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1 December 2010 |
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• Student guide to Christmas in London
The Student Services Centre (SSC) would like to offer its
congratulations on the successful completion of the Michaelmas Term.
Students who will be staying in London for some or all of the Christmas
break should visit the
Christmas in London Guide on the SSC website. It offers contact numbers
in case of an emergency, the opening hours for services at LSE, and tips on
what to do in London during the holiday season.
Have a safe and fun vacation.
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• LSE website survey
Give your feedback and have your chance to improve the LSE website.
All students and staff are encouraged to complete the LSE website's four
question survey, available as a link from the 'staff and students' home page
or by visiting
www.survey.bris.ac.uk/lsewebsite/lsewebsite2/.
The survey will be open until Sunday 5 December.
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• Complete the Library User Satisfaction Survey and win Amazon
vouchers
The Library is conducting its annual online Library Student Satisfaction
Survey this term and kindly requests your participation.
The survey is a great opportunity for you to let us know how you feel
about the Library and an important way for us to find out how we can
improve the Library for you.
In addition to contributing to the creation of an enhanced Library, as
an added incentive all participants can enter a prize draw for a chance
to win Amazon.co.uk vouchers worth between £50-£200. Winners will be
announced before the end of the Michaelmas term, perfect for some last
minute Christmas shopping.
The survey will be available until Thursday 9 December and can be
accessed at
www.survey.lse.ac.uk/librarystudentsurvey2010.
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• Haven't got anything planned for the Summer?
AIESEC, the world's largest youth-led organisation, is calling on LSE
students to join its work abroad program.
AIESEC is focused on providing a platform for youth leadership
development, offering students the chance to work abroad, gain valuable
leadership skills and develop both professional and personal relationships
across the world.
Anyone interested in this opportunity should attend the information
session on Thursday 2 December at 6-7pm in D702, Clement House. The
session will explain all about AIESEC and the work abroad program.
For more information, email
su.soc.aiesec@lse.ac.uk.
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• Amnesty candy cane secret Santa
The LSESU Amnesty International Society has organised a candy cane
secret Santa to raise money for the Amnesty Student Raise-Off 2011.
They will be selling candy canes for £1 which you can then request to
send to your friends, boyfriends, and girlfriends to celebrate Christmas.
The stall will be on Houghton Street on Thursday 2 and Friday 3
December, between 10am-4pm.
All you have to do is give the email address of who you want to send
your candy cane to. The candy canes can then be collected by the lucky
individuals the following week, on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 December.
Festive nibbles, drinks, and handmade Christmas cards will also be on
sale.
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• Rerum Causae journal and conference - call for papers
Rerum Causae, the journal of the LSESU Philosophy Society, is
holding a conference on Friday 11 February 2011.
The society would like to encourage both undergraduate and graduate
students to submit papers, on any philosophy-related topic, for publication
in the journal and to present at the conference. The conference culminates
with a high-profile speaker and includes responses to student papers from
LSE academic staff.
Rerum Causae is a great opportunity for students to have their
work published in a journal that is distributed to leading universities
across the world.
The deadline for submissions is Friday 14 January. Papers should be 1,500
to 3,000 words in length and emailed to
rerumcausae@googlemail.com.
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• LSE Perspectives - call for entries
The LSE Perspectives December 2010 gallery is now online. You can view
this month's selection of photos
here.
LSE Perspectives is an online gallery featuring photos taken by LSE
students and staff, each
image reflecting a unique perspective on a particular scene.
If you have taken any artistic images on your
travels, from your home town, or even here in London, why not submit them
for LSE Perspectives so that they can be shared with the rest of the School.
Every month, the Arts team selects 12 images and publishes them online.
For more information and to submit your images, visit
LSE Perspectives submissions. Previous galleries can be found
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 Notices
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• Update from IT Services
Students will be aware of severe IT difficulties in the first four weeks
of term. You were affected first by slow login on the open access PCs
across the campus and then by a significant number of problems
experienced in lecture theatres and classrooms. The slow logins on
student PCs were put right after a couple of days, and it is our belief
that this particular problem is not recurring. However, it was an
unfortunate start to term for your IT provision and IT Services would
like to apologise for this.
