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6 November 2003
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2 NEWS 6 November 2003
Students Do Care
@surrey.ac.uk Some universities have adopted an approach
where a student must sign a declaration
Music Editor stating they are happy for their work to
Jon Allen be checked against an immense collection
bs21ja of essays and assignments collated in a
@surrey.ac.uk database. This, it is argued, gives students a BY NEIL CHRISTIE and strong thinking group of individuals that
better indication of what plagiarism actually DEPUTY EDITOR are concerned with idealism and not what
is – as it is feared that many students do
Film Editor the media would have you believe. Nine in
not have a coherent idea of what exactly DESPITE THE IMAGE associated with the ten students say they have “a responsibility
Neil Boulton
constitutes as ‘cheating’. student years – anarchy, activism, and to vote” and of those nine it seems all of
cs21nb It’s been found that whereas academics view general complaining, it has been reported
@surrey.ac.uk them take that responsibility very seriously.
ideas as property and that they can be stolen, that students now feel that their voice is not 71 per cent say, “politics matters, but
students feel the idea of ‘theft’ of concepts being heard. political parties today have nothing to say
Theatre Editor is too extreme. Referencing is a task many Many students will come to university on the really important issues”. The failure
Daisy Clay students are not accustomed to coming out having not voted in a general election. Their of the Stop the War campaign is seen as
ps21dc of 16+ education before university, and the main concerns are not those of the ‘trendy’ symbolic of politicians’ failure to listen, and
@surrey.ac.uk change in style and thinking has proved to students wishing to legalise cannabis or ban perhaps the same could be said of the NUS’
be too much in some cases. This has lead foxhunting, but they worry about the state of march to stop tuition fees. To students the
Literature Editor to the first year of degrees being seen as an the NHS, about their lack of enthusiasm and key issues are the NHS, crime, schools,
Jennifer Walker opportunity to introduce ‘how to’ guides trust in politics, and how crime is escalating asylum-seekers and public transport, which
for constructing essays properly or to learn each year. More importantly though, they compliments the views of the population
ph21jw
@surrey.ac.uk the academic approach to research, and not worry about how politics is becoming a as a whole. Students reflect what the
being directly linked to the course material. solid merge towards what the parties think population as a whole are thinking, and
is the highest concentration of voter views, perhaps worryingly for the future it seems
News Editor and how this lack of choice could lead to the larger share of voters support Labour,
Philip Howard barefacts@ussu.co.uk problems in the future with democracy. whilst around 23% support both Lib Dem
ph02ph Students have appeared to be solid, liberally and Conservative.
@surrey.ac.uk
Letters to barefacts
Letters must be received by 5pm on the Monday before publication to be published in the next newspaper.
Letters may be edited for length or clarity | barefacts@ussu.co.uk
Dear barefacts, each university team that plays at the Varsity Dear barefacts, Dear barefacts,
goes to have a drink (or a few) in the bar/
I am a first year student taking a Meng in clubhouse after their game. It is shocking What do women want... Great article... This is a response to the article What Do
Electronic Engineering. I am a very keen that we are told to keep the noise down, and although i am equally confused about men Women Want in the latest issue of barefacts.
and committed Rugby player, I play for not to treat the Varsity bar as our university - surely when women flirt men should pick I just wanted to let you know how hurt i was
London Welsh, and the university team. I sports clubhouse. up the signals - like we’re talking major by what was said in the article. It gave women
am also a member of the ESP. If the situation had always been like flirting here - do blokes just not get it? My a bad name, making them out to be heartless,
I enjoy playing rugby because of the way it this I could understand, yet why change a housemate always tells me that men are like conniving sexaholics, which everyone
can de-stress you in the physical aspect and clubhouse into a restaurant. The answer of elastic bands, and I think this is true! OK, knows isnt true. Men are just as hard to
also with the social aspect afterwards. The course will be money. There is an obvious so what do women want? - Well, a bloke understand as women, for example we will
University rugby team (as with all rugby loss in the money the Varsity bar will receive who understands them. Yes, I know this never work out why he still hasnt grasped the
teams) I have found easy to mix with, and from the sports players, and I guess they are is probably almost impossible, but if life simple task of putting the toilet seat down.
everyone does enjoy a good night out which hoping to gain that back using the restaurant was easy it wouldn’t be interesting/ fun I’ll tell you what females want. A guy who
includes lots of drinking games. idea. But why not say have a time share now would it!? Oh hang on, women also is sympathetic to their needs, a guy with a
As most people know a rugby team when when on match days (Wednesdays, and want someone who is caring an interesting, sense of humour that knows how to give you
drinking gets up to a lot of dodgy and loud Saturdays I’m guessing for most sports), yet adventurous and masculine too, as a good time and, most of all, a guy who isnt
things. But (getting to the point of the letter) the Varsity can be a clubhouse, and the other well as thoughtful and spontaneous, oh on a power trip with an opinion on everything
the team is having problems with what days it can be a restaurant? and of course like hanging out with his and an ego even bigger than his mouth.
we want to do because of the way that the Something different now but related. The blokey friends, as well as being the caring Harsh as this may sound, it needed to be said
clubhouse (the Varsity bar) operates. I’ve other night I was in the union on a night boyfriend who takes girls on dates and woos on behalf of the female race.
been told of the many stories by the older out a bit short of cash, I wanted to go out them with chocoloate and flowers, but hang
players of drinking games going on into the the door, walk about two metres to the cash on, also can’t be to girly.... mmm a fine line YOURS SINCERELY,
night, loud singing, and a good all round machine (still in view of the door men) get indeed..... :o) KATY WEST
laugh all taking place in the Varsity bar in some money and come back in. I was told
the past few years, this I can to relate to as by the doorman that I would have to queue TOODLE PIP, barefacts@ussu.co.uk
its what happens in all clubhouses. again to come back in. So I changed my CAROL MAIN
But we are now told that the varsity bar mind and didn’t bother to get any money
has changed the type of audience it wants so I didn’t have to queue. What I don’t get
to attract (i.e. couples wanting an evening is that the union would have missed out on
meal). The Varsity is a sports bar! It is about £10 of my money! I can’t have been
situated next to a rugby pitch, a football the only person this has happened to. Do you
pitch, an American football pitch, and a want our money or not?
hockey pitch! It even has a huge screen
constantly showing sky sports! Maybe the YOURS SINCERELY,
bar is not directly linked with the university, ROBERT WEBBER
but surely this problem can be understood as
Dear barefacts,
Long time editor, first time reader. For once I actually decided read my own section, the filmy
bit, and to my almost cartoonish dismay I’ve found the higher editorial team inserting words
into my mouth. Due to my tendencies towards being a rather tight-fisted individual, I would
indeed advocate the joys and general cost-efftiveness of a night in. However I, being unable
to drink hot drinks (because they’re hot), would never find myself endorsing cocoa to anyone
I would’ve endorsed ‘alcohol of questionable virtue’ or ‘cake’. Secondly, “goggle box”,
another term I would never commit to paper in my name, is another linguistic atrocity - it
is called ‘the idiot box’, or ‘view screen’ or maybe sometimes ‘TV’. I feel a small, possibly
benign; piece of my dignity has been removed and replaced with something akin to a pink
lawn flamingo.
YOURS FLAGRANTLY,
NEIL ARTHUR HORATIO BOULTON
4 COMMENT 6 November 2003
opinion N U mesS? After being elected as a USSU Delegate Chris Ward heads to NUS Regional
Exec Head to Conference in Kingston for his first taste of all things NUS, and doesn’t like what
Essex
he sees in the slightest.
