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31 October 2012 |
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Students affected by Hurricane Sandy Message from Christine
Child, head of Student Services Centre
On behalf of the School I would like to highlight LSE support services
and express my condolences and sympathy to you and any of your family who
may have been affected by Hurricane Sandy.
If you need to discuss your circumstances with someone please contact the
Student Services Centre advice manager, Gavin Eves, at
ssc.advice@lse.ac.uk.
I understand that you may be very concerned for family and friends back
home. The
LSE Student Counselling Service can provide additional personal support
and will try to prioritise students who have been affected by this
situation. See also
Financial support.
For more information, links and contacts, visit
Business continuity.
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Towers One and Two new joint reception opening On Monday 5
November, the new Tower One and Tower Two joint reception and entrance will
open. All access to Towers One and Two, and the
teaching rooms and lecture theatre within, will be via the new reception
from this date onwards.
The new reception, which has taken six months to complete and cost
approximately £1.5 million, provides a modern entrance with a new café,
meeting rooms, and advertising and display facilities for both students and
the departments that occupy the buildings. Bold colours and materials make
the entrance an inviting space, while the floor-to-ceiling windows maximise
the natural light within the reception area.
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LSE launches new student blog
The Student Recruitment Office has launched a new student blog,
Students@LSE, where
current students can write about their life at LSE.
The blog features undergraduate, postgraduate, and general course
students as well as guest bloggers.
If you would like to sign up as a blogger, email Sarah Alexandra George
at s.a.george@lse.ac.uk.
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 Notices
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New guidance on the use of social media for students LSE is at
the forefront of the use of social media to share information about its
research, teaching and many other activities.
As LSE students you will be aware of these many channels and will have
numerous ones of your own, whether Facebook, Twitter or something new coming
just around the corner.
The School recognises that social media are a fun part of everyday life,
but such media can also carry risks. It has therefore produced a short guide
to help students avoid any pitfalls.
Social media can blur the boundaries between a personal and an
institutional voice, and the guidance is intended to help students steer a
sensible course. It can be
found here.
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LSE Careers invites you to….
LSE
Careers Law Fair -
booking open now
If you’re interested in taking your career forward in law, come along
and discover more about the opportunities available. From top firms to
legal training providers, this is a one-stop shop to answer all your
questions on training contracts, vacation schemes, first-year taster
schemes, the LPC and GDL and much more.
If you are interested in pursuing a career as a barrister, the
Bar and
Advocacy Evening taking place on Tuesday 27 November is the best
place to meet representatives from this side of the legal profession.
International Organisations' Day - booking opens on Friday 2
November at 9.30am
International Organisations' Day on Saturday 10 November offers the
opportunity to learn more about many of the leading multilateral
organisations, with 16 international organisations explaining their
role, their employment opportunities, and the experience and
qualifications they are seeking.
Places are limited and will fill up quickly, so book your place on
CareerHub.
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Training for students
Courses scheduled for next week include:
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Excel 2010: logical and look-up functions
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PowerPoint 2010: images and media
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Word 2010: guide to formatting an academic paper
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Good Writing Psychology
For full listings and further details, including booking information, see
www.lse.ac.uk/training.
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Nominations invited for Queen's Honours Nominations are invited
for the award of a Queen’s Honour (which include MBE, OBE, CBE).
Do you know someone working at LSE who has:
- made a real impact on the School
- gained the respect of their peers
- changed things for the better at the School
- demonstrated innovation
- brought distinction to British life and enhanced its reputation
through their work at the School?
A full explanation can be
found here but please bear in mind that awards
channelled through the School should be for services to higher education,
with particular reference to the School.
The deadline for nominations is Friday 30 November. If you have
any queries, contact Joan Poole at
j.a.poole@lse.ac.uk or ext 7825.
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Clare Market Review - now accepting submissions
Clare Market Review, the
journal of the LSESU, is inviting students and staff to contribute to the
first issue of the new volume (CVIII) which will be distributed across the
School.
