Term 2, Issue 10

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IN PICTURES Some of our favourite submissions this year Matt Greenwood

Daniel Hadley

Daniel Roberts

Sherwin Wong

Cosmo Sanderson Editor-in-Chief Deborah Batchelor badger@sussexstudent.com News Editor Jack Williams Comment Editor Victoria Farley Tech/Sci/Features Editor Jordan Ellis Arts Editor Tom Powell Head of Publicity Lili Pammer-Zagroczky

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11 iMacs stolen from Silverstone iMacs stolen from the School of MFM after someone gained entry to building through Arts C The episode follows a similar theft of 16 iMacs from the Silverstone building in January of last year Phoebe Day

11 iMac computers have been stolen from the School of Media, Film and Music (MFM) building.

The break-in occurred in the late hours of 25 March , in a Media lab on the third floor of the Silverstone building.

At the time of going to print, there is no knowledge of who stole the computers and who gained entry to the lab via Arts C building.

The department has sent out a warning to their students, reminding them to make sure the lab security protocol is followed.

The School of Media, Film and Music sent out a message to their students after the incident saying: “This is a relatively unusual occurrence and we hope you are not worried by it. Security will be stepping up patrols and we expect this will be the end of it.

“However, could you please be very careful and not leave doors unlocked or propped open in the building and not let folk into the building unless they have their own access card. Please also report any suspicious activity immediately to security.

“We do come under pressure sometimes not to allow 24 hour access to the building and it would be a great help in keeping the access we have if we can keep the building as secure as possible (there is no suggestion of a change at the moment but we know security sometimes raise concerns about 24 hour access).”

Whether the break in was aided by a lack of sufficient security or not,the Film and Media department have increased their security measures, stepping up the number of security patrols in the area.

There is worry in the Media department that the break in will "raise concerns about 24 hour access".

Media student Julia Pollard commented: “security is obviously a very important issue at Sussex, however it would be detrimental to the university to let a small break in affect the convenience of the 24 hour access, especially to those with deadlines coming up."

A spokesperson for the University of Sussex said: "Following a theft this month, the Head of School and other staff in Media, Film and Music are conducting a security review but at this point the review does not include the current access times to the Silverstone building."

Although the head of the School of Film and Media Studies has called the break in "a rare occurrence", this is the second break in a media lab.

In the January of 2014 a break in re-

fore the Operations Officer role becomes defunct because of the revised officer structure.

He said in a statement: “It is with great sadness that I announce I am leaving my position as Operations Officer at the Students’ Union for personal reasons.

“I’ve had an amazing year here, and really enjoyed working with fellow officers, staff and students to help im-

prove Sussex.

“I couldn’t have achieved even a fraction of what I have this year without all those people, and I’m really going to miss working in such a welcoming and supporting environment.”

Daniel Greenberg was elected to the position of Operations Officer during the 2014 Union Executive Elections and pledged to open a Union café in the back room of Falmer Bar, expand Un-

ion computers and introduce quarterly spending updates.

This year, Daniel was instrumental in transforming the back of Falmer Bar into a cafe called Room 76 and also lobbied with the rest of the Students’ Union Officer team to get funding for a new Union building to replace Falmer House, something which the University eventually agreed to give funding for.

ple will be eligible to vote in elections.

If they form a government after polling day on 7 May, Labour have said that they would hope to enfranchise 16 and 17-year-olds in time for 2016, the year of the London Mayoral Election.

Labour’s shadow Justice Secretary, Sadiq Khan, said: “Labour wants the voices of our young people to be heard. We will give 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in elections from May 2016 onwards, the biggest expansion of the franchise in nearly half a century.”

University by militant group alShabab.

Almost all of the 148 people killed as a result of the attack were students and an estimated 79 people were injured.

One of the four gunman that perpetrated the attack was confirmed to be the son of a government minister, according the Interior Ministry.

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sulted in the loss of 16 iMacs from a lab in silver stone, reportedly worth £15,000. I was suspected there was a link between this theft and another similar theft of equipment from an

institution in Brighton earlier that January. However currently there is no evidence to indicate a similar link between this latest break in.

Operations Officer steps down Jack Williams News Editor The sitting Students’ Union Operations Officer, Daniel Greenberg, has stepped down from his position two months before the end of his term.

In an announcement on the Students’ Unions website, Greenberg said that he was departing for “personal reasons”, only a couple of months be-

News in Brief

By Jack Williams

Government probes fake degrees website The government has started an investigation into a Chinese online service which sells Higher Education degree documentations for a discount price.

The news follows an investigation

by BBC Radio Kent where one of their reporters posed as a potential customer and found that the website has been offering degree classifications to dozens of students from several UK universities.

While the website said that the degrees it was selling, which cost as little as £500, were intended to be used for “novelty purposes, or as a replacement for lost diplomas”, the Higher Education Degree Datacheck (HEDD) urged Chinese authorities to shut down the website.

Labour vows to lower voting age The Labour Party has pledged to lower the voting age in England from 18 to 16 if it forms a government after the election, meaning over 1.5 million peo-

Kenya mourns killings of University Students Kenya held three days of national mourning last week for the 148 people killed following an attack at Garissa

Islamic Society raised £5k in honour of dead student Kingston University’s Islamic Society has raised over £5,000 for a student who was run over while travelling to hand in her coursework.

All money raised will be given to the Ummah Trust, which helps povertystricken people around the world.

Daniel said he was also proud to have secured an extra £100,000 funding from the University at the beginning of the year and to have worked with Students’ Union President Abraham Baldry to set up an online market place for students to sell unwanted items on the new Union website.

In light of the role review, management of the Union’s commercial activity will be overseen by the executive.

Clarification The Badger would like to clarify that we are thrilled with the entire new team of elected Officers and intended our front page to reflect this.

The headline from our last edition mirrors a similar headline from two years ago which was 'Five Officers and a Gentleman'. This headline being a pun on the film 'An Officer and a Gentleman'.

We chose to refer back to this previous front page, and apologise if anyone finds our headline offensive, but would like to clarify that we did not write this with the intention to offend.

On the night of the elections, we were pushed against a tight print deadline and didn’t put as much consideration into the headline as we perhaps should have done. We again apologise for any offense caused on the part of the Officers team and our readers.

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The Badger year in news SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2014

Zoë Halse News Sub-Editor Student ID cards An FOI request sent by The Badger revealed that the University profited £33,770 in five years replacing lost and damaged staff and student ID cards.

They told The Badger that the current fee, £10, “is a small amount to pay for a lost card” although students complained that the University should “really be using other means” to pay for student fresher ID cards other than charging other students so much to replace their own.

Assault at Fresher’s week A Sussex student was seriously assaulted at a Fresher’s week event.

The student was reportedly head-

butted by an unknown man outside the event marquee. An ambulance and later Police were called to the scene.

The University reinforced that ordinarily “Sussex campus, which is home to more than four thousand students, is an extremely safe environment’ and has ‘very low rates of crime.”

Measures such as 24-hour security patrols, emergency phones, free personal alarms and a lone-person walk home service were also highlighted.

Sussex estates mistake radio studio for toiler door Sussex Estates fitted the wrong lock to University Radio’s (URF) studio door having mistaken it for a toilet door.

The station manager commented on the eventual discovery of the mistake, the new locks being long anticipated: “That’s when I found out the horrible,

horrible truth. Estates had fitted one lock, on the wrong door. The new lock, if anything, made things more difficult!”

The University told The Badger they would look into the issue as a matter of urgency in line with URF comments on a serious lack of funding into their media outlet.

Hockey Team investigated The Men’s Hockey Team disrupted night in Falmer bar chanting “Sit down, shut up, go and do the washing up, you b****es” to the Women’s Rugby team, onlookers reported.

A witness told The Badger that “I understand that the chant was probably in good humour, and was taken as such by those it was directed to but personally, I was offended by what I heard and I think such behaviour was

unfair for the other people at the bar”.

Communications Officer, Michael Segalov agreed, “there is no space for sexism on our campus”.

“We will not accept homophobia and will take action when needed”.

Kiss-In at Sainsbury's A consensual kiss-in was held at Sainsbury’s after a University of Sussex student, who kissing her girlfriend in the store, was described by a customer as “disgusting” and was consequently threatened with expulsion from the shop by a security guard.

Michael Segalov, responsible for organising the event commented on its success, thanking attendees and articulating: “It was important to all of us that we turned an unpleasant and negative event into something positive, and tonight we did that, and a clear message has been sent to Sainsbury’s and our community.

University intercept laughing gas delivery The University has been intercepting deliveries of Nitrous Oxide its residences.

The party drug considered to be a ‘legal high’ is disallowed by the University because, they stressed in a comment, it is an oxidising agent, and can increase the speed and voracity of a fire and can cause materials that do not normally burn to ignite.

They also pointed out the packaged they receive are normally on an industrial scale.

Students commented that they did not believe it was the University’s place to confiscate a legal drug, stating students “could be doing a lot worse”.

reported on the atmosphere of “intimidation” and “exploitation” in the School of Life Sciences, according to the Postgraduate Association at the University of Sussex.

