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Hockey Committee Members 'Pressured In this week’s issue: an interview with Labour leader Ed Miliband, the plans for the fi rst UKIP society in Wales detailed, and why gair rhyddy we can no longer ignore the housing crisis Monday March 23rd 2015 | freeword | Issue 1049 Hockey committee members ‘pressured’ to resign ‘Severe’ sanctions imposed following streaking incident in Julian Hodge embers of the Cardiff Men’s of confi dence in their ability to However, those responding to pissing on the side of my house.” EXCLUSIVE Hockey committee have fulfi l their roles, explaining that “we the disciplinary action have voiced Journalism, Media and Culture Pictured: Anna Lewis M reportedly been ‘pressured’ feel we have lost the backing of the concerns that the action taken is too undergraduate Sophie Lodge also Hockey players at to resign after team members were chairman and the committee and severe. confi rmed that she had seen “people last year’s varsity recorded ‘streaking’ in the Julian we feel our position has become Former student Chris Houghton streaking” in Talybont North during (Taliesin Hodge Building. untenable.” said: “I think a hockey player’s job is her fi rst year. Coombes) Th e incident, which took place “We feel we did the job to the to play hockey. If anything, all that But talking about the disciplinary in the building’s library and was best of our abilities and feel that his running around with their kit off action, Lodge expressed doubt over recorded on video by a surprised decision is putting the club’s best shows is an intense devotion to their whether the resignations were too onlooker, led to both social interests fi rst.” sport.” harsh an outcome. secretaries of the men’s hockey team “It’s with a heavy heart and teary Some have claimed that students “It’s not like they are losing a job, leaving their positions. eyes as I type this for the last time,” shedding clothes on campus is not they’re losing a voluntary position in According to a message posted to the message concluded. a new phenomenon, especially in a society they participate in in their the one of the group’s social media Th ere has been speculation that student residences such as Talybont, spare time,” she said. pages last week, the committee the students involved in the incident, and is not particularly controversial. Last week, Gair Rhydd reported felt itself to be under pressure to which was reported by Gair Rhydd Indeed, the behaviour seems that students who bore witness to introduce ‘sanctions against certain last week, have been banned from muted in comparison to alleged the hockey players streaking in the members of the club’. training or participating in matches behaviour in student halls - one library found the incident amusing In the Facebook post, the for the remainder of the academic third-year student recalled waking rather than disruptive. Continued on secretaries detailed an alleged loss year. up in Talybont South to “six students Speaking to student news website page 4 Why nightclubs are “hell on earth” The Lib Dems after Clegg “Stop taking liberties for granted” P11 >> P17 >> P10 >> THE FREE WORD EDITOR Michael O’Connell-Davidson GAIR RHYDD CO-ORDINATOR Fitness & practice Elaine Morgan ast week, we ran a story on our front page about found unfi t to practice, and that’s the end of your ca- in the media at the moment, and this rugby nonsense NEWS a group of Medics Rugby players who appeared reer. Everybody knows the risk. Now, we don’t want is another battle on another front for the University Georgia Hamer Lto have the tour from hell. We were approached to end anybody’s career before it begins. But if some- Hospital. Katie Evans by multiple corroborating sources who said that some body’s career ends as a result of their own actions and Th e Heath doesn’t want its reputation to suff er, be- Alexander Norton serious shit went down on their tour to Amsterdam. we happen to report on problems they’ve caused for cause that would be bad for students, and I don’t think Anna Lewis An investigation continues, and until it concludes, the themselves, it’s their fault, not ours. any medic wants it to suff er either. So get it together, defi nitive truth of the incident will remain up in the A signifi cant member of the administration at the guys; you’re not just here for yourselves, but for all the ADVICE air, along with the collective fate of those involved. Heath lamented our publishing the article, but they people you’ll go on to care for when you graduate, and Kirsty Fardell But while answers are yet to come from the uni, our said it needed to come out, and that medics “get away no trip to Amsterdam warrants taking a patient’s con- publication has provoked an interesting debate. Th ere with too much.” I think that’s an interesting statement; fi dence for granted. COMMENT are people who believe we should not have reported I genuinely hope that there is no wider trend of med- We are aware that narrative surrounding sport at Anne Porter the story - claims that we “did not understand the scale ics ignoring the rules and simply hoping they don’t get University might be building through our coverage. Gareth Evans of the issue” were passed on to one editor, for example found out, because that’s terrible conduct for those But any suggestion that we have declared war on Olivier van den Bent-Kelly - because of the clear violation of fi tness to practice who hope to take peoples’ lives into their hands for sports teams is completely false, and our choice of guidelines the alleged behaviour would constitute. a living. A literal piss up is one thing, but where does front page story should be considered a refl ection of COLUMNIST For the uninitiated, “fi tness to practice” guidelines that attitude end? If the boundaries aren’t the rules, that. It’s hard to see why the punishment against the Jason Roberts are there to make sure the public remains confi dent then where are they? hockey team has been quite so swift, especially when in medical staff . Th ey’re there to ensure that every- I know, I know, I’m a journalist, and journalism is a onlookers and WalesOnline don’t seem particularly POLITICS body who goes under the knife feels as though their profession in disrepute. But we have our own fi tness bothered. Bans and restrictions only seem to serve to Carwyn Williams fate is being placed in the hands of individuals who are to practice guidelines, and I abhor those who break drive this behaviour underground. After all, initiations Lauren Boyd trustworthy and driven to make reasonable decisions. them. Believe me when I say that the phone hacking are technically banned, but they still take place, and Rhiannon Tapp Committing crimes or engaging in activity that would scandal has hurt the trade quite deeply, and everybody we all know it. I don’t think there’s anybody who isn’t leave a cruise company on the fence about involving involved knows that. Th e actions undertaken by re- aware what “welcome drinks” events truly are, and SCIENCE the police is a pretty clear breach of fi tness to prac- porters at the News of the World and their ilk were a I don’t think that there will ever be a way to prevent Shanna Hamilton tice, and if the disciplinary panel believes that some disgrace that violated the spirit of the profession, and them without turning the Athletic Union into a police Meryon Roderick wrongdoing has taken place, it would have a serious it leaves me very depressed to know that the public has state. impact on whether or not those involved will be able lost confi dence in us, because as with doctors we need Th e events of the past few weeks have been negative SOCIETIES to progress their studies. public confi dence to do our work. refl ections of sport culture, which is nearly always a Hannah Sterritt People fuck around and make mistakes when Life at the Heath is hard, and sport is one of the few positive part of the university experience - but these they’re young. Lord knows I did, because being a glo- outlets medics have in an otherwise gruelling environ- events have been fairly tame compared to some of TAF-OD rifi ed child and having access to white lightning is a ment. It would be a terrible shame if people began to what goes unreported, and the rumours seem to get Steffan Bryn Jones recipe for disaster. Hell, Stephen Fry went to prison conclude that sport and the standard of conduct ex- worse as time goes by. Even as an editor who relishes Morgan Owen before he went to Cambridge University (normally, it’s pected of a healthcare professional were incompatible. in the newsworthy, I would hate to see the UK’s uni- the other way around). However, there reaches a point When reading reports like ours, though, the adminis- versities drift towards a sport culture not dissimilar SPORT where enough is enough - and when you commit to tration would be forgiven for beginning to think that to that in the USA, where initiations and celebrations David Hooson being a doctor, I’m pretty sure that’s when you have to might be the case. aren’t just kind of stupid, they’re dangerous and trans- Rory Benson call a moratorium on the bullshit.
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