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Friday, March 9, 2007 VOL37:ISSUE 17 Racist graffiti on campus • Officials encourage students to report hate crime

"However, the library staff also found civilised. If black people origi a, aed in, say. ongoing at Leeds. Forrester believed that the reported By Alex Doorey lslamaphobic comments in the same cubi- present day USA and it was then left "We're at a brilliant urn and we expect graffiti had been dealt with efficiently. cles in Edward Boyle after I informed untouched until the 20th century, would students to act more maturely than this." "I hope that the swill actions of the them of the complaint." such a civilised society have been creat- he said. "There is so much religious and Union and the University will encourage Officials have taken swift action to deal A spokesperson for the University said: ed?" cultural activity and awareness on campus. others to come forward to report this type with reports of racist, anti-Semitic and "Where notice of racist or offensive graffi- Another contributor had added that like the Discover Islam week recently. It is of graffiti," she said. "We are determined Islamaphobic graffiti on campus. The ti is given, cleaning services act immedi- they associated Africans With gun crime, a shame that despite efforts from vulnera- to create a campus free from discrimina- graffiti, found in both the Brotherton and ately to remove it. The Parkinson building low standards and low I.Q levels. Anti- ble groups. this type of thing still goes on." tion." Edward Boyle libraries and in the Union has been checked today. we understand Semitic graffiti was also found in the same Students have also spoken out against She added that it was irrelevant building. was reported to Union staff by a that there is no graffiti. location. such racist acts. Hind Hassan, Secretary whether the perpetrators were students of number of students this week. The Univer- "A check of the EBL reveals that an Diane Pedder. Manager of Leeds Uni- of Unite Against Fascism, expressed her the University or not. "Whether these peo- sity and Union have vowed that they will initial clean up by the Library has not been versity Union's Student Advice Centre. concerns that such racism existed within pleare.students. lecturers or anyone else is continue to take strong measures against wholly successful. so a repainting has been condemned any form of discriminating the University 's multicultural community not the point. It's a problem on our campus offensive vandalism. and are urging more arranged. The Brotherton is still to be hehas lour and warned that graffiti is an and added that the graffiti was racist san- that we have to deal with." students to come forward to report it. checked. Racist graffiti is unacceptable. illegal and punishable offence. dal ism. Students are now beMg encouraged to Beth Forrester. Education Officer. mindless and a needless drain on Universi- "Hate crime is unacceptable and illegal -The Edward Boyle library has been report the writings to Leeds University dealt with the student complaints. ty. finances." but figures suggest that over all per cent of renowned for its racist graffiti for many Union. "The first case was in LUU men's toilet One section of graffiti. found by Leeds incidents go unreported," she said. years, but I think it is important to high- Forrester said: "Any student who expe- cubicles and has now been removed by Student in the Brothenon library, focused "Please help to stop hate crime. be it light that this is a minority of people whose riences any kind of race or religious crime facilities." she said. on a racist debate. It read: "Every other stone throwing. name calling. physical opinions are detested by the vast majority should feel free to go to the Student -The second case was again in the civilisation in the world has contributed to assault or graffiti by reporting it to the Stu- of students." she added. Advice Centre and report it as a hate men's cubicles on level 10 of the Edward civilisation: India and China etc. Africa dent Advice Centre," Both the University and Union have a crime." Boyle library and this area has now been has not-regardless of environmental fac- Omar Khan. LUU Welfare Officer. strong, anti-racial stance. and have prom- But Khan admitted that dealing with closed off for cleaning or repainting. tors. Look at Australia. a desert but was disappointed that such racism was ised a quick resolution to the problem. graffiti was problematic. "How do we curb this type of behaviour?" he said. "The only thine we could do is to start putting up CCTV in the toilets. It is a difficult satiation." Apology On October 27. 200h. the Leeds Student newspaper printed on its front page an article headlined 'Protestors on far right hitlisi.'. To illustrate this piece. the newspaper printed a conirnmitc linage of pictures taken from the Redw atch website. One of these pictures showed Peter Lazenby. a local journalist with an unblemished reputation, above a !banner from the website which. as a 'result of the cropping of the image. .could be taken to refer to Mr lazenby_ It was not the intention of Leeds Student to make such a onnectson. and nor do we believe Oat Mr Lazenby should be the 'subject of such a banner. Leeds lFStudent and Leeds University Union understand that to have created the possibility of such a connection was RACIST: Just one of the many offensive scrawls la the Paricinson quite wrong. and we apologise to him PHOTO: JOSEF BALODIS AND JOSHUA FREEMAN unreservedly for any damage done and for any offense caused. 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nitre's that it calls 'the trustee board', all the usual suepecie. I reckon 'eclat that, just as the brandishing of a Big Issue efore the losers of the Exec vote which will guard the Union from about 75 per cent on that quest* t will ward off tramps. a simple "I've o I One losers) have even had time to invaders. Even Oxfam have one appar- can drop marks on the first one, "Ike( lick their wounds. another week at already voted" cuts it with the persistent knov, anyone en B ently. which struck me as a hit heavy this list!" benittaneage the ballot is upon us. I yawn so widely Ilycrers. handed for a charity. Yes again. I sup- to my left. I am Matt about this. Ready to begin. I turn over my elec- that my chewing gum falls out of my pose. Number four is a total gem. the Question three seems to mouth. tion paper, Phew. multiple choice! lust as beabout et deliciously ironic "Making democescy losers from the last election So. what are we voting For now? Why well. because how was Ito solve the aeceesibk.- Insert satire here. But wire another stab at doing something he dk not hug a blue hoodie, the pillars of our enigma that is Motion two, "Concerning I feel the desire to tick yes for it. I am queue of students thirsting for the le Enabling Acts?" Even with a direct men- wd fragile democracy. in the Union foyer and of Union democracy is gnawing net find out? I did. Armed with my booklet tion for Leeds Student. I am totally clue- being duped. "Get away from the voting tent!" longer behind me, so I am quick ic,,..rou of 'information'. I was off to vote. Luck- less. if it's as concerning as it says it is squawks a blue hoodie to a girl complete out my workings out and leave. ily, the tent wasn't too busy, which was though, i had better tick yes, I tick yes to with wellies, an umbrella and climate My question 10 those who really has/ odd considering that the man with the Motion one as well. because they defi- change propaganda. I am distracted. and voted is this: How? How the megaphone had just announced that Take nitely had to pay extra for that ! at the end bleeds ter decide I'll put a star by that one and come did you do it? Answers on a pasiew That would be doing a one off perterm- of climate change( !). io the usual address for your chance tote ance in there in ten minutes. However. So. Motion three wants a burglar back to it. Question two. NUS delegates, is basi- the sabbatical officer of your choice nee nothing scents to work on the stupefied alarm For the Union does it? No. on clos- cally a who's who of the Union. so I tick year. student population. who have learned er inspection. it wants a crack team of Short speaks on campus and you find it indefensible. you can't against it. Ms Short said an attack on nuclear-armed Israel on the doorstep Nuclear By Oliver Holmes stay.- Iran was "inconceivable in any sane it's a rational decision. Ms Short's pessimistic views of the world but the "neo-cons are a bit crazy" armament in Iran would ultimately lead and a "bunch of zealots" who exploited Saudi Arabia. Turkey and Eygpt to GLOBAL Labour Party and especially Tony Blair dangerous revealed a real sense of distrust and 9111 to push their views and have follow suit. "In the most Clare. Short came to speak at the Centre • bitterness, which she expressed several presented an invasion on Iran as a region of the world you would Ithen for International Governance about times throughout the interview, Any viable option. have nuclear proliferation" Ms Short By Chris Stevenson how international institutions can help mention of the Blair government was in combat the problems we leer filth). a cold tone, with Ms Short even After her talk. I had the chance to claiming that Blair had "played up le:cording industry le interview Ms Short about the Blair Africa to save himself from Iraq." week government, policy in the Middle Ms Short said her expectations for a cwoeellekgeincs7udsedentsils fr East and nuclear proliferation. efocnortsatliee"all government led by Blair's heir "America is in terrible trouble and downloading pirated music online' II apparent. Gordon Brown, were very cannot succeed in its Middle Iasi caught. the Recording Indnen low, "Brown is much more clever policy" she said, adding this would A.asociation of Amerce (RIAA) has se' intellectually than Tony Blair and does ultimately drive change in the greatest it will offer American students-a way e detail that Tony doesn't". yet in her power in the world to accept settle the disputes out of court view he is a -spinner just like Tony and muliilateralism and the rule of 13usuniversitlecThe RIAA said it sent 400 is at least as had a control freak". Ms ►etes t advisin of Short said she was taken aback by g Brown's support for a replacement for copyright infringement lawsuits agate Ai the Trident nuclear missile system students who use peer to per network! without "any intelligent debate" and by to trade songs. They argue the moil his position in favour of holding has cost millions of dollar. with up tr America's terrorism suspects for up to 90 days one billion songs swapped each moot inability to without charge "alter parliament had A recent study at University as agonized and said 27", Richmond found more than lull o discuss the She was dubious about Brown's college students downloaded muse al ability as prime minister to achieve movies illegally. Middle East success in Iraq. "If I were him I would The RIAA is imploring thi completely withdraw from Iraq.- she universities to notify students they of accurately or said, adding that Afghanistan "is the he sued if caught. but can settle the caul new quagmire for Britain". before any laweuits we filed RIAA slid ever criticize Ms Short said she believes the e will send out hundreds of the lam t need States will intly get out of Iraq Israel is so it it changes its whole policy towards coal month in an effort to iillillp IXO blanket the Middle East, a move that is 111t1SiC theft by students. imperative in her eves. "ff you go to Under the settlement dm! offend III America the inability to discuss the RIAA, students would have to pay a fie 99 Middle East accurately or ever criticize and sign a statement promising they Israel is so blanket. a's quite wIlie)gily.ullii no longer dninonm... maw frightening" especially in the Muse of international lac. Ms Short. being a illegally. Representatives. she said. has se true ad (wate 01 intermit timid salesTheecplutngeordb),ind muostrery, tha Ms Short was just as pessimistic Institutions, endorses multilateralisin as n about frau and the standoff over the the only way to achieve progress. between 2001) to 2006. wants nate country 's suspected nuclear weapons Clare Short resig.ned from lovers to puteluese diedial music ova pmgramme, though she said the United Tole. Blair's cabinet in May 2t11)3 aver like Apple's dime States was in so much trouble in Iraq the war in Iraq. She said Blair had that it was unlikely to be able to invade Mlegulsdie Store, promised her that the United Nations or attack Iran. "The situation in Iran is RIAA President Cary Sherman sad would take the lead on the SHORT SHRIFT: Short damned prospective invasions of Iran phenomenally dangerous. America "Remember that the habits Iled dr) reconstruction of Iraq and got President bombing Iran is a triad, mad policy and PHCifu: Hind Hassan iitincveneedmatsibform in will stay with them for : George W Bush to promise to commit would he a complete disaster and "I think the neo-cons are dangerous to the road map that would create a said. She said Iran can't he threatened would only further inflame the situation lunatics" she said. adding that Blair had de o ph c" Palestinian state by the end of 2005. ow of producing weapons of mass m gra i in the Middle East" she said. bought their language. She added that Sean Foley. a student at Aft102 These were the conditions that destrucuon t WMD). which could only She sees U.S. Vice President Dick any Iranian government would try to convinced Ms Short to stay. yet she be achieved by Middle East-wide non- State University, where they an Cheney and other neo-conservatives develop atomic bombs. "If I was the , said that -it became absolutely clear proliferation. which would have to expecting RIAA's settlement Imo supporting military action but she says Iranian government. I would want a that Blair had looked me in the eve and include Israel. there is a ray of hope because Robert nuclear weapon" lied to me to keep me there When but the record companiee should le Gales, who has replaced Donald Ms Shoe said defending !lien the dare policy of the government is a 0//ir .6 one of the tortiiiho.% r,f the letting people use thew serrimk ;litho Rumsfeld as U.S. Defense Secretary, is position with the tegument that e itlt disaster and based art complete deceit a Inturnuonnal.Wain ts1;11;iide:b.elnklitheomw.'s'tudene. ate active acts,

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Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday. March 9, 2007 3 Corinne sings for charity War Child The stars of the music world have Lostpraphets, Feeder and Leeds' own come out to pledge then support for Corinne Bailey Rae will help to the charity War Child, A series of promote the charity's new dog tag performances from the likes of initiative. which will help to raise money for the children the charity helps io support. War Child works in conflict countries including Iraq. Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect street children. child soldiers and children in prison. Its work on the ground includes providing shelters for street children. helping child soldiers to re-join their communities and getting children out of adult prisons. It V., as founded in 1993 in response to the conflict raging in the former Yugoslavia, Initially raising money through entertainment events and public appeals. War Child set out to bring immediate material aid to children of all ages and ethnic bac kgroun.k. As Wm Child grew it was able to undertake larger projects, the first being a mobile bakery which fed thousands of people a day throughout the conflict in Bosnia. Funding a network of NGOs and implementing more than twenty projects throughout the region. War Child's work included fond provision. medical care. reconstructitm and educational and social welfare programmes.

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PLEDGE TO HELP: One of the many thousands of chiiidren caught up in Celebrity performances will go on RAE OF HOPE: Stars will be promoting the dog tag appeal to raise awareness conflict around the country. visit of the War Child mission PHOTO- Wamhildexim www.warchild.org.uk for details. Alumni Morgan Community sport helps local kids

By Rachel Hunter Cohesion Project as a way of MIRA ii cohesion in the area between ,,lifterent scoops BAFTAs conummities Jim Burkhardt. Physical Activities Co- cold. emotionally detached, haughty. difficult. prickly, private, A cricket couching programme has been By Abid Husain ordinator at the Leeds Primary Care uncommunicative. out-of-touch launched to bring together local school Trust. said; "In the fast year we worked bigot." children from the Asian and white with local primary schools. but we telt we Morgan attended the University of communities in South Leeds- wanted to do more. We're still in the Leeds to study English Literature but The programme is headed by a planning stages. just using cricket as The stars of the big screen gathered at an subsequently switched to Fine Art. University of Leeds security guard. Steve arena for all sorts of things, team- the BAFTAs last month to award the stating the English department was too Holliday. In his position as head coach. industry's finest, which this year building, communication, and stiflingly old-fashioned for his liking. he is helped out by three students from spoosmanship. The kids have got to included former Leeds student Peter Talking about his experiences at the University. know each other and have become Morgan. the University he said he had been Holliday said: "1 was approached Morgan won a BAFTA for his friends. blessed with 'inspirational' teachers through a Leeds Primary Care TM-CZ to Those involved in the project have adapted screenplay for The Last King 5, who turned him 'inside out'. start up a cricket coaching programme. welcomed additional support from of Scotland. alongside fellow scribe He said: "It was like going into a which is run under the Leeds Cohesion students Holiday said: "1 think student Jeremy Brock. and was also wall at about 190 miles an hour. I was Project. Through sport we're trying to involvement is really important. There's nominated for an Oscar for hest thrown in with extremely radical. bring kids from both the Asian always going to he had publicity: against original screenplay for 'The Queen'. politicised people who tore me to community and the white community students; by doing a bit more, like He was also nominated for a pieces. It was a very good together. working with spans clubs, they can only British Independent Film Award for experience.- -Two separate schools in South Leeds his screenplay for 'The Last King of benefit themselves: they. can gam Morgan has been an incisive have recently been merged together: one Scotland'. a haunting look at the important lite skills." playwright and screenwriter for a of the schools was predominantly Asian. legacy of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. He added. —the kids enjoy it - it's a number of years. the other was preddminantly white, There to Morgan also earned a Golden programme that's going to run right up Before his work on "Die Queen' was still some separation between the Globe from the Hollywood Foreign the summer holidays. The one thing that I and 'The Last King of Scotland', groups. so through cricket we're trying to Press for his work on The Queen'. want to do as head coach hi to eventnally Morgan was perhaps hest known for bring the two groups together. to break During his acceptance select a team from kids at schools in the QUEEN writing 'The Deal', a televsion drama down any barriers_ I honestly think kids speech he was asked to 'wrap up' his Numainding area to give them something about the power-sharing deal betwixt! coming together from two daterent statement after less than a minute of to aim at. and organise inter-school Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that schools will always light, that's rust a fact matches." speaking after calling Queen Elizabeth was made in the (haunt' restaurant in of life, race is irrelevant." 11 a 'stubborn seventy year old Film Buff: Morgan was nominated London, which aired in 2003, The merging of the two schools has Coaches and volunteers are still required. woman'. for Best Original Screenplay for The Morgan was also nommated lOr an provoked tensions between children from If you would like to he involved. contact: Morgan subsequently added. "AN Queen' Oscar for best writing and Original the twit COT111111.111ItiCS: this prompted the stevehollitatonniulaavaik far as I am aware, I wrote about a rffee _ern Screenplay in 200b. local area committee to create the Leeds jiin.hurkhardt fa; leedspet.iihs.uk Leeds Student www•leedsstudentorg,uk Friday, March 9, 2007 4

`Climate Chaos' artwork wanted Events to take place across rt,.111,14' ,L nd 1'1,10{1 .Ire 11111111-T

•LIIM1111 ■•• ( 17 k as, pan it •an-11%11p] campus for Tairtrade fortnight' P011,10 JUL! are "toJkinv with 15 other cliaroies including Greenrieitec, (Islam. WWF and Sti.p (-11;1•IN ill a carnpatvm 1.1 By Ahid Husain and Laura paper socks ;eel underwear which they Aimee Ile climate change called - I Mackensie plan to take dove; to Primarle on a CIUTIT Ceent washing line. as a protest to encourage Studeots ow:Jested Iii or studying the company to improve its production es eras have. Art and Design can submit entries or A number of been taking standards in order to comply fully with pleee :IC then %yolk to be este' tot the en werk sompus to raise awareness the Ethical lair Trade Initiative that of 1•;iilUALic oducts. and advertisine of the eampaien they have signed up to. 'Fairtrade Fortnight' aims to rake which he present al Stephanie Parker. a third year GlaStOnbliFy, Lis e Earth concerts awareness about the Fainrade mark and English and Theatre studies student and Le cm:mirage people at the university to .aid other I Count events in 21107. Fair Fraie coordinator within I.A.TU's purchase Fairtrade products. Events A spokesperson for People and People and Planet group said. have so tar meluded a Fairtrade Quiz Planet said: "we want the artwork Iii l'airtradc is important because it Night at The Terrace organised by he positive and inspiring - we want demonstrates to our governmem and toll's People and the Planet which people to he inspired to take their those amulet the world that we do not was held on February 28. own actions, and to realise That no agree with the unjust way in which The quiz provided the opportunity matter how small those may be. that global trade is conducted. for students to brush up on their ethical each pe•sen counts in the miss einem "In buying Fairtrade products and knowledge as well as sample a against climate chaos." exercising your consumer power, we selection of Fairtrade wines. The night People and Planet are also can send a strong message to your local also kick-started a People and Planet arranging a trip to Faslane, Britains and global community. In this way. campaign to make the house wine at nuclear weapons base. in Scotland Fainrade establishes a relationship both Mine and The Terrace Fairtrade. next weekend. Places are still between producer and consumer that A petition tat this is ongoing and over available for unyone that wants to gn conventional multi-national companies the past fortnight People and Planet on the trip. try to sever. Samuel's visit to our have been running stalls in the Union lens ersity provided a unique in order to get as mum signaurres as For more details contact Elizabeth opportunity to see this in practice." possible. Fellow s nn phl3esf(aleeds.ac.uk The Univerity of Leeds gained People and Planet also hosted a Runlet& status in March 2006, and has l'airtrade speaker and film night at the since been attempting to spread the A Green Day Centenary Clattery on March 8. The message of Fairtrade across the evening included a selection of short campus. 'The Union also recently films on Fairtrade and the Fairtrade organised its own Fainrade exhibition. The Faculty of Environment is mark. Guest speaker was collet; raising over fe500 to provide vital FAIR TRADE: MJ'S is one of the campus cafe's supporting the cause holding an interactive Green Day on producer Samuel Magona, who spoke medical equipment to banana growers Wednesday March 14 to celebrate the PHOTO. CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS directly about his own Fairtrade in the Windward Islands. start of Spring, experiences in Uganda. Silje Vold of As a result of the University's Groups from Leeds and beyond People and the Planet also discussed Fairtrade status and its increasing were impressed by the conference and are very committed to raising w ill he displaying information about wider trade justice issues, in particular events facilities available at Leeds and awareness of Fairtrade internally and the work that they do and how you ethica credentials Leeds was chosen to the current exploitation of workers in host the Fairtrade Foundation's Annual the University's commitment to externally and were delighted to he can get ins olved from I lam to 3pm in the cotton industry. Fainrade. We fen- Leeds would he an able to hold the conference this year in the School of Geography foyer, Conference on February 9 . which was 'Fairtrade Fortnight' is linked to the excellent venue for our conference and the Parkinson Court and Centenary At 12.30pm the Deputy Vice attended by 1(10 delegates from national campaign. 'High Street, High would serve as a good example to our Chancellor will launch the 'Cycle to universities throughout the country Gallery, particularly as it was the first Cost', which aims to pressure high Work Scheme'. and discuss the hoping to learn more about the benefits delegates who are looking to further time the conference has moved nonli," University's long term plans to street shops to make their production of of embracing Fairtrade. their Fairtrade campaigns with their Leeds has also introduced a wide decrease its effect on climate change. clothing more financially transparent. Veronica Pasteur. Campaign Officer own universities." variety of Fainrade beverages and Guest speakers from the ethical and eco-friendly. People and the for the Fairtrade Foundation said: Beverley Kenny, Assistant Director snacks ranging from teas and coffees to Permaculture Association of Britain Planet are currently receiving messages "Following our successful campaign for Catering and Conferencing at the an assortment of Fairtrade chocolates. and Sustrans for sustainable transport from students which are written on dm held at the University last year. we University of Leeds commented: "We An overhaul of the current range of will also host a discussion from 1-2 in alcoholic beverages available for sale is the Geography Lecture Theatre. currently in itsfinal stages, which will For those who wish to revel in the result in a much wider selection of warmer temperatures of Spring. a Fairtrade wines and spirits available at flower planting group will be held in Essentials Extra. St Georges Fields from 3 to 4pm . There has been a generally positive which will he followed by. a screening response on campus about the impact of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth' in Chemist). Lecture Theatre of the University's continued D. Guests will be invited to enjoy a campaigning to raise awareness about glass of organic local wine. the Fainsade mark and their A spokesperson for the event said: SEE commitment to selling: Fairtrade "This day will he a great opportunity produce. to find out about how the University Annie Carpenter. a second year Fine and Leeds as a city are responding to Art student siad: "I'm really pleased the problem of climate change. and the University sells such a wide range how you can gel involved. If you feel of Fairtrade goods. It makes helping like celebrating the arrival of Spring, Actio others less fortunate than ourselves an then why not roll up your sleeves and easy decision to make when Fairtrade join in." products are right there in front of us." For further information contact Daniel Yea. a second year K.E.DrummondeeLeedseneuk philosophy student, was more sceptical about the universities Nowak produce. stance. He said; "It really annoys me Hilary Benn F00 when the Union engages in politics that it has nothing to do with. I have rto problem with Essentials selling visits Leeds Fairtrade produce but when they stop selling products like KitKats because On Friday march V at 5pm until 7pnt of Nestle's baby milk policies in the Hilary Ben will he coming to Leeds Co developing world. things have gone tat University to speak to the student far. People need to be given a choice. body about international GREEN ACTION CO-OP: helping to keep food ethical and healthy development in the conference auditorium. Fairtrade fortnight runs at the PHOTO: Alex Doorey University from 26 Febniary to the I I March. Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 5

Lecturers slammed on the web Lhasa

By Jess Ceen lecturer as "the only man brave about how to take forward their he my dad. I love him" and "I admire By Alex Doorey enough to teach the English language concerns. or those seeking him for his intelligence and great when he can't speak it." representation or support. can lecturing ability I...1 but he's st, In a Leeds complaints group approach the LUU Student Advice pretty too:- Social networking websites such as described as a forum designed to Centre for guidance. Universities UK said: "Students This Friday 19th1_ the LUU Tibet Facebook are increasingly being used unearth issues to he raised at staff- Many of the Facebook groups and staff will no doubt laugh off Society will he holding a series of to ridicule university lecturers. student meetings, one student concerning teaching at Leeds are much of this as long as the line is not events to mark the anniversary of the An investigation by The Times condemned the "sh**ty teaching. adoring tributes to lecturers deemed crossed into offensive and Tibetan Lhasa uprising, and to raise Higher Educational Supplement poor assistance and awful particularly inspiring or attractive, defamatory material." awareness of the ongoing problems found that lecturers at some tutorials." Another complained "we with remarks such as "I want him to in the area. universities had been described as don't get taught the work. then we On March 10th 1959 in Tibet's "useless" on sites such as MySpace can never get a reasonable lime to capital. Lhasa thousands of Tibetans ...fire:11 and YouTube, in addition to attacks actually have the tutorial " facebook began protesting fearing that Chinese on competency. personal hygiene and communist authorities were about to personal lives. Mem Coniphkirits kidnap their spiritual leader. the Sally Hunt, the joint general Dalai Lama. secretary of the University and "University must lisfotenturon Every year. Tibetans across the College Union. said she was do more to world mark March 111th with Gtr,ap Mfg "appalled" by the findings. She said: marches, and vigils to remember "Universities must do more to ensure ensure that staff Chem Complaints those killed, and a large march will , ;, that staff and students are able to and students are v. take place in London this work in a tolerant and intimidation- Little things that have been doing your head A Saturday.LUL. Tibet Soc will raise lecture; going too fast. all that work that's been free environment. The growth of the awareness with an action at Leeds able to work in a pilled on top of you. the tact that the Chaston web means employers and unions UM Onion I pm on March 9th. need to revisit existing dignity-at- Chapman carpet Is green, anythInk that you want tolerant and to complain about chem. put it on here and we Head of the group Luke Ward said work procedures to ensure they cover might be able to do something about it. The thinas "We are aiming to bring attention to all aspects of bullying:. intimidation-free put on here will be put to the lecturers at the next the large number of Tibetans either Roger Kline. UCU head of environment" - student staff meeting by us. on your behalf. imprisoned or disappeared in Tibet. employment. said he would A noteworthy case is that of Gedhun 1 1, t immediately seek to work with the Sally Hunt, UCU Choekyi Nyima. the UM Panchen National Union of Students to help Lama who disappeared age 6. over tackle this "worrying development". Leeds, England I I years ago on 17 May 1995 shortly He added: "This sort of behaviour is A spokesperson at the University after recognition by the Dalai Lama. clearly harassment. It is extremely of Leeds said: "We have a His whereabouts remain unknown." ki,y.rtt Fitt. ' upsetting for lecturers to be pilloried recognised Complaints Procedure To mark the Lhasa Uprising. the in this way." that students are encouraged to use. society will also be running an Several 'appreciation groups' on We've lust had a meeting about exams. Our main plont was to push In the first instance, they are advised for some more feedback. People were wondering where they had fell exhibition about Tibetan Refugees, popular social networking website to raise their complaint locally - and. doom on exams The advise given was to go see the module leader. Tibetan Refugee Story. in the Facebook concern lecturers at Leeds. indeed, one route may he the local you should beable to talk to them and they'll tell you what you need Parkinson Court next week. They contain comments written by staff/student consultative committee to know students such as "possibly worst - but where a student remains For more information. contact the tutorial ever today". with the lecturer dissatisfied, there is provision to DISSATISFIED: Students make their feelings clear LUU Tibet Soc: in question described as "a knob". seek a more formal investigation Or contact society chair Luke Ward Another group criticises a Leeds through my office. Students unclear PHOTO. Facebook website on 0783527693 I