WHAT IS THE role of the National Union of Students? Why on the screen began “NUS believes…”. Well, I’m afraid
did 90% of voters in the last referendum vote “Yes! We in this sense, “NUS” seems to consist only of the officers
want to stay with NUS!”. Perhaps the answer lies in the that seem to run the show – the people that allow the most
fact that we receive many benefits as individuals, namely important viewpoints to gradually diminish as they climb
the discounts we get whilst shopping for the essentials… their way through the hierarchy pipeline. They highlight
clothes, CDs, etc. However, the motive becomes clearer certain “priority” campaigns that we must lobby MPs for – a
when we imagine a situation without the NUS. An image long process of presentations about current issues. Yes, they
THE UNION EXECUTIVE travelled down to the University of of fragmentation and disorder. We need an organisation are all important in their own way, but it seems that NUS
Essex on Tuesday evening to observe and sit-in on one of that brings together the unions dotted around the country, have lost focus. Does it not make sense to concentrate on
their student councils. It was suggested the exec do this in an organisation that acts to represent all students in political one campaign more than others, so that we don’t dilute our
order to see how a university of approximately the same size resistance to things like top up fees. We need an organisation efforts into six campaigns, all running at the same time?
can operate. Essex has around 7000 students, so is quite a that amplifies our political and national voice, as a group Having said all this, it seems NUS is here to stay. The
bit smaller than Surrey. bound together by common interest. pros certainly outweigh the cons, but purely because we
Attendance in terms of numbers at the council was around I attended the regional NUS conference o n need a formal body that is here to symbolise the conformed
40 people or so, which is comparable to how Surrey’s council Monday, and I was more than dissatisfied. I have never combination of every student across the country. Whether
operates. However what was seen was not a half hour before seen an organisation so distant from the body the representation is purely symbolic (as it seems to be),
meeting that involves very few members of the university they claim to represent than what I saw on that day. The or whether it actually does represent the common views of
or council, but a two and a half hour meeting where meeting opened with union presidents from the south east students nationally, it needs to be there. I admire Mandy
productivity was immense, equalled only by enthusiasm and apparently reporting on progress within their union in Telford for her work, as she seems genuinely interested in
emotive beliefs. It was enjoyable to watch, and will be even terms of representation. Representation – that was a word being there for every single student under the representation
more so to get involved in. that was thrown around a lot during the conference: the of the NUS. I just hope that this enthusiasm and drive is
The exec learned a lot from the experience and will realisation that we must actively represent the students that not lost as it spirals its way down the thick network of
hopefully be travelling to Reading University to get another are members of our Union. Well, that is why we are here beurocracy.
comparison. isn’t it? Yet, unfortunately, this little exercise turned into I do not wish to bore the readers of barefacts by giving a
Too long has Surrey been seen as politically apathetic and a pathetic droning, allowing nothing more than excessive narration of the conference. If you do wish to be bored out
uneventful, with council meetings becoming a formality bragging from union presidents as they attempted to of your skull, however, I suggest that you run for regional
rather than an opportunity for the students to make their impress the conference with their dry one liners and cliqued NUS delegate the next time the positions are elected. I will
voices heard and pass motions through. On Tuesday at 1pm personal stories, generally involving alcohol. Ironically, make one thing clear. I walked in to that conference feeling
USSU held their second Council of the year, and although however, it was later on agreed that we need to lose image very passionate about the campaigns that affect our students.
the venue was not ideal, attendance is already up on previous of the drunken student, or “The Young Ones”, as it was so I walked out with very little faith in the organisation at
years. A discussion was had as to the ideal venue for the next inadequately put. all, and rather concerned that the NUS, who are supposed
council, and subsequently Tuesday 2nd December at 1pm in At the heart of the NUS are campaigns. These are little to represent us and help us through higher and further
the Helyn Rose Bar is the date for your diary. The relative projects that are undertaken with the sole purpose of helping education had become inescapably entangled within a web
ineffectuality of Union Council as it is has to change and the students. So, by implication, these campaigns need to of beurocracy and red tape. The initial mission statement
exec this year are taking steps to promote a greater awareness resonate the widely held opinions of students on a national has faded – all that is left is meetings, administration, and
of student council and what it means for the student body. In level. NUS, however, seem to have the psychic capacity assumption of general student opinion. I will certainly
short, it is an exciting time to be at Surrey as although the to know what the students were thinking, and did not once be thinking twice about where my vote goes in the next
opportunity has always been there and the structure of the ask us whether or not we had canvassed the opinions of referendum.
Union and University has been in place, the near future any students from our union. Many of the bullet points
will hopefully see these elements coming together to form
a united voice of the students, and there can only be benefits
that come about from such an idea. ussu sabbs at nus conference - is it worth it? | photo: chris hunter
Watch this space for a brief summary of the Reading
experience, and keep your eyes peeled for any developments
in the Union Council system here at USSU. Council is not
here for the sabbs, the execs, the staff, or anyone other than
YOU, the students. If you want to know where your money
goes - come along on December 2nd and ask. This is your
chance to find out what’s really going on.
barefacts | be heard
6 November 2003 COMMENT 5
IF YOU HAVEN’T already had it, you’ve Uni life is certainly another factor. Late
probably got it, or are in the process of nights, stress / ironing favourite shirts,
getting it. And as is evident by the amount drinking loads, and generally feeling a bit
of frustrated faces around campus, I’m not exhausted because of the whole experience
talking about a night with one of the girls all contribute to lowering the immune system
in Sla Stag Hill. The grotty, snivelling, to something similar to that of a gnat’s.
croaking sounds of freshers echo throughout Even the nerdiest and weediest looking
most lecture rooms in the course of the germ thinks it’s in with a chance of rolling
day, and the only way to avoid it is to be over your immune system. I feel sorry for
shacked up at home with a red mark on the a friend who was recently on antibiotics,
door. Even then one of your friends will which are great for killing off things, but
send over the most attractive and plagued- they wipe out your immune system too
up individual they can find just to test your – so if you do go to a doctor and they’re a
willpower. The question is, what is it, what bit willy-nilly handing out prescriptions for
causes it, and when will it end? them (like a production line…
Quick disclaimer alert: I’m no doctor “what’s wrong”
and the research I have is purely my own “well I’m bunged up and…”
symptoms and a few ideas, so please don’t “here have these, NEXT”) then ask for
attach any significance to my thoughts and something that won’t mean you’re back
consequently sue me when you end up in 6 weeks time with the latest round of
taking something for it that just makes it infections. If it’s not serious, it’s usually
worse or results in near death. a case of sticking it out, getting rest, and
Firstly it seems that fresher’s flu is almost eating as best you can (feed a cold, starve
always not flu at all, simply various colds a fever my mum’ar always use to say). At
and bacterial infections that are caught due the moment this friend would make the ideal
to a number of reasons. So for anyone fielder (wait for it…), because if something’s
photo: christopher hunter
who’s acting although they’re half dead, it in the air and it’s going anywhere near her,
probably isn’t that bad, she’ll catch it (boom- too, take the time to miss out on the night’s just a cold. If you have any doubts, then
so stop your whinging “I’m no doctor, so ting; sorry). entertainment, save some money, and boost get along to the health centre, register, and
and find another excuse Finally it’s probably
for ignoring your
please don’t attach worth saying that nobody
your tolerance to colds too. It’s get seen to. If you are suffering
“You won’t be from vomiting, headache,
all about converting a con into
housemates. If ebola (of any significance to really bothered to register a pro, or at least trying to think alone when having drowsiness, seizures, high
the Ebola Haemorrhagic with the health centre.
