ld work." He was keen to stress that t here the man doesn't get pregnant but the were always going to be people who were irrewoman does. However it re~ains .to be sponsible, but that included women as well. seen if it wil l be popular, as originally UEA Health Centre 01603 592172 no one thought any men would be Central Family Planning Clinic 01603 287345 interested." l-;!~~1;.:!:::~~~~~!..!:.=~~::.....:..~..;;...,___~ The Health information Service 0800 66 55 44 Whilst some are sceptical of the male -... Free condoms Bpm- Bam Nightline: Norfolk Te"ace pill, its creation could be seen as a develBlock C Floor 03 Room 12 Tel: 01603 503504
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What the boys think••. "Men are quite precious about their equipment and are quite careful about anything that might diminish theit virility." John (HIS PG) "I don't want to do anything that tucks around with my sperm." Kieran (EAS MA) "I think that it's more in the woman's interest to sort out the contraception. As much as we'd all like to say that we care it's not really the case, as the consequence is not in our body."
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"Call a house meeting and tel l them how you feel, be reasonable and try and sort out a compromise, like putting the heating on for a little bit every morning and evening. Try suggesting a rota for things like washing up, hooveri ng etc" Graham, Env 3 "You're in a no win situation, do it yourself or move out" Mark, HIS 2 "Bribe them with sweets and alcohol or get them drunk and then tell them how you're feeling. They should hopefully be nicer with a few drinks inside them." James, (Grad bar) " Ring your mum and tell her; She'll know what to do. Failing that hide all your clean stuff in your room and then they'll have to do some." Katrina, EAS 1 "You should have expected this moving into a shared house with students. There is nothing you can do but bear it and look for some other people to live with next year. Be more carefu l who you choose next time" Alex, (Grad bar) "Put all their washing up in their rooms or smash up all their plates" Jess, LLT 2 "Get some articles on basic food hygiene and pneumonia, compile the facts into a leaflet and put them under their doors. They mig~t take the hint and do something about it." L11ke, EAS 2 "I think you need to stand up for yourself. Get them all together and tell them how pathetic they are for ignoring you and then confront them with the state of the house. Make them feel small and tell them how skanky they are, with a bit of luck they'll realise and start pulling their weight" Hannah, (Grad bar) "Compromise. Tell them you ' ll clean the house on the days they let you have the heating on, and when they don't let you have the heating on they have to clear up. Sounds fair doesn't it?" Sarah, SOC 1 "In our house we have paper cups and plates and it works very well, I th ink it wou ld be a good idea for your house. As for the heating it's less cold if you have a hot water bottle in bed with you" Paul, EAS 2
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Nevertheless, I hate getting sunburnt, please let me go in the shade ... You want the low-down on museums you mean. Well there is a couple. The best is the Rector's Palace housing an eccentric collection of sedan chairs and chipped porcelain (it has a bit of decent architecture as well ). Also, there is the Maritime Museum, which is self-explanatory. This place has a cafe culture. That is what they do. Being lazy and drinking coffee; that i s more my style... If you can find a place on the main street in the old town, the Stradun, then you are lucky. Most people turn out in the evening for the corzo, the Croatian passeggiata. There of course is the summer festival that runs from July 10 to August 25. There is a host of excellent drama, dance, and music events staged in the ch urches and palaces. Nice. Travel requirements if you please. No visa is required to get into Croatia and you can use your interrail pass to get you to Split. Dubrovnik is then a 5-hour coach journey south costing £10. You can also get ferries across from Bari, and occasionally Ancona. A deck passage (literally) will set you back £25. If you wi sh to fly, Croatian Airlines fly direct to Dubrovnik from Gatwick three times a week and prices start from £253. Mike Milner
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landing in Red Square with my back against the rustcoloured walls of the Russian History Museum I try to work out what is m issing. it's a cold, bright Saturday morning and the sunlight reflecting off the well-worn cobbles makes it difficul t to see without squinting. To my right are the Kremlin walls, which allow only tanta lising glimpses of the palaces and golden cupolas within. To my left are the elegant arcades of GUM, the first Soviet department store. Pronounced 'goom', it used to be as dreary and spartan as its name sounds, but stroll through its designer boutiques and speciality shops today and you could be in Milan. Ahead is the riotous confect ion of St Basil's Cathedral built by lvan IV to celebrate his victory over the Mongols before he turned Terrible. Beyond is the steely grey Moskva River. A party of Russian schoolchildren queue crocodile-style to enter Lenin's Mausoleum while a shivering bride poses for pictures wearing a silver puffer jacket over her white dress. Street vendors laden with Russian Army hats stand around smoking and wa iting for business. And that's when it hits me. Where are all the tourists? This must surely be one of the most impressive squares in any city. Maybe not the most beautiful, but the vast, rolling expanse of it and the resonance of recent history are enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. A day's sightseeing here can range from the sublimenotably the eye-bulging collection of jewels and Faberg~ eggs in the Kremlin's Armoury • to the vaguely ridi cu lous (though it's meant to be solemn) experience of visiting . _
Lenin's embalmed body, which is creepy and surreal from start to finish . While I would rather queue for 20 minutes in the cold to see a dead Socialist leader than stand for one minute in the sunshine watching a motionless mime artist pretending to be a statue on Barcelona's Ramblas, most people wou ld not. Which explains why there are more British tourists in Barcelona than in Moscow on this and, indeed, most weekends.
