That Friday free thing Leeds Stude Friday, April 27, 2007 VOL37:ISSUE 19 m_ Spate of sexual assaults continues in Hyde Park By Jessica Geen injuries. Officers have stepped back from saying the perpetrator as a serial attacker. A man in his twenties from the A 22 car-old medical student has Halifax area was arrested in become the Wiest victim of a spate of connection with the first two Hyde sexual assaults in Hyde Park Park assaults a few days afterwards. The female student is bylined to but was later released without have been approached by a man who charge. enganed her m cons-eNation before Acting Detective Inspector Stilton attacking her He then ran off in the Atkinson from Weetwood CID has direction of Brudencll Road. sought to reassure students. He said: The incident occurred just after -We are conducting door-to-door 5.30am on Sunday on Hessle enquiries around Hesslc Terrace. Terrace The suspect is described as which will continue, and we arc an Asian male with short dark hair. stepping. up police presence in the rive feet 10 inches tall. of medium area with increased patrols." He build and between 25 and 30-years- stated that the latest incident is nor old. He was wearing a ritund-neck heing treated as related to the sexual navy jumper Mel' a light-coloured assault on a student near Devonshire top. and dark trousers. Halls last week. Police have confirmed that they Jenny Mensah. a second year are linking this incident to two other Classics student, was in the area assaults on women in Hyde Park at early on Sunday morning. She said: the beginning of this month. On both "I think there were a few officers occasions. the women were grabbed around, but at the time I didn't think from behind. but subsequently anything of it. It was light when we managed to escape with minor came home though, so these crimes are literally happening in broad daylight. I think the student bubble Pollee Advice: we were all living in has finally burst. I'm really getting scared to Avoid walking alone after dark. leave my own house now." Sarah Wayman. LAM Women's Keep to busy, well lit roads and Officer. said: "These assaults try to look confident even if you highlight the need for everyone to be don't feel it. aware of their own safety and their friends', and also he sure not to If you think you are being behave in a way that could be followed, cross the road and perceived as threatening to others." keep walking. If it continues, She added: "We still distribute attack head for a busy area or lighted alarms that can be picked up from the house to ask for help. Student Advice Centre in LAX.- Dl Atkinson said police are Get a personal attack alarm and continuing to appeal for witnesses. carry it in your hand. He said: "If you have information LINDSAY ANN HAWKER'S FUNERAL: Mourners gathered at Coventry Cathedral yesterday to bury Leeds about this incident. I would ask you Biology graduate Lindsay Hawker. She was found dead in bath full of sand by police in Tokyo, where she When you go out, tell people to get in touch with the police had moved to be an English teacher after graduating last June. Her family, from Brandon in Warwickshire, what time you expect to arrive immediately on 0113 24 1 3495." made emotional tributes to a "beautiful and principled" girl who they were all proud of. home. • Smokers reprieved (3) • LSTV awards(5) • Cottaging (10) • Student parents(12) Leeds Student www.leedsstudentorg.uk Friday, April 27, 2007 2 Ono office? Dazed eyes crossed the room. Our VC - a medic by professi monthly mutual mass debate: coatinue on thick fog of smoke descended on Someone lights up and a husky voice ahem, fuming about the issue. WO i - e cigatenes. If only sex was regular- s )) the new batch of Union Councit- selling says: "It's a smoker's choice whether only place on campus where rigs e 1, nn A lors this week. They were aching. ly so long and surprising. they smoke, we're not creating a nanny purchased and But wait, who brought this motion s been lobbying th to be as democratic as possible in Mon- state"- Nanny state. they exhale! Union to pop a Nicoretie patch on e forward? Well, the Executive. the people leo day's inaugural meeting. As ever, LS' I Remember that next rime you try and his arrival. He's even offered to cle voted in to represent as. And who decides an covered the revered event from a safe chs• buy a Nestle chocolate bar from the sate the Union for its drop in peek on it'? Union Council. We voted for them