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Poorest Students Will Get £9000 to Live on •Bursaries Could Become Top-Up Issue 589, 21 Nov 2003 THE INDEPENDENT CAMBRIDGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER www.varsity.co.uk INTERVIEW NEW CROSSWORD STYLE Michael Moore: Pit your wits against Varsity’s new The Mods the only interview he cryptic puzzler come to gave in Cambridge town PAGE 12 LISTINGS BACK PAGE PAGE 14 Money, money, money •Poorest students will get £9,000 to live on •Bursaries could become top-up smokescreen •Ben Brinded denounces scheme as “gimmick” being used by the Government to Brian Little sweeten the bitter pill of top-up fees. Varsity has learned that the There will be a bitter aftertaste. University is planning to “While we are thrilled by the idea announce a new system of bur- of bursaries they are completely sep- saries that could transform arate from top-up fees. The access to Cambridge and give the Government have the University over poorest students £4,000 a year. a barrel. The University needs mon- However, CUSU President Ben ey for access and education but why Brinded fears the scheme may be should it come from fees?” used as a “headline-grabbing The extra costs for the scheme will gimmick”to justify top-up fees. be £7.9m per annum and be funded The proposals will quadruple the by about a third of the revenue from support given by the University to the top-up fees. For every pound the least well-off. Those whose parents University gives out in new bursaries earn less than £15,200 a year will get the Government will take three £4,000 in addition to a £1,000 grant pounds in fees. Brinded commented, from the Government. They will also “This is a good scheme for mainte- be eligible for a £4,000 student loan to nance of students whilst they are at be repayed after graduation, bringing University- but that is all. Students still the total to £9,000. Cambridge living have to pay up afterwards.” costs are estimated at £5,800. Brinded is especially wary of the However, it is notable that the dangers for “the student in the mid- University is planning to announce dle”. The bursary scheme would pro- their proposals to coincide with the vide full support for 955 current stu- Queen’s speech. The speech is set to dents but “official figures from the announce legislation to introduce top- DfES show these proposals could still up fees. Apparently, although mem- cause a ‘poverty trap’ for more than bers of University Council have la- 2,000 students whose parents earn be- belled Government proposals to water tween £15,000 and £30,000.” down the principle of free education He continues, “Top-up fees cause as “distinctly unaromatic”, they are many problems. These bursaries only alters scared to turn their noses up at the of- cover up the most ugly of them. They fer of more cash. only act as a sticking plaster when a om W T Brinded argues “The University are vaccine is needed.” “I introduced Mr Fluffy to the entire floor” “Its exact location remains a mystery” Tim Stanley on why booze is better than drugs PAGE 06 Rebecca Heselton on Loch Torridon PAGE 11 The region’s best guide to what’s on – see next Thursday’s Cambridge Evening News NEWS EDITORS: BENJAMIN BLAND, JONATHAN WOOD, LAURA-JANE FOLEY 02 Nov 21, 2003 www.varsity.co.uk What’s inside... News pg2 So you think you’re tolerant? Cardboard porters, jet set aca- demics, students take on Bush Benjamin Bland Most Cambridge students consid- er themselves open-minded and Comment pg6 liberal, but a survey has revealed Justifying positive discrimina- that two-thirds of LBGT students Grace Ofori-Attah tion in Cambridge have encountered homophobia. ‘Attitudes to Sexuality’, an online Features pg7 survey carried out by CUSU’s LesBiGay Campaign, received 1500 Internet addiction and eBay responses, of which over 1000 were widows from straight students. Although over half of LBGT re- Editorial pg8 spondents said that they did not feel George W. Bush and how that the University is homophobic, a lucky we are similar number of non-LBGT re- spondents indicated that they had Where Now pg10 witnessed abuse based on sexual ori- entation. Only 30% of gay students Women’s colleges- do they were able to say that they had never LBGT survey shows Cambridge is more tolerant than you might think need men? encountered any homophobic abuse. only a quarter of LBGT students feel to wider issues, and it was here that lief, with 1 in 4 describing themselves According to Campaigns Officer, that they go out on the ‘scene’. the greatest disparity between gay as Christians. Of those that consider Travel pg11 Tom Clarke, the purpose of the sur- Nonetheless, the first LesBiGay and non-gay responses was evident. themselves religious, three-quarters Scotland special- reindeer and vey was “to find out what issues af- ‘Unique’ club night this term saw Nearly four-fifths of LBGT