Unfortunately the various classroom problems took longer to solve and
there were unwelcome delays and disruption to classes throughout the
first four weeks of term. We apologise unreservedly to the teaching
staff and students affected by this. The interruptions to teaching must
have been extremely frustrating for all concerned.
A thorough independent review of the IT problems has recently been held,
chaired by the director of business continuity with the assistance of an
external IT expert. The review report has outlined the lessons learned
and has made recommendations for the future in order to prevent any such
situation happening again. Senior staff in the School have seen and
discussed the review report and ITS staff are now working on an action
plan to address the recommendations.
If you have any feedback, please email
ITS.feedback@lse.ac.uk.
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• Christmas lunch and dinner at LSE Catering
Come along and enjoy a traditional Christmas meal at your favourite LSE
Catering outlet. Lunch or dinner will be available on the following dates:
On campus
- Fourth Floor Restaurant
Lunch and dinner - Thursday 2 December
- LSE Garrick
Lunch - Thursday 9 December
Halls of Residence
- Bankside
Dinner - Sunday 5 December
- Carr-Saunders
Dinner - Monday 6 December
- Rosebery Hall
Dinner - Wednesday 8 December
- Passfield Hall
Dinner - Wednesday 8 December
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• Student Counselling Service - Women's
Group
The LSE Student Counselling Service is running a Women's Group,
starting on Monday 24 January. This is an eight week group, run on
a Monday at 11am-1pm.
The group will offer a therapeutic space in which female students can
explore and look at a range of issues affecting them today, including
self-esteem, anxiety, identity, and relationships, as well as offering a
range of coping strategies. The group will be facilitated by Monika Smolar
from the Student Counselling Service.
If you are interested please contact
the Student Counselling Service so they can arrange a brief
meeting with Monika. You can visit them in KSW.507 or call 020 7852 3627. If
applying online, please fill in the main counselling registration form on
the
website, and indicate your interest in the Women’s Group on the last
page.
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• Student training at LSE
Student courses scheduled for next week include:
- Word 2010: format an academic paper
- Excel 2010: charts
- Excel 2010: pivot tables
- Excel 2010: data analysis
- Outlook 2010: outlook for business
- PowerPoint 2010: polished presentations in 50 minutes
- Introduction to database structure and design
For a full schedule and further details, including booking information,
please see www.lse.ac.uk/training. |
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 What's
on
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• LSE carol service
Wednesday 8 December, 5.30pm, Shaw library, Old Building
End the term on a festive note with the School's traditional Christmas
carol service.
There will be the familiar readings with all your favourite Christmas
carols. The service will be followed by mulled wine and mince pies.
All students and staff are welcome.
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• Upcoming events include....
When God Made Hell: how the British empire went to Baghdad
On: Thursday 2 December at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Professor Charles Townshend, professor of international
history at Keele University.
Asylum
On: Monday 6 December at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Professor Ranjana Khanna, professor of English, literature,
and women's studies and Margaret Taylor Smith director of Women's Studies at
Duke University.
Unbelonging
On: Wednesday 8 December at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speaker: Professor Ranjana Khanna, professor of English, literature,
and women's studies and Margaret Taylor Smith director of Women's Studies at
Duke University.
Europe in 2011 and Beyond
On: Tuesday 7 December at 12pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: János Martonyi, minister for foreign affairs of Hungary.
LSE Choir and Orchestra Christmas Concert
On: Tuesday 7 December at 7.30pm in St Clement Danes, Strand, London,
WC2R 1DH
Tickets are still available to buy online for £5 per person.
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• SIPRI Yearbook 2010 Seminar on nuclear weapons in Europe
On: Thursday 2 December at 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speakers: Dr Bates Gill, director of SIPRI, Professor Mary Kaldor
(pictured), co-director of LSE Global Governance, and Baroness Shirley
Williams, former adviser on nuclear proliferation to prime minister
Gordon Brown.
This event marks the London launch of the 2010 Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook on nuclear weapons in Europe,
which this year considers world military expenditure increases despite the
financial crisis.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. For more
information, visit the
event web page.
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• Facing Genocide
Thursday 2 December, 6.30pm, U8, Tower One
LSE's Centre for the Study of Human Rights Cambodia series presents a
film screening of Facing Genocide.