Lance. In fact, safe enough to involve shop.) The 'revelation' that the anti-fag upping the grant it gets from the o Neighbours and a Guinness. but suffice as well. right? Yes indeedy - no secrets kki. majority weir mainly non-smokers them- sity. But the extent of our addietictu to say a battle was sea here. But wait, didn't we do some ques- selves. apparently empowered the fingers knows no bounds. A simple dilemma: sell cigarettes and tionnaire about this smoking lark over of democracy to overrule the rationale of Perhaps non-smokers might ho Easter? Yep. that's correct. And what c eontinue slowly killing the members. or said group because, for want of a better wider issues with tobacco. ceinp stop selling cigarettes and lose an esti- happened with that? Well, about 60 per ao4 explanation, "it has nothing to do with smoking and the like, But then, °fainte mated .C45.000 profit. As Dick Turpin vent said. 'ban smoking'. st, them". So why waste so many resources smokers are a legally recognised minoth might put it.. your money. or your life?' And suddenly, regardless of all that, a asking questions to people we intend to with actual rights and With a nationwide smoking ban set 10 big. fat 'pro choice' penny drops in to the if diverse eaten et ignore? Let's have a rational think (the yellow-fingered art. begin on July. I. the - cough cough, hack, f.4rn LUU pot. Why would our represen- All this talk of ma sort of grown up thing, un-chemically spiracy is making me waiver. Pat sth cough...hack, excuse me - the resulting tatives turn their backs on the voters they ie for a fag, decision after two and a half hours of the desperately convinced to propel them addicted people dot. Students: any questions? By Alex Doorey tenor was suffedne from an Identity and justiee." whether he still believed that young 4 crisis: highlighting comments that Berm When asked what the Conservatives people were coming out of higher had made in a recent trip to America would do to remedy the rising number of education without the skills necessary in where he condemned the use of the war gull and knife crimes in urhan areas such the workplace. a statement he made when GLOBAL Students were given the cluster to put he was still Head of the 031, he stood by politicians in the hot seat when BBC on terror phrase. us Leeds and Manchester. Davis said that Other questions focused on the the Party would focus on the basics in his eonvictions. Radio talk slaw,. Any Questions? came to "Young people enter the workplace By Alex Doorey Leeds last Friday pensions scandal and The compensation change the situation: "Tons Blair once Bernard Matthews is to receive after the was tough on en me, tough on with no soft their communication is The slims, hnxtulcast from said that he not up to scratch and they lack the skills Lawnsscocal High Set-axle encouraged culling ill thousands of the company's the causes of crime. Well, we want to birds during an avian flu scare earlier in badly needed in business." he said. he founder of hip-hop label pupils and university students alike to pot deal with those causes of crime, the the year. culture surnninding the people that Jones were on to blame parents, Def Jam has called far three their questions to a panel of guests, Once of air, teachers and the students themselves for sexist and racist words to te itteltaltrie Shadow Home Secretary David ',ea Stedfre had a commit those crimes. ehaniee to catch up with the panel. "We want to give young people the drop in business skills. "It's no one's harmed from songs. Davis, International Development Speaking about the upcoming elections. opportunities that are not criminal. so that fault but the teachers anti parents." he Russell Simmons said there was Secretary Hain) Bean. Lib Dem Higher "growing public outrage" 4tuul the Education spokesperson Sarah leather David Davis was keen 10 stress that the the person they hack up to the most is not said. "Kids should take more Conservatives had much to offer the 18- the local drug dealer." He also said that responsibility for themselves too." use of the terms, which hr and former Head of the C131 Sir Digby said I 30s voting group. should be viewed as the Jones. the party would work to create a strong When LS asked him what the market same as "We can offer social mobility and was like for graduates emerging from "extreme curse words". The panel were quieted with on-the- base for stable families_ "70 per cent of omit-tunny fur youngsters.