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Sussex student sexually assaulted on campus POLICE AND THE UNIVERSITY CALL FOR WITNESSES AS THEY HUNT FOR THE ATTACKER

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Trigger warning: sexual voilence The sexual assault of a 20-year-old University of Sussex student on Falmer campus has been reported to the authorities.

The student was raped by a man who followed her into her room, after she had been outside her halls with friends in the early hours of 20 September.

The attacker has been described as black or mixed race with Afrostyle hair, between 5’9 and 5’11, aged 19 or 20, and speaking in “broken English”.

He was wearing dark clothing, and had a moustache and long fingernails. It is not known whether or not he is a student at Sussex University.

The victim reported the attack to the medical staff at the University, and Sussex Police were contacted on 24 September. Officers have spent the last week searching for the offender, speaking to students, and reviewing CCTV footage.

Detective Sergeant Simon Dunn has stated: “The victim is understandably very shaken by what has happened.

“We urgently need to trace the man involved and to speak to anyone who was on Falmer campus late on Friday night or early on Saturday morning (19-20 September).

“If you know the man involved or recognise the description of him, please contact us”.

NUS and the Welfare Officer at the Students’ Union have recently launched the ‘I Heart Consent’ campaign which aims to tackle and educate Sussex students on the myths, misunderstandings, and problematic perspectives about rape, sexual consent, and sexual harassment.

Rianna Gargiulo, the Students’ Union Welfare Officer commented: “I was of course devastated to hear this news, and my heart goes out to

Sophie Jones the victim of this horrific attack.

“In the aftermath of the incident, I hope that our students will continue to channel their disgust and disbelief into promoting a positive sexual dialogue, which I hope can be achieved as we continue working on our I Heart Consent campaign.

“I will continue to ensure that sexual assault is dealt with seriously by the University, and will support the introduction of mandatory consent workshops, as Oxbridge have done, if students feel that sexual consent training is a necessity for all members of the University community.”

“I would also urge any students

who may have information related to the incident to contact the police urgently and help find the attacker.”

A University spokesperson has said: “Our first thoughts are with the woman who was attacked. We are appealing to anyone with information to share it with the police.”

“We are doing all we can to support the police, including making available all CCTV footage and contacting students who are resident on campus to appeal for information”.

Elin Edstrom, a student at the University of Sussex has com-

mented: “It’s appalling that such a horrendous incident has happened on campus. There should be more lights around the halls of residence, and better security when getting into campus.

“I hope that the University will do all that they can to prevent anything like this from happening again, and that it is made sure that the victim and other students living on campus can feel safe in their accommodation once again.” The Students’ Union is currently lobbying for improvements in campus facilities.

Anyone who has information

should email 101@sussex.pnn. police.uk quoting serial 993 of 24/09, call 101 or contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

Students affected by this incident can seek support from the Student Life Centre: www.sussex.ac.uk/studentlifecentre, or the University’s free and confidential Counselling Services: www.sussex.ac.uk/counselling.

More information about the ‘I Heart Consent’ campaign can be found on the website: www.sussexstudent.com/campaigns, or on www. facebook.com/iheartconsentsussex.

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Hockey Team investigated Head of MPS requests separate ceremonies for sexist chanting at bar Jack Williams News Editor

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The Union is currently undertaking an investigation of an incident involving the Sussex Men’s Hockey Team, which took place at Falmer Bar on the evening of Wednesday 24 September.

It has been reported by those in Falmer back bar that the night was disrupted by the behaviour of the Men’s Hockey Team.

An onlooker at the bar stated that members of the Hockey Society were directing the chant: “Sit down, shut up, go and do the washing up, you b****es”, to members of the Women’s Rugby Team.

James Malyon, the Men’s Hockey President, stated that the chant was something “sung in jest”, and that other women’s sport societies have “sexist songs towards men”.

The onlooker, who wished to remain anoynamous, commented: “I understand that the chant I heard was probably in good humour, and was taken as such by those who 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”.

Michael Segalov, Students’ Union Communications officer, confirmed that the Union would be carrying out

Global Studies and MPS students may be barred from sharing the same graduation ceremony after this year, following discussions between the University and a head of school.

University of Sussex Vice Chancellor Michael Farthing and Andrea Cornwall, head of School for Global Studies, have been in talks since September to discuss the setup of future graduations.

The talks resulted from an e-mail sent by Professor Peter Coles, Head of the school of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, to the University in July, requesting that his students never be required to share a graduation cer-

Shima Jsmal Kamali an investigation into the incident.

He said: “There is no space for sexism on our campus, in our community, or society. We are currently undertaking an investigation into the incident, and will take action accordingly. If there is

emony with Global Studies following the heckling of the Vice-Chancellor at the summer graduation ceremony.

The graduation ceremony on the 10 July saw many of the Global Studies graduands attempt to hand Michael Farthing yellow squares, the symbol of the Sussex anti-privatisation movement, and according Professor Cole, a few in the audience swore and made “obscene gestures” to the procession as they left at the end of the ceremony.

Professor Cole told The Badger that after fielding comments from several members of MPS staff after the ceremony, he also contacted the Head of Global Studies to express his concern at the actions of some of her graduands.

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any doubt, I wish to make it clear to all our members; sexism, racism, homophobia or any form of discrimination will not be tolerated. It’s not banter, and it’s not okay.“

It’s The Badger wot fixed it

Jack Williams News Editor

The Station Manager of URF has praised The Badger for the role it played in galvanizing Sussex Estates to redress the lack of security measures in the Falmer House Studio.

Last week, The Badger reported that despite six months of persistent requests from URF, Sussex Estates and Facilities at first neglected to assist the student media outlet and when they did arrive to help, they ultimately fitted new locks to the wrong door.

However, the day after The Badger was sent to print, Sussex Estates employees arrived at the studio to fit a new lock and provide three sets of keys, one for each member of the URF executive team.

This development now means that URF can store over £3,000 worth of new equipment in its new studio, which opened in February this year, including upgraded headphones and microphones.

Nick Werren, who has held the position of URF Station Manager since his first year, told The Badger that is was mainly due to the newspaper’s initial reporting of Sussex Estates’ error and inaction that led to the situation being rectified, commenting that it has enabled the radio station to “move in the right direction”.

He said: “Apparently on the night of the printing of The Badger, estates turned up to the URF studio and fixed the lock situation for us, providing us three keys for each exec member, which sorted out the entire situation.

“Even though we want a better lock system, it does mean that now we can store the equipment that we need inside

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“This all has happened thanks to The Badger and student media working together”.

Mr Werren said that he was not notified by Sussex Estates that they would be arriving on the say, stating: “They [Sussex Estates] appeared, gave us the keys, then disappeared again.

“There is still some work to do on their part, but its a massive improvement, especially after six months of inactivity.

“People cannot say that it was a sheer coincidence. As soon as The Badger contacted them, Estates just appeared randomly and fixed the situation to the best of their ability. It was definitely due to The

Badger that this was made possible and I thank [them] for it. It means that URF can finally move in the right direction”.

Paul Millar, Students’ Union Media Development Officer, who wrote last weeks story in The Badger, stated: “I was surprised that I received so many phone calls from senior figures at the University when I revealed the story went to press.

“I think Estates flinched when threatened by negative publicity “I think it shows the power of The Badger, and I’m very proud of the impact of the story, and how it influenced the University to act with the sense of urgency.”

Business Secretary Vince Cable has warned that George Osbourne may increase tuition fees to £15,000 if the Conservatives win the general election in May 2015.

At the Liberal Democrat party conference last week, Cable explained he would be “very reluctant” to support another rise in fees, saying that the current earnings threshold of £21,000 for repayment could be reduced if the plans went ahead.

At the conference, Cable also said that his coalition colleagues had been worried about a rise in estimated loan write-offs, known as resource accounting and budgeting (RAB).

Cable said of the issue: “As Keynes said, in the long term we are all dead and the world could change in ways we can’t predict.

“The reason why the RAB charge seems to be higher than we made our estimates three to four years ago is that we have been through a terrible recession.

“This has led to expectations of some graduate salaries being somewhat deflated and therefore the predictions are less, but if you got a period of sustained recovery, the RAB charge would suddenly fall because the predictions would change.”

However, he said is not losing any sleep over rising rates of student loan

non-repayment in England, explaining “these losses crystallise in 30 to 40 years’ time” and that repayment rates would recover as the economy grows. He added: “If you are terribly fastidious about accounting then the fact that the default rate is now estimated to be higher than it was when we introduced the scheme is something [that worries some people].

“But I think in the real world, I don’t think it actually affects things.”

Labour announced plans to reduce fees for higher education to £6,000 a year in March, arguing a reduced bill for repayment would result in less unpaid debt.

However, it is unclear whether this will become a manifesto pledge and several university vice-chancellors have claimed this would result in a £1.7 million cut in university funding.

Around 45% of graduates will not earn enough to repay their student loans, according to the government.

Expects have said that if this figure reaches 48.6%, the government will lose more money than it gained by increasing fees to £9,000 in England.

The increase of tuition fees in 2010 from £3,000 to £9,000 caused widespread anger amongst students, with a series of protests, organised by NUS and UCU taking place in central London in 2010, the year that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came to power.

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Crisis over ISIS: a University of Sussex perspective Jagrati Agarwal Alan Henning, a 47 year old taxi driver turned aid worker from Manchester, was executed, in a YouTube video, released on 3 October, by the militant group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).

The video was released soon after British fighter planes launched their first airstrikes against the extremist organisation in Iraq, following the approval of the UK Parliament on 26 September.

In the video, ISIS also identified its fifth hostage, Peter Kassig from the United States, who has been threatened with the same outcome.

Last month, the British Parliament voted 524 to 43 to carry out airstrikes against ISIS jihadists, who have seized several territories along the border of Syria and Iraq.

Students at the University of Sussex have reacted strongly towards this ongoing political emergency.

The Sussex Model United Nations (MUN), dedicated two weekly discussions to the crisis in Iraq, offering a range of ideas and solutions in combating the militant group.

George Mullens, President of

Sussex MUN, stated that the video released by ISIS reflects the fundamental nature of the militant group.

Mullens reiterated that: “they are seeking attention by spreading violence, disrespecting human rights and crucifying innocent civilians.”

He added that he is against watching the video as it encourages them to kill more people, and that launching airstrikes against ISIS is not only justified, but also in the need of the hour.

Mohammed Hasan, Communications Officer at Sussex MUN, put forward an intriguing argument, saying: “Western intervention in 2003 planted seeds for this ongoing problem in Iraq, which is now being justified by military intervention.”

Hasan believes that military airstrikes are principally wrong as they result in more civilian deaths and cause more distress.

He said: “We need to rather support the military in facilitating humanitarian causes, safeguarding civilians and protecting infrastructure.”

Laharee Chatterjee, an International Security Masters student, expressed similar views, saying: “The

sufferings of innocent civilians in Iraq is a repercussion to the American invasion in 2003.

“The supposed role of ‘big brother’ - played by America - needs to be reviewed as they lack an understanding of internal ethnic conflicts within Iraq.”

According to reports, the British army has joined a US-led military campaign against ISIS. Reports also suggest that the United States has already conducted several airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since the beginning of its campaign against ISIS. The Badger also spoke with a lecturer of International Relations at the School of Global Studies, Zdenek Kavan, to get his take on the developments in the Middle East.

He said: “International intervention is a precondition which could be justified as the international law justifies the right to self-defence.

“The international intervention proclaims to end something like that of genocide.”

Mixed reactions gathered across the campus reflect the progressive thinking patterns among all those surveyed.

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Eat Central ditches Sussex rise in ‘THE’ league table Halal chicken option George Leith

Pete Humphreys Digital Sub-Editor

A student has been told that Eat Central in Bramber House will no longer be serving Halal chicken.

This comes despite claims by the University of Sussex that the outsourcing of catering responsibilities would benefit “those with particular cultural or religious dietary needs.”

Sussex student Omar Sabbour wrote: “in fact it seems that not only have they failed to increase those choices, they’ve actually decreased.

“Loads of Muslim students will now be prevented from eating such food.”

Catering has been run by The Compass Group, the world’s largest catering company, since September 2013.

The outsourcing of catering and estates services at the University incited widespread protest across campus, including the occupation of Bramber House on three occasions in the past two years.

Meals and snacks containing ha-

lal chicken are still available at the Student Union Shop, Falmer Bar and East Slope Bar. Halal food adheres to Islamic law, as defined in the Koran. The Halal form of slaughtering involves killing through a cut to the jugular vein, cartoid artery and windpipe.

Animals must be healthy at the time of slaughter and all blood is drained from the carcass.

A dedication, known as a ‘tasmiya’ or ‘shahada’, is recited during the process.

Adherence to halal principles is monitored by a non-profit organisation, known as the Halal Food Authority (HFA).

In a statement, Chartwells said: “We only serve halal meat at Sussex University in response to specific client requests - for example at a particular event - and it would be labelled accordingly. All halal meat we serve is stunned before slaughter in line with our animal welfare standards.”

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The University of Sussex reversed its downward trend of recent years by moving up to 111th place in the Times Higher Education world University rankings.

The results of the 2014-2015 instalment of the league tables means that the University is now ranked as the 14th best in the UK. The University’s position this year is the 10 place improvement on its position in the previous year, where it was ranked 121st.

The study, conducted by the London based Times Higher Education magazine, focuses its assessment of universities on “core missions” of “teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.”