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say in any decisions that get made. But people have become quite far removed IS: Where does all your produce come loads of people gel involved in either from where their food conies from, from? Green Action or the Co-op. you don't LS: Do you think fair trade provides a Name: Paul Brammer PB: We get most of our stuff from Lent-. have to do both. We also have an allot- real answer for poorer countries? Occupation: Green Action bits. a company based in Sheffield. Pret- ment in Hyde Park. which you can have PB: No. I think it's possible pan of the Co-op ty much everything is organic and fair answer. but sometimes the fair trad trade as much as possible. It's all ethical- a plot in. e /S: What's your most popular product? thine is used as a kind of get-out clause. ly and environmentally sound. and sold I think it's important that fair trade is at cost price - we don't make a profit. As PB: Definitely bombay mix. We sell a ridiculous amount. 1 hate the stuff but encouraged. but it's only minute fraction far as I know everything's vegan too. of what needs to be done. There are some pretty unusual things in everyone else seems addicted to it. There are LS; The Co-op shop is quite small - do LS: Do you think fair trade is a fad. or is C here that I'd never even heard of. it here to stay? Who came up with the idea of hav- you ever get cabin fever? some pretty LS.: PB: It's a difficult one. I wouldn't say ing a co-op on campus? PB: Yes. It's not a very nice space. it's a it's a fad, but I think it is quite a fashion. unusual things in PB: Well it's been around for more than bit like being trapped in a cupboard. able thing. I don't think fair trade should ten years now, so I've no idea elm's We're looking Into re-jigging it a hit to here that I'd be seen as the he all and end all of this idea it was, it's been so long. I think it make it a hit more light and airy. issue, but it's good that people are think. never even heard just started off as an experiment and just LS: What do you think of the Union's ing about these things more. I don's exploded from there. 'Fair trade-fortnight'? of. think things can go back now, it can only LS: So what does Green Action do aside PB: It's it good thing, but I don't think it from running the Co-op? should he just a fortnight, it should be all go forward. l think it's here to stay. 7 ) PB: Green Action is a society. just like the time. I think other things should be You're quite hidden down here. do you considered as well like food miles, how feel people are really aware of the co- LS: Welcome to 300 seconds, has It been any other. it's an environmental awareness society, but it's more about practi- far our food has travelled to get here. op? an early start? PB: Yeah not really. We've tried putting PB: Yeah, ten o'clock is my usual shift, cal action rather than campaigning. You LS: Why do you choose to support fair signs up but they've been ripped down. we do two hour shifts. I think there must automatically become a member of the trade? It's not very well sign-posted. that's pan be more than 50 volunteers and there's a co-op - because it's a co-op you have to PB: I think it's important to just put of the reason we're building it up. Pen. lot of competition for shifts now - most be a member to buy anything. The idea yourself in the position of the workers pie come down in their third year and people seem really keen to do it. is that all members can collectively take control of their food supply .and have a who are producing the food. I think that don't even know [1 existed. The Wooldridge report Open door policy

By Virginia Newman inconsistency across university Toothless watchdog? procedure. Some procedures carried out by universities did not reach the A US-style campus ombudsman or legal standard of natural justice and against the BNI'. conference pose as a check and balance equivalent to deal with student fairness. Among the institutions 1,200 activists, of whom 80 per cent on big business and national political complaints was called for by the Office questioned. just over half had been will be delegates. arc to represent the policy towants students? Or. is the of the Independent Adjudicator for sued. views of their respective students. One criticism that the NEC face, regarding Higher Education last week. Diane Pedder. Leeds University representative is elected for every 1.4(M) their inability to prevent top-up-fees. New research has shown that there Union's Ads-ice manager said: 'The full time students, which means that as valid: i.e. do the NEC. the NUS is a growing threat of student litigation Student Advice Centre has a Specialist students of Leeds. we will have sent 20 Conference and the students elected to and a need for universities to introduce member of staff who deals with all delegates to the Conference. represent us at the conference, have any a more "user friendly" system for Univeristy procedures, including Typically, our representatives' real national political voice? handling problems. complaints, supported by four other manifestos promise to tackle issues from Political voice aside, decisions that Ruth Deech, the adjudicator, said generalist advisers. affect us in Leeds will be made. So who is students need a central "open door" so "Our staff are trained and work in By Michael Wooldridge ii‘ Do the NEC, it that the candidates will be representing the Community Legal Service Quality it was clear where they should go when the NUS exactly'? Firstly, the election turnouts are they had problems. She commented Mark Standard of General Help with very low indeed, and secondly. as far as that campuses could be very Casework for Students. We have a They definitely delivered. They promised Conference and the manifestos stipulate - differences of "bewildering" places for students. very successful track record in helping a magical tent and a magical tent is what emphases granted - candidates represent the students especially those from overseas, and students to present cases to the got. the same thing. There is no political said: "There is a lot of help in place. University within formal procedures spectrum on oiler here, and so I am 1 was at one. Ham sandwiches to the but it is dotted around in different such as complaints. left of me. a Joker holding an egg and elected to curious as to how much scrutiny the departments. It isn't always clear to "A great deal of our work is done at debates actually face at the conference. cress bap in tin foil to my left, and - represent us at them to whom they should turn. informal stages. where we aim to although I thought it strange at the time - For example. no one is challenging the "Student unions do a good job in ensure disputes are resolved locally and there was a broken PS2 controller 'no-platform' policy. or campaigning for the conference helping students with problems, and are as quickly as possible." hanging from my neck. Finally, having the voice of those students who do a good starting point, but they don't A spokesperson from the University surgically replaced my left hand with a have any real support the BNP. And there must be such necessarily have the power to take of Leeds said: "We don't see the need Champagne flute. I was ready. I was ready students. otherwise the 'no-platform' these issues needing resolution further for an ombudsperson. The student to vote. national political policy would be purely symbolic. up the hierarchy," advice centre in the LUU is providing And it wasn't just a vote on the It seems therefore, that these elections voice? She has argued that British the kind of function an ombudsperson referenda they were after. Oh no. There are fundamentally un-democratic. 28 Universities need to learn from the US. would - such as explaining the were votes for the Union Council and students, all of whom essentially believe procedures to students, and guiding votes on the representatives for the NUS top-up-fees to corporate interference in in the same thing. are contesting for Where an ombudsman, an independent, them through the process. We Whew Conference. All number of things. the Union and 'green issues' to the 'No- places so that they can put a very similar neutral member of staff such as a The NUS conference takes place once platform policy'. Rather less typically, view point forward. The outcome seems retired professor or academic lawyer, is the system is working well." A first year music student said: a year to make sure the National some claim that, as a representative for predetermined. and the purpose, to throw put in place to resolve problems Executive Committee (NEC) is held to Leeds University Union members, they about political weight. informally, for example, through 'Having an external mediator would be mediation. poi account. The NEC make decisions will campaign against national issues such I stumbled out, woozy from the a good idea but if it were the lust The study questioned 40 higher of call, we might end up with a culture regarding Union policy and campaigns. as I.D. cards and the rising effect that effects, tripped and landed on my glass not to such as the decision to keep 'Coca-Cola' education institutions across England whereby students are encouraged pharmaceutical companies have on health hand. The flute has turned into a shard -0 in the Union. and debating the 'tat- ethics. and, although it shall sup no more on and Wales about the number of trust the University's existing me:tsar The actual clout that the elected will bubbly-boo. has slain many a monster complaints they dealt with and their to deal with their concerns, and pan of platform' policy that the NUS hms ineffective established, and LW currently employs have is open to debate. Does the since. procedures for handling complaints. the problem is The outcome showed that there is communication as it is.'

Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 7 fls • New and improved timetable system to be introduced next year

By Virginia Newman campuswch. The new `item will This will include additional links to seminars will be allocated online the information in one place. and allow students to access their programme catalogues to aid the shortly after enrolment to reduce the showing you only the sessions that timetables from the Portal and will module selection process. time spent visiting different are relevant to you. 11 students still he accompanied by guidelines in The 2006 to 2007 academic year departments to sign up to seminars or feel confused by timetables, lots of A radical overhaul of timetabling order to help those who are was the first in which individual re-allocate current seminar times. help is available online. People will take place next year in response unfamiliar with the Student Services timetables were supplied for the Classroom listings will become should let us know if they think the to feedback from the Student link. majority of students, but the system interactive next year following information here should he improved Experience Survey. The system of choosing modules has so far proved to he problematic. complaints in the Student Experience or extended in any way. We will also The changes which will be will also be changed next year. A Central Timetabling spokesperson Survey that abbreviations such as be holding student focus groups to applied for the 2007 to 2008 Compulsory modules will he said, ''we realise that these 'SSB' were hard to understand. The evaluate our timetable development academic year. will aim to offer an displayed in an "easy to print" format (timetables) were not always fully new system will see classroom codes strategy — if anyone would like the "outstanding" and easy to follow to ensure that any extra lectures and accurate or complete. Processes have become interactive with links that opportunity to influence how student "timetable experience" for students. electives chosen will not clash with been introduced to improve this, with will go straight to a page of timetables are produced in the future. This year, individual timetables compulsory ones, The Central the aim of providing all students directions to the class location. email us now, or hook out for further were accessed through Student Timetabling department is also across the University with the same The spokesperson continued: "The announcements." Services, a system that caused working on strategies to provide exceptional experience that some provision of online timetables is difficulty for many students. more guidance to students who have students have received this year." intended to make your life easier. More information is available at particularly freshers who were experienced clashes in their Finding tutorials and classrooms allowing you to access your littp:/,'www.leeds.ac.ukitimetahleistu unable to find the link on timetables which need to he resolved. will also be improved next year. as timetable at any time. keeping all of dents. ht ml TSIty of Leeds

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Under the Radar Studentification' and the 'Student Ghetto'

By Michael Wooldridge that many residents are so concerned with, try. He gave examples of gated wealthy & Stefan Page It has led to a 'feeling of being crowd- communities, predominantly old COMM. ed out of your own area' explains Sue. In nities such as is seen Eastbourne. and the 1980e, Ash Grove used to have 60% Agrarian communities such as that of Por. The student population of HEADINGLEY & HYDE PARK: 'Stu- permanent residents. but now, out of 5(1 iuguese farmers in Peterborough all caus- Hyde Park and Headingley dentification', a term that describes the properties, only 13 permanent residents ing similar social problems that •studenti- now constitutes 60% of etfccrs communities experience due to remain. Residents we spoke to claimed lication• causes, the total • a rise from heueine large numbers of students. was that the shift in demographics in Hyde The University don't endorse the term 10% in the 1960s coined by Dr. Darren Smith to pogessor at Park and Headingley have caused many to 'etudentification'. They do acknowledg- Brighton University r. and usually has neg- Move out. ing the problems with 'noise, low level ative connotations, painting students - in "Local people are in effect are being anti-social behaviour, problems with e enormity traumatissd areas such as Head- told where to live" said Sue, as she illus- parking and rubbieh' that student popula- ingley and Hyde Park - in a very bad light. trated the effects that are often forcing tions bring, but they are keen to focus on The effects that 'Studentification' has. 'locals' to move. In regards to where stu- the benefits that students bring to thei are largely associated with the damage that dent, live. the University press office 'host' communities. large populations ref suident.e can cause to explain that 'student choice is vital to pro- "Students bring diversity of cultures social cohesion. community safety and viding the best student experience', yet the and backgrounds. Vibrancy and an economic stability and has spawned terms increase in crime. none and rubbish that evening economy". stated the press office. such as the 'Student Ghetto'. recently used has been experienced as the student pepu- However. the volunteering that stu- by Leveed Democrat Councillor of Hyde !anon has risen has not created an environ- dents do apt, the economy that they bring Park and Woodhouse. Kabeer Hussain, inent conducive to bringing up a family or are all separate to the issue of demograph- Large. transient populations' of students even living a 'non-student' lifestyle, and ic imhalar , say both the line ersiry and are accreted of disengaging with COMM- therefore people have felt obliged to ruty life and treating their region of resi- move. theSHoMni(e)Sonic oohs,that the society, , as a whole, dence simply as a place that they can stop Dr. Richarcl Tyler. the head of Leeds is elumgi . As far as Hyde Park is eon- over. without any consideration of who HMO lebby, talked about the history of eerned. the remuced houses that were orig- lives there pemianently. population migration within Headingley inally built to house the industrial families We spoke to Sue Buckle - a volunteer and Hyde Park over the last 40 years. He of the late 19th century. no longer need to with the Houses in Multiple Occupation told its that there used to be roughly equal fit that bill. Furthermore, the family struc- (HMOI Lobby. Leeds - as she took us proportions of 'middle class intellectuals. ture in the UK doesn't neccesarilyneed a around the houses in south Hyde Park. young professionals, students and fami- well established family home, and so the From the stare Sue was keen to sue, lies'. Indeed, in the 1960.s students consti- desire of some Leeds residents to re-invig- that the HMO lobby and Headway - the tuted 10 per cent of the population. Now. orate a family-centric community is a newsletter that informs residents of the with two students to every permanent Res- social HMO lobby progress - are- by no means ident. students make up 611 per cent of the However. the Leeds' HMO lobby has 'saying. ger rid of the students'. What the population. driven to get more restrictions on HMOs HMO lobby. Headway and herself aim to "if you were really in e proper commu- in the Hyde Park and Headingley areas address are the issues that come about .5.■nity..you'd he meeting people from a dif- such as taxation and planning require- result of this 'demographic imbalance' ferent social class." said Dr. Tyler. And. ments. Indeed, some estate agents will that Hyde Park and Headingly now face, this. he believes is the crux of the issue for only sell houses to family buyers. Howev- Sue was keen to illustrate the dilTering Hyde Park and Headingley. Students gen- er. overwhelmingly. landlords are out- attitudes held by pernianant and tempo- erally come 'from one social class'. This potential family buyers, showing a rary resident, towards appearance and majority of temporary residents arc distinct move away from any possible cleanliness. The very obvious difference polarised against the 'local' population of return. between the gardens of houses with per- Hyde Park. and this means that the con- The issue - fmm which ever end you manent residents and students was pointed cept of community becomes ever more look at it - is here to stay. Hyde Park and out. alien. Headingley are changing permanently, Another issue that Sue concentrated on 'Everybody wants to live in a clean maybe for the good, maybe for worse, but CHESTNUT AVENUE, LS6: A was the conversion of old terraced houses and safe community,' said Dr. Tyler, but what is evident is that the conun unity once notorious streets amongst HMO into flats. The character that the houses of with the increased numbers of temporary enjoyed. no longer than IS years ago, is lobbyists as it allegedly only hous- Hyde park and Heedingly so often con- residences increasing the crime and cohe- disappearing. On our walk around, Sue es 3 permanent residents. Similar tain. and the history of people, family and sion. the community is damaged. and the talked to many residents; Students, young streets such as Manor Drive have none community that they engender is MAN care that was once seen, goes. Dr. Tyler professionals, children and adults allowing being discarded as land lords convert them explained how this manifested the cyclical us a glimpse of what it used to be like, but into flats, 'just so they can make more and perpetual problem that transient popu- with so many people moving out, and 60 money' she explained. lations tiring to areas such as Hyde Park. per cent of the population either moving or it seems that this monopolisation of He too stated that he is not 'anti-student' leaving annually, the future of Hyde Park Hyde Park and Headingly by a few land- either. and that this problem of transient and Headingley as a demographically bal- lords represents the change in atmosphere majorities affects areas around the coun- anced community seems unlikely.

Bradford Gun Amnesty Uruguayan Land Occupa- £40k of Cannabis siezed Anti-rabies mass dog cull Also in the news tion takes a new turn in Bradford in Hong Kong Bradford Police have launched a Mandiyu - a small group of The Bradford Drugs Team recovered a Hong Kong — all pet dogs will he month long Gun Amnesty in reaction dairy farmers - have occupied an area of massive haul of suspected cannabis on killed in a district of the southwestern to the murder of a 20-year-old student land from the Eduardo Acevedo Estate Friday 2 March 2007. during a raid at a Chinese city of Chongqing as part of an last week. They acknowledge that it measuring 38g hectares. This is follow- house in the Feeley area of Bradford. anti-rabies campaign. the government by no mean:- rids the streets of guns, ing the only other Uruguayan land occu- Officers from the dedicated drugs team has said Residents of the city's but given the rise of gun crime, they pation in recent history which saw some searched the house at around 7.45am on Wenzhou district have until March 15 believe it to he a stall. It is all part of Sugar Cane workers occupying 32 Friday morning where they found to hand over their dogs, according to a the larger nationwide campaign. hectares last year after it had been approximately four kilos of suspected directive seen today on the district's 'Guns and Knives Take Lives'. aimed vacant for 10 years. It has taken place in cannabis bush with a Weet value of official Web site. "All the dogs in the at making Britain safer. Indeed. in the the Bella Union region of Northern approximately E40,000, A 35-year-old area should be killed. A compulsory first week of the knife amnesty. . Uruguay which borders with Brazil. local man was arrested on suspicion of cull phase will begin after March 16. 17.715 knives were handed in. Along Bella Union is one of the poorest areas possession with intent to supply Class C The forced cull will be carried out hy side the campaign. there arc aims to ot' Uruguay. and suffers from the notori- drugs and has been hailed pending fur- the police." the directive said. The state- ban all decommissioned and replica ous poverty issues - land appropriation - ther enquiries. This marks a further suc- ment said government guard dogs an weapons. whilst working with chil- which sees. in South America alone, cess for the West Yorkshire Police who those animals kept for research institu- dren who are on the fringes of society 75% of all land being owned by just continue to target the large-scale drug tions, military and commercial purposes has also become a priority. S000 people and companies. dealer.. ould he spared. tinder the Radar is a weekly round-up of national and global news that hasn't hit the headlines. To get in touch with the sub editors with story ideas or feedback, email [email protected] Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 9 extra

12 Singapore Sling

An upbringing split between Iwo cultures highlights the culture of each. LS extra reports.

15 Comment: Zimbabwe

Ed Prior examines the destruction of what may have been the most successful sub- Saharan country. assessing Mugabe's role.

here is a small patch of grubby have become known as the Hyde Park waste land in between the Viet°. riots. T rian Terraces and the newer red There is no official history of why brick houses on Hyde Park mad. Not the riots happened or what triggered the part of the road flanked by large them. Rio there has been mush specula- Hyde Park: Victorian Villas which look onto the tion I torn the media and a deal of navel- moor. But on the part of the road which gaiing in the community as well dips downhill as the green of the park Guardia): journalist Nick Davies. in his gives way to buildings on either side. 1097 book DurA Heart, blamed unem- Nothing has been built there since ployment following the closure of tac- the summer of 1905. For decades it was tories on Kirkstall and Burley roads and after the riots the site of the Newlands pub. which the decline of activities for youths in after a change of landlord had become the area. who, through boredom, turned the Jolly Brewer. The land, local resi- to crime and drugs. There were hypoth- dents say, is still owned by the brewery. esises - said to he wide of the mark - But the building is long gone. A mob. that they were race-motivated. Sonic Few students know of Hyde Park's chequered as angry as any the media have reported have tried to lay blame at the door of on and anything between 50 and 100 outsiders, who, they say, came in from history - that little over a decade ago a local mob strong. pelted the pub with bricks and elsewhere in the city to stir up trouble. set fire to it. On the same exciting eight But. says local resident Pat Regan. rampaged through the area. Fewer still are aware cars were burnt-out and turned upside who also campaigns against gun crime down: up to 150 police officers were having lost her son Danny to a gane- of the community drive to ensure that those drafted into the scene to protect the fire- land killing in Liverpool. Hyde Park fighters and clear the mob. The shell of has to accept the responsibility. scenes are never repeated. den Sciunieici reports the pub was pulled down sometime "All our community was there on after and the land has been fallow ever the street. From the minute the kids from Hyde Park, and assesses why the riots since. It remains a scar on the landscape were talking about what they wanted to and is something of a reminder of how do. we were in the heart of ir." Pat, 52. happened and if enough has been done to get the much anger and dissatisfaction the who has lived in the area all her life. community felt. told Leeds Studer). community back on its feet. That With July 10. 1995. during what As ever, such a period of crisis has 10 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007

e-;• both long term and short term caus- So who were the rulers? lived there_ investment in the siren was "Through neglect. students used to landlord and became the Jolly Brewer, es_ Pal Regan: "Everyone was fed up. directed at pros, idine more for students. do things themselves - they bought their it was as if the final piece of local turf Another of Pat's sons. Shane Fen- The riot was aimed ut hurting the while amenities for locals were closing own houses and dealt &lies amungst had gone to the students. Rumours tore W 1-10 childhood nume is oe police. What they wanted to do was get down. themselves. The locals felt the pinch: quickly spread that the new man behind Branksome Terrace, described a something back from the police. It was '.There's basically only the dentist no students were corning back to them." the bar — himself an es-student — was 'drought rd weed' on the streets at that a direct retaliation to the them." and the pharmacy left tin Hyde Park'," On top of the growing student pres- allowing the police to use an upstairs time -They were my friends." Shane said Sue Buckle. from the South H Cad- ence in the arca, there was also resent- room for surveillance against drug deal- -There was nothing on the streets chips in. "They: ranged from teenagers ley Residents' Association. -In ment between the 'haves' and the 'have ers_ and Hes esacerhated the tension to hieing in their early 20s, They were Headineley. unless you want to get a Hots'. Speaking to Leeds Strident shortly between rival Leeds genes." he-said. picked on by the police - branded as suntan, buy boOze or rent a house, Local resident Amit Roy: "[Stu- after the riots. Superintendent Steve BIB also the way the police managed nuisances." there's tiol moth else to do," dents I get dropped out of their four by Smith, who was then at Milgarth police the area Caused upset. Fenton recalls But w ha %Sas there so much tension The Belle Vie: youth centre. where fours ss ith computers and they 'local station, said: "The brewery made a very slop and search tactics being harshly between the police and local youths' It Shane. Pat and Shane's dad all hung out kids] think 'I'd have that' " courageous decision in changing ihe employed. is in seeking the answer to this question in their childhoods_ closed down to he Burglaries and violent crime became character of the pub and getting rid of "The way the police were manhan- that students' role in riots; becomes reinserted into what are now the Samara endemic and the media hegan reporting the tmublemakers_" dling people and monitoring the area. more clear. flats. Local kids could do football. on Chestnut Avenue's status as the The police. Smith continued, had They may have heard there was a gene As long as there has been a universi- dune, cookery and music there. most burgled street in Europe. identified 'considerable resentment ear. but they went about it the %% roue ty. on Woodhouse Lane. students have -Monday to Friday you always had Sue Buckle remembers the. atnera- among the local youths because there way. lived in LSO and Hyde Park In particu- something to do." Shane recalled. phere of resentment in the community: was no longer safety within the pub for -They did slop and search on locals lar. But the mid-nineties was a tipping "Belle Vile was something that was "It was them and us. you're on top of the dealers'. by just jumping om of their v MI and point when student numbers escalated there. that you became accustomed too. the hill and we're not, It was local; But the pub wasn't just used by the grabbing you:' he said. and the sakec of the student pound but it ere run down, verses students. had elements in Hyde Park, it was He also remembers there bring became clear. On realising students New buildings were going up for "For the majority of kids. they're not something of as sanctuary for many inequality between the way s students would fork out more in rent than the students. but our buildings were gelling going to get opportunities: they're not locals. and locals were treated bythe police. working class leech.. landlords began knocked down or going to the Uni," going to gel to university. As a teacher, "You could go in the Newlands and The police %steed stop a harbeque turfing out families in favour of stu- The siudent-loeal divide grew wider rse seen kids as bright its buttons, but see someone you knew. But now in a car park if it was locals hits dig tun. dents The city council became reltie- as like the infamous highwayman Dick they haven't ever got. where they should there's nowhere." Sue told Leeds Stu- but not the student party Ss 11 ieh went oil tam to offer houNine benefit to families Turpins - as Shane descrihed some have done. There's a whole tot of kids dent over mini tea in Moorish. until three in the morning the night w110 wanted to live in the area because opportunistic local. - they started rip- who are not going to eel there." And so the resentment and tension before.- houses were worth more if students ping students oft When the Nesylands pub changed its built up, until it took just two heavy handed police raids on residential houses in the area. for the anger to spill over.

"Through ut could it happen again? On k s neglect, asking the question. Ws soon Bapparent that local opinion is divided. VOta Dodo • YoU, bodr.IVO students used "Course it could happen again - for to do things any reason,- says Amit. "You could have the Poll Tax again, or the land- Union Books themselves - lords could revolt." "And you have many of the same they bought conditions with kids who don't like the Mother's Day Offer... students." agrees Sue. their own "The 'them and us' may have dimin- ished, but it's still there." houses and But Shane said: "The resentment's died down. Everyeine just learned to `The Yorkshire Pudding Club' by Miley Johnson dealt drugs live with it There. are less violent attacks :Ind burglaries." amongst Though taking that it as as bored local youths who made up the mob themselves. which rampaged that warm summer's day in 1995, has enough been done to The locals felt engage the local youth? "My main concern is there's nothing Nun maims.. Thew tiS.ud. the pinch: no for the kids to do," Shane continued. Chi* 0'04 "Kids don't play like they used to students were do: kids don't hang Out anymore. Kids it are stealing cars because there's noth- coming hack to in:: to take their creativity out on." But Pat disagrees with her son, say- them. " ing that the kids aren't nearly as angst ridden as their predecessors from the nineties. yoty,SHIRE "lin telling you now.- she said. "if anything was to kick off. it would be between the kids. I don't sec anything happening like 1995.- Those who say it could happen aarain aren't 'involved in the community day- UDDIU to-day'. she says. But wherever a local resident sits on the issue, they all agree that Hyde Park has an image problem. arid it is every- CLUB one's. problem to try to do something about it. The media spewed column inches about how terrible Hyde Park was and Davie's Dark Heart portrayed a corn- mustily in tatters and terminal decline. Ann! Roy: "That's why we do Unity Day - hooks and the media, which showed Hyde. Park has fuck all to offer." Unity Day has taken place every summer on Woodhouse Moor since the RRP ,E699 riots. It prompted the Yorkshire Evening Post to declare the community had risen from the ashes, Now ,E4.99 The event is held across five or SO arenas across the park and incorporates children's workshops in performance and arts. break dancing, a skateboarding

