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MOUND MAGAZINE
In this edition of the Mound Magazine:
Welfare helps you through exams
Football focus is back!
How do you create a successful open day?
Contact us:
Twitter: @Mound_Magazine
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/moundmagazine
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HELLO BUTLER!
Hi and welcome back to the Mound! I’m Lydia and very
excited to be Co-Editing the magazine. This issue is an ex-
am special as everyone, from first year to finalist, knows
how stressful this period can be. We provide you with
cooking tips to remain healthy, things happening at Butler
so you can get some well deserved breaks and of course
enough humorous comment to carry you through! We also
look at the success of the Butler Open Day that happened
over the Easter Break and which I’m sure many of you
were involved in. It looked fantastic and I can only imagine
the freshers’ cohort next year will be huge! As well as this,
the issue tackles the daunting task of moving from first to
second year and shows you why this move isn’t as scary as
you might first think! Overall, I think this is an edition for
everyone and as ever please don’t hesitate to contact me
with article ideas or suggestions for the magazine itself!
Hey guys and welcome back to Butler! I hope you all had an
absolutely lovely Easter! My name is Lauren and I’m very
excited to be the new Co-Editor of the Mound Magazine
with Lydia. This edition of the magazine should hopefully
keep all of you sane during the exam period and if not, well,
it’s an excuse to procrastinate …
This edition of the magazine includes some welfare advice
from Fiona Hathaway which helpfully provides you with
information regarding all of the support that’s available to
you throughout the exam period and also an informative
article from the newly elected International Rep, Sabrina
Chong! We also have some lighter articles including Pen-
ny’s Kitchen and Football Focus that will give you a well-
deserved break from the relentless boredom that is revision!
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FIRST THOUGHTS WILL
I’d like to wish everyone the best of luck for
their exams. Five weeks from now you will
all be enjoying the fun in the sun, with the
festivities of post-exam period. Plenty to
look forward to so make sure you don’t
book your trains home too early – Dilston v
Milfield on 20th June will be my personal
highlight. Alice and her team have worked
hard to ensure you have the best possible
support during this period so try and utilise
what is on offer – check out the timetable
and read the Stressless booklet. Feel free
to come into the JCR Office if Will and I can
help in any possible way. You’ll all do fan-
tastically I’m sure. Good luck!
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CONTENTS
ISSUE ONE EASTER TERM 2014
Page 6-8: Butler Open Day 2014
by Becky Teece and Sam Strad-
dling
Page 9: Penny’s Kitchen by Pen-
ny Babakhani
Page 11: Living out? Stressed
about exams? By Emma Maslin
Page 12-13: What changes in sec-
ond year? By Jasper Cox
Page 15-16: International Reppin’
by Sabrina Chong
Page 17-18: Football Focus by
Anonymous football fan
Page 20-21: How will welfare get
you through the exam period?
By Fiona Hathaway
Overseen at Butler college:
Will Kendall finding Mrs
Kendall on Tinder ...
Overhead at Butler college:
“I'd love to give birth to
Jazzy”
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The whole Open Day team had an amazing time welcoming around 300
offer holders to Butler over the two Open Days. Exec and reps alike
were enthusiastic about the college whilst they gave tours, hosted
events and generally chatted to students throughout the time, making
them feel as much a part of the Butler community as we do.
The experience kicked off for us reps with a social on Saturday night
which involved some call-and-response
hilarity, for example, the whole team had to
sit down wherever they where whenever
anyone shouted “Vincent Lim” (because
he’s JCR chair... get it?) Needless to say, the
last person to sit down did a forfeit. Satur-
day also saw resident joker Matt Bircham
bleat like a sheep into the bar microphone,
on the hour, every hour – as a forfeit for
being late that morning. The head reps who
inflicted the forfeit (who shall remain anon-
ymous) deny Matt’s allegations of Welsh-targeted racism.
Sunday saw the rep team and the exec continuing Saturday’s efforts to
decorate Butler (300 balloons weren’t going to inflate themselves) and
make last minute preparations for the first arrivals on Monday morning.
