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Contact: Students’ Union Arts Editor: Elsa Tierney
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email media.su@londonmet.ac.uk
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2 Goulston Street, London, E1 7TP Greg Harris, Rishi Pancholi, Monty Sultan, Nicholas Avraam
 Students’
union DIARY OF THE VICE
PRESIDENT (CITY)
Well, what can I say, I am about to pack up my stuff to continue my journey as
a wannabe lawyer. There’s a lots of memories and experiences (good and
bad) I would take with me when I step down as the Vice President.
Sometimes I feel sorry that I have to leave the SU and at the same
time I am excited to face the challenges heading my way.

Definitely the Student’ Union experience was very exciting.

It’s like being self-employed. There is no immediate boss
to supervise and that again could be seen as good or bad.
If you wish to live a lazy life, then it is possible, Come to
the office at 12pm and take two hours for lunch and leave
at 4pm to avoid the rush hour. There is no one to look after
(apart from your conscience). Again if you wish to the come
office by 9.30 and stay until 7pm, there is no one left to say,
“Oh my god, you are great!” If you wish to take your union work
home and work throughout the evening and weekend, you won’t be
paid for the overtime. Obviously as a human beings we choose our own
route. However, from my experience I have seen the previous officers, some
of them are still around and some not. What they are doing now is greatly influenced by
previous conduct as an officer. Those who choose to stay lazy and relaxed still do the same. Most of them don’t have any job
offers, which they should have got after gaining experience as an officer. On the other hand, the officers who worked regularly
and also worked overtime with the knowledge that they won’t be paid for those hours, are doing well in terms of employment
or further study.

Working as an officer is very rewarding as I was elected by the student body to represent them in the university and obviously
they elected me because they put their trust in me and I value that and respect it. The students voted me to represent their views
and not just my personal views. But it easy to sometimes forget why and by whom
we were elected. Technically students are our boss and should decide
what we should do and what should not. It’s election time again and
a group of new officers will replace the old ones. That’s how it
works... It is not that difficult to get elected, if you are smart,
good looking and if you can convince students with your
words, then you are in, but that doesn’t stop there! You start a
mission from the very first day and most of the mission and
vision you come with to work as an officer, do not see the
day light and end within paperwork. As Students’ Union
doesn’t have a General Manager any more and there is no
Advice Manager to conduct the independent advice, the
SU is somehow not functioning in its full power. Like most
other university’s Student’ Union Officers don’t get enough
support to work effectively. There is one Student Liaison Co-
Coordinator who seats in the Student Office and for one man to do
the job of at least three is very difficult! The relationship between the
university and the Students’ Union could be better. I think supporting each
other would improve the quality of both departments.

I am not trying to scare you if you are interested in becoming an officer but I am telling you something which you should know
before you step in. If you think that you can overcome these shortcomings and have a strong nerve to tackle unforeseen situations;
then you should be the one. You should make a self assessment and see how good you are. And to the students, make sure you
choose the right candidate, who is able to tell the university on be half of you exactly what you want and how the university
could improve!

Monty Sultan
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 Students’
union

London Metropolitan
Student Union Election 2008

Its election time again!

The following positions are up

for grabs in the 2008 Union Elections:
There was a
book fair run
Full Time Officers: by London
• President Metropolitan
• Vice President (North) University
Students’ Union
• Vice President (City) on 28th February
• Participation and Development Officer at the Met
• Communication and Campaigns Officer Lounge, where
students sold
or exchanged
Part Time Officers:
textbooks with
• Diversity and Equality Officer each other for
• Welfare Officer their course.
• International Students Officer
• Postgraduate Student Officer
• Part Time Student Officer

Independent Student Council Members:

• 3 from City Campus
• 3 from North Campus

Nominations will be open on Monday 3 March As well as academic

and Close on Friday 14 March at 12.00. textbooks, there was a
stall for ALL KINDS OF
Voting: Voting will be online from BOOKS – fiction, drama,
Monday 14 April-Friday 2 May 2008. novels, autobiography’s etc.
Following the response from
Student will receive an email on how to vote. students, the Students’ Union
will arrange more book fair
Nomination packs, a guide to the election process and job descrip- in the near future. The online
tions for all the positions will be available from Monday 3 March on- book sale scheme “Books4u”
will be relaunched so that
wards in the Student Union Offices, the Student Office and at www. students can buy and sell text
londonmetsu.org.uk books online.

For further information speak to

Eddie Rowley on 02071332846
or email e.rowley@londonmet.ac.uk

Monty Sultan
Vice President (City)
su@londonmet.ac.uk

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 Students’
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Many Thanks For Supporting SIDR Victims

London Metropolitan University

Students’ Union, Bangladesh Students’
Society London Met & Bangladesh
High Commission, UK appreciate all
the contributors and supporters who
helped us to raise money for the victims
of Cyclone SIDR of Bangladesh, which
was a category 4 cyclone, destroyed
millions of homes and killed more than
4000 people. More than 1.3m people
were directly affected by SIDR and still
living in temporary shelter.(OXFAM)
Donation raised from London Met
students & staffs has been sent to ‘Chief
Adviser’s Relief & Welfare Fund’. We
believe ‘following Green Policy’ and
‘helping each other’ can save this earth
from these types of natural disasters. We
thank all students and staffs of London
Met for being with us.

Sharif Hyder
Communications Officer,
London Metropolitan University
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 Out of
Routine
FEATURE

A bout 17 years ago a small frog told me, via the medium of television and song, a combination which can never be beaten,
forgotten or indeed forgiven, that being the colour he was, wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. ‘Not easy’, was the phrase he
used in fact.
The frog in question has since been murdered off screen after being sat on by an abnormally giant yellow bird, but his words
have stayed with me and it has got me thinking. Can it really be that hard to be green? Of course it is, you might say. And
that would be correct if I were talking about it literally, but I’m not. For a start, I’m waiting until my mid-40s and have re-
ally bad anger issues before that happens. I might even buy some ripped purple shorts. But secondly and more importantly,
it’s because I’m talking more of the environmentally friendly side of the word. Can living a ‘green’, environmentally friendly
lifestyle really be that hard? Now, again, you may deem this to be as easy as the local bike, but you may be in for a surprise.
Let’s find out anyway.
I decided that for one day last week, I’d try to have a completely green day, though without any basket cases or American
idiots. Not that that’s a bad thing, quite the opposite, I can’t stand the blighters. And yes, I did just say ‘blighters’ because I
am, it seems, meant to be from the 1950s.