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competition and al sets into the night. social interaction, and don't know eti- Although Community Action Leeds quette." Met and some other students get "Things like saying 'hi' to you involved in the planning and on the day neighbour. which I always do." added itself, organisers say most students do Sue. not get to know about it because it hap- "There's more opportunity to inter- pens over the summer when the Univer- act with students," Sairab went on. "But sity is on its summer break. it'll take five or 10 years more to get Shane says it is a shame. more do not properly corrected." get ill Ith Having spent some time being a Day the students don't see youth worker in the community, Shane because its out of term time. It's all now runs Breakers Unify, which has about creativity. grown out of Unity Day. He and fellow "Students only see the locals at dark break dancer Shaun Clark teach local times." youths and students hots to break dance Added to the blinkered view of the in All Hallows Church, just off Hyde area that has predominated in the Park road and only a stone's throw from media, students do not appreciate the where the Newland~ used to stand, community which is around them. He describes growing up firmly on Shane continued: "You only get one one side of the fence and sharing the side of the story in student media. The resent for students along with many of damage has been done - there's a cul- the rioters, who. he says, were his ture of fear after all the really bad pub- friends. tei.ty. The riots coverage hammered the "Now I'm really close to students area: the newspapers gave only nega- through Breakers Unify. It's a mix of tive points. students and locals: they have mutual "But it really isn't all like that, respect going on through dance. The There's a creative scene: artists, musi- secret-is it tries hi connect people up." ENTERTAINING: A clown shows a local child some of his tricks during cians and educated people who can Unity Day 2006, That was the tenth annual celebra- Having been listed as one of the tion of all that Hyde Park has to offer. share their skills. It's about learning main flash points in the riots. policing PI IOTO; UNITY DAY how to live with people from different in the area has also changed. Inspector ■ backgrounds." Richard Coldwell, who is Leeds North not all that mscy. -am i1111 don't have the multiculturalism, which Just as the local kids need to be West Commander for the Neighbour- "lt's been pacified a bit. The police needs saving in Hyde Park. engaged with activities, so the students hood Policing Team. says the style may think they're doing their job. The "There's more Students played an. ;libeling unwit- need to engage with the community that changed two years ago when Neigh- locals are powerless now • it's seen as ting. part in the build up of tension is around them, say the residents, But bourhood Policing was brought in. something to laugh at. Because you've opportunity to before the riots. Sue said students con- the gulf. they add, is wider than ever. "Neighbourhood Policying is engag- removed established meeting points for fuse her being pro-family. for being "You've got to break down cultural ing the community as well as con- local people. that just creates boredom, interact with anti-student. But the message for the harriers and stereotypes," Arnit said. fronting suspicion when necessary. and then you get crime.- he said. transient university population is that "When in a community you have to "It's basic bohbying which people His and other residents' vision for students," there is a community out there which respect it to a certain extent, want to see with recognisable faces who Hyde Park is for the area to be a cosmo- needs them to 'build bridges, not barri- "it's efforts of all parts of the com- you know how to contact_" politan and harmonious area for people Sairab went er'_ munity to get involved. If you say fuck It is a mix, Coldwell said, of the stop from all walks of life. And, as Shane said finally: -I lyde off and go away you just get angst." he and search policies which Shane "Hyde Park could be a good exam- on. "But it'll Park wants to he a nice area." added_ remembered from the nineties, but they ple to set out for the UK. It has some- "There are kids who are coming are being used alongside hobbies on the thing unique, and we don't want to lose take five or 10 through nowadays who are 18/19 years heat and engagement with the commu- that. It's multicultural, easy going and old - where do they come from? I New nity. Coldwell's officers have it fort- cosmopolitan. It's like being in the mid- years more to Unity Day organisers are students' are like lambs to the slaugh- nightly stall in the Co-op on Cardigan dle of London. but without being in always looking for help. If ter. you can see it in their eyes." com- Road, have tea with older people in the London, But more relaxed and trusting. get properly you would like to get mented Sairab Shah, 27, who has lived community centre and host football You can come from any pail of the corrected." involveti, email the team on in Hyde Park all his life and recently tournaments with local kids. world and set something up, In London • member@unityday. graduated From Leeds Metropolitan But, Shane says. although the com- it's more distrusting. In Leeds it's 5cry freeserve.co.uk University. "They don't know about munity has begun to pull together, it k unique. Lots of other areas of Leeds Community• writ• • shines through as not-hit• • residents put on a show of unity Tony Kant:Ono Para limideu:_s! Associa- this trim. We managed tion and heralded as an in pi ituriderway cat ...),01. toe pr-t! rairria.a. I lie .. 4#J.tt 'hr -MINT A diltrrolitir "!'.Pt maker`. people maid du to vele body:sc. We're already .tutu 13 months ago, the tinge ell that was good lonlum, am abas as can do streets al rink' Park in about the area in which for f tUty '97," he wart lords were littered with they live. -We led to great atta. l bunted real clue after a And what an Irsomplo_ sphere and absolutely use ttinstrong mob rentpaged lttr 10-hour. tun 'packed trouble or hassle Cram through the area. pelted event exploded into lire anyone pollee with stories arced art with steel bands, an Ira ii "It was a brilliant dims. . burr to the Jolly Inviter Knockout competlijoa We meld have done with pub, reducing It to a ports rides. sttatehmuliUtg. mare local people an the Mach ti ned shel I _ Live Ilan& and Main stage buil I hats That was stilly Mg can music. something we'll put right New. as the ettnutter ref 1 ha Lends Cluldrens ttaatr yelit• MN drawls to a close. the Citcue gave mistrial' and. Nit- Calico& r tit more than tool) prople visited crionnninity has bounced keeping an t ar on the the *boy, throughout I he back in prove there Is life local football talent Ln the after such horrendous cumpeittion slay, pohYtnit that tying:so scenes of rioting Like a were scouts horn Leeds nity-based eilitt.s could be phoenix, Hyde hut has Usti tied_ %amyl* risen trout the ashes and Dresuilser Chris t:allen- ' l e base shim II that we chaos of crash•etde and rlo der said !ho.. d.ty had been can all worhiegel her In a huge auctrh.... peace sad barony s and lent disorder. . Unity Dar, held nn Sat- "We hour had a 2.5- we have gilt OD ['why urday in the_givenrry of strong team ce-ordinatbut wrIl. The *Wage that Wonditottvir Mont, was the Vnity Day, and pane crux the roateetinitv get% nn." he added: Plesilmoic !fin tumid, limors at es lay Ibpswes pleb c rime the mow allink, Picture: Stone• Gre ht-ainchild 111 the Its-do has done On e'v'elat like REPORTING AFTER THE RIOT: How the Yorkshire Evening Pest covered the inaugural Unity Day in 1996. The media had covered the riots heavily and had 'hammered' the area, say local residents. This prompted them to put on show to demonstrate what the community was really Ike under the surface.

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THE LIGHT FANASTIC: Singapore nightline. Singapore Iing■

ost people will only ever see father was transfered there in 1998. Imagine the streets of any of Singapore when they At the time. there was nothing Mhave to change flights there. strange about the experience of 'living at Changi Airport_ It is not a city that abroad' — there still isn't — 1 have Leeds spotless and clean, offers an exciting culture, deep jungle. always been 'abroad'. Coming from a or a breathtaking landscape to the Swedish family with a parent in the oil Having every student an backpacker or more well-heeled business means that I've never had a traveller. and is not a recommended home country: my passport is Swedish always been exemplary citizen being destination in many guidebooks on but I have never lived there. When I South East Asia. It is visited mainly was little, we lived in a tiny village in a relative by businessmen and container ships, West Sussex. where we were one of drug tested on a monthly who conduct their business in the only three non-British families with space of a week or so and then they children at the local Church of outsithr, it basis and spending three are on their way again. There is. England primary school. In 1996. we however, a small group of foreigners moved to Houston. Texas, where was a relief hours a night writing who make their home there (albeit a again I stood out as a pale, blonde girl temporary one), to which 1 once with a posh English accent. to move to belonged. Having lived away front Having always been a relative essays...sound impossible? Singapore for the past two-and-a-half outsider. it was a relief to move to Singapore, a years, going back there for the Singapore. a place where almost a LS correspondent Emma Christmas holidays made me realise quarter of the residents are non- place where what an odd life Singapore expatriates Singaporean. and where I was live. . absorbed into the sizeable expatriate almost a Notfors tells of how ex-pat An expatriate life in a place like community where all of my peers at Singapore is what many people aspire school had at least one parent whose life in Singapore is a to: it is a remarkably easy country to work had transferred the whole family quarter of live in. There is an exemplary from their home (or wherever they had million miles from transport system, it is ridiculously lived before) to this crowded, tropical, the residents safe, it is never cold, and if you're artificial city. going there to work, you'll most likely As an expat kid, my tuition fees are non- European student living. have enough money to enjoy the were paid by my dad's company. so I weather. Perhaps I should count went to one of the best International Singaporean. myself lucky then — I spent my Baccalaureate schools. All of the k teenage years in Singapore after my pupils were expected to end up at Leeds Student www.leedsstudentorg.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 Singapore Extra

university: most people chose or go shopping. as the case may be. Business, Economics, or Law (to Having both parents working is very continue the lifestyle that their unusual, and as Singapore is such a parents' money had enabled). with a It is not tiny city with little or no gainful handful doing Fine Art or English employment for wives (let's face it: (hoping to make use of exceptionally unusual in to it's the husband or father whose work good contacts). We were given about has brought them there) or teenagers three hours of homework a night and. spot slim, on their holidays. Feminism is a little as part of the IB programme. had to do underdeveloped over there. and charity work, sports, and various pretty doesn't really figure into the lives of creative activities as part of the women who seem mainly interested in school's effort to churn out successful beach holidays and pedicures. members of society, Singaporean This appears to he not unattractive Of course. it was also very strict_ to some locals. II is not unusual in to You had to take an entrance exam and girls in their spot slim. pretty Singaporean girls in have a spotless disciplinary record to their twenties with long hair and high get in. To take the IB, you had to pass twenties with heels clinging onto the arm of a fat all of your GCSEs (the 111 consists of westerner in his mid-fifties. This was six subjects including Maths. English. long hair and something that always made me Science, a foreign language. and a double-take. but when l returned this humanities course). Those who didn't high heels Christmas, I must admit that it were kindly told that the school didn't disgusted me. As did the fact that have a place for them. With the clinging onto there is not a single intelligent majority of the students originating sounding woman on the Singaporean from a homogenously privileged slice the arm of a radio stations or TV channels (most of of society. normal teenage rebellion which belong to ivlediacorp and are was unthinkable - the rebels were controlled by the government): the those who snuck out at night while fat westerner women with the possibility of being their parents slept to go clubbing, had role-models are no more interested in fake ID made. or were rude to teachers in his mid- social equality than they are in leaving LYRICAL RESISTANCE: God save the Queen, the fascist regime these youths were felt to be their armpits unshaven. particularly misled by the rest of the fifties. The generalised Singaporean unions are illegal; drug addicts are mention all of this occasionally, but student body ). culture is one of constant concern and seen purely as criminals rather than as apart from it. it is something that Apart from the academic rigours. competition for money and status. The victims needing help: homosexuality occurs on the other side of the glass. my school. like all of the other most popular car used to be a white depression is simply a matter of is still officially illegal (the law After having lived there a while, one international schools, made every new Mercedes Benz or a BMW. and the keeping the school competitive: when against "unnatural sex acts" has is lulled into a sense that the pupil sign a contract stipulating that he most coveted bag a Louis Vuitton: at the school in queation is a fee-paying remained unchanged since the cleanliness and almost non-existent or she would abstltin from drugs both Christmas. the 3ueue from the store One, a hoard o trustees has to be Victorian colonial era); Singapore is crime rate are normal. Then, returning on and off campui for. the duratioe of stretched to fife .people, and there business minded nd keep in mind the ranked 146th Out of 168 for press to the chewingiguni coated pavements their United World College career. To were even Noun r-types guarding the quality of produ tion. Parents expect 'freedom by Reporters Without of Europe seems to be the more it students followed quiet, clean in rior. Singaporeans make sure that somethine for th r money: the United Borders: and t has possibly the unnatural expe/rience, and having to the rules, random drug testing was also have odd ft urns for competition: World College produced. well- highest per cap to death sentence rate lock one's slain- while eoing to the an inch of space in a traffic jam carried out every three weeks. People balanced, smart, healthy. teenagers. in the world. newsagent is something that is as were called out of class to give a (population density) has always been The expatriate lifestyle is aimed at The more conscientious members shocking as it is strange. Rather than supervised urine and hair sample. something to be fought for. Any sort counteracting such a highly of the expatriate community may stories of burglary and muggings. you of free gift or discount was coveted would have people in Singapore tell and queued for with dextrous use of you that the lock on their front door elbows if necessary - anything from a was broken for three months while Hello Kitty toy in a Happy Meal 'there they were away and they had no Were actually fights. which are never Begging is break-tn. National Sery ice also plays otherwise seen in Singapore. outside its part: young men can choose to join of one McDonald's branch when they illegal without either the army for two years (where ran out) to a few cents off the gallon they are tamed away from any of petrol. In the event of a government resistance to authority that might have Singaporean coming CO a party or to survived their school years) or the dinner, it is not considered impolite in emergency serf ices. The police force their culture to ask how much you're permission, so in Singapore rs ever-present - in paying for your house, car. or school uniftirrn or otherwise. As a teenage as soon as they step through the door - the only ones girl Over there. 1 never learned that it can even he considered as a being out at night and going home complement. you see are alone was dangerous - :something that With this aspirational mindset. it is was quickly picked up from ms first- unsurprising that the Singaporean those that are year flatmates who told me that citizen enjoys a high quality of life, walking between the University. and and can even consider that Vuitton 'established': Clarence Dock at ten at night was handbag or Mercedes as an important probably not such a good idea. Seeing and attainable goal. However. there is a blind syringes on some streets in Leeds was although the Economist's Worldwide scandalous. and 1 still can't is:cognise quality-of-life index ranked the man who sits the smell of marijuana. like some of country 11th out of I I 1 countries in oe. friends Because drugs had never 2(X15, there is a dark, seldom seen. eauctly been hoped-up at no sehool. underbelly tu Singaporean society. in an him ;to esisoatis •apcament mush There are no figures available for anise r ssas ioa hire it homelesariess and they are practically ;underpass on ti suidia Jeoria itlise my ;amity - tit invisible'. begging is illegal without that l'Opt'sl. I suppose' the (Nitwits of SEASONAL: Christmas shopping on Orchard Road government permission, so the only Orchard Road in) school succeeded) ones you .ee are those that are Walking through Chanel Airport in 'established': there is a blind man woo pressurised and competitive i)laying a Decemtfer. I realised that t had sits in an which was then sent off to the USA to environment. Most of the (swats in underpass on Orchard Road !molten the security personnel event of a positive ithe Singaporean shopping Monett he tested. In the Singapore are members of a club - keyboard with pattailline in their disco. their AA-47s result. the student and his or her The British Club. The American Club. Mayne a keyboard with elaborate the ready. Likewise, I was aware of family were aiven twenty-four hours Raffles Town Club. or The Pine Tree amplifiers and signs alerting the a curious Lick of subculture On the police were notified to public to his presence. Rumour has it elaborate before the Club being the trios( popular. Entry is shopping mall lined Orchard Road. leave the country, You might argue determined partly by nationality as in that he is picked up every evening in There was 110 Crowd of piths at the white Mercedes. that the school was protecting the (ea) the cases of the British and American one of the ubiquitous amplifiers and entrance to I-ar Fast Plaza. no graffiti of heavy Like the international schools, the pupil from the possibility club). but all prospective members at any of the MRT stations Mass Singaporean go fining and caning (yes. corporal - and must endure long waiting lists and vernment does MA signs alerting Rapid Transport is the Singaporean capital - punishment is favoured by heavy fees. All for the prospect of a cater for the undesarahlea of society: equivalent of the tube, although it is the Singaporean Judicial System). but swimming pool. tennis courts. gym. dissent, crime, and socialism are the the public to cleaner and bar more efficient). and three prongs of the devil's fork as far what is obviously the case is that the and restaurants. And the exclusivity. certainly no gangs 01 youths spurting as the People's Action Party (who international schools were protecting Luckily, many expats also have a live- his presence. hoodies, If there had been. 1 can their reputations. Weeding out the less in Filipina maid so that they have have held power since 19631 is assure that they'd have been %watts proficient students and disowning more time to cat out, spend at the club. concerned. There arc nu dealt with by the police. those taking drugs or even troubled by unemployment benefits and workers'

14 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 200 Opinion Comments expressed here are not necessarily the views of Leeds Stu yam Refugees can't go home

As an active campaigner on campus, Laura nicfarlane-Shopes speaks out against the generalisations and misconceptions of asylum-seekers.

Laura Mcfarlane. s politically active students and For the two-thirds of asylum-seekers any new unsik, cssrul applications, it opportunity that could see the in Shopes membcrs. of various societies. who get refused. the future is bleak as would lake between ten to eighteen duction of radical reforms to the A we has c manned many a stall our goventment %1ithdraws financial years to tackle the backlog. But unsuc- lum system. The Refugee Council and shouted many a slogan. When support in the hope that poverty and cessful applications keep coming and introducing an amendment to ens campaigning for Amnesty Internation- destitution will encourage them to the reliability of their rejection remains that refused asylum-seekers ha al. we have always had a positive pack their bags and leave. in question. access to asylum support while response. particularly when recently Speaking to refused asylum-seekers Article Fourteen of the Universal remain in the UK. We believe that ' raising awareness of the genocide in at a recent sleepout in Parliament Declaration of Human Rights stipu- unacceptable to use destitution Darfur. So why did our Refugee and Square, we saw the consequences of lates that everyone has the right to seek policy tool to enforce immigran Asylum-seeker campaign fail to evoke our Home Office fuilures. "We have a asylum from persecution. Ii is disap- control and encourage return arid the usual amount of sympathy? Is it non-existence. We came here with pointing that in one of the most devel- alteration in the Bill would ensure th simply end of term student apathy, or hope but now we have no hope. I was oped countries in the world, we arc this stopped. is it a reflection of a deeper social tortured in Ethiopia and now I reel 1 am failing to deal with this fundamental problem? being tortured here," Imposing 'hand right and ensure that a fair system is in A recent Amnesty survey found that to mouth' living and taking away one's place so those who deserve asylum, Email: what many people believe should he right to work has negative implications receive it and those who are refused Article Fourteen of offered to those fleeing war and perse- not only for the individual's self- are not forced into poverty and the the Universal Dec- cution does not match how they teel esteem and mental health but also for consequent exploitative situations in [email protected] overall towards asylum-seekers and our society as poverty acts as a breed- order to survive, We are not advocat- laration of Human refugees in the UK. While people are ing ground for both crime and terror. ing an open borders stance: it is inte- Rights stipulates compassionate about the rape of For refused asylum-seekers there is gral to the asylum process that where women in Darfur. w hen these same little incentive to remain in touch with individuals do not have protection that everyone has women seek solace in Britain titer face the Home Office and the whereabouts needs. their return is safe. sustainable the right to seek hostile headlines and ignorant general- of many is unknown. There also and carried out with dignity. isations. remains the pressing problem of the This March marks the report stage asylum from perse- Our county 's current asylum appli- disparity between the number of peo- of the UK Borders Bill that implements cution cation process has been massively crit- ple refused asylum and the number the latest proposed reforms of the UK icised for its failure to provide effec- who are either removed by the immi- immigration and asylum system and tive legal representation and transla- gration service or make voluntary continues a trend of increasingly tight tion services essential to a fair hearing. departure. It is estimated that without border controls. This is a missed Strategic error

Joshua Black discusses why he disagrees with Hind Hassan's article calling for the withdrawl of forces in Iraq

Joshua Black Hind Hassan and the US Presidential mistic predictions of Iraq's with ease. In and Sunni Saudi Arabia. with its western violent reactionary elements of the MI hopeful Haack Mama share something addition. it spends $43 billion on it's mil- allies in tow, as each try to emasculate the die East. Secondly. the rebuilding of let in common. Last week, the former itary, sponsors terrorism in Iraq and else- other using terrorism, Even with much is UN-authorised and has been sin explained why. in the Worth; of the latter, where and has nuclear ambitions_ It is more optimism, a likely scenario is a 2004. Even then, a majority of UN mei; the West should not "haby-sit a civil obvious that by virtue of its size. popula- repeat of the bloodshed between religious her-states sided with the coalition bef war." I believe that both are wrong, The tion and character, Iran is a loose cannon, groupings seen during the partition of the invasion and a Resolution was a latest crisis in the Middle East could be Iran has had its revenge, in creat- India when that state gained its independ- prevented by the chicanery of France caused by one or both of two causes. It is ing the conditions that have sucked yet ence. Russia. for the sake of their own econ either a clash of civilisations. not between another 20.000 American soldiers into Above all. the consideration that is interests in Saddam's dictatorsh the West and Islam but within Islam, Iraq. for the USA's part in the war should compel western governments to Lastly. the plausibility of a unity c something dating back to the sixth centu- between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s. suppress the destructive tendencies inher- date arising from within the Middle ry. or it is it power struggle between Britain and the US illegally sold weapons ent in the Arab world is that of the many, is virtually nil. Nasser's °primal nations. occasioned by a dramatic shift in to Saddam Hussein. like it or not, so that many lives that are at risk. The best way came when a government friendly to the balance of power in the region follow- Iran could be restrained_ Saddam twine to prevent that is by crushing the remain- West ruled Iran. Now, not only is I ing the invasion of Iraq in 2003. deposed, the situation is now substantial- ing militancy in the Islamic world, while hostile to the West but it is an awkw• Whichever it is, the assumption that the ly different. And by different. I could rebuilding Iraq as a City on a Hill. or partner of the Arabs, given its bigot.' Anth world can rescue itself from disas- even mean worse. more appropriately, a new Tower of roots in the Middle Eastern Perm trous war is extremely tenuous. The rea- Mutual suspicion, and a few Babylon, spreading the message that Empire. The Arab world is too div son is Iran. unwelcome sparks have created the civil peace and prosperity are possible only in to save itself from an inevitable fate: cc The West is. and should be. wor- war in Iraq. Perhaps a violent ethos is not united countries. As Abraham Lincoln multitude of Saddam Husseins, reali ried about Iran. It is not just that Ameri- widespread among Shiite and Sunni Mus- once said, before another civil war, "a and ruthless, using conflict to further the Without the Western can hostages were taken and held during lims, but more and more Iraqis are house divided against itself cannot own interests. Iraq may be in deep' military presence, the Islamic Revolution for over four hun- becoming radicalised and extremist. It is stand." We, but it is not too late for the wh ttli dred days. though that has added to cur- such that without the Western military Finally, a word on why it must region. Iraq would soon be rent suspicion. Iran has the capacity to be presence. Iraq would soon be torn to fall to the present coalition of western torn to pieces a great power in the Middle East. Its pop- pieces. Before long. three separate troops to rescue this situation. Firstly. ulation is more than twice that of Iraq's. it nations could emerge, each with its own America, and this operation is made pos- email is rich in oil and its growth rates of Five heterogeneous benefactors, The worst- sible by America alone, is the only power [email protected] per cent annually outstrip the most opti- case scenario is war between Shia Iran strong enough to contain the extreme and

Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 111 Comments expressed here are not necessarily the views of Leeds Student Comment Zimbabwe: a solution

Ed Priors looks into the destruction of what was perhaps the most economically successful sub-Saharan country and assesses Mugabe's role in the true cause of Zim- babwe's problems

Ed Prior Lire expectancy comparative to Euro- it not for the evils of Empire. then Zimbab- With all the political argument surround- Until it is acknowledged a real solution for perm levels. The world's largest pm- we would still be a shining beacon to its ing the management of sub-Saharan Africa. this recion is um tbtainahle. ' neer of tobacco. A netexporter of long-suffering, mis-managed and corrupt it's easy to forget that it is the average persotn Te case is that were any of this electricity:. grain and maize. Some of the neighbours. And how nice it would be for who truly bears the brunt. Whilst Mugabe s happening in a country without the histori- world's largest chromium deposits. export- us to pigeonhole Zimbabwe's crisis along- seizure of white-owned farms may have cal attachments of Zimbabwe then popular ed to the world's largest car producers. side the plethora of post-colonial disasters won hint brownie points from some of his opinion and pressure would he far more Thousands of hi-dares of some of the most that litter our ci tunny 's former r mpire. Yet it fellow African leaders. the fact is that people vocal. NI ilsody wants to be branded with the fertile farming land this planet has to offer. would be totally wrong. Whilst the British are dying everyday a result of this action. label of 'racist' or be seen to be supporting as well as the predictabk and stable climate Empire has a vast amount to answer for in Let us be clear about this: innocent people the Empire. This stigma attached to Zim- required to properly exploit it. Where? It terms of the mess that it left behind. Zim- are dying everyday from a luck of food in a babwe and her tellow members of the Com- nought surprise you, but it's Zimbabwe. babwe is simply not one of them. country that was once a =Or food 'Induc- monwealth, who have also suffered at the What will not surprise you is that I'm tall, As fashionable as mindless anti-Ameri- er and exporter. Whilst we may sit and din hands of their own people. is seriously me about this country before the crisis of the canism. the belief that 'we' are responsible cuss the virtues of post-colonialist laud affecting the level of international attention mid-nineties, not the wreck of a country for the unravelling of Zimbabwe is com- reform. our distinct lack of starvation allow s that it receives. This lack of attention trans- now ravaged by unemployment. starvation monly pushed by those who enjoy the as to be rather more philosophical than the lates to the unnecessary suffering of millions and with a life expectancy that features at national hobby of self-depreciation. Many 2.1 million Zimbabweans the World Food whilst we stand by, terrified of being seen as the bottom of every list compiled, As the sit- British people would rather see Zimbabwe Program currently estimates to be facing trying to interfere in a framer colony. . When uation currently stands—and. like the infla- added to the long list of British founded serious shortages. one looks at the situation faced daily by tion figures, it worsens with every week— humanitarian disasters than attempt a real Land reform is an essential part ordinary Zimbabweans. and the cry real over ttfl per cent of Zimbabwe's I2 million assessment of the causes of this most human of Zimbabwe's future, but the tactic or giv- prospect of food aid being delivered to a people are now living in poverty. with a of tragedies. This is at least in part down to ing the most profitable fanns to Mugabe's country that was i,nce seen as the 'breadbas- similar figure out of work. Not that work an atmosphere where to criticise the govern- cronies is causing the wholly avoidable suf- ket' of the region. we MUM surely see that its could help the majority of these people, ment of a former colony is seen as tanta- ferine of millions. The allocation of these time to stuff the stigma and acknowlmige given that inflation stands at I (4)0 per cent. mount to racism and looking for the re- farms in an attempt to cement his position is Mugabe and his regime for what it truly is; putting the very basics beyond the reach of establishment of the Empire. This is a barri- as much a crime as the colOnial seizure ever only once the cause of Zimbabwe's prob- most. Mont. though not till. For those living er to rational debate and it is stopping us see- Was. The President's total disregard ha his lems have been recognised w ill this incredi- in the select group made up of Robert ing why Zimbabwe's people suffer as they own people and their suffering. his policies ble country receive the help it so desperately Mugabe's family and friends. life is really do. Because we currently inhabit such an of abduction. murder and his suppression of needs. rather pleasant Overseas holidays, lavish environment. let me say a few things to democracy is as had as the very worst birthday parties and not to forget the African encourage you to read on: The British actions undertaken by colonial regimes of dictator's favourite accessory — the blacked- Empire was and continues to be responsible the past. Lets finally come out and say it: out Mercedes limousine—are all standard for a vas! amount of human suffering: the Mugabe and a large number of his counter- fare for this lucky few. As are numbered Empire was inherently racist and thus parts are responsible for a vast amount of bank accounts situated in Switzerland or the foundid on a totally immoral grounding; the human suffering and the unacceptable side Cayman Islands. as essential a piece of World would not be better off with the of the British Empire should not cloud our Email: equipment for such rulers as 'car accidents' Empire. Now we have established these vision and blind us from the elephant in the have become in the disposal of their oppo- points and hopefully dispelled your desire to room. It's not racist to say that many African nents.. label me as a colonial apologist, we can turn leaders are failing their own people through [email protected] Popular opinion would have it that, were to the real issues. their sheer greed and vanity. It's a fact and

