Disaffiliation: Leeds Met 2 Years On LS1, pg. E4Leecis Student Newspaper Friday, October 05.2007 411111111Mmosi 1111111111114111111MMENO Unhappy staff silenced Anonymous letter reveals planned All great careers boycott as disgruntled LUU bar staff fear begin somewhere. sackings. dewed: Anyone. talking to Leeds Student will lice instant By dismissal Dues 1E0 sum-RI like at healthily ntn Unii in to Yew?" Laura Mackenzie The letter alse i complained that ceorking cr ineimi ins were becoming almost unbearable and that the Union bars were no longer enleTabk: places to work. The letter stated: An anonymous letter sent to Leek Stmdent has revealed "Morale amongst the staff is low-. we feel disappointed. that some members of Union bar staff are unhappy, under-valued, and generally unhappy with the ongoing and overworked and in fear of losing their jobs if they reveal increasing 'meanness' that has helm developing over the their unrest. recent period. The her, at least for front line staff, is no A little known clause has been introduced which Ingera nice place to work." prohibits any member of bar staff from speaking io the Morale amongst staff appears to lure reached breaking paper but the letter sent to loth Shrektg reveals that this is point, with staff decidingto take direct action in the form of PMG now so strictly enforced that staff believe anyone caught K a boycott. The letter added: "We, the staff, plan to boycott talking to the paper faces instant dismissal. drinking in the linitin liars socially. And we hope some of The clause applies to all national places and areas of MIT fritildS will join us.- emplovment, and bans =pit byees from talking to the press. The authors of the letter chins that the rniun reason It is implemented across LUU. despite the fact both the hcland dais- changein monde is a new materialistic ethos newspaper, bars and many of the student staff haling to the among the Union management. They wrote: "It is the same Union.. general 'money hungry' altitude of the management that is An anonymous letter pushed under the door of the 1.5 the main cause f(ir ceincern." ■ifficc, stated: "last time it was suspected that a member of staff had expressed their concerns to the paper - had Story continued on page 2. expressed their freedom of speech, a new rule was Read the full letter on page 16. Smith Hall, Students' Union - r Wednesday 17th October, 11am - 5pm seems _ rare Of Or 104:0i:rhino anr9a isoasy Your chance to drop In and meet a range of people nwarranted. course) pnce.7414° from KPMG • ask them questions, seek their advice and oftia,,,at oe -ffig"- together identify the type of work and environment that's Soar diemaon that/ dn't 4 - right for you ..._1 (No itlebbe olle:mone 41 141"0419"1114.3f t10►00 Open to student* of all years and degree .discIplines. 1444111 **nt untstmayntse h s kpmg.co.ukkareers ww"Vatat '"F"tilrfn s a e AUDIT • TAX • ADVISORY new mate".

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ecent documents 'leaked' to Sketch are the Exec, again?" and "What esairk is it style piece, claiming that the reader's response - (9caked' in the sense of 'I went to we pay you for?". For all the arguments that to the phrase Exec Open Surgery is likely to be ask for them') have revealed the can be made against the Exec's efforts at trans- "What is this exactly? ItI sounds scary!" is nor a Exec's latest strategy for raising forming themselves front non-entities to good way to win over the apathetic crowds. If their profile on campus from annoyances, the idea is one I think it's hard to you want to come across as approachable stu- "What?" to " \Vho?". The pre-release of an criticise. Even the fact that, twenty minutes dents who care about relevant issues and who interview with the Gist I.ist newsletter explain. into their first Surgery-, there was no-one have the ability to act on them, then it's far ing their plan for weekly Open Surgeries show around • not even a token member of the Exec better to use an approach that doesn't classify the Exec's hearts are in the right places, even if themselves were actually at the arranged loca- the entire student pnpuLation as shell-shocked they don't know their arse from their elbow, tion - doesn't detract trim the idea itself. All pre-teens. Okay, I suppose it's possible that a although that might he stretching the anatomy noble notions, all admirable aims, all sabo- reader might mistake a question-and-answer metaphor :1 little t(R, far. taged by the frankly grimace-worthy Gist session with their Union representatives for Their plan seems pretty simple: the Exec all piece. some kind of sick, twisted game in which our gather down in the Info Point (better known Of all the was to encourage participation, elected leaders perform intricate surgical pro- as "the I 'nit in's three-dimensionalIna' gInssy mag- one of the worst techniques (second only to cedures on anyone unlucky enough to azine ad") and answer questions such as "What threatening combustion) is to treat your audi- approach them, but I doubt it. It's far more the.hell is the loin Point actually for?", "VG'ho ence as if they were thirteen again. In a FAQ- likely they'll just walk away. • • • • • • • • • lb • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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• • (Continued from front page) • • The authors also suggest that it is were happy in their union bar jobs OfrOJIIR 2007. this monev-orientated attitude that is would only let Leeds Student publish • CLACK HISTORY behind the recent rise in bar prices. their criticisms if they could remain • MONTH 2007 They suggest that the increase of 1:ip anonymous. A second year International • HOSTING A NUMBER Ut HEATS for a pint of snakebite was Relations student, said: "We have to • ACROSS ERE WROTE MONTH OF unwarranted, and in contrast to the carry out two stuck checks a day... I di, OCTOBER_ TO FIND OUT MORE V1311 WWW.U0ONIINI.t0M/8FIM • ethos behind the Union's 'Not for feel like they don't trust us." • Profit' campaign. Neil LU CI • They wrote: "Money, mtiney, money Communicationnicatinn and Internal Affairs • again. Remember it for Profit'? Officer, retaliated against claims, saying: • That's beginning to sound like a lie." It is true that staff arc not allowed to • Leeds .`;'indent found that talking to speak to any press, including Leeds • bar staff about conditions was almost Student, but it is not true that in doing We are • impossible, with some refusing to say so they face instant dismissal. Leeds University • anything at all once any mention of "The reason why the clause applies • Leeds Sindelli or the letter was made. to WU is that once students arc Union. • One anonymous staff member, a third working behind the bar they stop being • year Politics student, said: "If I speak students and start being employees." • to you I'm going to lose my job." Neil also pointed to the fact that Reader(s) of the week This was a common fear among the LUU had recently been nominated for a • staff that we spoke to. A first year New Third Sector Excellence Award. He • Media student, also wishing to remain said: "The award recognises good • anonymous, said: "The problem is, if working conditions and staff relations Contents • You start blabber-mouthing about the so the fact that LIT was nominated • Union they will find out who vou are shows it's obviously doing something News 2-7 • and you will get fired." right." The employee also added that they Union bar staff feel that they The Big Debate 8 had heard of fellow staff members should be able to use Leeds Slidell/ as an • being made to work unreasonable and alternative meansof communication non-timetabled length shifts. They said: with students, not just between the LS Extra 9-13• "A supposed five hour shift at Wax:On Union Executivexecuti ve students, • turned into a eight and a half hour shift particularly when they anfe el unable to Comment 14-15 • when staff were told that the venue was talk to their management or the in such a state that they weren't allowed Executive. In the covering letter, they- *LS Chat 17•• to leave until it was cleared up." wrote: "We hope you will... provide a They continued: "Nly friend ended channel for our concerns to be heard; LS2 18: up leaving the venue at around 6.30 am something we feel is being denied to us • instead of the scheduled 3 am end." by those above who do not seem to Sport 43: Even staff members who said they ca

LS1. Editor - Charlotte Griffiths / Associate Editors - James Haddon Gardiner, Matt Andrews, Laurie Whitwell / News - Chris Stevenson. Jessica Geen and Laura Mackenzie / Extra - Vivien King Macdona, Jessica Parker & Paul Raymond / Comment - Maryam Ahmad & Virginia Newman / Sport - Owen Bradley, Ahran Symonds-Baig, Joe Hibbert / Photos - John Puddephatt & Maria Garbutt-Lucero Online? - Garry Kharr-Lione / Advertising assistant - Kate Bevan/ Advert design - Rebecca Edlin / Copy editors - Alis Kay, Tracy Towner / Designer - Jessica Midden / Staff Co-ordinator - Christine Cooper Leeds Student Newspaper, Leeds University Union, PO Box 157, Leeds, LS11UH; (0113) 3801450; [email protected] To advertise, [email protected] A Leeds Student I www.leedsstudent.org.uk I Friday, October 05, 2007 All=11=111.111 The hairy arm of the Law

by Nicola Kemp important message across to students in Hyde Park. BURLGED: Paper hands can look &wing in mind that every September, the number worryingly real. of burglaries gc.res through the roof. in the month of Photo: John Puddephatt September, we had 132 burglaries, 93 of which Students stumbling hack in the early hours affected students. And in '9 of these cases, the may find their homes have been invaded by an offender got in through an open door or window. uninvited visitor: a hairy arm. 79 laptops were stolen. 'These cardboard criminals are being left stick- appear on the front cover elf Lillis Stara ing-through open doors and windows by police, to naked if it gets the message. across to students: lock demonstrate how easily a burglar could have your 4.1t.xirs and windciw,... entered the property and hopefully shock students into becoming more security conscious. In the time it tikes 6o,i-fc students to settle Jim, their new homes, their new timetable and their new favourite 'boon?, the number tit-burgla- ries since August will have more than doubled, and robberies quadruplaf. Students colourful lifestyles and laissez-faire attitudes make easy targets for what are termed sneak-thieves (opportunists who enter properties through insecure windows or doors), say West Yorkshire Pollee. While on patrol officers frequently find win. chews left ipen, doors unlocked, and valual rte. often uninsured beleinongs, out on display. As a result. police have come up with this innovauve wa!, of waking students up to the dan- gers they attract. These cardboard criminals are used to demonstrate how easily a burglar could have entered the property and hopefully shock students into liecoming more security conscious. Inspector Richert! Caldwell, who is overseeing tlzc campaign, said: "We really need to get this very Monks bring Tibet to Leeds by John Owens

Exiled Tibetan monks are set to enact an important Buddhist ritual for the first time at Leeds University this month. The six visiting monks will be creating an elaborate picture named a 'Sand Mandala' from October nth in the Parkinson Court. Made from complex patterns of coloured sand, the Mandala is sculpted by the int mks In an intricate geometric pattern based on ancient scriptures with traditional nails, The opening ceremony will begin at ten am on the 8th, and work will progress until four pm each day. Taking an estimated five days to create. and with a .monk always on hand to answer am questions, the finished piece is to he destroyed in the closing ceremony at 3pm on Friday 12th. This systematic destruction is an act that symbolises the key buddhist concept of the impermanent nature of life. Tibet society, the DELICATE WORK: The monks will he Organised by the IX t..1 creating an intricate sand 'Handal.% Sand Mandala will be accompanied h' a stall Photo: Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Centre selling Tibetan crafts and Btiddhist goods. soir- Suzi 1 Tale, President of the 'lacier}, said: ladsc Ward, Treasurer of the Suck:re, On hearing of the event, Jethro Shear around the world with the aim of spreading ibtical "Not only is Tibet an important geopt added: "We feel it is important 0, shi)w Tibet ring, third year English student, said: -It an awareness of 'fiber-an culture. and human rights concern, it is also the home as a distinct place from China despite what sounds great. I'd really be interested in seeing The IsiTandala, which means 'house' or of a deeply spiritual people, and it is vital that you see on the map. So far 6,254 monasteries the '.art tia culture I know so little about.• 'palace', follows on from a series of exhibi- Tibet's history, culture and religion are pet:• have been destroyed in Tibet and there is still The monks come from the Drepting tions pin on he the libet society over served. no religious freedom. I. went to Tibet in 200,1 (.;ormang monasi cry in south India. w hich was the last few ecars. These include the Riley that we cast share a fas- "\X- e'ry delighted apolitical, but couldn't ignore the repression built following the Chincse occupation or award-winning, View of Tibet', and 'A with cinating and beautiful religious ceremony and Chinese police presence." Tibet in 1950, and have since been travelling Refugee:; the University." Leeds Student I www•eedsstudentiorg.uk I Friday, October 05, 200

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Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Funding cut hits hard Families Ed Balls met students from Leeds for a day of debate on children's policy. The debate, held at the Queen's Rotel ort Scat. member 29, was part of a national event, with 400 people in four cities being linked by satellite. It for Action charity f. inns pan !if the consultative process for the Chil dren's Plan, which is to be published in December. Mr Balls, who is also Ml' for Wakefield, said that the results will S:et tnut how the Givemment Action, the charitable LUU society, has by Cluis Stevenson receised proposals roc grant. tot.illtng suffered from huge funding cuts - restrict- 001.000 and we only had LI ,r Pun ro allo- will achieve its objectives for children, young milk ing activities such as trips for disadvan- cate. We actually allocated nearly fl 55,000, and families in the next few years. taged children, which is an L8,00() surplus because we realise Nursing student Jessica Pratt, who for Yusul, co-ordinator of the Action half eif operation."' how much the grants mean_ attended the debate, said: "It has been interesting volunteer group, his told Leeds Student that I lc added: "We arc trying to find means "As far as possible we treat all of our 2111 to get other people's opinit ins and I like the filet that the system used to allocate grants from the of external funding, but this will not happen groups equall and we at:mally banded out they arc raking young people's opinions me [Intim funds to the 2111 groups means overnight. We realise we cannot rely on the grants to the most gimps we ever had this account." that the scope and reach of the Action group Unum, but we would appreciate some more sear, We also have all rhc allocations up on Nit Balls said: "I know it's tough to be a young pct. will he compromised duc to a lack of funds. help. We provide a service to both students the LI website, to aid transparency and we son today. b cannot tell parents how to do their job fir Yusuf sail: "The Action group has 15 and the wider community and feel this should will be happy to discuss grant allocations with it how o i deal with problems like underage drink- be taken into account." any cif our members." projects running and this is the•first year that ing, drugs and interact, but I know that titgetlax we his t' had to run without guaranteed Fund- The group- has also received less funding parents and their views can make a difference, and ing Noon the on in. However, the allocations due to the amounts of money in their private we want to hear them." we have received mean that some projects accounts compared to other groups, a situa- will become severely restricted. I am sure this tion which Mr Yusuf describes as "not ideal, is not just a problem for the Action group, as It does ni Al take into account the cost of the but 'titer groups as Well." projects involved." Stylish celebration TWO of the projects that will be hit by the In response, Andrew Winter,LlIll Stu.- tack of funds for this year will be the group's dem Activities Manager said 'I can under- Pulse and Stylus were nominated for yet 'Wacky Wednesdays' and 'Green Streets' stand why Action are disappointed. but they another award recently. a re a I it campaigns. As Mr \'usuf explained: "The better off than other The Leeds LI:wet-sit% Union venues were groups. Also, two of their 'Wacky Wednesdays' programme takes disad- nominated for the Bar Entertainment and Dance projects were iii the op ten vantaged children on trips every Wednesday Association's (BEDA) award for Best Student evening. \ minibus costs rti and so for she for funding. This is as well Union Club. ■the group having a large planned trips, that is z.:[ .400. I it wcver, the In lune the LUU clubs were nominated for office space in the 'nion operating budget is only L:870. It is the same the Third Sector Excellence Award and were the and their own member of situation with the 'Green Streets' campaign, oak student union clubs to be represented at staff." which collects items for tees chng using tran- ear both awards nights. Andrew Greer, LU1J sit vans. l-ach hire costs 4.11111 and set the Although LIT came away empty handed Aetts tiles Officer added: "We budget is only OA, which is a week and a 440111 4 Q\ from both nights, the nominations hare secured a reputation for providing a great night our for students at exciting venues. The result of this reputation can he seen by the 100 per cent atten- A bloody dance of all events held during Intro week. This is the first time that this has ever been achieved Free medicine? by I • [Icing too 14ing and o,ell ct implicated. A spokesman for the WU Events Office By Carly Lamb-ton success said: "I put the success of Intro Week down to Second year English student Rachel Wells said: —fhe ti inn really is not easy to till our. I the quality of the events and live acts which is Blond donor session proves great success after better than ever before." BEDA represents the tried twice and eventually gave up." organisers arc forced to turn students away. interests of late night operators across the LIK A campaign for free prescriptions has 11'1: will he raising awareness of I ICI 'Fite session, which lot ik place ein Monday 1st and currently has over IWO members. been mounted after fears that some stu- citric distributing them around the I . non Octasbcrin the Riles' Sinhh 1 tall, had Leeds Univer- dents cannot afford to pay for their med- and Leeds Student Medical Practice in the sity students queuing for one and a half hours by ication. next few weeks. Andrew Greer expressed his the afternoon and the National Noe Service even- £1.1rn spine Prescriptions currently cost .1.,6.85 each, concern for students' health, saving: "Then: wally had to turn people away. and LUL: is leading the campaign alongside: are students choosing not to medicate them- The local National Blood Service team usually research the NUS to give all students the automatic selves, and this is obviously concerning." operate from the lleadrow 131414id Donor Centre right to free medicine. Andrew Greer, 1.1111.1 ie also stressed that the Exec's immedi- but the constant demand for Heald donations led 'The University of Leeds is conducting a Activities Officer said that the Union is ate concern is to ensure all students who arc than to hold a one-off session at the University. £1.1m research project into back pain treat- -righting for students' health and wants to able to receive free prescriptions are aware of Lizzie Fellows, LUU Welfare Officer, was. ha- ment. ensure all students have appropriate methea- self turned away In m the session. She said "Obvi- Dr. Ruth Wilcox, from the School of don available to them." ously the capacity of one session is very limited, but Mechanical I salgineering, is leading the project and blo4x1 donations are always in demand and that's Current k , few students know• has been involved in spinal research for the last whether thev are entitled to free pre--1 why it's so important that pee pie do it whenever nine years. scriptions, and litany are not aware of they can. She said: "The idea of this grant is to develop asaidenrs can visit the came in town ro give the !ICI form they can use to qualify. the models we've been taking of spines." The dif- hit m id and not just donate when there is a session in The form has been criticised for ficulties associated with spinal surgery arise from the Union building. Every blood donation can save the location and delicacy of the spinal cord, which up to three lives, and the National Blood Service is runs down the back of the spine. 'Fhis forces sur- really short of donors at the moment so it's really geons to enter through patients' chests. meant that people get down there to &mate." She added: "Anything that we can do to min- She added: "We're hoping to organise a week imise invasive surgery and prtimote keyhole pro- dedicated to donation at some point t na the com- cedures will be of enormous benefit to the ing months. As well as hi riding; blot xl donation ses- patient." The team have a long job ahead of them sions, we would also hold sessions on organ and boric tnarrow donation so watch this space for (bail as approving treatment fur medical practice is an For students who are interested in giving arduous task. Particularly so in this field, fits-as Dr. blood but want to know mitre about the process, Wilcox explains: "No two spines arc the same, so the wehsite offers lots of useful information finding treatment which will benefit everyone is The fleadrow Blood Donor Centre is open difficult." Monday and Wednesday 12.15- 63Optn, Tuesday She also stressed the difficulty of predicting and Thursday 9.30amaS3Opm, and Friday 8.15arn- post surgical events which are hard to simulate in PRICEY: Campaigners hope to malt 230prn, and is located at 117 The F leadn iw, oppt !- a laboratory, but will be tackled in the course of prescription charges a thing of site The I tight, or visit: WWW.hlood.Co.tak. the research.

Leeds Student I wwv% .leetIsstudent.org.tik ! Friday, October 05, 2007 A sobering proposal for the park

Leeds City Council is currently considering By Michada Martin Police presence has increased thriJughout ROY srst problem, if any-thing and I think there needs enforcing a ban on public drinking in Hyde Park and Woodhouse since last year when the to be more emphasis on tackling that". Park. DPPOs starred being put into action elsewhere, James England, a third year Meditill Sciences Local residents arc continuing to tight for .4 Inspector Coldwell fnim the West Yorkshire student who lives in I Lytle Park agreed. doors. The prop( [sal will he put out for public "Booze Ban" to he imposed in the f mile Park and police said: "An awful lot of police time has been, Ile said: "Socialising in the park is a very 'student' consideration before the final cicctsi,in is made by Wriodliousc areas of Leeds. 'There mf and is being put into. policing the Woodhouse thing to do. and i don't think it should be a prob- concerns amongst residents, many of whom are the council's licensing panel. Supporters for keep- and Hyde Park areas." lem to chill out and enjoy a few beers. Personally families, that without a Designated Public Places ing the Moor out of the ban argue that so called The areas of I lvde Park and \' IdtMliSe I've never seen any problems specifically related Order (DPP( )} iii riaCc, HMI: Park will become 'problem drinkers' are in the minority and that the Moe it arc at present a hub of student activity, with to the oinsumption of ale' thousands of Leeds I ltuversity and Leeds Mem While the students themselves may nor con- poll= students living in and around the district. sider the public drinking a problem, Inspector The Moor is a popular place For barbecues, par- Coldwell explains why it is affecting other resi - ties, sports and other leisure activities. The pro- dents: "As far back as January and February 2006, posed order could change all this As for an out- I have been approached by Inca! residents in door drinking location, the park is considered fair Wcs.kIlitruse and Hanover Square, two public but game. One anonymous student said: "I laving a also residential areas, mart \ of whom are mothers few beers and a laugh, that's what its there I. it". with young children, who sod they were being karan Patel, a third year Medicine student, deterred from using the parks.- said tit- the proposed bait "I personally think that "Children have slopped playing firotball if students drink- in a responsible and well there, and both litter and graffiti have worsened lx:haved way, and that it they're not being rowdy this past year", then there shouldn't be a problem. I-meting is the

the new student drinking place. Strict contri its ,in surrounding inner city areas has made public majority of sober and sensible dtizens ought to drinking illegal in many parts of I..eeds. lie able to enjoy the benefits of this free green louseholds were exasperated at news that space. leading council figures wanted to exclude Wood- The worry is that where alcohol oinsump house Nit air in an the widening ban on drinking non is taking place that the problems cif antis. icial in Leeds' public parks and residential arms, Locals behaviour will inevitably follow, The council fear that if the Moor is left our of this "Booze believes that acts of antisocial behaviour arc cur- Ban", this will encourage young drinkers to eon rently a commi in ocoirrynce in lyde Park. gregate and drink there. Police say they Are doing the best they can SOCIALISING: Local residents, Campaigners have, however, won an initial with the resources they've got, but that in their view, a DPP(] would be of beTtelit tea . however, are taking a dim view victory in this extended battle, which aims to pro- photos: anthuny zupnik hibit the vinsumption 4 if alct.lhid anywhere out- the area, and would make their jobs a lot easier.

Susan Nash Susan Nash and we can be here. reall3 early unttl really' LUU Education Officer late 411 night.-hut I Inca: every minute of 44. LS: Flow can an:dents help?

!NN:: Meeting students whet arc dedicated to Anylini cart 441,1kt .1 41:!-Ivrt.m.-:: LS: Good afternoon Susan. So, let's start changing_ things And helping its campaign ne,al come- .1k .n• hat you actually do. un fundamental issues. And i ciiiirse the the tint education a-,errthiv Ict.1- - fro .ehaccfriAtc bilicuit$ cornminees.- ber ai 4pin in -Nice-Inv: Room is of lohiy. Ow L nryersitv on behalf of ,'113.17. If you're passtonatc students at l_eutls 'in inat44. g to J.:111, 4'441•411g 4.114,14g!:4 4):1 4;14444: ( c:citirse IcArnitig fact lives s- un unold stand rii he d„,xperience. Also. as Edueat cr, I 44e34,40,1144 U41- "441'1.4:471 1 4..+. I -511 (:ampaign on !tato edip.„ani in issaic c such a skydive with the test the Exec. I'd al-4. as Ices and bursarirs. LS: What are your plans fur this year% to do more dancing, even though I I'd like to do have two left feet. LS: Sounds great, why did you decide to "N: TherCs loads I matt to .4 L! run for this put:ition? more dancing, Iii pit 1.1 LS: Oka Susan, your 300 seconds are up. agreement. It's a 4.1414',4111011 that tell, 5,111 Goodbye and good luck! SN! I'm a bit of a ;44:ck rc,llly. Illy job even though I dents what their rights ind re-ipotts11,1In les ,iT14411•'.-s. 444:41.4 4111 IA are. Si44.414"7(tIV, riti work iinpr, P..rnt: teallv passlEmak: !II:41,4E41 tilers, studeru have two left Ar.tilen-ic 1.4 for right (It 4,'Wia.!, AT,: At beard, I V'a's a I. 141411 N,0a,1;11:stail:rni i1r;..1, 11" Ac:4414.:441 0:. a4li1 Liu4.141 :,2 !hat feet. ioo,r•r- . irR.ir,.101•. 41 , 1.11-441 I totild make a p..., 5441%- !: II:::11.cr I I need more 4:1141n: . 11.. [Tie p.i.5sion,111: •,,, . •:.) 211)4,14,44, IhL: 14i vcil!4'1' I ,r.,".!!kril 111111.1,..10. 11;21i: .11 active students the l 414, 1,01 ii , .4dc dererrnined rl LS: And the hardest part? ensure „je t- 411-31L: .11 LS: 111.4C-: %a 4.1! :toil on the ground I C4.4.1!; that wi-a•s i c.E:1 on have havi_ the if41.t bin- y1 t to 11 aI (H u do V. 1th 4C4. fighting for LS: So is it worth gel ing up fur in the 1 nr....ed Loa PI1. ;:rl,liii, I1,. L r • runrnine lug for ltict le!lang VCIaz:, iiL v Iu these issues. SN: I 10% c not position when things arc 1riAdequale. d'• tnr•tl ,I! It '.runic ti

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by Chris Leslie remain anonymous, said she had paid around devices is down to t he -indents themselves. main reasons international students ome to 17,000 to come to Leeds. She complained You can talk to people it you need to." study. In heeds is because of its reputation and About poor administration at l.ecds after She added that confidence in the English enhanced employability- prospects. Leeds cur- being asked twice to select her modules. language was required to get the most out of rently has around 4,500 students studying International students have complained She said: "Ii I had known I would have English university life. here from outside of the LI K. that they arc being overcharged and are to choose my modules in the first week, The complaints of the international stu -Our international students who arrive in not receiving their money's worth from might have decided to go to ani idler universi- dents were inirn ,red by British students. September benefit from a 70 strong welcome UK universities. ty.] didn't really feel prepared." Angus Matthews a first year politics stu- team who meet them on arrival and support Some students, who pay up to j:5,5ou a • third year engineering student agreed dent said: "Six hours of contact time isn't them through the settling in process, term, have estimated they are paying up to that the i:10,i00 she pays a year to come to enough. Ten or twelve hours would be more "New students have arrival .briefings in (-,20 for every hour of contact time. They have Leeds is a 'ill. She said: -II is so much more reasonable." small groups, specially tailored welcome packs also complained that they do not receive than British students have to par." lie also complained that the course so far and a packed programme of Orientation and enough tLac!ling, and are left to their own I lowever, she disagreed that international had placed nai much emphasis on solitary social events to help them negotiate new sys• devices. students do not receive enough support. learning front a reading list. terns and make friends quickly." One first year student, who wished to "80 per cent of feeling left to their own A University spokesperson said: "The

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• • Kjob ENHANCE YOUR EMPLOYABILITY WORK EXPERIENCE JOB FAIR Getting work experience is a great way to make yourself more employable, especially if you want a job in a competitive industry. This Work Experience Job Fair will give you the opportunity to meet the regions' employers, who can offer valuable work experience to enhance your CV.