The government is teaching Russians how to smile. In an attempt to reverse declining numbers of foreign tourists (put off by reports of soaring street crime and the war with Chechnya) the Moscow City Government has decided to make the Russian capital • and its people ·more welcomi ng for visitors. Within the next two years, Moscow will open its first tourist information centre and ereate 20 landscaped 'tourist zones'. lt will also train a special tourist police force, which will patrol visitor hotspots, such as the Kremlin and Red Square, offering assistance and peace of mind to visitors. There are also plans to build more threestar hotels to bridge the accommodation gap between Soviet-era monstrosities such as the 6,000 room Hotel Rossia and the luxurious five-star Hotel Baltschug Kempinski. The new tourism strategy goes far beyond the cosmetic: it will also attempt to get under the skins of the Russian people with a government-sponsored campaign to ~ teac~ th~ citizens o{ Moscow.tQ smit~. Not .
at each other, because they do that anyway, but at tourists. The idea goes something like this: rather than dru mming their fingers impatiently on the counter, shopkeepers will help customers as they fumble to count out their roubles. Instead of blank stares, policemen will happily give directions to lost tourists and taxi drivers will resist the urge to wheelspin off into the distance as new and bemused arrivals stutter over unpronounceable street names. This drive to attract tourists is all part of a wider strategy by the energetic Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to revitalise the city centre·, which has encompassed everything from filling in potholes to major building projects, ranging in scope from Russia's first lkea store (causing three-hour traffic tailbacks as Russians clamoured for their first encounter with flat-pack furniture) to the imposing Church of Christ the Saviour, Moscow's largest cathedral. Moscow is changing rapidly and the pace can be bewildering for to.urists and residents alike. Though Stalin's seven gothic skyscrapers still ring tb,e city, other relics of the Communist era have been put out to grass. Statues of Brezhnev, Stalin and the feared founder of the KGB, Dzerzhinsky, sit quietly in a neglected plot of land known as the Graveyard of Fallen Monuments wh ile in nearby Gorky Park children clamber over a Russian space shuttle wh ich now serves as a fairground attraction. But as is often the case, it's the subtle changes that are the most significant. As I checked in at the BA desk for my flight home, the Russian clerk handed back my tickets with a shy smile and murmured something. I could be wrong but I think she saj<t: 'H.a'{e.a.nic~ 9cw.: • _ . .. •• .'
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e've all told pork pies in our time; after all, we would never have survived the perilous days of youth without faking ID on our computers, or telling our parents that we were at the cinema when really we were out swigging cider in the park and stealing traffic cones. But for the natives of Wasdale Valley in the Lake District, lying is part of the annual November festivities, when potential Pinocchios from across the globe try their dab hand at clinching the ultimate title: 'The World 's Biggest Liar'. The competition is open to anybody who can tell absurd whoppers, and began back in the nineteenth century. A famous publican going by the name of Will Ritson tried to con the locals into thinking that the turnips they ate could be used as sheds in which to house their sheep, and so the games begun . The only drawbacks are that the prize is no more than fifteen pounds and the venue is a pub, so there are only one hundred people there to sample the fine art. A spokeswoman for the event however reckoned that despite the lack of prize money, it's the plain prestige of the title that makes it so popular. Will's successors have come up with all sorts of fantastical fibs about how the Lake District was formed by large moles and eels, but the art of lying has changed. In Will's day, it was all about extravagance and tales of the. stupendous, whereas nowadays some element of belief must be involved in order for the victim to be effectively sucked in. And, as some students pointed out, there's more than one way of going about the task. Indeed, a trip to The Hive proved that the students at UEA could provide some strong competition for the experts in Cumbria. Brett (EAS 2) would appear to be a likely contender, talks proudly about his past lies as though they are his biggest conquests. "The best tech nique" he nods, with a sly grin on his face and a cunning twinkle in his eye, "is to blame it on somebody else." Brett swears by such a cruel approach and has escaped a hefty penalty many a time. " One lunch time when we were in year ten, me and my mates pissed in a filing cabinet, and when the teacher came in, we blamed it on somebody else." Yet laying the blame onto some other poor soul
is hardly ethical, and the con?equences for the blamee could be difficult to live with. Take James (SOC 3) for example. During a sociology lesson in secondary school he was publicly held responsible for someone else's tart and was laughed at for two years. it was only later that the real criminal confessed, but by then it was "all too late" and the damage irreparable. lt doesn't stop there. There's no end to what people will do in the hope of some sort of direct self-benefit. Things can be gained from telling whoppers, providing they get to the point . Hopping into a wheelchair to skip the three hour queues at Disneyland, Paris saved one individual and his family all the unnecessary hassle, and for another, folding her arm into her coat to give the illusion of a missing limb and grappling with the hand rails in London's rush hour was all it took for an unsuspecting tube passenger to unwittingly give up his seat.
"We pissed in a filing cabinet and blamed it on somebody else"
Body language is the best giveaway when people lie, but Truster, an electronic lie detector, is a useful asset if you have a straying lover, but will set you back around $100 . Maybe we have to accept that Iies are probably inevitable. Even if we all owned a Truster, we'd only find out things we'd probably rather not know. Yes. it's okay to tell the odd white lie here and there , but remember, whoppers aren 't the best way of going about business, and besides, there is always the chance that somebody will eventually find out. it's all in the eyes, you know.
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ut does this make lying more legitimate? Perhaps not, but it doesn't prevent some lies being more harmless than others. Lying in the shape of denial could be considered the friendlieSt type, as it neither tries to transfer the blame nor originally springs from self-interest. But some pe9ple really do feel guilty about the lies they tell, as ras the case with a student who, as proof of this, was too ashamed to mention his own name. One winter he was asked to look after his dad 's aviary whilst his parents went on holiday. "My dad was looking after these really rare finches and he was involved in a breeding program with only a few people in the whole of the UK," he laments. "I was supposed to chase them all into the shed every night and shut the hatch , but the night before they got back I went out and forgot." The next thing he knew, his dad was dropping them one by one into the bin . When I ask if he confessed, he replies "No, I didn 't want them to see how unreliable I had been." But it's not just us poor folk that tell lies,
Be a professional pork-pie merchant Lying expert Elizabeth Hardy, lying expert,on how to tell if a person is telling a porky... 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
celebrities are no better. Did we really believe Bill Clinton when he announced "I did not have sexual relations with that woman?" Of course not. A few days later it was no surprise when he came out with, " I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky." And what about Jeffrey Archer? His dirty ways with false alibis and tampering with evi dence has landed him in prison for four years. But don 't worry- if you think your lover is taking a Jeffrey Archer approach, there may be some electronic assistance (aside from a stun-gun, that is) .
Lack of eye contact. Fidgeting. Typical symptoms are leg jiggling, adjusting hair or scratching a increasingly bad itch. Blushing and sweating. The excuse itself. Liars often over elaborate without realising, to make their lies more plausible. Gp l:>y y.our g1-1t instinct. If you get bad vibes, it's probably not true. ,·.
