BAR ivv^ I ^ University Of nts' Newspaper Whats In Your Vice Chancellor Returns Comic Relief To Avoid The Questions Special This Again!!!! Week! After the initial dìsniption, at the answerìng directiy most of the HappyiKasier ^^GM, of deciding whether the questions posed to them! He order would or wouid not be congratulated the team who put Goodbye! altered to aliow a vote for the together the Referendum leaflet, Anti- Nazi League Rally motion, as it portrayed an acurate picture the meeting fìnally moved on to of the options open to the students. the main part of the agenda, which was the long awaitred return from I hope ali the questions/querìes the ve (Prof A. Kelly) and Pro you had, were clarìfìed by their ve (Prof P Butterworth), to talk visit The Students' Union would about Modularisation and like to thank the pair for their Semesterìsation time. The ve proved to us once again IF YOU HAVEN'T VOTED, that he is unable to gi ve a straight THEN VOTE FRIDAY IN THE answer to a single question asked. UNION 10AM-2PM. Peter Butterworth, on the other hand, proved himself by ITS YOUR FUTURE! PT Bare Facts Tel: (0483) 509275 Nightline Tel: (0483) 32710 or Internai 4949 UNION MATTERS UNIVERSITY INTRODUCES Wanna Go To See A VICE PRESroENT TOP UP FEES BY BACK DOOR Do you like children? Do you need a A few years ago, there was a lot of talk Guildford Flames, summer job? Will you have some free about lop up fees", whereby students Ice Hockey Match time nextterm? If any of these apply to had to contribute to the cost of their you, then you may be interested in courses themselves. Thankfully this for £2? helping withthe Summer Playscheme. kiea seems to have been dropped. This will be run jointly by the Students' However, although publicly this is the Union and Student Enterprise and will case, there are worrying signs that the take place throughout the month of University is insidiously beginning to Here's How You Go August on campus. Enterprise will guar- charge its students for elements of antee wages to ensure that students their courses, thus introducing top up About It.*. will be paid, and we will also be offering fees by the back door. some training. Totake an example, let's consider LIS. However, it Is not just playieaders who Students going to Russia are expected are needed. We also need volunteers to contribute to their tuitton fees to the to help during the summer term with Russian institutbn, despite the fact the management, administration and that their Local Education Authority publicity of the scheme. Ideally we already pays fees to the University. In would like to see a core of students other words, tuition fees are being paid who would run the whole scheme, pos- twice for the same period of tuition. sibly using the May half-term The University's answer? Fees paid by playscheme, as a trial run. It doesn't the LEA are used to arrange the place- matter if you won't be available to help ments, leaving students to pick up the out with the whole scheme, or Its man- tab for tuition in Russia. agement; however little or much time you are able to offer, we would like to Another example: final years In Civil hear from you. It will give you new Engineering are expected to attend a skills, It will provkje good experience, field trip, as a compulsory part of their but most of all, it will be great fun. If you course, yet are expected to pay for would like to be involved, please con- this. Failure to pay would presuniably There will Be 50 Tickets tact either the Welfare Officer, the Stu- result in failing a part of the course. dent Enterprise Offkrer or myself. Available For Each Match, And these are not just isolated inci- To Get A Ticket, Simply Go To If you are reading this on Thursday dents. Mechanical Engineers have to the Trading Desk In The evening or Frkiay nroming, there's still pay for lecture handouts. Many others Union, In Advance. Where time for you to vote in the referendum have to buy expensive equipment for There 50 Consession Tickets onsemesterisation and nrxxlularisation. their courses. As library resources are Voting is taking place in the Union squeezed, students are being forced Foyer, until 11pm on Thursday night to buy books rather than rely on bor- When you get to Spec- and between 10am and 2pm on Fri- rowing them. The University's compu- trum, Simply take your day. Please do try to vote - this coukJ ter committee has recently rejected a Ticket and Pay For Your affect you directly. The results will be proposal that all students should have available after Easter. 