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LeedOCTOBER 10,1997 s StudenVOL 28: ISSUEt No.3 JJJJJSJ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW JJJJJU/ J Pages 12-13 CLAIM YOUR FREE CINEMA TICKETS FOR CLOONEY'S 'PEACEMAKER' Juice page 6 FEES BATTLE STARTS HERE NUS accused of MEL POPS OUT ESPECIALLY FOR OUR JARVIS failing to combat plans for tuition fees • LUU draft motion of no confidence in NUS President • Student Unions flock to Leeds to back the campaign THE DAY YOUR UNION STOOD UP FOR FREE EDUCATION • FULL STORY PAGES 4/5, OPINION PAGE 7 | NEWSDESK 243 4727 Leeds Student, Friday October 10 1997 libraries at the university. In fact the Parkinson steps isn't just a landmark to guide you Leeds Student Minerva's moan into town, like Hadrian's Diary of a failed sex fiend turned arty student Wall is a landmark to guide you to Scotland. The steps This week in Britain's ; likes of America and basking in the Where is all my fan mail? lead you into a building Foster and sun. whereas in actual fact Discovered that David is where there is another library. award-winning student na. Hmm. they are now in cold, windy gelling cable though, and so I And there are shelves which i that my and rainy Leeds and should can watch ER in the safe move when you turn a wheel. newspaper of the year ig awful. I be wearing a coat and a thick hands of my one true friend Took Dors in to show them ;shers' flu jumper. Although I do see who is sympathetic of my off, but she was not too /s labels as that this might be slightly blocked nose, and doesn't impressed, so headed down lough you distasteful to the most borrow my Morgan hipsters Old Bar for quick pint, which >e a fashionable among us, who without asking - Dors! then spilt all over library LUU lead the /hat year I want to look sexy and pristine Anyway they're well out of book. Nose started to run fight trying to ing. If you all day long, and so have to date, and I need some new again and ran out of pills as e freeze and walk around in trousers anyway so I suppose think took too many last time. save free y spent, high heels just to look good. she can have them. Think I might go home and education my pHd. My God. I really do need a get some pampering from y how drink now. But mixing drink Wednesday: Given my first Mum. It's not as if I have a boyf to look after me like pages 4-5 actually don't really want to much I've learnt I probably with paracetamol is not such a essay of term today. Most am one of those loony hot idea is it. Oh sod it - unwelcome and very Case's who brought her pills brag about the fact that some and Hot Blackcurrant. Still COMMENT weirdo is perving all over me freshers who spread their nevermind. annoying, but just one of - he probably carries my diary horrible fluy germs all over those things I suppose. there is the one satisfaction in Should gay the bloody campus, co/ they Tuesday: Rotten headache Ventured to library to get life, at least I know that I'm round with him. Maybe he the one that gave her the flu marriages be stalks me. Wow. a stalker! think they're still on holiday today. Same as yesterday and book. Told wrong library. That puts me up there with doing their little bit on Camp nothins: is neitiim better. Apparently there are two in the first place. legalised. Find out on page 6 page 6 NEW REPORT ACCUSES PROFESSORS OF ARCHAIC TEACHING METHODS HANDGUN FEATURE HOLDUP PADDY ASHDOWN A GRADUATE who SPEAKS! Of his threatened terrified staff and customers with a gun in a party's prospects for Manchester bar last thefure Lecturers told: November, has been given a suspended prison sentence. pages 12-13 \\-rites Christopher Kluke. Raimon Swift, LU French graduate, was sentenced for Outlook two years after wielding an imitation handgun and CS gas Th e dangers of a canister in the Sticky Fingers nation raised on Tou're past it' Cafe on Deansgate. His co-defendent. cousin preventative drugs ACADEMICS are claiming lecturers Benjamin Swift, received one are out of touch with the needs of year. Raimon waved the firearm today's students and must change around and asked a customer their attitudes towards teaching. if she wanted to fire it. He pointed the gun at a In the wake of the By GARETH EVANS female member of staff ! Can England see off the progressive Dearing adopted as a saying: "There is someone in [ Italian charge towards report The Times complimentary measure here I'd really like to kill." Higher Educational to the traditional They then moved on to the I the World Cup? lecture." she said. Barton Arcade where they Supplement has She