With the University’s extensive connections to universities around the world, particularly in North America, Sussex scored highly in international outlook segment of the study.

The rankings place the University above highly respected Russell Group institutions in the UK, such as Nottingham, Exeter, Leeds and Cardiff.

The University has steadily descended down the table in the previous five years. Since the 2010 study, where Sussex ranked 79th in the world, the university has dropped on average 10 places a year in the global league table.

In response to this year’s improvement, Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing said on the University’s website: “It is good to see Sussex recognised once again as one of the very top institutions in the UK and the world.”

However, the University’s decline in various league tables in recent years had not gone unnoticed by the public

and press.

The Guardian’s Universities Guide 2014 sparked a flurry of articles last summer when it placed Sussex 50th in the UK, with many citing the University’s employability rates as a reason for the slump.

Students have also been aware of this trend. Second year English and History student, Harry Reddick, said: “It was of course disconcerting when I began studying here, that the University had fallen significantly in the league tables, having previously been in a more respectable position. It made me wonder whether I had made the right choice.

“The recent rises, not just in the ‘THE’ league tables, but in the other leagues tables as well are encouraging.”

The climb back up one of the most respected higher education ranking lists in the world presents a cause for relief and encouragement for university management as well as students in lieu of the recent bad press.

Abraham Baldry, President of the Students’ Union, said: “The Students’ Union welcomes this rise in the Times Higher Education World Rankings.

“The Students’ Union and the Student Reps have done some great work this year to improve teaching and learning at Sussex.

“We’re looking forward to working with the university to improve student experience as a whole and hope to see a similar increase in the years to come.”

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LSE men’s rugby team Brighton and Hove 9th worst disbanded and shamed for recycling in South East Deborah Batchelor Editor-in-Chief The London School of Economics has decided to take action and finally disband it’s men’s rugby team following an ongoing behaviour issue. Nona Buckley-Irvine, the LSE Students’ Union president, explained that they had brought to light a “negative culture within the club that has existed for years”.

Buckley-Irvine stated that not only have the team been involved in ‘Nazithemed drinking games’, which lead to the nose of a Jewish student being broken, but also caused significant damage to LSE property.

In addition to these already unacceptable acts, the men’s rugby club refused to tone down their actions and instead distributed a homophobic and misogynistic leaflet to prospective members.

This would surely set the tone for such deplorable acts to continue, showing no regret for their behaviour, nor an understanding of how to appropriately conduct themselves as a university sports team.

Therefore, their disbanding comes as no surprise to those following the case. It brings to light the question of a ‘lad culture’ at burning at the heart of some university sports.

These actions have not gone unnoticed by the University of Sussex Men’s rugby team who offered the following comment: ‘The University of Sussex Men’s rugby team is deeply disheartened to hear about the events surrounding LSE men’s rugby team.

This not only tarnishes the reputation of LSE men’s rugby but of all men’s

rugby teams.

“We have taken several steps this year in an attempt to actively improve the tarnished reputation of both our university rugby team and all men’s teams. These include: Becoming trained ‘I heart Consent workshop’ facilitators. Continuing to support various charities including, GALOP an LGBTQ anti-hate crime charity.

Running Good Lad workshops for all male sports teams throughout the year. Collaborating and developing strong links with the University of Sussex Women’s team, the Student’s Union and our activity officer Lyndsay Burtonshaw.

“We hope that the current year ban serves as adequate time for LSE rugby to re-evaluate the attitudes that may exist within their club and they come back better for it next year.”

When contacted for a comment, Lyndsay Burtonshaw, Students’ Union Activities Officer said “I’ve been working with our sports teams since the start of the year to wipe sexism and all discrimination out of our Union. I welcome the response from the Sussex rugby team, and hope other clubs follow suit. As with LSE, Sussex will not tolerate this behaviour.”

Furthermore, Michael Segalov, Communications Officer said: “Whilst we welcome this response from the Sussex rugby club, we need to continue to fight sexism at every level of our institution. Too often I’m sat in rooms within the university surrounded only by men, and the Officer Team is dedicated to combatting this.”

One would hope that this is the last we hear of sports teams being disbanded for such intolerable reasons.

Initial success for student safety bus Flikr: catrinaustin Rosie Dodds News Sub-Editor With funding from the Brighton & Hove Clinical Commissioning Group, a pilot bus scheme has been put in place to help vulnerable students from the Universities of Sussex and Brighton safely back to their halls of residence between the hours of midnight and 4am.

The safety bus was running on the nights of the 28 September, 29 September, 1 October, 2 October, 5 October, 8 October, and 12 October, aiming to reduce the levels of night time admission to A & E, and aiding intoxicated students who have been refused services by a taxi.

The Big Lemon bus has waited outside Pryzm on West Street for stu-

dents to board free of charge, and has dropped students both at the front of Sussex campus next to the zebra crossing, and at the back of campus next to the roundabout.

Not only have Wellbeing Volunteers been on board, but the Security Team at the University of Sussex have also been on call to escort any unaccompanied student back to their room on request.

A Sussex student commented: “We lost one of our housemates on a night out in the second week. He had had too much to drink, and had left his wallet and phone in my bag, so obviously we were very worried. But when we got back to campus after looking for him, he was already in his room after having got the Safety Bus, so it has definitely been helpful for students in need”.

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Newly published data indicates that Brighton and Hove has one of the lowest rates of recycling in the South East.

SITA UK, a recycling and resource management company, has recently created and published an interactive map indicating county recycling efficiency across the South East of England. Each county is ranked based upon the percentage of household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting from data published by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in 2012-2013.

The data shows that Brighton and Hove is the fourth worst at recycling in the South East managing to recycle only 26.8 percent of household waste. However, this percentage was somewhat better than Ashford Borough Council who were the worst at recycling at only 11.9 percent of recycled household goods.

Chief Executive Officer of SITA UK, David Palmer-Jones said: “One of the findings from The Urbin Issue was that householders had little understanding of the national picture, or their own authority’s recycling performance relative to others – which contributed to them feeling disengaged and unmotivated to recycle.

“If we are going to improve recycling rates, our industry needs to engage the householders that play such a vital role in the process and providing quality, accessible information is the first step in that process”.

This newly published data coincides with the adoption by the Sussex Stu-

Flikr: monkeygrimace The Argus dents’ Union of a new Ethical and Environmental Policy which commits the Students’ Union to “being ethically minded and reducing the negative and increasing the positive impact our organisation has on the environment”.

Sussex University itself is currently placed at number 63 in the country in terms of universities’ sustainability and recycling by the People and Planet’s Green League 2013.

In response to this data, a spokesperson from the Sussex Waste Society, a society which works to improve the waste and recycling practices and policies at the University as well as the Students’ Union, said: “We do think recycling is not very good at Sussex Uni. There are not enough facilities and people are not encouraged to recycle”.

In a survey conducted amongst students by the Sussex Waste Society almost 50 percent of participants said that

they do less recycling now than they did before. This was mainly due to the fact that there is a lot of confusion as to the recycling possibilities in Brighton and on campus as well as there not being enough incentive to recycle in the first place.

In the same survey around 82 percent of students claimed that recycling was a very important issue to them and yet only 28 percent were either very or fairly satisfied with Sussex University’s current system of recycling. The lack of food recycling was also a major issue raised by students.

When asked about the impact of this survey, the head of the Sussex Waste Society said: “We e-mailed the council asking why they (as a Green Party Council) don’t have food recycling in Brighton. The answer was that it is not feasable because it costs quite a lot to set up and they think people wouldn’t use it enough”.

Sussex economist wins prize

Jack Williams & Zoe Halsë News Editor & News Sub-Editor A leading economics academic at the University of Sussex has won the New Statesman’s inaugural SPERI prize in political economy.

Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in Economic innovation at the University’s Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), was awarded the prize on 6 October as a result of her theories on how the public sector can foster innovation in an effective way.

The award will be presented biannually by the New Statesman Magazine and the Sheffield Political Economy research institute to the economic scholar who can forge the most critical and orginal ideas in political economic thought and successfully convey it to a wider public audience over the course of the previous two years.

Upon receiving the prize, Mariana Mazzucato commented: “I am honoured and delighted to receive the New Statesman SPERI prize, especially given the high calibre of the shortlist. I hope it will help focus attention on the urgent need to tackle rising inequality. This is not just about tax: we need to fundamentally rethink how we talk about wealth creation.

“Ignoring the key role of the state – or the tax payer – in wealth creation has, in my view, been a lead cause of inequality, allowing some hyped-up actors to reap a rate of return way beyond their actual contribution. My Prize Lecture will fo-

The New Statesman cus on this dysfunctional dynamic – and what to do about it.”

A key Factor in Proffesor Mazzucato’s success was her 2013 book, ‘The Entrepreneurial State’, where she showed ways in which the public sector’s innovation capacity could equal that of the private sector.

Mazzucato’s competition in the Prize shortlist consisted of five other nominees, all considered world-class thinkers in the political economic field. These included Ha-Joon Chang, a reader at University of Cambridge, who authored ‘23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism’, as well as the author of ‘Capital in the 21st century’ Thomas Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics.

Some of the names on the judging panel presiding over the event included Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman, George Eaton, the New

Statesman’s Political Editor, and Gavin Kelly, Chief Executive on the Resolution Foundation.

The jury of the Prize articulated that Mariana “ is an accomplished broadcaster and writer, and her 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State contained a wealth of examples showing how the state – not just the private sector – could foster innovation. The judges praised the originality of her thinking, her willingness to challenge the conventional wisdom and her capacity to take her arguments forward with gusto.”

Additionally, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman highlighted that: “Mariana Mazzucato is one of the most engaging and interesting thinkers currently working in the field of political economy. Her work on the entrepreneurial state and smart growth is required reading for anyone working in economic policy-making.”

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The pain of separation

LETTERS • 7 the length of distance can only be mastered by the ones who were meant for it. LDRs can work with persistence and end goals in mind. Be mindful, be encouraging and just be kind. Thanks.

Dear Badger, I’m an Australian in England (like so many before me) and wish to acknowledge all other Aussie students here at Sussex. It’s a wonderful thing to be on student exchange; meeting new people is certainly the best part - there’s nothing like making familiar ties to something in a foreign environment.

But I wish to say something to new students making those ties: no doubt some of you will fall in love with your fellow classmates and, bearing this in mind, it could lead to a romance that goes beyond the borders of campus - into the realm of an eventual, dreaded, long-distance relationship.

Anyone who has experienced a longdistance relationship will understand the turmoil, anguish and the constant grief known to one who must be separated from their partner. It happens to us Aussies all the time; we travel to Europe often, we make friends, we make lasting connections with people and are old enough to fall in love.

I chose Sussex as my university for exchange because of it’s reputation; it’s a beautiful campus, a great atmosphere and it’s close to Brighton; I’m revelling in the academic and social delights that Sussex brings. But I would be lying if I didn’t say that it also was because of my English partner, Toby.

I met Toby at a party in North London two years ago, while I was visiting friends in London. I was taken with him instantly. We became very close very quickly, and have visited each other’s countries now three times each.

There was a lot of skepticism: “but you’ve only actually been in each other’s company for _ weeks! How do you know you’re right for each other?” is the one I’ve heard the most.

Another cracker is “are you with him because you can’t find a boyfriend here in Australia?”, as if we’re doing this out of boredom or desperation- as if I would choose this route.

People are incredibly judgemental about it. They don’t realise that those in LDRs wouldn’t wish the pain of separation on their worst enemies.

We didn’t listen to them; Skype has been a godsend for the meantime, but of course nothing beats actually being together. Saying goodbye to my family was heart-wrenching and, while I’ve been here for four months already, it’s still painful to think about.

But the happiness I feel with Toby does outweigh the pain. Thanks to Student Exchange, I can be with him for a considerable amount of time.

Badger readers, if you know of someone in a long-distance relationship, I beg you; please be kind. The world is getting smaller and LDRs are occurring all the time. Of course, most LDRs don’t last - the pain of separation and

Rachael Crouch

A letter of clichés Dear Badger, ‘Tonight for pre-drinks I will only have half the bottle wine. Tonight I will not get any drinks inside; tonight I will not make the regretful decision to chain smoke; and most importantly, tonight I will conserve the little dignity I have left.’

This is the ‘speech’ that I give myself prior to going out with my house mates.

When I say these words out loud, to myself and of course to all my friends I am utterly convinced of my words (somehow voicing it out in front of witnesses gives my speech more validity).

However, sadly, the next day I find myself on the couch, in agony, basically crying to my girlfriends and asking questions like: ‘why did you let me drink the whole bottle of wine before leaving the house?’ ‘why do I not remember getting a jagerbomb and a tequila shot inside?’ ‘why does my throat feel like Santa’s chimney sweep and why am I in a photo with that random group of people that I do not even know?’ Why!?

Well drinking a whole bottle of wine probably didn’t help. And this is affirmed in the simple, straight forward answer my housemates tell me: ‘Because you drank too much.’ The answer I tell myself? ‘Because you have no self-control and I hate you.’

I know ALL (most) of you know this feeling; this deep feeling of regret. Of course some regret it more than others do. I am definitely one who regrets it more. I end up waking up with a ‘kill me now’ headache and a brain and body capable of doing absolutely nothing. I am not even exaggerating-well, maybe a little.

I can get up from bed and drag myself to the sofa, pull out my laptop and order just eat. And actually when I do manage to do that, I kind of feel proud of myself, in some twisted way. But I want to change that. I have to change that. I am in my third year now and as cliché as it sounds: it’s time to buckle down. And even more cliché; that bird has flown.

