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The long awaited opening of the University’s second bar has been delayed for 3 weeks due to the summers dismal weather and structural improvements.

The Banded Warehouse, a café, shop and bar in one, situated at the Scotia Quay alongside Panns Bank, was originally due to open at the end of October.

Joe William, the University General Manager stated that the listed buildings structure was: “not as first envisaged and like every old building needed improvements to bring

the building u to date. Abysmal weather conditions were also said to have hampered construction and forced the opening date to be put back. The Building’s hand-over to the University is now scheduled for 22nd November, the opening of the Warehouse to customers is estimated at a week after

this date.

Bonded Warehouse set back

The Bonded Warehouse comes as a welcome relief to retuning students who have for the past two years had Wearmouth as the only student bar, due to Manor Quay’s availability as both a

nightclub and bar. Students at the new Scotia Quay residence and pans Bank will also welcome the opening of the a student bar on their side of the river. Plans and information on th Bonded Warehouse can be found on the entrance to Wearmouth Hall, for those curious to check out the University’s newest arrival.

HEATHER WALSHISSUE ONE 1998

One of Sunderland’s most noticeable businesses is up for sale and facing possible closure. The Vaux brewery, situate in the center of town, has been put up for sale by the

Vaux Group.

The 600 people employed at the brewery now face a waiting period to see who will take control. It is feared that is a company with no local interest were to buy the brewery it could be closed with all jobs

lost.However, Frank Nicholson, current managing director of Vaux Breweries, is leading a management buy-out team to take over the Sunderland brewery, keeping it in local hands. Sunderland Labor MPs

Vaux could close.Bill Etherington and Chris Mullin are also working towards keeping the brewery in local hands. Both MP’s have written to Industry Secretary Peter Mandlson voicing the concerns of the workers and

local people.

Mr. Mullin said: “I am reasonably confident that the management buy-out will be successful and, if it is, there is no problem. But is has been known for big breweries to buy up small ones and close them down as a way of eliminating

the competition.”

SIMON WOOLFORD ISSUE ONE 1998

The University of Sunderland’s continuing success in expanding the range of people who go to University has been confirmed in the latest UK-wide, government-sponsored performance indicators on

higher education.

The University’s scores for widening participating in higher education significantly for similar University’s in the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) performance indicators.. The HEFCE performance indicators cover 169 publicly funded University’s and higher education colleges in the UK.

The new figures show that Sunderland is the top English University for encouraging young full-time undergraduates from neighborhoods where there is low participation in education. Thirty per cent of the University’s young full-time undergraduates are from low participation areas, compared to the benchmark of 15 per cent of similar University’s and the national

average of 12 per cent.

The HEFCE performance indicators, based on 1998/1999 statistics, also show that 39 per cent of Sunderland’s young full-time first year

Top Marks For

University degrees students are recruited from manual and semi-skilled backgrounds compared to the benchmark for similar University’s of 32 per cent and the national average of 25

per cent. The figures further show Sunderland’s success in attracting mature students with no previous experience of higher education, with Sunderland attracting twenty three per sent of mature full-time undergraduates, compared to the benchmark for similar Universities of 12 per sent and the national average of 14

per cent.University of Sunderland Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Fidler says: “Widening participation in higher education is a key national priority and we are delighted that Sunderland’s long-established strategy to encourage access continues to put us at the forefront in

this field.

JEMMA MCDOWALLISSUE 14 2000

Phase one of a multi-million pound transformation of

Sunderland is complete.The £10million Park Lane Transport interchange open May 2, and with two year the city centre will be an exciting

jigsaw of new facilities.At the same time the Central Bus station is closed permanently to allow £45million construction work to begin on the Bridges II development. The new Interchange is already giving Sunderland a futuristic look and when all the building work is completed in two years time it will be fitting gateway to an exciting and vibrant

city centre area.From 2001 the Interchange will house the Metro when the regional rail system finally

rolls into Wearside.The opening of the Park Lane Transport Interchange gives city planners the chance to complete traffic routing work

Sunderland centre renovationthat was started in the 1970’s.The road changes- some of which will be funded by a 7000,000 Single Regeneration Budget grant – will make the regenerated £45 million city shopping centre a pedestrian-only zone. Crowtree Road will be closed to traffic and the entrances to park lane from Holmeside, Wine Plane and the Kwik save Supermarket will also be closed to allow work on the Bridges II development

to begin.

