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2 The Founder | Wednesday 28 May 2008 The Founder The Independent Student Newspaper of Royal Holloway, University of London Email: editor@thefounder.co.uk thefounder.co.uk For the latest news, reviews, and everything Holloway, get online Submit Online Write your articles online with our new submission feature! Just navigate to: thefounder.co.uk/articleupload.php Please recycle this newspaper when you are finished Recycling bins are located at: Arts Building, The Hub, Gowar and Wedderburn Halls, T-Dubbs Our annual Volunteering Week provides an opportunity for students to get active in serving the community. This year we have more projects than ever and so we will need more volunteers than ever too! See below for a list of projects… then visit the web link to the online sign-up form which needs completing to get involved. http://www.rhul.ac.uk/volunteering/forms/vw-volunteer.shtml MONDAY 2nd June • Good Companions Clubhouse – interior painting (Age Concern Spelthorne) • Sensory Garden (Birchlands residential home) • Outside in Project – includes erecting shed, painting fences & playhouses, and various gardening activities (Trumps Green Infants) • Outdoor wall mural - continue from MADD team (Christ Church Infants) • Painting playground fence (St Cuthbert’s) *CRB required • Englefield Green Youth Centre exterior of building TUESDAY 3rd June • Good Companions Clubhouse – interior painting (Age Concern Spelthorne) • Sensory Garden (Birchlands residential home) • Outside in Project – includes erecting shed, painting fences & playhouses, and various gardening activities (Trumps Green Infants) • Indoor wall mural (Christ Church Infants) • Regeneration project (St Jude’s cemetery) WEDNESDAY 4th June • Cleaning toys, physiotherapy equipment & windows (White Lodge Centre) • External face-lift (Thorpe Lea) • Outdoor mural (St Jude’s) • Painting fences, digging allotment & garden areas (Manorcroft) • Befriending elders (Manor Farm day centre) *CRB required THURSDAY 5th June • Cleaning and gardening (Lynwood residential home) • youth allotment (NACRO e2e) • External face-lift (Thorpe Lea) • Outdoor mural (St Jude’s) • Painting fences, digging allotment & garden areas (Manorcroft) • Befriending elders (Manor Farm day centre) *CRB required We would ask you to choose to get involved by offering at one day of your week to be part of a project team (the online form allows you to say which day(s) you are available) – then also to invite any friends to get involved too. We really do need your help with this one so if you could complete the online form ASAP then project teams will be arranged next week and information emailed out to you. Happy Volunteering! Phil and the Community Action student team
The Founder | Wednesday 28 May 2008 News Royal Holloway goes on tour to Edinburgh Fringe Festival 3 » continued from page 1 burgh on an annual basis. Performing at the event can become very costly for those involved and thus students normally have to save up a considerable amount of personal cash as well as raise funds around campus. Fortunately, the Students’ Union partly fund the Drama Society productions (via the Drama Society budget), although such funding has been a topic of debate in recent sabbatical election campaigns with many students feeling that it is a waste of Union money that only benefits a small amount of students. This argument is met with equal antipathy from arts students who believe that Holloway’s performances in Edinburgh are the pinnacle of what the College in the realm of drama and arts and that such funding helps maintain the College’s reputation as one of the best universities in the country for Drama. Second year students ‘Max and double act. The duo found success Iván’ will be making the trip independently Students half of the page Students’ sunbury Union 23/5/08 they created 13:02 ‘Los Page Guapos’. 1 A Borat- in their first year at Holloway when with their well-known comedy esque Argentian themed double-act Max Olesker and Iván Gonzalez pictured for their Insanity promotional material in which they acted as two immigrants getting to grips with the English (more specifically, Holloway) way of life. Often featuring songs with ukulele accompaniment, the act went down very well with the student body boosting their popularity as campus comedians. In September 2007 they launched a serialised radio show named ‘Max and Iván: Exposed’ in which they cast a wry eye over current affairs and student-related stereotypes, “exposing” such topics as education and religion. One pair of characters, two public school rappers known as ‘Eton Alive’ was particularly wellreceived. ‘Flush!’, a play that takes an uncompromising look at sex, death, deceit and society today, was the Drama Society’s first production of the year, performed in the Michaelmas term 2007. Met with rave reviews highlighting the quirky plot and strong acting, it is set to do very well at the Fringe. The cast comprises Patrick Scaglioni, Jack Tidy, Tom Bridges, Sian Gordon and Grace Felton with Benn Cody directing. Finally, Darning Jilly will also be staged during August. We have interviewed the cast and crew on pages 10 and 11. If you want to know what all the fuss is about, head to Edinburgh over the course of the next couple of months. Full details can be found at www.edfringe.com. Stop transporting your life * Terms & conditions apply. Store it with Access this Summer If you don't want the hassle of carting everything you own back and forth when term's out, why not store it safe and secure with us? We have individual lockers and small units in stores near you, all with easy access, no deposit and student-friendly prices. We can also help with great value boxes and packing materials available in-store and online. And if you enter the discount code SCF8 when you reserve a room we'll even give you 75% off* your first month's storage. Your local store: Sunbury Windmill Road, TW16 7HT 75 %* OFF when you reserve online 0800 389 5041 accessstorage.com
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