Unl••••Ily MONDAY 5TH NOVEMBER, RILEY SMITH HALL, 10.30AM TO 3.30PM A Leeds Student I www.leedsstudentorg.uk I Friday, October 05, 2007 7 Tuition fees Lecturers seek refuge topped up from over- eager students Struggling students arc to receive better financial help from the Government by the end of 2008. by Natasha Evans Pr. tiessor Bridget Bennett of the Scht tt ti i ti using their initiatit. e it I get Mote help." By September next y ear, Cull-time under- English, placed emphasis upon technological In contradiction ti 5 the rep( in., Dan Binwistle, a graduates, whose families earn up to L25,00o, advancement in the form of emails-as cause fitr the third year Sports Science student believes he du )csn't will be entitled to a full grant to help towards ever increasing problem. She said: "Increasing unso- need non rime:tabled support and contact tune. I le then: living expenses. A new survey reveals.that student keenness is licited electronic communication fn an students is a said: "The teaching I receive on timetable is tine; I The current threshold fur Applying for a resulting in overtime for lecturers. significant addition ti t (air wt irking lives." don't generally need Barra time with lee This grant is up to .j:18,000 but this is set to In the repon released by the Higher Education With a gentrats cif scheilars who are becom- nationwide surge for nun timembled support could increase by Crio0 within the nest year Policy Institute (lit:pi), it is claimed that lecturers are ing increasingly computer literAte, the possible lines be linked to the struggle students face when trying The hope is that this will create fewer putting in increasing hours of work due to students of communication are increasing, inevitably leading to bridge the gap between the more structured restrictions For students planning to attend seeking non timetabled support The report, pub. to added pressure being placed upt in academic staff. learning environment of sell( XII and o 'liege and the higher education. lished in September 2007, said: "Assuming a ten Thu report aim i placed emphasis on the issue of heavily weighted 'private study' ethos t tfuruversity. Trip-up fees were introduced in 2006 with week term, this (extra contact) equates to 11.2 con- 'equity', It stated: "More assertive students are gain- Howlett, a fiat seat :flgitsh student, students starting to pay over £3,00o, and sub- tacts per week. if each contact lasted halt' an hour trig a considerable advantage through the means of said: "Gaunt; from nine hour daYs ofsolid contact sequently finding themselves in masses of and is on a one-to-one basis, this is equivalent, in inftirm-al tuition." time with teachers at !A-Nati tt I my current debt. 250,000 students arc supposedly going terms of staff time, to an additional ten person sem- Elizabeth Judd, a second tear F:siOish Limes timetable has t■need Inc to think and act more lode to benefit from the increase in maintenance inar each week or ten 100-person lectures." tune and Language Student., said: "It is understand- pendent ly,liur it is quite hard it i adjust.- grants. The problem has presented itself at the Llniver- able that lecturers feel pupils sometimes rely on In response to such difficulties pastoral care in Fr-snide Riggott, third year Leeds Univer sity if I Letts as lecturers are met tattering more and extra contact time and support rtx / much and that universities Cr inunues td t increase, This sigh initiatives site Dentistry student, believes there arc both more students who wish to seek extra tuition and this 1114 pr, It) be inconvenient, but surds, more such as personal tutor gimps and peer mentoring positive and negative sides to the refurbished oridanee. assertive pupils shouldn't be frowned upon for sehrillec. grant scheme. Ile said: "I believe it is a good idea because it gives new students more independ- ence, meaning they shouldn't rely on their parents as much". He did however add that employment in Leeds is easily accessible and that with money offered to more families, students may abuse the privilege. I-k said "Leeds is one of the best cities for employment, but more students may not look for a job because they have been given this grant and lose out tin life skills and sell- motivation, if )n the other hand they may come out of the degree with a better grade." STACKED HIGH: Students seeking non-tinietabled support is affecting the workload oflecturers

turnLeeds' arty streets English students have it easy medicine at Leeds University, one of the most student from the tiniversity of-Leipzig, Germane The streets of Leeds could be transformed by Lisa McCormick highly regarded degrees in the country, study tin believes that in terms of quality of teaching, the into gallery of mastepieces. average Int' 29.3 hours per week, in el-imparts(' in English standard is very high. She said "The It is the brainchild rat printing firm boss to 41 hours in other parts of Europe. teaching standard in England is a lot better. At Steve Farley. His I .eeds- based company, EPS, Undergraduates in England "have it easy" thiwever, Bahnun Bckhradnia, director of my home university 30-40 students attend each has reproduced works of art for the Grand in comparison to students at other European I- feta, cast doubt aver the legitimacy olthese sta- seminar - that's the size of a lecture at la-eds." Tour project, which has already been unveiled institutes, according to Thinktstnk. tistics. lie said: "European comparisons did These results have increased pressure on in London. Full-sized, high quality prints have A grunt provided by the I higher Education not differentiate between taught hours and pri- university chiefs to amend the system. A recent adrirned the capital's streets for the past three Academy to The I ligher Education Policy Insti vate study, unlike English statistics which did." proposal called ft it- a total overhaul of degree months, attracting worldwide publicity. tute (Hepi), commissioned an open panel Adam Cliff, a second year medical student grades in an attempt to reduce the standardisa- Mr Farley is working on plans in bring the research prngranune which sumeved 15,1 Eli first at Leeds University, confirmed that the total tion in university academies, making it more Grand Tour project, backed by the National and second year students and tound h, airs iif study was far mein: than 293, if accessible to employers and non-nationals. Gallery and Hewlett-Packard, to Leeds. alarming statistics about the amount of time combining both taught hours and private study. In a statement, .Pr4 'Nice-Chant:Oh Jr Vivien He said: "There were 45 pictures dis- spent in academic study throughout universities I he said: "1X-re are nmetabled 26 hours a week in Jones said: "Providing an exceptional student played as part of the project and it's been A in England. l.'niversity and have the same again in private experience is one of the University's key aims. At phenomenal success in London. It was not The programme's results also warned that study. It probably takes more than 30 bouts to the heart id- this is the learning and teaching Part. uncommon to sec 50 or Ni people clustered full-fee paying international students might he cianplete the \V, irk we are given by our tutors." nerstup Agreement which was drawn up through around one of the exhibits. It made news in deterred from English universities due in poorer The European higher Education Area illab( Li( n between students and.staff. was featured in about 7,0011 27 countries and educational standards. With the introduction of scheduled tier 2010 will aim to make The Agreement is accepted by all schools publications. the top-up fees in 2006, the Ilept report shines universities more comparable across Europe and and faculties and includes codes of practice run "Making these works so accessible (pens that .30 per cent of internatic sad students so the I lepi Survey has heightened concerns persnnal tutorials and assessment and feedback a new world for people who would not think and one in five British students believe their alit Jut performance levels in English universities. which support contact hours. of going into a gallery. It would be us:men et curse to be poor value itor mono. However, the .1Iupi Survey failed it J identify "It's important to recognise that we can't dour if this project could be brtiught to Charlotte Goodwin, a second year chem- the quality of the leaching in English l -niversi- measure the sunlit) of an educational experience Leeds.- istry student, disagreed with this claim. She said: nes, or how teaching methods compare with simply in terms • if formal teathing time. The hle added: "Leeds has a great printing tra- "In relation to other degrees chemistry offers those of their European counterparts. Bahram number and kind of contact hours will differ dition and we were delighted to successfully more value for money. We spend time in the lab- Bekbradnia noted: "The report does not tell us between Schist& and between courses and we're complete the job, It's another reason why it oratory with specialised equipment and have anything about the quality and nature of teach- concerned to support all our students in would be great for the exhibition to come to approximately 20 hours teaching rime per week." ing:. ways that help them to understand thirst differ- this city." The report revealed that students studying Christine Hofmann, An Erasmus exchange ences and in become independent thinkers." 1116 I Friday, October 05, 2007 8 Leeds Student I www.leedsstudent.org.uk

4--h7 gititn°11)1411r1119.° The local council's proposal to banlbooze threathens to :restrict traditional summer events on Woodhouse Moor: (aka Hyde Park) if it comes into effect. This week's debate asks: Is it fair to ban alcohol from the park?' Sarah Warren, for the ban. • Peter Beckett, against the ban email: [email protected] •. email: [email protected]

• nyone who has watched 'Street so). No doubt causing some angry parents and drinking ban has already been The residents have lived, do live and will live • placed on Woodhouse Square with in this area and should he respected so, their Crime 1.1K' on Sky understands how making the teens lives needlessly difficult. • today's young arc being demonised. But what really annoyed me was what hap. positive effect and I believe that a opinions count. • similar condition will likely benefit Celebrations and excitement will not cease! In one scene, police apprehend a pence{ next. The voiccover on the programme A Hanover square, so I am all for it. Bonfires and festivals will still continue viva- group of 17-18 year olds in a local said 'the youths are taken home' using down. From my experience, and those of my ciously in our lovely free green space. All stu- • park in broad daylight. Despite having no cause ward intonation on the word "youths" that neighbours, it is not the drinking students dents and long term residents and families • For action, the policemen become little more implies the kind of disgust more appropriate to who disrupt the pleasure of the park but alike should find it friendly for all good peo- • than threatening bullies when they find a small the word "paedophiles". vagrants and drug addicts who frequent these ple. The park will maintain its wale appeal. • bag of beers in a bush. And therein lies the problem - not with areas. Alcohol is a drug just like any other and • "\Vherc did you get these? Which shop sold unruly drunken youths but with the attitude However, unfonunately this ban would nor should he treated with more respect than it • them to you? Why aren't you at home doing your shown to them by their elders. Underage drink- stop the odd adult male pissing up a tree or a has been in the past. If an alcohol ban can dra- • homework?" The kids look frightened and when ing and so-called 'anti-social behaviour' has as tramp sleeping on the bench. It will hopeful- matically reduce crime and make the park a • the police threaten them with arrest (despite hav- much preeminence in news bulletins as gun and ly though stop congregations sitting, on what safer area to he In, especially in the long term, • ing no legal cause to do so) they get defensive. knife crime; and public fear of it is unreasonably is almost our front lawn, drinking merrily and then why nor? The police seize on this and insist on taking them high. Banning alcohol in Hyde Park is simply an then starring to shout stupid things at each • home (again, despite having no legal cause to do extension of that. other and other people, miss understand one When it comes to enforcing the ban, the another, causing damage to wildlife, flora and police would never challenge the middle aged fauna, local facilities and generally disturb the couple enjoying a bottle of white with their pic- peace as much as they can descending into nic. But a group of students with a six-pack, now noisy,tneoherent argumentative chaos. that's a different story - that's anti-social behav- Hyde Park is regularly patrolled by police iour and cannot he tolerated. Can you sec the and certainly this ban would make their jt ill a difference? Neither do 1, but the police are so lot easier. They arc not saying that they will go shameless in their hatred of young people that, home and watch I len ies! But they wont have officers would probably run past an old lady get- to spend so much time dealing with alcohol ting mufgged to give an on-the-spot fine to a stu- related aggression and crime such as arson. dent (itlietly having a beer on the street. rape and defacing and instead concentrate on What arc the real arguments for an outright. helping students and families ro he security ban? According to one officer, "Children have aware and feel safe. stopped playing football there l'in Hyde Park], I Let it be noted that attacks, not always and both litter and graffiti have wi irsened this ,1 caused by drunken idiots. they happen to past year". I don't. know whether this officer has them, regularly. The West Yorkshire police been to Hyde Park, but I was there a for over advise this legislation to ensure students can summer and there were famihes and kids every- live in a stress free environment, they arc where. aware university life can be stressful enough If sonic children have been prevented from without having 0 worry about that boozy per. using the park it's because their parents are afraid stn you don't know who is following you of something that isn't there; why should those home. It is essential people don't gel too of us who like a-beer in the park suffer because a iibelously trollied for their own safety and that few idiots have swallowed the police hype and of their fellows. These restrictions would actually believe that they'll be beaten up by a offer gu.ildlines for people to drink responsi- drunken student it they go anywhere near Hyde bly. Park? It's like freshers avoiding it because they Si' this ban on Ale( dud consumption in the believe the (untrue) rumours that it is the male- park may reduce the odd beer can and bottle rape capital if Britain. being left by an un•enyitortmenutl consumer, I liter is an easy one to answer - put in more however it will certainly not stop the coke and bins. There simply aren't enough to cater for the crisp packets. But I hope that it will be a everyone, but most students who use the park start on the way to a cleaner park. are eager to clean up after themselves, and many Fortunately there are many fabulous water- go-around collecting other people's liner at the ing boles in the vicinity of this amazing park, end of an evening. Problem is there's nowhere to which are accessible to all in a safe and fresh put it. And as for graffiti. I fail to see how it is environment with necessary easy access to the related. Graffiti artists are usually in it for the park especially during the summer months! reputation, and not because they've had a few I inforrunately, it is possible for a few people beers and fancy painting on a wall. to cause trouble and make somewhere danger- But all (. f those explanations are a smoke-. ous for everyone. It is a shame that people screen. The real reason for this proposal is a have disturbed the residents of this area, and it hunch of mil& age, middle class busybodies are • looks like they really have been disturbed. Last Week's Debate: takeaways taken away. needlessly a fraid of young people enjoying them- Residents have been concerned about this selves. area for a long rime and by almost no way Why should I change my behaviour because does it reflect badly on the entire student pop. Latest result from online polls: someone it doesn't affect is afraid of me? Why ulation. Students arc indeed giving these pre- Takeaways: 80% Clean Streets: 20% should Hyde Park cease to be a fun, friendly viously run down areas a lift. place for students who want a beer with their But let's face it, a ban on alcohol consump- barbeque or game of football? It's simply not tion might smart the average students plans Join the debate, visit the website: www.leedsstudent.org.uk fair. But fairness never seems to bother the angry here and there, however we will get over it. mob. Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk I Friday, October 05, 2007

News extra: features.

z7) Student Unity? Matt Andrews discusses Leeds University and Leeds Met's respective student papers since their split.

Comment: Ed Gamester, Steve Akehurst and Maryam Ahmad tackle life, death and Jack Straw respectively.

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ru•ana (or pro-anorexia) groups ha.ye lose dramatic amounts weight, flit the headlines rceemb. alter the pr■Irriote eating disorders. giving, tips Juliette Gerstein investigates bliC highlighted groups claming h, he on ht maintain their eating disorders .411 pro-ana On social networking sites. tle143.11.. irk. F-Stiell114111', ■Se Cti-nike with eatirip particularly I 'aceb4 4 i k _ l'a cc bi lok has disorders use the groups to justify Their helm-il cur refusedp tic remove thew groups.as it- does with ail the online trend for pro- and boi)st their nhirale. helping tficnt •slaryv the controversial groups that exist on dic aim. ihntie.11. cti. Rerun publiciry about boll 1.acebta,14 groups A fiirrher surprise 11..r mum- is that hicIrs. anorexia websites and their and other pro-ana websites has caused a backlaA, are members ot these groups as well as girls. leading to the creation of Ant; pnl• Ana groups, Although man> believe that eating (Jisorders ■ and a campaign tic all pri -ana grf Rips shut affect only females, anoresia and bulimia ark influence on the student down. increasingly being diagnosed in males But do 1liect! group,. prf Wide positive Because many potpie are less aware rl incl- support r..1" encApurage dangerous diets? Some dence r caring (...,:k.rders diet; are i ■ficn population. supporters of prt■-ana g-rour: clatro /11.11 they harder to diagnose, and there are fewer treatment ,Aicourage girls ti, admit that ilic,, lia‘ l; 3 pre aileril centres. hinhermore, it is often seen :is .l111C+ c, .1' without being sti.gma tised. And to find die means For its t(I, talk at-,1K.it their fecling-s and crrioutifss, and support to recover from devastatin g eating and it is nor ttnusual for boys to spend 10t dist wrier', heir critics Argue 1 hat the groups time playing sports and working out. et-let Image suffererq to continue their attempts to eating disorders are most often diagnosed in b. ,vs Friday, October 05, 2007 lo Leeds Student I www•leedsstud•nt.org.uk gm=

who arc involved in sporrs and under pros ure rri believe that these groups offer a unique methild impneee their fitness. iii suppi int, and vornfort. The websites and inky network) v.' ote -lhe "yr to la RI Want to I he prn•afla get tups deny any attempts tit 'Love people' anCiSeX- 31arn art Sfotenbat 1$th. zQui really" sodety describes, itself as "1'-1- I -1 -N P - I - ot find an 'ana dice_ Pro-ant sites refute the al ZU R-A-T-.14 /-N- and lists its current "princesses" accusation that they are recruiting othetS, but It Nicole Riehic, Kate Moss. arid Paris Hilton, as remains questionable- whether they suck to help 42 Nothing tastes as good as thin feels,, well as those it: describes as -non-committalil' sufferers reerlyer from eating disorders. tit and "futureprincesses" - those that they hope whether they encourage them to keep going. I- will "give in" rLl anorexia. There are several of Alice I ..uo is a 21 year old bulimia suf- these gn Rips On I'acehook and other social ho- ferer frotn Manchester. She has suffered the dis- wl irking Sitca they use the 'affectionate' terms order's effexts since early 21 arid has been iii stare of mind. These fin airs seem to allow girls or caused major e< intr. yversy by starring in a Nolitil 'Ana' flit anritexia„ and 'rail .tar InilIrnia rehab clinics twice as a result. Alice works as a boys to lustily what 010- arc doing, and efiCOUX- ad campaign, alongside the words 'No Amara, A BBC Wales nvestigation stii.„Nests florist and is a music lover and artist in her free Can has suffered trOrn anorexia fir I 5 yews, and agt- them to avoid attempts to help them, This roar pni-anorexia websites celebrate die anorexia rime. She agreed to speak in Leedi Stideem about apparent acceptance of an unhealthy mental state weighs 31 kg. under 5st. She hopes that the advert "hrestY le" and encourage sufferers to continue her experienetz and her though rt s r in lire t-aniirex- would, I think, rink' make things worst.' will shock people. and show the reality of the their attempts to lose weight th. tse with ia groups and their appeal. Weight issues are never out of the effects id the disease, but critics fear that it will eating disiirders claim 1.1 hart telapscel alter kg 4,;- "I mean... I like to think that I'm an starve news, ;146)001 a lot of focus recently has lx.en encourage psi pie to themselves rn whine my, at so-ealled 'thinspittnt in' sites, which use intelligent girl, hut tieing influenced ro such tn on rising levels of obesity and the health prole the same degree of extreme thinness. images of [hill Cdebrillcti OdittS rO highlight extreme by a picture r rf Nicrile Racine cu. whitey - lens aStkOCialted With it, The shocking deaths end indeed this is not an unfounded what they sec as thL 'ideal' +Lk' shape. using er sounds completely ridiculous and :so irra- ewe' South American models List year in an eating tear, Many pro-aria groups use what they call et-naive language as a means n o motivate weight at dB. trders lead to calls tr changes in t he rt-pidel 'thinspiration' to encourage readers to lost hiss. • ling industries. In response, the lashtiiii indilKtry weight. Thinspiration websites include photos Many of these pro -ana groups claim • When • has been forced to take a long hard look at itself and videos .4 dangerously thin women, both that they do nor enciatrage caring disorders and ti • and consider the effects on models, IF not the ordinary people and celebrities, to encourage sty that they di • not web in le inyline wylhr t is seek- • in the middl wider perceptirm of the thin ideal. I r.trher this the tub, r 'need help' continuing their dramatic ing to develop such :A disorder or looking ILI lost' year, the Model I Icalth Inquiry was established weight i'N- Man, these shocking images weight through an `anoricexie diet'. Many of the of it, you don't by the British Fashion Council in response fir depict %vim-nen whose [times an all clearly visible: groups and websities claim to offer support and tr oil-teems about the 17cahh rri-nuidels participating Fav r urite 'thinspiration' celebrities include Mehl Information for those with caring disorders, but • want to get in shows. The resulting- report has led tic the Barton, kcira Knightley, Parts Hilton, Undsav many equally offer 'acceptance' of these condi- introduction of new rules for participating mod- Lohan, Nicole Richie, Marx_- Kate t. tlsen and Vic- tions, like the Fact-61,1k group 'Nnt trmia is N( 1'1- better, so you els, including certificates that prove that models t. Ma Beckham. Them are even 'thinspo' videos a disease, it 's a I Ill.:ST.1'1,k •"!•` , Under are healthy, and banning models under the age of on pro-ana sites, as well as places like YOuTuhe 'description' it sars: "They elm! seta obese people to cling to these 4a 16, whose childish figures :Iry often used to and Phi itobucket, which feature photos along tvitabi 1(.11 ?to,/ 'er fklatfr errs. your gloves, ij wen. rra .del adult clothes, thus inspiring an unattain- with what they describe as .a pro-ana 'soundtrack'. sir Hot raisr yoor stand-irk!' sites that tell you able ideal. But some fed that these regulations Some sites even include lists of songs that can On the other hand, many of these don't pi far enough: Italy and Spain have banned help with 'thinspt and one site. I found had !ism groups seek to defend the pro-ana movement. you're doing models with a NMI under I g, which Ir the Ir ower which sounded- worryingly like porn: 'real girl and those struling„ with aniarcKia. Their Ines. hnut 'ni tonal' BMt thuispie "Spanish thinspii','Astan thinspri and so sage bi cards and comment walls criticise those okay and to stick "Everr girl says scull like "my thighs are on. Soule of these photos look digitally altered, who seek to shut down pro-:Loa groups and con hUge-, 'I hale so much", but for people. lint tiomc, ty-.1rryingly, look real. rain discussions on topics such as the LteSE weight with it. • 4 a with this... it becomes Attiir tal' thoUght:' One thinspo site 1 found claims that its hisspills, t it 11.V1rs to RA leid It'. in to Alice says. "it's there every second and you're site means that medics will have to rename an absolute minimum. group -pro arta, mia„ constant!, hulking at yourself :old comparing anorexia, because "the en add 'attittr.N.iis . dOPI'llkor it ednos" '.ating Dist inlets, Not t itherwise Speci- 1 ( Alice says. -When you're in the middle in- yourself to every- other woman you see." both imp- thootiroo lorOkin miner fid fied), saes "ieee +Rd rerenkei. 1 Ale choose to lilt tklierdit- n, you druie want to get better, sir yllt ding to !lolly' elks is the first soap opera roc they scans to lore their skin aid hove look" 11 claims Yr, and goes on to describe how to calculate TilLS• sites that tell you you're doling okay and to tackle the issue of eating disorders, and is cur- that the photos and websites prove that girls are BM.I, as well as directing members to a wehsite Stieb with it. Recovery is the hardest thing, but rently running a star; line featuring two girls, happy with their kinks and love the body shape derailing the."Mas ter ClearlSe'- an extrente den te staying sick is simple, so it's far easier to keep Hannah and Melissa, who form an anorexia pact that they have 'achieved'. diet -and websites teaching vats lus worki an rou- ging lin and denying that sou have a problem together. A few weeks ago, after discharging her- ,Anorher site gives sonic 'helpful tips' tines. Another Facebook gritup, "1 Like to Have these girls tell me 1 look great, so everything is self from hospital, NIelissa collapsed and died of a for looking gut id whilst being antirexte. These NIV Cake and Not Fat it, Too", tins - rather than actually seeking Ira/help.- heart attack, one of the more extreme effects of include advice about .1menorrhea. or absent worth i/". claiming that pro-eating disorders 11 nutritious giltighng. following :mnnresia, caused by heart muscles wasting awn, ML nit rum in, which is a result of low body groups .ir• part of freedom It pies tin reading ti 'rums and watching Yotaube videos ro 5.15 hr, rarer f..tfr railn;.! dirmirry mwre !/,an irk rabie pri 'Bides the 11,ith '1 r.lnwc- o websites with sever our (rLci. eirr Ina tr.- roust' to ado/lin% brrrurct' itye ul di •terera takes on the milli...et. Some claim tai re1101 10. Or fire lobeve rhcert rir a peg s 6.1 < fler guidance liitIbisIsewrtlt eating disorders and AM( Links to people with similar problems, but other hir the most part, the priialla Mt Nc- sites an- lititiong ti a acceptance of anorexia as a frictit it 1.alel% web leased, it at least initial omelet lifestyle'. Some want to help pet plc recover from with it is. difficult ro lakiw to what extent its these diseases, but others seek to encourage members have contact with each other away Bits throngh `thinspiratii in', tips, recipes, From the anonvm.als facade 4 4 welisit,•s. side diet woes' to eonsume as a little from Facebook ivutusly every student's first pi sY,Ii ■k•, viiica rut Yi /CITA(' !hal St.'cl, reference point), there arc also groups on [n c• ro diarni in:-Trale the horrific realities of eating dis. MySpace and articles in Wikipcdia (that itrders. and the devastating effects on the body, ever-useful ',arum: of inn irmanon) as well as and communities that ban anything that may be a independent websites, many of which link to 'trigger', but instead focus on pi 'SUM' methods each other. The pro aria movement claims that it of recovery, began to allow Anorexics to help and support However, many- of these websues, tar each duller din nigh what can be a very It atelv dis- from being 'inspirational' lust seem artily upset order and state of mind. and that the media focus ring. Some of lit websiteri .and groups lifer a helped others seek help, as well as highlighting 'buddy' system, quite literally pairing people up Hannah, despite being able to talk :thou, her ill- weight causing hormonal hocs changes and 'an, trexte 'Hive also believe that they can so that they can help each other eat ICSK. and lose ness, was sectioned, as her family felt that they offer a forum where those suffering with eating weight I spoke to a girl who has tlitt.V recovered then:tine preventing the body friqn having peri- were not longer able tic help her .-ivercome the dis- ods. It can also be linked tit r net-exercising, and a disorders eau express that feelings and find sup- from her .eating disorders, and showed her the ease. Hollvoaks, far from glamorising the disease, tack of b..cly fat. t tip tse who see am irema as a port and soktcc in a way that is nor pr-issihIe from rates that I had been investig.aring, While she was shows Hannah and Melissa as increasingly positive choice, illnettOrthea is percieved as a those who do mit have the same expedenees, Par pleased to see that there are groups that encour- depressed and looking physically worse and good thing because u offers proof of weight loss, from being simply an inability or refusal to eat, age recovery, and provide a means for those suf- worse; not just in terms of being thin, but with but also as sr iniething that shouldn't he men- eating disorders represent a state elf mind, fee fering with eating disorders to talk about their skin pritblems arid hair falling out. Tile prie tioned to parents or a a• in case they are con- quently linked to depression, lack of self-confi- problems, she was concerned :about sites that gramme has tried to show that anorexia is not as cerned. Another site offers methods ro hide seem to promore diets of starvation in order 01 dence, a desire frir control and low self-esteem. simple as lust nin wanting to eat, and that gener- effects of weighs loss like dry skin, brittle Some who have successfully recovered from eat- achieve an unhealthily thin weight. "Ant trexia allydoesn't have one simple causational (aeon. hair ing out .1.111.1 poor circulation, even recom- ing dist /niers, or are in the process of doing so, not lust a problem with cuing, but is a distressed Last week, French actress Isabelle r :ar• mt. tiding depth tory creams tai rem( we !amigo, Leeds Student I www.leedsstudent.org.uk i Freida , October 05, 2007 11 r E"E'a

line hair that grows all over your body if you believes in 'thriving' on the desire to he thin. The loose too much weight. These are tips for avoid- sites contains tips For avoiding food, like excuses ing detection by doctors, yet these symptoms for not being hungry: ways to avoid eating too should really act as a warning sign, dem( mstranng much, such as drinking lots of water during a that you are dangerously thin. ( ether sites, such meal; and ideas For distracting yourself when you as %rising Fat, Gaining Beaut)', give tips for deal- want to eat. On its n'hinspiratii in' page, it says ing with doctors' appointments, such as drinking 'Earaybaely 's kited rr &llama. .1(krue of as- like the chiselled lots of water before being weighed, with a little look, some like thetiail look. sonzeLlust warm see hones." salt to raise blood pressure, or dressing warmly to The site contains a selection of disturbing essays, increase body temperature. poetry and quotations to help people continue to The author of prettything.com also refuse to eat It continually reiterates die belief urges its readers to keep healthy and stay alive, stating that she wants to stay alive "and be ITPAIWARAWA,.• envied", and that looking unhealthy can cause people to worry and therefore' tempt the sufferer However, the to eat. The site goes as far as to say that l'iudies sham. that people can Is 50-75 days without food. I heading on its wouldn't nommendfiistiqg this tang aSydd, mar lost no moth P.m& although it would doer& on pa• starliNg `Thinspiration' weOrt"- The site encourages fasting, and actually recommends a 1[1 day Water Fast. That's 10 days page of photos of only drinking water and not eating, encourag- ing the body to enter ketosis, which farces your states "until you body tt, burn fats and loose weight quickly. Keto- tis causes had breath, but more importantly pro- look like longed periods can change the acidity levels in your blood, which then damages your liver and me, you're kidneys. This has a similar effect to a diabetic fail- ing to inject with insulin for a long period of time. disgusting" . The site also suggests. that a lt) day fast will then help you to modify your diet so that you cat less in the long-term. • • • A quick search for 't hinspirarion' on that being anorexic is a positive lifestyle choice YouTube comes up withh a series r it VIC11:4)S tagged that takes determination and ctmtml. with 'thinspo', 'aria' and 'mil' Several of the are But hack to Facet:tank. In an attempt tii cheer Ihinspiratk videos, ShoWing iniagc after image myself up, I manage to find some more positive of scarily thin celel Mika and ordinary girls with groups Out there. Groups such as "Fed Up: prominent bones and lollipop heads. But the [righting Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia'', "Aral backlash has started, and there am also many we call this Perfect-it in?" and "Hope" all state tlsar 'anti' videos, with titles like 'consequences of they are against prr i-ana groups, and aim to help anorexia' or 'hulimet k ilk', demi instrating the the tse who are in the process t if recovery, or hare horrific effects of anorexia on the body, teeing ti recovered already_ They ban any sort cif 'thinspi- discourage girls from starving themselves. Sever- ration', and even require 'trigger warnings' where al of the videos requite you to pit ire that you ate necessary. The groups describe themselves as over 18, although only by signing up and register- pro-lreotrery; they encourage discussions about ing with the site. ways to avoid relapse and help sufferers encour- This is not the only example of warnings and age each other io get well. Many of the groups age limits; clear4 the media attention is having an have links to positive websites hi help with reedy effect on the pro -ana sites. :knottier site I visited, cry, and try to feature positive ininrmadon and prti-ana-nation, came up with a warteng la ix stat- discussions. ing that severe rrms of anorexia and bulimia kill, St1 are pro-anorexia groups and websites !no networks wrote and that users r if the site are confirming all legal at 12 22m On S.? oc.erritli?•• 191h, 2007 harmful, encouraging those with caring disorders el/ liability, and that thee are over 18, be clicking the to believe that they are normal, and are choosing OK button to enter the site. The neat box says the 'skinny look', or are they a way to prom, tic I don't care it it hurts. I want to have control, I that by entering the website you arc not tinkling it recovery and support From those suffering with want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul_ I'm or its webmistress responsible for any damages similar issues? Personally, 1 think that it depends not yet a winner, I could be thinner. So I must caused by entering the site and that you arc not. on the website, or group that you are looking at. go throw up dinner. I'm not starving myself_ I'm visiting in order to become anorexic or bulimic, There is nit qu•stit in that some of these groups pertetting my emptiness. How many pounds till or to Jose weight. This site states firmly that "Eal- are taking a positive approach to eating disorders, kgdisordtrs will not niakevon feel thin. proud aqid beau- encouraging reet 'vet). discussing ways to recover. I am happy", How many pounds ti-H I get thin' tiful Every day is a mutant struggle of self hatred and and producing positrie messages. "I do believe Three more pounds till I am skinny, three ntrare ohserssing afloat fund ealoriest,fragrarn and air*" that some eating disorder sues arc helpful,• Alice pounds and I win, Anorexia. is like a game you Another site says that "ire do not someone, or am- says. "It's always a relief to talk to someone who play, you vein. and then it's over. Or you keret) but "tray Durst to believe nor beautifier The eknin" experienced something similar. E.:ven if your playing. home page of the sire states that thus have been friends and family auppim you, it's Mira rssibk inr asked to put up a disclaimer and state that they do m to fully understand what You're going are not giving medial advice. Firayeeter, the head- hniugh. Talking alit air it. just makes you feel li kr ing on its ilunspiration' page of photos reads you're burdening them somelvai.." "nail/ VW look Wks rue.)vit're diRusting", and the site But clearly there arc nian v either groups includes 'reverse triggers, photos of obese pet J- out there that can only have a negative, even dan- no network , wrote ple. gerous, effect. These are groups that feature 'thin • . ir•m 'ae:eerel'ee eet„: One of the most shocking sires I found is sptration', pictures err video is of girls wilt 'se bones called aria's underground grotto, which describes are clearly visible, tips for eating less and hiding Everyone seems so happy. §,..'ondertul and tree. a site for the ise who am seeking to maks itself as the devastating effects on the body, and view rot I will never be perfect like that, because I fr nin to their It says: "Ma is ant itexia as a positive state of mind rather than their bodies CCM am only me a piaci. for thi, dlle „1" thrpugh persona, _fro ur their disease. They may not seek UP "C■)n.c-r-r' people tit rp,„cour r,rilnctrnu, rlrmwr,YYuk dai4 &power anorexia, I all I do not believe that they tart be Eat to live. but don't live to eat. Every time you crud res'u1_id o/4/4* trill rola.vation, t eatiit and seen as anything other than %homing. "Reel wet say no thank yo,, to food. you say yes please to " is a Wl.11SiiI7 that ellio, tanard rnrrtirrt lbrrr gaily. It ing from bulimia is probably the hardest thing thin. saes anoteaia as a lifestyle and not an illness; an have ever had to do, and I'm still ma even close :edit c choice I.. practice and embrace the diaor- to being fully better vet," Alice tells us. Them arc deualapyaktire maridiot, der and 'ecarr/ eranewe two sides to the idea of `pros-and', and in• of of Pod intaky. disr7fFlirn iu exerrife. -The sire does not them, to me, is intensch worrying. the idea of 'victims' or 'sufferers', but

