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UniVerseVolume 18, Issue 4 25th October 2010 Circulation 1000 FREE

Law lecturers Melissa Newbury and Kevin Rogers standing where the Mock Courtroom will be. Photograph: UHSU:CU

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St Albans’ loss will be Hatfield’s gain when 1200 students are relocated to the University of Hertfordshire’s under-construction law school next September. Along with law lecturers and your elected sabbatical officers, I was invited on a tour of the construction site to share the vision and report on my findings.

The tour, led by ISG Project Manager James and Construction Manager Alastair, certainly gave the impression that sustainability was high on the agenda when designing the complex with a recyclable water system, adaptive temperature management and green lighting systems featuring.

One of the most anticipated features of the new construction is the inclusion of a full size replica of a law court allowing for more creative lecture delivery styles and

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Will new Law School be ready on time?

Chris Ulph

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also for use for ‘mooting’ (mock trials and debating legal principles in a formal or semi-formal setting). There are fourteen teaching spaces planned, considerably improving

Only one major design change has manifested itself from concept to construction and that is the planned extension of ‘The Street’ will not now go ahead. ISG were instructed to keep this part of the project off budget although the infrastructure will still be put in place should the funds become available in the future.

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Editor-in-ChiefChris Ulph

Deputy EditorValentina Terrinoni

Lead PhotographerIla Desai

JournalistKate Snowdon

ContributorHylton Ennis

Sports ContributorJohn D. O’Callaghan

Sports ContributorDaryl Craine

Web DirectorSam Martin

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If there is something that you feel needs to be brought to the attention of The UniVerse Staff, Media Team or even the University as a whole please write in to us and have your letters published.

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Kevin Rogers, a Senior Lecturer in Law from the St Albans site, almost immediately discussed the possibility to offer tours to current law students to “get them excited” about the move, perhaps in groups of 40 or so.

Project Manager James said that, “We haven’t had a great summer but the current schedule is to get the building watertight during November.” [Ed. I certainly had a hot and sunny summer in Hertfordshire]

A decision has still not been made over the future of the St Albans site but as there is a restrictive covenant in place, it can only

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LettersRe: Ridgeview

Personally, I think [that] Ridgeview Lodge is one of the most friendliest places to live out of all three campuses.

As the students here, which I can proudly say are great friends of mine have wel-comed everyone here with open arms. [A] friendly environment, sociable commu-nal area and kitchen area combined with the laughs and greatness of the campus, I can’t express , how much I really like the facilities, the rooms are pretty much amazing and are very spacious and comfy [sic] to live in.

Enjoyable, friendly and outgoing - home from home.

Yours sincerely,‘Roomies at the Lodge’

Re: Ridgeview

When I first got to Ridgeview I did not know what to expect, I am a long way from home and I didn’t know anyone who came to Hertfordshire Uni so this was a whole new experience for me.

I walked into the reception area and ‘Hel-lo mate’ was the greeting from Steve the Security Officer, who registered me for my room in the ‘Big Brother’ house.

The irony is that because we are 3 - 4 miles away from the main campus we are actu-ally not being watched very closely at all.

The bus journey is a short 10 - 20 minute ride depending on traffic and the bus drivers are really helpful in the informa-tion that they impart on request.

The people here are friendly and the staff pleasant. We have even had the pleasure of playing a few friendly games of pool, and what’s best is it’s FREE, yes free! We also have table tennis and a room with a huge 42” television.

I really enjoy the relaxed at homely life at Ridgeview compared to the flats at ‘de Hav’ which is cramped and full of anti-social people who only loosen up when intoxicated.

I don’t know but to me to live at ‘de Hav’ is to live in isolation, maybe some people like their own company when watching TV but it’s nice to have someone to catch it with.

Yours sincerely,Hylton Ennis

A Comment from Security Steve:Students this term are the best yet at Ridgeview Lodge, all supportive of one another and all get on so well with each other. That is what it is like, one big happy family. Well done everybody.

be used for educational purposes. Melissa Newbury, a prominent member of the Law Faculty stated, “Developers normally get their way; they’ll probably end up as flats with a small art gallery in the basement [to appease the covenant].”

