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Florence's Machine Rolls Onto Campus
The two undisputed risen stars of 2009 were Lady GaGa and Florence and the Machine, and despite both being art-schooled and both being utter freaks of the highest order, this is where their similarities end. Whilst GaGa primarily indulges in glamorous techno-pop, Florence and the Machine, primarily composed of the statuesque, fire-haired waif that is Ms Welch, has been beamed in from another slightly gothic, slightly hippy planet, and she is headlining this year’s Summer Ball! read more
MMCat-alising Social Reform
It used to be all the cool kids got together to wrap small nuggets of golden MDMA in Rizla and head out on the town for a night of jittery jaws, overenthusiastic smoking, and gushy emotional honesty. That well ran dry when the cooking agent for MDMA (methylpropan-2-amine) was recently made illegal. In 2007 this made it more cost effective to import large quantities of cheap drugs from China. read more
Frisbee Inventor Dies
Walter Frederick “Fred” Morrison was a cultural innovator, opportunist, war hero and more. Yet most will remember him as the man who invented the Frisbee. His creation, one seemingly so simple you might initially feel it defies the idea of ‘invention’ at all, revolutionised recreational and competitive game play irreversibly. Fred Morrison passed away this month, on 9th February at the age of 90 as a result of natural causes. His creation of one of the best-selling and most versatile toys of the century render him a man not to be forgotten. read more
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Interview
Closer
As the lights went down on the intimate Aphra stage and the four actors were positioned in waiting, there was an anticipation and excitement in the air. This was Patrick Marber’s Closer, a story of deceit, love, lies and intense sexual politics for which the audience, I am certain, was not prepared. read more
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Reality TV, Really?
If the Nineties was the decade of the sitcom, then the Noughties was the one of reality TV. It has been ten years since the show that started it all, Big Brother, first aired. Its original premise was simple: lock a group of strangers in a house together, without any contact with the outside world, and see how they interact with each other. It was a risk, was there much appeal in watching unknowns roam around a house all day? read more
Interview
Green Impact At Kent University
It’s not easy being green, and we are all a bit guilty when it comes to the business of our environmental and ethical impact. Not reading the instructions for the photocopier, using plastic cups and buying non-Fair-trade products are just a few minor factors which contribute to the big, ugly reality of climate change and unfair trade. Fortunately however, the new Green Impact project makes it that bit easier. Already piloted at Bristol University last year (with excellent results), the project has been introduced to a further 25 universities this year and Kent is one of them. read more
Interview
Society Spotlight: Psychedelics
Towards the end of last year I walked into the campus shop to buy some milk and saw a young Anthropology undergraduate by the name of Dave King, whom I had shared a philosophy seminar with during my first term at UKC. We began to talk idly, as you do in Essentials, chewing the fat of such scintillating topics as ‘how we had been’ and ‘where we were living that year’. read more