I started the day with a flourish and immediately committed my first green crime of the day without even realising. My hi-
fi had turned onto standby following its alarm to wake me up and has remained so ever since. When I did wake up, I still
couldn’t see, so I went to turn on the light. Bam! I was quickly becoming the OJ Simpson of Green when the light flickered
on with its immediate non-energy saving glow. I then left the room to go and have a shower. ‘Ha ha’, I thought, its 2-1 now,
showers are better than baths. But alas, the lead was re-established when I realised I’d left my light on in my room. Not even
awake for 10 minutes and already three crimes committed.

This continued all day pretty much. I went for some driving practice, left all my appliances on standby completely acciden-
tally, had a second shower (forgetting I’d had my first) after going out for a run, getting the bus to town rather than walking,
forgetting that I could recycle things when clearing out my room rather than chucking it all in a black bag and creating the
world’s most uncomfortable and sharpest glass containing beanbag (I break things a lot) and used the dishwasher rather
than hand wash. By the end of the day, the score resembled that of a cricket match, or what should have happened when
Liverpool met Havant and Waterlooville. I had lost.
But the most annoying thing was that I was trying. I turned every light off when I left the room, I turned off (well, standby-
ed) all my electrical things when I’d finished with them, I even turned my laptop off continuous charge, which in retrospect
was a stupid thing to do as I ran out of battery and lost all of what I was writing.

The problem is that we’re reliant in our daily lives on electricity and we’re stuck in routine. We constantly charge our phones,
out generic mp3 players, our laptops, use our computers, televisions and music systems, while being stuck in the same routine
of throwing everything that we don’t want, including, the broken glass, the cardboard boxes, and that sandwich maker we
bought thinking we’d use them all the time when in reality, you used it once, it burnt the bread and gave you salmonella,
tetanus and Chlamydia all at the same time.

And the fact that people keep going on about how we have to change and about how simple it can be just plain irritates me.
For a start, all the folk who do say these things either want to be elected to become Prime Minister or want a bit of public-
ity for their latest autobiography/film/album (delete as appropriate). Then there’s the teeny tiny little detail that after their
green publicity story, they’re off in their private jets to whore themselves out at the next location.

Even the ones who genuinely care have more money than most and can afford more environmentally friendly products.
Lay folk can’t consistently afford it.
As much as those celebrity type people prattle on about how good and easy it is to live a green lifestyle, the amount of effort
required to carry it out is a lot of hassle. This isn’t to say I’m against a change in people’s attitudes regarding green issues,
not at all. I’m just pointing out exactly how tricky it can be when there are obstacles like price, routine and perhaps most
importantly, reliance in the way.

It’s strange how wise young frogs can be, even if they have managed to get a hand stuck up their backside…

Read more from Steve at http://typicalrealist.blogspot.com

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Does community spirit still exist in London today and what can
we do to make our residents more environmentally friendly? Have
we got something to learn from Africa? I talk to Maya de Souza, Interview
counsellor for Camden council and a member of the Green party.

Sitting in a smoothie bar, overlooking the houses of parliament, I await the arrival of Counsellor Maya de Souza. I am early,
and as I drink my smoothie, I eventually see a woman hurrying towards me. She is on time, but walks in to the bar as though late for
a meeting. ‘You must recognise me from my picture’ she says with genuine modesty as I stand up to shake her hand. Maya’s face was
indeed in the paper recently accompanying an article about cycle paths for school children across Hampstead Heath, one of the many
issues she is concerned about for London. Maya orders a coffee and I can’t help but feel guilty when I see the recycled logo on her
paper coffee cup. My smoothie came in a plastic cup, which was probably non-biodegradable.

Maya, 30, was born in Kenya, in the East of Africa, to Indian parents who emigrated there from Goa. Maya had some happy
memories of coming to England on holidays, but moving here felt different; ‘I don’t think I liked it much. I felt isolated. People were
far more social in Kenya’. She thought that English life was too much like a ‘formality’, with an ‘etiquette for living’. She was used
to everyone knowing each other, helping each other out, and dining together, and it was a shock for a 13 year old girl to be faced with
such a contrasting way of life.

Maya has been environmental from a very early age; ‘You had to be living in Kenya. It was a fragile environment’. With
droughts, desertification and the constant cutting down of trees by land owners trying to make money, it was hard for Maya not to be
conscious of her surroundings; ‘There was a constant environmental awareness, and it was essential to protect the ecosystem’. These
harsh living conditions gave Maya a better sense of the environment than many people born in England and spawned her first job,
after achieving a 2.1 at Oxford, working as a volunteer at Friends of the Earth. Working here, as a research assistant, Maya developed
a better understanding of climate change and other environmental issues.

After a year working as a volunteer for Friends of the Earth, Maya decided to go back into education and take a Masters in
environmental law at the University of London; ‘It was a way of helping people and the environment’, and was partly brought about
by her keen interest in her fathers career as a lawyer. After gaining a distinction in environmental law, Maya joined the Green Party
and became a councillor for Camden. This put her right where she wanted to be - in the heart of the community.

For Maya, the Green Party represents a ‘longer term solution for the country’, with policies that think ahead, for the survival
of the environment, and for future generations; ‘Other parties care more about consumerism and growth. They throw around terms
without thinking what they mean. The current government welcome energy proficiency and renewable energy, but they are quite
gimmicky and don’t always work in reality’. Maya believes that a better solution is to simply get the public to turn of the lights when
they are not using them, and to use less water.

