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!\for two students scaled the Registry and replaced UEA's flag with their own version -'Welcome to Disneyland' . The daring duo, who are reluctant to be identified, switched the flags in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday (May 29). Gommenting on their achievemen~ they said: "It had to be done -a practical joke to end all practical jokes. We suspect maybe

only a porter or two and a few birds saw what we did. We were armed with two ladders, a rope, a flashlight, and a lot of balls. And no-one saw us doing it ..." But UEA's campus security supremo, Maurice Morso slammed the two's flag switch caper: "I can confirm that someone got onto the Registry tower at night and that the Registry flag is still missing. "I can perhaps understand the euphoria from s udents at this time of year, but this was an incident of extreme folly and stupidity," he said.

OUEA's biannual babefest took place last week in the LCR and received the usual raptuous response, writes Carolina Jenkinson . OThe Fashion Show catwalk played host to an assortment of characters, from pouting punks in PVC to winsome lasses in floaty white dresses. OThe constant stream of clothes from Norwich's top fashion houses was punctuated with a variety of entertainment, ranging from an interpretation of Madonna's 'Vogue' , to juggling with fire. OTum to page 20 for further exclusive pictures .

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Concerns over new Business School for UEA CONCERNS have been voiced over the launch of UEA's new School o f Management, due to be set up in August A Registryworkingpartywhich included outside experts took four months to reach a recommendation that the new school be set up as part of SYS, the School of Infonnation Systems. Yet their report was thrown out by the Committee of Deans and a new working party tookj ust I 1 weeks to come up with a completely different solution. Academic insiders have criticised the speed with which the new school is being set up and the radical turnaround in the revised working party's recommendations. They als6 fear that top University bosses are trying to jump on a rapidly-growing bandwagon fo r professional management qualifications, with close to I 00 university schools already in existence in the UK. But Acting Dean of the new school, Professor GeoffBrown, was keen to stress UEA 's existing expertise in management courses already being run in several schools. He is also confident that the new school will be successful. "Our first priority is to see that no student is disadvantaged. The courses that were on offer as far as humanly possible will be hon. o ured", he said.

Conference delegates demand free education NUS LEADERS suffered an embarrassing defeat last week as students voted to cont inue their commitment to free education.

BEERFEST f renzy hits UEA again this week, with RAG's latest liquid offering in The Hive. Running from June 5-7, the popular event will feature 45 beers, 14 ciders and 9 schnapps. All profits will be donated to local charities. Said Beerfest Co-Ordinator, Juliette Annal: ''This year, we've got fewer beers, but the range is just as good. The beers range from 3.4 per centto 7 per cent ABV and we've tried to represent smaller breweries. "Some of the beers have been brought all the way from Hampshire and our volunteers have travelled to places like Kent and Sussex for some of the ciders." "Come and give them a try!", she added. PHOTO· PETER HART

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GSA MEMBERS were raising their glasses last week after UEA agreed to fund a £10,000 refurbishment of their bar, writes Michele du Randt. The cash was secured after consistent lobbying from GSA committee members and an address in favouroftheirproposals from UEA's Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Alien. The refit, due to begin in August, will feature :

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Livewire•s FM DJ rotas criticised LIVEWIRE 945 has been accused of acting unfairly over the allocation of DJ slots for its month-long FM broadcast. Presenters not included in the RSL (Restricted Service Licence) schedules have hit out at station administrators, and two overlooked DJs claim they are outside the FM "clique." Said Lucien Brown and Sam Richards, who present the off-

beat weeklyDaveShow, "It seems as ifthe RSL DJs want to be Radio One, which is silly because ifpeople want to listen to Radio One, then they'll do that. As a student radio station, Livewire should be providing a bit of an alternative." "We're annoyed but it's sadly inevitable. We've always found ourselves outside the clique." But the Livewire Committee disputed Lucien and Sam's criti-

cisms, stating, "In order to satisfy our advertisers and to appeal to a varied enough audience to make advertising on Livewire viable, we have had to sacrifice some of the more unconventional areas ofour broadcasting. "IfLivewire is to continue its run of success then for this FM broadcast at least, we must appear to be as professional as possible."

•A new three-sided bar, •The provision of extra seating, and •Enhancedfacilitiesforlunchtime opening. In addition, the Union are to donate 15 square metres of existing storage space for the construction of a new beer cellar. Speaking hours after the Registry'sdecision, GSA President Geoff Williams voiced his satisfaction at the outcome of his member's efforts. "It's the biggest thing UEA's ever done for graduates, and we 're clearly delighted", he said. "It's a significant investment in the GSA when the Union have had

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STARTLING allegations have been made in Private Eye about Carole Morin, this year's EAS writer in residence. The article's main claims are that Ms Morin: ewas appointed to her £5.000, single semester part-time job by her husband, Don Watson, in his position as Literature Officer with Eastern Arts, and •has ignored her responsibility to tutor students on the Creative Writing MA . However, Lorna Sage, Dean of EAS, said the appointment was made entirely by an independent UEA panel, and that Ms Morin runs a BA course, not being requiredtoteachMAstudentsatall. She added, "There is no truth whatsoever in the story. I hope Carole succeeds in getting not only an apology, but some appropriate compensation." Ms Morin, who has written to Private Eye about the article's

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"factual errors", said, "It is true my husband is incredibly powerful. He doesn't spend money bribing people to get me jobs, but he is very violent." In March, Ms Morin caused a stir with remarks she made in an interview in the UEA newspaper Broadview, saying that, "Academics live up to their caricature ... Norwich makes me want to get a machine gun and kill every-

body." Concrete has evidence of strained relations between Ms Morin and a senior member of staff in EAS, and some staff and students have alleged that Ms Morin has not maintained the

FROM YOUR PRESIDENT The end of an academic year is often a time of sorrowful goodbyes but not at the GSA. This time we will be saying a particularly joyous and good riddance to our ancient and unloved bar. After a good deal of persuasion, cajoling and high-level politicking, we have at last secured a major grant from the University for the much awaited refurbishment.

high profile within EAS that is usual for someone in her post. This has fuelled speculation that the source of the Private Eye story is within UEA. However, Ms Sage vigorously defended Ms Morin's record. "She is a very interesting writer, and has proven to be a very good appointment", she said last week.

Poor response to Library survey THE UNION expressed their disappointment last week over the poor response to the 1995 Library Users Survey. Just 13 per cent ofUEA's 7,500 students returned questionnaire forms within the deadline. Although she conceded that the response was not as high as expected, Union Academic Researcher, Rachel Johnson, said, "The feedback is enough for a general overview of student opinions on the services provided by the library." The survey was conducted by the Student Union in conjunction with the library, and aimed to gauge feed-

back on the availability of course books, noise levels, the amount of

study space and the advice offered by library staff. Said Jean Steward, Head of Library Services, "The questionnaire allows us to look at ways in which services that have been highlighted as weak can be improved. "It also allows us to fulfil our ethos of providing good value for money." Despite a 15 per cent decrease in expenditure on books, Mrs Steward is aware that circulation figures are up by 20 per cent. "This means that more of our budget for the next academic year might be allocated to purchasing books", she added.

The work will be undertaken during the summer shutdown (Bowl Managers take note!) and a brand spanking new vision will appear for the start of next year. Conservatism and good taste will as always be the guiding principles for the design work and the continued goodwill of the Union extra space will be available for a comfortable smooching corner for Gripper and Harper. The bar refurbishment has been a majorprojectforthe GSA Committee this year and we've had support from the Graduate School, the Union and one or two very senior members oft he University. We would like to thank everybody involved for their help and support.

SCHOLARSHIPS The GSA Scholarship scheme remains unique in the UK and is the GSA's most distinctive contribution to postgraduates at UEA. This year we will be offering more scholarships. The selection of Schools will take place this week and as usual the choice of candidate will be out of our hands.

COMMITTEE SHADOWS Success breeds success and we've been very pleased by the response to our shadowing scheme. Almost all the committee now has a shadow. If you'd like to be part of next year's team then simply ask. Particularly importantfornext year will be those people who represent Graduates on University Committees and School Boards. These are very important and useful posts: the EUR rep for example has secured extra office space for postgraduates there, which will improve their life a great deal.

ENTS The GSA Rugby Society will be showing all the remaining World Cup matches live from South Africa in the GSA Bar. A special party will be held for the final (even though there's no chance of England appearing!). The bar will shut down in mid July but before then, one or two special events will emerge from the mists and fog of Chris's little black book. Finally ... the hard work of all our bar staff will be rewarded with an end of year spectacular of unbounded proportions!!

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Scandal! Shame! Sleaze! Controversy rocked the Union Exec utive in the wake of the re s ignati on o f Comms Officer, Polly Knewstub. She 'd been involved in an ' incident ' in the Grads Bar with her predecessor, Jacqui Mackay, but no-one seemed to know exactly what happened - and probabl y still don ' t. Nevertheless, the scandal was the first hot potato for the Union this year, and set the wheels in motion fora right old fun fest... Elsewhere, the much-adored University Village opened its doors to students. But what the Accommodation Office didn't tell students was that the builders hadn't actually finished the job, so taking a shower or toasting a piece of bread was a totally new experience. Meanwhile, the Union launched their hugely successful £1 a pint policy. Successful from the point of view that you can get totally bladdered for a tenner. .. not so clever when yo u consider the hangover the following morning.

they had tabled a bid to the Department of Heritage for £4m of Lottery cash for the building of a new top-spec sports centre. While this may be commendable for the sporting-minded amongst us, why can' t they do the same so that we can have a McDonalds, a Chinese, a Pizza Hut, a chip shop, an Indian and a betting shop on campus? Or how about building an underground railway between UEA and the City so we don't have to get the bus? The Registry also announced the appointment of Elizabeth Esteve-Coll as the new Vice-Chancellor, to replace DezzaBurke who's retiring in September. Ms Esteve-Coll comes to us from the V &AMuseuminLondon,andshe'ssupposed to be one of Thatcher' s children. Maybe she '11 waive tuition fees or something. Not. And last but not least, the Union unveiled their spanking new LCR, fresh from its £80,000 Xmas refit. The trouble is, it looks like a Top Rank bingo hall and there ' s no dark. corners to go and snog people or smoke dodgy cigarettes any more. Still, the cocktail carpet was a nice touch. The Union 're-launched ' the LCR with a press conference, and took the opportunity to let their brand new 'Union of UEA Students' banner make its first appearance. Funny that, it looks just like the Union house doormats that went missing in October...

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Accommodation bosses were bombarded with complaints from Village residents about teething problems at the site. These ranged from the prefab bathrooms being dropped in the wrong way round so that showers took three days to drain; the brand-new launderette only taking American coins and kitchen windows only opening if mixer taps were removed from the sink. Not bad huh? And all thi s fort he bargain price of £44.25. Problems continued for the Union with the loss of another two Exec members, thus mak.ingthecorridorsofpowera bit less, well, powerful. Did they have BO or something? Elsewhere, smokers stormed around Union House after the news that their beloved habit had been banned from all first floor offices. Observant people could now see Union hacks hanging out of the windows smoking their B & H. Downstairs, some daring fun sters stole the Uni on' s brand new welcome mats. Various reports suggested that they had been spotted abandoned in a Sainsbury 'scar park after the thieves found they didn't go particularly well with their hall carpet. And outside, our survey revealed that 67 per cent of UEA students were aware that their School ofstudy had its own scarf, and found that 78 per cent doubted they would buy one anyway . That's hard ly surpri sing when you consider what they actually look like ... have you seen the one for EAS?

Faced with ever-mounting pressure to balance the books, Accommodation bosses announced plans to rent out empty rooms on a weekly basis. They claimed that the 'Study Space Hire Scheme' would allow non-resident students the chance to have a quiet place to study and to embark on those ever-popular all-night revision sessions. But what's wrong with the library? Had they forgotten it actually exists? Students don't do any work anyway, so ten out of ten for that idea chaps. The doom and gloom continued for the Union Exec, with the shock resignation of Phi I Clegg after two months in office. Phi! claimed that petty politicking and personality differences had been responsible for his decision - all a bit playground really. Union bosses announced plans for a nonsabb Comms Officer to take Phil ' s place, rather than stage the third election for the post in one year. Students around UEA were inconsolable at the news. Elsewhere, the much-maligned Breakers jukebox came under scrutiny, and after frequent complaints from the popular eatery's staff, the rental firm agreed to update the COs inside, many of which resembled records released in the 1970s. Rod Stewart? Phi I Collins? El ton John? Gary Glitter? What's going on? Do students in the 1990s really want to listen to such crap? Mind you, the music isn't the only prob-

THAT'S YOUR lot folks! The end of another scintillating year at UEA, and what could be better than XCrete's review of all those great and fantastic times had by all. Take a seat and read on to find out what really went on ...

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NOVEMBER Front page news all over UEA was the naughty goings-on of our sports teams. Tearing up and down the country from week to week., ripping the opposition to shreds and then getting beered-up in the bar ... wha-hay! But thi s was nothing compared to the fact that all the whi le they were pilfering ' trophies', with the result that concrete bollards, traffic cones and campus maps were making appearances at UEA, hundreds of miles away from where they should have been. What a load of bollards. Sleaze! Resignations! And now the re-elections for Comms Officer were cancelled following 'irregularities' in campaigning, conduct and last but not least, campus media coverage. All this, plus the resignation of yet another Exec member. What the heckity heck was going on? Buy them some Right Guard- they really don't like each other. UEA announced the scuppering of the proposed campus chip shop because they said they were worried about taking financial risks.

But that's not exactly fair, because any student eating in The Diner is taking a considerable financial risk., as well as a health one. Seen the fat pouring off that Breakers Brunch recently? National news now, and with it the hugely popularNUS student hardship demo held in London. NUS chiefs said 30,000 students took part, but the police estimated nearer 8,000. Perhaps the other 22,000 went shopping or something- that's what most people do when they go on an NUS demo. It's not bad value reall y is it? London and back for £2, and don 't let anyone see your shopping bags ... Nearer to home, the Union launched their 'Pay Peanuts Get Monkeys ' campaign against student hardship. The highlight of this was when six students turned up at a rally in Chapelfield Gardens. That was well worth it then ... But better news, and at long last, the Union Comms Officer was re-elected. Postgrad Phi I Cl egg beat Polly Knewstub by a comfortable 250 votes and took his place in the hot seat. Elsewhere, Constable Terrace won a prestigious regional award from the top arch i-

tects body, RIBA. They praised its clean lines and functional appearance, but didn't mention the fact that students lived there. What could be worse? Save it for the conference visitors. Shortly after this, the 'Guinness Taste Sensation ' roads how arrived at UEA, inviting students to develop a taste for the ingenious brew. And this they did in their hundreds, queueing up for hours to get a free taste plus the chance to win a free T-shirt, and of course to be taken to the bottom of a glass of Guinness and back in a flight simulator. But why all the hi-tech approach? Afterten pints of the stuff, it's quite easy to do this unaided anyway ...

JANUARY Students returning after the Christmas break. were faced with the ever-popular exam fortnight, although the lucky ones in EAS had managed to get away with a few wordprocessing classes and careers lectures. It's funny how most of them managed to do all this from The Hive, but there you go. UEA bosses had been working hard over the Xmas vac though, with the news that

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lem with the Breakers jukebox. IT'S THE BLOODY VOLUME!!!! And at long last, the oh-so-top secret gig of the year - or possibly decade - was confirmed. Faith No More arrived all the way from the USA, played a storming set for an hour and a half, and then departed for California afterwards. California, Norfolk. that is. Twenty miles up the A4 7- turn off after Great Yarmouth. The Shock.! Horror! continued for the Union Exec with yet another resignation, this time NUS Officer, Greg Price. which brought the total to a whopping six in the space of just five months. Obviously, they were still sitting too close to each other for comfort ... Novelist and poet Andrew Motion was appointed UEA 's first-ever Professor of Creative Writing- a most prestigious post. He celebrated the news by flying out to Indiatogoandreadafewpoems-soundslik.e a nice bloke. At least it sounds better than 'Doctor of Letters': that must be the bloke in the Post Office that repairs damaged mail.

EUR students were left reeling after news that their coursework grades for the Autumn Semester were subject to moderation and some saw their marks for some units plummet by up to nine per cent. But despite their protests and frustration, nasty Registry bosses refused to budge, so the students planned an Admissions Day demonstration, hoping that it'd make them change their minds. And it was a stunning success, with hordes ofprospective students given a taste ofhow nasty UEA can really be when it comes to students. It even made the national papers, so well done those up there in the Union. The Sabb elections for 1995-6 also took place around this time, with 11 hopefuls standing for election to the four £7,000 a year posts.

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And in more egg-on-face-type-blundershocker, they only went and did it on top club Milky Lunch 's first birthday bash. Could have been worse though - what would have happened if they went and did the same thing for the Saw Doctors in the LCR? Now that would' ve been tragic wouldn 't it? Registry chiefs continued to play the bad dies in theEUR gradefiXingjiasco , as it had now become known, when they refused to go back. on their moderation exercise. The Union however rejected this, so the fight goes on. Bet University bosses are shaking in their Hush Puppies ...

A most ingenious move too - for other residences are only being put up by fi ve per cent- making the campus en-suite hike the k.indofthingRobinHoodwoulddo:robbing the rich to give to the poor. Housing boss Jenny Grant defended the rise on the grounds that as Nelson and Constable are so nice anyway, everyone wants to live in them, adding that UEA would therefore be able to get away with charging half a ton for the added luxury of a room with a bog and a shower on campus. In that case, who knows how much they' 11 be next year? And the year after that? Get the mortgage application in now people ... Elsewhere, spoilsport NUS managers decided thatcampuses shouldstop stocking Walkers Crisps because they don't offer enough of a purchasing discount. Who cares what they think anyway? Ifwe want Walkers Crisps, then we should jolly well be allowed to buy them!

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But unlike their namesakes on TV's The Word, they didn't have to do anything nasty ... the Exec had been doing that for most of the year anyway. Elsewhere, two UEA students were kidnapped by a RAG gang from Manchester University after collecting for charity in London and ended up in, wait for it... Manchester. So, in true student character, they decided to stay for a few days and make the most of it at the taxpayer's expense. Bloody students ... But surely the most significant thing that happened in March was that instead of any more Union resignations, two new officers were actually appointed, and the Exec said a big "hello!" to new non-sabbs Dave Owens

(Comms) and Iona Wakely (NUS). What a turnaround- things can only get better as the old song goes.

