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14 Getting aroundFeatures does a speedy survey

of how you get back froma night out - walk? taxi? or

Laurens personal favourite, getcarried by a fitty!

18 Winter WarmersLifestyle takes a quick look at what youre going to be wearing come the

Winter...

8 Fred!News investigates: Just who is the guy weve all seen out

break-dancing in the union?!

38 Euan DaleLabel gets an sneaky interview the

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So, here we are

again.

Another Label Tuesday,another week... Jons owatching the Liverpoolgame and Im stuck inthe offi ce watching Mr &Mrs Smith (Oh dear. Yes,I know...) putting thenishing touches to theissue.

What I cant believe is how quickly this term

is going. It eels like Ive only been back inthe not-so-sunny-at-the-moment Land othe Lu and yet Im already thinking aboutwhat Im doing or my Birthday (13th Decem-ber by the way!), Christmas, New Years...

I guess what Im getting at is theres only 11issues o Label let! Make sure you scour thisone avidly, because weve got all sorts o ex-citing things going on as it starts to get dark-er, and i youve not had enough by the endo this issue, weve just done the shoot ornext issues Style special ashion take over!

Make sure you get a copy, get one or yourriends and get one or your Mum and Dadback home.

See you at the Rag Bonre on Saturday!

Pete x

Dear LAbel,

Im Darren and I work

here in the Students

Union as Volunteer

Development Oicer. We have

put together some great training sessions to help

students out with their studies including organis-

ing an event, leadership skills and many more upuntil Christmas. They run every Monday rom 6pm

until 7pm.

We are also looking or students to become trainers

or these sessions, especially some lads, so i youre

reading this and interested drop us an email: train-

[email protected]

We also have some brilliant through an organisation

called Junction 49. They oer students the chance

to develop your own volunteering programmes or

the local community and getting up to 750 in cashto help them out.

You can email me any time through the email above

and I am always happy to help and support you.

Im looking orward to my mailbox becoming ull

very soon.

Darren Batey

Volunteer Developmnent

officer

[email protected]

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HI Label!

Im so happy that Woolly is back in

Label - Ive missed him over the sum-

mer months!

I spotted him in Issue 3 page 36 at the bottom o

the page. I was so glad to see him, but I thought

I should email in to get my prize.

Look orward to seeing you all at Hey Ewe!

Clare Tomlinson

2nd year economics

Congratulations Clare - your free entry will be wing-ing its way to you soon!

If you can nd Woolly this week you too could win

free entry to Hey Ewe. Just email [email protected] as soon as you see him to be in with a chanceof winning.

Dear Label,

How are you? Many congratulations on

a sterling magazine.

The news item you ran about Freshers

Ball noise really brought a relevant point to my at-

tention. I do, though, think that the whole thing got

blown way out o proportion.

I personally really enjoyed the Ball and hope thatthe union will nd a way to continue to provide

great quality events like the ones we got to see at

the Freshers weekend.

Keep up the good work and look orward to the

new issue!

Keith

fresher

Thanks for the comments Keith - hopefully you en-joyed the Feeder gig on Saturday!

The Tpyo

Cmopetitoin is bcak!Can you spot a typo in Label? Find the deliber-

ate errors in Label and you could win a special

prize!

Love,

The Lbeal Editroil Taem

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union stresses importance of safety IMAGO COMPENSATES STUDENTS

Loughborough Students Union hasurged their members to be especiallyvigilant in the winter months as theylaunch a new campaign to ensure studentsaety in the dark hours.

With the arrival o the new campaign, Vice PresidentCommunications Georgie Payne has said, Studentsaety is a main priority to the students union, espe-cially at this time o year.

The timing o the messages is especially relevant, withthe clocks going back and the nights becoming colderand darker. The union is urging students to ocus onsaety, despite the relative security o Loughboroughcampus.

The campaign stresses the importance o utilising serv-ices such as the night bus toget home saely and ensur-ing that your belongingsare secure at home andwhen out and about.

Campus Policeman DaveBliss said, Thankully vio-lence against students israre in Loughborough,but there are some stepsyou can take to keep sae.

When you are out, alwaysmake sure you walk homewith riends and neveralone, travelling along welllit main roads.

By Jon Naylor By Rob Witherow

Ater negotiations involving the Hall Stu-dents Association and LSU, Imago haveagreed to compensate students aectedby the construction o the new halls, to thetune o 40,000. The students in the roomsaected - in Rutherord, Royce and Faraday

- will receive 3 weeks rent worth, and each hall will re-ceive 3000 rom the Universitys commercial wing.

The compensation was due to demands made by theexec and HSA, who nally settled on an amount lowerthan originally asked or. David Goss called the out-come a antastic success and thanked Lucy Hopkins oHSA and Rob Hulme or their work. Throughout the lastacademic year, residents looking onto the constructionsite had complained o dust, noise and the proximity oworkers during the day.

The SU President, David Goss also reminded studentsthat i they were having problems with situations suchas this, the Union is here to help, and are more likely touse their inluenceto get results whenneeded. Once theunion are involved,

the University takesthese things more se-riously he added.

Student kidnappers jailed

ALoughboroughstudent who waskidnapped and heldat gunpoint a year

ago has seen two ohis captors jailed or 11 years atLeicester Crown Court.

Sin Jung Lin (28), Xiao Bo Yan (25)and the ringleader, who cannot yetbe named, burst into the studentshome and held him and three terri-ed emale housemates captive atgunpoint.

The 23-year-old student was thenkidnapped and taken to Londonwhere he was orced to transer allo his 13,699 savings his tuitionees into his current account.

Although the money was trans-erred, the student, who resided atGarendon Road in Loughborough,didnt have the correct PIN and wasallowed home to get the unds.

He said: They let me go and gave

me 100 o my money or train are,and told me to keep the phone onas theyd be in touch or the [ex-tra] 6,000. They threatened thatI wasnt to tell anyone. I was sure

people close to me could be inhuge danger. Ive no idea why Iwas picked out.

The student admitted he was toorightened to contact the policeor his parents, however a call romthe ringleader harassing him orthe money led to the phone callsbeing recorded and the arrests be-ing made.

Two o the gun-toting criminalswho claimed to be part o the Triad,a branch o the Chinese criminal

underworld, each admitted eightoences including kidnap, black-mail and possessing an imitationrearm and were sentenced to atotal o 22 and hal years in prison.

By Sandeep Singh Dhillon

THE KIDNAPPERSCLAIMED TO BE PARTOF THE TRIAD GANG

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PAULA AND FAYE WOW FEMALE ATHLETES INUNION SPORT NIGHT By Meera Lakhani

Sandeeps Snippets

Sandeep Singh Dhillon

Got a snippet for Sandeep?Email [email protected] and you might see

your story in Label!

LIGHTNING QUICK BURGERSFity-two cows have been killedat a Uruguayan cattle ranch atera lightening bolt struck a wire

ence that the cows were leaningagainst. As one meteorologisttold the newspaper El Pais, theincident was incredible bad luckbut at least it might help lowergreenhouse gases emissions.

Big Fat Mexican Wedding The worlds heaviest man hasmarried. However, it wasnt quitethe traditional wedding ManuelUribe was towed by truck to theceremony and donned a shirtand bed sheets. Did Manuel be-come a sell-out and sell his storyto OK! ? Hell no, you can see hiswedding on the Discovery Chan-nel instead.

Toilet stop delays trainWeve all experienced train de-lays at some time, or one reasonor another. Well in France, where

their trains are never late appar-ently, a train was delayed ater aman got his arm stuck in the toi-let whilst retrieving his mobilephone. Poor chap was literallydans le merde.

Goner KebabA Wolverhampton court hasheard how the owner o a kebabshop in the city had been ound

preparing ood just eet awayrom a dead man laying on asoa. According to the Press Asso-ciation police were called to theshop to investigate the suddendeath o a worker. I guessit brings a whole newmeaning to the phrase

graveyard shit.

