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FREE Bringing you the bare essential read since A 32 PAGE BUMPER 1968 CHRISTMAS EDITION! Could Did we Extreme Santa choose Betty Christmas do what as one of our Puzzle he TV picks? Were you caught Pullout does? Find out fetishing? P15-18 P8 P22&23 P20&21 “UNDERPASS MOLESTER” CHARGED By Ben Miller and Gareth Giles A3 underpass, referred to by students as the ‘Tesco underpass’. The cameras, which were proposed by the Surrey Police charged a man last week suspected of university, Students’ Union, and the Liberal Democrats being the “Underpass Molester”, who carried out a on Guildford Borough Council, were finally agreed by systematic campaign of sexual assaults against young the council in September. women, some of them students at the University. Councillor Chris Ward, whose Onslow ward Andrew Harding, 25, from Devoil Close in contains the underpass and the Stag Hill and Manor Guildford, is charged with four offences relating to Park campuses said, “The news that this criminal touching women. Three were committed between 14 has been caught will bring a huge relief to many of May and 9 August at the A3 underpass in Egerton my female residents who have contacted me over the Road. He is also charged with a further alleged offence past few months worried about the recurring attacks. on 31 October in Ridgemount. Harding asked for This arrest and the additional CCTV cameras my eight further offences that occurred between 3 May colleagues and I fought for will give peace of mind to and 31 August at the A3 underpass to be taken into Police, but the request was refused in case evidence students and residents that would-be attackers will not consideration. He will appear at South West Surrey was prejudiced. However, the charging of Harding get away with these despicable crimes.” Magistrates Court in Guildford on December 4. came just months after Guildford Borough Council barefacts has also been asked to make it clear that barefacts asked for further information from Surrey agreed on installation of CCTV cameras in the the man charged is not a student at the university. POSTGRADUATE SURVEY RESULTS DUE By Ben Miller that we ‘police’ the Students’ Union and ensure that postgrads’ concerns are being adequately represented.” The first national survey looking exclusively at the experiences of postgraduate Surrey’s postgrad association has representatives on the University Senate, which research students will be published next month. The number of postgraduate allows them to air their views at the highest level. They highlight issues such as students in the UK has been rapidly expanding, as people feel the need to improve supervision and resources for PhD students, and they campaign on specific issues. their job prospects. Over half a million students were enrolled onto postgraduate The postgraduate association at Surrey keeps postgrad issues on the agenda courses in the UK during the 2005-06 academic year, which is 23.3 per cent of the through the student media. A postgraduate edits “PG Tips”, a postgraduate page student population. in this newspaper. Its other main responsibility is to lay on social and recreational Despite the fact that postgraduate students account for almost a quarter of all facilities. At Surrey, postgrads have their own social centre, which the students share students, the postgraduate voice has tended to be sidelined. Postgraduate issues and with academic staff, giving them the chance to network with their supervisors and concerns have often been seen as little more than add-ons to the undergraduate other academics. experience, rather than issues in and of themselves. Ciaran Fisher said: “There has been a real culture change within the postgraduate At the University of Surrey the postgraduate population has soared in recent community in recent years. Postgrads are now much more aware of their rights and years and is comprised of around 4,700 postgrad students, which is 36% of the are much more likely to demand the support and supervision they are entitled to. student population. “As the postgraduate community increases, we are also seeing more postgrads The postgraduate association was set up four years ago and its main job is to getting involved in student politics. There is also a sense that universities and the ensure postgraduates have proper political representation in the university, says government are beginning to take the views and concerns of postgrads on board.” Ciaran Fisher, president of Surrey postgraduate association. “In effect, this means [email protected] Issue 1116 Monday 3rd December www.bfacts.co.uk [email protected] 2 NEWS 3rd December 2007 News In Brief Beating the winter Thank you all Staff and students raised over £400 in the Children in Need blues By Ben Miller Cake Sale. Lakeside Restaurant’s Baileys chocolate torte proved Dr. Johnston said: “moving to somewhere to be a popular raffle prize. As it gets dark