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sexual health services at kent set to be cut Ruby Lyle Newspaper News Editor

SEXUAL health services at The University of Kent are likely to be reduced, and potentially stopped all together, after the re-commission of sexual health services by Kent Country Council.

Sexual health services at the University Medical Centre are to be reduced over a six month period as a result of pressures on the current staff subcontractor.

From the start of June, the Mercury Clinic is to open one day a week, halving its current opening. This would allow 15 appointments per week for the 19,275 students at Kent.

Additionally, it is expected that the Mercury and Express clinics will be stopped entirely from 2015, meaning the nearest sexual health service for Kent students shall be the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

Megan Wells, the VicePresident for Welfare for Kent Union, said: “The University Medical Centre’s sexual health

unique and medway essentials to be axed Christopher Heron Emma Shelton CAMPUS clothes shop Unique will close during the summer with Jobshop set to replace it from September.

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services are such a vital part of the services they offer. I think it’s extremely irresponsible that Kent County Council want to stop these services, when so many students, staff and other

patients use them. The sexual health of patients at the medical centre is under threat.”

Kent Union have released a petition designed to lobby Kent County Council on the

matter and can be found on the Kent Union website. The petition is addressed to Wendy Jeffreys, Head of Public Health Commissioning, and Dr. Faiza Khan, Consultant in Public

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Moore, explains this decision: “Jobshop plays a vital role in supporting our members during their studies by finding them part-time positions. […]

“Having reviewed the Unique business and recognising the increasing need for our Jobshop service, we believe we can make better use of the valuable space on the Plaza currently used by Unique.

“We are able to transfer stationery products into the main Essentials store and can make the remaining clothing

products available online or through a pop up shop.”

Concerning the effects this changeover will have on students, she continued: “No jobs are at risk with this move as all staff that work in Unique also work in Essentials.”

This news comes at the same time as plans are announced to close Medway Essentials.

Grenwich and Kent Students’ Union Together (GK Unions) said: “We would like to let you know that we are proposing to close Medway Essentials,

our retail store located in the Jellicoe Building, over the summer months. A final decision will be made on this once we have consulted with all affected staff.”

The planned closure of the store would involve the loss of the 22 jobs currently held by students and long term staff.

The products would potentially be sold online or stocked elsewhere, but GK Unions assure “we will do all we can to ensure the decision does not have a negative impact on

Health and Lead for Sexual Health and Health Protection.

Explaining the reason for the petition, Wells makes the point that students would be less likely to seek medical help in relation to STIs if access to such help is restricted.

She indicates the difficulty students may face in reaching Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

Many do not have access to cars and may be unable to budget the £5.50 necessary for a return ticket to the hospital or potentially struggle with the 50 minute walk.

The Mercury and Express clinics are located on campus at the University Medical Centre.

The Express clinic is designed for those who have no worries concerning STIs and can receive a full check in 15 minutes.

Currently, the Mercury Clinic runs every Tuesday and Thursday in 30 minute sessions for those who believe they may have contracted an STI. To make an appointment with either service, phone the reception at 01227 469333.

our members”.

Students have started a campaign to save the store.

Both Unique and the Medway Essentials have long been reported as running at a loss.

These closures come a year after Kent Union closed Rutherford Bar and The Attic, two of the campus bars, which were also running at a loss.

According to the 2012/2013 Kent Union financial statement, the charity ran at a loss of over £200,000 in the last financial year.

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Editor’s Note Hello everyone, I hope exams are going well and revision is in full flow.

This is the last paper of the summer so read about some top activities to enjoy once work is over, including great holiday reads in Culture.

Otherwise, find out more about upcoming changes on campus, with the removal of the Mercury Clinic and Unique or student exploits with the Jarman Art Exhibition or fundraising efforts in Sport.

I wish you a wonderful summer holiday and see you next year.

Emma.

kent student representative election results Dave Cocozza elected as Kent RaG President! Darwin College Student elected! I was up against two Website Comment Editor

A new team of Part Time Officers and Student Trustee have been elected, following a week of campaigning by all the candidates. InQuire spoke to a number of the candidates who were elected into the roles for the 2014/15 academic year.

Part Time Officers include new RaG President Fazal Gulzar, who takes over from Laura Hunter. Mr Gulzar said: “I am so happy about being

I have been a member of RaG since I started University and now as President I hope to lead RaG into another amazing and successful year!”

Emma Booth was re-elected as Social Sciences Faculty Representative, and said: “'I'm so happy to have been re-elected as Social Sciences faculty rep.

The past year has been amazing experience. I've learnt so much and can't wait to continue in the role.”

Grace Mercer, newly elected

Committee President, said: “I'm nervous, but I can't wait to make my own mark on the greatness that is Darwin.”

Other College Presidents that were elected included MillieMae Mitchell-Pointer for Keynes College, Clara Easthill for Medway, Andreas Payne, Moses Williams for Parkwood and Mohona Bhattacharjee, reelected as Rutherford College President. Ms Bhattacharjee told InQuire: “I was actually really surprised when I was re-

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strong candidates and it was bang in the middle of exam hell so I couldn't campaign in all the ways I hoped. But I'm really happy about the results and look forward to continually improving the college life in Rutherford.”

The elections for Student Trustees were also contested, and elected were David Lewis and Rory Murray. Mr Lewis told InQuire: “I feel really honoured to have been elected as a student trustee. I ran on a platform of finding ways to make Medway better and making the case for giving a students a meaningful and direct say over the issues which most affect us.

“Union Council sometimes fails to represent that. It was the Board of Trustees who called for a referendum over the marking boycott so I very much look forward to working with the Trustees to represent students at the highest level and to find innovative ways to improve the Medway experience for our GK students. I cannot wait to get started!”

A full list of the elected candidates can be found on InQuire’s website.

university sex league out raphael discovery made Natalie Tipping saying he was “Bath Spa and

Matt Gilley

RESEARCH by a UKC student may lead to a new discovery at the British Museum.

Nigel Ip, a second year History and Philosophy of Art student, examined a drawing

by Raphael, held by the Museum, for one of his projects last Autumn. He found that the drawing, which had not previously been associated with any of the Italian renaissance painter’s major works, might be a preliminary sketch for the painting ‘Marriage of the Virgin’.

On 29 May, Ip met with Hugo Chapman, who is in charge of maintaining the drawing and others in the Museum’s collection. Whilst they were unable to establish a definite connection between it and the painting, there will be more research done to “put together a strong case”.

Before the meeting, Ip said: “I'm certainly very excited and it would be amazing if it turns out to be valid and productive to the art world. I must say, I

am very nervous since I need to try very hard to prevent myself from saying false information.

As a result, I'm having to brush up on everything I've learnt about Raphael.”

For a student to stumble across this kind of discovery is rare, although a previous student at the University did have a catalogue entry at the Museum changed based on their research. Ip was encouraged to contact the Museum by Dr Ben Thomas, the lecturer for whom he did the initial project.

Ip continued: “It is important to link drawings to paintings because the former serves as part of a progression of ideas that lead up to the final painting/ product. They allow us to track down stylistic changes and stylistic influences, and in a lot of cases, they present multiple ideas to solve the same problem, a bit like brainstorming.

“All in all, it was very helpful to be able to meet and discuss with the guy who is in charge of maintaining this gorgeous drawing in the public collection amongst countless others.”

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THE University of Kent students have placed 45th in the StudentBeans.com 2014 Sex League Table.

It has been announced that Kent students have, on average, 5.1 sexual partners over the course of their degree. This ranked the University as 45th out of 109 universities.

In the 2014 University Sex League, the University of Brighton topped the table with an average of 10.59 partners.

The rankings also found that Bath Spa University was the ‘worst’ in terms of sexual partners, with only 2.57 on average. One Bath Spa student commented on the Sex League,

proud. Perhaps it’s just that people at my university are the most happy in our relationships.

Quality not quantity”, while another student asked “who gives a shit?”. The league offers a look into student life.

This league illustrates sexuality and over-sharing becoming a more common occurrence in student life in British universities. It can also be seen however as another victory for the University of Kent over local rivals Canterbury Christ Church University, who ranked 105th out of 109, with an average of 2.83 partners.

You can read Cerys Thomas’ opinion about the sex league in an article in the Comment section.

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News 3 survey: courses not value for money student loans breach Natalie Tipping This survey comes as part of more to do”. This has been Emma Shelton looked after. Our investigation Chair

STUDENTS do not think their courses are value for money according to a recent survey.

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) has found that students no longer believe their courses are worth the fees they pay for them. Only 41% of students surveyed rated their course as good value for money. This is due to a majority of students feeling they can find all the information they need for their course on the internet.

40% of the students who said they regularly skip lectures claimed this was because they didn’t feel they needed to go because they could get the information necessary online.

Google and other internet search engines and encyclopaedias allow homework and research to be simpler to look into than it was for previous generations.

Online tools such as JSTOR and Google Books make external sources much more accessible to current and future students, whih allows students to write essays without ever entering a library.

the continued backlash from the rise in tuition fees in 2011.

With the rise in tuition fees and no change in contact hours or a change in module content, 33.1% of students surveyed said they were getting “poor” or “very poor” value for money from their course. A similar survey conducted before the rise in fees found that only 18.3% of students felt this way.

The survey also found that whilst only 41% of students at English universities rated their courses as ‘good’ value for money, 70% of Scottish students would give this rating.

HEPI and HEA also found that there has barely been a change in contact time with lecturers since the tripling of fees, with an increase of only ten minutes a week on average, with the average weekly contact time being 29.5 hours. This is unrepresentative of the amount of work which students have to complete outside of lectures and seminars.

Universities Minister David Willetts has stated on the subject that despite universities taking steps to improve the value of courses, “there is still

reiterated by Nick Hillman, the director of HEPI, who has said: "The data suggests growing differences across the UK. Students in England are paying much more [than those in Scotland] but only receiving a little more."

With the increase in tuition fees over recent years, there have been calls for universities to improve these figures, and improve overall student satisfaction.

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DATA breaches have been reported in the Student Loans Company (SLC) by the Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) concerning students’ personal information.

These data breaches, which took place in 2012, according to a SLC spokesperson, included a psychological assessment and medical details being sent to the wrong customers.

The ICO conducted an investigation to determine why the breaches occurred.

It found that too few security checks were carried out when scanning in documents to customer accounts and even fewer concerning sensitive information. Stephen Eckersley, ICO head of enforcement, said: "For the majority of students, the Student Loans Company represents a crucial service that they rely on to fund their studies.

Students are obliged to provide personal information to the loans company, both while they receive the loan and in the years when they are paying it back, and they are right to expect that information to be properly

showed that wasn't happening.

We've spoken with the company and made clear that changes need to be made, and a formal undertaking is now in place."

Tina Stavrianou, a University of Kent Politics and International Relations first year student, commented on these data breaches: “The SLC should be more careful. Clearly accidents can happen but they should not. The problem here is that the company is a monopoly so students can’t really go elsewhere, but an invasion of privacy like this certainly diminishes my trust in them.”

Once the data breaches were revealed, the SLC contacted the customers. A spokesperson said: "When we realised our mistake, we immediately contacted the person or organisation the information had been sent to, to apologise for our mistake and to make sure the details were deleted.”

The Student Loans Company has since assured the ICO that they will carry out more thorough checks concerning all customer information as well as reminding staff of its data protection policy.

more students to china canterbury cathedral gains funding Matt Gilley 80,000 students should visit China to study every year, says Vince Cable. That’s nearly 15 times the number that went in 2013, 5,400.

The target is part of the British Council’s Generation UK programme, which encourages students to study in China, and which the Business Secretary gave his support to in a letter to business leaders across the country.

“The global centre of gravity is shifting eastwards to major economic powerhouses like China,” said Cable, “but while China sends around 100,000 students each year to the UK, we send little more than 5,000 in the opposite direction – and that's two thirds more than we sent in 2010.”

He said “we must raise our game”, but admitted that a lack of language skills will be a problem. “New independent research shows that a lack of language skills in the UK is costing our economy about £48 billion. The shortage of Mandarin speakers is part of

the problem. I don't want young British people to get left behind.

“Participants in [the Generation UK programme] will not only boost their own career prospects, but become ambassadors for UK-China relations on their return home.”

The programme is offering a range of scholarships for “outstanding” British students to study or complete placements in China from September 2014.

