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%ASTERN "LOCK ARRESTED FOR CAUSING A BREACH OF THE PEACE ON THE lRST DAY OF THE PROTEST #OMMENTING ON THE POLICE TREATMENT TOWARDS HIM -R "ELCHER STATED THAT h4HEY WERE QUITE NICE BUT BECAUSE IT S BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE ST OF /CTOBER THERE S 2ACHAEL (ARRISON
,AST WEEKEND A GROUP OF 5%! STU DENTS TRAVELLED TO 3COTLAND TO TAKE PART IN THE NON VIOLENT &ASLANE BLOCKADE SET OUTSIDE THE GATES OF THE 5+ S ONLY NUCLEAR WEAPONS BASE (OWEVER WITHIN HOURS OF ARRIVING SEVEN OF THE GROUP WERE ARRESTED UNDER THE "REACH OF THE 0EACE !CT AND WERE PLACED IN POLICE CELLS FOR HOURS ONLY TO BE RE LEASED WITHOUT CHARGE #ONCRETE SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY TO 3AM "ELCHER ONE OF THE 5%! STU DENTS WHO TOOK PART IN THE HUMAN BARRICADE OUTSIDE &ASLANE 4HE 5%! STUDENTS TRAVELLED TO
THE BLOCKADE AS PART OF THE %ASTERN "LOCK A GORUP MADE UP OF ANTI NUCLEAR CAMPAIGNERS FROM .ORWICH AND #AMBRIDGE 4HE "LOCK WAS SPLIT INTO AFlN ITY GROUPS -R "ELCHER EXPLAINED THE PURPOSE OF THIS hxBASICALLY A GROUP OF AFlNITY GROUPS DECIDE TO WORK TOGETHER 7E THEN DECIDE TOGETHER WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BLOCKADE SO THAT WE RE NOT BLOCK ADING THE SAME AREA AT THE SAME TIME AND THE BLOCKADE DOESN T COLLAPSE v !MONGST THE 5%! AFlNITY GROUP WERE SEVEN @ARRESTABLES AND TWO MEMBERS WHO ACTED AS THEIR LEGAL SUPPORT -R "ELCHER WHO WAS ACTING AS AN @ARRESTABLE AT THE BLOCKADE FOUND HIMSELF OTHERS FROM THE
BEEN THAT MANY DAYS OF BLOCKAD ING SO THEY RE GETTING A BIT PEEVED AND WERE USING PRESSURE POINTS ON PEOPLE v 0RESSURE POINTS ARE USED BY THE POLICE TO MOVE PEOPLE
WITHOUT FORCE BY APPLYING PRESSURE TO SENSITIVE AREAS SUCH AS THE NECK AND THE ELBOWS OF THE ASSAILANT 0ROTESTS AND BLOCKADES HAVE BEEN TAKING PLACE ANNUALLY SINCE NUCLE AR WEAPONS lRST ARRIVED AT &ASLANE YEARS AGO 0OLICE HAVE NOR MALLY HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH PROTESTORS BUT THEIR ATTITUDE SEEMS TO BE CHANGING DUE TO THE IMMENSE PRESSURE FROM THIS YEARgS CAMPAIGN 4HE @&ASLANE CAMPAIGN IS ALSO PUSHING THE LOCAL COURT SYSTEM TOWARDS BREAKING POINT AS THEY CAN NOT FEASIBLY AFFORD TO CHARGE THE HUNDREDS OF PROTESTORS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRIVING EVERY DAY SINCE THE ST OF /CTOBER -R "ELCHER FOUND THIS WAS THE CASE WITH HIM WHEN HE WAS PLACED IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR HOURS
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ONLY TO BE RELEASED WITH A WRITTEN WARNING 3OME PROTESTORS AT THE &ASLANE SITE WHO HAVE REPEATEDLY TAKEN PART IN THE BLOCKADES FOR OVER YEARS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED MULTIPLE TIMES WITHOUT CHARGE 4HE MOST LIKELY CAUSE BEING THAT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PROTEST OUTSIDE THE NUCLEAR BASE EVERY YEAR CHARGING THEM ALL IS NOT lNANCIALLY FEASIBLE FOR THE LO CAL AUTHORITIES 4HE YEAR LONG HENCE CAMPAIGN CAN ONLY ADD TO THIS AND ALONG WITH THE a BILLION PLEDGE THE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE TOWARDS NUCLEAR POWER IT APPEARS THAT THE LEGAL SYSTEM AROUND &ASLANE IS ALREADY FEELING THE lNANCIAL BURDEN OF THIS DECISION
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-EET YOUR NEW 6ICE #HANCELLOR 5%! S NEW 6ICE #HANCELLOR "ILL -ACMILLAN SPEAKS EXCLUSIVELY TO .EWS %DITOR *ANE $OUGLAS ABOUT HIS VIEWS ON SOME TOPICAL ISSUES AND THE PLANS HE HAS FOR 5%!
4()3 3%04%-"%2 AS A FRESH CROP OF FRESHERS PLANTED THEIR ROOTS AT 5%! THERE WAS ANOTHER PERSON GETTING USED TO THE CON CRETE JUNGLE 5%! S NEW 6ICE #HANCELLOR $R "ILL -ACMILLAN 4HE 6# ACTS AS THE #HIEF %XECU TIVE OF 5%! THIS MEANS THAT HE IS THE MAN IN CHARGE OF RUNNING THE 5NIVERSITY !S 5%! S TOP OFlCIAL HE MAKES MAJOR POLICY DECISIONS
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THUS DElNING THE CHARACTER AND SHAPE OF 5%! FOR YEARS TO COME )T WAS THEREFORE WITH GREAT INTEREST AND GRATITUDE THAT #ON CRETE ACCEPTED AN EXCLUSIVE IN TERVIEW WITH $R "ILL -ACMILLAN $R -ACMILLAN KNEW A LITTLE OF .ORWICH BEFORE HE ARRIVED HAVING HOLIDAYED HERE AS A CHILD h-Y FATHER WORKED HERE FOR A TIME AS A JOURNALIST ON THE %$0 WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG WE USED TO GO ON FAMILY HOLIDAYS HERE WHEN ) WAS ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN v (OWEVER IT WAS THE 5NIVER SITY WHICH REALLY DREW HIM HERE h) KNEW THE 5NIVERSITY THROUGH ITS REPUTATION WHICH IS WHY ) WAS IN TERESTED IN THE POSSIBILITY OF COM ING HERE 4HE ACADEMIC WORLD IS PRETTY SMALL SO ONE GETS TO KNOW UNIVERSITIES BY THEIR REPUTATION AND 5%! HAS ALWAYS ENJOYED A RE
ALLY VERY POSITIVE REPUTATION AROUND THE SECTOR FOR THE QUALITY OF ITS TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND PARTICU LARLY FOR ITS HISTORY OF INNOVATION v 4HE 6# IS A VERY APPROACHABLE MAN WHO SINCE ARRIVING AT 5%! HAS TRIED TO HEAR A RANGE OF OPINIONS h) AM TRYING TO GET ROUND TO ALL THE SCHOOLS SO THAT ) CAN SPEAK TO AS MANY STAFF AND STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE ) M ALSO THINKING ABOUT HAVING BREAK FASTS WITH STUDENTS AFTER #HRISTMAS v 3O ONCE HE HAS LISTENED TO THE ASSORTED VOICES OF 5%! WHAT DOES HE HAVE PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE OF THE 5NIVERSITY h4HE 5NIVERSITY IS IN THE MIDDLE OF PRODUCING A CORPORATE PLAN THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS TO SET OUT AN AGENDA FOR THE NEXT lVE YEARS 4HE DETAILS ARE STILL FORMING THROUGH THAT PROCESS OF DISCUSSION (OWEVER WE RE DETERMINED TO MAINTAIN THE QUALITY OF THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE TO TRY AND IMPROVE IT ,OOKING AT THE .ATIONAL 3TUDENT 3URVEY RESULTS WHICH WERE VERY PLEASING THERE ARE STILL AREAS WHERE WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO BETTER ,OOKING AT STUDENT FEED BACK PARTICULARLY WHICH IS ACTU ALLY A PROBLEM ACROSS THE COUNTRY h"UT HAVING DONE SO WELL IT AC TUALLY PRESENTS A BIT MORE OF A CHAL LENGExTO MAKE SURE WE STAY AT THE TOP SO THAT S GOING TO BE ONE FOCUS h!NOTHER FOCUS WILL BE IM PROVING THE RESEARCH PERFORMANCE OF THE 5NIVERSITY WHICH IS ABSO LUTELY OUTSTANDING IN SOME AR EAS AND LESS IMPRESSIVE IN OTHERS v .OW ON TO $R -ACMILLAN S STANCE ON SOME OF THE CONTROVERSIAL NATIONAL TOPICS THAT HAVE THREAT ENED TO CHANGE THE VERY NATURE OF THE "RITISH EDUCATION SYSTEM
WE VE SEEN A DROP IN THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS BUT OF COURSE THE PRE VIOUS YEAR WE SAW A RISE AND IT MAY JUST BE THAT THE DROP IS AS IT WERE CORRECTING FOR THE RUSH OF PEOPLE TO GET IN BEFORE THE NEW HIGHER CHARGES WERE INTRODUCED IT MAY GO BACK UP TO THE PREVIOUS TREND AND JUST PROVE TO BE A BLIP IN WHICH CASE PEOPLE MIGHT ARGUE THAT ACTUALLY IN TERMS OF TOTAL NUMBER THE ACTUAL IMPACT HAS NOT BEEN THAT SERIOUS )F HOWEVER THE NUMBER mATTENS OFF OR DECLINES THEN THAT WILL SEND A VERY DIFFER ENT MESSAGE AND SO WHEN WE KNOW WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES HAVE BEEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO JUDGE BETTER WHAT THE FUTURE POLICIES THERE SHOULD BE h) THINK THAT IF THE CAP WERE TO BE REMOVED THEN MUCH MORE OF A MARKET WOULD BE CREATED AND ) THINK YOU WOULD THEN GET A GREATER DIVERSIlCATION OF THE SECTOR AND SO IN OUR LONG TERM THINKING WE HAVE TO PREPARE FOR THAT POSSIBILITY h) M SURE THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT 5%! TO POSITION ITSELF AS A UNIVERSITY THAT REALLY IS ABLE TO CARRY ON DOING TWO THINGS ONE OF WHICH IS TO CARRY ON COMPETING WITH THE VERY BEST UNIVERSITIES IN TERMS OF ITS RESEARCH OUTPUT AND ITS ABILITY TO ATTRACT THE BEST STUDENTS BUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT IT PRESERVES AND INDEED ENHANC ES ITS REALLY RATHER GOOD RECORD ON ACCESS AND THAT S THE DIFlCULT TRICK n DOING BOTH OF THOSE THINGS AT THE SAME TIME ) CAN T SEE ANYBODY IN THIS UNIVERSITY WANTING TO TURN THEIR BACK ON EITHER OF THOSE MISSIONS v
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4HIS CERTAINLY SOUNDS REASSUR ING BUT HOW THEN CAN THE 5NIVER SITY JUSTIFY DEMOLISHING CHEAP ER ACCOMMODATION IN FAVOUR OF EXPENSIVE NEW RESIDENCES h) DON T REALLY KNOW ENOUGH OF THE DETAILS WHAT ) DO KNOW IS THAT THE 5NIVERSITY HAS INVESTED A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY OVER RECENT YEARS ON IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF STUDENT RESIDENCES !ND OF COURSE THE PRI MARY SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR THOSE DEVELOPMENTS HAS TO BE BORROWING AND HAVING BORROWED LOANS HAVE TO BE PAID BACK SO THE ONLY REALISTIC METHOD THE 5NIVERSITY HAS TO PRO VIDE ITS STUDENTS WITH ACCOMMODA TION IS ONE WHICH INVOLVES RECOVER ING THE COST FROM THE STUDENTS )T S JUST ONE OF THOSE HARSH REALITIES NOW WHAT ) DON T KNOW ABOUT BUT WHAT ) M ACTUALLY GOING TO TRY AND lND OUT IS HOW THOSE ACCOMMODATION PRICES COMPARE WITH OTHER UNIVERSITIES v 7ILL PRICES GO BACK DOWN ONCE THE LOANS ARE PAID OFF h4HE 5NIVERSITY WILL TRY AND KEEP PRICES AS LOW AS IT CAN CONSISTENT WITH ITS lNANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES BECAUSE WE DON T WANT TO DETER STUDENTS
4HE 'OVERNMENT IS CONSIDERING LIFT ING THE CAP ON TOP UP FEES IN THIS WOULD ALLOW UNIVERSITIES TO PUT THEIR OWN PRICE TAGS ON DEGREES EF FECTIVELY CREATING A MARKET IN EDUCA TION A MARKET IN WHICH THE RICHEST STUDENTS WOULD GET THE BEST EDUCA TION 3O WHERE DOES 5%! S NEW #HIEF %XECUTIVE STAND IN THIS DEBATE h4HE 'OVERNMENT AND ALL OF THE OTHER STAKE HOLDERS IN THE SEC TOR WILL LOOK AT THE ISSUES IN AND LOOK BACK AT THE IMPACT TOP UP FEES HAVE HAD AND WILL DRAW APPROPRIATE INFERENCES FROM THE DATAx WE WON T KNOW FOR SEVERAL YEARS WHAT IMPACT TOP UP FEES WILL HAVE ON RECRUITMENT AND ACCESS h! LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE CONCERNS IN A VARIETY OF AREAS ACCESS IN PAR TICULAR BUT ) THINK IT WAS ENTIRELY RIGHT TO SET A FAIRLY LONG PERIOD BEFORE THE REVIEW SO WE WILL ACTU ALLY HAVE THE DATA ACCUMULATED AND WE WILL KNOW WHAT S HAPPENED h4HIS YEAR ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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FROM APPLYING OR INDEED MAKE THEIR LIVES DIFlCULT WHEN THEY RE HERE v
3TUDENT 3URVEILLANCE !NOTHER CONCERN FOR STUDENTS NA TIONALLY IS THE LEAKED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT WHICH APPEARED IN 4HE 'UARDIAN RECENTLY SUGGESTING THAT LECTURERS WILL SOON BE ASKED TO SPY ON !SIAN LOOKING STUDENTS WHAT IS $R -ACMILLAN S REACTION TO THIS h) THINK IT ALSO CLAIMS THAT 6#S HAVE BEEN WRITTEN TO BY THE SECURITY SERVICES ASKING THEM TO SPY ON STU DENTS ) HAVE RECEIVED NO SUCH LETTER v 7HAT WOULD BE YOUROUR 6# S REACTION IF THE 'OVERNMENT DID ASK h7ELL ) D BE ASTONISHED IF THEY DID BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE SORT OF RE ACTION THAT UNIVERSITIES WOULD HAVE WHICH WOULD BE UNIVERSALLY HOSTILE v
3TUDENT #ONTRACTS /N THE TOPIC OF STUDENT FREEDOM SOME UNIVERSITIES INCLUDING /X FORD WHERE JUST LEFT THE POST OF 0RO 6ICE #HANCELLOR HAVE THIS YEAR IN TRODUCED @'OOD "EHAVIOUR #ON TRACTS TO LEGALLY FORCE STUDENTS TO ATTEND LECTURES 7HAT IS OUR 6# S OPINION ON THESE CONTRACTS h) HAVE NO PLANS PERSONALLY TO ASK COLLEAGUES TO LOOK AT THEIR INTRO DUCTION HERE ) M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT MERITS THAT THEY HAVE AND IT S CERTAIN LY NOT SOMETHING THAT ) M EXERCISED ABOUT THERE MAY BE GOOD REASONS FOR DOING IT THAT ) AM JUST CURRENTLY NOT AWARE OF BECAUSE IT WASN T A DE BATE ) WAS MUCH INVOLVED IN WHEN ) WAS AT /XFORD BUT IT S CERTAINLY NOT SOMETHING THAT S ON MY AGENDA v
'RADUATION #EREMONY /NE ISSUE THAT IS VERY REAL AND PRESENT FOR 5%! STUDENTS IS THE NA TURE OF THE GRADUATION CEREMONY )T HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN A BONE OF CONTENTION FOR STUDENTS AS THE GRAND lNAL OF THEIR ACADEMIC LIFE AT 5%! TAKES PLACE IN A FORMER SPORTS HALL AND A DINGY ONE AT THAT IS THERE RE ALLY NO ALTERNATIVE IN THE WHOLE CITY h) ASKED A SIMILAR QUESTION MY SELF ) WONDERED ABOUT THE LOGIS TICS OF USING THE CATHEDRAL BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A WONDERFUL VENUE h) UNDERSTAND THAT THE 3TUDENT 5NION ASKED THERE WAS A REVIEW EARLIER THIS YEAR ) UNDERSTAND THE LOGISTICS WOULD MAKE IT EXTREMELY DIFlCULT 4HE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU COULD ONLY GET SOMETHING LIKE PEOPLE IN WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO
SEE THE CONFERMENT IN THE NAPE OF THE CATHEDRAL 9OU GET AS IT WERE THOSE HAVING THE DEGREES CONFERRED ON THEM DOWN THE SIDE WHERE THEY WOULDN T BE ABLE TO SEE ANYTHING OF THE CEREMONY AT ALL "UT IN TERMS OF FRIENDS RELATIONS PARENTS AND SO ON WE WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO GET IN AND ) THINK THE TYPICAL 5%! CEREMONY HAS ABOUT TWICE THAT h3O THE lRST PROBLEM WOULD BE THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF CEREMONIES AND WE VE GOT ABOUT AT THE MOMENT 7HICH RAISES THE QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT YOU COULD ACTUALLY GET THE CATHEDRAL FOR CEREMONIES AND ALSO WHETHER YOU COULD ACTUALLY DEAL WITH THE LO GISTICS OF PARKING AND OF CATERING WHICH WOULD MEAN TAKING OVER THE WHOLE PLACE FOR A MONTH ) THINK THAT ALL OF THE ADVICE THAT CAME BACK TO ME TO POUR WATER ON MY INITIAL ENTHUSIASM FOR HAVING IT IN THE CA THEDRAL WAS THAT HOWEVER MUCH WE MIGHT LIKE TO DO IT IT JUST DOESN T LOOK LIKE A PRACTICAL PROPOSITION v
&RESHERS 7EEK )T SEEMS AS THOUGH THE 6# TAKES STUDENT CONCERNS SERIOUSLY WOULD HE THEN CONSIDER IMPLEMENT ING A FRESHERS PERIOD AT 5%! AS IT IS THIS THE ONLY UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY THAT DOES NOT HAVE A BREATHING SPACE BETWEEN ARRIV ALS AND THE ACADEMIC TIMETABLE h) M OPEN TO ARGUMENTS ON THIS ) FEEL THAT STUDENTS OUGHT TO BE LISTENED TO 7HEN ) LEFT /XFORD THEY WERE MOVING AWAY FROM THIS IDEA AT THE STUDENTS REQUEST (OW EVER ) THINK IT S A QUESTION OF GET TING THE BALANCE RIGHT THERE NEEDS TO BE A GENTLE INTRODUCTION INTO THE ACADEMIC LIFE TOO AS AT UNIVER SITY THE FOCUS MOVES FROM TEACH ING TO LEARNING 7E NEED TO GET THE BALANCE RIGHT AND TO LISTEN TO STU DENT VIEWS ON HOW TO GET IT RIGHT v 7ITH ALL THE WORK INVOLVED IN MOV ING TO .ORWICH AND TAKING THE HELM AT 5%! $R -ACMILLAN HAS NOT YET HAD A CHANCE TO WALK ROUND THE LAKE AND TAKE IN THE FULL SCOPE OF 5%! S BEAUTY (OWEVER HE INTENDS TO DO THIS IN A MANNER REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS lRST TWO MONTHS HERE n WHEN ASKED TO START A CHARITY FUN RUN $R -ACMILLAN IN A MOMENT OF EXTREME ENTHUSIASM ACTUALLY OFFERED TO TAKE PART IN THE RUN AROUND THE "ROAD
$R -ACMILLAN DID HIS UNDERGRAD UATE DEGREE IN #IVIL %NGINEERING AT "RISTOL 5NIVERSITY WHERE HE ALSO DID HIS 0H$ IN %CONOMIC 'EOGRAPHY (E LECTURED AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF +ENT !MSTERDAM AND /XFORD BEFORE BECOMING THE 0RO 6# AT THE LATTER
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5%! STUDENTS JOIN .53 CAMPAIGN AGAINST TOP UP FEES IN CENTRAL ,ONDON