On Monday eve-ning, Lough-borough Students

Union hosted an

inspiring Womens

Nike event, The Show Up, in or-

der to celebrate women in sport

with special guests Paula Rad-

clie, the renowned Olympic

gold-medallist, and Faye White,England Ladies ootball captain.

The event, which was a part o

Nikes Here I Am campaign, was

a huge success, giving students

the opportunity to become a

Nike Select and star in the next

campaign.

Here I Am is an ongoing Nike

campaign, which was launched

to build condence or womenin sport and encourage more

women to take part. It is sup-

ported by top emale athletes

such as Paula Radclie and

Maria Sharapova and highlights

the benets o sport or women,

raising awareness about debates

concerning sportswomen.

Radclie and White were present,

giving advice to students takingpart in sports. The athletes shared

their success stories and talked

about their highs and lows. Rad-

clie spoke o her injuries during

the Athens and Bejing Olympics,

and how she got through it, both

physically and mentally, in time

or her next races. White talked

about the lack o publicity given

to womens ootball, and how the

FA plan to improve this, by pos-

sibly setting up an Elite womens

league in Summer which wont

have to compete with the mensootball league.

Both athletes encouraged stu-

dents to get more involved. Get

out there and enjoy, Paula Rad-

clie said, the acilities out there

are amazing, and sport leads

great pathways to improve it-

ness, health and condence.

There was also a perormance by

the prominent D-Clash 07 Crew,many reebies, a raffl e and inter-

active games. Students were even

given the opportunity to get pic-

tures taken by proessional Nike

photographers. The event overall

was a huge success, encourag-

ing more emale students to take

part in sports, and gain greater

condence within themselves.

Faye White said Football openedup so many doors or me that I

could never have dreamed o;

just get out there and challenge

yoursel.

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In case you mighthave not noticedat the Student nights

around town andin the union the at-

tention on the dance foor is o-

cused on a slightly more mature

member o the local commu-

nity. His name is Fred and he is

Loughboroughs avourite break

dancing pensioner.

Fred Bowers, 72, can be seen

taking the dance foor by storm

regularly at Vice Versa, Hey Ewe

and FND, usually accompanied

by a pack o cigarettes and a

J2O. Freds passion or dancing

came rom being a ormer Latin

American dancer, which he used

to take with his partner eight

years ago. Sadly, Freds part-

ner passed away and the Latin

American dancing was never the

same without her. He stumbled

upon a break-dancing class butelt uneasy attending it with the

kids due to his age, but he asked

or help, training and advice a-

ter the class had nished.

Fred practiced at home and he

ound a new lease o lie. Since

then Fred has never looked back.

Extremely t or his age due tohis ormer excellence in cricket

and badminton, Fred is now ar-

guably the most amous man in

Loughborough.

Fred says he is getting his own

agent, and has aspirations o

taking his hip-hop and break-

dancing to London, perorming

in breakdancing shows. Hes also

had an article on his history and

personal lie published in a na-

tional magazine and even made

an appearance on ITV News!

Fred has been living this crazy

lie since 2006 - the ormer land-

scape gardeners standard night

out is hitting the pubs and clubs

at around 10PM, staying until

closing time then going home

and walking his dog Lucky. This

is, Fred says, done up to 7 timesa week.

The most important topic is how

Fred is viewed by the students

he entertains and socialises with.

Neil Fraser, a 3rd year Politics

student says At rst I thought

he was a bit o a joke, but now

I have come to realise he is justpart o the woodwork. It is true

to say he is now an offi cial insti-

tution in Loughborough - he has

various Facebook an groups, en-

titled Old man o Lubra appre-

ciation, Right said FRED and

Fred the oldest and best break

dancer, reveller and party ani-

mal in Lubra!, some with several

hundred members.

Facebook groups are a genuine

sign o popularity and notoriety.

One student described his hair-

style as outrageous! - it displays

his youthul exuberance. There is

no doubt that he is riendly and

has sound intentions, and has

become a cult gure or some.

Fred is not everyones cup o tea.

Some eel he puts himsel up or

humiliation and mickey taking,

some eel he is an outsider in a

student population. It is slightly

odd seeing an old man break

dancing in the union surrounded

The (old) Man about Campus By Oliver Sloane

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by a ew drunken students who are laughing and

shouting and pointing.

Martin Murphy 3rd year just described him as acrowd accumulator. It would be interesting to see

what everyone thought i they saw him when they

were sober.

Fred has guaranteed us that he will be around or

the rest o this year beore perhaps setting o or

pastures new. Avid ans should watch the next

season o Britains Got Talent to see i Fred impress-

es the judges. He called the early stage o the au-

dition process, which has just been to one o the

best days o my lie.

Im really proud o mysel or doing something I

love, and the popularity has just become a social

eect. I cant believe the amount o support Ive

been getting!

Im really proudof myself for doing

something I love

Got any pictures of you and Fred? Send them

in with a brief explanation of why its so bril-liant to [email protected] and well see

about printing them in the next issue!

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By Becky Coyne

Lo u g h b o r o u g hUniversity hasonce again been

awarded the Best

Student Experi-

ence award at The Times HigherAwards on 23rd October. The

prestige award, which was voted

or solely by students, makes it a

hat trick win or the university,

ater winning it consecutively or

the last three years.

Students were asked to rate not

just the university in terms o

what it has to oer but also their

Loughborough experience andonce again Loughborough has

beaten all opponents.

The event is held annually at

the Grosvener House Hotel in

London and is organised by The

Times Higher Education maga-

zine, with the Best Student Expe-

rience award being one o only

two awards o the night voted

or purely by students.

The purpose o the night is toacknowledge British universities

who are making a dierence, not

only to their university but their

contribution to the economic

and cultural health o the coun-

try.

Loughborough Students' Un-

ion President David Goss com-

mented: "It's a real privilege to

have received this award or the

third successive year, particularly

as it is voted or by students. Theaward is a refection o the well-

rounded academic and social

experience enjoyed by our stu-

dents at Loughborough."

The results ound that students

were particularly impressed with

the universitys vast choice o ex-

tra-curricular activities, sporting

acilities, the library service and

the helpulness o lecturers.

It is another proud win or the

university as earlier this year we

were awarded The Sunday Times

University o the Year award,

proving the Loughborough ex-

perience really is like no other.

LUFBRA SCORES AWARD HAT-TRICK

By Mel WrightNUS HITS BACK AT GRANTS BLUNDER

it is a real privilege

for loughborough to receive thisaward : GOSSY

TIMES HIGHER

Many studentsdue to startuniversity next year

will ace oreseeable

inancial diiculties

as grants are cut because o the

increasing number o students

applicable or support.

The Department or Innovation,

Universities and Skills has admit-ted a huge unding shortall o

over 200 million. The students

most aected will be rom mid-

dle income amilies where only

students rom amilies earning up

to 50,020 next year will be eligi-

ble a cut rom the 60,000 limit

in 2007.

University Secretary John Denham

admitted that only one third o

students were expected to qualiy

or the ull grant when in act over

40% had qualied aected over

50,000 students.

The proposed plan has been met

with a barrage o criticism; the

measures introduced by the gov-

ernment to compensate or its

miscalculation will aect many

amilies who are already strug-

gling with the impact o the credit

crunch. Wes Streeting, president

o the National Union o Students,

said "The government needs to

stop tinkering with grants and ees

every year, and recognise that the

entire higher education unding

system is unsustainable.

Expansion in student numbers isalso set to be cut next year to no

more than 10,000 which will mean

there will be signicantly ewer

places on oer next year despite

record numbers applying.

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Daphnes

DiaryOkay, its no secret that I love

a bit attention rom the lads

(rugby boys, take note), but last

week I discovered that some-

times, you CAN have too much

o a good thing, especially when

the good thing is dressed as

your nan.

Weve all been there, readers

the night where your best

riends boyriend has had one

too many and relishes in re-

minding you o past conquests

youd rather orget, that riend-

o-a-riend whos tongue is

sharper than a machete and the

mate whos lost all concept o

grip and can only throw emptyglass bottles at your eet.

