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1872 - WESSEX-freshers 2002 23/9/02 6:00 pm Page 1 WESSEX SCENE WESSEX CENE Swessexscene.co.uk 28th September 2002 - ISSUE 756 - PRICELESS FAN-TASTIC Nigel Massen Q: What have Michael Jackson and the Students’ Union got in common? A: They’ve both had a dramatic face-lift. Southampton University Students’ Union (SUSU) is putting the finish- ing touches to a £5.6 million makeover that will offer three new bars, a cinema, upgraded food serv- ices and a bigger, shinier concourse. The feather in the cap of the devel- opment is a new nightclub - ‘The CUBE’. The plan to upgrade the facilities at SUSU has been in the pipeline for some years as the original building was built in 1965. Recent activity follows a memo circulated in late 2000 noting “...this building, partic- ularly the services, are long past their sell-by date...”. Numerous funding meetings and project pro- posals later, the University agreed to invest £4.3m with the Union pay- ing the remaining £1.3m. The com- prehensive redevelopment will increase the size of the concourse, which will open onto a new glass staircase providing access to all floors. There will be a larger recep- tion area and an Internet café enabling students to keep in touch while in the Union. What was the ballroom has been transformed into a pub-style bar - ‘The Bridge’, which will feature bar food and comfy chairs to create a relaxed, Brian Stevens pipe-smoking atmosphere. www.wessexscene.co.uk 1872 - WESSEX-freshers 2002 23/9/02 6:00 pm Page 2 PAGE 2 WESSEX WESSEX Wessexscene.co.uk SCENE SCENE Wessexscene.co.uk PAGE 3 The Wessex Scene is the Student’s Union’s in-house publication, writ- The Latest Freshers Week ten and edited entirely by you, the What is the students. 2002 Timetable: The paper is divided into News, Monday 30th September Features, Clubs & Societies and SUSU Bar 1 (Union Bar) open Midday- 11pm Sports sections, as well as the popu- (standard opening times for the term) lar pull-out ‘Edge’ section catering for most alternative music tastes. Students’ Union? Tuesday 1st October Each has its own editor (in turn Tim Rowlandson Perhaps the most obvious of these is Information Service or the Student Mature Students Day - New College Campus managed ruthlessly by the VP the social side of the Union, the Community Action group, but these (Comms) sabbatical) who want Wednesday 2nd October Over the last few weeks you have Entz team has been working tire- are all listed and explained in the YOUR help in knocking out an Bridge Bar opens! probably been bombarded with lessly to provide a range of enter- freshers magazine ‘Fresh’. I will issue every two/ three weeks. information from hundreds of International Students’ Day - Main Campus (Marquee) Starts tainment that we hope will appeal to however strongly urge you to find at 10.40pm different sources; registration, everyone’s tastes. Combined with out what’s on offer and try some- The Wessex Scene Website has just sports cards, bus passes, halls, Free Freshers Disco - Main Campus Students’ Union 8pm-1am the new club ‘The Cube’ opening in thing new. Don’t be afraid to exper- Live interactive comedy Hypnotist (on at 9pm) been shortlisted for Best Student freshers week, the list goes on. November we hope that we really iment! Website by the Guardian Student It wasn’t long before the builders got their toys out The problem is that at University will be able to provide the best Thursday 3rd October Media award- check it out on cont.... everything is run on a much larg- night out in Southampton, if not the On a more general note though, to a Student Survival Day - Main Campus (Marquee) 10am- 3pm www.wessexscene.co.uk THIS er scale than school or sixth-form ISSUE The main bar will take on more of a south coast! Also through combin- large extent the services we provide Free Freshers Disco - Main Campus Students’ Union 8pm-1am. LOOK sports-bar style with a large screen college. Its hardly surprising con- ing our orders with other depend on you. The Union is a dem- Live interactive comedy Hypnotist (on at 9pm) If you have any questions we will OUT for sporting events and a pool table sidering that there are nearly Universities we offer some of the ocratic organisation run by students be at the Clubs and Societies FOR: for the sharks among us. There is 22,000 students here at any one cheapest prices around. for students. Which essentially Friday 4th October Bunfight in the West Ref on also talk of some soft coverings to time. However it is very easy to means that if there is something that Freshers Fayre - Main Campus (Sports Hall) 10am- 3pm