Before the Easter break Butlrerites hosted open days for applicants to the college, Sam
Straddling and Becky Teece explains what makes for an successful open day.
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However, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was when the real fun
started. Potential Butlerites from all over the place flocked to Durham
to see what all the fuss was about and we certainly did our best to show
them that Butler is the place to be. Activities on offer in the day includ-
ed a scavenger hunt around Butler (very successfully organised by
Vicky Ribbons); PS4 and Wii (kindly ‘supervised’ by Danny Agar and
Vincent Lim); a mini Butler Fair (organised by Evi Magee and including
delicious red and yellow cupcakes… not that I ate any…); croquet and
rounders (this time kindly supervised by Dan Lennard-Jones) and the
standard college tours. Following a welcome talk from Will and a quiz
hosted by Shaheen Ahmed and I, students departed to their flats to eat
delicious pizza and have a chat with their flat reps. This was when they
got the chance to ask some of the burning questions they had brought
with them… as well as enjoying some fine dining.
The evening started with a family fortunes game hosted by Sajan Old-
News Bhakoo, including categories such as “I would like to ________
Will Kendall” and “Have you ever seen your roommate ________?”
After this, Ginny Arthur and Catherine Kisanji ran a highly popular
Pick a Side event, asking Butlerites and attendees alike to choose be-
tween highly controversial options (such as whether ketchup should be
stored in a fridge or a cupboard and whether the Midlands exists… it
does.) Following this, the disco began. Apparently we had a record
number of people dancing on the first night of an Open Day! Impres-
sive work by the team, although it could also be
put down to Los del Rio’s Macarena.
Pool and darts tournaments were
run by Shaheen Ahmed and
Freddie Clarke, with Saj natu-
rally playing a small (actually
quite large) part. These were
highly-subscribed, and a tense
pool final saw Matt Bircham and
“The evening started with a
family fortunes game hosted
by Sajan ‘Old News’ Bhakoo,
including categories such as
“I would like to ________
Will Kendall” … “
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Danny Agar shamelessly steal first place from a pair of skilled at-
tendees who deserved those Mini Egg prizes. Tea and toast was also
running in the JCR lounge, this also being very popular on both nights
(which I attribute to the presence of Nutella, although I guess the good
looks, wit and charm of welfare reps Matthew
Burns-Watkins and Alice Whitehouse played a
small part…)
We ended our Open Day time with a second
social on Wednesday night. It was a great way
to round off the whole experience, while mak-
ing the most of minimum pricing in the bar.
Despite the late nights and early rises, Open
Day was the best experience I’ve yet had at
Butler. The whole team
was so enthusiastic and hard-working - I
couldn’t have wished for a better team
to be a part of. Neither could I have
asked for two more dedicated (and all
-round excellent) head Open Day reps.
Kudos to Calum and Sam, who did an
incredible job of making the Open Days a
great success!
“Despite the late nights
and early rises, Open Day
was the best experience
I’ve yet had at Butler. “
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Exams are just around the corner. Exams make me stressed. I can’t eat when I’m stressed. I also can’t deal with exams when I can’t eat because I’m stressed.
In this bite-sized edition of Penny’s Kitchen, I’m going to take you through my go-to snacks and drinks for when the thought of eating makes you want to hurl.
To “brings your feelings back to the right place” as we say in Farsi: One glass of cold wa-ter + half a lime or lemon + sugar to taste
After a stress-induced binge eating session: Peppermint tea
When all other foods just seems disgusting: Crackers - the plainer, the better
In need of a brain booster in the morning: Small square of milk or dark chocolate
Having trouble falling asleep: Half a cup of plain yoghurt
Feeling like something sweet: A ripe banana - also comes with the benefit of stopping weird eye spasms
Feeling like something sour: An orange with a bit of salt sprinkled on (we’re not sure if this is an Iranian/German thing …)
If the urge to have carbs is irresistible: Baked sweet potato with sour cream Can’t seem to focus after a pretty hefty revision session: Water - you’re probably dehydrated.
