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• 3 Complaints a Day About Rentme • Housemates Suffer Life in Filth Fashion extra: round-up of London Fashion Week LS2 16&17 GLC rapper Maggot hangs out with LS2 9 That Friday free !fling Leeds St de i,t Octobers. 2006 vriumssur Landlord etdown • 3 complaints a day about RentMe • Housemates suffer life in filth By Paul Tait & Ben Schofield RentMe letting agents are the subject at least 13 separate investigations after a torrent of students reported substan- dard living conditions to Leeds University Union's Student Advice Centre. The company's record on repairs was so had that earlier this year. Leeds City Council threw out therr applieanon to join its landlord accreditation scheme. Leed8 S►tuient has learnt. Linda Sherwood, Environmental Health Project Manager, said: "Rent Me applied to join the Leeds City Council Landlord Accreditation at the start of 20th. However. following the applica- tion vetting process, which looks at the applicant's record of providing healthy and safe accommodation. their applica- tion was not approved:' "The company were however offered support in a letter dated March 2 2006 to improve their performance by working with a named Senior Environmental Health Office' & Principal Tenancy Relations Officer. No response was received to that letter. The Department is currently investigat- ing a number of complaints about this cotupany." Angry tenants, frustrated by RentMe's lack of co-operation in deal- ing with their complaints. /line told of the filthy conditions in which they found themselves. One student. oho wished to remain anonymous. said.: "One of my flatmates was so worried by the conditions that DISGUSTING: Our montage shows the extent of the problems with repairs and waste experienced by RentMe customers she spent the first night in a hotel." Norm: Rachel Price • More on pages 4&5 • " VM 117.r.-77"M"1"7 1 2 Leeds Student www.leedsstudentorg.uk Friday, October 6, 2006 hat if someone's an epileptic? as TV dinners to waiting councilors. One management. If you have a problem - if With the lights now to their hill quipped the Chair, at Union review was to save the Union from the no one else ran help - and if they're not brightness, the room's glow could have WCouncil's iirst meeting of the evils of the Charities Act by installing a having a free lunch somewhere - maybe come straight out of the Ok Coral. High year. Another room hooking bungle by Trustee Board above, well, all of us. But you can rail: The Officer Team. noon. The scene was set, let battle com- yet another new member of staff had first up was the Exec Review. To chuck Hiccup, LUU's hip clothing retailer. mence. ld relocated the 'important' meeting to the nut two officers, rename the hunch and could stock figurines with arms that wave But nothing. Barely a whimper of din• fie flash pink bowels of Pulse. still glowing call them the Officer Mara. up and down. Like Action Man, but not content. There was even some applause ho under the glare of rotating disco lights Scribbled notes passed round the cir- fighting. Laying dawn the law perhaps. on a job. well dune. Disappointed. The Sc Which had been left whirring through the cle hypothesized what prospective stu- Officer Team - all six of them - Exec had rolled out their bigguns - 0) day. Rumours this was a crude hem of dents may be told on Open Days:. would sit on the Union's spanking new Councillors had been treated to an ECG- hypnosis may be apocryphal. Maybe it In 2006. a crackpot team of graduate Trustee Board, which would be legally General Manager double act through the Ben was just an oversight of the new energy politicians were tuned Una office fin- poli- and financially responsible for this cud- presentation. But UC didn't turn up. The By saving regime. Call up the environment. cies they na longer held. They promptly dly entity known as LUU. Union few councillors there cocked their heads U) we might have to cancel Christmas. moved to reduce trpresematinn in the Council, the artists formerly known as the to one side, and raised their paws in the On tonight's menu: reviews, mote of Union and to pmniare rheinselves above highest decision-making body in this air and nodded it obediently through. them, tike last night's leftovers they were Union eauncif. Thday, still runnitg the place would only be able to boast second Maybe they want figurines in Hiccup too. mierowaved to perfection and served up Union. they Anrrive as puppets of the fiddle. Gasp. Vote to change running of Union GLOBAI would sit on the Board. They would be role and making it easier for them to rep. with the Governance proposal. By Alex Doorey By Rachel Hunter joined by six others, including two stu- resent all of the Union in their decision. The only dissenting member was the dent members appointed by the Officer mak ing." he sand. one representing Leeds Student newspa- -ream. Co-opted