What's going on at your favourite campus!
March - April 2003
I'm sure you must all be poster-blind from all the pictures of Ashton Court up around the campus, so here's the low-down on what they're saying. St Matts Ball is on the 3rd April, at Ashton Court (as if you couldn't guess!). Tickets are £25 each and on sale now- but only for a limited amount of time! In fact there may only be a limited number left by the time this issue goes out! "Twenty-five quid!" I hear you cry in disbelief as you consider the amount of pints you could buy with that down at the bar. But what does that £25 include- well, folks, for scraping the limits of your overdraft you get the innate pleasure of meeting everyone's childhood idol, Timmy Mallet, as well as the chance to show off your talents in the kareoke! They'll also be music from Stunt Cat and Diamond Joe Quimby for you to bop your stuff to as well as our very own Krazy Paul. It is a formal event, so come and show us how sexy you can be in your flowing ball gowns and Bond-style tuxes!
Crunchie @ The Academy
Yep, Saturday 29th March sees Frenchay moved to The Academy on Frogmore Street, so make that Friday feeling last a little bit longer! An exciting line-up sees the one and only Chesney Hawkes, Dario G and Jim Dickinson, as well as sets from Ickle James and Raines and our Fromage-a-Trois DJ's, Tom, Lee and Hayley. Basically all the best bits of St Matts will be there! Which of course wouldn't be complete with our very own honourary member Krazy Paul! Tickets cost £8 each and will be available…
So, come on and show everyone how we like to do it!
AGM???
Well, it was a poor turnout, and after waiting for the 150 students needed to quor the meeting so we could actually vote and pass some actions, they all left again following the guest speakers! Before this, however, we were able to deal with the issue of Raines, our current Student President being asked to resign, with a strong standing against the motion.
Another big issue was the nursery, which will now go to a referendum.
An Emergency General Meeting is to be called in the near future regarding the anti-war movement.
ID???
Don't worry if you suddenly find yourself being asked for ID in the bar, or around campus it's simply a security measure following the recent break-in to Glenside. It's thought that the people knew what they were looking for and where to find it, and so to prevent any Tom, Dick or Harriet wandering in to do a quick recce you may well be asked to prove yourself as a bona fide member of the UWESU. Of course, all those regular faces with their own chairs and a special pint glass behind the bar needn't worry!
Student Show
Our talented Cultural and Media and Film Studies students prove their skills to the world, well, Bristol anyway. At the Watershed on 13th and 14th May you can go along and see the work these students do as level three students display their work. Maybe it's not all sitting round watching flicks all day after all…
Best Behaviour
Well, it would seem we've all been behaving ourselves extremely well lately! The local residents meeting didn't raise any serious complaints, except for a few issues about parking being raised.
Emma Phillips
with Chris Daymond
I have to start this week with a comment about the (now legendary) St Matts pool league. The Awesome Guniea Pigs saw off the competition and managed to wrap up the league with a week to spare. They were not only content with the league title, but felt it only right that one of their players should win the all important averages. But the RaTle Snakes must have been confident about the last singles tournament of the year as members of their team had won the last two competitions. But the Guniea Pigs were not finished as their captain went on to win with a 6-3 victory over Tom Sharland in the final. What a man! Elsewhere, efending title holder, Lee Cooper crashed out to the extravagant and unpredictable Ian Ballowtyne in the first round, and Dann Williams and Oli Robinson had a good run to the semi-finals.
Your local heroes, the mighty Shadwell Town F.C, finished the league season in an annoyingly close second place. The boys lost the league by one point after losing one game and drawing one game all season. All of the other performances were fit for a team that deserved the title. A special shout to the midfield hardmen, Ken, Matty Reynolds and Dan, whose hard work earnt him the the captain’s armband towards the end of the season.
You may recall that last time, I said that if I did not receive any e-mails, then I would talk about myself and everything great about me. Unfortunatley, I got a response from Mr. Lee Cooper. A new craze is sweeping the nation and here’s Lee to tell you more...
EVOLUTION OF PRO’S
When you are ten, being good at football games on the computer somehow seems pointless; coming to university has, however, made me understand the pride that revolves around winning these games. Evolution Soccer is so good, that people have started setting up tournaments in its honour. “Bring smoke, beer and munchies” is at the bottom of each party invite, and participation is via invite only. It has been a pleasure to play with some of the gods of the game. Toby Fallon, Tom Sharlon, Matthew Gotel, Chris Daymond, Matthew Reynolds are to name but a few of the better players (well, scrap Reynolds, he’s rubbish!) The gauntlet is laid down to the other campuses as I believe St. Matts has the finest Pro-Evolution representatives of all. Anyway, must dash, Pro Evo on tour is at the girl’s house tonight! Chow!
Thank you, Lee and I’ll be over later (if just for the munchies!)
Elsewhere, the Cricket World Cup has been going on, but personally I think Pro Evo is much more important than cricket.
I don’t know about you, but I am loving the glorious weather at the moment, so I’m gonna crack open a can of beer and head outside for a game of hackysack. Oh yeah, and my friends bet that I couldn’t incorporate the word tigger into my article....and, well, they were wrong!
Chris Daymond and Lee Cooper
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