2OWENA "ODDINGTON 3TUDENTS FROM 5%! MADE THEIR VOICES HEARD AT THE .53 NATIONAL DEMO ABOUT TOP UP FEES IN CENTRAL ,ONDON ON THE TH OF /CTOBER STUDENTS TRAVELLED DOWN BY COACH TO JOIN OTHER DELEGATIONS FROM ACROSS THE 5+ TO PARTICIPATE IN A MARCH AND RALLY AS PART OF THE CAMPAIGN TO h+EEP THE #APv ON TOP UP FEES IN -ARCHING UNDER THE 5NION BANNER STUDENTS FROM 5%! MADE PLENTY OF NOISE AS THEY WALKED FROM +ING S #OLLEGE ,ONDON ALONG THE 4HAMES PAST THE (OUSES OF 0ARLIAMENT AND lNISHED WITH A RALLY IN 4RAFALGAR 3QUARE 3HOUTING SLOGANS SUCH AS hTOP UP FEES SCHMOPUP FEESv hDON T BE CRAP KEEP THE CAPv AND THE OLD FAVOURITE h5%! WE WON T PAYv
THE PROTESTERS SHOWED THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC THAT 5%! STUDENTS WERE BEHIND ATTEMPTS TO PRESSURISE THE 'OVERNMENT TO RESIST LIFTING THE CAP ON THE AMOUNT THAT UNIVERSI TIES CAN CHARGE FOR COURSES 4HE CAP IS CURRENTLY SET AT a AND MOST COURSES AT 5%! COST THE FULL AMOUNT 0OTENTIALLY IF THE CAP IS LIFTED STUDENTS COULD BE PAYING A LOT MORE 3URROUNDED BY GROUPS FROM OTHER STUDENT UNIONS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY 5%! STUDENTS WERE PART OF A LONG RIVER OF BLACK AND RED PLACARDS AND BANNERS THAT SNAKED ITS WAY ALONG %MBANK MENT !MUSED TOURISTS AND ANGRY MOTORISTS LOOKED ON AS THEY COL LECTED IN 4RAFALGAR 3QUARE TO LISTEN TO SPEECHES FROM 4ONY "ENN THE .53 PRESIDENT REBEL ,ABOUR -0S AND OTHERS !CCORDING TO THE .53 STUDENTS ARE PUT OFF COMING TO UNIVERSITY
BY THE PROSPECT OF UNMANAGEABLE DEBT !CCORDING TO A POLL CARRIED OUT BY THE .ATIONAL 5NION OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE ESTIMAT ED AVERAGE DEBT OF a PUTS OFF PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AND THERE WAS ALSO A DROP IN APPLICATIONS TO 5#!3 THIS YEAR .53 0RESIDENT 'EMMA 4UMELTY SAID h4OP UP FEES WILL DETER STUDENTS STUDENTS WHO HAVE THE ABILITY AND ASPIRA TION TO GO UNIVERSITY BUT CANNOT AFFORD THE PRICE TAGv 4HE DAY DID NOT GO ENTIRELY SMOOTHLY HOWEVER 4HE SECOND 5%! COACH BROKE DOWN IN THE SUB URBS OF THE CAPITAL MEANING THAT SOME STUDENTS MISSED MOST OF THE MARCH 4HERE WERE ALSO SOME STU DENT GROUPS NOT FROM 5%! WHO LEFT THE RALLY IN 4RAFALGAR 3QUARE AND JOINED AN ANTI WAR DEMONSTRA TION IN 0ARLIAMENT 3QUARE WHICH WAS THEN BROKEN UP BY RIOT POLICE
4OP #HANT #HART 4OPPERS (EYxHEY 4ONY OH AH ) WANNA KNOWWWW IF YOU LL PAY MY FEES )N DEBT @TIL ) DIE ) M IN DEBT @TIL ) DIE ) KNOW ) AM ) M SURE ) AM ) M IN DEBT @TIL ) DIE 7HAT DO WE WANT &REE EDU CATION 7HEN DO WE WANT IT .OW 7E ALL NEED AN EDUCATION (EY "LAIR LEAVE OUR FEES ALONE
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4ONY IS A W ER 4ONY IS A W ER LA LA LA OI LA LA LA OI 7E D RATHER PAY FOR SNAKE BITE THAN PAY FOR TOP UP FEES %DDIE SAYS NO %DDIE SAYS NO 5%! WE WON T PAY 5%! WE WON T PAY 9OU CAN LEAVE YOUR CAP ON
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',/"!, 7!2. .' %NVIRONMENT /FlCER "EN -EAKER GIVES HIS ACCOUNT OF THE ,ONDON CLIMATE CHANGE DEMONSTRATION h'OD IS OLIVEv n THAT WAS ONE OF THE MESSAGES THAT CAME ACROSS FROM ONE OF THE MANY SPEAKERS AT THE .ATIONAL #LIMATE #HANGE MARCH ON 3ATURDAY TH .OVEMBER IN CENTRAL ,ONDON !MONGST THE THOU SANDS OF PEOPLE THAT STOOD UNDER THE MENACING GAZE OF THE 'OLDEN %AGLE PERCHED ON TOP OF THE !MERI CAN %MBASSY 5%! STUDENTS WERE THERE IN FORCE TO DEMAND URGENT ACTION ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE FOR #LIMATE *USTICE "EFORE ) GO INTO ANY MORE DETAILS ) JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU MY PERSONAL BUILD UP TO THE MARCH (AVING TRIED DESPERATELY TO SPREAD THE WORD AMONGST THE STUDENT POPULATION A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE THE EVENT TOOK PLACE AND WITH NO REAL SUCCESS ) DECIDED TO RESORT TO DRASTIC MEASURESx ) PURCHASED A LATEX 'EORGE 7 "USH MASK SLIPPED INTO MY REMARK ABLY CREASED SUIT AND OFF ) WENT TO PERSUADE ANY LIVING BEING TO COME ALONG TO THE MARCH !FTER STALKING PEOPLE FOR AN AF TERNOON AROUND CAMPUS DELIVERING A MUMBLED SPEECH IN THE HOUR )4 AREA IN THE LIBRARY AND RECEIVING EITHER BLANK STARES OR MY FAVOUR ITE h.O ) DON T GIVE A mYING F CK ABOUT #LIMATE #HANGEv ) THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO HANG MYSELF AND EVAPORATE INTO THE ATMOSPHERE TO CHECK OUT FOR MYSELF HOW BIG THE HOLE IN THE OZONE LAYER ACTUALLY WAS 7ELL MY FRIENDS IT DIDN T QUITE END IN TEARS AND ) CERTAINLY DIDN T NEED TO HAVE A CLOSE UP VIEW OF HOW MESSED UP OUR OZONE LAYER IS THE EVIDENCE IS STARING STRAIGHT IN FRONT OF US
'LOBAL WARMING IS THE BIGGEST THREAT POSED TO DATE TO THE NATURAL WORLD THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND THE HUMAN RACE &URTHERMORE 3IR .ICHOLAS 3TERN AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED ECONOMIST SUGGESTS THAT GLOBAL WARMING COULD SHRINK THE GLOBAL ECONOMY BY "ACK TO THE STORYxBY &RIDAY NIGHT WE HAD TWO FULL COACHES OF STUDENTS AND h.ORFOLKIANSv READY FOR ACTION 7ITH A HOUSEFUL OF BANNERS AND PLACARDS THE SMELL OF PROTEST EMPOWERED THE CLIMATE CHANGE DE BATE HELD BETWEEN MY HOUSEMATES UNTIL THE SUBJECT PASSED ON TO WHO WAS GOING TO WASH UP THIS WEEK S DISHES 7E COULDN T lND A SOLUTION TO THE LATTER BUT WITH REGARDS TO CLIMATE CHANGE ONE MESSAGE CAME OUT CLEARER THAN A FART IN A POST ,#2 MORNING LECTURE 7E HAVE TO ACT NOW BEFORE IT S TOO LATE 4HIS WAS REITERATED THE NEXT MORNING
DURING THE BUS JOURNEY DOWN TO ,ONDON AS WELL AS HOW SHOCKINGLY TERRIBLE -Y #HEMICAL 2OMANCE ARE )T WAS A hBEAUTIFUL DAYv AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT ) DIDN T EVEN NEED TO STARE UP AT THE SKY TO lND OUT ! BLOKE WITH A MULLET SITTING RIGHT BEHIND ME WAS TRYING TO SING ALONG TO 5 S INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED SONG AS WELL AS EAT THROUGH A WHOLE PACKET OF *UMBO 2OLOS 4WO HOURS LATER AND WE WERE INHALING THE ,ONDON SMOG !T LEAST BY THAT POINT THE SINGING HAD STOPPED !RMED ONLY WITH OUR BAN NERS AND VOICES EXCEPT FOR THE MAN WITH THE MULLET WHO MUST HAVE LOST HIS VOICE WHILST PERFORMING THE CHORUS OF h) BELIEVE ) CAN mYv WE MARCHED ON TO THE !MERICAN %MBASSY !FTER SOME SPINE TINGLING SPEECHES BY hECO WARRIORSv WE SET OFF ON A QUEST AROUND WHAT MUST BE n IN MY MIND ANYWAY n THE POSHEST PART OF ,ONDON PASSING MANY #HELSEA 4RACTOR 0ORSCHE
2OLLS 2OYCE AND "ENTLEY GARAGES ALONG THE WAY 4HE THOUGHT OF BOMBARDING THESE #/ LEAK TANKS WITH EGGS PAINTBALLS AND WHATNOT WAS UNCONTROLLABLE ,UCKILY ) WAS IN THE SAFE HANDS OF A SWITCHED ON LAW STUDENT WHO MANAGED TO CONTROL MY URGE TO KILL THESE GAS GUZZLING GREMLINS 7E ARE AFTER ALL PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS -ARCHING ACROSS ,ONDON TO THE SOUND OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CLAP PING SINGING WHISTLING AND DRUM MING FOR THE SAME CAUSE WAS QUITE FRANKLY INDESCRIBABLE BUT MY 'OD IT FELT GOOD 7ITH THE BIGGEST GRIN ON MY FACE WE TRICKLED OUT INTO 4RAFALGUAR 3QUARE TO THE SOUND OF +4 4UNSTALL -ORE THAN PEOPLE AND A WHOLE LOAD MORE PIGEONS WERE THERE FOR THE PARTY -UCH TO MY SURPRISE 2AZORLIGHT CAME ON STAGE AND SANG THEIR WELL KNOWN h!MERICAv TRACK WHICH SEEMED TO lT THE SCENE PERFECTLY AS ALMOST
THREE QUARTERS OF THE PROTESTERS HAD A h'EORGE "USH 7ANTED FOR #RIMES !GAINST THE 0LANETv POSTER 7HEN THE GATHERING CAME TO AN END EVERY PERSON SEEMED TO RADI ATE THIS AWKWARD FEELING ! FEELING OF HAPPINESS AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT PREVAILED BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS SOMEHOW COMBINED WITH A SENSE OF DISCONTENT ON HOW WE AS HUMAN BEINGS NOT JUST PASSENGERS BUT CREW OF 3PACESHIP %ARTH ARE CONTINUING TO DESTROY OUR PLANET $ON T LET THE PESSIMISM SURROUND ING THIS ISSUE FOOL YOU THOUGH WE HAVE THE TIME AND KNOWLEDGE TO ACT IF WE ALL WORK STRONGLY TOGETHER ) LEAVE YOU WITH THE WISE WORDS OF -AHATMA 'HANDI MY YOUNG PADAWAN h9OU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD v !FTER THE LAST TREE HAS BEEN CUT DOWN AF TER THE LAST RIVER HAS BEEN POISONED AFTER THE LAST lSH HAS BEEN CAUGHT ONLY THEN WILL WE REALISE THAT MONEY CANNOT BE EATEN SO ACT NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATEx
"LOCKADING FOR THE &UTURE 4HE @&ASLANE DEMONSTRATION HAS BEEN RUNNING SINCE ST /CTO BER AND IS A YEAR LONG PEACE FUL BLOCKADE OF THE NUCLEAR BASE )NSIDE THE BASE ARE FOUR NUCLEAR SUBMARINES APTLY NAMED (-3 6ENGEANCE 6ICTORIOUS 6IGILANT AND 6ANGUARD %ACH SHIP CURRENTLY CAR RIES BETWEEN 4RIDENT .UCLEAR 7ARHEADS WHICH COST THE GOVERN MENT ANNUALLY AN ESTIMATED a MILLION TO RUN .UCLEAR WEAPONS ARE VERY MUCH A PRESENT THREAT IN THE "RITISH PSYCHE NOT ONLY INTERNATIONALLY AS .ORTH +OREA AND )RAN ATTEMPT TO
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DEVELOP THEIR OWN NUCLEAR POWER BUT ALSO DOMESTICALLY AS THE .EW ,ABOUR GOVERNMENT ARE PLANNING TO SPEND OVER a BILLION ON A REPLACEMENT NUCLEAR SYSTEM AT THE &ASLANE .AVEL BASE 4HIS INVESTMENT OF TAX PAYER S MONEY WILL ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO REPLACE THEIR OLD 4RIDENT NUCLEAR WARHEADS WITH TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED AND POTENTIALLY MORE DEVASTATING NUCLEAR WEAPONRY 4ONY "LAIR S DECISION TO SPEND THIS MONEY ON FURTHER DEVELOPING THE 5NITED +INGDOM S @STRATEGIC DETERRENT SUBMARINE FORCE KICK STARTED THE @&ASLANE ANTI NU CLEAR CAMPAIGN 4HE @&ASLANE PROTESTORS
THROUGH THE BLOCKADE PLAN TO PRES SURISE THE GOVERNMENT INTO MAKING A TIMETABLE FOR DISMANTLING "RITISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND ULTIMATELY INTO CLOSING DOWN THE BASE )N THE LONG RUN THE @&ASLANE CAMPAIGN HOPES THAT BY WORK ING TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNMENT THEY CAN REACH A COMMITMENT NOT TO DEVELOP ANY FURTHER NUCLEAR WEAPONS 4HE BLOCKADE IS RUN BY GROUPS OF PROTESTORS WHO ACT AS A HU MAN SHIELD STOPPING TRAFlC AND WORKERS ENTERING THE SITE %ACH GROUP STAYS FOR AT LEAST HOURS /RGANISERS HOPE TO THIS ROTATION WILL BE CONTINUOUS AND LAST UNTIL THE 3EPTEMBER TH
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/4# 'IVEN -ARCHING /RDERS /NE 7AY /NLY $ANIEL -ORLEY #ONCRETE 35 2EP 4HE SECOND 5NION #OUNCIL FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR SAW SOME INTERESTING AND RADICAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED WITH THE VOTE ON BANNING THE /FlCER 4RAINING #ORPS /4# A DIVISION OF THE 4ERRITORIAL !RMY BEING THE CLOSEST AND MOST CONTRO VERSIAL *ACK *OHNSTON ")/ OTHER YEAR REP PROPOSED THE RESOLUTION ON THE BASIS THAT THE ARMY REFUSES EM PLOYEES THE RIGHT TO FORM UNIONS AND DISCRIMINATES ON SUPERlCIAL GROUNDS !LSO THE /4# S LARGE SPACE AT 3OCMART WAS OBJECTED TO 4HE lRST PART OF THE OBJECTION WAS SHOWN TO BE WITHOUT MERIT SINCE TECHNICALLY THE /4# IS NOT THE ARMY 4HOSE PRO POSING THE RESOLUTION MOVED ON TO THEIR SECOND ARGUMENT 4HEY ARGUED THAT 3OCMART IS ABOUT STUDENT SOCIE TIES AND SHOULD NOT BE A PLATFORM FOR NON STUDENT RUN ORGANISATIONS *ACK *OHNSTON ARGUED THAT 3OC MART IS A VERY CROWDED EVENT WITH STUDENTS HAVING TO JOSTLE FOR SPACE TO PROMOTE THEIR SOCIETY ON INEVI TABLY LIMITED FUNDS 4HE /4# IS THE
ONLY NON STUDENT ORGANISATION AT 3OCMART OTHER THAN 5NIVERSITY ORGANISATIONS *ACK ALLUDED TO A PUBLIC DISTASTE FOR THE ARMY AS ANOTHER REASON FOR REMOVING THEM (E ARGUED THAT DESPITE THE SPACE THEY TOOK UP AND FAR GREATER RESOURCES THEY HAD THEY ACHIEVED A VERY LOW LEVEL OF INTEREST (E SUGGESTED THAT THEY SHOULD USE THE SPACE IN THE (IVE LIKE ALL OTHER EXTERNAL GROUPS AND PAY THE 5NION THE STANDARD FEE FOR THAT SPACE 4HIS KICKED OFF A QUITE EXCITING AND HIGHLY CONTESTED DEBATE WITH ARGUMENTS AGAINST CLAIMING THAT THE ARMY ARE NEITHER DISCRIMINATORY NOR UNFAIR AND THAT THERE IS NO REAL BASIS FOR REMOVING THE /4# FROM 3OCMART UNLESS ONE WANTED TO ULTI MATELY CONTEST THE ROLE OF THE ARMY IN SOCIETY
5LTIMATELY THE ARGUMENTS FOR CONVINCED THE MAJORITY OF 5NION #OUNCIL 4HE RESOLUTION PASSED WITH A CLOSE VOTE /THER MOTIONS PASSED BY THE COUNCIL INCLUDED ONE CONDEMN ING THE 'OVERNMENT S PLANS TO ASK LECTURERS AND ADMIN STAFF TO @SPY ON -USLIM OR @!SIAN LOOKING STUDENTS !LSO A FURTHER ENVIRONMENTAL MOTION PUSHING FOR A STRONGER GREEN POLICY WAS PASSED BY 5NION #OUNCIL
5NION #OUNCIL IS HELD ONCE A FORTNIGHT AND IS OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS !LTHOUGH YOU CAN ONLY VOTE ON MOTIONS IF YOU ARE AN ELECTED REP
2ICHARD 2EYNOLDS $EPUTY .EWS %DITOR !LL LOCAL RETURN BUS TICKETS INCLUD ING THOSE FROM 5%! TO %ARLHAM 2OAD 5NTHANK 2OAD AND THE CITY CENTRE HAVE BEEN SCRAPPED IN A PRICING SHAKE UP 7ITH THE INCREASES IN THE FARES AND NO RETURN TICKETS STUDENTS WILL NOW HAVE TO PAY a FOR A RE TURN FROM 5%! TO THE CITY CENTRE 7E ASKED THE 5NION #OMMU NICATIONS /FlCER &RANCIST (AN DLIMB FOR HIS COMMENT h0RICES AREN T IDEAL n ITS SOMETHING THE 5NION IS CONSIDERING ACTION ONv !T THE LAST 5NION #OUNCIL MANY OF THE REPS WERE DISCUSSING
PROPOSING A MOTION BOYCOTTING &IRST "USES 7HEN ASKED FOR THE REASON ING BEHIND THE PRICE RISE &IRST "USES TOLD US h7E ALWAYS REGRET THE NEED TO INCREASE FARES BUT WE MUST ENSURE OUR REVENUE COVERS RISING COSTS AND CONTINUES TO AL LOW US TO INVEST IN NEW VEHICLES MORE OF WHICH WILL BE ARRIVING EARLY NEXT YEAR v 4HEY ALSO TOLD US THAT THEY hxPLAN STILL FURTHER STREAMLINING IN THE FUTURE MOVING TOWARDS mAT FARE SYSTEMS IN MOST AREAS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN ,ONDON AND "RIGHTON v (OWEVER AS 2OWENA "ODDINGTON !-3 POINTED OUT h3INGLE BUS TICKETS IN ,ONDON ONLY COST A LITTLE MORE THAN a WHICH IS FAR LESS THAN THE AVERAGE OF a WE PAY HERE v
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5NIVERSALLY #HALLENGING 5%! LEAVES AN IMPRESSION WITH *EREMY 0AXMAN STRIKING TERROR INTO POLITICIANS LIKE IN REALITY h&AIRLY INTIMIDATING v AND hSHARP EDGEDv BUT REALLY hVERY NICEv ACCORDING TO THE TEAM 4HUS IT MAY PROVE TO BE THAT THE LEGACY LEFT BY THIS YEAR S 5%! TEAM IS NOT A GLORIOUS ASSAULT ON THE 5NIVERSITY #HALLENGE TITLE BUT RATHER THEIR OFF SCREEN ANTICS WITH THE PRODUCTION STAFF &AR FROM BEING THE STEREOTYPICAL hSUPER INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WITH NOT THE GREATEST SOCIAL SKILLS v THE TEAM WERE JUST hA BUNCH OF KIDS ALONG FOR THE RIDE v SAID -R (AMLYN .OT THAT THIS IS A BAD THING 4HE TEAM HAD A GREAT TIME SAID THE CAPTAIN AND THE JOVIAL RELATIONSHIP THEY ENJOYED WITH THE PRODUCTION TEAM WAS UNPRECEDENTED IN #HALLENGE HISTORY
$AVID -C.AUGHT 4HERE WAS ALL MANNER OF DEBAUCH ERY WHEN THE 5%! TEAM CRASHED -ANCHESTER TO COMPETE ON 5NIVER SITY #HALLENGE RECENTLY (AVING MADE IT THROUGH THE PRELIMINARY ROUNDS THE TEAM TRAVELLED TO -ANCHESTER TO TAKE ON ,INACRE #OLLEGE /XFORD IN THE lRST ROUND !ND RATHER THAN LET THE PRES SURES OF COMPETING GET TO THEM THEY TOOK THEIR OWN MORE CASUAL APPROACH TO lLMING 7ITH A SEEMINGLY RELAXED AT TITUDE TO WINNING n h7E GRIN TOO MUCH AND WE HAVE A STUPID MUFlN AS OUR MASCOTv SAID TEAM MEMBER &RANCIS (AMLYN n SOME MEMBERS WERE RATHER MORE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR OFF CAMERA ANTICS +ARAOKE UPSETTING THE LOCALS WITH DODGY -ANCHUNIAN ACCENTS AND A STITCH UP IN MAKE UP WHICH LEFT TEAM CAPTAIN $AVID "RAIN LOOKING LIKE hA FAT EUNUCHv ON CAMERA ALL ENSUED
&RANCIST (ANDLIMB AND CO ENJOYING *EREMY 0AXMAN S COMPANY !DD TO THIS A @ROMANTIC EN COUNTER OR TWO WITH MEMBERS OF THE PRODUCTION TEAM AND ITS FAIR TO SAY THAT EVEN IF THEY DO NOT WIN 4EAM 5%! LEFT THEIR MARK ON THIS
