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18 November 2009 |
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 News
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• Are your artistic talents being neglected?
LSE Arts have two opportunities through which to channel your
creativity.
The LSE Photo Prize Exhibition 2010 is now accepting submissions. This
is a fantastic opportunity to participate in a large scale photography
competition, judged by a panel of arts professionals and LSE staff. As well
as being professionally printed and mounted, the successful entries will be
exhibited in LSE’s Atrium Gallery during March - April 2010. The theme of
the 2010 exhibition is ‘risk’. If this has sparked your imagination, you can
find out more about submitting your photographs
here. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Friday 15 January 2010.
Another outlet for your creative talent is LSE Perspectives, the online
photography gallery.
Up to twelve images are selected every month by the LSE Arts team, from
submissions by staff and students. The collection is then exhibited
online at www.lse.ac.uk/arts as well
as on Moodle. All previous monthly collections are also available to view
online.
The team are currently looking for photos to include in upcoming editions. These could be pictures taken from
your travels or any artistic scenes. You
can see the collections and find out how to submit your photos
here.
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• LSE Catering - helping you to consider the environment
LSE have introduced smart mugs, with the aim of reducing the amount of
disposable cups purchased and used in the School.
You can buy your branded smart mug for £3.90 from the following
catering outlets: LSE Garrick; 4th Floor Café Bar; Café 54; Mezzanine Café,
Café Pepe and the SDR Café Bar.
Once you have your mug, take it along to a selected outlet, order your
hot drink and it will be poured directly into your mug. It's as simple as
that!
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• Library user student satisfaction survey 2009-10
Give the Library your feedback and be in with the chance to win Amazon
vouchers just in time for Christmas.
The annual online Library user student satisfaction survey is being
conducted until Sunday 29 November. It's a great opportunity to say how you
feel about the Library and an important way for them to find out how they
can improve the Library for you.
In addition to contributing to the creation of an enhanced Library,
participants can enter a prize draw for a chance to win £50-£200 worth of
Amazon vouchers.
The survey can be found
here.
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• Changing lights on campus
Lighting across campus is being upgraded to energy-saving LED bulbs. 240
LED lights have been installed in the Old Building, the Garrick and the
Library; they use 14 per cent of the energy of the old bulbs. This saves the
School 55,500 kilowatts and 28 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
The carbon reduction manager and the maintenance team have also converted
100 light fittings on campus to high efficiency tubes saving another 17,400
kilowatts and 9.3 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
These changes are making a big difference to energy consumption around
the School. For more information, contact the Sustainability Team at
f.conteh@lse.ac.uk or visit
www.lse.ac.uk/sustainablelse |
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 Notices
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• Meet the managers
There will be an opportunity on Thursday 19 November for students to
meet senior managers from LSE's administration, in an informal
setting to discuss service-specific queries.
Due to space constraints, this first event will be invite-only. Students
interested in attending should email James Strong on
secdiv.admin@lse.ac.uk to
request an invite. The meeting will be from 3.30-4.30pm in the Graham Wallas
Room, Old Building.
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•
Alternative Investments Conference 2010
The Alternative Investments
Conference 2010 is the world's largest student conference on private
equity and hedge funds, bringing together over 50 speakers and 350
delegates from across the world - it's run by students from LSE.
The 2010 conference will take place at the Marriott Grosvenor Square
Hotel on 25 and 26 January and students are now invited to apply for a
place. You can register at
http://www.lseaic.com/Register/Default.aspx until midnight on 29
November.
Confirmed speakers for the 2010 conference include:
- David Rubenstein, co-founder and MD, The Carlyle Group
- James Chanos, founder and managing partner, Kynikos Associates
- Emmanuel Roman, co-CEO, GLG Partners
- Sir Deryck Maughan, global head of Financial Services, KKR
- Dr Ahmed Heikal, chairman and founder, Citadel Capital
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• Entrepreneur International
Challenge 2010
The LSESU Entrepreneurs Society presents the Entrepreneur International
Challenge (EPIC) 2010. EPIC is a five day international entrepreneurial
skills competition involving ten student teams from across the globe taking
part in apprentice-style challenges.
