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VarsiTV.co.uk Festival previewp7 Fashionp8-9 Check out Forget Glasto be the envy of A taste of Caesaran your frends wth the help of our thngs to Sunday round-up of edgy events come some Stores 20s-style fun onlne now n the sun FRIDAY MAY 14TH 2010 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NESPAPER SINCE 1947 ISSUE NO 718 | VARSITY.CO.UK CAMBRIDGE HUMANITARIAN CENTRE 6 Tabs in Suicide Sunday Cameron’s faces police cabinet clampdown OAA IDDII Six out of 22 of David Cameron’s new cabinet members are Cam- bridge alumni. Authortes to restrct ‘rresponsble’ Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime drnks o ers Minister, read Social Anthropol- ogy at Robinson. During his time at a person’s mouth, thereby banning Cambridge, Clegg reportedly acted IZAT IGG the popular drinking game known as alongside Helena Bonham Carter ‘dentist’s chair’, a traditional fi xture and Sam Mendes. Cambridge end-of-term drinking at Suicide Sunday events all over Clegg is also said to have been parties are facing a potential police Cambridge. a member of the Cambridge Uni- clampdown after a series of drunken Peter Sinclair, Cambridgeshire versity Conservative Association incidents last year. Police’s Licensing Offi cer, cautioned (CUCA) . Cambridge police have issued students to be practice responsible Also involved with CUCA during direct warnings to organisers of drinking and keep their personal his time here was Ken Clarke, the undergraduate drinking societies safety in mind. Justice Secretary, who served as and other student events that they According to PC Sinclair, “Clearly chairman of the society. Clarke read could risk breaking the law. this is a time of celebration for stu- Law at Gonville & Caius, and was The warning comes on the eve of dents and the chance to let their also elected president of the Cam- the Cambridge May Ball and Garden hair down.” However, he added that bridge Union. Party season, including the infa- “they need to be mindful of dangers On the other end of the politi- mous ‘Suicide Sunday’, the Sunday of excessive consumption and the cal spectrum was Vince Cable, who immediately following the end of Full harm that can result.” was president-elect of the Cam- Term, when a large number of drink- Student reactions to the new licens- bridge University Liberal Club. ing events are planned. ing rules were mixed. According to Cable, the Business Secretary, read The warning also comes amidst one member of the Cheerleaders’ Natural Sciences and Economics at increasing alarm over post-exam stu- Drinking Society, “I can understand Fitzwilliam. dent behaviour. that it’s really irritating for the local Other Cambridge alumni on the At the 2008 Wyverns Garden people, but at the same time we cabinet include David Laws, Chief Party, an event run by Magdalene’s behave really well all year, and Sui- Secretary to the Treasury, who drinking society the Wyverns, a stu- cide Sunday is the one day of the year read Economics at King’s, Andrew dent was cautioned for assault after when we drink as much as they do at Mitchell, Secretary of International allegedly punching a fellow student other universities.” Development, who read History on the nose. A Queens’ second-year felt that at Jesus, and Francis Maude, the This year, police and local busi- students were being targeted Cabinet Offi ce Minister, who was at nesses are working together to deal unfairly. “It just seems like students Corpus Christi. proactively with binge drinking and are always being blamed,” she said. In contrast, ten cabinet members anti-social behaviour. A Trinity student was more sym- Huppert elected as Cambrdge MP attended Oxford. New licensing rules have been in pathetic to the new restrictions: aroness Shirley Williams, a founder of the Social Democratic Party effect since April 6th, restricting “Students have a bizarre attitude to Band leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords from 2001 > certain drinking games and “irre- alcohol. I would drink a whole bottle to 2004, joined Julian Huppert for a visit to the Cambridge Humanitar- Commentp6 9 sponsible” drink promotions. of wine at formal, but I realise that ian Centre on April 29th. Baroness Williams and Huppert are pictured 1 In particular, the police are aiming that’s excessive drinking, which is Underrated above with Ian Steed (right), manager of the centre. A week later, Hup- 2 0 to target offers which, in their words, essentially a socially acceptable form Gordon 0 pert was elected MP for Cambridge, retaining the seat for the Lib Dems 4 promise “all you can drink for so of self-harm. 4 with 39.1 per cent of the vote. Conservative candidate Nick Hillman Brown 4 many pounds, discounted student “What we drink and what the gov- came in second with 25.6 per cent, pushing Labour’s Daniel Zeichner