Despite the impressive facilities, I was a little concerned when I heard two law lecturers discussing their amusement over one of their colleagues losing most of their class to a parallel group due to her lecture delivery style; if that is true then perhaps we should have focussed on improving falling teaching standards before construction began.

Nica de Koenigswarter and Thom Palser discussing the new Law School Building. Photograph: UHSU:CU


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Kate Snowdon

New and returning students are being asked to join forces with existing Hatfield residents to create a safer community.

The Student Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, which originally covered just Salisbury Village, is being extended to the wider area of Hatfield in a bid to reduce the number of crimes against students, as well as build a stronger sense of community with previous residents.

In the past student housing has often fallen victim to thieves, frequently due to students not taking enough care with their security arrangements, so advice about safety is now on offer.

Councillor Lynne Sparks believes that the scheme, which works in partnership with the police and the university, will also go a long way to help improve relations and build up the reputation of the university.She says that, “the scheme was started to build a sense of community as there has previously been tension between students

and residents.”

It is often the belief that students do not respect the areas in which they live; the Student Neighbourhood Watch Scheme provides students the chance to prove otherwise.

Councillor Sparks says, “The aim is to build bridges and break down barriers. I would like to bring out the positive side of the university and encourage enough students to sign up so that we could have a student rep. and a long term resident rep. for each area. We could then arrange social events to get to know each other and bring everybody together.”

So far the scheme has received a positive response. Those already involved have taken the time to knock on the doors of student properties to ask if they wish to join up. Students appear enthusiastic towards this approach. If you would like to get involved and volunteer as a Neighbourhood Watch Buddy, please contact the Area Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator, Councillor Lynne Sparks. contactable on [email protected].

Calling all students: protect yourself from theft!

The RaG 96 Hour ExtravaganzaFriday 29th October - Tuesday 2nd November

SATURDAY

Horror film marathonSociety Takeover (Daytime)

Halloween Party games and dressup contestEleHouse Quiz

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FRIDAYFirst night fun - music from RaG DJs

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MONDAYBoys vs. Girls Challenges

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Cake Sale (Daytime in the Forum)TUESDAY

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UnionTV goes live countrywide

Wednesday 20th October 2010 saw UnionTV broadcast nationwide from the media building located on College Lane as part of the annual Freshers’ TV event where student union based television stations link up and broadcast a twenty minute segment nationwide. Many Unions pre-record their segments but with UHSU going live the pressure was on.

Thom Palser, VP Communications and Media said “This event is always a fantastic opportunity to show the national student community what we are capable of. I am very proud of the team and very grateful to Howard Berry, without whom this would not be possible.”

Howard Berry, the Programme Leader for Film and TV gave up his own time to make sure any technical issues and insurance snags were covered. He said beforehand, “It’s nice to see students getting involved in a good extra-curricula activity”

Live presenters Tom & Serina enjoyed the experience and despite a few little snags such as Alaster Armitage-Brain forgetting the order of numbers in a countdown [Ed. Sorry Alaster but you made my day!]

The studio is equipped with Hollywood standard lighting and the event saw use of three cameras and a staff of over 15 to working in complete synchronisation to make the production a success.

Checkout uhsu.co.uk to see the footage.

Chris Ulph

Councellor Lynne Sparks raising awareness in the community.Photograph: Welwyn Hatfield Council


Since last week, I have been to a board of governors development committee meeting. Worked with the university on our National Student Survey (NSS) results. Met with the head of policy to discuss the Browne Review, and the implications for the HE sector and Hertfordshire. I had a tour of the new Law Court Building, which will provide some lovely new teaching rooms for all of us. I also worked with Mark Russell, Yasmin and some students on collecting student opinions on assessment and feedback. I attended the first student council of the year with the rest of the team. I also met Andrew May, director of estates who talked me through their draft plan for the estates strategy. Whole day with the board of governors followed by my first full board.