members, possibly Because of the fundamental nature of per. Steven Smith. wo hooks involved in the Sweeping changes to how Leeds Leeds University alumni, would make up theses changes. the proposals would need He said: "Monday marked the day teaching of a course lead University Union is run are one step clos- the final four, of which the General to be ratified m referenda_ The vote on the when the purpose of this organisation no by a previous Leeds er after two reviews were nodded through Manager may be one. Exec restructure is provisionally tabled longer focuses on students, instead it T University student have been at Union cowed tin Monday, Finance Officer Chris Johnetint was for November. But due to the lengthy shifted to commercial greed." banned from the Library of the Two motions were un the agenda. The happy with the role changes. process of rewriting the constitution and Smith had taken issue during the University of Melbourne by the first of which would see Exec numbers "As trustees, the Exec are long-term bye-laws by solicitors, the Governance meeting with the General Manager's Australian Claesification Review cut and to have the group renamed legal guardians of the Union, acting for Review will be voted on in Witch.. assertion that the Trustee Board would Board. Defence of the Muslim "Officer Team" The second was to the benefit of all its members. We have Union conneillors were asked to vote overturn a Union Council decision which Lands and Jain the Caravan, change the governance structures of the realinged the roles so that the members on whether to send the proposals on for may have adverse commercial implica- both by Palestinian Islamist, the Union. are no longer representing one group of consultation with the members. They tions. such as banning Coca-Cola, late Abdallah Azzam, wet,• plans pass referendum. the Exec people, as they are at the moment. reduc- voted unanimously to pass the Exec Discussion in the meeting also bought by the Library for ., will he cut from eight members to six, ing possible conflict of interest in their review and all but one member concurred focused not on whether the proposals course on jihad. including the disposal of the Bretton cam- should or should not be put to referen- Professor Richard Pennell, .1 pus officer. The Exec will also undergo a dum, but rather on their detail. lecturer in Middle Eastern role reshuffle, which includes dropping Councillors seemed agreed that it would History, who did his PhD in the position o ' Womens' officer. in favour be necessary to raise a 1,500-name peti- Islamic History at the University of more general roles. tion to call a referendum to remove a of Leeds, teaches the course. The so-called governance review trustee_ In the proposals. this vote would Pennell said that the banning seeks tr I clear up who is legally and finan- have to attract 4,500 votes to be legiti- of the hooks is wrong and that: cially responsible for LUU and to address mate. Com:Mors said during the meeting "It will not stop jihadist terrorism bureaucrats' concerns resulting fmm the that these figures were tots high. but it will prevent outsiders from Charities Act's progress through Johnston continued to say that he was trying to understand it." Perhement. pleased with the outcome of the meeting. According to the Deputy Vice- The proposals, presented by Financial even though eight councillors were Chancellor. Professor Peter and Commercial Services Officer Chris absent. —Ile Union council were happy. McPhee, the fact that the hooks Johnston and the Union's Genentl With the decisions made and we got some have been refused classification Manager would urn Jill-powerful fantastic governance feedback." he said. means that the University has "no Trustee Board established. which would -There's always room (sir improve- choice but to withdraw them take overarching responsibility fur the ment in any meeting, but councillor;. felt from access because that is the Union ON THE PULSE: Union councillors met in Pulse on Monday. secure enough to speak out, I just wish I aw." The six ;timbers of the Officer Team 1 .-ir.ro Emma Dalzell more of them had turned up." However. the Vice-Chancellor has argued that removing these resources from the Universities will hinder further resarele He said: "the removal of these hooks will limit the on-going Mental arithmetic legitimate research and educa- resource covering 84 different maths tern in 2006 affects universities been running surgeries tor the past tional experience of staff and stu- By Emma Grundy topics. throughout the sector and students year that have proved popular with dents at the University of The resource includes video mire who lack not only pure maths skills students struggling with maths from Melbourne.- rials ‘.1 I; lc It help to clarify certain but also problem-solving skills.
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