APRIL Undergraduates returning from the Easter break found that they only had three weeks before exams started, and started to feel somewhat concerned. Many found that they hadn't done enough work. over Easter, and complained, trying to get the exam period moved back. a couple of weeks. But reports that academic bosses had agreed to reschedule them for Christmas proved to be unfounded, unsurprisingly. A few weeks earlier, over Easter, Union

chiefs were left red-faced after they forgot

Whaaaaayyyy!!! Union bosses announced that they'd sold500,000 pints ofbeerso far this year- the clearest vindication of the£ I a pint policy so far, perhaps with the exception of a load of puk.ed-up remains in The Square after the LCR. To mark. this great event - surely the most significant statistic to come out of the Union all year- they decided to give £50 to the person who bought the token 500,000th pint. Imagine their surprise when it was won by a SYS graduate only here at UEA visiting friends at the weekend! Good work fell as! Away from home, the UEA Hockey Club embarked on a journey-to-disaster tour of

JUNE What a quiet month so far! Ronaldo's in The Square (pity the weather isn' t), spotty undergraduates have finished yet another year's hard work(!?!) and are waiting patiently for their results ... What a great year it's been. Here's to the next one!

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Various technical and mechanical problems resulted in them only spending one day in Ireland and spending only twenty minutes actually playing hockey. They even managed to miss the Monday morning ferry - which is cancelled at least once a month- when they happened to pick the wrong day to catch it! But ten out often for their latest appearance in the Rogue's Gallery -it's UEA

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Left wingers hailed the recent NUS conference on student funding a great result, a stand for free education. But is it wise to try to go back to 16 year old policies when society has moved on? The problem with the issue lies in its complexity. Free education as a principle is highly commendable, and a university education should be available to all, regardless of their financial position. Yet since 1979 there have been massive increases in student numbers without suitable levels in funding, although the Government have been keen to play this down- citing instead the ever-increasing amounts available as student loans. And if Labour win the next general election, there will be massive demands on the Treasury. Increased demands not only for post 16 education, but for nursery, special needs, teachers ' salaries, and so on across the board. For their part, the Tories have also underfunded other areas like health care and public transport- increasing futu re spending requirements yet further. Combined with this, Messrs. Blair and Brown have no idea what state the books will be in when they enter Downing Street. All of which means that taxation could need to be increased, and although no one doubts that taxation is needed to fund public services, it will probably need to go to levels which the Labour leadership will be unwilling to implement. However. it can be argued that this is not the point. The role of the NUS is not to provide any political party with specific policies, based on hypothetical situations. Its role is to campaign and fight for the best possible situation for students. There can be no doubt that it would be a wonderful thing for students to have their grants returned to the index-linked levels of 1979, but the fact that this may not happen is irrelevant. Yet the NUS should push for such a thing, hoping tor the best compromise position, rather than admitting defeat before the debate has begun. Conversely, if we assume that this will not happen, then at least it is better to have an alternative approved of by students, rather than imposed by the Government. There is a logic to the NUS 's 'Funding Our Future' review. The problem is that the consultation with students has been so inadequate. How many students know what the terms ' MICL' means, or what a graduate tax would impose? It is no use having a policy document which sits in an Union Office for a fortnight before replies are needed back at NUS headquarters to form policy. Most students don't care about the future funding of education. Rather, they seem to care about how much money they've got to spend and whether they can afford a dozen pints ofHeineken at the weekend. It's up to the NUS to get students involved in deciding the future outcome of this intricate and vital issue. Its job is surely to represent students to the best of its ability.

Whatever the feelings of Its leaders to the recent conference result. the campaign must go on.

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y is is that the football lub, whose first eleven won their league and whose second eleven were runners-up in theirs, were given the whole back page to report their success - whi lst the ladies hockey club, whose first AND seco nd team s won their respective leagues, only merited an inch-long column on the inside pages of the previous issue? Why is it that coming fifth (the ladies volleyball team), and third {the men's cycling pursuit team) in BUSA competition is considered worthy of a 'Team of the Year' award, but not the second place which the indoor cricket team achieved this season? Many congratulations to all the teams mentioned above for achieving sporting excellence, and to all those others who haven't received the recognition they deserve.

Mike Baker SOC3 Louise Walker ENV3 Me/ Hewett EUR3 Miranda Dodd OPT3 Gareth Billington B/03 Editor's Note: After referring •

your letter to our Co-Sports Editors, Nik Davy and Jane Homer, I'd like to make the following points: The Football Club contacted us with a story and pictures within our sport section's production deadline (Thursday May 11 at 1pm). This was unfortunately not the case with the Hockey Club, so we were unable to give them the coverage they deserved for their efforts. We're more than happy to share out our back page with teams that excel, but if we're not given sufficient notice, I'm afraid there's not much we can do. As for your point about the 'Service To Sport Awards', I'd suggest you refer to A/ex Bainbridge (Union Sports Officer) and Jo Reeson, Rachel Tomes, Dave Watson and Keith Nicholls at the UEA Sports Centre. They choose which club wins the awards - not Concrete.

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a paying customer at this university, I would expect e lecturers to provide me with value for money. Recently, I received an essay back which was jointly marked by two lecturers. It admittedly received the mark it deserved (45) but with it there was a note from one lecturer to the other which ran as follows: "I am at a loss to suggest a mark

for this. My first inclination is to bin it but with a rush of Christian charity I could give it a third class grade. What do you feel?" I found this upsetting and do not consider it constructive criticism but provocative and rud e: I thought they were supposed to be on our side. Have any other students experienced this sort of behaviour?

Chris Marr MUSl

WELL, SORT OF d to laugh today. Want to know why? I was in The ive, subtl y eavesdropping on a frequently heated debate on the whys and wherfores of ethical banking and Fair Trade products etc etc and how it was disgusting that anyone should even consider buying 'unsound' products and banking with Lloyds and Midland. The funny part was that all of them were sitti ng with a beer in fro nt of them, smoking a fag. One of them, I suspect, even had a spliff on the go.

So, tell me, why is it not in the least b it ' right on' to drink dodgy coffee, but it is perfectly okay to condone perhaps the three most corrupt and evil businesses in the world and the human misery they cause at both ends of the chain? I'm talking about smoking, alcohol and drugs . I've heard some pretentious wank in my life but that has to take the biscuit. Wakey, wakey do-gooders this is the real world.

Craig Owens, Robert Townsend, Angela McRobbieand Laura Mulvey provide an exploration of the spaces that people of colour, women and homosexuals occupy {and have occupied) in the realms of popular culture.

Can a history of popular cul ture be taught without discussing the writings and theory by and about homosexuals, people of colour and women?

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his is a call for diversity wi th in the curriculum of UEA, namely the undergraduate Popular Culture unit taught in EAS. Currently, the first term of the course focueses on the texts of Matthew Arnold, Rich a rd Hoggart, Arthur C Doy le , !an Fleming, Dick Hebdige and Mills and Boon. Although it is important to un-

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derstand the influence these texts have had on the study of popular culture, it is also necessary to recognize and transcend their limitations . Their representation of popular culture consists of the di scourse of white males primarily concerned in the activity of white males {apart from Mills and Boon novels). In contrast, the work of writers such as Pauline Kael, Bell Hooks,

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write to express my concemat some Christian people's atti tudes towards 'homosexuals', above all, Ian Cossar's letter published in Concrete, issue 46. Theologian Norman Pittinger's 19721ecture. 'A Christian Attitude Towards Homosexuals' referred to 'homosexual' as a person with a propensity towards his or her own sex, not a criminal or one with a disease. Even today, with changes in the law relating to homosexual acts between conse nting ma les of eighteen or above, they are still likely to be victims of mockery, vindictiveness or rejection - not least by many who claim to be Christian. We must realise that the human being is not a static entity. She or he is a process, inheriting from the past, living in the present with relationships with others, towards a future. There she or he will realise his or her human potential. What matters is whether she or he is going towards himan fulfilment or towards the denials of that fulfilment. God's purpose for man or woman is "to make him and to keep him human" [sic] (Lehman: Ethics in a Christian Context). That is, we are neither animals or angels, but human beings, and that each of us is a body and mind, with social relationships that constitute us as human rather than as mere individuals, and with the urgent drove to be in communion with others. Through our existence, we are being created love, and for love. As Christians, we believe that we are being created by Love, by the cosmic Lover, who Himself is "pure unbounded love", and who is making us "in His image" to be creative, infinite lovers. For the larger number of men and women, this can be satisfied in hetrosexual relationships, and in our society, such relationships fmd most satisfactory expression in marriage or a steady partnership. Yet for many ie. 5 or ten per cent of the world's population, the desire to be "united" with another human being is expressed towards others of the same sex: these are the homosexuals.

If they are to express love, or even to know human love at all, it is in this way. Like everybody else, homosexuals fulfil this objective with physical contact with individuals of the right sex. Why should this type of contact be called "sin"? Ian Cossar's letter appears to Concrete's readers that such contacts are sinful. But others would say "it all depends". When ANY sexual activity is entirely selfish in purpose, crual in practice, regardless of others, and their desires intended to possess instead rather than to share, it must be sinful. It cannot be sinful when it is sharing mutual concern for others with some sense of comrnittrnent and faithfulness (Dr Elizabeth Stuart 'Daring to speak love's name"). It is a matter of how we define

"sin". Those who define it in terms of viloation of legal enactment, whether divine law or "natural law" will find homosexual contact sinful in and of themselves. Those of us who defme sin as a violation of love, human and divine, whether directly or through certain kinds of activity, in thought, word and deed, which are love's contradiction, we think otherwise. Jesus did not say my command is that you love one another as long as it is someone of the same sex. If sin is the willed decision against oflove, it is outrageous for Ian Cossar to call homosexual contact sinful, when they are accompanied by so much love. Thus "love is not a sin" advocated by the LGB does not contradict Christian teaching. Finally, it is a question of the image of God. Can he "look down from heaven" and see genocide, oppression and greed in the lives of his creation and yet see a couple giving themselves to each other in love and tenderness, get angry because they happen to be of the same sex? The bible is not God, and it shows a lack of respect to use to vindicate social persecution.

Christians already choose those paths they believe to be "informative" rather than "directive". Is Ian Cossar circumc ised as the Bible reqires? Does he eat pork? Do women keep silent at his prayer meetings while wearing hats of course, as St Paul requires?

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have done if fate had not intervened, or misprints in the Course Code catalogue to be more precise. A catalogue of them in fact. To say that the system leaves something to be desired would be the understatement of the century, so I won't say that. But if I bad a maths degree, I might understand it. Logic has never been my strong point and I'm afraid I'm totally mystified by it.

Dr Richard Kennaway S YS (Stafl)

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In fact, a better scheme might simply be to choose courses out ofa bat. Or set up a fairground shooting gallery and perhaps we could win them - I dread to think which ones might be the consolation prize. So are there any takers out there for a non-enrolment society? If so, contact me by pigeonbole.

rancesca Broad bent is abso lutely right in saying that I have not "formed and developed an opinion based on intellectual motivation. My opinions are based on the unalterable truth of God's Word. My ideas may well be 'small and unfounded, but "As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless" (2 Samuel 22:31 ).You claim there is no mention of 'sex' in Sodom and Gomorrah 'until Lot is seduced by his two daughters' (Genesis 19:33). In the New International Testament Version, verse 5 reads: "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them." Is this an 'oversight'. or a 'disregarding of relevant facts on your part? I suggest you look up a dictionary definition of "sodomite", and read Genesis 18:20, re "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah". As for members of the Catholic Committee, I am releived that somebody from the Chaplaincy has finally responded to the LGB 's profanity (as I hope others will too). But I am disappointed that you have misinterpreted my stance as 'judgmental'. My understanding is that the LORD comdemns all sexual immorality. Leviticus 20 is, I believe, a list of sins which are detestable to God to this day. Would you have remained silent had some other campus society chalked "Adultery, Bestiality and Incest rules OK"? God did not make man to commit sexual immorality.It saddens me to learn that His Word is taken so irrelevantly by so many. There are too many corrupt aspects of today's society which remains condoned by the church's silence. Christians, as "Christ's ambassadors", should no longer be so acquiescent in respect of the sin around us. At the risk of being haraugued I shall quote once more: "Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be set f-controlled, set your hope fully on the grace ti be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance" (I Peter 1:13-14). I did clearly state that my letter was written out of compassion for those who do not know the Truth. You are now no longer in ignorance. All sexual immorality is sin !I would strongly recommend that anyone left undecided over this issue consult a copy of the Bible and read for themselves. May the lord teach us all to love one another as He intended us to.

Tony Crush HIS2

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y does Ian Cossar not )so quote Leviticus 0:10, which requires the death penalty for adltery, or other pro h ibitions against the wearing of mixed fibres, or the dieary laws? These chapters of Leviticus are irrelevant to Christianity. Their prohibitions are not moral attributes, their purpose is for ritually distinguishing the Jews of that time from the Gentiles. For Christians, the Old Testament laws are a dead letter - see Acts 15. Honosexuality is not mentioned in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. What is mentioned is how when the locals came hammering on Lot's door demanding that he bring out his visitors, he offered them his daughters instead to do with as they wished. For conduct like this, he was saved. I Corinthians 6:9 has in the past been taken to refer to homosexuality, but of the original Greek words it uses, "malakos" vaguely means morally weak, and "arsenokoitai" is obscure, but probably means "male prostitute". Until the Reformation, and much later in the Catholic church, "malakos" was taken to refer to masturbation. That supposed vice being regarded with rather less horror these days, some modem interpreters have merely substituted another despised group without troubling to ask what the original words might actually have meant. As for those who "suppress the truth", it is those who read into the Bible modem prejudices without textual foundation and tout mistranslations who are at fault. For the scholarly arguments, I recommend John Boswell's book "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality" and John

WE'VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU Fame at last- my name has appeared in the corridor, oo a list ofstudents who were brave, foolish or silly enough not to be eorolled for next year. They put an 'b' io my first name, which is incorrect, so I corrected it. But, it ocurred to me that there are probably enough of us to form a non-enrolment society. We could come in anyway and simply meet in the bar... we could then discuss the courses we might

McNeill's "The Church and the Homosexual".

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SORDID, SHOCKING AND EXPLICIT••••• F o r the first time ever, Dave opens his diary to the public, and reveals what really goes on behind the scenes in the Union . Mooda~ Ma~

Woke up really early just can't seem to sleep with all the student problems on my mind! Then it was down to business for the first meeting of the week. Student poverty was on the agenda - tell me about it! - I don't even know where my next Stella is coming from! Went to some more

meetings and then decided my throat was a bit dry from all this talking, so I went to the bar. Ho hum another day, another dollar.... Iuesda~ Ma~

9.15am meeting with the Dean of Students and the Director of Residences and Services. Apparently, rents are going to go up by 13.67% to £50.30 per week because the University Administration have grossly mismanaged their accommodation . Still , never mind, I'll be long gone

by then!! Another couple of meetings and then it was onto 'Exec' . We talked abuot policies and politics which made me really thirsty, so I went to the bar.... Wednesda~ Ma~

Anglia TV phoned up to see if I could get some people onto a new show they're doing , so I casually enquired about tickets to see 'Supermarket Sweep' and the new Richard and Judy show, but they were all sold out! Someone called me a "sexist" in the after-

noon. This is not true! I do my own laundry! Went to the baragain. Ibursda~ Ma~

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Got up quite early with no hangover!! Went to some meetings. I had to be on my best behaviour today, because the 'exec power women' were dressed to kill. Went to the bar... another working week out of the way!

February 14 may well have been St Valentine's Day, but there was no love lost between our Janet and the Court of Appeal, when she ripped into the DSS and the Secretary of State on behalf of students claiming benefit whilst taking a break from their studies. The formidable Ms Peck was angered way back in 1991, when two UEA students found themselves ineligible for benefits because they had intercalated. They came to the Union Advice Unit, and Janet swung into action. First, she fired a salvo of letters off to government authorities, but when they repeatedly tried to put obstacles into her way, Janet showed just what she was made of. "I'm always at my best with my back against the wall" she commented to TWATU. Further setbacks (including losing a case in the local tribunal) only made the Iron Woman push harder. Finally, in September 1993, the Commissioner for Social Security agreed with the Union of UEA Students, but the government took this decision to the Court of Appeal. Once again, Janet battled- and won!! The Government still tried to get this decision overturned, and got leave to take it to the House of Lords. But they finally caved in, when they realised what we already know - with someone like Janet Peck representing students, first and foremost at UEA, but effectively all over the country, the Government have got more than they bargained for! We are committed to reducing student poverty, and Janet's actions have led to a landmark decision, that proves that students, and our Janet in particular, are a force to be reckoned with!! Nice one Janet!

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insult, bravery ho does what m . and elections, but ; In this extra-spectal corridors of poweroave exposes the faces issue of T.W.A.T.~. that affect youn He h decisaons ty 0 n the behind t e letely unbiased ' • he comments, comp d decision-takers tn t decision-makers an stone unturned and Union, as he leaves n~ ·n his eternal quest no scandal unexpose ' for the truthU t

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Jaz lhenacho Jazzy Babe, the Ice Queen, Madam Missionary, wheelbarrow, most In facti Oh, and Welfare OHicer tool Habitat The AdVIce Unit, and a rather chic little pad In Norwich somewhere! Likes: Cider, lurry animals, young people, old people, minorities Dislikes: Jazz Form : Dark-skinned and serenely beautllul,lhe Union's -Ice Maiden' understands the realities of holding this Important post. She has taken the flak along with the praise - well, who would dare hassle her with that SUck she's got? Leggy Jaz has worked on several Issues this term, the most Important being; better condiUons for the village dwellers; RECRUIT - the Job shop for students; she has also acUvelv campaigned for lower rents - all this as well has her own busy schedule, has len Jaz saving -This has been the most luiHIIIng year of mv life!' Name: A.K.A: Position: Habitat Likes:

John Holmes John Holmes Finance OHicer Wllllam Hill, Coral, Stanlev Raclng•••etc... Horse racing, lrult machines, poker, roulette, blackJack, gambling Dislikes: 'evens' Form: John has done a lot of work this vear- and boy, has he done lt well! I Finance has Inevitably played a great part In Jo n's year, as be savs.-n was unavoidable' -although he feels that next year will see even more financial maners to deal with. Well, at least he's got some nice repeat fees to look forward to! The sins of our youth do catch up with us then!