Fever variety) were more
my thoughts and So finding a doctor can
that way. fresher’s flu so temperatures, joint aches and
On a more serious note, there pains, stiff neck, or disliking
common we’d probably consequently sue me be a bit tough in itself, are some symptoms you should there’s always bright light and it’s NOT
all be dead by now. So
just be thankful that
when you end up taking the very thought of it
can just lead to a general
be aware of as much as possible. someone who you because you got wrecked the
Meningitis, as I’m sure can go and watch night before and you do have
you’re sniffing – at least something for your cold feeling of lethargy. everyone is aware, is something a worry, go and get it checked
you’re still trying to That, and that one-stop some videos / out. Not all of the symptoms
that just makes it worse isn’t a pharmacy of any that is increasingly likely to be
breathe. caught at uni because of the DVDs with, lemsip may occur at once or even at
The main ‘cause’ of all or results in near death.” kind so paracetomol environment we’ve all been in hand” all, so please do get yourself
this widespread feeling is about the strongest thrown into, so even if you’ve seen to by one of the luverly
of grogg has to be lectures – not that I’m thing you’ll be able to find to help fight had your jab (which protects against just nurses, or docs, on campus. Prompt action
condoning absence here, but ramming the infection. It’s like being sat on by a the one strain – and also the one, I think, saves lives, and nobody’s going to make you
200 students into the same room, with a sumo wrestler and being equipped with that isn’t as severe) it’s still worth being feel awkward if it’s a cold or flu – students
select few (you know who you are, the nothing but bad language to get him off. aware that it could be more serious than are high risk, so better safe than sorry.
ones churning their guts out at the start You’re going to be crushed regardless.
of Weeks 3 and 4) infesting others with Well I guess there’s some good news.
various infections, is not going to create There are a limited number of colds you can
the healthiest of atmospheres. There are pick up (shame it’s at least 200), and once WINNER OF
£50 TOPMAN
a lot of people here you’ve never met or you have antibodies for one variation you
been introduced to. Likewise with their should be protected from getting it again
infections. (or so I believe, research anyone?). It gets a
The union and / or a night out is obviously bit more depressing when considering viral
another cause. Those coming to uni with the infections and fevers… which of course can
idea that every hole’s a goal, promiscuity is be contracted again, and again, and again.
VOUCHERS
going to be at a peak, and generally anyone Also you won’t be alone when having
from Essex, have all contributed to the fresher’s flu so there’s always someone who The oh so lucky winner of the competition to win £50 of Topman vouchers is
circulation of various nasties. Surprisingly you can go and watch some videos / DVDs
enough, tonguing five people in one night with, lemsip in hand. That way you can
not only leaves you with a higher chance share the colds you each have whilst you feel
of picking something up, but you may also terrible anyway, and be immunised against
Jon Noble
be carrying something that hasn’t yet fully two instead of one. Or perhaps if you’re in Huge congratulations, and barefacts will be in contact very soon to
flourished into a streaming nose and bright the minority that is actually well enough to arrange collection of this fandabulosi prize.
red t-zone. go out to the union, you can blag you feel ill
6 UNION 6 November 2003
Enthusiastic & Sporty? else you think is relevant. Submit your entry by email, post,
or bring it to me in person by 5pm Friday 7th November. An
UniSport and Disability Challengers (a registered charity independent source will read all of the articles and pick the
that provide play and leisure opportunities for children winner, who will be notified by Friday 14th November.
and young people with any special need), run a sports club
each Saturday morning (10-12) in the Uni Sports Centre
for 6 week block durations. The new block starts from 8th
November, and there is loads of interest! Volunteers are
needed to help coach trampolining, climbing, sports and
dance. Fear not – you do not have to be experienced as
UniSport offer training – all you need is enthusiasm! You
Are You A Poppy Person? do not even have to commit to each week – although most of
the current volunteers love it so much they go most weeks!
The 11th day, of the 11th month, at 11am… yes that’s the
annual time when we all pause for 2 minutes to remember Please contact me for more information on any of the above
the millions of people who have served, and are currently Win! Win! Win! fantastic opportunities, or to find out about more exciting
serving in the Armed Forces, and their families. The opportunities – the list is fun, and endless!
Royal British Legion is the UK’s leading charity providing You still have a short amount of time (1 day infact!) to enter
financial, social and emotional support to millions of people, the exciting V competition, and win a pair of tickets for the
and the Poppy Appeal has been going since 1921, and they British Airways London Eye! All you have to do is write Name: Carol Main
are currently looking for ‘Poppy People’ to help it keep on a short piece about any volunteering that you have been Tel: (01483) (68) 3254
growing. Poppy power depends on poppy people though! – involved in in the last 12 months (it does not have to have Email: c.main@surrey.ac.uk
and volunteer collectors are needed in Guildford town centre been done through The V Project). Tell me who you are, Web: http://www.ussu.co.uk/volunteering
to sell poppies for a minimum of 1 hour over Friday 7th and what you did/ are doing, where and when you did it, why Person: The Activities Centre @ USSU
Saturday 8th November. Can you be a poppy person? and how you got involved, what you learnt, and anything
8 PROFESSIONAL 6 November 2003
“Top banana. I’m off to send in my article - tara!” Just send it to barefacts@ussu.co.uk or
pop into the careers service and speak to
barefacts@ussu.co.uk - easy as pie. an advisor
Do You GU2?
GU2’s Station Manager, Amelia Lefroy brings us the next
installment of her [almost] weekly tales of all things GU2.
Well, ok, it’s been longer than a week, but this week it’s my turn! Are you sitting
comfortably? Then I’ll begin!
What’s up this week then? I think I’ll first ask you to refer to issue 1065 p3 or 5, wherein
you shall find an article about ‘Barefacts Live’, the exciting, new, News Programme on
GU2. Don’t stop reading!
I know we all begin tuning out when we hear the ‘N word’. For me it conjures up painful
memories of the olds coming into the living room and enforcing parental control over the
TV and me consequentially missing ‘The Simpsons’ or ‘Home and Away’. But please do
not tar us with the same brush as Moira Stewart or the-guy-with-ginger-hair-who-used-
to-be-on-the-news-and-still-pops-up-randomly. ‘Barefacts Live’ covers stuff relevant to
us, the student population, like music news, campus news, national student news and
the latest on ongoing issues like drinks spiking. But I know what you’re thinking…
why don’t I just wait until Thursday to pick up a copy of Barefacts? True, but this is
meant to be an extension of services offered by Barefacts so you can get more regular
updates. So what does this mean for you? Well we need people to be our ears and eyes…
or our reporters! So if you feel you want to get involved with this most exciting new
development in our student media, email barefactslive@gu2.co.uk.
Do you want to work with probably the best looking and best dressed gal in Student
Radio? Attika, our Head of Marketing is currently looking for people to join the
marketing to help her develop both the new merchandise range and the level of awareness
of GU2 on Campus. If you have a vivid artistic mind we really need YOU! Email
marketing@gu2.co.uk to get involved.