6 6 As fashionable as mindless anti-Ameri- canism, the belief that 'we' are responsible for the unravelling of Zimbabwe is commonly pushed by those who enjoy the national hobby of self-depreciation I 1 , CARTOON Mark Mackay 16 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 200

apparatus seals. the day. but there was only so much' Hoo-rah over feature I suppose firemen would rather he could take. 1 mean all your staff, pan. clean shaven than dead. time they may be, are supposed to he Leeds Student Dear Editor. well educated students who actualh 1 would like to express my disappoint- know how to spell and write ;1 Thanks. R Mac (bearded) ment at the publication of Jessica Park- coherent sentence. So you can 0113 3801 450 er's :tot* In a class of our own' in the understand my joy at finally being [email protected] 2/3/07 issue of Leeds Student. The death of LS2 able to sleep at night knowing the The author's presentation of her won't be as many ghastly errors as own opinion as fact is unscientific before. Dear Editor. class-prejudice rather than good jour- What a relief. Let's hope it lasts I was sad to see that LS2 is no longer in Off the wall nalism, and her assertion that the until the end of the year. its usual format. I understand com- stereotype of "the Rah" is "absolutely pletely that money talks. and your lack true after all" (p.9) is a misapplication Yours Sincerely, of it has resulted in the death of L.S2 as of the word 'true'. The OED defines James Goode remarks in toilets we previously knew it. 'stereotype' as "a preconceived and I used to enjoy the front covers of English student oversimplified idea of the characteris- „..isii, is not tunny. even if the place. LS2 and thought it looked great as a tics which typify a person". Her asser- people who are writing it on Anyone who may know the people supplement. However, sonic of the tion that "the Rah" is "loaded, loud aril Trouble with stubble toilet walls think they are who carried out this racist graffiti forced changes you have made base R not well-liked" fits this definition per- doing so merely as a laugh. should have a quiet word in their ear. fectly; this does not make the assertion actually improved the newspaper. II shows just how ignorant and otherwise they could find themselves Dear Editor, true or the article valuable. Poppy & Olivia's Lowdown }ooks Immature some people still are. confronted if someone they don't As much as I love seeing a good heard. She points out that she has only much better - I loved the Top lit kid- despite the age we are at now and the know, or someone from a culture they why was half-a-page given to such a interviewed one "Rah- (as opposed to die fears' last week, fact that we have reached higher edu- have been attacking. catches them pointless opinion piece. It also had a a "normal" person (p.101). While she Scorch also looks very good. cation. red-handed. mistake in its top line. not to mention accepts that this one person may not he although it did contain some 'in-jokes' We belong to a multicultural We can only assume that whoever the ridiculous use, twice I may add, of representative of "them", it makes the which made feel a bit alienated. society in general. not just at univer- is writing this obscene graffiti has the phrase woe betide. Get over your- thrust of the article questionable. She Obviously other sections don't look sity. People need to learn that we arc never been sufficiently educated self Mr Gunn and write on a normal is taking one person's experience and as visually exciting as before, notably all the came. regardless of our beliefs, ahour different cultures. is hitter person's level. blindly applying it to a section of soci- arts, music and clubs, but I believe that race, or colour. These mindless idiots about the modern world's acceptance It is true that most 'aspirational' ety. you are doing the best job capable and need to stop what they are doing. it is of every background. or that they are people don't appear to wear beards, but At the end of the piece we are told will continue to he an avid reader. hurtful to those they are ridiculiug. just plain stupid. that doesn't constitute an opinion rant that the division between classes "can- Keep up the good work, and I hope It's good to see that some of the Hopefully the exposure given by on such a topic. Beards are very much not he blamed on anyone but our- that the financial situation is sorted out graffiti has already been removed. teed% Student to this problem will like clothes. they are fashionable in selves". Considering the 3000 words for next year so that we can have LS2 How es er, it is sad that these com- persuade those involved to quit now. some eras. and not so much in others. (seemingly designed to perpetuate the back to way it was. ments were ever written in the first It's riot big and it's not clever. Hope- sure that there will conic a lime fully they still learn their lesson. diviSion) that we have just endured to Yours, when beards, and moustaches, will reach this. I find this arbitrary finger- dominate the faces of the male majori- pointing to he misjudged and hypocrit- Kate ty once again. - ical. The author is playing up in what There are more important issues III Staff get their she considers to he popular opinion, 2nd Year the world than pogonophohia which succeeding only in promoting bigotry. require justice. Think long and hard Mr I do not object to Ms Parker's right Spellbound Gunn before you submit your next to this belief, or to her right to publish appraisals on opinion piece. Oh and I bet you haw it. but I am surprised that Leeds Stu- Dear Editor. grown a beard in protest now haven't dent considers her mindless rant wor- just want to say that I am relieved you? thy of its pages. and delighted to see less mistakes in Facebook groups the newspaper since the turn of the Alan Ramsey 'Rim Dale. year. Your appointment of about 100 P. en the rise of tuition Ices last money's worth and are happy to Ist year Music so called copy editors has finally paid September, students can he shout about it. off. forgiven for expecting value Some are even expressing their G A close shave I used to read the newspaper at the Corrections and for money, particularly from those 'love' for their tutor which is also start of the year but gave up on it clarifications teaching them. slightly odd, and probably won't get around the time of the green issue However- slagging off lecturers on you that first you are after. but at least Dear Editor. after sighing every time I found a It is the policy of the Leeds Student to cor- wehsites such as Facebook isn't the it's a positive comment about the per- Just a note from a pedant regarding Al spelling error. Now I can pretty much rect signWcant errors as soon as possible, answer. Surely a quiet. constructive. son teaching you. Gunn's refreshingly pro-heard article read the entirety of your paper Jf you see an error in our pages, email the convervastion with the 'problem' As paying customers, we should (LS 37:16). There is a good reason without that worry. editor on [email protected], Please tutor would do the trick. The tutor he able to give criticism of a product beards are banned in the armed forces I always tried to give you the quote the date and page number. would surely have more respect for w hich we believe is poor in realtion and Fire Service - they tend to cause benefit of the doubt because you are you if you did so. to its price. However, calling a mem- trouble with gas-masks/breathing just a student newspaper at the end of Most lecturers are now wise to the ber of staff "a knob" is where the line Facebook lark, some even have their is crossed between constructive erit- Send letters to Leeds Student newspaper. Leeds University Union. Pt) Box 157. Leeds LS I I UH, or email the editor on own profile, so branding them "use- icsim and personal attack. editortgleedsstudenl.org.uk. Please keep comments to 2110 words. The editor reserves the right to edit letters for content and space. less" isn't going to do you any Keep the comments clean, but tasours. remember that you should feel free to Those who are praising staff mem- speak out if you believe you are being bers on Facebook. as creepy us it is, shortchanged, who knows it may he ** Improve your text life - text LS ** must feel that they are getting their taken on board, maybe.

r***.*******...***********,,,,* Burglaries at LSR while 'briefly matt- Gel in, Scousers for Champions League txt 07794 Fairtrade fayre is tended'... inside job'? come on. we're all again. Bring on the manes. thinking it. 125795 *2**************************** ****************************** 2 get ur msg in coming to a close Gettin very annoyed by amounts of new Potholes down Brudenell Road have people standing in the union entrance airtrade fortnight has only two range of Fairtrade products. Iron cof- been reportably caused by Ned blocking the way. days left, and so far it has been fee to chocolates. Students may have Vurdey's morning runs ******_***.****0-**• .*:• • *-4. ***** Fa huge success, continuing to to dig that hit deeper in their already promote the message of fair trade for tight pockets to purchase Fairtrade ***********V**4********IT C**1* Ben, any chance I can get the answers to all. goods, but they serve a good cause Never mind Sawalem. Give me Hamza this Sunday's quiz? I'll make it worth Our University has held its Fair- and often taste better. Mir! He's hot stuff! your while. Wink. wink. trade status for a year now. and the There could he more to come in *.**************************** past few days. during Fairtrade fort- regards of Fairtrade products on sale ****************************** night have played host to numerous in our Union, most notably alcoholic Matt Bilton could I please have my Let me play! Alt No! Claire! Dale! (The events such us a quiff, a film night and beverages, so you can get wasted in dildo hack. I'm pretty sure it's still life and times of Jan Harwood), guest speakers. Raising the awareness the name of a worthy cause and tell inside you. Or at least half of it is any- of such a. worthy issue as this is yourself you're doing a good deed by w ay.x *******e.***.***•************* always important, particulalrly as downing a whole bottle of wine by Ooh aah, up the Rahs, I say nob aah up ************.R.....*********** people need to he informed and edu- yourself. The Fairtrade message will the Rails. cated about Fairtrade. always be visible around the Union, Word to the bird. MH The University shops offer a wide long after this fortnight is over. ******1***********************

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• • • • Ditto That • • • • • • • • • • LS?.-inside chats to the hottest • • • • • ▪ band of the moment and • • • reviews their Leeds Met gig • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Going out • • • • • • • • • The TV ang's Faverhsam gig • • • • • • reviewed • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • dic • • • More music! • • • • • • • • • • • The KB(' also rocked Leeds • • • this week. so LS2:inmdc N.% ent • • • • • • along to see what all the fuss • • • • \vas about • • • • • • • • • • • Scorch • • • • • • • • • Who's been caught reading • • • Now maeazine at last week's • • IS • • Referendum Debate meeting? • • Thin to Scorch lied out_ as • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 18 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007

By Poppy Kemp and Olivia Marks LOWDOWN) linnet Jackson and Inuryn MI) • • Going Up • Top 10 • • • • Harry Hill • Were a biz slow on the uptake on this • Free • • one. well Olivia was anyway. but Mr • his week. I have mostly been have become shapeless, soggy sacks care for fashion, you just want to he • Hill is Ilippin' funny. The best in low • thinking about fashion. NT not masquerading as Topshop skinny comfortable". images of dull women • brow comedy and jokes re+, el %dreg • Tbeen doing a lot about it mind. jeans and a pair of decidedly nu-rave who avidly watch Homes Under The • things around pain. • but I have been thinking about it My • Nike trainers that make my feet look Hammer come flooding into my head.: own fashion sense has become Lifestyle guru Janet Jackson once said • like neon flipper*. I look like (to as do ones of dowdy old fishwives, • somewhat wanting of late as I don't quote the Mighty Booth) two rulers who are snatched up to be verbally • "The best things in life are free." Ant • seem to he conscious for many propping up a beanbag_ Not a good and physically abused on What Not • how right she was. Naturally, some of • daylight hours and for those that I am, look. I really haven't bought into the To Wear_ Dressing for comfort is • the better things do cost money bar • I don't tend to leave the house. My ladylike fashions that Vogue et at are here's a few things that will cost yoi • surety for women who want to hide • uniform has beCome an oversized • imploring me to do. However. every their spare tyre (which I don't 'cause: gratis. nothing. nada. zip. zilch. Pas di • Mott Farm hoodie that makes rue time I hear that little voice in the back I've shifted mine down the gym t or • tout. • looked deformed. a pair of jeans that of my head say ine "yeu don't really don't have a clue what is fashionable • • it do. I just can't afford in. I do like • 1. Air • This will always he free. If • to be comfortable, yes. but I would • keep on polluting the atmosphere us Snuff • have been doing, perhaps not, but fo When the smoking ban comes in tile much rather be one of those women • now it is one of life's greateal July. ~null is going to be the only way • who takes an hour to do her hair.: giveaways. And without. you art to I o. Chewing tobacco is also an • always leaves the house wearing • • literally nothing. option but you'll need to gel your carefully-applied make-up arid is • hands on a spitoon for that. eternally well-presented in the latest • • vintage fashions and retro chic. I• 2. Love - Technically free, but i Spring • want a cinched in waist 24 hours u • you're one of those people whose Feb is dead, roll an the birth of lambs day. I would like to wear a, affection~ need to he bought taint and brightly-coloured flowers carpeting • neckerchief and not look as though a wines. sumptuous meals. Fenan'.i thei Hytle Park. Soon it will he time for • I'm hiding a love bite or an • you're clearly heartless. Love is free BBQs. football a.ral leuneing. Sorry - • unfortunate rash. I would like to lease • Just where you find it is the tricky part w hat? Global warming? Oh yeale.. • • my trainers for running and always: • wear skyscraper heels or delicate • 3. Drinks from pervy men - No, yet • little pumps. I want to abandon my • do not want to talk to them but yes, yea • jeans and always wear skirts and • do want another Mount Gay and cold • and you've only got LI left. What's . • dresses, I Want to leave my parka alai • • at home because it makes me look • girl to do'? Take the drink. laugl • like a smack head..-oh fuck it, you: politely and do a runner. Try not ti • know what? I don't think I do. l like • bump into them again, or else you'n • looking rough a tot of the time • shafted. • because it -allows people to see that I • • cart actually scrub-up when I go out • 4. Porn - The uni wireless apparentl: • Lie-Ins on the town. If I looked good oil the allows access to some sexy cites an are they •• They are just too cowl Why time. I'd impress no-one. Right, I'm • they' re completely free of charge becoming less and less frequent? Why • putting my pjamas one.PK • Word of warning, if you're going ti mast we do more work and spend less ,411 7F-1 • fad yourself off, do it in the toilets. ne time ill bed WHY, GOD, WHY'? • the Parkinson Court. Or STA Travel. •• Easter • Overheard • Electric 5,Laughter - Having a litter i Flit. • • • • They are everywhere at the nu-inn:tn. • • • • guaranteed to boost your serceoni We say everywhere. mainly Olivia's a aster time. A fun. eggy and ndie music is dead. That's what the know exactly what you mean • levels and cheer you up a treat. Gl • • ,, knehen. They're disgusting and fly like • Jesus-) time. Well for some word on the street is. You can take by twat.-.that is the most • your mates to perform show s for yet • itYpeople anyway, The British • your Kaiser Chiefs and insert them • hideous baby ever. it's got an • amusement. Or dress up a dug i they're a iooriesly drunk. i.e, really • I • • don't go for it as mach as those in up yule' .hitter. You can have your • alien head. Naha gutted. I would have • period costume and make it do a dance ;lowly and in a wohbb line, • • the more backward parts or Euriipc, frigging The View and you can put • killed it at birth...You're quite pretty • Laughs-a-plenty. Illness threat such as Greece. inhere they spend them in the Flames deep fin fryer and • to pull me? _being homeless is not a get- • A lingenag sure throat and headache Easter painting cues and then forget about them_ You can jet The • out-clause for stinking of shit...I think I • teCondnms - Only free lrorn th that yeu're just waiting to develop into smashing them, Cool. The good Killers off into the stratosphere and not • love you but I barely know you...h ve got • Litwin and lamely planning clinics. , a full blown malady but never actually thing is that they cut loads of food. I give a ruddy toss. his all about cheerio • yoghurt all down my erea..Hech. shot his • • bloody good freebie as they can b dl it's it Very ant.))1fig. will be having a distinctly un-eggy, , now. Unlit? It's about keyboards. • beans up my muff...Will you chip and pm •• quite pricey in chemists and behind lb un-Ion and un-Jesus-y tune. I haven't synths. drum machines and showy • My heart!....My life is MO-comic-1-m • counter at newsagents. received an egg in years, well not of lyries. You could say that the Klaxons a going to marry a hilariously beautiful • Saggiog the chocolate variety anyway. So have something to do with it with all • woman who is going to leave ree for a • 7. Lobe - Get this while picking up yt Both of the face and clothes, Jeans thin nine can you do if you don -i have their 'nue:ave' malarkey. but it's • elown...I haven't got tins! for this. I'M • jonnies. Lube is one of those freebie lose then .shape within ten minutes are • religious tendencies, parents to buy probably more ...limn to the tact that es hlic encg, a shit and then I'm going for a that you may not think you need at tat so annoying - how do you restore them • you choccy or free time away from indie music is just generally shit these • time and are slightly disappointed will to their former glory? You can't_ Arse. • dissertations? First off, yon can take days. If one more prism states that like eetting a free comb. rim, like d yourself away for a -mini-break" as Thom Yorke has been their hiegest • comb. there comes a time when you' twais in suits call them, That's if you influence ever I don't know what I'll Pic of the week • be very grateful for it. • • have a job, can afford it. have do , tprithahly nothing but I'll • someone to go with and can be eontemplate some sort of vendetta for a • • • 8.Food samples Nothing beat bothered to book a trip to Spain for Olivia calcitic ins Poppy as site teased her pits ha So get yourself down to Bad • as a boy. • getting a complimentary dinner at tt one yseekend. It you don't have a SneakerS at the Faversham Olt • • local cupermarche. It will prohahl jute why not get one? This is also a Saturday, March 10 and lake in • • consist of cubes of cheese on sticks ar fun activity for the Ione and boring Mancunian eleetm-popsters The Whip • at couple of olives. but still, better the • • Easter holiday. Try call centres, doting their eleetro-dance-techno-pop • a kick in the pants. Wet herspoons tend Morrison,: fro stuff. They're supported by rum- • The future I ool-proot job opportunities and drinking Devo-fans FOALS, who may • • 9. Air miles - OK, so you have to tea •or those of you also in your final year, spiritual times that you are otherwise also he worth as gander. After all, what • • • quite a hit of money in the frst place 1 the future is becoming fucking lacking. If you're really at a loose else is there to do on a Saturday night • be eligible for these things. but you Gil • a daunting. That recurrent tunnel vision end then pick up a bible for God's in Leeds? Squares is always an option. always steal a rich relative's, • • of "where is my life going'!" is sake (everyone's got a Gideons 1 suppose, as is Flares or Yates. So the • knocking about sonnewherel and • terrifying. • Ft's seems to be your only logical • • ID. Disease - Free for you but quit learn about the most famous • option. If you don't do what we say, • • expensive for the NHS. Also tit • vanishing act of all time. You know we'll cut you up. Possibly. PK • • particularly pleasant. wouldn't bothi 1 • • Going Down it makes sense. l • wth this one actually. • • • Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 19 RICHARD CHRIS WOOLLEY DIXON

Suddenly festival going has become a AIDS!' it screams. Obviously. they national past-time, but not a leisurely aren't that extreme. but the posters one. Now it's more of a free-for-all. have convinced me I'm a diabetic with separating friend from friend. mother high blood pressure. a little hit preg- from child. when its finally revealed A mere five nant and I definitely need to quit who's in and who's out. smoking, even though I don't actually Last year. with the absence or years of smoke and I find it about as appealing Glastonbury. I noticed a much less as sticking a car exhaust. And so on. competitive summer, No one really warm I am sure there is nothing more irri- sacred that much about the World tat i ng to a doctor than the worried. net- Cup. it was already lost. people Carling, doctor using screw hags who come in drifted to small gatherings. but there convinced they have bowel cancer was no central rock of ages to pin mouth ulcers when really a dodgy stomach from eat- Your dreams of happiness to, ing dirty kebabs rthey are made with everyone just got along. Of course. rats and dogs. surely t is the only prob- there were huge fluctuations in shares and fatigue lem. However. in this age of casual his week, as Monday ebbed have bacterial vaginos;,.. I have away into Tuesday and took in the camping supplies industry have turned syphilis. I am pretty sure I have and often drunken sex. you could do T with it the chance 'and a with a few companies' profits Ibird Ilu, maybe even MRSA. I well to remember that one in ten dipping substantially. But for those decidedly outside chance at that) of have every disease I have read about-in women under twenty four have my gaining entry to the 2(107 of us who weren't share holders there me into a the last twelve months. Why? }lave I chlamadia. but don't actually know seemed, oddly. to he more to do. shout it. It's worth noting that this is Glastonbury festival, I find myself been recklessly promiscuous'? Beg- Well not this year. the process is scary shit considering it can make you feeling strangely at peace. This is the curmudgeonly ging doctors to treat rite ivith dirty already unaterway•. and whilst the first year. since the age of 16, that I gloves? Spent an extended period of infertile. 1 realise you arc spending prospect of watching The Who or won't he attending a use music traitor to my time in a Bernard Matthews chicken your university years trying hard not to festival. A mere five years of warm Bjork perform on the biggest live processing plane' None of the above, start spawning, or at least. I hope vou stage in the country makes me sick Carling. mouth ulcers and fatigue old ideals, unless they took place in a haze of are. hut it is not an exciting prospect. with dread. there's evidently a huge have turned me into a curmudgeonly LSD. Five out of six cases of gonorrhoea traitor to my old ideals. because this majority who find this quite a logical This recent bout of hypochondria have no symptoms. although when you way to spend 1:150. Yes, yes. I know because this know :thout it...you, uh. know about it. year I simply can't he arsed. was Inspired by my housemate . the "Not everybody goes for the big acts Two years ago I was (eventually) brave bastard teaches sex education to Considering these facts it really is man, it's more for the experience year I simply granted a ticket to the Glastonbury kids. As if explaining the finer points worth getting screened. A boy and I yeah? That's why they don't release festival through an elaborate network can't be of the erection to under fifteens wasn't have been together for going on three of communication, spanning about the line-up until after the tickets are quite heinous enough. he opened the years now, but not too long ago the sold out yeah? Safe." But the two hundred miles. set up between booklet on a page of photographs of doctor thought he might have (Manly- myself and a friend of a friend at a -experience" of scrambling arsed suR. Penises with cauliflower dia. This was a complete misdiagno- desperately after a prize that I might halls of residence at Westminster growths on them. pussing shafts, ulcer- sis. but I went to gel screened anyway. not get. and the organiser: tin their University. blessed with a wickedly Richard ated lips, warts and a picture of a vagi- Nut so pleasant an experience and no arrogance) are so sure I want that 55 lollypop at the end, but I did have the fast internet connection. The whole na which had the description of 'cot- they refuse to even tell me what I'm process took about three hours, and. tage cheese-like discharge' under- piece of mind that neither of us are buying into before I've bought it. is a beginning as it did at around half neath. I am never eating again. All infecting each other. You might not be pretty hard one to put up with at seven in the morning. left me with a this would have been of no concern to converned, perhaps you have trot slept feeling of exhausted relief only times. me had I closed the book in horror, but ith many people. but the frightening I just re-read the past 600 words previously accessible to those who much like a car crash or any interview STI hook tells rue that by the time you and realised they make me sound are on your tenth sexual partner you have negotiated their way through a with David Beckham (seriously mate. older than I actually am. My 16 year- crowd of rabid baboons using only get elocution lessons) I had to forge are partaking in the exchange of old self would despair to read- the twelve million peoples' germs. their charm and a few 'Doctor. ahead in this new area of my educa- disillusioned monster he would Doctor' jokes. I was one of the elite tion. TWELVE MILLION DIFFERENT become, and in such a short space of GERMS. Pass me the condoms. at last. I suffer from thrush very occasion- time. Something's changed. This year would have taken twice ally. Yeah. you heard. It's not embar- please. something's not right, It's certainly Chris the effort, with a frantic process of rassing because almost everyone gets got nothing to do with that registration in February followed by it. Especially those ladies sporting the nonsensical streak of anti-capitalism, more desperate. and expensive. skinny jeans who have- a penchant for peculiar to undergraduates, which telecommunication scams in April. 1 the big B (bread, that is and have lots bandies around the notion that certain I have bacter- read somewhere that 400.000 people of sex (HA! Who's laughing now?). events have "sold out". No. I fear this have registered for the 125,000 Everyone has thrush, but in some peo- year's wave of apathy comes from ial vaginosis. available tickets. Consider these ple it gets aggravated by environmen- somewhere much more sinister. Am I figures alongside the fact that each tal factors and then BAM. there's a riot just getting to old for it? applicant has the right to four tickets. I have in your pants. Incidentally, while we It's possible. But on the other the physical distribution of which are discussing thrush - you love it - hand perhaps I'm beginning to realise takes place in about three hours. It syphilis. I am you can treat it DIY style at home with that there's a heap of possible time doesn't take much maths at all to see some natural yogurt, which is messy. killers outside of the music festival. the discrepancy here, anyone who's pretty sure I or garlic wrapped in gauze, which which would certainly be lc, seen double penetration porn knows hurts like HELL. Not fool-proof, but crowded and stressful, and which that eventually someone has to be left much cheaper than the rip-off chemist don't involve me in pitched battles have bird flu, out, Imagine the stress of application. options. Fact. and wild financial speculations and the tension of waiting. only to be Anyway, other than trying to make before I can start to have fun. maybe even followed by the painful kick in the you feel mildly uncomfortable. there is crotch of rejection at the last minute. MRSA. I have a reason I am writing this. I flicked I'm sure many people reading this through the book to read about thrush will feel that the good outweighs the every disease and low and behold, I caught sight of bad as far as Glastonbury goes. And descriptions of other vaginal and they're right, it is the best arts penile weirdness. Loads of the horri- festival in the world and the one that I have read ble diseases referenced 'tiredness'. 'a does the most necessary work for general feeling of being unwell' and charity with its huge profits. But in about in the 'irritated genitals' as symptoms. The recent years it's brought with it a vagueness of such symptoms had me weird climate of unrest that's seen last twelve self-diagnosing myself with every one every UK festival selling out in a of them. My friend likened it to when matter of hours, with punters panic- months. you are at the doctors and the NHS buying tickets en masse to such posters are asking you things like 'Do email: [email protected] email; [email protected] interminably dross gatherings as the you have a loot?' You nod to yourself. Richard is an English finalist Chris is a Viz character V and Isle of Wight festivals, 99 gripped with fear, 'then you have 20 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007

k • 1 The changing landscape of popular music As the new-found thirst for live and recorded music continues to plough on into the 21st century, a war rages on between fans and record companies. offers you an insight into the speedy evolution of the Internet into potentially the primary outlet for sourcing and listening to your favorite music.

The role and manner of live music has as video sharing i tor instance. known is that the hand hired the same seconds. in spite of the dates only being Fire, personally pleaded with fans whq changed over the years. Whilst live YouTube, with particular emphasis on promotions company as was used announced 24 hours before the start of wanted a ticket to use one of these performunces have always been the YouTube 'channels'I, social successfully by bands such as Oasis in ticket sales. They then went on to sell- methods rather than "support the touts, main source of income for artists, in the networking sites (most prominently. the days before new media'. Indeed, out their full UK tour, playing much by purchasing a ticket through the grey current climate of declining record MySpace and Bebol and blogs (such as the fact that the Arctic Monkeys larger venues, in only 10 minutes. market. sales. they have become even more nigger and the musician-oriented released the fastest-selling debut album Arcade Fire, along with the Arctic New methods of selling tickets are important and consequently more time l,i veJournal) are providing more 'Ways of all-time by selling 100,000 copies on Monkeys, Lily Allem Sandi Thom also being pioneered. Nokia's and effort has been invested in making of allowing hands and labels to interact the first day of sale. suggested that fans and, recently. Konpa, are one of the 'Ticketrush' ssehstle, which offers them as critically and commercially with fans. were still eager to hear the tracks m most prominent examples of how tickets for sale in advance of public successful as possible. Blogs have created a particular their fully-produced form. despite internet marketing. both created by sale. and also for sold-out gigs. hosted a However. whilst becoming more emotional affection amongst certain having already got hold of the tracks themselves and by others, when Kasabian gig at The Refectory before important in a finatkial sense. live ties tans who have become disenfranchised fur free in their raw (and, some have coupled with a Nu» created by high- Christmas, where tickets were delivered for a modern-day. new artist are less with some official websites who they said. superior) demo form. This. also calibre live performances, can generate in the form of a barcoded text message.

eepoteen mail in previous decades as a I'M are written by bands' management lends credence to the argument that a huge fan-base when allied to These messages could not be forwardedl tool to raise thou profile. New artists in a corporate tone. Blogs have online promotional methods create a traditional promotional methods. on. meaning that only the original traditionally built up their reputation ovided an outlet for the artists to strong brand affinity. The rapidly-sold tickets have not purchaser of the c-ticket for rather. the through[ incessant gigging as. apart write in a personal torte. Many There are now 41 huge 4_500 gigs always gone to genuine fans, though: ownet of the phsmei could attend the' loin purchasing a physical single we lshes. such as MySpace. have nationwide each week and the thirst for the so-called "secondary market" has gig. In practice. the system worked,' I which would firstly require a record managed to combine several of these live music is ubiquitous. Arcade Fire benefited. Ranging from ticket brokers smoothly: phones were scannedl deal i. the only way that fans would he 'new new media' forms into a single recently sold out 3.0011 tickets for five buying up vast numbers of tickets to promptly and the time taken to enter the exposed to the band and their music service to spectacular effect. intimate London shows in only WO sell on at an inflated price. to private venue was comparable to a doorman was through seeing them use Conway to what some buyers. or "touts". auctioning on tickeks checking a traditional curd ticket. Over the past decade. 'new media' sensationalist articles have claimed. minutes after they have sold out. Glastonbury Festival employed a such ns the tawnier has enabled artists these new forms have not completely ii comfortable that they will be have new technique this year to ensure that to communicate directly with fans replaced traditional promotional plenty of opportunities to relist them Only the original purchasers of tickets through websitea: and mailing lists, as methixls but have complemented them. There are now before the gig if they do not reach the can attend the festival. They required well as music hosting services such as Much has been made of the anilicially-highly set reserve price, the all individuals who were interested in 'peoplesound.com' and. the original phenomenon of the Arctic Monkeys a huge 4,500 problem has now reached epidemic attending to submit a photograph of incarnation of .M1'3.com'. Through budding up a strong fanbase through proportions. themselves in a pre-registration that. followers set up their own fan their fans ripping demo CDs and gigs To combat this, sites such as process. In return. they were allocated a wehsites. spawning further sharing the songs amongst themselves 'Scarlet Mist' have been established. reference number which is being used communities and creating a 'virtual' (the hand themselves have admitted nationwide allowing genuine funs to exchange when tickets go on sale. The ticket is following that seemed to grow that their own understanding of modern tickets at face value for gigs they are printed with the photograph of the exponentially as more and more 'real' computer technology is limited. and each week longer able to attend. Existing fan and registrant/purchaser, and will he fans attended gigs. their MySpace profile was created by official forums for artists' websites are checked at the door to ensure that the In recent years. the rapid growth of fans as the hand were not aware of the being used in similar fashions. Indeed. person presenting the ticket is the sane 'new new media' content services such site's existence). What is less well 55 Win Butler. the lead singer of Arcade as the person printed on the ticket. Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 21