The Chair of the Postgraduate Association told The Badger that all PhD students are expected to carry out 50 hours of undergraduate project supervision per year without expecting pay and that some research graduates do not receive pay for the teaching hours at all.

Andrea Brock of the Postgraduate Association said at the time: “The exploitative system in Life Sciences - upheld by an atmosphere of intimidation and insecurity - directly contradicts research council rules and other schools in the university that train and pay all ATs for their work.”

The University defended the practice by claiming that if they were to change things, it would otherwise half the number of fully funded PhD places they could offer.

Students vote in favour of role revision Sussex students voted in a December referendum in the last week of Autumn term to approve the planned overhaul of full-time and part-time Students’ Union officer roles, eliminating the positions of Operations Office and Communications Officer.

The Sussex Students’ Union commissioned the National Union of Students (NUS) to analyse the current officer structure early in the academic year and reported back that two full-time officer positions should be scrapped and a Societies and Citizenship Officer and Postgraduate Education Officer to be created in their place. All four part-time officer roles were scrapped and replaced by liberation officer roles, including an LGBTQ* Officer and a Black Students representative Officer.

In the referendum itself, 60 percent of students voted in favour of the proposed restructuring of officer roles.

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2014 Jack Williams News Editor University breaks timetable policy The University was discovered to have broken its own policy two months into term when students revealed that they had academic teaching classes scheduled on Wednesday afternoons.

It is University policy not to timetable lectures and seminars after 1pm on Wednesday afternoons so that students can attend society events or train and travel with their sports teams. However, a number of students from subjects ranging from Computer Sciences to Physics told the Students’ Union that they have had lectures and workshops booked on Wednesday afternoons.

In response, the University said that they took the situation “very seriously”, with Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), Clare Mackie, emailing each school separately asking them to rearrange classes if they broke the policy.

Rate Your Landlord Survey 2014 Like in previous years, the Students’ Union’s annual rate your landlord survey exposed the worrying trend of students being extorted by uncooperative landlords in Brighton, as 68 percent of respondents claimed that their landlords deducted money from their deposit without giving an explanation.

The report also elaborated that a third of students experienced pressure from their letting agency or landlord to sign a tenancy agreement and 40 percent of students deemed their accommodation to be of an insufficient standard.

Motion to ban SWP fails An attempt to get the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) banned from campus in November was defeated after students unanimously defeated the motion 141 votes to 44 at an Emergency Members Meeting.

An EMM was called on the issue after

a petition calling for the SWP to banned from campus because of allegation of their mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations within the party. Although the quorum of 450 students was not present at the EMM for the result to be binding, the Students’ Union Council still decided to dismiss the notion of banning.

B&H buses introduce £3 student ticket Lobbying from the Sussex Students’ Union led to the introduction by Brighton and Hove Buses of a £3 student day ticket.

The new ticket was 70p cheaper than the standard price for a 23/25 day rider, which was the previous day tickets students had to buy to travel by bus onto campus.

Life Sciences PhD tutors being exploited In our final issue of the term, The Badger

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JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2015 Rosie Dodds News Sub-Editor £264,294+ splashed on failed campus Master-Plan The Badger revealed in early February that the University of Sussex has spent over £264,294 on the Campus MasterPlan since 2012.

The University disclosed in response to two Freedom of Information requests that they paid £102,594 for legal advice in relation to the Campus Master-Plan, and £161,700 to the architecture firm Architect Design Partnerships across the last three years for developing the plan.

Brighton and Hove City Council’s Planning Committee rejected the £500 million expansion plan in June 2014.

University management submitted their appeal to this in December 2014.

When questioned why so much money has been spent on the plan, a university spokesperson said that the Master-Plan was a “key component of the University’s long- term strategy”.

OIA orders University to pay ‘Sussex Five’ compensation The Office of the Independent Adjudicator released a report in January ordering the University of Sussex to pay the five students it suspended in December 2013 after the punishment was deemed “unfair”.

The OFA said that the University must pay each student, dubbed the ‘Sussex Five’, approximately £2,000 - £2,500 for the “distress and inconvenience caused”.

Michael Segalov, one of the Sussex Five, said after the report was released: “I’m pleased that the University administration will have to say sorry to us and I think by definition they are also apologising to the thousands of students and staff who supported us.”

Freebies for Farthing A Freedom of Information Request filed in February gave The Badger access to The University of Sussex’s 20122014 hospitality register, a record of gifts received by University employees from external organisations.

The record showed that Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing and his wife Dr Alison McLean were treated to various gifts including two performances and dinners at opera venue Glyndebourne, a £50 M&S voucher, and a presidential dinner at Vienna City Hall.

Allan Spencer, the University Head of Finance also received tickets to the ATP tennis world tour finals at the O2 arena.

UKIP society created In early February three students at the University of Sussex started plans to create a UKIP society.

Initially the Students’ Union Society Committee had reservations about having a UKIP society on campus. A spokesperson said: “We obviously support representation but we have reservations about what’s in the newspapers about UKIP”.

The UKIP society was however allowed to form later in the month “in line with freedom of speech”.

Staff satisfaction with management below benchmark ORC International statistics showed University of Sussex staff satisfaction to be below the “norms of the Universities (UK) benchmark” in over half of the issues surveyed.

Only 22 percent of respondents to a staff survey organised by the University gave a positive response when asked whether they believed that their senior management provided them with effective leadership.

The University did not rank above the benchmark in any of the 36 questions asked to its employees. In response to these results the University said that an institutional plan would be developed in order to focus on key issues revealed by the survey.

Northfield students freeze In mid-February over 100 students signed a petition demanding compensation for their time spent without hot water and heating.

A resident of Northfield told The Badger: “We didn’t have a working

microwave for months, we had a false widow infestation, and the heating has been on and off all winter. A disabled friend in my block was left without lighting in their bathroom and no working hob for a few days, forcing them to shower in the dark.”

A University spokesperson admitted to the issues with campus heating, and stressed the availability of hot showers and portable heaters available during the problematic period.

Fossil Fuel petition handed to the University On February 13th over 50 students protested against the University of Sussex’s investment in fossil fuels.

The campaigned had attracted almost 850 signatures in an online petition at the time of the protest, aiming to force the University to divest from the fossil fuel industry and reinvest in renewable energy sources.

The event consisted of bikes cycling around campus, a series of talks, and a handover of the petition to the University’s registrar John Duffy.

MARCH - APRIL 2015 Daniel Green News Sub-Editor Students protest against Met Police chief In early March, a 'Cops Off Campus' demonstration took place against the visit of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.

Around 50 demonstrators began pushing past security to gain access to the Jubilee building, where HoganHowe was giving a lecture.

Equipped with homemade riot gear, protestors clashed with security guards in an attempt to gain access to the room where the Police Commissioner was speaking.

UKIP candidate invited after referendum A decision to not invite UKIP to Candidate Question Time was reversed by the Students’ Union after 70 percent of students supported a move to invite all

candidates.

The online opinion poll, the first of its kind by the Students’ Union, was provoked following complaints by the Politics Society that the decision not to invite UKIP was “unjust and not in keeping with the Union’s commitment to democracy.”

University VCEG claim £60k in expenses Following an FOI made by The Badger, it was revealed that the Vice-Chancellor’s Executive group claimed £59,935 in expenses over 2013 and 2014.

Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing claimed the most in expenses, spending £25,838 on travel costs alone.

The University said that their goal to maintain links around the world inevitably meant that a lot was incurred on travel expenses.

Politics Society host election debate

Almost 400 people attended a debate featuring the five main parties running in the University’s constituency of Brighton Pavilion.

The debate, co-hosted by the Students’ Union and the Politics Society, had caused controversy over the initial decision to exclude UKIP from attending.

This was further exemplified by a toilet roll being thrown at the UKIP candidate, Nigel Carter, during a question on the European Union.

The five candidates faced questions ranging from tuition fees, the state of the NHS and tax avoidance. A Badger poll held during the debate found that an overwhelming majority (83 percent) intend to vote Green in May. Student starts Aldi petition A second year Sussex student founded a petition calling for the campus Co-op store to be replaced by an Aldi, citing high prices of food and alcohol.

The change.org petition has now attracted 510 supporters to date, attracting 250 signatures in its first day alone.

The petition’s profile highlighted the irony that “the shop for university students, who are notoriously poor, charges extortionate prices.”

Dead body found at housing viewing Four Sussex students discovered a dead body during a house viewing in Brighton.

Trevor Manyanyi, a student at the University of Brighton, had not been seen by his housemates for several days before being found dead by a group of second year students and a letting agent.

His death is not being treated as suspicious.

Sussex win Varsity Sussex won Varsity in late March for the second year in a row, beating Brighton

University 11-9.

The contest was hotly contested, coming down to the last two games; with triumphs in women’s basketball and volleyball ensuring Sussex’s victory.

Sussex also scored narrow victories in cricket, men’s tennis and trampolining, but suffered defeat to the Brighton Panthers in football, men’s rugby and swimming.

2015 Union Elections 4,725 students voted in the Students’ Union executive elections, the first since the Union’s reform of the officer positions. Four incumbent officers were re-elected, with Rose Taylor and Sarah Gibbons elected to the new roles of Postgraduate Education Officer and Societies and Citizenship Officer.