1 would like to to buy their own computers - but for Tickets at the Reserva- takethis opportunity tothankeveryone how long? tions Desk. who helped in any way with the refer- Forthcoming Games This endum. At a time of increasing student hard- Week:- ship and the dwindling value of the During the Easter holidays, either the grant, this is a very worrying trend. The Welfare Officer or myself will be avail- University cannot be allowed to con- Sunday t3th March able as usual, apart from during the tinue passing the burden of costs onto Vs Oxford University closure period (Thursday its students. 6.00pm 8thto Wednesday 14th April), so please feel free to pop down and see us. If anyone has any particular examples Sunday 20th March of back door top up fees from their own Vs Trafford Finally, good luck to the LIS and H&C course, please could they let me know, 5.15pm students who are going off on place- so that I can compile more informatton ment, and I wish everyone a very happy to present to the University. Sunday 21 St March Easter. Jenny Holland Vs Chelmsford 5.15pm Jenny Holland Vice President SAFETY ADVICE WITH BOLLOX! SAFETY ADVICE Manoj Says Bollox! Every year thousands of students go into rented accommodation containing gas This week has been Equal Oppor- equipment with which they may be unfamiliar. Appliances which bum fuel (such tunities Awareness Week. It was as gas. coal or oil) need fresh air to work safely. This may come from outside the organised to increase awareness house through a permanent ventilator, or from a well-ventilated adjoining room. of minority groups on campus and Different appliances need differing amounts of fresh air. If they don't get enough to ensure that the n^jority under- air, they won't burn properly. They can then become dangerous by producing stand their park:ular needs. One cartx)n monoxide which is poisonous. such group is Women. Women? A minority group? Well apparently so. There is a Women's Group and a THE DANGER SIGNS Women's Officer. You won't be able to see or smell cartx>n nx)noxide but if you are exposed to it The Vice-President and you may feel listless, lack energy and suffer from flu-like sympton^. There are often some tell-tale signs to lookfor on gas appliances such as staining, sooting Welfare Officer, who deal or discolouration around the radiants on fires, water heaters, central heating with most student boilers or warm air heaters. (Even staining on wallpaper can be a danger sign.) problems, are both women. Equal opportunities - BOLLOX! Why BE AWARE isn't there a Man's Officer? What Your landbrd has a responsibility for your safety • and so do you. Unfortunately, do you do if you're a bloke and you some ignore our advice to have gas appliances Installed and serviced regularly want to talk to a bloke about a by qualified people, with tragic consequences. Ask your landlord when the gas bloke's problem? A Man's Officer appliances were last checked by a qualified gas person. If they have not been could run campaigns within the checked for more than 12 months, ask for a check to be made. If your request Union (cheaperbeer, moresoftporn is refused contact the environmental services department at your local authority In Bare Facts, a better TV screen and tell them of your concerns. for the footy and rugby etc. etc.). I guarantee thatthe majority of men reading this will be nodding in agree- WARNING ment but you boys are the MAJOR- Do not use a gas appliance for a purpose it wasn't made for. Don't, for example, ITY. This excludes us from having light the oven and then open its dc^r to warm a room. When buying a second hand campaigns - the majority doesn't âppliance make sure the dealer will give you a guarantee. Have the appliance count. Surely Equal Opportunities fitted professtonally by British Gas or another Corgi-registered Installer. Remem- means just that and not minority ber, you've got the law on your side. Since March 1991 only Corgi-registered opportunities. instalters with a current certificate in gas safety are legally able to carry out gas ^ installation, servicing and repair work. This législation was brought in to combat Well worry not the new constitution the activities of odd-job men and "cowboy" fitters. There are still some landiords has created an Equal Opportuni- willing to put lives at risk by providing gas installations or appliances which are ties Officer, but the post of Wom- not safe. Do not put your life in their hands. Follow the basic safety ruies and if en's Officer is still in place.