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Laura Hughes quire six months of operating costs EDITOR in the bank. YUSU’s current cash reserve is just three per cent above THE STUDENT Union President the legal minimum. This extra re- has slammed the University for in- serve of £14,000 doesn’t cover even sufficient funding. a quarter of the Union’s spending on University funding for YUSU sport alone. has seen four successive years of Taylor told Nouse, it was “stag- decline when measured on a per gering that the University would capita basis. even dare try and hold against us YUSU President Kallum Taylor what is our legal obligation to the told Nouse, “It’s getting to a break- Charities Commission in having ing point. Student numbers have a certain amount of reserves for a gone up by over a third, yet our rainy day. funding has in no way reflected “To try and create an impres- that. It’s not sustainable.” sion that we’re sat on hoards of cash The University commented, “In is dangerous and disingenuous. The no sense could YUSU be said to be University should know this, seeing short of funds given that they have a as they’re sat on reserves of many reserve of over £14,000 which they millions themselves.” are at liberty to spend if they wish.” YUSU claim it is “ridiculous” A longitudinal per capita block to suggest that with £14,000 it is grant calculation shows that a peri- possible to subsidise “a poor block Dropout rate doubles in four years od of increases in student numbers grant” over the course of an entire has not been matched by sufficient year; funding societies and sports Neil Johnston merical terms but also in percent- drew. This compares to just 65 in increases in block grant, and so the clubs, welfare, volunteering and NEWS EDITOR age terms as well, with the dropout 2008/09. amount of funding YUSU has per RAG projects, staff support for Of- rate now standing at five per cent. The college with the highest student has “aggressively declined”. ficers and JCRCs. THE DROPOUT rate at the Uni- While there are several differ- dropout rate currently is Halifax, The grant allocated to each YUSU currently sits in the bot- versity for first year undergraduates ent dropout rates this is the main largely due to the size of the college, individual student was £61.74 in tom three of Russell Group institu- living on campus has doubled in measurement of withdrawals. It has with 45 students withdrawing last 2006/7, compared to £49.19 in tions for grant funding, when meas- four years. risen steadily since the 2008/09 year. 2011/12. ured either on a per capita basis, or Figures obtained by Nouse re- academic year where it was only The next highest is Alcuin, The University have not yet on a total funding basis. In the past veal it reached 150 students last two per-cent. Comparatively, there which lost 30 students. James and notified the Union of the nature of Continued on page 2 year, including ten who the Univer- are few students living off campus Vanbrugh had 20 students dropout next year’s grant. Last year the Un- sity does not know the whereabouts dropping out. each, Derwent and Langwith lost ion received £881,876. COMMENT >> Page 11 of but are ‘assumed withdrawn’. In 2011/12, 150 undergraduate The Charities Commission re- LEADER >> Page 12 The increase is not only in nu- students living on campus with- Continued on page 4

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Professor named ‘New University ‘dangerous’ and ‘desperate’ Generation Thinker’ >> Continued from front GRAPHICS BY BRANDON SEAGER A professor from the University of York has been named as one of four years, YUSU’s grant change ten New Generation Thinkers for year on year has fallen short of the 2013 by the Arts and Humanities Russell Group average percentage Research Council (AHRC) and the grant change. BBC. Dr Alice Hall, of the Depart- The Higher Education Statis- ment of English and Related Litera- tics Agency states there are 17,405 ture, will feature on Radio 3’s arts students at York. However the Uni- and ideas programme Night Waves versity has said that student num- next month, when she will present bers are currently stable at just less an idea inspired by her research. than 15,000 FTE. She will also get the chance to shad- “Budgets for 2013/14 have still ow presenters and producers. to be approved by Council but we expect the uplift for YUSU will be in line with the uplift for University Welfare cuts bite as Funding the GSA Foodbank expands “is like funding a ba- York’s foodbank is to expand in or- der to meet rising demand. The nana shop. At the end Foodbank is to treble in size, open- of the day, it only sells ing new outlets in Clifton and Tang Hall. The current Foodbank in bananas and there is Acomb has been running for sixth months, and has provided food for a more efficient shop 1,000 people. Organisers say that across the road demand has risen since changes to ” the benefit system. Chris Cullwick, Alcuin College Chair chair of the York Foodbank Trust Joshua Lee group, said: “Nobody thinks food banks are good news but clearly the support services.” pectations and wanting an answer in no way reduced because of their you have two shops. One sells lots of fact we have passed the milestone Taylor responded: “This point so that we can properly plan for next existence.” different kind of fruit and the other of 1,000 people indicates there is a matters still, whichever student year. In reference to wider College only sells bananas. The Banana need in York.” numbers you count; be it the 15,000 “Aside from the constant pro- funding, Taylor commented that shop is failing. stated by the University here, or the crastination over the matter, the ar- students have no say over where this “Nobody seems to be running 17,405 students which the HESA guments being put forward against money is spent, “it is entirely at the it and nobody knows it exists. Do think the University have… This is YUSU are disingenuous and des- whim of the Provosts.” you keep ploughing money into the York festival celebrates before we can even start to look at perate.” banana shop to try and make it suc- street performance the year ahead.” The University told Nouse, “The To try and create cessful or close the banana shop and The University say they have YUSU grant has increased in line invest in the shop that sells all kinds given YUSU every opportunity to with increases in spending on Uni- “an impression that of fruit? The City of York saw its second present a case for funding. versity support functions in the last we’re sat on hoards of “Allowing your customers to Buskival On Saturday 25 and Sun- They also made clear that few years. get everything they want from one day 26 May. The festival celebrated YUSU have regular meetings with “When you take into account cash is dangerous and fruit shop and even been able to sell York’s street performance culture. the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and our financial support for not just new kinds of fruit thanks to the ex- A large tent in parliament square the Registrar and are represented YUSU, but also GSA and the Col- disingenuous” tra money saved from removing the played host to the majority of acts. on Council, Senate, the Policy & leges, our spending is very much in YUSU President duplication of trading bananas. Six professional street performers Resources and Student Experience line with other universities.” YUSU Kallum Taylor “Funding the GSA is like fund- were chosen to appear alongside Committees. believes these counter arguments to ing that banana shop. At the end of local buskers. The acts included In response to the University’s be misleading. Despite eight requests for the the day, it only sells bananas and a Guinness World Record holder claim, Taylor commented, “Talking The University invests annual “social fund” of £14,000 there is a much bigger, better, more and leading escape artist, speed about our access points to decision £169,230 in the Graduate Students given to the JCRCs from the Uni- efficient shop across the road that chainsaw jugglers Dynamike and makers and committees is utterly ir- Association per year. Taylor com- versity, the money is yet to be paid sells lots of fruit, including banan- Kiki Bittovabitsch, who have been relevant if there are no serious out- mented, “It is the University’s choice this year. The only funding given as.” described as “a champion physical comes. entirely to fund the GSA. Legally, to JCRCs so far this year has come Taylor added, “Using tired and comedian, contortionist, cat and au- “On every occasion it has been YUSU are the representative for all from YUSU. dodgy arguments about funding to dience herder”. YUSU raising this matter, making students and our costs, and more Joshua Lee, Alcuin JCRC Chair, other bodies does not, and should the case to meet our members’ ex- importantly our responsibilities, are commented on the GSA: “Imagine not, ‘reduce our responsibility.’” Reporting by Amy Blumsom

DIGITAL EDITOR EVENTS DEPUTY COMMENT SCIENCE EDITOR DEPUTY FASHION NOUSE Matt Dowds CO-ORDINATOR Gary Holland James Cameron Miranda Larbi In this edition Est. 1964 Leonie Blakeway Ellie Rice Francesca Butcher EDITOR DEPUTY DIGITAL DEPUTY SCIENCE Laura Hughes EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR FEATURES EDITOR James Ellis MUSIC EDITORS Lucy Dickens Agatha Torrance Fiona Parker Nikky Farthing Chris Morris News 1-9 DEPUTY EDITOR Sara Farish Isaac Bernier-Doyle Comment 10-15 Dan Holland VIDEO EDITOR DEPUTY PHOTO DEPUTY FEATURES Politics 16-19 James Dixon Petroc Taylor Fliss Turner BUSINESS EDITOR DEPUTY MUSIC MUSE EDITOR Lily Grant George Wood Jasbir Norris Alex Osborne Science 20-21 Tom Witherow GRAPHIC Rory Foster Business 22-23 DIRECTOR NEWS EDITOR SPORTS EDITORS DEPUTY BUSINESS DEPUTY MUSE Brandon Seager Neil Johnston Beth Jakubowski Satnam Shergill FILM EDITOR Sport 24-28 EDITOR George Barrett Alastair Ellerington James Tyas Mary O’Connor ADVERTISING DEPUTY NEWS DIRECTOR Anwen Baker DEPUTY SPORTS ARTS EDITORS DEPUTY FILM MANAGING Andrew Adenmosun Amy Blumsom Tom Fennelly Ben Cross Steve Roberts Breast Cancer M8-9 DIRECTOR Aaron Stennett Tom Cox Harry Lambert CHIEF SUB-EDITOR DEPUTY ONLINE F&D EDITOR Mime Artist M12-13 Amadea Ng NEWS POLITICS EDITOR DEPUTY ARTS Helena Parker Darfur Crisis M18-19 TECHNICAL Harry Gallivan Sam Shepherd Jordan Licht DIRECTORS DEPUTY SUB- Sofia Geraghty Poppy Bullard DEPUTY F&D Josh Goodwin EDITOR POLITICS DEPUTY Lucie Parker The opinions expressed in this publication are not Tim Waterson COMMENT EDITOR FASHION EDITOR necessarily those of the editors, writers, or advertisers Lizzie Lynch Rosie Shields Lucy Leslie Alex Slingsby Hussein Kesvani India Block Felicia Morizet NOUSE Est. 1964 Want to write for us? Contribute: [email protected] Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 3 News Growing inequality in application process Gap widens between UK BME and UK White offers Offers to state school applicants decrease

LAURA HUGHES Neil Johnston missions selectors do not know the NEWS EDITOR ethnicity of an applicant when mak- ing admissions decisions. However, FIGURES OBTAINED by Nouse through our Widening Participa- reveal that there is a substantial dif- tion programme, and in line with ference in the percentage of offers our commitment to the Office of given to Black and Minority Ethnic Fair Access, we are increasing our applicants and the percentage of recruitment efforts in economically offers given to White British appli- and socially disadvantaged areas. cants. “This should lead to an increase For UK applications in 2012/13, in applications from candidates only 45 per cent of Black and Minor- from modest income backgrounds, ity Ethnic applicants were awarded where BME students are dispro- an offer compared to 62 per cent of portionately represented. We are White applications. The University also increasing the level of academic says that this difference is not down support provided to students once to them. they enrol, to ensure that all stu- There is also a widening gap be- dents can maximise their chances of tween the percentage of state school success while at York. The total per- applicants and private applicants centage of students from different being given offers, and an increase ethnic groups at York is as follows: in male applicants receiving offers Non-BME students – 78 per cent; than female applicants for each of BME students 21 per cent.” the past four years. These are char- YUSU President Kallum Tay- acteristics which the University can lor said: “We’ll try and get into the see when students apply, so do have There is a substantial difference in the percentage of offers given to UK BME and UK white applicants nitty gritty of why these trends are control over. happening. York certainly can, and The University’s admissions that students from ethnic minori- gap between state school applicants should, do more in widening and policy states: “To ensure that no ties are less likely to gain places at Their experience and private school applicants re- deepening participation if it wants prospective or existing student top universities than white pupils “whilst they’re here... ceiving offers has increased, jump- to hold itself in high regard as a is treated less favourably on the with the same A-level grades. ing from a 16 per cent difference last place welcoming to students of all grounds of age, race, colour, nation- Access to Russell Group univer- means so much more year to a 21 per cent difference. backgrounds. ality or ethnic origin.” sities is far from ‘fair’, according to A lower percentage of females “Their experience whilst they’re As the level of applications in- the study’s author Vikki Boliver. than just ‘getting than male applicants have been here is equally, if not more, telling of crease, from undergraduate to post- The latest figures for this Uni- receiving offers over the past four a University’s approach in this area. graduate, the difference in offers versity indicate that York is no ex- people here’ ” years. The gap in percentage offers The same can be said to how we can given increases, between BME stu- ception to this, despite only joining YUSU President received has increased from two obsess with having international dents and White students from the the Russell Group last year. Kallum Taylor per-cent last year to seven per-cent students here, with very lightweight UK, with the biggest gap in Post- The University does keep track this year for UK undergraduate stu- provision for them and their needs graduate Research. of the breakdown of current stu- tion of state school undergraduate dents. The gap for international un- during their studies. These things The University cannot see these dents which has seen slight increas- applications receiving offers has re- dergraduate students is seven per- mean so much more than just ‘get- characteristics when students ap- es in numbers of ethnic minority mained stable from four years ago cent, up from five per-cent last year. ting people here.” ply. A recent survey by Research- students, but no significant change. but with no significant increase. The University defended its ers from Durham University found Statistics show that the propor- Furthermore the proportional admissions process saying: “Ad- COMMENT >> Page 10 YUSU to tackle rent issues for international students

PHILIPPA GRAFTON Fiona Parker amount if there is no guarantor “I can confirm we have had Josh Allen for the student- but of course, this very few bad debts where rent has shouldn’t stop the SU from doing not been paid… However, of those YUSU HAVE vowed to tackle the something about it. I myself had to few cases we have experienced, for- ongoing issue of international stu- pay my full rent upfront.” eign students have been dispropor- dents being forced to pay six months One student from Spain re- tionately represented.” or more rent up front if they are un- ported confusion within the body MacMahon added: “There able to provide a UK guarantor. of their letting agency, IG Property, could be a simple solution to the Several of the major student with regards to this issue. “They said problem, for example if the Univer- property letters including Adam sity would agree to prevent any stu- Bennett, York AP and Whistles have There could be a dent graduating if there was unpaid been reported to have demanded rent. “ half a year’s payment from interna- “simple solution to the Jill P Ellis, Acting Director tional students who are unable to of Student Support Services, ex- sign a UK-based guarantor to their problem, if the plained the reason a UK guaran- contract. University would pre- tor is requested is that if there are Although the University offers difficulties obtaining payment, the a Rent Guarantee Scheme, only 40 vent any student from landlord can make a money claim to 50 students are accepted onto the through the county court system. scheme each year. graduating if there Students who do not have a UK Mike Anstey, YUSU Interna- was unpaid rent” guarantor can apply to the Univer- tional Officer, told Nouse, “The is- sity Rent Guarantee Scheme. sue of accommodation guarantors is AP York spokesperson The University’s Socialist Socie- one which I know has been on the Robert MacMahon ty, have announced their campaign radar for a while now. Many international students have had to pay six months rent up front to get YUSU to open their own let- “Unfortunately it does put in- the guarantor had to be based in the ting agency. William Hornett, So- ternational student’s in a very com- UK. I spoke to them and told them problems anymore. At the begin- we do seek a UK based guarantor cialist Society Secretary told Nouse, promising position if they are un- my dad, an EU taxpayer, a citizen of ning they said, ‘You pay everything for all student tenants. The reason “We feel this would help signifi- able to pay said amount (usually 6 the EU and resident would be my up front now or nothing’, and later we request a UK based guarantor is cantly to drive down both on- and months) upfront, but YUSU is cur- guarantor. I was told I could pay they denied ever having said that. I the sheer impracticality of seeking off-campus rent prices, and would rently working on a in-house strat- my rent up front, but I did not re- never heard about it again.” to enforce the guarantee against a encourage better practice amongst egy to try and combat this issue. ally want to. The day we went to the Robert MacMahon, speaking person living abroad, whether in the other letting agencies.” “I have spoken to certain agen- agency to sign our let contract, they on behalf of AP York stated the issue EU or not, so we do not distinguish It would also be democratically cies and know that it is their policy were absolutely fine with my Span- has “always presented a difficulty”. between EU and other foreign stu- answerable to the student body in a for legal reasons to charge this ish guarantor and have not had any He said, “Our position is that dents. way that private agencies are not.” NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 4 www.ey.com/uk/careers News

>> Continued from front how Britain’s Higher Education sec- tor does Post Grad’s education and ten each, and Goodricke lost five experience. 350 student flats to be students. “They’re a forgotten type of stu- The figures do not include stu- dent domestically, and much more dents who decided to quit their needs to be done to understand course in between years so the ac- (and meet) their needs and their built at York Press offices tual withdrawal rate may be higher. challenges.” Reasons for withdrawal vary Last year Nouse reported how PABLO YORK including ‘academic difficulties and the dropout rate in Alcuin was twice Originally the offices were built failure, ‘closer to home’, ‘health rea- as high as the other colleges on cam- in 1989 to accommodate state-of- sons’, ‘personal reasons’, ‘transferred pus. This is no longer the case but it the-art printing equipment, but a to another institution’, ‘unhappy remains high. large area of the site has remained with academic conditions’, ‘wrong Alcuin Chair Joshua Lee said: under used since printing produc- career choice’, ‘wrong course’, and “From my perspective, students tion moved out of the city. ‘wrong place’. have become more focused on aca- If the scheme is approved, the Ten students are down as ‘as- demic work. With tuition fees and newspaper’s staff would move to sumed withdrawn/written off’. rent going up, going to University is modern, smaller offices fronting on YUSU President, Kallum Tay- a massive decision. to Walmgate and Hurst’s Yard. lor, commented: “Any student drop- Chris Hale, of S Harrison De- ping out of University (for initially velopments, said: “The plans we are preventable reasons) is a tragedy, Any student putting forward will see an underu- and it’s vital that more is done across “ tilised brownfield site redeveloped dropping out of the board from YUSU and the Uni- to deliver much-needed student ac- versity in making sure that prob- University is a tragedy, commodation for the city’s growing lems faced by students are firstly not student population. taboo, and secondly intercepted and and it’s vital that more “It will free up family homes in eased as much as possible. is done accross the the city for use by York families, in “Too many of our members line with the council’s policy. “This keep their head down thinking they board from YUSU and is not a speculative proposal.” can ride out their own personal Jaqui Hawthorn, of Student storms, and even if they don’t drop the University ” Castle, said: “York is a fantastic place out, they won’t ever have reached YUSU President to study. We intend to enhance that their potential. Kallum Taylor experience if the planning commit- “Meaningful investment into tee approves our scheme to create SU and University Student Sup- “With the stakes so high if stu- new accommodation in Walmgate. port services to match the demand dents don’t get along with their For students, the location, within from a rise in the student popula- course or University life for any the city walls, gives access to every- tion which has completely saturated major reason then dropping out is Plans were released last week at the National Centre for Early Music thing that York has to offer.” provisions in place. becoming a serious financial option. Councillor James Alexander The rising withdrawal rate is The JCRC puts so much effort into Amy Blumsom is submitting the proposal, said it said: “I welcome news of this poten- not just a problem for undergradu- integration and we work tirelessly DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR would bring a £35 million boost to tial development which would pro- ates with the Postgraduate Taught through freshers term to make sure the local economy, creating around vide purpose built accommodation drop-out rate also rising. students make the right decision PLANS TO build 350 student flats 200 construction jobs over the next in keeping with the city’s students’ In 2008/09 35 students and get involved in university life.” on the site of the York Press offices two years and 20 new permanent needs and be accessible to their dropped out, comparing to 45 in The figures come as York faces have been announced. jobs upon completion. place of learning and the city itself.” 2009/10, 65 in 2010/11, and 75 in continued questions over its com- The potential owners, Student The plans for the new site were “Students make an invaluable 2011/12. mitment to student experience. Castle, intend to incorporate a re- put on show on Monday May 20 at contribution to the cultural and Taylor commented on this: York was recently ranked 37th in the ception, common room and man- the National Centre for Early Music economic vibrancy of the city and “The rates of PGT drop outs are UK for student experience by Times agement suite into the development. in Walmgate. A design and develop- developments such as this also help shocking not just here, but nation- Higher Education, an improvement S Harrison Developments, the ment team were on hand to answer to ensure family housing in York re- ally. Here lies a greater problem in from 61st the previous year. York based development firm who any questions. mains true to its original purpose.” Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 5 News Students ‘noisy’ and ‘inconsiderate’ SIMPLEHEALTHGUIDE Henrietta Thomson second most popular option in the NEWS REPORTER survey. Residents who had lived in A SURVEY has been conducted their property for over five years to examine what residents of York were significantly more likely to think of their student neighbours. disagree with the statement than The results revealed the areas those who had lived in the property where locals are most likely to com- for one year or less. plain and the most common com- The next section focused on plaints to the council and police. complaints; the most common be- Carried out as a joint commu- ing refuse and rubbish, which were nity project between the City of York reported as a problem by 60 per Council, YUSU and York St John cent. University Students’ Union, the Noise and unkempt gardens survey targeted 6000 households were joint second, with 50 per cent in York to gauge the public percep- saying that they caused a problem. tions of students in the local com- Refuse and rubbish also seemed munity. to be the most difficult problem Of 6000 distributed, 843 forms for local residents to put up with, were returned, a response rate of 14 making up 91.3 per cent of all com- per cent. An overwhelming 93.9 per plaints to the council. cent stated that they had students Of all anti-social behaviour living in their area, but of these only complaints, 19.6 per cent of these 10.2 per cent had ever directly asked were made to the police. the students themselves. Hull Road came out as the area The majority assumed that they where residents were most likely to were students, mainly because they Problems such as noise and mess were the main concerns of residents who completed the survey complain, placing it above Fisher- thought that the properties were gate, Heworth and Osbaldwick. poorly maintained. themselves to students. 61.9 per frequently recurring were ‘messy’, Only 27.7 per cent chose ‘agree’ Measures which could prove Neighbourly rapport was low: cent had never met their student ‘noisy’, and ‘inconsiderate’. On the or ‘strongly agree’ when posed the unpopular if they came into force only 13 per cent stated that the stu- neighbours. other hand, ‘young’, ‘friendly’ and statement: ‘Students are making a include tighter checks and rules for dents had introduced themselves, When asked for words to de- ‘approachable’ also came up regu- positive impact on the community’, tenants, as well as fining students whilst 22 per cent had introduced scribe students, some of the most larly. whilst ‘completely disagree’ was the for mess and littering. In pictures: Community rallies against EDL protest TOM WITHEROW ver 100 students and mem- bers of the public turned up Ooutside the York Mosque and Islamic Centre at Bull Lane on Sunday afternoon after rumours of a EDL rally surfaced on Facebook and Twitter on Saturday. The York community stood to- gether as an act of solidarity against fascism that very afternoon. Four EDL supporters arrived at around 3:00 pm.

Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 7 News Unions bid for Boris Bikes Rowers

C. G. P. GREY Harry Gallivan awarded DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR £10,000 THE STUDENT unions of the Uni- versity of York, York St. John and York College are proposing a joint grant bid to introduce a bike hire scheme to the city of York similar to that of Amy Blumsom the ‘Boris bike’ in London. DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR If accepted, the scheme will be funded by the NUS ‘Green Fund’, TWO CLUB members have raised designed to help encourage an en- nearly £10,000 for the University of vironmental ‘sustainability agenda’ York Boat Club. for English Student Unions. The club was awarded £9,680 York Council has already agreed by Sport England after Dan Hod- to support the scheme, which will be kinson and Oli Woods, the club’s proposed in June to the NUS. Development Officers, applied to Kallum Taylor, YUSU Presi- the Small Grant scheme. Grants of dent, said: “This joint initiative be- £300-£10,000 are awarded to not- tween the HE and FE institutions, for-profit organisations which help along with their respective Students’ increase the participation of young Unions and Higher York would be a people aged over 14 in sport. fantastic one for a city like York. The grant enables the club to Having something similar to apply for equipment up to a value of something like the Boris Bikes 10,000. scheme, which has been a big hit The grant will be used to pur- in London, up here, would be great chase a double and single scull. The for pushing a more sustainable way purchase of both boats is an impor- of life, and better link parts in and tant development for the club, as a around our city up so much more. small boat trial is part of the tryout YUSU are proposing that stations are set up around the city where students can collect and return bikes As part of the Community process for GB rowing and this ena- Partnership Strategy, this is a great will be expected to pay a small sign turn their cycle after using it. miliar sights in the capital since bles rowers to hone their skills. example of the kind of projects we up fee. However, the cost to hire has Despite cost issues, the scheme their introduction in 2010. Boris Last year two members of the can potentially introduce through a not yet been decided. has largely been a success in Lon- Johnson, the Mayor of London, has club tried out for team GB’s U23 joint effort.” Once signed up, students don, where shoppers and commut- described the scheme a “glorious team, narrowly missing out on Feb- The scheme would be part of would be able to collect a cycle from ers have spent the day in London, new form of pubic transport,” with ruary selection. UYBC has made re- the ‘Green Fund’, a £5m initiative a nearby bike station on campus. before heading home in the evening around “10m hires” since its launch. markable process over the past few provided by the ‘Higher Educa- YUSU are also proposing stations using their hired cycle. Edward Spann, a first year poli- years, with successful BUCS sea- tion Funding Council for England’ to be set up around the city of York, The blue bikes and the 400 tics student, said: “It is a particularly sons and last year pre-qualifying for (HEFCE). If introduced, students where students could collect or re- docking stations have become fa- good idea for a campus University.” Henley Royal Regatta for the first time in the club’s history. One of the largest sports clubs on campus, UYBC saw 563 new rowers signed up at this year’s Freshers’ Fair. Students to take part in York Pride Hodkinson believes that an in- CHIPPYKEV crease in the visibility of the club Sofia Geraghty bands will provide entry and drink and the development of the exist- DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR deals. The wristbands can be pur- ing relationships with YUSU and chased either online at www.york- York Sport Union has warranted the STUDENTS HAVE been invited to pride.org.uk or by contacting LG- funding. take part in the seventh annual York BTQ officers Madeline Boden and Hodkinson told Nouse, “The Pride event, which will be taking Conor Roche. Sport England grant provides a place on Saturday 1st June. York’s Gay Pride pa- fantastic opportunity to purchase a The event will consist of a pa- rade is receiving support single and a pair/double. For our top rade starting from York Minster at from York’s top clubs athletes this will allow them to com- 12pm followed by a day of entertain- and the new chair- pete at the highest level and trial for ment beginning at the racecourse at man of the Foot- Under-23 GB. 1.30pm. ball Association “It will also allow us to accom- After last year’s success, the and , Greg Dyke. modate for more members next year York Pride Parade is set to become a The parade (oversubscription is a large problem permanent feature of York summer will be backed we face). It’s a promising time for Pride events. by leading fig- UYBC and the grant is another step Last year’s hosts Sordid Secret ures from York towards high-performance rowing & Marky Mark will be returning City Knights and at York.” to present the event and 2011 York York City Football PROVIDED BY DAN HODKINSON Pride favourites Bears Aloud will Club. also be returning to perform at the York Gay festival. Pride aims to Students can get involved by promote equal- meeting either at the Minster at ity, diversity, 12pm, or at Costcutters at 11.45am, and advances in where they will walk to the Minster education, in or- together. der to eliminate Students can also contribute d i s c r i m i n at i o n by attending the pre-pride banner against the Lesbi- making and pizza party on Thurs- an, Gay, Bisexual day from 7pm in AEW/003. and Transgender The theme of this year’s festival (LGBT) commu- is “Out in Sport”, as, according to the nity. event’s website, “sport is an area in More than society where homophobia is rife; 500 people turned we want to raise awareness of this out for the York through York Pride 2013.” ‘Northern’ Pride The after party will be held at 2012, and over Thomas’ of York, followed by the 2000 at the after- Duchess where York Pride wrist- noon event. NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 8 www.ey.com/uk/careers News University opposes bus stop plans Yatterbox AGATHA TORRANCE Anwen Baker DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR attracts