YEAR S COMPETITION 3O MUCH SO THAT RUMOURS QUICKLY SPREAD ON SET EVEN COMING TO THE ATTEN TION OF HOST *EREMY 0AXMAN !ND WHAT WAS THE MAN RENOWNED FOR
4O lND OUT HOW THE TEAM GOT ON IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS YOU CAN WATCH THEIR lRST ROUND CLASH ON ""# ON -ONDAY .OVEMBER TH
0ARTY WITH 3AINSBURY S 4HE 3AINSBURY S #ENTRE IS HAVING SOME LATE OPENING PERFORMANCE NIGHTS 4HESE WILL INCLUDE A BAR $*S POETRY AND OTHER PERFORMERS 4HE EVENT CO ORDINATORS ARE KEEN TO INVOLVE STUDENTS 4HE lRST OF THESE NIGHTS IS CUR RENTLY SCHEDULED FOR TH &EBRUARY NEXT YEAR BUT THERE WILL BE AN EVENING EVENT THIS WEEK ON THE TH OF .OVEMBER WHICH MANY STUDENTS HAVE EXPRESSED AN INTER EST IN )T IS PART OF THE &RANCIS "ACON PAINTINGS FROM THE S SEASON AND OFFERS THE CHANCE TO DRESS UP @ S STYLE ORDER A DRINK AT -URIEL S BAR AND DANCE AWAY TO MUSIC SUCH AS 2AY #HARLES -ILES $AVIS AND OTHER ARTISTS FROM THIS PERIOD
.IGHTLINE HAS MOVED .IGHTLINE THE STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICE PROVIDE OVER THE PHONE COUNSELING BETWEEN THE HOURS OF PM AND AM )F YOU WANT TO VISIT THEM YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT DUE TO THE REFURBISHMENT OF .OR FOLK 4ERRACE .IGHTLINE HAS MOVED TO 3UFFOLK 4ERRACE "LOCK ! ROAD WAY LEVEL 4HEIR NUMBER IS STILL AND THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS IS STILL NIGHTLINE UEA AC UK
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#AMBRIDGE .OT &OR 3ALE #AMBRIDGE S %DUCATION .OT FOR 3ALE GROUP STAGED A ALL NIGHT SIT IN AFTER ONE OF THERE LECTURES 4HE GROUP DEMANDS NOT ONLY AN END TO TOP UP FEES BUT A hLIVING GRANTv FOR ALL STUDENTS !FTER THE PROTEST ENDED AT AM THEY DELIVERED A LIST OF DEMANDS TO THEIR 6 # !LISON 2ICHARD S OFlCE !LISON 2ICHARD HAS BEEN LEADING CALLS FOR HIGHER FEES
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3OMEONE HAD A SMASHING (ALLOWEEN (ALLOWEEN PROVED TO BE TRULY FRIGHTENING IN THE MEN S TOILETS WHEN SOMEONE TOOK THE HORROR THEME ONE STEP TOO FAR
'EMMA 4OMKYS 0ARTYGOERS CAST A DIM LIGHT ON 4UES DAY S ,#2 (ALLOWEEN CELEBRATIONS 7HILE THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS SOAKED UP THE SPOOKY ATMOSPHERE ENJOYED FREE PUNCH AND SPENT MUCH OF THEIR EVENING SCARING THE BAR STAFF WITH ELABORATE COSTUMES A CURRENTLY UNIDENTIlED GROUP
5%! RECENTLY FEATURED )N A ""# REPORT ON THE NUMBER OF HOURS STUDENTS WORK 4HE (IGHER %DUCA TION 0OLICY )NSTITUTE PUBLISHED A REPORT COMPARING WORKLOADS AS JUDGED BY STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY !CCORDING TO THE REPORT 5%! S MEDICS ARE THE HARDEST WORK ING STUDENTS IN THE COUNTRY DOING OVER HOURS A WEEK !LTERNATIVELY SOME THIRD YEAR %NGLISH LITERATURE STUDENTS HAVE ONLY TWO HOURS A WEEK OF CONTACT TIME
)S 9OUR !RT 2UBBISH 43)& n 4HE 3USTAINABILITY )NITIATIVE &UND IS LAUNCHING A NEW COMPETI TION TO SEE WHO CAN hTRANSFORM THEIR WASTE INTO INVENTIVE PIECES OF ART v 4HE WINNING PIECES WILL BE PUT ON DISPLAY AT THE hART FOR E!24H S SAKEvEVENING ON THE .OVEMBER TH )F YOU WANT TO ENTER EMAIL CSI UEA GMAIL COM BY THE .OVEM BER TH
)F YOU WITNESSED THE INCIDENT PLEASE SPEAK TO &INANCE /FlCER %DDIE 3HIELDS IN 5NION (OUSE
ENTERED THE MALE TOILETS UPSTAIRS IN 5NION (OUSE AND CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE 4HE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE AT AROUND AM ON 7EDNES DAY MORNING 4HE MIRROR WAS COMPLETELY SMASHED THE TOILETS DAMAGED AND A TOILET DOOR BROKEN INTO FOUR PIECES WHICH WOULD HAVE REQUIRED EXTENSIVE FORCE 4HE ROOM WAS LEFT COVERED IN GLASS AND BROKEN PLASTIC AND THE TOILETS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY LOCKED FOR SAFETY REASONS /NE SOURCE TOLD #ONCRETE THAT THE DAMAGE WAS DONE WITH A CHAIR 4HE 5NION ARE YET TO WATCH THE ##46 FOOTAGE WHICH WILL SHOW PEOPLE ENTERING AND LEAVING THE TOILETS 4HEY STATE THAT WHEN THE GROUP IS IDENTIlED THEY WILL BE ASKED TO PAY FOR REPAIRS 4HIS INCIDENT DOES LITTLE TO HELP THE 5NION lNANCIALLY #URRENTLY THE UNION SPENDS JUST UNDER A THIRD OF ITS PROlTS ON MAINTENANCE AND VANDALISM CONTRIBUTES TO THIS lGURE 7ITH STUDENTS ALREADY UN HAPPY ABOUT THE PRICE OF ALCOHOL SOME lND IT HARD TO WORK OUT WHY VANDALISM TAKES PLACE AS THIS DI RECTLY AFFECTS DRINKS PRICES &INANCE /FlCER %DDIE 3HIELDS EXPLAINS h%VERY STUDENT THAT VANDALISES 5N ION PREMISES ON WHATEVER SCALE IS PUTTING DRINKS UP FOR ALL OF US v
#ITY 3TUDENT DIES IN DRUG TRADEGDY ! .ORWICH #ITY #OLLEGE STUDENT DIED TRADGICALLY WHEN SHE DRANK LIQUID ECSTACY FROM A BOTTLE OF DRINKING WATER
3AM %MANUEL ! .ORWICH STUDENT HAS DIED FROM AN EXTREME REACTION TO THE DRUG KNOWN AS LIQUID ECSTASY AFTER lND ING AND DRINKING THE SUBSTANCE IN A WATER BOTTLE IN A FRIEND S mAT 2UTE -ARQUES WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN THE mAT IN +ENSING TON 3OUTH ,ONDON ON /CTOBER TH AND DIED THE FOLLOWING EVENING NEVER HAVING REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS #ITY #OLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE 2UTE WHO WAS NOT A DRUG USER DIED JUST DAYS BEFORE HER GRADUA TION CEREMONY AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF %AST !NGLIA WHEN SHE WOULD QUALIFY WITH A CATERING MANAGE MENT DEGREE (ER BROTHER (UGO WHO HAS DESCRIBED 2UTE S DEATH AS hA TRAGIC ACCIDENTv SAID h7E WERE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO CELEBRATING HER ACHIEVEMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY h) DIDN T THINK ) D BE VISITING HER BEDSIDE INSTEAD AS SHE FOUGHT TO HANG ON TO THE LIFE SHE ALWAYS ENJOYED TO THE FULL v (UGO ADDED h3HE WAS VERY INDEPENDENT AND HAD THOUSANDS
OF FRIENDS AND ALL HER LIFE IN FRONT OF HER h&ROM THE AGE OF SHE HAS WORKED AS WELL AS STUDYING HARD 3HE MOVED TO ,ONDON TO SHARE A mAT WITH FRIENDS AND HAD JUST GOT A JOB AS A HOTEL MANAGER h2UTE HAD EVERYTHING MAPPED OUT EVEN TO WHEN SHE WOULD HAVE CHILDREN v $ETECTIVE )NSPECTOR +EITH 2ICHARDSON STATED THAT POLICE AT 3COTLAND 9ARD ARE hSPEAKING TO ALL THOSE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN AT THE mAT IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE INCIDENT v AND THAT NO ARRESTS HAVE YET BEEN MADE 0OLICE ARE CURRENTLY TREATING 2UTE S DEATH AS hUNEXPLAINEDv 2ICHARDSON ADDED h)T APPEARS THAT -ISS -ARQUES SUFFERED A SEVERE REACTION TO WHAT IS SUSPECTED TO BE '(" CONTAINED IN A CLEAR PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE ) WOULD APPEAL TO ANYONE WHO HAS NOT YET SPOKEN TO THE POLICE TO COME FORWARD v '(" OR GAMMA HYDROXYBU TYRATE IS A CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANT ! SMALL CAPFUL HAS A EUPHORIC EFFECT THAT MAKES USERS FEEL HAPPY SENSUAL AND UNINHIB ITED !S MORE IS TAKEN IT ACTS LIKE
A SEDATIVE OR DOWNER AND MAKES PEOPLE SLEEPY )T CAN BE FATAL WHEN TAKEN WITH OTHER DRUGS 0OLICE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING WHY THE DRUG WAS IN THE mAT AND AWAIT THE RESULTS OF THE POST MORTEM AND FURTHER TOXICOLOGY TESTS
&OR ADVICE ON DRUGS AND WHAT THE EFFECTS CAN BE SPEAK CONlDENTIAL LY TO FRANK ON
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7ASHING /UT 4HE "EER 3TAINS (UMAN 4REE #HARLOTTE +IMBLEY .ORMALLY A VISIT TO 5%! S LAUNDER ETTE MARKS THE OFlCIAL ENDING OF THE WEEKEND AND THE STARK REALITY THAT ITS LESS THAN TWENTY FOUR HOURS BEFORE YOUR AM -ONDAY MORNING
SEMINAR STARTS (OWEVER ON &RIDAY /CTOBER TH 5%! S LAUNDERETTE FOUND ITSELF AT THE CENTRE OF CAMPUS NIGHT LIFE AS A GROUP OF MUSICIANS CHOOSE THE LAUNDRY ROOM AS THE PERFECT IF NOT UNUSUAL VENUE TO SHOWCASE A SECRET MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA 4HE GIG WHICH WAS SUITABLY EN
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TITLED @7ASHING OUT THE BEER STAINS /NE .IGHT 3PECTACULAR FEATURED PERFORMANCES FROM STUDENT BASED UP AND COMING TALENT 4HE LINE UP INCLUDED AN ECLECTIC ARRAY OF MUSICIANS RANGING FROM GUITAR BASED SOUNDS PERFORMED BY *AMES -EAKIN AND 'ARTH !TTACKS TO UR BAN ACTS SUCH AS -# )POD $ESPITE THE EVENTS POSITIVE COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE THERE WHERE FEARS THAT THE GIG WOULD BE SHUT DOWN AND THE PUNTERS MOVED ON BY CAMPUS SECURITY BECAUSE OF THE SPONTANE OUS AND UNOFlCIAL ORGANISATION
OF THE NIGHT AS WELL AS THE GIG S UNORTHODOX VENUE (OWEVER THE EVENT RAN SMOOTHLY WITH NO APPEARANCES PUT IN BY ANY 5%! OFlCIALS $ON T FEAR IF YOU MISSED OUT ON THIS EVENT .EXUS 46 CAPTURED THE WHOLE EVENING ON THEIR CAMERAS SO WATCH OUT FOR THE NEXT SHOWINGS OF .EXUS PROGRAMMES IN THE BLUE BAR TO CATCH HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS EVENT #ONCRETE CAN CONlRM THAT THERE WILL BE MORE GUERRILLA GIGS TAKING PLACE AGAIN IN THE NOT SO DISTANT FUTURE SO WATCH THIS SPACE
&ANS OF SUSTAINABILITY WOWED AND CONFUSED STUDENTS LAST WEEK WHEN THEY MADE A HUMAN TREE IN THE SQUARE 43)& 4HE 3USTAINABILITY )NITIA TIVE &UND EXHIBITED THEMSELVES IN AN ATTEMPT TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY 4HE GROUP AIM TO GET EVERY STUDENT TO DONATE a SO THAT THEY CAN IMPLIMENT SUSTAINABLE POLICIES AT 5%! 2EAD MORE ON PAGE
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.EXUS ,IVEWIRE AND #ONCRETE WILL BE COMBINING FORCES IN WEEK TO PROVIDE THE ULTIMATE DISCO EXTRAVAGANZA IN THE ,#2 3UNDAY TH .OVEMBER &OR DETAILS POP INTO EITHER OF THE SOCIETIES OFlCES UPSTAIRS IN 5NION (OUSE
#AMILLA S BEEN #OMPLAING 4O PROMOTE THE POSITIVE BEN ElTS OF THE #IVIL 0ARTNERSHIPS !CT THE 5NION S ,ESBIAN 'AY "ISEXUAL AND 4RANS 0EER 3UPPORT 'ROUP OR ,'"4 HELD A MOCK CIVIL PARTNERSHIP CER EMONY IN THE 3QUARE AT 5%! ON 7EDNESDAY /CTOBER TH 4HIS TIME IT WAS AN AFlRMA TIVE CELEBRATION AS OPPOSED TO FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN THE PROTEST @GAY WEDDING WAS NOT LEGAL 4HE COUPLES GATHERED NERV OUSLY IN 5NION (OUSE *AMES AND 3TEVE WEARING SUITS COM PLETE WITH TOP HATS THE GIRLS TURNING HEADS IN THEIR BEAUTIFUL WHITE DRESSES )T WAS TO BE A
#AMILLA $UCHESS OF #ORNWALL LAUNCHED AN ATTACK ON %NGLISH STUDENTS WHILE VISITING A 0AKISTANI UNIVERSITY 3HE SAID THAT h%NGLISH STUDENTS DON T SPEND AS MUCH TIME ON THEIR STUDIESv AND THAT h%NGLISH STUDENTS ARE MORE INTERESTED IN PARTYING AND HAVING FUN v 7HILE THIS WAS PART OF A COMPLIMENT TO THE HARD WORKING STUDENTS IN 0AKISTAN THE .53 STILL FELT IT WAS AN UNNECESSARY SLUR ON %NGLISH STUDENTS .53 OFlCIAL 6E RONICA +ING SAID THIS WAS UNHELP FUL h3UCH COMMENTS REINFORCE AN OUTDATED STEREOTYPE OF STUDENTS AS SERIAL DRINKERS WHEN IN FACT MANY OF TODAY S STUDENTS ARE JUST AS LIKELY TO BE WORKING BEHIND A BAR AS DRINKING AT IT v
DAY TO REMEMBER WITH THE ONLY SPOILER BEING THE WEATHER ,IB ERATION S /FlCER -ARTIN *OPP CONDUCTED THE CEREMONY AND PRAISED THE MOVE TOWARDS LEGAL EQUALITY 3OON AFTER THE CEREMONY THE CONGREGATION HEADED TO A .ELSON #OURT #OMMON 2OOM FOR THE RECEPTION CUTTING OF THE WEDDING CAKE AND A SCRUMMY BUFFET LUNCH 3TEVE WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO HELPED MAKE IT HAPPEN -ORE PICS ON THE ,'"4 S WEBSITE AT WWW UEASTU DENT COM LGBT
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'REEN $AY AT 5%!
2AJ +AMBLI HAS BEEN EMPLOYED BY THE 5NIVERSITY TO HELP TACKLE THE CRIME ON CAMPUS
.O NOT THE BAND BUT THE CRAZY GREENS ARE SETTING OUT TO ROCK YOUR WORLD
3AM %MANUEL ! NEW @POLICE SURGERY HAS BEEN INTRODUCED ON CAMPUS IN THE 5NIVERSITY S LATEST BID TO COMBAT CRIME 4HE SURGERY RUN BY 5%! LIASON OFlCER 2AJ +AMBLI WILL GIVE STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS CRIME RELATED ISSUES WITH HIM FACE TO FACE )T WILL BE RUNNING IN 5NION (OUSE EVERY 7EDNESDAY AND WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT SECURITY MEASURES SUCH AS PROPERTY MARKING ,EAmETS ABOUT THE SURGERY ARE AVAILABLE AT THE RECEPTION DESK IN THE (IVE 2AJ WHO TOOK UP THE POSITION OF CAMPUS 0OLICE #OMMUNITY 3UPPORT /FlCER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER HAS WORKED IN SECURITY FOR SEVERAL YEARS (AVING PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED THE SAME
POST IN 4UXWOOD 2AJ WILL USE HIS EXPERIENCE TO HELP TACKLE CRIME ON AND AROUND CAMPUS (IS EMPLOYMENT IS PART OF A DRIVE BY THE 5NIVERSITY TO REDUCE CRIME FOLLOWING A RECENT SPATE OF ATTACKS ON STUDENTS WHICH INCLUDE ROBBERY AND ASSAULT )N ONE INCIDENT A YOUNG MAN
WAS THREATENED BY TWO MALES ON CAMPUS WHO SUBSEQUENTLY PUSHED HIM OVER AND MADE OFF WITH HIS I POD AND LAPTOP COMPUTER 4HE FOLLOWING DAY A FEMALE STUDENT WAS APPROACHED BY TWO MALES ON "LUEBELL 2OAD AND WHILE ONE ATTACKER RESTRAINED THE VICTIM S ARMS THE OTHER PUNCHED HER IN THE FACE 3HE WAS THEN PUSHED TO THE GROUND AND THE ASSAILANTS STOLE a FROM HER 4HE UNIVERSITY S ONGOING WAR AGAINST ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR HAS LED THEM TO STEP UP SECURITY IN LIGHT OF THESE INCIDENCES IN AN ATTEMPT TO KEEP STAFF AND STUDENTS SAFE 2AJ SAID h%XTRA SECURITY STAFF HAVE BEEN HIRED AND DEPLOYED AT DIFFERENT AREAS AROUND CAMPUS 4HEY ARE HIGHLY VISIBLE AND ARE ADDITIONAL TO THE SECURITY PRESENCE ALREADY EMPLOYED BY THE 5NIVERSITY v
"EN -EAKER 4HIS MESSAGE WILL SELF DESTRUCT IF NOT READ CAREFULLY SO BEWARE 7HEN A HANGOVER STRIKES YOU LIKE AN UNWANTED #HRISTMAS PRESENT IN THE MORNING OF 7EDNESDAY TH .OVEMBER INSTEAD OF DRINKING lVE GALLONS OF UNFERTILISED ORANGE JUICE WHY NOT HEAD DOWN TO THE ,#2 FROM O CLOCK ONWARDS TO THE %NVIRONMENTAL &AIR &OR MATTERS OF NATIONAL SECURITY ) CANNOT SHARE WITH YOU ANY MORE INFORMATION BUT REST ASSURED MY YOUNG FAIRTRADE BANANA FRIENDS IF YOU WANT TO UNCOVER THE MYSTERY OF 'AIA AND THE PURPLE PANDA AND ALSO TO PUT TOGETHER THOSE MISS ING PIECES OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT S JIGSAW PUZZLE ) RECOMMEND THAT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ROCK UP AND ROGUE AROUND THE 5NION (OUSE
FOR WHAT WILL BE AN INDESCRIBABLE ADVENTURE 4HE FUN DOESN T STOP THERE /H NO DON T YOU WORRY GRANNY "E TWEEN THE MURKY HOURS OF AND PM IN THE 3QUARE WE WILL BE DAB BLING IN SOME OLD SCHOOL h#ARBON .EUTRALv GAMES THREE LEGGED AND EGG SPOON RACES LOCAL ORGANIC APPLE BOBBING CHASING RABBITSx !T PM YOU CAN ENJOY THE BLISS FUL SOUNDS OF THE 5%! 2OCK 'OSPEL #HOIR AND lNALLY IF THAT HASN T GOT YOU RAGING WITH EXCITEMENT YOU CAN ALWAYS JOIN US IN THE EVENING FOR A RADIOACTIVE DEBATE ON .UCLEAR 0OWER PM IN THE MAIN CONGREGA TION HALL 3O BEFORE WE ALL REGROUP AS ONE UNIlED ENVIRONMENTAL ENTITY PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD OF LOVE AMONGST YOUR FAMILY FRIENDS AND ENEMIES "ECOME A .APOLEON n JOIN THE 'REEN 2EVOLUTION
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7HAT S IN YOUR CUPBOARD !LCOHOL PIZZA CHIPS BURGERS AND A LOT MORE ALCOHOL 3OUND ABOUT RIGHT (OLLY -ARTIN INVESTIGATES THE EATING HABITS OF THE AVERAGE STUDENT AND SUGGESTS WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR DIET STUDENT STYLE
