FREE Bringing you the bare essential read since a.k.a Naked Information 1968 In this issue.... Funky “UNDERPASS MOLESTER” Fillings p7 AVOIDS PRISON By Ben Miller sex attacker who groped a dozen young women in a Guildford Simon Connolly, for the defence, told the court Harding did not Relationship A underpass has been spared a prison sentence. Andrew Jonathan realise the seriousness of his offences. “At the time he was mimicking Dynamics Harding committed 12 offences in the A3 tunnel at Egerton Road something he had seen on YouTube and was not thinking about the between May and October last year. He was sentenced for four consequences,”24 PAGE he said. EDITION p16 charges of sexual assault and asked for another eight similar offences Judge John Crocker sentenced Harding to a three-year combined to be taken into consideration. supervision and community order. The judge explained he was He first struck on May 14 last year. A 23-year-old University of following advice from sex Surrey student was walking through the tunnel when she felt a hand offender specialists. He over her left breast. “She described being in shock,” Ruby Selva, said if he had sent Harding prosecuting, said. “She shouted ‘pervert’ and the defendant turned to prison, it would only towards her, patted his backside and sniggered.” have been a short sentence He struck again on July 31, putting his hand under the bra of a and would have had little second student. Another victim was on her way to work at the Royal effect. Harding, of Devoil Surrey County Hospital. “She was on her mobile phone,” Miss Close, Guildford, who has Selva said. “She heard footsteps behind her. She kept on walking no previous convictions, expecting someone to walk past her. Her breast was quickly grabbed, was ordered to sign on the she screamed and saw him face to face [before he] ran off.” sex offenders’ register for Harding had previously pleaded guilty at South West Surrey five years and attend a sex Newsin Magistrates’ Court. One of his victims was a juvenile. The others offenders’ programme. brief were aged in their twenties. p2 The attacks prompted a police manhunt and he was eventually caught on CCTV after he groped his final victim on Halloween night. barefacts changes fashion industry p20 By Ben Miller Pressure on the NUS from barefacts has brought about a radical change in policy from one of the UK’s major high street companies. barefacts has been holding the NUS to account after it was revealed the organisation has relationships with companies that uses forced child labour in Uzbekistan. These companies include Matalan, as well as Topman and Burton part of the Arcadia Group. A NUS spokesperson contacted barefacts on February 8 and sent the paper a statement New Sports from Matalan, “Following an investigation into and careful consideration of all the Editor = issues surrounding Matalan’s suppliers sourcing cotton from Uzbekistan, Matalan today Bumper Sports! [January 31] announces that it has instructed all its suppliers not to source any cotton from Uzbekistan. This decision takes effect immediately.” p28 Cotton production in Uzbekistan represents one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world where tens of thousands of children are forced to pick the cotton harvest each year. Classrooms are emptied so that the crop, known as “white gold”, can be harvested. Cotton big business is big business in Uzbekistan – it is the third largest exporter in the world. The NUS were slow to react to questions about its relationship with companies that are accused of using cotton produced by forced child labour in Uzbekistan. However, things have quickly changed. Only a couple of weeks ago, two of Britain’s major high street companies, Tesco and Marks and Spencer announced that they were no longer going to allow cotton from Uzbekistan in their clothes. Cont p3 [email protected] Issue 1119 Tuesday 19th February www.bfacts.co.uk [email protected] 2 NEWS 19th February 2008 Drunk is not the NEWS IN BRIEF By Ben Miller key Student ‘sectioned’ for planning pro-democracy activities in Russia Chris Foster, an 18 year old student at the Artem Basirov, 20, a university student, was part of a group of pro-democracy activists that was University of Bournemouth, had no recollection planning a protest against President Putin’s increasingly authoritarian rule ahead of last December’s of swallowing a 5cm key in a bizarre drunken elections. However, on the night before the planned demonstration, Basirov was snatched by stunt – until his friends and the NHS helped him Russian secret service officers and taken to a state psychiatric hospital and forced to undergo a piece together the events of the night before. month of “treatment”, during which he was fed