LeedsFriday, October 17, 2003 Student Student Newspaper of the Year Volume 34: Issue No. 4 Justin Rio-1y silly time move Intergalactic chartrockers The FA must Darkness shed crack down some light on on Ferdinand their meteoric rise says Leeds to plank-spanking Doctor megastardom News page 5 Juice pages 12g13 Aide to senior Tory denies allegations of punching a gay policy advisor DIDN'T HIT Conservative MP for Cambridgeshire North East and a Karl Mansfield Tory frontbench spokesman on arts and tourism. Mr Eaton, 27, a Colchester councillor, was an assis- tant in the private office of Bernard Jenkin, the Shadow THE Leeds Postgraduate arrested in connection with Defence Secretary and one of lain Duncan Smith's clos- an alleged homophobic assault on a gay policy advisor est allies. He has ambitions to become an MP. outside a Westminster bar has protested his inno- Mr Moss said: "Charles Ranson is completely inno- cence. cent of these allegations and hopefully this will come out In his first full statement to the press. Charles Ran.son when he answers bail. said today that he fully denied claims he punched British "This is the last thing that he wants as he's interested Property Federation lobbyist Chris Carter. in politics." Mr Carter was attacked just yards from the Houses of Any court case could undermine the party's efforts to Parliament and the Conservative Party headquarters. shed its reputation for prejudice and present a more car- Mr Ranson. 22, said: "I totally refute all allegations ing face. made against me. I am innocent. I was not in the bar A spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed last Iwhere the incident allegedly took placel. night that four men had been arrested in connection with It has been a most upsetting time for me and my an attack on a man in Victoria Strixt, Central London. No family. I ask journalists to neither pester nor ask questions action is being taken against two. Mr Eaton and Mr to my family and friends.- Ranson are on police bail without charge until next Mr Ranson was arrested along with Matt Eaton. month. DEFENCE: the HilitieS, or Parihmiertt new to bar where the alleged The University student worked for Malcolm Moss, the The alleged assault happened at 1.30am on July 18. took place atrrp lineeti Mnhretrn Moss who sar., CAfttiet Ramat it TUTOR WINS MONEY ON WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE SPECIAL - PAGE 3 2 1601AIR www.leedsstudentorg.uk Friday, October 17, 2003 Leeds Student Leeds Student n?] EDM EP I News I DEM 32-year-old flu virus holds Leeds in its grip gunned down in the heart of a student area page 7 Leeds Student claims first vic- tory in its road safety cam- paign page 6 Sport The Met second and third foot- Lucy Margolis spreading: "We are beginning to Leeds, who fell ill ball teams clash in the BUSA see an increase in a flu-like ill- with the flu short- ness," he said. league page 24 HEALTH bosses in Leeds ly after Fresher's The Manager of the Practice, Week, said: "I are preparing for an epi- Cary Ellison, added: "The scale had a heavy head, Space demic of flu to hit a peak in of the illness is very difficult to painful sinuses the following weeks. quantify given that we deal with and a high tem- l'he city has been placed on so many patients. We would perature for How not to 'advisory status', meaning the expect to see some increase in about six days. epidemic has broken out but the illness at this time of year, par- My back and be exploited virus will continue to spread. ticularly within large groups of chest ached The bug — which has been people living and working from a terrible In your part- nicknamed 'Autumn Flu' — together at university." cough, which I still can't shake. leaves sufferers with symptoms Since the start of term, many Four of my flatmates were suf- Leeds is expected to go on 'pre- time job far worse than those caused by a students at both Leeds universi- fering at the same time, and we alert' this week as the empidem- common cold, but not quite as ties appear to have been affected were miserable." ic spreads. A state of full alert is pages bad as proper flu. by the virus, which can leave Another first-year, Daniel likely to be reached three to five Symptoms include severe sufferers bed-ridden for well Simmons, who is studying weeks later. 