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Contents Welcome to the 3

rd

Edition of the

Witch

Contents Page 2

Letter from JCR Exec 3

Sex, Drugs and Sausage Rolls (L.Williams) 4

The Term So Far in Pics 5

Game of Thrones (D.Clucas) 6

Live while you’re Young (L.Williams) 7

Has Feminism Gone Too Far? (D.Cooper) 8

Extrav (C. Conn) 10

The Original Prehistoric Pendle (A.Holt) 12

Badger Mondays at Dalton 13

Learn To Cook (L.Williams) 14

Quiz Page 15

Shedding Light on LUSU (D.Cooper) 16

Answer Page 17

What is Legends? (D.Cooper) 18

Legends Schedule 19

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…Dear Pendle,

So it’s been a busy third term for the JCR what with exams and Extrav coming up (we’re

all very excited for Prehistoric Pendle), and with the first preparations under way for

Intro week 2014, which is looking to be the best one yet!

The events team have been busy trying to battle the inevitable problems Pendle Bar

always seem to be faced with in third term regarding lack of attendance to events, and

have done so by alternating Pendle Live and our new Open Mic night every week in an

attempt to install a fresh lease of excitement in the college students. We’ve also

decided to move the quiz back to Sunday as we feel the atmosphere works better than

holding the event on a Friday night as we did last term. The events team are also

looking at holding a fifa tournament in the build-up for legends week 9, which if last

year is anything to go by should be hugely successful. The organisation of Extrav 2014

is well under way, all the acts are finalised and we’re ready to start looking at

decorations to ensure Pendle continues to hold the best Extrav on campus.

With regards to Welfare, the officers have been busy organising the South West Big Chill

with the relevant officers from the other two colleges. Unfortunately the event will

have to be moved to next term, however this does allow us more time to ensure the event

is thoroughly organised.

The JCR have also made progress regarding lighting and sound within Pendle Bar. The AV

Tech has worked hard to secure regular lighting for Pendle Live to enhance to

fantastic atmosphere of the event and improve the professionalism of the event itself.

We’ve also invested in a projector for the bar to allow us to put on a wider spectrum of

events such as movie nights which will come in handy for the coming intro week also.

The sports awards are currently being organised with the officers asking around the

sports captains for half and full colours, most valuable player and interviews for the

video. Organisation to have team photos in the bar is also underway, with the officers

meeting up with the teams this week to take pictures to frame. Legends takes place in

week 9 which gives Pendle another opportunity to prove we’re better than every other

college. Also the sign-up sheets for legends sports captains have been organised and a

rough schedule for the days has been made.

It should be noted the fantastic job Beth and Finn have done in office especially

concerning legends and carter shield- which would have been a great success had the

weather not prevented us for beating everybody !

With Love from

Your JCR Exec

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Okay… The Sausage Rolls bit is pointless, but you’ve

gotta admit it had to be done… 4

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The fact that Game of Thrones is a significant section of our pop cultural landscape is

undeniable. Most people are able to name a few Houses of Westeros, with a few people

even being able to rattle off house mottos as if part of some cult. Series 4 episode 8 of

the fantasy series, which aired in American on Sunday 1st, was the most watched HBO

show since the Sopranos finale in the summer of 2007, and viewing figures for the show

have been exponentially growing since its debut way back in 2011. It was recently

revealed to be the most pirated TV show ever, with millions of people downloading the

episodes as they become available, and currently holds a 9.5 rating on imbd, above

shows such as Sherlock, Friends and Planet Earth.

Game of Thrones is set in the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, with multiple

houses fighting for the right to sit on the Iron Throne. Through its morally ambiguous

characters, the series explores issues of social hierarchy, religion, loyalty, corruption,

civil war, crime and punishment. It is an adaptation of a Song of Ice and Fire, a series of

fantasy novels by George RR Martin.

What makes Game of Thrones so great? The simple answer: Excellent writing, excellent

acting and excellent production. You have a personal connection to a multitude of

characters, even when they’re only on screen for a few minutes each episode, and the

blurred lines between the good and bad of multiple characters adds for intrigue as each

story plays out. The drama is tense and gripping, proven by clips of people’s reactions to

certain plot developments being available online, much to the amusement of the on

looking book readers, who went through the same series of emotions years prior.

Very few others TV shows have been able to captivate and each out to such a wide,

varied fan base, with its gravitas being unmatched by any other TV show of recent

years. The show still has to get through another 3 or 4 books, hence will be sticking

around for a long time to come and it HBO keeps on creating the same quality product

of the first 4 seasons, Game of Thrones will go down as the best TV show of all time.

