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9 December 2009 |
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• LSE Photo Prize 2010
As we approach the festive season, the deadline for submissions to the
LSE Photo Prize 2010 looms ever closer. If you want your photos to be
considered, you must send them to the LSE Arts by 5pm on 15 January.
The theme of the competition is ‘risk’, and it is open to all staff and
students. Selected entries will be professionally printed, mounted and
exhibited in the Atrium Gallery, Old Building during March - April 2010.
As well as the selected photos, prizes will be awarded for the best
photos at a reception in the Atrium Gallery once the exhibition is
installed. Last year’s exhibition attracted some excellent entries and the
exhibition and reception were well attended by staff and students, as well
as members of the public. Don’t miss this great opportunity to show off your
artistic talents.
For more information on how to submit your photos, click
here.
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• Spotlight: Copenhagen climate
conference
Final year econometrics student, Lian Kor, explains why you should
take an interest in the Copenhagen climate conference that is currently
taking place:
The Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15) is
taking place over the next two weeks.
Lord Nicholas Stern of LSE has rightly called it ‘the most important
international gathering since the WWII’. Despite LSE's heavy involvement
in the climate change policy debate, its student body has unfortunately been
rather silent on this front.
Let’s face it: there is every likelihood that this generation will have
to suffer the consequences of anthropogenic climate change decades down the
road. Prudent decision-making under uncertainty means that a low-carbon
future is the only viable option we have. Today’s young people have a crucial
role to play in the low-carbon transition: if current decision-makers do
indeed lay the groundwork, a low-carbon future will then be ours to lose.
All I ask of you is to pay a little attention to the news from
Copenhagen over the next two weeks. It is one thing to be apathetic about
things that don't concern us, but quite another to be apathetic about things
that do. COP15 definitely falls into the latter category.
Lian is a research assistant to LSE Professors Lord Nicholas Stern
and Danny Quah. Email l.p.kor@lse.ac.uk
for more information.
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• Parents are not welcome as Facebook friends, finds LSE study
Young people don't want to be friends with their parents on Facebook,
preferring to keep their social and family lives separate, research by
academics LSE has found.
The potential embarrassment caused by parents seeing something on the
social networking site that their offspring would prefer to keep hidden was
among the reasons given by students interviewed for the study . Interviewees
also highlighted a worry that their privacy would be invaded by well-meaning
mothers wanting to check on their child's well-being.
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 Notices
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• Season's greetings
As Michaelmas term is ending this Friday, Student News will be
breaking for the holidays. The next edition will be on Wednesday
13 January and articles for this should be emailed to Nicole at
n.gallivan@lse.ac.uk by Monday
11 January.
We hope you have enjoyed Student News this term. Have a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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• Christmas in London
If you are staying in London over the Christmas break, it's a good idea
to find out what's on and where. Many people who live in London leave the
city to visit friends and family in the UK and overseas and the city can
feel very different for a few days.
The transport system is more limited and many shops are closed. But there
are lots of things going on if you stay. Visit the
Student Services website for information on opening hours for services
at LSE, ideas on what to do over the break in London including the Christmas
programme at International Students
House. You can also find out about what to do in an emergency.
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• LSE Talent Classical Concert
The LSE Talent Classical Concert for students and staff takes place
on Thursday 11 March as part of the lunchtime music series.
This is a popular and well attended annual event. Auditions will take
place in January, so if you play or sing to a high standard, or know someone
who does and would like to perform as a soloist or in a group, please email
n.rogers@lse.ac.uk or
conferences@lse.ac.uk as soon as
possible.
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• Student Counselling Service - women's group
The Student Counselling Service is running a group for women students
over eight weeks, starting Monday 18 January at 11am-1pm.
This group offers an opportunity to explore a range of issues, including
self-esteem, anxiety, and relationships, as well as offering a range of
coping strategies. Places need to be booked in advance - please contact the
office at
student.counselling@lse.ac.uk or on 020 7852 3627.
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• Careers Service jobs of the week
Nestlé, Finance Intern (Treasury Guideline) - intern in
Switzerland for the Corporate Treasury department at the world’s leading
nutrition, health and wellness company.
Publish What You Fund, Research and Monitoring Manager - if you
already have research experience and are interested in development, this
role with the Global Campaign for Aid Transparency may be for you.