I Friday, October 05, 2007 12 Leeds Student I www.leedsstudent.org.uk -limit air Fate of the union It's almost twoyears since Leeds Metropolitan University voted to disaffiliate with Leeds University as members of the Leeds Student newspaper. Matt Andrews spoke to 011ie Rickman, the Leeds Met fresher who proposed the split, about his reasoning, his thoughts on the matter today, and whether the loss of unity is an issue or not.

tudent unity in Leeds is a topic rarely • • discussed. While there may appear to •• •.... !..k2 ?.• . he a kind of unspoken bond between il I didn't thinV the hordes of youthful academics walking the streets of the city, it's 'about the someiS Imes forgotten that a divide exists between the major universities of the town. nsequences of While Leeds University and Leeds Met share a common location, infra - university activity is what would hap- minimal. Whether its down to friendly rivalry, academic snobbery, the "class war" or some- thing more sinister, the fact remains that it was- pen; I didn't4 n't always this way. In late 2005, perhaps beyond the think it would memories of even the lofty third years of Leeds, a relatively unknown freshet at Leeds Met made cause so much o a bold statement. Media & Popular Culture stu- dent 011ie Rickman proposed a disaffiliation a stir. To be per from the newspaper I xeds Student, which then represented both institutes. While Leeds Uni- fectly honest, I' versity provided the majority of the funding For the newspaper, Rickman and others claimed the a university stu coverage was unfairly biased in Leeds Universi- ty's favour, to the extent that voters chose to dent, that's wha split from the Leeds Student and create a news- paper catering solely for Leeds Met, on the e do, isn't it? — same small funding they had formerly supple- mented Leeds Student with. have a bit of fun, LS editor at the time, Jessica Salter, strongly, opposed the mouon, concerned about acause a bit of con- the blow to student unity in Leeds, and the Fr,financial implications for both parties. Her %Itroversy? .e.fforts were unsuccessful, however, and by Ai. December, Leeds Student focused solely on decided to take action. "We went to our Union 1 news relating to heeds University. tri ask if we could start a new paper up and they Leeds Met's paper, simply named said we couldn't, since we plowed su much e Met', was launched soon afterwards, ini- money into Leeds Student every year, and we 'ally offering only four issues per year versus haven't got the funds to do a separate paper. Leeds Student's weekly print. How could this SCHISM: take Rickman, instigator The only way we could do this was ti edisaffili- of the I soli Met disaffiliatio n. have been preferable? It was initially baffling ate with Leeds Student and start your own trying to comprehend why students would paper up. So that was our plan." swap a newspaper for something more akin to a I put it to 011ie that, given Leeds Met's reaction was thinking about what I thought was money from that. What we did was looked at newsletter. Two years later, and The Met is still contribution toward the newspaper budget, it best for the students and for the university. I various advertising avenues, and gradually, going strong - stronger than ever. I decided to was unfair to expect equal coverage. "I think we got really caught up with Union politics very slowly but surely, put the money back. By the speak to 011ie Rickman, now a third year, to put in £1? cif and I think Leeds I - mver- quickly and I didn't care, I didn't think about fifth issue, we'd broken even and made probt. discuss his reasons for the split, and his feelings sity put in LW-70,00(I/year, so you nnrld say the consequences of what would happen; I did- nt-Irrtunatelse our university does nor give out on it after a few bears. 6/7ths of the paper should be Leeds Um, and n't think it would cause so much of a sun To be sufficient funds ro our union. Am I right in say- I first asked 011ie to relate the story of -th should be Leeds Met, right?" 011ie asked I perfectly honest, I'm a university student, that's ing that Leeds University Union gets over a mil- his involvement in the issue. It started off fairly me. "11 wing gone through the paper and the what we do, isn't it? - have a bit of Fun, cause a lion pounds per year, or somewhere in that small: "One of my very good friends. got Leeds articles, we should have had a seventh r.rf the bit of controversy? it was all about doing the region, for their various student activities!' Student all the time, she was disgusted by how articles - we didn't even ger that. We got about right thing and anything else is irrelevant," Ilk Whereas we get... not even half that. If you little there was [about Leeds Merl. °bye rusly a tenth of the articles. True, Leeds lint had commitment to his cause is admirable, but was compare the fact that the university size Is it's a Leeds liniversie, paper... well, it isn't real- more mono put into it, but if you look at the it misplaced? exactly the same, it shows a reflection on how Is, is it? It's 41 dual paper for both universities, statistics of it, it wasn't- fair." Ii seems that I ask 011ie about what happened next. difficult it is to establish these kind of things at particularly tin Leeds Uni, and it just seemed to despite efforts by Leeds Student, students at I'd already heard that the first run of 'The ,filet', the M et." nu: that there were less articles every week." Leeds Met did not feel they were being repre- as the new paper was named, was a quarterh Despite Leeds Student's funding issues Unlike most students, however, 011ie • sented enough even given their smaller funding • af print, comprising four issues a year.."\Ve want- in past years, it seems a far cry front running a input. ed a name that reflected the modern times of paper on a solels voluntary basis, as The Met What struck me back in 21)u5 was 011ie's the uni," 011k-says of 'The Met', "and vet tried operates. "We can't financially afford an editor boldness in proposing such a drastic change, to give it some sort of individuality, so Th, Met After only heing at university for a matter of that is solely there for that reason. although we was the shortest. snappiest and simplest name arc looking at developing that over the next tew weeks, was he intimidated in making such a we could come up with." years. It's the only way of improving the paper. request? '"lo be perfectly honest," t )Ilic says, "At the time," ( )Ric conunues, "we got It you have pan-timers working on the paper. ■67,f l c.edc met students polled "chat wasn't my first thought. My first thought a Certain amount of money to work on the you can't devote our whole time, you have dis- • voted to split from recd....student. wasn't about what people would dunk, my first paper, and we had to speculate and accumulate sertations, you have courscwork. When you Leeds Student I www.leedsstudent.org.uk I Friday, C etober 05, 2007

office. According to ( )Ilse, there was only one sent both universities in one publication, and computer in the each days, making me feel ultimately, this is an impossible balancing act. the key players When you're in somewhat guilty for ciimplaining a61 iut the two On the tither hand, we can exist as separate broken Macs in our Leeds Student office of entities, each catenng for our own interests, but Leeds, and over a dozen. losing the bond nude through the similarities 011ie Rickman Is there ever likely to be a union between us. What vomit! 011ie have done if the you're at universi- between the two universities again? 011ie is tables were turned? Leeds Mel freshet ss, h0propos.ed in blunt. "What would he the point? We could "I don't have any problems with Leeds ty, then there's a 2005 to disaffiliate debate in whether it's right nr wrong to get University. It I was in your position, I'm sure I from the Leeds Stu- hack together. ,All 1 km ive is that Leeds Met would have reacted exactly the same. I'd have dent newspaper. rivalry, whethel now have their own paper to deal with their fought just as hard as Jess did, and it• :4. Now no longer own issues, and I think that's the most impor- improve it just as much as Ben iScholiel.i, involved but does it's on nights out o tant thing. Same with Leeds University - they [dims 2onn-7) did, and as Charlotte is doing not regret decision. have all of the paper ft) concentrate on their now. Sometimes, certain people, front certain 3eSSietkSiittef.. sports events, universth and their issues. The point of creating unis, stigmatise others... I guess what I'm get- one whole newspaper can cause sparks that ting at, ultunately, is that people have to realise LS Editor from there's always cause the breakup of the newspaper in the first that we all have our own agendas and we all 2005-6. Strongly place." have our own interests to look nut for. As opposed the disaffil- something that But isn't that the point 1)Ia joint news much as 1 respect Leeds Student and what they iation motion and a IA emptcd In make paper? To introduce dialogue, to challenge per did, they also in a way respected the interests we tiohltm! more 'causes animosity, ccptions and differences? By disaffiliating, are were trying to conveys" 011ie concedes. ''l think friendly hi lit•: M11. we losing the unity that binds us, as. well, l.ecds it's about half and half- Ira slight friction, a students? "I got this history and unity stuff two ( )llie himself no longer works for The years ago from Jess Salter and various writers... Met. citing union political differences as his Leeds University Union slight gamesman let's be perfectly honest! many years ago, I'm main issues. "Let's just sa) they gin involved tri sure there was a huge unity, but to today's age... certain politics, and 1 felt that certain members, Provide moderatk•ly sized newspaper ship between th the Varsits, it's so competitive - the two uni- on Me committee at the time, were putting the budget and lar,ge versities have a rivalry ntiw."011ie says. "When interests of the financial side of the paper ahead office stocked with two. sou're in I .eeds, and You're at university. then of what I thought was the students' right to Macs. Publishes a there's a rivalry, whether it's- on nights out or have a good quality newspaper." ()the tells nie. weekly newspaper sports events, there's always something that "It was to do with print times and commit with a large print causes animosity, a slight friction, a slight menu to dates, and they were more concerned run. gamesmanship between the two. Yeah, we have with the advertisements than the actual stu- have an editor whose purpose is to spend all Leeds Mel Upon gist some history. But some things need to be dents and what we could give them in terms of their time on [editing], you can change and done to improve the standard of living for the articles and coverage and news." Givi,, it bftiillci adapt things.- Again. these issues lead me back budget for newspa- here and now. The best thing For this university So what can we learn from this? Before to my intual thought: do 011ie and the Leeds per and initially pro- was to get its own newspaper. to create com- speaking to 011ie, I was convinced the disaffili Met students regret their decision? Exploring vided only one com- munication between students and the different anon was a bad idea. 011ie corrected my mis- the I.eeds Met campus, I see The Met's uffice - puter in a small areas of the university." It seems a tough conception that The Met was still published office area. Prints a much smaller and less well-stocked with choice. On the one hand we can :um to repre- only 4 times a year (it's now every second paper every other resourflean 'ism bustling Leeds Student week), and his points regarding student involve- week with a small „ run. ment and communication channelling made • sz -ans-aa _as- NTEF.2 It 5 3 UE pt LS sense. On the day we met, the most recent edi • under the wing of its redbrick companion. tion of The Met was completely sold out on More students now have the chance to be part Extra takes a retro- 1.401111111M6 taNA campus. Clearly they're doing something right. of something speaking to their campus, about spective look at summarises things with a simple 00 L their issues, reminder. "The must important thing to Former IS editor Jess Salter described remember is that we're .1 student newspaper. the 711 voters ending A 36-year relationship on foremost to the from of es cry iss tic. With behalf of 40,000 students AS "denying the stu- -Leeds Studen1 regards to finances and stuff: Leeds is a huge dents a V MCC" . While I can understand her 1101dam 11 market and there's so many students, a huge stance, and agree on principle with the state- market for advertisers and people to get things ment (although tt should make allowances for across. We must decide: do students conic first the Majority of apathetic students who did not or does money conic first? Ilia's money, then make the effiirt to vote in the first place), I feel there you go, you have your answer, but if it's somewhat convinced now by The Met and the about students, then certain members of the needs for it to exist. shaky start made it union, past present and future, of both univer- appear A dicey venture that was not worth the nd of Thane er — sities, should see MAL We're not The e;usrdian, risk, but it seems to have paid off in ?1107, Tragic SisterS I were nor The Sun, or slime huge multinational As members of Leeds University, it's newspaper. It saddens me that I'm not wnrIsing easy to take what we have for granted. While we rail for the paper, but I still get a really big buzz death P sf might have an award winning Student's when I see the newspaper stands .dl sold out, excellent facilities and an involved Exec n), and you see all the people reading the newspa Leeds Met students still number higher than per you set up. It gives you a huge sense 'if Iced University's, at over I J,111I0 more. As Ammar--i4- achievement, albeit a slightly tarnished me." dS1 146 :1,11° Pa • as that, Leeds Met saw a rise in applications in rlmob "I'm a third year nine". 011ie says. "Pet recent Years where Leeds saw a fall due to its vote to ilk been here two more years, and I still don't introduction id top up fees. We can sit in otar Ass regret what I've done. if you asked Inc tomiir• ivory tower of the Parkinson building, but row, l still wouldn't." It seems clear to me that sometimes it's worth remembering that not while the choke to disaffiliate was a decision everyone has it so easy. While a breakup in :my r•iii•■11. that saddened many, it was not the rash deci- relationship can Ire a bail thing initially, after , (La• 11.1=1" Ulm '''. A ..1 I 5, .1..1 sion it was initially thought to be. n mom wounds have healed and time has passed, we ...• .41.1 I • Mi 1.1. . a.. ..., imu- • ,•••• 01. I, • I w• -.- ,• •• • • I I... 4.11, .4 ■, • ■o M . . ■A a , ii ■-...... hosio. • omen •...m•, In a city where students dominate and -. -. m. • ...... 'it, iwr 1.1 boom, NOB, begin to appreciate that we might actually be -.4 An nu... m..., I., 1.1n mu I MA' . ,.... ,,, IV Moo joy'IN ... ..-..... a on ...... , - •JIM kn... •11.. ■■Om • .11/00. ••• L r new gossip is always afoot, it seems healthy to ■.111 1.0.1, ff.... onlin I ‘ • •• ••••••11• NS∎ II.. I et•d• f. better off apart. And if nut, there's probably the ,,,,,,,,, I „. Hon iirila .i. ' 6■‘ • -•■■••••• •- ynoll • I' ■11...... 4i. ...4 11.-1.,.-- I ..., ...I. • momn I om 1! ■■r I . • ..— .. ...- • I ■1 !I, „.„ , have a selection of local newspapers. Ultimate • •■••• t• ....- at• I ..,, ...1...... 1to/ 1,1. , t 4.1 MI ,o1 I O111.• 01. 1. , „ ,..,•, .....,-- chance of a quickie sometime, for old time's ..,0 ..,,,, • ▪ . • 4+.ti.• =.1 • • l.•41110.1■1"•Ii. • 41411,140./44 M.., 41 WO• I 1• ■• ■•14••••I OP • r.-•-•••,,, student journalism conies down tl i just that: sake at least, • I 1.• all , ylo • • ■P., nul 1•11.1.1 6. .•••-• • - • ■.• i, I. .4,-. . . J ..- ...Imo ...I. 04.• I 1. — 41•11fro non. 114 11144 students. While unity and history and their gisobas•I n. omit •-•-f nuro related offshoots are important, preservaneat for the sake tit presets:M(1n is not always as essential. When 711 Lee& Met students vines! 410112 1i against 35 of their fellows to disaffiliate from Leeds Student, they .s.1 in motion certain wheels enabling the less famous university to begin to establish its own identity, out from the week of the disaffiliation. SPLIT: The front cover of the Leeds Student on 14 Leeds Student I www.leedsstudent.org.uk I Friday, October 05, 2007 Straw's a worthy cause? The removal of Jack's name is trivial compared to the potential loss of important events from history.

leoeou tio. Notable dumbfounded at the usino it for no other purpose than to simply- prove that he is a former President is surely prospect that a recent graduate can possibly further his/her own agenda in complete disre- still in existence. Since Jack Straw's policies fed that such an issue is of an interest tar 'stu- gard of student needs and opinion. oppose the values of the Union, the removal dents and is worthy of wasting the time of There may be many people who think that of his name was simply a symbol for this dis- the Union Gmed, which would no doubt be this is what all politicians do and It is probably association. better spent debating those affairs which only the result of my extreme naivety that I Secondly, it strikes me as downright actually have a bearing on our lives. should be raising this issue. I lowcvcr, even depressing that members of the Union should Alas, as wah mien politici ns, anything that though the motion has now been rejected, the he concerned with the supposed rewriting of we may have come to expect from certain implicarii ins of the construction and reason- jack Straw's history when there arc more wor- members of our ruling class following ing behind it strike me as disturbing for a sup- thy historical events which risk erasure alto- posedly democratic Union, as does the signif- gether, with the active coercion of the educa- icance of the reference to a rewriting of his- tion system of course, Most of us arc clueless 417 Wre tory which I also hope to generally address. about the crusades, colonialism or slavery, and _ ARP Firstly, the initial more to remove jack yet it is understandable since one has to take Straw's name from the board was decided History up to degree level in order to become Maryam Ahniad worthy historical Third year English student upon at an AGM and by a considerable informed about any of these events. The events which risk -amount of people inure than the Union Holocaust is one of the only exceptions and new year tenders in a new Iow for Council consists of. With such a large number remains one of the only tragedies that is con- Union democracy.' that other erasure altogether it would be difficult for the writer of a motion tinuously highlighted, but there arc other rather burning issue, the cause of to whisper in every ear and attempt to manip- genocides, massacres and imperialist wars hazardous blood-loss from nail ulate every single voter, a situation that is now (including those currently being fought) biting, and sleepless nights fur stu- very possible considering the thirty. odd stu. which involve those victims perhaps not as Adents as we pondered the question over and • 111177-W,- • dcras that make up the Council. In addition notorious as Jack Straw, though their history vet over again in our heads: Should Jack to this, the idea that the removal of Jack is neverthless just as important as our former Straw's name be returned to the President's an election might as well be abandoned now. Straw's name somehow constituted a rewrit- Foreign secretary's and it is the loss of this hoard in the Union? "What?" is the most This example seems to indicate a member of ing of history is particularly ludicrous. A com- history that we as a Unton we should actively understandable reaction for many of us in the Committee finding themselves in a new memorative board often does not equate to a he trying to prevent. light of this revelation. including myself, who and advantageous position of power and historical document; the record which would How to live A few thoughts on living and how to go about doing it. how should we actually go about doing it? who would have thought dr. But yes, here is dung else entirely. We are constantly taught that Life seems to me to he both hilarious- something to think about. life is the ultimate and most fundamental value, ly dangerous (in the same way that gasoline is In my opinion, what makes life both but it is the times when you say "Bollocks to pink) and deliciously ironic (like how the same dangerous and ironic is that one cannot "truly" that" and stand on the seat of your motorbike people that preach 'regret nothing because it all live without those things that arc somewhat that truly mean something to us and will always makes you who you are," sometimes go on to contradictory to lift. Few people envy the per- be remembered fondle! The times we fed most „ state that they would never get a tattoo fectly balanced, plateau-lite of the minimalist: alive are the times when living suddenly stops early nights followed by early mornings and a becoming such a fundamental value because 2•4100 breakfast of appropriate calorific intake to pre- something else suddenly becomes more impor- pare for a day of driving (just under the speed tant. Thus the allure of depression is seen; once WhaW, _akes limit) to sermons on a lifestyle of mediocrity. you stop valuing life, you start finding stupen- Arc these people really- living? I say "No and dous value in things that were so simple before. both dangerous an no". I suggest life is felt most intimately in the I suppose what I'm saying is this; do extremes. you want to live or do you want to feel alive? ironic is that one MANI& feels alive living day-to-day: it Yes, that may be a melodramatic way of is the moments which take your breath away expressing it and the two aren't mutually-exclu- cannot "truly" live that remind you that you are truly a living, sive but, in an age dominated by slogans and Ed Gamester is an extremist breathing hunk o' human being. It is those catchphrases, it serves my purpose. What I am Third year Philosophy student without those moments of rational judgment (the ones saying, especially to you Freah-typea, is ger out that leave you saving "Vs O W" but unable to there and live! Don't let these years slip by! loin things that are explain why) that we value highest of all — they societies and actually GOO Don't just delete the ife has a dangerous tendency to make life worth living, And when does this emails — go to the meetings and get involved! If Ilkbecome akin to a curtain that has acci- somewhat occur more often than m strange and extreme societiea aren't your thing and you preferlwiting dentally been attached to the wall ver- situations? I tell, it is practically the definition of hammered then fine, so but don't then Col- tically; not CI implody pointless (since contradictory to lif L an extreme situation that it is an exceptional lapse and fall asleep; jam two extra cans in your it still blocks the light) but a hit of a - 4- a 1 ' I 4 , tone, yet still so many people choose nut to pur- tie (since it cannot be drawn to allow pockets and head out on a drunken expednion because they would regret it in It/ years—and sue these times in favour of mundane rituals in the g I in). In the same way that the curtain to infiltrate a ball of residence and kidnap a then go on to state that this is sufficient reason samcv night-dubs. tumbles helplessly towards the ground, drawn Fresher! Do something you'll remember (even ewhat con- by the inevitability of gravity. life is dragged for other people not to get a tattoo either...) That is why 1 find life som if it is via blurred pluitographs). You can sluggishly onwards by the inevitability of death: Alt yes. Suddenly the warped basis of conven- tradictory; the times when we fed most alive .ire drunk in it pub for the rest of your life. That's41 wliilat alive, we have no choice but to live. Batt tional morality is explained in terms of body-art, the times when we forsake "living" for some I'm saying! ▪

Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk I Frida October 05, 2007 Comment Are the English hooked on drama and grief? Is Britain a nation addicted to grief? Are death and destruction our crack and junk?

followers of the story, particularly parents, the Some, like Johann Hart, suggest that the empathy is very genuine and very human. But public 'need' such outpourings as a means to is there nor something decidedly uneasy ema- express emotion we're otherwise encouraged nating from the coverage surrounding Most oft e to keep under wraps in our lonely, work- Madeleine's disappearance? While the gutter- obsessed society. This may he the case, but it press pack their pages with faux-outrage and • public 'grie seems more than a little crass to hijack a anguish, middle-aged mothers and the like • ,generally seems to tragedy as an outlet for your own personal gossip in the office, buying the tabloids every • demons. Perhaps many, caught up in the hys- day and pouring over the latest installment. • come from a goo teria surrounding it, somehow feel that they Somehow, you get the impression that, for • need to prove how much they care displaying • some, beneath the 'Oh how terrible' veneer, • place; it is rarely an exaggerated sense of emotion. In am deep down, there is something about the event, most of the public 'grief' generally whole sorry affair which satiates and satisfies • malicious, it just seems to come from a good place; it is rareb • a perverse thirst for suspense and drama I malicious, it just seems irrational and perplex- seems irrational ■ which an episode of ITV's 'Midsummer Mur • i ng. Steve Akehurst tiers' never could quite reach. and perplexing. • Perhaps some of that discomfort stems It seems as if the poor girl's tate has been • from the fact that most of this false sentimen- Politics aril Palimentary Studies I twisted into a simplistic narrative for public tality is orchestrated and egged on by a tabloid consumption. In the wake of Diana's death, • media whose main aim is to sell newspapers. hatever 'received wisdom' the British press did away with their previous • • • a. • -1 4-4-11-71 • That which of the many tragedies that occur actually is, when recalling the portrayal of Diana as an off-the-hook bimbo br v's parents cannot and should not he each day is clutched to the nation's bosom public's reaction to the death in favour of a 'peoples princess, loved by all, un:lerstated. Again, though, it is the public and which are ignored is purely at the discre- of Princess Diana it is usually re; erion taken tragically' plot. which is far more questionable. tion of an editor who must decide whether monopolised by memories of You sec shades of this in the reporting of As with Diana, thousands of people the story has the appropriate ingredients to 'public outpourings' of grief, awash with w Madeleine McCann disappearance. Much of attended the Funeral of Rhys Jones many make it 'run' can't help but contribute to the cliches of famous English upper-lips quiver- the press crudely discarded balance and sensi- sobbing. laying down wreaths, remembering. problem. ing, our stolid eyes moistening - that sort of tivity in seeking to create the accessible, sen• These are the sorts of actions you expect of Occasionally, this 'grief is also used for thing. sationalist subtext essential to any good story people suffering genuine grief. But most of slightly more sinister reasons, 'diem as a polit- They are memories which, you sense, feel — good (Marldie`) vs. evil (Murat), the prong- those attending could never have heard of ical vehicle of some kind. "I low wrath! you slightly queasy with themselves, usually draw- feel if..." rhetoric seems to be used more and ing in conclusion a certain note of light-heart- more frequently as the moral high ground ed bemusement, even embarrassment, at the from which to win a debate over absurd law. heady over-emotion or irrationality that The culture surrounding paedophilia, for gripped the nation at the time. example - the proposed 'Sarah's Law' - being a However, ten years on from Diana's death, perfect case in point. flyou have grief on your have we seen the 'Dianatication' of much of side, it scents, rationality or reason can put up the reporting and reaction to the tragic events no resistance. which have dominated the summer - the dis- Stich a sanctimonious line of reasoning appearance of Madeleine McCann, aged four, (Hien secs many arguments like the ones pre- and the shooting of eleven year old Rhys sented m this article dismissed as cynical or Jones? pseudo-Intellectual over-pontiticanon, the Take, firstly, the search for Madeleine advocates of whom are all cold hearted has-- McCann, In no wax do I wish to underplay tards fin- whom a child's murder has hecome how terrible her disappearance has been for banal. Somehow this public 'grief' is seen as the McCann family. and I know dial 1( w many more 'human', more 'real'. This is rot neces- I sarily the case. Many see the death of Diana as a water- TO TOE 1311.1 LIC: Did yon know I Nana? But most of shed moment in public life; the time the British 'opened up and were honest with their those attending eint,tions. Many have also questioned the true onist McCann), with themes of inno- Rhys Jones before his murder, let alone have nat ure of the public's reaction at that time. could never have cence lost or corrupted, incompetent foreign- known him or his 111.w genuine can Ten years tin, we must throw off the shack- that grief be? 1 urtuguese police) and so on - subtexts les of emotional blackmail and ask again, this heard of Rhys Jones they know will sell those extra few copies. Of course, such a horrible event naturallY time in light of the disappearance of Whether any of the reports used to create this evokes pity, sympathy and regret in most of Madeleine McCann and the shouting of Rhys before his murder, narrative were anything more than specula- us, as well as it should, But it is when it Jones, whether we, as a nation, are perversely let alone have tive. or lust made up, seemed nothing more extends beyond that into this mawkish 'public hooked on grief and morbidly ciimpelled by than an irrelevant fact to the press or to the mourning' that I start to feel uncomfortable. the drama that often precedes it? Only known him or his baying pack of readers they were throwing Essentially, many people arc latching on to ho 'ugh such questioning can we find out this sensationalist red meat to. tragic events which they have no connection whether such a cultural norm is as human as it family. The shooting of Rhys Jones also aroused a to, expressing 'grief' over a lung which they claims to be. public reaction which seemed alt too reminis- have not suffered. Faced with this reality, • cent of the inflated sense of pubhe 'mourning' everything about the public reaction to the following Diana's demise. As with Madeleine boy's death seems horribly contrived, false McCann, the horn lie loss and suffering and forced. Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk I Friday, October 05, 2007

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An open letter to students from the union bar staff:

Hypocrisy stifles free speech We feel it sad and regrettable to begin a new surnestt-T by finding, it necessary to express our exasperation over the current situation reprding the running of the union bars. Morale amtingst the staff is low - we feel dis- appointed, under-valued, and generally unhappy with the ongoing and increasing 'meanness' that has been The importance of the open letter that was social networking sites such as Facebook, developing over the recent period. 'the bar, at least eter the front line stiff, is no konger a nice place to work. delivered last week to the LS office cannot then they will be dismissed, that is most wor It is the general 'money hungry attitude of management which is the main cause of concer. Recent decisions be underestimated. from the upper echelons have seeped downward alien* the gear assistar it and m the paying custo omer. It N. a t only dies It show LUU in a more sin- It is understandable that LUU places a is sometimes the small things which make a dill-en:nee. Though it may st mid pretty, stall are no lung ister light , but it also highlights the fact that ban on staff talking to external media sources, to a drink at the end of their sometimes long shifts behind the bar. Some statTwork up to ei It hours, the role played by Leeds Shah-ill as a plat form without prior approval. But to extend this ban having to put up with quite a lot along the way. , without the small courtesy of a glass of coke for shment fur students Inas been undennined. to include 1.S shows that the union does not when they finish. Indeed, they aren't even allowtal vi buy a drink firm their tot n bar tit be put aside and ac•usainm by 1 noon hat staff that trust a media owlet that represents its mem- enjoyed later. Working behind the bar is a hard job, poorly paid, and at times chaotic. But we never whinge. the 1.111 taghne 'Nut fin- profit, just for stu• bers For the most part, we enjoy working for the union, and we enjoy serving you. True, sometimes we have to dents' is a fie, is a strong one, but the eiisillu The Union prides itself on the trans cyan your sick up, sweep up broken glass, and other unpleasantries, but that's the job. and we accept that. sionment and disappointment of du ist who parency of its procedures and its accessibility After all, mu ist it us act in similar ways when we're out for a night. All we ask is-a bit of appreciation, espe- cially when we work such unsociable ht um just a little drink at the end r if the night, if that can he Tared. But penned the letter shines clearly through. to members. This clause that stops bar staff apparently nut_ There is clearly unrest, and the image of the talking to Leeds Student, as they arc nut seen Unit in will take a hit because of it as students as soon as they start their shift. Ibis is the first time such a polka' has been implemented, Staff have always been allowed a little thank you at However, it is the fear that if anYttne seems hypocritical in relation to the normal, the end t if a hard evening, at-7( iratng trio an ex-employee. No more. They need to save mOney, though we sus- speaks to LS, or even posts their feelings on open stance that is taken by IA 'U. pect they're mom interested in hitting their targets and keeping their jobs rather than being genuinely inter- ested to providing a service for us students.

that might explain the extra 15p um a srukcbikc for cordial this year. Something eke which has never been A hairy surprise done belnre. ( If course prices have to increase slightly each yinr, but this just seems unwarranted. 'If they don't like it, sod `enn' one niareiger was overheard saying. Money, money. money again. Remember 'not for pn ofit ?'flutes beginning to sound like a lie.