Maybe it is time to leave any traces of first and second year behind and start anew. Instead, perhaps I shall try and enjoy the finer and ‘safer’ things in life; a stroll on the beach, a one cocktail limit with the girls, a dinner out and a film, the possibilities are endless.

But who am I kidding? Of course two months down the line when the papers and presentations start to slowly devour me, I will be frantic for just one night out, accompanied by a dance

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floor of pounding retro beats and maybe a maximum of a shot, or two, let’s face it three (we all know what happens at four). So maybe, (and pardon my final cliché), just maybe, the key here is… balance.

Jemada Reygadas

Mr and Mrs Phil Mitchell Dear Badger, On Thursday night last week, I found myself watching EastEnders. Maybe I was subconsciously homesick – it had been a while since I’d watched a soap opera. And as first scenes go, I’d tuned back in at the opportune moment. There was Shirley Carter, shaking like a leaf at the upstairs window of the Queen Vic, pointing a pistol at a married couple. In the market, a crowd gathers around newlyweds Phil and Sharon, who have returned to the square.

Walford hardman Phil, asks the well-wishers to put their hands together to “Mr and Mrs Phil Mitchell” before leaning in to Sharon to whisper in his oh-so gruff voice of his: “Welcome to the family”. This is a man who only recently paid some big blokes to “scare” his fiancé because she was “getting too big for her boots” by running The Albert.

These blokes Phil paid ended up doing more than scaring her, leaving her badly hurt. Despite this, Sharon – portrayed as pathetic by the scriptwriters and continually mocked as “weak” by other stronger characters forgave Phil, and married him anyway.

These days Phil is revered by most on the Square, especially the youngsters. Not one character was taken aback by his public display of sexism.

Perhaps scriptwriters would argue that he did get his comeuppance, being (accidentally) shot (again!) in the heart in a totally barmy scene which saw Sharon smearing her dress and the rest of Phil in so much blood that by the time the ambulance arrived I’m surprised the paramedics didn’t mistake the pair of them for two giant tomatoes.

But the indestructible Phil survives, of course. In the Sussex bubble, where television is absent, we perhaps forget how sexist behaviour is promoted on mainstream television in a way that doesn’t reflect real life.

It’s conditioning young people into a way of family life which is thankfully looked down upon in 2014, and behaving in a controlling way towards their romantic partners, male or female. Watching EastEnders last Thursday, along with over seven million others, it reminded me that 2014 isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be.

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On Facebook, I see old school friends who’ve opted for an early family life; posting up pictures of their dinner on Facebook and awarding “top marks” to their girlfriend for making it for them. We at Sussex too often delude ourselves into thinking this kind of thing doesn’t happen anymore. But it does – in real life with young working class men and on our television screens with fictional old men whom these young working class men look up to.

I don’t want Phil to die, he’s a reminder of what the powerful, patriarchal feudal lord of the Middle Ages to Victorian Britain was like, and how much nicer people (generally) are now. Plus, his bulldog charm raises more than the odd laugh, especially when he walks into a pub that isn’t his and barks: “Out!” at the punters for no apparent reason.

But having him actually glorified as a hard man and sex object for the ladies of Albert Square, as he has been for the last twenty years does make me quite uncomfortable.

Especially when the BBC – the state broadcaster a great many of us support financially - describes one of their most popular programmes as a modern mirror of society, one that explores realistic “tensions between love and family, “hard-hitting social issues” and “personal, human tragedies”, when that isn’t always the case.

Paul Millar

Tinder woes Dear Badger, Someone who I ‘matched’ with on Tinder is two spaces in front of me in the co-op. I’ve already seen three others round campus who I happened to stumble upon on Tinder. There’s the awkward ‘do I acknowledge this because we’re adults and it’s a funny situation’. Or the ‘actually I’d rather concentrate on the gorgeous grey CoOp floor’. It’s a bizarre situation to be in: you’ve met this person online, but not in real life.

Tinder is weird; you feel like you’re on a game show, trying as quickly as possible to make a decision. Only instead of ‘what prehistoric dinosaur originated from Mongolia?’ it’s ‘is this someone who could be a mating partner?’ It’s a weird culture, and I don’t like it, but here are some Tinder observations: 1) Accidentally liking someone who you definitely do not like. 2) Getting so caught up in the fast paced decision process: no, yes, no, no, hell no, yes, hmm no – damn. 3) Feeling embarrassed that ‘hey’ is the best line you can come up with. 4) The ‘shared interests’ part - this I find very odd. You can find your natural soul mate who likes all the underground cult music (which ironically is now a Facebook page) that you

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like. Or there’s the person who reminds you of your sixteen year old self, where you’ve both liked ‘Waterloo Road’.

5) Elusive photos, where each photo has more than three people in, and you essentially play ‘where’s Wally’ trying to work out who ‘Tom’ is. These people cannot be trusted. Weirder are the scary non-smiling selfies which look like the poster to an up-coming horror film. 6) The people who you indirectly know: the girl who never speaks in a seminar; the boy who wears a beanie hat in lectures; the lecturer (it’s happened). 7) The person who you actually genuinely like and you wish you could just meet them normally, because relationships don’t start on Tinder.

8) Someone from your school who you now realise must be at your university. 9) The hipster who has resorted to a mainstream app; all their photos are in black and white and they usually are wearing TopMan sun glasses. And 10) The awkward moment when you’ve gone through everyone, and no one’s left for you to oggle at.

It’s all a stupid game; which basically sexualises everyone, and encourages the most basic human instinct.

But, like a jar of Nutella, you keep going back for more and more.

Theo Haines

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OCD... an unwanted compulsion

An anonymous writer details their personal life with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, its preconceptions and its reality.

Anonymous Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It’s become a cliché term for a harrowing issue.

OCD is a form of mental illness, and like many mental illnesses, there comes a stigma attached. Most think of it simply as having to have neatly arranged shelves, meticulously sorted cupboards and clothes drawers. Or even making sure your hands are ‘clean’.

I’ve once heard a friend tell me that they are “a bit OCD like that” and that their “OCD [was] kicking in” when they put away their food shopping in front of me.

I didn’t respond, winced to myself and instead continued to make myself a cup of tea. Of course, they don’t know about my illness, and I guess that’s part of the problem.

Speaking from personal experience, it’s not something I love to share about myself (hence the anonymity) because of the absurd and blasé attitudes towards it.

I know I shouldn’t, but I feel embarrassed to think I suffer from OCD. I feel as if I suffer alone and that nobody really understands it.

A fear of mine is close friends finding out about my problems, which is in itself an ‘obsession’ that I will soon describe. I am haunted by a fear that they will mock me and that I will never again be taken seriously.

OCD is only partly what I’ve illustrated, it’s a lot deeper and more complex.

Firstly, most of us have intrusive thoughts that make us worry excessively about a loved one, or even

something to do with one’s self.

Personally speaking, an ‘obsession’ of mine is worrying that I’ve left the tap in my bathroom running and that if I don’t do something about it, I will flood the bathroom.

Usually at night-time, this intense worry builds up in my mind, often causing unbearable amounts of anxiety. I can’t sleep and I worry until I get up and check it.

I’m often by the tap checking it is not running for a good few minutes, putting my fingers under the tap each time so I don’t feel a drop of water. After my anxiety is calmed down, this worry diminishes, and I’ll find it easier to sleep.

It’s not just the water taps that I have to deal with; every day I struggle with an array of things. For example, I find it hard locking doors when I’m leaving the house because I worry I may get burgled. It’s hard leaving my car once I’ve locked it in case it unlocks itself and gets stolen. I can’t simply set alarms for the following morning in fear that they don’t go off. Making sure windows are shut has the same fear as locking the house.

Checking that my money and debit cards are in my wallet, however, is a hard one to describe. I could be a victim of fraud and that all my savings would automatically disappear.

What I’m detailing is only entirely applicable to myself. These ‘obsessions’ I have described are personal and they are completely different for each sufferer.

A lot of the time, however, it’s checking that the door is locked “one more time”, checking that the win-

dows are shut “just to be sure” or washing one’s hands for the tenth time “to feel clean”.

Many sufferers of OCD stick to certain ‘rituals’ or habits as a means of feeling secure or providing temporary relief from anxiety.

So, like I described, my ‘ritual’ is putting my fingers under the tap repeatedly.

The key thing to remember about obsessive compulsions is that the relief is only temporary and the same thing does happen soon again.

The next night brings the same issue; the environment has changed (time and use of water) and so it’s hard to recall on the experience of the previous day.

In simpler terms, it would be hard to calm the anxieties caused by the new day by accepting that I managed to control the anxiety the day before.

The cycle of rituals have to happen again until I feel better.

The people around me, my family and my closest friends do not have this problem.

Obliviously to them, they are able to shake thoughts off easily, or, simply, are able to ignore any thoughts that might persuade them to check something “once more” just because they “know” they locked the door when they left the house. Yes, I “know” the door is locked, but I “have” to check it.

But then again, there is a lot more to it than that. I’m not sure if everyone is the same.

It’s by glancing at definitions and symptoms of OCD that I can make generalisations like these. Regardless, even as a sufferer, it’s hard to

explain it.

Unlike them, obeying these thoughts and performing these rituals and checks are one of the only ways that I feel I can get on with my day. Without performing those rituals, my mind would be filled with more worry all day; I would have to go back and check. Again and again.

When I am at home I try my hardest to avoid locking up the house. I ask someone else if they’ll do it, running up the stairs to my bedroom in an attempt to avoid the situation.

Furthermore, I admit it must look quite comical to see a young man circling round his car pulling the door handles about twenty times to find each time that it is securely locked.

It may look silly to see the same young man look through the windows to check that the handbrake is upright. You may question why on earth that boy is standing at the front door checking it’s locked for a few minutes.

But OCD is on the basis of intrusive thoughts like “is it locked, though?”, “are you sure?” and “just check again”. In all seriousness, I don’t think that’s particularly funny.

These thoughts are emotionally painful and are draining. It’s exhausting dealing with these problems every day.

I’ve suffered for about four/five years now and I can’t imagine how great it would be not to deal with this.

I look at others and imagine how their lives must be a walk in the park.

However, what many people do not understand is that OCD has relations with other mental illnesses.

I have also suffered from perfectionism, general anxiety disorder (GAD), depression and anorexia nervosa.

Although the latter is firmly under control and I have undergone hours and hours worth of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to mainly aid my depression, OCD is the worst one of all to govern.

For some reason I can’t let go. Although this is the disorder talking, it’s a form of security and it helps me feel safe.

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Comment • 10

Smartphones and the technophobes who love to use them Florella Scozzafava Last week I made the transition from my faithful Nokia 1661 to the oft-celebrated iPhone – and it has been momentous!

For the last four years I’ve been a proud owner of an internet and camera free phone, affectionately known as ‘the brick’.

I have been happy to explain to bemused new acquaintances that, no, it wasn’t my festival phone or my spare phone.

Their looks of confusion were normally briefly abated by the explanation that, yes, it was a temporary phone because my old one broke, but bafflement invariably returned when the sentence was completed…in 2010.

The change came when I attempted to download the favoured modes of communication of new friends from UKIERI Study India Programme 2014, Snapchat and WhatsApp, to my iPod touch (my only, and limited, portal to mobile internet). I was utterly dismayed to find it was not possible!

Admirably, my friend Charlotte offered me her old iPhone 4 and so the transition process began.

I got the iPhone into my possession easily enough, but the first hurdle was

getting it unlocked, which, knowing my technical ineptness, another friend sorted, returning it to me a day later ready to use.

It soon became obvious that it was ready for me, but I was not ready for it; I realised that changing my SIM into the micro format would burn any bridges of possibly returning to the safe haven of simpler times.

I successfully put it off for a few more days. But my new housemate calling me a technophobe, my brother’s disbelief at my “irrational behaviour” and the lure of truly mobile internet made me man up and cut the SIM. The die was cast!

It has been a week since I took what feels like my biggest leap into the 21st century and although I have strong pangs of guilt seeing my abandoned brick on my bedroom shelf, the delights of Snapchat are pulling me to the ‘other side’.

I feel like an impostor walking around campus with it in my pocket, but my emails to my mum now read ‘sent from my iPhone’ (the first of which she replied to ‘haha’) and the semblance of organisation is attractive.

There have been some other unexpected positive surprises from the move too, most notably improved

communications with my younger sister who, like most teenagers, communicates primarily (seemingly only) through Snapchat, Emojis and iMessage.

One thing I was not prepared for is the abysmal battery life. I am not exaggerating when I say my Nokia lasted a week without a charge, but this energy guzzler is demanding daily full charges!

None of the apps come with instructions (my first photo on Snapchat was purely accidental), I’m constantly worried about dropping or scratching it (a worry far from the realm of Nokia) but I will credit Apple where it is due.

It may only be the iPhone 4 but it is incredibly sleek and makes me look a lot more grown up and efficient than I feel.

I hope that my friend, fellow Lit student and iPhone convert Jack, is wrong when he says “you’ll completely rely on it by Christmas” but I’m fearing for the worst.

However, my housemate Jess’ comment when I reached almost instinctively for the phone when struggling to recall a film title has kept it at bay. “I liked it when you used your brain, Florella” she said.

Putting down the phone, I remembered the film was 27 Dresses.

Miriam Steiner

The fundamental need for better development projects Oliver Smart Development can be applied to a variety of life situations, starting a degree at university can be called the development of oneself.