GU2 :
hands on
experience in all
aspects of radio
f o r e v e r y o n e
FILM LITERATURE
Neil Boulton brings us a Literature Editor, Jen
Jackie Chan extravaganza, Walker, takes a walk on
not to mention other rather the dark side and visits
exciting things [minus his Mary Shelly’s classic -
cup of cocoa this week!] Frankenstein
singles
SIKTH
SCENT OF THE OBSCENE E.P This single sounds much more
Gut Records laid back and mellowed out than
her previous single releases. The
Gut Records release the short but powerful follow up lyrics have developed a bit of
to Sikth’s much acclaimed recent LP. Smooth guitar melodies feminism and therefore this song
and troubled vocals cover the 2 tracks, demonstrating the talent of this will tend to be more popular with
group. There are obvious influences present of 80s rock music, most the ladies than the gents. The
evident on the Iron Maiden cover Wrath Child. I’m impressed, but re-mix has more beat and bite
when they began to screech like pained ferrets, I gave up listening. to the song although whether it
c.d. improves it is debatable seeing as outstanding
it was originally written as a slow
song. p.w. excellent
good
JANE’S ADDICTION VUE UNKLE
TRUE NATURE BABIES ARE FOR PETTING IN A STATE average
Parlophone BMG Mo Wax
poor
Twelve years on from their Cited by The Strokes as an To put it simply, Unkle is not the
untimely initial split, Jane’s early influence, Vue have an same without DJ Shadow, and this
Addiction take us back not to unmistakable American rock n roll is definitely plain to hear on the
the unbridled adventurousness sound seen in title EP track Babies latest single from James Lavelle’s KYLIE
of epochal third album Ritual Are For Petting with its superb reformed group. Lazy guitar loops SLOW
de lo Habitual but to its more chorus and BRMC like guitars. and house drums meet even lazier Capital
straightforward and accessible Expect great things to come next vocals, on a track that could easily
predecessor, Nothing’s year as the Vue’s forthcoming be given a miss. Go and invest your Slow is the first single to be taken off Kylie’s ninth album Body
Shocking. While True Nature’s album is set to launch an assault money into buying a copy of the Language, and has already gained heavy rotation on radio. At first
satisfying crunch and typically on mankind having it all apart Psyence Fiction LP instead. c.d listen the song starts off…well…slow, hinting that it will burst into life
swirling mid-section are a from the obligatory The before at any moment, with one of those catchy Kylie choruses we all love.
pleasing nostalgia trip, after all their name so long live The Vue However, three minutes later this has not transpired and the stereos
this time the faithful will surely may due success come your way. gone quiet. This can’t be right can it? Well yes I’m afraid it is, as
have hoped for something a m.b. Kylie returns with a disappointing first single, which never really gets
THE BOXER REBELLION going. m.f
little more special. j.d. WATERMELON
Poptones
CARINA ROUND
INTO MY BLOOD
Dehisce
a perfect circle
Possibly the only female singer to
come out of Wolverhampton with
some kind of a future in the music
business. Carina is a mix of PJ
Harvey with, at times, Bjork-esk
vocals. This is the first single off
her second album Disconnection.
A woman to be taken seriously,
proving it in the lyrics and well This week’s music section is brought to you
composed music, also having
played with the likes of Coldplay by: Corin “Skeptik” Douieb, Peter Wigfield
and James Brown. Not one
for the usual style of MTV, but Jonathan Darzi, Matt Badcock, Jon Allen ,
perhaps its partner MTV 2. d.m
Dina Mystris and Matt Fisher.
9 November 2003 MUSIC 13
ENON THE THRILLS BLUE
STAR CASTIC DONT STEAL OUR SUN GUILTY
Southern Records Virgin Virgin
Where to start? Well this is a Another month, another Thrills Britain’s biggest boy band return with their third (yes third!)
band hailing from Brooklyn, single that sounds uncannily like album. After the phenomenal success of their previous offerings the
New York, a musical hub and the Big Sur without being quite as pressure’s on as they try to ‘raise the bar’. What can I say, but with
birthplace of the White Stripes, good. A winning formula it may great lyrical contents as “We never spend no time to get busy busy, I
a group they try to capture. be, but without at least a slight wanna make the bed rock and make ya dizzy dizzy”, you cant help but
Unfortunately this single sounds long-term change in direction, smile whilst hearing this album. As a pop offering you could do much
more like the theme tune to that and preferably a hint of some worse, with Blue sticking to what they do best – pop songs with their
horror movie IT, with its ferris emotion other than sickeningly tongues firmly in their cheeks (what do ya mean their serious artists?)
wheel tunes and weird haunting cheery optimism, the not entirely blue m.f
vocals. An experimenting sound favourable comparisons with
that doesn’t do anything other Dodgy may prove to be well To become part of the
than make you want to turn it founded. Perhaps they should bf music team, just turn
off. d.m. ignore their own advice and allow SOMETHING
their sun to be stolen – a gloomy,
up to the meetings at CORPORATE
5.15pm on Mondays in
alb
twilit Thrills album could be an NORTH
interesting proposition… j.d. the USSU Media Centre Drive-thru
(by pizzaman) or email
The punk band with the
barefacts@ussu.co.uk piano playing front man. They
um
boys are growing and this second
THE CREATURES LIBERTY X offering from the Californian band
HI! LP BEING SOMEBODY is a little less punk rock princess and
Sioux Records V2 more 21 and invincible. The kind of songs
you have playing, which are totally inoffensive and
Siouxsie and the Banshees This album is over an hour long promote themes of the all American middle class teenager. The
and has 16 tracks. Who’s ever
s
under another name but dating usual heartache on The Runaway and a deeper, more meaningful feel on Only
back to 1983 The Creatures idea that was deserves to be Ashes, with your typical punk vocals and guitars, however the piano does add a nice
are completely different to confined to a dark room listening touch of atmosphere and a more peaceful feel. Not a ground breaking album by any means,
anything else out there. Full to this on repeat for all eternity. but definitely one to add to your collection if you’re into less aggressive punk tunes, with a
stop. A weird fusion of ancient Like many others, I enjoy a focus on things like the moon and the sky. d.m.
drunken stomp on a Wednesday
gigs
Japanese percussion and echoic
electronically affected vocals, night in the Union to a number
it is however something you of questionable pop songs, but
have to be in the mood for, say in the harshness of daylight (and LIVE @ USSU
perhaps sitting at home with sobriety) this is just wrong! Of 28th October
nothing to do as this music is course there are some listenable
genuinely interesting. It’s not tracks on the album (the best being Predictably a night of punk at our very
the type of music that can sit the collaboration with Richard X own Union bringing together local
here in the background it jumps on Being Nobody), these are in youngsters Fast Lane and Black Country
out at you but remains laid back the vast minority. Surely Hearsay veterans, B Movie Heroes. First on Guildford’s own, Fast Lane show a promising start with respectable
at the same time. It’s been a weren’t worse than this were vocals if the continual movement of the band became off putting. A fine start you may think well don’t push
long time since I have heard they?!? m.f it the generic sound made you think you’ve heard them before but no its that band you saw who sounded
anything this different in the like that other band oh yes Blink 182. Maybe I’m starting to get a bit unfair, they were not that bad not great
music world. either but have obviously worked hard and deserve their break. Straight to the main band then, B Movie
p.w. Heroes initially unimpressed with their flaunting of their West Brom flag going down well with this Wolves
fan. Getting over this initial predigest the music did the talking with a surprising sound of mature punk with
the unfortunate vocals proving the weakest link. A nice connection with the crowd showed confidence with
their panning to fill an “unexpected hour slot” and equipment failure not dampening their spirits. As the
the best known bottom in the world? kylie... gig went on the more tired the tracks sounded with weaker tracks beginning to stand out it what was overall
an ok show. What I could not get over tonight was the lack of people a mere seventy-five or so, I know it
was an unknown band and another punk one at that but come on support your local live band society and
experience some up and coming bands. In return this night must have a cross section of bands with a few
known acts bringing in the punters maybe monthly could prove as popular as No Waves recent successes.
Matt Badcock
What a year from these London lads, Mercury Prize nominees, playing every festival known to man and their
debut album rocketing up the chart some four months after its release. The enigmatic Beautiful lived up its
namesake brooding into its loved up vocals and sing-along chorus raising the roof. Superb single, El Salvador
continues an impressive opening with its irresistibly catchy lyrics and bouncing tempo in this lush summer
sound track. The delightful Shake Those Windows captures Athletes song writing ability with this magnificent
track transformed into a live epic. A glimpse of what’s to come saw new track, Tourist with its fuller sound
combine Athlete’s uncontrollable catchy choruses incorporating some well-placed oohs in what was promising
stuff. Showcasing one of the best debut albums of the year Vehicles & Animals entertains twelve fantastic
tracks, having the audience uttering ever word to the delighted sell out crowd. Over the summer this band have
gained confidence and a presence Coldplay gained after Parachutes, and with their forthcoming follow up out
next year, should establish Athlete as a fans favourite. With only one album under their belt this hour or so
performance had quality in depth showing their talent in quaint catchy tunes that’s hard not to like. Only one
track left in the locker, Westside rings out to a rapturous homage of a fine year for this rather fine band may we
all allow a bit of Athlete in our lives and the world will be a better place.