LA labels rather than as a vendor lock-in to to sell songs directly to their fans. promote sales of the hardware iPiid 7Digaal also offer labels to sea up device and to create a virtual download stores with customised look- ecosystem. and-feels For each individual hand. Jobs' argument is laughable given creating a 'band music store' that can that all tracks on i'Funes are provided be themed alongside a similarly hosted with DRM regardless of the label they merchandise store by the likes of are released on. and Independent label CafePress. Domino's releases. available in their Labels themselves are also showing protected state. are available with no creativity, Sensing that downloads are such restrictions on the 13leep,coni not a physical, tangible. product and are download store of another Mike label, seen I.1), SOW NM: as having limited Warp Records. Some analysts have entrItitglaI affinity, and merit because ul expressed the belief that a blanket that. are increasingly selling. licensing model %%mild he best for an eustormsed, limited-run releases. The parties consented, Pay tog a monthly forward-thinking label Transgressiac roe directly to y -intent provider tilt Records have recently still au() 7" access to a certain amount rot singles by the Landon hand Battle, di teatime's per month. similar to hov, each one one tiled with tracing paper eMitai, works at present. with the and stencils for fans to design their iouvt downloads being tree frnni any DRM cover. ArlOther Or their releases features or territorial restriction. allowing free a customised, hand-drawn decoration And in the begia.rung there was The Arctic Monkeys. transfer between the purchaser's media- on each copy. Maybe not the start of hleshanng and illegal downloads playing devices. The downloads will be What is clear is that record but certainly a catalyst for its astronomical success linked to the purchaser's account and companies. particularly majura. still will he watermarked so that if any have a role to play in promoting artists. attempt it made to share them without however their role is changing. Things authoriaation then their account will he are moving ..iway hum merely beme a closed or legal steps taken (although seller of records into more diverse So how does this recent resurgence the UK's bestselling records ;if 21103. of digital distributiim and wehhosting likely to be less than the individual areas. Emphasis must he placed on in live music interact against the Consumers are also becoming. mone than physical distribution lawsuits that the RIAA has ahead), licensing music for adverts and other backdrop of music sales? Record educated as it result of rittrsie Complaints about the restrictive pursued, as these have been proven to outlets. When Google purchased the companies. particularly majors, are recommendation services. both those nature of Digital Rights Management be largely ineffective, with the roughly barely-two-year-old cereal sharing site fond of the argument that rampant that are autrimated and those that are (DRM). in that it prevents free copying stable number of users and tracks YouTuhe last scar, trains obserYera illegal downloading is killing the run by humans. User reviews from sites and exchange between different music-- shared on unlicensed downloading Predicted that Ihey would face a record industry and that the increase in such as Arnaion are used as a reference playing devices. were prey musty the services offering weight to the barrage of lawsuits from content rights legitimate, paid-for downloads is not point. and their "Other Users Boucle reserve of technology nerds and the argument that these tactics are of little owner,. demanding that content compensating for falling physical section is often used as HT. but there are signs that detenent uploaded without license he removed. record sales. It is true that physical recommendations. Wehsitca such as mainstream download purchases arc It could also he said that early leaks Gough: have used their financial might ■ record sales are declining and knell Pandora and Last.fm recommend other becoming more aware of its lanuanima. and downloadable demos of bands' to pactfy the holders by striking downloads are growing (global sales artists using complex collaborative As consumers increasingly change work also creates a better atmosphere at licensing deals to shim their videos on fell overall by 4 per cent in the first six gigs as fans sing along to new songs. webaite Ihat am-m.1s a huge enniunt of months of 2006. and digital music sales Kele Okelelc. the lead singer or Blue traffic almost doubled), however. digital Si Party. archly alluded to this at a recent The power of websites that allow purchases still accounted for only gig in January. asking fans -Who has individuals to interact between around 10 per cent of total revenues, A plausible argument that the heard the new album yet?". a reference themselves is shown by the tact that meaning that CD sales are still very to the leak of ''A Weekend In The City" Faiachook is one of the most-visited much the stronghold of labels' income. record companies may not like to around a month pro, ious to that despite websites in the world. Advertisers A plausible argument that the record admit is that music fans are not being released by a further two. realise that having so many eyeballs companies may not like to admit is that What we are also finding is that, when concentrated on their adverts fin the music funs are becoming more becoming more demanding and collie! albums are sent nut to case of racehook. a yonng, large') demanding and their tastes arc journalists. a press embargo is placed academIL demographic I is a godsend.. diversifying, Ni longer will they their tastes are diversifying. or a Non-Disclosure Agreement signed Indeed. the level of brand-lily:illy tolerate. purchasing, an album that has in an attempt to ensure that reviews are 11.1.1 /Med to Faeehor 4, by its visitors is only two decent songs on. and cyliical WI published hetore a specific date. only comparable to Ihat of sports attempts to extend the Wei:aide of an 55 Observer Music Monthly appeared to teams. The huee autos of money being album with constant "Special Edition" filtering tagurithins. and \ tete.. utrc I. brand ill personal neryic player. they break die embargo recently by oftered to but out laicehook.. and the rehashes featuring a single extra track. useful resource as a review aggregator. tinily that the al prigs tile) purchased horn fele:eerie their res teas- of "Neon Bible" comparatively Lind-vidue sum of The methods listed above are providing Human recommendations arc still i'Fones. ere:unite:red le Apple's early, although Noes had been hewing €.100‘11 paid by News Cerporation for more fans with more exposure and valued, both by prolessemal journalists proprietary protect It s:!1 with reviews of the album for a while IrAtxt access to u wide range of music. at an in print, televi win and oniine media: plea able on their nee Cow, iti device. before. having downloaded leaked earlier stage in brand;' developments. online hhigs and other Maier labels ore seemingly cum* to copies. potential these brie cone mini ins see in and as such they are tailoring their plOreNS1011:11 'lintels and also fellow terms that DRM. originally oreared out New chart rules intioduced at the thee.. wereites Muse' lahels itiusi purchasing patients by only buying the consumer rev tews. hit of paranoia that legally -purchased tiles alert of this year. fleinntlow tide Ii %lust !hesr v counterparts ,ind songs from an album diet they aettedly instance. publishes regular 'experts" would be shared freely like illegally, inclusion of download-only singles. ....mhos: Her:Italie: and ,..ailleborations. like, The diversification argument is charts, and allow members to compile downloaded ones. is a failure means it is possible tor a hand's sisals rallicr than crnplov.inu antapulisriv corroborated by the fact that. of the 100 personal charts and playlisls that can he However, recent talks between FM1 to chart wahom he% mg alerted aro:red Its.:Inorlues, III order to sun it e. bestselling albums of all time. only consulted by ()diet users. and fluiws fir reap iac DRM !rum their deal. The first hand fir he suecesaiul three have been released this century. Nokia recently launched their Music label's sprigs ImIk1.7 LION% n. Sloe bile, with approach was KI184111)11. Sites Rather than major 'stars' selling Recommendera service, featuring president of ,apple, insists that nollni,,! such as Audimelly in the Jailer: market albums in vast quantities. the inuae: recommendation+ from a aelectivm of Sill DRM to heck, was dictated by the and 7D1g1141%; Itufic•Aort..illnv hand, buyer's money is being spent on a wide internattontal record gores front alien range of artists and styles. Of the specialist eenres..rs well as featuring imernationel 'stars' that arc selling Nakao,: and featuies from renowned !el well, they are typically from a neuron umaicians and music fans such as Llge al niche: the likes of Justin Devitt Hou1C, are kept up to date either lake . Christina Ait ii i I era and with a monihts e-mail newsletter lbw.Beyonee emeoring from 00s Featuring the letest recommendations manufactured pep. and the talents of and editorial leatures. the British artists CoIdpluy. lames kiwever much the music industry Blunt and Dido concentrating out a soft- trumpet!. the nipidlyearowing, but still luck approach with eeneralised, non- insignificant. legal download market. specific lyrics hit hate the virtue of taking a closer look at sales figures holding meaning and relevauce with points .1t less rosy picture. Sates at large numbers of the mamstream Apple's iTunes, who hold the lamest market. Indeed. labels are finding it global market share. are Naming. harder to identify artists who they think Price is quite possibly a factor that is will sell well. and relying on fans to do off-putting tor consumers: paying 7Qp it for them: in spume of The Darkness for a week is deemed to he has selling out the Astoria, many A&R men expensive for a lossily-compressed The number of gigs being staged and the number of you thought their sound was ton faddish and music file_ with digital anw oil lit going to them on a daily basis is simply unprecedented derivative to he successful. vet their provided that is not the 'real thin•'. debut album went on to become one of and is sold by the far-cheaper method INE111=1■MIII 'w _ .4•1f. 22 Leeds Student 4.vww.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007

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1611-1 MARCH FED NOSE DAY ST PATHEIM BAR OPEN UNTIL lAM GUINNESS Prizes to be won including MP3 players Be the first to claim you Guinness hat (limited amount only) Signed Leeds Tykes shirt DJ from 8 p.m. Help raise money for Red Nose day 17TH MARCH THE OFFICIAL ST PATRICKS DAY ONLY THE IRISH CENTRE HAS A BIGGER PARTY!!! BAR OPEN UNTIL 12.30 A.M

Guinness £2.00 pint Watch Ireland v Scotland on our 2 big screens & 6 plasma screens -1.30 p.m. Ik0 Caffereys £2.00 pint (all other matches shown as well) Jamesons £1.60 Free food during the day (while stocks last) Baileys £1.50 Get in quick and get you Guinness merchandise Magners £2.75 Btl Later on - The LUU Irish Dance Society will be performing DJ from 8 p.m. onwards to help us jig the night away these prices are for all day on both days "NW raffilWM Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 23

rlilftt- tirral Ditto that The Gossip have broken out of Midwestern indie obscurity to kick start the mainstream with their insanely catchy-yet-credible fusion of soul and punk. ViTr4 Pr wing Ivrcdor and ophie Borne' went to meet them, and find out a little about their UK tour... nfortunatel■,. when we arrive at the venue, the band's manage- Ument is totally unaware that our interview with the hand had been orga- They are intrigu- nised at all Thankfully. The Gossip themselves don't mind this and kindly ed but confused invite us in for an unplanned chinwag in their dressing room anyway, by the concept of Nathan asks us immediately for the quickest way to the nearest H&M. We chip butties, discuss with Hannah the impromptu knicker-throwing whieh occurred at even when trans- the previous night's gig in Manche- ster. And. seeing the array of snacks lated to 'french w hich Leeds Met has provided them with. Beth Ditto exclaims, 'I hope fry sandwiches', those celery sticks are dipped in sugar". So begins our interview with They rather like De Gossip... the 'posh' Eng- What have you found different about your new UK tour as opposed lish pronunciati- to the one last autumn? Nathan Everything. It's just totally on of 'twat'. different, the venues are so much big- 3 5 ger, like triple the size. so the show`, have been ace, THE GOSSIP Beth: And we've sold out every night! Leeds Met Union I euess we must have had a lot more Monday 21.3th February airplay over here since then_ so thiries Why ;ire 1"be t ;I•ssip hoc hit Ole night have got bigger_ only? Why seat)) they live here in I..-etts. 'wont: the I to band at the Old Rat and You've been around a few years: entertain us every single night.' Why why is it now that things are going Wa. mainly because they at sit to worldnide? Beth. It Is hula takes time. we've got time they played in Leeds 4 at Hannah, our new drummer, and we the teensy has stage, which has enough definitely spent a lot more mone■on room hir the Bonvevers to pits. a gig Willi this record_ 11►,411MICIll, Mak Oilt OW they- graced the stage ills 4.2cP, What was your inspiration for start- .uhl, erikey. did they fill mi In laei. ing a hand? the entire venue was filled by lead singer_ Beth: Boredom! We all had jobs in the Bob Ditto's. lungs alias:. Christ alive. that mall, and moved to Portland for a woman can vine, Blasting out the rampant change of scenery. But I didn't knoks 'Listen Up' at full pelt. Dino clearly Ira,. the Nathan that well until we both ow,: swat colds of an industrial ti ight an Bassi- io Olympia at the same time. st Brace Paine was relishing every vyncop_ ated note. humehine into *Yr Mangled hat's the music scene like in I lean' with a manic guitar-nourish, itiq tit Olympia? the least hit impeded by Iti+ enornuius Beth: Well. the musical output of the while spectacles, which he was clearly What do you think of Britney's new up on that aspect of it. The song came city certainly outweighs the size of the wearing for a bet. The soulful 'Coal to out of a time in ms life when I didn't scene - we ended up setting up a lot of haircut? Diamonds' transfixed the jittery crowd as Beth: She looks great! It's such a bold stop crying for about two years - shows ourselves. Plus. it's cheap and Dasi soared between octaves to exprt..-iss its , cried every day. Also, a lot of us felt pangs everyone's drunk! There's a lot of statement (11' heuitnehe. And 'Are You That cheated. y 'know, by the system. 'Stan- Somebody'. the GOssip's unexpectedly overlap within the scene - the hippies Your older songs always referred ding in the Way of Control' came old hang out with the punks. that Linda The song came amazing Aaliyah cover. definitely mode directly to personal relationships of that It's good to make something the crowd go a little weak at the knees. thing. There's still plenty nt secret with women, using 'she' and 'girl' positive out of something negative. rivalries though. out of a time in "This one's for all the dykes!" annou- etc in the lyrics. Why have they nced Ditto. befalr launching into the ton- changed to 'he' and 'boy' now? Is it Finally, who would win out of you gue-in-cheek classic 'Swing Low'. Unlike What did you think about topping my life when I due to the move into the mainstre- lot in an arm wrestle? most hands' Hasid between-song banter. this year's NME Cool List? later a hit of conjecture] her witticisms added even more sparkle to It's a very sweet sentiment. It doesn't am? didn't Beth: I'm dating someone who is a Beth: Ii would he an even tie. ending the gig. At uric point. she almost managed really matter to me personally, but it 'gender radical' - she was horn a girl with all of us ss irh our hands in the air to get the unwitting macho faction of the does matter how much you get noti- stop crying for and now she's a man. In the radical. in solidarity! crowd to change their chant of 'Leeds. ced. We don't know much about the subversive world, labels aren't Nil Leeds. Leeds. Leeds' to 'Lesbians, Lesbi- NME in the states. We prefer magazi- about two years important. My lyrics are still honest Random facts: ans, Lesbians. Lesbians' Genius nes like I-D: it's the last great fashion and directly about my life; if I was They are addicted to Kinder Buenos... The defiant 'Standing in the Was of magazine. Nathan likes this magazine - I cried every dating a 'eirl' I'd still sing about it. They are intrigued but confused by the Control' sent the audience into overdrive. called 'Purple'. concept of chip butties. even when the general fervour of the night hay ing Nathan: It's French...ahem. day. Standing in the Way of Control is translated to 'french fry sandwiches' whipped them up into frenzy. Every Beth: I prefer to not read too much. about gay marriage... ilint's goat 55 They rather like the 'posh' English single songs is an ear-walloping, soul Far a song nowadays-7 pronunciation of 'twat' (opposed to shaking odyssey into funk-punk perk- So you prefer celebrity magazines? political Beth: It'sversi-poldical but it's not their American version, 'twot'). cher). This hand is going to take over the Beth:Yeahh! only about that People reatly picked world. Amen. 24 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 8, 2007 Fashion Amon. aving been prompted to re- assess our eco-consciousness in almost every important aspect of our daily lives — from what we eat to how we heat our house and where we holiday to — it seems logical to suppose that the way we dress will become the next issue to be subjected to a critical enquiry. For decades, anti- fur campaigners have been in a feroci- ous and, at times even bloody, battle with the fashion industry over its reluctance to accept that, on an ethical level. animal suffering is bad no matter how pretty the coat looks. In the last couple of years. ethical discourse has taken a large leap forwards by questio- ning the sustainability of the predomi- nant clothing manufacturing methods, which are all about the market forces and rarely ever about the modes of production and the environment. The fashion industry is a fast-paced mechanism and its actors can only survive if they continue to amaze their audience. This means that every season (ic. four times a year) they have to

First of all, the efficiency of cotton production can only be maintained with the use of pesticides. The cotton plant uses more pesticides per plant than any other crop in the world. 55

come up with new, exciting products. On the surface there seems to be nothing wrong with this accustomed cycle: however, eco-critics argue that behind this seemingly transparent framework lies the domain of grave ethical implications. First of all, the IMAM: Bono's eco-friendly fashion brand. Went out efficiency of cotton production can of business a year after its conception; it was doing only be maintained with the use of pes- so poorly it was actually increasing third-world debt. ticides. The cotton plant uses more pesticides per plant than any other crop in the world. It is a well-known fact that pesticides contaminate the surro- undings, causing an imbalance in eco- systems. Other fabrics, such as nylon and polyester, are produced with the Is eco-fashion a distant dream use of petrochemicals and are non-bio- degradable. Nitrous oxide, which is released as part of the manufacturing or a rapidly approaching process. is 310-times more damaging than carbon dioxide. As innocent as fashion might seem, it also plays its reality? Are sustainable part in the emergence of threats associated with global warming. Furthermo- re, bleaches that are frequently used to clothes a sustainable option create aesthetically exciting clothing not only damage the environment but are also hazardous to human health as for the future? Victoria well. Other criticisms are concerned with the fashion industry's treatment of their labor force and cotton producers: the latter are, for the greatest part. Ivanova reports. underpaid For their produce while the former are subject to poor working Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 8, 2007 2 Fashion 17,uttured

conditions. However, within a year Edun closed creative label Amana. Helen Wood. and change? Today Sienna Miller sticker on their labels. The question Environmentalists are urging the down; in explaining the failure or his who graduated from Central St. Marti- might be wearing hemp jeans from will, nonetheless. remain whether such fashion industry to employ environ- brand, Bono admitted that 'Edun clot- n's, and Erin Tabrar, from the London People Tree. and new hip brands such action is just part and parcel of the new mentally-friendly processes and to sighing sold so poorly that we were incre- College of Fashion, have only recently as Amana might be defining this marketing strategy or whether it is a nificantly minimize the use of chemi- asing Third World debt by having the launched their brand Amana. which minute's cool fashion, but who can genuine effort to reform the industry as cals. Fair-trade activists want to see clothing manufactured in the Third means 'delivered with confidence' in guarantee that tomorrow Sienna's a whole. What lies at the heart of the farmers being paid more for their pro- cc A response to these demands has come from the newly emerged fashion companies, who have stood on a platform of eco- conscious consumerism. In the last couple of years, numerous fairtrade groups have emerged in developing countries, ensuring that cotton farmers are paid their due share.

duce. and human rights groups are creating political pressure in favour of the dismantling of sweat-shops. as well as for an improvement in working conditions and welfare benefits. A response to these demands has come from the newly emerged fashion companies, who have stood on a platform of ceo- conscious consumerism. In the last couple of years. numerous fairtrade groups have emerged in developing countries, ensuring that cotton farmers are paid their due share. They focus on farmers who produce organic cotton and collaborate with designer companies whose main priority is ethics in fashion. For example. People Tree — 'a pioneering Fair Trade and ecological fashion company' — works with 70 fair-trade groups from 20 different developing countries. Their maxim is EDIIN: Another part of Bono's environmentally and to show that it is possible 'to wear sty- ethically friendly fashion range lish, exciting and affordable fashion. at the same time as respecting the people and the planet'. People Tree has collaborated with Tnpshop. and their creati- ons are available in London's Oxford Street shop. People Tree has also collaborated with the London School of Moroccan Arabic. Amana clothing is hemp jeans will not end up in a pile issue is the fact that emphasis in fas- Fashion. According to Harpers & World'. only produced from natural materials waiting to be sent off to Oxfam and hion will have to be shifted from what Queen, fashion'it-girl' Sienna Miller On a brighter note. eco-fashion such as organic cotton and hemp. Amana will not be replaced by a new is cool and trendy to what is ethical cites People Tree as one of her favouri- made a debut in the world of high-fas- Even though. in the last three years; super-cool kid on the block? Unless and environmentally conscious. Of te brands. hion when EarthPledge. a non-profit cco-salcs have been steadily on the fashion mentality is changed altoget- course. this can only happen if our Perhaps one of the best-known organization that originated as a Unit- rise. the question still remains: what her. eco-fashion will remain a form of society rethinks its liberal capitalistic attempts at giving fashion a more ed Nations committee. collaborated needs to happen for eco-fashion to escapism for the marginalized sub-gro- priorities in the grander scheme of conscious face was Bono's Edun with New York's Barney's to create become not simply fashionable. but the ups who feel oppressed by the self- things. At the end of the day, it will brand, launched in Spring 2005. Initi- the Future Fashion coaction that fea- norm? Perhaps this season 'green is centered priorities inherent in a capita- not he what we wear that will shape ally, the idea was to create 'conscious tured at New York City's Fashion the new black'. but how can 'sustai- listic society. Some brands might start our mentality, but rather it will be our consumerism with a radical and cruci- Week in 2005. The trend has been nable fashion' be maintained in art using organic cotton and they might mentality that will dictate what we ally stylish twist' that would help to taken up by this year's London Fashion industry that thrives on spontaneity stick the holistic-looking lair-trade choose to wear. diminish the 'Third World' debt. Week participants, a duo behind the 4- 26 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007

Singles A well kept secret Little shop of horrors Regularly. playing The Mixing Tin British punk and since the mid 1940 or something. The EP, and the definite low point. The THE HORRORS aswell as a host of VIB GYOR rock bands, and even a slight Paul rather long-awaited des at bland acoustic strumming and typical ‘Strangehouse' Fain hosts' (Cool For C atsi is 'The Secret' E.P soaring vocals do nothing to move me Weiler tone to 'Faris's' voice. awkwardly unoriginal but avoids being Unkown Actually, that's Writ true, they move Loog On the whole it works, although a really totally me to get at drink font, the kitchen, I few of the songs do sound Ft V foreettahle by come back in and think I'm listening similar. though plenty of bands get virtue of its Vih Gyor- s trw Secret EP opens to iLiKFTRATNS for at hit. before away with that their whole career. craftsmanship. with a small section 01 trumpet. which realising that it's still Viii Gyor, who netermind just the first album. There's The stumbling. on repeated listens. begins to infuriate have gone a hit post-rock towards the a few throw away tracks as well, 1 distorted falsetto. me. Why the hand feel this irtimpe.t to end of 'Ultimatum'. The sone drags particularly the utterly pointless octave leaps and he necessary to their track 'The on for another minute, and I gel 'excellent choice' that sounds like: *1 theatrical vibrato Secretis duly he:" mid ine. It doesn 't restless. someone reading 'Dostoevsky' at hand form an organic feature anywhere else in the hack and nonce I sun very under prepared for practice while everyone else tries to counterpoint scents to have been put in to express!) 'Stalker', which clocks in at a make a shitty song sound be-WT.- against. repeated 'neVet. never' hack ing annoy me. However, mustn't let their numbing seven minutes. And how On the whole though this is vocals 'the best Ming about the sanell hittIc trumpet obsession get in thc tt ay very numbing those seven minuses genuinely a decent album, my criticism and a funky, percussive rhythm section, of rcs icsying their LP. are. The song opens in as moderately isn't that the hype is unfounded, just while the guitars are probably AtOrementnined track 'The Secret' pleasing manner. with yet niiire if the Klaxons are the neon sat lours of that it's made 'The Horror's' rush the 'angular'. hat this long ago stopped begins with a fuzzy has+ line that is menacing overdriven guitars. but then indie then The Horrors are surds its album out before they've got enough 111Calltog anything. !nilp menacing. before more quickly shifts down at gem into more shadowy demise. Don't get Inc wrong I have never liked The Fratellis, menacingly fuzzy guitars force their montitonc -passion-. though I don't think this is a bad thine. Itrt;' i1shksthle-yhilTILs'tsakse),Ilnethree tlilripterolnlo ivesei;btrauttel and the contusingly titled "Bahv wily into the song, shortly nillowed by And so. I think I've reached the been at while since there was a hand the crap songs and get rut ot the filler Fratelli• Jialloutt - a pint glass of Thom Wale and Matt Bellamy's love end. But no! Sneaky Vib (Gut have making noise thin my mum will hate. before releasing -Strangehouse'. But priinisrve ;brining. that chromatic pub- child On vocals, his angst-ridden. added a sect et track. entitled The album starts well with the live this is it Karat that have got their roek melody you will have heard in all tortured weals .guiding you through in a Sigar RON apeing manner. A favOurite 'Jack the Ripper' and then the reputation w i Lb frantic. aggressive live their of Ito singles. an attempt Sit force a the distortion. IL sounds sub- tinkle of piano, no voiak Lind a single "Count in shows and not spending months on end N*0 kini2. :tbsolately nothine nett and Radinheel. which is not really a had 11.1111111112 time of just two inn ites make Strangely, the hest sung on the album is in the studio perfecting the baseline on a tett elearctte ends • dims not thing I guess, but it's been done sic this track the most pleasant on the El'. by far the hiatus track 'Death at the track three. it michi sound a hit ',upgrade mu in rcconsider 'It would be num> times before, and I am thorouglily impressed. Chapel' with the distinctive orean and unfinished. but •Strangehouse' has got L'atilef it I etas never here.' trills the Following this up is the more low- suln toy is obviously w hat Vib heavy thrashy guitar: behind the an honest. rough sound that is in one second verse 1' es u vomit or all Of 11'4.. kcv - Sca nners'. in which the hand ,h1 1101. screeching of 'Faris' the skinny. legged way part of it's charm, It' s raw. have clearly switched their guitars lintOrtunately they don'i Iruntman. Which begs the question why abrasive and a bit uncomfortable, but it The gni:num! from menacing fuzz to menacing subtlety lutist of the time. Instead it was added as a 1,11( only alter works because it 's Just so different to 'Dart For rvo, chiming. It's melodic and has a soul opting for a la, klnstre rehashing +I the lhOi1211T. The use of the organ keeps the Itnythinu else around at the minnein. Sweethearl' stirring huild-up towards the eta but same idea_ 1lot it to ,limas a .lookt .1, Macs cdge in your car while there isn't People IA ill sit?: that this band are all Di there's no way the hand c4111 escape (51 lyrics or thrashing hair and nit but they're wrung (7) eiv en it lull Reid iol lead corn pari sons with this One. game Her the (sack along. There - s teleasc UM . fnlh tws. and is the token By Owen Clements definoi nods towards The Sex Pistols By Neil Walker following last impassioned asoustii, number for the year's -seven. inch Ora:, out ii 1.ti generously proportioned slice ot Ltliidall ereamess, a composite •Lif imprornisinu. blues!: t ocals, off- Silence! Geniuses at work btt, hitting, tot irresistibly large retrain arid the .1k1.741.411111;14 y CIF), NO-11ot' ever seems lir pay Archie Brunson tharit ARCADE FIRE 11)kb...1i sal ihi, is infinit-..it `Neon Bible' hr Iler I ha tr Cite Fratellis. Sonovox Sailts 'Sur'. ivine his- Death 01 A Genie I Fletee Panda' is not as plod .r its tale. Ahmed] C'ill3d111111 11(+11'1 the ilooiLdw... presern 1s hen Lie( 130 Thing kkr,-.11.4; till Maid) ;Is. listening In the ne1", Mom teal tikOh: la:Clung any 55 here wonder-hand Arcade Fir,', lti shat their Siinteath, Indebted In 1tlF11.1: Street pie% ti tie, e11414.1 NO ell ht: ti 111 the Preaehers ca 19112, She 'A' siik is memories of an\ locks inch) to have tisTTS:ss111.:2,1) IrKtibslanttal_ lull the • B . listened to it: perleet in its execution side .1 Cr,1 Cr III 'Triek Me' by the tint style titan it is imixissihle To not make Lanvin:sally-enjoyed hells is quite instani LoroNrisilm._ Oh the first listen goi I. mostty heeause of She N you. will undoubtedly he left wandering a tk'etutions and where the hell lino:floor stompers air to rival 'Power's Chu' or 'Rebellion Lies]. WANK the unexpected quasi-ska. from the .eponyinons debut, You Win also ko where Me whittle or r I [k as A cr Cub Scout's 'I pmgressive indie tracks like laika- of Hate Nightclubs' inutels' anti should conclude by mod. Aberino Music suggesting that it is a bold erfort but fails is excellent „A to adequately surpitss their previous slightly angrier. effort. more conventional, electro version of Thank neon God that you'll be The Radio Dept. it treads giddily - with listening to this album more than once. a deceptively dark edge - a line Beware the shortcomings of he who between Ness 'fork garage and Last dismisses an album on a first listen as it is although it may he the first track you also orchestration and haimonies that are often brilliant. The addition of No Cars Go' to German disco. sounding extremely like only the second time round (trust me. you start to skip when you eagerly dive into Wagneriim in scale. Other songs such .is the album will annoy hard-core fans who Vie Twenty, if anyone remembers will gel in the end and simply head right the album for your third listen of the day the organ led 'intervention' me less subtle ssll have had the truck since before them. back to the start for another go) that the it is by no means has at short shelf life. and has its sights set on a more epic Funeral was released but the re-work is The jaunty. acoustic 'Best Friend' oreliestral brilliance wad understated 'Keep the cat running' follows with achievement, something that, considering more than adequate enough to inject ii tRCM is depressingly contrived. but beauty of this album gradually becomes the kind of pace and pleasing progression the size Of the hand and the instruments with a new life. , has a texturally brilliant middle section apparent. It is first and foremost a rather that we have come to life from this band available to them, is never going to be Put simply, this is unarguably a The final nail, rather regrettably. is dark and mischevious take on religion. and offers itself the only track which difficult for a band with this much brilliant album. It is not better than Sam Becton's actual voice, which is North American life and anything that would have probably not been out of ambition and talent. just too ,capering to convince you that happens to be torturing lead singer Win Funeral because the two are incomparable place on 'Funeral '. Both 'Neon Bible' and 'Anti-christ television blues' and the platitudes are anything tither than Butler at the time. so please do not fall into the trap of 'Ocean of Noise' are staggeringly 'Window-sill' allow Arcade lire to exhibit pointlessly sincere. I suppose this is Opener 'MINA Mirror' staggers and searching for comparisons. Finally we beautiful. simply staggering. 'Their shades of Bruce Springsteen and Ryan the sort of thing people might like. I swerves into life like an angry drunk on a have an album to get excited about. delicacy dances and glides unawkwardly Adams [hal had hitherto not been present stippose. dark country mad, accurately setting the Finally we have aband that have the tone for the album. and climaxing in with Butler's rugged and hurt-filled voice in their work, but don't be put off by this. ability to truly musically define a and as per usual they effortlessly take By Ramsay Alvrakeel tansikar Arcade Fire fashion wilt a it is only a nod to their influence and generation. Finally Neon Bible is hem crescendo of piano, strings and strained inelty simple guitar melodies one would nothing close to a rip-oft. Added to that, and fuck me its good_ (9) howl*, This is undoubtedly the first normally associate with Velvet they, like rune out of the ten songs on this track that reaches out and grabs you and Undergound, and hijack them with album. are. in places. jaw-droppingly By jenny Price Leeds Student wwvv.teedsstudent.urg.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 27 out: Music

