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27 January 2010 |
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• Help READ
READ International Campus Book Drive is a new volunteering project at LSE
which aims to collect books from the LSE community and donate them to school
children in Uganda and Tanzania.
READ is currently looking for volunteers to help in any
way they can. The project will be trying to get as many book donations
as possible before March 2010. The books will then be sorted, scanned, and
packed before being sent to the final destinations. READ will also be organising
fund raising events to help towards the project's costs.
All you need is enthusiasm - you can contribute as much time as possible,
be it a day, a week or a whole year! A meeting about the project will be
held on Saturday 30 January and will be open to all; venue and time to be
confirmed. If you have any books that you would like to donate or for more
information, please email y.b.ting@lse.ac.uk
or lse@readbookproject.org.uk
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• Fashion For Change
The LSESU Fashion and Development Societies are hosting 'Fashion For
Change,' an ethical fashion show, in LSE's Shaw Library on
Friday 29 January at 7pm.
Bringing together the UK's top ethical designers and LSE's most glamorous
students to create a unique catwalk collection, the show aims to change your
perceptions of ethical fashion forever.
The show will feature:
- Live music from The Kireyev Experience
- Complimentary champagne
- Gift bags filled with samples from top ethical companies
- A raffle
- A presentation on ethical fashion from Lyla Patel, head of
education at the charity TRAID, and Sandy Black, reader in fashion
design and technology at the London College of Fashion.
This event is open to all but a ticket is required. Tickets are £3 for
members of the Fashion and Development Societies and £4 for non-members.
This includes a free drink at the 'Fashion For Change' after party at CRUSH.
Tickets are being sold on Houghton Street this week.
All proceeds from the event will be donated to the developmental charity
Room to Read. If you have any questions, email
su.soc.fashion@lse.ac.uk
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• Experience real world microlending – visit Honduras this
spring
LSE students are being offered the opportunity to travel to Honduras to
gain hands-on experience in microfinance while helping impoverished people
improve their lives.
Global Brigades is the
world's largest non-profit student-led sustainable development and education
organisation. Operating in Honduras and Panama, it gives students a chance
to gain hands-on experience in the world of international development.
Global Brigades' microfinance
programme enables volunteers to work directly with some of the world's
leading microfinance organisations, e.g. FINCA, and gain investment
experience that will also make a difference to local people in Central America.
Everyone can apply to participate in the Global Brigades programmes. The
deadline for applications for the spring microfinance trip is Sunday 31
January. If successfully recruited, you will go out to Honduras between
22-31 March for ten days. You don't need to know Spanish and a finance
background is not necessary. The fee for this programme is US$750 + airfare.
For more information about how to get involved, email Weixin Li at
weixin.li@globalbrigades.org
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• Because money can’t buy you love - LSE’s global fairytale
Timeless! is back and is bringing you LSE’s global fairytale 'Because
Money Can’t Buy You Love.'
Timeless! was created to celebrate the vast array of cultural and
artistic traditions found at LSE, and has become the world's biggest and
most global student show.
This year's show is taking place on Saturday 6 February at 7pm at the
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Rosebury Avenue, EC1R 4TN. Tickets cost £15,
£20, £25 and £30 and are currently on sale on Houghton Street or the
Quad, Monday to Friday, 11am-3pm.
For more information, email
Jeevan@lsetimeless.co.uk
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• Global Policy is launching
Global Policy is an innovative and interdisciplinary journal
bringing together world class academics and leading practitioners to
analyse both public and private solutions to global problems and issues.
It focuses on understanding globally relevant risks and collective
action problems; policy challenges that have global impact; and
competing and converging discourses about global risks and policy
responses. It also includes case studies of policy with clear lessons
for other countries and regions; how policy responses, politics and
institutions interrelate at the global level; and the conceptual,
theoretical and methodological innovations needed to explain and develop
policy in these areas.
We are pleased to bring you a preview of the contents of the first
edition of this major new publication, launching in January 2010. Launch
events will take place in Paris, Beijing and London, in conjunction with
LSE, Wiley-Blackwell and the journal's various partners, including the
Global Public Policy Network and the French Development Agency.