Matt Badcock ****
14 FILM 6 November 2003
Project A | reunited with his old classmates Sammo Who Am I? | Jackie plays a commando sent with
Hung and Yuen Biao (They all attended the same opera a group of others to apprehend some meteorite pieces
school) Jackie fights pirates as coast guard officer Dragon with some explosive properties, on the way back they’re
Ma. It’s sort of a period piece, being set in the 19th century double crossed and Jackie is the only survivor of the
and all, but still contains all the humour and action that wreckage… trouble is he can’t remember who he is, or
you’d expect of one of Chan’s movies. Action on the high why everyone’s chasing him. So going under the new
seas, bicycles and pretty much everywhere else including moniker Whoami he sets off the find out his past before
a Jackie’s amazing clock tower fall, excellent. his past finds him. Starts off a bit slow fight wise but
picks up as the film goes on ending with a great roof top
climax (Climaxes on roofs are always a good idea)
Armour of God | Jackie Chan does something close
to that Indiana Jones thing as he tries to rescue his ex-
girlfriend with the help of his best friend, her now fiancée
– All well and good, but she has been kidnapped by an
evil bunch of monks demanding pieces to an artefact
known as the armour of the gods. Lots of great Chan
action in this one, including Jackie getting beaten up
by a group of girls in the finale. It was also on the set of
this film that he almost died during a fairly standard wall
descent.
Are you a cinema buff? Do you fancy writing a review of a current release, an article on a classic film or director
or pretty much anything about the world of film?
Then drop an email to our film editor, Mr Neil Horatio Boulton, at cs21nb@surrey.ac.uk.
6 November 2003 FILM 15
10. There is no spoon. 3.00, 3.50, 4.45, 5.45, Mon, Tues & Thurs Sun – Thurs 12.40, To book tickets
online, visit
6.35 (10.40 Sat only, 4.05, 6.35, 8.25 3.20, 6.00, 8.35
Answers on page 20, along with the other Interactive ones, under Rawson’s Creek 3.50 Sat only) Weds 8.25 odeon.co.uk
Literature
16 LITERATURE 6 November 2003
Frankenstein, another classic gothic horror, but is it more his monster he could escape the horror of his creation. Is
than that? Mary Shelley wrote this after being inspired by the monster a personification of Genetic Engineering and
a nightmare, and in turn created one of her best works ever. cloning, or any other life tampering science?
Frankenstein tells the tale of a scientist who has a morbid The other message I found in this book is humanity’s
obsession with death, and the idea of resurrecting the dead. obsession with appearance. Although the monster was kind
Whist he is away from home, at university; he begins his and a gentle creature at the start, he is rejected purely because
obsessive quest to create a creature from dead bodies and of his ugliness. Is this something that we as a race should take
resurrect their dead cells. By taking recently deceased into consideration? Society is against discrimination of race,
corpses, Frankenstein takes parts from them and in turn sexuality and gender now, but what about ugliness? Have
creates a horrendous monster, made as a collage of dead you ever turned down some ones friendship or adoration
body parts. because they were too ugly? Did you ever choose to sit next
An interesting idea I have read is that Mary Shelly got to the “ugly kid” at school? Is Shelley also trying to tell us
the inspiration for the name, and possible concepts for the to look deeper into the surface of a person and try to discard
story after visiting Castle Frankenstein for a holiday, where whatever “ugliness” they possess?
coincidentally another scientist was there and dissecting However as a book I found Frankenstein rather weak,
body parts for research. Shelly uses flowery language and long words to make the
Frankenstein regrets his creation immediately after he has book seem more respectable, yet all it does is draw from the
brought it to life; he is horrified by the grotesqueness and the atmosphere and makes the book into a caricature of what
ugliness of his creature, and abandons it. The creature is hurt it could be. The language used to describe the creation of
and tormented by “it’s” abandonment and goes out into the the monster is glossed over too much, that the sheer horror
world for companionship; however everywhere the creature and grotesqueness that the particular scene could have had
goes he is outlawed and feared because of his ugliness, is turned into a rather mundane scene. Shelly also had a bad
despite the fact that his only desire is to be loved, he is never habit of missing out parts of the plot, and never offered any
given the chance. The monster turns to revenge and hatred explanations for why events occur. This left me frustrated
for his “master” and goes on a mission to slaughter those as I felt the book was rather hurried and annoyed at Shelly’s
dearest to Frankenstein. tendency to repeat herself in the book; almost as if she was
The foolish scientist realises his mistake and fears more trying to pad it out.
so for his loved ones that he tries to ponder to the monster’s It is interesting however that she refers to many texts within
desires, but the book just ends even more gorily and the book, such as Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dante’s Inferno,
tragically. but it just comes across as a student trying to impress or the creature for actually killing them? In my opinion if
When I read this book I did not interpret it as a horror; not a a teacher with the flowery language and the occasional Shelly had written this book as a text of the enlightenment
gothic one anyway. Mary Shelley’s book has an underlying references to other texts. instead of pondering to the ideals of romanticist literature
message to humanity about the dangers of playing God. In concept, Frankenstein is good; Shelly wrote it in an this would have made an interesting philosophical text, or
Even now scientists are obsessed with manipulating nature era when the enlightenment was still apparent, yet with either that she made the writing style more flowing, and
and this book has even more relevance to society now than romanticism in its infancy. She offers questions in a social less pretentious. If you have the stamina to read a book like
back in the 18th/19th century. Frankenstein creates a life and political sense, such as who should be responsible for the this, then go ahead and try as it has interesting concepts and
form out of curiosity, but fails to take responsibility for the murders in the book; Frankenstein for creating his monster, potential. But if it is a gothic horror you are after, go read
consequences of his actions. He believed that by abandoning and abandoning it leaving the creature angry and revengeful, some Edgar Allan Poe.
theatre
theatrepreviews
The Constant Wife
Direct from its West End triumph, The Constant Wife guarantees entertainment and boasts a
cast of well-known television names – Liza Goddard, Michael Praed, Susan Penhaligon, Sara
Crowe. Described as “Glittering and glamorous” (The Daily Telegraph), “Entertaining
and startling” (The Sunday Times), and as “Hilarious and convincing” (Sunday
Telegraph), The Constant Wife appears set to win over audiences in Guildford. Showing
Monday 10 - Saturday 15 November, student tickets are priced at £7, and performances start
at 7.45pm.
Constance Middleton is a very rare creature - witty, intelligent and captivating.
John Middleton, her husband, is having an affair with her best friend. Although
Constance and John are totally devoted, they have been married too long. So, what
should she do? Neither accepting his infidelity nor throwing him out appeal to her.
However, there is another more effective and entertaining way of reserving her dignity.
Beware!! Her charm is dangerously irresistible!!
W. Somerset Maugham’s classic comedy was one of London’s biggest hits last year.
Brimming with Somerset Maugham’s legendary sharp wit, this major revival of his
brilliantly pointed social comedy is brought to sparkling life by an all star cast led by Liza
Goddard and Michael Praed.
If you’re an Interactive Page regular then you’ll recognise the Quote Quiz from last week, but here’s a recap if you were taking a reading
week from barefacts as well as lectures. Match up the quotee [who all just happen to be sportspeople] with the quote. Simple as that. returns
Matt Adams returns with a relatively hard
one this week...