By David Clucas

(Lancaster University Game of Thrones Society screens the episodes live, check the

facebook page for details)

Is Game of Thrones the most

popular TV show ever?

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Live while we’re Young University is supposed to be one of the best times of your life… So why do we waste our summers

sometimes jut endlessly complaining about wanting to be back in Lancaster!? As the saying goes “YOYO!”

(otherwise known as “You only live once.”) Live, love, laugh.

There’s no formula for having the perfect summer but here are a few of my favourite pointers for making

the most of the sunniest time Britain has to offer.

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In recent times, it’s fair to say that campus has been

overcome by a tsunami wave of feminism. Debates

ramble on constantly about equality for the suppressed

sex. But, is this really fair when those that preach such

equality seem in some cases to hold a complete

disregard for the opposite sex? It appears that when the

shoe is on the other foot, no one really cares so long as

they’re getting a better deal.

Take for example last year’s banning of a certain infamous tabloid newspaper. For years page

3 has been circulated without much of an issue. You could choose to look at the paper or

not. Nowadays however, it seems that because of a few who are vocal disagree with the

topless model, the rest of us have to suffer in silence, subjected to censorship and without

much of a vote too. It’s all well and good legitimising such a move with ‘oh, page 3 made all

men think of women sexually, so it’s a good thing we got rid of it,’ but It’s first of all naive to

think that, and second of all a matter of opinion of what one thinks about the page 3 model.

For instance, some women actually see it as a way to appreciate the female form. Yet no,

let’s ban it because all men love to gaze.

It seems now would be a good time to bring in the recent elections and the establishment of

liberation officers. Last week, I sat and watched the husts for CCO Women’s officer. Whilst

both candidates were open to getting men involved in the women’s liberation movement,

one argued for ‘women’ only spaces. However, it wasn’t this that bothered me. As I sat and

listened a thought crept in, ‘who are these two to represent every female demographic

Lancaster has?’ They’re both white and middle class, so how do they understand what it’s

like to be a black, working class female with a child? Easy, they don’t. These positions had

previously been created before but were scrapped for a number of different reasons. Mainly

that they didn’t work. This further begs the question as to why LUSU even came up with the

idea of re-introducing them in the first place.

Staying with the elections of last week, the #IThinkSheShouldRun campaign was somewhat

a highlight for LUSU. This was an attempt to get more women into powerful positions by

simply promoting the fact that women should run. Cover display pictures circulated the

web with people being tagged in them with hope that they would run.

Has Feminism

Gone Too Far?

8

We won’t mention that fact that LUSU here are treating the symptoms of why women

aren’t running rather than the real cause. For example, ‘women aren’t running for

office…let’s make a position for them.’ And thus the CCO Women’s officer was born – some

might say. But those behind the campaign said such an idea could easily have been

replicated by men for a #IThinkHeShouldRun initiative. But imagine if that had happened?

Those involved would have straight away pointed these men out, labelling them as sexists

who are nothing more than jealous and are trying to maintain the status quo of a male

dominate world. I call bullshit.

The criticisms don’t stop there either. The issue with doing the campaign over Facebook

meant the #IThinkSheShouldRun campaign was limited to only the friends list of the people

involved. Instantly people were being tagged within the ‘LUSU circle,’ and with positions

open to EVERYBODY it seems the campaign only worked in getting women to run, who

were already thinking about running anyway. Take for instance an event workshop that

was created. Those invited to it reached the grand total of under 50 and again involved the

LUSU clique of regulars. Seems to me like no one outside of this had a chance, unless of

course someone on your friends list was deeply involved in LUSU.

My last and final point is perhaps the most talked about. This Easter, Lancaster delegates

voted at the NUS conference in Liverpool to ensure that at least 50% of delegates (those

sent to represent Lancaster) have to be women. I emphasise the words ‘ATLEAST 50%’.

Yeah, that’s right, over half of NUS delegates sent by the Union in the years following can

now be women. ¾ or even all 4 delegates can be women; this however is not the case with

men who have no quota protecting them. The fact that a voted position needs to have a

female presence in it makes the whole debacle undemocratic. Not only that, but some

argue that this forces women to run for the position and if they win, they might not feel as

though they’re the best for the job, but rather were there because they had to be. Again,

this surely would not have been agreed by Lancaster University students had their opinion

actually been asked for, and not just on a Facebook status either.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not here on my soap box preaching that men are getting a bad

deal. In fact not once in the article did I say ‘what about men?’ What I am saying though

is that perhaps those who are fighting the corner for women’s rights need to go about it

more carefully. They preach equality but it seems as though when it comes down to it,

it’s not so equal at all. In this there’s also probably a message for LUSU to. That being, to

do what they’re there to do and signify the views of those they represent. Not those who

are in the faithful clique of LUSU or those who just think, ‘hey, it can’t do any harm, we

may as well do it.’