Renovating a disused factory into a new community, that too can be called development.

But when you have to analyse the connotations and denotations of what development is on an international scale, the lines between good and bad become blurred.

Many charitable foundations only respond when a country is in a ‘crisis’ situation- earthquakes, tsunamis or war (this is called emergency or short-term aid).

Another type of inter-governmental aid is known as conditional or tied aid.

These, coupled with post-imperialist infrastructure lead for a precarious situation when it comes to ‘developmental policies’ applied to each country in question.

Each country has different needs whether it be basic human rights to water, education, sanitation or food.

Having an existential viewpoint of what international development has been in the past and what it could be in the future leaves me with a very grim, pessimistic and highly critical approach to applying myself in the field.

Due to some of the colossal mistakes that various Western countries and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have made in the past, some of the ideas and the ‘aid’ that was actually sent out was almost laughable.

One example is of a terrible aid campaign was that dropped food packages, with the same shape and colour as a deadly canister of cluster munitions!

This ‘aid’ could have easily have been mistaken for a munition by someone who doesn’t read English, leading to death.

Having access to mass media and with the rise of citizen journalism, clearer and clearer pictures of what the recipients of this development really feel about the things they are given.

One such example that really resonated with myself was Isabella Jean’s talk entitled “Time To Listen” in which she spoke about the insights and analysis’ of the 6000 people in 20 countries that she had conferred with.

One insight that highlighted the effects or the continuum of aid these countries were receiving, was of the time when Isabella and her team talked to a man in Diyatha.

She talks about the kinds of experiences that these people, who had never received aid before in their lifetimes, had in the ten months after the tsunami.

She explained that the accounts she gathered in Sri Lanka were almost word for word verbatim when analyses next to an account from someone from Ethiopia.

I feel that the immediate aid that disaster stricken countries is necessary, but when the lines between emergency aid and long term development aid become blurred, a country may be seen as having a dependence on the food, sanitation and medical supplies coming from outside agencies.

Leading on from the previously mentioned discernment between what is emergency aid and what is long term development aid.

One example of the challenges of charitable, short term development came from Dr. Michael Carter of the

University of Wisconsin. Dr. Carter stated that families in Northern Kenya were receiving $15 a month to maintain and live above the poverty line.

But one criticism that Dr. Carter highlighted was that although these families were receiving $15 a month, they had no way of making this money if the donations ever stopped.

This criticism prompted the use of satellite imagery to predict, with an 80% probability where the best place to raise cattle would be.

Giving these Kenyans the knowledge and the means to provide for themselves, their families and communities.

One example of a community or country that had been dependent on foreign aid, and the government was able to use their own powers to edu-

cate their citizens on modern methods of production so they could be financially independent.

My personal view is that emergency aid is a necessary string in the developmental bow, but in the countries that have been out of the sphere of European colonialism for many decades those that are still receiving hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars a year in foreign infrastructural aid.

Need to be given the tools and knowledge that the great many MEDC’s have so these aid dependent nations can be weaned from their dependency, and produce the life materials that are necessary to sustain a population.

When this is done the Western world can stop calling it “the third world”.- closing the ever widening

poverty gap.

If governments in MEDCs really are trying to help the third word with their ‘developmental policies’ shouldn’t the might of the democratic system have prevailed by now?

What if overnight the roles and lives that people on this planet had switched.

Men and Women from the ‘global north’ experienced the same things as the ‘global south’ and vice versa.

We would soon see the once rich white man, in the street with a starving child.

Maybe then the people at the developmental boardroom tables will have the drive to truly change the world for the better.

You never know, one day Africa may throw the West a fundraising concert in order to buy us food.

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Sussex needs to ramp up with its accessibility Miriam Steiner Comment Sub-Editor I am not an impairment. I am a student. I go to Grubbs and Subway too often, I stay out late, I love studying my subject and I try to get to my lectures on time.

I’m not doing the latter very well though, and that is a problem.

Sussex’s campus is known for its brutalist architecture. Grey and brown blocks are everywhere. Steps up and down everywhere.

I am not an impairment, but I am a student, with an impairment. Sometimes, I find it very difficult to walk up and down the steps that penetrate every building on campus like the pain that penetrates my body.

Usually, out in the real world, this isn’t a problem. Almost every modern building is up-to code for disabled access.

A ramp or slope or lift isn’t ever far away from a door. At Sussex, on the campus that I try to learn at every day, it isn’t.

Slopes and lifts are hidden in backalleys and chemical storage areas, or through ten minute detours, or in an entirely different building and then over a bridge.

There are very few signs for these hidden entrances that let me access the world that every other student can.

There are almost no internal signs for lifts once I manage to get into a building.

Receptionists tell me “just go down those stairs”, and when I tell them I cant they apologise and leave me to wonder around until I stumble onto a hidden entrance to a lift.

I was over 20 minutes late for every seminar or lecture I went to for two weeks, despite getting there at least half an hour early because I knew how little accessibility information was available.

I gave up apologising in the second week to my lecturers as I grew more and more frustrated and angry. This was not my fault, this was an institutional failing.

As well as getting angry, I got active. I set up a twitter account, @Ac-

Trigger warning: sexual voilence Sussex Police are investigating a rape which took place on campus in the early hours of Saturday 20th September. For full information see page 1.

This distressing attack is an eyeopener, I think, for all us to question our safety when on campus.

Living in halls you’d think that you were safer than if you were living off campus, in the heart of the Brighton.

But this case proves that potentially, no one place is safer than the other.

During my first year I lived off campus but would travel into uni to visit friends who lived in halls.

Comparing where they lived to where I was, the major difference was how much safer we felt walking around campus, compared to the times we spent around mine.

How shocking it was to hear of this case, which took place in an area where we felt most safe.

It’s made me wonder though, what Sussex could do to prevent another incident from happening.

One major issue which stands out to me is the limited lighting around the main campus, but also around the halls of residence.

One example, is that of Northfield, where although streetlamps light up the main road to the halls, there is little lighting around the walk-ways to individual blocks.

I also found out they are contractually obligated to produce a map, and are legally obligated to by 2020.

The person in-charge of making signs has been made aware that he has a lot of work to do.

Everyone and every institutional body has made the right noises and indications, but weeks later I’m still as clueless how to get around in new buildings and my rage is only growing.

I’m not alone in this problem.

There isn’t a large proportion of students with access problems at Sussex because of how inaccessible it is, so not enough noise is being made, but just because we are a minority

doesn’t mean we should be denied access to the education we are here for, nor should we have to jump through hoops and rely on other people to get around.

Sussex needs to take accessibility seriously, and everyone needs to sit up and pay attention to the problems around them and the students and staff who are facing them.

The University would like to state that although they were unfortnately not given enough time to respond to this article, they will offer a reply to the issues raised in next weeks edtion of The Badger.

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cessSussex to document the plethora of accessibility issues on campus and shame the university into changing its ways and meeting requirements.

I collected testimonies of other people with access impairments and disabilities. I was not and am not going to take this sitting down (even if it is my preferred stance.)

The Union Welfare officer, the student life centre, Student support and Sussex Estates and Facilities are all aware of the issues and have promised to make changes.

DisabledGo, the providers of online accessibility information for the campus, came in last week to update and audit the information.

A lot of the light at night is supplied from students’ windows, which is not enough during the early hours of the morning when it is most quiet, let alone out of term time when the majority of students have left their rooms for the holidays.

Another concern for our safety is the lack of security we have on campus; I only ever saw the security personnel occasionally driving around once in a while in their cars; never on foot.

We need an increase in the amount of security workers, so they can walk around the areas that they can’t quite see from their cars.

I think that you would agree that we’d feel much safer walking around campus, just knowing that this was put into place.

One important final point, I think, is the need for free rape alarms. They should be included in the freshers’ packs that we all get at the start, and then supplied by the university if we’ve later misplaced them.

These alarms should be handed out freely and of easy access, just like the condoms and stress balls which are available.

Attacks can’t go ignored; we need to be able to talk about them and give the support and help that is needed.

Michael Segalov, the Communications Officer has previously contacted Roger Morgan with concerns about the lack of security personel on campus.

Morgan agreed to keep the security under review.

Been affected by one of the issues raised here and want advice or help?

Student Life Centre

Located on campus in Chichester I, open Mon-Fri 9-5pm throughout term.

Helpline: 01273 876767

I Heart Consent

An educational programme created by the NUS aiming to facilitate positive and informed campaigns about consent in universities across the UK. The Sussex branch can be reached at welfare@sussexstudent.com

Survivor’s Network

An independent charity based in Brighton providing special support services to women.

Helpline: 01273 720110

The Saturn Centre

Located in Crawley, the Saturn Centre provides a range of services to both women and men.

Helpline: 01293 600469 (9-5pm)

Pandora’s Project

The internet’s largest support community for victims of sexual violence.

Website: pandys.org

I ‘heart’ safe spaces Anonymous

Trigger warning: sexual voilence The news story that a student was raped on campus this year came as a shock to many.

Rape is still a prevalent and terrible issue within our society, and as close, small and liberal as our campus is, it is not a safe space for all.

The union’s “I Heart Consent” campaign shows this. Luckily our campus does have safe spaces and staff want all students to feel safe.

I am not a fresher and I am not the woman who was raped by a man she did not know, but I was sexually assaulted and raped by another Sussex student.

As I know they are still a student, it can be difficult to deal with this and I often find I need time away to relax.

The only place I can guarantee my safety and security is the Women’s room within Falmer House.

There are other rooms for other marginalised groups, such as LGBTQ and Black students rooms, and these are all spaces to be around people like you who may be able to better understand the issues you face, or to be alone and feel safe.

Safe spaces like these may seem silly and pointless to the people who don’t need them as they cant

understand why people need protection like this.

I know in discussions people have said that they dislike stating their preferred gender pro-nouns when introducing themselves at society events, or the use of trigger warnings irritates them, but, people who get annoyed by these things: safe spaces are not for people like you.

Safe spaces like the women’s room are for those of us that need a sanctuary from mental anguish.

Making us say our gender pronouns at society meetings means that trans* students don’t need to feel excluded or discouraged by being misgendered.

Trigger warnings means people difficult emotions and memories aren’t dredged up and they can get on with their days.

Safe spaces and safety mechanisms like these allow everyone to be included.

So despite our illusions that Sussex is a utopia may be shattered, I want all students to know that people want you to be safe and that there are mechanisms in place for those who need respite, whether that be a room, the union or the student life centre.

Life doesn’t always go to plan, but you will be supported when it doesn’t.

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13 OCTOBER 2014

SCIENCE • 12

India enters the global space race Vicky Grantham In the global space race, India have successfully put a satellite into Mars’ orbit for around a budget £45.6 million (just over half the budget of Hollywood blockbuster Gravity).

The Mars Orbiter Mission was placed into the Red Planet’s atmosphere after 300 days and 420 million miles of travelling, on 24 September 2014.

Kishalay Choudhury, a member of the Facebook group Sussex India said: “[There are] no words to describe the pride that I take in [the program], especially being in Astronomy.”

While pride may be high, with an image of the crowded command control room going viral, there has been some controversy over the publicly funded space programme.

In the West, space programs are becoming increasingly privately funded but India has undertaken this mission using public money.

This has led some, including the Economist, to question how a developing nation has afforded this space pursuit.

Nevertheless, MOM, also known as Mangalyaan (“mars craft” in Hindi), is being internationally recognised, putting India at the forefront of people’s minds when it comes to space exploration.

The India Space Research Organisation is only the fourth space agency to reach Mars, joining NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and the first to be suc-

YEAH, SCIENCE!

The ZSL and WWF have released staggering figures of the world’s wildlife population’s decline over merely forty years. The worst affected have been freshwater species and birds with respective declines of 76 percent and 52 percent according to the two wildlife associations.

Following the discovery of Keplar 186f in April 2014, NASA have reported that the earth sized exoplanet also contains water. Keplar 186f currently orbits a red dwarf star Keplar 186, 500 million light years away and is the latest discovery in a string of exciting news for astrophysics.

Finally, the University of Sussex is delighted to welcome a distinguished new member to the physics department, Dr. Lily Asquith. Dr. Asquith is a recipient of the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, awarded by the Royal Society.

Her work has mainly focused on the pursuit of the elusive Higg’s Boson having been based at CERN prior to her appointment at the University of Sussex.

For the full stories and more, visit the Badger’s website: badgeronline.co.uk/sciencefinal/

cessful on the first attempt.

Mr Choudhury added: “[The program] marks a revolution of spaceage India. And the adrenaline is high!”

The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) is also narrowing the gender divide as many woman who apparently work at ISRO have been seen celebrating alongside their male counterparts.

Senior science journalist Pallava Bagla, who was present in the control room said: “The women were leading the applause when the good news arrived. They were celebrating more than men. Who said men are from Mars and women are from Venus?”

The success of MOM is the beginning of a sustainable space travel industry but one mission to mars will not uphold business.

S.M. Vaidya, head of business at conglomerate Godrej’s aerospace division that made the spacecraft’s engine and thruster components, told Reuters: “Unless they fly more, they will not buy more from us.”

While there are some mixed feelings surrounding ISRO and its deep space exploration, ultimately MOM shows that even a developing country can be prominent across the globe when it comes to interplanetary investigation.

Mr Choudhury added: “[ISRO] has embarked a new era for India’s approach towards science and technology.”

Looking to the organisation itself, ISRO has its own take on its position in the global space race.

Wikipedia The ISRO website states: “There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose… we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role

nationally, and in the comity of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society.”

