Incorporating juice magazine Guardian/ NUS Student Newspaper of the Year June 6,1997 Vol 27: Issue 24 Home Office to deport Rwandan student OR FACE DEATH CAMPSpecial Report "1 woulSd have liked to AN ANXIOUS bv LAURA DAVIS continue my education, but student is facing because of financial and But the Civil Engineering political problems I can no deportation by the fresher will be forced to end her longer study." Home Office back studies at LMU and return to a A Home Office spokesperson dangerous Rwandan refugee said that Laurence can only stay to the war-torn camp unless she can raise in the United Kingdom while Rwanda she fled. £4,000. she is studying here. nrpnrp Mnainnp/a Now her brotner Pascal' wno But Pascal described going ,nce MUgirdne^d sacnfit;ed his own education to back to Rwanda as "like escaped to the UK last rescue Laurence, is launching a committing suicide". He is year after five of her campaign to raise the cash."I hoping that the pair can receive u,,t~ka <*A want a work permit so I can joint political asylum. family were butchered , •- end f myself and my family UNWANTED: LMU student Laurence Mugiraneza faces an uncertain future by Tutsi rebels. he said. FULL STORY: PAGE 3 INSIDE: News 1-11, Comment 6-9. Feature 12-14. Outlook 15-19. Sport 21-24. Plus 24-page Juice magazine LEEDS STUDENT Friday June 6, 1997 DARREN Green is free. All Union Governing with friends enough to win a Cook not turning up at the year we have pitied this tragic Council has not met all year. place on a top committee next Euro summit because of BLEEDS Ml figure, VP Administration at General meetings have deciding the future of higher a heavy one the night before. LMUSU, as he sits in empty suffered their usual drought. education. By night he has At least Jim Evans, VP meeting rooms, awaiting All the committees are in variously been seen in Communications, can hope STUDENT student representatives we in terminal decline, and even HACK women's clothes, old king's for another bureaucracy-free the audience knew would Exec itself has realised it has A weekly sketch of student politics clothes or no clothes at all, year when he soldiers on into This week in Britain's never come. nothing left to talk about. ending up in enough a second term. Nothing will Possibly this constant vigil Now, any constitution- end of their reigns that god compromising positions to please Evans more than being award-winning student yielded some dark, profound carrying union mandarin will doesn't exist. make President Clinton look able to spend extra time with newspaper of the year insight into human nature, or tell you this must spell Unless of course god is positively Puritanical. his Apple Mac and his dreams at least into the nature of catastrophe. Without Simon Caffrey, the union Nor have Chirpie's of sporting adventure. The union bureaucracy in all its meetings, minutes of meetings President who without petty colleagues presented an question is, what scheme will NEWS absurdity. For all we know and meetings to decide who committees to shackle him is especially conservative image he think of next to extend his Green sat as a gibbering will take the minutes, all is now presumably all-knowing of stern, austere leadership. career at LMU beyond the Quality control: wreck, staring unseeingly into lost. Yet LMUSU is not lost. and all-powerful. In Africa Kate Woodhead, VP aeons he's clocked up some unknown darkness and Its walls stand firm, its staff such rulers are described as Education & Campaigns, is a already? What a life: to have The Times say muttering in fevered breaths: have not revolted and its evil despots - President formidable opponent in the LMU as the scope of your your degree is "The horror! The horror!" cafe's chips have not gone •Chirpie' of the banana union debating chamber, the rugby universe. The terrible revelation for cold. And all without a stapler - but here few people know field or the bar, where Then of course there is worth nothing Green and his colleagues is in sight. who is he is, never mind fear Caroline Cassap, VP Beckett Darren Green, the amiable VP that it really was all for The only mortifying thing his every command. Park, is doubtless still pages 4-5 whose yearning for a quorate nothing. Where once they for Green and the other ex- Chirpie has led a drowning her sorrows after meeting proved so futile. For lived by their agendas, bureaucrats now free of the remarkable double life during the demise of her beloved this Exec words like COMMENT constitutions and minutes, bonds of red tape is that it his two years in