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What can we say? Hello! Welcome, welcome, welcome to our wonderful college! Prepare yourself, because you’re going to have an amazing week this week, followed by what will hopefully be the most exciting three years of your life! This is the Griffin, Cartmel’s magazine, and we hope to provide you with news, pictures, articles, and [...]

Hello (again) and yes we know that this already sounding like the front page of this lovely magazine (even if we say so ourselves), but at this point we’d like to tell you a little bit about what is in this issue.
If you turn over you’ll find a Freshers’ Week survival [...]

Hey guys!!
We are Will and Jo, your Education and Welfare officers; in other words we are here, famously, to give out free CONDOMS!! This isn’t our only role however, we are here to listen to any problems that you may have, whether it is related to lectures, flat mates, health issues etc and we are [...]

1) Try to get to know your flat
You’ll be living together for the whole year so it’s a good idea to try to get to know each other now and it’s the perfect opportunity to make new friends. We could advise you to get a doorstop and prop your door open but that’s against the [...]

Michael Payne is Lancaster University’s Students’ Union President and a former Cartmel Student. He studied Law for 3 years when he was an undergraduate. And yes it’s a lot of text, but it’s actually quite interesting when you get into it. Honestly.
How has being in Cartmel affected your University experience?
The colleges are at the heart [...]

Sam “Magic-Sam” Fitton is the JCR president, and as such has a lot of responsibility. He was the one in charge of organising our incredible Jungle Fever Extrav last year, and it is also his responsibility to make sure that the JCR function well [...]

Each year in Cartmel legions of loyal Cartmelians take part in hundreds of sporting activities as part of the college and university. Within Cartmel we have lots of teams from pool to netball which play in university leagues against other colleges. As a college we also compete in the Carter Shield held on Sundays which [...]

Revolution vs. Weatherspoons
Part of student life is doing something on the cheap, and never more so than with food. The eateries on campus are all very well, but what if you want to impress that special person with something a little more salubrious than Pizzetta? Robbie Pickles explains why he thinks you couldn’t do much [...]

A new term, new freshers, but the same old Robbie Pickles, back again to smash apart these so called ‘professional film reviewers’ with his brand of writing – basic English and a lack of any real enthusiasm. This issue he’s going for a big summer release and an ‘instructive’ piece about cameras. Enjoy!
Tropic [...]

If I’m honest, this isn’t really going to be a review, but more of an article telling you that you should definitely buy a digital camera (if you don’t already have one that is). In Fresher’s week you will meet literally tens of people who you will almost instantly forget the name and face of, [...]