Facing Genocide is a documentary film exploring the personality
of Khieu Samphan. He was the head of state in Democratic Kampuchea under
the Khmer Rouge and is facing trial charged with crimes against
humanity, war crimes, and genocide.
The film is a unique story about the time before his arrest and trial.
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• The Graduate 2.0: a Christmas blowout
Thursday 2 December, 9pm-3am, The Quad
Leave your worries behind and party with your fellow post-grads,
featuring a surprise London-based DJ and sexy Santas.
Tickets are £5 at the door. Tickets are limited so be sure to arrive
early to avoid disappointment.
For more information, email Dan Kroop at
su.postgrad@lse.ac.uk
or visit the
Facebook event page.
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• The Incompatibility of Science and
Religion
Thursday 2 December,
6pm, room 75, St Clement's Building
The LSESU Atheist and Humanist Society presents this lecture with
Professor John Worrall (pictured), professor of philosophy of science at
LSE.
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• The Art of Integration
Monday 6 December, 6.30pm, D602, Clement House
The LSESU Islamic Society presents this screening of
The Art of
Integration, a documentary by Peter Sanders.
The documentary is a graceful and visually poetic reminder that Muslims
have been a part of British life for well over a century and have made and
continue to make an important contribution to the United Kingdom's rich
cultural diversity.
For more information, email Tanim Zaman at
t.zaman1@lse.ac.uk or visit
www.artofintegration.co.uk.
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• European Democracies and Human Rights: from present failures
to future protection
Thursday 9 December, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre
Speaker: Thomas Hammarberg, council of Europe commissioner for
human rights.
In a lecture marking UN International Human Rights Day, Thomas Hammarberg
will discuss the gap between human rights standards and realities in the EU.
For more information, visit
International Human Rights Day.
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• Cambodia: reflections of the Khmer Rouge - last chance to
visit exhibition
Atrium Gallery, ends Friday 10 December.
Cambodia: reflections of the Khmer Rouge, hosted by the LSE
Centre for the Study of Human Rights, portrays life under the Khmer
Rouge in Cambodia, and brings the story up to date with information
about the ongoing trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders.
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• Podcasts of public lectures and events
How to Avoid Financial Crises in the Future
Speaker: Professor Costas Markides
Recorded: Monday 22 November, approx 84 minutes
Click here to listen
EU as a Global Player: reality or illusion?
Speaker: Dr Danilo Türk
Recorded: Tuesday 23 November, approx 70 minutes
Click here to listen
Zombie Economics: how dead ideas still walk among us
Speaker: Professor John Quiggin
Recorded: Thursday 25 November, approx 75 minutes
Click here to listen |
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 Society
profile
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• LSESU Alternative Investments Society
Founded in 2005, the LSESU Alternative Investments Society is made up of
students - from undergraduates to PhD candidates - keen on deepening their
understanding of the fast-growing alternative investments industry.
The society's main focus is to organise events that enable our members to
network with like-minded students and industry practitioners alike so that
they can realise their career ambitions within the field of alternative
investments. We organise the LSESU Alternative Investments Conference (AIC),
the world’s largest student conference on hedge funds and private equity,
which provides a dynamic forum for education and interaction between top
students from around the world and industry leading luminaries.
Claim to fame?
With 350 students from around the world and from as far afield as China
and California, we host the most international event of the year on campus.
We also run the biggest fundraising campaign of any society at LSE.
Number of members?
Currently, we have 1,500 members in our LSE society. Our reach, however,
is global as the Alternative Investments Conference - which is open to
students from around the world - had over 2,200 students apply for the 2010
conference and will have at least 2,750 students apply for the 2011
conference.
Society president?
Michael Sidgmore
Michael.sidgmore@lseaic.com
0770 228 1179
Famous alum?
We have hosted seven Forbes’ List billionaires at our first four
conferences and we are confident - given a few years - that one of our
members will end up on that list as well.
Biggest event or achievement?
With students who are willing to take three flights from Australia on
their own dime and industry leading luminaries who reconfigure their
schedules prior to the World Economic Fourm in Davos to speak at our
conference, the AIC is an unquestionable highlight of the society’s event
calendar.
