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The smell of warm herbs and sound of clattering plates
waft in from the next-door room, where a vegan lunch for
70 is being cleared away, and where from time to time a toddler loses balance and thumps against the door.
But, bent over pieces of scrap paper, students at the
Thursday afternoon script-writing course in the Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project are concentrating
hard on today's assignment.
There are two of them – Richard Ince, 72, and Ben
Woodling, 38 – and they have been meeting their tutor, Niall Drennan, a performance writer and former probation officer, for two hours every other week since early summer,
although no one can remember exactly when. Tutoring them in the alternate weeks is Alison Fisher, a former scriptwriter for EastEnders. Others have attended from time to time – they recall a Spanish group under the impression it was
about improving English language skills, and a French
woman who was living in a tent and writing a novel
– but Ince and Woodling are the regulars.
"I've always been a great reader and like words," says Ince, who first came to the centre eight years ago to volunteer after retiring from his job as an administrator with IBM. "At my age I haven't the drive to do something with it, but it's something I'm interested in." Woodling, who studied geography at Hull University more than 10 years ago,
says he likes learning, but being on incapacity benefit
meant he couldn't afford adult education.
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Exeter University's recent Safer Sex Ball has found itself in the media spotlight, after CCTV footage of two students engaged in sexual activity in the campus bar leaked online and made international headlines.
While the university itself remains tight-lipped and the Students' Guild (Exeter's students' union) tries to work out what went so horribly wrong with its charity fundraiser, students are taking the opportunity to consider what constitutes acceptable sexual behaviour.
We know that staff members working for the Students' Guild were responsible for filming and sharing CCTV footage of the amorous pair. In a statement released to Exeposé, the student paper, last week Guild senior management confirmed that members of their staff had been dismissed following a "rigorous investigation" into the leaked footage.
The Guild told Exeposé: "We have identified the individuals involved, and in light of the seriousness of the breach, have taken the strongest possible disciplinary action… The footage was taken without our permission, and internal rules around security of CCTV were breached."
Today the Guild will add no more than "with regret we are unable to provide details; the details are integral to the investigation and ongoing disciplinary action process".
On campus, a rift has opened up between the Guild and the university, you can't get into the campus bar without a student ID card, and the editors of Exeposé, which I co-edit, have been threatened with disciplinary action should our reporters make any attempt to investigate parts of the story that might hinder the progress of the internal investigation.
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The US film-maker Michael Moore has defended Kathryn Bigelow's controversial Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty as "a disturbing, fantastically-made movie" that "will make you hate torture".
In an extended post on Facebook, Moore said he did not buy critics' argument that the film glorifies torture by showing its use during the search for Osama bin Laden. He also dismissed suggestions that the film erroneously depicted torture as a vital tool in the hunt for al-Qaida's figurehead. Figures ranging from US senators John McCain and Dianne Feinstein to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and terrorism expert Steve Coll have criticised Bigelow and her screenwriter Mark Boal for their approach on Zero Dark Thirty, and the film is the subject of an investigation by the US Senate intelligence committee.
"I guess where I part with most of my friends who are upset at this film is that they are allowing the wrong debate to take place," wrote Moore. "You should NEVER engage in a debate where the other side defines the terms of the debate – namely, in this case, to debate 'whether torture works'. You should refuse to participate in that discussion because the real question should be, simply, "is torture wrong?" And, after watching the brutal behaviour of CIA agents for the first 45 minutes of the film, I can't believe anyone of conscience would conclude anything other than that this is morally NOT right. You will be repulsed by these torture scenes because, make no mistake about it, this has been done in your name and mine and with our tax dollars. We funded this."
Moore continued: "Zero Dark Thirty is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. And it will make you happy you voted for a man who stopped all that barbarity – and who asked that the people over at Langley, like him, use their brains."
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