UNKOWNISSUE 6 1999

A feminist art exhibition has been postponed after disapproving vandals spray-painted the art and the gallery

with obscenities.

The show had to be cancelled temporally, after someone managed to sneak into the galleries storage area and destroy a painting exploring breast cancer., by Lesley Cooperwaite, and spray obscenities in the woman’s

toilets.

George Harrison, who owns the new center gallery in Deptford Terrace, Sunderland, hoped to reopen the feminist debate, by putting on an exhibition tackling feminist issues,

aimed especially at men. “We are very disappointed and we feel that whoever was responsible for the vandalism has not helped the feminist cause,” commented Mr. Wilkinson. “We wanted to prompt a reaction by putting on the show. We had hoped we would cause some positive debate, and bring some feminist out of the woodwork, but we never

The Rise & Fall of Feminism

“We really didn’t realize this was such a controversial subject but the attacks have made us more determined then ever to put on the show. We have already been contacted by some local artists offering us

their work.”

The exhibition aims to depict feminists’ journey from the brassiere burning 60’s through the power dressing 80’s to the pint guzzling, tattooed millennium using paintings, photography, sculpture and

installations.

The Exhibition will, in the last week of Cancer Awareness month, highlight the condition, through paintings by Leslie Cooperwiate and an auction will be held from which the proceeds will go to the Charity for Research into

Beast Cancer.

WRITER UNKNOWN

“Thirteen species of fish have been discovered every week over the past three years.”

“There is no mention of lesbianism in the Old Testament.”

“Even through Concorde was the world’s fastest and highest-flying aircraft, it’s toilet windows

were frosted.”

“If everyone in Briton swapped thee of their ordinary light bulbs for low energy ones, it would save enough power for all the country’s

streetlights.”

“The third largest employer in the world, after the Chinese Amy and Indian railway, is the

NHS.”

“Sales of Marmite grew by more then 2 million jars a year, after it switched its advertising approach to highlight the fact that loads of

people loathe it. “

“One third of Americans believe Hell exists, a poll suggests, but only 0.5% believe they will end up there; 65% think they will go to

heaven.”

did you know that....

Taliban members, ascetics and those of us too tight to pay for license fee aside, we all watch and enjoy T.V. But is it art? Tony Sinden, the Durham Cathedral Artist-in-Residence for 2001-2002 seems to think so and accordingly demonstrated his views via a recent exhibition at Sunderland University’s Reg Vardy Gallery. The work, which used projected video images and sound, was inspired by Sinden’s first visit to the region. “I was standing at Sunderland bus station, when I noticed a sign reading ‘Discontinued lines – Everything Must Go’,” says Tony. This caused Sinden to ruminate on ‘how familiar things and things we do every day, are transformed by their location and re-location”.

Sinden has been working with such themes since the 1960’s and his installation of sounds, light and projected images have been exhibited throughout the world at prestigious venues, including the Royal Festival Hall, the Museum of Kyoto, (Japan) and the ICA, Hayward, Serpentine, and Arnolfini galleries, to name but a few. In this respect ‘Everything Must Go’ represented somewhat of a recap and summation, as it provided the rare chance to see one of the world’s first ever video installation: Sinden’s ‘Behold Vertical Devices’, a line of nine small black and whit video monitors

EVERY THING MUST GO placed side by side on a sloping plank showing a lone figure running in a landscape, was first exhibited in 1974, and has not been seen in an exhibition for over 25 years.