Students also voted in two referenda, with a majority of students voting to endorse the BDS movement and for the Students’ Union to continue selling to continue selling tobacco products.

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FEATURE

University of Sussex

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Embarking on Graduate life: take your time

Jemada Cicely describes how her attitudes towards life are the same as pre-university as post-university: not rushing into anything .

Jemada Cicely My academic journey at Sussex is reaching its end, yet with only two months to hand in dissertations and complete my undergraduate degree I am surprisingly calm.

Despite this truth, I am utterly aware that two weeks before my deadlines I’ll be in hysterics. I know it will happen. I will be filled with dizzying self-doubt and skittishly biting off my nails that are currently finely shaped and painted as I scramble to finish my final pieces of work.

I also know that when I do finally type the last words on my screen, sprint to Shawcross to print them out, fill out my last pink cover sheets and hand them in, reality will slowly begin to seep in.

When, and if I finally get dressed up in my gown, receive that diploma and say my final farewells to University I will be overwhelmed with relief and ecstatic joy, but also with an uncontainable melancholy. That will be it.

All the stress, the panic, the doubt, the rush and the accomplishment of the last two months will have ended in an instant, just like my last three years here at Sussex. It will be an almost unbearable and anti climatic moment when I internally ask myself: what now?

I will undoubtedly miss the life I’ve created in Brighton. It feels like both yesterday and an eternity ago when I first started here.

It was September of 2012 and I was nineteen years old. I had just arrived alone to Brighton after leaving every-

one I knew back in Spain. I had corn rows in my hair, clothes too summery for England, only one friend in the city and I was initially studying Sociology.

But I also had a longing for a change and I was ready for an adventure.

Since about the age of ten I knew I wanted to go to university. My parents didn’t attend further education until later in life, but they had always placed education alongside happiness as number one priorities in their children’s lives.

Thanks to them, I took my studies greatly serious as a kid. Consequently my dream became that of any ten year old (of course not); I wanted to attend Oxford, complete my PhD and become a Professor of English Literature.

Evidently, now at the age of almost twenty two, my childhood hopes and the ones I hold now could not be further from each other. A decade later, I did not attend Oxford nor did I have any intention to.

Instead I chose the beautifully open minded University of Sussex. A decade later, I did not study English Literature. But I did finally choose to study Media and Cultural studies.

Ten years on, I have no intention of becoming a Professor; in fact I have no intention of becoming anything, just yet.

Leaving university and flipping the page to the next chapter is daunting, especially when that next page is blank.

Like some, or most (I am not too sure on the percentages here), I do not have a full time job lined up after graduation nor am I embarking on to post graduate education. I am moving

back home.

There, I plan on working part-time, saving money, volunteering and exploring in depth some more of my many interests. However six months ago I was formulating any possible plan that would detain me from doing this.

Going back home to live with my parents was, in my eyes a step back. A very, very hefty step back. But at the present time I am content with this new plan. A bit uneasy and unsure, but overall content.

The truth is I don’t see myself applying for a ‘real’ job just yet and making a commitment I may not be ready for.

Neither do I want to apply for a Masters just yet. Again it is a substantial commitment, both financial and personal and I am just not sure what I want to specialize in.

Yes, I sometimes may feel like the ‘lost’ one, destined to go back home and transform into a frivolous failure, but then I remind myself that maybe it’s okay that I don’t know what I want to do, just yet.

Not picking the common path doesn’t necessarily make it the wrong one. I can’t expect to have the same experiences as everyone else nor compare mine to the rest, because I am not the rest.

Back in A levels my entire class was starting University immediately after summer, except me. It wasn’t because I wasn’t ready, or because I was lazy, I really just wanted time to think, reflect and time to experience a little bit of the world outside of education. Plus I think I secretly I enjoyed being the odd one out.

My gap year was not your stereotypical spiritual journey through South East Asia. Instead mine was an emotional year of semi self-discovery (it’s never ending). I began my gap year by moving out from my parents’ house and into my best friend’s paid-for apartment in the next city over.

I didn’t have to pay rent and I was living with my best friend in a new place. I took my time looking for a job, maybe too much time. When I eventually ran out of money, still having no job, I moved back home and began working as a part-time ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher at my parents’ academy.

A couple of months later my grandfather passed away. I immersed myself for a while in the night life, hanging around older people with no direction at the time and feeling a bit confused about, well, just about everything.

Eventually, I quickly realized spending time with my family was what I needed and wanted; after all I was leaving them in a short time. Before coming to Sussex, my feelings about life and the future improved. I was ready for a new start.

Three years later I am in the same place again. I have grown a little more as a person; I’m a little wiser, I am little more disciplined, a little more mindful of the world around me and although a little weary I am hopeful and eager for the future.

When I look back at my time at Sussex it seems like it can all be resumed in what feels like a second of my life.

And the more I think about it, I know that in much sense that is exactly what this experience will be; an extraordi-

nary, but nonetheless brief moment in my hopefully long lasting journey.

Time is a precious and strange thing. Sometimes days drag on like weeks and months flash by like days.

But if it’s one thing we have as young and still naïve individuals is: time.

Not having a concrete plan just yet is not symbolic of being lost. I have to time to figure things out and time is exactly what I am going to take.

There is a befitting line that goes like this: Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind, but the race is long and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Take your time.

If I could offer any advice to any fellow graduates moving back home it would be this; it’s not the end of the world, it’s just the beginning.

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A year in Comment and Letters: The team reflects Victoria Farley Comment Editor Looking back on this year, I believe it has been a very strong time for students standing up for what they believe in.

You just need to look at the work of student-led campaigns like Access Sussex and I Heart Consent to see what has already begun to be achieved here.

Like many soon-to-be graduates, I am leaving Sussex disillusioned with the management and staff.

Between spending university money on wining and dining the rich of Brighton and London, to once again failing to produce an exam timetable that doesn’t force students between choosing between finishing their dissertations and passing their exams, the University ends another year proving that it truly does not care about us.

On a happier note, I think our Students’ Union is stronger than its even been.

Seeing an almost entirely female

full-time officer team gives me confidence that our Union will continue to be strong and representative going into next year.

Also, I love dogs, so if anything can the Union bring more dogs in please?

I have really enjoyed my time at Sussex and despite its bad points I wouldn’t change anything for the world.

Being a part of The Badger for nearly two years has finally given me the confidence to pursue a career I have always wanted since I was young, but never thought I was good enough to do.

In my role as Comment Editor, I have been lucky to do many thingseven take a starring role in The Badger’s YouTube promo, very kindly made for us by our friends over at UniTV. After nearly four years at this University, and all the time spent editing this little student paper, I’ll be certainly sorry to finally leave. Maybe I’ll just become one of those graduates that just hangs around the campus and never leaves instead.

Miriam Steiner Comment Sub-Editor I am a child of the internet age.

I learnt to type before I could write and my first tests of morality were on unfortunate, pixilated Sims.

I was formed by the digital, and spent more summer days in the glow of crt monitors than of the British sun.

So when I feel the need to praise anonymous writers as some of my favourite contributors to the comment section this year, it seems strange.

This year anonymous writers have written bravely to us about sexual assault, racism, direct action and much more.

They’ve taken stands on so many issues under so many aliases, or none at all.

They wrote without vanity and with no praise because they felt they needed to express their opinions without being labelled by them.

But here lies my contradiction: I’m a child of the internet age, I hate trolls and anonymous bloggers who spread lies and havoc, but at The Badger they are some of the most insightful writ-

The Comment and Letters editorial team have had a great year, and we wanted to reflect on our experiences as editors for the final edition.

Louis Patel Letters Sub-Editor This year, The Badger has produced some of the best articles I’ve seen over the past three years. There’s one single reason for that success, and it’s you.

You, the writers who take the time to

write considered, good humoured pieces which both entertain and inform.

Without all of you, the paper would never be read; but the stands never stay full for long, with people picking up their copy every Monday morning.

I may be biased, but I’ve had some wonderful letters written over the past

year, all of which have been varied and have made the page what it is.

Obviously I’m going to be little biased, but I’ve had some fantastic letters this year; either calling the union out, raising issues which may otherwise go left unsaid, or simply providing some light hearted relief.

So thank you to all those who took the time to write, and please continue to let your voices be heard.

To those who’ve never written, or felt they weren’t good enough, I have one piece of advice: just get on with it.

We want to hear from you, and it’s a joy to publish first time writers.

It’s a gift to be able to have your views published, so I urge you all to take up writing for the paper.

So, then, thanks for all the great writing, make sure to keep it up.

Writing, whatever it is, always has the power to change something. It’s been a privilege to work for a paper that produces such work every week.

So, then, in the three short years you have here, make sure you leave your mark, scribed forever, in the pages of The Badger.

ers.

Why is one medium of expression so different from another?

All Badger writers submit pieces online. We usually receive an overly formal email with a word document attached. If it’s good, we will publish it.

Maybe that is the difference between anonymity online versus in print: the moderation.

As a comment sub-editor I see myself far more as a moderator than tastemaker.

My only agenda when choosing pieces is if they’re well written, not if I agree with them.

I’ve published pieces that make me want to cry inside with how awful their content is, but this is comment.