With a cultural importance on ‘how to live radically’ where ‘people want flashier cars and bigger houses’, Maya wants
Londoners to move away from consumerism, to a more community based way of life. ‘Labour is concerned more with making poor
people rich. The Green party have more of an emphasis on other aspects of life’. Maya is more interested in promoting family values,
community interaction, and environmental awareness, in an attempt to make London more like the way of life she was use to back in
Kenya.

Maya spends a lot of her time working for Camden council, promoting walking and cycling, encouraging energy efficiency,
and trying to ‘foster a greater sense of community’. Some of the ways in which she would like to achieve this is by getting the public
sector involved in culture and development – for example, by promoting energy efficiency amongst staff, and by giving incentives to
people walking to work or using public transport.

One of the more unusual ways Maya would like businesses to help out is by building public gardens on top of their high,
rise office blocks. This will make London greener, and give Londoners an outdoor place to go in lunch breaks or when they need
some fresh air; ‘It will be like a garden on the roof’. But they are dual purpose – also providing insulation for the winter and sustain-
able drainage for good water management. She would also like cafés in council estates, so that residents can get to know each other
and interact more; ‘They can talk about their problems, if they have any, or talk about their day – and they can help each other out’.
Maya’s mission to improve London is grand, with further plans to build more nature reserves in small spaces of disused and derelict
land in the heart of suburban living, and by promoting walking amongst children. And indeed they are already starting to take effect;
‘My partner now recycles, and is becoming more environmentally minded like myself’.

In the future, Maya would like to see the Green Party become stronger and more influential. ‘Powerful even!’ she said jok-
ingly, but with a warm admiration for her party and their policies. ‘I would like to see the Green Party become like a watchdog for
green issues with a strong voice’. But in the mean time, perhaps we can all become a little bit more environmentally friendly by hav-
ing showers instead of baths, cycling to university, and walking around the house at night with the lights on low. And perhaps we can
all take lessons from Maya’s Kenyan upbringing and help out our neighbours by organising a coffee morning, or by helping them out
in their times of need – perhaps they need a hand in paying this months electricity bill.

Greg Harris.
9.
 Fashion Week Round Up
FASHION Here is your exclusive sight into the first two weeks of the big four fashion month. It begins with New York
then the fashion pack will jet off to London followed by Milan and Paris. Enjoy!
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New York Fashion Week Round Up

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Marc Jacobs caused controversy by starting his show late, though it was not as bad as
last year were he left his guests waiting two hours as he allegedly had a dirking session
at the Mercer Hotel. However, controversy aside he wowed the crowed with his manish
garments and boxy jackets.

Donna Karan sent sleekly silk wrap dresses with a thirties twist down the catwalk. While
Ralph Lauren proved that the all American style can be sexy with spray on leggings and
couture worthy feather skirts.

Calvin Kline kept to their sharp, orderly tailored look, as they showed to a star studded
front row, including fashion queen Anna Wintour, Liv Tyler and Aerin Lauder. Oscar De
La Renta showed at a decommissioned Park Avenue church, the highlights of his collec-
tion include; gold embroidered shearling coat, and a grey herringbone skirt with metallic
embroidery on a clear, patent-like panel.

The trends to look out for from NYFW include; berry shades, 1920 cuts and styles, retro
hats, and cape coats.

London Fashion Week Round Up

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As LMU went in to its second week, the glamorous and the beautiful descended on Lon-
don for fashions most converted week, London Fashion Week. Hundreds of designers
show cased their autumn winter collections 08 to the world. Here are some exclusive high
lights.

After ten years away from the London stage Vivian Westwood returned, and she could
not help making a political statement. She opened her red label collection with a male
model wearing ‘Guantanamo orange’ underpants and a girl with a place card protesting
for Guantanamo Bay prisoners rights. The collection was Miss Marple meets Miss Mon-
eypenny. The front row was full of clebs such as Lilly Allan, Kelly Osborne and David
Williams.

Julian MacDonald turned the ballroom at the Hilton Park Lane into a St Petersburg’s win-
ter wonderland. Macdonald’s collection was all about luxury, cable knit dresses in mohair
and angora flew down the catwalk along side, a strapless, bandeau mini-dress with ostrich
feathers and cable knit cashmere jumpers.

‘Tough love’ that is how Giles Decon described his collection, this season Giles has given
his look more of an edge, with voluminous puffa fronted dresses, with zips, satin bomber
jackets and feather edge hoods.

New York is known for ready to ware collections, Paris for couture and London – London
is known for its new creative designers. And this season there was no shortage. With
likes Aganovich, Horace and Felder Felder, who have a collection with Topshop show-
ing at Vauxhall Fashion Scout and relatively new designers Christopher Kain and House
of Holland have gone for small fry to the big time and showed on secluded at the official
BFC tents.
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 Fashion
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11.
 Winning Format
Arts
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008
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O n entry to the first space of The Photographers Gal-
lery, Esko Männikkö (Finland) presents his work in
random frames, each different, some painted, some left
untreated yet all sharing a connection and familiarity
about them like the odd, often mismatched frames one
finds at home. Butted up close together along the wall
in succession, they form a narrative of walks in for-
eign environments, accidentally stumbling across sub-
jects of interest. His photos seem to have no rules or
guidelines to their being, although there are repetitions
along the themes of people, the home (inside and out),
animals (particularly focusing on the eyes) and death
capturing the discovery of skeletal remains of birds or
fish and broken eggs with un-hatched chicks. At first it
is not even clear what he is looking for when deciding
to take his shot, yet uncertainty is uncovered within
his interview (shown in the cafe gallery next door) in
which he describes his approach to photography as be-
ing alike to hunting and that instead of a gun, he car-
ries a camera. Un-judgemental in his documentation of
Photo by Jacob Holdt life and the lives of others, Männikkö manages to be
seemingly not present, as his subjects look through the
camera lens and catch our own eyes attention.
A woman stands in front of a backdrop of damp looking wooden panels, with the no. 376 painted roughly on the wall above her head. One
realises that the wooden construction must be her home as she stands in front (hands clutched) with an expression of humility on her face,
wearing blue plastic flip flops, one broken yet loosely sewn together with string as her toes (with painted red nails) grip the remaining
strap.
In another, a monkey stares out through a misty plastic or glass barrier marked with scratches, contrasted by the focus of the cameras lens
on the monkeys hand with (its long nails) reaching out to touch the glass. and the polarised starkness of the lines on its skin baring strong
resemblance to the human finger print. Its blurry stare looks right out at you, trying to make contact and perhaps saying “we’re not so dif-
ferent, can’t you help me get out of here?”
Fazal Sheikh’s (USA) work is centres on the theme of
political injustices towards women in India (the birthplace of his
grandfather). Sheikh work is interested in discovering things about
the countries he has family and historical connections with. In a
series of black and white portraits of Indian women and female
children, accompanied by their stories one is made aware of the
unthinkable brutalities that women in India face under the practices
of ancient cultural and religious modes of conduct. Girls are unde-
sirable, as they cannot continue the family name and represent an
expensive burden upon a family, at the prospect of later having to
offer a dowry when marrying them off. Thus they are often aban-
doned in orphanages, killed at birth or with the advancements in
ultra sonic technology, which can determine the sex before birth,
they are aborted.