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Fashion maths for the uninspired Jon Ban Jovi is god once more. The mantra is 'big hair is good'
ince the release of her debut album in 1994, Bjork has courted controversy with her music, acting, and most noticeably her sense of fashion. Consistently ridiculed for her choice of clothing, used within her videos, at award ceremonies and even her day wear, it is generally agreed by the national press that Bjork is a fashion joke. The now famous swan dress that Bjork wore to the 2001 Oscar ceremony, when nominated for the Best Song award, generated more media coverage than the accolade itself. it could be argued that the hype surrounding the Oscars has always been more concerned with designer frocks than the film industry's talent. But when Jamie Theakston conducted the first half of that week's The Priory wearing a comedy replica of the swan dress, evidence that the hype is more about Bjork as a fashion icon than just another kooky dress.
action, the video depicts obscure, shifting shapes and colours, switching between Bjork singing and the abstract animated version . it is only in the last minute of the film that the odd shapes become clear- the white string sliding between a blurry red shape becomes a string of tiny pearls, being drawn through a piercing in her nipple. She has multiple piercings on her back and dozens of pearls sewn into her skin . The director, celebrated photographer, Nick Knight explained that the controversial video shows the vocalist to be "raw, womanly and sexy." For a woman nearing 40, Bjork looks incredible. Alexander McQueen's cream lace dress is designed to fit tightly around Bjork's svelte figure and starts just below her breasts. Her unusual looks and curious relationship with the fashion world allows her to bare her breasts and still retain her unique cool, rather than face the allegations of softcore porn that any other female singer would have thrown at her.
She can bare her breasts and retain her cool, rather than face the allegations of porn that any other female singer would have thrown at her. Whether we are conscious of it or not, Bjork's sense of style has always inspired a trend. Her off-beat appropriation of traditionally Indian fash ions in the early 90s (most noticeable in her 'Venus as a Boy' video, where she wears bindi style face decorations and sari material), was picked up by the fashion industry in the so-called 'Indian summer' of 1994. In her 'Bachelorette' video (1997), Bjork wears a dress over a pair of trousers. Slightly obscure at the time, the outfit became a fad only six months later. Therefore, it is no great surprise that Bjork's latest vi<teo for her new single 'Pagan Poetry' has been causing waves¡ iri both the fashion and media worlds. A mixture of animation and live
Knight reports that Bjork "wanted to show her sexuality... the piercings are not tribal or S&M it's about a woman's love for a man ." Due to thesli! graphic scenes of body piercings, the video is orliy being shown in full after 9pm, yet another factor that keeps the Bjork attackers ticking over nicely. An icon in many ways, Bjork's style is innovative and unconventional, but something which will always attract criticism. Some question whether piercing is the best way to express individuality and 'rawness.' Ultimately, one woman's quest for sexual expression has produced some of the most exciti ng music and 1magery of the decade.
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hen Catherine Malandrino sent her models down the New York catwalks with frizzy afro-style hair, the critics raved over her celebration of Harlem street style. Lies. Malandrino clearly spent the better half of her adolescence gazing at the sleeve of her cherished vinyl copy of Living On a Prayer. Well , she is French. Yes, that's right. We've done the early 80s and the mid 80s (mmm .. .'ironic' legwarmers). Now it's time for us to go back a good, ooh, 12 years to the arse end of the 80s. Jon Bon Jovi is god once more. Ripped jeans are easy to obtain, the tighter and more bleached the better. it is essential for boys to wear their shirts open to the navel at all times, although this is optional for girls (well, it is winter). The hair will require a little more work. A good comb, industrial hairspray should do the trick. The mantra is 'big hair is good.' Repeat a few times a day. Of course, if you fancy yourself as a bit of an individual, you could do later-era Ballad Jon : uneven, unblended streaks and 'moody' leather. This is dangerous ground, though . Knowing irony can be easily mistaken for Michael Bolton wannabe. Not a good look. Astrid Goldsmith
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FAUX-PAS: Cowboy boots 'n' leotard h dear, oh dear. it looks like someone forgot the first commandment of fashion: thou shalt never wear cowboy boots. Ever. Marjan Pejoski's creation is not an ironic exploration of the wild west. it is a fascinating exercise in multi-layered bad taste. On a good day, with your eyes half shut, a pair of plain brown cowboy boots could possibly pass for a slightly nasty, ill-judged pointy shoes. But once some form of Laura Ash ley-on-acid type pattern gets involved, bad shoes turn into horrendous walking errors. As if this wasn't enough, Pejoski had to get matching garments in for the ride. A matching shirt, perhaps, teamed with velvet flares, could be passed off as bohemian or 70s retro. But a matching leotard? Although haute couture has never been renowned for practicality, this outfit does beg the question : where would you wear this ensemble? Those of you unfortunate enough not to be a housewife attending gym class in Texas might be a little stuck for the right opportunity. AG
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Oh, Aries , what a tangled web of confusion your life has become. Little things that appeared simple are now so difficult, and your fall in self-confidence isn 't helping matters. The coming weeks should end all this. Mars directs you towards a new direction in your life. Cross all bridges before you come to them and never underestimate the strength of your friendships; don't be afraid to ask for he lp if needed. People are more eager to assist than you thought they were.
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You know when you fancy a really nice night out? With a couple of doubles and maybe some dancing in a second-rate establishment? And you know how some people wi t h sma ll dicks try and ruin your fun ? Well, it's revenge time 1 The stars strongly suggest you put up with no nonsense this week And don't allow kil ljoys to get you down . There is a Iso a lot of action in the 'sex' area of your chart, the fu 11 moon will make you very randy, so stock up on protection - you're in for a long night!
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The advent urer in you has been chip ping away. There are two th ings yo u cou ld do about this; pack up your things and leave for far-flung places, or stay put and ride it out. The skies wi ll support you in either decision. However, if you trave l between the 19th and 20th I c laim no responsi bi Iity for the terrible occurrences that may arise. Put it th is way, if a guy offers to hold your suitcase don 't let him . You'll be in the Bangkok Hi Iton before you can blink. And I don 't mean the hotel.