earlier and earlier and it gets sunny for three months over the winter would colder and colder, more than a million people be great for everyone! Not an option? Stick to a MPs demand cost review of are known to suffer from seasonal affective daily walk, a blast of the light box and a healthy delayed Galileo satellite system disorder (SAD). A lack of sun can leave people diet.” Phil Davies, Business Manager at Surrey Satellite Technology lethargic, depressed, anxious and more likely to Ltd (SSTL), agreed with MPs’ call for a review of the multi- get colds and infections. billion pound Galileo project. The report by the Transport Select Dr Jonathan Johnston, a lecturer in neuroscience Committee said plans for a European rival to the GPS satellite at the University of Surrey who specialises navigation system should be blocked pending an independent in seasonal biology, said: “Some people have review of the project until they had reassurances the project will suggested that SAD is like a human form of not waste taxpayers’ money. hibernation – perhaps it’s a vestigial link to animal behaviour.” Some methods to beat the winter blues include using a light box, getting outdoors, taking exercise, improving your diet, taking supplements, talking therapies or getting some winter sun. Congratulations editorial team Congratulations go to Nasser Al Khomashi, a Surrey Nuclear 1115 Physics PhD research student and former MSc student. Nasser EDITOR |GARETH GILES | [email protected] won first prize for best oral presentation at the Association of University Radiation Protection Officers’ Conference. DEPUTY EDITOR (DESIGN) | CLAIRE WORGAN | [email protected] DEPUTY EDITOR (MARKETING) | POSITION VACANT | [email protected] Protest at University NEWS TEAM | BEN MILLER AND KATHRYN MEDIEN | [email protected] Protests took place at Oxford University when David Irving, a FOOD EDITOR | VERITY KIRKPATRICK | [email protected] ‘historian’ jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, along with SCIENCE EDITOR | EMMA ROGULSKA | [email protected] Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, turned up FEATURES EDITOR | AMUL GURUNG | [email protected] for an Oxford Union debate. Their inclusion led to objections PG TIPS EDITOR | ALEX ILLSLEY | [email protected] from student groups, MPs resigning their membership of the ARTS EDITOR | JAKE SOUTH | [email protected] debating union and some people refusing to share the same SOCIETIES EDITOR | SIMON MOORE | [email protected] platform as the extremists. Oxford Union Debate said that it is SPORTS EDITOR | MATT CHEETHAM | [email protected] important to give people of all views a platform. A rally against SPORTS EDITOR | ANTHONY HANSON | [email protected] the inclusion of the two men was held, with speakers including PUZZLELORD | COLIN EVERETT | [email protected] Holocaust survivors. COPY EDITOR | PHILL NATHAN | [email protected] COPY EDITOR | RUMBI KAMBARAMI | [email protected] WEBMASTER | JOSH BATES | [email protected] Cows causing climate change MARKETING MANAGER | NATALIYA NADTOKA | [email protected] A report by the Food Climate Research Network at Surrey claims the livestock industry generates eight per cent of all MARKETING CO-ORDINATOR | AARON SALINS | [email protected] UK greenhouse gas emissions. It states dairy cows are a major EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | ALEX COLLINS | [email protected] source of the biggest greenhouse gas pollution from livestock - methane is released when cattle burp. barefacts is an editorially independent newspaper and is published by the University of Surrey Students’ Union Communications Office. The views expressed within the paper are those of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editor, the University of Surrey Students’ Union or the University of Surrey. This publication may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in any form, copied or distributed, without the express permission of the publisher beforehand. Printed by Surrey and Berkshire Media Limited Stoke Mill House, Woking Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 1QA Submission is no guarantee of publication. barefacts reserves the right to edit submissions. Please direct all equiries to the relevant section Editor. WWW.USSU.CO.UK/BAREFACTS © USSU COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE 2007 [email protected] 3rd December 2007 NEWS & COLUMNS 3 Pathetic NUS response Two weeks of to child labour links mayhem! Alex Collins, Park and visiting PATS for a continues Students’ Union President concert, he made his way to the Lakeside Restaurant for dinner. By Ben Miller It is beginning to get a bit The whole Sabbatical team had scary how fast time is flying a good chat with him, and I The NUS’s response to the said: “We can assure students breaking numerous health by! I remember when I was got to sit next to him at dinner. use of forced child labour that we are treating this issue and safety regulations.