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Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters?
Our flat is haunted. More specifically our kitchen. There is no other explanation. When you eliminate all possibilities whatever remains has to be the truth, no matter how improbable. Well, we have eliminated all possible explanations and a ghost is the only thing that we cannot eliminate. But let me start at the beginning. There are six of us sharing the flat. We have lived together since the beginning of the first term, which means about six months now. During this time we have had several incidents in our kitchen, all involving heat and fire in some capacity, and none were our fault. All these incidents happened to different people. If they had all happened to one person the explanation would obviously be that that person is just a huge klutz. However, this is not the case. We blame the ghost.
“I now wish I had used the fire extinguisher. One, because I have never had the chance to use one, and two, because we would have had to get a new oven!”
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The first thing that happened was during the first week of us moving in. The toaster we had just purchased caught on fire. I was not present at the time but the story that I have been told is that there was suddenly a darting flame shooting out of the toaster. The toaster, as well as its contents, were ruined and we purchased a better model to avoid another such incident.
A few days later our oven was in flames. This time it was me. I had recently cleaned our (still filthy) oven (it is lost beyond saving so we have kind of given up now) and when I turned it on the heating rods at the top caught light. There were flames all over the roof of the oven in what was actually quite a spectacular show. It looked like the flames in the Nelly video, ‘It’s getting hot in here’. Without oxygen, the flames died down after a few minutes and the oven was deemed safe after further inspection so we can continue using it. I now wish I had used the fire extinguisher. One, because I have never had the chance to use one, and two, because we would have had to get a new oven! The next big incident involved the microwave and a bowl of rice. This was supposedly manufactured to be cooked in a microwave, so my flatmate put the rice in a (microwavable) plastic bowl, turned on the microwave and went to take a shower. There really shouldn’t have been a problem. Shortly after everyone had left the kitchen, however, I was alerted by a knock on my door and when I went into the hall I was greeted with a biting stench and lots of smoke. What we figured happened is that the rice had somehow caught on fire and the fire had in turn melted the plastic bowl. The inside of the microwave was covered in molten plastic and it is needless to say that it needed to be replaced. The smell though was the worst part. We could barely breathe with all the smoke and the smell hung around, creeping everywhere as a constant horrible reminder of the ghost’s presence. One of my flatmates had the incredible misfortune of having a broken window that he is not able to open (it has been broken since he moved in and apparently no one is able to fix it). I do not know how he managed. This incident heightened our suspicions that the smoke detector in the kitchen wasn’t working. There is really no concrete evidence, and we have been told that it works just fine. But, if that amount of smoke did not set off the alarm, then I do not know what it
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takes. We’ve also had some minor trouble with the hob. One of the plates literally wouldn’t turn off and if the switch that cuts the power to it was turned on, on would come that plate. Due to this a microwave cover and several cutting boards have been lost, melting before we realized what was happening. It’s a miracle that it wasn’t anything more serious. The hob has since been replaced and so far we have had no more incidents, but by the time you are reading this article, the chances are, our kitchen will have finally gone up in flames and the ghost will have won.
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Lent: Amen to that tradition), but I was struggling to find something to take up. It’s okay; the priest helped me out with that one. So, off I went with my ghastly, barely forgivable, eight year old sins, and confessed how I had refused to go to bed at bedtime, told my sister to shut up, and other such unspeakable things. The priest was most concerned for my deliverance and reassured me that if I completed my penance, God would forgive me and I would probably not go to hell.