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HAT S INSIDE YOUR CUP BOARD )F IT S MICRO WAVEABLE PREPARABLE IN THREE MINUTES OR LESS CAN BE EATEN STRAIGHT FROM THE CONTAINER AND THROWN AWAY SWIFTLY IT S LIKELY TO BE IN THERE #ORRECT ) THOUGHT SO !LWAYS KNEW ) HAD PSYCHIC POWERS ) SEE OTHER THINGS TOOxMAYBE SOME BAKED BEANS 0ASTA 0IZZA 3LIGHTLY FURRY GREEN BREAD #HOCOLATE HOBNOBS 4HE STAPLE STUDENT DIET HEY 9ES WE ALL KNOW ABOUT HEALTHY EATING FROM THE LIKES OF 'ILLIAN -C+EITH YES THE WEIRDO WHO LOOKS AT PEOPLE S POO IN A 4UP PERWARE BOX WHO SEEMS TO BE CONSTANTLY mASHED ACROSS OUR 46 SCREENS "UT HOW MANY OF US ACTU ALLY PAY ATTENTION OR EVEN GIVE A MONKEYS ABOUT WHETHER OUR DAILY INTAKE CONSISTS OF lVE LOTS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES TWO LITRES OF WATER CELERY JUICE OR RAW EGG AND CARROT SMOOTHIES /R WHETHER WHICH IS MORE LIKELY TO BE THE CASE IT INCLUDES THE REMAINS OF LAST NIGHTS PIZZA WHATEVER FOOD WE CAN STEAL FROM OUR HOUSE MATES CUPBOARD WITHOUT BEING CAUGHT ALWAYS FUN AND GOOD IF YOU RE LIVING ON A BUDGET NOT THAT ) DO IT OF COURSE DOUBLE VODKA RED BULLS AND A TOKEN 2ODNEY BURGER YUM MMMMx2ODNEY BURGERS THE THINGS DREAMS ARE MADE OF #OME ON THERE S GOT TO BE SOME GOODNESS IN THERE SOMEWHERE HASN T THERE .O /+ SO THOUGHT FOR THE DAY IS EATING JUNK FOOD IS BAD 6ERY BAD .OW BELIEVE IT OR NOT STUDENTS HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BEING UN HEALTHY MICROWAVE LOVING LAGER GUZZLING AND TRAFlC CONE STEALING LAZY LOUTS 4HE LATTER THREE ARE IN HERENT IN STUDENTS $.! HOWEVER THE UNHEALTHINESS AND MICROWAVE LOVING IN US ALL CAN CHANGE AND WE CAN ALL LIVE TO BE HAPPY HEALTHY HUMAN BEINGS !FTER ALL ONE DAY WE WILL GROW UP AND GONE WILL BE THE DAYS WHEN WE lND SUCH HILARITY IN STEALING ROAD WORKMAN S TOOLS $EPOSITING MOUNDS OF JUNK FOOD INTO OUR BODIES NOW HOW EVER WILL HAVE NASTY LONG TERM EF FECTS ON OUR HEALTH THAT WILL HAUNT US FOREVER 3O WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT &OR STARTERS EAT A GOOD HEALTHY BREAK FAST 3TUDIES SHOW THAT SKIPPING BREAKFAST DETRACTS FROM SCHOLAS TIC ACHIEVEMENT !ND ) MEAN A BREAKFAST OF FRUIT LOW SUGAR CEREAL EGGS BEANS ON TOAST AND NOT PIZZA
OR BISCUITS OR ANY SUCH RIDICU LOUS FODDER )F YOU MUST EAT FAST FOOD WHICH REALLY WE DO CHOOSE WISELY 7HEN YOU GO TO -C$ON ALD S DRIVE THROUGH THE MORNING AFTER THE ,#2 GO FOR THE FRUIT BAG INSTEAD OF THE FRIES DOES ANYONE EVER DO THAT BY THE WAY #UT OUT OR AT LEAST LESSEN THE DREDGING OF SALAD DRESSING AND MAYONNAISE -OST IMPORTANTLY SNACK SENSIBLY $O NOT SNACK ON FOODS WITH HIGH SUGAR CONTENT AS THESE WILL NOT SAT ISFY YOUR HUNGER FOR AS LONG AS SAY DRIED FRUIT PRETZELS OR RICE CAKES WOULD "ASE MEALS AROUND STARCHY FOODS SUCH AS POTATOES AND PASTA AS THEY WILL lLL YOU UP AND SUPPLY YOU WITH PLENTY OF ENERGY "UT REMEMBER KEEP THE BALANCE RIGHT !DD SOME VEGETABLES TO THE PLATE 4HESE DON T HAVE TO BE FRESH VEG ETABLES FROZEN VEGETABLES OR TINNED ONES IN NATURAL JUICE ARE GOOD ALTERNATIVES AND CHEAPER TOO !ND DON T FORGET THAT YOU NEED YOUR SUPPLY OF PROTEIN FROM LEAN MEAT SUCH AS CHICKEN lSH OR DRAINED MINCEMEAT /ILY lSH IS GOOD FOR THE BRAIN SO IF YOU RE AFTER THAT lRST CLASS DEGREE DO NOT BYPASS THAT lSH COUNTER /K SO NOW ) HEAR YOU SAYING @) DON T HAVE TIME TO COOK MEALS OR @) CAN T BE BOTHERED AND @)T S TOO EXPENSIVE 7ELL EVER THOUGHT ABOUT COOKING AS A HOUSE (AVING A TEAM EFFORT 4AKING IT IN TURNS TO COOK )F YOU ARE ALWAYS EYEING UP YOUR HOUSEMATES COOKING THEN PLEASE READ ON %ATING HEALTHY SQUARE MEALS DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A CHORE )T CAN BE A SOCIAL EVENT JUST LIKE IT USED TO BE IN THE @GOOD OLD DAYS ! HOUSE OF KEEN ENVI RONMENTALISTS ACTUALLY DO TAKE IT IN TURNS TO COOK AND lND THAT IT WORKS OUT A LOT CHEAPER YOU ONLY HAVE TO COOK ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK AND IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH YOU MAY EVEN lND YOUR DINNER ON THE TABLE WHEN YOU GET IN FROM 5NI 3O INSTEAD OF SITTING IN FRONT OF THE 46 WITH BEANS ON TOAST OR MICROWAVE LASAGNE WHY NOT ALL GET ROUND YOUR TABLE IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE ONE THAT IS THAT S AN IDEA FOR THE NEXT ISSUE n WHERE TO BUY A CHEAP TABLE FROM AND CHAT POLITICS AND IMPORTANT WORLD ISSUES OR WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO WEAR TO THE NEXT FANCY DRESS ,#2 )F YOU INVOLVE A FEW THAT S ONE OR TWO OK GUYS GLASSES OF WINE IT CAN BE VERY FUN INDEED !ND IT ACTS AS A GOOD LINING TO THE OLD STOM ACH BEFORE THE MASSES OF ALCOHOL WHICH YOU WON T BE DRINKING SO MUCH OF AFTER READING THIS ARTICLE
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HIT YOUR STOMACH 4HERE ARE PLENTY OF STUDENT COOKBOOKS OUT THERE AS WELL AS NUMEROUS )NTERNET SITES DEDICATED TO EASY STUDENT RECIPES 3O THERE IS NO EXCUSE /+ 4HINK OF IT AS PREPARATION FOR LIFE AFTER 5NI 9ES THERE IS SUCH A THING ) M AFRAID )T IS NOT JUST FOOD THAT WE NEED TO TAKE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF BUT ALSO ALCOHOL AS WE ALL VERY WELL KNOW 7E ALL HAVE IT IN OUR CUPBOARDS BUT IT S BAD ) TELL THEE "AD BAD BAD $O YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES TO YOUR BODY )T MAKES IT DO THE WALK OF SHAME DOWN 4HE !VENUES )T MAKES YOU ASK YOUR FRIEND @$ID ) GO OUT LAST NIGHT AND @$ID ) SEE YOU AND EXCLAIM SUCH WORDS AS @$AMN /K PROB ABLY WITH A FEW MORE EXPLETIVES INVOLVED WHEN YOU SUDDENLY HAVE A mASHBACK OF STRUTTING YOUR STUFF ON THE ,#2 DANCE mOOR TO @)S IT @CAUSE ) M COOL THINKING @9ES ) AMxAND THAT GIRL WANTS ME WHEN REALLY YOU LOOK LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN WOBBLY OLD FOOL AND THE GIRL IS ONLY LOOKING AT YOU FOR COMEDY VALUE 4HE LONG TERM EFFECTS ARE SCARIER THAN HAVING .IKKI FROM "IG "ROTHER AS YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR $RINKING EXCESSIVELY MAY RESULT IN PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE SERIOUS MENTAL DISORDERS AND ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL #HRONIC HEAVY DRINKING MAY CAUSE ALCO HOLIC HEPATITIS INmAMMATION AND
DESTRUCTION OF LIVER CELLS AND THEN CIRRHOSIS IRREVERSIBLE LESIONS SCAR RING AND DESTRUCTION OF LIVER CELLS !LSO GUYS ALCOHOL CAN ALSO HAVE SERIOUS EFFECTS ON THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 3EXUAL FUNCTIONING CAN BE IMPAIRED AND DETERIORATE RESULT ING IN IMPOTENCE AND INFERTILITY SOMETIMES IRREVERSIBLE &EMALES ALSO HAVE A HIGH RISK OF DEVELOPING BREAST CANCER $OESN T SOUND VERY ATTRACTIVE REALLY DOES IT ) KNOW WE ALL THINK THAT IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO US BUT WE MUST TAKE PRECAU TIONS NOW TO MAKE SURE THAT IT DOESN T .OW ) KNOW IT JUST IS NOT PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE TO GO TO THE ,#2 SOBER BUT WE CAN ALL DO WITH CUTTING OUT A FEW OF THOSE VODKA SHOTS NOW CAN T WE $ID YOU KNOW THAT IT TAKES THE LIVER ONE HOUR TO BREAK DOWN EACH UNIT OF ALCOHOL YOU DRINK $ID YOU KNOW THAT BINGE DRINKING IS CLASSED AS DRINKING MORE THAN lVE UNITS AS A TIME !ND THE AVERAGE STUDENT SPENDS JUST OVER a PER YEAR ON ALCOHOL 7HY NOT SAVE SOME MONEY YOUR LIVER AS WELL AS SOME DIGNITY AND TRY TO CUT DOWN EVER SO SLIGHTLY 9OU NEVER KNOW YOU MAY EVEN MAKE IT TO THAT AM LECTURE ON A 7EDNESDAY 3EE BENElTS ALL ROUND 3O GO AND CHECK OUT YOUR CUPBOARDS GUYS BIN THE JUNK FOOD BYPASS -C$ONALDS AND STAY CLASSY 5%!
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S MANY AT 5%! WILL KNOW NOT LEAST THE UNI VERSITY S MANY CREATIVE WRITERS .ORWICH S INTER NATIONAL REPUTA TION IN CREATIVE WRITING HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED SINCE THE S WHEN -ALCOLM "RADBURY AND !NGUS 7ILSON STARTED THE -! IN #REATIVE 7RITING AT THE 5%! )T IS CLAIMED THAT LITERARY ACTIVITY IS WIDESPREAD ACROSS .ORWICH AND THE REGION AND IT IS EVEN SAID BY MANY ALTHOUGH IT IS RARELY SUPPORTED WITH ANY CONCRETE EVIDENCE THAT .ORFOLK BOASTS THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF WRITERS OUTSIDE OF ,ONDON (OWEVER WITH REDUCING CONTACT TIME WITH SOME STUDENTS ONLY RECEIVING TWO OR THREE HOURS OF TUITION A WEEK AND INCREAS ING TUITION FEES WITH LITTLE EXTRA IN TERMS OF SERVICE TO SHOW FOR IT WHAT IS THERE HERE IN .ORWICH FOR THE YOUNG AMBITIOUS ASPIRING WRITER TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF 7HAT IS THERE OUTSIDE OF 5%! S WELL REGARDED CREATIVE WRITING -! THAT JUSTIlES THIS CLAIM OF AN AREA RICH IN LITERARY ACTIVITY AND INTER EST !ND AFTER THE COURSE WHAT IS THERE TO STAY HERE FOR )S IT WORTH THE MONEY /NE ORGANIZATION THAT IS STRIVING TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP .ORWICH IN PARTICULAR AS A SUP PORTIVE AND INTERESTING ENVIRON MENT IN WHICH NEW WRITERS CAN LIVE AND mOURISH IS 4HE .EW 7RITING 0ARTNERSHIP )T IS A UNIQUE COLLABO RATION BETWEEN THE !RTS #OUNCIL %NGLAND %AST 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF %AST !NGLIA .ORWICH #ITY #OUNCIL AND .ORFOLK #OUNTY #OUNCIL )T AIMS TO HIGHLIGHT DEVELOP AND SUPPORT CREATIVE WRITING FROM THE %AST OF %NGLAND FOSTERING NEW RELATIONSHIPS AND ESTABLISHING THE REGION AS AN INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE (EADY INTENTIONS BUT WHAT DOES THIS ACTUALLY TRANSLATE TO ON THE GROUND 4HE ORGANISATION BEGAN WORK IN AND HAS A WIDE PRO GRAMME OF EVENTS )N THE SUMMER MONTHS UNFORTUNATELY WHEN MANY STUDENTS HAVE RETURNED HOME .EW 7RITING 7ORLDS IS HELD AT 5%! AND AT VENUES IN THE CITY )T SEEKS TO BRING WRITERS TOGETHER FROM ACROSS THE WORLD TO CELEBRATE THE CREATIVE ACT OF WRITING AND TO DEBATE THE NATURE AND WORTH OF OR REASON FOR OR FUNCTION OF LITERATURE IN TODAY S WORLD !T THE HEART OF THE EVENT IS A 3YMPOSIUM HELD AT 5%! )N AT THE lRST EVENT THE NOTION OF @LITERARY VALUE WAS DISCUSSED IN THE SUMMER OF THE IDEA OF @EXPERIMENT WAS EXPLORED NEXT YEAR THE SUMMER OF SEES
4HE KEY IS GETTING IN VOLVED GET TING OUT THERE AND KEEPING THE FAITH
THE CONCEPT OF @EXILE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 0ERHAPS OF MORE IMMEDIATE INTEREST TO THE 5%! STUDENT HOW EVER 4HE .EW 7RITING 0ARTNERSHIP ALSO RUNS AN ANNUAL NATIONALLY PROlLED WRITING COMPETITION CALLED .EW 7RITING 6ENTURES IN COLLABO RATION WITH !RTS #OUNCIL %NGLAND AND "OOKTRUST THE PEOPLE WHO HELP RUN THE "OOKER 0RIZE 4HE AWARDS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP LAUNCH AND DEVELOP NEW WRITERS AND ARE MADE IN THREE CATEGORIES lCTION POETRY AND LITERARY NON lC TION 4HE WINNERS IN EACH CATEGORY RECEIVE A GENEROUS a WITH TWO RUNNERS UP IN EACH CATEGORY RECEIVING a )MPORTANTLY HOWEVER THOSE WHO DO WELL IN THE AWARDS ARE OFFERED A PLACE ON THE YEAR LONG 6ENTURES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME PROVIDING HELP IN INDIVIDUAL MENTORING WORKSHOPS AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION n A MORE CONSIDERED AND WORTHWHILE COMMITMENT THAN IS OFFERED BY MORE HEADLINE TARGETED NEW WRIT ING AWARDS N A SIMILAR VEIN 4HE .EW 7RIT ING 0ARTNERSHIP ALSO OFFERS HELP IN THE FORM OF COORDINATING THE LITERATURE STRAND OF !RTS #OUNCIL %NGLAND %AST S %SCALATOR SCHEME %ACH YEAR TEN TALENTED WRITERS IN THE REGION ARE SELECTED FOR SUPPORT OVER A PERIOD OF n MONTHS THROUGH THE 'RANTS FOR THE !RTS SCHEME THE SCHEME HELPS WITH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE
FORM OF MENTORING AND ALSO IN AS SISTING IN THE COMPLETION OF GRANTS APPLICATIONS HELPING WRITERS lND THE TIME AND MONEY TO MAKE SPACE IN WHICH TO WRITE n IN THIS WAY HELPING WITH THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FACING WRITERS THESE DAYS 7HILE IT IS TRUE THAT A FEW GOOD WRITERS MANAGE TO PULL OF MASTERPIECES OF LITERARY VIRTUOSITY WHILE FEEDING THEMSELVES WITH A SHELF STACKING JOB AT 4ESCO AND FURNITURE REMOVAL AT THE WEEKENDS THE ODD !RTS #OUNCIL AWARD HERE OR THERE CAN T HURT 5NLESS OBSESSED WITH A NEED TO PROVE ONESELF AGAINST ALL ODDS YOUNG WRITERS WISHING TO PURSUE A WRITING CAREER WOULD DO WELL TO lND OUT MORE 2IGHT NOW AND COMING SOON HOWEVER 4HE .EW 7RITING 0ARTNER SHIP IS WORKING ON .EW 7RITING 4YPES .EW 7RITING 4YPES IS AN ANNUAL GATHERING FOR EMERGING WRITERS )T WAS THE INAUGURAL EVENT BACK IN AND IT IS DESIGNED TO HELP PROVIDE EMERGENT WRITERS WITH A VALUABLE INSIGHT INTO THE PUBLISHING AND WRITING WORLDS AND VALUABLE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING THEIR CRAFT 4HE EVENT IS SPLIT INTO FOUR MAIN STRANDS &IRST OF ALL .EW 7RITING ,AB THIS COMPRISES lVE DAYS OF INTEN SIVE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS HRS IN TOTAL LED BY A TEAM OF 7RITERS IN 2ESIDENCE 4HIS YEAR OFFERS #ATHERINE *OHNSON TEACH ING CHILDREN S lCTION 2ON "UTLIN TEACHING SHORT STORIES 3TEPHEN
&OSTER HELPING WITH CREATIVE NON lCTION 3USAN %LDERKIN AND !RDA SHIR 6AKIL TEACHING PROSE lCTION WITH (ENRY 3HUKMAN TEACHING POETRY 3ECONDLY .EW 7RITING &ORUM IS FOUR DAYS OF PANEL DISCUSSIONS THAT ADDRESS DIFFERENT CONCERNS OF THE WRITING LIFE 4HIS YEAR S TOPICS ARE 3CREENBURN WRITERS AND THE INTERNET 4HRIVING AND 3URVIVING n TIPS FROM THE FRONTLINE FROM IN DUSTRY EXPERTS 4HE ""# AND .EW 7RITING 4ALENT n INTRODUCING OP PORTUNITIES TO WRITE FOR THE SCREEN AND AIRWAVES AND #HILDREN S 7RIT ING 'ROWS 5P n INVESTIGATING WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CHILDREN S lCTION MARKET POST 0HILIP 0ULLMAN AND * + 2OWLING !LSO ALONG WITH THE #ORE ,AB WORKSHOP THERE IS .EW 7RITING %XTRA WHICH IS A SERIES OF EXTRA HR ONE OFF SKILLS WORKSHOPS IN 0ERFORMANCE HELPING TO IMPROVE PUBLIC DELIVERY SKILLS 7RITING FOR 2ADIO 7RITING FOR -AGAZINES 7RITING "OOK 2EVIEWS 0ROOFREAD ING AND &UNDING FOR 7RITERS &INALLY .EW 7RITING ,IVE HAS AN INTERESTING ARRAY OF LIVE EVENTS INCLUDING !N %VENING WITH THE 0OET ,AUREATE !NDREW -OTION IN WHICH HE LL BE READING FROM HIS NEW MEMOIR ABOUT GROWING UP IN POST WAR %NGLAND )N 4HE "LOOD ! -EMOIR OF -Y #HILDHOOD !LSO UP AND COMING PERFORMANCE POETRY STAR ,UKE 7RIGHT JOINED BY 0OLAR "EAR AND +IMBERLY 4RUSTY AND -ARGARET $RABBLE READS AT 5%! 3O .EW 7RITING 4YPES OFFERS WRITERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET PROFESSIONAL WRITERS EDITORS CRIT ICS AND PUBLISHERS IN A SERIES OF DEBATES WORKSHOPS AND EVENING EVENTS )T IS A UNIQUE EVENT DE SIGNED TO INFORM AND INSPIRE NEW AND EMERGING WRITERS AND TO HELP FURNISH THEM WITH THE INFORMA TION THEY WILL NEED TO SUCCEED IN A WRITING CAREER 4O lND OUT MORE THE WEBSITE IS WORTH A VISIT WWW NEWWRITINGPARTNERSHIP ORG UK OR EMAIL INFO NEWWRITINGPARTNERSH IP ORG UK 4HEY ARE CURRENTLY OFFER ING A GENEROUS OFF FOR ALL 5%! STUDENTS IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR LINKS TO THE UNIVERSITY AND TO HELP BROADEN AND EXPAND THE EDUCA TIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR 5%! S CREATIVE WRITING STUDENTS 3O IS SEEMS THERE IS PLENTY TO BE FOUND ON OFFER IN .ORWICH AS THIS BRIEF INVESTIGATION DEMONSTRATES 4HE KEY IS GETTING INVOLVED GETTING OUT THERE AND KEEPING THE FAITH n THE WRITING AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRIES ARE FURIOUSLY COMPETITIVE BUT THERE ARE PLACES WHERE SUPPORT CAN BE FOUND FOR THOSE WITH A LITTLE PERSEVERANCE
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%ATING 2IGHT 4HE FOOD WE EAT IN OUR TWENTIES COULD HAVE AN IMPORTANT IMPACT ON OUR HEALTH IN LATER LIFE !SHLEY $AVIDSON LOOKS AT DIFFERENT TYPES OF FOOD DIET MYTHS AND THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF CONTROLLING WHAT AND HOW WE EAT