The pictures themselves are powerful and telling, although the

photos only really work alongside the narrative which brings new
meaning to the subjects allowing you to familiarise yourself with
the subjects. In his interview he seemed somehow concerned that
his work would be pigeon holed rather than being view in a broader
sense as art as well as photography or photographic reportage. I
think his work also reads like an artists book, with the pictures and
text both relating in a visual language, that keeps the faces and
words clear and strong in your mind.

12. Photo by Fazal Sheikh

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008 Jacob Holdt’s (Denmark) slide show of his travels through the US in the early 1970’s, are the
result of a man being immersed in the lives of people cast out of society through racial, sexual, Arts
social and political prejudice. He captures such private moments as sex between lovers, an an-
drogynous looking man in the shower or a young black girl in the bath, a girl shooting up, a black
and a white man in bed together, two black prostitutes dolled up with their
1970’s straighten and styled white woman hairdos, contrasted by the natural
afro of the mother in her slum household. One is left asking how he man-
aged to capture these images. How did he become so close to the people
and their private lives? In his interview he tells us of how during his travels
he offered himself as a vagabond, that being someone who offers their help
to anyone that needs it and travelling wherever that may take them. Some-
times heading in one direction, and then ending up in another. Those he met
along the way, he became close to, living with them and gaining their trust.
Capturing moments of reality he could otherwise as a stranger not be
able to record. His work documents political protest, criminal activity
such as drug dealing and gang culture. He records a woman crying hold-
ing a blood splattered body, men exchanging money in a seemingly ille-
gal looking operation and a man holding a gun whilst poised up against
the corner of a wall as if waiting for his rivals, evoking images compa-
rable to those taken straight out of a Tarantino movie i.e.: Jackie Brown.
Looking at the works in hindsight they are perhaps more insight-
ful now, as the images inform and give a remarkably honest picture
of a time and country, familiar to most only through the glamorisa-
tion of films and documentaries. Moving and yet politically charged the
image of a woman with a beautiful round afro feeding her child, is set
against the face of president Nixon appearing on the TV set behind her. Photo by Esko Männikkö

Another shows three caucasian males, un-hooded and dressing up in the recognisable white robed uniform of the Ku, Klux, Klan
expressing ever more Holdt’s ability to get close to his subjects and yet still capture them in their most telling. I was angered to hear
in his interview that some people had pointed out to him the mistakes in his work. To which he responds that he is not interested so
much in the technical side of photography, more the subject matter. In my opinion, criticism of his work must come from outright
jealousy of his natural ability to take fantastic photos.
Somewhat closer to home, John Davies (UK)
presents, in the café gallery a series of large-scale
black and white images, historically charting the
post industrialised landscapes of towns and cit-
ies across England. What seems like a picture with
no obvious focus on any one subject, taken with a
large-scale camera one realises we are given the
whole picture to centre our attention on. The text
accompanying each image gives a brief, yet enough
summery of each landscape’s historical story.
Fascinating to learn about a country I live in,
but don’t know all the history of. For instance in
‘Victoria Promenade, Widnes 1986’ one discov-
ers how a city (once the centre of chemical in-
dustry in the 1850’s) covers up it’s past by trying
to ignore the cracks in the walls of a church built
on top of a layer of chemical of waste. In ‘Ffes-
tiniog Railway, Snowdonia 1994’ Davies captures
railways originally built to transport local slate in
Photo by John Davies 1964, now used to transport nuclear energy and
waste between Trawsfyydd and Sellafield, Cumbria.
Although not only focusing on the subject of pollution and waste, his work does however highlight the issue that if chemical waste of the
past has not been disposed of yet, what hope do we have of disposing of nuclear waste in the future. All, the finalist are worthy of winning,
still I have my fingers crossed for Jacob Holdt. - Elsa Tierney

Showing until 6th of April. Winners to be announced on the 5 March. Opening Times – Monday to Sat 11am – 6pm, Thurs 11am – 10pm &
Sun 12pm – 6pm. 5 Great Newport Street London, WC2H 7HY. www.photonet.org.uk

13.