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S Club Juniors dance routine... and spent the entire hour trying to catch up on what had amounted to 70 unsaid prayers” The usual penance for an eight year old is one Our Father or one Hail Mary, and maybe if I’d gone to bed on time this would be the case for me. However, my sins were pretty deadly and therefore to achieve salvation I had to say two Hail Marys, two Our Fathers and one Act of Contrition every day, not just for Lent but for my entire life. A pretty harsh punishment if you ask me! Anyway, at least I’d found something to take up for Lent. I confessed to my best friend the gravity of my sins and the resultant hefty penance, and was relieved to
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What have you given up for Lent this year? Sweets, chocolate, alcohol? I’ve given up moaning and biscuits, which is proving difficult, but I’ve had more harrowing Lenten experiences in my time. I reached a Lenten low point when I was eight years old. I went to a Catholic school so Lent was a very serious affair and was doubly demanding: we had to give something up and take something up. My eight year old self really struggled with this pressure… I was in Year Three, and Lent began the way it always would, with Ash Wednesday mass at school. This year was different though; at the ripe old age of eight, the head teacher (a nun) decided I was old enough, and sinful enough, to participate in confession before I was let loose on the Lenten period. I’d already decided to give up ‘Friday Sweets’ for Lent (a self-explanatory family
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discover that she, an equally condemnable eight year old, had received the same sentence. We therefore decided to embark on this epic journey together; we would be Lenten and lifetime prayer buddies. Unfortunately, despite our best intentions, we were eight years old and apparently inherently sinful, and we therefore forgot about our commitment before we’d even washed our ash-covered foreheads. This dawned on me two weeks later, on a Friday morning break time, when I was mourning the fact that I wouldn’t be having sweets that night. I urgently told my best friend and we were filled with dread as the fires of hell started to warm our little eight year old feet. Don’t worry though, we had a solution; we could pull this back. So, we decided that lunchtime to sacrifice our places in a particularly creative dance routine to S Club Juniors’ ‘One Step Closer’, and spend the entire hour trying to catch up on what had amounted to 70 unsaid prayers. Similar events occurred at various intervals throughout the Lenten period. This traumatic experience ended on Easter Sunday, when the pressure finally got to me and I told my parents how terrible I was. Luckily, they took a different view and reassured me that I could stop praying and that God would still forgive me. Maybe I should give up Catholic guilt this Lent as well, or just give up all together and go and gorge myself on biscuits and moan about how I’m going to hell… Amen. Áine Tulley
Let’s Get Political A few things Politics students know to be true
gets that much more confusing and to top it off certainly more depressing. Just like BBC News, a Politics degree tends to be a slideshow of high-level corruption, world poverty and Ed Miliband’s frustrated gurning. Just one lecture can leave you feeling that you should have just stayed under your duvet with your Netflix, blissfully ignorant of the mass crises unfolding around you. If, however, you decide that you can endure the patronising conversations and daily depression, there is, of course, the comfort of your course mates. These are a weird and wonderful mix of strident Marxist revolutionaries, who you will invariably offend at some point with your lack of interest in Trotsky and at the other end, a corduroy-clad clan of young Conservatives, desperate to play the cat amongst the ‘pinko, liberal’ pigeons. Usually, I find that the members of these groups often originate from the other and are trying frantically to shake off their past principles. If you are caught in the middle of them like myself, you will know that having any sort of moderate political opinion is out of the question for a couple of years. Vive la revolution! This highly politicised environment may sound rather daunting but I wouldn’t worry too much, as it is very unlikely that you will spend more than a day there anyway. Contact hours are fleeting in the life of a politics student and usually one wiles away the time sitting in the
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Your first mistake in applying to university would be to choose politics. It is one of those subjects that no one is quite sure how to tackle. Upon hearing that I am a Politics student people either look terrified or scoff rudely and ask if I’m ‘going to be a politician then’. The answer is no, which leads to extreme confusion, as if it is absurd that I came to study something that I don’t plan to pursue beyond university. This conversation also somehow legitimises the burning desire that many have to not only go on an extended rant about their political views, but also to try and encourage you to agree with them. When, much like any other rational being, you don’t, they are sent into a hulk-style frenzy. On the other hand, this is probably better than your encounters with anyone studying a STEM subject who will most likely denounce you as a waste of a BSc or ‘a poor man’s History student’ and then flounce off to one of their 45+ hours that week. So why choose Politics? The fact of the matter is that many choose to study Politics not because they want to change the world, but because they simply want to find out how it works. Your second mistake. Just about everything in politics comes under the dreaded title of ‘contested concept’, something that cannot be precisely defined and that will probably haunt your dreams for the rest of your degree. Finding out about the world just
ASS, library-cum-hipster fashion show, sipping endless cups of Source coffee and attempting to emulate Aristotle in your latest essay. On the plus side, this experience will give you a First Class degree in the use of the Harvard referencing system, a most important and transferable skill. The important thing to remember is that there may be a half-respectable career waiting for you at the end of this degree - government, journalism, consultancy and PR, to name a few. And if not, who cares? Studying a social science subject means that there is no specific area of employment that you are particularly qualified for, not even politics really. As terrifying as that sounds, it is actually a licence to go forth and do pretty much nothing after your degree. Whilst your friend who studied Economics is already earning the big bucks, you can take a second gap year to Indonesia and rediscover yourself all over again. Maybe Politics isn’t so bad after all...