While there may be some debate

over India’s space claim and the finances behind the scenes, this is undoubtedly not just a step forward but possibly a giant leap, not only for the developing nation but also for astrophysics.

Regenerative medecine facing regenerated interest?

Oli Davies Imagine the possibility to grow a new liver, replace failed kidneys or even grow cells to repair a damaged brain.

Some of you reading this article must think this seems too good to be true. Well, you would be right. Humans cannot grow their own livers, kidneys or brains.

Nevertheless, researchers have an abundance of ideas along these lines, the key to them being stem cells. Their potential includes re-growing body parts, or growing organs to test drugs.

As of today however, the age of regenerative medicine is not yet here.

Despite the current obstacles, scientists are making leaps and bounds in the laboratory. Kidneys can be regenerated in mice. This is accomplished by taking the old kidney, washing out the old cells, growing new ones, and then returning a functioning kidney. Human liver buds, which are 5-7mm portions of the bigger thing, which perform normally when transplanted in to mice. Even a human brain, equivalent to that of a nine week-old fetus.

People are walking around with blood vessels, wind pipes and noses grown from stem cells, even bladders grown from peoples’ own cells and this is but the first step, the potential could be limitless.

Furthermore, regenerative medicine is an active industry, with people investing a lot of money in commercial companies like: HART, who grow organs; Replicel, who are trialling stem cell treatments; Anika Therapeutics Inc, who manufacture the biological lubricant that goes in arthritic knee caps, as well as many more.

To give an idea of the growth of some of these biotech companies, Anika therapeutics’ market value increased 800% between 2011 and 2014.

Stem cells, and cells in general, are a bit like us. If you had a childhood like me, then you could grow up to be anything you wanted, although several things influenced my choice. The same happens for true stem cells, they can grow up to be anything!

As they mature, they are guided by influences and they narrow their set of potential cells to specialise into. This we can all relate to in terms of the older we get, the more we have to reduce our career options.

As our bodies mature, we lose those stem cells with limitless dreams to be anything. However, we do retain those stem cells that have a smaller range of potential.

There is a question of how we can obtain stem cells, and this can be somewhat complicated. This is particularly so for stem cells taken from embryos,

which is when many people consider life begins. Important ethical issues are raised around this subject and this is a major battleground between the opponents and proponents of regenerative medicine.

Another source is from the blood vessels of umbilical cords. It is such an ethically sound and cheap way of obtaining stem cells that research banks have even been set up to store samples.

An even more important stock of these stem cells is you and I. Around our body are cells that we need to replace, and we use adult stem cells to do this. Haemopoetic stem cells provide one example, replenishing red blood cells.

Using cells from ourselves would be great for transplantation, as currently donor organs can be rejected by recipients. This is because the host body recognises the donor organs as foreign and attacks them.

If regenerative medicine can deliver on our hopes then it promises a true paradigm shift in the whole subject of medicine.

However, it also promises great challenges: distinguishing between the growth of stem cells and cancer; increasing divisions in healthcare between the rich and poor; shifts in attitudes to societal problems. An argument persists that there could evolve

an attitude of “expendable bodies” and more.

There is also a pattern in science where breakthroughs are believed to deliver us hope, but then encounter other problems. It remains to be written that the hope for stem cells, for the time being, remains too good to be true.

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13 OCTOBER 2014

TECH • 13

Technology culture shock Catherine Nipps

There are moments in your life when you raise your head, have a good look around and realise that the world is not what you thought it was. It’s not just the little bubble in which you live, breathe and exist, but a confusing mixture of futuristic machinery.

I’m from India, and I just arrived at Sussex two weeks ago. From the day I arrived at Sussex, I’ve been thinking how high-tech and stateof-the-art everything here is. I’ve been told, quite a few times now, how wrong I am.

Every time I go to the library, I’m in awe of the thousands of books waiting to be explored, but also the equipment, software and cool gadgets they use to make anyone’s visit here as easy as possible.

I know right now, you’re probably wondering, “What the hell is she talking about? We have cool gadgets in the library?” Well, coming from India, where it’s so difficult to find libraries, let alone good ones, everything about the library here fascinates me.

The way we borrow and return books through a completely computerised system makes me think of the lonely, bored little lady who used to sit behind a small little desk signing out, arranging and rearranging the same dusty old books every day at

the almost deserted library at my old university back home.

The Library Catalogue and the online search options make me think about how I would just roam around the seven to eight aisles we had there in search of a book that had probably been stuffed in the wrong shelf.

The option to reserve books just makes me mutter a quick “God bless you” for the person who thought of this ingenious idea. The machine that changes notes into coins is my favourite!

I see the students cringe and complain about the horrible Wi-Fi and the disgraceful Internet speed available on campus, and I have no idea what they’re talking about!

I don’t think I’ve ever downloaded anything in India at a speed more than 250kbps, and even that’s stretching it a bit.

We don’t have decent free Wi-Fi connections anywhere, except maybe at the international airports in big cities and at popular or private colleges.

It’s not just about the University. I went to Asda yesterday, and the self checkout counters there made me dizzy! Don’t get me wrong, there are places in India that are quite technologically advanced, especially if you go to the big cities, but the thing is, you would never expect to encounter facilities like these in most places

even there.

A friend from China told me how he actually thought that the technology and tools used in the library were quite outdated compared to what was used in his own country.

It’s so weird and intriguing how differently international students from developing countries might perceive the technological advancement here from home students or students who’ve lived in compara-

tively developed parts of the world.

Maybe after staying here for a while, perceptions change and you start taking things for granted.

Well, at the moment I’m thinking of myself as quite tech savvy as I successfully swipe a DVD box through a DVD opener at the library.

Maybe next month I’ll be complaining about how we’re living in the Stone Age.

Connor Cochrane

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After all this time it’s finally here.

Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS is easily one of the most hyped and talked about games in recent memory. It has a large legacy to live up to.

Not only must it bear the weight of succeeding its much loved and critically acclaimed predecessors, it is also the series first instalment on a handheld device.

Nintendo’s party/fighting game series has a very strong and very vocal fan-base, which usually splits itself between the competitive and casual players.

Does Super Smash Bros. for 3DS have something for everyone? Does it have that intense speed and combo system while also keeping it accessible and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of skill level? Fortunately, it does.

Smash Bros. controls like a dream on the 3DS. Initially, I was worried about having to move on from using the Gamecube controller, but after a couple of games I felt myself settling into the groove, and before I knew it I was dashing around the stages pulling off all the familiar tricks.

I’m especially a fan of how the shield and grab buttons have been mapped to the right and left shoulder buttons, it all just fits into your hands nicely.

Every move of your arsenal is in comfortable reach and nothing feels awkward. Also, even if you’re not

fussed on the default set-up, there’s always the welcome option to map buttons to your liking.

The precise and comfortable controls also help keep the game running at the fast pace that it does.

Battles are quick and fluid enough to feel exciting, without becoming confusing. The game also runs at a consistent 60 frames per second, no slowdown or lag whatsoever.

The attacks feel weighty and pack a visceral punch; smash attacks (achieved by tapping a direction on the control stick and holding the attack button) are both satisfying and effective.

The game feels a lot less sluggish than Brawl did, but still doesn’t live up to the combo-centric gameplay of Melee.

Thomas Mahon

I feel Smash Bros. on 3DS expertly straddles the line between competitive and accessible. It leaves enough room for new players to have fun, while also giving experienced smashers the intense buzz and speed that Brawl was sorely lacking.

One thing that the Smash series has always been renowned for is its insane amount of content. Every game in the series has always been packed with a whole host game types and unlockables (stages, characters, trophies etc.).

While Smash Bros. on 3DS does indeed have a lot to offer, it’s not as much as one would hope. Despite offering an impressive 34 stages, 11 are simply recycled from previous games.

There also seems to be a severe lack of single player content, the game only providing the player with classic mode and all-star mode (plus the usual mini-games like ten man smash and a simplified version of target smash).

A lot of people expected something similar to Brawl’s Subspace Emissary to make an appearance, but maybe we’ll have to wait for the Wii U version.

The new Smash Run mode is entertaining, but isn’t too interesting as a single player game, it is much more suited to multiplayer.

Smash Bros. on 3DS does shine in the character roster, however, boasting a massive 49 playable fighters.

Some of the new inclusions are very welcome, characters such as

Connor Cochrane Tech Sub-Editor The University of Sussex has launched a service allowing students to view the availability of study rooms around campus.

Students’ Union education officer, Bethan Hunt, said: “I think this is a great scheme to help students find a quiet place to study. Campus can feel really busy at times and this is a great way to make the most of the space we have.”

“We look forward to the expansion of the scheme to be part of the Sussex Mobile app and to include showing students where free computers on campus are.”

One student said that, for those “with major issues dealing with sound sensitivity and crowd anxiety, I think this may be one of the best things ever.”

The service is accessible through http://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/studyspace/.

Alex Gr ønmark

Sophie Jones

Smash Bros. on 3DS - video game review Patrick Johnson

Quiet campus place service

Little Mac, Pac-Man and Shulk are interesting and diverse additions, bringing their own play systems and style into the game.

Arguably the most exciting part of the new Smash Bros. is the online component.

While Brawl on the Wii was the first game in the series to have an online component, it sported consistent lag and input delay.

The Smash Bros. games are all about fast thinking and quick reactions, so any sort of mild interference can render the game unplayable.

Smash Bros. on 3DS’ online is a huge improvement but still leaves a lot to be desired.

Hopefully Nintendo do something about this in the future, since the time I played online with no problems was some of the most fun I’ve had with the game.

Overall, Smash Bros. for the 3DS is a game worthy of the prestigious title. Despite suffering from a slight lack a content and a (currently) rather poor online service, it offers a fun, engaging and infinitely replayable fighter for fans of the series and newcomers as well.

Tight controls, interesting characters, tuned mechanics and a whole lot of customisability means that this is a game to last you years, or at least till the Wii U version arrives on December 5.

Smash Bros. is now available on the 3DS. For even more information, check out the online version of this review at www.badgeronline.co.uk/tech/.

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Yahoo prepared to invest millions of dollars into Snapchat.

BBC iPlayer extends shelf life of streamed and downloaded programmes to 30 days.

Tesco release the Hudl2 tablet, priced at £129.

After Hollywood lawyer threatens to sue for millions of dollars, Google pulls “tens of thousands” of celebrities stolen nude images.

Attack code that exploits USB flaw is released online.

Have something related to Tech you want to write about? Tech news, opinions or reviews?

Email badger-tech@ussu.sussex.ac.uk

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13 October 2014 ARTS • 14

ARTS

Don’t trust the press: Why I’ve stopped reading film reviews MUSIC

TRAAMS The Haunt

Thursday 25th September Thomas Powell Arts Editor TRAAMS are the cream of our local talent, signed to Brighton’s FatCat label, hailing from Chichester and leaving us devastated in the wake of their sultry, motorik desolation.

Ok, locals like Royal Blood or Bat For Lashes grab all the headlines for being Brighton’s babes with their moody, but ultimately pop influenced tunes.

TRAAMS are far from this, somewhere between the spit in your face mouthiness of contemporaries Eagulls and the Krautrock groove of Neu! or Guru Guru done in the most squalid

and aggressive of ways.

From go at The Haunt on this Thursday night the band go at it, rhythm section of Leigh and Adam laying down a consistent chug of bass and drums that morphs almost unnoticeably underneath Stu’s added luxuries: guitar and vocals.

Without the frontman’s whining feedback, sore throat yelping and pinched guitar lines you wouldn’t have a band so much as a Krautrock answer to Ricardo Villalobos, and this is what makes TRAAMS so special.

With such a solid partnership on drums and bass, evolving gently through extended jams (and personal favourites) such as ‘Klaus’ and ‘Head Roll’, the guitar/vocalist is given leeway to experiment with his effects, sounds and idiosyncratic vocal intonations.

What’s best is that through all this measured playing the band still manage to lose themselves in the jam, at least giving the impression of being in a trapped, improvisational groove that

MUSIC

Alec Ounsworth Gloucester Road Barbers Wednesday 1st October Thomas Powell Arts Editor Arriving at my barbers after dinner on a Wednesday evening I am greeted by a large congregation of well-groomed beer swillers.

Bizarre, usually late night at the barbers is when you see the worst groomed punters slink in for a cut under cover of darkness.

Of course, knowing Gloucester Road well, I realise that they don’t do late openings, but they do host the odd gig in their sitting room like setting in the midst of North Laine.

So as I slip inside, walking under the Elliott Smith Figure 8 mural that drew me into the shop for the first time a few years ago I’m not shocked to see the barbers chairs removed and airplane style waiting chairs moved for a better view of the ‘stage’.

I here invert the commas because there is no stage, just the desk chair that is usually used to collect cash and a guitar case, lying sideways where the desk normally is.

After five minutes or so of sitting down on the floor in lamplight, Clap

Gloucester Road Barbers

Your Hands Say Yeah’s Alec Ounsworth, not Ali (my barber) takes a seat, picking up his Gibson acoustic to gentle cheers and applause: ‘tuning this thing, that’s something I gotta do yet.’ says Ounsworth in playful response to the crowd’s eagerness, before eventually launching into a Tom Petty cover segued to the Clap Your Hands fan favourite ‘On This Tidal Wave of Young Blood’.

On the edge of his seat, feet contorted inwards and tapping feverishly on the floor, Ounsworth half sings, half yelps his lyrics with eyes shut, outpouring the utmost emotion.

