RAG week

This Saturday, campus will host the annual RAG Week, which aims to raise money for a number of local charities, including Sue Ryder Care and Julian House.

Among the week's many events will be a Bierkeller, Silent Disco, Gunk-A-Sabb, Speed Dating, and the recently renamed Auction of Promises. Further information can be found at www.bathrag.com/ragweek or on the RAG Week Facebook group.

Anyone wishing to help out at the events should email ragweek@bathrag.com.

Donate With Love event a success

Following a Presidential election marred by violence and accusations that incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa used state resources to aid his campaign, a political crisis has broken out in Sri Lanka, triggered by the arrest of the defeated candidate, former army General Sarath Fonseka, on February 8th. During the previous week, his office was raided and fifteen of his staff arrested.

Jim McCormick, a Somerset businessman, has been arrested on fraud charges for exporting millions of dollars worth of devices which he claimed could detect bombs from up to a kilometre away, though expert investigation has determined that there is nothing inside them which could conceivably do so, and scientific tests show them to perform no better than chance. The ADE-651, as it is known, has been described as a “glorified dowsing rod”. The Iraqi government has spent $85 million on the devices, and many other governments have been using them to detect bombs and weapons.

Maths student and Bath Jets cheerleader Kate Rodger has reached the final of Miss University, a nationwide beauty pageant which aims to raise money for the Joshua Foundation, a charity which provides holidays and event tickets for children with terminal cancer. Ms Rodger will be one of nineteen students from British universities taking part in the event, which will take place in Oceana nightclub in Cardiff on March 1st, and will feature three rounds in which competitors pose on a catwalk in various outfits.

The Students' Union's Refresh Week ran from Monday 8th February to Sunday 14th February. Refresh Week aims to remind all students what the Students' Union has to offer which can enhance the student experience at Bath, whilst providing something of that Freshers’ Week feeling. In addition to a well-attended Refresh fair, which took place on the Friday, there were day-long events throughout the week providing opportunities to find out more about the new Student Centre and on housing, particularly.

Pharmacy students at the University of Bath this week welcomed a new colleague to their faculty, who will hopefully stick around longer than the customary 4 years it takes to earn a degree.

The SimMan 3G, or simply “Simon” as he affectionately dubbed by the department, is a life-sized model that talks, breathes and reacts to medicines in the same way as a real human, giving students a chance to practice their diagnostic skills and put theory into practice.