claimed Leeds activated the gas canister. produced a "Good University is keeping However, Judge Rhys page.. Teaching Guide" abreast of Dearing's Davies accepted they were which claims proposals by "setting up "intelligent and well educated a teaching programme men" who had acted with academics continue for lecturers." "monumental stupidity" in a to cling on to drunken prank and suspended outdated teaching Updated their sentence. It was alleged that the practices. However, she believes Many academics cousins committed these acts there is still a lot of work in an attempt to impress their who become lecturers to be done before girlfriends. "fail to connect with teaching is updated and their students and effective again: "There show no interest in still needs to he a change GOT A how they learn." in the entire culture of STARS of the Seventies Headinglev. running until claimed D a v i d u-aching anil learning Spectacular climbed 5:05am from Infirmary GOOD within Higher aboard the Love Train last Street and covering all Jacques, an Education." NEWS independent consultant week to re-launch the stops to Bodington Hall. Students tended to student late night bus "Students that club in Higher Education. support Jacques' claims STORY? He argued that the service, writes l.iiurii until late can now party that professors need to Aldersori. without the worry of lecture is a very learn more about the The Night Rider 995 having to catch expensive Call the Newsdesk on ineffective teaching requirements of the method in higher service connects the Leeds cabs home," said DJ ON THE HORIZON people they are teaching. club scene to students in Brutus Gold. 243 4727 with Stevie Sunshine education because Mark Cole, second students become passive year Broadcast Saturday: Patchy cloud with both sunny and lose their Journalism student at and showery spells. Maximum concentration quickly. Leeds University said: "I temperature: 13C (55F). think it's important that Sunday: Mostly dry with some sunshine. Changes lecturers have experience Maximum temperature 14C (59F). Bee McCall, and are not just academics. It's best that Outlook for the rest of the week: Fairly dry Education Officer at with sunny periods. Light winds. Leeds University, agreed you.are taught by people To a career in journalism Temperatures a little lower than expected. that changes need to be from the industry you BBC newsman Nicholas Witchetl, known by millions as one of this made but did not think want to enter." country's top journalists, started his career on these hallowed pages. II Wcalhci-call Regional I'oivrasl ON9 I 500 4 I 7 traditional teaching Gavin Silverman. your burning desire is to follow in his footsteps then your first mine should he scrapped second year Physiology should be to Britain's biggest and best weekly student newspaper. We're entirely. student claims: "Some of always looking for new reporters, so come along to our office at LMUSU "We are graduall\ the best lecturers I've had or call our news hotline and you could be journalism's next big thing. A LOAD OF BALLS seeing a shift towards the are not really academic. ' You don't need any experience, just plenty of enthusiasm and an e\e Our look at the Wednesday lottery numbers belief that teaching in Too main academics for a story. We offer you the chance to learn essential skills, make your smaller groups with more don't keep your attention CV look brilliant, and have a laugh at the same time. of an interactive because l hey 're i n a world of their ou n." And the bonus ball: 15 approach should be Leeds Student, Friday October 10 1997 PICTURE EXCLUSIVE ON COCK OF OUR very own Jarvis was Cock- a-hoop as he rubbed shoulders with the stars at the National TV Awards, writes Kevin rctinnin. The Star.'. In Their I yes finalist, alias Aslrophy sies finalist (iareth Dickinson, partied the night away with top celebs including 'the girl for the Thrillenium' Melinda Messenger who teased the crowds in a short, sexy black dress. "I saw Melinda walking around and she came over and said she recognised me from the show" said Gareth. "I continued talking with her for about 15 minutes." But cheeky Gareth had to resist temptation when she asked him lor a copy of his hand's tape. He explained: "I gave her the tape hut she had no pockets and I was that close to putting it in her clea\agc. Thank God I wasn't that drunk!" (iareth mingled with the stars and a culinary blooper led to a meeting with ()nl\ l-'(inl\ and Hoi si-s star Busier Merryfield "I was at the bullet table ami lad my plate and fork in one land.