Nica de KoenigswarterPresident

Thom PalserVP Communications &

Media

Yasmin BastowVP Academic Support &

Campaigns

Adam FlintVP Union Development

Laura YeomanVP Student Activities

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Polishing off the student reps system, focus groups on the learning and teaching experience and the national student’s survey, one to one sessions with individual students, RaG, academic board, teaching TRAKS session, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Let’s just say I’ve been kept on my toes this week, everyday is new and exciting and I wouldn’t have it any other way!!

Yaz xx

Clubs and societies have got off to an amazing start!!!

100’s of students have been getting involved in sports and activities this week as BUCS fixtures have officially started!

Student social sport is also looking to be revamped! the Sports village, SU and Herts Sports Partnership have been working hard to compete for sport eng-land funding.......i’ll be needing your input soon to help build social sport at Herts!

Over the past week i have learnt the art of preperation! I am expecting a special visit this weekend, but its top secrete so i cant tell you any more at the moment, but keep checking the UniVerse for a big announcement soon. Also on Thursday we had our big media meeting of the year which was a great success. Its fantastic to see soo many students wanting to get involved with UHSU Media this year and already we are having some major successes: UnionTV have broadcast LIVE accross the country, Crush Radio & Crush Underground have had their first week live with the new recruits and The UniVerse & Blue Moon have had the best turn out of contributers in the last 4 years. I’m a happy Sabb!

The last week I have been suffering from man flu, but after a steady recovery Ive been working on the feedback I’ve received about student council and plugging the M12 if you want to make a difference in your union and get a free ticket to the forum a week apply now www.uhsu.co.uk/m12. I will be working on this week on Green impact a environmental scheme by NUSSL watch this space!

To keep up to date on YOUR union check out my video blog on uhsu.co.uk. We also now have live chat added to our blogs so you can chat with us live!

, featuring Bradley Cartwright & Irish John Photograph: Ila Desai

HAVE YOUHEARD? What ever your skills, background or experience, with over

500 volunteering opportunities we offer something for everyone.Find out more at www.uhsu.co.uk/volunteering

Last year over 1,000 students took part in volunteering opportunities provided by the UHSU. All students received certificates for their hard work.

Page 4, the UniVerse’s angle on a bit of cheeky photography and a twist on the red top page 3, as always we promise to keep it tasteful, although if you are concerned in any way please do not hesitate to discuss these with me by email: [email protected]

EyeOnHatfield

EyeOnHerts

University of Hertfordshire Students’ Union president slams off campus accommodationWelwyn Hatfield Times

St Albans & Welwyn Hatfield Against Cuts stage protest in St Peters StreetSt Albans & Harpenden Review

Lucky escape from Hatfield explosionSt Albans & Harpenden Review

Watching the headlines

Police officers to be axed in Herts and Essex after Spending ReviewHertfordshire Mercury

Four arrests in Hertfordshire trafficking probeBBC

Hatfield train crash rememberedBBC

Hertfordshire based Defoe fined for driving offencesThe Guardian

Watching the headlines

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Opening hoursMonday to Friday, 9am-5pm

4641 Part Time Credit Controller Hatfield Road, St. Albans£7 ph

You will predominantly be making outbound calls to business contacts and updating systems based on these calls. In addition to these regular peak hours, there may also be an opportunity to work additional hours at other times.

Get involved in the UHSU By-Election 2010. This could be your chance to make a different to student life at the University of Hertfordshire. From standing for one of our avaliable part-time position to simply exercising your democratic right to vote, it’s important that every student take part in Students’ Union elections as this will decide on the officers that will represent your views, interest and opinions for the rest of the year.

Nomination for this years By-Elections are opening soon, to find out more about the part –time position available and how they can benefit you and all students at the university, visit the UHSU website at www.uhsu.co.uk/elections

The positions

St Albans’ Campus OfficerPostgraduate Students’ OfficerMature Students’ Officer

3 x NUS Conference Delegate positions

Dates:Nominations Open - 22nd - 26th NovemberCampaigning - 29th November - 3rd DecemberVoting - 6th - 10th DecemberCount - 10th December

See uhsu.co.uk for more information


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SBH/22051 RECEPTIONIST St. Albans Exceeds National Minimum Wage

Appointment making, daily admin of front desk including daily takings management, stock control, ordering, footwear foot care product sales, cleaning hygienem clinical staff support.