So, ater having put up with

this lot on Hey Ewe, I decided

to head home beore the rest

o my riends unortunately,

who did I bump into?! Oh yes,

do you remember Mr Strawber-

ry Seedless rom a ew weeks

ago? There he was in all his

glory, dressed as an old womanand clearly wanted a bit o a re-

peat o the seeing to I gave him

as a nave resher, and would he

listen when I told him where to

go? Did he hell!

23 phone calls later (all o which

I rejected), he eventually got the

hint but heres a hint or you

boys, grovelling just aint hot

We all look somewhatdisapprovingly towardsthe girl at the bus stop at nine

oclock in the morning, wearingheels and last nights eyeliner,

or the boy in the ruffl ed shirt,

walking with his eyes irmly

glued to the ground, a pinkness

to his cheeksBut really, secretly

maybe were a bit jealous?

Okay, they look a bit trampy and

worse or wear, but they also

have that distant glint in their

eye; a glint that says: YeahI got

some last night.

And i its you heading home ater

a longer night than intended, try

to see the unny side. Ater all,

it could be worse; you could be

in ridiculous ancy dress or even

bump into that one person you

really dont want to see. But i you

are a pirate/airy/reman strolling

home in the harsh light o day,at least its a hilarious anecdote

to share with your buddies,

who most probably have a very

similar tale under their belt, and

i they dont then they havent

really lived!

So, dont look scornully at these

victims, who all prey to decisions

that seemed so right ater a

couple o beveragesEmbrace

them, give em a cheeky wink andlet them hold their head up high,

or this isnt a walk o shame, but

one o triumph. Congratulations:

youve still got it!

a Walk Of Triumph

They also have that distant glint in

their eye; a glint that says: YeahIgot some last night.by Steph Jennings

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Relationships that begin at University face many challenges, butalso give us lots of pleasure. Finding love in the Luff shouldntbe too hard when you look at the stats, acording to those in theknow at Label...

I am The One and Only!Aaah the single lie. and whens better

to be single than at uni?

Some might try and tell you that being in

a relationships the bees knees, but really,

nows the time the phrase young, ree

and single really comes into its own.

Dont be ooled by the loved-up couplescanoodling in the corner; they may seem

like they cant get enough o one another,

but surely this monogamous, exclusive

club-or-two conficts with our innate

human instincts to share the love?

The one thing that really grates the nerves

on a night out is the other hal breathing

down your neck/ evil-ing potential new

buddies/getting possessive/getting

stroppy/getting wasted and, worst o all

sins: pulling out the immortal havent

you had enough, lets go home un-

ny never used to be an issue!

Without sounding uber selsh, being sin-

gle does exactly what it says on the tin

youre a ree agent. A lone ranger, i you

will: its all about number one and thats

the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) we like it.

Theres no need to worry about anyone

else.

Singletons are unique, uninhibited and

unimpeded upon. Its no coincidence

that this learning establishment we

know as university also begins with those

three little letters, that together translate

as one

relationships at

uni...

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Long DistanceRelationships: Make or

Break?By Sarah JuckesEveryone who has come to Uni in a long

distance relationship has experienced

the look.

The Look, o course, being the: what-

on-earth-are-you-thinking-o-Uni-is-a-

place-to-be-single-and-long-distance-

relationships-never-work look. WRONG!

The truth is, long distance relationshipsare a make or break thing. When they

break, they break (and lets ace it, eve-

ryone knows o one that has).

But when they make they sure make!

Lets be honest here peeps, i a relation-

ship can last 3 years long-distance, then

you know there isnt much else that

can break it.

What with the new wizardy technolo-

gies we have these days, it is possible to

see your lover every day i you want. Get

a webcam, a phone or a rail card.

One weekend they can come see you,

and one weekend you can go and seethem. Relationships dont have to ruin

your Lubra experience; they can en-

hance them.

And i all o this seems too much like

hard work, then maybe you shouldnt

be trying.

Loved Up On CampusBy Steph Jennings

In an area where youre surrounded by

people o a similar age, the odds o nd-

ing someone you click with are probably

the highest theyll ever be.

However, i and when you do nd that

special someone, there could be una-

voidable issues. Whilst your new lover

may be ve minutes across campus, the

ve months o the year spent in your

real home might not be so convenient,

and youre looking at a long distance re-

lationship - always an added pressure.

Relationships at this age are tough;

youre still young and this is the time

when youre encouraged to be ree and

experience all that lie has to oer.

However, some o us are simply more

comortable in a relationship. They

mature you, whether you plan on it or

not, so i you enter into a serious com-

mitment at university it may mean less

nights out at the union.

But, it wont make your Loughborough

Experience any less exciting, because

whats more exciting than alling in

love?

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Night

As students we are not collectively the richestgroup o individuals and with the current cred-it crunch looming over us it is clear that we needto consider where our money is going. In a Label

survey o Loughborough students, we discovered

that 90% have admitted their most requent way

to travel in the evening is by taxi! In a complete

contrast rom day travel it ap-

pears that we are more willing to

splash the cash on a night out!

I you were to go out twice a

week and get a taxi both to and

rom your chosen destinationyou would be spending an aver-

age o 176 a year!

Question: Post Night out, AreYou Johnny Lazy? Or Are YouCaptain Spends-a-lot?!Day

Walking seems to be the preerred

method o travel; people obviously

love to strut their stu about the

borough. This is also the healthi-

est option as we are meant to walka mile a day, according to Govern-

ment guidelines.

Driving around is very lazy, people:

think o your carbon ootprint!

However, how else are we meant

to get all our Tesco Finest into the

ridge? And as we all know, walking to lectures in

the rain is just not cool.

Pedalling is also a good way to burn o last nightsPapa Simon. A bike comes in handy but the lycra

stays at home.

Crawling made a surprise appearanceOne too

many at Hey Ewe?

Kieran Walsh

Label has decided to investigate how the students of Lough-borough move around by day and stumble by night.

Putting this into perspective you could purchase 70

double vodka red bulls or 222 songs rom iTunes.

Keep this in mind next time youre leaving a clubor bar and talk your riends into walking home, or

even jump on the union night bus, which costs just

1 to anywhere Loughborough.

Jenny Francis

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CITY OF LOUGHBOROUGH

WHATS WITH

ALL THESE

FUNNY ROADNAMES? LO1

INGLEPINGLEWe have all walked past this little treasure andwonderedwhy on earth it was named so?And Label has theanswer!

Sort o

A Pingle isa midlands term or an allotment.Asor the In-

gle, no one seemsto have any idea. But it rhymes, sowere

happy. InglePinglewas also thetitle olocal Loughborough

band Apache Outlawsdebut album.

Kieran Walsh

CLAYPIPEJITTYThis alleyway, known as said jitty by locals, runs alongside Wilkos,

but despite its amusing name, theres notmuchhistoricalexcitement,

were araid.

Theres several versionsotheclay pipe: a pipe or sewage (ooh, hownice!), and the type that you smoke tobacco with. Just imagine, back

in the day, when the onlyhoodies you would fnd hanging aboutthe

streets wore peaked caps, shirts andbraces, smoking fnerthings in

their clay pipes.

Zoe Green

TRUE LOVERSWALK

Once considered Loughboroughs romantic spot, leg-

endhas it that during the plague, this is where quar-

antinedloverswould meetin secret.However, today

it is somewhatless romantic and Label would advise

that youdont walkthrough this alleyater darkwith-

out a strongriendor two.

Dear Label,

Im taking a hot girl out at the

weekend, but my mates man-

aged to singe o an entire eye-

brow with a sparkler on bonre

night I look like an prat! What

do I do?!

Thanks,

Anon

Dear Baldy-Brow,

Looks like youve got yoursel inquite a pickle! Here at the offi ceweve had a think (and a laugh!)about your options, heres ourtop ve

In at 5: Eyebrow pencil;

4: Shave the other one o soyoure balanced out!3: Explain, hope she has a senseo humour and nds your new

look hot;2: Get a ringe; and nally.