Penny Babakhani, ‘Butler’s Spirit’, gives you the lowdown on how to maintain your
regular eating pattern when exam stress makes the thought of cooking healthy and
balanced meals impossible ...
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Hey everyone! With deadlines and exams looming, Easter term is not everyone’s favour-
ite time of year. When living out, the thought of having to venture to the library or But-
ler to revise is enough to stop you going in the first place. My job as livers out officer is to
make sure you feel just as supported living out in these stressful periods as when you
lived in. For this term, we have three livers out tea and toasts planned around Durham in
the run up to exams, with the welfare team on hand with lots of stress-less advice. For the
end of exams, we will be hosting a livers out cheese and wine evening and joining up
with the rest of college for the Beach social for a well deserved party. If anyone has any
ideas for events for next year, or you just want to find out more about living out, don’t be
afraid to email me at: [email protected].
Livers-out love
Emma x
Emma Maslin, current Livers Out Officer, details all of the upcoming events ran in association
with current Butler societies and commitees that will keep all of Butler’s non-residential
students sane throughout the exam period.
How I feel in every exam ….
#WhatAmIAndWhyAmIHere?
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We’re in third term, and just a few weeks separate you from the summer holidays,
when you will officially stop being a fresher. You’re proba-
bly apprehensive about this, and it is true that most older
students look at fresher year with nostalgia. However,
there are aspects of second life to look forward to as well.
Here I attempt to picture how you will be like next year.
1) You go into the year with confidence: you’ve al-
ready settled in and got your friends, know where
you’re living, and know what you’re doing with
your course and how the whole system works. As
much as everyone may deny it now, we all found
starting university and entering the unknown a bit scary, but going into sec-
ond year everything is familiar and you’re ready for it after a long summer.
2) You definitely think the work in second year is
harder, especially in the second and third terms.
Firstly, there is the pressure that the marks from
this year go towards your final degree. You can no
longer use that worn-out ‘this year doesn’t count’
excuse when telling yourself it’s ok to watch five
episodes of Breaking Bad in a row or when persuad-
ing your friend to come out. Secondly, the level
expected of you moves up, so you find yourself
having to put in more effort to attain the same
mark as last year.
3) Leading on from this, managing your time has become more of a priority.
People in your year have generally kept up or increased their sport, society
Former Mound Editor, Jasper Cox, discusses the pros and cons of progressing into your sec-
ond year at university and discovers that leaving the freshers’ cradle isn’t all that bad...
Jasper circa 2012
Jasper circa 2013/14
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and committee activities, particularly as it is generally second-years in charge
of them. Splitting your time between these, social events and hours in uni can
be difficult and means you have less time to waste.
4) The library is no longer a mysterious building, but a familiar second home
around summative season. You actually need to take out books and get to
know the various intricacies of the system (and get irrationally wound up by
fines and the recall system…).
5) Despite knowing how much more important this year is, being more(/over?)
familiar with summatives means you feel comfortable leaving them to the
last minute (or night), powering through thousands of words in less time
than ever.
6) You become resentful of freshers. Your selective memory does not recall
working at all during the whole of first year, especially not during exams.
These new freshers seem to work so much harder than you ever did!
7) What with all this work, you have to just occasionally let your social life take
a back seat. This is particularly hard in second year because after an extra
year of socialising you have more options open to you in term of social
events: staying in to work often means missing some sort of occasion.
8) Yet whereas in first year social occasions missed gave you a deep bang of FO-
MO, you’ve realised most nights are just repetitions of the previous week:
same old gossip, same old drama. So this makes it easier to stomach missing
them.
9) You have also found that some people appear to have dropped off the face of
the earth. By second year people have made their friends and have more or
less decided who is worth their time. So instead of everyone mixing together
a bit like last year, people group off.
10) Finally, Durham becomes your home, if it hasn’t already. You speak as if
you have been in Durham for half your life: saying things are always like so
and so but never like so and so. Yet conversely, each term flies by quicker
than the last and certainly quicker than in first year, and before you know it
you’re approaching the end of the year and are writing advice for the soon-to
-be new second years. It makes you realise you better appreciate uni for the
short time it lasts!