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E VE ALL DONE IT LATE FOR A LECTURE NO TIME TO EAT SO WE GRAB A COOKIE AND A SOFT DRINK FROM 5&/ AND CALL IT DIN NER 0IZZA BEER AND SNACK FOOD IS WHAT UNIVERSITY LIFE IS ALL ABOUT BUT YOUR BODY S METABOLISM STARTS TO SLOW DOWN IN YOUR THIRTIES !LL THAT FATTY HIGH CALORIE FOOD YOU ATE IN COLLEGE IS BOUND TO CATCH UP WITH YOU SO LEARNING TO MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES IN YOUR TWENTIES MAY HELP YOU NOT ONLY MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT BUT ALSO PREVENT HEALTH RELATED PROBLEMS LATER 4WO MILLION PEOPLE IN THE 5+ HAVE 4YPE )) DIABETES WHILE AS MANY AS ANOTHER MORE HAVE IT AND DON T KNOW IT 4YPE )) USUALLY OCCURS IN PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF BUT OFTEN APPEARS IN 3OUTH !SIAN AND !FRICAN #ARIB BEAN PEOPLE AFTER THE AGE OF %VEN CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS SEVEN CAN DEVELOP 4YPE )) DIABETES !L THOUGH NOT ALL PEOPLE WITH 4YPE )) ARE OVERWEIGHT ARE (OWEVER A HEALTHY DIET AND EXERCISE CAN HELP PREVENT AND TREAT DIABETES 4HE MOST COMMON CANCER IN THE 5+ IS BREAST CANCER )N PEOPLE WERE DIAG NOSED WITH OF THEM BEING MEN !LTHOUGH OF CASES ARE DIAGNOSED IN WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF THOUSANDS ARE DIAGNOSED EACH YEAR UNDER THE AGE OF ! HEALTHY DIET OF FRUIT VEGETABLES AND WHOLE GRAINS COUPLED WITH EXERCISE TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT CAN HELP LOWER YOUR RISK 4HE QUESTION IS WHAT EXACTLY IS A HEALTHY DIET 7HAT IS A HEALTHY WEIGHT (OW DO YOU MAINTAIN THAT HEALTHY WEIGHT ! LITTLE RESEARCH AND SOME MOTIVA TION CAN GO A LONG WAY AND HOPE FULLY THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS ARTICLE WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD START ON YOUR WAY TO LIVING A HEALTHY LIFE #HEESE 9OU CAN EAT CHEESE ON A DIET !C CORDING TO 9ALE .EW (AVEN (OS PITAL IN #ONNECTICUT MOST ADULTS AGED NEED MG OF CALCIUM A DAY AND A SIMPLE ONE OUNCE SERVING OF CHEESE PROVIDES MG 4HE MILK IN CHEESE
hLEARNING TO MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES IN YOUR TWEN TIES MAY HELP YOU NOT ONLY MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT BUT ALSO PREVENT HEALTH RELAT ED PROBLEMS LATER v
IS A GOOD SOURCE OF PROTEIN AND VITAMIN " COMMONLY KNOWN AS RIBOmAVIN !IDING IN THE PRODUCTION OF RED BLOOD CELLS AND ANTIBODIES VITAMIN " ALSO SUPPORTS RESPIRATION AND GROWTH #HEESE IS HIGH IN SODIUM CHOLESTEROL AND SATURATED FAT SO KEEP PORTIONS SMALL AND CHOOSE FAT FREE OR LOW FAT VERSIONS FOR USE IN COOKED DISHES SUCH AS OMELETTES AND CASSEROLES
ALL THE DIFFERENCE JUST BY ADDING TEASPOON INTO YOUR MORNING YOGURT OR OATMEAL ! STUDY BY THE 53 $E PARTMENT OF !GRICULTURE SHOWED THAT CINNAMON CAN LOWER BLOOD SUGAR IN LEAN OR OVERWEIGHT PEOPLE AS WELL AS IN THOSE WITH PRE DIABETES BY AS MUCH AS &OR CALORIE COUNTERS THE SPICE CAN SATISFY A SWEET TOOTH S CRAVING WITHOUT THE ADDED CALORIES
REFUEL TIRED MUSCLES WITHOUT ALL THE ADDED CALORIES OF SPORTS DRINKS #ALLED THE @SPORTS DRINK PLUS MILK IS ALSO AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF CALCIUM SOMETHING THAT MOST PEOPLE DON T GET ENOUGH OF TO KEEP BONES HEALTHY AND STRONG &OR THOSE WATCHING THEIR FAT INTAKE SKIMMED AND SEMI SKIMMED MILK CONTAIN THE SAME AMOUNT OF PROTEIN CALCIUM AND VITAMINS AS THE FULL FAT VERSIONS
6ITAMIN $ 0LAYING AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN STRONG BONES VITAMIN $ ALSO REDUCES YOUR RISK OF 4YPE )) DIABETES )T IS TRIG GERED BY EXPOSURE TO THE SUN S 56 RAYS (OWEVER THE .ATIONAL )NSTITUTE OF (EALTH SAYS MINUTES OF SUN EXPOSURE TWICE A WEEK WILL PROVIDE A SUFlCIENT AMOUNT OF VITAMIN $ AND YOU SHOULD BE CAREFUL AS TO HOW MUCH SUN EXPOSURE YOU GET WITHOUT SUN CREAM 4HE AMOUNT OF 56 RAYS WILL VARY DEPENDING ON THE SEASON AND WEATHER THE CLOUDY DAYS OF 7INTER MEAN SIGNIlCANTLY LESS 56 RAYS SO YOUR DIET SHOULD BE FORTIlED WITH VITAMIN $ RICH FOODS SUCH AS ORANGE JUICE MILK AND SOME CEREALS
"READ (ERE S A QUICK AND EASY HINT TO AVOID STANDING IN THE BREAD AISLE FOR LONGER THAN YOU HAVE TO WHOLE WHEAT mOUR $ON T BE FOOLED BY LABELS THAT SAY @WHEAT BREAD 5NLESS IT S WHOLE WHEAT IT STILL CONTAINS THE SAME ENRICHED WHITE mOUR CONTAINED IN WHITE BREADS 7HOLE WHEAT BREAD CONTAINS MORE lBRE HELPING DIGES TION AND REDUCING THE RISK OF HEART ATTACK AND STROKE
4EA +NOWN TO AID DIGESTION IMPROVE DIET AND INCREASE MENTAL ALERTNESS TEA REVIVES AND RELAXES 0OLYPHENOLS CAUSE AN INCREASE IN WHITE BLOOD CELLS HELPING YOUR BODY TO lGHT OFF INFECTIONS 7ITH ONLY HALF THE CAFFEINE OF COFFEE AND JUST A FEW CALORIES TEA WITH SEMI SKIMMED MILK PROVIDES OF YOUR DAILY CALCIUM REQUIREMENT IN ONLY FOUR CUPS 4EA IS ALSO A NATURAL SOURCE OF THE ANTIOXIDANT mAVANOID ALSO FOUND IN DARK CHOCOLATE AND mUORIDE HELPING TO PROTECT AGAINST GUM DISEASE AND TOOTH DECAY &OR DETAILS ON THESE FACTS AND MORE VISIT 4EA (EALTH WWW TEA CO UK
4HE 4RUTH !BOUT %GGS %GGS CONTAIN CHOLESTEROL HIGH LEVELS OF WHICH CAN LEAD TO HEART DISEASE (OWEVER EGGS HAVE LESS EFFECT ON HIGH CHOLESTEROL THAN SATURATED FAT )F EATEN AS PART OF A WELL BALANCED DIET THEY ARE NOT A PROBLEM 9OU ONLY NEED TO CUT BACK ON EGGS IF TOLD TO DO SO BY YOUR DOCTOR -EAT 7HEN SHOPPING FOR MEAT GO LEAN 4HE LEANEST OPTIONS ARE ALWAYS A BET TER CHOICE SINCE THE FATTIER MEATS CAN CONTAIN MORE THAN TWICE THE AMOUNT OF FAT 4URKEY AND SKINLESS CHICKEN ARE LOWER IN FAT BUT TRY TO AVOID FRIED CHICKEN -EAT PRODUCTS IN PASTRIES SUCH AS PIES AND SAUSAGE ROLLS ARE USUALLY HIGH IN FAT AS WELL .UTS 7ALNUTS ALMONDS AND OTHER NUTS ARE HIGH IN lBRE WHICH IS GOOD NEWS FOR VEGETARIANS 4HEY ARE ALSO A GOOD SOURCE OF MONOUNSATURATED FAT WHICH CAN HELP LOWER CHOLESTEROL "UT BEWARE NUTS ARE HIGH IN FAT AND SOME ARE VERY SALTY SO WATCH YOUR INTAKE #INNAMON 4HAT LITTLE SPICE HIDING AT THE BACK OF YOUR CUPBOARD CAN REALLY MAKE
&ISH 2EMEMBER THE SEQUENCE &OR YOUR HEALTH YOU SHOULD EAT OMEGA FATTY ACIDS TWICE A WEEK AND YOU LL BE ONE HAPPY AND HEALTHY HUMAN 3ALMON IS HIGH IN PROTEIN LOW IN CALORIES AND RICH IN OMEGA S MAKING IT A TOP RECOMMENDA TION BY THE !MERICAN (EART !SSOCIATION FOR TIP TOP TICKER HEALTH %AT ,ESS 3ALT !CCORDING TO WWW EATWELL GOV UK PEOPLE ARE EATING APPROXIMATELY MORE SALT THAN THEY SHOULD BE EACH DAY WHICH CAN LEAD TO HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MAKING YOU THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO HAVE A STROKE OR DEVELOP HEART DISEASE 4O BE SAFE DON T ADD EXTRA SALT TO YOUR MEALS BECAUSE IT COULD ALREADY CONTAIN A HIGH AMOUNT OF SALT AS IN KETCHUP BROWN SAUCE BACON AND CRISPS #HECK FOOD LABELS 9OU SHOULD ONLY BE HAVING G A DAY -ILK VS 3PORTS $RINKS .EW RESEARCH IS SHOWING THAT ATH LETES WHO DRINK LOW FAT CHOCOLATE MILK BETWEEN WORKOUTS PERFORM JUST AS WELL AS THOSE WHO DRINK SPORTS DRINKS 4HE lNDINGS SHOW THAT CHOC OLATE MILK HAS JUST THE RIGHT BALANCE OF CARBOHYDRATES AND PROTEIN TO HELP
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!S A CITY ENCOMPASSING SQUARE MILES 3AN &RANCISCO S COMPACT NESS MAKES EXPLORING EASY 4HE LOCAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM PROVIDES TRAINS BUSES AND TRAMS ALL OVER THE CITY FOR AS LITTLE AS A RIDE AND IS THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL 4AKING LOCAL TRANSPORT WILL EN ABLE YOU TO DISCOVER NEIGHBOURHOODS NOT FOUND IN THE GUIDEBOOKS AND GIVE YOU AN INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE OF A 3AN &RANCISCAN )N ORDER TO EXPERIENCE THE REAL 3AN &RANCISCO YOU NEED TO SPEND A WEEK OR MORE IN THE CITY AND VEN TURE BEYOND THE TOURIST TRAPS )N FACT SOME OF THE CITY S LEAST ENJOYABLE AREAS ARE RECOMMENDED AS TOURIST HOT SPOTS -ANY GUIDES FOR EXAMPLE RATE &ISHER
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FAMILIES &OOD WAS KINDLY COOKED EACH DAY FOR THE FASTING -USLIMS BY GENEROUS CONTRIBUTORS TO THE 5%! -OSQUE 4HE FASTING DURING THE HOLY MONTH OF 2AMADAN IS INTENDED TO HELP TEACH -USLIMS SELF DISCIPLINE SELF RESTRAINT AND GENEROSITY )T ALSO REMINDS THEM OF THE SUFFERING OF THE POOR WHO MAY RARELY GET TO EAT WELL
h3URFEIT IS THE FATHER OF MUCH FAST v )N BEING A @-USLIM FOR THE DAY MY lRST QUEST WAS TO WEAR A (AJIB AND GAUGE ANY CHANGES IN PEOPLE S REACTIONS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS ME ) FOUND THAT PEOPLE TENDED TO LOOK MORE PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED BY THE MEDIA TO BELIEVE IT IS A SIGN OF SUB MISSION RATHER THAN LIBERATION OR MAYBE IT IS JUST SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT USED TO SEEING *OINING 5%! S -USLIMS IN FASTING WAS A TOUGH BUT REWARDING EXPERIENCE AND TO DO IT FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH IS A REAL TEST OF ENDURANCE MONTHS FOR US ONE MONTH FOR 'OD !S WELL AS FASTING ) ALSO JOINED IN WITH BREAKING THE FAST AND PRAYING WITH THEM AT THE -OSQUE BASED NEXT TO THE MAIN 5NIVERSITY CAR PARK 7HEN ) lRST ENTERED THE -OSQUE ) SENSED AN IMMEDIATE FEELING OF WARMTH FRIENDLINESS
AND CAMARADERIE AMONGST THE PEOPLE AND WAS KINDLY GREETED BY A 3ISTER WHO INFORMED ME THAT ) SHOULD WEAR A (AJIB A SCARF TO COVER THE HEAD AND TAKE OFF MY SHOES WHILST INSIDE THE -OSQUE AS A WAY OF PORTRAYING MODESTY AND RESPECT TO !LLAH "EFORE BREAKING THE FAST WE ALL SAT TOGETHER IN A CIRCLE AND SAID BISMILLAAH @IN THE NAME OF 'OD BEFORE BREAKING THE FAST WITH SOME FRESH DATES WHICH WERE DELICIOUS AND SWEET AFTER FASTING FOR THE WHOLE DAY )SLAMIC LAW PLACES EMPHASIS ON CLEANLINESS WHICH REQUIRES -USLIMS TO CLEANSE THEMSELVES IN AN ABLUTION PROCESS BEFORE PRAYER )T ALSO REQUIRES MEN AND WOMEN TO BE SEPARATED IN THE PRAYER HALL IDEALLY THE WOMEN MUST OCCUPY THE ROWS BEHIND THE MEN PRESUMABLY SO THAT THEIR BOTTOMS DON T GET STARED AT THE WHOLE TIME !FTER THE CLEANSING PROCESS THE IMAM BEGAN THE CALL TO PRAYER AND ) FOLLOWED EVERYONE S LEAD AS ) TRIED TO LEARN THE ROUTINE )T FELT A LITTLE ROBOTIC BUT ALSO VERY PEACEFUL -USLIMS IN .ORWICH CEL EBRATED %ID AT THE #ONGREGATION (ALL ON 3UNDAY TH /CTOBER TO MARK THE END OF 2AMADAN WHERE AROUND PEOPLE ATTENDED THE EVENT TO ENJOY THE PROGRAMME GAMES AND THE SPECIAL FOOD PRE PARED
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E VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE ALCOHOL IS BAD YOU RE KILLING YOUR BODY YOU LL END UP LIKE YOUR UNCLE 2ICK BUT LIKE ANY SELF RESPECTABLE STUDENT WE SHRUG OUR SHOULDERS AND IGNORE THE WARNINGS (OWEVER WITH FRUIT SMOOTHIES BECOMING THE NEW @IT DRINK AND THE GOVERNMENT MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON BINGE DRINKING BY ALLOWING HOUR DRINKING ) LL LEAVE THAT ONE TO THE OPIN IONS PAGE MAYBE IT IS TIME TO LISTEN 7HEN YOU ACTUALLY STOP AND
(OWEVER JUST ONE HEAVY NIGHT OUT CAN IRRITATE YOUR STOMACH AND CAUSE SICKNESS AND PAIN REPEATED DRINKING WILL WORSEN SYMPTOMS .OT EVERYONE WILL SUFFER STOMACH PROBLEMS IT DIFFERS FROM PERSON TO PERSON BUT NO ONE IS UNIQUE ENOUGH TO AVOID DAMAGING THEIR LIVER ON A REGULAR BASIS 4HE LIVER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GETTING RID OF THE ALCOHOL IN OUR SYSTEM IT BREAKS IT DOWN INTO WATER FATS OR CARBON DIOXIDE 4HE FATS ARE DEPOSITED LOCALLY WHICH LEADS TO THE TRADEMARK @BEER BELLY -ORE WORRYINGLY CHRONIC DRINKING CAN BLOCK UP THE CAPILLARIES AROUND THE LIVER
4HE LACK OF JUDGEMENT ALSO EXTENDS TO THE EYES AND THOSE TROUBLESOME BEER GOGGLES REPLACE OUR NOW NORMALLY VERY SELECTIVE VISION LOOK AT WHAT A DRUNKEN NIGHT OUT WITH YOUR MATES DOES TO THE BODY IT IS QUITE SCARY 7E LL START SLOW 4HAT WONDERFUL THING WE CALL ALCOHOL IS ALSO KNOWN AS ETHANOL AND ETHANOL IS A DIURET IC 4HAT BASICALLY MEANS THAT IT CAUSES THE BODY TO CREATE MORE URINE THAN USUAL %VER WON DERED WHY AFTER THREE PINTS YOU SEEM TO NEED THE TOILET EVERY TWENTY MINUTES 4HIS IS THE REA SON /VER CONSUMPTION OF AL COHOL MAKES YOU PRODUCE MORE URINE AND SUBSEQUENTLY YOUR BODY BECOMES DEHYDRATED 4HE DIURETIC EFFECT OF ALCOHOL MAKES THE BODY LOSE MORE WATER THAN THE BEVERAGE CONTAINS AND THIS IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF THAT BANG ING HEAD ACHE THE MORNING AF TER 9OUR MUM S ADVICE ABOUT DRINKING A PINT OF WATER BEFORE YOU GO TO BED ACTUALLY MAKES A LOT OF SENSE AND IF YOU HAVE DABBLED WITH THE ANTI HANGO VER PILLS AVAILABLE AT YOUR LOCAL CHEMIST THEN THIS IS WHAT THEY ATTEMPT TO COUNTER THEY RE DUCE YOUR DEHYDRATION AS YOU GO THROUGH THE NIGHT !NOTHER WAY TO COUNTER THIS IS TO DRINK A GLASS OF WATER WITH EVERY DRINK OBVIOUSLY AT lRST YOU WOULD HAVE TO ENDURE VARIOUS INSULTS FROM FRIENDS AND THE HOCKEY TEAM 5NFORTUNATELY THE PROB LEMS DON T STOP WITH JUST A SIMPLE LACK OF WATER )F WE START FROM WHEN YOU lRST POUR THAT GOLDEN NECTAR DOWN YOUR NECK WE COME TO THE lRST VICTIM OF OUR EXCESS 4HE ALCOHOL ENTERS INTO THE STOMACH AND IS AB SORBED INTO THE BLOODSTREAM
AND CAN LEAD TO LIVER DISEASE CIRRHOSIS 4HIS IS THE DOOMSDAY SCENARIO FOR SERIOUS DRINKERS HOWEVER REPEATED EXCESS DRINK ING CAN AFFECT THE LIVER AS TOXINS BUILD UP LEADING TO THE SYMP TOMS OF JAUNDICE !LTHOUGH MOST OF US WOULD NOT CONSIDER OURSELVES @CHRONIC DRINKERS THERE IS AN ARGUMENT THAT SUG GESTS WE CONSUME MORE ALCO HOL THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS AND CONSEQUENTLY THERE ARE REAL CONCERNS REGARDING THE EFFECT THAT BINGE DRINKING CULTURE WILL HAVE ON OUR GENERATION IN LATER YEARS %VEN THE MOST EFlCIENT LIVER CANNOT BREAK DOWN ALCOHOL IM MEDIATELY IF THE BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL IS HIGHER THAN THE LIVER S THRESHOLD ALCOHOL WILL REMAIN IN THE BLOODSTREAM FOR LONGER 4HIS IN TURN MEANS MORE AL COHOL WILL REACH THE BRAIN AND AFFECT THE BRAIN CELLS 4HIS IS THE AREA WHERE WE REALLY FEEL THE FULL FORCE OF THOSE SNAKEBITES AND SAMBUCAS )NITIALLY THE ALCOHOL CAN CAUSE MILD EUPHORIA AS THE RELEASE OF DOPAMINES AND EN DORPHINS PRODUCE A FEELING OF WARM CONTENTMENT )T ALSO LOW ERS THOSE NERVOUS INHIBITIONS THAT LEAD TO YOU SUDDENLY TALK ING TO THAT GIRL BOY THAT YOU SIT NEXT TO IN LECTURE 9OU MAY BE COME LOUDER MORE CHATTY AND THE BLOOD VESSELS WIDEN TO PRO DUCE THAT ROSY RED mUSH ON YOUR CHEEKS .OW HEED THIS ADVICE IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO LOOK THAT OBJECT OF DESIRE IN THE FACE AT THE NEXT CLASS EITHER SLOW DOWN THE DRINKING OR WALK AWAY !S THE ALCOHOL LEVEL IN THE BLOOD IN CREASES THE FEELING OF EUPHORIA
