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The Union stops Concrete being distributed in their ·buildings because they don't like our advert UNION Officers banned the previous issue of Concrete from being distributed in their buildings because it featured an advert for a Norwich lapdancing club. Three of the four sabbs, Ned Glasier, Michelle Pratt and Alex Dawson stripped Union House of the bin where the newspaper can be found within an hour of Concrete being delivered on Wednesday February 26. They claimed to have had "five, six or seven complaints" from students who insisted that the advert for Devil's Advocate club left them feeling "uncomfortable and offended". The advert, which was on page 20 of entertainment supplement The Event showed the back of a naked woman and offered a free lap dance to every reader. Communications Officer, Ned Glasier confirmed that the Union officers took the decision to ban the newspaper - which is editorially independent - from its premises. "At its meeting Wednesday February 27, Executive Committee decided not to allow the edition of Concrete to be distributed inside Union property as long as the advert in quesin the tion remained newspaper." "The Committee considered lap dancing to be subjective and discriminatory to women and felt that it was at odds with the Union's various
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News ·Editor
women's campaigns." But the advert did not break any of the regualations set in place for the Concrete Society - and there is yet to be any official equal opportunities policy within the Union. The Executive Committee also decided that they
angry at the Union's decision to withdraw the newspaper from its premises. " Anyone who gets offended by this is going to have trouble watching television. I know people who have gone to the club and had a great time. " It also seems silly that the Union are happy to continue selling newspapers such as The Sun and The Star, which feature naked women,"
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was confused as to why the advert caused
troversy. " There are 25,000 flyers currently circulating around Norwich and nobody else has objected· to them . •· I think it has caused the chap who did it more harm than good," said Mr Thompson. This is the not the first time that Concrete has been pulled by Union officials. In 2000, the sabbs Concrete to publish again if it printed an advert for any lapdancing club. Concrete Editor, Katie Hind was
newspaper from Union House because it featured an article on the British National Party.