A Real Love Story Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder of Kids Company, Talks About Neuroplasticity

MUSE.09/10/12 A Real Love Story Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of Kids Company, talks about neuroplasticity The Pride of the North How Gay Pride in York is changing perceptions Freshers’ Week 1964 What the crazy kids of York were up to in the Sixties M2 www.ey.com/uk/careers 09/10/12 Muse. M10 M12 M22 Features. Arts. Film. M4. Flamboyant psychotherapist Camila Bat- M18. Mary O’Connor speaks to poet and rap- M22. James Tyas interviews Sally El Hosaini, manghelidjh speaks to Sophie Rose Walker per Kate Tempest about love and we look back Director of My Brother the Devil, premiering at about the work of her charity Kids Company. at the legacy of Gustav Klimt. the BFI’s London Film Festival this October. M6. What is the frankly rather cool history of Freshers at York? Bella Foxwell investigates Fashion. Food & Drink. what’s changed and what hasn’t. M16. Ben Burns interviews fashion illustra- M23. Ward off Freshers Flu with Hana Teraie- M8. Gay Pride is out and thriving in York. tor Richard Kilroy, Miranda Larbi goes crazy for Wood’s delicous Ratatouille and Irish Coffee. Stefan Roberts and Tom Witherow looks at jacquard, and the ‘Whip-ma-Whop-ma’ shoot on Plus our review of Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant. the Northern scene’s dynamic. M12. M10. Young girls in Sri Lanka are prime Music. Image Credits. targets for terrorism training. Laura Hughes investigates why. M20. Death-blues duo Wet Nuns talk to Ally Cover: Kate Treadwell, Kids Company Swadling about facial hair, and there are stories Photoshoot: All photos credit to the marvellous from Pale Seas. Agatha Torrance Do you want to reinvent yourself? Sophie Rose Walker ew starts don’t come gift- ways have been, a wizard. the sneaky exception. It’s the new drinking third year, I have come to ing, not because she’s changed her wrapped. I wish they did, Don’t get me wrong, I’m all start that gets delivered in a seven- realise that the task was never go- name, but because her first book Nas it would make it a hell for trying new things. But just not ing to be completed anyway. to be published post-Potter is rub- of a lot easier both to spot and as a means to escaping acceptance “You should whole- If there’s something you don’t bish, apparently. A Casual Vacancy, seize them by the balls. The lack of of who you really are. If there’s one like about yourself, like having a which has been slated for it’s lack packaging begs the question, what thing that grates my nerves, it’s that heartedly avoid monobrow, then use a new start to of sympathy to her already devoted is a new start anyway? I recently personal reinvention is all around change, to pluck it right out of your fanbase, has been both a challenge bought a knife specially designed us. “Buy this Herbal Essence sham- identity overhaul life. But becoming someone entire- and a let down to them. Why do for cutting ridged vegetables, poo and you will become an un- ly new is a totally unfeasible propo- it JK? Why go and reinvent your and it’s changed my Ratatouille recognizable, sensual goddess im- during Freshers. A sition, because it just won’t work. writing career in the vain hope of incontrovertibly. But that’s not mediately on stepping out of the Maybe it’s true what they people instantly thinking you’ve be- what I’m talking about. I’m talk- shower. Eat exactly seven and a half ‘new you’ will never say: things don’t change. People come an entirely different writer? ing about full-blown, cataclysmic Goji berries, and you will have the like consistency. I remember one If the new goods aren’t even better identity overhaul. Exactly the sort energy of Michael Phelps.” work.” girl in my flat dying her hair dark than the old, it’s a new start wasted, you might consider during Fresh- I can sadly tell you that Chanel brown for her new start at York, and a dignity damaged. ers Week. And exactly the sort you no. 5 does not turn you into Keira day-sized box, with a wristband even though all the pictures on I have always stood by the fact should wholeheartedly avoid. Knightly on the back of a motor- and a bar crawl t-shirt. But that’s it. her bedroom wall were of her with that the greatest wisdom in life If I’ve learnt anything from a bike in Paris, no matter how much The rest is up to you. platinum blonde hair. Surely she can