THE SCENE
FILM REVIEW
Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street
Dir: Tim Burton
With: Johny Depp, Helena Bonham
Carter and Alan Rickman
USA -UK / 116min / 2007
Jennifer Graves
As a devoted Depp and Burton fan,
I made it my personal obligation to
see this latest collaboration as soon
as the mountain of studying would al-
low me. I was however, disappointed.
The previous reviews had stated that
it was a “masterpiece not to be missed”
and no one can deny their poorly hid-
den distasteful interest from a historic
point of view, and so I skipped to the
cinema quite excited and expectant.
Having seen many of Burton’s previ-
ous work, I have become accustomed to
the amazing exploration and presentation
of the depths of the human imagination
and Sweeney Todd was indeed no excep-
tion to the rule. Furthermore, before I state
my distaste, it was pleasing to see Depp
in a more serious role (not that we don’t
love Captain Jack Sparrow of course).
Now onto the disapproval! Unfortunately I
am one of the squeamish types and there is
an awful lot of blood and violence. As far as
theatrics are concerned, it did the trick rath-
er well but I feel that you do not need to see
someones throat being slit that closely. I have
adequate imagination to know what it would
look like (not that I need imagination now!)
Secondly I found the music disappointing.
It’s not that Depp and Bonham Carter are
bad singers as they most certainly are not,
nor are any of the other star studded cast,
but the quality of the song writing was a bit
dismal. For a masterpiece of a musical the
lyrics seemed rather juvenile and I couldn’t
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help but feel the loss of Danny Elfman on
the music front (for those who are not famil-
iar, he is the third mastermind usually in the
‘Burton film’ recipe, suppling the music).
It may also have added to my disappoint-
ment that the twist at the end was spoilt by
my better half when he figured it out half an
hour before the penny dropped for me and
decided to tell me. So you may want to gag
whomever you go with or just bear it alone.
So overall, the change of scenery worked
well for Depp and his on screen work with
Bonham Carter is always outstanding but
if you do turn away from gore, either wait
till the next Depp/Bur-
ton film, as I’m sure
there will be more, or
take a very large pil-
low to hide behind.
If, however, a few
tonnes of fake blood
does not bother you in
the slightest then go,
watch, enjoy, swoon
over Depp (or Bon-
ham Carter) but, boys
and girls, lets not go
playing with knives and making pies.
FILM REVIEW
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Dir: Julian Schnabel
With: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle
Seigner and Marie-Josée Croze
France -USA / 112min / 2007
Elsa Tierney
Trapped in my own diving Bell, I try to find
the words to describe the film I have just
seen. The film adaptation of ‘The Diving
Bell and the Butterfly’ written and directed
by Julian Schnabel (writer of amongst oth-
ers, the film ‘Basquiat’) is based on the life
events and published memoirs (of the same
title translated) Le Scaphandre et le Papil-
lon, by Jean-Dominique Bauby. A success-
ful journalist & editor for Elle Magazine
in the 1990’s and a father not able to face
the failing relationships he has with his 3
children, ex wife and lover. Bauby, (played
convincingly and sympathetically in all
aspects of the character, by Mathieu Amal-
ric) suffers a stroke, which leaves him al-
most completely paralysed, except for the
ability to move and blink his left eye. As
with the story of Christy Brown (played
by Daniel Day Lewis), in the film ‘My Left
Foot’ (director Jim Sheridan) ironically
hope seems to always find itself (in situ-
ations such as these) in the form of a left
foot or in this case, a left eye as a means
of communicating with the outside world.
All from the location of his hospital in
Berck, the film transports you through
time both present and past, merged beauti-
fully with the fantastical wanderings of a
rampant, locked in mind. The name of his
condition ‘Locked-In Syndrome, the only
English words spoken in the film as this is
a French film, is made more intense by the
subtitles as you follow him through the al-
most impossibly, pointless seeming task of
having to spell out words, letter by letter,
through the process of blinking when the de-
sired letter is dictated to him. Not stopping
at just saying what he wants to say, Jean de-
cides he wants to write a book (something
he had been wishing to write long before
his hospitalisation, but had not found the
time or motivation for) and with the help