We are not here to judge you, we are here to represent your voice.

This praise isn’t to the detriment of those who publish with their name.

Writing anything takes guts, and putting yourself out there to be judged by others can be a mortifying process.

It’s why we receive so many signups at Freshers Fair but so few submissions each week.

The difference between having an opinion and expressing your opinion is vast.

Both named and unnamed writers, for whatever reason they choose to be one or the other, deserve respect for having the bravery to rise above the noise and still speak clearly.

So, anonymous writers on The Badger this year, you have been my editorial heroes.

You don’t need a byline or an award for you to know your opinion matters. It matters. All opinions matter.

You should be proud of your work, whether you can put your name next to it or not.

Alice Nettleship Comment Sub-Editor

The Badger for giving a campus-wide voice to important issues.

I have had too many people wondering if lack of previous experience writing for a newspaper format is a problem, but to be honest some of the most interesting articles have come from first time writers, so please consider writing for us next year if you have something to say!

It’s been a magnificent year and with a fab team, full of badger puns and unexplained hamster articles– I’m almost sad it’s the summer already!

This year at The Badger has been 10/10, would recommend.

Being on the Comment team in particular has been a learning experience for me, as being on the one campus in the UK that will heavily politicise you before you even notice, dealing with radical opinion pieces while trying to remain relatively unbiased is a challenge.

On the more positive flipside, I love

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THE BIG INTERVIEW

Steve Barker

It’s a chilly winter morning and I’m escorted to meet the Sussex Vice Chancellor in his office, armed with questions.

Like my predecessor who interviewed the VC in 2013, it took me about five minutes to discover that I’m no Paxman. Ever-present is Farthing’s stern press secretary, there to make sure that I didn’t stray too far from the pre-agreed interview topics.

With the grubby negotiations handled by his assistant, Farthing was free to come across as relaxed and friendly, and seemed genuinely pleased that students like myself take an interest in his work.

Since joining Sussex in 2007 he’s achieved a lot, but has had a mixed reception from students and faculty.

Coming from a medical background, he has clearly settled well into the role of quasi-corporate administrator; he spared no opportunity in marketing Sussex as a ‘sector leader’ or a ‘trailblazer’ – ‘My personal view is that Sussex is a top 20 University’, he insisted.

More than just an administrator however, he has big plans for Sussex, and was consistently eager to share them with us. ‘I’m a planner - I already like to think about five years’ time’.

When I asked what he likes most about the job, he placed a lot of emphasis on being thankful for an opportunity to plan, and ‘think about the future of a very vibrant and important organisation’, ‘and the opportunity to appoint really good faculty, and get us into a position where we can attract really good students, who can come to Sussex irrespective of their own personal economic and financial circumstances.’ He spared no opportunity in this regard.

Ensuring that students from all backgrounds are able to come to Sussex is without a doubt a high priority for him, it was something that he frequently brought up – in

“The current government regards international students as immigrants. I say you’re not immigrants, but valued guests.”

deed, under his direction Sussex has made numerous laudable improvements in providing for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, including the First-Generation Scholars Scheme.

IMMIGRANTS OR GUESTS? Michael Farthing has a firm view on international students: ‘The current government regards international students as immigrants. I say you are not immigrants, but valued guests.’

‘Sometimes I even say paying guests, and that is the way I think about the whole sector.’

In his view the current government’s promise to slash immigration in general is a ‘big mistake, just to take that rather sort of blunt instrument, to something that has been very very positive for our nation overall.’

Coming back to Sussex, I asked if he planned to increase the number of international students further, to which he said that while total numbers of students might grow, he didn’t plan on the ratio of international to home students going beyond one to four as an absolute maximum.

Farthing has said previously that he doesn’t think Sussex is ready for an international campus – his view on this hasn’t changed – he stressed that although he thinks about it often, ‘we have a responsibility to use our resources that we have here to the full’, and that other universities have found it ‘very difficult to work the business model’. ‘Some have even had to pull out’.

“It’s called Vice-Chancellor, but you could also use the word Chief Executive.”

THESUSSEX VC’s SALARY FIVE expressing any regret over this in- THE THE SUSSEX FIVE There were certain topics he was happy to chat about at length, others less so. This was particularly evident when I asked about whether the suspension of the Sussex five had a negative impact on the University, to which he initially replied: ‘I think all news about the university that gets into the press has the potential to do both good and harm.’

Indeed a number of answers Farthing gave really meandered around the point, sometimes producing a response that was so tortuously laboured that I almost forgot what the question was.

When I asked him to clarify his thoughts on this particular case, he said ‘I’m not going to rerun all of that now’, but he would rather ‘draw a line in the sand.’

He stressed that he likes Sussex to be reflective organisation that prides itself on being ‘honest with ourselves’. However he stopped short of explicitly apologising or

cident; I got the distinct impression it was something that made him uncomfortable.

I wondered if he feels he is sometimes unfairly singled out as problematic figure by those who criticise his decision to outsource services at Sussex.

To this question his answer was more candid: ‘I think it’s completely understandable.’ ‘It’s called Vice Chancellor but you could also use the word Chief Executive, you know: I take responsibility for what happens at the university ultimately.’

He then proceeded to explain his decision making process – in which he virtually never takes a decision by himself. ‘We’re not allowed to make those sorts of decisions on that sort of scale without oversight from our governing board.

But I accept the fact that at the end of the day, people have got to direct their concerns and complaints to somebody and I accept that.’

THE FARTHING YEARS

IMMIGRANTS OR GUESTS?

2007-2012

Michael Farthing arrived in 2007 as the appointment of Simon Fanshawe, the Chair of Council at Sussex. Fanshawe, a comedian-turned-broadcaster, is a New Labour and in the Progress, Blairite wing of the party. Farthing was the next door neighbour of spin-doctor Alistair Campbell, whom he advised over his depression in the mid ‘90s.

The pair were so close that Campbell once broke into the Farthing back garden to trick the luring press into thinking he hadn’t returned home.

In Professor Farthing’s first interview with this newspaper, he said he embraced Labour’s “moves towards

being a bit more business-orientated”, and “wouldn’t turn the clock back, for instance, and nationalise all the industries again” - the physician’s agenda was clear to many from the very beginning.

His modernising business plan was met with fierce opposition from students when the university announced plans to outsource the campus’s services - portering, security and catering - to private companies.

With little consultation with staff, the most reformist Vice Chancellor in Sussex history would face a hostile backlash. The campus was about to turn yellow.

On that golden question of salaries, he was predictably muted. When I asked whether he thought it was right for Vice Chancellors to receive such large remuneration packages considering less senior staff at universities are receiving pay cuts, he initially said ‘I don’t think I’m going to comment on what my colleagues get paid’.

I can see how it might not be appropriate to comment on the salary of others, but he was similarly meek on the question of his own salary: ‘For me, what I get paid is probably for others to comment on rather than myself. But I think that the discussion on how we value people and recompense people for their job is a tricky one. I’m not sure I’ve got a clear answer for you.’

Farthing’s pay packet including pension and bonus stands at £280,000; it is about average for Vice-Chancellors in the UK.

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WITH MICHAEL FARTHING CAMPUS CENSORSHIP We found a lot of common ground on the topic of free speech. His view is that so long as there isn’t a risk of inciting racial hatred, he would ‘fight for universities to keep freedom of speech.’

When I told him about how the Students’ Union can be paranoid when it comes to allowing certain points of view in The Badger, he was sympathetic: ‘Sometimes I get a bit distressed when we do invite somebody into campus, the views that are going to be expressed are not going to incite racial hatred, but aren’t going to please a certain group of students.

And that group of students will sometimes express quite serious opinions about whether that person should be allowed to come onto campus – that I would fight against. Provided people are operating within the law, we have to be able to have a debate, and we have to be able to hear views that we don’t necessarily agree with. A lot of politicians I don’t agree with, but you know I think they have a right to say their piece.’

I was very interested to hear what Michael Farthing thought about use of universities as a supposed means to tackle extremism, most recently exemplified by the controversial counter-terrorism and security bill.

We didn’t have time to delve into this complex issue for any great length, but told me he thought it was something universities are right to be concerned about.

FEMALE VICE-CHANCELLORS We talked for a while about gender equality within higher education – an area he has evidently put a lot of thought into – instantly able to discuss the gender dynamics of each and every part of the University system I could care to name.

“I know when I went to university aged 18 I was a perfectly imperfectly formed being.”

Interestingly he pointed out that while equality among students and early career academics is good, as soon as you look upwards the number of women drops off. When I asked what he thought could be done about this he had a plenty of ideas, but noted that there is no ‘quick fix’, which is probably right.

In his view, a good way to increase the number of female vice chancellors is to encourage more women into the subjects and roles that act as the future ‘supply line’ of senior administrators – namely STEM subjects. The university has made significant efforts in this regard he pointed out, particularly through the Athena Swan initiative.

TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION Farthing’s plan for Sussex bets heavily on the continued growth of campus universities in the UK. But this growth might be halted, by a number of factors, technology being one. So I was keen to hear how he thought technology might change education: ‘it’s something I think about often – it is the big well what if?’