The competition has two stages:
- An initial round to identify the ten finalists, through an initial challenge
- A finals week commencing on 22 February 2010, which involves a
series of talks, workshops, and physical challenges in sales, marketing,
negotiation, strategy and social enterprise
For more information and to apply,
visit www.lse-epic.com.
Applications open on Monday 30 November.
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• Careers Service jobs of the week
OECD, Junior Policy Analyst - for those of you interested in
policy analysis, private sector development and work in an international
organisation.
Calyon, Communications Intern - based in Paris, you’d be gaining
experience of global communications tools and strategy.
Buckingham Palace, Summer Visitor Service jobs - already thinking
ahead to part-time work for next summer? So is Buckingham Palace - they are
hiring now for a number of part-time positions.
For full details of these posts and over 500 more visit 'My Careers
Service' at www.lse.ac.uk/careers
and click ‘search for opportunities’.
Come and visit the Careers Service in their new location on Floor 3, Tower 3.
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• Stress management group
The Student Counselling Service is running this group, starting on
Thursday 19 November at 2-4pm for three weeks. It looks at the stresses
involved in studying at LSE and offers a range of new coping strategies.
There are now only a few places left, so contact the office to book in
advance, email
student.counselling@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7852 3627.
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 What's
on
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• LSE tackles climate change
With the Copenhagen climate change talks just around the corner, LSE is
hosting three public lectures which are all looking at the subject.
On Thursday 19 November, Ed Miliband, secretary of state for energy and
climate change, will discuss
The Road to Copenhagen: a global deal on climate change.
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern will then ask
Deciding our Future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of
climate change? at a lecture on Tuesday 1 December. This event is free
and open to all however a ticket is required. One ticket per person can be
requested from 10am on Monday 23 November.
On Wednesday 2 December, Chinese ambassador Madam Fu Ying will share
China's perspectives on climate change in a lecture entitled
How China Tackles Climate Change in its Wider Development Agenda.
Tickets for this event can be requested from 10am on Wednesday 25 November.
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• Other upcoming public lectures and events include....
What Next? Surviving the 21st Century
Wednesday 18 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speakers: Professor David Held and Lord Patten
Risk Sharing and the Employment Relationship
Thursday 19 November at 1.05pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Professor David Marsden
How Markets Fail: the problem of rational irrationality
Monday 23 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: John Cassidy
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: the double death of neoliberalism and the
idea of communism
Wednesday 25 November at 1pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Slavoj Zizek
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• Chiarascuro Quartet featuring Alina Ibragimova, violin
Thursday 26 November, 1.05-2pm, Shaw Library, Old Building
Haydn Quartet in D Major, Op.20/4
Haydn Quartet in G Major, Op.77/1
Led by the world famous violinist Alina Ibragimova, the quartet was
formed in 2005, has held the Aldeburgh residency, and performs on original
instruments. They will make their first CD this month.
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• Islamic Finance: a way out...
Thursday 19 November, 6.15pm, New Theatre, East Building
For the first time in LSE's history, the Islamic Society and Investment
Societies jointly present a talk on the credit crunch, offering practical
solutions from an Islamic finance perspective.
Iqbal Khan, founding CEO of HSBC Amanah, will discuss how the Islamic
finance model could have avoided the credit crunch and perhaps more
importantly, how, at present, Islamic finance can offer a way out of the crisis.
For more information, email
lsesuisocevents@gmail.com or call Mohammed on 07813960674 or Ali on
07986997677
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• Business Society Property Investment Panel: Boom to bust - the
past, present and future role of debt in commercial real estate?
Tuesday 24 November, 7-8pm, D302 - drinks reception will follow in D702.
This event will look at the key issues of the commercial real estate
market. The panel will include
Peter Stoll, COO of European Real Estate at Blackstone Group and Paul
Guest, Director of EMEA Research at Jones Lang LaSalle.