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You've been tryin g to ki ck a certain habit in th e last few days with variable success. I am loath to report that Neptune wil l try and throw many obstacles in you r way. You'll literall y have to play with fire to see this through . lt might be better to just throw caut ion to the wind and take this habit up again. You were stupid to ever give up . And Mars suggests you' 11 have fa lien off the wagon by next week anyway. Don 't worry; the stars say it's okay. Honest.
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Got a pair of earmuffs? We ll let your friends take turns with them because th is fortnight you are goi11g to be screaming like a baby. That's right, you'l l be un leash ing tantrums to riva l a toddler, and they won't actually be justified. You need to learn t hat you are not all-important; people do not revolve around you. If you really want to be the ce ntre of the earth better get down there quick and let the magma do its work. At least we won't have to hear or look at you.
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You've had your rest, now stop fannying around and get on with it! Jupiter dictates some definite action in the 'flirtation' area of yo ur chart, and you ' ll find yourself batting you r eye lids at anything with a pul se this fortnight. Just be careful whom you direct your attention towards. The opposite sexes are all too aware of your intentions. If you persist with an ongoing project you will be successful, but patience and a firm hand are required. Destiny finds love in a convenience store.
Always the proudest of the bunch, you lions. lt co uld be something to do with the fact that you're King of the Jungle. We ll , listen up; we're not in the jungle. Oh no. We 're in Norfolk, and it's im possible to hold a position of any status here unless you possess extra limbs and/or a hare lip. With th is in mind please listen to advice given by colleagues; they're trying to warn you . I predict that you wi 11 catch a cold on Friday, so why not wear red underpants to prevent vira l infection.
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Quash those rumours surrounding your love life, they are hurtful to al l that fancy you. You've been tempted to take t ime off recent ly without stopping to look at the consequences. If yo u leave for a year what will become of us? Best to stick around because the best is yet to come. Venus suggests money wi nging its way to you in the next few days. Spend it wisely, Christmas will be upon us soon and you need to buy mother that David Cassidy CD.
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The great prophet Billy Ocean once said, "When the goin' gets tough, the tough get goi n "', but you keep on goin' until you disappear out of sight. You're taking the piss. At the first sn iff of trouble you retreat to your cubby-hole and deny all respons ibility. The skies predict you wil l get your come uppance this fortnight; it's time you grew up and co nfront ed your irresponsible ways. Maybe then people might begin to respect you, just maybe.
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You haven't fooled me : there 's nothing virginal about you at all , despite what your stars might say. it 's all very wel l playing th e in nocent but this week you've just been downright rude . This is set to stay for the next few weeks, but I have some advice for you. Be fussy - I saw your last conq uest in my crystal ba ll and they weren't up to your usua l standard . You're worth so much more than the fat ginger left a lone at the end of the LCR. And yet that seems to · be what you've become. Sort it out.
This fortnight I've been reading tea leaves and wh enever I get to you they read N or 0, so I suggest you get ON a bus, and say NO t o strangers. it's a digression from my usual profession bu t I fi nd it enjoyable. Look , I' ll ask them how you 've been this week ! P. R. I .C. K. Oh dear. Well , you never know, they could be wrong (though Neptune strongly agrees with the leaves) Star-wise you should always look both ways before you cross, be nice to old people, and don't underestimate your cuppa .
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· • of treatment by the British and importance of self-criticism in the West is mere ignorance. The non-governmental schools he talks about in South India are run by Christian NGOs of the West, which don't educate the pupils but preach the greatness When I read the first passages of the article of the white Christian world. There can't be More than Fine (Concrete 130), I nearly got a better example, to validate th1s fact, than angry because of the way "small Norwich" what the author has given in this article. was described. I'm an exchange student And also, here in the West, he rightly pointfrom Germany who has studied two years in ed out the importance the white Christian Hamburg. Actually, before I came here I didmiddle class give to self-criticism but that is virtually insulated from opinions of educatn't know Norwich existed. ed middle classes of countries in the Middle But now after l1ving here for nearly two months I can really say that I have seen the East and India. Vinesh Verma exciting places of Norwich . And I can tell you that studying and living here is much John lnnes Centre nicer than in a big city like Hamburg or London. On the new library, this is a big event for the city. Maybe this isn't so spectacular for us students, but I think that's the way it is in lt is a great shame that the university has smaller cities. Moreover, as a balance, you can go to the lovely market in the city and not supported Rupert Read in discussing eat a roast beef sandwich and the seller will the recent terrorist events and US/UK remember you from last time and have a response. Freedom of speech is a right of untold worth and within this the freedom of nice chat. academics to comment independently is All in all I can say that I didn't expect to find vital. such a nice place in Britain, and "this is the If we consider the September 11th attacks, place to be!" we must do so in context. The last century Stefan Elste LAW saw 100 million people killed throu~h war, an average of c.2700 per day. I believe that there are currently around 30 other armed conflicts happening in the world. lt was a bad day for the world, but by no means unusual. I doubt that anyone disagrees that the reaTwo points made by Alex Schmer in his arti son that the attacks have received so much attention was that they are in America . Th1s cle, Saint Maybe - that Indians are forgetful
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WOMEN .BOUNCE BACK AND LOOK UPWARDS Promotion hoRes good after Derby win WoMEN's FooTBALL:
UEA 3-0 Derby
UEA's women swept Derby aside with a powerful performance that put the first week defeat by Loughborough firmly behind them. They were aided by the fact that Derby were weakened through illness and injury, with only ten players having made the long journey, and UEA were soon pressing home the advantage. Adele Frith gave notice of her intentions by bursting through on goal in the fifth minute, only to be flagged offside. Jemma Thomas was then presented with a golden opportunity on the edge of the six yard box, . only to fire wide with the goal at her mercy. The visitors were nearly reduced to nine when their left winger came off worst after an altercation with a pitch-side hedge, but bravely opted to continue despite her wounds. I! was apparent, though, that this ugly incident affected the visitors badly. The breakthrough finally arrived in the twenty-fifth minute, striker Frith sliding the ball home to the goalkeeper's right after some terrific intricate passing. down the left wing had opened the way for a pin-point cross. Mary Ahmann was then desperately unfortunate to see her twenty-five yard daisy cutter graze the far post, with the goalkeeper beaten. When Derby did for once manage to form an attack without falling victim to the ruthless UEA offside trap, they were thwarted
by keeper Becky Vickers whose challenge not only won the ball but flattened the onrushing striker. Right on half time came perhaps the pivotal moment of the match. Clean through, Derby's pacy centre forward beat Vickers with a clever lob, but also unfortunately the far post, and UEA went into the break with their lead intact, and their beleaguered opponents tiring. They also knew that the fierce wind which had been against them would be at their backs in the second half.