He has some interesting thoughts on how specifically new kinds of technology might alter the way universities like Sussex teach: He was reasonably confident in saying that in the next 10-15 years, ‘there will still be a demand for a campus university experience.’ ‘I know when I went to university aged 18 I was a pretty imperfectly formed being.

I benefited hugely from working closely with colleagues, being able to work in groups with people, one of things that medical students do is we dissect the human body, but we do that six or eight of us together.

That was a big team effort, and, we support each other, and learn together, and test one another and all that sort of stuff.’

‘So I don’t see campus universities disappearing. What I think however we’re going to be challenged on is how efficiently we’re going to work on the campus – do we really need three years to do an undergraduate degree?’

‘A lot will depend on us as individuals – and I’d to offer people in the future, the choice – do you want to come and do your first year here, or would you like to have a year back in China, in India or wherever you’re from, do the basics, then come, we’ll transition you in, to our more campus, face to face sort of learning, and the maybe you’ll go back and do some more back in your own place?’

‘You might choose to do six months here, then go back for a year – you know I can see blended learning on variable flexible timescales.’

‘We’ll make sure that perhaps not all, but a lot of our programmes are accessible through the internet, or a closed intranet’ ‘providing it’s high quality’, he added.

FINAL THOUGHTS In all we chatted for about an hour on a wide range of topics, much of which I’ve had to exclude here.

Among tales of meeting with friends at the Palace of Westminster Micheal Farthing told me he hadn’t yet decided who to vote for, though we know that he opted for Labour in the last election, and has personal connections to various Labour figures; he was, for instance, a friend, doctor and neighbour of New Labour PR man, Alastair Campbell.

On the question of disabled access, highlighted by Miriam Steiner’s ‘Access Sussex campaign, the solution again primarily comes from ‘running the master plan through’ – that is, growing the campus with yet

more modern structures that would improve access.

“Do we really need three years to do an undergraduate degree?”

However, he admitted there is only so much the university can do given the age of many buildings on campus. ‘Old buildings were not designed by and large, 50 years ago, for wheelchair users, for example,’ he reflects. ‘We can modify buildings, but actually if you’ve got a narrow corridor, and it’s structural, there’s not much you can do about it.’

Some might have been put off by his almost George Osborne like references to the long term ‘master plan’ – but for me this was basically an indicator of his strategic acumen in planning for the future of the university, rather than necessarily a want of inspired answers.

We also asked, somewhat rhetorically, what advice the Vice Chancellor has for graduates heading out into the world to seek their fortune – I found his initial response admittedly very amusing: ‘Erm, I would think about the chancellors words at graduation, you can probably get those off, you know, off the internet.’

It seems one question the Vice Chancellor certainly can’t answer is what you’re supposed to do with your life after university.

His main advice though was not to follow others too much: ‘Ask people, take advice, or at least listen to advice, but don’t do anything just because somebody else has told you’.

‘At the end of the day you’re in charge, it’s your future, and I hope we’ve given our students enough confidence to be able to grasp that future.’ It seems one question even the Vice Chancellor can’t answer is what you’re supposed to do with your life after university.

Some research and editing by Paul Millar

THE REFORMING VICE-CHANCELLOR

BY PAUL MILLAR

2013

2014

2015

2013 was a tumultuous year on Sussex campus. Occupy Sussex, the group which formed against the University’s plan to outsource, occupied Bramber House third floor for eight weeks before being physically dragged out by police.

Local MP Caroline Lucas spoke at the occupation, Frankie Boyle sent a pizza.

A national demo in March saw Sussex House’s doors kicked down and staff left scared as masked protesters attempted to occupy the building. In a belated response, the management suspended five supposed ringleaders before lifting the bans just a week later.

Sussex had a better year in 2014, jumping up seven places in The Guardian league table from 50th to 43rd. Farthing himself got some good press from the same publication for his success in improving the university’s finances. However, finalists were left aggrieved when Chancellor Sanjeev Bhaskar (pictured right) had to pull out of the graduation ceremony due to commitments to an episode of Doctor Who, replaced by heads of schools. The Vice-Chancellor was heckled at the ceremony by students unhappy with his leadership.

2015 has been a somewhat unlucky year for Farthing so far. Sussex had its campus masterplan rejected by Brighton & Hove council, lost a number of court cases, and has been ordered to publish the details of its contract with catering company Chartwells.

Meanwhile, Labour has announced plans to cut tuition fees which puts the Farthing business plan on further shaky ground. On top of that, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education has recommended that Sussex compensate students suspended from campus two years earlier.

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SCIENCE

Ants, neuroscience and technology: What do they have in common?

Sian Lyons If ants the size of your hand, with the ability to communicate and work together to accomplish complex tasks, sound like something from your nightmares, then you should thank German engineering company, Festo, for making them a reality.

Far from the creepy crawlies famous for ruining picnics, these ants are bionic. Officially they’re called BionicANT with ANT standing for ‘Autonomous Networking Technologies’, a rather convenient acronym. The 3-D printed ants use cameras and a floor sensor to orientate and move, pincers like real ants for moving objects, and their antennae are small pieces of wire allowing them to connect to a charger making them look surprisingly realistic.

The legs of the ants use piezo technology, which allows for quick and precise movements without using much energy. This technology has been used for arguably more real-

Science factoid

of the week

Jade Groves Science Sub-Editor This month at Papworth Hospital, scientists who have spent more than a decade working on these procedures, have finally performed a transplant from a heart that has stopped beating.

The surgery was performed on Huseyin Ulucan, 60, from London, who suffered a heart attack in 2008. Reports suggest that he is recovering well.

Until now, hearts used in transplant operations have come from donors who are declared brainstem dead, but still have blood pumping around their bodies.

For the latest operation, surgeons took a heart from a donor whose heart had stopped beating, in what is termed circulatory death.

This technique then involved restarting the heart inside the donor.

More than 250 patients in Britain are on the waiting list for heart transplants, and around 900,000 people in the UK are living with heart failure, thus this breakthrough in transplant surgery will help thousands of people around the world.

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world applications such the valves of medical equipment and in automating certain laboratory tasks, such as dispensing and pipetting, making these more accurate as well as easier on the researchers.

These ants also use Moulded Interconnected Device, or MID, technology. This technology allows the integration of circuitry and 3-dimensional parts, such as the ant’s head and body.

Using this technology decreases the size of the ant overall, and has already proven useful in components for cars, medical equipment and mobile phones.

The goal of this project was to mimic the complex behaviours seen in ant colonies, such as working together to move a food item, with a possible view to develop future factory robots. After all, with strong colony hierarchy and individual roles, ants may well make the perfect factory worker.

These bionic ants are not remote controlled or programmed to complete specific tasks, instead they are programmed with sets of rules based

on complex algorithms which they are then able to follow autonomously producing complex and cooperative behaviours through communicating with one-another.

These rules are based on observations and models of real ants. From the Festo website, the ants “demonstrate how autonomous individual components can solve a complex task together working as an overall networked system” which is very similar to how natural ant behaviour is understood; individual units working as a connected system.

Modelling ant behaviour is not a new endeavour, indeed the Insect Navigation Group at the University of Sussex, headed by Dr Paul Graham, have been looking at ant behaviour for a while and have been playing with their own robots and computer models. Ants offer a unique opportunity to study how complex behaviours, such as following a route home, are able to be produced by the very simple brain circuitry of an ant. The group focuses specifically on how ants are able to

midorisyu via Flickr

navigate, studying potential cues and their integration.

The group is also producing models of ant navigation based on the idea that ants may “know what to do, not necessarily where they are” thus may be searching for and following familiar views. Understanding ant behaviour will enable us to produce autonomous robots that require surprisingly little complexity or human input in order to do tasks.

The BionicANTs are going to be officially unveiled at this year’s Hanover Messe technology trade fair in April.

However if ants aren’t quite your cup

of tea, don’t worry, Festo has also produced bionic kangaroos, elephant trunks, dragonflies, seagulls, jellyfish, flying rays, realistic penguins and incredibly beautiful butterflies. All of these have been part of Festo’s Bionic Learning Network and the company is getting quite a reputation for its stunning animal inspired robots that are often announced around April each year.

By copying nature into robotics and bionics Festo is hoping to find ways to improve current technological designs and develop new technologies for real-world applications.

A report from the Power-to-Gas conference Louis Williams The principle problem with switching to renewable sources of electricity is that wind and solar power are intermittent. It is probably going to have to be wind and solar power which provide most of our energy in the future though, if the UK is going to achieve the United Nations Environmental Program’s recommendation of carbon neutrality by 2070 at the latest.

Wind and solar, unlike other renewable sources, do have the potential to generate all the energy that a country uses. Last year for example 9.3% of the energy used by the UK for electricity generation came from wind. However even if a country installs far more wind power generation capacity than its peak power demand, the wind might at any time of the day simply not be blowing anywhere.

Hence the country has to maintain the ability to generate its entire peak demand from some other source.

This other source at this point in time for the UK is a combination of mainly coal, nuclear and gas power.

The rate of power generation from coal and gas is varied over the day according to the changing supply from wind and solar and the changing demand from human activity.

Gas power is particularly useful because it can be varied over periods as short as hours. This is the crucial usefulness of fossil fuels: they can be used whenever they are needed.