Article by Dale Cooper 9

DJ Neil Jackson

Prehistoric

Pendle For about 7 years, T-Rexstrav has been the running fake theme circulated

each year. This year I thought I’d actually go for it, in the hope that

everyone who may have heard about it in the run up would think it was

only a joke.

Despite some mixed feedback, we were one of the first to sell out on

Saturday, and I really think that ‘Prehistoric Pendle’ will be the best

Extrav this year! Unlike most of the other events this year, we’ll be

playing host to more bands than DJs. Earlier in the evening there’ll be

campus favourites Liam McGenity, Matt Baker and BC555, followed by the

Fighting Keegans - our very own residence officer’s band. We’ll be

welcoming back Yellowbird for the first time since their graduation earlier

last year, and there’ll be DJ sets from Christie Hutchby, George Williams,

Josh Lee and Neil Jackson. The two bigger bands are My Favourite

Runner Up (www.myfavouriterunnerup.blogspot.com) , and Kassoma

(www.twitter.com/kassomamusic) , who are both brilliant and well worth

listening to before coming to the event!

For now I’m going to keep the decorations and entertainments a secret, so

you’ll have to come on the night to find out what’s in store. What I can

promise though, is that the space will be completely transformed into our

very own Jurassic Quad. Watch this space…

Article By

Chris Conn (Pendle VP Events)

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THE ORIGINAL PREHISTORIC

PENDLE Dinosaurs: my first passion in life.

While other little kids might have had imaginary friends, or actual friends, I was the proud owner of an

imaginary pet dinosaur which lived under my table in reception class. He was called Albert.

At Easter I was given Thornton’s chocolate velociraptor eggs. After 2 years of waiting for them to hatch, they

had to be thrown away because they were no longer edible.

With the news of the extrav theme for Pendle this year, my dormant fascination reignited and it got me

wondering as to how exciting and terrifying Lancaster may have been in the time of the terrible lizards. What

kind of furiously menacing giant turkeys could have walked along the spine millions of years ago?

Well it’s not as boring as you might think. Britain had one of the most diverse concentrations of dinosaur in the

world with more than 100 species; it was the real Jurassic park.

Britain was a crucial crossroads for creatures moving between North America and Eurasia – the landmass that

includes Europe and Asia – when they were joined.

Britain formed part of the last “land bridge” between the two continents before they finally split apart 65

million years ago and experts believe it was one of the few places where dinosaurs from both sides would have

existed together.

The first dinosaur found in Britain was the Megalosaurus, the great great great great great grandfather of the

Tyrannosaurus whose arms were even smaller. Poor guy, my heart really does go out to him and his itchy head.

He probably named himself that to compensate for his insecurity.

Another amongst the first was the Iguanodon, who had razor sharp horns for thumbs. So I imagine in them days

giving someone ‘a thumbs up’ was an unpleasant gesture.

Even though we’ve been searching for fossils for over 200 years now, we’re still finding fossils of new dinosaur

species, which kind of makes me wonder, if I’d followed my first career choice of becoming a palaeontologist,

what kind of adventure would I be living now?

By Adam Holt 12

Learn to cook

140 grams of plain flour 4 Eggs

200ml of milk sunflower oil (for cooking)

Ingredients

Method

1. Heat your oven to its

highest setting. This is a

crucial step if you want

them to rise! Then drizzle

some sunflower oil into

either a 12-hole muffin tin

or a big deep-pan tray and

whack it in the oven.

Being a Yorkshire lass born and bred, Yorkshire puddings

are an absolute must for my personal student

repertoire. You really can’t beat homemade as well. So

this week I’m going to educate how to get the perfect pud

really easily. They are so versatile as well! You can have

them with your Sunday roast or have your Sunday roast

inside them! (Giant Yorkshires are my favourite!)

2. Tip the flour into a mixing bowl

or a measuring jug and then

whisk (with a fork) each egg

into it to make a batter. Then

add the milk little by little

making sure to whisk out any

lumps until you have a mixture

with the consistency of single

cream. Make sure there are no

lumps!