mind-numbing drugs. Mr Basirov’s incarceration Apparently, Chris’s friends told him he had drunk inside the Soviet-era psycho-neurological clinic is the latest case in which opponents of Kremlin too much and they were taking him home from a rule have been hauled off to state-run mental institutions. party in student halls. However, in his desperation to stay, he swallowed his key and said he couldn’t get into his house. A fellow Bournemouth University student attempted the Too much nookie can stop you getting a degree Heimlich manoeuvre to recover the key but without success. A survey by Cambridge student newspaper “Varsity” found students who have the most He was also given salt water to drink in a bid to bring it up but that didn’t work sex get the worst results. At Homerton, the worst-performing college in the university’s either. league table, students have had, on average, seven sexual partners. Christ’s College, second Chris said: ‘I had to sleep on the sofa in the communal lounge and the next in last year’s Tompkins table of Cambridge exam results by college, reported the highest morning I couldn’t remember a thing. I thought it was a bit of a wind-up when number of virgins, with more than a quarter of respondents never having had sex. my friend said I had swallowed the key. But my throat started to feel very sore and my stomach didn’t feel right, so my friend took me to hospital on the bus. Surrey advances corporate social responsibility I was given an X-ray and I was stunned when I first saw the key in my stomach The University of Surrey has agreed to adhere to the Principles for Responsible but then couldn’t stop laughing – even the doctors were sniggering. .The key is Management Education (PRME), which were unveiled by a group of scholars and leading now safely back on the computer design student’s keyring as he said he couldn’t academic organisations at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in July of 2007. The afford the £20 his landlord was going to charge him for a new one. PRME provides a framework for academic institutions to advance the broader cause of barefacts advice ...... Don’t try this at home! corporate social responsibility and incorporate universal values into curricula and research. UniSPORT assists girls to groove the night away editorial team More than 150 girls from across Guildford recently staged a dance performance, entitled ‘Guildford 1119 Grooves’ at the Electric Theatre in the Guildford town centre. The girls had all been involved in weekly dance clubs at their schools, with instruction provided by specialists from Campusdance, based at EDITOR |CLAIRE WORGAN | [email protected] UniSPORT, which is the biggest University dance and movement programme outside of London. DEPUTY EDITOR (DESIGN) | POSITION VACANT| [email protected] DEPUTY EDITOR (MARKETING) | POSITION VACANT | [email protected] We own the night NEWS EDITOR| BEN MILLER | [email protected] NUS’ Women’s Campaign is hosting the national “Reclaim the Night” demonstration FOOD EDITOR | VERITY KIRKPATRICK | [email protected] SCIENCE EDITOR | EMMA ROGULSKA | [email protected] on Saturday 1 March 2008 to make a stand to end violence against women, as one in four FEATURES EDITOR | AMUL GURUNG | [email protected] women experience domestic violence, less than six per cent of all reported rapes end in PG TIPS EDITOR | ALEX ILLSLEY | [email protected] conviction, and women deserve to live without the fear or reality of abuse, rape and violence. ARTS EDITOR | JAKE SOUTH | [email protected] SOCIETIES EDITOR | SIMON MOORE | [email protected] SPORTS EDITOR |DAVID HALLS| [email protected] Prison study to investigate link between diet and behaviour PUZZLELORD | COLIN EVERETT | [email protected] Surrey Uni is involved in trials in three UK prisons to investigate the link between nutrition and COPY EDITOR |YASMIN DANIEL| [email protected] behaviour. COPY EDITOR |JESS BLOOMFIELD| [email protected] WEBMASTER | JOSH BATES | [email protected] MARKETING MANAGER | NATALIYA NADTOKA | [email protected] The night shift cause digestive shift Gastrointestinal problems are common among night workers, in MARKETING CO-ORDINATOR | AARON SALINS | [email protected] particular loss of appetite, peptic ulcers and indigestion, according EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | ALEX COLLINS | [email protected] to Debra Skene of the University of Surrey. barefacts is an editorially independent newspaper and is published by the University of Surrey Students’ Union Communications Office. The views expressed within the paper are those of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editor, the University of Surrey Students’ Union or the University of Children’s IQ rises by 12% thanks to Surrey.