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Chick flicks WOMEN'S UN CM A LOAD OF IALIS? JUKE PAGE 7 Incorporating jlei Ce magazine Britain's biggest weekly student newspaper June 14, 19% Vol 26: Issue 25 Win a Sony CHEMICALLY INJUICED playstation The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Stone Roses - A brief history of computer games: the hits of '96 reviewed in the magazine section competition on the centre pages ON THE AGENDA: Down to earth with a bang, have work will travel, the tourist hotspots of Leeds DOCTORS SNUB Summer time and the livin' Vic S PLEAS is easier SUMMER'S finally was close to here and winter blues can he banished. Some students will be beading home to pin their feel up in from 01 being killed by a bumper summer of televised sport. Hu! others wilt be staying behind to pay - off those overdrans with meningitis bug' the usual low-paid bar and tempmg jobs However, graduates BY CATR1ONA DAVIES may not have to fall into the latter category - A VICTIM of the killer disease employment prospects are actually getting bacterial meningitis was just hours better according to new from death - but doctors were too figures ',CV pages four and rivet busy to see her. Those slaying in Daisy Travis, a second year at Leeds Leeds over the summer University, was refused the urgent medical can look forward- to a full schedule of music attention she needed when she appealed to events including Opera the Student Medical Practice for help. The and Ballet in the Park. doctor on call said her symptoms sounded Jai/ on the Waterfront and big names like like meningitis. but he was too busy to visit Everything But The Girl her for several hours. appeanng next week. Instead Daisy's friend drove her to casualty where Leeds' residents she still had to wait an hour and a half before heing could he in luck on the seen. thirst front too. a pub war is brewing between When doctors finally examined her, it turned out Daisy Tetley and Bass - and was in a life-threatening condition. She spent two nights in price cuts could he on intensive care and a further week in hospital critically ill the was see page Mot. from the disease. Daisy, a Geography and Management student, is now writing to the Student Medical Practice to complain about her treatment. She claims if the doctor had visited her, he (How far abroad ore...) could have administered antibiotics immediately, and Have-a-go hero WHEELY BRAVE: Plucky student Simon Parsons, you willing to go for a prevented the disease front developing any further. Experts a Maths and Management fresher, scared off two job this summer? Turn say an extra hour at the developing stage of the disease can make all the difference between life and death. thwarts thieves' masked thugs attempting to break into cars at to pages 14 & 15 for "1 think the Student Medical Practice doctor was totally Montague Burton flats last week. The modest the Ode 10 careers OA irresponsible, because he kit it up to me to decide whether motor menace hero claimed: "I hardly did anything." the continent CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO INSIDE: News 1-9, Comment 6-7, Feature 10-11, Travel 13, Careers 14, Sport 16-20. Plus 16 page juice pullout magazine UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS 'ill 1)1 NI News STUDENT Boozing battle breaks new ground C)FF DRINKING habits tar Leeds dominated. dui I circuit' ot I cad• ft'Llhaled b ~4I.11111111 '1 111 students may soon he iransfarmed pule and bats. are not worried about (lie ce,t. by a multi-million pound 'battle Bass plans to open at least competition! "We are very pi-mid oi1i`diP(.1t; sii.i.,p, lllml nil ri dr!, .11'..1•11v, Llt the breweries. _ write.% temilso seven new venues in the near of the fact that we dominate Leeds :o11,4y, III and 1.eTt.1,, 511 TAKE FAT Itwornain.t. ,ifildr h Geer; future. and Nay they are and long may that continue. We .,,a0.11n. 1. hal if !ion IWO,c dtP• Brewery giants Bass and committed to c lawn nu the top believe we have a :mod mix on EX Take that band member rtotIlain. rfr:src 01.allbc hilt! or locally based Tetley ate position from Tetley_ pubs from continental style cafes Robbie Williams has gone to traditional pubs which w made *hiding ay....Toper competing with each other in an A Spokesperson for Bass said: to America to lose weight. I xrik t'aisersity 1. noun aggressive campaign toopen new "We feel comps-tition in Leeds is believe will never go Ind of style" Before signing a £2 million 141 Itnia 157 venues and win over customers. healthy and think we have opened A Leeds City Council spokesto•i record deal with Chrysalis fl.tiA Bass have opened hostilities some really good pubs which claimed it all helped the