The general editors are David Held and Patrick Dunleavy, and Eva-Maria
Nag is the executive editor. For more information, visit
www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/globalpolicy.htm
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• EU Trade Commission civil society dialogue
On Thursday 14
January, postgraduate geography student Linda Kaucher was invited
to participate in an EU Trade Commission Civil Society Dialogue on trade
in services, taking place in Brussels.
Linda presented perspectives on Mode 4 of trade in services. Mode 4 is
the temporary cross border movement of service suppliers, from outside the
EU into the EU.
Linda's presentation will be loaded onto the EU Trade Commission website
later this week.
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 Notices
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• The Olympic dilemma - what do you think?
Residential Services is embarking on a period of consultation within the
LSE community regarding the use of the School's residences during the
2012 summer vacation period which coincides with the London 2012 Olympic
and Paralympic Games.
Normally, the majority of the School's Residences are open to the public
during vacation periods when students are not in occupation and are
available to book through LSE
Vacations, which is the commercial trading arm of the Residential
Services Division. The additional revenue from vacation trading contributes
to keeping student rents as low as possible.
We would very much like to hear your views on how you would like to see
us make the best use of our accommodation during the Olympic year for the
benefit of the School community. In particular, if your Department can
foresee a need to use the School's Residences during this period, or if you
know of other opportunities for us to make the best use of these spaces,
please contact Stephanie Macauley, residences marketing project manager, at
s.macauley@lse.ac.uk by Friday 5
February.
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• Procrastination workshop
Wednesday 2 February, 2-3pm, Graham Wallas Room
This workshop will look at the difficulties with procrastination,
examining the negative thoughts and behaviours that inhibit students
from being able to work. It will examine a range of techniques and
practical tips to help you deal with this. No need to book in advance,
just turn up on time.
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• Lent term special offers - Catering Services
4th Floor Restaurant
* 9-11am
Free tea with any of the following:
- Hot cooked breakfast, only £2.30
- Health bar combo, only £1.90
- Danish pastry or croissant from 95p
* 4-7pm
Pick up one of our loyalty cards, purchase a hot supper dish and collect a
stamp on your card. Collect nine stamps and enjoy your tenth hot supper dish
absolutely free (conditions apply).
* 4-7pm
Special value evening meal, only £2.90
4th Floor Café Bar
* 6-9pm
Free tortilla chips and dips when you spend over £5 on drinks in the Café
Bar.
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• IT Services User Survey 2010 - tell us what you think
Complete the IT Services annual user survey for a chance to win an Apple
iPod Touch.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete, and as a further
incentive, everyone who submits a completed survey will be entered into a
prize draw to win a iPod Touch. Don’t miss out on your chance to shape the
way your IT services are provided at LSE.
The survey can be found at
www.survey.lse.ac.uk/its2010student
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• Careers Service jobs of the week
Internships at international organisations - apply now
- UN Headquarters Internship Programme
Deadline: Friday 29 January
- Transparency International Internship, Americas Department
Deadline: Saturday 30 January
- International Finance Corporation Internship Programme
Deadline: Saturday 30 January
- USAID Global Health Fellows Programme
Deadline: Friday 5 February
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 on Floor 3, Tower 3.
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• Take part in a BBC debate
BBC's Focus on Africa magazine is holding a debate on the
arms industry and its impact on Africa, on Thursday 28 January,
from 1-2pm at BBC Bush House.
The arms industry is big business in Africa and has deep historic and
economic roots in the continent. The team of panellists will consider the
impact the industry has on society.
Joseph Warungu, editor-in-chief of the magazine will chair the
event and the following panellists will be taking part:
- Anna Macdonald, conflict campaign manager for Oxfam
- Dr Knox Chitiyo, head of the Africa programme; Royal United Services
Institute for Defence and Security Studies
- Paul Holden, research and historian and author of The Arms Deal
in Your Pocket
If you would like to attend the debate, contact Alison Kingsley-Hall at
alison.kingsley-hall@bbc.co.uk
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 What's
on
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• Vince Cable sets out his proportional representation agenda
with election campaign imminent
On: Thursday 28 January at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre,
New Academic Building
Vince Cable MP will argue the case for a new voting system for the UK
based on proportional representation in a public lecture ‘Electoral
Reform in the Wake of the Economic Crisis’ at LSE on Thursday.