YORK CITY Council has an- nounced proposals to move the Li- national brary Bridge bus stop towards Mor- rell Way, to the dismay of University officials. The bus stop would be moved interest towards Morrell Way, where a new set of steps leading to the library Sofia Geraghty would be built. The existing library DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR steps would be removed. The work is estimated to cost A COMPANY created by ex-Univer- around £350,000, not including sity students, which monitors the the costs associated with re-sitting Tweets of UK politicians, is gaining the district heating system. national interest after teaming up If these plans go ahead the Uni- with a London based communica- versity will be expected to shoulder tions agency. the entirety of the costs. Yatterbox observes the tweets Both the University and the po- of politicians and key stake hold- lice have stated that they are not in ers, analysing them to give further favour of this scheme. insight into what the country’s most According to the University’s powerful are saying. With social Health, Safety and Welfare Com- media usage among politicians in- mittee, the University is not in a creasing 160 per cent between 2011 position to commit to unplanned and 2012 (according to the compa- costs outside its annual budget. The ny’s website), Yatterbox has been an committee also expressed disap- York City Council has announced proposals to move the Library Bridge bus stop towards Morrell Way object of interest for big businesses. pointment at the actions of the City They have recently teamed up Council. to use the Library Bridge instead of on the road in the last year, with at council’s help to cross roads. Acci- with the Cicero group, who pro- The proposals come as part of crossing University Road. least two collisions and many more dents occur on every other road. vide businesses with PR services an effort to encourage pedestrians Several incidents have occurred near accidents. “What a classic waste of money, and market research, to supply UK These proposals come as part of this is just the council intervening companies with valuable insight a series of changes due to be made when there’s no need for interven- into the minds of the country’s top to University Road, including the tion.” politicians and stakeholders. creation of new cycle paths to Hes- The University has proposed GSA elections lington East and the replacement of several alternatives, such as the im- It was clear how the current dual carriageway with a plementation of speed restrictions social media was being 7m wide two way road. and the removal of the central is- “ used for campaigning hit by shortage Students Nouse spoke to have lands underneath Library Bridge. reacted with dismay to these pro- Review meetings are currently and there was a feeling posals. Michael Steele-Moore, a first being held with City Council Trans- that this would continue year student told Nouse: “I think it’s port Officers in an attempt to re- to grow of candidates needless. Maybe we don’t need the solve the issue. ” Managind Director of Yatterbox Matt Freckleton Anwen Baker experience. DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR Yuan Wang, the sole candidate Matt Freckleton, managing for President, lists his principal director of Yatterbox, founded the THE GRADUATE Student’s As- aims as having “good cooperation company after graduating from the sociation (GSA) Principal Officer with all different sections of GSA to University in 2010 and identifying Elections for have opened. Four of carry out their works” and increas- a gap in the market. He said that the six positions are uncontested, ing “the spirit of fusion of the post- “whilst working for a parliamentary with only one person running. graduate students during their just candidate during the 2010 General Services Officer, Finance and one year study time, to make them Election. Community Officer, Academic Of- feel warmer and more internation- “It was clear how social media ficer and President have only one alization”. was being used for campaigning candidate running for each posi- Voting closes at 12.00 on May and electioneering and there was tion. 31st. Results will be released on a general feeling that this usage This marks a fall from last June 3rd. would continue and grow post the year’s elections, which Postgraduate students election but discussion would of saw three candidates completing taught course change into talking about running for Presi- masters or research policy, industry and news. dent. degrees make up “There was also a general sen- The candi- over a quarter timent that this information would dates for Princi- of the student be of use to somebody in a some pal Officers are: Yuan body at York. sort of commercial product. So we Wang for President, The GSA started on a journey to answer those Xiaoyin Yang for work closely with questions and assumptions.” Academic Officer, Kevin the University to of- Unsurprisingly, the country’s Elphick for Services Officer, Tian fer academic skills training politicians have come up with some Tian for Finance and Community sessions and organise campaigns rather “interesting” tweets. Freckle- Officer, and Daria Pawlowska, Jen- to help postgraduates with their ton pointed out that a particularly ny Michel and Rosa Kit Wan Kwok studies. They also provide advice, amusing tweet came from Michael for Welfare Officer. support and representation for stu- Fabricant during the last budget An election is also being held dents facing academic appeals or day, who said he was watching epi- for the role of Student Trustee, an disciplinary action. sodes of the Magic Roundabout to unpaid, part time position. The Academic Affairs Team get through the speech. There are two candidates for represents the views of Postgradu- The success of Yatterbox will this role, Yuan Wang and Daria ate Students on a variety of Uni- undoubtedly come as pleasant news Pawlowska. versity Committees including the to the University, which have made The Principal Officers of the University Teaching Committee, an increasing effort recently to en- GSA represent postgraduate stu- Standing Committee on Assess- courage the entrepreneurial spirit dents at the highest level. ment and Learning & Teaching of students. The University cur- They are expected to attend all Forum, Distance Learning Forum, rently offers a number of grants and YUSU committees and are respon- Library Committee and Refurbish- awards to students wanting to set sible for the postgraduate student ment Steering Group. up a business, as well as events and workshops in the world of business. Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 9 News What did Brian do wrong? Chauffeurs, croquet and CBEs. Amy Blumsom looks at the highs and lows of a career that never won the hearts of the student body.

his summer, Brian Cantor will be step- between Heslington East and West. expansion of this institution, In 2011, Cantor boasted that the Hes East ping down from his role as Vice-Chan- It has been revealed that Cantor’s the campus has not been development will create 8,000 new jobs for Tcellor. Often described as “distant” from claimed £135,000 in expenses in 2010. The without opposition. Ru- the local economy, the same year that he students, his time at York has not been with- Vice-Chancellor has seen his six-figure sal- mours of a new campus received a Lifetime Achievement Award out controversy. ary increase exponentially - most remarkably began in 2003, with Can- from the York Press. Many would say that Cantor’s relation- between 2008 and 2011 when he received a tor defend- i n g However, with Langwith and ship with students at York is not a close one. £50,000 increase in pay. the plans Goodricke residents complaining about Relations were worsened in 2008, when Can- Since Cantor took over, York’s position in a pub- the lack of on-campus facilities, having tor failed to turn up to a meeting which over has fluctuated in the league tables. When Can- lic meet- only recently installed a cash machine 200 students had attended, because he was at tor first took over in 2002, York were ranked ing. 2007 and temporary shop, the success of a dinner in Oxford. sixth in the UK according to the Guardian. saw Hesling- Cantor’s Heslington East development This only served to exacerbate already Whilst there was success in the World ton East fi- is up for debate. strained relations with both students and rankings in 2009, with the University achiev- nally getting the Despite this, Cantor has seen YUSU. By leaving his post early to take up ing 70th place, York has now slumped to 17th go-ahead, with some personal successes the Vice-Chancellorship of the University of in The Times’ league table after achieving 9th building begin- while at York. Bradford, Cantor has only highlighted his lack place only two years ago. ning a year later. of commitment the students of York. Whilst York’s rankings took a hit under The state- In 2011, he was n a m e d Cantor’s finances have come under in- Cantor, the prestige of the University has not of-the-art York 33rd most influential man in tense scrutiny and criticism during his time suffered as significantly as suggested. Sport Village has the North of England and in last year’s at here. In 2010 York was named THE University arguably been the Honours List, he was awarded a CBE for ser- In 2011, the Vice-Chancellor reached of the Year, and in 2012 York was invited to most extravagant vices to education. the height of his infamy when he was criti- join the esteemed Russell Group. success of the Nonetheless, the Vice-Chancellor’s most cised on national television by Channel 4 in Overall, the development of the Hesling- Hes East memorable achievement for the students of a Dispatches documentary for spending over ton East campus will be Cantor’s most endur- d e v e l o p - York has probably been his domination of the £10,000 on chauffeur driven cars among oth- ing legacy. ment. croquet game at Roses 2013 - with the help of er expense claims - including £70 for journeys Whilst praised by some for pioneering Kallum Taylor and Greg Dyke.

LAURA HUGHES PHILIPPA GRAFTON 2010 Heslington East 2005

Plans to move Langwith Proposals for the development of a new College to Heslington campus on Heslington East are approved East are announced by the council. The plans are criticised in in the same year that a public meeting and Cantor is forced to Building work on Heslington East begins. proposals for the new defend the development a year later. York Sport Village are 2008 put forward.

ALEXANDRU HRISTEA 2010 2012

Cantor claims £50,542 in expenses. It is dis- Cantor ignores calls covered that nearly £135,000 were claimed from the NUS to donate by the Vice-Chancellor over the previous his tax windfall to the Expenses three years, a large portion of which is one University of York. international travel. His expenses claims Finances included nearly £300 for a return trip from the University to King’s Manor.

Cantor receives CBE for 2010 services to education 2013 Cantor GEORGI MABEE Highlights York wins University of the Year at the Times Cantor is victorious in Higher Education Awards. This was to be the croquet at Roses followed by Russell Group entry in 2012. 2013 with the help of Kallum Taylor, YUSU president and Greg Dyke, the Chancellor. 2013 NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 10 www.ey.com/uk/careers

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Fiona Parker Who’s afraid of racial equality?

Statistics have revealed ach year, the proportion of tistics York claimed that that the openly enthusiastic the student that the majority of the movement’s successful York applicants are difference was not done by them. body is for racial equality. supporters will give sceptics is that uneven admissions rates Esplit into various camps by Responsibility was abandoned, and No doubt, most of us will have “the battle for equality isn’t over ”. I the University’s employed statisti- whilst it appears that the Univer- read those Indie articles reporting am not suggesting a quota of BME between UK White and BME cians. What we are presented with sity is doing nothing wrong, York Oxbridge racism which apparently students, or for academic qualifi- applicants into the University is a series of paired percentages re- doesn’t appear to be doing anything follows students the students from cations and clear signs of interest flecting, apparently, the character- right either. the very beginning of the applica- in a subject to be disregarded in istics most desirable in a potential As well as GCSE grades, a per- tion and throughout the full course favour of making the media happy. candidate. The numbers we have sonal statement and predicted A of their degrees – it’s important to The University need to start asking at the moment portray a 21 per Level grades, UCAS forms currently remember at this point that with some questions. “Why is the current cent gap between private and state allow admissions staff to view the Oxford accepting 25.7 per cent of system not working? Do changes school students and a still undeni- gender and schooling of individual white applications compared to need to be made to the current sys- able gender-specific advantage. To- applicants. Race and ethnicity de- 18.2 per cent of BMEs, York is not tem of undisclosed ethnic details?” day, 45 per cent of UK BME (Black tails are not disclosed. This conveni- far behind in terms of demograph- Perhaps most uncomfortably, “Why and Minority Ethnic) aplicants will ently presents York with a “get out ics – However, few of us could argue haven’t these questions been asked clause” as the institution is able to that our university is active in racial in the four years prior?” If they are No matter what use the UCAS system as a scapegoat equality campaigns. going to stand a chance of getting when a disproportionately large No matter what your views are any kind of answers, they will need “your views are on crowd of white faces arrive every on the other “f word” the answer our backing. October. Even if this doesn’t feel KATE MITCHELL the other ‘f’ word... right, the University need only look to its new companion institutions The battle for equal- of the Russell Group in order to find solidarity for its racial equality ity isn’t over” shortcomings. According to a recent survey be successful in their applications to conducted by researchers from Dur- York. White applicants fare far bet- ham University, students from eth- ter, with 62 per cent of candidates nic minorities are less likely to gain gaining places at the University. places at top universities than white There is obviously a major pupils with the same A-level grades. problem here, which I doubt York, A new study has claimed that access or any other UK university will be to Russell Group universities is far able to solve overnight. A full assess- from ‘fair’. ment of candidate fair access would But is it just the University require consideration of social, eco- admission staff who are showing a nomic and individual-related fac- less-than-enthusiastic desire to put tors. What is most disturbing is the their balls on the line for the sake of University’s attitude to the racial de- racial equality? Before we throw out mographics of successful applicants. accusations of cowardice, we ought When presented with the BME sta- to look around and decide just how

Andrew Knowles The case for drug legalisation

The legalisation of he global war on drugs led by failed. This is hugely expensive for deep-seated fear of illegal drugs is a live in a country where drug-taking the United States (and largely the UK government; one charity has large barrier to effective campaigns (drinking and smoking) is endemic. recreational drugs shouldn’t Tattributed to Richard Nixon) estimated that prohibition costs UK for legalisation. After legalisation, the costs to has been a monumental failure. taxpayers over £16 billion a year. Legalisation needn’t be such a the Government would then mainly be as radical an idea as Even though it’s probably the only Despite this cost, illegal drugs are far-fetched thought; it wouldn’t be be in healthcare and rehabilitation- war where America will enjoy the still widely available, particularly in the apocalypse that many politi- which would be much cheaper. As governments and the media help and support of from around the big cities. Millions still use them cians and newspapers would pre- well as saving money from police the world, the levels of collateral every year and police only seize min- dict. The Lancet published a widely operations and border control, the would have us believe damage and the fact that it has not ute volumes of drugs in proportion referenced article in 2010 which government would then earn bil- got anywhere near to achieving its to the amount coming into the UK. ranked various drugs on their com- lions in taxes every year. goals arguably makes it a quintes- Meanwhile drug addicts have to live bined of harm to users and harm to Tobacco earned the govern- sentially American conflict. in a country where the emphasis is others. Alcohol came out well on ment around £12 billion in revenue It has cost billions of dollars and on incarceration, not rehabilitation. top; although its harm to individual between 2011-12 and alcohol con- has ensured that all of the revenue What’s strange is that most users’ score was relatively low (but tributes over £14 billion. At the mo- from recreational drugs (apart from people are satisfied with the failing still above other drugs such as LSD ment, all of the revenue made from alcohol and tobacco) flows into the status quo; because the alternative and Ecstasy) it scored highly on the illegal drugs flows into the hands of hands of international criminals. would be anarchy with ‘drugs nuts’ harm to others; alcohol and crime criminals and that money often also It has caused innumerable deaths, running wild, surely? This opin- go together like Countdown and helps fund nefarious activities such whether through gruesome gang ion is in large part to a long-term boredom. What’s crucial is that peo- as people and gun trafficking into murders in Mexico, or drug addicts vilification of recreational drugs ple in the UK experience a paradigm the UK. Legalisation would divert dying from neglect covered in a veil undertaken by governments and shift in the way they see alcohol in almost all of this cash into the hands of prosecution. the media, achieved through lessons relation to other drugs, based on of big pharma (assuming they’d be Britain is like most other coun- at school about the dangers of ille- the scientific evidence about them. the manufacturers) and the govern- tries when it comes to drug policy: gal drugs and national campaigns Alcohol is up there with heroin and ment. The only people that should strict and comprehensive. It has fol- calling themselves FRANK. But cocaine in terms of overall harm. protest against legalisation are the lowed America’s lead in the war on the reality is that UK drugs policy Once you realise this then legal- criminals that depend on current drugs and like in the States, it has has always been ineffective and the isation isn’t scary at all- we already drugs prohibition. Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER 11 www.ey.com/uk/careers Comment

BRANDON SEAGER Exams need a rethink

Tom Fennelly

xams have been part of our academic and educational in- Estitutions for millennia. They are the favoured means test at the end of the academic year that give a clear indication of the level of a stu- dent’s work and whether they know enough about the tested subject. But this is the twenty-first century; a time when wars are fought with remote-controlled drones; a time when breaking news can go global within minutes. So are these ancient ideas of the exam past their sell-by date? The ‘all-knowing’ stooges in our subject departments will reli- ably convince us that a closed, essay based exam will give us the best re- flection of the level of our work and our knowledge in the field. In these scenarios, the only thing exams are testing is how good a person’s memory is. All the results will show is a list of people whose brains work more effectively at re- membering what other people say. It will always reflect more posi- tively on those who perform better in this way, but not everybody does. Ellie Rice Finding the funding The rest of us will simply be left to look pretty clueless, regardless of the Deputy standard of our essay-writing or aca- Comment demic ability in research. Editor Open exams, on the other hand, provide the level playing field that is Does the falling funding t has recently come to light that fence of YUSU however, whilst they University to grow stronger. For ex- much more applicable in academia. University funding per capita don’t pay rent for the union build- ample, there is currently only one The realistic world of using unlim- for YUSU deserve to be Ifor YUSU has been in decline for ing, they are committed to paying YUSU staff member who can un- ited electronic resources more effi- the past four years. From £61.74 in over £75, 800 in rent a year on oth- dertake th academic casework of cient ways to collect the data is now reversed? 2006/7, the amount fell to £49.19 er union areas, such as campus bars. 15,000 undergraduates. There is an the norm in University research, so in 2011/12, but does losing a fifth of We wouldn’t want to lose Courtyard almost identical problem in sports. why hasn’t undergraduate study fol- each students’ provisions really have so that each sports club could have How can York dominate Roses lowed suit? an impact on our day to day experi- subsidised kit, or so that more niche again if we don’t have the right sup- Let’s put this into context. I ences at York? societies could be ratified. port and funding networks in place? didn’t pass my driving test by sitting Furthermore, there are legal Having considered the argu- a room where drinking a different We should be restrictions placed on the Union ments for and against increasing coloured liquid is an ‘academic of- which makes their funding com- university funding of YUSU, I have fence’. To be able to drive, you don’t “grateful that we plicated to extract and distribute. to conclude that open communica- tell an examiner how you think peo- The Charities Commission require tion with the University is the first ple drive from what you remember, receive any money 6 months of operating costs in the step to resolving this issue. Once we you actually have to go out and show bank. YUSU’s current cash reserve have established where the Univer- them you can do it (although, in my at all” of £14,000 is three per cent above sity’s money is going, we can find case, all I showed the examiner was The University, predictably, the legal minimum. The second le- ways to direct more funding to- that we couldn’t get out of the car argues that it does not. They quite gal complication is that whilst the wards YUSU. park). rightly point out that the Union GSA is a separate entity with its With our ever expanding stu- This is why I am much more in have multiple opportunities to voice own funding, YUSU bound to share dent body, the University must favour of the timed open exam, like concerns over funding. For exam- some responsibilities. With over- make its customers its priority. Fur- the 48 hour ones seen in subjects ple, their regular meetings with the lapping concerns, it would seem thermore, if potential students are like history (which seems to be the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and the to make financial sense to abolish put off of applying for the University only thing that history students ever Registrar. the GSA. This would leave YUSU based on its failing undergraduate have to do). Give me a day or two Adding to the University’s de- £169,230 richer, but with no addi- to throw together a researched essay fence, not only does YUSU not have tional concerns. with my own critical analysis and I to pay rent on our union build- Thirdly, by not maintaining How can York will be able to show (or not show) ing, they also didn’t need to spend their funding in correlation with “dominate Roses the academic skills this University £500,000 building it. I for one projected student numbers, the should expect from its students. Put certainly still use the building as in- University could be argued as show- again if we don’t me in a silent room for a few hours frequently as before. There was of- ing a dire lack of forethought. This and I ask me to remember eighty fice space there already. Therefore, leads us to question what else is not have the support different things about one module there is no real need for the Uni- being well thought out. The Univer- and I will melt faster than one of versity to make additional financial sity make a profit each year, where and funding net- Salvador Dali’s clocks. provisions for YUSU’s buildings. is this going? Even £6000 would Furthermore, universities now Finally, we should be grate- make a valuable, if modest, contri- works in place?” have the technological know-how ful that we receive any money at bution to YUSU. Admittedly, there to spot any sign of cheating, so this all. Even if it is falling, the Univer- could be a valid, long term plan for union, this can only cause problems issue is no longer relevant in an in- sity funds as a whole aren’t exactly this money. But if so, then the Uni- for the University. stitution where a breach of academic Follow the debate: booming and the student body must versity should be more transparent All in all, it is in the interests of integrity is an offence punishable by learn to accept the rough with the in sharing this plan in order to avoid the administration to be more open public hanging. Comment online at smooth. The current cohort of fresh- speculation and attack. in their finances and to offer an ex- This aged idea of the exam ers may not be here when the fund- Finally, YUSU have both long planation for the falling funds, there needs to go, or is such a change nouse.co.uk/comment ing goes back up, but eventually it and short term goals. These plans could still be a legitimate explana- just too much effort for our depart- will, even without lobbying. In de- cost money, but they will allow the tion for the figures. ments? Pull your finger out, York. NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 12 www.ey.com/uk/careers Comment

Runner-up in Guardian Student Publication of the Year 2012 Alex Slingsby NOUSE Comment Est. 1964 Sizing up the debate Editor

eople from all over the world ance is a big deal because her modi- role models. Skewed, because while A community united have plucked up the cour- fication reflects how far society will we use them to represent what we Page to stand up to Disney re- push the ideal. Princess Merida, in could look like in the clothes they On Sunday, students from this University, reminded the community that cently, after their latest bow-loving her original image, just wasn’t good advertise, the size and shape of the we can be a purposeful force of powerful resistance. Students put them- marriage-defying protagonist was enough. But then, who is? Half a mannequin are not included in the selves on the line in solidarity for the Muslim community of York. Students slimmed down and sexed-up for a waist and a lower-cut top? Cases price. So shouldn’t they represent engaged with the wider political picture, stood outside Bull Road’s mosque, recent promotion. Princess Merida, like these make the headlines be- real men and women of the 21st and took a stance. Our political power is real but not always realised, on one of Disney’s most suitable female cause people can actually do some- century? Sunday we cast this conception of complacency and the message was rever- role models yet, due to her fiery thing, before the window of oppor- H&M in Sweden has been berated across the city loud and clear- students in York will not tolerate fas- nature and flawed personality, was tunity closes, and it becomes taboo. hailed by women around the world cism in our community. In reaction to the machete attack in Woolwich last given a new, older, foxy look, and Take La Senza for example, in after a photo of its mannequins was week, members of an anti-Islam British group, the English Defence League, this seems to have hit close to home. pride of place next to York’s most posted online by a blogger at Wom- have clashed with police and staged protests on mosques across the coun- Now, I will admit this: I am not famous Chinese restaurant, har- en’s Rights News and went viral. try. What the EDL is doing is not right. Students on Sunday demonstrated a big fan of the body image ideal. bouring a window full of half-naked These mannequins show off more the majority of the population’s desire to coexist peacefully. Ignorance and I can’t actually remember the last mannequins with Barbie-esque pro- realistic proportions than any in apathy allows for one horrific act of violence committed by one Muslim – to time I set foot on weighing scales, portions, flawless bone structure, the UK, with rounder stomachs and distort the reality for the vast majority of Muslims across Britain. In light of I eat biscuits like they’re going out and picture-perfect plastic posture. fuller thighs. The bigger manne- the University’s failure to improve the demographics on our campus, now of fashion, and I can assure you that How are normal women supposed quins provide a more realistic view is the time to ensure that as an institution of ‘learning’, we are a diverse and nobody will ever find me within fifty to compare? of the world, and the fuller faces add dynamic example to those who blindly fall into the ranks of radical fascism. metres of the Hes West gym. There are very few women in a touch of je ne sais quoi to an other- The EDL protest didn’t happen, and instead, ironically, the response to the Unfortunately, society cares this world resembling a La Senza wise sullen expression. rumoured EDL gathering prompted the local Christians, Muslims and stu- about my BMI more than I do. You mannequin, so why do retail stores Criticisms of the larger man- dents to unite, perhaps encapsulating best the message of Islam –‘love and can’t make it through the day with- insist on sticking to tradition? It’s nequins were strife, with many cyn- peace’. out the body image issue creeping a strange concept, but these man- ics claiming that these mannequins into conversation. Merida’s appear- nequins are skewed attempts at could encourage obesity. The truth of the matter is that one size doesn’t fit all, and we need to make the most YUSU’s falling funds of what we’ve got. Society should not impose upon us the need for conformity. However, this image is YUSU’s funding per student from the University has decreased. Not only is all too uncommon, the main rea- the grant falling, but the ways in which they need to improve (and York’s son being that mannequins like this students quite rightly remind them of these frequently) actually require have been around for years. Who an increase. For example, the Union recognise that their welfare provision are we to change them now? needs improving in order to support the students who actually need it the Well, we didn’t set the standard, most. But it’s already under resourced in comparison to other students’ un- but that doesn’t mean that we can’t ions of a similar size, so to increase its funding would mean taking money change it. The difference between from somewhere else. There are, of course, ways for the Union to increase perfection and reality is a vast, grey its funds: increasing prices or decreasing value in their bars or YourShop, area, but one that needs to be ex- for example. The bottom line is that with their current financial situation, plored. for any area of YUSU to improve, another will have to suffer as a conse- We need to take the success of quence. Not only that, but services may begin to suffer even if they just try to the recent Disney petition, and ap- maintain the status quo, as they have to increase pay to meet inflation with ply it to general body image prob- decreased funds. Sooner or later, and preferably sooner, our Union needs lems, starting with the country’s more funding from the University. shop windows. BRANDON SEAGER

Gary Gender equality needed to end abuse Holland Redefining marriage Deputy Comment Gender equality within domestic abuse is not an angle that is very often ex- Editor plored. Frequently the media is awash with stories of women being abused by their male partners, but what about when the roles are reversed? An even less frequented angle is that of domestic abuse within couples of the same urely we can all agree that no tile and same-sex couples, and even it changes what their marriage is. gender. The statistics reveal a reality in which abuser and victim cannot be government has any business opposite-sex couples who just don’t They no longer have a marriage as easily stereotyped as they are in the media. These outlets perpetuate the Stelling us who we can and can’t want children. where ‘marriage’ means x (in this problems faced by those who are too worried to report their abusers. The love, or declare our love for publicly Perhaps the answer is to accept case specifically one man, one wom- fact of the matter is that no one fully conforms to a stereotype and no situ- in our ceremony of choice. However that some functions of marriage are an); they have a marriage which ation fits the theoretical models. Therefore, we should be breaking out of this is not the only function of mar- more important than others, but means the union of two people of these ideals- it would allow our society to become more aware of instances riage. that the love-based ones are the any gender combination. And that of abuse and allow those in trouble to be braver in seeking help. Marriage has many purposes: most important. isn’t what they wanted. to create a union in the eyes of your The issue here is that marriage Here is my proposed solution: deity of choice; to assure the future is a legal contract. And just as dec- stop religious ceremonies count- of your royal lineage; to create a sta- larations of love and paradigms of ing as the legal contract, because ble environment to raise children. procreative activity are the business frankly they have nothing to do with The list goes on. And declaring your of the people, legal contracts are the one another. They can have the le- intention to spend the rest of your business of the government. gal bit done in the same place at life with someone is only part of it. This is why we argue about who the same time, but they aren’t the People who don’t recognise this should be allowed to marry. Every- same thing. And then anyone in any tend to think it’s obvious that there one takes a slightly different view- relationship, be it same-sex and po- should be total equality in terms of point, prioritising different aspects lygamous, or something more ‘tra- NOUSE who can get married. Which seems and traditions, leading to frustra- ditional’ can declare their love for axiomatic because it boils down to tion and disagreement. Those who each other on their own terms. Online: www.nouse.co.uk my previous assertion: that who value marriage primarily as a Chris- The legal institution would still loves whom is not the government’s tian tradition involving a man and a be relevant in terms of tax benefits, Twitter: @yorknouse concern. woman understandably feel differ- pensions, property, next of kin, etc, Facebook: www.facebook.com/yorknouse But when you accept the other ently than a same-sex couple who but it would no longer intrude in the functions of marriage, it suddenly value it as a declaration of love. same way. becomes complicated. Should cer- I’d even go as far as to say that And if this were to happen, Letters and complaints: Nouse, Grimston House, tain purposes take precedence over it’s at least understandable when then it would be much easier to University of York, YO10 5DD or [email protected] others? This would allow for a the first group don’t like the idea achieve actual marriage (in the legal clearer set of rules, especially if, for of the definition of marriage be- sense) equality, as changes made to example, procreation was deemed ing changed to not exclude same- that type of marriage wouldn’t affect Contribute: [email protected] a higher priority than love declara- sex couples. As much as you might religious, or any other type of mar- tions. This would also exclude infer- argue that it doesn’t affect them, riage. www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.ey.com/uk/careers 13 Comment