into 8 5 nights, drink four pints and get a fi fth ernment recommends is so far apart, 7 a close third place with a 24.3 per cent of the vote. Huppert greeted his 1 pint free, and so on.” and the police and the NHS have to 7 victory by saying, “It’s a very great honour to be given the chance to rep- 7 The new restrictions also pro- deal with the consequences of alco- 9 resent Cambridge at Westminster.” OSCAR WILLIAMSGRUT hibit pouring alcohol directly into hol, which isn’t fair on them.” 2 Friday May 14th 2010 News Editors: Charlotte Runcie & Osama Siddiqui NEwS www.varsity.co.uk [email protected] Breast cancer could be Murray Edwards is Corpus manuscript Sainsbury’s set to most hygienic College library goes digital close tomorrow until genetic, say Cam scientists Thursday Murray Edwards College has been The entirety of Corpus Christi’s are associated with risk. It is not the awarded the Five Star rating for Parker Library of Anglo-Saxon Regular patrons of Sainsbury’s CAthy bueker whole picture but it will contribute Food Hygeine in Cambridge City manuscripts has been digitised and might find themselves at a loss for ultimately to genetic profiling of risk. Council’s annual Scores on the Door made available to the public online food options when the store closes A team of University of Cambridge It also contributes to our understand- campaign. The College also received for the first time. The collection, tomorrow for a five-day renovation. scientists, led by Dr Douglas Easton, ing of why the disease develops and a Five Star ranking last year. which dates from the sixth century The Sidney Street location, which is has discovered five new genetic will lead to a better understanding of The Five Star rating is the to the sixteenth, was compiled a regular haunt for hungry students factors associated with one’s risk of the biology of the disease.” highest possible, and is by Matthew Parker, the all over Cambridge, has been under- developing breast cancer. Women with a distinct family awarded on the basis Archbishop of Canterbury going renovation for the last several The study, which was published in history of this cancer already undergo of three critera: between 1559 and 1575, weeks. The process now seems to the journal Nature Genetics, is the early screening for tumours, and are hygeine, structure, an alumnus and Fellow have entered its final stretch, with largest of its kind to date and was also currently eligible for genetic tests and confidence of the College. a planned closing on Saturday May funded by Cancer Research UK. if one of their close family members in management. The website, which 15th. The store’s new look will be By scanning the entire genetic has or has had breast cancer. Murray Edwards was built by the College unveiled on Thursday May 20th. makeup of approximately 4,000 However, the eighteen genetic attained the highest in conjunction with the Several students expressed alarm British patients with a family history variations, including the newly identi- level in all three University Library and at the closing. One first-year of breast cancer, then studying the fied five, are not currently screened categories. Stanford University, hosts lamented, “I don’t know what I’m DNA of a further 24,000 thousand for, and are considered accountable The rating comes at 200,000 individual pages from going to do for five days! I practi- women with and without the disease, for roughly eight percent of all breast a time when Colleges are the manuscripts and books. cally live on Sainsbury’s.” the researchers were able to identify cancer cases. about to enter conference season. The collection of some 550 five locations associated with a Members of the breast cancer With no shortage of venues in manuscripts represents some of the greater likelihood of breast cancer research community hailed the Cambridge catering to weddings most important Anglo-Saxon texts history in close relatives and within discovery as an important break- and conferences, ratings such as this in the world, and includes the St a family. through. “This research takes us a can provide a welcome boost. The Augustine Gospels from the sixth This brings to eighteen the number step closer to developing a powerful College website had already adver- century, the Anglo-Saxon Chroni- of identified ‘spots’ of common genetic test for the disease,” said Dr tised the rating on its website. cles, and writings by the Venerable genome variations linked to a higher Helen George, head of science infor- According to one Murray Edwards Bede. breast cancer risk. mation at Cancer Research UK. student, “This is great news. I’m so Parker Library on the Web was According to Dr Easton, “We know 45,500 new cases of breast cancer proud of my College, and it makes launched on April 27th at http:// for sure that these gene variations are diagnosed every year.