The use of 'hairy :arms' by Leeds police is their homes a little more carefully, WC repeat that these two points may sound ,t link petty, but these are morel} symptoms ofwhat seems to be a novel way of tackling an important prob- keeping valuable items on display, such te. new materialistic ethos. Let's see how the semester (level( Ts. lem. as a laptop on your desk, also leaves students One in five students will become a victim open 1(1 crime. It may he inconvenient to put We know we sound like moaning guts. but many of you probably know at knit one person who works of crime while studying at Leeds University your Lap p in a safer place but if you don't it behind the bar, and hopefully you'll agree that we're not like that. And most of us don't want to look kir and it is arriving how little some care about will become an easy target for thieves. another job either. We have a strong team behind the bar and we enjoy ourselves serving you. It's just- a pity that things have deteriorated so far. protecting their homes and their belongings. Putting items away and shutting doors 60 per cent of household burglaries happen and windows may save many tears when you So eve, the staff, plan to boycott drinking in the union bars socially. And we hope st ant: of our friends will because a student has-left a door or a window lose that piece of work that was in fur tomor. jt an as. open and it is this statistic that the police are row, or that Xbox 360 that burned such a hoping to tackle. massive hole in your loan. final point. Why is this letter not undemigrual by specific members of stiff? That's easy. Last time it was The use of these cardboard intruders will suspected that 'a member of stair had expressed their concerns to the paper, had expressed their freedom of hupcfrilly shock the recipients in to securing speech, a new rule was introduced: anyone talking to Leeds Student will face instant dismissal Does that S4 Aoki like a healthily run union to you? Ban is not the answer l•njoy the year and thanks 1-(tur listening, -11x. Bar Staff 1 nion Bars • • • • • • • • • • OOOOOOO •• • ********** • • • • • • • The news that Leeds 'City Council arc con- there isn't the threat of offending local moth sidering placing a ban on drinking in Hyde CrS. Letter of[ fie week... Park seems to highlight a case of a minority Police say that the Introduction of a • • spoiling a beautiful open space for the rest of DPP( ) would make the job of patrolling the park • us- significantly easier, as it would help rid Your article on takeaways in licadingley was spot on. I live right by Skyrack • The park L. used widely by students for all the park of anti-social behaviour such as litter- and if they come in, Iwould find the new laws really irritating. There's noth- • sorts of social activities, from barbeques to ing, but surely a more effective way of tackling • ing like a good post-pub pizza and having to mess around getting it delivered , sports events. It is a place where new friends arc this problem would be to increase the number • instead of just taking it away is ludicrous. • made on a regular basis. of officials whet could hand out lines fir such • • Granted, wherever students congregate, behaviour? • I agree that takeaway mess in the streets isn't very nice for local residents, hilt most of us alcohol is generally not far behind: however this I hipcfully sense will prevail and the 'notion • • are fairly tidy when it comes to using bins. I think the local council are just risking upset- • does not mean that a blanket ban is the answer. will nor move past the public consideration • Ling a large proportion atm students because they don't think we'll bother voting_ . James.* The majority of students arc capable of having a phase. Until that happens, perhaps it is • • drink without feeling the need to resters to spray - time for the students of Leeds to show the resi- • Monaghan just lost my vote. • ing graffiti over every available wall space, or any dents of I I vde Park that we arc capable of ha• • • other activity that would involve the threat of an riling I tut drink responsibly, at least for one after. • PS- image rocks, it was really informative and entertaining at the same time. I think it is • • way better than that `c-page' nonsense of last year. • ASBO. Perhaps those who can't should stick to noon In the park. • • falling our of liruity on a Friday night, where • • Craig Black • • • LS6 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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• • • a • • • DOWN 00•••••1110•••0111 • • • • • • orci $ 0 ***** ••• OOOOO 006* or with Martha and Karim • a 0, two weeks have passed, and after spending frit,P4 I • your loan on all those sensible necessities such Witt LW a • as tuition fees, rent and Ugg hoots, you may be • feeling a little diminished in funds. Su what arc AGENCY • • are you waiting for? Get a job, you scumbag. ■ a LeedsS is full of shelves that need stacking, pints that I ■ • need pulling and flyers that need thrusting into unwill- • 0•••0••••0••4•••••0 ing hands. Trust me, finding a job is easy if you're pre- pared to swallow your pride. Handing out free soggas * *0• •4 -0 0• •• • • •• 00••* for Greggs? Do it. Flyering for an STD clinic? Int there. a a Its all extra cashinga at the end of the day. I spent most • of last weekend serving the dutiful beet-swiLlers of a Leeds and I thoroughly enjoyed it. So dust off that CV, • • take off that cringey Duke of Edinburgh Award and get • O a a job-hunting. a a Although tending a cool bar with your mates isn't exactly the a • same as standing in the Leeds winter cold for five hours a • • day, handing out unimportant leaflets whilst watching your a own hands turn a wttrrying shade of blue, is it, Martha? On * *alit e•40•w ***e* ••••aist the flipside, maybe her frankly laughable job 'hardships' arc • • • t• 46$ the just rewards of years spent on the hard-grafting ladder of • job-karma. Remember all that shit your parents told you )1.1)I , about how 'getting a proper IC a inis in itself? Well, "Making up 'good siekie excuses' is NOT a job tt L1.,114.1. '44 rlffl !.! . ;44.1 /11.11 tt shocker, that's true. Just like how they patiently explained n skill, you ignoramus." yin! that Santa W IS dead. P.:klit pr... .a • “1,11111. ,•1111111,11.1p,

Actually landing a job is deceptively 1,4 easy, if you put some effort into it. And And in other Martha and 1131114! 11111111. that means Money. Mon-eeey! -M.L. Karim news.... That's right. Fir [MCC 1 cannot agree with my esteemed col- legue about the stmplicity of finding and holding down This week was the week that saw my weekend finish on Sunday_, NI AX /10 /K KINGS 01- LEON: B. Perhaps this is because I am quite a lot lazier than she is ntk, 4pm. Asylum ar 'IChe Warehouse was mostly to blame. lip until a I eInc girl rile thus, I might as well be struck down by a particularly aggressive Year ago I was used tu nights here resulting in spilled drinks, lust Mai metal red 1114' Iii 1111 4,4 h is, c to .1• Ilit 1:11..11 strain of MIL). But even for nonchala.nts like me, there is an articles of clothing or amnesia (thanks. Tequila). 1.'01as a joss it was 01,41 OW!, /111.11;c11 ltL, 11.1iric,i :4i alternative. Yes, even you can enjoy- the benefits of nit being then, to witness the most excellent minimal teehno Di and all- 1114 tgaleu. NOM rout And broke as a joke. Just don't. expect it to come right up to v1 ,u and round lesbian Magda dtsql some sweet music in tin fse speakers litI;411114 love busy so, .111 1.11 Kit its start pushing crisp tenners inn') your hack pocket, alright chieP more used co playing the 'shudder* thou hair, C:op,1141111,,,. There is some pro-activity required. I spent two years in my Baywatch theme. What also interested ass getting by on k5 an hour flyering jobs, only to end up with me was how the smoking area a grand total of about a termer bs the end of the semester. To and save your hard (and in some cases painfully) earned dough. remarkably resembled .INC1101.1 plat'- gm or what's it all for, eh? WIIAT'S IT ALI. FORN Well if you arc runt,. I have au: feeling that this is the subliminal doing of Leeds' club- TV I .1( .1--N( that way inclined, elevating your position (and pay) is reward 41 IIIC) wisti yi Sertri run )1.11l-r. ' owners to make us act our most child- , letters to enough for your troubles. For instance aftere those first years 11- they're wangle) titan-rteth the gal 1. good brands like Sam- ish. Sneaky. We are now looking for- of flyering I tell, I now I promote fir itt.oudly ttutkc you pay._ when all you isle` wins sung and NMIi fok, ok...s Though like we said, the hoarder ward to the imminent arrival of for Is "watching 13V1) rental, frump dire h- worker's perks are obVinus. Tilts week Martha sent me her hits Is:ra Ity, huts and MC Dena !maptrr %%leo". Tip to those in houses - wars, and pieces from sunny Berlin, where she is currently enjoying a me headlining the Sugar- rrcuticit earl hearing the .Tv Likeming loved-up week of,„Irive and Brarwurst with her bovircund. So ear Club at the Elbow Yeah, gel a job anti the wnrld is your oyster, l guess. Plus vial -toms. Also, the Trminto- Authority' intstide... dint't answer the door! can shop at Marks and Spencers instead of the (7m-Op. lint sirn shoe-gazers Stars play Seen Homc-Abort? Adupt du: wane tactics. Tropicana orange juice with juicy Bits (essential) instead of super-intimate gig at the that concentrate ptuson you resign yourself to for 89p. Posh iruclenell Social Club. sandwiches from Bakery loft instead of those 'No Frills' sand- iere's -hid) hasn't gone the way wiches you get it the I.•mon shop with no mays or anythin. re's a big star. f the R ifle Park Social ItiOSF: SOCKS THAT LOOK LIKE. Mr! - that reminds you td the time you had to shop If Kwik. Save artha fancies huh. W hitch means tin TENS; V'here they sell brnken biscuits. I aterallY broken biscuits. im. So does ere's ■•1-1\s4 rtl•fern liecatnie noes are Ines and finger% err lingers Kstrim a little bit.. cml len in I .cu,k! 'Iglu: and tiever the nen stmitll Illeel. 'inn weird - it Width ynter rear :at hands, even art girls. Fispecially tin girl.. Overheard this week. " Kate Bush is a liar! Kate Bush is a theifl Kate Bush's husband owes me money! Kate Bush is a Bitch!" //"Plenty of tiiime...for a couple of glasses of wiiittemto get me in the m000d!"// "So how did your 3-in a bed romp with those executives go?" //"Will someone please give me a fucking compliment!" // "Yeah, I know that I'm looking in a skip for furniture" // "I really liked that film with Cohn Farrell, you know, Phonebooth?" // "It's just that...you always seem to be looking at other women"// "Justice for the Burmese!" %% karim khan, marl his lino Friday, October 05, 2007 20 Leeds Student Leeds student stereotypes? LS fashion asks what lies at the hears of the stereotypical cliques that we see around campus...

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Where? - The student char is far year student there is no doubt from elusive, and could bemstaken Where? - For a good look at for a local to the untrained eye. Stan you will have noticed the cliques some rahs you might want to lard dub nights for the student char head down to to observe include Oceana (as new reigning them drinking smoothies whilst champ since the passing of (:re- that exist around campus. It discussing the ins and outs of ation), NU bar, Walkabout for Ugg hoots and Art Histu- a few cheeky aicopt pi's and may be no more than how tr. Or if you'd like to see Townhtaise if they're them in their nocturnal feeling strangely adven- environment, head turous or have guestlist they dress but sometimes down to Tequila or because of rhetr mate Gatecrasher where you wlot's in a uni sports clothes can say more can witness their team. Can be found attempts to dance to hanging around the Bust- 41111) and funky house - fleas school, Library pub about people than you they might even try an or USC and Envy in me t or got id measure, niwn. would imagine. There is What? - Rah gentle- What? - Distressed jeans man will he decked are a staple for guys (prob- no doubt that we're our in anything Aber- ably more Madhouse spe- crombie or Jack Wills cial than Diesel), as are generalising here - that they can find, striped tops, whether polo usually acessnrised or juniper in pastel shades. with an oversized Brown loafers with a but the next time you beanie, lung hair nuttclung belt replace dirty "naturally highlight- Stan Smiths in the see one of these stereo- ed" from a summer evenings, with socks a rare sailing around the Med, occurrence, whilst the shim- types walking around uni aviators, and will of course mer of hair gel takes on an possess the double-bar- extra lusture to let you know reled moniker of privilege. that they really have arrived. take a step back and Rah ladies appear to have f-k may splash out and wear tolled out of a bush, albeit a a shin — a big decision. ask yourself: 'is it possi- hush full of hair equipment Miss student char for the purpose of coaxing spends her Saturdays trawl- that perfect backcombed ing Jane Norman and Mor- ble to be truly original bed-head hair, darling. 'Less gan for that ideal too tight is more' is certainly a rule pink lurex top with all- any more?' that does not apply when it important diamante detail- comes to dangly earrings, ing, often resulting in the ethnic bangles and huge. effect of .t jazzed-up hug-eyed sunglasses. Gen- Christmas tree wrapped in erally topped off with the cellophane. There's nor- obligatory Ugg boots and mally just time to replace their prized Lacrosse boo& her acts lie nails and quick, from a renowned public Iv touch up her peroxide school, the rah lathe is easily extensions, before singled out From the chaff of heading off to Fro Leeds students. Just remember for a night of that JESUS LOVES YOU. bumping and grind- ing to her favourite Usher or Akon track. Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007 21

=Nadi Where? -Erno boys can normalh be found Where? - The gym is an obvious starting pain, Where? - Kill find this crowd hanging out in scouting round Topshop or H&M in search of size with numerous sweaty bottles training for their the bars along Call I.ane, or possibly Fibre or ft girl's 'stades, ideally ones with a garish print in respective sports teams, although the Oak is a Queen's Court (just far away enough from Brig- preparation for their big night p pular alternative for partaking gate to be cool) and after one too many Cosmos out at the G apit or Wire. in the ubiquitous bleep they may strut over us Mis- While they're there, they pint curl. You may slim to cut some well may need a little extra also be knocked to dressed shapes on tile boost to get through the the ground by one of dance ilia tr. Conic the night due to the fact that their ridiculously weekend, voull find then, they're abour to keel- leer as oversized sports bags sipping an espresso in the a result of their tea anywhere on campus, Harvey Nicks Fourth and toast diet. so watch nod Moor Cafe after a Meanwile the girls Wednesday day i f perusing There are so many looks that we would can usually he afternoons arc expensive denim have liked to include in this but have found at home, intended for and general had to leave out, because ultimately uni hacking off the sport but arc leather goods in is a melting pot of style; from ge•k chic feet of their tights instead spent an attempt ti to Seth Cohen lookilikes, to Goths and and painting their preparing capture that clas- mo-warriors pioneeling fair-trade nails quintessential for ( keana sic Tom Ford- fashion, everyone at tin i has a look. The black (with or stgne esque cool. question is where do you fall and does flash if pink here horrendous it even matter? and there tisr team initia- What? • l'•:xcep- effect) whilst simulta- tion. tionally we l Chloe Watson considers herself non- neotasly updating their turned out, the eliquffl, although she has occasional MySpace profiles, What? - The Suited and wannabe Rah moments and attempts praying for 'rest team boodle is Booted student hobo chic - "even though it's so last kicks to refoms uniform regardless status is clues year" - from time to time, with ques- and finishing off their of time or place, tionable. It is tionable results. coursework. whether paired unclear as 1, with smart who exact'', t Phil Bassot would like to think he's an What? - Skinny trousers t dress like this individualist although knows full well jeans, preferably trackie bottoms with a hangover he borders on student (hay and rah girls', are a must for (normally of and a 9turt lecture. when it suits. any irate Eno and the Adidas The centre-piece practically come variety, as of this look is It is all about discounts and free stuff in lx>xcd with a stud- opposed to the "expensive" student life, so at the risk of sounding ded belt, regardless earlier men- denim. like an advert we feel that it is our duty of gender (with a tioned Jack those with to inform you about Topshop's massive horde of poppers Wills). Stan. money, this late opening on Tuesday yth and bulging out oldie dard big could be Acne, Wednesday loth October - there's a back pi scket for all sports hold- Nudie, Armani, 2096 discount on everything you buy, us see). Converse alls splat- I lug° Rost; i r plus free drinks and goodie bags (usu- All Stars are the tered with although it doesn't ally with odd things inside lilce sweets. obligatory footwear mud con- really matter as long socks and dodgy coloured eyeliner) but and are usually tain train- it's dark, well cut and still, free is free. You ran also have a paired with prish ers actually sit nicely Oyer those free chat with a style advisor between laces, while haircuts used for pointy shoes, Crisp seven and ten p.m. arangc from Hor- sport, and shirts with braces or a rors/Russell Brand echoes of tic or anything with a We also highly reomment that you style mops to gee "banter!" words Chloe tson and phil bassot v neck finish off this check out the Affordable Vintage Fash- metric angular can be simple and clean look, ion Fair on Sunday 7th October in Sty- laths for girls and heard lilistrations/ phill bassot although pulling it lus. It was highly successful last year, so bowl cuts for guys for 4tl f rs another get there early to bag all the good finds; without ques- miles. matter - it's del they are sure to get snapped up fast. tion in black. finitely an m- Polka i.1( as ade thing. PS- This week l'hil did our sketches abound_ and I think they are twill. skinted. minted. This autumn it's all about biker years to come. What's more, it's a ver- chic- worn leather, tight jeans, big satile little number. Not only does it boots- the more attitude the bet- look great in the day with a sassy pair of ter. And what item of clothing bet- skinny jeans, but it can also toughen up ter reflects this trend than the a girlie dress and act as the perfect leather jacket? evening jacket. From hot designers to high But boys, fear not; you have not street stores, the biker jacket is domi- been forgotten. This season's catwalk nating this season. So it's time to has seen a mixture of leathers, metal lics throw away those frilly summer and rubber on men, so jump on the frocks and welcome winter with true biker bandwagon for a retro-tinged rock chick chic. Now, we're not talking masculine edge. For a unique piece that about the simple leather bomber jack- won't break the bank, scour charity ets that filled last winter's windows; shops, vintage stores and the ever trusty we're talking studs, zips, poppers - the e-bay. So this winter, embrace your more detail the better. inner Kate Moss and treat yourself. '[his timeless piece has been Primark 12 pounds around for decades and is something words/sophie you're guaranteed to be wearing for Friday, October 05, 2007 Leeds Student HOLLY TRIES,. : Being a rebel. It seems that after a while, the excitement of Univer- sity life can simply become too much. There is so much t 3 do - societies and socials, meeting new peo- ple, and all the fun of living in Leeds - that some- times you end up doing none of it. Joining Wine or Cheese Society simply seems like too much effort when you can just meander on down to the Royal Park in your jeans and sink cheap lager all evening. (No offence to the fine chaps at the Wine and Cheese Societies, of course). In an effort to combat the Third Year Blues, intrepid LS reporter Holly Westwood decided to escape the monotony by trying new and daring endeavours. In the first of a series of features:

bet I have more rebellion in ttiy little tight and vouch half way them. For ideas I did a little Spurred on by rut triumphant escalator escapade I thought that I'd be a bit topical for my first all- tin: than you do in yo air entire bd aly. No. research_ Is research rebellious? Somehow I thought it time to take it up. a notch. 1 low man out rebellion, so I decided to tackle. the smoking seriously. Not only am I wearing odd doubt it - indeed I may have lost a few points other signs, in hem- many dither places• ban. Nor being a smoker myself, I nevertheless socks, hi ith of them were acquired (well... there already. So. Ida- inspiration, I looked to the could I rebel against? decided in light up siime.where l she and sec stolen) from previous housemates, Not 'inns ut-tal words of David Bowie (surely a rebel's what happened. It started off promisingh: I man- .inkI that, but one sock says '1X'ednesday' on it, the hero if ever there was tine). I tiaund help in Mr. aged to beg a cigarette off a bloke outside the other says 'Tuesday' - and its Thursday! Yes. I fit iwie's fantastic depiction 'Rebel Rebel yi lu'vc pub. When he offered me a light I replied "Nall. know: 1 truly am a rebel without a cause! torn your dress / Rebel Rebel your lace is 3 I'm gonna smoke it inside" with a rebellious swag- My stick satiation has gen me thinking about how mess'. Bingo! t hie ripped dn.,: arid a slightly First step on the • ger. Once inside the pub, however, things were a few oppi munities most of us have for a spin. of dodgy make-up SeNSIOn later and I was ready to little different. It was so brightly lir. Nut that I gi n kl ( road to being a rebel: I • 'Id -lashioncd rebellion. laving away from show nit new rebel self to the world. Admanallr. care abd au anyone seeing me break the rules (what home, with friends instead of family, in a (very) the look did suggest more walk lif-shame chic needed to find some- with me being a rebel and all) but I didn't want to I back and liberal t_ min inment, we arc serious than anything else,.. end up with a fine! l ended up raking a couple tit It smsstnu. • Alt t in the illicit thrill (if sedition. Myseri aid step towards a rebel attitude was thing to rebel against. illegal drags wider the table before putting it out. S.. in this tirsi article I thought I'd try and mis- titling; Against ("Annie:finial. In order to do this I \X'ouldn't have been so bad if 1 then hadn't had to spend .1 1st me are of my y. anti bad ire I but the mid- made a trip to 'reds train station on a bust Thurs. The trick was to start • repeat the whole si irry episode so my mates could twy nfies mark. Neil that I was the most rebellious day rush-hour. 1 approached the escalators, duly sec me do it. - they're slightly sceptical of my new of teens anyway, but I am be-Coming increasingly noting the 'please stand on the right' sign... and off with something insage. I suspect I ended up looking more like an concerned than I listen to a rather more (lassie then... (watt for it) I stood on the left? Glancing agoraphobic with a nicotine addiction than a 1 Al than is healthy for a 21-year-old. I'm definite- around, cocky smile in place. I felt good. I mean, small — I didn't want to rebel. ly not making the most (dirty (potential} rock n' really good. Seriously suspecting I was getting the The next day came the ultimate in student rebel- roll sensibilities, hang of this tehellie in malarkey. Yet, no doubt go too crazy straight lion- striking out against library rules. Picture the First step on the re and td I being a rebel: I needed n, about it, I socked it to the man! Well, tight up away. scene: 1 entered the library: I purposefully did not find something ii i rebel against. The Mck is to until a harassed cio. -Ewe demanded I get out of switch my phone onto silent. I ley, I'm a rebel, I start pill with somethinghing small- I don't want to go the way - 1 suspect commuters object having hat , man I pet Tic tai speak to, I don't have to Pio crazy straight away. I di, iught the main thing e Imp my backside in their face when in a rush. But hey, ',bet the rules. So there sat,, in the BrOthertOn. was ip look like I'm a rebel. Get the hank right. give a shit - I'm a rebel! phone out on the table in front of me, smirk in Leeds Student 1www.leedsstudent.nre.ith 1 Friday, October 05, 2007 23

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REBELLION: Hay's first attempt is a seditious success. 2 Pieces of Chick Regular Fries 3 Spicy Wings place, and I waited for the phone to nog. And I public transport. For a few days now I have been dearly pays off in more ways than one. I boogied & Can of Cold Drink waited. And I waned. After a good while I start- pushing to the front of every bus queue I've been around for a bit, loving that rebel feeling, when I ed to suspect that maybe I'm not quite the popu- in. Such an act of defiance is, I have noticed, like managed. to loose all my friends. In my drunken lar rebel that I thought I was emergency text to anything in life worth working frit.. At first it's dif- haze I. staggered back to the entrance III we if they housemate folk Avec], asking her to call me ASAP. Iseult, you're not quite sure about it. but after a were there (they weren't). On coming back in A minute later, the libran.- echoed to the beautiful while It's brilliant. Rebelling against. social con- again, someone asked me ti I'd paid already. \ id] sound of 'pope( ,rn' by I Int Butter. Answering the ventions like this makes your general day-to-day a roguish wink and a corky grin 1 Answered phone with an oh-so-cool "Hi, yeah, I'm in the life more manageable. 'rime's nothing like the "Nupc lust:strolled straight in"...it was then that library" I then wrecked the image by actually hiv- satisfaction of getting on a bus first, without all realised she was one of the employees. [rugger. ing not much to-say CO her. Turns out techno the arse of standing around (tit it -- grabbing the An annoyed "Well can you pay now then please?" ring tunes are great for grabbing the attention of last copy of the Metro, the iwallability of seats tin from the woman stopped me rebel attitude in its fellow-studiers, who then had to listen to me which to plonk your Mnrrison's bags. the list is tracks as 1 (slightly entbarrassed) forked out the explaining Et-) no houserna.te why I'd woken her endless, My bus experience got- me back on the ten quit!. up from her hangoser-slumber and that yes, I rebel band wagon again after my library/phone Now, lime to reflect_ .1 suppose l started nut Fast free delivery would remember to buy the milk and too rolls. By incident. In fart, in the words of Yazz and the rebelling to retrieve that particular excitement y01.1 the time 1 hung up I wasn't feeling so cool. Trying Plastic Popularit in, the ttnly way sup• now, ball)! only get from knowing that you're di)* corny- to brazen it out with a rebellious "whatever, veah, I't It the final act, the piece de la resistance, if you thing you .shouldn't- There's been some highs Freephone: see you- I. then scuttled out ming to avoid the will, of rin Ts-hellions week, I headed out ti I a par- (prct-tv brief) and lows (mainly from embarrass- glares of those pet plc who had turned off their ticularly popular student venue at which the ,(]U ment), but all-in-all, rebelling is definitely worth a 0800146652 mobiles. I IMM. l gLICtiS s, tmetimcs tt•doesn't pay entry fee includes all the alcohol you can drink. shat. There's no better was to relieve pre-exam 1114' successful rebdlit in (not to men- stress than stealing a shopping trolley and pushing being a rebel. Fired up hs NOW INTRODUCING.. Not to be disheartened, though, I decided to tion a paid few glasses of wine and a litre of your mate di awn a hill in it, or feigning illness to strike the general Leeds population right where stronghow), I made use of rrn, l no m A-- skive a seminar when reading a hook just seems it's most painful. right where people arc at their forma rebel strut, and matched on past the trio hanl. These little things can make a big dif- most agitated and annoyed_ I'm talking about entrance without paying! t )11 s es, being a rebel ference. Sn In the studenrs of ircils I say' rchcli GM= Leeds Student i www.leedsstudent.org.uk I Friday, October 05, 2007 I Ratatouille: Dis] , film connoisseur, tastes

ats and food. Prubably two of cally horrific image of a rat with one empha- •at once, but beyond this they were able to he complicated by Linguini's surprisingly the nsost unlikely elements to be sising, far more Immati•haracteristics so as to develop the unnatural behaviour - like distinguished heritage which conics to light thrown together in a commer- challenge mar assumprions from the begin- Remy's cooking - in a way deg remains true later in the film. cially viable film, hot that's ning, and is clear that tloe awareness of the to their natural movement. One t-i the film's most distinctive -xacdv what Pixar art- trying difficulty of making a stOry about a rodent Both Bird and producer Brad LANsiS aspects is the sheer number of characters with Ratatouille, their follow up to the disap- generally seen as venstin load a major effect on are very enthusiastic about the fact that this is there are,. from the fantastically realized critic pointing Cars, based around one rat's dream the way the film evolved. the first Pixar film involving rodents, and the Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole) and the Pink Pan- to be .a gourmet chef. Director Brad Bird, When Bird was brought into the produc- first set outside of America, with a beautiful ther-influenced head chef Skinner (Ian 14 whose previous credits include a very differ- tion it had already been under development setting in a fantastically fairytale Paris. D. to the rough girl oldie kitchen Colette ent Pixar animation in the form of The for a long time, and he found that the tenden- city itself is one of (jancane Garofalo). In addition to these Incredibles, ts-ts. - keen to cy was to minirnalise the characteristics of the the triumphs of the human characters there Arc several crucial rat stress in the press confer- rats - something he was keen to keep as re film, embodying characters, including Remy's garbage-loving enCe that eats aren't all that as possible. To him the problem was to Remy's dream of brother and their long-suffering father Djan- had really, claiming that develop a connection between t escaping from the go. Ian Holm is spectacularly good as the vil- they "have gotten a had rats and the audience, not to "no world of rats and lain Skinner, who knows Linguini is a useless rep." He designed the them cuddly", and this is certaird • , becoming part of chef yet can't quite catch hint with the rat he first few shots of the film evident in the design of Django (Brian a different and begins ter suspect is somehow involved. The t! to play with the audi- Dennehy), Remy's father, and many of exciting existence. character design for Skinner is very complex, ence's expectations of the background rats from the colony Of course, his dream with his extremely expressive face demand- With a frozen image The rats we see were devclope of becoming a chef at a ing a lot of animation work, making this one of the main character, through months of observation o gourmet restaurant is attic most dynamic and InelliOrahlt: charae- -of Remy (yoked by Patton pet rats in the animation • stu- impossible until he develops a tent Pixar have created. )11 Oswald), jumping dios, and as such are true t relationship with Linguini (Lou The story itself is surprisingly dis- through a window many of their characteristics Romano) - a bumbling, clumsy and tinct from many of Pixar's other releases, holding a book imme- from the flexibility of the- untalented garbage buy in the seemingly trying to avoid falling into a pre- diately replaced with bodies to their fur, whit kitchen that used to belong to dictable 'buddy movie', which makes the the silhouette of a rat involved around 30,000 ani Gusteau - Remy's hero. This is the friendship between Remy and Linguini much with spiked fur and mated "key hairs" per ra key relationship of the film, as the more interesting. This is obvious front early glowing eyes against This is remarkable in Use two outsiders from their societies on, with Remy able to understand humans a red background. due to a number of seen begin to depend an each other but only able to communicate through ges- Bird deliberately which involve hun- through mutual need which eventu- tures. This prevents the plot from being the contrasts this typi- dreds of rats ally becomes a close friendship, to standard - characters have dream, achieve Leeds Student t www.leedsstudent.org.tik Friday, October 05, 2007 25

