GUS EDGAR-CHAN Venue Editor
JOSEPHINE DOWSWELL Venue Deputy Editor
Well, here we are. It’s been fun, stressful, and entirely worthwhile, but this is our last edition of Venue for the year. No, stop crying. As always, all good things must come to an end (see: Pimp My Barrow, Cloud Dog, our hopes and dreams of graduating with a First).
What’s that? The last edition of this year’s Venue is the 365th edition? The number 365 seeming to mark the end of a year, the end of an era, a nice clean numerical motif? Fantastic. Like a bit of that.
Derby Day has come and gone, highlighting once again 1) how pointless it is competing against a Uni that’s below us in every possible, conceivable way and 2) how easy it is to smuggle alcohol onto the square. Despite my lanky, entirely un-athletic demeanour, and the fact that I’m an English student, I *am* actually into sports - just as well I’m graduating in the Sportspark (ignore the fact that I’ve never once stepped foot inside the gym). Our first issue of Venue was for the Freshers’ - this last issue of Venue is for the leavers. Turn to page 7 for your very own guide on how to combat fear of the future, which I know has plagued both myself and many of my friends. And I haven’t gone an editorial without mentioning our sudoku, so, have at it then. This is Gus, signing out.
Johanne Elster Hanson
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Shelby Cooke
Jordan Hunnisett
Gabriela Williams
But you know what I don’t like a bit of? Mostly graduating in the Sportspark. And I do confess, the cancellation of Pimp my Barrow. Despite the fact that I’ve never been, I do still think it’s a huge shame. I have found memories of the bizarre sight of students dressed to the nines and pushing a precariously decorated wheelbarrow. It’s getting ever more difficult to feel proud of UEA as a whole as we hurtle towards graduation: as if organisational convenience has been placed over the will of the students. Is it really impossible for a university to safely organise a campus-wide charity event? To let us graduate in a beautiful (see: cathedral, the lake) or at least Norwich-themed (see: Carrow Road, even the damn Congo hall) instead of... the Sportspark? It riles me right up, I say! Perhaps I should relax a little. And why not relax by reading a nice bit of Venue?
Nick Mason
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Rabbit by Fay Austen
Jodie Bailey
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