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What made you leave the big companies? I knew I wanted to go travelling at some point, so going to work within a large company was a bit of a means to an end. However when I set off, the plan was to work in banking when I came back. As you can probably tell, that didn’t happen. What did you learn from travelling? You can get away with so much. If you have the guts to try something it often works out, and if it doesn’t the consequences aren’t as bad as you’d expect. Always have a plan, but know that the chance of something going exactly the way you imagine is slim to none. You will always have to adapt and make changes to get to where you want to be. Lastly, always say yes to opportunities.
Joining the ranks of a top firm is all well and good, but should you be considering Bristol’s ever increasing start up scene? Ed Howell speaks to Paul Archer of Daredevil Project, a social gaming company that resides in the heart of Bristol. Paul Archer is a 2x World Record Breaking Adventurer and Founder of Daredevil Project. A Business graduate from Aston University, Paul had City jobs in Marketing and Consulting before deciding to drive around the world in a black cab, breaking records for the longest taxi journey (at 43,000 miles) and the highest cab fare (£80,000). The concept of Daredevil Project was conceived when Paul decided that mobile phones should be used for more than just a tool for tedious bird games and gastronomic photography: they should be a force of mischief and a catalyst for creativity. So, in accordance with that view, Daredevil are about to release Duel; a photo-pairing app for decisions, challenges and responses. Exclusive to UoB students before going global, this app will change the way we interact through photos.
A lot of people would find starting their own business very daunting, what were your first steps? A business doesn’t have to be a massive corporation, you can be a sole trader on eBay or run club nights and it’s still a business. Try things out on a smaller scale, it’s a great way of working out if your business idea is viable. How different is start-up work to working in a large business? Very different. There is so much variety in a start-up. I taught myself how to program a website because I wanted one, I learnt how to develop an app and how to do all the books, whereas in a large corporation you’re a small cog in a large machine. With a large business there is security, the one thing that startups don’t have is cash. However, if you’re willing to sacrifice some of the financial gain then it is an incredible experience.
it gave me opportunities such as pitching to rooms full of people and heading up my own projects, which I wouldn’t have had the chance to do at a big business. A start-up allows me to be absolutely reliant on myself, where every action affects the success of the business, which I like. How would I find a start up? There are plenty of start-ups around. Sites like Set Squared Centre (attached to UoB) and Tech Spark are great for jobs in Bristol. Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch is full of start-ups and they run some great networking events too. Or alternatively, come work for me! What advice would you give to your graduate self now? Carve out your own role. You may be told that you have to get on that graduate scheme, that it’s important to follow a certain route. You actually realize that if you form your own future, you actually have a better time for it and you will receive just as much respect from your peers. Why should I download your app? We think we’ve created something really exciting. People enjoy how different it is from other photo sharing apps. We want UoB students to let us know what they think out it. So download it now, and if you don’t, please tell us why and we’ll make it better! Duel will be released in mid-March. If you’d like to find out more about the app or sign up to the beta test, visit www.duel.me. Ed Howell
Why did you choose a start-up over a bigger business? I had experience at University as a marketing manager for a start-up and
Hangover heaven
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1.Coffee
Caffeine is great when you are suffering from a hangover and it doesn’t even have to be instant from your flat’s kitchen. Bristol is filled to the brim with great cafes.
2.Water, Water, Water
We’d recommend filling up a bottle before you go out (and maybe also finding some aspirin) especially if you know that your best friend’s 21st isn’t going to be a quiet one. That way you don’t even have to move in order to start the rehydration process.