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• The Great British Refurb Workshop: 40 per cent energy reduction in
homes and communities by 2020 - can we do it?
Tuesday 8 December, 9am-4.30pm, Michio Morishima Conference Room,
Lionel Robbins Building
This LSE Housing and Communities workshop will bring together leading
government representatives, German experts, funding bodies and active
practitioners.
The event costs £75 with reductions for second and subsequent delegates
from the same organisation. Reductions are available for those unable to pay
the full registration fee.
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 Society
profile
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• Itchy Feet: the travelling and backpacking society
'If you’re sick of London gravel, come with us and we’ll make you
travel!'
The society aims to:
- promote travel and backpacking amongst the student body
- provide a forum in which like-minded individuals can share their
experiences
- organise European, international and outdoor adventure trips for
members
- host travel related talks and social events at LSE
Claim to fame? -
We are a newly born society but still managed to get the biggest budget
on campus last year (even beating the investment society!) Also our current
president won an SU award for the best society contribution for her work
with Footprint.
Approx number of members? -
420
Society president? -
Sakine Koc
s.koc@lse.ac.uk
07595 262977
Famous alum? -
Roger Oliver Lewis, former chairman and founder of our society. Also the
grandson of the oldest LSE alumni.
Biggest event or achievement? -
Footprint, the travel journal of Itchy Feet Society. We had a
launch party to celebrate this new publication last year which 50 of our
members attended.
Our trip to Edinburgh was a great success with over 50 students attending.
We also had the editor of Lonely Planet come to speak to our members
last year.
Big event coming up that you would like to highlight? -
A trip to Istanbul at Easter and West Africa during the summer.
Why should people join this society? -
We offer students a break from studying and an opportunity to learn about
the world, with a group of great people, not to mention how student
friendly the cost of our trips are.
Website? -
http://sites.google.com/site/itchyfeetlsesu/ |
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view
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A senior member of the School highlights an important issue for
students.
• Howard Davies, LSE Director
I made my termly appearance at the UGM last Thursday. The Government
had just announced a review of student fees so I began talking about the
School’s financial prospect. Given the Government’s grim financial
position – with public borrowing at unprecedented levels – there is
little prospect of more expenditure support for universities in the next
few years. That is a rather unfortunate background for the fees review.
John Browne, who is leading the work, has been told on no account to
report until the end of next year, so no changes will happen before 2011 at
the earliest, and almost certainly not until later than that.
I explained the background to the new LSE100 Course which we are piloting
this year, and which every undergraduate will take from 2010 onwards. We
hope it will add value to the undergraduate experience here, and that the
modules will be intellectually exciting. The topics will include why there
are so many financial crises, whether the
cold war is really over etc. Over 400
of you have volunteered to take part this year, which is good news.
I also explained that we are making efforts to improve communication with
students. This newsletter is one example. There will also be more meetings
between members of the School’s administration and students, so that people
can raise concerns about study space, PC availability, conditions in the
residences etc; directly with those responsible. The first of those sessions
is this week, and there will be more to come.
I will send a longer email to all students, in a couple of weeks time,
which will give some more background on these issues, and others which I
think may be of interest to you. |
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Second Interview
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• with..... Filipe Martins
Filipe is a second year student
studying for a BSc in Industrial
Relations. He was born and brought
up in Portugal, and then came to the
UK to study at LSE.
Filipe is also the producer of
TIMELESS!, the LSESU’s Global
Charity Show, where he is
responsible for the show overall and
working with the production and
artistic team to make sure
everything goes right.
What is
TIMELESS!?
TIMELESS! is the LSESU’s Global
Charity Show, which was established
two years ago to celebrate the
diversity of cultures on campus and
to prove that there is plenty of
artistic talent at LSE.
This year, we are performing at
the prestigious Sadlers’ Wells
Theatre in Angel, where over 150
participants (all LSE students) will
dance, sing and act in front of an
audience of 1500, in an LSE version
of a West End musical.