Records he will he working Bass's new bar in after announcing a challenge to have won national awards " image of the city to remain a Edina ALL BAR ONE: out with Trainer in Deco the city centre. w hat they claim is the "Tetley TL-ilor s spokesperson healthy Drive, Florida COACHING IN CRISIS AS CLUBS ARE STARVED OF FUNDS A HEARTY DRINK? Beer drinkers FM: longer and are less likely to suffer heart problems according to a recent Australian study. I etilw, Researchers found that Men who drank more than three pints a this had a 60% lower risk of death than teen thillers Sports clubs PLAYING THE ORGAN 1111 C111111 1•.!felk: Kovacs has designed ii condom that plays music. When the condom is unrolled it plays two popular tunes from his lTiii i.1 da. or• Hungarian homeland %hr•, I-dill•, short of cash BITTER BANKERS? Two hank robbers in SPORTS clubs are being forced to fold because Washington IX.' rubbed title( • their funds have been repeatedly slashed by Lemon juice into their faces .. in a bid to blur security /manumit sty.. 1.n,,„• university officials. STAND AGAINST SHELL camera pictures of them, A•btr Jon had) Nei' Budget cuts at LMU The plan failed to help them Shim 111 Annul Ropmerr have meant that some clubs get away with their loot At-11.44 have no instructors, having fund for what are Student however and the pair were I'kturr Edam+ jaded for 24 yews. N1i diva litipc-7 to borrow coaches from Union clubs. It is not our Sat 1..ft responsibility to pay fur Phromtroppiws other groups cur rely on Compiled by Per Gibe, equipment and SO on but we unpaid and undetquali tied Gareth Sykes do give free access to students Prom and IwiBrur members. and fewer linvirc Ballo to sports facilities." t rodecnanI tailtart training sessions. LMUSU Exec deny that Most also cannot afford ni Jinn 11... funding is adequate however play on a national level or and are also accusing spurt ticinter tabor enter competitions because Doctors ()Arid Ad... officials of reducing the times their limited finances do not Sport Ulna% ordinary students can play rater stretch to paying for travel to 15144.4, sport so they can hire out fixtures, overnight facilities to the public and snub plea accommodation and local businesses and let staff equipment. Trod Mat play They are now fighting CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE hum Money for the university sports Aaflu,th budget to come directly under to go to hospital, even Annitaad Gillian Green. LMU's Tae. their control. though he knew I could :in 1 Danroado Kwon Do Club Captain, "We are allocated funds by have died. What if I'd just confilmed the situation:"We the university which are partl\ decided to wait for him Heard a good not been able to supposed to pay for the do instead of going to subsidise any martial arts to-day running of student hospital?" 5tory? Call the events or competitions this clubs." explained LMUSU Daisy is now at home year because we just don't President. Simon Cafftey. "hut recovering from her ordeal. have the money, Because of this money hardly even covers but feels lucky to be alive. Newsdesk this we have to charge L I -50 a people's wages, let alone "When I first felt ill, I session when other clubs are sponmg costs• thought it was just a free to :mend. so have lost "The university is hangover, but within 12 0113 inembets." obligated. to provide priority, hours I was in intensive Sports managers at LMU access to facilities for students care. They didn't think I 2434727 are claiming that the money but this is not happening and was going to survive the they give the Students Union over the past few years it has first night in hospital." has not declined and that it is cut the coaching budget by Fist. of Daisy's friends Want to the duty of LMUSU Ewe percent and coaching. hours have 111111$ been given advertise? member, In make up any from 70 to 46 a week. It 's antibiotics. because close Merit. ludicrous that we're in a contact could have made Contact Ross Anderson. the situation whereby we want to PRESSURE GROUP PROTEST: Students gathered outside the LUU them susceptible to the university's Sports Manager, he pm-active and encourage building this week to demonstrate against Shell Oil. They claim disease. satd:"On the whole we student sport. but we have no Neither the Student Advertising theCorporatlon finances dictatorial Nigerian rule and has caused provide eoaching support to control over the main aspect - Medical Practice nor the numerous natural disasters Pic: Pete Cotton croups and we are one of the coaching." ICI were able to comment, 0113 few universities whom:malty 2314251 Or send a fax on ** Weather News ** Weather News ** Weather News ** Weather News** Fax Saturday: Dry and sunny.