1. Knowing how ignorant Americans are you probably think that Independence Day is Sid Waddell
The clue is that’s it’s not quite on campus
when Will Smith saved the world from a bunch of aliens.
- almost but not quite. So if you scour
Alan Winter the every single edge of campus then you
2. I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark
might just get the answer....
and loud.
Yakov Smirnoff
3. Argentina are the second best side in the world... and there’s no better praise than that.
David Beckham
4. The boot’s on the other Schumacher now.
5. I’m so fast that last night I turned the light switch off in my bedroom and I was in bed David Feherty
before the room was dark.
Christian
6. Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious”.
8. The fans now, with their eyes pierced on the dart board. Jonathan Davies
9. I think you enjoy the game more if you don’t know the rules. Anyway, you’re on the Let us know what you think
same wavelength as the referees. Kevin Keegan of the Interactive Page...
10. Colin Montgomerie has a face like a warthog that has been stung by a wasp ... email barefacts@ussu.co.uk
Murray Walker
Word Search
Remember remember the fifth of November... yes, the gunpowder plot and all things
fireworks-y are the theme of Ben Berryman’s word search this week. So, wrap up warm, 1
bfpub quiz
Which country singer had a 1997 smash hit with ‘How do I live’?
grab a sparkler [maybe not at the same time as barefacts, though] and settle down to a little
searching for words. It can be pretty romantic, I promise you... but not a patch on heading out 2
Kosovo lies within which area of the former Yugoslavia?
to a real fireworks display, so make sure you get your priorities right!
Got 20 vaguely connected words swimming round your head? barefacts@ussu.co.uk. 3 Which year was the gun powder plot?
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Recipes
Due to popular demand, barefacts unveils a unique feature
allowing the lesser cooks among us to learn from the campus
culinary masters. No more beans on toast every day. Learn how
to become twice the chef Jamie Oliver is, without having to fake a
cockney accent and go without a haircut for a year.
Veg Curry for Cheats 8. Boil off any excess water so that the sauce is thick and
sticks to the veg. (You’ll probably need to turn the gas up Saucey Chicken
By Ian Purvey again now). By Kenny Cheung
9. The rice should hopefully be about ready now. Check it
Feeds: Approx. 1 looks in a suitable state and serve. Ingredients:
10. Hopefully your sauce will be thick enough by now. If 350G diced chicken
Ingredients: not take 1 –2 tbsp of cornflour, combine with 50 –100ml 300ml milk
1⁄2 Onion water and add. (If you don’t have cornflour then try 2 slices of honey roasted ham
1⁄2 Bell Pepper anything similar – sauce thickener, plain flour) 1 onion, finely chopped
3 - 4 Mini Sweetcorn 11. Put on plate and eat. 30ml single cream (optional)
4 – 5 Mushrooms 30ml of plain flour, mixed with 10ml of lukewarm water
1 Packet of powdered Vegetable soup (value’s fine) Beware, if making this recipe for multiple people you will
1 1⁄2 - 2 tbsp Curry Powder need to add an extra soup for each person but will not need 1. Marinade the chicken with a pinch of salt and mixed
150 –200 ml Water to add the same amount of curry powder. I recommend you herb for 10 -15 minutes
Rice (However much you want to eat) add between 1/2 and 3/4 the amount for additional people. 2. Meanwhile, finely dice the honey roast ham to a biteable
If you don’t like one of the ingredients experiment with size.
Method others. I personally find that I prefer a red or orange pepper 3. Melt the butter into the pan over a low-medium heat.
1. Start boiling a Kettle of water but that’s a matter of taste. Add in the honey roast ham and onion into the pan and
2. Chop all the vegetables into equalish size chunks. (I If you want to add meat on the cheap then you can add stir fry for 5 minutes. Set the onion and ham aside for
find lengths of about 1 – 1.5 cm best.) When the water has chopped up sausages, just remember you’ll need to cook timebeing
boiled pour into a sauce pan and start the rice cooking as the meat a little longer than the veg (3-5 minutes extra). 4. Melt the butter into the pan over a medium heat. Add
per packet instructions. the chicken into the pan and stir fry for 15-20 minutes until
3. Make up the soup with around 150-200ml of water. This they are fully cooked.
should not be too runny, since you want it to coat your veg. 5. Add the milk, onion and ham into the pan, bring the milk
To this add the curry powder and stir in. Any curry powder to the boil.
will do and some mixing can work quite well, i.e. 1tbsp of 6. Turn down the heat until just gently bubbling around the
Korma powder + 1⁄2 tbsp of Tikka powder. edges.
4. Put a little oil in a frying pan/wok and heat up. 7. Serve on a bed of rice or pasta.
5. When it starts to smoke add all the vegetables except the
mushrooms, and try to stir semi-continually. You may need
to lower the gas at this point.
6. After a minute or two, add the mushrooms. If you wish at
Hot Potatoes
this point you can add a bit of seasoning. (I add something By Ian Purvey
like a small sprinkling of Garam Massala or Paprika).
7. After another minute or so the mushrooms should be Ingredients:
turning brown in places, so add the curry powder/soup 350G diced chicken
combo to the pan. 300ml milk
2 slices of honey roasted ham
1 onion, finely chopped
Tangy Spiced Chicken Wings By Ian Purvey
30ml single cream (optional)
30ml of plain flour, mixed with 10ml of lukewarm water
Ingredients (per person): 6. Heat until the mixture thickens. This will happen quite 1. Marinate the chicken with a pinch of salt and mixed
6 Chicken Wings (half’s) rapidly – the mixture should be sticking to the back of a herb for 10 -15 minutes
2 tbsp Distilled Vinegar spoon. 2. Meanwhile, finely dice the honey roast ham to a biteable
2 tbsp Soy Sauce 7. Carefully pour over the chicken wings, trying to coat size.
5 tbsp Orange Juice each wing all the way over the top. Do not feel obligated to 3. Melt the butter into the pan over a low-medium heat.
1 tbsp Brown Sugar use all the sauce, but allow a small puddle of sauce to form Add in the honey roast ham and onion into the pan and
1 1⁄2 tsp Ground Ginger about the bottom of each wing if possible. stir fry for 5 minutes. Set the onion and ham aside for
1 tsp Garlic Granules 8. Place in oven and cook for 40 minutes. timebeing
1⁄2 tsp Chilli Powder 9. Serve with a napkin/kitchen roll and eat with fingers. 4. Melt the butter into the pan over a medium heat. Add
1 tbsp Cornflour the chicken into the pan and stir fry for 15-20 minutes until
Water Notes: they are fully cooked.
By small variation in the quantities of the ingredients the 5. Add the milk, onion and ham into the pan, bring the milk
Method: flavour of this recipe can be changed quite considerably, so to the boil.
1. Preheat oven to 200C/Gas Mark 6. experiment a bit. 6. Turn down the heat until just gently bubbling around the
2. If the chicken wings are whole then: Also the thickness of the sauce is difficult to get right, so edges.
Cut off and throw away the wing tip (the bit with no meat) make sure you don’t heat the sauce to quickly after adding
Cut the remainder of the wing into 2 halves at the joint. the cornflour.
3. Place the wings on a baking tray (preferably with some When cooked you may have a thick coating of brown
kind of lip) sauce on each wing, you can either leave it on or knock it
4. Take a small saucepan and add the Vinegar, Soy Sauce, off, the flavour can be quite different between the two.
{
Orange Juice, Sugar, Ginger, Garlic and Chilli Powder, stir
1 tbsp = 1 table spoon = 15 ml
and place on the hob. Bring to the boil for around a minute.
Standard Spoons 1 dessert spoon = 10ml
5. Turn the heat down a bit and mix the cornflour with a
1 tsp = 1 tea spoon = 5ml
little water (about 50ml of water) and add to mixture.