It’s watching him here, uncomfortably close compared to other venues, that you see him candidly, probably as he wrote the songs in

gives both you and they little room to breathe: the only time they come up for air is when guitarist and bassist go instrument to instrument, heads bobbing, grinning through satisfaction to make a brief moment of eye contact.

While the repetitive longer tracks pulled The Haunt down to a sea of nodding heads and jutting torsos (in the most positive way), shorter more aggressive tracks such as ‘Flowers’ and ‘Selma’ whipped them into a frenzy, leading me to my conclusion.

Basically, TRAAMS are the only band I’ve seen in Brighton that have got the 15-year-olds and their accompanying adults (portly 50-somethings in a check shirts) bouncing fervently around a pit, the kids loving this strange new sound, the elders reminiscing about days back in the late 70’s/early 80’s when rock (or rather post-punk) was young.

In any case, the way TRAAMS do it, who cares if the idea’s old when the execution is just right.

the first place.

Restlessly he rocks through one song and wipes away what appears to be tears after another.

This show is intimate in every sense. It’s lucky however, that Ounsworth’s intense emotion during songs such as ‘What Fun’ and ‘Mama Wont You Keep Them Castles in the Air and Burning’ is counterpoised with his geniality, wit, generosity and storytelling between each stripped back acoustic number which means that as the night goes on, Ounsworth keeps those of us crammed into the tiny shop laughing.

Telling stories that he’s only told friends before, giving away his hotel details to this room of avid fans and even playing ‘Tidal Wave’ a second time for a latecomer, Ounsworth demonstrates that there is more personality to a live show than show up, perform, ‘thank you and good night’.

‘I owe you a song, I’ll do “Tidal Wave” again because I can do it better’, Ounsworth quips to the latecomer toward the end of his set.

I’m not sure he could do better, I think he’d pretty much nailed it already.

Keep an eye on Gloucester Road Barbers for more gigs like this in the future.

Oh, and their gents cuts are great too.

Find them at facebook.com/gloucesterroadbarbers or drop in, cuts £12, no appointment necessary.

TRAAMS Press

Why I’ve stopped reading film reviews Jamie Tye Being both a massive film fan and a champion at procrastination, I have spent a lot of time over the last few years reading film reviews, and whilst they can be helpful, their downsides are so significant that I have decided to avoid reading reviews of films before I see them.

One of the reasons for this is that if I read a negative review of a movie that I’m excited about seeing, I find myself so keen to disagree with the reviewer that I spend the duration of the film obsessing over small details, hoping they are wrong.

Being a true fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I was very keen for the Hobbit series to be a success.

When the first film came out, the slew of bad reviews it received meant that even though I actually quite liked if, I spent the whole thing on the lookout for physics-defying visuals or trying to work out if it took too long to get going.

The reviews could even have been positive and I would still find negative things to look out for.

The film Looper (a time travel film that featured Joseph GordonLevitt playing a young Bruce Willis) is a brilliant movie.

Yet for the duration of the film I was trying to work out whether the make-up they gave Gordon-Levitt to make him look more like Willis actually had the desired effect or simply made him look like “a slightly angrier Joseph Gordon-Levitt”.

Now admittedly this is perhaps a slightly odd reaction to film reviews but a more common, and a potentially more limiting one, is to only

watch movies that have positive reviews.

My father will only see films that are well rated by the film critic for the Independent newspaper.

From reading his reviews, and a list of his ‘Top 100 films of all time’, I found that the films that this critic views as good are pretty much limited to film noir and gangster movies.

As a result, my dad hasn’t seen a science fiction, comedy or really any other film genre in quite a while.

The wonderful thing about movies is that they can mean totally different things to different people.

I recently saw Inside Llewyn Davis on a long-distance flight and immediately fell in love with it.

I loved it for many different reasons but perhaps the most important one was that I found Davis himself to be the most believable and identifiable character I have seen in a long time.

I later read a negative review in which the critic’s reason for disliking the film was that he had found it impossible to like or identify with the character of Davis.

The critic and I both watched the same movie, and yet our experiences of it were completely different.

This implies that whether you love a film or hate it depends more upon your personality than upon the quality of the film, and if that’s the case, the only critic you should listen to is yourself.

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13 october 2014 ARTS • 15

Reviews music

Lutine

St Laurence Church

Saturday 27th September Sarah Bean St Laurence church in Falmer village was not only the perfect setting for the launch of Lutine’s new album White Flowers, but it also conveyed the duo’s ‘folky’ image to a perfect degree.

The church echoed their sweet voices and the beautiful musical notes making it an appropriate setting for their intimate performance.

Surprisingly, the church was comfortably crowded despite the duo choosing not perform in a venue in central Brighton.

Their hypnotising voices were aided by the acoustics of the church, mirroring that of the new album which was recorded over the summer in St Laurence’s itself.

It was mentioned that they had a regular visit from a seagull near one of the windows, with which they could not completely eradicate from one recording; adding to the homegrown, stripped-back, raw feeling the album has.

Brighton based Lutine are made up of Emma Morton and Heather Minor who have endeavoured to produce sweet, pure and sometimes sorrowful melodies in a world increasingly dominated by mainstream music and artists.

They are not afraid to push the boundaries within the folk genre, and their haunting voices combined with light tripping notes from the piano gave the songs a contradictory calming and reflective effect on the listener.

The high pitched sweet sounds

photography

Brighton Photo Biennial 2014 4th October - 2 November Sabrina Villani October has begun and students are getting back to what seems to be the never ending routine of lectures and seminars.

Nevertheless, Brighton never gets boring and is ready to host the sixth edition of Brighton Photo Biennial.

If you are thinking of one of those pretentious exhibitions that you can attend only if you’re a photography expert get ready to change your mind, as BPB14 has something for everybody out there.

Curated by Photoworks, this year’s theme is Community, Collectives, and Collaboration.

Therefore, it explores photography projects produced through innova-

were met with a sublime musical arrangement making some songs provoking and some saddening.

These feelings were reflected by a variety of flickering moving images that were projected onto the wall behind the band, adding to the sense of pastoral ‘Englishness’ that the sounds mustered.

Lutine were supported by Bella Emerson, whose melodic and eerie yet, enchanting music was the perfect set up for Lutine’s equally evocative songs.

The entire evening was spine-tingling from beginning to end; aided by the spiritual vibe the unique setting of the church gave.

The only interruption came from a problem with affixing a strap for the autoharp which mustered a few laughs and was dealt with in good humour.

The general consensus from my friends was that the harmonious melodies set with soft strummings were perfect for evoking the feelings of autumnal weather.

And yes, although the church setting went someway to conjure a mood of chilly wintry evenings and calm Sunday listening, the feelings of warmth also shone through here and there giving an overall joyful and blissful effect.

Although the view was somewhat limited from the church pews, the soft, yet simple lighting effect within the front of the church went some way to alleviate this problem.

It was nevertheless a unique Saturday evening well spent.

There is something magical about the way their voices make you feel, they stop you in your tracks so you can really contemplate the lyrics and appreciate the variety of unique instruments they play.

They finished with their single, ‘Sallow Tree’, which concluded a perfect end to a perfect show.

Cat yourself So, whether imagining alongside the warmth of a fire on a Winter’s day or on the beach in the midst of Summer; have a listen to the album and decide for youself.

Sarah Bean tive, new and unexpected partnerships.

Over 45 photographers collaborated with local communities, environmentalists and scientists, young and older people, all brought together by the same approach to the theme.

BPB will be running from October 4th to November 2nd in a vast array of venues around Brighton and Hove, encompassing both public spaces such as Jubilee Library Square and galleries such as Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.

In addition to the nineteen exhibitions dotted around Brighton, there will also be workshops, talks and other events like the lively party for BPB preview at the dome last Friday.

Admission to all galleries is free, as are most of the other events.

The workshops include photography and bookbinding lessons whilst the film screenings held at the Duke’s Komedia and Sussex University complement the themes of the exhibitions.

The exhibitions encompass themes

Music

Cold Specks

The Green Door Store Monday 29th September Tom Jenkinson As Hatcham Social clambered to the stage to begin proceedings, the atmosphere inside The Green Door Store was somewhat lackluster.

You could’ve thrown a picnic rug over the entirety of the audience as the support act was met with the daunting task of playing to a cavernous room which, at a stretch, might have been 10% full.

However, to their credit, they didn’t resort to sulking or moping around the stage, instead doing their best to engage with the pint sized crowd and saunter through their set of indie psych rock, to the delight of the headline act, who could be seen dancing away in the vast swathes of open space available in the venue.

It was now the turn for Al Spx, the soulful front lady of Cold Specks, to take to the stage, and initially it was just Spx on her own, opening with a stripped back rendition of ‘The Mark’, before beckoning the other members of the band to join her.

With the full outfit on stage, the songs took a much grander feel, largely down to the saxophonist, who emerged with an array of weird and wonderfully shaped brass instruments throughout the set, and added a rasping menace to the likes of ‘A Broken Memory’ and ‘Bodies At Bay’.

In fact, for me personally, this brass element made their songs sound very reminiscent of some classic Bond theme songs.

So Sam Mendes, if you’re reading this (which I’m guessing you are),

forget Adele, it’s Cold Specks who you want for the soundtrack of 007’s next escapade.

Spx found it easy to build a rapport with the modest crowd, at one stage appealing to local resident Nick Cave to show his face, shouting “Nickypoo Nicky-poo” into the night.

It’s Spx’s husky, soulful voice which really sets the band apart from most others, adding great depth and texture to their music, especially on tracks like ‘Let Loose The Dogs’ and ‘When The City Lights Dim’.

This isn’t to say the other band members don’t contribute, as Spx was very keen to introduce each and every one of them to the audience so they could receive the acclaim they deserve.

The gig finished as it started, with Spx alone on stage singing an acapella version of ‘Old Stepstone’, while the audience listening politely to her unamplified vocals.

The night was one of quiet appreciation, as opposed to sweaty mosh pits, with crowd basking in the sultry vocals of Spx. It may not have been the most adrenaline fuelled gig ever to grace Brighton, but it certainly had its memorable moments.

such as politics in the display Amore e Piombo: the photography of extremes in 1970s Italy, recounting the less well known story of the red brigades and terrorism in Italy at this time.

But also science in Reef at Fabrica, where the creation of an artificial reef in Dorset has been documented through video.

Furthermore, for those that prefer a tactile approach to art, the display in the library successfully unites both books and photography, inviting the viewer to pick up the books and

look at the photographs that different people have taken in response to reading the text.

BPB is definitely a lively and interesting exhibition, involving young students from Sussex and Brighton Universities, both in the creation of the exhibits and in the running of the exhibitions through volunteering.

For more information: go to www.bpb.org.uk, #BPB14 or come along to one of the info hub points at Jubilee Library and at Circus Street Market.

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Syd Shelton

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LIFESTYLE

“Sober for October ?” Not for students, it isn’t Daisy Tompkins I have recently been enjoying charities’ use of social media to market their campaigns in innovative ways.

I think it’s a natural way to spread a cause using the networks we’ve created.

Although the ice bucket challenge did get repetitive: “Oh you! Thanks for the nomination… NOT.”, it did raise money and awareness and didn’t feel too corporate.

I really dislike organisations using social media badly.

Recently I saw that one of the big 4 had an Instagram account and it makes me cringe to think of their PR people wondering “how can we get in with the kids…?”

However, this wasn’t the case with the ice bucket challenge.

The newest campaign is Macmillan’s “Sober for October” – which is quite self-explanatory, and unlike the other campaigns, is also the first one making people do something which will benefit themselves.

My own “Sober for October” experience was slightly ridiculous.

A friend and I went for a boozy lunch. At 3pm, drunk on a Thursday we decided we would undertake the challenge - the irony of this is not lost on me.

On October 1st I sent this same friend a text: “have you broken ‘sober for October’ yet?”

The response I got was “OH S*** had a beer tonight! Have you? Have you?”

I thought this was funny, and we had one of those “Oh what ARE we like” conversations, but reflecting on it, I found it quite concerning.

I find alcohol to be one of the hardest things about being a student, being ex-

Bar Valentino

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Molly French Gerrard

Georgia Lewis pected to go out and get hammered, but still go to lectures and get good grades.

Suddenly, the classic addict statement “I can stop I just don’t want to” seems a little too close to home.

I wouldn’t find it impossible to stop if I had to, but things just seem more fun when I’m drinking.

Now I’m in third year, I don’t go clubbing very often.

Even despite this, I’ve realised how many other activities involve drinking.

Traditionally “good, clean fun” board

games now involve alcohol – and evenings end in “HE’S IN A FILM AND THERE’S A GOAT IN IT”…as the only clue lead to breaking down laughing and giving up all together.

It’s uncool to say so, being synonymous with those patronising pamphlets the health centre dish out, but I am concerned about how alcohol consumption affects student life.

Macmillan released an advertisement called “go for glory and go sober this October”.

It features people falling over, forgetting their keys and failing at their daily activities because they’re hungover.

This is basically the spitting image of my Thursday 9am).

They then undertake the “Sober for October” challenge, magically transforming their lives and making them into functioning members of society again.

So this leads me to wonder: how many of us would be capable of getting firsts if we weren’t getting drunk?

Hungryhouse review: Aldo Italian takeaway V. Barthelme

Aldo When I was tasked by The Badger to review a takeaway service via the hugely convenient hungryhouse. co.uk, I was surprised to discover the remarkable variety of take out restaurants in the Brighton area, some of which I have been passing by ignorantly for almost two years.

Aldo, the Brighton Italian Takeaway restaurant, was one such place, and one of the few where £10 would

Bar of the week

suffice for a large enough meal plus delivery.

The menu is quite extensive and diverse, spanning from pizzas and pastas, to salads, desserts and risotto dishes, all at reasonable prizes.

I finally settled on the egalitarian Quattro Staggioni, a four-way tie between quarter of ham, quarter of pepperoni, quarter of mushroom, and quarter of tuna, 12’’ pizza for £9.

With a free delivery for orders over £9 (plus an additional 50p charge on debit cards and coupons), it seemed like a good deal, all things considered.

The order was set to arrive no later than 21:20.

By 22:30 I had exhausted every possible alternative to sustenance, including, but not limited to: a sin-

ful amount of toast, the season premier of Downton Abbey, Scrabble, smoking indolently to Lana’s Ultraviolence album and pretending not to care, and so on.

It arrived at 23:00. The delivery boy carried a faint Messianic glow.

To say that the same could not have been said about the food would be a gross understatement.

The journey had rendered what was, hopefully, once a semi-disgusting indictment of the culinary arts, and a freezing semi-disgusting one at that.

Whilst the pepperoni did look and taste fine, the miniscule squirt of sauce felt like resting my tongue on a piece of corrugated roofing, housing a large clowder of enuretic cats.

Gnawing on the crust and adja-

“Gnawing on the crust was a punishment comparable to that of Tantalus.”

cent unsauced sponge of a bread, was punishment comparable to that of Tantalus.

The overall feeling post factum was that of some perverse inbreeding between the taste and texture of my regurgitate and a night at the Hobgoblin, cramped and sweaty, leaving one hurriedly inquiring after the nearest lazaret for tetanus shots.

To paraphrase Dreiser, despite my disillusionment, I continue to wait for that halcyon hour when I shall be led forth among dreams which become pizza.

As I sit in my rocking chair, by my window, shall I dream such happiness as I may never feel.

As upon ordering food from Aldo: never again...

Off to Dominos.

Keep an eye out next week for the lowdown on your chow down, the best and worst of Brighton’s takeaways...

If like Daisy you are swapping October sobriety for the more decadent consumption of CarmelH cocktails, I might suggest you head over to Bar Valentino’s.

Part of getting to know a town or a city is straying off the beaten track and finding tucked-away places that begin to feel like your own. And Bar Valentino is such a place.

Make your way through a side entrance of El Mexicano, up some stairs to get to the bar - but don’t stop there: the best thing about this place (other than the amazing cocktails) is the balcony overlooking the Pavilion gardens.

From this spot you, enjoy the view of the dome and catch the buskers below.

Price: 3/5 The cocktails are quite expensive, averaging around £8, but get there between 5pm- 7pm, SundayThursdays make the most of their 2 for 1.

I would highly recommend the Raspberry Daiquiri or the more unusual Orange Bombshell, a bitter, citrussy and rather potent concoction.

Atmosphere: 2/5 With its slightly dated decor, and high number of seats making the place always feel slightly empty, the atmosphere can feel a little awkward inside the bar.

However, step out onto the marvellous balcony, and the liveliness of Jubilee Street will provide all the buzz you would want from an otherwise, rather charming cocktail bar.

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Showcase- Brighton Photo Biennial

Ursula Hartleben

Giulio Andreotti

Send your creative pursuits to jh488@sussex.ac.uk

by Tuesday 14th October C heck the B adger Website for more themed submissions!

Gavin Weber

Lauren Cole

Alice Nettleship

Fah’d Khalid

Broomberg & Chanarin

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Arts

Editor’s Picks

Arts Editor Raymond Jennings shares his tips on the week ahead in culture GIGS Buzzcocks Concorde 2 Thursday 16th October, 7pm £20 Have you ever wished that you were around in 1976, the hey-day of punk? Ever longed to live in a world where music was more than hype, social media statistics and corporate sponsorship? Well, you can’t. But you can pretend that you do this coming Thursday. The Buzzcocks might be getting on a bit, but their music sounds as young and as urgent as it ever did.

So go on; sew some zips on your trousers and pretend it’s 1976.

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Brighton Photo Biennial 4 October - 2 November 2014 FREE Calling all art aficionados for a month packed with exhibitions, screenings, talks and workshops spread all over the main creative spots in Brighton with the industry’s best.

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corporated R&B into the mix with Jean Deaux providing the vocals for ‘Woozy’. The band caught the attention of Wolf Tone, Paul Epworth’s new record label, with their self-released EP Leaflings.

They were signed in 2013 propelGlass Animals’ unique blend of ling them into the UK electro-indie electronica and pop is to descend scene with their EP Glass Animals and have just released their album upon the Haunt.

Whilst their music is not as Zaba. So if you want to experience the mesmerizing vocals of Edmund trippy as unicorns whisperIrwin accompanied by the band’s ing with no cowbell, the comic multifarious backing sounds then response the band gave in an come see Glass Animals. interview recently, there is an otherworldly quality to many of Tom Foster their tracks. They have also in-

GIGS A Winged Victory for the Sullen St. George’s Church Friday 17th October, 7pm £14 Consisting of Adam Wiltzie, of Stars of the Lid, and composer Dustin O’Halloran, A Winged Victory for the Sullen are a unique band that blend contemporary classical with ambient music and guitar drones to create beautiful, delicate soundscapes. St. George’s Church is a beautiful venue and a natural home for the band’s music. This is the perfect show for a relaxed Friday evening.

CLUB NIGHT

Boddika

Concorde 2 Friday 17th October 11PM-3AM £8 Swamp 81 stalwart Boddika returns to Brighton after a long year away. Once a member of experimental drum and bass unit Instra:mental, Boddika now finds himself releasing dark, foreboding techno both under his own name and with regular collaborator Joy Orbison. With support from up-and-comer South London Ordnance, this will no doubt be a big night. Get your gunfingers ready and head over to Concorde 2 on Friday.

Visual Art Mutator 1 + 2: Evolutionary Art by William Latham Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Digital Festival Wednesdays-Sundays 11am-5pm (until 13th Oct)

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Film Tony Benn: Will and Testament Duke of York’s Cinema Tuesday 14th October, 11am £8.40 Tony Benn was Britain’s longest serving politician; he served as a minister under numerous Labour governments, and remained a backbench MP for many years after leaving top tier politics. Skip Kite’s film offers a review of his illustrious, and sometimes controversial, career, largely via modest interviews in Benn’s own kitchen.

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GIGS Glass Animals The Haunt Monday 13th October 7:00pm £9.20

Fitzcarraldo

FILM

Fitzcarraldo

Fabrica Gallery Wed 15th October, 6:30pm FREE As a tie in with their current exhibition, REEF, Fabrica offer a free screening of Werner Herzog’s now seminal Fitzcarraldo. Centred around the eponymous, opera loving Fitzcarraldo, played by Klaus Kinski, the film focuses on the moving of a river boat across land to another river system. Epic, beautiful, and a little bit manic, Fitcarraldo is a classic.

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SPORTS

Can the all Conquering Men’s Hockey 1s Reach Even Greater Heights?

Cosmo Sanderson It’s not often that a team in any sport can lay claim to having had a perfect season, over the course of a year slips are inevitable, bad luck unavoidable and injuries probable, but last year Sussex men’s 1s defied the odds in quite spectacular fashion. Sweeping all be fore them in an campaign which saw

them win each and every one of their 16 games, scoring a hundred and one goals and conceding a mere 18 in the process, they were crowned champions of the BUCS South Eastern 2A league and winners of BUCS conference cup.

To put their stupendous form into context, on average if you were to go and watch Sussex’s best XI play it would be a poor day at the office for them if you

saw anything less than a 6-1 win.

But with a new season comes a new set of challenges for the 1s as they prepare for life in the BUCS South Eastern 1A league after their promotion from the 2A division. Success in this highest level of competition is now the criteria for them to be seen as having completely fulfilled their potential as one of Sussex’s most successful sporting teams.

The 1A league is unfamiliar territory for the 1s as for the last 10 years they have been the regular inhabitants of the two divisions below and there is certainly no room for complacency after last season.

They will also have to navigate these new waters without inspirational figures of former club captain Matt Needle and president Jack Fox who have both moved on from Sussex Hockey.

Both were key figures and will be sorely missed, but in new president James Maylon and captain Stuart Goodman

they have more than capable replacements that know the club inside out and who’s experience will be vital for continuing to take Sussex 1s forward. The continued good form of Gaston Golstein will again be key for Sussex this year as his creativity going forward last season was integral to the campaigns success.

Stuart Goodman will also be responsible for taking training this year after Peter Thomas stepped down from his role as head coach.

Sussex’s opposition in the BUCS 1A league this year comes from Chichester, King’s College, Reading, St Mary’s and UCL and by time of publication they will have already opened their league campaign at home to Chichester 1s on Wednesday 8th of October. Any opening day nerves from the Universities best XI about facing teams from the top division will be allayed by the knowledge that on the one occasion they did face a

team from the highest tier last season they came out victorious, 4-3 winners over King’s College 1s in the BUCS cup quarter finals.

They have also eased into this campaign with a 3-2 win over Kent University, who were relegated from the 1A league last year, in a pre-season warm-up match with goals coming from Stuart Goodman, Gaston Golstein and ‘fresher Jonny’, which gets them off the mark for the new season.

The quality of new recruits will be vital for Sussex to maintain their upward trajectory as they attempt to fill the gaps left by senior players.

Sussex’s next home game will be against Reading 1s at 14.00 on October 22nd and is expected to draw a big crowd so get to Falmer sports complex to give them support in what is due to be their toughest, most exciting and competitive season to date.

Week 1: Be careful, Chichester, we are back with furious vengeance

Whilst they are our fiercest rivals in most of the sports, offered in Sussex, University of Chichester possess a partisan crowd, which backs up their organizations everywhere they go. However, this week our sports clubs got the best of them in two thriller games

Men’s basketball: Friendly Hockey 1s: The perfect season opening Phil Sternberg Lamb Sussex men’s team faced their first challenge of the season this Wednesday in a friendly away game against the University of Chichester.

The first quarter started poorly, with Sussex trailing and seemingly lacking energy on the defensive side of the court. Despite clawing their way back to an 18-17 first quarter lead, the away side looked out of sync, with a lack of communication defensively hindering their ability to establish a larger lead.

Following a scrappy second quarter, the second half began with much more intensity from both teams than was seen in the first two quarters. G.Folarin shone for Sussex, scoring 14 in the second half of the game, including 10 straight points during a stretch in the 3rd quarter when the away team needed his athletic drives to the basket to open up the Chichester defense.

Strong second half scoring performances from him and A. Rosberg helped Sussex gain an 8-point lead in the third quarter. However, Chichester were allowed back into the game through a series of poor offensive sets and sloppy defense, to the point where the home team had regained the lead by 4 points by the end of the 3rd quarter.

Sussex fought hard to remain in a tough 4th quarter. Rosberg scored a clutch 3-point shot late

in the period off of fine offensive ball movement. With Sussex down by 2 points with less than 30 seconds remaining in the game, P.Ilznis knocked down 2 crucial free-throws to tie the game up.

After Chichester scored a freethrow of their own, Sussex found themselves down by 1 point with 16 seconds remaining and a chance to win the game. Jack Price knocked down a mid-range jumpshot with 2 seconds remaining off of a strong drive down the lane by Folarin. Price’s late heroics were enough to close the game for Sussex.

This was the perfect pre-season game for the Sussex squad, helping them build confidence through winning a close game together, but also giving them key areas to work on and improve before the first game of the regular season on Wednesday the 15th of October at home against Surrey.

If you are interested in coming along to watch, the game tips off at 14:00 at the Sports Centre.

The Sussex women’s basketball team also begin their regular season on the 15th at home against Brighton, beginning at 16:00, also at the Sport Centre.

WIN: 61-60 OUR TEAM G. Folarin 22 pts A. Rosberg 10 pts P. Ilznis 8 pts J. Price 8 pts

Cosmo Sanderson Sussex Men’s 1s came back from two goals down to beat Chichester 4-3 in an enthralling opening match of their league campaign in the BUCS South Eastern 1A division. Chichester shocked by Sussex scoring two goals in three first half minutes but Sussex mounted a second half comeback inspired by a Sam Chilvers hatrick to claim all three points in their opening game.

After an early morning downpour the sun had for the most part broken through by pushback at 14.00, although the early rain meant the ball was zipping fast across the wet AstroTurf. The tricky conditions may have contributed to a scrappy opening period with both teams struggling to fashion clear-cut chances.

Despite this, Sussex had the better of the opening exchanges and Gaston Golstein could have put them ahead on 8 minutes, dragging narrowly wide from a short corner. Harry White, playing at fullback, also put a few dangerous balls into the box after good work down the left flank which forwards failed to capitalise on.

However Sussex were made to pay for their early profligacy on 12 minutes when they failed to clear their lines from an attack and a Chichester forward was quickest to react in the box. Three minutes later and they were another goal

down from a well-worked Chichester short corner.

Chichester, buoyed with confidence, took the game to a shellshocked Sussex without creating many clear chances, but Golstein capitalised on a defensive lapse just before halftime to exchange quick passes on the break and slot home past the away keeper.

With the words of manager Peter Thomas still stinging their ears Sussex raced out of the blocks for the second half and could have been equal within a minute as Laurie Humphrey was sent clean through but dragged his shot wide. They were not made to wait long however as Chilvers hit a powerful shot which the Chichester keeper could only deflect into his own net to make the score 2-2.