BLOC PARTY/ FIELDS The Octagon, Sheffield Thursday 22nd February

Bloc Party- didn't make their annual trip to the Leeds Refectory I Name the refurbishment Instead I waN forced to commute to Sheffield to the infinitely better venue of the Octagon. Good acoustics. 11 good layout duke the name suggests) and the fact that it !Sift a canteen lift Sheffield unryermy's venue above ours. Pity about the rest of the place. So to the actual gig Support was from Fields who gave an enjoyable it somewhat forgettable set. They suffered greatly from the problem that eternally. plagues support: a lack of knowledge of their material, Gentle indie rock with post rock tw inges and iweeasional touchy a. of excellence they showed little to inert, them as outstanding 16). Bloc Party came to the stage with a fairly blank canvas. They have always seemed to he perhaps the most likely to have a long career out of the crop of bands that appeared in early 2005 and this was to be the first time I had seen them since before their rise In almost fame. My expecratii ins were, to he honest, high. They open w ith 'Song fin Clay the opener front their mess Is released hind in env opinion superior to 20115's Silent sophomore album. .1 Weekend In The Ciry K ele is wearing T-shin emblazoned w ith the slogan -Bring Back God's_ Bine Party are no longer simply frenetic rock now they have a message and the set contains a mix of older material and newer the atmosphere is pretty enjoy aisle file alt ION JIM, LI, LI II without say ing that 'Helicopter' and ten." We'll agree to disagree. 191 perhaps more reflective songs. It's Set highlight. include latest stn, e, rnonlh:. alai 'Filar LI11.111 111: nl my 'Bapiluet. ate also stand nut moment', clear that a large portion of the crowd ∎ 'The Prayer'. a song mile to he [Wine f:1111111-11eN Huns ■riem Vulon II goes Bloc Part) loudly declare "six out of By Mutates; Kent have conic for the old Bloc Party and

THE TWANG to go snort something white In fact the neighbour '1 guatanice you The Faversham one iii their most popular songs love life ended up in tissues' brings a Risen from the Ashes Sunday 4th March 'Cloudy Room' focuses on gentile chuckle to this childish .reporter. some jean luea from the juggler. think were looking at a low 2.2 but 'Fite first brand new track debuted CHARLOTTE That's u Diatomic colloquialism for with Ihe tuba ny to improve if you just tonight comes in the form of the initially Wattling The hype nlaciline getting coke from your dealer. wank at il I mean ■wir rata term. HATHERLEY/ SHUFFLE .low paced and harm' my ti I led 'fir has sprung, to lie. it The Twang Still this band could pull something (6) SHUFFLE Thankful'. the second track from her aren't on your ipod. they soon will be. out of the hag. as they do have some Deep Mae. released dun As we're told that they arc next big The Cockpit new album The sweet cuitaring and the humour is By David Clough week on her own label, Little Sister thine, we listen to it I Mall, waSil Thursday 1st March there if a little childish take the song Records. The wads shows a deeper and the next big thing The Horrors`' The A year on front her departure from more mellow side to Charlotte's lyrics Kaiser Chiefs main ideas man Nicl. Ash. after almost a decade w ith die trio. and rhythm. - a contrast to the bubble- Hodgson said in an interview with Charlotte hits the mad on an extensive euni pup of her singles and the next NML 'Aired,. Monkeys were the last 1-11( tour, back to venues of size more track tonight. the quirky download only of the hest and we need something familiar to her roots in the obscure single 'Behave'. else now to gel us out of it Maybe British punk band Nightnurse than the Charlotte's hand are on top form when he says 'every thing •ernes festival crowds of thousands frequented tonight, with not one tune sung or played average nowadays' he's nOerring fu The Twang, Now bate in mind they pOp-rckers Ash_ Tonight she visits out of RIM:. which IS a mean teat with uni our fair city of Leeds. playing to a the band apparently having only a week are on the same tecord label. I sorry Nick that everything seems carimisly mixed crowd ranging from and half to rehearse together. Hatherley recyeled nowadays young teenage girls to middle-aged doesn't make it easy for them either. with balding men. coos chord progressions and Sounding like a step hack Into the early 9ffc where everything was The first and only support comes bum arrangements on tracks such as 'Very baggy. The love child of The Stone the London-bused. quirkily stylish Young' and the brilliantly epic 'Roll eleetra iodic-pop quintet Shuffle Shuffle Over'. The see is ended' w ids the last Roses and Thr Happy Mondays, and like a ehild with something to prove who play lo an already bustling Cockpit. track on her new album. 'Siberia'. and something to his parents they arrive in Sounding like a cross between the Go Charlotte leaves the stage beaming to the the Faversham to a sold out audience Team and the Japanese applause. drelantig Leeds the best night with not even n single yet from these eleetroniczpowerpop band Polysics. the of the tour. But its not king before she swell done lads). The audience are hand do well to get the croWd into the CtlITICS hack lor more, surprising some 'well up for if and you can easily spot mood with their moque blend of jazz over-exeited fans who have already The Happy Mondays fans who were drum and bass and sampling, creating an iximmatideered the set lists from the thew the first time round. These Five original, if slightly mental c011eVii4)11 of stage. with a seemingly impromptu Brummic Lads hay c slime really good songs. 16) cover Of XTC's (a visible influence in guitaring. so fair ploy to them for that. On the stroke of nine. Hatherley Charlotte's music) This Is Pop'. ending it's just the lyrics that appear to be the modestly walks onto stage and opens the night perfectly. if a little pre- problem and the fake drunkenness of with the storming guitars and thunderous maturely with a disappointingly shoal set one of the singers. Wobbling all over drums of current single 'I Want You To of just under an hour, especially with Mr place but singing in a completely KnosC. grabbing the Cockpit's attention two great albums under her belt. comprehensive manner what the bell hY the balls with the irresistibly catchy Nevertheless, tonight Miss Hatherley has I think their again proven that she has more talent you trying to pull? Also chorus. Charlotte then ciao-till:nil!: lather Mr but Brown needs io slap launches into fan favourite 'Kim Wilde'. than her former position as rhythm them on the wrist for using the 1= word Ike opener of her 2004 critically guitarist gave her credit for. and I as a verb and telling people to go do acclaimed album eagerly await her return! t$) Grev Will Fade. which drugs. gross up you. I don't- get your wits recorded simultaneous with Ash's obsession with spending nights by album By Sarah Greene Mekdrarn. followed by debut eoing into the toilets S% it h other men single 'Summer'. 28 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007

• EROL ALKAN strikes back...

Ahead of his forthcoming Wax:On gig here at the Union, the international Di has a chinwag about stage invasions, Mexico and wizards...

What's your new clubnight in Landfill. shops or on the Internet. Sometimes it just because its popular. You should play 'Hurre like compared to its old leek like having two jobs at once. w hart yeti love. not just because its what incarnation. Trash? How much have the interne and \ 111.1 think you should play. It very &remit musically and NlySpace helped your work? You've Died all around the world, dynamically now it's cot a 511101e 110.1, Well it's definitely helped me expan d what have been the best destinations so atmosphere. Pith eye host a lot of Gve under different names It would contuse far? hands that are starting to conic din iugh. people if I did loads of random things all I lend to see the good in everywhere so You've hosted the likes of Bloc Party under otv own name. This was I'm riot it's hail to choose. Maybe vtc e ieo. It was and .flic klaxons in the past. which both beautiful aril NN e have been your favourites? And where would you Ins e to play They 're all good in their own wars.., o's next? like thev 're My kids- you can't slam Australia. But I don't like plying. mote love for one than the others. spending all day nn a plane inieht be a IN it true that after Peaches played she little stressful... came to stay. at our house? All the bands By Vivien King Macdona All the hands would stay at mine.. Peaches stayed for three days! Atter stay at Monday's gig they'd often stay til the mine...Peaches weekend. so we'd go out watch • wavon • play piker all stayed for • Saturday 24th Match. Mine, LLILl • How's your UE: tour going? • • •ml utters some expletives which lie • • 3 days! • leat: Men decides he doesn't want putting in 5 5 • Ertl Alkali • Kaye restricted by labels. I • print) AU the eiP been great. really • Nighinioves • energizing, have about half a dozen • Duke Dumont • What's been the most exciting city guises, like 'Beyond the Wizard's • People Get Real • fur? Sleeve'. • • • Central Beat/ Dis Last week Liverpool was out it control. Where did that name come from?! • • Preumptive Kis Too many stage invasions though. it Ha. it's tar too ciunples to explain, ft's a • • • ended up w ith about 1110 people onstage. secret' • More TBC • How was Waxit hi in Leeds last time? How king have you been doing the • • It was really good fun. so exc. Mag. Arid crossover style of mixing Indic. dunce • ltipm - 4am • very hot, I re.menther. I really like the and electr ► which is 50 popular at the • • other guys who work an the Leeds gigs. moment? • • , LI° advance it 's good to gel to play for them. That", I've been playing sets like that lire about • • • what it's all about. 10 or 15 years, Actually. now it's • Info - 07747 15(X/56 • How much of your set is pre•irepa•ed sometimes fresher when a DJ plays • • usually'? purely electro or whatever they're • I • www.waxonukcom It can take a lot of [line to actually. find specifically into. I don't like it when Ws • the records themselves, either tit reconl try to be eclectic for the wrong reasons. • • • _•,.._, q , ,77.,f , je.i.-,, O OOOOOO 0 • • • • • • • • • • 1 .0....-1..:-----:S -0-.--...t-^: Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 29 Everybody roar! Unleash the beast within... Feeling a little hit indie but tired the the dancing pace never slows for a pretension? Wishing for a dli win second. leaving a very sweaty but actually plays what the kids %%mit ' smiling crowd. Then wipe those pouts off your face This may he the last official appearance and get down to Santiago's tonight for for Party Lion for a while but there are the latest Party Lion to grace our lovely plans for a House Party Lion complete Leed's streets. Djs Sho'Boat and Andy with BBQ and no doubt aprons adorned Semitic live only for your aural with boobies and an Edinburgh Festival pleasure. It's all about the personal Lion. All details of future nights can be. touch with this lot. As you arrive you seen at www.myspace.comtparteilowe are given a fetching sparkly gold lion This night is ideal for letting loose the stamp on your fan hand and then camp-irnlie-dancer alter ego inside showered with confectionary delights. everyone. And who could resist djs Lion bars or Lovehearts. anyone? After donned in lion heads and tails? a year of tun and frivolities Party Lion's Leeds chapter is now drawing to By Sophie Barnes & Charlotte a close. relocating to the capital, so this Coleman is your last chance to catch these two • • • • • • • OOOOO ••••••• before they become superstar djs with • • pained looks of concentration as they •Party Lion's Top 10 Tunes: • carefully perfect their art. • • - Pop The Glock • They play everything from Whitney • • Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With iBelinda Carlisle - tWe Want) The • Somebody twit() loves mei to obscure ',Same Things • electro to Peter, Bjoem & John without •Mark Ronson - God Put a Smile Upon • a btu of an eyelid and pull it oil 'Your Face •Annie - Chewing Gum beautifully. Santiaeo's upstairs area is • an inumate venue, well-suited to the ,C.-alvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80s night. and with a distinctly different set • Tom C'oelo - I Eat Cannibals of people to the Friday night straight- 'Gossip- Standing in the Way of out-of-the-office types who often 'Control frequent downstairs. Spinning the likes •Heaven 17 - TeMptation of The Gossip alongside Girls Aloud 4,I'V on the Radio-Wolf I.ike Me

THE KBC guitar solos; and when music makes a The Faversham room full of sweaty teenagers dance PREVIEWS Saturday 3rd March this hard. it becomes difficult to begrudge anything. The KBC arc a Mier: pee: Winne Oblivious to trendy trom Preston. mink) t gimmickry, The KBC deliver their Monday 12th March Manchester label High Viiltage's music straight without the posturing. James Morrison (a pouting and handclaps that is usual or stable of Indic dance bands They The Long Blondes a, Leeds Met sound like Leeds favourites The other Mille dance hands. They Wear L'nion Sunshine Underground combined their '80.. sound without pomp and with a younger. more insistent blew circumstance. all the while deflecting Tuesday 13th March Order. Singer James Mulholland attempts to label them as yet another I Was A Cub Seoul at The Cockpit set shouts for revolution with some nu rave band. Their no-frills is vaguely socially minded lyrics, which replete of onstage banter. which Wednesday Istth him-eh ate nicel offset hr a healthy dose of leaves the hand tree In L'OnCentratc on flimeett Senses coo„pii The Rapture's rhythmic Indic thrown playing with steadfast 'skill and into an enjoyable, if not eclectic. mix professionalism Yet none of this Thursday I 5th March detracts front their audience's of italic, electro, disco and house, Corinne Bailey Rae tY Citing influences as vastly willingness to jump. dance and skimp different as The Beatles, Bert Jansch their feet in a packed-m•the-natters Sunday 18th March )7, and Daft Punk might incite hunts of Bad Sneakers nigh; at The I ova, Mei I loon Favershron. derision, yet the combination works surprisingly well, helping them In Their set ends with pr•% create an accessible sound full of single Poisonous Emblem, immediacy and verve. Indeed, their contains the memorable s et brand of guitar driven indie-punk- thoroughly ambiguous lines. "Hello. funk combined with sing-atong are you looking to buy from Inc?, choruses and 1 he repetitive beats of We've got stones and packets of house music go (limn well with their herbal tea": further evidence of The Want to write Leeds erowd, already full tin a diet of KBC's refusal to he pin-pointed into a rho Sunshine Underground I IA horn. single meaning. genie or scene. And for Britain's incidentally. The KBC have as suddenly as they appeared. they supported - amongst others such :is disappear. lea ing a repetitive biggest student The Strokes, The Paddingtons and whirring from their effects machine to iForward Russia!;. It seems that The jar the audience's nerves. The KBC eir newspaper? KBC are on the trail to defy anyone not to dance to th outshine their peers. music. and though they are often linked to their high profile support 'There is a clearly identifiable formula to The K BC's slots, tonight they prove that they are Email Ben on music, yet this doesn't detract from more than capable of filling the their popularity. because instead of headliner's shoes. relying on their formula. they revel in it: a case of musical. "if it ain't broke. editor@ don't fix it-. Clearly their fans expect and enjoy their danceable, though not lsweb.org.uk unique. blend of echoing electro and By Maria Garbutt-Lucero 30 Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 Screen & Stage

somewhat uncomfortable to watch. The actors really warmed up to their Sing Yer ii Nightcap roles towards the end of Act One but on their return following the interval By Francis Durbridge. the stiff veneer had once more If this is what it A Limelight Drama Group returned_ Intertwined into the plot Hearts Out Production at the were some very awkward kissing means to be Carriageworks Theatre scenes and Nick Moss who played Jack Radford was not quite dashing or charming enough to make it adequately British, then ighimp takes the audience back Fer convincing as to why an attractive to the 1980s and to the home of what are we so the Radfords in East Sussex young twenty-something would turn N her attentions to him and the prospect where the apparent domestic bliss is of murder. The Lads proud of? not all it appears to be as a talc of corruption, infidelity and murder The Limelight Drama Group do, however. deserve credit for their By Roy Williams. Director: Marcus Romer. rapidly unravels where almost professional approach and ability to A Pilot Theatre Production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. everyone finds themselves a suspect. The end of Act One. Scene One stage such a production which should and a sense of belonging. Barry looks certainly took me and a number of probably be attributed to the direction ing Yer Warr Our Fer The Lads is us that it takes one event to tip Common also played the secure as he chants along with his other audience members by surprise. a of Harry Venet who a modern drama set in London's opinion before this racism conies pan of Dr. Maurice Young and cast end. As the 1998 World Cup spilling nut in one ugly flow. At a tear-mates, but we begin to question great way to lead us into the play. S consequentially appeared the most this as the friendly banter is weighted perfectly capturing a sense of suspense approaches. the pub's local team contrast to the animalistic instincts of comfortable upon the stage and in gathers to watch the England vs. Lawrie's racism we have Alan. who with seriousness; 'must he a black and intrigue and 1 he hooked. character. For an opening night and an Germany match together. but despite hacks up his bigotry with calculated thing.' says one of the team when Unfortunately this was tthe highpoint to amateur production they fared well, chanting 'ingerland' alongside the historical references: 'Alan - All you Barry goes to have a private the whole production which rapidly most lines and actions were delivered other lads. it soon becomes clear that have are squatter's rights. You have conversation with his 'brother. deteriorated into an odd on cue and for a night of cheap and Barry. the team's star striker and only given nothing to Britain. and you have Williams does not dilute the issues of conglomeration of the comical and unremarkable theatre it cannot be black player, is still at a disadvantage. never served any purpose in British racial tension here, rather he makes it eerie. A combination that may have faulted too much. Perhaps I placed my When the landlady's son has his phone history.' Mark -'So the fact that the sole purpose of this drama. and the worked surprisingly well had it been expectations too high. the 4 stolen by a black 'mate'. the frail bonds thousands of black soldiers died in the characters and writing are. so alive that intentional; sadly this does not appear predominantly pensioner based of the community are torn apart. war is lost on you is it?' we feel enlightened. not preached at. to be the case. The actress who played audience probably enjoyed it but as for Award-winning writer Roy With such a contentious issue at its We are not being told what to think, but Sarah Radford. the character around me. l was hoping for something rather Williams explores issues of race and heart the play is in danger of losing its rather just to think in the first place. which the play is based was far too stiff more thrilling. identity through the medium of the entertainment value. but Williams Williams shows us the gruesome image to take such a leading role. her speech football world. William's writing is and actions all appeared to be rather (5/10) fierce arid his characters well drawn. contrived and as a result I did not really and the result is a play which is as feel as though I was able to become By Lucy McIntosh thought provoking as it is sensitive. fully ensconced in the story for she was Williams takes the audience out of their comfort zone with the Modern setting and average-Joe characters - this is Britain. and it is now. Macbeth Sine Yet Hear, Out Err The Lads By William Shakespeare. Director: Ian Brown. Design: Ruari Murchison has a huge cast - the site of a football A West Yorkshire Playhouse Production, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. team, and the scary thing about this production is that we feel we really arc Showing: February 23 - March 24. sitting in this grotty pub with these people - the characters are varied and c looks like a history teacher." representative. and each of them have muttered my Friend of the views on a separate level of racism. We Hcuddly looking Macbeth have Lawrie with a criminal record for clumping around accompanied by a GM whose racism is basic and Banquo that resembled the American in visceral - he frequently exhorts racist Crossroads. "Give hint a chance" I 'jokes' and refuses to acknowledge replied. a philosophy I gamely intoned Burry with the praise he deserves for for the next half hour as grown men his football playing : Becks -*Burry, charged about the stage in chain mail useful weren't he?' Lawrie - 'Yeah. the prevents this with steady interjection of and great coats. of the average Brit and it is nut pretty- boy done good. no need to break into humour, and by the time this The backdrop for all this and Williams seems to be asking - if song about it: We see each character's underlying tension explodes, we have testosterone was a dingy this is what it means to be British. then wasteland. the opinion and when pieced together. it is been waiting for it for so long that it atmosphere thickened by a consistently what are we so proud of! a gruesome image of contemporary appears a release rather than a dragging productive smoke machine. Centre- Britain at large. Williams has made this down of the play - the audience knows (8/10) stage was a cross that seemed to be age-old theme raw and immediate - the that this is the real point. made of mud streaked lino. The characters in the pub are aware of being The play is not all negative - we are Macbeth% were frequently dashing over By Lizzie Sinner 'politically correct' but Williams shows shown the good sides to nationalism here to deliver soliloquies in tremulous voices (complete with rabid hand gestures) before dashing off again to than elaborate staging." said the glamour. and whether this detail was a perform general evil. director Ian Brown of his decision to theatrical necessity or representative of Even with poetry spilling out left create a minimalist production. I'd be Stephen's no-nonsense character, it Dealer's Choice right and centre. it all seemed too much lying if I said that there weren't worked well. Ash (Paul Whickman). By Patrick Mather. Director: Robbie Orrnrod & Ben Wainwright. like fantasy, like adult children moments when Bard's lyricism caused the pale and greasy moneylender. was a 1st — 3rd March, The Great Hall. indulging in role play. I liked Lady me to swoon ("Restrain in me the warning to the other younger players of Macbeth. she had bulgy eyes and a cursed thoughts that nature gives way the evils of gambling, and the father- t seems entirely appropriate that a and father of a five-year-old, to walk dastardly agenda. l also liked her to in repose"), or indeed to chuckle - son-father triangle of Stephen. Carl and group of students should stage a away winning, or Frankie (Harry "nothing to see here, he gets like this all gotta love that bawdy wit - but is Ash was portrayed well. Iplay that ostensibly revolves Campbell-Lamenon). the hard-talking the time" routine when Macbeth started theatre still theatre if the production is The dealer of the title, it turned out. around money (and loss of it). In this, and ambitious Tothario, to realise his freaking out at Banquo's bloody ghost just a vehicle for the words of its source was Stephen. and his choice was the Patrick Marber's first play. we were dreams of Vegas and professional at the head of the table. but even she text? wellbeing of his son over, well, money. introduced to six men who play a game gambling'? Perhaps Mugsy (William didn't draw me in and make me believe In the second half I renewed my The only character to consider another of poker. Theatrically speaking, Gardner). likeable enough with his that what was I seeing was any more determination to find meaning in the person outside himself, the climactic whenever there's a game of poker constant banter and mug-like qualities. than text on legs. central performances. Maybe moment of his "choice" between heads involved, it is always going to end in or Carl (Ed Rigg), who owed money to I'd mention the score, but with Macbeth's glassy eyed gormlessness or tails, or (dare I say it) love or money. tears. Just as an eye-patch and fluffy- everyone and wanted to make exception of a few bird squawks and - was a studied portrayal of a man cat-on-the-knee will ensure one's status something of himself. Yet it was the was spine-chillingly acted and whenever murder was afoot - a Twin incredibly emotive. caught in the violent grip of fate. as a villain, so a game of poker in a two most ambiguous characters that I Peaks-esque theme tune. sound was Maybe the bloodbath that unfolded as dramatic context will ensure high didn't consider rooting for in the first An immensely enjoyable production barely used, The majority of that benefited from its detailed (and the lead man numbly pulled the strings tension and plenty of nail biting. both act that I ended up liking the most. entertainment was derived from action was a beautiful rending of the . for audience and the characters on Stephen, played very convincingly by claustrophobic) set, and some very fine sequences. A favourite was the ambush acting. inevitability that follows insanity. I • 'stage. We were not disappointed. Freddie Jewitt. self-made businessman scene in which the betrayed Banquo don't know. When the burly burly was I spent most of the first act trying to and absent father of Carl. presided over galloped about stage like a morally done, I've got to say I wasn't convinced. decide which character to root for in the game with a patriarchal air of (7/101 incandescent elephant under attack the game of poker that would be played strong and silent dignity. His ban of from lions. (7/10) in the second, Did I want Sweeney cigars and alcohol meant that the poker By Lara Choksey "It's a powerful play, and the impact (John Joe Regan). hard-working chef game itself lost a great deal of its seedy will come from the language rather By Sophie Monks-Kaufman Leeds Student www.leedsstudentorg.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 31

The The Witches of Eastwick Director: Toby Fox. Musical Director: Stephen Hackshaw. Illusionist Starring: Nik Briggs, Alicia Roberts. Helen McSorels • Aimee Norwich.