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Daniel Owen DJ, Dan the Man, Dannv. Dan, Dirge, o, Mate, 01 foul etc Position: Academic omcer Habitat Surprisingly enough, the Academic OHice - now that he's be n connected to the -Net' Likes: Woman's own (for the knitting patterns), Cosv Jumpers, designer stubble, his Job University Admlnlstrauon. EUR Downgraders, cletbes Sll PPIRU II) Form: u "I the anital or Dave as communications ortlcer, DJ unselfishly shouldered tbe w ltlload - enectlvelv doing tw Jobs at the same lime. He was Instrumental In organising the EUR protest (who could torget his tellv appearance?), and continues to campaign tor fair grades. He growled to a TWATU reporter, -Once I've got the bit between my leeth, I NEVER Ill aplll' Name: A.K.A: PosiUon: Habitat

Dave Owens Oave, Scouser, sexist, *@1*11**, .. I!@@*@ I*! Communlca11ons OHicer Rltzv's, Peppermint Park, The Waterfront, Hr's, ba~ the Hive~ the LCR, oh, and his onlce ( re e rtcs Incredibly hard) RIIZI's (especially at Ill Weekend), Peppermint an the Waterfront, the LCR, Stella, the bar

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winter clothes Form: Honest-to-goodness Dave Is a pretty amazing guy. He has tried to bring a whole new look to the Union. Gone are the days of b ring political correctness and conformltv, his aim Is to make the Union more approachable. Although In onlce for Just three months, he has made remarkable progress In a complicated and demanding Job olten spending hours, slaving over students' problems. He Is truly an example to us am All said and done, Dave Is remarkable In the wav In which he has channelled all his energy Into his Job - and lt will lookpretty nice on his CV tool! Name: A.K.A: Position:

Helen Bright The Man Magnet, SoH Girl, HB, 'not so-', AnYhow!! - oh yeah, she's the Woman's Officer as well! Habitat Clubs, discos etc. - but does she really dance the same war to every record? Likes: Men, Drunken Communications Officers, JCM, cooking, cleaning, hoovering, washing up, doing the laundry, Ironing, changing nappies, making the bed (she's an expert!), Coronation Street, MandV Jordache Dislikes: Career Women, domestic violence, sexists (ex ceptthe Communications OHicer), flowers, animals, spring, summer, rainbows Form: -How do vou want me guys?' Helen, Is a shinIng light unto us all -the way she moves, the way she talks, the wav she dances, the wavshe looks. As this year's Illustrious womens' OHicer, she has worked tirelessly to ensure that all men and women come together and are luiiV Integrate • In a heart-moving Interview with TWATU, she broke down and so ed, -This vear has been so successlull I Just hope that all• w men ere so sup orUve or me this mr Hi e 11 amca as a pplng-stone to nen equ lltv w ut Jal Slslasl Do Ill' -and with she llhl Gehrett Ellls Gezza E LG.B. OHicer The Hive - all dar, every daJ - unless there's a beer pnnnefloa In the bar! His dossJ MA course· apparently, anvone could d8111 Dlsll-es: Sm lna, drl lng, vice, Immorality Form: Afervent anti-smoker, Gezza hates the though or people lighHng up In front or him. Severaltlml$ he has had a bid to ban smoking In residences quashed, but Ibis doesn't stop Gm set um ate ua Pie. He confided 10 TWATU, ·I smoke so that people ea see how bad lt Is tor lbem'. As LB. • 011 cer, lmm nl Ellls ora nlsed the L.G.B. week - which was a great success. A generally aware'v n m G zza has also been beaviiJ lntolved In all awarenesscampal ns. rlnklng sessions an parties. Jake Blatcb Jakev Bov, Mr. Blatch, Sir - anything remotely respecUul will dol Position: Publicity Officer Habitat The Advice Unit, the Welfare Officer's 'unit', the School of Law The Welfare Officer, lectures, 'persll-whlte' Likes: clothes Dislikes: The legal svstem, loose women 111!1. bad pub licltv (I) football 11!) Form: Our hearts go out to Jakey Bov. suffering under the heavy workload of his course, and, tor manv weeks, having to cope with the Communications Olflcer's Job, betore that position was filled by the admirable talents of Dave. Jakev bov also organised the utterly successful Mr. lr Ms UEA - loved 11 mate!! -Success' Is not a word that Jake chooses to reflect this rear - he's tar too modest for that! Instead, he commented to TWATU, -11 has been a year of ups and downs, Ins and outs. I've tried mv best, I only h 11 lt was good enough!' We think lt was male! - nice o el

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Josh Busby Tree Hugger Environment OHicer Josh lives In a tree and has a summer house In cave - he's close to nature. Likes: Trees, nature, recvcled paper...etc. Dislikes: uner, oil spillages, nuclear power...etc. Form: Josh held a successhll Environment week, and managed to get himself arrested for chaining himself to a building - klnkJI Female 'greenles' could expect to be greeted by a cheerv -Howdy' from our man In green. Peace & Love!

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loaa EWakely ta,Stunna', Union laiJI, Raven-l@lred CUIIII Pasltion; p.s,. Ofllcar ,. "'--, ttabltal: Tbe cllwalk.111e nee noor • a.wanew:lerrace~ " lhe~corrldiys ol ·power:~lll.t iabqu(Ctub " Likls: • Tbe:N.U.S., meetings, .AOiltiCSrPilllcles, power, Tony Blalr " Dislikes: 111& Communications OHicer (although 1dOJJ't know whynt), low-cut tops, wonderbras, millskirts, Len Unity, John MaJor, kiHens, pupPies, llowers, sqmmer, punglamlls 11111 gambol (no JobDIJ tn green f'elds Form: loaa. 38-24a38. has ea"stt1Yh1118 make students more aware of lie NUS. llle petite •stanaa' recentlY urged students 1o compleJe lbt Hlllbtr Eduoa-.n funding RevieW. In an ep1011ona1, no-holds ba"'d autllurst, she told lWATU, -I feel I b8R a lot to oiler the UDIO. next year' we say, ..alce one babe • pu•re NEVER on dulY!!'' Name: A.K.A:

John Miner The Miller, Mr. C. PosiUon: Clubs and Socle lies OHicer Habitat: (see Womens' Officer) Likes: The Womens' Officer, RAG, beer, Llvewlre Dislikes: Autumn - autumnal colours clash with his styl lshly unkempt hair and his red Jeans! Form: Johnny boy successfully organised the SocMart, as well as pulling strings In all the right places to get hlmsell a nice oHice. The Miller Is constantly striving to get a beUer deal for Clubs and Societies, and has often been known to work late Into the night! He commented, Those allegations are completely unfounded!' - but we weren't asking about those activities mate!! Name: A.K.A: Position: Habitat: likes:

Lara Woollord The Workaholic, Essex girl, The Power Babe Community & International Llalslon Officer The Library, Ritzy's, Essex While stllenos, low cut tops, wonderbras, miniskirts, mascara (loads olll), the Labour Club, power Dislikes: Baggy clothes - If you've gotlt, flaunt Ill, lazi ness. sensible shoes Form: Lara has worked tirelessly on International and Community stuff. She organised Multi-Cultural Week- which I'm sure we all enJoyed! Shealso set up (slngle-handedly) the International Friendship Club, which has been responsible for several International liaisons. Lara has also been active in promoting closer lies with UEA and Yugoslavia rumour has 11 that she sent some of her clothes over, but they were sent back, as there was no real call for while slilenos in war-tom Bosnia. Never mind darlln' -they'll probably suit the Academic Officer! She quotes her greatest achievement as -not having resigned and blamed the rest or the exec'.

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leuae,BUIIalllr. a......Jc work, Students' flnlll. raci$IS Form: Lola organised a successful Race Awareness week, and then produced the thought-provoking -Black Man's Burden' leaflet -Wow! What a babe! An example to us alii

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Alex Bainbridge Mr. Relevant, Mad Alex, The Computer Kid Sports OHicer He gets everywhere! Sport, computers, sport, computers, sport, computers. Dislikes: Computer viruses, bugs In his mac, games that won't load properly Form: We have nothing but praise for Ally bov - he's worked hard with his computer genius allowing the Union ro appear on the WEB which he states Is -preiiJ cool' (yeah, welllt takes all sorts) and as a result was rewarded mby becoming the National Co-ordinator ol Students' Unions on the WEB! Alex has also undertaken a massive review or safety In sport which Is still ongoing, organised the Grand Prlx (by computer of course) and SportsMart, as well as allocating huge sums to sports clubs! What a guyll

•Boldly going where not too many had gone before, Simon Mann took the 'Eurostar' train from Waterloo to Brussels, accompanied only by a philosophical outlook and a packed lunch .... nternational Terminal De partures': even though I knew full well I was about to take a direct train from Waterloo to Brussels, that inoffensive little sign still came as a shock. lt was something I had somehow not expected to see while getting off a Northern Line train in the heart of London. That shock was the first hint of just how surprisingly disturbing this journey would prove to be. · Taking an escalator into the departure hall revealed that I was not the only one struck by the strangeness of international travel from a British railway station. The departure hall itself was just a plain open area, fronting onto the typically nineties-style glass and tubular steel roof spanning the actual platforms. lt was nothing special to look at; yet leaning against the rail overlooking the hall stood a silently watching crowd of ordinary people, apparently fascinated by the sight of other ordinary people disappearing through a series of fairly ordinary turnstiles, under a big sign reading: 'Waterloo International'. There was only one explanation for it; this silent crowd were representatives of the British nation, stoically watching the end of an era. For generations, Continentals have been able to travel at will between European cities, whereas going to or from this sceptre'd isle involved a bit of difficulty and inconvenience. And a jolly good thing too, in the minds of many a patriotic Briton; that difficulty and inconvenience was one of the things that marked Us apart from Them, serving to emphasise our separateness. The building of the Tunnel has changed all that at a stroke; the British Isles are Isles no more. No longer does leaving Britain necessitate throwing up on a crowded Channel ferry in a force nine gale, or gloomily contemplating the images of mangled aircraft wreckage inspired by the airport's 'Final Departure Lounge' signs. Now it is possible to get on a fairly ordinary train in the middle of London, read a newspaper from cover to cover, and get off that same train in the middle of Paris or Brussels just three hours later. Not that my particular journey was to prove quite as effortlessly simple as that. For a start, the gleaming automatic check-in tu mstile refused to admit me, despite my possessing a state-of-the-art machine readable ticket. A smiling 'Eurostar' employee, dressed like an airline hostess, tried to do it for me. I could tell from her expression that I was the hundreth brainless idiot she had had to nursemaid today, so I was

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quite pleased when she could not make it work either. She led me to a booth impressively kitted out with a variety of keyboards and monitors, where the operator tried another machine-reading process. This also tailed, however, and my ticket ended up being defaced with a large , old-fashioned , rubber stamp. The Us and Them Briton in me was secretly pleased; perhaps nameless forces were working to frustrate this new form of travel, and preserve a safely moated Britain. Getting on the train was a rather confused business. We were not allowed to board until fifteen minutes before departure, having to wait in a Departure Lounge beneath the platforms. Try to imagine around 1,000 passengers , complete with loaded luggage-trolleys , all boarding a 20-coach train at the same time. However, the train left exactly on time, and as we glided out of the station, we were welcomed on board by the Train Manager. In another simple but surprisingly disturbing reminder of the firmly European nature of this train journey, he repeated his welcome in four languages. This took a little while; and as he droned on, I found myself looking at one of those old sixtiesstyle commuter trains on the next track. The train was crowded , and everyone on it was staring at us with the same expression as those people looking down at the departure hall. I did not have long to remark this, because that tired old commuter train was going a lot faster than we were, and was soon gone. Looking down the aisle of my car-

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riage , I noticed that several of my fellow passengers were reading newspapers featuring stories about the 'Eurostar' train which broke down for ten hours the day before. lt did not seem a good omen, especially as we were now crawling through the London suburbs at about 30 mph. Then, after 20 minutes, we stopped completely. No-one said anything, but you could tell what everyone was thinking. After five minutes, the Train Manager came on to tell us - in four languages - that he was trying to find the cause of the delay, which he hoped would not be long. I began to wonder whether those nameless moat-protection forces really were at work. However, after fifteen minutes, and without further explanation , we moved off again. The communal sigh of relief was audible, even though that reactionary patriot inside me sighed with disappointment. The Tunnel itself provided the last, but most powerfully disturbing, experience of this European journey. We glided smoothly into the dark in the middle of the Kent countryside, surrounded by fields and an area of typical English suburban houses; the sea was nowhere to be seen. Twenty-one minutes later- the time the 26 bus takes to go from the University to Anglia Square we emerged into a landscape of open French fields, the sea still invisible. lt was a really strange feeling, this seemingly magical transfer from an English to a French landscape. Then, as we sped through northern France, the realisation struck me. VVhether I liked it or not, this train journey through the Tunnel had irreversibly transformed me into a European.

Concrete, Wednesday, June 7, 1995

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y, the pace of change! A year ago there wasn. ' t a sin gle net-related magazine to blight the shelves of your newsagents. Now they are sprouting like mushrooms from horse manure. To keep you abreast of the mags with cred , and the ones to shred, Hype provides you with your very own cut-out-and-keep guide to those paper-based magazines available in the UK. Also, our Website will be providing links to those magazines that maintain a virtual presence, so you can check them out yourself. So, in no particular order... ..

OVERRATED, OVERPRICED AND OVER HERE: Hype reviews those fatuous net-mags ... Mondo 2000 (Quarterly, £lots)

Like, the Internet culture magazine, man . Covering everything from music (Nine Inch Nails, Chilli Peppers) to plastic surgery to actual Internet concerns (privacy, censorship, cool web sites et al) to literature (the acclaimed Rudy Rucker is a regular contributor, along with Bruce Sterling and a host of other such luminaries). This is a no-holds-barred magazine, and readers should prepare themselves for a change of world view. However, also expect occasional bouts of pretension ("Is she making of her body a crucible for a discourse on elective mutation?" Sic. Very.) That aside, it's wonderful, and a damn sight different from most of the current Internet magazine offerings. No mention of Internet porn . Hurray. Pros : Nice looking and a fine read . Lots of varied articles . No real computer knowledge required . Cons: Bloody expensive ( -4.50 and above) and difficult to get hold of (American import only). Overall :•••••

places to visit" and being "an easy-to-use guide to the best Net services and directories around". Whether the writing staff, made up of contributors from other Net magazines, actually achieve these goals is another matter, as the whole magazine is completely devoid of style and humour. Inevitably, the launch issue concentrates on expla ining what the Internet is and how it all began , as well as a fairly comprehensive review of Internet service providers. There are also few lacklustre articles on how to connect to the Internet, as well as a handful of book reviews. However, for those who are already connected (that's us), the only interesting section is the large, readable "directory" . This is much better than the paltry offerings from .net and others, and catalogues over 100 Web sites in detail , including a screenshot and a largish description for each . Hype reserves judgement on this one until they manage another issue .. . Strengths : the directory. Weaknesses : the rest. Overall : ••

Internet & Comms Today (Monthly, £2.95)

NetUser

Wired (Monthly, £3.50)

Written by geeks with attitude, Wired is the stronghold of Californian techno-optimism. Like Mondo 2000, it doesn't only deal with the Net, but also with ideas raised by new technology. The layout is truly snazzy, articles tend to be long and essay-like rather than just snippets of news, and the range of subjects covered is refreshingly eclectic. Although the kids at Wired have been strutting their stuff to an American audience for a fair few years, it is only now that us backward Brits are getting to see their offerings . Since April, Wired UK has made a passable attempt to convert this US-centred magazine to a more Euro-friendly format. . Nevertheless, although Wired occasionally reads like a prospectus for the Media Lab at M IT, it gives the impression of having genuine editorial independence and manages to get its finger closer to the pulse than any other magazine published in Britain. Pluses: Incisive analysis, pretty colours Minuses: Sycophantic interviews, blind optimism. Overall:••••

(Quarterly, £3.95)

This latest, massively overpriced offering from the publishers of Internet and Comms Today (see below) is aimed at "providing information about the best

Another pretty much humourless attempt at an Internet magazine . Contains a smattering of mediocre to poor articles (UK Government, Education, Bulletin Boards , Telecom companies). Also a few reviews of books and the like , and masses of rather cramped web page, telnet and ftp site listings . And : erm , that's about it really. Although there are some quite good address listings at the back, I&CT tries to hard to cram everything in one issue but ultimately fails. All in all very dull, fairly spoddy and overly expensive magazine. Upside: Covers obscure forms of the Net (such as FidoNet etc.) Downside: Boring presentation and an uninteresting read . Overall: ••

.net (Monthly, £2.99)

Hopeless when it comes to futuregazing , .net nevertheless manages to do a reasonable job of documenting the present. The layout's clear and user-friendly (although they could do with scrapping the execrable photomontage at the beginning of each issue) and they manage to maintain a sense of humour. This cheeky schoolboy style can get irritating after a while, but at least, unlike the staid windbags from most other mags , they don 1 : take themselves too seriously. Although the contributors are all toeing the corporate line (Future Publishing has an array of other overpriced Net stuff that they'd like also to sell you), readers are likely to be able to get hold of the information they were after without dying of boredom in the process. At the end of the day, .net ain 1 t perfect, but as far as your plain vanilla Internet rags go, it~ s the best of a bad bunch ... Feathers in cap: Sense of humour Black eyes : Nuggets of tedium Overall=•••

Wh@t Net (Quarterly, £2.95)

Hype would have liked to do a fuller reviPW of this magazine, but as s0 Jch of the text appeared on top of badly-printed, rather naif graphic backdrops , it was too much like taking those tests with the fuzzy dots that check whether you. > re colour-blind or not. Nice design makes a difference (see Wired) but if you can't read the thing well. . As far as we could make out, there were a few dreary articles about service providers, bulletin boards, and some unscintillating modem reviews. There was also an article about reducing online costs full of the outstandingly obvious with well thought out comments like 'We recommend off-peak direct dialling'. Blimey. Two article titles contained the word 'surfin'. Hopelessly sad. For: A nice list of BB Ss, and um, err.. . Against: Nothing at all (if you're a complete gimp who enjoys wallowing in turgid prose) Overall: •

Internet (Monthly, £2.50)

Unfortunately, Emap Publishing didn 1 t manage to send us a copy of this one before it was time to go to print. We weren. ' I overly concerned, however, as we managed to dredge up one of their earlier issues and it was truly appalling . In issue two, their editor assured us that the magazine is _aimed primarily at people using the Net for business purposesO and we strongly recommend that, unless you are, you don.) .t touch this one with a barge pole. Even if you are a business-type, make sure that it is a very long pole, and only do it infrequently and in the privacy of your own home. Apart from seven pages of .what • s on listings, it was all rather flimsy and dull. Articles on firewalls and LAN maintenance revealed whole taxonomies of boredom hitherto unrevealed, whilst in others the authors whinged at the fact that the Internet isn 1 t a perfect vehicle for non-stop advertising yet. Odious. Good : for nothing . Bad : for everybody who isn 1 t a humourless automaton. Overall: zero

iHE lU[]Ptl[) iHHi lUEE~ That's the situation as it stands this week. However, things can and do change quickly: we've already seen the demise of the rather nasty On-Line World after only three issues (due to their publishers being a bunch of crooks, appar-

ently). Also, our moles at Future Publishing inform us that they plan release a new one called The Net Directory. If all goes according to plan, this one will be a whopping 200 pages and promises to cut the caca and just review places to visit on the Net. Other ways to get info include reading the coverage in the national press (especially The Guardian's OnLine section every Thursday), or buying yourself a book about the Internet. What ever you do,

don.tEt do the latter: these are incredibly expensive, and are invariably divided into a bit about getting connected {which you don't need), some more information that.tEs specific to a single software package (which you don.tEt have) and the last bit will be about places to visit (which will be out of date before you can say Error 404 - file doesn't exist). Hype maintains that the best (and certainly cheapest) way to learn what's going on

in cyberspace is to visit it yourself. However, you could do worse than to buy one of the magazines above in order to find out where's worth visiting and/ or grok the prevailing winds of change, man .. . Hype's Website can be reached as follows : UEA Welcome-+ UEA Information -+ Students -+ Campus Publications+ Hype. Email us at su . hype @uea.ac.uk or via internal mail c/o Concrete.