Molly Baro An Eton Breaking Brooker’s media dystopia Mess

Elizabeth he stabbing of Drummer Lee live in today? out our phones and start anymously ity to the brutality of the event. The Lynch Rigby, by Michael Adebolajo We exist in a media culture filming? Woolwich incident illustrates not Tand Michael Adebowale on which is increasingly focused on We see so many images in the only how the image world impacts Wednesday, was a brutal act of vio- resources taken from iPhones, Face- media, that we are no longer in on politics, but also our ability to achiavelli, the 16th cen- lence and big news. book and Twitter. empathise. tury political scholar, prof- But what really reinforced the The extraordinary element in Rather than Some argue that the chilling Mfered that “It is better to be shock of this attack for the public this case is the huge amount of vid- video footage has been useful, oth- feared than loved if you cannot be was the video footage that was al- eo footage and pictures taken. It is a “running to help, ers say that it has provoked a more both” it was also the sentiments de- most immediately released. That prime example of how the constant severe reaction from the public than bated by the scholarship candidates the attack happened in broad day- evolution of technology has a direct we pull out our would have other wise occured. at Eton College last week. light in the middle of a busy London effect on social and political inci- Ultimately, over time, the more “It is the year 2040, you are the street, allowed passers-by to film, dents such as these; the attackers phones and start we are exposed to these types of hor- Prime Minister.” Write the script for tweet and share what they had wit- deliberately lingered afterwards us- rors do they gradually make less of a speech to be broadcasted to the nessed. ing the filming onlookers to ensure anymously filming” an impact. Similarly, the more hor- nation in which you explain why that the political motives for the ror films you watch, the less inter- employing the Army against violent The Woolwich attack was conveyed. These videos touch with reality, only aware of the ested you become as they cease to protesters was the only option avail- show the image world directly influ- spectacle of the news photographs. provoke your adrenal gland. able to you and one which was both “incident illustrates encing the political world. Somewhat confusingly, these pho- I really hope this is not the way necessary and moral.” If you’ve seen Black Mirror, the tographs can be argued to both dis- our culture is going, but with the It doesn’t take scholarly genius not only how the satirical series created by Charlie engage our emotions, and further normalisation of immediate up- to parallel this scenario with the Brooker, you may remember the one draw us in. loading and sharing to social media one Britain was faced with during image world im- episode where there is a fictional In my opinion, the increas- sites it seems we are more and more the August riots of 2011; an explo- woman quite obviously distraught ing exposure through the media to disengaged with our reality, and are sive mix of economic hardship, op- pacts on politics, (revealed at the end to have helped these types of photographs or videos mere spectators, rather than partici- portunism, and widespread political kidnap and kill a young girl) and all has led to our dwindling sensitiv- pants. disillusionment that temporarily but also our ability anyone does is get out their iPhone rocked the foundations of our demo- and film her. Brooker himself notes cratic peace. to empathise” that the episodes are all about to- The fact that Eton College has day’s culture, ‘they’re all about the produced 19 Prime Ministers, how- In fact, the attackers encour- way we live now – and the way we ever, arguably gives greater gravity aged it - they taunted their onlook- might be living in 10 minutes’ time to the consequences of the political ers, asking them to take photos if we’re clumsy.’ and ideological message that under- and film their ideological rants, so The Woolwich attack haunt- lies this statement. that their message could be spread ingly reflects this episode. Does this An eye for an eye mentality was around the nation as quickly as pos- incident demonstrate the proximity one that was avoided in August of sible. of our reality today to that of Char- 2011 to the credit of the Metropoli- The chilling video of Abebolajo lie Brooker’s world, and does this tan Police and the trust of the wider talking to the cameras while hold- attack show us that we are already public in their work. ing a bloody machete in one hand, ghoulish spectators? Threats of armed force inter- featured first on ITV, before rapidly It’s obviously very pessimistic vention was not an intelligent re- infiltrating most of the television to presume that everyone whipping sponse based on value but rather coverage. What does the perpetra- out their cameras at the scene of the one spawned by fear. An “us” and tors’ almost unprecedented ma- Woolwich murder was somehow “them” dichotomy that has become nipulation of eyewitness footage say disengaged, but why is it, that rath- more prevalent not least due to Brit- about the image-based world we er than running to help that we pull ain’s weakened economy post-2008 KATE MITCHELL but further still in the public’s disil- lusionment from the upper-middle Harry class leaders who hold court on the Harland front benches of our bastion of de- mocracy. Parents, Pornography and Sex Ed What was lost momentarily in the anger and violence were the values of the government. What has been long lost is the autonomy of the eading head teachers are ar- Bitdefender, estimates that 1.16 per deliver a useful public service, as the ‘sine qua non’ of porn. police in public affairs. guing that children should be cent of children will have accessed it is an effective tool to help young It should be stressed to teenag- The politicisation of the police Lmade aware of the dangers porn by the tender age of six. This adults discover their sexualities. ers that, in reality, women are not force by Baroness Thatcher during of porn by their teachers as soon figure may be unacceptable, but it’s Ofsted calls for improved sex perpetual objects with the purpose the 1980s miners’ strikes ensured as they begin using the internet. A not unlikely. I fear that this figure education for secondary school of passively submitting to male de- a longer term accountability of the recent survey by the National Asso- will only be increased by discussing children. The aim here is to stress sires. This seems obvious to most of police to political agendas, it also ciation of Head Teachers (NAHT) the topic with children. us. However, it may not be so clear positioned them as pawns in a wider found that 42 per cent of parents Perhaps it’s time for parents The aim here is to more impressionable teenagers. game of political power. agree with them. to take more responsibility when it Government proposals for re- Values of freedom of speech and While there is little debate comes to the Internet, rather than “to stress that scenes forming the National Curriculum, expression, and more importantly of about the need to prevent young placing the duty on teachers. if enforced, won’t make Personal, consensual policing based on public children from encountering porn, Primary school education on portrayed in porn Social, Health and Economic edu- trust must be fostered so that this concern does exist about the best porn would only drag fellow class- cation (PSHE) mandatory in sec- prophetic Etonian vision of 2040 re- methods of doing so. Last month, mates into the matter, who, other- don’t usually resem- ondary schools. mains the catalyst of teenage debate on This Morning, journalist Alley wise, would most probably never Most of us, no doubt, will have and nothing more. Einstein (certainly no relation to encounter such material. At least ble real -life” found school PSHE utterly useless. However, as more police cuts Albert), advocated teachers telling not until a later stage. that scenes portrayed in porn don’t However, if gender inequality in the are announced nation-wide and the children as young as five about the While porn has no place for dis- resemble real-life situations, and context of porn was addressed, this Metropolitan Police service must potential harm of porn. cussion in primary schools, a case stress that ideas about relationships ‘subject’ may actually have some so- rest on the support of unpaid special This reminds me of a recent oc- may be made for its discussion in shouldn’t be derived from them. cial value. officers, such a question is perhaps currence. Upon briefly leaving our classrooms of teenagers. As noted I’m not arguing that porn caus- Sonia Poulton argues that such not as distant as the scholarship pa- kitchen, a flatmate of mine specifi- by the Sex Education Forum, fil- es teenagers to re-enact scenes of in- discussions should only occur in the per would suggest. cally instructed us not to check the tering software on smartphones is tercourse with pizza delivery boys or home. This seems bound for failure, Thus, whilst credit must be internet history of his laptop, which universally poor, making it likely for anything. It’s not difficult, however, given that an NAHT poll discovered given to the teachers who posed the he left behind. I won’t insult you by them to encounter sexual imagery to imagine that the underlying sexu- only 13 per cent of parents feel com- question allowing further debate on stating what happened next. online. Even with such software, it al inequality depicted in porn could petent in tackling these issues. the reaction of the Prime Minister Children of a young age are seems foolish to think that teenage contribute to real-life attitudes. There is room for considera- during the 2011 protests, we can naturally inquisitive. The expecta- access to porn could be prevented - Many pornographic films fea- tion of its discussion with teenag- only hope that the answers are not tion that we can tell them about teenagers can be highly resourceful. ture women undergoing degrading ers. With many parents inept to do an elaborate warm up to a stronger porn, without further enquiry on Pre-emption may not even be acts to please their counterparts. so, perhaps the duty of tackling this rhetoric than that of David Cam- their behalf, seems misplaced. desirable. Jessi Fischer, a sex educa- Martin Amis questions why the ‘fa- inescapable issue should fall with eron’s dulcet tones of two summers The online security company, tion lecturer, argues that porn can cial’ (whatever that means) is often teachers. gone.

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M18. Violence flared this week, leaving the M12. Growing up gay in Montana, USA, and M8. Statistically ten per cent of David Jay’s former Head of the UN in Sudan to reflect losing his first love to AIDS. Contemporary mime subjects will die. Charlotte Wainwright uncov- on the most succesful genocide in history. artist Bill Bowers talks expression without words. ers the harsh reality of breast cancer Arts. Music. Food & Drink.

M6. India Block catches up with York alum- M15. Hatti Linnell talks to veteran indie M20. In a spree of summer enthusiasm, Mary nus Susie Steiner, ahead of her return for rockers The Pigeon Detectives, fresh from O’Connor learns about the new trend for gar- York’s Festival of Ideas. their fourth album. den to gastro. And it’s not just for the retired.

M8. Jordan Licht talks to the director of M16. We catch up with Concrete Knives M21. Ryan Bentley’s in pre-drinks heaven with English Pen Gillian Slovo. and a sound that “combines universes” a case of boxed wine... Fashion. Film. Image Credits.

M9. Blogger and YouTube royalty, Fleur De M19. Steven Roberts talks to Michael Cover and above right: David Jay Force, tells India Block how to turn your hobby Baig-Clifford about directing on a micro- M2 and M3: Courtesy of Mupesh Kapila (far left), into a lifestyle and career. budget (and his BAFTA...) Bill Bowers (middle) and Charlotte Christie (M3).

If the best chemist of chem-soc Stirred the words of men-soc Muzzy’s With emotions and notions of fem-soc The potent potion produced would blow through the roof Musings... And overly explosive hoax of ‘blokey jokes’ Exposing a truth that gender-wars rage in York…

Exams are in progress, campus is so stressed The Battle The air vibrates like silent phones in quiet zones, of York Dimensions of tension and unpaid library loans Still awake late in the nights dying throes, Fighting frightening foes of revision and time Typing notes with the dice on its final throw, So no one cares if Cafe Barista, Just might be closed.

From D-bar to V-bar, a vaccine of caffeine Prevents collapse. I see icy stares and cold glares Frosty as wintertime from rivals in printer lines Till one of us cracks.

Take this musing, get perusing and pass it round Tell all you meet on cobbled streets and shambles town Campus is at war, welcome to the battleground M3 Charlotte Christie www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 Actress. Feminist. Bullshitting Student. The Lonely Smoker Rose Troup Buchanan

t’s usually at this point in the and then hide them on my body. term that people start dis- However, seeing as I don’t weigh Icussing their holiday plans. 20 stone (and therefore should There’s never been a better time require two seats on the plane) for it as we seem to be living and would probably find it hard through a very damp apocalypse to secrete a mere 20 packs on here in York, and with nothing my body, I somehow don’t think but more rain expected in the im- stacking 40 upwards packs over mediate future, the prospect of my figure is going to be an overly some sun could be great. successful operation. And would The kind of escape people probably result in my exclusion book tells you a lot; there are in one of those dark, scary little the French chateau troop, whose rooms always present in airports fathers’ generally own the 18th located in the more ‘interest- century pile they stay in; those ing’ corners of the globe. Really, that go away and work saving what I need to do is dress up like malnourished orphans in Outer a businessman, stride my way Mongolia, and are nearly always through security, scowling fero- that over-eager PPE student pe- ciously over my moustache at the titioning for something outside expense of my time, and pin-suit the library; or the prospect of the my way back into smoky delights. hideous ‘lash’ (can be substituted Of course, the fact I don’t own a for ‘gash’) tours that parade their suit might be a slight flaw in an idiocy round the fine cultural otherwise brilliant plan. hotspots Malaga and certain My only past experience of pockets of Greece have to offer, in airport infringement came dur- which case please see the major- ing a European flight shortly ity of male sports clubs in York. after 9/11. During the course of Of course, if you’re a smoker, the flight not only did I discover going on holiday can fulfil a more that my battered coat pockets important purpose: simultane- contained more BB pellets than I ous to frying your skin to a shade could safely dispose of down the more usually seen on Donatella back of the seat, but I was also Why do we still need feminism? (Would you answer that... Versace, you can also stock up on carrying a collection of 9” nails, ever burn your bra?) that most essential of products. which had worked their way Within the E.U. you’re al- through my pockets and were What sort of student are you at university? lowed to bring back 800 ciga- now comfortably lining the inte- The way the media have sneered at Kim Kar- rettes, or 40 packs. Outside the rior of my jacket. Wasn’t a great dashian’s pregnancy bump is proof enough as to A lazy, talkative, bull shitter. So, probably quite E.U. it’s a paltry 200 cigarettes. flight, if I’m honest. Obviously, buying cigarettes in What does your holiday say why we still need feminism. HOWEVER, I am a annoying. Europe isn’t that much cheaper about you? Well, even if unem- 30 FF and quite like them up by my chin. So, no, than here, but it does have the ployment post graduation does added bonus of a more controlled beckon, however lucrative, I don’t I wouldn’t burn my bra. If you could be born in another era what market, which means you’re less t h i n k drug smug- would it be? likely to wake up alone, with a g l i n g is a viable If you could have a dinner party which five banging headache, and wonder career option. why your mouth tastes as though guests would you invite? (Dead or alive) Ah, I just had a really good day. So, currently I’m a cat defecated in it. Nonethe- happy with living in the present. less, the further afield you go, the cheaper the smoker becomes. Jean Rhys, Rupert Birkin (He’s not dead or alive- The problems come when but alas, imaginary), Sacheen Littlefeather, Three words to describe your mantra for life? trying to get them home. I’m Shakespeare, my Great Grandmother, affection- l u c k y enough to be go- ing away this summer, ately named Ranee. I’M. NOT. BEX (everyone, all the time, mistakes and I plan me for my identical twin sister, called Bex - the to take as many joke is 21 years old people! ) packs back as I can lay “I think for em- Best or strangest thing anyone has ever said my nicotine stained fin- to you? gers upon. ployability’s sake, W i t h o u t ask- I was once asked: “if you could have sex with a ing my I shouldn’t answer dead chimp with HIV or a live chimp that could friends to potentially rip your head off, which would you be my will- ing drug mules that...” choose?” – If your answer isn’t “I’d rather die”. through security, I’ve Please tweet me your thoughts @ccspeech and been considering the best way to get through cus- I’ll endeavour to hook you up with a therapist. toms. If you were another profession what would it Firstly, obviously, be? If you could go back in history and give some- there’s really no point in attempting to put one a message, to whom and what message? them in the hold. It hasn’t even crossed my mind what else I could The thought of some do… souped-up drug hound Go back to The Battle of Thermopylae and tell sticking his nose anywhere near them: “Fantastic abs, I mean, er, most impor- my belongings and then having Your most outrageous moment? tantly- it was all worth it guys!” them firmly detained I fear might be too heartbreaking. I could break up the bricks (ten packs I think for employability’s sake, I feel I shouldn’t Interview by Laura Hughes for the uninitiated among you) M4 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 ARTS. IMAGES COURTESY OF SUSIE STEINER Susie’s Yorkshire Homecoming India Block catches up with Susie Steiner after the release of her debut novel and ahead of her return to York for next month’s ‘Festival of Ideas’.

or those of us soon to be shunted into doing something “not too stressful when you the jobs market, reading Susie Steiner’s have babies”. Fresume is like looking into a magic mir- Ah, the much debated feminist conun- ror. After graduating from our very own Uni- drum of the mythical work/life balance. On versity of York with a degree in English Liter- this, Steiner vehemently disagrees with Sheryl ature she moved back down to London where, Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, and her infa- after a brief work experience stint, she landed mous manifesto ‘Lean In’. “I can’t stand her”, a succession of full time job as a news reporter she said of Sandberg “she’s just telling other on publications such as The Daily Telegraph woman how to be her – that’s egotism, not and The Times. Steiner then made the move feminism”. Steiner says, “I would definitely from news to features, and spent eleven years view myself as a feminist, that we should have as a commissioning editor for The Gaurdian; choices and freedom”, but warns “women you may remember her article ‘the Top Five are not made free by trying to do what men Regrets of the Dying’, which went viral. Her do.” Steiner knows, “I’ve got it as good as any recently published debut novel Homecoming woman could – I can work and still see my has been received with high critical acclaim, children a lot”. Writing freelance, it seems, and she’s already working on her second. is a good way to combine a serious career When I talked to Steiner over the phone and motherhood and avoid the pitfalls of the last week, however, it became apparent that working world that still discriminates against her soaring career trajectory wasn’t always women; she admits that her life is “not some- that clear. She began to write for Nouse in her thing every woman is lucky enough to have.” third year at York to “make it look like I al- For Steiner, being a writer and an author ways wanted to do journalism”. A high point was always the dream: journalism was just was scoring a feature interview with the ever- a means to an end in that sense. She began controversial local Archbishop. She admits writing Homecoming when she was thirty she “never felt comfortable in news” with its years old, but has spent the past ten years “very macho environment”. “I never have the “playing with how to do it, learning how to ‘hunger’”, she told me “the motivation to be write fiction”, the story growing in her sub- the last one in the office at night, or to drive conscious whilst she juggled her career and a down to Dover at 5am”. young family. Her passion for literature was The move to features suited her better; ignited when she took a year out travelling she enjoyed the more “thoughtful, measured before university. “I was having a particularly approach” and found it “a relief to spend a lot miserable time in India,” and found solace in more time thinking about what I was writing”. reading George Eliot’s novels; “The Victo- She wouldn’t, however, describe her transfer rians rocked my world”. Now, Steiner finds as her big break; it was “a break and a regres- inspiration in reading contemporary fiction sion at the same time”. On the one hand life- by authors such as Kate Atkinson and other style was “lovely, great fun”, but she wishes “women who write about relationships.” Behind the gripping family drama is a for those who wanted to break into the world now she had tried for something more “intel- Relationships are a key theme in Home- landscape that may be familiar to many of of journalism. Her answer was typically down lectual” than lifestyle writing, but always felt coming, and Steiner skilfully weaves her nar- you; the beautiful Yorkshire moors. Up until to earth: “I’d really warn against a career in that “I wasn’t good enough about something rative around the age-old concern of how we now, their most famous literary outing has journalism. It’s much harder for people now like arts”. In the end though, it was good to be relate to other humans. Families and their been in the works of the Brontë sisters, but than it was for me.” With the rise of the digi- complex webs of love and loyalty are al- this wasn’t just a case of Steiner paying hom- tal age, she counselled that it would be hard ways a ripe topic for writers, but Steiner has age to some more world-rocking Victorians. to find a well-paid career in traditional print breathed new life in to any clichés by setting She “fell in love” with the countryside around journalism. She is saddened by how work her story with a family of York when she was at university here, and experience has morphed into a culture of Yorkshire sheep farmers. even when she returned to her native London lengthy unpaid internships without hope of As anyone who has come she couldn’t break the connection. Steiner employment at the end. “Of course I did un- into close contact with “carried on visiting the moors” whenever she paid work I remember doing work experience farming families will un- could, and when she met her husband (Tom on The Independent, transcribing an inter- derstand, the bonds of kin Happold, also of The Guardian) who hailed view with Jimmy Saville… it was probably and the tensions placed from Leeds they started “visiting together, one of the most boring weeks of my life! But upon them are so it became a place that meant a lot to me.” anything more than two weeks is ridiculous – magnified tenfold This emotional connection was why she chose people shouldn’t be used as free labour.” by a family busi- the moors as her setting for Homecoming; it But she doesn’t think anyone should have ness at the mercy of was a place she “felt confident writing about” to give up on his or her dream of becoming the weather. If you but could maintain her need for “distance and a writer just yet. Steiner urges anyone who don’t know about perspective, being set far from where I lived.” wants to write to “read, and read voraciously. the emotional in- Steiner firmly believes “all that talk of Notice how it’s done.” It’s always refreshing to tensity that farm- writing about what you know is rubbish!” hear sound advice from someone who clearly ing brings, then She maintains, “The act of writing fiction is takes her own counsel to heart. Homecoming you will after read- an imaginative leap. Once you have made that is a wonderful culmination of Steiner’s love ing Homecoming. decision about where your writing is set, it’s affair with the literary greats and her passion Steiner’s writing all part and parcel of imagining yourself into for the Yorkshire countryside. is lyrical in its at- the lives of your characters.” Her next book, If you want to hear more of Steiner’s tips tention to detail, which she is already working on, is another for aspiring novelists, then make sure you but don’t let that such imaginative leap for her. It’s a thriller set attend her talk for the upcoming York Festi- fool you; her story in Cambridgeshire, and her central character val of Ideas. On June 15th she will be read- will hook you in is a detective. Despite the “very different pace” ing from her debut novel and answering your emotionally from of this next novel, Steiner assures me that it questions on how to get published, at the Ron the first page and will still be “very much about relationships”. Cooke Hub. Visit yorkfestivalofideas.com to won’t let you go. I wanted to know what tips Steiner had book your free ticket now. www.ey.com/uk/careers M5 28.05.2013 Portrait of an Author: Gillian Slovo ‘Not He, Not I’ Jordan Licht talks to York writer-in-residence and English PEN President about writing crime and fighting apartheid. Beckett’s play is a cacophony of voices demanding to be heard

racking down killers, resisting impris- ter crime novelist, Raymond Chandler. But timate experiences and relationships, and po- Franchesca Stephenson onment, coming face to face with your soon, politics began to play an increasingly lemical, depicting these experiences against Tmother’s murderer… All things that important role in her work, exemplified by the backdrop of political struggle, activism, would normally have more in common with The Betrayal (1991), a political thriller about and the fight for freedom. The politics of her the world of fiction than the ordinary world the trial of a white ANC member and his love work is not limited to South African strug- of lived experience. But for Gillian Slovo life affair with an English woman, situated within gles, though this has been a shaping force on has not been all that ordinary. Slovo’s work is the climate of corruption and political un- her work, but extends to global struggles and embedded in her memory of growing up in rest during the final throws of South African injustices. Guanatanamo (2004), a verbatim South Africa in the 1960s as the daughter of apartheid. The crime novel also gave Slovo an theatre piece shown at London’s Tricycle The- radical anti-apartheid activists, an experience essential authorial distance, which liberated atre, exposes American abuse of international which has translated in the political issues her in order to explore more personal themes. law, whilst her latest novel An Honourable and the human relationships that her work The autobiographical turn in her work is Man (2012), retells the stories of individuals depicts. shown in works such as Façade (1993), which caught in the web of European colonialism I asked Slovo what made her take up through re-imagining General Gordon’s dis- the position of writer in residence here at astrous mission in Khartoum in 1884. York. Her answer was to the point: “I was ap- Slovo’s political activism has taken other proached by somebody at the University and forms, including campaigning for women’s I accepted. I have done writing workshops in rights – she contributed to the recently pub- the past but I’ve never done them with uni- lished Fifty Shades of Feminism along with versity students, and I wanted to try some- 49 other powerful and influential women, his week sees Beckett’s astonishing thing different”. Slovo also insisted upon the writing about the relevance of feminism to- Not I arrive in the West End. The workshops being conducted in a relaxed man- day. Tplay is constructed on voices and ner, where students share their own work, With such a diverse body of work and only voices: fixing a scrutinising spotlight and learn from each other in a judgment-free, personal projects, where does one begin at on one mouth and blacking out all other supportive environment. “The point is that trying to identify the common strands con- surroundings, the voice becomes inescap- students should come because they want to, necting all her work? Slovo’s response to able. Graphic accounts of a loveless exist- not because they have to.” my question has two levels. The theme that ence, combined with the disjuncture of But writing wasn’t always on Slovo’s drives all her work she says, is an interest in broken phrases and interjecting thoughts agenda. As a youth she had been immersed understanding how the present has been ar- make for a challenging theatrical experi- in the sciences, completing a science degree, rived at, through studying the implications ence, but grant a long silenced voice a plat- before taking on the writing profession. “I that the past has on the present and the fu- form to be heard. started writing because I wanted to see if I ture. Why something happened and how it Beckett focused much of his work on could do it”. The only question was, where to happened are crucial questions. It is easy to the importance of being heard, perhaps al- start? The detective novel offered a solution. see how the detective novel suits her inves- luding the anxieties that unite writers and The central importance of plot and structure traces the story of a woman attempting to tigative approach to the understanding the actors alike. His similar piece Krapp’s Last provided a secure starting point from which discover the truth behind the circumstances here and now. But yet another driving force Tape, recently performed at Ardhowen, to branch out and experiment. Having been of her mother’s death and her father’s work is an interest in the people of the world who in Enniskillen, depicts an elderly man lis- raised in an environment rife with political for an international relief organisation. But are buffeted by political change, and relating tening to tapes of his own recorded voice, intrigue, coercion and secrecy, the detec- her most explicitly autobiographical is Red to their experience. Underlying this is Slovo’s accounting events from across his life: as tive novel was perhaps an appropriate form Dust (2000), the seeds of which were born, belief that we are all political beings, inevita- his life draws to a close, the only person of expression. Yet her early work did not di- she wrote, “out of my grave-side realisation bly caught up in the political and social forces sufficiently interested to listen to them is rectly address the politics of her past. Her that if the country would not leave me alone, surrounding us even if we are unaware of the himself. Accounting his frustrations in the first series of thrillers, featuring the female then I would have to face it”. The thriller now full extent of our involvement. Slovo’s work process of “getting known”, and selling a detective Kate Baier, are gripping and stylisti- became a lens through which to engage with articulates this tension between private and mere seventeen copies of his last literary cally sleek, whilst clearly influenced by mas- past. Her work is at once personal, relating in- public, and unravels it to full effect. venture, his voice comes to only bear sig- nificance to him: a devastating realisation. As with Not I, Beckett sustains this sense of desperation for opportunity of expres- Jordan Licht sion in Krapp’s Last Tape: to speak but also Get Your Fix to be heard. Not I, though short in length, at a mere The Dreamboys Fit and Famous 2013 Tour 8 minutes and 45 seconds, thrusts the voice Grand Opera House into the spotlight, and is undeniably grip- ping. Given the absence of body, the voice The boys are back in town! And this male glamour group are not becomes inhuman, to the point that you fear for the faint hearted the exposure of the person behind the voice. The mouth, whilst serving as the medium for Mon 6th - Sat 11th May the voice, becomes an object of terror and re- pulsion: the prominence of the teeth, as the mouth grins and screams, creates a sense of the spectral. This, combined with the revul- sion of the scrutiny of the tongue and saliva Being Tommy Cooper both fascinates and repels. It becomes the only fixed point of the piece: totally unavoid- Grand Opera House able. And to cap this off the entire piece is Learn about the life of the British comedy legend and get some performed at “the speed of thought”, as de- tailed in the stage directions, meaning that laughter therapy the show has actually reduced in length from 29th May, 8pm the 18 minutes that the first performance, directed by Beckett himself, took. Secret Cinema It’s certainly not an enjoyable show, but you cannot fail to be gripped by its sheer Museum Gardens force and intensity. Excruciatingly so, in fact. Outdoor cinema celebrating Orillo’s third birthday. There will be Best known for his devastatingly ex- istential Waiting for Godot, fascination food, champagne and live music acts with the work of Samuel Beckett, it seems, 21st June, Doors open 7pm, screening at 9pm continues to grow. His often experimental exploration of man’s search for meaningful existence has established himself among the greatest play-writes of the twentieth century. The plays of this avant-garde writer contin- ue to be performed across the country and The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco the rapturous reception of the latest produc- tion of Not I reminds us all of his theatrical Drama Barn genius. Being performed at The Royal Court Come see the Barn in full absurdist swing Theatre until 25th May, it would seem that Fri 31st May - Sun 2nd June it is one not to be missed. M6 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 FASHION. De Force of Nature

India Block talks to top UK YouTuber and blogger Fleur De Force about turning her hobby into her dream career.

