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It’s almost here - the event you’ve all been waiting for. The bands have all been announced, the decorations have been made, and soon enough Barker House Farm and The Winning Post will be transformed into the densest of jungles, with roaring animals and thick foliage. The Kaiser Thiefs are our headlining act, the official tribute band to the Chiefs, and they are going to knock your socks off with fantastic covers of some of your favour-ites from Employment and Yours Truly, Angry Mob. The tickets are selling out fast, and with rain forecast for the night in ques-tion it…

Hey guys! We’re back with our final magazine of this academic year, although we will be back in Fresher’s term for another two magazines. So don’t worry, this isn’t a final goodbye, rather a ‘see you soon’. I’m sure you’re pleased we’ll be bothering you again next term, we certainly are!

For all those of you leaving our fair land of Lancaster at the end of this year we wish you well and hope you enjoy the rest of your lives. Hope you enjoyed yourselves!

Anyway, onto this issue. I honestly believe this is the best magazine we’ve created so far. The…

If you ever need to have a confidential chat or some help with any issue, feel free to visit members of the JCR during their Office Hours and hopefully they’ll be able to help you out.. They’ll be in the JCR Office at the end of the corridor past the mail area in the Porter’s Lodge.

Give Sue a wave as you go past - I mean if she can go to the effort of joining in on the inter-block Rounders (see page 9) surely you can give her a wave!

First off, our Education and Welfare Officers have office hours on the following…

In week 8 the Sugarhouse turned on the UV lights and got out their glow sticks for ‘glo night’. They opened up the back room, charged 90p entry (90p!) and once you were in you could get drinks from the same price (90p for a shot of vodka plus 40p for a mixer is a pretty great deal as far as I’m concerned).

With plenty of glow sticks being handed out to the crowd for free, the dance floor was filled with an ethereal light. The cheap drinks and general awesomeness of the already too often mentioned glow sticks was…

Although I’m sure you’re getting bored of these write-ups by now, Fury continues to be so awesome and regularly popular that we can’t just ignore it! So, to this weeks Fury, the last of this academic year…

This time, as I’m sure you are all aware, the collectables were coloured key-rings from each college. We were back up to eight bars again, thanks to a hasty re-opening of Fylde for the event, and it’s modern décor seemed to be a hit, making it one of the busiest bars early on in the night. Although it was described by some as having…

In week two this term the evolution of mankind was thrown back a generation or two when our beautiful Cartmelians decided to ruin their good image and step out in prehistoric style! With dirty hair, muddy faces and poorly cut loincloth, the Carleton had never before seen such a strange sight (OK, so that’s a lie, the Carleton has seen far worse, but I’m just being dramatic).

As always at the Carleton it was a messy night, with one of our party getting punched in face, and our President kissing everyone he saw (which some may have enjoyed more than others……

By now all of you should know what I’m talking about - the massive pyrotechnic display that was the premature demolition of everyone’s favourite waste disposal area. Fast becoming a Facebook phenomenon (‘I Survived the Cartmel Fire’), many of you were woken up by this ‘exciting’ one-off event. Despite the fact that almost all of the onlookers were gathered outside my window, I unfortunately did not wake up to see the spectacle.

UPP (the lovely people who take our deposits every year) aren’t rebuilding it any time soon, but we’ve had some suggestions for what might appear in its place: the…

This issue’s a big one. With all the big films for the summer starting to come out now, Robbie turns his attention to Indiana Jones, and steps aside for the ladies to review Sex and the City. Not only that, Robbie continues his Apple hatred when he reviews the (actually very impressive) new Creative Zen.

Indiana Jones
And the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The Indiana Jones Trilogy becomes very inaptly named with the release of this fourth film to the cinema, which sees Harrison ford reprise his role as the adventurous archaeologist. The only difference is: he’s twenty years older,…

Creative’s latest offering, the Creative Zen, pits itself against the iPod Nano and basically wins. It comes in a range of sizes from 2 to 32GB and has additional features such as an FM radio, voice and music recording and comprehensive video playback. It also comes with an immense 16.7 millions colour screen and a 2.5 inch screen. And the best part- the price! The 16GB model is a mere £99, the same as the 4GB iPod Nano, You do the math(s). Only disadvantage is that it won’t play music you bought off iTunes - you will need an iPod…

I shall now put you into the very capable hands of Lyndsey Walker and Helen Thompson for a review of a film which, quite frankly, I just didn’t want to pay to see (although I’m sure it’s really good, I just didn’t like the TV series)

So without further ado…

Lyndsey
I don’t know about you, but the prospect of a film containing our four favourite label-loving Manhattan girls got me very excited. Unfortunately, rather than heading down to the premiere in a New York taxi, cosmopolitan in hand, we found ourselves running for the bus and popping into Humbugs for a pick-n-mix…

Name: Sian Brigham
Position: Publicity Officer
Block rep for… Ullswater
Degree: French and Spanish
Year of Study: 1st
My life ambition is… To get a good degree, do a PGCE, start teaching at a good school, get married, have chil-dren, live in a nice big house and live comfortably ever af-ter! (I hope that doesn’t sound too Disney!)
Anything Else? I have a fear of feet and I’m addicted to coffee. Two very random facts I know!

Name: Helen Thompson
Position: Female Equal Opportunities Officer
Block rep for… Ullswater for now
Degree: Law
Year of study: 1st
My life ambition is: To be…

Carter Shield
This last term has seen the Carter shield move outside to take advantage of the supposed fine weather. We’ve had a lot of fun in the sun competing with the other colleges, probably getting too much for our own good!

Touch Rugby
The first event of the term was touch rugby. As per usual legions of loyal Cartmelians turned out to face the mighty forces of the other colleges. In our group we played Furness, Bowland and Grizedale, drawing the first and losing the second two respectively. Although it doesn’t sound very impressive the odds we were facing were almost impossible,…

This year it was decided that Cartmel should contribute a team to the prestigious Relay for Life event, organised by Cancer Research UK. The idea is that team members should take it in turns to walk the perimeter of the rugby pitch to create a constant flow of walkers for 24 hours, raising money for Cancer Research through individual sponsorship. The walking was surprisingly tiring, and although some people marched on through the night, Stephen and I were forced to retire to our beds for a short time. Although you might think this sounds a bit wimpy, we had in…