Fleishman-Hillard (Brussels), Account Executive - apply now for
this entry-level public affairs position in the financial services practice.
For full details of these posts and over 450 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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 What's
on
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• Lent term Events leaflet
The 2010 Lent term Events leaflet will soon be available. Sign up
to the
events email subscription service to find out as soon as the programme
is announced, or follow us on
Twitter for up-to-the-minute information.
Other public lectures and events include:
Marina Nadiradze (piano)
Thursday 10 December at 1.05pm in the Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old
Building
A prize winner in several international competitions, Marina Nadiradze has
been compared by The Independent to the great Mitsuko Uchida.
Broke: voices from the edge
Thursday 10 December at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Ice and Fire, Actors for Human Rights
Using dialogue from real-life interviews with people living in poverty in
the UK, the actors explore the dismal side-effects of such gross
disadvantage - the homelessness, the lack of affordable housing, the
unemployment, the debt, and much else besides. The plight of the poor on its
own doorstep mocks Britain's aspiration to be an ethical force in the world
and a beacon of human rights standards at home. Often unseen and unheard,
this performance gives the poor a voice.
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• LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival
Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 February 2010
LSE's second Literary Festival, with the theme 'Off the Edge', aims to
push the boundaries of social science, with a programme of events
exploring what can be learnt in the borderlands between disciplines.
Speakers including AS Byatt, Dan Cruickshank, Giles Foden, Mark Lawson,
Ben Okri, Susie Orbach, Lionel Shriver and Colin Thubron. All events
free and open to all, full programme details online soon at
www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought.
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• LSE Carol Service
Thursday 10 December, Shaw Library, 5.30pm
Followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Free and open to all to attend.
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• 25 plus: OAP network - for mature LSE students with experience
Thursday 10 December, 7pm, The Seven Stars, 53 Carey Street, WC2A 7JB
At this meeting, the group will discuss what they want to do and how
they can use the society to achieve it. You will also be asked to pay the
joining fee to remain on the circulation list. Please click
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 Questions
to the School
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This is your opportunity to put your questions to the School - perhaps
you want to know more about the new Student Services Centre, the Careers
Service, the Library or even the catering facilities. Or maybe you just
have suggestions on how to improve your time here?
Q: I have had issues with printers at the School - they are
often out of order and there can be long delays between clicking print
and documents actually being produced. I have also been charged for
incorrect printing in the past. What can be done about these problems?
Question raised by a student at the 'Meet the Managers' session
A: This is not the first time the issue of printers has come up.
There are 39 student printers around the School, of which 16 are in the
library. There are also eight new photocopiers which can be used for
printing - more publicity on how to do this should be available shortly.
Printers are checked twice a day to ensure they are functioning properly
and have enough toner and paper available, however heavy usage means that
they do sometimes break down. Assistance can be provided by the Library help
desk, by phone or in person, or by contacting IT services using the Virtual
IT Assistance icon on your computer desktop.
Jean Sykes, Chief Information Officer
If you would like to submit a question,
please email Nicole Gallivan at
n.gallivan@lse.ac.uk
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 Society
profile
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• Raising and Giving (RAG)
We aim to raise as much money as we can for our chosen charities for the
year - TreeHouse (national autism charity), ChildHope (protecting neglected
children in developing world) and The Multiple Sclerosis Society - as well
as bringing charitable awareness to campus and having massive amounts of fun
on our many exploits.
Claim to fame? -
LSESU’s largest membership list.
Approx number of members? -
1,800
Society president? -
Charlotte Gerada
su.rag@lse.ac.uk
Famous alum? -
RAG week was founded in 1980 by former New Zealand MP Tim Barnett, whilst
RAG in its current year-round form has only been around for three years.
Biggest event or achievement? -
Organising the first LSE Freshers Ball in 2007, the annual hitch-hikes to
European destinations and 2009’s Global RAG Week, raising over £20,000 for
charity and involving over 1,000 students from all societies.
Big event coming up that you would like to highlight? -
Christmas bake sale (Thursday 10 December), Christmas pub crawl (Friday
11 December) and RAG Week 2010 in week six of Lent Term - bigger and better
than ever.