1: Get a hat (good or this

weather!) and remember, iit gets to that point take

Tom Joness advice andleave your hat on.

Good luck!Label

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Monday:Pick & Mix 3 - 5: A little bit o everything, all rolled into one!

Malins and Armstrong 6-8: Kick back and chill out on a Monday evening.

Jamies Alternative Show 8-9: Jami guides you through the best that new music has to oer.

Tuesday:Its Denitely Tuesday 10-12: JJ and Pete take an irreverent look at lie.Annie 3-5: A selection o great tunes to bop along to during those busy revision periods.

Tom Westwood 8-10: Warms you up or Stupid Tuesday with the biggest and best dance anthems

and foorllers.

Wednesday:Em & Em Show 3-5: Brilliant music and even better chat rom the girls to make sure Wednesdayaternoons fy by.

Midweek Meringue 6-8: Irmak warms you up or Lubras biggest weekly night out.

Dj Soc 10-12: Missing Hey Ewe? Not to worry. DJ Society hit you with all the best mixes and hottest

new favours all the way through to midnight.

Thursday:Luke and Sam 10-12: The guys do their best to get you through those Thursday morning hango-

vers with top tunes.Artist of the Week 6-8: Irmaks back and previewing the hottest new bands and the lowdown on

the best new music.

Dickie Heath 8-10:The grandad o LCR brings his world amous shows to the ariwaves o Lubra

with the best alternative music in the world.

Loughborough Campus Radio is pumping out topquality music and features each and every day.

Here's a look at bhe Biggest and Best that LCR

have to offer live on www.lufbra.net/lcr

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Friday:Georgie 12-2: Georgie brings you all the latest news rom the Exec offi ce and tells you how you

can get the most out o your time at Lubra.

Weekend Warm Up 8-10: Andy Marlow bring you his Award Winning Show to end your week in

style and kick-start your weekend. Tune in or the biggest and hottest tracks right now.

FND Live: Cant make it to FND? No worries: LCR bring you all the action rom Room 1 live til the

early hours o the morning.

Breakfast Show8-10 weekdays:Dave and the team give you the perect way tostart your day. With the biggest Lubra guests and

all the news rom around campus, LCR breakast

is the best way to wake up each and every morn-

ing.

Lufbra Live: 5thDec

LSUTV News: 24thNov

Lufbra Gold:

14th Nov, 11th Dec

In Control 12-2:Simon Bushell, James Spokoini, Chloe and

Mel, Gemma Taggart.

LCRs nest make sure your lunchtimes are

catered or with the best music and biggest

eatures.

Never one to be out-

done, LSUTV has sometop live shows comingout before Christmason www.lufbra.net/lsutv:

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Trench coats are a massive trend,

theyre perect or walking to a

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This coat rom asos.com is a tad

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In keeping with this weeks winter theme, here are Labels best buys:

Best dressed this week:

Florrie Thomas, a Textile Design 2nd Year,

shows us the perect example o how to get

a great outt on a budget.

Cowboy Boots - Charity Shop 10

Skirt - H&M 12

Belt - Camden Market 5

T-shirt - Uniqlo 12

Cardigan - Topshop 20

Bag - Carboot Sale 50p

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QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Cert.12A, 106 mins, Fri-Sun

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LabelsTopTen007ThemesShirleyBasseyGoldfnger

1.

(Goldfnger)ShirleyBassey-DiamondsAreForever

2.

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E

is or Electro!

Electro is typied by the use o a drum machine

as the base o a track with the instrumentation

being mainly electronic.

Legends: Kratwerk, Gary Numan, Dat Punk

Artist o Today: Boys Noize, MSTRKRFT, Metro-nomy

Check Out: Digitalism

F

is or Folk!

Evolving rom songs which brought to-

gether lower classes, olk music uses tra-

ditionally sot guitar rits mixed with lyrics

expressing ways o simple lie.

Legends: Nick Drake, Dylan, Cat StevensArtist o Today: Laura Marling

Check Out: Broken Records, Jeremy

Warmsley

Gis or Grunge!

Fusing elements o hardcore punk and heavy

metal coupled with angst-lled lyrics, Grunge

dominated the airways throughout the 90s.

Legends: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney,Screaming Trees

Artist o Today: Future o the Let, Part Chimp,

Hum,

Check Out: The War on Drugs

His or Hip-Hop!

Arguably, still one o the cornerstones

o modern-music today, its legacy and

importance is undeniable.

Legends: Run DMC, Public Enemy, NWA,

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Artist o Today: Jay-Z, The Roots, Jurassic

5, Outkast

Check Out: N-Dubz, Lil Wayne

Label loves music, Loughboroughand Students. Realising these threeacts weve come up with the antastic

idea o merging them together! Con-

used??? Right, basically we need you

to start sending us in your music! I you

are in a band, send us some o your

tracks by email or CD and i we like

them, well try and squeeze them in

the magazine. Even i you have a bandback home but come to Loughbor-

ough wed love to hear rom

you.

BandAid!

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What do you get whenyou mix a MySpace pagewith over ive million

views, teenage good looks anda set o tracks drenched in teen-age angst another pop punkMySpace band?

Well, yes, yet tonight Surreybased You Me At Six prove to besomething o a conundrum.

With support slots being provid-ed by American bands (Farewell,Houston Calls) its clear to see whyYMA6 have been criticised orollowing the trail blazed by thewave o successul US pop punkbands. Yet tonights perormance

holds as a powerul statement toany critics labelling them as an-other Blink 182 rip o.

YMA6 oer a slice o the Britishpie straight out o the kitchen o

UK pop punk acts that is provingyou dont need to be all sweptaside ringes and skinny jeans topull o a perormance seen likethe one tonight.

Playing a selection o tracks rom

their recently released debutalbum, the set is fawless. Tour-ing with the likes oThe Auditionand New Found Gloryhave clearlymade the band more solid as alive act, perorming with a stagepresence similar to that o theiridols.

The Gossip instantly gets handsclapping with its inectious open-ing chant, with every mouth

within the venue singing along.The loud cheer beore Take OYour Colours implies an instantcrowd avourite or the albumtrack which raises the tempera-ture even more in the now swel-

tering venue.

By the time set nisher The Ru-mour is played the band andcrowd erupt. The seas o sweatdrenched bodies actively ol-low as bass and powerchord are

employed creating a ormidablecombination and culminating ina climax that sees both band andcrowd nish the gig ashionablydisruptive.

This is a scene knee deep inAmerican infuence, yet tonightYMA6 add the British ingredient,proving to be as exciting and en-ergetic as any Stateside perorm-ance. Perorming with a maturity

usually seen in their US counter-parts and a support slot withFall Out Boycoming up, it seemstheres only America or this actto conquer. Maybe theyll t it inbeore they turn 19?

Jack Black takes a quick trip to Nottingham Rescue Rooms to take a look

at what turns out not to be yet another teen-pop-punk sensation for the

one hit wonder drawer...

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Mel and David caught up with Matt and Doug after thegig and tickled their brains for some answers

So, how did you nd playing Loughborough Stu-

dents Union?

It was cool. Weve just come back rom playing the

USA where they expected longer sets, so we added

brass sections and instrumental sections. We hardly

play to set demographics like student audiences.

A refreshing atmosphere?LABEL:

Yeah, its a really good mix which is really nice. Not

that dierent rom a estival crowd.

Youve decided to keep on a female vocal-LABEL:

ist after Laura Marlings departure, why is this?

The parts were there and sound great live, its nice tofesh things out. The majority o our album works in

many layers, so we need another voice.

Do you think youll work with Laura Mar-LABEL:

ling again at some stage?

Its possible, she is a very talented lady but very busy.

Well be making the next record at around January,

it may be the case that the next album doesnt have

any emale vocals on at all.