Magnificent UEA began the second half as Derby had ended the first, with a string of corners, but Derby produced the best move of the match , a terrific wave of passing which looked like leading to an equaliser until \VIichelle Pratt made a magnificent saving tackle. Just as the visitors looked to be getting their game together though, Frith struck again after Ahmann 's surge into the box left a loose ball which was powered high into the net to double the lead. From then on it was oneway traffic, with Kale Burwin causing real problem's for Derby's left-back. Frith's hat-trick duly arrived in the final minute as she again demonstrated clinical finishing in the penalty area after a good cross-field ball put her through . Captain Pratt was happy with the display: 'We played well today and most importantly, we really enjoyed it."
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FOOTBALL Midlands Universities League: UEA 5, Warw1ck 2 . BUSA Leagues: Nottingham 3, Mens I 1: Loughborough Ill 2, Mens 11 3: Lad1es I 3, Derby 0: Mens I 1, Worcester 5; Mens 11 7, DMU !Le1cs) 0: DMU (Beds) 0, Mens Ill 1. Midlands Division lA Table p w D L F A Pis 4 4 0 0 9 3 12 Loughb 'gh 6 Worcester 3 2 0 1 B 6 Nottingham 3 2 0 1 5 3 6 4 1 1 2 5 11 4 UEA 3 DMU !Bed) 4 1 0 3 11 9 1 Oxford 4 0 1 3 5 12 Rogers & Norton League, Division 1: UEA 1, Earlham 2 . Division 1 Table p D L F A Pis Earl ham 7 7 0 0 39 10 21 Easton 9 7 0 2 21 11 21 UEA 6 5 0 1 22 4 15 Wensum A B 3 2 3 13 21 11 Saxon Eng 9 6 3 0 3 11 13 7 2 2 3 22 27 B Spixworth B Drayton 8 2 2 4 17 24 7 Taverham 7 2 1 4 14 20 4 St Andrews 10 1 1 8 12 29 2 Rangers 2 4 9 21 6 0 Division 2: UEA Res 1, Red Roofs 2. Division 3: Little Melton 4 , UEA A 1: South Walsham A 0, UEA A 7. HocKEY BUSA Leagues: Loughborough 11 12, Mens 11 0: Nottingham 11 10, Mens Ill 0: Worcester 1, Womens I 3: Northampton 11 0, Womens 11 10: Mens 11 1, Nottmgham Ill 5: Mens Ill 2, Loughborough 11 7; Womens I 2, Warw1ck 0 : Womens 11 2 , Nott Trent 11 0 . Plintwise Men's East League. Division 3NE: Harleston Ill 0, UEA 2: UEA 11 1, Norwich C1ty 11 2 . Division 5NE: Norwich C1ty V 0 , UEA Ill 2. Martin & Acock Women's Norfolk League, Premier Division: Evergreens 1, UEA 4 . Premier Division Table p w D L F A Pts •uEA 9 4 4 0 0 13 3 Magp1es CA 4 3 0 1 10 5 9 7 Broad land 4 3 0 1 9 9 7 Watton 4 2 1 1 11 7 6 Yarmouth 4 2 0 2 8 6 N Union 11 4 2 0 2 3 8 6 4 Dereham 11 4 1 1 2 3 7 • Evergreens 4 1 1 1 2 9 8 7 1 4 0 1 3 4 N City 11 15 0 N Walsham 4 0 0 4 3 • • 3 Po1nts Deducted Division 3: UEA 11 9, Evergreens 11 0: Lowestoft Railway 0, UEA Ill 1. RUGBY BUSA Leagues: B~rmmgham CFTC 6, Mens I 31: Mens 11 19, Northampton Ill 16: Womens I w/o, DMU (Le1cs) scr. BADMINTON BUSA Leagues: Mens 0. Cambndge 8 . BASKETBALL BUSA Leagues: B~rmmgham 11 scr, Mens w/o . GOLF BUSA Leagues: UEA 1, Loughborough 5: Warwick 1, UEA 5. lACROSSE BUSA Leagues: Cambndge 6, UEA 6 . NETBALL BUSA Leagues: UEA I '2.7, Coventry 3B; Northampton 47 , UEA I 44; UEA 11 47 , LHU (Lmcsl 22. SQUASH BUSA Leagues: Oxford 5, Womens 0. TABLE TENNIS BUSA Leagues: Warwick 4, Womens 6 : Worcester 7, Mens 9 : Womens w/o , Loughborough scr. TENNIS BUSA Leagues: Womens 2, Nottmgham 11 3 : Mens 0, Warw1ck 6: Loughborough 11 6 , Womens 0. AMERICAN FOOTBALL BCAFL: U EA P~rates 6, Derby Braves 8 : Essex Blades B, UEA P~rates 26.
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SECONDS TAKE TOP SPOT MARTIN JACKSON barely five minutes to go, spotted UEA seconds claimed one the Loughborough keeper a few of the shocks of BUSA yards off his line and hit a perfect 2001-02 by scalping a lob from forty yards. Loughborough football They followed on from these side. dizzying heights by thoroughl y outOf Lo ughboroug h's 33 various class ing a decent De Montfort sporti ng matches played during Leice ter side 7-0 to retain their week three, they won all 33. Not • 100% record and division lead. so in week four. Two goals from Graeme Byme, On a cramped pitch in windy one each from Leighton Hill , conditions and after a long coach Walker, Alex Winchester, Trevor journey UEA battled tremendously, Smith and an own goal clinched the thoroughly deserving their victory. spoi ls for UEA. Losing 2- 1, with John Green having pulled the scores back to 1-1 , <llld losing out in terms of possession at half time it would have been easy to resign to the 'inevitable' defeat. Instead UEA fought back with a From back page vengeance. Each player approached The game was a tough forward every tackle, header, 50-50 ball, and battle, but the introduction of every minute of the second half, uncontested scru ms due to injury in with utmost confidence and effort. the UEA front row meant that Shining example to everyone was Union's only real advantage over captain James ' Bruno' Walker. He the University side was negated. levelled the scores with a crisp shot Norwich Union subsequently early in the second half and, with found themselves unable to cope with their opposition's pace out wide, and UEA successfully exploited this to score several tries, including two wonderful chip and chase scores. UEA now awai t the visit of Thetford in the second round of the competition.
