Submissions for next week to hus-comms@homerton.cam.ac.uk
In Homerton this week;
Children in Need
HUS Open Meeting, Meet the Co-opted Team, Website Launch
The Shadowing Scheme
Women's Group meeting
And more...
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1. HUS & College NewsChildren in Need
This Friday...
Children in Need Auction in the hall in the evening from 7pm inc. buy the Exec.
Children in Need Children's Games in the Bar.
Much fun for good causes.
See posters around college for more details.
HUS Open Meeting, Meet the Co-opted Team, Website Launch
Wednesday 25th November, three exciting events in one.
The deadline for HUS open meeting motions has been extended to Saturday 20th (three days notice). We will be discussing and voting on the HUS constitution, the HUS budget, and the Peer Support Socieity. 7pm in the Bar.
After the open meeting will also be your chance to meet our new coopted team and find out their plans for the year. It will also be the re-launch of husonline, the HUS website.
The Shadowing Scheme
The Shadowing Scheme is taking place on the following dates:
28th - 30th January
4th - 6th February
11th - 13th Feb
What happens: Students volunteer to have a shadow. This shadow sleeps in
the student's room, while the student camps out in a friend's room. The
shadows arrive on a Thursday, have a formal meal that night (usually John's
or somewhere like that), then go to lectures/supervisions/whatever you are
doing on the Friday, then head home Saturday morning.
It is honestly a really great thing to do - and the pupils really like it.
We have the potential for five shadows per weekend - it would be brilliant
if we could fill this. Any year, any subject can take part. It's such a
good way for school pupils to experience uni life.
If you're interested, please email Nic on np327.
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2. Homerton
Exciting College Competition! (College Song)
Your chance to go down in Homerton history!
To give our college song a twenty-first century feel, and to commemorate the Royal Charter, we are asking students to write an additional final verse. The content is up to you - anything that you think reflects our college in the twenty-first century.
Recordings and more details on the HUS Website.
The deadline for contributions is Monday 23rd November - so get writing!
Women's Group meeting
Women's Group meeting on Monday (the 23rd). It's in the Boulind Room at 19:00.
The Homerton Women's Group is an informal, open meeting for all women in Homerton to attend; for our first meeting, we aim to explain to those present what our aims as a group are, and what we hope to do in the future. Of course, ideas and suggestions are welcome! Look forward to seeing you there! - HUS Women's Officer and Welfare Team
Fees Protest
There will be a march from Downing (November 26th at 1:15pm) around all the colleges ending in market place where there will be noise. Then head to King's and form numbers on the lawn. This is a large event in Cmabridge, with people from all colleges pledged to attend and students travelling from Nottingham and Oxford to take part. The point is getting the issue on the agenda for next elections. Facebook
Homerton College Choir perform 'Adiemus'
Homerton College Choir are performing 'Adiemus' by Karl Jenkins in the concert at the end of term (Sunday 29th November), and are looking for string and percussion players to accompany them. The music isn't hard at all, and it doesn't require much commitment - there will only be a couple of rehearsals. You don't have to be an actual percussionist to play a percussion part - as long as you've got a good sense of rhythm and can read music you'll be fine. If you're interested please contact Anna on azp21 as soon as possible.
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4. External NewsExternal News & Events;
SCA Battle of the Bands needs YOU!
The annual Student Community Action Battle of the Bands is looking for committee members. If you want to help create THE charity fundraising event of the year then please e-mail Henry (hjw43) for more information. Positions in publicity, logistics, ticketing and technical administration are available.
SCA Balloon Raffle at Life
Thursday 19th November
This Thursday sca are holding a night at Life on where not only will you get to enjoy Cambridge's usual finest cheesy tunes and dancing but the £3 you pay for your ticket will enter you into our balloon raffle. At midnight, hundreds of helium balloons will be released onto the dance floor so it's then your job to find the ones containing raffle tickets...carnage.
ALL the money from tickets sold prior to the event will go straight to SCA and help to recruit in more volunteers all around Cambridge. Find out more at:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208400457714&ref=ts
Look Back in Anger, A play by John Osborne
"Why don´t we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings,
and that we're actually alive. Just for a while. What do you say?"
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger is the revolutionary text that gave
expression to the openly, agonizingly and terrifyingly honest voice of the
Angry Young Man, a post Second World War British phenomenon.
What happens when disillusion mixes with white hot energy and an
uncontrollable fury at the world?
Why is it that the rest of them are apathetic and thick as mud? Why do all
the politicians get it wrong? Who is my wife these days? Do I want any of
this?
I just don't know anymore.
Look Back in Anger will be performed for three night only at the underused
Judith E.Wilson Studio in the English Faculty.