DROPS OFF AND IS REPLACED WITH A SHORTER ATTENTION SPAN AND POOR MEMORY 9OU WILL PROBABLY SIT THERE LOOKING VACANT WHILE THE LECTURE GIRL BOY REELS OFF A FAM ILY HISTORY AND IT IS UNLIKELY THAT YOU WILL ABSORB MUCH OF WHAT THEY ARE SAYING 3IMILARLY THE ALCOHOL ALSO BEGINS TO EFFECT OUR JUDGEMENT THIS IS THE SOURCE OF ALL THOSE BRUISES AND GRAZES FROM TRIPS AND FALLS THAT YOU ONLY SEEM TO FEEL THE NEXT MORNING 4HE LACK OF JUDGEMENT ALSO EXTENDS TO THE EYES AND THOSE TROUBLESOME BEER GOGGLES REPLACE OUR NOW NORMALLY VERY SELECTIVE VISION 4HE LOWERED AMBITIONS MILD EUPHORIA AND SHORTER ATTENTION SPAN MAKES IT IS MUCH LIKELY YOU WILL IGNORE YOUR MATE S WARNINGS AND LAUGHTER AND LEAVE WITH SOMEONE WHO WILL QUITE POSSIBLY LOOK LIKE A DINO SAUR IN THE MORNING )F YOU ARE REALLY ON A MIS SION YOU MAY DRINK TO THE POINT WHERE YOU BEGIN TO FEEL CONFU SION AND YOU REACH A HEIGHT ENED EMOTIONAL STATE &OR SOME THIS MAY RESULT IN DECLARATIONS OF LOVE FOR ANYONE WHO HAS SO MUCH AS KNOWN THEM A WEEK WHEREAS OTHERS MAY REGRESS TO A PRIMITIVE STAGE AND DECIDE TO lGHT WITH ANYTHING THAT LOOKS AT THEM FUNNY !T THIS POINT YOU HAVE PROBABLY GOT A BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION OF AROUND AND THE NEXT STEP IS NAUSEA AND VOMITING )F YOU CONTINUE TO IGNORE YOUR BODY S CRY FOR HELP THEN THE RISK FAC TOR DRAMATICALLY INCREASES )T IS AROUND THIS STAGE THAT THE BRAIN MAY DECIDE TO SHUTDOWN CAUS ING THOSE WORRYING BLACKOUTS 4HIS IS THE BRAIN ATTEMPTING TO PREVENT YOU FROM DRINKING ANYMORE BLACKOUTS CAN ALSO OCCUR EARLIER IN THE EVENING IF YOUR SUGAR LEVEL IS TOO LOW (OWEVER DEPENDING ON WHAT IS STILL BEING ABSORBED IN YOUR STOMACH AND IF YOU CONTINUE TO DRINK BODILY MOVEMENT CAN BE SERIOUSLY REDUCED AND YOU COULD EVEN SLIP INTO A COM OR DIE 3O WHEN YOU FEEL THOSE TELL TALE CHUNKS OF CARROT IN YOUR THROAT IT IS BEST TO THROW UP THROW AWAY YOUR BEER AND START DRINKING WATER 9ET FOR MOST OF US IT WILL NOT GET TO THE STAGE WHERE PARA MEDICS ARE SLAPPING OUR CHEEKS 7E WILL NO DOUBT STUMBLE OUT OF THE CLUB AND THEN A WAFT OF SALTY MEAT GOODNESS WILL REACH OUR NOSES AND KEBAB FEVER WILL STRIKE !LL NIGHT OUR BODY HAS BEEN WORKING OVERTIME TO EXCRETE THE ALCOHOL IN OUR SYS TEM AND SUBSEQUENTLY LOWER ING OUR ENERGY SIMULTANEOUSLY THE ALCOHOL HAS BEEN LOWERING OUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL SO THAT
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PTO FAMI LIES MANY SITU ATED ON THE %AST !NGLIAN COAST ARE LIKELY TO BECOME UNISURABLE IF THE GOVERNMENT FAILS TO UP ITS SPENDING ON THE ALREADY FAILING mOOD DEFENCES &LOOD ING IN RECENTS WEEKS AT 'REAT 9ARMOUTH AND OTHER .ORFOLK AREAS LEFT SCHOOLS CLOSED AND HOMES DAMAGED AND IF CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT THESE mASH mOODS MAY BECOME A REGULAR OCCURENCE IN MANY COASTAL TOWNS 4HE GOVERNMENTS REFUSAL THEREFORE TO INCREASE ITS SPENDING ON THIS MUCH NEEDED DEFENCE CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS RECKLESS )F THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT ON SUCH THINGS AS mOOD FORECASTING WARNING SYSTEMS AND INCREASED mOOD RESILIENCE OF PROPERTY DOES NOT INCREASE BY A YEAR TO a MILLION BY THE !SSOSCIATION OF "RITISH )NSURERS !") HAS WARNED THAT THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE THE RESOURCES TO CONTINUE COVER ING HOUSES AT RISK ! SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE !") REASONED THAT hWITH PROPER DEFENCES mOODING IS NOT AN INEVITABILITY v !LONG WITH THE !") IT SEEMS THAT LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE ALSO RUNNING OUT OF PA TIENCE WITH THE WAY THAT THEIR HOMES AND ESSENTIALLY LIVELIHOODS ARE BEING NEGLECTED WITH THE MONEY BEING SPENT ON BIRD mU AND FARMING SUBSIDIES INSTEAD OF FAMILIES AT IM MINENT RISK 4HE @#OASTAL #ONCERN !CTION 'ROUP ##!' ARGUES THAT THE WOODEN SEA DEFENCES THAT WERE PUT INTO PLACE IN THE LATE S HAVE BEGUN TO FAIL PUTTING THE PICTUR ESQUE .ORFOLK COASTLINE IN JEOPARDY -ANY SMALL COASTAL VILLAGES ARE BEING FORGOTTEN ABOUT ALTOGETHER WITH SOME RESIDENTS RECEIV
ING NO COMPENSATION AFTER mOOD DAMAGE 4HE FACT THAT THE BUDGET FOR SEA DEFENCES AND PREVENTATIVE METHODS IS BEING CUT BACK AT A TIME WHEN THE THREAT IS RISING SEEMS BI ZARRE AND THE IMPACT ON A COUNTY LIKE .OR FOLK COULD BE ENORMOUS 'ENERALLY PAYOUTS FROM INSURERS AFTER mOODING CAN REACH UP TO a 7ITHOUT THIS MONEY IT IS CLEAR THAT MANY FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES WOULD BE CRUSHED !S ALWAYS HOWEVER IT SEEMS THAT THE GOVERNMENT IN PARTICULAR $EFRA THE $EPART MENT FOR %NVIRONMENT &OOD AND 2URAL !F FAIRS HAVE BURIED THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND !CCORDING TO A $EFRA SPOKESWOMAN hTEAMS ARE IN PLACE AND READY TO ACT AS NECESSARY v BUT SURELY PREVENTION IS BETTER AND IN THE LONG RUN CHEAPER THAN CURE SO WHY NO RA TIONAL ACTION 4HERE IS HOWEVER A STRONG ARGUMENT CON CERNING THE REALITIES OF lGHTING NATURAL FORCES #OASTAL EROSION HAS BEEN SHAPING THE SHORES OF "RITAIN FOR MILLENNIA 7ITHOUT PHENOM ENA SUCH AS mOODING AND WIND EROSION THE COAST PROBABLY WOULDN T BE AS BEAUTIFUL AND AS WORTHY OF BEING SAVED "UT THESE PROCESSES ARE SPONTANEOUS SO HOW CAN ANYONE EVER AC CURATELY PREDICT THE OCCURRENCE OF DISASTERS CAUSED BY THEM AND WHOM SHOULD THE RE SPONSIBILITY LAND ON 4HIS QUESTION CAN UN SURPRISINGLY NOT BE ANSWERED WITH ANY VIABLE RESPONSE 4HE lGHT IS HOWEVER FOR THE GOV ERNMENT TO DO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO PREVENT UNNECESSARY DAMAGE 4HOUGH IS THERE ANY NEED FOR FURTHER @HARD DEFENCES 7ITH THE ENVIRONMENT ALREADY CHANGING RAPIDLY SOME SAY THAT THE BEST THING TO DO WOULD BE TO ALLOW THINGS TO DEVELOP NATURAL LY )F LEFT TO ITS OWN DEVICES ALBEIT WITH MUCH MORE LOSS OF LAND TO THE SEA EVENTUALLY SAND
DUNES AND MARSHLAND WOULD FORM A NATURAL BARRIER #ONTRASTINGLY THERE IS JUST AS STRONG AN ARGUMENT INVOLVING THE PEOPLE AFFECTED 7HY SHOULD THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH IMMEASURA BLE LOSS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUE TO DENY THEIR RESPONSIBILITY .OBODY IS EXPECT ING 'OD LIKE POWERS IN PREVENTING mOODS AL TOGETHER THOUGH NEITHER DO THEY EXPECT TO BE ABANDONED IN A SITUATION IN WHICH THERE IS CLEARLY NO ONE TO BLAME !S EXPLAINED BEFORE WITH THE RIGHT DEFENCES mOODING OF RESIDEN TIAL AREAS IS NOT AN INEVITABLE SITUATION 7ITH THE RIGHT DEFENCES RESIDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO BECOME INSURED IN THEIR HOUSES WITH THE RISK OF SERIOUS mOODING DECREASING )T SEEMS ALMOST A COMMON THEME IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES SUCH AS THIS THAT THE AUTHORITIES INSIST THAT THEY ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN YET THIS IS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH /F COURSE IT WOULD BE NAÕVE TO SUGGEST THAT IR RATIONAL AMOUNTS SHOULD BE SPENT ON mOOD PREVENTION DEPRIVING OTHER SERVICES OF MUCH NEEDED CASH )T HAS TO BE MEASURED UP HOW EVER AGAINST HOW IMMINENT THE RISK IS AND ALTHOUGH BIRD mU IS A FAIRLY UNSETTLING ISSUE HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED IN COMPARI SON TO THE HUGE AMOUNT OF LOSS DUE TO RECENT mOODING 7ATER LEVELS ARE GOING TO RISE AND STORM FREQUENCY WILL INCREASE WHY THEN WILL GOVERNMENT SPENDING NOT GROW TO COMPEN SATE FOR THE INEVITABLE DAMAGE 4HIS IS NOT A CASE OF MAN AGAINST NATURE AS IT MUST BE ACCEPTED THAT NATURAL DISASTERS HAPPEN )F IG NORED HOWEVER IT IS CLEAR WHO WILL COME OUT ON TOP
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"RITAIN IS AFRAID ! REPORT PUBLISHED BY THE )NSTITUTE OF 0UBLIC 0OLICY 2ESEARCH SHOWS THAT "RITAIN IS GRIPPED BY PAEDOPHOBIA n A FEAR OF TEENAGERS !RE WE RIGHT TO BE AFRAID !RE TEENAGERS THE EN EMY WITHIN /R IS THIS REPORT A MUCH NEEDED EXPOSÏ OF OUR SHAMEFUL PARANOIA ) MUST ADMIT THAT SOMETIMES ) AM A LITTLE AFRAID OF TEENAGERS PERHAPS NOT AFRAID BUT WORRIED ) M ONLY A FEW YEARS OUT OF MY TEENS AND ALREADY THE @TEEN
AGER HAS COME TO REPRESENT A WORLD WHICH IS MOVING TOO FAST FOR MY MIND 4HEY SEEM TO SPEAK IN A .ADSAT CODESPEAK RICH WITH STRANGE WORDS LIKE @"EBO AND TEXT SPEAK AND THEY RE SO BLOODY TALENTED AND mEXIBLE THE RING TONES THEY MAKE FOR A JOKE END UP POLLUTING OUR TELEVISION SCREENS FOR WEEKS AND INVADING OUR MUSIC CHARTS )T FEELS LIKE THE JOKE IS ON US 9ET THE )002 REPORT EXPOSES A MORE SINISTER FEAR "RITONS FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES OF THOSE SURVEYED AD MITTED THAT THEY WOULD NOT CONFRONT NUISANCE TEENAGERS FOR FEAR OF A VIOLENT RESPONSE
THE WORDS @GUNS AND @KNIVES FEATURED IN OVER HALF OF THOSE RESPONSES MIL LION ADMITTED THAT THEY HAD CONSIDERED MOVING HOUSE TO ESCAPE FROM FERAL TEENAGERS "UT THIS SUSPICION OF TEEN AGERS IS NOTHING NEW "ACK IN THE TH CENTURY "# 0LATO WAS QUOTED AS ASKING @7HAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE 4HEY DISRESPECT THEIR ELDERS THEY DISOBEY THEIR PARENTS 4HEY IGNORE THE LAW 4HEY RIOT IN THE STREETS INmAMED WITH WILD NOTIONS 4HEIR MORALS ARE DECAY ING 7HAT IS TO BECOME OF THEM AND IN THE CENTURIES THAT HAVE FOLLOWED SUCH SEN
TIMENTS HAVE BEEN ECHOED AD NAUSEAM 3O WHY HAS THIS PARANOIA HAUNTED US FOR SO LONG 4HE MEDIA SEEM CONTENT TO LET THE FEAR LIVE THEY RE GETTING PLENTY OF VIEWERS FROM IT COMEDIES ABOUT INARTICULATE PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS OR SINISTER SHOC KUMENTARIES ABOUT BINGE DRINKING TEENAGE MAlAS THE VIEWERS SEEM TO RELISH PAEDOPHOBIA 4HE FACT THAT SO MANY ARE AFRAID OF TEENAG ERS IS WORRYING !S %DMUND "URKE WROTE THERE IS @NO PAS SION ;THAT= SO EFFECTUALLY ROBS THE MIND OF ALL ITS POWERS OF ACTING AND REASONING AS
FEAR %XPLAINING THE LUNACY BEHIND CONTEMPLATING MOV ING HOUSE AND ANTISOCIAL BE HAVIOUR ORDERS UNTIL WE FACE OUR FEAR THINGS WILL ONLY GET CRAZIER 4WO THOUSAND YEARS AFTER 0LATO S OUTBURST IT S TIME TO SEE SENSE WE NEED TO REDElNE PERCEPTION AND REALITY )T LL TAKE REAL "RIT ISH BRAVERY TO ADMIT THAT WE WERE SCARED OF A THREAT THAT DOESN T REALLY EXIST )T WILL IN VOLVE TRUE COURAGE TO ADMIT WE WERE WRONG "UT DON T WORRY IT S NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF JUST REMEMBER n EVEN 0LATO MADE THE SAME MISTAKE
$EBATE ON VALUE OF TOP UP FEES !GAINST &OR "EN LILLE 4ONY "LAIR BENElTED FROM A FREE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AS DID 'ORDON "ROWN AND THE REST OF HIS CABINET COLLEAGUES .OW THEY ARGUE THAT TIMES HAVE CHANGED THAT HIGHER EDUCATION CANNOT BE SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT FUNDING ALONE ) AGREE THAT EXTRA FUNDING MUST COME FROM SOMEWHERE HOWEVER ) DO NOT AGREE THAT IT SHOULD BE SUPPLIED FROM THE POCKETS OF STUDENTS OR RATHER THE HUGE CLOUD OF DEBT THAT WILL HANG OVER THOSE SEEKING A DEGREE OR THEIR FAMILIES )T WAS IN THAT TUITION FEES WERE lRST INTRODUCED TO THE FURY OF LECTURERS AND STUDENTS ALIKE "Y THE ELECTION IT WAS CLEAR THAT TUITION FEES WERE NOT GOING TO COVER THE FUNDING COSTS AND THAT SO CALLED h4OP UP FEESv WERE NEEDED (OWEV ER THE ,ABOUR MANIFESTO STATED h7E HAVE NO PLANS TO INTRODUCE 5NIVER SITY TOP UP FEES AND HAVE LEGISLATED TO PREVENT THEIR INTRODUCTION v )N THEY WENT BACK ON THIS PROMISE WITH THE (IGHER %DUCA TION !CT WHICH INCLUDED THE INTRO DUCTION OF h4OP UP FEESv STRESSING THAT AS THE LEGISLATION WOULD NOT COME INTO EFFECT UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION THEY HAD FOLLOWED THEIR MANIFESTO !T THE BEGINNING OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR MY FELLOW STUDENTS WHO HAVE JUST ENTERED THEIR lRST YEAR HAVE BEGUN PAYING THESE h4OP UP FEESv .OW WE ARE CAMPAIGNING AGAIN AS STUDENTS DID AGAINST TUI TION FEES AND h4OP UP FEESv BECAUSE
,ABOUR 3OCIETY THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO TAKE EVEN MORE MONEY FROM FUTURE STUDENTS ENTERING HIGHER EDUCATION 4HE CAP ON h4OP UP FEESv WHICH WAS IN TRODUCED IN RESPONSE TO THE OUTCRY FROM PARLIAMENT AND THE PUBLIC ALIKE WAS TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATION BY UNIVERSITIES CHARGING STUDENTS MORE FOR ATTENDING BETTER ESTABLISH MENTS OR TAKING MORE EXPENSIVE AND MORE POPULAR COURSES .OW THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO LIFT THAT CAP DUE TO A LOOPHOLE PLACED IN THE (IGHER %DUCATION !CT OF WHICH COULD LEAD TO STU DENTS PAYING UP TO a A YEAR AFTER 3TUDENTS HAVE GONE FROM PAYING NOTHING FOR THEIR EDUCATION IN TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LEAVING UNIVERSITY WITH BETWEEN a AND a OF DEBT EXCLUSIVE OF LIVING EXPENSES 4HE CAMPAIGN THE .53 HAS UNDERTAKEN IS NOT JUST TO KEEP THE CAP ON FEES BUT TO OVERTURN TUITION FEES ALL TOGETHER ENSURING FREE EDU CATION FOR ALL &REE EDUCATION AT EVE RY LEVEL CAN BE ACHIEVED AS WE HAVE SEEN IT IN COUNTRIES ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD 3OME STUDENTS ) HAVE SPOKEN TO HAVE TOLD ME THAT THIS ISN T OUR lGHT THAT IT IS THE STUDENTS STARTING 5NIVERSITY IN WHO SHOULD WOR RY ABOUT IT ) SAY THAT AS STUDENTS BE FORE STOOD UP FOR MY RIGHTS TO A FREE EDUCATION ) SHALL STAND UP FOR THOSE SAME RIGHTS FOR STUDENTS LONG AFTER ) HAVE MOVED ON DEBTS AND ALL
4OP UP FEES WERE ONLY INTRODUCED UNDER THE CONDITION THAT THEY WOULD NOT HINDER POORER STUDENTS IN SOCIETY THIS IS EVIDENT BY THE REINTRODUCTION OF MAINTENANCE GRANTS A MUCH MORE LENIENT REPAYMENT RATE FOR EXAMPLE A GRADUATE ON a A YEAR ONLY HAS TO PAY BACK a A WEEK BUT MOST OF ALL THE INTRODUCTION OF MEANS TEST ING (OUSEHOLDS EARNING LESS THAN a A YEAR ARE ENTIRELY SUBSIDISED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ONLY HOUSEHOLDS THAT ACTUALLY PAY MORE ARE THOSE EARNING MORE THAN a A YEAR SO IT IS A FALLACY THAT TOP UP FEES HINDER SOCIAL INCLUSION 4HE ROLE OF TOP UP FEES ACTU ALLY SPREADS THE FEES MORE FAIRLY ACROSS THE SOCIAL CLASSES AS OPPOSED TO THE PREVIOUS mAT RATE OF OVER A THOUSAND POUNDS A YEAR FOR EVERYONE 4HE NEW PROPOSALS STAND TO HELP THE POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE APPLICANTS )T IS UNDISPUTABLE THAT UNIVERSITIES REQUIRE INCREASED FUNDING 2ESEARCH SHOWED THAT THE STATE OF "RITAIN S UNIVERSITIES WAS ONE OF TOTAL DISRE PAIR WITH FUNDS NOT BEING SUFlCIENT TO COVER BASIC MAINTENANCE COSTS DESPITE MASSIVE SUBSIDISATION BY THE GOVERNMENT 4HE ,IBERAL $EMOCRATS ARE AGAINST TOP UP FEES BUT WHAT ARE THEIR ALTERNATIVES 4HE ,IBERAL $EMOCRATS AN SWER THE PROBLEM WITH TAXATION BUT SURELY IT IS UNETHICAL TO REALLY EXPECT HARDWORKING FAMILIES OF WHICH A MI NORITY OF THEMSELVES WENT TO HIGHER EDUCATION TO COMPLETELY FUND OUR COURSE FEES -ORE RECENTLY ,IBERAL
$EMOCRAT -0 .ORMAN ,AMB HAS SAID THAT THERE SHOULD BE CUTS IN PUB LIC SERVICES 4HE ,IBERAL DEMOCRATS AND #ONSERVATIVES MAINTAIN THAT THE BILLIONS THEY WOULD TAKE FROM OUR PUBLIC SERVICES SIMPLY CONSISTS OF hRED TAPEv BUT OF COURSE FAIL TO ELABORATE WHAT EXACT CUTBACKS THEY ARE WILLING TO TAKE FROM OUR SERVICES 4HEREFORE SURELY IT FALLS TO THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES TO TAKE RE SPONSIBILITY OVER THIS SOCIAL ISSUE !F TER ALL IT IS THEY WHO BENElT A STUDY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS FOUND OF GRADUATES lND GRADUATE LEVEL WORK WITHIN FOUR YEARS OF LEAVING UNIVERSITY WITH THEIR WAGES OVER THEIR LIFETIME ON AVERAGE BEING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF POUNDS HIGHER THAN THOSE WHO DO NOT ENTER HIGHER EDUCATION 4O COMPETE ON A WORLD STAGE AS A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY IT IS VI TAL WE COMPETE ON OUR FUNDING WITH COUNTRIES SUCH AS !MERICA UNDERMIN ING OUR OWN SUCCESS WITH THEIR STEADY GROWTH OF FUNDING AND HENCE QUALITY OF THEIR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS )N ACTUAL FACT THE POSITIVE EFFECTS FROM TOP UP FEE COSTS WILL BENElT THE STUDENTS THE MOST OUR DE GREES WILL COME FROM INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE STRENGTHENED ON A NATIONAL LEVEL AND THE INCREASED FUNDING WILL MEAN SMALLER CLASS SIZES INCREASED BUILDING AND MAINTENANCE AFFORDABLE ACCOM MODATION DIVERSE SOCIAL AND SPORTS CLUBS AND OF COURSE THE HEAVILY SUB SIDISED UNIVERSITY BARS AND PUBS