Youve got very romantic and naturalisticLABEL:

themes throughout the album, from where do you

draw inspiration?

Its diffi cult to pin down all our infuences and hard

to crack the sub-conscious. I guess place is an im-

Noah and the Whale

Loughborough

Students Union

19.10.08

By Mel Paramasivan & David Smith

I you missed Noah and the Whale at the Union, youmissed one o the most exciting new bands play oneo the most intimate venues they will ever grace.

I you thought 5 years was all they had to oer, youwill be pleasantly surprised. The humble Londonbased olk band, are in act our answer to Arcade Fire.Experimenting with an array o unusual instruments,they perormed a beautiully composed set, trans-orming Room 1 into an intimate cave o harmoniousdreams.

Setlist

I you Gotta Run

2 Atoms

Shape O My Heart

Give A Little Love

Stranger

2nd Home

Mary

Red Alert

Jocasta

Rocks and Daggers

5 Years time

First Days

Encore: 2 bodies

@

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portant actor.

The album was made to have a vocabulary and have

recurring themes and continuity.

You mentioned place, is Twickenham aLABEL:

particularly inspiring place, home to other artists

such as Mystery Jets and Pete Townshend

We didnt actually meet the Jets until we movedout into London, but a lot o artists like the Who

played Island.

But we are literally the other side o the tracks.

People have suggested that 5 years time isLABEL:

not like your album... what dyou reckon?

Like every song, someone always brings something

new to it. I you read the lyrics in a particular way,

then the song may seem more cynical about lie, in

a world weary way.

What will you be doing in 5 years time?LABEL:

Promoting 10 years Time. The ollow up single that

well get to in about 5 years time. So well be span-

ning about 15 years at least.

Do you think 5 years time will become yourLABEL:

signature song?

We like playing it and it was our rst single, our sec-

ond one hasnt even come out yet. It will only be an

issue i you make it. Its powerul that people latchonto your songs like that.

We were getting along quite well with the boys, so

at this point we thought wed test their eloquence

to the ull.

We were wondering because you are soLABEL:

romantic, you could re-write a few colloquial lyrics

for us?

Oops, I did it again

I ventured orth into the depth o your misty soul

and I came out none the wiser

I aint saying shes a goldigga

Interesting. Im not saying her avarice is a problem.

But perhaps it something we should look at

I feel like a Woman.

I eel like a women errr is it enough Ive said it.

Man, I do eel like a woman. Saying it out loud was

a big enough step. This is awkward and quite an ex-plicit way o coming out.

On that note, they bid them adieu and wished them

luck on their rst national headlining tour.

Fact File

The name Noah and the Whale comes

rom a mix o their avourite lm The

Squid and the Whale, and the directorNoah Baumbach.

They played 26 estivals this summer

including Latitude and Field Day

By their own admission, their biggest

inspiration is Bonnie Prince Billy

Loughborough were the 1st audience

to see their new video and 2nd to hear

their new material

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Kanye Westlove lockdown

Leona Lewisforgive me

The Viewfive rebeccas

Kaiser Chiefsoff with their heads

Simple and original with a verycatchy chorus.

Upbeat catchy chorus, i yourea an o Mariah Carey this isyour thing.

Standard indie-rock which iyou heard it you couldnt helpbut enjoy it, a powerul songthat will get your eet tapping.

Not up to usual Kanye stand-ard. Such a voice, such a waste.

It just sounds the same as whatThe View have done beore and

can anyone really understandwhat hes saying.

Aguilera and Mariah, pleasedont become a clone Leona!

Following on rom the riotous success o their rsttwo albums, there were great hopes or the latest e-ort rom Leeds avourite sons. However, O With Their

Heads is a poor, monotonous eort rom the KaiserChies in all honesty.

With Mark Ronson in charge o production you mighthave cause or optimism, but that ades ast. The al-bum sounds like it was made very quickly, with careand thought in short supply.

The lyrics are simple and uninspiring. There are no realbrilliant standout tracks. There is just no lie in thisalbum.

Never Miss a Beat is probably the track

with the most energy, Lily Al-len providing the backing

vocals in an eort whichthreatens to scale the

heights o a KaiserChies classic.

There is also the random eature o UK rapper Swaywhich livens Hal the Truth just beore you wereabout to all asleep.

The Kaiser Chies have produced some great tracksin the past but sadly here they all short o anythingseen beore and seem in need o a new direction. Dis-

appointing.

Beyonce Knowlesif i were a boy

This does sound somewhatamiliar.

Yet another upliting girly eelgood song.

Her earlier Destinys Childdays.

Usher enough said. The Fratellis, The Wombats, etc.

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International Rock Band andChristian arent a normal com-bination o phrases. But then,

Delirious? are anything but a

normal band. Any band that can

pack Loughborough Students

Union out with ans ranging romten to sixty years old is just a lit-

tle bit dierent, even beore you

start thinking about their music.

But then, theyre no spring chick-

ens themselves; having been go-

ing strong or well over 10 years,

theyve inally admitted their

need to take a break. Ater 7 al-

bums and 3 top-20 hits (which

or a non-mainstream band, isnt

bad), theyve decided to call it aday. Theyve supported acts such

as Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams on

tour, played everywhere rom

Glastonbury to Wembley and as

o Saturday 25th Oct, Loughbor-

ough Students Union.

Saturday night saw Room1

decked out in shopping trolleys, a

lampshade, a disused ridge; not

your average band props. Theirtour is called Kingdom o Com-

ort, a comment about the con-

sumerist society we live in, and

the paradox that even when we

have everything we need, were

constantly being told we need

more. Pulled in all dierent direc-

tions, we need a central point,

something to ocus our lives

around. Were all wired to worship

something; be it sport, ashion,looking good, music whatever

your god is, it shapes who you

are how you spend your time and

how you act. As a Christian band,

hal o Delirious? discography are

worship tracks. That is, songs that

over the years have trickled down

into churches and are now sung

across the country by thousands

o people.

How does this lie with being an

international rock band? Famousacross the globe, and having re-

leased mainstream music, their

integrity shines through their

reusal to sell-out by keeping

ocused on why they make mu-

sic. Delirious? want to reach the

hearts o their listeners but more

importantly, urge them into ac-

tion. Some o their most amous

lyrics are: Im gonna be a history

maker in this land. Im gonna be

a speaker o truth to all mankind.

Theres something inspiring in

their passion and never-ending

optimism that the little guy really

does have the power to change

the world.

In one o their last ever inter-

views, Sarah Cobbold and Fiona

Levey chat with Delirious? about

love, open-air experiences andlucky socks.

Your new single, Love Will Find

a Way, comes out in less than

a month, can you tell us a bit

about it?

Stu G: Its sel-exp lanatory: we

believe in love being a great orce

and a great power. Some o our

experiences have been in India,

and places like that, o coming

out o a 5* hotel and then walk-

ing into a slum, and actually how

that messes with your head. And

to ask or a response rom you in-

dividually, what does this mean?

Were tackling some o that in

Love will nd a way. Were just

saying that love is the answer.

Youre huge on both sides of the

Atlantic. Which crowd is better:

American or English?

Tim: [Without hesitation] Oh, the

English

Why?

Martin: Well I think in America

you need to explain yoursel a

lot. Theres a lot more dualism,

so things always have to t into

dierent little boxes. But were

quite broad in the sense that weplay a lot o great rock music but

with a powerul message. Some-

times youve got to be either one

or the other in America but in the

UK our ans love that we just step

outside those two boxes.

Youve played a lot of dierent

venues over the years- whats

your favourite place to play?

Stu G: Theres so many, and somany have great memories. I re-

member one o my highlights o

being in the band was playing in

the Greek theatre in Caliornia,

and playing under the stars.

Obviously we know your an-

swer will be Loughborough

Students Union after tonight.

(All murmur agreement).

Martin: I think like Stu says, the

open air concerts always have a

bit o magic to them. Theres no

roo anywhere, so the music has a

bit more space. We love that.