LS2 -.NEN■M' ' -41111= ',of the day w concoction from Disney and Pixar. • • • • • dream, argue, lose dream, and regain characters. • dream - which Marty films seem to .follow. • Oddly enough, one of die biggest • • -Ratatouille avoids this cleverly, using the s •A film which • stumbling blocks for the film was the choice protagonists' very different responsibilities o • of title, even though the first instinct of the and backgrouuds to prevent the Om from • • • • •-* sees the studio • studio was to go with Ratatouille. After a settling into cliche, Having said this, there • • number of conversations with American are elements — such as the obviously 'had' • moving slightly • press and distributors, they eame to the real- characters—which fit in very closely. with die • • • • isation that it was a title that the majority of coneemitms of such nuoies. However, a lot further away from • people couldn't say, let Aims. spell - and of the comedy derives front diese elements so • • many of them hadn't even heard of the dish. • • - they do contribute fairly effectively to the "pure enjoyment", Eventually, haying tried many other poten- • • movie as a whole. Lewis, the producer, says • • tial titles, Bird decided to return to he trigi- that the premise encourages this relative • towards a more • nal tide, but to include a phonetic Aliening .complexity, and that was one of the reasons • • (rat - a - too - cc) with the promotional mate- • • that die studio got so enthusiastic about the • rounded and • Hal and posters, to make sure that people Idea. Bird agrees, describing this as a film • • were able LO promote and talk about the film which sees the studio moving slightly further • rewarding experi- • recognisably. In contrast with this difficul- • away from "pure enjoyment" towards a more • • • ty, the filmmakers joke ahnut their research, ing. Some of the more drama tic moments are ;rounded and rewarding experience. • ence. • which involved several trips to France to eat set against a background of r hysical comedy They certainly succeeded in some in some of the best restaurants-in the world - which undermines their ca rnestness, and ways; the comedy elements are often funnier Neino's- dad in Finding Nemo would — he is although they maintain these trips had a there arc certain elements o f the story, like than in previous films, and slightly more adult not the main character in such an emphatic noticeable impact on the film. This is most Skinner's use of Gusteau'i s name for his (there is one particular montent where Lin- way. However, the scenes that demonstrate evident in the animated food that is so impor- frozen food business, which are set up and guini explains to Colette at length about his the technical achievement of the film most tant to the plot, which they claim is designed never really returned to. He wever, this is a "tiny problem"), and there are also more successfully do focus on Remy, especially to be as realistic as possible, and intended to very accomplished film, mi Eking a strong characters interacting, giving Ratatouille when he is interacting with the far larger try to make their audience hungry. response to the studio's previ ous outing, and more of an ensemble feel. This really adds to human world that he wants to inhabit. The While Ratatouille is a certain techno- with its surprisingly mature themes it can the film's appeal, as the overly cute main fast moving sense of panic that is developed logical success, and a marked improvement appeal to slightly older peopte more success- characters that have often (for me at least) as the rat scurries away from danger are dis- on some of the previous efforts from Pixar, it fully. Ratatouille is certainly worth seeing if undermined the appeal are not relied on to orientating and the attention to detail is fan- isn't a perfect film. One of the areas in which you are a fan of other Pixar releases, and it the same extent: in this film, scenes without tastic, with even the heartbeats and breathing it suffers is in its consistency, with its compet- may well be -able to surprise some skeptics Remy don't feel as empty as scenes without rates modelled differently depending on the ing genres and emphases occasionally clash- too.

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Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007 27 To buy or not to buy? Hamlet never had to contend with the flatpack glories of Ikea, not to mention the temptations of guinea pigs. investigates the compulsive purchases that nesting students inevitably make. ,.hA p e l'. M a fresher, a Lint veteran, or to university is when such equipment is most days after vial hoUght rt Alas, I tear that it \yin ,...._,. ,,,inewhere in hoween, there is some-- needed. In fact, fat from being illogical, it makes probably just sit in the darkest et mrner of the 1 h tng spec 1.11 .ilakil Iht•tirst two weeks perfect sense. New place. New loan. New life. owner's Morn, next to that inverted umbrella and New place. . of universit5 when it comes to spend- New stuff. The instinct to nest soon sets in and slime odd sucks. Nevertheless, that kind m it inex- ing money% its a time when everyone encemeages an unprecedented shopping hinge plicable clutter is again what turns a characterless Bis shifting base camp; mt wing all their stuff into with which you can tnensform your rent a-room space Mtn an individual's. rmtertt- New loan. cramped, damp. hex rooms and making them into a private haven..It is also a means in address Ilowevcr, this s.on ml consumer ven- home. The essential personal items will all be that unsightly and mysterious stain on the wall - ture should be distinguished from others which New life. New there. Collections of randi int little wooden tribal cunningly' hidden behind a peister or obscured by leave the realm elf the quirky far behind and enter jewellery from die gap year in South America; a tacky mantelpiece ornament. Whatever the the realm mfplain stupid. I flee the idea my house- stuff. The instinct that massive poster of the Pink Floyd album cov- niomtivatuon, weird unnecessary stuff is all part of mate had. I le hi tight a full body gorilla (whit flit ers (the one with all the we omen's backs painted) student life. After all, we're not supposed to be an (tilt' nun. The theme was '6' and having to nest soon sets bought in last year's poster sale; or Just endless logical beings, but rather professional deniers of spent 4,60 on the monkey suit he then went as a photographs of friends, all taken on that one realita and passio onate advocates of the ddiculous. geek, ear in other words himself. Not even one. night you actually remembered to take pictuxes rue to this shining ideal, my friend moment of use or pleasure has been gained out in and encourages about five years ago. We have all done it; packed Charlie and his housemates splashed out on an of this gorilla suit and 1 can't see that it ever all then items away the night before., when the absolutely massive protector screen. This may Gorilla auits.are hardly adaptable clothing. If this an unprecedented chore could be delayed no longer, and stood in sound excessive but consider the fart that they shunned item id clothing ever hopes to see the Our room at home with the overflowing card- do nor•even own a relevison and that their wash- light of day it will have tem pray few another "G' shopping binge board boxes and blue Ikea bags and thought, ing line runs through the kitchen, into the living 'honed ()den- Runt o mr, even less likely , some sort how did I collect so 1 lintel, crap over the years? o morn. Nome a multi millionaire with nine he 'uses of prtmate pub entwl. with which you I'm Oa' twenty. But at least I alight invest in an Tem be perfectly honest I to HI have made• a few won't need to buy anything unnaturally peculiar purchases in the last two weeks. Vi; hen when 1 get there, surely. large projec- my friends and l first decided tot move in to areth- can transform Then it's .suck. t r f or screen er we sat down in the pub, like you do, and dis- denly a day later and having cussed how mareellemua it was all going to be Its your rent-a-room you're lacing the only already ing together. .Ns untie went by and the mane con task that seems even bought tinned to flow we strayed From normal discus - into a private more labornius than every sio ons, like I Kele Park vs lleadinglet and whether packing: unpacking. Ni }W plasma we should try and cheat the IN. Licensing, titan, haven. VOU l ace to Find actual TV on onto mo 'it far-niched ideas. -1 pet guinea pig • places to put all these objects, the market, called Gus tins suddenly 1/CCAIllk: next. year's rather than Lust shoving them hitt pmmmr ti lust -have lamti.se feature, Idit rtS..Stupid stupid dUCCN I, easy and reliable 0.111v-int_ Despite setting unceremoniously Into a gap- - dents with kik aa. Despite all secretly having reservations out with a strict list consisting of bani.„Pers, a duvet ing suitcase. Now yam ques- not even the once cruel sobriety began creeping back into our cover and one funky hunpohere is:theist no way tion the wisdom, of bring- tilliCS! tell% aching brains, none of us wanted to be the m nor that you will come back with just those items. irK; all those really "use- They play V.; u that backed nue See last week., three o 'fur, went When let loose in the sell service area Of the Milt- ful" things that certain Nintendo o nl the pep store, just out of town, to choose our Let hall, it takes superhuman strength nor to family- members insisted it. Giant guinea pig victim. With a nano' like Gus Gus he envisage all of these strangely named DIY pieces were essential - delights games I dArieFUS11, had rim be the hairiest fluffiest freakiest in your realm. Wouldn't that "Morker- work such as the arts and ot W6 It cooking, lone. lent. and belt' mid. fsdn amongst the lamp Burk rather snazzy on my desk? And that crafts box (so you can golf. wooden 5haVINS emerged the legend that mow is .eksvtk" rack on nos call, with maybe. that create handmade Gus Gus, with -just got out of bed' hair_ Yo.in [Ala" rug (en the floio-mr just lmelow the "Bibla birthday cards for all oaa think, for such a small creature., that Smut" QC. And can another set o elcoo Acing pans ye our new friends), the Gus Gus would require ton much financial ever really Izc a bad ide-a? Th. oughts race through all-Important egg investment. Yet somehow within an hour ..t: get- my mind - like. 'well of course We need the or sheet and a milk ting Gus Gus I had spent L-773 in 'Paws for SO'Cri Cooker j;irs for all of our tw+1 different bis whizzer mixer frothy Thi ought' on a hutch, three different types of hay, cult selections'. This senseless consumerism, thing feu all those eap. cone wooden carnal. chew Ow and masses ot which blots from your mind any consider:Mem as nuceinos you will be wooden shavings. I am not saying that I regret lel What: having fly, part sets in rather a small concocting. going thniugh whit this drunken idea. After kitchcn mean, is dangen1ush, impossible to But it scents that Gus Gus is the cutest thing since Brad Pitt gut resist I ha- student I ly-de !lark holes are pest cry- CSI;LNTA PIG& inevaerai.' however much you bring naked in 'Thelma and Louise' (a different kind of ing nut to he tilled with-sexy and simply Swedish to university. II is never cute of course, although both an very stroke goods. It's cOMparable to thi.)Se times One spends enough. There is A I I.V:1- S able). I-however; I do; have moments of regret in the Ceirdigan Road Co -( )p. Sitting, in Femur Ikea something new and A I I when he pons in the pouch (if my hoodie and vilest ed room. three to the morning, knee: deep in shiny and teat all day. then proceeds TO devour it, Maybe I should he revision, with the inexplicable urge for some pm 'p- impractical vim It is grateful that his repulsive eating habits mean that ular brand of chocolate bar. line perfect distrac- feel you have their I don't have to handle guinea pig facces..I call this tion, I lop in the car and there y.iou are in the CI to have in nt, ■si ii.srIy chi tfe'e' on- diet -repulsive, but te o be fair Gus Gus's ( )11, to your pyjamas, along; with three drunks. order for universal' gr., up in% e:74 - pm om chomping is apparently very normal guinea line weirdo, Jiang her week15 shop and Yourself, lite to be cumplete, .1"hese impulse Merit whilst being pie belen-tour. '17his d•esn't stop me from occa. feeling vaguely ertilearaaaed as you hold a Nix of buys are probably going lei be some of the weird-- the most unnecessary contnbutiom to the he lust: wishing that we had drunkenly decided Heroes and twenty Marlboro lights. CH. ObjeerS tm1o vi aU will ever acquire. A few and they all absolutely adi ire it. It makes the rim bum 1, this Cuts goldfish instead. Much more Civilians might have- this idea that students months after the purchase and vimu will be trying heouse more than lust four brick walls in which to; civilized. And I wouldn't have lo he in a state- of and excessive shopping di, not ea m hand in hand, to remember what exactly inspired v' Ill !I , splash snore their stuff and burn out- it-date baked constant worry Irian the fear that next don or's due to our infamous ponce-1y. M5 LOUTH always our on that niknak or gizmo_ _\t this point. you beans in For a year_ Ii makes it a real home, char- menacing car might break ilium Gus Gus's hutch said .'11 yOU surround yours -Ifwith gt “KI things may recall the hazy memory of being totally me- acterised by the pets( inahries m of its inhabitants. and have her wicked way. Another anxiety is that then you will feel good tnside." Maybe that is brute(' at the time. 'The useless &leo in question Another slightly odd purchase made this week iris houseman: Wright- giac into his surprisingly what we students. dm. Sumounel rim-selves with then becomes an embarrassing testimony of lost was a hula h( sip, Not the eriSp, all of yew o strong urge to make ;us Gus into a clumichanga, snip things sim we feel (amid. Ikea. the Cm t To and how weird a drunk yin iii can be, think vou're funny. Ni.. t )ny of those things you I low wrong: any other impielsivelcomputsty-e buys are erta- Yet even duough many of these things put oin your waist, gracelessly gyrate and make it Cane of the other ways in which students onnal. expensive and !neighed. Stupid, some 1i undeniabh useless, and perhaps unwise when spin. Why the hell would you want or need one spend a great deal of money in a short space of might say. and pi otenually an inelimprehensibie living e_mli a student budget, they are also emit lot' theist.? Where would you keep 0 They are ma time, especially at the beginning eml the vear, is extra or eh e'Ri Pre li.i anymne else. Pitt it is precisely milling; around in the heavenly warehouse that is these qualities that make them the pertect vice. Pio. of unusual genius and essential to a happy exactly compatible with the interior of a cup- lite. Randomly bought impulse. buys are almost board and a. potential safety hazard if left on the Ikea. Blue and Yellow. i'nmmmd and sm Rig. It is so Plus the !rem is in • an ideal cominnadoin. So away, stude ettatanteed •m he the in, ost iretsured posscssie ins floor, reads- to trip up an unwitting housemate. hard to resist the Swedish flat packed Nix* fur- spend nts of Leeds.-- jug don't buy a that you will ever (mu n, : lid Aiming or returning And would you ever use it apart from the three niture dim just oozes that brand, III mass-punt. guinea pig.

28 Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007 Singles Albums But the originality- of Freedom Lasso Singles Album of the Week stems not from its subject matter alone, but also its unique artistic influences. Akaht, having sup- Sugabahes ported such diverse artists as Jay Z, Christina Akala Aguilera and Richard Ashcroft on tour, give an 'About You Nr-rw' (Island) k affirmed, hip-hop-style nod towards these Freedom Lasso artists' divergent genres. For example, final . • Post-N111tVa. the ■(One Little Indian) track 'I Don't Know' samples the legendary still pc ihsess thc sparkly pink "it" factor they 'Lullaby' by The Cure. Yet more 'grimes.' tracks always had. 'Their new single 'About You A kind of anti hling musical snobbery underlay can be found on this gem such as the NLN- Now' couples paces my immediate reaction upon hearing that Frie- influenced 'Comedy, 'Tragedy, History', Think clew° drum machines with l/nor Lassa. Akala's keenly awaited following to hip-hop, but not of the heavy, Wing-clad, nod- melodic. carchs vocals and 70s-style synths. his MOB( / award-winning debut /es No! ding be-at variety. Think grime, but not of the When the chorus kicks in, it's ease to visu- Burner, was a hip-hop album. But what ensued exclustvely underground Sr nab-East London alise the girls and "guys" up and down the for the neat 36 minutes and 43 seconds was a varieoe Sure, there are strong elements of both; ta aim ry rushing the dancutloor and clutching pleasant surprise, an album so chock-a-block what is laced throughout, however, is each other, mouthing the words in Bacardi full of emotion that it should leap straight out clean) /synth beats, Breezer- induced euphoria. Granted, it's of your speakers and into your throat. Amongst The album falls short, however, in enual British artist 'lite Twang - dipping into camp as Christmas, but it's as slick as a dominant scene of music tailor-made ti it the marginalising council-estate London, %hissing', so to speak, the genre's subject matter; weasel. (7) skinnyneaned, floppy-fringed MySpace brigade, speaking of the entrapment of such circum- there appears to be little new blood in such an this album is a refreshing burst of poetic lyri stances. Nonetheless, it is a rollerthaster ride twersaturated, bloated corpse of a scene. Alas! Kate Nash cism plunging into often deep and philosophi- of highs, occasional mediums, maybe, but never Akala stands far taller than his London under- MI Wiliwash' cd matters, such as the war on Iraq, and hip. lows. Overall verdict: Grind. limit. (7) ground cnntempirtes in extending his artistic (Tiction) hop's apparent rrbsession with thuggery and words/ alla taha expression to cover 'softer' issues, such as the insumerism. Arguably, though, hip-hop bash- innocence of first love in the beautifully melod- Kate's trying to convince zz ing has become a suhgcnre of hip-hop ic and mesmerising 'You Put a Spell on Me'. us that, despite being a with a whole pool of artists such as the in nu more talented lily Allen, she's just a down-to-earth, normal person; she "uses mouthwash'', "drinks cups of tea", Various Artists Josh Ritter. jakobinarina and "has a family". Ahhh, great: 1 can relate. 00704:4 ••ab •Sat: Out of 'rhc Woods The Historical The First Crusade lnwe•er, she contradicts her claims of nor- Kr41111111YR and Trees Conquests of Josh (Parlophonin mality bs an astounding voice and an awe- crime musical originality. So never mind the Dance To 'the Radttr) Ritter twee lyrics; this single's -brilliant-. (5) (Sony)

Ed Harcourt 'You Put a Spell on Mc' (Heavenly) Give this album a few spins. It's actual) Self defined on his myspace page as The need to rebel and revolt often prompts the pretty good. Yes, it's grit your generic intlie- "rock/indie/folk rock", American singer-song- creation of some of the best tunes and scenes Harcourt continues the pop/rocket:learn crap on it, from hands still writer Josh Ritter comes from the same in the music industry or indeed any other art. James Blunt -ish tradition trying to jump on the "all.Northern-indieds- Dylan /Springsteen hentage that has spawner! the Nothing, however, is mnre banal than false of creating rna kes-your- ace-`cause-the-NME-says-s& bandwagon Ryan Adams' and Jesse .Malins of this world. Per- rebellion and it becomes swiftly apparent when wcAsel-gi ...all -"weepy" (which left at least two years ago, but some haps these pertimners are never going to have listening to lakobinarina that they seem ro be pseudo-razz shirr:. He has all the ingredients: of it won't make you want to blow up your their own stadium tr airs, but they will always have rebelling against nothing in particular. laid back minor-key piano; slow, quiet lyrics speakers). their own devoted cult following, packing out In the late 1970's punk bands ranting that illustrate (I) just how sensitive he is and The Wallbirds' Folifenuntry-esque smaller venues across the land. Ritter's fourth about their frustration with the lack of things (2) an ego big enough to try and get away sound won't be everyone's cup of chai album doesn't fail to disappoint. With his-typical to do was a relatively fresh concept, but in with claiming 'I'm the last romantic lad'. (8) (though they arc really quite charming to musings about Os, love, the universe, and this 2O(1 singing about the tedium of life in Ice- their own way) but, after listening to Kra kt time, some pondering, about history and a nnahi- landic suburbs sounds outdated. It is thiS topic Terra Naomi Dwa, who appear to have taken a few title oil past, he sings about everything from cowboys that seems to be the central firths to the major- 'Nun Sorra ' from I f.D Soundsystem, and Mother and Indians to Joan of Arc and Jonah and the ity of their songs. The album opening 'Mrmday (Island) N'ulpine's simply rocking 'The Hammer That Whale, 'nu., album gets nil to a brilliant start wilt I'm in Vain', is riddled with lines like Tye noth- Cracked The Bell', you'll be left wondering the up-tempo raucous ramblings of "Tr, 'The Dogs ing to live for, I've nothing to look furs and Terra !■.atirrii. OK apart why their names arc so Unfamiliar to your it Whoever" which will have Will hitting the 'these sentiments were already been expressed from the frankly awful decent-music-loving ears. repeat button as you try• and decipher what the hell decades ago even by the likes of Bob C,eldof stage name: 'Terra' Other honourable mentions so. out Riper is actually singing about. It's the lyrics that really hold the hand sounds like some fnlky to I howling Bells, who probably don't The broken piano chords and raw guitar back; they read like the ramblings of someone shine from the mid. nerd the exposure from the eompi.asi.in as sounds of"Next To the Last Romantic" perfectly who has only just grasped the basics of the nineties pop chart_ This is an example of an they arc (rightly) piing places on the Lick of stilt Ritter's soft southern drawl, and whilst- sr ime English language and are sung in a weak grunt artist made popular by a film (Al Gore's An their talents :thine, whit 'This its Burning* songs are less memorable than others, the album as that lacks the snarl of punk and the clarity of a Incori•rnma Trail') who shouldn't have been. demonstrating the hand's smooth vocal, and a whole is very easy listening. And certain sr +rigs classic pop song- Naming the latest single 'His (0) powerful writing capabilities; and Br rbb., will pimp nut and force you to stop M your tracks Lyrics Are Disastrous' may or may not be self- Crook, for an uplifting melodic little Writ, and just listen. "The 'Temptatit ats of Adam" is line referential but it doesn't help that the lyrics to Milburn reminiscent of Arca& fire and The Postal ofthese songs. Lyrics such as "if this was the Cold that song in particular are indeed disastrous. 'What Will You Dr,' Service. war we could keep each other warm" that , rot !ma ri - Similar ironies may be found in Utica like 'Jump (Mercury.) Dance To The Radio's most ly would seem cheesy, sr ;mellow seem beautift.1 Around to the Sound of Mediocrity,' famous acts 'the Plata Detectives anti corning from Riner's haunting voice. Looking past this the music itself is what will you do when it:rim-ad, Russia' might be a hat draw man) The lyrics of "Krght Moves" will restore laced with addictive keyboard hooks and the gooney ,es? I don't to this compilation but, lir he honest, their girls' Nth in buys everywhere: "Ain I making all decent. albeit cliched, guitar riffs that altogether know: I'm a -student"! • contributions arc pretty- unremarkable. the right moves, am I singing you the right help to construct hummable, perhaps even This song makes very lit- Fverynne likes a catchy pop song once in blues, is there a chance that I could call you just catchy pop-rock tunes on par with anything tle sense. It wants h, he bile, but can Pigeon Detectives actual • to see how you are doing?" 11 you're sick N NM. would cover nowadays. an antheinic commentary ru n the Nort hern lv produce anything musically ririginaP 114 'll songs about lose then you might want to give Jain thin:Anna arc treading a path situation j - cd.j but We already have the probably never know. (7) this album a miss, However, if you arc the eter- already trodden and although it is one of \retie :Shashi:eve for that. (5) nal romantic optimist, a sticker for a dreamy lit youthful excitement and uprising 11 ends up tie melody and some heart warming lyrics then just sounding lifeless due to its lack of words/ :Amy warson and maya korn words claire thorn it is a definite must Imo (8) invent-ion. (4) words/ Lucy barneu words/ luke fear

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Radiohead's highly anticipated Yesi Live lentil album will be released on the 10th of( ktolyere. but with a strange, wnseience badgering twist. The album, In Rainkws, is going to be available 'du wnk tad only' and will leave it up to vou how much you pay for it. Folks in and out of the music industry have responded well hi thenews which is being toured as a 'revo- lutionary approach' to marketing that will change the way people think about music. However, with die battle against illegal clrrwnloading raging as strong as ever, Radiohead's decision to let the public decide how much their music is worth may end up revealing some unpleasant truths. The idea 'if-lowing it up to the individ- ual to decide how much they value an stems both exciting and 1 rntinnus. Fla a while nine peo- ple have been complaining that CI7s cost too much and so downloading is a tempting alterna- tive. Already there have been whisperings I if peo- ple paying 41, 50p and nothing at all. The attitude here semis to be, kits of people don't pay for music any-more so why should I? But, on the other hand, some fed that musicians livelihoods are at strike and so, take Radiohead's trust in their fan base as a sign of respect worth honouring. 'The general consensus on the net seems to be ()way' Brinley's honeyed tones, which arc simul - that people wont abuse the band's faith and that Madtn a Lake tortuously strong and delicate. The heady mix lifts they will receive, on averag e. 5 per album. KBC them from the doldrums of their contemporaries. This release comes at a time when The 'rile Cockpit the soft/bard contrast of their music is hest The Brudenell Social Club Charlatans arc giving their album tawny as a tree exemplified in `The Shipping Forecast', where 23/iin/ir download, Prince is intik:taiga free DV1) on urgent nand ernotional vocals combine with shift- readers of The (Anerver and Travis are making ■ ing, driven beats and schizoid song structure. , I1.111-10S.'d El :-7.11 the Mail on Sunday's demographic even more ''.•,,FiLtit,c■, , ,It. :rcif I):Irk Toy Radar have chosen to spend their money t in offering a complexity rarely seen in their peers. miserable with a mind numbing Best( )f. SO per- Bloc Party albums. This results in a pleasant but Swim rally mill I,r. ,111.0 L, „:16.1 f haps Radiohead are over-complicating the issue? uninspired jangle of Indic guitars and jilting , wick 11'1 !-.CHS'1: MY1/1. I111:1d111;. dynamic and Perhaps asking the public to decide how much Toe& rhythms, reminiscent of I lot Rod Circuit is 11:hE:" [1!,i 1 k t,,L lit never boring, music is worth involves tot' much agonising 1.... ;1,[c) I% and We Are Scientists. With the same temp..: to this is introver- .6 6 6 • 1,6 I it 6 Li V I. • 6 /1r1.6 thi night? And maybe It's 4. II( fir established acts every song. they speed along happily like the pop ht. 'f:c•I It F.'''. I sion you can like Radioheacl to Ix' blak tail an per itleand punk of yore, Discarded by most in favour of snU thk. ..1•OiL dance to; expect a fair amount of cash from their listeners? ir4 [111•1111, ii indic, these remnants of a pl op punk past emerge •r , .1,1,.11:L1',1 melancholy has But how many other hands can.affi ad to leave 11. 61 from their closet; a forgotten trend haunting their rarely sounded • 1; . IL, their label and do something so smug? intik: guitars with jerky chords a plenty. so enticing. Toy Radar have rightly shunned the faux estuary Grammatics uglish of jack Penaie and the like, in favour of a deftly outshone :lady enunciated middle class accent. which The the night's headliners, Preston's 1.030, who arc on Maccabees have made positively vogue. tour to promote their fortherwrang single. By the Grammaties follow in the Ira es.ie-ps of time KBC got to the stage, only half the audience I _cods' Wild Beasts in delivering ELIA: dramatic had remained faithful. KN.: seemed happy to and intriguing pop that proves a grugigic to peddle their brand of infectious indic dance, and define. Their songs-meander in tu avenues, deviat- stomping though it was, dies' Iii a march ran failed ing from the course of conventional-song struc- to ignite their half-erowd. (6) k 111.C. Their band includes a cellist, who adds light- :Nand he i innE.1 \v, a.ael rho!• ail, ft....no: )..vIth ness in their drum driven sound. 'Me bassiness of word.s/maria garbutt-]uterus t,,trinIc half, their pop-songs contrast well with singer-guitarist