Concrete, Wednesdoy, June 7, 1995

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â€˘John Prescott, deputy leader of the Labour Party, was in Norwich last month. Matthew Doyle caught up with him for some deep political chat at Norwich Labour Club ... You're In Norwich with the Rolling Rose roadshow what's it all about? The Rolling Rose Roadshow is about going out to people and presenting Labour's alternatives, attacking the government, and at the same time increasing our membership. 100,000 new members in 12 months, no party has grown at such a rate before. Also, at the same time part of Rolling Rose is going out to students and youth. For example, I was at the University of Warwick a couple of weeks ago and we had a number of alternative comedians who came and together with politicians we made a presentation, and a good convivial atmosphere: humour, politics and an enjoyable show. I'm bound to say that at University of W8rwick there are 1,200 students registered to vote, 200 of them voted and it can make a difference. lt is important not only to listen to want youth have to say, but at the same time say to them 'well get out there and actually fight for us'. At the Party Conference last year you spoke about trying to Increase the membership. Is this going as planned? Actually I did set a target and its going better than I planned. I set what people thought was an impossible target. We were at about 250,000 then and I said I wanted 350,000 that's an increase of a third in our membership, and I wanted it by my report to conference in October. lt looks like we're on target and we're the fastest growing party of any western democracy. Is this Increase In membership the 'Bialr Factor' at work or just due to dissatisfaction with the Tories? I think it's a combination of things. Of course, it's not difficult to be dissatisfied with the Tories, whether you 're unemployed, whether you're a student in education, whetheryou'rewaiting on a housing list, or in hospital. But it has to be more than that. I think they feel that the government has run out of steam, it's lost direction. We've got a Prime Minister who looks to be incompitent, and any

PM who says that whe his back's to the wall he turns round and walks in to it, no wonder he's confused. But you won't win an election on government's being unpopular. We have to convince them that our policies are relevant to the we have to earn

it's One Member, One Vote, and the Blair factor is a very important part. People look at Tony Blair and see that he does appear to be relevant to their needs, looks to be a fresh face on the political scene and is talking in a language they understand and I think that the

ions wanting change. I've done exactly the same in the Labour Party, and I think if Tony and I come from two different strands of thinking and values in the Labour Party, come together under the heading now known as 'New Labour' there is both the traditional values in a and we both re-

their trust and we have to win it on a better alternative. There are concerns being expressed that the party Is modernising too rapidly under Blalr, In order to try and attract these new members. How do you react to this? Well, since we are increasing at twice the rate we've ever done before, we can say that something must be running right. We're doing very well in elections, we've had remarkable results in the local elections and I've got to say that part of that is it's a party that knows how to deal with change. The pubic watch it, whether it's the debate on Clause IV, whether

lot of people both in the party and outside. We are reaching out to members in a way we never did before and I think that has to be a lot down to Tony Blair. Is there not a danger that 'New Labour' will alienate 'Old Labour', and loose their support which the party still needs? Well, I'm always trundled up as 'Old Labour', aren't I? But I've always, as my history shows, been a traditional man with traditional values, but in a modem setting. I spent a lot of my time when I was in unions, fighting against Conservatism inside trade un-

ally reflect that. You used to been seen as an ambassador of the left, but with the changes the party has undergone, where would you place yourself on a left - right scale? I never have made a judgement right or left. I've belonged to 'Tribune', I was a very strong trade unionist and came into the Labour Party as a sponsored MP. I leave others to make judgements about that. But I think in the Clause IV argument, it's no secret that I took the view that perhaps we shouldn't go along this road, primarily not because I didn't think we could

update our constitution. I think it's true we've done that and property so. But I thought it would have caused greater bitterness and division. lt didn't. Tony Blair was right about that. The Party enjoyed the debate and the values that we have in our new constitution, where it specifically says that we are a democratic socialist party. Which specifically says we believe in a society in which power and wealth are distributed much more evenly, and it specifically says that we have a responsibility to others in society, that we can do more acting together than our own. Now I think they are the essential principles of a democratic socialist party and I'm very happy to have them in our constitution. The leadership of the party have argued that modernisation is necessary for electoral victory, but others have argueed that victory at all costs shoud not be aimed for? Well, I don't think a political party, and certainly a democratic party simply wants to be one of opposition. Indeed, the last point ofthe new Clause IV was to say that we must convince the electorate of the need to win tbeir support and to win power. People join the Labour Party hoping to change the nature of the society in which they live and we have to win elections for that. If people join the Labour Party simply to remain perminantly in the opposition benches, then I have to say, 'Fine, I disagree with you, our job is to win power'. But I believe you can do it still on the principles of our ideas and our values which I believe to be superior to the Tories. During the Clause IV debate many saw it not as a debate about policy, but an event to confirm Tony Blair as leader? Well th~re's no doubt about it that this was a man who was advised almost by everyone 'don't go along this road of modernising Clause IV'. Everybody said that it would split the party and I suppose I was one of those saying that. What happened was that the Party welcomed the ammendment to Clause IV, thought it updated it to the

twentienth century, different to how it was 80 years ago. He was proven right. Now if a leader sees beyond and sees the need to update the constitution and modernise the party, as we always want to be a modem party, then I think he is right to say that he's seen as a leader who knew what he had to do and was prepared to arguee against conventional thinking, and he appeared to be right. Now that's what you want in a leader- isn't it? There are worries at the grass roots about the trade union reforms which have been mentioned. Can you dispel the fears that the trade unionists have? The trade unions are an essential part of the Labour Party. I come very much from that background. But, there are many people who don't have the same background as me, Tony Blair is probably one, although he is a sponsored by a trade union. We see a very close alliance working woth the but, Tony Blair has answered the point by saying 'yes, there is that relationship but unions: don't expect any special favours from us'. They wanted to be treated fairly, since trade unions represent millions of people who haven't been treated fairly for the best part of 16 years, that seems to be a fair point, and one which the electorate can accept and know the close relationship between the trade unions and the Labour Party. After 16 years of education mismanagement,can students look for a clear commitment from the Labour Party? Students have horrible circumstances at the moment, having to borrow in order to carry out their education , having great uncertainty as to whether they've got the resources to live during education, being denied the possibilty of work or even some help from the welfare state. I think all these have mitigated against students and made it difficult for them to have education. We want to make it a priority, we are prepared to look at the financing of it and making more opportunities available. That's what the debate is about and students should get involved in that debate. And with that, Mr Prescott, pint o' bitter in hand, made his excuses and went off to dinner ....

Concrete, Wednesday, June 7, 1995

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hy does pornography have so little feminist defence? Its dangers are exaggerated by an anti-pom lobby that claims to be the feminist consciousness. Andrea Dworkin, a prominent American feminist, asserts that porngraphy is at the core of women's subordination, but a focussing of resources in this area is misdirected and ultimately counters feminist ideology. There are legitimate concerns for women regarding sexually explicit media, but these do not dominate anti-pom politics. Instead, phoney arguments are side-tracking the women's movement away from the original goals of freedom and into puritanical, conservative waters dangerously close to the moral and Christian right wing. The alliance between antiporn feminists and the Christian right wing is united in its pursuit of censorship. This union is particularly ironic, because it entails lesbians eo-campaigning with groups that condemn homosexuality as immoral. Yet the anti-porn fervour is so intense that it is absurdly elevated to a height where it transcends more pressing issues and differences. The implication of anti-porn rhetoric is that pictures of women enjoying sex is a misrepresentation, that it appeals only to male sexuality, and that participants being exploited are weak. Does porn really offend women? Yet 40 per cent ofthe US porn video market is female. Is it male violence and domination of women? Although soft pom has many faults, most hard-core depicts equal relationships, and sadomasochist (SM) magazines pre-

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â€˘ Anti-porn campaigners attack it as demeaning and a prime cause of violence against women. But is pornography really as bad as is often claimed? Tom Geoghegan takes an alternative look at a sticky subject... fer female domination, so how has the 'invitation to rape' stance come about? Hard core porn is illegal in the UK, therefore the 'violent' porn complained about does not apply to any available here. Most porn in Europe is less violent than mainstream media. The Obscene Publications Act outlaws the depiction of erect organs and penetration with objects. Leading retailers WHSmith and John Menzies refuse to stock soft-porn magazines that show two people together. Therefore mutuality is denied, making it impossible to show men sexually in the same way as women . So why blame porn for this imbalance, when censorship is to blame? There is a myth that violence is intrinsic to pornography, but most sexually explicit material entails intercourse, nudity and oral sex. SM, which is only a small fraction, is misrepresented as violent. The powergames are perpetually shifting and cannot be seen in simplistic terms of 'master' and 'victim': one only needs to look at male-orientated SM pornography to notice that it is more often the female 'taking control', because it is a common male fantasy. The very definition of pornography provokes debate, but the anti-porn lobby seem to have hijacked its meaning for their own needs. The 1973 American Dictionary of English Usage claimed it as 'written, graphic, or other forms of communication intended to

excite lascivious feelings.â€˘ More preferable is the American sexologist Or . Bill Thompson's definition as "sexually orientated material of a graphic nature designed for recreation rather than education.' Neither contains associations with 'degradation' or 'women subordination'. Leading feminist Catherine MacKinnon calls oral sex "rape of the throar, but many gays, lesbians and heterosexuals indulge in this conventional sexual practice. Any form of sexual diversity away from the missionary position and not aimed at reproduction is looked at as deviant by many of the anti-porn lobby, feminists and Christians alike. In America today, the boundaries governing sexual practice are strictly policed: many states outlaw oral and anal sex with stiff penalties. The best way to promote female sexual desire is by creating materials to focus on it, ie. what would be called pornography. Only through reduced censorship, and the language of sexuality becoming mainstream, can women once again be the experts on their sex lives. Much of the feminist movement still persists in using punitive and restrictive attitudes towards women, too often endowing females with a sexlessness, rather than sexual freedom. Restrictions on 'obscenity' deny the portrayal of sexuality as a mutual pleasure, because the sexually aroused male cannot be shown (an erect penis is regarded as a threatening object

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Features in the eyes of the law). Therefore, all that is available in the UK, soft porn, depicts models instead of lovers. Hardly surprising, then, that news-stands do not stock pictures of women taking the initiative in sexual intercourse. Another criticism of soft pom is that it portrays the idealised, unreal woman, the sort of beauty that frequents non-erotic media. Hard core, by contrast, has a wider view of the female body, incorporating all shapes and sizes. Because the camera can focus on erections and genitals, hard core also has the mutuality that soft porn lacks, allowing less the image of submissive women and more the realistic, shifting power relations common to intercourse. Female pleasure becomes more obvious. The artificial, posed aspect of newsagents' pom tends to desexualise the material. Despite these criticisms of soft pom, the assumptions surrounding its effects on men can be questioned. The claim that men , influenced by pictures such as 'Page 3', use women as sex objects or vehicles of elaborated masturbation, is doubtful. On the contrary, men soon become de-sensitised by such material , with little reaction after time. Why the fuss over women being considered as objects for sex, when they are equally demanded to conform to roles pertaining to housework, cooking or child-rearing? Such demands by men stem from a wider sexism than will be found in soft pornography. Rape is cited as a natural consequence of male exposure to pornography but violence is not integral to such material. Besides, rape is not about

sexual desire. lt is more concerned with control and power, and mostly occurs in a stable relationship, so the theory that it is committed by men who meet a girl and immediately treat her as a sex object holds little weight. Society in the wake of political correctness now finds fault in mere admiration of the opposite sex. To think highly of a certain feature belonging to an individual is considered a devaluation of that person. More significantly, soft porn is a poor attempt by society to de-

cate heterosexual intercourse only if it is in exchange for something anyway (children/ love/ security). Why not for money? Indeed, why can't women just have sex for the sake of having sex? Further misconceptions are evident in Andrea Dworkin's views on exploitation. Forgetting that porn videos are staged, she insists that real women are physically beaten and abused. Of course, exploitation exists in the sex industry, but why is attention focussed so intensely on

lt's only through reduced censorship and the language of sexuality entering the mainstream, that women can once again become the experts on their sex lives ... pict male desire. The assumption that men want female service in their sexual relations is rarely the case. Therefore, while soft porn is a poor medium for sexuality and a rather pathetic male stimulus, it should not take too much blame for women's subordination . Feminist Kate Millett claims that prostitution is only motivated through economic needs or a 'psychological addiction built on self-hatred through the act of sale by which a whore is defined'. But many prostitutes find their work preferable to other paid labour that instils the same selfdisgust. There is an hypocrisy in the w ay that prostitutes are looked down upon by many anti-porn feminists. These same protesters advo-

one field , when women suffer discrimination in the majority of industries? Most ill-treatment of sex workers stems from the stigmatisation and the fact that it is illegal. The tarnishing of prostitutes is enhanced by such feminists as Dworkin, who once called them "sluts, cows ..... vile whores." This is exploitation. Most abuse of workers, which is a valid complaint directed at pornography and sex work generally, is exaggerated by people's built-in bias. Furthermore, bringing the indu stry above ground would make its control much easier. Too many anti-pom protesters pamper to the 'good woman ' ideal, that women should find sex revolting, and only permissible if 'love' and 'emotional certainty' are returned in exchange.

Th is myth concern ing the perfectability of love and monogamy is used as a way of including heterosexual intercourse in the anti-pom ideology. Yet it only serves to cause women to suffer abuse by their partners : wife-battering becomes tolerated ifthe wife thinks sheisinlove. This de-sexualising of women, denying female desire or pleasure, was most strong during Victorian times, with the 'cult of true womanhood' emphasising the female's moral superiority, domesticity and non-economic virtues. Such enforcing of gender spheres depicted men as the brutish, highly sexual creatures. The stereotype of woman as serving, denying herself pleasure for its own sake, means that sex is only permitted for unselfish reasons; procreation; to satisfy partners; to serve political ends. Pleasure is somehow equated with selfishness. Many anti-porn feminists, as already mentioned , tolerate sexual intercourse only if it is in a loving relationship directed towards procreation. Some take this a step further and even see heterosexual intercourse as a betrayal of feminism, interpreting it as, by definition, a manifestation of male power.Surely this gives too much respect to the phallus. Their alternative, political lesbianism, is not viable for many reasons, the main one being the obvious complexity offaking ho-

mosexuality. The underlying philosophy, that heterosexual intercourse is some kind of male conspiracy, is absurd, reinforcing gender oppositions and turning every sexual encounter into a power struggle. Society only seems happy with sex that is directed at some version of the nuclear family. Hence some of the ludicrous claims made by the anti-porn campaigners have been so easily assimilated into mainstream feminist consciousness. Women should be appreciated as multi-faceted individuals, not forced into distorted stereotypes. Unless it is understood that men and women have varied fantasies that are not genderfixed , then the messages in pom, often in conflict, will be forever misunderstood. The consequences of so much feminist energy being directed at censorship and pornography are far-reach ing in their damage. Exaggeration of the violent content trivialises real violence which is so prevalent in our mass med ia. If men are told often enough that normal sexual intercourse, as depicted in hard core pornography, is violent, then a sex equals aggression equation starts to become embedded , and violent sex seems normalised. Another detrimental offshoot of anti-pom efforts is that it deflects attention away from more pressing issues.

Sexism is far more ubiquitous in other industries , where women are expected to perform gender-role functions. Feminist obsession with pornography tends to make the women 's movement resemble a single-issue outfit, an image that is ultimately reductive. Also, the innocent are scapegoated by this crusade based on sloppy defintions. Among the victims are behaviours outside procreating heterosexuality; the media; individual sex workers and those connected with the industry. Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the feminist anti-porn movement is the way it finds an ally in right-wing reactionaries. This is probably the clearest indication that original feminist intentions of liberating women have been diverted drastically. To re-align itself, there are some clear needs; an opposition to censorship; the support for the decriminalising of prostitution ; the abolition of the Obscenity Laws and the support for sex workers' rights. Thankfully, 'Feminists Against Censorship' wa s founded in 1989 to redress the balance towards original feminist goals, but attitudes at grassroots need changing. Criticism is necessary to any genre, but why is pornography the only one that has its critics screaming for elimination? A balance has to be found between acceptance and abolition.