3.Sweat it Out?
We aren’t suggesting going out and doing a really intense session, but going for a short jog in the fresh air or doing a pilates class at the gym can really help you feel a lot less sluggish.
4.Banana Milkshake
Bananas are great because they help get potassium and electrolytes back into your system whilst the milkshake, less scientifically, is perfect as it tastes really good!
5.Your Bed
Sometimes it really isn’t worth getting up, especially after probably ten too many £1 drinks in Lounge. Snuggle up, put on a film (if you can bear the noise) and pretend that Sunday has always followed Friday. Perfect.
6.‘Hair of the dog’?
You can’t get a hangover if you are still drinking right? Maybe this isn’t the best idea, but if you are going out the next day as well at least it is slightly practical?
09.03.2015 “How to get pumped for that workout”
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Can you remember all those resolutions you made on New Year’s, especially that one about going to the gym? Have they been successful, or have they just faded into nothing? Here at Living, we understand how hard it is to stay motivated, especially when it’s cold outside and the prospect of leaving the house is very unpleasant, so we’ve decided to give you a helping hand. Here are five tips on how to get yourself pumped for that workout. First things first, you’ve got to get your playlist sorted. No workout is complete without an awesome set of tunes. Whether dance music is your thing or heavy rock, sort out whatever beat you need to set the pace. Just like the way a good playlist gets you hyped for going out at pre-drinks, your gym one should get you motivated and ready to blast that set. Next, let’s think about what you’re wearing. Now, we’re not saying you need to look flash in the gym: the whole point of being there is to sweat, it’s not a fashion show. However, if you find stuff to workout in that you’re comfortable with, then you’ll start having a more positive mindset about going to the gym. It doesn’t have to be Nike’s latest glow in the dark leggings (although how f-ing cool are they!?),
How to get off the ‘dread’mill it could even just be your varsity top, whatever it is, make sure that, firstly, it’s practical, and, secondly, it makes you feel good about yourself. Food. It’s really important, and it’s our next step. Whether this is a post work out protein shake or a pre-gym rainbow chicken salad, get some healthy reward system under your belt. You need to replenish yourself after a work-out and there’s no point munching on a cookie straight after a 5k run. Work out what you like to eat, decide if it’s good for you, and start coordinating your workout around it. Once you’ve got that sorted, things will start to fall into place, and you might even find yourself pushing yourself just that little bit more so you can eat more of that yummy post-workout snack you lovingly selected. Now this is a simple one – but sometimes I even find myself forgetting to do this – decide before you go, what you’re going to work on. Is it leg day? Arms? Core? Or are you just going to sweat through some cardio? If you’ve got your set clearly laid out in your head, your session will be so much more efficient. Instead of wasting time wandering
“Get your playlist
sorted”
around the gym, wondering what to do next, you’ll be machine hopping and switching between exercises slick as anything. You’ll get more done, and you’ll feel better with yourself because of it. Finally, set yourself some goals. We’re always aiming towards something, whether it’s a 2:1 in that essay or an interview at that job you just applied for, so why is it any different when you’re at the gym? These goals could be small, like ‘I will go to the gym at least once a week’, or they could be something like ‘I get strong enough to leg press more than I weigh’. It could even be to take part in a race. There’s loads of them about such as Great North Run and Tough Mudder etc. and because they’re public events, with a set date, they’ll stick in your mind and are bound to keep you motivated. Make sure you enter one that’s far enough away for you to get enough training in, like Nike Women’s 10k on 21 June. The University is entering a team called crewbristol as well, which means you can run with your friends and help each other keep going. Get in contact with me, Nike’s Campus rep (jordan.k-l@hotmail.co.uk), for more information on the race and further tips on how to keep your resolutions alive when it’s cold outside.
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Room 101: bugger me, Bristol!
Don’t get me wrong, we love Bristol, but there are a few little things about studying here which Becki Murray really can’t endure.