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Studs Up Bin Laden for Highbury? Sunday 's friendly be tween France and Australia caused a storm of controversy over which players could make the 46 hour round trip. In the end, Th ierry Henry developed a convenient ank le injury, but t hat didn't stop Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger blowing his t op. "I'm seen as a troublemaker," said Arsene, "the French Bin Laden ." But does that make Bin Laden the Saudi Arabian Arsene Wenger? Osama : " I didn't see the incident.. ."
Stockport: going down Five points adrift at the bottom of the ,_....__...,....,.,....,..,,.., F1rst Division , things couldn't get any worse for strugglin g Stockport Coun ty. And then they appointed Carlton Pa lmer as manager. Just what have the Edgeley Park board let themselves in for? Studs Up got stuc k in .. . 1) "I earn more t han all yo u wa nkers · put togethe r." Pal mer's alleged response after bei ng arrested in 1997. 2 ) "Carlton Palmer can trap the ball '--- - - - -""'--"":..u• further t han I can ki ck it " Ron Atkinson describes 'on-a-sixpence' Carlton. 3) " Carlton covers every bl ade of grass, but then you have to if your first touch is that crap ." Dave Jones on Carlton 's control problem . 4) "If football were meant to be art, God wouldn' t have invented Carlton Palmer." One ti me Gamesmaster Dominik Diamond tells it how it is. 5) " I know how to win footbal l matches" Carlton himself after his appointment at Stockport. That would be referring to his three losing cup final appearances, then.
Quotes Of The Fortnight " lt wasn 't as if I was dealing drugs or pimping." Liverpoo l midfielder Danny Murphy insists his wild days weren' t that wi ld . Just burglary and grand theft auto, t hen.
"We are a good average team ." Franz Beckenbauer can't decide about Germany's World Cup chances. Franz, it's easy: you 're shit. "lt was an act of brutality. " French coach Roger Lemerre comes over all George Bush on Kevin Muscat's infamous tackle.
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My Favourite Match ... Greece 0-2 England , Athens, June 2001 Oavid Swettenham EAS 3
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thmk it started with a hangover. We were watching The Princess Bride (a modern classic) and eati ng scrambled eggs. Whether it was one or all of these things , I don't know ; but what followed ca n only be described as a series of events of quite unimaginable proportions. Soon after, still hungover and a little light-headed , we were watching BBC News 24. David Davies (or whoever the hell t he FA spokesman is) was sitting in a sun-soaked Olympic Stadium, Athens , quite clearly loving his job. "Greece play England tomorrow in a vital World Cup Qualifier,' he said . "And, by the by, there are 30,000 seats available for fans turning up on the day.' Oh David , if you only knew the effect that those few, short words . would have; twenty-four hours later, David Beckham curled in an exquisite 25-yard free-kick and England won 2-0. And, yes, we were there , jumping about like id iots right behind the goal he scored in . Okay, it was no classic ; Phi I Neville did, after all , play right-back. Bu t- and I can hardly stress this enough - we were there. And the hol1day wasn 't bad e1ther."
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The next Barry John? lt cost £1.5 million to lure lestyn Harris from rugby league, and afte r 31 points on his full debut, he has been hailed the saviou r of Wel sh rugby and the best player since Barry John . Mike Milner spoke to him as he prepared for his international Union debut ot s1nce Graham Henry f1rst arr ived m Wa les t hree years ago has Welsh rugby seen anyth1ng li ke 1t . Overnight, the country has gone Iestyn crazy. He has been labelled the Great Redeemer 11, plaste red over t he back pages and ta lked up as the next Barry John. Euphoria has broken out. lt was not JUSt that Harris scored three tries aga1nst Glasgow or that he proved wrong those who thought he would take months to adapt to his new game ; the way he broke defences from f1rst-phase, begullmg and bewitching defenders, was reminiscent of Barry John, the greatest 111 a long lme of legendary We lsh outside-halves, 111 his swaggering splendour. Hams not only operated on a d1fferent plane to those around him, he tore up what had become a card1nal rule 1n the Welsh game: modern defences are too well organISed to be broken down from ou ts1de half. The successors to John and to .Dav1d Watkins. Phi! Bennett and Jonathan Davies. have been ordered to set up phase play by seek1ng contact or releasmg the1r 1nS1de centres w1th short passes. The tact1c of wa1!1ng pat1ently for space to open up IS a style the World Cup holders Austral1a have perfected, and is an approach that makes a s1de most dangerous when they are not 111 possession of the ball. The common assumpt1on had been that John. sl1ght and frail as a player, would not surv1ve 111 today 's game. Hams has destroyed that theory, and 1f his seven years 1n rugby league have made h1m more durable than John and a far more resolute tackler, as attacking players they are from the sa me mould. However, the 25-year-old Insists he IS determined to stamp h1s own style on the number 10 berth rather than follow 111 the footsteps of his famous predecessors. " I am go1ng to play 11 my way not everybody else's way," sa1d Hams. " I want to do a good JOb but to do 11 the lestyn Hams way rather than try and copy so mebody else's style. "I want to play a runn1ng sty le of rugby and unleash the backs although I kn ow there are !1mes when I will have to k1ck 1!. "Fly-half IS where I feel that I can play my best rugby. People have been saying about me bemg thrown 111 at the deep end, wh1ch 1! IS to some degree , but I bel1eve that I can cope with it." Hams, a £1.5mill10n captu re from the 13a-slde code and former Leeds Rhmos and Wales rugby league captam, has to deal w1th a t1dal wave of hope beh1nd h1m on the back of Wales' record 36-3 home defeat aga1nst Ireland 111 October - but he IS desperately attemptmg to block ou t the euphoria. "I put my hands over my ears, don't read the press and pretend I cannot hear 1! ," sa1d Hams. "I am try1ng to cope w1th it all by play1ng my own game, and I haven't read anyone's comments go1ng mto the match [last] Saturday. ''The build-up th1s week has been quite Intense. but when you have weeks l1ke thiS. you JUS! want to ge t out and play. A week feels like a month somet1mes. and th1s 1s one of them. ''I'm no sav10ur. Rugby 1s a 15 man game. I am JUSt here to play to the best of my abi11-
