Clubs: Massive Sven Vath and New Bohemia competitions r-' A year in arts: what's been hot and not (chill out Brad) tJ) N Friday / May 15 / 2009 YOUR GUIDE TO MOVING HOUSE AND LEAVING LEEDS TIDY. Cc mmen & Should there be quotas for football? MPs expenses and the BNP Paddy Ashdown interviewed Plus BUCS 2008/09 reviewed Is 'no platform' the best strategy? Plus the ups and downs of drug use ..., •,• the streets around the of student changeover on universities, and contributes the local communtty, while to bad feeling between the reducing the amount of useful LEAVE student population and more ttems going to landfill. permanent residents for the rest of the year. The information In this leaflet will help you look after your LEEDS Student households often local area 'Nhen leaving leave packing until the last and to dispose of unwanted minute so all rubbish is put belongings in the correct way. TIDY~oM out at the same time, 'Nhich If you need more informatton creates a mess as rubbish is please vistt the website: left all over the streets. Not e1eecfa dy.com or Leave Leeds Tidy only does this look untidy but rt call O , ., 38ul 329. is here to help also blocks traffic. Another big you when moving problem are scavengers 'Nho go through bins and bags of Changeover house over the rubbish to look for ttems to sell summer! or for personal informatton on Wardens bills to steal. Every year, during the summer, A team of Changeover thousands of students move The environment also suffers Wardens will be on the streets between properties or away as a vast quantity of useful promoting the 'Leave Leeds from Leeds. Much of this stuff ends up in landfill sttes as Tidy' message. They will be 'changeover' occurs over the rt gets thrown out during this reactive ·eyes and ears' same couple of weeks at the change-over period. alerting relevant agencies to end of June/start of July, 'Nhen Leave Leeds Tidy is a project any issues as they occur. housing contracts end. coordinated by Leeds If you see anything that University Union's Volunteering you'd like to report to these This 'big move· usually & Community office, 'Nhich wardens please call: causes a massive amount aims to reduce the impact of rubbish and chaos on Clubs: Massive Sven Vath and New Bohemia competitions r­ A year in arts: what's been hot and not Cl) N Leeds Leeds marking system labelled 'perverse' Leeds University's degree classification system has been branded 'perverse' by extemal examiners. Yet this report was never passed on to the Quality :\ssurance Agency, an orgamsaaon that reviews university standards. Gavin Reid, dfrecmr oF learning and reaching in the School of Chemistry in a statement to the lnnovarion, Universities, Science and Skills Committee said ·''O,c QAA onl) secs what manab,cmcnt puts in frontofir." ·n,c news, reported yesterday by the Ti111es f-li,gher Ed11calio11, comes as Leed.r Student is going to prim, and just as many srudents are preparing to sit exams. Dr Reid explained how, under the Leeds system, marks of bcrv.-een zero an<l 20 per cent arc rounded up, while marks of between 80 and I 00 per cent are THE rounded down. [ r was reported that a finding themselves "often short" of the newspapers across the country. spokeswoman for chc University money required. \X'hilc mOSl Unions provide a gram said the classification system The survey is the first of its kind to for equipment, printing costs must be allowed reconciliation of marks in investigate the economic position of financed through advertisement technical subjects, where high srudcnt newspapers, coming ar a time generated income, with the money marks arc prevalent., with scores Financial problems threaten the when the finances of many organisations required typically in excess of £1000 per in arts subjects, where scores in future of student newspapers around are under strain. Universities including issue. If these costs cannot be met, then t.he 90s are less common. the country, a survey carried out by Cambridge, Manchester and Newcastle editors face no alternative but to cut "Although marks at each end Leeds Student has revealed. were included in the survey, with a total issues or reduce the number of copies of the scale are compressed, this Over 45 per cent have had to cut of thirteen student newspapers printed to save money. doesn't impact upon the final their print run or cancel entire issues at questioned. Yet cutting issues or print runs can degree class obtained by least once in the last year, with the The findings, published for the firsl further harm advertising revenue. students," the universit) majority (over 60 per cent) failing ro time in Leeds Student, paint a worrying Companies are