e Bridge magazine inside Write for TCS: Squash @ Revs, Tuesday 12th 7-9pm e CambridgeStudent ursday, 7th October 2010 Michaelmas Issue Two Pizza wars: all the fun of the Fair James Burton Associate Editor is week’s Societies Fair saw the usual range of misdemeanours, some large, some small, despite an encour- aging turnout of almost 14,000 stu- dents, with record attendance levels on Tuesday. Students were badgered by a full twenty employees from three sepa- rate pizza companies. e onslaught began on Tuesday, when Domino’s employees appeared on the street outside the Fair (which, being a pub- lic highway, was not bound by any event rules), and began giving out fl iers to the waiting queues. Shortly a er this, Pizza Hut arrived with vouchers of their own, swi ly fol- lowed by the appearance of a third rival, Perfect Pizza. Pizza distributors out- numbered students by Wednesday a ernoon As the day wore on, Domino’s em- ployees wearing cut-out pizza box suits emerged to crush the competi- Pizza sellers face each other down outside Kelsey Kerridge Image: Adrienne Li tion. Not to be outdone, Pizza Hut staff soon arrived wearing cut-outs being pulled up by organisers over was prevented from “off ering gummy low the response of other societies permissions’ to generate additional of their own. their distribution of material provid- bear sweets to new members, due to to my request to them, and to either income for themselves,” although Yesterday, the three continued to ed by sponsors, who include, among health and safety reasons and it was off er individually wrapped sweets, or this reporter was unable to fi nd any up their game. Perfect Pizza arrived others, Credit Swisse, RBS, Citibank enforced immediately without prior to off er things that were stand-alone evidence for this in the Societies Fair with food; Domino’s followed suit, and JP Morgan. is was in contra- consultation. Unidentifi able, home- items.” literature on the internet. pulling pizza away from their indoor vention of Fair rules, which state made food of cultural and national Sipos went on to attack the Fair’s Furthermore, if one car were driv- stall to feed the hungry freshers out- that “no third party promotions are societies were perfectly fi ne by the health and safety provisions. “CUSU en out of Kelsey Kerridge car park side. allowed on any stall without explicit same health and safety rules.” made the whole experience a night- every second, 48,600 cars would have As the queues dwindled and the permission.” mare for us and for most Cambridge been driven out of the car park over fair drew to an end, the confl ict es- When contacted by e Cambridge Sipos: CUSU behaved students,” she said. “I wonder how it the course of the Fair. calated, and pizza boxes continued Student (TCS) for her opinion, Presi- is not against health and safety rules In response to this, McGowan to pile up. At the close, students were dent Susan Sipos commented that in a ‘non-Cambridge’ to cram thousands of students in a stated that “as organiser of the fair, considerably outnumbered by tired she “found the behaviour of CUSU room with no air conditioning or the health and safety of all involved distributors of deep-base pepperoni staff off ensive, unnecessarily hostile manner ventilation. is of paramount importance. I can and margherita. and ‘non-Cambridge’ in a number of “Not to mention making students confi rm that there was ventilation in Indoors, an atmosphere of cheer- ways.” McGowan’s response was that un- queue at the very exit of a large park- the main hall, with doors open to al- ful chaos prevailed. No stallholder or Ms Sipos had not elaborated on ex- wrapped sweets increased the risk ing house where cars are driven out low students to step outside and get visiting student was thrown out this actly what she meant by ‘non-Cam- of disease, and that “the rules clearly every second.” fresh air if they felt it necessary.” Over year, although the Women in Bank- bridge’ at the time of going to print. state that all food must be individu- Sipos alleged that “CUSU sells 2,400 bottles of water were also pro- ing Society sailed close to the wind, She went on to say that her Society ally packaged... I invited her to fol- these expensive ‘health and safety vided for Fair-goers. IN THE NEWS Further hygiene problems Last cooking hobs removed Possible crackdown on punt- New Vice-Chancellor sets Nobel Prize for Churchill around Cambridge at Caius ing on the Cam out vision for university professor Darwin, Homerton and the Union Undergraduate students at Gonville New and stricter regulations pro- Newly-installed Vice-Chancellor Pensioner Fellow Robert Edwards have scored only ‘fair’ in council hy- and Caius College have had their posed could include ban on letting Sir Leszek Borysiewicz aims for has won a Nobel Prize for Medicine giene inspections, we reveal in a fol- hobs suddenly disconnected before punts to anyone under the age of six- better funding and continued for his career-spanning work devel- low-up to last week’s investigation. Full Term. teen. global excellence. oping IVF. Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 6 e CambridgeStudent ursday, October 7, 2010 02|News THE CAMBRIDGE STUDENT THIS WEEK THE TEAM Editors in Chief: Jen Mills & Jess Touschek - [email protected]; Design Editor: Alastair Cliff [email protected] ; Magazine Editors: Alice Baghdjian & Julia Rampen - INVESTIGATION [email protected]; Photo Editor: Adrienne Li - [email protected]; News Editor: Andrew Georgiou - [email protected]; Deputy News Editors: Phil Brook, Zoah Hedges-Stocks, Nat Rudara- kanchana & Saranyah Sukumaran; International Editor: Elspeth Carruthers - [email protected]; Deputy International Editor: Jen Leong; Interviews Editors: Jenny Boon & Alex Kung - interviews@tcs. cam.ac.uk; Comment Editors: Liam McNulty & Becky Sage - [email protected]; Theatre Editors: Brendan Gillott & Séan Hewitt [email protected] ; Music Editors: Rhys Cater & Daniel Janes - mu- [email protected]; Film & TV Editor: Rebecca Pearce - [email protected]; Travel Editor: Anna Carden - [email protected]; Sports Editors: Sarah Binning & Nichola Di Luzio - [email protected]; Deputy Sport Editor: Ed Bentsi-Enchill; Chief Sub-Editor: Mostafa Al-Mossallami; Sub-Editors: Catherine Barker, Bryony Clarke, Junko Takata, Nicholas Tufnell & Judith Welikala; Illustrator: Clémentine Beauvais; Board of Directors: James Burton (Chair). Mark Curtis (Business), Joel Winton, Jen Mills, Jess Touschek & Jo Ashbridge [email protected] jhkjhgkj dbking EDITORIAL ere is a popular misapprehension for their lucrative attention. While activists or sport players, they are ous community, we are nonetheless that as students we are free to lead corporate heavyweights squabbled capable of devoting as much time to, deemed to lack even the competence Cycling is a quintessential lives unencumbered by responsibil- over who could distribute the most and assuming as much responsibility to boil an egg. Caius is not the only part of Cambridge life, but ity. Older generations trudging to the product, their targets preferred to for, the success of their extra-cur- college to adopt such measures, nor is is it safe? p.9 beat of P60 forms and regular office launch themselves into the flourish- ricular commitments as the careers it likely to be the last, but all such deci- hours gripe about young people sup- ing extracurricular scene in their into which they often hope these will sions equate to a damning estimation posedly drinking away their student thousands. Many, of course, sign up develop. What a shame, then, that of students by university authorities. NEWS loans without a thought of what the on the spur of the moment only to certain University institutions are The insurance may be prohibitive, real world entails. drop out even faster. Still more are unable to recognise this fact. but if a university is supposed to be To pigeonhole students like this is simply looking for relief from the de- To paraphrase several responses of a place to learn how to live, as well as reductive and unjustifiable. If there manding academic term. However, Gonville and Caius students to the how to study, then ours is currently was an element of juvenility to the there are a significant number who removal of hobs from their under- failing us. Rightly or wrongly, we live proceedings at this week’s Freshers’ spend their university years proving graduate accommodation, it seems up to the standards we are set. Un- Fair, it issued not from those filing again and again that, be they politi- astonishing that, despite being mem- fortunately, the bar is currently set so past the stalls but from those vying cians, actors, journalists, academics, bers of a such an intellectually rigor- low that we can barely see it. NEWS BULLETIN Local news in brief Ladies Boat Club robbed Churchill in album chart glory Black squirrels dominate Girton e Potato Laptop Fraud Punting controversy The University Women’s Boat Club Winston Churchill, founder of the The dwindling of the red squirrel A couple were defrauded of £650 in continues has had £4,000 worth of equipment eponymous college, has taken the community is often lamented, but Huntingdon High Street on Tues- p.5 stolen over the Long Vacation, the No. 4 spot in the album charts. the village of Girton, near Cam- day. They were approached by a Cambridge News reported last This musical success has come with bridge, is now home to a colony of man in the Cambridgeshire town SPORT night.