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am going to play it my way; I want to do a good job but do it th e lestyn Harris way rather tha n try and copy somebody el se" ty. I am gomg to be learnmg each week, and I won't be the f1111shed art1cle 111 s1x months 1t's go1ng to take longer than that," he sa1d. ''What I want to do IS get to the po1nt where I 'm do1ng thmgs 1nstmct1vely. I am do1ng thmgs that are mechan1cal at the moment, and try1ng not to do what has come naturally for a long t1me. "I was out of pos1!1on a couple of times last Saturday, 111 places where I shouldn't have been, and I've looked at the VIdeo and tried to adJUSt 111 train1ng. "I certa1nly won't be knock1ng the ball1nto touch w1th my hand any more. " On h1s debut for Card1ff, he m1staken ly d1d this - a penalty offence 111 un1on, but not so 111 league. "A few of the boys have had a good laugh about !hall" Selection for the national squad came after JUSt 200 m1nutes of club rugby. Of course he has been fast tracked, but his league experiences will stand him in good stead. "Playing rugby un1on for Wales IS something I have always wanted to do and running out on Saturday will be a dream come true for me. I made my m1nd up about sw1tch1ng codes when I was 17. But I wanted to do many th1ngs 111 league first and make the sw1tch when the t1me was right. Th1s has come a lot soone r than expected but hopefully that w1ll be a good thing for me." " I am not apprehensive about the weekend [last weekend's Wales v Argentina match). I imag1ne I will be sl1 gh tly nervous but I want to enJOY the occas1on. " I will try not to let the occasron get too emotional. The most Important th1ng will be the 80 mrnutes of rugby you have to play the game. not the occasion. "There are people who are go1ng to say that 1t IS too early and that I will not be up to it. They are welcome to the1r op1n1on tllat's the~r cho1ce.
"But th1s IS fantastiC for me. My message 1s to be patient. though hopefully I w1ll be able to do my best. I'm rel1sh1ng the challenge." Ham s adm1ts h1s stunn1ng full debut fo1 Card1ff - he scored 31 points 111 a He1neken Cup v1ctory over Glasgow last month - d1d spa rk too much expectat 1on of him. "lt was a dream home debut scoring three tnes but I th1nk 1t's one of the worst thmgs that could have happened to me. lt was a tough game up there but I needed to learn that type of game. lt was d1sappo1ntlng to lose but 1! was a good game to get under the belt. "One of the f1rst th1ngs I've not1ced IS that everyone wants to beat Card1ff, whoever 1t IS, and that 1s very sim1 lar to what I encountered at Leeds. They are seen as a glamourous b1g c1ty club, and Card1ff are of the same stature." And 1f you ever have the opportun1ty to talk to h1m, you wil l real ise he has a broad Lancash1re accent. As a man born 111 Oldham. you would have thought he would rather wear the English Rose than the Welsh Dragon . Has Woodward come begg1ng7 "I had a very short conversation w1th h1m." admitted Hams. "I sa1d I am Welsh -and that was 1!. There are no d1v1ded loyalt1es wanted to play 111 Wales for a Welsh club. If 1! hadn't happened I would never llave left Leeds." Yet whistles, not euphoria, greeted the fmal wh1stle aga1nst Argent1na after Wales lost 30-16, and it will take longer for h1m to adapt than Graham Henry would have lloped. Hams. though. was defiant: "I obviously made some m1stakes but that's why I want to play 111 the next match to put th1ngs right Th 1s has made me all the more determined to get back out there for Wales and prove rny worth." Maybe now Hams will be able to show wllat hP ran do and the !~rework~ can he~?H
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SAILORS UNLUCKY TO MISS OUT ON MEDAL Wind conditions dominate as UEA P.Ut in their best ever BUSA P.erformance I
CITY FAIL TO CLAIM TOP SPOT ALEXTHORPE Sports Editor
LUKE HARWOOD
UEA achieved one of its best ever results at the BUSA National Sailing Championships at Weymouth Harbour, where 200 dinghies over competed. The only Saturday race was run in extremely light wind and over half the fleet, including two UEA boats, did not finish within the time limit. However, David Day and Amelia Hall got an excellent start and finished fourth showing good boat speed.
the podium with a BUSA medal. Unfortunately, with increasing wind strength the relatively light pair struggled to match the speed of the heavier crews. An 18th in the final race left Day and Hall lying twelfth at the end of the series, with only 4 points separating sixth and twelfth . "Coming twelfth far exceeded all of our expectations, and to be in with a chance of winning with a race to go was fantastic," Hall
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Luke Harwood and Nicki Brown 40th Dan Watson and Sarah MacDonald 50th Nick Stratton and Tim Graham 52nd
A diabolical linesman's decision at 2-0 arguably cost Norwich City a place at the top of Division One as they crashed to a 4-1 defeat at home to Bradford.
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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE, DIVISION ONE p 0 L GO PT 1. Wolves 17 10 4 3 14 34 2. WBA 18 10 2 6 6 32 3. CITY 32 18 10 2 6 2 4. C. Palace 16 10 1 5 15 31 5. Bumley 18 9 4 5 8 31
On Sunday three races were run , with the wind increasing throughout the day, reaching force 4 by the afternoon. Light wind conditions suited the crew of Day and Hall and they came sixth in the second race, meaning that at the half way stage the pair were in fourth place overall. Going into the final race of the
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Wolves, but the Canaries were the side playing ctiampionship football as they took the visitors to the cleaners. Paul McVeigh,' keeping the fit again Chris Llewellyn out of the side, scored one and set up another for lwan Roberts as he embarrassed City hate figure Kevin Muscat time and again. But against Bradford, Norwich had the better of an edgy first half and didn't deserve to be 2-0 down at the break - Bantams keeper Aidan Davison making three superb saves in the first 40 minutes. But Eion Jess an·d Robbie Slake grabbed two goals in the 43rd and 45th minutes to give Bradford a greatly undeserved half-time lead. Robert Green continued to enhance his reputation with a stunning save from Matt Etherington at the start of the second half, and looked to have done well to force Slake wide in
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the 62nd minute. But, as Slake ·got beyond Green with the ball going out of play, the visiting striker took a blatant dive. The referee duly gave a goal-kick - only to be overruled by his linesman. Slake dusted himself off to convert the kick and his gestures to the Barclay End may land him in hot water at a later date. City battled well though and McVeigh scored his fifth goal of the season before Mark Bower wrapped it up in stoppage time.