The savage combination of wind and rain If I was to give my fresher-self one piece of advice before coming to Bristol it would be to buy not one, not two but around four umbrellas. Having one is a uni essential because it seems to rain 80% of the time here - typically when you have just set off to a lecture without one. Unfortunately, students don’t just have to battle awful downpours here, oh no. It just so happens that Bristol is also home to the king of all umbrella killers…the wind. Responsible for making the temperature seem about ten degrees lower than in actuality and the sole cause of the destroyed brollies you find scattered around the Triangle; the rain and wind together are a powerful but undesirable team.
Phones on vibrate in the ASS I’ve come to the conclusion that a vibrating phone in a quiet place like the library is worse than a ringtone. Much worse. I hate to break it to people, but vibrate really isn’t the same as silent and, yes, it does annoy everyone in your close proximity when it rattles away on your desk. It might be a nothing sound in everyday life but throw in an impossible piece of set reading and a tight deadline and I’m ready to actually scream, which isn’t particularly helpful for the whole ‘be silent in a library’ thing. I’m making this printed plea for the reign of vibrate to come to an end.
The hills Moving on from the weather, I’d like to have a good old moan about the terrain. Okay, okay, I know that it’s not necessarily like scaling Mount Kilimanjaro when walking around Bristol but seriously I swear hills exist in the worst possible places. With road names like Cotham and St. Michael’s Hill maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, but I don’t even want to count the amount of times I pretended to tie my shoelace half way up the hill to Wills last year. Oh and the vague memory of being carried up Park Street in Freshers’ Week still gives me, and the said carrier, nightmares.
The Chemistry Building steps Next up, architecture, or more specifically, one set of arguably ridiculously ill-designed steps. If you haven’t experienced them yet they’re the ones near the Queen’s Building and I can only guess that they were designed with giants in mind. I swear it’s literally impossible to walk down them normally. You either have to walk ridiculously slowly placing each foot onto each step - which when you’re late for lectures is more than a tad annoying - or you find yourself in a state of continuous, only half controlled, falling. Neither method is particularly graceful and I don’t think I’ve ever struggled with staying upright quite so much in my life.
Pam Pam’s queue Picture the scene, it’s Thursday night, only just after 10pm, and the line of people trying to get into Pam Pam’s already resembles a mosh pit. There’s pushing, shoving and lots of passive aggressive resistance to anyone who even dares to try and push in, but at least it will be busy inside right? Wrong. I get that it’s a pretty small club but after fighting my way inside, sometimes having to endure the dreaded ‘one in, one out’ scenario, it’s always pretty much empty for at least half an hour. Don’t get me wrong I love it by midnight but making me miss out on precious pre-drinking time is just wrong!
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David Rodigan Marble Factory, 13.03
Rustie Lakota, 17.03
Breakbot Motion, 20.03
Without wanting to put too fine a point on it, David Rodigan does not look like your archetypal reggae superstar. Yet, a couple of months shy of his 64th birthday and with a hairline to match, the producer finds himself revered in the UK and deified in Jamaica as one of the finest purveyors of reggae music. Inspired by a performance of Millie Small’s ska classic ‘My Boy Lollipop’, the then prepubescent Rodigan began a love affair with Jamaican music which has been insatiably fuelled in the five decades subsequent. His sound-system shows are celebrations of the some of the ska, reggae and dancehall records which he has spun during his lengthy career in radio, and are always a lot of fun. Expect nothing less when he takes over the Marble Factory in a couple of days’ time.
Glaswegian Russell Whyte eased into the public eye with the release of Jagz The Smack, a limitededition 5-track EP, on Stuff Records in 2007. Attracting advocacies from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs, the record acted as a springboard from which he could progress, working with Zomby and Joker on an assortment of remixes and projects. His move to Warp in 2009 paved the way to the release of his debut LP Glass Swords, which was met with a reasonably rapturous response. Last year’s follow-up Green Language was met with a slightly lukewarm response, although his collaboration with Danny Brown (who returned the favour for Whyte’s production on aspects of Old) represents some of his finest work. These and other tracks will sound extra good on Lakota’s massive speakers.