11,11kk,nt VI, hit IN 114 ',IR , were The Won-it-rats, a quirky up-and-caninglining outfit ru it pE le,ping 6-a- 1101T1,. The Enemy from I iverponl. A breath of fresh air from the y:tint:on ballot.Eree thrig at-It ov seek or lee akvessive onslawin of anti-police lyrics. They sue-- yvrestle tlicni,"A-'.■1' h ; th(' The Refectory um-led in silencing a stunned crowd with the har- most, pit were almost ten airily i .und crowd ereirf- 28/09/07 monic brilliance of their opening tune. Effortless ing their way up to the Berg e lc rr their ti friar NC:C- style and friendly banter 1- rafilt WhiCh the hand mem.. c-inch 11 Preceding the main act, Lethal Bizzle attempted to all characterise the chem- bets .secatiefl glad to. share; even Ictring.some sing warm up the crowd ordt=ing them "to liven up istry of the band and this into rhomica phone: IFn surreal atmosphere is more", however, that stain backfired when he was th,...b..ind i prniected flawlessly onto tyilal nreticledl rn ereate,.ttiey succeeded' erected with a frenzy of water bottles and other the crowd. Despite find- tilt: men tent .conletfibtirst from the ceiling snMe- miscellaneous proiectiles. A temmim followed and ing the lead vocals a little !ire( in the middle of their set. Ir seems tittint.r. the crowd were ordered D -1"sulp throwing stuff, gnu* after -a while, their have it tendency Iii create bizarre set- I've had a shit day, now show me some apprecia- harmonies made up for it imes consiile•ng the genesEs ICC NI:101v lea ke; and the sheer mic:moat On their happy faces =a es• nameoftheir band cleriYes fr. ail :1 fon ilia I made it more than a pleasure to sec them live. thwn which originated 61 the lead Their new single is-sure to be an anthem, with the ilAtiatl, 'd'he town is fut I a. the lyri<--s charming lyrics "I've met ,somenne who makes me Iheirallitim, feel seasick". WhiCit ()talkies the tri irsta-riii is sJno Finally after a lung wait, the audience the lchlti4111g ti.i v1a s socialite, I et, nein were re.* for The Enemy. Shirts were off, men $tc.ty butila rhymer/ clisguise,1 ;Es pE .p. plink were walking round with Macs and hoodics and a alhurri, Despite this unique Apra 0.C11, ' Ii ill:i! slight look of arrogamee on their faces wishing they i..11Tipl)'....11.1, ill, the Chicago leve.ti poop has little 1"41 were a member t &the band. They opened with 41piel' lit ti irril:i illnI>V;a11,c: lion!' With c sugg•stions of Mr Bizzle ring- "Away from here" which threw the crowd into %,..1 11.1A7 ing in their' ears, the crowd welcomed the start of frenzy. Immense cot wel surfing began and screams Lucks fi ;r I .:1 the classic, if slightly outdated old-school time of "Yorkshire" were encouragett Acnustialy, the mIH•0 :!:, l'n3 "Pow", and the troubles; that plagued his entrance band were reminiscent , if the Jam, certainly a feat rke CC .1 !.L .1% ! • .S. were soon a distant memory, However, the lyrics in itself An easy-going and friendly style ensured alt rota- Jaies. El lL ! (6) soon faded, and Lethal Binle abruptly- kit a slightly that all were captivated. (8) bemused crowd. words/ ben heath and victoria walsh To my pleasure, the next ata to folk av

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Friday, October 05, 2007 30 Leeds Student 'RATION STEP TO IT Steppers break beats at the West Indian Centre

• • • • ■11 999 9 99 • a • • the evening was absolutely heaving and remained so throughout the evening. )aydan satitedpNpiterkiynBseladekonuatarskiennt aes hw.ell sDlziall buy eavy There's no air shiiweasing all their latest dub plates as well as mixing in some old classics. Star of the night conditioning but hiiyve‘er had to he flatcha who ',laved an you get two a l isiilutely sr, inning Dub Step set which mere- Iv confirmed why this musical movement rooms absolutely seems to be taking over the world at the moment.. rammed with a .NS well as the quality of the music there was also good news for all those needing a refresh- = varied assort- ing smoke with a new friendly outdoor area set up, providing welcome relief from the heat ment of ravers and general malarkey inside. Sub Dub is a night that will undoubtedly all going mad... fail to whet some appetites and it is hard to • describe on paper exactly what makes it an • event that continues to create such a buzz • • • r • - • • despite the fact it is one of the oldest estab- a seriously heavy ravers all going mad to lished nights still running in Leeds. 1 would seriously sound system smashing out some argue however that its simplicity is also its heavy tunes. success, if you want good music and safe peo- excellent, Friday's event was typically ple in an edgy environment then Sub Dub is showcasing a variety of artists and music your first port of call. If not, perhaps you also managing to solve potential styles whilst should go to Tequila! It's been a wicked night ow almost a decade old, Sub Dub entertainment and armosphete Sub Dub issues involving the smoking ban remarkably for years and hopefully will continue to he remains one of the most innova- stands out like a sore thumb. well. In Room ( Inc the residents !ration Step- so..-stake sure vou get yourself down there pas did their usual job of destroying collec- tive and exciting nights in Leeds. There is no pretension and little ego to he for the next one. It is without doubt a rarity, .in found in The West Indian Centre, Chapel tive eardrums with their special brand of dub event that harks back to the ori- -Town. There are no intelligent lighting sys- that is basically impossible to describe or cat- gin- . :.o.e when all that really mattered were tems, expensive drinks or air conditioning. egorize to anyone who has not heard it the tunes can offer. As more and more clubs Instead you gel two MUMS absolutely rammed before. It is undoubtedly powerful stuff! focus purely on profit and glitz rather than to the rafters with a varied assortment of Room 2 where I stationed myself for most of words/DG • • • • • • • • • • a • • • • • • • • • • • -J • • • • • • • • • • • - • • • • • • • • • • • • • • lo 3 4 • • • • • 4116 ib Dorothy does Indie Blood Red Shoes save the day at the Fav

he I.:A-CVO/UM is renowned in Leeds. strong vine,: that could It is beloved by many and hared by lend itself well to more few which attracts a refreshing trliX imaginative songs. of students with a highbrow clien- The atmosphere of tele. Its quirky charm adds to its The Young O the club at this point was appea and provides .1 great antidote to the Playthings, one of anticipation for montitonv of a big night 4 rut in one of Leeds' the main event. 1 mix of more mainstream clubs and last Saturday despite being • indic boys and new- night its club cum-band night Bad Sneakers • ravers getting steadily played host to Blood Red Shires, suppiirt•d highly sex-ori- 0 drunk and bored cif the by The Yoimg Plata lUngs and The Lodger. support acts meant that Initial support, The Vining Playthings, entated and the main act couldn't despite being highly sex-orientated and hear- have come at a het let ing a vague musical resemblance to Busted, bearing a vague t boasted exceptional vocals and an energetic Blood Red Shoes stage presence_ They cited the Replacements musical resem- were the saving grace of as their main musical influence but we would the night. A two-piece describe them as a sort of hybrid of SimpL blance to Bust- from Brighton who Plan and Art Brut, whatever crazy Franken delivered a strong set with their powerful series of other numbers that, despite sound- stien's monster of a band that would create! ed, boasted Oldie sound, mixed with heavier rock ing somewhat repetitive, still engaged the The lodger proved to he less imprcs • • moments and elements of grunge. Their soon crowd and made for a great performance. sire. Lacklustre, verging on emo and exceptional to he released single. I Wish I Was Someone The,. were by far the best hand of the night reserved; this is the sort of music you might Better was met with an enthusiastic welcome and made, but there was delmetely no place listen to as you drop till to sleep after- a par- vocals... • from the crowd who alsoI responded well to like Ilium by the end of it. ticulark boring day. Their performance the lively vocals and impressive instrumen- lacked zest. but the vocalist possessed a - • * a 4 • 9 • Y • • • • • • tals. The talented duo went on to perform a words/claire freeston & alice needham Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007 31 HIGH FIVE TO Bop a beat at Boogaloo

v- muting into Leeds city centre tin a flower will soon find theniselyet moving .aturday- night can be a daunting towards the dance floor to shake their taps to experience, with hoards of rowdy the salsa heat[ and get their groove on Ti locals out to celebrate two days off .lames Brown. The club's almost euliby-hole from the mundane .world of work. like basement qualities add it , the charm and Tucked away down a side street f ii-hi offers allow the music and dark lights to build an the perfect retreat to soothe the work-weary atmosphete which in many dubs is often lost soul. Boogaloo is a refreshing alternative to or not appreciated, [-h-1t has this to perfec- the usual cheesy student anthems, which tion. eventually after a few drunk nights become The onh negatiYe point and really my somewhat tedious. Saturday night, Ill-Pi is iwn grumble about the club is when looking the place r4, he! The tri house DJ has no trou- at the welisue, the club boasts friendly, wel- ble filling the dance fit ior ',laying a musical coming door staff. This is not strictls- true. melting pot of I. niversal Funk, Latin Bunga • Yet, I allowed myself to forget about this not lair, A CI-ie.:In beats, Jamaican Skit and Salsa. wanting to ruin nay almost perfect nigh:. ,1.11 The heats offer a n alternative and a funky in all she night had a cool atmosphere, good place to dance, chill and appreciate good vibe and superb music. It can he recommend- music whilst slowly losing contr.( d of Your ed to those who arc sick of tinging along to senses and stylish moves through alcohol. the likes of the Baywareh theme tune and Iii in Despite the slightly older crowd, it is by no lovi's Living on a Prayer whilst drinking dirt means pretentious, everyone is footloose and cheap alto-pops. fancy free ii lo king II) let their hair down and showcase their somewhat individual moves, The music is enuring; even the shyest wall-

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Krafty Kitts with Dynamite MC hosted hti meat' Award, I think we can all expect Krafty heat masters never fail to rake their crowd on The Sugarbeat Club at Ihe Elbow Rooms oil to put on a typically larger- than-life show. a frenetic and highly charged journey through Call Lane. Saturday 6th October. 9prn till Anticipate lots of material from his new and the best hip-hop, breaks and drum n' bass out it ram. critically acclaimed album Preakshow LP' there.— Hot Tip Rolling into the Leeds on his An Evening exploding out the speakers with the uncom with Krafty Ttalr' and bloated with the suc- promising style of the irrepressible Dynamite cess of his Breakspoll 'Outstanding Achieve. MC, Prepare to .strap yourselves in as these words/ torn Angell i•aa•••••••••••••••••••••••••• • •••••••••••••••••• *0 i• *411' *SOSO • at• Banging Burlesque Bonanza Subculture hosts a one-off Burlesque night

t's not every day you go invited to a approach of Halloween, and the feeling in the Was instead billed quite sintrk as the 'last:ic- Burlesque night in Leeds, so how could air was one of uncertain anticipation. Having on'. alert: Wen, rte-lassies of I possibly pass it up? The very idea con. never ventured to a Burlesque night before I ems P'astiilrlr dcticriptie.non r ller,,arid under lured up images of 1920's prohibint in. only bad a very basic idea of what to expect the pretense of same sort of Competition, era America, or Blitzed-out wartime and I was beginning to feel very aware of they all got shook about rather a lot! bunnil) London.I it's an activity that was once thought where I was. enough i don't remember who won, such WS r}t as seedy or sordid, yet with a crucial ele- The acts however did not disappoint. The v inebriation off the fantastically cheap ment of the risque and dangerous. Now how- perfi +nuances consisted of a continuous con- drinks that were on offer, and nit confusion ever, whilst it is not exactly tame, it does veyor belt of brave girls that ranged from the over the coniplete randomness ill the night in appeal to a different market and is more of a *parachutist caught. behind enemy lines' who general. niche night out rather than a haven for the Was compelled to strip when she heard jaunty All in All though the ,a1thisphere was rcia lisimy male. 4It's music - to the innocent 'ice cream seller', tiyek non-per y. guys and girls alike were The atmosphere in Subculture on the who wouldn't stop pIaying with her cones! cheering on their favourite performers, and night did much to heighten this anticipation. And of course th e re were silky nightgowns commiserating the one who fell on her arse! Atter descending the stairs into the under- and elaborate fans all over the shop, just to The girls looked comfortable on stage, sonic ground cavern which encompasses the club, add a bit more eroticism to the event's pro, who had been doing it 14n years, others who and paying the heightened j entry fee, it felt ceedings. had literally starred that night. 'Ibis was deft Kr stepping into another world. The majority After 8 or so girls had strutted their stuff tritely a fun one-nilexperience, and one h e t t oLparty goers (and even the harmatds) had there was a short interval which allowed Im won't forget in a hlirrY! dressed up for the occasion - leather and reliving your childhood in the rein' tilt's titv1, corsets heing the order of the day - combining arcade games, or to grab some fresh :air .;'or titter-war fashion with gothic charm. Wearing cigarette as I like to call it) outside the club_ 4 Ehecked shin and skinny jeans made me feel Act 2 relied less heavily on the vaguely rather out of place! narrative concept that Act I purported, and words/ jonny leighton Lovely Lady Marmalade igN The venue was decked out for the Leeds Student I WW1%'.1eeth.student.org.uk Friday, October 05, 2007 Screen 1.52 Screen, Stage and Page. Michael Dayton Hot Rod : Starring/ George Choosey, Tom Wilkinson Starring/ Andy Sandie:ye Isla Fisher, Ian Director/ Tony Gilroy McShane Director/ Akiya Schaffer • That sound you hear is a tilt Ktsand beating; female hearts, Yes, it's George :looney time again - here DitlUil IN Till vac. . he plays Michael Clayton, a -fixer" for high-profile .• law firm Kenner, Bach and la:deem, in this stylish, if - -..omewhat generic legal-corporate thriller from l'ony Gilroy. The firm are engaged in the morally murky business if defending a vast, amoral eorpo- .• rani in in a multinallion pound class action, and the . hem's number one lawyer, Arthur Edens , has just ; had a messy breakdown and switched sides. is might be expected from a director asst belated . with the Bourne series. Gilmy shoehorns in some classic action movie conventions (phone taps, ear • bombs, lethal injections), hut at heart this is a char- • actor study, a film alxnu the effect of moral corn- ,• promise in the human personality. And luckily, the • :Kling is great throughout. Clot me). convinces as . Clayton, a man weighed down In personal demons ; and the strains of the corporate world - this is,miles • away from the glamorous swaglser of Ocean's . Eleven. and it's refreshing to see Gooney in this ' kind of role. Elsewhere, Tom Wilkinson puts in a I fellow 'americans '3 political conscience'. Yet • stellar performance as renegade lawyer Arthur. Jack is sick of public transport and doesn't speak 2 Days in Paris The story unsurprisingly feels a little join-the-dots Starring./ Julie Delpy, Adam t Ereetch, and Marion is still more than a little ; (this is well-covered territory), its main message. Directed ine Julie Delpy dependent on and influenced by her family. In - that everyone in corporate America is morally- Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg, of Naborks Night short, both are as initning as the people who .bankrupt and deeply miserable - is hardly new Live fame) is a teenage amateur stuntman, It doesn't take Freud to work out that a irritate them, and it is through an honest depic- Tune and again Gilroy shoots a character against- „ inspired to follow in his father's footsteps, and. w, 'man wearing t-shin that shows a gun point. tion of a relationship between two neurotic, self- an out-of-focus background, as if to emphasise ▪ raise enough money for a life-saving operation ed directly at her boyfriend less than happy in ish and unsympathetic characters that Darn has : how alienated these people are from each other and nit his step father (Ian McShane-- yet), I.ovejoy's her relatirmship. 2 Day.t m Para blends the eta-li- produced a thoroughly believable film. • romf the world around them. Amidst the occasion hack folks) so as to heat him in a fight - as well as niments of romance and comedy, big it is far For those looking fist- a return to Delpy's pm- • al chunkiness though, there arc clever moments — getting the girl on the way to fittne and glory. Sim- from the genre honed and perfected by Holly- vious S Sillisri territory, prepare to be : the scene in which chief lingator Karen (played as .1 ple. woi al. Julie Delpy, multi-tasking superbly, has disappointed. This is nor a love story, hut a story brittle, career-obsessed psychopath by the ever- But whilst this humanitarian mission to gener- written a witty, critical and at many points hilari- about what we want, what we think we want, • brilliant I Cada Swinton) talks to a hit-man in nen•- ally .save the day creates 3 -scattering , ,f hilarious ous script that looks at clashes between human and the reality of what we need. The sophisrica : 'us euphemisms lingers in the mind: An entertain- beings in the 21st century, anantically, racially firm and elegance•of Pans is a foil that shows the . moments, they lie too few and far between. mg, if uninspiring, addition to the Cooney canon. and mat tonally . The film, abi iy e all. questions protagonists that they arc not defined by their Expect a number of comedy crashes, thrills and what pulls people to ether, and tries to identify. surroundings, but by each tlic.-r, spills - most notably a failed lump over a swim- g ► words/ thomas midland what pushes them apart. Delpe and Goldberg give excellent perfiirm- ming pool as well as the requisite sideline love Mani (Delpy), a French photographer, and ances, and the supporting C251. is just as strong, stora• berween Samberg and co-star Isla Fisher lack (Adam Goldberg), an American interior in particular Minim's revolutionary and unin- (you saw her in !rabies ( when), but don't ask designer are two 35-year-olds who have been hibited parents (Mane filler. and Albert Dclpy, fur too much more. 'get her ft a- two years, and ilfe cupping for two father of J ulie), who provide some priceless Should s sense of humour/Ur appeal to films of days in Paris after a I ..uropean tour ben ire flying comic ns 'merits throughout the film. The film is the ...limbs/so/sand f.)bikei/s.11 variety then I would bad.. ro New York. She is fluent in fi'ur lan- beautifully and artistically shot. avoiding or at very. much recommend it, but it does lack the guages and he is the 'right kind of American' least contradicting the traditii ma! cinematic view laugh-out loud, re-watch value that Stiller and is, anti-Bush and C1 MILMNUI,Lis- fat' middle of Paris, and is, I wituld hazard to say, one of the co-'s • ft-at-pack manage. Samberg displays real America),In the earlier parts of the film, they best 44. the year. egiuiilnnd:. talent, but one cannot help ni the seem smug and preoccupied with their sewn cos- parallels between Ron Kimble and Ri,ii Bur- mopolitanism, jack deliberating give wrong n/ 10 gundy. directions tO a group of American anises., and Akiva Schaffer should have a stern Marion congratulating him on his quest to give words/ lara ehoksey wi ith his PR people,F because Hot Rod has been pi 'orb; publicized: the deserted (albeit Sun- day night) screening did not help to allay my . • skepticism of the film prior so viewing. Inthis classic revenge sty k le 1, site o„ter 11s sight out tad ist at the end leaves you feeling But surprisingly, Hoe Rod, with it's superb eight- The Brave One plays Erica Bain, a radio presenter in Nem York cheated and wanting revenge yourself. And ies soundtrack, did manage to entertain me for de slister, Terence Howard happily engaged to David kirtnani (Naveen although the plot has the potential to raise some The matt wiry. It's lust that the tool I hreeted iv/NeilJordan Andrews from TV series LAO. When they are both interesting issues, the implausibility of some of the jokes lit:On to tire. and characters with real poten- viscously attacked in a random meaadng her fiancee events take away frotn the films credibility and it tial are under-used: Fisher (who displayed is killed and she is left in a coma. Upon awakening bees Imes a simple exercise in violent ernerttinmene such a talent in Wedding Crashers} and Ian g of a personal hen are 3 weeks later desire ft it. justice leads her to buy a I laying said thiserhe cinematography is impres- McShane (somethin Oven little to work with. gun and what t.i.11ows is her gradual degeneration sive. Aside from a distasteful !a:tine in which shots If, however, you s=in overcome these set-backs mini iustified vigilante t. cold blooded killer. This of Erica on the operating table arc interspersed and accept the film for the teat-pack wannahe is osipled with her somewhat awkward relation- with her and David making love, the first person that it really is, sill] may just enjoy \ourself. did ship with Sean Mercer (Terrence towards) who is views and littering camera work Al serve create a laugh, lust not quite enough ti nil' liking. investigating the spate of murders she is responsi- threatening egaatmatmosphere. At the same ble nir. time, the an scorns to N hard. Even, scene is The film borrows heavily In an Micheal Winner's loaded with so much emotion that you become words/ natasha dalton • •-Death Wish," replacing Charles littinson's slightly apathetic to Erica's plight ettar.titer with a more kill Ha style female vigilante. /vcrall, the tilm starts promisingly but the sec- This idea has limn dune to death you get the ond half loses momentom. leaving disappointing impression yi at have seen the film already. Impres- ending u say the least. sive perlomiances from Foster and I-Inwards near- ly save a poorly written script, but the badly words/ paid haydon

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Chatroom/Citizenship Indoors and Out: The 1 its SCU43[1111• lays Airs similar colours and sty ing, geometric shapes. 'The real pieces are mainly seat- On tow' from the \ Asti mai 'I hcaire, ( risantwob the intended audience. The standard of actors per Sculpture and Design of te.red across the country, instead, black and white and (.itizenship. arc two e x citing new plays written forming the parts was truly incredible and the cast photographs of their locations appear strikingly by Enda Walsh :Ind Mark R:tvcnhill, respectively. were entirely believable in their n Flcs, es en the wend Bernard Schottlander side be side their Till ire colourful mudel.S. Thus cal In Otairriom we see six 15 year tticls from Chiswick stroking, pseud( Jamaican white. boy. A number Pricer tk holi ng to I 11 c I h enry 11! Hire Institute's new Nunn Is intl.) milk rewarding if you're willing to chatting over the internee What starts innocently oldie cast, played rubles both in Chatmont and C exhibition, "Indonrs and ( hit: The Sculpture and read further int( I it like most abstract art, there is enough rapidly turns Intl! something deeply dis- zens10, taking on characters that were polar ,ippi Design of Bernard Sehottlander-. 1 di I some inno- mire tri it than meets the eye. A sculpture with a turbing as we arc intniduccd to jim, a Is it With a sites En thc,se they had played just twenty minutes cent Goo& browsing. impressii rn I get in an tniitibled past., who is reaching out fiir help but int:I/tsar:1v, surely an indication of their sheer vets:I- his sculpmres is strangely en, tugrli, that they would- centrepiece like a floating Egyptian eye was looking in the worst place pi issii plc. .As Jim strug- nuit y. Cbairnoo4 in particular. was emotiimally n't look out Iii place in an Ikea catalogue. Thank- inspired by Fulani earrings from Mali, while the gles to find purpose, two self-righter sus :end bored demanding and Ridging by the ccincerncti sighs fully', this turns our to be nor entirely ntliCUIOUS, shape. of the piece "Memorial" is a modernised ver- teenagers, Eva and William, exploit his weaknesses throughout the audience both T and inane c idlers SCI1CIfilandet'S n wits were very much in the unite! sion of the pattern found on a Caucasian rug, 'This fen. their own imiusernene CtIttroom highlights how were moved by the plight ofjim, played ht the cal • of design; the exhibition boasts a previously mini:emu in of eximc influences into very mrielern, our ever-changing world can leave many feeling ented and engaging Steven Webb. It is exciting to :archived collection of his chairs, lamps and ash Western artworks is extraordinary. This exhibition is not perhaps very aesthetically pleasing, but it is entirely helpless and au Incur, worse, turn them int(' think that these young mat trs are the new genera- trays before tt progresses into a showcase of his tion of thcviams and, if their pert-romances in these nencribeless interesting; one Imces seeing sculpture people with a dangerously distorted view s if reality sculpture wi irk. productions arc anything tic go hy, the future is as urban furniture and Furniture as art. Considering like I ',vit and William. Metre If taking time out nlyour day te to- and muster you don't have to ray fin- this privilege, that semis iwtrig an interval a different cones.pi is intro- most 3.20 nitely bright. Clarroomarid Cin*.r.iikip insightful, perceptive and, at times, disturbingly enthusiasm about i glorified furniture colleens in to be a pretty gond deal duced through Cifirmiship, a corned) with serious powerful, capniring thc essence of youth culture isn't really your thing, then the beginning of this undertones_ It follows another 15 ) ear (Ai boy as exhibition might leave you cold. However, the he strupdes in understand himself and his sexuali- today. Theis. s.).-as theatre as it should he; emotive, raw and I isdieval ile. pit:scam-ion is gi.tod., the spindly necks and wires of 'Indoors dad Out: The .catipffitz and De sir of Bernard ty while still desperately trying to fit in with those the lamps project from the wails like the branches .W,ottlarder" rim at the' I ielity Afyon. Itulitittr Imo/ around him. Both touching and amusing. Ofiten. of some bizarre, electrical tree. 1 t. is also heartening 23rd September. 2007 to ti th january 2008. Admission ship strikes the balance, perfeedy exmplifying the day to day turmoils that many teenatrs may find Chairnom and Criiir2ship aor plohlx a Vie If- !'1/ - that these post-war designs still appeal with their tmr- hold. block colours and modern design elements. words! eleanor hollingtun themselves in. shop Playhorar Nal I Oader oth, 'The (kidskin so couple these two plays together • worked well, especially taking into consideration words/ lacy nu:inrush its examine our immediate surroundings attire! Fake/Function by Thomas closely and in see the artistic s-aiue in the even' - Schutte day_ l le achieves this by using the mosteirdinar) • 4 materials, chairs, wood, nails and in one case a Leeds Teabghts the Henry !Stf Nbffir me_ Icing receipt with both German and English In his exhilans ELke., FL/11011M SCIILItTe w"rch Primed (nui. -rim "'Airs FliFi Club - Wednesday 26th September uses. unit nan- wall designs and household gcii do go,s, r1 yellow, neeen, purple and 4:yeti, shade to examine and change the way diat we perceive kick red are particularly in prominence, Tn- our everyda) surroundings and the spaces they .ingles, sew:it-es and metal rings deo inne t ie walk inhabit. at odd angles, -Fhe lannItar becntrieS the unfamil- exhibition begins with -:..eNcrul colourhil iar, t■)reing die viewer to see spaces and shapes frieze patients made of simple shapes stapled to di fferenth. the wall, This- leads ttlif ; a ri acin which IS P.' ■ks Ile has also included a nt.111111Lr of smaller a sun.. al garden shed: a chair sit:. propped At an wander front the main pi.iint rif ihe annie . rt1 tar I marl& hit icks, what tirrivAIS. I be :t exhibition_ .N Name 1 particularly liked was a dismantled voinden box stands against a wall -and sun-ill taeial lx,rtratr in Iliad.; And symmetrically shaped pieces of metal, fairunea white. Apart 111 lm anything L6t: it pr 4ves dttit ;ind wood WC 1112ited II I the walls. The near room Shunt: has natural artistic talent - when ci nfrr ail intains.strips of wallpaper peeling half the walls eel with bits of wood nailed to a wall ifs always in a nianncr slightly reminiscent ofa shabby stu- tempting ni think cough have done that'. dent Oat, and brick shaped and coloured bits of This eshibition large or grand and rile wiiod are plastered in the wall in the final room !Nunn.; it makes won't ask. you to see the wi it'd in in a representaus in of (predictably) a brick wall. a new arid profound light. I It-Ayr:vet it is a FM So fat. so very confusing 2i lib century art. feeds pleasant way tO spend half an hour and it I :pon closer inspection Sclitines work reveals has die added hones of being free. more in the way rat an exphinatisin to the. viewer. The purpose of his exhibits seems to he to make words/sarah kelicher

Fresh from their monthlong nut at the F.dinburgh ing the monkey' sketch and lines such as "he's so Festival. the Leeds 'realights reunion show was a (at he looks like a bin bag full of cat's guts"; the fine excuse rot the case to reassemble ft or some fur- brow was JIOI catering for the most sophisticated ther t±utandish behaviour, After a nu alai of she iw s cc melt uannnisseurs, but the shrew played oast its at the Fringe, it was perceptibly unchallenging frit bumf a the laughs. them. Thee leapt into Wednesday's performance ( :rude scented to be the natite id The gall1C. The with the ecitiltderiee and ease of the well-rehearsed. straightforward, bad taste scenes were the best- l'et the show had not turned stale. Theft were received. ("s-Ile :Al fume involved a num in a wheel- instances of and sonic sketches dray al chair suppiinively sum minded by his 'friends' in a on a litde due to slime unruly east hehaviour. This nightclub singing songs like 'Walking Away', 'Ys iu'll was, however, evidently the result of a pa•-packed Never Walk and 'I Walk the lit te'.'Co close, audience. and 1i:1mi:roils chemistry anicingsr the the itindttli m (11Sling',; '11,4 isanne' accom- pert. quiets. An absolutely necessary. development panied by the Teidiglits holding up r icks, sand and from previous -Ft-alights' outings WAS the inclusion a red light where: appropriate gnat -cheap, but ven. nf inter-sketch incidental music, which banished hearty, chuckles. Silly concept, super execution; the awkward bumps and whispers [hat had plagued perhaps enhanced he die .ird glass 4 if wine_ previous changeovers. 'flue audience wercn't Considering the -aims ell the show, the ;ink. sig- allowed time to lose locus and the practised Facade nitiatrit issue' Ileac requires anensi, in is the tenden- carefully groomed by the cast was inIs tklerreel be cy, wi-lich plagues many reimedians in contempri some scalable technical difficulties. rary circles, to amuse theillSeIVCS the expense of Despite airm En-self-indulgent behaviour from audience enjoyment or understanding; in-ioltes and time to titre, they create-el an exuberant aunt's- 'repeal until htnny' gags aren't as witty as wince may pherc, with a gi ind balance of inventive writing and think. absurd acting. There is a danger orniaterial getting VI in all the 1..ceds Teabghts Comedy Collective hackneyed alter a Tumuli li ing run but there wasn't are an entertaining hunch with a natural ability to a trace of monon my in the show. The cast were a cte.iten conifilt-rable :itnuiespher• where being silly good mix of talents, with Adam LI nderwrisid is erica Amager-1 and, god knows, everyone needs a cflimlessl• filling the role carcase clown and ( bit of silliness in their lives. (8) I Brake using his awkward and elastic physicality to TEA1.11.1111S1 flat comedy just got hotter. heighten the shows' comedic pi a coital. With char- words/ suphie andrews acters such as mu Yorkshire Spiderman% a 'spank-