4639 ICE RINK ASSISTANT Galleria, Hatfield £5.93ph

Serving skates, rink maintenance, rink steward amd general day to day running of rink

Min 20hrs per week from Mon-Fri 11am-7.30pm, Sat 11am-5.30pm, Sun 11am-4.30pm

4640 Brand Ambassador Herts/Essex/Cambridge/Luton/Beds and London £65 per day plus bonus

Promoting and Demonstrating a product within the Electrical/IT or Telecom sector. Working in a retail outlet i.e Currys/Comet or PC World promoting a product i.e a TV/Phone/Laptop. Demonstrating to consumers the feathures of the product.

HTF/20047 BAR STAFF - Sibthorpe Arms North Mymms, Hatfield Meets National Minimum Wage

Serving alcohol, taking payments/orders, using till and keeping all areas of the bar clean and tidy at all times.

SBH/21918 BARISTA - Sitting Room ST. ALBANS £6 per hr

Serving customers, operating till, serving food and drinks to tables, clearing tables, keeping dinery & serving areas clean and tidy and other related duties as required.

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visitors from the City of London University 1st XV, put up a hugely encouraging performance.

Outscored by 3 tries to 1 The Rags had the consolation of scoring the game’s best try by hard working flanker Emile Pronk, a digital media undergraduate from Stansted Montfichet.

Barnet Elizabethan product Will Pearpoint also kicked 2 penalties, but it was not enough to dampen the enthusiasm of the visitors, who were well served by South African No. 8 Corme Maritz and his fellow countryman, prop Dean Cusner. Yogesh Jalli, a product of Dartford Grammar School, was industrious in the visitors back row and he, together with flying winger Usman Khan, were rewarded for their efforts with well-taken tries. West-Countryman Max Dawe, a controlling influence at outside half, popped over two touchline conversions to give the visitors the spoils.

Nevertheless the University of Hertfordshire outfit – who only had 11 players to call on just 20 minutes before

the kick off - can take many positives from this defeat.

Miles Bryan was a powerful centre and in Martin Keyworth, John Parnell and John Kennedy they had the game’s gutsiest performers. Well led by skipper Craig Cudmore, ably supported by Mike Hart and Richard Mott, they ripped into the visitors with gusto from the off.

Urged on by a large and vociferous crowd, they led 8-7 with less than ten minutes of the match remaining. Ultimately their gallant efforts were not enough but all concerned agree there is much to build on for the remainder of the season, and in physiotherapy student Ash Page the students had the game’s smallest player with the biggest heart.

Page’s running from the heart of defence, his courageous tackling and his never say die attitude deservedly resulted in him picking up the man of the match award.Round 2 of the BUCS championship sees the 1st XV host UC London, with The Rags on the road to Canterbury Christchurch University. This week will also see the debut performance of the UH Women’s side who take on Kent University at Welwyn RFC.

University of Hertfordshire and City enjoy the post match banter. Photograph: UH Rugby

BadmintonUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 1st 4 - 4 King’s College, London KCL Badminton Club Men’s 1stUniversity of Hertfordshire Women’s 1st 8 - 0 King’s College, London KCLMS Bad-minton Club Women’s 1st

BasketballUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 1st 59 - 73 University of Chichester Men’s 1stUniversity of Hertfordshire Women’s 1st 36 - 65 University of Essex Women’s 1stUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 2nd 42 - 89 King’s College, London Basketball Ms Club 1st

Football University of Hertfordshire Men’s 1st 0 - 1 University of Brighton Men’s 2ndUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 2nd 2 - 0 University of Brighton Men’s 3rdUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 3rd 2 - 3 University of Sussex Men’s 2nd

GolfUniversity of Hertfordshire 1st 1 - 5 Buckinghamshire New University 1st

HockeyUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 2nd 2 - 11 King’s College, London KCLMS Hockey Ms Club Men’s 2nd

LacrosseUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 1st 3 - 19 Royal Holloway, University of London Men’s 1st