leur De Force is one of the YouTube beauty blogger gen- With consumers taking the lead, Fleur acknowledges that volved which is wonderful.” eration’s biggest stars. Her most-watched YouTube video “it may be harder for brands to work through negative reviews Being fascinated by Fleur’s life is a very human thing; I’ve Fhas had nearly two and a half million views, whilst her and feedback from bloggers at times, but the majority of posts even caught my fashion-hating boyfriend watching her and channel’s sister blog currently ranks at number six on blo- and reviews on blogs are very positive, and good products get her boyfriend Mike’s vlogs of them skiing or holidaying to- glovin.com’s top UK blogs. For the uninitiated, YouTube beau- good reviews, so if brands are bringing out great products, gether in LA. Their last trip together was particularly exciting ty gurus upload short videos of themselves reviewing products blogs are a wonderful means of promotion for them.” All this for viewers as the couple announced their engagement. Most and demonstrating hair and beauty tutorials. It’s like having ultimately benefits their buyer: “Blogs make it a lot easier for of us share a great deal of our lives online now, but Fleur has a the stylish big sister you never had guiding you through your consumers to navigate their way through all of the glossy ad- finer balance than most to tread: “I do vlog my daily life expe- make up routine and personally recommending you products. vertising and product placement.” riences, but there are also aspects that I keep private. I think Thanks to girls like Fleur, gone are the days where you had to When I asked Fleur what she thought the best part of be- you have to. painstakingly teach yourself by lengthy trial and error how to ing one of the UK’s top beauty bloggers was she didn’t hesitate Part of Fleur’s charm is her down-to-earth attitude. I perfect a winged eyeliner flick, or shell out your hard-earned to tell me it’s “Getting to do something I love as my job. I never asked her what skills any beauty blogger worth her lip gloss money on products that disappoint. thought my fun hobby at university would turn into a business needed: “I’m the first to admit that I’m not totally clued-up The story of how Fleur began her career in beauty blog- for me. I really have to pinch myself sometimes to check it’s when it comes to the technology side if things. Obviously you ging is something approaching internet lore: she made a have to be good with a camera and a computer, but you video, showed it to her Mum, who gave it her seal of ap- don’t have to be an expert. I’ve learnt most of what I know proval. I asked Fleur what prompted her to begin the hobby along the way and I think that’s the best way to do it.” Apart that has become a full time career: “To be honest I was just from basic computer skills, then, Fleur reckons “you need feeling a little bored and uninspired while at university. I “It’s 100% a lifestyle. It patience and persistence (it doesn’t happen overnight), and wasn’t doing a creative subject and the uni I went to was a sometimes a thick skin (YouTube’s audience especially can solely academic one, so I think it was just fun for me to be be tough critics!). But apart from that, there are no specific able to be creative in my free time. I’ve always loved fashion is essentially my ‘job’ ‘skills’ required. That’s what is so great about blogging... and beauty, and was an avid blog-reader and video-watcher Everyone can give it a go!” so it made sense really!” For a beginner, the world of online blogging can seem That was three years ago. Now Fleur has over 683,000 but it’s also part of me.” a little daunting, but Fleur is endlessly encouraging, her subscribers to her YouTube channel, with more than “number one tip for people wanting to start a blog is just to 51,570,000 video views. When I asked her how she built do it, you won’t know until you try it if its ‘for you’ and you up such a large and obviously loyal fan-base, she told me her not all a dream. I love it.” Her hard work cultivating her online can always delete it if you decide it’s not.” However, financial secret “is being consistent and being true to yourself in your following has also given her some incredible experiences, of gain shouldn’t be your motivation: “I would discourage anyone videos. That way your subscribers not only know to expect a which “getting the opportunity to interview Taylor Swift has starting a blog just to make money. It really is a labour of love. constant stream of new content from you, but they also get got to be the best one. I’m such a huge fan and she was so nice It’s hard work, and it takes a while to even make a penny.” to know you too, and you build up a good relationship with to me (she actually said she had seen my videos! Eek!)” She Being a full time blogger is a lot of people’s dream career, them.” Fleur credits her “wonderful, supportive subscribers” told me “going to events like VidCon in LA and Playlist Live but Fleur tells me that it’s more than just job. “It’s 100% a life- for keeping her motivated: “If I’m ever stuck for ideas, they are in Orlando is pretty amazing too. I love getting the chance to style. It is essentially my ‘job’ but it’s also part of me as a per- always there to suggest something new.” meet my subscribers in person and get to know them a little.” son. I’m sharing my life and thoughts with the world, so inevi- It’s this ongoing online conversation between bloggers Fleur has also started a vlogging channel, where she up- tably it becomes more than just a job.” The blogging lifestyle is and their readers that has revolutionised the beauty industry loads videos of her daily life. It’s a great way for internet per- a 24-7 experience: “I never walk away from my desk and leave in recent years. I asked Fleur if she had witnessed the changes sonalities to connect with their fans on a deeper level. Luckily it behind like you would with a normal job,” says Fleur “some brought about by this new peer-review culture: “Definitely; I her friends and family have reacted positively to her internet people wouldn’t like that, but for me it really is a dream job.” think it’s a lot more cut-throat for brands these days. Before fame: “My family have been supportive of my YouTube chan- Finally, it would have been negligent of me not to ask blogs, magazines were the only real way to hear about beauty nels right from the start, which is awesome. Some of my Fleur what her top three beauty products of the moment are: products on an individual review basis, and they are often very friends took a while to get their heads around it, but once they “That’s always a killer question, there are too many! But at a biased based on keeping their advertisers happy. I think blog- got to understand it a bit better, they’ve been great. Some don’t push I would have to say... Illamasqua Skin Base foundation, ging has created a new consumer-led beauty experience for want to be in my videos themselves and that is something that L’Oreal Telescopic Shocking Extensions mascara and Fresh’s women.” I totally understand and respect, while others love getting in- Sugar Lychee perfume.” M M7 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 Get the Look...The Roaring Twenties “Can’t repeat the past?” Gatsby cried incredulously. “Why of look for the modern woman. Look to ASOS for Art Deco course you can!” In terms of fashion, this line from F Scott Fitzger- decoration: there needle and thread midi-dress should ald’s timeless classic could not be more appropriate. Arguably the most help you to be well on your way to becoming a 21st fashionable decade in history, the 1920s has come back into fashion in century flapper girl. a big way. There are those who may shy away from the era’s more dar- Gucci produced the most beautiful evening ing night time outfits but this problem can be overcome dresses for their Spring/Summer 2013 collection. for day with some fantastic twenties inspired acces- A little shorter than the original flapper dresses, the sories. Boys, also take note. Nothing looks better black and gold shimmering masterpieces were ac- on a man than a well-fitted suit and the roar- cessorized simply with dark smoky eyes and plenty ing twenties was the era of bespoke. Look to of sex appeal. If this look sounds a little too hot for Leonardo DiCaprio in the new Gatsby film you to handle, get to the high street for some gor- for your ultimate wardrobe inspiration. geous sequinned tops. Wear with black jeans Ralph Lauren designed the costumes and a fierce pair of heels to gently work your NEEDLE & THREAD DRESS, for the 1974 Great Gatsby film. Back in way into the trend. TOBY MAGUIRE ASOS.COM, Spring/Summer 2012 he looked back This trend is not just for women. Hav- AS NICK CARA- £145.00 WAY THE GREAT to his Gatsby collaboration and found ing seen the latest Gatsby film, I can safely GATSBY his inspiration. The collection was a rip- say that I would like every boy I know to roaring 20s extravaganza; the tasselled channel the 1920s Brooks Brothers suit and sequinned dresses were the garments catalogue. If this thought is a little daunt- of dreams. Travel back in time like Ralph ing to those of you who live in trainers Lauren and work his glamorous 1920s style and a t-shirt day in day out, work your way by wearing an extravagant collar over dresses, into the trend by rocking a hat. Men in the JAXON HATS STRAW RALPH preferably in fur, à la Carey Mulligan’s Daisy, in 1920s did not leave the house without one and, BOATER, HATSAND- LAUREN CAPS.CO.UK, £21.95 SS/12 a perfect pastel shade. If you can’t find a fur collar, as summer approaches, the straw boater is just you’ll surly be able to find a fur stole. Drape it over you the accessory all of you should be wearing to those shoulders and feel like your at one of Gatsby’s parties. BBQs down by the lake. Hatsandcaps.co.uk have the best The décor of the era was excessive: feathers, sequins and beading covered even- pick of the bunch so you could even invest in a fedora at the same time. ing dresses in exquisite patterns. Gone were the corsets and heavy dresses of centu- For a quirky touch, add a brightly coloured ribbon around your hat band to attract ries past. In were the drop waists, looser fits and glimpses of skin, something women very welcomed attention. embraced. The silhouette of the dress was fairly boyish but this was offset by the So here it is, the Gatsby guide to getting dressed. May it be feathered turbans, femininity of the dress itself. Etro has a more contemporary take on the embellished a simple drop pearl earring or a pocket-handkerchief, make sure you dress to impr dress. Keeping the drop waist shape, fresh colours and deep V-necks updated the ess. - Izzy Ashton

party scenes like a child awaits Father Christmas. Spend/Save/Steal: Sharp Shirts The Gatsby Effect The film is a fashion lover’s dream come true: the glitter, the glamour, the diamonds, the decadence think we can all agree that Leonardo DiCaprio looks pretty good in a suit, even Francesca Butcher and not to mention, DiCaprio - it is heaven in cin- those of us who are extremely bored of girls’ incessant swooning ever since his DEPUTY FASHION EDITOR ematic form. Irole was announced. But we can be thankful that to achieve that sharp look Baz Luhrmann’s wife Catherine Martin was you don’t need to resort to Savile Row, or even film outfitters Brooks Brothers. Top ust incase you’ve missed it, Baz Lurhmann the film’s costume designer, with the 1920s now trends for boys this summer run from pastel pinks and blues to neons and metallic. has finally released his film adaptation of F so culturally saturated Martin claimed that they We can leave the latter for the fashionistas; for the rest of us, here are some strong JScott Fitzgeralds beautiful 1920s tragedy, had to find a ‘new way to excite people’. Having options that’ll keep you up to date with the likes of Burberry and Bastian. Team The Great Gatsby. After much anticipation, and previously collaborated on the 1996 film Romeo any of these with jeans, chinos or tailored shorts for a look that’ll carry you right a release date that was pushed back and back (it & Juliet, they asked Prada to bring the excitement through to Autumn. And of course, don’t forget to grab a bowtie while you’re at it – was originally scheduled for Christmas 2012), our and design forty cocktail dresses. Prada perused we all need more of them in our lives. cinemas have been flooded with Prada’s twenties her previous collections and found she could cre- glamour and a catchy, although anachronistic, ate numerous 1920s looks with ‘little reinvention’ Jay-Z soundtrack. However, not only the cinema’s of past designs. The ‘chandelier dress’ Mul- SPEND: FARAH VINTAGE BREWER have been alive with Jazz Age decadence, fashion ligan wears in the film is a high point of RASPBERRY SHIRT. has gone 1920s mad. Huge names, such as Har- the Gatsby costumes. It was so heavy rods and Temperley, have decked out their shop Mulligan had to wear Party Feet pads £55, Urban Outfitters. Real men wear pink, windows in glorious roaring twenties inspired on her shoulders, but combined with a and this summer those of you with a keen displays. Harrods have even opened a twenties fur stole and a Tiffany’s diamond head- eye on the catwalk will too. A big trend for cocktail bar to celebrate the films release. Not only piece, it is nothing short of a visual mas- men and women alike, you can’t do much high fashion has been given the Gatsby makeover, terpiece. Martin claims the films acrid col- better than this – made from quality cotton, but the high street has been getting in the 1920s our palette was inspired by the work Daisy would have been sobbing her eyes mood too. Debenhams have claimed to have of Otto Dix and used to represent the out at the sight of these. Gatsby would have had a 266% increase in sales of vintage-inspired vulgarity of Gatsby’s behaviour. The placed it with a Turnbull and Asser linen items, including beaded capes and feathered ac- jades, yellows and reds are acrid yet suit, but for us mortals a pair of jeans is fine cessories, and Asda’s flapper dress sold out with- vibrant and rich and all the costumes too. in two days. ooze opulence and vividly show the With 20s inspired Spring/Summer 2013 wealth of Daisy and Gatsby, not to SAVE: BLUE LINEN LONG SLEEVE collections, from the likes of Roberto Cavalli mention the films grand budg- SHIRT. and Gucci, now pouring into the shops and et. The men’s costumes don’t inspring high street trends, The Great Gats- disappoint either. Brooks £30, River Island. From vintage quality, by has come at a perfect time. It is not Brothers provided over we move to summer’s best friend - linen. surprising that the film has caused 500 specially designed With a button down collar and long sleeves a stir in the fashion industry. suits to ensure all of this shirt will take you from the splashing Even before its release, eager Gatsby’s party goers waves of the Algarve to a long lost cousin’s fashionistas were teased with were decked-out in wedding. Comfy, cool and suave, this shirt Miuccia Prada’s stunning 20s style. Both Brooks is multi-purpose and can be dressed up or costume sketches and Brothers and Tiffany’s down at a moment’s notice. You never know movie stills of beautiful have released Gatsby when the next invite will hit the door mat… people draped in end- collections available less pearls and Tiffany to the public. How- & Co. jewels. Carey ever, if you can’t af- Mulligan’s (Daisy) ford the £155,000 Tiffany’s jewels Tiffany’s Great Gats- STEAL: BURGUNDY GEESE HIGH were so lavishly by headpiece, then ROLLER SHIRT large she had to be the highstreet awaits followed around you with Gatsby-in- £18, Bargain prices, and a motif close to the set by a body spired designs galore, hearts of any Uni of York student – in this guard. I for one, so throw a Gatsby case we can promise the docile variety. With as I watched the party, dress up, and short sleeves this casual shirt is one for the first Gatsby trailer for one night pretend beach, or take it for a stroll in your 20 acres released over a you’re Daisy, the object of gardens (or, indeed, the park). Wear it year ago, was on the of DiCaprio’s desires. It’s with chinos, or tailored shorts, with a sleek edge of my seat, pulse what everyone else in the pair of deck shoes. racing, was awaiting fashion world is doing. - Tom Witherow those spectacular M8 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 Tragedy IN ART ‘Look at my scars dammit’

s the 2013 Pink Ribbon Walks get underway across the cancer at the age of 29. After undergoing a mastectomy, she UK in the next few months, it is that time of the year agreed to a topless photo shoot with David, displaying her Aagain when the country becomes dominated by pink. scars. As Jay explains, the project “evolved organically” from Fashion photog- The pink ribbon, as well as the popular slogan of ‘wear it pink’, there. ‘The SCAR Project’, an acronym for ‘Surviving Cancer have become staple images for breast cancer care across the Absolute Reality’, is a collection of images of young women UK in its campaign to raise both funds and awareness about who have undergone surgery for breast cancer, displaying the rapher David Jay the disease. physical and emotional scars that have come as a result of this. While most of us will don a pink ribbon this year to show The moving images present an unflinching view of breast our support for the campaign, the photographer David Jay has cancer that Jay believes is important for raising more accurate talks to Charlotte taken an alternative view on the token, questioning its value to awareness about the disease. “I have yet to meet anyone who those directly affected by the disease. has said they previously knew what breast cancer looked like. In his shocking yet enlightening exhibition ‘The SCAR Really looked like. In our society breast cancer is hidden away Wainwright about Project’, Jay reflects the seriousness and harsh reality of breast behind a little pink ribbon. The public needs to be educated. cancer to a public that he states has become “anaesthetised by “Many women battling breast cancer dislike the pink rib- pink ribbons and fluffy, pink teddy bears”. bon. They resent the commercialisation of breast cancer that uncovering the Breast cancer has become the most common form of it represents. One of the SCAR Project subjects said to me, “If cancer in the UK. Around 55,000 people are diagnosed with a man got prostate cancer, do you think someone would give breast cancer each year, and just fewer than 12,000 are lost to him a pink t-shirt and teddy bear?” It (unintentionally) dimin- harsh reality of the disease. While it is important to remember that the pink ishes something that is terrifying, disfiguring, and deadly.” ribbon does do a great deal to raise awareness about breast The images focus primarily on young women diagnosed cancer, for the women in this exhibition, it has become little with breast cancer, aged between 18 and 35, a focus group that breast cancer but an empty, meaningless image, undermining the reality of David Jay felt had been largely ignored. “As 99 per cent of me- the disease. dia attention on breast cancer is focused on women over 40, David Jay, a fashion photographer, began ‘The SCAR Pro- The SCAR Project was created as an awareness raising vehicle ject’ after his close friend Paulina was diagnosed with breast for younger woman. More than 11,000 young women are di- M9 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 ALL PHOTO CREDITS: DAVID JAY agnosed with breast cancer each year in the US alone. World- wide, the number is enormous. Young women have lower sur- vival rates and die more frequently from breast cancer than any other cancer.” One of these women who stood out to Jay was a woman named Jolene, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 17. After photographing her for the first time, Jay dis- covered that the cancer had since spread throughout her body. “It spread to her jaw which they had to remove and try to re- construct. A tumour then grew near her skull, pressing on her brain and causing her to have strokes. I went out to photo- graph her in California and it was a beautiful but emotionally difficult shoot. “Jolene was on a journey which, unless something dras- tically changed, was going to end relatively soon. She was in a wheel-chair and basically on home care. This disease had completely transformed her body and her life. Knowing that it would be the last picture I would ever take of her. It was a very poignant moment.” She passed away on October 30th 2011. Sadly, Jolene is not the only subject to have passed away from the disease. “Statistically, approximately 10 per cent of the women I’ve photographed will die from breast cancer.” De- spite being emotionally difficult, Jay continued to shoot differ- ent women from across the globe, in his mission to raise true awareness about the disease and those it affects. “I have photographed women from many countries: Aus- tralia, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, India and many others. In general The SCAR Project is photographically complete. I do still add images to The SCAR Project but these days they tend to be re- served for some of the most unfortunate situations. Although many of the women recover, many do not. As the disease pro-

“Reality is not always pretty.”

gresses I continue to shoot them . . . until they pass away. This final picture is then added to the exhibition.” Despite his determination to fulfil this mission, the shoots are often moving for David, as well as many of the women. “An unforgettable moment was perhaps during the shoot of Sara, the red haired woman with tears running down her face. The shoot was going well. The pictures looked good, honest. There was laughter. I was pleased with the images we had captured. I loaded the pictures into the computer and called Sara over to look. She came and stood behind me in silence. Then tears. Mine too. I grabbed the camera again... Now, we take pictures.” Like Sara’s photograph, all of the images in this exhibition are moving, yet some have often been seen as quite shocking for the viewer, a reality that Jay embraced. “It can be uncom- fortable for the viewer. It forces us to confront our fears and inhibitions about life, death, sexuality, sickness, relationships, etc. Reality is not always pretty. This is reality. Let’s address it. The SCAR Project presents an opportunity to open a dialogue about issues we are not necessarily comfortable with.” The issue of breast cancer has been disguised by a pink ribbon, so that it is easier to confront and discuss. This exhibi- tion removes this disguise, forcing us to acknowledge the seri- ousness of this disease, and the pain that comes with it. We can no longer hide behind the pink ribbon. These images force us to really think about breast cancer, and the consequences of it for these women. Despite its shocking nature, the exhibition has had enor- mous impact across the globe. “The SCAR Project exhibition opened in NYC in 2010. No one walked by the gallery without coming in. Thousands of people. It was like a beautiful, heart wrenching magnet. There are now nearly 27,000 people on The SCAR Project’s Facebook page. Millions have gone to its website.” A documentary about the project, entitled ‘Baring It All’ has also been aired around the globe, and has even won a prestigious Emmy Award. The impact has truly been astound- ing. For the women in this exhibition, the impact on them per- sonally has been enormous. Andrea, one of the women pho- tographed, said, “I wanted to take part in The SCAR Project for two reasons. One is selfish; by letting others see my scars I continue in the healing process in accepting my ‘new’ self in my ‘new’ skin. The other reason is that The SCAR Project can’t be ignored; LOOK AT MY SCARS DAMMIT! I want to be a part of anything that could make women think more about taking care of themselves and prevent someone else from go- ing through the long dark fall down the rabbit hole.” So as breast cancer care events take place across the UK this year, it will be important to keep in mind The SCAR Pro- ject’s simple yet poignant message: breast cancer is not just a pink ribbon. M Gatsby’s Girls

CREATIVE DIRECTORS: MARY O’CONNOR AND FRANCESCA BUTCHER PHOTOGRAPHER: PETROC TAYLOR HAIR STYLIST: JULIA PANAYI, MAKEUP: KAT RONSON MODELS: POPPY YOUNG, POPPY BULLARD, TESSA BARRETT, BARNABY SPINK Gatsby’s Girls

MEN’S CLOTHES: COURTESY OF BROOKS BROTHERS; LADIES’ DRESSES: COURTESY OF GLORY DAYS VINTAGE; JEWELLERY & SHOES: MODELS’ OWN; WITH THANKS TO GRAY’S COURT HOTEL M12 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 Fringe ART Speaking through silence

Edinbrugh Fringe mime artist Bill Bowers talks to Fiona Parker about growing up gay in Montana and falling out of love with Marceau.

usually play a mime that somebody is either run- was to be voiceless because I had spent a huge amount of ning away from, or knocking down, or making fun time in all of these different levels of silence.” “Iof. I’m a bit like Charlie Chaplin but less beloved… After striking up a companionship with a teacher who I guess it’s hard to compete with a guy who fathered eleven had a keen interest in mime, Bill began a long self-teach- children.” ing process. According to Bill, he has never “not been able” This, according to Bill Bowers, a contemporary Amer- to communicate non-verbally. “It is safest and clearest for ican mime artist, is a fair description of his personal fil- me. I find it easy to put on a bodily façade. It’s just that my mography. “I think that the white face, striped shirt, beret, vocabulary is physical.” all of that – it has such strange connotations. People find it Bill took me through his process of creating a portrayal so strange and foreign and they don’t know how to read it.” through mime of the story of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year- Mimes in films are rarely loveable characters, and the old man, who was tortured and murdered near Laramie, art of mime itself, is the undeniable outsider of the arts Wyoming in October 1998. During the trial of Shepard’s clique. Bill tells me later, “I don’t call my work mime now – murderers it was widely reported that Shepard had been I call it “the M Word”, visible theatre or silent storytelling. targeted because he was gay. But despite the fact that the I find different ways to position it so people won’t just hear leader of the Westboro Baptist Church led his followers the M word and think ‘No, not for me.’” to Shepard’s funeral bearing signs such as, ‘No Tears For For Bill though, what is the most disconcerting aspect Queers’ and ‘Fag Matt in Hell’, Shepard’s murderers, who of mime, goes beyond the uncomfortable French-origi- had begun by pleading the gay panic defense, were not nated stereotype, the thick layers of non-gender specific charged with any kind of hate crime. No Wyoming crimi- monochrome make-up, the ominous and unfathomable nal statute at the time provided for such a charge. black crosses, which mark eerily-expressive eyes, and the “I was very affected by it because I grew up in a town perverse childlike fashion of constricting stripped polo very much like that – a small, quiet town in the West, and necks and black three quarter lengths. It is the experience I thought, that could have been me. I was so moved by it of silence itself and the foreign nature of silence which ini- that a friend of mine wrote a poem and sent it to me about tiates the classic “No, not for me” response. “I think that the event, which I carried around with me. At an arts asking people to sit in silence or consider something in si- symposium at Harvard one year, I met a songwriter who lence makes you very vulnerable. It just opens up portals was doing a project on why people pray and what prayer in you to receive things in a different way.” sounds like. I handed her the poem and explained that al- As he was growing up, Bill consciously felt more com- though I wasn’t a religious person, the poem sounded very fortable living in a silent world than in a verbal one. From much like a prayer to me. It was the collaboration with an early age he became aware of his sexuality and from that artist that brought the piece together, but ultimately this point onwards, he recognised that it was not some- I was thinking about the idea that everybody in that story thing which could be spoken of comfortably. “I grew up was at one point a little boy. We have this innocence at in Montana in the Wild West. Montana is a big state with childhood until our culture says what’s right and what’s very few people, so it’s very quiet. Really early on I got re- wrong. That’s something we need to destroy. ally interested in the idea of quiet. I was the youngest one I used this as the frame for my piece: innocence and of one of those families that talk about absolutely noth- brutality.” ing. I’m also a gay man, and I was a gay kid growing up Bill’s developed understanding of his own concepts in Montana in the sixties when there was just no conver- of ‘physical vocabulary’ and ‘physical imagination’ quickly sation to be had about being gay. I didn’t even think the led him to achieve international critical acclaim across the word “gay” existed then. I just knew exactly what that it USA, Canada and Europe. One of his shows, “Under the M13 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 ALL PHOTOGRAPHS PROVIDED BY BILL BOWERS

Montana Moon”, has been performed at venues all over the somebody and not talk to them without texting or watching for me because they thought I was retarded. To them, I was world. Bill credits a lot of his appeal to his contemporary take the TV across the room. People find it so easy to create online some outsider who moved in a strange way and walked into on the French art form. personas nowadays.” Bowers is fascinated by how comfortable walls that weren’t really there.” He admits that, “A lot of traditional mimes don’t look like we can feel while our physical presence is hidden. We would Finally, I want to ask just what Edinburgh can expect from me, I just look like the average American guy with this height- complain if our speech was restricted, but the removal of our Bowers this August. He tells me about his play It Goes With- ened sense of movement and a language that you can’t hear. bodily beings through technology does not seem to disturb us out Saying. “It’s the story of how I became a mime, it’s all spo- I feel that the success I’ve had is probably attributed to this – in the slightest. “To trust in the impulse to play in space and ken, although there is a lot of mime in it. I suppose I’ve found people can relate to me.” work off another person physically – it’s less and less required my voice in the last few years and I’ve started to talk a lot now However, at the start of the new millennium, while Bow- in the real world, I think.” about the phenomenon of what being a mime is.” ers was performing in the Broadway show The Lion King, he Every now and then, Bill is still reminded of the feelings I wonder just how and when Bill became comfortable received news which would alter all of his plans. “I heard that that a confrontation with mime can incite. He tells me of how with stepping out of his silent world and it is when he tells Marcel Marceau was doing his 80th birthday world tour and one woman brought her pet rabbit to a workshop which she me the story of how he came out, that I begin to understand I just had this realisation that if I didn’t work with him then, I believed was a mime. “She was convinced that Rocky was try- the sheer significance of the turning point that this must have never would.” However, Bill’s experiences with the man behind ing to communicate with her, and she thought that if he learnt marked in his life. the persona of Bip the Clown provided no fairy tale ending. some mime he would be better. She was very serious by the “I didn’t come out until I was 30 years old. I had moved “I think it made me into a better artist, but it was also way. It was strange.” away from Montana - 2500 miles away from my home life in really hard being a newcomer to the very territorial world of the Northwest. I wrote everybody in my family a letter on the French Pantomime.” Marceau came from the masterclass pe- same day and the reason I did that was because I had fallen riod of teaching, the pupils sat below him and there were no “I cast him to be my loving in love with a person called Michael. I wrote to everybody to questions and infrequent opportunities to stand up and prac- say “I’m gay and I’m in love”, and in a classic way of my family, tise. Bill’s contemporary ideas did not meet harmoniously with mime grandfather and he nobody responded for days. I think my Mom referenced it in Marcel’s commitment to the French tradition and Bill remem- one line saying something like “I got your letter, it’s something bers frequently being told “You’ll never do this”. wasn’t that person.” I’ve always known and it’s none of my business”.” “I cast him to be my loving mime grandfather and he Shortly after coming out, Bill’s partner contracted AIDS wasn’t that person. He was a very famous man with a very and died in the following year. In a darkly ironic twist of fate, large ego and a very great talent. He was also at the end of his I wanted to know if Bill had ever recognised himself as during the final stage of his illness, Bill’s partner lost the abil- life and I believed that he was asking himself “Have I left a “strange” in the eyes of the beholder. It was then that Bill began ity to speak, something that forced Bill to retreat back into his legacy?” I’m a little hesitant because I don’t want to paint him to tell me about an invitation he received to an Amish colony. silent world. “I think it’s part telepathic because when you care as a terrible person and I have incredible respect for him. He “I came into this little school room and there were all these about someone there is just that energetic thing between you. brought mime around the world and he’s probably the reason little kids wearing little white tie bonnets and sitting at seats in I also think I was just really good at it. You know – it’s my lan- you and I are having this conversation.” their desks with their hands folded. Everybody looked exactly guage.” Bill continued to gain praise for his contemporary style of the same. I was doing a little opening mime piece that I do for At 54, Bill is now happily married, and his four sisters and the art form. He teaches workshops to a range of people who everybody which is like the “wall”, and being trapped behind one brother attended his wedding. When I ask him what was do not all necessarily want to be mimes. His pupils include the wall. It scared them to death and I could see their little going through his head when he wrote that letter thirty years aspiring dancers, actors and non-performers. Bowers believes Amish faces, terrified! They had no idea what I was doing, so I ago which revealed himself as openly gay, and allowed him to that in this modern age, many of us have lost touch with our opened the door and that terrified them even more! For them step past the threshold of a silent life he answered firmly and physical presence, something Bill hopes to change. I was probably like a Martian coming into their classroom – concisely. “I realised that this is what love is – it is the thing you “I feel that one of the main changes I see in students is that this silent, demonstrative gay guy… I ended up feeling terrible. have to speak about.” M they are less able to be “present” in conversation and group Later on, after I left, my friend Dorothy called me, she was interaction. I think that has something to do with technol- laughing so hard. She had gone over to ask the kids what they Bill Bowers will be performing It Goes Without Saying”at ogy, I am guilty of it too. Just being able to be in a room with thought. After I left all the kids had got together and prayed the Hillstreet Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe this August. M14 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 MUSIC. Meeting at Sea