less likely to place meet their advertising target; instead picture of the state of student adverts in lower-circulating papers while Continued on page 2 » > Comment & Debate Features Final issue round-up MPs expenses and the BNP Drugs and Lib Dems Should there be quotas for football? Is 'no platform' the best strategy? The ups and downs of drug use BUCS 2008/09 reviewed Plus, a look back at the year that was Interview with Paddy Ashdown I Friday, May 15, 2009 " " le<·dsstudcnt.org Leeds Student 02 The Leeds Student newspaper is the voice of the students of the University of Leeds. We are one of Leeds University Union's largest and most active societies with over 200 members. Interest Whether you have Uni papers in danger aspirations of being a top rates fall journalist, or just enjoy From front writing and want to try an absence in issues means anr publications forced to slash S"tudenl that NUS rccogmscs the to zero something new, we want deficit cannot be cannot be clawc(\ workforces or close altogether. unportancc of student newspapers, Dafydd Pritchard you to join us. back; in a catch 22 siruation there 140 staff were out on strike at the in parocular the "crucial means of simply isn't the space for money Leeds based Yorkshire Evening Post communication they provide for generating advcns. group m March, after compulsor)' students at university." Nash went Got a Story? Advertising worries mean that redundancies arose from on to acknowledge the broader role Student debt worries couJd be of the student press: ''They play a Has a crime or a dodgy over 25 per cent of editors have unmanageable levels of debt. The eased with the announcement serious concerns about their financial group has acknowlcd!,,cd revenue is vital role on campus, nor o nl y that the Student Loans providing students with information landlord made you the fu rure. at an all time low, with their position Company will apply a Oper cent but also offering volunteers practical victim of injustice? E ight o ut of thirteen newspapers reflecting that of many other regmnal interest rate from 1 September face advertising resuictions put in newspapers. experience of journalism." 2009 -31 August 2010 in the UK. Are you fed up with your \X,' ith place by their w1ion, at a ume when But the news that student most national newspapers While the rate of interest makes School's constant advertising revenues have rumbled publications are suffering just like running news websites, o nline no difference to borrowers' advertising offers an additional blundering? nationall}'· Such bans typicallr their larger-scale countcrpans could mon thly repayments, it will prevent student ne\\·spapers from be another blow to the industry. source of income for man}' We're here to inform as effectively freeze the amount owed advertising companies that compete Many srudems grun experience at publications. Despite all those Repayments will remain at a well as entertain, and we with union services, preventi ng many newspapers li ke Leeds Student before surveyed having websites in place or fixed am o u nt, with borrowers planned, on.I ) Yo rk newspaper from advertising businesses li ke clubs going o n to gain jobs in joum alism repaying 9 per cent of theireamings want to hear from you. Nouse is able to 1,,cnernte a and bars, which tend to rely o n large or related fields, with this newspaper over the income threshold of promotions. boasting a long li st of alumni significant income through o nline £15,000. Email us at A referendum mouon put currendy employed by national advertising. For the vast majo rity, T raditionally, student loans have publications. websites provide no additional cash [email protected] or fo n.vard in March attempted to hft been subject to an inrercst equal to some o f the restrictio ns the / .,eer/s Srudem newspapers can also at al l. the Retail Price lndcx. Some have Whilst the recession continues, call 0113 380 1450. Shl(knl faces but was unsuccessful, ful fill an 11nportant duty in criticised the decision by the SLC to new casualties continue to appear. It All correspondences will falling sho rt of the 1500 votes supporting the clemocraoc process of implement a O per cent interest rate remains to be seen whether srudent required to reach quorum. anr sn1dem union, bonging instead of the current -0.4 per cent be treated with the credibility to the process br offeri ng journalism can be sustained on life­ Srudem newspapers are no t alone. set by the RPI. utmost confidentiality. The financial struggles o f local, an independem voice, and holding suppon until the economy shows The S LC made the decision regional and national press has been those elected accountable.