only be offered by cab drivers, menagerie of painful, awkwardly you try. New starts - new ‘you’s - Not even the most unrelenting realised we could see Old and New, because there’s no fuss involved. British experiences it is, ‘don’t be don’t come gift-wrapped. We’re so fresher should have to handle that and that that was somewhat unset- A wise cabby once said to me dur- fooled’. Taking up larping because used to things being delivered in kind of pressure: to have made, at tling? It’s only bloody hair colour I ing a lift at an ungodly hour of the you quite like men with beards, or boxes, we don’t know how to look the end of seven days, new friends, hear you cry. Well, at least it’s not morning that, “One of the greatest joining Muggle Soc because you are for things anymore, because we a new hobby, and a new you. I cer- changing your name, which is sur- lessons you can learn, is that most convinced that the reason you’ve don’t need to; things are looking tainly failed miserably fulfilling that prisingly common, at least on Face- people, most of the time, genuinely never really fitted into the Muggle for us. brief, but what’s just so fine, is that book anyway. like you for who you are.” So who world is because you are, and al- But Freshers’ Week seems to be now as a sagging, middle-aged, gin- I feel for the likes of JK Rowl- needs gift wrap? 09/10/12 www.ey.com/uk/careers M3 Great Student Pranks The Lonely Smoker Think your Freshers Week is pretty wild? These students knew how to make an impression. Nouse runs down our favourite student pranks from over the decades. Rose Troup Buchanan Cambridge had to pay thousands in 2009 to he flooding of York was techniques and exposure. Then, remove four Santa hats a sign. It was a sign from when you’ve finally exceeded students had placed at TGod. It was His attempt your cameras memory, you the top of King’s College to wash away the great filthy walk home with your friendly c h a p e l mass of humanity, commonly teletubbie (currently masquer- referred to as ‘freshers’. How- ading as something called a ever, as with so much of God’s ‘STYC’) and proceed to upload initially fantastic ideas (Adam everything, complete with in- and Eve, Jacob and Isaac, that jokes, and copious references to whole business with a tower) all your new best friends. the execution was less than per- Of course it can be enjoy- fect. able. I know a number of my I’ve spent the last two years friends have spent the last two of my time huddled miserably weeks gearing themselves up in under an eave attempting to preparation for one final fling suck nicotine into my decaying at the grubby allure of youth. lungs, whilst sheltering from And I mean that literally, not In July 2008 MIT students hacked into a road the uniquely Yorkshire combi- figuratively. One friend (male) sign supposed to be warning motorists about nation of wind and icicle-like responded to my inquiry about a closed road, which started to show a variety rain. Frankly, the latest biblical whether he was looking for- of non-traffic related content piss-down was less than wel- ward to freshers’ week with: comed. “Freshers mayhem … yeeeeehh- Thanks to God deciding hhhhhh!!!!! Sick!” Bearing in not to check the University of mind he’s a third year, and his York’s e:vision schedule (omni- next statement was, “you know present my arse), he was una- what’s a huge tune? Jamelia Su- ware the extravangza known perstar” I think you get an idea colloquially as “Freshers’ Fort- of the average mental age of night” starts a good two -three those who enjoy the week. weeks after every other univer- It’s obvious I’m pretty sity in Britain. jealous. Despite preferring to So whilst he was bang on gouge out my own eyes with a target for the rest of the coun- spoon than endure Freshers’ M I T s t u d e n t s s t r u c k try, our University’s Oxbridge Week again, I’d give almost again on the tenth anni- ambitions, and the fact they anything to have my first year versary of 9/11 when they like to extract as much money again. Once you get over the installed red, white, and as possible from you whilst si- pure hideousness that is Fresh- blue lights on a nearby multaneously teaching you for ers’ Week, and start meeting the landmark building. the shortest possible amount people who you actually have of time, meant that God missed something in common with the bowl by two weeks.

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