3. Open the oven and pour your

mixture into the tray

closing the oven door

straight away. (You have to

be quick to stop the heat

getting out). Leave the

puddings for 20-25 minutes

without opening the oven

until puffed up and brown.

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CARTER SHIELD

DINOSAUR

PENDLE LIVE

QUIZ

CAVEMAN

CAVEWOMAN

POSH

T-REXTRAV

LEGENDS

PREHISTORIC

WITCH

GHETTO

Can You Guess the

Famous Child...

Pendle

Puzzler

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From the very beginning of your university life, the students

union plays an integral part of your experience here at

Lancaster, and affects the day to day lives of the rest of its

members. Its inner workings generally take place behind

closed doors, yet the decisions they make have some level of

consequence for us all. With this point in mind, such

decisions still go somewhat unnoticed or overlooked by the

majority of students. Why then, does it appear that nobody

has a clue what LUSU does, or what it even means?

There’s no doubt that LUSU aims to represent the views of

its members, but whenever LUSUs mentioned it seems a

whiff of discontent closely follows afterwards. It would be

fair to say that LUSU have failed to reach out to the

ordinary student. Heck, you’ll be forgiven for not knowing

what the initials F.T.O stand for and I’ll give 10 points to

the first person who can name an actual officer. When you

ask such questions and get the answers, you soon begin to

understand why LUSU is unable to fill quotas for its general

meetings. The aggressive nature with which they take on

issues are passed with good intentions yet are not

necessarily representative. The ordinary student suddenly

gets the impression of a union scared to ‘make waves’ and

act in their interest, with officers who only come out of the

wood works when an election is held.

It seems the criticisms don’t stop there either. LUSU appear

to zone their attention and put 100% effort into things that

don’t necessarily grab the attention of others. Evident with

the No More Page 3 campaign, which saw LUSU ban the

tabloid newspaper ‘The Sun’ for its daily depiction of glamour

models on the infamous page 3. Many students who didn’t

even read the newspaper were therefore subjected to

extreme censorship, whilst the union simply followed the

trend set by other university student unions instead of

actually thinking it up for themselves. I‘m not saying that

such issues are unimportant or don’t need to be discussed,

but it seems that LUSU this year have given us only one

reason for us all to be happy. The 24 hour library. And even

that’s been the result of years of agitation towards the

university. Why not deal with bigger issues and actually do

things we all want, such as improve Sugarhouse – you know

it’s what we’ve all been waiting for.

In addition to the latter, we get the impression of a union

suffering from the familiar afflictions of money and power.

Some argue that LUSU living has created a monopoly over

the Lancaster property market, isolating and alienating

private landlords in favour of their own rented houses

which they increase the prices of yearly. Although I’m in

favour of LUSU Living, something like the cost of living is an

issue that needs to be addressed. The ever increasing prices

we pay for things like accommodation put LUSU in a

negative light, portraying a union which uses its members

as nothing more than a money making machine. Not helped

either by the whole sugarhouse entry fee. Yes, you could

argue that the money goes back into improving services

etc… my issue with that though is that we haven’t seen

these improvements which our money is so called going

towards. And I’ve at least pumped a couple of thousand

into the system. Even a lick of paint on the sugarhouse walls

and I’d be grateful!

Finally, perhaps the biggest gripe many have with LUSU is

their ability to impose restrictions and colossal amounts of

red tape around colleges who wish to hold events. That

goes for both college JCRs and students. “You can’t use this

word because it’ll upset somebody”, “you can’t do that”

and “that’s unsafe” are frequent phrases used by the union

and thus ideas that sound great and aim to get people

involved are ‘poo pooed’ before they’re even given a

chance. Their inability to function efficiently makes LUSU

unpopular with those who wish to work with them and its

attitude immediately puts off those who it is supposed to

represent.

I do honestly believe LUSU works hard to embody the views

of its members, but it often gets distracted with things that

are trivial instead of looking at the bigger picture. The more

LUSU reaches out to its members instead of treating them

as piggy banks, the more support they will undoubtedly get.

Maybe it’s the job of LUSU to shed light upon itself, for

something that has such a considerable effect on both our

lives and the day to day running of the university, it is

wrong that such a thing goes unnoticed and uncared for by

many.

Article by Dale Cooper

Shedding Light

on

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Answers…

A Letter from the Editors…

It’s fair to say that this edition of the Witch has been the hardest to fabricate.

Exams, normal JCR duties, Extrav and securing sponsorship have all made for one

heck of a ride. We hope you like this edition; and believe it when I say…blood, sweat

and tears went into this! We wouldn’t give it up for the world! Cheers!

