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The BIGGEST event of the year has got a theme! After the Vote on Thursday of week 4, Jungle Fever has been announced as the theme of this year’s Extrav at Cartmel! There’s going to be trees and snakes aplenty when the event kicks of on 26th of June in the summer term, and to [...]

And welcome to the all-new Cartmel Griffin! We are the new magazine editors, Stephen and Rachael, and you can see Stephen’s ugly mug and Rachael’s ‘stunning beauty’ in the picture over there to the left. We hope you enjoy reading this new magazine, and if not you have to let us off ‘cause it’s our [...]

Sometimes you just need someone you don’t know to chat to, right? Well if you need someone to listen for whatever reason, five members of the JCR hold office hours each week for just this cause. First off, our Education and Welfare Officers have office hours on the following days: Will – Friday from 11.30am-12.30pm [...]

Last Friday saw the return of Friday Fury, which premiered in week 11, an on campus bar crawl with a mission – collect the logo from every bar! The first time around it proved to be the biggest and most successful event since Fresher’s Week in October. Sugarhouse was more packed that night than I [...]

Cartmel’s first Big Night Out of 2008 was a sellout trip to the ever popular club Syndicate in Blackpool on January the 24th and coming from someone who certainly took advantage of not being on sober duty that night, I can safely say that it was a fantastic event which exceeded all expectations! The night [...]

On Tuesday of week 4, Cartmel Bar held a vodka night with offers, prizes, and lots of drunk people. With offers like £2 for a double Smirnoff and mixer, and prizes ranging from bottles of Rev’s flavours to a Smirnoff snowboard worth around £300, the bar was unsurprisingly packed. Crates of vodka had been ordered [...]

Because it’s a tough life being a student with deadlines, coursework and lectures taking up our time, we’ve decided to give you some welcome excuse for distraction with a double spread of up to date reviews… Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd sees a fifth collaboration of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp as they take [...]

Juno This contemporary teen comedy starring Ellen Page and Michael Cera was a massive hit at the American box office, and is an absolute must see. Juno is a self-assured teenager – but her confidence takes a knock when she finds herself pregnant. But she does what any normal girl would do – she sets [...]

Apple’s latest addition to its laptop range, the MacBook Air, has claimed tobe the world’s thinnest laptop, but does this come at a price? Unfortunately yes. Lacking both a CD drive and low connectivity (it won’t work with non-wireless internet [including Resnet!] without a USB adaptor) this laptop makes rather too many compromises for my [...]

For those of you who haven’t yet heard about LUTube or LUTV, it’s an exciting new group at Lancaster University which is going to be huge, achieving something never done here before – having our own TV channel over the internet! ‘Video magazine’ shows will be presented, produced, edited and recorded by the students for [...]