This year’s conference - which will have 46 senior level speakers in the
fields of hedge funds and private equity and is supported by 14 different
corporate sponsors - will see 350 students from around the world descend
upon London for two days in January to hear some of the pre-eminent leaders
in hedge funds and private equity speak about the outlook for the two
respective industries.
Keynote Speakers for the 2011 conference include:
- Glenn Hutchins, co-founder and co-chief executive officer, Silver
Lake
- Stephen Pagliuca, managing director, Bain Capital
- Hardy McLain, managing partner and co-founder, CVC Capital Partners
- Marc Lasry, chairman, CEO, and co-founder, Avenue Capital Group
- Hugh Hendry, CIO, CEO, founding partner, Eclectica Asset Management
- Steven Drobny, co-founder, Author, Drobny Global
- Randall Dillard, co-founder and chief investment officer, Liongate
Capital Management
- Tim Wong, chief executive officer, AHL
If you want to attend the conference, apply at
www.lseaic.com. If you haven’t already
applied, do it soon as applications close at midnight on Sunday 5 December.
Why should people join the society?
Our goal is to provide the highest-quality educational experience for our
members as well as provide them with the best opportunities for their career
prospects.
Our society is known as professional and prestigious throughout the
industry. As a member, you will be part of an organisation that is
well-known in the City and beyond. Senior-level speakers have consistently
told us that our conference is as well-run as the professional conferences
within the industry; their claims are supported by the fact that we have had
speakers and sponsors alike return year after year.
Our corporate sponsors will provide opportunities for you to pursue the
career of your choice. For those who are looking for a challenging, yet
incredibly rewarding experience, being a part of organising committee for
the AIC will enhance your career prospects and set you apart in job
interviews. Between exposure to industry leading luminaries and an intense
immersion in the Alternative Investments industry, if you are interested in
a career in this field, know how to work hard, and want to have a great time
with a fun, but driven, group of people, the AIC is the right place for you.
Website?
www.lseaic.com |
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 60
Second Interview
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• with..... Jacqui Cartin
I have been living in London for
the past three years and my accent
is still completely incomprehensible
to most people I meet. I work for
the LSE Conference and Events Office
as a steward and I also work for IT
Services (despite the fact that I am
completely computer illiterate but
apparently putting paper into
printers still fits into this
category).
I come from Derry, Northern
Ireland, the 2013 City of Culture
where a nice four bedroom house
costs the same as a London bedsit. I
have two sisters and one brother and
a plethora of first cousins (I’m
Irish).
I have many interests. I have
been singing since I was three and
am a member of the London Concert
Choir, and I also play the cello. I
can cook a mean curry (and nothing
else) and love to get back to Derry
for real home cooking and some Irish
craic.
Would you like to see a female
director of LSE?
Behind every great man ………of
course the female touch is needed
everywhere, but maybe the twist that
is needed is a graduate female
director. I would graciously do my
duty and serve my alma mater on such
a programme, I will be ready to
start in June 2011 - subject to
acceptable terms and conditions and
remuneration of course.
If you met the UK prime
minister and you could only ask one
question, what would it be?
Based on the fact that ‘he who
rocks the cradle rules the world’, I
want to know if he gets up in the
middle of the night to help feed the
baby and change nappies, because my
mother says my father Michael
didn’t, despite the fact the he too
runs a country - called
'planet Michael'.
What has been your most
embarrassing incident so far?
After the winter graduations last
year, I was directing some guests to
a reception in the NAB and managed
to find the only spot on the ground
which was icy and proceeded to fall
flat on my back in front of about
100 people…. I translated my
embarrassment into fits of laughter
which confused the onlookers even
more.
Who is your fantasy celebrity
date?
Probably Cheryl Cole…. I would
love to ask her what she was
thinking with her X Factor choices
this year.
Have you ever been attacked by
an animal?
I was once chased by a herd of
Friesian cows on my way to a fort in
Donegal during the summer when I was
a child, after my mother and I mooed
loudly at them out of our car
window.
Which event have you enjoyed
stewarding the most?
I must admit that I really do
love working for the Conference and
Events Office and I enjoy pretty
much everything I do. But I would
have to say the election night
event…. I was armed with a bell
which I was allowed to ring at the
start of every new session, what
more could one ask from a job. |
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