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Reviews of the Week upcoming events... WELCOME The Gift' Morley mat I. nit in by writ is raw, soos.so the Literature Festival rip«. • Lewis Hyde loth -14th October ; In this book Lewis Flytie uses anthrnpolojw, ecte WORKING • notnics, folk and fain. tales to examine the role : have played and continue to play in emotional, • Now in its second year, Morel), Literature social and creative life. Hyde is interested in exam- \;1! [HI 1H Festival is expected to host an array of • exciting events to top last years success. fining the effect our current immersion in the roar- Over this five day period, there will be : ket economy has both on our view of gifts and on 1 our ability to give and receive them. Ile also posits appearances from Barrie Ruter, the - that idea that creative people have a gift of talent, founder of Northern Broads, Des Theatre : which they fed obliged to share with the world. Company with 'A one Night Stand with Barrie Rutter", and shows with local The first part looks at how gift giving works in author Ian Clayon. both primitive and modem societies and how dif- let the Northern Lights `Welcome to the Work- ferent societies have different rules concerning Visitors will be able to enjoy poetry read- gifts and ownership. For many eultutes a gift can Erase Your Name' ing, a teddy bears picnic, crazy cartoonists, ing Week' not be kept but has to be passed on, once a Oft ha, potty poets, workshops in the art of by been given it passes into communal ownership. Japanese comics, and literary readings. by The second part of the book deals primarily Vendela Vida • Paul Viltos with the commercialisation of the creative indus• trit.s and what space art inhabits in a society so driv- 'Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name' is a How to get tickets Paul Viltns has taken a daring and innovative step en by the desire to make money. By selling creative story of family lies and lonely disorientation. Claris- • forward in his literary debut "Welcome to the works are we devaluing them - is it ever right to sa's mother disappeared when she was 14. Many Tickets are available from the Morley wi irking week". The various mishaps c ,f newly charge money For art? years later, following the death of au: man she was Observer Office, the Morley Branch of single ever cynical Martin Sargent become appar- brought up to think of as her father, she impulsive- • a Althants Travel, the Carriagewurks Box ent via the epitome of modem day life - the The book is well researched, quoting From a wide ly travels to Finland in an attempt to find out where Office in Leeds City Centre or by ringing email account variety of sources to supra in the arguments made, she really came from. Finding that everything she • the following numbers; and using an in depth exploration of two particular took for granted in New York was a lie, she flees • If you've ever accidentally drank twelve cocktails and distinctly different cases of gifted people - further and further north of the Artie circle, look- Paula Truman, Festival Director during happy hour then belted our "1 will survive" Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound - to illustrate his ing for comb itt and truth amongst the members of Tel: 0113 224 3040 in front if fellow holiday makers then you will be point. He handles some complex arguments well the indigenous Sami people. • • Mobile: 07847 305 742 able to empathise with Martins various misde- and manages to pin down some pretty difficult • meanours and will undoubtedly find this bot ale concepts dearly without over simplifying them. From the opening our sense of Clarissa's Finland is ; extremely funny.Manins scathing opinion and sar- cent. Identical twins switch places and simple • castic wit also acid to the comic value. • In a world where "art" is increasingly created with requests are lost in translation. Vendela Vida More Information : the express purpose of being a saleable comma- plunges us straight into the icy and unsettling world : Whilst being written entirely from cola& is what • ty -1'V shows created to sell advertising space, for of the travelkr, and the tale only becomes darker • To get more information about the Festi- MACS this book stand out, it also : example - we arc exploiting the greatest gift we and rot ire harrowing the deeper it draws us in. The : val and download a programme of events makes it, in parts incoherent, and therefore diffi- have been given, the :its, -The more snowy Scandinavian winter - where night falls in ; simply go to the website below. cult to mad for long periods we allow such o immodin, art to define and control the middle of the afternoon - is the perfect back- • of rime. : our gifts," warns Hyde, "the less gifted we will drop to Oarissa's emotional chit A search for lost http://www.morky.gOv.uk/ However the main problem with welcome to the ; become as individuals and as a st icietv." identity might not be the most original theme for a •• working week is the !miry line. novel but Vida's clever, precise prose and intriguing Martin's drunken debacles and absurd adventures, ▪ words/ pippa demon and joe firdayson setting make this book unique. whilst entertaining, culminate • . e rata, to and apocalypse that never yutte happens and • 1 found this lxxik absorbing, beautiful and slightly v • the dosing chapter are overall disturbing. It might not warm you up on a hitter al et an anti climax_ Thatsaid I would ten immend Yorkshire afterni Han, but I promise it will be a few ; as. reading this avant-garde of hours well spent. • 111 contemporary literature. • de- words/joanna herlify • 200 7 !4dtt words/ rebecca miles

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The 115 army, obviously not Ttheir Cold War preparations, realising the shuck and awe potential of a. man sort the world's most famous astn.canme into engaging in solo rocket propulsion based the twinkling abyss we call space. 'I'hat's right; robotic over- flight, have concluded that helicopters are an 50 mars ago in ( ktober, the world's luckiest adequate solution for quick airborne action. stray dog (or unluckiest depending on your : lords to zoom: Spoilsports. Flowever, some progress has perspective), Laika, was slotted into the Sput- been made on DIV rocket packs built from nik spacecraft, and became the first living overhead in kits on the internee While iPage would not creature to boldly go where no man, or indeed recommend bidding on a "Make %our own jet- dug, had gone before. There were no plans for : ridiculously fast : pack!" auction on eBay, it seems that the 3 return journey, but Laika died a few hi nits home-built option is the best chance of suc- into the journey as it was, due to stress and flying cars. I cess, for now. overheating_ Let's just rake a moment to want the sun to What ab tut robots? SciAi of the pre- remember the sacrifice of the first dog in vious century taught us that by 2ooti we'd be space. be blotted out entertained by witty metallic manscrvants who Coming up soon is National Novel weren't as gin' its C3P() or as depressing as Writing Month. "But iPage!" I hear you shout, with amateur Marvin the Paranoid Android. More than half 'You don't write for the Books section!" But a decade later and the best science has to offer this is different. www.nanowrimo.org is an • et asks. 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BY-ELECTIONS OPEN FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER TO MONDAY 8TH OCTOBER 2007 itidtitdtistif4tilrAtif Leeds Student E www.leedsstudent.org,uk I Friday, October 05, 2007 :37 Sexed up or dumbing down? Henry VIII size servings of sex and violence in The Tudors prompts Madeleine McGarrie to ask 'are historical dramas going stupid?'

t is somewhat misleading to label the raunchy portraits of a tat hairy man with gout - not series loosely based on (m)famous periods of entertainment) and more pomistry (porn history), and raucous series 'The Tudors' a typical forgetting a face one would think only a mother history. It's the kind of educating-while- BBC 2 seems to be catching up with the Ihistorical drama. It follows Henry VIII in his could love - its hard to believe his success with the entermining fitrmula 'Rome' exploited so reality that on modern TV 'sex sells'. And wenties - young, virile and violent - on his Ladies. successfully. A show that - despite many their tweaking of historical events for tpward path as powernil ruler and desperate to This is where 'The Tudors' steps in. It's the complaints about its lack of historical maximum drama could be seen to be is remembered as such. Unfortunately for us his drama that could very well change how we think accuracy - finished its second series earlier dumbing down to satisfy a more carnal • , public image is as the most famous of henry VIII irrevocably. With a sexy and this year and was nominated for seven audience, But - and it's a big but - this youthful Hairy played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers Emmy awards. drama does what no dry history and an array of busty wives and mistresses this is With this scrap-opera style lesson could. It shows Henry and • far from a typical st lted 131130 production. clement encroaching into his collection of boozy and Viewers might • i have to wake up to Viewers might have to wake up to the shocking history programmes will we o bosomy peers as passionate, realisation that Henry VIII turns them on. see the reverse occur breathing people with big the shocking It is not surprising that The Tudors' writer too? Will Galileo appear - personalities and even realisation that Henry : Michael Hirst also wrote the Oscar- winning film in 'I i.astaiders' \ bigger libidos. In this Elizalx:th. Expect the same corset heaving episodes ordering pints respect does it truly : VIII turns them on. bosoms, political Clnspiracies, and assassinations. in The Vic? Is Isaac ' • bring history to Iife? • . . . I'm not sure the amount of romping taking place Newton to become Maybe it is time WC would have been all that pleasant in a tiine when entangled in a love triangle sec Henry as the sex bese historical figure of all time. In his twilight baths were taken once a year and without any on 'Coronation Street'. stud and power hungry ens, poor old Henry even had a bed four meters toothpaste in sight "Ihte real Tudors were just It has to be said that young man he really ide due to his colossal weight and needed special plain dirty. maybe The Tudors' is Was befOre he arc too edurainmem ipes and pulleys to lift him in and nut of it We The drama folk ws the same kind of sex-and- less HENRY: Who knew he many pies. I know his six wife story but when we sec violence charged blueprint used in other popular (educative could Ime this sultry? On yet soapbox 3,ver scoffed on your pot noodle as Neighbours or Hollyoaks reveals another ridicu- ous storyline to you? Here's your chance to do better...

'hat: This week it's time for PMT driven Nancy How: Nancy finally decides that she wants to of take tan, (the salon gets through slot of it as the residents of meet a swift and mysterious end. I can't stand kill Justin, and after drinking a few pints in The Hollyoaks insist on having a healthy orange glow). Due to her rr cat in a blender voice or her hypocritical Dog for courage, she blunders out into the drunken state Nancy looses her balance and falls into one of the ante towards Justin. Her relationship with ex- street. In the dead of night she makes her way to vats. She tries ro scream but she is soon overcome by the liquid anher in law Jake Dean just doesn't make any Justin's house but in her haste she realises she's and drowns. In the morning her corpse has disappeared — has :nsc either. If she was that upset about forgotten the murder weapon. The only thought she escaped later to emerge as someone who looks like n cross coca's death would she jump in bed with that occurs to her is to break into the Beauty between Gene Simmons and the sr dead sister's husband? No. This proves Salon to find a pair of scissors, or at least some Joker? Onh time will tell. tat Nancy's heart is as black as the layers of hair removal cream to do some damage to his an-conformist eyeliner she puts on every eyebrows. words/ harrier knowles cek. Also, Nancy simply doesn't fit in Hol- After Nancy has broken in she notices a door oaks. She's too pale compared to the rest of has been left ajar and there is a strange smell coming le cast and her crown of being 'the only Goth from the room beyond. Her curiosity gets the better t the village' is fast being taken away from her b3 of her and she walks towards the door. Upon reaching aurcn Valentine. It she finds it leads to a secret basement, full of large vats ROBIN HOOD: Would he have got The Argument: an ASBO? Which of the these tight wearing thieves deserves to rule Sherwood? Maid Marian Robin Hood

Maid Marian and her Nlerry Men' is a more realistic representation of the leg- • 'Robin Hood' may not have the same calibre of comedy quirks that :ad of Robin Hood than the BBC's version ever could he. Maid Marian was • 'Maid Malian' had but it does try for humour in its own little way. lortrayed a strong character who bossed Robin I food around. V'hile the • The show di tesn't force the belly laughs that were be created by a rapping rasta but a small smile and an inner giggle is possible from the htice of Thieves' was an absolute wimp about as useful as a wet cabbage_ • 'Ind I'm nor being sexist - I think this show got the gentler divides just right. eheesey and predictable humour of this 'play it safe' drama. NI ine•the Maid Marian' also stays true to life as the peasants were gap-toothed, muddy • less it's all round family fun with stunning fight scenes, scenery and stars. tad physically reptdsive: like peasants at the time, It's in hoar try books. This is • The main difference is that 'Robin Hood is a dean, safe and carefully craft- n contrast to the models that prance about in 'Robin Htiod'. It's strange that • ed show. 'Maid !Hainan' was an ad hoc eombinantion of witty characters letmplc who can't afford food can afford to highlight their cheek bones. Fans of • and a poor ltudia.a. 'Robin flood maybe lacks a bohemian feel but it is Maid Mari;ttt' will also agree with me that the main thing missing in Pm 'Robin • clearly the moreire isteally sophisticated version. ru'ild is the interludes of the rapping rasta - classic. • words/ barrio knowles words/ maddy megarie •

Leeds Student WWW I eed ii(lerttmr-_,.,111, Friday, October 05 , 2007 1 Picks of the week: Terrestrial What to watch for all those still living in the dark ages.

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• • I Friday Saturday Friday a The X Factor 6.45- 7.45pm ITV 1 • • ei Showcase Channel 4 1 0:( ,Oprn • • Cringing already? I know l am. Those teenage • • For those of you who aren't going out on the piss wannabes belting out their favouritet,bltrdesmup•hli,lity Stiomhoirsi • tonight perhaps Channel 4's 'Comedy Showcase' will • • Cowell sits criticall!, staring - be of interest. It's a series of exclusive specials • sympathy gland cut off by those high waisters. At least a featuring young comic talent from across the U.K.. I • this series the producers have supplied sonic eve- which this week has Martin Freeman playing failed • • candy in the loin) of the lesser Minogue sister. When • a child magician Greg Wilson. After being humiliated on will she give up and learn that Kylie has trounced her • a a TV phone-in back in 1986 Greg is now a sofa in the popularity suikes? However, the questi, on on the • • salesman who falls into a bizarre and unfortunate • • tip of every' student's tongue is whether this year's • • chain of events after meeting an old fan. Whether or winner will match the smouldering good .looks of the • a nor this proves to be funny is another matter, but you !awed Shaync Ward._ that is until he attempts to • • never know... a • SHANE: As badly speak. a words/ alasdair bulmer dry sstNI as Ugly words/ kat cooper • • Betty? • • • • •

Sunday Monday Tuesday I Betty Channel 4 2.10pin Banged lip Abroad Channel Five 10:(10pin Grumpy Guide to...Work BBC-2 10:00pm

Tilts week sees the return of 'Ugly Betty' to our screens The phrase "Check your bagsr clearly stemmed from There is nothing a student likea: more than to have a good with a brand new season and Sunday is the second' prognimmes such as this, as our parents always seem to ram about the crappy under-paid part-time job they have chance to sec it. 'the final episode of the first series left fear the worst as we set of 4)Il our exotic travels. The to put up with. Well, watch this and you won't he alone. us with many unanswered questions such as will Betty fear Iwo anus reality in 'bane ed Up Abroad' as victims The usual paunchy middle-aged celebs gather for another and I ienry ever get together? liow is I litchi. going to are bribed t ir accosted into smuggling some sort cif illegal bitter half hi-sir of moaning, this time ithrwr the woes of cope with Santo's death? Will .I.Vilhelmina be successful thing in or out of a ch■'hen country. AWaiugh we are the workplace. However youthful 1:011. are, you'll find in her attempt to take over Mode? And has Alexis sur- endeared by Paul and Jim at first - is usual with these yourself nodding sagely over your 0.14.74ra- as they slate CVs. vived the car crash? We still have the brilliantly camp types of offences and the baffling Met anpraiensible bosses and interviews. They even deliver some tips on Justin and his a fantastic, if a little disturbing, knowledge legal processes that folk nes - it transpires that the cul throwing a sickle • nor that st at ever would. of course. of faShitin. Mark's incredible bitchiness is still there. prits are guilty as sin anyway. Ironically, none of these grousers have set toot in an office aswell. Stay tuned for a guest appearance from Victoria for years, or had t.I put up with the minimum wage. Guts. Beckham. words/ clizabeth gamy words/ rose hampton words/ anna hornet!

***** •as a • • • 0 • • • Wednesday Thursday • a • I My Body I id] Channel Five 8.0l 1pm Five Beauty Addicts Channel 4 8:00pm • • • • • As this already saturated market spews out another Cosmetic companies are always- throwing, buzz words at offering I know it'll have to out do Guk Wait and his Nlv new .shampoo has keraflex in it which is • .naked lady billboards for me to sit up and lisitat. Vith this sun-. ised use make my hair nice and shiny. But what is • episode featuring Alex Best, famous for her deceased, keraflex exactly? Does it have the desired effect or am a alcoholic ex. and 'housewitc Michelle,' should we really lust covering my hair with rat p lison? With the amtitalt 1 if • expect great. things? An hi iur of pnibabh average cosmetics available tOr Mtn and women growing mix moaning ab iut their no doubt fairly average bodies might day maybe we need to start thinking about what is in the just tip me over into longmg for a tummy tax•s whilst cosmetics usc, Sarah Beene looks at how makeup chomping away on my humpra. pack I rf Ntilmscrs. t )ther worn by pregnant women affects their children and • confectionary Items arc available as I'm sure are other discusses the habits of two sisters who spend a dui tusand • • programme ideas. Anyone else $..tetting the urge to kick the pounds each month on looking, good. Scary stuff -you'll BEM: Love those pritclucers in then perfectly flat so anachs...? never look at eyebrows- Girl, you got your Ma:Jac-ow the sante way again. words/ kat cooper words/ harriet knowles it going on • • • • a a a • I • Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007 39 'Picks of the week: Freeview What to watch for all you lucky devils with cable!

Friday Saturday I • Mean Girls Film 4 9:1-111prn The Mummy ril '2 9:45pm • • • Maybe Lindsey Lohan took this film a little us, far by The feeling I pot as a young impressionable teenager • becoming a teal life mean girl. Still, despite her presence, watching 'The Mummy' for the first time was an • 'Mean Girls' is a surprisingly influential piece for overwhelming sensual, sexual henry off actiiin. humour / • contemporary culture. It popularised the term 'fitgly' and and romance. My desires were pulled between the teaches us to avoid the cruel double speak of 'plastic dangerously alluring heart-throb Brendan Fraser to the a • wanabees in everyday life. Not forgetting the sub-plot cheeky lovable rogue John I lannah and even charmed r• I 0 message that algebra can he used to get hunks guys. Who by the 'clever but ditsv' Rachel Weis. Looking hack on it a • knew? This is the film you watch with every mtenuon of now those terrifying CGI Mummies may not look (Oft a 0 giving outright scorn to and at some point you turn from so impressive but the speed and jolly good fun of the I laughing at it to laughing with it. Like stun: kind of script pull me into this film time and time again. Also ►• At uncanny yet pleasurable mind control. if you will. note humorous little technical inconsistencies such as a PLASTICS: GivmThe 0 Mummy with a watch in the opening scene of the film. S.pice Girls a run for - I words/ maddy mcgarrie their money. II words/ maddy mcgarrie , 4 _•••

Sunday Monday The Sopranos t):30pm Phi nh 1:00pm

Arriving into the bustness end of the siNth season the Din:ctorloel Schumacher teams up with the tempestu- uncompromising and intense 'Sopranos' throws up ous and enigmatic Colin Farrell ui this thriller. Farrell's another feast of all things gangster, The first ten min- character is an arrogant and sell-serving publicist who utes produces a massive turn in the plot anal from that finds himself held hostage in a New pork phone booth point on the episode plunges hack into its usual web of by a sniper camouflaged somewhere in the surrounding deceit, lies and exploitation. Vegas provides the back- urban landscape. The hilm surprisingly throws up drop fir this episode as Big Tony ups and flees to the sequences of real action and suspense despite the obvi- capital of glamour and gambling. This particular ous cinematic rimstraints the phone luxxh preseius. The installment of The Sopranos' won the director Alan only criticism is the late revelation of Knife- Sutherland .1-aylor an Emmy for capturing the delirious atm' is. as the 'haddie' and the missed opporriimi for some lark rhea: of the episode with such exeetmon. Bauer style contribunr BILLIE DE JOUR: Call girl? Who would have though it. words/ tom angel! words/ torn angel!

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At times this comedy can reach such a humorous height This is the show that brings films like The Sting'. 'Catch Billie Piper stars in this raunchy drama based around even King Kong couldn't scale it At times it is quite Me If You Can' and 'Con Air' to life. (Wait scratch that the an, Ira m, rus h1.1., ,s, of Belle de Jo fur, a high class call mystifyingly bland. But the good bits scrioush outweigh Iasi tine.) It exposes some (q the newest corns as well as girl. For those who remember Billie as ehavtastie Dr the bad meaning that even- time von consume .1 bit of showing the workings behind them, through carrying \\lc§ assistant Rose, or as a corset-clad lads from the family Guy pie v u'11 feel happy. And your hells will be them nut on unsuspecting civilians. The triumvirate of very prim and proper 'Mansfield Park', this might Metaphorically. Spc.iktng of bellies it wrath" he tricksters consists of a smug, chubby one (the brains), a seem like a but of a career change. In this episode Belle 11 faces a dilemma, is it okay to sleep with another client, r • intriguing to see who would win a sumo wrestling fight suave, sophisticated one (the brawn), and a standarills between Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson: two of gorgeous blonde (the beauty) clearly used to dupe male when her first client is comatose in the hotel room I • alter a night of passion? You've got to wonder if cartoon's heavyweights. Warning: Do nut rcguFgkatc marks more easily. While 'The Real Hustle' informs us glamorising prostitution is really good honest British I • any funny lines you hear while attiring. Repetition kills how to guard against .falling victim in certain seams, It • comedy quicker than an A I:47 with bullets of solid could also wive unscrupulous students inspiration for program-rung, but then again this is fri -2, 4 uranium ever could. how to fill an empty wallet. I • words/ lattrie whitwell words/ laurie whitwell words/ harriet knowles

• I I I • MMMMM • • • • • • a • • M 014 Friday, October o5, 2007 Observations This week I explore the options for hard up Students and hard up Communist dictator- ships who need to make a bit of cash on the side, and ponder the abuse I received for not being racist. I'm also helped by Harriet Hernando who vents some spleen on a par- ticularly dubious fashion must-have for , those ovine students who take the concept of being society's sheep just a little too liter- / ally...

vcr wondered how much money you could earn from couple of days ago someone who u ill remain name. lease don't read this if you A) sore easily offended, 13) have selling your body? Well seeing as nnaia of sex workers less, and shall he referred to as 'a friend of a Friend', just spent a borax! part of your student It rem on some and in Leeds arc students then chances arc vou might well asked me what course I Was doing. This was idle wished you'd kept the receipt, C) don't know la ow to laugh have done. Sarah, a 20 year old from Edinburgh-study- small-talk in my kitchen while he was waiting for at yourself, because no doubt I'm going to tread on some- ing business studies, is a typical example 4 of rite prob- someone to get ready, following his initial opening one's toes. Not that you'll feel it with 6 inches of sheepskin the you to statement when he walked into my house and saw me reading betweenp us, Now don't get me wrong, attacking popular student lem.E "It's disgusting some of people have sleep with. A but I need the money," said Sarah, "Lam week I carol I I ,■00, on a newspaper: 'Oh, you're reading The Independent - are you stereotypes isn't a habit of mine. That's until they getout of band, and a quiet week von can earn L500 or £7110. 1 aaa ouldn't hr at college pretending to he intelligent or something?' Funny stuff. Seeing I titel it's my duty as an upstanding member of society to ) do something if I wasn't escorting, as I wouldn't have had the money to do it," as I was home alone at the time it would have been a fairly and enlighten everyone. Ugg boots. are glorified socks, With any luck A harsh realna-. One slightly seedy website said that from a poll of self-deluding activity. But maybe that says s. imedung about they'll meet the same fate as the mullet. Remember the mullet, that 34,00n punters visiting prostitutes, they found the average price the type of person we are dealing with here. In reply to his rat's tail that you fondly twined around your finger? Or would you was Li 24. Obviously what you oiler as 'extras' determines how question about my course 1 said that I was studying a Masters rather nor? The mullet reared its ugly head and Cattle hack with much that price can vary, degree in Post-CoIonial Literary and Cultural Studies, tic • IP 0 • II•0 But what arc the other ways no earn money from your body? asked what that was, and I brie It said, in the most basic of • • Weil YOU could always Consider il tnore mid-term rental agree- terms for the most basic . of people, a criteria that 1 assumed he • • ment instead of a short term one. Surrogacy can bring you in fitted into pretty well, what it entailed. Essentially its about lit- around [12,00(1 on average, but .tetrtin there arc variables: who erature from the period following colonisation and About why I'm a cave dwelling You do it for counts for one. And that money is collected over certain people do and write about certain things. 'What, like nine months. Charlie Daniels. 42 year old owner of Pussycats why an Pakis are cants?' troglodyte and I like to massage park= in the centre. of town said that a student working More than slightly surprised at this answer to put it lightly, part time in a brothel could earn L31 i,t it In in a year, just because of 1 simply replied: "Um, no mate. Not quite." And then I turned stomp around with my the demand for voung, educated girls. around, in fairly evident disgust, and turned up the TV. "Oh, The exploitation of childless couples seems to be a regular are you in a mard now?" "No, I'm just not a racist and I don't feet embalmed in wool. money-making ploy for scant . In America selling your sperm can find it on the slightest bit, funny." "What, but they are all

earn you Val a pe tp. but as is 'then die way, women can get a bit emus," he said almost as if be was in shock that I didn't agree, ************ •••• a 05 • fr • o a • • • el ***** more cash for their conuoudities; women's eggs can retail at or not find what he said amusing. Suffice to say he left my 1.2,000÷, house shortly afterwards. Now 1 recounted this story to some a vengeance in the Ludy 21st century, modestly surfacing as a quirky 'In l'aagland you'll be thanked with a cup of tea and a choco- of my friends and it was met, without exception, with shock. A new fashion trend until n eventually became a fully fledged fashion late biscuit for giving up a pint of your blood., but elsewhere you couple of people suggested that in was perhaps a badly placed faux pas. The inuller got out of hand so we ridiculed in now it's the Ugg can earn a little hit more than that. The US will give you ti. cheque joke, an ill-judged attempt at a comedic ice-breaker. Not exact- hoot's turn, for $300 for donating a pint of plasma, and in China you're look- ly the most amusing opener, nor do I think it was a joke. On a cold winter's day at uni the boot crew cart be observed ing, at around $100, and the rarer your blood group, the more vote At 27, 1 would have thought that this man, someone who from afar amongst clusters of gregarious girls. The Ugg boot is often gel. Now internal commodities are the way h i gi it- you're really works with different people every day, froth all backgrounds, accompanied by equally cliched clothing pyjamas with a crotch that after the big bucks, but unfortunatelylatee n' ...enese :I i have come red would have known better. As we' know, racism is borne out of must, by obligation, reach below the knees, and an over-washed uni- the market on this one. I i'xecuting 6,01 a 1 pet [pie a year on aye loge, a combination of [pittance and stupidity, among other social versity hoody, Another favourite is the denim-mini. combio for the according to Amnesty International, com- and cultural bearings during formative more adventurous of the woolly stompers. It's almost as though the Ugh oof emerged when a lazy student rolled c out of bed And into a lec- pared to America's 60, China seem to have a iblems with fees? years_ And he's going into the Police , Icor of spare parts floating around. And health- Why not sell one of thse? Force. And that leaves me kind of ture in their pyjamas and slippers and some bright fashion...sea hap- care professionals there aren't afraid to make stumped. This is an individual who fails pened to be nearby. the most of them. In 1998 IlArry Wu, a to distinguish between the individual In Australia and New Zealand, sheepskin bixots have long been human-rights worker in China alleged that he and the grinip. We therefore must make pi.polar with people- in niell i occupanons, who have ready access to was approached by a man who wanted to sell that distinction and sec, as should be raw materials, such as sheep shearers. There are clearly no sheep in him "50 primmer:, on Death Row over the quite clear, that this man aloes ma repre- Ixeds me one and cat my shoe), so what statement arc these next year-. Ilk jartees $25,010 for a liver, sent the entire Police Force. But how city goers trying to make? 'I'm a 'ewe dwelling trog,lodyte and I like to L20,0011 for kidneys, And corneas and pan- can we stop people like this pervading all stomp around with my feet embalmed in wool" or "I'm nostalgic creases flu- $5,000 a pair. This Was later On- public sectors, and society in general. In about my childhood and I can't let go of my baby booties." ' roborated by an undercover reporter and by the paper this week we saw the furore Who arc you frit \VeAring your slippers ro tint only makes the FBI. But as only 25% of die 78,000 organ surrounding the 'I ory aide blacking up you look like an over zealous )iley runner from the pajama party. ;Ltd transplants needed• will ever hr met, is it any- and being called a ilk minstrel' by the impracticality! What do you do when it rains with these sheepskin wonder why people desperate for their lives het co-workers. Without wishing to sponges? Please don't tell the you wear plastic bags inside your boots? arc traveling 1, o n.:Iiina to get them? ( the Amer- sound overly sant- nru, mums, racism is, Cab you do'? Well i,olaviously one must:gra-to such lengths to avoid get- io.n surgeon was invited to China to perform and, as hong as \',c let it, will continue to ting trench toot in the concrete juriOe that is Leeds university campus.- a heart transplant operation. 1 •i-a .n asking how be all around us, and its up to not only krill so die 1,.!jeg- boot trend rages on, claiming new victims day-by- they knew A heart would be re-,d\ during his trip there. lie was society, btu also the individual to make a stain], lay . When will it stop? tear not, comrao-6, for climate change is on the told! that the e xecurit on date would be changed to acomumidare way, and with any luck in a oluple of years Leeds will be basking in him. I lc declined the invitation. But are they aware that people, eternal sunshine and there'll be nu need for the lig. thot, if you maybe wrongly- accused, on Death Row, might be killed to order can't bear cm, pin cm. Everyone else on campus has. as a IncanS to give that permit) the organ they need to survive 11 least you you k ROW how touch your body is worth_ words/ alex gilchrisr words/ alex gil christ (again) words/ harrier bernando Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007

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• • • • ...... Tommy Pockets Tells Your Future World-renowned, 813-year-old astrologer Tommy Pockets (pictured here on the Titanic) lays down the secrets of your mystic week. AWL 111=11.i.;i There'S a brand new relationship on The hlin- • Mones is your driving force this week Philipinu nursemai‘ I sightings :trc 1111port:Ln1 in 7on. fall madly in love with the 732nd permits and forces all other aspects of your life to Sagittarius this week. If one you should spy, a you clap your eyes c in this week. But beware! Num- ehe put on the backburner. the first rule Of money- choice you will face. Give up your dreams of suc- bers 731 and 733 are tiolent burglarises so he pre- making is that you do not talk about moneymaking. cess or your dreams of love.. E.g. Don't become a cise and keep count well. Your lucky bodt. pan. is Shit. I just broke the fucking rule didn't I Darren? champion wakeboander or Ewan MacGregor will the pancreas. Your lucky body part is the sciatic nerve. die. Your lucky body part is the eyeball.