14-15 fatigue, aching joints, a chesty over a week. Even after the main Japanese at Leeds, said: GP's have been issuing cough. a sore throat, a high tem- symptoms have passed, many "Coming down with the flu in advice on how to cope if affect- perature and headaches. have complained of feeling low my first few weeks at uni caused ed by the flu. Staying at home, Dr David Murray of Leeds for days afterwards. me to miss lectures, which resting and drinking plenty of Plus Student Medical Practice has Tom Lowe, a first year immediately put me behind with fluids are all recommended. confirmed that the virus is Graphic Design student at my work." Letters page 9 FOCUS: A flu virus under the microscope and (above) treatme linright the flu Patrick Smith page 11 Outer Space page 20 Spunky ad 'too vulgar' Hilary Benn praises Reviews and Juice Target Walksafe Listings Jes Salter Wttcomr 10 Mark Thomson YOUR UNION HILARY Benn applauded the Leeds YOU, v EDITOR Mark Powell THE LESBIAN, Gay and Bisexual soci- YlltIt Universities' and West Yorkshire police's PRODUCDON MANAGER Peter Evans ety have lashed out at Leeds University Your crime reduction partnership, Target Your ..41111 i ■■• ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Sarah Powell Union after they were forced to remove Walksafe, when he visited the city last ADVERTISING DESIGN Michelle Roberts Your .■•■ DEPUTY EDITOR Ed Thornton 5,000 flyers and posters because their week. NEWS Karl Mansfield. Leonie Brown. Alice Ross, Meredyth slogan 'Get Creamed' was deemed "too Mr Benn, MP for central Leeds, praised Leeds Lewis vulgar". University as one which 'cares for the safety of its FEATURES Najette Ayadi O'Donnell The LGB had to take down the adverts in the GLOBAL Elaine Goh, Joanna Matthews, Christopher Thompson union and reprint 100 posters and flyers with the POLDICS Greg Elliott. Matt Storey amended slogan 'Straight from the Jug'. which Yovvr PHOTOGRAPHY Hannah Leigh Mackie & Paddy Plunkett STYLE Katie Greengrass were only available one day before the event. spom Allen Cooper. Martin Fnmet Despite a 300-strong turnout, Paul JUICE corron Frankie Mochan Bloomfield, LGB Social Secretary, estimated ARTS Alice Ross, Steven Abbot, Becky Barn coat that only 15 per cent of admissions were from Boom Joe Mariott. Charlotte Kaye advertising. cum Naomi Attwood, Stuart Whitworth Lawrence Jenkins, LGB President said: "We MUSIC Hayley Ayron, Aaron Lavery held an event last year and got about 450 people, ry Patrick Cragg, John Holmes so lack of advertising affected our sales. Money from the night goes straight back into the soci- LEEDS STUDENT MEETING ety, subsidising things like the Christmas Ball, a BENN: Central Leeds MP TIMES trip to Manchester and sending people to the CATS WHO DIDN'T GET THE CREAM: John students'. National LGB Conference." Clark and Peter Lewis, members of the LOB He said: "A third of all students are victims of Arts: Mon 5.30 Photos: Mon 6 Karolyn Power, LUU societies officer, said: PHOTO: RUTH LLIGH crime. Close co-operation is required between the News: Mon 5 & Fri 4.30 TV: Mon 12 "The flyers crept up on Monday and we ignored "Having seen other posters around I can't help police, university authorities, students, the local Books: Mon 5.15 Sport: Mon 12.30 them at first but suddenly they were all over the think that its something against our society." council and others to deal with this. Leeds is a Clubs: Mon 5.30 Music: Mon 6 place, sellotaped to walls and littering the "It just doesn't make sense that an organisa- Features: Mon 4.15 Comment: Wed 2.30 national leader in forming this effective close Union, which was not acceptable. From the tion who are meant to help the societies become working." beginning of term we've had a clamp down, so successful would be such a hindrance." Leeds Met Secretary Steve Demon said: "We ALL MEETINGS WILL CONVENE IN OUR FIRST FLOOR societies are only allowed six posters on allocat- The LOB has 150 members, from both Leeds are delighted that Mr Benn visited us to see that LUU OFFICE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. ALL CONTRIBU- ed boards." University and Leeds Met. The next social event by working in partnership we can make Leeds a TIONS WELCOME But Bloomfield feels hard done by. He said: is on November 12 at Stylus. safer city for students." Leeds Student Friday, October11, 2003 www.leedsstudent.org.uk Mark wins I £16,000 on 11TV show A LECTURER from the school around the country did not meet until of English is sitting on a small they arrived at the studio to film. fortune this week after a The Leeds University Dr said: sparkling performance on "Between the two of us we made it to ITV's Who Wants To Be A £32,000, and took half each. Marks "The question which stumped us a n d Millionaire writes Mark Powell. was about The Wizard qfMelave Park Spencer since Dr Mark Batty, a postgraduate - I thought it might have been Thomas doing the show." research tutor and Theatre Studies Eddison, but the answer turned out to "I'll probably spend the money on lecturer, was approached by televi- be Michael Faraday.