Carma Elliot, Director of the British Council in China said: “Generation UK creates incredible opportunities and access for young people in the UK to experience life in China’s rapidly growing economy.

“By coming to China to work or study, UK students develop a global mind-set and gain international experience and skills that will enable them to thrive in a globally competitive labour market.”

Cable made his remarks while visiting Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

There, he also announced new exchange programmes with the Universities of Warwick and Glasgow.

Robert Wilcock CANTERBURY Cathedral has moved a step closer to securing its long-term future with £11.9 million awarded from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).

The Canterbury Journey project has been supported by the HLF in awarding the cathedral over half the money necessary to improve the cathedral. The funds will help towards the target of £19.4 million required for the world

heritage site. Vital restoration work is required, including renovation of the West Towers and Nave, as well as conservation for Christ Church Gate.

According to a spokesperson from the cathedral, funds will “safeguard an iconic building […], broaden the range of those who journey to it, and enrich their experience”.

The cathedral also hopes to build a Welcome Centre, as well as offering further

opportunities to discover the history of the site. This includes the introduction of the Pilgrim Pass scheme.

The fundraising efforts are not over. The cathedral must raise an additional £7.4 million to complete improvement and preservation plans. The Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, The Very Reverend Dr Robert Willis, described the fundraising as “an immense challenge, but it is one that my colleagues and I accept with relish”.

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michael gove voodoo dolls risk of cyber-stalking for students Ginny Sanderson Newspaper Comment Editor

A voodoo doll of Education Secretary Michael Gove has been made available to buy online. The website selling these items is Etsy.com, which states its purposes for creating the toy: “Do you want to stick pins in Michael Gove?” It encourages buyers to “declare war on terrible politicians from the comfort of your home”. Said item is a pincushion, which has an “uncanny likeness” to the Conservative politician, according to Dan English, Newspaper Sport Editor, “despite the tentacles”.

The popularity of the unorthodox merchandise follows recent controversial decisions made by the Education Secretary to remove modern American classics To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men from the English GCSE syllabus.

Concerning the crocheting process used to make the dolls, the website states that it is done “by hand and mentally infused with mean thoughts about Michael Gove”. The novelty item takes a minimum of four hours to “fly the nest and start its new life making you feel a

little better about the terrible, terrible decisions made by our Education Secretary”, and it can be yours for £25.

The voodoo doll, come pincushion, has proven to be successful, with over 21,000 Facebook likes. The name Michael Gove appeared on creator Ms Stiff’s order book but the politician’s Westminister office could not confirm whether he had purchased the product.

Charlotte Amelia Smith

AN event focused on the dangers of online stalking was held by the Oxford Union on 27 May. Oxford UK, a not-forprofit organisation run by the country’s leading digital stalking and abuse experts, gave the talk to educate and raise awareness about the threat.

The presentation focused on the damaging effects stalking can have on the life of a victim, emphasising the psychological impacts, and discussed how to spot warning signs. The organisation also provided students with information on where to go for help if you are a suffering this kind of online harassment and informed students about the recent changes in laws and legislation concerning stalking in the digital age.

In such a technology dominated age as this, stalking has advanced from physically following and harassing someone to being able to interfere in the victim’s life through social networking sites, online hacking methods and spy wear.

‘Stalking’ is a common

phrase among the younger generations to describe viewing someone’s social networking profile. However, students at the event were made aware of some statistics, revealing that as many as one in six women, and one in ten men, have been victims of cyber stalking.

This is not a new phenomenon nor is it exclusive to the UK. Research done in the USA revealed that more than 13% of women reported incidents of stalking in college, and

that people under the age of 25 experience stalking at the highest rates.

Furthermore, 54% of female murder victims had reported stalking to police prior to their death, highlighting the very real dangers of stalking.

Oxford UK Founder Harry Fletcher said of the importance of the event: “The students attending tonight’s event are living digital lives. We hope to help them identify and minimise their risks.”

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protest over gcse english changes the real way to end exams Ruby Lyle Newspaper News Editor

PROTESTORS have performed a ‘read in’ at the Department for Education in response to the changes made to the English Literature GCSE. As a form of protest, Left Unity, a left wing political party founded in November 2013, formed a demonstration at the Department for Education in London on 30 May over the changes to the GCSE syllabus.

In this demonstration, the participants read several extracts from American literature including Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible. This is following the removal of American literature from the curriculum by the exam boards AQA and OCR. New guidelines from the Education Secretary, Michael Gove state that all books studied from the post-1914 era must originate from the British Isles.

Rachel Brooks, who is both a member of Left Unity and a teacher in East London,

said: “The changes to the curriculum are a worrying sign that the Tories want a more narrow teaching agenda in our schools. This is despite the fact that these pieces of literature continue to amaze and inspire young people.”

Gove denies accusations of restrictions to the course and wrote in the Daily Telegraph: “I am rather pleased on one level that so many […] defend both literature and the unity of the Anglosphere. But sadly I can’t take too much delight in these

protestations[…] Because they are – in more than just one sense – rooted in fiction.

“I have not banned anything.

Nor has anyone else. All we are doing is asking exam boards to broaden – not narrow – the books young people study for GCSE.” To find out more about the changes to the English Literature GCSE, turn to Matt Gilley’s suggestions in the Comment section for what he believes should be studied in the course.

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Ginny Sanderson Newspaper Comment Editor

A Cambridge student had taken to social media in order to raise money for a helicopter ride to his sister’s wedding.

Louis McBride, reading Physics at King’s College, had 45 minutes between the end of his exam and the beginning of the ceremony in Wilkshire.

The only option, he deduced, to make the 150 miles to the wedding, would be via a private helicopter ride.

The student released a video on YouTube and a Twitter campaign, both titled #GetLouistotheWedding. The video has received over 26,000 views. The campaign raised £2,672, enough for a helicopter.

Excess was be donated to the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

However, Louis’ campaign has received some criticism, with comments on the fundraising website to Louis that, “it wouldn’t have been that hard for her [sister, Zoe] not to schedule her wedding in the

middle of your exams”.

Meanwhile, Imogen Duffin, UKC Comparative Literature and History student said: “His sister obviously doesn’t like him.”

Nonetheless, the successful campaign has left Louis “really overwhelmed by the support” he received, and he thanks all who donated.

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are you having enough sex?

Cerys Thomas Website Features Editor

BIRDS do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let’s do it. Let’s have at least 10 sexual partners over the course of our degrees like the folks over at University of Brighton. Hang on, that doesn’t sound right.

Shouldn’t there be something else there, something to do with the L-bomb? Apparently not…

According to a study conducted

by The University Sex League Survey on the popular site StudentBeans, the average student at the University of Kent is expected to bed 5.10 people over the course of their degree.

Personally, there is something so very wrong with this survey.

The first thing is, how on earth can you sleep with 0.10th of a person? I’m not actually sure 0.10% of a person covers any concrete form of foreplay.

The second thing that unnerves me is the statement itself.

Obviously, I can only talk from personal preference, but I don’t relish the thought of someone making educated guesses about my sex life in accordance to the university I go to! The

fact that the sexual exploits of each university have been laid out bare (no pun intended),

analysed, and compiled into a league board gives the survey the air of artificial achievement.

“The average UKC student will have sex with 5.10 people over the couse of their degree... how on earth can you sleep with 0.1% of a person?”

The survey is clinical. It takes the magic, the romance out of something that we’re meant to enjoy. It reduces sex at university into a statistic, a statistic that takes no heed of many of us who came to uni with a boyfriend/girlfriend, or those of us who found their partners in Freshers’ week. Those of us

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who are still inexperienced and awkward with the opposite sex.

For these people, this survey provokes feelings of incompetence.

It appears to reprimand them for their incompetence for not sleeping with enough people whilst at uni. So what if you have only one sexual partner at uni?

If that one sexual partner is the one you’re happy to stay with for the duration of your course, screw the people stuck behind computer screens using algorithms to determine an aspect of student life that is completely indeterminate.

At the end of the day, sex is personal preference. If it’s one person for the rest of your life, or one person every week it’s up to you. In the immortal words of my mother, “when it comes to sex, it’s all about the quality not the quantity”. Mother T’s sage advice demonstrates that the survey should not be an expectation that you have to hold yourself up against.

It should not be used to determine whether you’ve fulfilled your sexual potential as a uni student or not. Honestly, it’s all bullshit conjecture.

x-men’s history of discrimination Tom Turner

WITH X-Men: Days of Future Past in cinemas, the public eye is once again on a franchise that balances flashy action with its ingrained themes of discrimination.

It seems particularly fitting that in the same year that gay marriage was legalised in the UK, openly gay director Bryan

Singer has returned to the series, which helped launch the superhero dominance of Hollywood. Singer has hardly been subtle with his use of mutants as a metaphor for homosexuality in his X-Men films. In X2: X-Men United, he even included a scene where a character ‘comes out’ to his parents. when confronted by her son’s superpowers Iceman’s

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mother asks: “have you tried not being a mutant?”

However, the X-Men did not originate as an allegory for homophobia. The franchise was created in the ‘60s, an era of Civil Rights protests. In fact many have compared Professor X and Magneto to Martin Luthor King Jr and Malcom X respectively; both characters have the same goal but where one chooses violence the other strives for peace and coexistence.

It was not until decades later that the X-Men started to tackle LGBT issues. Discrimination is built into their very DNA, so as society progressed, the writers found new ways to interpret the mutant metaphor. In 1993 they introduced the Legacy Virus, an ostensibly incurable disease that spreads as quickly through the mutant community as AIDS did amongst the gay community in the 1980s.

In Joss Whedon’s acclaimed run on Astonishing X-Men, he introduced a cure for mutants, an analogy for real life Christian ‘Gay Cure’ Camps and the ‘gay

gene’. In 2006, this concept was adapted in X-Men: The Last Stand. When confronted with the idea of a cure, Storm rejects it outright, telling her pupils “there’s nothing to cure”.

However, although the X-Men franchise has tackled themes of discrimination, the films have sadly focused predominantly on a trio of white heterosexual men: Professor X, Magneto and Wolverine.

To their credit, X-Men: Days of Future Past featured more actors from ethnic minorities but unfortunately they were treated as glorified special effects, memorable only because they died. Twice.

Furthermore, the films have avoided directly addressing the representation of sexuality; Mystique’s role as both a bisexual and transgender character has been completely ignored in the five movies she has starred in.

This could be attributed partly to the time in which the characters were created; it took 30 years of X-Men comics

before the writers were allowed to reveal that the mutant Northstar was gay, a character who recently took part in the first gay marriage to be depicted in mainstream comics. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of Northstar, that’s kind of my point.

As much as the X-Men are a great metaphor for discrimination, the immense popularity of characters like Wolverine has made it difficult for Marvel to build a fan base for new diverse characters, leaving the lead cast members of the films disappointingly majoity white, male and heterosexual.

The X-Men will always work best when they are used as a metaphor for bigotry in general.

Hopefully one day an X-Men sequel will shine more of a light on the diversity of characters at their disposal, promoting a black or female character, like Storm or Kitty Pryde, to the lead role.

This would better represent the themes of diversity at X-Men’s core.

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riots for the rio world cup Natalie Tipping Chair WITH the 2014 FIFA World Cup beginning on 12 June in Rio de Janeiro, many have criticised the choice of host city. These critics believe the economic instability of Brazil, and Rio in particular, should have been a deterrent to the city hosting such a huge sporting competition.

International sports competitions such as the World Cup and the Olympics obviously attract people from all over the world, coming to support their home nation and will them to victory. It’s necessary therefore

to make sure that all countries are given the opportunity to host these competitions, should they wish to do so.

Rio de Janeiro, though one of the richest cities in Latin America, with a GDP of $201bn in 2008 – higher than that of Barcelona or Rome – is also a city of great poverty, with the shanty towns or favelas, being the main concern for World Cup critics. With hundreds of thousands of Brazilians living in cramped housing in neighbourhoods all over Rio, it’s easy to see some people’s distress at a city with such a wide rich/poor gap hosting a competition like the World

Cup. If the country has the money to spend on hosting the contest, should it instead be spent enhancing the life of its citizens?

I feel like it’s very easy for this discussion to become akin to the debate over government benefits vs. the ‘laisser faire’ approach.

Although the Brazilian government should perhaps be doing more to improve the life of its citizens, a global competition such as this is inevitably going to bring a lot of money into the country, through the massive influx of foreign football fans over the course of the month-long competition. Therefore, Brazil

is likely to experience a rise in revenue due to this tourism, but whether this will constitute a profit is another matter.

the improvement of roads or subway systems. It’s easy to see where the critics are coming from.