The energy is just sitting inside them waiting to come out as combustion.

Fossil fuels store energy.

The ability to store renewable energy is going to be necessary to achieve carbon neutrality. There are a range of different ways of storing energy on large scales (pumping water up a hill, charging a huge battery, spinning an enormous flywheel etc.) No method is particularly efficient on the scale of a national energy grid (for every kilowatt-hour of energy put into the storage medium much less than a kilowatt-hour is later retrieved) but one of them does provide the flexibility of combustible gas.

This technology is known as power-to-gas and was the subject the 4th annual Power-to-Gas conference last month in Düsseldorf, Germany.

The conference was a day of talks (in English) from representatives of the German government as well as many private companies about the regulation, production, storage and commercialisation of synthetic gases. The 4th PtG conference was part of the larger, three day Energy Storage Europe conference.

The gas in question is either hydrogen (which only produces water vapour when it burns) or methane (which can be created from CO2 extracted from the air).

An electric current can be used to separate water molecules into pure hydrogen and oxygen gas. The hydrogen gas can then be introduced directly to a national gas grid and combusted in homes for cooking and heating. Human-made methane gas can even be used in already existing natural gas power stations.

Hydrogen will hopefully be usable in power stations in the near future

warrenski via Flickr when gas turbines come to market which can withstand the higher combustion temperatures of hydrogen.

One of the first major goals for a company in this new area of technology is to achieve “market entry.”

A milestone at which point they have a reliable and economical product which they can start to focus on actually selling rather than just developing. This field of technology is very new: power-to-gas was only proposed as a storage method 5 years ago by the chairperson of the PtG conference. So it’s not that surprising that, as far as I could tell, none of the companies which presented their ideas had achieved proper market entry.

After all, the ultimate goal is to be able to absorb gigawatts of excess renewable power from an energy grid and then turn it into gas efficiently enough that it can be price-competitive with fossil fuels. That’s always going to be more complicated than just putting a pair of electrodes in some water.

All of the pilot projects exhibited were, however, very promising. A Canadian company had demonstrated a

2 megawatt hydrogen plant and plan to develop a 5MW hydrogen production module so that clients can buy as many easy-to-install modules as they like. Also a collaboration of companies had built a 6MW plant in the German city of Mainz, Germany being far in the lead in the renewable energy transition.

Megawatts may be smaller than the scale we want, we want gigawatts, but it hasn’t taken long to get to multiple megawatt plants. I would imagine that in ten years we may be seeing gigawatts of power-to-gas on Germany’s grid.

At the end of the day I went and thanked the conference chairperson, a professor of energy storage from Germany. I said to him that I couldn’t tell whether to look for work with one of the many promising companies I had seen that day or to go into the politics of power-to-gas.

He replied enthusiastically that it would be much more helpful for me to go into the politics than the technology. He added something though, as his final remark to me: whether or not a person should go into politics depends on their personality.

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ARTS

RAY GOT ALL DEWY EYED LOOKING AT HIS OLD VINYL AND COBBLED TOGETHER THIS NOSTALGIC BALL OF GARMONBOZIA 2011 – Four Tet, Fabriclive 59

JO JUST LOVES HER TELLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN DEADLINES HAVE BEEN LOOMING AND SHE CAN’T HELP BUT INDULGE IN SOMETHING TRASHY. ALAS, HERE ARE HER TOP CHOICES OF RECENT SHOWS TO GET STUCK INTO Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Here’s a treat for all you Tina Fey/30 Rock fans out there! Ellie Kemper of The Office (US) fame shows off her comedic chops in this Netflixproduced television series about a woman rescued from a doomsday cult who has spent her last 15 years in an underground bunker.

With great supporting characters from veteran Jane Krakowski as the snob New York socialite and newcomer Tituss Burgess as Kimmy’s gay singer roommate, this show is equally ridiculously funny and acutely satirical of contemporary society.

The Returned Based on the successful French TV drama Les Revenants (2012), this American remake allegedly (and I say allegedly because I have yet to watch the French original) follows the original narrative direction of the story, but what sparked my interest was Carlton Cuse’s involvement in the project.

For those not familiar with him, Carlton Cuse is one of the executive producers/writers of the widely acclaimed Lost (2004) and I can assure you that whoever was searching for a show similar in vein should look no further!

This is guaranteed to quench your thirst for the character-driven, seemingly mysterious/supernatural stories, at least for those of you who haven’t already watched the original. iZombie I will only say two words: Rob Thomas.

If you’re familiar with the name, then you’ll know he is the creator of one of the most beloved cult TV shows to ever suffer the horrible fate of premature cancellation, but also one that spawned the most successful Kickstarter campaign to date which met its goal of raising 2 million dollars within 10 hours of the start of the campaign and ended up raising more than 5 million dollars in order to fund the TV show-based film.

The name of that TV show is Veronica Mars and, after proving that he has a worthy and loyal fanbase, Rob Thomas has started working on a new project, the comic book-based iZombie.

Its tagline reads “Kicking Ass and Taking Brains” and if you think it’s just like Veronica Mars, but with zombies, then you are very much right!

Community (Season 6) Community is one of those shows that can never really catch a break – between low ratings, the showrunner getting fired (and then rehired) and NBC constantly threatening to cancel it (and eventually doing so), it is a miracle this television show has lived to see a sixth season.

When Yahoo! decided to join the game of on-demand streaming with Yahoo! Screen, it chose to pick up Community and offer it a home worthy of its fans.

A lot of people were sceptical about this move, myself included – is it really worth dragging something excellent on until it becomes an empty shell of what it used to be?

But I’ll tell you what: at its best, the meta-humour, witty references and subversion of television clichés make Community brilliant, and even at its worst, it is better than most TV comedies out there.

Season 6 starts out slow, but quickly becomes as binge-watchable as ever!

One thing became pretty clear to me within the first week or so of my university life: I was going to be going to clubs a lot.

For someone who’s idea of ‘dance music’ was limited almost entirely to Chic, this began as something of a problem.

I grew up in a city almost entirely devoid of the grime and techno that now dominates the Brighton club scene; the closest equivalent I can think of were the numerous trance nights I used to go back in Liverpool, but I don’t think much of a comparison can be made between Armand van Helden and, say, Bok Bok. So when I saw that Four Tet had done what was apparently a garage (wot u call it?) mix, I picked up a copy of those weird metal tans Fabric release everything in and gave it a go.

I don’t think I listened to anything else for the entirety of my first term here.

My love for electronic music really began here, and without this record I wouldn’t have gone to half of the great club nights Brighton has seen over the past few years.

A perfect entry into the often cold, and always fast moving, electronic music scene.

2012 – Frank Ocean, Channel Orange Every single time I got drunk in second year, which was very often, I would throw on Frank Ocean and desperately attempt to hit those high falsetto notes

in ‘Thinkin’ Bout You’.

Obviously, I never hit them – I sounded more like an injured cat attempting to call the vet itself – but I had a lot of fun trying.

2013 – Factory Floor, Factory Floor I had been into Factory Floor for a year or so before coming to university.

They started out as just the kind of Joy Division rip-off that late-teensme adored, full of angst and misery and devoid of anything you could call ‘swagger’.

Slowly, however, it felt like their influences and sound grew with my own.

With each single they put out between 2010 and 2013, their sound grew ever further towards the sounds of the techno that I was hearing in clubs in Brighton.

As I drifted away from angsty guitar records, so did they.

It all culminated when the band finally released their debut album. Gone were the early Factory Records influences, replaced instead by simple but dynamic rhythms and cold, analogue synth sounds. The record is a weird sort-of-but-sort-of-not dance record, sitting somewhere between Carl Craig and mid-80s post-punk bands.

It was a combination of what I loved before coming to uni, and what I discovered I love while here.

Beyond that, it’s also just a really good record.

LOTTIE GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN AND SHARES HER PICKS OF LIVE SHOWS COMING UP OVER THE MONTHS AHEAD

Shopping + Dasinskey4 + Dog Legs - Sat 13th June Riots Not Diets are planning for us a

The beginning of my final year brought about an angst the likes of which I haven’t known since I was 15.

As this has been my first year without a job at university, I’ve been utterly and completely broke.

My workload has increased tenfold, my ability to feign interest in my workload has decreased by around the same amount, and my love for Brighton has wavered while my fondness for my home up North has grown.

What better way to comfort myself than with the deranged ranting of a broke, angry Northern man?

2015 – Girl Band, whatever they call their album We’re a third of the way through this year, and while some records have excited me (especially Viet Cong’s debut, despite that awful name), nothing has me as excited as the recent news that Girl Band have been picked up by Rough Trade.

Girl Band have been a band to watch for some time now, and having followed them for a number of years, I’m hoping that what should be an excellent debut will be the perfect soundtrack to the final days of my university life.

girl’ in September.

It's likely, then, that she'll be taking some new material with her to her Brighton performance.

The Hope and Ruin is the perfect intimate venue to see her in.

Tickets are only £7.70.

Deerhoof - Wed 26th Aug San Francisco-based Deerhoof are known for their prolific output of chaotic pop.

This year they’re on tour in support of their 2014 release, ‘La Isla Bonita’, which showcases their usual swinging between noisy incoherence and whimsical melody.