For Sinden, the key question was “How would an audience react to an everyday object in an art gallery?” In response his work included stacks of bottled water, alongside which he placed a video image of his face. The water relates to his recent work called Fountainhead, which he projected at Durham Cathedral. There was also projected images of Sinden painting the ceiling of the gallery using a pair of stepladders; working in the Vardy Gallery’s space before he set up his current work; and proving the backdrop to various sounds (such as Van Morrison) that he heard upon first visiting the gallery. Personally, I found the exhibition baffling and intriguing in equal measure. I’m sure that was the intended prevocational effect and so if you’ll excuse me I’ll be off – inspired – to enjoy some more televisual art of the ‘men and

motors’ variety.

RESELL GARNETT2003

A hangover cure based on volcanic dust may soon be on the shop shelves, according to

a UK company.A west Sussex firm wants to start clinical trials of the mineral. It claims the pills, which can already be bought over the internet, absorb toxins from alcohol “like Velcro”. Global Health products (GHP) wants to sell the product in chemists and health food shops. It is trying to raise £300,000 from investors to market the supplement, known as Zetox. The company says the mineral has been used as a traditional detoxifying agent for feed and traditional detoxifying agent for filtering water, purifying animal feed and treating victims of nuclear contamination from Chernobyl. It already sells the supplement

One For the road “to naturally detoxify the body”. Br. Kenneth Maule, the man who developed it, claims six capsules of Zetox will enable you to drink four or five pints without getting a headache. “It removes nearly all of the alcohol from the system so there’s no alcohol left in the body to give a hangover,” said Paul King of

GMP.Hangovers are caused by chemicals produced when the body breaks down alcohol. Alcohol is also a diuretic, causing dehydration and the familiar headaches and nauseas. Dr. Guy Ratcliffe of the UK Medical Council on Alcohol said the substance sounded “potentially

promising”.

WRITER UNKOWN

I hope everyone is revering well after Fresher’s 2005 and settling into university life. The fortnight was wild and, just in case you had your head buried in the sand, here’s a round up of some of the things

that went on.

Saturday 17th September was the start of the Freshers; events and entertainments. Trebles for £2.50 and cheap pints awaited those who were dragged out of halls, in the rain, to sample the delights of Sunderland Students; Union. More than 300 students joined in the crawls from Bonded and Wearmouth Bar to Manor Quay. Drinking games in Wearmouth Bar really separated the men from the boys, with David Willey, your Union President, being shamelessly beaten by Katie Stephenson, the student Representative Officer, in

downing competitions.

Atomic Kitten’s Najeliz and two local bands played at the official start of Fresher’s on Sunday 18th September. You probably spotted the Exec, randomly dressed in fancy dress. Yes, we don’t know why either but, fingers crossed, you know who we are now. I was the idiot in the grass skirt.

One of my favorite nights, by far, was Monday 19th September, with “Dreamweaver” hypnotist. The crowed was going and the scenes on stage were something out of Channel Five late nights. Defiantly one to remember, unless you were on stage, which means you probably

think nothing happened.

Freshers' review 05

On the Tuesday, Manor Quay’s famous rock night, Fraggle Rock, launched for 2005, offering a mx of local bands and alternative, punk and ska,

from resident DJ Frankie.

By far the busiest night of Freshers’, Wednesday served as an eye opener for the new recruits and an inkling of what your threes years will be like. This was the Exec FAFF night and I hope everyone joined in and FAFFed as well. (that’s FAFF as in Find a Friend For Life)/ As seems the case every night, thanks to the new drinks prices at the Union venues, most of the night was hazy and my show was lost somewhere stuck to the

floor in Manor Quay.

And if you thought Sunday was a day of rest- think again! Willey and Ginger (that’s me) hosted the famouse Sunday night Wearmouth bar quiz, where you can win a weeks worth of

shopping, plus much more.

Ps. Lindsay Mcleod and Katie Stephenson were the only Exec members to make it out on every night! We are officially the

most hardcore!

