THE JASMINE REVOLUTION | LIGHTING IT ALL ABLAZE | REMOVING THE SECOND AMENDMENT
TheBeaver
12.02.2013
Newspaper of the LSE Students’ Union FREE
RAISING AND GUNGING
ties, raising over ÂŁ800. On Tuesday, the three core RAG Charities gathered Last week, LSESU Raising and Giving (RAG) hosted on Houghton Street for the RAG Week 2013, raising RAG Week Charity Fair, a over ÂŁ2,000 pounds for the new feature to the RAG Week charities Find Your Feet, The Program that allowed stuHaven and Richard House GHQWV WR ன QG RXW ZKHUH WKHLU Children’s Hospice through money would be going. Repstudent fundraising activities resentatives from Find Your Feet, The Haven and Richard on campus. 7KH ZHHN NLFNHG RŕŽ‰ ZLWK House Children’s Hospice a Rowathon on Houghton spoke to students throughout Street, with AU Rowing Club the day and watched the AU members putting in the kilo- Netball, Rugby and Football meters to cover the distance teams battle it out in a charof LSE to Luxembourg, rais- ity netball tournament. Merchandise stalls and ing ÂŁ175 in the process. For bake sales on Wednesday the duration of the week, the LSE Library agreed to allow and Thursday were crowned students to donate their li- with an evening of live muEUDU\ ன QHV WR WKH 5$* &KDUL sic in the Quad, in an event Arisa Manawapat
that brought together RAG and the Music Society, who will be working together on LSESU Battle of the Bands later this term. This year, LSESU RAG and Volunteer Centre @ LSE Careers have teamed up with City Year London to bring together student fundraising and student volunteering to an ever larger audience. On WKH ன QDO GD\ RI 5$* :HHN City Year London, a charity which targets student interventions in more deprived London schools, brought 100 of their Corps members to Houghton Street to show ‘Physical Training’ activities that help motivate and inspire their young people.
The “Gunge a Big Name on Campus (BNOC)â€? show on Friday night, hosted by television presenter Dave Benson-Phillips, raised over ÂŁ800 pounds. Nominations opened a week earlier for LSE students to suggest those big-names-on-campus they would like to see in Dave’s eleven-foot tall gunge tank. Those who received the highest value of donations would be thrown into the tank. After some last minute donations that tied some of the candidates, two memEHUV RI VWDŕŽ‰ RI WKH 6WXGHQWV‍ ڑ‏ Union who cannot be named, the four Sabbatical Officers (Matthew de Jesus, Jack
Tindale, Duncan McKenna and Alex Peters-Day), Beaver Managing Editor Matthew Worby, and Josh Stacey, prominent member of the LSE Football Club found themselves covered headto-toe in Benson-Phillips’s lumpy neon green goo. Tindale said, “It was a pleasure to have Dave Benson-Phillips’s hot sticky mess all over me.� LSESU RAG Spokesperson Katie Madgwick noted the whole week’s events were “well attended and successful�, and added “A big thank you to everyone who got involved, particularly anyone who got gunged!� Continued on page 3, col 3.
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