Why should people join this society? -
We need caring LSE students to help drive forward the importance of
charity. We put on a tonne of varied events which everyone can feel involved
in. We help you further your employability qualities - EVERYONE loves
someone who can make money for a great cause... come and join us.. feel
involved, rewarded and empowered. |
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 Direct
view
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A senior member of the School highlights an important issue for
students.
• Jean Sykes, Chief Information Officer
During the Christmas vacation the Library will be open on Sundays for
the first time, except for 27 December and 3 January which fall during
the School's closure period. The new Sunday opening brings the Library’s
hours into line with those in the summer vacation and have been
introduced to meet sustained demand from students. Our Library opening
hours are now among the very best in the UK university sector.
They reflect our commitment to you students and how hard you all work.
LSE students regularly borrow five times the number of books per head
compared with the UK national average. In the Library we have always
believed that this shows not only the hard-working nature of LSE students,
but also the wealth of materials available in the Library's collections for
you to borrow.
So, our Christmas and Summer vacation opening hours now are:
- Monday to Friday 8am-9pm
- Saturday and Sunday 10am-9pm
This represents 87 hours per week.
From the start of the 2010 Lent term the Library will be open 24 hours
seven days a week until the end of exams in late June, except during Easter
week. This means that the 24 hour opening starts six weeks earlier than it
did last year.
We look forward to seeing you in the Library over the Christmas break but
also wish you all the best for the festive season. |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Professor Nicola Lacey
Nicola Lacey has worked at LSE
since 1998 as professor of criminal
law and legal theory. Her husband,
David Soskice, is a political
scientist who divides his
professional life between Oxford and
Duke Universities. They live in
Hampstead, in a multi-storey,
multi-generational household which
includes Nicola's mother, her niece
and her partner, and two
exceptionally spoilt cats.
Her recent research projects have
included a biography, a book on the
comparative political economy of
punishment; and a book which
combines novels and legal sources in
an analysis of changing ideas of
female criminality in the 18th and
19th Centuries.
What would we be most
surprised to learn about you?
That would be telling.... but why
not? My research has included quite
a bit of work on feminist theory,
and I certainly think of myself as a
feminist. Yet my surname is that of
my ex-husband. (A feminist publisher
friend of mine who is in the same
position always justifies this by
saying that her husband oppressed
her much less than her father!)
Happily, my ex is still a good
friend and doesn’t seem to mind that
I appropriated the name…
What advice would you give new
students coming to LSE?
Throw yourself into everything
which LSE and London have to offer.
In case that sounds like a recipe
for indulgence, here's the bad news:
getting the most out of your time
here means being very well
organised, and in particular having
a clear timetable for your work, so
that you can really relax and
explore the School and city the rest
of the time. Making time for
friendships and intellectual
relationships should also be a
priority, I think: several of the
friends I made as a student in
London and then Oxford 30 years ago
are among the most important people
in my life.
Can you play a musical
instrument? If not, what would you
like to be able to play?
My answer here will reveal that
the advice I have just given is -
like much good advice - on a
strictly 'do as I say, not as I do',
basis. Until my second year at
university, I played the flute and
the piano. But I lacked the
discipline to keep this up once my
academic work (not to mention my
social life) became demanding.
Where in the world have you
always wanted to go but never quite
made it…..yet?
Embarrassingly, I have to admit
that the spirit of adventure lies on
me very lightly... David and I do a
huge amount of travelling, both for
professional purposes and because of
his job in the United States; I also
have a stepmother in Australia, whom
I try to visit reasonably regularly.
The friends with whom we share a
holiday house once remarked that we
were the only people they knew who
went on holiday to get into a
routine. But I would very much like
to see three places which have
eluded me so far: the pyramids; the
Pantheon, and Pompeii.
Who is your LSE hero?
I don't propose to answer this,
though I'm happy to offer a feminist
interpretation of the question if
you give me more than 60 seconds....
What is the last film you saw
at the cinema?
Another blush-worthy confession:
I go to the cinema quite rarely. The
last film I saw at a cinema was Almovadar's Volver, I think. I do of
course watch DVDs and movies on
aircraft quite often (Revolutionary
Road and Monsters, Inc, the latter
with a discerning four year old critic,
were the latest in each of these
categories). But when I get
organised to do something cultural
in London, it would be more likely
to be a play, concert or opera.
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