The aim of the show is also to
raise money for and awareness of
important causes. This year we are
hoping to raise more than £10,000
for
Kids Company in
London (our charity at home), and
Invisible Children in Uganda (our
charity abroad).
How and why did you get
involved with the show?
I first heard of TIMELESS!
through the SU’s brochure that is
sent out to new students in the
summer before coming to LSE.
Interestingly enough, when I
auditioned last year, I didn’t make
it into the show.
When last year’s committee
advertised for this year’s
positions, I decided to give it a go
and apply for producer… I went to
the interview and despite my lack of
knowledge or experience about
theatre productions or fundraising,
I like to think my willingness and
enthusiasm made up for the rest, and
I was selected.
For me, the reason to be involved
with TIMELESS! was pretty clear: I
wanted to do something different and
meaningful, and felt that TIMELESS!
had huge potential to bring people
from different cultures together in
a meaningful way. Especially at LSE,
where students come from all over
the world, there is a tendency to
stick to one’s own comfort zones;
TIMELESS! probably helps break preconceptions
about different cultures. Moreover, it
silences those who say that LSE is
only about investment banking.
Thankfully, there’s plenty of
artistic talent and creativity at
LSE, and employers value
that (as seen from the support of
our main sponsors: JP Morgan, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Standard
Chartered Bank).
Can other people still get
involved? If so, how?
Auditions for most of our acts
have already taken place, but we are
still recruiting for a technical
director, a sales and marketing team
and a backstage team. It’s a great
opportunity to get involved in
something big and meaningful.
If you want to
get involved, please email
Nilu@lsetimeless.co.uk or
Filipe@lsetimeless.co.uk so we
can add you to our mailing list.
We are also having a Launch Party
to celebrate the start of ticket
sales, and for everyone -
participants, friends, or anyone who
is up for a great party. This will
help us to fundraise for the
charities while having fun at the
same time. The Launch Party is
taking place at Babble in Mayfair on
Tuesday 24 November. Tickets are £10
and will be on sale on Houghton
Street from this week onwards.
When is the show taking place
and how do people get tickets?
The show is taking place on
Saturday 6 February at the Sadlers’
Wells Theatre, and tickets should
hopefully be on sale on Houghton
Street by the end of this term.
As tickets sell out fast, if you
want to find out more about
pre-booking tickets, please email
Filipe@lsetimeless.co.uk
What can people expect to see
in this year’s show?
A dancing, acting, singing (and
moaning!) extravaganza, with acts
from over the world – ranging from
Bollywood to contemporary dance to
opera. You can expect an LSE version
of a West End musical with a
combination of acting and singing,
together with dance scenes, making
up a heart-throbbing, soul-stirring
night of unrivalled entertainment…
all for a good cause.
Has anyone that has been
involved in previous shows gone on
to be famous?!
Not yet (emphasis on YET). This
is only the third year of the show,
so as far as I’m aware, no one who
has taken part in the past has
become a world-famous performer to
date.
Can you name some ‘timeless’
moments?
Seeing everything coming together
after several months of hard work
and preparation is a pretty
‘timeless’ moment in itself and
makes all the effort worthwhile.
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 Advice
and support
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Each week we will feature one of the support services available to
students. This week, Jen Lowthrop tells us about the Volunteer Centre.
• The Volunteer Centre
The Volunteer Centre is here to help you find a volunteering role during
your time at LSE. Volunteering is an excellent way to boost your skills set
for future careers whilst giving back to a worthy cause. Whether it be
volunteering to mentor refugees, support the homeless or cleaning up the
River Thames, the Volunteer Centre will be able to find an opportunity that
can fit your interests and time available.
You can search for volunteering opportunities at
My Careers Service. Search
‘volunteering’ under opportunity type. To receive monthly updates on
volunteering news and opportunities, register at
www.lse.ac.uk/volunteercentre
The Volunteer Centre runs drop-ins on Fridays from 2-4pm in the Careers
Service, floor three, Tower Three and on Tuesdays, 4 -5pm in the Students'
Union Quad (the little room by the bookshop).
Any questions, email Jen Lowthrop at
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