and female attention of his speech therapist
Henriette (Marie-Josée Croze), and a very
patient Claude (Anne Consigny) who tran-
scribes his story for the publishing of his
book, he succeeds not only in his wishes to
write a homage to the travels of Monte Cris-
to, but also manages to make some amends
(although perhaps not quite in the way he
would have liked or imagined) with the past
and the people he feels he has let down. This
film is brilliantly shot and thought provok-
ing. Schnabel, also an established artist has
claimed of life and his work that he is “aim-
ing at an emotional state, a state that people
can literally walk into and be engulfed.”
And he has truly achieved that with this film.
As we all have our physical entrapments
that make finding the words sometimes
hard, it is not just the publishing of his book
that is most inspiring about this story. It is
the will, patience and the finding of means
to do it (captured poetically in this film)
that is the truly miraculous thing about life
DVD REVIEW
Baraka
Dir: Ron Fricke
USA / 96min / 1992
Nicholas Avraam
Baraka, which means ‘blessing’ in many
languages and has other meanings as
well, is a well photographed documentary
with a highly environmental theme. The
film, which was shot in 24 countries over
6 continents by a 3 man crew, required
14 months of filming on 70mm celluloid
film, which other than capturing image in
an extremely high definition wide-screen
format had also not been used in over
20 years since The Last Valley (1970).
Images include a truly glorious and
epic look at our world. A collage of im-
ages of truly eye-opening locations makes
the viewer realise what a small part of
this world we humans make up, and how
selfish we are in destroying it. No justifi-
cation is needed to see that this documen-
tary needs no words to pass its message
of mans exploitation of natures beauty for
industrial and hence, economical purposes.
This journey Baraka takes us on begins
in the morning with images of waterfalls,
volcanoes, forests and different religious
prayers. As we continue further into the day
the different tribes’ ceremonial dances are
imposed on by images of the fast moving
rural cities, and destruction of nature via
logging, mining and strip mining slowly
overshadow the peaceful state of mind the
previous images created. Poverty and human
self destruction due to wars and concentra-
tion camps further enhance the feeling that
we humans are an illogical species. Finally
THE SCENE
returning to the dark-
ness of night, prayers
and calmness return,
somehow insinuat-
ing that there is still hope for this world.
This journey through 152 loca-
tions is an amazing testament to na-
tures beauty and need for preservation.
MUSIC REVIEW
British Sea Power
Neil Brabant
British Sea Power have always been some-
what of an enigma in the British music scene,
they hail from Brighton but write songs
about Eastern European immigrants, they
hang branches from the stage and are often
accompanied by a ten ft bear called Ursine
Ultra. They are in fact a very strange band.
Do You Like Rock Music? Is the third stu-
dio album from the band and the follow up
to 1995’s Open Season. It is a make or break
situation for them as they have been criti-
cised in the past for having ambition above
their talent. ‘Do You Like Rock Music?’ Is
their defiant reply to those who assume them
nothing more than Joy Division wannabes?
The album its self is a sombre, epic
collection of transcendental anthems,
filled with sweeping guitars, eerie vo-
cal chanting and multi-layered string ar-
rangements. The band creates wave after
wave of awe-inspiring sound that threat-
ens to overwhelm and encompass you
in a vice like grip of sonic distortion.
The first track, All In It is choral mammoth
of a song, building to an almost hymn like
hysteria as the intonement of the songs ti-
tle mantra washes over you. The opening
strings on No Lucifer give way to pound-
ing, tribal drums that drive the songonward
building to an ecstatic climax of pianos,
soaring guitar feedback and droning organs.
But, for all the broody, atmospheric... >>
15.
 (from p.17) >>
travel
...difference British
Sea power still have
an ear for melody. First single Waving Flags
is a joyous, stirring anthem that shares the
passion of the football terraces without any
of the underpinning aggression and evokes
memories of Boy era U2. It shows the album
title to be more than just an ironic dig towards
the music industry, it is almost a cheeky in-
vitation to it saying, this is what rock music
should be. Down On The Ground is full of
driving, throbbing drum beats, reminiscent
to Arcade Fire and is as good as anything on
Funeral, as the song peaks through rising gui-
20 things
to see
and do
this semester
By Catrin Hughes
If you are looking for a bit of culture
and drama check these out
Juan Munoz
24th Jan – 27Apr
tickets £8
Tate modern / www.tate.org.uk
From Russia: French and Russian Mas-
ter Paintings 1870–1925 from Moscow
and St Petersburg
26 Jan—18 Apr
tickets Adults £11,Children 12-18 years old £4
Children 8-11, £3, Under 7 years old free
Royal Academy of arts / www.royalacademy.org.uk
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
21 Feb – 26 May
tickets £11 (£10, £9 concessions)
Tate Modern / www.tate.org.uk
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tar melodies and glorious feedback you can
feel the elation of a band who know they are
doing something special. You feel their inten-
sity and devotion as they carry you onward,
perfectly balancing the ebb and flow of this
beautiful wall of sound. The album finishes
as it starts with the choral chant of ‘We’re
all in it’ and by this point you truly are.
British Sea Power have proved themselves
to be true English heroes, making a stag-
gering leap from average rock band to fes-
tival headliners. As they tell us on A Trip
Out, ‘It doesn’t come much bigger than
this’ and I have to tell you, it truly doesn’t.
Days of Significance
12 - 19 March 08.
tickets from £5
RSC, Tricycle theatre / www.rsc.org.uk
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs
1913–2008
14th Feb - 26th May
tickets £10
National Portrait Gallery / www.npg.org.uk
New York City Ballet
12 – 22 March
tickets £30-£95
London Coliseum / www.sadlerswells.com
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age
of the Pharaohs
Till August 2008
tickets £15
O2 dome / www.visitlondon.com/tutankhamun
The funny side of Covent Gardens
Every Thursday
(doors open at 7pm show starts at 8pm)
tickets £12.50,
The Corner Store / 33-35 Wellington Street, Covent
Garden, London WC2E 7BN
Hairspray
till 4 April 2009
tickets from £20.00
Shaftsbury Theatre / 020 7379 5399
 Something different travel

Olympic Torch Relay

This is a must see after all you don’t see Trevor MacDon-
ald running everyday. Who knew he had legs?
6 April 2008, all over London.
www.london.gov.uk/torchrelay

Bloomsbury Bowling Ally

A 50s American style bowling ally, which offers burgers
and cocktails what more do you want.
To book a line call 0207 183 1979
Bedford Way, WC1H 9EU
If you’re looking for something free Mon- Thurs 12pm-2am Fri-Sat12pm-3am
www.bloomsburybowling.com
Picnic
The weather will get better so go and have a picnic with Dans Le Noir
so many parks to choose from you have no excuse A restaurant where you eat in
the dark and are served by blind
waiters, we did say something
National Portrait Gallery different.
Their permanent collection is free so go and see your
30-31 Clerkenwell Green EC1R
favourite famous people.
0DU - London
TEL : 020 7253 1100
Walk www.danslenoir.com
Yes, just walk around this great city you will never know
what you will find.
Harrods Chocolate Bar
A must for any chocolate lover
Richmond Park 87-135 Brompton Road, SW1X 7XL
Go and see the deer!
There is a world out side the M25

Paris
It’s now quicker to get to Paris than it is to take a bus.
Tickets from £55
www.eurostar.com

York
Ignore what you hear about the North, head to York for
the day and enjoy the history, charm and of course the
shopping.
Single fairs from £7
www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com

