Undeb Cultural Fair 2018 Pictures of Undeb Bangor’s cultural celebration FREE Page Halls scoop 52 award Bangor Win Accommadation Award Page 4 October Issue 2018 Issue No. 272 seren.bangor.ac.uk @SerenBangor Y Bangor University Students’ Union English Language Newspaper Bangor University Tackling Sexual Violence by FINNIAN SHARDLOW No Grey Area will also focus on In November 2017, Bangor University “ e clear guidelines published o ences including, but not limited highlighting the de nition of sexual appointed a Student Equality and by UUK encouraged Universities to to, sexual assault, sexual harassment, ndeb Bangor are launching violence according to the University’s Diversity O cer, Helen Munro, based develop a range of reporting options. stalking, rape and domestic violence. It a campaign to tackle sexual policy. within the Student Support Team at Bangor students can report the matter doesn’t have to be physically violent and violence at Bangor University. A No Grey Area campaign video will Student Services. e focus of Helen’s formally or just access support. Our indeed lower level sexual harassment U e campaign, No Grey Area, will be released. It will feature numerous role is to provide a specialised central response is always led by the student.” such as cat-calling in the street or being launch on November 26th. ere will students and members of sta who, support contact for sexual violence, Students can choose to formally report touched by someone, inappropriately, also be a march to accompany the besides from giving advice to people harassment and hate crime. She is incidents of sexual violence to the police also constitutes sexual violence. campaign called Reclaim e Night, who may have experienced sexual trained to receive disclosures of sexual and/or to the University so that, where A report by e Student Room found designed to reinforce the message that violence, will make it explicitly clear violence and provide support to those appropriate, action may be taken under that, nationally, 62% of all students have women, in particular, can walk the when to report it. a ected. She can also advise students their Disciplinary Procedures. Reports experienced sexual violence. streets completely safely at night. In October 2016, the UUK Taskforce on the various reporting options and can also be submitted anonymously, if e report found that only 6% of Vice President of Education, Mark (Universities UK) published a report support them through those processes. that is the students’ wish. students who experienced sexual Barrow, has said: “ e campaign is noting that universities didn’t always Helen told us that “work carried out Helen Munro added: “Not all violence report it to their University or just the start. e Student Union will take a coherent and systematic in this area since 2016 has meant that Universities have a full-time member the police. consistently confront sexual violence. approach to sexual violence across their the University can build on the very of sta dedicated to the prevention and Students who may be a ected by “I’ve realised that it is a massive whole institution. excellent pastoral support already support for sexual violence, harassment any of the issues raised in this article problem at Universities generally, and UUK recommended that universities available to students by ensuring that and hate crime and the work we’re can contact Student Services for have seen many things in the media to had visible reporting mechanisms in approaches are co-ordinated and sta doing here at Bangor University is con dential advice and guidance. corroborate this. I therefore wanted to place for students, and sta who were are trained and supported to respond progressive.” Tel: 01248 38 2024 try and raise awareness and help in any appropriately trained and su ciently e ectively to all reports of sexual e umbrella term, Sexual Violence, Email: [email protected] way I can.” aware of the support available. violence. refers to various di erent sexual JOIN FB GROUP: Seren Members 2018/19 GOT A STORY? SUBMIT IT EMAIL: [email protected] OTHER OPPORTUNITIES WE OFFER: FEATURE WRITING NEWS REPORTS LIVE SPORT COVERAGE WRITERS PHOTOGRAPHERS DESIGNERS PROMO TEAM PROOFREADERS BROADCAST JOURNALISM & MORE SEREN | October Issue 2018 3 CONTENTS News 4-7 Politics 8-9 JOIN Comment 10-11 Meet The Team 12-13 FB GROUP: Seren Members 2018/19 Union 15 FINNIAN Sabb Space 16 SHARDLOW Campus Life 17 16 EDITOR Science 18-19 [email protected] Environment 20-21 When I was writing my last Photographic Society 23 Editorial in mid-September, I couldn’t wait until Freshers Week. 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Games - Sinclair Davis Idriss Kamtcheu Akanksha Mary Creative Corner - Alec Tudor Joseph Apted Emily Brown Maisie Biggs Marie Vilsaint EDITORS Sport - Corie Allan BROADCAST JOURNALISM & MORE CONTRIBUTORS 4 SEREN | October Issue 2018 NEWS IN BRIEF Waste Awareness Week 2018 by DARBY HIGGINS Bangor etween Saturday 29th September with around 50 students travelling to students attended the 90-minute semi- and Friday 5th October, Bangor Dinas Dinlle beach and collecting ap- nar, resulting in 7 students becoming University ran its second ever proximately 30 bags of litter. is was members of CIWM. Cathedral’s B‘Waste Awareness Week’ (WAW). e followed by the Sustainability Lab and Once again, Bangor University part- campaign was launched to share ideas Halls of Residence teams along with nered with Makerere University in and raise awareness about the impor- student volunteers visiting 349 ats in Uganda to deliver WAW across conti- Unique tance of resource e ciency both in student halls, looking at recycling be- nents. is year’s theme in Makerere the University and in Bangor City, to haviours, answering questions and pro- was ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Memorial reduce environmental impacts both lo- viding recycling advice to just over 200 Plastics’ and included activities such cally and nationally and to encourage students. Gwynedd Council, Student as strategic messaging, ink Tanks, Students taking part in the students to become responsible global Housing and the Student Union also community outreach to primary school beach clean citizens. visited students in private accommoda- children, a social media campaign, and Service for e Sustainability Lab worked with tion, visiting 336 properties, providing collecting and sorting plastic waste for Campus Life, Halls of Residence, advice and support to 147 students on sustainable disposal.