LINDSAY MCLEODISSUE 18 2005

This month I have been finding out about one of the University of Sunderland’s hidden gems, the Elite Athlete programme. The programme offers financial support to some of our most promising athletic talents.

One of these up-and-coming sporting stars, Andy Burton, a boxer and kickboxer, from South Hylton, took time out of his busy schedule of beating individuals senseless to talk to me about training, losing weight and kicking the life

out of people.

Andy is 20 and a second year student in Sports and Exercise Development. He began Kickboxing about six years ago, after a coupe of years grounding in Karate as a youth: “I’ve been kickboxing for about six years. I followed Karate as a kid then had a couple of years gap and I started kickboxing. It’s obviously a lot different from Karate, I love the full contact side of kickboxing and the boxing element of it.”

He won his first North East area Kickboxing title when he was just fifteen and is seen to be one of the University’s rising stars in the sports world. Andy has already won World Kickboxing titles at two weight levels as well as numerous Northern area, British and European titles with an established reputation

as an intelligent fighter.

Andy is not just a world class Kickboxer, staying unbeaten since the age of fifteen, he also has a solid record as an armature boxer, only three defeats in twelve bouts and he would one day like to turn pro. He still finds time for an active social life, usually having what he calls “a huge

blow out after a fight.”

Elite Athletes: Andrew Burton

Between fights is one of the most difficult times for a fighter, regulating weight and avoiding the usual student vices can’t be easy, although our man seemed quite philosophical about the whole thing: “I probably have a stone to lose, that’s off Christmas and my last fight. But is drops off, once I’ve stopped drinking and

got my training up.”

Most students have trouble juggling their various student pastimes; drinking, sleeping, eating, drinking some more and a bit of staying, usually in that order. However, Andy finds time to keep up his studies as well as training six days a week. A grueling task I’m sure you would agree, however it doesn’t seem to brother Andy: training is my life. I love

it.”

The world of Kickboxing is not a very inviting places, injuries can be server and the money is not great. However, he says the Elite Athlete Programme has helped imensly: “You get expenses, like, obviously travelling expenses, they out you in hotels. You get money but you never get any profit

from it.”

When is comes to injuries, Andy seems unfazed, saying: “I get more injuries from raining than actually fighting. The referee is there if its going bad,” However there are other reasons the take part, winning titles apart Andy has made many great friends on the Kickboxing circuit and speaks fondly of the relationships he has formed with his fellow fighters: “We all train together, fight together and

party hard afterword’s.”

Although he doesn’t admit that there are some people he

isn’t as fond of: “Within any organisation there are people who you dislike and I wouldn’t mind getting in the ring with a few of them.” Remind me to stay on his good side then. In Andy’s own words, the University’s Elite Athletes Programme has helped him a lot.

“It’s been a big help, even if it is just financially, with Kickboxing the travelling about and the training is expensive, supplement wise, they are very expensive. They have helped me that way, the financial support

has been great.”

It has helped Andy by giving him a financial grant to help towards the cost of his fights, training and also offers him supports with equipment. Not many students have heard of the programme, and it is evidence that the University is home not just to some great minds, but some great bodies too.

Andy fights on March 10th for another British Kickboxing title, one which will go towards deciding which fighter is the in in Britain. After that he has high hopes on fighting abroad and gaining more recognition in the boxing world. Talking about the future, and his hopes, he concluded: “Hopefully when I have finished Uni I just want to turn pro in the boxing.”

RICHARD CASSIDYISSUE 24 2007

On 26th December 2004, the second most powerful earthquake in recorded history triggered a massive tsunami; destroying families, home, livelihoods and dreams across twelve countries in Asia and Africa. The wave killed almost 220, 00 people, left millions homeless and shook the entire world. Three year on, Dani Hurren travelled to Sri Lanka, one of the worst hit countries, to see how people have moved on and how they began to cope with the aftermath of possibly the most destructive, wide-scale devastation ever witnessed by

nature....