students do not perceive any conflict between the Edinburgh seaside fect the non-straight community and some 500 students turn up to Life. This said that gay couples should be al- their beliefs and their sexuality. to foster a greater awareness amongst contrasts sharply with universities, lowed to adopt, whereas this view Full results from the survey will Interview pg12 the straight community”. such as Bristol whose first LBGT scene was supported by less than half of be posted online soon at www- While the survey indicates thatin event of the term, organised jointly straight people. lbg.cusu.cam.ac.uk. with Bush’s nemisis Mchael terms of social events, CUSU is cater- with UWE, drew a crowd of only 50. Half of the LBGT students sur- Additional reporting by Katie Moore ing well for the LBGT community, The survey also gauged attitudes veyed have some form of religious be- Boswell and Tom Ready Listings pull out Your four page guide to what’s on this week Union scandal: Mak the knifed The Ordinary pg13 Union president Will Gallagher Cambridge University Conservative accused of being corrupt, can the Jonathan Wood Protests against inhumane stu- said, “ I don’t think you forge an in- Association two years ago. Union ever get it right?” dent testing The Ents Officer of the Cambridge voice by mistake, there is no place Mak claims the invoice was an “in- There have also been claims that Union resigned this week and was for corruption in the Union.” He nocent mistake” which he believed the Union’s returning officers have act- Fashion pg14 forced to pull out of a presidential added that it is possible this is not was correct procedure as he was ed unconstitutionally, failing to an- campaign amid claims of financial the end of the matter, “We are going “rushed” and that “because there was nounce the names of candidates in this We love mods misconduct.A vote of no confidence back and looking at all the expenses; a political element… because I was the term’s election and circulate mani- was passed by eight votes to one by there are still issues to be resolved.” leading presidential candidate… it festos. If true this is in breach of a con- the Union’s standing committee in Mak had been a presidential candidate was the excuse to get me out … Will stitution that was adopted last term to Arts pg15 Alan Mak after he was accused of in the elections held on Wednesday Gallagher never liked me”. Believing guard against corruption. Inside the marcabre mind of filing a false invoice. Mak strong- but his bid was declared ineligible. the allegations to be an attempt to dis- The director of the speed-dating Cameron Jamie ly denies the claim saying it was an Mak was also accused of attempt- credit him as a candidate, he claimed company has issued a statement say- “innocent mistake”and believes it ing to bribe Union members to vote that “they didn’t want me to get any- ing, “I think he [Mak] is someone Music pg16 was used as an excuse to stop him for him in an MSN Messenger con- where near the ballot box”, “they of good and honest character and I running for president. versation. Mak denies the claim, say- know that if I was allowed to stand, I do not feel that there was any wilful Interview with human beatbox Mak has presided over a success- ing he believed he was talking to a would have won”. attempt on Alan’s part to mislead or Killa Kella ful term of ents but it was a speed-dat- friend when in fact it was someone on Gallagher said that claims this was defraud the Cambridge Union”. ing event held at the Union that led to his presidential rival’s slate, “it was a all an attempt to ensure Mak didn’t Mak is determined to fight the alle- Visual Arts pg17 claims of a conflict of interests and sham designed to frame me.” win were ridiculous and that it “goes gations or otherwise he’ll be “tar- The new enfant terrible of fraud. Mak submitted an allegedly Gallagher himself was embroiled in against everything I’ve said and done nished forever”, claiming he would British Art Grayson Perry self-penned invoice asking for £100 to an alleged vote-buying scandal when as president. If when we try to act “go to the proctors, or whoever it be paid by the Union to himself. running for chairman of CUCA, the against corruption we are ourselves takes, to clear my name”. Literature pg19 TOP 5 UNION SCANDALS What Cambridge is reading Alex Mair Theatre pg20 Freshers play, Perrier nomi- nee comeback Got a story? Email [email protected] or ring 01223 337575 if you have a story or meet us in The Bath House (hogshead) in Bene’t Streeton Sunday at 7pm Visit our newly redesigned website at www.varsity.co.uk Fashion pg14 We love mods EDITORS: BENJAMIN BLAND, JONATHAN WOOD AND LAURA-JANE FOLEY NEWS www.varsity.co.uk Nov 21, 2003 03 Fitz ‘Porta-Porters’ Pavla Kopecna Laura-Jane Foley This suggestion was criticised from students’ rooms.
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