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Boris Johnson Chief News Editors Both Have a Practical View of How a Student Union Should Work Absinthe at Sidney but board games at Newnham The Varsity College Bar Review 2007 The Independent Cambridge Student Newspaper since 1947 | varsity.co.uk | Friday March 9 2007 | Issue 656 »Comment Gospel of Mark: Jamie Munk discusses the campaign to save the British same old story Library »Fletcher left with much of‘Mark’s Mountain’ to climb PAGE 8 ALICE WHITWHAM & agreed with his style and I supported »Features him last year so it’s not a massive LIZZIE MITCHELL shock. To a certain extent I think we Boris Johnson Chief News Editors both have a practical view of how a student union should work. We both claims this is Mark Fletcher will replace Mark see it as a welfare organisation first his most Ferguson as CUSU President, after and a campaign organisation second.” an election which saw a rise in voter Despite former CUSU President pompous turnout and the failure of a referen- Laura Walsh’s claims that “Ferg will fix dum to restructure the CUSU it”, there have been no radical changes interview executive. Speaking after results to CUSU under his leadership. “I hope ever were announced on Wednesday night, we have done what we set out to do. We neither Fletcher nor Ferguson was haven’t made massive changes yet. We PAGE 12 able to identify specific means by haven’t brought CUSU back into the which CUSU could be made relevant absolute mainstream but it’s getting to students. One student present for there. I don’t think there’s much more I the result was unmoved by the transi- could have done.” tion from Ferguson to Fletcher. “Judge my presidency on next »Arts “Frankly, I don’t see what’s going to year’s turnout”, Ferguson challenged change,” she said. “No one really the Cambridge student body last year. London Calling: a notices CUSU anyway.” Largely thanks to the introduction of quick trip round Fletcher was hesitant to set out any online voting this year, there has been kind of vision for his year as a 13.7 per cent rise in turnout after last some capital President. “I could sit down and make year’s six-year low, with 3292 votes theatre many promises but I don’t think that cast by an electorate of around 20, 000 works to the benefit of anybody”, he students. “Voter turnout isn’t mas- said. He believes that he won the sively up,” admitted Ferguson, “ but majority of votes because “I was the we’re hopefully moving in the right most experienced candidate”. direction, slowly but surely. ‘Mark’s Despite the presence of four mem- Mountain’ was never going to be bers of the A Little More Action climbed in one year”. slate on the Executive, Fletcher Elected in 2006 in the wake of a PAGE 14 expressed optimism. “I hope that troubled year for the Executive, there is no factionalism in this. I hope Ferguson’s presidency was announced that they will make efforts not to do on the same day as Trinity’s disaffilia- so and then we can all work together tion from CUSU, at a time when ONLINE for the better life of CUSU. They several other colleges were consider- haven’t said [that they will be run- ing disaffiliating. One of his stated ➡Arts ning their own team] and I have no goals was to convince Trinity to return reason not to believe them.” While to CUSU. On 28 January this year the Varsity previews denying the likelihood of a faction- college reaffiliated in a referendum at alised committee, defeated which only 20 votes were cast, follow- David Lynch’s presidential candidate Daniel ing the reaffliation of Downing MCR newest and Perrett said that slate members last term. Magdalene and Trinity apparently would continue to campaign in their MCRs remain disaffiliated. personal capacities. Outgoing CUSU has also failed to obtain the strangest President Mark Ferguson expressed 2020 votes required in the referen- film yet, the hope that “everybody who’s run- dum to restructure the Executive ning for election is big enough and from one group of 27 individuals into INLAND mature enough and sensible enough six teams, after what incoming EMPIRE to be able to work together”. Services Officer Adam Colligan has “We have some similarities but pos- described as “a year of desperately sibly the name overstates them,” publicised open consultation forums Fletcher told Varsity on the subject of and two unanimous votes from the a “Ferg-Fletch” transition. “The Council” on the necessity for the Ferguson thing’s obvious and I restructuring. Fletcher has said he is unwilling to make promises DYLAN SPENCER-DAVIDSON Union election chicanery p3 | Stephen Hawking in a spin p4 | Property panic p6-7 Got a news story? Friday March 9 2007 2 NEWS [email protected] varsity.co.uk/news