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-IRACLES DO HAPPENx &OR YEARS ) HAVE RIDDEN UP AND DOWN THE AVENUES DODG ING MORE POT HOLES THAN A WORLD WAR ONE BATTLElELD WITH THE COUNCIL SEEMINGLY OBLIVIOUS TO THE CYCLISTS COM MUTER S PLIGHT INSTEAD RE DO ING ROADS WHICH DIDN T NEED RE DOING 4HE AVENUES WERE SO BAD CYCLISTS EITHER HAD TO RIDE ON THE DEDICATED CYCLE LANE ON THE PAVEMENT WHICH IS ACTUALLY MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE ROAD AS PEDESTRIANS RARELY HEAR CYCLISTS OR PLAY CHICKEN WITH CARS AS THE ONLY VIABLE PART OF THE ROAD WAS A CM STRETCH DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ) HAD AC TUALLY INTENDED TO DO A PIECE ABOUT THE JOKE THAT THIS ROAD WAS YET KNOW ) lND MYSELF WANTING TO EXERCT HEAPING PRAISE ONTO THE COUNCIL FOR THE ROAD WHAT A ROAD IT IS !NY KEEN CYCLIST OF WHICH ) AM WILL LOVE THE NEW SUR FACE 4HE TRACTION ONE CAN GET OFF IT ASSUMING YOU RE USING HIGH PRESSURE SLICKS IS AMAZ ING ) WOUDN T BE SURPRISED TO SEE SOME OF .ORWICH S hROADIESv DOING SOME INTER VAL SPRINT WORK ON IT IN THE NEAR FUTURE )NDEED IN TIME ) M SURE .ORFOLK POLICE WILL HAVE TO INVENT THE lRST CY CLING SPEED CAMERA AS WAN NABE ,ANCE !RMSTRONG S GIVE THOSE %SSEX "OYZ A RUN FOR THEIR SPEEDING TICKETSx !LL THAT TO SAY THAT IT S A SHAME ) NOW LIVE OFF $EREHAM ROAD AND DON T USE THE AVENUES ANY MORE
!RE YOU lT ENOUGH /N THE SUBJECT OF MATCHOIS TIC SPORT THE 3PORTSPARK S h3UPERlTv EVENT WHICH HASN T EVEN BEEN RUN YET HAS ALREADY BEEN COPIED BY SOME !USTRALIANS WHO THINK IT S A GREAT IDEA (OPEFULLY 5%! AND .ORFOLK S lNEST WILL SHOW UP IN FORCE AT THE INAUGURAL EVENT ON THE TH .OVEMBER SO MAYBE IN TIME ANOTHER SPORTING RIVALRY WILL TAKE HOLD BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES
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.53ECCARY OR NOT $EAR %DITOR ) AM WRITING THIS LETTER TO EXPRESS MY CONCERNS ON THE CURRENT SITUATION OF THE .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS AND OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THEM .OT ALL MAY BE AWARE OF IT BUT AS STUDENTS IN THE 5NION OF 5%! 3TUDENTS WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE .53 AND SO SUBJECT TO SOMETHING THAT MAY SEEM UNIMPORTANT BUT HAS FAR REACHING CONSE QUENCES WHICH ARE TOO OFTEN NEGATIVE RATHER THAN BENEl CIAL 4HE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ON THE .53 ALLOWS IT TO GET AWAY WITH CONTROVERSIAL DECISIONS BUT AN INCREASING NUMBER OF 3TUDENT 5NIONS ARE BEGINNING TO ASK THEM SELVES IS IT WORTH PAYING AN AFlLIATION FEE EVERY YEAR FOR QUESTIONABLE SERVICES )T IS HIGH TIME 5%! JOINED THIS GROUP AND LOOKED AT THE
BENElTS AND DISADVANTAGES OF AFlLIATION !RGUABLY THE MAIN ROLE OF .53 IS TO CAMPAIGN FOR STUDENTS AS A NATIONAL VOICE WHICH CAN BETTER INmUENCE THE 'OVERNMENT ON KEY IS SUES "UT ARE THEY AS EFFECTIVE AT DOING THIS AS CLAIMED $ESPITE THEIR STANCE ON TUITION AND TOP UP FEES IT SEEMS TO HAVE HAD LITTLE IMPACT 4HE .ATIONAL $EMO SEEMS TO HAVE MADE LITTLE REAL IMPACT PARTICULARLY IN THE MEDIA DESPITE ITS LAUDABLE GOALS !T THE SAME TIME A NUMBER OF STUDENTS USED THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROTEST ON OTHER POLITICAL BUT NOT NECESSARILY STUDENT RELATED ISSUES )S IT FAIR THAT A .ATIONAL 5NION OF 3TUDENTS CAMPAIGNS OVER PROBLEMS THAT ITS MEMBERS HAVE RADICALLY DIFFERENT VIEWS ON ESPECIALLY IF A POLITICAL CAM PAIGN IS DONE AT THE EXPENSE
!..! 3 %$)4/2)!, 4HERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS ) HAVE BEEN WONDERING ABOUT THIS FORTNIGHT lRSTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO #AMPUS #AT 7HAT IS THAT THEY ARE GROWING IN THE GREEN HOUSES DOWN BY THE LAKE 7HY IS 5LTIMATE &RISBEE #LUB @ULTI MATE $O THEY DO IT NAKED )N ROUGH TERRAIN 7ITH NO HANDS /R ALL THREE ) DON T KNOW TELL ME !ND ALSO LESS 5%! RELATED WHAT THE DEVIL IS HAPPENING WITH BIRD mU 4O ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS #ONCRETE WENT UNDERCOVER !FTER INVESTIGATION WE FOUND THAT THEY WERE GROW ING GREEN PLANTS IN THE GREEN HOUSES 7OW NO REVELATIONS THERE !ND THAT #AMPUS #AT HAS GONE TO A GOOD HOME 7ELL ) AM NOT SATISlED WITH THIS ) WANT ANSWERS GOD DAMN IT SO IF ANYONE KNOWS PLEASE SEND A SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPE TO THE
#ONCRETE /FlCE AND MAKE ME HAPPY 3O WHAT HAS BEEN HAP PENING IN THE #ONCRETE WORLD THIS FORTNIGHT 7ELL WE MARCHED ALONG THE EM BANKMENT SHOUTING EXPLE TIVES IN INAPPROPRIATE SHOES /OOED AND AHHED AT %ARL HAM lREWORKS GOT WHIP LASH GOT WET GOT DRUNK SAW THE &RANCIS "ACON EXHIBI TION CUT OUT A PUMPKIN WATCHED "ORAT AND LOVED EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF IT /VER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WE HAVE SOME EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING 4HREAD MAGAZINE WILL BE LAUNCHED THE NAKED CALENDER SHOOTS WILL BE DONE .EXUS ,IVEWIRE AND #ONCRETE WILL BE HAVING A JOINT MASS MEDIA SOCIAL ON 3UNDAY THE TH .OVEMBER 4HIS WILL BE THE PARTY OF THE YEAR 7OO 3EE YOU THERE HOPEFULLY
OF OTHER MORE RELEVANT ISSUES (EREIN LIES THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM WITH .53 IT IS DOMINATED BY FACTIONS DRIVEN BY A PURELY POLITICAL AGENDA WITH LITTLE REAL REGARD FOR STUDENTS 4HEY CONTROL WHAT THE .53 SAYS AND DOES BECAUSE MOST NORMAL STU DENTS ARE TOO APATHETIC TO BE CONCERNED 4HE FACTIONS ARE NUMEROUS AND ALTHOUGH THE THREE MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES ALL HAVE A PRESENCE ,ABOUR RUNS THE SHOW 4HE OTHER TWO TEND TO SEE THE .53 AS IRRELEVANT FOR GOOD REASON BUT A NUMBER OF VERY LEFT WING VERY RADICAL GROUPS HOLD A LOT OF INmUENCE OVER WHAT GOES ON INCLUDING #OMMUNIST 3TUDENTS AND 3TUDENT 2ESPECT WHICH IT IS SAFE TO SAY REPRESENT AN IN CREDIBLY INSUBSTANTIAL GROUP OF STUDENTS 4HE POLITICAL AGENDAS OF THE .53 LEADERS
MEANS THAT THEY MAY WELL BE UNWILLING TO CAMPAIGN ON ISSUES THAT COULD PUT THEIR POLITICAL CAREERS AT STAKE SACRIlCING STUDENT INTERESTS THIS HAS BEEN BLAMED FOR THE WEAKNESS OF .53 CAM PAIGNS ON TOP UP FEES .OWHERE IS THE FACTIONAL ISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES MORE APPARENT THAN AT .53 .ATIONAL #ONFERENCE WHERE THE .53 POLICIES ARE DECIDED UPON )T S DIFlCULT TO DESCRIBE HOW HORRIFYING THE EXPERIENCE OF ATTENDING #ONFERENCE IS COMPARE IT TO ACCIDENTALLY PUTTING YOUR FOOT THROUGH YOUR BEDROOM mOOR TO lND YOUR HOUSE IS BEING EATEN AWAY BY SOME HORRIBLE FUNGUS )T IS THE FAC TIONS THAT DECIDE WHAT HAP PENS NOT STUDENTS WHICH IS WHY FOR EXAMPLE THIS YEAR AT #ONFERENCE THE .53 SPENT MANY HOURS DISCUSS ING #OCA #OLA BUT NONE ON
THE ISSUE OF THE !54 STRIKES DESPITE THE PROTESTS OF MANY 5NIONS !SK YOURSELF WHICH OF THESE IS MORE IMPORTANT TO STUDENTS 4HERE ARE OTHER ISSUES WITH THE .53 $ISAFlLIATING WOULD MEAN NO LONGER USING THE SUPPLIERS OF OUR 5NION SHOPS .53 3ERVICES ,TD 4HIS COULD HAVE lNANCIAL COMPLICATIONS THOUGH WOULD GIVE OUR 5NION MORE POWER TO NEGOTIATE OUR OWN DEALS "UT ULTIMATELY THE ISSUE IS ABOUT WHETHER THE .53 ADEQUATELY ASSISTS AND REPRESENTS STUDENTS )T IS VITAL THAT STUDENTS ARE INFORMED ON THIS MATTER AND THAT OUR 5NION GIVES IT SERIOUS ATTENTION 3TUDENTS SURELY DO NOT DESERVE THE DESTRUC TIVE POLITICAL MANIPULATION THEY CURRENTLY RECEIVE AT THE HANDS OF THE .53
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4HIS WEEK STARTED OFF AS NOR MAL ) GOT UP -ONDAY MORN ING WALKED TO THE 5NTHANK BUS STOP QUEUED WITH THE REST AND ASKED FOR A RETURN TO CAMPUS h7E DON T DO RETURNSv WAS THE REPLY $ON T DO RETURNS 7HAT KIND OF 4RAVEL #OMPANY DOESN T DO RETURNS $O THEY THINK ) LOVE CAMPUS SO MUCH ) COULDN T POSSIBLY WANT TO COME BACK TO MY GROTTY HOUSE ON 9ORK 3TREET 0ERHAPS THIS IS WHAT ) SHOULD HAVE ASKED THE BUS DRIVER "UT ) AM %NGLISH )
HAVE A STIFF UPPER LIP AND AN INNER COWARDICE THAT MAKES ME WRITE LETTERS TO A NEWSPAPER INSTEAD OF ASKING A BUS DRIVER A REASONABLE QUESTION )N MY DEFENCE &IRST BUS DRIVERS ARE SCARY IT WAS AM ON A -ONDAY MORNING AND THERE WAS A QUEUE OF STUDENTS WHO HAD CLEVERLY BOUGHT ANNUAL BUS PASSES GLARING AT ME TO GET OUT OF THE COLD INTO THE WARM DOUBLE DECKER 3O THAT S IT &IRST "USES DO NOT DO RETURNS ANYMORE 7HY MIGHT ) ASK !ND HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE )S IT
SIMPLY A PLOY TO MAKE MORE MONEY BY FORCING PEOPLE TO GET TWO SINGLES FOR A HIGHER PRICE OR BUY AN ALL DAY TICKET 7HILE ) M ON THIS LITTLE TRANSPORT RANT WHY IS IT THAT IF GOD FORBID YOU LOSE YOUR BUS PASS DO YOU HAVE TO BUY A WHOLE NEW ONE FOR a 7HY NOT PROVIDE A RECEIPT THE PASS HAS GOT YOUR CAM PUS CARD NUMBER ON IT THEY CAN CHECK )F YOU LOSE YOUR RAILCARD YOU CAN GET A NEW ONE BUT EVEN THOSE COST a NOWADAYS 7ELL ) VE HAD IT SOD THE BUSES ) M WALKING
!RE DOT MOBILE DRIVING YOU DOTTY $EAR %DITOR (AS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED HOW ANNOYING THE DOT MOBILE PEOPLE ARE ) WAS IN NOCENTLY SITTING IN THE (IVE ENJOYING A COFFEE WHEN ONE OF THE DOT PEOPLE CAME UP TO MY TABLE AND STARTED TO PESTER ME ABOUT ENTERING A
COMPETITION THAT THEY WERE RUNNING AND THEN STARTED TO mOG THEIR MOBILE CONTRACT TO ME )T S DISTURBING THE WAY THAT THE (IVE HAS BECOME A COMMERCIALISED SPACE AND HOW PUSHY THE DOT MOBILE PEOPLE ARE )F ) WANT A MOBILE CONTRACT ) LL ASK FOR
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ONE /NE OF MY FRIENDS HAS A DOT CONTRACT AND HE SAID THAT THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS RUBBISH
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4HE /PINION lCKLE FANS !LEX +ALMAKRIAN )N MOST PROFESSIONS REPUTA TIONS ARE BUILT AND DESTROYED ON THE BACK OF MANY A YEAR S PROGRESS AND REGRESS (OW EVER THE SPORTING WORLD DOES NOT ALLOW FOR THIS SLOW TRAN SITION IN REPUTATION 4HERE IS LITTLE TIME FOR ATHLETES AND COACHES TO ENJOY SUCCESS AS SUCCESS ONLY SERVES TO EM PHASISE FAILURE WHENEVER IT INEVITABLY COMES AROUND &OOTBALL MANAGERS ARE ARGUABLY THE WORST VICTIMS OF lCKLENESS IN SPORT AND CUR RENT 7EST (AM 5NITED MAN AGER !LAN 0ARDEW WILL TESTIFY TO THIS BRUTAL TRUTH /N THE BACK OF A HIGHLY RESPECTABLE TENTH PLACE lNISH AFTER THEIR RETURN TO %NGLISH FOOTBALL S TOP mIGHT AND A BRAVE EFFORT AGAINST ,IVERPOOL IN THE &! #UP &INAL THE (AMMERS WERE EXPECTED TO CARRY THEIR RESURGENCE INTO THE NEXT SEA SON (OWEVER AFTER A SUCCES
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SION OF DEFEATS ENCOMPASS ING AN EMPHATIC EXIT IN THE 5%&! #UP AN EMBARRASSING DEFEAT TO #HESTERlELD IN THE #ARLING #UP AND A PLACE NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THE 0RE MIERSHIP THE PRESSURE IS ON FOR 0ARDEW ! VICTORY OVER "LACKBURN HAS ALLEVIATED THIS PRESSURE SOMEWHAT AND A FEW MORE WINS WOULD MOST LIKELY RESTORE HIS REPUTATION UNTIL THE NEXT CRISIS ARISES 3PORTS MEN AND WOMEN ALSO EXPERIENCE THE SCHIZO PHRENIC NATURE OF MEDIA AND FANS ALIKE ! MICROCOSM OF THIS FACT WAS PLAYED OUT BY REACTIONS TO !NDY -URRAY S
FORM PRIOR TO AND AFTER 7IM BLEDON !FTER LOSING TO *ANKO 4IPSAREVIC IN THE lRST ROUND OF THE 3TELLA !RTOIS /PEN HIS TEMPERAMENT WAS QUESTIONED TO THE EXTENT THAT MANY THOUGHT IT WOULD PRO HIBIT HIM FROM EVER REACHING 4ENNIS ELITE .EVERTHELESS AFTER A RESPECTABLE FOURTH ROUND SHOWING AT 7IMBLEDON AND AFTER INmICTING A RARE DEFEAT ON WORLD NUMBER ONE 2OGER &EDERER RECENTLY !NDY -UR RAY HAS "RITISH HOPES PINNED ON HIM FOR FUTURE SUCCESS AT THE FOUR 'RAND 3LAMS 4HEN THERE IS /WEN (AR
GREAVES (IS TALE DElNES THE VERY NATURE OF lCKLENESS IN SPORT $UBBED AS A USELESS FRINGE PLAYER LEADING UP TO THE 7ORLD #UP (ARGREAVES PROVED HIS CRITICS WRONG BY BEING THE ONLY %NGLISH PLAY ER TO COME OUT OF THE TOUR NAMENT WITH HIS REPUTATION ENHANCED (IS ZERO TO HERO TALE CAME ABOUT SO QUICKLY THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IG NORE THE CRUDE ASSESSMENTS OF SPORTS MEN AND WOMEN MADE BY FANS -OREOVER IT IS THE ME DIA S INmUENCE OVER SUPPORT ERS ITS POWER TO PROPAGATE OPINIONS THAT ULTIMATELY DECIDES WHO IS LIKED OR DIS LIKED 7E HAVE ALL JUMPED ON A BANDWAGON IN OUR TIME !T LEAST LET US HOPE THAT WE WILL NOT BEGIN TO USE THE NICKNAME h(ARGO v IN REFER ENCE TO /WEN (ARGREAVES AS 4HE 3UN HAVE AFFECTIONATELY DONE DESPITE BEING THE MAIN CULPRITS OF HIS ABUSE BEFORE THE 7ORLD #UP
$ISS MISSED 4IM 2IDGWAY 4HE S SAW %UROPEAN FOOTBALL COME TO #ARROW 2OAD AS .ORWICH #ITY AS SEMBLED PERHAPS THEIR GREATEST EVER SIDE /NE OF THE FEATURES OF THIS TEAM WAS THE RAMPAG ING FORWARD PLAY OF 2OBERT &LECK !RRIVING FROM 2ANGERS IN @&LECKIE ESTABLISHED A LEGACY EXTENDING BEYOND HIS GOALS FOR THE #ANAR IES AND AN APPEARANCE AT )TA LIA WITH 3COTLAND AS HIS PRESUMPTUOUS PERSONALITY DODGY HAIRCUT AND FREQUENT FALL OUTS WITH HIS MANAGERS ALL MADE AN IMPACT 7ITH HIS CHARISMATIC AND UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE A CAREER IN MANAGEMENT SURELY BECKONED AND SURE ENOUGH IN &LECK GOT HIS BIG BREAK WITH THE MIGHTY $ISS 4OWN A PLACE MORE FAMOUS AS THE lRST STOP ON THE TRAIN TO ,ONDON THAN AS A BASTION OF FREE mOWING FOOTBALL
9ET THIS NEW CAREER PATH HAS ENDED IN DISS APPOINT MENT $ISS PITE THE INITIAL SUCCESS OF TWO .ORFOLK 3EN IOR #UP VICTORIES IN HIS lRST THREE SEASONS A DISS CONCERT ING START TO THE SEASON HAS LED TO THE DISS MISSAL AND PLAIN DISS PARAGEMENT OF THIS FORMER LEGEND S REPUTATION $ISS GRACEFUL
2OBERT &LECK THE FORMER .ORWICH #ITY LEGEND HAS PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR A POOR START TO THE SEASON
"RIGHTON ROCKS LACROSSE #HRIS *OHNSTON 4HE MIXED ,ACROSSE TEAM CONTINUED THEIR TRICKY START TO THE NEW SEASON WITH A HOME GAME AGAINST A "RIGHTON TEAM THEY HAD NEVER FACED BEFORE 4HE TEAM CONTAINED SEV ERAL DEBUTANTS AND WAS MISS ING KEY PLAYERS SUCH AS +ATIE @"HUNA 'REEN AND &UDGY SO THE GAME WAS NEVER GOING TO BE EASY 4HE MATCH STARTED WITH BOTH TEAMS PLAYING SOME FAST PACED LACROSSE AND AN EARLY EXCHANGE OF GOALS WITH #HARLES @3TYLES 2UMSEY CAN CELLING OUT "RIGHTON S OPEN ER &URTHER "RIGHTON PRESSURE RESULTED IN A FOUR GOAL mURRY RESULTING IN A SCORE OF AT THE END OF THE lRST QUARTER 5%! STARTED THE SECOND QUARTER WITH RENEWED VIGOUR AND SCORED TWO EARLY GOALS FROM QUICK BREAKS THE lRST FROM &REYA $OLBY AND THEN ONE FROM 3IMON @4AXI !RCH ER 4HIS BOOSTED THE TEAMS MORALE AND DRIVEN ON BY SOME UNORTHODOX GOALKEEP ING BY DEBUTANT 0ETE @2UPERT 4HORNETT AND SOME INSPIRED ATTACK PLAY BY &AY @,EGEND (ARRIS 5%! STARTED TO LOOK
LIKE THEY MIGHT BE IN WITH A CHANCE OF WINNING 3ADLT THOUGH "RIGHTON RESPONDED WITH FOUR MORE GOALS BEFORE ANOTHER 3IMON !RCHER STRIKE FOR 5%! MADE THE HALF TIME SCORE TO THE AWAY TEAM !FTER HALF TIME 5%! START ED TO DEFEND POORLY AND THEIR INEXPERIENCE STARTED TO TELL AS THEIR GAME FELL APART AND "RIGHTON RACED TO A MAM MOTH LEAD WITH 5%! S SOLE THIRD QUARTER STRIKE BE ING A WONDER GOAL BY CLUB PRESIDENT !NDREW @3COTTISH #OOK 4HE HOME SIDE RALLIED
IN THE FOURTH QUARTER WITH A FURTHER GOAL FOR #HARLES 2UM SEY AND AN AMAZING RUN AND SHOT FROM .ICOLA 3MITH BUT "RIGHTON UPPED THEIR GAME FURTHER WITH lVE MORE lNAL QUARTER GOALS MAKING THE l NAL SCORE TO "RIGHTON /N PAPER THIS LOOKS LIKE A HEAVY DEFEAT FOR 5%! BUT THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT FOR THE TEAM AS THE FOUR NEWCOMERS 2ACHEL "AYES %MMA "INES &AY (ARRIS AND 0ETE 4HORNETT ALL PROVED THAT THEY HAVE TAK EN TO THE GAME LIKE THE PRO VERBIAL DUCKS TO WATER