The Brazilian government isn’t helping itself either; originally telling the people that the expenditure for the competition would come from private money, not public taxation. It was soon reported however that public money had been spent on the construction of new stadia, rather than on

Nevertheless, I just don’t think countries should be ruled out as hosts of international competitions based on these factors. Countries which are economically incapable of hosting should not enter the draw to be chosen, it’s as simple as that. One would hope that governments think about the economical factors before applying, but even the richer countries are not safe from the fiscal stress of hosting. I mean, we all saw this with the London 2012 Olympics.

The hosting of a competition of this calibre is never a straightforward affair.

Countries rarely stay on budget nor does construction run to schedule, and there will always be cynics.

Regardless of the problems, I for one hope that Rio 2014 will be a triumph.

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the ‘n’-word: not a casual insult

Elliot Liburd

I was inspired to write this piece as a response to an article I saw here in the issue before Easter.

It was a debate on whether or not the word ‘nigger’ should be banned; in this article I

There were a number of tools used to achieve this ownership.

There are firstly, the physical, The whip of course is a reliable friend to the slaver, nothing quite sets a man in his place than having chunks of flesh taken from his back while his

“The right to use this word was lost when used to devolve the black community” saw many glaring errors in the argument. With this rebuttal, I hope to clear some things up.

The ‘N’-word is off limits to white people.

To fully understand this I think I should probably explain why. Slavery did more than restrict the freedom of an entire race. It laid the ground work for black people being seen as, ‘less than human’. Black Africans were bought and sold like cattle.

Their names were taken from them, their language stripped away; everything about their culture was beaten out of them, because when you do this, then do you truly own a person.

community look on; secretly glad that this time it was not them. Slave ships of course are a classic starting point, and nothing says ‘You are not a human being’, better than living in shacks unsuitable for the animals your master owns.

Then there is the psychological weapons. These take longer to take effect, but last for centuries. Every day you must tell the Negro he is worthless, every day you must convince him that his sole purpose in life is to work for the white man.

And not just his master, but every white person they see.

And every white person must

know this too, or else the whole thing falls down. They must not be educated; any who show too much humanity must be culled, because turning someone into an animal takes a great deal of perseverance.

So let us then invent a word, a word that can be used as a trigger to remind the Negro exactly what he is. Not who, but what.

The right to use this word was lost when it was invented to devolve the black community.

Therefore, I do not care how unfair you think it is that Black people say it and you cannot.

There is lively debate amongst the black community about what we should do with the word. Do we eradicate it; after all it was a weapon. What use have we for such destructive power aimed at our own community? Perhaps using it casually takes away the power of the word, robbing it of the hatred, making it something new. Either way, it is not a word the white community has a

‘right’ to.

To think that you do is the epitome of what White Privilege means. It is difficult for white people to understand this, in the same way I will never fully understand the stories and sentiments in the recent #YesAllWomen by women across the globe. No matter how much they try, the ethnic

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majority of a place will never understand the ways ethnic

minorities lives are different from their own, just as men may never be able to fully understand the struggles of women.

Recently, I walked home from the library at two in the morning. My female housemate confessed she would never have walked the same way without me. I genuinely did not understand why. The fear of rape, that I may be leered at by groups of boys on the way home after a night out, has never affected me. I did not understand it, therefore the best I could do was to listen and try to accept that there are problems with the way our society treats the disenfranchised masses.

Anyone suggesting I ‘get a sense of humour’ over the word, is so glaringly misinformed.

We should be able to discuss these things, to engage with them intellectually. However, if an individual is not prepared to look at these things from an alternate view point, they will never do more than damage our chances of progress.

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reevaluate your perceptions Charlotte Amelia Smith

WE Brits love a good rant about the state of the country. We’ve got some strong opinions, and we’re rarely shy about voicing them, most of us believing we could do a better job than David Cameron any day. But how justified are we in our views?

The Independent recently published a study containing some shocking information that might well cause us to take a step back and re-evaluate some of our opinions, and even the way we perceive our own society.

The study, carried out for the Royal Statistical Society and King’s College London, produced some surprising figures. Among the most shocking were on the subject of benefit fraud, immigration and government expenditure; often the topics responsible for filling most column space in our newspapers and which trigger our most heated debates.

The phone survey of 1,015 people between the ages of 16

and 75 years old, reported that the general public believes that £24 of every £100 of benefits is fraudulently claimed, however official estimates reveal that actually only 70 pence in every £100 is lost to benefit fraud.

Moreover nearly 30% of those who took part in the survey were under the false impression that government spends more on Jobseekers’ Allowance (JSA) than pensions. In reality £4.9 billion goes on JSA, whilst £74.2 billion is spent on pensions. So those of you complaining that all your taxes go on unemployed ‘benefit scroungers’, you were wrong about that.

Oh, and to those of you who blame the unemployment rate on immigrants coming in and ‘taking British jobs’, guess what? You were wrong about that too. Recent immigrants account for just 13% of the population, compared to the 31% it’s believed to be by the general public.

Although confusing and actually quite laughable, the consequences of these

misconceptions can be serious, impacting the way we vote, and causing unfounded persecution of certain sections of society.

But what is the cause of such a dramatic difference between our perceptions and reality? Perhaps these extreme misconceptions simply demonstrate that we are all gullible victims of media

sensationalism; mindlessly absorbing the exaggerated and apparently plain false information we see on the front page of the Daily Mail.

Or maybe we’re just too quick to complain and place blame without questioning the evidence. We eat up statistics - just add in a percent sign and your argument becomes

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instantly more believable. 67% of people have been attacked by a clown in the past three years. Must be true! God damn clowns responsible for our sky rocketing crime rate.

Hetan Shah, executive director of the Royal Statistical Society, aptly states that in order to overcome this issue “politicians need to be better at talking about the real state of affairs of the country […] the media has to try and genuinely illuminate issues, rather than use statistics to sensationalise […] And finally we need better teaching of statistical literacy in schools, so that people get more comfortable in understanding evidence.” Amen to that.

Whatever the answer, this is certainly a poor reflection upon the prejudices present in British society. We spend so much time talking about these issues and working ourselves up into frenzy over false information, and not enough time finding out the facts. The lesson we should all take from this? Don’t believe everything you read.

climate change: kind of a big deal Ginny Sanderson Newspaper Comment Editor

WHEN I proposed this as a topic for an article, someone said to me “yeah some Green Party supporter will take it”, the implication being that some free-spirited hippie would be the only person who would want to talk about fracking, the environment, and climate change. Why is it that you have to be a tree-hugger to publically care about the planet? Or like that “she doesn’t even go here!” girl from Mean Girls, who wants to make a cake out of rainbows and smiles? I just have a lot of feelings.

But maybe you should, too.

While environmentalists are often dismissed as idealists and tree-huggers - a niche hobby - David Cameron announced plans for fracking across the country. They were released on the day of the election results but because everyone was in a flurry about UKIP, Europe and immigration, the announcement passed by unnoticed. Call me naive, but perhaps we should be looking at the bigger picture.

If you’ve ever giggled along to cat videos on YouTube, or posted a picture of Canterbury looking picturesque on Instagram, you my friend are a raging hippie. Not to be all doom and gloom, but if half the country is underwater I’m not sure Canterbury will be looking that fabulous, even with a filter.

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encapsulates the spirit of how bothered a lot of world leaders seem to be about the imminent end of the world.

But, I get it, it’s in our human nature to be short-sighted.

For instance, when I bought a packet of bourbons to help me survive revision, I hurtled through 90% of them in about a day, then realised they had

for now, it doesn’t matter if they run out because they’re there now. It’s even more tempting to just let the next generation sort out our mess – we’ll be dead! Or, I’m pretty sure most of these politicians will be when their damaging decisions serve to bite our children in the arse.

The annoying thing is that the human race has so much

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titled something along the lines of ‘politicians finally talk about climate change’, wherein they are gathered together but under water. That pretty much

to last me for a week. This excellent metaphor has a point – the bourbons are fossil fuels, and we are gobbling them like there’s no tomorrow because,

intelligence and ingenuity to be able to reduce the effects of climate change. You may have seen that advert for solar panel roads in America. They will

eventually pay for themselves by the amount of energy they produce. How cool is that?

Here in Britain, we have enormous potential to use tidal power to our advantage, although it is very expensive so our tightarse leaders are not likely to invest.

But individuals can do stuff too. If you reduce your meat consumption, or become more aware of where it is coming from, you are actively reducing your carbon footprint. Cows fart a lot of methane gas (the bastards) and the majority of deforestation is due to farmers making way for their herds, the product of which eventually ends up on someone’s plate in the Western world. Think about that with your Munchies burger.

But I don’t want to lecture too much, I’m happy if you’re still with me and you haven’t switched off to watch ‘hedgehog snuggles with kitten’. If you take anything from this, please don’t think you’re excluded from the hipster land of people who care about climate change.

It’s all-inclusive. And, like Ron Burgundy, it’s kind of a big deal.

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the six housemates you love to hate Emily Adams Website Editor STUDENT living isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. That feeling of freedom quickly turns into dread when you realise you have to do this thing called cooking every day. And what’s washing? That sounds like a lot of effort.

But for many, of all the trials and tribulations we students wrestle with every day, it seems there’s one that outdoes them all. That one person that you once wanted to spend every minute of the day with, has become the one you spend every minute of the day trying to avoid: your so-called friend has become your housemate from hell. Here are a few examples you might just recognise: 1. The one who borrows money from you and just hopes you’ll forget about it.

We’re students. Our student loan is all we have, so borrow some of it and you’re borrowing

part of our souls. Don’t pay us back and we will hunt you down. No exaggeration.

2. The one who smells weird.

They’ll spend the longest in the shower and use all the hot water, yet still emerge looking grubby and smelling worse than when they went in. What even is that? Body odour or gone off milk? Meanwhile, the bath is covered in a thick layer of grime. Maybe I’ll give that shower a miss. I’ll just dab cold water on my face instead…

3. The one who never does any washing up.

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That dishes forms about

mountain of mouldy will start growing life before someone thinks edging it towards that

waterfall of cleanliness that falls from the tap.

God forbid anyone have any cutlery or plates or utensils to cook with. Not even a passive aggressive note will sort this one out.

It’s odd how quickly you adjust to eating your dinner out of a bowl with any form of cutlery available. May I suggest trying a steak knife and a chopstick for a ‘bowl’ of beans on toast. It’s an experience to say the least.

4. The one who thinks it’s okay to eat all your food.

“Oh sorry, I thought that really expensive piece of steak was mine” or “Oh I thought you bought that bottle of French wine for me, oops”.

5. The one who never does any cleaning.

And my Mum thought I was messy! Apparently (or so I’ve heard) some guys think they’re best off living with girls because they’ll have someone ‘to clean up after them’. Nope. Don’t think you’ve got that right. Try again.

But rest assured, if they do have an out of body experience and start tidying away all their

endless shit, they’ll decide to do it at 2am, the day before an exam, when you’re trying to sleep.

6. The one who plays ridiculously loud music at the most inconsiderate times of the day.

Your music is rubbish and nobody wants to hear it. I will send you passive aggressive texts to get you to turn it down and you will not like it. Deal with it.

Sound familiar to anyone? If it doesn’t and you’ve managed to avoid these housemate horrors, I applaud you for navigating the mind field of student living successfully and reaching housemate heaven. But take a minute and feel for those of us who have that one housemate who manages to encompass every types of housemate. How? I do not know but, somehow, they make it possible for you to hate them six times over.

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six handshakes away from the world Emma Shelton Newspaper Editor MY history teacher once went around shaking all of our hands in class and proceeded to explain that we were now three handshakes away from Barack Obama. I remember the pride I felt and the sudden warmth that

emanated from my hand.

At that moment, I decided I wanted to maximise on these little claims to fame and start shaking hands with people more wisely, quietly calculating who would lead me to who.

To meet Barack Obama in the flesh would be the ideal, but for simpletons like me, handshakes will have to do.

There is a famous claim that there are six degrees of

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separation between you and everyone else in the world. I want to put this theory to the test and for the moment, I’d like to say I’ve got a rather niche group of friends.

Let’s take one example and see where it leads. I interviewed the author David Mitchell at university in 2013. What that really means is that I am now two handshakes away from the entire cast of the film adaptation of his novel Cloud Atlas; I am two handshakes away from Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.

