WESSEX PAPER FEBRUARY.1 19/2/01 5:15 pm Page 1 21st February - 14th March ELECTION FRENZY - MEET THE ELITE - ELECTION FRENZY - MEET THE ELITE Saturday 17th February saw the launch of the student radio station SURGE on to the new frequency 87.7 FM. Transmitting on 1287 AM for several years, Southampton University’s Radio from Glen Eyre has become a popular choice amongst the residents of the Glen Eyre complex. The extension of the license to FM status for a special trial period of one month offers the opportunity for all the students based at the University to listen to, or even work on SURGE. SURGE staff and regular DJs have been Haden and Anna (pictured above) working hard over the last few months proudly wore their promotional SURGE with the support of the Student’s Union, T-shirts around the university campuses to ensure that the FM switchover will be and the city centre throughout the week. smooth and successful. Station Manager In his official capacity as SURGE Lex Nichol summed up the view of the Webmaster, Haden enthusiastically whole station when he commented: “The proclaimed his opinion the FM launch: SURGE staff have all put a lot of work “Apart from increasing my pulling into this project - I believe that we’ll get power, it gives us the opportunity to as much out of this as the listeners will.” transmit to a much wider arena. Working at SURGE is great fun, and the new The build-up to the launch began in force schedule features a varied and exciting at the beginning of the new semester, line-up which is sure to appeal to all.” with a poster campaign around the Students’ Union, swiftly followed by an SURGE is also online. You can check out exclusive interview with the DumDums the listings on www.surgeradio.co.uk. on Saturday 10th. SURGE listeners can The site provides info about the station expect more special features coming up and its staff, plus an in-depth run-through over the next month. of the new schedule. Week 2 saw the SURGE Launch Party at the club, New York, New York. DJs Anna Kerensa Pascoe THE GUNS In this issue of DON’T WORK A University film society’s location-shoot turned sour last week, when a large Grandaddy proportion of the Hampshire Constabulary responded to a call concerning the crew’s use of a gun. The group of Southampton University students, filming a 15- Trail Of Dead minute short, ‘The Tesseract’ for the society, Wessex Films were surrounded by Police cars and confronted by an officer wearing a bullet-proof vest. Ministry of Sound at the Dome See inside for more FIGHT FEES - LECTURE BOYCOTT 1ST MARCH - FIGHT FEES WESSEX PAPER FEBRUARY.1 19/2/01 5:16 pm Page 2 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 All style no... seems unlikely given the perpetrator DO YOU LIKE SEX? originates from the USA. CONTENTs Whatever the reason, the emails have GUNS ON FILM This may appear to be a strange headline other universities across the nation have succeeded in wreaking havoc among for an article relating to email spam, but had similar problems, such as the university complaints departments over Allied Attack on Iraq ...Continued From Front Page precluded a serious reminder of how the thousands of Hotmail users worldwide University Of East London, recent weeks and have gone beyond the White situation could have turned nasty and have become all-too-familiar with the Huddersfield, and more recently usual realms of offensive spam. The Bombing intensifies over Iraq as admitted that it was impossible to very expensive for all those concerned. Trash? subject line filling their inboxes over Warwick to name only a small fraction of complaints to Southampton University Allied forces strike command and authorise the filming, but added that there As if to add to the potential costs and the recent weeks. An undisclosed number of the affected. If you have, or do receive appear to be almost exclusively from control centers in response to was nothing strictly illegal and yes, you’d actual embarrassment, it was said - on no unsolicited emails have been sent such email, please do not complain to Hotmail users, suggesting that another “increased threat to allied aircraft probably get away with it if you were uncertain terms - that had there not been purporting to originate from University universities - take the complaint up with security breach on the part of Microsoft from Iraq’s missile defences in smart enough. anyone outside when the officer arrived, accounts, notably Southampton. The Hotmail themselves or even your Internet may be once again to blame. recent weeks” The location in question was a peaceful, the house would have been stormed by emails were largely advertising Service Provider. However, the director decided he was not the armed response unit only minutes respectable corner of Highfield. Indeed, pornographic web sites and the Andrew Farley smart enough, but did possess sufficient later and shot anyone who moved. The Ralph Bulger Loses the kind of road that, if you were to ask common sense not to ignore the subtle University has received “a huge number” But what advantage could be gained by PAGE 5 the residents if they’d seen the police force helicopter had been ordered to of complaints over recent weeks from claiming to originate from a university in Court Battle hint of a passing Police Inspector. stand by and the chief inspector (off- around the area in living memory Consequently, Paul and the crew ped. Judging by the apparent impact on the UK? A number of theories exist, but duty) had been notified of the situation. The Bulger family is unsuccessful they would say no, but were never proceeded to shoot (ahem) elsewhere. ‘I Hotmail users, the hacker appears to be it appears likely that credibility is the Along with that, five BMW cruisers were in overturning the ruling of Lord huge Sting fans anyway. It was to felt that even though I’d effectively been using a weakness in Hotmail’s system to aim. Email spammers are going to just visible at the end of the road, Chief Justice, Lord Woolf - which this small locus of suburban refused permission, it was definitely gain user’s account details. Another increasing lengths to make sure that the blocking off the area or crawling past authorized the early release of their harmony that a major police not worth trying and getting arrested for. victory for Microsoft then. mail they send gets read. Recent reports suspiciously. Fortunately in the end, the son’s killers. operation was headed at around Plus, the last thing the film unit wants of the new Anna Kournikova virus 7.00pm on Thursday 1 February. only thing the officer took away was Most of the emails that were sent out highlight these new techniques. In this Liz Barker is to develop a bad reputation with the some personal details. police.’ during the last weekend in January and case, an email is received asking the New Home in the Dome? Interview The scene at fault was no more the first weekend of February were recipient to view a file apparently of the This is wholly reminiscent of an incident than half a dozen shots long and It was on that fateful Thursday advertising pornographic material on the Tennis ace, but instead of being a picture, The race is on to find new occupiers fairly uneventful. One of the that occurred two years ago, when world-wide web. Typical subject lines the file sends emails to everybody in the of the Millenium Dome, after the PAGE 16 evening, however, that the University student, Andy Berg was characters in the film was director’s concerns became for the emails included “See best adult user’s address book. This can have the Legacy consortium is stripped of required to wield a replica pistol reported to the Police by an elderly site on the net now!!” and “Horny effect of crippling large organisations’ their preferred bidder status. The horribly well-founded. As Paul, Portswood resident, concerned by the as a discreet prop. So discreet, in Pete and Matt had just finished tonight?” but also ranged to the more email servers. In the case of the BBC, Tussaud’s Group and concert fact, that a member of the public over-realistic BB-gun he was wielding obscure “Acne cure & penny stock University emails, the main advantage promoter Harvey Goldsmith have filming in the street, a car pulled whilst driving past. Andy’s problems reported it. The director, Paul Johnson up. The unmarked Panda was a pick!”. The vast number of complaints appears to be that they appear to derive all expressed interest. commented: ‘Obviously, whoever called were exacerbated furthermore by the fact received suggests the sheer number of from a credible, academic source. The clever tactic, but it was probably the less- that the car (whose license plate was the police simply misread the situation. than-discreet bullet-proof vest that people affected is phenomenal - how email may be more likely to be treated as With me and the camera on my shoulder, reported) was owned by his parents; the many of you actually complain when you serious and subsequently read if it Japanese Angry At ultimately gave the game away. That and Constabulary’s first port of call. Win next to Matt Golding (actor) and Peter the uniform, of course. receive bulk mail? appears to originate from @soton.ac.uk Sea Accident Wood (actor and President of Wessex and not @xxx.com, for example.