Now Charged with Murder

Get Quizzical Fernando Meirelles Fill your free The man behind City of time with five God on making different puzzles cinema political www.varsity.co.uk No. 625 Friday October 28, 2005 BANNEDThe Independent Cambridge Student Newspaper since 1947 Sir Trevor Brooking FROM CAMBRIDGE >>page 39 NOW CHARGED WITH MURDER area to “keep their eyes open have been in St John's, Joe Gosden for any bloodstained item of Pembroke and Downing as clothing or bloody knives”. well as New Hall.” Although ary Chester-Nash, who Chester-Nash, who is report- denied by the college, several was barred from all ed to have been living rough in New Hall students told Varsity GCambridge University the St Ives area, had become that evidence had been found property in May 2004, has notorious in Cambridge and that Chester-Nash may have been arrested by Devon and was banned from every bar even been living inside New Time for tea Cornwall police on suspicion and club in the country after Hall for a period of time and >>page 9 of murder. Chester-Nash is set 9pm as he was considered a had been approaching stu- to appear at Truro Crown “danger to women”. dents. In his diary, found in Court on Tuesday November 1, It is thought that Chester- 2004, he made repeated refer- charged with the killing of 59 Nash spent nights in New Hall ence to a girl called Tiffany, year-old cleaner Jean during the Easter term of although it is unclear whether Bowditch, who was attacked 2003. His possessions were he was referring to a student. while she cleaned a property reputedly found in the college The diary also suggested that in Carbis Bay near St Ives. A and he is said to have gone Chester-Nash sought a job at post-mortem revealed that from door to door asking girls local nightclub CoCo’s (now Bowditch had been stabbed to go for a drink with him. A renamed the Soul Tree) to be repeatedly with a blade by her New Hall student recalls the in close proximity to women. attacker. police told her “it is important Dr Saxton told Varsity “If he The 80 year-old owner of that we catch him as we need has now been arrested for the property had found the to speak to him in connection murder, it suggests that the body on returning from a with several incidents.” It is Police and the Colleges were shopping trip and is now said believed that Chester-Nash ing posters of Chester-Nash. Dr 2004 to let them know if right to take action to warn to be “deeply traumatised”. spent time in New Hall Owen Saxton, Senior Tutor at Chester-Nash was seen in the students about him last year. Modern manners Police named their suspect as between 1997 and 2003. New Hall, told Varsity college, as they were investi- We can all be glad the action >>page 7 Chester-Nash on Saturday, In 2003, New Hall took the “Cambridgeshire Police asked gating several incidents involv- taken encouraged him to leave appealing to residents in the unprecedented step of circulat- New Hall students in May ing him. He was known to the Cambridge area.” Colleges clean up their act Who owns your work? Arts Feature on investments The Intellectual Property debate representatives of the Sidney duced by externally funded News Reporter Sussex student body”. Christ’s Tom Whyntie research, apart from work chan- Jess Holland College have also adopted an nelled through the routes of “nor- n investigation by Varsity ethical investment policy. he question of students’ mal academic publication”. on doing it all has revealed that Churchill College Bursar, lack of Intellectual Property Subject to an agreement ACambridge colleges have Jennifer Rigby, said that the vast TRights (IPR) was once between the researcher, the spon- by yourself taken significant steps to reduce majority of their investments again raised by Wednesday’s sors, and the University, every- their investments in arms com- were held through HSBC who announcement of a ballot on thing a student produces while >> page 25 panies. In many cases this has pursued a “socially responsible amendments to current working at the University under come as a direct result of pressure investment policy”. University policy. external funding (inventions, from the student body, including Tim Holt of the University Set for early December, it will designs, notebooks, laboratory CUSU and Varsity. The list of col- Press Office told Varsity that “The allow members of Regent House data, and computer files) can be leges that invest ethically is University and colleges of to vote for a series of amendments transferred to Cambridge and the extensive, with the majority of Cambridge are strong believers in proposed by the “Campaign for sponsor. Patenting rights are also colleges owning no shares in any socially responsible investment.” Cambridge Freedoms” (CCF) and controlled by the University – a sort of arms