Let’s pause for a moment. Tom Hanks, the actor from Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has now opened the field to the likes of Sandra Bullock or George Clooney. I am blimming three handshakes away from George Clooney.

I could go on. Thinking of all my friends at university and at home and the people I meet in the street, and all the people they know, and the people those people know, just makes the world seem like a much

smaller place. Does this theory also go backwards? Could I be a potential six handshakes away from F.Scott Fitzgerald?

Now I think of it, I am in fact only two handshakes away from Patrick Swayze. Now dead, those two degrees of separation almost increase in value. I swoon at the thought of it.

Handshakes take on more importance and basically open doors to new social groups all over the world. I don’t mean to brag but Sandra Bullock is basically a close friend.

Of course, this theory is limited by time and space to a certain extent as there are small isolated tribes which will truly have no contact with the outer world. However, as the world becomes increasingly globalised, my six degrees of separation do not seem like much.

There is a tendency to put these ‘celebrities’ on pedestals, which I have totally just done with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, but when you look at them in this light, they are just

ordinary people like us.

I love the idea that we are all linked together through the people we meet every day. As humans, we desire human contact through friendships, and with social media on the rise, our need for connectivity is only increased.

It is certainly impressive that we can be in contact with people all over the world at the click of a button, but because I like to keep it real, instead of virtual, I prefer the idea that I have shaken someone’s hand who has shaken another who has then shaken Obama’s.

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kent university leavers With thousands of students leaving this year, InQuire spoke to a few of them to find out more about their personal university experiences.

Rebecca and Tom What will you miss most?

R: The city and all my friends - primarily Tom. T: My time working with student media. The day I had to hand over my position was a sad, sad day.

What is your favourite memory?

R: Hosting my first radio show!

T: Do I have any memories? Errr... everything!

What advice do you have for students still here?

R: Throw yourself into everything, only hold back if you’re drunk!

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Eugen What will you miss most?

Being around lots of people.

What is your favourite memory?

Getting chucked out of Venue - that’s always really funny!

What advice do you have for students still here?

Work hard, play harder and be smarter.

Christian and Joseph What will you miss most?

C: Freedom and flexibility! You can skip classes but you won’t be able to skip work.

J: Having my own house.

What has been your favourite time at university?

J and C: The excitement in Freshers week, it was the first time being away from home.

What plans do you have after graduation?

J: You mean... besides getting a job?!

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Melissa What will you miss most?

Being able to go out three times a week and living away from my parents.

What advice do you have for students still here?

Do well in your assessments, because exams are harder!

What is your favourite memory?

The summer ball in my first year.

It was a really good and vibrant atmosphere.

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Patrick Wragg What will you miss most?

Getting good marks!

What advice do you have for students still here?

Be well organised.

What is your favourite memory?

The Campus. Its grounds, landscape and Canterbury.

What plans do you have after graduation?

I really want to work in the world of computer security.

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Klemens What will you miss most?

I will definitely miss the international environment. I love meeting so many people from different backgrounds as they will have different perspectives of life. Hmm...what else? Back home there aren’t as many pubs. Also I’m positively surprised by the weather!

Any additional comments?

Come and visit Italy!

Freddy What is your favourite memory?

My first Monkeyshine gig. Also, having a starry night out on Eliot Hill. It was a Full Moon party, but not of the raucous type! It was very chilled, very zen.

What will you miss most?

I have a job here, so I’m still going to be around in Canterbury. But I’m going to miss my student loan most. And the creative atmosphere when you are a student. It’s really encouraging to try what you like, and not care if you fail.

What advice do you have for students still here?

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.

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Abby and Kiri What has been your favourite time at university?

A: Freshers’, before it all got real.

K: Last day of first year after the exams.

What plans do you have after graduation?

A: I might be going to Norway...

K: I am going to Mexico for two weeks!

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KENT UNION GOES GREEN news in Dave Cocozza Website Comment Editor

Kent Union is championing its Green

projects this year, with a week-long “Go Green Week” festival and the completion of the new Darwin Gardens.

InQuire went to find out a bit more about Tom Currie’s environmental wins.

Go Green Week Go Green Week 2014 was held Monday 2 June to Friday 6 June across the Kent campus, with various events themed around an environmental festival.

Set up in 2012 by a group of Erasmus students, it is now organised and run

by Kent Union’s VP-elect of Activities and 2013-14’s Environmental Officer,

Tom Currie, along with his team of Environmental campaigners.

The event was funded by Kent Union, and included a series of events around the idea of being more responsible for the environment, learning about healthy eating and recycling and fun activities to promote a healthy mind, body and environment. Events included ‘learning how to forage’, a cycling trip to Chartham and a number of film screenings throughout the week.

On Monday 2 between 10-4pm, a stationary bike was placed outside the library, powering a smoothie maker.

It was free for anyone to use and had enough food to make 700 free smoothies!

Tom Currie told InQuire, “I’ve organised the event for two years

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running now, and it’s been a fantastic success.”

Darwin Gardens Tom Currie’s “Darwin Gardens” are finally complete, after months of hard work by the environmental campaign team and himself. The project was funded by the sale of carrier bags from Essentials, known as the “Kent Union Carrier Bag Fund, and was started back in September 2012. It took a team of around 20-50 student volunteers to complete.

The interior garden has been built from recycled materials, and includes plant boxes and benches for students to sit on. The plant boxes are built from recycled pallets found on campus, the box lining was made using recycled bin bags from Kent Hospitality, and the soil came from the University’s own compost heaps.

Lorna Matthews, outgoing Darwin President, told InQuire; “The accommodation corridors within Darwin College looked dark, and needed a facelift. So, benches have been put in for people to sit on whilst congregating in the corridor, and new plants to brighten up the ambience. It looks a hundred times better than what it was previously”. Tom Currie said; “The space needed some improving, and I’m really pleased with what we’ve got now. It’s green and it’s fantastic!”.

poem reduces air pollution Katyanna Quach Newspaper Features Editor

Award winning poet Simon Armitage has teamed up with the University of Sheffield to produce a poem printed on a 20 metre high billboard in the name of climate change. The use of poetry is sometimes called into question as the words in them can prove ambiguous and frustrating, but this particular poem has no problems in that department, due to its fundamental purpose – reducing air pollution.

Here is the poem.

In Praise of Air I write in praise of air. I was six or five when a conjurer opened my knotted fist and I held in my palm the whole of the sky. I’ve carried it with me ever since.

Let air be a major god, its being and touch, its breast-milk always tilted to the lips. Both dragonfly and Boeing dangle in its see-through nothingness…

Among the jumbled bric-a-brac I keep a padlocked treasure-chest of empty

space, and on days when thoughts are fuddled with smog or civilization crosses the street with a white handkerchief over its mouth and cars blow kisses to our lips from theirs I turn the key, throw back the lid, breathe deep. My first word, everyone’s first word, was air.

Reducing air pollution works as the poem is printed on a material that has been coated with tiny particles of titanium dioxide. These nanoparticles absorb the pollution created by up to 20 cars by bonding with pollutants such as nitrogen dioxides. These go on to react with the oxygen in the material producing nitrate gases that are better for the environment.

Armitage hopes that these four verses will be “approachable, that might catch the attention of the passer-by and the wandering mind, and one that had some local relevance too”.

It is a fun method to both highlight and combat the issues of air pollution which contribute to various diseases.

The university’s Professor Tony Ryan added; “If every banner, flag or advertising poster in the country did this, we’d have much better air quality. It would add less than £100 to the cost of a poster and would turn advertisements into catalysts in more ways than one. The countless thousands of poster sites that are selling us cars beside our roads could be cleaning up emissions at the same time.”

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science Katyanna Quach Newspaper Features Editor Drawing the Proteome Map A database containing every protein pertaining to the human body has been made public through the journal Nature.

All the proteins made in the human body are only from 20 amino acids and the particular ordering of them is what constitutes a protein. The coding of the sequence is the vital information that is carried in the genes.

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The Proteome catalogue aims to work out what genes the proteins originated from and allocate them to where they are produced in the body. Researchers collected different examples of human tissues, where the proteins were then extracted and cut into smaller pieces They were analysed using a mass spectrometer to reveal the specific sequence of amino acids allowing for the mapping of proteins to genes.

This map will prove useful for researchers worldwide studying rare diseases that can be passed on by genes.It will provide hints to what the general function of the particular protein is by seeing where in the body it is produced. In addition, it will help the administration of drugs to be more effective by identifying the sensitivity of certain strands of proteins to these drugs. Which will be particularly important for chemotherapy in cancer treatments.

The importance behind this project is explained by Dr Kevin Millis of University College London Institute of Child Health saying that “Genetics can’t tell us everything” and “We’re not stable - we’re fluid and dynamic and our proteome changes continually”.

By recording the proteome, the protein changes can be indentified and it will be more effective for studying diseases than relying on genetics alone.

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recipe places to visit before you leave of the week Emma Shelton Newspaper Editor

Ruby Lyle Newspaper News Editor

Ruby’s Half Baked Chocolate Biscuits These giant half baked, richly chocolatey biscuits are great midnight snacks. The biscuits come out the oven with a warm and enticing smell with a crunchy exterior but have a gloriously gooey centre.

Whether you’re searching for a small treat or looking for a replacement for a meal (because you forgot to defrost dinner again), this is the perfect choice.

Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1/3 cup sugar 1 egg Splash of good quality vanilla extract 1 cup plain flour 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda Pinch of salt

I’m sure many of us left for university with endless lists of things to do in Canterbury, of places to visit in Kent and further afield. It was only until term started, work kicked in that we remembered what we were going to university for: a degree. Your time is rapidly filled up and before you know it, a year has gone by with very little on these grand lists ticked off. Obviously your exams are important too but once finished, get together with friends, bring along your diaries and plan a variety of activities for every day. Here are a few of my top suggestions.

Canterbury Cathedral This seems like quite an obvious destination but I feel the need to remind you of its existence as so many people still tell me they have never set foot inside. Truly outrageous I would say.

It’s free for students so make the most of it whilst you can. Go at any point in the day to have a look around but I recommend you head over to Evensong at 5:30pm on weekdays (3:15 at the weekend). This was a completely new experience for me and it was amazing.

Whether you count yourself as a Christian or not, after a really stressful

Method Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.

Melt the butter in the microwave and gradually combine the sugar, egg and vanilla extract to create a smooth liquid mixture.

Add the remainder of your dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt) to create a firm dough.

Ball the mixture into half a dozen round portions of cookie dough and place on a baking tray on an even spread.

Put in the oven for ten minutes only to gain a gooey half baked centre with a crunchy outer shell. Serves six.

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week, sitting in this historic building, listening to choirboys sing is the most soothing and relaxing experience. 45 minutes later and the world is a better place again.

place is enormous and shops range from Next, and Gap to Abercrombie & Fitch and Ralph Lauren. All the clothes are heavily discounted, cheaper than what you’ll ever find on the high street.

The highlight of the place has to be the recent addition of the Lindt outlet store.

I mean, they have a Lindt pick ‘n’ mix…

Broadstairs Such a small and quaint little seaside town. On sunny days, the windy cobbled

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Whitstable A classic. If you haven’t been already, then I don’t know where you’ve been. I would definitely recommend you walk or cycle there, and take the bus back.

It sounds ridiculous but the Crab and Winkle Way begins in Parkwood, the route is very straightforward, mostly downhill or flat, and free (!). The walk takes around 1h30 so wear appropriate clothing. Also, I would suggest walking over late morning to build up an appetite for lunch. Then, lunch over, wander around the town which includes some great second-hand bookshops and jewellery boutiques and finish off on the beach.

Ashford Outlet This is a place to go to in a huge group for a few hours on a rainy day. There is something for everyone, men and women alike. A £5 return to Ashford International, a five minute walk out of the station and you’re there. The

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streets are filled with crowds; in such a tiny place, you would never expect so many people there at once. It has to be said that there is not much to do there apart from walk along the beach, but for the beauty of the town, the welcoming atmosphere and another occasion to splash out on an ice-cream makes a visit totally worth your time.

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party in the car park is back!

Ginny Sanderson Newspaper Features Editor

Well, last year had its dramas. What with the earthquake (geddit?) Labrinth set off in the crowd, which actually was more like a life-sized version of dominoes. Meanwhile, Chase and Status was a truly messy experience, for the right reasons.

