Teesside tee hee
Never ones to miss out on a craze, the University of Teesside -- the people who brought you adverts in Viz and the peculiar exploits of Teesside Ted and his toilet duck -- have sent out a "Magic Eye...
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Bar none
Should any of the "Magic Eye" slogans suggest that Teesside errs on the convivial side (Antithesis's eyesight conforming to professional norms, we are unable to ascertain this ourselves), they are in...
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On the spot
Just as well the National Union of Students operates with a fair degree of openness, or journalists who spent last Tuesday morning seeking president Jim Murphy's views on the Labour Party's Learning...
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Applied truths
Feedback, the newsletter of Dundee University's department of applied physics and electronic and mechanical engineering, has been plundering the American journal Manufacturing Engineering for one-...
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Don't even think it
The embezzling organiser of a fund for philosophers portrayed in Tibor Fischer's The Getaway Lunch provides Sideswipe no 89: "There are those who will say I was blocking those with talent from...
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION Lynn McLean, a fourth-year student at Paisley University is seeking information and sources of information for her research project entitled "Physical education can promote/aid...
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Davies rises in Shadow shuffle
Higher education spokesman Bryan Davies has been promoted within Labour's shadow team. Mr Davies, who succeeded Jeff Rooker in the role last year, was given shadow minister status in the reshuffle...
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Channel spoil heap transformed into grassland
Ecologists have turned a four-million-tonne pile of spoil from the Channel Tunnel into a grassland which they hope will become an important conservation area. The idea, to build a big platform at the...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. A disastrous start: because of the rail dispute I missed the Heathrow British Airways morning flight to Moscow. Failure to negotiate a transfer to Aeroflot was a relief: instead made an...
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Appointments
ROSE BRUFORD COLLEGE Peter Oyston, former director of the Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, to head school of theatre. UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Richard Hodder-Williams has succeeded Christopher...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Research grant Robert Turnbull and Kenway Smith, Pounds 2.3 million from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (the state of the universe in the first fraction of...
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Past Masters
I was the only child of working-class parents in the small moorland town of Leek, Staffs. Not surprisingly, I found Oxford in the late 1950s an alarming prospect. Everyone else seemed not only far...
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Speaking Volumes
Who is, or was K. B. Sandved? I am ashamed to say that I do not know, and doubly ashamed that, until now, it has never occurred to me to ask. Yet that name has been whispered in my memory like some...
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Chairs
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE Michael Artis (professor of economics, University of Manchester) to the joint chair in economics; Stefano Bartolini (professor, department of political science at...
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Events
IMAGES OF CONFLICT Work by recent war artists will be exhibited at the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, from October 10 to December 13. The exhibition offers a selection of contemporary art...