Considering that their most recent album is only a small release, it’s likely that they’ll play their more famous material from their vast back catalogue, including the interestingly titled ‘Offend Maggie’ and ‘Friend Opportunity’.

They’ll be playing at Patterns (formerly the club venue known as Audio), tickets are a reasonable £13.20.

2014 – Sleaford Mods, Divide and Exit

Cheatahs + No Joy - Wed 20th May Shopping & Cheetos Press summer treat, with another great DIY lineup.

Londoners Shopping have been doing the rounds in Brighton for a couple of years now, and this time they’re back with a new single on Milk Records.

Support is from Brighton-based Dog Legs and queer rockers Dasinskey4.

The event is FREE, but suggested donations are £4.

Jenny Hval - Fri 12th June After her unsettling and intricate work with Susanna on 'Meshes of Voice', it's fair to say this Norwegian songwriter will be unmissable this June.

Now signed to Sacred Bones, she plans to release the album ‘Apocalypse,

Although precariously balanced during end of term, Cheatahs and No Joy are the perfect combo to bring some fun back into your overly scheduled life.

Both bands specialise in noisy indie, perfect for releasing some exam or dissertation stress to.

Supports No Joy are especially worth your time. Tickets are £8 - see them down at The Prince Albert pub.

Evans The Death - Fri 26th June Evans The Death are making a return to Brighton with their new album ‘Expect Delays’.

Recommended for fans of grungy post-punk and guitars that don’t sound like guitars.

As the event is FREE, you don’t have much excuse not to see them.

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13 april 2015 ARTS • 16

LIFESTYLE

Living with housemates: all the things I learned at uni Ciara Sheppard If in ten years someone asks me about my most memorable moments of niversity, I won’t remember the modules I studied, the names of all my tutors or even my grades.

I’ll remember the people I lived with, the good and bad.

My kooky housemate in first year who we’d find in the kitchen performing spells over our washing up, or my housemate in second year with a council visit-worthy love for hip hop, or my current housemate who’s drunken ritual is to come in thinking she’s Heston Blumenthal and make concoctions like ice cream on bread, with no memory of it the next morning upon finding the evidence.

Point being, the people you share a house with have a huge impact on your entire uni experience.

We share everything with them from bills to the toilet seat; they are there when we go to sleep and again when we wake up in the morning.

And with this close proximity and different personalities can come tensions.

It’s pretty much a prerequisite for living with people that aren’t exact clones of you.

These are a few things that I’ve learnt about the art of cohabitation: It’s good to have similar interests. As much as I’m thankful to my first year housemate for all the hilarious anecdotes she’s provided me with over the years, there’s only so much I could find in common with someone who would dress casually in a medieval cloak.

With that in mind we didn’t live to-

Fresh Meat Press gether again.

Instead I chose to live with people who people who I knew were similar to me and had the same interests; the same taste in music, TV and films.

Also, it’s good to choose housemates who you know have similar work to play ratios as you.

After all, no one likes pre-drinking alone if you’re the only one in your house keen on going to that night everyone’s been talking about.

Similarly, you want housemates who will know when it’s time to cool down on the merriment during exam periods and near deadlines.

Communication is key.

Biting your tongue and grinning is

pretty pointless when you’re living in such close quarters.

It’ll get you nowhere and you’ll just end up stewing about something petty for days on end.

So if that person’s three-week-old ricotta cheese that’s stinking out your fridge is driving you to thoughts of axe murder, tell them.

Don’t leave passive aggressive notes about.

I find that there’s something about notes that have an opposing effect.

Maybe it’s the annoying way they’ve gone through the effort to find pen and paper instead of just knocking on your door to tell you.

Or that irritating smiley face they’ve

drawn at the end…

I don’t know, just avoid using them.

If you’re honest and open with your housemates, chances are they’ll take whatever you’re saying on board.

This ties in with the next lesson I’ve learnt…

You’re not always right.

I’m definitely not going to declare that I’ve nailed this one quite yet.

But I am in the process of learning this all-important knack of successful house living: compromise.

What if your housemate approaches you one day and tells you that quite frankly they think you’re taking the p*ss for not doing your washing up and leaving it to everyone else?

Don’t immediately go on the defensive and remind them about that time in December they left that carbonara saucepan out for 48 hours.

Instead, tell them you’ll make an effort to do it from now on (and actually do).

Lastly, if you don’t already, you’ll get to know them really, really, overly, too well.

From their bowel movements to their sex noises, you’ll know it.

You’ll know how they like their tea, for how many hours they’ve been watching Netflix that day or when they’re menstruating (female housemates only).

And all of this isn’t as invasive or ear-coveringly intimate as you might think.

There is a certain endearing closeness that you can only have with people you’ve shared a house with and know so much about.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul: Compulsion to Repeat Anonymous Before coming to university I was told that I would, while here, finally ‘find’ myself.

I wasn’t aware that I was missing, least of all that I had buggered off to Brighton, but apparently I was and I had.

So I came to Brighton not only to come to university, but to search around the city and see I could locate myself.

What I found, probably unsurprisingly, was no great revelation about myself.

I was the same person I had always been, just a little bit different.

I did find one surprising thing about myself, though, and it isn’t a particularly good thing.

I have discovered over the last few years that I am the kind of person that continually, almost routinely, makes the same mistake.

This mistake is an action that I continue to commit, and it is one that hurts me and those around me a great deal.

It’s something I’m ashamed of, something I wish I understood, and

something I really wish I had never done and hope never to do again.

And yet, I’m terrified that I will do it again – all evidence points to the fact I will. I’ve lost friends and relationships over this, as well as a great deal of selfrespect and respect from others.

Is this what I had found, then? Not that I was an alright guy, or a Marxist and a feminist, or a fairly good guitarist, or someone who has a good knowledge of a certain subject—but that I was a bit of a d*ck.

Can one aspect of me really account for my entire identity?

Is this one aspect really the defining thing about me? I like to think not.

Sure, I have done things I’m ashamed of while at university.

I’ve also done a lot of things that I’m proud of.

The difficulty I’m facing now is reconciling both the regrettable and commendable things I’ve learned about myself and coming up with a perception of myself that is balanced.

I don’t want to leave university with the image of myself constructed entirely out of the things I regret.

I know myself better after these few years, having learned both good and bad aspects of myself, and I want to create a clear picture of myself based on all of my experiences.

I didn’t ‘find’ myself at university, but I did get that clearer picture of myself.

Not a negative one, either, despite the revelations of my repeated mistakes.

That particularly negative aspect is something I’m trying to put a positive spin on - my knowledge of its existence means I can go about trying to understand it, and to work on healing whatever kind of wound it may turn out to be.

My mistakes, though perhaps numerous, do not define me.

I can make regrettable decisions, but that doesn’t mean I should come to regret all decisions I have made nor the aspects of myself that I am proud of.

The clearer picture you can find of yourself at university is a balanced one. Its clarity highlights both beauty and imperfection; it hides nothing, but reveals the fullness of all.

Molly’s Recipe of the week Delicious, simple and good value student recipes by Molly French Gerrard.

This week:

Haddock Fishcakes Ingredients For four people: 330 ml milk A sprig of thyme One clove garlic, peeled 500 g haddock fillets 300 g floury potatoes Salt and pepper Lemon zest One large handful watercress leaves Plain flour for dusting Breadcrumbs for coating One egg, beaten Olive oil Method There’s so many different ways to make delicious fishcakes, I often make them with salmon and dill, served with yogurt., but these watercress and haddock fish cakes are a great spring recipe and this makes lots to put in the freezer !

First of all, in a pan, add the milk, thyme and garlic and bring to the boil, over a medium heat. To this mixture, then add the haddock. Lower the heat and simmer for three minutes, then leave to one side. The fish will continue to cook as it cools.

Then, in a separate pan, bring the potatoes to the boil in salted water and cook for about 10 minutes. Drain, Ultimately, such a picture of yourself and adding a splash of the milk, crush can only inspire an honest, complex, roughly. I prefer them not too smooth. and mature understanding of yourself.

This article is both self -indulgent and overly vague, so is more than likely to be a bit of a frustrating read.

I can only apologise, but you have to understand an article like this has to be both vague and self-indulgent.

To reel off my own individual errors would be an act so specific as to remove any possibility of the reader relating to the actual process of committing a shameful act.

I do not want scorn, or pity, but to instead show that yes - we make mistakes.

Sometimes we learn from them, other times we don’t.

But the mistakes don’t define us; they are blocks that we use to construct our identity, but they are only a small handful in a very large set of Lego.

That message, poignant as it be may for the soon-to-graduate, wouldn’t be quite as easily received were it hidden beneath tales of how I keep cheating on women I love, would it?

Now, discard the milk liquid and flake the haddock. Then add it to the crushed potatoes. Gently combine the two together. Add some seasoning, as much as you wish, and the lemon rind and chopped watercress, and mould into fishcakes. Then allow these to sit in the fridge for five minutes.

Place the flour, breadcrumbs and beaten egg mixture separately on three plates. Dip both sides of the fishcakes into the flour, then the egg, and finally the breadcrumbs. This will make them deliciously crispy when they cook.