As this will be the first issue of this academic year, there is no theme
and the team is keen to get a wide range of submissions; it welcomes
pieces of academic writing and commentary, as well as fiction, poetry,
artwork, and photography.
The deadline for written work is Friday 9 November, and Friday
16 November for artwork/photography. Please send all submissions and
queries to
submissions@claremarketreview.co.uk. Check out the latest
issue here
and 'like' the Facebook
page for updates.
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RAG Gets Lost Make sure you sign up for this year's RAG Gets
Lost (Saturday 10 November) by Friday 2 November.
RAG Gets Lost is the annual event of LSESU RAG, the official fundraising
body of the LSE Students’ Union, where participants are loaded onto a coach
and driven to a top secret location, from where they have to race back, blagging and hitching lifts without spending a penny.
It's all in aid of BBC Children In Need and the winning team gets a trip
on the London Eye. For more information, visit the
Facebook page or email
su.rag@lse.ac.uk.
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Join the Houghton Consulting Group
Houghton Consulting Group, part of the LSESU Management and Strategy
Society, is recruiting student consultants to join its team.
Houghton Consulting Group is a pro bono student-run organisation that
offers consulting services to clients. Starting in Lent term, student
consultants get the opportunity to volunteer with a team of up to five
students and an experienced project leader. You will learn to apply
theoretical frameworks on real consulting projects and experience the
process from project acquisition to final delivery.
Training will be provided. To apply, send your CV and a short statement
about why you are interested in the position, to
houghtonconsultinggroup@gmail.com by Monday 5 November.
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Undergraduate of the Year 2013
Applications are now open for the TARGETjobs 2013 Undergraduate of
the Year Awards.
Launched four years ago, the awards were set up to identify and celebrate
the UK's best undergraduates. Being the best means having a combination of
academic excellence, the ability to pass a series of difficult online
assessments, good written communication and, finally, the interpersonal
skills necessary to compete with other students in assessment centres run by
the sponsoring organisation.
Each award is sponsored by a prominent graduate recruiter which provides a
fantastic prize for the winner, including a paid internship. Last year LSE
student Vyacheslav Polonski won the
Future Business Leader of the Year Award,
beating over 300 other entrants to win a summer placement with Mars and a
trip to Brazil to visit Mars' Cocoa Research Centre.
To see all 12 awards and apply, visit
undergraduateoftheyear.com.
The closing date for entries is 31 January 2013.
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Special offer for LSE students LEDwear is offering LSE
students discounts on the following two products:
LED road gilet (pictured)
Features:
- Bi-directional LEDwear technology
- Multi-function flash
- Shower-proof
- Breathable
- Soft comfortable construction
- Takes three AA batteries
- Battery life approximately 100 hours' use on flash mode
The current selling price is £25 + postage but LEDwear is offering the gilets to LSE students for £20 delivered free to the School.
LED rucksack cover
It offers:
- High-visibility yellow fabric
- Retro-reflective banding down both sides
- Seven red LEDs add further visibility
- Three different light settings
- Elasticated straps with heavy duty press studs
- Elasticated rim for further security
- Fits rucksacks between 10 and 30 litres
- Two AA batteries (not included) provide 100 hours of light
- 100,000-hour life of LEDs
The current selling price is £30 + postage but LEDwear is offering the
covers to LSE students for £25 delivered free to the School.
For more information or to order your LEDwear product(s), email Ian Harvey
at i.harvey@lse.ac.uk. Ten orders of
each product must be placed in order to obtain the discount. |
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 What's
on
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New LSE events....
An afternoon with Martti Ahtisaari
On: Monday 26 November at 2pm in the Shaw Library, Old Building
Speaker: Martti Ahtisaari (pictured), former president of
Finland, Nobel peace prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and
mediator.
LSE students are able to collect one ticket per person from the New
Academic Building SU shop, located on the Kingsway side of the building,
from 10am on Wednesday 21 November.
Visualising Political Struggle in the Middle East
On: Thursday 13 December at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old
Building
Speaker: Lina Khatib (pictured), co-founding head of the Program
on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University’s Centre on
Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
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Other forthcoming events include....