Jasper perfectly encapsulates the fact that
whilst 2nd year is more serious, it can still
be fun!
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Not being able to decipher the coin sizes, not understanding the accents, deconstruct-ing how people read and state the time (18 past 6, as opposed to 6:18) – the struggle
is real for international students. If entering into a new chapter of life with new peo-ple isn’t nerve-wracking enough, throw moving to a different country into the mix and it only gets scarier.
International Freshers’ Week is hugely important because it is the first experience students have of college life. It affects how smoothly they adjust to the new environ-ment, and may even be defining for some. It is imperative that the week is well-organised and ample support is provided for them. The aim is to make international freshers feel as at home at Butler as possible. Apart from the boring administrative stuff like visa registrations, other events like trips to IKEA (which seems to surprise many home students) and Newcastle will be ar-ranged. After being the sole residents of college for the entire week, international students can feel overwhelmed by the arri-val of hordes of home students. Hopefully, by then they’ll have enough support to feel fully integrated into the college com-munity.
As the International Rep is now on the Exec, internationalism will become more pervasive throughout college, and support for internationals will be maintained
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over the year. To establish continuity, international events will be held more fre-quently. With the aim of further integrating both home and international students, International Festival and Butler Olympics will be introduced into the calendar next year, so keep an eye out for those!
In the spirit of enhancing college life for home and inter-national students, the International Rep will be a point of a contact for both. Starting next year, fort-nightly drop-in sessions will be held at college for anyone to discuss their problems or present sugges-tions for improvements. I will also provide support
for those seeking any international experience – whether it’s a year abroad or a personal language immersion program – and connect them with some-one better placed to advise them.
As next year will be the first that International Rep is on the Exec, there are many op-portunities that the role can explore. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact me or come to International Committee! We meet every
Thursday in the JCR Lounge at 7pm (shameless plug). I’m looking forward to dis-covering and establishing the scope of the role along the way!
“The struggle is
real for
international
students.”
If you are an international student and at any point feel
isolated or homesick, you can contact Sabrina Chong by
using the following:
Twitter: @ssabrinac
Facebook: Sabrina Chong
OR
Facebook Group: Butler International Comm
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Where are they now?
Specialist Round: The Final Countdown
Who scored the last winning goal in an FA Cup final at the Old Wembley?
What is the largest winning margin in an FA Cup final since 2000?
How many times has the FA Cup final finished 0-0?
Who was the first ever player to get sent off in a UEFA Champions League final?
Who became the first player to reach the Champions League quarter-finals with
four separate clubs in 2007?
Which ex-England international is seen below lifting the Champions League tro-
phy?
Two-footed challenge
You have to answer the first question to tackle the second
Which player was the first to win both the PFA Young Player of the Year and PFA
Players Player of the Year Award in the same season?
Who does he now host a Talksport radio show with?
Adrian Mutu
Ronnie Wallwork
Kakha Kaladze
Navio Nsereko
Andriy Shevchenko
Aspiring MP in his own country.
Faked his own kidnapping.
Set to star in a Snoop Dogg music video.
Minister for Energy in his own country.
Served time for handling stolen cars.
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Outburst of the week
Which wannabe bad boy was fined £90,000 by the
FA for this twitter outburst?
"HAHAHAHAHA, Well done #FA I lied did I?
#BunchOfT***S"
The Journeyman Round
Name the footballer based on their clubs ...
This mystery player has played permanently for 10 clubs (Brentford, Crystal Palace,
Port Vale, Sheffield United, Blackburn Rovers, Ipswich Town, Everton, Charlton Ath-
letic, Birmingham City and Mitra Kluar) whilst also managing 6 loan moves and 4
relegations from the Premier League.
Football Shlid of the week
It’s 40 year old zimmer-frame using Tari-
bo West, the ex-Inter Derby and Plym-
outh man. West may try his best to con-
ceal his real age (some claim he is 52) but
there’s no way he can hide away that
hair.
Did you know?