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Your music has a bit more

meaning behind it than the

average top 40 band. What

kind of message do you hope

to communicate to your fans

through your music?

Stu G: I think every band hassome kind o message in their

songs even i its a song about

a relationship or something but

or us, music is a great vehicle

or just wanting to promote

goodness, love and grace, jus-

tice and peace and stu like

that. Theyd be the themes.

I have a pair o lucky songs that

I cant sing without; do youhave any lucky items that you

cant perorm without?

Paul (the drummer): My drum

kit.

[All laugh] That is lucky.

Finally, why the question

mark at the end of Delirious?

Martin: Because weve been

keeping people guessing or

years as to what we are.

And this is at the heart o Deliri-ous?. Sure, plenty o rock bands

are anti-consumerist and pro-

activist. Martin, asked what his

ideal job post-Delirious? would

be, said music by day, UN by

night. But what sets this band

apart is their reason or caring,

and wanting to make a di-

erence. Their songs ocus on

someone who they believe can

ease the injustice and heal thebroken hearted. They unasham-

edly sing out Gods name while

still providing rock music good

enough to hit the mainstream

charts and that makes them

very dierent indeed.

Delirious?s new single, Love will nd a

way is released November 17th.

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So youve read the review and

youve read the interview, but

you might be still wondering

just who Delirious? actually are.

How is it that such a amous band

among the Christian community merely fickers on

the main-stream radar? Music charts, in their ckle

way tend to ignore the cliquey bands who dont ea-

ture heavily on todays equivalent o Top o The Pops

or NMEs charts. Have a look round HMV or some-

where similar and youll nd at least sixteen o their

albums or singles, most o which have a 5 star cus-

tomer review on the website.

How have this band who, to be honest having seen

them, have quite a range o musical talent slipped

through the net?

Even i you dont appreciate the lyrics, you might ap-

preciate the rocking bass-lines or the odd screaming

solo.

Maybe thats just it. Maybe people cant see past the

lashings o religious ervour that litter the bands

tracks.

To be honest, and in some ways it does pain me to

say this, perhaps that is true or me. Stood in the au-

dience, at times it was uncomortable just how reli-

giously overt the night was.

Growing up loving a bit o AC/DC. Led Zep, Iron Maid-

en and the likes, it just eels so... wrong... to be using

rock music to portray this sort o message. No doubt

a lot o people will disagree, calling me some sort o

Bible-bashing Atheist, but realistically the carriages

dont suit the engine.

Stryper tried it in the 80s, and although they got a

couple o Gold and a Platinum records, one could

quite easily argue that they were instantly sprung to

ame by the unusualness o both their lyrical content

and the bands ethos.

Delirious? have some good things and some bad

things going or them. Maybe not one I would see

again, but alright i guess i you like that sort o thing.

Pete Washer

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Saw vdavid hackl

Holly Stainburn

hungersteve mcqueen

Alex Neale

A harrowing and utterly realpiece based on the last 6 weeksin the lie o IRA prisoner BobbySands, instigator o the 1981hunger strike, by which they

were ghting or political status.

Both shocking and moving, wesee their unbelievable determi-nation in the ace o the brutalbeatings they suer. There is alarge ocus on the graphic vio-lence o the lm, and British art-ist and director Steve McQueendoesnt hold back.

Some shots are so close-up and

prolonged that you are almostable to eel every strike on yourown body.

It has topped the list at the Brit-ish Independent Film Awards,collecting seven nominations.However, when rst screened, itreceived walk-outs as well as astanding ovation; an indicationo exactly how intense the lmis.

Deep-thinking, arty types willlove it, however those look-ing or an easy watch, steerclear o this lm -its anythingbut!

Saw returns or a th and potentially nal instalment by ollowingthe ootsteps o Jigsaws new protg, orensics expert Homan,and his attempt to continue the legacy.

The return o Saw has become an annual occurrence now and eachyear the sequels get progressively worse.

Saw V continues this regular theme by relying too much on fash-backs and churning Out the same old plot.

On the other hand Saw V denitely doesnt disappoint on the goreactor. With the opening scene showing a man being sliced in halby a swinging pendulum, the usual Saw ormat o torture, bloodand more torture ensues.

I you havent seen the rest o the Saw movies, give it a miss. Simi-larly the squeamish and aint hearted should avoid at all costs.

For those looking or a good Halloween scare, avid Saw ans, wan-nabe psychopaths and those who welcome an alternative to the

equally grotesque HighSchool Musical 3, Saw

V is denitely wortha look.

QUANTUM OF SOLACEmarc forster

Luke KaileBond is back in this extension o Casino Royale with more action, tauterdialogue and a quirky plot. The lm continues moments ater the Ca-siono Royale nished and starts a little thin but soon picks up, taking therevenge motive to new grounds.

Craigs Bond appears dierent to his predecessors; he learns lessonswhile desperately trying to hide his humanity. Dominic Greene is thevillain and very much like Casino Royale, he has ar more interesting mo-tives than your average 007 are.

Furthermore, neither Bond nor hisgirl companion are seeking Greeneas their ultimate goal, which createsan innovative twist. Quantum evenmanages to create a more accom-plished Bond than Casino Royale.

A dark lm; violent and unorgivingbut never short o a little light hu-mour. Highly recommended.

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got faith?

By Hardeep KaurSikh Soc President

like all great easterncelebrat ions, thereis always a story toaccompany

You probably havent real-

ised that two o the biggestevents in the World Faiths cal-

endar have slipped by - Bandi

Chor Divas and Diwali. Al-

though both are celebrated on

the same day, each is celebrated or

dierent reasons by their respective

religion.

A cha (Indian tea) and Samosa party

was held by Sikh Soc to celebrate on

Monday. Sikhs celebrate Bandi ChorDivas to represent reedom. Like all

great eastern celebrations, there is al-

ways a story to accompany.

This one is based on the sixth Guru be-

ing released rom wrongul imprison-

ment, alongside 52 Hindu kings, who

were political prisoners. Upon release

Guru Hargobind Ji went to the Golden

Temple in Amritsar, where he was wel-

comed by people who lit candles tocelebrate his return.

Similarly, the Hindu estival o Diwali

also celebrates the return o an impor-

tant gure, Lord Rama, who was ban-

ished rom his home town and orced

to battle the demon king Raven.

Upon his return deevotees lit the

path with small candles to guide the

rightul King o Ayodhya back to his

throne.

Although both estivals cel-

ebrate dierent triumphs, peo-

ple o all religions use this day

to come together and celebrate

with their riends and amily.

got faith?

By Hardeep KaurSikh Soc President

With the UK on the brink

of recession, consumer

spending is being reined

in.

Whether it is opting or thecheaper alternative at the super-

market or choosing a Blockbuster

rental over visiting the cinema,

the credit crunch has rmly em-

bedded itsel in the economy. As

ar as the arts and culture scene

are concerned, the end result is

an increasing number o venues,

rom theatres to restaurants, are

accruing more debt than they

can handle and having to shutpermanently.

Theatre, one o the greater vocal

points o the UKs arts and cul-

ture scene, can be categorised

into two groups one accommo-

dating the theatres ound in the

capital, a.k.a. London Theatreland,

and the other encompassing the-

atres outside the City.

Fortunately or Londons Theatre-

land, comprised o the West End

and the more historical venues

such as the Globe and the Old

Vic, their market remains airly

stable.

From tourists and avid theatrego-

ers to Shakespeare enthusiasts

and school groups, there remains

a source o income to prevent

them rom going under.

However, the urther one travels

away rom the capital, the more

noticeable the problem becomes.

My hometown, Lincoln, will lose

its most notable stage this com-ing April, with the Theatre Royal

having its council grant discon-

tinued. Ticket revenues alone are

not able to sustain the theatres

survival. Consequently, the clo-

sure o the theatre has orced the

attached Theatre Royal School

o Perorming Arts and Theatre

Club to disband.