Starring: Edward Norton. Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell and Jessica Bid The Witches of Eastwick. LUU's Singe (Aimee Horwich) Jane Helen McSorely) enjoyable score, professionally evolving Director: Neil Burger Musicals Society's latest production. is and Sukie (Alicia Roberts) and the effect with the individual performances ern Certificate: PG the highly anticipated Wow up to past a devilish nude character. Darryle Van stage. It was refreshing to experience such Running Time: ION minutes successes such as Crazy for you and 77w Home iNik Briggs), has on their lives and a high quality of sound and lighting*. Wi:ord qf tit. Miandering in I was Innhermore the lives of the people of equipment. which. intelligently used by f any actor can get tne running to a pair of butterflies holding up an greeted by the Director: one Mr Toby Eastwick itself (the epitome of white the team. innovantly coloured the the cinema to bask in his radiant audience member's handkerchief. Fox. Toby Fox? Where do I recognise picket fence America). The Witches sinnetimes minimalist sets. talent. it is. and will forever be. Although the question of "how" is I hint from? Oh and then it dawned on me. themselves acted well. but really came Finally. the chorus and supporting Edward Norton. He is. as always. never explicitly answered, it is On one extremely intoxicated night into their roles during the musical characters. American accents that could effervescent in his role as the understood that the illusions are so Toby. a friend of my housemates, numbers - fully coming in to their own in so easily have spoilt the show were illusionist of the film's title, but the incredible that it would ruin a great appeared in my kitchen. The permanent the second half where as a group they. kit nothing short of accomplished and their star of this film is Paul Giamatti. His deal of their beauty to do so, marker on bedroom my wall (the want of a better term. were outstanding. singing voices shone through. As a group subtle. grotesque and ultimately Inevitably he re-meets his childhood requested signature of anyone welcomed The finale ensemble piece between all the east moved as one, each individual sympathetic inspector Uhl narrates sweetheart. who has herself in to our house) -serves as a constant three had my hair standing on crud, and for brought something singularly different to much of the film. a performance that transformed into Jessica Bid. and is reminder to that night. or my headache the me was the high point of the whole shim the show. from Peter Holland's hilarious made me think that perhaps the real now engaged to the Crown Prince of next day. It was at this point I realised I'd and as good as any professional hinder character to the sigular tit hit of illusionist of the story is in fact Uhl Austria (Rufus Sewell. who stays in broken the golden rule of reviewing, I production I've seen. chareter found in songs like 'I love a himself. disappointingly familiar territory). knew people in the show. Dave. who I Nik Briggs' portrayel of Daryl Vail Little Town'. 'Dirty Laundry' and 'Dance Set in late 19th century Vienna. Through jealousy or through contempt accidentally soaked whilst he stood fully Home. more than most, emitted a with the Devil' completing the well Norton plays Edward Eisenheim who. (as well as embarking on an affair clothed in my shower, and yet another. confidence that owned the stage. choreographed dances. having lost his childhood sweetheart with Sophie). Eisenheim manages to more 'executive' east member, who'd obviously encouraging the best Ego's left at the door, each cast due to the fad that she is a duchess ruffle the Prince's feathers. Inspector already warned about the perils of a had perfonnancx. IMm other cast members in member was obviously doing scanethins_ and he a humble carpenter's son. Uhl acts as the Prince's spy, and review, I started to panic. Thinking the his numerous duets. as well as adding the they loved and giving l 10 per cent. It waP manages to convincingly alternate worst. I started to weigh up my options final touches to many chorus ensembles, almost as much fun as seeing a croup of between playing Eisenheim's nemesis and won-y more. Luckily for me however. Critielly. he perhaps occasionally lacked friend.% having run as it was the spectacle and his saviour. Of course, in reality and to the credit of all invoked in the the raw masculinity needed to pull oil' the of the show its self. Bravo, ii he is neither, but this is all part of the production. I had no need for such angst_ love rat bravado of the Van Home role. illusion that Eisenheim creates. If any actor can The show was beyond eveellent and yet wax constantly funny throughout. and (91( 0) The film settles %soinfortahly into surpassed my wildest predictions of what appeared to be a reek for other melodrama. but in the best way student theatre could achieve. perfonners. get me running possible. and is an example of very The Witche.% erf Eay.w.i, tells the The hand. unsung heroes of the show. skilled actors holding together an bizane story of three single women Alex were exceptional. seamlessly playing an by Steven Smith to the cinema to inadequate script. The outstanding cinematography is one of the film's bask in his best features, it most effective moment being in a scene between radiant talent, it Eisenheim and Sophie. Their faces are The U.S. vs. John Lennon illuminated. but the edges of the Starring: John Lennotanko Otto. Bobby Searle. Noarn Chomsky, Walter Cronkite. Richard Nixon. J. Edgar Hoover. is, and will screen are in darkness. giving the Director: David Leaf & John Scheinfeld impression that we are looking Certificate: 12A. Running Time: 99 minutes forever be, through a lens, and implying that the scene is imagined. perhaps ti.) Uhl in ohn Lennon is a inan who evokes narrative retrospect. contrasting opinions in people. As Edward It is not a film that everyone will a member of the Beatles he is seen enjoy. but it' you are a fan of Norton Jas a musical genius. yet his later lute - Norton. and Giamatti, it is certainly worth especially alter his notorious "hugger seeing for their performances. 11 is no than Jesus" comment - is often viewed Crash or Sideways. but Burger has as a slightly mad, drug-addled idealistic 77 achieved an hour and forty-five period. This documentary examines the minutes' worth of bonafide relationship between the paranoid Nixon transforms himself into a highly entertainment. administration and the pop star they successful and quite breathtaking Siewed as a serious threat. eventually magician. His tricks. or illusions. (8/10) culminating in their attempt to deport include making an orange tree grow him on a bogus drugs charge. out of a pot in a matter of seconds and By Lara Choksey As an insight into the minds of Lennou and Yoko Ono this lihn is mteresting, but this is not its great strength. What a portrays so vivid]) is the chaotic atmosphere of America in the time, with the Vietnam conflict, and the government which is described as the only consciously and fundamentally illegal government that the US has ever had. With a large and 'I arced name of interviewees. i from radical revolutionaries to es-Senators and (.131 agents) the politic :II situation within America at the time is made very clear. 1.ennon, w ith his lyrics calling for peace. was a high-profile worry for a govern MC Dr concerned with an unpopular war, and when he began to associate with activists like A bbie Hoffman. and 'Black Panther:. such as Bobby Searle he was viewed as a dangerous influence. 11111.' The archive footage is particularly front Yoko Ono herself. and many close movements like the 'Black Panthers'. good. with the .witty and idealistic friends of Lennon. ensure that the but any deeper discussion of them would Lennon contrasted sharply with the documentary keeps its focus on this necessarily undermine the purpose of the speeches of Nixon and Hoover, which personal conflict with the government; film. This is a genuinely terrifying .view hold a retrospective menace as their centering on the concept of a paranoid of the immoral perversion of democratic underhand tactics are revealed. This was government's treatment of one man. gin eminent that the Nixon a government that used the FBI as a The two or three comments aimed at administration represented. political police force, described by an ex- George Bush seem extraneous (but they nunber as doing "horrible things" - are from interviews. not the writer:), but 0/101 including murdering people they the only real fault to be found is the lack perceived us a threat. Contributions of discussion of the roots of the By Simon Gillett

Top left: Lust. Neils parties with fashion girls Michelle and Deena. Middle Top; Neil and Susan share a private moment. Top right: Vanity. Neil begins the night saw the lcmg•aniicipated The show begun isith with a cheeky Gluttony? of this year's RAG video of epic proportions, Below; Greed. Neil shows how to work Show, "The Seven depicting the perhaps salubrious the crowd. • in nightclub Oceana undertones of the everyday non celebrities were in RAGville. Models worked the stage e. including LS editor in seven separate scenes symbolising icholield. enjoying a each sin. Audiences afterwards itimentwy glass or applauded the show, particularly npagne before taking a enjoying the anti-fur sentiment_ as well seal next to an as yet the pmfessional use of partially-aithed • sown lady friend. bodies. -rttly elected Sahh After the main event_ all involved • ors Susan Nash and Neil • where invited up to Oceana's disco • senzie arrived in support mom fOr an after-show party_ Scorch • model Clare Laxton was mu allowed to continue. Little did • ailing Officer). although security know that one Semi? informant • . ttahly late they where had managed to sneak through and, • • 'al straight to the main armed with a mobile phone, managed to • nu, clocking the stage capture the night. Neil Mackeneie, • heading straight for the praised figute-head of FaCebook group • molt Tinley in (Commis 'Neil's women' was photographed with • who had part. no less than seven separate women , • • raphed the show, NV:IS Perhaps reliving the seven sins of the • sy backstage tilting. side show. honest 'Mae' was said by one • (RAG co-ordinator) who onlooker to be 'never too far away hom • And as a charity liaison, a female companion and a drink'. • ************************* • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ben • Steven Smith • SPi lem dlirliED • Schofield • and • N • • • and Andrew Ring of Ruin • • • • Clare Laxton • Greer Clare Laxton (Returning Officer) • • • • giggling at a well dressed Ben Scrirch, int:if- (1'11,1y hanned from Scorch it seems prematurely announced As all eyes were focused on dem • • Schofield (LS Editor) whilst dining in • reporting on this in last week's issue, can • the end of rumoured liastms between at Mondai AGMIDebate • Sous le Nee en • exclusively inform of secret relations • Activities 01E= elect, Andrew Greer Mary am Altiasn's were fixed tin • • between Clare Lawn (feminist and • and shunned Union Councillor Steven the pages of Now Magazine! • • A confused Hann Leylabi (Committed Returning officer) and Ben Schofield • Smith. Although the two have only been • U.S Editor and anti-abortionist). seen chatting in passing. the sickeningly • campaigner and Cranninssietir of • • Vivienne Westwcaxl) looking as a • Schoftekl de inked to .cornmeni on this • good review Smith gave Greets • female friend beckoned him to sort out • alleged relationship. adding only that • nu:Auction of the Witches of Eastwick, • a right, in Space on Thursday • Scorch needed a posse•siye apostmphe in • shows it's sorely not tweryet, • • the first line after 'week'. • • • Neil Mackenzie (CIA elect? looking • • intimidated whilst haYing a power • • coffee with tine exectitive member of • • union staff. • • • • Got a story is onts . of heing Scorched' • • Become an int-Liniment • 1.1/IICS Gardiner ILS's resident • scorches lsisehang,tik, I • svcophantl carefully attempting to • • • • ***** • OOOOO • • • • • • manipulate all those eligible to vole in • • • • nest year's LS Editor election. generally This week's Scorch was guest edited • • all week. around LUU. • tar.,y a0M4 T.T.lieven 'single and • • • • A busy Chris Johnston (Finance • • • Officer) running toward the Baines Contributors: i,m) faal) (et) th.i)

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"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which." Look We Have Coming to Dover! - Sir fames Matthew Barrie Poetry News Look We Have Coming poetry decreases sienificantly, with the be found. as the author seems to be more • World Book • A poll produced for to Hover! language sounding unnaturally contrived comfortable and to write with more 1)a) sass. 1/ by World Book Day which Daljit Nagra and lacking the lyric quality of the affection, although I imagine this is a Rudyard Krpling asked people to reveal 55pp, Faber. £8.99 colloquial-styled pieces. Indeed as tar as result of being unconstrained by win this year's the titles of hooks they language is concerned, there is little to conventional 'poetic' style. Leeds Read could not live without Daljit Nagra's Look distinguish these poems from the generic This question of his use of diffenng competition to find has shown that the great We Haw Corning to 'contemporary poetry' that can be found styles is indeed addressed, in a suitably the University's literary classics remain Dover' has been one of in various literary journals, a style self- complex and subtle way, in one poem. most loved poem. enduringly popular. At the most eagerly consciously obsessed with certain rules of However he doesn't present any solution The announcement was made by local the top of the chart was lane Austen's anticipated debut collections of recent what makes a 'good' poem and one that or form of answer, and tt provokes poet. Simon Armitage (pictured). Pride and Prejudice. followed by times, ever since the title poem won the rarely produces anything of poetic value. questions of the integrity of the • Secret files recently made public Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. and 2004 Forward Prize for best single poem. The piece most guilty of this is in fact the representations in the other poems. suggest that poet W. It Auden Jane Ere by Charlotte Bronte. Critics have heralded the book as the title poem: I was not surprised that it This collection is an impressive work repeatedly in aded attempts by the • Independent bookshops are arrival of a fresh new voice on the poetry should have won the Forward Prize. being in many ways. but sadly the actual writing British Intelligence services to attempting to create a backlash scene. praising both the insight it offers a near-intractable sequence of supposedly frequently lets it down. Nagra poses very establish whether he was involved in against the plans of industry giants to into our modern multicultural society. and 'tangible' descriptions using concrete interesting and pertinent questions about the disappearance of notorious sell the latest Harry Potter novel am Nagra's use of description and a nouns as adjectives, a. style which is rife the nature of integration and Cambridge spies Guy Burgess and greatly reduced prices. They are distinctive style to capture the issues it in contemporary poetry and one which toulticulturism within modem Britain, Donald Maclean in 1951. developing their own discount addresses. personally find very unsatisfying to read. and also about how to capture the nature • Lothar-Gtinther Buchheim schemes which will allow children to At its heart, the collection deals with However the poems' actual content is of experiences of 'outsiders' using the I pictured below), author of wartime gain a free copy of the book by the representation and exploration of the generally very impressive. Nagra's skill language of the dominant culture. classic Dos Boor, died on Monday. collecting points gained by spending immigrant experience, specifically of the of observation is sharp. detailed and however it remains to be seen whether he aged 89. after a long career as both a in independent shops. Asian community, and the poems concern subtle, and he explores a great many can move towards a solution to this writer and Owner of an art collection themselves with a wide range of the aspects of what is an extremely problem of representation. and whether worth around £200 • Recently released titles include: Ai issues involved. from encountering multifaceted topic without ever his own poetic style can develop into an million. Dos Boot was Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant racism. to second-generation children, oversimplifying. The colledion also individual voice which he can use to a semi- Fundamentalist. Derek John's more integrated with English culture. contains some moments of great explore other topics. autobiographical tale Wintering, Walter Mosley's Killing feeling alienated from the culture of their emotional sensitivity, although perhaps about Buchheim's own Johnny Fry, Jay Rayner's The Oyster parents. and it is this conflict between fewer than would be expected. (7/10■ wartime experiences. House Siege, Sam Taylor's The British and Asian identity. and the Interestingly, it is often in the 'Punglish' in which he appears as i%nntesine, and Marian Keyes's balance between integnning with society pieces that the protest poetic value is to By Christopher Tedd Lieutenant Werner. anybody Our There. and preserving your heritage, which is not only the most compelling theme of the collection but also one very relevant to the ongoing national debate on the nature Non-fiction of our multicultural society. Blowing up Russia President. Vladimir Putin, that are the The poetry is presented in a variety of Alexander Litvinenko most scandalous parts of the hook (and voices. ranging from the 'standard style and Yuri Felshtinksy are entirely why it is currently banned of contemporary English-language 30-Ipp. Gibson Square in Russia). poetry. through a range of more colloquial Books, £14.99 The book claims to be "based on styles to what is referred to in one poem Litvinenko's twenty years of insider as Tunglish', a sort of hybrid dialect Picture the scene: it knowledge" of the actions and runnings midway between Punjabi and English is a bitterly :,std of the KGB for FSB or however you'd evoking the-patterns of speech of newly- November day. The sky like to refer to the Russian security arrived or first-generation immigrants. is grey and foreboding services!, and in tennis of using this and while writing poetry in dialect is over London. In a hospital bed, a man knowledge to be as incendiary and nothing new, Nagra not only achieves it lies dying from acute radiation unnerving as possible. /flowing Up wholly convincingly but also uses it to poisoning after ingesting a large dose of Russia certainly succeeds in some of its great effect to depict the difference in polonium-210. From his deathbed, in aims. It is well written. having an easy attitudes and perspective that go along his final dramatic hours, he denounces to read style instead of straying too far with one's level of experience of. or the government of his homeland as into academic language. The main familiarity with. the particular cultures being nothing more than murderous problem I felt existed with the book involved. thugs intent on restoring totalitarian was the tact that Felshtinsky (and However, when Nagra uses the more values to said homeland at any cost. Litvinenko before his death) do not conventional voice, the quality of the The above story sounds like nothing reveal the majority of their sources - more than the introduction to a fairly obviously, the claim is that this would mediocre Le Can' effort, but as we all put them at risk. but it does somewhat know, it is in fact a very brief outline of undermine the credibility of some of the Fiction the mysterious and tragic death of one more outlandish allegations contained Estates: An Intimate Whilst Hanky's writing inevitably instead mapping the complex Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB within. History highlights the sadness of the council political. social and even counterintelligence expert and All told, somewhat worryingly Lynsey Hanky estate's fall, from a sy rnhol of social architectural reasons for the situation naturalised British citizen, at the end of considering the potential ramifications , last year. The story has disappeared of the content. it's an exciting read. The 256pp. Granta, £12.00 equality epitomising Labour MP Nye we find today. Bevan's dream of brick cottages that I must warn you. this hook is not from the headlines of late - the press blurb even tells us how three people can only recycle a story so many times who assisted and For those of us "the doctor and the butcher and the for the faint hearted. Its high density Felshtinsky admittedly enlightening - thanks to Russia's inflexible Litvinenko in their research in Russia who have not been labourer" would all want to live in on of information, perhaps suitable given constitution forbidding the extradition were violently killed. The subject put in the position of the same street. to the towering the nature of the topic, makes it less of Scotland Yard's chief suspects. matter is very interesting. but somewhat having 10 deal with blocks of concrete that today spell of a page turner, but undoubted!) However. with the arrival of the hook, alarming; this is riot helped at all by the the realities of council social stigmatisation, her writing more of a mind opener. Reading the Blowing Up Russia, perhaps it has a obvious intent of the hook to raise housing in Britain, it is most likely an always balances idealism with hook. for me, was hard work, council little more press-mileage in it yet. eyebrows. The speedy publication of issue that we would choose to pragmatism. Hanley herself now lives housing not being something I have Blowing Up Russia - The Secret the hook so soon after the death of overlook. But with the arrival of in a former council house. the ever come into close contact with, ('ha to Brim,' Back KGB Terror is an Litvinenko makes me hope that it is not Lynsey Hanky's debut literary work product of the 'Right to Buy' policy nor taken a particular interest in intriguing and somewhat alarming read. in some way intended to he part of the Limes, of Margaret Thatcher. and takes the the social phenomenon so It does almost exactly what it says on bandwagon of texts on the seedy high road in refusing to make a However, since Lynsey Hanley's often conveniently forgotten by the words have passed through my head, the tin; it's a reasonably in depth underbelly of Russia, but even the scapegoat of any one institution. middle class is poignantly and I have found them to have had an examination of the internal security cover makes seemingly special effort to onapologetically depicted. tracing its astonishing effect. Now, when situation in Russia. in terms of what draw our attention to the death of one of istory from David Lloyd George's 6 6 Its high density driving through dismal housing areas many believe to have been state-backed its co-authors. Litvinenko is pictured on homes fit for heroes' to the 1.5 of information I no longer gaze absently out of the if not actual state-perpetrated acts of it in his final few days. and the quote illion people on council waiting window. but instead wander how do terror on Russian soil, such as the above asks, "Was Litvinenko poisoned lies today. makes it less of a the people living in these "hutches" Sioseow apartment bombings of 1999 because of this book?" Let's hope this Into what could otherwise simply and "cages". as Hanky describes which led to the Second Chechen War. book wasn't released because he was ihe a sociological study, Hanky mixes page turner, but them. actually feel? Covering not only those most notorious poisoned. -00 the depth of emotion drawn from her undoubtedly more of of events, but also investigating Own experiences and those of her a mind opener 5 (7/ 10) somewhat the growth of organised (7/I0t family, having grown up on the The crime in Russia and the rise in contract Wood', the largest council estate in By Eleanor Wood killings, it is the alleged links to current By Katie Dunn Europe, just outside of Birmingham 34 Leeds Student wwwleedsstudent•org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007

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he sun creeps over the of lions took down a fully grown reeling ihe effect of global warming! horizon, 7,11-11k ly greeting, elephant. But this event paled in Yesterday. I opened my bedroom T another day as two of 11111111T',1 comparison to what was to happen curtains las I do every morning), only most majestic beasts gaze out over next.. Last weekend viewers looked to he faced with a red robin. the the blistering Serengeti_ on in dismas, as a lioness &soured Christmas bird. Not uncommon you 'One day Simba, all this shall he one of its cubs as punishment for bad might think, and sou would be quite _ your's' behaviour! Basically. the young brat right re think this_ But what would - What about that shadowy place?' caused havoc to break out amongst you say if I told you that this friendly 'Don't you judge me! I do the hest his pride after over playfully red breasted chap was accompanied I can. what's your mother been attacking the dominant male. The by none other than a common rat. pride looked set to tear each other to There they were sitting on a wall. pieces. so to calm things down. the together. They clearly knew the other ii young cub's mother ate him. was there and even seemed to he Let's just re-cap. the mother, in looking at the same spot, This would Lions have lost order to resolve a family feud, eats never hase happened 10 years ago. her son, 'Now let that he the end of The cause roust be global warming. the plot. Only a it', 'Fine. but he started it'. 'Yeah These two just don't hang out, if then well he's dead now so everyone chill did Christmas cards would pay couple of months out This is not rational behaviour by homage to this, children's stories ago BBC's Planet anyone's standards. What is going would document their wild on? Why are lions behaving in [his adsentures and I would not have Earth series led was? taken a photo_ Oh, and the madness doesn't stop Now Fro not saying that these us to witness a there. Another wildlife show animal oddities could never occur happened upon a lioness in the under normal circumstances, but can kw truly harrowing process of adopting and caring for an it really be a coincidence that all this antelope calf. Process. I don't mean is happening now in the hour of the event. in a.`give two pounds a month and planet's greatest need? I wonder. she'll send you a letter' way, no, what can wisexpeet next? Personally. 52 actual adoption. These two. if you don't know how these multi- didn't know. are mortal enemies national companies can live with saying..-- ]they made a vow years ago that themselves knowing that they are the An out-take that Disney's Lion never shall their paths become one. sole cause of such freakish King decided not ro incorporate into Something ahout a dispute over occurences. If I knew I was their award-winning tale. However it bragging rights,. responsible for lion infanticide and appears they would have been quite What the hell is Op with lions?! I rodent/robin friendship. I would take justified in doing so, Lions have lost am thoroughly placing the blame with a long hard look in the mirror and the plot. Only a couple iq months global warming. That and capitalism. wonder. - is this the life I really set ago. BBC's Planet Barth series led us Eseryone's out lor themselves these Can 1.0 11111)(•'. th witness a truly harrowing event. days. We gasped opened mouthed as a pack But Wait, its not just lions that are By Andrew Edelston • Blast from the past! Food For Thought: Is Time again to take a nostalgic look back at memorable shows from a bygone era. This week... Masterchef Goes Catchphrase! one but not forgotten. the eatchphrase. It was very much like the indiscreet guffawing of the Large a Stir Too Far? memory of this programine dingbats. that ever-popular board audience that they desperately wanted Glives on in many a student's tonne. them to. The real catchphrase turned mobile message tone. Sit in the library Roy Walker developed his very out to he 'snake-charmer- so they Never Too Many Cookery Shows to for half' an hour and soon enough own catchphrases during the show wouldn't have been too far off you'll hear the triumphant sound of the such as 'it's good. but it's not right' anyway. Spoil the Broth! Catchphrase buzzer penetrate the air. when a contestant got one wrong. and You could tell that the producers Every time I hear that slow-rising 'romitiontlight!' when they got one. started scraping the barrel when it 1 have been left with a conundrum. brilliant, brilliant programme. it takes electronic glissando, my mind drifts erm. right. Mr Chips made a hit of a turned literally into a game of 'say literalls epic in scope. At 6:30p.m on two taste judges that sag what they back to those days where I'd sit at name for himself too, starring in the what you see'. No one believed for a weekdays. do I watch the goings-on in think, mixes in a few superb chefs home in my rolled down school socks majority of the animations and minute that 'fish and chips', Chester's finest village or in two of the (and a handful of truly terrible ones 4* screaming at the TV. "the bees knees!" featured in the end credits climbing 'homemade jam' and 'Mr Chips fittest bellies since Desperate Dan? Put who hilariously bottle it when working or -the dog's bollocks!" Both of coquettishly up a ladder. He'll blush to walking (IOW] the street' were real simply. do I watch Hollyoaks or in a pro kitchen). sprinkles with the which. you'll surely agree. this recall a certain incident during a catchphrases. but we let them off. Masterchef? Both include wooden element of cut-throat competition and programme was. Bonus Catchphrase where Eventually I guess they really did run aspects - of the acting variety in the gives us a 30 minute slice of visual I am referring, of course, to the Roy unfortunately placed hoses gave the out of catchphrases and what was once soap, while the spoon variety on the perfection. a feast for the eyes if you Walker generation of Catchphrase and impression than Mr Chips Was 'beating thought to he an indestruetible cook off - and trust me, I love getting win_ Or at least a tasty buffet. not the series where they camped up around the hush'. 'arguing with the masterpiece of television programming wood, But Masterchef is winning my Argument - and food punnery - over the set and left the presenting to that one-eyed super-hero'. 'doodling the devastatingly 'bit the dust', 'gave up viewing affections by a long way at guy with the broken leg. Back then it noodle'. or 'performing the five finger the ghost'. and 'went away to live on a the moment. Put bluntly. it is at was the ultimate play-along game knuckle shuffle'. whichever you will. farm'. But if you want to go and visit By Pierce Mycock show. Basically. the contestants were Sadly neither of the contestants rt. you can't, because it's dead. shown animations on an enormous attempted to offer up any of these screen and had to guess the euphemisms but you could tell front By Clare Pldsley It's Too Big For Its Mixing Bowl!

I hate bald people. This altos has one nothing! And arts a as. why would and that's a good enough reason for want to watch a show featuring people me to loathe it. I looked on a web-site cooking really well? It just makes my to find out who this potato head was feeble attempts of macaroni cheek and apparently he is a 'successful even more pitiful. All in all. observing Ye:Astable grower' t.000li big time) who someone eat food on TV and headng lists snagging and pasta' amongst his them say how tasty it is is like going likes 'Jost how old are you tubby?t. to see sour favourite hand do a gig This eny is clearly using the show as with car plugs in or wanking to porn an excuse t i snaffle Some tree food. with your eyes shut; doing something He always lets. his Aussie co-host take enterable but without all Ihe necessary the first bile so lie cart copy what he senses: pointless! says about the food with the most minor alterations. He clearly knows By Eric Schon Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 35

The news is an under-rated programme - voices in all the right places? Natasha BBC News though not without reason - that can Kaptinsky could intonate a natural dis- Friday apparently tell us about stuff about the aster into sounding sexy_ Expect mass BBC1 world if we listen closely enough. So death. scandal and a quaint little piece March 6:OOp.m why not watch half an hour of some on some old woman who has the world's people in suits tell us about some other largest collection of stuffed budgies. 7th people in suits whilst intonating their Laurie Whitwell