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This year is set to be an even better send off to the summer.

The lineup is looking fresh with Ella Eyre, Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, Wretch 32 and DJ Fresh headlining the night, with many more live acts.

You may know DJ Fresh best for his energetic drum and bass beats like Hot Right Now (featuring Rita Ora), huge smash Gold Dust and climactic Louder, among other tracks.

Ella Eyre is an emerging talent whose soulful vocals have resonated on Rudimental’s dance hit Waiting All Night, as well as, hauntingly, in Bastille’s No Scrubs and Angels mash up, titled No Angels. She has also collaborated with Tinie Tempah and Naughty Boy, but is emerging as a capable soloist in her own right.

Wretch 32 is a rapper with most recognisable hit Don’t Go, which features that backing singer with her really catchy “Yeeeeeeaaaaah”.

Kent are extremely fortunate to have such a scintillating lineup, but there will also be plenty more entertainment beyond the live music. If last year is anything to go by, there will be slamming theme park rides, which are all the more enjoyable when you’ve had a few. These included dodgems, and a

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huge ride which I can only describe as an enormous spinny very high up thing, and plenty more.

So you better get your tickets before they sell out, if you haven’t already that is. Fix up, now’s your chance to have a well-earned celebration-in-style for all the hard work you have or haven’t been up to this academic year.

Go out shopping with friends and splash out on the event of the year. I’m talking heels, suits, and maybe even a bowtie. If you’re feeling confident,

throw in a fez. Fezzes are cool.

Someone is going to get absolutely bungalowed and lose their voice screaming to LOUDER. Someone is going to whip out the most surprising dance moves, whilst on a fairground ride. And someone may even lose their friends, but don’t let that put you off.

Let’s make Party in the Car Park 2014 the best one yet.

Tickets are available NOW from Unique (near Essentials) or online at kentunion.co.uk/loveitkent.

killing the binge drinking culture Katyanna Quach Newspaper Features Editor

The binge drinking culture at university is perhaps best displayed at the various initiation tasks for a sports team or loud yells of “down it fresher!” coming from some kitchen nearby.

And who hasn’t seen the lone student staggering around desperately trying to find their bearings on their walk home, occasionally stopping to throw up?

This may be a thing of the past thanks to The Alcohol NUS Impact Scheme

put together by The National Union of Students and Home Office. Universities participating in this programme will have to complete a list of criteria to become accredited. These include lowering the promotion and sale of alcohol, as well as encouraging nonalcoholic “mainstream social events”, all with the aim of lowering anti-social behaviour and alcohol related crimes.

Student’s unions will also be expected to increase communication on the risks of excessive alcohol consumption and enforcing stricter policies on campus

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They aim to work closer with sports teams and other societies to prevent alcohol fuelled initiation rituals, pub crawls and drinking games. This also extends to places off campus such as off-licences and venues to assure safer alcohol consumption and responsibility.

Seven universities have already signed up to take part in The Alcohol NUS Impact Scheme for the next academic year: these include Loughborough, Nottingham, Swansea, Brighton, Manchester Metropolitan, Liverpool John Moores and Royal Holloway.

The pilot scheme has cost more than £90,000 and it may be set to increase depending on its success.

There is already scepticism as to whether this scheme will prove effective due to previous unsuccessful attempts.

In 2001, Nottingham University attempted to ban The Campus 14 crawl which required students to drink a pint or shot at each of the 14 bars on campus in four hours. A student was quoted in a student newspaper saying “Forget the ban on the Campus 14. I would still recommend doing one, no matter what year you’re in.”

Although this might prove to be the

most successful attempt at tackling the binge drinking culture, I believe the NUS and Home Office have been too optimistic. Binge drinking is and has been part of university culture for decades and a scheme implemented now is not going to change that.

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the summer playlist

Henry Sandercock Website Sport Editor

Take Me – Rüfüs Bit of a guilty pleasure but it is summer incarnate. Hey, don’t judge.

This is Real – Frankie Valli It’s summer but it’s raining or you’ve just been dumped. This song fills that type of criteria.

Fever – The Black Keys The ultimate beer advert band. Pop a cider to this!

Lovely Day – Bill Withers If you can overcome the mental scars this song probably gave you in 127 Hours, it’s definitely one to get your ‘summer walk’ on to.

Call me – Blondie Nothing like the Blond-ster on a summer’s day!

student media celebrate at the kic awards Our Website Comment Editor Dave Cocozza reports on the Student Media Awards ceremony.

Students media members across

Canterbury are celebrating after scooping awards at the KiC Awards 2014, which took place on Saturday 24 May. The KiC, that celebrate the work of KTV, InQuire and CSR, are held annually, this being the second year running, to celebrate the achievements of those involved in CSR, KTV and InQuire. The ceremony, which took place in Mungos, started at 7.30pm and lasted well on into the night, with celebrations continuing afterwards in The Venue (which ended up being a very messy night for some students).

External judges from the media industry were chosen to pick a winner in their category. This year, judging the Best Article award for InQuire was Oly Duff, Editor at i. CSR saw the likes of

James Bursey, Producer for Zane Lowe on Radio 1 judging their categories, and Multiple BAFTA Award-Winning Director and Producer of My Friend Joe and Whose Line is it Anyway?, Chris Bould helped out with the KTV awards.

Chris Heron, awarded Best Article for his work at InQuire, said “Keeping to the age-old speech cliché, winning Best Article was a massive surprise. I entered it with minutes remaining from the deadline, it was a close one! If I had a mantelpiece, it would lie there. For now, it must remain content on my desk”.

Rachel Cribbin, Deputy Station Manager of CSR, was awarded Best Newcomer. She said “I am so excited to have won the award! Volunteering at CSR this year has been so much fun, and knowing that other people nominated me to win is such an amazing feeling, I am super chuffed.”

Dave Cocozza picks up his first award of the night

Comedian Mark Simmons provided the entertainment

Former Newspaper Editor Matt Gilley picks up an award

Lights Out, Words Gone – Bombay Bicycle Club A very mellow song. It will send you off to sleep if you’re in the sun (make sure you’re wearing sun-cream).

The CSR gang

I Shot the Sheriff – Bob Marley Bob just HAS to be on this list, no questions.

The InQuire Team Past and Present

Heebie Jeebies – The Rifles If you’re familiar with Made in Chelsea (which I’m most definitely not…) you’ll have heard these guys.

Introducing the new editors of InQuire

Black Gold – Foals This reminds me of swimming pools…

Give It Up – K.C. and the Sunshine Band A feature of every decent night out I’ve ever had at university.

InQuire get comical

Take a Walk – Passion Pit You’re thinking of making a film about your summer? Use this as your soundtrack.

HoppÍpolla – Sigur Ros Quite simply, beautiful.

To listen to the full playlist, follow the QR code below.

InQuire’s Oscar Selfie

The KTV Crew

InQuire also caught up with two time KiC award winner Dave Cocozza, who scooped the titles of KTV Best Newcomer and KTV Best On-Screen, for a brief chat about his thoughts on the night.

InQuire: So, tell us about your night and how it feels to win two awards?

There were so many deserving winners that night. KTV have had a fantastic year, as have both CSR and InQuire. I definitely didn’t expect either of mine.

I joined student media very late in January of this year and I’ve worked my socks off to make myself a known man within the three groups I’m part of [CSR, InQuire and KTV]. I was nominated in categories with other very deserving volunteers, and to be recognised twice in one night is just incredible. I remember feeling extremely shocked and close to tears when winning Best On-Screen – though, it is a little hazy…I may have enjoyed my night a little too much…

What’s next for you?

We’ve got a great summer lined up for student media, and everyone worked very hard on Keynestock 2014, as well as some projects for KTV that will be part of a ‘Welcome to Kent’ campaign for Welcome Week 2014.

I’m always busy, I enjoy taking on new challenges…so there’s no stopping me. I’m working with a few local companies over summer to promote them via videos and social media, so the whole experience has been completely beneficial – if I hadn’t been involved with KTV, I would never have had these opportunities.

I’m forever grateful to my peers and co-volunteers at every media group for letting me work with them. I just love them all so much.

Other wins included The Con and Joe Show on CSR and Tom Turner’s romantic comedy First Draft on KTV. For InQuire, editors Chris Heron and Ginny Sanderson won Best Article and Best Newcomer respectively, whilst Hetty Sieling was ‘Highly Commended’ in three different categories and former Newspaper Editor, Matthew Gilley took away Best Exclusive.

All photos courtesy of Raheel Eric Photography.

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listen, watch, use and follow

Meg Weal Newspaper Entertainment Editor

Listen: Stay With Me - Sam Smith Sam Smith’s new release Stay With Me is a competitor for song of the summer 2014. The music embraces Smith’s strong and distinguishable vocals and the whole tune is distinctly more rounded and mature. The boy shows no signs of stopping.

Watch: X-Men: Day’s of Future Past This is the summer’s must-watch movie. While the name may really suck, the genuine humour and action that rivals the 2012 blockbuster The Avengers. Wolverine becomes a true part of the X-Men - his character is developed and his lines are more than testosterone driven grunts. It’s a sequel that lives up to its predecessors.

Use: Deliciously Ella Blogger Ella, the founder of the blog “Deliciously Ella” has launched her relatively new, corresponding app, of the same name. There are over 100 easy-to-follow healthy recipes that are guaranteed to give you a health boost.

All the recipes are vegan, vegetarian, paleo, sugar free, gluten free and dairy free friendly. It’s a pretty, easy-to-use recipe app that’s going to make your body smile.

Follow: @levoleague With graduation and the never-ending job hunt playing on lots of people’s minds at this time of the year, we could all use a helping hand. Twitter user @levoleague is an account with career advice applicable to all of us. There are multiple reminders of the need to hustle and motivational articles to keep you going when things are looking bleak. Keep up the good work.

all you need to know: keynestock 2014

On 31 May, Keynestock returned for another year and Website Features Editor Cerys Thomas was on hand to give us her review of the day. Photos also by Cerys Thomas. well by the audience; at one point in covers such as London Grammar’s the song the audience were encouraged Strong they also performed fantastic to sing with John, and fuelled by original songs including Staring Pimms and stuffed with burgers, the at Screens, a comment on the lack audience readily agreed. I later caught of romanticism in the modern, up with John in the Green Room. When technological age. I was later able to asked how he thought his set went he interview the band who were giddy and answered that “although I made some pleased with the reaction they got from First on stage at the Keynestock mistakes, I think it went well”. the crowd. festival was the musical duo, Pip & Saul.

Keith Rodhouse And The Sparkle were Arriving late on stage, Daniel This couple performed to an enamoured the next band to grace the Keynestock Greenwood and his band opened his set audience that were mesmerised by stage. The band, compromised of with a cover of Rusted Root’s ‘Send Me Pip’s gorgeous voice lingering over the five people, including 4 boys and a On My Way’, a classic that immediately acoustic guitar, operated in parts by her got the crowd on their feet. Although other half, Saul. Although playing to a billed as a solo act Daniel was sure to minimalist audience, they captured the thank his backing band, as he informed hearts of their listeners with their lovethe audience, had only joined his act 24 lorn melodies. hours earlier. This hurried comprisal Next on stage was ethereal punk of the band was imperceptible as rock princess Rebecca Vaughan; think each member demonstrated a shared, Joni Mitchell meets Florence Welch intuitive musical chemistry. meets Laura Marling. The crowd were Overall, another great year for blown-over by Rebecca’s amazing voice female singer, thrilled the crowd with Keynestock. that had the extraordinary ability to a set including a mixture of original Winners of the festival, General take everyone’s breath away with its songs and covers. The audience were Harding’s Tomfoolery, will get to play sheer intensity. Laughing with the particularly enthusiastic for the band’s at the Party in the Car Park 2014. crowd between original songs such as cover of One Republic’s ‘Counting Stars’ To read a review of the evening Manifestation, Rebecca announced that and their mash-up cover of Mumford performances head to Inquirelive. she was performing whilst hungover, and Sons’ ‘Little Lion Man’ and Miley co.uk/entertainment. only adding to the remarkableness of Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’. her performance.

Next up was Make Friends With At 3pm John Harris came on stage Strangers. This band had already to a darkening sky but an ever-growing created a hype after their appearance crowd. Accompanied by his acoustic on CSR earlier in the week. They easily guitar, John’s covers of songs such as lived up to the hype, and delivered an the Gorillaz’s 19-2000 were received energetic performances. Alongside

your ultimate summer survival guide

Francesca Brindle

As pressure from exam season bubbles up, we live in hope, it will vanish in the burp of last night’s Frosty Jack’s. Here’s a guide to the best ways to spend your time after you finish.