There is o course the chance o

having it unded through

taxpayers money,

yet in the cur-

As a section, culture is about film, th

of leisure, and all costing money. Whstrings, surely discretionary spendi

what is the future for Culture? Mark

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rent economic climate, this option stands extremely

remote amongst the public.

Bars and restaurants are similarly eeling the e-

ects o the crunch. Terry Miller, winner o the sec-

ond series o Hells Kitchen and subsequently given

250,000 to open his own restaurant, was orced toclose down his restaurant and sell his house to re-

nance his debts he incurred rom the credit crisis.

Fortunately or Terry, he is now reported to be a mil-

lionaires personal che working on a yacht o the

coast o Sardinia.

Regrettably, not all owners o caes and restaurants

are handed such luck. Across the pond, France

saw the closure o 3,000 establishments during

the opening quarter o 2008. The same period saw

bankruptcy in the restaurant sector rise by 25%. Un-

less a plethora o millionaires have been unearthed

in recent months requiring personal ches aboard

their yachts o the coast o Monaco, the repercus-

sions include a staggering rise in unemployment

gures.

In the capital at least, there still remains a chance o

enjoying the arts and culture at a cheap rate.

Due to government unding, admission into venues

ound in the Albertopolis area, including the Natu-

ral History Museum, the Science Museum and the

Victoria and Albert Museum amongst others, is ree.Yard tickets at Shakespeares Globe sell or 5, al-

though this does mean standing i its overcrowded

and dont orget to bring a blanket with you.

Fringe theatre is a cheaper alternative to the West

End, and although sometimes located above pubs

down the more seedy back alleys o Soho, oers an

enjoyable ew hours at budget prices.

While theres always the pub downstairs to all back

on, ringe theatre perormances can be extremely

hit-and-miss.

On a related side note, or my parents upcoming

25th anniversary, my sister and I wanted to treat

them to a long weekend in the capital. My parents

are rom an entirely dierent generation than me,

where they nd more pleasure in attending the

opera than watching the next Bond fick. They still

think Pierce Brosnan plays 007.

The plan was tickets to a West End show, an Eric

Clapton concert and a ew ancy restaurant reser-

vations. However, we had to realise the other eecto the credit crunch; the less people go and pay or

tickets and meals, the more the establishments are

orced to charge to keep afoat. And the more that

happens, the more access to such culture is pushed

out o our reach.

Free and cheap alternatives are the only solution;

try a Stage Soc production (lsustagesociety.com)

and a homemade meal rom Cookery Corner.

Cant go wrong.

eatre, art, eating out: all means

en we need to tighten our purseng such as this is the first to go-

Burrows investigates.

CRUNCH

France saw the closure of 3,000establishments in the openingquarter of 2008

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A night primarily aimed at post-graduates and internationalstudent has evolved into a greatsocial, bringing together inter-national beats- everything romHouse and Hip Hop to pop- andexotic aces.

International parties have beenrunning or a while in Lough-borough; rom Fridays in Rain atthe beginning o last year, andmoving to Fusion towards theend, the nights have been slowlygaining momentum and goingrom strength to strength.

The irst night was promotedsolely on word o mouth, wherethere were at least 500 studentsin attendance; rom then on apromotion team has been setup, reaching out to everyonewho wants to experience a pieceo the cosmopolitan society o

Loughborough.

So come up to Fusion on Thurs-day. All drinks are on 2-4-1 oerso bring a mate, and mingle withthe oreign and meet someonenew! UniversalThursdays

are on every week

inFusionbar.

-CookeryCorner-

Recession, debt, credit crunch, blahblah blah. Students have alwaysbeen living on the cheap, so whats

changed? All we want is a good

meal! But i you nd the Thai Grand

or tempting Thai takeaway a little out

o your price range, dont ear! A goodThai green curry can be knocked up

in no time, at a raction o the cost. I

youre ultra-keen, you can make the

curry paste rom scratch, but a jar will

only set you back just over a 1 and

tastes just as good. (Serves 4)

Put the rice on to boil, and cook ac-cording to pack instructions. Heat1 tbsp oil in a wok until hot, then

add 4-6 tbsp curry paste (depend-ing on how hot you want it) and ry

or 1 minute. Take 4 chicken thighs or

breasts and chop into bitesize pieces,

beore adding to the pan and coating

in the paste. Stir ry or about 6 min-

utes until cooked. Then add 4 hand-

uls o chopped vegetables- what-

ever you have available. Peppers,

courgettes, green beans, carrots and

broccoli all work well, just make sure

theyre all chopped into similar sizedpieces. Pour in a 400ml can o coconut

milk, stir well, and leave to simmer or

15 mins. Finish with a squeeze o lime

juice, and serve with steaming rice.

Each issue, were going to bringyou a recipe to turn you romkitchen novice to Michelin-star

che over the course o the year.

This week, crack on with a bit o

Thai Green...

week 4 -thai green curry- Dont orget to pay a visitto the LoughboroughStreet Fair Not that its

easy to miss! Traditionally,

airground rides, games and

stalls ll the streets o Lough-

borough town centre or our

days every November, ever

since the offi cial charter was

passed by King Henry III in

1221 (although, we have a

eeling there werent many

dodgems around in the 13th

century). The council aim to

cater or everyone, so wheth-

er youre a thrill seeker or just

out to soak up the sociable at-

mosphere, its worth popping

down. The air is open rom

Wednesday 12th November

to Saturday 15th, and is open

until 11PM every night.

Every now and again, the Culture team spots something

truly awesome happening in and around Loughborough.In our usual way of letting you know everything thats

awesome, well make sure we drop you a line...

By Carla Renton

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Always obsessed with genrelms, Millers Crossing theirattempt at the gangster epic,

Blood Simple a reworking o lm

noir, O Brother, Where Art Thou?the hayseed movie (anyone?),

okay, the prison chain-gang lm

-- we now arrive at the spy thriller

(or rather anti-spy thriller) with

Burn Ater Reading.

As lmmakers the Coen brothers

have a unique playul side. In their

best works the playul oten com-

bines with the macabre resulting

in moments o darkly comic bril-liance. Frequently, there are or-

ays into screwball territory such

as Raising Arizona or The Big Leb-

owski. Following the laudation

No Country received, it might be

seen as a surprise that their ollow

up, Burn Ater Reading, is yet an-

other screwball caper.

The critics arent pleased. A thor-

oughly disposable comic romp

made by a bunch o people who

probably should have been work-

ing on bigger and better things,writes one unimpressed reviewer.

For the ans, however, that mat-

ters not, as in its rst week on UK

release it went straight to number

one at the box offi ce.

Sadly, Burn Ater Reading is a

mess. It is a ailure, not, as some

have suggested, because they

didnt go ahead and make an-

other portentous classic. Theact that the lm is somewhat o

a lightweight oering is not in

itsel something to be derisive

about. The act that it is simply a

bad lm, is. Highlights come only

by way o the violence, which is

shot in such a temperate way, yet,

made so much the more visceral

or it. But, thats as always. Points

or style aside, then, there is lit-

tle else to love. Nothing by way

o characters, dialogue in act,

what the plot nally boils downto is nothing. And its a painully

slow boil.

Comparatively, the brothers have

laid back on Burn Ater Reading.

Theres no deep exploration o

the human psyche or anything

ambitious tackled thematically.

But, you know what, thats ne.

Theyve made a lm or them-

selves. Had un. Took some de-cent change. Now theyll move

on. Some ans will have been

pleased, and some wont. Its

strange that making the so called

easy lm rom now on, may in

act be the hard thing to do. I,

that is, they want to stay darlings

with the critics.

Not since Fargo has a lm by the Coen brothers received such a warm reception - both critically and commercially.The Coens 2007 eort No Country for Old Men took $161,024,535 worldwide at the box o ce, as well as win-ning four Academy Awards and appearing on more critics end of year top ten lists than any other lm that year.With their latest release Burn After Reading, the brothers attempt to follow up that success.

by Mark Stones

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IMS is one of the most popular ways of playing sport on cam-pus. With 41 events in 27 sports, it takes a lot of dedica-tion and organization to keep the IMS train on track.