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There should with 'fruit' teas aside, tea remains I'm not blaming this particular indi- Ed loves RAG. You should too. be enough space for everyone. I propose condemned to our kitchen cupboards. vidual for his (racist) views. I blame the draconian measures to ensure that this venturing into the public realm only culture of distrust and hate that has sur- Phil Spooner dream becomes a reality. Walking slow- to accompany greasy spoon café fry rounded the Jewish/Muslim- ly should be punished by a 2(l per cent ups. This is not a fate worthy of a Israeli/Palestinian communities. But this penalty on the culprit's final degree beverage as complex and rewarding horrendous waste Of time and energy as wine. Why has coffee. that vulgar (hate and distrust do no-one any favours) Ed Rex mark. Loitering and chatting on the apex of a corridor whilst people are trying to cousin favoured by the Americans. has no place on campus. The war in the anger lurks around every comer: get past should constitute automatically been the pillar upon which a high Middle East is just that- in the Middle a slight breeze rustles the leaves: having to repeat the year. Checking your street phenomenon has been built? Of East, miles away. How can two countries ominously moving shadows: a D Fairebook account whilst there is a queue all the cafes on the high street. none he expected to stop fighting and make up scamper and a noise here and there. You for computers should be disciplined by are devoted to tea. You can have an when two LUU societies won't sec past glance around uneasily, clutching your being skinned alive, thrown into a vat of overpriced, reasonable quality coffee their differences and work towards a tiny pockets that hold your treasured items salt and vinegar discos and then getting in about ten different colour cups all hit of peace in this world of terror? and make a subconscious prayer that you pissed on by a dehydrated racehorse. within a square mile but your tea will I understand that the Israeli-Palestinian will get through this. This, my friends. is Our streets will soon be free of the be the same old English breakfast dispute is one over land (for which Hyde Park. amblers, the loiterers and the idlers and dross served without panache or Britain is partly responsible) and I It was reported last week that there is our university will run like the well-oiled reverence- Even the old English Tea understand that anti-Zionism is not anti- one attack a week on Woodhouse Moor machine it was meant to he. Room, quaint as it is, is hard to find Semitism. But unless J-Soc and PSG and I read the article with great interest. his university is too congested. outside places like Harrogate and members are going to work together It's common sense not to walk through It's simply not designed for so Phil ix WM/ Mi. Windsor. I've no idea where to get a instead of antagonising each other and Hyde Park at night and especially com- many people and the resources proper jam scone in Leeds. allowing themselves to be antagonised, mon sense not to have your iPods and T are being precariously stretched. Have Tea drinking is an art in itself. But I'm not willing to listen to either side. mobile phones on display. illuminating you ever found yourself in a queue for a Al Gunn on this crude. undiscerning and It's like two overgrown children the darkness. computer because diabolical simpletons philistine island of ours it has been screaming and throwing their toys Yet the best advice given was to walk are checking their Facehook accounts? reduced to a prop for the gossip of around for attention and as my mum around the park. I don't feel much safer It's not much fun is it? Luckily. I have housewives and a mere respite for the says, the only way to deal with a child's doing that actually. I'm always. when recently been made aware of a secret toils of the labourer. A drink tit for bad behaviour is to ignore it. Everyone walking around, trying to look big. cluster that is perennially empty. so my the emperors of the Orient is nothing else in the playground is bored. We'd But would that work given that fi9 per problems arc over for now. but I'm sure more than a lowest common really like to play Ludo without you cent of known crimes committed in the its only a matter of time before the denotbinator for us in Blighty. We guys throwing the pieces at each other park in 20()fi were done against men? gunning hordes of mouth-breathers drag don't know what we're missing. and arguing over whose 'home' it was I don't want to get the nine seater themselves to my personal retreat and first. How long is it going to take for nightbus in ease I might be taking the soil it with their idiocy. There are too Al Gunn is a closet coffee lover. both parties to realise that underneath the seat of a woman who may have to walk many people here and tot many cat them headscarves. the skull caps, the prayer around the treacherous park alone. are doing nothing except getting in the beads and the crucifixes we're all flesh The reason why everyone thinks the a ay and drying up resources. The bot- Mons drink a lot of tea. More Emiy Thorpe and blood'! We all need to breathe the area around Hyde Park. especially tom line is that this University needs to than we should, probably. same air. drink the same water and share Moorland Road. is unsafe is the poor start clearing the deadwood, We should BWhatever the government's the same earth. lighting and the seeming absence of take inspiration from the glorious spring guidelines for weekly tea allowance. I really hope the dispute will end police officers at night. The lighting is of 2001 and instigate a toot and mouth- I bet we surpass it easily. We're soon but at the current rate. I doubt it. In so poor and so widely spread. The light style cull. I'm not suggesting that we chain sippers. hinge hag dippers. the meantime i will continue to buy emitted is just a dull orange glow over an actually burn [ante like sickly lambs, We's e also got appalling taste. Halal meat because I know it's Kosher. area of a few metres that wouldn't look but merely clear them out and start Consider the rich variety of teas in out of place in a teen horror movie. afresh. the world: green. rooihos. white. And they are not that effective either There are queues literally ever•- undone. However all we ever drink is Emily is a final year chemist as I can't see the faces of any oncoming where. I don't even know where to start black tea. Even amongst black tea the people and in many cases, some of these with the Union shop. If you go there dur- choices are there: Lady and Earl people are my friends. Not recognising ing the afternoon you'll find voursel I in Grey. Darjeeling. assent or chai for Hind Hassan them until they are at most one and a a queue snaking round. the entire 'vent's- the more daring. Yet the most exotic have a confession to make. I am not hall' metres away is quite had. es that wouldn't look out of place at pot one can expect to be brewed here a religious persons. I wear a bandan- Also the lights aren't maintained Alton Towers. This wouldn't be a prob- is wine harsh breakfast fodder in tea Ina to keep my head warm after properly as yesterday I walked around lem if there was an exhilarating ride bags shaped like pyramids which are deciding to shave my hair off four years with a friend and saw two broken lights waning lor you. but there isn't. There's a proven to make absolutely no ago t I'm too lazy to grow my hair and in a row on Moorland Road creating a flimsy, overpriced sandwich and a rude difference In the tea whatsoever. hats make me look funny). People's long area of darkness. Perhaps it would- checkout girl. The shop isn't even good. unless one counts the innocent responses to me are amusing- wearing n't be so had if I saw the familiar. fluo- or cheap. or anything that a union shop pleasure of a simpleton unitised by my bandanna_ I'm a Muslim, not wear- rescent pair of bobbies every now and should Ise_ It's the biggest waste of space such novelty. ing it. I'm it lesbian. Go figure. again, I occasionally see them but it since Anne Frank's drum-kit. We may mock. indeed we should, So anyway. I happened to be talking should be more than occasionally. I'm also sick and tired of getting those Charlatans who drunk cheap, to random (Muslim) strangers in a bar a So let's all have more active cam- stuck behind people who walk slowly. If nasty wine like Lambrini even if fur few weeks ago w hen the religion ques- paigning for better street lighting and there's one thing that we need to instil at most who consume such venom the tion reared it's ugly head. We'd estab- n ode to Steven more police patrolling! Let's all make Smith this uni it's a compulsory standardised excuse of youthful misadventure is lished my non-Christianity and my non- the Leeds City Council more concerned speed of walking. It doesn't matter valid. Yet we should also mock Islamic identity and then..., "Are you liar the safety of its students! And last but A where you're from or what you believe, ourselves for being so blinkered in Jewish?" not least, let's all have better awareness walking pace is the one facet of life that our own tastes when it conies to tea. Well, technically. (My mother is Jew- Steve was an angry man, of personal safety when walking around simply cannot be multi-cultural. Walk One travesty beyond all reproach is ish. because her mother was Jewish. and who got hold of too much fake tan. Hyde Park! faster or I'll push you down the stairs. our insistence on ruining our cuppas so on. I've never been Oa synagogue his face doth now glow, Campaigning for better street lighting An even bigger problem than the with milk. Milk was only ever used (that I can remember). I don't speak has been going strung thanks to a com- like a big orange moles slow walkers are the loiterers. I am with tea because our forebears were Hebrew, I have been known to work on and now goes by the name of Suzanne. mitted group 'Reclaim the Night' and offering a bounty of £5 to anyone who stupid enough to pour their tea into the Sabbath and the closest I've got to a awareness has been raised. But has the identifies and captures the person who cups that w ere made of earthenware. Torah is excerpts of Genesis in G.C.S.E. But Steve Smith was a career man, City Council done much in response to causes the bottlenecks on the red route which breaks when filled with hot Religious Education, I do, however, packed all his bags off to Kazakhstan. the campaign? Since I was a fresher. I corridor. As I stand gridlockedamid the fluid. Milk obscures the taste of tea. refuse to eat pork, won't cut my nails on he got lost on a mountain, haven't really seen much difference. Per- sea of people. I often wonder what's In the instance of many of our more a Saturday and feel guilty (a Ion. so slept by a fountain. haps it's time the men got into the-cam- going on at the front of the queue. I recog,nisahle UK brands. perhaps that You're a Jew?! Eurgh! No way, not paigning to show that ALL students are and hitched hack to Leeds on a van imagine a troupe of sloths. chatting is no had thing. For a subtly in a million years! Never." From a guy concerned about how we travel at night. leisurely to each other, standing four flavoured. expertly brewed cup of tea who'd been trying to chat me up 30 sec- If you are worried about your welfare in abreast, casually listening to ambient worth drinking for its own sake. onds before. I have never been called 'a those streets, contact the Student Advice jazz. It' you're the person stuck behind adding milk is like adding ketchup to Jew' before, and certainly not with such Hind is a poet and she sure knows it. Centre in the LUU for further informa- them, do your community a favour and a gourmet curry. disgust. I have never been made to feel tion on how jo improve your personal unleash a fanatical torrent of abuse. It We have a proud tradition of that way- like something someone just safety. was politeness that got us into this ghast- drinking tea in this country. It is an stepped in- and for something that isn't Meanwhile. I'm still going to have to Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 43 DIARY Pans Labyrinth (15) 18.00 money for the North Yorkshire Music 13th Cinema VUE• Kirkstall Road Science Of Sleep (15) 20.30 Therapy Centre. Bright Bulbs Meeting Room 8, 5-7pm, Arthur and the Invisibles U/ lh 33 MON Climates (15) 18.30 £3.50 Sat/Sun 09:55, 12:00 Science Of Sleep (15) 20.45 It's craft time again! iatra_Thalligh Becoming Jane PC/2h 1 TUE Climates (15) 16.00 Come and design your own funky light 300 Exclusive S t-creening: Thursday Fri 14:20, 17:10, 19:45 L.627 (15) 18.15 Live Music Fundraiser: Uganda Goes bulbs. All equipment is included. Only 20.30 Sat/Sun II:10. 14:20, 17:10, 19:45 Science Of Sleep (15) 21.00 Underground Joseph's Well, 4.30pm- Arthur and the Invisibles U/lh 55 Mon/Tues 14:20, 17:10, 19:45 WED Pans Labyrinth (15) 16.00 close, £4 Sat/Sun 09.40, 11.50 Blood Diamond 15/2h 23 Climates (15) 18.30 No less than 7 bands in this line-up with 14th Because I Said So 12A/2h Fri/Sat 20:30, 23:40 Science Of Sleep (15) 20.45 all proceeds going to SoftPowerEduca- Volleyball in the Park Meet outside Fn-Thurs 18.25 Sun/Mon 20:30 THU Science Of Sleep (15) 18.30 tor. Tickets available from the Smoothie Union, 2-6.30pm, £2 Becoming Jane PG/2h 20 Blood Diamond (ST) Tues 20:30 Climates (15) 20.45 Company or the Terrace (6th-8th only, Get involved with the volleyball club Fri/Sat Late 22.40 Sat/Sun 11.30 Charlotte's Web LT/lh 37 11-3pm). Includes chance to win an iPod who'll take you through a warm up, a Fn-Thurs 14.20, [7.00, 19.45 Fri 14:30 shuffle! lesson on the basic techniques and Blood Diamond 15/2h 45 Sat 09:50, 14:30 Events rules of the game, then giving you the Fri/Sat Late 22.30 Sun 09:50, 12:10. 14:30 opportunity to test your new skills with a Charlotte's Web IJ/1h 20 Mon/Tues 14:30 14th short tournament. Sat/Sun 10.20 Fri-Thurs 12.40, 15.00 Charlotte's Web (ST) Sat 12:10 9th & 10th Green Day Around Urn, all day Epic Movie 12A/ lh 45 Epic Movie 12A/ lh 25 Dance Show The Elinor Lupton Centre 1 1-3pm: Displays - Environmental Sat/Sun 11.10 Fri/Sat 23:00 - Leeds Girls High School, 7.30pm, Organization and Groups - Geography 15th Fri-Thurs 13.15 (15.55 Sub Sun) Ghost Rider 12A/lh 90 £4.00 non NUS £4.50) foyer Climbing Meet ARC reception, Audio descripuon available on all per- Fri/Sat 13:20, 16:00, 18:40, 21:15, 23:55 Eight LLTU Dance societies once again l -2pm: Guest speakers and discussion 1.45pm-3.30pm, £3 formances all week Sun/Mon/Tues 13:20, 16:00, 18:40, 21:15 come together to perform in the annual "Permaculture and Sustainable Trans- Your last chance this year to try out the Freedom Writers 12A/2h 25 Grounded PC1111 30 awarding winning Dance Show. 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Music and Lyrics PG/2h 5 Sat/Sun early extra 10:10 tion 19th-24th Sat/Sun 10.05 Mon/Tues 12:30, 15:00, 17:30, 20:00 Rocky Horror Show Grand Theatre, Daily 12.30, 15.05, 17.30, 19.55 Outlaw 18/1h 45 Evenings: Mon - Thur 7.30pm, Fri & Sat Retitle Pe Dehlla 12A/2h 25 Fri 13:50, 16:20, 18:80, 21;30 9th-lOth 8.00pm Matinees: Fri & Sat 5.00pm. (12.35 Sun/Wed) Sat/Sun 00:00, 11:20. 13!50. 16:20, 18:50 The Witches of Eastwick Riley Smith, £12.50 - £30,50 Norbit 12.A/2h 5 21:30 7.30pm, £5 (£7 non NUS) 10th The biggest and baddest rock 'n' roll Fn/Sat Late 23.00 Sat/Sun 10.30 Mon/Tues 13:50, 16:20, 18:50, 21:30 From the same people that brought you Lake District Trip Meet Parkinson musical ever... Get ready for a night of 1)aily12.55, 15.20, 17.50, 20.20 The Good Shepherd l5/2h 47 Grease and Joseph & the Amazing Tech- steps, 8.30am, LI 3 fun, frolics and frivolity. The boldest Notes on a Scandal 15/1h 55 Daily Fri-Mon 17:00 nicolour Dreanicoat. come and see Explore the natural beauty of the Eng- bash of them all, fish out the fishnets, (21.15 Sub Tues) The Illusionist PG/ 1 h 49 LIJIlas Stage Musicals Society's show for lish Lake District. You will visit Lake buff up your basque and sharpen those Audio description available on all per- Fri-Tues 17:40, 20:15 this term. Tickets available from Riley Windermere in the morning and stilettos for the rockiest ride of your life! formances all week The Number 23 PG/Iti 38 box office. Ambleside to the afternoon giving you Additiional Offer... Bring your Rice, Outlaw 18/2h 5 Fri 13:40, 16:10, 18:30, 21:00, 23:30 time to explore one of the country's Newspapers and Rubber Gloves to Fri/Sat Late 23.55 Sat/Sun 10.50 Sat 13:40, 16:10, 18:30, 21:00, 23:30 most stunning regions. 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of squad as- other sides. and the bowling can perform. up there with Gilchrist in terms of attack can be targeted by quality wicket-keeper batsmen. For years India opposition. Plunkett and Mahmond are South Africa top the ODI rankings needed someone in this mould, and he expensive more often than not. but as followtng recent grid perf ormances. and fits the hill perfectly. He will be the key not all doom and gloom - they are their success is based on a solid start player for them this tournament. capable of caking wickets too. (a ith Jacques Kallis. AshweLl Prince. Bowling could be their weak point. Wicketkeeper has been a problem Flerschelle Gibbs and Gateme Smith all the setaneN are unpredictable. but position for E_naland. g and the latest reliable batsmen) then explosive middle Sreesanth is a real prospect after good contender-Nut Nixon-ts better with the order batting. They boast an array of big performances to South Africa. Anil banter than at cricket. hitting all rounders., such as Shaun Kumble and Harbajhan Singh are world England are a good fielding side, and Pol hick. the wicketkeeper Mark class pet-amen, but the hack up pace boast a aenuine top class spin bonder in Boucher, Justin Kemp and Andrew Hall. bowlers are still unproven. Monty 'Prinesar, but if they are to have and this works out to be a very 11166,4.-r_w any chance at :dl +till need the star successful formula. New Zealand showed against Australia The upcoming [Ticket World Cup looks Dallies hi see ire runs, Luis All them. B% successfully chasing 431 against that they can be a dangerous side on their boast a young pretender in Ryan Taylor destined to he one of the most open and Australia, South Africa showed they lay. but they are liable to crumble. as who already has tan centuries to his exciting tournaments for years, With Pakistan rely heat fly all three bat men - have the ability to challenge anyone. shown against England. Shane Bond mine, earned oaamst Sri Lanka and South Africa now top of the ICC one day Whammed Yenisei-. Inaainam L't-Haq Their hoe ling attack is reliant au when fit is one of the best bowlers in the Australia, yet the rest of the batting line rankings, it is the first time Australia and Vounis Khan. Luckily for them. they Pollock and Makhava NUM. but both are world, boasting good pace and accuracy. up are decent but by no means match have not topped the rankings since they are all world class talents and all three eteeptional players. ettaninteeing 20 and have a reliable spinner in Vettori, winners. were introduced itt October 2002. and can win matches single-halide:die_ The cheap overs and a few wickets, who is also a hands tower order the pereontal ant rpealean powerhouse rest of the side are unpredictable at the 'Fbey lack a genuine world class batsman. It would be doing him a Sri Lanka - the Innfl champions can will he without the dangerous Brim Lee. pose a real threat. They have a multitude amongst other injury womes. of big h itt mg batsmen early on. including Santa Jayasuriya (recently tempted out Australia hat hero painted a massive of retirement t, and their slow bowlers noon bstlore the tournament, with the can usually he mlied upon to restrict the news that Adam Gilchrist is available to flow of runs against them. play in the tournament, after worries that "The emergenee of Lasith Malinga - he would pull out for family reasons. '1VIalinga the Slinger' takes the pressure is 10th in the one day batting off Charminder Vans to get early rankings. and the rest of their batting w ickets. Vans is a world class performer, line up are no slouches either Mike capable of swing both ways and n real Hussey. Ricky Pontine and Andrew handful with the new hall However, if Symonds all feature in the top II) OM these two struggle with the new hall then batting rankings, while their pace Sri Lanka may have some problems - the bowlers look dangerous. and good back up seal nets aren't up to much. and enough to cope with the toss or Brett Lee if Muralitharan is snuggling or the pitch - Nathan Bracken and Glenn MeCirath isn't conducive to spin then they may are both top 10 in the 0171 bowling find defending a total difficult. rankings. The strength throughout the side - The West Indies are unpredictable. as even their fielding is top notch - means shown by winning the ICC champions that Australia must be the favourites to trophy in England in 2004 and there is w in tlw competition, despite their recent !ways a chance they could win on slump in form (losing sett OUE or the last homesoil. Brian Lam is still world class seven). The only possible weakness is despite his advancing years. and this may the lack of a world class spin bowler. be one of his last performances on the with calls for Shane Warne to come out big stage. lie still has it. despite criticism of retirement for a last hurrah emanating saying he's too old, and he acts as the Imin Down Under. rtalo iisormitneatctlepside who the warn looks They had struggled to find an opener to partner 6ildirist but now they've Gayle is also a key player. if he gets recalled Hayden they look very strong. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE: Holders Australia could lose their crown in the Carribean going he can be unstoppable: Strong on The perfect one-day side' the offside and quite orthodox fur a big PHOTO: GOOgie bitter. with a similar destructive style to England finally showed the World what best of runes. exemplified by Shahid spinner. and possibly are a little short of disservice to label him New Zealand's Gilchrist. they can do in the triangular series final Ninth - very hit and miss but he can be a quality pace bowling back up. but the Ashley Giles, but that is the role that he The later batting is strone, after the disappointment of the Ashes. As destroyer at how ling on his day. South Africans are overall a very good tills Fir the Kiwis. Shrvnerine Chanderpaul is a reliable always, the big players are Kevin -I-heir bowling attack may struggle. bet to win. Jacob Oram and Brendan McCullum player. without being spectacular. and Pietersen and Andrew '*Freddie' Hinton-, Mohammed Asif and Shoatb Akhtar are can seize the batting initiative. and both provides stability to compliment the and they will need them on top form if out due to failed drugs tests. and both or India haven't really proved themselves are useful all rounder-Dram is a decent England are to stand any chance, these are top class pace bowlers, so a lot in ODls. Of their established batsmen. bowler. and McCollum a good 'keeper. Sflarwrilbtiony. tilllneortohfolldisixtVearimiamakestesi; difficult especially, in the absence of the big may hinge nn whether Danesh Kaneira Virinder Sehwag is lacking in form. They rely on James Franklin to swing to set -fields against Chanderpaul as he hitting opener Marcus Trescothick. Other playas. who is capable of picking up Sachin Tendulkar is beset with inpries, the hall early on. and they need hint to has the ability to place sublime shots. sides with a powerful opening batsman wickets, and Rahn! Drat id is not really suited to keep it tight at one end while Bond is Their bowling is• tidy, no more. can capitalise with the tickling Overall Pakistan's hie name players OD1s. This leave Saurav Ganguly under their main strike bowler. Their halting is Jerome Taylor has shown Fidel Edwards restrictions. whereas England cannot, can usually be relied on for pressure to perform after only recently not as strong as they would and Tino Best that you can scare people putting the middle order under pressure perfunnances.so their success may being brought back in, and only although Stephen Fleming is a very able with pace while still being economical. to score runs quicklY • depend on how well their fringe players Mahendra [Thant is a reliable performer, captain and a proven nm-scorer. They du On home soil, the West Indies could Elsewhere, Engiusd look fairly weak he a threat, and if all cylinders lire they - they simply don't have the same depth Your Shout: England are very poor under could ruffle a few feathers. pressure. Could do it I suppose, they will need What are England's chances -/jaz, Southampton lots of luck though, like when they at the Cricket World Cup? won the Ashes. England seem to be a better one day -Harry, Bristol We can win it with HP, Freddie and than test match side; hopefully we Monty in the side! can prove that right and bring home Don't really know. Panesar is class -Tommy. Preston the World Cup! though. -Nat, London -Dan, Loughborough I think they are about fifth favourites at best, behind Australia, South No chance - the other sides are far Africa, West Indies and Pakistan. It too strong. depends on their temperament, -Mickey, Glasgow Leeds Student www.leedsstudent.org.uk Friday, March 9, 2007 47 Sport Good week

Start your engines Leverock hero of the World By Joe Barnsley to restore the glory clays of the great 22 year old Yorkshireman is set to be the relatively efficient but I'll stay in the The twenty stone British team, after years of producing cars sitort's first black driver, which is an sceptic camp for now. .man got two that were very good at last laps but not so event in itself but it moving straight to the Elsewhere. the big spenders Toyota Is for Bermuda. For most people the sounds, smells and good at completing ninny taps before fast lane with McClaien is unprecedented. and Red Bull will be looking to progress ssing both Paul sights of spring probably centre around falling apart or catching fire. The main Having dominated GP2 for years, to podiums with Ralf Schumacher out of C gwood and fresh grass, birds chirping. fluffy bunnies loser during all of this was Kimi everybody's watching to see if he can big bro's shadow and the drinks-backed Kevin Pietersen. and the like. But some of us are looking Raikkonen. whose natural speed never make the step up. Has he got time to settle team boosted by the arrival of the Aussie forward to the roar of engines. petrol H1 bought the elusive title. This year, his before the media get on his hack? Ace driver Mark Webber and ever reliant our noses and ears gleaming in the search will be aided by that title factory at He could certainly take sonic lessons engines from Renault, Former partners sunlight as the world's biggest motor sport Ferrari. Not that it's a foregone on that fitint from the other British hope, BMW and Williams continue the year's Leeds Celtics competition returns. conclusion. The technical mastermind Jenson Button. Once the press darling, his young drivers theme to battle for the mid- Soon we'll Of course. Fl has had its fair share of Ross Braun followed Schucy out the exit 'almost.: moments reaching !Inman table bragging rights whilst the B-teams counting the haters as well: as expressed by friends door and there are doubts about whether levels caused some backlash. But having Torn] Rosso (Red Bull). and Super Aguri good "'There's no overtaking. and "Won't The iceman' will spend enough time in the finally broken his duck by winning the f Honda) will try to force a re-branded appearances on tuft Michael Schumacher just win again?" garage - in the words of the legendary Hungarian Grand Prix last year. he too Spyker team into last place. hands. Victory over Well, no. The big man has retired to try and controversial racer Jacques Vein he looking kir a fide push. The With things this tight, small things Sheffield means they play and count his money before he dies (or Villeneuve "lKimil doesn't give a shit. so Honda car design has been somewhat could be deciding factors. All the teams Loughbomugh for a place in the something like that). In fact. he hasn't won he's not up there with Alcamo" overshadowed by its decoration. Rather are switching to Bridgestone tyres this Northern Conference final. the last two anyway. losing out to the What of Alonsds old team Renault? than the usual array of sponsors, the car is year. which could help Fermi as they've suave Spimiard Fernando Alonso. And It's a rare thing that a champion covered in a picture of earth from space in had them far years. But they have just when some commentators started to constructors don't Stan as favourites, but order to 'promote environmental struggled with the EICSN tracks in the heat, say the Renault man was making it just as there's no hiding the weakness of the awareness'_ Says a car manufacturer where Renault have excelled. In the early boring as before. he jumped ship to French team's line-up this season, as the flying equipment around the world for test for this year. MeClaren art leading Liverpool gib McClaren. Its just one of the ninny big- erratic Giancarlo Fisichella is joined by races. Don't all clap at once. To he fair. with Honda in the pack. Only one thing is The Rods completed name transfers that makes the new season rookie Heikki Kmalaten. However, the they cite the typical 'trickle-down' for sure this year, I'll he watching - the job at Anfield to so mouth-watering. first-timer that's got tongues wagging in technolo*y from racetracks to motorways starling with an all-nighter for the claim a historic The world champion will be looking the paddock is the Lewis Hamilton. The and its true the cars themselves are Australian opener on March !Mk viCtory Over lace ona, It wasn't without a fright though as. Enda'. Gudjohnson's goal made the WEDNESDAY'S more celtics IVIerseyiderc. sweat. BUSA RESULTS Hockey Continued from hack page fitting that such an important play- Both the Men's and off game Will be fought out between Women's teams Men's Badminton 4 Men's Rugby Union I It then became "up your jumper the two teams with the greatest completed a clean time" as Leeds ran out the clock records in the history of Collegiate sweep over Liverwol v Aberdeen 4 Trophy Last 16 14/3 with the elder Gregson brother, American Football in Britain. For in the Christie Cup (Won on games won) John. consistently punting the bail many Leeds players it will he Men's Rugby Union II 21 deep into Sheffield territory as they personal. a chance to settle old struggled to fi nd a way ba,,!k Into the scores once and for all before they Women's Badminton 1 ✓ Manchester III 11 game. lease unisersity and this glorious Arsenal 1 The Celtics are now in the List game for the final team, On Sunday Bath 7 [Meat in CHle the SO Men's Table Tennis 12 eight and will play Lotiehborough they will put it all on the line for the this Sunday for a place in the chance to reach the illustrious -cal led 'easier gamed(; Women's Basketball 64 ✓Warwick 5 Northern Conference Final. It is College Boss I. not only sent die ✓ Gunners crashing out Hertfordshire 40 of the Champions Women's Rugby Union League_ but it pretty Men's Fencing 121 Championship Last 16 much ended then. season, Thierry is ✓Loughhorough 1 16 unLINti as 11'd WINS: 4 Men's Football I RutP2Y Le9glie Trophy Semi Final 14/3 Suffered a gut- .•Atifetwhing 26-30 LOSSES: 4 'ciefeat at the hand. i)i Golf Lost by walkover ICI rivals 3 ✓Highlands and Islands Iderstield DRAWS: 0 Men's Rugby League 1 26 ✓Huddersfield 30 Christie Cup 15 Gary Kelly Leeds Vs's% Dennis ✓ Liverpool 8 Celebration time: The Celtics celebrate their victory over Sheffield Wise has told the Ciallowny long serving fill back his Elland Read, career is °Vet Although with the state Leeds United is We need a new Sports Editor to join our team for next year in. may be Kelly should he in good welt' Goff If you're interested contact [email protected] o. the roccivind ..-.11-1 • .. _ _a hours deleat I-1,j,, 101, iii brilliantly 1,,ti a . ..i r , I iighlimils ..tid 1•1,,i,: 4

Student Sport Bad week Celtics blunt Sabres

19-0 shutout sends Celtics through to the last eight

By Adam Keath attack on a day that Leeds -datwed the rest ing down, and the wind was howling, of the league who reall) has the best then at the start of the third quarter the defence_ Celtics launched a storm of their own. After a shocking first quarter in which Finit, after strong defensive and special The BCAFL play-offs kicked off on Sun- the Celtics struggled with their run block- teams play, Paul Gregson reminded his .lay with the final 16 teams in Britain coming and the weather peting for the Chance to reach the Cotlege made passing 4tittlesl brother how to get into the endzone as he The world's favourite Rock 'n' Roll Musical impossible. Leeds finally sullied to gain dived under tacklers corner to Bowl. The sixth seeded Celtics faced the into the some yards. They were led. not for the first give Leeds a 6-0 lead. Mott good special third seeded Sheffield Sabres in awful RICHARD 0- 113RILivike time this season. by rampaging running Icarus and defence followed. giving the weather conditions at the Celtics' very own hack Adim llraturti as the Celtics made Celtics favourable field position which Graveyard pitch. It was a classic battle of some large holes in Sheffield's defence and they took full advantage of to take a fire against ice. ‘..1111 Leeds. boasting the managed to pick up some important first thanks to frozurn's mazy- run. Ha' highest scoring offense in Britain and downs. PreV1011,11'. Ihe Celtics had been only conceded 19 points all season the Sheffield the meanest defence. leaning heavily on their defence to stop Sabres had suddenly leaked 13 in the The first quarter began in inauspicious Sheffield from taking away all the momen- space of just a few minutes. Sheffield's circumstances, for Leeds as they went three tum. but now the offence was also helping offence continued to struggle and the and out on their opening drive, before 10 turn the tide. Despite improved blocking green and black swarm of Celtics oppo- Sheffield hermit with a strong drive of their and running the Sabres showed why they site them and their heads began to drop. own. However, the Celtics stopped them had only conceded 19 points all year and and got the hall back for the ofiense. For the sides went into the half 0-0. Continued on page 47 Sheffield it would be the first and last time had become impossible, hold- that they mounted any kind of sustained Passing ing the bull was difficult, the rain was pour-

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