20 LIFESTYLE 6 November 2003
is served to you, everyone wears gowns, and then presented with six gorgeous looking 4 All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey.
there’s a Latin grace – a million miles from dishes that I was to photograph in an only-
Channie’s!] then went out to what Emma one-part-in-focus-rest-blurred style. 5 I got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime.
claimed was a ‘cocktail bar’. We were half I then spent the next two hours looking
way to our seats when Emma turned to me down my lens and taking really close up 6 When I’m feeling weak, and my pain walks down a one-way street.
and said “Sarah – I think this is a gay pub!”
Now, she’s been at University for a year and
photos of the food. Now I don’t think
that anyone could do this and not feel the
7 I had opinions that didn’t matter; I had a brain that felt like pancake batter.
a half, been to this pub regularly, so how she slightest bit hungry, and after I had finished 8 There’s vomit on his sweater already, Mom’s spaghetti.
didn’t notice that until I arrived was beyond I was feeling famished! With the session
me! As we left at 11pm, Ben turned to me over and the food a little lukewarm there 9 So you blast to the left and you sail to the right.
and said “that guy opposite us kept smiling was nothing left to do but eat the food, and
at me…” – so I told him he couldn’t help Ian then took the food away to be heated… 10 You want it, she’s got it.
it if he was so gorgeous everyone couldn’t returning a few minutes later to say that due
stop staring! to a slight communications problem the food
THE next day we did the normal touristy was chucked out!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
thing… though instead of paying to look NEVER mind, I survived. Now if you go
round the colleges we were frogmarched to Chancellors you can have this food for
into about half of them with my sister yourself, and you’ll see why I suffered!
whispering out of the side of her mouth, Talking about suffering, recently one of our
“look like a student, then you won’t have to showers has been turning into a bath! I really
pay!” Whilst sitting outside King’s College don’t think I’m standing on the plughole,
eating lunch, a guy with a hifi strapped to the and there doesn’t seem to be anything
This week I am mostly … prematurely hunting down sparkly
back of his bike cycled by. Rather strange, blocking it, but when you get out the water
Christmas decorations in an attempt to spread early festive
but we thought nothing more of it…. Until in the bottom of the shower is almost deep
cheer! [fa la la la la … la la la la]
ten minutes later when he cycled past again! enough to bathe! If anyone from Estates &
And again. In total we saw him ride past Buildings or Residences is reading this then
Take one sleep-deprived Angelica and place her in a one-hour
four times in about twenty minutes… I it is the larger shower in Tate 0.
traffic-jam approaching an out-of-town retail park on a stormy
swear there must be something odd in the I am now starting to migrate my tea
afternoon. Mix in a bunch of lane-hopping road-hogs [ensuring
Cambridge air. collection from my room into my office,
that alloy wheels, tinted windows and mega-bass come as
WHILST there, my sister told me she was and this morning I now have the choice
standard] and add a set of failed traffic lights at the main
too embarrassed to wear any of her Uni of five extra teas to choose from… which
junction. Leave to stand for a further ninety minutes. Upon
merchandise outside Cambridge, because has nothing at all to do with the bubbles
eventual arrival at a Swedish furniture store, allow twenty minutes to secure a parking
“people have funny ideas about this place”. I have on my desk. I got them from some
space approximately one mile from the entrance. Once in the store, stir in approximately
So I decided that if she wouldn’t wear it… mobile phone show thing, and according
a dozen dithering trolley-users so as to obstruct smooth and direct passage through the
well then, I would! So I bought myself a to the container the bubbles are “Microsoft
warehouse then decorate with a generous serving of tired, screaming kids clambering in
£15 hoodie from the very funky market Windows Powered”. I can kinda see why as
and out of [unfortunately not under] tank-sized buggies. On approaching the check-out
[where my sister also got some knee high bubbles fly around perfectly happy, and then
select the queue with the most dopey member of staff on duty, then allow the evil child [not
multicoloured stripy socks – don’t ask!] and without any warning suddenly self-destruct!
the one from last week incidentally] in front to reverse its trolley into your shin. Expect the
come Tuesday this week, walked proudly The next piece of advertising is the bit that
smells emanating from the neighbouring 35p hotdog café to induce waves of nausea and
into Union Council sporting my new attire. bothers me: “Blow your mind”. Well I can
upon returning home, ideally with a large glass of wine in hand, vow never to return to the
I was rather bemused when, over an 18 hour safely say that so far they haven’t blown my
store again.
day at work [yes, you read that right], only mind, although I think I get better bubbles
Not a great way to end an otherwise relaxing Reading Week [I have to confess the only
one person commented on it – and even then with this than the DAVE session bubbles.
reading I’ve done is start the third book of the LotR trilogy… ] but having imparted this
he called me a “traitor”! I think my sister’s
week’s nugget of essential advice – avoid all furniture stores, Swedish or otherwise,
right – people do have some funny ideas!
chris ‘funkyberry’ hunter during the half-term holiday - I’m going to remain upbeat. See we’re on the home run to
Christmas now. Usually I’d regard this as a wholly frightening prospect – half my final-
‘ickle sarah butterworth
year gone, three days close confinement with my so-called “dysfunctional” family [my
gunpowder, guy london, parliament, pyrotechnic, rocket, roman candle, screamer, sparkler, torture, treason. gran apparently has better conversations with the dog than any of us – trust me, she told
David Feherty | Word Search: bang, bonfire, catherinewheel, cherrybomb, conspirators, execution, fireworks, flash, guidofawkes, me as much over preprandial sherry], carol-singing at my local Asda store… can’t I take
3. Kevin Keegan 4. Murray Walker 5. Muhammed Ali 6. Alan Winter 7. Yakov Smirnoff 8. Sid Waddell 9. Jonathon Davies 10. a raincheck this year, pretty pleeeese? Yet for some reason, the sight of mince pies in the
8. Pints and Quarts, 9. Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, 10. Kentucky Fried Chicken | Quote Quiz: 1. Christian 2. David Beckham
supermarket when it’s still only October has so far failed to instill in me the normal sense
of festive dread. Perhaps it’s that pesky denial catching up with me again, or maybe the
– Molly’s Chambers | bf Pub Quiz: 1. Leann Rimes, 2. Serbia, 3. 1605, 4. St. Peter Port, 5. John Paul I, 6. Seven, 7. Oscar Wilde,
– Lose Yourself 9.Justin Timberlake – Rock Your Body 10.Kings of Leon
eye spy answer week 8 - EIHMS aka Titanic
Willams – Angels 7.The White Stripes – Hardest Button to Button 8.Eminem wine’s beginning to talk – but life doesn’t seem quite so unrosy at the minute. I mean this
and Pappas – California Dreamin’ 5.Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69 6.Robbie week alone there’s not only Guy Fawkes night [anything more romantic than fireworks?
2.Ryan Adams – New York, New York 3.Avril Lavigne – I’m With You 4.Mammas not in my books… oh damn, forgot I need a date] but also Matrix Revolutions [yes I’ve
kid with the spoon) or Dog Soldiers (Sarge) | Lyrics Quiz: 1.Radiohead – Creep
got a bloke’s taste in films, but boy has this one got to be better than the last or I’ll have to
have words with the Wachowski brothers]. Crikey, come to think of it, maybe I should be
Devereaux) 9. The Big Lebowski (Walter Sobchak) 10. The Matrix (That damn
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Raoul Duke) 8. The Goonies (Clark ‘Mouth’
(either Brodie Bruce, T.S. Quint or Gil Hicks…) 6. Blade Runner (Tyrell) 7. Christmas shopping already… You can rest assured though, no-one’s getting anything from
(Galadriel) 3. Easy Rider (George Hanson) 4. Toy Story (Woody) 5. Mallrats an out-of-town retail park this year.