UEA TO HOST TOP KORFBALL EVENT MICHAEL JOHNSON a ~ d KRISH MONDAL
On Saturday November 24, one of UEA's lesser known sports, korfball , will be hosting the Southern Universities Tournament. For those of you with little, or no knowledge of what korfball actually is (that's probably most of you) it is a hybrid of basketball and netball played with mixed teams.
Currently at UEA there are 60 members in the Kortball club and it is emerging as one of the fastest growing university sports around the country. UEA are regular attendees at the many University tournaments held around the country every year. Last month the team played its
Finalists opening tournament at Lancaster and against 16 top University sides UEA came runner-up, narrowly losing out to Edinburgh in the finals in a penalty shoot-out. Normally UEA holds a competition in February but this year for the first time the university is holding a ranking tournament. The teams that will make up the first team competition will be from Cardiff (National
gation. The 2nd's, however, enjoyed more success beating LHU (Lines) 47-22.
Lacrosse Netball The Ladies continue to struggle in the Midlands 28 BUSA league. suffering narrow defeats against Coventry and Northampton, 27-38 and 44-47 respectively. They have now lo t all four of their opening games and must soon stan to find their form if they are to avoid rele-
The Ladies produced a very creditable draw against Cambridge in their latest BUSA fixture. The game finished 6-6, with UEA producing some excellent attacking play.
Rugby The Men's first are sure to be bit-
Champions) , Bristol , Oxford, Cambridge, Middlesex and UEA. The second team will play against local teams, another UEA team and other university second teams. The tournament will be hotly contested as is it a ranking event and so will determine seedings for the forthcoming National Championships in March. Also, players who excel in the games will be called up to represent a Southern korfball squad. The games will be held from 9am-6pm at the Sportspark and all at Korfball would like to thank the staff at the Sportspark for their kind assistance in organising the venue. We also urge anyone who is interested or just a bit bored on the Saturday to pop along and enjoy the tournament!
terly disappointed with the cancellation of their next match against Aston University. It was set to be UEA's fiJ'St home game of the season and was cancelled due to Aston being unable to travel. The 2nds match will now also be cancelled.
Golf UEA bounced back from a convincing defeat by Loughborough to beat Warwick University 5- l , with Craig Petrie and Graham Badger both demonstrating why they have handicaps of two.
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UEA Pirates 6-8 Derby Braves ALEX THORPE
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The defenses ruled the roost at Colney Lane as the UEA Pirates ' BCAFL campaign got off to a losing start against the Derby Braves. But the game was marred by the disgraceful behaviour of the Derby players and sid eline throughout the whole game.
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The coaches and substitutes of the visitors spent too much time criticising the officiating team tor calls on only two Derby players that resulted in over 100 yards of penalties.
Continued To their credit the officials and the Pirates players refused to rise to the bait and continued to play in the spirit of the game that was obviously so alien to the visitors. UEA showed their intentions with the first play of the match.
Lining up with lan Burchett behind the cent re, they ran a flea-flicker with the first attempt from scrimmage. Burchett pitched out to normal quarterback Nikolai Johansen, who made to sweep to the righ t before completi ng a 38-yard pass to Burchett on the left sideline.
Stalled Unfortunately for the Pirates, the opening drive stalled in the red zone and Johansen was intercepted twice, with one being called back tor the first personal foul penalty on Derby. The dominant UEA detense managed to keep Derby at bay and forced them to punt twice in the first quarter. But the visitors' lack of offensive imagination was matched by their substantial potential to force turnovers. In the first half Johansen was
picked off three times, and UEA fumbled the ball away three times in the match . But that didn't stop them being 6-0 up at half time. Jim Hardy recovered a Derby fumble at the Braves 32-yard line and, a first down later, Johansen hit Bu rchett in the endzone for a 21-yard touchdown completion. The UEA offense began the second half as they had spent most of the first - giving the ball away. The first play of the half was to pick out the Derby free safety, who intercepted Johansen for a fourth time.
ly turnover as, six plays later, Derby managed to get the ball in the endzone. Having survived a fourth-and-three situati on, the Derby quarterback evaded three tackles and hit his tight end for an 18-yard touchdown.
Interference At their own 36 with 2:26 remaining, Johansen went big on the first play, resulting in Burchett being balked by the cornerback and UEA being awarded a 35yard pass interference penalty at the two-minute warning. Running a totally pass-centred ottense, the Pirates marched downfield and got to the Derby 7yard line. With light fading fast, an injury to offensive lineman Joseph Moon meant that UEA had one shot to win in the dark. Unfortunataly, Ed Franklin's field goal attempt was blocked and Derby left with the spoils.
Fumbled Derby were once again stalled to go four an d out, but early in the final turn Johansen found a Derby cornerback, and on UEA's next drive he fumbled the ball away in Pirates territory. This proved to be a more cost-
IMPRESSIVE WINS FOR RUCiBY FIRST XV DANIEL LORNE
UEA bounced back from narrow defeat at Derby in their previous BUSA fixture with an impressive away victory over Birmingham CFTCS. The home side led 6-0 after two
successful penalty attempts, but as the half progressed UEA put their first points on the board via the boot of John Dwight, who kicked the first three of an eventual 21-point haul. UEA took a I0-6 lead before half
The BUSA victory followed hot on the heels of an impressive 38-20 Norfolk Junior Cup victory over Norwich Union , who play two leagues above UEA in Norfolk com petition.
time, driving over from a lineout with Edward Halcomb touching down and Dw ight converting. Three more tries followed in the second half, two scored by Dwight and one by Jon Pritchard, with three conversions going over from the confident boot of Dwight.
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