Brighton
Well, you just have to don’t you.
Coach from £4
www.nationalexpress.com

17.
 Feature
How can I go
GREEN?
So the world is going green and we all know why! Whether it took
Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” to shed significant light on the
issue is debatable; the fact is that the carbon dioxide emissions are de-
stroying the planet for some time and will continue to do so if we don’t
do something about it. For this reason new ways to conserve energy
and alternative sources of energy are being researched and developed
globally.
Germany has experienced a boom in solar energy use since they intro-
duced Renewable Energies Laws. Wind power is being utilised in Ger-
many as well as countries such as Demark, Spain,
Portugal and the Republic of Ireland. Another
growing initiative is the use a green vehicle
which is basically a vehicle that offers some
alternative to petroleum.
In the US tax breaks are given to individuals
who purchase natural gas, hybrid or elec-
tric vehicles in order to encourage people
to switch to cleaner forms of travel and
reduce CO2 emissions.
In addition to saving the environ-
ment these vehicles offer savings
for the consumer by providing
a cheaper form of fuel. Sounds
rather lucrative!
But if you are a student, like myself,
living away from home on hall or your
own flat; and you do not own a vehi-
cle or are unable to purchase one in
the near future you might be asking
“How can I go green?”
18.
Feature
Well the following guidelines are simple ways in which we as students
can contribute to creating a greener society:
10 Tips for going green
1.
Switch Off Appliances – whenever not in use; shut down laptops;
turn off printer / television; unplug adapters after charging cell phones,
camera and other gadgets. Also turn off kitchen appliances and lights
when not in use.
2. Take a walk – instead of driving (if you have a car) once you have
the time take a walk for short journeys.
3.
Wash clothing at 30 degrees – to save electricity simple!
4. Shopping Bags – purchase non-plastic shopping bags to hold your groceries or
for any other purchases. Just remember to carry your shopping bag with you each
time so that so would not have to constantly be taking so many plastic bags –
Plus they just end up piling up in your room in any case!
5.
Don’t over fill – a good suggestion is to water plants with left over kettle or
bath water, however as a student this may not be to practical so what you can
do is simply fill the kettle with the amount of water needed at the time; there
is no need to fill kettles to the maximum every time.
6.
Save Food – well cooked leftovers can be stored in the fridge (so
many times I have seen students waste food when they have
made too much).
7.
Buy “green” products – such as the shopping bags, previously men-
tioned, pens, pencils, mugs, USB’s, paper products and other kinds of
stationery made from recycled materials.
8.
Check over assignments thoroughly before printing – think about it
you will save so much paper (as well as ink mind you) if this is done.
9.
Save discarded printed as Scrap Paper – so we are not perfect printing can go
awry, well just create a scrap pad with the paper and use it to jot down numbers,
grocery list just about anything you always need spear paper on your desk for.
10.
Maximise paper use – whether are printing or using a note pad always
try to use both sides of the paper
It is important to remember that these changes ought to be lifestyle changes and
that going green is not just the latest trend. Some things may seem quite tedious
to remember initially trust me with continued practise it will soon become a new
habit and you would even think about it again. Liesl Thomas
21.
 Feature
How can I go
GREEN?
So the world is going green and we all know why! Whether it took
Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” to shed significant light on the
issue is debatable; the fact is that the carbon dioxide emissions are de-
stroying the planet for some time and will continue to do so if we don’t
do something about it. For this reason new ways to conserve energy
and alternative sources of energy are being researched and developed
globally.
Germany has experienced a boom in solar energy use since they intro-
duced Renewable Energies Laws. Wind power is being utilised in Ger-
many as well as countries such as Demark, Spain,
Portugal and the Republic of Ireland. Another
growing initiative is the use a green vehicle
which is basically a vehicle that offers some
alternative to petroleum.
In the US tax breaks are given to individuals
who purchase natural gas, hybrid or elec-
tric vehicles in order to encourage people
to switch to cleaner forms of travel and
reduce CO2 emissions.
In addition to saving the environ-
ment these vehicles offer savings
for the consumer by providing
a cheaper form of fuel. Sounds
rather lucrative!
But if you are a student, like myself,
living away from home on hall or your
own flat; and you do not own a vehi-
cle or are unable to purchase one in
the near future you might be asking
“How can I go green?”
20.
Feature
Well the following guidelines are simple ways in which we as students
can contribute to creating a greener society:
10 Tips for going green
1.
Switch Off Appliances – whenever not in use; shut down laptops;
turn off printer / television; unplug adapters after charging cell phones,
camera and other gadgets. Also turn off kitchen appliances and lights
when not in use.
2. Take a walk – instead of driving (if you have a car) once you have
the time take a walk for short journeys.
3.
Wash clothing at 30 degrees – to save electricity simple!
4. Shopping Bags – purchase non-plastic shopping bags to hold your groceries or
for any other purchases. Just remember to carry your shopping bag with you each
time so that so would not have to constantly be taking so many plastic bags –
Plus they just end up piling up in your room in any case!
5.
Don’t over fill – a good suggestion is to water plants with left over kettle or
bath water, however as a student this may not be to practical so what you can
do is simply fill the kettle with the amount of water needed at the time; there
is no need to fill kettles to the maximum every time.
6.
Save Food – well cooked leftovers can be stored in the fridge (so
many times I have seen students waste food when they have
made too much).
7.
Buy “green” products – such as the shopping bags, previously men-
tioned, pens, pencils, mugs, USB’s, paper products and other kinds of
stationery made from recycled materials.
8.
Check over assignments thoroughly before printing – think about it
you will save so much paper (as well as ink mind you) if this is done.
9.
Save discarded printed as Scrap Paper – so we are not perfect printing can go
awry, well just create a scrap pad with the paper and use it to jot down numbers,
grocery list just about anything you always need spear paper on your desk for.
10.
Maximise paper use – whether are printing or using a note pad always
try to use both sides of the paper
It is important to remember that these changes ought to be lifestyle changes and
that going green is not just the latest trend. Some things may seem quite tedious
to remember initially trust me with continued practise it will soon become a new
habit and you would even think about it again. Liesl Thomas
19.
 Banana Bread A recipe

If you’re like me & can’t eat bananas when they’ve

gone all soft, yet your too resourceful to throw them
away. Here’s an idea for those brown bananas. Banana Bread is deli-
cious & lower in fat than usual breads. This recipe also uses wheat & gluten free
flours so everybody can enjoy it. I try all sorts of alternate variations, such as
adding Walnuts (a complementary taste to the sweet flavour of the ripened ba-
nanas) or instead of using caster sugar try use dried
fruits like finely chopped dates to the same weight
of the sugar or more if you like it sweet!