In Brief Sporting success comes in cycles Videos of local »Linguist plans to cycle round France on the route of the originalTour de France fights on YouTube on an exercise bike in three hours Two teenagers from Cambourne, near MIKE KIELTY and twenty minutes. He plans to be Cambridge, have been arrested after entirely self-sufficient over the posting videos of fights between youths A Cambridge linguist on his year course of the trip, reconstructing on YouTube. One boy has been bailed and abroad is planning to cycle the route the experience of the first cyclists of the other released without charge. of the original Tour de France this the Tour as far as possible. The Chairman of the voluntary Cambourne summer. Ed Gascoigne, a third year details of his proposed route are cur- Youth Partnership group Andrew from Emmanuel, decided to don the rently in the process of finalisation. Bendon defended claims that there is a lycra and “do something extraordi- Celebrating its 104th anniversary problem with anti-social behaviour in the nary” while studying in Paris. this year, original Tour was billed as village, saying that “People are getting “The idea came to me on a grey “the greatest cycling trial in the the impression there is a big problem in evening on the way back from entire world. A race more than a Cambourne, all the kids are being tarred Cambridge to my old job near Paris, month long: Paris to Lyon to with the same brush”. Rebecca Lester a frankly awful job that was going Marseille to Toulouse to Bordeaux nowhere and represented a com- to Nantes to Paris.” In 1919 the plete dead-end. I decided I had to famous yellow jersey was intro- Born to addiction duced to mark out the race leader. The original race may have pro- Humans may be genetically predis- “I decided I had vided a tougher athletic challenge to posed to drug addiction, research car- its modern successor, involving a ried out by Cambridge scientists has to get out and greater distance and bicycles that suggested this week. The study pub- bore little resemblance to the light- lished in Science indicates that the run away to join weight aluminium machines of the lack of a particular receptor in the twenty-first century. In the days brain leaves some individuals more the circus ” before skintight yellow jerseys, likely to become dependent on drugs aerodynamic helmets or even bicy- than others. Jeff Dalley, head of the cle gears, the participants would Ed Gascoigne tries out the lycra ED GASCOIGNE research team said, “We know that start out in the early hours of the this particular brain receptor is get out and ‘run away to join the cir- morning and arrive at their destina- hensible” achievement that Ed one pound for each of the 4488 miles decreased in a number in human cus’, and came up with this concept.” tion at some point in the night. With plans to set off from Paris on April of the route, with a current total of cocaine addicts… The next crucial While translating for the charity no organised food stops, riders Fools’ Day, “as fitting a day as any”, just over one thousand pounds. step will be to understand the causal “Sport sans Frontieres” in Paris, Ed stopped at cafes en route, preferring hoping to return in early June. He is relationship between trait impulsivi- has been training for four hours copious amounts of wine to protein also using the trip to raise money in ty and cocaine abuse vulnerability.” each day in preparation for the ven- shakes and energy bars. support of the work of the charity justgiving.com/eds-tourdefrance Emma Inkester ture and is now able to cycle 100km It is in honour of their “incompre- Save the Children and hopes to raise " & Boost in funding + upsets academics GP CHRIS WILLETT The UCU’s general secretary, 2 Sally Hunt, expressed a similar lack of enthusiasm. She said, “Around a 6 HEFCE’s announcement on March 1 fifth of institutions will be hit with a ; that Cambridge will receive £169 mil- real terms cut in HEFCE funding, lion in funding has been met with which is just not acceptable.” A UCU GP indignation by Cambridge academics spokesperson added, “The recurrent and UCU, the lecturer’s union. funding increase for English higher JT According to CAmbridge Pro-Vice education institutions in 2007-2008 GP Chancellor, Tony Minson,“ the total will actually leave many universities HEFCE block grant for 07/08 was with real terms reductions.” 2 fairly close to what we expected.” The The boost provided by HEFCE 6 £169 million given to Cambridge will parallels a rise in inflation and an be divided into £107 million for extra £1 million needed to support GP research and £62 million for teach- “high cost vulnerable science sub- ing.” jects”.
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