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Issue 172 路 Wednesday. January 26'" 2005
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ADAPTABLE KEVIN LOADER Page 7
FAULTY SWITCH RESULTS IN LOSS OF POWER FOR THE WHOLE CAMPUS Helen Pike News Editor UEA was plunged into darkness last Monday following a power cut that lasted all afternoon. Lectures and work were thrown into disarray as the unprecedented loss of power caused upset and a little joy amongst lecturers. staff and students as UEA found out what it would be like to live without electricity. Whilst the library was evacuated due to health and safety reasons. many lee-
t ures and seminars continued in the dark. mainly due to a misunderstanding of the situation. Much of the canlpus consequently could not function as normai. with all of the shops closing on the street. and the beer pumps in the pub and Hive out of operation. After 3pm lectures and seminars were cancelled as classes could not function in darkened rooms and soon after. both the catering block and the Union !louse were evacuated. Due to bad weather most people went home. causing
major congestion problems in the car park and Bluebell Road . The power cut lasted until 4pm . JUSt a" forthcom ing lectures had been can celled for the clay . The repercussions were "nly slight. and could have been much worse had the power cut continued throm(hout the night. The catenng blocks opetwd as normal later in the day_ as did the library. A disgruntled student told Concrete how he lost several hundred words of an essay that he had failed to save Co ntinued on page 2
INSANITY OF 'SLIM' SENATE Despite
efforts
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Concrete to approach other
The reforms to Senate reported in the last issue of Concrete have caused many in the University community to voice their concerns about the proposals. Staff and students arc worried that the new structure. which drastically reduces the number of e lected representatives. cou ld seriously damage the right to self determination of some smaller schools.
utembers of faculty. until now the only people willing to go on the record against the changes have been Student Liaison rep for the AUT. Rupert Read. and Union Academic Officer Chris Ostrowski. Although one senior member of staff who was. presumably. con cerned about their job secu rity did respond to Concrete's request for a n opionion by saying that they ..... had not been in the posi lion long ...
But the potentially uncle mocratic structure of Senate has now prompted a number of staff to add to the voices of discontent. Such is the con cern. that Union Communications Officer. Cat Lumb. has joined with Chris Ostrowski to ensure that the concerns of the Union are fu lly known to the Univer ity administration. Everyone now awaits the report of the joint committee on gove r na nce. which meets on Ma rch 2"". See Letters, Page 24
MAJOR UEAID DONATIONS EXTENSIVE UEA SUPPORT SHOWN TO ASIA AID Sarah S m ith In response to the Tsunami crisis the union is putting on several events to raise money for the cause. On Wednesday 26th January there will be collections and people will be selling black wristbands with all money go ing to the DEC. Th e ela te has been chosen to mark the one -month anniversary of
the disaster itself. lt is hoped that this reminder wi ll encourage people not to forget about the effects as the aftermath begins to fade from the media's view. The union is looking for volunteers to help with the collections and asks that anyone interested emails su.wel fare1J1uea.ac. uk. On Friday 21st many Indonesian students from UEi\ ran an appeal for an organisation called
Indonesian Children Relief. The group is he lping the chi ld vict ims of the Tsunami. They spent th e day selling Indonesian snacks to students and staff around campus and would like to thank everyone who contributed . There are also plans for col lection boxes at future gigs and RAG will be using their pimps <tnd hos party to raise money for the appeal. On Continued on page 4
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