the union's Sunderland. Such is Cassap's quorate don't have now Exec members have took them so long to realise. oval office. By day he is an busy social schedule that she meaning anymore. Nowhere to Hyde finally realised how to whip Exec members have iron President, hard-hearted never quite made it to this For the rest of the for the residents through their meetings in no worshiped the god of protocol but liberal with cockney year's NUS Conference in world of course, time: not have them. for years, only to grasp at the charm, enemy of some but Blackpool - imagine Robin they never did. who live in the riot zone all year round page 6 STUDENTS ASKED TO WRITE OWN QUESTION PAPER FEATURE Glamour girls are back in fashion in the definitive guide to Exam shambles choosing the best ballg pages 12-13 STREET STYLE: Liz Dawn displays one of the badges Girl power: the New wonder women as bosses foul up beating blokes to the By RICHARD AUTY top of British politics AN EXAM cock up left freshers TOP RELATIONS pages 16-17 dismayed as they arrived for their exam - thanks only to fii d there were no exam papers. TV STAR Li/ Dawn took SPORT Ner o students time off her filming schedule sitti'- sh. Engineering OFFICIALS to thank 1 1 students from Flexing his Russells: uitics exam Park Lane College. The actress, who plays England wicketkeeper i.d little warning the problem. BLAMED Vera Duckworth in the hit Jack talks exclusive! • soap Coronation Street didate David thanked the group for their pages 22-r. Martin said: "The first FOR EXAM help in raising funds for the we knew about it was Cancer Appeal at Si James's when the examiners Hospital. BLUNDERS The events, which the came out at 9am and with the upologs. "^ on just students helped to organise. told us the papers had don't expect this sort of included a Fashion Show in not been printed thing from such a large Leeds Town Hall. a properly." institution." said Martin Christmas Party and a The students were This is not the first time balloon launch before a the module has been hit by Leeds Rhinos game at told to wait outside the administrative blunders. In Headingley. exam liall until ne\\ the first semester papers Badges in the shape of an papers arrived. They were printed with umbrella, the symbol of the were locked out for a incomplete information. Breast Cancer Appeal, have frustrating 45 minutes Course coordinator Dr also been sold for the but when let back in the Doug Stewart was campaign. students found they still unavailable for comment. The students managed to could not start. raise £3000 for the appeal. Martin fumed: "They Wrong Rhoda Xavanagh, part of the then told us to change some Tutors were also left red team at Park Lane, was pleased to have helped: "We of the questions ourselves faced when an official list PERFECT PITCH: Final Year PR students celebrate their ON THE HORIZON before the correct papers of exam timetables uas victory in the Communications Campaign Challenge. The 5 were all keen to take part and arrived and we could found to convey the wrong talented students beat ten other groups to win £500 in the collect money for a very good with Stevie Sunshine begin." date - leaving freshers prestigious competition. cause." Saturday: Sunny periods and generally Course lecturer Dr thinking they had missed dry. Maximum temperature: 20C Harrop defended the the exam. (68F). department claiming there Politics student Thomas \\as "no real difficulty" but Williams blasted: "I turned Sunday: More sunny periods with admitted complaints had up on the day before my occasional heavy showers. Maximum been received. exam to check where it was temperature 20C (68F). and the list had changed to Outlook for the rest of the week: Results say it had passed. To a career in journalism BBC newsman Nicholas Witchell, known by millions as one of this Unsettled weather. Temperatures He said: "The delay did "I was devastated as I'd average for the time of year. expected to get a good country's top journalists, started his career on these hallowed pages. II disturb students, and results your burning desire is to follow in his footsteps then your first move XWcalhcrcall Regional forecasl (HWI S004I7 will be looked at carefully. mark, but 1 was relieved when they said the original .should be to Britain's biggest and best weekly student newspaper. We're We hope that in the case of always looking for new reporters, so come along to our office at LMUSU an\ students w ho narrowly list was right. "It's not on though. or call our news hotline and you could be journalism's next big thing.