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Features •What happens when you take a stack of dodgy videos, a pile of shoddy COs, a fridge full of beer and give them to the cream of Concrete's "journalists"? Read on ...

at a glamourous life we lead , working for Concrete. Free cinema passes , free videos, free music and free T-Shirts. The cream of the entertainments industry is ours for the taking. Don't believe the hype, matey. OK, so we get some of the hottest films and records sent to us. But for every 'Reservoir Dogs' video or Boo Radleys album there is a pile of dross waiting for us in our mailbox. This usually ends up at the back of our filing cabinet. But seeing as this is our last edition for the year, we thought it would be a laugh to have at least a peek at the unspeakable horrors that are produced by the bum end of the video and music market. So one evening , armed only with a fridge full of beer and cider, we sat down for some 'serious' reviewing. Here are the sorry results ....

whether those ardent kisses by the poolside were the result of fevered passion or respiratory failure. LOWLIGHT(S): The music. You know the sort of stuff that accompanies 'Pages from Ceefax' at 6am in the morning? Then you've got a good idea of the soundtrack . Other lowlights: the physically-challenged blokes with beards and haircuts from hell sporting greying underpants; the dubbing; the editing ; the acting. INITIAL REACTIONS: Peter managed to groan his way through the entire 48 minute experience. Judging however, from the frequent covering of his eyes and disgusted wails of"Oh my Goddd!!" we assume it was out of disbelief, and not anything else . Sam looked bemused, the rest were having hysterics at the sheer tackiness of this so-called 'erotic' movie. FINAL COMMENTS: Vicky: "Saggy breasts ." Will: "Disturbing, lots of rubbing ... and the film was much the same ." Michele: "I've seen better lookalikes on 'Stars in their Eyes' ." Caroline : "The most unerotic experience of my life. I've been more turned on watching the 'Pages from Ceefax' ." Pete: "None." Sa m: "That was about as erotic as watching two ducks shagging outside my kitchen window." Matthew: "The resemblance between Olinka and Marilyn was uncanny."

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FILM: MARILYN MY LOVE CATEGORY: French/German soft porn (so a distinct lack of genitalia on display). PLOT: Non-existent. What little there is is buried under a heap of strip-teases, breast fondling and greying underpants. Oh , and our 'heroine', Olinka , is supposed to bear an uncanny resemblance to Marilyn Monroe.. BEST QUOTE FROM THE VIDEO BOX: "WATCH OUT FOR THE LESBIAN SWIMMING POOL SCENE". HIGHLIGHT(S): "The Lesbian Swimming Pool Scene" .. but not for the intended reasons. No one could

CATEGORY: Blatant attempt to make money out of a group of singing monks. PLOT: Are you kidding? BEST QUOTE FROM THE VIDEO BOX: "The combination of these peaceful chants with truly stunning film sequences of landscape, space and nature inspires a musical journey across the borders of the spirit." HIGHLIGHT(S): The fact that it's only forty minutes long. LOWLIGHT(S): The fact that it's forty minutes long. INITIAL REACTIONS: This was the time when everyone decided to go to the toii(E!t. Those who remained behind snored into their beer cans. FINAL COMMENTS: Will : "Too peaceful for words ." Matthew: "So peaceful it's stationary." Sam: "Some of the world's most pretentious camera work." NiaiJ.· "Sounds like that f*****g awful band Enigma. "

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FILM: A WOMAN SCORNED CATEGORY: Thriller, or, to be more accurate , a blatant rip off from 'Hand That Rocks the Cradle'. PLOT: Mad woman wrongly blames disfunctional family for the death of her husband, and takes it upon herself to get revenge ... by hopping into the bed with the husband, son and wife. BEST QUOTE FROM THE VIDEO BOX: "Cunning and slippery, she gradually becomes a voluptuous

cuckoo in their cosy lovenest.. ." HIGHLIGHT(S): The flashbacks ; the expression on the wife's face when she discovers the dead body of the housekeeper; the moment when the mad woman comes down the stairs using the wife as a sledge . LOWLIGHT(S): The teenage son 's nasty white knee-length boxer shorts and visible tan lines ; the silicone breasts of the mad woman; the twist at the end that you could see coming a mile off. INITIAL REACTIONS: Confusion mainly. Peter and Will constantly needed the plot explained to them, and Michele and Caroline were puzzled as to how you can have sex by removing your knickers but keeping your tights on . Plenty of cheering greeted every moment that contained sex or violence. FINAL COMMENTS: Vicky: "More erotic than Olinka." Will: "Editing that Eisenstein would be proud of." Michele: "Top acting ; a bit reminiscent of 'The Young Doctors'." Caroline : "Probably the biggest pile of poo I've ever seen ." Pete : "Should be on a film course ." Sam : "Irritating suburban American nonsense." Nia/1: "Tedious Yank crap ." Matthew: "Flashbacks were truly amazing - just like being there ."

FILM: THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW CATEGORY: Dodgy Italian thriller. PLOT: Murders, murders, and more murders. BEST QUOTE FROM THE VIDEO BOX: Er, there wasn 't one . HIGHLIGHT(S): The flashback scene, involving an early Italian form of trance music. LOWLIGHT(S): The murder of some girl right at the beginning - done in slow-motion soft focus; the dubbing; the roll-necked jumpers. INITIAL REACTIONS: Peter didn 't

think much of the opening credits, but Niall seemed cheered by the fact that the music sounded like it came from that classic series 'The Professionals'. Unfortunately, at that point, everyone became more interested in getting some food than watching the rest of the movie. Not that we missed much, though . FINAL COMMENTS: Pete: "lt was like 'The Red Hand Gang' and about as realistic." Nia/1: "Love the drum beats." Caroline: "Why is it that the men in these films are all so ugly?"

FILM: THE BABYSITTERS CATERGORY: Comedy... allegedly. PLOT: 'Mr Nanny' done on the cheap. BEST QUOTE FROM THE VIDEO BOX: "So look out thumb-suckers , cos THE BABYSITTERS may have lots of bottle, but they're in a whole diaper load of trouble! " HIGHLIGHT(S): None. LOWLIGHT(S): Unfortunately, Con crete can 't run to a special pull-out section to list them all . The worst came when the two wrestler-types force-fed some bloke in a suit a load of red gunk. Most off-putting . INITIAL REACTIONS: A combination of greasy chips and 'The Babysitters' is not recommended for anyone with a delicate constitution . Everyone felt truly nauseous at the sight of two pumped-up long-haired twats trying to be funny. FINAL COMMENTS: Matthew: "I've tried to be objective, but I can't. it's a pile of crap." Will: "Makes 'Suburban Commando' appear a work of genius." Caroline: "Oh pur-lease. Men who look like that shouldn 't be allowed anywhere near a movie set.· Pete : "They look like they're from some dodgy rock band .· Sam: "The protagonists resemble a Guns 'N' Roses support band, but top marks for the playground shootout."

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heir eyes worn out, and the supply of alcohol getting lower by the second, the reviewing panel decide that it's time to inflict a dreadful assault upon their ears.

interesting as a dialling tone." Will: "Failed to arouse my love python." ARTISTS: Mary Beats Jane RECORD TITLE: Grind INITIAL REACTIONS: Everyone: "Aaaaahhhh!" This appalling metal noise is removed by general consensus after five seconds.

ARTISTS: GOMORRAH RECORD TITLE: Reflections Of Inanimate Matter (oh dear, oh dear, oh dear) INITIAL REACTIONS: The cover alone caused great hilarity. Gomorrah were not going to be a pleasant teen pop band. In fact, they were everything that their hideous photo and irony free lyrics suggested - a pathetic, tuneless, death metal dirge. Still, Sam smuggled the CD booklet into his rucksack as a souvenir (or just a reminder of how low we can all sink). FINAL COMMENTS: Will: "Without any trace of melody.· Carolina: "Gomorrah usually goes w ith Sodom, which is what I'd say if anyone asked me what I thought of this band. • Matthew: "This makes me want to bring back the death penalty for crap records (Historical note: it was abolished in 1264)." Pete: "I like the list of bands that they thank on this record. Cradle Of Filth and Rotting Christ being my particular favourites."

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ARTIST: N.A.C. MURRAY RECORD TITLE: Return To Malibu INITIAL REACTIONS: N.A.C. Murray stands on a beach, attired in suit and distressing eighties haircut whilst clutching a pink guitar. This does not bode well. Apparently he's an ex-UEA student. This of course does not mean we have to be nice to him. The music transpires to be fairly anonymous pub-rock including a totally pointless cover of 'Help' where N.A.C. just attempts to make it sound as much like the original as possible. FINAL COMMENTS: Carolina: "Dull. He just wants to be The Beatles." Sam: "If this is what

RECORD TITLE: Rub-A-Dub Splish Splash INITIAL REACTIONS: Yes, it's a novelty record, the kind which record companies seem to put out in the summer thinking that people's brains will be addled by the sun and it will sell millions. Your faithful reviewers collapse with helpless laughter, particularly on hearing the jungle mix which Pete quite rightly observes sounds. like the

should be put in front of the firing squad." Carolina: "I loved it, the jungle mix was wicked. • Matthew: "Whose idea was this feature anyway?" Niall is speechless.

ARTISTS: The Diesel Kings RECORD TITLE: Purple Rain INITIAL REACTIONS: Uh-oh. We have a country/folk record on our hands. "lt sounds like the Postman Pat theme tune!" screams C aroline. Strangely; she is absolutely right. Then the chorus arrives and the horrible truth dawns on us.. . it is indeed a country/folk version of Prince's 'Purple Rain'. No, no and thrice no. FINAL COMMENTS: Pete: "Better than N.A.C. Murray at least. • Nia/1: "I never knew country and western could sound this good. No, actually, it was total pony." Matthew: " Prince may have gone nuts, but his hit doesn't deserve this." Vicky: "The soundtrack to a bible bashing weekend. • Sam: "Unsurpassed genius - the best record of this year, or indeed, any year. • So, minds filled with recollections of dodgy editing, silicone implants and pathetic death metal, and tanked up with beer and questionable-tasting chips, the Concrete team stagger out into the night.

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bossanova function on a Casio keyboard speeded up. FINAL COMMENTS: Will: "Four mixes, four times the sh*te" Sam: "A pop classic." He then changes his mind: "Anyone making a comedy ra gga record

RECORD TITLE: Legacy INITIAL REACTIONS: Ifs another highly irritating anodyne swingbeat record. No redeeming features whatsoever. To the repeated refrain of "all I wanna hear", Matthew drily ripostes "this is not what I want to hear." FINAL COMMENTS: Pete: "lt sounds like it should be a Lisa i'Anson jingle." Carolina: "Sounds like 'Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel' by Tavares." (A particularly astute observation considering Carolina's decreasing sobriety). Vicky: "About as

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ock chicks wreaked havoc and hippy chicks sashayed down the catwalk last wek in this year's UEA Summer Fashion Show. The clothes, all supplied by local boutiques, made the latest parade of primadonnas a success yet again. Floaty fabrics met raunchy rubbers and shift dresses shimmied and danced. Punks pouted in electric blue PVC whilst tartan clad tarts teased and titlhted. The models got a head start from local salon Diva with some hair.qising results proving that colour co-ordination is a dy...ng artl And fashion show regular, Pretentious Ken, was a flaming success proving that he's certainly got lots of ballsl UEA's Contemporary Dance Society were en vogue as they performed routines to music from Madonna and Bobby Brown and there was a new tlllent unearthed in the shape of singer Phil Smith who received rapturous applause. There were flowers for all and the champagne flowed during a colourful finale to the show and to yet another year at UEA-

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Do you think people take you seriously as a sinqer? I think serious people do. I have has very, very respectable artists coming over to me an giving me a clap on the shoulder (erm, sorry?). If you make fun of me, then you make fun of the million people who bought my records, and not me.

And how would you like "" people to think of you? I'm very down to earth. Sometimes I think that in the beginning many interviews portrayed me as a bit of a bimbo. But some newspapers just write what they want anyway, and people get the wrong image of you right from the start.

What do you think of all the boy bands on the scene at the moment? I think there's too many of them. But it's

okay because you always know which one's the original. I think Take That are great. I really respect them and think they're very, very

good.

Who do you think is a qood female vocalist (apart from yourself!)? Madonna ... she works very hard, but she doesn't have an easy life!

What is the first thinq you think about when you wake up in the morninq? Sleep!

What do you think about when you're in the bath? "Oh gosh, I forgot to bring the shampoo!" I always forget things.

Do you think that Think Of You will be a biqqer hit Another Day? I don't think any more. because I didn't think Saturday Night would be a hit, and then I thought Another Day would be a bigger hit... so now I don't know what to think.

Do you think someone will invent a dance to this sonq? I hope not - that'll be too much! lt's fun

once, and then that should be it!

Do you think your music should qo in a particular direction? Yes, left! Seriously, pop music is really fun and I don't think I'll go and do something else, but on the album there are some beautiful love songs and some more adult stuff.

What do you think you'd spend your last ever pound on? Food. lt's very important to me.

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ClAnd, as ever, the night kicks off for the "offyerfaithful" (who arrive in the first half hour) with the free tequila slammer bar (doors open 7pm). AU this for ÂŁ4? No wonder they don't make any money!

The LCR, 2/6/95 Ifs the invasion of the 'wacky' Americans. Most people would have these two bands dismissed as weirdy college outfits, good for the odd amusing song title and little else - not true. Pavement and Mercury Rev have both just made fantastic albums, more startlingly great than most homegrown bands could ever hope for. Unfortunately, Mercury Rev live suffer from a common problem - the subtle instruments (flute, saxophone, keyboard) that made 'See

You On The Other Side' such a masterpiece get swamped underneath the less scrupulous guitars. Still, we get a lesson in sonic noise that is constantly compelling. Only My Bloody Valentine or The Boo Radleys could ever match them for that. No such instrumentation problems for Pavement who are arguably the only band to have done anything original with the guitar-bass-drums format since Nirvana. Not every song is as spectacularly brilliant as 'Unfair' and 'Summer Babe' but each one has something you can latch on to,

whether it's a sublime guitar hook, a beautifully insane lyric or just a particularly ridiculous choice of percussion instrument. Bob Nanstanovich does the nutter honours at the back, appearing on stage in a scary rubber mask and playing a very small drum kit. The tunes are dispensed so nonchalently and with such a refreshing lack of attentioncraving attitude that you love them all the more for it. In short, Pavement are the wol1d's hardest working slackers and minor genii with it. SamRJchards

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So, how's the tour going? "Fine thanks. We've got another four days in England, a whole month in Europe and then two months of festivals."

Have band relations been strained with this hectic schedule? Marijne: "I just shouted at Pau l, but that's quite normal. He went to phone his bloody girlfriend instead of doing the interview. I always have to do the interviews.· The overall picture though was that Salad were "really getting on, really, really well. • Alright then . Marijne maintains that good relations in the band are down to them being able to afford hotels with swimming pools now.

Is everyone happy with the new album? "lt's been a long time since we made it," Marijne explains. The drummer. Rob, interjects with a big "oh yeah!". Marijne's favourite track on the album is 'Nothing Happens'. Rob says tha t his fave changes from day to day

to come out and the old tracks were getting a bit boring.·

How have the crowds reacted to the new stuff? "it's been good actually. Better every night because we get better at playing them. A song needs to grow as part of a set, it's never that good when you first start playing it.· Rob adds that "people have been reacting to the songs even though they don't know them ."

What do Salad do to pass the tedious moments of touring? "Sleep and drink and read and go swimming• says Marij ne. Rob adds that "it's nice to try and write songs as well." Apparently there are fifteen new tracks already in the bag for the next album. Do they not stop?! Concrete decided it was time to go and leave Salad to their pre-gig preparations and their busy schedule. We said our goodbyes and apologised for the lack of a

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Dreadzone describe their latest release 'Second Light' as "recognising no barriers." Yet after listening to the record, this statement seems a little optimistic as the album stretches two ideas over nearly an hour of music. The opening track 'Life, Love And Unity' starts promisingly, combining an ambient mood with Indian strings, Celtic choirs and a reggae bass. Yet this appears to be the formula for almost all of the songs. Exceptions to this rule prove more annoying than anything else. 'Captain Dread' is a bizarre dance orientated sea-shanty piano accordions interspersed with a repetitive shout of "ahoy there·. 'Little Britain' on the other hand positions itself firmly in the category of a chart dance tune, neither inspiring nor interesting. 'Second Light' provides a nice piece of background music but there is nothing here worth sitting up and listening to. MattyWalsh

Bluebum sound like some sort of cross between The Stone Roses and Joyrider. This track has a catchy chorus with a singability rating of ten out of ten. lt's your.average 'versechorus-verse-choruscleverblt-chorus' track, but it's got a bit of punch. There's plenty to keep you

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is a catchy and upbeat pop single, lllusb'ating that Scarce are clearty still surfing the wave of their new found acclaim after supporting Hole. Although relying heavily on a rather outdated Husker Du sound, the song's cboNs -"I bet you've never choked/ You hardly ever smoked/ Glamourislng cigarettes" will have India kids moshlng In their bedrooms and will establish Scarce as one of the best new and exciting rock bands. Although it doesn't quite capture the energy of their live shows, it Is a record well worth hearing. 11atty Walah

Interested for four minutes including some interesting percussion going on in the background. Unfortunately the lyrics are a bit naff. However the vocals that deliver them blend well with the overall sound of the track, giving them a rocky edge. Dave Hall

Ultimate Records Senser. Senser 1993. 1993 two years ago. Need I say more? Oh, OK then. This is a record that isn't immediately bad, it lets you in nice and easy, all summertime rhythms and one love Glastonbury vibes (I hate that word!) ... but you soon get bored. The problem is that this has been around for at least two years already, and it shows. lt comes packed with Whirlygig remixes which is all well and good, but anyone who is (was) into Whirlygig has heard this type of stuff done a lot better a lot earlier. lt is not a bad record, but it just lacks anything special. The Sparkle doesn't Shine, it just isn't Pop. Mark Tobin

If this film is anywhere near as scary as its soundtrack, it will make 'Natural Bom Killers' look like 'Free Willy'. Every track comes from the industrial area of heaviness.

Bands like KMFDM, Godflesh and Fear Factory are all featured. Ironically, the best track is a bonus that does not even appear in the film.

lt's called 'Bullet Proof Zero' by Parallax. This is one of the good grooves on the CD. There are others which come from the remixes of earlier original tracks. Following a long string oftop selling film soundtracks, 'Hideaway' will not compete.