411=1 , IMO "t5 MD rtni Keep your head down because Saturn is dictat- wish or dream comes true this week. It could Apples and Monkeys. Grab hold of teal with ing a =helm time For you, i am on a plane writing be the Opportunity to learn the piano. it could be a all your god/allah/buddha given strength. Mon- this so that may be the turbulence. I also have vio- reunion with a lost love [ir it could be rough anal keys will obviously be a hit trickier so in their place lent stomach rumblings so that may be the turbo- sex with a drunken Irish poet. All of which are the fates will allow hairy first year boys. knee_ I'm also having a shit in one of those toilets Noised by Fupiter's mia ins in the their second ovu- You will also have an exciting encounter with a that vibrate and massage you so that may be the lation. Your lucky body part is the inferior thyroid lion bar in the mernon centre. Your lucky Ili xlv turbulence. Your lucky hotly part is the brain. vein. part is the little linger. 11,14" AAA I 4.-aming Welsh was not a good idea so stop it A misguided sporting adventure results in glori- Your ingenious idea of making fee abidl like box- and become a sexual terrorist. Your new role's ous.consequences. Broken hones equal love in dan- ing so that you only have to beat. the champions to duties include becoming a suicide hummer and try- gerous times. Society's rules dictate that an upper- become the champions makes Celtic champions of ing to attack forces that are occupying your territo- class gentleman like yourself should never fall in Europe and Coventry the best team in Britain. For ries. By which I mean wily in your fanny. Your love with a milkman's daughter. She tastes like cow girls: Shoes and Glitter and ethnic drapes. Your lucky body part is the left testicle. wet. Your lucky hod',' part is text. lucky body part is the I t.arlobe. .513- Chitral( Moustachioed lecturers will move in the same With the right shoes you will qualify. for BBC per- A spiritual experience may change your life this astral circles as you this week. It is imperative that sonality of the year. Don't get your hopes up week. You may stop swearing or you may start on days containing the magic number 3 you should because you will be beaten by Jemaine from Hight shaving. It's dependent t in the circumstances. Pluto .avoid receiving oral sex from them. Tache-leeches of the Conchords. Don't fed to bad because he will in your chaffinch orbit suggests a cautionary thrive on such days and will cat you from the inside die a painful death of syphilis in about 13 months approach to semen, although really that's just good nut if you're not careful, Your lucky body part is time. Swings and roundabouts. Your lucky body' hygeine anyway, so fuck it. Your kicky body part is the calmneus. part is the hears. the medulla oblongata. 42 Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007

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Andrew Greer people to get out there. how do you think our teams will Andrew Greer LS: What activities and societies have fare this year? Ic Activites Officer you been involved in? AG: Well, hopefully we can keep our AG: I \vas involved in the Music Sc teicty current ranking (I Fith) or maybe LS: Hi Andy, had a good day? and the Stage Music Society. I loved it_ It MONT even Yes thanks, was really good fun. 1 helped t' chores) further up the tables, hopefully mov LS: Why did you decide to take the job graph three shows- I had a great viewcrd' litc in ahead of the Met this season as the first ever 'Activities Officer'? in societies at University; it encouraged me We're really trying to push the per- AG: Well, last year t developed an active to gclf Tt are' involVCd as activities officer. forrnance sports_ it's all about getting interest thrtiugh w,-,rking with the more people involved. I'm really performa.nce societies, 1 mails enjoyed it proud of all c cur sports teams; they're show- executive go down to the info point in the and through that I progressed onto the ing great dedication. Many teams ate com- union and talk to students. We char about posit ion I'M in 001%. I was involved ing into Lim for training sessions at half anything and everything, we like re.i hear the LS: How did the role come to exist? seven. That takes an incredible amount of student's issues, find out what matters to NC: The overall plan for the I 'niversity was in the Stage dedication. them. it keeps us in rOtlal with the stu- Always to create an 'activity officer' posi- Music Society. 1 LS: Roves the preparation for the varsi- dent and it's the best part of our job; tion. It cams: directly rfOln the Executive ty next week coming? going out and talking to slime really cool restructure. They realised that the previous loved it. 1 helped to .\G: The staff Are ;ill pulling together to get people. atusity officer and spoils ',tact were both things ready. We's-e got all the fixtures LS: How're you settling into the office? thong the Same job, this year we've com- choreograph three down, more than last year in fact. This year AG: We'vrreartanged the place; it's more bined the tsyci and brought it under one women's 5quash and men anti women's spacious.now. People can come and chat banner of the activity officer. So basically shows. cricket arc irollYekl. to us and sit on our tuff chairs! We're all handle the sports as well as the activities. LS: What's the headline game of vane- getting on really well. As a new ream we're LS: How have you found the lob so far? ty? trying to put our stamp on the place, NG: I love the job, I really enjoyed meeting ACS: The Rugby's the big one. .Last year all the groups in intro week. \Vie had differ- LS: Have you ever been involved with -ISM people turned out to sec us bear ent themed days all week. It was a great the sports at Lin'? the Wt. People will he keen to sec it repeat success. AG: I went to water poi/ t a couple e,f times. performance, and there's alwass a great LS: So far hew have you encouraged Irllr tinfDrEunairly I didn't have enough atmosphere at the Rugby. We're keen to The Rugby's students to join the sports. teams and UM( set keep it up. That's an interesting beat the Met again. activities? sport_ They'll obviously benefit from the LS: Do you think we can win? the big one. Last AG: Thai's realty up to the individual new pool. AG: I'm sure well be winners no matter };[cups themselves. '11.X.'e've coo nirageti all LS: Could you tell us a bit about that? wharf year 4,000 people the groups to he out and about campus, to AG: The pool won't be ready until 2009; it LS: Could you tell us a bit about the be really .visual, rather than being stuck in will be a fantastic addition to University weekly surgery that the Executive turned out to see the hail or something. So far we've had life, catering for our diverse student popu- holds? some great per fontances attracting people lation. NG: Yeah, ev-en week on a Thursday from us beat the Met. in teems .around campus. really encouraging LS: With BUSA just around the corner one o'clock utrul three officers from the Varsity win is a possibilty, says Wates tennis "It 15 our hope this year for the first team to win the Varsity march, for the first team to win the first Clivkion and for the•second team VarNitv Preview 1 ,, get promoted to the first division. These ials may seem anibuitos but we believe they are definitch feasible." Picitirt the scent:. Wimbledon finals day Altl0mgh the men's second string were ;Lod Tiger Tim I Penman is preparing himself Uri lottunatelt relegated to the second divi- leer the game or his Ine versus Roger Fedeter, sic in, the,, will 1014: to bounce back up at the A.Irhosigh such a scenario Is now beyond the first attempt and will see this week's derby realists of reality, there are t•w:c from the matches as the perfect opportunity to kick the Leeds University Tennis Club whit still har- season oil'. Second rearm Captain. Adam bour hope of such a day. Although the Decries, in particular will be hoping for a tw ds cef SW I') may hive to wait, Wee twotid change in fortunes in court this year. will stage both the men's and wcirnen's Vatse The Leeds University Tennis club cimststs 4 IV matches this conking week and it is sure to of around members and train on Saiurday seo..e up a treat_ mornings at Weetwood. With the clubs Mien- All hi nigh Nall the men's and women's Min I. bridge the gap between social tennis tennis were smashed last year, q- I and /1-.1 players and those turning out fur the universi- 4 respectively, revenge is sure to be on the ty doubles, lets all hope for a gciod -season, agenda omit- Wednestia. The men's team in starting with the Varsiti matches. r II' "I particular will be leading the charge. They tin The Men's Basketball team were (outdone last shed second in the Ill ISA Northern Division year I is Me Met, at iingllc At it to their rivals 57-96. I last season. and such a standing should act A stn wig Met side ti icik the lead in and -never as du_ spring hoard for nh ire. success this cur- looked like relinquishing ci innol oldie match, rent campaign_ starting on the courts -versus despite a late Leeds tightback. • nu- rivals, The Met. doubt this year the Leeds side will he our to First ruarn captain, l/ix WareS, a third prove a point, especially s the Met are no lortl,rer in !, ear Geography student. hole ses this year 10 the same league, ibis may be the only their only be especially important, with progression high chance to secure local hewing right for rltc sea- _APAction from last Near's On the agenda: son ahead. Varsity basketball Leeds Student Friday, October 05, 2007 45 t' ••••••••• The Rugby World Cup Can the Davids slay the Goliaths in the t modern game?

for our country. In 1 tji we just play with the by Joe ( course, the game is popular in Aus- heart." Barnsley tralasian islands but the sheer size ref 1110SC by Joe Hibbert It is that heart and determination to win nations, or lack thereof, is a major handicap. that saw the south-pacific side beat Wales in -The population of Samoa (214,265) is less Nantes at the weekend, ending the Gareth It's amazing what a few good results can do. than half that in- Leeds (45(1,247 — god bless Jenkins era in dramatic fashion. The thing They can turn a journeyman into a national wiktpedia!) and there just aren't the fans to The rugby World Cup has been David's Fijians used their running game to overturn hero, they can justify the purchase of various. sustain a professional network of teams, best hour against the Gohaths tai the game. the Welsh in a closely fought contest. Both novelties bearing the flag and even attract a Many leagues are amateur, as in Together the Flying Fijians and the :1 rgen sides scored sumptuous tries but it was the bus full of politicians to claim lifelong pas- Argentina, or simply under-funded.

taws arc injecting a shot of unpredictability Fijians who had the extra edge to come out sion for a sport in which they sin ,wed no pre- 2242.22242.422=T249-+ into a tournament that has perhaps grown on top. vious interest. stale in recent years. This same deteremnani in is evident in the In Mr. Ifiblacrt's case, it seems to have 41. just can't imagine The stunning victory for the Pumas at the :Argentinean side in their victory against Ire- betrayed his Yorkshire bintal and caused a World Cup's curtain raiser against France has land. The Pumas' captain Agustin Pichnt led bypass of cnrnmon sense. Thu idea that the many Argentinean set the tone for the rest of the tournament. by caample with an outstanding perform- Fijian revolution is just around the corner children forming impromp- Argentina and the self styled 'flying Fijians' ance, as _Argentina spanked the Irish all over laughable. ilt will be televised, but only on have, between them, felled the might of Ire- the capital city in front 447.870 eager fans. -tu scrums on the beach . land, Wales and France so far, Sports fans love the underdog. It's a fact. Nin.v don't get me wn mg, I was raised nn II • • a • -e • • • '0 • OOOOOOOOOO • 49:11.211 ,-.22WOLt Ben Curtis winning the British open in 2(11)3. the Mighty Ducks so I Inre a good underdog • ( ;recce winning the Fun mean cup in 2004, story as much as the next man, and for stark - lot example the Fitian league pays its players a We don't play for Wimbledon beating Liverpool in the F.A one with a St. George's cross shove- his bed paltry j.",-111 week! Compare this to the Cup final in 1988. Similarly, these two the sight of Welsh tears at the Mdleimium will salaries stars such as Jonny Wilkinson pick up money, we play. nations have caught the imagination of the always be a pleasant one. However. I can't and you can see why the exodus of players world's sports fans. as well as the adoring accept the analysis that a few great games adds from smaller nations will keep happening. for the love of it. We press, with the same underdog spirit. up to a trend. Without clubs and the money tic support to write them (ill as little more than We are talking about rugby and quite sim• them, the necessary coaching to develop pas- play for our country. plucks would be a mistake. There's much ply, rugby needs tnfrastru•ture. The estab- sionate youngsters is in short supply. At the more to the flying Fijians and the Pumas than lished nations prosper not because of a divine serf' heart nt the rugby is teatnwtirk. which In Fiji we just play the underdog tag. They are part right but because rugby is institutionalised in u can't practise in ynur back garden. of the new wave of second tier the education system. A deepli tactical game requires expert with the heart . . . teams that are marching into I personally may have repressed the memo coaching, which at the moment seems to be the spotlight and they are both ries of H. but I'm pretty sure I had a go at meentrated on choreographing t he haka. part of the future of the sport. SC hool, whereas I can't imagine that many (Nof that I'm slagging off the haka! It's very cool. Pease don't heat me up!) OtL226•642•0•E• For years teams like New Argentinean Zealand have claimed play - children The effects of this can be seen clearly in making- the competition a nightmare for one etc- from Fiji and have gone A les r to two trends; Lower fitness levels and the exo- exactly half of the illustrious six nations. on to clo fantastic things 1- impromp- dus of the brightest stars. flow man) games While previous World Cups have been with the All Blacks. Now - in this year's tournament have seen the under- marred by poor performances from the sec- that Fiji are fast becoming a scrums dogs get stuck in early but fade away, Cana- ond tier nations who have sadly not lived up force more of their young stars on the da's 2nd half collapse agamst Wales the best In expectations, regularly being sent !infra' will want to play for their h example. in break through to the next level, before the quarterfinals, this year has been home nation, At least, that is y the hesi need to play with the best. different. the hope. nt u r c As a union expert once said to cue. "The The Argentines and Fijians are undeniably The Fijians and Argen- then it's ultimate symind in' New Zealand rugby is the success stories of the 211417 World Cup. tines will march much likely Jonah I Anzio, and he's (rum Tonga!" o play by thc big This tournament will always be remembered further in Ihis conme ti- chit\ r The smaller nal inns have t by their heroics no matter what the outcome tit in, especially as the team's rules, witness Italy's begging to join the ts on the 20th in the Stack de France. If you Pumas face a very - ans then live nations competitinn in order that doubt their title credentials, take a long look winnable game will they could be hammered annually, not just into the eyes of Fiji centre Sart, Rabeni and against Scotland ever)' four years. This year's World Cup has created a new then try to helieve that they are not up fur once more in the — rugby r et generation.of rugby fans hut has ni it changed the final at the Stack de France. capital, and it will the undisputable facts of the- sport. No matter The passionate Fijians are not driven by take a lot to stop spurts what the score-sheet tells you. wealth or fame like perhaps some of the them from going which more established nations are; as Rabeni puts to New Zealand in a 1 I o tau T i) /oc, liarntley persent.t Final Whittle retry I rida It "We don't have the resources and finances 201 I with the Cup. fix/ell 1-2 and every :Hoist ',vv., 0,1 of Wales. But we love Rugby. We don't play ,b•se. money, we play i; it the love of it. We play Your Comments... - that he., I chink that the race n. rcp1a Aveun cannt will keep us tf classic yu, ties Mi.71thc last toy Nears As a Manchester Intiteci fiat I think its f:antasuc pine But the neutral will clefinatley niiss his intuit its pre,. coenaracil ts,,,,v that Mourirth,, I us gout_ - Stephen Welsh, 19, Droaticasu Journalism ottit.Ctaleeti. ...11,e lianisky, 19, Final Whistle Radio Show "Is nips' h football a duller place without - DartliaS1 Boardtisan, 19, aceountingiuut Finance MOU1101110 • I ire .mitre titni pine nett lie a Oich:111.1tilici 1,Ltec Next weeks question: Can the smaller trams succeed nrite.lh-'s always firm liar 111:1L1MrWIN cs arree, the 1:e,tintryttiva: it tit leas left! in the next World Capin 2011 in New Zealand? 1. tifs certainly I, the sh.gttsh i Sena ati your opinions on this or any other story in unprrdie,ral1k. h{ certainly laightenial up Mitch . a -the LS E•mait by email; Ic-edssnuientstioriornail.rom , '1vnin t t ;mot. . 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to Varsity 20070 Stephen Jones sits down with the Mens Football Firsts to discuss BUSA, the battle for promotion and hopes of upsetting the odds against the Met front of goal towards the end of last term. After quality" since the summer break, whilst also assur- times, and at no event more so than the Varsity Mens Football First XI breaking into the side from the second-string, the ing the Leeds Student that competition for places contest. Battersby bemoans a lack of publicity for `trlhlii•n .long striker grabbed a trademark hat-trick in his first has given the first choice eleven a sharpness of the poor following, where the more high profile Varsity Preview start, ensuring his face would not be forgotten by mind which they fed will give diem an edge, not rugby match often takes a preference far from rel- coaching staff and players alike, and establishing a only on Wednesday but also throughout what ative to the quality of performance on display. firm grip on the much-vaunted number nine shirr- promises to be another tough season. "It's a com- "People don't get mails encouraging them to Marry this with a comprehensive 6-0 thrashing of petitive league, but ICS certainly a winnable come to the football match, whereas the rugby Manchester in last Saturday's pre-season friendly league" MelN,Yan asserts, "It looks likely gets that extra coverage". This, perhaps, goes Revenge hangs in the air on the eve of this and there is an understandable mood of confi- some war to explaining last year's following of year's Varsity clash, with Leeds University Men's • dence around the side. That result should ensure: • around 250 compared with the 4,0(0 supporters first team looking to reverse the past two defeats that the side can lay some of the ghosts of the pre- expected to follow the egg-shaped suffered at the hands of their Metropolitan rivals yams campaign to rest, with the next main objec- ••• contest next week. The key point seems to be that as the teams face off at the Carnegie stadium on There's noth- • tive being the always hotly-contested Leeds derby. • a greater following could give the team the push Wednesday 10th /ember. • "There's so much more of an incentive to beat towards the silverware that slipped so agonisingly With a revamped squad and a substantial ing better Met at their own ground" according to Leeds and • • out of their grasp last season, with the team hop- turnover of fresh faces, manager Ian Burchnall's a • England Universities centre-half Andy Battersby, ing that an upsurge in support will bcOn at what side will be eager to prove themselves this week, than playing • speaking with a determination clear for all to see. 0 a promises to be a highly entertaining encounter particularly after a season of bitter disappoint- "There's nothing worse than eretting beaten on • against the old foe. ment. The team dropped to second place on the away and beat- • your own turf, and nothing better than playing The away team will no doubt be well aware of final day of a season that they had led throughout, away and beating them with so many people N the tough task that lay ahead of them on Wednes- thus missing out on the chance of promotion eia ing them with so • watching". With relations between some mem- • day, a Northern Premier side with no intention of the Premiership play-offs at the expense of York bers of the two sides said to be frosty at hest, it many people being embarrassed in front of their home f011i )w- St John's. To further compound their misery, the • certainly promises to be a gruelling encounter, ing be unlikely to give much away, but font side also slipped to an exasperating 2-1 deli:at in which will no doubt be relished by both sets of and league position goes out of the window in the BUSA Cup Final thanks to a earal in the dying watching. battle-hung') players. Varsity showdowns, and both sides will be well moments from relegated Manchester University. Previous Varsity ties have often proven to be • • 0 aware that there will be no certainties until the Despite falling twice at the final hurdle, there is tight affairs and it seems that this year will be no to be a tough battle between us and York St final whistle is blown at Beckett's Park. Club cap- still plenty of cause sir optimism this note around. different, though it will certainly be the first true John's once again". tain NteFavan strongly believes that the experience not least with the contribution of several key play- test of the side's steel following the departure of ( hie major point of concern for the players, gained from last season's heartaches will Ore the ers. Amongst others, the consistency of team cap- nine first team players over the summer. McE- however, seems to be the support they have team the edge over their local rivals, "Everyone's tain Roy Sandman in the midfield engine room wan, however, seems to be in no doubt that the attracted. While the team achieved excellent runs looking forward to it, getting one over on the Met. was a driving force behind the side's challenge last new recruits will be up to the task ahead, explain- in both league and cup last season. the following We want brai.ging rights for the year". Not short year. Equally, newly appointed club captain ing that "training has been high tempo and high they have received has been disappointing at on confidence, then. Daniel Meravan made :in immediate impact in

Hunter a good fit for First in quest to rebuild

1VOInert4 I Jockey First XI a team with a point to prove. we're optimistic of surviving.' lialeed, with the looking to kts ak then, off their high horses.' It 'We worked hard as a team last season and likes of 1... ►ughborough and Birmingham promises to be an entertaining spectacle with both managed to sew in the BUSA Premier, which was boasting several England internationals, expecta- teams engaging in some 'banter.' backed by what Varsity Preview a great achievement, 1.aura starts, 'but we only tions remain realistic This is evident as I aura dis- should he a sizeable and lively en med. have three players remaining from that team.' cusses their chances in the Varsity match, 'We're Despite last season's disappointment, Laura is l'he calm of the 'Terrace' is a far cry in an the rau- Despite the exodus of playas, she remains upbeat; obviously looking for a win 47inst Met but the confident of impo wement, `I can't remember the oats tie14.1s that will host next week's Varsity 'We've managed to recruit. six or seven freshers, main goal is to get the freshers some experience, score but itll be less this year, or, even better, well matches but Launi Hunter, captain of the 'Llniver- who all seem to be of a high standard.' file us to gel as a team and set a standard tOr the mini' In only her first year as captain, Laura I lunter sit \ 'c women's hockey first team, is ready for bat- The third year History student is under no illu- year.' already seems well set to lead the team to a suc- tle. With the side still smarting from last year's sions regarding the challenge they face, 'It's going This nu alesny, however, should nut mask their cessful season in the BUSA Premier and, whisper defeat at the frantic of arch nvals, Leeds Met, this is to be difficult, but with our strong team spirit, deter-Milani in, 'They beat us last year, so we'll be it, maybe a Varsity match victory.

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Buck the Saviour as ends hold LEEDS VARSITY 07: Lancaster FIXTURES & SCOREBOARD. Meets Football 2nd XI an excellent defensive Leeds Mel Carnegie VS. It didn't rake I erds Icing to haul themselves Leeds Utli 2 - Central Lancaster back on level terms as Adriano Smitten, having University of Leeds

Preseason hit the post in :t similar situation moments Wednesday 10th October 4. -Dast.gasp effort from Paddv Buck rescued before, made no mistake after being pu t a drive fur the 2nd XI in their final warm up through one on one. Stafficri caused problems SPORT LOCATION START TIME SCORE game, versus Central Lancaster. all afternoon with his pace and skill and on 044en i-,.;=, --,:,7"r -2pin With seconds to go before the final whistle, another day could have had a hayrick, his -s Football Matt Cook's low cross was bravely met by chances including a curling, dipping effort that women's Fooilaa I s_--_--o-r. - ,-- ..• •pro Duck's stooping header, which glanced into the was destined for the top corner, before the megg's Hockey .7P 1 5p-n bottom corner past the despairing dive of the goalkeeper a lely intervened. gi womften s rtockti, ;Tf. I i pm Lancaster keeper, Leeds were playing some cracking football, In truth. it was no less than Leeds deserved, despite the awful surface, and looking every bit 0 irtittev Leogue -,-----71:=1', Ft%.:71- .pm who would have been comfortable winners the promotion challengers that Flickes predicts women s Rugby 'inicin 1:-_-.. r-, .,.ii Fi'•1.-i tpeo lat,1 it not been for some inspired opposition they will he in the corning season_ However, III Wen's eudirtnifi _7-11-..iir. ■-i-7,1 Spat et:rallteeping and a cc tunic of defensive lapses tirder to :lin aspirant nis they will have i poi un their part. to learn tai close out games. A tier sustained Women i ecornovon Prp,...s 1-,--_,.r The 2nds went into the gamic looking to pressure on the Lancaster goal, where all that men's Easketboll !a-7.4z: sPm bounce back from the dtsappointment of a 2•0 was lacking was a finishing touch, they got Wornert's Basketbol ..it.-;..- ---a' 1pM reverse against .Manchester the previous week, caught cold on the break. The left winger Netball rf xrep e P•E,,-,i,esminzr loin a task made more difficult by the injuries to ghosted in from nowhere and gleefully trs,T• _11'(-_- skipper Ben Ilickes, vice-captain Mark Turner rammed his strike low passed Tierney. It was •ir..oi.,r; Ain m and first choice goalkeeper I carry- Ricketts. Lancaster's first effort on goal of the second Merl' s Sq u a5h 1,-,.....ii:,_- This did however provide the chance for some half. women s wain :---..,m-s..:- Co...3`-'. zpfrt youngsters to make the step up and show what Frustration mounted: McCracken was 10811 s Tennis c..1- -,-..,, c.,r trE- - ;nit they could do. denied when his shot was pushed on to the wnnwen i Ternis '-'-i--`. ...- .ii-- TM V rn Adopting a 3-5-2 formation, aimed at so- erttsshar. Mason skewed the rebound wide. iling the opposition midfield, Leeds launched McNamara put a powerful header from the faen's volleyball ---3rfr...--r.:-.31. • p IV themselves into a whirlwind start to the game, corner straight. at the keeper. It looked like 'Women's Volleytoil Jr- ,,--,.:..g 4m 'one of them days': then up popped Buck. which was more akin to a vital league march Alhleif-_-.s - Freirl tve-Ms 4,9-...n' :7,,..7. ..3- times than a friendly, with tackles flying in left, right After such a dramatic finish, Ilickes natural- and centre. ly the positives front the game, emphasis- AThlefi,cs • tiaew f.-v,ti.nil at, tr- •-,..-ii.;:Trzwit, 1 pm ,llowever, the defence was found warning ing the teams resilience to twice come from a atter just five minutes, when a high ball was goal down. EXTERNAL VENUES: not dealt with be Kt Isla:). Stand in -keeper Tier- A bit of fine-tuning to the formation and more FAerV 5 tocloor Cricket i .. r.nrr.1.-.:irr.: a 5ir,grE r i prn decisiveness in front if goal should see them .ii .7.....e.--1 t,.--.',.. ney did well it keep the first effort out, but 1 when the rebound fell invitingly for a Lancast- on the winning trail sooner rather than later. women's tridoor Cricket E'--21-:..:: P.. airc..21e r. Spot er midfielder he had time to compose himself Cr.ir..;,t -.;:e..1.! Tierney, Lynch, Clement, before lashing in a shot off the post, from the GAL .:!:,._1._-...7-,-er- C.,-: -...: C ..17:. 1' am - HSI edge of the area. Kosub, Cook, Mason, McNamara, Buck, tee,* lime Kelly, McCracken, Staffieri This was the most dangerous Lancaster re.--_-,n's liki ii' union i..-1.-:.:--_ "ii-,_ -.au.- • 7 15p-rri Imiked in the whole game as Leeds began to Weston boss midfield, with Liam McNamara acting as McCracken A in Brief. mg 42-28 vicar rrs over their rivals. A tecWic-tfry: excellent game was dominated by the Leeds girls: Despite- losingtivcrall 15 5 in last year's Varsity, throughout and the se ■relinc reflected this. there were a manlier t if success ,toriesfiq I kieds Men's badminton notched up a 5-3 win over the [(Juni notah men's over the Met, but the women's badminton, rugby union claimed a hard-fought victory in team could not follow soil, whh 1.11C 5-3 scorelinei the showpiece event, winning 26-22a1 heading repeated but this time in favour of the Met. ice Stadium. Women's volleyball lost a tough match 3-2,:. Men's hockey (left) was also a close fixture, but the men's volleyball managed a clear 3.0" with Leeds eventually coming out on rop with victory. Li the odd goal in seven. winning 4-3. Unfortunate- Despite a late fight hack, men's footbal to a ly, the women's hockey team lost 4-0 went down 2 I in a match where tensions ran: strong Met side, high. 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Varsity 2007: Wednesday October 10. cricket, or ❑ Ryder Cup tournament in golf_ Winning value Leeds Met Carnegie Campus. Students from both of Leeds' universities will be battling it out in a variety of athletic Leeds Varsity is a day when spun becomes a endeavours over the course of morning, substitute for war. There Is an animalistic afternoon and evening, with the action cli- maxing in the day's blue ribband event, the YOU Aoki riskily ttteetbUUAt merits viebsile accessible at desire in all the competitors to perform to their best that is bourne out of fighting vo ur men's rugby union match. closest rival. Bragging rights fat the win- Heading!) Carnegie Stadium at 7. 15prn is ners, Shame goes to the losers. It is that btu- the place and rime if you want to watch that (we, bur with golf and track and Field events ■ 11 131 The tension surrounding the event is sim- ct mmencing, at. 11.00am you can treat your- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS ilar to the clamour brought about by fierce self to a day's dining on a feast of spin. local derbies in football, an Ashes series in