How Long Does 'Post-War' Last? Feminist Warnings
On: Monday 5 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Cynthia Enloe, research professor of international
development and of women’s studies at Clark University, Massachusetts.
The Stateless Citizen: irregular migration and cosmopolitan citizenship
On: Tuesday 6 November at 6.30pm in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New
Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Andreas Kalyvas, associate professor of politics
at the New School for Social Research, New York, and Dr Ayça Çubukçu,
lecturer on human rights at LSE.
Salafi Islam, Online Ethics and the Future of the Egyptian Revolution
On: Thursday 8 November at 6.30pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Charles Hirschkind, associate professor of
anthropology, UC Berkeley. |
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 60
second interview
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with..... Sarah Alexandra George
I graduated from LSE in 2011 with
a BSc in philosophy, logic and
scientific method and I now work in
LSE's Student Recruitment Office.
I love writing, travelling and
spicy food. I have recently taken
over as the unofficial captain of
the LSEAU Muay Thai (MMA) club.
Please tell us more about the
LSEAU Muay Thai club.
Muay Thai, or Thai boxing, is
often described as the ‘Art of Eight
Limbs’ - punches, elbows, kicks and
knees are all allowed. Muay Thai is
steeped in history and traditions
closely linked to Thailand’s own
history. However, more recently, it
has also been joined into mixed
martial arts (MMA).
An integral part of Muay Thai is
conditioning: shadow boxing,
running, abdominal and body weight
resistance exercises all help to
seriously boost your fitness levels
as well as your confidence.
The club is named after an
orphanage in the remote hill top
region of Chiang Rai in northern
Thailand. The abbot who has
dedicated his life to the orphaned
children was once a professional
Thai boxer and it is from him that
we learn (via our teacher). Every
year we have a sponsored ‘kickathon’
where we spend an evening kicking
bags in order to raise money for the
children of the orphanage.
The LSEAU Muay Thai club not only
helps you get fit and teaches you a
new sport, it also gives you a
unique perspective into a different
culture. The club also has a great
social side; the people are some of
the friendliest and most interesting
people I have ever met, we all go
for drinks together every week and
always have a big end-of-term dinner
and/or film.
All are welcome to come down to
try out a class:
Tuesdays and Thursdays at the
badminton court, lower ground floor of the
Old Building, from
8-10pm.
Which has been the most
interesting LSE Public Lecture you
have attended?
Aung Sung Suu Kyi was definitely
the most emotional. Being able to
sing happy birthday to her was a
moment I will never forget. I also
really enjoyed seeing the ex-poet
laureate Andrew Motion. Hearing him
read out his poetry was very
inspiring.
Which book are you currently
reading and which have you enjoyed
most in the past?
I'm currently reading Evelyn
Waugh’s A Handful of Dust. A
slightly depressing portrayal of
English landed gentry with a most
unusual and unexpected ending.
My absolute favourite books are
the Harry Potter series. I’ve read
each book at least 20 times (except
for the Chamber of Secrets,
I’m scared of snakes and it gives me
nightmares!).
What is your favourite animal?
My favourite animal is my
beautiful golden retriever Holly.
However, my favourite animal would be horses. I’ve been
riding since I was three and I’m
more comfortable in the saddle than
anywhere else.
You are a contestant on the
dinner party TV programme Come
Dine With Me. What do you cook
for your guests?
Well, since we’ve been talking
about Thailand… Starters would
include prawn and passion fruit
toast, tom yum soup and pork balls
wrapped in lettuce dipped in chilli
sauce.
That would be followed by my
personal favourite kai krapow
(minced chicken fried with holy
basil and chilli), barbecued sea
bass with shredded lemongrass and
kaffir lime leaves, and perhaps some
tiger prawns in a black pepper and
garlic sauce as well.
After that I’d be so exhausted
from all the cooking I’d just have
to have lots of fruit for desert:
mangoes, papaya, passion fruit and
baby pineapples. Oh and lychee
martinis for everyone.
Who would be your ideal
celebrity travelling companion on a
long journey?
Angelina Jolie, no question about
it. |
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