Queens Park of Scotland reached the fi-
nal of both the 1884 and 1885 FA Cup but were defeated both times by Blackburn
Rovers.
Just Fontaine holds the record for the most goals at a single World Cup tournament
scoring 13 goals in 6 games for France at the 1958 tournament. This included a hat-
trick against Paraguay and four against West Germany.
Stan Mortensen was the last player to score a hat-trick in an FA Cup final doing so in
1953 as Blackpool defeated Bolton 4-3. Sadly for Stan the final is better remembered
as the ‘Matthews final’ due to the inspired performance of Blackpool winger Stanley
Matthews.
“HAHAHAHAHA, Well
done #FA I lied did
I?#BunchOfT***S"
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Answers: Where are they now? = Adrian Mutu – Set to star in a Snoop Dogg music video / Ronnie
Wallwork – Served time for handling stolen cars / Kakha Kaladze – Minister for Energy in his home
country / Navio Nsereko – Faked his own kidnapping / Andriy Shevchenko – Aspiring MP in his home
country.
Specialist Round = 1. Roberto Di Matteo 2. Manchester United’s 3-0 win over Millwall in 2004 3. Four
(1886, 1911, 1912, 2005) 4. Arsenal’s Jens Lehmann in the 2005/06 final 5. Michael Ballack (FC Kai-
serslautern, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Chelsea 6. Steve McManaman (scored and won man of
the match during Real Madrid’s 3-0 win over Valancia in the 1999/2000 final.)
Two-footed challenge = Part-one – Andy Gray / Part-two – Richard Keys.
Outburst of the week = Ashley Cole (the tweet came about due to his evidence in the John Terry abuse
case being doubted.)
Journeyman Round = Marcus Bent (Bent won PL player of the month in January 2002.)
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This term, welfare committee is running the ‘stressless’ campaign, which involves loads of activities, events and support to help reduce your stress levels over the revi-sion and exam period. Stressless begins on the first day of Easter term and runs
until the official end of exams on Friday 6th June.
Tea and toast:
Every Tuesday and Thursday in the JCR lounge from 8-
10pm, joining film soc and Disney soc. Begins Tuesday 29th April
Livers out tea and toast- Saturday 3rd, 10th and 17th May from 7-9pm.
Drop ins:
Friday 2nd May, 11am-12, JCR lounge
Monday 5th May, 11am-12, JCR lounge
Friday 9th May 3pm-4, DSU
Monday 12th May, 11am-12, JCR lounge
Friday 16th May, 12-1pm, library
Monday 19th May, 11am-12, JCR lounge
Friday 23rd May 3pm-4, DSU
Monday 26th May, 11am-12, JCR lounge
Friday 30th May, 12-1pm, library
Monday 2nd June, 11am-12, JCR lounge
How will welfare get you
through the exam period?
Fiona Hathaway gives you an insight into how Butler’s welfare team are on
hand to help students through the entirety of this year’s exam period ...
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Come and see a welfare team member for a casual chat and some sweets or choco-late!
Stressless breakfasts:
Grab a free breakfast in the bar every morning from 8-10am. Starts Monday 12th May.
Botanical gardens walks:
A relaxing walk around the botanical gardens with members of the welfare team. Every Sunday at 11am, remember your campus card to get into the gardens for free.
Mentor nights:
Members of the welfare team will be around at mentor night on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6th May onwards. Come and say hello and get some fun de-stressing goodies!
Market Mondays:
The café at the indoor market has been reserved especially for Butler students (livers in and out) from 5-8pm every Monday from 5th-26th May. It makes a great study space if you fancy a change of scenery, and hot drinks and snacks will be available to buy.
As well as these events, welfare committee has produced a stressless booklet, which is filled with information about stress and stress management, tips for where and how to study effectively and ideas for interesting revision breaks. It includes reminders about all these events, as well as the regular college societies that might be fun to get involved in to spilt up long days of revision. Look out for copies of the booklet around college, or a downloadable version on the JCR facebook page.
Wishing you all the best of luck for the next few weeks, we hope you’ll find it use-ful to get involved with some of the stressless events.
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