As I stood on the top of Galle Fort, Sri Lanka, with the sun burning down on me, I watched him point to the Butterfly Bridge in the distance. As this amazing, inspirational, old man told me of the horrors he saw on the morning the wave hit, my heart ached. His face told a million stories, his eyes showed the pain of hundreds of people and as I listened, I too started to cry. With tears in our eyes, we leaned on the wall in silence, remembering the many that had

died yards from out feet.

The morning of the tsunami, Situge was working at the fort and remembers every detail, despite the horrors that the day brought. The first killer wave hat at 9:27 in the morning, the second at 10:42 and the third at 11:57. He said: “It was very strange because the first thing we noticed was how far out the sea was. Because of this hundreds of fish has been washed up on the beach.”

“Naturally everyone ran out to start collecting them. It seemed like a good dream with the fish coming to the fishermen rather than the other way round. Young children, women and men were running out to pick up the catch. It was then that the black wave came,” added Situge. Despite finding it hard to retell the story he continued. He was crying and shaking and i felt for this 60-year-old man. He has endured enough and i wanted him to stop, but he wanted to carry on and tell me what he

Three Waves That Shook

The World ... Three years on

saw.

“A wall of water crashed through everything. People were screaming and fighting for their lives; they were trying to swim away as hard as they could but the small children and the older one just could not fight hard enough against the strong waves. There were very small children who were helpless – they just didn’t

stand a chance.”

Those that managed to survive did so by clinging to trees, getting themselves to higher ground or staying in their boats. Other, so many, were

not that lucky.

Situage and I walked around the fort so that the bridge came into full view. He sat on the wall and after a few minutes of silence and biting his lip, he continued: ‘I had been walking round the grounds a few hours later and nothing could prepare me for what I saw, I felt like I had died, all the life has come out of me. There were dead bodies everywhere, 1000 naked man and women had been washed up into

the bay by the bridge.”

“There was the stench of death and I gagged. Debris and animal carcasses were littered by the road along with bricks, household items and pieces of what were once people’s homes. The sea had killed them all, stripped them of their clothes and washed them up in the city. The sea that we all loved had done this – no one knew what to do, where to begin, how to find their families.... it was

so sad. So terrible.”

I felt so honoured to be with the amazing man. As he told the story of the tsunami, tears rolled down my cheeks as I imagined the panic that struck the residents of Galle – i could almost hear their screams. We sat on the walls of the fort for nearly the whole day. Situge kindly let me take his photograph as he cried in front of me, a complete stranger; i could feel his pain. I could see the terror behind his eyes and the sadness he has had to deal with over the past three

years rebuilding his life- and his family. Situage lost five members of his family to the tsunami and knows many more that died on the 26th December

2004.

Later that day I thought about the moment I has heard about the tsunami and like most, I can remember exactly where I was, sitting in a crowed bar in Durban, South Africa, I watched the horrific images of the tsunami, caused by the 9.3 Richter-scale undersea earthquake, sill the TV screens, broadcasting to the world and shattering us all.

When I saw the destruction caused, the only thing I could think about was how the countries affect would deal with their grief and how would they move on from such difficulties – sheer sadness

took over.

I had been to Sri Lanka the previous year to get married and I know that it did not have the resources to recover from such a tragedy. I am not Sri Lankan, i did not know many Sri Lankans, yet I felt for the country and all those that were frightened for their lives, for their families and for their futures. Sri Lanka was very close to my heart and as the images appeared on the screens, I remembered walking through those streets and crossing those roads- it brought tears to my eyes

watching the scenes.

