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Worgan’s Words of winter wishes Well it’s that time of year again . Exam stress is everywhere, the constant sight of people running round in a frenzy with little hair and blood shot eyes. However, just think in 2 weeks it will all be over and you can go home, relax, eat hundreds of Christmas chocolates (are they really any different to non christmas chocolates) and watch the festive Christmas tele. Oh and of course you have issue 2 of The Stag to take home ! From all of us here at The Stag we wish you a very merry, warm and tingly Christmas and hope you get all the gifts (and for most, money!) that you have been wishing for ! See you in 2009! Claire -x- Editor| Claire Worgan: ussu.thestag@surrey.ac.uk News| Amy Short & Steven Hayton: newsdeskstag@gmail.com Features| Kim Harris : featuresdeskstag@gmail.com Societies| Justin Waite & Mariam Nasir : societiesdeskstag@gmail.com Sports: sportsdeskstag@gmail.com Music| Rachael Fitz-Patrick : musicdeskstag@gmail.com Literature| Amy Barnes :literaturedeskstag@gmail.com Film| Ollie Sim: filmdeskstag@gmail.com Science| Toby Shannon : sciencedeskstag@gmail.com Marketing| Amy Campbell :marketingdeskstag@gmail.com Copy Editors | Joe Kenward & Stephanie Davies The Stag is an editorially indepedent newspaper and is published by the University of Surrey Student’s Union Media Hub. The views expressed in the paper are those of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the editor or her team, the Student’s Union or the University of Surrey. Printed by Surrey and Berkshire Media Limited Stoke Mill House, Woking Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 1QA In this issue..... News Pages 3,4&5 Features Atheist Christmas | Page 7 Campus Boy & Starbucks | Page 8 GU2 News | Page 9 Not News | Page 10 A Coffee With...| Page 11 Yummy Recipes | Page 12 Gift Ideas for the credit crunch | Page 13 Poker & Manor Park Mentors | Page 14 Societies The Great Mathscepade| Page 15 Guild Standing & Asian Soc | Page 16 The Year of the Guild| Pages 17 How to start a society | Page 17 PSA| Page 18 Politics Society | Page 19 Horoscopes Page 20 Arts Music Reviews | Pages 22 Exclusive : The Automatic | Page 23 Album of the year & Set Reviews| Page 24 Exclusive : The Holloways | Page 25 Literature | Page 26 Best and Worst of film 2008 | Page 27 Film and Theatre reviews | Page 28 Sports Gliding & Taekwondo | Page 29 Open water swimming | Page 30 Trampolining | Page 30 Find out more information at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group. phpgid=36469776493 Save our stags, recycle your paper! 2 The Stag reserves the right to edit submissions. Please direct all enquiries to the relevant section editors.
Manor Park Roasting on an Open Fire By Amy Short kitchen fire in Manor Park on A Wednesday 6th December resulted in a midnight evacuation of sixty students. Two fire engines, an ambulance, three university security officers and several wardens were on the scene. An attempt to use extinguishers to put out the flames failed because the fire involved oil. The cost of repairing the damage is estimated at around £2000. This incident caused considerable disruption to students, who waited outside for two hours, and put them at high risk of injury. Fortunately the fire detection and associated evacuation procedures went smoothly and nobody was injured. “Fires in student kitchens are nearly always caused by residents leaving cooking unattended,” says Richard Paxton, the Director of Accommodation. He has advised all students to take great care when preparing food: “Do not, under any circumstances, leave cooking of any sort unattended at any time. The risks are higher at night, when there are less [sic] residents around or when you are under the influence of alcohol.” So be careful everyone! newsdeskstag@gmail.com The scene shortly after the fire How the mighty fall.. By Steven Hayton I ’m sure most of you will remember going into a Woolworths store when you where younger, buying some pick and mix, looking at all the toys. In fact it’s one of the few stores I can remember from my childhood. Heartbreaking to learn then that after 99 years of trading in the UK, Woolworths has fallen into administration. Unfortunately Woolworths hasn’t been in a strong position for years, the ever-expanding supermarket chains have pushed the company to the floor. As these businesses expand at a phenomenal rate, earning masses of money they can afford to sell their products at prices lower than Woolworths could handle. But this is not the only reason for the downfall. An incredible £385 million debt left the giant on it’s knees with 815 stores and around 30,000 jobs at stake. Now administrators Deloitte will, in the worst case scenario, move in to make the most money out of Woolworths and it’s stock before it disappears. Surely though a huge name like Woolworths can’t just disappear Thankfully it seems there maybe light at the end of the tunnel. The aim of the administrators is to try and recover the dept owed to its creditors and save what remains of Woolworths, so Woolworths will be trading at Christmas and as you can expect the stores have been busy with the recent media spotlight placed on the company. Unfortunately however, sometime in the next year the number of stores will most likely be reduced to around 200, the rest sold to other companies to help reduce the debt. Meaning that a lot of people will be made redundant, this is why the company must be saved. Not through government funding, that’s not an option as the cause of Woolworth’s downfall is not unjustified, it’s not down to the poor decisions made by some banks. It is regrettably but undeniably the fault of the people in charge of Woolworths. So next time you pass a Woolworths store, why not go in and buy that CD or DVD that you’ve been meaning to get and help this giant stand up again. 3
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