Lovebox Festival 18 & 19 July Lovebox is a 2 day festival in Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets, playing the best of hip-hop, drum & bass, electronic and everything else. Lovebox always looks fantastic with inflatable topiary, free photobooths, V.I.P area, free make-up and face painting; you couldn’t ask for more.

Friday (18th) promises to be epic with massive names such as A$AP Rocky, Duke Dumont, Katy B, Annie Mac and a whole lot more. Saturday will have Nas, playing Illmatic, M.I.A, Bonobo, Banks, Breach, Mount Kimbie and Submotion Orchestra. There is bound to be a set you’ll remember all summer. Tickets are available online.

MATISSE: CUT OUTS This exhibition is running at the Tate

Modern until 7 September. If you like art and even if you don’t, students need to waste their time in art galleries and coffee shops otherwise what would people base their stereotypes upon?

Ticket prices for students are £16.

Student Beans One website I frequently use is Student Beans. The website constantly features various different offers or vouchers that allow you to get exclusive student discount. So if you want a discount on your shopping, a trip to Thorpe Park, somewhere to eat out or you just like free stuff, get to Student Beans and start searching.

Get Active Every year I see more people on my Facebook feed upload pictures of

Photo by Bill Ebbesen

themselves covered in paint, smiles on their faces and money raised for charity.

This year The Color Run by Dulux has been organized all over the country, on different dates, so that we can all get involved. A 5k run, walk, hop, skip or whatever you want it to be is all about embracing health, happiness and diversity. It’s a really positive, colourful and fun experience. Registration is now open online.

See the UK Get a 16-25 railcard and then get moving. Actually do all the things you’ve planned this summer and visit your friends from university who might live in hard to reach places. Everyone loves an adventure and the opportunity to look sullenly out the train window while listening to music. Take the train to the seaside, or somewhere you’ve never been before and go exploring. Do a romantic British Summer, Enid Blyton style, wandering through fields on a picnic, cycling through the countryside, solving mysteries, eating scones and lemon ices. Idyllic.

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music & art underexposed: jarman art exhibition

Matthew Gilley

As you walk towards Underexposed,

the new Studio 3 exhibition, on your left you pass Charlotte Cornish’s garish, bold pieces. Rothko looms large over them, although they are much brighter, less imposing and more varied in their figures. On your right are Anya Gallaccio’s Black Ice and White Ice, a pair of austere, sparsely beautiful monochrome landscape prints.

Photo by Daniel Clements

They are two of the exhibition’s highlights, and they also show how incredibly diverse the selection is.

Underexposed brings together female artists working in the medium of print, but really that’s about where the connections stop. There are lithographs, screenprints and laser cutout prints. There are Gwen Raverat’s etchings, strangely fantastical even

when portraying the most domestic of scenes. There are Alison Wilding’s stunning miniatures of starling’s whirling into abstract, black and white masses. There’s a gorgeous landscape

by Elizabeth Magill, trees swept by broad blue winds, but then next to that is an etching by Cornelia Parker that resembles inkblots on a blank piece of paper. Perhaps a running theme is that there’s nothing especially ‘feminine’ on display.

The diversity of the exhibition exposes how ridiculous it is that in the 21st century, there’s still a need to lump artists together purely by virtue of them being female in order to redress the typical balance in the art world.

A recent Guardian article quoted that 4% of exhibited artists are female. It’s an outrageous figure, and collections like this one only go to show just how plain silly it is. Some of the work is fantastic (Lilane Lijn’s swirling, black industrial cone in what looks like charcoal deserves a mention for its sheer oppressive scale). The range of talent makes it seem strange even to talk about female artists. They’re just artists who are female.

Over in one corner are Barbara Hepworth’s geometric patterns, black

lines, white space and occasional splashes of colour. They can’t help but recall Mondrian, and together with Charlotte Cornish’s pieces, they do suggest another possible running theme: contemporary artists putting a female spin on male-centric traditions.

Like Cornish, Hepworth’s pieces are a little looser, certainly rougher and more textured, than her predecessor’s.

But why are these qualities inherently ‘female’? Perhaps they escape from an overbearing, rigid history; Rothko and Mondrian are certainly that (that’s not a criticism). But male artists have been doing that for a long time as well, although there’s likely a greater impetus for women.

Still, the lasting feeling is that there is not much of significance to cobble the artists on show together, except for this: they’re good, and they should be seen more.

has the media gone too far this time?

Charlotte Amelia Smith I’ve never fancied the idea of being famous. To me it just seems like instead of those embarrassing night out pictures appearing on Facebook, they end up on the cover of Heat Magazine. Rather than your personal business being gossiped about within your friendship group, the entire country is talking about you. Not my idea of fun in the slightest.

Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z have recently been victims of the evils of fame, triggering discussion concerning the ethics of the entertainment industry and the invasion of privacy.

Rumours that their marriage is on the rocks have resurfaced amid the scandal surrounding CCTV footage of Beyoncé’s sister Solange Knowles physically attacking Jay-Z in a hotel lift.

The footage was leaked by an employee of the hotel in which the fight took

place, and despite issuing a statement that they had “moved forward as a family” following the elevator brawl, speculation about the cause of the fight refuses to cease, calling into question the state of the pair’s relationship.

Although the thought that the lives of everyone’s favourite hip hop couple might be less than perfect is distressing to many, what is more concerning is the lack of ethics involved in such an invasion of privacy. Whilst I am aware of the irony of criticising the nature of celebrity gossip whilst writing about celebrity gossip, it is undeniable that boarders of decency have been breached in the leaking of this footage.

Although I do somewhat agree with the sentiment that in choosing a profession in the entertainment industry public exposure is part of the deal, in the case of this power duo,

notorious for their private relationship and keeping their affairs under wraps, the exposure of such private footage seems more than a little unjustified.

The question that needs to be asked is not why Solange was fighting with Jay-Z or whether his and Beyoncé’s marriage is on the rocks, but rather where do we draw the line when it comes to the public and private lives of celebrities?

The state law in New York allows for “free dissemination of news and other matters of interest to the public”, so although publicising the footage may not be illegal, there is a question mark over whether it was fair. Perhaps the answer is that if we took more pride in our own lives rather than living vicariously through the lives of those in the spot light, there wouldn’t be such a demand for this kind of breach of privacy in the first place.

albums on the go

Amy Bliss

Coldplay – Ghost Stories Despite Chris Martin’s reassurance that Ghost Stories isn’t a break up album, listening to the lyrics would suggest otherwise. It lends itself to the earlier, more personal Coldplay. Its overwhelming misery and occasional glimpses of hope make this an album laced with heart break and anguish. A collaboration with Avicii on A Sky Full of Stars seems like an odd pairing for the band to make and detracts from Martin’s melancholic message. Don’t worry Chris, there are plenty of fish in the sea and your album’s alright.

Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour The BRITs can often predict widespread success with their Critic’s Choice Award and this year’s recipient doesn’t deviate from the trend. Sam Smith’s album is a polished but safe debut, with the theme of unrequited love streaming from start to finish. It’s a soft and honest confession that dabbles with both pop and soul sounds to produce an enjoyable experience.

TOBACCO – Ultima II Massage Tom Fec, better known as TOBACCO, proves that his third solo album really is something to behold. Ultima II Massage starts off dark and lightens as the album progresses, yet still keeps this undercurrent of darkness flowing throughout. Perfectly shattered and disjointed, this album is beautifully broken but held together by its enchanting electronic experiments Tracks to check out: Self Tanner and Eruption (Gunna Get My Hair Cut at the End of Summer).

Sharon Van Etten – Are We There Unlike her previous albums, Are We There is someone on a journey towards heartbreak, rather than a retrospective of the struggle. The delivery is what truly makes this album; the emotion behind Sharon’s voice creates an undeniably mesmerising sound. The strikingly chilling tone and brutally personal lyrics make for an intense listen.

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cultural events calendar Sat 31st May – Sun 15th June Whitstable Biennale Whitstable

book choices for english gcse

Matt Gilley

The recent storm in a teacup over Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird being ‘banned’ (they weren’t) from syllabuses raised a lot of questions about what books young people should study for GCSE English.

Sat 7th June A Silent Film Evening The Gulbenkian Mon 9th June Jaleo Flamenco The Marlowe Theatre Wed 11th June Café Live- Digibury The Gulbenkian Fri 13th June Bubble Club Presents The Marlowe Studio Thu 12th June Café Live- The Henry Girls The Gulbenkian Mon 16th June- Sat 28th June Cats The Marlowe Theatre Tues 24th June Royal Opera House- Manon Lescaut (Live) The Gulbenkian Mon 30th June- Sat 5th July Derren Brown: Infamous The Marlowe Theatre Sat 26th July- Fri 1st Aug Whitstable Oyster Festival Whitstable

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Photo by Richard Lee

How much of it should be British?

(Obviously there’s a balance somewhere.)

How old and how difficult should the books be? (Again, as was spectacularly missed by people-on-Twitter, there should probably be a balance.)

Is it all just a question of personal taste? (Yes, a large amount of the criticism did seem to be, and so is this article.)

For my money, there are two criteria all GCSE reading should meet. They

need to be readable, because you don’t want to put children off literature for ever (a criticism that could possibly be levelled at Dickens and Austen, but that might just be my subjectivity talking). And they need to be accessible on different levels, to suit pupils of different abilities.

Here are my suggestions.

Edgar Allen Poe – Selected Stories Poe is a great fit for both of these. His horror stories are enormously enjoyable and short, so they’re easier to digest but also intricate and intellectually stimulating.

You can approach his stories purely from a narrative, effect level or you can think about their influence on later writing and engagement with American literature and ideology of the time.

Isaac Asimov – I, Robot In fact, good quality genre fiction seems like such a good way of keeping kids interested that I’m going to stick another one in here.

Some of the stories in I, Robot might be a little too complicated for the age group, but others have that crucial blend of storytelling that’s more than worthy of study on its own and intellectual depth.

It also sparks some interesting conversations about artificial intelligence and technological advancement that are relevant, and engaging to young people in the modern world. For even more fun, you could stick Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in there.

Chinua Achebe – Girls at War and Other Stories Achebe’s translation of the English language into a Nigerian idiom opens up questions about the dialogue and conflict between traditions across the world that have been vital for British literary culture for centuries, and are, if anything, even more important in the more globalised, connected world of today.

You might only scratch the surface of them at this level, but that’s a good start and, crucially, it invites children to read further afield than they might otherwise have done.

As a quick closing note, I realise there are no female writers or poetry in this list. I’d suggest Emily Dickinson on both those fronts, or perhaps Maya Angelou, but they’ve been mentioned elsewhere, and hardly need my words of recommendation as well.

sherlock holmes: a british icon Francesca Brindle

From 17 October 2014 – April 2015 the Museum of London will be honouring ‘the man who never lived and will never die’ in a Sherlock exhibition that transports you back through time to Victorian London.

The exhibition will feature many unseen original paintings, prints, film and photography.

You’ll have the chance to ponder Doyle’s greatest work with your smoking pipe and tartan thinking caps. The ticket prices are affordable at £12 for Adults, and also lucky for us students as we can get reduced entry at £10.

Sherlock Holmes is a character that has really captured the British interest.

He’s been reinvented over and over again, most recently in a film directed

by Guy Richie and starring Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law. The movie is set in the 19 Century, in Richie’s London ‘old boy’ style with an intricately woven plot line and on-point cinematography and editing.

Disney also capitalized on Sherlock with Basil The Great Mouse Detective.

Featuring an animated mouse living within the floorboards of 221B Baker Street, the cartoon similarly borders on the fantastic and explores science and

forensics with highly logical reasoning.

The most recent BBC production of Sherlock, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson, has been massively successful, putting both actors’ careers into an upward spiral.

Sherlock Holmes is always a classic.

These examples don’t even begin to include all of the film and television series that have been made since the books were first published in 1887.

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Crime fiction has always been well received amongst the British audience.

Agatha Christie laughed her way to the bank with the amount of Miss Marple

and Poirot books she sold, and then drove home in her Bugatti after ITV started making TV dramas. Silent Witness, CSI, Rosemary & Thyme, the list goes on.

