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The University of Bristol’s Independent Student Newspaper
Fortnightly 22nd October 2018 Issue 330 Celebrating 30 years
Locals revolt ‘marauding bands of drunk and screaming students’ Lucy Downer
Deputy News Editor
Investigation • •
Noise complaints issued to the Uni have gone up by 54 per cent Local sets up ‘The noise pages’ blog report on loud house parties
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he number of noise complaints submitted to the University increased to 120 last year, a considerable rise from last year’s figure
of 80. Residents issued complaints particularly surrounding house parties and general noise during antisocial hours. The University has already received 34 noise complaints about student households so fare this term, a figure which, over the space of two
months, suggests that this problem is not going away. The prevalence of this issue has forced some local Bristolians to take matters into their own hands. ‘The Noise Pages’, a website founded by Andrew Waller, allows residents to log noise complaints about students in the Redland and Cotham areas. The website has split opinion in the student body. Speaking exclusively to Epigram, Waller described
why he felt the need to set up a blog and bring to light the issue of noise complaints; ‘In March of this year there were two very loud parties on consecutive nights a very short distance apart. It annoyed me that the first party was in a house that I had complained about previously, they had already been through the system with Joni Lloyd (Bristol University’s Community Liaison... Continued on page 7
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the legitimacy of a People’s Vote on Brexit. Some attendees were highly critical of an event which seemingly trivialised such an important and complex topic. A Labour source told Epigram ‘The night is a farce. Drunken 18-19 year olds shouting about things they know nothing about. This is a serious issue: people stand here and think they have an opinion when they don’t know what’s going on.’ As a member of the audience, Edward Anders gave his opinion on the night: ‘There is no censorship here on free speech to argue your point of view. I think it’s great they’ve been given the opportunity to do this: it’s all light-hearted, in a drunken environment.’ Continued on page 8
Sparks fly in divisive drunken EU debate
SU Correspondent • Division escalted on the issue of the Northern Irish Border • Greens and Lib Dems called for more diverse debators as panel contained just one woman • Event recieved with a mixture of laughter, enjoyment and criticisms of trivialising important issues
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peakers at the cross-party event on Tuesday October 16 received both raucous applause and strongly worded objections while drunkenly debating
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