Their fourth album has just hit the shelves, making The Pigeon Detectives veterans in their field, writes Hatti Linnell.

he Pigeon Detectives’ moment is now. been a live band. We’ve always felt most com- And to add to their woe, the album wasn’t spoke to me about the band’s ambitions when Last month, they released their fourth fortable touring and being on stage. Our first stocked in HMV until the Saturday after its re- creating the album: “When we first started we Talbum, a formidable achievement for album was basically like a live set put onto lease, the official charts are calculated - surely kind of wrote about growing up, getting drunk any group, and over the past few weeks have CD that we’d been playing for a year or so. a major photo factor in its underwhelming and going out with mates and stuff like that, announced a shedload of UK tour dates for We wanted to take it back to that after a very chart performance. all about being a kid our age. We’re a bit older October and November. much studio-based third album. We wanted Beyond hindrances to physical sales the now so themes are a bit broader but it’s still I interviewed the band’s bass player, Dave to try and write an album that would come album itself isn’t overwhelmingly good, which the Pigeon Detectives, we’re still trying to sing Best, on the phone just before the release of across live really well, because that’s our fa- perhaps explains why it exited the charts so about relatable things that people can kind the album. Dave was very positive about the vourite part so there’s a lot of high-tempo, en- soon after its release. The overused formula of recollect in their lives and stuff like that. I upcoming release: “We’re all just excited to re- ergetic songs that people can jump around to which worked so well on their debut album, think it’s kind of a more broad sort of, this is lease a fourth album. A lot of bands don’t get what it’s like today, and we’re trying to relate this far so we’re definitely excited and we can’t to as many people as possible. wait to get back on the road again.” “I think that’s what made the first couple The run-up to the release of We Met At of albums so successful. We’re not going to Sea brought with it an exciting buzz, with the start writing songs about pink elephants, it’s lead single, ‘Animal’, reaching almost 100,000 “We’re trying to relate to as many peo- not really our style.” YouTube views. Dave told me that the antici- In spite of a recent slump in album sales, pation around the release had heightened the the band still has a large and enthusiastic fan band’s fervour even more: “I mean we just base. For the video for their second single, ‘I write these songs, us five, all together, and we ple as possible. We’re not going to write Won’t Come Back’, they saw an opportunity to just hope it connects with people. The fact that acknowledge the support they receive locally. people responded to ‘Animal’ really positively “We involved lots of our fans in filming a new is good for us because you can never know video in Leeds yesterday. We just put a little how long you’re going to hold people’s inter- songs about songs about pink elephants” invitation out seeing if people wanted to come est, but yeah the reaction to ‘Animal’s’ been and the tickets went within a couple of hours. brilliant so we can’t wait to get the album out We’re excited, we’re going to play a couple of and see what everyone thinks to the rest of it.” songs for them as a thank you and we’ll keep it The most common criticism levelled at very much on a Leeds basis - we’re from Leeds the Pigeon Detectives is the claim that their and there’s a couple of anthemic ones and I Wait For Me, was wearing thin by Emergency, and it’s like a little thank you to all the people sound has never evolved. Pondering this, I think it’ll go down really well live and we’re and is now like the musical equivalent of a bad who have always come to watch us, and stuck asked Dave whether fans of the previous al- really happy with it.’ rom-com where the two main characters get by us. If they’ve taken the time to turn up it bums will notice any sonic development in Despite positive expectations for the al- together very predictably. would’ve been a bit of a boring long day but the new record. “We try to write it for the bum, it peaked at a disappointing 41, and was It’s listenable, but you might not remem- we’ll try to make it as entertaining as possible, live show as much as possible as we’ve always out-of-sight of the charts the following week. ber any of it after hearing it three times. Dave try and put on a bit of a show for them.” M

REVERB. “You know when yo’ cat gets bad, ya gotta spank ‘em, ya gotta pop dat pussy” Lil Jon, on the subject of feline companions M15 Be Your Own www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 King The Concrete Knives speak to Charles Davies Review. and Steven Roberts sound translate from the stu- dio to the stage? With inspiring about nightmares, and ease: the band both seamlessly their commitment to glided and indeed surprised, as they launched through their change. more well-known items. Thom Green’s drumming was punchy uccinct definition of the Con- and precise, mastering the crete Knives’ (CCKS) sound is a military-like rhythms - Gwil’s Spretty futile activity. Lead singer guitar and bass playing, deli- Morgane says under dissection, their ALT-J cate and poised; Gus’ keyboard music feels like blues and folk, “but O2 ACADEMY LEEDS sound, mellow and yet satisfy- it’s also like a mix of all the things we Friday, 10th May ingly reverberating, especially like, with voices in unison. All our J ames Bailey in the weightier ‘Fitzpleasure’. songs are different, some are violent All three compliment Joe’s reedy and full, some are quiet and mini- nasal voice which stayed perfect- malist, depending on our emotions.” is. When Morgane reflects on what it’s Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life’, but the song’s Alt-J are one of those ex- ly in tune and sublime through- Thankfully, the band have evolved like growing up as a musician in the own music video aspires to a very dif- tremely special bands who upon out the whole gig. The surprises from their high school metal group Normande city of Caen, the essential ferent aesthetic. Featuring grainy first listen instil a sense of in- came because the band mem- phase; the early 2000s indie scene point is that “the best way to grow archive footage, the moving back- trigue. Upon my first hearing, bers are contemporary masters softened the boys, favouring bands up as a musician is to play, no matter drop to ‘Happy Mondays’ is entirely there was something really very at creating musical suspense, like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and where you are.” CCKS is not the only “inspired by Nico’s obsession for the good that I instantly recognised, evident only in an intimate set- Cold War Kids. The later addition of successful band to come out of Caen, wall of Berlin,” the same mind behind yet so much more that I knew ting like the O2 Academy. The Morgane brought about, in her won- which boasts the lazy pop rock sound the bulk of the composition of music. I had missed. It became appar- band would deviate at the end of derful Anglo-French phrasing, “dif- of Granville and the more electronic, The combination of bouncy lyrics and ent when their debut album An songs, ending on more unusual ferent universes” of musical leanings. trip-hop duo Superpoze to mention 8mm film of everyday life in a divided Awesome Wave was released: cadences, before hurtling into “Some of us listen to trap music and just a couple. The bands meet when Berlin offsets a more legendary event, they expertly craft such an amaz- the more up-beat tracks, or sim- dubstep, it makes me sick”, she jokes. they can, “Superpoze and Granville the destruction of the Berlin Wall; in ing variety of sounds and genres, ply pausing to play on a previous “Nico is the main composer, so his are mates, we occasionally have a this way the video catches the line ‘in and this can be overwhelming. motif to then gently slip into a tastes are the most represented in our drink in the same place.” The popular your minds, there’s a picture, in col- The soaring melodies and voice slower song. They kept me en- music.” The result, heard in ours’ in an interesting light, remind us of Neil Young; their raptured through musical skill debut album Be Your King, since film can write and alter psychedelic indie-rock sound alone, without having to resort is a glorious mix of youth- our perspective of the past. distinctive to Radiohead. The to crude showmanship. ful exuberance and bracing “Our music is a mix of all The black and white video for harmonies are reminiscent of Alt-J have rightly earned melodies that almost unwa- ‘Wallpaper’, directed by Julien Simon and Garfunkel and even headline act on the NME stage veringly demand a response the things we like, combin- Langendorff, is also vintage in medieval plainchant; there’s at Leeds and Reading, and this from the listener. style though Morgane didn’t definitely an air of minimalist is testament to their vast im- There are glimpses of ing different universes...” comment on any unifying ar- Drum & Bass. provement as a band. I really do Anglophilia running through tistic spirit unless we can spot So how does such a complex urge anyone to go and see them. the album, not least in ‘Grey- an ‘obsession’ with memory hound Racing’ and the ironic ‘Happy browsing service Last.fm has since surfacing: “we wanted something like Mondays’, where an identification adopted the tag ‘Caen’ for their online a weird nightmare, I think it works sound. with English culture is really felt. database. One link between Granville well in black and white. I can’t really Strokes front man Casa- Their gigs reveal this affinity: “we feel and CCKS could be their dwelling remember the colours of my dreams.” blanca’s mouths one of the closer to the English crowd, they react on life’s youthful years, which might “We were freaking out too much standout songs of the album, to things that we care about in music, bring us back to their home province. when we recorded the first album, ‘Instant Crush’, synths and para- and most importantly, they come to Then again, with songs like ‘Brand and there was stuff we didn’t dare to mount to involuntary foot tap- see live music, while a lot of French New Start’, CCKS seems to sing more do.” Still, we are told the raw sound of ping. Pharrell Williams features people come to a gig to hear the al- a song of transition from naivety to CCKS has evolved, “… and hopefully once more with perhaps an even bum and see a very adjusted show.” independence, that has always made it will forever.” For album two, they catchier tune in ‘Lose Yourself Crowds both sides of The Channel early adulthood so life-affirming. The “are ready to try new things, includ- to Dance’ – iconic space voco- have come to appreciate the band’s playful line ‘love is a trick’ in ‘Happy ing on the vocals,” which would mean ders pitch warped into a tirade chanting vocals and stirring rhythms, Mondays’, if recalling teenage infatua- experimenting with the energetic set of funk. However, ‘Touch’ would which have fostered a reputation for tion and our first loves, is at the other up of their male/female duet. In the sound more at home in a medio- outstanding live performances. “We extreme a mature and wary senti- mean time, the band will return to cre musical in its utter lethary! have fun on stage and we feel at home, ment. their darling tour stop, the UK, this RANDOM ACCESS It’s from here on out you ques- wherever we are in the world.” ‘Happy Mondays’ was featured summer for Great Escape, in Bright- tion the nature of ‘R.A.M’. The group’s credo seems to be on the soundtrack of the 2013 French on, Liverpool Sound City, Hop Farm, MEMORIES The crucial difference on that home can be wherever the music romantic comedy The Kids, alongside Camden Crawl, in Dublin, and more. this album is the use of live DAFT PUNK drums, it’s impossible to say Daft Life, Columbia Alex Donaldson whether more overt produc- eling out, 1D are on for another next feeling of missing out on something tion would benefit the record Changing Gigs year. Their performances aren’t just a in the field beyond is intoxicating. And lo, Daft Punk have re- or if their power’s been lost by Ellie Rice voice; they come with extra fluff. In business terms, in order to turned to the world with a mis- that nostalgic choice. There are The title of Beyoncé’s tour, The make consistent profit, your product, sion to “save dance music”. Five moments where you unasham- Mrs. Carter Show, demonstrates how i.e. the festival, must keep growing years since their last release, the edly beg to be slapped across ive music, whether at artists’ obvious these developments are to the and changing. Sadly, however, this infamous duo have conjured up the face with that ‘Discovery’- own gigs or at festivals is split- industry and its consumers. Compet- can serve as a distraction from the an album that’s rather more of esque bass. It’ll be interesting Lting into one of two routes. One ing with other acts of a similar calib- talent. Others could argue that the da funk than robotic rock, so to to see if Daft Punk can trans- tributary leads to the sea, with plenty er has led to a distortion of ‘gig’; it’s growth of festivals allows for smaller speak. pose these slower, softer songs more fish and ‘intimate’ performanc- now a performance, with increasing acts to take the stage, but they’re not Opener ‘Give Life Back to into live shows. The saviour of es. The other directs the select few to- self-awareness of the plot line, using always expanding into more music. Music’ immediately transports these doubts comes in penulti- wards an idyllic pool, with all eyes on actions and singing as opposed to Comedy and burlesque are gaining you to a nirvana where the very mate song ‘Doin’ It Right’. We them for their glitzy, expensive shows. traditional acting. How are emerging increasing amounts of stage time. air you breathe is a major 7th, see the return of the drum ma- In the music industry, this gulf artists, or those returning to the pub- Overall, the disparity between guitar featuring predominantly chine and some serious house, between the two ends of the spectrum lic eye, to properly compete? the two types of performance creates as groove master. Stand out with almost dub-like breaks. It’s is widening. Is it fair that those start- And this isn’t just a trend seen two types of consumers, each avail- track of the first half is certainly just appalling, and too slow to ing out in their career cannot afford in individual concerts - festivals are able to be more specifically catered ‘Giorgio by Moroder”. Beginning ever be played in a club. Album all the glitz that comes with a sold out falling in number, but increasing in for and allowing the businesses to with an interview with the man finale ‘Contact’ is the definition 02? Or does it inspire smaller acts to volume. For example, Hop Farm has become ever more profitable. This, himself then, another classic of epic. Just listen to it and try create their shows as more of an expe- been cancelled this year. The last time as far as I’m concerned, is extremely DP riff casts serenity into disco not to smile. rience? After all, music isn’t like most the festival sold out was 2011, with positive, allowing artists to reach chaos echoing “the sound of the Daft Punk have either rede- other industries. These shows are ex- Prince roping in the crowds. Reading those they can most easily and suit- future”. Several tracks open up fined the dance genre with the pressions of the soul, not just some- and Leeds have also failed to sell out ably connect to - one type is no better the more tender side of these comeback of live musicians or one filling market niches. since 2011 despite strong headliners: than the other. It is logical to see that anonymous robots. Crooning accidently just made the great- In terms of enormous shows, just Muse, The Strokes, and Pulp. Mean- the industry, just like all of the others, vocals on ‘Within’ are about as est pop album of the decade so consider Beyoncé’s and 1D’s recent while, Glastonbury continues to ex- needs to adapt in order to survive the emotional as a vocaded French- far. I just wish they’d made it sell out tours. The trend is not lev- pand and keeps people returning - the world’s economic problems. man in a shiny bike helmet can that bit harder, better, faster… M16 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 FILM. Directing on a Micro-Budget Steven Roberts speaks to Michael Baig-Clifford about BAFTA success and working with Ray Winstone.

way of introducing myself is to look hotfooted up the motorway and immediately at the people I’m not,” says BAFTA started looking for documentary ideas.” “Awinner Michael-Baig Clifford. He Keeping the broadcaster’s attention re- began his film directing career in TV docu- sembled something like a lazy love affair. “I mentaries, and his short films take a raw look would pitch an idea to Channel 4 and they at life through the eyes of shaken, distinctly would say no, but wouldn’t say the conver- human subjects. “Human beings are quite sation was over, so I’d go back with another messy, if you like, and I like to run with that one.” Then Michael met Shaun Kent. This and let it dictate the work I do compare that intrepid scrap dealer had acquired the larg- to Kubrick or Wes Anderson, where the ar- est shipwreck by tonnage in the world for the chitecture and design of the film comes first, incredible sum of £1. The 190,000 ton bulk and the characters and the action are placed carrier named ‘Kowloon Bridge’ had sank off within that, they’re subservient to that.” the coast of West Cork in 1986, along with its “Right from the beginning I was inter- cargo of iron ore. ested in characters, real people, but also form Shaun was “an absolute gift of a charac- at the beginning of the 1990s most documen- ter”, and gave Michael his next documentary, taries had a more straightforward style.” His The Flying Scrapman. Even if we don’t see first, stylish project was about Scala, a cult Shaun complete the salvage operation, the cinema in King’s Cross London nicknamed film retains a wonderful tension, cutting skit- Sodom Odeon – “quite a notorious place.” In tishly from one scene to the next. That was 1993, just three years after Michael finished 1997. “Believe it or not he’s still trying to sal- filming, the cinema caused significant trouble vage the ship, and Sean was best man at my for itself after screening A Clockwork Orange, wedding, you do spend a lot of time with your which had been banned in the UK since the subjects and can become close friends.” 70s. In the following few years, Screen West “I spent two or three years breaking Midlands was set up, funds became available into televi- and things sion. It can were look- Michael recruited a casting director so that he time. Even a BAFTA win is not a guarantee. take a very ing hope- could work with professional actors. “In the Michael returned to television between long time “Doing a feature film has ful for new first meeting I said the best person to play this 2003-2006. Despite directing over 29 epi- to achieve fi l mmak- role is Ray Winstone. And then we thought sodes of the serial-drama Doctors for the t h i n g s . ” been the most difficult transi- ers. With ‘well, when he says no, who are we going to BBC before beginning his micro-budget fea- Eventually, the spirit get?’ So we sent it to Ray and he really liked ture length, Turbulence, he still admits to the he was rec- tion. It’s also quite personal and of a neo- the script and said yes!” Before he knew it, steep learning curve he experienced: “Doing ommended realist, and pro actors Shaun Parkes and Paddy Considine a feature film… that transition has been the to Channel 4 painful to talk about...” struck by were also interested in the short, which was most difficult one to make and I think its also by an admir- the natu- nominated for a BAFTA in 2002. quite personal and painful to talk about.” er of the Sca- ral style of The following year, Winstone proved to The micro-budget director is preoccupied la doc at BBC Bristol, but in his first meeting Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland (1999), Michael he was “the kind of person who would in matters of funding because it more directly found he would have to dig deep to impress Michael experimented with street level dra- really look after newbie like myself,” when he shapes (it would be unmindful to say ‘limits’), them. Michael lived in London, the one region ma. “But actually, working with non-actors became executive producer on Brown Paper the end product’s look and feel. However, of the UK the commissioning editor had no does present problems, they don’t understand Bag. A story of alcoholism, it won Michael a Michael’s artistic vision remains unwavering interest in. “So thinking on my feet I said ‘well, what the director is asking of them.” Then a BAFTA for Best Short Film in 2003. He en- within these bounds – perhaps his preoccupa- I’m from Birmingham and I’ve got loads of colleague of his was approached with a drama joyed the red carpet treatment, and meeting tion with down-to-earth drama makes the mi- stories about Birmingham’, which I didn’t but script about a nightclub bouncer, and it soon famous directors like Martin Scorsese. After cro-budget his habitat, the terrain is at least I thought ‘try and grab this opportunity’, so I evolved into a film project. For the first time, that, however, nothing happened for a long navigable enough for now. M

Alan (Zach Galifianakis) is assigned as many lines as possible The Hangover: Part III in the hope that some will be as quotable as when the pack first formed. This leaves little room for macho Phil (Cooper) and anxious Stu (Helms), who mostly parrot the phrases “What the Director: Todd Phillips f*ck?” and “Oh my god!” whenever Galifianakis does or says Review: Alfie Packham something. When the cameras aren’t fixed on Alan they’re on the fortunately fully-clothed, yet overused and increasingly ir- t seems like you haven’t learned anything” Alan scolds ritating Mr Chow, on his cocaine-fuelled pursuit of cash and his co-star Stu in the latest chapter of the biggest bro- more cocaine. mantic comedy of the last decade. The very same would By far the greatest oversight of this comedy, however, is “I the comedy. Laughs are intermittent with the biggest already apply to the creators of The Hangover Part II; the regurgitated sequel that could have been written by wedging the original hampered by the trailers, while many jokes are marginalised script into a photocopier. As for Part III of the trilogy, the man- by uneasy dips into darker tones and action-based genres. child’s words have never been more appropriate. Without its traditional wit and chummy chemistry, a tired fet- The Wolf-Pack’s latest outing sees their past roofies-in- ishizing of stupidity is laid bare. Some lift is provided from the duced misadventures return to haunt them as Alan, Stu, Phil familiar aesthetic sheen and a peppy soundtrack, yet they ulti- and Doug (Justin Bartha) are caught in the crossfire between Todd Phillips’ Hangover cure for Part II’s imagination defi- mately serve as a reminder of better Hangover days. the crazed-as-ever Mr Chow (Ken Jeong) and newcomer Mar- ciency hasn’t proved to be much more effective with his new Spewing all the trademarks of a lazy Hollywood comedy shall, John Goodman’s menacing drug lord. We soon enter fa- screenplay. One problem is the film’s lack of an actual “hango- sequel, The Hangover: Part III is yet another exercise in di- miliar territory as Doug needs rescuing again, and Las Vegas’ ver” – an especially glaring one since this is a franchise whose minishing returns. Part II may have tried nothing new, but Caesar’s Palace is once more on the cusp of wreckage. name and premise is based entirely upon just this. without even the infamous R-rated shock-value this lacklustre To its credit, The Hangover III is at least not the precise The omissions don’t end at an eponymous headache ei- offering is no more tempting. Part III is itself a hangover from replica of the original that its predecessor was. Then again, ther. A lack in focus on its central characters is another, as the drunkenly forgotten party of the original. M17 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 FOOD AND DRINK. On a Budget: Gastronomy Box of Booze in the Garden Ryan Bentley

Lucy Boyd reveals the joys of growing, and her seasonal sins to Mary O’Connor

rom the bustling hum of of cooking, she brought that back small town French markets to the kitchen table.” Lucy’s recent Fto the sleepy hills of Lucca, book, Kitchen Memories pays trib- Tuscany, foraging for wonderfully ute to her mother’s generational fresh varieties of ingredients has approach to cooking, as Lucy ac- always been a mainstay of Lucy knowledges, “cooking was my way Boyd’s way of cooking. As a trained of being close and getting to know chef and the head gardener of Pe- her.” tersham Nurseries, (where the In keeping with this, Lucy se- DETAILS.COM CREDIT: PHOTO restaurant’s dishes contain ingre- lects “the best of everything” from dients mostly grown on site) Lucy her home grown produce, which treasures not only growing and she swears by, above simply going s a student, the hardest issues picking your own aspects of the to the supermarket: “you have the you will face are not the pres- kitchen, but the entire process, opportunity to go and pick them Asure of exams, nor deadlines, especially when it encompasses when they’re very small, rather nor money. No, it is the far more se- family and friends, who can con- than going to a supermarket and rious matter of what to choose for tribute, armed with “a board, a getting the huge ones… You’re predrinks. knife and a glass of wine”. Her time much more in control of not only The inevitable trawl through spent in Italy equipped her with a the taste, but also you can choose the supermarket or off-licence be- wealth of knowledge, “There was when you want to harvest the Lucy relishes the personal rewards of rocket growing, you could make fore your night out is fraught with an enormous variety of Italian in- plant.” For Lucy, there is also the of this approach saying, “It’s not a great salad from that, rather than difficulties. Do you choose the beer, gredients, which was very exciting added bonus of its sustainability, only an education, it’s a joy, be- buying a small bag from the super- a good, but often overpriced option? for us. Having lemon trees at the “growing your own ticks that box cause in the winter there are three market. Or you might griddle some Perhaps you opt for spirits: they get end of the garden, places where big-time. As well as being incred- vegetables on our shelf: cabbag- chicken and then pair it with some the job done, but the unavoidable we could find broccoli and pick ibly rewarding, it’s easy to grow es, turnips and potatoes.” But in courgettes and Greek yoghurt.” hangover the next morning has you chicory – there were thousands of and harvest… There’s no plastic or growing and importing authentic It seems the possibilities are wondering why you ever laid your varieties in Italy.” transportation costs involved.” produce, “we suddenly get twenty endless for Lucy Boyd, but this eyes on that discounted Polish vodka Lucy’s curiosity to different Because it works so well for other ingredients, that we are just doesn’t mean she’s a stringent in the first place. That is why, ladies combinations of ingredients didn’t Petersham Nurseries, Lucy is keen beginning to learn how to grow in foodie all of the time. When asked and gentlemen, I propose a solution. come solely from her surroundings for this garden-to-gastronomy link this country.” about eating foods only when in The boxed wine. however. Her mother, Rose Gray, to be furthered. Although she ad- Aside from the borage and season, she replies “I’m not reli- “Boxed wine?” I hear you yell, (the founder of the River Café and mits that “there’s quite a long way courgette flowers that are ap- gious about it. I buy lemons in the shaking your newspaper with dis- daughter Royal Horticultural Soci- to go with that,” more recently parently wonderfully delicious middle of summer when they’re belief. This unassuming staple of ety-loving parents) was a nurturing some of the “grander supermarkets deep-fried, one wonders at how not in season in this country. And the supermarket wine shelves brims hand to Lucy’s own explorations as like Waitrose have started produc- a student might go about leading pineapples! How many people with both untapped potential and al- she explains, “she influenced my ing and working with markets in a similarly fresh and healthy life- grow pineapples in England? Or coholic goodness. love of my cooking by taking us Italy and France so they can get in style, keeping to a budget. “I think bananas for that matter? Obvi- A box of wine is very much like abroad with her and through her some of this produce that is being if you have a piece of feta, you can ously there are some things that Doctor Who’s tardis; it always seems own passion and inquisitiveness delivered in restaurants, generally do wonders with that. If you have you wouldn’t eat out of season, but to be much bigger on the inside. about ingredients, and the ways unavailable to the wider public.” a good bottle of olive oil, and a pot I couldn’t do without my lemons.” Within its humble casing is a mirac- ulous 4 bottles worth, often for the price of just half of that in real bot- tles. And this isn’t cheap plonk, oh no, you won’t be handing over your The Naked Baker: hard earned government loan for what amounts to a crate of lambrini. Preheat oven to 200C. Core, peel and halve A boxed wine is very often of Pear Tarte Tatin the pears. good quality, and if you don’t take Put the butter and sugar into a wide-based my word for it, wine critic Oz Clarke Helena Parker pan with a metal, not plastic, handle, on a high (who I had the good luck to meet at heat. Gently stir together until the butter is a food show) says that they are the arte tatin, along with many of these fads melted and becomes syrupy. best wine a student can get, and for from across the channel, is one of those Add the pear halves and cinnamon to the a reasonable price, too. recipes which seems to have a bright orange pan, and keep turning them and covering with If I cast my mind back to my T the syrup. It should eventually turn caramel sticky label emblazoned with “This recipe is hard. very hazy, and slightly terrifying, Do not attempt” stamped across the mental recipe coloured and the pears will begin to caramelise memories of Freshers’ week, I can book of every student cook. What lies the French themselves. Continue for about 10 minutes until recall with some fondness that, every tell. It’s just upside down. Simples. pears are golden brown. evening, as we gathered to get pleas- Tarte tatin began its long and illustrious life, Add brandy and flambé for a minute (de- antly drunk once again, I would trot like many culinary delicacies, as a mistake. The pending on how much alcohol taste you want) out a boxed wine I had bought at story goes that the two sisters who ran Hotel then take off the heat. Don’t let the sugar burn. Morrison’s. Maybe I was just dream- Tatin in the small town of Lamotte-Beuvron dur- Roll out the pastry to about the thickness of ing (or slowly succumbing to alcohol ing the 19th century were stressed from cooking a pound coin. Arrange the pears flat side up with poisoning), but to me, it seemed like one day, and made an upside down apple tart by thin end pointing inwards in the pan, in a tight it would never run out. accident. Not all the French agree with this story, Ingredients: circle, then cover with the pastry, making sure to A boxed wine also has the added including certain Parisian patissiers of the time 6-8 small pears tuck it in around them. benefit of making you look consid- who claim the glory for themselves. 100g granulated sugar Put the whole pan into the oven and cook erably more classy than you actu- However, whatever the origin, the tart re- 100g butter for 25-30 minutes, or until pastry is golden and ally are, just don’t, whatever you do, mains a classic, and in a slight twist on the recipe cinnamon flaky. You may want to pour off some of the syrup go and spoil the effect by drinking I am using pears instead of apples, and liberals 3 tbsp brandy after about 15 minutes cooking. straight from the tap. So next time amount of brandy. Because as my father says, “no 500g puff pastry Place a large plate over the pan and carefully you’re in the shops, wandering up pudding is properly pudding unless there’s some flip the tart onto it. Prepare for a bit of spillage, and down the drinks aisle, go boxed, alcohol in it.” and serve hot with lashings of cream. you won’t be disappointed. M18 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 Darfur GENOCIDE A Whistle in the Darkness