The focus of the music is too narrow and from the looks of the stills from the film, it doesn't look like it's up to much. However. if you're an industrial fan, this is definitely for you - industrial dance galore. DaveHall

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I do not want to slag another artist off, but they make it sooooo easy for me. This man Is quite obviously a tosser. There he sits, tightly clad In leather, limply holding a single red rose, looking awfully dejected and he writes songs because he thinks it's "insane that we're even around". What is really annoying about this though, is that there is a hint of talent beneath all the superfluous 'tortured artist' WEA hyperbole; talent which is being utilised either by him or his record company to produce annoying AOR, and Lord knows we do not need another Chris Rea. Mark Tobin

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t's one of life's inevitaSince last year's release of bilities: The sun will 'Positivity', Incognito seemed rise in the morning, to have disappeared into Norwich City will sell all oblivion . their best players and But they've come back with a record companies will conbang , and their new album, tinue to besiege the Con'100° And Rising' is a clear crete office with abysmal indication that they're back on new releases. the scene for good. Top of the sorry pile is the Packed full of the usual gosnew single from DR. 'bitches pel funk and smooth soulful are bitches' ORE, 'Keep Their melodies Incognito are faHeads Ringin'. mous for, the album also Unsurprisingly, it is an irritatfeatures a couple of energetic ing funk-rap number, Ore says "yeeeaah" a lot and he instrumental pieces, which comes out with lyrical gems suggest there's a lot more to such as "I'll keep it rockin them than ever before. from summer 'til when Santa 'Everyday' , the first release off comes down the chimney/ ho the album is probably the ho ho." Officer, arrest this most commercial single and man. the one most likely to get into Currently, dance compilathe charts , in the footsteps of tions are arriving in the office at the rate of one a day. They 'Always There' in 1991. mostly adhere to the same But Incognito are not a chart formula, and 'Triphoprisy' is band . And the only way they ' no exception: Include tracks can prove it is with an album I by three decent artists like 100° And Rising. (CHEMICAL BROTHERS, There are a few smoochy sets GROOVE CORPORATION, too, like 'Where Did We Go RIDE), fill the rest of the Wrong ', but he uplifting 'I album up with any old duffers who can operate a drum Hear Your Name' gets you out machine and then fleece The of a melancltoly mood . ' Kids out of 13 quid. All in all a mixed assortment More fairly pleasant but uninof funk-jazz and gospel-soul spiring chart dance stuff sure to carry Incognito arrives in the form of 'Never through another successful Get Enough' by THE year. Michele du Randt WATERLILLIES.

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However, it's effect is wholly numbed by seven utterly superfluous remixes. Currently occupying the 'Christ, are they still around?' file are BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE and (ulpl) DAISY CHAINSAW. B.A.D. haven't made a good record since about 1986 and new single 'I Turned Out A Punk' is a more desperate attempt than ever by Mick Jones to get back to his roots. Instead of sounding like The Clash, though, it resembles a particularly shoddy Sham 69 b-side. Daisy Chainsaw are still exactly the same as they were last time - their haircuts suggest pop stars, but their music suggests low budget metal toss. All this pales into insignificance when I realise I am holding a copy of the new Buffalo Tom single in my grubby little hands. lt is called 'Summer' and is a peaceful, affecting number. Perhaps a little disappointing but I think they will forever be measured against their benchmark LP 'Let Me Come Over'. Still, Bill Janovitz's voice could make Dr. Ore's lyrics sound soulful and heartfelt. Sam Richards

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t's the last issue of the year - booo! But we do have loads of competi tions to make up for it hooray! First up is a 'Before Sunrise' competition with movie bits and pieces for the winners, including a record bag and film posters. This is thanks to the quite outstanding generoisty of those lovely people at Rank Films and Beatwax. The film stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke as they meet on a train travelling across Europe. lt's good fun and makes an enjoyable night out. But enough of the waffle, lets cut to the chase. The competition is being run along the traditional 'question and answer' lines, so the question is as follows: In the film 'Before Sunrise' which city do the main characters spend their one

night? Next up we have several pairs of tickets for the Cannon cinema to give away. One of the films on there this month is 'The Brady Bunch' which is reviewed in this issue. So have a read of Carolina's review and enter the competition below and you can go and see it for gratis. Simply tell us ... Who is the director of 'The Brady Bunch Movie'? One of the summer movies which is much anticipated is 'Batman Forever'. But least we forget way before Val Kilmer stepped into the suit, Adam West was the caped crusader in the tv series and 'Batman- The Moive'. Made in 1966, the movie features all of Batman's most notorious enemies including The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler and The Catwoman. Packed full

Just look at the goodies going for grabs... and check out that trendy record bag- wowl and (inset) 'Batman - The Movie' of bat-tastic pows and biffs, the film follows Batman and Robin (Burt Ward) through a series of perilous dangers in their fight to combat the devious plans of their enemies . If you want to win this 60s classic, available from Fox

Video in July, we want to know... What is the name of Batman's dutiful butler? Finally, we have the traditional end of year clearout giveaway. This means the chance to win such videos as 'Evolver', 'High Crusade' and 'Mighty

Max'. They may not be masterpieces, but they are free if you win . Besides, they can always be used for blank tape! To win, simply answer this simple question : Which recent video release stars Patricia Arquette and

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ovelylady amed Carol was bringing up hree very lovely iris, while a fellow named Mike was busy with three boys of his own until one day when they all met. Soon they knew it was much more than a hunch that this group had somehow formed a family. That's the way they all became the Brady Bunch . Alright, I know that it sounds incredibly sickly. But before you start barfing into the nearest bin, let me reassure you that it does get better honest. 'The Brady Bunch' in question began life on an American sitcom of the same name, which ran from 1969 to 1974 with a total of 116

The Brady Bunch Movie USA (1995) Comedy Dir: Betty Thomas Cannon - from June 9 episodes. The trials and tribulations of this near-perfect family unit was a smash hit, spawning countless trivia books and even a well-received stage production. So, have the scriptwriters brought the Bradys bang up to date for the nineties? Not on your nelly. You see , the central theme of the movie is that the Bradys are stuck in some kind of self-inflicted timewarp, living a chaotically idyllic existence where seventies values reign and the astro-turf is always green. "Nothing can change the Bradys' views of their world ,

which is unlike anything you've ever seen, " says director Betty Thomas . "The film is an unconventional look at what happens when two different points-of-view collide. There is an abundance of comic material in everyday situations when the Bradys are around ." Shelley Long and Gary Cole , as Carol and Mike Brady, lead the polyester-clad clan through a series of dilemmas to the inevitable happy ending. So really, it doesn't shake off the vomit-enducing premise. But there are a laughs-aplenty to be had along the way - not least from seeing grown men prancing around in flares and wing-collared paisley shirts.

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n conjunction with the 'About Time' exhibition at the SCVA, Cinema City is showing a series of film, starting with 'The Terminator' , a time travel story which launched Arnol Schwarzenegger and director James Cameron into the premier league. Showing for one day only, this is a great oppurtunity to see it in all its glory on the big screen, rather than trimmed for telly. As shown rather more comically in 'Back To The Future' one of the other films in the season, time travel is not a simple business. The reason why Arnie wants to get in on the game is to alter the past so as to change the future where he has been sent from . Los Angeles 2029 is in the throws of civil war, after all the computers have gone nuts (I never did trust these high tech contraptions). A band of rebels, lead by John Connor are beginning to win the battle. So the computers send back Arnie to kill John's mother Sarah (Linda Hamilton) to stop him being born .

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Sorry, no Arnie pie, but here's Brad to make up for it After realising this, John sends back Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) to kill the terminator before it kills Sarah. Big Arnie is well suited to play the wooden - sorry, robotic terminator sent to destroy Sarah. He doesn't have musch to say - only 133 -

words to be precise. But he did get paid $45,000 for each of them, which can't be bad. 'The Terminator' is an example of what Hollywood does best. lt's a high quality, action packed thriller, with an absorbing story, making it well worth a look. Matthew Doyle

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Historical dramas do have the unfortunate potential for being yawnfests; lots of pretty costumes, a liberal smattering of "thee"-ing and "thou·-ing and very little else. Happily, 'The Madness of King George', as its host of Oscar nominations proves, manages to buck that trend very nicely, thank you. Nigel Hawthome, who is probably best known for his role as the slippery Sir Humphrey in 'Yes Minister', plays the so-

called "mad monarch", whilst Helen 'Prime Suspect' Mirren stars as George's devoted wife, Queen Charlotte. George's problems begin at the State Opening of Parliament in 1788, when he is suddenly taken ill. Not with any recognisable physical ailment, but rather with an onset of bizzare and irrational behaviour. Babbling ceaselessly, hyperactive and obsessed by the loss of his colonies in North America, the King rampages through Windsor. The Prime Minister is forced to lie to the Commons about the King's health, whilst his eldest son,

the Prince of Wales, plots to have his father declared unfit to rule and himself proclaimed Regent. Only the love of Charlotte, and the progressive treatments of the physician Dr Willis, can save the King from his ignorant doctors and the scheming of his son. But can George make a sufficient recovery in time to stop parliament passing the fateful Regency bill? Ah , that would be telling .... All 1will say is that this is a complete corker of a movie, and that (please pardon the unavoidable pun), you'd be 'mad' to miss it!

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pled regime, anxiously awaits the arrival of her husband Gerardo (Stuart Wilson) from his business trip to the capital. Gerardo, stranded on the road by a flat tyre, is given a lift home by the 'Good Samaritan' figure of Dr Roberto Miranda (Ben Kingsley). When Miranda later returns with the punctured tyre, Paulina, on hearing his voice, is certain that this is the man who presided over her torture fifteen years before. The evidence mounts whim she discovers a tape of Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' -the music he played

while repeatedly violating her - in the glove compartment of Miranda's car. Having run his car off a nearby cliff, she returns to the house, and while her husband sleeps, takes Miranda hostage. Deliberately condensing the film's events into a few hours, and filming the majority of the story in the claustrophobic confines of the shadowy beach-house, Polanski is unrelenting in focussing the viewer's attention and involvement in the three viewpoints.Having become a situation of increasing physical and psychological confrontation , things come to a climax with dawn rapidly approaching , and the characters find themselves in for a 'cliffhanging' ending.

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he time for relaxing in the sun is upon us. Get your deckchair out, put on your coolest shades and mellow out. The summer has well and truly arrived .. . but just in case that sun is too damn hot, those flies are too annoying and there's no-one around worth showing off your gorgeous pectorals to, why not make a quick dash to your nearest cinema to see what's on in the coming months. Probably the most eagerly awaited film this summer is 'Batman Forever', which has Val Kilmer replacing the receding-hairlined Michael Keaton as the caped crusader, piping hot Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face, and Nicole Kidman as a sexy psychiatrist and part-time love interest for the winged one . The plot will, of course, be as daft and predictable as that of the first two films, but the presence of a new Batman , new director Joel Schumacher and an astonishing array of special effects and dazzling costumes shouldn't fail to draw in the crowds. Having worked together on 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves', director Kevin Reynolds and sex-symbol Kevin Costner are reunited in the

forthcoming futuristic adventure 'Waterworld'. Set after the polar ice caps have melted and the remains of mankind have turned into gilled amphibians, the film sees Costner go in search of dry land whilst dealing with a psychotic Dennis Hopper; an unsurprising choice for the villain. 'Waterworld ' has been fraught with problems since Day One. lt will have to do good business to recoup its $175 million budget, and Costner does need a hit more than most. ... In 'Die Hard With A Vengeance', Bruce Willis and the bible-bashing Samuel L Jackson join forces to defeat mad bomber Jeremy Irons. This

sequel is helmed by John McTeirnan, who is determined to revive his reputation after the dismal 'Last Action Hero'. We have, of course, seen it all before, but if we pretend we haven't, it'll be a blast! Having surpassed the likes of Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the most bankable star in Hollywood, Oscar-winning actor and allround nice bloke Tom Hanks heads the cast in 'Apollo 13', the true story of the struggle three men face to return to earth after an onboard explosion leaves their spacecraft with low levels of oxygen and power. Hanks is so hot at the moment he might explode quicker than his spaceship. Expect big bangs and bigger profits. Sylvester Stallone dons the famous 'Judge Dredd' uniform for his latest action blockbuster, directed by another British export to the states , Danny Cannon

('The Young Americans'). Set in the third millennia, a time when lawyers and the legal system have been abandoned, Stallone plays a one man police force; judge, jury and executioner. Can the new director from over here cope in the fast lane over there? Keanu Reeves, having asked for a measly $1 million to be driven around by sexy Sandra Bullock in 'Speed', returns as 'Johnny Mnemonic' with a $7 million price tag attached to him this time. Based on a short story by cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson, the film tells the story of a courier who has to download information from a chip in his brain before he self destructs. Sounds bizarre and it probably will be.

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Rodriguez's 'Return of El Mariachi', and Hugh Grant's Hollywood debut in 'Nine Months'. If 'Waterworld' fails to make a splash and 'Apollo 13' ends up lost in space, expect these films to get in on the summer action. So there it is folks! Enough value for money entertainment to fill a football pitch at Carrow Road- but that wouldn't be hard, would it? lt's going to be one shakermaker of a summer, and that's without mentioning other potential blockbusters like Denzel Washington's 'Crimson Tide', Mel Gibson in 'Braveheart', Geena Davis in 'Cutthroat Island' and Lori Petty's punk with an attitude in 'Tank Girl'. As Jim Carrey said in 'The Mask' - it's going to be "Smokin'" this summer.

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Interview Wllh The VamplreCamllntJ~ CholctJ 1didn't fancy Brad Pitt until I saw this film . Now I want to have all his babies (Don't start - Ed). Lavish and lavicious at the same time, this movie just oozes sexuality out of every reel. Yes, and that even includes Tom Cruise, even though he looked better without the blond rinse. Plus I went to see this film with two of the hottest babes on campus, which made this the most enjoyable cinematic experience ever. WIU: But I didn't go with you, did I? Anyway I thought it was overrated ... nice ratmunching scene though. MATT: Sorry to say that this was not one of my favourites, the film looked good in places but failed to satisfy overall.

Shallow Grave • Will~ CholctJ There's a lot of b*ll*cks spoken about the state of the British film industry - much of it by blokes called Graham or Darren in the Union Bar. This proves we can produce crowd-pleasers which are simultaneously witty and stylish. So grab your Union Jack, make yourself a cup of PG, chill to that Elgar CD, and feel proud of this .. er... Scottish achievement. CAROLINE: Good work fellas! Not least for disposing of Keith Alien in the first ten minutes. MATT: Top choice Bill- a trip through death, dementia and dismemberment- great fun!

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This did not get the publicity it deserved as Tim Robbins stars as Andy, convicted of killing his wife and her lover, and sent to Shawshank Prison. There he gets to know Red - Morgan Freeman -and the story is totally absorbing as their friendship grows. lt even had its regional premiere at UEA! CAROLINE: I was gutted when they took Rita Hayworth's name, used in the title of the original story by Stephen King, off the film's title. Consequently, I have no wish to comment on it. WILL: Nifty choice young whippersnapper! A good film which surpasses its naff title.

The CllentCamllntJ~ 1/JdttJT If the annoying brat had died horribly within the first halfhour, and the racoon hadn't been so cruelly blown away by the bad guy, I might have just about coped with sitting through this bum-numbing waste of celluloid. Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones - you should be ashamed of yourselves. WILL: Bra-busting DD action, a steamy bath-tub drubbing scene, and the best erotic setpieces since 'Hommeisters Ill - The Swordsman Returns'. A masterpiece. (Somehow I think Will was watching a different film- ScreenEd.) MATT: Sorry Cazza, but I'll have to disagree again. While this is no classic, Susan Sarandon's performance stops it being a full blown turkey.

Drop ZoneWill~ 1/JdttJY The producers of this film clearly overestimated the 'thrill-value' of seeing people fall out of aeroplanes, and as a consequence the plot makes way for endless 'exhilarating aerial sequences' . But two kettles do not a teapot make, and the combination of skydiving and corporate crime with a few pyrotechnic whizz-bangs does not add up to a great movie. CAROLINE: lt's still better than 'Under Seige' though,

cording to 'Drop Zone' all security stops in Washington on July 4th. Yeah, right! A true disaster movie.

TlmecopMall's turkey The muscles from Brussles tries to show he can act. Don't believe the hype he's crap. The plot is naff and all we're left with is a broken down vehicle for JCVD. Still, when it comes to showing off, the

Belgian beefcake is in a class of his own - the way he does the splits in his kitchen has to be seen to be believed . WILL: Not a lot of 'cop' really _ van Damme's leg spasms can't redeem this one. CAROLINE: Jean Claude van Damme is the most unsexy, untalented bloke alive, and I bet even my mum's harder than him really.

•Well, that's your lot from Will and Carol/ne. We've had a great time being in charge of the Screen section, and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our parents, our tutors, our lovely Edito! Niall, all the other section Eels for not being as talented as us... (Just leave the keys, thanks -Matt).

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Matthew Doyle finally gets his hands on a copy of Reservoir Dogs, and gives his verdict on the critically acclaimed film that has waited around two years for a video release

'd imagine 'About bloody time' will be the most likely comment to greet the release of Quentin Tarantino's stunning debut film 'Reservoir Dogs' , available to rent from June 14. Delayed by the moral minority getting on their high horses again and James Ferman being bullied by the media, the film has been playing at cinemas for two and a half years before making it to the video shelves. There shouldn't be any need to tell you the plot, but if you have been living on Mars, it is as follows : six guys are hired by crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a raid on a jewellery store. So as to remain anonymous, in case they get busted , the six have alias names of colours , i. e. Messrs Brown , Pink, White, Orange etc etc. Anyway, during the caper, all does not go according to plan , when the cops turn up and havoc breaks out. On returning to the rendezvous , loyalties are tested as they try to figure out what

happened. The view is reached that one of them must be a traitor and they try to work out who's the rat. What Tarantino does best is write very sharp and very funny dialogue so that the characters combined with an excellent ensemble cast which includes Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth, become totally absorbing. As Tarantino showed in Pulp Fiction , resurrecting John Travolta, he knows how to pick a great cast and it is difficult to imagine anyone else in these roles. lt is these characters rather than the over-publicised violence which stick in the memory after watching Reservoir Dogs. Hailed as the greatest debut movie since Scorsese's 'Mean Streets' by many a critic, 'Reservoir Dogs' is a tight, action packed and repeatedly watchable movie. There aren't many better ways to spend 95 minutes -

go and rent a copy now and there'll be no excuse not to know the Madonna speech off by heart.

