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Panic over in LawSoc POLITICAL Correctness for Dinosaurs ... Manchester University's Assistant Dean, Deborah Protherow, has written a newspaper article complaining about discrimination in last year's biggest movie, 'Jurassic Park'. Apparently, all those stars who had dark hair were eithermairned or killed by the dinosaurs, whilst all those with blonde hair managed to escape .... JOHN PA TTEN could be well on his way to losing his fellowshipatOxford'sHertford College, after their MCR and JCR voted to remove him from this post. This follows various remarks that the Secretary of State made about Oxford students and academics, as well as Mr Patten' s involvement in the proposed grant cuts. With such a record, leading membersofthecollegehave decided that Mr Patten is now an 'embarrassment' to them.
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r1 REPORTERS from the Dally Star accompanied UEAstudents on a trip to Amsterdam - and slammed them for spending money on drugs, writes Seth
Levine. Their article strongly criticised the use of "taxpayers' money" to finance a trip to Amsterdam with the Cannabis Awareness Society (CAS). But those who made the trip have strongly condemned the paper's coverage, and are now wondering how their reporters joined up with them. For they say journalists from the tabloid paper employed deceitful subterfuge to capture misleading images and incorrect information. CAS members claim the Star's reporters posed as students from East London Polytechnic and used various dubious methods to achieve the angle they desired on the story. Chris Trill - pictured in the paper rolling a marijuana joint- was amazed at the methods the journalists used. He told how he had been separated from his friends, and when he recognized the two would-be students from the coach, they invited him to go to a coffee shop with them.
''When we sat down, one of them asked me to roU a joint for him because he had a bandaged arm. "As I had never rolled before, he talked me through the process, and that was when they were taking pictures of each other. He must have taken the photo then", he said. Chris also felt aggrieved at a claim that he
had become overdrawn to finance the trip, which he said was entirely false. But CAS Chairman Sirnon lggi claimed he was "happy" about the Daily Star's story. "It shows that people do notice us. We're a society doing something on a much larger scale than people are aware of. We're not operating just at
UEA but on a national level with other universities and polytechnics in the UK", he said, adding, ''The trip was living research - we're comparing this society to another society which is more tolerant." Simon believes that the paper was informed of the trip by Conservative elements at UEA.
THE Law Society has fmaUy elected its committee - after several months of chaos and confusion, writes Juli e Cunliffe. Acting committee chair Alex Radford moves up to President, accompanied by Wayne Spencer as Treasurer, Pat Schofield as Social Secretary and A Kint as Secretary, amongst others. And fears that the midsummer Law Ball, the most popular event of the summer term, rnight not have gone ahead have been grounded after the poll held last Thursday. For uncertainty about the committee elections caused problems with the arrangement of the Law Ball, which was finalised by this time a year ago. While there is no serious threat to this year's event, confusion has slowed its organisation, leaving only lirnited time for it to be finalised. Chaos surrounded the Law Society until last week, after the Union discovered irregularities on its members list following complaints from six students after a previous election last November. And the acting committee led by Alex Radford faced restricted access to their funds, with Union Finance Officer Lizzie Watson having to approve movements as a result of past discrepancies.
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A UEA student has slammed University authorities for their 'negligence' this week. Student George Patten is blaming their lack of attention for the £300 burglary of his room which he claims could have been prevented. The thieves gained access through the window of his ground Waveney Terrace residence room and stole a suede jacket, wallet and a CD player. The window had no lock. Said George, "It is the fact that the university didn't put a lock on my window. "Anyone could have got in." Three days before the burglary occurred the window had been smashed when a brick was catapulted through it. The window was repaired by the university's maintenance services immediately but no sliding lock was fitted. Despite repeated requests George was still waiting for the lock to be fitted three days later when the burglary occurred. "It's the negligence of the porters that I want to stress" he said. "I know the story about living on the ground floor of Waveney but it isn't as if they smashed the window and climbed in. "I could handle that because that's just unlucky."
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(0603) 630252. But insult was added to injury when George was told that the university were refusing to pay out because the property stolen did not belong to the university. University authorities have now been considering George's case for a total of three months
and have still not reached a fmal decision. Said George, "To me it's a clear cut case. "If the university had fitted a lock I wouldn't have been burgled and I would be £300 better off." University authorities were not available for comment at the time Concrete went to press.
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