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THE ORBITAL’S FRESHERS’ GUIDE: TIMES, DATES AND ADVICE CAMPUS ACTIVITY MAP
EDINBURGH FRINGE REPORT
LOTS OF FREE STUFF MUSIC, FILM AND THEATRE GUIDES FRESHERS’ FLU TIPS FROM DR. DENNY SAM SHEAD’S FIRST YEAR AT HOLLOWAY & LOADS MORE
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FREE STUFF 28/29 COMM.CARD 26/27
This week we have over sixteen different items to give away, including theatre tickets! Also, go here for your free Medicine Entry Voucher for Saturdays.
Society
Our nights out at the Union guide.
WHAT’S ON
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Exlpore the wonders of Egham and beyond with our What’s On guide.
EDITORIAL 3 CONTRIBUTORS 5 HOLIDAY PICS 25 23 PIN BOARD
CURRENT AFFAIRS12/13 EYE ON THE UNION
WAIT THE 2
COLLEGE WATCH 10/11 Stories from the College.
OPINION CAMPUS MAP 14/15
I missed two lectures last year from getting lost, now, it could have been worse, I could have missed fun things. Our campus map shows you whats cool, and where.
LIFESTYLE
We burst the Holloway bubble by dragging the reader, kicking and screaming, into our summary of world news.
DOING TIME
16-18
SAVE MONEY
HEALTH REG
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SAFE PLANET
Ex-Fresher Sam Shead reflects on his time as a care-free student. I mean, He’s still here, but now he has cares.
Register at the University Health Centre. Where, and why, you should.
MUSIC EDINBO. FRINGE 30/31 FILM Our most northern reporter writes about here experiences at one of the THEATRE largest festivals on Earth. HEALTH
Culture
TOKYO EXPLORED 43
Sohpie Yates redescovers her roots (at least I am pretty sure she is part Japanese) by visiting the home of all things cool to teenage boys.
The Score
32/33 34/35 36/37 38-41
MFURDER
45
Edmund Connoley writes about fur in fashion, somewhat more succesffuly then our bad pun. Sorry.
BOOK REVIEWS
44
FRESHERS’ FAYRE 48
THEATRE LIST
£20 FAYRE
WOMEN’S RUGBY 50 SPORT TASTER DATES 51 TEAM TRIAL DATES 51
Tips to come out of the Fayre with your money and your life.
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What some students would spend there only £20 on at the Fayre.
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This issue, the Students’ Union has provided stuff they feel is useful for students, such as a commuters guide and nights out tips
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A list of all the theatre shows, and audition dates, this term.
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David Cummins, who so carefully looks after our money, tells you how to look after yours.
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Green Machine Charlotte BasamBowles explains how to save Earth.
INCLUDING: HELLBOY 2 REVIEW 34 LOLLAPALOOZA VISITED 32 FRESHERS FLU TIPS 38/39 COOKBOOK COMPARISON 40 FITNESS TIPS 41 AND MORE!
OLYMPIC ART?
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We ask whether Beijing’s opening ceremoney, and the rest of the Olympics, can be topped by the aristry and talent of lil’ ol’ Lond’n.
The Score provides useful information regarding Sports and Societies at Royal Holloway. The Students’ Union provides it, therefore The Orbital takes no blame for any offense caused, but are willing to take any credit given, like a stray dog around a dustbin.
Editor’s Letter
VPComServ Emilie Seager vpcomserv@su.rhul.ac.uk Editors Jack Ratcliffe orbital@su.rhul.ac.uk Beth Rowley deputyeditor@su.rhul.ac.uk Paul Wrench orbitalsociety@su.rhul.ac.uk Emma Cooper lifestyle@su.rhul.ac.uk Sohpie Yates culture@su.rhul.ac.uk Designers Ejiro Ogboru artdirector@su.rhul.ac.uk Will Harry Branston designone@su.rhul.ac.uk Photography Kirstly Lucas k.lucas@rhul.ac.uk Publishing David Cummins publishingdirector@su.rhul.ac.uk Laura Jones marketingexec@su.rrhul.ac.uk Chief Subeditor Cath Nelms chiefsub@su.rhul.ac.uk Correspondants Nick Fogg nickfogg@hotmail.com Alex Turner a.j.turner@rhul.ac.uk Neil Thornton n.thornton@rhul.ac.uk Edmund Connolly e.connolley@rhul.ac.uk Contributors Liz Owen Clare Beckett The College Sam Shead Health Centre Dr. Mark Denney Lydia Cowdery Charlotte B.B. ??? With thanks, Photographers, Models, The Copy Check Team Tristran Ellison
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I always feel that the Editorial is the perfect chance for me to share any wisdom I may have picked up over the years. Of course, this conflicts with an even stronger feeling; the feeling I haven’t picked up any wisdom over the last few years. And if I have somehow managed to attain any life -wisdom while at University, any useful parts of it must have been washed away by too many bar socials and nights at the S.U. However, using that as an inspiration, I managed (over the entire summer) to come up with one useful piece of knowledge that you need to know at University - it is okay to make mistakes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying sleep with your best friend’s partner or amputate a limb. I’m just saying that when hardly anyone knows who you are, your family miles away and with thousands of other people to get lost in, don’t be too afraid to look stupid or do something risky (unless it promises permenant damage of some form). University life is far more forgiving than the real world out there. I make mistakes all the time, and do I care? No. That’s why you may find this magazine substandard. And do I care?.. Well, actually I do. So if you do find anything you don’t like, feel free to let me know. I’ll only cry for a short while.
‘TIL ” 20th!
JACK RATCILFFE, EDITOR
This week, The Orbital likes
Being back at University PRICE FREEZE ON UNION ALCOHOL lots of free things to give away Barack Obama’s charisma WIRELESS INTERNET ALL THE SUP-
PORT RECIEVED IN MAKING THIS ISSUE Andrew Murray’s tennis performance Royal Holloway
students at the Paralympics repainted offices next door
But dislikes
Cooking for themselves IRONING FOR THEMSELVES russia’s declaration of other countries independence Bureaucracy and its many forms GETTING CLOSER TO LEAVING
UNIVERSITY SLOW E-MAIL Any more Big Brothers
Liking Coldplay’s new song THE NUMBER OF TRAINS TO LONDON PER HOUR the lack of trains back from London tight
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