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There was only one character to rival Bod though , and that was Alberta the Frog and his amazing animal orchestra. Their fame must surely rest on the teasing question about milkshakes that was posed every week. Would Alberta choose the strawberry? The squirrels on the flutes thought so. But no, the butterflies on the harp were right - it was vanilla! CHORLTON AND THE WHEELIES This was majorly surreal. A

bunch of round people on wheels, a green faced witch called Fenella, mushrooms that would morph through the floor and, most bizarre of all , a large orange spotted dragon from Burnley. But, of course , this was the seventies, when a lot of children's programmes seemed to be produced from a drug-induced haze. Not that all the enthralled five-year-olds who trembled in terror at the thought of Wheelie Land being wiped out by Fenella's evil spells

would have realized such a thing , of course . THEFLUMPS Everyone loved the furry Flumps. There were six of them : Grandpa Flump, Father Flump, Mother Flurrip, Perkin, Posy and Pootle (he of the woolly hat fame}. Pootle was the most adventurous one , making a trip into space in one thrilling episode, and Posy showed remarkable stupidity when she completely misunderstood the phrase "Keep it under your hat". And Grandpa Flump was, of course , a musical virtuoso, being highly skilled at playing the flumpet. The rest of the family didn't really appreciate him however; they had a tendency to stick carrots in the flumpet to stop the noise. JAMIE AND THE MAGIC TORCH "Jamie! Jamie! Jamie and the Magic Torch!" Words that have somehow remained lodged firmly in the brains of

of hip-hop, scratching and sampling, torch song vocals and a backing band of jazzblues veterans, Portishead have created a unique sound with across-theboard appeal. 'In Concert' featuring Portishead, Radio 1FM, Saturday June 10, 3.30pm . .

Formula One fans will be delighted to hear that Radio Five Live will be paying tribute to some of the sport's major stars in their new series 'From Moss to Mansell: The Great British Drivers'. Naturally, the first programme is dedicated to the

The column that fondly remembers not one butfwe of those classic TV programmes ofyesteryear. ..

As this - sob! - is the last 'In Memoriam' , Concrete has decided to pay tribute to not one , but five of those classic children 's programmes which we all remember fondly. BOO Ah yes, the boy in the dress can truly be classed as a legend . No lunchtime would be complete without tuning into the BBC for those amazing pictures which started off really tiny, and like, grew into these little people. "it's Aunt Flo' it's Farmer Barleymo!".

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twenty-somethings all over Britain. Didn't we all long for a torch that would somehow magic up a giant helter skelter that would transport us into a magical land of giant magician rabbits and policemen on unicycles? Unfortunately for Jamie, he was completely outshone in the personality stakes by his talking dog Wordsworth . MRBENN This has to take the prize as the most weird concept for a children 's programme ever. A grown man goes into a shop, changes into a caveman or knight outfit, walks through the changing room door, and lo and behold, he's in another world! Most strange, especially the shopkeeper, who always appeared "as if by magic"! But at least we knew that Mr Benn would always be home in time for tea, clutching a souvenir from his magical journey to put on his mantlepiece. greatest driver never to win the world title -Stirling Moss. Friends, colleagues and the man himself look back on an illustrious career. 'From Moss to Mansell: The Great British Drivers', Radio Five Live, Tuesday June 13, 9.35pm.

Summer's here and the exams are all over. Whehey! Time to doss and sit in the sun eating icecream and drinking beer, eh? Well, that's not an option for those hard-working bods at Nexus UTV. Even though the rest of campus have finished all their work, they've still got plenty to do. Like make sure that all this summer's top sporting action gets full coverage. All the major games in the Rugby World Cup, and all the best national and international cricket will be beamed daily into the Hive and the Pub. So whether its scrums or stumps that float your boat, you'll find it's all there on Nexus. Otherwise, that's yer lot for this year. Stay tuned for September!

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EdWood Faber & Faber Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, 'Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood , Jr.' Faber & Faber ' Rudolph Grey. d Wood Two recent releases from 'faber & faber' are about 1950s B-movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. One is 'Ed Wood' by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the screenplay to the new movie starring Johnny Depp. The other is a biography 'Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr.' by Rudolph Grey. Tim Burton (whose films are analysed in the forthcoming 'Burton on Burton ') shows in his film the love he has for Ed Wood as a director, who had a passion for women's clothes and angora sweaters in particular. This is made possible by a screenplay which has some very funny lines, and which ignores much of the more

dodgy side of his life. Indeed, the screenplay ends on a more positive note after the completition of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'. We are left with a happy Wood who thinks he has made the greatest film ever. Sadly he was much mistaken, with 'Plan 9' widely regarded as one of the worst movie ever made. The biography instead continues the story to detail Wood's decline into alcoholism and even more bizarre, and downright awful sex movies. Grey has compiled the biography from in depth interviews with Wood's friends and family and divided into various sections looking into aspects of his life. lt also contains a wide selection of photos, but the quality of these is generally poor. However, Grey makes up for this with an extensive listing of all Wood's projects. As a pair they give an iteresting and contrasting insight in to Ed Wood, a unique and fasicinating film maker.

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am writing this with a pencil on the back of a cardboard box by the light of a candle because there's no electricity in the new substandard accommodation. I'll have to rub it off tomorrow of course to make room for my lecture notes but somehow it helps to write it down, even though they will never read it and they'd only laugh if they did. I think, if I could afford a painless way, I might kill myself. Lots of the third year students do, when they realise they'll never get the money together for next tenn's fees and they've spent two years of their life slaving for this place for nothing. Ifs easy to get sleeping pills from the Health Centre, they have a special clinic. But the prescription charges are so high, twenty pounds a time! The Government says it improves national health by encouraging people not to get sick. When I can't sleep I sometimes go down to the lake. 'You don't have to pay at night, and when it's clear the reflection of the stars is beautiful. One August night it was so wann and peaceful I fell asleep lying on my back, drowning in the moon, and got fined ten pounds in the morning for being on the grass without a pennit. Rumour has it they're building a covered walkway next year, so the real people can come and walk their dogs and enjoy the summer without having to see us students at all. Ifs the Christmas holidays soon. Three days. Mum says they used to get three weeks for Christmas when she was here, but that was before they restructured the tenns to make maximum use of the conference facilities. They don't use these rooms for conferences of course, just the posh ones with furniture and running water. My back aches so bad sometimes, writing essays on the concrete floor. I think everyone in this block has piles.

heating. I wonder what it was like to be a student then. Maybe it was tun for everyone, not just the rich kids. The candle's guttering. Candles are banned in student accommodation of course, because of the fire risk. We're meant to get ourworic done between dawn and dusk: it's the natural way. Five years ago a whole block burnt down. They couldn't find out what had caused it, so they charged everyone for the cost of rebuilding everyone who survived. Sometimes it seems like the only way to avoid getting fined is to stay in bed all day. Kina says they deliberately sabotaged the Library heating during the cold spell so that they could fine people who tried to smuggle coats inside. She hates the library authorities though, ever since she got caught in that book-sharing seam last year. Someone in her seminar tipped them off that she was letting other people read her library books and when she returned them they took fingerprints. They sent her down for that, a whole semester's fees down the drain. Getting sent down is so easy too. lt's always the same. A bright kid, lured into the trap by a full scholarship in the first year. Scrapes through the second year somehow, selling everything they own. Then in the third year, despair, and they're expelled for poaching ducks or stealing books or hotwiring the computers. You're bound to get caught eventually, especially since the library introduced random strip searches. I think all the rats in this block have died of plague. At least we can eat them: 'provided they are caught in the humane traps provided by the university authorities for that purpose'. But there haven't been any rats since last Sunday. Weeks like this I watch the rabbits and start to wonder if I could eat grass.

Campus is so different in the summer. Spruced up and refitted for the new financial year and the start of the conference season. By the time the students come back in October the flowers have wilted, the paint has faded and the fountain's dried up. One of my lecturers told me once they used to pay students for cleaning the conference rooms, waiting in the canteen, all the little jobs that keep the campus running. Ifs hard to believe, it must have cost them a fortune. Now, with all the woricas-you-learn scheme they don't have any support staff costs at all. lt's not so bad if you're doing American and English Studies like me I guess. I can get away with about ten hours of lectures and seminars a week, so that's only ten hours of cleaning toilets and peeling potatoes to pay for them. Ifs mainly the science students who have to woric off their hours in the holiday. Lab hours count double time because of an the equipment Mum said before the scheme, lectures used to be included in the standard admission fee. But then she says all sorts of things use to be free: computer time, libmry bofrowing . ~xam emmnce,

If only I could have got woric this summer. I'd applied for escort woric on the campus like last year, but they said I was too thin. Escort woric's not paid of course, but you get better accommodation and there's always the chance of tips. I pleaded with the woman, told her that some men like thin women and I'd leamt a lot since last year, I'd do a good job, honestly. But she said that thin was out lt was getting too common. They had a quota system for their clients' preferences based on extensive maricet research, and they only had specialist vacancies in the 'Older woman, faf. 'Young man, no body hair' and 'Eastern European' categories. And so I don't have next tenn's fees. The money I

did manage to make: donating blood; raiding dustbins for cans to recycle (3 pence per 100); emptying our outside toilet and selling it as manure; barely covered this tenn's, and mum couldn't afford to feed me for free on what she makes draining cesspits. And that's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life, if I'm lucky and can finds a job at all. Cleaner, fast food fryer, or sitting on an assembly line, no chance now of a graduate job in retail or waitressing, where youtlave to~~enough

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Illustration by Tony Lansdowne money to keep your face and hands nice and not putthe customers off their food. A drop-out, just like my parents. And they were on premium-rate courses too: law and engineering. The kind of course people with ordinary graduate jobs start saving for before their children are bom. But my parents just dropped out. Decided it was boring and left in the final year to hitch to Kathmandu. lfthey hadn't I could be one otthe rich kinds in the conference accommodation. A whole room to myself, ordinary students to fag for me, ensuite jacuzzi, satellite television.

lightening and off-peak lectures start from 6am. If I'm not one of the first few hundred to get there they might sell out of handouts. This is the second night I haven't slept, but I can't bear that dream. Registration day, second semester, swiping my card through the reader, the alanns going off; the polite demands to settle my debts to the University immediately; being stripped of my s~dent identification and library card; the blacktracksuited phys-ed finalists approaching to expel me; the

shame.

Imagine just looking up the location of books in the library catalogue instead of spending hours searching for them: paying the seminar supplement and being allowed to speak; having a pennit for the multi-storey bike-pari<; being able to afford to eat in the canteen.

I have a piece of glass that I found in a dustbin at home. Ifs sharp. I think maybe I'll be so upset that I'll find the courage to do it. Blood spraying from my throat like a champagne bottle; like that gir11 saw in the first year, blood everywhere, and ten of us told to clear it up while they took the body away. That was my first woric-as-you-learn job, clearing the blood. They invoiced her parents for the damage to the carpet.

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.14 day listings in association with the Theatre Royal - Reservations (0603) THURSDAYJUNE8

Compiled by Caroline Ad/em

WEDNESDAY JUNE 7

SUNDAY JUNE 11

Cannon See Wednesday June 7.

Ms. Moore? £2/SemesterTicket, 7pm.

Cannon/Odeon See Saturday June 10

Odeon See Wednesday June 7.

Norwich Arts Centre Vitamin X- FDN present live reggae with a touch of Soukous. £5.50/£4.

Cinema City The Days (18)- Chinese movie made on a shoestring budget and distributed illegally, focussing on two typical members of Beijing's artistic and intellecutal community. Spm . The Hudsucker Proxy (PG)One of the series of films presented in conjunction with the Sainsbury Centre's About

Cinema City The Madness of King George (PG) 2.30pm, 5.45pm , 8.15pm. Union Films Disclosure- Demi Moore launches herself at Micheal Douglas, but he's having none of it, but should he have spurned the vindictive

8os wells Caravan Club CD Launch Party. 9pm-midnight. Hys Club night. 9pm-2am. Admission £2 all night. Happy Hour: midnight-1am.

Odeon See Wednesday June 7. Cinema City The Madness of King George (PG) 5.45pm, 8.15pm. The Terminator (18)- A robotic Arnold Schwarzenegger as a villainous android who travels back in time from the twentyfirst century to 1984 Los Angeles where he is scheduled to carry out an assassination. 11pm. Union Films Amateur - Accessible and funny film about a confused man trying to rediscover his identity, with the help of an ex-nun . 8pm .

Theatre Royal Norfolk Opera Players and The Mozart Orchestra present Cavalleria Rusticana I Pagliacci "Passion, jealously and betray I

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lead to the same inevitable and tragic conclusion". What's that then? £3-£9, 7.30pm. UEAStudio A Midsummer Night's Dream. £6/ £3.50concs. 7.30pm. Norwich Arts Centre Baluji Shrivastav - one of the few exponents of the Hindustan music style. £6/£4. Boswells Fat Slugs Blues Band. 9pmmidnight Hys Club night, 9pm-2am. Admission £2 (9pm-10pm), £3 (10pm11pm), £4 (11pm on)

Time exhibition. 7.30pm . Norwich Arts Centre Gala Ballet Evening - Cynthia Harvey, principal ballerina with the American ballet theatre, leads a gala performance in aid of Norwich Arts Centre. £10/£7.50. Boswells Broadside Swingtet. 12noon-3pm.

MONDAY JUNE 12 Cannon See Saturday June 10

FRIDAY JUNE 9 Cannon See Wednesday June 7. The Brady Bunch also opens today.

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monumental mishaps and audience participation combine for a hilarious evening of decidedly earthy Chaucerian comedy. £2-£13, 7.30pm. Boswells Jazz'n' Blues Jam. 8pm-11pm.

Cinema City The Madness of King George (PG). 8.15pm. Death & The Maiden (18)Based on the play by Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, this is a tense, engrossing film about the relationship between a married couple and the doctor whom they believe was once a collaborator with an unamed South American military junta. 5.45pm.

Peppermint Park NUS student night. HMV Promo night. Tapas Bar open 7pm-10pm, cheap beer &free entry to PP b4 1Opm. 9pm-2am.

Theatre Royal The Canterbury Tales- English eccentrics, naughty narratives,

Zoom (nr Cannon) Student Night- House & Hip Hop. Admisson £2.

Ritzy Student Night. SOp entry with student id.

TUESDAYJUNE13 Ritzy Fast Trax. Admission £2 b4 11 .30pm , £3 after. Manhattans Club night. £3 b4 11.40pm. Peppermint Park Club night, 9pm-2am.

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Cannon/Odeon Richie Rich (PG)- bad guys try and con Macualay Culkin . Good luck to them. 1.30pm, 3.30pm , 5.30pm and 7.30pm. The Madness of King George (PG)- Nigel Hawthorne plays the mad one. 9.30pm. Demon Knight (18)- a fight to save the world from evil demons. 2pm, 4.15pm, 6.30pm and 8.45pm. Don Juan de Marco (15)Johnny Depp plays the greatest lover in the world. That must have been quite easy... find out for yourself at 4.1Opm and 9.10pm. Cinema City The Madness of King George (PG)- Adaptation of Alan Bennett's award-winning play, starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren and Rupert Everett. Billed as one of this years most enjoyable cinematic experiences. 5.45pm, 8.15pm. Union Films The Mask- Jim Carrey is the nobody who becomes a wacky green showman when he dons a magic mask. Based on the Dark Horse Comic, it's notable mostly for the excellent effects. £2/SemesterTicket, 7pm. Theatre Royal Gene Pitney. After thirty years in the business, collaborations with The Rolling Stones and Marc Almond to name but a few, he's now reached the peak of his career- he's playing Nor-

wich . £3-£16, 7.30pm . UEALCR RolfHarris. !!!!!!!!!.The man himself visits UEA (again).!!!!!!!!!!!. Norwich Arts Centre Anorak of Fire - The antics of trainspotter Gus Gascoine's hilarious quest for his very own holy grail, the anorak of fire . £6.50/£5.

Waterfront Mercury Rev & High Llamas.

Boswells Horizon. 9pm-midnight.

Samanthas The Fluff Syndicate . Dance/Techno/Trance music. 10pm-2am. Hys Club Night, 9pm-2am . Admission £1 all night. Happy Hour: midnight-1am. Ritzy Free admission with any student id b4 midnight. £1 .50 pints. Peppermint Park Student Night, 9pm-2am. Admission £1 b4 midnight (Tapas Bar open 7-10pm, cheap beer & free entry to PP b4 1Opm). Zoom (nr Cannon) Club Classics. Admission £2 (free for girls b4 11pm)

THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE Cannon/Odeon See Saturday June 10.

SATURDAY JUNE 10 Cannon Some or all of the films listed on Wednesday June 7 may still be showing - Ring for further details.

the bands featuring Evolver & Globo.

Odeon Some or all of the films listed on Wednesday June 7 may still be showing - Ring for further details.

Boswells East Coast Blues Band. 9pm-midnight.

Cinema City The Madness of King George (PG) 5.45pm, 8.15pm. Ground hog Day (PG)- Comic fable about a TV weatherman condemned to relive the same day over and over again. Starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. 2.30pm. Theatre Royal Cavalleria Rusticana I Pagliacci. £3-£9, 2.30pm, 7.30pm . UEAStudio A Midsummer Night's Dream . £6/£3.50concs, 7.30pm . Norwich Arts Centre Off Yer Face I Globo- battle of

UEALCR Jim Rose Circus.

Samanthas Rock Club. 1Opm-2am. Hys Club Night. 9pm-2am. Admission £3 (9pm-10pm), £4 (10pm-11pm), £5(11pmon) Ritzy Furious Fun. £3 b410.30pm, £5 after. 9pm-2am. Manhattans Club night. £3 b411 .30pm . Peppermint Park Club Night. 9pm-2am. Zoom (nr Cannon) The Cow Club- Garage & House . £5/£4 with NUS card.