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One criticism that is consistently made of Motion (perhaps slightly unfairly) is that the nights it exhibits are way too house heavy, and it all becomes slightly monotonous after a while. Thank goodness, then, for Cirque du Soul, who are bringing a welcome slice of boogie with them to the famed skate park. Topping a bill which includes Weaver Bros. and Luke Wolfman is legendary French producer Breakbot. The diskjockey-come-Neanderthal plies a really stellar blend of disco, pairing pulsating grooves with some lovely vocals, and favourites like ‘Baby I’m Yours’, ‘You Should Know’ and ‘Fantasy’ will have the punters shaking every last tail feather. The real test of stamina will come, however, in the struggle to make it to Shak Out the following night. But hey, we’re young. So young.
Dylan Moran Colston Hall, 11.03 Whether you know him as Simon Pegg’s partnerin-crime in Run Fatboy Run and Shaun of the Dead or for his own work in his series Black Books, or even as the travel-book-thief in Notting Hill with thirty seconds of screen-time, you will probably remember him with a smirk not far from your cynical lips. He is a very, naturally funny man, and his stand-up reflects this. His ‘Wandering’ tour is his first UK jaunt in three years and will be a winner.
Christine Sun Kim Arnolfini, 20.3 Hailing from New York City, Christine Sun Kim is a visual artist who has been causing something of a stir of late. Born totally deaf, much of her work is concerned with making the sonic visible and plays with motifs of sheet music and sign language to blur this line. Having displayed her work all over the world at galleries like MoMA, her exhibition of new drawings will make a great tenant to the Arnolfini’s Gallery 5, where it will reside throughout April.
Conference BIDC 2015
Chemistry Building, 14.03
The Bristol International Development Conference annually brings together individuals passionately interested in worldwide progression for a day of lectures and debates. This year’s conference is taking place in a couple of days in the familiar environment of the Chemistry Lecture Theatre, with topics to include human rights, humanitarian work and gender inequality. An £8 student ticket is available online, and includes lunch.
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WHAT'S ON MARCH MONDAY 9 -13 Revunions & Friends! The Wardrobe Theatre, 133 St Michael's Hill, Bristol. 8pm. MONDAY 2 Engage Cafe at Friska: Transport. 6:30pm - 8:30pm. THURSDAY 12 The Tom Lucy Show, The Anson Rooms, The Richmond Building. 7pm. SUNDAY 15 Yoga Class - You are not your Thesis. The Richmond Building. 12pm. MONDAY 16 UBU Stand Up Presents: Comedy Central Live, featuring Shappi Khorsandi and Rob Beckett. The Anson Rooms, The Richmond Building. 7pm. THURSDAY 19 UBU Festival of Liberation: Why Isn't My Professor Black? Gromit Room, 4th Floor,The Richmond Building. 6pm. THURSDAY 19 Training and Nutrition Seminar with USN Athelete Dave Titterton. Queens Building, University of Bristol. 6pm. FRIDAY 20 Clifton Village Vintage Circus. Celebrating the reopening of The Richmond building in style featuring the wonderful Invisible Circus. 7LFNHWV DUH RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDOO\ VROG RXW EXW NHHS DQ RXW IRU RSSRUWXQLWLHV WR win some! Available at ubu.org.uk/ WEDNESDAY 25 Introduction to Volunteering and Safeguarding, The Stacy Room, Ground Floor, The Richmond Building. 11am. THURSDAY 26 General Election Hustings: Bristol West (Students and Young People), The Anson Rooms, The Richmond Building. 6:30pm.
FEATURED EVENT Varsity Series 2015: Rugby Union, Bristol vs UWE. Memorial 6WDGLXP +RUĂ&#x20AC;HOG 0RQGD\ 0DUFK SP Bristol vs UWE in the ultimate showdown. This event sees the two universities go head to head in Rugby Union. Following a term of stellar performances against other universities in the South West, UBRFC will be battling it out against UWE as part of Varsity Series 2015. Tickets are just ÂŁ5 so come along and show your support!
Contact UBU University of Bristol Studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Union Richmond Building 105 Queens Road Bristol BS8 1LN www.ubu.org.uk /BristolSU @UBUBristol