R e c i p e :
• 125g (4oz) Butter – if you don’t have a weighing scale
you can calculate the weight by referring to the butter
packet, as it is often marked out by lines at every 50g.
• 125g (4oz) Caster sugar – as I have mentioned before
this can be replaced by chopped sticky dates & you can
add a bit more as you feel appropriate to make it sweet
enough, dates aren’t as sweet as sugar.
• 2 eggs
• 3 Large ripe bananas, mashed
• 175g (6oz) ground rice flour (available in most health food
shops or at supermarkets in the gluten & wheat free sec-
tion).
• 50g (2oz) corn-flour (also available as above)
• 1 teaspoon mixed spice (optional)
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder (check the label for Gluten
and Wheat free variety)
• 1/4 teaspoon of salt

M e t h o d : Preheat oven to 180˚C/350˚F/Gas mark 4.

Grease a loaf tin (although any tin will do as long as you keep an eye on it as cook-
ing time might vary depending on the height & cake thickness). In a separate bowl, cream
the butter & sugar (or dates) with a whisk until light and fluffy. If you don’t have an electric whisk,
use a fork to mash the sugar & butter together & blend until the butter looks soft & whipped. Or with
clean hands use only the tips of your fingers to evenly blend the butter with the dates. Gradually beat
in the eggs, one at a time.
Then stir in the already pre-mashed bananas. Sieve the flours, mixed spice, baking powder & salt into
the mixture (optional, you could just chuck’em in, I do & it works alright!) then add the optional wal-
nuts & stir in a folding motion to evenly distribute & incorporate all the ingredients into the mix.
Pour the mixture into the grease tin & bake for 1-1/2 hours (or depending on the size & thickness)
until a skewer or chopstick (anything sharp will do) inserted into the centre of
the loaf comes out clean.
Finally turn out of the tin & cool on a wire rack (the grill or oven rack laid out
is ideal) then enjoy! Delicious with peanut butter or chocolate spread or even
on it’s own. You could have a lunchtime snack sorted for the rest of the week
if you don’t eat it all before then!
20.
 Eggo and the Bunny Man
A sideways glance at Easter
I’ve never really understood Easter. Sure, there’s a huge symbolism thing going on about a guy
dying and three days later (apparently, anyway. I always thought the gap between Friday and
Sunday was just two days, but I suppose counting was different back then) he comes back
to life but in a sort of ghostlike wispy way, much like a ghost in fact, but after that, it just
gets a tad unbelievable.

For a start, each year it is said to have happened on a different two days. Compare this
to Christmas, for example, which is always on the same day each year. The latter makes
sense; we celebrate the religious festival of Santa’s birthday on his birthday, but for some
reason, some sort of time-space continuum breach allows the date of the not-so-baby Je-
sus’ death happen on a different day each year. Either someone is very bad at history or has
selective date amnesia and is unable to look at a calendar to check when last year’s event was.

Surely the Easter marketing department should look for a more reliable and less brain damaged historian, for it’s not
just the calendars that suffer. Schools are having to root a ‘Spring Break’ type holiday into their internal calendars
to sort out this mess. It got to such a point a few years ago that in a local comprehensive in Essex, Christmas was
being celebrated in mid-October, Hallowe’en was in July and May Day appeared in a parallel dimension and tried
to mate with Pingu’s love child. But then, this is Essex we’re talking about. No county can mix such ‘classy’ people
with seaside graveyards for the old in the way Essex can, where you get murderous gangs of 79-year olds standing
on the local green smoking and taking drugs while the teens sit there shaking their fist behind closed doors as they
watch Countdown lamenting at how neither Des can pull it off the same way Mr. Whitely could. And no, that is not
a euphemism you dirty, dirty soul.

But yes, what were we talking about? Ah yes, Easter. Being stuck in Essex for 19 years has a strange effect on people.
Especially me.
However, now we get to the nitty-gritty of the situation, the thing that riles me up to such an extent that my blood is
boiling and would be useful to make you a cup of tea if you liked having blood in your tea; the Easter Bunny.

What is his purpose? How oh how does he (or she, I’m not a bunny fascist) represent the event which we get two
weeks taken out of our educational year for? The only possible explanation I can think of is that some bunnies were
trapped in the tomb for those apparent three days and when the body did happen to arise, the bunnies took time
out of their game of Battleships (possibly what woke Jesus up, we just don’t know) and helped him move the rock.
They’re surprisingly strong critters those rabbits, virtually unable to be killed in any computer game.

But even then, where does the basket of eggs the Easter Bunny is carrying come from. I’m pretty sure they weren’t
making an omelette when Battleships was available. And why are they chocolate eggs? Sure, they taste
far better than real eggs, and I can’t imagine people being as excited to receive 12 of Bessie the
hen’s best as they could be when they receive a ton of additive filled chocolate versions without
any of that very pointless egg white stuff. And to those of you saying, ‘Ah, but what about eggy
soldiers’, I retort back to you that chocolate tastes better and can be part of a nutritional break-
fast, or so Nestlé (other, less evil brands of chocolate are available) say anyway.

Of course, I know that the eggs and bunny thing are all a very clever marketing scheme which
I myself fell for until I was at least 18 (so last year in fact). But I feel that other holidays should
be treated the same. There should be an official Christmas animal that’s really careless and
loses their completely disassociated chocolate version of their selected food product each
year, sometimes on the 25th, the 8th or the 31st of January, just to add some variation. Per-
haps a chaffinch and his chocolate caviar, or an evil clown and a bunch of chocolate beef
burgers. I’m sure on of them seems quite familiar. Oh that’s it; the chaffinch is used for
Lent, it’ll need replacing.

Each to their own, I guess. I may sound flippant with my remarks about the
meaning of Easter, but I respect that some people really do believe these
events happened. I’d just like them to settle on a date for them and not have
the Easter Bunny cavorting around with eggs each year whenever they feel like
it. He’s a menace, you know…
Steve Gray

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