(Ashley ‘Ash’ J. Williams) 2. Lord of the Rings / Fellow Ship of the Ring
Upsidedown answers: Film Quote Quiz: 1. Evil Dead 2 / Army of Darkness
Catherine Lee
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and Miniperson Jo
- Barefacts Personals -
You all know the score - send your personals across to barefacts@ussu.co.uk, with the subject line ‘personals’ if you please, and as if by magic they’ll
pop up in the next issue. Whoopee. Ah yes, barefacts finishes for the semester in week 12 [that’s 3 weeks and counting...] so get your lovey dovey Christmas
personals in pretty damn soon! ah yes, guys - if you’re sending in more than one, pop then in the same email and i’ll be your bestest friend! Cheers.
Melissa! u work-a-holic you!!! keep up the new low has been reached! thank you to all the rugby girlie’s for being Chops would like to set the record straight,
good work smelly (plus the munchies to go such great people and fun to hang out with one is quite enough!
with it!!) Where for art thou Lady Lawrence?
To my sexy stone fish, I love and will miss you the fact i tidied my room shows how much i
Fact:ganesh needs to pop his load Night rider wanted: mysterious cyclist last seen so much, all my love always, L xxx like her...
soon....before a lengthy lovemaking session on nu x rd When ordering spiral fries is it asking too much
can be sustained! to expect them to arrive within an hour?!!! M: “I just wanna be horizontal for the rest of
Yas and Bilal, go away, tamara is mine. Moe the day...”
“who’s pregnant?!” Watch this space...x J: “But diagonal will do!”
it ain’t three beautiful women any more....
Tamara, I thought u should know how I feel “you’ll be greeted by essex’s president, darren” no personals were fabricated to fill the space.
about u, i think ur so sexy baby. Lots of love funky - there’s no way you’re going to be the “what, and vice presidents tracy and sharon?!” well.... maybe one was, but that’s not the point!
bilal xxxx only single sabb - at this rate they’ll be an
extinct breed! Can men wee when they’re sitting down? Sandy: “Is it a goat???”
Cullens & Kebab come back and play for
us....you know you want to really! I hear Bognor is nice this time of year! :) I don’t know the word of the week!!! I say it Happy Birthday Stupot
should have been sheep....
Badgers are the path to joy you make the best cocktails - cigarettes, Where’s cloned Dave gone?
peanuts, crisps, paper, plastic and To my boy (because he never gets his own
Happy Birthday Davey Baby!!!! much luv Kitz vodka........nice! personal) Love you AND your stubble “I really feel the need to put more holes in my
xXx XXX J body...”
you cannot have heterosexual sex in the union
Yeh, this is Yas i thought id tell u i love u too on lgb night! have you not learnt your lesson Spank me Andy, I’m a freshers’ angel. Scoot sort it out!
tam x ignore bilal, u want me from the cr’s episode?
Laura is get up “At least I’ve got something to suck on now...”
cat litter deodorant for shu’s Miss Simms? how’s the daz door step challenge going?
hope its more successful this week than Funkyberry is not cute, gorgeous and sexy - it’s Roll on next year when we’ll have our own
I Queued waiting for the LIBRARY to open-a haloween! all in your mind!! kitchen, just the two of us - I can’t wait! x x x x
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Sunday 9th November | Danceathon | Sport Centre
Friday 14th November | Bollywood Night | Varsity Bar
Friday 21st November | Beer Festival | Varsity Bar
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Golf Sussex 3rd vs SURREY 3rd SURREY 1st vs Roehampton 1st
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Hockey SURREY 1st vs Kings 1st
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for more fixtures and SURREY 1st vs Exeter 1st Netball
Squash SURREY 1st vs Roehampton 1st
SURREY 1st vs Imperial 1st 4-1 results visit: Hockey Royal Holloway 2nd vs SURREY 2nd
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Challenge Chops: Gliding – The Sequel
BY DAVE ‘CHOPS’ CHAPMAN your harness straps are holding you in tight!
Then the ground reapears above your head
One of the great things about gliding is the as the nose of the glider comes down, and
very first time you go up, you can actually you pull out of the down part of the loop
fly the aircraft. It’s not everyday you get back into normal flight.
a chance to take control of an £80,000 As much fun as these manoeuvres had
vehicle! been, it’s just not the same as if you are in
While last time I went flying I had control yourself. Although I was clearly far
the exhilerating experience of massive too inexperienced to perform the majority
acceleration on a winch launch, this time of the maneouvers we had just flown, after
around, I had an aerotow launch - being a few more demos the instructor thought I
towed into the air by another aircraft. was ready to try my own loop-the-loop. He
Although this is a more leisurely ascent (and first talked me through the theory, outlining
hence not quite as much fun), it has the huge what needs to be done - after all, it’s not
advantage of getting you to a much greater immediately obvious that you need to dive
height and hence significantly increase your first in order to pick up speed. I then took
air time. This, in turn, gives you a much to keep the basic K13 glider (the budget The obvious example is the classic loop-the- the controls, dived, and then pulled back... I
better opportunity to practise turns and option for two-seat training gliders at around loop. To perform a loop-the-loop, you first think its fair to say that as I’m sat here writing
manoeuvres before your instructor takes £10,000) in a straight line. In the Faulkes’ build up speed by going into a dive, pushing this, it wasn’t a disaster. In fact I was told it
control of the glider again to do the landing. DG505, it was much much easier. you back and upwards into your seat. As was quite good! I’m sure it wasn’t perfect
As before, the view from the front seat of I did a few climing turns and generally you then pull the glider’s nose up (fairly though, and it will be a while before I will
the glider was stunning. In fact, it was even revised what I’d learnt last time. However, hard) you feel the G-forces pulling your get to the stage where I will be able to repeat
better than before because the increased with such a high aerotow launch we had quite body firmly down. Your whole body feels this without careful guidance from the back
height meant you could see quite a bit more. a lot of airtime, so I handed control back to very heavy - your arms, head and legs feel seat, but... it felt fantastic anyway!
Since the club’s K21 is out of play (having the instructor for a bit of ‘fun’. Aerobatics an almost irresistable desire to stay where To get involved: All inclusive trial flights
routine factory refurbishment), we have are completely optional for club members, you left them, while your backside (thanks are available to any university student,
secured the use of a more modern, more and many people are happy with the pure to the seat) is very determined to go through regardless of experience for just £25 for
advanced and quite a bit more expensive thrill of normal flying. However, in the best the rest of the maneouver! a winch launch, or £35 for an aerotow to
(£80,000) glider. This has kindly been lent traditions of investagative journalism I felt All the time, the view outside the glider is 2’500 ft. This is less than half the normal
by the Faulkes Flying Foundation, a charity duty bound to have a go...! changing as the nose goes up and through commercial rate! Alternatively, students can
set up to assist young people flying. In the While I would not be able to describe the loop. The ground peels away from you, pay £40 to become club members, at which
air, the difference between the Faulkes glider most of the maneouvers, the experience was and you start heading vertically into the sky. point the flying gets even cheaper - down to
(DG505 Orion) and the glider I had previous breathtaking. The force placed on us went The world keeps rotating around you as the only £4 for a winch launch or £14.50 for a
experience of (ASK-13) was immediately from a small negative G (essentially making glider then goes fully inverted at the top of 2’500ft aerotow plus aircraft hire at 25 pence
obvious. While I had been fairly competent you float up out of your seat until your the loop. At the top of the loop you get a few per minute. Visit www.TakeMeGliding.net
in performing turns, I had found it quite hard harness stops you) up to pulling around 5G moments of feeling completely weightless for more info.
(effectively making you 5 times heavier). like an astronaught (0 G) and are glad that