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On 7 December 2015, the student newspaper of the University of Kent, now known as InQuire, celebrates its 50th birthday. The student newspaper has been in existence almost as long as the University itself. It was created in 1965 by Richard Hoyle and Robin Pitman, two physics students who, with the help of staff from the Kent Messenger Group, set up InCant. Speaking to Robin Pitman about the creation of the newspaper, he told us: “A high power team of Kent Messenger staff arrived at the University and spent several days in Eliot with the students, explaining in great detail and with great generosity how to run a newspaper.” Hoyle was the first editor, and Pitman was the Business Manager, and was therefore in charge of gathering advertising to fund the printing costs in the early days. In 1969, the NUS awarded InCant the title of Student Newspaper of the Year, only four years after its creation. In 1985, InCant’s name was changed to KRED, which stood for Keynes, Rutherford, Eliot, Darwin. The change into KRED also brought with it funding from the students’ union. Union-affiliation brought with it a few problems for the editors, including in 1999 when the Union attempted to remove an article about bar turnovers, which led to many editors resigning on a matter of principle and a sign of protest against Union regulation of the press. In 2006, the name changed once again, this time to
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ISSUE 11.8
FIVE security alerts have been issued by the University of Kent in recent weeks. The Templeman Library has been the focus of the security alerts three times so far, with other locations including Essentials and Drill Hall Library, based at the Medway campus. Students have been evacuated in each case. AN online petition has been launched to rename Canterbury West train station as Kanye West train station. The petition had gathered 90% of the target vote at the time this newspaper went to print. CSRFM, Canterbury’s Community and Student radio station, has found out that a German man who owns an events company called CSR Events has used their logo for his business. The man insists that his friend designed the logo for him, but it is identical to CSRfm’s logo. Unfortunately the man has even gone so far as to get the logo tattooed on him. FOUR men have been arrested following a police car chase in Canterbury on 26 November. The car chase ensued following an alleged theft of cigarettes from a trolley outside Bookers wholesale store. Police stopped a VW Golf and arrested one man, but then pursued a Ford Focus after it failed to stop. The Focus crashed into a Toyota during the chase, which caused injury to the Toyota’s driver.
InQuire. In 2015, InQuire was awarded two national awards at the Student Publication Association’s national conference, with photographer Daniel John winning Best
Student Photographer, and Editor-in-Chief Natalie Tipping being highly commended for Outstanding Dedication. InQuire now publishes 24 pages of content on a
fortnightly basis, and its website, inquirelive.co.uk, was launched in January 2008. It is run by a team of 15 editors, and a team of over 150 writers and photographers.
THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has condoned the use of military intervention in the fight against Islamic State. Speaking at the CofE’s General Synod, Welby said in order to create “safe and legal routes to places of safety... for refugees who are vulnerable and at severe risk”, military intervention would be necessary.