Sherlock is not a simple character, and neither was the original author. It is believed that Doyle, in his later years, had become so closely linked with his character as to follow his pursuits.

In 1906 Doyle helped a half-British and half-Indian lawyer who had supposedly written nasty letters and performed animal brutality.

Doyle helped to re-open the case and exonerate George Edajii by following the case to another perpetrator.

Then in 1928 Doyle helped the German Jew Oscar Slater by noticing inconsistencies within his prosecution, and collected enough evidence for his appeal.

Sherlock Holmes has always been a balance between the expected and the unexpected, in the sense that you know he will do something amazing but you’ll never be able to guess what it is, with a quintessential British sting.

So if you’re feeling as though you’ve seen it all, every Sherlock TV drama, or every whimsical reinterpretation I can only persuade you to see the exhibition by reminding you that, no one sees it all like Sherlock Holmes.

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5 books to read this holiday

Chris Heron Website Entertainment Editor

The summer holidays are imminent, with around three months of relative freedom from the pressures of university life. Here are my suggestions of books to read for the long summer days, delayed train journeys and hiding inside from the inevitable thunderstorms.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke “Can a magician kill by magic?”...

Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.”

It is the early 19th century and England is in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars. Meanwhile, minor magicians exist and they have adventures! Dr Strange & Mr Norrell is a fantastic, yet incredibly strange novel.

Far from your bog-standard fantasy, a highly recommended read even if you have no interest in the genre.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac No student booklist should be without some travel writing. On the Road is just one great example of the multitudes of travel writing that you can find in any

bookshop, and any would be a great pickup for summer reading.

A warning: this might instil a desire to pack your bags and leave for unknown countries. But while you’re a student, there’s no better time to go.

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson “Happiness isn’t good enough for me!

I demand euphoria!”

This seems like an obvious choice, as any book you’d pick up would be an anthology of a comic following the tales of six-year old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. You will never regret browsing through one of the most heartwarming, hilarious and intelligent comics ever penned. Until of course three hours have passed without you noticing.

An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield The Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is responsible for many things.

His Twitter account, where he posted pictures of Earth, taken and sent from the International Space Station, exploded. He’s also responsible for the first ever music video from space, with his rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity attracting millions of views.

His autobiography is a completely different story. I’ve never read a more motivating book in my life, and meeting the man himself at a book signing has been one of the highlights of the last couple of years.

As I come to the end of my year abroad, I’m suddenly realising that I should have maybe travelled a bit more whilst away. For the last nine months I’ve been living in Paris, which has been a ridiculously expensive, but incredibly worthwhile, experience. This slight regret has got me wondering; if money was no object, where would I go this summer? Let’s see...

St Petersburg, Russia I think this choice might be due to watching Anastasia a few too many times, but you only have to look at photographs of the city of St Petersburg to become tempted to visit. I’m a bit of a culture vulture - as you’ll come to notice with the rest of my choices – so the architecture of Saint Petersburg, particularly the Church of the Saviour on Blood and the Winter Palace, continues to draw me to the city.

Petra, Jordan The ‘lost city’ of Petra has only been added to this list recently, due to my aunt and uncle visiting it earlier in the year. The ancient city is said to have been established as long ago as 300BC, and somehow remained unknown to the Western World until the 1800s. Now that we know it exists, Petra has become

a popular tourist destination, with its intricate rose-coloured architecture attracting thousands of people every year. Hopefully I’ll be one of them one day.

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A Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin “When you play a Game of Thrones you win or you die.”

You’ve seen the TV show in all its brilliant, story-telling glory. Now read the books, which are on another level.

They have a depth which the show can’t match, and give a new insight into all the characters you love to hate. You can read ahead of the show or just keep up with it, but you will not regret diving into a modern classic.

to New York. Never have I fallen in love with a place so quickly, which was a massive relief since I’d been obsessed with the Big Apple for years beforehand.

Ever since, I’ve wanted to travel around America, much like Jack Kerouac in On the Road, to explore the states and all the different people who live there.

San Francisco has been one of the main places I’d like to visit since watching The Princess Diaries. Don’t judge me.

Venice, Italy

Photo by Aaron Brown

Great Ocean Road, Australia Okay, I admit it; the majority of this list is based on jealousy at my family’s travels. Last October was my parents’ silver wedding anniversary, and to celebrate, they went to Australia for two months. The Great Ocean Road stretches along 150 miles of the Australian coast and serves as a World War One memorial, due to being built by soldiers between 1919 and 1932. I’ve got this dream of me driving the length of it, the sun on my face, wind in my hair, like a scene from a music video or some corny film. But I can’t even drive yet, so this dream is a bit far off...

This one is a bit closer to home, but I’ve never been to Italy and always wanted to go. I’ve grown up with a Monet painting of the Grand Canal in my living room, so have always dreamt of one day standing on the same spot as he did to paint it, reliving a moment of the life of one of my favourite painters.

Students are increasingly becoming interested in alternative forms of fitness, especially those that involve building core strength and learning a new skill. Enter Kent Pole Fitness (KPF), a growing society based on the Canterbury campus.

Kent Pole Fitness was founded in 2006 and has grown to a membership size of just over 200 paying members who are taught poling.

KPF run sessions on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On Tuesday there is a beginners’ class from 6:30-7:30, an Intermediate class from 7:308:30, and an advanced class from 8:30-9:30. On Fridays the beginners’ and intermediate classes remain at the same time, but from 8:30-9:30 there is competition practise for those entering the Kent Pole Championships which are held annually in Margate. Saturday sessions run from 1-4pm, and all are held in the Kennedy room in Eliot College.

It’s a society that lives by the message “don’t knock it until you try it” said member Will Shillibier, one of over half-dozen men that are part of this inclusive and diverse group.

For more information, search Kent Pole Fitness on Facebook.

Full membership for a year is just £20 per person.

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San Francisco, USA I’ve only ever been to America once,

Dave Cocozza Website Comment Editor

Kent Pole Fitness

summer tr avel destinations

Natalie Tipping Chair

society spotlight

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Contact newspaper.culture@ inquiremedia.co.uk if you would like to see your society in this column!

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words of wisdom Summer “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald “Summer afternoon— summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

Henry James “I do love the beginning of the summer hols, said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages. They go so nice and slowly at first, said Anne, his little sister. Then they start to gallop.”

Five Go Off in a Caravan, Enid Blyton “Oh! I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved the idea of summer and sun and all things hot.”

“Really? I’m guessing you don’t have much experience with heat.”

“Nope.”

Frozen, Olaf and Kristoff “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck

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review: the curious incident

Julia Mitchell Newspaper Culture Editor

“Watching a play is entirely different to watching a movie” I was forced to remind myself, as I sat in the plush seats of the Gulbenkian and in front of a cinema screen, to watch the recording of a theatre performance.

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Mark Haddon, this production featured a cast of only ten members, and delivered a performance as intimate as if I was viewing it from beside the stage itself.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time provides a unique insight into the world of autism, or more accurately, an insight into how someone who is autistic experiences the world around us.

Christopher Boone, played by Luke Treadaway, is the star of the show.

The play itself follows one autistic adolescent and his innocent

investigation into the death of a neighbour’s dog. As it leads into the uncovering of a deeper secret, and for the boy to venture further alone than he had ever managed.

A fifteen year old lad sitting firmly on the autistic spectrum, Christopher is highly intelligent and a gifted mathematician, his memory photographic and mental arithmetic skills staggering.

The character was also filled with a child-like simplicity, unusual but endearing for a boy of fifteen years Despite these intellectual talents, Christopher is often unable to process and respond to the world around him, confused by the conventions that come with everyday life.

The screening began with a useful introduction to the autistic spectrum itself, describing the condition to the audience, and explaining just how it has been translated onto the stage. I was pretty grateful for this, as it put me in the right mindset and provided me with information that would help me to understand the show more deeply.

It’s important to remember that this story is told through the eyes of Christopher and the world as he sees it.

Consequently, this means that it’s the whole cast’s responsibility to convey the concept of autism and the impact that it has on the boy’s life, each actor behaving in the manner that

Christopher would interpret them. For me, this was a massive strength.

Intense really is the word to describe this play. Scenes easily became chaotic, echoing the panic that Christopher sometimes felt inside his mind.

The train station scenes were particularly effective, portraying a full on sensory overload that we, as those who don’t suffer from autism, are able to filter out.

An additional strength of this production can be seen through the stage itself. With a minimal use of props, the floor was brought alive by quality acting and imaginative lighting, often used to further capture Christopher’s emotions.

Whether it was through drawing a pathway, flashing or throwing criss-crosses of text across the stage, lighting was heavily used to convey the world inside Christopher’s mind, isolating certain elements in his life and emphasising their importance. The overall effect was highly dramatic.

Ending with a flurry of applause from the audience, it’s clear that I was not the only one who adored the screening of this play.

The amount of thought and energy that went into the production is simply astounding, and if you ever get the opportunity to see it for yourself, I would highly recommend going along.

mental health awareness 2014

Vicky Buck

Mental Health Awareness Week 2014 took place between 12-18 May, and dealt with the theme of anxiety. The aim was to help people become more knowledgable about the illness. You can download an awareness booklet about anxiety at mentalhealth.org.uk.

We all experience anxiety. It is a natural human state and a vital part of our lives. However, prolonged anxiety can be harmful to our emotional and physical wellbeing. It is a leading mental health problem in the UK, yet many people don’t talk about it.

Menial tasks are a lot more difficult when you have anxiety, but not impossible if you make the most of the support that is available to you.

At University, this includes the wellbeing team based in Keynes, who have a counselling service, and the University of Kent medical centre, which offers various psychological therapies.

Taking this first step is not a ‘fastfix’, but it certainly makes it easier to come to terms with your thoughts and behaviour patterns. You stop seeing

mental health problems as ‘issues’ that you struggle with, but as part of you that you are able to live with.

For example, my therapist taught me a technique to help with panic attacks. This is what we did. “Close your eyes”, she said. “Pay attention to your heartbeat and your shoulders as you breathe.” Two minutes later, she said: “Notice body tensions or muscular aches. Don’t judge them as good or bad.

Become aware of them and tell yourself that you’re okay with it.” A pain is just a pain; it does not have to be ‘bad’.

Of course, there will be good days and bad days. There will be moments of irrationality where you get lost in a whirlwind of thoughts and feelings that seem out of your grasp. But that’s not to say that we cannot change the way we approach these issues.

None of us are perfect, although many people believe in, and strive for, the elusive concept of ‘perfection’. We all want to feel pride in our achievements and be the best versions of ourselves.

Satisfaction does not come from placing our expectations on the demands of others. You will never satisfy everyone, so instead, focus

on your own expectations. What do you want? Are you proud of your achievements?

Don’t think of the big picture at the start, break it down. Those little goals you can meet are just as important as the big ones. And if you do make it outside, that’s a goal, that’s beating the feeling inside which tried to get the better of you.

You are good enough. Don’t listen to those who try to say otherwise.

Remember that it is okay to have these thoughts and feelings. They do not have to define you or control you. And most importantly, you are not alone.

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will 2014 bring hamilton’s second title win?

George Dagless

IF Lewis Hamilton is to become a double Formula One World Champion, it will be this year.

Driving for a Mercedes team that have caught the opposition napping, the German outfit already appears to have the constructors title wrapped up.

The driver’s title race is

set to be one contested by purely Silver Arrows drivers as following Hamilton’s every move is his German teammate Nico Rosberg.

The duo have already been engulfed in close quarter combat which has enthralled fans, the Bahrain Grand Prix being the best example of this.

Indeed, seeing two teammates

going head to head without a real ‘lead driver’, is refreshing and Mercedes should be applauded as memories of Senna and Prost duelling it out are being rekindled.

However, things are not as bitter between our current title pretenders compared to those of the late 80’s. Rosberg and Hamilton have been around

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each other for a long time now, coming through the feeder series to F1 at a similar rate.

But at this stage, at least, it is the Brit who has the edge.

In winning four of the first five races, Hamilton has made a real statement.

He could have had five out of five but retired early on. That said Rosberg is no pushover, proving this in the first race at Melbourne as he took the lead from Hamilton going into the first corner of Lap One. Their fierce rivalry came to boiling point at the recent Monaco Grand Prix, where the bad blood between them was exposed for the world to see.