NetballUniversity of Hertfordshire 1st 45 - 18 King’s College, London KCL Netball Club 1stUniversity of Hertfordshire 2nd 41 - 41 University of Surrey 1stUniversity of Hertfordshire 3rd 26 - 31 Royal Free & University College Medical School 2nd

Rugby UnionUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 1st 20 - 18 University College London Men’s 1stUniversity of Hertfordshire Women’s 1st 55 - 3 University of Kent Women’s 1stUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 2nd 20 - 22 Canterbury Christ Church University Men’s 3rd

SquashUniversity of Hertfordshire Men’s 1st 3 - 2 University of Portsmouth Men’s 1st

Results 20/10/2010

The weekly results are taken directly from the BUCS website bucs.org.uk/fl, we apologise if your team does not feature however at the time of going to print there were no results attributed to your fixture.

If you want to increase your exposure in the newspaper please send in match reports and current information for inclusion - sports is a cornerstone of this paper and whilst people have mentioned Rugby receiving a disproportionate amount of coverage - they have been proactive and sent well written pieces.

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Results

and the first team made the long drive to Chichester!

Both teams were optimistic however with only six hours pre season training behind a totally new squad from last year, everyone knew the games would be tough!

UH Mens 2nd ...started off well going bucket for bucket in a fast paced game. Things looked good at the end of the first but patience started

to dwindle and cracks started to show in what was a strong effort. The game began to slide away from them and in the end the result was a heavy one!

UH Mens 1stAfter the seemingly endless drive we arrived in Chichester with high hopes! We have a strong talented Squad but it’s all about working together to get that win! We started strong going in at the end of the first 19 - 15 down, however the second quarter was a different story. We lost our way and ended up on a heavy beating and so the by half time we were down 47 - 26.

continued from back page>> We kept our heads high and dug deepbearing in mind how little preparation we had done. The second half had a transformed squad we were dominating the floor controlling the pace and the boards! With this the game started to turn! It was to late, the deficit was too big!All in all an impressive second half outing. So much so we won the second half 33 - 29. Positive performance forOur first game, the season ahead looks promising!

John D O`Callaghan

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PRE-SEASON optimism turned into early season realism as both the University of Hertfordshire’s 1st and 2nd XVs were defeated on the opening day of the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) rugby championship.

The 1st XV which included Elliott Watkins - who had made a favourable impression at Championship outfit Esher RFC before returning to university - went down to a surprise away defeat at the hands of the London School of Economics.

There were some notable absentees from the visitors’ starting line up - including club captain Brett McNamee, Hertford RFC winger Michael Allan and rangy lock forward Martin Day - but the Hatfield side were no match for the well-drilled

city boys, who dominated the early exchanges.

An early try by LSE fly half Tony Phillips converted by the mercurial Victor Price, playing at centre for the home side, was soon followed by a further crossover from the speedy John Loveys, just before the break.

Despite some early second half promise from the visitors, where flanker Latham and lock forward Cooper were much to the fore, the home side proved difficult to breach and were much tougher and more committed at the breakdown area. Jackie Bamsey, a fiery post graduate student from Connaught led by example for LSE and in Welshman David John Owen, from Pontrhydyfen, they had the game’s classiest player.

In a largely one sided encounter, further tries by Owen and debutant winger Ken

“Matey” Thomas sealed the home win, leaving the visitors to lick their wounds on the trip back to Hertfordshire, where they will need to regroup and devise a plan, under coach Sam Carpenter, to turn around a season that had promised so much.

Reflecting on such a disappointing opening performance Carpenter said: “We were never at the races. We came off second best in most of the contact areas and worryingly, showed a lack of nous in breaking down the opposition defence. There’s no doubt that we have a mountain to climb but I am confident that with the returning injured players, we can still turn this season around and successfully deliver on our pre season goals.”

The 2nd XV – The Rags - although eventually succumbing 19-11 to the

Rugby boys off to flying start

Action from the UH Rags fixture with City of London University. Photograph: UH Rugby

Both teams were in action on Wednesdays. The seconds hosted Kings College at home

Despite loss, performance to be proud ofDaryl Craine

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