company. Sidney Far from being the “Ivy League championed by Professor Ross key part of the process of getting Sussex has even given a place on of Arms Trade Investors” as Anderson that aim to give control revenue from research and the the college’s investment panel to claimed by the Campaign Against back to the people who generate creative process. But the agree- their JCR treasurer in response to the Arms Trade, an accusation the ideas. ments, according to the CCF, are student pressure. Senior Bursar based on figures compiled almost Under the current policy, put open to interpretation. Their Charles Larkham told Varsity that a year old, Cambridge Colleges forward by Pro-Vice Chancellor amendments claim to make the the college regularly “discusses have in fact taken major steps to Ian Leslie, Cambridge has control researcher’s rights explicit, in that issues of ethical investment with improve their portfolios. over the IPR of everything pro- >>Continued on page 4 Sleepy head? >9 Chris Addison interviewed >16 Looking at me Voyeurism >20 League tables Sport >37 2 Varsity News 28.10.05 news in brief Three Weeks, Three Threats: No Warnings Punt touts face fines Varsity wants to know why no one’s talking about student safety The controversial punt tout alarms. A Pembroke 2nd year rape. When Varsity asked the anyone else about the incident, bylaw announced in early said “the college looks after us college’s Porters and the Senior “My first concern was 2005 has finally been rati- all very well”. Senior Tutor Dr Tutor about the incident, all Robinson students. I thought it fied by the Government. Mark Wormald said that he had claimed to have been told noth- was probably an isolated inci- Cambridge County Council not felt it appropriate to inform ing about it. dent and I didn’t want to scare- now has the power to fine JAMIE MARLAND other colleges about the inci- JCRs are under no obligation monger.” She added that she punt touts up to £500 if dent, despite the fact it occurred to inform their colleges of risks would now contact CUSU and they annoy passer-bys. close to Newnham and Selwyn. to student safety and their admitted “in general I think Companies can tout in the He saw it as a “matter of discre- emails go directly to students that if something is serious immediate surrounding tion” for senior tutors to decide rather than through staff. This enough to tell one’s own stu- areas of five recognized when this step should be taken. means colleges can stay in the dents then the whole punt stations. At present, A network of senior tutors dark about serious incidents. University ought to know.” freelance touts do not have and Porters does exist and can Wormald felt this could be a CUSU Welfare Officer Vicki anywhere to tout. be used to alert colleges about positive aspect of the system by Mann expressed concern about threats. “There is a real level of allowing two different chan- the lack of communication understanding between tutors” nels through which informa- between the Welfare Officers Pole dancing returns to Wormald assured Varsity “and tion could be circulated: “Our at different colleges. She said Cambridge on balance the system is work- Junior Parlour are free to alert “there is a list for all welfare An email went round the ing.” But colleges appear to students to risks, they do not officers and they are encour- ADC list this week adver- have little guidance about when have to go through us.” aged to send news of attacks tising the “all-new, glitzy, to talk to each other. Christ’s Some students said they felt around it, but it’s difficult - we glamorous, sexy, truly attacked near Hills Road; and Senior Tutor, Dr Peterson, said happier telling their peers as can’t make them. Last year the spectacular Cambridge Rachel Divall last week a Robinson 2nd year “the college has no ﬁxed policy opposed to tutors about inci- lists seemed to be used much Pole Dancing Society”. The was the victim of an attempted about when to contact others.” dents. A New Hall student told more, I don’t know what’s club promises opportuni- Just three weeks into term and attack by a taxi driver. No stu- Alan Finlay, Churchill’s Senior Varsity, “I’d worry that if I told gone wrong this term. The sys- ties for performing at May Varsity has already been dents we spoke to had heard of Tutor, said “We tend to rely on college about something, tem relies on a sense of obliga- Balls and “venues around informed of three incidents that any of the three incidents our Head Porter’s discretion.” things might be blown out of tion.” Mann will look into set- the country” and requires highlight dangers to students in unless they happened to be Jesus College relies on “com- proportion.” ting guidelines for welfare offi- no previous experience.

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