Finally, heat a little olive oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Cook the fishcakes, turning so both sides are evenly coloured. They should take around five minutes in total.

I either serve the on their own or with yogurt mixed with lemon and chopped up dill. I hope you enjoy these !

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13 april 2015 ARTS • 17

Reviews music Peace

The Haunt

Thursday 26th March William Scharf I was happy and excited when I managed, last minute, to get a ticket for the first of the three Peace gigs at the Haunt.

I had been listening all the previous week to their second and latest album Happy People and I must say that it is a wonderfully crafted indie-pop album, in which the four piece from Worcester confirms that the huge hype that has been surrounding them since they broke out on the scene in 2012, is certainly well founded.

However, upon arriving a little late, I realized I might have been slightly over enthusiastic as I instantly got pushed and crushed into a mosh pit of sweaty exultant teenagers.

I have no problem whatsoever with 14+ gigs, on the contrary.

But this crowd of teenage fauxhipsters, who had been begging

Cat Peace Press

their parents mercilessly for the last month to get exceptionally picked up past their 9pm weeknight curfew so they could indulge in the wildest display of vulgar adulation for a band, was way too much for me to handle.

I felt like the big brother who was supposed to watch over his sibling’s party but until it all got out of hand.

The set consisted predictably mostly of songs from the second album, like the Britpop influenced “Lost On Me” and the funky “World Pleasure”, but we also heard classic crowd-pleasers such as “California Daze” and “Lovesick”.

But musically it was a bit disappointing.

Apart from the very bad acous-

tics of The Haunt, which is in no way the band’s fault, Peace played with their signature nonchalant demeanour which of course made those who were already sold on Peace rejoice but didn’t convince those like me who were already a bit thrown off by the setting and the crowd.

Harisson Koisser’s vocals, which are in my opinion the

backbone to their sound, were sung without much emotion or finesse.

Moreover, as a band which has great inclinations towards comedy, as can be seen from numerous funny videos the band regularly post on their Facebook page, I was expecting them to be a bit more talkative too and engage in some stage banter, but all we got was a “thank you Brighton, we are Peace”.

As I was watching the gig, I couldn’t help myself from thinking I was this arrogant guy who sighs annoyingly every time the mosh pit made me slightly spill my pint.

But in hindsight, I shouldn’t have been such a music-snob because this is what Peace is: fun.

People around me were having fun and loads of it.

That’s what Peace sing about.

UK teenage love and life.

And perhaps this was the best feature of the night, that even though you realize that even if this is definitely not your cup of tea, Peace really has the potential of being one of the biggest bands around.

Too bad I was too distracted and distraught to see them in that light last Thursday.

music

Errors

Green Door Store Tuesday 31st March Tom Jenkinson First things first, let me apologise in advance for the sentimental journey of self-discovery that I am about to take you on.

It’s going to be soppy and incredibly heartfelt, but what we’re dealing with here is a band with which I share a deep personal connection.

Let me cast your minds back to 2008.

Alistair Darling was Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Ting Tings were ruling the charts and Lincolnshire was still shuddering from its biggest ever earthquake (no really).

I was but a weedy 16-year-old, about to embark on a family holiday with an iPod containing nothing but the entire back catalogue of Red Hot Chili Peppers and that album by Fall Out Boy with the tree on it.

To put it politely, my iTunes was in need of a serious facelift.

I asked one of my friends if I could pillage his computer for new music, and one of the records which he generously dumped on

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my memory stick was the debut album from some band called Errors.

Their crunchy synths and syncopated beats instantly stuck in my head, and to this day when I listen to that album, it transports me back to the fond memories I have of that trip.

Fast forward to 2015, and I am now an Adonis of a 22-year-old, with the world at my feet, yet somehow in the seven years that had passed, I hadn’t managed to catch a glimpse of Errors in a live setting.

So as the three Glaswegians and their accompanying songstress took to the stage, I could feel a

palpable sense of anticipation for what was about to unfold.

They opened with the title track of their latest and arguably most accomplished album, Lease Of Life, with its metronomic arpeggios and synth pads building throughout the performance, before moving onto the heavier Magna Encarta.

After that they moved onto one of the standout songs of their latest record, Slow Rotor, exhibiting that they are comfortable bringing lyrics into their musics, when previously they felt more comfortable sticking to the confines of an instrumental band.

It marks a real progression in

the band’s sound, as not only have they incorporated complex vocal harmonies into their set, but their songs seem to have taken on a real sense of sunny positivity which you might not associate with the Glasgow post-electro scene.

Next up came one of the highlights of the night, the unmistakable opening chords of Pleasure Palaces bellowed out into the crowd, toying with the audience as the song slowly elevated itself, before dropping into the viciously catchy chorus to the elation of the whole crowd.

As they effortlessly moved through the likes of Dull Care and

Genuflection, it was clear from the atmosphere within the venue that no one wanted this to end any earlier than was absolutely necessary.

So when Mr Milk came to its conclusion, the bearded Steev Livingstone wasted no time in asking: “Would it be alright if we played a couple more for you”?

Their encore of Tusk and HolusBolus brought 75 minutes of thoroughly enthralling music to an end.

If only 16-year-old me could have been there too, he’d have been amazed at how far they’d come.

I hope everyone’s heart strings are still intact.

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13 APRIL 2015

Careers and Employability• 23

CAREERS & EMPLOYABILITY CENTRE Summer is coming – what you can do to prepare!

Beatriz Lacerda Ratton Student Writer The academic year is shortly coming to an end and with that the thought of what to do over summer.

Whether you are just finishing your first year or at the end of a master’s degree, there are plenty of opportunities still on offer now for summer jobs as well as career opportunities.

The Careers and Employability Centre are also available to help students with any advice or support they need in planning and achieving their future.

First and second years, though relaxing over summer, should also start thinking about what they want to do in their careers. An interesting path to pursue is to get some work experience or work shadowing, both to gain insight into possible careers as well as to build up your CV. Check out the CEC website for opportunities – they are currently advertising 24 vacation internships and 23 summer jobs.

Jobs include a summer internship with investment bank, Heartwood; engineering placements with Wart-

sila; and a marketing role with Responsible Travel in Brighton. Also check out other jobsites at www. sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/jobsites.

Second years should also be aware that many large graduate employers start recruiting in the autumn term for the following summer (ie nearly a year in advance), so starting to think about career paths now is advised. (eg the Civil Service open their recruitment in early September and many advertising agencies have deadlines during the Autumn Term!)

Final year and masters students who’ve not yet got plans for after Sussex, shouldn’t panic, there are still lots of opportunities on offer.

Whether you are looking for casual or serious work, there are over 201 graduate jobs currently on the Sussex CEC website.

Have a look at this and also check out other graduate jobs sites, such as Milkround, TargetJobs (see www. sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/jobsites).

For finalists, there is also the opportunity to stay on at Sussex and study for a master’s degree and there are generous scholarships (of up to £10,000) available to those start-

ing their study in Autumn 2015.

For more information on this, visit http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/ money/scholarships/pgt2015/ view/399 Also, don’t miss CEC’s “Love Your Life” after Sussex series of events, which will take place from 1 – 3 June 2015 and will be aimed specifically at helping finalists and masters students plan their life after University (although open to all).

The programme will include a workshop delivered by Bianca Miller, the Apprentice Finalist and Sussex graduates, sessions on CVs and application forms; and a small “Meet the Employers” recruitment fair. Full details will follow soon!

If you need help deciding what the best career for you is, looking at what you can do with your degree, what others on your course have done and how your interests and motivations match different careers.

The CEC website has many resources which can help you develop these ideas and make career decisions, including interactive questionnaires which assess your career strengths and personality as well

as abilities. This will lead to a wide range of jobs which might suit you.

In addition, why not just have a look at the opportunities on offer to get inspiration and ideas – you never know you may come across your “ideal job”!

Outside of Sussex, there are many summer recruitment fairs around the UK, often open to all graduates, as well as the London Graduate Fair on 17 June. For more information on these events, visit • http://www.prospects.ac.uk/events. htm • http://www.londongradfair.co.uk/ If you want to discuss your career options, your applications, your CV, an imminent interview or any other career related issue, then appointments are available in CEC daily for 20 minutes with a Careers Adviser.

•http://www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/ aboutus/advice

ticularly relevant to Life Science.and BMEc Students. Monday 13 April, 12 pm How to get a Career in Journalism, Hear from Paula O’Shea, ex-BBC and ITN News reporter and producer who will tell you what it’s like to be a journalist, what’s on offer, what skills you need and how you can become at journalist. Tuesday 14 April, 1 pm..

Gradcracker Drop in – find out about opportunities on offer for Science, Engineering, IT and Maths students – including placements, vacation internships and graduate jobs. Wednesday 22 April, 11.30 – 1 pm, Drop in, Library Cafe.

Full details and sign up at https:// careerhub.sussex.ac.uk/students/ events/search

Events coming up in the Careers & Employability Centre, Library: Recruitment 100 of the Best Management graduates – could you be one of them? Event with top graduate employer, Rentokil. Open to all but par-

Library, University of Sussex T: 01273 678429 E: careers@sussex.ac.uk W: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers