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7EDNESDAY TH *ANUARY 5%! S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
5%! BIDS FOR "LACKDALE SCHOOL SITE 0(), "!.+3
)SABEL $YSON .EWS %DITOR ! BUILDING FOR GRADUATION CEREMONIES AND A NEW SITE FOR THE PROPOSED SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY COULD BE IN THE PIPELINE FOR 5%! ! CONTROVERSIAL a MIL LION BID FROM 5%! TO BUY THE SITE OF "LACKDALE -IDDLE 3CHOOL WHICH LIES BEHIND THE 3PORTSPARK ON "LUEBELL 2OAD HAS BEEN GIVEN AN INITIAL GREEN LIGHT 4HE DEAL FOR THE PROVISIONAL SALE OF "LACKDALE -IDDLE 3CHOOL TO THE 5NIVERSITY WAS AGREED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS BY .OR FOLK #OUNTY #OUNCIL S RULING #ABINET !LTHOUGH THE SALE OF THE SCHOOL SITE TO 5%! IS SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENT APPROVAL AND PLANNING PERMISSION THE
a MILLION RECEIVED FROM THE DEAL IS PLANNED TO BE IN VESTED BACK INTO A a MIL LION PROJECT TO BUILD lVE NEW PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN .ORWICH 4HE RE ORGANISATION PRO GRAMME OF LOCAL SCHOOLS WILL MEAN "LACKDALE S SALE WOULD SEE A a MILLION SCHOOL BUILT ON THE CURRENT .ORTHlELDS &IRST 3CHOOL IN ,OVELACE 2OAD 'OVERNORS AT NEIGHBOUR ING %ARLHAM (IGH 3CHOOL FEAR THAT THE SALE WOULD DAMAGE ITS BID FOR 3PECIALIST 3PORTS #OLLEGE STATUS BECAUSE IT WOULD LOSE A FOOTBALL PITCH 4HE lRST EVER HEAD TEACHER OF THE SCHOOL SAID h)TgS A CRIME TO SELL +EEP THE LAND FOR "LACKDALE v 2ESIDENTS AND
PARENTS AT NEARBY .ORTHlELDS HAVE LED A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE RE ORGANISATION PLANS SUGGESTING THAT A NEW SCHOOL ON THE LARGER "LACKDALE SITE
WOULD BE MORE EFlCIENT 4HE POSSIBLE SALE WILL BRING FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS TO A 5%! SITE THAT HAS AL READY SEEN NUMEROUS INNO
VATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OVER THE LAST DECADE ! NEW DENTISTRY SCHOOL WILL ENLARGE 5%! S NATIONAL APPEAL FURTHER AND A PROPOSED GRADUATION
BUILDING WILL BE A WELCOME ADDITION FOR STUDENTS WHO PRESENTLY GRADUATE FROM BUILDINGS THAT ARE USED FOR #ONTINUED ON 0AGE
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5NION SLAMS -0gS LACK OF RESPECT
! DATE HAS BEEN SET THAT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER THE POSI TION OF %DITOR AT #ONCRETE IS TO BECOME AN ELECTED ROLE IN FUTURE YEARS 4HE INITIAL PROPOSAL THAT THE EDITORSHIP SHOULD BE ELECTED WAS PUT TO 5NION #OUNCIL THOUGH A PETITION BROUGHT IT TO A STUDENT VOTE WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE ON -ONDAY TH AND 4UESDAY TH &EBRUARY -EMBERS OF THE #ON CRETE 3OCIETY HAVE SAID THAT THE CONTROVERSIAL CALL COULD
3TUDENTS IN .ORWICH HAVE ACCUSED #HARLES #LARKE OF USING THEM AS SCAPEGOAT TO PUSH THROUGH THE GOVERN MENT S 2ESPECT AGENDA #HARLES #LARKE ANGERED 5%! STUDENTS IN HIS .OR WICH CONSTITUENCY WHEN HE CLAIMED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE .EW 9EAR THAT CONSTITU ENTS HAD OBJECTED TO A mAT OCCUPIED BY STUDENTS SAYING THEY hDO ABSOLUTELY NOTH ING TO QUELL THEIR LOUD NOISE LOUD MUSIC AND DISRUPTION OF THEIR LIVES v
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MEAN AN UNSKILLED CANDIDATE WITH NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE OF THE PAPER BUT WITH GOOD CAMPAIGN SKILLS HAS THE OP PORTUNITY TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER 4HEY ARGUE THAT UNLIKE 5NION %XECUTIVE POSITIONS THE ROLE OF %DITOR IS NOT TO REPRESENT STUDENTS !S IS THE CASE WITH ALL OTHER PAID 5N ION POSITIONS SUCH AS SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION STAFF THE %DITOR IS CURRENTLY CHOSEN AC CORDING TO THEIR ABILITIES NOT THROUGH AN ELECTION
4HE CURRENT PROCESS OF AL LOCATING AN %DITOR INCLUDES SUBMITTING A #6 AND COVER ING LETTER WITH A WORD CONSULTANCY DOCUMENT 4HIS IS FOLLOWED BY A PANEL IN TERVIEW 4HE USE OF SPECIAL IST PROGRAMMES INCLUDING )N$ESIGN AND 0HOTOSHOP TO A HIGH STANDARD IS ALSO RE QUIRED #AMPAIGNING WILL BEGIN ON TH &EBRUARY AND HUS TINGS WILL BE ON TH &EBRU ARY BETWEEN AND PM IN THE ,#2
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ING PROJECTS v #HARLES #LARKE WAS CRITI CISED FOR HAVING LITTLE COM PASSION IN HIS DEALINGS WITH STUDENT VIEWS !NDY (IGSON #OM MUNICATIONS /FlCER AT 5%! SAID h#HARLES #LARKE SHOULD KNOW THAT RESPECT HAS TO BE EARNED AND IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER THIS GOVERNMENT WHICH HAS LIED OVER INTRO DUCTION OF TUITION FEES AND THEN INTRODUCED TOP UP FEES CAN CLAIM ANY RESPECT WHAT SO EVER v
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7EDNESDAY TH *ANUARY
5%! PLANS FOR FURTHER EXPANSION 0(), "!.+3
#ONTINUED FROM 0AGE ALTERNATIVE PURPOSES DURING TERM TIME .ORFOLK #OUNTY #OUNCIL IS WORKING ON A a MILLION PRIVATE lNANCE DEAL TO BUILD NEW SCHOOLS IN .ORWICH AT (EARTSEASE ,AKENHAM .OR
MAN .ORTHlELDS AND 4HORPE (AMLET AS PLANS ARE PUT IN PLACE TO PHASE OUT THE SYS TEM OF MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND INTRODUCE PRIMARY SCHOOLS THAT PUPILS WILL LEAVE AT THE AGE OF ELEVEN AND CONTINUE ONTO SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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2OSALIE -ONBIOT .OR FOLK #OUNTY #ABINET MEM BER FOR CHILDREN S SERVICES EXPLAINED h4HERE WAS NOTH ING UNDERHAND ABOUT IT .ORMALLY WHEN YOU CLOSE A SCHOOL OR ARE GOING TO SELL OFF A PLAYING lELD YOU HAVE DIS
4HE EAGERLY AWAITED RE OPENING OF THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE FOR 6ISUAL !RTS IS DUE TO GO AHEAD IN -AY MARKED BY AN EXHIBITION OF RARE AND UNUSUAL 0OLYNESIAN ARTWORKS
&%!452%3 /N *ANUARY TH THE USUALLY SEDATE PEWS OF 3T 0ETER -ANCROFT CHURCH WILL BE ROCKING TO THE SOUNDS OF A LIVE $* AS A NEW TYPE OF SERVICE BRINGS RELIGION INTO THE NOUGHTIES
)N $ECEMBER THE PEOPLE OF )RAQ WENT TO THE POLLS BUT WHAT DOES DEMOCRACY MEAN FOR THIS WAR TORN COUNTRY AND WILL THE COMPETING FACTIONS BE ABLE TO MAKE IT WORK
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DALE SITE ON TH $ECEMBER 4HE SITE INCLUDES THE SCHOOL BUILDING ITS PLAYING lELDS AND A SECTION OF THE ADJOIN ING "LACKDALE 0LANTATION "RIAN 3UMMERS THE 2EG ISTRAR AND 3ECRETARY AT 5%! SAID h)N THE CURRENT HIGHLY COMPETITIVE CLIMATE THE 5NIVERSITY NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE FACILITIES IT OF FERS TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS h5%! CURRENTLY BRINGS OVER a MILLION A YEAR INTO THE .ORWICH ECONOMY 4HIS SITE WHICH ADJOINS THE CAMPUS WILL GIVE US MORE mEXIBILITY IN OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 5NIVERSITY THAT WOULD BE OF BENElT TO THE CITY AND SUR ROUNDING AREA 7E ALSO HOPE
TO OPEN UP THE WOODLAND TO PUBLIC ACCESS v 0AUL 6ENN #HILDREN S 3ERVICES 3ENIOR %DUCATION /FlCER SAID h7E WORK ON THE BASIS THAT THE PREFERRED OPTION IS ALWAYS OTHER #OUN TY #OUNCIL USES WITH #HIL DREN S 3ERVICES BEING THE TOP PRIORITY 4HERE ARE NO #HIL DREN S 3ERVICES OR #OUNTY #OUNCIL OPTIONS FOR THE SITE 5%! APPROACHED US AND WE HAVE HELD INITIAL DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM TO EXPLORE POSSI BILITIES v "EFORE ANY PLANS CAN BE PUT INTO ACTION 5%! WILL lRST NEED TO OBTAIN PLANNING PER MISSION 4HE PROPOSALS ARE EXPECTED TO BE PUT FORWARD LATE IN
&EARS OF SERIOUS ILLNESS BROUGHT BY CLIMATE CHANGE
! BOMB SCARE WAS NARROWLY AVERTED ON CAMPUS BEFORE #HRISTMAS WHEN A SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE TURNED OUT TO BE A PROJECT BELONGING TO AN %NVIRONMENTAL 3CIENCES STUDENT
CUSSIONS WITH THE COMMUNI TY %ARLHAM 3CHOOL WERE IN VOLVED IN THE DISCUSSIONS )T WOULD HAVE BEEN INDEPEND ENTLY VALUED AND THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF NOT GETTING THE BEST POSSIBLE ADVICE v /F FEARS THAT THE SITE WOULD BE TAKEN OUT OF COM MUNITY USE IF BOUGHT BY 5%! SHE SAID h7ITH 5%! AS THE NEW OWNERS THE SITE WOULD REMAIN IN EDUCATIONAL USE AND THE MONEY FROM THE SALE CAN BE INVESTED TO BENElT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE .ORWICH AREA v 4HE "LACKDALE -IDDLE 3CHOOL IS SET TO CLOSE AT THE END OF THE SUMMER TERM IN 5%! MADE THE PROVI SIONAL OFFER TO BUY THE "LACK
)SABEL $YSON 3CIENTISTS HAVE REVEALED THE POSSIBILITY OF SERIOUS ILLNESS ES LINKED TO "RITAIN S GROWING WARMER CLIMATE ! RISE IN FOOD POISONING WATER BORNE DISEASE AND MA LARIA COULD BECOME A REALITY IN "RITAIN AS WARMER WETTER WEATHER LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE INCREASES 0ROFESSOR -IKE (ULME $IRECTOR OF THE 4YNDALL #ENTRE AT 5%! BE LIEVES CLIMATE CHANGE FUND ING NEEDS TO BE RE EVALUATED 0ROFESSOR (ULME CLAIMED THAT SOCIETY CAN ONLY LEARN TO COPE WITH GLOBAL WARMING IF IT IS ACCEPTED THAT MORE THAN SIMPLY THE WORK OF SCIENTISTS
TO lND APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS IS NEEDED 0ROFESSOR 0AUL (UNTER FROM -%$ AT 5%! SUGGESTED THAT HOTTER SUMMERS COULD LEAD TO MORE SALMONELLA CASES AS PEOPLE OPT FOR MORE BARBECUES IN NICER WEATHER BUT LEAVE FOOD OUT OF THE FRIDGE "RITAIN COULD ALSO EXPERIENCE MALARIA CASES THOUGH THE EFFECTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM COULD TACKLE ANY OUTBREAKS AND SHIELD MAJOR EPIDEMICS 0ROFESSOR (UNTER ALSO EX PRESSED CONCERN THAT HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN COULD LEAD TO AN INCREASE IN OUT BREAKS OF THE WATER BORNE BUG CRYPTOSPORIDIUM WHICH CAUSES DIARRHOEA VOMITING AND STOMACH CRAMPS 0ROFESSOR (UNTER EX
PLAINED h4HIS WAS ESPECIALLY LIKELY IN THE @PERIPHERY OF WATER SUPPLY SUCH AS IN FARMS AND HOLIDAY COTTAGES WHERE WATER FACILITIES WERE NOT SUPPLIED FROM THE MAIN NETWORK h4HERE S STILL AN UNBE LIEVABLY HIGH PROPORTION OF PEOPLE THAT DRINK PRIVATE WATER SUPPLIES AND EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT THESE PARTICULAR SUPPLIES ARE VERY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HEAVY RAINFALLS v )F CLIMATE SCIENTISTS PROVE TO BE CORRECT THE PAST YEARS THAT HAVE SEEN EXTREME WEATHER ARE SET TO BECOME COMMONPLACE BY THE END OF THIS CENTURY 0REDICTIONS THAT BY THE AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE WILL RISE BY ANY THING FROM O# TO AROUND O# WILL PROVOKE POTENTIALLY
DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES $AVID 6INER OF THE #LI MATIC 2ESEARCH 5NIT AT 5%! SAID h7E ARE GOING TO SEE VERY HIGH RATES OF EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES AND AS A RESULT TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO RESPOND ACCORDINGLY AND WE WILL SEE VERY HIGH RATES OF CLIMATE CHANGE 4HE KEY TO CHANGE WOULD BE A SERIOUS ATTEMPT TO RE DUCE OUR USE OF FOSSIL FUELS AND TO MINIMISE EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES v 4ONY *UNIPER $IRECTOR OF &RIENDS OF THE %ARTH BE LIEVES THE "RITISH PUBLIC ARE READY TO EMBRACE THE NEW APPROACH h*UST AS RECYCLING HAS BECOME PART OF OUR LIVES SO COULD THINKING ABOUT HOW OUR ACTIONS AFFECT THE CLIMATE v
TRUST DETOX DIETS ARE A WASTE OF MONEY (ERE S WHY YOU D BE MUCH BETTER OFF HAVING A LARGE GLASS OF WATER AND A LIE DOWN
3USTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COULD BE USED TO KEEP THE
/PPORTUNITY TO STUDY IN 3PAIN FOR LAW STUDENTS
CONCERNS OF THE ENVIRONMENT AT THE TOP OF THE HOUSING AGENDA 4URF REPORTS FROM A PILOT COMMUNITY IN ,ODDON
#/--%.4 7ITH LEVELS OF PAY FOR WOMEN LANGUISHING BEHIND THOSE FOR MEN POST FEMINIST "RITAIN IS STILL FAILING TO PROVIDE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOTH GENDERS
30/24 .OW THAT ARCHERY AND SHOOTING HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED ONTO THE LIST OF /LYMPIC SPORTS COULD DARTS BE NEXT /UR REPORTER PULLS HIMSELF A PINT AND STEPS UP TO THE OCHE
)SABEL $YSON 3TUDENTS STUDYING ,AW AT 5%! ARE TO HAVE THE OP TION OF TAKING A YEAR OF THEIR COURSE IN 3PAIN AS OF 4HE NEW PROGRAMME IS TO BE LAUNCHED AT 5%! AND WILL SEE STUDENTS STUDYING 3PANISH LANGUAGE CULTURE AND HISTORY BEFORE UNDERTAK ING A YEAR IN 3PAIN 4HE AIM OF THE INITIATIVE IS TO BROADEN
THE UNDERSTANDING OF %URO PEAN #OMMUNITY ,AW AND IMPROVE THE GRASP OF THE THIRD MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD )N THE SECOND YEAR OF THE ,AW COURSE STUDENTS WILL BE TUTORED IN POST ! LEVEL 3PAN ISH AND MODERN 3PANISH HIS TORY BEFORE THEIR THIRD YEAR IS SPENT STUDYING LAW AT EITHER 3ALAMANCA 5NIVERSITY OR $EUTSO 5NIVERSITY IN "ILBOA !LTHOUGH THE POSSIBILITY TO STUDY FOR A YEAR IN 3PAIN HAS ALREADY BEEN AVAILABLE TO
STUDENTS ON THE ,AW WITH %U ROPEAN ,EGAL 3YSTEMS COURSE AT 5%! THE PREPARATORY YEAR STUDYING 3PANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IS A NEW SCHEME THAT HAS BEEN INTRODUCED IN RESPONSE TO STUDENT DE MAND 4HE $IRECTOR OF 5%! S ,AW 3CHOOL EXCHANGE PRO GRAMMES #LAUDINA 2ICH ARDS EXPLAINED THE RELEVANCE OF THE NEW PLANS IN REFERENCE TO 3PAIN AND ,ATIN !MERICA S GROWING ECONOMIC AND CUL TURAL INmUENCE ON THE WORLD
h3PANISH IS NOW THE THIRD MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE AFTER #HINESE AND %NGLISH WITH AROUND MILLION PEOPLE SPEAKING IT IN TWENTY ONE COUNTRIES )T IS EXPECTED TO BE THE lRST LANGUAGE OF lFTY PER CENT OF THE 53 POPULATION WITHIN lFTY YEARS v 4HE NEW FOUR YEAR LAW COURSE IS OPEN TO THOSE WITH A MINIMUM GRADE " IN ! LEVEL 3PANISH OR EQUIVALENT 4HE lRST STUDENTS ON THE NEW COURSE WILL BE ADMITTED IN 3EPTEMBER
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(AS ANYONE LOST A FERRET ! STRAY FERRET WAS FOUND ON CAMPUS ON -ONDAY TH *ANUARY AND ITS RESCUERS ARE LOOKING TO TRACE ITS OWNER 4HE ANIMAL WAS TAKEN TO THE 0!#4 !NIMAL 3ANCTUARY BY STAFF AT THE #AREERS #ENTRE WHO DISCOVERED IT WANDERING AROUND OUTSIDE THEIR BUILD ING h7E HAD GREAT FUN CATCH ING THE FERRET v SAID 'EORGE ,ANG OF THE 5%! 6OLUNTEERS )F ANYONE KNOWS WHO THE OWNER IS PLEASE CONTACT 0!#4 ON
4HE $ARKNESS RETURN TO 5%! ,YCRA CLAD ROCK GROUP THE $ARKNESS WILL RETURN TO 5%! ON 4HURSDAY TH *ANUARY TO PLAY A WARM UP SHOW FOR THEIR NEW TOUR 4HE BAND S PREVIOUS ,#2 GIG SOLD OUT IN ONLY A FEW HOURS WITH TICKETS LATER CHANGING HANDS ON E"AY FOR OVER a 4HE TOUR ACCOM PANIES THEIR SECOND ALBUM /NE 7AY 4ICKET TO (ELL AND "ACK
%.6 PROJECT TRIGGERS BOMB SCARE .ATALIE %VANS (ARDING 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF %AST !N GLIA WAS HIT WITH A BOMB SCARE ON TH $ECEMBER WHEN A MALE STUDENT FOUND A SUSPICIOUS PACK AGE STRAPPED TO A LAMPPOST OUTSIDE 5NION (OUSE 3TUDENTS AND STAFF IN #ONGREGATION (ALL WERE EVACUATED AND &IRST BUSES WERE ORDERED NOT TO ENTER CAMPUS FROM "LUEBELL 2OAD 5%! 3ECURITY WERE ALERT ED AND THE AREA WAS COR DONED OFF AT PM FOR A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION 4HE POLICE WERE CALLED MIN UTES AFTER THE SUSPECT DEVICE WAS FOUND 7ITHIN TEN MIN UTES OF THE POLICE ARRIVING AN %.6 STUDENT CLAIMED OWNER SHIP OF THE CONTRAPTION AND REVEALED THAT IT WAS FOR A PROJECT TO MEASURE AIR POLLU TION !FTER CAREFUL EXAMINA TION THE DEVICE WAS FOUND TO BE HARMLESS
h) WAS SO SCARED v SAID PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES STU DENT ,IZ 0ICKERING h4HE BUS DRIVER TOLD US THAT THERE WAS A BOMB ON CAMPUS (E HAD BEEN GIVEN ORDERS TO TURN AROUND SO WE ALL HAD TO GET OFF ON 4HE !VENUES ) TRIED CALLING ALL MY FRIENDS IM MEDIATELY )T REMINDED ME OF ) COULD HEAR POLICE SIRENS IN THE DISTANCE BUT NO ONE SEEMED ALARMED AT ALL 4HERE WAS A SMALL CROWD GATHERING AROUND THE COR DONS BUT WHEN ) WENT TO THE (IVE TO SEARCH FOR MY FRIENDS NO ONE HAD ANY IDEA THAT A BOMB INVESTIGATION WAS GO ING ON JUST OUTSIDE v 3ECURITY GROUND STAFF DID NOT REVEAL THE NATURE OF THE ENQUIRY DESPITE A GATHERING STUDENT INTEREST AROUND THE TAPED OFF AREAS 7HEN ASKED WHY STUDENTS HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED OR FURTHER EVACU ATIONS ENFORCED 5%! PRESS OFlCE REPLIED THAT hNOT EVEN STAFF WERE TOLDv 4HE POLICE SAID THAT THE SCARE WAS COV ERED UP SO AS NOT TO hRAISE
THE PROlLEv OF THE CASE h)T IS SENSIBLE IN THESE CIRCUM STANCES TO PREVENT FURTHER PEOPLE ENTERING AN AREA WHICH MAY BE UNDER THREAT AND TO AVOID A CROWD EMERG ING UNTIL WE KNOW WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH v -IKE -C#ORMACK !C CESS 3ECURITY /PERATIONS -ANAGER OF 5%! ADMITTED THAT SECURITY PROCEDURES HAD NOT BEEN STEPPED UP SINCE THE !L@1AEDA ATTACKS OF 3EP TEMBER TH OR *ULY TH -R -C#ORMACK SAID SECURITY
STAFF COMPLIED BY STANDARD PROCEDURES THAT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED @A LONG TIME AGO BUT DECLINED TO GO INTO DE TAILS OF 5%! S ANTI TERRORIST MEASURES 4O SOME STUDENTS THIS IN CIDENT WILL BE A REMINDER OF .ORWICH S SUMMER BOMB SCARE ON TH *ULY 4HE DAY AFTER THE ,ONDON 5NDER GROUND BOMBINGS HUNDREDS OF SHOPPERS AND STAFF WERE EVACUATED FROM #ASTLE -ALL AND #ASTLE -EADOW AND FORCED ONTO THE STREET !FTER
THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCE MENT THAT TERRORIST THREAT LEVELS WERE OF hCRITICALv RAT ING THE EMERGENCY SERVICES CALLED POLICE lRElGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS TO THE SCENE h4HERE IS NO INTELLIGENCE TO SUGGEST .ORWICH OR THE 5%! IS UNDER ANY SPECIlC THREAT OF TERRORIST ATTACK v SAID A POLICE SPOKESPERSON h(OWEVER WE WOULD AL WAYS ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE VIGILANT AND REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS PACKAGES OR PER SONS v
-AKE YOUR OPINION HEARD IN THE SECOND .ATIONAL 3TUDENT 3URVEY )SABEL $YSON 5%! IS TO TAKE PART IN THE .ATIONAL 3TUDENT 3URVEY IN AS THE SCHEME ENTERS ITS SECOND YEAR 4HE .33 IS UNDERTAKEN BY )PSOS -/2) AND IS DESIGNED TO GIVE STUDENTS THE OPPORTU NITY TO DETERMINE THE DIREC TION OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR FUTURE PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS )N THE WEEK BEGINNING TH *ANUARY lNAL YEAR UN DERGRADUATES WILL BE CONTACT ED BY E MAIL AND GIVEN THE OPTION TO lLL OUT AN ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE 4HE SCHEME IS SET UP BY (IGHER %DUCATION FUNDING BODIES IN %NGLAND 7ALES AND .ORTHERN )RELAND AND .53 4HE SURVEY IS IN ITS SEC OND YEAR AND LAST YEAR S RE SULTS RANKED 5%! IN THE TOP lVE UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUN TRY FOR STUDENT SATISFACTION 4HE SURVEY ENJOYED IMMENSE SUCCESS WITH OVER STUDENTS RESPOND ING OF "RITIAN S STUDENT POPULATION
4HE .33 EXPLORES STUDENT OPINIONS TOWARDS THE QUALITY OF THEIR COURSE AND UNIVERSI TY 4HE RESULTS ARE USED BY FU TURE STUDENTS CHOOSING WHAT AND WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE TO STUDY 4HEY ARE ALSO EVALU ATED BY THE RELEVANT INSTITU TIONS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE WHAT THEY OFFER TO STUDENTS *ULIAN .ICOLS 6ICE 0RESI DENT OF %DUCATION FOR THE .53 SAID h4HE .ATIONAL
3TUDENT 3URVEY GIVES lNAL YEAR STUDENTS A UNIQUE OP PORTUNITY TO INFORM FUTURE STUDENTS ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THEIR STUDENT EXPERIENCE h0ROSPECTIVE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO COMPARE STANDARDS IN A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS GIVING THEM VALUABLE INFORMATION WHICH CAN HELP IN MAKING CHOICES ABOUT THEIR (IGHER %DUCA TION v
7EDNESDAY TH *ANUARY
5%! ASKED TO ENROL MORE MEDICS )SABEL $YSON 4HE $EPARTMENT OF (EALTH HAS ADVISED 5%! S -EDI CAL 3CHOOL TO TAKE MORE STUDENTS ONTO ITS lVE YEAR DEGREE COURSE 4HE CALLS FOR EXPANSION COME AS PLANS FOR A a MILLION CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT IN .ORWICH LOOK SET TO GO AHEAD 3AM ,EINSTER THE $EAN OF 5%! S -EDICAL 3CHOOL SAID h4HE $O( SENT OUT A LETTER ASKING SCHOOLS TO BID FOR UP TO MORE STU DENT PLACES )T PARTICULARLY WANTED TO SEE BIDS FROM LO CATIONS WHERE THE RATIO BE TWEEN MEDICAL STUDENTS AND THE REST OF THE POPULATION WAS AT ITS LOWEST v 4HE MEDICAL DEGREE COURSE AT 5%! WAS INTRO DUCED IN AND HAS AN AN NUAL INTAKE OF STUDENTS )T WAS HOPED THE NEW MEDI CAL SCHOOL WOULD ADDRESS THE TRADITIONAL SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS IN THE COUNTY 0ROF ,EINSTER SAID h4HE SCHOOL IS GOING EXTREMELY WELL 7E ARE INTO THE FOURTH YEAR NOW SO THE lRST SET OF STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FROM THE SCHOOL WILL BE NEXT YEAR v 4HE CALL COMES FROM THE $O( JUST AS THE "RITISH -EDICAL !SSOCIATION HAS AP PEALED FOR FAIRER FUNDING FOR
MEDICAL STUDENTS 4HE "-! RECEIVED SUPPORT IN ITS CLAIM FROM THE .53 $EBT LEV ELS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS ARE CONSISTENTLY HIGH PROVOKING CONCERNS THAT DIVERSITY IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IS LIKELY TO DROP 4HE "-! HAS CALLED FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO REVIEW THE lNANCIAL SUPPORT STRUC TURE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS ON lVE AND SIX YEAR DEGREE COURSES ! NEW SURVEY HAS REVEALED THE AVERAGE DEBT AMONG GRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS TO BE AT a INCREASING BY IN ONE YEAR 4HE "-! WANTS .(3 BURSARIES WHICH ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO SOME STUDENTS AT THE END OF THEIR COURSES TO BE EXTENDED TO THOSE IN ALL YEARS .53 "-! ,IAISON /FlC ER 0AV !KHTAR SAID h#RITICAL LEVELS OF DEBT ARE AN ISSUE FOR ALL STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCA TION 'IVEN THAT A MEDICAL DEGREE LASTS FOR lVE OR SIX YEARS AS OPPOSED TO THREE OR FOUR FOR MOST OTHER COURSES THE DEBT CRISIS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS IS ESPECIALLY ACUTE v .53 %DUCATION 6ICE 0RESIDENT *ULIAN .ICHOLDS COMMENTED h(OSPITALS AND SURGERIES SHOULD PROPERLY REmECT THEIR COMMUNITIES AND THE PROSPECT OF MEDI CINE COMING TO BE SEEN AS A MIDDLE CLASS CAREER OPTION CLOSED TO THOSE FROM DIVERSE
)SABEL $YSON ! RECENT INVESTIGATION BY A .ORWICH %VENING .EWS RE PORTER HAS REVEALED THE IN CREASING USE OF COCAINE IN .ORWICH 4HE PAPER USED GOVERN MENT APPROVED SCREENING KITS TO TEST THE TOILETS OF RAN DOMLY SELECTED PUBS AND BARS IN .ORWICH CITY CENTRE FOR TRACES OF COCAINE 4HE IN VESTIGATION FOUND TRACES OF THE #LASS ! DRUG IN NINE OUT OF THE TEN ESTABLISHMENTS VISITED !CCORDING TO POLICE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING THE DRUG HAS RISEN IN THE PAST lVE YEARS AS STREET PRICES HAVE AP
#ONGA LEADS TO VIOLENCE ! DRUNKEN CONGA LED TO A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM THE ,ONDON 3CHOOL OF %CONOM ICS BEING THROWN OFF THEIR COURSES AFTER THEY TOOK A DE STRUCTIVE DIVERSION TO A RIVAL UNIVERSITY 4HE STUDENTS ARE ACCUSED OF DAMAGING PROPERTY AT NEARBY +INGS #OLLEGE WHERE WINDOWS WERE BROKEN AND lRE EXTINGUISHERS LET OFF ,3% HAS STARTED AN INVESTIGATION AND THE COST OF REPAIRING THE DAMAGE IS BEING ASSESSED
0UBLIC BACKS TOP UP FEES -ORE THAN TWO THIRDS OF THE "RITISH POPULATION THINK STU DENTS SHOULD PAY FOR THEIR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ACCORD ING TO A SURVEY CARRIED OUT IN $ECEMBER 4HE RESULTS OF THE "RIT ISH 3OCIAL !TTITUDES RESEARCH SHOWED THAT AGREED WITH CHARGING FEES BUT THE MAJORITY FELT THE LEVEL OF PAY MENT SHOULD BE lXED FOR ALL UNIVERSITIES BACKGROUNDS IS DEEPLY DIS TURBING 4HEREFORE THE .53 IS SUPPORTING THE "-! AND CALLING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE STEPS TO ADDRESS THE SPIRALLING COSTS OF STUDYING MEDICINE v 7ITH TOP UP FEES MEDI CAL STUDENTS COULD FACE DEBTS
4RACES OF COCAINE FOUND IN .ORWICH PUBS AS USE OF THE DRUG INCREASES PEARED TO FALL )TS NOTORIOUS POPULARITY AMONGST CELEBRI TIES AND THE UPPER CLASSES ONCE MEANT THAT COCAINE WAS EXPENSIVE BUT TODAY ITS AP PARENT DROP IN STREET PRICE HAS MADE IT ONE OF THE MORE COMMON DRUGS AVAILABLE )N .ORFOLK POLICE RECORDED OFFENCES RELAT ING TO POSSESSION OF COCAINE COMPARED WITH IN $OGS HAVE BEEN USED IN 0RINCE OF 7ALES 2OAD TO DE TECT DRUG USE BUT NO CLUBS IN .ORWICH HAVE BEGUN THE SYSTEM OPERATED BY MANY PLACES IN WHICH CLUBBERS ARE DENIED ENTRANCE IF THEY REFUSE TO UNDERGO A DRUG DE TECTION SYSTEM ON ENTRANCE TO THE VENUE (OWEVER .ORWICH DOOR STAFF ARE TRAINED IN DRUG PRE
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VENTION AND MANY ARE AU THORISED TO SEARCH PATRONS FOR ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES #OCAINE CAN FORGE A SENSE OF CONlDENCE AND WELL BE ING BUT ONCE THE INITIAL EF FECTS WEAR OFF THE COMEDOWN CAN INVOLVE UP TO TWO DAYS OF TIREDNESS AND DEPRESSED MOOD 4HE LEAD UP TO DEPEND ENCE ON COCAINE INVOLVES US ERS TAKING MORE OF THE DRUG TO DELAY THE EFFECTS OF THE COMEDOWN $EPENDENCE ON COCAINE CAN COST THOUSANDS OF POUNDS A YEAR 2EGULAR USE OF COCAINE CAN CAUSE A NUMBER OF HEALTH PROBLEMS INCLUDING CHEST PAINS AND PARANOIA .ATIONAL $RUGS (ELPLINE
OF UP TO a UNDER THE GOVERNMENT S CONTROVERSIAL PLANS 4HE "-! S -EDICAL 3TUDENTS #OMMITTEE CALCU LATED THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF VARIABLE FEES ON LEVELS OF STUDENT DEBT AMONG THOSE TAKING COURSES OF lVE OR SIX YEARS TO BECOME A DOCTOR
4HE RESULTS SHOWED THAT A MEDICAL STUDENT IN ,ON DON WHOSE PARENTS EARNED a BETWEEN THEM COULD LEAVE UNIVERSITY OWING UP TO a WHICH IS HIGHER THAN CURRENT DEBT AND THREE TIMES THE BASIC SALARY OF A lRST YEAR DOCTOR
3TUDENTS HAVE THEIR SAY ON !NONYMOUS -ARKING )SABEL $YSON ! SURVEY HAS BEEN CIRCULATING AT 5%! TO ESTABLISH STAFF AND STUDENT OPINIONS ON !NONY MOUS -ARKING 4HE PROPOSED SYSTEM OF MARKING INVOLVES A PROCE DURE IN WHICH THE NAME OF THE STUDENT IS NOT RECORDED ON STUDENT SUBMISSIONS OF COURSEWORK AND EXAMINA TIONS 4HE OBJECT OF THE SCHEME IS THAT THE MARKER OF WORK IS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE STU DENT 4HE 5%! 3TUDENT 5N ION %XECUTIVE BELIEVES THAT THE INITIATIVE WILL HELP TO PREVENT BIAS TOWARDS STUDENT COURSEWORK
#URRENTLY THE !NONY MOUS -ARKING SYSTEM IS IN PLACE FOR EXAMINATION WORK AT 5%! THOUGH NOT FOR COURSEWORK WITH THE EXCEP TION OF A HANDFUL OF SCHOOLS 4HE 5NION %XECUTIVE BELIEVES THAT THE SYSTEM SHOULD BE APPLIED TO ALL SCHOOLS ACROSS THE BOARD AND SO HAS BEEN CONDUCTING THE SURVEY TO SEE WHETHER THEIR HOPES REmECT STUDENT OPINION 4HE SURVEY WAS OPEN TO STUDENTS ON THE INTERNET AND WAS CIRCULATED VIA THE 5%! INTRANET 7EBMAIL 4HE SUR VEY CLOSED ON TH *ANUARY AND RESULTS ARE ANTICIPATED SOON &OR MORE INFORMA TION CONTACT THE !CADEMIC /FlCER $AN 0EARSON ON SU ACADEMIC UEA AC UK
9ORK STUDENTS FACE BAR CLOSURE 3TUDENTS AT 9ORK 5NIVER SITY ARE BEING ENCOURAGED TO DRINK TO SAVE THEIR CAMPUS BAR FROM CLOSURE ! GENERAL DECREASE IN STUDENT SPENDING HAS BEEN BLAMED FOR THE DECREASE IN TRADE AT THE !LCUIN BAR WITH MATTERS EXPECTED TO GET WORSE FOLLOWING THE INTRODUCTION OF TOP UP FEES 7HILE THE UNIVERSITY DOES NOT ENCOUR AGE BINGE DRINKING IT HOPES THAT STUDENTS WILL RETURN TO ITS FACILITIES THIS TERM
'RADUATE JOBS MARKET SLOWS 4HE &INANCIAL 4IMES REPORTS THAT THE GRADUATE JOBS MAR KET COULD BE ABOUT TO PEAK DESPITE A INCREASE IN VACANCIES (IGH &LIERS 2ESEARCH CAR RIED OUT A SURVEY OF THE BIGGEST GRADUATE EMPLOYERS WHICH REVEALED THAT ALTHOUGH THE NUMBER OF JOB VACANCIES HAS CONTINUED TO INCREASE GROWTH IN SOME AREAS HAD ALREADY LEVELLED OUT 4HE lNDINGS RAISE QUES TIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT S PLAN TO GET OF YOUNG PEOPLE INTO HIGHER EDUCATION BY THE END OF THE DECADE
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)SABEL $YSON &OLLOWING A MAJOR REFUR BISHMENT THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE IS SET TO RE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC THIS 3PRING ON ST -AY 4HE REFURBISHMENT AND BUILDING PROJECT AROUND THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE FOR 6ISUAL !RTS AT 5%! WHICH WAS ORIGI NALLY DESIGNED BY &OSTER AND 0ARTNERS CURRENTLY AMOUNTS TO OVER WORKERS WHO ARE COMPLETING THE BUILDING WORK BEFORE IT IS TO BE HAND ED BACK TO 3AINSBURY #ENTRE STAFF IN MID *ANUARY 3TAFF WILL THEN BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR THE #ENTRE S OPENING COL LECTION 3TAFF AND STUDENTS IN THE 5%! 3CHOOL OF 7ORLD !RT AND -USEOLOGY WILL MOVE BACK INTO PART OF THE BUILD ING IN *ANUARY TO BEGIN THE SPRING SEMESTER 2EFURBISHMENTS TO THE BUILDING WHICH WAS &OS
TER AND 0ARTNERS ICONIC lRST PUBLIC BUILDING INCLUDE MAJOR CHANGES TO IMPROVE FACILITIES AND ENHANCE VISITOR EXPERIENCE #HANGES INCLUDE NEW EN TRANCES TO THE MAIN BUILDING ADDITIONAL EXHIBITION AREAS A NEW VISITOR RECEPTION AND SHOP SPACES AS WELL AS A DEDI CATED EDUCATION STUDIO A RE FURBISHED CAFÏ AND IMPROVED ACCESS FOR VISITORS WITH DIS ABILITIES 4HERE WILL ALSO BE A NEW INTERNAL PUBLIC LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN BUILDING AND THE #RESCENT 7ING EX TENSION $IRECTOR .ICHOLA *OHN SON SAID h4HIS PROJECT HAS BEEN AN EXAMPLE OF REALLY CREATIVE AND PRODUCTIVE COL LABORATION BETWEEN CLIENTS DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS AND ) AM IN NO DOUBT THAT IT WILL FURTHER ENHANCE PUB LIC ENJOYMENT OF THE #ENTRE WHICH IS ALREADY RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE 5+ S OUTSTAND ING CULTURAL VENUES v 4HE #ENTRE lRST OPENED IN AND WAS BUILT TO
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HOST THE 2OBERT AND ,ISA 3AINSBURY #OLLECTION OF WORLD ART THAT THE COUPLE DONATED TO THE 5NIVERSITY IN 3INCE THE 3AINS BURY #ENTRE HAS CHANGED TO MEET THE ALTERING INTERESTS OF MUSEUM GOERS ACADEMICS AND STUDENTS 4HE 3AINSBURY #EN
TRE WAS EXPANDED IN WHEN THE #RESCENT 7ING WAS ADDED IMPROVING FACILITIES FOR DISPLAYING AND CARING FOR ART PROVIDING SPACE FOR NEW TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES "OTH THE #RESCENT 7ING EXTENSION AND THE NEW BUILDING LINK PROJECT HAVE BEEN RESPONSES TO THE EVOLU
TION OF CURRENT ATTITUDES TO MUSEUM USE 4HE OPENING EXHIBITION AT THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE IS 0ACIlC %NCOUNTERS !RT AND $IVINITY IN 0OLYNESIA FROM n "RITAIN HOLDS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY 0OLYNESIAN COLLEC
TIONS IN THE WORLD THOUGH IT IS RARELY EXHIBITED -ATERIAL FROM MANY DIFFERENT COLLEC TIONS WILL BE BROUGHT TOGETH ER AT THE 3AINSBURY #ENTRE 4HE REFURBISHMENT PROJECT HAS COST OVER a MILLION AND HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE 3AINSBURY FAMILY AND 5%!
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!LI 3MITH WINS 7HITBREAD 0RIZE )SABEL $YSON !N EX TUTOR ON 5%! S #REA TIVE 7RITING COURSE HAS WON THE 7HITBREAD .OVEL OF THE 9EAR !WARD !LI 3MITH WON THE AWARD WITH HER lRST NOVEL 4HE !CCI DENTAL &IVE RELATIVELY UNKNOWN WRITERS WERE IN THE LINEUP FOR THIS YEAR S AWARD KNOCK ING CONTROVERSIAL NOVELIST 3ALMAN 2USHDIE FROM THE COMPETITION 4HE RACE FOR THE lNAL a AWARD IN CLUDES FORMER 5%! AFlLIATES !LI 3MITH AND 4ASH !W THE BIOGRAPHER (ILARY 3PURL ING #HRISTOPHER ,OGUE THE VETERAN POET AND ICONOCLAST +ATE 4HOMPSON !LI 3MITH WON THE a "EST .OVEL PRIZE AND 4ASH !W A GRADUATE OF 5%! S #RE ATIVE 7RITING COURSE PICKED UP THE "EST &IRST .OVEL AWARD FOR 4HE (ARMONY 3ILK &ACTO RY (ILARY 3PURLING WON "EST "IOGRAPHY WHILE "EST 0OETRY
WENT TO #HRISTOPHER ,OGUE "EST #HILDREN S "OOK WENT TO +ATE 4HOMPSON 4HE MAIN PRIZE WILL BE AWARDED ON 4UESDAY TH *ANUARY !LI 3MITH BEAT FAMOUS NOVELISTS 3ALMAN 2USHDIE .ICK (ORNBY AND #HRISTO PHER 7ILSON IN THE "EST .OV EL CATEGORY WITH HER NOVEL 4HE !CCIDENTAL WHICH WAS NAMED AS FAVOURITE BY BETTING HOUSE 7ILLIAM (ILL .OVELIST 0HILIPPA 'REGO RY HEADED THE JUDGING PANEL OF THE 7HITBREAD !WARDS 3HE DESCRIBED 4HE !CCIDEN TAL THE STORY OF YEAR OLD !STRID WHO SPENDS THE SUM MER WITH HER FAMILY IN .OR FOLK AS hA GLORIOUS WORK OF lCTION THAT INSPIRED BOTH LAUGHTER AND SADNESSv 4ASH !W S lRST NOVEL 4HE (ARMONY 3ILK &ACTORY IS AN EXPLORATION OF -ALAYSIA DUR ING THE 3ECOND 7ORLD 7AR AND IS WRITTEN WITH WHAT THE JUDGES CALLED hIMMENSE CONlDENCE AND GRACEv !W IS A 5%! GRADUATE AND WAS A BOOKIES OUTSIDER BEATING FELLOW SHORT LISTED AUTHORS
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND EIGHT STAFF IN AND THE FACULTY HAS NOW GROWN TO WITH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS MAKE UP THE TOTAL OF STUDENTS BRINGING GREATER DIVERSITY AND lNANCE TO THE SCHOOL 4HE 3CHOOL (EAD 0RO FESSOR .IKOLAOS 4ZOKAS EXPLAINED THAT THREE NEW POSTGRADUATE COURSES HAD BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE PROGRAMME OFFERED BY THE SCHOOL INCLUDING )NTERNA TIONAL (UMAN 2ESOURCE
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2ACHEL :ADOK $IANA %VANS AND 0ETER (OBBS ,AST YEAR S WINNER OF THE SAME AWARD 3USAN &LETCHER IS ALSO A GRADUATE OF 5%! S ACCLAIMED #REATIVE 7RITING COURSE 7HITBREAD THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT COMPANY PLANS TO
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4HE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 5%! S 3CHOOL OF -ANAGE MENT HAS BROUGHT ABOUT AN IMAGE CHANGE 4HE SCHOOL HAS RE NAMED ITSELF THE .OR WICH "USINESS 3CHOOL AND HAS SET ITSELF A DETERMINED .EW 9EAR S RESOLUTION 4HE SCHOOL IS CURRENTLY RANKED IN THE TOP THIRTY NA TIONAL SCHOOLS BUT PLANS TO RISE TO A TOP TEN STATUS IN THE COUNTRY 7ITH OVER BUSINESS SCHOOLS NATIONALLY THE TOP THIRTY RANKING OF THE .ORWICH "USINESS 3CHOOL IS CERTAINLY AN ACHIEVEMENT FOR A RELATIVELY NEW SCHOOL 4HE BUSINESS SCHOOL ALSO HOPES TO INCREASE ITS NUMBER OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS FROM ITS CURRENT AT A RATE OF ABOUT A YEAR OVER THE NEXT lVE YEARS 0ROPOSALS HAVE ALSO BEEN SUGGESTED FOR A NEW MULTI MILLION POUND BUSINESS SCHOOL BUILDING THAT IT IS HOPED WILL BE BUILT IN THE FUTURE 4HE SCHOOL HAD JUST
! HIGH PROlLE LINE UP FOR THIS SPRING S ,ITERARY &ESTIVAL AT 5%! INCLUDES ACTOR 2ICH ARD % 'RANT AND COMEDIAN *ULIAN #LARY /THER GUESTS AT THE SERIES OF LECTURES INCLUDE -ARGARET !TWOOD AUTHOR OF 4HE (AND MAID S 4ALE AND WRITER 3ARAH 7ATERS WHOSE NOVEL &INGER SMITH WAS SHORTLISTED FOR THE /RANGE 0RIZE IN 4ICKETS FOR ALL EVENTS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE 5%! BOX OFlCE ON
3CHOOL OF -ANAGEMENT CELEBRATES TH BIRTHDAY WITH A NAME CHANGE )SABEL $YSON
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-ANAGEMENT AND 3TRATEGIC 3UPPLY #HAIN -ANAGEMENT 0ROFESSOR 4ZOKAS EX PLAINED h7E HAVE LINKED UP WITH COMPANIES IN THE RE GION AND THEY HAVE GIVEN US SPECIlC RESEARCH BRIEFS 7HAT MAKES A REAL DIFFERENCE IS THE RELATIONSHIP WITH INDUSTRY BECAUSE WE DON T BELIEVE OUR TEACHING STOPS WITH TEACHING ON CAMPUS v 4HE SCHOOL COLLABORATES WITH THE COMPANIES !RCHANT !DNAMS .ORWICH )NTERNA TIONAL !IRPORT "ERNARD -AT THEWS AND .ORWICH 5NION
END ITS TRADITIONAL a SPONSORSHIP OF THE PRIZE THIS YEAR )T ESTABLISHED AN ASSOCI ATION WITH THE PRIZE IN WHEN IT RECOGNIZED REWARDS FOR hENJOYABLE BOOKSv PRE SENTING A DIRECT CHALLENGE TO THE "OOKER 0RIZE WHICH ONLY
RECOGNISED HIGHBROW LITERA TURE AT THE TIME 0AST WINNERS OF THE 7HIT BREAD 0RIZE INCLUDE 4ED (UGHES 3EAMUS (EANEY AND 0HILIP 0ULLMAN 4HE LAT EST AWARDS ATTRACTED A RECORD ENTRIES
5NION lLM SCREENINGS THIS TERM INCLUDE THE NEW (ARRY 0OTTER lLM AND 0ETER *ACK SON S REMAKE OF +ING +ONG !LSO ON THE SCHEDULE ARE NATURE DOCUMENTARY -ARCH OF THE 0ENGUINS AND POTEN TIAL /SCAR WINNER 4HE #ON STANT 'ARDENER 4HE SPRING PROGRAMME OPENS ON 4HURS DAY TH IN ,4 4ICKETS COST a AND ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE USUAL OUTLETS
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-IDDLESEX DROPS HISTORY COURSE (ISTORY WILL BECOME HIS TORY AT -IDDLESEX 5NIVER SITY WHEN IT DROPS THE COURSE FROM ITS PROGRAMME AT THE END OF THIS ACADEMIC YEAR .O MORE STUDENTS WILL BE ADMITTED ONTO THE (IS TORY COURSE NEXT 3EPTEMBER FOLLOWING A COST CUTTING DE CISION MADE LAST MONTH 4HE UNIVERSITY S STUDENTS UNION HAS EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THIS MAY BE THE lRST IN A SERIES OF CLOSURES TO HIT -ID DLESEX STAFF AND STUDENTS
3USPENDED FOR CRITICISING COLLEGE 4WO STUDENTS AT -ATTHEW "OULTON #OLLEGE IN "IRMING HAM HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED FOR DISTRIBUTING A NEWSLETTER CRITICISING THEIR COLLEGE 4HE NEWSLETTER ATTACKED THE COLLEGE S DECISION TO BAN RELIGIOUS GROUPS FROM FORM ING ON CAMPUS AND CON DEMNED ITS LACK OF FORMAL STUDENT REPRESENTATION 4HEY HAVE RECEIVED PUBLIC SUPPORT FROM THE .53 AND .!4&(%
)MPERIAL HOODIE BAN REVISED 4HE BAN ON HOODIES AT )MPE RIAL #OLLEGE ,ONDON WILL BE PARTIALLY LIFTED IN RESPONSE TO PROTESTS FROM STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY ! REVISED CODE WILL AL LOW STUDENTS TO WEAR RELI GIOUS DRESS SCARVES AND HATS PROVIDED THEY DO NOT COM PLETELY OBSCURE THE FACE 4HE VEILS WORN BY MANY -USLIM WOMEN WILL STILL NOT BE PER MITTED BUT THE COLLEGE HAS SAID IT WILL BE SYMPATHETIC TO COMPROMISE
)NCREASE IN lRSTS FOR 5+ STUDENTS 4HE NUMBER OF STUDENTS GRAD UATING WITH A lRST INCREASED BY THIS YEAR ACCORDING TO NEW lGURES RELEASED BY THE (IGHER %DUCATION 3TATISTICS !GENCY 4HE STATISTICS FOR SHOWED THAT THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO GAINED A lRST WAS WHILE WERE AWARDED A OF lRST DEGREE GRADUATES WERE WOM EN AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GRADUATES HAD INCREASED BY FROM TO $URING THERE WERE STU DENTS STUDYING IN THE 5+
#IVIL PARTNERSHIPS BECOME LAW )SABEL $YSON 3AME SEX PARTNERSHIPS BE CAME LEGALLY RECOGNISED IN THE 5+ WHEN THE #IVIL 0ARTNERSHIP !CT WAS PUT INTO PRACTICE ON TH $ECEMBER #OUPLES OF THE SAME SEX CAN NOW GAIN LEGAL STATUS IN #IVIL 0ARTNER SHIPS UNDER SIMILAR LAWS THAT RECOGNISE OPPOSITE SEX MAR RIAGE !LTHOUGH THE NEWLY REC OGNISED STATUS OF SAME SEX COUPLES IS NOT WRITTEN EX ACTLY THE SAME AS A MARRIAGE CIVIL PARTNERS CAN ENJOY LEGAL TREATMENT EQUAL TO MARRIED PARTNERS THAT HAS NEVER PRE VIOUSLY BEEN AVAILABLE 3TATE AND OCCUPATIONAL PENSION BENElTS INCOME RE LATED BENElTS CHILD SUPPORT AND TAX CREDITS INHERITANCE OF TENANCY AGREEMENTS AND RECOGNITION FROM IMMIGRA TION AND NATIONALITY PURPOS ES ALL NOW APPLY TO COUPLES RECOGNISED IN #IVIL 0ARTNER SHIPS .INE %5 COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY INTRODUCED SIMILAR SCHEMES THAT RECOGNISE THE RIGHTS OF SAME SEX COUPLES INCLUDING (OLLAND 'ERMA NY AND SOME 3CANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES BUT THE lRST OF lCIALLY ACKNOWLEDGED CIVIL
PARTNERSHIPS IN THE 5+ WERE FORMED ON ST $ECEMBER INCLUDING THAT OF %LTON *OHN AND $AVID &URNISH AT 7IND SOR S 'UILDHALL %QUALITY -INISTER *ACQUI 3MITH WHO LAUNCHED THE "ILL EXPLAINED HOW IT UNDER LINES THE VALUE OF COMMIT TED SAME SEX RELATIONSHIPS h)T OPENS THE WAY TO RESPECT RECOGNITION AND JUSTICE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN DENIED IT FOR TOO LONG v !LTHOUGH #IVIL 0ARTNER SHIPS ARE NOT RELIGIOUSLY REC OGNISED AS A MARRIAGE AND THE TERM hGAY MARRIAGEv IS NOT REFERRED TO IN THE NEW "ILL THE REGISTRATION OF A #IVIL 0ARTNERSHIP HAS BEEN DRAWN UP TO BE AS COMPARA BLE TO A MARRIAGE AS POSSIBLE 4HE MOVE HAS ANGERED SOME #HRISTIAN GROUPS AS WELL AS UNMARRIED SAME SEX COU PLES #HRISTIAN GROUPS CLAIM THAT THE SIMILARITIES OF THE #IVIL 0ARTNERSHIP 2EGISTRA TION 3CHEME TO MARRIAGE UNDERMINE THE ESSENCE OF MARRIAGE THOUGH GAY RIGHTS GROUPS CLAIM THAT THE SCHEME DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH 5N MARRIED HETEROSEXUAL COU PLES ALSO CRITICISE THE MOVE FOR GIVING SAME SEX COUPLES RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT MADE AVAILABLE TO THEM ! #HRISTIAN )NSTITUTE SPOKESMAN SAID h4HE "ILL
4HE ,'" STAGE A WEDDING AT 5%! IN DEVALUES MARRIAGE BY GIV ING ALL THE LEGAL PRIVILEGES OF MARRIED COUPLES TO SAME SEX COUPLES )F THE GOVERN MENT WAS BEING CONSISTENT IT WOULD EXTEND RIGHTS TO
ANYBODY LIVING TOGETHER IN A LOVING RELATIONSHIP n TWO SISTERS FOR EXAMPLE WHO STILL FACE INHERITANCE HURDLES v 7HEN THE SCHEME WAS lRST INTRODUCED IN "RITAIN
THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSED UP TO COUPLES WOULD SIGN UP BY THOUGH TODAY BY ONLY COUPLES ARE ESTIMATED TO JOIN THE SCHEME IN THE 5+
%XPECT A THREE HORSE RACE FOR ,IB $EM .UMBER OF THEFTS FROM LEADERSHIP AS #HARLES +ENNEDY RESIGNS CARS INCREASES IN .ORWICH -ATT "URLAND !S ANOTHER NEW YEAR DAWNS ANOTHER LEADERSHIP ELEC TION BEGINS !FTER ADMITTING TO HAVING A DRINK PROBLEM #HARLES +ENNEDY RESIGNED AS LEADER OF THE ,IBERAL $EMO CRAT 0ARTY ON TH *ANUARY +ENNEDY CALLED A LEADER SHIP ELECTION AT WHICH HE IN TENDED TO STAND BUT SUPPORT WITHIN HIS PARTY COLLAPSED LEADING TO A REVOLT OF HALF HIS SHADOW CABINET AND THREATS OF A VOTE OF NO CONlDENCE IN HIS LEADERSHIP 4HE CAMPAIGN TO lND A NEW LEADER WILL REQUIRE ALL CANDIDATES TO STAND BY TH *ANUARY WITH BALLOT PAPERS
BEING SENT OUT TO PARTY MEM BERS ON TH &EBRUARY 4HE RE SULT IS TO BE ANNOUNCED ON ND -ARCH 4O DATE FOUR -0S HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY WILL STAND FOR ELECTION 3IR -ENZIES #AMPBELL CURRENTLY $EPUTY ,EADER AND &OREIGN !FFAIRS 3POKESMAN -ARK /ATEN (OME !FFAIRS 3POKESMAN 3IMON (UGHES 0ARTY 0RESI DENT AND #HRIS (UHNE %CONOMIC 3POKESMEN AND EX -%0 2UMOURS SUGGEST THAT 0HIL 7ILLIS EX %DUCA TION 3POKESMAN AND 3USAN +RAMER EX ,ONDON -AYOR #ANDIDATE MAY ALSO STAND )T IS EXPECTED THAT THERE WILL BE A THREE HORSE RACE BETWEEN #AMPBELL (UGHES AND /ATEN &OR THE PARTY MEMBERS THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A
CHOICE AS TO THE FUTURE DIREC TION OF PARTY IDEOLOGY (UGHES IS POSITIONED TO THE LEFT OF THE PARTY AND IS A SO CALLED @SOCIAL LIBERAL ADVOCATING THE WELFARE STATE AND GREATER CIVIL LIBERTIES /ATEN CO AUTHOR OF THE /R ANGE "OOK IS ONE OF A NEW BREED OF @ECONOMIC LIBERALS WHO ARE MORE RIGHT WING BACKING POLICIES SUCH AS ECO NOMIC FREEDOM AND HAVING A TOUGH STANCE ON CRIME !LTER NATIVELY THE PARTY COULD OPT FOR #AMPBELL WHO STANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THESE TWO FACTIONS IN THE HOPE THAT HE MAY BE ABLE TO RECONCILE THE TWO GROUPS AND CREATE A MORE HARMONIOUS PARTY SIMILAR TO THE JOB -ICHAEL (OWARD DID WHEN HE BECAME #ONSERVA TIVE ,EADER IN
)SABEL $YSON 0OLICE ARE APPEALING FOR MO TORISTS TO BE VIGILANT FOLLOW ING A NUMBER OF THEFTS FROM VEHICLES IN THE "OWTHORPE AND #OSTESSEY AREAS OF .OR WICH BEHIND 5%! 3INCE ST *ANUARY THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT INCIDENTS OF THEFTS FROM MOTOR VEHICLES -OST OF THE OFFENCES HAVE OCCURRED OVERNIGHT PARTICU LARLY IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING AND IN MANY CASES PROPERTY HAD BEEN LEFT ON SHOW 4HIS IS THE SECOND TIME POLICE HAVE ISSUED A WARNING FOLLOWING A SPATE OF SIMILAR THEFTS IN THE AREA IN $ECEM
BER 0# 3IMON 2EDHEAD AP PEALED TO THE PUBLIC NOT TO LEAVE PROPERTY ON DISPLAY h)N MANY OF THE THEFTS WE HAVE SEEN EXPENSIVE ITEMS LEFT IN VEHICLES AND BAGS OR WALLETS HAVE BEEN LEFT ON SEATS OR IN FOOTWELLS $ON T LEAVE YOUR VALUABLES ON DISPLAY DON T LEAVE YOUR SHOPPING ON DIS PLAY AND ALWAYS REMEMBER TO LOCK YOUR VEHICLE v 0OLICE HAVE ALSO WARNED STUDENTS ON CAMPUS TO BE VIGILANT AGAINST THEFT 4HEY HAVE ASKED STUDENTS IN RESI DENCES TO KEEP THEIR DOORS LOCKED TO PREVENT OPPORTUN ISTS FROM STEALING THEIR PROP ERTY )NTERNAL DOORS ARE OFTEN LEFT AJAR RATHER THAN BEING SHUT WHICH CAN TEMPT PO TENTIAL THIEVES
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.EW YEAR NEW YOU 7E HABITUALLY RE INVENT OURSELVES EVERY TIME O CLOCK ON ST $ECEMBER TICKS BY BUT WHAT ARE WE REALLY TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH OUR RESOLUTIONS ASKS 2EBECCA 2UTT
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TOP SMOKING LOSE WEIGHT WORK HARDER SPEND MORE TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS DO ANY OF THESE SOUND FAMILIAR )T IS A FACT THAT ALMOST EVERY PERSON IN THE 5+ WILL MAKE AT LEAST ONE .EW 9EAR S RESOLUTION THIS YEAR BUT ONLY A MEASLY WILL ACTUALLY STICK TO THEM %VERY YEAR ON THE ST *ANUARY MOST PEOPLE TAKE TIME TO LOOK AT THEIR LIVES AND
OUT HISTORY AS A DAY WHERE WRONGS OF THE PAST CAN BE ABOLISHED 2ITUALS USED TO BE PERFORMED TO SCARE AWAY EVIL SPIR ITS INCLUDING PURIlCATIONS EXORCISMS EXTINGUISHING AND REKINDLING lRES AND MASKED PROCESSIONS %ARLY %UROPEANS CELEBRATED THE .EW 9EAR IN THIS WAY WITH GATHERINGS OF PEOPLE lRES AND LOUD MUSIC TO RID THEIR LIVES OF EVIL !L THOUGH TODAY .EW 9EAR S CELEBRATIONS ARE QUITE DIFFERENT THE PRINCIPAL OF CEL EBRATING THE .EW 9EAR AND OF MAKING .EW 9EAR S RESOLUTIONS STILL EXISTS
.EW 9EAR S $AY EXISTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY AS A DAY WHERE WRONGS CAN BE ABOLISHED DECIDE WHAT TO CHANGE 4HE .EW 9EAR CREATES A CHANCE FOR PEOPLE TO EVALU ATE THEIR LIVES AND TURN OVER A NEW LEAF 4HE SLATE IS WIPED CLEAN GIVING PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SMALL OR DRAS TIC PLANS FOR THEIR LIVES 4HE HEALTH AND lTNESS INDUSTRY ALSO RECOGNISES THIS TIME OF YEAR AND BOM BARDS US WITH AN INmUX OF CELEBRITY lT NESS VIDEOS AND CHEAP GYM MEMBER SHIPS RESULTING IN *ANUARY BEING THEIR MOST PROlTABLE MONTH !LTHOUGH THE .EW 9EAR BRINGS AROUND NEW HOPE OF BEING ABLE TO CHANGE OUR LIVES IN REALITY THE MAJOR ITY OF PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE MOTIVA TION OR WILL POWER TO SUCCEED 3ECOND YEAR BIOLOGY STUDENT 2HYS &ARRER S RES OLUTION IS hNEVER TO MAKE .EW 9EAR S RESOLUTIONS BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS FAILv (E BELIEVES IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO JUST LIVE FOR THE MOMENT AND ENJOY IT .EW 9EAR S DAY HAS EXISTED THROUGH
4HE MOST COMMON .EW 9EAR S RES OLUTIONS ARE GENERALLY TO LOSE WEIGHT GET lT SAVE MONEY AND SPEND MORE TIME WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS -ANY STUDENTS AT 5%! HAVE MADE RESOLU TIONS BUT THE PERCENTAGES OF PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY SUCCEED IN REACHING THESE GOALS IS ALWAYS VERY LOW 2OSS #LONEY SECOND YEAR "IOCHEMISTRY STUDENT BE LIEVES hPEOPLE FAIL BECAUSE THEY MAKE RESOLUTIONS HALF HEARTEDLY AS RITUAL OR THEY MAKE BIG ONES AND DON T GIVE IT ENOUGH FOLLOW THROUGHv )T IS ESPECIALLY HARD FOR STUDENTS TO STICK TO THEIR RESOLUTIONS BECAUSE OF OUR WAY OF LIFE %ATING FRESH FRUIT AND VEG ETABLES MAY SOUND LIKE A GOOD IDEA IN PRACTICE BUT MOST STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE THE TIME OR MONEY TO BUY AND COOK THESE FOODS EVERY WEEK ,IFE AS A STU DENT IS USUALLY VERY SOCIAL AND GENER ALLY STUDENTS DRINK MORE ALCOHOL THEN MOST PEOPLE (OWEVER THIS SHOULD NOT
MEAN THAT WE IMMEDIATELY GIVE UP ON ANY LONG OR SHORT TERM GOALS 2ESOLU TIONS CAN BE ACHIEVED IF THEY ARE STUCK TO AND FOR MOST PEOPLE GOALS ARE MORE ATTAINABLE IF THEY ARE SMALL 3ELF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTIONS ARE THE MOST POPULAR BECAUSE OF THE GLO BAL PROBLEM OF OBESITY AND THE PRES SURE FROM THE MEDIA ON BODY IMAGE 7OMEN IN PARTICULAR USUALLY MAKE RESOLUTIONS TO LOSE WEIGHT BUT BY PLAC ING SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THESE GOALS IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY THEY OFTEN FAIL "Y MAKING UNREACHABLE GOALS THAT ARE IM POSSIBLE TO STICK TO IT BECOMES ALMOST CERTAIN THAT RESOLUTIONS WILL FAIL UNLESS YOU ARE VERY STRICT AND MOTIVATED /L IVER 3TEWARD A SECOND YEAR ,AW STU DENT BELIEVES PEOPLE DO NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THEIR RESOLUTIONS BECAUSE THEY USUALLY MAKE THEM ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT AND DON T THINK THEM THROUGH (E BELIEVES hTHE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE ONLY MAKING RESOLUTIONS BECAUSE IT S TRADITIONAL AND THIS IS WHY SO FEW ACTUALLY SUCCEEDv -ANY PEOPLE SIMPLY LACK THE PATIENCE AND RESIL IENCE TO WAIT FOR SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES TO START REAPING BENElTS SO THEY GIVE UP QUICKLY AND ABANDON THE PLAN 4HE OUTCOMES WE VALUE TAKE SO LONG TO AT TAIN THAT WE ARE APPARENTLY SETTING OUR SELVES UP FOR FAILURE 3ECOND YEAR STUDENT 3IMON +INCH S RESOLUTIONS ARE TO DO MORE TRAVELLING PARTY MORE EXERCISE AND BE MORE PRO DUCTIVE !LTHOUGH HE HAS MADE QUITE A FEW HE SAYS HE IS hNOT GOING TO STRICTLY FOLLOW THEM BUT IS CONlDENT HE WILL KEEP THEMv 4HIS POSITIVE ATTITUDE REmECTS THE GENERAL OPINION OF .EW 9EAR S RESOLUTIONS 0EOPLE ARE lLLED WITH A NEW HOPE THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES IN THE .EW 9EAR
%VEN IF RESOLUTIONS ARE ONLY SMALL LIKE lRST YEAR HISTORY STUDENT (AZEL 7HITE S RESOLUTION TO LEARN HOW TO COOK PROP ERLY THEY STILL ILLUSTRATE OUR OPTIMISM AT WANTING CHANGE (AZEL HAS CHOSEN THIS RESOLUTION LIKE MANY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SO SHE CAN ACTUALLY COOK TASTY MEALS WHILE IN .ORWICH RATHER THAN RE LYING ON PASTA BEANS AND BREAD /UR 46S HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER THROUGHOUT *ANUARY BY ADVERTS FOR HEALTH AND lTNESS VIDEOS $AVINA -C#ALL *ORDAN #HARLIE "ROOKS AND EVEN 0ETER +AY ALL HAVE $6$S OUT IN THE SHOPS WHICH WILL APPARENTLY HELP CHANGE OUR LIVES AND BODIES -ANY PRO GRAMMES ON OUR SCREENS HELP US STICK TO OUR RESOLUTIONS INCLUDING )46 S #E LEBRITY &IT #LUB WHICH ALTHOUGH AIMED AT MOTIVATING OVERWEIGHT CELEBRITIES TO EXERCISE IN REALITY IS ENTERTAINMENT )N *ANUARY THE HEALTH AND lTNESS INDUSTRY MAKES MORE THAN IN ANY OTHER MONTH !FTER THE INITIAL OPTIMISM WEARS OFF THE RATE AT WHICH PEOPLE STOP GOING TO THE GYM IS VERY HIGH THROUGH REASONS OF HIGH COSTS LACK OF TIME AND POOR MOTIVATION .EW 9EAR S RESOLUTIONS BRING WITH THEM A BALANCE OF HOPE OPTIMISM AND FAILURE !LTHOUGH MANY PEOPLE MAKE RESOLUTIONS FEW STICK TO THEM 4HE .EW 9EAR DOES STILL CREATE THE SENSE OF OPTI MISM THAT PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF AND THAT MISTAKES OF THE PAST WILL BE ERADICATED 4HIS BELIEF IS THE SAME AS IT HAS BEEN FOR CENTURIES AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE 4HE TEMPTA TION TO BREAK OUR RESOLUTIONS IS VERY HIGH (OWEVER WE CAN STILL LIE IN HOPE THAT THIS WILL BE THE YEAR WE WILL ALL STICK TO OUR RESOLUTIONS AND STAY MO TIVATED DRINKING LESS EXERCISING MORE AND GENERALLY BEING BETTER PEOPLE
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F YOU HAPPEN TO BE WALKING PAST .EXT AND THE &ORUM ON 3ATURDAY TH *ANUARY YOU WILL BE AWARE OF AN UN USUALLY HIGH PROPORTION OF PEOPLE WEARING RED T SHIRTS WITH WINGS ON THE BACK AND THE WORD h!WESOMEv SLAPPED ACROSS THE FRONT ) KID YOU NOT )T MIGHT BE THE HEIGHT OF WINTER WHEN YOU NEED FOUR LAYERS BEFORE VENTURING INTO THE AVERAGE STUDENT HOUSE BE CAUSE LET S FACE IT NONE OF US CAN AFFORD TO PAY OUR HEATING BILLS AFTER #HRIST MAS BUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY CEN TRE NEARLY PEOPLE A FAIR NUMBER OF THEM 5%! STUDENTS WILL BE WANDERING AROUND WEARING THESE RED T SHIRTS !ND QUITE WHAT HAS POSSESSED THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE .ORFOLK WINTER TO WALK AROUND .ORWICH CITY CENTRE WEARING T SHIRTS !RE THEY HIGH LIGHTING A NEW ,ABOUR CAMPAIGN 0RO MOTING 2ED "ULL IT GIVES YOU WINGS /R JUST ENGAGING IN A COMPETITION TO SEE WHO S GOING TO BE THE lRST TO BE AD MITTED TO THE . . WITH FROSTBITE !CTUALLY IT S NONE OF THESE THINGS )F YOU STOP TO WATCH YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED TO THE HUB OF AC TIVITY GOING ON AROUND THE OLD CHURCH THAT STANDS OPPOSITE THE &ORUM !LL THROUGH THE DAY PEOPLE WILL HAVE BEEN SHIFTING LARGE SOUND EQUIPMENT AND STAGING THROUGH THE ARCHWAYS OF THE YEAR OLD 3T 0ETER -ANCROFT #HURCH IN PREPARATION FOR AN EVENT THAT WOULD BE MORE AT HOME IN THE ,#2 THAN IN AN OLD CHURCH !S lVE O CLOCK ROLLS ROUND THE SOUND OF STUDENT $* -ATT 7ARD MIX ING ON HIS DECKS WILL lLTER THROUGH THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS AS !WESOME
GEARS UP TO TAKE ON THE CITY !WESOME IS A GROUNDBREAKING PROJECT RUN BY A TEAM CONSISTING OF MOSTLY EX OR CURRENT 5%! STUDENTS THAT AIMS TO REACH PEOPLE IMPACT THEIR PEERS INmUENCE THEIR CULTURE AND DE VELOP THEIR FUTURE )T STARTED UP IN *UNE WHEN 0ASTOR 4OM 2AWLS 3ENIOR -INISTER OF 0ROCLAIMERS #HURCH AP PROACHED SOME 5%! STUDENTS IN HIS CONGREGATION (E CHALLENGED THEM TO CREATE A PIONEERING SERVICE THAT PRE SENTED #HRISTIANITY IN A RELEVANT WAY TO A GENERATION THAT HAS BECOME NUMB TO RELIGION 4HESE GUYS WERE TO MAKE CHURCH hCOOLv /VER THE LAST MONTHS !WESOME HAS GATHERED MOMENTUM AT AN EXCEP TIONAL RATE IN A PLACE THAT IS KNOWN FOR BEING THE hMOST 'ODLESS CITY IN THE 5+v #ENSUS )N THE LAST YEAR ALONE THE SERVICE HAS GROWN FROM AROUND PEOPLE TO WHO REGU LARLY ATTEND THE 3UNDAY EVENING SERVICE IN THE 2AMADA *ARVIS (OTEL 4HE MOVE TO AN ADDITIONAL 3ATURDAY NIGHT SERVICE IN A PROMINENT CHURCH BUILDING IN THE HEART OF THE CITY CENTRE WILL BUILD UPON WHAT !WESOME HAS ALREADY ACHIEVED !WESOME HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BLENDING LIVE ROCK BAND STYLED WORSHIP WITH APT BITE SIZED TALKS 4HE lRST !WE SOME )N 4HE #ITY WILL TAKE THESE ELE MENTS OF !WESOME AND COMBINE THEM WITH AN INCISIVE MESSAGE FROM 46 PRE SENTER AND INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED SPEAKER -AL &LETCHER -AL HAS WATCHED !WESOME GROW AND IS ENTHUSIASTIC TO RETURN TO .ORWICH TO BE A PART OF THE NEXT STAGE AS !WESOME RISES TO GREATER INmUENCE 0ASTOR 4OM BELIEVES THAT -AL WILL GREATLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE SERVICE AS !WESOME BRINGS hA CONTEMPORARY mA
VOUR TO AN ANCIENT CHURCHv -ANY OF THE STUDENTS INVOLVED IN !WESOME )N 4HE #ITY FROM PLAYING IN THE BAND TO PUBLICISING THE EVENT IN THE CITY CENTRE ARE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THEIR CHURCH AND FOR .ORWICH 3O MUCH SO THAT MANY OF THEM RETURNED EARLY TO .ORWICH OVER THE #HRISTMAS BREAK TO START THE lNAL PREPARATIONS FOR A SERV ICE THAT PROMISES TO CATAPULT !WESOME INTO WITH RELENTLESS FORCE 3ECOND YEAR STUDENT 3ARAH !GG HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN !WESOME SINCE
MACHINES AND A GIANT MULTIMEDIA SCREEN .OT QUITE WHAT YOU D EXPECT IN A TH #ENTURY BUILDING "UT THEN THIS VIBRANT EXPERIENCE OF CHURCH IS PROB ABLY NOT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT #OME 3ATURDAY TH *ANUARY 3T 0ETER -ANCROFT #HURCH IS GOING TO BE SWARMING WITH PEOPLE &ROM THOSE LIKE 3ARAH WHO WILL BE DONNING HER RED T SHIRT AND STANDING OUT IN THE CITY TALK ING TO PEOPLE AND INVITING THEM ALONG TO THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW WHAT ALL THE COMMOTION IS ABOUT 3O IF YOU SEE 3ARAH OR ANYONE ELSE HANGING AROUND
(E CHALLENGED THEM TO CREATE A PIONEERING SERVICE THAT PRESENTED #HRISTIANITY IN A RELEVANT WAY TO A GENERATION THAT HAS BECOME NUMB TO RELIGION SHE STARTED 5%! IN 3EPTEMBER h!WESOME )N 4HE #ITY IS GOING TO BE GREAT )T S FREE WHICH IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING AND THE MUSIC IS FANTASTIC v SHE ENTHUSES h4HE BAND ARE REALLY TIGHT 7E HAVE GOT SOME OF THE BEST MUSI CIANS IN .ORWICH v 4HIS IS A SENTIMENT THAT IS ECHOED BY MANY OF THOSE WHO ATTEND !WESOME !WESOME SEEKS TO BE UNPRECEDENT ED AND UNPREDICTABLE IN ITS PRESENTA TION OF CHURCH !WESOME )N 4HE #ITY IS GOING TO TRANSFORM A TRADITIONAL CHURCH BUILDING INTO SOMEWHERE THAT MIMICS A GIG VENUE WITH mASHING LIGHTS SMOKE
.EXT AND THE &ORUM ON 3ATURDAY IN A RED T SHIRT GO UP AND SAY HELLO "ETTER STILL GO ALONG TO !WESOME )N 4HE #ITY ) D RECOMMEND GETTING THERE EARLY 4HE SERVICE STARTS AT AND LASTS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR BUT THE CAPACITY VENUE IS GO ING TO BE RAMMED 4HIS IS A SIGNIlCANT EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF .ORWICH DON T YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF IT 4O lND OUT MORE ABOUT THE 3T 0ETER -ANCROFT #HURCH VISIT THE WEBSITE AT WWW PROCLAIMERSCHURCH COM OR TO lND OUT ABOUT !WESOME VISIT WWW AWESOMEGENERATION COM
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4HE )RAQI ELECTIONS 4HE ELECTIONS FOR A LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IN )RAQ MAY BE THE EMBRYONIC STAGES OF DEMOCRACY IN THIS MOST RAVAGED OF COUNTRIES AS 3IMON 3HERIDAN EXPLORES
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MID THE TURMOIL DESTRUCTION AND DESOLATION THERE LIES A GLIMMER OF HOPE )RAQIS AS OF THE TH $ECEMBER CAN JUSTIFIABLY CLAIM TO BE A MEMBER OF THE WORLD S MOST EXCLUSIVE CLUB THE $EMOCRACIES 4HIS IS NOT TO SUGGEST THAT )RAQ WILL MAIN TAIN THIS STATUS OR INDEED CONSOLIDATE IT AFTER PREDICTABLE BACKLASHES FROM THOSE TO WHOM THE ELECTION WAS UNKIND (OW EVER EVEN THOSE OF US WHO WERE OPPOSED TO THE WAR AND WERE SO UNRESTRAINED IN OUR CRITICISM OF THE 5NITED 3TATES TO THE POINT OF WANTING THEM TO FAIL MUST AC CEPT THAT THIS HISTORIC MOMENT IS ONE WHICH WE ALL CAN AGREE IS FOR THE BETTER 7HATEVER THE REASONS FOR THE WAR BOTH TRUE AND FALSE WE CAN NOW LOOK AT THE ISSUE FROM A CLEAN SLATE AND PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THOSE MOST IMPORTANT AND OFTEN OVERLOOKED IN THE CONmICT THE PEOPLE OF )RAQ THEMSELVES !PPROXIMATELY OF )RAQIS VOTED IN THE $ECEMBER TH ELECTIONS A CON SIDERABLE TURNOUT WHEN COMPARED TO THE TWO MAIN PROPAGATORS OF THE WAR "RITAIN AND THE 5NITED 3TATES WHO HAVE ONLY AND TURNOUTS RESPECTIVELY IN THEIR NATIONAL ELECTIONS AND PARADOXI CALLY CLAIM TO BE THE WORLD S FOREMOST PURVEYORS OF DEMOCRACY 4HE SIZEABLE INCREASE REmECTS THE VOT ING EN MASSE OF THE 3UNNI -USLIMS IN )RAQ WHO BOYCOTTED THE PREVIOUS ,EG ISLATIVE ELECTIONS IN *ANUARY AND THE #ONSTITUTIONAL ELECTIONS IN /CTOBER 4HE REASON FOR THE BOYCOTT WAS THE PERCEIVED 7ESTERNISM OF THE ELECTIONS BY MANY 3UNNI CLERICS AND RADICALS BUT IN REALITY THE 3UNNIS SAW THAT THE BOYCOTT MERELY
LED TO THEM BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE POLITICAL PROCESS 4HE ELECTIONS OF $E CEMBER WERE A DIFFERENT MATTER ENTIRELY AND INDICATE THE LEVELS OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY THAT CAN BE CLAIMED FROM THE VOTING ! GOVERNMENT FOUNDED BY OF A REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRATIC ELECTORATE IS ONE IN A GOOD POSITION TO INITIATE ITS POLICIES )T APPEARS THAT THE MAIN PROBLEM NOW IS WHAT THESE POLICIES WILL ACTUALLY BE AS THE CON SIDERABLE SECTARIAN TENSIONS IN )RAQ WILL HAVE IMMENSE BEARING ON THE FU TURE OF THE NATION AS IT STANDS 4HESE ISSUES ARE GENERALLY ONES LEFT OVER FROM THE #ONSTITUTIONAL ELECTIONS IN WHICH IT WAS NECESSARY TO hPUSH THEM TO THE SIDE TEMPORARILYv IN ORDER TO GAIN CROSS PARTY AGREEMENT $ESPITE PRESSURE FROM !MERICAN DIPLOMATS TO RATIFY THE #ONSTITUTION IN ORDER TO FACILITATE CERTAIN DOMESTIC POLITICAL GOALS IT SEEMED THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS WOULD LAST IN PERPETUITY AS UNLIKE IN "RITISH OR !MERICAN POLITICS THE )RAQI ELECTIONS ARE A MODEL OF PLURALISM
INTO THREE SECTIONS 3HIA 3UNNI AND +URD WILL BE THE SYSTEM USED BUT THIS UNFAIRLY EXCLUDES THE 3UNNI MINORITY FROM VAST SWATHES OF )RAQ S CONSIDER ABLE OIL WEALTH 4HE OPPOSITION TO THE WAR FROM MANY AROUND THE GLOBE FROM INDI VIDUALS TO NATION STATES POSITED TO A GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT THAT !MERICA AND ITS ALLIES WERE INVADING TO SAFE GUARD THE SUPPLY OF OIL TO THE 7EST ERN WORLD )RAQ AFTER ALL CONTROLS THE SECOND LARGEST SUPPLY OF OIL IN THE WORLD AFTER ITS NEIGHBOUR 3AUDI !RA BIA -UCH OF THE COUNTRY STILL REMAINS UNEXPLORED MEANING SIZEABLE DEPOS ITS MAY YET BE DISCOVERED 4HEREFORE IF THE PEOPLE OF )RAQ NOW CONTROL THE COUNTRY AS THEY ARE NOW A mEDGLING DEMOCRACY IT IS ONLY FAIR THAT THE MONEY MADE FROM SELLING OIL SHOULD BE USED FOR SOCIAL POLICIES )F )RAQ WAS TO BE MADE FEDERAL HOWEVER THE WEALTH CREATED BY THIS OIL REVENUE WOULD BE UNEVENLY DISTRIB UTED AMONGST )RAQIS WITH THE 3UNNIS
"Y BRINGING MORE AND MORE OF THE 3UNNI COMMUNITY INTO THE POLITICAL FOLD THE IN SURGENT GROUPS WILL HAVE LESS AMMUNITION IN THEIR ATTEMPTS AT INCITING A CIVIL WAR (OWEVER THE ISSUES LEFT OVER HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH THE MOST PRESSING OF WHICH WILL BE THE SHAPE OF )RAQ IN THE FUTURE !T PRESENT IT WOULD APPEAR THAT FEDERALISM I E SPLITTING THE COUNTRY
IN CENTRAL AND 7ESTERN )RAQ BEING THE LOSERS )RAQ S OIL IS LOCATED IN THE +URD ISH NORTH AROUND +IRKUK AND -OSUL AND IN THE 3HIA 3OUTH AROUND "ASRA )NDEED THESE AREAS CONTAIN )RAQ S SO
CALLED h3UPERGIANTv OILlELDS WITH AN ESTIMATED SUPPLY OF AT LEAST BIL LION BARRELS "AGHDAD BEING THE ONLY OTHER AREA WITH THIS MUCH OF THE BLACK STUFF "AGHDAD +IRKUK AND "ASRA ARE ALSO THE ONLY SITES OF )RAQ S THREE OIL RElNERIES WHICH MEAN THE 3UNNI SEC TION MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO ONE WITH FURTHER DEGRADATION OF THEIR STATUS DUE TO THIS 7EST OF "AGHDAD THERE ARE VIRTU ALLY NO OILlELDS AND THEREFORE THE 3UNNI COALITION IS OPPOSED TO FEDER ALISM AS IT WOULD MEAN A LESSER SHARE OF THE WEALTH OR INDEED NONE AT ALL 7HILE THE 3HIA AND THE +URDS CAN LE GITIMATELY CLAIM THAT THE 3UNNIS WHO WERE SUPPORTED BY 3ADDAM (USSEIN WHEN HE WAS IN POWER ABUSED THEIR POSITION AS THE DOMINANT MINORITY ONLY OF )RAQIS ARE 3UNNI -US LIM IT IS NOT FAIR OR JUSTIlED TO PUSH THEM TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER UPON THE USURPATION OF THEIR POSI TION 7HILE THEY CANNOT DEMAND WHAT THEY WISH DUE TO THEIR MINORITY STATUS ALL )RAQIS NEED TO BE EMBRACED BY THE NEW POLITICAL POSITION OR IT IS DESTINED TO FAIL 4HE ONGOING INSURGENCY IN THE COUNTRY IS LARGELY PROPAGATED BY 3UNNI -USLIM GROUPS OF WHICH THE hAL 1AEDA IN )RAQv LEADER !BU -USAB AL :ARQAWI IS A PART "Y BRINGING MORE AND MORE OF THE 3UNNI COMMUNITY INTO THE POLITICAL FOLD THE INSURGENT GROUPS WILL HAVE LESS AMMUNITION IN THEIR ATTEMPTS AT INCITING A CIVIL WAR 4HE MOST GLARING ASPECT OF THE )RA QI ELECTIONS IS THE NUMBER OF RELIGIOUS PARTIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE ELEC TION 0RACTICALLY ALL THE PARTIES JOINED TOGETHER IN hLISTSv IN ORDER TO PREVENT HUNDREDS OF NAMES ON THE BALLOT PA PERS 0REDICTABLY THE COALITION WITH
THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES IS THE 5NITED )RAQI !LLIANCE 4HEY ACHIEVED OF THE TOTAL VOTES WHICH REmECTS THE DEMOGRAPHIC MAKE UP OF )RAQ AS 3HIA -USLIMS SUPPORTED THIS COALI TION CONTAINING AS IT DID SUCH PARTIES AS )SLAMIC !L $A WA 0ARTY AND THE 3U PREME #OUNCIL FOR THE )SLAMIC 2EVOLU TION IN )RAQ 4HIS PARTY ALSO HAD THE SUPPORT OF MANY WITHIN )RAQ S NEIGH BOUR )RAN WHICH COULD HAVE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE -ID DLE %AST .ONETHELESS THE 5)! IS NOW IN A POSITION TO BEGIN ITS JOB IN FORM ING A GOVERNMENT CAPABLE OF REBUILD ING THE WAR TORN COUNTRY 4HE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES WAS GARNERED BY THE $EMOCRATIC 0ATRIOTIC !LLIANCE OF +URDISTAN WHICH REPRESENTS THE +URDISH MINORITY IN .ORTHERN )RAQ WHO WERE BRUTALLY SUP PRESSED BY 3ADDAM (USSEIN DURING HIS TENURE IN POWER 4HEY CONSTITUTE A SIZEABLE MINORITY IN )RAQ AND ARE ALSO IN AGREEMENT WITH THE 3HIA GROUPS IN THAT THEY WANT )RAQ TO BE A FEDERAL STATE 4HE +URDS HAVE MORE RIGHT TO THIS THAN THE 3HIA AS +URDISTAN IS FOR MERLY A COUNTRY AND THEY ARE ETHNICAL LY DIFFERENT FROM 3HIA OR 3UNNI -US LIMS /NCE AGAIN HOWEVER THE +URDS MAY BE MOTIVATED BY THE OIL THEY WILL GAIN AS A RESULT OF A SEPARATION OF SORTS FROM THE REST OF )RAQ /NCE AGAIN THE WISHES OF THE 3UNNI -USLIMS DO NOT SEEM TO APPEAL TO THE OTHER SECTIONS IN THE )RAQI POLITY 4HE 3HIA AND THE +URDS APPEAR RELATIVELY UNIlED IN THE COALITIONS WHEREAS THE SAME CANNOT BE SAID OF THE 3UNNIS 4HERE ARE THREE MAIN 3UN NI COALITIONS THE )RAQI !CCORD &RONT THE )RAQI .ATIONAL ,IST AND THE .A TIONAL )RAQI &RONT AND ALL OPPOSE EACH
OTHER IN CERTAIN RESPECTS SUCH AS THEIR VIEWS ON AN )SLAMIST OR SECULAR STATE 4HESE DISPARITIES MEAN THAT THE 3UNNI VOTE ONLY OF )RAQ AS A WHOLE IS FURTHER DILUTED BY THE CHOICE OF THREE DIFFERENT LISTS AND THEREFORE NO UNIlED h3UNNIv VOICE OR DESIRE CAN BE FULLY ARTICULATED 7HILE DEMOCRACY BY ITS VERY NATURE MEANS THAT AS THE SMALL
ONLY A FEW HOURS EACH DAY AND THEIR SANITATION AND WATER SYSTEMS ARE IN DIRE NEED OF REPAIR %ACH DAY SEEMS TO BRING MORE NEWS OF !MERICAN OR 5NITED .ATIONS CORRUPTION IN WHICH MONEY FOR DEVELOPING THE COUNTRY SEEMS TO END UP IN THE COFFERS OF SEN IOR DIPLOMATS OR POLITICIANS /NE WAY OF STOPPING THIS WITHOUT RESORTING TO
"USH NEEDS )RAQ TO BE SETTLED WITHOUT AN ERUPTION OF VIOLENCE OR A WEAK KNEED TAIL BETWEEN THE LEGS WITHDRAWAL EST GROUP THE 3UNNIS HAVE LESS SAY IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS IT IS ALSO THE JOB OF DEMOCRACY TO SAFEGUARD THEIR MI NORITY RIGHTS 0ERHAPS THE LARGEST ISSUE IS HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR THE 3HIA AND +URDISH FACTIONS TO COMPROMISE WITH THE 3UNNIS )F THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN THEN THE KINDERGARTEN DEMOCRACY IN )RAQ MAY NOT GRADUATE AT ALL )T MUST BE HOPED THAT THEY CAN )T IS IN THE INTERESTS OF ALL )RAQIS WHAT EVER THEIR OPINION ON THE BRUTALITY OR ILLEGALITY OF THE INVASION TO EMBRACE THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS 7HILE IT IS NOT AS 'EORGE 7 "USH APPEARS TO BELIEVE A WAY TO MEND ALL THE WORLD S HURTS DEMOCRACY IS AT PRESENT A SUFlCIENT ENOUGH SYSTEM TO ALLOW FOR A PLURALITY OF OPINIONS AND THE NUMBER OF PAR TIES PARTICIPATING IN THE )RAQI ELECTIONS OVER MEANS THAT COMPROMISE WILL HAVE TO BE ADOPTED IF ANYTHING IS TO BE ACHIEVED !ND BE ACHIEVED IT MUST -OST )RA QIS STILL HAVE ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY FOR
THE RIDICULOUS APPROACH OF TRYING TO PERSUADE POLITICIANS TO BE HONEST IS FOR THE )RAQI GOVERNMENT TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS SO TO SPEAK 7ITH ITS DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY INTACT THE PEO PLE AND LEGISLATURE OF )RAQ CAN USE THE DEVELOPMENT FUNDING IN WAYS THEY SEE lT &OR EXAMPLE THEY COULD OFFER COMPETITION TO RECONSTRUCTION lRMS RATHER THAN SIMPLY BEING FORCED BY THE !MERICANS TO PAY $ICK #HENEY S EX COMPANY (ALLIBURTON MILLIONS FOR NOTHING MUCH IN PARTICULAR 4HOSE WHO BELIEVE JUSTIlABLY THAT !MERICA IS MERELY EXACERBATING THE IN SURGENCY SITUATION THROUGH ITS STAUNCH ATTITUDE TO hSTAY UNTIL THE JOB IS DONEv WOULD SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT IT MAY BE TO THE BENElT OF )RAQIS IF THEY COULD UNIFY AROUND A SINGLE ISSUE NAMELY THE FACT THAT THEY ARE STILL AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY )T IS A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS WHEN A ONCE UNIlED ALTHOUGH BRUTALLY SO STATE IMPLODES IN A lT OF SECTARIAN
RAGE WHEN IN FACT THEY SHOULD JOIN TO GETHER IN OPPOSING THE !MERICAN AND "RITISH PRESENCE 4HE )RAQI GOVERNMENT IS NOW IN A PRIME POSITION TO OFFER A UNITED VOICE HOWEVER SHALLOW IT MAY SEEM AT THE TIME )F THIS VOICE INCREASINGLY IMPELS THE FOREIGN TROOPS TO REMOVE THEMSELVES IT MAY BE THAT 3HIA 3UNNI AND +URDS CAN lND POLITICAL GROUND IN COMMON THAT HAS UNTIL THIS POINT BEEN UNATTAINABLE )T SEEMS THE CRUX OF THE ISSUE IS WHETHER OR NOT THE NEW )RAQI GOVERN MENT WILL HAVE THE STRENGTH OR COURAGE TO STAND UP TO THE !MERICANS )RAQ IS AS MUCH A DOMESTIC ISSUE FOR 'EORGE 7 "USH AS IT IS A FOREIGN ONE AS THE EVENTS IN THE -IDDLE %AST IMPACT HIS POLICIES AT HOME PARTICULARLY THE (OMELAND 3ECU RITY ISSUE "USH NEEDS )RAQ TO BE SETTLED WITHOUT AN ERUPTION OF VIOLENCE OR A WEAK KNEED TAIL BETWEEN THE LEGS WITH DRAWAL BY !MERICAN TROOPS %VEN IF IT IS THE CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION AS )RAQ MUST BE LEFT TO DEVELOP OF ITS OWN VOLITION THIS WILL NOT OCCUR AS "USH DOES NOT POS SESS THE POLITICAL CAPITAL TO INITIATE SUCH A POLICY ! WITHDRAWAL FROM )RAQ WOULD MEAN HIS DOMESTIC POLITICAL PROGRAMME CHARACTERISED BY TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND FAR RIGHT CONSERVATISM INCLUDING THE AT TEMPT TO MAKE ABORTIONS ILLEGAL WOULD HANG IN TATTERS 7E CAN ONLY WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAP PENS IN )RAQ (OPEFULLY THE CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS FACTIONS IN THE COUNTRY CAN BE ACCOMMODATED BY THE NEW GOVERNMENT AND MAYBE AT LAST THIS MOST DESPERATE OF COUNTRIES WHICH DESPITE ITS BEAUTY AND THE CULTURE OF ITS PEOPLE HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY RAVAGED BY IMPERIAL POWERS WILL BE ALLOWED TO GROW ON ITS OWN 4HIS IS ALL THE PEOPLE OF )RAQ WANT AND NOW THEY ARE A DEMOCRACY IT SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN
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OR THOSE WHO WANT TO COMBINE A WEEK S SKI ING WITH SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ! LIST CELEBRITY SPOTTING !SPEN IS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE 4HE MOST FAMOUS OF THE FOUR RESORTS THAT MAKE UP THE !SPEN 3NOW MASS SKI AREA IN EASTERN #OLORADO !S PEN OFFERS STYLE AND GLAMOUR AS WELL AS PLENTY OF GOOD SKIING 4HE PICTURESQUE VILLAGE OF !SPEN IS AT THE HEART OF THE RESORT !N EX MINING TOWN IT RETAINS ITS OLD WORLD CHARM WHILE INCORPORAT ING MODERN AMENITIES 7ITH OVER SHOPS ART GALLERIES AND AN AMAZING
SONABLY PRICED HOLIDAY )F !SPEN DOES NOT TAKE YOUR FANCY THEN CONSIDER ANOTHER OF #OLORADO S EXCLUSIVE SKI RESORTS 6AIL IS KNOWN TO BE PRESTIGIOUS BUT EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL !LTHOUGH THIS IS NOT TYPICALLY THE CHOICE FOR STUDENTS IT IS KNOWN AS A SECOND HOME OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS 6AIL AL WAYS SEEMS TO BE COMPARED WITH OTHER SKI RESORTS SUCH AS 7HISTLER !SPEN AND #HAMONIX BUT THE LEVEL OF CLASS AND A PENCHANT FOR THE hlNER THINGS IN LIFEv IS INEXTRICABLY LINKED WITH 6AIL 4HE ACCESSIBILITY OF 6AIL IS AS QUICK AS SNAPPING YOUR lNGERS AS THERE IS THE 6AIL %AGLE #OUNTY !IRPORT AND THE $ENVER )NTERNATIONAL !IRPORT WHICH ARE
! PENCHANT FOR THE @lNER THINGS IN LIFE IS INEXTRICABLY LINKED WITH THE 6AIL RESORT ARRAY OF RESTAURANTS !SPEN IS EQUIPPED TO CATER TO THE MOST DISCERNING OF CON SUMERS 4HE SKI AREA ENCOMPASSES FOUR MOUNTAINS AND OFFERS SKIING FOR ALL LEV ELS FROM THE WIDE PERFECTLY GROOMED BEGINNERS SLOPES TO THE EXTREME SKIING ON !SPEN MOUNTAIN KNOWN LOCALLY AS !JAX &OR THOSE LESS INCLINED TO RISK LIFE AND LIMB BY DONNING A PAIR OF SLIP PERY SKIS AND HEADING DOWNHILL THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER DISTRACTIONS ON OF FER ICE SKATING DOG SLEDDING AND FOR THE MORE ADVENTUROUS PARAGLIDING AND HOT AIR BALLOONING !SPEN OFFERS A GOOD ALL ROUND SKIING VACATION AND DESPITE ITS REPUTATION FOR HIGH PRICES THE CAREFUL CUSTOMER CAN ENJOY A REA
BOTH SITUATED IN #OLORADO AND ARE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF 6AIL 4HE 6AIL -OUNTAIN WAS DISCOVERED IN THE MID S AND IS RENOWNED FOR BEING .ORTH !MERI CA S LARGEST SKI RESORT 7ITH SKI LIFTS BREATHTAKING VIEWS AND OPEN BOWLS IN CLUDING 4HE "LUE "ASIN AND THE NEWLY OPENED #HINA "OWL IT IS NO WONDER THE ! ,IST mOCK THERE FOR MAGNIlCENT SCENERY AND RELAXATION )N THE COLD DREARY WINTER THERE IS OPPORTUNITY TO PARTAKE IN A hSKI DOWNv IN "EAVER #REEK ON 4HURSDAY NIGHTS 2EFRESHMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ARE PROVIDED ALONG WITH lREWORKS AT THE END OF THE NIGHT -ANY SKIING COMPE TITIONS ARE HELD THROUGHOUT THE WINTER
FOR CASH PRIZES AND IT IS FREE FOR VIEWERS TO WATCH )N THE SUMMER YOU CAN ENJOY ENTERTAINMENT FROM ABOVE FEET AS THE %AGLE "AHN GONDOLA OFFERS FREE RIDES UP TO 6AIL -OUNTAIN BETWEEN PM WHICH IS A MUST FOR EVERYONE 4HE SKI LIFT PRICES ARE VERY EXPENSIVE SO ANYONE EMBARKING ON A TRIP TO 6AIL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THAT &OR ONE DAY ALONE IT CAN COST APPROXIMATELY 5 3 DOLLARS WHICH IS EQUAL TO a )F THIS ALL SEEMS A BIT TOO EXPENSIVE THEN CONSIDER AN ALTERNATIVE "ANFF TRU LY IS THE 2OCKY -OUNTAINS 7HILE !S PEN AND 6AIL PROVIDE SOME OF THE VERY BEST SNOW THEY ARE CORPORATE RESORTS INTENT ON BLEEDING AS MUCH MONEY OUT OF OVERPAID SKIERS AS POSSIBLE "ANFF HOWEVER IS RATHER DIFFERENT .ESTLED IN A VALLEY BETWEEN #ASCADE -OUNTAIN AND -OUNT 2UNDLE THE TOWN RESEMBLES A CITY SIZED 3ANTA S GROTTO %VERYTHING IS MADE OF WOODEN LOGS AND THATCHED ROOlNG GIVING THE TOWN AN AIR OF TIMELESSNESS AS MODER NITY IS SIMPLY INCORPORATED INTO THE EX ISTING LANDSCAPE 7HILE IT OF COURSE HAS A -C$ONALD S RESTAURANT THIS IS NOT NOTICEABLE UNLESS ONE IS STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT AS THE 'OLDEN !RCHES ARE PROHIBITED FROM BEING PROMINENT "UT TO THE POINTx "ANFF ITSELF HAS NO SKY SLOPE BUT IT IS AT THE HUB OF THREE OF THE 2OCKIES FOREMOST RESORTS TWO OF THEM ,AKE ,OUISE AND 3UN SHINE 6ILLAGE BEING OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 4HE FORMER WAS THE VENUE FOR THE #ALGARY /LYMPICS SKI ING COMPETITIONS )T IS ALSO ABSOLUTELY HUGE WITH MANY ROUTES FROM THE EASY GREENS TO THE INTENSE DOUBLE BLACKS WINDING THEIR WAY THROUGH PRISTINE
MOUNTAIN VIEWS 7HEN AT THE TOP OF THE ,AKE ,OUISE RESORT THE VIEW OF THE ,AKE ITSELF IS SIMPLY BREATHTAKING 4HE OTHER IS 3KI"ANFF .ORQUAY A SMALLER AND MORE INTIMATE SETTING FOR SKIING WHICH IS POPULAR AMONG THE TOWN S ACTUAL RESIDENTS HALF OF WHOM ARE UN DER /N &RIDAYS .ORQUAY PROVIDES NIGHT TIME SKIING WITH A SERIES OF HUGE mOODLIGHTS PROVIDING AN INTRIGUING EX PERIENCE WHEN GLIDING DOWN A SLOPE AT BREAK NECK SPEEDS ! WEEK PASS TO ALL THREE OF THESE SENSATIONAL RESORTS WILL SET YOU BACK IN THE REGION OF #!$ a )F YOU HUNT AROUND YOU CAN lND mIGHT HOTEL SKI PASS DEALS WHICH CAN COST AS LITTLE AS a FOR A WEEK &OR THOSE DAREDEVILS OUT THERE "ANFF IS ALSO HOME TO ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS SKI SLOPES IN THE WORLD $E LERIUM $IVE AT 3UNSHINE 6ILLAGE 4HIS RAMPAGING SKI SLOPE FEATURES FEET OF VERTICAL SLOPE AND AN AVERAGE PITCH OF DEGREES )TS LOCATION AND THE FACT THAT ONLY A SELECT FEW CAN HANDLE THE PACE MAKE $ELERIUM THE SITE OF WHAT IS POSSIBLY THE BEST SNOW TO BE FOUND IN THE 2OCKIES 7HEN THE SKIING STOPS ONE CAN VENTURE OUT TO ONE OF THE MANY "ANFF PUBS 4HE 0UMP AND 4AP IS A DELIGHT FUL LITTLE %NGLISH THEMED PUB JUST OFF THE MAIN HIGH STREET AND 4HE 2OSE AND #ROWN OFFERS WONDERFUL #ANA DIAN GRUB TO ENJOY WITH YOUR PINT )F YOU RE STILL ALIVE AND IN THE MOOD FOR A PARTY HIT THE !URORA ON THE (IGH 3TREET WHICH PROVIDES ALL THE THINGS YOU D EX PECT FROM A NIGHTCLUB IN A SETTING THAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS hCHICv "E SURE TO TASTE THE %LECTRIC 0OPSICLE POSSIBLY THE BEST DRINK EVER
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LOT OF STUDENTS FORGET TO ENJOY FOOD 'OOD FOOD 4HERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENJOY ING A DELICIOUS MEAL AND SATIS FYING THE MUNCHIES AT AM 5NFORTU NATELY FOOD IS A MEANS TO AN END TO TOO MANY PEOPLE AND A LOT OF US FALL INTO THE SAME UNHEALTHY TRAPS WHEN IT COMES TO STUDENT NUTRITION 4HERE ARE THOUSANDS OF FAD DIETS AROUND AND MANY OF THEM SOUND AB SURD TO THE UNINFORMED EAR ! COM MON ONE 4HE #ABBAGE 3OUP $IET IS BASED ON JUST THAT n CABBAGE SOUP !PPARENTLY NO SINGLE GROUP WILL CLAIM AUTHORSHIP OF THIS HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL STRICT WEEK LONG CRASH DIET /NE WEB SITE WWW CABBAGE SOUP DIET COM AC TUALLY STATES h3OME PEOPLE WILL lND THE SOUP BLAND 3OME HAVE REPORTED FEELING LIGHT HEADED AND HAVE SUF FERED FROM DECREASED CONCENTRATION v 4HE CABBAGE SOUP DIET IS SAID TO LULL THE BODY INTO A STATE SIMILAR TO STARVATION 4HIS ACTUALLY LEADS TO THE BODY RETAINING FAT n WHICH COMPLETELY DEFEATS THE OBJECT 7HEN THE DIETER
STARTS TO EAT NORMALLY AGAIN THE BODY WILL RETAIN MORE FAT THAN IT USED TO .OT ONLY IS IT AN UNHEALTHY DIET IT DOESN T EVEN WORK LONG TERM 4HE REAL TRICK TO lNDING YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT IS EATING A BALANCED DIET .OT ONLY IS THIS MORE ENJOYABLE BUT IT IS REALISTIC n AND COULD EVEN LAST WELL INTO &EBRUARY 4HE KEY WORD IS MOD ERATION *UST MAKING A CONSCIOUS DECI SION TO BUY POTATOES INSTEAD OF CHIPS WOULD BE A START )F YOU DON T HAVE THE FOOD IN THE HOUSE YOU WON T BE ABLE TO EAT IT $ON T ACCEPT THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU RE A STUDENT IT S /+ TO LIVE ON PASTA AND BAKED BEANS ON TOAST #OOK A PROPER MEAL 0LAN FOR IT INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AROUND FOR DINNER PRETEND TO BE CIVILISED %ATING DOESN T HAVE TO BE A CHORE FAR FROM IT %XPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT FOODS AND STOCK UP ON HERBS AND SPICES AS THEY CAN ADD A LOT TO AN ORDINARY MEAL 4RY TO WORK ON WHAT YOU EAT AT THE MOMENT n SUDDENLY CHANGING EVE RYTHING YOU EAT ISN T GOING TO LAST FOR VERY LONG -AKE SMALL CHANGES AND SUPPLEMENT YOUR CURRENT DIET 7E RE MEANT TO EAT lVE PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES A DAY lVE CAN SEEM A LIT
TLE DAUNTING SO WHY NOT TRY AND EAT AT LEAST ONE !ND WHEN YOU RE USED TO lTTING ONE INTO YOUR DAY TRY ADDING SOMETHING ELSE 2EMEMBER THAT DRIED FRUIT COUNTS TOO n RAISINS AND DRIED AP RICOTS MAKE GOOD SNACKS WHEN YOU RE A BIT PECKISH %VEN STARTING TO HAVE A PORTION OF VEGETABLES WITH A MEAL WHEN YOU WOULDN T NORMALLY IS BETTER THAN NOTH ING !DDING VEGETABLES TO A PASTA SAUCE IS QUICK AND EASY "RIGHT COLOURED VEG ETABLES ARE EVEN BETTER FOR YOU AND BY STEAMING THEM OR COOKING THEM IN THE MICROWAVE MORE NUTRIENTS WILL BE LOCKED IN n BOILING BROCCOLI TO A SLUDGY PULP IS NOT AS HEALTHY AS STEAM ING IT UNTIL IT S JUST TENDER 4HE MORAL IS TO IGNORE CELEBRITIES TRYING TO SELL YOU A DIET THEY VE BEEN PAID TO ENDORSE AND INSTEAD BEGIN TO ADAPT YOUR OWN DIET )F YOU SERIOUSLY WANT TO BECOME HEALTHY YOU RE GOING TO HAVE TO STICK TO THE DIET YOU CHOOSE n SO MAKE SURE IT S REASONABLE 9OU RE NOT GOING TO BE GOOD ALL THE TIME n EVERYONE HAS DAYS WHERE THEY EAT TOO MUCH CHOCOLATE $ON T LET ONE BAD DAY MAKE YOU FEEL THAT YOU VE FAILED ON YOUR QUEST TO BECOME THE HEALTHI EST STUDENT IN .ORWICH
2ECIPE 2ISOTTO ALLA -ILANESE CUPS CHICKEN OR BEEF BROTH TABLESPOONS lNELY CHOPPED SHAL LOTS OR ONION TABLESPOONS UNSALTED BUTTER TABLESPOONS VEGETABLE OIL CUPS RAW !RBORIO RICE TEASPOON SAFFRON THREADS CRUSHED CUP FRESHLY GRATED 0ARMIGIANO 2EGGIANO CHEESE CUP WHITE WINE SEA SALT AND FRESHLY GROUND WHITE PEPPER ,IGHTLY FRY THE ONIONS IN A PAN 7HEN TENDER ADD THE RICE AND STIR UNTIL
LIGHTLY TOASTED 0OUR IN THE WINE AND LET IT EVAPORATE !DD A LADLE OF BROTH AND LET THE RICE ABSORB IT STIRRING CON STANTLY #ARRY ON ADDING BROTH ONE LADLE AT A TIME AND STIRRING !LLOW EACH LADLEFUL OF BROTH TO BE ABSORBED BEFORE ADDING THE NEXT ONE (ALFWAY THROUGH COOKING AFTER ABOUT MINS DISSOLVE THE SAFFRON IN A LITTLE BROTH AND ADD TO THE RICE 7HEN THE RICE IS DONE TURN OFF THE HEAT AND MIX IN THE REST OF THE BUTTER AND THE 0ARMIGIANO 3TIR THE RICE WELL UNTIL THE INGREDIENTS ARE BLENDED THOROUGHLY AND THE RISOTTO IS SMOOTH
)N A RESTAURANT STEALING FOOD FROM SOME ONE ELSE S PLATE IS WRONG %VEN IF THEY DON T IMMEDIATELY NOTICE THE DEPLETING MOUND OF CROQUETTES OR THE TELL TALE FORK MARKS IN THE SALMON EN CROßTE YOU HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE NORMAL BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL EATING 3O WHEN ABOUT HALF WAY THROUGH THE MEAL AT ,A 4ASCA ) FANCY SOME OF MY DINING COMPANION S PAELLA IT S A RELIEF TO KNOW ) VE FOUND AN UPMAR KET VENUE THAT WILL TOLERATE MY KLEPTO MANIAC HABITS 4HIS IS TAPAS A 3PANISH STYLE OF CUI SINE AND A LICENSE TO STEAL OTHER PEOPLE S FOOD )NSTEAD OF ORDERING A SINGLE MEAL EACH PERSON CHOOSES FROM A RANGE OF SMALLER DISHES WHICH ARE SHARED AROUND THE TABLE 7E START THE EVENING WITH A SELECTION OF OLIVES ALL BIGGER AND SHARPER THAN ANY YOU LL lND AT THE DELI WASHED DOWN WITH A GLASS OF REASONABLY PRICED HOUSE WHITE 4HE MAIN COURSE ARRIVES PROMPT LY DELIVERED ON A SELECTION OF APPROPRI ATELY PINT SIZED CROCKERY 3PICY BATTERED PRAWNS JOSTLE FOR SPACE WITH JUICY SAU TÏED MUSHROOMS AND A TRADITIONAL PO TATO AND ONION OMELETTE %ACH BRINGS ITS mAVOUR TO THE MEAL WITHOUT OVERPOWER ING THE OTHER DISHES THOUGH THERE IS A RISK OF REPETITION IN SOME OF THE COURSES ) AM DISAPPOINTED BY THE FRIED POTATOES WHICH ARE SLIGHTLY OVERDONE BUT CHEERED BY A PERFECT SEASONAL VEGETABLE PAELLA ! LIGHT MEAL LEAVES ROOM FOR A PORTION OF RICH CHOCOLATE PUDDING n ALTHOUGH HERE THE RULE OF SHARING DElNITELY DOES NOT APPLY
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4HIS DIET PROMISES A NEW YOU IN ONLY TWENTY FOUR HOURS .EW 9EAR IS THE TIME FOR GOOD INTENTIONS AND WHAT COULD BE BETTER FOR YOUR BODY THAN A DETOX DIET ! GOOD REST AND SOME WATER SAYS #LARE !ITCHISON
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H HOW ) LOVE .EW 9EAR )T S LIKE A FRESH LY WASHED SHEET AS YET UN SOILED BY ALL THE DIRT AND GRIME THAT ALL THE PRE VIOUS ONES HAVE ENJOYED )T MIGHT BE GRIM OUTSIDE AND WE MAY NOT HAVE SEEN THE SUN SINCE LAST 3EPTEMBER BUT WHAT PLANS WE HAVE 4HIS YEAR ) M GO ING TO HAND ALL MY ESSAYS IN EARLY EARN SOME MONEY MEET THE LOVE OF MY LIFE LOSE WEIGHT AND GET lT 4HESE LAST TWO MUST BE THE MOST COMMON .EW 9EAR S RESOLUTIONS MADE IN THE WESTERN WORLD !ND IT S HARDLY SURPRISING 7HAT WITH ALL THE BING ING AND LAZING ABOUT OVER #HRISTMAS BY NOW MOST OF US ARE FEELING PRETTY DUMPY AND ARE READY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT !ND WHAT BETTER WAY TO KICK START THIS NEW HEALTH REGIMEN THAN BY DETOXING !FTER ALL THAT TURKEY AND SHERRY WE MUST BE FULL OF NASTY TOXINS AND EVERY MAGAZINE AND DAYTIME 46 PROGRAMME HAS @EASY TO FOLLOW DETOX PLANS THAT WILL HAVE OUR BODIES GLOW ING WITH INNER HEALTH IN NO TIME )F THAT ISN T ENOUGH THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF CELEBRITIES WHO WILL BE MORE THAN
OUT IMPURITIES WHILE YOU SLEEP n ONLY a (OWEVER A GROUP OF "RITISH SCIEN TISTS ANNOUNCED ON .EW 9EAR S $AY THAT DETOX DIETS ARE A POINTLESS WASTE OF TIME 4HE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE TRUST 3ENSE !BOUT 3CIENCE PROMOTES AN EVIDENCE BASED APPROACH TO CHALLENG ING POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SCI ENCE 4HEY POINT OUT THAT THE PROBLEM WITH ALL THESE DETOX FADS IS THAT THEY ARE BASED ON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE WAY THE HUMAN BODY WORKS )N FACT OUR BODIES ARE AMAZING MACHINES THAT ARE CONSTANTLY PROTECTING US FROM HARMFUL CHEMICALS /UR GUTS HAVE SPE CIALLY DESIGNED lLTERS IN THEIR WALLS THAT PREVENT MOST HARMFUL SUBSTANCES FROM ENTERING US AT ALL AND IF THEY DO GET IN THE LIVER IS INCREDIBLY EFlCIENT AT BREAKING THEM DOWN INTO HARMLESS SUBSTANCES THAT CAN BE EXCRETED WITHIN A FEW HOURS BY THE KIDNEYS AS URINE
$ETOX DIETS ARE BASED ON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE WAY THE BODY WORKS HAPPY TO PROVIDE US WITH THEIR OWN RANGE OF DETOX AIDS IN EXCHANGE FOR OUR HARD EARNED CASH &OR ONLY a YOU CAN HAVE $R 'ILLIAN -C+EITH S HOUR DETOX n SACHETS OF DRIED MANGO AND PUMPKIN SEEDS WHICH WILL GIVE YOU THE FEELING OF hBEING LIGHTER lTTER AND GAINING NEW ENERGYv ALL IN UNDER HOURS #AROL 6ORDERMAN S DAY PLAN TAKES A LITTLE LONGER BUT WILL ONLY SET YOU BACK a FOR THE BOOK !ND IF THAT ALL SOUNDS LIKE TOO MUCH HARD WORK HOW ABOUT SOME DETOX SOCKS TO DRAW
&OR EXAMPLE YOU MAY FEEL THAT YOU HAVE OVER INDULGED ON ALCOHOL SOME WHAT IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS AND YOU MAY NATURALLY ASSUME THAT THIS IS WHY YOU ARE FEELING SO ROUGH NOW "UT AC CORDING TO 0ROFESSOR 3IR #OLIN "ERRY 0ROFESSOR %MERITUS OF 0ATHOLOGY AT 1UEEN -ARY (OSPITAL IN ,ONDON EVEN IF YOU DRANK AN ALMOST LETHAL AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL THOUGH PLEASE DON T IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM YOUR BODY BY THE LIVER IN AROUND HOURS /F COURSE IF YOU DO THIS REGULARLY THEN YOU WILL CAUSE IRREVERSIBLE LIVER DAM AGE BUT THIS CANNOT BE PREVENTED SIM PLY BY TAKING HERBAL TABLETS )N FACT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT TAKING A HERBAL REMEDY SIMPLY GIVES YOUR LIVER MORE TO DO THEREBY SLOWING THE RATE AT WHICH IT CAN BREAK DOWN THE ALCOHOL 4HE REASON YOU FEEL ROUGH AFTER THE PARTY SEASON IS PROBABLY BECAUSE YOU ARE SHORT OF SLEEP AND DEHYDRATED 4HE ANSWER AN EARLY NIGHT AND A GLASS
OF TAP WATER !SSUMING THAT NOTHING NASTY HAS BEEN DUMPED INTO THE WA TER SUPPLY THERE IS NO BENElT FROM EXPENSIVE BOTTLED WATER OVER THE FREE STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF THE TAP 4HEY ARE BOTH JUST ( / AND ONLY ONE COMES IN A PLASTIC BOTTLE THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO OUR GROWING LITTER PROBLEM #ERTAINLY THE .EW 9EAR PROVIDES US WITH A CHECKPOINT IN OUR BUSY LIVES WHERE WE CAN TAKE STOCK OF OURSELVES AND MAKE WELL INTENTIONED PROMISES THAT WE CAN MAKE THINGS BETTER )T S NO LIE THAT WE COULD PROBABLY ALL LIVE HEALTHIER LIVES n EAT MORE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AND LESS -C$ONALD S DRINK MORE WATER AND LESS COFFEE AND ALCO HOL DO MORE EXERCISE AND HAVE FEWER LATE NIGHTS )F YOU MANAGE TO STICK TO A PLAN LIKE THIS YOU WILL FEEL BETTER FOR IT "UT IF YOU GET SUCKED IN BY THE LATEST DETOX FAD CHANCES ARE THE ONLY THING THAT WILL GET LIGHTER WILL BE YOUR WAL LET
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35--%$ 50 0ERCENTAGE OF WOMEN WHO WOULD RATHER BE THINNER THAN CLEVERER !MOUNT OF ENERGY AND CARBON EMIS SIONS SAVED BY RECYCLING AN ALUMINIUM CAN INSTEAD OF CREATING A NEW ONE 0ERCENTAGE OF THE 3AUDI !RABIAN S EXPORT REVENUE THAT COMES FROM ITS OIL TRADE
4HE NUMBER OF CLINICALLY OBESE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET 4HE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN 3UB 3AHARAN !FRICA LIVING ON LESS THAN A DAY AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE SAME RE GION WITHOUT ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER 4HE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT !RGENTINA S FOOD EXPORTS COULD HAVE FED IN WHEN OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION !RGENTINE CHILDREN WERE SUFFERING FROM MALNUTRITION
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!MOUNT OF MONEY SPENT WORLDWIDE ON FOOD EXPORT SUBSIDIES %STIMATED lNANCIAL COSTS OF THE %URO PEAN HEAT WAVE OF WHICH KILLED 4HE AMOUNT OF MONEY PLEDGED BY THE )-& AND THE 7ORLD "ANK TO AID )RAQ S RECONSTRUCTION
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CIENTISTS CLAIM THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS CHANGED CLOUD COVER PATTERNS LEADING TO WARMER NIGHTS AND COOLER DAYS IN #ENTRAL AND 3OUTH !MERICA 4HIS HAS CREATED PER FECT CONDITIONS FOR THE CHYTRID FUNGUS WHICH HAS A WELL ESTABLISHED LINK TO DISEASE IN AMPHIBIANS ! 'ERMAN TEAM LED BY &RANK +EP PLER FOUND EVIDENCE THAT TREES ACTU ALLY EMIT METHANE A POTENT GREEN HOUSE GAS 0RODUCTION OF METHANE IS WELL DOCUMENTED IN LOW OXYGEN EN VIRONMENTS SUCH AS RICE PADDY lELDS BUT TREES EMIT METHANE EVEN IN THE PRESENCE OF OXYGEN )F THIS CLAIM IS SUBSTANTIATED IT COULD DRAMATICALLY CHANGE OUR PERCEPTION OF TREES IN THE ROLE OF CLIMATE CONTROL )T COULD ALSO UNDERMINE THE +YOTO PROTOCOL WHICH ALLOWS CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS TO BE
OFFSET BY PLANTING FORESTS /RGANISATIONS SUCH AS THE NEW !SIA 0ACIlC PARTNERSHIP HAVE MANY SCEPTICS DOUBTING THEIR EVERY DECISION EVEN IF THE NEXT MEETING PRODUCES A CONVINCING ACCOUNT FOR NEW hCLEAN EN ERGYv TECHNOLOGIES ACROSS THE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING !SIAN NATIONS SCEPTICS WILL REMAIN 3O TO MANY CLIMATE CHANGE IS A DISASTER 7ITH SUCH A PREPONDER ANCE OF hDISASTERv STORIES IN THE NEWS ONE QUESTION COMES TO MIND WHAT ROLE DOES THE MEDIA HAVE IN PORTRAY ING CLIMATE CHANGE 7HY DO WE HEAR SO MUCH BAD NEWS "AD NEWS MAKES GOOD STORIES AND GOOD STORIES SELL NEWSPAPERS 4HE TERM hRESPONSIBLE MEDIAv WILL INEVITABLY BE THROWN AROUND DISCUS SIONS BUT THE PUBLIC S SENSE OF RE SPONSIBILITY MUST NOT BE OVERLOOKED )N A SOCIETY THAT DEMANDS ROUND THE CLOCK NEWS A TRAIN OF UNRELATED AND INDIVIDUAL EVENTS IS TO BE EXPECTED
5NFORTUNATELY THIS MAKES FOLLOWING CONTINUOUS STORIES OR THEMES INCREAS INGLY DIFlCULT AND ULTIMATELY IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE RECEIVING PUBLIC 4REES RELEASING METHANE IS NOT NEC ESSARILY SUCH A BAD STORY &ORTUNATELY THE +YOTO PROTOCOL IS EVALUATIVE AND SO IT IS HOPED ABLE TO RESPOND TO SUCH CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE 3UCCESS AN IN CREASE IN SCIENTIlC KNOWLEDGE FOLLOWED BY AN INCREASINGLY EFFECTIVE MITIGATION STRATEGY 4HE !SIAn0ACIlC PARTNERSHIP MAY NOT BE EFFECTIVE BUT WE NOW KNOW THE "USH ADMINISTRATION ACKNOWLEDG ES THE PROBLEM ! WEEK FULL OF DISASTER STORIES MAY NOT LEAVE A CONSCIENTIOUS FOLLOWER OF CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS SO DESPONDENT 0ERHAPS THE GREATEST RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MEDIA IN RELATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS TO PROVOKE A GENUINE INTEREST SO THAT AT LEAST THERE CAN BE PRETENCE OF POSI TIVE THOUGHT -ARK (IRONS
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0ERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL 5+ CARBON EMIS SIONS CREATED BY THE TRASNPORT SECTOR 0ERCENTAGE OF THE 5+ S ('6 JOURNEYS SPENT ON TRANSPORTING FOOD AROUND THE COUNTRY 0ERCENTAGE OF &RENCH NATIONALS WHO ADMIT THAT THEIR FOOD IS OVERRATED
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HE GOVERNMENT S NEW PUSH IS TO PROMOTE OUTDOOR EXERCISE THAT CON TINUES THROUGH OUT THE YEAR AS PHYSICAL INACTIV ITY CAUSES MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS AND COSTS THE .(3 a BILLION PER YEAR %NGLAND HAS THE HIGHEST RISING LEVEL OF OBESITY IN %UROPE WHICH CAN LEAD TO A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS 4HEREFORE THE DRIVE TO ENCOURAGE EXERCISE AFTER THE #HRISTMAS PERIOD KILLS TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE 4HE MORE THE PUBLIC ENJOY THEIR SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT THE MORE LEEWAY ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES HAVE TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE IT !N IMPOR
TANT FACTOR IN PROMOTING OUTDOOR AC TIVITIES IS A HIGH QUALITY ENVIRONMENT NO ONE WANTS TO DO WATER SPORTS IN A POLLUTED LAKE 4HE SAME IS TRUE FOR TAK ING A RUN AROUND THE LOCAL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE ESPECIALLY IF LIKE MINE IT HAS RECENTLY BEEN DESTROYED BY AN EXPLOD ING OIL DEPOT AND COVERED IN A PLUME OF BLACK SMOKE 4HE %NVIRONMENT !GENCY BELIEVES THAT A MORE ATTRACTIVE ENVIRONMENT RE DUCES STRESS AND PROMOTES LONG TERM OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES 4HEIR RECENT REPORT h"ETTER %NVIRONMENT (EALTHIER 0EO PLEv PRODUCED EVIDENCE FROM AROUND THE WORLD STRONGLY SUPPORTING THE HEALTH BENElTS OF OUTDOOR EXERCISE IN GREEN SPACES ! FEW OF THESE ARE EXER CISE IN PLEASANT SURROUNDINGS REDUCES BLOOD PRESSURE MORE THAN IN UNPLEAS
ANT SURROUNDINGS IN (OLLAND PEOPLE LIVING NEAR GREEN SPACE HAD BETTER MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH CHILDREN WITH ATTENTION DElCIT DISORDER !$$ SHOWED IMPROVED CONCENTRATION WHEN THEY HAD CONTACT WITH NATURE 4HESE ARE JUST SOME OF MANY POSITIVES THAT COME WITH AN IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT 4HE QUALITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT IS NOT SOLELY THE GOVERNMENT S RESPONSI BILITY AS THE BLAME FOR ITS DEMISE LIES ON ALL OF OUR SHOULDERS 4HEREFORE IT IS ALSO DOWN TO US TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN THE WELL BEING OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUPPORT GROUPS WHICH TRY TO HELP IT )F YOU HAD CONSIDERED MAKING ANY OF THOSE hINSPIREDv LIFESTYLE CHANGES THEN GO OUTSIDE DON T BE CONNED INTO ANOTHER GYM MEMBERSHIP ,AURA 0ASSI
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9/52 -/6% 0REVIOUSLY IN 4URF WE HAVE COVERED THE PROGRESS OF OUR EXCELLING TEAM IN THE #LI MATEPREDICTION NET PROGRAMME AND ON &RIDAY THE TH *ANUARY $AVE 3TAINFORTH WILL BE LECTURING ON h2EGIONAL #HANGES IN #LIMATEPREDICTION NETv 4HE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE AT PM IN THE ,'-!# 3EMINAR 2OOM
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USTAINABILITY IS ONE OF TODAY S BUZZ WORDS BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTU ALLY MEAN )N 'RO (ARLEM "RUNDT LAND THE THEN 0RIME -INISTER OF .ORWAY DElNED SUSTAINABIL ITY AS hDEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPRO MISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR NEEDS v 4HIS DElNITION HAS TWO MAIN PROBLEMS IT IS IMPOS SIBLE TO PREDICT EXACTLY WHAT THE NEEDS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BE WHEN THE WORLD IS EXPERIENCING EXPONENTIAL GROWTH IN POPULATION AND THE VERY DElNITION ITSELF IS SO ALL ENCOMPASSING IT S DIFlCULT TO IDENTIFY KEY AREAS 4HE 5+ GOVERNMENT S DElNITION IS JUST AS UNSPECIlC DESCRIBING SUSTAIN ABILITY AS HAVING hAT ITS HEART THE SIM PLE IDEA OF ENSURING A BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR EVERYONE NOW AND FOR GENERA TIONS TO COMEv 4HIS DElNITION DIFFERS FROM "RUNDTLAND S IN THE SENSE THAT IT CONCENTRATES MORE ON SOCIAL ISSUES RATHER THAN RESOURCE DEPLETION OR LAND USE CHANGE 3OUTH .ORFOLK #OUNCIL 3.# HAS RECENTLY NAMED THE MARKET TOWN OF ,ODDON SOUTH EAST OF .ORWICH AND THE VILLAGE OF "UNWELL SITUATED SOUTH WEST OF .ORWICH NEAR !TTLEBOROUGH AS PILOT SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 3.# HAVE ALREADY CONDUCTED AN ASSESSMENT OF THE TWO COMMUNITIES IN AN 5RBAN #APACITY 3TUDY 5#3 WHICH HIGH LIGHTED SOME OF THE TYPICAL BUGBEARS THAT MAKE RURAL SETTLEMENTS UNSUS TAINABLE 3.# AND THE .ORFOLK 2URAL #OMMUNITY #OUNCIL HOPE TO GAIN GOVERNMENT FUNDING THAT WILL ENABLE THE EMPLOYMENT OF A CO COORDINATOR TO WORK PART TIME IN BOTH COMMUNI TIES -ANY PEOPLE VIEW RURAL AREAS AS BEING THE EPITOME OF ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS BUT THIS IS OFTEN NOT THE CASE &ACTORS SUCH AS THE UNAVAILABILITY
OF GAS RESULT IN MORE PEOPLE HAVING OIL lRED CENTRAL HEATING THUS PRODUC ING MORE #/ AND POOR PUBLIC TRANS PORT RESULTS IN HIGHER DEPENDANCE ON PRIVATE CARS A FACTOR HIGHLIGHTED IN THE 5#3 ,ODDON HAS MORE THAN TWO TIME TABLED JOURNEYS PER HOUR AND IS DE SCRIBED AS A hLOCAL EMPLOYMENT CEN TREv COMPARED WITH "UNWELL WHICH HAS TWO BUS JOURNEYS A DAY IN THE EVENING WITH VERY FEW JOBS WITHIN THE VILLAGE 4HE PROBLEM HAS BEEN EXACERBATED BY A DECLINE IN JOBS IN AGRICULTURE AS A RESULT OF MECHANISA TION AND MORE RECENTLY OUT SOURCING WHERE FARMS PAY FOR LOCAL CONTRACTORS TO UNDERTAKE CROP SPRAYING AND EVEN IN SOME CASES HARVESTING )N ADDITION TO THIS ,OTUS #ARS A KEY EMPLOYER BASED IN (ETHEL NEAR 7YMONDHAM HAS BEEN SHEDDING JOBS SINCE ITS BUYOUT BY 0ROTON MEAN ING THAT FORMER ,OTUS EMPLOYEES ARE HAVING TO TRAVEL FURTHER BY CAR IN ORDER TO lND WORK 4HIS HAS LED 3.# TO CON CLUDE THAT ,ODDON HAS A hGOODv SUS TAINABILITY RATING WHEREAS "UNWELL S IS MERELY hBASICv 4ODAY MANY .ORFOLK VILLAGES ARE GOING THROUGH THE SAME PROBLEMS MANY VILLAGES IN THE 7EST #OUNTRY DID AROUND YEARS AGO PEOPLE ARE INCREASINGLY MOVING FROM URBAN AREAS WHERE HOUSE PRICES ARE HIGHER AND THEREFORE HAVE MORE CAPITAL AVAILABLE TO SPEND ON PROPERTY AND THUS PRICE RURAL DWELLERS OUT OF THE MARKET 3EC OND HOMES ARE ALSO BECOMING INCREAS INGLY COMMON )N MANY VILLAGES MEAS URES ARE NOW BEING TAKEN TO COUNTERACT THIS EFFECT IN THE FORM OF hAFFORDABLE HOUSINGv DEVELOPMENT HAS JUST BEGUN ON A FOUR HOME UNIT ON FORMER FARM LAND IN "UNWELL S #URRENT POLICY ON THE PART OF THE 3USTAINABLE $EVELOPMENT #OMMIS SION THE GOVERNMENT S INDEPENDENT ADVISORY BODY AS TO HOW THE SOCIAL JUSTICE SIDE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND THE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SIDE CAN BE AMALGAMATED IS TO lRST OF ALL GIVE PREF ERENCE IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO THOSE DISADVANTAGED BY INCOME RACE DIS ABILITY OR GENDER IN 3OUTH .ORFOLK AFFORDABLE HOMES ARE OFFERED TO INDI VIDUALS OR COUPLES FROM SURROUNDING VILLAGES lRST )T IS TO BE HOPED THAT AF FORDABLE HOUSING WILL GO SOME WAY TO HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE AND COUPLES GET A RUNG ON THE HOUSING LADDER AND THUS ENSURE THAT RURAL COMMUNITIES RETAIN A HEALTHIER BALANCE BETWEEN YOUNG AND OLD 3USTAINABLE COMMUNITIES WILL AIM TO RECYCLE OF MATERIALS WITH THIS BEING DRIVEN FROM THE PLANNING SYS TEM END RATHER THAN THE HOUSEHOLDER E G RECYCLED AGGREGATE WILL BE USED IN BUILDING 4HE 3USTAINABLE $EVELOP MENT #OMMISSION IS DRIVEN BY ,OCAL !GENDA A PRODUCT OF THE "RUNDT LAND 2EPORT 5LTIMATELY THE SUSTAINABILITY OF OUR FUTURE WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY WHICH IS VERY MUCH IN ITS INFANCY )T ALSO DE PENDS ON US AS INDIVIDUALS MAKING CHANGES IN OUR OWN LIVES FOR THE SAKE OF FUTURE GENERATIONS
4HOUGH MOST OF YOU AWARE BY NOW OF THE DIFFERENT DAY TO DAY ADJUSTMENTS YOU CAN MAKE TO 2EDUCE 2EUSE AND 2ECYCLE ONE ISSUE OF INCREASING PROMINENCE IS THAT OF ONLINE BANKING "Y CHANGING YOUR ACCOUNT TO AN ON LINE BANK AND CANCELLING YOUR POSTED STATEMENTS YOU COULD REDUCE SOME OF THE VAST QUANTITIES OF WASTE PAPER PRO DUCED IN THE 5+
4HERE ARE VARIOUS STICKER CAMPAIGNS RUN BY #OUNCILS )N .ORWICH THE 'REEN 0ARTY HAVE ONE THAT PROVIDES HOUSEHOLDS WITH STICKERS TO PLACE ABOVE THEIR LETTERBOX SAYING NO TO JUNK MAIL AND EITHER YES OR NO TO LOCAL PAPERS DEPENDING ON INDI VIDUAL PREFERENCE 3UCH CAMPAIGNS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DISSUADE BUSINESSES FROM ADVERTISING IN THIS DOOR TO DOOR WAY THROUGH WHICH MUCH WASTE IS CREATED
4HERE IS A WHOLE NEW MARKET OPENING IN THE LINE OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PRODUCTS /NE OF THE MANY SITES ON THE WEB WHERE YOU CAN VIEW AND BUY SUCH PRODUCTS IS THE 'REEN 3HOP 4HERE ARE SOME INGENIOUS INVENTIONS ON THIS SITE ONE OF WHICH IS THE WIND UP PHONE CHARGER 4HE 0ORTA #HARGE 7IND 5P #HARGER REQUIRES NO BATTERIES OR MAINS POWER SUPPLY 9OU JUST PLUG IT INTO YOUR PHONE AND TURN THE HANDLE TO CHARGE YOUR PHONE BATTERY )T CAN BE USED FOR .OKIA -OTOROLA 3ONY %RICSSON 3IEMENS AND 3AMSUNG $EPENDING ON THE PHONE THREE MIN UTES OF WINDING WILL GIVE YOU TO MINUTES STANDBY OR TWO TO EIGHT MINUTES OF TALK TIME 4HE 0ORTA #HARGE 7IND 5P #HARGER COSTS a AND CAN BE FOUND ON WWW GREENSHOP CO UK
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h9OU RE @AVING A LARFF LUV v 0RIYA 3HAH 7E ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LIVING IN A FREE EQUAL AND OPPOR TUNISTIC WORLD ARE WE NOT 3O WHY IS IT THAT WOMAN ARE STILL SOCIALLY PORTRAYED AS IN FERIOR TO MEN )T IS A WELL KNOWN FACT THAT GIRLS HAVE BEEN ACHIEV ING BETTER GRADES AND HIGHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN SCHOOLS AS OPPOSED TO BOYS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS 'IRLS HAVE EXCELLED AND OUTSMARTED BOYS IN ! LEVELS AND CREDEN TIALS FOR ENTRANCE INTO UNI VERSITY 3O WHY DO WE HAVE TO HAVE TO PUT UP WITH MEN EARNING TWICE THE WAGE WE DO IN THE WORKPLACE ) AM
HARDLY 'ERMAINE 'REER WRIT ING HERE OR SOME OPINION ATED HAD SOME BAD EXPERI ENCES IN MY LIFE FEMINIST ) AM JUST A WOMAN WITH CAUSE FOR CONCERN MAKING A VALID POINT WHICH APPEARS TO BE DISREGARDED BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT WE LIVE IN A MAN S WORLD 4HE KIND OF DISCRIMINA TION ) M TALKING ABOUT IS OPENLY VIEWED AT 7IMBLE DON 6ENUS 7ILLIAMS WHO HAS BEEN CROWNED 7IMBLE DON #HAMPION THREE TIMES SINCE THE NEW MILLENNIUM IS STILL FORCED TO BE CONTENT WITH THE FACT THAT THE TH SEEDED MAN IS PAID MORE THAN HER ON THE COURT #OMMENTATORS ARGUE WOMEN ARE PAID LESS DUE TO THE FACT @WOMEN DON T HAVE
AS MUCH BOX OFlCE APPEAL AS MEN 4HIS IS A JOKE 3URE ALL SPORT STARS ARE OVERPAID PAR TICULARLY IN FOOTBALL BUT THIS DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT IN AN ORDINARY JOB WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE PAID LESS SO WHY SHOULD THEY BE ON THE TENNIS COURT 3OME WILL AR GUE THE WOMEN S GAME IS SHORTER THAN THE MEN S SO IT IS FUNDAMENTAL THEY SHOULD BE UNDERPAID 4HIS DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT WHAT THESE PLAYERS DO IS A JOB AND WE SHOULD NOT TOLERATE IT )T IS GENDER BIAS PURE AND SIMPLE AND IT IS WIPED UNDERNEATH THE CARPET YEAR AFTER YEAR ) CAN HEAR ANY MAN READ ING THIS SCOFlNG AT THIS LUDI CROUS REALISATION 9OU PROB ABLY THINK hDAMN STRAIGHT IT S A MAN S WORLD AND SO
IT SHOULD BEv (OWEVER THE PROBLEM OF SEX DISCRIMINA TION EXTENDS FURTHER THAN THE LEVEL OF MAN S THINKING FOR LONGER THAN SIX SECONDS $ISCRIMINATION OF ANY KIND IS INTOLERABLE BUT THE PROTECTION OF IT IS VITAL )T HAS BEEN YEARS SINCE THE 3EX $ISCRIMINATION !CT WAS PASSED IN AND THE MEASURES IT SHOULD HAVE TAK EN TO PROTECT GENDERS FROM INEQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE ARE A SHAMEFUL lGURE 7HAT IS THE USE OF SUCH AN !CT PRO TECTING INDIVIDUALS IF IT IS NOT DOING ENOUGH TO ADDRESS SEX DISCRIMINATION !LTHOUGH DISCRIMINATION LAW HAS BE COME ONE OF THE MOST POPU LAR PRACTICES OF LAW AND MANY LAWYERS HAVE REAPED THE BEN ElTS OF SUCH CASES IT HAS NO
BEARING ON THE FUNDAMENTAL PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE WORKPLACE )T CURRENTLY STANDS THAT WOMEN WHO UNDERTAKE PART TIME WORK EARN APPROXIMATE LY PER CENT LESS AN HOUR THAN MEN IN FULL TIME JOBS 4HERE ARE SIGNIlCANT DISCREP ANCIES FOR SEX DISCRIMINA TION IN THE WORKPLACE 4HE RECOGNITION OF WOMEN IS HIGHLY UNDERESTIMATED AND ALTHOUGH MANY WOMEN HAVE RECEIVED PROMOTIONS AND PAY RISES THROUGH THE !CT ITSELF IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT WOMEN LAG BEHIND MEN IN OPPORTU NITIES (OW CAN EMPLOYERS EXPECT WOMEN TO BE MOTIVAT ED AND TO USE THEIR SKILLS ARE ABILITIES HIGHLY WHEN THEY KNOW FOR DOING THE SAME JOB MEN ARE BEING PAID MORE
4HIS WAS RECENTLY HIGHLIGHTED WHEN -ORRISON S 3UPERMAR KET TRIED TO GIVE FEMALE EM PLOYEES JUST A THIRD OF THEIR REDUNDANCY PAY WHILE THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS ARE BEING GIVEN THE FULL AMOUNT 3UCH A BLATANT FORM OF DISCRIMINATION CANNOT KEEP THE "RITISH ECONOMY mOURISH ING IF MEASURES ARE NOT TAKEN TO CHANGE THE CURRENT SYSTEM -ORRISON S ARE FACING OVER CLAIMS OF SEX DISCRIMINA TION FOLLOWING THEIR ACTIONS 7OMEN ARE REACHING HIGHER LEVELS IN THE WORKPLACE OF MANAGERS WERE WOMEN IN COMPARED WITH FEWER THAN IN 4HE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES )T S JUST A SHAME THAT FOR SUCH A LIB ERAL SOCIETY WE ARE STILL SUCH A LOT OF PREJUDICED FOOLS
OR MORE SOPHISTICATED ) MEAN LET S FACE IT HOWEVER MUCH FUN ,IQUID IS AND ) FOR ONE THINK -ONDAY NIGHT IS A GREAT LAUGH IT S NEVER GO ING TO BECOME A PLACE WHERE ACTUAL REAL ADULTS GO IS IT ) CAN T EXACTLY IMAGINE ANY OF THE PEOPLE OVER ) KNOW GOING THERE BY CHOICE )N FACT THE SAME IS TRUE FOR NIGHT CLUBS IN GENERAL 4HE NO TRAINERS POLICY IS DE SIGNED IN AN ATTEMPT TO BRING A DIFFERENT TYPE OF CUSTOMER IN AT THE WEEKEND A MORE SOPHISTICATED CLASS OF PERSON "UT THINK ABOUT THIS n EXACT LY HOW SOPHISTICATED IS A YEAR OLD MAN GOING TO BE IF THEY WANT TO GO CLUBBING ON A 3ATURDAY NIGHT WITH PEOPLE
HALF THEIR AGE 0AINFULLY OB VIOUS WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT ISN T IT )T S USUALLY THE OLD GUY IN THE CORNER LOOKING A BIT PERVY AND DANCING LIKE SOMEONE OUT OF THE S THAT THE POLICY ENCOURAGES 7HY THE HELL ARE OUR NIGHT CLUBS ENCOURAGING THAT 3ECONDLY HOW RIDICULOUS IS IT THAT ,IQUID WERE MORE THAN WILLING TO ALLOW PEOPLE IN FANCY DRESS ) MYSELF HAD A LIFE JACKET AND DOLPHIN HAT ON BUT THERE WERE A NUMBER OF LIFEGUARD PIRATE AND lSH RELATED COSTUMES TOO YET ONLY IF THEY WERE WEARING SHOES 3HOES AND SHORTS PEOPLE 3HOES AND SHORTS ) LL SAY THIS A THIRD TIME JUST TO MAKE SURE YOU GET MY POINT
3HOES AND SHORTS (OW CLASSY IS ANYONE WHO IS WILL ING TO GO OUT FOR A NIGHT IN A LIFEGUARD COSTUME COMPLETE WITH LIFEGUARD VEST RUBBER RING SHORTS AND A WHISTLEx YET THINKS THE OUTlT IS ONLY COMPLETE ONCE IT S TEAMED WITH A NICE PAIR OF #LARK S BLACK SCHOOL SHOES -Y THIRD POINT IS THE FACT THAT SOME TRAINERS LOOK LIKE SHOES SOME SHOES LIKE TRAIN ERS AND THAT IT S ALL PRETTY SELF DEFEATING SINCE MY SHOES ARE ALL SO SCUFFED AFTER ) GO OUT IN THEM THAT MY TRAINERS ARE SMARTER ANYWAY 7HAT DO THE CLUBS OF .ORWICH SAY TO THAT ) LL TELL YOU WHAT THEY SAY h9OU AIN T COMING IN MATE v
4HE $EVIL WEARS 2EEBOK #LASSICS 4OM &LYNN 'OOD STUDENTS OF 5%! THIS IS THE lRST TIME ) VE EVER FELT COMPELLED TO WRITE ANYTHING FOR #ONCRETE 7HEN YOU CONSIDER THE QUITE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES THAT HAVE PLAGUED BOTH THIS COUNTRY AND THIS UNIVERSITY OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS YOU MIGHT GET A SENSE OF EXACTLY HOW SERIOUS AND DEEPLY ROOTED THIS RANT IS 1UITE SIMPLY ON 3ATUR DAY .OVEMBER TH ) HAD AN EXPERIENCE THAT lNALLY OPENED MY EYES TO THE AB SURDITY OF THE FOOTWEAR
POLICY IN "RITISH AND MORE SPECIlCALLY .ORWICH NIGHT CLUBS ,ET ME SET THE SCENE ) PLAY A SPORT CALLED +O RFBALL AND WE HOSTED THE AN NUAL 3OUTH OF %NGLAND 3TU DENTS #HAMPIONSHIPS LAST YEAR !FTER WINNING IT THE PAST THREE YEARS IN SUCCESSION WE WERE CONlDENT IN RETAINING OUR TITLE AND RIGHTLY SO AS WE BEAT /XFORD 5NIVERSITY IN THE lNAL .OW THE TRADITION OF +ORFBALL TOURNAMENTS IS THAT WE TAKE THE VISITING TEAMS OUT ON A THEMED SOCIAL THAT EVENING SO WE BOOKED /WENS IN TOWN IN VIEW OF HITTING A CLUB WHEN IT CLOSED ! COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT OUR SOCIAL SEC
RETARY ACTUALLY WENT DOWN TO SEE ,IQUID ASKING IF IT WAS OKAY TO BRING PEOPLE IN FANCY DRESS AND WE WERE TOLD IT WAS NO PROBLEM AND WERE EVEN GIVEN FREE TICKETS %VERYTHING WAS GOING TO PLAN 4HEN ON THE EVENING IN QUESTION WE TURNED UP AND WERE TOLD HALF THE PEOPLE WOULDN T BE ALLOWED IN 4HE REASON 4HEY WEREN T WEAR ING SHOES 3O READERS OF #ONCRETE ) ASK YOU THIS 7HAT EXACTLY IS THE POINT OF A NO TRAINERS POLICY &IRSTLY DOES ,IQUID SERI OUSLY THINK THAT LETTING ONLY THE #HAVS THAT BUY FAKE "URB ERRY SHOES IN WILL ACTUALLY MAKE THEIR CLUB SEEM SMART
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7HILE A MODERN UNI VERSITY SUCH AS 5%! MUST CHANGE TO SURVIVE EVOLU TION DOES NOT ALWAYS HAVE TO EQUAL SPRAWLING EXPAN SION .EW BUILDINGS FOR GRADUATION CEREMONIES AND A SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY n BOTH OF WHICH HAVE BEEN RAISED AS POSSIBLE OPTIONS FOR THE SITE n WOULD BE INVALUABLE ASSETS TO THE 5NIVERSITY BUT MANY WILL QUESTION WHETHER THEY SHOULD BE DEVELOPED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE CITY S ALREADY DEPLETED GREEN lELD AREAS ! POLL OF LOCAL RESIDENTS
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CARRIED OUT BEFORE #HRISTMAS SHOWED THAT THE VAST MAJOR ITY WANTED THE LAND TO BE GIV EN TO %ARLHAM (IGH 3CHOOL OR KEPT AS GREEN SPACE FOR THE USE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC )T IS CLEAR THAT BOTH 5%! AND THE #OUNTY #OUNCIL WHICH INI TIALLY APPROVED THE BID WILL NEED TO CONVINCE THEIR OP PONENTS THAT THEY ARE ACTING IN THE BEST POSSIBLE INTERESTS OF THE WIDER COMMUNITY 7E AS STUDENTS MUST WELCOME OUR 5NIVERSITY S CONTINUAL COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING ITS FACILITIES BUT
IF NECESSARY WE MUST ALSO EX PRESS OUR RESERVATIONS )N OR DER TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE BETWEEN ITS OWN INTERESTS AND THOSE OF ITS NEIGHBOURS 5%! WILL FACE SOME DIFlCULT DECISIONS MANY OF WHICH MAY REQUIRE CAREFUL REPOSI TIONING OF THE 5NIVERSITY S REPUTATION WITHIN THE CITY &OR THE "LACKDALE SALE TO SUCCEED THE PREVALENT ASSUMPTION OF A DIVIDE BE TWEEN TOWN AND GOWN MUST BE CHALLENGED 7HILE 3PORT SPARK S RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND THE 5NIVERSITY S EXTEN
SIVE PROGRAMME OF TASTER COURSES AND EVENING CLASSES HAVE SUCCEEDED IN OPENING 5%! S DOORS TO THE NON STUDENT POPULATION MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE TO INVOLVE THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IN CAM PUS LIFE 4HE 5NIVERSITY MUST BE AS OPEN AS POSSIBLE AT EVE RY STAGE OF ITS PLANS FOR THE PLAYING lELDS SO THAT WHEN "LACKDALE -IDDLE 3CHOOL CLOSES IN ANY POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION BY 5%! MAY BE MADE TO THE SATISFACTION OF STUDENTS AND LOCAL RESIDENTS ALIKE
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) THOUGHT THE CORNERSTONE OF "RITISH JUSTICE WAS @INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY 4HEN ) READ YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT HOOD IES #ONCRETE AND WAS FORCED TO CHANGE MY MIND 4HE IMPLICATION THAT SOMEONE WHO COVERS THEIR FACE MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE IS BOTH ABSURD AND INSULTING AND IS JUST ANOTHER SYMPTOM OF A CULTURE PASSED DOWN BY OUR CURRENT GOVERN MENT WHICH REGARDS ANY
THING OR ANYONE THAT DOESN T CONFORM AS A THREAT !DULTS ARE ALWAYS SUSPI CIOUS OF YOUTH TRENDS PRE CISELY BECAUSE OF THIS CON FORMITY 4HE @UNIFORM OF HOODIES AND BASEBALL CAPS PROVIDES SECURITY FOR THE WEARERS BY ALIGNING THEM TO A CERTAIN GROUP )N "RITAIN THE HOODIE HAS BECOME A UNIFORM OF SO MANY DIFFER ENT GROUPS OF ALL AGES THAT IT CAN NO LONGER BE REGARDED AS
0OLITICAL INCORRECTNESS GONE MAD SENDING A SPECIlC MESSAGE TO THE WORLD 4HIS SUGGESTS TO ME THAT THE BAN ON HOODIES IS NOT ABOUT CLOTHING DISCRIMINA TION BUT ABOUT AGE DISCRIMI NATION .O SHOPPING CENTRE WOULD BAN A YEAR OLD FA THER BECAUSE HE IS WEARING A HOODIE BUT IT MIGHT SEE lT TO PASS THAT PUNISHMENT DOWN TO A YEAR OLD IN THE SAME CLOTHING 'EMMA 2EYNOLDS
,AST ORDERS FOR DRUNKS 3O THE WORLD WAS GOING TO FALL APART ONCE THE NEW LICENSING LAWS WERE INTRODUCED BEFORE #HRISTMAS $ID ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THE CHANGE BECAUSE IT HAS MADE VERY LITTLE DIFFER ENCE TO ME ) DON T DRINK ANY MORE BECAUSE ) HAVE AN EXTRA HOUR TO DO IT IN ,IKE MOST OF US
) KNOW MY LIMITS AND STICK TO THEM RATHER THAN GETTING SICK FOR THE SAKE OF IT !S FOR THE IDIOTS THEY WILL STILL GET BLIND DRUNK AND lGHT EACH OTHER THEY LL JUST DO IT LATER AT NIGHT ) HOPE THE NEW LAWS WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF A CONTI NENTAL CAFE CULTURE IN "RITAIN
WHERE DRINKING IS A RELAXED AND SOCIAL EVENT RATHER THAN A RACE TO SEE WHO CAN FALL OVER BEFORE LAST ORDERS (OW EVER ONE GLANCE DOWN 0RINCE OF 7ALES 2OAD ON A 3ATURDAY NIGHT SUGGESTS OTHERWISE 4HE UNIVERSITIES SHOULD SET THE TONE AND SO SHOULD WE 0AUL 3TEVENS
4HE FEATURE h/H LITTLE TOWN OF "ATTERSEAv #ONCRETE COMPELLED ME TO WRITE THIS LETTER ) A VEGETARIAN AND KEEN SUPPORTER OF FREE SPEECH WAS SHOCKED DE PRESSED AND ANGERED BY THE UNSUPPORTED VITRIOLIC ATTACK ON VEGETARIANISM WITHIN THE ARTICLE "ESIDES THE UNJUST STEREOTYPE OF VEGETARIANS AS hUNDER NOURISHED CAR DIGAN WEARING MORALISING WEAKLINGSv ) AM DISTRESSED BY THE VIEW IMPLICIT IN THE ARTICLE AS A WHOLE THAT THOSE WITH STRONG VIEWS ON THE ENVIRONMENT ANIMAL RIGHTS AND SEXUAL EQUALITY ARE IN THE WRONG !DDITIONALLY ) WOULD DRAW ATTENTION TO THE UNFORTUNATE LABELLING OF SUCH PEOPLE AS THOSE SEEKING @POLITICAL CORRECTNESS 4HIS MERELY INCREASED MY DISAP POINTMENT IN AN ARTICLE THAT APPEARS POORLY RESEARCHED AND ILL THOUGHT OUT ) FAIL
TO SEE THE POINT BEHIND THIS PIECE BEYOND MINDLESS lLLER SURELY #ONCRETE CAN DO BET TER THAN THIS BETRAYAL TO JOUR NALISM ) FEEL THIS ATTITUDE REPRE SENTS A SADDENING SHIFT IN THE STUDENT PSYCHE FROM A COM MUNITY CONCERNED FOR EACH OTHER AND THE WORLD AROUND THEM TOWARDS A GROUP WITH AN UNPLEASANT STREAK OF SELF INTEREST WHICH HERE MANI FESTS ITSELF IN AN ATTACK ON THE OPPORTUNITY UNIVERSITY PROVIDES TO EXPLORE DIFFERENT LIFESTYLES AND POLITICAL ORIEN TATION &AR BE IT FROM MY POINT TO CONDEMN THOSE WITH DIF FERENT VIEWS THAN ) OR COM PLAIN ABOUT ANTI VEGETAR IAN ARTICLES (OWEVER THIS ARTICLE ) FEEL SHOULD NOT GO UNCHECKED AS IT IS OFFENSIVE UNSUBSTANTIATED AND A STAIN ON THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER 0ETER *OHNSON %#/
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4HE /PINION )S DARTS AN /LYMPIC SPORT OR A PUB PASTIME 3COTT "ODIE