Dale Cooper and Lucy Williams

A Special Thanks to…

David Clucas, Chris Conn, Adam Holt and one of our new sponsors

Dalton Rooms.

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What exactly is

Legends?...

Since 2010, 4 of the best colleges at Lancaster University (Pendle, County,

Fylde and Grizedale) have competed in the largest intercollege sporting

competition next to Carter Shield. Being one of the biggest events on the

university calendar, the competition has fell somewhat into tradition as the

four colleges fight to see which one will come out on top! Rivalries are deep

rooted and it’s the whiff of hostility, competition and hate that’s exposed

over the weekend which makes the event a highlight of the whole year.

Legends allows anyone belonging to the four colleges to get involved in sport,

whether they’re a pro and have done it for years, or they just feel like trying

something new for a change. Either way, for those that don’t like to get

sweaty or stand supporting, there’s always the Legends Social to look forward

to! This time of year, the South West end of campus becomes flooded with

sporting equipment, colour branded T-shirts and rubber bands that outline

blatantly what side you’re on.

The history of the competition has seen Pendle win it only once before, with

Fylde dominating the competition since it began. It’s hoped that this year

Pendle can once again pull through and claim victory over their counterparts

– just like they had done the year previous.

The competition this year is set to be the biggest that this side of

campus has ever seen. The event is a collection of over 24 sports and

even more events. The important thing is that it’s open to everyone no

matter what their ability. Legends packs (T-shirts, rubber bands etc.) will

be available from Monday 16th June, so keep a look out for more details.

If you’d like to get involved, simply sign up via the porters lodge at the

main desk now! It’s easy! Or if you don’t feel like partaking in sport, it

doesn’t mean you have to miss out. Get down to the bars and support

team Pendle!

Article by Dale Cooper 18

FRIDAY JUNE 20

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SPORTS CENTRE

* indicates the Sports Pitches

11AM SQUASH

12PM

TABLE TENNIS 1PM

BADMINTON 2PM

BASKETBALL 3PM

VOLLEYBALL 12PM

WOMEN’S TAG RUGBY* 1PM

MEN’S RUGBY*

NETBALL COURTS

3PM NETBALL A’S AND B’S

COUNTY BAR

4PM MEN’S A POOL COUNTY v FYLDE

6PM WOMEN’S POOL COUNTY v PENDLE

5PM WOMEN’S DARTS COUNTY v FYLDE

GRIZEDALE BAR

3PM MIXED DOMINOES GZ v PENDLE

4PM MEN’S B POOL PENDLE v COUNTY

5PM WOMEN’S DARTS PENDLE v GZ

PENDLE BAR

3PM MIXED DOMINOES COUNTY v FYLDE

4PM MEN’S B POOL GZ v FYLDE

5PM FIFA TOURNAMENT (SITTING ROOMS)

FYLDE BAR

4PM MEN’S A POOL GRIZEDALE v PENDLE

7PM WOMEN’S POOL GRIZEDALE v COUNTY

LEGENDS 2014

8PM MEN’S DARTS GZ v PENDLE

MEN’S DARTS FYLDE v COUNTY

8PM

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SPORTS CENTRE

* indicates the Sports Pitches

11:30AM DODGEBALL

12:30PM

UNI HOCK 1:30PM

HANDBALL 3:30PM

TUG OF WAR* 4PM

ULTIMATE FRISBEE* 4PM

MEN’S FOOTBALL* 2PM ON THE ASTROS

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

NETBALL COURTS

4PM NETBALL FINAL

GRIZEDALE BAR

4PM

MIXED DOMINOES 1ST AND 2ND

5PM

WOMEN’S DARTS 3RD AND 4TH 7PM

WOMEN’S POOL 3RD AND 4TH

FYLDE BAR

4PM MEN’S A POOL 3RD AND 4TH

6PM MEN’S B POOL 3RD AND 4TH

7PM MEN’S DARTS 3RD AND 4TH

PENDLE BAR

5PM WOMEN’S POOL 1ST AND 2ND

7PM WOMEN’S DARTS 1ST AND 2ND

7PM PRESIDENTS POOL

BOAT RACE AFTER FIRST 2ND

PLACE PLAY OFF IN FYLDE

3PM

POKER

SATURDAY JUNE 21

COUNTY BAR

3PM MIXED DOMINOES 3RD AND 4TH

4PM MEN’S A POOL 1ST AND 2ND

6PM MEN’S B POOL 1ST AND 2ND

5PM ROUNDERS*

8PM MEN’S DARTS 1ST AND 2ND