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••• ISION, RTICLES, EVIEWS, TORIES, NFORMATION, HOUGHTS AND WHAT OU WANT TO READ ••• e WEEK Independent Student LENT Newspaper est. 1947 Friday 20th January 2012 Issue No 750 | varsity.co.uk 7 Science: Rock 5 Interview: Tony Benn refl ects on a political career 10 Features: ose Were the Days 20 Fashion: Get your kicks for the new year with a of the week that has spanned more than 60 years with David Mitchell pair of your very own personal trainers “Dear Diary, I might be some time” Student rejects Oxford University offer In Features: Captain Scott’s diaries from his fateful fi nal expedition are uncovered for Elly Nowell, 19, sent Magdalene College, Oxford the fi rst time at a rejection letter after attending an interview at Cambridge’s Scott the college, before fi nding out whether or not she Polar Museum. In had procured a place at the prestigious university. News: The Duke of Nowell, who was applying to read Law, rejected the Edinburgh, below, college upon the grounds that her experience at arrives at Corpus to interview was one of “elitism” that bordered upon commemorate the “discrimination”, emphasising the “obvious gap” hundredth anniversary between white middle class students and minorities of Scott’s party at the college. reaching the South Pole In her rejection letter, which she posted on Facebook, Nowell wrote that Oxford did not “meet the standard” of the other universities she was considering attending. She went on to note that the buildings and grounds of the famous college, which was founded in 1458, in which the interviews were held were “intimidating”, declaring that this “allows public school applicants to fl ourish and intimidates state school applicants”. Nowell hopes to read Law at UCL instead, to escape the “traditions and rituals” of Oxford that she believes “refl ect badly upon your university”. Helen Charman SCOTT POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE HELEN CAHILL MUSIC e W e e k n d , ‘It’s very freeing. Guided by Voices You take these Clegg visits Cambridge BOOKS Foule Readings, clothes off and Students challenge Clegg despite low protest turnout Esther Morgan you’re taking off FILM Steve McQueen’s a lot of burdens. Shame by Helen Charman Cambridgeshire Against the Cuts, had was disappointed with the turnout at Naturism is a great Deputy News Editor also spoken of plans to protest ahead the protest, stating that: “this clearly of Clegg’s visit: “We’re looking for- does not refl ect the national climate, ART Leonardo Da Vinci, leveller’ Nick Clegg’s fi rst visit to Cambridge as ward to welcoming Nick to Cambridge as is shown by the thousands who Taylor Wessing Prize Deputy Prime Minister yesterday was and explaining to him the devastat- attended the recent demonstrations interrupted by a vocal minority of pro- ing impact his government’s cuts and and strikes at the end of last year.” testors who had travelled all the way to austerity measures are having on the He added: “We need to gather THEATRE ETG’s King Lear, Cambridge Regional College to voice people of Cambridgeshire. I can only together and generate the momentum Liam Williams their anger at Clegg and the Liberal hope he’s listening.” that could be possible.” Democrats’ u-turn on tuition fees. ere was a large security presence at Another protestor, a student at Christ’s Clegg, who read Archaeology and the college too in anticipation of poten- who wishes to remain anonymous, WEEKEND > Anthropology at Robinson College, tial demonstrations, but the Deputy thought that their small but vocal pro- 3 visited the College for a tour of the car- Prime Minister arrived before any pro- test was still a success as Clegg was met WEATHER 0 pentry and bricklaying facilities there in testors and evaded a hostile welcome. with some form of obstruction. He told 2 support of apprenticeships, before then Upon emerging for the second part Varsity that: “it’s not just Clegg’s hypoc- 0 0 giving a question and answer session of his visit though, he was interrupted risy that’s worrying, but the fact that he 4 for Liberal Democrat members. by the three members of CDE, banging is willing to go along with the destructive 4 A sizeable protest group had been a drum and chanting about cuts progression of ideological cuts and the 4 8 expected to meet him, but the turnout One of the protestors, who described destruction of the welfare state.” 5 7 was small with just three members of himself as Hugh from Cambridge e lack of publicity surrounding 1 Varsity investigates 7 Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) Defend Education, shouted at Clegg the event and the distant location were 7 Look out for our new-look website, coming soon to a laptop near you Cambridge nudism turning up. “shame on you, you hypocrite!”