)T S THE TIME OF YEAR AGAIN WHEN DARTS HAS BEEN GRACING OUR TELEVISION AS ONE OF THE ""# S hSPORTINGv HIGHLIGHTS THE "$/ 7ORLD #HAMPI ONSHIP IS PLAYED OUT 7ITH PRIDE THE ""# NOW OFlCIALLY DESCRIBES DARTS AS PART OF ITS SPORTING COVERAGE WITHOUT ANY HINT OF EMBARRASSMENT AFTER 3PORTS %NGLAND GRANTED DARTS SPORT STATUS IN -ARCH (OWEVER ARE THESE BEER GUZZLING OVERWEIGHT GIANTS REALLY ATHLETES PARTICI PATING IN A SPORT /R IS DARTS MERELY A "RITISH PASTIME BEST PLAYED OUT AND LEFT IN THE PUBS WHERE ITS PLAYERS LOOK AT HOME $ARTS BEING CLASSED A SPORT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY WEL COMED BY MANY AS DEMON STRATED BY THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE CROWD AT THE ,AKESIDE ARENA WHEN THE COMPARE
ANNOUNCED TO FRENZIED SUP PORTERS hLETSx PLAYx DARTSv 4HIS FRENZIED FOLLOWING LED TO !NDY &ORDHAM S CELEBRITY CAREER TAKING OFF AFTER WIN NING THE "$/ CHAMPION SHIPS (OWEVER IT WASN T BY BEING A PIN UP LIKE $AVID "ECKHAM HE IS BEST REMEM BERED FOR HIS APPEARANCE ON CELEBRITY lT CLUB /N THE PROGRAMME HE WEIGHED IN AT AROUND ST ALTHOUGH IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THAT HE IS NOW DOWN TO A MERE )T HAS UNDOUBTEDLY HAD A MAS SIVE AFFECT ON &ORDHAM S ATH LETICISM AS HE ADMITS h)F ) TAKE A TAXI FROM THE PUB ) M NOT OUT OF BREATH BY THE TIME ) GET INTO ITv "OBBY 'EORGE THE ""# DARTS CRITIC AND FORMER PLAYER FOLLOWS IN &ORDHAM S FOOT STEPS THIS YEAR BY APPEARING ON THE SHOW WEIGHING IN AT ST LBS NOT EXACTLY THE OPTIMUM WEIGHT FOR AN ATH LETE )N FACT WHEN LOOKING AROUND THE DARTS WORLD S TOP CONTENDERS IT IS HARD TO lND PLAYERS WHOSE WAISTLINES ARE
AS LOW AS THE NATIONAL AVER AGE "OBBY 'EORGE ARGUES THAT AN EXPANSIVE WAISTLINE DOES NOT STOP YOU BEING AN ATHLETE IN WHAT IS NOW A COMPETITIVE SPORT h)T REQUIRES MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH TO BE COME A TOP CLASS DARTS PLAY ER v HE SAYS h) WOULD DEFY ANYONE TO THROW FOR HOURS AND NOT ACHE AFTERWARDSv 0ERHAPS ALL OF DARTS PLAYERS ENERGY IS CONSERVED WITHIN THEIR WRISTS AND SO THEY DO NOT NEED TO WASTE TIME TON ING UP THE REST OF THEIR BOD
IES HENCE THEIR APPEARANCES !LONG WITH NEEDING STRONG FOREARMS AND WRISTS IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT PLAYERS NEED TO BE MENTALLY SHARP TO COM PETE IN THE DARTS WORLD 0HIL h4HE 0OWERv 4AYLOR BELIEVES DARTS SHOULD BE INTRODUCED TO THE CURRICULUM (E MAY HAVE A POINT 5NDOUBTEDLY YOU DO HAVE TO BE A SKILFUL MATHEMATICIAN TO BE A DARTS PLAYER AS THE SLIGHTEST MATHE MATICAL MISTAKE CAN COST THE GAME ALTHOUGH ) DON T THINK IT COULD BE TAUGHT AT ! LEVEL -ENTALLY PLAYERS ALSO
NEED TO HAVE A GOOD EYE AND BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE PRES SURE OF HOLDING CENTRE STAGE AND THEIR NERVE ON CRUCIAL SHOTS IN THE MATCH .OW THAT DARTS IS CONSIDERED A SPORT IT WILL BE ATTEMPTING TO GAIN /LYMPIC STATUS 4HE ARGU MENT IS THAT IF ARCHERY AND SHOOTING TWO OTHER STRATEGIC SPORTS ARE CONSIDERED WOR THY OF /LYMPIC STATUS WHY SHOULD DARTS NOT BE 5LTIMATELY THEIR PARTICI PANTS DO NOT NEED TO HAVE AVERAGE WAISTLINES TO PARTICI PATE THEIR SKILLS ARE IN THEIR
MINDS $OES THIS STOP DARTS BEING A SPORT )T SHOULDN T SNOOKER S BEEN CONSIDERED A SPORT FOR MANY YEARS BUT WHAT S TO STOP OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE TAKING PART IN THAT OR SHOOTING OR ARCHERY $ARTS DELIVERS ENTERTAINMENT REGU LARLY ESPECIALLY WITH "OBBY 'EORGE AS A CRITIC AND IT WOULD ALSO OFFER "RITAIN A GOOD CHANCE OF GOLD IN SHOULD IT BECOME AN /LYM PIC SPORT SO FOR THAT REASON ALONE IT SHOULD BE BACKED ALL THE WAY IN IT S BATTLE FOR REC OGNITION
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#OUNTY SELECTION FOR ATHLETES *EMMA 4HAKE 4WO OF 5%! S MOST TALENTED RUNNERS HAD THE HONOUR OF RUNNING FOR THEIR HOME COUNTIES AT THE 3OUTHERN )N TER #OUNTY #HAMPIONSHIPS *ESS 4ROWBRIDGE AND 'LEN 7ATTS WERE SELECTED FOR THE RACE THAT TOOK PLACE JUST BE FORE THE #HRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AT 2!& (ONINGTON 4HET FORD 'LEN lNISHED IN NINTH POSITION IN A STRONG 5NDER
lELD (E COMPLETED THE KM COURSE IN A TIME OF MINUTES 'LEN WAS PARTICULARLY PLEASED TO lNISH CLOSE TO EX 5%! ATHLETE !NDY 7HETSTONE WHO LEFT THE UNI VERSITY BEFORE #HRISTMAS TO PURSUE HIS DREAM OF GAINING A SPORTS SCHOLARSHIP AT A 53! UNIVERSITY 'LEN S PERFORM ANCE HELPED THE #AMBRIDGE SHIRE TEAM TO SECOND PLACE IN THE OVERALL TEAM COMPETI TION *ESS WHO WAS COMPETING FOR +ENT lNISHED IN NINTH IN A TIME OF MINUTES *ESS S PERFORMANCE IN THE
KM RACE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY HELPED BY HER KNOWLEDGE OF THE COURSE HAVING COMPETED THERE WITH THE 5%! TEAM IN THE %AST !NGLIAN #ROSS #OUNTRY ,EAGUE *ESS SAID h) WAS PARTICU LARLY PLEASED WITH MY RUN AS ) FELT ) HAD SOMETHING TO PROVE TO MY COUNTY SELECTORS ) DIDN T RUN THAT WELL AT THE TRIALS SO ) WANTED TO SHOW ) WAS WORTHY OF A PLACE IN THE TEAM v *ESS IS NOW WAITING TO SEE IF SHE WILL BE PICKED FOR THE .ATIONAL )NTER #OUNTIES #HAMPIONSHIPS TO BE HELD IN .OTTINGHAM
3ANTA GIVES .ORWICH #ITY FANS A GOOD #HRISTMAS 7ILL !LFORD .ORWICH #ITY HAVE RESURRECT ED THEIR PLAY OFF HOPES OVER A BUSY #HRISTMAS PERIOD IN THE #HAMPIONSHIP 7HEN #ONCRETE LAST WENT TO PRINT THE SIDE WERE LANGUISHING TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE AND MANY FANS WERE CALLING FOR THE HEAD OF MAN AGER .IGEL 7ORTHINGTON 3INCE THE DEFEAT TO $ERBY ON THE RD OF $ECEMBER THE #A NARIES HAVE WON lVE OUT OF THEIR LAST SEVEN GAMES 4HE lRST CAME AWAY AGAINST AN EVER BATTLING #REWE SIDE !F TER QUICKLY GOING DOWN IT LOOKED AS IF IT WAS THE SAME OLD STORY FROM 7ORTHING TON S MEN 4HE TEAM MUST
HAVE GOT A SEVERE REPRIMAND AT HALF TIME AS FOLLOWING THE INTERVAL #ITY REALLY TOOK THE GAME TO #REWE 0AUL -C6EIGH WHO HAS BEEN ON INSPIRED FORM SCORED TWICE TO COMPLETE A MUCH NEEDED VICTORY 4HEN CAME A FANTASTIC VICTORY OVER 3OUTHAMPTON !GAIN .ORWICH WENT DOWN BUT A VINTAGE PER FORMANCE FROM $EAN !SHTON ENSURED THE POINTS WERE STAY ING IN .ORWICH (IS EXCELLENT HAT TRICK GAVE #ITY A VIC TORY 0ERHAPS THE MOST IM PRESSIVE THREE POINTS OF THE #HRISTMAS PERIOD CAME AWAY TO THE TABLE TOPPING 3HEFlELD 5NITED 4HE #ANARIES CONTIN UED THEIR WORRYING TREND BY GOING DOWN AGAIN (OW EVER NO ONE WILL COMPLAIN IF THEY KEEP RESPONDING WITH
VICTORIES "OTH -C6EIGH AND !SHTON WERE ON THE SCORE SHEET AGAIN AS .ORWICH RAN OUT EASY WINNERS IN THE END ! -ORGAN OWN GOAL COMPLETED THE ROUT #ITY CONTINUED THEIR IMPRESSIVE FORM BY BEATING "URNLEY AT HOME &OR ONCE AN EXCELLENT lRST HALF ENSURED THE THREE POINTS "URNLEY SCORED LATE ON TO MAKE THINGS INTERESTING BUT .ORWICH DE SERVEDLY HELD OUT )T SEEMED THAT MAYBE EVEN SOME OF THE BOO BOYS AT #ARROW 2OAD HAD BEEN SILENCED BY THIS FOURTH VICTORY IN A ROW 4HE lFTH FOLLOWED A FEW DAYS LAT TER WITH A STRAIGHTFORWARD VICTORY AWAY TO ,EICESTER 0AUL -C6EIGH AGAIN STEPPED UP TO SCORE THE WINNING GOAL AND CLINCH THE THREE POINTS !FTER lVE VICTORIES IN A
ROW THE SIDE SEEMED UN STOPPABLE BUT THEIR HEADS WERE SOON PLUCKED OUT OF THE CLOUDS 4HE .EW 9EAR BROUGHT A DEFEAT AT HOME TO 0RESTON 4HEY EXTENDED THEIR OWN UNBEATEN RUN TO GAMES WITH AN EXTREMELY EFlCIENT WIN AT #ARROW 2OAD 0RESTONWEREDOMINANT ALL AFTERNOON AND DESERV EDLY TOOK HOME THE POINTS 4HEN CAME A HOME LOSS TO 7EST (AM IN THE &! CUP .ORWICH PREFORMED WELL AGAINST THE 0REMIERSHIP OP POSITION THOUGH AND COULD HAVE HAD AN EQUALISER LATE ON )T WAS NOT TO BE AND THE (AMMERS MARCHED ON TO THE NEXT ROUND .ORWICH ARE NOW TH IN THE TABLE AND ONLY THREE POINTS OFF THE PLAY OFFS 7HILE THE .EW 9EAR HAS YET
TO BRING A VICTORY #HRIST MAS HAS UNDOUBTEDLY BEEN GOOD FOR .ORWICH FANS 4HE TEAM ARE NOW IN A POSITION TO MAKE A SERIOUS PUSH FOR PROMOTION AND ARE CERTAINLY CAPABLE OF IT IF THEY HOLD ON TO THEIR BEST PLAYERS 4HE .EW 9EAR HAS BROUGHT THE OPENING OF THE TRANSFER WIN DOW AND THE RUMOUR MILL HAS BEEN EVER PRESENT AT #AR ROW 2OAD )T SEEMS THAT A NUMBER 0REMIERSHIP CLUBS ARE CHASING THE HIGHLY RATED $EAN !SHTON DESPITE THE a MILLION PRICE TAG 0OMPEY HAVE BEEN QUICK TO SPEND THEIR NEW FOUND WEALTH AND HAVE EXPRESSED A KEEN INTER EST IN THE %NGLAND INTERNA TIONAL 2OBERT 'REEN (OPE FULLY THESE ARE JUST RUMOURS AND 7ORTHINGTON CAN KEEP HIS TALENTED SQUAD TOGETHER
&! CUP LIVES UP TO AND REINFORCES IT S ABILITY TO DREAM 7ILL !LFORD 4HE THIRD ROUND OF THE &! #UP PRODUCED A MARVELLOUS WEEKEND OF FOOTBALL ACTION 4HE TROPHY HAS BEEN SERI OUSLY UNDERMINED IN RECENT YEARS AND ITS REPUTATION HAS CERTAINLY TAKEN A KNOCK )N THE SEASON -AN CHESTER 5NITED DECIDED THAT THE 7ORLD #LUB #HAMPION SHIP HAD MORE IMPORTANCE THEN THEIR OWN DEFENCE OF THIS HISTORIC TROPHY ANOTHER PRIME EXAMPLE BEING ,IVER POOL S RESERVE SIDE LOSING TO "URNLEY LAST YEAR (OWEVER LAST WEEKEND
SAW THE &! #UP BACK TO ITS ROMANTIC BEST WITH UPSETS HIGH SCORING GAMES AND PLENTY OF EXCITEMENT .UNEA TON PAVED THE WAY WITH AN IMPRESSIVE DRAW AGAINST 0REMIERSHIP STRUGGLERS -ID DLESBROUGH )T WAS "URTON !LBION WHO STOLE ALL THE PLAUDITS THOUGH 4HE #ONFERENCE SIDE EARNED A LUCRATIVE REPLAY AGAINST -ANCHESTER 5NITED 4HE GULF IN MONEY BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES WAS EVIDENT WITH A PLUMBER MARKING THE MILLION POUND 7AYNE 2OONEY 3UPPOSEDLY HE HAD TO ASK 7AYNE lVE TIMES TO GET HIS SHIRT AT THE END OF THE GAME 5NITED DID lELD AN UNDER STRENGTH SIDE WHICH
SEEMS A STRANGE DECISION FROM !LEX &ERGUSON #HEL SEA HAVE ALREADY WON THE ,EAGUE AND WITH 5NITED OUT OF %UROPE SURELY THE &! #UP REPRESENTS THEIR ONLY CHANCE OF ANY SIGNIlCANT SILVERWARE 5NITED SEEM TO MAKE A HABIT OF UNDERMINING THE TROPHY (OWEVER THEIR 0REMIER SHIP COUNTERPARTS DID NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE 2AFA "ENITEZ SHOWED ,UTON THE RESPECT THEY DESERVED AND PLAYED A FULL STRENGTH SIDE 4HIS GAME PRODUCED ONE OF THE BEST TIES THE TROPHY HAS SEEN IN DECADES !FTER GOING ONE NIL DOWN ,UTON RESPONDED BY GOING INTO THE INTERVAL AT A SHOCKING UP 3OON AFTER HALF TIME THEY
FOUND THEMSELVES UP THANKS TO A .ICHOLLS PENALTY ,IVERPOOL NEEDED TO PRO DUCE A COMEBACK OF )STANBUL PROPORTIONS AND THEY DID EXACTLY THAT 3UBSTITUTE 3I NAMA 0ONGOLLE GOT THE lRST AND 8ABI !LONSO ALSO PRO DUCED TWO MAGNIlCENT GOALS TO HELP ,IVERPOOL INTO THE NEXT ROUND (IS lRST CAME FROM FULLY YARDS OUT AND IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH HIS SECOND WAS FROM YARDS 4HIS TOPPED OFF AN INCRED IBLE GAME AS ,IVERPOOL EVEN TUALLY RAN OUT WINNERS 4HERE WERE TWO 0RE MIERSHIP CASUALTIES WHEN ,EICESTER WHO ARE REALLY STRUGGLING IN THE #HAMPION SHIP PRODUCED A MARVELLOUS
PERFORMANCE TO SEND OUT THE IN FORM 4OTTENHAM ,EYTON /RIENT WERE ECSTATIC AS THEY BEAT THEIR LOCAL RIVALS &UL HAM 'LYN 'ARNER PRODUCED A PENALTY SAVE FROM #OLLINS *OHN LATE ON TO MAINTAIN /RIENT S SLENDER LEAD 3O THE &! CUP IS ALIVE AND KICKING 4HIS YEAR S RD ROUND WEEKEND PROVIDED US WITH THE MOST EXCITING AC TION SEEN FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS 7ITH #HELSEA CONTINU ING THEIR DOMINANCE IN THE ,EAGUE THE TROPHY SEEMS TO HAVE TAKEN ON NEW SIGNIl CANCE ) M OFF TO PUT A POUND ON "URTON TO BEAT 5NITED AT /LD 4RAFFORD AT IT COULD CERTAINLY HELP MY DWINDLING lNANCIAL SITUATION
#ONCRETE
%DITOR S #OLUMN 3INCE ) BECAME 3PORT %DITOR ) HAVE MADE MY DISTASTE FOR DOPING CHEATS CLEAR PARTLY BECAUSE IT IS FAR MORE RAM PANT THAN IS ACCEPTED BUT ALSO AS A CLEAN ATHLETE WHO FEARS LOSING OUT THROUGH OTH ERS CHEATING HABITS &AR FROM WANTING TO RANT ABOUT ANOTHER DRUG CHEAT IT APPEARS THAT A YEAR OLD GIRL HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE ILLEGAL STEROID NANDROLONE .OW ) M NO MEDICAL EXPERT BUT DELIBERATELY TAKING SUCH A POWERFUL AND HARMFUL DRUG WHEN ONE S BODY IS STILL DE VELOPING IS BEYOND ME 3ESIL +ARATANTCHEVA THE FEMALE TENNIS PLAYER ACCUSED HAS CLAIMED THE HIGH NAN DROLONE LEVELS FOUND IN HER BLOOD WERE BECAUSE SHE WAS PREGNANT BUT THEN MISCAR RIED SOMETHING WHICH AN INDEPENDENT TRIBUNAL HAS REJECTED %ITHER WAY TAKING STER OIDS OR HAVING A BABY AT IS MAYBE NOT THE BRIGHTEST THING TO DO PARTICULARLY FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS A FULL LIFE AHEAD OF THEM
#ORNISH INDEPENDENCE ) THINK MOST WOULD LAUGH AT THE THOUGHT 'RANTED THEY ARE A BIT CUT OFF BY THE LACK OF A PROPER MOTORWAY BUT THEN ACTUALLY PUTTING IN THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT TEAM FOR THE #OMMONWEALTH 'AMES BEING HELD IN !USTRALIA NEXT MARCH IS PUSHING IT A BIT FAR .EEDLESS TO SAY THE #OR NISH NATIONALISTS HAVE BEEN TOLD THEY HAVEN T A CHANCE
/NE WOULD THINK THAT AFTER FOUR YEARS IN THE JOB AND MANY SCANDALS SOME INVOLV ING HIS LOYALTY TO THE JOB 3VEN 'ORAN %RIKSSON WOULD LEARN TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT ABOUT ANYTHING FOOTBALL RELATED WHEN SPEAKING TO SOMEONE HE HAS NEVER MET BEFORE "UT NO ONCE AGAIN 3VEN SEEMS TO HAVE SAID SOME THING WHICH CAN BE USED AGAINST HIM AND MAKE US WONDER ONCE AGAIN IF HIS BLOOD DOES SPEND MORE TIME BETWEEN HIS LEGS THAN IN HIS HEAD AND ONCE AGAIN TO AN UNDERCOVER REPORTER POSING AS A RICH !RAB /NE WOULD THINK BY NOW HE D LEARN TO BE WEARY ABOUT ANYONE WITH MONEY TO INVEST IN FOOTBALL BE IT AN !RAB OR A 2USSIAN
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!THLETICS TEAM DOES UNIVERSITY PROUD
2OB 'REEN AND #ALUM .ICHOLS RD AND ND RESPECTIVELY
*EMMA 4HAKE
$ESPITE DEPLETED NUMBERS THE 5%! CROSS COUNTRY TEAM PERFORMED WELL AT LAST WEEK S %AST !NGLIAN #ROSS #OUNTRY ,EAGUE &IVE ATHLETES TRAV ELLED TO #HANTRY 0ARK IN )PSWICH TO RUN IN THE lXTURE
HOSTED BY 3UFFOLK 0OLICE )N THE MEN S RACE THERE WERE EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES BY #APTAIN #ALUM .ICOL AND HIS TEAM MATE 2OB 'REEN &OR MOST OF THE THREE LAP COURSE THE PAIR WERE WITHIN METRES OF EACH OTHER )T WASN T UNTIL THE LAST SECONDS OF THE RACE THAT #ALUM MAN AGED TO EDGE AWAY IN A DE CISIVE SPRINT lNISH TO SECURE SECOND PLACE HIS BEST lNISH
#ONCRETE #ROSSWORD !#2/33 &AKE USED AS BAIT OR TO CAUSE A DISTRACTION 7ALKING DEAD GRAMS !N ACADEMIC ! PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT -EASURE OF CURRENT EQUIPMENT FOR INCREASING THE VOLUME OF ELECTRIC INSTRU MENTS /F THE MIND OR MENTAL PROCESSES -R ,EBOWSKI !MERICAN COWBOY SOMEONE COOL 3EABORNE MILITARY $EPENDENT THREE WHEELED CAR 2OBIN ?? 3TEM STEALTHILY PURSUE #ONSCIOUS /F THE SUN
$/7. #ARD GAME 0OLE USED TO STOKE A FIRE 2OUND FLAT OBJECT 4ERRY 0RACHETT S WORLD )N ORDER OF AGE %XERCISE REGIME DEVELOPED FROM (INDUISM 3HOVEL SENSATIONAL NEWS STORY A PORTION OF ICE CREAM ,OUD KISS SOME ONE WHO HITS "EAUTIFUL BRIGHT 3TONED TREATED WITH A FOREIGN SUBSTANCE 3MOOTH LUSTROUS LUXURIOUS (ARMONY BRINGING TOGETHER TO FORM A WHOLE 2USSIAN POTATO DRINK %UROPEAN MOOSE #LOSE
OF THE SEASON 2OB MANAGED A PERSONAL BEST BY COMING IN THIRD HIS PREVIOUS HIGH EST lNISH BEING SIXTH 2OB S PERFORMANCES ARE EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE CONSIDERING THAT HE ONLY STARTED TRAINING AND COMPETING SERIOUSLY WHEN HE CAME TO THE 5%! IN 3EP TEMBER )N THE LADIES EVENT 5%! HAD THREE REPRESENTATIVES 3TAR ATHLETE *ESS 4ROWBRIDGE
CELEBRATED HER ST BIRTHDAY A WEEK EARLY WITH YET ANOTH ER OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE 3HE LED THE lELD RIGHT FROM THE START AND EASED AWAY TO A COMFORTABLE WIN 3HE CON TINUES HER DOMINANCE OF THE LEAGUE AND HAS NOW NOTCHED UP AN INCREDIBLE lVE CON SECUTIVE VICTORIES 4RIATHLETE 3IAN ,OVELESS HAD A GREAT RACE TO lNISH lFTH HER BEST PER FORMANCE IN THE LEAGUE THIS
SEASON 3IAN NOW INTENDS TO FOCUS ON HER RUNNING FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS BEFORE TURNING HER ATTENTIONS TO THE "53! 4RIATHLON #HAM PIONSHIPS LATER IN THE YEAR 3IAN WAS FOLLOWED HOME BY *EMMA 4HAKE WHO lNISHED SIXTH $ESPITE THE SMALL NUM BERS THE 5%! TEAM OUTCLASSED THEIR NEAREST RIVALS THE 3T %D MUNDSBURY 0ACERS 4HE TEAM
IS NOW LOOKING FORWARD TO A BUSY SPRING SEMESTER THE HIGHLIGHT BEING THE "53! #HAMPIONSHIPS IN 3TIRLING 3COTLAND #APTAIN #ALUM .ICOL SAID h7E NOW HAVE JUST ONE MORE LEAGUE MATCH AT #OLCHESTER BEFORE THE BIG RACE IN 3TIRLING 7E NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A STRONG PERFORMANCE THERE SO WE CAN TRAVEL TO 3COTLAND WITH OUR CONlDENCE HIGHv
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