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ED971024Issue 917.qxd 04/11/98 21:47 Page 1 (1,1) Issue 917 - Weekly Friday 24th October 1997 Student lobby groups clash over fees he split between student lobby of the anti-fees campaign as a whole. groups opposing the govern- Matt Pannell According to NUS President Douglas Tment’s proposed tuition fees Editor Trainer, “The NUS stance on fees has grew last week, as the ‘Campaign for not and will not change. We are utter- Free Education’ criticised the National Union of ly opposed to the levying of fees for any student and Students for ‘doing its best not to lead a real campaign’. will continue to oppose the Government’s latest plans.” The Conservative MP for Guildford, Nick St Aubyn, The splinter group, made up of hardline activists and last week entered the fray, attacking the plans in an open disgruntled NUS rebels, is being backed, according to letter to Surrey University students. “Higher student its own press release, by a number of public figures debt coupled with higher drop-out rates is a recepie for opposing the fees. MP’s Dennis Skinner and Jeremy failure,” he said. He went on to highlight several prob- Corbyn, Socialist European MEP Ken Coates, and lems with the plans, which had been “hoisted on the Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell, are all lending their back of the Dearing Report, without thinking support. Even the Liverpool Dockers are claimed to be through...key problems.” He was backed by fellow backing the campaign. The group claims to have organ- Tory Virginia Bottomley, who, in a seperate letter, ised ‘the only democratic campaign in the student added that “it is all the more deplorable in that the movement’, and claims that the NUS is ‘still refusing to An extract from the document sent out by the Campaign for Free Education last week to put up a real fight’ against fees. NUS staff have Labour Party gave no previous warning that they were Student Union Presidents nationwide. The paper fiercely criticised the National Union of expressed concern over the latest developments, claim- preparing such steps.” Students for its ‘lack of performance’ in fighting current government proposals to introduce tuition fees. ing that the CFE’sR activitiesag are jeapordisingtea them success pleased with week of chaos fter a week of mayhem in the Students’ Union and around ACampus, the Rag team were yesterday ‘pleased’ with the results of their activities. Although not all the money collected has been counted, the week has been described as successful for the chari- ties to benefit from the proceeds. Events included a traffic light disco, a beer-drinking competition, a ‘raid’ on Guildford town, a blind date, a slave auction, and the infamous ‘Hari-Hits’ John Dear watched some of the antics..... he fun started at approximately 8.30pm in the bizarre dungeon Tpopularly known as the Helyn Rose bar, as the lights came up to reveal a mock “Blind Date” set and the teletubby called Po. The audience were goaded into singing Blind Date style music and the first contestant was wheeled on. This contestant’s name was Duncan, I think, and he was studying for a degree in something highly technical. He now had the task of asking three girls (hid- Poetic Justice: After a week of Rag terror, including kidnappings, slave auctions and indiscriminate ‘Hari-Hits’, Rag Chairperson Wendy den behind a dangling Bowater suffers an appropriate fate at the end of last week’s Rag beer-drinking competition -Photos Courtesy of Stage Crew (Turn to Page 2, col 3) News 1 n Features 3 n Letters 4 n Music 6 n Entertainments Guide 7 . Cinema and Arts 8 n Union News 9 n Notices & Personals 9 n Sports 11 . ED971024Issue 917.qxd 04/11/98 21:47 Page 2 (1,1) 2 News Friday 24th October 1997 n STUDENT LOANS: APPLICATION Rag Blind Date: ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1997/98 First Time borrowers who need to obtain eligibility certifi- an eyewitness account cates to apply for a Student loan, and repeat borrowers wish- ing to have their renewal eligibility certificates signed on (Continued from page 1) as the teletubbies taunted the con- curtain) three obscene questions. John Dear testants with beakers of booze, say- behalf of the University should go to the Registry, as follows: On being asked what sort of car she ing perverts), but the third young ing things like, “Mmmmmm.. this is would be, girl number one said man was.......Superman?! Actually nice and wet”. It must have been WHEN: From now until 29th May, 1998. she’d be a Rover, “Because you can no, it was editor Matt dressed up. hell for the cracker scoffers. Soon it Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons, 2:30 - 4:30pm relax in me!”