. both considered key factors in the dis- 9 Andrew Osborne, the secretary of Speaking to Varsity, he said that he appointing protester turnout. PS. 1GM 1GM 6 2 EDITORIAL JANUARY 20 2012 — WEEK 1 It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper – Jerry Seinfeld. EDITORIAL ...24 pages of words, pictures, facts, opinions, thoughts, clues, statements, Inside conclusions, insinuations and the occasional flashof genius... Beginnings: In with the old DIGITAL CONTENTS INTERVIEW and the new Online: Interview 5 Tony Benn Tony Benn 5 n his opening statement to the Salon Indien has taken on an almost Our top 10 picks of 2011’s Former Labour Party MP and current President of the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, mythical status due to the audience music, film, art and literature Stop the War Coalition talks about his life in politics Practise and Ethics of the Press reaction at its first showing, fleeing at the end of last year, Guardian in terror from the screen at the sight Podcasts: Ieditor Alan Rushbridger discussed of an approaching train so realistic the realities of journalism in the they thought it real. This captures Alternative Idea of the University: SCIENCE modern age of continuous 24-hour the potentially startling nature of the CUSU President, Gerard Tully, on news cycles and social media. shift from still to moving image, and his idea of the university The once-a-day deadline has been the very real change we’re dealing Plastic planes 7 replaced by this continuous stream of with. My Ear Abroard: Will planes of the future be made of plastic? twitter and blog updates. This term, Varsity will embrace Becky Featherstone, on-location in With this new possibility to these changes in the new media, Beirut respond, add to, clarify and disagree, and create something that is witty, journalism as it was once known informative and thought-provoking: Soapbox: seems to be becoming increasingly a website and newspaper that pushes Rhys Jones on the solipsistic perils of FEATURES redundant. With circulations boundaries instead of sticking to genealogy declining at a rate of 10% a year and them. VarsiTV: digital audiences growing rapidly, Yes – a newspaper is still important Scott’s final diary 10 Rushbridger argues that “journalism within the media landscape and Will planes of the future be made of plastic? today is often less a snapshot, more should not be replaced, just as Hidden Treasures: a moving picture.” The idea of television did not ultimately replace Jesus College’s art collection journalism is being quickly, vastly cinema and radio. The internet and wildly transformed. simply creates new possibilities for Next week, behind the scenes of how As editors of your beloved student familiar mediums. Varsity is made FILM newspaper, being the bright-eyed Varsity provides an opportunity hopefuls wishing to spend our to pause, and, in the future, an post-graduation days making coffee opportunity to reflect. It is at once Hidden depths 14 (sorry, interning) at the Guardian for a live, moving picture of ideas, Bafta nomination for graduate film-makers Rushbridger’s secretaries, we must opinion and information, and a fixed decide what the future of print media snapshot that represents your time holds. If journalism is changing in here. such profound, uncharted ways, Varsity will capture this each week why do we continue in a threatened – something that is certainly needed THEATRE medium with our weekly University all the more with the fast pace of the paper? Is it the allure of inky Cambridge bubble. After all, this is 18 fingertips and the smell of freshly not just any newspaper. It is your Team List (What’s your new year’s resolution?) Pick me up printed-paper, or the desire to create newspaper. Without your news, it’s Editors Madeleine Morley and Louise Benson The cast of the next week’s ADC lateshow talk something that we can hold in our only paper – and if digitalised, it’s not [email protected] (Get a new haircut) about redemption, pressure and priesthood own hands? even that. Business Manager Michael Derringer [email protected] (As they say in the trade, wear my hat more) These are all questions that So get talking, get reading, get Senior Arts Editor Zoe Large demand to be answered: Varsity writing – and get in touch. [email protected] (Keep a dream diary) recognizes that it’s now time for News Editor Matt Russell SPORT some serious, positive – and radical [email protected] (Watch less football) – change. Rushbridger compares the Science and Theatre Editor Helen Cahill [email protected] (Learn more about rocks) 22 new media to a moving picture, with Perspectives Editor Emily Fitzell Guilty of injustice its audio snippets, videos, blogs and [email protected] (Learn another language) feeds, whilst old media is a snapshot.

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