Chichester were on the ropes but could have reclaimed the lead after a defender was caught in possession and only a strong stop from the Sussex keeper saved their blushes.

Chilvers won and converted a short corner to put Sussex ahead for the first time in the match on 50 minutes hitting low and hard into the bottom left of the goal.

Full of confidence Sussex pushed on and despite goal line heroics by the Chichester keeper and defender they found themselves further behind after Chilvers converted at the third attempt, lobbing the ball high into the net from close range.

Sussex had looked as vulnerable from short corners as Chichester

had looked dangerous and they conceded another late on, setting up a dramatic finale as the away side poured forward in search of an equalising goal. However despite two further short corners on 70 minutes, the final one after the full time whistle had already gone, Sussex survived a goalmouth scramble to the home supports delight and claimed the all important 3 points and get them up and running for the season.

Victory against the side who came second in the BUCS 1A league last year will give them confidence ahead of their match away at St Mary’s University College on the 15th of October, before their next home match on the 22nd against Reading.

WIN: 4-3

If you or your team are interested in being featured with match reports or club profiles, then please contact us. Player profiles are also welcomed with open arms badger- spor ts@ussu.sussex . ac.uk Vladko Grozev Sports Sub-Editor

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SOCIETIES SPOTLIGHT ADVERTISE YOUR SOCIETY

On this page you can find out about what our societies jave been up to and what their plans are for the coming weeks! You can view and join all of our 150 + socities online at www.sussexstudent.com/societies. If you’d like to advertise your society on this page, send your articles to societies@sussexstudent. com by 12pm on Wednesdays.

BRIGHTON & SUSSEX MARROW Every year, around 2,000 people are in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. For many suffering from blood cancer this is their last shot at survival. The Anthony Nolan register works to match potential donors (such as you) with blood cancer patients awaiting transplants.

However, matches are hard to find, so it is vital as many people as possible join the register to increase patients’ chances of finding a match.

On Thursday 16th October, Brighton and Sussex Marrow are hosting a recruitment event in the student common room, located upstairs in Falmer House, for new potential donors. Just drop in any time between 11am and 3pm to find out more about our society, the Anthony Nolan register, and to sign up if you’d be happy to donate.

Signing up involves filling out a couple of forms and spitting in a tube: a maximum of 20 minutes of your day. The process of donating itself, if you’re ever called up, is similar to giving blood (stories of drilling into hips for marrow are, for the majority, happily something of the past).

University Marrow organisations were responsible for 1 in 5 bone marrow donors recruited last year, and as young people are medically the best-suited to donate bone marrow, the student population is at its prime time to sign up.

Most of us have bone marrow in excess, which could be the difference between life and death for a patient with blood cancer. If you haven’t already, it’s about time you thought about sharing; if the tables were turned you’d hope someone else would do the same for you.

So spread the word, come along to our recruitment drive and let’s try to beat cancer together!

If you’d like to get involved with

Sussex Marrow, be it through fundraising or volunteering at the recruitment drives, then please get in contact via email at sussex@ ukmarrow.org or check out our Facebook and Twitter pages for more information: www.facebook.com/ sussexmarrow and @sussexmarrow.

Training (plus biscuits) will be provided for new volunteers in the week running up to the event.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

ond term (last two locations have been Brussels and Prague).

If this has sparked your interest Hi! GeogSoc is for everyone at the at all, check out our Facebook page: University of Sussex (particularly University of Sussex European Ungeographers) and we run socials Last year was an exciting and busy ion Society. throughout the year to help you year for the International Relameet people outside of lectures. tions society with many popular We have Facebook and Twit- events such as our Expert panel ter pages to keep you up to date on Ukraine and our UV Global with events that we are run- Studies Social. The year came to ning to ensure that you get your a close with our annual fund- We educate ourselves and others say in our student-run society. raising ball and our trip to Brus- about all sorts of waste and acDuring your first term, we join sels in which we participated in tively do something to reduce it. you on your local field trip and talks and discussions at NATO We have weekly meetings with We are the Nichiren Buddhism Sociprovide interesting activities. and the European Parliament. different topics and tips and tricks ety - SGI Sussex Uni. SGI-UK is the UK We also organise pub quizzes, We want to create a community to reduce waste; we advise other branch of Soka Gakkai International, a countries social and a Christmas in which debate is encouraged societies how to make their events socially engaged Buddhist movement meal along with a Geography sum- and also provide a space for you less wasteful; we organize food based on the teachings of the 13th mer ball to celebrate the end of the to relax and meet new people. sharing groups on campus; cook century Buddhist teacher Nichiren. academic year with all your course So whether you study IR and want and distribute food that would At the heart of the philosophy is a friends. This year, the GeogSoc are to meet up with people on your otherwise go to waste; promote concept known as ‘human revolution’, planning a trip to Berlin for Spring course, are interested in current and facilitate change in the Uniwhereby the inner change sparked by affairs, or perhaps you have just versity’s and SU’s waste policy Buddhist practice leads to courage, heard how awesome our socials are and we organize one off-events! compassion and wisdom, fostering - get involved with the Internation- Join us for free - there is a type of fulfilled individuals with a wish to waste for everyone! contribute to creating a better world. The main objective of the MEXSAS We meet on campus once a week dur- is to promote Mexican science, culing term time and holidays, to chant ture and traditions through the orNam-myoho-renge-kyo together. It’s a ganization of academic, cultural and The TED society is a community of time for participants to chant togeth- social events directed to all the stu- TED fans and enthusiasts, with the er, study the writings of Nichiren Dais- dents in the University regardless of common goal to share ‘Ideas Worth honin and modern day peace activist their nationality, sex, religion, race, Spreading’. Our main aim is to orDaisaku Ikeda and discuss the prac- political preferences and other in- ganise a TEDx event every year. Joining a socieity is a real must tical benefits of their daily practice. dividual characteristics or beliefs. Last year’s event was a huge success. for all students.Because of the This year we’re holding our an- This year we are looking forward to wide variety of societies Sussex The meetings are designed to welcome guests. Join our Facebook group nual ‘Day of the Dead’ event in make ‘TEDxSussexUniversity 2015’ has to offer, there is something for October with the typical Day of bigger and better than ever. We are everyone. Most of the socities (SGI Sussex Uni) for more details! the Dead Altar, traditional face excited to bring together a diverse don’t mind if you just turn up occapainting, food and celebrations. group of people who are interest- sionally, so there’s really no harm We’re also organising our very first ed and curious about new ideas. in giving them a go! Furthermore, Each week we meet together to they look incredible on your CV! This week is an exciting one for RAG, Mexico Day in March – an entire day discuss, debate, spread our own as we will be hosting our Charity Fair! of academic and cultural activities! ideas, and contribute to organCome along to Falmer House Common ising our very own TEDx event.

Room on Wednesday to meet repreAll in all, it is about connecting sentatives from some of our sponsored with interesting and fun-loving Student Media is a huge part of life charities, and have a chat about the Do you love watching animated people, having great conversations on Sussex Campus. UniTV, URF amazing work that they do, as well as films and cartoons? If so, Anand getting involved in an aweand The Badger all work hard to jobs in the third sector, and volunteer, im8s: Animation Fans United is some event. cover events on campus and keep graduate and internship opportunities. the place for you! We’re a friendly you up to date. All outlets have a Speaking of opportunities, could society who meet on campus once great presence on social media, you hitch hike to Morocco? Or a week to watch an animated film be it Facebook or Twitter - so get Croatia? University is the time voted for by you, the members! involved and see what we’re all to say yes and take on these once From Disney to Dreamworks, in a lifetime challenges, and sign Aardman to Pixar, we show it If you’re looking for a bit of diver- about! up for Hitch is currently OPEN! all! We hold socials throughout sity, then you have to join the EuFor more information about how the year such as cinema trips, ropean Union Society! Unlike the to sign up, and profiles for each of karaoke nights and laser tag. name might suggest it’s not a soRAG’s 2014/15 chosen charities you We’re also the current East Slope ciety for people from the EU only.

We all come from different councan find us on Facebook, Twitter, Bar Disney Pub Quiz champiand the USSU website. Finally, it was ons, winning two years running! tries around the world and we lovely to see so many of you enjoyWe want this year to be big- study different subjects, but we ing our cakes at last week’s bake sale! ger and better than ever, so have one very important thing Thank you to those who donated the find us on Facebook at ‘Sussex in common: we love meeting yummy goods, and those who bought University – Anime8s: Anima- like-minded people who enjoy a them - from us and the NSPCC! Have tion Fans United’ for updates! healthy debate about the most cona great week!

We look forward to welcoming troversial issues of the moment.

We organize academic events lots of new members this term to during the year (lectures with difwatch some films, chill out at Falmferent professors or debates), as er Bar and have fun! well as some crazy socials but our favourite event is the annual trip we organize in the sec-

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We’ve got loads of events on this term. Something for everyone. Open to all.

Check out our programme and sign up at www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/events

Events this week: Monday 13 October

Thursday 16 October

● Enterprise Rent-a-car drop in, 11 am—1 pm

● Introduction to Sussex Plus, 11 am

● CV Clinic, 3—4 pm

● Knowing your options, 12 pm

Tuesday 14 October

● City Internships for students from Ethnic Minorities with SEO London, 1 pm

● Assessment Centres, 11 am ● CV Writing, 1 pm ● Interview Preparation, 1.45 pm

..highlights next week:

● BUNAC, Summer in the US, 3 pm

Monday 20 October

● Careers in Teaching, 4.30 pm

● Careers in Risk & Wealth Management, 2.30 pm

Wednesday 15 October

● Living & Working in China, 1 pm

● Placements Short Talk, 10 am ● International Students—Apply your skills in the workplace, 12.30

Wednesday 21 October ● Is Entrepreneurship for me? 10 am,

● Bloomberg Aptitude Test, 1 pm ● How can I improve my study skills, 3.30 pm

Full details of these and all our other events, including venue and sign up at

www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/events

OPEN DAY

Saturday 8 November 2014 DIPLOMA, MA & MFA

See the College in action, explore the workshops and studios, talk to tutors and students and find out about funding.

TO BOOK YOUR VISIT t: 01243 818 291 e: diplomas@westdean.org.uk

www.westdean.org.uk

CONSERVATION Books Ceramics Clocks Furniture Metalwork Care of Collections and Conservation Management CREATIVE ARTS Visual Arts Creative Writing Stringed Musical Instruments Affiliated with

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Arts

Listings: UniTV and URF

Monday 13th

Tuesday 14th

Wednesday 15th

Scumbag College

The Burrito Show

Afternoon Alternative

11am-12pm

Hosted by Lottie Brazier

An Afternoon with Charles and James - 12-1pm Hosted by Charlie Wall

11am-12pm

Hosted by Nick Stewart

Earlier With Ellie Holland 1-2pm

12-1pm

Hosted by Ellie Holland

Hosted by Francesca Powell

The Paddy Hour 1-2pm

SUDS Soapbox

Friday 17th

Thursday 16th

Hosted by Paddy Osmond

The URF Review Show 11am-1pm

Hosted by John McKenna-Hughes

12-2pm

Magazine & Wine Party 2-3pm

Hosted by Em Chittock

Hosted by Holly Hagan-Walker

The Sam Berkay Show

Paige with Guests

Sian’s Pic N Mix

1-2pm

Hosted by Paige Smith

Live it live with Jonny Meah 2-3pm

Hosted by Jonny Meah

The Electric Hour 5-6pm

Hosted by Ollie Heathcock

Little Al’s Big Show 2-3pm

6-7pm

Hosted by Nick Werren

The B/C Sandwich 7-8pm

Hosted by Benji Kusi

Going Nowhere Slow 8-9pm

Everyday Desert Island Discs 3-4pm

Hosted by Alex Mason

The Magical Music Tour 4-5pm

Anorak Ashtray 6-7pm

Hosted by Joseph Oliver

Anorak Ashtray 6-7pm

Hosted by Joseph Oliver

The Everything Hour 7-8pm

Hosted by Julian Paszkiewicz

Hosted by Lewis Cockle

Gardeners’ Hour

Cult of the Black Pudding

Hosted by Sam Hislop

1-2pm

Hosted by Akintunde Akinsowon

Mole

8-9pm

Hosted by Beau O’Shea

6-7pm

The World Show Holly Cassidy 4-5pm

Hosted by Sebastian Tiley

5-6pm

Hosted by Callum Sellins

Retrofit

Hosted by Holly Cassidy

5-6pm

Hosted by Matthew Locke-Cooper

6-7pm

7-8pm

Hosted by Sam Siva

Tropical Hot Dog Night

The URF News Show

Hosted by Thomas Powell and Raymond Jennings

Hosted by Benji Kusi

Night Falls

Hosted by Elana Crowley

Stone’s Throw

6-7pm

8-9pm

Tangled Roots 8-9pm

Hosted by Chloe Mo

Alphabet Soup

Hosted by Adam Whitmore

Hosted byHarry Reddick

The Mo-mentous Show

7-8pm

7-8pm

Discocks

The Green Frog Show

Hosted by Thomas Houlton

9-10pm

Hosted by Sam Berkay

Hosted by Alice Finney

Hosted by James Blay

The Nick Werren Show

2-4pm

Hosted by Sian Williams

4-5pm

Jeremiah’s Urban Central

8-9pm

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9-10pm

Hosted by Tiago Franco

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