Look Back in Anger
A play by John Osborne
Judith E.Wilson Drama Studio
English Faculty
18-20 November
TICKETS £5
BOOK NOW AT WWW.ADCTICKETING.COM
CUSU Supported Alan Turing Campaign
It probably caught your eye at the end of the summer when the Prime Minister apologised publicly for the shameful way Alan Turing was treated by the government because of his homosexuality, leading to his suicide.
Currently, the only memorial to Turing in Cambridge is a black and white photograph in a basement. This, despite Turing being an alumnus of King's college, a very important contributer to the field of computer science, and a crucial participant in the code-breaking which helped lead the Allies to victory in World War Two.
A campaign - now officially CUSU-supported - is underway to raise the funds to put up a small bust of Turing with a plaque commemorating his life and achievements. We are asking the university to match any funds raised by students. (See http://www.pledgebank.com/alanturingbust - we are currently only 27 people short of our target!)
You can find out more about the campaign at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=159665892666#/group.php?gid=159665892666
Please do get involved and spread the word among your friends! With a national (unaffiliated) campaign running to have the mathematician posthumously pardoned, there's no better time than now to restore Turing's memory in Cambridge.
The LSE Alternative Investments Conference 2010
The LSE Alternative Investments Conference 2010 (www.lseaic.com) 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. The 2010 Conference will take place at the Marriott London Grosvenor Square on January 25th and 26th 2010.
Keynote speakers for AIC 2010 include:
David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Manging Director, The Carlyle Group
James Chanos, Founder and Managing Partner, Kynikos Associates
Emmanuel Roman, Co-Chief Executive Officer, GLG Partners
Sir Deryck Maughan, Global Head of Financial Services, KKR
Randall Dillard, Senior Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Liongate Capital Management
Dr. Ahmed Heikal, Chairman and Founder, Citadel Capital
For a full agenda please click the following links: Hedge Fund Day and Private Equity Day.
Registrations are open (click here) until midnight on November 29th 2009. Please note that if you have already registered then you will be notified of the outcome of your application in the first week of December.
DISCO FUNK-Live music, Wolfson bar, Friday
Are you up for a bit of DISCO FUNK? Live music in Wolfson bar on Friday!
This Friday (20th Nov) we've got an 8-piece band called Casa Del Funk playing in Wolfson bar from 9:30 til midnight. If you want to hear something different, then please come along! It's £2 on the door, but £2 well spent :-)
Help Cambridge Marrow fundraise for the Anthony Nolan trust
As part of our fundraising events for this term, Cambridge University
Marrow is organising:
1) A street collection on Saturday 21st November from 10am-5pm
2) A bag-packing service at Marks and Spencer's on Sidney St on Saturday 21st
November from 10am-5pm.
And for these, we need your help to make a real difference to thousands of leukeamia sufferers through partnership with the Anthony Nolan Trust (ANT).
The Roof-Climber's Guide to Trinity (Book)
The Roof-Climber's Guide to Trinity is now available. After the success of Whipplesnaith's Night Climbers of Cambridge we pulled out all the stops to get this, his inspiration, back into circulation and finally did so with the help of Geoffrey Winthrop-Young's family. I know a lot of Cambridge students, past and present, are big fans of these books and so am happy to offer the college membership a 20% discount through the Oleander site using the code 'night'. The book is available at Heffers, G.David and The Haunted Bookshop too.
Visit the book's page at Oleander: http://tinyurl.com/trinityroofs
The discount works for Whipplesnaith too: http://tinyurl.com/whipplesnaith
"ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?"-Triple Helix Society
23rd Nov (Mon), 7.30pm
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, behind The Eagle pub
FREE ENTRY
Do aliens really exist? What might they look like? And how might we react if we found them?
Human beings have long speculated on the existence of life elsewhere in the universe, but only now are we tackling the question with science. Astronomers are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to find and analyse exoplanets. Meanwhile, biologists are searching for life in our solar system. Science fiction has imagined a wide variety of alien life. We'll be asking if the aliens of literature, art and film have a basis in science and, if not, we'll find out what biologists really think aliens look like.
Join us for a lively and informative evening of scientific speculation in search of the answers to all of these questions and more. Refreshments will be available after the talk and Q&A session.
Cambridge Futures P&G Case Stuy
P&G's Biggest Acquisition in its History -$54bn purchase of Gillette
The case study will be presented by 2 P&G finance managers:
Louise Hornsey - Prestige Finance Manager UK&I
Stephen Tracy - Wella Professional Finance Analyst
Date: 19 November, 2009
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex
Sign up on the website
www.cambridgefutures.com
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