Vie Says Party!!! YOU Come to the Gi\Li and Vote!
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Issue No 808 10 March 1994 iBare University of Surrey StudentsJ^acts' Union Newspaper Vie says Manoj says Party!!! Bollox!!! new society for everyone - party soc - a arty soc - a blatant waste of union facilities, Achance to have fun, get dnink, bave a good Ptime and money. They say they will raise time and raìse money for blowout jolly hols in money for charity but isn't that what RAG is for? Blackpool/Parìs/Barbados etc for the members. People come to university to get a degree, not get We're even going to give some of the money to drunk and spend their (very small) grant cheques charity. on holidays around the country/world! The students supporting this society trìed to get it The students supporting this society failed to get constituted at GPC but failed as it was inquorate. it constituted at GPC but intend to try and force Some stick-in-the-mud union people are opposing it through at the GM. Don't let them make a this society because they are boring! mockery of what the union stands for! We need We need YOU YOU to come to the GM and ensure that this society is to come to the GM and ensure that this society is constituted, despite what the union officials say to not constituted, whatever the students supporting the contrary. it say. Vote for a good time! Vote for common sense! Vote for party soc! Vote against party soc! Come to the Come to tlie Gi\li and vote! GIM and vote! Tuesday 15tii Tuesday IStii i\/iarch at 1 pm iViarcli at 1 pm in tlie Union. in tlie Union. Vie Walker, Chief Steward Manoj Patelj President Elect Established 1968 Tel: (0483) 259275 Fax: (0483) 34749 In this week... Dear Editor Presentation Skills Course 4 Well, We' ve never written for Bare Facts Jolin Otway Preview 7 before so, here goes. Music Mania 8-9 Culture Sliock 10-11 There's been a lot of hy^ lately from Video Review 12 various Sabs and other 'Union Bods' say- At the Movies 13 ing no-OTie gets involved and we work Job Spot & Careers 14 too hard, blab blah blah. Well that's Rag-Time 15 great guys, but instead of whinging about Personals 16 it don't you think you should start in- AGMs & Notices 17 forming 'the rest of us' how to? Clubs & Sport 18-20 In issue 807 last week, the President From the Editor... The views expressed on this pa}>e are threatened military take over, sorry Dave pei'sonal views and d<» not necessarily but you sound just like a certain cabinet t's getting towards the end of term and represent those of the editorial hoard minister we know! Why not put a bit of II know a lot of people are starting to or the Students* Union. info in your column next week telling us get stressed about exams. Thank good- virgin freshers what we can actually do, ness I finished mine last year. Good luck i'he Kditor reserves the ri^ht t(» edit and where, and when (and who with)? to everyone with exams, especially the What is the GPC anyway, I've heard it Russian lot (my old dept)! all letters. caUed the Generally PoinUess Commit- To all those LIS people going on place- Dear Editor, tee. I'm sure it's not but do you get my . ment next term (mainly French and Ger- drift? f man as I already have the address for the I have a great deal of sympathy for the Moscow placement) please try and let the individui who reported the theft of I know you're all thinking why don't we departmental secretary know your ad- his/her food in last week's BF. Eariier ask personally about all these things but dresses abroad and I will do my best to this tenn I was recovering from a bout of we're sure we're not the only «les 'itdi- get tlie Industrial Year Post to you next flu when someone stole my bottle of Lu- ing' to get involved but don't know how term. The next issue should be towards cozade from the fridge. I was seriously to. Well, will someone please tell us all the end of April, just after you all arrive. miffed by this and was quite determined what's goin' on. to do something about it But rather than Congrats to the Out To Lunch Team on whinge or call in Security, I bought an- P.S. To Name Defiantly Withheld. (Issue another edition (included in the centre of other bottle of Lucozade, drank the con- 806) There's always one isn't there. We this issue of BF), this time on a rather tents and then filled it up with my urine. suggest you start a whinging 'merchant provocative subject Hope you enjoy OK, I admit this was slightly unorthodox, bankers' society. Between the lot of you, reading iL Apparently the next one is but imagine my glee some two weeks you may just come up (!) with something already in the planning stages so that later when, sure enough, the bottle went constructive (or sticky). should appear at the beginning of next missing from the fridge. The thought of term. the thief taking a slurp from this bottle made me feel much better - but then again Names definitely not withheld, It's getting to that time of year when most - perhaps he/she never noticed the differ- Union officials retire to let someone else ence! Sarah O'Connor and Sue Buparai, take over and the following posts are all Rag Ents and Treasurer. vacant, so if you fancy taking one of them on, pop into the Union any time for a chat R. Broughton Desperately trying to provoke! ^ with one of the sabs about what the job Dear Editor, entails. Dear Editor External Affairs Officer (retiring at the As Manoj would say, "Bollox" to those end of this term) who trashed my motorbike over the I wish people would stop treating the Sports C!hair weekend. library as some sort of social club. With Professional PlacementOfficer I was not amused when, on Sunday exams looming, I'vebeen spending a lot Women's Officer morning, I discovered that my bike was oftimeinthedreadedbuilding. Onmany BF Secretary not where I had previously parked it but occasions, there are far too many people was keeled over in some bushes, with chatting. The odd whisper to a friend is There's a competition to win free tickets banana shaped shocks, various dents, and OK, but not constant talking. There are for the Guildford Flames games on the knackered spokes where it had been rid- also a lot of people eating and drinking, back page, and a competition to win a den with the lock still through the back rustling crisp packets etc. Ihaven'tactu- MacDoi^ds voucher on the RAG page - wheel. ally seen anyone smoking yet but I'm well worth a look-see! I would have thought my bike would sure I will soon. If people want to have Rumour, rumour, there might just be an- have been safe enough in a busy place a chat and a drink, why can't they go to other free computer going begging next with security cameras beaming down at the Union or the Libraó' Restaurant like term so look out for that one! it. I do. They're not exactly very far away. If anyone saw who was messing around Sorry about all those personals we could with the bikes outside the library, possi- Simon Shaw not fit in this week - we are simply receiv- bly Saturday night/early Sunday morn- ing loo many - they will be held over to ing, please let me know as I would like to P.S. Why are the lifts so slow? next week's issue. invoice the repair bill to the guilty parties. Thanks to security who helped me to find Please Note my bike and to the ni<» policeman who Take care and keep readin took my details. We can accept articles submitted tm disc typed in virtually any format Chris S. which is PC compatible, ie not Mac. Dear Editor Are the organisers of "Green Fayre" sug- COFFEE BAR gestìng that by inviting the Hunt Sabo- teurs and League Against Cruel Sports to I am sorry to announce that the Coffee Bar will no longer be opening attend the event, that those pursuits that on Saturday nights due to the lack of customers. however it will be they rally against are environmentally open when the Friday Night Out is moved to a Saturday Night Out. • unfriendly. Field Sports may well be For those of you who have not yet noticed, there is now a cig^tte unethical and, in such light be regarded machine in the Coffee Bar, so you can buy your fags after the Union as "ungreen", but ecologically speaking has closed and buy some sweeties as weU. there is no doubt that they are in fact "green". Many of the habitats found in the British Finally after searching for the infamous "vegi-burger in a cardboard box " I have come Isles, held in such high regard byconser- to the conclusion that it does not exisL I then thought that I could seil vegi-pasties but vationisls, have been created for the pur- they can't be micro-waved (officially). So, sorry vegetarians (that includes myself) suit of field sports. These pursuits but we will have to stick to Pot Noodles! provide a viable economic reason to manage and create new habitats.