A decade after the genocidal conflict in Darfur, Mukesh Kapila, former Head of the UN in Sudan, tells Mary O’Connor of his ongoing fight against “gross inhumanity”

he year 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the begin- right at the heart of the story. I was an actor in it. No one was scenes of mass destruction, but rather his career and its me- ning of the crisis in Darfur. People around the world re- better placed to blow the whistle, and call all those into ac- anderings brought him to the feet of such crises. The clinical Tmembered the suffering in the Sudan in different ways; count who failed in this situation. This is my contribution to gaze of the medical doctor continued to guide his perception of some by writing letters, others by partaking in campaigns such get the truth out and get it widely known amongst ordinary such events, and was undeniably the life force of his profound as a ‘100 Day Fast for Darfur.’ Mukesh Kapila, the man who people.” ability to continue his work against the tide of evil, as he charts witnessed the genocide unfold before him, wrote a book. In As a veteran of humanitarian crises, including Bosnia, in his book. Mukesh remembers that “in the 1980s and 1990s, writing his testimony, Mukesh became the whistle blower for Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, Mukesh’s journey, which took him the word ‘humanitarian’ hadn’t even been invented. It was all Darfur, and the resounding voice in the call to bring resolution to “the heart of the story” began after he qualified to be a clini- about emergencies and disasters.” to a conflict still on-going today. cal doctor and from there moved into international aid work. This soon changed in the years following, yet his rational With an overwhelming heaviness in his voice, Mukesh After over a decade working within international aid for the intake of such events remained consistent, “Coming from a explains that “there are about 2.5 million people affected in British government, the dynamics of Mukesh’s work experi- medical background, you are clearly used to dealing with the Darfur. There is still on-going ethnic cleansing, and those who enced something of a change when the events of 9/11 reverber- extremes of the human condition. perpetrated the genocide, President Al Bashir and his hench- ated around the globe. As a doctor you deal with cases on an individual level, men, still remain in power.” His book, Against a Tide of Evil, From then on, Mukesh became heavily involved in “deal- which is more intense in my opinion, than dealing with it on is the product of his frustration with the deadlock the situa- ing with problematic countries like North Korea, Iraq, and a mass level.” During the Darfur crisis, it was these personal tion has reached, as he explains, “there was something nag- Burma” and came to specialise “in disaster and crisis manage- stories that deepened his conviction that the world had to take ging inside me, haunting me… Exposure to the circumstances ment relating to natural disasters and war zones.” After wit- notice of what was going on. I experienced made me very angry, and the book in one sense, nessing some of the world’s worst atrocities, he was propelled The story of the northern Sudanese woman, Aisha, was is a product of that.” further when he was approached by the UN, who initially ap- one such encounter that brought falters to his normally lev- Nobody knows exactly the number of people who died in pointed him as their special adviser in Afghanistan in 2002, elled voice as he recounted, “She had been subjected to mass the genocides, nor do they know the full extent to which of- before choosing him for the job of head of the UN in the Sudan rape in front of her family. In front of her husband. In front of ficials failed in their duties to protect. Mukesh, in his book, in 2003. her sons and the whole community of about 130 other wom- seeks to dispel these dangerous ambiguities, “I was an insider, Mukesh reveals that he never deliberately looked for en.” From listening to her account, Mukesh realised that “she M19 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 PHOTOS COURTESY OF MUPESH KAPILA

“Ethnic cleansing is still going on, and those who perpetrated the genocide still remain in power.”

symbolised the utter and complete impotence of the ‘power- venting the reoccurrence of such “gross inhumanity” became mation. He remembers that “all this global media saturation ful’ international system to do anything about it.” the motivation for his work in Sudan, pushing him to take happened before my bosses in New York were even out of bed. The “curious reluctance” of UN countries to act upon more radical action. By mid-afternoon Nairobi time, it was really old news.” the harrowing information they were being presented with He recounted: “I decided that if the world’s governments Mukesh’s gamble had achieved the desired effect howev- was an all too familiar bitter pill for Mukesh to swallow. Dur- would not listen to me, I would speak to the world’s peoples. er, “never had before had the UN moved so fast in such a short ing his posting as an aid official during the Rwandan geno- In March 2004, I decided to speak out publicly and ‘blow the space of time… within a couple of months there were the first cides of 1994, he saw that “there wasn’t much of an interest whistle’ on what was happening.” peacekeepers on the ground.” in Rwanda. It wasn’t an Anglophone country. Nobody knew Mukesh agonised over how to present the information Like the use of the media, Against a Tide of Evil is an in- much about it, nobody had been there. There was no embassy relating to such boundless suffering to a world that had been strument of a much bigger campaign. Mukesh sincerely hopes there.” largely oblivious or apathetic, “I pondered over it carefully be- that “by stripping away the excuses and the alibis that people Desperate in his quest to prevent further butchery, fore I did this because I knew I only had one chance, it had to have been offering over time, and by refocusing the attention Mukesh visited the sites of atrocities himself, in the hope of be done in such a way that there would be no turning back, on Darfur, ten years after it started, that the world will not convincing the world to take notice. “So I found myself travel- and in one instant it would change the world’s perceptions, forget.” In addition to revisiting what happened, with initia- ling to Kampala, literally on the heels of the RPF (the Rwan- and the perceptions of the decision makers, who had previ- tives like Remember Rwanda Day, he stresses the importance dan Patriotic Front), led by Kagame as he seized control… I ously refused to act.” for justice and accountability, and “the acknowledgement of was in Koma on the day that the infamous exodus took place, A far cry from Mukesh’s outwardly benign personality, he wrongdoing.” I saw for myself the million people leaving. I remember when executed his liaison with the world’s media in “a very cold, cal- After what seems like a lifetime of witnessing the unre- I first arrived in Rwanda the blood was still dripping down culated manner. I had heard that Margaret Thatcher listened served evil man is capable of committing, Mukesh has but one the walls of the churches. The bodies were still rotting on the to BBC Radio 4, so I thought her successors might. That’s why message for the world, and those policy makers who have the streets, and the dogs were beginning to eat them. It was com- I decided to give them an exclusive on what I had to say.” power to affect change: “Today’s battles are not won on the pletely indescribable, these scenes of gross inhumanity on an Immediately after the interview, the world was in a par- battlefield, but in the hearts and minds of all men, connecting industrial scale.” oxysm of disbelief and panic, inundating the former Sudan across the globe. Just because there are a few that instigate For Mukesh, the experience of Rwanda was enough. Pre- chief with frenzied requests for interviews and further infor- evil, that doesn’t necessarily mean people will follow them.” M M20 www.ey.com/uk/careers 28.05.2013 in if you get one of the coolest place on cam- My parents are coming up to York at the end pus. Central Hall is an architectural master- of term to pick me up, and I’d like to take piece and is very symbolic not only of the his- them somewhere really nice. Where would tory of the university but also probably your you recommend? time here. A sneaky kiss with a male model after Fusion 2010? A cheeky cigarette on the Efe’s. It’s unlikely your parents have ever been rooftop? Whatever the memories, get it inked anywhere so rustic, so give them a taste of the forevermore on a body part of your choice (I’d true student culinary experience. Take a cloth go for a large one on the right bicep) and you’ll and spray sanitiser to wipe the tables before never forget the great times you’ve had in the you sit down. I’m sure they’ll be thrilled to try vicinity of that whopping, grey, spaceship. DIY dining, complete with charming Turkish gentlemen to top off the cultural experience. Exams are really stressing me out and my Get your father the 16’’ pizza challenge, and comfort eating is getting out of control. I perhaps the shish kebab for your mother. Just don’t want to get fat for all the great end of to warn your parents that there won’t be an ex- term events though, what can I do? tensive wine list. Or cutlery.

Get a dog. Dogs are a great way to keep yourself I keep seeing people posting photos on Fa- Tea and Troubles. active and taking it for walks every day should cebook of their freshly bound dissertations help stave of that gargantuan appetite of yours and looking really smug. I don’t have a dis- Dear Sophie, and start shedding the pounds. In fact, I’ve sertation, so how can I not feel left out? heard the staff at the Library Costa are so ac- I’m about to graduate from York, and I’m complished, that they will be running a doggy Bind a copy of Nouse. It might (or might not) starting to feel really nostalgic about every- crèche in the foyer where all over-eaters can have been a large part of your student expe- thing. How can I avoid missing it so much leave their pooches. It has also been proven in rience. So find your favourite edition (which once I’m gone? psychological studies, that stroking a pet for a you’ll have kept under your bed), and walk few hours a day significantly reduces stress, so proudly up to the Uni Printers with your copy, Get a tattoo of Central Hall. All the cool kids rumours are that the crèche will offer ‘Stroke camera in hand. Post that photo dear and feel are getting tattoos these days so you’ll fit right Sessions’: £2 for ten minutes. part of the crew in no time. www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.ey.com/uk/careers 15 Comment

Nicole Sørlie !e forgotten victims of domestic abuse

Society needs to readdress e live in a chauvinistic women suffer from domestic abuse ships where the percentage of ho- definitely an outcry for police to be society where men and and refuse to tell anyone out of fear mosexual or bi-sexual men who suf- more pro-active. the role that our culture plays Wwomen simply cannot of how they will be perceived. This fered partner abuse in 2008/09 (6.2 The Independent Police Com- agree on which gender should be in turn makes it more challenging per cent) is nearly double that of plaints Commission (IPCC) recently in establishing superior gen- superior to the other. The presup- to report accurate figures when so heterosexual men (3.3 per cent) and made an inquiry into the death of posed problem being, of course, that many people, both men and women, homosexual women (12.4 per cent) Maria Stubbings who reported sev- der roles, and the effect that we feel there is a need for a superior are living in fear and silence. suffered far more partner abuse eral incidents of domestic abuse gender in the first place. Whether The consequence and very na- compared to heterosexual women before being murdered by her part- this can have behind closed we fight for gender equality or we ture of abuse is that it breaks the (4.3 per cent). These figures are also ner. The IPCC have criticised the bask in our gender’s self-proclaimed victim down emotionally and crip- somewhat surprising, if not confus- delayed response of the Essex Police doors superiority, we have a twisted mind- ples them psychologically until they ing, and leave a lot of unanswered who were contacted by her a week set all the same when it comes to think they have no means to stand questions. before her murder, but they were issues such as domestic abuse. Why up for themselves and accept help. slow to respond. When they even- is it that women being victims of Victims start blaming themselves 40 per cent of tually went to her house, they were abuse is generally accepted and it’s for the suffering they endure and “ met by her abuser who had not only surprising that 40 per cent of vic- fear the likelihood of further abuse domestic abuse jailed for 15 years for killing his pre- tims are actually men? if they speak out, and so struggle to vious partner, but he also told the find a way out as a result. victims are police she was away, so they checked It’s not as clear Ideologies of what it means to her room and left. The thing which “ be a man and what it means to be actually men” makes it even worse is that when cut as saying that a woman are continually filtered they went back, they found her body down, from the media and from his- Homosexuality still receives a in a different room. This is just one domestic abuse is a tory, through society which skews lot of negative attention in the me- example of a preventable case, but is our perception and understanding dia and society is still a long way now just another shocking statistic. battle of wills” of gender roles. It’s in accepting off accepting it. The added external Of course it’s not as clear cut Maybe it’s too far to say that these gender roles that men can get pressure on same-sex relationships as saying that domestic abuse is a the fact women are abused is ac- away with victimising women (who certainly doesn’t help with the situa- battle of wills; fighting either for or cepted, but it’s definitely no longer are already insecure about their lack tion or make it any easier, but there’s against gender roles the way they a surprise in any western society. of authority) but naturally in chal- something very alarming being re- are at the moment. There’s so much The high statistics may still come as lenging these roles the reverse is vealed by these statistics. more happening which is unique to a shock with an estimated 1.2 mil- made possible; women want to be It’s becoming apparent that every individual case and it’s equally lion (7 per cent) female victims of superior to men in a society where reported cases of domestic abuse unfair to blame the increasing sta- domestic abuse reported in the UK they know men struggle with the aren’t always seen as urgent by au- tistics on police who aren’t acting in the last year. However, it could idea of being inferior to women. It’s thorities, which might explain why fast enough. However, something be argued that 800,000 (5 per cent) not surprising then that the num- 17 men and 88 women (one every more needs to be done to tackle do- male victims in the last year is a ber of women who are abusers has four days) died at the hands of their mestic abuse in the UK and there more surprising figure; an under- quadrupled in the past seven years. partner or ex-partner in 2011/12. needs to be more awareness of men estimated figure. It’s predicted that A similar pattern emerges, Police can’t prevent every case if it increasingly becoming victims of twice as many male victims than however, within same-sex relation- hasn’t been reported, but there’s domestic abuse.

Henrietta Topical Tweets Thomson Protecting the guilty from the Twittersphere

@CassandraaBrown 22 May or me, the recent adapta- pher Jefferies ‘underwent a mon- fewer than eight national newspa- tion of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s stering,’ according to the Guardian. pers. But the indelible damage to his Cass Brown, York Sport President Fnovel The Great Gatsby had Before the police had even finished reputation and the mental trauma a distinctly 21st century feel. And it their enquiries Jefferies had been he went through remain. wasn’t just the jazzy remixes of Amy painted as a killer, a paedophile, a Jeremy Browne MP also Oh god. I have the fear. Winehouse and Alicia Keys. The ‘nutty professor’ (Daily Mail) and a brought up this case on a recent point that stuck in my mind was the ‘Peeping Tom’ (Daily Mirror). broadcast of BBC Any Questions presence and power of the media, in (Friday 17th May), when the ques- particular the newspaper headlines Revealing sus- tion of whether the suspects of seri- towards the end of the film, which ous crimes should be named before 23 May @matyd123 “ took no pains in destroying the pect names gives they are charged arose. Matt Darling reputation of Jay Gatsby without a The argument posed in favour shred of solid evidence, and with no free reign to the me- of revealing suspects’ names was How can you get confused between EDL and EDF chance for him to protest his inno- that once a name has been released cence (sorry for the spoilers). dia to speculate, and it will encourage further witnesses Energy?! I mean, this little fella wouldn’t hurt a Now this for me had echoes of to come forward. soul... #TopLad a case much closer to home than paint the chosen This may be so, however it does 1920s New York. victim in whichever not address the terrible effect of a A couple of years ago, in the false allegation on the innocent sus- 22 May @caitlinmoran week before Christmas, Joanna pect. After all, the police cannot be Caitlin Moran Yates was murdered in Bristol. This way they choose” right every time. Writer for the Times was a brutal murder at a time of year Personal comments about his Revealing suspect names gives when goodwill and peace are sup- personality and appearance, right free reign to the media to specu- Twitter is more fired up by “Gif-pronounced- posed to shine through, and families down to the colour of his hair were late, and paint the chosen victim in jif” than any other matter. !is is real heart- are meant to unite and spend time made. Jefferies was ‘guilty’ in the whatever way they choose. lands stuff. together. So it was no surprise that eyes of the world, and there was no Now I am not suggesting that the media took this tragic tale and doubt about it. This was not due to the press should be restricted in ran with it; the outrage of the pub- evidence, it was simply because the some form of Orwellian nightmare; lic and their determination to bring press wanted someone to blame. I believe in freedom of the press. 27 May @neilbarnes101 Joanna’s killer to justice was under- The only lucky thing for Jeffer- However I do believe that the phrase Neil Barnes standable. ies was that he, unlike Gatsby, was ‘Innocent until proven charged’, if Labour Councillor for Hull Road What was not understandable there to protest his own innocence, not ‘innocent until proven guilty’ No EDL turnout at #yorkmosque but over 100 was the way in which the press at- after it was found that Yates’ boy- has to have some resonance. tacked the first man taken in for friend Vincent Tabak was to blame. After all, isn’t justice meant to members of York community showing solidarity. questioning by the police. Joanna’s This led to a huge libel case which be based on evidence, not a popular- A victory for peace and understanding eccentric looking landlord Christo- saw Jefferies win damages from no ity contest? NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 16 www.ey.com/uk/careers

[email protected] Politics www.nouse.co.uk/politics Student Fee rise amounts to less than Hack half an hour extra teaching a week PROMO MADRID Rosie Shields UK HOME OFFICE DEPUTY POLITICS EDITOR

A RECENT survey has shown that despite the rise in tuition of up to £8,000 a year, teaching time has only seen a rise by approximately 18 minutes a week. In addition to this the amount of independent study UK immigration students are expected to undertake THOS003 has increased. In 2006 the aver- numbers continue to fall age student was expected to spend as the number of foriegn about an hour a week on individual students is shrinking. study. Between 2012-13 students were expected to undertake an aver- Figures show that there age of 14 hours a week. are around 56,000 fewer These findings seem outrageous in a time when students are paying foriegn students since last so much money. It could be argued year, along with fewer who this shift in balance between con- tact time and individual time, has remain upon completion increased pressure on students to of their studies. teach themselves, which could im- pact on their achievement. Students in 2006, certainly by this data, had much better value for money. So RANDOM PLACES what is the impact of this decrease LIBERAL DEMOCRATS in hours on degree success? Nicola Dandridge, the chief executive of Universities UK, argued that con- tact hours do not directly equate to Students are paying much more than seven years ago, but this has not resulted in improved contact times course quality. Indeed she stressed that tuition fees don’t just include Higher Education Policy Institute, course, they could expect to receive would they pay £9,000 for 20 hours teaching time but cover all support which enabled the data to be col- 40 hours. This could be very threat- when they could be getting 40, and facilities like employment advice, lected from a wide field. Not only ening for any university. Applicants more importantly why should they? Greg Mulholland, liberal training, libraries and any enrich- was teaching time criticised within are now likely to make their choices Institutions need to be held to ac- ment activities. the findings but also the disparity on the basis of such criteria as value count and provide a better service. Democrat MP has come In total, around 26,000 un- between universities. In particular for money not just subject quality. However there is a danger that these under fire a"er a row with dergraduates from 103 universities it seems that at some universities Rachel Wenstone, the Vice institutions could change complete- one of his constitutents were assessed on contact hours, in- a typical student would receive President of the National Union of ly, with people replacing the real val- cluding seminar time. The survey 20 hours a week, yet at a different Students’, stressed the idea that stu- ue of education with thoughts about over the same sex was undertaken by Which? and the university, doing exactly the same dents are now consumers. Thus why value for money. marriage vote. In a heated

Twitter dispute, Mulhol-SLUZZELIN land called the Leeds University student a Swaziland NUS President arrested “little sh*t.” 350.ORG Alex Osborne on Swaziland authorities to free POLITICAL REPORTER Maxwell and has written to Mark Simmonds MP, the Parliamentary THE NATIONAL Union of Stu- Under Secretary of State for Foreign dents has reported that Maxwell and Commonwealth Affairs, with PETE FORSYTH, WIKI STRATEGIES Dlamini, the outgoing Swaziland this request. NUS President and current Secre- In a video replying to the NUS’ tary General of the Swaziland Youth actions from the 2013 NUS Confer- Congress, was last week detained by ence, Maxwell Dlamini speaks of the the country’s government on charg- struggle that the Swaziland NUS es of sedition. has endured to operate effectively This is a severe charge in Swa- since its formation in 1986. ziland and entails actions that are Dlamini recounted that “a num- #e National Union ofALAINBOURGOISE considered to be insurgent or rebel- ber of student activists were forced lious towards governmental author- into exile and some systematically Students have criticised ity. kicked out of their universities.” He a report by the activist Arrests such as Maxwell’s have states that the support and backing group, “Student Rights”, become all the more frequent in re- he’s received from a large amount cent years, with student unionists of organisations has given him the for grossly demonising unable to carry out their work free “strength and courage to fight even Muslim students. #e from fear of harassment or detain- more.” ment from governmental forces and To support the campaign, the campaign group, which police. Dlamini’s arrest is merely one of many, with unions increasingly pressurised NUS is urging students to sign a pe- released a paper on gender As such, the UK’s NUS has paign is already widespread, with ings committed by Swaziland’s po- tition via the NUS’ website, write to called on students provide nation- calls for Dlamini’s unconditional lice forces and security forces to- the Swaziland Ambassador, contact segregation on British uni- wide support to Dlamini and have release with immediate effect, being wards Maxwell Dlamini and other their local MP, and send messages versity campuses, claims asked students to “urge the Swazi- backed by numerous organisations members of Swaziland’s democratic of solidarity to Maxwell via cam- land government to listen to and including the NUS itself, Action for movement are investigated, and [email protected]. that little is being done to act on their legitimate calls for de- Southern Africa and the Free Max- that any perpetrators are brought The NUS will have to gain the tackle campus extremism. mocracy and rights for the people of well Dlamini Campaign. before a court of law.” backing of more organisations, but Swaziland.” The NUS added: “We are also The NUS has asked that the with momentum increasing, it is Support for the NUS’s cam- calling that any and all wrongdo- British government put pressure hoped they will be successful. Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 17 Politics The Tories must change their image CONSERVATIVE PARTY Rohan Banerjee became leader in 2005. POLITICAL ANALYSIS Admittedly, the Tories have al- ways been high-born, but amidst a ou’re not a Tory, are you?” renewed obsession with class war, Throughout my time at this time it’s really come to the fore. “Yuniversity, the revelation Consider the social pedigree of our that I voted Conservative was usu- incumbent; Cameron, Gove and Os- ally met by some level of disgust or borne went to private schools whose disbelief. Nights out were a safe ha- fees are higher than the average ven – only killjoys chatted politics wage. More than a third of the cur- – but I remember plenty of kitchen rent Commons were privately edu- table debates in my first year, de- cated and lots have double barrelled fending my apparently terrible surnames. choice of party. Labour is nowhere near as But for all the pejorative leftism posh, but even the supposed sons at York, I don’t think bad reactions of toil aren’t blameless; nowadays stemmed from any particular affini- ty to political theory itself. The truth is most students don’t actually know The Tories have al- too much about politics yet plenty “ ways been high-born, are certain being ‘right’ is wrong. My Tory friends assure me that but amidst a new by the time they start earning real money, the naysayers will have come obsession with class round to conservatism’s acquired war, this time it’s reall taste, but these days I’m not so sure. Angst is accompanied by apathy come to the fore” and there’s a seated disenchantment with most senior politicos – I’ll even it pays to be middle-class and to go admit Michael Gove is a fundamen- straight into politics after Oxbridge. tally dislikable man. The Labour leader, Ed Mili- David Cameron has tried to modernise the Conservative Party, but the image of posh boys still remains Conservatism and in turn Brit- band, went to Oxford from well- ish Politics is in bad way. Detach- heeled north London, graduated Three of the four did the same de- I vote Conservative because I ceiling for women in politics then ment has reached new levels and the in PPE and was soon working for gree and all were privately educated agree with the line of policy and there is also one for ethnics, the major parties are doing nothing to Gordon Brown. Ed Balls is another bar Miliband. family driven ethos, but I’ve become working class and those educated attract a new type of voter. Oxford grad, who also took PPE and It’s little wonder that people feel increasingly irritated by their reluc- by the state. It’s not wrong to fill a cabinet also grabbed a cushy career boost alienated or under represented. It’s tance to reinvent. The same is true The John Major experiment with Oxbridge any more than it’s not under Brown. little wonder that politicians, To- of Labour. was an example of tokenism gone wrong to down ten shots of Sambu- Let’s recap; in supposedly mod- ries in particular, are seen as “posh I’m not saying that cherry pick- horribly wrong, but that doesn’t ca, but in doing either you have to ern, meritocratic Britain, the Prime twats.” In persisting with this quasi ing politicians from Oxbridge is have to be the case now. If the To- face the consequences. Indeed, the Minister, Leader of the Opposition, kingdom of philosophers, Britain wrong, but there is a bottomless ries want to tackle issues of image, Conservative party have been suffer- the Chancellor and the shadow risks inculcating new levels of re- pool of talent that is constantly be- then grooming Gove for leadership ing a hangover ever since Cameron chancellor all went to Oxbridge. sentment. ing overlooked. If there is a glass is certainly not the way to go. Do the private lives of politicians matter? SURREY NEWS Adam Seldon tive, it can be seriously damaging. In POLITICAL ANALYSIS contradiction to John Major’s ‘back to basics campaign’ (an attempt to ast Monday, three senior judg- revitalise the nation’s waning collec- es ruled that voters have the tive morality), numerous Conserva- Lright to know that Boris John- tive ministers were caught indulging son conducted an extramarital affair in acts of sexual impropriety and the with a woman who later gave birth Conservatives were easily smeared to their daughter. as morally corrupt. One of the main In April, Boris’s misdemean- impediments to Boris is that he isn’t ours were exposed in a damning in- considered serious enough to bear terview with Eddie Mair and in the the responsibilities of the highest of- follow up BBC documentary. The fice and sexual indulgences nourish focus of the coverage was that he this perception. had lied to his former party leader On a more fundamental level Michael Howard, not that he com- though, I would hazard actually it mitted adultery. On the latest rul- really does matter that Boris has ing, the mayor’s official spokesman committed adultery three times. It said: “We don’t comment on matters exposes a fragility of the psyche that pertaining to the mayor’s private Boris is able to let his libido over- life.” But does it matter whether or come his rationality or his obligation not a man it would appear aspires to his wife and children on so many to be Prime Minister of our coun- occasions. Prime Ministers are often try, committed adultery, as many as forced to make excruciating choices three times? in which morality weighs into deci- In the UK, sex and politicians sion making. Of course, great lead- rarely hits the headlines. John Ma- ers are alleged to have committed jor the former Conservative Prime adultery, such as John Kennedy Minister had a four year long affair Boris Johnson may be in danger of the misdemanours in his private life overshadowing his political triumphs and Martin Luther King, and this with Edwina Currie, but this didn’t didn’t ruin their reputation-it’s the come out until after he left office. So is the Boris off the hook last Monday’s courts verdict, 56% a time of economic woe trumps his other stuff they did that secured Affairs within government aren’t a then? A poll by YouGov after the of respondents said their opinion of antics in the bedroom. their place in history. But Boris is in sackable offense; Chris Huhne’s li- interview and documentary sug- Boris would stay the same. Desire However, if incidents like this danger of sliding into a ramshackle aison with Carina Trimingham isn’t gested that, with him as leader, the for the tantalising Boris alterna- recur, it’s going to hurt Boris. Isolat- resemblance of the abhorrent Silvio what got him fired from the cabinet. Conservatives might win 40-50 tive remains amongst rancourous ed incidents in themselves are rarely Berlusconi, whose stubborn stand at Just after news of Huhne’s affair seats more than under David Cam- backbench Conservative MPs and it enough to bring down a politician the top of Italian politics is a sorry came, aides were said to be amazed eron. In a slightly less comprehen- would appear amongst voters Boris’s or indeed a government. But when reflection of the state of the Italian at how seemingly indifferent he was. sive poll by The Independent after charm and his radiant optimism in they accumulate into a wider narra- nation. NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 18 www.ey.com/uk/careers Politics Don’t buy into UKIP’s Tea Party politics Hussein Kesvani EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT POLITICAL ANALYSIS @MaajidNawaz oes anyone remember the Maajid Nawaz, ‘Tea Party’ coup that befell Quiliam Dthe Obama administration Foundation in 2010? A recap : The US economy was performing horribly, Obama’s “Vast majority of us Britons stimulus package had failed to pro- duce it’s expected short term effects despise mouth-frothing and the Democrats hadn’t shown frenzied #Jihadists & cringe much of the reforming tenacity they at uncouth hooligan #EDL had promised in 2008. The result? Obama lost control of Congress, thugs. A plague on both your and the thumping majority held by houses.” 23 May the Democrats had all but diluted. Instead, the US was left with a new cohort of Republican candidates, directed and funded by an ideologi- cally radical ‘Tea Party’. That move- @SJacksonMP ment, which claimed its intention Stewart Jackson to ‘restore’ constitutional values MP for through reforming the Republican Peterborough Party, then went on to lose the 2012 election by a considerable margin. “Cameron’s disdain for It seems that something re- markably similar is now happening Conservative Party on our shores. UKIP’s victory in the membership & for proper local council elections last month Parliamentary scrutiny of continue to send cold shivers to the Tory party. Now, backbench revolts #samesexmarriage bill will aren’t anything new. Historically, come back to haunt him.” both Conservatives and Labour have 23 May had to deal with their own rebellious MPs, especially Gordon Brown, whose premiership saw the highest UKIP may have grown into a serious political force in recent months but we should not buy into their rhetoric level of party rebellions- including a fair amount of planned coups, in chanted grassroots is by personally is facing even more criticism for simply because of its national focus, @Nigel_Farage post-war political history. relating politics to their lives, even supposedly prioritising “socialist” but also that the British public are Nigel Farage Backbench, inter-party dis- if that means overstating the effects policies. To the Tory old guard and less likely to take risks in voting for UKIP Leader and putes are for the most part, easy to of an EU exit, immigration freeze their activists, many of whom be- radical parties. MEP for the South deal with. What David Cameron and… that’s pretty much it. With a long to an older generation, return- Though bleeding hearts on both East of England currently faces is a different beast pint and a ciggie, that type of soft ing to a morality politics anchored sides make no attempt to hide their entirely; while sustaining attacks power might give Joseph Nye a run in tradition offers the clearest route contempt for centre politics, it still from both his party and the press, for his money. remains a determining factor for “!is olive oil ban was one thing he can’t seem to quell is Following the Tea Party, Far- Spooked as he any party wishing to seek office. In virgin on the ridiculous.” who’s pulling the strings. age’s strategy has reaped its short addition, the increasing number of Enter UK politics’ own mad term gains. In the US, the new “might be, Cameron young voters- many from diverse hatter, Nigel Farage - a charismatic, right-wing radicals helped build is better off staying social and ethnic backgrounds - de- 23 May but ineffectual troll turned Machi- the foundations of the GOP’s 2012 mands a reasoned, rational and in- avellian whose stated ambition is strategy. Similarly in Britain, UKIP on course.” clusive politics. to stage an ideological coup of the seem to be determining the shape of While UKIP risk losing their Conservative party. Which means the Tories come 2015, only vocalised to electoral salvation. It’s the same core constituency through chang- spending less time with the dwin- through the mouthpiece of former sort of principle that guided John ing their flagship policies after their @PennyRed dling number of ‘progressive Cam- Tory beasts, Nigel Lawson and Mi- Major’s “Back to Basics” ethos, only surge, the Tories still have a fair Laurie Penny eronites’ and more time chatting to chael Portillo. this time guided by mischievous po- amount of time to claim the centre Journalist disenchanted Tory voters. In the most recent debacle over litical phantoms, rather than party ground to secure a majority in 2015. Farage, just like many of the Tea the Same Sex Marriage Bill, where sleaze. Spooked as he might be, Cameron Party Patriots, has found that the less than half of his backbenchers General elections are a com- is probably better off staying on most effective way to talk to a disen- supported him, the Prime Minister pletely separate kettle of fish - not course. “Dogwhistle racism is no way to respond to an act of brutality committed by individuals. We can be better Nouse Coming soon than this, London. #wool- Events wich #edl” 24 May Presents