After the tsunami and the instant globalised grief that took over us all, help was given to the country in so many ways; medical experience and supplies, water, clothing and, of course, money. And although very few of us ever saw it first hand, it became the largest ever relief operation launched

in the world

Whilst visiting the country, I found that everyone was incredibly grateful for the relief and financial aid given to them and their country by the English (among Hundreds of other countries that is, including America, Australia, India, Germany and Italy to

name but a few). It was very humbling experience to have complete strangers come up to thank me in the street and ask if I was English, when I replies ‘yes’, they could do nothing but thank me and my country, with tears welling up in their eyes. Having people come up to me thanking me personally, was hard to accept and difficult to respond to and it made it all that much harder

to bear witness to..

On Boxing Day there was a memorial service in Galle, which was one, the hardest hit cities in Sri Lanka. I was invited to attend and felt privileged to be a part of it. I stood with the masses at 9:27am on 26th December 2007 and I bowed my head for the minute silence. I thought of all those that had lost their lives three years ago and i found myself praying for their families, hoping that they would never have to see such destruction again. It was so hard to comprehend that three years previously, in a matter of hours, hundreds of thousands of people had died and a blanket of sorrow had swept over the world. After we left Galle, we travelled to a small town called Peraluya, the place where the Queen of the Sea train was upturned by the waves of the tsunami. It was a very sad moving experience. As i stood by the side of the road, all i could see were the hundreds of unnamed tombstone, being the resting place for many bodies that were found never identified. After days of rescue mission following the tsunami, more than 1000 people were found dead – marking it as the single largest loss of life in one location alone. For many Sri Lankans the train is now a shrine, a symbol of their suffering. It has become a place where the entire country’s grief comes together and the country can, and will, never forget what devastation hit them. For many, life is appreciated so much more, life is loved every day and family and friends are the most important parts of everyone’s

lives....

Three years later, most of the

areas affected by the killer waves are slowly re-building themselves. The foreign aid is clearly going toward improving the country’s infrastructure and more then likely helped pay the immediate supplies needed in the days after the tsunami hit; coffins, tombstones, medical supplies, food and clean water (as a local supplies were contaminated and measures needed to be taken to

prevent epidemics).

Although three years seems like a very long period of time (enough to re-educate and graduate our-selves), Sri-Lanka has only just began its road to recovery. And even with new roads, new house, buildings and fresh water supplies sourced – money cannot replace the thousands

that were killed.

Sri Lankans will never forget the horror that struck their lives, their families or their homes and livelihoods. Ordinary people had to cope with this disaster, the scale of which i do not think you or I can even begin to fathom. The stories of these people, savaged by nature’s fury, are heartrending, inspiring and symbolise hope for everyone.

WRITER UNKNOWN

The Make Poverty History campaign has been running since the beginning of 2005 and has had major coverage, mainly because of the advertising campaigns featuring celebrates. Rob Samuals, the students; Union Education and Welfare officer, is organising a campaign to bring awareness about poverty to the students. Rob said: “Everyone has seen the adverts featuring REM’s Michael Stripe drowning in milk, but nobody is aware of the real issue

behind it.”

Make Poverty History is a unique UK alliance of charities, like Oxfam, who have joined together to help fight against poverty and injustice. Their three main working areas are trade Justice; Drop the Debt

and More and Better Aid.Rob said: “We decided to set up a poster after Oxfam sent me information about the campaign. I thought it would be a great idea to promote it

to the students/”

Sunderland Students Union Joins the Campaign to fight poverty, as protesters

prepare for Julys G8 rally in Edinburgh. The poster campaign will include all kinds of information, from leaflets on ways you can help to information on how bad poverty has actually got. “All the information we proved in the campaign will, hopefully, be available to students after the event as well,” said Rob.

Matt Perry, Branch Secretary of the Lecturers’ Union and history Lecturer at the University, is also involved in the campaign. He said: “We’re planning to do a lunch meeting for Make Poverty History in Sunderland. The GB is going to meet in Edinburgh this July and three is a demonstration planed to call for 3rd world debt to be dropped.” Buses for anyone wishing to go to the demonstration in Edinburgh on July 2nd will leave Sunderland early that morning. To get the stall up and running by the

end of May.

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