4HE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT FOR MIXED LACROSSE DESPITE THEIR DEFEAT
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3MASHING START TO THE SEASON -ICHAEL 4UCKER /N THE TH OF /CTOBER THE 5%! -EN S ST TEAM CONSIST ING OF !NDREW *ONES -ATT (OBSON 3EVERIN -ULLER 2IE MENSCHNEIDER AND -ICHAEL 4UCKER #APTAIN LEFT .OR WICH TO PLAY 7ARWICK NDS IN THE lRST MATCH OF THE "53! TENNIS SEASON #ONlDENCE WAS AT A HIGH AFTER LAST SEASON S PROMO TION AND WE WERE HOPING FOR A GOOD RESULT TO KICK OFF THE NEW SEASON &OR THE DOUBLES -ICHAEL 4UCKER WAS PARTNERED BY -ATT (OBSON WITH 3EVERIN PARTNERING !NDREW ! BET TER START COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
4HE MEN S TEAM REMAIN UNBEATEN IN THEIR "53! SEASON CALLED FOR WITH -ATT AND -IKE WINNING THEIR DOUBLES
MATCH AND 3EVERIN AND !NDREW COMING HOME IN AN
VICTORY 5NFORTUNATELY FOR 7AR WICK THERE WAS MORE TO COME FROM 5%! !NDREW *ONES PLAYING AT NUMBER LED THE WAY WITH A CRUSH ING VICTORY OVER HIS OPPO NENT 0LAYING AT NUMBER 3EVERIN -ULLER 2IEMENSCHNEIDER SHOWED HIS CLASS AND CONSISTENCY TO COME THROUGH WITH AN EASY VICTORY $UE TO ILLNESS -IKE 4UCK ER HAD TO PULL OUT OF HIS SIN GLES MATCH WITH IT SQUARE AT ONE SET A PIECE !T NUMBER A SUPERB PERFORMANCE BY -ATT (OBSON LED HIM TO A VICTORY TO SEAL A MUCH EARNED VICTORY BY 5%! 4HE lNAL SCORE WAS A RESOUNDING VICTORY
4O ADD TO THE EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE ABOVE THE TEAM MANAGED TO THUMP "EDFORD -EN S ST THE FOLLOWING WEEK ST OF .OVEMBER !LL THE GUYS CAME THROUGH WITH STRAIGHT SET VICTORIES IN THEIR SINGLES AS WELL AS EASY VICTO RIES IN THEIR DOUBLES 7ELL DONE TO $AVE &OULIS 3EV ERIN -ULLER 2IEMENSCHNEI DER !NDREW *ONES AND -ATT (OBSON WHO TOOK PART )N BOTH lXTURES THE GUYS HAVE PERFORMED CONSISTENTLY AND WITH GREAT INTENSITY )F WE CONTINUE TO PLAY AT SUCH LEVELS IT PROMISES TO BE A VERY SUCCESSFUL SEASON FOR 5%! -EN S TENNIS TEAM
)NJURIES LESSEN RUGBY S IMPACT 3AM 7ILSON !FTER A WEEK WHERE THE 5%! ST TEAM RECORDED THEIR lRST "53! VICTORY OF THE SEASON OVER .OTTINGHAM 4RENT NDS AND THE 5%! ND TEAM AL THOUGH LOSING AGAINST (ARP ER !DAMS SHOWED GREAT PROMISE FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON BOTH TEAMS SUFFERED THE LOSS OF PLAYERS DUE TO INJURY AND ALSO TIMETABLED UNIVERSITY WORK &OR THE ST TEAM lXTURE AGAINST ,INCOLN ST 86 SIX OF THE USUAL STARTING PLAY
ERS INCLUDING #APTAIN (UGH 3IMPSON WERE ABSENT WHICH MEANT THE lELDING OF A SQUAD OF ONLY PLAYERS WHO HAD NEVER TRAINED TOGETHER AS A TEAM AND ALSO INCLUDED SEV ERAL FRESHERS PLAYING IN THEIR lRST "53! MATCH 4HE GAME STARTED AT A REA SONABLE PACE WITH BOTH TEAMS SEEMING FAIRLY MATCHED BUT AFTER THE lRST lVE MINUTES IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITHIN THE 5%! TEAM WHICH ,INCOLN EXPLOITED BY RUNNING IN SEV ERAL TRIES IN QUICK SUCCESSION (OWEVER EVEN WHEN IN POS SESSION 5%! COULD NOT GATHER
THE MOMENTUM TO BREAK THE ,INCOLN DEFENCE SEVERAL MO MENTS OF ATTACK HINTED AT POSSIBLE SCORING OPPORTUNI TIES BUT HANDLING ERRORS COST 5%! POSSESSION ! BLOW CAME MINUTES IN AS 5%! NUMBER *OEL 3MITH WAS SUBSTITUTED AFTER SUFFERING A HEAD INJURY FOL LOWED IN THE ND HALF BY THE SUBSTITUTION OF INJURED mY HALF .ICK +ARANICK !FTER THE START OF THE ND HALF 5%! CAPITALISED ON A ,INCOLN SIN BINNING WITH A PERIOD OF PRESSURE PREVENT ING FURTHER SCORES BUT ALSO BEING HELD BACK BY ,INCOLN S
DEFENCE !FTER THIS FURTHER TRIES CAME FOR ,INCOLN DUE TO MORE POOR DEFENDING FROM 5%! BUT SEVERAL SCORES WERE PREVENTED WITH EXCELLENT DE FENCE AND TACKLING FROM FULL BACK ,AURIE &ERGUSON ON HIS "53! DEBUT GAINING HIM MAN OF THE MATCH FOR 5%! 'OOD PERFORMANCES ALSO CAME FROM SCRUM HALF $AVE 'REEN AND PROP 0ETE ,IGHT BOWM /VERALL IT WAS A GOOD EFFORT ESPECIALLY FROM THOSE MAKING THEIR DEBUTS BUT A TORRENT OF MISTAKES LEAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN NEXT WEEK S GAME 4HE 5%! ND TEAM ALSO
SUFFERED THE LOSS OF PLAYERS TO THE DEPLETED ST TEAM AND ALSO THROUGH INJURY BUT SEVERAL OF THE ST TEAM PLAY ERS WERE ABLE TO FEATURE IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST ,EICES TER ND S 4HE lRST HALF WAS MARKED BY SOME POOR RUGBY FROM BOTH TEAMS WITH 5%! ALLOW ING ,EICESTER THE LEAD AT HALF TIME )N THE SECOND HALF 5%! AWAKENED TO PUT POINTS ON THE BOARD FOR THE HOME TEAM BUT NOT ENOUGH TO RECTIFY THE MISTAKES OF THE lRST HALF &I NAL SCORE TO ,EICESTER
&OCUS /N "ASEBALL !MERICA S PASTIME 0AUL 4HOMAS "ASEBALL !MERICA S NATION AL PASTIME BUT WHAT DO WE "RITS REALLY KNOW ABOUT IT APART FROM THE FACT THAT THERE IS A 7ORLD 3ERIES WHERE ONLY !MERICAN AND ONE #ANA DIAN TEAM CAN ENTER 4HE BELIEF THAT IT IS SIM PLY GLORIlED ROUNDERS IS A BIT UNFAIR AS DESPITE THE 53! S USUAL AVERSION TO ANYTHING INTELLIGENT OR COMPLICATED BASEBALL CAN TAKE SOME TIME TO UNDERSTAND MOSTLY DUE
TO THE JARGON USED TO DE SCRIBE CERTAIN EVENTS %VERY ONE KNOWS ABOUT HOME RUNS AND STRIKE OUTS BUT TAGGING SLIDER ONE HOP BUNT AND WALK ARE OFTEN A LITTLE CONFUS ING WHEN THEY ARE HEARD FOR THE lRST TIME (OWEVER AFTER A FEW MATCHES MOST ARE EASY TO GET THE HANG OF AND YOU WILL SOON lND YOURSELF TRY ING TO HIT A GRAND SLAM OFF A CURVE BALL IN THE BOTTOM OF THE NINTH WITH BASES LOADED AND TWO OUTS "ASEBALL SHARES ITS ROOTS WITH CRICKET IN STOOLBALL IN TH CENTURY "RITAIN WITH THE
lRST REFERENCE TO BASEBALL IN THE 3TATES NOT OCCURRING UNTIL (OWEVER THE !MERI CAN BELIEF WAS THAT IT WAS FOUNDED BY A #IVIL 7AR HERO IN #OOPERSTOWN .EW 9ORK IN THE YEAR (OWEVER THERE IS VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS THEORY ESPE CIALLY AS THE MAN INVOLVED WAS NOT EVEN IN #OOPERS TOWN IN 4HIS DOES NOT STOP #OOPERSTOWN BEING THE LOCATION OF THE "ASEBALL (ALL OF &AME 4HERE ARE TWO SIDES TO A BASEBALL TEAM THE OFFENCE AND DEFENCE 4HE OFFENCE
IS THE BATTING AND BASE RUN NING WHICH HAS THE OBJEC TIVE OF GETTING ROUND THE BASES AND SCORING A RUN HOWEVER THEY CAN ! HOME RUN IS WHERE SOMEONE GETS AROUND ALL THE BASES WITH ONE HIT 4HE DEFENCE OF A TEAM IS WHEN THE TEAM lELDS WITH NINE POSITIONS )N THE IN lELD THERE IS A &IRST "ASEMAN 3ECOND "ASEMAN 3HORTSTOP AND 4HIRD "ASEMAN AND THE OUTlELD CONSISTS OF 2IGHT ,EFT AND #ENTRE &IELDERS 4HE TWO MOST IMPORTANT DEFENCE POSITIONS ARE THE PITCHER AND THE CATCHER WHO MUST BE EF
FECTIVE AS A TEAM IF THEY ARE NOT TO CONCEDE RUNS 5%! "ASEBALL CURRENTLY TRAIN THREE TIMES A WEEK TWICE OUTDOORS AT #OLNEY ,ANE ON 7EDNESDAY AND 3ATURDAY PM n PM AND ONCE INDOORS IN HALL OF THE 3PORTSPARK &RIDAY AFTERNOON PM n PM !FTER #HRISTMAS THERE WILL ALSO BE TRAINING ON A -ONDAY IN THE 3PORTSPARK AT PM 4RAIN ING IS FREE TO MEMBERS AND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED POP ALONG TO A TRAINING SESSION TO lND OUT MORE
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3PORT %DITOR S COLUMN !SHES FEVER 4HE %NGLAND CRICKET TEAM HAVE ARRIVED IN !USTRALIA AHEAD OF THE RE COMMENCE MENT OF !SHES HOSTILITY ON .OVEMBER 7E HOPE THAT THIS SERIES COULD POSSIBLY MATCH THE EPIC DRAMA ENACTED BACK IN THE SUMMER OF IS PROBABLY MISPLACED BUT THE MERE FACT THAT !NDREW &LINTOFF S CHARGES ARE IN WITH A CHANCE OF RETAINING THE URN IS ENOUGH TO TICKLE ANYONE S TASTE BUDS 0ERHAPS THE MOST IMME DIATE FEAR FOR THIS EDITOR THOUGH IS JUST HOW WATCH ING TEST MATCHES THROUGH THE NIGHT WILL AFFECT HIS DISSERTATION PROGRESS ) SUP POSE JUST LIKE THE OUTCOME OF THE SERIES ITSELF ONLY TIME WILL TELL
!USSIE BASHING !S THE CRICKET TEAM PREPARE TO OUTFOX THE OLD ENEMY AGAIN THESE ISLANDS HAVE ALREADY SECURED A FAMOUS VICTORY OVER !USTRALIA !T 2UGBY ,EAGUE THE !US SIES ARE INDISPUTABLY THE BEST WITH 'REAT "RITAIN YET TO WIN A 4RI .ATIONS TITLE (OWEVER THEIR TRI UMPH PERHAPS INDICATES THAT THIS YEAR MAY BE THEIR BEST CHANCE YET AND THE FACT THAT THIS WIN CAME IN THE !USSIES OWN STADIUM MAKES IT EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE (OPEFULLY THIS WILL BE THE lRST OF MANY MORNINGS IN THE COMING MONTHS WHEN WE WAKE TO SEE AN !USTRAL IAN DEFEAT PLASTERED OVER OUR SPORTS PAGES
!POLOGY )N THE PREVIOUS EDITION OF #ONCRETE A GREAT INJUSTICE OCCURRED ON THESE HALLOWED SPORT S PAGES 4HE OPINION ARTICLE ENTITLED @&ATIGUE AND INJURY IN SPORT BORE THE NAME OF $ANNY 4HOMAS .OW WHILST ) DO NOT DOUBT THAT $ANNY COULD WRITE SUCH A LUCID AND ENJOYABLE FEATURE ON THIS OCCASSION IT WAS NOT HIM 4HEREFORE MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES GO OUT TO -ATT 7AIK WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF SAID PIECE ) DO HOPE MY ERROR HAS NOT PUT HIM OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER OFF CONTRIBUTING TO THESE SPLENDID PAGES
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5%! JOINS IN ANTI RACISM CAMPAIGN
7E ALL ACCEPT RASCISM IS WRONG 7E HAVE SEEN SPORT BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER 3O SHOW RASCISM THE 2%$ CARD
+UMY 6ELUPPILLAI !S PART OF ,IBERATIONS 7EEK THE ,IBERATIONS /FlCER -ARTIN *OPP AND THE 3PORTS /FlCER +UMY 6ELLUPILLAI LAUNCHED THE @3HOW 2ACISM THE 2ED #ARD CAMPAIGN 4HERE HAS BEEN LITTLE IN THE WAY OF RACISM IN THE LAST YEAR AT 5%! WHICH IS A TESTA MENT TO THE STUDENTS OF 5%! 4HIS CAMPAIGN IS AIMED TO ENSURE THAT IT REMAINS THIS WAY BY USING SPORT 7E SAW OVER THE SUMMER HOW SPORT BROUGHT PEOPLE OF
DIFFERENT CULTURES TOGETHER TO FORM THE WONDERFUL SPECTA CLE THAT WAS THE 7ORLD #UP 4HE WAY SPORT BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER IS UNIQUE AS IT PRO VIDES A LANGUAGE FOR PEOPLE TO COMMUNICATE 3PORTS /F lCER +UMY SAID h)N MY PO SITION FOR THE 5NION ) WISH TO PROMOTE THE %QUAL /P PORTUNITIES POLICY IN ORDER TO ENABLE EVERY STUDENT AT 5%! TO ENJOY THE WONDERFUL FACILI TIES WE HAVE AT THE 3PORTSPARK AND #OLNEY ,ANE v 4HIS PROJECT IS A CENTRAL PART OF THE ,IBERATIONS /F lCER S WORK TO TACKLE RACISM CELEBRATE DIVERSITY AND AD
DRESS EXCLUSION 4HE PERIOD COINCIDES WITH "LACK (ISTORY -ONTH AND THE START OF THE -USLIM MONTH OF 2AMADAN BOTH OF WHICH PROVIDE OP PORTUNITIES TO EXPLORE AND LEARN MORE ABOUT "LACK AND %THNIC MINORITY COMMUNI TIES 4O LAUNCH THE CAMPAIGN THE 3PORTS AND ,IBERATIONS /FlCERS ATTENDED A BADMIN TON TRAINING SESSION IN THE MAIN HALL OF THE 3PORTSPARK -ARTIN SAID h7E KNOCKED ABOUT FOR A BIT PLAYING DOU BLES WITH CLUB MEMBERS )T WAS CLEAR TO SEE THEY WERE GO ING EASY ON US v
4O lNISH OFF THE SESSION EVERYONE GOT TOGETHER AND PHOTOS WERE TAKEN WITH A SIGN READING @3HOW 2ACISM 4HE 2ED #ARD -ANY THANKS GO TO THE BADMINTON CLUB FOR ALL THEIR HELP AND WE WISH THEM LUCK FOR THE COMING YEAR !S A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN THERE HAVE BEEN MANY HIGH PROlLE SUPPORTERS WITH THE %NGLAND TEAM TRAINING IN @+ICK 2ACISM /UT /F &OOT BALL 4 SHIRTS 4HE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ABLE TO INVOLVE HUN DREDS OF TOP FOOTBALLERS AND MANAGERS AND HAS HARNESSED THE HIGH PROlLE OF THESE ROLE
MODELS TO COMBAT RACISM 3UCH CAMPAIGNS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN RAISING AWARE NESS AND REDUCING RACISM IN SPORT (OWEVER RACISM STILL REMAINS A PROBLEM SO WITH ON GOING NATIONAL CAM PAIGNS AND LOCAL COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS SUCH AS THE ONE AT 5%! HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE ABLE TO @3HOW 2ACISM THE 2ED #ARD 4HE MAIN PART OF THE CAMPAIGN WILL BE A WORKSHOP ON RACISM AIMED AT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 4HE WORKSHOP CONSIDERS CHALLENGING AND RE MOVING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AT 5%! 4HE ,IBERATIONS /F
lCER AND 3PORTS /FlCER WILL LOOK TO DEVELOP THE BEST POS SIBLE RACIAL EQUALITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES THAT ARE SUBJECT TO REGULAR REVIEW AND UPDATE IN ORDER TO ERADICATE THE CAN CER THAT IS RACISM FROM SPORT $ATES AND TIMES WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE NEAR FUTURE IN 2ABBIT SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COME ALONG AS THE INPUT OF AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE IS VITAL IN MAKING THIS CAM PAIGN A SUCCESS )F YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS EMAIL -ARTIN *OPP n SU LIBERATIONS UEA AC UK OR +UMY 6ELUPPILLAI n SU SPORTS UEA AC UK
5%! MOUNT lGHTBACK AGAINST $E -ONTFORT "53! RESULTS
&OR WEEK COMMENCING TH /CTOBER
-ARCUS *ONES 4HERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT AN AWAY TEAM IS OFTEN AT A DIS ADVANTAGE )N THE UPPER ECHELONS OF THE GAME THIS MAY IN PART BE DUE TO THE INTIMIDATING ATMOSPHERE THAT CAN BE CRE ATED BY OPPOSING FANS (OW EVER THIS IS "53! AND HOARDS OF ANGRY FANS ARE A RARITY 4HE DISADVANTAGE IN THESE lXTURES STEMS FROM EXTRICATING ONE SELF FROM A CRAMPED SLIGHTLY DAMP COACH AFTER A THREE HOUR BUS JOURNEY AND BE ING FORCED TO PLAY ON A PITCH WITH MORE DIVETS AND LUMPS THAN A TEENAGER WITH CHRONIC ACHNE !RGUABLY THOUGH A GOOD TEAM SHOULD ADAPT TO WHAT
EVER ENVIRONMENT THEY lND THEMSELVES IN AND THE MEN S FOOTBALL ND 8) RESOUND INGLY FAILED TO DO THIS AFTER A WRETCHED lRST HALF PER FORMANCE SAW THEM TRAIL $E -ONTFORT ,EICESTER BY TWO GOALS TO NIL .ONETHELESS HAVING PLAYED TOGETHER FOR OVER A SEASON NOW THIS TEAM HAS FORGED A RESILIENCE THAT MEANT THEY CONSIDERED THIS GAME FAR FROM OVER &ROM THE RESTART 5%! mEW AT THEIR OPPONENTS WITH A PHYSICALITY AND mU ENCY THAT HAD BEEN THE HALL MARK OF THEIR THRASHING OF "EDFORD THE WEEK BEFORE $E -ONTFORT WERE VISIBLY mUSTERED AND THIS ALLOWED $AVE 9EOMANS TO SEIZE ON DEFENSIVE HESITANCY TO SLAM HOME HIS lRST "53! GOAL OF THE SEASON
5%! CONTINUED TO POUR FORWARD DRIVEN ON BY THE DYNAMIC PRESENCE OF *ON 2ICHARDSON AND -ATT "EAS LEY IN THE CENTRE OF THE lELD AND THE EQUALISER SEEMED AN INEVITABILITY (OWEVER 4OM 4HORNTON HAT TRICK HERO LAST WEEK THIS TIME FOUND THE WOODWORK AN OBSTACLE AS HIS HEADER STRUCK THE BAR 4HIS PROVED ONLY A TEMPORARY DELAY THOUGH AS SUBSTITUTE ,IAM -ARTIN GOT HIS FOOT TO A PENALTY BOX SCRAMBLE TO SPARK JOYOUS CELEBRATIONS AMONG THE TEAM 5%! SEEMED BY FAR THE LIKELIER OF THE TWO SIDES TO CLAIM VICTORY BUT THIS AL MOST PROVED THEIR DOWNFALL AS IN PUSHING FORWARD THEY BECAME EXPOSED AT THE BACK &ORTUNATELY 4OM ,ENIHAN CONTINUED HIS SPELENDID
FORM BY PALMING A $E -ONT FORT HEADER AWAY TO SAFETY IN THE lNAL lVE MINUTES 4HERE WERE MIXED FEEL INGS FOR 5%! AT THE END AS IT WAS APPARENT THAT THEY WERE ULTIMATELY THE BETTER SIDE BUT THEIR ABJECT FAILURE TO DISPLAY THIS IN THE lRST FORTY lVE MINUTES MEANT THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HARSH HAD $E -ONTFORT BEEN ROBBED OF A POINT 4HE ST 8) CONTINUED THEIR lNE FORM WITH A HUM BLING OF 3TAFFORDSHIRE ON 7EDNESDAY $ESPITE A POOR lRST HALF 5%! LED AT THE BREAK WITH GOALS FROM 'RANT / $ONNELL AND $UNCAN -CHARDY -IKE 'RANT AND .ICK 9OUNG COM PLETED THE SCORING IN THE SEC OND PERIOD
-EN S BADMINTON ST
"IRMINGHAM ND
-EN S BASKETBALL ST
-EN S FENCING ST
,EICESTER ST
-EN S FOOTBALL ST -EN S FOOTBALL ND 7OMEN S FOOTBALL ST
7OLVERHAMPTON ST
3TAFFORDSHIRE ND $E-ONTFORT,EICESTER ND /XFORD ST
'OLF ST
7ARWICK ST
-EN S HOCKEY ST
7ARWICK ND
.ETBALL ST .ETBALL ND
,EICESTER ST ,INCOLN ST
-EN S RUGBY ST -EN S RUGBY ND
,INCOLN ST ,EICESTER ND
-EN S TENNIS ST 7OMEN S TENNIS ST
"EDFORD ST .OTTINGHAM ND