Phillip Collins @DPJHodges Dan Hodges Columnist, The Telegraph Laurie Penny “Unbelievable. Someone gets hacked to death by Ed Smith terrorists in a London street, and people more outraged by how Nick Robinson reports it.” 24 May Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 19 Politics The silence on Syria In a candid interview, Laura Hughes talks to journalist Charles Glass about Syria and the silence eminating from the world powers MARJORIE LIPAN harles Glass is a broadcaster, lah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, journalist and writer, who has has promised his supporters they Cin his lifetime covered wars in will prevail in Syria, where they are the Middle East, Eritrea, Rhodesia, backing President Bashar al-Assad. Somalia, Iraq and Bosnia-Herzego- US Secretary of State John vina. Kerry recently accused the militant Charles has witnessed the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hez- October Arab-Israeli War on the bollah of perpetuating President Egyptian and Syrian fronts. In 1988 Bashar al-Assad’s “campaign of ter- America refused to acknowledge ror.” Charles’ uncovering of Saddam The latest figures from the Hussein’s then-secret biological United Nations suggest more than weapons program, until Iraq invad- 80,000 people have been killed ed Kuwait in 1990. since the uprising began in March Charles was the only US televi- 2011. An estimated 4.25 million sion correspondent in northern Iraq internally displaced people and 1.5 covering the entire Kurdish rebel- million refugees. lion in 1991. Supporting the ill-equipped re- Since the spring of 2011 Syria bels will intensify the chances of a has been plighted with a devastat- sectarian civil war. ing internal conflict between the Western intervention poses far current regime and protesters call- greater a challenge than it did in ing for the dissolution of the Ba’ath Libya- where the Transitional Na- party government. tional Council, the Arab League, The Obama administration re- and the United Nations endorsed cently admitted to Congress that intervention. there was evidence that chemical Syria is almost 30 times as weapons, most likely involving the densely populated as Libya, and the nerve agent sarin, have been used in Syrian army is better equipped and Syria, against Saraqeb, a rebel-held Journalist Charles Glass believes that the conflict in Syria may go on for some considerable time five times larger than the Libyan town south-west of Aleppo on 29 army was. April, something that Obama has the Syrian government to use chem- Who is Obama with the transfer of advance missile Furthermore Syrian opposition referred to as a “red line.” ical weapons. In a desperate bid to systems. forces are fragmented; there is no Critics have suggested Ameri- avoid chemical conflagration, this “to set red lines, The United States has been unified credible chain of opposition can inaction stems from a fear of might provoke foreign military in- slow to act. Iran meanwhile is pour- command. supporting Islamist rebels with tervention. whatever they ing vast resources into the country, In light of a video which ap- links to al Qaeda. It is worth recalling that the including Islamic Revolutionary pears to show a Syrian rebel taking a Charles commented, “Who is West tolerated Saddam using poi- may be?” Guards Corps encampments, weap- bite from the heart of a dead soldier. Obama to set red lines, whatever son gas on a mass scale against Ira- ons and advisers. How does Charles believe this war they may be? There are internation- nians and Kurds in the 1980s. “there is no possibility of that.” Hezbollah has denied sending can possibly end? “It could end at al conventions on the use of chemi- Commentators have said there Syria is a country that has ac- any fighters into Syria; however the Geneva Conference, if the back- cal weapons that have severe sanc- is a real danger Syria’s huge chemi- tively advanced the growth of Ira- Charles believes Iranian and Hez- ers of the two sides are serious about tions attached. Has no one heard of cal weapons stockpile could either nian influence into the Arab world, bollah actions are in fact support- ending the war. It’s unlikely they international law?” be used or fall into the hands of so- has provided headquarters for Ha- ing the Assad regime. The leader of are, so it may go on for some time. It is counter to the interests of called ‘jihadists.’ Charles suspects mas, and has supported Hezbollah the Lebanese Shia militant Hezbol- Terrible for the Syrians.” Marriage equality must be forced through i PHILOCRITES is only the ninth country in Europe terms of politics, for me gay mar- to legalise the union and so its un- riage shouldn’t have such a large surprising really that there has been debate surrounding it. Okay, so it THE LAST WORD opposition. might be a more liberal idea but we Rosie Shields However with the increasing are living in a modern society. If civ- weakness of Catholicism in France, il partnerships and marriages have ast Monday MPs in England and as a pretty secular state, it seems the same legal rights and broadly voted to back the Marriage the same secular sentiment as each L Bill which would allow same Some of the other, why shouldn’t gay people po- sex couples to get married. Already litically be allowed to marry? this has caused controversy, includ- “arguments in Within the church, tradition- ing some quite prominent splits opposition are ally marriage is for procreation, within the Conservative party itself. between a man and a woman. Yet So where does the UK actually downright countries continue; Spain hasn’t stand? At the moment the bill is not ridiculous fallen apart since 2005 just be- law and it will now be debated with- ” cause it allowed gay marriage. Da- in the House of Lords. Only when worrying perhaps that there has ac- vid Cameron is allowing churches the bill is passed in both Houses tually been quite so much hostility. All parties must now ensure that the bill gets through the Lords to follow their own discretion and will it become law and its outcome In fact just days ago, far-right essay- actually if the bill were to become is still uncertain. The bill has been ist Dominique Venner shot himself me some of the arguments even donkey. Surely two human beings law such institutions would have no prominently debated for over a year at Notre Dame Cathedral in protest seem just downright ridiculous. who love each other should be given obligation to marry gay people. now. In fact, the same old argu- to the ruling. France has seen the Indeed a French politician warned more respect than that. With civil Could this bill be then a posi- ments just keep cropping up. biggest conservative and right wing that the passing of this bill would partnerships having the same broad tive thing for the UK? People need What’s the practical difference protest in approximately 30 years. lead to people marrying objects and legal rights as marriages surely if to start realising the importance between the marriage contract and Could this be the way England animals. this was a rational fear it would’ve that this bill could have on some- a civil partnership? What impact is heading? Certainly the Conserva- Similarly Norman Tebbit, a for- happened already. In respect to the one’s life. This could be the sanctity will it have on religion? Isn’t it just a tive Party is cracking, with some mer Conservative cabinet minister, idea of a lesbian queen I find my- that they feel they need. I matter of equality? of the greatest opposition coming has said that the law if passed could self asking, so what? Does it make In fact why do we still discrimi- Yet this time progress has actu- from within Cameron’s own party. lead to a lesbian queen or fathers any difference to how she rules the nate with the term civil partner- ally been made. Unlike France we I don’t believe either the French marrying sons. Unless I’ve missed country? ship? Marriage for me is about how haven’t physically passed the bill right or the UK right have enough something I don’t think gay mar- Personally I don’t think so. I’m much you love someone, not what just yet. But France could perhaps of a solid argument to really make riage can quite be thought of as the not sure the fathers marrying sons gender they are. We should follow show an example of our future. It any change away from the bill. To same thing as marrying a table or a comment even warrants a reply. In France and push through the bill.

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[email protected] Science www.nouse.co.uk/science Undersea Cloning produces human cells mining soon ABRAXAS3D Nicola Farthing to be licensed DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR James Ellis STEM CELLS are capable of spe- DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR cialising into any cell in the hu- man body and because of this they OFFSHORE OIL rigs have be- are extremely useful in medicine. come common place around the However, they are comparatively world, yet deep sea mining of min- rare and can only be found in em- eral veins on the seabed is current- bryos, fetuses, and some adult tis- ly banned. This could soon change sues such as bone marrow. due to increased prices of raw ma- Whilst fetal and adult stem terials and advances in technology. cells are useful, embryonic stem The UN’s International Sea- cells are pluripotent, meaning that bed Authority (ISA) recently they possess the ability to divide carried out a study and has an- and multiply for long periods of nounced that companies could ap- time whilst retaining their abil- ply for undersea mining licenses as ity to specialise. This pluripotency soon as 2016. This has caused con- makes them the most valuable for servationists to express their con- research and therein lies the prob- cern over the potential detrimen- lem. Embryonic stem cells can only tal effects that mining will have on be collected by completely destroy- marine life. ing a fertilised embryo; for some, The ISA recognises this, how- this amounts to murder. ever with the increased demand This week, a team of inter- for raw materials it is inevitable national scientists at Oregon Na- that sacrifices will have to be made. tional Primate Research Center There are many resources on the announced that they have been ocean floor which are of interest able to create human stem cells to us, including gold and copper as by cloning older, fully mature hu- well as rare-earth minerals. man cells. Though the process uses Stem cell therapies are incredibly promising but producing them reliably has remained difficult This increase in demand is the same technique as was used mainly due to the increased de- to create Dolly the sheep, to grow cells. The team attributes this to a treat diseases such as Parkinson’s think, raise the specter of contro- mand in the developing countries specialised cells that fulfil specific chemical reaction they used to slow by replacing the dead cells from the versy again.” such as China and India. Many of functions. For example, patient- down a phase of a human cell’s nat- central nervous system that cause The publication itself has the rare earth elements (the name specific liver cells have been grown ural process of dividing. the disease. caused controversy after an anony- is misleading as they are not overly and even heart cells which pulse on The hope is that the technique Since this method of creat- mous online commentator found rare) are found in particularly high their own. could be advanced so that whole or- ing stem cells uses unfertilised egg four problems with the paper. concentrations on that ocean floor. The technique essentially in- gans can be grown. Not only would cells, which have no potential of be- These problems have mostly been These rare earth elements are volves removing the nucleus (con- this mean we would no longer need coming a human, the team at ON- attributed to a rush to publish, with heavily used in modern technology taining all the genetic information to rely on organ donation, but since PRC hope it will not encounter the just 15 days between submission such as in phones, televisions and of the cell) from an adult cell and the organs would be grown from controversy that has limited stem and publication. Mitalipov admits many touch screen displays. inserting the nucleus into an egg the patient’s own cells, there would cell research so far. However, Dr there were three innocent mistakes There has currently been no cell which has had its own nucleus be little or no risk of the body re- George Daley, a Harvard stem cell but denies the fourth being a prob- commercial mining of the sea removed. This is the first time the jecting the transplanted organ. scientist warned that whilst “a huge lem, claiming “The results are real, floor at depths greater than 200m, method has worked on human This technique may even be able to scientific advance...it’s going to, I ...everything is real.” yet the proposed mining go over 500m deep. This will require far more ad- vanced mining equipment than is currently used, however, various Oxford research improves maths private companies insist that the technology is sufficiently devel- oped and available. A real point of concern is that skills through brain stimulation mining may cause the extinction of unique species. Hydrothermal vents are home to a vast number James Cameron the scalp. A literal thinking cap. to wider mathematical abilities. days, after which subsequent tests of species, many of which have not SCIENCE EDITOR This increases the excitability of tRNS, however can be applied confirmed improvements in both yet been categorised. the neurones, allowing the brain to in a polarity independent fashion, the speed of calculation and recall Then again, if it does go ahead, RESEARCH AT the University of generate signals more easily. meaning that it is more simple to based learning in the stimulated which seems likely, deep sea min- Oxford’s Department of Experi- The exact technique, “tran- set up and it’s also less perceptible group. This is promising but what ing will become a major industry, mental Psychology has shown that scranial random noise stimula- during stimulation, meaning sub- is amazing is that six months after potentially employing hundreds of all it takes to improve your maths tion” (tRNS), is a relatively new jects are less aware that they are this initial test, the improvements thousands of people, particularly skills is five days of cognitive train- one, only a few years old. How the being stimulated than with tDCS. still remained. beneficial in today’s economic cli- ing and a little non-invasive brain technique increases the excitability This study recruited only 25 This could point towards a fu- mate. stimulation. The research doesn’t of individual neurones is currently volunteers, divided between the ture in which this technique is used As well as this, a new way of promise to awaken your inner- unknown, but on a larger scale it’s control group and a group to re- in classrooms around the country extracting natural resources will Einstein but will give you a boost in believed to increase the synchroni- ceive the brain stimulation. Both to enable individuals to fulfil their result in a price decrease and your ability to do mental arithmetic sation of their firing, and increase groups were trained at two varie- potential, in particular those who cheaper consumer electronics. like splitting your next bill. In the the efficiency with which oxygen ties of cognitive tasks; calculations, fall behind in class or who have Clearly a balance needs to be near future it might have a place in and other nutrients are transported which involved doing complex learning disabilities. Fur- struck between obtaining the re- assisting people with learning dis- to the stimulated areas of the brain. arithmetic tasks and ther research into any sources we need and the damage abilities and those with neurode- This technique differs from an drills. The group to potential downsides of that it will cause to the ecosystems. generative diseases. older one, transcranial direct cur- receive stimulation transcranial electrical But given industry’s dependence If the brain stimulation sounds rent stimulation (tDCS). It too, in- had the tRNS ap- stimulation are still on these minerals, not mining the intimidating, it’s not. It’s a far cry volved the application of electrodes plied for 20 min- needed, as are further ocean floor is becoming less and from the electroshock therapy of to the scalp but care had to be taken utes in addition to experiments into how less viable. One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest. that the polarity was in the right these tasks. long the improve- Currently, 17 licenses have It works by applying very small orientation, and it only allowed This cogni- ments last but in the been issued to allow companies amounts of electricity, specifically subjects to increase their ability to tive training and meantime these results to prospect for minerals. It seems something known as “random elec- learn new numbers or solve puz- brain stimula- promise much in the likely that this venture will go trical noise”, to specific regions of zles. This improvement in rote tion continued for fields of cognition and through and deep sea mining will the brain via electrodes placed on learning and recall didn’t transfer five consecutive memory. become a reality. NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 22 www.ey.com/UK/

[email protected] Business www.nouse.co.uk/business Red hot ice The route into Law School cream price Alastair Ellerington Fergus Nolan on how to maximise your chances of getting into law school DEPUTY BUSINESS EDITOR

J TWEED he route to becoming a lawyer he sparse days of recent can be a very daunting one, sunshine mean that sum- Trequiring considerable time Tmer has now officially and financial investment. This arti- arrived, and if the remarkable cle aims to offer prospective lawyers change in TV adverts is anything some basic understanding of the to go by, we can expect a gen- path to becoming a lawyer (more eral price inflation for all things specifically a solicitor) whilst also plastic, colourful and vaguely rel- looking at the application process. evant to a beach scene. I spoke to Chris Wilkinson, Most notable though is the employability tutor for York Law yearly trend of increasing ice School, who answered some general cream prices. Earlier this year questions regarding the legal pro- British tourists were charged £54 fession. Providing useful insights for four ice creams in a Rome and thoughts on the application gelateria, whilst last year Time process, Chris helps shed some light Magazine’s reported on ‘The on issues which prospective lawyers Summer of the $5 Ice Cream’ . might be concerned about: This was preceded by record high What is the standard route to prices of raw ingredients in 2004. becoming a solicitor? Statistics New Zealand offers This process differs between There is stiff competition to gain two-year training contracts with law firms from law and non-law graduates a useful insight into just how dra- law and non-law graduates but for matic these changes have been. the most part they are very similar. their application, firms do not tend career is like, helping to reinforce options: further study, work or Between March 1981 and Sep- For non-law students they must first to be disinterested. In fact, it is often whether it is something they want travel. Doing a masters can aid ap- tember 2010, ice blocks rose in complete their degree then under- seen as a benefit to have completed to pursue. Other types of work ex- plications, but nowadays firms tend price by 768 per cent, whilst nov- take a conversion course known as a non-law degree as it demonstrates perience can also look favourably on to prefer that it focuses on a particu- elty ice cream prices rose by 581 the Graduate Diploma in Law. wider knowledge and experience, lar area of law such as commercial per cent. This reads for a stagger- They will then be required to but each degree has its own advan- Although some or intellectual property. However, ing average annual rise of 7.6 per complete the Legal Practice Course tages. might think it’s better all firms are different so it is worth cent and 6.7 per cent respectively. followed by a two-year training con- Each firm often has its own “ emailing them directly if you are Meanwhile, New Zealand’s an- tract with a law firm which is essen- criteria for applicants, but what to have studied law, unsure. nual inflation rate has been con- tially professional work experience. might make one CV more appeal- Working is another good option sistently below 5 per cent - hov- The process is the same with law ing than another? there really is no especially if you are able to go into ering generally around 3 per cent graduates however they do not need With numerous amounts of distinct advantage an industry that links to law; for - since 1991. to do the GDL and so will qualify a applications each year, firms need ” instance working for a bank if you So is the consumer being year before non-law graduates. a way to sift through qualified can- a CV, as firms essentially want to see have aspirations of later becoming a ripped off? The Time Magazine Is there any advantage to didates so academics become very that you are able to balance work commercial lawyer. article disagrees, highlighting studying law over a non-law de- important. Aside from grades, there and extra-curricular activities. Of course, there is no reason the original causes of the $5 ice gree? are a few things which do appeal Further to this, any societies or why you can’t go travelling, but it cream, linking it mainly to bad Although some might think it’s to firms. Legal work experience is sports clubs you join can help appli- might be worth structuring the year harvests. Rising global demand better to have studied law, there re- certainly worth engaging in as it cations as it proves you have other so you have some professional expo- for sugar is quoted alongside ally is no distinct advantage. Most firstly evidences a genuine interest interests and are not confined solely sure at some point for rather than milk, which since 2000 has risen law firms nowadays do not have any in the profession but also highlights to studying. 12 months travelling. Each firm is at farmgate prices from 18p per particular preference as to what a knowledge of the working environ- If you don’t manage to gain a different though, so it is important litre to 28p, though inflation can candidate studies. ment. training contract, what would be to properly research them and see account for most of this. If there is a high (or sufficient) It also provides students with a good way to spend the year? what they might find appealing in Moreover, it’s clear that level of academic achievement in a greater awareness of what a law There tends to be three main candidates. whether in New Zealand, the US or the UK, the price of ice cream cannot be simply due to bad har- vests or inflation. Rising demand globally was to blame, but ‘SNZ’ Business Bitesize Rachel Webster further notes most increases have MARK RAMSAY KENJON BROWN DELL come since the recession. The increased price can also be attributed to changing trends, as consumers are increasingly willing to shell out for higher quality, premium brands. Students seeking respite during exams can thus expect to pay more (and not just because they’re buying from Costcutter).

he Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has orrisons, the UK’s fourth-biggest gro- ell has reported a 79 per cent slide in net ROBOPPY announced that it will cut 1,400 jobs over cer finally joins the online shopping rev- profit, underlining a fall in personal com- Tthe next two years as it continues to re- Molution after its recent annual sales fig- Dputers sales as more consumers shift to structure its operations. The beleaguered bank, ures suffered from the absence of a home delivery smartphones and tablets. Net profits fell to $130 81% state owned, has already slashed thousands service. Morrison’s is the only big four supermar- million (£85 million) in three months and rev- of jobs since it was rescued. Ross McEwan, CEO ket that doesn’t sell food online, a market which enue declined by 2 per cent to $14 billion. The of UK Retail, said: “To serve our customers well is forecast to double in size to sales of £11.1bn founder of the software giant, Michael Dell, is we have to ensure that our resources are focused by 2017. The new deal with Ocado is thought battling against activist investors to take the on the things that matter most to them. That is to be worth £170m over 25 years, yet poses an company private. The man who started Dell from why we are investing £700m in the next three ominous threat of legal action from fellow su- a college dorm room wants to privatize the firm years in new and improving services. Regrettably, permarket giant Waitrose. Since 2001, Waitrose for $24.4 billion, arguing that its transformation we can only do that by restructuring”. The Unite has provided a 40 per cent cash injection to the into a provider of enterprise computing services union described the cuts as “brutal”, warning of Bradford based grocery firm, which by 2014 will is best done away from public scrutiny. Two of the the impact that the cuts will have on local econo- be almost entirely Morrisons branded. Shares in company’s largest shareholders have proposed a mies and customer service. Since the beginning Ocado have rocketed by more than a quarter, as rival bid which offers shareholders $12-a-share, of the year, RBS, HSBC, Barclays and Lloyds have the deal strengthens its previously weak balance whilst keeping the company public. This dispute announced plans to slash around 6,900 jobs; sheet in one-fell swoop and gives it funding to in- has given rise to the formation of a committee to prompting fears of an impending jobs crisis. vest heavily in technology and its delivery service. analyse the private equity deal and the other bids. Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER 23 www.ey.com/uk/careers Business Amazon shopping for Apps What does the future hold Jonathan Legrand for Hollande? Harry Ashcroft

SHOWBIZ KIDS mong the many rumours or- n early May last year, the newly the Republic’s fiscal problems. Not biting Amazon’s new prod- elected French President was only does France have a compara- Aucts, the ones concerning Ienjoying his first month in of- tive fiscal deficit to the UK, but is its new smartphone seem the most fice following the defeat of Nicho- also trapped in the European Eco- credible. Apple’s usual subcontrac- las Sarkozy, the first incumbent nomic Community’s Fiscal Pact, a tors - including Pegatron and Fox- to lose office since Valery Giscard last laugh from Nicholas Sarkozy conn - have already been contacted d’Estaing in 1981. and everyone else removed from about building such a device, and But what of the hope and ex- the French political sphere in 2012. the production of a new smartphone ultation that followed him to the By having to maintain a defi- seems to be the most logical and highest office in the French repub- cit no bigger than 3 per cent of lucrative next step for the internet lic? Could such a political style ever his budget, Hollande can do little giant following its successful break be expected to maintain such mo- to stimulate the economy through into the Android tablet market. mentum? Was his election based spending, and with his tax rises However, it can be seen that upon the extreme apathy held to- currently on hold, what remains is the Android smartphone market is wards UMP, or is this more seri- the stark lack of support for private even more competitive. At Google’s ous? enterprise. This, alongside the bro- recent I/O conference, it was re- In the age of deficits, austerity ken promise of public investment, vealed that 900 million devices use and ‘being all in this together’, is does not bode well for the recovery. Android as their operating system, this the first real crisis of the ‘Plan Hollande’s mantra focused on with 48 million app downloads on B’, and the Keynesian approach to the role of the public sector in the Google Play (the virtual store set the worldwide crisis of debt that we revival of the French economy, yet as default on all Android devices). find ourselves in? The French econ- both reality and the laws governing In addition to this, Amazon omy is now in recession, and that the Eurozone have stopped that. To faces stiff competition in the form of recession is not the legacy of his save France, himself and his presi- the new Samsung Galaxy S4 smart- right wing predecessor, but of the dency, Hollande must be bold and phone, which will be available on policies enacted (or not enacted) remove himself from the political Google Play for $640 (£421). More- during his time in office. inertia he has found himself in. over, Google has decided to release Amazon’s 3D smartphone promises to revolutionise the industry Approval ratings give Hollande PARTI SOCILISTE some of its services - such as Google a 75 per cent disapproval, with his Hangout, and Sementique Search - this has an automatic filter that re- pany has decided to try and override first year in office marked not by to non-Android devices, in an effort pairs, on its own, all the small expo- the Android software by allowing radical reform, but protest and a to branch out and challenge Apple’s sition, cropping or/and luminosity users to use Amazon application, perception of inaction. This fact FaceTime and Siri services. Moves errors as soon as a user uploads his/ films and games without the use can be best demonstrated through like this make it ever more difficult her photos. of Google Play. This unique sell- the rejection of his landmark 70 per for Amazon to persuade potential Augmented Google Maps ing point might attract some cus- cent plus taxations on the wealthi- customers to buy their products (looking more and more like Google tomers, but more could be re- est by the constitutional courts. over others. Earth). This app gives the possibil- quired to truly stand out amongst Whilst France has deep seated But the news from Google is not ity to switch to a 3D view and see the competition. social problems, worsened by mas- all doom and gloom for Amazon; as clouds’ movements and traffic infor- According to the Wall Street sive economic polarity across the Google revealed some new software Journal, Amazon will be presenting political spectrum, this cannot real- gifts that will soon be available on Amazon face two new smartphone models, one ly be an excuse for the French presi- all Android devices. These include: of which promises to revolutionize dent. Hollande’s Socialist Party last Google Games - a multi-plat- “stiff competition in the industry. Specifically, this model year won both legislative houses on form interface that will allow mul- the form of the new will possess a revolutionary inter- top of the presidency, a mandate far tiplayer gamers to switch between face and an autonomous 3D screen beyond the political achievements computer, Android and/or Apple’s Samsung Galaxy S4 (without the use of special 3D glass- of his year in office. iOS devices without interrupting es). Furthermore, the device will Hollande may be forgiven see- the game play. smartphone” rely on users’ eye movements for ing as his presidency is still young, Play Music All Access, a ‘radio internal navigation (similar to re- yet with regular press announce- on demand’ store working under mation live. The app will also ‘learn’ cent innovations in Samsung’s new ments declaring the intentions of paid registrations ranging from about its users over time, resulting smartphone, the Galaxy S4). himself and of his party, one begs $9.99 to $7.99. This allows users to in tailored recommendations suited If Amazon truly plans on re- the question, with such a mandate download some songs and listen to to each individual. leasing a new 3D smartphone and why would he do so little? them offline, hunting for customers Even with such a solid back- counts on its user’s eyes to control it, I believe Hollande cannot on Spotify’s land. ground and reputation, Amazon this ambition from the creator of the truly enact a Keynesian remedy to An ameliorated cloud storage could give birth to unsuccess- Kindle could consist of too much of France’s deficit crisis, simply be- space for high resolution photos - ful products. As a result, the com- a risk. cause of the sheer size and scale of The rise of student crowdfunding