'With the general election imminent and the prospect of a hung parliament
increasingly likely, Cable’s talk on PR, the Lib-Dem’s favoured route to
electoral reform, seems at once both timely yet hauntingly familiar,' said
Rudy Fara, co-director of Voting Power and Procedures at LSE, which is
hosting the lecture by the party’s deputy leader.
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• Other upcoming events include....
NEW EVENT -
Out of the Bretton Woods: building a World Bank for the 21st Century
On: Tuesday 9 February at 5.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Douglas Alexander MP
Tickets released at 10am on Monday 1 February
Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open: a free press for a new century
On: Monday 1 February at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Lee Bollinger
Secularisms in crisis
On: Tuesday 2 February at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor John Bowen
Doldrums to Downing Street? The Conservative Party's long journey from
opposition to the brink of office
On: Wednesday 3 February at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Tim Bale
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• Don't miss out.... tickets now
available
Tickets for the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2010 are now
available in the LSESU reception and online. Speakers include Mark
Lawson, Susie Orbach, Giles Foden, Lionel Shriver, AS Byatt, Ben Okri,
and Colin Thubron.
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• International Volunteer Fair
The first ever International Volunteering Fair is taking place on Monday
1 February at SOAS.
The fair is an ideal opportunity to gather information on different
volunteering placements around the world. Placements range from
a few weeks to up to a year. The
fair will give you a chance to chat in person with organisation staff and
volunteers who have been on some of the programmes.
Organisations attending include VSO, Development in Action and Unipal.
The fair is being organised collaboratively with SOAS, so there
will be a mixture of LSE and SOAS students at the fair. For more
information, click
here.
Places are limited so you need to book fast at
http://careers.lse.ac.uk
The fair is part of Development Month, which is being organised by
LSE Careers. There will be various skills sessions, talks, lectures and
a forum run by organisations such as Save the Children, Medecins du Monde
and DFID. For more information, click
here.
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• The Special Tribunal for Lebanon:
where could justice go wrong?
Wednesday 27 January, 6.30-8pm, New Theatre, East Building
Speaker:
Dr Omar Nashabe, Lebanese American University
This lecture places the crime - the assassination of former Lebanese
prime minister Rafic Hariri - in its socio-political context, considers the
process of the establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2007,
focuses on the structural properties of the tribunal, and closes by posing
the central unanswered questions facing the same.
For more information, contact Professor Mundy at
m.mundy@lse.ac.uk
or on 020 7955 6242, or Dr Seckinelgin at
m.h.seckinelgin@lse.ac.uk
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• The White Paper on Prison Reform in Lebanon
Thursday 28 January, 6-8pm, room NAB2.08
Speaker: Dr Omar Nashabe
This seminar will analyse Lebanon’s prison system and prospects for
reform.
This event is free and open to all. For more information, contact
Elizabeth Frantz at e.a.frantz@lse.ac.uk
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• Music@LSE - Slava Sidorenko (piano)
Thursday 28 January, 1.05-2pm, Shaw Library, Old Building
Winner of the 2008 Jaques Samuel Pianos Piano Competition and recent gold
medal winner at the Royal Northern College of Music, Slava gave his very
successful Wigmore debut in October 2009.
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• Global Governance lunchtime seminar series
Global challenges to politics at the end of modernity
Tuesday 2 February, 1-2pm, room M101
Speaker: Professor Furio Cerutti
Furio Cerutti is professor of political philosophy at the University of
Florence and a current visiting professor at global governance, LSE.
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• ONE WORLD(?) lecture series
The LSESU Global Society invites you to attend its ONE WORLD(?)
lecture series taking place next week (1-5 February). See below for the
full schedule or join the
Facebook event page for more information.
A Borderless World?
Monday 1 February, 7.30-9pm, D602
Speaker: Parag Khanna
Global Governance: mission impossible?