Rosberg appeared to spin off during qualifying, resulting in a yellow flag which prevented Hamilton from racing further, under safety rules, stopping the Brit from grabbing pole from the German.

What may end up being the deciding factor in the destination of this year’s Championship is Hamilton’s experience at the top of the

standings.

Despite Rosberg having an extra F1 season under his belt compared to Hamilton, he has never been involved in a battle for the title.

Hamilton, however, was thrown into a championship fight in his very first season, narrowly losing out to Kimi Raikkonen. He came back the next year stronger as he clinched his maiden championship from Felipe Massa.

Since then, Hamilton has not had the best car at his disposal, thanks to the rise of Red Bull, which led him to join Mercedes in 2013 with the aim to improve the team into title challengers.

One year on and accomplishing the mission looks set to happen sooner rather than later.

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ukc side row for charity premiership rugby season comes to a close Alexander Hansez de Vivar UKC’s Rowing Club are celebrating after completing their three-day charity event, Ergathon 2014, in Canterbury earlier this year.

The UKC Rowing Club organises the Ergathon annually for a local charity. But what is an Ergathon? Erg is the name for that rowing machine you see at the gym and athon is just the end of marathon.

Put them together and you get Ergathon.

This year, the club chose the Cathedral Trust as their charity.

The event took place in March.

Unfortunately, not all the

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rowers were able to complete the event as intended, due to prior commitments.

This meant they were unable to reach their initial target of 1200km, equivalent from Canterbury to John O’Groats.

That said, the team still managed to row an incredible 393km, which is the distance from Canterbury to York.

The club said: “The experience was great and we hope that the money we raised through donations will make a difference.”

The club have vowed to return stronger in the near future, hoping to beat what they have already achieved this year.

Henry Sandercock Website Sport Editor THE 16 and 17 May saw the beginning of the end for the Premiership Rugby season. The Northampton Saints took on Leicester Tigers in a gargantuan battle of the East-Midland titans in the first semi-final and Saracens faced a resurgent Harlequins in a repeat of the most-attended club rugby game ever, in the second semi-final.

The first semi-final took place at Franklin’s Gardens where Northampton were looking to bring Leicester’s run of nine consecutive appearances in the Premiership final to an end.

The game kicked off with Northampton starting the strongest. However it was Leicester who broke the deadlock through a try by Manu Tuilagi which sent the Leicester Director of Rugby, Richard Cockerill, into a mad fist-pumping frenzy.

This was followed by a try from Ben Youngs, who scurried over with Toby Flood converting, sending the visitors into an 11 point lead.

The second-half really heated up as Northampton came out with all guns blazing. Dan

Bowden was yellow-carded for a dangerous tackle on Saints’ Tom Collins before Salesi Maíafu was red-carded for flooring Leicester hooker Tom Youngs with a Rocky-style punch.

Northampton should have been dead and buried by this point but George North crashed over and Stephen Myler converted to leave Saints a point behind the Tigers.

Owen Williams almost put the game out of Northampton’s reach with a penalty late-on but Northampton’s attacking pressure was too great and Tom Wood scored three minutes from time to seal an extremely improbable victory and a place in the final.

In the second semi-final, Saracens faced Harlequins at the Allianz Arena. Saracens have been the form team all season but you can never rule Harlequins out. After half an hour of big-hits, Saracens found themselves two men down.

Marcelo Bosch was binned for a nasty-looking spear-tackle on Harlequins’ Nick Evans and Matt Stevens was pinged for a deliberate knock-on.

Harlequins capitalised with a try through Ugo Monye but

were stunned just a few minutes later when 13-man Saracens exploited an overlap to send Kelly Brown over.

On the cusp of half-time, Mike Brown also touched down with an opportunistic try which was duly converted by Kiwi veteran Evans.

After half-time, Saracens began to find the form they had been lacking in the first-half as Harlequins began to fall apart from fatigue and injury.

Tries from Brad Barritt and Chris Ashton sealed the win for Saracens, who looked to emulate their previous Premiership success of 2011, against Northampton Saints at Twickenham on 31 May. The final was a close fought encounter. However, it was Northampton who came out on top with a try through Alex Waller after 20 minutes of extratime. Saracens, whose defence has been solid all season, missed tackles and seemed to still be shell-shocked from their defeat against Toulon the week previously.

George North, Ken Pisi and Courtney Lawes were supreme for the Saints as they marched in for their first ever premiership title.

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mixed results for ukc sides at cricket varsity Henry Sandercock Website Sport Editor

UKC’s Women’s Cricket Team were put to the sword by Canterbury Christ Church’s batting at the St. Lawrence Ground on 23 May. The match began well for Kent in the mid-afternoon sunshine, with openers Charlotte Miles and Emma Le Bargy quickly notching up 21 runs from the first 2 overs. Le Bargy soon lost her wicket, however, as she was bowled out by Heather Jones.

Christ Church effectively sealed off the boundary with their fielding, which meant that it was hard for the batsmen to clear the ropes. This changed with the introduction of Kayleigh Roscoe, who was Kent’s player of the match.

Miles soon departed, followed quickly by Rose-Marie Walker, who went for a duck after being bowled out by Lizzie O’Shaughnessy.

The unpredictable nature of O’Shaughnessy’s bowling was proving problematic for Kent’s batters, who seemed to struggle to beat it. Wishie Hiddalaratchchi soon lost out

to it as she departed for one off nine balls, leaving Kent on 54-5.

Wickets continued to tumble and they finished on 92-8, although this partially consisted of a staggering 38 extras from CCCU’s bowling.

UKC’s bowling was initially bright and Kayleigh Roscoe provided Kent with a good start as she bowled out opener, Emily Chidwick, for six.

Charlotte Miles then took over the Nackington Road End from Hiddalaratchchi and frustrated the new CCCU batsmen with her consistent spin-bowling.

However, it was not long before CCCU got into their stride and really began to tear Kent’s bowling apart, sealing victory for Christ Church.

Following the Women’s defeat, the Men’s First XI Cricket Team sought victory over Canterbury Christ Church in an enthralling encounter.

Kent were first to field and wasted little time in getting Christ Church opener Shaun Piesley out off Matthew Durrell’s spin.

James Mitchinson followed shortly afterwards after being run out

by Josh Parsons. Christ Church

sought to come back into the game but their batsmen failed to capitalise on their good starts. Stuart Drakeley, began aggressively, quickly scoring three fours before getting caught by Tim Pope.

Kent appeared to be particularly hungry in the field, pouncing upon every ball that came their way, rattling the CCCU batsmen. With spin bowlers Durrell and Howard Bywaters in the attack, UKC sought to slow Christ Church’s run-rate down.

They were evidently successful as the announcer kept

reminding the batting side that the women’s teams had scored two sixes in their match, whereas the men had not yet managed to score one.

Henry Pickering thrashed wildly at one of Durrell’s deliveries and was caught by Tim Pope. Amadou Ainscough soon followed as Bywaters found his edge, which was duly caught by wicket-keeper Buzz Gould.

Freddy Hulbert rejoined the attack and instantly provided Kent with a vital two-wicket maiden.

George Reynolds managed to sneak a few

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potentially crucial runs but the damage had been done as the batting side finished on 93-7.

Things did not get much better for them when they took to the field as Stuart Drakeley was hit for two straight fours by Buzz Gould at the beginning of Kent’s innings. Drakeley soon found some form and had Matthew Durrell caught on the boundary

by James Mitchinson. Gould followed Durrell one ball later and on 9-2, Kent’s innings appeared to be in jeopardy.

After hitting three fours, Tom Edrich was bowled out but the new batsman, Josh Parsons, came in with an attacking intent and upped Kent’s run-rate with his quick-singles. Shavawn Cunningham then played the shot of the match: an 80 metre six that came straight off the middle of his bat.

Kent’s tails were up and though Parsons and Cunningham were soon bowled out, Freddy Hulbert and Josh Kirk ensured Kent glided calmly to victory.

Christ Church’s day was encapsulated with the last ball of the match, which went wide and gifted Kent the one run they needed for victory.

will van gaal bring success to man utd? rory ends bad week on a high Jacob Farr WHEN Louis Van Gaal arrives for duty at Manchester United after this summer’s World Cup, he will bring an array of European experience and success.

The question, however, is whether he will be able to implement instant success to the struggling Red Devils.

The answer, based on his previous track record, is yes.

During his reign at Ajax, he secured three league titles, as well as winning the Champions League in an unbeaten league and European season.

At Barcelona and Bayern Munich, the Dutchman was able to gain instant success by winning the league title in his first season with both clubs.

The former Ajax coach is extremely flexible in the formations which he deploys.

Ajax succeeded playing with a tight 4-3-3 formation, Barcelona with a 2-3-2-3, and AZ with a 4-4-2.

These teams were set up on the ideology of total football with a twist: focussing on the

whole instead of the individual.

The team was drilled to constantly press the opposition, be dominant in possession, and clinical on the counter.

This shows the true flexibility of the Dutchman, with his approach to formations as well as the attractive brand of football he instills.

The question of whether or not he can fit United’s Mata, Rooney, and RVP in the same team is one which will be answered with full effect by Van Gaal’s flexible formations.

However, the abrasive nature of the man in question may pose

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problems at United. With Van Persie becoming Netherlands captain in 2013, Rooney could soon become second favourite with the new hierarchy.

Rooney has had outbursts and problems in the past and this does not bode well if one is to look at the Rivaldo debacle at Barcelona. A difference of opinion with Van Gaal ended in the Brazilian legend being shown the door.

With no Europe to distract United, Van Gaal has an opportunity in his first season to bring success back to one of Europe’s greatest clubs.

Dan English Newspaper Sport Editor RORY McIlroy put a turbulent week behind him, as he sealed the PGA Championship at Wentworth by just a single shot.

The win followed news that McIlroy had broken off his engagement with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, just days after sending invitations.

The 25 year old Irishman came from seven shots behind to chase down lead Thomas Bjorn before carding a final round of 66 to win the trophy. This win sees him move up to sixth in the

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world rankings.

Talking after his win, McIlroy said: “I can’t explain it. It’s obviously a week of mixed emotions.

“I am looking at the trophy saying ‘How the hell did it happen?’

“I was asked in an interview how I feel and I don’t know. I feel happy that I’ve won but it’s been a weird week.”

McIlroy will undoubtedly be targeting more wins throughout the season, as eyes turn to the next major of the year at the US Open at Pinehurst, from 12-15 June.

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InQuire sport ukc club prepare for charity run

Photo by Paul Bown Paul Bown ON 13 June, 14 members of University of Kent’s Athletics & Cross Country Club will embark on an eight day running challenge from Canterbury to Paris. Coined the ‘Campus to Campus Challenge’, it will start and finish on University of Kent campuses.

10 of the 14 runners will be attempting to run the entire challenge, averaging 27 miles a day.

The remaining four will be aiming to run more than half a marathon a day and provide support for the others.

The UKC Running Club, previously described by InQuire as “no strangers to charity”, will continue its fundraising for Pilgrims Hospices throughout this challenge.

The runners who took part in the Coast to Coast Challenge last year were inspired by their achievements to push themselves again this year in a harder feat of long distance running.

Additionally, runners who did not participate in the challenge last year wanted to be involved for charitable reasons.

The Kent club wanted to continue its fundraising for

Pilgrims Hospices as they believe in supporting the local charity and fully appreciate the work it does.

The aim is to engage more individuals and groups with the cause in Canterbury, Kent and beyond.

In terms of training, the club have been building up the miles, training five times a week and have sometimes had two sessions a day, since the start of May. The majority of the team have had exam and deadline commitments recently but they have all been following the training schedule.

The group have all looked to member Billy Radford, who recently completed the London Marathon in 3 hours and 24 minutes, for support and motivation both physically and mentally.

The club are looking forward to pushing their bodies to the max, as quoted from their 24hour relay in 2013: “Life starts at the end of your comfort zone.”

In saying that, they are looking forward to finishing and enjoying a few days in Paris; the feeling of achievement in completing the challenge will be unbelievable.

In terms of fundraising they are bucket shaking in Canterbury on 7 June, as well as holding an ALive fundraiser event at The Ballroom in Canterbury on 10 June, and a Launch Event outside Venue on 13 June.

So far they have raised £3,336.02 (including Gift Aid) and aim to raise £10,000 overall.

INSIDE: UKC row for charity, F1 title analysis, Van Gaal takes over at Man Utd, Premiership Rugby concludes and UKC Cricket Varsity!