Jasbir Norris from a large group of individuals, is the first thing that individuals see What is the relevance for stu- sults. The potential benefits for stu- BUSINESS EDITOR and are conducted online through upon viewing the project, and is an dents? dent entrepreneurs and fundraisers dedicated crowdfunding platforms. essential selling tool to entice po- Ben Hamilton from Please- are innumerable, and with all things t a time of economic gloom, PleaseFund.Us is one such platform, tential investors to invest. Fund.Us gives an insight into the considered, crowdfunding is sure to low employment prospects currently working with a variety of The second part is deciding real world practicality of crowd- catch on. Aand stagnant credit, the out- universities and projects to kick- funding, explaining that it “allows WAYNE LARGE look for students entering the job start student enterprise. Crowdfunding for the middle man to be cut out market looks bleak. In this situa- What ideas are ‘crowdfund- and for the ‘crowd’ to vote with their tion, combined with increasing cuts able’? “refers to the wallets”. Hamilton also stresses the in support agencies and organisa- The beauty of crowdfunding collective efforts huge potential for students, arguing tions that provide a kick start, stu- lies in its breadth – any project or that crowdfunding “has become a dent entrepreneurs are ever more idea can be crowdfunded, regard- of individuals who very important alternative source of turning towards crowdfunding the less of size or scope. Whether you pool their money funding in the creative sector, par- funds they need. are an entrepreneur with the next ticularly in our current economic What is crowdfunding? big idea or an individual looking to to finance projects climate with recent cuts in govern- Crowdfunding refers to the col- raise money for a charity, crowd- ment grants”. lective effort of individuals who pool funding platforms provide the per- and ideas ” Although in its infancy in the their money to finance projects and fect opportunity to gain maximum ‘pledge rewards’ - what is offered to UK, crowdfunding has already ideas. In these markets, an individu- exposure and engage with potential financial backers in return for their seen many success stories. From al can propose an idea that requires investors. pledge. These play a huge part of contemporary photography exhibi- funding, and third parties can con- What is the process? any crowdfunding project and can tions in London to comedy festivals tribute funds to support the idea. The process at PleaseFund.Us is take many forms; including prod- in Leeds, crowdfunding has been Typically, these projects receive very simple, consisting of two steps. ucts, experiences, acknowledge- instrumental in transforming all relatively modest contributions Firstly, a video pitch is made. This ments and accreditations. manner of ideas into tangible re- NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 24 www.ey.com/uk/careers >> Pages 27-28 Reports from Monday’s College Cup action, as James firsts continue their fine form @nousesport [email protected] Sport www.nouse.co.uk/sport P!"# L$%& Sun debate missed the point

URBANSOUP George Barrett Liverpool, is sold at almost no news- SPORTS EDITOR agents, and Liverpool FC refuse to publish any of its articles through t a time when heads are its website. starting to explode because So where does YUSU come Aof exams, the College Cup into all this? The question over the has gripped campus in a way that I Sun’s sale came up in a recent ref- never realised it would. erendum. As I read the arguments As a first year, I must say that I for and against the motion, I was was a little surprised by the build- shocked as not one part of any of the up that surrounds this event. I have four different statements even men- spent many a cold morning over tioned the Hillsborough tragedy as the past two terms covering college a reason that we shouldn’t be selling football or rugby, bemused by the it. Instead, the debate was centred the general lack of interest people solely on whether or not page three take in the grass leagues. Now I un- girls were a problem. derstand why. As much as people will hate me There is nothing quite like for saying it, feminism should have the College Cup. With passion, ro- taken a back seat on this one. I’m mance, drama and the lot, York not saying there is anything wrong exposed the sad truth that mod- with feminism, far from it, but in ern British football currently faces. this specific case I feel that it got There is no national equivalent to it. in the way of a bigger issue, and of what the debate should have been. College Cup is It is my view that the impor- tance of page three girls is insignifi- “everything the grass cant compared to one of the greatest leagues are not, and sporting disasters this country has seen, which saw the government everything we want the and media collaborate to form a national cups to be despicable lie. ” The debate should have been What about the FA Cup or the over Hillsborough, not whether League Cup? I hear you cry! But lu- page three is indecent. Whether crative TV revenues and Champions SPORT COMMENT been raised. tragedy, and a lie was woven using we should sell something which League places mean that the league Jules Delay I am talking about the debate the Sun as the primary outlet. The caused that misery and humiliation takes precedent year in, year out. In over whether YUSU should keep Sun claimed under a headline “THE with their lies is the question, not some ways, that is a great thing. The s I write this article, I am selling the Sun. The debate might be TRUTH”, that fans had been drunk, whether a girl can expose herself for 2011-12 season was breathtaking, aware of the shrapnel I am over, but in my view, the arguments urinated on police officers, violated money. Feminism, and perhaps YU- but this year it was not. Aabout to bring down around within it missed the most important dead bodies and stolen from those SU’s obsession with it, in this case Let’s be honest, in comparison my head, the prospective comments point: Hillsborough. dying and injured around them. blocked what mattered the most in to the national league, no one really I am likely to receive for breaching In 1989, 96 people died at the None of this was true. that referendum. cares about the cups. If I were to of- this topic. But for me, the criticism is Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield. One of the greatest smear-ups Does this come under a bigger fer Wigan a place back in the Pre- worth it because I want to bring up The immediate aftermath saw the in media history? Probably. issue? Is feminism getting too much mier League in exchange for their an issue that I think is worth raising Sun report and help fabricate an Kelvin Mackenzie, the sicken- student media and YUSU atten- FA Cup win this season, they would and one that was noticed primarily elaborate story to present the inci- ing editor who oversaw these lies tion? I don’t know, I’m not qualified jump at the chance. That’s not to by a female friend of mine from this dent as being the supporters fault, being published and reported, only to say and that’s not what this arti- say that winning the FA Cup wasn’t university who comes from Liver- and not that of the police. 116 differ- gave a pathetic excuse for an apolo- cle is about. All I can say honestly is a big deal (it was) but they would be pool – that in a recent YUSU Refer- ent police reports were altered; the gy 20 years later, after previously re- that for me personally, YUSU and better off in the top flight next sea- endum, feminism got in the way of a Chief Superintendent directly ac- peating he hadn’t done any wrong. that referendum missed the point son than in the Championship. more serious issue that should have cused Liverpool fans of causing the ‘The Scum’, as its better known in completely. Of course, there’s nothing that can change this. So let us take a rare moment to enjoy a knockout cup that is greater than our leagues. Boxing Club set for first exhibition night The support is testament to this. On day one of the College Cup an army of Langwith support- George Barrett winners will be announced back [YUSU] have been!” he told Nouse. viding physicals! ers popped over from Hes East to SPORTS EDITOR stage. “Kerry Schneider the health “I’ve even been contacted by support their firsts whilst having a Club Vice President Oli Whear and safety officer has helped lift the Tom Day, Film and Television Pro- barbeque beside the JLD. They far ON SATURDAY 15 June the Box- has said that the club “are proud club and allowed us to carry our- duction Student, as he wants to outnumbered the Langwith support ing Club are hosting the University’s to announce both sexes [will be al- selves as one of the larger sports make a video of the night! that had gone down to the 3G over first ever live exhibition sparring lowed to compete] and that a few clubs with 150 members. “If any performing society the Christmas and Easter terms night. There will be 12 bouts that different countries will be repre- “YUSU President Kallum Tay- would like to get involved please combined in just one afternoon. will utilise boxing or thai boxing. sented in the event!” do not hesitate to email the boxing And the players seem to care a Doors to the Roger Kirk Centre, On the night of the event there Members from club. lot more. I frequently hear subs on where the event is being hosted, will will. be a raised fight ring, with full the Boxing and “As lead organiser I am open to the side of the pitch determined to open from 17.45 with the first fight lighting and audio, and the room MMA Clubs will be ideas and am 100% committed to score a winning goal in order to im- expected to commence at 18.30, the will be lit blue and red with dazzling competing in the giving as many members of our stu- prove their Fantasy Football stats. final fight will finish at 22.30. white light over the ring. Roger Kirk Centre dent community the chance to show We don’t get that in the league ei- All tickets will get a free Kuda The club are in communication their talents.” ther. Added to this, social network- wristband on arrival at the event with other societies to perform dur- Boxing Club president Wil- ing sites have exploded with gossip which will then allow free entry to ing the 30 minute intervals, howev- son Lui commented, “It is a unique and banter. It won’t be long before the official after party before mid- er, nothing has been confirmed yet lor and Charlotte Winter, YUSU event for the university and will be some bright spark sets up a ‘Spot- night. and the club are taking a variety of Sport’s President, have done won- the first ever competition for the ted’ page for it. All competitors will be from offers. ders promoting the event so far, club. As a reporter, this is a joy to see. York, with guests from the Chokdee There will also be a DJ from Kallum has even decided to join the “I hope this will be the first My impression of College Cup thus gym. Breakz who will be providing music club! event of many and I hope that we far is that it is everything the grass The event is aimed at promot- on the night. The Lounge Bar will be “The event is going to be a spec- can demonstrate the high level ath- leagues are not, and everything we ing the sport and the club, and open throughout the event as well. tacular exhibition and I want to get leticism and sportsmanship within would love the national cups to be. demonstrating the club’s work to Whear was quick to thank as many clubs involved as possible. the boxing and MMA community. And long may it last! the University. The club will not an- YUSU. “I cannot begin to express Breakz are giving us music, MMA Please feel free to come along to the nounce winners publicly. Instead, how supportive and enthusiastic are competing and Medsoc are pro- boxing club!” Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 25 Sport

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Alcuin secure top Derwent defeated spot in Group A in James clash

Beth Jakubowski At half time it was 4-1 to Alcuin and Beth Jakubowski run up to half time, a nasty collision between SPORTS EDITOR Halifax needed something special to snatch SPORTS EDITOR Talbot and Hammick saw tempers start to a point. fray and the umpire was forced to speak to ON A boiling hot JLD, Alucin firsts took on The start of the second half was fairly un- IN A tense clash in Group B of the College the captains in order to calm things down. Halifax seconds, with Alcuin in a strong posi- eventful with neither side looking like scor- Hockey Cup, James seconds were victorious The whistle blew for half time with the tion at the top of their College Hockey Cup ing a goal. Alcuin’s Nick Yates finally made over Derwent firsts. match delicately poised at 4-3 to James and table. the breakthrough though, as Alcuin started James won with a decisive 9-5 mar- both sides had everything to play for in the It was a definitive 6-2 victory for Alcuin, to look very threatening. gin and a multitude of goals from Hugh second half. who have put in a number of impressive per- Deans-Green was on hand to score her Markham and a fantastic performance from But it was not to be for Derwent in the formances in Group A over the weeks. hat-trick, as Alcuin started to make every- Jambo Talbot ensured them the win. second half, as James re-grouped to score two It was a cagey opening few minutes, with thing look easy. They were defending bril- It was a fiesty and fierce affair, but it was goals in quick succession to make it 6-3. Alcuin making several errors and giving Hali- liantly and attacking with spirit, making it Derwent who were on top first through Chris Chris Daniel dragged one back for Der- fax a chance to build pressure. very clear why they are league leaders. Daniel, who was in excellent form through- went and a lovely piece of defending from But Alcuin were soon into their stride, Halifax were able to score a late conso- out the match. Anna Cook ensured Derwent stayed in the with captain, Dave Washington making a lation goal through Graeme Osborn, but the James were pressing well however, and game. lovely run showing excellent vision. game was already over. were only denied by some fine defending The absence of several Derwent key play- It wasn’t long before Alcuin converted Alcuin had been in fine form all after- from Simon Varley and Phil Hammick. ers was telling as Markham and Talbot were their pressure and possession into a goal. noon and despite Halifax’s best efforts, they But James soon equalised through Tal- both able to extend the score line in James’ Ruth Mason flicked the ball into the net after appeared unstoppable. bot, after a very impressive build up. The favour. At 9-4 to James and with them domi- a good build up to give Alcuin a 1-0 lead. In other matches in Group A, James game was poised at 1-1 but James were start- nating the match, Derwent scored a late con- Alcuin were defending brilliantly, with firsts held off a spirited Goodricke thirds 6-4. ing to look dangerous. Markham was on hand solation goal through Varley. Washington marshalling his troops excel- But the Goodricke firsts were on hand to beat to score his first, he beat Varley with ease to Daniel slotted a pass through to Varley lently. Langwith seconds 7-4. the delight of his teammates. who stuck the ball assuredly into the net. But Alex Wilson slotted another past Hali- Next week Alcuin firsts will take on Der- But the see-saw nature of this clash saw it was too little too late for Derwent as the fax after Washington gifted him a lovely ball went’s second team and will look to extend Derwent equalise moments later through match finished 9-5 to James. down the length of the pitch. Wilson was left their lead at the top of the table. Halifax will Chris Daniel again. Derwent were ahead mo- Elsewhere, Vanbrugh firsts beat Alcuin to slot the ball into the net with ease. face Langwith seconds who will be hoping to ments later, before a frantic few minutes of seconds 8-1. Halifax firsts were able to beat Halifax were able to pull one goal back, bounce back from their defeat at the hands of play saw Briony Peters score a fantastic goal Goodricke seconds with a decisive scoreline but it was a mere consolation as Alcuin start- Goodricke firsts. to make it 3-3. of 7-3 to send them to the top of Group B. ed to score with ease. Elsewhere in Group A, there will be a cru- James were incredibly aggressive on the Next week, James will be taking on Al- Robin Willows put Tiffany Deans-Green cial clash between James firsts and Goodricke counter attack but were running into some cuin seconds and Derwent will be hoping to through on goal twice in quick succession to 1sts, with both sides hoping to make up some great Derwent defending from Hammick bounce back against Goodricke seconds. The make it 4-1 to the team in red. ground. who was turning in a captain’s performance. highlight in next week’s fixture list for Group A cracking strike from Willows smashed But as it stands, Alcuin are top of Group However Peters was on fire and was B will be the clash between Vanbrugh firsts into the post in the dying minutes of the first A with 12 points, while Goodricke firsts and through on goal for James to make the score and Langwith firsts. half and Washington made a fantastic last James firsts sit in second and third respec- 4-3. Derwent firsts now lie in second place in ditch tackle to deny Halifax. tively with nine and six points apiece. There was tension and controversy in the the Group B while James seconds are third. NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.nouse.co.uk Tuesday 28 May 2013 26 www.ey.com/uk/careers Sport College Cup: The Story So Far Group A 2 Group C Teams yet to concede a goal - Halifax and Goodricke 1sts 10 Games where more than five goals have *Halifax 2nds docked 2 points been scored Group B Group D 24 Number of clean sheets kept so far 56 Highest score in Fantasy Football - Tom Clarke

Three weeks into College Cup 2013, Honourable mention should Best Goal the Nouse Sport team pick some of also go to Derwent seconds for their Tom Chadwick, Alcuin 1sts Davies leads Fantasy Football their highlights from the tourna- 5-0 win over Wentworth firsts. vs Halifax 2nds. The UYRUFC ment so far.... Best Save fly-half turned Alcuin striker con- HIS TEAM have been the star per- another four goals to add to his al- Kallum Taylor, Vanbrugh jured up a moment of magic to give formers of College Cup so far, and ready impressive tally. Best Team Performance 3rds vs Goodricke 1sts. Taylor his side the lead. Coming onto a James Davies is maintaining that Davies’ team is closely followed James 1sts vs Goodricke 3rds. pulled of a beauty of a save with the Will Dodgson pass on the left hand form in Fantasy Football, sitting top by two others who have passed For the sheer attrition factor, it has scores poised at 0-0, as Dalton Har- touchline, Chadwick struck a curl- of the table. 200 points, Hardly Athletic and I to be James firsts’ demolition job ris put in a cross for Dan Gorringe ing effort from 25 yards first time At time of writing, the James love Taylor Swift. With almost two on Goodricke thirds. It may have to head towards the top corner from that nestled beautifully into the top midfielder’s team has amassed a weeks of the group stage still to tipped it down with rain, but oh my close range. The YUSU President corner and earned a deserved round whopping 204 points, largely down go and the knockout stages of the did James play well. Tom Clarke dived at full stretch to tip the of applause from the crowd. to the contributions of Davies him- Cup afterwards, there is scored five, whilst James Davies was shot over the bar. It Most Controversial Moment self and his teammate Tom Clarke, still plenty of time for phenomenal. Spurling and Kreien- was all in vain Vanbrugh 1sts vs Derwent each of whom have broken the 50 things to change. But baum were towers in midfield, and however, as 1sts. This match was one contro- point barrier. Davies’ team is fur- right now it looks like the defence was rock solid, to the V a n b r u g h versy after another, but Derwent’s ther enhanced by the presence of anyone without Clarke point where one felt sorry for James went on to opening ‘goal’ will go down as one Connor McCoy, the third highest and Davies will goalkeeper Luke Bradley, who end- lose 3-0. of the most bizarre moments in Col- scoring player - had McCoy been struggle to top ed up jogging around his penalty lege Cup history. registered to play for Halifax firsts the table. area to keep warm. and seconds then he would have

After just three games, James striker Tom Clarke had broken the record for Top Scorers most College Cup goals in a season, and looks certain to become Fan- 9 tasy Football’s highest ever scorer. 3 James 5 4 Easter, Trant, Davies Ameer Fernando, Josh Bainbridge, Alhasan Spurling Clarke, Harrison 12 6 Top Assists Tom Clarke Connor McCoy 3 Osborne, Jopson, James Davies Green, Garness, Kirk, Martin All data is taken from Fantasy Football. Players are only given goals and assists for the highest team they are registered for. Data correct as of Monday 27 May. Tuesday 28 May 2013 www.nouse.co.uk NOUSE: THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.ey.com/uk/careers 27 Sport Derwent demolish Goodricke AGATHA TORRANCE strike that went just over the bar. Goodricke’s best chance of the match came soon after, with Smal- ley taking a lethal free-kick that was whipped into the box. Weston leapt up to head it goalwards but his ef- fort was inches shy. A moment of hilarity ensued when an ecstatic Karbani thought Goodricke has scored and he cheered wildly from his goal before realising that Weston’s attempt had missed. Matthew Elvin tried his luck to give Derwent a fourth but his free-kick sailed high over the bar. Woodcock produced another very good save to deny Goodricke who were growing in confidence as the match went on. Karbani went on to pull off an incredible save, he came out to Alex Nock in an attempt to block his shot but somehow managed to scramble back to make a fantastic diving save to prevent Joe Eyles from scoring. The game trickled out to a 3-0 victory for Derwent, and Goodricke captain Weston said after the game, “I thought we played really well, in the first couple of minutes we made a couple of really silly mistakes. But then we got ourselves back together, and after that I thought we were well in the game. We had a few good chances, everyone knows we’ve had a bit of a rough time, we haven’t scored in two college cups. But we’re getting better with every game and I think the goal is coming. We were without seven players today, so we did well.” Derwent’s Gwinnett spoke af- Derwent seconds put Goodricke thirds to the sword on a sunny and bright JLD on Monday afternoon with John Garness and Ryan Gwinnett scoring terwards saying, “It was a game of two halves, but we’re over the moon Derwent 2nds 3 Three goals in the first half was ond only minutes later. A well- in the box before shrugging off the and we’re happy to come away with enough for Derwent to sail past placed cross from Mashasi Novaki Goodricke defence and giving him- the three points.” Goodricke 3rds 0 Goodricke. A nightmare opening 15 allowed Garness to place a lofted self room to bury his strike into the minutes for Goodricke saw Derwent shot over the leaping keeper to put net. Derwent: Goodricke: Beth Jakubowski take a rapid 2-0 lead. Derwent 2-0 up. Derwent’s domination con- Woodcock, High- Karbani, Bourlet, SPORTS EDITOR Garness opened the scoring for Goodricke gathered themselves tinued with a visionary run from land, Eyles, Schoen- Hancock, Cot- Derwent with a lovely strike from soon after the second goal. Cap- Masashi Nozaki, who crossed the maker, Fisher, Elvin, tingham, Smal- DERWENT SECONDS brushed 20 yards out. The ball sailed into tain Dan Weston was on hand to ball into Garness but his shot was Gwinnett, Sheahan, ley, Fuller, Enzo, aside Goodricke thirds on the JLD the net and nestled in the bottom produce a cracking free-kick that just shy of the post. Derwent went Nozaki, Garness, Weston, Campbell, yesterday. A brace from John Gar- left corner to the delight of the Der- forced a brilliant save from Frank into half-time 3-0 up but the second Moro. Sub: Nock. Bradshaw, Ashraf. ness and a fantastic solo effort from went players. Woodcock. half failed to produce the thrills of Derwent MOTM: Joe Eyles Ryan Gwinnett sealed an impressive Some shoddy defending from But Derwent’s third came soon the first half. Jack Fisher made a Goodricke MOTM: Zain Karbani victory for the men in blue. Goodricke allowed Garness a sec- after, Gwinnett making a lovely turn good attempt on goal with a lofted Wentworth brush aside Alcuin in six goal rout

Wentworth 1sts 6 their lines, Wentworth initially Alcuin: Wentworth: ner. Target man Green was next in as comfortable 6-0 winners for the failed to put in the crucial final ball Thurloway, Taube, Cook, Keane, Parker, on the act, with a tidy finish after a second game in succession after Alcuin 3rds 0 needed to pull ahead. Carney, Pickar Kosunalp, Cantrell, Harrison cross. beating Goodricke on Friday. Winger Dan Bawdon started Quintana, Bentham Clinton, Wayne, In the midst of all this Went- Alcuin’s Jacob Burge was quick Aaron Stennett particularly brightly, causing trou- (Nixon) , Shine, Paes, Martin, worth destruction, James Pearce to point out Alcuin were “missing DEPUTY SPORTS EDITOR ble for the Alcuin defence on the left Chambers, Page, Harrison, Bawdon had a rare Alcuin chance, being players, and our regular captain” for hand side of the pitch. Davey, Pearce. (Kourvelos) Green. released down the right wing, but the match. Burge was confident Al- WENTWORTH FIRSTS brushed Bawdon’s low cross found its Alcuin MOTM: Dylan Chambers dragging his shot wide of the far cuin could “come back and win the aside a plucky Alcuin thirds side, way to captain Dom Green, who post. Plate” later in the term. Wentworth MOTM: Tim Martin in a display which saw them slam could not get his shot away before a The goal of the game prompt- Wentworth skipper Dom home six goals in the second half in block came in. ly followed. Defender Ben Keane Greene was satisfied with his side’s a sunny fixture on the JLD. Alcuin were barely hanging way, the busiest player on the pitch, slashed the ball forward from the display. “We really emphasized Wentworth, who could well on, with corner after corner be- Wentworth finally got their goal. back and Green, with has back to playing out from the back,” he com- have scored more had it not been ing awarded to the postgrads. Greg As the ball broke loose for Tim goal, turned and volleyed the ball mented. for some backs-to-the-wall defend- Harrison came closest at this point, Martin, he curled the ball past the from thirty yards. The ball rocketed “Credit to the Alcuin defense ing from Alcuin, now hope to kick with an audacious volley being goalkeeper and high into the net, to past keeper Thurloway, crushing all and goalkeeper, they were fantastic. on in a campaign which has seen dragged wide. give the postgrads the lead. of the resistance left in Alcuin. In the end our fitness really showed them struggling in fourth place in As the second half of the match After this point, the floodgates The sixth and final goal came in the second half.” their group. began, an air of inevitability began opened up, as Alcuin began to push from Green again, whose shot was Alcuin thirds are now a distant The match began with Went- to grow, as Wentworth piled the further up the pitch as they at- brilliantly saved by Thurloway. The fifth in Group B. But Wentworth worth settling into possession im- pressure onto the beleaguered Al- tempted to chase the game, creating rebound unfortunately fell straight firsts are now fourth and are five mediately, pressing high up the cuin defense. space at the back. to Vasileios Kourvelos, who had the points clear of Alcuin. pitch. After a tidy save from a Greg Martin got his and Wentworth’s simple task of tapping in. As a result, Wentworth will at Whilst Alcuin struggled to clear Harrison shot from Michael Thurlo- second, after a scramble from a cor- Wentworth ended the match least qualify for the Plate. Boxing College Sport We talk to the Boxing Club Match reports on Sunday’s about their upcoming hockey and Monday’s exhibition night football clashes on the JLD >> Page 24 >> Pages 25-27

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James hit four past Vanbrugh to maintain winning streak James 1sts 4 ball and ran through on goal. Van- onto the roof of the net before see- sticks, as Davies and Clarke tested nally test Luke Bradley at the other brugh keeper Tom Williams kept his ing an ambitious chip held by Wil- him once again. But with Vanbrugh end, but James did run out comfort- Vanbrugh 2nds 0 shot out but Clarke was on hand to liams. struggling to make an impression able winners as expected despite knock in the rebound for his 12th The Vanbrugh keeper was going forward, James’ second goal facing their toughest test yet. Dan Holland goal of the competition. keeping his side in the game at this was only a matter of time. Their captain Spurling told DEPUTY EDITOR Having been in such scintillat- point, coming up with yet more It arrived as the Vanbrugh de- Nouse afterwards, “That’s the first ing attacking form in the past few saves to deny Davies and substitute fence failed to cut out a pass down game when we’ve really been closed JAMES FIRSTS secured top spot in weeks, James would have been ex- Jopson from point-blank range. the right, allowing Jopson to fire be- down in the middle of the park. We Group B and progression to the Col- pected to go on and win convincing- yond the keeper and into the corner. had to show a bit of grit, which was lege Cup quarter finals with a 4-0 ly. But Vanbrugh were holding firm, Inside >> Page 24 And, with the final whistle ap- pleasing, and to get a clean sheet win over Vanbrugh seconds yester- providing James with their toughest Jules Delay on why the proaching, the floodgates finally and a 4-0 win is really promising.” day. test so far. opened. Clarke, whose game had so His Vanbrugh counterpart Dan Goals from Tom Clarke, An- The seconds team had some Sun debate should have far been marked by an insistence on Shepherd was satisfied with his drew Jopson and a James Davies good possession inside the James been about Hillsborough shooting at almost every opportuni- side’s display, saying, “For the first double saw James continue their half but were never able to seriously ty, sent in a delightful cross from the 45-50 minutes we were brilliant fine form in the group stage, though trouble Luke Bradley’s goal - a spec- left for Davies to head in unmarked at closing them down. But we had they were frustrated for large peri- ulative long range volley from Jack Clarke should have added his at the back post. to change our system chasing the ods of the match and had to wait Coy that sailed wide of the post was second goal; after Spurling’s shot Davies grabbed his second just game, and we’ve been beaten by a until the last ten minutes to secure the closest they came to an equaliser was tipped away, Davies squared it after, Matt Bainbridge floating in a couple of mistakes and a couple of the points. before the break. for Clarke, who sliced his effort over ball to the back post which Davies quality goals.” Vanbrugh will still After a quiet opening, James James returned for the second with the goal gaping. had time to control and smash into be favourites to claim second place, took the lead ten minutes into the half with far more attacking intent Williams was producing a the top corner. though, with Derwent second play- game as Davies pounced on a loose about them. Clarke looped a volley heroic performance between the Adam Lewis still had time to fi- ing James next week.

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