Cinema City The Madness of King George (PG)2.30pm, 8.15pm. Death and the Maiden (18) 5.45pm. Union Films Trapped in Paradise- Three crooked brothers rob a small town bank, only to find they can't escape from the area and its very pleasant and welcoming inhabitants, sending them on a guilt trip of mammoth proportions. 7pm. Theatre Royal The Canterbury Tales. £2-£13, 7.30pm.

UEAStudio Our Town. UEA Drama Soc presentation . £6/£3.50concs. 7.30pm. UEA - Live in The Hive. End of Year Party. With Bucking Bronco and pole jousting. Waterfront Boo Radley's- currently riding high on the success of their last few singles. 8os wells Jazz 'n' Blues Jam . 9pm-midnight. Hys Club Night. 10pm-2am, £1 all night.

Cannon Cinema , Prince of Wales Road. Tel 623312 Odeon Cinema , Anglia Square . Tel 0426 932450 Cinema City, St Andrews Street. Tel 622047 Theatre Royal, Theatre Street. Tel 630000 Norwich Arts Centre , St Benedicts Street. Tel 660352 Maddermarket Theatre, Maddermarket . Tel 620917 Manhattan Nightclub, Dove Street. Tel 629060 The Oval Rock House, Dereham Road. Tel 748244 Peppermint Park, Rose Lane . Tel 764192 Ritzy Nightclub, Tombland. Tel 621541 Boswells/Hy's , Tombland . Tel 626099 The Waterfront, King Street. Tel 632717

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SATURDAY JUNE 17 Cannon See Saturday June 10.

Films Fucked Up -A soap or the slacker generation, ..-e1V0111ma around the lives of a young gay ~~ricar,s as they laze around ~IJlO~J:jlocations . 7pm. Royal Canterbury Tales. £2..£13,

Boswells Lee Vasey Band. 9pm-midnight.

Ode on See Saturday June 10.

Samanthas The Fluff Syndicate. Dance/Trance/Techno music.

Cinema City Back to the Future (PG)Micheal J Fox as the guitarplaying, skateOboarding small town teenager who gets accidentally propelled back into mid-50s America, where he meets his parents as teenagers.

1~2am .

Hys Club Night. 9pm-2am. Admission £1 all night. Happy Hour: midnight-1am. Ritzy Free admission with any student id b4 midnight. £1 .50 pints.

Theatre Royal

The Canterbury Tales. £3..£13, 2.30pm, 7.30pm.

Zoom (nr. Cannon) Club classics. £2 admission (free for girls b4 11 pm)

Maddennarket Theatre Taming of the Shrew. £2.50..£6.50, 7.30pm. Norwich Arts Centre Black Umfolosi -This singing and dancing sensation from

bury him and nick the money of course (?). 7pm. Theatre Royal The Canterbury Tales. £2..£13,

7.30pm. UEAStudio Our Town. £6/£3.50, 7.30pm. . ,l,allcrw Grave - Proving the Film Industry is on the this excellent film is ~istUirbinta but hilarious. What you do if you discovered new flatmate dead - with a FtJniO'il:~e full of money? You'd

8os wells Feels Uke Rain. 9pm-midnighl

Hys Club Night. 9pm-2am. Admission £2 all night. Happy Hour midnight - 1am.

Cinema City The Madness of King George (PG) 5.45pm. Death and the Maiden (18) 8.15pm. Rumblefish (18)- The young Matt Dillon stars as a teenage gang mamberwho idolises his charismatic but troubled older brother, played by Mickey Rou~e. 11pm. Union Films Road to Welville- Toilet humour returns, with Dr. Kellogg (as in the cornflakes) trying out various wired treatments on his victims/patients. 7pm. Theatre Royal The Canterbury Tales. £2..£13,

7.30pm. Maddennarket Theatre Taming of the Shrew- Bapista's younger daughter Bianca can't

marry until his eldest Katherina is betrothed, a seemingly unlikely event until the arrival of Petruchio, who sets about 'taming' the shre-like Kate. £2.50..£6.50, 7.30pm. Norwich Arts Centre Scapegoat Theatre presents As You Like lt. A FREE outdoor production with the NAC garden doubling as the Forest of Arden. Boswells Aane Blues Co. 9pm-midnight. Hys Club Night, 9pm-2am. Admission £2 b410.30pm, £3 after. Ritzy Fast Trax. Admission £2 b4 10.30pm, £3 after. Manhattans Club Night. £3 b4 11 .30pm. Peppermint Park. Club Night. 9pm-2am.

Ritzy Furious Fun. £3 b410.30pm , £5 after. 9pm-2am. Manhattans. Club Night. £3 b411 .30pm. Peppermint Park Club Night, 9pm-2am.

Zoom (nr Cannon) The Cow Club. £5/£4 NUS card.

Betrayl (15) 7.30pm. Maddermarket Theatre Taming of the Shrew. £2.50£6.50, 7.30pm. 8os wells Nigel Portass Trio with Derek Cubitl 12noon-3pm.

MONDAY JUNE 19 Cannon/Odeon See Saturday June 10. Cinema City Muriel's Wedding (15)- Gauche heroine Muriel escapes into a fantasy world of Abba songs and bridal wear catalogues. In a desparate search for romance she moves to Sydney, leaving behind her oppressive family and bitchy bimbo friends. 5.45pm. Exotica (18)- After a visit from the tax man, the star speculates on what the taxman does after wo~ - and follows him to find out. 8.45pm. Theatre Royal Dance, starring Wayne SleepA unique show, tracing the history and development of dance in the last two hundred years. £2..£14, 7.30pm.

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Cannon/Odeon See Saturday June 10.

Cinema City Red Beads (18) - Charts a nonconformist heroine's struggle to adapt and maintain her sense of individual identity. Spm. Double Bill: La Jetee (PG) &

Maddermarket Theatre Taming of the Shrew. £2.50£6.50, 7.30pm.

TUESDAY JUNE20 Cannon!Odeon See Saturday June 10. Cinema City Muriel's Wedding (15) 5.45pm. Exotica (18) 8.15pm. Theatre Royal Dance. £2..£14, 7.30pm. Maddermarket Theatre Taming of the Shrew. £2.50£6.50, 7.30pm. 8os wells Jazz 'n' Blues Jam. 9pm-midnight. Hys Club Night. 10pm-2am, £1 all night.

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Hys Club Night, 9pm-2am. Admission £3 (9pm-1 Opm ), £4 (10pm-11pm) &£5 (11pm on).

SUNDAY JUNE 18 Cannon/Odeon See Saturday June 10.

Boswells Beyond the Blues. 9pm-midnight.

2.30pm.

7.30pm. Peppermint Park Student night. 9pm-2am. Admission £1 b4 midnight (Tapas Bar open 7pm-10pm, with free entry to PP b410pm).

Zimbabwe perform a powerful mix of traditional dances against inistent mythmic drums and chants. £8/£6.

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Ritzy Student Night. Entry SOp with student id.

HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK Our valiant Listings Editor, CAROL/NE ADLEM OWeek after week, Caroline has struggled through wind, rain and snow to bring you the best listings to help you organise your night out in Norwich. So, from all the team at

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Concrete, Wednesday, June 7, 1995

Sport

THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS

Nik Davy and Jane Horner, not wanting to be odd-editors· out, take a look back at the highlights of the sporting year October

January

April

SIX of the tennis courts behind Waveneywereclosedduetodangcrous fencing, leaving the tennis and netball teams fuming. The price of repairs was an estimated £12,000, and would have to wait until April at least. However, £I 0,000 was found to revamp the Sports Centre ' s gym, which doubled in size at the expense of a squash court. After disappointing numbers turned up to Sports Mart, UEA 's teams still managed to start their BUSA campaigns well enough. Spurred on by the promise of cheep beer as a reward for victory, almost everyone beat North London, with the ladies' footballers obviously most desperate for some liquid refreshment - they hammered their opposition I 0-2. Yet amidst success at both Essex and Middlesex, some interesting objects found their way back to Norwich, including cones, concrete bollards and campus maps (what, no shopping trolleys?)

WITII the BUSA competition on hold for the Christmas vacation, attention for UEA 'steams switched to the local leagues. The men's rugby team was in the Norfolk Plate final after Norwich Union failed to protect themselves, the football team affirmed their superiority in the Gal pen Press league by defeating the Pickwick 5-l, and the Aardvarks basketball team hit the top of their league with a 116-67 victory over last year's winners Notre Dame. The Aardvarks went on to comfortably claim the league title. Elsewhere, a bid was made for a grant from the National Lottery fund to help finance a new £4m sports complex on University Drive. We've still got our fingers crossed ...

WITH the winter sports season drawing to a close, several UEA teams were still in the hunt for honours. The ladies volley bailers finished a fine fifth in the finals tournament in Glasgow, the best BUSA run by a UEA team this year. Not to be outdone, the cycling team promptly returned from the track championships with bronze medals for all four of its riders. Meanwhile, both of the ladies' hockey teams gained promotion by winning their respective local league divisions, and the indoor cricket team finished runners-up in their BUSA competition at Lords, falling only at the last hurdle to Loughborough.

The Pirates American football team turned round their depressing start to the season and finished it by winning the BUSA Southern Conference Plate.

Service to Sport Awards '94-'95 THIS week sees the presentation of the Service to Sport awards.

The Boat club this year took delivery of £20,000 of new Laser 2 dinghys, launched at Oulton Broad in March.

November DEMOLffiONSofCranfieldand East London set the month off to a good start, although defeats at the hands of Hertfordshire stalled a lot of teams chances of progression to the knockout rounds of the BUSA championship. The ladies volleyball team, however, was not amongst this group, trouncing Middlesex 15: I 15:0 to progress to the regional finals. Elsewhere, Wymondham'sTeam Lotus announced it wouldn't be in existence in the 1995 Grand Prix season, and Norwich City notched up their last Premiership victory of the season.

February

May

THE women's football team lost their I 00 per cent record, their 1-0 loss to Greenwich ending their part in the race for the BUSA championship. This came as a bitter disappointment after defeating Hertfordshire 18-4 in their previous match ... Plans for a sabbatical Sports Officer were put on hold following the resignation of Phi I Clegg from the Communications Officer post. The situation was not helped by the resignation of the Internal and External Sports Officers, and since then interest in the posts has plummeted with a grand total of nobody putting in a nomination for next year's positions. Outside UEA, Norwich beat Ipswich, their last win of the season, and a merger with Thetford based Pacific Racing ensured that the Lotus name would appear in Formula I. Well, fortwoorthree laps a race, at least...

FOR the third time in succession, the football lads won the Gallpen Press league, with the second team gaining promotion to the second division. Rumours that Norwich City will be training with the UEA boys next season in a bid to bounce straight back into the Premiership are unfortunately unfounded ... Race walker Tan Richards gained his third BUSA medal in three years at the Athletics championships in Edinburgh. His bronze medal was the best performance by a UEA athlete, the next best bring Keith Palmer's sixth in the 400m. Top of the pile after the eightmonth race fortheprestigiousGrand Prix trophy was Run Sara Home. Victory in the obstacle course and second in the athletics earned them the trophy ahead of Moonlighters and previous winners Jellylegs. Will they be back to defend their title next year? Only time will tell...

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These awards are given to those who have make an outstanding contribution to the development of sport at UEA during their time here, and this year eight students, from the many nominations, have been chosen by a committee of University and Union sports staff. Saul Brown (Swimming) was selected mainly for forging links with the local club 'Norwich Penguins', which means the UEA club now has a trainer and pool space. InPatCrew'stimeasCyclingclub president, he has turned the team around. This year they raced every BUSA event, instead of just local meetings, and have also gained sponsorship from several fmns. Another recipient was James

Grigg, who has also arranged sponsorship, this time for the Cricket club. Further awards were given to Karen Lord (Badminton) and Pierre Pill out (Squash), both ofwhom have helped to keep their clubs running successfully, Karen by arranging court hire following the closure of the Fifers Lane courts, and Pierre by organising open tournaments. Multi-talented Lawrence Po-Ba has represented UEA at football, cricket and tennis, but it is in the latter which his contribution has been most influential. He has arranged training schedules and coaching, and represented the University at local league committee meetings. Despite having never really played Volleyball before he arrived at UEA, Darren J. Smith quickly improved, so much so that he is now

DRY SLOPE SKIING Moritz next Christmas (on a studentbuget?).

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president and trains beginners himself. He is also Junior Development Officer for the Norfolk Volleyball Association. Another person to liaise between UEA and local associations is Nick Stevenson (Hockey). Along with this, he has umpired matches and arranged for other members to qualify in this. Three other awards will also be presented. Joint 'Team ofthe Year' are the Women's Volleyballers, who came fifth in their BUSA championships, and the Cycling Club, who won several team and individual medals at various BUSA events. The final award, for Sports Person oftheYear, goes to race-walker Ian Richards, who has won a BUSA medal for the 3000 metre walk in each ofhis three years at UEA, the highlight being a gold last year.

90 minute lessons will set you back£40. Can I hire skis there? Better than that - they're provided free of charge. Apres..Skl? Sort of-there's a clubhouse and a bar. More, more, more ... Further into is available from the UEA Ski Club, but don't pester them now - you're better off waiting until Sports Mart in October. Should you feel the urge before then, contact the Norfolk Ski Club on Norwich 662781 or620851 .

OK, hltmewith lt.. How much? Er, skiing In May? Yes, I know, butwhatthehell? But why? Well this week's suggestion is really for those of you who fancy taking up a new sport at UEA next year, or who want to be good enough to scare the newcomers in September. Oh, and those who merely feet theneedtobrushupontheir'hotdnc~nin,n'h.~fmP."hf:.-.:~l'lirtn offto5t

lt's not that bad, actually. To ski there, you'll need to join either the UEA Ski Club or the Norfolk Ski Club. Membershipofthelattercosts£27 for two years, although day membership can be had for£5. Skiing then costs £3 per hour. Help! I haven't skied before! Fear not. The centre caters for beginners, intermediates and advanced r t~ skiers, and a course, of 4

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UST BOWLING THEM OVER

IRST the Regional title, and then a place In the last 16 of the USA competition were claimed by UEA's team recently, James Grigg.. 2nd XI Cricket They clinched the Regional title Montfort 173-8 De a convincing victory against UEA174-5 Montfort of Bedford, reducing UEA 240 (all out) to 56-6 with President Grigg RHBNC 101 (all out) -22) and Richards (3-54) doing damage, before they battled to a respectable target team as Mamba notched up a flamHowever, this was made to look boyant 33, followed by Starmore's with Harris making 57, sup- splendid 55 , big-hitting Richards's by Roberts (26) and Mamba 33 and Roberts's 43 . RHBNC found themselves unable to reply, being tom apart by the excellent bowling and fielding of the UEA side. Captain Harris said: "the boys have done great to get us this far."

Woe, woe and thrice woeI ..

PACIFIC Team Lotus are experiencing a run of bad luck, writes Sally Rose.. Atlmola, Monterrnini was given a 10 second penalty for speeclling in the pit lane, but since he retired

before he could take it, it was converted into a $10,000 fine. In Barcelona, the refuelling valve on Gachot's car failed to return, causing a small on board fire. AndinMonteCarlo,Montermini

was caught jumping the start and then black-flagged for not taking the penalty within three laps. BossKeith Wigginsisprayingfor better luck for the rest ofthe season, and he can certainly get no worse!

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Llwatudent Andrew Wheatley Is competing In the 1995 Peugeot British Junior Champlonshiplnthellobii1/TopGearBrltishRallyevents. He won hlscluaofthelnaugural round lrtW..In hill RAM Motoraportprepared Peugeot~08 S16 back in March, and lay In second place going Into last weekend's third round, the Perth Scottish Rally. ArlciNwhopes to keep up the pace and regain his lead, with the incentive of a possible WOt'b drive for Peugeot in 1996.

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in competitions. The first half of the year was ldecllicated to preparation for the BUSA event, which took at Birmingham University. from one member, the team lcorlSisted entirely of people who had no previous experience of nacompetition. UEA came up against a strong from Leeds in the second round and lost three out of five. However, they still managed to give good account for themselves, with onange belts beating some of Leeds black belts. The fighting was even fiercer in the individual events. One person managed to get through to the second round, only to come up against

Karate can do odd things to your face ... another member of the Leeds team, who eventually took the silver medal in a closely-fought final. Other major events held this year have been the courses given at UEA by external instructors. Topics covered included Tai Chi, kata (pre-arranged fighting fo~). tnaditional Okinawan karate and self

defence. The club was also lucky enough to have visits from some of the best instructors in the country, including Steve Rowe, the head of Shi Kon, and Terry Daley, the British Allstyles Champion, European silvermedalist and instructor of the current world champion Wayne Otto.

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PORT More medals from time trial chamP-! CYCLOMANIAC Heather Wells led UEA Cycling Club's assault on the BUSA time trial championships, with a bronze and a gold at two different distances. In the rain-lashed and windswept 2Smile event in Cambridge, she earned a bronze medal, and later improved the colour of her medal by gaining gold in the SOmile event at Swaftham. She was delighted with the results, both better than she expected as her work has left her with less time to train than in the past. "Perhaps I used to train to much in the past," she commented pensively. First of UEA's male finishers in both events was Andy Tyler, who posted a top 20 finish in the '2S' and a top 10 finish in the 'SO'. Whilst disappointed to have missed out on the sub-two hour mark in the '50', Andy was nonetheless well pleased

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with these results which he adds to his success in local 10-mile time trials. It is mostly over these short distances that he has made his name locally in his first year of racing. Asked why time trials attracted the pair, Heather said that she enjoyed them as the only event where she can still improve, with Andy adding that: "They're the ultimate measure of fitness - you against the clock and no excuses. It's the best way of ranking yourself with the big boys ... the stop-watch doesn't tell any lies"

President Pat Crew noted that: "We' ve gone fro m absolutely nothing to being one of the few universities to race consistently in all the BUSA events." Fortunatelytheclub will be losing none of its major players besides Pat, and with advice from the National Track Coach, who adopted the team at the Manchester Velodrome, the team should be even stronger next year. Said Pat: "It's taken off completely, and next year's going to be better." •Four of the team will be riding from Norwich to Paris in 24 hours to raise money for the Bryan Gunn Leukaemia Appeai.Anyonewishingtosponsorthem should get in touch with Pat, Andy, Adam Wild, David Bailey or Mark Warren through the club's pigeon hole.

bove: Andy Ty /er celebrates a successful first year's racing · Medahst Heather Wells on the track

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