This week, Label got the inside story on the people who makeIMS tick and find out what its really like to be a SportsSec...

Rich Smith, IMS Chair and Ex Falk Egg Sports

Sec

You spend hours sending out e-mails and sorting

out teams and then people agree to play and then

5 mins beore the match they pull out leaving you

to play a sport which you would be as much good

at as a turd in a space suit!

Wellie Clark, IMS Media and Merchendise Rep

and Ex Towers Sports Sec:

Approximately hal the number o people who

showed interest in playing hockey/basketball/rock-

it-ball, will eign amnesia i the event starts beore

midday. This gure will double or any sport which

takes place in the swimming pool.

They didnt tell you that all your sports teams will

be almost exclusively made up o the same vepeople. You can identiy them early on in the rst

term. They are not usually the best athletes, more

likely they are the people who are most araid o

saying no to the sports sec! I one or more decides

to go home on the same weekend, you can write o

any xtures that sunday!

Adam Henson, Falk-Egg Sports Sec

Worst thing about being a sports sec? Losing a match

to Faraday

Things they didnt tell me about being a sports sec?

That there would be so many lovely looking emale

sports secs rom other halls!

Charlie Buck, Telford Sports Sec

Being a sports sec requires 3 things: Hard work, Un-

limited text messages, and an uncontrollable urge

to beat every other hall on campus!

Ben Croucher, Bill Mo Sports Sec

They didnt tell you that all the best sportspeople in

hall will only inorm you o how good they are and

that they wanna play AFTER their sport is over or

the year!

Rachel Pearson, Harry French Sports Sec

At the slightest spot o rain youre focked by text mes-

sages Is the hockey still on? o course its still on, rain

isnt going to kill you doesnt the name Waterbase

give you a bit o a hint that water wont aect it!

Despite all of these trials and tribulations involved with

Sports secs.

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Kite surng. It pits ordinary hu-

man beings against the wild

unpredictable waters. Armedonly with a kite and board, you

conquer wave ater wave in your

ight to stay aloat. When the

winds become unstable, its the

calm head that pulls through.

Ecstasy. Its only the start o what

kite surng has to oer.

Once you have learnt the basics

you can bring in all the jumps

and tricks that make it such an

exciting and growing sport.

Kite surng was rst thought up

in the early nineties, ater kiwi

Peter Lynn attached a kite to a

buggy. Ater urther develop-

ment some Americans decided to

attach a kite to some water-skis.

However, kite surng as it is today

really took o in the mid nineties

when a couple o surers in Ha-

waii got bored o simply surng

twenty oot waves and decided

to add a kite into the mix.

Now, thanks to Liam Huntley, kite

surng has come to Loughbor-

ough!

Due to the changeable nature o

the activity, kite surng comes

with a high risk actor. It is a bat-tle on two ronts. The strong bit-

ing wind requires physical prow-

ess whilst the erratic undulating

waters require balance and con-

centration.

To master the art, you must have

both a strong body and mind.

In competitive situations per-

ormers compete in dierent dis-

ciplines. Some vie to be the ast-est; others to ride the waves or

even brave a race. Recent accom-

plishments in the sport include

the rst man ever to break the 50

knot barrier, Sebastien Cattelan,

and Erik Ecks accidental 39 sec-

ond airtime.

Loughboroughs kite surng club

Kite is always looking or new

members who are up or a chal-

lenge. Not only do you

experience the

thrill o the board

on water, but

you can also

be tugged

along in-

land at a local aireld to master

those 30 oot jumps.

On top o this there are many var-iations to the sport, including kite

landboarding, kite buggying and

snowkiting, in which you experi-

ence staggering views whilst be-

ing hauled across a vast expanse

o snow.

Kite surng is becoming increas-

ingly popular due to the risks

and challenges that it presents,

and once you have learnt the es-sentials you will soon be ready to

take on the open water.

Every wednesday Kite use Air-

boss, a disused aireld less than

5 miles rom campus to go kiting.

For further info

regarding Kitecontact LiamHuntley

throughthe AU.

surf's up...By Ben Snowball

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Theres a great cohesion be-

tween all o the swimmers, its

good un and its not that much

o a chore to come to training.

Why do you do the Individual Med-

ley?

Honestly? Because you dont get bored.

When you do the medley you get to think

about the stroke your doing next, the turns,

the technique on each stroke i I stuck to

one I think Id be mind dead.

How hard is the training and balancing that

with your degree?

Its really tough. Getting up at hal past 5 in the

morning is hard and when all the other students are

getting up youre still really tired rom training. I youredoing a ull time degree and ull time training, its incred-

ibly hard. You get really tired during the day and you go

to bed totally exhausted. But Loughborough is really sup-

portive because you can take a year out, and adapt studies

around your training.

Euan actually took a year out from studying at Loughborough lastyear to concentrate on the Beijing Olympics. He nished 6th in his

heat of the 400m Individual Medley.

You said it was your dream to go to Beijing, did it live up to your

expectations?

By miles. I walked out on the rst day in a heat with

Ryan Lochte (Bronze Medallist) and it was unbeliev-

able. The crowd were going wild, so many people were

watching. Thats what you swim or, thats why you do

it!

How did you cope with the pressure?

The pressure or me wasnt as great as or people who had

high expectations o a medal, but the pressure still gets to

you. Youre standing on the blocks with all these great athletesand you have to ocus on what you have to do.

Euan Daleis one o the inestyoung swimmers inthe country. By the age o 20, he had already

grabbed 2 Commonwealth Silver Medals, and

this summer saw him compete in the Water

Cube in the Beijing Olympics. LABEL was

able to catch up with the star ater one ohis early morning training sessions

So Euan, why did you choose to

come to Loughborough Univer-

sity?

There was a lot o hype surround-

ing the university, the acilities

were really good and the

course I wanted to do was

available here as well. I

was oered to go to theUnited States, but ater

speaking with Director

o Swimming Ian Ar-

miger, he was really

enthusiastic and I

was sold.

Whats it like

being part

of Lough-

boroughS w i m -

ming?

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Away from the competi-

tion, what was the atmos-

phere like in the Olympic

Village?

With the whole o Team GB, it was

incredible to be a part o it. Every-

one was so riendly. You could walkpast somebody you dont know in the

village but because theyre wearing the

same tracksuit, youd say Hi, how you do-

ing? When Becky (Adlington) and Jo (Jack-

son) got the Gold and Bronze, Ive never elt

emotion like it.

Arguably Team GBs most successful squad in Chinawas Swimming. The euphoria created by their unex-

pected triumphs has led to huge media interest in the

Sport. Loughborough Swimming had David Davies Sil-ver in the 10k Open Water to celebrate and Euan is hopeful

this can lter into more youngsters taking up the sport.

[Euan] Id like to hope it would take o. The only problem

is that its such a short event its over so quickly. With Cricket

you have 3 or 4 days; with ootball its 90 minutes. But Swim-

ming is over in a fash, but I hope it will raise the Sports prole.

Before Beijing, Euans only experience of a major international gameswas at Melbourne in 2006 for the Commonwealth Games. And what animpact he made 2 Silver medals for Scotland!

Euan, what did it feel like to stand on

the podium receiving your medals?

Unbelievable. I had no expectations going

into it thinking Id make a nal and ending

up on the podium was brilliant.

Do you ever get spotted around campus?

Thankully no! I know people like Becky Adling-

ton (Double Olympic Gold Medallist) have come

to ame really quickly but Im not like that and Im

cool with it!

While interviewing Euan, you got a real sense o his

love or the Sport and how he simply does it or

un. Luckily or him, hes not too shabby at it either.

Watch out though olks Euan Dale is on the brink

o something very special!

Euan Dale FactfileAge: 22

Sport: Swimming

Event: 400m Indi-vidual Medley

Personal Best:4:16:33

Finished 19thin the 400mIndividualMedley inBeijing

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