Tuesday 2 February, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre
Speakers: Professor Jan Aart Scholte and Professor Stephen Haseler
The role of the NGOs in creating global governance
Thursday 4 February 4, 6.30-8pm, D402
Speakers: Professor Peter Willetts and Michael Hammer
Shaping a new global economic order
Friday 5 February, 6.30-8pm, D402
Speaker: Dr Paola Subacchi
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• The Power of Yes
In the wake of the financial crisis, the National Theatre commissioned
David Hare to write an urgent and immediate work - a compelling account of
how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that
bailed out the rich alone, featuring a cast of 'characters' including LSE
Director Howard Davies and LSE alum George Soros.
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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: Are there any microwaves available at the school for
student use? This would be useful when bringing food from home.
Ian Scanlon, undergraduate.
A: There are currently no microwaves on campus for student use.
However, microwave facilities may be considered for the New Student Centre
and the School is also thinking about ways to improve facilities for
students who wish to bring in their own food.
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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• LSESU German Society
With over 500 members, the German Society is one of the largest and most
active national societies on campus. It promotes an interest in German
culture, politics, economy and language. The society is run by a group of
students, who commit a considerable amount of their
spare time to the organisation of various lectures by high profile German
and international speakers, as well as a wide range of social and cultural
events. The German Symposium has become a regular fixture on the LSE events
calendar.
Claim to fame? -
Largest society of German students outside of Germany.
Society president? -
Raphael Schöttler
+44 (0) 75 16 72 09 08
r.schoettler@lse.ac.uk
Biggest event or achievement? -
The German Symposium, taking place every February at LSE.
Big event coming up that you would like to highlight? -
This year's German Symposium is approaching fast, taking place between
1-5 February. The final programme can be found at
www.lse-germansociety.de/drupal6/node/14
For the first time, the symposium will be inaugurated by a political
panel discussion, featuring amongst others Wolfgang Thierse and Claudia
Roth.
Other speakers include Federal Constitutional Court judge Professor Dr Dr
Udo di Fabio; head of Goldman Sachs Germany Alexander Dibelius; former
German minister of finance Peer Steinbrueck; and journalist/former anchorman
of 'Tagesthemen' Ulrich Wickert.
The formal part of the symposium will be concluded with a panel event
with German entrepreneurs sharing their insight. As the grand finale, we
will hold the LSESU German Society 'Oktoberfest meets Karneval' party at the
Underground Bar.
Why should people join this society? -
To learn more about Germany, our culture, our economy and most
importantly about the people. The society is great way to learn German, stay
in touch with Germany and make new friends.
Website? -
http://www.lsegs.de |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Jarlath O'Hara, student activities manager in the LSE Students' Union
Jarlath came to LSE as a student in 1998 to study maths and economics. After getting involved in sports, societies and social life through the Students' Union, he was elected as a sabbatical officer in 2001-02 and then started working in the Students' Union in 2002.
As well as competing in lots of sports, he likes to have something unusual in the pipeline such as a marathon or climbing a mountain. In the past, Jarlath has survived in the Borneo jungle, climbed the Andes Mountains in Argentina and run multi-marathons in the US. His next big challenge is heading to the Sahara in 2011 to run a 200 mile section.
What advice would you give to
new students coming to LSE?
Work hard and play hard. Get
involved with everything that is
going on and make the most of your
time (you can rest later!)
Is there anything you can't do
and would like to learn?
I'd love to learn to fly. Failing
that, I'd love to learn a foreign
language to be fluent enough to live
abroad without relying on English.
I've travelled a bit but would love
to live somewhere interesting for a
couple of years and experience life
as close as possible to that of
locals. The language would be a big
part of that.
What, or who, makes you laugh?
Anything stupid. If I'm not
laughing at myself, I like TV shows
like: Family Guy, Balls of Steel and
Jackass.
If you met the UK prime
minister and you could only ask one
question, what would you ask him?
When you first dreamt of being
PM, what was it like and what did
you want to achieve?
Have you ever had any
accidents?
Too many to mention. I got
knocked down by a van aged nine and
broke my leg. I basically spent half
my life in A&E between then and 18
with plenty more breaks and enough
stitches to knit a blanket. I've
been a bit luckier since then… touch
wood!
What would you do if you were
LSE director for a day?
Spend the day as a student. Go to
a couple of lectures and classes
then maybe a couple of society
meetings followed by a sports class
in the evening. I think the
experience would teach a lot about
what is good and what needs to
be/can be improved for students. |
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