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Pre-launch events were a fairly spectacular display of form from the 2012 cohort of freshers. Be-fore the party in The Plug and The Tub had even kicked off, we found one chap in the corridor of a noisy Wolfson who had clearly decided to take an early nap. Roused briefly by the prospect of becoming a campus celebrity in this fine publication, he was sadly unable to remain awake long enough for a photograph. Joe decided to have another nap. Face first.Crew put in a pretty outstand-ing show this weekend. In most cases, the boys and girls in blue seemed much more keen than the freshers who formed their entourages. The disappointment of one of the Eastwood crew that ‘only five per cent’ of his freshers were fit, did not seem to dimin-ish his enthusiasm for pulling one. Apparently, in his state, he thought he had had a lecture in

how to do this. This seems pretty unlikely, on balance.You lot are really pretty sophis-ticated. There was a group of Cotswold luvvies sharing a Cu-ban cigar. As the fragrant smoke whirled about their heads they shared tales of a mythical sub-stance-smoking man, who some-times moonlights as a woman. We went on the hunt for this mysterious creature. No luck.Undeterred by long queues, freshers camped anxiously for the finest cheese served on the stickiest dancefloor in Britain (unofficial title). Your dance moves were entirely appropriate.One Eastwood house woke up this morning to find that they had acquired a new table. No one seemed to have any idea how or when it had arrived. Its origins appear to be in a distant part of Marlborough, but, given the dif-ficulties of manoeuvring such an object to their kitchen, we and

they have been unable to rule out some sort of spontaneous table apparition. It had joined with the tables which they already had to form a giant, phallic object at the centre of their kitchen. Some-times metaphors make them-selves.Derhill 4, or D4, a flat of seven-teen gentlemen and one acci-dentally-wrongly-allocated lady, were clearly very much in love with their new home. D4, as they introduced themselves, had sadly lost their house female, but they weren’t letting this dampen their spirits. They are the place to be in Westwood, by their own account. We’re hopeful that they will do as they promised us and upload the photos and videos of their antics, though obviously we could not possibly condone anyone doing anything depicted in these images, least of all those things which might accidentally lead to non-compulsory fun...

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What biscuit would you be and why?“A chocolate hobnob with cara-mel inside because I like to get licked.”‘A Classy Lady’ in the queue for Cheese Night, Eastwood.

“I’ve had chinese food and I’ve seen it three times.” Mike ‘The Charmer’, Eastwood

“As long as no one tickles my nipples, I don’t give a fuck.” ‘The Bard’, Woodland Court

A gentleman in Solsbury Court decided to entertain his new flatmates by indulging in some naked running. Realising, a lit-tle too late, that he might offend certain onlookers, he gallantly slipped in some mud and cov-ered his extremities.

Monday Highlights Fresher of the night

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Ollie, Eastwood, is today’s Fresher of the Night, for his as-tounding efforts to complete two tankards of a formidable concoc-tion including but not limited to: beer, vodka, energy drink, fizzy wine, a forkful of stir fry and rice. To ongoing choruses of encouragement Ollie completed

the first one, and all present were both shocked and impressed that the mixture didn’t reappear. Ollie then really stepped up to the plate by suggesting he try again. Kindly, his housemates supplied him a bucket before taking bets on how long he would hold down the mixture. Above and beyond.

For the main freshers’ constitu-ency, your first day was domi-nated by unpacking, bidding adieu to family and a few awk-ward drinking games, but it’s not all about you.It’s pretty amusing watching vast crowds of people attempting to

keep their worldly possessions dry while maintaining their en-thusiasm for their bright new beginnings. It’s also useful to scope you lot out before the re-markable metamorphosis that occurs during the nighttimes. It’s a magical transformation.

Outside, the fury of the heavens bucketed down on hordes of peo-ple walking to stock up at Fresh. It’s probably not an omen. Ru-mour has it that the store quickly sold out of towels, hairdryers and condoms. Inside, we’ve had events for both our postgrad and international students.While freshers were recover-ing from their first hangovers, the postgraduate freshers were celebrating their first night with a little more elegance. The wine and cheese night, a staple of the postgrad timetable, was the per-fect way for the more intellectual amongst us to break the ice and celebrate the start of their fresh-er’s events. Students’ Union Officers Chris Clements, Hanna Wade and Alex Pool delivered speeches welcom-ing the ‘older’ freshers who, hav-ing only recently arrived in Bath, seemed to be getting on like a house on fire. Our measure of success can only be epitomised by Clemmo’s concern that ‘we may actually run out of cheese’.

A litmus test of questions sug-gests that most our postgrads are looking forward to getting stuck in over the next week with events such as an open mic night, pub quiz and their very own ‘Big Party’. The details of which are rather hush hush. Here in minty-fresh towers we speculate secret codes, blindfolds and invitations that self-destruct after five sec-onds.Upstairs the international fresh-er’s were taking advantage of the quiet before the storm with a cup of tea and a bit of civilised conversation. Some of the in-ternational students have flown in from as far as Korea and the United States, with many closer to home but still reluctant to turn down free food and drink! A rather raucous group in the cor-ner were keen to inform minty-fresh that they would be hitting up the cheese night later on a sure sign that just because you’re suffering from jetlag, it doesn’t mean you can’t have fun! An ex-ample to us all!

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