. This was quite sexy. You’ve never seen such a thin pair was finished. A boy with a huge Given the chance, I might have cho- mouth won. Congrats! of legs in all your life. The cozzie There then followed an erotic sen her. I’ve always liked Rovers looked nice though. WHERE: Room 1, Registry, 6th Floor, Senate House (First and relaxation. As the evening banana eating contest, and it was door on left inside Registry) Sarah’s trio of questions were as really, really erotic. I mean it. Very. lurched ever forward, it transpired dark and foul as can be expected, that girl number two’s most embar- Erotic. The first girl on stage to take covering such subjects as bondage part was a bit shy, and munched WHO SHOULD ATTEND: rassing moment was when she had and varieties of sexual violence. to walk about with a teletubby and a timidly on the ‘nana. Had she never Mondays - Students with surnames A-G Matt responded to the questions done this sort of thing before? I red ball. This came as no surprise. brilliantly in a deep (possibly Wednesdays - Students with surnames H-O Personally, I’d be ashamed of walk- shudder to think. Things got a bit Fridays - Students with surnames P-Z forced) voice. He stated that he more exotic and erotic as the second ing around with red balls. The enjoyed being whipped in a small answer may have been a good one, girl delicately bit off her banana’s cupboard by a dominatrix or some- skin with her teeth, and proceeded Students unable to attend the session appropriate to their sur- but girl number three gave a more thing. But this wasn’t enough for outrageous answer to the last ques- to suck tenderly....fantastic stuff, name may attend any of the others; the above timetable is Sarah. After Laa-Laa’s little round- this.....at the banana. The last pair tion, claiming that during a fire drill ing-up piece, she didn’t ask for our simply an attempt to regulate the numbers at each session. she calmly slipped out wearing only were the best performers. One girl First time borrowers who are not sure what documentation debonair and kinky Superman, opt- and one boy (it might have been a bra and French knickers. After a ing instead for man number one. they need to produce in order to obtain an eligibility certifi- short break to buy more beer, the good ol’ Duncan) joined each other This concluded the Blind Date, but on stage. The bloke only took his cate, should read the University’s leaflet ‘The Government’s second round of Blind Date began. the evening’s madness was far from The question asker for this part of trousers off to add to the eroticism! Student Loans Scheme: notes on the Application Procedure’. over as members of the audience It was disgusting really. In the end, the contest was Barefact’s very own were invited to a cracker eating This is obtainable from the information rack outside the Sarah, who has the good fortune to they chomped and slurped on each Welfare Office in the Students’ Union, or the information competition. To win the competitors other’s bananas, much to my satis- study dietetics. had to eat five dry Jacob’s crackers rack in the Registry. The lads she had to choose from faction. So, I can happily say that it as quickly as possible. As they bit was a night of classic entertainment. were a motley crew. Two of them into the nasty dry crackers, mem- were standard male students (drool- Oh, I forget who won the ‘nana Would you like to bers of the Rag committee dressed thing. Sorry. Halloween Cocktails stop smoking? Brought to you by the Charity Dinner Dance Committee... sing a new nicotine replacement therapy (nicotine inhaler). The Date: Thursday 30th October treatment involves nicotine replacement therapy. If you are inter- Uested in participating in a pilot trial of this treatment, contact Dr Tickets: on sale from Friday 24th October, 12-2pm in the Union Foyer Jonothan Fouldson, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology (ext 2605) or come to the first group meeting at 12:30pm on Thursday 6th November, in Venue: Helyn Rose Bar 19AD30. Dress: Fancy dress / smart ED971024Issue 917.qxd 04/11/98 21:47 Page 3 (1,1) n Friday 24th October 1997 Features 3 ANIME ou’d have seen the title Anime is Japanese animation , a Japan but that’s another story) and some anime have strong, inde- heading by now and are very distinct style used by the producers target anime at all kinds pendent female characters, Yprobably wondering what Japanese and immediately recogniz- of age groups from children up to equipped with state-of-the-art kind of ‘creature’ is anime.