Saturday 5th October. relieve the long-suffering users of get confused about where to go to The most important thing to we are not doing that you think we Party Night - Main Campus Students’ Union £3 - 8pm-2am the hard wooden seats. get anything done. remember about the Union is that should be you can do something all the money we make goes direct- about it. Saturday 5th October Wessex Scene Contributors The CUBE will have a capacity of The Students’ Union is the here to ly back into funding other activities, Sports Club Bunfight - Main Campus (Sports Hall) starts 10am 860 average sized people and will help you! Whilst we come under the so by drinking in the Union Bar or If you want to start a new club or Clubs & Societies Bunfight - Main Campus (West Ref) starts 10am be open until 2am up to four nights umbrella of the University we are using the shop you are putting society all you need to do is find a Performing Arts Bunfight - Main Campus (Marquee) starts 10am meeting on Monday 14th October, a week. It will house two new bars, also entirely separate. We receive a money back into the Athletic few others who share your enthusi- Saturday Night- Main Campus Students’ Union £3 - 8pm-2am imaginatively named SUSU Bar 1 sum of money each year from the Union, Clubs & Societies and asm. More seriously if there is any- Main Room- dance & house, second room - cheese 1pm in the Clubs and and, you’ve guessed it, SUSU Bar University (around £1.3million) to everything else we do. thing you think we are doing Sunday 6th October Dear Beryl, 2. The development of a purpose- provide facilities in the following wrong, every month there is a meet- Sports Trials Quiz Night - Main Campus Students’ Union 9pm-11pm, built nightclub should bring to an areas: So what else do we do? ing of the Students’ Union council Societies Room, Building 40 £2 per team. Cash prize plus a chance to win £100 worth of drinks end the shabby efforts of previous * Welfare services (including an where you can come and have your vouchers years, “hand on heart, it should be Advice and Information centre) I could list the 100 or so clubs and say. (First floor of the West Ref) Housemate horrors! the best club in Southampton” * Social activities societies we organise or the dozens WEEK TWO: Events claims SUSU President Tim * Cultural activities of sports that you can try. I could If you want to know more, or want Monday 7th Free Karaoke 8pm-11pm Rowlandson. Drinkers at all bars * Recreational activities tell you all about the Advice and to sit on the council e-mail Tuesday 8th International Studnets Night £3. 8pm-2am The Wessex Scene was brought are also promised some drinking-up * Sport to you by; [email protected] Wednesday 9th AU NIGHT. £3. 8pm-2pm CHEESE & CHART DJ! time this year, with the end of the Thursday 10th Comedy. £3. 8pm-11pm previous policy of shutting the bars Friday 11th Dance Night. £3. 8pm-2am Editor in Chief: Kate Messer early and kicking everyone out News Editor: Nigel Massen dead-on 2am. News Asst.: Ellie Harrison-Read Saturday 12th FRESHERS FROLIC- ALIVE AND TICKING! £25. THE BIG FRESHERS EVENT. Features: Adam Charlton Well, enough of the good news! The Clubs & Socs: Sarah Bennett THE ONLY bad news is that building on the Sunday 13th Quiz Night 9pm-11pm Sport: Laura King CUBE is running late, about 8 Edge: Tim Houghton weeks give-or-take, and won’t be DOORS CLOSE ON THE NIGHT AT 11.30PM FOR ALL LATE FINISH EVENTS. Edge Asst.: Rich Heap open for fresher’s week (everything DON’T BE DISAPPOINTED, BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE. else will though). Delays have WAY IS UP! ADMISSION RIGHTS RESERVED. To find out more come to the Holly Boulton and Laura mainly been due to budget wran- information stand in the Main Students’ Union or go to http://www.susu.org McKinnon (Horoscopes) gling but there have also been some comic problems on-site; no one Many Thanks to Nick Hampton University of Southampton climbs league tables JCR PROGRAMMES drew on the plans where to put the For further events please contact your JCR who have also arranged loads of stuff for you. and Vicky McManus. crane, which is slightly worrying. Caroline Johnson Please be aware that you can only attend these events if you live in these halls or are a guest of someone who is! Glen JCR’s programme for freshers week: Whilst digging a hole for the crane the Year award - just missing out to There is further cause for cele- Congratulations are therefore Saturday / Sunday the Freshers arrive, hall open, some low (ish) level music all night The views expressed the contractors found a large con- bration in Southampton St.